US Senate To Vote On Bill That Will Allow The Military To Arrest Americans On American Soil And Hold Them Indefinitely

As we lose more and more of our constitutional rights every day, this is one that we MUST take a stand on, and immediately. A Republican sponsored bill is about to be voted on that will allow the president to authorize the military to arrest and hold indefinitely any American in the USA for no reason and for an indeterminate amount of time.

We are truly headed down a very dangerous road that has been paved with greed and the need for control of the masses by the few who pull all the strings in our country. While the president has said he would veto such legislation that literally smacks of tyranny and a dictatorial take-over of America, this is the most dangerous that could be set to relieve us of any and all rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

America is NOT a battlefield. America is a free country and American citizens should not ever be arrested by the military and certainly not without being charged or getting a trial. This provision would cast aside the Constitution and put the liberties of American citizens here at home and around the world at serious risk. Please call your senator or visit this link, because this is a risk Americans cannot afford to take.

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Who's Messing with my Facebook?

Since most of us can remember, we have received our information from either television, radio or paper. However, since the advent of the internet and social networking, most of us now receive our information, true or false, through our social contacts and the information shared via such sites as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and several other mainstream sources. The upside of such networking is the ability, with the press of a key, to send information out into the world for all to see. The downside is that making ourselves so transparent in this age of technology leaves the door open for misuse of information, the spreading of false information, and the ability to interrupt the transmission of information by the companies who control access to that information.

As we speak legislators are considering, behind closed doors but with the advice of large corporations, agencies and other right-wing sources and no from the '99%') to limit, restrict and eavesdrop on our posts and comments. We seem to have no say in this legislation and are most likely, not going to like the results.

But on another front, we are already seeing the influence of political, governmental and corporate control as they control our posts and comments on Facebook, deleting them, posting distracting comments, and spamming our pages with false information. All this tends to accomplish one thing - it creates distrust of information - the obvious goal of our "owners". Yes, our owners, the people who really run this country, tell us what to think, what to do, what to say, and control our economy and lives to the point that there no longer exists the "American Dream" that so many people hope for.

Recently there have been a rash of viruses unleashed on Facebook that have the potential to wipe out a hard drive or disable a computer within seconds should one click on the links they provide. I firmly believe that this sudden rash of misinformation and destructive posting is not the work of "hackers" out for some fun, but the deliberate and malicious attempt by our owners, those who control us, to disrupt and destroy the unstoppable flow of information that contradicts their ideologies and contributes to their loss of control over our lives. Hackers usually place viruses and other software bits online to perform a certain destructive function for a clear purpose. These posts, not able to be seen on the users profile wall, are precise, directed at those who are the most vocal about current issues and providing correct information versus the information fed to us by the right-wing establishment on FOX and other media sources.

One thing is for certain...the quality and quantity of correct information is being subverted by, as of this moment, unknown sources that have no apparent interest in making their demands or needs known. This is the scarey part of this new, devious movement. At some point, given enough misinformation, the serfs will no longer know what to believe except for what their owners tell them and the sheep will be led to slaughter with a smile on their face.

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The Prophets of Doom : We Are In Far More Than A Depression

I'm just watching a TV program first aired in the spring of 2011 called "The Prophets of Doom" (link to the entire show) on the History Channel. Discussing the current problems facing our world are six experts from several fields -  financial, environment, energy, computers - who are talking about the crisis we are in now as a country and drawing the parallels to past civilizations and their demise.  

It's extremely important that people do wake up before the dam has burst, so to speak. In fact, one of them used a dam bursting as an example. People who live several miles downstream from a dam about to rupture worry, fret and try to do something to rectify it. Those a little closer are not as worried, still are concerned, but don't really react in time. But those who live the closest to it don't believe that anything will happen and don't react at all. Their thinking, a protective reaction of the brain that "it can't happen to me", don't say or do anything because they trust that someone built the dam strong enough to not rupture.

Our society is in a crisis in every form -  financially, politically and environmentally. But the basic thesis of their discussion is that historically, people refuse to believe that anything can or will happen to them because we are the biggest, we are the strongest, we have everything and dominate by buying, taxation, having the biggest military, and even the best technology. 

At some point our country's system, which one of them calls a ponzi scheme, will reach a point of insolvency in which we cannot recover, and by definition, will collapse. This has been shown to be true in every civilization that has risen to the length and breadth that we have. However, due to the level of our technology, our collapse will be different in that it will not be able to recover due to the draining of our natural resources and the fact that they cannot be replaced (oil, water, etc.), the pollution of clean drinking water and food from chemicals and pesticides, the collapse of our financial system, the most obvious one of all at the present that people can relate to. One of the participants proposed an very interesting thought. Dr. Hugo DeGaris thinks that through the vast improvements in the area of Artificial Intelligence, we may be creating the society of the future, which consists of robots and machines that not only can think for themselves, but will do so at the speed of light, a thousand times faster than the fastest human brain operates. His theory postulates that if this point is reached, this new society may consider humans as being inferior and make a logical decision to eliminate us as a species. Of course this is farther down the line than the pressing issues of financial collapse we face now. 

