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HAPPY SOLAR MAXIMUM, EVERYONE!!!!

AS WE PROGRESS FURTHER INTO YEAR 2024,
MAY BRILLIANT SOLUTIONS TO THE ABUNDANT
TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FACING US
PRESENT THEMSELVES IN MIRACULOUS WAYS
WE COULD NEVER HAVE FORESEEN.
AND MAY ALL BEINGS BE BLESSED.

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LONGMONT FOR SAFE TECHNOLOGY….

Exists as a collection of local folks who,  firstly ) question the safe use of wireless technology where we live, and who persist in asking our city to show us the science and the reports that prove that wireless, and in particular smart electric meters that the city is installing are safe and without risk (the prevailing independent science shows that wireless, microwave broadcasting technology is NOT safe, nor without risk); and  secondly, that ) as residents and people with vested interests in the City of Longmont, Colorado, there are those in our ranks who are collectively not happy that the city where we live, visit, work and play, Longmont, Colorado, is implementing its 2024 rollout of approximately 45,000 smart meters citywide despite common sense opposition voiced over the past four years. This rollout, as mentioned at 2023 City Council meetings, will lead to an updated “smart grid,” and eventually a smart city. If you don’t think Longmont has this in the works, then we invite you to visit this website to learn more about the upcoming smart cities spring conference in Raleigh, NC, and learn how Longmont and other Colorado cities are participating in the wider scheme of becoming smart cities.

You may think our position on this subject is “old fashioned” or that we are anti-technology. We are not. We are concerned with the use of wireless technology whose wireless infrastructure planet-wide is harming and destroying life on earth as we know it, including people. We believe a Precautionary Principle is in order. We also believe in the concept of Informed Consent. This city never asked me (you, neither) whether I wanted an additional load of electrosmog in the air, from a wireless mesh network in all the neighborhoods. Nor did they tell me the implementation of a smart or digital opt-out meter on my house might cause me harm through the introduction of conducted emissions (aka “dirty electricity”) onto the wiring of my house, making it essentially into a large, broadcasting antenna. Au contraire, no vote was taken among the populace as to whether we wanted these meters, no widespread informational campaign was undertaken by the city to inform the people of the good, bad, the ugly and the risks of this technology, and lastly, nobody asked me or you if we wanted to live in a smart city, which is where this is all headed unless we, the people, stop it.

PLEASE VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE HERE FOR DAILY POSTINGS
ON THE SUBJECT OF SAFE AND UNSAFE TECHNOLOGY AS THEY
COME IN, AND AS WE BECOME AWARE OF THEM.

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PLEASE CHECK YOUR NEW METER!!!

If you have opted out of having a smart meter and you are wondering if the new meter on the side of your home is a non-broadcasting meter (as you had requested and expected), you need to make sure the correct type of meter has been installed.

The top photo is a Landis & Gyr Revelo (model) smart meter, IoT ready (according to the PR on the Landis & Gyr site). This is the type of meter you don’t want on your home if you are  a) sensitive to wireless RF/radio frequency, or for that matter, electromagnetic radiation in general, including “dirty electricity” and / or b) are concerned for the health of your family, your pets, your neighbors, and the environment in general, including the birds and the bees.

The bottom photo is a non-broadcasting digital meter and has a prominent blue and white sticker on the lower portion. This is the meter you want on your home if you have opted out of having a smart meter, however, even though this digital “opt-out” meter does not have the electronics to create/broadcast radio frequencies (aka microwaves) it still sets up dirty electricity, aka conducted emissions, transients, noise, on your house’s circuitry, and it still has the capacity (just like the broadcasting “smart” meter) to induce a fire at your dwelling.

We are posting this warning because even though we opted out, a smart meter was, nevertheless, installed on our house. We know it happened to others in our neighborhood who had also opted out. Be vigilant, be aware!!!

If you believe you have the wrong meter then you need to call Longmont Power and Communications at (303) 651-8386 to let them know. They will then come and replace it. Don’t call the number of the door hanger the installer leaves on your house as this is the number for the company installing the meters (Aclara) and not the LPC. (We learned the hard way – the right hand doesn’t seem to know what the left hand is doing…..!)

We give the benefit of the doubt that this mistake was due to a lack of communication between Longmont Power and Communications (LPC) and the company installing the meters, Aclara. However, we wouldn’t put it beyond LPC and Aclara to have done this on purpose, thinking we wouldn’t notice.

