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, that "propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government." This can be seen most clearly in the modern police state and the growing citizen snitch culture
, wrapped up in the pseudo-patriotic War on Terror. The increasing consolidation of media has enabled the entire corporate structure to merge with government, which now utilizes the concept of propaganda placement. Media; print, movies, television, and cable news can now work seamlessly to integrate an overall message which seems to have the ring of truth because it comes from so many sources, simultaneously. When one becomes attuned to identifying the main "message," one will see this imprinting everywhere. And this is not even to mention subliminal messaging.
If you know an idiot, please make sure they're safe and not standing naked in a snow embankment on a dare. Onion News Network is coming to IFC on January 21 at 10pm.
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for 'New Approaches' (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).
http://www.ted.com At TEDxSydney, Rachel Botsman says we're "wired to share" -- and shows how websites like Zipcar and Swaptree are changing the rules of human behavior.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore's bogus claims on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on eugenics and the big cull, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
MOLECH =HUMAN SACRIFICE, INNOCENT CHILDREN SACRIFICED TO THE god molech. TECHNOLOGY IS LEADING US INTO DARK REALMS. THE DRAGON DAGON DEVOURS ITS PREY. LINK TO THE BLOODHIVE CHANNEL....we are living in the last days
EFF's new animation chronicling EFF's biggest battles of 2010 in 8bit.
the EFF were formed in July 1990 by John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that led them to conclude that the authorities were gravely uninformed about emerging forms of online communication,[4] and that there was a need for increased protection for Internet civil liberties.
In April 1990, Barlow had been visited by a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in relation to the theft and distribution of the source code for a series of Macintosh ROMs. Barlow described the visit as "complicated by [The Agent's] fairly complete unfamiliarity with computer technology. I realized right away that before I could demonstrate my innocence, I would first have to explain to him what guilt might be." Barlow felt that his experience was symptomatic of a “great paroxysm of governmental confusion during which everyone's liberties would become at risk”.
Barlow posted an account of this experience to The WELL online community and was contacted by Mitch Kapor, who had had a similar experience. The pair agreed that there was a need to defend civil liberties on the internet. Kapor agreed to fund any legal fees associated with such a defense and the pair contacted New York lawyers Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky and Lieberman about defending several computer hackers from a Harper's magazine forum on computers and freedom who had been the target of Secret Service raids.[4] This generated a large amount of publicity which led to offers of financial support from John Gilmore and Steve Wozniak. Barlow and Kapor continued to research conflicts between the government and technology and in June 1990 Barlow posted online the influential article entitled "Crime & Punishment" in which Barlow announced his and Kapor's plans to create an organization to "raise and disburse funds for education, lobbying, and litigation in the areas relating to digital speech and the extension of the Constitution into Cyberspace."[citation needed]
This generated further reaction and support for the ideas of Barlow and Kapor. In late June, Barlow held a series of dinners in San Francisco with major figures in the computer industry[citation needed] to develop a coherent response to these perceived threats. Barlow considered that: "The actions of the FBI and Secret Service were symptoms of a growing social crisis: Future Shock. America was entering the Information Age with neither laws nor metaphors for the appropriate protection and conveyance of information itself."[5] Barlow felt that to confront this a formal organization would be needed and hired Cathy Cook as press coordinator and began to set up what would become the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formally founded on July 10, 1990, by Kapor, John Gilmore and Barlow. Initial funding was provided by Kapor, Steve Wozniak, and an anonymous benefactor.[6][7]
Much has been written this year about Rockefeller Foundation annual reports going back decades showing plans on how to sterilise undesirables without them knowing about it, but without connecting the dots no one would believe that they are actually doing it. The time for evidencing the theory is over. It is time to lay out cold the evidence that they are actually doing it now
Therefore, a brief overview of what we already know needs to be done to refresh our memories, as much time has passed since I last wrote a major article on the subject of Eugenics. Of course, Eugenics is an euphemism, and one for something far worse than what the name suggests. To use the most blunt terms possible, what we are talking about is scientific, methodical, medicalised, mass genocide.
