By Chris Bourne, Contributing Writer / Waking Times

These are very exciting times. A whole host of events and circumstances are converging across the world causing the old fear based reality to fracture and fragment. It’s big business that has had such a strangle hold on Humanity’s freedom of expression and evolution: well I believe these two short video clips I’d like to share below, demonstrate quite powerfully how that grip is now beginning to weaken…

Fluoride Poisoned Water

Do you still drink tap water? A ways back down the path, my soul strongly guided me to stop drinking it because of the fluoride that’s pumped into it by governments and water companies. If you still have a fluoride based toothpaste, next time you brush your teeth, check out the label. It’s highly likely it will carry a poison warning tucked away in the small print like this one…

“WARNING: Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, seek professional help or contact a poison control center immediately.”

A poison label on toothpaste? Whatever next! I talked about this on Openhandweb back in 2008…how tap water lowers your vibration. Flouride not only destroys the teeth, but damages the lining of the stomach and intestines. It lowers vibration because it generates increased internal activity. It’s well known that its added to prison water to dope inmates down. It’s clear that the powers-that-be don’t want vibrant questioning minds!

So I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to see this mainstream video talking about the damage of fluoride in water and legal action taking place in the USA to stop it happening…

The Pillars of the Temple are toppling

Also a couple of years back, I wrote about the toppling Greek economy and how this was so important to break the European noose of big business…Monumental changes for Monumental times. How on earth does it make sense for Bureaucrats in Brussels to tell a farmer in Greece what price to charge for his olives? Then to over-inflate his economy and burden him with debt so that his olives now cost three times what they should and he needs to sell double the amount? That might be fine for bankers and the fat cats in big business, but definitely not for the farmers and the people.

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The DEA wants to capture the license plates of all vehicles traveling along Interstate 15 in Utah, and store that data for two years at their facility in Northern Virginia. And, as a DEA official told Utah legislators at a hearing this week (attended by ACLU of Utah staff and covered in local media), these scanners are already in place on “drug trafficking corridors” in California and Texas and are being considered for Arizona as well. The agency is also collecting plate data from unspecified other sources and sharing it with over ten thousand law enforcement agencies around the nation.

We know that automated license plate scanning (ALPR) technology is rapidly being deployed by local police around the country. However, its use by a federal agency raises new issues and questions. To begin with, the federal government is in more of a position to create a centralized repository of drivers’ movements, so federal deployment of the technology is even more serious a matter than widespread local deployment.

In addition, a federal agency is required by law (the Privacy Act of 1974) to disclose to the American people how it is collecting, using, and sharing data about them. However, we were not able to find a Privacy Act notice anywhere in the Federal Register in which the DEA describes any collection of license plate data. (The two recent DEA Privacy Act notices we found do not mention the practice.)

The DEA official claimed to the Utah legislators that “we’re not trying to capture any personal information—all that this captures is the tag, regardless of who the driver is.” The idea that a license plate number is not personally identifiable information is laughable. It is true that different people can drive one vehicle, but they are usually closely related to the registered owner and their identities are rarely difficult to ascertain after the fact.

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by Amy L. Lansky PhD

The following is excerpted from Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within [1], recently released from R.L.Ranch Press.

One piece of evidence for the holographic nature of nonstandard fields that have been proposed in recent years — the zero-point field (a candidate for the unified field [2]), the psi field of psychic phenomena, Ervin Laszlo’sAkashic field [3], and the morphic field proposed by Rupert Sheldrake [4] — is that they all share a common feature: sensitivity to similarity in vibration.

If a holographic image has many different holograms embedded within it, shining a laser of a specific frequency upon it will cause only those holograms made with lasers of the same frequency to stand out.  That’s because things with the same vibration naturally resonate and reinforce one another — just as two violin strings at the same pitch resonate with one another. This property of resonance has [also] been used to explain how each of us might interact with mysterious fields like the psi or Akashic fields… People pick up only that with which they personally “resonate.” Each individual’s resonant frequency, determined by their life experience, physical body, and energy body, limits what they can perceive.

Biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance also depends upon similarity in vibration. Members of the same species, being “on the same wavelength,” are able to tap into information that pertains uniquely to them. And while members of an entire species might be able to tune into a fairly broad spectrum of frequencies (think of Carl Jung’s notion of thecollective unconscious that humans supposedly tap into [5]), smaller, more tightly connected groups — such as members of the same family or loving couples — resonate in more focused zones of vibration; they have access to their own “private frequency.” In fact, Sheldrake goes even further and suggests that morphic fields can explain how human memory operates. Instead of being stored in our brains, he suggests that memories are stored in the morphic field. Our brains then pick them up via resonance, like radios tuning to their own private stations.

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As the run on the banks spread in Europe, with 30% of customers pulling cash out of UK branches of Spain’s Santander bank, the Euro spikes on absolutely no news.

While we saw Wall Street banks admitting they  jumped in to prop up Facebook’s opening day IPO crash today, there is no such admission or explanation when it comes to the Euro’s massive spike.

That spike of course which defies not only technical and fundamental data but conventional wisdom as well as Greece continues down the path of exiting the Euro while the mass withdrawal of consumer deposits has spread from Greece, into Spain and today into the UK.

This of course raises the specter that some high frequency trading algorithm was unleashed to manipulate the price.

With 18,250 cases of HFT market manipulation documented over the last 5 years, including the now infamous silver manipulation scandal  and the 54 second grand rehearsal for a market crash the possibility of such manipulation is not far-fetched.

In any case there is explanation for the move in Euro as of right now so we will just have to see how this plays out.

Zero Hedge reports:

Nothing could be more appropriate than topping a week of surreal newsflow than what just happened with the EURUSD, which soared by 80 pips on absolutely non news, in what can be attributed to either some algo going apeshit and lifting every offer, a fat finger, or just the tried and true Bank of International Settlement stop hunt seeking to send correlated risk assets higher courtesy of a spark in upward momentum. Sadly today not even this glaring attempt to jump broad risk into the stratosphere is working. And ahead of a weekend where it is rumored Europe may reopen on Monday, we can’t wait for the inevitable snapback.

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“In our globalist existence, the authority for the US to initiate hostilities against another country comes from the UN, declared Obama and Panetta. If the executive branch can persuade or bribe the UN to give a war OK, Congress is no longer relevant.” – Paul Craig Roberts, “Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?”

President Barack Obama has continued the secret policy of destroying the sovereignty and wealth of the United States to the benefit of the private transnational interests who control the United Nations, the CIA, Wall Street, and the global banking system. Numerous American presidents, both Republican and Democrat, are on board with this treasonous political agenda.

Obama is not an “American” president; he is a United Nations president.

The criminal international banksters and secret societies behind the creation of the United Nations, and the Barack Obama icon, use fraud, usury, debt, terror, deception, propaganda, false flags, and war to get what they want out of countries. They treat all countries like third world colonies, including America. The people are plundered and destroyed, while the criminal elite are protected.

The election of Obama represents a massive constitutional crisis in America because he was born in Kenya, and is thus illegally holding the office of the presidency. He is the presidential equivalent of an illegal alien. It is hard to believe this is true because it is pretty wild. But no intellectually honest person can ignore the evidence and defend Obama’s claim that he was born in America. It is illogical to deny the facts and stick to illusions.

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Lawyers Deny Group Was Plotting To Make Molotov Cocktails, Only Beer

Darrin Annussek, who was detained by police, talks with the media Friday. (CBS)

As dignitaries arrive for the NATO Summit in Chicago, protesters and police are making news for an arrest controversy earlier this week in Bridgeport.

For the first time, as CBS 2’s Pam Zekman reports, one of the nine protesters scooped up by police in a controversial raid says he was mistreated and his civil rights violated.

Darrin Annussek says he walked to Chicago from Philadelphia to participate in Occupy protests, only to be seized by police in a raid on an apartment at 32nd and Morgan.

“For 18 hours, we were handcuffed to a bench and our legs were shackled together,” he said. “Some of our cries for the bathroom were either ignored or met with silence.”

Annusek was released Friday morning along with four others reportedly suspected of preparing molotov cocktails. At least one other detainee was released several hours later Friday.

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Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims he has been blocked by the UK authorities from attending the Olympic Games in London.

Mr Ahmadinejad told Iran’s official news agency IRNA that he would like to be “beside Iranian athletes” at the Games, but that Britain has “a problem” with him being there.

The Foreign Office refused to confirm or deny his claim, saying only: “We don’t comment on individual cases.”

