Featured Blog Posts – April 2009 Archive (127)

Urgent: EU may block internet by 5th May

URGENT - VOTING IN EU PARLIAMENT 5th of MAY 2009

Don't let the EU parliament lock up the Internet! There will be no way back!

Act now!

Internet access is not conditional

Everyone who owns a website has an interest in defending the free use of Internet... so has everyone who uses Google or Skype... everyone who expresses their opinions freely, does research… Continue

Added by Rufus on April 23, 2009 at 9:30am — 7 Comments

Jane Harman: Angry, Partisan, Civil Liberties Extremist

Published on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 by Salon.com

by Glenn Greenwald

Blue Dog Rep. Jane Harman -- once the most vigorous Democratic cheerleader of Bush's NSA warrantless eavesdropping program -- is rip-roarin' angry today. Apparently, her private conversations were eavesdropped on by the U.S. Government! This is a grave outrage that, as she told Andrea Mitchell just moments ago, demands a… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 22, 2009 at 9:19pm — 1 Comment

Vilsack pledges better push on biotech crops

. Publication: Des Moines Register

If there was any question about how the Obama administration would get behind agricultural biotechnology, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is removing any doubt. In fact, he says he’s going to do a better job than the Bush administration.

Just back from the G8 summit in Italy, Vilsack pledged today to bring a “more… Continue

Added by C on April 22, 2009 at 12:25pm — 1 Comment

NIST Announces Three-Phase Plan for Smart Grid Standards

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a three-phase plan to expedite development of key standards for a Smart Grid, a nationwide network that uses information technology to deliver electricity efficiently, reliably and securely.

Smart Grid is a key component of the Obama Administration’s commitment to moving the nation toward energy independence, and funding to spur the development process was included in the recently passed American Recovery and… Continue

Added by C on April 22, 2009 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Top Officials to Dedicate New U.S. Intelligence Facility (IARPA) in Md.'s Largest Research Park

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D- Md.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) will be among the senior officials dedicating the new U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s (IARPA) building on Monday, April 27, at the University of Maryland’s M-Square – the state’s largest research park. http://www.iarpa.gov/index.html

The new… Continue

Added by C on April 22, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Israel claims anti-Zionism is racism!

Why did the European Nations walk out? Why did the Jewish State, as well as Israel, boycott the conference?

Can it be that Neo Cons and liberals can't face an inconvenient truth? i.e. that Israel was founded on lies, terrorism, murder, ethnic cleansing and has existed in like manner ever since!

Are we to believe that the only people who can never, ever be accused of racism - despite the Talmud and the facts we see in reports from Palestine - are the Jews? Just as the only… Continue

Added by Rufus on April 22, 2009 at 7:30am — 3 Comments

Obama Pushing Treaty To Ban Reloading, Even BB guns could be on the chopping block.

Obama Pushing Treaty To Ban Reloading

-- Even BB guns could be on the chopping block

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Remember CANDIDATE Barack Obama? The guy who “wasn’t going to take away our guns”?

Well, guess what?

Less than 100 days into his administration, he’s never met a gun he didn’t hate.

A week ago, Obama went to Mexico, whined about the United States, and bemoaned (before the whole world) the fact that he didn’t have the… Continue

Added by TheLasersShadow on April 22, 2009 at 12:35am — No Comments

FLASH: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules State and Local Governments Subject to Second Amendment

The Most Liberal Court in the land finally says something that makes sense (Sorta)

Excerpts of the 9th Circuit ruling follow:

To summarize, our task is to determine whether the right to keep and bear arms ranks as fundamental, meaning "necessary to an Anglo-American regime of ordered liberty." Duncan, 391 U.S. at 149 n.14 (emphasis added). If it does, then the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates it. This… Continue

Added by fireguy on April 22, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

For The Morons Who Think Torture Gets Information, More Proof it DOES NOT work!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_does_torture_work

Unresolved debate in DOJ memos: Does torture work?

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press Writer – Tue Apr 21, 5:50 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers… Continue

Added by bob on April 21, 2009 at 11:45pm — 3 Comments

State urges farmers to participate in first major organic farming survey

April 21, 2009

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) encourages all organic farmers in the state to participate in the first wide-scale survey of organic producers and producers transitioning from traditional to organic production methods.

