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font-weight: bold; padding-top: 10px; margin: 40px 45px 0px;" />Smart Grid: The Implementation of Technocracy?</P><P align="left" style="align: left; margin: 0px 45px 0px; font-size: x-small; color:rgb(13,26,128); font-family: Consolas; font-weight:bold;"><em>Posted on 03 March 2010</em></P> <P align="left" style="margin: 20px 45px 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; color:rgb(13,26,128); font-family: Consolas; font-weight:bold;">By: Patrick Wood</P> <BR> <P align="left" style="align: left; margin: 0px 45px 0px; font-size: x-small; color:rgb(13,26,128); font-family: Consolas; font-weight:bold;">Source: &nbsp;<a href="http://www.augustforecast.com/2010/03/03/smart-grid-the-implementation-of-technocracy-2/" target="_blank">http://www.augustforecast.com/2010/03/03/smart-grid-the-implementation-of-technocracy-2/</a></P> <BR> <div align="center" style="width: 95%; padding: 40px 0px 0px; text-align: left; font-size: 15.5px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(13,39,128); font-family: trebuchet ms; text-indent: 12pt;"> <B><font size="+1">Intro­duc­tion</font></B> <P>According to the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.unep.org/gc/gcss-x/download.asp%3FID%3D1297&ei=9n2KS__VPJO0sgOfz5SGAw&sa=X&oi=nshc&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAkQzgQoAA&usg=AFQjCNHkdD8SmO5BIyJzzVk7HEnLesXKOw" target="_blank">United Nations Gov­erning Council of the UN Envi­ron­mental Pro­gramme</a> (UNEP),  our dom­i­nant eco­nomic model may thus be termed a  brown economy . UNEP s clearly stated goal is to over­turn the  brown economy and replace it with a  green economy :</P> <blockquote><em> A green economy implies the decou­pling of resource use and envi­ron­mental impacts from eco­nomic growth& These invest­ments, both public and pri­vate, pro­vide the mech­a­nism for the recon­fig­u­ra­tion of busi­nesses, infra­struc­ture and insti­tu­tions, and for the adop­tion of sus­tain­able con­sump­tion and pro­duc­tion processes. [p. 2]</em></blockquote> <P>Sus­tain­able con­sump­tion? Recon­fig­uring busi­nesses, infra­struc­ture and insti­tu­tions? What do these words mean? They do not mean merely reshuf­fling the existing order, but rather replacing it with a com­pletely new eco­nomic system, one that has never before been seen or used in the his­tory of the world.</P> <P>This paper will demon­strate that 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.</P> <P>The Tech­nocrats have resur­faced, and they do not intend to fail a second time. Whether they suc­ceed this time will depend upon the intended ser­vants of Tech­noc­racy, the cit­i­zens of the world.</P> <P>Indeed, the dark horse of the New World Order is not Com­mu­nism, Socialism or Fas­cism. It is Technocracy.</P> <P><BR/></P> <B><font size="+1">Back­ground</font></B> <P>Founded by Howard Scott and M. King Hub­bert in 1932 during the Great Depres­sion, Tech­noc­racy pro­posed a rad­ical new solu­tion for the world s eco­nomic ills. In 1932, Harry A. Porter wrote in Roo­sevelt and Tech­noc­racy,</P> <blockquote><em> Drastic as these changes from the present order of things may be, they will serve their pur­pose if only to pave the way for the Eco­nomic Rev­o­lu­tion  and Tech­noc­racy. (p. 63)</em></blockquote> <P>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.</P> <P>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.</P> <P>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.</P> <P>In <em><a href="http://www.augustreview.com/issues/technocracy/carbon_currency:_a_new_beginning_for_technocracy?_20100125155/" target="_blank">Carbon Cur­rency: A New Begin­ning for Tech­noc­racy?</a>,</em> 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.</P> <P>The pressing and unan­swered ques­tion is how would such a Tech­no­cratic system actu­ally be implemented?</P> <P>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. ]</P> <P><BR/></P> <B><font size="+1">Require­ments</font></B> <P>The <em><a href="http://www.technocracy.org/images/stories/pdf/studycourse2.pdf" target="_blank">Tech­noc­racy Study Course</a>,</em> written by Howard Scott and M. King Hub­bert in 1932, estab­lished a detailed frame­work for Tech­noc­racy in terms of energy pro­duc­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion and usage.