Yet even with all this knowledge, a greater percentage of the people still refuse to believe that this can or will happen to us. 1 in 4 Americans is considered to be at Level 1 in the table of literacy. That means that there are roughly 44 million people in America that cannot read, write or express their thought well enough to communicate. A staggering number at the very least. They are among those that live closest to the dam and believe that the politicians and government know more than they do and will always take care of them.

This is a very interesting and relevant look at our forthcoming political, financial and environmental collapse and the discussion was much more than I could express here. I feel that I live way downstream and I'm worried that those who live next to the dam are not waking up fast enough to be able to get to higher ground before the dam bursts and they drown.


So, once again I say to those who live within a few miles of the dam, get up, get involved, participate, get informed, vote, complain, pursue, and let those who believe they are in charge of us that we are here and we are not going to go down with their ship.

In addition to Dr. DeGaris, here are a few names of those involved in the discussion: Michael Ruppert, Dr. Nathan Hagens, John Cronin, James Howard Kunstler.

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Government and Law Enforcement Twist Google’s Arm For Data, Google Complies | Addicting Info

One by one the Constitutional freedoms Americans supposedly "enjoy" are being eroded slowly away without most people even knowing it. In this Google issued Transparency Report, Google was requested by the government, courts, local and state police to erase from its database:

Everything from videos of police brutality, to information supposedly pertaining to national security were among the requests.  The report also states one request from American authorities was to remove a video it believed to be critical of the government.

Separately, the report declares American law enforcement requested data from Google on 11,057 different users or accounts.  Google said it complied with 4,700 of those requests. Almost all of this data sharing was done without a warrant.

 (from Addictinginfo.org)

Google complied with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, enacted by the United States Congress to extend government restrictions on wire taps from telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer.

The ECPA has been met with criticism through the years including its failure to protect all communications and consumer records. Under the ECPA it is relatively easy for a governmental agency to demand service providers hand over consumer data that has been stored on servers. All that is required of the agency is a written statement certifying that the information is relevant to an investigation of foreign counterintelligence with no judicial review required. It also increased the list of crimes that can justify the use of surveillance as well as the number of judicial members who can authorize such surveillance. Data can be obtained without a warrant on traffic and calling patterns of an individual or group allowing an agency to gain valuable intelligence and possibly invade privacy without coming under fire because the actual content of the communication is left untouched. While workplace communications are in theory protected an employer must simply give notice or a supervisor must feel that the employee’s actions are not in the company’s “interest” to gain access to communiqué. This means that with minimal assumptions an employer can monitor communications within the company. The ongoing debate is where to limit the government’s power to see into civilian lives while balancing the need to curb national threats. The ECPA falls directly in the middle of this debate both sides wanting revisions and clarifications made by the courts and legislation.   



You might want to consider what you say online with any computer entity, send over the line, or even think of commenting on.

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A Question of Integrity - Supreme Court Justices

As this sign says, it's a question of Integrity...this is a 15 minute film highlights the inconsistencies and ties that our Supreme Court Justices have with politicians and the lack of integrity that they show for those they make such important decisions about.

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Advisory Committee Recommends That Boys Get HPV Vaccine

Is this another thinly veiled attempt to make a statement that boys are the source of all AIDS infections and that somehow, forcing vaccination on them will eradicate the disease? It is the quiet passing of laws like this that have slowly removed the rights of parents to 'parent' their children as they see best. More government interference based upon non-factual reports made by some government committee. No wonder this country is headed for 3rd World status! Here is the very short, barely noticeable Associated Press item regarding the vaccination requirement being considered.

By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer 

ATLANTA (AP) - A government panel is recommending that young boys also get the controversial HPV shot. That's the vaccine now given to girls to prevent cervical cancer. Doctors argue that it could protect boys against genital warts and some kinds of cancers. But they also say vaccinating 11- and 12-year old boys could also help prevent the spread of the sexually transmitted virus to girls.

The HPV vaccine has been controversial since it was recommended for girls five years ago. And only about a third of adolescent girls have been fully vaccinated against the virus. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made the recommendation Tuesday. Federal health officials usually adopt what the panel says and asks doctors and patients to follow the recommendations.

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