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Obama in 2006: I Have Stolen Ideas From Jon Gruber Liberally

Obama in 2006: I Have Stolen Ideas From Jon Gruber Liberally

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Gruber one of the “brightest minds” that Obama “stolen ideas from liberally”
by Kit Daniels | Infowars.com | November 17, 2014

Despite his recent claim that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber was just “some adviser who never worked on our staff,” President Obama said in 2006 that he had “stolen ideas” from Gruber “liberally.”
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Then U.S. Senator Obama made reference to Gruber while giving a speech at the Brookings Institute, a D.C.-based liberal think tank, on April 5, 2006.

“You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally, people ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice,” he said (emphasis added.)

Obama has been attempting to distance himself from Gruber this past week after the MIT professor famously said the “stupidity of the American voter” was key to getting Obamacare passed, which he helped develop.

But Gruber also revealed in 2012 that while he was developing key parts of Obamacare, the president asked him how the administration could disguise nightmarish facts about it from the American public.

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“…The problem is it’s a political nightmare, and people say ‘no, you can’t tax my benefits,’ so what we did a lot in that room was think a lot about well how could we make this work?” He said about his meeting with Obama.”And [Obama] is really a realistic guy. He was like, ‘look, I can’t just do this.’”

“He said ‘it’s just not going to happen politically. The bill will not pass. How do we manage to get there through phase-ins and other things?’ And we talked about it. He was just very interested in that topic.”

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Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran Who Joined Army Because of 9/11 Writes Last Words to Bush & Cheney

 

Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran Who Joined Army Because of 9/11 Writes Last Words to Bush & Cheney

Posted on November 16, 2014November 16, 2014 by George Orwell’s Ghost Posted in Other News

Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran Who Joined Army Because of 9/11 Writes Last Words to Bush & Cheney

Submitted to Zero Hedge by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Last March, I came across a letter written to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from a paralyzed and dying Iraq war vet named Tomas Young. It touched me to such an extent, that I highlighted it on Liberty Blitzkrieg at the time. He died on Monday, the day before Veterans Day. If you really want to honor our nation’s soldiers, you should read the following and share it.

RIP Tomas Young.

Full letter below from Counterpunch.

My Last Words to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

by TOMAS YOUNG

I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.

I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.

I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.

Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.

I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.

I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.

I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.

My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.

-Thomas Young

What’s so impressive about this letter, beyond the incredible emotion and pain behind it, is the fact that Mr. Young was so prescient about so many issues. He highlighted the debacle that became the Veterans Administration scandal before it broke, and he also pointed to the dangerous power vacuum created in Baghdad before the emergence of ISIS. We lost a special soul on Monday.

Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran Who Joined Army Because of 9/11 Writes Last Words to Bush & Cheney
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Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:04:26 GMT

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UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Obama Administration Must Release Senate Torture Report

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Obama Administration Must Release Senate Torture Report

By: Derrick Broze Nov 14, 2014

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Houston, Texas November 14, 2014 – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture claims the United States use of torture techniques has contributed to a breakdown of international order, stating that “We no longer have a universal moral condemnation of torture.”

Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez spoke at the Rothko Chapel in Houston on Thursday night as part of an event called “Mainstreaming Torture”. Méndez is a lawyer and a human rights activist who experienced torture at the hands of the Argentinean military. He also wrote the book Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights.

Méndez moderated a discussion between Dr. Rebecca Gordon, lecturer at University of San Francisco and author of Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States, and Dr. Sarah Sentilles, Assistant Professor at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

During the discussion Special Rapporteur Méndez stated that the Obama Administration’s use of torture was “a violation of obligations and international law”. He challenged Americans to hold elected officials accountable.

“We must hold the U.S. accountable, to do that we need to release the unredacted Senate report on CIA torture.”

Dr. Gordon gave an empowered breakdown of how torture breaks a persons physical, social, and psychological worlds. “The purpose of torture is not to get information but to destroy those organizations that threaten the state.” She said governments use torture to harm and create fear among the enemy, worry that someone may be giving up valuable information. Dr. Sentilles discussed the various forms of torture including rape, solitary confinement, prisons, slavery, and other forms of mental torture.

After the discussion Special Rapporteur Méndez spoke with me about how the United States looks from an international perspective and as a victim of torture himself. He believes a sense of isolationism and American Exceptionalism are some of the reasons why some Americans support the actions.

