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Month: February 2015

Smart Meters: What Consumers Can Do To Get Them Removed

“…[B]y enabling two-way, real-time com­mu­ni­ca­tions, smart meters can give cus­tomers the infor­ma­tion they need to con­trol their own ener­gy use and reduce their elec­tric­i­ty cost,” so said Jim Marston, a ‘smart meter’ sup­port­er with the Envi­ron­men­tal Defense Fund. [1] [CJF empha­sis added]  That, obvi­ous­ly, is only one part of the seri­ous issues regard­ing elec­tro­mag­net­ic ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy […]

corporatism/fascism, police state, property rights, smart grid, surveillance, technocracy

Negotiating draft of UN climate agreement released

FA Note: The 86-page “nego­ti­at­ing draft” of the UN cli­mate agree­ment has been released by JunkScience, via twit­ter. “Option D” of the draft begs the ques­tion: is there a direct, planned cor­re­la­tion with the Agen­da 21 depop­u­la­tion goal of 95%? Nego­ti­at­ing draft of UN cli­mate agree­ment released Draft UN cli­mate treaty actu­al­ly con­sid­ers cut­ting CO2 emis­sions 95% by 2050. […]

agenda 21, climate change, depopulation

EVEN BEFORE ESEA HAS BEEN REAUTHORIZED—

No Way, ESEA! Rub­ber-Stamp­ing Char­ter Districts By Cyn­thia Weath­er­ly, 3D Research Group Last week it was my dis­tinct dis­plea­sure to open our local paper, The Athens Ban­ner-Her­ald of Feb­ru­ary 10, 2015, and read “Draft of Clarke char­ter plan calls for school­health clin­ics, stream­lined teacher eval­u­a­tion, local gov­er­nance teams—andbetter per­for­mance.” Clarke County’s recent­ly elect­ed “Out­stand­ing School Super­in­ten­dent […]

education

‘Top teacher’ winner quits due to Common Core

Announced to stunned audi­ence: ‘I can’t do it anymore’ Sta­cie Starr reacts to win­ning the Top Teacher con­test (Bruce Bishop/ Chronicle-Telegram Hon­ored as the “Top Teacher” by ABC’s “Live with Kel­ly and Michael” show, Sta­cie Starr was speak­ing at an edu­ca­tion forum ear­li­er this week when she dropped a bombshell. The vet­er­an teacher at Elyr­ia […]

education

Conspiracy Theorists Vindicated: HAARP Confirmed Weather-manipulation Tool

The most damn­ing asper­sion that can be lobbed against any per­son, or the expo­sure of “secret gov­ern­ment activ­i­ty,” over­whelm­ing­ly is “Con­spir­a­cy The­o­rist.” That pejo­ra­tive ‘han­dle’ is equat­ed with imbe­cile mind-activ­i­ty with asper­sions often sug­gest­ed as ‘tin hat wear­ers’. Well, step aside all you doubters and lis­ten up care­ful­ly to what took place in the halls […]

haarp/geo-engineering

Watch Out For Opt Out!

A “Seis­mic Shift” In Assess­ing Students “The group calls for what’s called “assess­ment lit­er­a­cy” for teachers,  but also admin­is­tra­tors, school boards, par­ents — and students.” (Source) A 3D Research Report by Mari Caplan Many par­ents, under­stand­ably fed up by the aggres­sive test­ing asso­ci­at­ed with Com­mon Core Stan­dards or now Career and Col­lege Ready Stan­dards, are […]

corporatism/fascism, education, family autonomy, police state, public-private partnerships, surveillance

Federal Election Commission to Consider Regulating Online Political Speech

The Fed­er­al Elec­tion Com­mis­sion (FEC) is hold­ing a hear­ing today to receive pub­lic feed­back on whether it should cre­ate new rules reg­u­lat­ing polit­i­cal speech, includ­ing polit­i­cal speech on the Inter­net that one com­mis­sion­er warned could affect blogs, YouTube videos and even web­sites like the Drudge Report. The hear­ing is a response to the U.S. Supreme […]

Uncategorized

Obama Unveils His Executive Order To Share Your Confidential Information With Corporations: Live Webcast

As report­ed ear­li­er, today Oba­ma will unleash his lat­est exec­u­tive order, one which will set the stage for “infor­ma­tion shar­ing and analy­sis orga­ni­za­tions” (ISAOs) — or, in polit­i­cal jar­gon “hubs where com­pa­nies share cyber threat data with each oth­er and with the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty.”  In reg­u­lar par­lance, what Oba­ma will do is mere­ly […]

corporatism/fascism, family autonomy, police state, public-private partnerships, surveillance

Utility Commissioner’s Emails Reveal Smart Meter Conspiracy

FAT CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG: Evi­dence has now been made pub­lic of ille­gal actions and col­lu­sion between for­mer Cal­i­for­nia Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion pres­i­dent Michael Peev­ey and util­i­ty PG&E, as crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions continue. As part of a fed­er­al and state inves­ti­ga­tion into what appears to be sys­temic cor­rup­tion involv­ing for­mer senior exec­u­tives at PG&E […]

corporatism/fascism, family autonomy, police state, property rights, public-private partnerships, smart grid, surveillance, technocracy

Go to Prison for Sharing Files? That’s What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal

The Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship agree­ment (TPP) pos­es mas­sive threats to users in a dizzy­ing num­ber of ways. It will force oth­er TPP sig­na­to­ries to accept the Unit­ed States’ exces­sive copy­right terms of a min­i­mum of life of the author plus 70 years, while lock­ing the US to the same lengths so it will be hard­er to […]

corporatism/fascism, free market economics, new world order, police state, property rights, surveillance, technocracy, trade, united nations

HOW TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC EDUCATION WAS KILLED!

No Way ESEA! How Cor­po­ra­tions Prof­it from Hyped Up Edu­ca­tion Crises (Source)   “Pear­son wields enor­mous influ­ence over Amer­i­can education. It writes the text­books and tests that dri­ve instruction in pub­lic schools across the nation.” POLITICO report­ed on Stephanie Simon’s arti­cle “No prof­it left behind: In the high-stakes world of Amer­i­can edu­ca­tion, Pear­son makes mon­ey even […]

education

Ecosystems are Like the Tides

When I entered the US Navy in 1963 I took an exten­sive class in Nav­i­ga­tion.  One of the major sub­jects with­in the class was, “Tides”. Jim Beers, retired Refuge Man­ag­er, Spe­cial Agent, & Wildlife Biol­o­gist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service In addi­tion to “high tide” and “low tide”; and spring tides and neap tides, our […]

agenda 21, property rights, wildlands network

The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever

New data shows that the “van­ish­ing” of polar ice is not the result of run­away glob­al warming The “van­ish­ing” of polar ice (and the polar bears) has become a poster-child for warmists. Pho­to: ALAMY When future gen­er­a­tions look back on the glob­al-warm­ing scare of the past 30 years, noth­ing will shock them more than the extent […]

climate change

Perhaps you didn’t know… Schools across the country are literally building solitary confinement cells for children.

What is “nor­mal”? Is nor­mal­cy a con­di­tion of pub­lic accep­tance to com­mon trends & cul­ture? Per it’s def­i­n­i­tion, nor­mal is defined as con­form­ing to a stan­dard: usu­al, typ­i­cal or expected. If you accept nor­mal­cy by that def­i­n­i­tion then… -it is nor­mal for kids in our pub­lic school sys­tem to be locked in soli­tary con­fine­ment (4×4 padded […]

education

Superior Court (Alameda County) Rules in Favor of ABAG and One Bay Area

Lit­i­ga­tion Seeks to Pro­tect the Amer­i­can Form of Government In a result ori­ent­ed deci­sion, Alame­da Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court Judge Eve­lio Gril­lo ruled against Free­dom Advo­cates and oth­ers in the war over pro­tect­ing Cities and Coun­ties from a trans­for­ma­tion of local gov­ern­ment (One Bay Area). The new form of gov­ern­ment in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area […]

agenda 21, free market economics, new world order, police state, property rights, public-private partnerships, regionalism, smart growth, surveillance, sustainability, technocracy, transportation, water rights, wildlands network

Anita Hoge Tells All About Testing Attitudes

No Way ESEA!  WATCH & LISTEN to a riv­et­ing pre­sen­ta­tion by Ani­ta Hoge! (Start lis­ten­ing about the 23 minute mark) The Feb­ru­ary 5th inter­view Ani­ta Hoge did with John Wells of Car­a­van To Mid­night radio is now post­ed on YouTube. This is a “must watch.” Maybe you are a per­son who has trou­ble read­ing and digest­ing all of […]

education

TPP

‘Free trade’ isn’t what Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship would deliv­er … Think the Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship is a free trade agree­ment? Think again. In prin­ci­ple, almost every­one’s in favor of free trade. It pro­motes inter­na­tion­al har­mo­ny, rais­es wages, helps economies grow. It’s an arti­cle of his­tor­i­cal faith that the enact­ment of harsh pro­tec­tive U.S. tar­iffs in 1930 con­tributed […]

corporatism/fascism, public-private partnerships, regionalism, technocracy, trade

Thanks, EPA: Your New ‘Navigable Waters’ Rule Strengthens The Case Against Administrative Law

When Con­gress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, it was exer­cis­ing its pow­er to reg­u­late inter­state com­merce by pro­hibit­ing dis­charges into the nation’s “nav­i­ga­ble waters.” If a body of water could be used to trans­port goods from one state to anoth­er, it was cov­ered by the Act. Like so many oth­er statutes enact­ed over the […]

natural resources, property rights, water rights

U.N. Climate Chief: We’re ‘Intentionally’ Transforming The World Economy

Chris­tiana Figueres, Exec­u­tive Sec­re­tary of the Unit­ed Nations Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change “This is the first time in the his­to­ry of mankind that we are set­ting our­selves the task of inten­tion­al­ly, with­in a defined peri­od of time to change the eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment mod­el that has been reign­ing for at least 150 years…” The Unit­ed Nation’s […]

agenda 21, climate change

Trading Away Their Oaths

On the open­ing day of each new Con­gress, every mem­ber of the U.S. Sen­ate and House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives takes an oath of office to “sup­port and defend the Con­sti­tu­tion of the Unit­ed States against all ene­mies, for­eign and domes­tic” and “bear true faith and alle­giance to the same.” For many mem­bers, no doubt, this solemn […]

corporatism/fascism, new world order, public-private partnerships, trade

In a First, Government Acknowledges the Limits of Section 215

Fol­low­ing EFF’s vic­to­ry in a four-year Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion Act law­suit, the gov­ern­ment released an opin­ion (pdf), writ­ten by the Office of Legal Coun­sel (OLC) in 2010, that con­clud­ed that Sec­tion 215—the pro­vi­sion of the Patri­ot Act the NSA relies on to col­lect mil­lions of Amer­i­cans’ phone records—does have a lim­it: cen­sus data. The Com­merce Depart­ment […]

family autonomy, police state, property rights, surveillance

Samsung SmartTVs can collect and transmit spoken words, personal information, and sensitive data to 3rd party sources

NEW SMART TVS OFFER A WINDOW INTO YOUR LIFE Smart TVs may be get­ting too smart as some now actu­al­ly col­lect and trans­mit your spo­ken words, per­son­al infor­ma­tion, and sen­si­tive data to oth­er 3rd par­ty sources. In fact Sam­sung, a major elec­tron­ic man­u­fac­ture, admits that they “col­lect, use, share, and store infor­ma­tion through your SmartTV in […]

corporatism/fascism, family autonomy, police state, property rights, surveillance

PA Press Release on ESEA Violations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Penn­syl­va­ni­ans Restor­ing Education Feb­ru­ary 5, 2015, Penn­syl­va­ni­ans Restor­ing Edu­ca­tion, Penn­syl­va­nia Against Com­mon Core, Cit­i­zens of Penn­syl­va­nia, par­ents and stu­dents are ask­ing Sen­a­tor Lamar Alexan­der to stop the REAUTHORIZATION of ESEA: Every Child Ready for Col­lege or Career Act of 2015 which will amend No Child Left Behind. This leg­is­la­tion vio­lates fed­er­al law, […]

education

16-Year-Old Launches Organization to Battle Warrantless Surveillance

Bran­don Keibler, Founder and Direc­tor, Project Dig­i­tal Privacy Bran­don Keibler is just your ordi­nary 16-year-old from South­ern Indi­ana. At least that’s what some peo­ple might think. How­ev­er, hav­ing become an activist at four­teen and help­ing to estab­lish the Restore the Fourth orga­ni­za­tion, this young man has just launched an orga­ni­za­tion to encour­age grass­roots efforts aimed […]

new world order, police state, property rights, surveillance, technocracy