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By Patrick Wood, Editor
March 2, 2010
Introduction
According to the United Nations Governing Council of the UN Environmental Programme (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":
"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]
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.
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.
The Technocrats have resurfaced, and they do not intend to fail a second time. Whether or not they succeed this time will depend upon the intended servants of Technocracy, the citizens of the world.
Indeed, the dark horse of the New World Order is not Communism, Socialism or Fascism. It is Technocracy.
Background
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,
"Just as the Reformation established Religious Freedom, just as the Declaration of Independence brought about our Political Freedom, Technocracy promises Economic Freedom." [Foreward, iii]
Porter's plan included abandoning the gold standard, suspending the stock exchanges and nationalizing railroads and public utilities. Freedom notwithstanding, Porter then called for President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt to be sworn in as Dictator rather than President so that he could overturn the existing economic system in favor of Technocracy:
"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)
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.
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.
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.
In Carbon Currency: A New Beginning for Technocracy?, 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.
The pressing and unanswered question is how would such a Technocratic system actually be implemented?
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. ]
Requirements
The Technocracy Study Course, written by Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert in 1932, established a detailed framework for Technocracy in terms of energy production, distribution and usage.
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: monitoring and measuring.
They wrote that the system must do the following things:
- "Register on a continuous 24 hour-per-day basis the total net conversion of energy.
- "By means of the registration of energy converted and consumed, make possible a balanced load.
- "Provide a continuous inventory of all production and consumption
- "Provide a specific registration of the type, kind, etc., of all goods and services, where produced and where used
- "Provide specific registration of the consumption of each individual, plus a record and description of the individual." [Scott, Howard et al, Technocracy Study Source, p. 232]
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 kilowatt of energy delivered to consumers and businesses on a system-wide basis.
It's called: Smart Grid.
What is Smart Grid?
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.
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 within the residence to gather consumption data and to control certain devices directly without consumer intervention.
According to a U.S. Department of Energy publication,
"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 The Smart Grid: An Introduction)
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.
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.
Implementation
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:
- more than 850 sensors called 'Phasor Measurement Units" to monitor the overall power grid nationwide
- 200,000 smart transformers
- 700 automated substations (about 5 percent of the nation's total)
- 1,000,000 in-home displays
- 345,000 load control devices in homes
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.
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.
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.
According to Battelle's August 27, 2009 press release,
"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.
'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.'”
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.
In a "For Internal Use Only" document written in August 2009, BPA offers talking points to its partners. It states that "Smart Grid technology includes everything from interactive appliances in homes to smart meters, substation automation and sensors on transmission lines." [Emphasis added]
A Network of Things
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.
 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,
"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."
According to PNNL's website,
"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."
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.
PNNL is not a private enterprise, however. It is "owned" by the U.S. Department of Energy and operated by Battelle Memorial Institute!
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.
According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, "the need for Smart Grid solutions is being driven by the emergence of distributed power generation and management/monitoring of consumption." In their white paper, Wi-Fi for the Smart Grid, they list the specific requirements for interoperability posted by the Department of Energy:
- Provide two-way communication among grid users, e.g. regional market operators, utilities, service providers and consumers
- 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
- Coordinate the integration into the power system of emerging technologies such as renewable resources, demand response resources, electricity storage facilities and electric transportation systems
- Ensure the cyber security of the grid.
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:
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.
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!
Consumer Blowback?
Wall Street Journal reported "What Utilities Have Learned From Smart-Meter Tests..." on February 22, 2010, and revealed several important early aspects of smart grid implementation.
- A principal goal is to enable utilities to restructure rate plans
- A principal goal is to force consumer behavior to change
- Some utility executives anticipate and fear a consumer rebellion
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.
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.
Going Global
The UNEP report mentioned above reveals that "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."
A BusinessWeek article, "How Italy Beat the World to a Smarter Grid" stated on November 16, 2009 that "After several false starts, 2010 finally could be the year when smart meters go global."
Indeed, it is:
- Italy has already implemented Smart Grid technology in 85 percent of its homes nationwide
- earth2tech.com reports that Smart Grid will generate $200 billion of global investment in the next few years
- The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has laid out a global roadmap to insure interoperability of Smart Grid systems between nations
- Global companies are rushing to gain their share of the global Smart Grid market: IBM, Siemens, GE, Cisco, Panasonic, Kyocera, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, etc.
- China is spending $7.32 billion to build out Smart Grid in Asia
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.
