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Why Smart Meters Benefit Big Energy – Not Consumers

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Why Smart Meters Benefit Big Energy — Not Consumers

Energy companies are getting ever more heavy-handed in their tactics to meet quotas and hit govt net-zero targets. But who’s actually better off when we install a smart meter?

by Alliance for Natural Health International
November 6, 2024This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.
woman thinking with smart meter and money

Increasingly, heavy-handed and even aggressive tactics are being adopted by energy companies to coerce the public into agreeing to the installation of smart meters.

Last weekend, United Kingdom (U.K.) energy provider, Octopus Energy, hit the headlines because it’s resorted to warning consumers that their existing analog meters have outlived their “best before date,” as if they were a food item.

They double down with fear tactics by implying that consumers are obligated under the law to replace a perfectly good meter. But it just isn’t so. The Alliance for Natural Health International’s executive coordinator, Meleni Aldridge, has been subject to such coercion from Octopus.

Deeply disappointing after years of providing excellent service and renewable energy, but the response was simply, to get a smart meter or find a new provider. So much for rewarding customer loyalty.

Such tactics are clearly being driven by government-imposed targets. As a result, the U.K. energy watchdog, Ofgem, is imposing punishing fines on companies not meeting installation targets.

In 2022 alone, energy companies in the U.K. that didn’t meet their targets agreed to pay Ofgem a total of 10.8 million pounds — of customers’ money!

How smart are smart meters?

According to a 2022 analysis by the U.S. organization, Mission:data Coalition, 97% of smart meters have failed to provide the customer savings originally promised in 2009.

A recent paper published in Cell Reports Physical Science blames the lack of savings on poor quality (= not so smart) data collected by smart meters.

In the U.K., for example, many households are experiencing overcharges and other issues due to smart meter faults, poor supplier management, and connectivity issues.

Technical issues and mismanagement by energy suppliers have led to a significant number of these meters not functioning correctly, leaving consumers unable to track their energy usage effectively and missing out on the potential savings and insights these devices are supposed to provide.

Added to this smart meters allow the energy companies to overcharge annually on top of what’s been used.

High-profile cases, such as artist Grayson Perry’s disputed bill increase from 300 to 39,000 pounds, spotlight the extreme consequences of not-so-smart meters. Consumers facing sudden spikes in their bills due to meter errors have seen little resolution, despite efforts to address these issues with energy suppliers.

The severe overcharging and billing errors raise concerns about whether the investment in smart meters is truly benefiting consumers.

In Canada, despite clever marketing techniques based on savings having persuaded consumers to make the switch to smart meters, “time-of-use” (TOU) tariffs have “backfired” as consumers have refused to change their consumption habits.

People have continued as normal and paid higher rates to use energy when they choose.

TOU tariffs are currently under consideration for introduction in the U.K. If they come in, energy companies will be able to charge different prices depending on the time of usage, the availability of so-called “green energy,” as well as the fluctuating cost of energy.

The big question is whether consumers will adapt and comply, or continue in a manner that befits their needs and lifestyle despite incurring higher costs.

The global smart meter market is currently valued at $24 billion and is projected to grow to a massive $77 billion by 2032.

But the truth is that early adopter countries are now facing significant bills to replace older technology that’s lost compatibility with evolving systems. Bills that are ultimately funded by us, the taxpayers.

In June 2024, 63% of all energy meters in the U.K. were “smart” or advanced meters. Despite the coercion and huge marketing budgets directed at convincing consumers to install the devices,  installation rates dropped by 11% as people became more and more distrusting of the technology.

The U.K. Department of Energy Security and Net Zero admits that 4 million devices aren’t working properly. However, independent research by The Money Saving Expert suggests that the figure could be significantly higher.

Smart and safe?

The safety or otherwise of smart meters still provokes heated debate, yet governments cling to those well-worn claims, “there are no health risks” and “smart meters are safe,” quoting industry-influenced studies along with guidelines from regulatory bodies, such as the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP).

ICNIRP, which had its 2020 guidelines called into question and had to call on the World Health Organization (WHO) to prop up its claims.

However, the situation is far more nuanced than we’re led to believe and many find themselves experiencing a range of, often debilitating, health issues following the installation of a smart meter.

Smart meters work by constantly streaming data back to the relevant energy company. In the U.K., newer devices use the smart metering communications network.

Potentially an individual household could end up with three smart meters — one each for electricity, gas and water if they have all of those services and they’re supplied by separate energy companies.

What we’re not told is that it’s the spikes of pulsed energy and not the average power density, that can cause health effects. Studies claiming there are no health harms only use data based on average power levels over a set period of time.

