Title: A failed Pakistani political system is headed for chaos.
http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/if-pakistan-goes-the-way-of-kyrgyzstan/
By: Anjum Niaz
Date: April 10, 2010
he News International
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Wake up before a mob attack. Nawaz Sharif and the faujis [military] may not be the catalysts of change that we seek; it’ll be the people of Pakistan. Shoaib and Sania’s nuptials are a welcome distraction, but in the end the starry-eyed couple will fly off to Dubai throwing back the nation into the pit of darkness and snoozing ministers.
Wake up, Naveed Qamar! If you don’t stop catnapping in public you’ll soon become our Rip Van Winkle, the simple easygoing chap who loved to sleep and not work. Where’s your homework? Remember your headmaster Gilani asked for a report on loadshedding you and your two colleagues Pervez Ashraf and Hafeez Sheikh were to deliver today? The headmaster had constituted a three-member ministerial committee to “examine and prepare a comprehensive report on electricity load management within a week” on April 2.
Let the report be read out aloud.
Loadshedding is hell. Do the rulers realise that Pakistanis can go the way of Kyrgyzstan? The people there have driven out President Bakiyev’s corrupt government. He’s fled while his interior minister has been shot dead. “No police guarded the government headquarters, and hundreds of jubilant but calm residents stood outside, others were walking freely through the building known as the White House,” reported AP.
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Showing posts with label Treason. Show all posts
2010-04-08
Not Just Guantanamo: US Torturing Muslim Pretrial Detainee in New York City
Title: Not Just Guantanamo: US Torturing Muslim Pretrial Detainee in New York City
http://www.truthout.org/not-just-guantanamo-us-torturing-muslim-pretrial-detainee-new-york-city58304
By: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t
Report
Date: April 5, 2010
Today, in New York City, the US is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial.
For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pretrial isolation inside in a small cell under 24-hour video and audio surveillance. He is forced to use the bathroom and shower in full view of the video. He has not seen the sun in years. He takes his meals alone in his cell. He cannot see any other detainees and he is not allowed to communicate in any way with any prisoners. He cannot write letters to friends and he cannot make calls to anyone but his lawyer. He is prohibited from participating in group prayer. He gets newspapers that are 30 days old with sections cut out by the government. One hour a day, he is taken into another confined room where he is also kept in total isolation.
Children are taught that the US Constitution protects people accused of crimes. No one is to be punished unless their guilt or innocence has been decided in a fair trial. Until trial, people are entitled to the presumption of innocence. They are entitled to be defended by an attorney of their choice. And the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
The punishment of Hashmi has been going on for years while he has been waiting for trial. In addition to the punitive isolation he is subjected to today, he was denied the attorney of his choice. He was allowed only counsel investigated and preapproved by the government. He is not allowed to look at any translated documents unless the translator is preapproved by the government. He is not allowed any contact with the media at all. One member of his family can visit through the heavy screen for one hour every other week unless the government takes away those visits to further punish him. The government took away his family visits for 90 days when he was observed shadow boxing in his cell and talked back to the guard who asked what he was doing.
http://www.truthout.org/not-just-guantanamo-us-torturing-muslim-pretrial-detainee-new-york-city58304
By: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t
Report
Date: April 5, 2010
Today, in New York City, the US is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial.
For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pretrial isolation inside in a small cell under 24-hour video and audio surveillance. He is forced to use the bathroom and shower in full view of the video. He has not seen the sun in years. He takes his meals alone in his cell. He cannot see any other detainees and he is not allowed to communicate in any way with any prisoners. He cannot write letters to friends and he cannot make calls to anyone but his lawyer. He is prohibited from participating in group prayer. He gets newspapers that are 30 days old with sections cut out by the government. One hour a day, he is taken into another confined room where he is also kept in total isolation.
Children are taught that the US Constitution protects people accused of crimes. No one is to be punished unless their guilt or innocence has been decided in a fair trial. Until trial, people are entitled to the presumption of innocence. They are entitled to be defended by an attorney of their choice. And the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
The punishment of Hashmi has been going on for years while he has been waiting for trial. In addition to the punitive isolation he is subjected to today, he was denied the attorney of his choice. He was allowed only counsel investigated and preapproved by the government. He is not allowed to look at any translated documents unless the translator is preapproved by the government. He is not allowed any contact with the media at all. One member of his family can visit through the heavy screen for one hour every other week unless the government takes away those visits to further punish him. The government took away his family visits for 90 days when he was observed shadow boxing in his cell and talked back to the guard who asked what he was doing.
2010-04-07
ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)
Vatic Note: Remember, schools are getting funds cut, seniors cut in medicare, freeze on Soc Sec, families are in the streets in record numbers and EXXON PAYS NO TAXES IN 2009 FOR RECORD BREAKING PROFITS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS NATION???? Its actually against the Constitution for them not to pay taxes. In fact, its specific in there that only corp profits were suppose to be taxed since our labor is an asset and we exchange it for another equal value asset so its not suppose to be taxed, but be that as it may, its clearly stealing to not pay any taxes on bogusly obtained profits.
Title: ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/06/exxon-tax/
By: Forbes magazine, Think Progress, and contributed to us by Chris Lawson
Date: April 07, 2010 1:53 PM
Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any corporation, but none of it went to the IRS:
Title: ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/06/exxon-tax/
By: Forbes magazine, Think Progress, and contributed to us by Chris Lawson
Date: April 07, 2010 1:53 PM
Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any corporation, but none of it went to the IRS:
2010-04-06
U.S. military goes hungry in Afghanistan - (Crime against humanity)
Vatic Note: Excuse me? Logistics, supply services, food & water etc did not match the increase of troops??? I simply do not believe it. So how much did the tax payer have to pay Kellogg, Root, and Brown for not feeding and watering our people??? Having been in the military, it just doesn't happen that way UNLESS its intentional. Here is my guess. The US is suppose to lose whatever real war we get into against either Russia or China. I never talked about this because I could not find a supportive source to confirm, but actions the military has engaged in since during Bush until now, simply shows an intent here that is inhumane and for some purpose, thus I am now taking it as a confirmation by their behavior, these people know what they are doing. I can only guess at the purpose, but the facts are clear. They did this to our troops in Iraq with no flack jackets that are standard in war zones, no armoured humvees when road side bombs were the weapons of choice, then when the military did armour them, they did not do the floor of the cab, which is as bad as no armour since the bombs are on the road. Finally the new amoured vehicles arrived in Kuwait and sat there for six months before being distributed to our fighting men and women and now no food and water??? In these past 9 years of war, we have lost 78,000 men in all three theatres, and over 1 million permanently maimed. What does that sound like to anybody??? Depopulation or destruction of our military capability for a reason. I suggest its a bit of both. What in the world are we going to do about this??? We simply have to decide what we can do to help our people who are stranded over there without food or water. This is High treason. A death penalty offense.
Title: U.S. military goes hungry in Afghanistan
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290054
By: By Samantha A. Torrence.
Date: April 5, 2010
The United States Military is in the midst of a troop surge in Afghanistan, but the surge has caused the ratio of resources to troops to widen. Many American Forward Operating Bases are experiencing food and water shortages.
Sgt. Hill, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, has been in Afghanistan only a few months as part of the new troop surge into the country. The troops are mainly focused on training and promoting the Afghanistan army and police force. The training is the United States' attempt to "teach a man to fish," in the security department of the ever turbulent country, a country which is still undecided if it wants to break free from Taliban influence. With these larger issues at hand the need for proper amounts of food and water have fallen by the wayside.
Initially it was expected that resources for surging troops would be low, as many bases were unprepared for the push ordered by the Obama administration. The surge, it is argued, was far too swift and did not give the military time to lay the proper infrastructure and provide housing and other amenities for the troops. The reality of the lack of preparation has been felt by Sgt. Hill and other troops currently in Afghanistan.
Over weeks of correspondence Sgt. Hill has informed Digital Journal of the conditions the logistics of just being able to eat. General McChrystal announced that fast food places like Burger King and Pizza Hut were going to be shut down and moved to make more room for essentials the troops will need for war.
As reported on Digital Journal:
"Supplying non-essential luxuries to big bases like Bagram and Kandahar makes it harder to get essential items to combat outposts and forward operating bases, where troops fighting every day need to be resupplied with ammunition, food and water." (non believable comment)
Title: U.S. military goes hungry in Afghanistan
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290054
By: By Samantha A. Torrence.
