NOV 30th: VETERAN RON PAULITICS vs. THOUGHTCRIME BILL 404 - 6 vs. LEADBRAIN LIPSTICKS: Think About It! :-)

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The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kieyjfZDUIc

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NOV 30th: VETERAN RON PAULITICS vs. THOUGHTCRIME BILL 404 - 6 vs. LEADBRAIN LIPSTICKS: Think About It! :-)

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Military and Veterans for Ron Paul 2008

Who is Ron Paul?

Ron Paul is the only military veteran frontrunner running for President - Democrat or Republican - besides John McCain. He didn't obtain draft deferments like many others did at the time. He proudly served his country in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard.

Dr. Paul's medical training was interrupted when he was drafted during the Cuban Missile Crisis into the United States Air Force. He served as a flight surgeon out of Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, from 1963 to 1965, attending to the ear, nose and throat problems of pilots. He remained in the military during the early years of the Vietnam War. Paul's active duty service took him to countries such as South Korea, Iran, Ethiopia and Turkey. He then served in the Air National Guard from 1965 to 1968 while completing his medical residency in Pittsburgh. He achieved rank of captain during his service in the Air Force.

http://www.militaryforpaul.com/

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Paul leads in donations from military voters

BENNETT ROTH, RICHARD S. DUNHAM and CHASE DAVIS
Houston Chronicle
Thursday October 18, 2007

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the congressman from the Houston area who opposes the Iraq war, has gotten more contributions than any other White House contender from donors identified as affiliated with the military.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5223477.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/181007donations.htm

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Hey Folks,

Support honest politicians.

If you think it's not possible, find out that it is.

If you think they can't win then we can't win, it's the same thing.

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"I am absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government and minding our own business overseas."

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

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Stop accepting Hitlery, O'Bomber, Ghouliani or other stiffs.

If you think they'll save us, you should have some evidence first.

If you think they'll stop the wars or protect our rights, don't just guess.

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The Ron Paul FREEDOM PRINCIPLES

* Rights belong to individuals, not groups.
* Property should be owned by people, not government.
* All voluntary associations should be permissible -- economic and social.
* The government's monetary role is to maintain the integrity of the monetary unit, not participate in fraud.
* Government exists to protect liberty, not to redistribute wealth or to grant special privileges.
* The lives and actions of people are their own responsibility, not the government's.

http://www.house.gov/paul/bio.shtml

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Why President Ron Paul Needs Our Donations NOW!

Plea for Immediate Funds Sparks New Donation Drive

By November 30th date to precede December 16th Tea Party as campaign staff focus on winning the primaries.

* 404 - 6: Thought-crimes bill HR 1955 clears the House with virtually no opposition (and few think about it)

http://thelimeybrit.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/01/1065909-404-6-thought-crimes-bill-clears-the-house-with-virtually-no-opposition

DONATE TO RON PAUL - http://www.rudysreadinglist.com/

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Why Prime Minister Connie Fogal Needs Donations NOW!

Please consider donating the maximum they allow you per year to the Canadian Action Party and help us bring real democracy back to Canada.

* Half of Ontario parents refuse HPV vaccine: health official (and the other half took it)

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=aa8e5a8c-6975-4410-a128-cfe0dc3168c2

DONATE TO CONNIE FOGAL - http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/donate.html

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"There is absolutely no moral or constitutional reason to go to war with Iraq at this time. To go to war to enforce the dictates of the United Nations, or to play the part of 'policemen of the world,' opposes the sensibilities of all who seek to follow the Constitution. I refuse to participate in action which would possibly expose even one soldier to risk when there is absolutely no immediate threat to the US."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: February 16, 1998

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst98/tst021698.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.RonPaul2008.com

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THIS IS AN URGENT ACTION ALERT:

S 1959 "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" must be stopped at all costs.

Pick up your phone today and contact your US Senator's office to instruct them to vote "NO" on S.1959.

Click here for your Senators contact info:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Full PDF text if the bill:
http://tinyurl.com/3a3y2z

If this bill is passed, and becomes law, your words and actions could be considered terrorism.

S 1959 EVISCERATES FREE SPEECH, and empowers the govt. to declare ANYTHING they deem an "extremist belief system", instantly make you a terrorist, resulting in stripping of US citizenship, torture, and/or execution, with no habeas corpus rights, no ability to challenge even in the US Supreme Court.

Contact your Senator and let them know they will be looking for another job if they vote yes on this bill, which is now introduced into the Senate as S.1959

THIS BILL **MUST NOT** BECOME LAW, PERIOD.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1959

READ THE BILL MANY TIMES AND VERY CAREFULLY--YOU ARE THE TERRORIST

WHICH MEANS THEY CAN STRIP YOU OF CITIZENSHIP AND HAVE YOU TORTURED AND EXECUTED

Senate is back in session today, do not hesitate, call, fax, email your Senator ASAP.

Click here for your Senators contact info:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Yours in Freedom and Liberty,

Gary Franchi

RTR National Director, www.RestoreTheRepublic.com
Managing Editor, www.RepublicMagazines.com
Founder, Lone Lantern Society of America, www.LoneLantern.org
Host, Lone Lantern Radio, www.WTPRN.com

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"I have heard all the arguments on why we must immediately invade and occupy Iraq and have observed that there are only a few hardy souls left in the Congress who are trying to stop this needless, senseless, and dangerous war."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: September 18, 2002

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr091802.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

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Selected Article Excerpts Below Text


1. Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future (The Guardian, "NY Times" of Europe)

2. Extensive Cell Phone Use Linked To Brain Tumors, Swedish Study (Medical News Today)

3. Cellphone Tracking Powers, Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause (Washington Post)

4. RFID Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors and Cancer (Washington Post)

5. School to track pupils with RFID chips sewn into their uniforms (UK Daily Mail)

6. FDA staff urge warnings for two flu drugs due to deaths (Yahoo! Main Page)

7. Internet Soon to be “Full,” Government Solution: More Taxes (Truthnews from Washington Post)

8. Boston Police Go Door To Door To Search For Guns (Fox News)

9. CNN: What is Houston planning to do with drone planes? (Raw Story)

10. Fake News Photos Alter Real Memories (Yahoo! Main Page from LiveScience)

11. No right to remain silent, Supreme Court gives cops power to ignore your right (NOW Magazine)

12. Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendly (UK Daily Mail)

13. Is Your Lipstick Full of Lead? (Wired Magazine)

14. Military training program for teens expands in US (Yahoo! News)

15. 9/11 LAWSUITS IN LEGAL LIMBO, GRAVELY ILL LEFT HANGING (New York Post)

16. 'BLAME U.S. FOR 9/11' IDIOTS IN MAJORITY (New York Post)

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"Make me King, as we move toward a, New World Order..."

