HOW ABOUT SOME "NONFILTERED" MEDIA...
DESTINY IS A GOVERNED AS A MATTER OF CHOICE, NOT CHANCE. BE THAT CHOICE, IT WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/09/thinkers-guide-to-conspiracy-theories.html
by Sam Smith
- A conspiracy does not have to be illegal; it can merely be wrongful or harmful.
- The term 'conspiracy theory' was invented by elite media and politicians to denigrate questions or critical presumptions about events about which important facts remain unrevealed.
- The intelligent response to such events is to remain agnostic, skeptical, and curious. Theories may be suggested - just as they are every day about less complex and more open matters on news broadcasts and op ed pages - but such theories should not stray too far from available evidence. Conversely, as long as serious anomalies remain, dismissing questions and doubts as a "conspiracy theory" is a highly unintelligent response. It is also ironic as those ridiculing the questions and doubts typically consider themselves intellectually superior to the doubters. But they aren't because they stopped thinking the moment someone in power told them a superficially plausible answer. Further, to ridicule those still with doubts about such matters is intellectually dishonest.
- There is the further irony that many who ridicule doubts about the official version of events were typically trained at elite colleges where, in political science and history, theories often take precedent over facts and in which substantive decisions affecting politics and history are presumed to be the work of a small number of wise men (sic). They are trained, in effect, to trust in (1) theories and (2) benign confederacies. Most major media political coverage is based on the great man theory of history. This pattern can be found in everything from Skull & Bones to the Washington Post editorial board to the Council on Foreign Relations. You might even call them conspiracy theorists.
- Other fields - such as social history or anthropology - posit that change for better or evil can come as cultural change or choices and not just as the decisions of "great men." This is why one of the biggest stories in modern American history was never well covered: the declining birth rate. No great men decided it should happen.
- Homicide detectives and investigative reporters, among others, are inductive thinkers who start with evidence rather than with theories and aren't happy when the evidence is weak, conflicting or lacking. They keep working the case until a solid answer appears. This is alien to the well-educated newspaper editor who has been trained to trust official answers and conventional theories.
- The unresolved major event is largely a modern phenomenon that coincides with the collapse of America's constitutional government and the decline of its culture. Beginning with the Kennedy assassination, the number of inadequately explained major events has been mounting steadily and with them a steady decline in the trust between he people and their government. The refusal of American elites to take these doubts seriously has been a major disservice to the republic.
- You don't need a conspiracy to lie, do something illegal or to be stupid.
SOURCE: Progressive Review
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DESTINY IS A GOVERNED AS A MATTER OF CHOICE, NOT CHANCE. BE THAT CHOICE, IT WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.
California Poised to Enact RFID Law
Marc Songini and Marc L. Songini / The Computerworld | September 23 2006
California could soon become one of the first states to create comprehensive safeguards for personal information collected through the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging in government-issued documents and identification cards.
The state legislature last month passed legislation, called the Identity Information Protection Act of 2006, to protect residents from RFID abuses. The law is expected to be signed or vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by the end of the month.
State Sen. Joe Simitian, who sponsored the bill, said that governments must tread carefully in forcing such technologies onto the public.
“The question we have to ask and answer is, Do we really want state and local governments to issue documents that can broadcast our personal information without our knowledge or consent?” Simitian said.
He noted that the measure would prevent both government and criminal abuse of information stored on RFID tags.
California is one of a number of states attempting to establish protections around RFID usage — which many critics say has a huge potential for invading the privacy of citizens.
In June, Wisconsin enacted legislation that forbids placing an RFID chip on a person’s body without his consent.
Wisconsin state Rep. Marlin Scheider, who sponsored the bill, said he hopes the California bill becomes law to help it gain control of the technology before it becomes so pervasive that it is “impossible to control.”
The proposed California law requires that state and local governments protect data stored on RFID chips through measures such as encryption. The law forbids what is known as skimming — the reading of an RFID chip’s content without the holder’s knowledge.
Simitian filed an initial version of the bill in early 2005, and the effort followed what he called “a long torturous path” before its approval by the legislature.
Schwarzenegger is expected to make a decision on the bill on or around Sept. 30, according to a spokeswoman for the governor. As of late last week, he had no position on the legislation, the spokeswoman said.
Some Opposition
The proposed law is backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, which views the California legislation as a template for the rest of the country to use.
