May 2009
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April 2009
5 posts
Fuck this.
This isn’t “self defense”. This is murder of women and children and families. These aren’t “terrorists” and “extremists” … these are unarmed civilians. This isn’t a justified response to the similarly atrocious actions of terrorists. This is wholesale retaliation upon a civilian population for the actions of terrorists. There is no...
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders...”
– Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815
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Replacing Cell phone service with Android / VOIP
This is just a snip from an email discussion with a friend about possibly getting rid of the cell phone (as we know it) and transitioning completely to data/text/email/voip. My thoughts on the subject:
For my personal use, I at least need the Data Service package… I might get by with out the voice and text. If I can use Skype effectively or some other VoIP app, than I might consider...
Michigan cop shoots unarmed, 20-year-old marijuana... →
A 20-year-old university student in Michigan is hospitalized and in serious condition after police shot the man Wednesday while serving a drug warrant. He was unarmed, investigators said. Coming through an apartment’s back door, an Ottawa County deputy allegedly shined a flashlight into the student’s face, causing him to raise his right hand in front of his eyes. The officer, whose...
“Today, the religion, culture, language and identity, which successive...”
– Dalai Lama says in a recent speech that Tibetan’s lives under china are “Hell on earth”. That’s some pretty strong language for such a peaceful guy, so I imagine that it’s something pretty seriously bad going on there.
Tibetans’ lives ‘hell on Earth’
October 2008
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Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live →
September 2008
3 posts
Gordon Brown: We need international regulation of... →
Great. Just what the world needs. Seeing as our governments are doing such a smash-up job of running our own economies, let’s put them in charge of the whole world.
Gordon Brown is promoting his plan for an international regulator to oversee the international financial markets and prevent further economic turbulence during talks with world leaders in New York.
Blah blah, and so on,...
US Airstrike in Pakistan, Kills six women and... →
Angry protesters took to the streets today as a US airstrike early this morning near Miramshah reinforced anti-US sentiment in Pakistan. The strike, which Pakistan’s military confirmed occurred at 5:30 AM this morning, hit a residence and a former government school in a village in North Waziristan, not far from the Afghanistan border. The strike killed at least 14 people and injured 12...
Microchips in medication to monitor patients →
Holy crap. But move on down to line two…
Other microchips could also be placed under the skin…
and more:
Separately, a Silicon Valley company called Proteus Biomedical is developing what it calls the Raisin system of microchipped pills to help to tackle the problems of patients forgetting or refusing to take medicines.
Each pill contains a microchip that can send data to a...
July 2008
3 posts
"Big Brother" Presidential Directive: "Biometrics... →
This is a pretty major step. The wording of this new citizen-spying program says that anyone who could be “a threat to national security” can be tagged and tracked- and this is outside of the definition of the usual “potential terrorist” label.
Again: Done Outside of Congressional approval.
If something like this needed to be done, why would it be done in private?
The latest Big Brother...
“War is Peace”
– Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking...”
– George W. Bush, June 18, 2002
June 2008
5 posts
Palm tree grown from 2,000-year-old date stone →
Cool nuts!
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost
The Real Cause Of Famine In Ethiopia- the IMF &... →
Strategy to own the world: Coerce weak nations to stop producing food and switch to exporting trade products. We take those products at fractions of their value, sell them at high markup for huge profits, and turn around and sell their food back to them. When they cannot feed themselves, we trigger economic crashes to force them to keep selling product to us for less money, in return for...
Israel: Bush's Iran attack in months →
Israeli officials claim that US president George W. Bush intends to launch a military attack against Iran before the end of his term.
“On several occasions our convoys came upon bodies that had been lying on the...”
– Iraq Veterans Describe Atrocities to Lawmakers
One-Fifth of Human Genes Have Been Patented, Study... →
Iraqi Vets Testify to War Atrocities, Vow to Fight... →
“I was ordered multiple times by commissioned officers and noncommissioned officers to shoot unarmed civilians if their presence made me feel uncomfortable,” Sgt. Jason Lemieux told a panel of lawmakers last Thursday in a packed public hearing on Capitol Hill. “These orders were given with the understanding that my immediate chain of command would protect our subordinates from...
Human rights group documents Israeli use of... →
Excerpt: On Wednesday, 14 May 2008, at approximately 8:00 am, 15 Israeli tanks entered the village of ‘Izbet ‘Abed Rabba, west of Beit Hanoun and east of Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, with aerial cover provided by the Israeli Air Force. Upon entry to the village, Israeli ground forces engaged in random gun fire despite not being fired upon. At approximately 9:15 am, 17-year...
May 2008
38 posts
FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war... →
The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a “War Crimes” file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the Guantánamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by the administration to stop writing their reports.
Closed-door Arctic deal denounced as 'carve-up' →
Remember in history class when they divided up the New World into halves? Hmm… The polar ice cap isn’t even dead yet, and the dogs are already fighting over the rights to the corpse instead of mourning and trying to stop this catastrophe. Excerpt: Environmentalists today denounced as a territorial “carve-up” a deal signed by five Arctic nations seeking to resolve...
Top Censored Story of 2007: Halliburton Charged... →
Halliburton - the company for whom our vice president was on the board of directors, the company who recieved the majority of the billions of dollars of war money from private contracts in Iraq. And who paved the way for the “easing” of sanctions in order to allow the sale of the nuclear technology to the nation the white house tells us is “the greatest threat to America...
Audit finds FBI agents objected to military's 9/11... →
FBI agents who assisted with overseas interrogations of suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 often clashed with their military counterparts and refused to participate in the most aggressive intelligence-gathering methods because they doubted they were legal or effective, a long-awaited Justice Department audit found.
Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military... →
“More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing [of nuclear bombs] has been released from DU weaponry since 1991,” said Leuren Moret, a U.S. nuclear scientist. “The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed. The environment now is completely radioactive.” Because DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the Middle...
US and Britain Host Investment Conference in... →
Um, not sure what this is, but gut reaction is that it’s a little creepy.
Truth about mass killings in Korea revealed - U.S.... →
Despite the heroic war stories the Amerian public has grown up on, we’re not the good guys, and we never have been. I don’t think our soldiers know any better- they just do as they are told, and trust that it’s for good reason, but this is evil. ”Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the...
Debt: Woman Loses Home Over $68 Dental Bill →
Sonya Capri Ramos says her Salt Lake City home was sold out from under her in 1996 to pay a collections agency seeking payment for dental work performed on one of Ramos’s daughters. And despite the fact that she had made three years of payments on a $51,000 mortgage, the title changed hands for just $1,550 at a sheriff’s auction.
There Is No "Right" To Vote In Primaries! →
Transcript: There Is No “Right” To Vote In Primaries! By Wolf1739 - May 22, 2008, 12:03PM HRC has hijacked this notion of the rights of voters to be heard. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but this is absolute horseshit! There is no mention of political parties in the constitution! The political parties are NOT part of the US government! They have primaries to try to make sure...
Russia, China denounce U.S. plans for global... →
The presidents of Russia and China denounced in a joint statement on Friday U.S. moves to establish a global missile defense system, saying the plans threaten the global strategic balance. “The parties believe that the construction of a global missile defense system, including the deployment of such a system in some regions of the world… does not contribute to maintaining a strategic...
Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice →
Oh, shit. Not good. Dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap has emerged from research during an expedition by the Canadian military. ”It means the ice shelf is disintegrating, the pieces are pinned together like a jigsaw but could float away,” Dr Mueller explained.
Greenhouse gases are turning oceans acidic -... →
Greenhouse gases are turning the oceans acidic decades earlier than predicted with potentially catastrophic consequences for marine life, scientists have warned. The acid in sea water is powerful enough to dissolve the shells of sea creatures, they said. An American team has found evidence that an acidic “tipping point” has been reached on the continental shelf along the west coast of...
Senate Moves Forward on "Thought Crimes" Act →
The Senate may be moving towards passage of the Orwellian “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007”. […] Under cover of studying “violent radicalization,” both bills would broaden the already-fluid definition of “terrorism” to encompass political activity and protest by dissident groups, effectively criminalizing civil...
Secret List of US Citizens to Detain Under Martial... →
The title says it quite clearly. Read it again. List of US Citizens to Detain Under Martial Law. Declare a state of emergency, the military take control of the nation by force overnight, they seize and imprison potential dissenters. “Under law, during a national emergency, FEMA and its parent organization, the Department of Homeland Security, would be empowered to seize private and...
Russian strategic bombers conduct 20-hr patrol... →
With global warming turning the Arctic from a sheet of ice into a sea, we’re headed into a new cold war over control of the Arctic
Overlooked in the global food crisis: A problem... →
This one goes in the “No Duh” category. Western-style farming creates greatly-increased short-term production, but completely strips the soil within a generation. Then, the only way to grow anything in this dead soil is with high amounts of artificicial fertilizers and pesticides, which… conveniently… must be bought. For millions of farmers in poor nations, this is an...
U.S. Housing Market Crash Predicted By Ron Paul... →
States Seize "Unclaimed" Citizens' Property to... →
US to build vast prison in Afghanistan →
First, we occupy. Then, we encounter resistance, and have to suppress by force. Then, we have to build prisons to hold those who resist our occupation. Then, those of the occupied nation look and see prisons built within their own nation by a foreign military occupier to imprison their own countrymen. How would we feel if China invaded America to supress American anti-china terrorists, then...
U.S. Sergeant Refuses to Go to Iraq: "This... →
“My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation… I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation,” said American Army Sergeant Matthis Chiroux
““Gasoline inventories are higher than the historical average at this time...”
– There is No Gas Shortage, Part 2 — Signs of the Times News
Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and... →
Okay, this one is a huge article, not light reading. Very intriguing. Even if you dismiss it as completely a load of crap, there’s enough in here to make you re-examine your understanding of the world. Basically, it makes a case for a very strong statment - That the United States is and has been a pawn in a century-long plan of global domination by a financial elite, largely international...
Review Article: The Worldwide Network of US... →
A scholarly report explaining the basis for the assertion that the United States has created a global military empire, with the conscious intent to control the world by force. About the Author: Jules Dufour is President of the United Nations Association of Canada (UNA-C) - Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean branch and Research Associate at the Center for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is Emeritus...
New Satellite Spy Program Set to be Used, Despite... →
The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation’s most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon… Meaning that the American government feels the need to be able to spy on every one of its citizens via satellite. The concerns of those who don’t really want us to be constantly watched by a paranoid police state have been duly noted and...
U.S. has Mandela on terrorist list →
Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. - Yes! Go Homeland Security! Defend freedom against those nefarious peace activists!
7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that... →
Circles of elaborately carved stones from about 9,500BC predate even agriculture COOL!
FBI wants widespread monitoring of 'illegal'... →
a very sharply pointed excerpt: …which means that in order to find illegal activity, they must first monitor all activity [ … ] Let’s not forget that the Internet is after all a tool for the transmission of information and nothing more. So what is the difference in principle from monitoring phone calls, private conversations or mail?