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PLEDGE DRIVE UPDATE:

IN LATE 2023, WE ACHIEVED OUR INITIAL $10K GOAL IN PLEDGES AND THEN SOME! HOWEVER, WERE WE TO MOUNT A SUCCESSFUL LEGAL ACTION TO PUT A STOP TO THE METER ROLLOUT HERE, WHICH CONTINUES AS WE WRITE THIS, WE NEED MANY MORE PLEDGES, AND WE NEEDED THEM YESTERDAY(!!!). PLEASE HELP US STOP SMART METERS IN LONGMONT (AND THUS, EVERYWHERE ELSE) BY PLEDGING YOUR MONETARY SUPPORT TODAY.

YOUR PLEDGES, ONCE ACTUALIZED, ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE THROUGH OUR PARTNERED NON-PROFIT. WITH THE NEW YEAR, WE ONCE AGAIN BEGAN A NEW EFFORT TO RAISE MUCH GREATER SUMS THAN ALREADY PLEDGED. IF YOU ARE SOMEONE, OR KNOW SOMEONE ALIGNED WITH THIS CAUSE THAT IS IN THE POSITION TO PLEDGE/DONATE A GREATER AMOUNT, SUCH AS IN THE THOUSANDS, EVEN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, PLEASE REACH OUT TO US ASAP !!!!!

EVERY AMOUNT PLEDGED, LARGE OR SMALL, IS COMPLETELY APPRECIATED AND HELPS US TO ACQUIRE THE LEGAL ACTION WE NEED TO PUT A HALT TO THESE METERS….

Contact:  longmont4safetech@gmail.com today with a pledge, large or small, we are grateful for anything you pledge to contribute!!!

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PLEASE GO HERE or HERE FOR RESOURCES / EDUCATION ON THE ACTIONS AVAILABLE TO ASSIST YOU TO TAKE BACK YOUR POWER FROM THE CITY OF LONGMONT / LONGMONT POWER COMPANY, AND THEIR PROMISE THAT A “SMART” METER IS COMING TO THE SIDE OF YOUR DWELLING, SOONER THAN LATER (WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT!!!!).

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A Love Letter to the Residents of Longmont, written in Spring of ’23…….

Dear Longmont ‘Smart Meter Test Zone’ (and all other) Residents:

Did You Know – in 2021, in an historic win for humans, wildlife, the birds and bees, and the environment, the FCC was Court ordered to address long-term impacts of radiation from wireless devices……and that, to date (now, Spring, ’24) it has NOT!!!?

On August 13th, 2021 the Federal Appeals Court in Washington DC ordered the FCC to re-evaluate its human exposure safety guidelines for RF radiation from cell phones, routers, 5G small cell antennas and other wireless devices. This ruling, of course, would also include the effects of wireless/microwave radiating “smart” utility meters, such as the electric “smart meter” that has more than likely been installed, or is to be installed on your home or business, here in the Longmont smart meter test zone, and then the rest of the City, unless, of course, you choose/chose a paid opt-out instead, which the Longmont Power CO is offering its customers.

“The landmark ruling in the case found the FCC violated the Administrative Procedure Act and failed to address impacts of long-term wireless exposure, failed to address unique impacts to children, failed to address the testimony of people injured by wireless radiation, failed to address impacts to wildlife and the environment, and failed to address impacts to the developing brain and reproduction.” https://ehtrust.org/doctors-and-scientists-call-for-protective-policy-after-historic-court-ruling-on-wireless-radiation/

“This is an historic win. The FCC will have to re-open the proceeding and for the first time meaningfully and responsibly confront the vast amount of scientific and medical evidence (11,000 pages submitted into evidence!!!) showing that current guidelines do not adequately protect health and the environment.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-wins-case-fcc-safety-guidelines-5g-wireless/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=5c611af3-b4e4-4114-988f-7137a2749a72 

In a video press conference after the Aug. 13, 2021 ruling against the FCC, Children’s Health Defense lead attorney Dafna Tachover remarked: “The illegal tactics being used now by Big Telecom make Big Tobacco’s coverup in the 90s look like child’s play.”

DID YOU KNOW THAT A WIRELESS ELECTRIC AKA “SMART METER” EMITS PULSED MICROWAVE RF RADIATION INTO YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS THOUSANDS OF TIMES A DAY, IN AN INVISIBLE ELECTRONIC “MESH NETWORK” IN ORDER TO TRANSMIT YOUR ENERGY USAGE TO THE LONGMONT POWER COMPANY?

Are You Willing to be a Test Subject with NO informed consent, in an experiment that will operate under the umbrella of FCC safety guidelines that, in the legal opinion of the 2^nd highest court in the land are out of date, where YOUR federal agency, the FCC (charged with protecting YOU from harmful RF emissions) has NOT done its court-ordered homework, even now, going on two years later (and who is widely known as a “CAPTURED” agency by virtue of revolving door appointments between industry, big telecom and gov’t)…ARE YOU WILLING TO PLACE YOURSELF, YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR PETS, ALL WILDLIFE AND POLLINATORS (WHICH MEANS YOUR FOOD), AND THE ENVIRONMENT, POTENTIALLY AT RISK?

GO TO WWW.SMARTMETERTOWNHALL.COM TO GET MORE EDUCATED.

AND THEN, IF YOU ARE NOT PLEASED WITH WHAT’S HAPPENING IN LONGMONT  1) SPEAK OUT AT WEEKLY CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, TUESDAY NIGHTS AT 7 PM  2) WRITE TO YOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MAYOR OR  3) PEN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR. LET YOUR LOCAL OFFICIALS KNOW YOU AREN’T HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, OR AT BEING “EXTORTED FOR PROTECTION” (THE PAID OPT-OUT)….. FRANKLY, WE IN LONGMONT ARE ALL TEST SUBJECTS, IT’S JUST THAT ANYONE IN ANY OF THE TEST ZONES GOT TO GO FIRST.

AND IF YOU HAPPEN TO NOTICE AN ABRUPT OR SUBTLE CHANGE IN YOUR HEALTH, WHETHER IMMEDIATE OR OVER TIME, UPON THE INSTALLATION OF YOUR SMART OR OPT OUT ELECTRICAL METER, BY ALL MEANS CALL YOUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBER TO LET THEM KNOW. LET US KNOW, TOO!

longmont4safetech@gmail.com

AUG. ’22 LETTER TO LONGMONT FROM DISTINGUISHED EMF SCIENTIST, OLLE JOHANSSON
Imploring the Longmont City Council to use the Precautionary Principle
to stop the smart meter rollout.

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New from Children’s Health Defense, two page pdf: A Roadmap to Challenging Smart and Digital Meter Mandates.

Together, let’s fight back against the wireless takeover in our communities.

Visit the Children’s Health Defense Frequently Asked Questions page for more information on things wireless: childrenshd.org/emr-faqs

Also from CHD. another call to action – Stand Up Against the Wireless Takeover – Oppose HR 4141
“H.R. 4141 removes critical environmental impact review requirements and facilitates the rapid build-out of wireless infrastructure throughout the country. Eliminating these environmental safeguards may have unpredictable and catastrophic consequences on both nature and humanity.”

Americans for Responsible Technology weighs in on the bad DC telecom bills, with action items you can do.

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INFORMATION ESPECIALLY FOR PARENTS AND PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THE WELL BEING OF KIDS……

THE BELOW IS FOR EDUCATION ONLY, THERE WAS A HEARING IN OCT. ’23 WITH SOME GREAT TESTIMONY. 

We are leaving all of this up temporarily, so that people can seen what our federal government potentially has in store for the children in public schools in this country.

WI-FI ON SCHOOL BUSES???!!!
(What, gov’t funding for more Tik-Tok for our kids?)

How about a little more Wi-Fi for your kids, as in, let’s mandate that they be Wi-Fried not only at school, but on the buses coming to and from……insofar as what Tom Wheeler, former FCC Chair says below: Wheeler is the guy majorly responsible for irresponsible policies regarding the safety of the wholesale adoption of 5G wireless by advocating ploughing ahead with absolutely no safety testing, and no regard for the health of biological entities (ie, ourselves and our children). He is, in our opinion, only beholden to the allure of big money, and whatever masters he serves (hint: it is not we, the people).

Below excerpts are from the article  “Battle brews over FCC plan to bring Wi-Fi to school buses” from the Oct. 6, ’23 edition of The Hill:

“Top Republicans in House and Senate Commerce committees have criticized the proposal. GOP lawmakers argue that it would increase children’s access to risky and detrimental social media apps in a situation with limited supervision.” 

The other side opines:

“You’ve got to ask yourself the question, ‘What is a school?’ And the school is where learning takes place,” said Tom Wheeler, a former FCC chair under the Obama administration. (Tom Wheeler, by the way, also whole heartedly endorsed the advancement of 5G with no regulatory oversight whatsoever in a public speech before the National Press Club in DC….circa 2016.)