- Eminem, "Lose Yourself" (2003)

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Please keep in mind it's often not "what" the news is saying but "why" that's important. Most ideas introduced are "predictive programming" to prepare us to accept the changes we hate while making them seem inevitable. The dates are often faked to convince us changes are happening later instead of now, which is not true.

Please keep in mind the news is so bad we think it's the truth, except what they refuse to report is worse, like HR 1955 "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" passing Congress 404 - 6 allowing the government to declare anyone a terrorist. If S 1959 isn't killed in the Senate, dissent will be killed.

Please keep in mind the biggest attacks are on our brains, so use a headset with cellphones to avoid the basketball-sized radiation field, avoid lipsticks made with lead, avoid television and videogame "programming" as much as you can, avoid paying more for everything healthy or friendly without asking why and learn to save your mind.

Please keep in mind the best solution is waking up everyone with the truth, including business owners and staff to lead communities when the recession hits. Print out and email and pass out tons of information, have links to photocopies people can make on their own, burn DVD's and start discussing what's important now while we still can.

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"The real issue we need to address is whether or not the federal government has the authority to do the things it does. Under our Constitution - the law of the land - it is very clearly stated what the federal government can and cannot do. So on these appropriation measures the question really isn't one of supporting or not supporting the multitude of ostensibly "good things" they entail. The issue is whether or not we are going to follow the law, the Constitution."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: September 1, 1997

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst97/tst090197.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.RonPaul2008.com

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ENDGAME on DVD or Google Video

Catch up on the last 150 years in 2 hours as well as you can and share it with everyone.

http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/endgamedvd.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261&total=100&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=t100_can&plindex=15

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"The majority is assumed to be in charge today and can do whatever it pleases. If the majority has not yet sanctioned some desired egregious action demanded by special interests, the propaganda machine goes into operation, and the pollsters relay the results back to the politicians who are seeking legitimacy in their endeavors. The rule of law and the Constitution have become irrelevant, and we live by constant polls."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: Jan 29, 2003

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr012903.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.RonPaul2008.com

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http://www.PrisonPlanet.com
http://www.SaveTheInternet.com
http://www.FreedomtoFascism.com
http://www.CanadianActionParty.ca
http://www.CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com
http://www.RestoreTheRepublic.com
http://www.RogueGovernment.com
http://www.911dvdproject.com
http://www.RonPaul2008.com
http://www.JackMcLamb.com
http://www.WeAreChange.org
http://www.StopLying.ca
http://www.LegitGov.org
http://www.wtprn.com

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"Does the administration believe it has the legal authority to institute a mandatory vaccine program for any group of Americans?"

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: December 19, 2002

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr122002.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

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The fact is de-centralized power and honest money are all we need to save the world.

The fact is the North American Union since March 2005 is doing just the opposite.

The fact is martial law is happening now while our mass media distracts us.

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"Globalists and one-world promoters never seem to tire of coming up with ways to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. The most recent attempt comes in the form of the misnamed "Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SPP)." In reality, this new "partnership" will likely make us far less secure and certainly less prosperous."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: August 28, 2006

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst082806.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

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Official North American Union Website - http://www.spp.gov/

Following the March 23, 2005, launch of the SPP, each nation established Security and Prosperity working groups to fulfill the vision of the North American Heads of State.

The working groups will consult with stakeholders; set specific, measurable, and achievable goals and implementation dates; and identify concrete steps the governments can take to achieve these goals. An initial report is due to Heads of Government on June 23 with semi-annual progress reports thereafter.

The Prosperity working groups established cover a wide range of issue areas:

* Manufactured Goods & Sectoral and Regional Competitiveness
* Movement of Goods
* Energy
* Environment
* E-Commerce & Information Communications Technologies
* Financial Services
* Business Facilitation
* Food and Agriculture
* Transportation
* Health

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"Since the change of the political party in charge has not made a difference, who’s really in charge? If the particular party in power makes little difference, whose policy is it that permits expanded government programs, increased spending, huge deficits, nation building and the pervasive invasion of our privacy, with fewer Fourth Amendment protections than ever before?"

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: July 10, 2003

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr071003.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

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The fact is Thought-Crime Bill HR 1955 quietly passed Congress 404 - 6.

The fact is if the Senate passes it too anyone can be labeled a threat.

The fact is so much is going on that we need to get answers fast.

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"It has turned into a case of government agencies against everyone else.

More than 14,000 people -- average American consumers, bankers, and civil-liberties advocates -- have written federal agencies in opposition to the gross violation of privacy known by the Orwellian title "Know Your Customer." This response is even more remarkable when one realizes that the usual number generated by these agencies' rules is less than a hundred.

Almost three months ago I first reported on the proposed regulations brought forward by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and other regulatory agencies. These regs would turn bank tellers from reluctant information-gathers to unwilling investigators for the federal government's ongoing War-on-Everything -- which obviously includes the privacy of ordinary Americans."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: February 2, 1999

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst99/tst020199.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

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The fact is central bankers print money from nothing to buy and bribe the world.

The fact is central intelligence agencies secretly work to control our culture.

The fact is central psychological programming is executed by the media.

