South Staffs Water And Smartreach In Trial To Connect Hard To Reach Meters

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Trial of SmartReachs long-range radio communications solution for up to 1,000 smart water meters in Kinver

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SmartReach selected because of its proven ability to communicate with meters in hard to reach locations

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Builds on existing successful trials of SmartReachs communications solution for energy and water smart meters

SmartReach, a collaboration of Arqiva, BT, BAE Systems Detica and Sensus, together with South Staffs Water, have announced a new trial to connect up to 1,000 smart water meters in Kinver, South Staffordshire. Many of these meters are in underground chambers, under metal lids, creating a challenge for most communications technologies.

Smart water meters provide much greater visibility of the use of water by individual households. Reliable, continuously available smart meter data can help identify unusual consumption patterns that indicate leaks on peoples property. It can also support improved management and reduction of leaks across the water network, as well as providing valuable data to optimise future network investments.

Colin Wayper, Network Director, South Staffs Water, commented, We selected the long-range radio communications solution from SmartReach because it is proven to connect to smart meters in the demanding British environment, even in locations where other communications technologies tend to suffer from patchy or unreliable coverage. The SmartReach solution also offers long term flexibility, with the potential to cover water networks as well as the metering of homes.

Sean Weir, Programme Director, SmartReach added, Smart water and energy metering has the potential to deliver billions of pounds worth of energy, water and operational efficiency savings for utilities and their customers. Achieving these benefits depends on proven, reliable smart metering communications technology. Weve already demonstrated that our long-range radio solution connects to over 99% of energy and water smart meters with a single installation visit. We are looking forward to building on this success by delivering a highly reliable service for South Staffs Water and its customers.

SmartReachs trials (http://smartreach.com/trials/home/) have proven the suitability of its solution to connect first time to smart meters wherever they are across Great Britain. The technology behind SmartReach has also been widely deployed in the US, with 15 million smart meter and grid end points using Sensus long-range radio technology.

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ABOUT SMARTREACH

Arqiva, BT, BAE Systems Detica and Sensus are working together to promote the SmartReach solution for Britains smart meter and smart grid programme. The SmartReach solution is an end-to-end data communications network that will provide a dedicated, secure, resilient and universal route to supporting the Governments mandate for providing all homes and small premises with smart meters by 2020.

www.smartreach.com

ABOUT ARQIVA

Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, operates at the heart of the broadcast, satellite and mobile communications markets.

The company is at the forefront of network solutions and services in the digital world. Arqiva provides much of the infrastructure behind television, radio, satellite and wireless communications in the UK and has a significant presence in Ireland, mainland Europe and the USA. Customers include major broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV, BSkyB and the independent radio groups, major telco providers including the UK's five mobile network operators, and the emergency services.

www.arqiva.com

ABOUT BT

BT is one of the worlds leading communications services companies, serving the needs of customers in the UK and in more than 170 countries worldwide. Our main activities are the provision of fixed telephony lines and calls, broadband, mobile and TV products and services as well as managed networked IT services.

In the UK we are a leading communications services provider, selling products and services to consumers, small and medium sized enterprises and the public sector. We also sell wholesale products and services to communications providers in the UK and around the world. Globally, we supply managed networked IT services to multinational corporations, domestic businesses and national and local government organisations.

www.bt.com

ABOUT BAE SYSTEMS DETICA

BAE Systems Detica delivers information intelligence solutions to government and commercial customers. We help them collect, exploit and manage data so they can deliver critical business services more effectively and economically. We also develop solutions to strengthen national security and resilience.

We integrate and deliver world-class solutions to our customers most complex operational problems - often applying our own unique intellectual property. Our services include cyber security, managing risk and compliance, data analytics, systems integration and managed services, strategy and business change and the development of innovative software and hardware technologies.

Detica is part of BAE Systems, a global defence, aerospace and security company with approximately 90,000 employees worldwide. BAE Systems delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services.

www.baesystemsdetica.com

ABOUT SENSUS

Sensus is a leading utility infrastructure company offering smart meters, communication systems, software and services for the electric, gas, and water industries. Sensus technology helps utilities drive operational efficiency and customer engagement with applications that include advanced meter reading, data acquisition, demand response, distribution automation, home area networking and outdoor lighting control. Customers worldwide trust the innovation, quality and reliability of Sensus solutions for the intelligent use and conservation of energy and water.

www.sensus.co.uk

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Rocket Communications

Jo Ashford / Lawrie Benfield

Tel: +44 (0)845 370 7024

Email: jo@rocketcomms.net / Lawwrence@rocketcomms.net

Source: RealWire

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Who Runs The World A Core Group Of Wealthy Elitists Are Pulling The Strings

Reading this article is stepping out of the Matrix for just a moment. It is almost sublime in its truth-telling. It is like walking out of a dark and musty room that has been choking you as long as you can remember and inhaling fresh air for the first time in a very long time. A light comes on inside and you know that you know that there is truth in these words. That entities, bankers, cabalists, power thirsty puppet masters are real and we have been lied to our whole lives. They live in exclusivity. They count themselves as above us in their intelligence and knowledge and every conceivable way.

