MUST WATCH: Hurtling Toward Singularity, Humanity Must Choose Its Fate

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1960s MKULTRA Television Broadcasts Exposed

Mass Media Mind Control: Excelent Breakdown From Truthstream

Sing It! GMO Awareness

You Never Know Who Might Be An Agent Of Oversight..

Stream-Of-Consciousness Rhyme

By AGK:

Information overload, overlord, culling of the zombie hoard.  brain dead, inhuman.  desensitized masses, hypnotized, flicker stare, playing at your subconscious desires,  setting you up for a fall, caught, busted, found out, no clout, no doubt, prison profits, forced labor, luxury savor, designer goods, understood, over stand, grab my hand, feel that we are together, never let your guard down, around and around, inside downside, no where to hide, they lied, many times, paying fines, blurring the lines between war and peace, military and police, legalized corruption, conspicuous consumption, black tie function, gentlemen and women, forsaken, the truth, tooth, draws blood for oil, despoil despotism, geostrategic hotspots, flare-ups, on the cusp, of something unknown, we have been shown the path, walking is no longer possible, running for our lives, the thrill of it, if you survive, the terror, of unknowing the separation, the instilled trauma, Obama, subjects to investigative reporters, cocaine snorters, just following orders, from on high rollers, for whom the bell tolls, the reversal of roles, gain insight, in spite of which we make no change,  deranged killers, crying for heaven, when all they ever wanted, shunted, turned down, boarded up, buttercup, of tea, a glass of water? 

Huffington Post Blog: America's Deep State

Via huffingtonpost:

"Now we know: the United States of America is partially governed by a deep state, undemocratic, secret, aligned with intelligence agencies, spying on friend and foe, lawless in almost every respect.
If this doesn't constitute a coup d'etat, it's hard to imagine what would."

Everyday Heroes

Via disinfo:

Independece Day, Lakewood, OH

#iwishthiswassatire:

Bill Gates And GMO Cronies Plan $30 Million Seed Vault While Poisoning The Planet

Via wakingtimes:

The question is, what global catastrophic occurrence do the investors in this seed vault anticipate? If you follow the money trail it isn’t hard to figure out. Guess who is participating in this ‘noble’ project aside from the Norwegians:

·      The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

·      US Agirbusiness giant, Dupont/Pioneer (owner of GMO seed patents)

·      The Syngenta Foundation – Swiss maker of GMO seed and pesticides.

·      The Rockefeller Foundation – created the ‘gene revolution with over $100 million invested in GM science since the 1970’s

·      CGIAR, a global network of Rockefeller Foundation supporters

[Read More]

Brilliant Political Analysis From 12-Yr-Old Egyptian

Via activistpost:

Germans Compare Stasi To NSA By Data Volume, Guess Who Wins?

Via boingboing:

http://apps.opendatacity.de/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html
(Make sure to click "Begin Zooming Out"

Attempted Set-Up Of Luke Rudkowski

Malte Spitz Sues For Cellphone Metadata

Is This A Quantum Computer? Nobody Knows

Via Wired:




Google bought one. So did Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest defense contractors. But we still can’t agree on what it is they bought.


http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/d-wave-quantum-computer-usc/

StormCloudsGathering: Snowden Media Misdirection

Pioneering The Brave New World Of Constant Recording

 

The Overly Documented Life   

By A.J. Jacobs

"My brain is now wired to cameras and monitors of every kind. My limited attention span, laughable subjectivity, and weak memory have been replaced by eyes that see everything and hard drives that never forget. Fun. "

"...You've heard of Google Goggles? In 2013, Google plans to release Internet-enabled glasses that, the company boasts, have the capacity to display data on the lenses and also to record every moment (including, presumably, those moments when you get beat up for wearing Internet-enabled goggles). Very spooky. But then Bell and a handful of followers have already been doing that for years."

http://www.esquire.com/features/overly-documented-life-0113 

Chipotle First U.S. Chain Restaurant To Label GMOs

Via nationofchange:

Chipotle has officially announced that it will not only be labeling GMOs on the ingredients list of food products, but phasing out all GMOs on the menu.

From the Chipotle website:

“Our goal is to eliminate GMOs from Chipotle’s ingredients, and we’re working hard to meet this challenge…For example, we recently switched our fryers from soybean oil to sunflower oil. Soybean oil is almost always made from genetically modified soybeans, while there is no commercially available GMO sunflower oil. Where our food contains currently unavoidable GM ingredients, it is only in the form of corn or soy.”

Join the Monsanto Video Revolt! 
On July 24th (and even before then), we are calling for all concerned citizens, those who just want to eat real food that’s not polluted with GMOs, activists, and others to create and upload a video of any length telling Monsanto why you stand against their control of the food supply and mutation of crops worldwide. The Monsanto Video Revolt is a manifestation of resistance against the GMO juggernaut that is Monsanto and its attempt at genetically manipulating every piece of food on your dinner table.

Peaceful Protest = Terrorism or The Definition Of Fascism

Via Alternet:

The PATRIOT Act. The U.S. Legal Code definition of terrorism was expanded to include a new meaning of “domestic terrorism” by Congress in 2001. This new definition considers domestic terrorism as:
“…activities that involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States"
According to the ACLU, “this definition is broad enough to encompass the activities of…prominent activists, campaigns and organizations.” Given the right lawyer, TransCanada could convince a federal judge that monkey-wrenching and tying oneself to a construction vehicle is “dangerous to human life” or intended to “intimidate a civilian population.”  [Keep Reading]

Pentagon Bracing For Public Dissent Over Climate And Energy Shocks

Via Earth Insight by Nafeez Ahmed hosted by The Guardian:

The Pentagon knows that environmental, economic and other crises could provoke widespread public anger toward government and corporations in coming years. The revelations on the NSA's global surveillance programmes are just the latest indication that as business as usual creates instability at home and abroad, and as disillusionment with the status quo escalates, Western publics are being increasingly viewed as potential enemies that must be policed by the state.   [Keep Reading]

Targeting Obstacles To Community Involvement

Onion Pi - Convert Raspberry Pi Into Anonymizing Tor Proxy

Via boingboing:

 

Browse anonymously anywhere you go with the Onion Pi Tor proxy. This is fun weekend project that uses a Raspberry Pi, a USB WiFi adapter and Ethernet cable to create a small, low-power and portable privacy Pi. Using it is easy-as-pie. First, plug the Ethernet cable into any Internet provider in your home, work, hotel or conference/event. Next, power up the Pi with the micro USB cable to your laptop or to the wall adapter. The Pi will boot up and create a new secure wireless access point called Onion Pi. Connecting to that access point will automatically route any web browsing from your computer through the anonymizing Tor network.

Neutralizing The Resistance By Pathologizing Anti-Authoritarianism

Via AlterNet: 

By Bruce E. Levine

 

Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists with a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?
 

Many young people diagnosed with mental disorders have acted on their beliefs in ways that threaten authorities.

Many young people diagnosed with mental disorders are essentially anarchists who have the bad luck of being misidentified by mental health professionals, who 1) are ignorant of the social philosophy of anarchism; 2) embrace, often without political consciousness, its opposite ideology of hierarchism; and 3) confuse the signs of anarchism with symptoms of mental illness.   

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/anarchists-oppressed-psychiatry-and-underground-resistance?page=0%2C0 

Juice Media Rap News #19

The Gaurdian Covers Predictive Programming

Via Alternet:

 

The Guardian / By John Patterson

 

Did Hollywood Help Make NSA Surveillance Permissible? 
Movies have got us used to the sight of people as pixellated quarry, tracked by powerful technology.

 

 

Last week's NSA leaks scandal had one scary side-story: a poll determining that a slim but clear majority of Americans weren't worried in the least about the 360-degree, all-platform access that the eavesdropping agency apparently now has to their phone, internet and wireless communications. Orwell's telescreen is part of our accepted digital furniture now, it seems, and Big Brother is regarded as a gentle protector rather than an iron-fisted tormentor even as sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four skyrocket on Amazon. And "precrime", a sci-fi concept of considerable vintage, is now a real thing, apparently. Another good reason that the representative fictional American citizen of our broken times is the zombie. Keep Reading.

Speaking Event: Our Vanishing Civil Liberties

Speaking Event: Our Vanishing Civil Liberties

Berkeley,

CA

June 11, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Birgitta Jonsdottir (Member of Icelandic Parliament, Wikileaks and Bradley Manning supporter, and poet) joins Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers whistleblower) and Nadia Kayyali (Bil of Rights Defense Committee) discussing how our civil liberties are vanishing. Topics include indefinite detention, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), militarization of the police, and prosecution of whistleblowers.    

The End of Media Ownership?

MICROSOFT

Will Xbox One allow you to trade in and resell disc-based games? Yes…sort of, says Microsoft in its fresh “How Games Licensing Works on Xbox One“ explainer, before winding up like some star NFL kicker and punting the ball downfield.
Before we proceed, give this a quick read — the relevant text:

Trade-in and resell your disc-based games: Today, some gamers choose to sell their old disc-based games back for cash and credit. We designed Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers. Microsoft does not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games.

Give your games to friends: Xbox One is designed so game publishers can enable you to give your disc-based games to your friends. There are no fees charged as part of these transfers. There are two requirements: you can only give them to people who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days and each game can only be given once.

In our role as a game publisher, Microsoft Studios will enable you to give your games to friends or trade in your Xbox One games at participating retailers. Third party publishers may opt in or out of supporting game resale and may set up business terms or transfer fees with retailers. Microsoft does not receive any compensation as part of this. In addition, third party publishers can enable you to give games to friends. Loaning or renting games won’t be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners.

Continued-
http://techland.time.com/2013/06/07/microsofts-xbox-one-used-games-policies-are-clear-as-mud/

Could Golden Dawn Bring A New Wave Of Eco-Fascism From Greece To The US?

Via Disinfo.com:

By Good German on June 10, 2013 in News

 

 

 

 

 

Panagioti writes at the Earth First! Newswire:

In times of social upheaval, it seems a given that the far-right elements of an industrial empire will present themselves as a counter force in an attempt to allure some of the righteously indignant and, often painfully ignorant, folks who perceive themselves as a “middle class” in need of protection and salvation.
That is undoubtably the case with Greece today, where  members of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have begun firmly establishing themselves in political office, in the ranks of law enforcement, and now, with a larger street presence than ever before.
Golden Dawn is not only using KKK-style social services such as Greeks-only food banks and blood drives to bolster support, they also have a “Green Wing” attempting to propagate eco-fascist ideology among the country’s growing radical environmental movement.
Newsflash for all the anti-fascists eco-revolutionaries out there who are itching to get their hands on some of these assholes: you may be in luck, ’cause they don’t appear to be staying put in the Mediterranean.
Last week, for the fifth time in a year, members of Golden Dawn have made their presence known in US.
The most recent incident occurred on May 25, 2013 at the Stathakion Cultural Centre in Astoria, New York, during the screening of “Greek-American Radicals: The Untold Story”, a historical documentary about Greek immigrant’s experience in America, the role of immigrants in the radical labour movement and the journey from the early 20th century until the witch hunts of the McCarthy era.

Read more here.  And there’s an addendum:

Since posting the article “Could Golden Dawn Bring a New Wave of Eco-Fascism from Greece to the US?” last week, we received responses with some interesting article links that further elaborate on Golden Dawn’s disgusting and fraudulent use of ecology to promote white supremacy and general ass-kissing of the industrial right-wing elite.
Most recently, Golden Dawn members faked support for the popular anti-gold mining movement in northern Greece, and simultaneously forged relationships with mining companies. This link further explains (in Greek).
Another article link from last year in English, exposes the “Green Wing” of Golden Dawn in supporting the extermination of mental patients and the physically handicapped, perpetuating Hitler’s policies of genocide.
And finally, this link directs you to the site of publication “Ecology and Action,” Golden Dawn’s eco front group. Along the right side of this page, there is also links to several other European organizations using ecology (or a facade of it) to promote white supremacy and fascism. Most of the links lead to pathetic and/or outdated websites and Myspace pages. But still, it is helpful to know their rhetoric and to be able to identify it, in the case that it appears in your local scene, or website. (We suggest using a free translation service to get the general idea of what is being said.) And once again, you can witness several maddening efforts to co-opt Earth First!-esque images.

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman

Former BBC Journalist And Bilderberg Expert Tony Gosling

Watch all of WeAreChange.org's Bilderberg coverage

A very informative and well-cited interview

Happy 64th anniversary of 1984's publication!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-2%20Special%20trail:Network%20front%20-%20special%20trail:Position1

Database Tracks Energy Legislation

Via Treehugger:

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/new-online-database-allows-users-track-pending-advanced-energy-legislation-across-us.html

TruthLoader: Bilderberg

James Corbett On Bilderberg, AP Records Seizure

Is Smoking Tobacco Bad For You?

Via SignOfTheTimes:

Smoking does not cause lung cancer. There is even some anecdotal evidence that it protects against lung cancer. 

Smoking can protect against neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and it can reduce the psychiatric, cognitive, sensory, and physical effects of schizophrenia. 

http://www.sott.net/article/139304-World-No-Tobacco-Day-Lets-All-Light-Up

If The Syrian Dictator Must Go… Why Not The Dictators In Saudi Arabia, Qatar And Bahrain?

By Washingtonsblog:


If We’re “Fighting for Democracy”, than Why Are We Arming and Financially Supporting Dictatorships throughout the Middle East?

Western and Israeli leaders call Syrian leader Assad a dictator.

Fair enough. He and his father have ruled Syria since 1971.

But what about Saudi Arabia? The Saudi royal monarchy has been ruling that region for hundreds of years.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/05/if-the-syrian-dictator-must-go-why-not-the-dictators-in-saudi-arabia-qatar-and-the-bahrain.html

Henry Kissinger Confronted While Receiving The Freedom Award

Irish City Hosting The G8 Summit Gets Fake Storefronts To Create Appearance Of Prosperity

Via Disinfo.com:

Located in a region devastated by austerity and the global financial crisis, fascinatingly, Enniskillen will be turned into a movie-set-style simulation of a thriving town when global leaders pass through for the G8 Summit next month.

http://www.theworld.org/2013/05/northern-ireland-town-fakes-prosperity-for-g8-summit/

Van Jones Defies Obama On Keystone XL

Via NationOfChange:

Genetically Engineering an Icon: Can Biotech Bring the Chestnut Back to America's Forests?

Via TheAtlantic:

In the 20th century, a blight killed of four billion of these towering trees. Now, new research shows that a gene, taken from wheat, provides resistance.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/genetically-engineering-an-icon-can-biotech-bring-the-chestnut-back-to-americas-forests/276356/

“Network Of Global Corporate Control”

Via RedIceCreations:

A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end the corruption. And she is confident of success.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/15473-world-bank-insider-blows-whistle-on-corruption-federal-reserve

At Least We Changed The Conversation

MarketWatch Commentary featuring this:


"For Monsanto it comes down to saving the 9 billion people expected to populate the planet by 2050.
Monsanto is the company that allows farmers to grow more food with less land, water and energy."


http://www.marketwatch.com/story/monsanto-sows-seeds-of-protest-2013-05-29?pagenumber=1

Comment:
James Campbell 53 minutes ago
That was a horribly biased article, and I have never seen so many ignorant comments in one forum.  The word "corporation" is not synonymous with "evil".  Genetically modified food will not turn you into zombies or cause your children to have three arms and a tail.  If it wasn't for modern farming techniques including genetic modification, and large farming corporations, a large portion of the world population would starve to death.  Contrary to the misinformation being spread below, we could not feed the world by "supporting local farmers".  It is the same mindset that insists that "organic" food is better for you, despite scientific studies showing that there is no health advantage. It is because of people that think like this that DDT is still banned and millions of people needlessly die of malaria.  Instead of using logic and science to determine what is healthy and what is not, the commentors on this forum seem to go with what "feels right".  You should all be thanking Monsanto for producing so much food, keeping food prices low, and keeping starvation to a minimum around the world.  Instead you demonize them for producing something you need and selling it to you at a price you can afford.  If you don't like it, then don't buy it, but don't get in their way of providing food for the rest of us.  I prefer not to starve.

Agenda 21: Capitalism's Hail Mary

Julie Beal does a great job of explaining the pitfalls of the seemingly best program ever.
Saving the planet by commodifying everything on it.  A solution TPTB can get on board with is clearly no solution at all.


Via ActivistPost:

Measuring the sacred

At its most basic, natural capital is understood as the earth’s biomass, and the ‘ecosystem services’ it provides; it involves, literally, pricing the seas, the air, the land, and the flora and fauna, and the various benefits they bestow.

Sixteen years ago, Robert Costanza, et al, published an article in Nature called ‘The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital’ (1997) which included a fully priced global index of all these global ecological benefits, which were estimated to have an average total annual value of $33 trillion, which at the time was almost twice the annual global gross product.

The report therefore proved the tremendous profit to be had from these ‘benefits’, and Agenda 21 and its idealistic proponents have been the perfect vehicle to advance the movement to measure natural capital, and ‘go beyond GDP’. The argument used, you see, is attractive and reasoned to many who hear it: the story goes:
nature and people are the most important things of all;
we are destroying the earth and it would be good to save it;
the current financial and corporate system is screwed.
We all know these things to be true, and once hooked into the storyline, most people fall for the ‘solution’ being offered. This solution insists ‘we must measure what we value’, i.e. ascribe a £ or $ value to each ecosystem benefit. Otherwise, we are told, ‘we cannot manage what we cannot measure’. And it’s the corporations and bankers who are going to do this for us, to profit from an endlessly replenished stock of assets: people + planet.

Read the entire article: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/unhappy-green-economy-people-planet.html#more

Genetically Modified Democracy: Monsanto Moves To Obliterate States' Rights To Label GMOs

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27540.cfm

Also, James Corbett's interview with Tami Canal, founder of march-against-monsanto.com:

http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-661

http://occupy-monsanto.com/

DemocracyNow! Covers Geoengineering

The Geopolitics Of India & Its Rivalry with China

Via StormCloudsGathering:

This report brought to you by CaspianReport, a group of students in Azerbaijan.

Cloned Beef Brought To You By Rockefeller-Founded American Breeders Association

A well-researched piece from TruthStreamMedia, though certainly not a damning indictment.  I first dismissed this video as paranoid and reaching for conspiracies.  Until I caught this:


"Clones, produced without sexual reproduction, are exact genetic duplicates of another animal. Cloned cattle would be useful because they could be genetically manipulated to produce impressive amounts of milk or beef.
[...]
Cloning might also allow the insertion of genes that would cause a sheep or cow to produce drugs or other valuable substances in its milk."(emphasis added)

So here we have John D. Rockefeller and one of his descendants leading the charge on artificial insemination of livestock, pioneering animal cloning technology and founding the self-described global leader in bovine genetics.  Add to that a regulatory framework that has the FDA and others unsure if we have actually been consuming the results of these experiments.  Now recall Rockefeller involvement in the founding of the AMA and ADA, organizations which continue to advocate for the forced medication of the populace through water fluoridation.  The Bilderberg, Trilateral, and CFR connections also deserve a mention.


://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/cloned-beef-rockefeller-story.html#more

Tabloid Story PR For Gene-Patenting And Corporate Profits

http://www.naturalnews.com/040365_Angelina_Jolie_gene_patents_Supreme_Court_decision.html

Buycott App Helps You Make Informed And Ethical Choices At The Super Market

 Uncover the vast and nebulous tentacles of Monsanto and Koch Industries, the smartphone app uncloaks the corporate family tree behind a given barcode.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/05/14/new-app-lets-you-boycott-koch-brothers-monsanto-and-more-by-scanning-your-shopping-cart/

Obama Administration: GWOT Is Permanent

"Among senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade. Given the way al-Qaida continues to metastasize, some officials said no clear end is in sight. . . . That timeline suggests that the United States has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/17/endless-war-on-terror-obama

White House Science Czar Denies Extreme Population Control Views

Truthstream Media:

Compulsory abortion. Under-the-skin birth control implants. Government authorized reproduction. A Planetary Regime to regulate the population and ration food and resources. A sterilant added to water supplies or food staples. The expansion of mandatory family planning and population restrictions. An earth teetering on the edge of destruction. All of this and more is discussed frankly in the 1977 textbook, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, written jointly by John P. Holdren, Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne Ehrlich.

Tireless activist Luke Rudkowski, founder of WeAreChange.org, confronted John P. Holdren, the top science advisor in the White House, about some of those statements as they appear in that tract during a Q and A session.

From the podium, Holdren cuts off the question, saying, “I beg your pardon, I did not advocate any of that… I never held those beliefs. The book in question described in a chapter surveying all the things that had been suggested, those kinds of suggestions included. They were abhorrent and would never be embraced, should not be embraced. I’m kind of tired of that question. Folks should go back and look at that book.”

Holdren is partially justified in claiming that his book’s chapter is simply surveying other beliefs, but his claim of being separate from such thinking is ludicrous. Ecoscience contains a veritable anthology of the major population control efforts of the 20th Century, including radical plans for depopulation, often controversial contraceptive innovations, thorough efforts at instituting “family planning” programs in developing countries through United Nations and private philanthropic guidance and demands to curtail consumption and limit resources.

John P. Holdren, current White House “Science Czar” (technically the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy), has been a prominent figure in the larger Eugenics movement, dealing in population, environment and climate change matters, for most of his life.

Backed by major universities, endowments and foundations, his brand of science has been sponsored to promote radical approaches to curtailing human behavior, and with it, handing over more power to the self-appointed elite directing society.

Holdren is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Ehrlich, the author of the 1968 Population Bomb, which portrayed an alarmist view of a population explosion exhausting earth’s resources and destroying life. The two have been frequent writing partners and were definitive, along with the Club of Rome (and their key publication Limits to Growth), in metering out a re-branded Eugenics based upon metrics about human consumption (a.k.a. “footprint”) and theories about earth’s “carrying capacity.”

In essence, these groups popularized a neo-Malthusian case for individual austerity and limits of some kind on the number of children families can have. For instance, the pair noted in a 1969 article on over-population, “If the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come.”

While Holdren and Ehrlich may not have personally backed every initiative presented in their 1977 textbook, including such radical and draconian proposals demonstrates their larger position in supporting any/all population control measures that can establish acceptance. The larger Eugenics movement has always had more radical extremists, like Paul Popenoe, that make tamer proposals look reasonable. Yet, all tend towards the common goal of global control over reproduction and most find a common source of funding amongst the wealthy foundations of elite robber barons, monopolists and banking elite (which is directly acknowledged by Holdren & Ehrlich in the text).

Some proposals, like the one calling for sterilants in the water, are ostensibly rejected in the text, with this example finding no practical way to avoid tainting livestock supplies while targeting humans. However, a clear direction is marked out in the chapter, with sub-headers like “Towards a Planetary Regime” indicating the dominant trend towards more comprehensive authority over individual family choices.

Front Page Magazine took on Holdren’s legacy in 2009 in response to his White House appointment, labeling him “Obama’s Biggest Radical.” Ben Johnson makes the case that far from rejecting some of the more extreme measures discussed in the book, the authors “hide behind the passive voice.” Johnson writes about this in relation to discussing compulsory abortion:

“Holdren and the Ehrlichs maintained “there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.” Hiding behind the passive voice, they note, “it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” To underscore they mean business, they conclude, “If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” (pp. 837-838).”


• Page 837: Compulsory abortions would be legal
“Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”

• Page 786: Single mothers should have their babies taken away by the government; or they could be forced to have abortions
“One way to carry out this disapproval might be to insist that all illegitimate babies be put up for adoption—especially those born to minors, who generally are not capable of caring properly for a child alone. If a single mother really wished to keep her baby, she might be obliged to go through adoption proceedings and demonstrate her ability to support and care for it. Adoption proceedings probably should remain more difficult for single people than for married couples, in recognition of the relative difficulty of raising children alone. It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society.”

• Page 787-8: Mass sterilization of humans though drugs in the water supply is OK as long as it doesn’t harm livestock
“Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.”

• Page 786-7: Involuntary fertility control
…
“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
…
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births. “

• Page 838: The kind of people who cause “social deterioration” can be compelled to not have children
“If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility—just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns—providing they are not denied equal protection.”

• Page 838: Nothing is wrong or illegal about the government dictating family size
“In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters. For example, no one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?”

• Page 942-3: Toward a Planetary Regime
…
“Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime—sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as international implications exist. Thus the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans. The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade, perhaps including assistance from DCs to LDCs, and including all food on the international market.

The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.”

• Page 917: We will need to surrender national sovereignty to an armed international police force
“If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization.”

• Page 749: Pro-family and pro-birth attitudes are caused by ethnic chauvinism
” Another related issue that seems to encourage a pronatalist attitude in many people is the question of the differential reproduction of social or ethnic groups. Many people seem to be possessed by fear that their group may be outbred by other groups. White Americans and South Africans are worried there will be too many blacks, and vice versa. The Jews in Israel are disturbed by the high birth rates of Israeli Arabs, Protestants are worried about Catholics, and lbos about Hausas. Obviously, if everyone tries to outbreed everyone else, the result will be catastrophe for all. This is another case of the “tragedy of the commons,” wherein the “commons” is the planet Earth. Fortunately, it appears that, at least in the DCs, virtually all groups are exercising reproductive restraint.”

• Page 944: As of 1977, we are facing a global overpopulation catastrophe that must be resolved at all costs by the year 2000
“Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants’ destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world.”




http://truthstreammedia.com/white-house-science-czar-denies-extreme-population-control-views/

Venezuela: Operation "Safe Homeland", 3,000 Soldiers Patrol Streets Of Caracas And Other Cities

BBC:
President Maduro said the plan would bring peace to Venezuela, which has one of the highest homicide rates in South America.
The opposition has long criticised the government's record on crime, and used it as a campaign issue in recent polls.

Last year, the government introduced a new gun law banning the sale of firearms and ammunition.
Crime figures have been rising steadily since the late president Hugo Chavez took office in 1999.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22519497

Pragmatism or repression? Double standards for martial law?  Popular mandate or power grab?

Jeremy Scahill On Breaking The Set

Boston Bombing Suspects Linked To CIA

3D Printing: The Sum of All Corporate-Fascist Fears

From LocalOrg:

The unspoken fear the establishment holds regarding 3D printing and other forms of personal manufacturing is that their central globalized monopolies will be replaced by increasingly smaller, localized companies like Local Motors who already provides a model for "microfactories" and the localization of auto-manufacturing. Job creation, profits, wealth, power, and influence will be redistributed locally, not through government handouts, but by way of technology and local entrepreneurship - ending centuries of disparity between the people and the "elite."

http://localorg.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-war-on-3d-printing-begins.html

First Ever Bilderberg Fringe Festival To Be Held In Conjunction With June 2013 Meeting In England

Via 21st Century Newswire: The leaders of tomorrow will be chosen in June.

Truthout Banned Articles From Publication Whose Founding Members, Dave Lindorff And Linn Washington, Jr., Won This Year's Project Censored Awards.

Dave Lindorff is a veteran investigative reporter, a columnist for CounterPunch, and a contributor to Businessweek, The Nation, Extra! and Salon.com. Here he writes for his This Can’t Be Happening! blog:

Have you even noticed that you don't see articles from ThisCantBeHappening! running on the Truthout site?

There's a reason for this. Truthout, over a year ago, decided to ban this publication from its pages.

They took this ridiculous and incredibly lacking-in-alternative-media-solidarity step not because our work is flawed. Not because we had made some embarrassing mistake. Not even because we demanded payment for their use of our work.

No. They banned us because I had the temerity to question their news judgement when they ignored some breaking stories that we wrote and published.
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1649

Guatemala Officially More Developed Than United States

(Reuters) - A Guatemalan court on Friday found former dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country's 36-year civil war.
http://www.reuters.com

Probably The Most Significant Technological Breakthrough Of Our Time

I'm no gun nut, but I also have an increasing fear of tyrannical government based on the clear militarization of the police, as well as the curtailing of civil liberties.  I never advocate violence as an adherent of the non-aggression principle.  However, I also believe in maintaining the existing rights enshrined in the constitution and hopefully using those rights as a foundation on which to build even greater rights and increase individual liberties.  Freedom is not a zero-sum equation as many argue.  Yes, one does not, and should not, have the freedom to infringe on another's freedom but this does not automatically imply that we cannot increase our freedom collectively through cooperation and understanding.  Those who advocate for control of this technology do so at the risk of undoing hundreds of years of struggle and sacrifice that were necessary to establish and safeguard the freedoms we enjoy today.  The fears associated with this technology are very real but to put a stop to it would mean catastrophe for democracy.
3D-printed weaponry is here to stay whether we like it or not.  Its arrival signals a major shift away from centralized control predicated on coercion and force and toward decentralized, unregulated self-governance.  It is clear we have outgrown the habit of ceding personal responsibility to an external protectorate.  Does this make the world less safe?  Only as long as there is reason to use deadly force against one another.  Will criminals and terrorists capitalize on this development, almost certainly.  But just because anyone can suddenly print a gun doesn't mean that they will, and it doesn't mean that peaceful people will seize the opportunity to become violent extremists.  If you want to mitigate the threat posed by 3D-printed weaponry, disincentivize using violence to achieve your goals.  The larger implications of 3D-printing more generally solidify this point: this technology could push a trend of despecialization as more and more people are once again able to fabricate all of their own tools and products.

Positive Development: Urban Waters Federal Partnership

AP:
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Environmental Protection Agency, the White House and other federal departments announced Friday that they are expanding a program for restoring and improving urban waterways nationwide.
The Urban Waters Federal Partnership now operates in seven locations. Officials said Friday they’re adding the Grand River in Grand Rapids, Mich., the Middle Rio Grande in Albuquerque and nine other areas. The program links economic development, recreational and environmental improvement goals.
“Since we launched the Urban Waters Federal Partnership two years ago, we’ve seen firsthand what the transformation of degraded urban waterways into clean, healthy and treasured centerpieces can do for local communities — not only from an aesthetic standpoint, but also from a public health and economic standpoint,” acting EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe said in a statement.
The other new sites are the Big River and Meramec River around St. Louis; the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Camden, N.J., Chester, Pa., and Wilmington, Del.; the Green-Duwamish River in Seattle; the Mystic River in metropolitan Boston; Martin Pena Canal in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Middle Blue River in Kansas City; Passaic River in Newark, N.J.; Proctor Creek in Atlanta; and Lake Erie near Toledo, Ohio.
Among other participating agencies are the U.S. departments of Agriculture, Interior, Education, and Housing and Urban Development.
“Restoring these waterways is not only important for improving the water that we all depend on, but for spurring economic growth and creating recreational opportunities in these communities as well,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
The original seven sites are the Anacostia watershed in the District of Columbia and Maryland; Patapsco watershed in the Baltimore area; Bronx and Harlem River watersheds in New York; South Platte River in Denver; Los Angeles River watershed; Lake Pontchartrain area in New Orleans; and northwest Indiana.


From the EPA:

Urban Waters Federal Partnership

This partnership will reconnect urban communities, particularly those that are overburdened or economically distressed, with their waterways by improving coordination among federal agencies and collaborating with community-led revitalization efforts to improve our Nation's water systems and promote their economic, environmental and social benefits. Specifically, the Urban Waters Federal Partnership will:

Break down federal program silos to promote more efficient and effective use of federal resources through better coordination and targeting of federal investments.
Recognize and build on local efforts and leadership, by engaging and serving community partners.
Work with local officials and effective community-based organizations to leverage area resources and stimulate local economies to create local jobs.
Learn from early and visible victories to fuel long-term action.
This partnership aligns with President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative, which calls on agencies to support innovative community efforts to provide safe, healthy and accessible outdoor spaces.

http://www.urbanwaters.gov/

Noam Chomsky: Paramount Theatre Oakland 5/8/13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDNcdz_Qp_Y

Jeremy Scahill: speaking about Dirty Wars in Oakland 5/10/13

http://youtu.be/3ZnQvkrbMKc

Like the workers who make them: thin, light, and beautiful.

Growth and Free Trade: beyond buzzwords.

Herman Daly, is perhaps the most insightful man that no one ever listened to, at least in exposing the logical fallacies within the neoliberal economic dogma.

http://www.stwr.org/globalization/growth-and-free-trade-brain-dead-dogmas-still-kicking-hard.html

DHS Whistleblower Labeled Domestic Terrorist, Censored From 60 Minutes

Her house was raided by a Black Hawk helicopter-deployed strike force, larger than the one used on Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound.
http://youtu.be/feHbP4k_tdk

How To Get Money Out Of Politics

http://anticorruptionact.org/

Petition To Continue To Stop CISPA

http://www.cispaisback.org/

Peter Joseph's Web Series Is Necessary Viewing

Anonymous OpWorldBank

http://youtu.be/FQw5OTANrx4

Human rights record of the United States in 2012 via China Daily

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-04/22/content_16430019.htm

Joy Camp, Joy Camp, Everybody Loves The Joy Camp, Its Not TV Or Conspiracy, Its Just Old Fashioned Comedy

http://youtu.be/yhGahvyDD6s

Salon: Poll: 29 Percent Say They Believe They'll Have To Act "In Order To Protect Our Liberties" In The Next Few Years

The poll also found that 25 percent of those surveyed “think that facts about the shootings at Sandy Hook elementary last year are being hidden.” 11 percent are unsure.

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/poll_3_in_10_voters_say_armed_revolution_might_be_necessary/

The Historical Evidence

by TunaGhost

Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?.. ..The reason is as follows: those in power do not like company, and they will cheat and steal and generally break all manner of laws, and they will lie to you and everyone else while they do it. In recent US history, conspiracies were made, laws were broken, and hundreds of thousands have suffered.

Some have been successful, in the sense that no one was ever punished for the crimes committed. I plan to examine why some conspiracies are successful and, in doing so, reveal a pattern of successful conspiracies that can be used in the future to analyze a given situation for signs of the same.

First, a little history: back in 1915, Haiti had a government that wasn’t keen to play ball with the US, which saw this as evidence that Haiti did not know what was good for Haiti. In a sense this was true (although a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy), in that Marines were then sent to Haiti and thousands were killed. After disbanding the parliament at gunpoint, a new constitution was drafted. Under US supervision, naturally, so that it would be “beneficial to Haiti”, which Haitians apparently were unable to do before the Marines came. What followed was decades of abject misery under despotic rulers that catered to US financial interests.

Can this be called a conspiracy? Certainly US leaders planned the entire thing with malice aforethought and lied through their teeth about their reasons for intervention, so it would seem to fit the bill. It is also continues a tradition started long ago in regard to successfully getting away with a conspiracy: choose victims that nobody gives a shit about (the darker/more foreign the better), victims that do not have a voice, victims that do not have any kind of leverage. It also shows quite plainly the design of such conspiracies: to maintain the status quo as imagined by the US.

- See more at: http://disinfo.com/2013/05/a-response-to-the-question-why-do-people-believe-in-conspiracy-theories/#sthash.OWxESiz0.dpuf

http://disinfo.com/2013/05/a-response-to-the-question-why-do-people-believe-in-conspiracy-theories/#sthash.OWxESiz0.dpbs

Lee Camp's Latest Moment Of Clarity

Lee Camp has been ranting politically-charged humor at us for 230 episodes.
He has become the vicarious release valve for all of our pent-up rage and bewilderment, and thus a fixture of the interweb's alternative news landscape.  He was recently appointed to the Green Shadow Cabinet as Commissioner of Comedic Arts.  He is currently rapping up a Kickstarter campaign to fund a second season of his 30-minute Moment of Clarity Show, which has featured guests such as Greg Palast and Roseanne Barr.  He has also been a guest on Abby Martin's Breaking the Set on RT, as well as Peter Joseph's new youtube series: Culture In Decline.  It may not be the most in-depth analysis available, but it sure is reassuring to know Lee is out there making fun of the things that make you want to curl up in the fetal position.

http://youtu.be/3NJO-TX4wVo

Pritzker Article Echoed By Ittabena On Disinfo.com

http://disinfo.com/2013/05/u-s-news-and-world-reports-spins-greg-palast-exlains-it-clearly/#sthash.qryHKP4Z.dpbs

Help WeAreChange cover Bilderberg 2013 London, England

In-Depth Report Detailing Corporate-Financier Interests Behind CISPA

WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

Image: A visual representation of the corporate-financier interests on the National Endowment for Democracy's board of directors.

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/nditech-in-bed-with-cispa-sponsors.html#more

Terrifying, But Brilliant Meta-Analysis By StormCloudsGathering

http://youtu.be/e4f2mgj4UT0

Boondock's take on the Obama election, hilarious with some great incites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBIRFS5EaDM

Viacom and other media conglomerates heavily invested in private prison industry:

MTV and BET, amongst other companies, are revealed to have large financial holdings in private prison companies. This leads to speculation about the glorification of crime and a degenerate lifestyle that is commonplace on these channels being a giant advertising campaign for criminality, and the prison industrial complex.

http://www.birthplacemag.com/2013/04/jailhouse-roc-the-facts-about-hip-hop-and-prison-for-profit/

Happy Loyalty Day America!... and a happy international worker solidarity day to the rest of the world.

Celebrations abound. Around the world countless strikes, marches, and protest, are taking place this May 1st, in what has become the rallying day worldwide for the Left. In America, however, Loyalty Day has supplanted May Day as a federally recognized holiday. In an attempt to forget the trials and tribulations that formed 'the land of the free', May Day, has been swept under the rug in america and relegated to the importance of other outdated holidays such as Flag Day.
         The history of May Day as International Workers Day, begins in 1886 with the Haymarket Massacre. The late 19th century was a tumultuous time, with Labor organizations around the country demanding higher wages and better working conditions through strikes, walkouts, and protests. During a demonstration for the 'eight our day', police in chicago where trying to disperse protesters when an unidentified assailant threw an explosive at them. The police responded by opening fire on the demonstration, and in the chaos, fellow policemen. The final result was 7 dead police and four dead protesters.
        In the aftermath of the incident, police disregarded suspect's fourth amendment rights, ransacking homes in search of bombs and anarchist literature without regard for search warrants. Local and national newspapers rallied with the police, naming the anarchist as responsible for the attack although no evidence existed, and supporting police crackdowns on far left groups. The police targeted the speakers at the Haymarket protests, and the anarchist newspaper Albeiter-Zeitung as the responsible parties, eventually sentencing eight men to death of which only one was even present at the event and was a speaker.
        More centrist labor unions quickly distanced themselves from the anarchist groups and many in the public began suspecting the immigrant communities where the anarchist and socialist movements had gained strength. Some, including renowned historian Howard Zinn, believe that evidence points to an anarchist named Rudolph Schnaubelt as the man who threw the bomb, and that he may actually have been an agent provocateur, hired to attack the police and create a crackdown on anarchist and far left political organizations.
        This piece of american history has largely been ignored by our media, and the holiday that started as a anniversary of this event in the US, has been suppressed to obscurity. In 1894 Labor Day was moved to september, and became an official holiday. This move was seen as a way to break solidarity with May Day demonstrations that took place worldwide May 1st each year.  In the early 1920's during the first red scare, those afraid of socialism taking power in the US began Loyalty Day on May first as a counterbalance to May Day.  In 1961, at the height of red scare hysteria, Dwight Eisenhower officially changed May Day, to Loyalty Day in attempt to undermine a holiday that celebrated class consciousness and worker solidarity, by creating a holiday glorifying the status quo. Today we celebrate neither holiday, and thanks to the persecution of the socialist and anarchist histories in america, we have no vibrant voices from either of these schools of thought to balance american discourse.
-Joe Baskin

Penny Pritzker's nomination for Secretary of Commerce: the .001% coup.

Penny Pritzker's nomination for Secretary of Commerce: the .001% coup.

Read this article, then the next one, then listen to this podcast about her if you want more info about Pritzker.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/02/obama-to-tap-fundraiser-pritzker-for-commerce-post/?test=latestnews

http://www.gregpalast.com/billionaire-burglar-breaks-into-obamas-cabinet-pinch-penny-pritzker-pockets-commerce-post/

Video from KPFA Flashpoints Radio:
http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20130429-Mon1700.mp3
The Pritzker stuff starts after 13:00 min.

-And Discuss.

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