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"Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation to restore financial stability to America's economy by abolishing the Federal Reserve."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: Sep 10, 2002

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr091002b.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com

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The fact is the Hegelian dialectic of "Problem + Reaction = Solution" is their tactic.

The fact is the bankers create our problems and reactions and their solutions.

The fact is the people who want to live in peace will do what they're sold.

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"Such "privatization" of Social Security would not really be private at all. Private companies would become a "partner" of sorts with the government. Individuals still would not truly own their invested Social Security funds. Payroll taxes likely would be raised to make up for dollars taken out of the Social Security trust fund. Political favoritism, rather than market efficiency, would determine what investments were made. Worst of all, our nation's seniors would be threatened with the loss of the benefits they already paid for."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: October 2, 2000

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2000/tst100200.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com

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The fact is politics is a puppet-show telling us to be good and pay attention every few years.

The fact is politics is meant to fool us into thinking most people there will represent us.

The fact is politics is never allowed to alter the big agendas of the central banks.

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"Imagine that you have taken a position contrary to the official dictates of the government in your nation. Instead of simply facing criticism from opposing political sides, you find your life turned upside-down; every aspect of your life is closely scrutinized. Without warning, your life savings are seized, your personal, private records divulged far and wide. Suddenly, how willing are you to continue holding your views?

It sounds almost like a slice of life from the dictatorships of the world's past or in the modern third world.

Or is it?

For many years the fearful power of the Internal Revenue Service has been used in just that fashion against Americans.

It's unfortunate enough that IRS employees - unfairly perhaps the most hated individuals in the nation - by the virtue of their jobs have to enforce tax policies which run contrary to our nation's notion of freedom, but what is worse is that these individuals have many times been used to carry out far less appropriate agendas for elected officials and federal bureaucrats.

This tactic has been used by Republicans and Democrats alike; neither are without the sin."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: April 20, 1997

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst97/tst042097.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com

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The fact is television "programming" is the greatest tool ever invented to control people.

The fact is television "programming" is used in countries worldwide for this reason.

The fact is television "programming" is meant to hypnotize us while we're robbed.

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"Ultimately, Mr. Speaker, this bill is about freedom. Parental control of child rearing, especially education, is one of the bulwarks of liberty. No nation can remain free when the state has greater influence over the knowledge and values transmitted to children than the family."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: January 31, 2001

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr013101b.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com

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The fact is videogames were developed by the Pentagon in the 1970's to train kids how to kill better.

The fact is videogames were developed because kids wouldn't shoot people as easily in Vietnam.

The fact is videogames were developed because kids now shoot over 90% of the time in Iraq.

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"I'm fearful that an unlimited worldwide war against all terrorism will distract from the serious consideration that must be given to our policy of foreign interventionism, driven by the powerful commercial interests and a desire to promote world government. This is done while ignoring our principle responsibility of protecting national security and liberty here at home."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: Jan 24, 2002

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr012402.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

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The fact is the War on Terror is meant to last 100 years and change the world.

The fact is the War on Terror can't be won since "terror" is a noun.

The fact is the War on Terror is really a War on Freedom.

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"We have been told on numerous occasions to expect a long and protracted war. This is not necessary if one can identify the target- the enemy- and then stay focused on that target. It's impossible to keep one's eye on a target and hit it if one does not precisely understand it and identify it. In pursuing any military undertaking, it's the responsibility of Congress to know exactly why it appropriates the funding. Today, unlike any time in our history, the enemy and its location remain vague and pervasive."

Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives: November 29, 2001

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr112901.htm

President Ron Paul: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

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Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future

The Guardian
Richard Norton-Taylor
Monday April 9 2007

Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe's drops as fertility falls. "Flashmobs" - groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.

This is the world in 30 years' time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the "future strategic context" likely to face Britain's armed forces. It includes an "analysis of the key risks and shocks". Rear Admiral Chris Parry, head of the MoD's Development, Concepts & Doctrine Centre which drew up the report, describes the assessments as "probability-based, rather than predictive".

The 90-page report comments on widely discussed issues such as the growing economic importance of India and China, the militarisation of space, and even what it calls "declining news quality" with the rise of "internet-enabled, citizen-journalists" and pressure to release stories "at the expense of facts". It includes other, some frightening, some reassuring, potential developments that are not so often discussed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/apr/09/frontpagenews.news

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The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kieyjfZDUIc

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Yahoo! News

Military training program for teens expands in US

AFP, November 25, 2007

Chicago - Dozens of teens dressed in uniforms provided by the US Marines stand at attention in the gym of a Chicago public high school as a drill sergeant goes through a list of the day’s do’s and don’ts.

Bring your books to class. Come for extra help if you need it. And wear your uniform with pride.

“Young men, you think you can get a haircut and say I’m done for two or three weeks. WRONG,” Sgt. Major Thomas Smith Jr. intones.

“Young ladies. There’s been no problem with your uniforms but there is a problem with your ties. Again, I will go through it again. Wear your ties when you come to my class.”

One in 10 public high school students in Chicago wears a military uniform to school and takes classes — including how to shoot a gun properly — from retired veterans.

That number is expected to rise as junior military reserve programs expand across the country now that a congressional cap of 3,500 units has been lifted from the nearly century-old scheme.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071125/ts_alt_afp/usmilitaryeducation

http://www.truthnews.us/?p=979

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzcJImX4Ew

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CNN: What is Houston planning to do with drone planes?

Katie Baker
Raw Story
Monday November 26, 2007

When neighbors noticed black trucks, satellite dishes, swirling radars, and "a portable launch pad, with something covered up" on a Waller County Ranch, they had no idea what to think. CNN's Houston affiliate KPRC has partially solved the mystery: Houston police plan to start using unmanned drone aircraft. But, a question still remains: what, exactly, will the drones be used for?

The mood surrounding Waller County Ranch was highly secretive. At the entrance to the test site stood a Houston police road block, making sure only those invited were let through. HPD lieutenants refused to answer any questions from KPRC reporters, but KPRC still managed to gain footage of the "test [we] were not supposed to see."

"[The] drone was able to use a high-powered camera to track us," says Stephen Dean, who tracked the drone for KPRC. "Those cameras can actually look into people's homes or even follow them in moving cars."

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/261107drone.htm

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The New York Post

9/11 SUITS IN LEGAL LIMBO, GRAVELY ILL LEFT HANGING

By SUSAN EDELMAN

November 25, 2007 -- The judge overseeing the lawsuits of thousands of sick 9/11 rescue workers says he won't speed up trials for several responders described as being "on death's door."

Manhattan federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused a request to set early trials for three World Trade Center workers who suffer severe lung disease.

"I'm not going to do that," Hellerstein said in court Nov. 16. He later heard details in his chambers about retired NYPD detective Michael Valentin, 43, retired NYPD officer Frank Maisano, 41, and Ground Zero morgue volunteer Mary Bishop, 45.

"All three of them are on death's door," lawyer Paul Napoli said.

While sympathetic, Hellerstein said there are too many legal issues to start individual cases, according to lawyers in the conference.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11252007/news/regionalnews/9_11_suits_in__legal_limbo_343414.htm

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'BLAME U.S. FOR 9/11' IDIOTS IN MAJORITY

By ANDY SOLTIS

November 24, 2007 -- Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found.

And that's not the only conspiracy theory with a huge number of true believers in the United States.

The poll found that more than one out of three Americans believe Washington is concealing the truth about UFOs and the Kennedy assassination - and most everyone is sure the rise in gas prices is one vast oil-industry conspiracy.

Sixty-two percent of those polled thought it was "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials turned a blind eye to specific warnings of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Only 30 percent said the 9/11 theory was "not likely," according to the Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.

The findings followed a 2006 poll by the same researchers, who found that 36 percent of Americans believe federal government officials "either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action" because they wanted "to go to war in the Middle East."

http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/11242007/news/nationalnews/blame_u_s__for_9_11_idiots_in_majority_318165.htm

http://www.truthnews.us/?p=966

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Top Police Officer Warns That Nuclear Attack Is Inevitable

Rob Edwards
Sunday Herald
Sunday November 25, 2007

A NUCLEAR attack by terrorists causing widespread panic, chaos and death is inevitable and will happen soon, a senior Scottish police officer has warned.

Ian Dickinson, who leads the police response to chemical, biological and nuclear threats in Scotland, has painted the bleakest picture yet of the dangers the world now faces.

Efforts to prevent terrorist groups from obtaining materials that could be made into radioactive dirty bombs - or even crude nuclear explosives - are bound to fail, he said. And the result will be horror on an unprecedented scale.

"These materials are undoubtedly out there, and undoubtedly will end up in terrorists' hands, and undoubtedly will be used by terrorists some time soon," he declared. "We must plan for failure and prepare for absolute terror."

http://infowars.net/articles/november2007/251107Nuclear.htm

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Yahoo Main Page (Most Popular in the World)

Fake Photos Alter Real Memories

Andrea Thompson
LiveScience Staff Writer
Nov 26, 2007 2 hours, 33 minutes ago

In 2003, Los Angeles Times photographer Brian Walski caused an uproar when it was discovered that his picture of a British soldier yelling at fleeing residents in Iraq, published prominently by many U.S. newspapers, had been altered.

Walski had combined two snapshots taken moments apart of the British solider urging residents to take cover as Iraqi forces opened fire. This digital alteration is one of several in recent years to cast doubt on the old saying that the camera doesn't lie.

Some researchers are worried that digitally altered photos could alter our perceptions and memories of public events.

To test what effect doctored photos might have, researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Padua in Italy showed 299 people aged 19 to 84 either an actual photo or an altered photo of two historical events, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing and the 2003 anti-war protest in Rome.

The original Tiananmen Square image was altered to show a crowd watching at the sidelines as a lone man stands in front of a row of tanks. The Rome anti-war protest photograph was altered to show riot police and a menacing, masked protester among the crowd of demonstrators.

When answering questions about the events, the participants had differing recollections of what happened. Those who viewed the altered images of the Rome protest recalled the demonstration as violent and negative and recollected more physical confrontation and property damage than actually occurred.

Participants who viewed the doctored photos also said they were less inclined to take part in future protests, according to the study, detailed in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology.

"It’s potentially a form of human engineering that could be applied to us against our knowledge and against our wishes, and we ought to be vigilant about it," said UC Irvine psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, who designed the study. "With the addition of a few little upsetting and arousing elements in the Rome protest photo, people remembered this peaceful protest as being more violent than it was, and as a society we have to figure how we can regulate this."

http://www.livescience.com/technology/071126-faked-photos.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071126/sc_livescience/fakephotosalterrealmemories

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IRAQ: The People vs. the Profiteers

Vanity Fair Magazine
by David Rose November 2007

Americans working in Iraq for Halliburton spin-off KBR have been outraged by the massive fraud they saw there. Dozens are suing the giant military contractor, on the taxpayers' behalf. Whose side is the Justice Department on?

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/halliburton200711

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Yahoo Main Page (Most Popular in the World)

Military probe focuses on Iraq contracts

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
November 23, 2007, 1 hour, 41 minutes ago

KUWAIT CITY - The flashy Laila Tower office building in this wealthy oil capital is a world away from the mean streets of Baghdad. But the U.S. government says they are linked by a web of fraud and bribery that stole millions of dollars provided by American taxpayers to support U.S. combat troops in Iraq.

The U.S. military and prosecutors have launched 83 criminal investigations into alleged contract fraud, including a total of $15 million in bribes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071123/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_web_of_fraud

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Ex-Iraq Commander Says Bring Troops Home

By ANNE FLAHERTY - 1 day ago
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top commander in Iraq shortly after the fall of Baghdad, said this week he supports Democratic legislation that calls for most troops to come home within a year.

His comments come as welcomed ammunition for the Democratic-controlled Congress in its standoff with the White House on war spending. This month, the House passed a $50 billion bill that would pay for combat operations but sets the goal that combat end by Dec. 15, 2008. The White House threatened to veto the measure, and Senate Republicans blocked it from passing...