It was through Eugenics that Hitler did his T4 programme throughout the Third Reich to get rid of as many disabled people as he possibly could, and this led directly to the Holocaust. It is a logical progression for such sick minds to go from killing the weak and infirm to killing whole groups of people that they don't like, be they Jews, Roma, Slavs, or Russians. During the Holocaust, the Nazis liquidated approximately 6 million Jews, 2 million Roma, 3 million political dissidents, communists, Slavs, and homosexuals, and also, although this is not often written about in the history books, 26 million Russians.
Stalinist Russia at the height of the Soviet tyranny use the Gulag Archipelago system to intern through false diagnosis of mental illness, and eventually liquidate, 40 million Soviet citizens: political dissidents, counter-revolutionaries, poets, philosophers, writers, doctors, or anybody else that Stalinist Russia did not like. This sounds much like the Fixated Threat Assessment Centres over here, and with the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, especially with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), one can see how both of these can be abused if our own government so desires.
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Cross-posted from the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.
Effective celebrity activists use their fame to bring attention and credibility to legitimate representatives of social movements.
That, in a nutshell, is my standard of celebrity activism done right. Ineffective celebrity activists…well, they do all sorts of things wrong. But, most fundamentally, they approach issues without any awareness of or connection to social movements. They might still have noble intentions, but they can end up being a net negative for social change efforts.
Coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary of John Lennon’s death, Bill Easterly has published an interesting article in the Washington Post comparing the ex-Beatle’s antiwar activism with the social engagement of U2’s front man, Bono. Easterly writes:
For so many of my generation, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, Lennon was a hero, not just for his music but for his fearless activism against the Vietnam War.
Is there a celebrity activist today who matches Lennon’s impact and appeal? The closest counterpart to Lennon now is U2’s Bono, another transcendent musical talent championing another cause: the battle against global poverty. But there is a fundamental difference between Lennon’s activism and Bono’s, and it underscores the sad evolution of celebrity activism in recent years.
Lennon was a rebel. Bono is a twat.
Given our age of commodified dissent, I’m not interested in trying to determine who counts as truly rebellious and who doesn’t. But I think Easterly makes some important points.
First, he notes that Lennon paid a real price for his antiwar stances. The FBI tracked his activities, and he fought for years with immigration officials in the Nixon administration who were set on deporting him from the United States. Bono, on the other hand, has turned up to dine in the White House, schmoozing with elites even while encouraging them to do more for the poor. In other words, his activism hasn’t cost him much, but has earned him millions, along with his "charity" buddy Geldof.
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By Sharon Burch
In past generations, singing and playing instruments was an integral part of family life. A great way to express and entertain yourself and others. We did not realize it, but we were also exercising our brain while we played, causing us to be creative, more vibrant, smarter, etc. In our current generation, we tend to be passive listeners and consumers as a society, and as a result, shorting our mental development and our children the opportunity to reach their mental potential.
Humans are "wired" for music. Until recently, scientists did not know how music affected the brain. The advancement in technology allows scientists to actually "see" brain activity via PET scans and MRI imaging scanning the blood flow in the brain. Our brains are "wired" with neural pathways. Most activities only cause a portion of the brain to "light up" with activity; thus, the saying, right brain/left brain, etc. But there are actually four parts to the brain and music makes ALL of the areas "light up" and create new neural pathways as a person is learning and playing an instrument. Those neural pathways remain in tact and can be used for other things besides music.
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Doctor Diane shows you how to make an infused olive oil with marijuana leaf. This oil is perfect for baking edible treats for medicinal use. Warren Sanford co-hosts.
Investigators are closing in on the Pope's bank, dissatisfied by claims that it will change its ways
This is no ordinary bank. The ATMs are in Latin, priests use a private entrance, and a life-sized portrait of Pope Benedict XVI hangs on the wall. Nevertheless, l'Istituto per le Opere di Religione (the Institute for Religious Works) is a bank, and it is under harsh new scrutiny, including money-laundering allegations that led police to seize €23m (£19.5m) in Vatican assets in September. Critics say the case shows that the "Vatican Bank" has never shed its penchant for secrecy and scandal.
