WHEELS MAGICALLY COME OFF SEATTLE "SMART" METER ROLLOUT; CITY UTILITY'S CORRUPTION EXPOSED
Posted by GC Blogger | Jul 15, 2016 | 2016, Daily Blog, Environment Physical and
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A special THANK YOU to Rebecca Campbell, the
Author of this piece!
Below is the official video
weblink to the meeting of the Seattle City Council’s Select Committee on
Seattle City Light’s Strategic Plan 2017-2022 held on July 14, 2016 chaired by
Seattle’s Celebrity Socialist, Kshama Sawant. This meeting very fortunately featured
the new council woman’s majority minus one member. To save time for all, three
especially significant segments are concisely listed with descriptions and
specific timepoints for your viewing pleasure. What you are about to see is
Seattle City Council members and a CEO of Seattle City Light (SCL) – for the
first time in memory – actually beginning to behave as statespersons, rather
than as tools of the corporate state, and some Seattle “smart” meter truth
activists and their unseen associates modeling for others how to use the new
peaceful but powerful multifaceted, collaborative paradigm with which they also
can pursue their causes successfully. Enjoy!
Four
“smart” meter truth activists speak, as per usual in Seattle, in the four
two-minute sound bytes allotted them before the council meeting begins. The
rest of the two-hour meeting, as per usual, is reserved for the council members
and various corporate representatives to hold forth. Note how the rudely
computer-preoccupied council is sitting above and walled off from the public;
note also how the corporate representatives have, literally, a place at the
table on the dais near the council in fully attentive dialogue with them, in
contrast to members of the public who sit silently beneath them at a distance –
except for those, of course, so graciously being permitted by the rudely
computer-preoccupied council members to speak before them in two-minute sound
bytes. These four brief but telling activist speeches give clues as to the
diverse but effective tactics being used for the past three years on this issue
with a smugly self-described liberal, but actually patriarchal, authoritarian
corporate city government. Timepoints 2:17-10:52
Two male council members – both
of whom have previously disregarded/dismissed “smart” meter truth — publicly
ask the Seattle City Light CEO and his staff for the first time about even
further delaying the Seattle “smart” meter rollout, which was supposedly to
have started in April 2015. The SCL CEO/staff admit the general ineffectiveness
of greenwashed “smart” meters. They also admit that $18 million has already
been spent on this so-far unproductive project during this time of an
officially declared homeless/affordable housing emergency in Seattle, with at
least another estimated $124 million needed to implement this already
admittedly outdated technology.
Timepoints 12:45-28:00
The entire select council
committee then together proceeds to expose the city utility’s cronyism and
corruption by pointedly questioning SCL/city staff about SCL promoting
exorbitant electricity rate hikes on the already much impoverished public
allegedly to fund their virtually all-white, all-male apprenticeship program that
trains for jobs in a centralized, fossil fuel-based energy system soon to be
superseded by previously suppressed decentralized renewable energy technologies
now coming online.Timepoints 1:11:35-1:32:50 2:03:45-2:05:45
A good time was had by all –
except those seeking to prolong obfuscatory, obsolescent paradigms –
governmental, energy and otherwise – all of which are soon to come to their
much-deserved ends!
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