</P> <P>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: <em>mon­i­toring and mea­suring.</em></P> <P>They wrote that the system must do the fol­lowing things:</P> <ul style="line-height: 2.0em;"> <li><i> Reg­ister on a con­tin­uous 24 hour-per-day basis the total net con­ver­sion of energy.</i></li> <li><i> By means of the reg­is­tra­tion of energy con­verted and con­sumed, make pos­sible a bal­anced load.</i></li> <li><i> Pro­vide a con­tin­uous inven­tory of all pro­duc­tion and consumption</i></li> <li><i> Pro­vide a spe­cific reg­is­tra­tion of the type, kind, etc., of all goods and ser­vices, where pro­duced and where used</i></li> <li><i> Pro­vide spe­cific reg­is­tra­tion of the con­sump­tion of each indi­vidual, plus a record and descrip­tion of the indi­vidual. </i>[Scott, Howard et al, <i>Tech­noc­racy Study Source,</i> p. 232]</li> </ul> <P>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.</P> <P>It s called: <em>Smart Grid.</em></P> <P><BR/></P> <B><font size="+1">What is Smart Grid?</font></B> <P>Smart Grid is a broad tech­nical term that encom­passes the gen­er­a­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion and con­sump­tion of elec­trical power, with an inclu­sion for gas and water as well. America s aging power grid is increas­ingly fragile and inef­fi­cient. Smart Grid is an ini­tia­tive that seeks to com­pletely redesign the power grid using advanced dig­ital tech­nology, including the instal­la­tion of new, dig­ital meters on every home and busi­ness in the U.S.</P> <P>These dig­ital meters pro­vide around-the-clock mon­i­toring of a consumer s energy con­sump­tion using con­tin­uous 2-way com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the utility and the consumer s prop­erty. Fur­ther­more, meters will be able to com­mu­ni­cate with elec­trical devices <i>within</i> the res­i­dence to gather con­sump­tion data and to con­trol cer­tain devices directly without con­sumer intervention.</P> <P>According to a U.S. Depart­ment of Energy publication,</P> <P><em> The Depart­ment of Energy has been charged with orches­trating the whole­sale mod­ern­iza­tion of our nation s elec­trical grid& Heading this effort is the Office of Elec­tricity Delivery and Energy Reli­a­bility. In con­cert with its cut­ting edge research and energy policy pro­grams, the office s newly formed, multi-agency Smart Grid Task Force is respon­sible for coor­di­nating stan­dards devel­op­ment, guiding research and devel­op­ment projects, and rec­on­ciling the agendas of a wide range of stake­holders. (See <a href="http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/DOE_SG_Book_Single_Pages%281%29.pdf" target="_blank">The Smart Grid: An Intro­duc­tion</a>)</em></P> <P>This is a rel­a­tively new ini­tia­tive, but it is racing for­ward at break­neck speed. The Office of Elec­tricity Delivery was cre­ated in 2003 under Pres­i­dent George W. Bush, and ele­vated in stature in 2007 by cre­ating the posi­tion of Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Elec­tricity Delivery and Energy Reli­a­bility to head it.</P> <P>It is not clearly stated who  charged the Depart­ment of Energy to this task, but since the Sec­re­tary of Energy answers directly to the Pres­i­dent, it is assumed that it was a direc­tive from the Pres­i­dent. There cer­tainly was no Con­gres­sional direc­tive or mandate.</P> <P><BR/></P> <B><font size="+1">Imple­men­ta­tion</font></B> <P>On October 27, 2009, the Obama admin­is­tra­tion unveiled its Smart Grid plan by awarding $3.4 bil­lion awarded to 100 Smart Grid projects. According to the Depart­ment of Energy s press release, these awards will result in the instal­la­tion of:</P> <ul style="line-height: 2.0em;"> <li>more than 850 sen­sors called  Phasor Mea­sure­ment Units to mon­itor the overall power grid nationwide</li> <li>200,000 smart transformers</li> <li>700 auto­mated sub­sta­tions (about 5 per­cent of the nation s total)</li> <li>1,000,000 in-home dis­plays</li> <li>345,000 load con­trol devices in homes</li> </ul> <P>This is the  kick-start of Smart Grid in the U.S. On Jan­uary 8, 2010, Pres­i­dent Obama unveiled an addi­tional $2.3 bil­lion Fed­eral funding pro­gram for the  energy man­u­fac­turing sector as part of the $787 bil­lion Amer­ican Rein­vest­ment and Recovery Act. Funding had already been awarded to 183 projects in 43 states, pending Obama s announcement.