The row comes ahead of talks in Baghdad next week over Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, which Britain and other international powers suspect is intended to produce an atomic weapon. Tehran denies the charge, insisting it wants only to develop a civilian nuclear power capability.

The E3+3 nations – Britain, France, Germany, the US, Russia and China – will meet with negotiators from Iran in the Iraqi capital for a day of talks on May 23.

The meeting follows on from talks in Istanbul last month at which the E3+3 team detected signs of willingness on the Iranian side to engage constructively after a long stalemate.

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Bill Bard says:

He’s quite lucky then.

CHILE – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Antofagasta, Chile. The depth of the earthquake was 25 km (15.5 m) and was downgraded from a 6.2 magnitude quake by the USGS. The epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) SW of Taltal, Antofagasta, Chile and 849 km (527 miles) N of Santiago, Chile. This is the third moderate earthquake to strike along the Chilean coastline in five days. A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coastal region of Aisen, Chile on May 18. A 6.2 earthquake also struck near Tarapaca on May 14. Tension continues to mount on the very dangerous Nazca plate which is violently diving or undergoing subduction under the South American plate. The absolute motion of the Nazca Plate has been calibrated at 3.7 cm/yr east motion (88°), some of the fastest absolute motion of any tectonic plate. The subducting Nazca Plate, which exhibits unusual flat-slab subduction, is tearing as well as deforming as it is subducted under the land mass. No tsunami warnings were issued with today’s 5.9 earthquake and there have been no reports of damage or injuries. Today’s earthquake, however, is one more indication tension along the Nazca tectonic plate is building. This region should remain alert for the potential occurrence of a stress-break or sizable release of seismic tension that could be manifested in a major earthquake.

[Source: The Extinction Protocol]

By Paul Sims

A British citizen has been arrested in Bangkok after six foetuses were found stuffed into travel bags.

Hok Kuen Chow, 28, a Briton born in Hong Kong of Taiwanese parents, was held in the city’s Yaowarat area after police received a tip-off.

He is suspected of trying to smuggle the foetuses – from two to seven months – back to Taiwan to sell to wealthy customers online.

WARNING: Graphic content. Scroll down for video

Chow has reportedly admitted buying the bodies, which had been roasted dry and painted in gold leaf, for 200,000 baht (£4,040).

Back in Taiwan he could have sold them for six times that amount to rich clients who believe the foetuses will bring them good fortune. ‘The bodies are between the ages of two and seven months,’ said Wiwat Kumchumnan, of the police’s children and women protection unit.

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Infowars.com

Record numbers of people are set to protest the upcoming Bilderberg 2012 meeting in Chantilly, Virginia. Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson talks to Dan Dicks of Press For Truth about how the elite dread the spotlight.

http://infowars.com

http://prisonplanet.tv

http://www.facebook.com/OccupyBilderberg2012

A lunch being held by the Queen at Windsor castle later today has attracted controversy after it was revealed that it would be hosted and attended entirely by monarchs who live in luxury while their people suffer.

The Diamond Jubilee lunch, in which guests will celebrate being born into opulence, will be attended by heads of state who display varying degrees of selfish greed.

The King of Bahrain, Swaziland’s King Mswati III, the Galactic Empire’s Emperor Palpatine, Planet Mongo’s Ming the Merciless and Prince Philip are among controversial monarchs expected to attend the lunch.

Among those not attending the lunch are Queen Sofia of Spain and her Husband, King Juan Carlos, who broke his hip while selflessly hunting elephants in Botswana.

Jubilee lunch

The Queen, who has a personal fortune estimated to be in the region of £349m, is expected to address the guests while sat on the lap of a Foreign Office ventriloquist who will be drinking a glass of water.

Buckingham Palace said it will not comment on the attendees at the lunch, but reassured everyone that the menu would consist of the finest food and wines available, and would definitely be very, very expensive.

“The Queen’s role is to keep her mouth shut and take the money,” said a Buckingham Palace spokesperson.

“This is something she has done superbly over the last 60 years, and will continue to do for as long as she possibly can.”

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HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW: FDA-APPROVED DRUGS KILL A MILLION AMERICANS PER DECADE!

THE FDA IS A ROGUE CRIMINAL AGENCY

by Jon Rappoport / www.nomorefakenews.com

The day of the Smoking Gun has arrived.

The discovery of a page, on the FDA’s own website, proves the FDA is fully aware that:

the drugs it certifies as safe have been killing Americans, at the rate of 100,000 per year.