The Special Rapporteur also said the United States governments refusal to work with international authorities on the issue has made it easier for other nations to shirk their responsibilities when it comes to international human rights laws. He said the United States seems to think “these rules are all okay, but they do not apply to us.” However, he did say he believes there are portions of the American public who do not support these methods.

“We had a sense of moral condemnation that was truly universal. The nations that tortured denied that they did. Now, after 9/11, we have lost a little bit of the moral high ground. But it can be regained and it should be.”

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Obama Administration Must Release Senate Torture Report
Derrick Broze
Sat, 15 Nov 2014 02:17:43 GMT

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BOOM! Jonathan Gruber: Obama was in the room when we created the Cadillac tax lie, White House records confirm

http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/102571106373/boom-jonathan-gruber-obama-was-in-the-room-when-we

This guy orchestrates and implements deception for a living…and he thinks he’s righteous in doing so.  This human hater is helping to change your world, for the worse.

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This is massive. This Gruber guy is the gift that keeps on giving.

Maybe this piece of juicy news will make the MSM finally cover the story of how the Obama administration blatantly lied to the American people about Obamacare and its tax hikes.

In yet another video, Jonathan Gruber admits that Obama was in the room whenever he created the lie about the Cadillac plan tax hikes. In fact, he was in on how to craft the lie so that the bill would pass. Here’s the video:

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Here’s a portion of the transcript:

Now, the problem is, it’s a political nightmare, … and people say, “No, you can’t tax my benefits.” So what we did a lot in that room was talk about, well, how could we make this work? And Obama was like, “Well, you know” — I mean, he is really a realistic guy. He is like, “Look, I can’t just do this.” He said: “It is just not going to happen politically. The bill will not pass. How do we manage to get there through phases and other things?” And we talked about it. And he was just very interested in that topic.

I know, I know. But how do we know he’s telling the truth? Was he actually in the White House in the summer of 2009? Ummm….yep.

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But didn’t the Obama administration just go on record as saying that they didn’t agree with Gruber’s statements? (hint: yes)

Not only do we disagree with [Gruber’s] comments, they’re simply not true.

That’s strange. Obama might be lying to us?

Just to recap, we have a man who, for all intents and purposes, wrote Obamacare, who describes, in detail how the law was passed because it was written to deceive “stupid” voters, who admits to being in the room with Obama when the deception was crafted, who the Democrats, at one time, praised for writing the law, but are now pretending is some peripheral player in the entire Obamacare debacle and we’re supposed to believe anything that comes out of Washington. Mmmkay.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your modern progressive Democrat party. They would rather walk a thousand miles to tell you a lie than walk across the street to tell you the truth. They knew Obamacare was a massive tax hike on hard working Americans of all income brackets. They knew it was going to cost way more than they told you. They knew you wouldn’t be able to keep your plan, etc. They knew all of these things but they chose to lie to you about it. When should we be outraged?

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Working for ICE ‘is hell right now,’ as Obama plans amnesty for illegals | WashingtonExaminer.com

By Paul Bedard | November 14, 2014 | 5:00 am

Morale among officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, already low, has reached a new bottom as illegal immigrants expecting amnesty from President Obama taunt and ridicule the overworked officers, according to a new report.

“Yes,” said one, “working for this agency is hell right now.”

That was the latest message to immigration policy critic Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies. She has charted the woes of the officers who carry out the president’s orders.

RELATED: Obama to GOP: Immigration action ‘going to happen’ in 2014

In a new paper, she wrote:

“The president’s gradual, calculated dismantling of our immigration system has caused morale to plummet in the agencies of the Department of Homeland Security. Career immigration officials have courageously objected in public, and sometimes resorted to lawsuits to draw attention to the administration’s subversion of the law. In denial about their principled objections to his scheme, now the president is hoping to stifle their voices by offering them a pay increase as part of this outrageous plan. His assumption that they are motivated by money shows just how little respect he has for the men and women who have devoted their careers to public service in immigration.”

Vaughan told Secrets that she has been concerned about morale in ICE and raised the issue with Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson.

RELATED: Obama immigration plan keeps up to 5 million from deportation

She said that officers are concerned that illegals with criminal records are being released under Obama’s policies, and that some immigrants taunt the officers, believing that the policies protect them.

“Some have told me that illegal alien criminals they have arrested have even taunted them, saying they know the ICE officers can’t do anything to them because of Obama administration policies,” Vaughan told Secrets.

The officers have raised the issues at “town hall” meetings with their superiors.

RELATED: 42 percent of new Medicaid signups are immigrants, their children

However, she said, top Homeland officials believe the issue is more about poor pay, not working conditions or the president’s policies. As a result, the White House is considering a pay raise as part of the president’s amnesty plan to some 5 million illegals.

“Clearly the administration is trying to triangulate at best, or more likely thinks that it can just dangle the prospects of a pay raise if they would stop objecting to administration non-enforcement policies,” said Vaughan. “I sincerely doubt anyone will fall for it, but it does reveal what he thinks of them,” she added.

RELATED: Conservatives push short-term spending bill as way to defund ‘amnesty’

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From “Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry”, 1817 by William Wirt

“GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH”
St. John’s Church
Richmond, Virginia
March 23, 1775

No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.

This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty towards the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth — to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?

Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation — the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motives for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?

No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer on the subject? Nothing.

We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer.

Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.

If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patrick Henry

From “Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry”, 1817
by William Wirt

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(U//FOUO) Central Florida Information Exchange Brief: Ebola Guidance for Law Enforcement

 

The following document was obtained from the website of the Central Florida Disaster Medical Coalition.

CFIX-EbolaGuidance

Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Guidance for Law Enforcement, First Responders and Corrections: Identification and Risk Reduction of Ebola Exposure
  • 8 pages
  • For Official Use Only
  • October 29, 2014

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(U//FOUO) The purpose of this brief is to provide law enforcement, first responders, corrections officers, and other personnel who interact with the general public, with guidance and protective measures when coming in contact with individuals demonstrating symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Personnel who become familiar with the identification of possible exposure, proper response protocols and protective measures will be better prepared to respond, secure, transport and decontaminate to prevent further spread of this deadly disease.

(U) BACKGROUND

(U) According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. The CDC is working with other U.S. government agencies, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other domestic and international partners to prevent further spread of the Ebola virus within the United States.

(U) KEY POINTS

(U) Law enforcement, first responders, corrections officers, health care providers and personnel who are in close contact with the general public should be familiar with Ebola signs and symptoms, methods of contamination and guidance on handling claims of illness during routine encounters.

(U) The likelihood of contracting Ebola in the United States is low unless a person has direct unprotected contact with the blood or bodily fluids (like urine, saliva, feces, vomit, sweat, and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola Virus Disease.

(U) Law enforcement, first responders, corrections officers, health care providers and personnel who interact with the general public are at higher risk of coming in contact with an infected individual due to the unique challenges and uncontrolled nature of their work environment. These factors may increase the risk of exposure to blood and bodily fluid during an encounter with a combative subject, or from an ambulatory or custodial transport.

(U) SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

(U) Symptoms of Ebola may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure, although the average is 8 to 10 days. Ebola can only be spread to others after symptoms begin.

(U) Ebola can be spread by direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with a sick person’s blood, bodily fluids. The virus also can be spread through contact with objects (like clothes, bedding, needles, syringes/sharps or medical equipment) that have been contaminated with the virus.

(U) Immediate identification of symptoms is critical for personnel who are exposed or come in direct contact with a potentially infectious person.

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(U//FOUO) Central Florida Information Exchange Brief: Ebola Guidance for Law Enforcement
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Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:46:55 GMT

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Interstellar: A Positive Message for Humanity at the Crossroads of History

 

Daniel Taylor
Activist Post
Can a generation rise out of this and reach for the stars? Can we cut through the programming and believe in ourselves again?

His [Mankind’s] glory is in his humanity and not his race or color. Endowed with freedom of choice, he may descend to the lowest hell or rise to the highest heaven. In him as a person all the moral ends of the universe and all the movement of God’s eternal purpose find meaning and value. – Georgia Harkness, Beliefs That Count

We are living in an age of austerity; An age of decadence and corruption. Media messages have taken on an anti-human tone and the mood of the globe is gloomy and desperate. The establishment has directed its power against the individual; His mind, body and spirit have been targeted in a deliberate campaign to dumb down, destroy and decay mankind rather than inspire and uplift.
This is exactly why we need more films like Interstellar.

Look out over a cityscape and you will likely see a mass of humanity distracted, absorbed in the glowing screens of handheld devices, largely unaware of the approaching crossroads of history. If you are a person of a moral nature, your conscience will tell you to warn them; Empower them and give them information that will help them make the right choice and unleash their true potential. From an elitist standpoint, you might see their mindless state as yet another example of the innate evils of humanity. They are helpless zombies that will eventually be rendered obsolete by the coming robotic age.
The elite of the globe are promoting the idea that mankind is a blight on the earth and will inevitably spread its disease to other planets. A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences titled Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems states that a global one child policy is needed to reduce humanity’s impact on the environment. The report also envisions a scenario in which a global pandemic kills 6 billion people.
Paul Joseph Watson writes, “The authors admit that global fertility rates are already dropping but that “rising affluence-linked population and consumption rates” (in other words – higher standards of living) are contributing to worsening environmental conditions.”
President Obama told a crowd in Africa last year that “…if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over…”
Further driving the knife into the heart of mankind, global warming propaganda ads show children being violently killed to reduce Co2 emissions.
As current political structures falter and uncertainty abounds, we are advancing into a historic 4th turning cycle (More on this here). A major sign of this turning was the recent nationwide rejection of democratic party rule on a scale not seen since the 1920s.
This generation of young people will form the values and principles upon which the next era stands. What kind of world do we want? The state of the world “out there” starts from within your mind body and spirit. Your habits, thoughts, actions, choices and beliefs are all within your circle of influence. These in turn will impact the larger world around you; Whether it is your relationships, health, or political system.
Big government and the tyranny it supports needs you to be fundamentally dis empowered. The media and culture pushed by the establishment is aiding in this agenda by promoting death and a withering of conscience.
In the event that the globe does experience a systemic meltdown, our civilization will be tested in a way it has not been in recent memory. What will happen after the fact? Will we have any kind of foundation to build on? Our culture, the values and ideas it upholds and most promotes will shape our future. Films like Interstellar are playing an important role in re-igniting a flame in our hearts that has been dwindling.
An article written by David Hamilton discusses the perversion of modern art and the corrosive effect it has on civilization. Hamilton writes, “Historically, there were qualities that denoted an idea of civilisation that gave meaning to culture: confidence and a sense of belief in one’s own people that generated a sense of permanence. This was reflected by the arts elite of the day.” Hamilton continues, “There was a self-belief in our society’s values and a desire to receive them from our ancestors and transmit them to our descendants.”
Hamilton concludes, “…now it seems this process is being jettisoned for a vague future that is being artificially constructed by cultural elites.”
Interstellar’s message is resonating with millions because it creates a tribal sense of connection and a longing to carry the fire of humanity into the future. The film is a rejection of the command and control systems being imposed on humanity and a beckoning to break the chains on our pioneering spirit.
The artificial habitat that we live in has seduced us into a sate of complacency. We aren’t exercising the strength that we have as human beings. Our ancestors strove for knowledge and beauty amidst great hardship. Now we are convinced that we are at the end of the road; We don’t need to strive for anything else. We don’t have a reason to rebel. It’s time to break the chains.
Your impact on this critical time period can be as simple as making changes in your personal life, or as big as speaking out on important issues and spreading ideas for change. In a world of rising tyranny and corruption, you can carry the fire of humanity into the future.
The elite of society have told us that humanity is a virus. Global warming is our fault. We are having too many babies. Being a man is inherently evil. Creativity and free thought is stamped out in our schools. Empty shells of human beings are worshiped on television.
Can a generation rise out of this and reach for the stars? Can we cut through the programming and believe in ourselves again?
Daniel Taylor is an independent researcher, activist, and webmaster of oldthinkernews.com. You can find out more about him and his site HERE

Interstellar: A Positive Message for Humanity at the Crossroads of History
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Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:11:00 GMT

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Who will tax the sodas?

 

In addition to a change in control of the Senate, Tuesday’s election also saw voters in Berkeley, California, pass the nation’s first soda tax. Some may dismiss the national significance of this since the average Berkeley voter is much more pro-tax and pro-nanny state than voters elsewhere. However, the anti-soda forces have been emboldened by this victory, and they have a lot more than 12% of a plan.

