This comes up from time to time – less now that tape is being phased out. The playback artifacts in the screen capture below playback disappeared after using a tape head cleaner. If you still have a camera that uses tape, get a tape cleaner while they are still around.
BP’s most recent containment plan for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill turned out to be a failure. With no immediate viable options remaining, the company has now thrown their hands up and is actually asking the public for their input on how to contain the leak.
Notice the language of the text in the screen capture from San Diego Gas and Electric’s smartmeter.faq below:
Click here to read the response on San Diego Gas & Electric website.
They have this question posted half-way down the page.
Clicking on the image below brings you to an a collection of cigarette advertising which is worth reviewing.
On March 31, 2010 President Obama lifted the ban on offshore oil drilling, going further than President Bush to degrade and destroy marine life.
“…. The nobles want only to oppress the people, and the people want only to avoid oppression. From these opposing impulses can come three results: a principality, a republic, or anarchy. When the nobles feel pressure from the people, they try to make one of their own the prince in order to protect their privileges.”
— MACHIAVELLI’S THE PRINCE, Chapter 9
The wholesale looting of America continues, except now that the money is gone, natural resources and environments are the next to go. Stand by for the accelerated sale of federal lands including portions of national parks.
If you are beginning to feel like you’ve been had, you are correct.
The Smart Meters are coming. If you don’t have one installed in your home, you will soon. They are already in parts of Texas and California and are part a new nation-wide program called “Smart Grid.” Heck they’re here. For those of us who do not have one yet be prepared to pay your power company for these mandatory meter replacements AND their installation.
And no, they are not perfect. I found the consumer comments here incentive to investigate further.
Then there is the fact that the smart meters will communicate a burst of data wirelessly every fifteen minutes to local microwave relay stations.
Given the growing momentum in Maine and San Francisco to put cancer warnings on cell phones, I cannot help but wonder about the safety, wisdom, or liability, of living with a 24/7 microwave transmitter attached to our residences, schools, and places of business.
I would like to see if there are any engineering students out there that can run a model for what the overlapping resonant clouds of microwave energy in neighborhoods would look like?
Of course we will be billed at a higher rate for using electricity during times of peak demand. And of course we will be told that we can buy electricity to run our appliances during off-peak hours. To take full advantage of these “savings” we will all need to buy the next generation of “smart appliances” which can be set on timers to run during these off times.
Another way to look at this is that even more of your money will need to be spent to run on the timetable of yet another corporate parasite sucking the money out of your life – from yet an entirely unanticipated direction.
The power companies have not changed their operational model since Westinghouse (using Tesla’s patents) beat Edison for the Niagra Falls contract in 1893. The idea then (as it is now) was to generate electricity in areas far from centers of consumption, then distribute (and meter!) electrical power to customers.
You have probably noticed by now that you have been using less electricity, gasoline, postage, and water – and paying more per respective unit of measure. While the post office loves to point to the internet and free email as a problem for them, the fact of the matter is they are delivering MORE articles than ever. Energy companies (oil/gas and electric) are owned by multi-national corporations who are here to suck your blood and pump up corporate profits on a near Biblical scale.
There is a newer model for the conversion and distribution of energy. In the same way that the personal computer has brought power to the individual, so too can energy from the sun (via solar cells and wind turbines) be converted at point of use.
Look at Berkeley’s program. Why won’t more municipalities or the Feds put tax incentives in place to achieve energy independence? In the long run it would have to be cheaper to roll out than saving AIG.
Unless of course it is that bribery and corruption prevent our elected representatives from acting in the best, long-term interests of the republic?
“…. The nobles want only to oppress the people, and the people want only to avoid oppression. From these opposing impulses can come three results: a principality, a republic, or anarchy. When the nobles feel pressure from the people, they try to make one of their own the prince in order to protect their privileges.”
— MACHIAVELLI’S THE PRINCE, Chapter 9
The wholesale looting of America continues, except now that the money is gone, natural resources and environments are the next in line. Stand by for the accelerated sale of federal lands including portions of national parks.
If you are beginning to feel like we’ve been had, you are correct. Instead of encouraging the development of solar and alternate fuel for homes and communities, the Commander in Chief has just made public resources available to multi-national corporations, for cheap. Don’t expect yesterday’s announcement to translate into a lessening of your energy costs.
I know the title intimates double eroticism. Click the image below for the video. You decide and let me know:
I went for a ten mile bike ride today in a park not far from home. A couple miles in the trail, two joggers were studying the brush where a bobcat had been seen. In the background, the San Diego river was making a happy racket as water ricocheted from rock, to hollow, to rock, on its headlong rush to meet the sea.
After a short drive I hiked a hill which was part of Kumeyaay lands. It’s not far from the highway and no one seems to go there. This is good as there are some grave sites on the flattened peaks. It’s a great place to have your earthly remains interred: Nearly from the moment the sun rises and until it sets, the sun warms that gentle earth. There’s a spectacular view of a valley to the east, more rolling grassy hills to the north and south, some mountains to the west, open sky above. Watched the moon quickly rise. It was huge; beautiful. Almost like i had never seen it before.
Came back and went to the garage where I do most of my electronic experimentation and assembly.
I worked on some pieces for an upcoming performance event at UCSD, Allyson Green’s “An Archive of Happiness” It’s going to be a beautiful dance and I am happy to play a small part in her work. Her piece will be an homage to Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch. I will be building works of art to bridge their worlds.
The past few months I have been obsessed with readying the next phase of a project begun in 1993. In April I will start showing the flame sculpture which articulates the collected names for God.
In 1993, 2010 seemed far away.
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