Fukushima Leaking Radioactive Water For ‘2 Years, 300 Tons Flowing Into Pacific Daily’

Fukushima Leaking Radioactive Water For ‘2 Years, 300 Tons Flowing Into Pacific Daily’

FBI plants Kiddie porn to bust Tor host

That's what my headline is going to be, and though they will never admit to it, the FBI often does this type of thing to take down perfectly innocent people. Freedom Hosting, an anonymous web host that uses the Tor network, was busted for ""Kiddie porn" by the FBI. Kiddie porn is an invention of the Police State and the elite, who seem to be the only ones viewing it. Any time it creeps into a service the elite don't like for the purpose of busting that service, you can bet it is being pushed by them. If you don't believe the FBI would plant kiddie porn on a server, what about the time in 1993, when they themselves attempted to destroy the World Trade Center with a couple of their patsies? How does that ring through to 9/11? Since the FBI was perfectly busted trying to blow up the World Trade center ONCE, why would they not be involved the second time as well? World Trade Center trumps kiddie porn any day, if the FBI will go as far as to murder thousands by trying to wipe out lower Manhattan, what are a few files transfered to a hard drive in comparison? The bottom line is that we live in a criminal police state so rotten that the odor has long ago vanished and now having a criminal agency (the FBI) be supported by a criminal agency (the NSA) is such an established state of rotted normalcy that no one smells how bad the rot really is, even while looking right at it.
There is no doubt the FBI plants many things, which is why I keep an eye on the forum and immediately call anyone who posts something that could actually cause trouble a government agent or paid shill and delete their posts, as will one of the many mods. If anything TOR got busted for "kiddie porn", you can bet it's the FED doing it, and this happening so shortly after the NSA got it's underwear pulled down in full pornographic style only indicates further that the police state is looking for any way it can to patch it's wounds while invading or privacy even more. Ruining Tor would allow them exactly that - I did not use Tor only because the web server wanted a stable IP with each session, which Tor would scramble and cause me to get bumped off the server.
So now that we all know they want to target TOR, and will go as far as false incrimination to do it, that's a green light to use TOR because if it was not causing them a problem, they would not have pulled this kiddie porn scam on a prominent Tor provider. Tor cannot be taken out that easily, one provider out of millions won't do anything to the greater community at all.
Here are some really good links with regard to the FBI doing frame ups and creating patsies. Copy and paste them into your browser:
https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/egyptian-president-to-expose-fbi-in-1993-wtc-bombing/
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SCH404A.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x92060
"Salem asked the FBI for harmless dummy explosives which he would use to assemble the bomb and then pass on to the group" http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/121206falseflag.htm
https://sites.google.com/site/trutherswitzerland/false-flag-evidence/oklahoma-city-bombing-1995
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Review:_A_Noble_Lie:_Oklahoma_City_1995_--_Bombing_was_a_False_Flag_Event
Here's a good one: http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/17/289364/fbi-and-false-flag-war-against-america/             http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/index.html

Hastings "pizza shop" video no more a "surveillance" video than the moon is made of cheese

Jim Stone, August 5 2013

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IF That "surveillance" footage really is the original, then whoever shot it is complicit in the murder of Hastings. If that really is the original raw feed, someone had to be standing there with a camera in the wee hours of the morning, hand holding a camera and filming the street waiting for Hastings to go by after being hijacked to document the hit. Documentation of murder hits is very common, and if this video really is what it appears to be be - a hand held live capture of the event, what we have here is the equivalent of delivering a scalp to prove an Indian chief is dead. How have people missed this? Watch the pizza shop surveillance videos of the Hastings crash AGAIN and watch closely - that camera was hand held. I held off on saying this simply because I thought it might have been a re-post of someone shooting a video of a video on their computer screen with a hand held camera. But since ALL videos show the same optically stabilized camera movement without exception, including Live Leak and the MSM, the answer to all of this is obvious - whatever we are being shown is definitely NOT surveillance camera footage.
If anyone has clarification on this topic I sure would like an explanation as to why the video is obviously taken hand held.
There is one additional possibility - that this was indeed a video of the video because the pizza shop operator did not know how to crop out a section of video so he used a hand held camera to do it. If that be the case it's a very poor way to release "evidence". However, since no one is making that claim and there are none of the typical screen reflections in the video and this is being released as the original cut, it does not favor the pizza shop at all.