As Nancy Gagliardi points out in Forbes, the forces behind the war on soda are modeling their efforts on the successful war on tobacco. Like the anti-tobacco crusaders, the anti-soda nannies argue that government has a legitimate role in discouraging soda use since soda contributes to poor health, which contributes to rising health care costs.

Even if the link between soda and poor health outcomes is true, that does not justify soda taxes. For one thing, the new taxes may not discourage hard-core soda drinkers; instead, they will reduce their consumption of other products which may be healthier than sodas. Another reason why soda taxes lead to worse health is they further the idea that individuals are not responsible for the consequences of their own health choices. Instead, it is up to the government to “encourage” us to eat healthy and take care of us if our choices create health problems.

Of course, the notion that the government should have any role in our personal choices is incompatible with a free society.

This does not mean there are no steps the government can take to address unhealthy choices. First, ObamaCare and other federal programs that allow individuals to make the taxpayers bear their poor health care decisions should be repealed. Private charity can effectively address the needs of the poor without weakening individual responsibility for one’s own health.

Secondly, the government can stop subsidizing unhealthy foods. Since government policies encourage Americans to eat unhealthy foods, the movement against soda is another example of how the unintended consequences of one government intervention in the marketplace can be used to justify further government interference with our lives.

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Who will tax the sodas?
Norm Singleton
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Remote Controlled Humans Via Internet in Real-Time Now a Reality (Update)

 

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Every day seems to bring new revelations in the area of neuroscience.

image: University of Washington

Over the past year we have learned that scientists have been working on “neural dust” to create a remote-controlled computer pathway to the brain; that scientists have been successful implanting false memories in mice; an experiment at Harvard enabled a human to remote control a mouse by thought alone; and the world’s first “telepathic e-mail” was sent.
However, when it was announced last year that remote-controlled humans via the Internet became a reality, it was still met with disbelief. The research team from the University of Washington who conducted this experiment is now announcing that they not only have duplicated their original experiment, but believe that they have moved a step closer to making this a viable technology that could be rolled out in the not-too-distant future. Their full press release with video follows our initial report below.
We recently reported on the release of a secret DARPA mind control program at Arizona State University. Part of that research was focused specifically on the attempt to replicate through language the same results obtained with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, which is a way to directly control movements, speech, and one’s perception of reality via electromagnetic waves aimed at the cerebral cortex. Julie Beal also reported on DARPA’s solicitation for portable brain recorders that could eventually be used in every classroom in America. Clearly there is a will to put research into action.

But so far, the ability to remote control an object from a distance with the mind alone has been limited to video games, drones, and the above-mentioned mouse. However, as you can see in the video below, a human-to-human remote link has been established. A researcher was able to control the hand movements of a person jacked in to the “brain net” in a completely different building:
As is typical, researchers are downplaying the technology by stressing that this type of stimulation is only possible through consenting participants. Yet they repeatedly tout how wonderful it is because it is “non-invasive.” With nanotechnology such as that used in neural dust, a pathway can easily be opened non-invasively (or surreptitiously), and control can be achieved wirelessly. Julie Beal has speculated that perhaps this type of wireless control over another human being’s brain contributed to the strange “short circuits” that have been seen in many news reporters. It’s no longer beyond the realm of possibility.
What once was the craziest of conspiracies has now entered the daily news cycle. And there is more to come:

“The Internet was a way to connect computers, and now it can be a way to connect brains,” said researcher Andrea Stocco, assistant professor in psychology at the University of Washington.

[…]

Rao noted that his study managed “a one-way flow of information.”

“The next step is having a more equitable two-way conversation directly between the two brains,” he said.

