The Lorenz machine:
Posted on 03/07/2009 4:01:51 PM PST by upchuck
Edited on 03/07/2009 4:07:17 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Smart Grid is part of a global initiative to manage information, all information. This is not some dire fictional prediction; it exists right now, right here in the United States, and thanks to President Obama, the Secretary of the Treasury can lend the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a division of the Department of Energy, $3.25 billion to implement Smart Grid:
“(B) the Secretary shall, without further
appropriation and ‘without fiscal year limitation, loan to the Western Area Power Administration, on such terms as may be fixed by the Administrator and the Secretary, such sums (not to exceed, in the aggregate (including deferred interest),$3,250,000,000-in outstanding repayable balances at anyone time) as, in the judgment of the Administrator, are from time to time required for the purpose of [...] In carrying out the initiative, the Secretary shall provide financial support to smart grid demonstration projects in urban, suburban, tribal, and rural areas, including areas where electric system assets are controlled by nonprofit entities and areas where
electric system assets are controlled by investor- owned utilities.
Ostensibly, Smart Grid is about energy efficiency and climate change. This intelligent power grid gathers information about individual energy use via sensors embedded in the transmission lines and in homes and businesses. The government, via WAPA, will know what temperature you keep your home or business at. If you keep your domicile warmer or cooler than the temperature approved by the federal government, you pay more. To some, this is an acceptable arrangement, until they discover what else Smart Grid can do.
According to IBM, one of the two corporations which will receive most of the money (the other is GE),
The world is becoming instrumented. By 2010, there will be a billion transistors per human, each one costing one ten-millionth of a cent.
The world is becoming interconnected. With a trillion networked things—cars, roadways, pipelines, appliances, pharmaceuticals and even livestock—the amount of information created by those interactions grows exponentially.
All things are becoming intelligent. Algorithms and powerful systems can analyze and turn those mountains of data into actual decisions and actions that make the world work better. Smarter.
Did you catch that? Smart Grid will allow the government to collect information about you, your habits, and possessions. All they need are a few sensors to know what is in your refrigerator; how long you spend in the bathroom; if you smoke in your home; if you drink alcohol in your home; and how many people are in your home or business at any one time. Science fiction? Don’t bet on it. IBM knows different.
And if the above statements aren’t enough to get you thinking, how about this:
Nanotechnology e-textiles for biomonitoring and wearable electronics-
If current research is an indicator, wearable electronics will go far beyond just very small electronic devices or wearable, flexible computers. Not only will these devices be embedded in textile substrates but an electronics device or system could ultimately become the fabric itself. Electronic textiles (e-textiles) will allow the design and production of a new generation of garments with distributed sensors and electronic functions. Such e-textiles will have the revolutionary ability to sense, act, store, emit, and move – think biomedical monitoring functions or new man-machine interfaces – while ideally leveraging an existing low-cost textile manufacturing infrastructure.
Here’s the scenario: you buy a pair of socks, using your credit or debit card (cash is already being discouraged). Because of Smart Grid, your house will be able to read the bar code on those socks as you bring them through the door and add them to a list it keeps of your clothes; size, price, origin, when worn, etc. The computer that controls your home’s thermostat and lights also controls your wardrobe, budget, social habits, and even your eating habits. The refrigerator reads the bar codes on your food. Someone with access to that information knows when you eat, what you eat, what you paid for it, and how long something has been in the fridge.
If you’re like me, and do a lot of canning, you’re probably thinking, “so what?” That’s what my initial thought was. It can’t read a bar code if there isn’t one. Hmmm. What if your home’s computer believed that based on how many people live in the home there’s not enough food being purchased? How long do you think it would take the electronic nanny to notify child protective services or other authorities?
Again, this isn’t science fiction. It’s happening right now in South Bend, Indiana, and Florida and California. Now that President Obama’s spending package has been pushed down our windpipes, effectively choking off any opposition, look for development of an electronic super nanny by Big Brother. This is change we can believe in? It’s change alright rural America, and it’s coming for you. Notice on GE’s page there are no pictures of urban or suburban dwellings, only a rural home? An oversight? Not according to Alan Keyes.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Keyes in the summer of 2008. He told me then that rural people should understand that there is a concerted effort to remove all control from rural areas and concentrate it in Washington D.C. After reading about the billions of dollars the White House has allocated to watching its rural citizens, I’d say he hit the nail on the head. We are the targets; the lonely little home on GE’s website might as well have a bull’s eye on the roof. Dr. Keyes told me the Illuminati who are running D.C. are worried about rural people because we are exposed to less media than our urban counterparts: we’re harder to control.
One of the largest components of Smart Grid is already being implemented by the USDA; it’s called the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) it requires farmers to implant a RFID tag into the body of all of their livestock–cows, pigs, goats, chickens, sheep, all livestock. The NAIS threatens to destroy small-scale family farms. If you’re not familiar with the NAIS, here are a couple of resources: Downsize DC, NAIS: Too little too late? and NAIS: Let’s do some fuzzy math. Coupled with Smart Grid, the NAIS strengthens the ability of Government officials to control rural Americans as completely as they control people in the cities.
Remember, President Obama believes implementing Smart Grid is urgent. He wants the program to expand quickly, with all of us on the thinking grid by 2011. All of us. Resistance is futile.
You statement seems irrational, but let me try to understand.