Jewish Porn Star James Deen–”The Jews know we’re better than everyone else. That’s all that matters. It’s true. We’re the Chosen People. It’s a fact.”

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/the-jewish-porn-star-next-door/

James Deen, an award winning porn star, gets frank about losing his virginity at Jewish summer camp, aspiring to be a porn star since third grade, his ‘quasi-monogamous’ relationships, and which Jewish figure he’d like to play in a porno.

ed note–and again, at the risk of beating a dead horse, it is Islam that we in the civilized world are supposed to be afraid of???

Also note the following found in the article–

–He wanted to perform porn while only a mere 3rd GRADER

–His family had no problems with him being a porn star. No concern with the corrosive effect it has on society, but merely that he ‘diversify’ so that he has a good financial portfolio.

–He dreams of doing a porno scene playing the role of the biblical figure Jacob. What Christian goes into porn wanting to play the role of Jesus or a Muslim the role of Mohammed?

But clearly, the best part of the article was this–

“The Jews know we’re better than everyone else. That’s all that matters. It’s true. We’re the Chosen People. It’s a fact.”

Haaretz

James Deen’s role opposite Lindsay Lohan in the upcoming Bret Easton Ellis film “The Canyons” is the actor’s first mainstream film appearance. But it’s hardly his first time on screen: Deen, 27, has performed in thousands of pornographic movies since he was 18 years old. At 5’ 8” and relatively slight of frame, the Pasadena, Calif.-native stands out among the brawnier, alpha males of porn. As a result of this softer image, he has developed a legion of female teenage fans that call themselves “Deenagers.”

He’s developed a reputation as “Porn’s Boy-Next-Door” and as the “Nice Jewish Guy of Porn.” Yet Deen is more than a pretty face (and other parts). At age 22 he was the youngest person to win the Adult Video News “Male Performer of the Year” award (the porn industry’s version of the Oscars). He has a reputation for being one of the hardest-working actors in the porn industry, rarely taking a day off from shooting, producing or editing films. Deen also deeply identifies as Jewish and has a tallit from his bar mitzvah hanging in his bedroom.

He spoke with the Forward’s Emily Shire about getting suspended from Jewish day school, having sex for the first time — at a Zionist sleep-away camp — and which Jewish figure he’d like to play in a porno.

Emily Shire: How much was Judaism a part of your upbringing?

James Deen: Judaism was a pretty strong part of my upbringing. What I embraced most was the encouragement to ask questions and always search for truths. My rabbis always loved me, because they would be, “God says do this,” and my response would be, “Well, why is that?” They always encouraged that questioning of the Torah and all the rules set forth. I never really bought into the faith-God type of situation, but what I did enjoy was the Zionist movement, the culture behind it, the community.

You once got in trouble in elementary school for saying that you wanted to be a porn star.

In third grade [at Weizmann Day School], we were talking about what we wanted to do when we grew up, so we could do these personal book report projects. My response was that I wanted to do porn. It was just, “Ha, ha, what do you really want to do?” and I said, “No, I really want to do porn.” I ended up getting suspended because they thought I was disrupting the class.

The first time you had sex was at a Jewish sleep-away camp when you were 12. Did you feel there was a strongly sexual culture there?

No more than anywhere else. I’m a pretty sexual person. In addition, all sleep-away camps are like that; it’s a bunch of kids, and the oldest person supervising them is 20 or 19 years old. He’s going to say: “Just don’t bother me. I’m trying to have sex, too.” You throw a bunch of kids in the woods unsupervised, and they’re going to start humping each other. It’s almost like the go-to, easy way to teach your kids about sex.

