USGS Report on Yellowstone Super-Eruption: Cities 300 Miles Away Would be Covered in 3 Feet of Ash –

USGS Report on Yellowstone Super-Eruption: Cities 300 Miles Away Would be Covered in 3 Feet of Ash –.

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If the massive supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park erupted again, scientists believe it would blanket much of the United States in ash and potentially sever communication as well as travel between the country’s coasts.

According to a new study published by the US Geological Survey, cities about 300 miles away from the volcano’s location in Wyoming would be covered in up to three feet of ash as a result of a supereruption, the largest kind of volcanic eruption possible. More than 240 cubic miles of material would be expelled into the atmosphere, reaching cities like New York and Los Angeles on both sides of the United States.

In fact, the resulting ash cloud, or “umbrella,” as scientists called it, would be so strong that it would overpower normal wind patterns in North America, potentially grounding all air travel throughout the entire continent and radically altering the region’s climate. Electronic communication between the US’ East and West Coasts could also become complicated, if not hopeless.

“In essence, the eruption makes its own winds that can overcome the prevailing westerlies, which normally dominate weather patterns in the United States,” geologist and lead author of the study Larry Mastin said in a press release“This helps explain the distribution from large Yellowstone eruptions of the past, where considerable amounts of ash reached the West Coast.”

In addition to taking out air travel, even just a couple of centimeters of ash accumulation would make driving accidents far more likely, due to reduced traction on roads. People would likely suffer from ash-related respiratory problems, while several inches of ash could damage buildings and jam water and sewage systems.

View of the 'Sunset Lake' hot spring with it's unique colors caused by brown, orange and yellow algae-like bacteria called Thermophiles, that thrive in the cooling water turning the vivid aqua-blues to a murkier greenish brown, in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (AFP Photo / Mark Ralston)

View of the ‘Sunset Lake’ hot spring with it’s unique colors caused by brown, orange and yellow algae-like bacteria called Thermophiles, that thrive in the cooling water turning the vivid aqua-blues to a murkier greenish brown, in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (AFP Photo / Mark Ralston)

Although the consequences of such a powerful eruption are obviously serious, geologists still believe another explosion is unlikely at this point. The Yellowstone supervolcano has generated this kind of eruption at least three times in its history: once 2.1 million years ago, another 1.3 million years ago, and a third time about 640,000 years ago

With millions of tons of lava located underneath the supervolcano – last year the reservoir was found to be 2.5 times larger than previously thought – a supereruption would likely affect the entire world, not just the US or North America.

It would be a global event,” Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah told the Associated Press last year. “There would be a lot of destruction and a lot of impacts around the globe.”

Fears over a possible eruption have spiked occasionally over the last few months, with a 4.8-magnitude earthquake striking the Yellowstone park earlier this year causing some to speculate that volcanic activity was to blame. As RT reported in July, one of the park’s major roads melted this summer as a result of extreme heat from the supervolcano.

Still, geologists say the chances of an eruption are unlikely.

There is no evidence that a catastrophic eruption at Yellowstone National Park (YNP) is imminent,” the University of Utah Seismograph Station said in April. “Current geologic activity at Yellowstone has remained relatively constant since earth scientists first started monitoring some 30 years ago. Though another caldera-forming eruption is theoretically possible, it is very unlikely to occur in the next thousand or even 10,000 years.”

Courtesy of RT.com

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NASA is building an air traffic control system for drones | The Verge

NASA is building an air traffic control system for drones | The Verge.

Space agency says system will be used for agriculture next year

By Rich McCormick on September 1, 2014 09:04 pm

 

NASA is developing an air traffic control system for drones. The New York Times reports the US space agency is working on creating a management system for vehicles that fly at around 400 to 500 feet off the ground — much lower than conventional aircraft — at its Moffett Field base around four miles from Google’s Mountain View headquarters. The system would check for other low-flying drone traffic, help the small unmanned vehicles avoid buildings, and scan for adverse weather conditions that might knock a drone out of the sky.

NASA’S DRONE TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTERS WILL BE AUTOMATED

 

While the drone system would follow the same principles as full-fledged air traffic control, the NYTsays its control center would be fully automated. Parimal H. Kopardekar, the NASA principal researcher managing the program, said that the first applications for the system would be in sparsely populated areas, performing such tasks as monitoring oil pipelines or crops. “In agriculture,” Dr. Kopardekar said, “I’m hoping we will see some action inside of the next year.”

Huge companies are staking bets on drone delivery as the future of retail. Amazon and Google have both announced programs that will see items sent through the air to their customers, but both corporations are ahead of legislation — while hobbyists can use drones if they don’t endanger others, the Federal Aviation Administration still prohibits the commercial use of drones. NASA’s planned traffic control system could come in useful soon — an FAA spokesperson told the NYT that the body planned to publish rulings for unmanned drones later this year, despite reports of delays — but Google expects it to be between “a few years but less than a decade” before the unmanned aerial vehicles are delivering toothpaste and electrical appliances onto our doorstep.

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350 More U.S. Troops to Iraq, White House Announces – ABC News

350 More U.S. Troops to Iraq, White House Announces – ABC NewsBy @c_good @LMartinezABC

Sep 2, 2014 9:04pm

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Two F/A 18 fighter jets dropped laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Erbil, Aug. 9, 2014 ABC News photo.

An additional 350 U.S. troops will go to Iraq to protect U.S. personnel stationed in Baghdad, the White House announced today.

The State Dept. had requested extra military personnel for security, and after the Department of Defense reviewed that request and recommended it be granted, President Obama approved the additional forces today, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest announced in a statement to reporters.

“The additional forces will not serve a combat role,” Earnest wrote. In today’s daily press briefing, Earnest again reiterated Obama’s stance that the U.S. will not send combat troops to fight on Iraq.

Obama Rules Out Sending American Troops ‘Back into Combat’ in Iraq

Obama To Send Up To 300 U.S. Military Advisers To Iraq

A U.S. official said the 350 new troops headed to Baghdad are a mix of Marines and Army personnel already serving in the U.S. Central Command’s theater of operations, which stretches from Egypt eastward through the Middle East and Turkey, up to Kazakhstan.

This deployment will bring to 820 the total of U.S. forces responsible for augmenting diplomatic security in Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said in a statement to reporters, noting that a total of 405 military personnel will go to Baghdad, allowing 55 currently stationed there to leave Iraq.

While these troops will provide security, Earnest noted that the U.S. will continue helping Iraqi troops fight ISIS. U.S. bombs have continued to fall on ISIS targets in northern Iraq, in support of Kurdish forces fighting ISIS west if Erbil, since Obama authorized the airstrike campaign just over three weeks ago. Last week, the U.S. military expanded its anti-ISIS campaign southward to assist Shiite Turkmen surrounded by ISIS forces in the town of Amirli, and the Pentagon announced another airstrike there over the weekend.

On Thursday, the president will attend a NATO summit in Wales, where he will gather with U.S. allies that have expressed fears about the threat of ISIS, particularly as it has recruited large numbers of fighters from European nations.

“The president will be consulting this week with NATO allies regarding additional
actions to take against ISIL and to develop a broad-based international coalition to implement a comprehensive strategy to protect our people and to support our partners in the fight against ISIL,” Earnest wrote, hinting at broader cooperating and potential action.

Obama is also sending top advisers to the region, Earnest announced: Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and top White House counter-terrorism adviser Lisa Monaco will travel separately to the Middle East “in the near term to build a stronger regional partnership,” Earnest wrote

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No Daylight for US Govt Photos, Video That May Show Gitmo Torture | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

No Daylight for US Govt Photos, Video That May Show Gitmo Torture | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community.

