October 2010 Blog Posts (283)

HOMAGEOFREASON.COM (*Then prove it wrong or pass it on.)

Added by Timothy Hazelip on October 25, 2010 at 6:01pm — No Comments

Federal Agents Urged to 'Friend' People on Social Networks, Memo Reveals

REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Josh Mayeux, network defender, works at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20, 2010.

A privacy watchdog has uncovered a government memo that encourages federal agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share -- and to spy on them. In response to a Freedom of Information request, the government released a… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on October 25, 2010 at 2:20pm — 2 Comments

Alarming New Facility Security Measures

October 24, 2010

By JB

Dear Steve;

Thank you for your show I have become an avid listener and loyal fan. I am a Port Security Officer at a restricted access port facility that is regulated by the TSA and Coast Guard and have been there for several years.

Almost two years ago we came under the TSA's Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) system. Under this system all employees and visitors that require regular unescorted access to the… Continue

Added by Swtnlovabl on October 25, 2010 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Self Defense and Non-International Armed Conflict in Drone Warfare

Self Defense and Non-International Armed Conflict in Drone Warfare

Kenneth Anderson • October 22, 2010 6:31 am

http://volokh.com/2010/10/22/self-defense-and-non-international-armed-conflict-in-drone-warfare/

Over the past year, I’ve been spending much time on the questions of drone warfare and the legal issues raised — many talks, panel discussions,… Continue

Added by fireguy on October 25, 2010 at 11:38am — No Comments

Dead In The Water – The Sinking of the USS Liberty

http://12160.info/video/uss-liberty-dead-in-the-water

Added by XhackedbyNSA on October 25, 2010 at 12:30am — 6 Comments

The True Power of the People They Don't Want You to Know About.

Can you imagine a trial judge intentionally misinforming a jury as to its responsibilities and actions in a pending court case? Can you imagine a judge doing so, such that the jury would act to convict a defendant whom they might otherwise have acquitted?

You would probably feel no small amount of outrage toward that judge.

Well, guess what! Such misinformation is given to jurors as a matter of routine in every state in this… Continue

Added by Marklar on October 24, 2010 at 8:38pm — No Comments

Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now

By Ted Rall

October 21, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- SAN FRANCISCO--What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so.

In one case in Florida, an employee of GMAC Mortgage admitted under oath that he personally forged 10,000 foreclosure affidavits. This low-level schlub is the tip of the tip of a massive iceberg,… Continue

Added by Marklar on October 24, 2010 at 7:33pm — 1 Comment

Randy and Evi Quaid seek refugee status in Canada ( Lives Threatened )

RANDY QUAID WANTS TO ESCAPE TO CANADA

Sunday October 24,2010

By Daily Express Reporter

Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are seeking asylum in Canada, claiming to be fleeing “murderous rings” in Hollywood.

Golden Globe winner Quaid, 60, who has starred in 58 films, including Midnight Express and Brokeback Mountain, was handcuffed and arrested in Vancouver.

Quaid and his second wife Evi, 47, who have… Continue

Added by luggnutz on October 24, 2010 at 7:30pm — 17 Comments

In The Name Of The 2010 Selections:

'America':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI&feature=related

Added by XhackedbyNSA on October 24, 2010 at 7:06pm — No Comments

The Launch of CCTV Citizen Spy Game Internet Eyes, October-4-2010

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

- Judge Learned Hand, 'The Spirit of Liberty' speech (1944)

The announcement that Internet Eyes is to launch on 4th October (as part of a three month trial) marks another disturbing chapter in Britain's surveillance society.

The Information Commissioner has put private profit above personal privacy in allowing a private company to… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on October 24, 2010 at 5:56pm — No Comments

An alarm clock you won't find at Walmart - The Prague Orloj Astronomical Clock 600th Anniversary Show in Prague

The Prague Orloj astronomical clock was constructed in 1410. It features animated statues, a calendar and a zodiacal ring with moving Sun and Moon.

A famous legend about the clock concerns master clockmaker Hanus himself. It is said that the Old Town Councilors had his eyes burnt out with a hot poker, so that he would not be able to build another such instrument elsewhere, which could overshadow the beauty and the fame of the Prague Clock. Master Hanus then allegedly asked his… Continue

Added by Marklar on October 24, 2010 at 5:00pm — 8 Comments

America's Black Budget and the Manipulation of Mortgage Financial Markets

We can't say we hadn't been warned !!!!