...In October, the three-star general told a group of reporters that the U.S. mission in Iraq was a "nightmare with no end in sight." He also called Bush's decision to deploy 30,000 extra forces to Iraq earlier this year a "desperate attempt" to make up for years of misguided policies in Iraq.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gOShdEIUILz345nMuxV2zAfYWDhgD8T2B6U00

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Pioneering 'heat wave' gun may be used in Iraq

By Philip Sherwell in Quantico, Virginia and Jacqui Goddard
London Telegraph, 21/11/2007

American commanders in Iraq are urging Pentagon chiefs to authorise the deployment of newly-developed heat wave guns to disperse angry crowds or violent rioters.

# In pictures: How I was zapped by a heat wave gun
# US plans new space weapons against China
# Scientists develop material that bounces bullets

But the plea for what senior army officers believe could prove a valuable alternative to traditional firepower in dangerous trouble-spots has so far gone unanswered.

The Active Denial System (ADS) can target crowds from 750 metres away

Washington fears a barrage of adverse publicity in the suspicious Muslim world and is concerned that critics will claim the invisible beam weapons were being used for torture.

Now the US military directorate charged with developing non-lethal weapons, which has invested more than a decade developing the Active Denial System (ADS), has launched a concerted effort to convince both the public and its own bosses at the defence department of the device's merits.

"With brand new technology like this, perception is everything," said Col Kirk Hymes, a former Marine artillery officer who heads the directorate.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/18/wdenial118.xml

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Gun-Grabbers Crank Up Anti-Second Amendment Propaganda

Kurt Nimmo
TruthNews
November 26, 2007

Now that the Supremes have agreed to rule on the Second Amendment, the corporate media has launched a full-court press to convince America it does not have a right to bear firearms.

“Activists on both sides of the steaming debate over guns ought to be able to agree, at the very least, on two things. The first is that the language of the Second Amendment is, grammatically speaking, incomprehensible. The second is that the time has come for clarity from the Supreme Court about whether the “right to bear arms” is an individual or collective one,” writes Andrew Cohen for CBS News.

In fact, the Second Amendment is quite explicit: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Cohen and other gun-grabbers concentrate on “the three, jarring, comma-spliced clauses of the amendment,” that is to say they attack the grammar of the amendment and would have us believe our forefathers were indecisive and “were no more willing or capable of making tough decisions about contentious issues (like gun rights) than are their modern-day counterparts,” that is to say a gaggle of appointed statists determined to dismantle the Constitution.

Cohen is a postmodern apologist for state power over the individual. The Supremes, he declares, “should chart a course that does to the Second Amendment what we long ago did to the First Amendment; identify a strong individual right but allow for that right to be trumped from time to time by certain kinds of regulations.” In other words, the state should agree in principle that the individual has a right to bear firearms but that principle should be “trumped,” that is to say denied, by the exigencies of state power. Put another way, you may have a right to bear arms, at least on paper, but in practice the state will “regulate” (deny) that right.

“So we would then get a Second Amendment that both recognizes our right to own and possess guns and recognizes the government’s ability to restrain that right in certain, yet-to-be-determined ways.”

Nonsense. The founders realized that the individual had a natural, indivisible right to possess firearms precisely because of the nature of state power. It has nothing to do with “certain, yet-to-be-determined” exigencies of the state.

In regard to grammar and the trickery Andrew Cohen has in mind, founder George Mason, who co-authored the Second Amendment, wrote during Virginia’s Convention to Ratify the Constitution in 1788: “I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”

That should resolve Cohen’s grammatical problem, but it will not, of course.

In Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic, Richard Henry Lee wrote: “A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves.”

Zachariah Johnson, arguing in The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, wrote: “The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.”

“And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms,” declared Samuel Adams in the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, August 20, 1789.

George Washington understood well what Cohen and the gun-grabbers do not: “Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”

Thomas Paine knew that “horrid mischief” would ensue if the people were denied their right to arms. “The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside.”

Thomas Jefferson: “Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not.”

http://www.truthnews.us/?p=983

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Yahoo! News

Student group wants more guns on campus

By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer Wed Nov 21, 4:59 AM ET

SAN MARCOS, Texas - Mike Guzman and thousands of other students say the best way to prevent campus bloodshed is more guns.

Guzman, an economics major at Texas State University-San Marcos, is among 8,000 students nationwide who have joined the nonpartisan Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, arguing that students and faculty already licensed to carry concealed weapons should be allowed to pack heat along with their textbooks.

"It's the basic right of self defense," said Guzman, a 23-year-old former Marine. "Here on campus, we don't have that right, that right of self defense."

Every state but Illinois and Wisconsin allows residents some form of concealed handgun carrying rights, with 36 states issuing permits to most everyone who meets licensing criteria. The precise standards vary from state to state, but most require an applicant to be at least 21 and to complete formal instruction on use of force.

Many states forbid license-holders from carrying weapons on school campuses, while in states where the decision is left to the universities, schools almost always prohibit it. Utah is the only state that expressly allows students to carry concealed weapons on campus.

College campuses are different from other public places where concealed weapons are allowed. Thousands of young adults are living in close quarters, facing heavy academic and social pressure - including experimenting with drugs and alcohol - in their first years away from home.

W. Gerald Massengill, the chairman of the independent panel that investigated the Virginia Tech shootings, said those concerns outweigh the argument that gun-carrying students could have reduced the number of fatalities inflicted by someone like Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho.

http://concealedcampus.org/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_re_us/guns_on_campus

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Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendly

NATASHA COURTENAY-SMITH and MORAG TURNER
UK Daily Mail
Friday November 23, 2007

Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy.

But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.

Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.

Incredibly, so determined was she that the terrible "mistake" of pregnancy should never happen again, that she begged the doctor who performed the abortion to sterilise her at the same time.

He refused, but Toni - who works for an environmental charity - "relentlessly hunted down a doctor who would perform the irreversible surgery".