You come from a very educated family. How did your parents feel about your decision to go into porn?

No one had any issues other than making sure I was healthy and safe and that if I was going to do this, I had some sort of career plan. Rather than porn, I think their concern was that I was engaging in an entertainment career. They taught me you need to diversify and invest — you can’t just pull an MC Hammer. They said, “Look, we love you no matter what, and that’s not going to ever change” My parents are very good parents, and they are proud of their son for doing something that he loves and being successful at it.

Do you see yourself eventually marrying and have a big, loud Jewish family?

I am open to the thought that one day I will change my mind and have kids, but currently, I don’t want to. I would rather date someone for 10, 20 or 30 years, and then when we’re old and gray get married. I want to get married once and only once.

Does working in porn affect pursuing a monogamous relationship?

No, I’ve had monogamous relationships before. I call it “quasi-monogamous” because when you’re having sex with other people for work on a daily basis, it’s hard to call it monogamous. But, there is a huge difference when you’re at work having sex with somebody or when you’re at home. Just because the physical feeling of it is just as enjoyable doesn’t mean that the emotional response is the same.

Jews have a complicated relationship with sex. We’re often thought of as much more liberal toward sexual expression, but we’ve also got the overly neurotic, guilt-ridden hang-ups going on a la Alexander Portnoy.

I think Jews are more open about it. I think the neuroticisms, self-deprecation, the guilt, are 100 percent true. But, for example, even though Orthodox Judaism is very specific about sex — you only have sex with your wife, you can’t have sex with a shiksa, etc. — there are also all these weird gray areas. I’ve never felt oppressed sexually, ever, in Jewish culture.

Do you happen to have any Jewish role models or figures in the industry?

I don’t go into a place and think, “I’m Jewish. Who else is Jewish? I need to work with them.” Respect goes universally across all races, creeds, colors, religions, everything. The Jews know we’re better than everyone else. That’s all that matters.

That’s going to be the blow-up quote in the article.

(Laughs) It’s true. We’re the Chosen People. (Laughs) It’s a fact.

Have Judaism and porn ever intersected in your work?

I identify with Judaism as a culture, and the culture encouraged me to learn, ask questions and strive for knowledge. I know how to shoot and light and edit, because I’m always trying to strive for knowledge at work. I don’t think I would have this type of mentality if I didn’t have my Jewish upbringing.

Is there any Jewish figure you’d ever like to depict in a porno?

Maybe Jacob. Didn’t Jacob have four wives or something? I feel for a good porno, you should have a lot of sex in it, and that would be a dude having sex with at least four different girls, so that’s pretty solid, right?

HAARP ionospheric research program set to continue

truther August 7, 2013
Brian Dodsongizmag

Reports that the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) had been shut down permanently were apparently a bit premature. According to HAARP program manager James Keeney, the facility is only temporarily off the air while operating contractors are changed. So why does anyone care? Despite being associated with various natural disasters over the past two decades by the conspiracy fringe, HAARP is in reality a facility for studying the ionosphere. Let’s take a look at the goings on at HAARP – past, present, and future.

HAARP was established in 1993 by the US Air Force, the US Navy, DARPA, and the University of Alaska. Located outside of Gakona, Alaska, the facility houses a high frequency (HF) transmitter together with a phased-array antenna to focus and direct the radiated RF power. The transmitter is roughly as powerful as the largest military radars, generating up to 3.6 MW of RF power in the 2.8 to 10 MHz band. HAARP is restricted to operations only at specified frequencies in this band.

Power isn’t everything

The power isn’t what makes HAARP different. Rather, the credit for that goes to HAARP’s phased array antenna. Consisting of 180 individual dipole antennas placed in a field roughly 13 hectares (33 acres) in size, this antenna array acts as a highly directional antenna, with a beamwidth of about five degrees. By the time the RF energy reaches the ionosphere (say, at an altitude of 200 km /124 mi just for this example), the size of the radiated spot is about 18 km (11 mi) in diameter, and the power density is roughly 14 mW/sq m. As the ionosphere is opaque in HAARP’s frequency band, it absorbs nearly all of the incident power.