The Vatican calls the seizure of assets a "misunderstanding" and expresses optimism that it will be cleared up quickly. But court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately flouted anti-laundering laws "with the aim of hiding the ownership, destination and origin of the capital". The documents also reveal investigators' suspicions that clergy may have acted as fronts for corrupt businessmen and the Mafia. The documents pinpoint two transactions that have not been reported: one in 2009 involving the use of a false name, and another in 2010 in which the Vatican Bank withdrew €650,000 from an Italian bank account but ignored bank requests to disclose where the money was headed.
The new allegations of financial impropriety could not have come at a worse time for the Vatican, already hit by revelations that it sheltered paedophile priests. The corruption probe has also given new hope to Holocaust survivors who tried unsuccessfully to sue the Vatican in the US, alleging that Nazi loot was stored in the bank.
Yet the scandal is hardly the first for the centuries-old bank. In 1986, a Vatican financial adviser died after drinking cyanide-laced coffee in prison. Another was found dangling from a rope under London's Blackfriars Bridge in 1982, his pockets stuffed with money and stones. The incidents blackened the bank's reputation, raised suspicions of ties with the Mafia, and cost the Vatican hundreds of millions of dollars in legal clashes with Italian authorities.
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By MOLLY MULDOON
IrishCentral.com
December 23, 2010
READ MORE – Sinead O’Connor rips into Irish Catholic Church again on child-abuse scandal
The outspoken music star, Sinead O’Connor has composed a letter to Pope Benedict XVI in which she launched a scathing attack on the pontiff for his remarks that pedophilia was theorized in the 1970s as being “fully in conformity with man and even with children”.
In the open letter the Irish singer urged Pope Benedict to detail who exactly in the Catholic Church supported such a belief. (BUT, when the age of consent in the Vatican State is STILL 12, that makes pedophilia the norm in the Holy See, THAT's what's hidden between the lines)
Ms O’Connor has been a critic of the Catholic Church since the early nineties when she famously tore up a picture of the then Pope John Paul II during a television appearance.
The letter reads: An open letter to Pope Benedict from Sinead O’Connor:
Sir, Some burning questions arise from the following statement you made in your Christmas address to your cardinals on December 20 regarding how it came to pass that the house of the Holy Spirit became a haven for criminals of a sexual nature.
‘In the 1970s pedophilia was theorized [by the church] as something fully in conformity with man and even with children.’
Please deign to respond to this letter directly and personally and put aside all the pomp and titles and so-called ‘proper channels’ all of which belong not in the 21st century but the 12th and are unbecoming of Christ.
Exactly who held the theory that pedophilia was fully in conformity with man and with children? Please give us their names.
Exactly when did they hold this theory? Exactly when if ever did they cease holding the theory?
Why was this information not given to victims?
Why was it never given to any commissions of enquiry or civil authorities?
Why in all the years since these scandals broke out was yesterday the first mention of this information?
It is highly disrespectful of the victims that you would throw this out as an aside remark and not present yourself for questioning on such a very serious piece of information which would be key in the potential recovery of the church.
The Holy Spirit requires you to familiarize yourself with honesty and respect if you retain any desire to salvage the remains of the church which has been ruined by its being allowed to live by its own laws and not God’s.
READ MORE – Sinead O’Connor rips into Irish Catholic Church again on child-abuse scandal
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It began as a technological highway created by the Pentagon's DARPA to link together military researchers with university libraries, etc. The email facility helped expand the system. Then two Steves in a garage created the personal computer and the facility exploded. It was never meant to be what it became. It is a perfect example of the unintended consequences illustrated in free-market economist FA Hayek's spontaneous order. It has given the modern-day Anglo-American elite fits. Senator Jay Rockefeller said in open session that it might have been better if it were never invented. Better for whom?
The elite would take it down if it could. Alternatively, those who have the most to lose (or have lost the most) will try to control and it explain it. They might as well try to rake the wind instead of the leaves. Here's an example of the ups and downs of the Gutenberg press in Britain, to which we have often compared the Internet. There was no real way to contain it at the time, though the powers-that-be surely tried:
English newspapers were among the first in the world to use headlines to attract readers and woodcuts to illustrate stories. English newspapers also set new business standards. They hired women as reporters, printed advertisements as a source of revenue, and paid newsboys, or more commonly newsgirls, to sell papers in the streets.