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Background to this issue: FCC manages the E- Rate program, which provides funding to schools and libraries for telecommunications and information services, using funds from the Universal Service Fund. Since the program began in 1998, E-Rate has disbursed over $45 billion for connectivity at schools and libraries (see Table 4.2). Each year, the FCC is required to seek comment and then publish a list of services eligible for E-Rate funding. The E-Rate Eligible Services list for prior years has included eligibility for funding fixed wireless and satellite connectivity to schools and libraries, and for Wi-Fi within these buildings.

FCC Chair Rosenworcel proposed the expansion of Wi-Fi to school buses last year, but the Commission did not act on this (see paragraph 7), presumably because it was deadlocked 2-2.  In late ’23, Anna Gomez was sworn in as fifth FCC Commissioner; since then, the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation wrote to her opposing the expansion, calling it a “Plan to Subsidize TikTok on School Buses.”

The FCC meeting to consider this expansion took place on October 19, 2023.

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Can Wireless Radiation Cause Electric Shock Drowning?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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APPLE STAFF ASKED TO STAY SILENT……

You may have heard, in fall of ’23, France announced it was banning the iPhone 12!!! (At least, temporarily.) Hmmm…..why on earth would they do this?!!

Following on from the above:

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NO-FEE SMART METER OPT-OUT BILL IN MA

Senator Michael Moore’s S.2152 – An Act relative to smart meters –
This bill ensures a no-fee opt-out from the impending toxic smart meter rollout.

LINK ABOVE, TAKES YOU TO THE LEGISLATIVE PAGE WHERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND READ THIS BILL, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO SO, GENERALIZING IT TO YOUR OWN LOCATION. WE NEED MORE BOLD LEGISLATION SUCH AS THIS. 

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Bad Telecom Bills….still moving through the DC legislature….link for more information
from ART, Americans for Responsible Technology …… click here.

 

 

 

 

(Editor note: the above image can be rightly dubbed
“Earth Under Assault by Electromagnetic Pollution”)

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LATEST URGENT ACTION REQUEST FROM CHD TO DO WITH BAD TELECOM BILLS IN DC –
H.R. 4141 removes critical environmental impact review requirements and facilitates the rapid build-out of wireless infrastructure throughout the country. Eliminating these environmental safeguards may have unpredictable and catastrophic consequences on both nature and humanity. TAKE ACTION NOW.

Truthsayers Group in Woodstock, New York has a change.org petition from people opposing bill HR3557. Please sign and share with your lists, put onto social media and websites, etc. Every name counts. There is a great deal of detail below the actual petition worth reading. Learn, share, educate.

Signing the above petition helps to stop the insanity that would be the “Christmas list come true” for Big Telecom in Washington, DC, that takes away nearly (if not all) local control regarding “all things telecom.” This is sheer madness for those who seek a calm, clear headed and common sense approach on the placement and management of all wireless installations in the local environs, IE, yours and my city officials.

The passage of these bills, and especially HR3557, would even pre-empt existing historic area and environmental reviews (NEPA) that have been in place for years, and allow Telecom a “pedal to the metal” push for wireless expansion and infrastructure, unfettered, in our national parks. Is this what YOU want for your environment? For wireless and cell towers to go up willy-nilly in such places as Rocky Mountain National Park here in Colorado, or Arches over in our neighboring Utah, at the whim of Telecom, destroying or harming the wildlife, the peace and tranquility of such an atmosphere, in a place where increasing numbers of humans go to escape the frazzle of wireless radiation (with little to no oversight or review by those most affected, the locals)? What could possibly be wrong with this scheme!???? (If you don’t already know, keep perusing this site!)

The below was recently shared with us regarding HR3557;
if it resonates with you, please send as instructed, the link will take you to another site where you may download the document:

AFFIDAVIT/NOTICE OF LIABILITY – some people are currently using this to give notice to the sponsor of this toxic bill, Rep. Earl Carter. The bill is discussed on this page, and is currently moving through the legislature in DC, H.R.3557. Once you read it, you will discover it can be rewritten/retooled and tailored to a smart meter situation, but by all means, you are encouraged, welcome and requested to send it as is, to Rep. Earl Carter who is NOT acting in your interest in sponsoring this bad bill. As stated in the document, you may also want to send to your representatives.

GO HERE TO VIEW THE VIRTUAL TOWN HALL  ON HR3557 WITH THREE EXPERT TELECOM ATTORNEYS SPEAKING ON THE “BLIZZARD OF BAD BILLS” IN WASHINGTON DC, HR3557 BEING THE “MOTHER OF THEM ALL.”

The below list of assertions (False Claims and Premises) and the rebuttals that follow them, to do with the virtues of wired vs. wireless infrastructure, come from attorney Julian Gresser in relation to this toxic bill being pushed in D.C., HR3557 as well as “a blizzard” of other companion bills being pushed by Telecom. If you care to extrapolate, you could take the below bullet points and contextualize them onto the smart meter rollout in Longmont, soon to be in its “running” or “full speed ahead” phase and say, “this is what our city promises” about wireless infrastructure and smart meters, but in actuality, the rebuttals show that quite the opposite is true.

(And….Longmont has already got fiber to the premises unlike most other cities, so we are many steps ahead of the game, if we would only acknowledge and realize it by keeping our wired infrastructure or perhaps even updating it, vs. going whole hog into wireless smart meters with their wireless mesh networks!!!) Speaking of the multitude of bills working their way through government in D.C. as seen here, Mr. Gresser states the following (and it should send up alarm bells to all freedom loving individuals) –

“HR 3557 and its associated complementary bills represent a tyrannical attempt by the telecom-wireless industry to shift forever the reasonable and historic balance between the federal government, states, and local communities. Many of these bills offend the Constitution; some significantly abridge hard fought civil liberties; others intentionally and cynically promote and disseminate false claims, or are predicated on them…

At the very least members of Congress must conduct comprehensive risk assessment and due diligence on HR 3557 et al. before voting to approve them. It is political malpractice to fail to do so.”

False Claims and Premises. The 50+ bills are based on a series of false claims and premises that are not rendered truthful by their being widely asserted, disseminated, and asseverated by the wireless telecom industry and members of Congress:

• Wireless infrastructure is safe. It is well documented to be unsafe.

• Wireless infrastructure is resilient. In fact, it is less resilient than one based on fiber.

• Wireless infrastructure is energy efficient. In fact, it is shown to be vastly energy consumptive.

• Wireless infrastructure is cybersecure. In fact, wireless is substantially less secure that optical fiber which facilitates identification of the point of attack, and resilient response.

• Wireless infrastructure is climate change friendly. In fact, it is the very opposite.

• Wireless infrastructure promotes Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) especially in minority communities, when in fact these same communities are too economically challenged and lack legal representation to escape.

• Wireless infrastructure will close the Digital Divide, when it caused it in the first place and will expand it.

• Wireless is long-lived, whereas the wireless industry and supporting legislators know full well that wireless is short-lived and given to early obsolescence.

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MORE on HR3557 below…..

What New Jersey has to say about the American Broadband Deployment Act of 2023
(HR3557. a very, VERY bad bill).

And….an update from Sept. ’23….
Sept. 28, 2023:   Today on behalf of the nation’s counties, cities, towns and villages, the National League of Cities (NLC), United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), National Association of Counties (NACo) and the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) have signed a joint letter “to express our deep concerns and strong opposition to H.R. 3557, the American Broadband Deployment Act of 2023.  H.R. 3557 deprives citizens and their local governments of the ability to preserve property rights and maintain public safety.”

Urgent Action Needed, same topic, from Children’s Health Defense:
Stop the American Broadband Deployment Act of 2023 from Being Enacted.
Take Action to Prevent the Next Wireless Invasion.

More opposition to HR3557:

• Houston opposition to HR3557
• Seattle statement of opposition to HR3557

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LEAVE OUR FORESTS AND WILDLIFE IN PEACE, AWAY FROM THE IRRADIATION THAT COMES FROM WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY RUN AMOK IN OUR NATIONAL FORESTS FROM THE OVER-REACH OF BIG TELECOM WITH ITS ALWAYS PUSH FOR “MORE”……!!! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ON THE ABOVE TOXIC BILL/S NOW.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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While not entirely congruent with this site’s theme, we find this Alexa story highly amusing and ironic, and too good not to mention!!!

HEADLINE:  “Amazon Alexa tells users the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen by a massive amount of election fraud’…..”

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And while we’re at it, a related humorous meme seen recently on Facebook and Twitter/X:

Man:

My wife asked me why I was speaking so softly at home.