</P> <P>One such project in the north­west is headed by Bat­telle Memo­rial Insti­tute, cov­ering five states and tar­geting 60,000 cus­tomers. The project was actu­ally devel­oped by the Bon­neville Power Admin­is­tra­tion (BPA), a fed­eral agency under­neath the Depart­ment of Energy. Since it is point­edly illegal for a fed­eral agency to apply for fed­eral funds, BPA passed the project off to Bat­telle, a non-profit and non-governmental orga­ni­za­tion (NGO), which was promptly awarded $178 million.</P> <P>It is inter­esting to note that BPA takes credit for orig­i­nating the Smart Grid con­cept in the early 1990 s, which it termed  Energy Web. You can see from BPA s graphic depic­tion that it is com­pre­hen­sive in scope from pro­duc­tion to consumption.</P> <blockquote style="margin-top: 40px;"><img src="http://www.augustforecast.com/wp-content/uploads/energyweb.jpg" border="2" width="590" height="421" alt="energyweb" /> </blockquote> <P><BR/></P> <P>According to <a href="http://www.bpa.gov/energy/n/smart_grid/docs/PNW_SG_Bid.pdf" target="_blank">Battelle s August 27, 2009 press release</a>,</P> <blockquote><em> The project will involve more than 60,000 metered cus­tomers in Idaho, Mon­tana, Oregon, Wash­ington and Wyoming. Using smart grid tech­nolo­gies, the project will engage system assets exceeding 112 megawatts, the equiv­a­lent of power to serve 86,000 households.</em></blockquote> <P></P> <blockquote><em> The pro­posed demon­stra­tion will study smart grid ben­e­fits at unprece­dented geo­graphic breadth across five states, span­ning the elec­trical system from gen­er­a­tion to end-use, and con­taining many key func­tions of the future smart grid, said Mike Davis, a Bat­telle vice pres­i­dent.  The intended impact of this project will span well beyond tra­di­tional utility ser­vice ter­ri­tory bound­aries, helping to enable a future grid that meets pressing local, regional and national needs.  </em></blockquote> <P>Bat­telle and BPA intend to work closely together and there is an obvious blur­ring as to who is really in con­trol of the project s man­age­ment during the test period.</P> <P>In a  For Internal Use Only doc­u­ment written in August 2009, BPA offers talking points to its part­ners. It states that <em> Smart Grid tech­nology includes every­thing from <B><font size="+1">inter­ac­tive appli­ances</font></B> in homes to <B><font size="+1">smart meters</B></font>, sub­sta­tion automa­tion and sen­sors on trans­mis­sion lines. </em> [Emphasis added]</P> <P><BR/></P> <B><font size="+1">A Net­work of Things</font></B> <P>As the World Wide Web (WWW) is to people, the Net­work of Things (NOT) is to appli­ances. This brand new tech­nology cre­ates a wire­less net­work between a broad range of inan­i­mate objects from shoes to refrig­er­a­tors. This con­cept is  shovel ready for Smart Grid imple­men­ta­tion because appli­ances, meters and sub­sta­tions are all inan­i­mate items that tech­nocrats would have com­mu­ni­cating with each other.</P> <blockquote><div align="center" style="width: 80%; margin-top: 30px; text-align: left; margin-left: -20px;"><P><img src="http://www.augustforecast.com/wp-content/uploads/gridfriendly.jpg" border="2" width="300" height="199" align="left" hspace="20" alt="gridfriendly" /> <P style="padding-top: 1px;">For instance, In 2008 the Pacific North­west National Lab­o­ra­tory (PNNL) devel­oped this small cir­cuit board called a  Grid Friendly Appli­ance Con­troller. According to a Depart­ment of Energy brochure,</P> <P><em> The GFA Con­troller devel­oped by Pacific North­west National Lab­o­ra­tory is a small cir­cuit board built into house­hold appli­ances that reduces stress on the power grid by con­tin­u­ally mon­i­toring fluc­tu­a­tions in avail­able power. During times of high demand, appli­ances equipped with the con­troller