Catherine Austin Fitts told us all about it back in 2004 ...

Financial Sense Newshour with Jim Puplava

Catherine Austin Fitts

Founder & President of Solari, Inc.

May 22nd, 2004

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Transcription

Real Player… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on October 24, 2010 at 3:14pm — 4 Comments

Want to Buy the Pennsylvania Turnpike?

By Matt Taibbi

In the summer of 2009 I got a call from an acquaintance who worked in the Middle East. He was a young American who worked for something called a sovereign wealth fund, a giant state-owned pile of money that swims around the world in search of things to buy.

Sovereign wealth funds, or SWFs, are huge in the Middle East. Most of the bigger oil-producing states have massive SWFs that act as cash repositories (with holdings often kept in dollars) for the revenues… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on October 24, 2010 at 2:49pm — 2 Comments

Government Graphs To Prime Your Vote

Every small-government voter should see these graphs — and vote on Election Day.

With just 12 days until the November 2

elections, pro-market, small-government candidates, activists, and concerned citizens should study and then disseminate three charts that perfectly encapsulate the status quo that, if all goes well, the midterm vote will capsize.

The first of these looks as intricate as an integrated circuit. Titled… Continue

Added by luggnutz on October 24, 2010 at 2:33pm — 1 Comment

193 Year Old Man Who Lives In My Woods: More Relevant Than Ever

Henry, who lives in a simple yet handsome shack, resides a short distance away from me. If I paddle over the Fairhaven Bay and walk through the woods, I can always find him by his "small lake", as he likes to call it. Henry is a gentle lover of nature, a historian, a philosophical man, a school teacher, Harvard graduate, author, poet; The king of all his castles.

My grandfather's father introduced him to Henry and his books when he was… Continue

Added by OldNorth on October 24, 2010 at 1:00am — 3 Comments

political economy

Welcome to regulatory capture, the age of the corporation.

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Call it the new world order, the council of 50, (The saucer invasion) or whatever... I don't really care.

I look around me and see the old age boom turning into the the security boom.. or insecurity boom, really.

Health care. Pensions. Immigrants. Terrorists. Unemployment. Flying saucers. Impotence. Pollution. Climate change.

The list of things designed to scare you into being a complaint… Continue

Added by pat donovan on October 23, 2010 at 10:17pm — No Comments

Bulldozer driver testifies in Israeli trial over Rachel Corrie's death

Wow, apparently this guy has not given much thought to the crushing murder of Rachel Corrie...just one of many he and his murderous cohorts have committed...cold blooded devils...so many Palistinian names that are never considered...sickening...our tax dollars paid for that bulldozer...and guns...and bombs...used against unarmed civilians every day in Palistine...

The testimony in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. activist's family marks his first public comments since the woman's… Continue

Added by paricia on October 23, 2010 at 2:59pm — No Comments

WTRH-AM - The Internet Is Getting Too Isolated and Secure and Requires Approval.

The internet back in the day in 1999 was easy to use and you could post anything you want. Nowadays ever since the cyber suckerity act has passed. People are getting too paranoid and delusional that people are just hiding theirselves offline these days. Getting files are getting hard these days, and there is always a moderator having to approve your comments or approve your pictures, videos, music submissions.

Also the internet is getting too damn secure.

Added by WTRH-AM-AE on October 23, 2010 at 12:39pm — No Comments

Sephardi leader Yosef: Non-Jews exist to serve Jews

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Sephardi leader Yosef: Non-Jews exist to serve Jews

October 18, 2010

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his weekly Saturday night sermon said… Continue

Added by Sweettina2 on October 23, 2010 at 4:57am — No Comments

And now for something really different - some news

The Justice Department Has Falsified a Judge’s Ruling in Order to Continue the Unlawful Detainment of a Possibly Mentally Ill Man at Guantanamo

No, not during the Bush administration. ProPublica reports:

When Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. ordered the release of a Guantánamo Bay detainee last spring, the case appeared to be a routine setback for an Obama administration that has lost a string of such… Continue

Added by Marklar on October 23, 2010 at 4:06am — No Comments