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that would consolidate a global Smart Grid under the aegis of a planetary space shield or fence.
These objectives were envisioned in the 1980s under the “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative
(SDI) and are now coming to fruition, thanks to a 24/7 conductive, battery-ready atmosphere.
Sea-to-shining-sea transmitters / receivers / transceivers are now in place.
Since the 1950s, the military has spent a great deal of time, energy, and taxpayer money on
suppressing the health effects that follow from the non-thermal (non-ionized) radiation
technology that would assure planetary surveillance and containment. Chances were good that
the public wouldn’t inquire beyond official assurances because non-thermal radiation leaves no
perceptual heat signature, and its effects take up to a decade or more to manifest. Whereas
ionizing radiation damages cells and DNA immediately, nonionizing radiation is cumulative: the
more received, the more cell and DNA damage over time. In fact, microwave poisoning is
cumulative and can be passed on genetically, as can a weakened immune system and
predisposition to cancer. As Will Thomas put it in Scorched Earth (1991), saying that
microwaves are safe if they do not burn your skin is akin to saying smoking is safe if you don’t
singe your fingers.
The dual-use telecommunications industry provides cell phones and Internet for the public as
well as whatever the military-industrial-intelligence complex needs under the authorization of the
draconian 1996 Telecommunications Act. Three restrictions embedded in the Act make it clear
that the Smart Grid is about far more than profits and public convenience:

(1) ​Telecommunications contractors (AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Radian Corporation
of ONEX, etc.) have jurisdiction over state and local zoning when it comes to
construction, modification, and placement of microwave towers;

(2) ​Physical and mental health are barred from legal consideration;
(3) ​Independent scientific studies are to be ignored and marginalized. 8

Now that the battlespace is everywhere, the public must be kept ignorant of the fact that they
are funding their own surveillance, containment and dwindling health.
In January 1998, the European Parliament’s Scientific and Technological Options
Assessment (STOA) committee released “An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control,”
which made a tremendous stir in European media but barely a ripple in America. For Americans,
it was already too late—especially for Virginia Farver’s twenty-nine-year-old son Rich, a San
Diego State University (SDSU) graduate student and TA who died in 2008 of GBM
(glioblastoma multiforme) brain cancer after having spent hours, day after day, meeting with
students and grading papers on the bottom floor of Nasatir Hall.
Outside Nasatir Hall is the High Performance Wireless Research and Educational Network
(HPWREN), the backbone node to University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Farver
explains how HPWREN is a dual-use Smart Grid conduit:

HPWREN is connected to the Lambda Rail (Grid), Tera Grid, PRAGAMA Grid. Combined, these are the “Smart
Grid.” It is the engineers and scientists behind the Grid who are developing Smart/ATI Meters, Smart Dust, Drones,
RNM [remote neural monitoring] technologies, among many others. These Grids are located on many college
campuses across the U.S. and other countries, forming a World Grid. There are 2 sites on the SDSU campus: one on
top of the Communications Building (which towers above Nasatir Hall), and one on top of the KPBS news station on
campus. Both are within ¼ mile of each other. . .HPWREN includes Homeland Security, DOE, DoD, DARPA, Air
Force, Navy, NIH (National Institute of Health), SPAWARS [“the Navy’s Information Dominance systems
command”], NASA Inmarsat satellite, Emergency Services, and many huge corporations. The University of Alaska is
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connected through the Grid system, with research through the HAARP facility in Alaska. HPWREN is funded by the