No Daylight for US Govt Photos, Video That May Show Gitmo Torture

Court says CIA and other agencies can keep footage secret for ‘national security’ reasons

A protester in an orange jumpsuit and black hood stands outside of the Capitol. (Photo: takomabibelot)

The government can withhold photographs and videotapes—some of which may contain footage of torture and mistreatment—of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed al-Qahtani, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Though never tried nor convicted of any specific crime, the government has accused al-Qahtani of being the “20th 9/11 hijacker” after he was refused entry to the country just weeks prior to the attack. He was later apprehended in Pakistan and taken to the American offshore prison where he has remained ever since.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in 2012 filed a FOIA lawsuit (PDF) against the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the CIA, arguing that the release of photographs and video footage of al-Qahtani’s interrogation and imprisonment would serve the public interest. The government previously admitted to possessing six mugshots of al-Qahtani, 53 videotapes of him in his cell, two videotapes showing intelligence briefings, and one video showing two “forced cell extractions.”

But the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that publishing images of al-Qahtani “could logically and plausibly be used by anti-American extremists as propaganda to recruit members and incite violence against American interests at home and abroad.” The decision upheld a previous ruling by the District Court, which said that the government had “met its burden” of proving that photos and video footage of al-Qahtani could be kept secret “in the interest of ‘national defense or foreign policy.'”

Al-Qahtani has been held at Guantanamo since 2001. Authorities claimed that al-Qahtani narrowly missed being one of the hijackers on September 11 when he was denied entry into the U.S. at an Orlando, Florida, airport a month earlier, an accusation that led to his infamous moniker. In 2008, seven years after his imprisonment began, the Defense Department accused him of terrorism and war crimes, among other charges, but dropped its case against him a few months later with no explanation. Al-Qahtani later repudiated all of his statements and testified — corroborated by records published by CCR — that he had falsely confessed to the crimes under torture.

CCR said FBI and military personnel subjected al-Qahtani to isolation, sleep deprivation, physical and sexual pain and humiliation, forced hydration, and other so-called “interrogation methods” that a top military official later said threatened his life and amounted to torture, resulting in her decision to drop the case.

“This was not any one particular act; this was just a combination of things that had a medical impact on him, that hurt his health,” Susan J. Crawford, who took Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ position as Convening Authority of the military commissions, toldthe Washington Post in 2009. “It was abusive and uncalled for. And coercive. Clearly coercive.”

“We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani,” Crawford said. “His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that’s why I did not refer the case” for prosecution.

Al-Qathani’s lawyer and CCR staff attorney Gitanjali S. Gutierrez told TIME in in 2006 that her client “painfully described how he could not endure the months of isolation, torture and abuse, during which he was nearly killed, before making false statements to please his interrogators.”

In its lawsuit, CCR stated that accepting the District Court’s original “propaganda” justification for withholding the photos would allow the government to “disregard the people’s right to a transparent government whenever there is a distant risk that someone, somewhere could respond with violence.”

“To this day, Mr. al Qahtani has not received any therapeutic medical evaluation of or treatment for the physical or psychological injuries from his abuse,” CCR said in a statement when it released the records. “He continues to suffer from ongoing psychological pain and suffering arising from his torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Despite evidence of U.S. officials’ responsibility for and complicity in his torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, no U.S. official has ever been held accountable.”

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Halliburton Gulf Oil Spill Settlement Will Shield Company from Billions in Liability | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Halliburton Gulf Oil Spill Settlement Will Shield Company from Billions in Liability | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community.

Halliburton Gulf Oil Spill Settlement Will Shield Company from Billions in Liability

Legal victory behind it, Halliburton expected to pursue new oil profits

Halliburton headquarters  in north Houston, Texas. (Photo: WhisperToMe / Public Domain)

Halliburton’s $1.1 billion settlement, announced Tuesday, for its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill will likely shield the company from being held liable for billions of dollars in damages in the future.

The company, which was contracted by BP to cement the Macondo oil well, stands accused of doing defective work and thus paving the way for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, which killed 11 workers, spilled millions of gallons of oil into Gulf waters, and continues to pollute beaches and harm public health in affected areas.

Both Halliburton and BP have exchanged accusations and lawsuits charging that the other company is responsible for the faulty well. While a White House Panel report, released in 2011, assigned responsibility to BP, Transocean, and Halliburton for the spill, a federal judge in 2012 ruled that BP bears the bulk of the liability for damages.

In October 2013, Halliburton pleaded guilty to criminal charges of destroying evidence related to the oil spill.

Experts say the agreement, which settles most of Halliburton’s cases with people, small businesses, and government entities, will likely help the company avoid billions of dollars in payouts. “It’s actually a pretty decent settlement for [Halliburton],” Rob Desai, an analyst at Edward Jones in St. Louis, told Bloomberg. “This eliminates an overhang.” The settlement still must be approved by the federal court in Louisiana.

The New York Times adds:

Legal scholars following the case said that Halliburton was making a calculated judgment that it was preferable to agree to pay the relatively modest $1.1 billion than face larger liabilities in the future. They said the settlement should resolve most of its remaining liability for the spill, even if the company is found to have been grossly negligent by Judge Carl J. Barbier of Federal District Court in New Orleans.

While the company insists that the agreement includes no admission of liability for the disaster, David Uhlmann, a law professor at the University of Michigan and a former chief of the Justice Department’s environmental crimes section, told the New York Times that “the company would never have agreed to pay more than a billion dollars unless there was substantial evidence that it was negligent.”

Bloomberg reports, “With its biggest piece of liability resolved, Halliburton can refocus its attention on developing new oilfield technology that will help it boost profits worldwide.”

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» Feds Retaliate Against Border Agent for Speaking to Media Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

» Feds Retaliate Against Border Agent for Speaking to Media Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!.

FEDS RETALIATE AGAINST BORDER AGENT FOR SPEAKING TO MEDIA

Federal agency relying on intimidation tactics to silence potential future whistleblowers
Feds Retaliate Against Border Agent for Speaking to Media

Image Credits: ABC 10 News

by ADAN SALAZAR | INFOWARS.COM SEPTEMBER 3, 2014


A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent has been disciplined after talking to the press concerning the total lack of security on the nation’s southern border.

Ron Zermeno, a Border Patrol union representative working the San Diego sector, was one of the few field agents willing to comment on the recent illegal immigrant surge prior to a federal gag order prohibiting agents from speaking to the media.

In letters obtained by National Review Online, the agency claims Zermeno disclosed to news outlets that the Border Patrol was “understaffed,” and that sending more illegals for processing in Murietta, Cali., would leave “no agents patrolling” the border. He also disclosed general information regarding the number of immigrants sent to different facilities and how many were in quarantine.

Zermeno subsequently received a letter back in July charging that he committed “unauthorized disclosure” of operational information, and that he “failed to follow instructions” when he passed supposed “law enforcement sensitive” information to the media, which the feds claimed compromised their activities.

“Your failure to follow instructions negatively affected the agency,” the proposal posited. “Your actions not only put the agents involved in those operations at risk but also the detainees.”

follow up letter shows the agency made good on their proposal.

“Your actions constituted a breach of your duty to safeguard sensitive operational information disseminated to law enforcement personnel only,” wrote Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Kathleen Scudder to Zermeno last month. “Therefore, this action is necessary to impress upon you the seriousness of your actions and deter you from such future misconduct.”

Zermeno’s punishment apparently consisted of merely placing a copy of that letter in his “Official Personnel Folder for a period not to exceed two (2) years,” and a warning not to do it again.

A senator who had worked with Zermeno in the past told National Review he saw no problems with the information the agent spoke on.

“We’ve reviewed, and I’ve reviewed his comments, and I don’t think he has released anything that would violate law-enforcement sensitivities,” Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn said. “I can’t see what he released that would have done any harm, but I’m willing to keep an open mind to that. I just don’t see it. I think he’s a good American who’s done the right thing.”

Furthermore, Coburn asserted agents should “have a right to speak with Congress and/or the Inspector General” and that reprimanding such behavior created a “culture of retaliation.” He revealed as much in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson in July, in which he wrote:

“I have recently learned that some of these individuals fear retaliation for speaking with my office. This is unacceptable… A culture of retaliation continues to permeate throughout DHS, specifically the Border Patrol, and I ask that you work with me to correct this. Viewpoints and information from individuals should not be thwarted.”

