Wednesday, May 15, 2013

15 May - The View

Miss America 2000, Heather French, serves food...Miss America 2000, Heather French, serves food to homeless veterans during the closing ceremonies of Operation STAND DOWN at Lighthouse Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Operation Stand Down was a five day drug, alcohol, and violence-free haven for homeless Veterans. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Homeless Woman Iraqi War Veteran in W...English: Homeless Woman Iraqi War Veteran in Wheelchair and her Chihuahua, at San Diego Stand Down. Photograph by Patty Mooney of San Diego, California, 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
 
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If 10% of America's homeless veterans live in LA, why are they being denied a housing option? Tune in to Viewpoint in 30 minutes for more and read guest Jon Wiener's article here: http://bit.ly/10zgR9B
 
 
 Police State USA: Land of the Checkpoints'sphoto.
Evil is here. It is our own government we have not reminded that they are public servants, not suppressors of Freedom. Founding fatyher, Benjamin Franklin. "If we do not hang togerther, surely we will hang separately." Pacfika News Alert!
You may have seen videos of the military's "Active Denial System" affectionately known as the "Pain Ray." It produces an instant, silent, overwhelming sense ofburning and pain on a protester. 

This technology is being developed in handheld versions and will soon be available to police departments. As we've seen with previous technologies, they are perfected on the battlefield and then brought home to use domestically.

Let's be clear about something. Its not so much the existence of technology that I oppose, it is the government monopoly on the use of it that is a problem. This will undoubtedly be only available to government agencies. And they will get to use it with impunity, while if a civilian used it there would be consequences. 

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/05/police-could-soon-get-their-hands-on-the-u-s-militarys-pain-ray/
 
 
 
 
 Liberty Crier's photo.
America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A Revenue Generating Surveillance Grid http://libertycrier.com/government/americas-roads-have-been-turned-into-a-revenue-generating-surveillance-grid/
America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A Revenue Generating Surveillance Grid

http://libertycrier.com/government/americas-roads-have-been-turned-into-a-revenue-generating-surveillance-grid/
 
 
 
Police State USA: Land of the Checkpoints'sphoto.
Nazism has arrived in U.S.A. Pacifika News Alert!
In a landmark 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with Monsanto in a case that will change the mechanics of patent law forever. This decision was the very definition of legislating from the bench. Existing U.S. patent law didn't sufficiently protect replicating lifeforms as patent-protected. Rather Congress addressing the issue, in one way or another, the court decided to pass this decision that will effectively expand the law without a Congressional act. Now the court's ruling dictates that farmers may not purchase second-generation seeds from a grain elevator for planting. Effectively Monsanto's patented seeds are protected in perpetuity as they reproduce, generation after generation. Anyone who plants them, mistakenly or purposely, owes Monsanto a hefty tribute payment. “If they don’t want me to go to the elevator and buy that grain, then Congress should pass a law saying you can’t do it,” said Vernon Bowman, a 75-year-old Indiana farmer who now owes Monsanto $85,000.00 in damages. http://rt.com/usa/patented-monsanto-court-patent-210/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-for-monsanto-in-genetically-modified-soybean-case/2013/05/13/c84d7710-bbdb-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html
In a landmark 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with Monsanto in a case that will change the mechanics of patent law forever. 

This decision was the very definition of legislating from the bench. Existing U.S. patent law didn't sufficiently protect replicating lifeforms as patent-protected. Rather Congress addressing the issue, in one way or another, the court decided to pass this decision that will effectively expand the law without a Congressional act. 

Now the court's ruling dictates that farmers may not purchase second-generation seeds from a grain elevator for planting. Effectively Monsanto's patented seeds are protected in perpetuity as they reproduce, generation after generation. Anyone who plants them, mistakenly or purposely, owes Monsanto a hefty tribute payment. 

“If they don’t want me to go to the elevator and buy that grain, then Congress should pass a law saying you can’t do it,” said Vernon Bowman, a 75-year-old Indiana farmer who now owes Monsanto $85,000.00 in damages.

http://rt.com/usa/patented-monsanto-court-patent-210/
 


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-for-monsanto-in-genetically-modified-soybean-case/2013/05/13/c84d7710-bbdb-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html
 