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/231107eco.htm

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Wired Magazine

Is Your Lipstick Full of Lead?

By Brandon Keim EmailOctober 16, 2007 | 2:31:52 PM
Categories: Government, Health

Lips Tests performed by a consumer safety group found that nearly two-thirds of 33 brand-name lipsticks contained lead, often in excess of the FDA's maximums for lead in candy.

The FDA currently sets no limits on lead in lipstick, and while they told the Associated Press that they'll look into the findings, produced by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, they also told the Baltimore Sun that action is unlikely.

Given the recent outcry about lead in toys, it seems strange that the FDA is so nonchalant about this. No, company-run tests on animals haven't found problems -- but were they looking for it? And might it make sense for companies to take some precautions and remove the lead anyways, even if there isn't clear evidence of harm? After all, lead is a dangerous heavy metal, one which poses extra dangers to pregnant women and their babies, and once in your body it doesn't go away.

A Poison Kiss: The Problem of Lead in Lipstick [Campaign for Safe Cosmetics]

Lead detected in U.S.-made lipstick [Baltimore Sun]

FDA to examine claim that lipstick lead levels unsafe [Associated Press]

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/10/is-your-lipstic.html

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'Lady Taser' that can stop a man in his tracks

By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
London Telegraph 20/08/2007

It is a sleek, innocuous-looking gadget a bit like a women's razor that comes in pleasing pink, electric blue, black or silver and can slip easily into a handbag or pocket.

The controversial Taser is used by several police forces worldwide

But the dainty device packs a powerful punch: it can floor a man from 15 feet, overriding brain signals to halt sensory and motor functions with a 50,000-volt jolt - quite the riposte to a cancelled dinner date.

Makers of the "Lady Taser", however, are marketing the new C2 stun gun for self-defence use only for emergencies such as a potential rape or robbery.

That has not calmed the fears of some US law enforcement agencies, who fear it could be open to widespread abuse.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2CZY2AKDIBFILQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/08/17/wtaser117.xml

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Toronto Considers Bottled Water Tax

11-21-2007
City News

As Torontonians get used to the idea of paying the new land transfer tax and vehicle registration fee voted in by city council, there's word of a possible new levy: on bottled water.

According to a published report Mayor David Miller is supportive of a proposal by Parkdale-High Park Councillor Bill Saundercook to add a five cent price hike to water bottled in Ontario and a 10 cent boost to water bottled elsewhere...

...Some North American cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Salt Lake City, have asked municipal employees to stop buying bottled water, and in Ontario the town of Blue Mountains near Collingwood brought in a ban on the items in city buildings for environmental reasons...

...Toronto homeowners will already be paying more for tap water next year as rates are set to rise nine per cent.

http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=5109

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NOW Magazine

No right to remain silent

Supreme Court gives cops the power to ignore your right to keep your mouth shut

By ALAN YOUNG

From watching decades of American television, everyone can intone the standard Miranda warning heard upon arrest: “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you.... Blah, blah, blah.”

But those American cop shows have skewed our perspective on the interrogation process in Canada.

If you ever have the misfortune to be interrogated while in police custody, I would strongly advise you to start speaking in tongues or an obscure foreign language. The police will not listen when you tell them in plain English that you do not wish to speak to them.

And now the Supreme Court has effectively given the police the authority to simply ignore your wish to remain silent.

Two weeks ago (November 1), it upheld the murder conviction of Jagrup Singh, ruling that there was nothing wrong with police peppering him with questions after he clearly told the cops 18 times that he wished to remain silent. Singh provided a few incriminating admissions as a result.

The American Miranda rules prevent an interrogation from proceeding if the suspect has asked that a lawyer be present.

In Canada, once the police provide the right-to-counsel warning, they need only suspend the interrogation until the suspect has been given a "reasonable opportunity" to consult a lawyer. A conversation over the phone suffices.

But if the suspect cannot reach his or her lawyer after a number of attempts, the police will expect the suspect to make use of the 1-800 free duty counsel service.

Regardless of whether you speak to private counsel or a phone centre lawyer, the advice you receive will be simple and blunt: "Keep your mouth shut." Unlike the Miranda rules, there is no constitutional obligation on the part of the police in Canada to advise you of your right to remain silent.

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-11-22/news_story6.php

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 31, 2006

WISCONSIN BANS FORCED HUMAN RFID CHIPPING

Groundbreaking Law Spotlights Opposition to VeriChip

Civil libertarians cheered yesterday upon news that Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed a law making it a crime to require an individual to be implanted with a microchip. Activists and authors Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre joined the celebration, predicting this move will spell trouble for the VeriChip Corporation, maker of the VeriChip human microchip implant.

The VeriChip is a glass encapsulated Radio Frequency Identification tag that is injected into the flesh to uniquely number and identify people. The tag can be read silently and invisibly by radio waves from up to a foot or more away, right through clothing. The highly controversial device is also being marketed as a way to access secure areas, link to medical records, and serve as a payment device when associated with a credit card.

"We're not even aware of anyone attempting to forcibly implant microchips into people," says Albrecht. "That lawmakers felt this legislation was necessary indicates a growing concern that the company's product could pose a serious threat to the public down the road."

http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/verichip-wisconsin-ban.html

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The Washington Post

RFID Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors

By TODD LEWAN
The Associated Press
Saturday, September 8, 2007; 2:04 PM

-- When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost instantly. The FDA found "reasonable assurance" the device was safe, and a sub-agency even called it one of 2005's top "innovative technologies."

But neither the company nor the regulators publicly mentioned this: A series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.

"The transponders were the cause of the tumors," said Keith Johnson, a retired toxicologic pathologist, explaining in a phone interview the findings of a 1996 study he led at the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090800997_pf.html

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Stock plummets as RFID chips linked to cancer reports

Bert Hill , The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Shares of VeriChip Corp. plunged as much as 14 per cent yesterday following a published report linking the implanted microchips it makes to cancer in lab mice and rats.