These are “literally the guys with the lantern saying ‘the British are coming,’ right? You want to embrace their criticism to be a better department,” Coburn says, adding that the move was an intimidation tactic. The feds are almost treating this as a test case where they want to sort of strong-arm, overreact, to make all other people who are thinking of coming forward hesitant.”

Indeed, the slap-on-the-wrist reprimand’s lack of teeth suggests the agency is more interested in sending a message to potential future whistleblowers, and not so concerned with the “sensitive” intel Zermeno supposedly revealed.

The federal government’s “culture of retaliation” apparently extends to members of the press as well.

Last July, Infowars reporter Kit Daniels received a certified letter from the US Defense Department after reporting from the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. The letter absurdly claimed Daniels had engaged in “unauthorized photography and broadcast” which was somehow “detrimental” to the “safety and security of the installation,” despite that Daniels was merely carrying out his role as an inquisitive journalist and reporting in the public’s best interest on how taxpayer monies were being used to house the influx.

News of the agent’s punishment comes on the heels of a Judicial Watch report revealing an imminent threat posed to the U.S. by the terror group ISIS emanating from Ciudad Juarez, which sources warned was “coming very soon.”

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Food Forests For Healthy Organic Food For Everyone – For Free – Zen Gardner

Food Forests For Healthy Organic Food For Everyone – For Free – Zen Gardner.

Food Forests For Healthy Organic Food For Everyone – For Free

by Elle – Sep 1, 2014

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Andrew Martin

Collective Evolution

Food forests or Forest gardening have been around for a long time with many of the native cultures practicing this form of sustainable agriculture. It is a form of low-maintenance plant-based food production which replicates natural ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, running vines and perennial vegetables. Beneficial plants and companion planting is a big part of the food forest system.

Unlike much of the modern industrial agricultural system which relies heavily of inputs such as fossil fuels and artificial herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers, a food forest once established is self-regulating and highly abundant in yield. 

Why Food Forests?

  • Forests are home to approximately 50-90% of all the world’s terrestrial (land-living) biodiversity — including the pollinators and wild relatives of many agricultural crops (Source: WWF Living Planet Report 2010)
  • Tropical forests alone are estimated to contain between 10-50 million species – over 50% of species on the planet.
  • Rainforests cover 2% of the Earth’s surface and 6% of its land mass, yet they are home to over half of the world’s plant and animal species. 

It is evident that forests themselves are synonymous with life, biodiversity and fertility. Where life gathers, complex and mutually beneficial relationships are created between organisms; natural harmonious communities form, and life forms multiply and proliferate. If forests are where most of the life on the planet is, then anything less than a forest is most likely less suited to supporting life. Life supports life, yet we have forgotten that we are in fact part of the web of life itself, and depend on other life to sustain ours.(1)

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Unfortunately society has been conditioned to clear the land and create unsustainable fields which need high inputs to be maintained. Food forests are abundant and can yield significantly more than the conventional farming and mono cropping that dominates much of the industrial landscape today. As well as being high yielding food forests are high in biodiversity and life. Food forests can be developed and grown in most climate zones and because they involve vertical stacking are great for suburban and urban areas. Check out this clip to see how a couple have transformed a traditional suburban landscape into a highly productive forest garden.

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The Layers Of A Food Forest

1. Canopy or Tall Tree Layer
Typically over 30 feet (~9 meters) high. This layer is for larger Forest Gardens. Timber trees, large nut trees and nitrogen-fixing trees are the typical trees in this category. There are a number of larger fruiting trees that can be used here as well depending on the species, varieties and rootstocks used.

2. Sub-Canopy/Large Shrub Layer
Typically 10-30 feet (3-9 meters) high. In most Forest Gardens, or at least those with limited space, these plants often make up the acting Canopy layer. The majority of fruit trees fall into this layer.

3. Shrub Layer
Typically up to 10 feet (3 meters) high. The majority of fruiting bushes fall into this layer. Includes many nut, flowering, medicinal and other beneficial plants as well.

4. Herbaceous Layer
Plants in this layer die back to the ground every winter… if winters are cold enough, that is. They do not produce woody stems as the Shrub layer does. Many cullinary and medicinal herbs are in this layer. A large variety of other beneficial plants fall into this layer.

5. Groundcover/Creeper Layer
There is some overlap with the Herbaceous layer and the Groundcover layer; however plants in this layer are often shade tolerant, grow much closer to the ground, grow densely to fill bare patches of soil, and often can tolerate some foot traffic.

6. Underground Layer
These are root crops. There are an amazing variety of edible roots that most people have never heard of. Many of these plants can be utilized in the Herbaceous Layer, the Vining/Climbing Layer, and the Groundcover/Creeper Layer.

7. Vertical/Climber Layer
These vining and climbing plants span multiple layers depending on how they are trained or what they climb all on their own. They are a great way to add more productivity to a small space, but be warned. Trying to pick grapes that have climbed up a 60 foot Walnut Tree can be interesting to say the least.

8. Aquatic/Wetland Layer
This is my first new layer to the Forest Garden. Some will say that a forest doesn’t grow in the water, so this layer is inappropriate for the Forest Garden. I disagree. Many forests have streams flowing through or ponds in the center. There are a whole host of plants that thrive in wetlands or at the water’s edge. There are many plants that grow only in water. To ignore this large list of plants is to leave out many useful species that provide food, fiber, medicinals, animal feed, wildlife food and habitat, compost, biomass, and maybe most important, water filtration through bioremediation (or phytoremediation). We are intentionally designing Forest Gardens which incorporate water features, and it is time we add the Aquatic/Wetland Layer to the lexicon.

9. Mycelial/Fungal Layer
This is my second new layer to the Forest Garden. Fungal networks live in healthy soils. They will live on, and even within, the roots of plants in the Forest Garden. This underground fungal network transports nutrients and moisture from one area of the forest to another depending on the needs of the plants. It is an amazing system which we are only just beginning to comprehend. As more and more research is being conducted on how mycelium help build and maintain forests, it is shocking that this layer has not yet been added to the list. In addition to the vital work this layer contributes to developing and maintaining the forest, it will even provide mushrooms from time to time that we can utilize for food and medicine. If we are more proactive, we can cultivate this layer intentionally and dramatically increase our harvest. (2)

Seattle built a food forest, you can see more about that here.

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Why Does the Whole "ISIS" Thing Fit In So Perfectly With The PNAC Plan?

Why Does the Whole “ISIS” Thing Fit In So Perfectly With The PNAC Plan?.

Why Does the Whole “ISIS” Thing Fit In So Perfectly With The PNAC Plan?

August 29, 2014
Truth and art TV article
Contributed by Bernie Suarez
ISIS Psyop




Here are some simple burning questions whose answers can only be described by the globalist plans for a new world order. These questions strike at the root of the question all of humanity is asking: Who is ISIS ?

1. Where do they bank? Or do they have a money tree?
2. Where do they get their guns from? Bullets? Knives?
3. Where do they eat, how do they get their food?
4. Where do they sleep, where do they get toiletries?
5. Where is their military base? They DO stick together right?
6. Since we know where they are why can’t they simply be rounded up in a way that doesn’t involve any nation attacks? But wait …
7. Who is their leader and how did he learn to outsmart the world’s greatest military and outperform all generals in U.S. history?
8. How does ISIS avoid NSA surveillance?
9. How do they communicate and avoid all communication systems at the same time?
10. How do they avoid military and government satellite surveillance and tracking?
11. How does the mainstream media and all the CIA pundits on TV like Colonel Anthony Shaffer know so much about how dangerous ISIS is yet they know nothing else like where they got their weapons from or how they were created? Oh wait, how did Shaffer obtain his knowledge about them? Who specifically did he speak to?
12. Why is the (CIA) chain of command that ISIS responds to not reported by mainstream media?
13. When did the first ISIS meeting take place and why?
14. Why is the simple facts about the creation of ISIS so clear and documented in the alternative and worldwide media except in the tiny circle of Zionist companies that control western media?

