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.
We need to spread this info far and wide. It's not getting any play in the national press or on TV.
When the time comes, I'll bet FReepers can come up with ingenious ways to get around this. I hope FR is still on the air then so we can share.
Ever heard of the “Enhanced Drivers Licenses? There you go.
I want OFF the grid!
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Part of this is the logical progression of technology.
It is good to help individuals and businesses identify where they use the most energy and resources as long as the individual or business gets to decide how to alter its usage.
Like firearms, these technologies are tools that can be used for good or evil. Opposing them simply because they can be misused is not logical.
Smart grid == Electricity rationing.
This graphic uses actual county by county results for the last election. It's pretty clear they are not controlling the rural areas like the cites.
It is more possible today than ever to live off-the-power-grid. I could do it, and probably would if my wife could accept it. She cannot, because of life style habits.
But I am not sure it is possible to live off the location grid.
You can however reduce your profile. I am already doing some of that.
My posts here however probably increase my profile. And I live in the Big Nothing in Texas.
I am sick of them having their nose in everything.
It’s the “as long as” phrase in your sentence that is being forcibly taken from people. Qualifiers do not compute in logic that allows for no variability.
What’s going on now is about control. Absolute control.
In this case, not only are they removing personal choice in this, they’re removing the choice of the states themselves.
I am sick of them having their nose in everything.
We all are.
It is not the technology that is the problem, but the motives of those who use it.
Secession is a choice. It is not immoral.
I know. I have friends who started working on this tech 12 years ago.
I thought at the time it could be misused.
Even if you burn fire wood.....
This is central control BS to deal with the FACT that wind and solar power cannot come even close to replacing the coal and nuclear plants the libs want to shut down.
They HAVE to control the demand to make their expensive, fragile, and anemic renewable power system work. This is a HUGE step backwards in reliability and lifestyle all for the fake global warming scare.
Right. The problem is government intervention into everything. If the tech was just used to help consumers make better choices, that would be fine. Government is force and the men who control it use that force to do evil unto other men.
Mine stays in its little envelope - I’ll put tin-foil around it if I have to...
I’ll tell you what if I were in the country I’d advoid their “smart grid” and RFID for farm animals (heck the US government is going to be broke in acouple months, anyway..let them speand years gathing court document, case files, ect: IT IS SERIOUSLY TIME TO START THINKING: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, FOLKS!
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