Date: April 5, 2010
The United States Military is in the midst of a troop surge in Afghanistan, but the surge has caused the ratio of resources to troops to widen. Many American Forward Operating Bases are experiencing food and water shortages.
Sgt. Hill, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, has been in Afghanistan only a few months as part of the new troop surge into the country. The troops are mainly focused on training and promoting the Afghanistan army and police force. The training is the United States' attempt to "teach a man to fish," in the security department of the ever turbulent country, a country which is still undecided if it wants to break free from Taliban influence. With these larger issues at hand the need for proper amounts of food and water have fallen by the wayside.
Initially it was expected that resources for surging troops would be low, as many bases were unprepared for the push ordered by the Obama administration. The surge, it is argued, was far too swift and did not give the military time to lay the proper infrastructure and provide housing and other amenities for the troops. The reality of the lack of preparation has been felt by Sgt. Hill and other troops currently in Afghanistan.
Over weeks of correspondence Sgt. Hill has informed Digital Journal of the conditions the logistics of just being able to eat. General McChrystal announced that fast food places like Burger King and Pizza Hut were going to be shut down and moved to make more room for essentials the troops will need for war.
As reported on Digital Journal:
"Supplying non-essential luxuries to big bases like Bagram and Kandahar makes it harder to get essential items to combat outposts and forward operating bases, where troops fighting every day need to be resupplied with ammunition, food and water." (non believable comment)
Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych drugs can fly commercial airliners
Vatic Note: This along with the naked scanners, makes it appear as though they do not want us flying and setting it up for us to do so voluntarily. Looks like this is the drug industries presidency like Bush was the oil companies president. We need someone to rise up for us, the people. Soon too or else we are going to have to do it. Freedom of movement is becoming slowly more controlled. Remember, also, all of the lone gunman shooters were on psychotropic drugs and violent. Not a good combination.
Title: Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych drugs can fly commercial airliners
http://www.naturalnews.com/z028514_antidepressant_drugs_pilots.html
By: Mike Adams, Natural News Editor
Date: April 5 2010
(NaturalNews) What would happen if the Columbine high school rampage shooters who were psyched out on mind-altering antidepressant drugs had been piloting a jet airliner instead? On Friday, the FAA issued a new rule that says pilots taking psychiatric medications are now allowed to pilot passenger airliners while medicated!
This "permission to fly while medicated" decision by the FAA covers pilots taking the antidepressant psychiatric drugs Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa and Lexapro. Not coincidentally, these are the same drugs that, in the minds of many industry observers, are linked to acts of aggression, suicide and mass murder. People on these drugs may simply lose touch with reality and feel like they're playing out a video game rather than acting out in the real world.
It begs the question: Why is the FAA putting medicated pilots in control of jet airliners? What happens if a psych drug medicated pilot suddenly thinks he's in a video game and aims his Boeing 767 at a civilian target "just for the fun of it?" Or what if he goes raving mad, strangles the copilot and then crashes the jet airliner nose-first into the ground?
While this kind of scenario may seem remote, you have to remember: It only takes one such event to cost the lives of hundreds of air passengers (and perhaps thousands of people on the ground).
Today, air travel is remarkably safe in terms of the number of fatalities per miles traveled. It's far safer than traveling in your car, in fact, and a fair amount of the credit for that safety belongs with the FAA. So why is the FAA now making a decision that seems, on its surface, to endanger the lives of air passengers by allowing psychiatric patients to pilot airplanes?
According to the FAA, the answer is because modern psychiatric drugs have fewer side effects. That seems like a political statement, not a medical conclusion, because the side effects that are experienced by a very small number of psychiatric medication users can be so whacked out that they can pose a very real danger to the lives of those around them. The majority of U.S. school shootings that we've seen over the last 15 years have been carried out by shooters taking psychiatric medications.
Title: Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych drugs can fly commercial airliners
http://www.naturalnews.com/z028514_antidepressant_drugs_pilots.html
By: Mike Adams, Natural News Editor
Date: April 5 2010
(NaturalNews) What would happen if the Columbine high school rampage shooters who were psyched out on mind-altering antidepressant drugs had been piloting a jet airliner instead? On Friday, the FAA issued a new rule that says pilots taking psychiatric medications are now allowed to pilot passenger airliners while medicated!
This "permission to fly while medicated" decision by the FAA covers pilots taking the antidepressant psychiatric drugs Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa and Lexapro. Not coincidentally, these are the same drugs that, in the minds of many industry observers, are linked to acts of aggression, suicide and mass murder. People on these drugs may simply lose touch with reality and feel like they're playing out a video game rather than acting out in the real world.
It begs the question: Why is the FAA putting medicated pilots in control of jet airliners? What happens if a psych drug medicated pilot suddenly thinks he's in a video game and aims his Boeing 767 at a civilian target "just for the fun of it?" Or what if he goes raving mad, strangles the copilot and then crashes the jet airliner nose-first into the ground?
While this kind of scenario may seem remote, you have to remember: It only takes one such event to cost the lives of hundreds of air passengers (and perhaps thousands of people on the ground).
Today, air travel is remarkably safe in terms of the number of fatalities per miles traveled. It's far safer than traveling in your car, in fact, and a fair amount of the credit for that safety belongs with the FAA. So why is the FAA now making a decision that seems, on its surface, to endanger the lives of air passengers by allowing psychiatric patients to pilot airplanes?
According to the FAA, the answer is because modern psychiatric drugs have fewer side effects. That seems like a political statement, not a medical conclusion, because the side effects that are experienced by a very small number of psychiatric medication users can be so whacked out that they can pose a very real danger to the lives of those around them. The majority of U.S. school shootings that we've seen over the last 15 years have been carried out by shooters taking psychiatric medications.
2010-04-05
Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips
Vatic Note: The People-to-People initiative will be address this in their strategy and tactics so watch for them when they come out. There are many good ideas for avoiding the chip on your person, but more importantly how to either extract the chip from products or make them unuseable. These will be coming out a few at a time since its a horrific job but must be started now in preparation for hte Health care bill which is where the chips are reqiured by law to be implanted in everyone for "supposedly" medical records.
Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips
By: Patrick Redmond, April 13, 2008, contributed by Gypsy from Australia
http://dprogram.net/2009/07/12/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid-chips/
Date: 04/05/2010
What I’m going to do is give you an introduction to three technologies that are becoming more and more important. The first is RFID chips, the second genetic engineering, and the third synthetic biology. This will give you an understanding of what is happening and where science is going.
We will start with RFID chips:
So what are they? They are Radio Frequency Identification Devices. An RFID is a microchip with an attached antenna. The microchip contains stored information which can be transmitted to a reader and then to a computer.
RFID’s can be passive, semi-passive or active. Active RFID’s have an internal power source such as a battery. This allows the tag to send signals back to the reader, so if I have a RFID on me and it has a battery, I can just send a signal to a reader wherever it is. They can receive and store data, and be read at a further distance than the passive RFID’s. The batteries can only last a short while. But the current batteries in the RFID’s can last for over a hundred years, because of their self-generating power. Ultrawideband (UWB) allows the small battery operated RFID tag to be sensed over fairly wide areas. For instance, GE Aircraft Engines in Ohio has installed five readers in the factory and it covers over 30,000 square feet so they can track everything within that area with only the five readers. That gives you an idea of the distance that can be covered by an RFID tag that might be on you or on equipment.
An RFID held by a pair of tweezers
The readers can transmit over telephone or by internet to computers and they use satellites as well. For example, Digital Angel has signed contracts with satellite providers to transmit their data for military personnel location beacons (PLBs). These beacons use the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system. This system has some 400,000 digital beacons around the world and it’s rising to some 900,000. By the year 2009 they plan to have a GL stationary satellite system that will enable them to find the location and details of any beacon. You may sometimes see these at night; the GO stationary systemscan track any beacon. Skiers sometimes use them so that they can be identified, and sailors as well, if they become lost at sea they will be able to be tracked. Anything that has an RFID tag can be tracked by a reader or a computer.
An example of such transmission is a chip sold by Zarlink. This chip is implanted in a person; it tracks problems and if one is detected, it alerts the doctor who uses a two way RF link to interrogate and adjust the implanted device. Semi-passive RFIDs have an internal power source that let them monitor environmental conditions, such as temperature and shock, but they still require RF energy from the reader to respond.
Passive RFID’s do not have a power source but use a signal sent by the scanner to power the microchip circuit to transmit back their stored information. Passive RFID’s are getting very small. Hitachi a few years ago produced a chip (called the mu chip) that was the size of a pencil point; if you take a pencil and put it on a piece of paper you get a little dot. That’s how small they’re getting. In 2007 Hitachi came out with a chip that was even smaller, they call it RFID powder. They are just like the talcum powder you would put on a baby.