Here are a few more burning direct questions that all of humanity is really asking.

15. Why does everything ISIS do fit in so perfectly with the Bush Neocon Project For A New American Century?– Why does it fit in so perfectly with the globalist new world order plans like a perfect fitting shoe or glove??
16. Should this wide disconnect about the reporting of who ISIS is and how they were created and funded be the last straw for mainstream media?
17. Can the world afford to live in the western mainstream media paradigm anymore? 

As we contemplate these questions let us remember that the mainstream media in America is controlled by only 6 companies and all of them are on the same page when it comes to Israel, the global government agenda, the U.S./U.N. led new world order plans, the Project for a New American Century, the wishes of the Council on Foreign Relations and all CIA (Mossad) backed operations. It’s all part of the same story and the same paradigm.

So while the mainstream media continues to lie and spin stories designed to make you think that ISIS is a mysterious and dangerous gang whose defeating can only occur with more bombing of Iraq and illegal invasion of Syria, don’t forget that no “army” exists to make headline news that challenges massive empires without massive support. There are no trees that grow guns, bullets and other weapons, they must be supplied by someone. The same can be said about all resources including money, food, shelter, water and other basic needs of life. Everyone who works for a living and anyone who is struggling or has struggled financially to survive can appreciate this.

Let us not be fooled by artificial engineered western media narratives that not only fit in perfectly with the globalists stated goals of taking over the Middle East clearly outlined in the Project For A New American Century paper titled Rebuilding America’s Defenses. From a common sense point of view, it isn’t very difficult to see how the ongoing mainstream media narratives about ISIS no longer makes any financial or practical sense from a day to day/daily-living point of view.

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Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women – Katie Pavlich – Page 1

Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women – Katie Pavlich – Page 1.

“Women of America, you are being lied to. Manipulated. Used. By the mainstream media and the Democratic Party – as if there’s a difference – both of which tell you they have your best interests at heart. They don’t. The reason I know this is because I’ve seen firsthand how they treat women who don’t toe their line,” I write in my new book Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women, in bookstores today. “Many of you have been persuaded that there is a ‘war on women’ being waged by the other political party. In fact, the real story is very different.”
It’s time someone pointed out the hypocrisy and lies coming from the left about women. Democrats have run the conversation for too long and I’m out to debunk the sacred cows of the so-called Republican War on Women.

If liberals really believe women can protect themselves, then why do they oppose a woman’s right to carry a handgun for self defense? If Hillary Clinton is the ultimate female role model, then why has she built her political career on her husband’s philandering while silencing his many female whistleblowers? If Barack Obama is the most pro-woman president in history, then why does he seek to make women completely dependent on the government? If the right to an abortion gives women personal autonomy and sexual freedom, then why are its debilitating aftereffects overlooked? And finally, if Republicans are so insensitive to women, then why is the sexual lechery of politicians from Ted Kennedy to Bill Clinton defended, justified, covered up, or ignored?
Those on the left love to talk about women in one way, but in reality treat women in an entirely opposite, demeaning way full of broken promises and false hope. Through research, in-depth interviews and personal stories, I reveal the shocking truth about the Democratic Party’s anti-woman agenda on issues like gun control, healthcare, the economy, sexual assault and more.
When President Obama ran for reelection in 2012, he didn’t do so based on his record but instead he propagated one of the left’s most damaging and egregious offenses against women by promoting the false idea that reliance on government is empowering. I watched the 2012 campaign up close and the Democratic strategy hinged on women, more than any other campaign in history, by distorting the truth and lying about contraception bans. After spending weeks on the campaign trail, one thing was clear: Democrats don’t want women to be independent, they want them to be dependent. Like many Democrats before him, Obama sold victimhood as empowerment for votes by scaring women into thinking government is the answer to their problems and that they probably can’t survive without it. Democrats will do the same in the 2014 and 2016 elections.

Here’s the reality. Reliance on government doesn’t provide a life of success and independence, instead it provides one of disappointment, hopeless dependency and broken promises. Democrats won’t tell women that because after all, it would expose their phony platform.
The way Democrats have repeatedly defined women by the pills they take, by their body parts and as victims of their gender, is abhorrent. Women should be appalled at liberals classifying them in such a blatantly sexist, repulsive way and they should fight back.
I encourage women, fathers, husbands, sons, and boyfriends, to read my book so they can understand the true manipulation of women and exactly what side of the political aisle it’s coming from. If you want to know the truth about the Left andtheir war on women, that’s what Assault and Flattery is all about.

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The Liberty Brothers talk with Engineer Billy Hayes & Author Elana Freeland about HARRP, chemtrails and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth | The Liberty Brothers Radio Show

The Liberty Brothers talk with Engineer Billy Hayes & Author Elana Freeland about HARRP, chemtrails and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth | The Liberty Brothers Radio Show.

The Liberty Brothers talk with Engineer Billy Hayes & Author Elana Freeland about HARRP, chemtrails and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth

If you are like us, you notice that the skies we look up to no longer seem to be the skies we grew up with. From the crazy, never before seen weather happenings, to the constant Chemtrails and white-ish haze always on the horizon, there is no doubt that geo-engineering is very real and been in progress for quite some time now. After noticing a HAARP bubble on a weather radar last week, Jason set out to talk with some real experts about what is really happening in our skies around the world and uncovered a global plot that already has put bio-engineered nano technology into all our bodies. This is an incredible interview that any living human should listen to.

Jason and Jim, of the Liberty Brothers Radio Show, talk with HAARP Engineer Billy Hayes, and Author Elana Freeland about her new book, Chemtrails, HAARP, and “The Full Spectrum Dominance” of Planet Earth. We talk about the history of HAARP up to the new generations of NexRad, Space Fence, and even talk about Morgellon’s Disease.
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The Obama Administration Policies That Jihadists Are Using To Legally Immigrate To America

The Obama Administration Policies That Jihadists Are Using To Legally Immigrate To America.

The Obama Administration Policies That Jihadists Are Using To Legally Immigrate To America

Obama Waving - Public DomainDid you know that one of the Americans that was recently killed fighting for ISIS once cleaned planesat Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport?  His name was Abdirahmaan Muhumed, and he was a Somali refugee.  Since 1975, more than 3 million refugees have been resettled in cities in the United States, and thanks to the Obama administration an increasing percentage of those refugees are Muslim.  As you will read about below, Obama has even made it possible for refugees that have given only “limited material support” to terrorists to come to America. The Obama administration says that it is still trying to keep full-blown terrorists from entering the country, but it has become exceedingly clear that administration officials aren’t exactly into that whole “border security” thing.  And once refugees arrive in the United States, they are fully eligible for food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance and a whole host of other welfare programs.  So if you are a jihadist and you want to move to the United States legally, all you have to do is claim to be a “refugee” and you might just find that the red carpet gets rolled out for you.

According to a survey conducted by Pew Research, “the estimated share of legal Muslim immigrants entering the U.S. each year has roughly doubled, from about 5 percent of legal immigrants in 1992 to about 10 percent in 2012.”  And this rise in Islamic immigration has been accelerated by a series of moves by Barack Obama.

For example, earlier this year the Wall Street Journal reported on a decision by the Obama administration to bring thousands of additional Syrian refugees into the country by the end of this year…

U.S. plans to resettle thousands of Syrians displaced by their country’s civil war could hinge on those refugees receiving exemptions from laws aimed at preventing terrorists from entering the country.

A U.S. official stated publicly for the first time this week that some of the 30,000 especially vulnerable Syrians the United Nations hopes to resettle by the end of 2014 will be referred to the U.S. for resettlement.

Will “refugees” with ties to ISIS or other jihadist organizations be weeded out?

Hopefully at least some of them will be.  But at this point the Obama administration has set the bar pretty low.  In fact, the Obama administration has decided that it is even okay for those that have provided “limited material support” to terrorists to be allowed into the country

The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.

“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.