The National Agricultural Statistics… Continue

Added by C on April 21, 2009 at 3:13pm — No Comments

Bombshell: Rep. Jane Harman Caught on Tape Agreeing to Lobby for Alleged AIPAC/Israel Spies?

Alternet

Posted by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports at 8:50 AM on April 20, 2009.

Harman was allegedly heard saying she'd 'waddle into' the AIPAC case in return for support for her bid to become chair of the Intelligence Committee.

This is a huge story:… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 20, 2009 at 10:12pm — 2 Comments

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http://essentialarms.com/LOWERSANDPARTS.HTML

Great deal I don't know how many are in stock.

Added by TheLasersShadow on April 20, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

I despise the federal government.

What happened to the people's voice? How many people out there still care about the future of this country?
What happened to the original 13th amendment that states: Attorneys cannot hold a position in the federal government?
Our us constitition has been taken away from us. If you believe we have rights or freedom in this country, educate yourself!

Added by Kevin on April 20, 2009 at 5:08pm — No Comments

HR 1207 Now in Committee! TIME TO ACT ! Rep. Ron Paul's Call to Audit the Federal Reserve

Subject: HR 1207 Now in Committee!

A message to all members .

In a major breakthrough for our movement, Ron Paul's bill to Audit the Fed has been referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.. That's a HUGE step forward.

NOW is the time to bring all of our efforts to bear on the situation. If we can get the bill out of Committee it will go to the House floor for a vote!

Let's step up our efforts to collect petition signatures to support HR… Continue

Added by truth on April 20, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

A Carbon Cap-N-Trade Alternative?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090419/sc_mcclatchy/3213792

Lawmakers forge alternative to cap-and-trade proposal

By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers Les Blumenthal, Mcclatchy Newspapers – Sun Apr 19, 6:00 am ET

WASHINGTON — A growing number of lawmakers who are deeply involved in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases and global warming are beginning to question "cap-and-trade," the current hot-button solution to the problem.

The chair of the… Continue

Added by bob on April 20, 2009 at 12:44am — No Comments

Torture Has Lasting Effects, Who Would Have Thought?

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-psychology20-2009apr20,0,139316.story

Mental damage from CIA tactics is disputed

Justice memos say no permanent harm was inflicted from interrogation techniques, but some doctors and psychologists disagree.

By Sarah Gantz and Ben Meyerson

April 20, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- The conclusion in recently released Justice Department memos that CIA interrogation techniques would not cause prolonged… Continue

Added by bob on April 20, 2009 at 12:32am — No Comments

"The Big Money"

Another song by Rush.

Big money

goes around the world

Big money underground

Big money got a mighty voice

Big money make no sound

Big money pull a million strings

Big money hold the prize

Big money weave a mighty web

Big money draw the flies

Sometimes pushing people around

Sometimes pulling out the rug

Sometimes pushing all the buttons

Sometimes pulling out the plug

Its the power and the glory

Its a war in… Continue

Added by fireguy on April 19, 2009 at 10:28pm — No Comments

WTRH-AM Radio News Blog - April 19, 2009 - GCC Radio

Killing prompts increased security at Va. Beach shopping center

VIRGINIA BEACH – A Virginia Beach shopping center is increasing security following a deadly shooting.

Isiah Jones, 18, was shot in the parking lot of Lynnhaven Crossing Shopping Center a week ago. security and police since the shooting and Virginia Beach police confirm the increase.

This means that there is going to be a Police State there, meaning random check points,

arrests, and even… Continue

Added by WTRH-AM-AE on April 19, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot - Better read this before it gets scrubbed

A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.

Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department’s Criminal Investigations… Continue

Added by Hanen on April 18, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Obtained: Federal Agency’s Memo Warning Of “Left Wing Extremists”

Hmm. Obama’s Department of Homeland Security is keeping an eye on the threat from “left wing extremists,” in addition to “right wing” ones, according to an internal DHS threat assessment I’ve just obtained.

In other words, the entire civil population are targets for "evaluation" by the borg.

More here: DHS memo warns of "left wing extremists"

Direct… Continue

Added by Jamie on April 18, 2009 at 11:04pm — 1 Comment