auto­mat­i­cally shut down for a short period of time, resulting in a cumu­la­tive reduc­tion that can main­tain sta­bility on the grid. </em></P></div></blockquote> <P style="margin-top: 30px;">According to PNNL s website,</P> <blockquote><em> The con­troller is essen­tially a simple com­puter chip that can be installed in reg­ular house­hold appli­ances like dish­washers, clothes washers, dryers, refrig­er­a­tors, air con­di­tioners, and water heaters. The chip senses when there is a dis­rup­tion in the grid and turns the appli­ances off for a few sec­onds or min­utes to allow the grid to sta­bi­lize. The con­trollers also can be pro­grammed to delay the restart of the appli­ances. The delay allows the appli­ances to be turned on one at a time rather than all at once to ease power restora­tion fol­lowing an outage. </em></blockquote> <P>You can see how 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.</P> <P>PNNL is not a pri­vate enter­prise, how­ever. It is  owned by the U.S. Depart­ment of Energy and oper­ated by Bat­telle Memo­rial Institute!</P> <P>All of this tech­nology will be enabled with Wi-Fi cir­cuitry that is iden­tical to the Wi-Fi-enabled net­work modems and routers com­monly used in homes and busi­nesses throughout the world. Wi-Fi is a trade­mark of the Wi-Fi Alliance that refers to wire­less net­work sys­tems used in devices from per­sonal com­puters to mobile phones, con­necting them together and/or to the Internet.</P> <P>According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, <i> the need for Smart Grid solu­tions is being driven by the emer­gence of dis­trib­uted power gen­er­a­tion and management/monitoring of con­sump­tion. </i> In their white paper, Wi-Fi for the Smart Grid, they list the spe­cific require­ments for inter­op­er­ability posted by the Depart­ment of Energy:</P> <ol style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 6; border-color: #afafaf; line-height: 2.0em; margin-left: 40px; padding-left: 20px;"> <li><em> Pro­vide two-way com­mu­ni­ca­tion among grid users, e.g. regional market oper­a­tors, util­i­ties, ser­vice providers and consumers;</em></li> <li><em> Allow power system oper­a­tors to mon­itor their own sys­tems as well as neigh­boring sys­tems that affect them so as to facil­i­tate more reli­able energy dis­tri­b­u­tion and delivery;</em></li> <li><em> Coor­di­nate the inte­gra­tion into the power system of emerging tech­nolo­gies such as renew­able resources, demand response resources, elec­tricity storage facil­i­ties and elec­tric trans­porta­tion systems;</em></li> <li><em> Ensure the cyber secu­rity of the grid.</em></li> </ol> <P>Thus, the bi-directional and real time Smart Grid com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work will depend on Wi-Fi from end to end. This is easily under­stood from the two fig­ures included in the Wi-Fi Alliance white paper:</P> <blockquote style="margin-top: 40px;"><P><img src="http://www.augustforecast.com/wp-content/uploads/smartgridsegments.jpg" border="2" width="567" height="357" alt="smartgridsegments.jpg" /></P> <P><BR/></P> <P><img src="http://www.augustforecast.com/wp-content/uploads/homeareanetwork.jpg" border="2" width="511" height="357" alt="homeareanetwork.jpg" /></P></blockquote> <P><BR/></P> <P>While the con­sumer is paci­fied with the promise of lower utility costs, it is the utility com­pany who will enforce the poli­cies set at the regional, national and global reg­u­la­tors. Thus, if a neigh­boring system has a shortage of elec­tricity, your ther­mo­stat might auto­mat­i­cally be turned down to com­pen­sate; if you have exceeded your monthly day­time quota of elec­tricity, energy-consuming tasks like washing and drying clothes, could be lim­ited to overnight hours.</P> <P>Smart Grid and the utility s con­trol extends beyond elec­tricity. Notice in Figure 1 above that there is a Wi-Fi linkage to gas and water meters as well!</P> <P><BR/></P> <B><font size="+1">Con­sumer Blowback?</font></B> <P>Wall Street Journal reported  <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704878904575031020562238094.