The Daily Blog Open Mic Wednesday 29th July 2015

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  1. A warning for Northland people,a certain electricity company is promising a good deal on power bills, but you also need to know you are commiting to Smart Meters,which will shoot the powerbills up to pay for them. I ask the lady who was promoting the company if it meant a
    smart meter, oh no! she said . When the acceptance letter arrived ,it said advance metering ,when queried if it meant smart metre it was confirmed, so we cancelled the changeover.
    You get a certain time period to change your mind, but in the case of outright lie,you should be able to cancel outside of this period,ask the question .

    • I have just received news that Radio NZ news

      http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/201763860

      EGCC has said Mercury Energy has been ordered by the Electricity regulatory watchdog Electricity & Gas Commissioner (EGCC)

      To pay $2000 after they installed a smart meter after customer Ross Chiplin of Te Aroha refused the meter.

      http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/350660/my-advice-say-no-smart-meters

      Otago Daily Times.

      ‘My advice is to say no to smart meters’
      Home » News » Regions

      By David Bruce on Wed, 29 Jul 2015

      The Regions: North Otago

      The planned installation of smart meters in North Otago homes has prompted several organisations to urge people to refuse them.

      Oamaru man Rob Hutchins’ Electro-sensitivity Trust supports people who have issues with electrical appliances, some suffering severe pain and headaches from devices using radio frequencies such as Wi-Fi and mobile phones.

      It lobbies for recognition of the issue as physiological and not psychological.

      ”My advice is to say `no’ to smart meters,” he said yesterday.

      ” . . . get independent advice because they cannot be said to be safe.”

      This biggest issue was the ”woefully out of date” NZ Standard introduced in 1999 for radio frequency devices, which only covered heating of the devices, not radio frequency emissions.

      Smart meters send information to the electricity retailer using microwave frequencies, such as more accurate and frequent reading of electricity consumption.

      Installation of the first smart meters on the Network Waitaki network will start next month when Meridian fits mabout 8500 meters.

      Meridian, Contact and Trustpower maintainthe meters are safe and that there is no evidence from New Zealand or internationally that smart meters pose health and environmental risks.

      However, they say if customers are concerned about having meters installed, they can discuss the issues and possible alternatives.

      Mr Hutchins disputed a comment from Trustpower community relations manager Graeme Purches that much of the information being disseminated via the internet was misleading and there was no reputable peer-reviewed scientific evidence to support the claims.

      He said there was a large amount of research from independent sources showing the meters were not safe.

      Some parts of the United States had banned installation of the meters.

      Katherine Smith, who set up New Zealand website stopsmartmeters, said radiation from smart meters was ”not trivial” and had been classified as a ”possible carcinogen” by the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer.

      Organic NZ editor Philippa Jamieson said people should not be forced to have transmitting devices like smart meters in their homes if they did not want them.

      An Oamaru couple, who do not want to be named, have told their retailer they won’t have a smart meter in their house

      http://www.electrosmogprevention.org/public-health-alert/aaem-advise-immediate-caution-smart-meters-april-2012/

      • Cleangreen. Trustpower assured me today that they had no plans for smart meters in the near future unless the government makes them install the smart meters. A lot of people I know have a printed sign on their existing meters stating NO SMART METER TO BE INSTALLED.

  2. Episode 787

    https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/310540-episode-max-keiser-787/

    “Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines.
    In this Keiser Report Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the fact that life’s but a walking shadow, a poor homeless schmuck that struts and frets his squeegee upon thy windshield, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot tabloid, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. In the second half Max interviews Michael Krieger of LibertyBlitzkrieg.com about #BankersLivesMatter and the two-tier justice system in America in relation to bankers and their crimes. They also ask, “where is Eric Holder now? Hmmm, I wonder.”

  3. ‘GMO companies kill agriculture, contribute to world hunger – anti-GMO activist’

    https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/310813-humanity-climate-change-gmo/

    “The future seems to offer few bright prospects for humanity. The climate change may undermine our food producing capacity severely, and hunger will run rampant. Therefore, many hail GMOs as a solution to famine. And yet, corporations that control the GMO market today are seen as some of the most pernicious companies on the globe. Why do they have such a reputation? Are GMOs really harmful, or will they help to feed the world? Actually, is feeding the world on the agenda of Monsanto and other agrochemical giants? We discuss these questions with the political director of the Organic Consumers Association, a proponent of healthy diets – Alexis Baden-Mayer is on Sophie&Co today….

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