When they arrive in the United States, many Muslim refugees are resettled in cities in the heartland of America.  For instance, the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota has had such an influx of Somali refugees that it has become known as “Little Mogadishu”

Minneapolis, Minnesota, sits at the heart of the controversial program. Known as “Little Mogadishu” to some critics, the city has since 1983 welcomed thousands of Somali refugees, most of whom are practicing Muslims and attend a local mosque or Islamic center.

While the Minneapolis-St. Paul area plays host to the largest Somali refugee population, it’s not the only American city that is taking in refugees from the war-torn African nation. Columbus, Ohio, and San Diego, California, have also served as refugee resettlement hot spots.

Of course most of the refugees are law-abiding people that are not causing problems.

But there are an alarming number of exceptions.

It is not just a coincidence that the two Americans that were fighting for ISIS that were recently killed were both from Minnesota

The trend was underscored again last week when it was reported that two Americans, both from Minneapolis, had linked up with the ISIS terrorist organization in Syria and were killed on the battlefield in that country’s civil war. One was a Somali refugee and the other reportedly was an African-American with ties to the Somali community in Minnesota.

And many more have been tried and convicted of providing money or material support to overseas Muslim terrorist organizations. Among them was one Somali woman from Minnesota who refused to rise when called upon by the judge, citing a verse in the Quran.

“I’ll not stand for anyone except for Allah,” Amina Farah Ali told the federal judge.

And guess what?

If they had not been killed on the battlefield, they would have been welcomed back into the United States with open arms.

Just check out what Congresswoman Michele Bachmann learned when she asked the FBI about this…

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) was stunned when she questioned the FBI about what would happen to American citizens who have gone overseas to fight with the Islamic State, and then try to return to the United States.

“Two from my state were the first Americans who were fighting for ISIS,” she began on The Glenn Beck Program Tuesday. “I had gone earlier this year and asked the FBI, ‘Are there any Minnesotans that are over fighting with ISIS?’ It was classified information at the time, I couldn’t reveal it. Now everyone knows.”

“At that time, these two hadn’t been killed yet,” Bachmann continued. “So what I asked is, ‘OK, once they’re done fighting with ISIS, what’s going to happen if they try to return?’ And they said, ‘Well, they’ll come into the country.’”

Wow.

Fighting for ISIS won’t even keep people out the country?

Are we insane?

And while jihadists are staying inside our country, they are eligible for a free ride that the rest of us are paying for.

The following information comes from Refugee Resettlement Watch

Refugee access to welfare on the same basis as a U.S. citizen has made the program a global magnet.

The federal programs available to them include:

∙ Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) formerly known as AFDC
∙ Medicaid
∙ Food Stamps
∙ Public Housing
∙ Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
∙ Social Security Disability Insurance
∙ Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) (direct services only)
∙ Child Care and Development Fund
∙ Independent Living Program
∙ Job Opportunities for Low Income Individuals (JOLI)
∙ Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
∙ Postsecondary Education Loans and Grants
∙ Refugee Assistance Programs
∙ Title IV Foster Care and Adoption Assistance Payments (if parents are qualified immigrants – refugees, asylees, etc)
∙ Title XX Social Services Block Grant Funds

Of course most refugees are more than happy to take advantage of all of these “services”.  Here is more from Refugee Resettlement Watch

Public Assistance Utilization Among refugees who arrived during the 5 years previous to the survey 57.7% are on government medical assistance such as Medicaid, about 25% have no health insurance at all, 70.2% are receiving food stamps, 31.6% are in public housing (an additional percentage is on a public housing waiting list), and 38.3 % are getting cash assistance such as TANF or SSI.

The figure of 57.7% dependent upon government medical assistance is actually an undercount since it excludes children under 16.

Yes, our southern border is wide open for any jihadists that want to come into our country illegally.

But if you are a jihadist that wants to immigrate to America, there is a much easier way.

Just tell the Obama administration that you are a “refugee”, and you might just find that you are soon living in one of our major cities at U.S. taxpayer expense.

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30 Million Americans On Antidepressants And 21 Other Facts About America’s Endless Pharmaceutical Nightmare | The Daily Sheeple

30 Million Americans On Antidepressants And 21 Other Facts About America’s Endless Pharmaceutical Nightmare | The Daily Sheeple.

30 Million Americans On Antidepressants And 21 Other Facts About America’s Endless Pharmaceutical Nightmare

Michael Snyder
The American Dream
September 2nd, 2014
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Has there ever been a nation more hooked on drugs than the United States?  And I am not just talking about illegal drugs – the truth is that the number of Americans addicted to legal drugs is far greater than the number of Americans addicted to illegal drugs.  As you will read about below, more than 30 million Americans are currently on antidepressants and doctors in the U.S. wrote more than 250 million prescriptions for painkillers last year.  Sadly, most people got hooked on these drugs very innocently.  They trusted that their doctors would never prescribe something for them that would be harmful, and they trusted that the federal government would never approve any drugs that were not safe.  And once the drug companies get you hooked, they often have you for life.  You see, the reality of the matter is that some of these “legal drugs” are actually some of the most addictive substances on the entire planet.  And when they start raising the prices on those drugs, there isn’t much that the addicts can do about it.  It is a brutally efficient business model, and the pharmaceutical industry guards their territory fiercely.  Very powerful people will often do some really crazy things when there are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake.  The following are 22 facts about America’s endless pharmaceutical nightmare that everyone should know…

#1 According to the New York Times, more than 30 million Americans are currently taking antidepressants.

#2 The rate of antidepressant use among middle aged women is far higher than for the population as a whole.  At this point, one out of every four women in their 40s and 50s is taking an antidepressant medication.

#3 Americans account for about five percent of the global population, but we buy more than 50 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs.

#4 Americans also consume a whopping 80 percent of all prescription painkillers.

#5 It is hard to believe, but doctors in the United States write 259 million prescriptions for painkillers each year.  Prescription painkillers are some of the most addictive legal drugs, and our doctors are serving as enablers for millions up0n millions of Americans that find themselves hooked on drugs that they cannot kick.

#6 Overall, pharmaceutical drug use in America is at an all-time high.  According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.

#7 According to the CDC, approximately 9 out of every 10 Americans that are at least 60 years old say that they have taken at least one prescription drug within the last month.

#8 In 2010, the average teen in the United States was taking 1.2 central nervous system drugs.  Those are the kinds of drugs which treat conditions such as ADHD and depression.

#9 A very disturbing Government Accountability Office report found that approximately one-third of all foster children in the United States are on at least one psychiatric drug.

#10 An astounding 95 percent of the “experimental medicines” that the pharmaceutical industry produces are found not to be safe and are never approved.  Of the remaining 5 percent that are approved, we often do not find out that they are deadly to us until decades later.

#11 One study discovered that mothers that took antidepressants during pregnancy were four times more likely to have a baby that developed an autism spectrum disorder.

#12 It has been estimated that prescription drugs kill approximately 200,000 people in the United States every single year.

#13 An American dies from an unintentional prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.  According to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, accidental prescription drug overdose is “the leading cause of acute preventable death for Americans”.

#14 In the United States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.

#15 According to the CDC, approximately three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the United States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.

#16 The number of prescription drug overdose deaths in the United States is five times higher than it was back in 1980.

#17 A survey conducted for the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that more than 15 percent of all U.S. high school seniors abuse prescription drugs.

#18 More than 26 million women over the age of 25 say that they are “using prescription medications for unintended uses“.

#19 If all of these antidepressants are helping, then why are more Americans killing themselves?  The suicide rate for Americans between the ages of 35 and 64 increased by nearly 30 percent between 1999 and 2010.  The number of Americans that die by suicide is now greater than the number of Americans that die as a result of car accidents every year.

#20 Antidepressant use has been linked to mass shootings in America over and over and over again, and yet the mainstream media is eerily quiet about this. Is it because they don’t want to threaten one of their greatest sources of advertising revenue?

#21 The amount of money that the pharmaceutical industry is raking in is astronomical.  It has been reported that Americans spent more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs during 2013.