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular" target="_blank">What Util­i­ties Have Learned From Smart-Meter Tests& </a> on Feb­ruary 22, 2010, and revealed sev­eral impor­tant early aspects of smart grid implementation.</P> <ul style="line-height: 2.0em;"> <li>A prin­cipal goal is to enable util­i­ties to restruc­ture rate plans</li> <li>A prin­cipal goal is to force con­sumer behavior to change</li> <li>Some utility exec­u­tives antic­i­pate and fear a con­sumer rebellion</li> </ul> <P>Nev­er­the­less, the big carrot for utility com­pa­nies to go along with the government s Smart Grid is to bal­ance elec­trical demand, cut back on new power gen­er­a­tion facil­i­ties and enhance their profit picture.</P> <P>Before the dust set­tles on Smart Grid, both con­sumers and util­i­ties may learn some sharp lessons about gov­ern­ment inter­ven­tion: When the gov­ern­ment shows up on your doorstep and offers to help you save money, everyone knows that is an oxy­moron. Gov­ern­ment does not func­tion to help people or com­pa­nies to save money or to be more effi­cient; rather, it func­tions to main­tain and increase its own power and con­trol over its citizens.</P> <P><BR/></P> <B><font size="+1">Going Global</font></B> <P>The UNEP report men­tioned above reveals that <em> 15 per­cent of the fiscal stim­ulus funds com­mitted for 2009  2010, which exceed $3.1 tril­lion, can be regarded as green in nature& most green com­po­nents are ori­ented towards energy effi­ciency and renew­able ener­gies in a variety of sec­tors. </em></P> <P>A Busi­ness­Week article, <em> <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2009/gb20091116_319929.htm" target="_blank">How Italy Beat the World to a Smarter Grid</a> stated on November 16, 2009 that  After sev­eral false starts, 2010 finally could be the year when smart meters go global. </em></P> <P>Indeed, it is:</P> <ul style="line-height: 2.0em;"> <li>Italy has already imple­mented Smart Grid tech­nology in 85 per­cent of its homes nationwide</li> <li><a href="http://earth2tech.com/2009/12/27/smart-grid-will-generate-200b-of-global-investment/" target="_blank">earth2tech.com</a> reports that Smart Grid will gen­erate $200 bil­lion of global invest­ment in the next few years</li> <li>The <a href="http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/05/26/global-smart-grid-standards-sought/" target="_blank">Inter­na­tional Elec­trotech­nical Com­mis­sion</a> (IEC) has laid out a global roadmap to insure inter­op­er­ability of Smart Grid sys­tems between nations</li> <li>Global com­pa­nies are rushing to gain their share of the global Smart Grid market: IBM, Siemens, GE, Cisco, Pana­sonic, Kyocera, Toshiba, Mit­subishi, etc.</li> <li>China is spending $7.32 bil­lion to build out Smart Grid in Asia</li> </ul> <P>Other coun­tries with Smart Grid pilot projects already launched include Ger­many, France, Eng­land, Russia, Japan, India, Aus­tralia, South Africa and a host of others. Regional orga­ni­za­tions such as SMARTGRIDS Africa have been set up to pro­mote Smart Grid in smaller countries.</P> <P>Thus, 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.</P> <P>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.</P> <P><BR/></P> <B><font size="+1">Con­clu­sion</font></B> <P>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.</P> <P>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.</P> <P>If the Fed­eral gov­ern­ment had not been the ini­tial and per­sis­tent driver, would Smart Grid exist at all? It is highly doubtful.</P> <P>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.</P> <P>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.</P> <P>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.</P> <P>Is Smart Grid des­tined to be a global phe­nom­enon? Yes. Is it designed to sup­port a new global Tech­no­cratic, resource-based eco­nomic system? Yes.</P> <P>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.</P> <P>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.