In a letter sent by scientists and health professionals to the North Carolina Utilities Commission, they explain that smart meters and cell phones occupy similar frequency bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, meaning that cell phone research can apply to smart meter radiofrequency radiation (RFR).

Smart meter RFR consists of frequent, very intense but very brief pulses throughout the day.

Because smart meter exposure over a 24-hour period can be very prolonged (pulses can average 9,600 times a day), and because there is building evidence that the sharp, high-intensity pulses are particularly harmful, the cell phone study findings are applicable when discussing adverse health impacts from smart meters.

A recent study shows that accumulated electromagnetic frequency, or EMF exposures, such as those from Wi-Fi, smart meters, mobile phones, cell towers and other such devices, even at low levels, are causing oxidative stress that affects our organs, and damages our immune system.

Not only do smart meters pose a risk to our health they’re also at risk of cyberattacks.

Big Brother in your home

Contrary to what was initially touted, significant amounts of data are actively collected by smart meters, which can be shared with third parties. All without your knowledge.

Not only that, in the U.K., the government has been considering making changes to the Smart Energy Code to allow energy suppliers to switch off power to high-usage electrical devices such as electric vehicle chargers and heating systems in an emergency situation.

It’s not a very big leap from there to using your energy supply as leverage for more social control. Much along the lines of China’s “social credit system” that rewards actions that “build trust in society” and penalizes the opposite.

And let’s not forget about the connection of more and more “smart” electrical devices to the Internet of Things. Reading and recording your every move in an increasingly surveilled, controlled and authoritarian world.

Smart up or pay up!

The race to convert all analog meters to smart meters globally is well and truly on. Almost a million homes in the U.K. now face having their cheap overnight electricity tariffs switched off unless they install a smart meter.

A 2023 U.K. Parliamentary report warns that around 7 million early smart meters will cease to function as older mobile networks (2G and 3G) are switched off.

In Australia, the Australian Energy Market Commission proposed a draft rule to fast-track smart meter installations.

The vast majority of responses (from individuals) to the ensuing consultation raised objections to the proposal, which was rammed through regardless, yet again, favoring industry and government agendas over people’s wishes.

In Ireland, the push is on to persuade unwary consumers with exhortations of safety and money saving, to agree to the installation of smart meters.

In 2022, French people refusing the installation of a smart meter were threatened with financial penalties.

However, not one European country has yet achieved a 100% installation rate of smart meters. One has to ask why they are such a positive asset.

Industry eyes are now turning to Asia as the next big market to target. It is yet to be seen how compliant these new markets will be.

Originally published by Alliance for Natural Health International.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.

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Medical Journal Censorship is the Proximate Cause of the Covid Vaccine Catastrophe

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Medical Journal Censorship Is The Proximate Cause of the Covid Vaccine Catastrophe

Here I document the brazen censoring behaviors of numerous major medical journals attempting to prop up the “safe and effective” narrative despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

Pierre Kory, MD, MPA

Nov 11, 2024

In this post, I want to further the historical record of massive censoring actions by medical journals on the unprecedented adverse vaccine data of the Covid vaccines. A Midwestern Doctor, my colleague and friend, has done a masterful job of detailing that history in regard to small pox, polio, HPV and many other aspects of childhood vaccines. Never forget the Cutter incident, where officials covered up the fact they were distributing contaminated and deadly polio vaccines:

The Cutter incident was one of the worst pharmaceutical disasters in US history, and exposed several thousand children to live polio virus on vaccination.[3] The NIH Laboratory of Biologics Control, which had certified the Cutter polio vaccine, had received advance warnings of problems: in 1954, staff member Bernice Eddy had reported to her superiors that some inoculated monkeys had become paralyzed and provided photographs. William Sebrell, the director of NIH, rejected the report.[4]

The censoring of Eddy’s report led to:

  • 120,000 doses of polio vaccine that contained live polio virus.
  • 40,000 children recipients developed abortive poliomyelitis
  • 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis—and of these, 5 children died from polio
  • exposures led to an epidemic of polio in the families and communities of the affected children, resulting in a further 113 people paralyzed and 5 deaths.

Thus, censorship of adverse vaccine data is not new but the deadly impacts of the polio vaccines is nowhere near the scope and scale of the current mRNA vaccine catastrophe.

Of those who, like me, started studying the dangers of Covid gene therapy “vaccines”, many then moved on to learn about the rest of the childhood vaccine schedule by reading “Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Again, always look for those silver linings.

This article by Dr. Kory is a prime example.

It took millions of adverse reactions and deaths globally, but finally the tide has turned and many have awoken from their stupor to realize ‘vaccines’ are not ‘safe and effective.’