THEY WORSHIP LUCIFER WITH BLACKENED LOST SOULS.

They don't see themselves as common thieves, or as murderers or even as evil. They see themselves as necessary lords.

In their global chess match they do not see you and me as pawns...no, we are not that important. We are the very chess board they play their games on. We are furnishings for their world. When they wish to rearrange the furnishings, they certainly do.

The matrix is real and here we meet some of the wicked.

And wicked they are.

-W.E.

EconomicCollapse

Does a shadowy group of obscenely wealthy elitists control the world? Do men and women with enormous amounts of money really run the world from behind the scenes?

The answer might surprise you.

Most of us tend to think of money as a convenient way to conduct transactions, but the truth is that it also represents power and control. And today we live in a neo-fuedalist system in which the super rich pull all the strings. When I am talking about the ultra-wealthy, I am not just talking about people that have a few million dollars. As you will see later in this article, the ultra-wealthy have enough money sitting in offshore banks to buy all of the goods and services produced in the United States during the course of an entire year AND still be able to pay off the entire U.S. national debt. That is an amount of money so large that it is almost incomprehensible. Under this ne0-feudalist system, all the rest of us are debt slaves, including our own governments. Just look around - everyone is drowning in debt, and all of that debt is making the ultra-wealthy even wealthier. But the ultra-wealthy don't just sit on all of that wealth. They use some of it to dominate the affairs of the nations. The ultra-wealthy own virtually every major bank and every major corporation on the planet. They use a vast network of secret societies, think tanks and charitable organizations to advance their agendas and to keep their members in line. They control how we view the world through their ownership of the media and their dominance over our education system. They fund the campaigns of most of our politicians and they exert a tremendous amount of influence over international organizations such as the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. When you step back and take a look at the big picture, there is little doubt about who runs the world. It is just that most people don't want to admit the truth.

The ultra-wealthy don't run down and put their money in the local bank like you and I do. Instead, they tend to stash their assets in places where they won't be taxed such as the Cayman Islands. According to a report that was released last summer, the global elite have up to 32 TRILLION dollars stashed in offshore banks around the globe.

U.S. GDP for 2011 was about 15 trillion dollars, and the U.S. national debt is sitting at about 16 trillion dollars, so you could add them both together and you still wouldn't hit 32 trillion dollars.

And of course that does not even count the money that is stashed in other locations that the study did not account for, and it does not count all of the wealth that the global elite have in hard assets such as real estate, precious metals, art, yachts, etc.

The global elite have really hoarded an incredible amount of wealth in these troubled times. The following is from an article on the Huffington Post website...

Rich individuals and their families have as much as 32 trillion of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to 280 billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday.

The study estimating the extent of global private financial wealth held in offshore accounts - excluding non-financial assets such as real estate, gold, yachts and racehorses - puts the sum at between 21 and 32 trillion.

The research was carried out for pressure group Tax Justice Network, which campaigns against tax havens, by James Henry, former chief economist at consultants McKinsey ">He used data from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations and central banks.But as I mentioned previously, the global elite just don't have a lot of money. They also basically own just about every major bank and every major corporation on the entire planet.

According to an outstanding NewScientist article, a study of more than 40,000 transnational corporations conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich discovered that a very small core group of huge banks and giant predator corporations dominate the entire global economic system...

An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.The researchers found that this core group consists of just 147 very tightly knit companies...

WHEN THE TEAM FURTHER UNTANGLED THE WEB OF OWNERSHIP, IT FOUND MUCH OF IT TRACKED BACK TO A "SUPER-ENTITY" OF 147 EVEN MORE TIGHTLY KNIT COMPANIES - ALL OF THEIR OWNERSHIP WAS HELD BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SUPER-ENTITY - THAT CONTROLLED 40 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL WEALTH IN THE NETWORK. "IN EFFECT, LESS THAN 1 PER CENT OF THE COMPANIES WERE ABLE TO CONTROL 40 PER CENT OF THE ENTIRE NETWORK," SAYS GLATTFELDER. MOST WERE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. THE TOP 20 INCLUDED BARCLAYS BANK, JPMORGAN CHASE ">THE FOLLOWING ARE THE TOP 25 BANKS AND CORPORATIONS AT THE HEART OF THIS "SUPER-ENTITY". YOU WILL RECOGNIZE MANY OF THE NAMES ON THE LIST...