The fledgling English press faced censorship throughout much of the 17th century. Early newspapers called diurnals – the predecessors of the today's dailies – featured news from all over Europe and occasionally America or Asia. However, government officials discouraged reporting on local matters. In addition, the government tightly regulated print shops. In England, as in most other European countries, the government required printers to have licences to print the news. Printers could lose their licences if they published anything offensive to authorities.
The first major change in this arrangement came in the years before the outbreak of the English Civil War (1642-1648). As Parliament, under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell, struggled with King Charles I, national news assumed a new importance ... The first English newspaper to attempt to report on national news was The Heads of Several Proceedings in This Present Parliament, a weekly that appeared in 1641. The public's appetite for domestic news grew steadily, and soon a number of papers covered national politics and other previously censored topics ...
After the monarchy was restored under King Charles II in 1660, the government gradually ended licensing provisions and other restrictions. The English press published in an atmosphere of considerable freedom – as long as it did not criticize the government. During the upheaval of the Glorious Revolution in 1688 (when Parliament deposed King James II in favour of William of Orange) the English press burst free of nearly all government restrictions. The law that required printers to obtain licences lapsed in 1695. Belief in the right of the press to question and criticize government eventually took hold in England and migrated to its American colonies. (Newspapers, Encarta Encyclopedia)
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During the last few days a sneak-mission on Capitol Hill passed "fake net neutrality"--a significantly compromised version of actual net neutrality. Although the Obama administration is calling it a victory for net neutrality, the new rules allow corporations to regulate the Internet in such a way that by 2011, you might not even recognize it at all. These new rules:
Al Franken dropped everything this holiday season to help spread awareness on this issue:
Franken: “[new rules] Will make it easier for large media conglomerates like Comcast to do nothing short of controlling the Internet. The chairmen of the FCC is calling this a net neutrality proposal but lets be clear this is not real net neutrality…The internet was not created by corporations. It was created using tax payer dollars and it has dramatically altered our daily lives in more ways than any of us could ever have dreamed...This is the first time the FCC has ever allowed discrimination on the Internet. Let me give you an example maybe you like Google Maps – well tough. If the FCC passes this weak rule Verizon will be able to cut off access to Google Maps to the Google Maps Apps on your phone and force you to use their own mapping program Version Navigator even if its not as good even if they charge money…”
Without an open Internet we have no future. We only have “their” future.
Franken: “Net neutrality the First Amendment issue of our time… if we don’t protect Net Neutrality now how do think it will take before Comcast NBC Universal or Verizon CBS Viacom or ATT&T ABC DirecTV or BP Halliburton Wal-Mart Fox Dominos Pizza starts favoring its content over everyone else’s…If you want to protect the free flow of information in this country you have to help me fight this.”
A tried and true course of action in fighting these sorts of sorties is AN AVATAR-LINK AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, or simply a forced meme war. One changes their avatar to something relative to the problem. Type the words “internet censorship” into Google Images and then comb for a new avatar.You can also help make the issue a trend on Twitter. Link up with Save the Internet for other ideas about spreading awareness.
Though many of us romance over ending genocide, starvation, disease, ecocide, and other of the world’s problems, without a free and open Internet our ability to tackle these global issues as a community will return to the Victorian Age.Romania's Parliament cancelled a no-confidence vote on Thursday after a father whose payments for his disabled child had been cut by the Romanian government leapt from a balcony in the parliament in protest against the decision. He was not seriously injured. A loud thud reverberated in the chamber after the man, Adrian Sobaru - identified by the country's public television station as one of its engineers - hit the benches shortly after Prime Minister Emil Boc greeted the lawmakers. As he jumped, he could be heard shouting: 'Boc, you've taken away the rights of our children'. Mr Sobaru, who suffered fractures to the face, and other non life-threatening injuries, was able to get into the parliament because he works as an electrician for the national television station. He then shouted "Liberty and Justice" as he was taken to hospital. He was also wearing a T-shirt with the slogan 'You've killed our future', according to reports.
