TECHNOCRACY implemented via Smart Grid

If you haven't yet read about Smart Grid as a tool of TECHNOCRACY, here's your chance.

All sorts of interesting stuff here, like how the Technocrats were turned away during FDR's administration in the 1930s, and like how the Technocrats are finally making headway with the Smart Grid and a new world economic currency -- CARBON CURRENCY.

http://www.augustreview.com/issues/technocracy/smart_grid:_the_implement...

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...the current crisis of capitalism is being used to implement a radical new economic system that will completely supplant it. This is not some new idea created in the bowels of the United Nations: It is a revitalized implementation of Technocracy that was thoroughly repudiated by the American public in 1933, in the middle of the Great Depression.

The Technocrats have resurfaced, and they do not intend to fail a second time. Whether or not they succeed this time will depend upon the intended servants of Technocracy, the citizens of the world.

Indeed, the dark horse of the New World Order is not Communism, Socialism or Fascism. It is Technocracy.

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If Technocracy had truly been extinguished before the onset of WWII, we would not be concerned about it today. However, when Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era in 1968, it was essentially a Neo-Technocratic treatise calling for a fourth and final stage of world history, or the Technetronic Era.

When David Rockefeller picked Brzezinski to co-found the Trilateral Commission in 1973, it was with the specific goal to create a "New International Economic Order." Without some knowledge of historic Technocracy, exactly what the Trilateral Commission ultimately had in mind with such a goal could not possibly have been understood.

Today, it is necessary to rethink these issues in order to determine a) if this radical movement is still operating, b) what are their goals and c) how do they plan to achieve their goals.

In Carbon Currency: A New Beginning for Technocracy?, the subject of historic Technocracy was introduced in the context of creating a new economic system based on energy accounting rather than price accounting. An energy-based accounting system uses "energy certificates," or Carbon Currency, instead of dollars or other fiat currencies. Periodic and equal allocations of available energy are made to citizens, but they must be used within the defined time period before they reach an expiration date. Furthermore, the ability to own private property and accumulate wealth would be deemed unnecessary.

The pressing and unanswered question is how would such a Technocratic system actually be implemented?

This paper will now address the strategy, tactical requirements and progress of establishing an energy-based Technate in North America. ["Technate" is the term used to describe the geographic region operated according to Technocracy. Thus, a North American Technate would include Canada, Mexico and the U.S. and they would all be under common control. ]

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Requirements
The Technocracy Study Course, written by Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert in 1932, established a detailed framework for Technocracy in terms of energy production, distribution and usage.

According to Scott and Hubbert, the distribution of energy resources must be monitored and measured in order for the system to work -- and this is the key: monitoring and measuring.

They wrote that the system must do the following things:

1."Register on a continuous 24 hour-per-day basis the total net conversion of energy.
2."By means of the registration of energy converted and consumed, make possible a balanced load.
3."Provide a continuous inventory of all production and consumption
4."Provide a specific registration of the type, kind, etc., of all goods and services, where produced and where used
5."Provide specific registration of the consumption of each individual, plus a record and description of the individual." [Scott, Howard et al, Technocracy Study Source, p. 232]
In 1932, such technology did not exist. Time was on the Technocrat's side, however, because this technology does exist today, and it is being rapidly implemented to do exactly what Scott and Hubbert specified: Namely, to exhaustively monitor, measure and control every ampere of energy delivered to consumers and businesses on a system-wide basis.

It's called: Smart Grid.

...automatic actions are intended to be triggered by direct interaction between objects, without human intervention. The rules will be written by programmers under the direction of technocrats who understand the system, and then downloaded to the controllers as necessary. Thus, changes to the rules can be made on the fly, at any time and without the homeowner's knowledge.

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ARE SMART METERS SAFE?

PG&E of California was given an EXEMPTION from proving environmental hazards, and the study it did do was not peer reviewed. Sounds like a greased slide right into the homes of consumers:

http://www.greentechmedia.com/green-light/post/smart/

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The FCC safety standards for wireless devices are based on short term heating and do not address the non thermal health effects which are documented in the Bioinitiative Report, which has been recognized by the European Parliament. RF is under investigation as a carcinogen by the National Toxicology Program.

In the interest of protecting public health and in light of the call for the precautionary principle from scientists and environmental agencies, the EMF Safety Network has started a petition asking the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and the Sebastopol City Council to investigate the PG&E Smart Meter proposal and hold public hearings. We ask they require PG&E to submit a characterization study, the health and safety study, to allow customers to “opt out” as well as place a 6-9 month moratorium on all new wireless installations to allow time for a thorough review.