1. Barclays plc

2. Capital Group Companies Inc

3. FMR Corporation

4. AXA

5. State Street Corporation

6. JP Morgan Chase & Co

7. Legal & General Group plc

8. Vanguard Group Inc

9. UBS AG

10. Merrill Lynch ">The ultra-wealthy elite often hide behind layers and layers of ownership, but the truth is that thanks to interlocking corporate relationships, the elite basically control almost every Fortune 500 corporation.

The amount of power and control that this gives them is hard to describe.

Unfortunately, this same group of people have been running things for a very long time. For example, New York City Mayor John F. Hylan said the following during a speech all the way back in 1922...

The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes.

They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.

These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.These international bankers created the central banks of the world (including the Federal Reserve), and they use those central banks to get the governments of the world ensnared in endless cycles of debt from which there is no escape. Government debt is a way to "legitimately" take money from all of us, transfer it to the government, and then transfer it into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy.

Today, Barack Obama and almost all members of Congress absolutely refuse to criticize the Fed, but in the past there have been some brave members of Congress that have been willing to take a stand. For example, the following quote is from a speech that Congressman Louis T. McFadden delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10, 1932...

Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board has cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.Sadly, most Americans still believe that the Federal Reserve is a "federal agency", but that is simply not correct. The following comes from factcheck.org...

"THE STOCKHOLDERS IN THE 12 REGIONAL FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS ARE THE PRIVATELY OWNED BANKS THAT FALL UNDER THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. THESE INCLUDE ALL NATIONAL BANKS (CHARTERED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT) AND THOSE STATE-CHARTERED BANKS THAT WISH TO JOIN AND MEET CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS. ABOUT 38 PERCENT OF THE NATION'S MORE THAN 8,000 BANKS ARE MEMBERS OF THE SYSTEM, AND THUS OWN THE FED BANKS."According to researchers that have looked into the ownership of the big Wall Street banks that dominate the Fed, the same names keep coming up over and over: the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Lazards, the Schiffs and the royal families of Europe.

But ultra-wealthy international bankers have not just done this kind of thing in the United States. Their goal was to create a global financial system that they would dominate and control {the world}. Just check out what Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley once wrote...

"[T]HE POWERS OF FINANCIAL CAPITALISM HAD ANOTHER FAR-REACHING AIM, NOTHING LESS THAN TO CREATE A WORLD SYSTEM OF FINANCIAL CONTROL IN PRIVATE HANDS ABLE TO DOMINATE THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF EACH COUNTRY AND THE ECONOMY OF THE WORLD AS A WHOLE. THIS SYSTEM WAS TO BE CONTROLLED IN A FEUDALIST FASHION BY THE CENTRAL BANKS OF THE WORLD ACTING IN CONCERT, BY SECRET AGREEMENTS ARRIVED AT IN FREQUENT PRIVATE MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES. THE APEX OF THE SYSTEM WAS TO BE THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS IN BASLE, SWITZERLAND, A PRIVATE BANK OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE WORLD'S CENTRAL BANKS WHICH WERE THEMSELVES PRIVATE CORPORATIONS."Sadly, most Americans have never even heard of the Bank for International Settlements, but it is at the very heart of the global financial system. The following is from Wikipedia...

As an organization of central banks, the BIS seeks to make monetary policy more predictable and transparent among its 58 member central banks. While monetary policy is determined by each sovereign nation, it is subject to central and private banking scrutiny and potentially to speculation that affects foreign exchange rates and especially the fate of export economies. Failures to keep monetary policy in line with reality and make monetary reforms in time, preferably as a simultaneous policy among all 58 member banks and also involving the International Monetary Fund, have historically led to losses in the billions as banks try to maintain a policy using open market methods that have proven to be based on unrealistic assumptions.The ultra-wealthy have also played a major role in establishing other important international institutions such as the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. In fact, the land for the United Nations headquarters in New York City was purchased and donated by John D. Rockefeller.

The international bankers are "internationalists" and they are very proud of that fact.

The elite also dominate the education system in the United States. Over the years, the Rockefeller Foundation and other elitist organizations have poured massive amounts of money into Ivy League schools. Today, Ivy League schools are considered to be the standard against which all other colleges and universities in America are measured, and the last four U.S. presidents were educated at Ivy League schools.

The elite also exert a tremendous amount of influence through various secret societies (Skull and Bones, the Freemasons, etc.), through some very powerful think tanks and social clubs (the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the Bohemian Grove, Chatham House, etc.), and through a vast network of charities and non-governmental organizations (the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, etc.).