Sweet Baby Ruth shows you how to make a cannabis infused butter,perfect for baking cookies , brownies, etc. The tools of the trade are a coffee grinder and crock pot. Co-producer Warren Sanford lends a hand in the kitchen.
When the going gets tough, the tough make art.
It is through the arts that we are likely to make the broadest impact. You can't hum a piece of legislation, but a song can process complex ideas in eight bars. A film or television show can either reflect our experience back on us or distort it -- either way, to an effect more powerful than a pundit's quip can deliver. A spoken-word piece, be it rap or poetry, can name a dilemma in a stanza -- the same dilemma a wonk takes pages to illustrate. There's often more truth told in a work of fiction than there is on the nightly news.
In most successful movements for social change, artists are in the vanguard. In many cases it is their soundtrack, their visual sensibilities, their literature that comes to define a particular movement in the popular imagination. Think of the civil rights movement and the role played by music. Recall the anti-war movement of the 1960s, propelled by rock 'n' roll and psychedelic art. Remember the controversy stirred by artist Judy Chicago's art installation, The Dinner Party, which told the story of the women's movement with provocative imagery.
But the work of artist-activists is just one half of the equation. The other entails the ways in which popular culture absorbs and reflects the tensions of our age, and represents us as Americans. Those works demand the attention of the critical progressive mind.
Going forward, you will find more media criticism, such as Don Hazen's look at bad behavior by men of "Mad Men," the popular AMC series. You'll also find analyses of culture industries, like Culture editor Julianne Escobedo Shepherd's take-down of monopolies in the music business.
And we want to hear from you. What music are you listening to? What films are you watching? What fiction are you reading? Is there a video about to go viral that you think we should know about? Please let us know, using AlterNet's "site feedback" button.
As we head into a new year, let's renew our spirits with a injection of creativity. As Emma Goldman told us, a revolution without dancing is not worth having.
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In a devastating new book a top climatologist exposes the idiocy of global-warming zealots – and reveals why Britain is set to freeze for decades to come.
Jane Warren | The Daily Express | 21 December 2010:
he Met Office was wrong. There was no barbecue summer, no mild winter. Instead came the big freeze of 2009/10, the coldest in almost 50 years.
Rivers became skating rinks and hillsides a paradise. The novelty soon wore off though as significant amounts of snow continued to fall.
Less than a year later the country is once again in the grip of dramatic Arctic weather and Siberian winds and the chaos that accompanies them. Wales is now colder than Greenland and we are experiencing the earliest widespread snow across the UK for 17 years.
No one could have predicted that we would once again be plunged into a second record-breaking winter so soon after the last. Or could they?
According to a new book this big freeze is only the beginning. By interviewing leading experts in the UK, author and climatologist Gavin Cooke has set out the most controversial weather forecast ever.
“Forget about global warming – what most forecasters have failed to acknowledge is that Britain is on the cusp of a mini ice age,” he says.
This is a fact accepted by many climatologists but one that the Government prefers to keep quiet by cutting funding for some academics who dare to publish their findings. Yet, according to these scientists, the worrying truth is that we are facing another 30 frozen years, each one colder than the last.
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Advocates say that "Net Neutrality" will "save the Internet."
But does the Internet need saving?
Net Neutrality is a proposed set of regulatory powers that would grant the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the ability to control how Internet service providers (ISPs) package their services. Proponents argue that such rules are necessary to ensure that ISPs treat all data on the Internet equally and don't slow or even restrict access to various websites and other parts of the Internet.
However well-intentioned, the practical effect will be to limit consumer choice and grant the federal government unprecedented power over the Internet, all in the name of fixing a problem that doesn't exist in any meaningful way (http://reason.com/blog/2010/02/24/recen
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The worldwide “humiliation” that the church has experienced as a result of the scandal must serve as a spur to reform, Benedict XVI told his cardinals gathered in Rome.
However, the pontiff argued that the abuse crisis must be seen in its social “context”, suggesting maybe that part of the blame lay with permissive attitudes in western society dating from the 1970s, or more likely in the social context of the Vatican State where the age of consent is still 12.
Survivors of clerical sex abuse condemned the Pope’s statement as another attempt by Church authorities to evade responsibility for the scandal.
The Pope was speaking in his annual Christmas address to bishops and cardinals, assembled in the frescoed Sala Regia of the Vatican's apostolic palace. It was seen as evidence of the seriousness with which the Pope views the issue that he chose tackling child sex abuse as the major theme for one of his highest profile set-piece speeches of the year.
While stressing that most priests were careful, Pope Benedict said revelations of abuse in 2010 had reached “an unimaginable dimension” that required the church to accept the “humiliation” as a call for renewal.
“We know of the particular gravity of this sin committed by priests and our corresponding responsibility,” he said. “We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred.
“We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our message, in our entire way of configuring the Christian being, that allowed such a thing to occur.”
However, Benedict said the fault lay not only with the Church but also with the “context of our times”, in which child pornography, drug use, sexual trafficking were to some degree considered permissible.
“There exists a market of pornography regarding children that seems to be increasingly accepted as normal by the Papal See, but abhorrent to the masses” he said.
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Eric Blair | Activist Post | 21 December 2010:
Remember the buzzword chatter? When our criminal government kept the sheeple on the razor's edge of fear because they'd say that chatter levels coming from Al-Qaeda were increasing?
Well, today, in this article, I'm going to openly fear monger to you, because the chatter by the real terrorists, the ruling elite, is getting louder and more urgent -- prompting me to warn you that it seems like a terror attack is coming soon.
All the signs are here. Clearly desperate for public approval and budget justifications, the government has recently made several bogus terror arrests of entrapped FBI patsies. Perhaps they thought the public would give them some political props for thwarting their own staged events. However, they're beginning to realize that the general public has a bad case of "boy who cried wolf" syndrome where these glorious victories in the ongoing war on terror don't carry much effect anymore with people struggling to pay bills. Therefore, the regular folks must be reminded that the wolf can still bite.
Of course, the establishment always uses the example of "anti-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen believed to be hiding in Yemen" as a claim that "Americans" are indeed seeking to strike the United States. This terror ring-leader of patsies has been exposed as a Pentagon insider by Fox News, yet he's still being used justify the surveillance-industrial complex, the snitch culture, and the clampdown on freedoms in the name of fighting "domestic terrorism by American citizens."
So, we've gone from a threat with no credible or specific information, to being on alert for car bombs and small arms attacks with the purpose of inflicting maximum psychological impact, to our chief law enforcer saying we must prepare for potentially bad news.
Besides seeking a psychological reaction from the sheep, the real terrorists also desperately need to muffle the truth movement before it grows too big to control. As the masses become more aware of the criminal actions by the government and its corporate cartel partners, the more they need a distraction. Even Geraldo Rivera has seen through the bogus terror plots, and said so on national TV.
This all says to me that something is coming because time is running out on their lies. Be afraid, be very afraid, but not of the coming attack, rather for the establishment's response to it.
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...UPDATE - Anti-terror police arrest 12 people in nationwide raids...
Editor's Note: The timing of this is really suspicious. Why now? Que Bono? What are the government really up to, and what anti-freedom laws are they trying to get passed that they need such a convenient distraction right before Christmas? Are they trying to hide the fact that much of the Royal Navy Fleet are on route to the Yellow Sea for the start of World War Three? Something smells seriously suspect here...
Anti-terror police arrested twelve men on Monday morning in a large-scale counter terrorism operation spanning from the Midlands to Wales.
Peter Hutchison | The Telegraph | 20 December 2010:
The men – five from Cardiff, four from Stoke and three from London – were detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in Britain.
Aged between 17 and 28, the suspects were detained by unarmed officers at approximately 5am.
Police believe the plotters were planning to set off a number of bombs in "multiple locations", according to Sky News.
Theresa May, the Home Secretary, was fully briefed on the raids before they took place.