</P> <P><BR/></P> <B><font size="+1">Resources</font></B> <P>Scott & Hub­bert, <a href="http://www.technocracy.org/images/stories/pdf/studycourse2.pdf" target="_blank">Tech­noc­racy Study Course</a>, Tech­noc­racy, Inc., 1934</P> <P><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.unep.org/gc/gcss-x/download.asp%3FID%3D1297&ei=9n2KS__VPJO0sgOfz5SGAw&sa=X&oi=nshc&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAkQzgQoAA&usg=AFQjCNHkdD8SmO5BIyJzzVk7HEnLesXKOw" target="_blank">Back­ground paper for the min­is­te­rial con­sul­ta­tions</a>, Gov­erning Council of the United Nations Envi­ron­mental Pro­gramme, December 14, 2009</P> <P>The <a href="http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/DOE_SG_Book_Single_Pages%281%29.pdf" target="_blank">Smart Grid: An Intro­duc­tion</a>, U.S. Depart­ment of Energy</P> <P><a href="http://www.pnl.gov/" target="_blank">Pacific North­west National Lab­o­ra­tory</a>, web site</P> <P><a href="http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/OE_Successes_0915_Web_sngl.pdf" target="_blank">2010 Strategic Plan</a>, Office of Elec­tricity Delivery & Energy Reliability</P> <P><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-networked-grid-100/" target="_blank">The Net­worked Grid 100: Movers and Shakers of the Smart Grid</a></P> <P>Meloan, Steve,  <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Ecommerce/rfid/" target="_blank">Toward a Global  Internet of Things </a> , Oracle Soft­ware, November 11, 2003</P> <P><a href="http://www.augustreview.com/images/wi-fi-alliance-smart-grid.pdf" target="_blank">Wi-Fi for the Smart Grid</a>, Wi-Fi Alliance, 2009</P> <P><a href="http://www.energy.gov/8216.htm" target="_blank">Obama Announces $3.4 Bil­lion Invest­ment to Spur Tran­si­tion to Smart Energy Grid</a>, Depart­ment of Energy Press Release</P> <P><BR/></P> <P>Copyright © <a href="http://www.augustcorp.com/" target="_blank">The August Corporation</a>. </P> <P><BR/></P> <P><BR/></P> <P><BR/></P> <script type="text/javascript> /* <P>The major news media was replete with reports over the weekend that the coffee company, Starbucks, "has no problem with customers packing heat while placing their orders." <img align="right" hspace="20" src="images/CG527A.jpg" border="3" width="301" height="327" bordercolor="rgb(13,25,128)" alt="2nd Amendment Gun Permit" style="margin-top: 10px;"> <BR/><span style="font-size: 8px; color: rgb(26,52,156); font-family: Kartika; line-height: 100%;"><BR/></span> <P>"The coffee giant says it won't take issue with gun owners who take advantage of 'open carry' laws and bring firearms into their restaurant." (Source: NBC News)</P> <P>To tell you the truth, I'm not sure why this is even considered "newsworthy." Perhaps because Starbucks is a Seattle-based company that caters to the "yuppie" crowd? Maybe because the anti-gun national news media is shocked and chagrined at Starbucks' statement? Who knows? That Starbucks would not want to alienate millions of gun owners (many of whom lawfully carry concealed weapons for personal protection) makes perfectly good sense to me. I'm sure the statement by Starbucks has little to do with guns and everything to do with business. But the fact is, there are tens of thousands of lawfully armed citizens who carry either concealed or open that have been peacefully doing business with thousands of companies around the country for years.</P> <P>At last glance, 12 states allow unrestricted open carry. Those states are Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia. Plus, at least 13 other states allow restricted open carry (meaning a permit is required). I know it infuriates gun-grabbing liberals to admit this, but the facts are absolutely undeniable that an armed citizenry is far and away a more civilized and peaceful citizenry.</P> <P><BR/></P> <P>Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and our third President Thomas Jefferson rightly said:</P> <blockquote>"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."</blockquote> <P>Founding Father, the man called "the father of the U.S. Constitution, and our 4th President James Madison, agreed with Jefferson. He wrote in Federalist, Number 46, "[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed, which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation . . . [where] the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."