The future is now; all that remains to be answered is whether or not ethical considerations will evolve along with the technology, or will simply be bypassed altogether. Given that the U.S. Army is funding this research, those who are skeptical of this technology only being used in a beneficial way have quite a bit of historical precedent upon which to base their concern.
UW study shows direct brain interface between humans
by Michelle Ma
(Activist Post emphasis added)
Sometimes, words just complicate things. What if our brains could communicate directly with each other, bypassing the need for language?
University of Washington researchers have successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain connection between pairs of people as part of a scientific study following the team’s initial demonstration a year ago. In the newly published study, which involved six people, researchers were able to transmit the signals from one person’s brain over the Internet and use these signals to control the hand motions of another person within a split second of sending that signal.
At the time of the first experiment in August 2013, the UW team was the first to demonstrate two human brains communicating in this way. The researchers then tested their brain-to-brain interface in a more comprehensive study, published Nov. 5 in the journal PLOS ONE.
“The new study brings our brain-to-brain interfacing paradigm from an initial demonstration to something that is closer to a deliverable technology,” said co-author Andrea Stocco, a research assistant professor of psychology and a researcher at UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. “Now we have replicated our methods and know that they can work reliably with walk-in participants.”
Collaborator Rajesh Rao, a UW professor of computer science and engineering, is the lead author on this work.
The research team combined two kinds of noninvasive instruments and fine-tuned software to connect two human brains in real time. The process is fairly straightforward. One participant is hooked to an electroencephalography machine that reads brain activity and sends electrical pulses via the Web to the second participant, who is wearing a swim cap with a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil placed near the part of the brain that controls hand movements.

A transcranial magnetic stimulation coil is placed over the part of the brain that controls the receiver’s right hand movements. Mary Levin, U of Wash.

Using this setup, one person can send a command to move the hand of the other by simply thinking about that hand movement.
The UW study involved three pairs of participants. Each pair included a sender and a receiver with different roles and constraints. They sat in separate buildings on campus about a half mile apart and were unable to interact with each other in any way – except for the link between their brains.
Each sender was in front of a computer game in which he or she had to defend a city by firing a cannon and intercepting rockets launched by a pirate ship. But because the senders could not physically interact with the game, the only way they could defend the city was by thinking about moving their hand to fire the cannon.

The sender is hooked to an electroencephalography machine that reads brain activity. A computer processes the brain signals and sends electrical pulses via the Web to the receiver across campus.Mary Levin, U of Wash.

Across campus, each receiver sat wearing headphones in a dark room – with no ability to see the computer game – with the right hand positioned over the only touchpad that could actually fire the cannon. If the brain-to-brain interface was successful, the receiver’s hand would twitch, pressing the touchpad and firing the cannon that was displayed on the sender’s computer screen across campus.
Researchers found that accuracy varied among the pairs, ranging from 25 to 83 percent. Misses mostly were due to a sender failing to accurately execute the thought to send the “fire” command. The researchers also were able to quantify the exact amount of information that was transferred between the two brains.
Another research team from the company Starlab in Barcelona, Spain, recently published results in the same journal showing direct communication between two human brains, but that study only tested one sender brain instead of different pairs of study participants and was conducted offline instead of in real time over the Web.
Now, with a new $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, the UW research team is taking the work a step further in an attempt to decode and transmit more complex brain processes.
With the new funding, the research team will expand the types of information that can be transferred from brain to brain, including more complex visual and psychological phenomena such as concepts, thoughts and rules.
They’re also exploring how to influence brain waves that correspond with alertness or sleepiness. Eventually, for example, the brain of a sleepy airplane pilot dozing off at the controls could stimulate the copilot’s brain to become more alert.
(Read a Scientific American article by Rao and Stocco about possible uses of sending thoughts directly between brains.)
The project could also eventually lead to “brain tutoring,” in which knowledge is transferred directly from the brain of a teacher to a student.
“Imagine someone who’s a brilliant scientist but not a brilliant teacher. Complex knowledge is hard to explain – we’re limited by language,” said co-author Chantel Prat, a faculty member at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and a UW assistant professor of psychology.
Other UW co-authors are Joseph Wu of computer science and engineering; Devapratim Sarma and Tiffany Youngquist of bioengineering; and Matthew Bryan, formerly of the UW.
The research published in PLOS ONE was initially funded by the U.S. Army Research Office and the UW, with additional support from the Keck Foundation.
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Updated 11/8/2014

    Remote Controlled Humans Via Internet in Real-Time Now a Reality (Update)
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    U.S. Announces 1,500 More Troops Deployed To Iraq

     

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    Brandon Turbeville
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    On Friday, November 7, it was announced by the Pentagon that U.S. President Barack Obama authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 troops to Iraq under the guise of “fighting ISIS.”
    The Pentagon claims that the troops will not serve in a combat role but in an advisory capacity for the provision of assistance and training to the Iraqi military.
    Anbar province was mentioned as one specific location where the troops will be active. Anbar has been the seen of fierce fighting and extreme acts of brutality committed by IS forces in recent weeks.
    U.S. Central Command is also set to establish centers from which to train 12 Iraqi military brigades. Nine of these brigades are to come from the Iraqi army while three are to come from Kurdish security forces.
    Some members of Congress are already lauding Obama’s new move in Iraq and have wasted no time in calling for even greater measures.

