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Smart meter fires spark concerns in B.C.
06 months ago
in Energy, Global News
Source: http://www.cbc.ca
BC Hydro plans to install 1.8 million smart meters across B.C. by the end of 2012
Questions are being raised about the safety of smart meters after fire crews were called to a home in Coquitlam over problems with the box — the second such incident in weeks.
The latest incident happened at about 3 a.m. PT on Sunday morning. There was only minor damage to the home, said Coquitlam fire Chief Scott MacKenzie.
He declined to comment further as the case has now been handed over to BC Hydro for a full investigation.
Technicians had installed a smart meter at the residence — an older home — about a month ago, said a BC Hydro official.
The incident comes after a Mission woman’s house burnt down on June 15, just one day after a smart meter was installed there.
A report by the Mission Fire Department said the fire originated at the base plate which the smart meter was plugged into.
BC Hydro says the base is part of the house, so any damage or fault with the equipment is the responsibility of the homeowner.
“There’s a lot of steps underway to ensure that everything is safe,” said BC Hydro spokeswoman Cindy Verschoor. “But that’s not to say that equipment can’t malfunction at any time.”
Surrey electrical contractor Bill Strain says problems can arise when the base plate is old or damaged.
“If moisture entered into the [meter base], there could be corrosion, rusting or any number of things,” he said.
The cases could point to a bigger problem nationwide. A recent report by the Ontario Fire Marshall says “initial research [showed] an unusual amount of fire incidents involving smart meters.”
Cross Your Fingers: How to Watch NASA’s Mars Rover Land on Sunday
010 months ago
Source: http://www.wired.com
By Adam Mann
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The moment is almost here. In just a couple days, NASA’s new Mars rover, Curiosity, will begin its descent to the Martian surface and hopefully start beaming back amazing images and data.
A lot is riding on the 1-ton, $2.5-billion Curiosity, which will drill and poke the Martian soil to study the planet’s geologic history and search for signs of habitability. The flagship rover mission is scheduled to land on Mars just after 10:30 p.m. Pacific (1:30 a.m. Eastern) on Aug. 5.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to watch the probe actually plunge into the Martian atmosphere and undertake the carefully orchestrated sequence of landing events known as the “Seven Minutes of Terror.” Even the radio waves that indicate the rover’s position have to obey the laws of physics and recognize the 14-minute communications delay between Earth and Mars.
But there are still plenty of ways to catch the action online and feel like you’re getting a front-row seat for NASA’s next big mission.
The first place to check out will be here, at Wired Science, where we will be providing two live feeds from JPL, the rover’s headquarters, via NASA TV. The first feed will feature commentary from scientists and engineers who work on Curiosity and will play Aug. 5 from 8:30 to 11 p.m. Pacific (11:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Eastern) and then again from 12:30 to 1:30 a.m. Pacific (3:30 to 4:30 Eastern) on Aug. 6. For those looking for to get the nitty-gritty behind-the-scenes details, the second feed will carry only audio from mission controllers regarding Curiosity’s progress and will begin on Aug. 5 at 8:30 p.m. Pacific (11:30 Eastern). If all goes well, NASA has stated that they might be able to share the first image from the ground during these feeds, likely a shot of the rover’s wheel indicating that everything’s in working order.
CFR & U.S. Army Chief of Staff: Use Army for Domestic “Law” Enforcement (Martial Law)
01 year ago
Source: http://www.federaljack.com
(THE NEW AMERICAN) The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) proposes that the U.S. Army be used to plan, command, and carry out (with the help of civilian law enforcement) domestic police missions. So says a story appearing in the May/June issue of the influential organization’s official journal,Foreign Affairs. The article lacks a single reference to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits such actions.
In an article penned by Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Raymond T. Odierno, the CFR would see the Army used to address “challenges in the United States itself” in order to keep the homeland safe from domestic disasters, including terrorist attacks. Odierno writes:
Where appropriate we will also dedicate active-duty forces, especially those with niche skills and equipment, to provide civilian officials with a robust set of reliable and rapid response options.
Obama Admin Will Seek “International Permission” To Attack Syria
01 year ago
Source: http://www.federaljack.com
Obama Admin Will Seek “International Permission” To Attack Syria, Will “Inform” Congress of Plan
(FEDERALJACK) Leon Panetta Says Obama Admin Will Seek “International Permission” To Attack Syria, not Congressional permission. And they will “inform” Congress what their plans are.
War on drugs is a hoax: US admits…
0Source: http://www.ronpaulforums.com
War on drugs is a hoax: US admits to guarding, assisting lucrative Afghan opium trade
Ethan Huff
Infowars.com
December 1, 2011
Afghanistan is, by far, the largest grower and exporter of opium in the world today, cultivating a 92 percent market share of the global opium trade. But what may shock many is the fact that the US military has been specifically tasked with guarding Afghan poppy fields, from which opium is derived, in order to protect this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and various other groups that profit big time from this illicit drug trade scheme.
Prior to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Afghanistan was hardly even a world player in growing poppy, which is used to produce both illegal heroin and pharmaceutical-grade morphine. In fact, the Taliban had been actively destroying poppy fields as part of an effort to rid the country of this harmful plant, as was reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on February 16, 2001, in a piece entitled, Nation’s opium production virtually wiped out (http://news.google.com/newspapers?n…).
But after 9/11, the US military-industrial complex quickly invaded Afghanistan and began facilitating the reinstatement of the country’s poppy industry. According to the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), opium cultivation increased by 657 percent in 2002 after the US military invaded the country under the direction of then-President George W. Bush (http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-ma…).
CIA responsible for reinstating opium industry in Afghanistan after 9/11
More recently, The New York Times (NYT) reported that the brother of current Afghan President Hamid Karzai had actually been on the payroll of the CIA for at least eight years prior to this information going public in 2009. Ahmed Wali Karzai was a crucial player in reinstating the country’s opium drug trade, known as Golden Crescent, and the CIA had been financing the endeavor behind the scenes (http://www.infowars.com/ny-times-af…).
“The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation forces and the British military,” wrote Prof. Michel Chossudovsky in a 2007 report, before it was revealed that Ahmed Wali Karzai was on the CIA payroll. “The proceeds of this lucrative multibillion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan” (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/A…).
But the mainstream media has been peddling a different story to the American public. FOX News, for instance, aired a propaganda piece back in 2010 claiming that military personnel are having to protect the Afghan poppy fields, rather than destroy them, in order to keep the locals happy and to avoid a potential “security risk” — and FOX News reporter Geraldo Rivera can be heard blatantly lying about poppy farmers being financially supported by the Taliban, rather than the CIA and other foreign interests.
You can watch that clip here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b…
So while tens of thousands of Americans continue to be harmed or killed every year by overdoses from drugs originating from this illicit opium trade, and while cultivation of innocuous crops like marijuana and hemp remains illegal in the US, the American military is actively guarding the very poppy fields in Afghanistan that fuel the global drug trade. Something is terribly wrong with this picture.
[CIM Comment: photo added to post form http://publicintelligence.info. I could pull up hundreds of cases like this as it is through illegal gun and drug sales profits that the CIA can fund it's operations, as the kind that would never be approved by some oversight Congressional committee. Ask Oliver North, same sh*t, different shovel. Come on folks, the military protecting yhe poppy crops, the CIA flying in Cocaine on military cargo lanes, trading guns and opening borders to Mexico drug cartels via ATF, DOJ and other agencies, while at home prison housing has turned into another booming corporate entity run by private corporations. Prople, how long are you going to be in that comfort zone bent over with your head in the sand?]
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