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  • ancavge 9:26 pm on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Napolitano Says Americans Have a Responsibility to Spy On Each Other 

    Sebastian Smith
    AFP
    July 29, 2009
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    A top US domestic security chief called Wednesday on ordinary citizens to join law enforcement bodies in fighting an increasingly elusive — and homegrown — terrorist threat.

    “We need a culture of collective responsibility, a culture where every individual understands his or her role,” Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a speech in New York.

    Referring to a spate of arrests around the country of US citizens and residents charged with jihad-type militancy, Napolitano said that ordinary people were often the first line of defense.

    In just the latest case, seven people were arrested Monday, including an American-born Muslim convert and his two sons living in a quiet North Carolina suburb.

    Napolitano stressed she was not advocating “a culture of spying on one another,” but said that crucial intelligence came from the bottom up.

    “You are the ones who know when something is not right in your community,” she said.

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    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/napolitano-says-americans-have-a-responsibility-to-spy-on-each-other/

     
  • ancavge 9:22 pm on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Carbon Trading Giants and Big Energy Are Steering the Global Warming Debate Away from REAL Solutions 

    Washington’s Blog
    July 29, 2009

    Goldman Sachs and the other financial giants who brought us the economic meltdown and manipulation of the economy argue that carbon trading will solve all of our problems. If we just let them make out like bandits off of carbon trading, then everything will be fine. Not only is this an awfully convenient for the banksters who conned us into an economic crash, but many environmentalists don’t even buy that carbon trading is the best way to reduce carbon emissions.

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    Microgeneration of energy could reduce our bills, decentralize power away from the giant corporations, and help protect our freedom.

    On the other hand, big oil and king coal argue that keeping the status quo is best for everyone. You know, let the giant energy conglomerates produce all our energy and make out like robber barons. These energy giants buy up and then bury promising alternative energy technologies so that cheap alternatives don’t challenge their monopoly on energy-production.

    But neither the carbon trading or the energy giants want us to look at real alternatives or solutions . . . like microgeneration.

    Microgeneration of energy could reduce our bills, decentralize power away from the giant corporations, and help protect our freedom (and see this).

    Saving money and protecting freedom are bipartisan goals that everyone can rally around, whether you believe in global warming or not.

    Microgeneration would also significantly reduce carbon output by substituting wind, solar and other types of clean energy for conventional energy sources, and so it would have a significant impact on reducing CO2 while empowering people at the local level, and reducing our energy bills.

    So if global warming is, in fact, a threat, a major switch to microgeneration would be a lot more effective than carbon trading.

    If global warming is not a threat, microgeneration can still help to break the monopoly of big energy, and return power back to the people (and a little money back into our pockets).

    We all know that the powers-that-be try to divide-and-conquer us so as to make sure we don’t organize for change, to keep us off-balance, and to ram through their agendas. They do this on every important issue.

    They are going to continue to try to divide us on climate issues as well. We have to empower ourselves, and microgeneration is a good start.

    To those who say that global warming is such a dire threat that we should “geoengineer” the earth’s climate, please remember that many cures have ended up being worse than the disease. If we are to act, we must act in a smart way which has a net benefit. Microgeneration is smart.

    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/carbon-trading-giants-and-big-energy-are-steering-the-global-warming-debate-away-from-real-solutions/

     
  • ancavge 9:18 pm on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food on Humans 

    F. William Engdahl
    Global Research
    July 29, 2009

    One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it has come to light the real reason. The GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer, Syngenta and others prohibit independent research.

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    The only research which is permitted to be published in reputable scientific peer-reviewed journals are studies which have been pre-approved by Monsanto and the other industry GMO firms.

    An editorial in the respected American scientific monthly magazine, Scientific American, August 2009 reveals the shocking and alarming reality behind the proliferation of GMO products throughout the food chain of the planet since 1994. There are no independent scientific studies published in any reputed scientific journal in the world for one simple reason. It is impossible to independently verify that GMO crops such as Monsanto Roundup Ready Soybeans or MON8110 GMO maize perform as the company claims, or that, as the company also claims, that they have no harmful side effects because the GMO companies forbid such tests!