The Florida company, which develops and makes products in Ottawa, saw the stock experience the biggest decline since it went public early this year.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=7b366985-d943-4061-8313-f7c912c24b6f

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School to track pupils with radio chips sewn into their uniforms

UK Daily Mail
Saturday November 24, 2007

Children are to be tracked in school via radio chips sewn into their uniforms.

The manufacturer is marketing the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) surveillance system nationwide, following a trial with 19 pupils at Hungerhill School in Doncaster this year.

The chip is embroidered into school uniforms using conductive 'smart threads'. A teacher can then scan these to view the pupil's identity, photo, whether they misbehaved in lessons and their school attendence record.

Hungerhill headteacher Graham Wakeling said the pilot was "not intrusive to the pupil in the slightest" because tracking would not go beyond the school's gates.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/241107pupils.htm

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Internet Soon to be “Full,” Government Solution: More Taxes

Kurt Nimmo
TruthNews
Monday November 26, 2007

“Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released last week,” reports the Washington Post. “A flood of new video and other Web content could overwhelm the Internet by 2010 unless backbone providers invest up to $137 billion in new capacity, more than double what service providers plan to invest, according to the study, by Nemertes Research Group, an independent analysis firm. In North America alone, backbone investments of $42 billion to $55 billion will be needed in the next three to five years to keep up with demand, Nemertes said.”

But since most telecoms are monopolies or strive to practice monopolistic business practices, they are not inclined to make the investment required. Instead, as usual, the telecoms will rely on socialism, that is to say corporate socialism - they will expect the government to solve the problem and since the government is a one trick pony and basically an incorrigible thief with a gun, the solution will arise in the form of new taxes.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/261107Internet.htm

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FOX NEWS: Boston Police Go Door To Door To Search For Guns

4 min video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdPH-MDqtlY&eurl=http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/231107Boston.htm

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Medical News Today

Extensive Cell Phone Use Linked To Brain Tumors, Swedish Study

Main Category: Public Health News
Article Date: 01 Apr 2006 - 14:00 PDT

According to a Swedish study, if you spend many years using your cell phone for at least an hour a day your risk of developing a brain tumor is 240% higher than a person who never uses one. The results of this study go against another recent one carried out in the UK and published in January, 2006, which indicated that cell phone use is safe for humans.

The researchers found that even the location of the tumor, for extensive cell phone users over many years, tends to be on the side of the head where the phone is used.

You can read about this study in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health.

The scientists examined cell phone use among 905 people who had a malignant brain tumor and compared them to a control group of 905 healthy people. All the volunteers were aged 20-80.

85 of the 905 people who had a malignant tumor were high users of cell phones (mobile phones) - they started using mobile phones a long time ago, and have used them a great deal, on average for about an hour a day.

According to Kjell Mild, study leader, in an interview with the Reuters news agency, the best way to reduce the risk is to use hands-free.

The team's definition of a extensive use means over 2,000 hours of cell phone use, spread over many years.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/40764.php

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Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request

Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause

By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 23, 2007; Page A01

Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers.

In some cases, judges have granted the requests without requiring the government to demonstrate that there is probable cause to believe that a crime is taking place or that the inquiry will yield evidence of a crime. Privacy advocates fear such a practice may expose average Americans to a new level of government scrutiny of their daily lives.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201444.html

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Yahoo Main Page (Most Popular in the World)

FDA staff urge warnings for two flu drugs

By Kim Dixon 12 minutes ago
November 23, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Food and Drug Administration staffers are recommending new warnings about psychiatric events observed in some patients taking Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Relenza, according to documents released on Friday.

An FDA advisory panel will review the recommendations for the anti-viral influenza drugs at a meeting next week.

The FDA held a similar meeting two years ago in response to reports of a dozen deaths of children in Japan who had been taking Tamiflu.

Experts then found no evidence of a direct connection between the drug and the deaths, although the FDA did ultimately update Tamiflu's label to add a caution urging close monitoring of patients for abnormal behavior such as delirium or self-injury.

In documents prepared for the meeting next week and posted on the FDA's Web site, agency staff recommended that Tamiflu's label be strengthened to note: "In some cases, these behaviors resulted in serious injuries, including death, in adult and pediatric patients."

The FDA staff also reviewed Relenza, a drug in the same class as Tamiflu, recommending its label be changed to note "reports of hallucinations, delirium and abnormal behavior" observed in some patients taking the drug.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071123/us_nm/fda_fludrugs_dc

(Original article printed in full just in case key details have been scrubbed - Ed.)

http://blackkrishna.blogspot.com/2007/11/flu-shots-vs-gardasil-shots-vs-gun.html

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Half Ontario parents refuse HPV vaccine: health official

Charlie Fidelman, The Montreal Gazette
Published: Thursday, November 22, 2007

The Ontario vaccine program that started this fall is floundering, a leading health official said yesterday.

"There are lessons to be learned from the Ontario experience. You don't want to undermine the program before you start," said Dr. Ian Gemmill, the medical officer of health for Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health.

Parents are refusing Gardasil, a newly-developed vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted infection that is identified as the major cause of cervical cancer.

"It's not something that typically we've seen with any other vaccine program we've had," said Dr. Gemmill, who has served on national and provincial committees on communicable diseases and immunization.

Fewer than 50 per cent of parents -- in some Ontario areas it's 28 per cent -- have agreed to vaccinate their girls, Dr. Gemmill told a conference on public health held in Montreal.

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=aa8e5a8c-6975-4410-a128-cfe0dc3168c2

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Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?

Kurt Nimmo
TruthNews
November 22, 2007

According to Jessica Lee of Indypendent and Kamau Karl Franklin of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act was penned with plenty of help from the RAND Corporation.

“Rep. Jane Harman, Democrat from California, has had a lengthy relationship with the Rand Corporation,” Lee tells Democracy Now, although she was unable to determine if RAND wrote the bill. On the 12th anniversary of the OKC bombing, Rep. Harman, as chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, introduced the bill in the House of Representatives.

