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