If many of these drugs were not so addictive, the pharmaceutical companies would make a lot less money.  And pharmaceutical drug addicts often don’t fit the profile of what we think a “drug addict” would look like.  For example, CNN shared the story of a 55-year-old grandmother named Cynthia Scudo that become addicted to prescription painkillers…

For Scudo, her addiction began — as they all do — innocently enough.
She sought relief from hip pain, possibly caused by scarring from cesarean sections she had delivering several of her children.
Her then-husband recommended a physician.
“There was no physical therapy offered,” she said of the doctor’s visit. “The first reaction was, let’s give you some drugs.”
He put her on OxyContin.
By the second week, she was physically addicted.
She was popping so much of the painkiller and other drugs such as anti-anxiety Valium that they equated to a dosage for three men.

There is lots and lots of money to be made from addiction.  In fact, if the U.S. health care system was a totally separate nation it would actually be the 6th largest economy on the entire globe.  We are talking about piles of money larger than most people would ever dare to imagine.

And with so much money floating around, it is quite easy for the pharmaceutical industry to buy the cooperation of our politicians and of the media.

Some time when you are watching television in the evening, consciously take note of how often a pharmaceutical commercial comes on.

It has gotten to the point where we are literally being inundated with these ads.

They are already making hundreds of billions of dollars, and they think that there is room for even more growth.

Will they ever be satisfied?

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NASA Witness Sees Guys Walk Over to Viking lander on Mars! : Truth Frequency Radio

NASA Witness Sees Guys Walk Over to Viking lander on Mars!

Truth Frequency Radio
Sep 01, 2014

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What on Earth is NASA hiding on Mars from the public?

“John Lear is the son of the famous inventor of the Lear Jet. He is a Lockheed L-1011 Captain and is highly regarded in aviation circles. He has flown over 150 test aircraft and has won every award granted by the Federal Aviation Administration. John also holds 18 world speed records and has worked for 28 different Aircraft Corporations. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, John began coming forward with some startling revelations concerning the subject of aerial phenomena and Unidentified Flying Objects”, as introduced by George Noorey on Coast To Coast Am back on May 11, 2006.

John Lear stated that we have been to Mars since the 1960’s, which he stated here in this short sound bite:

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A woman names Jackie calls in from north of Las Vegas. She was hoping to solve a 27 year old mystery at the time of this show was aired. The radios show aired back in 2005 or so. Jackie stated that she used to work at NASA and handled the downlinked telemetry back in 1979.  She states that one night, while watching the monitors coming from Viking on Mars, that she sees to men in suits along with her colleagues.  The two men came in from the horizon and walked over to the Viking. The feed ended up getting cut off and NASA begins their cover-up.

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When NASA landed the Curiosity Rover, CNN does a story on it where the newscaster states that these are the most true in color images of Mars to date.

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Image of the Day by Spirit Rover from 2007 and blue skies!

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_990.html

NASA image showing showing blue skies:

http://mars.jplnasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=#/?slide=550

Viking Mission

Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot did her first and only pilot episode, “The Mars Project” for their planned show “Shadow Operations.” There first contact, Gordon Novel provides photographic evidence of artificial structures on Mars and a spacehip that will take astronauts to the red planet.

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Engineering geologist Ron Nicks takes a look at the photographic evidence:

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Richard Hoagland shows Kerry Cassidy and her partner Bill Ryan structures on Mars and gives his opinion!

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Richard Hoagland shows them blue skies on Mars!

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“When Viking landed in 1976, I’m standing there and looking at a monitor with Carl Sagan. And we’re looking at this first colored image come in, downlink live from Mars.  And it looks like Arizona!”

Richard Hoagland then states, “Then a few hours later, the head guys sent technicians around to tweak the red knobs on all the monitors in the entire lab”

President Ford: “I saw some of the pictures, and such a clear resolution”.

Jim Martin: “Well Mr. President, right now all we’re seeing is the landscape, uh, with a baby blue sky in the distance.”

Former astronaut Brian O’Leary talks about a planned manned mars mission to Mars starting back in 1967 for it to take place in the 1980’s!

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Bob Dean Black Ops Insider on Mars:

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Dave Rosenfeld who witnessed the Ventura Star out in the desert:

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Here is the full length The Project Camelot TruTV pilot episode – “SHADOW OPERATIONS – The Mars Project”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slQD0rUqbGo

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The History of Wall Street’s Unspoken Relationship to Nazi Germany: Dragon Teeth to Be Planted All Over Europe Again : Truth Frequency Radio

The History of Wall Street’s Unspoken Relationship to Nazi Germany: Dragon Teeth to Be Planted All Over Europe Again : Truth Frequency Radio.

The History of Wall Street’s Unspoken Relationship to Nazi Germany: Dragon Teeth to Be Planted All Over Europe Again

Truth Frequency Radio
Sep 01, 2014

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Two CA Judges Censured for Having Sex in Chambers | Truth Revolt

Two CA Judges Censured for Having Sex in Chambers | Truth Revolt. 9.3.2014  Sarah Fisher

 

A state judicial commission said on Tuesday that two California judges have been censured for having sex in their respective chambers. One judge had sex with his clerk, the other had sex with multiple women. The events are separate as the judges are in separate courts and are located in difference parts of the state.

One judge was from Orange County.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Scott Steiner was censured by the state Commission on Judicial Performance for engaging in sexual activity in his chambers on multiple occasions with women. The commission called it “the height of irresponsible and improper” behavior.

“It reflects an utter disrespect for the dignity and decorum of the court, and is seriously at odds with a judge’s duty to avoid conduct that tarnishes the esteem of the judicial office in the public’s eye,” the commission said in a written order.

The other judge was in Kern County.

The commission also censured Kern County Superior Court Judge Cory Woodward, who it said carried on an intimate affair with his court clerk from July of 2012 until May of last year, engaging in sexual activity with her in his chambers and in public places.

The commission said Woodward passed notes of a sexual nature to the clerk during court proceedings and lied about the relationship when confronted by his presiding judges in a bid to block her transfer.

“Judge Woodward cooperated fully with the Commission’s inquiry. As the Commission recognized, he expressed great remorse and contrition,” Meyer, who also represented Woodward, said in a separate statement. “He has apologized and appreciates the thorough review of the Commission in this matter.”

Both judges will be allowed to remain on the bench.

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Nation's Poor Remain Hungry as Wall Street Feasts | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

via Nation’s Poor Remain Hungry as Wall Street Feasts | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community.

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Persistent rates of food insecurity reveal vast inequities of so-called “economic recovery” in US, say anti-poverty advocates

 

ALIVE Food Bank Distribution in Alexandria VA (Photo: Bread for the World)

Critics and anti-poverty advocates are questioning the so-called economic recovery as a USDA study (PDF) published Wednesday revealed that while the nation’s wealthiest enjoyed record gains, nearly 50 million Americans continue to struggled with food insecurity in 2013.

According to the government figures, while a majority of people who were not always able to afford food last year were adults, 16 million children also went hungry at times, with 360,000 households reporting that their kids skipped meals or did not eat for an entire day because there was not enough money.

Joel Berg, executive director of the NYC Coalition Against Hunger, said the country’s widespread hunger problem is deeply connected to the government’s pro-corporation, anti-worker policies. “A country that combines massive hunger with record Wall Street markets is so derailed we can’t even find our tracks anymore,” Berg said. “These startling numbers prove there has been no true economic recovery for tens of millions of struggling U.S. families.”

Overall, food insecurity is 35 percent higher than in 2007, before the recession began. In 2013, the average food-secure household spent 30 percent more on food than the average food-insecure household of the same size.

“Too many people at the top don’t understand the difference between Wall Street and Main Street,” Berg told Common Dreams. Corporations resettling overseas to avoid paying higher taxes in the U.S.—as exemplified by Burger King’s recent merger with Canadian food chain Tim Horton’s—is “supremely unpatriotic,” Berg said. Asked whether government officials are willfully ignoring hunger statistics, Berg said, simply and emphatically, “Yes.”