“The ‘Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007' seeks to address the roots causes of radicalization, and would establish a grant program to provide funds to States to foster badly needed vertical information sharing from the Intelligence Community to the local level and from local sources to state and federal agencies,” explains Harman’s website. “It also creates a Center of Excellence for the Prevention of Radicalization and Home Grown Terrorism to examine the social, criminal, political, psychological and economic roots of domestic terrorism and to propose solutions, and promotes international collaboration on strategies to combat radicalization.”

http://www.truthnews.us/?p=941

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House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill

10-25-2007
Lee Rogers
www.roguegovernment.com

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism.

If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian population of the United States and uses vague language to define homegrown terrorism.

Amazingly, 404 of our elected representatives from both the Democrat and Republican parties voted in favor of this bill. There is little doubt that this bill is specifically targeting the growing patriot community that is demanding the restoration of the Constitution.

First let’s take a look at the definitions of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as defined in Section 899A of the bill.

The definition of violent radicalization uses vague language to define this term of promoting any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda. Since the bill doesn’t specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it is entirely up to the interpretation of the government.

Considering how much the government has done to destroy the Constitution they could even define Ron Paul supporters as promoting an extremist belief system. Literally, the government according to this definition can define whatever they want as an extremist belief system. Essentially they have defined violent radicalization as thought crime. The definition as defined in the bill is shown below.

`(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.

The definition of homegrown terrorism uses equally vague language to further define thought crime. The bill includes the planned use of force or violence as homegrown terrorism which could be interpreted as thinking about using force or violence. Not only that but the definition is so vaguely defined, that petty crimes could even fall into the category of homegrown terrorism. The definition as defined in the bill is shown below.

`(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM- The term `homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

Section 899B of the bill goes over the findings of Congress as it pertains to homegrown terrorism. Particularly alarming is that the bill mentions the Internet as a main source for terrorist propaganda. The bill even mentions streams in obvious reference to many of the patriot and pro-constitution Internet radio networks that have been formed.

It also mentions that homegrown terrorists span all ages and races indicating that the Congress is stating that everyone is a potential terrorist. Even worse is that Congress states in their findings that they should look at draconian police states like Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom as models to defeat homegrown terrorists. Literally, these findings of Congress fall right in line with the growing patriot community.

The biggest joke of all is that this section also says that any measure to prevent violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism should not violate the constitutional rights of citizens. However, the definition of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as they are defined in section 899A are themselves unconstitutional. The Constitution does not allow the government to arrest people for thought crimes, so any promises not to violate the constitutional rights of citizens are already broken by their own definitions.

`SEC. 899B. FINDINGS.

`The Congress finds the following:

`(1) The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism.

`(2) The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.

`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.

`(4) While the United States must continue its vigilant efforts to combat international terrorism, it must also strengthen efforts to combat the threat posed by homegrown terrorists based and operating within the United States.

`(5) Understanding the motivational factors that lead to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence is a vital step toward eradicating these threats in the United States.

`(6) The potential rise of self radicalized, unaffiliated terrorists domestically cannot be easily prevented through traditional Federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts, and requires the incorporation of State and local solutions.

`(7) Individuals prone to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence span all races, ethnicities, and religious beliefs, and individuals should not be targeted based solely on race, ethnicity, or religion.

`(8) Any measure taken to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism in the United States should not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.

`(9) Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit from lessons learned by those nations.

Section 899C calls for a commission on the prevention of violent radicalization and ideologically based violence. The commission will consist of ten members appointed by various individuals that hold different positions in government. Essentially, this is a commission that will examine and report on how they are going to deal with violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism.

So basically, the commission is being formed specifically on how to deal with thought criminals in the United States. The bill requires that the commission submit their final report 18 months following the commission’s first meeting as well as submit interim reports every 6 months leading up to the final report. Below is the bill’s defined purpose of the commission. Amazingly they even define one of the purposes of the commission to determine the causes of lone wolf violent radicalization.

(b) Purpose- The purposes of the Commission are the following:

`(1) Examine and report upon the facts and causes of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States, including United States connections to non-United States persons and networks, violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in prison, individual or `lone wolf' violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence, and other faces of the phenomena of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence that the Commission considers important.

`(2) Build upon and bring together the work of other entities and avoid unnecessary duplication, by reviewing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of--

`(A) the Center of Excellence established or designated under section 899D, and other academic work, as appropriate;

`(B) Federal, State, local, or tribal studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence; and

`(C) foreign government studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence.

Section 899D of the bill establishes a Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States. Essentially, this will be a Department of Homeland Security affiliated institution that will study and determine how to defeat thought criminals.

Section 899E of the bill discusses how the government is going to defeat violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism through international cooperation. As stated in the findings section earlier in the legislation, they will unquestionably seek the advice of countries with draconian police states like the United Kingdom to determine how to deal with this growing threat of thought crime.

Possibly the most ridiculous section of the bill is Section 899F which states how they plan on protecting civil rights and civil liberties while preventing ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism. Here is what the section says.

`SEC. 899F. PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WHILE PREVENTING IDEOLOGICALLY-BASED VIOLENCE AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM.

`(a) In General- The Department of Homeland Security's efforts to prevent ideologically-based violence and homegrown terrorism as described herein shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights, and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.

`(b) Commitment to Racial Neutrality- The Secretary shall ensure that the activities and operations of the entities created by this subtitle are in compliance with the Department of Homeland Security's commitment to racial neutrality.

`(c) Auditing Mechanism- The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Officer of the Department of Homeland Security will develop and implement an auditing mechanism to ensure that compliance with this subtitle does not result in a disproportionate impact, without a rational basis, on any particular race, ethnicity, or religion and include the results of its audit in its annual report to Congress required under section 705.'.

(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting at the end of the items relating to title VIII the following:

It states in the first subsection that in general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United States citizens and lawful permanent residents. How does this protect constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to prevent so called homegrown terrorism.

This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately.

The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.

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