The FDA website page is currently available under the heading, “Why Learn About Adverse Drug Reactions,” and it can be Googled. (Click here to go directly to the FDA page.)

The implications of this Smoking Gun are hard to grasp in any rational way.

The FDA takes no blame, no responsibility for its actions, and yet it admits the death statistics are accurate.

As an investigative reporter, I have been tracking and writing about pharmaceutically-caused deaths for 10 years. I have, on numerous occasions, cited Dr. Barbara Starfield’s report in the July 26th, 2000, Journal of the American Medical Association, in which she presents the figure of 106,000 deaths per year, in America, as a result of these drugs. I have claimed that the federal government and, in particular, the FDA, are aware of these numbers.

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Published on 15 May 2012 by LeeCamp2

The mainstream corporate-owned media is now essentially a rotting corpse. Welcome to the funeral. [more at LeeCamp.net]

By Stephen C. Webster

A middle school outside Chicago has one mom on a privacy rampage after her daughter claimed administrators forced her to log into her Facebook page so they could inspect her online social activities.

This mom’s rampage has now taken her all the way to the front page of MSNBC.com, where she claims that school officials have told her they commonly inspect social media and even have students unlock their smartphones, all in the name of protecting the educational environment.

In a student handbook (PDF) distributed by Geneva Middle School South in Geneva, Ill., page 10 describes “temporary records” that the school may gather, with the top item being a student’s “social history.” Parents are allowed to see and copy any information kept on file about students, the handbook notes.

But that’s not enough say-so for Pam Broviak, who said a forced search of her daughter’s Facebook left her “embarrassed and very upset.”

School officials admitted to MSNBC that while they never ask for passwords, officials do require students to reveal privately kept social media information themselves or deal with the consequences of a phone call to their parents.

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By Paul Craig Roberts, paulcraigroberts.org

In response to the question in the title I can report that most of my readers are. Almost everyone got the point of the last column. They see the absurdity of the government’s claim that the identity of the tough, macho Navy Seals, who allegedly murdered Osama bin Laden, has to be kept secret in order to protect our fierce warriors from reprisals from Muslim terrorists, while those government officials responsible for the torture and deaths of large numbers of Muslims can walk around, identity known, unprotected and safe.

A few members of Congress are also awake, but not very many. Indeed, we are losing two of the most aware–Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. Kucinich was redistricted in order to get rid of his independent voice. He carried 75% of the votes from that part of his old district that was included in his new one, but the new voters lacked the intelligence to vote for him. Ron Paul, in our time of tribulation, tried for the Republican presidential nomination on a platform of saving the US Constitution, but those who voted in Republican primaries weren’t interested in saving the US Constitution.

Now we are down to US Rep. Walter Jones. Initially, Jones was a member of the warmonger crowd. He was angered when the French government cast doubt on the George W. Bush regime’s reasons for the need for war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Jones said at that time that he was renaming French Fries “Freedom Fries.”

Jones unplugged from the Matrix and has been sentient for some time. Recently the tyrant Obama and the government operative Panetta, a political whore who has been in a variety of government positions and is currently Secretary of Warmongering, announced publicly that, the US Constitution notwithstanding, the executive branch no longer needed the authority of Congress to go to war. In our globalist existence, the authority for the US to initiate hostilities against another country comes from the UN, declared Obama and Panetta. If the executive branch can persuade or bribe the UN to give a war OK, Congress is no longer relevant.

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Published on 15 May 2012 by GoddardsJournal

By David Edwards

A former Roman Catholic priest was found guilty on Thursday of hiring a hit man to kill a boy who had accused him of sexual abuse.

John Fiala, 53, showed no emotion as a Dallas jury found him guilty of plotting to kill the boy, according to The Dallas Morning News. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison.

Prosecutors said that Fiala had tried to hire at hit man for $5,000 in November 2010, but the would-be assassin turned out to be an undercover police officer. Video and audio of the meeting were presented to the jury on Wednesday.

The former priest had claimed that he only hired the hit man because he feared for his own life.

“John Fiala is not a puppet,” prosecutor Brandon Birmingham told the jury. “He is a puppeteer.”

Tom Rhodes, an attorney for the accuser, in 2008 said that Fiala had been “grooming” the boy by buying him gifts like a computer and a car. By providing private catechism lessons, the attorney added, the then-priest “gained access to him and began to sexually abuse him once or twice a month, including on church grounds.”

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By Alex Thomas / theintelhub.com

Chicago police and security personal are set for what they seem to believe will be a full scale battle with protesters during this weekends NATO Summit.

With numerous protest groups set to launch widespread protests throughout the weekend, the police state is out like never before.

In a move eerily reminiscent of the Soviet Union and East Germany, multiple activists were arrested and literally disappeared just days before the summit.

An article published by RT quoted a National Lawyers Guild spokesman in regards to the pre crime arrests:

Hermes adds to the Tribune that “there’s absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing,” and that law enforcement officers were simply trying to make the activists “disappear” days before police expect major anti-NATO protests in Chicago.

“We were literally calling all morning and all afternoon to try to contact these people,” Hermes says. “That’s why we used the term ‘disappeared.’ ”

In a separate statement offered to an NBC News station in Chicago, Hermes adds,

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by Zen Gardner

What’s with this world? It doesn’t matter what new technology surfaces, “How can we weaponize it?”

It’s insane to the max.

Whether it’s viruses and bacteria, flying things, vaccines, food, sound and electromagnetic technology, anything with a camera, x-rays and radiation, forays into space, psychological advances, mosquitoes, vehicles of any sort including unmanned drones of every size, time travel and remote viewing, microchips and computers, robots, and even the environment and flipping weather.

And that’s just some of the stuff we know about. Whatever…..

“Weaponize it!”

Satanic Lunacy

Just look at all the crap they’re pumping out. It’s incredible! All in the name of “national security”. DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is a highly secretive branch of the Military Industrial Monster that spends billions on developing just such insanities. Cloaked in this extremely handy veil of “classified” like so many 10′s of thousands of documents and undercover operations for decades, DARPA does whatever the hell it pleases.

Like the shadow government. While the populace sleeps, feeling “protected” from one set of fictitious “bad guys” after the other.

So called “Congress” is a long dead joke in this cryptocracy anachronistically called America. That icon so-called “freedom” has slipped off like a bad toupe worn by a Hitler look-alike in a wax museum. Your bullshit detector has to be changed and cleaned more often than a baby’s diaper just to keep up with the lies being spun on an hourly basis.

It’s sick out here.

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Thanks, Zen.

Published on 18 May 2012 by Snordelhans

The Heretic presents… A Visible Petri Dish of trouble in: The Big Bass Drums of War are Booming.
Found here: http://www.zippittydodah.com/2012/05/bog-bass-drums-of-war-are-booming.html

Double, double, toil and trouble, Petri dish boil and Petri Dish bubble. Let’s see, massive global economic failure, more so here, less so there, counterpointed with continuing revelations of massive financial malfeasance by the major players, check. ZATO, Zionist Atlantic Terror Organization, is in Chicago and so is Larry Silverstein’s orc cousin. Rahm Anti-Emmanuel is in situ at the big board, check. The big bass drums of war are booming as the false flag is looming, check. MeK operatives are in place, while the man in blue is in your face, check. Yes, something is up. All the highly placed Zio Ogres are talking about Iran’s last chance to stop doing what they’re not doing, or face the wrath of those who are doing what they say they’re not doing… check… check… check… same sex mate

By Chris Bourne / Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

We’ve been receiving many questions of late concerning the subject of soul mates. It seems many are out to find their “ideal” partner in life.

So what’s it all about?

Do we meet on a dreamy white cloud and sail off into an eternal sunset whilst cherubims play their sweet soul

Or is there a bit more to it than that?

Both Trinity (my partner) and myself are soul mates who have joined in union in this incarnation to help one another. We felt compelled to write this joint article which you might like to read if the subject interests you…

The Twin Flame

The subject of soul mate would be totally incomplete with out first addressing the phenomenon of the “twin flame” because the former arises from the later. Please allow us to share…

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Published on Apr 25, 2012 by lisamharrison

Published on May 16, 2012 by lisamharrison

Protestors with the Catholic Workers march through the Loop after demonstrating outside the Prudential Building which houses the national campaign headquarters for President Barack Obama on May 14, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Reports suggest local law enforcement agencies are considering shutting down cell phone services in the city over the weekend and while it will most likely be very effective, many are questioning if the move is legitimate.

The Daily Beast reports that the FBI and Secret Service have standing authority to jam signals and they can also push for the shutdown of cell towers, thanks to “Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 303,” which lays out the nation’s official “Emergency Wireless Protocols.”

According to the National Communications System, the protocol details a “shutdown and restoration process for use by commercial and private wireless networks during national crises.” It was created after the London bombings in 2005, when federal security services shut off cellular networks in New York’s tunnel, fearing a similar attack. Since then, cell phone jammers have been used in situations like President Obama’s inauguration, with the Secret Service claiming there was a bomb threat, as well as a number of other cases.

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Needy states use housing aid cash to fund prisons, education shortfalls, and plug budgets

- Common Dreams staff

Image: Protesters staged a rally against home foreclosures in California on Tuesday outside the State Capitol in Sacramento. (Max Whittaker for The New York Times)

As part of a financial settlement over fraudulent mortgage practices earlier this year, some of the nation’s largest banks agreed to make payments to state government totaling $2.5 billion that would be earmarked for victims of wrongful foreclosure and other distressed homeowners. Instead, reports the New York Times today, a majority of those funds are going to plug state budget shortfalls, leaving homeowners without recourse and validating critics who questioned the strength of the deal when it was announced in February.

The total settlement was for $25 billion, but only a tenth of that was to come in the form of cash payment to the states. The remainder was to come in the form of “credits” for reducing mortgage debt and other loan activities.

Andy Schneggenburger, the executive director of the Atlanta Housing Association of Neighborhood-Based Developers, told the Times the decision showed “a real lack of comprehension of the depths of the foreclosure problem.”

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Published on 16 May 2012 by CannabisCorner

In this episode we discuss the simple pathway to cannabis legalization within a short time frame.

http://cannabiscorner.com/

Speaking in the House of Commons today, the Home Secretary said:

“Ceop … received intelligence of unique internet addresses from the UK who had accessed child abuse material,”

“Because some of that communications data was not available, nine out of 41 members of an international paedophile ring could not be traced.”

So. They had unique addresss of the UK members. The police could have secured a warrant, siezed the computers of the people identified and recover the data on their PCs and analyse it.

Alternatively, the Home Secretary could sign a warrant and they could put every one of the known people under surveillance, monitoring their internet use and watching who they communicate with.

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When drones were created, how they’re used, and what their future looks like.

BY MICAH ZENKO

1. The first armed drones were created to get Osama bin Laden.
In 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton’s administration shut down an operation to kill the al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan with cruise missiles, given collateral damage estimates of 300 casualties and only 50 percent confidence in the intelligence. As the 9/11 Commission noted, “After this episode Pentagon planners intensified efforts to find a more precise alternative.” In 2000 and 2001, the U.S. Air Force struggled to reconfigure a Hellfire anti-tank missile to fit onto a Predator surveillance drone. Meeting one week before the 9/11 attacks, the National Security Council agreed that the armed Predator was not ready to be operationally deployed. The first known killing by armed drones occurred in November 2001, when a Predator targeted Mohammed Atef, a top al Qaeda military commander, in Afghanistan.

2. So far, drones tend to crash.
On Dec. 4, an RQ-170 Sentinel surveillance drone crashed in Iran; a U.S. official involved in the program blamed a lost data link and another unspecific malfunction. Two weeks later, an unarmed Reaper drone crashed at the end of a runway in the Seychelles. “This should not be a surprise,” a defense official told Aviation Week & Space Technology, saying the United States had already lost more than 50 drones. As of July 2010, the Air Force had identified 79 drone accidents costing at least $1 million each. The primary reasons for the crashes: bad weather, loss or disruption of communications links, and “human error factors,” according to the Air Force. As Lt. Gen. David Deptula, former Air Force deputy chief of staff for intelligence, has noted with refreshing honesty, “Some of the [drones] that we have today, you put in a high-threat environment, and they’ll start falling from the sky like rain.”

3. Drones are coming to America.
Worried about the militarization of U.S. airspace by unmanned aerial vehicles? As of October, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had reportedly issued 285 active certificates for 85 users, covering 82 drone types. The FAA has refused to say who received the clearances, but it was estimated over a year ago that 35 percent were held by the Pentagon, 11 percent by NASA, and 5 percent by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). And it’s growing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection already operates eight Predator drones. Under pressure from the congressional Unmanned Systems Caucus — yes, there’s already a drone lobby, with 50 members — two additional Predators were sent to Texas in the fall, though a DHS official noted: “We didn’t ask for them.” Last June, a Predator drone intended to patrol the U.S.-Canada border helped locate three suspected cattle rustlers in North Dakota in what was the first reported use of a drone to arrest U.S. citizens.