I told her I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening!

She laughed.
I laughed.
Alexa laughed.
Siri laughed.

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Someone is always posting something interesting on social media.

Here are graphics with text, click through to see all of them, totally to do with the discussion on smart meters and toxic EMF, and obviously taken from what looks like a book on the subject of EMF, smart meters, the blood brain barrier and calcium ion channels, to do with the work of Martin Blank, PhD……it is a little disjointed, but worth viewing/reading……

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Looking forward to a link to the replay and will post when it comes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BROADBAND FREEDOM OF CHOICE VIRTUAL TOWN HALL
September 6, 2023

Gigi Sohn, Executive Director, American Association of Public Broadband
Kimberly McKinley, Deputy Director and Chief Marketing Officer, Utopia Fiber
Timothy Schoechle, Ph.D, Consultant in Computer and Communications Engineering & Policy

Moderator: Odette Wilkens
Co-Founder, President & General Counsel
Wired Broadband, Inc.  a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in New York City,
focusing on safe technology for the public.
For further info, full bios and flyer click this link:  
SMART Town_Hall_Flyer_Bios_-_Broadband_Freedom_of_Choice (1)

REPLAY PAGE
for the above and other Town Halls, with expert guests,
all meetings listed below and found at above linked page.

“Gig City Goes Quantum: The Amazing Chattanooga, TN Fiber Network Success Story!”
July 19, 2023, with Gary Bolton, Katie Espeseth, Clayton Banks

“Federal Bills: Losing Control Over Wireless Permitting”
August 16, 2023, with Andrew Campanelli, Scott McCollough, Julian Gresser

“Losing Local Control Over Wireless Permitting (and what you can do about it) – Advocacy & Lobbying,“ November 1, 2023, with Julian Gresser, Int’l Environmental Interest Attorney Minna Elias, Attorney and Former Congressional Staffer Charles Frohman, M.Ed., National Health Federation, Lobbyist Suanne Edmiston, Former Congressional Counsel Maurice Franklin, PhD, Public Policy Consultant

 

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Longmont electric rates to increase in 24/25
Not satisfied with the savings that will be made with the smart meter rollout, the city deems that we the residents will still have to pay more for our electricity over the next few years, largely fueled by the city’s goal to use 100% renewable electricity by 2030. “I just want to say to the public that we do want to transition,” Mayor Joan Peck said during a recent study session. “It is what the city wants; it’s the council direction and it’s expensive.” Well, we fail to see how the residents of Longmont can actually “want” something without even being asked. This is just more of the same, our council assuming what they and their committees want is what we the people want. NO, what we want (by majority vote) is what they ought to implement. That’s how it works. That’s democracy!

From Children’s Health Defense – FCC Wireless Radiation Exposure Limits are Decades Out of Date

The Longmont Smart Meter Rollout…
Picks up the pace (we might add, somewhat unexpectedly).

We’re not sure whatever happened to the “walk, jog and run” schedule for the smart meter rollout, as announced at City Council by our City Manager the week after the May 30th, 2023 Open Forum Council meeting (where at least ten people willing to speak out in advocating for safe tech, and away from the wireless, digital “smart” meters to be placed on homes, soon enough, gathered, to present a “proposed resolution for a moratorium on smart meters in Longmont”). “Walk, jog, and run” were the monikers for the three outlined phases and pace of the smart meters being rolled out in Longmont as announced by Harold Dominguez, the City Manager, the “walk” phase was to begin in June, and install another 100 meters (on top of the circa 580 installed last autumn in the south Longmont test zone) by Oct. The “jog” phase was to continue from Oct. to install another 2500 by the end of year 2023; the citywide “run” phase was to begin at the beginning of 2024…..see minute (circa) 10:45 at above linked video to see / hear for yourself.

Now we are told the citywide rollout is to begin in earnest on Aug. 15. See articles below.

UPDATE ON SMART METER ROLLOUT: The LPC indeed did install another 500 or so meters between Aug. 15 and the 25th. Their next phase appears to be the “jog” phase, having completed their “walk” phase. It is slated to begin somewhere mid-September, after they have a chance to look over what they’ve just done and “tweak” it (our words). This phase is to include deployment of 1500 more meters around the city between mid-Sept. and the end of the year. Then in the beginning of 2024 they go to their “run” phase into the end zone, for however long it takes, presumably a year, stated more accurately as the “Katie bar the door” phase (depending on your perspective)!!!