The research comes shortly after the Harvard School of Public Health released a studyshowing that the healthy diet gap between rich and poor Americans doubled between 1999 and 2010. That study, published earlier this week, found that differences in diet are directly related to both cost and access, as low-income people are more likely to live in “food deserts” — areas that have few to no grocery stores selling healthy produce, forcing families who cannot afford to travel outside of their neighborhoods to rely on corner stores selling boxed and processed food.

“The overall improvement in diet quality is encouraging, but the widening gap related to income and education presents a serious challenge to our society as a whole,” said the study’s senior author, Walter Willett, professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at HSPH.

Of all the food-insecure households that participated in the 2013 survey, 62 percent received assistance from federal food and nutrition assistance programs. “It is vital to note that this new data was collected before most of the recent SNAP (food stamps) cuts kicked in,” Berg wrote in a press release for the coalition. “Given the pain measured in these numbers, I can only imagine that next year’s
report, which will include the impact of the recent cuts, will more formally document the mass suffering we are already seeing on the ground from coast to coast.”

The Food Research and Action Center also noted that the “severe” food insecurity rate was 5.6 percent in 2013, compared to 4.1 percent in 2007 before the recession.

“Hunger continues to plague too many Americans,” said FRAC president Jim Weill. “We can end hunger in this country, but that takes political will. It is up to our nation’s leaders – Congress, the President, state and local officials – to make sure that workers can earn family supporting wages, and that income supports and nutrition assistance programs reach more people in need and provide more adequate benefits. That means strengthening, not cutting or limiting nutrition programs.”

Fast food workers in 150 cities across the U.S. on Thursday will launch strikes and sit-ins to demand a $15 minimum wage, the right to organize in the workplace, and an end to wage theft, a move that the coalition supports. “It’s appalling that the people who grow our food and serve our food can’t afford to eat,” Berg said.

The day of action is being organized by employees of McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and KFC, who are expected to be joined by thousands of home healthcare providers, with an end goal of building a movement of low-wage workers.

“Sometimes things have to bottom out… before people wake up,” Berg said. “I think that waking up is happening now.”

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FOCUS | Obama Makes Bushism the New Normal

FOCUS | Obama Makes Bushism the New Normal.
George W. Bush hugging Barack Obama. (photo: Ron Edmonds/AP)

Obama Makes Bushism the New Normal

By Dan Froomkin, The Intercept

03 September 14

n a lot of ways, we’re worse off today than we were under George W. Bush.

Back then, Bush’s extremist assault on civil liberties, human rights and other core American values in the name of fighting terror felt like an aberration.

The expectation was that those policies would be quickly reversed, discredited — and explicitly outlawed — once he was no longer in power.

Instead, under President Barack Obama, they’ve become institutionalized.

There will be no snapping back to a pre-Bush-era respect for basic human dignity and civil rights. Thanks to Obama, it’s going to be a hard, long fight.

In some cases, Obama has set even darker precedents than his predecessor. Massively invasive bulk surveillance of Americans and others has been expanded, not constrained. This president secretly condemns people to death without any checks or balances, and shrugs as his errant drones massacre innocent civilians. Whistleblowers and journalists who expose national security wrongdoing face unprecedented criminal prosecution.

In a few cases, Obama publicly distanced himself from Bush/Cheney excesses, but to little effect. He forswore torture, and promised to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. But by actively covering up what happened in the U.S.’s torture chambers, and by refusing to hold the torturers and their political masters in any way accountable, he has done nothing to make sure that the next time a perceived emergency comes up, it won’t all happen again. And Gitmo, which he treated as a political rather than moral issue, is still very much open for business.

To his credit, Obama is not driven, like Bush and Dick Cheney were, to involve us in massive land wars. And he inherited a mess full of no-win scenarios. But he chose to extend a dead-end war in Afghanistan for two years — and 1,300 American lives — based on political optics rather than military strategy. And he is blind to reality in the Middle East; cleaving to the belief that airstrikes and fealty to Israel are viable long-term strategies, and ignoring the fact that his counter-terrorism policies actually create more terrorists than they destroy.

In retrospect, what the country needed was a radical break from the Bush/Cheney national security policies: A reestablishment of American moral integrity; a rejection of decision-making based on fear (of terrorism, or of political blowback); a reassertion of the international laws of war; and a national reckoning.

Instead, the hopes for any change are slim. Obama has eroded the credibility of any future promises of expansive reform in the area of national security. And, in any case, no such promises are forthcoming: Congressional response to the recent disclosures has been narrowly focused and prone to loopholes; the current leadership of both political parties — and their likeliest standard-bearers in 2016 — aren’t expressing any outrage at all.

As surely — if not as enthusiastically — as his predecessor, Obama has succumbed to the powerful systemic pressures that serve the needs of the military-intelligence-industrial complex. Secrecy is rampant. Politics drives policy. There is no accountability. Congressional and judicial oversight have become a bitter joke. And the elite press gets tighter and tighter with those to whom it should be adversarial.

That, in short, is where I find myself today, as I take up my blogging cudgel again, at The Intercept.

Those of you familiar with my White House Watch column on washingtonpost.com (it ran from early 2004 to mid-2009) may remember my attempt to organize the data stream about the White House, with intelligence and voice.

Reading copiously is one approach. Even in a flawed press climate, a pretty compelling picture emerges when you connect the dots. I’ll be doing that relentlessly, and with a particular focus on the areas that concern me the most. Among them: National security issues and whistleblowing; the collapse of oversight; media failure; political exploitation of fear; torture; the corrupting influence of money; and the moral bankruptcy of the major political parties.

I also want to spend a lot of time exploring issues related to privacy policy in an era of ubiquitous data. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s primary and most admirable goal was to spark a national conversation about surveillance and privacy. But the conversations that have ensued have been relatively narrow and muted.

I’ll be doing original reporting — from the Snowden archive, and elsewhere. I’ll be asking lots of questions. And I intend to serve as a megaphone for sometimes insufficiently heard people who have great ideas — and who have a track record of being proven correct over time, rather than, say, consistently wrong. (Nominees welcome!)

And I’ll be depending on readers to do it all. There’s so much more to keep track of than there was even five years ago — heck, keeping abreast of Twitter lately has been nearly a full-time job — so I’ll need help finding the newest, the most intriguing, the best and the worst. There will be new ways for informed readers to make important contributions to the discussion.

Most significantly, this is a work in progress. The principal goal that seems to be emerging at First Look Media — the umbrella organization financed by Pierre Omidyar that publishes The Intercept — is experimentation in the pursuit of accountability.

If you have ideas on how I can do any of this better (from the micro to the macro; story topics to software) I want to hear them. Post a comment; email me at dan.froomkin@theintercept.com; or use our open-source whistleblower submission system, SecureDrop. I’ll try to be transparent about what I’m thinking, and what I’m doing.

The blog will have a handful of regular features — at least one of which will be familiar to White House Watch readers. Cartoon Watch will be back, because political cartoonists, as a group, remain our most incisive truth-tellers. I’ll also have an Open Book feature, to call attention to great accountability reporting books; and we’ll play around with the concept of Frequently Unanswered Questions (FUQ).

