Friday, February 26, 2010

WEEKLY ROUNDUP

“Let us consider, my lords, that arbitrary power has seldom or never been introduced into a country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and, as it were, step by step, lest the people should see it approach. The barriers and fences of the people’s liberty must be plucked up one by one, and some plausible pretense must be found for removing or hoodwinking, one after another, those sentries who are posted by the constitution of a free country, for warning the people of their danger. When these preparatory steps are once made, the people may then, indeed, with regret, see slavery and arbitrary power making long strides over their land; but it will be too late to think of preventing or avoiding the impending ruin.”

-Lord Erskine, 1792


U.S. school used secret laptop webcams to spy on pupils and parents at home
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1252234/U-S-school-child-porn-probe-revealed-laptops-used-spy-pupils-home.html

Atlanta Woman, Age 61, Arrested for Asking Why?
Four women, two of them well into middle age, were discussing funeral plans for a friend when an Atlanta police officer told them to move. Three did but one asked “why.” In answer to her question, Minnie Carey, then 61, was handcuffed, put into a police wagon and taken to jail, where she was held for nine hours."
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/woman-61-arrested-for-309285.html

Australia already warned Israel against faking its passports
"We have raised the issue of Israeli intelligence officers using foreign passports and that they should not consider using Australian passports. Dubai police have said they were almost certain that members of Israel's Mossad spy agency killed Mabhouh in his hotel room in January."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152161.html

U.N Still Pushing for Global Environmental Control
"Vast international wealth transfers, crash investments in "green" technologies for energy, food, transportation and virtually everything else, with the aim of making enormous cuts in carbon emissions by 2050 — the sum of all the discussions underway at Bali appears indistinguishable from the Copenhagen agenda that was declared dead in December."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587426,00.html

Link to the leaked green economy document
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/022510_greeneconomy.pdf

The Dark Side of the Tax State (from 2000)
http://mises.org/daily/372

Coming Through the Lye - Biocremation
http://www.obit-mag.com/articles/coming-through-the-lye

Ron Paul Wins Presidential Straw Poll at CPAC
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/20/ron-paul-wins-presidential-straw-poll-cpac/

Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
"Currently, due to massive growth in psychiatric drugging of children and youth and the current targeting of them for even more psychiatric drugging, PsychRights has made attacking this problem a priority. Children are virtually always forced to take these drugs because it is the adults in their lives who are making the decision. This is an unfolding national tragedy of immense proportions."
http://psychrights.org/index.htm

Psychiatrists want to call being angry a mental illness
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1251309/Psychiatrists-want-angry-mental-illness-How-utterly-mad.html

Tort Litigation Against Pharmaceutical Companies Involving Psychiatric Drugs
http://psychrights.org/Research/Legal/SStefanPsychMedstortlitigationFactSheet.htm

Hushing Up Conspiracy Theories
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/functions/printfriendly.php?article=625

McCain bill threatens access to vitamins and supplements
"Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) has introduced a new bill called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) of 2010 (S. 3002), that, if enacted, would severely curtail free access to dietary supplements. Cosponsored by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota), the bill would essentially give the FDA full control over the supplement industry."
http://www.naturalnews.com/028257_Senator_McCain_dietary_supplements.html

Struck in a rut? That might be because our movements are 90% predictable
"They found they could predict where a person would be at given time and get it right up to 93 per cent of the time. Even the most spontaneous sorts were 80 per cent predictable."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1253531/Struck-rut-That-movements-90-predictable.html

The Lost Generation
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/09_42/b4151032038302.htm

Thursday, February 18, 2010

WEEKLY ROUNDUP

I can only imagine what laws will be passed or what new invasive technology will be released to protect us now that one deranged individual decided to fly a plane into an office building in protest of all the injustices in his life. His letter calls for violence and states it is the only answer. IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT THE ANSWER! I hope and pray that this does not lead to violence and the further breakdown of our society. If it does, you can take it to the bank that what's left of your personal freedom will be gone - for your safety of course. I don't know about you, but I would prefer to be free and take my chances. As Benjamin Franklin said: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Disgruntled man flies plane into office building (the pilot's manifesto)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/alleged-letter-written-by-austin-plane-crash-pilot.html