</P> <P>Founding Father and author of the classic Revolution-era books, "Common Sense" and "Rights of Man," Thomas Paine concurred. He said, "Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."</P> <P>And should there be any doubt in the minds of sincere men regarding the advantages and appropriateness of an armed citizenry, the research of John R. Lott, Jr. is more than sufficient to dispel it. Lott is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was previously the John M. Olin Visiting Law and Economics Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. His book, "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws," is the most authoritative and thoroughly researched volume on the subject. And the title of his book is exactly what his research proves: More guns, less crime!</P> <P>Lott's analysis "is based on data for all 3,054 counties in the United States during 18 years from 1977 to 1994." Lott said carry laws reduce violent crime because "victims who have guns are in a much better position to defend themselves."DUH! &nbsp;</P> <P>See a University of Chicago-sponsored interview with Mr. Lott at:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493636.html" target="_blank">www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493636.html</a></P> <P>Of course, liberal gun-grabbers love to instill fear into people by saying that citizens carrying guns will result in more incidents of violence.</P> <P>However, the facts just do not substantiate this hysteria. Even our local "mullet wrapper" recently ran a column excoriating the new law that allows concealed carry permit holders to carry his or her sidearm in national parks and forests. The basis of their diatribe? "It's a risky change that will endanger families, hikers, those who work in these places and the park rangers themselves."</P> <P>See the rant at:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20102260311" target="_blank">www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20102260311</a></P> <P>Like all gun-grabbers, however, the fearmongering of the editorial board at the Pensacola, Florida, News Journal just does not square with the facts. As Lott observes, "Criminals are deterred by higher penalties. Just as higher arrest and conviction rates deter crime, so does the risk that someone committing a crime will confront someone able to defend him or herself.</P> <P>There is a strong negative relationship between the number of law-abiding citizens with permits and the crime rate--as more people obtain permits there is a greater decline in violent crime rates. For each additional year that a concealed handgun law is in effect the murder rate declines by 3 percent, rape by 2 percent, and robberies by over 2 percent."</P> <P>Accordingly, the new law allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry in national parks and forests serves only to make those parks and forests safer.</P> <P>I well remember being invited to speak in the rural Montana town of Hamilton last year. Somewhere between 600 and 800 people assembled at the local fairgrounds to hear me speak. It was a terrific rally with some of the most patriotic and enthusiastic people I have ever spoken to. (They have invited me back to speak, this time at the University of Montana in Missoula, to a much larger crowd of probably several thousand later this May.)</P> <P>Along with the vibrancy, energy, and sheer enthusiasm of that audience I observed that scores of people were openly carrying handguns on their hips.</P> <P>(No telling how many people were carrying concealed. Scores more, I'm sure.) Can one imagine a would-be killer trying to open fire in that meeting? Needless to say, not only did I feel at home, I felt absolutely safe--a whole lot safer than I feel when I travel to Washington, D.C. (or any other city or State restricting gun possession), that is for sure!</P> <P>Obviously, the executives at Starbucks are wiser and more discerning than a majority of newspaper editors and television news anchors. They have seen several other business establishments that have introduced corporate policies prohibiting lawfully armed citizens from entering their establishments--and they've seen their profits and customer bases shrink dramatically! They've also, no doubt, seen what happened in Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, when a madman crashed his vehicle into the restaurant and began shooting patrons at will. The total carnage on that horrific day back in 1991 resulted in 23 people dead and 20 more wounded, and the killer eventually killing himself. Some 80 people were in the restaurant when the shooting occurred, but Texas did not have a concealed carry law at the time, so no one was armed and able to fight back.</P> <P>At this point, I strongly urge readers to watch the eyewitness testimony of former Texas State Representative Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp--whose parents were killed in the Luby's Cafeteria rampage--given before the US Congress.</P> <P>See her testimony at:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WznSA4EU1Gk" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=WznSA4EU1Gk</a></P> <P>Therefore, the sadness and chagrin of liberal gun-grabbers notwithstanding, I say, "Hooray for Starbucks!" And I don't even like their coffee. 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For the first time in any of our lives we have found ourselves in a Constitutional crisis. Since the beginning of our great Country there have been many attempts made at amending the Constitution. The framers of our founding document realized that, for its meaning to stay intact, there could never be changes made to it. It was made clear by the language in it, that there were to be no amendments made to the Constitution of the United States of America. To do so would erode its guarantees that we as a people would remain free and self determining, that regardless of social status, no one person could impose his will on another person in relation to that person's inalienable rights for the pursuit of happiness. As long as that person obeyed the laws of society, he was guaranteed certain inalienable rights. The framers knew that to change one part of it, would affect its structure as a whole. Like a Spider Web, to cut one strand would compromise the integrity of the web as a whole.</P> <P STYLE="margin-top: 20px;"> Now, as a political party, we are facing a similar crisis. The conservative ideal, the principals that unite us as a whole, are having our connecting fiber cut along the lines of ideological divides. We have extreme right wing Republicans favoring their one size fits all approach, no room for deviance from the party line, battling moderate Republicans (Rino's) who are willing to sell their soul for power and money, and who are willing to cut a deal with the Devil. Who are in turn in conflict with Independent and just barely right of center independents or centrists depending where you draw the line on being a conservative, who want an end to the business as usual. I am not saying we don t all want an end to business as usual, all I know is neither party has helped get us out of this mess. It is almost like they are joined at the hip. There are far too many deals being cut that leave us tax payers holding the bill. There is too much Pork on both sides of the isle and it seems no one is truly looking out for us, the tax payer. 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The list is long, but there is no mistaking our differences with Utopian and Progressive based Liberals who believe your money is their money, that the Government is wealthy. That is where we must all unite at once, we must save our ideological differences of party for another day and defeat this great Politically Correct Devil that will consume our wealth and freedoms and render us slaves to a Godless society. We can t afford to worry about where to dig the well as our Country's framework burns. The conservative tent must be all inclusive, Just as hard core Republicans do not have the numbers to defeat the libs, neither do the moderates nor Independents alone have the numbers. We must put our differences aside and come together as Conservatives; business as usual must end now, and we need an overwhelming show of force, an unmistakable mandate and new politicians with a spine. 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