{"id":143678,"date":"2015-02-19T23:13:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143678"},"modified":"2015-02-19T23:13:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:13:48","slug":"media-blackout-us-smart-grid-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/media-blackout-us-smart-grid-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Blackout on US \u201cSmart Grid Deployment\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>James F. Tracy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the past several years a conspiracy of silence has surrounded the implementation of the Smart Grid across the United States, perhaps with good reason. If the public was aware of what lay behind this agenda there would likely be considerable outcry and resistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmart meters\u201d\u2014the principal nodes of the Smart Grid network\u2014are being installed on homes and businesses by power utilities across the United States under the legal and fiscal direction of the United States government. In December 2007 both houses of the US Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/STATUTE-121\/pdf\/STATUTE-121-Pg1492.pdf\">Energy Independence and Security Act<\/a> (EISA).<\/p>\n<p>This 310-page piece of legislation employs the dubious science of anthropogenic CO2-based climate change science to mandate an array of policies, such as fuel efficiency standards for vehicles and \u201cgreen\u201d energy initiatives. Tucked away in the final pages of this law is the description and de facto mandate for national implementation of the Smart Grid that the Bush administration promised would result in \u201csome of the largest CO2 emission cuts in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d[1]<\/p>\n<p>The bill unambiguously lays out the design and intent behind the Smart Grid, including surveillance, tiered energy pricing, and energy rationing for all US households and businesses through round-the-clock monitoring of RFID-chipped \u201cEnergy Star\u201d appliances.[2] Congress and \u201cother stakeholders\u201d (presumably for-profit utilities and an array of Smart Grid technology patent holders[3] whose lobbyists co-wrote the legislation) describe the Smart Grid\u2019s characteristics and goals via ten provisions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memoryholeblog.com\/2015\/02\/19\/media-blackout-on-us-smart-grid-deployment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James F. Tracy Over the past several years a conspiracy of silence has surrounded the implementation of the Smart Grid across the United States, perhaps with good reason. If the public was aware of what lay behind this agenda there would likely be considerable outcry and resistance. \u201cSmart meters\u201d\u2014the principal nodes of the Smart Grid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}