Austin Plane Crash Labeled “Right-Wing Domestic Terror Attack” By Obama Supporters despite the fact that he wanted healthcare and supported communism (there are already articles out by the Washington Post and New York Magazine blamming the attack on tea partiers)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/austin-plane-crash-labeled-right-wing-domestic-terror-attack-by-obama-supporters.html/print/

MUST SEE THIS!!!
Students Spied On With School Issued Laptops (who else might be using this technology?)
"A school district in Philadelphia faces a class action lawsuit after it allegedly issued laptop computers to 1,800 students across two high schools and then used concealed cameras within the machines to spy on students and their parents without their knowledge or consent.According to the filing, the actions of the school district were exposed when one of the school’s vice principals disciplined Mr Robbins’ son for “improper behavior in his home,” and used a photo taken from the computer camera as evidence."
http://www.infowars.net/articles/february2010/180210Students.htm

Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/02/18/Eyes.pdf

Dutch police develop mobile body scans
"The document also mentions the possibility of carrying out long-distance scans and mass scans on crowds at events such as football matches."
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/01/dutch_police_develop_mobile_bo.php

Could X-ray scanners work on the street?
"Leaked documents said to have been drawn up by the Home Office and seen by the Sun newspaper say cameras which can see through clothes could be built into lamp posts to "trap terror suspects".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6309917.stm

Future police: Meet the UK's armed robot drones
"Police forces all over the UK will soon be able to draw on unmanned aircraft from a national fleet, according to Home Office plans. Last month it was revealed that modified military aircraft drones will carry out surveillance on everyone from protesters and antisocial motorists to fly-tippers, and will be in place in time for the 2012 Olympics. Surveillance is only the start, however. Military drones quickly moved from reconnaissance to strike, and if the British police follow suit, their drones could be armed -- but with non-lethal weapons rather than Hellfire missiles."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-02/10/future-police-meet-the-uk%27s-armed-robot-drones.aspx

Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power
"With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/politics/13obama.html?ref=us

A Warning To The Tea Party Nation
"the Tea Parties were actually born during the Presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul of Texas in 2007 and 2008. For all intents and purposes, the Tea Parties and the Ron Paul Revolution were one and the same. These were (mostly) young people, who were sick and tired of the same old establishment Republican Party. They were tired of establishment Republicans selling out the principles of limited government; they were tired of the US Constitution being ignored and trampled by both Republicans and Democrats; they were tired of an incessant interventionist US foreign policy that keeps sending US forces overseas to advance a burgeoning New World Order (NWO); they were tired of perpetual war; they were tired of the bank bailouts; they were tired of the Federal Reserve; etc."
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2010/cbarchive_20100212.html

Wall Street wants to do to life insurance what it did to housing (guess who...Goldman Sachs)
"life insurance securitization would create a disincentive for finding cures for diseases. If a person sells their life insurance policy and then their illness is cured, the investor who bought their policy loses money."
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/05/wall-street-life-insurance/

Report omits cancer chemical in Marines' water
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118914&sectionid=3510212

More on the dangers of fluoride
"The dangers of sodium fluoride have been known for many years. Germany experimented with it as a means of population control during World War II, due to its ability to change behavior by necrotizing, that is, killing specific areas of the brain. They abandoned the idea and banned fluoride."
http://photograf.tripod.com/healthglimpses/id18.html

Greece to make large cash transaction illegal (stepping stone to cashless?)
"Embroiled in its debt crisis and looking for any avenue to bolster tax receipts it has done the unthinkable – it has made its own “legal tender” illegal for transactions over 1,500 euros. Of course, larger credit- or debit-based electronic transactions over 1,500 will still be denominated in euros. However, electronic transactions clearly require infrastructure and limit personal freedom."
http://dailyreckoning.com/greece-to-make-all-large-cash-transactions-illegal/

Conflict conservation
"It is depopulation that matters. Armed conflict and its knock-on effects simply happen to be one of the few forces on the planet that can cause quick and thorough depopulation. These areas struggle to survive when peace arrives. The nasty truth is that the likelihood of random and violent death is the cheapest form of conservation yet invented."
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15488793

Dr. John C. Drew on Obama
(1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWVCOVLjSUI
(2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jroKeERGtg0