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.
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.
Conclusion
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.
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.
If the Federal government had not been the initial and persistent driver, would Smart Grid exist at all? It is highly doubtful.
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.
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.
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.
Is Smart Grid destined to be a global phenomenon? Yes. Is it designed to support a new global Technocratic, resource-based economic system? Yes.
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.
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.
[Editor's note: Read an international review of this article on The Daily Bell of Appenzell, Switzerland.]
Resources
Scott & Hubbert, Technocracy
Study Course, Technocracy, Inc., 1934
Background paper for the ministerial consultations, Governing Council of the United Nations Environmental Programme, December 14, 2009
The Smart Grid: An Introduction, U.S. Department of Energy
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, web site
2010 Strategic Plan, Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability
The Networked Grid 100: Movers and Shakers of the Smart Grid
Meloan, Steve, "Toward a Global 'Internet of Things'", Oracle Software, November 11, 2003
Wi-Fi for the Smart Grid, Wi-Fi Alliance, 2009
Obama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to Spur Transition to Smart Energy Grid, Department of Energy Press Release
Note: In preparing for this report, the editor would like to give special thanks to Dr. Martin Erdmann, Carl Teichrib and Dr. Michael Coffman, for their encouragement, testing of ideas and additional supporting research.
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Comments
As nusual, they will spend all the money hiring cronies and then claim shortages.
Remember when the CA power crisis hit, Clinton had the FERC filled uup with politicos who knew nothing of electricity. It was impotent until Bush replaced them with experienced s pecialists in electricity.
We will just get our own boxes and generate our own power, I guess. Compare it to the cellphone revolution and abandonment of monopoly phone service.
Our piecemeal electric grid offers the benefit of circuit breakers to keep problems from spreading. Problems like graft and corruption. Imagine charlie Rangel ruling power. Progressives advocated rule by experts, but socialism fails largely because political loyalties soon replace te4chnical know how and everyone suffers from their ignorance.
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Over here in Scotland we're about to go into an all-metered water delivery system. And the Water Boards have been privatized...I don't know which is worse: a centralized/nationalized system of utilities delivery, which is easier to control, or privatized units, which are not as susceptible to consumer feedback. A rock and a hard place...I'm not sure how long we would be 'allowed' Claire's suggestion, of generating our own power. I can see the 'sensitivity training' techniques swinging into action now, of the citizenry becoming an arm of the Establishment, reporting the 'cheaters'. With the justification: If I have to live under this regime, then you do, too....
To throw a bit of a spanner in the works here: There's nothing wrong in principle with living in a more efficient manner, in the use of Mother Earth's resources. It all depends on who's in charge. And the Powers That Be really have not given us much of a good reason to trust them; and in fact, the exact opposite. So yes: We need to keep a close eye on all this. And begin to alert others, to the very large possibility of the corruption of the idea.
A low budget sci fi flick circa 1972
He made it before he sold out and went over to the Dark Side.
Might be as prophetic as was John Brunner's book THE SHEEP LOOK UP. circa 1972 about subsequent news and politics.
Looks like whole new industries will be created without producing anything new.
Smart grid won't do anything for our ancient transmission system that can't already be done with existing equipment.
Wait until they outlaw solar-battery systems and only allow solar-grid-tie. Then you will understand that independence is the big question.
Now it appears that there is plenty of motivation since governments are shaking loose unlimited tax dollars into corporate coffers and that is all about control. The control I am talking about is the Orwellian world of 1984 and the aforementioned George Lucas film. Individuals are being treated as cattle and there is no intention whatever to 'govern' responsibly. Another interesting author is Ayn Rand; reading Atlas Shrugged will give you a good picture of todays reality and the corruption of business morality to preserve a phony 'Free Enterprise' system and to keep 'Capitalism' as a holy grail while it is in fact being desecrated by what could only be called criminal activity in the teachings of a great man such as Machiavelli.
Maybe we can call it a new fascism, deprived of the militarism of the Thirties, as sustained here: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=453782385&blogId=526571382
Perhaps...
But, on the other side, we can even think that we are facing something different, far more dangerous...
hhttp://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/socgp_consumer-labor-advocates-oppose-smart-natural-gas-meter-plan-828183.html#
(From Brisbane, Australia, where Smart Grid is happening, too.)
Howard Scott pointed out that this theory, which is based largely on the assumption that human labor determines the value of goods and services, is inappropriate in a high-energy civilization.