Somark Innovations in Jan 10, 2007 announced an invisible RFID ink. This can be applied to cattle, prime cuts of meat, military personnel and it can be read through hair.
I brought along a couple of the larger size chips, and this particular chip I got from Gillette fusion blades. I bought one of the blades and you can see that on one side what looks like a bar code and if you open it up you can see parts of a RFID chip on the back. This one here is from the Gap. One of my daughters went to the Gap; they put the tag directly on the clothing and the instructions just say to remove before washing and wearing. If you put it up to the light you will see the RFID chip inside it. These chips are quite small and can be put on the back of labels. They would not be noticeable in badges or ID cards; they could even be put in the eye of a person, they are that small.
In order for chips to be useful, they have to have a unique product number and because of this, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) started developing some standards. It’s called the AutoID Center. They then passed it on to the AutoID Group within the Uniform Clothes Council. It will assign codes and publish specifications, so if you have a company, government agency, or church you can contact these people and they will give you a set of numbers.
So let’s say there are three or five people in this room wearing the same white hat and each one of them has a chip on it with a different number. We could differentiate everything even if you’re all wearing the same clothes, it doesn’t really matter because everything has a unique number. MIT has the architecture of participation called EPC Global so if you go on Google and type in EPC Global and you will come up with the website they will give you instructions on how to apply and get chips. So if you want to chip yourself, your family, relatives, company or anything like that; you can do it.
It works with people who want to use this technology. One of many companies who sell the chip is called, Technic Imitations. If you have a company and you go to one of their presentations, they will give you books like this that tell you what the chips look like, how they work, the types that are sold, and what the readers look like. They will help you install chips in your company. It’s a very big business and it’s spreading very quickly.
Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips
By: Patrick Redmond, April 13, 2008, contributed by Gypsy from Australia
http://dprogram.net/2009/07/12/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid-chips/
Date: 04/05/2010
What I’m going to do is give you an introduction to three technologies that are becoming more and more important. The first is RFID chips, the second genetic engineering, and the third synthetic biology. This will give you an understanding of what is happening and where science is going.
We will start with RFID chips:
So what are they? They are Radio Frequency Identification Devices. An RFID is a microchip with an attached antenna. The microchip contains stored information which can be transmitted to a reader and then to a computer.
RFID’s can be passive, semi-passive or active. Active RFID’s have an internal power source such as a battery. This allows the tag to send signals back to the reader, so if I have a RFID on me and it has a battery, I can just send a signal to a reader wherever it is. They can receive and store data, and be read at a further distance than the passive RFID’s. The batteries can only last a short while. But the current batteries in the RFID’s can last for over a hundred years, because of their self-generating power. Ultrawideband (UWB) allows the small battery operated RFID tag to be sensed over fairly wide areas. For instance, GE Aircraft Engines in Ohio has installed five readers in the factory and it covers over 30,000 square feet so they can track everything within that area with only the five readers. That gives you an idea of the distance that can be covered by an RFID tag that might be on you or on equipment.
An RFID held by a pair of tweezers
The readers can transmit over telephone or by internet to computers and they use satellites as well. For example, Digital Angel has signed contracts with satellite providers to transmit their data for military personnel location beacons (PLBs). These beacons use the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system. This system has some 400,000 digital beacons around the world and it’s rising to some 900,000. By the year 2009 they plan to have a GL stationary satellite system that will enable them to find the location and details of any beacon. You may sometimes see these at night; the GO stationary systemscan track any beacon. Skiers sometimes use them so that they can be identified, and sailors as well, if they become lost at sea they will be able to be tracked. Anything that has an RFID tag can be tracked by a reader or a computer.
An example of such transmission is a chip sold by Zarlink. This chip is implanted in a person; it tracks problems and if one is detected, it alerts the doctor who uses a two way RF link to interrogate and adjust the implanted device. Semi-passive RFIDs have an internal power source that let them monitor environmental conditions, such as temperature and shock, but they still require RF energy from the reader to respond.
Passive RFID’s do not have a power source but use a signal sent by the scanner to power the microchip circuit to transmit back their stored information. Passive RFID’s are getting very small. Hitachi a few years ago produced a chip (called the mu chip) that was the size of a pencil point; if you take a pencil and put it on a piece of paper you get a little dot. That’s how small they’re getting. In 2007 Hitachi came out with a chip that was even smaller, they call it RFID powder. They are just like the talcum powder you would put on a baby.
Somark Innovations in Jan 10, 2007 announced an invisible RFID ink. This can be applied to cattle, prime cuts of meat, military personnel and it can be read through hair.
I brought along a couple of the larger size chips, and this particular chip I got from Gillette fusion blades. I bought one of the blades and you can see that on one side what looks like a bar code and if you open it up you can see parts of a RFID chip on the back. This one here is from the Gap. One of my daughters went to the Gap; they put the tag directly on the clothing and the instructions just say to remove before washing and wearing. If you put it up to the light you will see the RFID chip inside it. These chips are quite small and can be put on the back of labels. They would not be noticeable in badges or ID cards; they could even be put in the eye of a person, they are that small.
In order for chips to be useful, they have to have a unique product number and because of this, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) started developing some standards. It’s called the AutoID Center. They then passed it on to the AutoID Group within the Uniform Clothes Council. It will assign codes and publish specifications, so if you have a company, government agency, or church you can contact these people and they will give you a set of numbers.
So let’s say there are three or five people in this room wearing the same white hat and each one of them has a chip on it with a different number. We could differentiate everything even if you’re all wearing the same clothes, it doesn’t really matter because everything has a unique number. MIT has the architecture of participation called EPC Global so if you go on Google and type in EPC Global and you will come up with the website they will give you instructions on how to apply and get chips. So if you want to chip yourself, your family, relatives, company or anything like that; you can do it.
It works with people who want to use this technology. One of many companies who sell the chip is called, Technic Imitations. If you have a company and you go to one of their presentations, they will give you books like this that tell you what the chips look like, how they work, the types that are sold, and what the readers look like. They will help you install chips in your company. It’s a very big business and it’s spreading very quickly.
2010-04-01
Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal
Title: Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and JAMES RISEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html?pagewanted=print
Date: March 31, 2010
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush.
In a 45-page opinion, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated a 1978 federal statute requiring court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone calls of Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon, and of two lawyers representing it in 2004. Declaring that the plaintiffs had been “subjected to unlawful surveillance,” the judge said the government was liable to pay them damages.
The ruling delivered a blow to the Bush administration’s claims that its surveillance program, which Mr. Bush secretly authorized shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was lawful. Under the program, the National Security Agency monitored Americans’ international e-mail messages and phone calls without court approval, even though the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, required warrants.
The Justice Department said it was reviewing the decision and had made no decision about whether to appeal.
The ruling by Judge Walker, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, rejected the Justice Department’s claim — first asserted by the Bush administration and continued under President Obama — that the charity’s lawsuit should be dismissed without a ruling on the merits because allowing it to go forward could reveal state secrets.
The judge characterized that expansive use of the so-called state-secrets privilege as amounting to “unfettered executive-branch discretion” that had “obvious potential for governmental abuse and overreaching.”
That position, he said, would enable government officials to flout the warrant law, even though Congress had enacted it “specifically to rein in and create a judicial check for executive-branch abuses of surveillance authority.”
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and JAMES RISEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html?pagewanted=print
Date: March 31, 2010
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush.
In a 45-page opinion, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated a 1978 federal statute requiring court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone calls of Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon, and of two lawyers representing it in 2004. Declaring that the plaintiffs had been “subjected to unlawful surveillance,” the judge said the government was liable to pay them damages.
The ruling delivered a blow to the Bush administration’s claims that its surveillance program, which Mr. Bush secretly authorized shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was lawful. Under the program, the National Security Agency monitored Americans’ international e-mail messages and phone calls without court approval, even though the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, required warrants.
The Justice Department said it was reviewing the decision and had made no decision about whether to appeal.
The ruling by Judge Walker, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, rejected the Justice Department’s claim — first asserted by the Bush administration and continued under President Obama — that the charity’s lawsuit should be dismissed without a ruling on the merits because allowing it to go forward could reveal state secrets.
The judge characterized that expansive use of the so-called state-secrets privilege as amounting to “unfettered executive-branch discretion” that had “obvious potential for governmental abuse and overreaching.”