Poll: Americans Question Bush on 9/11 Intelligence (see last week's post regarding Glenn Beck and Debra Medina - like the global warming issue, a lot of Americans still have a lack of information and unanswered questions)
"Only 16 per cent of respondents say the government headed by U.S. president George W. Bush is telling the truth on what it knew prior to the terrorist attacks, down five points since May 2002."
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/13469

Caught on tape - police officer plants drugs and lets dog attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d12VJgmgVE

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits:
* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html#

Global Warming update - snow in 49 states
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2010-02-11-nationwide-snow_N.htm

Friday, February 12, 2010

WEEKLY ROUNDUP

"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
--Robert A. Heinlein, If This Goes On, 1940

Neocons Influence Infiltrating Tea Parties (it is interesting that Sarah Palin now seems to be the spokesperson after the recent convention and is supporting Rick Perry for Texas Governor when there is a legitimate "tea party" candidate named Debra Medina in the race)
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/paul-cautions-neocon-influence-infiltrating-tea-parties/

Here's Debra Medina's site and where she stands on the issues
http://www.medinafortexas.com/issues.php

Glenn Beck started bashing Medina yesterday 2/11/10 by painting her as a 9/11 Truther (it is very hypocritical to always tell your audience to "question with boldness" yet demonize those who do so). Medina said "I don't have all of the evidence there Glenn so I'm not in a place, I have not been out publicly questioning that." "I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard, there are some very good arguments and I think the American people have not seen all the evidence there, so I have not taken a position on that." Beck responded "I think the people in America might think that might be a yes." "I think I can write her off the list. Let me take another look at Kay Bailey Hutchinson if I have to," Beck said after Medina hung up the phone. "Rick [Perry] I think you and I could french kiss right now."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/11/glenn-beck-calls-tea-part_n_458882.html

In Debra's response, she said "The real underlying question here, though, is whether or not people have the right to question our government. I think the fact that people are even asking questions on this level gets to the incredible distrust career politicians have fostered by so clearly taking their direction from special interests instead of the people, whether it's Rick Perry and his HPV mandate or Kay Hutchison and voting for the bank bailout. It is absolutely the right and duty of a free people to question their government. Texas does not need another politician who tells you what you want to hear, then violates your liberties and steals your property anyway. I fully expect to be questioned and to be held accountable as Governor, and that's the underlying issue here: should people be questioning their government. And the answer is yes, they should be."

Texans respond to the Medina/Beck interview on KLIF 570 (sounds like they siding with Medina)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXHUNshRU3g

Here's a few of the questions Truthers have been asking (are these legitimate questions?)
(1) Comprehensive list:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/9-11BasicQuestions.html
(2) Questions from Victim's families: http://www.911independentcommission.org/questions.html
(3) Others:
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/09/16/911-unanswered-questions/

Victim's families assessment of the 9/11 Commission Report (looks to me like most of their questions fall into the inadequately answered or generally ignored categories)
http://911truth.org/downloads/Family_Steering_Cmte_review_of_Report.pdf

I can't claim to know the truth about this matter because there are too many unanswered questions and evidence gaps on both sides of the argument. I would have to agree with Debra in that there is simply not enough concrete evidence to suggest the official story is completely true or that the conspiracy theory is completely true. Any reasonable person has to ask themselves, "Why are there so many unanswered questions?" The same reasonable person would also most likely believe there is no way our government would carry out such an attack and harm its citizens on purpose. One thing is certain, "the government" is a very broad term and seems to be used very loosely on this issue.

If you want to see who really started the "tea party" (at least one year prior to its current form), try here.
http://www.teaparty07.com/

If you understand this, you will understand what's really happening...
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm

Probably the most ridiculous story this year: South Carolina requires subversives to register
"The state's "Subversive Activities Registration Act," passed last year and now officially on the books, states that every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States ... shall register with the Secretary of State."
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/south-carolinas-subversive-activities-registration-act-force/

Environmental Modification Convention (1977)
"It is the understanding of the Committee that the following examples are illustrative of phenomena that could be caused by the use of environmental modification techniques as defined in Article II of the Convention: earthquakes, tsunamis; an upset in the ecological balance of a region; changes in weather patterns (clouds, precipitation, cyclones of various types and tornadic storms); changes in climate patterns; changes in ocean currents; changes in the state of the ozone layer; and changes in the state of the ionosphere."
http://fas.org/nuke/control/enmod/text/environ2.htm

