SMARTGRID: The Coming Technocracy

Read about a utopian world where all energy usage is controlled from a central point, even your thermostat and well.

Smart Grid

From the Tea Party website we find this:

Please call or write to your Senators and Congressmen to express your opposition to the HR2685 Smart Grid Advancement Act of 2013

This bill will make it mandatory to create the Smart Grid and require every state to join and put a Smart Meter on every house. We will also end up paying for other countries to join the Grid. If you think NSA was watching everything you do now, just wait until this Grid is developed.

The Grid will essentially make the connection between the three countries as part of the NAU. This will effect all water, electrical, and gas distribution (including free standing wells).

The group that is promoting this is called Smart Grid Interoperability Panel or SGIP and it is headed up by a long time leader within the UN.

PLEASE OPPOSE HR2685 (Electric Grid)
PLEASE SUPPORT HR75 (Get the US out of the UN)

Here are some excerpts from the bill, compliments of http://www.stopocsmartmeters.org/

(1.) Section 2 (4) defines Load-serving entity as an entity that “provides electricity directly to retail consumers with the responsibility to assure power quality and reliability, including such entities that are investor-owned, publicly owned, owned by rural electric cooperatives, or other entities.” In other words, all electricity providers.

(2.) Section 5 (a) says “each load-serving entity, or, at the option of the State, each State with respect to load-serving entities that the State regulates, shall determine and publish peak demand reduction goals for any load-serving entities that have an applicable baseline in excess of 250 megawatts.” In other words every provider has to reduce the amount of electricity provided.

(3.) Section 5 (c)(4) says that “…peak demand reduction goals shall provide that…” “…are realistically achievable with an aggressive effort to deploy Smart Grid”

(4.) Section 5 (d) says Each load-serving entity shall prepare a peak demand reduction plan through either/and “direct reduction in megawatts of peak demand through energy efficiency measures or use of a Smart Grid”. This will be forced through rationing and price increases.

(5.) Section 6 changes key wording in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Wording changes:
“striking ‘reduce energy consumption during the 4-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act’ and inserting ‘increase energy efficiency and to adopt Smart Grid technology and practices’.” “inserting after subparagraph (C) the following: ‘(D) purchasing and utilizing equipment that includes Smart Grid features and capability’ ” “by inserting ‘and smart’ after ‘efficient’ and by inserting after ‘products’ the first place it appears ‘, including products designated as being smart appliances’.”

(6.) PEAK DEMAND REDUCTION- The term ‘peak demand reduction’ means the reduction in annual peak demand as compared to a previous baseline year or period, expressed in megawatts (MW), whether accomplished by–

(A) diminishing the end-use requirements for electricity; RATIONING AND PRICE INCREASES

(B) use of locally stored energy or generated electricity to meet those requirements from distributed resources on the load-serving entity’s customers’ premises and without use of high-voltage transmission; or

(C) energy savings from efficient operation of the distribution grid resulting from the use of a Smart Grid.

Bay Area Residents Sue to Stop Plan Bay Area Regional Plan

Rosa Koire, national speaker and author of the book “Behind the Green Mask” is planning on suing Plan Bay Area.

She compares the apparent philosophy of the program to what went on in Nazi Germany:

‘All property is common property. The owner is bound by the people and the Reich to the responsible management of his goods. His legal position is only justified when he satisfies this responsibility to the community.’ ~ Ernst Huber, official Nazi Party spokesman, 1933

Nazi Land Philosophy:

‘The issue of land ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property–so long as the state reserves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.’ ~ Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels, 1982

Koire says:

“Starting in July 2013, rural county land will be prohibited from building anything except agricultural structures. No homes.

Starting in July 2013, 7 MILLION PEOPLE will be subject to restrictions on where and how they live and travel in the SF Bay Area.

Starting in July 2013, 80% of residential development and 66% of all commercial development FOR THE NEXT 27 YEARS will be restricted to very limited locations in just a few cities in the Bay Area.

PLAN BAY AREA will devastate the Bay Area for more than a generation.

PLAN BAY AREA is a template for the rest of the nation.

No matter where you live this plan will impact you.”

You can read the larger explanation on this page. It is the same everywhere.

You’ve seen a cartoon on our main website that characterizes the way people are treated at public sessions in NH, now see how they view them in California.


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Master Planner Admits Regionalism is Fascism But It Works

In this short video from our friends at American Coalition for Property Rights, you will hear clips from a speech by Master Planner Andres Duany where he admits what Florida’s “Seven50” plan intends to do. Keep in mind, ALL “sustainability” plans that are formulated under HUD grants are ONE AND THE SAME with regard to goals.

Having listened to Duany’s whole two hour presentation, the Mayor of Vero Beach gave his frank opinion on what he heard… you’ll see why Vero Beach wants nothing to do with the Seven50 program and opted out of it. If you have time to listen, following that clip is an interview with Phyllis Frey, former commercial pilot and Chair of the American Coalition for Property Rights where she talks about what is driving plans like Seven50.

Agenda 21 in Pinardville

Girard at Large hits the nail on the head in these two clips of this morning’s show.

This is going on all over the country.

The names of the plans are different but the goal is the same — control of property and herding people into urban areas while limiting rural development using “sprawl” as an excuse.

Mixed use zoning is so that people will have to live and shop and work in the same place and not use cars.

Eventually HUD will be determining local zoning laws to create more racially and economically mixed neighborhoods as they already have been doing with mixed use zoning.

Forced integration if you will…

Yes the regional planners are just another layer of unelected government bureaucrats putting the people further from the governmental process and the “stakeholders” are the crony capitalists who stand to benefit from the resulting projects

It’s not just a conspiracy theory anymore.

See what HUD has planned for your local town.

Here is an entry from the Federal Register that lays out the plan for Agenda 21: (click for larger view)

Agenda21

Smart Growth America Schemes for Bigger Federal Role in Real Estate

Listen to the members of Smart Growth America as they scheme to promote a larger role for the federal government in local real estate development and sales and housing policies.

Social justice and racial and economic profiling are the key words here.

http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/media/a-call-for-action_7-25-2013/lib/playback.html

Rob Astorino, the Westchester County Executive, recently said, “What they are trying to do is to say discrimination and zoning is the same thing. They are not. Discrimination won’t be tolerated. I won’t tolerate it. Zoning though, protects what can and can’t be built in a neighborhood.”

Read more and watch the video after the ad: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/07/obama-administration-using-housing-department-to-compel-diversity-in/

Zoning is NOT racial or economic discrimination!

Residents Horrified at Plan Pinardville ‘Form Based Code’

Looks like the town is poised to take over property from Pinardville (Goffstown) under the new Plan Pinardville ‘smart codes’.

Please listen to Girard at Large for the details.

Update: Goffstown selectmen asked to dissolve Plan Pinardville committee

The Smart Code, the draft Character-Based Development Ordinance for Pinardville, is available for review at http://www.goffstown.com/planpinardville

The next meeting of the Plan Pinardville Ad Hoc Committee is Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, Room 106.

New bill aims to make ‘smart’ meters mandatory for entire nation

Your help needed to oppose HR 2685, the Smart Meter Trojan Horse Act

New bill aims to make ‘smart’ meters mandatory for entire nation

(NaturalNews) There is a sinister agenda underway to forcibly convert every standard electric meter in the U.S. to the “smart” variety under the guise of promoting renewable energy interests. And one of the latest pieces of Trojan horse legislation pushing for this ominous transformation is the Smart Grid Advancement Act of 2013, introduced by Representative Jerry McNerney (D-Cal.) and co-authored by Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Penn.), which would force utilities all across the country to convert their customers to smart meters.

Thanks to a NaturalNews reader tip, we learned that Landis Gyr recently had a company voicemail message that admitted smart meter technology is part of the NSA’s “PRISM” spying and surveillance program. Since gaining national attention about this admission, Landis Gyr has apparently altered its company voicemail message to omit this indicting information.

H.R. 2685 has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee for consideration, which means this is the first point of contact in effectively killing this bill. StopSmartMeters.org has set up a helpful action page that you can use to contact not only the committee but also the bill’s sponsors and the rest of your Congressmen: http://stopsmartmeters.org

Read the full article here…

Vero Beach, Florida – The Programs are the Same

This is important information received from the Vero Beach Florida property rights people (American Coalition 4 Property Rights). What is happening to NH is happening in every state. You will recognize many of the elements in this recent newsletter…

In October of 2012, a group of concerned citizens attended a design charrette in the Vero Beach Board of County Commissioners’ chambers, presented by the “Southeast Florida Regional Partnership Sustainable Communities HUD Grant Initiative,” now known as “Seven 50,” meaning—control of seven Florida counties within 50 years.

This group of unelected, federally appointed bureaucrats using combined grants from HUD, DOT & EPA revealed that they would effect extreme changes in housing and transportation by building “sustainable communities” which are clusters of low income, high density population, HUD high-rise stack-and-pack housing in every neighborhood in every community in the United States. This plan will eliminate the use of automobiles by relocating us out of our suburban homes and forcing us to use mass transit.

With a recent infusion of $10 billion in taxpayer money, secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, announced this week that during the months ahead, in the most ambitious social re-engineering project ever undertaken by the federal government, racial mapping in every neighborhood in every community in the United States will begin. In accordance with the current Administration, (in their own words), they plan to overcome “legal barriers” in order to install “sustainable communities” nationwide.

Having been voted out of Indian River County, Seven 50 has begun its master plan in St. Lucie County. In a report compiled by Seven 50 called “Social Equity Analysis and Opportunity Index for the Seven Counties of Southeast Florida,” Part 2, page 70 which states: “Downtown Ft. Pierce is very weak in social equity. Another land tract that scores high in the “opportunity census study is tract #3821.9 which includes the PGA Village and Country Club. Another tract, 3812.04 covers a barrier island containing three state parks noting in their report that these areas are “ethnically deficient” and are high priority target areas for implementing the “sustainable communities,” plan, as are gated communities which are deficient in social justice planning.” The report covers the entire county of St. Lucie, Martin, Palm Beach, Brevard and Monroe county as well.

HUD’s Community Challenge grant Program allows HUD to replace local master plans, zoning and building codes, while bypassing locally elected officials. Working hand-in-glove with the Building One America Program, homes in the suburbs will be taxed in the extreme to subsidize the “sustainable communities” in a massive redistribution of wealth. The American Planning Association in concurrence states, “We believe that planning should be used as a tool to eliminate the great inequities of wealth and power in our society.”

Instead of allowing the free market system to correct the past U.S. housing policy failures, Seven 50 promises to integrate more Regional Planning, more federal loans, more debt, more regulations by dissolving city and county lines, forming Mega-Regions, taking away local decision-making and mandating land use codes, zoning, transportation and housing reforms and bypassing our locally elected officials. This plan isn’t really about racial planning—it is about Central Planning by the federal government without your knowledge, without your consent, without your vote but with your tax dollars.

Indian River County was the first in the state of Florida to withdraw from Seven 50. Why? Because Seven 50 does not reflect our deeply held values of fiscal responsibility, smaller government, local decision-making, public participation in the future of one’s own community, the right to decide where and how we live and the right to private property ownership. The federalization/nationalization of our living spaces as mandated by the Seven 50 Plan runs counter to our constitutional right to own private property.

Our Florida counties of the Treasure Coast to the south have asked for our help in supporting their desire to have their publicly elected officials withdraw membership from Seven 50. We offer our assistance in educating the public so that they can make an informed choice about the future of their communities. We speak to civic organizations, churches, Home Owners Associations, clubs, and to your publicly elected officials.

If you and members of your neighborhood would like to learn more about the American Coalition 4 Property Rights and the Central Planners who intend to implement Regionalism under the name of Seven 50, please go to our website www.ac4pr.org in St. Lucie and counties south, or to www.ac4pr.net for Indian River County’s website.

I will be happy to provide additional information about how you can become informed and protect your right to decide how and where you live, and insure your constitutional right to private property ownership.

There will be a St. Lucie Board of County Commissioners’ meeting Tuesday, August 6th at 6 p.m., 2300 Virginia Avenue, Ft. Pierce where the subject of Seven 50 will be discussed. We have ten speakers who will educate the public as well as the commissioners. The meeting will last approximately one hour.

Please plan to attend the meeting. You will have the chance to become knowledgeable about Seven 50 and its vision for your future and for your children and grandchildren. Please take the time to become informed. Bring your family, friends and neighbors to join us on August 6th. We look forward to seeing you there.

Best regards,

Phyllis Frey, Chairperson
American Coalition 4 Property Rights
275 Date Palm Road
Vero Beach, FL 32963
772-234-3995

Urbanism’s Hidden Goal – No More Single Family Homes

The writer of this article makes no bones about the purpose of urbanism.

He states among other things, that “pervasive, single family homes are, like private automobiles, obsolete for the future.”

Really?

Further, he states “But they must eventually become either antiques (like old colonial dwellings in New England and along the Acela Corridor) or be folded in to reasonable human settlements that come about as a result of smart planning, humane design and caring attention to the thought of persons like Christopher Alexander“.

The link takes you to a blog by Stephen C. Rose whose bio lists him as “Founder Editor Renewal Magazine, Chicago. World Council of Churches, Geneva Editor RISK. Albert Schweitzer Center, MA. UNICEF DOC NY, UNDP NY. Editor Choices.”

It pays to know the enemy.

Related: Council on New Urbanism

Compact Housing Comes to Laconia

The Laconia Daily Sun reports that planners are happy about plans for new, affordable apartments downtown. This is only the beginning of the push for ‘compact housing’.

“LACONIA — The Planning Board last night unanimously approved the proposal by the Laconia Area Community Land Trust to construct a three-story, affordable housing apartment building on the lot tucked between lower Union Avenue and the Winnipesaukee River last occupied by the F.W.Webb Company, a wholesale plumbing and heating firm.”

“The building will house 12 one-bedroom units, each 675-square-feet and 20 two-bedroom units of 864-square-feet.”