How to “say no” to smart meters from Bill Bathgate and Virginians for Safe Tech, Bill is another expert’s expert on the topic of smart meters and more…..this single link leads to a wealth and treasure trove of information to assist you in your journey with pushing back against this toxic technology. (Do you have a “smart” meter on your home and don’t want to sign the opt-out form? Is a “smart” meter on your business or barn and you can’t opt out? See the above link for suggestions and solutions from the experts.)

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IMPORTANT – Beatrice Golumb MD, PhD, Director of the Golumb Research Group, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine – the medical/health survey ‘doesn’t look good’ for smart meters. “We asked the ES people if they recognized an inciting or triggering event, and close to 70% did – and by far the most commonly reported trigger was smart meters.” Read the post here.

(If YOU receive a smart meter [or even a digital opt out meter] and begin to have a quick onset of unexplained symptoms, contact your City Council member ASAP to let them know, and ask what the City/LPC plans to do about it. Hint – remove the dang thing from the side of your house and replace it with your old analog, and see if you don’t recover quickly!!!!! Then let us know what happened, because, well, somebody has to track what these meters are doing to residents, and we don’t think the City is planning to do so.) 

Used by kind permission of Floris Freshman

LONGMONT NEWS ON THE SMART METER ROLLOUT

Article From the Longmont Leader, July 24, 2023
Longmont will begin replacing nearly 50,000 manually-read meters with smart electric meters on Aug. 15. The process is expected to take a year. In Oct. 2022, the city installed 500 smart meters in southern Longmont to test it new advanced metering infrastructure, or AMI. The new infrastructure allows the meters to be read for a few seconds every hour and eliminates the need for a meter reader to visit every meter in the city each month. (We, the editors of this site, beg to disagree….)

Longmont begins citywide upgrade to advanced meters
July 20, 2023 – Longmont will begin the citywide phase of its electric meter upgrade on the week of Aug. 15, replacing approximately 50,000 manually read meters with up-to-date self-reading units. The project will take about a year – Read more.….

Longmont City Council Open Forum Meeting – May 30, 2023 – Op-Ed
The May 30, 2023 City Council Open Forum meeting may have been covered by the Times Call in an article but where was any coverage about the content of the proposed resolution for a smart meter moratorium as read aloud at the meeting by at least five area residents, concerned with the upcoming citywide roll-out of these meters?….read more.

ETHAN AUGREEN….

You may wonder why we have posts about Ethan Augreen on this site; in case it’s not obvious to you, Ethan’s thoughts about smart meters in Longmont are in harmony with the folks at longmont4safetech who want a smart meter moratorium. We think he deserves our respect and attention and is, for this site, still newsworthy even though he was not elected mayor.

Recent post from ‘Ethan Augreen for Mayor,’ needless to say, we couldn’t agree more:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During the last election season, Ethan Augreen seemed to have a knack for landing on the front page of some publication or other – here is an article about him, in the Daily Camera…..

Ethan Augreen (local resident who unsuccessfully ran for Longmont Mayor)  questioned the city’s climate emergency declaration in op-ed from Longmont Leader……also click here to read much, much more on what Ethan had as his sustainable achievable energy platform in running for Longmont Mayor, it’s quite fleshed out and, in our opinion, brought in fresh ideas, common sense, and a direction on energy that we could all perhaps get behind; sadly, Ethan did not win……

 

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Editorial from The Hill, Devra Davis of the Environmental Health Trust speaks out….. “In authorizing millions of dollars to states and tribes to expand internet access, the Biden administration has set a vital economic goal. But it’s imperative that this expansion is built in the safest, fastest and most secure way to achieve this result while also protecting public health and the environment. Pending legislation assumes that wireless systems provide a reliable and safe network. Unfortunately, these systems are neither reliable nor safe.” (Italics from this editor.)

From Children’s Health Defense,  8/02/2023
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continues to defy a court order to reexamine its electromagnetic radiation exposure limits set in 1996. Children’s Health Defense sued the agency in 2019, and won a 2021 ruling requiring the FCC to explain how its guidelines protect human health — but two years later, the agency shows no signs of complying.