BUT FOR A MOMENT, I WANT TO FOCUS ON THE POWER THE ELITE HAVE OVER THE MEDIA.

In a previous article, I detailed how just six monolithic corporate giants control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. These giant corporations own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites.

Considering the fact that the average American watches 153 hours of television a month, the influence of these six giant corporations should not be underestimated.

The following are just some of the media companies that these corporate giants own...

TIME WARNER

Home Box Office (HBO)

Time Inc.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

CW Network (partial ownership)

TMZ

New Line Cinema

Time Warner Cable

Cinemax

Cartoon Network

TBS

TNT

America Online

MapQuest

Moviefone

Castle Rock

Sports Illustrated

Fortune

Marie Claire

People Magazine

WALT DISNEY

ABC Television Network

Disney Publishing

ESPN Inc.

Disney Channel

SOAPnet

A">Buena Vista Theatrical Productions

Buena Vista Records

Disney Records

Hollywood Records

Miramax Films

Touchstone Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures

Pixar Animation Studios

Buena Vista Games

Hyperion Books

VIACOM

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Home Entertainment

Black Entertainment Television (BET)

Comedy Central

Country Music Television (CMT)

Logo

MTV

MTV Canada

MTV2

Nick Magazine

Nick at Nite

Nick Jr.

Nickelodeon

Noggin

Spike TV

The Movie Channel

TV Land

VH1

NEWS CORPORATION

Dow Jones ">CBS CORPORATION

CBS News

CBS Sports

CBS Television Network

CNET

Showtime

TV.com

CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)

CBS Consumer Products

CBS Outdoor

CW Network (50% ownership)

Infinity Broadcasting

Simon ">NBC UNIVERSAL

Bravo

CNBC

NBC News

MSNBC

NBC Sports

NBC Television Network

Oxygen

SciFi Magazine

Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)

Telemundo

USA Network

Weather Channel

Focus Features

NBC Universal Television Distribution

NBC Universal Television Studio

Paxson Communications (partial ownership)

Trio

Universal Parks ">"AND OF COURSE THE ELITE OWN MOST OF OUR POLITICIANS AS WELL. "

The following is a quote from journalist Lewis Lapham...

"THE SHAPING OF THE WILL OF CONGRESS AND THE CHOOSING OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT HAS BECOME A PRIVILEGE RESERVED TO THE COUNTRY'S EQUESTRIAN CLASSES, A.K.A. THE 20% OF THE POPULATION THAT HOLDS 93% OF THE WEALTH, THE HAPPY FEW WHO RUN THE CORPORATIONS AND THE BANKS, OWN AND OPERATE THE NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA, COMPOSE THE LAWS AND GOVERN THE UNIVERSITIES, CONTROL THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS, THE POLICY INSTITUTES, THE CASINOS, AND THE SPORTS ARENAS."Have you ever wondered why things never seem to change in Washington D.C. no matter who we vote for?

Well, it is because both parties are owned by the establishment.

It would be nice to think that the American people are in control of who runs things in the U.S., but that is not how it works in the real world.

In the real world, the politician that raises more money wins more than 80 percent of the time in national races.

Our politicians are not stupid - they are going to be very good to the people that can give them the giant piles of money that they need for their campaigns. And the people that can do that are the ultra-wealthy and the giant corporations that the ultra-wealthy control.

Are you starting to get the picture?

There is a reason why the ultra-wealthy are referred to as "the establishment". They have set up a system that greatly benefits them and that allows them to pull the strings.

So who runs the world?

They do. In fact, they even admit as much.

David Rockefeller wrote the following in his 2003 book entitled "Memoirs"...

"FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, IDEOLOGICAL EXTREMISTS AT EITHER END OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM HAVE SEIZED UPON WELL-PUBLICIZED INCIDENTS SUCH AS MY ENCOUNTER WITH CASTRO TO ATTACK THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FOR THE INORDINATE INFLUENCE THEY CLAIM WE WIELD OVER AMERICAN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS. SOME EVEN BELIEVE WE ARE PART OF A SECRET CABAL WORKING AGAINST THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES, CHARACTERIZING MY FAMILY AND ME AS 'INTERNATIONALISTS' AND OF CONSPIRING WITH OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD TO BUILD A MORE INTEGRATED GLOBAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE - ONE WORLD, IF YOU WILL. IF THAT IS THE CHARGE, I STAND GUILTY, AND I AM PROUD OF IT."There is so much more that could be said about all of this. In fact, an entire library of books could be written about the power and the influence of the ultra-wealthy international bankers that run the world.

But hopefully this is enough to at least get some conversations started.

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