Comments for Media City Groove http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove Media City/Burbank l news l entertainment l features l opinion l and whatever sparks interest Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Hearts, kisses, flowers, candy, and all that good stuff by DixieFlyer http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/hearts-kisses-flowers-and-candy/comment-page-1#comment-60323 DixieFlyer Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=17549#comment-60323 Thanks Fronnie!!! Hope yours is Happy, too. Thanks Fronnie!!!

Hope yours is Happy, too.

]]> Comment on Changes coming for Media City Groove by DixieFlyer http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/changes-coming-for-media-city-groove/comment-page-1#comment-60010 DixieFlyer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:07:57 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=17444#comment-60010 Maybe your SmartMeter needs a software update?? Try our local Sustainability Commission for "practical hints" on how to Pay More-Get Less all the while "feeling better" about yourself and those around you. Hope that helps. Best of Luck. Maybe your SmartMeter needs a software update??

Try our local Sustainability Commission for “practical hints” on how to Pay More-Get Less all the while “feeling better” about yourself and those around you.

Hope that helps.

Best of Luck.

]]> Comment on Happy MLK Day: Believe in the dream by Fronnie Lewis http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/happy-mlk-day-believe-in-the-dream/comment-page-1#comment-58309 Fronnie Lewis Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:33:28 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=17315#comment-58309 John, I appreciate your comments. Thank you for sharing. John,

I appreciate your comments. Thank you for sharing.

]]> Comment on Happy MLK Day: Believe in the dream by John Brady http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/happy-mlk-day-believe-in-the-dream/comment-page-1#comment-58166 John Brady Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:02:27 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=17315#comment-58166 City Council meeting 1=10-12 "City Mayor City Council City Staff Thank you for once again honoring the memory of Dr Martin Luther King’s birthday. On behalf of the Burbank Human Relations Council, which has encouraged this celebration for decades, I wanted to make a few brief comments. However recent circumstances have changed my comments. Once again, over the past few days, fliers from the National Alliance have defiled Burbank soil. This racist filth was distributed just up the hill. In four color I must compliment… they are getting better. But it will have no effect here. As Dr King once said “I have a dream that one day, one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. Well those children are now advancing to middle age and they have raised their children well. One travels the world and sees other cultures but ….in their own way ….are the same. It is here in Los Angeles County. The most different different different place on the planet that this kind of stuff of the National Alliance will not stand. We, here in Burbank, are part of a 10 to 12 million people community that has more races, ethnic groups, religious groups and the best tasting food in the world. And it’s working! Dr. King's vision is working, Crime is down is Los Angels County and, I wish to report to you, hate crimes are down even further!! Violent hate crimes are down even further. We have a responsibility to be an example to our city, our state, our country and the world that so many different people can live together. It was part of Dr King’s vision for America…. for us to live in harmony and justice and peace. There is no other place I would rather live, at this hour, than right here. I would like to call …..CM Mike Flad to the podium. We have got a lot of these. In the past few years we have given this proclamation to good organizations and individuals. This proclamation is precious. Could you arrange this, with the Chief of Police for this to be given to Det. David Kleinfeld, our liason for hate crimes?" Thank you Fronnie for giving me the forgiveness over what a stupid 7th grader said about Dr. King. Who found out within 36 or 48 hours of his death he really did believe in the America I believed in. He changed my life. City Council meeting 1=10-12

“City Mayor City Council City Staff

Thank you for once again honoring the memory of Dr Martin Luther King’s birthday.

On behalf of the Burbank Human Relations Council, which has encouraged this celebration for decades, I wanted to make a few brief comments.

However recent circumstances have changed my comments.

Once again, over the past few days, fliers from the National Alliance have defiled Burbank soil. This racist filth was distributed just up the hill. In four color I must compliment… they are getting better.

But it will have no effect here.

As Dr King once said “I have a dream that one day, one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Well those children are now advancing to middle age and they have raised their children well.

One travels the world and sees other cultures but ….in their own way ….are the same.

It is here in Los Angeles County. The most different different different place on the planet that this kind of stuff of the National Alliance will not stand.

We, here in Burbank, are part of a 10 to 12 million people community that has more races, ethnic groups, religious groups and the best tasting food in the world.

And it’s working! Dr. King’s vision is working, Crime is down is Los Angels County and, I wish to report to you, hate crimes are down even further!! Violent hate crimes are down even further.

We have a responsibility to be an example to our city, our state, our country and the world that so many different people can live together.

It was part of Dr King’s vision for America…. for us to live in harmony and justice and peace.

There is no other place I would rather live, at this hour, than right here.

I would like to call …..CM Mike Flad to the podium.

We have got a lot of these. In the past few years we have given this proclamation to good organizations and individuals.

This proclamation is precious.

Could you arrange this, with the Chief of Police for this to be given to Det. David Kleinfeld, our liason for hate crimes?”

Thank you Fronnie for giving me the forgiveness over what a stupid 7th grader said about Dr. King. Who found out within 36 or 48 hours of his death he really did believe in the America I believed in.

He changed my life.

]]> Comment on City Buzz by Ms. Kiku Lani Iwata - Burbank Action http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/city-buzz-38/comment-page-1#comment-57024 Ms. Kiku Lani Iwata - Burbank Action Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:58:17 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=16558#comment-57024 Thank you for writing intelligent reports about the smart meter issue in Burbank, and how it's developing. What's happening in Burbank is a microcosm of the smart meter problem is occurring across the state, nation and world. These smart meters invade our privacy, result in higher rates, and Burbank residents have already told me they've gotten higher rates since the meters were installed at their homes. These smart meters, as you heard at City Council meetings, are also making people sick (headaches, insomnia, heart palpitations, body aches). Residents aren't the only ones pointing our problems with smart meters and the smart grid. So are experts. Former CIA Director James Woolsey calls the Smart Grid "really stupid" due to National Security problems caused by so-called smart meters (watch "Energy Now!": http://www.energynow.com/video/2011/08/15/mix-cyber-terrorisms-threat). More recently, a presentation at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress at the end of December 2011, on technology and society, re-affirmed how smart meteres collect so much personal info, can be hacked and its data altered (read story and watch video of presentation: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/hacking-privacy-2-days-amateur-hacker-hack-smart-meter-fake-readings?t51hb&hpg1=mp). BWP has been asked to report back to City Council about the costs of opting out. We should not have to pay a penny to opt-out, we are already being penalized by having to pay for the $60 million BWP smart meters and their wireless infrastructure that we never approved or or consented to via higher rates, taxes (that funded the Federal Stimulus grant that pay for some of the pricetag), and violations of our privacy, health and property. Thank you for writing intelligent reports about the smart meter issue in Burbank, and how it’s developing. What’s happening in Burbank is a microcosm of the smart meter problem is occurring across the state, nation and world. These smart meters invade our privacy, result in higher rates, and Burbank residents have already told me they’ve gotten higher rates since the meters were installed at their homes. These smart meters, as you heard at City Council meetings, are also making people sick (headaches, insomnia, heart palpitations, body aches). Residents aren’t the only ones pointing our problems with smart meters and the smart grid. So are experts. Former CIA Director James Woolsey calls the Smart Grid “really stupid” due to National Security problems caused by so-called smart meters (watch “Energy Now!”: http://www.energynow.com/video/2011/08/15/mix-cyber-terrorisms-threat). More recently, a presentation at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress at the end of December 2011, on technology and society, re-affirmed how smart meteres collect so much personal info, can be hacked and its data altered (read story and watch video of presentation: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/hacking-privacy-2-days-amateur-hacker-hack-smart-meter-fake-readings?t51hb&hpg1=mp). BWP has been asked to report back to City Council about the costs of opting out. We should not have to pay a penny to opt-out, we are already being penalized by having to pay for the $60 million BWP smart meters and their wireless infrastructure that we never approved or or consented to via higher rates, taxes (that funded the Federal Stimulus grant that pay for some of the pricetag), and violations of our privacy, health and property.

]]> Comment on Holiday Highlights: Holiday Basket Program by Janet Diel http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/holiday-highlights-holiday-basket-program/comment-page-1#comment-56902 Janet Diel Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:00:28 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=17046#comment-56902 What a great article and it shows off what this community can accomplish when we work together. Thank you to everyone who participated. What a great article and it shows off what this community can accomplish when we work together. Thank you to everyone who participated.

]]> Comment on City Buzz by DixieFlyer http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/city-buzz-39/comment-page-1#comment-55781 DixieFlyer Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:28:11 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=16792#comment-55781 How the City Council "action" plays-out will be fun to watch, as the wording of the "Amendment" was being crafted by the staff attorney "during" the discussion-- and wasn't available to "read" let alone "vote on"???? When the item comes back for a "real vote" we can learn what it says. Heck, maybe even the City Council will have "read it" by that time--BEFORE they vote, again!! How the City Council “action” plays-out will be fun to watch, as the wording of the “Amendment” was being crafted by the staff attorney “during” the discussion–
and wasn’t available to “read” let alone “vote on”????

When the item comes back for a “real vote” we can learn what it says.

Heck, maybe even the City Council will have “read it” by that time–BEFORE they vote, again!!

]]> Comment on Strong winds whipping through Burbank by DixieFlyer http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/strong-winds-whipping-through-burbank/comment-page-1#comment-55413 DixieFlyer Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:50:24 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=16725#comment-55413 How about that job done by City Crews throughout Our City??!!?? OUTSTANDING!!!! Police on Patrol were quick to share observations from the field, folks inside were able to share info with those hard at work outside, too. Job Well Done. How about that job done by City Crews throughout Our City??!!??

OUTSTANDING!!!!

Police on Patrol were quick to share observations from the field, folks inside were able to share info with those hard at work outside, too.

Job Well Done.

]]> Comment on Smart meter controversy returns to the Burbank City Council by RobertWilliams http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/smart-meter-controversy-returns-to-the-burbank-city-council/comment-page-1#comment-54408 RobertWilliams Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:08:51 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=16482#comment-54408 SMART METER HEALTH PROBLEMS AND CANCER. 6. The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION May 31 2011 placed the Non-ionizing radiation coming from Wireless smart meters (& some other wireless devices) on the Class 2-B Carcinogen List. http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf 7. The NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Feb 2011 found biological changes in the brain after only minutes of exposure to non-ionizing radiation. http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/8/808.abstract 8. LABORATORY SCIENTISTS have observed
 (1) Human Cell Damage
 (2) DNA Chain Breaks 
(3) Breaches in the Blood-Brain Barrier
 from levels of non-ionizing radiation lower than emitted by WIRELESS Smart meters. http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/cc-video/ 9. INSURANCE COMPANIES Hired Independent Laboratory Scientists and they also observed Cell Damage and DNA Chain Breaks. Now the Insurance Companies will NOT Insure Liability damage from Wireless Smart meters and other wireless devices.
 TV Video (3 minutes) http://eon3emfblog.net/?p=382 
 Cell Phone use and other devices are Voluntary and can be shut off at the user’s discretion, but Smart meters mounted on homes are emitting radiation 24/7 and can not be shut off. 10. WIRELESS SMART METERS – 100 TIMES MORE RADIATION THAN CELL PHONES.
 Video Interview: Nuclear Scientist, Daniel Hirsch, (5 minutes) http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/20/daniel-hirsch-on-ccsts-fuzzy-math/
 
 11. WIRELESS SMART METERS – CANCER, NERVOUS SYSTEM DAMAGE, ADVERSE REPRODUCTION AFFECTS. 
Video Interview: Dr. Carpenter, New York Public Health Department, Dean of Public Health, (2 minutes) 
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=3946 
 12. THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM (the University that gives the Nobel Prizes) ISSUES GLOBAL HEALTH WARNING AGAINST WIRELESS SMART METERS.
 2-page Press Release 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48148346/Karolinska-Institute-Press-Release 
 NOTE: many of the tests on non-ionizing radiation (the type of radiation emitted by smart meters) have been done using devices other than smart meters because smart meters have only been in people’s homes for a very short time. But as a Wireless smart meter emits 100 times more radiation than a cell phone, it is not difficult to project. If a machine gun (smart meter) fires 100 bullets in the same time that a pistol (cell phone) fires one bullet, it is not difficult to project the harm that the machine gun can do, even if the tests were done with the pistol. SMART METER HEALTH PROBLEMS AND CANCER.

6. The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION May 31 2011 placed the Non-ionizing radiation coming from Wireless smart meters (& some other wireless devices) on the Class 2-B Carcinogen List.
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf

7. The NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Feb 2011 found biological changes in the brain after only minutes of exposure to non-ionizing radiation.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/8/808.abstract

8. LABORATORY SCIENTISTS have observed
 (1) Human Cell Damage
 (2) DNA Chain Breaks 
(3) Breaches in the Blood-Brain Barrier
 from levels of non-ionizing radiation lower than emitted by WIRELESS Smart meters.
http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/cc-video/

9. INSURANCE COMPANIES Hired Independent Laboratory Scientists and they also observed Cell Damage and DNA Chain Breaks. Now the Insurance Companies will NOT Insure Liability damage from Wireless Smart meters and other wireless devices.
 TV Video (3 minutes)
http://eon3emfblog.net/?p=382



Cell Phone use and other devices are Voluntary and can be shut off at the user’s discretion, but Smart meters mounted on homes are emitting radiation 24/7 and can not be shut off.

