Smart-meters….you don't need them to survive!
Nevada is supposedly one of those states with a smart meter ‘opt out’ policy. On the ground, however, the reality is a little different.
Mona Orkoulas lives in the mountains outside Las Vegas, Nevada, where she works in real estate. Like many Americans she has been impacted by the downturn in the economy and is struggling to make ends meet. Mona was born in the US and raised by an Egyptian/ Greek family. She has always paid her bills on time, and makes protecting her health a priority. For years Mona worked on humanitarian projects in the Middle East: drilling wells, and providing drinkable water and renewable power to remote villages. So she is familiar with the need for safe, reliable public services. Now, it turns out that she may need some humanitarian assistance herself — not in the developing world but right outside Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The story starts when Nevada Energy (NVE) installed a ‘smart’ meter on Mona’s bedroom wall in January without permission, or even so much as a few days’ notice.
Mona reports that she does not have any prior history of medical issues. Shortly after NV Energy installed the smart meter, she started noticing an increase in her heart rate first thing in the morning and an elevated blood pressure. She felt fatigued, and started having headaches. A low grinding sound had started when the meter was installed and this made it difficult for Mona to sleep, or even be in her own home during the day. She tried different things to get rid of the symptoms, but nothing worked. Finally it dawned on her: the only thing which had changed in her life was the meter. When she started researching the issue, she realized she was not alone. Others were experiencing the same annoying humming grinding sound, the same adverse health impacts — and linking it to recent smart meter installations. She has amassed a whole binder of studies about the negative effects of EMF’s on health.
A letter from Mona’s doctor to NV Energy reads:
Neurological and cardiological findings may be associated with pulsed EMF… EEG, ECG, MRI and sleep study changes may be associated in some hypersensitive individuals to pulsed EMF. If multiple Smart meters are in use in her area, the possibility of constructive and destructive interference between the various EMF signals is a distinct possibility whose effects may be potentially more dangerous. I recommend that this patient be allowed to have NVE reinstall an analog meter at her house.
Experts claim that the suspected meteors seen soaring through UK skies last night may have been bits of man-made satellites.
Great balls of fire! Night sky lights up over Britain in spectacular ‘meteor’ shower that may really have been space junk
- 20 orange objects soared through the night sky at speeds in excess of 18,000 miles an hour
- High number of eye-witness accounts suggest the sightings may have been bits of space hardware
- Meteors flash by while bits of old spacecraft appear in the sky for longer
Experts claim that the suspected meteors seen soaring through UK skies last night may have been bits of man-made satellites.
If they turn out to be right then hundreds of people will have been looking up at bits of old spacecraft burning up as they entered the atmosphere.
The large number of eyewitness accounts also support the expert’s theory as meteors – or fragments of rock – flash across the sky in an instant while incoming space hardware takes longer to pass over.
Dr Tim O’Brien, associate director of the Jordell Bank Observatory, told the BBC it was probably ‘orbital debris from satellites.
‘[The object was] probably 80 miles up or so, high up, moving very fast, actually, 18,000 miles an hour, probably, at least.’
Colin Johnston of Armagh Planetarium told the BBC a meteor shower had now been anticipated.
‘It could be a bit of natural space junk which has been floating around the universe for billions of years, or it could be a man-made satellite which has burned up,’ he said.
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