    With the deployment of the 1,500 troops mentioned above, the number of U.S. troops publicly deployed in Iraq will almost double. This number is in addition to those “stay behind” troops that remained in Iraq despite the media’s claim that the United States had pulled out entirely.
    Back in September, I wrote a report on a claim made by PressTV which suggested that that the United States will soon station 13,000 troops inside Iraq in the near future.
    PressTV referred to the Vice President of Iraq’s Saladin Province as having stated that the troops, along with their vehicles, would be stationed at Speicher airfield in Tikrit, a city that is located 87 miles northwest of Baghdad.
    Although, the recent announcement by Barack Obama and the Pentagon is nowhere near 13,000 troops, the trend is progressing in that direction.
    We will continue to follow these develops closely.
    Recently from Brandon Turbeville:

    Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria. Turbeville has published over 300 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV.  He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.

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    West Virginia: Forcing Children to Become Autistic, by LAW

     

    Jack Mullen
    Activist Post
    Dr. William Thompson, Senior Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control, publicly admitted in August 2014 that the CDC covered up data linking the MMR vaccine to Autism in 1998, since then nothing at all has been done; children are still lining up to play Russian Roulette with ‘shots’ of Autism.
    See this article.
    New evidence, shown in link just below, presents even more convincing and damning revelations the CDC, FDA, NIH, Planned Parenthood and likely other United Nations cover operations are purposefully maiming and killing our children.
    The article entitled “Finally the Truth: Study Links Autism to Vaccines of “Aborted Babies” Cells”, announces a study showing “increases in Autism rates directly linked to the introduction of vaccines manufactured using human fetal cells from aborted babies. ” The study, published in the September 2014 in the Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, “was designed to analyze whether or not the environment factor of fetal cells could be connected with the rise in Autism.”
    The actual study is located here.
    According to the study “Researchers identified three specific change points in the U.S. between 1970 and 2002 following the approval in 1979 of the MMR II and Varivax Chickenpox vaccines, which used the fetal cell line WI-38, instead of animal-based cells. The Late 1980 study by the EPA confirmed one of the change points in which the incidence of Autism rose significantly in the U.S. as well as points in other countries. Each of these points corresponds to the times that a vaccine containing DNA from aborted babies was added to the recommended vaccine schedule.” [emphasis added] IBID

    Worse yet “Not only are the human fetal contaminated vaccines associated with autistic disorder throughout the World but also with epidemic childhood leukemia and lymphomas.” IBID
    With more and more babies being aborted, the irony of rising Autism rates, rising in direct proportion to “the increasing numbers of human fetal manufactured vaccines which have been added to the US immunization guidelines”, should be interpreted as a wake-up call to those thinking nature will not push back against anti-life activities.
    NO ONE will stand up for your children except you; The government is not on your side and will not stop harming the children, the economics of the vaccine deception are enormous. The vaccine industrial cartel is an integrated, well funded, viper prepared to do just about anything to continue the insurance covered vaccine cash cow.
    The state of West Virginia has been notified and the above information is in the public domain and yet NO ACTION AT ALL has been taken to stop the forced maiming and possible death.
    No standard waiver is available at all and medical waivers are difficult and many times impossible to get and politically instead of a matter of policy, local health departments have the final say.
    Even providing evidence of likely allergic reaction to a vaccine is not sufficient for the State and local health departments to “grant” a vaccine waiver to a child.
    By the time a child is 18 months old he or she will have received on average:
    Up to 4 doses of the Hepatitis B Vaccine

