Take Back Your Power (2013) Reviews

• A must see for anyone that uses electricity

  canadian8892014-01-02

  I see from the ratings that 2 Utility company employees were able to get their votes in. Josh Del Sol really out did himself with this documentary. Personally, I don't think it went far enough pointing out the obvious corruption AND ignorance surrounding this issue. But then I do understand introducing the "masses" to this alarming information in a "slow and gentle" way in order not to shock and awe them. There are still those out there that believe Electromagnetic Sensitivity is "make believe", and I can't tell you how many people I have personally heard say "...the government wouldn't allow this to happen if it was harming people". How soon they forget tobacco, asbestos, lead, fluoride, pesticides, endless medications that kill etc. etc. etc. Never mind the FACT that NOBEL PRIZE nominated & winning scientists from around the world, as well doctors, surgeons, and endless numbers of experts are all screaming about the dangers of microwave & radio-frequency radiation - especially the pulsed kind as emitted by 'Smart Meters' cordless phone bases, & wifi routers. Do yourself and your family a favour, watch this movie and then do your own research and talk about it. The information is out there. Far too many are saying things like "what can I do" or "what difference will it make". To get started is easy, just spend a little time learning. Surf the net, watch this movie, check out other 'Smart Meter' vids on you-tube, and trust me - before you know it, you'll be hooked and joining the growing number of people fighting this.

  More

• Just research it yourself and don't bother with this rubbish.

  Mex51502015-11-29

  What a terrible documentary! It doesn't seem to know if it's about smart meters, cell phone towers, AC/DC converters, the government, big corporations, or any number of other things they don't understand and are therefore very scary, neither does it quite know if the problem is health issues, privacy issues, or again something else they don't understand and therefore find very scary. This joke of a documentary is wall to wall quote mines, straw man arguments, and bad science, it's so bad, the last time I watched anything on par with this it was a young Earth creationist promotional film. I have no doubt the tin-foil hat brigade will absolutely love this without spending a single second to bother actually researching the claims made here, or reading any of the studies that are quote mined (most of which aren't named, presumably for just that reason). I am sure there is corruption and greed at play here, but just making F.U.D. (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) nonsense up isn't going to fix anything, in fact if anything it will just muddy the waters further. Seriously if you have even a basic understanding of the technology featured in this 'documentary' you will physically be able to feel your IQ dropping as you watch this rubbish.

  More

• Wow, was I surprised ... 10/10

  bruce-1292016-05-01

  OK, I am an electrical engineer. I am not a brilliant EE mostly I have worked with computers, but I understand electrical circuits and EM radiation. Looking around for something interesting to watch in Amazon Prime I came across "Take Back Your Power" (2013) and I actually thought I would watch it and find a lot of things in it that would be almost funny to me. There are several very important things in this documentary and whether or not there are some alarmist concerns about EM radiation or not, some of the subjects discussed in this documentary are very important. Such as the cavalier attitude Google CEO Eric Schmidt seems to have about everyone else's privacy. There are quite a few no less than chilling quotes from this entitled corporatist aristocrat that shows he thinks of the rest of the American population as cattle to be managed. The capabilities being engineered into the electrical grid are nothing short of totalitarian. Decades ago surveillance of the public was being planned and designed to either use the phone system or the electrical grid. The power grid centerpiece is the SMART meter, designed to keep tabs on appliances, anything that uses power in our house, and devices that can sense where we are and what we are doing, what we are saying and our facial expressions. No citizen of the US that I know of has ever had any opportunity or request to vote on any of these social systems, and yet they are being manufactured and deployed into our houses without our knowledge or consent. Another thing I never knew is that some scientists and inventors when they go to patent certain devices are being denied the right to patent their inventions based on national security. The implication in this documentary is that the government is representing the petroleum and nuclear industries who want to ensure we are all subject to having to buy, pay for and subsidize a nationwide grid that will power the "corporate system", in effect forcing Americans to become pawns in our power system, paying taxes to private energy producers through our energy bills, without any representation. We are all drafted to be in a lightweight slave army of consumers. It seems like a giant absurd conspiracy theory, but the information in this documentary as far as I can tell makes sense in much of what it says ... maybe not everything. It is at the least pointing out questions that we all should be thinking about, and coming to terms with. That is why I give this documentary a 10/10 and recommend it to anyone. Especially if you are on Amazon Prime ... it is free, there is not reason not to take a look at it. Even if as I did, take a short preview and if you think you will learn something, watch the whole thing. 10/10

  More

• A Documentary for our times on the use and abuse of POWER

  rlbolin2014-01-02

  This work began on a very personal level with the unexplained illness of a friend of the director. During its development, it built into a powerful indictment of WiFi and smart-meter technologies which now are not only beamed in unprecedented and ever greater volumes indiscriminately throughout our common environment, but now even force active radio transmitters onto and into our very homes and castles. The possible consequences for our health and security are laid our clearly, forcibly and with authority. This film should be viewed by all who are concerned with our future well being and that of those who are coming after us. We are in uncharted territory like that of tobacco smoke, thalidomide, asbestos, lead in gasoline, etc. all of which proved to be disastrous for many but only showed up years later. We are no guinea pigs. Or are we?

  More

• Fear Mongering

  ThorGoLucky2018-06-14

  There are legitimate concerns with smart meters about privacy, inept installations, usage transparency, hacking, and aggressive access to meter locations, but low-power non-ionizing radio photons aren't one of the real concerns. Unfortunately much of this documentary is fear mongering, paranoia, cynicism, confusion of correlation with causation, misinformation, and irrelevant association with other things.

  More