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The Health Hazards of Smart Meters

Smart meters have been associated with privacy issues, data security issues, and fire safety issues. However, the most important concern may be health issues, coming from the signal radiation they give off while reporting the data to the central utility office. They are an unconstitutional invasion of your home, according to the fourth amendment and the US Constitution. While utility companies maintain smart meters are safe, many of their clients and health experts disagree. Smart meters has been linked to sleep problems, stress and irritability, headaches and biological changes in the brain, memory and concentration problems, dizziness and balance problems, nausea and flu like symptoms, ear pain and ringing in the ears, eye pain, sinus problems and nose bleeds, diabetes, heart palpitation and chest pain, high blood pressure, respiratory problems, arthritis and body pain, endocrine and thyroid disorders, recurrence of Cancer, leg cramps, menstrual cycle irregularities, urinary disorder

Big Business and Big Government have Family Farmers in their Sights.

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American family farms and the country's food supply are in danger as never before. During the next 20 years, 400,000,000 acres of US farmland - nearly half the total - will be for sale. And Wall Street is ready to snap up the opportunity like a fox in a henhouse, states a new report by the Oakland Institude entitled "Down on the farm." In addition, corporate big agriculture and it's government lackeys press ahead with other efforts, which endanger the continued existence of small and medium sized Farms.  Since the 1940s, the number of farms in this country has collapsed by 85%, although the general population has doubled, according to the advocacy group Farm Forward. Prior to that time, 40-80 acres produced sufficient income to raise a large family. Now, thanks to predatory banking and commodities trading practices, the cost of technology and government intrusion, it requires nearly 1200 acres to accomplish that goal. An estimated 99% of US livestock is raised on