10. WIRELESS SMART METERS – 100 TIMES MORE RADIATION THAN CELL PHONES.
 Video Interview: Nuclear Scientist, Daniel Hirsch, (5 minutes)
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/20/daniel-hirsch-on-ccsts-fuzzy-math/



11. WIRELESS SMART METERS – CANCER, NERVOUS SYSTEM DAMAGE, ADVERSE REPRODUCTION AFFECTS. 
Video Interview: Dr. Carpenter, New York Public Health Department, Dean of Public Health, (2 minutes)

http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=3946


12. THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM (the University that gives the Nobel Prizes) ISSUES GLOBAL HEALTH WARNING AGAINST WIRELESS SMART METERS.
 2-page Press Release

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48148346/Karolinska-Institute-Press-Release


NOTE: many of the tests on non-ionizing radiation (the type of radiation emitted by smart meters) have been done using devices other than smart meters because smart meters have only been in people’s homes for a very short time.

But as a Wireless smart meter emits 100 times more radiation than a cell phone, it is not difficult to project. If a machine gun (smart meter) fires 100 bullets in the same time that a pistol (cell phone) fires one bullet, it is not difficult to project the harm that the machine gun can do, even if the tests were done with the pistol.

]]> Comment on Smart meter controversy returns to the Burbank City Council by RobertWilliams http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/news-general-info/smart-meter-controversy-returns-to-the-burbank-city-council/comment-page-1#comment-54397 RobertWilliams Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:22:59 +0000 http://www.mediacitygroove.com/awritersgroove/?p=16482#comment-54397 SMART METER PRIVACY VIOLATIONS. 1. Must-See 4-minute youtube video on Smart meters 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8JNFr_j6kdI CUSTOMER UTILITY BILLS AFTER SMART METERS INSTALLED. 2. Skyrocketing Utility Bills after installation TV News Video (3 minutes) http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/63581287.html?tab=video 3. Systemic Smart Meter Billing Errors Over 200% Uncovered in Australia TV News Video (7 minutes) http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/money/article/-/10241945/power-scandal-exposed/ - video NATIONAL SECURITY RISKS DUE TO SMART METERS. 4. CIA Director James Woolsey calls Smart grid “Stupid” due to National Security problems caused by so-called smart meters. News Video (1 minute) http://www.energynow.com/video/2011/08/10/preview-mix-james-woolsey RADIATION. 5. RADIATION MEASURED FROM SMART METER MOUNTED ON A HOME (once active in the utility system) SHOWS RADIATION TRANSMISSION PULSES APPROXIMATELY ONCE EVERY FOUR SECONDS 24 HOURS PER DAY traveling through the bodies and brains of the inhabitants of that home. Youtube Video (6 minutes, 1st minute is sufficient) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRejDxBE6OE PG$E, California’s Utility Monopoly, recently admitted that each smart meter mounted on a home transmits radiation between 10,000 and 190,000 times each day. This admission corrected previous false statements repeated often by many utility companies across the country. SMART METER PRIVACY VIOLATIONS.
1. Must-See 4-minute youtube video on Smart meters

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8JNFr_j6kdI

CUSTOMER UTILITY BILLS AFTER SMART METERS INSTALLED.

2. Skyrocketing Utility Bills after installation
TV News Video (3 minutes)
http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/63581287.html?tab=video

3. Systemic Smart Meter Billing Errors Over 200% Uncovered in Australia
TV News Video (7 minutes)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/money/article/-/10241945/power-scandal-exposed/ – video

NATIONAL SECURITY RISKS DUE TO SMART METERS.

4. CIA Director James Woolsey calls Smart grid “Stupid” due to National Security problems caused by so-called smart meters.
News Video (1 minute)
http://www.energynow.com/video/2011/08/10/preview-mix-james-woolsey

RADIATION.

5. RADIATION MEASURED FROM SMART METER MOUNTED ON A HOME (once active in the utility system) SHOWS RADIATION TRANSMISSION PULSES APPROXIMATELY ONCE EVERY FOUR SECONDS 24 HOURS PER DAY traveling through the bodies and brains of the inhabitants of that home. Youtube Video (6 minutes, 1st minute is sufficient)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRejDxBE6OE

PG$E, California’s Utility Monopoly, recently admitted that each smart meter mounted on a home transmits radiation between 10,000 and 190,000 times each day.

This admission corrected previous false statements repeated often by many utility companies across the country.

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