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You may recall, back in June, that there was a key House vote that took NSA supporters by surprise. An amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill pushed by a bi-partisan team of Thomas Massie, Jim Sensenbrenner and Zoe Lofgren passed overwhelmingly, with a plan to slam the door shut on questionable NSA “backdoor searches” (as […]
EFF, ACLU Support Smith in Fighting Mass Surveillance Before Ninth Circuit Seattle — An appeals court will hear oral arguments in Smith v. Obama, a case filed by an Idaho nurse against a controversial National Security Agency (NSA) telephone data collection program, in Seattle on Monday, Dec. 8. Attorney Peter Smith. Credit: Lukins & Annis Anna Smith, […]
FA Note: iAgenda21 is an affiliate of the American Coalition for Sustainable Communities (ACSC) — “Sustaining representative government.” Theirs is the type action that needs to be undertaken in every county in the country! New Report exposes collectivist regulation, instituted at taxpayer expense, in San Bernardino County, California. The report is authored by the American Coalition for […]
In what kind of twisted world would Oath Keepers – Oath Keepers to the Constitution of the United States, be considered domestic terrorists? That’s the question that was asked last week in an interview with Stewart Rhodes, Founder and President of Oath Keepers. After listening to the interview, I thought I should check to see […]
In politics, as with Internet memes, ideas don’t spread because they are good—they spread because they are good at spreading. One of the most virulent ideas in Internet regulation in recent years has been the idea that if a social problem manifests on the Web, the best thing that you can do to address that […]
Dr. Kate Vandemoer Dr. Kate Vandemoer outlines the Federal grab for control of water out West. One does not need to achieve a very high level of education to realize that water is the biological basis for all of mankind, and our most valuable and necessary resource. In fact, very few people reading this would survive […]
If you missed our live teach-in yesterday on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and its restrictive, anti-user provisions, you can still check out the video of our discussion. It’s embedded below. We invited experts from digital rights groups from several TPP countries—all members of the Fair Deal Coalition—and we discussed the various ways this massive, […]
Our local media has been dropping broad, confusing hints about something big, something imminent, coming to the greater Bay Area. A front page article in the San Francisco Chronicle in March 2013, titled “Hard Choices for a growing S.F.” begins, “San Francisco residents will be getting thousands of new neighbors in the next 30 years, and […]
By 2020, the average annual household gas and electric bill in Vermont will increase by more than $880, thanks to the Obama administration’s proposal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants. COST OF GOING GREEN: New carbon regulations from the EPA will cause Vermonters’ residential gas and electric bills to rise 36 percent […]
International Legal and Regulatory System is the Medusa Since Obama is going to make his big announcement tonight concerning his 10 Point Plan for Immigration reform, I thought I’d better find out precisely what the plan entails. I only needed to read one article on Fox News to know exactly what this is about because […]
FA Note: GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems. What could be more routine than saving seeds from one season to the next? After all, that is how we grow crops on our farms and in our […]
In the modern era, uber-left wing academics who view environmentalism as a religion and take on blind faith that the world is being destroyed by the infestation of human beings have long considered and discussed how best to achieve “population control” and even population reduction. Most have been careful not to actually state what it […]
Necessary for the shift from academics to limited learning for lifelong labor “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Louis Brandeis, […]
Michael T. Snyder is an attorney, a blogger, a Christian, a writer, a speaker and an activist. Barack Obama is secretly negotiating the largest international trade agreement in history, and the mainstream media in the United States is almost completely ignoring it. If this treaty is adopted, it will be the most important step toward […]
Bruce Schneier As with all aspects of the New World Order — It’s All About Control Chicago is doing random explosives screenings at random L stops in the Chicago area. Compliance is voluntary: Police made no arrests but one rider refused to submit to the screening and left the station without incident, Maloney said. […] Passengers […]
Technology leaders in three cities imagine how they would harness Chicago’s innovative sensor pilot in their communities This fall, Chicago will install a network of 40 sensors to discover how new data sets can inform decisions that make the city a better place to live. The Array of Things initiative will begin with devices being […]
This expanding “voluntary” surveillance network is a public-private partnership, allowing police detectives access to video footage in most locations only where crimes have already occured. Such networks cannot guarantee to prevent crime; they record crime. “Baltimore’s CitiWatch video surveillance program has expanded over the past eight years from an initial installation of 50 standalone cameras to more than 600 networked closed-circuit […]
John W. Whitehead, Founder, the Rutherford Institute As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, there are several methods for controlling a population. You can intimidate the citizenry into obedience through force, relying on military strength and weaponry such as SWAT team raids, militarized police, and […]
A case of Regionalism: Southern Oregon is induced into a Regional plan. Regionalism is the political restructure designed to abolish local government autonomy. It is implemented through orders and extortions from above leading ultimately to a unelected and unaccountable government that directs soviet-style implementation of policy. The 1/2 hour video below records the Josephine County […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 300 K‑12 schools in America have joined President Obama’s Connect All Schools initiative since its launching in March of 2011. The initiative, which seeks to “connect every school in the US with the world by 2016,” is a partnership of the US Department of Education, US Department of State, and Qatar […]
Wolfgang Schauble, German Finance Minister In one of the bluntest statements on the topic by any globalist thus far, controversial German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (shown) openly called for “global standards” and “global governance” in taxation to ensure that governments can continue extracting huge sums in taxes from the wealth-producing class in perpetuity. In an […]
The seventh round of U.S./EU (TTIP) negotiations [began] September 29 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. If you have heard about the two huge free trade agreements — theTrans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) — being negotiated by the Obama administration, you probably think they have something to do with an attempt to […]
Day 26: SKINNER HORROR FILES Behavioral Psychology and the Invasion of Your Child’s Privacy Benjamin Bloom The following alarming information comes from Appendix XVI in my book, an article titled “Totalitarian Data-Gathering System Prepared by U.S. Department of Education” by Samuel Blumenfeld.* You can read his article in its entirety by going to my website: http://deliberatedumbingdown.com […]
Day 25: Skinner Horror Files Behavioral Psychology Explained Albert Bandura The following information is from Jed Brown’s report “The ‘Skinner Box’ School” which is reproduced in its entirety as Appendix XX in my book the deliberate dumbing down of america. This will be very helpful for those who have never been taught about behavioral psychology. […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