That position, he said, would enable government officials to flout the warrant law, even though Congress had enacted it “specifically to rein in and create a judicial check for executive-branch abuses of surveillance authority.”
2010-03-30
Reconciliation Act H.R.4872 Brings Microchipping to America (Health bill)
Vatic Note: Well, we were so busy watching the militia story, that we missed this little piece of manipulative treason by our congress and President. I wonder if the news was manipulated just for that reason? Remember also that the IRS will be the armed enforcement division of this bill. Also remember all the dogs that have been riddled with cancer who had those RFID chips in them, so is this a combination of "police state" and "depopulation"?
http://www.antichips.com/press-releases/chipped-pets.html
It does take cancer a while to riddle your body, maybe by the time your 40 and thus become a disposable asset?
Title: Reconciliation Act H.R.4872 Brings Microchipping to America (health bill)
http://www.infowars.com/reconciliation-act-h-r-4872-brings-microchipping-to-america/print/
By: Info Wars and skywatch Canada
Date: 03/30/2010
During the thorough coverage of H.R.3590 America thought it was free of a ‘Healthcare System’ that allowed a national medical registry to be created and the population to be tagged with implantable RFID chips. But a second heath care related bill called “The Reconciliation Act of 2010” (2300 pages) was recently passed by the Senate on March 25th after being passed by the House on March 21st. This bill has been cleared for the White House and awaits the signature of the Dictator and Chief. Buried in the text of the 2300 page monstrosity in section 2521, the creation of a National Medical Device Registry is enacted. This is portrayed as a registry to collect safety data on medical devices such as pacemakers and to put the safety data in a publicly accessible national electronic database.
But as usual the wording of this bill permits the creation of something entirely quite different. In 2004 the FDA approved the Verichip for use of storing medical records. This device was classified as a Class II medical device. This is most likely the Class II implantable device being referred to in this section of the bill. The bill allows the unique device identifier (Chip ID tag) to be linked to “postmarket safety patient outcome data” regarding the implantable device itself. In order “to facilitate the analyses of postmarket safety and patient outcomes” the health secretary will examine ways to gain access to Medicare health records, private sector health records and other data deemed necessary (including surveillance data) by the Health Secretary and then link it to the database and your RFID implant. Just to be accurate, section (3) defines “data” as “claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the secretary.”
So basically this bill creates a National Database of any type of data deemed appropriate by the executive branch of the US Federal Government. This could literally be anything. This could include anything you might have expected to find in an East German Stasi file. All of this data will then be linked to a “Class II implantable device” under your skin. There you have it, just like Lindsey Williams warned us. Forget the national ID card, implantable microchips are coming to a clinic near you no later than 36 months after the bill is signed into law.
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http://www.antichips.com/press-releases/chipped-pets.html
It does take cancer a while to riddle your body, maybe by the time your 40 and thus become a disposable asset?
Title: Reconciliation Act H.R.4872 Brings Microchipping to America (health bill)
http://www.infowars.com/reconciliation-act-h-r-4872-brings-microchipping-to-america/print/
By: Info Wars and skywatch Canada
Date: 03/30/2010
During the thorough coverage of H.R.3590 America thought it was free of a ‘Healthcare System’ that allowed a national medical registry to be created and the population to be tagged with implantable RFID chips. But a second heath care related bill called “The Reconciliation Act of 2010” (2300 pages) was recently passed by the Senate on March 25th after being passed by the House on March 21st. This bill has been cleared for the White House and awaits the signature of the Dictator and Chief. Buried in the text of the 2300 page monstrosity in section 2521, the creation of a National Medical Device Registry is enacted. This is portrayed as a registry to collect safety data on medical devices such as pacemakers and to put the safety data in a publicly accessible national electronic database.
But as usual the wording of this bill permits the creation of something entirely quite different. In 2004 the FDA approved the Verichip for use of storing medical records. This device was classified as a Class II medical device. This is most likely the Class II implantable device being referred to in this section of the bill. The bill allows the unique device identifier (Chip ID tag) to be linked to “postmarket safety patient outcome data” regarding the implantable device itself. In order “to facilitate the analyses of postmarket safety and patient outcomes” the health secretary will examine ways to gain access to Medicare health records, private sector health records and other data deemed necessary (including surveillance data) by the Health Secretary and then link it to the database and your RFID implant. Just to be accurate, section (3) defines “data” as “claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the secretary.”
So basically this bill creates a National Database of any type of data deemed appropriate by the executive branch of the US Federal Government. This could literally be anything. This could include anything you might have expected to find in an East German Stasi file. All of this data will then be linked to a “Class II implantable device” under your skin. There you have it, just like Lindsey Williams warned us. Forget the national ID card, implantable microchips are coming to a clinic near you no later than 36 months after the bill is signed into law.
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TERRORISM, ALWAYS SUSPECT A “FALSE FLAG” FIRST
Title: TERRORISM, ALWAYS SUSPECT A “FALSE FLAG” FIRST
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/29/gordon-duff-terrorism-always-suspect-a-false-flag-first/
By: Gordon Duff, Veterens Today
Date: 03/29/2010
ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER COSSIGA
ALWAYS ASK: “WHO GAINS FROM THIS?
Every time there is a terrorist attack, the nations blamed say that it was a “false flag” operation. This is what America did to cover up My Lai. We were lying. Germans claimed Poland invaded Germany in 1939. An educated guess is that 75% of terrorist attacks we hear of were staged, never happened or were done by “radical groups” that were first infiltrated, then controlled and eventually financed and supplied by intelligence agencies. Intelligence agencies are, in actuality, the biggest terrorist organizations in the world. The CIA has blown up more buses, airplanes and markets than any almost anyone else. The Mossad may be number one, followed by, well, everyone, the RAW, ISI, MI-6, IRA and dozens of others.
Either directly or through idiots, clones (operatives using false identity to look like “terrorists”) or through simply doing it themselves, these groups promote national policy by destabilizing nations, swinging elections or defaming religious, national or political groups by staging attacks and using the press to place the blame. The popular video game Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 even has a terrorist attack on a transportation center in Moscow built into it, a “false flag” attack. Today, the real thing happened.
MOSCOW "FALSE FLAG" ATTACK IN VIDEO GAME
FRANCESCO COSSIGA, FORMER PRIME MINISTER, PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR OF ITALY SPILLS HIS GUTS
With communism threatening to overrun Europe, NATO set up terrorist groups under Operation Gladio (short sword) to act as guerrilla armies in case Europe was overrun. As this became less and less likely, intelligence services began using the terrorist groups meant to fight Russia to manipulate politics in Europe through terrorist acts, such as bombings. We wouldn’t know the details if Cossiga, one of the planners of Operation Gladio, hadn’t spilled his guts about this and other “false flag” operations in Europe and elsewhere. This is what Cassiga told Robert Maroni, Italian Minister of the Interior about methods employed to control civil protests in Italy:
“Maroni should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior.
“University students? … infiltrate them with agents provocateurs … and let the agents provocateurs devastate shops, set fire to cars and put cities to the sword for ten days.
“Then, having won the sympathy of the public … the police should pitilessly beat the shit out of protesters and send them all to hospital. “
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/29/gordon-duff-terrorism-always-suspect-a-false-flag-first/
By: Gordon Duff, Veterens Today
Date: 03/29/2010
ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER COSSIGA
ALWAYS ASK: “WHO GAINS FROM THIS?
Every time there is a terrorist attack, the nations blamed say that it was a “false flag” operation. This is what America did to cover up My Lai. We were lying. Germans claimed Poland invaded Germany in 1939. An educated guess is that 75% of terrorist attacks we hear of were staged, never happened or were done by “radical groups” that were first infiltrated, then controlled and eventually financed and supplied by intelligence agencies. Intelligence agencies are, in actuality, the biggest terrorist organizations in the world. The CIA has blown up more buses, airplanes and markets than any almost anyone else. The Mossad may be number one, followed by, well, everyone, the RAW, ISI, MI-6, IRA and dozens of others.
Either directly or through idiots, clones (operatives using false identity to look like “terrorists”) or through simply doing it themselves, these groups promote national policy by destabilizing nations, swinging elections or defaming religious, national or political groups by staging attacks and using the press to place the blame. The popular video game Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 even has a terrorist attack on a transportation center in Moscow built into it, a “false flag” attack. Today, the real thing happened.