As more extraneous energy -- that is, energy derived from a source other than human power -- is introduced into industry, production increases.
At the same time, the necessity for human labor decreases. Therefore, the factor of human labor is no longer applicable.
At the same time production increases, man-hours must decrease. And, since man-hours generate consuming power in the form of wages, consuming power must decrease.
The technate design is a non political science based social design that is based on energy economics and has nothing to do with Carbon credits.
More information on the technate design for North America http://www.technocracytechnate.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=699d9fa70fe9df419bac0c78cc9a4dbd;www
Technocracy and thermodynamics Some history of these ideas. Biophysical economics and non market origins of the technate design.
Technocracy Study Course Where it all started as a social movement.
An information site with files and more general information --- A forum discussion site and file site ---> Technocracy technate
Technocracy Think Tank Home Page. <---- David Ravlin provides a lot of good information.
Past articles Master Index 'Technocracy articles by TechInc----- A wealth of information.
Patrick is saying the Technocracy has be adopted and altered to include an energy accounting system.
Starving under this system is a nice option?
That which ceases to function ceases to exist.
Energy Accounting is a non market system. Non political also. It precludes special interests.
It is not connected to Capitalism or any other ism.
It is not a replacement for money... it is only an accounting system for sustainability.
Care to kill the planet..?. try continuing the Price System and you will.
Technology destroys the Price System by eliminating purchasing power... labor theory of value... kilowatt hours are cheaper than man hours. Are you following me?
But I suppose conspiracy people think differently.
Google Technocracy technate.
There is no connection to the information about the technate design... carbon credits... or the powers that be.
M. King Hubbert was a secular humanitarian as was Howard Scott.
Libertarian crackpots and Ayn Rand wet dreams aside... don't connect conspiracy nonsense with science. There is not connection.
There is no conspiracy. There is no connection to the technate design to existing political or religious ideas. It is a uniquely American concept from a creative period in our history.
Also... please think. It is not the Fed.. or the Rothschild's, or The Jews, or the people, or the Illuminis, or secret societies... the problem is the political Price System which will try to kill us all of to make a corporate profit, even if the profit is a dime.
The North American Technate design group is a research and educational group with NO assumption to power theory. We merely pointed out the value of energy accounting/biophysical economics, in a non market context with a science based non oligarchic government structure. That is the Technocracy Study Course.
Your very thinking is a product of the technocracy we ALREADY live in. It's techy thinking. One of the main features of that say is specialisation. And that to every 'problem' there is an equal and opposite technical solution. You cannot separate and isolate apparently unrelated factors simply because they appear different. The sum total of the elephant in the room is the sum total of its parts: conspiratorial, technological, human nature and possibly some other factor such as that speculated by Oswarld Spengler in 'The Decline and Fall of The West', an unseen historical social group determinate. Get out a bit more Mr John C and go make friends with the trees.
Pure Aristocrat B.S...
The smart public sees through all this...
The NWO Elitists intend to control everything from production to consumption. Food, energy and water.
Nicola Tesla learned this the hard way when JP Morgan burned down his laboratory, withdrew his funding and virtually destroyed this genius when Tesla refused to put a "Meter" on his invention, AC wireless power.He created a distribution system that could deliver wireless energy anywhere on the globe but JP Morgan owned the companies that supplied the copper wires and power poles for his distribution system resulting in end users having meters.
Tesla wanted to deliver the energy at cost while JP Morgan wanted to "Control" production and consumption by using meters.
Not sure if this helps, but small-scale hydrogen cells are being developed to store PV energy at home sites now.
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The Government that has taken over America, is not American! Outsiders are running our country!
The reasons why, we must vote out, Establishment Government Representatives , whether they are Left or Right - Incumbent or Candidate!
Make sure the candidates and incumbents, do not belong to any of the Global Elitist Organizations: Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, Club of Rome, Skull and Bones, Canadian Council of Chief Executives,
Harvard Elite Players, Goldman Sachs, International Monetary Fund, The United Nations, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization.
The reason we must vote out Establishment Government Representatives , whether they are Left or Right, Incumbent or Candidate is explained on this 2 minute News Clip below:
TWO Party Paradyne System News clip:
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We Americans, who wish to stop the thieving and robbing, of your income and resources in your country, by the Globalist Banksters need to, "End the Fed"! Help Ron Paul out on this one folks! There in lays our freedom!
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