    That’s right. As a precondition to buy seeds, either to plant for crops or to use in research study, Monsanto and the gene giant companies must first sign an End User Agreement with the company. For the past decade, the period when the greatest proliferation of GMO seeds in agriculture has taken place, Monsanto, Pioneer (DuPont) and Syngenta require anyone buying their GMO seeds to sign an agreement that explicitly forbids that the seeds be used for any independent research. Scientists are prohibited from testing a seed to explore under what conditions it flourishes or even fails. They cannot compare any characteristics of the GMO seed with any other GMO or non-GMO seeds from another company. Most alarming, they are prohibited from examining whether the genetically modified crops lead to unintended side-effects either in the environment or in animals or humans.

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    The only research which is permitted to be published in reputable scientific peer-reviewed journals are studies which have been pre-approved by Monsanto and the other industry GMO firms.

    The entire process by which GMO seeds have been approved in the United States, beginning with the proclamation by then President George H.W. Bush in 1992, on request of Monsanto, that no special Government tests of safety for GMO seeds would be conducted because they were deemed by the President to be “substantially equivalent” to non-GMO seeds, has been riddled with special interest corruption. Former attorneys for Monsanto were appointed responsible in EPA and FDA for rules governing GMO seeds as but one example and no Government tests of GMO seed safety to date have been carried out. All tests are provided to the US Government on GMO safety or performance by the companies themselves such as Monsanto. Little wonder that GMO sounds to positive and that Monsanto and others can falsely claim GMO is the “solution to world hunger.”

    In the United States a group of twenty four leading university corn insect scientists have written to the US Government Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding the EPA  force a change to the company censorship practice. It is as if Chevrolet or Tata Motors or Fiat tried to censor comparative crash tests of their cars in Consumer Reports or a comparable consumer publication because they did not like the test results. Only this deals with the human and animal food chain. The scientists rightly argue to EPA that food safety and environment protection “depend on making plant products available to regular scientific scrutiny.” We should think twice before we eat that next box of American breakfast cereal of the corn used is GMO or not.

    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/gmo-scandal-the-long-term-effects-of-genetically-modified-food-on-humans/

     
  • ancavge 9:15 pm on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites 

    Jonathan Manthorpe
    Vancouver Sun
    July 29, 2009
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    Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.

    Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia’s best-known and most notorious academic.

    Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of “anthropogenic global warming” — man-made climate change to you and me — and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.

    It is, of course, not new to have a highly qualified scientist saying that global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon with many precedents in history. Many have made the argument, too, that it is rubbish to contend human behaviour is causing the current climate change. And it has often been well argued that it is totally ridiculous to suppose that changes in human behaviour — cleaning up our act through expensive slight-of-hand taxation tricks — can reverse the trend.

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    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/global-warming-is-the-new-religion-of-first-world-urban-elites/

     
  • ancavge 9:10 pm on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Military To Work With FEMA During Swine Flu Pandemic 

    Paul Joseph Watson
    Prison Planet.com
    Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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    According to a CNN report, the military will assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant swine flu outbreak in the U.S. this fall, stoking fears that the pandemic, which has claimed relatively few lives so far, will be used as an excuse to implement martial law and a mandatory vaccination program.

    “The plan calls for military task forces to work in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. There is no final decision on how the military effort would be manned, but one source said it would likely include personnel from all branches of the military,” states the report.

    The proposal, which was drawn up by U.S. Northern Command’s Gen. Victor Renuart, is awaiting final approval from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The first step would be to sign an “execution order” which would authorize the military to begin detailed planning on how to implement the proposal, before actual orders to deploy military personnel are given.

    The amount of troops required or whether they would come from the active duty or the National Guard and Reserve forces has not yet been determined.