Already there is a class action lawsuit filed against PGE in Bakersfield over the new meters and many people are complaining about price spikes in their utility bills.

There are a number of additional reasons to oppose smart meter technology aside from the public health issues mentioned above and it’s use by utilities to overcharge customers (discussed at the TURN website). These include Big Brother-like questions regarding local utilities monitoring one’s use of home appliances and making adjustments in this use without the consent of their consumers, and national security issues that arise becasue wireless networks are easier to hack into and compromise than their conventional wired counterparts.

...the global rush is on. In every case, Smart Grid is being accelerated by government stimulus spending. The global vendors are merely lining up their money buckets to be filled up with taxpayer funds.

As is the case in the U.S., there was little, if any, preexisting or latent demand for Smart Grid technology. Demand has been artificially created by the respective governments of each country.

Conclusion
Smart Grid meets 100 percent of the Technocracy's original requirements as described above. In other words, it will monitor and control both delivery and consumption of energy and other green resources such as water and gas.

The Smart Grid initiative was developed and funded by government agencies and NGO's. It was the Energy Department's Bonneville Power Authority that invented the concept in the 1990's. It was the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that invented the Grid Friendly Appliance Controller. It was the Federal Administration that showered billions of dollars over the private sector to jump-start the nationwide initiative to implement Smart Grid in every community.

If the Federal government had not been the initial and persistent driver, would Smart Grid exist at all? It is highly doubtful.

Following the same pattern as the U.S., many other industrialized nations are implementing Smart Grid at the same time, using their own stimulus money. This synchronized implementation is certainly by design, and as such, it implies that there must be a designer. Who might be providing such top-down coordination on a global basis must be saved for another paper. One thing is certain: The technology being purchased world-wide all originated in the United States and is being marketed by the same global corporations as mentioned above.

Lastly, there is an assumption throughout Smart Grid literature that the Federal Administration will have full visibility of all data within the Smart Grid, even down to the individual household. They will also be in a position to set national, regional and local distribution and consumption policies, such as your "fair share" of available energy, gas and water.

International standards created for Smart Grid will also enable the U.S. Smart Grid to be connected seamlessly with Canada and Mexico, thus providing a comprehensive North American energy management and distribution system.

Is Smart Grid destined to be a global phenomenon? Yes. Is it designed to support a new global Technocratic, resource-based economic system? Yes.

Technocracy must be seen for what it is: An attempt to impose a totalitarian, scientific dictatorship. In 1933, it called for the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as dictator in order to "pave the way for economic revolution." Fortunately at the time, they failed in their attempted coup.

If today's Smart Grid is successfully completed, it will enable the conversion of our existing economic system into something far different and far worse. This is why the American people repudiated Technocracy in 1933, and this is exactly why we (and citizens around the world) should thoroughly repudiate it today.

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These articles interest me because I read that as soon as the SMART Meters were installed in a central valley area of California, the PG&E utility bills increased about $100 per month for ratepayers in that region -- a jump no one seems capable of explaining with a concrete explanation. With a Smart Meter on one's home, it is said that one can read one's own meter, and manually record the readings; however, the remote control aspects of the technology's reset capabilities seem to confuse the issue, and already complaints/disputes in the community mentioned above are being waved aside by the utility company. The utility company says this is the consumers' fault -- that consumers do not yet understand how to use the new technology!

The Smart Meter really is like having Big Brother monitor all your energy use and what you use it for, when you are home, etc., and allows the authorities to remotely control your energy use. The claim is that the Smart Grid will prevent energy grid drains by allowing the utility company to unplug certain consumers only during emergencies. (The irony here in California is that the main serious black-outs and brown-outs experienced here were due specifically due to ARTIFICIAL SCAMMING BY ENRON, and that the reasoning that this new technology is necessary is largely BOGUS. It also is an attempt to build in a system that will hold energy distribution to the present large distribution model, rather than facilitate homeowners and communities in becoming energy self-sufficient local producers/consumers instead of regional consumers, and local producers who must remain on the larger grid.)

(Can this new technology be a political tool? Of course it can. Comparing voter rolls (or other criteria) with utility rolls means that, with a mere computer command, only certain select households could be deprived of energy. One should recall that the Smart Grid program is a Bush Junior project, instituted after that bizarre black-out that struck the Northeast to Ohio in August 2002, and, like 9/11, put legislators in a 9/11-like emergency mode in regards to deferring to Bush. This article indicates the legislators did not even fund the development of Smart Grid program, however Obama is "implementing" Smart Grid to the tune of billions of dollars.)