Are saying, that with all of the intrusions into our daily lives by government, and there are quite literally thousands upon thousands of such stories here on FreeRepublic alone, that it is not logical to oppose giving the government ANOTHER tool to intrude in our lives?
Notice the use of the “in” vs “on” the hand, on these versions.
Thought you might find this interesting:
International Standard Version (2008)
The second beast forces all people-important and unimportant, rich and poor, free and slaves-to be marked on their right hands or on their foreheads,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
GOD’S WORD® Translation (1995)
The second beast forces all people-important and unimportant people, rich and poor people, free people and slaves-to be branded on their right hands or on their foreheads.
King James Bible
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
American King James Version
And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
American Standard Version
And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;
Bible in Basic English
And he gives to all, small and great, the poor and those who have wealth, the free and those who are not free, a mark on their right hand or on their brows;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads.
Darby Bible Translation
And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead;
English Revised Version
And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;
Webster’s Bible Translation
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Weymouth New Testament
And he causes all, small and great, rich and poor, free men and slaves, to have stamped upon them a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,
World English Bible
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
Young’s Literal Translation
And it maketh all, the small, and the great, and the rich, and the poor, and the freemen, and the servants, that it may give to them a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads,
That sounds like 60WPM Badot TTY (not Muxed). Ocassionally shifting freqency.
I thought you were describing a “Hell Scriber” transmission.
Had never heard of a SZ42 cipher machine.
Most of the WWII crypto was encoded on a mechanical rotary encrypter, and then sent in Morse with a key.
Received in Morse and decoded with a like mechanical rotary encrypter (decrypter).
Opposing them on the right to privacy and secure in our homes, the 4th and 5th amendments, the 9th and 10th amendments, are always to be encouraged.
I don’t know, but it is something to research.
If you’re like me, and do a lot of canning, you’re probably thinking, “so what?”
No-no-no selfish person! How dare you be self sufficient! Dontcha know that you may only obtain nourishment from the approved Food Collective Distribution Centre? All private gardens must be razed, following the example of Prophet Stalin!
They replaced the 100ft or so dishes in geosync orbit with 350ft units. They unfold like some sci-fi umbrella and have great precision and are deformable on command. They are so sensitive that if pointed at Mars they can contact the rovers there directly....just imagine what that sort of DB gain is like pointed at the ground only 23,000 miles away. 23k miles is right next door for a 350ft dish. Weightlessness allows for such spindly dish designs....they would never work on the ground with earths gravity.....for one thing the wind would blow em away like giant kites.
Use a solar panel array to charge up a small bank of hi capacity capacitors and discharge them into a solid state transmitter at the focal point of such a dish in orbit and the multi-Gigawatt+ pulse could activate passive hi freq rfid devices on the ground and the incredibly weak return signal could be read by the 350’ dish with its super-cooled front end.....makes one think don’t it.
As a ham operator I salivate over the capabilities of such a system :-)
For you hams out there just run the DB gain numbers and do the math....the level of weak signal they can read from 23k miles is simply awesome! With the dish conformed to its tightest beamwidth and considering the super cooled front end components you would be talking of gains above 80DBi
...perhaps several db above 80! a single milliwatt at the feedpoint of such a dish could cover the earth with a signal easily readable by handheld receivers. It would be easy to generate a megawatt+ signal at the feedpoint for a tiny fraction of a second....imagine the rf power at ground level from that pulse!
We are catching up with England. Surely we will surpass that little country.
I hear ya!
The government will use these things. Therefore i.e. ergo thus they will be “misused.” They will be used to control people and movement.
Interesting.
Most of their work references NetBSD. I considered that before I started using Linux 10 years ago. It can be one of the most secure operating systems.
I DID NOT like what I found in FreeBSD. It is a fine OS, but the people who develop and maintain it are so openly Anti-Christian that I wanted to throw up.
History is something I enjoy studying, but the state of the art in cryptography and RF electronics have moved so far from the crude technology of WWII, that I could not see spending my limited time studying something like what they were working on.
I know they saw a challenger trying to use today’s technology to break this. But it is not for me.
I don’t think anyone here is opposing monitoring technologies per se. However, I hope all of us oppose their use by the state to keep tabs on the citizenry in general.
A business wants to monitor energy use throughout its facilities as a way of cutting costs? Three cheers for monitoring technology! A homeowner wants to do the same. Again three cheers! Want to keep tabs on a convicted felon? So long as, under due process of law, some monitoring was imposed by a duly constituted court as part of a sentence, I don’t think we’ll have much trouble with that, two cheers for monitoring techology used that way.
Using it so Big Brother can watch our electric bills, on the other hand is automatically misuse for those of us who still believe in liberty.
The combination of stupidity and hypocrisy evident on the left is stagger: signals intelligence intercepts of communications involving suspected terrorists outside the United States magically gets transmuted into “domestic surveillance” if it targets transmissions into or through the United States and is a hideous threat to civil liberties, but a government mandated program to check when and how much electricity we all use somehow runs into no problems with the Fourth Amendment.
Thanks for the pic.
It looks interesting. A mechanical puzzle.
Think about it today, it is just software.
Amazing.
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I have home-brewed several TTY decoders and AFSK generators. My first TTY decoder was a Tube Type Twin Cities Unit. Many years ago.
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Excellent potlatch!
You always come up with great animated graphics!
Thank you devolve. That was a quick one as I had the bar code gif.
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