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John W. Whitehead, Founder, the Rutherford Institute “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the age of overcriminalization, when the […]
“…[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Business ceases to become business when it becomes engaged in political decision making regardless of whether the decisions concern foreign or domestic policy. It becomes a fifth column that seeks absolute control. A person would have to be completely brain dead not to see that this is what has happened to the United States. It’s […]
FA Note: A Public-Private Partnership, or “P3” as below is usually billed as an “innovative” financing scheme whereby a government service or private business venture is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies. In infrastructure P3s, taxpayers can expect being charged user fees, such as tolls, on […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