A tricky point, the misunderstanding of which has led to various HAARP conspiracy theories, is the difference between radiated power and effective radiated power. HAARP’s radiated power, the amount of actual RF power it can emit, is 3.6 MW. However, because HAARP’s antenna focuses the radiated power on a small portion of the ionosphere, the power density on that spot is much larger than would result if HAARP’s antenna were non-directional so that its RF power were directed uniformly in all directions.

A fictional “effective radiated power” can be calculated, which is the power that would have to be sent through a non-directional antenna to provide HAARP’s power density to the entire sky. This value is about 5.8 GW. The value is much larger than HAARP’s actual RF power, as only 0.06 percent of the sky is illuminated by HAARP’s antenna. But the effective radiated power appears in many conspiracy theories simply as a scary large number.

How big is the actual power density in HAARP’s ionospheric spot? The total irradiance of the Sun’s electromagnetic radiation (everything from x-rays to extremely low frequency (ELF) radio signals) is 1,360 W/sq m, measured by satellite outside the bulk of the Earth’s atmosphere. HAARP’s power density is about 0.001 percent of the Sun’s irradiance – a nearly negligible quantity. Further, while local heating of the ionosphere is caused by HAARP (indeed, that is HAARP’s purpose), the overall effect is rather like focusing the Sun’s light using a magnifying glass – impressive if one is an ant, but not very significant on larger size scales.

HAARP is designed to test the response of a patch of the ionosphere at varying altitudes to the application of a few mW/sq m excitation in the high frequency (HF) radio band. One known effect is the generation of extremely low frequency (ELF) radio waves through modulated heating. By turning the HAARP array off and on (or more simply, by wiggling the focal point around in a repetitive pattern, a procedure known as geometric modulation), the local ionospheric temperature rises and falls, changing the conductivity in that portion of the ionosphere at whatever frequency corresponds to the pattern. The frequencies are typically in the vicinity of a few to a few hundred Hertz.

HAARP is located where large natural electrical currents flow through the atmosphere. This auroral electrojet flows from the position of the Sun at noon to the position of the Sun at midnight in the north and south polar regions of the ionosphere. The flowing currents circle the poles, rather than passing over them, and may be thought of as sheets of current with a typical current density of 1-2 amperes per meter.

Given HAARP’s spot size of about 18 km, the heated region has passing through it a current of about 30 kA, depending on geomagnetic conditions. When the ionospheric conductivity changes from HAARP’s transmissions, the current in and around the spot also changes its distribution. That makes the region near the spot an antenna that radiates ELF radio waves from the ionosphere. HAARP is not, however, an efficient source of ELF radiation – starting with 3.6 MW, the yield of ELF radio waves is less then 10 W.

What can you do with 10 W of ELF radio waves? Well, a typical ELF submarine communication system uses several megawatts of ELF RF power with a frequency of 70-90 Hz. This is directed into the surface of the Earth at points separated by about 50 km (31 mi) in order to use a large area of the Earth’s crust as a transmitting antenna. Despite the huge power and massive antennas, the actual transmitted power of such a system is only a few watts. So one reason for HAARP’s development was to prototype a (relatively) small ELF transmitter.

Magnetospheric wave injection

Another phenomenon studied by HAARP is called magnetospheric wave injection. While most of the ELF waves generated in the ionosphere by HAARP are directed down toward the Earth’s surface, a small fraction leaks into the surrounding magnetosphere. In the inner magnetosphere, wave interactions are dominated by the Earth’s static magnetic field.

Most study has been directed to a whistler-mode instability. Imagine you have a PA system with the volume turned up just short of the point when spontaneous feedback will occur. If you whisper into the microphone, you will hear your amplified whisper. However, immediately on speaking loudly into the microphone, your voice will be drowned out by feedback at the characteristic frequency of the PA system. The potential power output of the PA was always available, but requires a small push to tilt the system into runaway feedback. This behavior is rather like that of a whistler-mode instability.