 
Smirking Chimp added a new photo.
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Smirking Chimp added a new photo.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Living Oceans Society
Here is a good analysis of last week's announcement by the National Research Council that they will only pursue science that is 'commercially viable' http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/07/nrc-to-only-pursue-commercially-viable-science
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
Police State USA: Land of the Checkpoints'sphoto.
Nazism has arrived in U.S.A. Pacifika News Alert
COTATI, CA -- Police are called out to an apartment for a noise compliant by the neighbors. The three occupants inside non-aggressively exercise their fourth amendment right, refusing the police entry as they demand at gun point to let them inside without a search warrant or probable cause. As the police quickly holster their weapons after the camera turns on, the three occupants continue to exercise their rights non-aggressively. The police respond by going into "over-the-top" aggressive mode, utilizing excessive force by kicking in the door, assaulting the female and tazing the cameraman four times causing the camera to short out. All three occupants are arrested/cited for obstruction. Incident occurred on 5/10/2013. VIDEO: (SHARE & SPREAD) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL_XsuYYZaM
COTATI, CA -- Police are called out to an apartment for a noise compliant by the neighbors. The three occupants inside non-aggressively exercise their fourth amendment right, refusing the police entry as they demand at gun point to let them inside without a search warrant or probable cause.

As the police quickly holster their weapons after the camera turns on, the three occupants continue to exercise their rights non-aggressively. The police respond by going into "over-the-top" aggressive mode, utilizing excessive force by kicking in the door, assaulting the female and tazing the cameraman four times causing the camera to short out. All three occupants are arrested/cited for obstruction. Incident occurred on 5/10/2013.

VIDEO: (SHARE & SPREAD)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL_XsuYYZaM
 
 
 
 
FactCheck.org
Biden falsely claimed U.S. workers “are three times as productive as any worker in the world" at UPenn commencement. http://ow.ly/l4Bru
 
Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper
This always seems to be appropriate... :)
 
Disinformation
Can you believe this? Nearly as bad as the Taliban, or worse maybe?
 
NaturalNews.com
Don't women deserve better? Here's straight, honest talk about what women REALLY need to know to prevent breast cancer and save their bodies from corporate exploitation by the for-profit cancer industry. SHAME ON JOLIE for shoving women right into the hands of the cancer profiteers 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLmSZF-cuF0
 
Slate.com
What it's like to live without nipples: http://slate.me/12Bm97A
 
 
 
CommonDreams.org
"We are faced with an imperative like none confronted by any previous generation; we are living in a society that is disavows responsibility for this greatest of crises..."
"It is our choice to take direct, non-violent action – putting our bodies between the Brayton Point coal plant and its water-borne coal supply – in an attempt to achieve the outcome necessary for planetary survival."
( The climate crock motivates the brainwashed )
The Lobster Boat vs. The Coal Freighter as Climate Activists Blockade Power Plant
www.commondreams.org
Stearing a lobster boat called the Henry David T., two climate activists on Wednesday attempted to blockade a shipment of West Virginia coal from arriving at Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts, New 

The Conspiracy Archives
7 suspicious Saudi and Pakistani students were caught trespassing at one of the largest water reservoirs in Massachusetts. A few of them were chemical engineers...

Not sure why they were there and what they were doing, but it can't be worse than putting Fluoride in the water because it's "good for our teeth"....can it?

ekim
7 Caught trespassing at Quabbin Reservoir, main Massachusetts water supply, Pakistan, Saudi students
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12:30 in the morning seven people were caught
Millions Against Monsanto by OrganicConsumers.org
Dr. Joseph Mercola Exposes The Truth About RoundUp and GMOs:

"While Monsanto insists that Roundup is safe and “minimally toxic” to humans, Samsel and Seneff's research tells a different story altogether. Their report, published in the journal Entropy, argues that glyphosate residues, found in most commonly consumed foods in the Western diet courtesy of GE sugar, corn, soy and wheat, “enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt normal body functions and induce disease.” According to the authors:

'Negative impact on the body is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body.'"

Read more here:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/14/glyphosate.aspx?e_cid=20130514FG_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130514FG
Mercola.com Presents a Video on GMO
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Rainforest Action Network
New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart
www.forbes.com
A new app allows you to scan a product in the supermarket aisle and learn who exactly is behind that box of cereal. More impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott groups of companies who may have
 
Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper
PMO: Nigel Wright wrote personal cheque for $90K to repay Sen. Duffy's expenses
www.ctvnews.ca
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff Nigel Wright wrote a personal cheque to Senator Mike Duffy to cover the expenses he repaid to the senate, CTV News has learned.
 
 
Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper
P*ssing off more of the world. 