MOSCOW "FALSE FLAG" ATTACK IN VIDEO GAME
FRANCESCO COSSIGA, FORMER PRIME MINISTER, PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR OF ITALY SPILLS HIS GUTS
With communism threatening to overrun Europe, NATO set up terrorist groups under Operation Gladio (short sword) to act as guerrilla armies in case Europe was overrun. As this became less and less likely, intelligence services began using the terrorist groups meant to fight Russia to manipulate politics in Europe through terrorist acts, such as bombings. We wouldn’t know the details if Cossiga, one of the planners of Operation Gladio, hadn’t spilled his guts about this and other “false flag” operations in Europe and elsewhere. This is what Cassiga told Robert Maroni, Italian Minister of the Interior about methods employed to control civil protests in Italy:
“Maroni should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior.
“University students? … infiltrate them with agents provocateurs … and let the agents provocateurs devastate shops, set fire to cars and put cities to the sword for ten days.
“Then, having won the sympathy of the public … the police should pitilessly beat the shit out of protesters and send them all to hospital. “
Report: Israel copied thousands of passports
Vatic Note: Keep in mind the number of foreign, British and US passports used to allow assassins from Mossad to murder the leader of a sovereign people. Also check below where the mossad agent was arrested with a false passport. We don't know why he needed a false passport, but now it becomes important to watch for any false flags anywhere, possibly even Russia with that subway murder that they are trying to blame on muslims. Remember, the neocons/Israeli's need a third world war and this type of black ops is how you generate one with fear and hate. Lets not give it to them.
Title: Report: Israel copied thousands of passports
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Print.aspx?ID=272431
By: Ma'an/Agencies, Bethlehem
Date: 03/30/2010
Britain believes thousands of its passports have been copied by airline staff working for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, a UK tabloid reported Sunday.
Title: Report: Israel copied thousands of passports
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Print.aspx?ID=272431
By: Ma'an/Agencies, Bethlehem
Date: 03/30/2010
Britain believes thousands of its passports have been copied by airline staff working for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, a UK tabloid reported Sunday.
Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism?’
Vatic Note: Cynthia McKinney is one of the few on either side of the political spectrum that is speaking truth to power as is the case with Chris Hedges who wrote this article. Both are well worth listening to as they completely expose the dirty laundry of truth to all.
Title: Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism?’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25100.htm
By: Chris Hedges, Information Clearinghouse
Date: 03/29/2010
The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it in war after war from Latin America to the Balkans. The impoverishment of a working class and the snuffing out of hope and opportunity always produce angry mobs ready to kill and be killed. A bankrupt, liberal elite, which proves ineffectual against the rich and the criminal, always gets swept aside, in times of economic collapse, before thugs and demagogues emerge to play to the passions of the crowd. I have seen this drama. I know each act. I know how it ends. I have heard it in other tongues in other lands. I recognize the same stock characters, the buffoons, charlatans and fools, the same confused crowds and the same impotent and despised liberal class that deserves the hatred it engenders.
"We are ruled not by two parties but one party," Cynthia McKinney, who ran for president on the Green Party ticket, told me. "It is the party of money and war. Our country has been hijacked. And we have to take the country away from those who have hijacked it. The only question now is whose revolution gets funded."
The Democrats and their liberal apologists are so oblivious to the profound personal and economic despair sweeping through this country that they think offering unemployed people the right to keep their unemployed children on their nonexistent health care policies is a step forward. They think that passing a jobs bill that will give tax credits to corporations is a rational response to an unemployment rate that is, in real terms, close to 20 percent. They think that making ordinary Americans, one in eight of whom depends on food stamps to eat, fork over trillions in taxpayer dollars to pay for the crimes of Wall Street and war is acceptable. They think that the refusal to save the estimated 2.4 million people who will be forced out of their homes by foreclosure this year is justified by the bloodless language of fiscal austerity. The message is clear. Laws do not apply to the power elite. Our government does not work. And the longer we stand by and do nothing, the longer we refuse to embrace and recognize the legitimate rage of the working class, the faster we will see our anemic democracy die.
Title: Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism?’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25100.htm
By: Chris Hedges, Information Clearinghouse
Date: 03/29/2010
The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it in war after war from Latin America to the Balkans. The impoverishment of a working class and the snuffing out of hope and opportunity always produce angry mobs ready to kill and be killed. A bankrupt, liberal elite, which proves ineffectual against the rich and the criminal, always gets swept aside, in times of economic collapse, before thugs and demagogues emerge to play to the passions of the crowd. I have seen this drama. I know each act. I know how it ends. I have heard it in other tongues in other lands. I recognize the same stock characters, the buffoons, charlatans and fools, the same confused crowds and the same impotent and despised liberal class that deserves the hatred it engenders.
"We are ruled not by two parties but one party," Cynthia McKinney, who ran for president on the Green Party ticket, told me. "It is the party of money and war. Our country has been hijacked. And we have to take the country away from those who have hijacked it. The only question now is whose revolution gets funded."
The Democrats and their liberal apologists are so oblivious to the profound personal and economic despair sweeping through this country that they think offering unemployed people the right to keep their unemployed children on their nonexistent health care policies is a step forward. They think that passing a jobs bill that will give tax credits to corporations is a rational response to an unemployment rate that is, in real terms, close to 20 percent. They think that making ordinary Americans, one in eight of whom depends on food stamps to eat, fork over trillions in taxpayer dollars to pay for the crimes of Wall Street and war is acceptable. They think that the refusal to save the estimated 2.4 million people who will be forced out of their homes by foreclosure this year is justified by the bloodless language of fiscal austerity. The message is clear. Laws do not apply to the power elite. Our government does not work. And the longer we stand by and do nothing, the longer we refuse to embrace and recognize the legitimate rage of the working class, the faster we will see our anemic democracy die.
2010-03-29
Hey, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, FOX, PBS and NPR: Are you going to denounce this?
Vatic Note: Again, left and right being manipulated by the neocons to create civil war EXACTLY LIKE THEY DID IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ AND NOW IN PAKISTAN. Its a tool that Rumsfeld made clear was a way to save money on war by having the Citizens fight and kill each other rather than the army who is sorely understaffed to take on a UNITED POPULATION. Its really quite clever IF YOU FALL for the propoganda on it. It appears from this blog's article that they are not falling for it and neither should we. Any violence done was probably done by the private contract mercenaries under orders from the neocons. Lets not give them what they want. Here are blatant examples of that: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-4508279,prtpage-1.cms, "CIA and ISI together created Taliban: Zardari", which means we created the other half of the civil war going on in Afghanistan. Here is another one: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-intel20-2009sep20,0,5307410,print.story, "CIA expanding presence in Afghanistan", these are just a few examples. Remember in Iraq, when brits dressed as Iraqi's got arrested when caught planting bombs in a car to kill Iraqi's in a market place? The US broke them out of the Iraqi prison. WE are funding AQ and the Taliban and those proofs have been published on here in the past. So this is simply more of the same and notice...... on the right, both left and right publications owned by the NEOCONS did not mention the violence against the GOP rather promoted the violence against the dems. Why? GOP is armed, Left is not, so that would provide the support from one half of us (left) standing with the neocons against the right. Its not about politics, its about gaining control over a nation of 308 million most of whom are now armed. That is what this is all about.
Title: Hey, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, FOX, PBS and NPR: Are you going to denounce this?
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/hey-nbc-msnbc-cnn-fox-pbs-and-npr-are.html
By: sipseystreetirregulars.blog - admin
Date: 03/28/2010
"all politics now is merely dress rehearsal for civil war." Billy Beck
Bricks were thrown through the windows of the Albemarle County GOP headquarters overnight in what appears to be the Charlottesville area’s latest act of politically fueled vandalism.
County GOP Chairwoman Rachel Schoenewald arrived at the office in the Albemarle Square shopping center Friday morning to find two windows shattered and a third partially damaged.
“Hopefully, everyone will conduct themselves as community members and that this violence does not escalate or continue,” she said.
The county’s GOP headquarters also serves as the district office of Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle.
Schoenewald declined to blame any particular group, but noted that people are angry on both sides of the political spectrum.
“There are millions of people across the country,” she said. “Many of them are upset, one way or another. I hope this is the last of the violence.”
Albemarle County police are investigating the incident. Police estimated the damage would cost roughly $1,000 to fix. Police asked anyone with information about the vandalism to call Crimestoppers at 977-4000.
The shattered windows come five months after someone glued shut the GOP headquarters’ doors on Election Day when Republican Bob McDonnell defeated Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in Virginia’s gubernatorial race.