Non-linear magnetospheric amplification of such waves can be caused by resonant interactions with energetic electrons. This being a non-linear interaction, one of the signatures is a change of the frequency of oscillation. The one-hop (Alaska to the South Pacific) and two-hop waves (back to Alaska) detected at the surface both show non-linear smearing of the wave frequency as well as amplification from the whistler-mode instability. It appears that the magnitude of the amplification has not been firmly established, but it is not enormous.

Ionospheric and magnetospheric structures and effects are the subject of ongoing study at HAARP, with a number of experiments being scheduled for later this year. Hints of interesting behavior have emerged, such as the possibility of generating ELF radio waves at times when the auroral electrojet has very little current, suggesting that interesting physics is yet to be discovered and understood.

Mind control and earthquakes

Getting back to the conspiracy theories for a moment, these come in a plethora of bizarre and unfounded varieties. To name just a few, HAARP is accused of triggering earthquakes by lifting the ionosphere over a tectonically active region, then letting it fall so that the pressure wave will trigger the earthquake. There are two problems with this. First, HAARP is pretty well limited to heating the ionosphere directly over its physical location. Second, a falling object can at best deliver the energy that went into lifting it. As we know that energy was delivered via a 3.6 MW RF beam, it seems incredibly unlikely that an earthquake could be triggered by turning off HAARP.

Mind control is also supposed to be within HAARP’s capabilities. This would be accomplished by altering the 7.8 Hz Schumann resonance, which is the Earth’s lowest frequency electromagnetic resonance. After stating as fact a totally evidence-free relationship between life itself and the Schumann resonance, one conspiracy theorist says that “1,700 billion watts” will apparently drive HAARP’s mind-altering effect. That is a rather remarkable claim, as HAARP’s maximum power is about one-five-hundred-thousandth of that amount. And don’t forget the claim that HAARP caused Hurricane Sandy, triggered massive tornado activity, and brought down the Twin Towers on 9/11. Personally, I don’t intend to lose much sleep over the dark side of HAARP.

According to HAARP program manager James Keeney, the “Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is expected on site as a client to finish up some research in fall 2013 and winter 2014.” The temporary shutdown was described as being due to “a contractor regime change.” The Alaska Native corporation Ahtna, Incorporated is reportedly in talks to take over the facility administration contract from Marsh Creek, LLC. I am sure that the new operators will continue to keep us in touch with what really happens at HAARP.

Sources: American Radio Relay League, The Alaska Dispatch, and Magnetospheric Wave Injection by Modulated HF Heating of the Auroral Electrojet (PDF)

Look Who Funded and Developed Common Core

truther August 7, 2013

Dave Hodges

After reading this article, the reader will become aware that Common Core is a simply a regurgitation of Bloom’s Taxonomy combined with some very clever propaganda interwoven into the fabric of every course which embraces social justice, collectivism the eventual deindustrialization of America through the acceptance of climate change theories and the resulting carbon taxes and cap and trade policies which will follow.

No teacher and no school board member was asked to contribute to the Common Core standards. Nor was any State Legislature involved in the creation of this monstrosity.

Under this plan, every teacher will teach the same material with much of the same teaching strategies as every other teacher. This is the 21st Century educational version of the Stepford Wives. The Tenth Amendment is dead and individual freedom is being stamped out.

Common Core Plagiarizes Bloom’s Taxonomy

Common core espouses the laudable goal of making children think critically. In every piece I have read where the establishment defends Common Core, the company line states that it is important to move children away from memorization learning to analyzing and creating. I wholeheartedly agree with this goal. However, we do not have to spend billions of dollars to achieve this end.

In 1948, psychologist Benjamin Bloom and associates, developed the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Under the taxonomy, learning progressed from memorization to analyzing and creating. If that sounds familiar, Common Core has copied Blooms taxonomy almost verbatim. Sure they changed nouns to verbs and verbs to nouns, but the progression of learning is almost identical. And this is what is being touted as the great revolution in teaching and learning. After comparing Blooms Taxonomy to Common Core, can there be any doubt that of the lack of authenticity of Common Core?

Compare Bloom’s Taxonomy *pictured on the left) to Common Core (pictured on the right).

Why would the creators of Common Core go backwards and regurgitate Bloom’s Taxonomy? First, the taxonomy is respected and gave America some of her best days in public education. Bloom’s taxonomy was successful because of the fact that the government did not get to control the content or the application. Secondly, if a respected learning progression will be universally accepted, then the substance behind the theoretical approach can be slipped in and the propagandizing of the young can begin. Yes, I am talking about a system of education where propaganda is a thinly disguised goal. Nobody is going to challenge the notion that we should get children to think more critically. And what if the creators of Common Core can mandate specific topical material to be taught within the Common Core, an entire generation of young learners can be molded to the desired point of view. Before you tell me to remove my tin foil hat, please examine the evidence listed below and then honestly tell me that there is not a cause for concern.

First, let’s take a look at the history of failed federal educational programs.

One Failed Federal Education Program After Another

To understand where we are going, we have to first understand where we have been. Teachers have endured such educational faux pas from Goals 2000, to School to Work, to No Child Left Behind and now we are witnessing the latest in fad in American education, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Each one of the aforementioned programs threw billions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet, while contributing to the dramatic decrease in student performance.  For example, SAT Reading scores, for the high school class of 2012, reached a 40+ year low since the implementation of No Child Left Behind. (NCLB).

The successor of NCLB, Common Core, is based upon social justice, arriving at knowledge and subsequent decision making through a spirit of collectivism and developing a communal agreement about the need to teach and to integrate into each classroom an underlying theme of sustainable development. These goals are not just going to be taught in specific Environmental Science courses, but these philosophies are to be implemented and taught in EACH and EVERY course that a child takes during their educational experiences beginning with pre-K and stretching to post graduate secondary education.

Bill Gates the driving force behind Common Core

Globalist and Eugenics proponent, Bill Gates, is one of the Founding Fathers of the Common Core movement and its copyright holders, NGA/CCSSO. Gates donated about $25 million dollars to promote his version of global education.  Gates has made several donations to CCSSO to promote Common Core. In 2009, Gates made two separate donations of $9,961,842 and $3,185,750. In 2010, Gates donated $743,331 and in 2011, he contributed $9,388,911. In 2008, Gates donated $2,259,780 to the National Governor’s Association (NGA) to develop and implement Common Core. The NGA is the conduit into America from the United Nations UNESCO, Education for All Agenda 21 version of globalist education being forced down the throats of our young people.

Gates is listed as partner with UNESCO/UN to fund ”Education For All,” which in turn was transferred to the National Governors Association which changed the name to Common Core. In a key document, The Dakar Framework for Action: Education For All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments’ which identifies the goals for what became Common Core. The document speaks directly to the Agenda 21 educational ideals of collectivism, social justice, environmental justice and the espousing of the beliefs of the pseudoscience known as sustainable development.

Common Core Serves the Edicts of Agenda 21

Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 Public Awareness and Training focuses on impressing upon every citizen on the planet, the indispensable need for achieving sustainable development. In plain language, Common Core is going into every country. The implementation names of this global education may vary, but the underlying Agenda 21 philosophies do not. Chapter 36 also states that the globalists plan to “reorient” worldwide education toward sustainable development. In future installments in this series, the weak academic standards of Common Core will be revealed. Reform of the nation’s standardized objectives is merely a smoke screen to the true intent of the program which is to covertly gain acceptance for Agenda 21 policies. Subsequently, the Agenda 21/UNESCO documents clearly state their intention to turn each student into a globalist who will accept smaller living space, residing in the stack and pack cities of the future, acceptance of drastic energy reduction and the loss of Constitutional liberties. The document goes on to say that “While basic education provides the underpinning for any environmental and development education, the latter needs to be incorporated as an essential part of learning. Both formal and non-formal education are indispensable to changing people’s attitudes so that they have the capacity to assess and address their sustainable development concerns…”

Educational Russian Roulette

The Common Core is an untested, federally promoted, unfunded experiment. The standards creators (NGA/CCSSO) have not set up a monitoring plan to test this national experiment, to see what, if any, unintended consequences the Common Core will have on our children. This is a game Russian Roulette being played on the socio-emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspects of our children’s development.