"The focus, she said, of Canada’s two years in the chair – to be followed by the United States – will be on “creating economic development.” That shift will dismay environmental activists, who fear the race to extract resources from an ice-free Arctic would ravish and destroy a fragile ecosystem already under stress from climate change. By some estimates, 90 billion barrels of oil and one-fifth of the planet’s untapped natural gas lie beneath the Arctic Ocean."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-gives-eu-and-greenpeace-the-cold-shoulder-at-arctic-council/article11951388/
 
Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper
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#IdleNoMore .. The lesson Harper and the CPC have learned after Penashue's loss .. May 15th 2013

Look out for Election 2015; to pull off a Christy Clark 'miracle'; you know the CPC will get 'creative' again !

Photo via Sid Zehd
 
ACLU Nationwide
Women have served almost 300,000 tours of duty in the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres of war. Over 150 have given their lives, more than 865 have received Purple Hearts, and two have earned Silver Stars for valor under fire. Women have been and continue to be in ground combat, and they have earned the right to serve officially in ground combat units.
Baloney! A Message to the Women in Combat Naysayers
www.aclu.org
On January 24, 2013, we saw a great victory for U.S. servicewomen when the Department of Defense announced it was ending the ban on women serving in ground combat roles. As the Pentagon and the armed services begin implementing the change in policy, there are  
( And when do they put a stop to the rapes of female enlisted ? I'd say that's a threat to unit cohesion. )
Slate.com
North Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent “Unfair Competition”
Slate
From the state that brought you the nation’s first ban on climate science comes another legislative gem: a bil...
 
 
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Two gun stories we need to be talking about - find out more about urban gun crimes and guns on campus on The War Room, starting in 30 minutes. PREVIEW: http://bit.ly/YJZoyG
 

BAKERSFIELD, CA -- After Kern County Sheriff's deputies beat a drunk man to death with batons last week, they went around intimidating all the witnesses into handing over their cell phones and even did home searches to confiscate the evidence.

Now Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood has confirmed that some of the videos have disappeared. The sheriff, to his credit, has asked the FBI to conduct a parallel investigation. 

Witnesses say that the video contained damning evidence of a vicious murder. “He was screaming for help. He was laying on his chest. The cops were still on top of him, still hitting him. My family and I screamed at them to stop hitting him.… The blood was all over Mr. Silva's face. We couldn’t even tell if he had eyes or a mouth.”

Vasquez said her girlfriend yelled, “ ‘Somebody call the cops,’ and everybody looked at her and said, ‘They ARE the cops.’ ”

http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x1891154115/Sheriff-requests-FBI-inquiry-into-in-custody-death
 


http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fbi-enters-videotaped-beat-case-amid-tampered-video-questions-20130514,0,7829634.story
 


ORIGINAL STORY:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyd_NldNSiM
 
 
Talking Points Memo shared a link.
 
 
 
OpenSecrets.org: Tracking Money In Politics
We've been getting lots of questions this week about "dark money" and politically active nonprofits/501(c)(4) "social welfare" groups. To help you understand the IRS uproar, we've put together a handy fact sheet on these mysterious 501(c)(4)s.
 
HuffPost Politics
Church is removed from state.
 
Democracy Now!
When we asked journalist Chris Hedges to comment on the AP phone record story, he made this following comment. Do you agree with him on this? "I find all of these measures to essentially shut down the freedom of information — including the persecution of Julian Assangeand Bradley Manning — as symptomatic of a reconfiguration of our society into a totalitarian security and surveillance state," Hedges says. "One where anyone who challenges the official narrative ... is going to be ruthlessly silenced."
 ( Which  is badly 'gilding the lily'. I consider AP the master propaganda outlet. )
 
Bill Moyers
The revelation that the IRS was targeting conservative social welfare organizations for special scrutiny has generated more outrage than even the IRS is used to receiving.
 
RT shared a link.
Disinformation
As we have seen time and time again, one of the challenges of modern myths is their relative invisibility. It is the outsiders of any age, those who are alien to their own times, that make the best artist shamans, and the same goes for mythic explorers. If you are too close to a culture, you will very frequently mistake the truisms of culture, the myths, as a fact. This is true with “human nature” (as we have seen), and it is also true with our myths of labor and work.

Let’s consider the example presented when one generation judges another...
 
 
 
Current
Two gun stories we need to be talking about - find out more about urban gun crimes and guns on campus on The War Room, starting in 30 minutes. PREVIEW: http://bit.ly/YJZoyG
 
wattsupwiththat
Arctic methane emergency called off
"My thoughts on that are that it's unfortunate that the Legislature seems to be treating women in North Dakota as second-class citizens and feels the need to deprive them of the rights that women in other states have."
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