All the arrested men were held at or near their home addresses, with the exception of one suspect from Stoke who was at a domestic property in Birmingham.
The Eclipses of late 2010 and 2011 will affect the Galactic Center, preparing us for embarking on a "Galactocentric Consciousness." The Lunar Eclipse not only kisses the Galactic Center, but it aspects every other planet in the Solar system, while occurring on the Winter Solstice. If that weren’t enough, this massive dynamo of an eclipse will be visible throughout the Northern Hemisphere beginning at 10pm Pacific time. This phenomenon is special to behold since as the earth obscures the Sun, the full white moon shapeshifts its glow into an eerie amber red. The last time I witnessed this was the first night at Burning Man 2007, the night some rogue lunatic warrior torched the wooden Man.
I will speak at length about the nature of eclipses and the potency of this one in particular as well as to communicate some very important information about the The Dragons’ Head and Tail, and the mythology of the Galactic Center.
The Purpose of Eclipses: The Dragon's Head and Tail
Technically, the nodes of the moon are the place where the Moon’s orbit intersects the path of the Sun. Where the Moon crosses the Sun going upward is the ascending point called the North Node, while the Moon descending is moving south of the Sun, and so is called the South Node. Because the Sun is the heart of the solar system and our personal vitality and life force, and the Moon is the waxing and waning of our emotions and our instinctual reactions and needs, the darkening of one of these primary luminaries has always foretold major personal and collective transformations.
As many of us are aware, the heroic quest culminates with the mythical "slaying of the dragon." In astrology, the dragon is associated with Rahu and Ketu, the nodes of the Moon, which are the dragon's head and tail. In Alchemy, the "slaying of the Dragon" was a metaphor for the Great Work: the shaman-alchemist’s heroic battle with the slippery serpentine forces of the unconscious. One's heroic duty involves confronting the shadow forces and transcending their vicious-circle tendencies.
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...it's XMASSS!!! here at rfp, and what a treat we have for you as we re-unite Bing and Bob in a christmas command performance with a host of special guests from the rat pack to the war department, let the drums roll...
intro - bob hope
bing and the andrews sisters - mele kilikimakaLast spring, Reason.tv released this video after the Federal Communication Commission chairman Julius Genachowski announced his agency's attention to use a "light touch" approach to the Internet. As the FCC pushes ahead with Net Neutrality rules that would regulate many aspects of the Internet, such a move deserves closer and closer scrutiny.
We're happy to re-release this video, which originally went live June 18, 2010.
From the original writeup:
The FCC has just taken initial steps to regulate the Internet service providers the same way it regulates telephone companies. Although Chairman Julius Genachowski has said he would use any regulatory powers with a "light touch," having the FCC control any aspect of the Internet is a really bad idea for at least three reasons.
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Do you remember? They said it would be mild and damp, and between one degree and one and a half degrees warmer than average. Well, I am now 46 and that means I have seen more winters than most people on this planet, and I can tell you that this one is a corker.
Never mind the record low attained in Northern Ireland this weekend. I can't remember a time when so much snow has lain so thickly on the ground, and we haven't even reached Christmas. And this is the third tough winter in a row. Is it really true that no one saw this coming?
Actually, they did. Allow me to introduce readers to Piers Corbyn, meteorologist and brother of my old chum, bearded leftie MP Jeremy. Piers Corbyn works in an undistinguished office in Borough High Street. He has no telescope or supercomputer. Armed only with a laptop, huge quantities of publicly available data and a first-class degree in astrophysics, he gets it right again and again.
Back in November, when the Met Office was still doing its "mild winter" schtick, Corbyn said it would be the coldest for 100 years. Indeed, it was back in May that he first predicted a snowy December, and he put his own money on a white Christmas about a month before the Met Office made any such forecast. He said that the Met Office would be wrong about last year's mythical "barbecue summer", and he was vindicated. He was closer to the truth about last winter, too.
He seems to get it right about 85 per cent of the time and serious business people - notably in farming - are starting to invest in his forecasts. In the eyes of many punters, he puts the taxpayer-funded Met Office to shame. How on earth does he do it? He studies the Sun.