Title: Hey, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, FOX, PBS and NPR: Are you going to denounce this?
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/hey-nbc-msnbc-cnn-fox-pbs-and-npr-are.html
By: sipseystreetirregulars.blog - admin
Date: 03/28/2010
"all politics now is merely dress rehearsal for civil war." Billy Beck
Bricks were thrown through the windows of the Albemarle County GOP headquarters overnight in what appears to be the Charlottesville area’s latest act of politically fueled vandalism.
County GOP Chairwoman Rachel Schoenewald arrived at the office in the Albemarle Square shopping center Friday morning to find two windows shattered and a third partially damaged.
“Hopefully, everyone will conduct themselves as community members and that this violence does not escalate or continue,” she said.
The county’s GOP headquarters also serves as the district office of Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle.
Schoenewald declined to blame any particular group, but noted that people are angry on both sides of the political spectrum.
“There are millions of people across the country,” she said. “Many of them are upset, one way or another. I hope this is the last of the violence.”
Albemarle County police are investigating the incident. Police estimated the damage would cost roughly $1,000 to fix. Police asked anyone with information about the vandalism to call Crimestoppers at 977-4000.
The shattered windows come five months after someone glued shut the GOP headquarters’ doors on Election Day when Republican Bob McDonnell defeated Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in Virginia’s gubernatorial race.
An Act of Treason by Members of the United States Congress?
Vatic Note: This is one of several different takes one can make on what happened here. This below is one of those takes, another one is that the Congress gave Obama "cover" on what he wanted to do anyway, but had to face the increasing distrust and angst against him by his base, and against our abusive ally, Israel. As another writer put it, its like the victim of a marriage spousal abuse syndrome. We keep getting slapped in the face, arrogantly told by Israel herself that they control our government, then they come here and prove it to our faces, and the result is a distrust now of both branches of gov and perception that we are an occupied nation and thus through treason. So either way, Treason by both the White House and Congress is the result. On that fact, there can be no doubt, regardless of why they did it, they did it to the detriment of this nation's national interest at the risk of serious harm to her people and country.
Title: An Act of Treason by Members of the United States Congress?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25090.htm
By: Information Clearinghouse
Date: 03/27/2010
It must have been realised that the letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signed by nearly 300 members of the U.S. Congress, affirming their commitment to Israel, would be widely publicised and fall into the hands of that illegal Apartheid State, so the writing and signing of that letter should be considered an act of treason.
The letter has totally undermined the power of the President of the United States by virtually telling Israel: "It does not matter what you do to the Palestinians, how many illegal structures you build on the territory you stole from them; how you behave towards the Lebanese, or what you have in mind for Iran, we, the signatories on this letter are with you, all the way."
Posted March 27, 2010
Anthony Lawson (known professionally as Tony Lawson) is a retired international-prize-winning commercials director, cameraman, ad agency creative director and voice over. He used to be known for shooting humorous commercials, but doesn’t find much to laugh about, with the way the world is going, these days.
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Title: An Act of Treason by Members of the United States Congress?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25090.htm
By: Information Clearinghouse
Date: 03/27/2010
It must have been realised that the letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signed by nearly 300 members of the U.S. Congress, affirming their commitment to Israel, would be widely publicised and fall into the hands of that illegal Apartheid State, so the writing and signing of that letter should be considered an act of treason.
The letter has totally undermined the power of the President of the United States by virtually telling Israel: "It does not matter what you do to the Palestinians, how many illegal structures you build on the territory you stole from them; how you behave towards the Lebanese, or what you have in mind for Iran, we, the signatories on this letter are with you, all the way."
Posted March 27, 2010
Anthony Lawson (known professionally as Tony Lawson) is a retired international-prize-winning commercials director, cameraman, ad agency creative director and voice over. He used to be known for shooting humorous commercials, but doesn’t find much to laugh about, with the way the world is going, these days.
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2010-03-25
Department of Education buys shotguns
Vatic Note: Add this arming of the bureaucracy that is suppose to be a servant of the people, to the drones being released in texas, the new legislation proposed by McStain and Lieberscum to treat Americans as enemy combatants without a trial or habeas corpus, and what we have here is a police state, a completion of the Bush set up of gutting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Add to that, the fact that it appears from recent court submissions that our President is a British subject through his father, and that the Dual Israeli citizens are running our government, and the slow steady movement of this nation into a palestine configuration, its beginning to appear that we are a foreign occupied nation without us having ever fired a shot. These are facts as we have shown here through viable sources over the past few weeks, so now we will have to begin to seriously consider taking steps to counter these situations. That will begin today with the mission statement that will be placed above and the tactics we must use to counter through non cooperation. Watch for it today. In the meantime I ask everyone who visits here PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO TO YOUR RIGHT, ACROSS FROM THE ARTICLE, BY JOHN LENNON, "POWER TO THE PEOPLE", and understand AT THIS TIME, SINCE WE WAITED TOO LONG, that is the only place we have left to go is UNITED IN MASSIVE NUMBERS TOGETHER, ALL RELIGIONS, POLITICAL PARTIES, RACES, CULTURES ETC, AS ONE VOICE ON THIS ISSUE.... OF NON COOPERATION IN ALL THINGS ILLEGAL AND CRIMINAL BY THESE TRAITORS and we must do it NOW, before we can do nothing. Your life as you knew it is changed forever, either for the good, or for the worst and we make that decision now as to which it will be.
Title: Department of Education buys shotguns
http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=ab9d065edf4bca15b664b4119377ff0d&CID=6050833571&ch=ADDFF0E4BB2C0A551968E85E105BF415
By: National Association for Gun Rights, staff
Date: 03/24/2010
The Department of Education has placed an official request for bids to fill an order of 27 tactical shotguns.
That’s not a typo, the Department of Education is buying riot shotguns.
The full purchase order is available online, here.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven (27) REMINGTON BRAND MODEL 870 POLICE 12/14P MOD GRWC XS4 KXCS SF. RAMAC #24587 GAUGE: 12 BARREL: 14? – PARKERIZED CHOKE: MODIFIED SIGHTS: GHOST RING REAR WILSON COMBAT; FRONT – XS CONTOUR BEAD SIGHT STOCK: KNOXX REDUCE RECOIL ADJUSTABLE STOCK FORE-END: SPEEDFEED SPORT-SOLID – 14? LOP are designated as the only shotguns authorized for ED based on compatibility with ED existing shotgun inventory, certified armor and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
The Department of Education has joined the Internal Revenue Service in a disturbing trend of government bureaucracies arming their employees.
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Title: Department of Education buys shotguns
http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=ab9d065edf4bca15b664b4119377ff0d&CID=6050833571&ch=ADDFF0E4BB2C0A551968E85E105BF415
By: National Association for Gun Rights, staff
Date: 03/24/2010
The Department of Education has placed an official request for bids to fill an order of 27 tactical shotguns.
That’s not a typo, the Department of Education is buying riot shotguns.
The full purchase order is available online, here.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven (27) REMINGTON BRAND MODEL 870 POLICE 12/14P MOD GRWC XS4 KXCS SF. RAMAC #24587 GAUGE: 12 BARREL: 14? – PARKERIZED CHOKE: MODIFIED SIGHTS: GHOST RING REAR WILSON COMBAT; FRONT – XS CONTOUR BEAD SIGHT STOCK: KNOXX REDUCE RECOIL ADJUSTABLE STOCK FORE-END: SPEEDFEED SPORT-SOLID – 14? LOP are designated as the only shotguns authorized for ED based on compatibility with ED existing shotgun inventory, certified armor and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
The Department of Education has joined the Internal Revenue Service in a disturbing trend of government bureaucracies arming their employees.
Do you think the Department of Education should purchase shotguns? Log on the National Association for Gun Rights Blog and voice your opinion.
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2010-03-23
Is the United States of American now a colony/territory of the Israeli Empire?
Vatic Note: We are a colony of Israel, they use our wealth and blood of our children for their empire building. Treason is the tool, and occupation and coup has been the game. Yes, the model that was in place at the amsterdam Airport security handled by Israel, where that panty bomber got through "SECURITY" with no luggage on a transatlantic flight, paid cash for the ticket through a "handler" who now turns out to be a CIA/mossad operative, and where the bombers name was not on the terrorist watch list, yet he had been released from GITMO personally by Dick Cheney and whose father in Nigeria worked with and for Mossad of Israel. Yup, you can tell what kind of security they want and need here, can't ya? They control just about everything else in the country now, so why not the airports and ultimately transportion, we will soon be locked down. We now are an after thought of Israel. However, they should know something important..... the people here are not Palestinians. Its obvious our leaders are, but we, the people are not. That is going to be their biggest problem. That and their arrogance.
Title: US aviation security to adopt Israeli model
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3867288,00.html
By: Reuters, article provided by CLG newsletter, Lori Price, editor
Date: 03/24/2010
US official says Israel's security protocols 'offer blueprint for trying to thwart terrorism plots in aviation system'
Reuters
President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee security at US airports said on Tuesday he wants to shift screening closer to the Israeli model to include more behavior detection in a bid to thwart terrorism plots.
Retired Major General Robert Harding was nominated earlier this month to head the Transportation Security Administration after serving more than three decades in the military, including a stint as deputy to the Army's chief of intelligence and director for operations in the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Aviation security has received heightened attention in recent months after a Nigerian man tried to blow up a US commercial airliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit last Christmas with a bomb hidden in his underwear.
Harding said that while the Israeli security system was smaller, it offered a blueprint for trying to thwart terrorism plots in the aviation system, which has remained a target for militant groups like al-Qaeda.
"We should move even closer to an Israeli model where there's more engagement with passengers," Harding told the Senate Commerce Committee that is considering his nomination. "I think that increases the layers and pushes the layers out."
He said the TSA had about 2,000 behavioral detection officers (?) and that expanded training was needed.
The top TSA position has been filled by an acting administrator since Obama took office in January 2009. His first pick for the job, Erroll Southers, withdrew from consideration when Republicans questioned whether he would try to unionize the workforce that screens travelers and luggage at U.S. airports.
Title: US aviation security to adopt Israeli model
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3867288,00.html
By: Reuters, article provided by CLG newsletter, Lori Price, editor
Date: 03/24/2010
US official says Israel's security protocols 'offer blueprint for trying to thwart terrorism plots in aviation system'
Reuters
President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee security at US airports said on Tuesday he wants to shift screening closer to the Israeli model to include more behavior detection in a bid to thwart terrorism plots.
Retired Major General Robert Harding was nominated earlier this month to head the Transportation Security Administration after serving more than three decades in the military, including a stint as deputy to the Army's chief of intelligence and director for operations in the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Aviation security has received heightened attention in recent months after a Nigerian man tried to blow up a US commercial airliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit last Christmas with a bomb hidden in his underwear.
Harding said that while the Israeli security system was smaller, it offered a blueprint for trying to thwart terrorism plots in the aviation system, which has remained a target for militant groups like al-Qaeda.
"We should move even closer to an Israeli model where there's more engagement with passengers," Harding told the Senate Commerce Committee that is considering his nomination. "I think that increases the layers and pushes the layers out."
He said the TSA had about 2,000 behavioral detection officers (?) and that expanded training was needed.
The top TSA position has been filled by an acting administrator since Obama took office in January 2009. His first pick for the job, Erroll Southers, withdrew from consideration when Republicans questioned whether he would try to unionize the workforce that screens travelers and luggage at U.S. airports.
Obamacare To Be Enforced By Armed Thugs
Title: Obamacare To Be Enforced By Armed Thugs
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obamacare-to-be-enforced-by-armed-thugs.html/print/
Posted By admin On March 23, 2010 @ 5:42 am
Ron Paul: “If it was a good program and everybody liked it, you wouldn’t need 16,500 thugs coming with their guns and putting you in jail if you didn’t follow all the rules”
Paul Joseph Watson
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
If the health care bill was such a positive act of reform, as establishment Democrats and the corporate media are pitching it, then how come it needs to be enforced by means of coercion at the hands of thousands of armed IRS thugs?
That was the context of the discussion during Ron Paul’s appearance on Fox Business’ America’s Nightly Scoreboard last night, as the Congressman continued to speak out against the tyrannical nature of Obamacare.
Paul emphasized the need to protect the private option in health care as a fundamental right for all Americans not to be reliant on the government for their services.
“During this debate they talked a whole lot about the public option, I just wish they would protect the private option, give us a chance to have it private, just like you should have a chance to have private education, home schooling, you should always protect that….if you always had a private option in medicine some of us could survive and at least we could set an example for the type of medicine that the people should be getting,” said the Congressman.
Host David Asman pointed out that it would now be illegal to have private health care and that people would be forced to buy insurance under the constant glare of the 16,000 plus new IRS agents being hired to harass people into compliance [2] to the new program.
Under Obamacare, $10 billion dollars is allocated to pay for 16,500 IRS agents who will collect and enforce mandatory “premiums.”
(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)
[3]
Paul said that the people who previously needed to carry the least insurance would now be forced to carry the maximum, and be hounded by the IRS as a result.
“This is a command society now and medicine is right at the forefront of this….16,500 armed bureaucrats coming to make this program work – if it was a good program and everybody liked it, you wouldn’t need 16,500 thugs coming with their guns and putting you in jail if you didn’t follow all the rules,” said Paul.
The Congressman highlighted the fact that people don’t trust the government’s record on social programs, pointing out that Medicare, Medicaid and the Post Office are all bankrupt, and that the majority of Americans have little confidence in Obamacare being any different.
Paul said there was a chance parts of the bill would be overturned if Republicans were victorious in November, but that the biggest threat to the legislation was the probability that the entire system would collapse, labeling Obamacare a “Horrendous new burden that we have placed on the economy.”
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/obamacare-to-be-enforced-by-armed-thugs.html/print/
Posted By admin On March 23, 2010 @ 5:42 am
Ron Paul: “If it was a good program and everybody liked it, you wouldn’t need 16,500 thugs coming with their guns and putting you in jail if you didn’t follow all the rules”
Paul Joseph Watson
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
If the health care bill was such a positive act of reform, as establishment Democrats and the corporate media are pitching it, then how come it needs to be enforced by means of coercion at the hands of thousands of armed IRS thugs?
That was the context of the discussion during Ron Paul’s appearance on Fox Business’ America’s Nightly Scoreboard last night, as the Congressman continued to speak out against the tyrannical nature of Obamacare.
Paul emphasized the need to protect the private option in health care as a fundamental right for all Americans not to be reliant on the government for their services.
“During this debate they talked a whole lot about the public option, I just wish they would protect the private option, give us a chance to have it private, just like you should have a chance to have private education, home schooling, you should always protect that….if you always had a private option in medicine some of us could survive and at least we could set an example for the type of medicine that the people should be getting,” said the Congressman.
Host David Asman pointed out that it would now be illegal to have private health care and that people would be forced to buy insurance under the constant glare of the 16,000 plus new IRS agents being hired to harass people into compliance [2] to the new program.
Under Obamacare, $10 billion dollars is allocated to pay for 16,500 IRS agents who will collect and enforce mandatory “premiums.”
(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)
[3]
Paul said that the people who previously needed to carry the least insurance would now be forced to carry the maximum, and be hounded by the IRS as a result.
“This is a command society now and medicine is right at the forefront of this….16,500 armed bureaucrats coming to make this program work – if it was a good program and everybody liked it, you wouldn’t need 16,500 thugs coming with their guns and putting you in jail if you didn’t follow all the rules,” said Paul.
The Congressman highlighted the fact that people don’t trust the government’s record on social programs, pointing out that Medicare, Medicaid and the Post Office are all bankrupt, and that the majority of Americans have little confidence in Obamacare being any different.
Paul said there was a chance parts of the bill would be overturned if Republicans were victorious in November, but that the biggest threat to the legislation was the probability that the entire system would collapse, labeling Obamacare a “Horrendous new burden that we have placed on the economy.”
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Vatic Opinion Piece - by Jim Kirwan
Vatic Opinion Piece
By Jim Kirwan
The Zionist Face
Of American Government
An Interview with Norm Finklestein
Jim Kirwan
3-23-10
Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State: speaking yesterday at AIPAC:
“For president Obama and for me and for our entire administration: Our commitment to Israel’s security and Israel’s future is rock-solid unwavering and enduring FOREVER!
Benjamin Netanyahu: At the same AIPAC CONFERENCE:
“The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today! Jerusalem is NOT a settlement it’s our Capital. Everyone knows – everyone – Americans, Europeans; Israeli’s certainly, Palestinians: EVERYONE knows that these neighborhoods will be part of Israel in any peace settlement. And therefore ‘building in them’ in no way precludes the possibility of a two-state solution.”
