What additional expenditures will be required on the consumer end?
In order to get the purported benefits of smart meters, consumers will purchase their own communications devices, computers, high-speed internet, special thermostats, appliance chips and other automated equipment. The cost of retrofitting or replacing existing appliances alone will be astronomical.
Without the expenditures, consumers will not see any difference from the new meters except higher electric bills.
The full vision requires integrating smart meter data applications, and then linking smart appliances to a Home Area Network (HAN) so that utilities can automatically send price data to appliances.
Bluetooth, a wireless technology developer, knows it and wants in - casually admitting how you will have even less control of your OWN HOME:
In its next stage, smart energy will also allow the utilities, or an energy broker within the home, to turn off high energy-consuming appliances where necessary to balance the grid. That implies an internal network within the home, which is probably wireless, which connects these devices to the smart meter.
I will provide more updates on this event in the near future; I was with this group for the day today fighting tyranny in our backyards. Have you see the last video produced by NorCalTruth featuring local residents blocking SmartMeter installations?
Demonstrators protesting continued installation of PG&E SmartMeters around Northern California closed down a company service and payment center in Santa Rosa on Thursday after blocking the entrance.
Police said the demonstration on Stony Circle was generally peaceful, and PG&E opted to close the customer service office for the day rather than seek arrests, spokesman Paul Moreno said.
A leader of opponents to the wireless transmission meters, meanwhile, said some of the protesters were ready to go to jail if necessary to make the point that PG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission have an obligation to fulfill demand for more thorough studies into health concerns related to radio frequency emissions from the meters.
This segment goes into the MIAC report and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Police seek to criminalize certain methods of free speech in Missouri and four animal rights activists are charged with terrorism. Take advantage of your freedoms while you still can. Work to make the change you want to see!
Police arrested 52 students protesting a tuition hike Thursday at the University of California-Davis and held them in jail overnight without food. One was reportedly beaten by police, a source close to the incident tells Raw Story. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes We Can: Investigate 9/11!
-by Sojourner Truth and VeilLifter
9/11 Truth activists came out in force today to welcome of Obama to San Francisco and to demand that he look into the most important issue of the century — 9/11, the false flag event that has promised Americans and the world never ending war and curtailment of our civil rights.
Though it is very doubtful the Obama Administration will ever seriously look into 9/11- he has stated that he believes the official cover-up version of the 9/11 as presented by the 9/11 Commission. Thus, activists used the opportunity to participate in 9/11 outreach to visitors from all over the world who come to see this beautiful city. Passed out were the very popular Deception Dollars, which have over 20 websites on them that people can peruse for 9/11 Truth information, and a 9/11 Fact Sheet that explains some of the lies and anomalies with the official story. Read the rest of this entry »
brings 9-11 Truth in a big way to anti-war rally in Los Angeles. Somewhere between 40 and 50 members of WACLA showed up, all of whom were holding 9-11 Truth signs or were helping to hold our massive blue banners. We had more participants than any other organization.
Rob Kozik, a registered nurse in Stony Brook University Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit, doesn’t want the government to force him to be vaccinated against H1N1 swine flu.
Dozens of Long Island nurses – many from Stony Brook University Medical Center – plan to rally with health care workers from across the state next week in Albany to protest a state regulation that mandates they be vaccinated for swine flu or lose their jobs.
No major complaints on the article from my end. The minor thought is that the Grove’s spokesman, Sam Singer, is allowed the last quote saying, “…this is anything but an elite group.” I don’t agree to say the least. I am not the only one apparently. Another article was published on-line the same night by the same paper (Press Democrat). It covered more of the economic surge for business’s near the Grove. One quote from that article makes it clear this is an elite retreat. “One day a grove member spent $20,000. It’s not unusual for one member to come in and buy in one day what we have sold in a month.” That is wine they are talking about there boss. -ed
The Bohemian Grove, a redwood-spired sanctuary to powerful men for 120 years, today opens its gates near Monte Rio for its annual, two-week encampment.
The gathering of the all-male Bohemian Club is expected to draw a small group of protesters this weekend when the bulk of the guests are expected to arrive. The encampment lasts through July 26.
The small demonstration contrasts with some of the larger-scale protests of earlier years, usually coinciding with Republican presidential administrations over the past three decades. Every Republican president since Herbert Hoover reportedly has belonged to the 2,500-member club.
Mary Moore, who helped found the Bohemian Grove Action Network in the 1980s, said she is happy that new activists are still trying to draw attention to leaders of government, banking, business and the military who gather in the grove.
Posted by Brian 