The article is long but critically highlights the insane censorship going on in the medical world.

I also highly recommend ‘Dissolving Illusions’ by Dr. Suzanne Humphries.  She went to primary sources and proves without a doubt the entire ‘vaccine’ paradigm is built on a house of cards.

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Activism, vaccines

Lyme Disease is Quietly Debilitating Millions of Americans and Future Generations

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Lyme Disease Is Quietly Debilitating Millions of Americans and Future Generations | Opinion

By Lindsay Keys

Co-Director of The Quiet Epidemic

It was May 2013 when I was diagnosed with “the summer flu.” I was bedridden with fevers, chills, and body aches. My hands, feet, and face started tingling, and I could no longer turn my head. It was my boss who first suggested I might have Lyme disease. A long-time resident of Martha’s Vineyard, she knew something I didn’t—the Vineyard is infested with ticks. Even still, I struggled to find a doctor who would treat me.

My health was eventually restored with a course of antibiotics. A year later, my hands and arms throbbed, followed by electric pain through my body and brain a year after that. I lost my ability to read, forgot how to get home from work, and every night, I journaled details of my life—desperate to remember who I was. I was in fierce denial that it was Lyme-related. According to mainstream doctors, I had been cured.

I was 26 years old when I had my first appointment with a Lyme specialist. The nurse asked how I was going to get through this, and I saw one way forward: leverage my passion for storytelling to create a documentary about Lyme. I needed a reason to live that was bigger than myself—to help others avoid this experience. The nurse connected me to another filmmaker, also diagnosed with Lyme—Winslow Crane-Murdoch—and we began co-directing The Quiet Epidemic.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

And so it goes……another person infected with a complex illness that is denied by most doctors and the realization that we need a reason to live that is bigger than ourselves.

I can write this story by heart.

Important quote:

Our health agencies have failed to properly respond to this public health crisis for 50 years. We’re witnessing what happens when nothing is done. It’s time to involve our nation’s decision-makers on Capitol Hill.

Unfortunately, I do not believe involving our nation’s decision-makers is going to do squat.  Remember COVID?  Yeah, we are still being told it was a horrible pandemic and that the clot shots are ‘safe and effective.’

Nope.  They are not the answer.

It’s up to us.

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http://  Approx. 5 Min

Willy Burgdorfer Ph.D. 2014

Toward the end of his life, Burgdorfer gave a telling interview.

  1. The Lyme organism can sequester in tissues.
  2. He feels the controversy in Lyme disease research is a shameful affair.
  3. ‘Money goes to the people that have for the past 30 years produced the same thing – nothing.’
  4. ‘Serology or serology-plus has to be started from scratch with people that don’t know beforehand the results of their research.’
  5. He also blames physicians as they are clueless and many won’t even touch a Lyme/MSIDS patient.

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Entire Climate Narrative Shown As a Sham By Science Magazine, AAAS, and WaPo

UPDATE:  A groundbreaking study from the University of Nebraska reveals that cows are actually carbon negative and that they produce MORE oxygen than the methane and carbon they emit.  The pastures where they graze can capture more emissions than what the cattle produce & also offset methane.]

https://merylnass.substack.com/p/entire-climate-narrative-shown-up

Entire climate narrative shown up as a sham by Science Mag (AAAS–the biggest scientist organization in the US) and the WaPo. How long till everyone finds out?

They did a great job burying this HUGE story. Turns out we are in a several million year cold spell and nothing bad will happen if we get a bit warmer. Go to the WaPo article to see all the graphics

Meryl Nass
Oct 14, 2024
Look at the graph and ignore the politically correct, ignorant quotations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/19/earth-temperature-global-warming-planet/

By Sarah Kaplan and Simon Ducroquet

September 19, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. EDT

An ambitious effort to understand the Earth’s climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts and far hotter temperatures than scientists previously realized — offering a reminder of how much change the planet has already endured and a warning about the unprecedented rate of warming caused by humans.

The timeline, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most rigorous reconstruction of Earth’s past temperatures ever produced, the authors say. Created by combining more than 150,000 pieces of fossil evidence with state-of-the-art climate models, it shows the intimate link between carbon dioxide and global temperatures and reveals that the world was in a much warmer state for most of the history of complex animal life.

At its hottest, the study suggests, the Earth’s average temperature reached 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius) — far higher than the historic 58.96 F (14.98C) the planet hit last year.  (See link for article)

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Important excerpt:

Compared with graphs based solely on climate models, which tend to depict smaller and slower swings in temperatures, the new timeline is full of sudden spikes and abrupt shifts.