    • 3 doses of the rotavirus vaccine
    • 4 doses of the DTaP
    • 4 doses of the Hib vaccine
    • 4 doses of the pneumococcal vaccine
    • 3 doses of the polio vaccine
    • up to 2 doses of the flu vaccine
    • 2 doses of the hepatitis A vaccine
    • 1 MMR shot
    • 1 chickenpox shot

    http://www.smartvax.com/index.php

    And it has been shown infant mortality increases with the number of vaccine does given; children in the United States are forced to endure 38 doses of vaccines by the age of 18 months. – IBID
    Additionally, vaccines are related to increases in autoimmune diseases, IQ decreases and cancer. Toxins, like formaldehyde are used in vaccines and “linked to several types of cancers, including Leukemia. Formaldehyde has been used in the Anthrax vaccine, DT, DTaP, Hib, HPV, Hep A, Hep B, Influenza, Meningitis, Polio, and more. Many of these vaccines are administered to children, and schools won’t allow your children to attend classes unless they’ve received them. 25 of the 53 vaccines listed by the CDC have this known carcinogen in them.” (Source)
    Additionally, other brain damaging ingredients like aluminum are used in DTaP and other vaccines and the once ubiquitous thimerosal (mercury), is still damaging brains in the flu vaccine.
    Have all these vaccines improved the health and well being of our children?
    According to Dr. Mercola at mercola.com:

    During the past 30 years, the number of vaccinations our children receive has tripled, and during that same period of time, the number of children with learning disabilities, ADHD, asthma and diabetes has also more than tripled!

    According to Mercola

    More than twice as many children have chronic brain and immune system dysfunction today than they did in the 1970s when half as many vaccines were given to children.

    Mercola’s article is dated 2010 and in his study he found the Autism rate to be 1 in 110 children; 4 years later the rate has nearly doubled to approximately 1 in 68, according to known liars the CDC, and as high as 1 in 50 by other researchers. (Source)
    Isn’t it time this stops?
    Its all about the money according to a report from 2010 entitled “Pipeline and Commercial Insight: Pediatric and Adolescent Vaccines,” written by vaccine analyst Hedwig Kresse: “the pediatric and adolescent vaccine market will quadruple from approximately $4.3 billion in 2006, to over $16 billion by 2016, across the US, the EU-five including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, and Japan.” (Source)
    Other researchers estimate the market for vaccines to be $40 billion in 2015. (Source)
    In addition to the money pocketed by big pharmaceuticals, lets not forget the money pocketed by politicians as lobbyist spend more than $1 billion a year in DC influencing legislation, the health care lobby spending $487,222,221 in 2013 and more than half was spent by the pharmaceutical lobby at $228,219,456. (Source)
    How much is spent in West Virgina to continue being the worst State in the United States for obtaining a waiver is yet unknown.
    Childhood is a time when adults have the responsibility to protect their children, America’s future, from predators of all kinds. It is a time for children to play and feel healthy and safe. Children need their parents and moral members of public child advocacy groups and officials to stand up against harm being done to children.
    Criminal governments with financial ties to big pharmaceutical companies are no less a predator. Medical tyranny operates under the cover of pretended authority and moral superiority sold with saccharine pseudo concern for the welfare of Citizens.
    Vaccines are at the center of a growing lucrative and enslaving medical tyranny damaging the lives of children and adults every day; vaccine pushing is reaching levels of insanity as States, workplaces, schools and other ‘authorities’ insinuate themselves as the decider of issues for which none have any liability when the decision goes bad. Expect Ebola to be used for the next level attack on Americans with vaccines.
    Parents and individuals own their own body; the body is a personal temple and its contents are the intellectual and physical property of the owner.
    It is time for all parents and anyone concerned about America’s future to stand up to tyrants, misanthropes, psychopaths and rapacious robber barons sucking the last nickle from a bankrupt society by forcing, through fear hysteria and false claims of efficacy, and soon likely the barrel of a gun, deadly and sickening, long ago debunked, vaccines on the population.
    Contact the WV Health Departments and local Health Departments and provide them with the facts in writing. Call your State Representatives and demand the State stop forcing children into Autism, cancer, death and other long term life affecting damage: Stop the Shots NOW …
    More information on vaccines and aborted fetal cells
    http://www.rtl.org/prolife_issues/LifeNotes/VaccinesAbortion_FetalTissue.html
    Jack Mullen has been a businessman for more than 25 years, owning 3 radio stations, several technology based companies and a resource development company

    West Virginia: Forcing Children to Become Autistic, by LAW
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