    Northcom has been preparing for mass flu pandemics for years and indeed, Gen. Victor Renuart spoke of the threat of a flu pandemic emerging out of Mexico just weeks before it actually happened.

    Testifying back in March, Renuart said Northcom would provide “assistance in support of civil authorities” during an epidemic, adding “when requested and approved by the Secretary of Defense or directed by the President, federal military forces will contribute to federal support.” However, Renuart then added, “USNorthCom does not wait for that call to action.”

    “Because Mexico is our neighbor and disasters do not respect national boundaries, we are focused on developing and improving procedures to respond to potentially catastrophic events such as pandemic influenza outbreak, mass exposure to dangerous chemicals and materials, and natural disasters,” he testified.

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    Northcom was only relatively recently assigned its own fighting unit – the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, which had been fighting in Iraq for five years before that. As we have previously reported, the Armed Forces Press Service has initiated a propaganda campaign designed to convince the American people that deploying the 3rd Infantry Division in the United States in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act is a good thing, with images of soldiers from the brigade helping in “humanitarian” rescue missions, such as car wrecks. This is all designed to condition Americans to accept troops on the streets and highways as a part of everyday life.

    The assignment of the 1st Brigade Combat Team to Northcom alarmed the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). “This is a radical departure from separation of civilian law enforcement and military authority and could, quite possibly, represent a violation of law,” said Mike German, ACLU national security policy counsel.

    The news that troops are being prepared to work with FEMA in the event of a swine flu pandemic will increase fears that the government is preparing to enforce a mandatory vaccination program – at gunpoint if necessary.

    State health authorities have already confirmed that if the government were to announce a mandatory vaccination program, then there would be no exemptions whatsoever and the program could be carried out with the use of force if necessary.

    As reported by CNS News earlier this month, a health-care reform bill approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee called The Affordable Health Choices Act, will fund the creation of state “intervention” teams that will carry out home visits in order to check that both children and adults have been vaccinated and also provide “provision of immunizations”.

    “Home visits? What exactly is the state going to do when it sends people to “implement interventions” in private homes designed “to improve immunization coverage of children”? asks the CNS report.

    There can be little doubt that many Americans will call upon their second amendment rights and resort to using force to protect themselves and their children if the government attempts to forcibly impose a mass vaccination program. This is why the assistance of military personnel may be necessary to subdue potential resistors in the event of mandatory quarantines and inoculations.

    The last time the the national guard and military worked with FEMA and local law enforcement on a large scale in the United States was during Hurricane Katrina, when they aided in the confiscation of privately owned firearms of citizens, even those who lived in the high and dry areas and were unaffected by the hurricane.

    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/military-to-work-with-fema-during-swine-flu-pandemic/

     
    • BJhooker 5:02 pm on July 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Maybe CDC has plans to treat the the flu with formaldehyde by having Military force these victims to live in FEMA trailers.

  • ancavge 12:50 am on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Distinguished Canadians Call for a New 9/11 Investigation 

    9/11 Blogger
    July 28, 2009

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    Here are some of the All-Stars of the 9/11 Truth Movement in Canada. While the grassroots movement has grown from 2 or 3 groups in 2007 to over 25 groups in 2009, the list of scholars, scientists, intellectuals, pilots, engineers, journalists, authors, public figures, etc has also continued to grow. We present some of those whom we are aware of here.

    This clip will be on our forthcoming DVD called Canadians for 9/11 Truth, featuring some of the best evidence refuting the “official story”, as well as, some recorded presentations by several of the people shown in this clip. This is also in conjunction with an article we will be publishing soon about the 9/11 Truth Movement in Canada, as we approach the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 events.

    The unsung heroes, however, are those in the grassroots movement, who generously devote so much time, effort, talent, and their personal resources to “Being the Media” and getting the word out to their fellow citizens. You guys rock!!