“There are some obvious privacy risks with the application of RFID technology, especially identity theft — one of the fastest growing crimes in the nation,” said Ramona Ripston, executive director of the ACLU of Southern California, in a statement.
Some industry groups are critical of the proposed law.
In a letter to Schwarzenegger, Richard Chace, executive director of the Alexandria, Va.-based Security Industry Association, which represents manufacturers, distributors and other companies in the computer security, biometrics and access-control industries, predicted that if signed, the law will lead to excessive litigation against government agencies.
It also could compromise security operations, since it mandates the public disclosure of the sites of all RFID readers, an association spokesman said.
The organization anticipates having to confront RFID legislation in other states as well. According to Chace, the group’s aim is to educate legislators rather than “gratuitously bash them on this issue.”
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DESTINY IS A GOVERNED AS A MATTER OF CHOICE, NOT CHANCE. BE THAT CHOICE, IT WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.
The microchipped population.
THE LAST OF OUR PERSONAL FREEDOM
IS BEING TAKEN AWAY... and we're letting it happen!
My concern here is the introduction of the biometric identity cards the are being pushed on us, and the willingness of the population to accept it . Am I the only one that is EXTREMELY nervous about where this is going?
There is the bullshit line of “if you are not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about” that is spouted by the same morons that also make comments like “you gotta die of something” or “if we weren't meant to eat animals they wouldn't be made of meat”.
I like my personal freedom and privacy. I don't tell strangers where I live, why should people we don't know (and we DONT know who the people in charge of our personal info are, do we?) have access to all my personal information, including my name , address, spouse, children and medical background simply by walking through a door way.
Have you ever asked a Tele-marketer what their home phone number is so you can call them at a more convenient time for you (like 2am) and had the short argument as to why they have access to yours? Try asking Mr Johny Howard about his personal details, I'm sure he'll freely give you his complete medical history.
NOT!
Your details are already on a massive data base (the Census we just had for starters) and are for sale to marketing companies, world wide. YOU can't access this data base to view your own details, its too private. Yet faceless conglomerates have access to it, via cash, the manipulators want the chip to contain picture of the person’s face, an international Social Security number, fingerprint identification, physical description, family and medical history, address, occupation, income tax information, and criminal record. A selling point of this, no doubt, would be the end of passports.
The plan now is to divide and destabilize societies with terrorism and economic upheaval to dupe their collective minds allowing what is left of basic freedoms to be destroyed.
So what can we do about it?
JUST DONT ACCEPT IT!!!
If we reject it, they cant force it on us.
A few years ago, when that rubbish terrorism magazine was posted out to the population, I was so impressed that the majority of us wrote “return to sender” upon it. Now it seems we've finally been scared into giving up our personal liberties under the delusion that microchipping those on either Social Security or Medicare ( which, lets face it, is pretty much all of us) will prevent a “Terrorist Attack on Australian soils” (as the slogan goes).
Apparently Australian and U.S. “intelligence” know exactly who the “terrorists” are, or were, that are doing the damage. So how is microchipping all of us going to prevent ANYTHING?!
I was speaking to a woman just the other day about my concerns. She said I was just being “Paranoid”. She gave me the programmed response of “ if you're not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about” and “it is a necessity in todays society”. These comment are so predictable and cliché they make me want to tear out my hair! When that needle is inserting the chip under her skin in a few years time, I'll still be “paranoid”.
If you wish to be chipped it is already on offer. Its about the size of a grain of rice. Go and sign up for it now at:
www.4verichip.com
As the saying goes, “if you're not paranoid, you're not paying attention”.
www.wethepeoplewill notbechipped. com
www.saynotoverichip .com
www.noverichipinsid e.com
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JUST A TASTE:
I`m posting this just because not everyone has seen it.
Media, bah humbug! Comment at will, no quarter asked nor
offered. Remember, this was in 1953!!
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An Independent Press? It No Longer Exists
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Back in 1953, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff for the
New York Times, was asked to give a toast to the independent press before the New York Press Club. What follows is a portion from his toast:
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in
America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest
opinion out of the paper. Others of you are paid similar salaries for
similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of the paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. Or quite possibly, I'd be dead."
"The business of journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell
his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it. What folly is this, toasting to an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks; they pull the strings
and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are
all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes, whores.
Nothing more."
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There is so much more where this came from... feel free to email me at the supplied addy, I welcome all inquiries. I have been a faithful "investigator" of the why... the results are all too evident!
"Man`s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes-