A Break

Things I Read Today will be taking a break for reflection.

Feel free to go through all the posts, there is a lot of interesting information here.

Things I Read Today 23-04-09

VIDEO: Taxpayers, Where Is Your Money Going?
Tax dollars are allocated to financing the war and the "bank bailout" - by Michel Chossudovsky


Obama proposes US loan $100 billion to International Monetary Fund - Blacklisted News
More power and funds for the IMF.

Big Brother Is Listening - by James Bamford
What list are you on?

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega lashes out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America - Blacklisted News
"It was 50 minutes long. That's what I thought" said The Weasel (Harper). - note the very poor reporting done by Fox News.

Rent-A-Cops: Cash-Strapped Cities Using Private Armed Guards Instead of Police - Blacklisted News
Nice to know that armed guards are 'cheaper' and 'lack adequate training and background checks' - What an eye opener.

West Is Told to Expect Water Shortfalls - Blacklisted News
Domestic water wars coming your way?

Robots are narrowing the gap with humans - Blacklisted News
The robots ARE coming.
See this for how it may affect you

Obama Campaign's Multi-Million Dollar Propaganda Firm Deployed in Iraq to Advise on "New Media" - Blacklisted News
Obama's 'Propaganda Road Trip'.

TPC: Shit Happens: - A Narrative by Frank Joseph Smecker
A tale of shit.

Strong sales boost for McDonald's - BBC News
Better 'value' from cooking yourself.

Why New York Is No Place to Try Somali Pirates - Time
The joke of a 'Pirate trial'.

What Are We Afraid Of? - Story
Programmed fears - A much better version here

Your credit is no good here - By David Weidner, MarketWatch
If they aren't lending, where is the money?

Obama announces plan to lease federal waters for clean energy - CNN News
The selling off of natural resources.

‘Morning After’ Pill Cleared for 17-Year-Olds - NY Times
It just gets better and better.

Things I read today 22-04-09

HB 2380 - A Special Bill For Special People - Checkpoint USA
So the 'peace officers' can't be filmed while beating you.

VIDEO: Man Sticks Up For His Constitutional Rights At An Internal Checkpoint In The U.S.

Know your rights and fight for them - listen to the customs officers - 'suspicion of hiding something', 'you're causing a safety violation' - then they are condescending to the driver - gotta love "mere suspicion" and "anything outside the norm is suspicious" - his is outside the norm because he won't allow a search. Then he is told that "there will be a penalty here". The agent says "I'm pretty sure you're a terrorist". Funny to see the agents on the phone asking someone what to do as they only know their intimidation role. The driver is asked if he got the idea to do this from checkpointusa.org and refused to answer. Then he goes into "just trying to make conversation" - that "through a proxy you are employing us and we just try to do the best job possible".
They tried intimidation, fear, threats, shame, and other coercion techniques; they tried to play nice and friendly, they tried to raise their voices - all to make the driver submit to the next check. In the end he is free to go. "That we have better things to do than to play this game with you" - ordered by superiors. Told that he was free to go but officers wouldn't move, finally he is free.
STAND UP FOR YOUR FREEDOMS!

This, could also happen
Baptist pastor beaten + tazed by Border patrol - 11 stitches

Don't let fear make you give up your rights.

Slumdog star Rubina Ali's father facing fresh allegations - Story
Ah money and what it can lead to.

Told you so, Harper says as Iran stirs UN uproar - Story
Canada = Arrogant - sounds more and more American - "Our government is leading the world, not following it," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.

Meltdown losses of '$4 trillion' - BBC News
Where is all the money going?

Report: Hackers break into Pentagon's fighter jet project - Story
Very suspect indeed - propaganda alert; we need a big enemy.
More here

‘Superweed’ explosion threatens Monsanto heartlands - Story
Revenge of nature; go back to conventional crops.

Bank bailout may hurt taxpayers, be open to fraud - Blacklisted News
The greatest swindle of the century.

Canada more lax than U.S. about whom it lets in, Napolitano says - CBC News
For those that don't believe 9/11 was an inside job - blame Canada. What a stupid story designed to make Canadians accept further roles and spending in military and 'security' through shame and guilt.

How Canadian-trained Jamaican commandos foiled hijacking - CBC News
Remember this as a good thing as you think of the 'training' in Afghanistan and such.

RCMP apologizes for inaccuracies in statements on Dziekanski's death - CBC News
The lies don't get punished if you are a cop.

Somalian piracy suspect to be tried as adult, judge rules - CBC News
Welcome to the US, here are the laws you have broken.

Teen to U.S. Supreme Court: I was stripped of dignity by school - Story
Strip searching teens in the name of the 'war on drugs'.

New $5.5bn lifeline for US car makers - Blacklisted News
The government sanctioned layoffs will continue.

Police investigating death of Freddie Mac chief financial officer - Blacklisted News
Will there be another pile of dead bankers?

Things I read today 21-04-09

Working With Fear - Dharma
If you can release the fears, you can do anything.

HR20-New Mother's Mandated Mental Health Test-JUST PASSED HOUSE! - Story
Are you mentally fit to take your newborn home?

Tons of released drugs taint US water - Story
Might explain the lethargy.

Ancient microbes discovered alive beneath Antarctic glacier - Blacklisted News
Cool.

Susan Boyle: America, what's your problem? - Story
Yet another badly written article that people will read. How many days has this lady been top news now? HOPE! Even for the ugly.

Montreal man offers $5,000 to find him work - CTV News
Will this be the new trend, pay for someone to find you work?

Alleged Maersk pirate arrives in New York - CNN News
So they take him half way around the world to 'try' him. Gotta love - "Pirate defendant".

Treasury Pressures Chrysler, Fiat in Meetings - Story
Not worth saving? Maybe just need to get rid of 'toxic debt' (pensions and health care) like GM

FBI Police Officers Accused of Using a Security Camera to Watch Girls Dressing Room - Blacklisted News
Must have been 'protecting and serving'.

Study: Video-game-playing kids showing addiction symptoms - Story
And a great big DUH; thank you Captain Obvious.

White House bars prosecution of Bush officials who authorized torture - By Patrick Martin
Protecting the 'rich' interests of the country.

We're the Government -- and You're Not

This is AWESOME!

Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate to 0.25% - CBC News
Any of this familiar to anyone? 'The recession is deeper than anticipated' - nice.

Banks Take Billions From TARP, but Give Fewer Loans - ABC News
Where is all that money going?

Things I read today 20-04-09

'Pakistan to split into warlord-run fiefdoms' - Blacklisted News
Wasn't that the plan in the first place?

Boeing: Raygun dreadnoughts will rule the oceans by 2019 - Blacklisted News
The only thing we seem to see for the 'future' is war and weapons.

Weapons found in Marine's baggage - Story
This is bizarre - "charged with possession of an infernal machine and possession of a concealed weapon in a secure area of an airport" - he wasn't carrying the weapon and what is 'infernal machine'?

Obama to gather Cabinet, seeking $100 million in cuts - CNN
Doing some common sense cutting but beware the jobs and services.

Planner of 9/11 attacks waterboarded 183 times-NYT - Reuters
And it "raises questions about effectiveness" - too funny.

New pirate attack thwarted in Gulf of Aden - CNN
Still filling the mind with Pirates and how effective NATO is. The word "NATO" appears 11 times on this page.

Jamaican Gunman Releases Airplane Passengers - Story
2 stories about airport events; do you think some new airport measures are coming soon? Maybe a 'crackdown' on small nation airports.

IMF approves loan for Mexico - Blacklisted News
I wonder about the SAPs and other conditions for this loan.

As many 'Lost Canadians' gain citizenship, others are left in limbo - CBC News
We should be afraid to leave the country for too long.

Jackie Chan: Freedom may be unnecessary, Chinese people need to be firmly ‘controlled’ - Blacklisted News
I think that it is about 'so much for democracy', we don't need it. See how it angers businessmen.

The anti-terror law used on litterbugs - BBC News
Litterbugs, snitches and spies; oh my!

Obama Supports an Inter-American Arms Treaty - Blacklisted News
Gun control for a North American Union?

88% of Canada's CEOs say pension funding crisis looms: poll - CBC News
Make sure to read this one
Anyone see where my pension went?

Unique noiseless grenade launcher designed to fight pirates - Blacklisted News
Weapons development to fight 'Pirates'.

Reality TV star Susan Boyle gets dream offer - CBC News
"Boyle is "a role model for everyone who has a dream." - keep dreaming and you could win the lottery too.

Things I read today 19-04-09

Harper, Obama pledge to boost credit in Americas - CBC News
Pledge to get others into debt? What is this that we are believing?
Yep, brainwashing here:

However, he said Canada has not "turned a blind eye to the fact that Cuba is a communist dictatorship," adding that his government wants to see progress made on freedom, democracy and human rights, as well as economic matters.

Cocaine Highways: Post-NAFTA, Most Drugs Cross U.S. Borders in Trucks - Blacklisted News
One way for continuation of 'the war on drugs'; like job creation.

Obama Appointee Suggests Radical Bail Out Newspaper Plan For Creating Licenses To Govern News Operations - Blacklisted News
"[I] can't imagine anything more dangerous than a society in which the news industry has more or less collapsed," - is there a difference between collapsed and corporate owned?

Dutch Marines Free Yemeni Crew as Pirates Seize Belgian Tanker - Bloomberg
Arrrgghh matey, are we ready to attack yet?