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‘We are in one of the coldest periods of the earth’s history right now.” ~ Dr. Patrick Moore

Dr. Patrick Moore– Co-Founder and former President of Greenpeace, Director of the CO2 Coalition, Senior Fellow of The Heartland Institute, and author of “Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom”

The Dinner Keynote Address at The Steamboat Institute Energy and Climate Summit, The Nexus of U.S. Energy Policy, Climate Science, Freedom and Prosperity by Dr. Patrick Moore on March 12, 2022 at the Steamboat Grand in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

The equatorial Atlantic is cooling off more quickly than ever recorded and an analysis of 1500 climate policies in 41 countries has found that most climate policies do little to prevent supposed ‘climate change.’  For the first time, climate scientists have explicitly said it will be impossible to limit peak warming to 1.5°C.

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New Study: Immediate Global Moratorium on COVID Shots – Citizens Take Action, Attack of the Replicons Has Begun – Against Our Pets

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BREAKING – New Peer-Reviewed Study Calls for Immediate Global Moratorium on COVID-19 ‘Vaccines’

Study reveals alarming breach in safety signal threshold for cerebral thrombosis amid mounting calls for market withdrawal.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Nov 06, 2024

With the election behind us and immense government public health reform on the horizon, the study by Rogers et al, titled COVID-19 Vaccines: A Risk Factor for Cerebral Thrombotic Syndromes, was just published after successful peer-review in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science.

They found that brain clots (cerebral thromboembolism adverse events) are 112,000% more likely to occur after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine than after receiving an influenza vaccine. When comparing COVID-19 vaccines to all other vaccines combined, the likelihood is 20,700% higher. After COVID-19 vaccination, there were 5,137 reported cases of cerebral thromboembolism in just 3 years (36 months). For influenza vaccines over the past 34 years (408 months), there were only 52 reported cases.

Accordingly, the authors concluded:

There is an alarming breach in the safety signal threshold concerning cerebral thrombosis adverse events after COVID-19 vaccines compared to that of the influenza vaccines and even when compared to that of all other vaccines. An immediate global moratorium on the use of COVID-19 vaccines is necessary with an absolute contraindication in women of reproductive age.

Their call for a global moratorium echoes the comprehensive study by Mead et al and many others:

  1. World Council for Health
  2.  Surgeon General
  3. The Hope Accord
  4. Doctors for COVID Ethics (D4CE)
  5. Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
  6. McCullough Foundation  (See link for article)

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-replicons?

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/how-to-remove-covid-vaccines-local-health-authorities/?

‘This Is a Winnable Battle’: Experts Explain How Citizens Can Work With Local Health Authorities to Get COVID Vaccines Removed

Local public health agencies don’t have to blindly follow federal agencies on COVID-19 vaccinations or public health and safety issues, Dr. John Tribble told The Defender. “They have the power and moral obligation to protect and educate their constituents.”

by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
November 6, 2024
covid vaccine and word "remove" on keyboard

Removing COVID-19 vaccines from public health departments across the U.S. is a “winnable battle” — but the battle won’t likely be won “from the top down,” according to Dr. John Tribble, a physician and board member of Idaho’s Southwest District Health.

Last month Tribble and his fellow board members made history when they voted 4-3 to pull COVID-19 shots from 30 healthcare sites.

The local health agency — which oversees six counties in southwest Idaho — became the first local health department in the U.S. to remove the shots from its taxpayer-funded clinics.

Other health districts in Idaho and beyond are now considering similar moves, Tribble told The Defender.

“There are two health districts in Idaho that I know of that are definitely considering it and one in Washington state,” he said. “My hope is they will be successful and continue the momentum we currently have.”

Tribble added:

“Local public health agencies aren’t obligated to blindly follow federal agencies when it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations or other issues of public health and safety. They have the power and moral obligation to protect and educate their constituents.”

In other words, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends COVID-19 vaccines  and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves them — but that doesn’t mean local health departments have to promote the shots. Tribble said:

“So much of what was inflicted upon us during COVID-19 — the COVID-19 vaccines, the mask mandates, the business, school and church closures — would have been prevented with local health departments that prioritized personal freedom and critical thinking over blind trust in federal health agencies.

“We need individual citizens willing to take accountability for their own local health officers and health boards.”

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Idaho’s vote to remove COVID-19 shots came right after the board heard presentations from several doctors who were informed about COVID-19 safety and efficacy concerns.  Individual citizens need to ask their local officials if they’d be willing to hear such presentations and then arrange for presenters to share evidence.  Constituents in Idaho’s Southwest District Health sent 300 public comments to board members — before their vote — urging them to stop promoting the shots.

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