SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: BIG BROTHER BANKROLLING SMART SURVEILLANCE GRID

Sunday, 2 October 2011

BIG BROTHER BANKROLLING SMART SURVEILLANCE GRID

If you're doing something illegal on your property, likelyhood is the rest of us need protection from you and i hope the police and big brother take advantage of every possible opportunity and devise to catch you. ~ Response from a British Columbian in favour of smart meters. Smart grids are a hot topic at the moment here ~ with some who actually think things through! This response is scary but also elaborates on what Zen has to say below about these meters and how blindly ignorant so many are to the dangers.

Can't you just see it? Someone down the line realizes you are taking 7 minute instead of 3 minute showers so suddenly, half way through shampooing your hair one morning, the water turns off? Or they decide you have left your car plugged in for an hour too long when you are trying to keep it from freezing over one icy January morning in Winnipeg?

It isn't just the pot growers they are after!

I have used a few images from Canada as well because we, too, are fighting the same battles. With just about as much apathy from the general public as can be seen by the quote above. I suppose all those signs below from BC resisters means that they, too "are afraid of change"?

September 30, 2011

By Zen Gardner

They're pushing this smart grid hard, folks. While we hear of a few brave souls standing up to these dangerous and invasive so-called smart meters, know that the US government is heavily bankrolling this continued massive roll out of their intrusive program.

And when a massive Fed subsidy was first announced in 2009, Mr. "Hope and Change" dismissed any objections simply as "fear of change".

Absurd.

OBAMA: $3.4B FOR ‘SMART’ POWER GRID

The money will go to 100 projects in 49 states to add automated substations, digital transformers, electric meters in homes and other high-tech equipment to create a “smart” grid.

“We’re going to create an energy superhighway,” Mr. Obama said when making the announcement at Florida Power & Light Co.’s DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Fla., one of the country’s biggest solar-power facilities.

Mr. Obama used the nationally televised event to promote climate-change legislation in Congress that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions over time.

“We’ve heard these arguments before,” he said. “People don’t like change. They get nervous.”

COMPLETE DIS OF EVEN ANY THOUGHT OF DISCUSSION

That kind of elitist arrogance should infuriate every American.

"We've heard these arguments before."

In other words, shut up!

And "People don't like change. They get nervous."

WTF? Where's hopey changey man? Didn't he run on a "CHANGE" platform? Is the country so deep in cognitive dissonance they can't even HEAR anymore?

Or is this supposed to be one of the "changes we can believe in"?

Sorry, but besides being completely hypocritical, that's so blatantly elitist snot-speak that it is off the charts! He (they) sweeps away any and all challenges to their "big idea" in one short arrogant statement ~ dutifully quoted by the corporate media. Amazing.

SUBSIDIZING MEGA RICH CORPORATIONS...FOR RIGHTS TO YOUR INFO?

The money will be released in the form of grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and recipients will have to match the federal money with an equal amount of private investment.

Administration officials said that the program includes $4.7 billion in private investments and that grants range from $400,000 to $200 million.

“They’ve got some real skin in the game here, which also makes good economic sense,” said Jared Bernstein, chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Whatta crock.

And people wonder how the corporate takeover happened?

And they're paying only half the cost instead of all of it, while they derive the benefits.

And the real reason?

Is it collusion with the power companies for info, as in the case of Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, Apple and host of others?

NOW THE NASTY NEXT PHASE

Read this carefully:

For example, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. will receive $200 million and invest $251 million of its own to install 1.1 million smart meters and the information systems to manage them.

The money also will go toward installing 400,000 in-home devices, including communicating thermostats and in-home displays to help consumers manage their power usage. (Emphasis mine) (source article)

This isn't about consumers managing their power usage, it's about the GRID spying on and managing YOUR power usage and a range of other activities.

It's not just a power meter; it's devices being installed INTO the home as well. Wonder what the real purpose and capabilities of the new devices are?

If the meter can tell what you're watching on TV, what will Mr. Thermostat be picking up?

BTW, almost all appliances come chip installed and smart grid ready now, and have been for some time, even if you haven't had a use for this capability..or so you thought.

Doesn't that make you feel safer? Your smart reader is probably already monitoring more personal info than we'd like to imagine.

Why do you think the government subsidizes your changing out your water heater, refrigerator, etc?

Just to save power and money?

Think about it.

Under the guise of “reducing greenhouse gas emissions” and “reducing energy bills”, utility companies all over the United States are forcing tens of millions of American families to accept sophisticated surveillance devices in their homes.

Currently, approximately 9 percent of all electric meters in the U.S. have been converted over to smart meters. It is being projected that by 2012, the number of smart meters in use will rise to 52 million, and the federal government is spending a lot of money to help get these installed everywhere.

Eventually the goal is to have these smart meters in all of our homes and if that ever happened there would essentially be no more privacy.

Once installed, a smart meter monitors your home every single minute of every single day and it transmits very sophisticated data about your personal behavior back to the utility company. Source