    Because of you, Canada is waking up, and a new investigation IS taking place, whether the government likes it or not, and whether the corporate media wants to acknowledge it, or not.

    The clips you see are from :
    http://www.patriotsquestion911.com

    To find a group near you, visit:
    http://www.911Truth.ca

    If there is no group near you, start one! Or go out on your own and use 911Truth.ca as your homepage.

    *The music track is “Inside Job” by Roy Shivers. It is open source, and includes some commentary by Alex Jones.

    ** we’ve added Connie Fogal, Splitting the Sky, Will Thomas, and Rodrigue Tremblay who are not yet listed at patriotsquestion911.com for a total of 30 individuals mentioned in this clip.

    ***we also added Michael J. Fox who is named on patriotsquestion911, and we presume it is the Canadian actor.

    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/distinguished-canadians-call-for-a-new-911-investigation/

     
  • ancavge 12:45 am on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Arizona Law Holds the Foreclosed Responsible for Debt 

    Catherine Reagor
    The Arizona Republic
    July 28, 2009
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    A new law passed by the Arizona Legislature that makes homeowners liable for tens of thousands of dollars on homes lost to foreclosure is now the focus of an intense repeal battle.

    An amendment to the state’s foreclosure laws, passed in the recent legislative session, was designed to protect small community banks from people buying speculative new homes they can’t sell for a profit.

    But the impact of the change is much larger. It makes some homeowners in foreclosure liable for the difference between their mortgage and what their lender can recoup from reselling the house. In the current housing market, the difference is generally more than $100,000 on the typical Valley foreclosure.

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    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/arizona-law-holds-the-foreclosed-responsible-for-debt/

     
    • Foreclosures Tucson 10:51 am on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      This article makes a sad point. Foreclosures can be seen as a great investment opportunity for some, but for others it can be a great loss.

  • ancavge 12:42 am on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Every Subway Car in New York to Have CCTV 

    TOM NAMAKO
    New York Post
    July 28, 2009
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    Straphangers will soon have a watchful eye over them as they ride the rails.

    In a groundbreaking security initiative, MTA will begin running one subway train with security cameras in every one of its cars by the end of the year, officials said yesterday. Every corner of every car will be in the cameras’ view.

    The train, which will run on a “letter” line chosen at a later date, will be outfitted with a digital surveillance system that creates a computer-based log of events that can be viewed after a crime or emergency. No one will be watching the images live, but the cameras, authorities believe, will at least make would-be criminals think twice.

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    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/every-subway-car-in-new-york-to-have-cctv/

     
  • ancavge 12:38 am on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Snoops to Get £500 to Spy On Neighbors 

    Chris Riches
    Daily Express
    July 28, 2009
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    Taxpayers’ money is being used to pay “covert human intelligence sources” who report bad conduct to authorities.

    Anyone who photographs dog fouling, litter being dropped, graffiti crime or fly tipping which result in prosecution will receive a cash reward.

    The amount is staggered, according to how far the prosecution is taken.

    If a court summons is issued the snooper gets £100. On a conviction he gets £150 and if the offender gets a maximum sentence he receives £500.

    The scheme has been given the Big Brother-style motto “See them, report them”.

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    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/snoops-to-get-500-to-spy-on-neighbors/

     
  • ancavge 12:34 am on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Senate Panel Endorses Sotomayor in 13-6 Vote 

    DAVID STOUT
    The New York Times
    July 28, 2009
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    The Senate Judiciary Committee voted, 13 to 6, on Tuesday to endorse the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, easing her path to likely confirmation as the first Hispanic member of the tribunal.

    As expected, all 12 Democrats on the judiciary panel voted for Judge Sotomayor. But among the seven Republicans on the committee, only Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voted in favor.

    “She is a restrained, fair and impartial judge,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who heads the committee.

    The action sends the nomination to the full Senate, where her confirmation by a comfortable margin seems to be assured.

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    URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/senate-panel-endorses-sotomayor-in-13-6-vote/

     
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