FROM LONGMONT: This video is dated, but Mayor Peck was asking for input on what to use the million dollars that Longmont received from the Bronco Stadium sale, and in particular, as regards spending it on youth education and enrichment. Did anybody speak up? Maybe suggest providing education on wireless hazards, and teach kids how to use an RF (radio frequency) meter to “see” this invisible energy that is “out of sight, out of mind” for most? Kids would LOVE this kind of learning!! (Adults, too, no doubt!!!) How about a grant for the Longmont Public Library to provide one or more RF meters that people can check out, with or without a deposit and/or credit card? What a great use of a little bit of this money (we can tell Mayor Peck and the city where to go, exactly, to purchase one of the best, and most user friendly RF meters on the market for around $400, the Safe and Sound Pro II, used by world leading authorities on smart meters, wireless and 5G, and many “newbies” for the purpose of “seeing” also “hearing,” literally, what is all around us – radio frequencies mostly in the microwave range that most of us don’t have a clue about!!!).

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MORE NEWS, SOME OF IT DATED, BUT WORTHY…..

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:  “According to an interview with the French daily Le Parisien published on Tuesday Sept. 12, ’23, Apple was asked to cease selling its iPhone 12 model in France due to newly-discovered elevated radiation levels.”

FRANCE BANS (temporarily) sales of iPhone 12…..

THANK GOD, France has a EMR watchdog agency that is actually worth something……Apple submitted an update for the iPhone 12 to reduce the rf exposure, now it’s “wait and see” time….

UNITED AUTO WORKERS STRIKE and electric vehicles….what’s the connection?

US GOV’T – finally admitting that neuroweaponry and directed energy weapons (DEW) exist…..slightly old, entirely relevant….. Senate Bill 1828, the “Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act of 2021″ or, the “HAVANA Act of 2021” authorizes payment to qualified employees for brain injuries inflicted by neuroweaponry……   “In a reversal of the established commentary that those claiming victimization by electronic weaponry are crazy and delusional, the US Senate has passed a Bill authorizing payment to CIA and State Department officials who have been attacked by this weaponry. ”

Big Energy Climate Scams Dump Toxic Pollutants on Small Towns…..from Children’s Health Defense:
“According to EPA’s own data, Chevron’s fuel ingredient will cause virtually everyone with lifetime exposure to develop cancer. The cancer risk is six times higher than a lifelong cigarette habit.”

All that glitters is not gold….after being excited to learn of Chattanooga, TN’s stellar success in hardwiring its “smart” meters via a fiber optic network (not unlike what we have in Longmont, and thereby with a potential for eliminating the RF coming from the meters here) if you dig a little deeper (and you are NOT a proponent of “smart” cities) you discover something you maybe wish you hadn’t, see the linked article above and……..stay tuned, as we dig a little deeper to find out more.

The Federal Communications Commission has a broad mandate to ensure that technology doesn’t damage the environment, but as the agency presides over a nationwide buildout for 5G service, requiring 800,000 new “small cell” transmitters, it is ignoring that mandate.

Tech giant Apple is calling its “mixed reality” headset, scheduled to hit the market in early 2024, “the most advanced personal electronics device ever.” But critics warned the headset will pose multiple threats, physical and emotional, to children.

Attorneys W. Scott McCollough and Greg Glaser with Dr. Meryl Nass joined host Aimee Villella McBride earlier this summer on CHD.TV’s “Friday Roundtable” to discuss the future of digital control technologies and how to resist them. This is an extremely important video, a must view, in our opinion, to glean expertise from Greg and Scott on how to best circumvent the new wireless reality pushing down and in on people everywhere, no wonder they call them the “Internet and mesh networks as big telecom (encouraged by big monied interests that are not interested in your welfare) casts its net wider and wider, hoping that we the people won’t notice until it is too late, and like the mama whale in this video short find ourselves hopelessly entangled in something from which we struggle to survive and be free.

Protecting the public from surveillance “is an ongoing process” whistleblower Edward Snowden told The Guardian. “And we will have to be working at it for the rest of our lives and our children’s lives and beyond.

Backers of a proposed nickel mine in Minnesota claim it will be an environmentally friendly operation that provides crucial material for the production of electric vehicle batteries, but challengers say the mine could actually create more environmental problems than it will solve.

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Resolution for a Smart Meter Moratorium – Smart Meter Town Hall

At the bottom of this paragraph is the link to the page on the Smart Meter Town Hall site where you may download a pdf of the updated version of our May 30, 2023 proposed  Resolution for a Smart Meter Moratorium (corrected for inaccurate information that was in the first iteration). Click below link to another site where you can peruse and download the Resolution for a Smart Meter Moratorium in Longmont, CO
or go here to view it elsewhere on the L4ST (this) site.

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