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By DENISE GRADY

Photo Researchers, Inc. / A study links azithromycin to abnormal heart rhythms.

A new study finds that a widely used antibiotic, azithromycin, may increase the likelihood of sudden death in adults, especially those who have heart disease or are at high risk for it.

The increased odds of death are small, but significant enough that the authors of the study say doctors should consider prescribing a different drug, like amoxicillin, for high-risk patients who need antibiotics. People at high risk include those with heart failure, diabetes or a previous heart attack, and those who have undergone bypass surgery or have had stents implanted. In such patients, the drug may cause abnormal heart rhythms that can be fatal. Just how the drug might disrupt heart rhythm is not known, the researchers said.

The concerns do not apply to children, because most have very little risk of heart disease, according to the lead author of the study, Wayne A. Ray, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University. The study is being published on Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Azithromycin is used to treat bacterial infections, including bronchitis, pneumonia, sore throats and earaches. It is familiar to many people as the “Z-Pak,” to be taken for five days, and part of its appeal is its convenience; many other antibiotics must be taken for 10 days or longer. Last year, doctors wrote 55. 3 million prescriptions for azithromycin in the United States, and sales were $464.6 million, according to IMS Health, a health care information and services company. Global sales were $1.8 billion.

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Bill Bard says:

Things Big Pharma don’t tell you.

By Ryan Smyth, Contributor / Activist Post

To help explain what the effects of fractional reserve banking are, and to illustrate just how evil it is, I’ve written a simple program that lets you simulate fractional reserve banking and the effects of compound interest.

The Frackin’ Reserve! program simulates what happens in fractional reserve banking, and lets you change the parameters for it. What this lets you do is simulate fractional reserve banking from a variety of perspectives, and see the results in real time.

It also lets you generate a report so you can view all the generated output in a linear time series of the iterations through fractional reserve banking. That was probably a mouthful, and may have sounded like so much balderdash to some people. But it will all become clearer later on, and in particular when I post a follow-up article about fractional reserve banking.

The 10 Second Summary
Download and run the program to play with the factors that make up fractional reserve banking. Change them to see what happens. As a bonus, you can also see how interest works.

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Bill Bard says:

Scam explained!

A Freedom of Information request by Big Brother Watch has exposed the bill for police time spent watching CCTV in the past year.

As reported in today’s Evening Standard, the Metropolitan Police last year spent £4.1m on staff costs in its Visual Images Identifications Detection Office units,

The rampant use of CCTV across London isn’t just a blight on privacy, it’s also soaking up scarce police resources that could be put to better use in preventing crime. And when seen in context of the Met’s own research highlighting how 1,000 CCTV cameras solve less than one crime per year in the capital, it is further concern that CCTV is not being used either proportionately or effectively.

Earlier this year our report on CCTV spending, The Price of Privacy, called for five policy changes to improve the accountability of CCTV. Two of our key recommendations would add a large degree of clarity to the debate and enable the public to decide if this is value for money and a justification for the huge number of CCTV cameras in London. The two changes we called for were:

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By Tom Gardner

A new privacy row has engulfed the Met Police after it unveiled a device to copy and store data from the mobile phones of suspects held in custody – whether charges are brought or not.

Detectives will be able to access details of contacts, call history and texts, within minutes after plugging the phone into a device being used in 16 London boroughs.

But the technology, which could soon be used by police across the entire country, has sparked concern from civil rights groups who have threatened to challenge it under human rights law.

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They fear innocent members of the public could find private information taken and stored indefinitely.

A Met Police spokesman confirmed: ‘Data recovered from the devices is retained and handled by the MPS. This is the case whether the holder of a telephone is charged, bailed, or released with no further action.’

Police have faced fury in previous years from politicians and privacy campaigners over attempts to store the DNA of not just criminals, but suspects AND even just witnesses on a national database.

Eventually, in November 2008 police forces were told by the European Court it was unlawful to store indefinitely DNA samples from people who were later cleared.

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Published on 18 May 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

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Published on 16 May 2012 by TruthNeverTold