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The fact that cable companies like Time Warner, AT&T, and Comcast aren’t subject to
common carriage regulations points clearly to their “insider” military status. Telecom mergers
have carte blanche. Monopolies control telephone and cable lines. After the AOL-Time Warner
merger and AT&T-MediaOne merger, the FCC granted cable companies the right to manage the
speed at which sites appear, block content, and deny ISP access. Comcast, the world’s largest
cable company, controls one-third of U.S. households.
AT&T and Verizon collaborate with Israel’s “superintrusive” Verint and Narus to perform
mass surveillance on American communications, sifting traffic 24/7 at key Internet gateways
around the U.S. James Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from
9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, writes that Israel is the eavesdropping capital of the
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world and never need to be concerned about congressional oversight of its activities in the
U.S., as the CIA and Mossad are Gog and Magog.
The global Smart Grid is up and running, jarringly symbolized by the NSA’s megalithic
Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center in
Bluffdale, Utah, twenty-five miles south of Salt Lake City (mentioned in Chapter 6). Above
ground, the Utah Data Center occupies 1.5 million square feet and quantifies in yottabytes (1
yottabyte = 1 trillion terabytes, or 1 quadrillion gigabytes) what is vacuumed up from satellite
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and underwater ocean cable intercepts.
Southeast of the Utah Data Center in the Mimbres territory of Catron County, New Mexico,
AT&T has an underground communications facility. In 1977, the Dia Art Foundation
commissioned American sculptor Walter De Maria to build a piece of land art called The
Lightning Field right over that underground facility: four hundred stainless steel poles precisely
two inches in diameter and twenty feet 7.5 inches in height, spaced 220 feet apart, their pointed
tips defining a horizontal plane in a grid array measuring one mile by one kilometer.

SMART METERS AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

The technocracy has had high hopes for smart meters, and not just as a 24/7 home energy
accounting system counting kilowatts. In 2013, 35.5 percent of all U.S. electrical customers had
smart meters, a 20 percent increase over 2012. By 2014, 58,545,938 smart meters had been
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installed, with 51,710,725 being residential. In the developing world, there were 5.16 million
units in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in 2011. A Market Research reports for global smart
meter sales listed the English-speaking spy network Echelon (Five Eyes) as a “top player.” 16
In fact, read between the lines of Title XIII of the Clean Energy / Energy Independence and
Security Act, signed into law on December 19, 2007, and you will see that smart meters are
really about surveillance, period. Note the repetition of the (military) term “deployment”:

(1) ​Increased use of digital information and controls technology to improve
reliability, security, and efficiency of the electric grid;

(2) ​Dynamic optimization of grid operations and resources, with full cyber-security;
(3) ​Deployment and integration of distributed resources and generation, including
renewable resources;
(4) ​Development and incorporation of demand response, demand-side resources, and
energy-efficiency resources;