By Jim Kirwan
The Zionist Face
Of American Government
An Interview with Norm Finklestein
Jim Kirwan
3-23-10
Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State: speaking yesterday at AIPAC:
“For president Obama and for me and for our entire administration: Our commitment to Israel’s security and Israel’s future is rock-solid unwavering and enduring FOREVER!
Benjamin Netanyahu: At the same AIPAC CONFERENCE:
“The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today! Jerusalem is NOT a settlement it’s our Capital. Everyone knows – everyone – Americans, Europeans; Israeli’s certainly, Palestinians: EVERYONE knows that these neighborhoods will be part of Israel in any peace settlement. And therefore ‘building in them’ in no way precludes the possibility of a two-state solution.”
2010-03-21
Federal Reserve Must Disclose Bank Bailout Records (Update5)
Title: Federal Reserve Must Disclose Bank Bailout Records (Update5)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2rzjENZQV5k#
By: David Glovin and Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg publication, contributed by Michael Strachner
Date: March 19, 2010
The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal appeals court said.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today that the Fed must release records of the unprecedented $2 trillion U.S. loan program launched primarily after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The ruling upholds a decision of a lower-court judge, who in August ordered that the information be released.
The Fed had argued that disclosure of the documents threatens to stigmatize borrowers and cause them “severe and irreparable competitive injury,” discouraging banks in distress from seeking help. A three-judge panel of the appeals court rejected that argument in a unanimous decision.
The U.S. Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, “sets forth no basis for the exemption the Board asks us to read into it,” U.S. Circuit Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote in the opinion. “If the Board believes such an exemption would better serve the national interest, it should ask Congress to amend the statute.”
The opinion may not be the final word in the bid for the documents, which was launched by Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, with a November 2008 lawsuit. The Fed may seek a rehearing or appeal to the full appeals court and eventually petition the U.S. Supreme Court.
Right to Know
If today’s ruling is upheld or not appealed by the Fed, it will have to disclose the requested records. That may lead to “catastrophic” results, including demands for the instant disclosure of banks seeking help from the Fed, resulting in a “death sentence” for such financial institutions, said Chris Kotowski, a bank analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. in New York.
“Whenever the Fed extends funds to a bank, it should be disclosed in private to the Congressional oversight committees, but to release it to the public I think would be a horrific mistake,” Kotowski said in an interview.
“It would stigmatize the banks, it would lead to all kinds of second-guessing of the Fed, and I don’t see what public purpose is served by it.”
Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, said the decision was a “major victory” for U.S. taxpayers.
“This money does not belong to the Federal Reserve,” Sanders said in a statement. “It belongs to the American people, and the American people have a right to know where more than $2 trillion of their money has gone.”
Fed Review
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2rzjENZQV5k#
By: David Glovin and Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg publication, contributed by Michael Strachner
Date: March 19, 2010
The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal appeals court said.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today that the Fed must release records of the unprecedented $2 trillion U.S. loan program launched primarily after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The ruling upholds a decision of a lower-court judge, who in August ordered that the information be released.
The Fed had argued that disclosure of the documents threatens to stigmatize borrowers and cause them “severe and irreparable competitive injury,” discouraging banks in distress from seeking help. A three-judge panel of the appeals court rejected that argument in a unanimous decision.
The U.S. Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, “sets forth no basis for the exemption the Board asks us to read into it,” U.S. Circuit Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote in the opinion. “If the Board believes such an exemption would better serve the national interest, it should ask Congress to amend the statute.”
The opinion may not be the final word in the bid for the documents, which was launched by Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, with a November 2008 lawsuit. The Fed may seek a rehearing or appeal to the full appeals court and eventually petition the U.S. Supreme Court.
Right to Know
If today’s ruling is upheld or not appealed by the Fed, it will have to disclose the requested records. That may lead to “catastrophic” results, including demands for the instant disclosure of banks seeking help from the Fed, resulting in a “death sentence” for such financial institutions, said Chris Kotowski, a bank analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. in New York.
“Whenever the Fed extends funds to a bank, it should be disclosed in private to the Congressional oversight committees, but to release it to the public I think would be a horrific mistake,” Kotowski said in an interview.
“It would stigmatize the banks, it would lead to all kinds of second-guessing of the Fed, and I don’t see what public purpose is served by it.”
Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, said the decision was a “major victory” for U.S. taxpayers.
“This money does not belong to the Federal Reserve,” Sanders said in a statement. “It belongs to the American people, and the American people have a right to know where more than $2 trillion of their money has gone.”
Fed Review
2010-03-20
“ISRAEL DID IT” - GORDON DUFF: SABROSKY INTERVIEW TIES ISRAEL TO 9/11
Title: “ISRAEL DID IT” - GORDON DUFF: SABROSKY INTERVIEW TIES ISRAEL TO 9/11
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/19/22329/
By: Gordon Duff
Date: 03-19-2010 provided to Vatic by Erica Stuart
Meet Dr. Alan Sabrosky, a brave man, a USMC Vietnam vet, an American of Jewish ancestry and someone devoted to the security of the United States at any cost. Ask any Jew what it takes to stand up against the most powerful and ruthless group in the world, the Israeli lobby inside the United States.
VIEW COMPLETE VIDEO INTERVIEW
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/19/22329/
By: Gordon Duff
Date: 03-19-2010 provided to Vatic by Erica Stuart
Meet Dr. Alan Sabrosky, a brave man, a USMC Vietnam vet, an American of Jewish ancestry and someone devoted to the security of the United States at any cost. Ask any Jew what it takes to stand up against the most powerful and ruthless group in the world, the Israeli lobby inside the United States.
VIEW COMPLETE VIDEO INTERVIEW
Drones may be sent soon to help with border security, Napolitano says
Vatic Note: Remember, this is how it started in Pakistan didn't it? Also remember, the Afghani's hacked into the drones and made them crash, keep that in mind. Now, why would a President order drones over a border That he has refused to guard by reducing Border Guards in this budge cycle, cut the fencing project, and has said will do amnesty the same way he just did health care? So, obviously, Its not to keep illegals out, so why? Speculation? 1. To protect the crossers from us, 2. to set up surveillance of Americans, 3. To bomb anyone who rebels, 3. to speed up the drug running? 4. Last but not least the superhighway is on its way.... I bet that is it. Do any of these make sense? Well, whatever the reason, its not for the one stated. That part is a fact. Common sense rules here. Further, Ze Homeland Security is the biggest waste of money bar none and the most useless. They didn't even arrest Paulson when he threatened martial law on congress if they did not pass the bailout bill back in 2008. THAT, is and was CLASSIC Economic Terrorism, Remember?
Title: Drones may be sent soon to help with border security, Napolitano says
12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, March 20, 2010
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-border_20tex.ART.State.Edition1.4c56cec.html
By: CHRISTY HOPPE / The Dallas Morning News provided to Vatic by CLG Newsletter
AUSTIN – The federal government may soon send unmanned aircraft to scour West Texas and the state's coastal waters in an effort to boost border security, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a letter to the governor sent Friday.
Perry had formally requested the assistance a week ago. The need also was underscored in a phone call that Democratic nominee Bill White had with Napolitano on Thursday.
Homeland Security has six drones and is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to get the necessary clearance to begin flying over Texas, Napolitano wrote.
Before operations start, ground control stations, pilots, sensor operators and maintenance support have to be allocated. She said that the governor would be kept apprised of the progress.
"This is encouraging news, and we are hopeful that this technology and additional federal resources will be deployed to Texas as soon as possible," said Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger.
Perry has complained that the federal government has not done enough to secure the border, especially in light of escalating drug violence in Mexico border towns.
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Title: Drones may be sent soon to help with border security, Napolitano says
12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, March 20, 2010
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-border_20tex.ART.State.Edition1.4c56cec.html
By: CHRISTY HOPPE / The Dallas Morning News provided to Vatic by CLG Newsletter
AUSTIN – The federal government may soon send unmanned aircraft to scour West Texas and the state's coastal waters in an effort to boost border security, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a letter to the governor sent Friday.
Perry had formally requested the assistance a week ago. The need also was underscored in a phone call that Democratic nominee Bill White had with Napolitano on Thursday.
Homeland Security has six drones and is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to get the necessary clearance to begin flying over Texas, Napolitano wrote.
Before operations start, ground control stations, pilots, sensor operators and maintenance support have to be allocated. She said that the governor would be kept apprised of the progress.
"This is encouraging news, and we are hopeful that this technology and additional federal resources will be deployed to Texas as soon as possible," said Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger.
Perry has complained that the federal government has not done enough to secure the border, especially in light of escalating drug violence in Mexico border towns.
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
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