“There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals […]
Archives for January 2015
Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things
Oceans not acidifying – “scientists” hid 80 years of pH data
Empirical data withheld by key scientists shows that since 1910 ocean pH levels have not decreased in our oceans as carbon dioxide levels increased. Overall the trend is messy but more up than down, becoming less acidic. So much for those terrifying oceans of acid that were coming our way. What happened to those graphs?
US School Forces Girls to Follow Islamic Dress Code on Field Trip
A school district in Colorado is coming under the wrath of the community for telling school girls that they may have to submit to sharia-compliant rules regarding covering their heads and ankles on a field trip to a Muslim mosque. According to WND, Douglas County School District confirmed that such Islamic law will be enforced […]
Going Round the Farris Wheel
Michael Farris: More Disturbing History and Questionable Associations Since the post yesterday, “Farris’s Ferris Wheel…”, a number of individuals have sent additional links with more research and background information on the disturbing activities of Michael Farris. Below are some further items for readers to explore. Again, read this yourself and draw your own conclusions. Warning: […]
Vermont parent to be paid $150,000 in lawsuit over ban from school meetings
Former Benson, Vermont resident Marcel Cyr was awarded $147,500 Monday after winning a lawsuit against the Addison Rutland Supervisory Union. He had been banned from all school grounds in the district because school officials were frightened of him.
Local lizard may be named an endangered species
The California Fish and Wildlife Commission is set to consider whether the flat-tailed horned lizard, whose habitat includes the Algodones and Imperial sand dunes west of Yuma, should be listed as endangered. The Center for Biological Diversity’s petition to the state seeking endangered status was accepted by the department’s staff and sent on to the […]
PEN America: “The Harm Caused by Surveillance…is Unmistakable”
PEN America published a report this week summarizing the findings from a recent survey of 772 writers around the world on questions of surveillance and self-censorship. The report, entitled “Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers,” builds upon a late 2013 survey of more than 500 US-based writers conducted by the organization. […]
Farris’s Ferris Wheel…
Mike Farris’s Disturbing History and Questionable Associations Many think that Michael Farris is the good guy in the white hat who heroically rides in on his white horse to save the day for homeschoolers. Many are not aware that Farris has a controversial history that goes back three decades. Farris, head of Homeschool Legal Defense […]