How to Brainwash a Nation (ex-KGB agent explains)
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country. It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages."
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2009/jeept85.htm

No refuting the hard truths in the Soviet Story
"The genesis for genocide to rid the world of the weak or unwanted, originated with Karl Marx who, around 1849, wrote: Killing is justified, especially if it cleanses society.”
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/peter_worthington/2010/02/03/12730236.html

So we've already had our first instance of some one's naked body scan at the airport being printed out from a machine that supposedly cannot store the images, hmmm...
http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100206/908/ten-shah-rukh-signs-off-sexy-body-scan-p.html

TrimTabs suggests government manipulated stocks
"The unusual circumstances that led the U.S. market to rally powerfully in 2009 might be explained by secret government moves to buy stocks, according to Charles Biderman, the founder and chief executive of TrimTabs, a research firm that tracks liquidity flows in the market."
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fund-flows-firm-suggests-government-bought-stocks-2010-01-05

Time for Fed to disprove PPT conspiracy theory
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/time-for-fed-to-disprove-ppt-conspiracy-theory-2010-01-05

The Dumping Begins: Chinese Reserve Managers Notified That Any Non-USG Guaranteed Securities Must Be Divested
http://www.zerohedge.com/print/72753

Child handcuffed and arrested for doodling on a desk
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7259715&rss=rss-wabc-article-7259715

The Government Has Your Baby's DNA -- without permission (this actually started in the mid 70s)
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/index.html?hpt=C2

Friday, February 5, 2010

WEEKLY ROUNDUP

"At present the population of the world is increasing ... War so far has had no great effect on this increase ... I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others ... If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full ... the state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to suffering, especially that of others."

Bertrand Russell, "Impact of Science on Society"


Harry Reid says our tax system is voluntary because you are allowed to file tax return forms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6q0slMhDw8

IRS Puts Out Bid to Buy Sixty Police Shotguns
http://www.prisonplanet.com/getting-ready-for-tax-day-irs-puts-out-bid-to-buy-sixty-police-shotguns.html/print/

Carbon Currency: A New Beginning for Technocracy?
"Critics who think that the U.S. dollar will be replaced by some new global currency are perhaps thinking too small. On the world horizon looms a new global currency that could replace all paper currencies and the economic system upon which they are based."

The Rise and Fall of the Guardians
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65936/alasdair-roberts/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-guardians

The Socialization of America
George Bernard Shaw: “You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner.”

Investigation Chief: Swine Flu Pandemic Was A Hoax
"outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe’s Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg said that his panel’s investigation into the 2009 swine flu outbreak has found that the pandemic was a fake hoax manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in league with the WHO to make vast profits while endangering public health"

It's official, the swine flu 'pandemic' is over (shame it cost us £1billion and scared thousands witless)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248473/Swine-flu-panic-national-website-helpline-shut-down.html

Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows
"The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all."

Police want backdoor to web users' private data
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10446503-38.html

UN Agenda 21 - Coming to a Neighborhood near You
"Participating in a UN-advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy-fixated groups and individuals in our society such as the National Rifle Association, citizen militias and some members of Congress. This segment of our society who fear 'one-world government' and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined 'the conspiracy' by undertaking LA21. So, we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management, or smart growth"

Taking the 'Neo' Out of 'Conservative'
"The notion of "making the world safe for democracy" is unquestionably a liberal or "progressive" sentiment, but it is also true that it has been standard foreign policy for the mainstream Right for sometime. Self-described conservatives have associated endless military intervention with American "toughness" and viewed those who questioned the government’s wisdom in waging war as "weak" or "anti-American.""

The Depressing News About Antidepressants
"Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse."

National Vaccine Information Center (evidence of inflammatory bowel disease, developmental delays, autism)
http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/January-2010/Vaccines-Doctor-Judges-Juries-Hanging-Their-Own.aspx

International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (if you are not familiar with depleted uranium, highly suggest looking into it)
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/i/77.html

Pew Research Center Poll shows Republicans are more knowledgeable on issues (shocked at how many people do not have a basic understanding of government though)
http://people-press.org/report/586/

Ron Paul Warns of Social Unrest and Martial Law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWtiAtSvg0