Apt Pupil...
(begun Monday 9th September at 3.40am..)

*I borrowed today's title from a short story/novella by Stephen King, as I've an idea it's in some small way relevant to my 'current' situation... It took me only two tries to log in to blogger this morning.  A small improvement, but nonetheless the Smart City goondaboys continue to have little finesse about them.* 

At first glance the google results for Laser Junction out at River Horse Valley looked perfectly legit.  They provide laser cutting services, right?  Then why was it that a couple of results further down the page it had thrown up LinkedIn, and had given the names of several Muni employees who were connected in some way to that company?  What on earth would those people have in common with Laser Junction and the Municipality, unless it was Sutcliffe's Quantum City project?
I'd seen that huge hangar-type building when we'd been out that way last Thursday, though I kept forgetting to google it until last night...
I'd also waded back through my gmail archives to find a copy of a letter that my CPF Vice Chair had sent on our behalf to the City Manager on the 22nd July 2013, to ask for more details on Sutcliffe's Smart City Project..
Like what it was costing the ratepayer, and how long did they anticipate before the installation was complete...

There'd been only a deathly hush in response to his missive, so he'd resent that mail on the 29th July, and had a one-line reply from a Carron Dove to say she'd forwarded it to the relevant department... That of course was it, and nothing since....  You'll have gathered by now that my VC doesn't believe in wasting other people's valuable time, and that he certainly wouldn't have sent those queries off unless he felt the answers might be of great interest to many of the eThekwini ratepayers who've been left out of the loop, so to speak... Citizens who may not take too kindly to the fact that much of the Municipality's Service Delivery has been sidelined to concentrate on this technological experiment..
That in many cases, Park's employees have been told to avoid cutting and clearing previously well-kept green spaces, and to allow them to fall into neglect, although it's a given that the tree-felling section will put in the occasional appearance in order to ensure that branches are lopped off and trees cut down to promote the much desire Line of Sight for the surveillance system.

The Electricity Department will leave faulty streetlights broken for indefinite periods of time, despite the official channels followed to alert the Faults division.  (The three streetlights near St. John's church on Rippon Road are a case in point) and in other instances, great swathes of streetlights will be active during the day, as was the case last Thursday when everywhere we went, including River Horse Valley and Umgeni Road, we found the lights to be active...
There's been more than one instance of residents spotting an official Muni vehicle in their area just prior to having their copper cabling 'stolen', and if you choose to believe these employees are working independently, and are not merely carrying out specific orders, then so be it...

Copper theft will have it's own Division in the Project Operations, and has been employed with stunning success since the outset of Sutcliffe's Smart City operations... Carefully engineered to plunge a neighbourhood into darkness before the crews come in to add the surveillance technology to the streetlights under the guise of replacing those lines as they were....
At the tap of a computer key an entire suburb may be hit by a blackout, and an ambiguous excuse given to the gullible public.  Bearing in mind the enormous quantities of additional power required to run this technology at it's optimum levels, power failures will often be created simply in an attempt to recoup some of these losses, and they will be ascribed to some vague theft of cable, or illegal electricity connection...

Muni Water?  I could write a book on Neil MacLeod's ongoing complicity in the corruption of Durban's waterlines, not the least of which would include the contamination of Durban harbour, and the filth that floats in the sea off our beachfront...
All caused by the necessity of stuffing the stormwater drains and waterlines with Sutcliffe's self-professed fibre optic cabling.. Fibre that now runs to each and every streetlight across eThekwini, in order to thieve your privacy...
There's a fire hydrant a few doors down from you that burst it's cap and was allowed to fountain out for eight hours before a crew finally arrived to switch it off?  Poor Service Delivery, or a deliberately engineered runoff to clear those lines and allow the crews to adjust the cabling within?
Did you know that ultimately every drop of water fed to your property will fall under the computerised control of a nearby Project Area Controller like Balliram?
Does the idea please you in any way?  To wake up one morning and find that each and every jackpoint in your home can be accessed and controlled remotely, and that the same applies to your geyser and taps? This is what Sutcliffe's Quantum City Project is all about.. Total control over individual citizens and ratepayers, and not some pie-in-the-sky means of ousting the corrupt in the Ruling Party after all.. Oops?

My Vice Chair is a highly respected member of the community, and you should ask yourselves why he has not been approached to be a part of this technological experiment, and invited to hop onto the fibre network himself, and why our current City Manager and his employees have not yet replied to my VC's straight-forward queries after all this time...
You may also wonder at the number of Friends from all walks of life who people my VC's Facebook page, and the fact that when he'd posted a request on his wall for any among them to fill him in on the Quantum laser project, you could've heard a pin drop...
I believe I've made my point, and whether you have been indoctrinated into believing the bullshit you've been fed or not, all I ask is that you try to see this for what it really is...
That you finally recognise the sheer overwhelming wickedness behind this entire operation, and accept that it is the Project Planner's themselves who in the main, are engineering the appalling crime wave that covers the country, for their own ends...

I'd been up on the verge raking leaves yesterday morning around 8.15am, when I'd glanced up to see a Border Collie zig-zagging dementedly across the traffic lanes, as it fled in fear up Jan Smuts, past Challenge.. I'd have to guess it was shoved out of a taxi that had pulled over on the Sherwood fly-on into the City, and allowed it's freedom in order to create a nasty impact (!) on the drivers racing up and down the Highway...
The fairly recent incorporation of dogs to the carefully engineered and organised crime was a masterstroke indeed, and will have another section of the public pointing their fingers at the unwashed masses and the crooked Government that has allowed this to happen... Neato...

How does our Shadow Minister of Police feel to be a part of this Grand Scheme to topple the Ruling Party? Is she awed and impressed by the sophisticated near-alien technology, and have she and her son both agreed that it's the only way to save this country?  Has she got her head around how it works yet?  Has anyone bothered to explain to her that the spheres my cameras both pick up INSIDE our home, are visible evidence of the presence of monitors?
That the at least five separate orbs captured yesterday morning just before I'd stepped into the bath, may just as well have had Agent Balliram and Mr. Patel's faces superimposed on them, not to mention any number of my other nearby neighbours who are safely recruited to the Data Collector's Army already?

Gathered in that little room to gaze at my cancerous nakedness for what purpose?  To monitor and record which brand of soap I use?  The temperature of the bath water?  My pained reactions to their presence? Has my squamous-cell disfigurement grown overnight?  Will I haemorrage while they watch?
Ah Dianne - Were you to allow yourself to be reassured that ours is a unique situation, and that you yourself don't have a Smart City Watcher in your own home, you'd be wrong...
I acquired my hideous cancer through no fault of anyone other than myself, and have lived with my stupifying guilt for over ten years, as she steadily eats away at the area between my shoulder blades...
Can there be anything more horrifying than knowing now that a five minute, relatively painless procedure could've prevented this untenable situation? That it was my sheer pig-headed stupidity that has me looking as I do?

Bizarrely, it's turned out that my cancer is now a useful aerial that alerts me to the different levels of wireless being flooded into our home, as we provide a Learning Centre for the laser students to access and perfect their craft.. You can certainly be thankful you don't have a similar early-warning system, but on the downside, by the time you're diagnosed as a diabetic, or with some other form of cancer, it will be too late...
The wildly fluctuating levels of EMR that are caused each time a Monitor accesses your powerlines and your home are I believe, what causes your immune system the greatest damage.. But hey, what do I know, when the brightest scientists in the land are in denial...?

I only realised a couple of weeks back that the second satellite dish on the Raftery Road cellmast has been removed as well..
Would the now retired Microwave Boffin's wife, in her role as Damage Controller on Facebook, jump up and down shrieking of my apparent self-importance, were I to suggest I had anything to do with the removal of those two give-away dishes?
My ongoing contention here on blogger was that if a long-standing cellphone mast in your suburb had suddenly sprouted satellite dishes, you could rest assured your streets were wired to the Grid, and your home and it's occupants monitored invisibly via your powerlines...
One of those missing dishes was replaced by THIS small white panel, although I haven't yet been able to ascertain whether a similar square of white has replaced the other one as well...
As much as I'd like to claim credit for this latest bit of subterfuge, it won't have lessened the risks to the citizens living in it's path.. Cellmasts, that up until the inclusion of Sutcliffe/Mo Shaik's quantum laser/wireless technology had hardly impacted on the local population, are now to be regarded with extreme distrust.. Enough..
Peace..

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Monday 9th September 2013 at 9.13am..