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Time Magazine accidentally reveals greater autism fraud « Jon Rappoport's Blog

Time Magazine accidentally reveals greater autism fraud « Jon Rappoport’s Blog.
by Jon Rappoport
September 2, 2014
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Time Magazine (8/28) is covering the ongoing CDC whistleblower scandal. (“Whistleblower Claims CDC Covered Up Data Showing Vaccine-Autism Link,” by Alice Park)
In one piece of one sentence, without meaning to, the article blows another hole in the 2004 study that whistleblower William Thompson exposed as a fraud.
A hole beyond what Thompson has admitted to in his public mea culpa statement of August 27th.
What Time Magazine revealed demonstrates that the entire study is based on a lie.
Here is the sentence-fragment from the Time article:
“Now one of the authors of a 2004 study that found similar vaccination rates among children with and without autism…”
There it is. For people who can see it.
According to conventional medical researchers, demonstrating that children with and without autism have similar vaccine rates means: vaccines couldn’t cause autism. Because many children who were vaccinated didn’t develop autism.
But suppose you proved that a virus in the bodies of 1000 children caused actual illness in only 160. Would you then say the virus couldn’t be the cause of illness, because some children didn’t get sick?
Not if you were a conventional researcher. You would say, “Well, of course, most children didn’t fall ill. But for those that did, the virus was the cause.”
Applying this line of thinking to vaccines, you could say, “Well, many children who get the MMR vaccine remain healthy. But for those who fall ill and are diagnosed with autism, the vaccine was the cause.”
Naturally, vaccine researchers don’t say that. If they did, they’d never work again.
“So, Dr. X, you’re saying that 1000 children were vaccinated. They all had ‘similar rates’ of vaccination.”
“Yes, correct.”
“And some of these children developed autism, and some didn’t.”
“That’s right.”
“Therefore, vaccination couldn’t be the cause of autism.”
“Correct.”
Let’s consider this situation: A thousand children have a particular virus in their bodies.”
“Sure. All right.”
“Some of those children go on to develop the flu, and some don’t.”
“Yes, that would be a standard situation.”
“Therefore, you’d say the virus couldn’t have caused the flu, because some children didn’t get the flu.”
“No, I wouldn’t say that at all.”
“What would you say?”
“The children who did get the flu—the virus was the cause.”
“But in the case of the vaccine, you didn’t say that.”
“A virus isn’t the same thing as a vaccine. In the case of the virus, we already know it causes the flu.”
“No, Dr. X, you don’t know that. Not by the standard you’re applying to vaccines. Let’s review. If 1000 children are vaccinated, and only some of them develop autism, you say the vaccine couldn’t cause autism, but—“
“I have to go now. I’m late for a meeting at the CDC, where we’re writing up our millionth press release claiming vaccines are perfectly safe.”
power outside the matrix
It gets much, much worse. Here is the crux:
Researchers conveniently assume that autism is one condition with one and only one cause in all cases.
But there is no conclusive evidence, after all these years, that autism is a single condition. If such evidence existed, you would see it presented, front and center, in the definition of autism, contained the in the psychiatric bible of mental disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
The evidence would appear in the form of a physical diagnostic test for autism. A blood test, or a brain scan, or a genetic assay.
There is no such definitive test. It isn’t there.
Instead, autism is entirely defined by a cluster of behaviors.
There is a reason for that.
There is no defining diagnostic test.
Therefore, saying autism is a single physical condition is belief and opinion and surmise and “could-be” and “everybody knows”, fabricated as fact.
Therefore, saying “autism” has one cause is also an opinion fabricated as fact.
Therefore, saying that vaccines don’t cause “autism” is meaningless—because the label “autism” doesn’t refer to a specific defined condition.
However, saying vaccines cause damage is true.
Use this label or that label to name the grave damage—the labels don’t matter.
Except to the devious game players who invent the labels and thereby exonerate vaccines.
The 2004 study that CDC whistleblower William Thompson confessed to falsifying—and thousands of other such studies—are all based on the same fundamental fraud.
In a sane world, as opposed to the lunatic world of disease research, you would only declare you’ve found a single condition if you could put forward an accurate physical test for it.
That test would, for every patient examined, show whether he had the condition. Yes or no.
Assuming you could do these things, you could then and only then try to rule out vaccines as the cause of the condition.
Until then, you would remain silent. You wouldn’t construct devious vaccine studies. You wouldn’t lie every day of your research career. You wouldn’t pretend to knowledge you didn’t have. You wouldn’t work hand in glove with paid propagandists to assure the public, and in particular, parents of vaccine-damaged children, that injecting germs and toxic chemicals is safe and effective.
You would remain silent and you would do no harm.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

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Activist Post: New Anti Police State App Helps You "See Something, Say Something" in Real-Time

Activist Post: New Anti Police State App Helps You “See Something, Say Something” in Real-Time.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

New Anti Police State App Helps You “See Something, Say Something” in Real-Time

Sidekik App

Activist Post 
Recent studies have shown that police are held almost completely unaccountable by the current systems of governmental oversight. Perhaps this is the reason why you are 9 times more likely to be killed by a law enforcement officer than a terrorist. Rather than wait for bloated bureaucracy or corrupt government to save the day, we as activists have to find our own solutions. Technology is one of these solutions.
As we have seen, the violent crackdown on independent journalism in Ferguson is a sign of a worsening situation in much of America. More than ever, each citizen needs to become a member of the media and record everything that they see during encounters with the police.
A new smartphone app called Sidekik aims to make it as easy as possible for you not only to record the police and upload that recording offsite, but to put you in immediate contact with legal representation to help you navigate the encounter … in real-time.
Please view additional details and their Indiegogo campaign video below if you would like to support this new anti police state tool.  
What is Sidekik?
Sidekik is a mobile application which will perform two key actions simultaneously. One, Sidekik will activate your smartphone’s audio and video recording devices and begin streaming the data to a secure facility. Two, Sidekik will initiate a video call and connect you with an attorney who will represent you in whatever situation you find yourself.

Why is Sidekik Important?
When you are in a critical situation, such as being pulled over by law enforcement, the balance of power is often against you. The fact is that most people don’t know their rights or how to enforce them. In addition, without a record of your encounter with law enforcement, the question of what happened during the encounter devolves into your word against that of the officer, which normally results with courts and public opinion in favor of the officer, regardless of what actually occurred. Though many people have begun recording their interactions with law enforcement, the recording is stored on the recording device, which is sometimes confiscated.
Sidekik solves both of these problems. With the activation of the Sidekik app, your smartphone’s audio and video recorders will begin streaming to a secure server. If the officer has behaved outside of their bounds and doesn’t want evidence of that misconduct available to you, there is simply nothing the officer can do. The audio and video has been stored and timestamped securely, and can be retrieved by you at your convenience.
Within seconds of activating the Sidekik app, you will be connected through a video call to an attorney licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction. Every attorney on the Sidekik network will be well versed regarding your rights during a police encounter and do everything in their power to defend your rights as they interact with the officer on your behalf.
Sidekik is important because it restores balance to a previously unequal interaction. Your rights are worth preserving; all it takes is the tap of a screen.
What we need and what you get
Our crowdfunding campaign has a goal of $250,000. Almost all of this funding will go toward the creation of the Sidekik app, attorney software, and website, which will communicate with each other to provide a seamless Sidekik product for you. There are already apps for streaming video and even apps for notifying your attorney that you need assistance. However, nothing has come close to combining audio/video streaming with video call technology as well as high-end security measures to keep your data protected. This combination of features is complex and expensive to produce. We have partnered with one of the top software design firms in the United States, Zco Corporation, to create this leap forward in app sophistication. Once we begin development with Zco Corporation the clock will start ticking and three months later Sidekik will be fully functional.
The remainder of the funds will be used to set up an office in Reno, Nevada, pay for essential legal services, and cover expenses while we work with Zco during Sidekik development.
With your help we will make Sidekik a reality and provide a powerful tool for people to protect their rights.
Perks
You will receive a number of uses of Sidekik for your contribution, with the number of uses varying depending on the size of the contribution. The months included in each perk will match the number of Sidekik uses. For example, if you contribute $10 you will receive a three month subscription with three uses of Sidekik, while a $100 contribution is good for a two year subscription with twenty-four uses of Sidekik along with a one year subscription (twelve uses) for a friend.
When the Sidekik app is activated, the audio and video devices on the user’s smartphone will begin recording and streaming to a secure third party data storage facility. Simultaneously the Sidekikapp will initiate a video phone call, and within a few seconds the user will be seeing and speaking live to an attorney who will represent the user and interact with the police officer on the user’s behalf.
Meet the team, read the FAQ, and Donate Here (24 days left):
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sidekik-real-time-representation-and-data-storage
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