This is only the tip of the iceberg. If we let the teaching of the controversial topic of sustainability in each and every course, our children will not be given the chance to debate the merits of climate change theories. This will lead to the unquestioned ushering in of carbon taxes and cap and trade policies. This will spell economic doom for this country as know it today through the biggest wealth transfer in American history through cap and trade which will severely curtail individual and small business energy usage. Yet, the rich will be able to afford to buy their way out of restrictions by paying the penalties that the average person cannot afford. Ultimately, this will lead to neo-feudalism. If you doubt the veracity of these comments, let’s give President Obama the floor and let him tell you in his own words.

Are we really naive enough to believe that Obama is just making up this nonsense about implementing cap and trade and causing our utility prices to skyrocket and significantly lowering the standard of living for the middle class?

We can teach our kids to think critically without this program, we could just return to Bloom’s Taxonomy because it works. However, this would not offer the pretext for the Bill Gates’ of the world to shove their climate change agenda down the throats of our children and get them to acquiesce to what is coming.

In another 10 years, this federal program will implode like all the other federal education programs, but the damage will have been done. How many more decades can America endure a drop of reading comprehension scores by another 40+ points until we are as functionally illiterate as most third world countries? And more importantly, how far will that American standard of living be decreased during this time as we produce a generation of children who will mindlessly accept the resources scraps of this planet as they attempt to survive in a completely changed world?

Solutions

Is it time to home school? It is certainly understandable if many choose this option. For most, the time for mass home schooling has not yet arrived, but we need to demand accountability and demand it now. Teachers and administrators need to be involved in revamping of this program. For example, when dealing with controversial topics like climate change, both sides of the issue need to be fairly presented. We need to halt the funding of Common Core immediately and embrace what it is based upon, Bloom’s Taxonomy. We need to embrace what we know works, not the anecdotal accounts of Common Core supporters who stand to make billions of dollars through the implementation of this program. We also need to return education to the local level and empower local school boards to make education decisions on curriculum as they once did. Then and only then, can we shape a future for our children that we can trust.

US Government War On Hackers Backfires: Now Top Hackers Won't Work With US Government

US Government War On Hackers Backfires: Now Top Hackers Won't Work With US Government

US Hypocrisy Exposed: Has A Long History Of Rejecting Extradition Requests

US Hypocrisy Exposed: Has A Long History Of Rejecting Extradition Requests

Russia Prepares to Broaden Brand New Anti-Piracy Law

• Andy
• August 7, 2013

Anti-piracy legislation introduced in Russia less than a week ago is already back with legislators. The Ministry of Culture says that the law will be amended to include not only movies and TV shows as previously planned, but a wide range of other creative content. Website owners will be required to make their contact details available to rightsholders in order to speed up complaints while tech companies such as Google have until Friday to put forward their suggestions.
Last week Russia introduced new legislation aimed at reducing online copyright infringement.
Targeted specifically at the unauthorized distribution of movies and TV shows, the new law allows rightsholders to file official complaints against sites carrying or linking to such content without permission. If sites fail to take down offending items quickly, they face having their domains blocked at the ISP level.
Now, just six days into the new law – which was rushed through to the dismay of critics – the Ministry of Culture says it will begin amending the legislation.
A copy of the new draft law titled “Amendments to Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in order to stop violations of copyright and related rights on the Internet” was obtained by Izvestia.
The document reveals that the range of content protected by the current legislation will be extended to include music, photos and other images, plus text-based material. The law was originally meant to cover a wide range of content but was amended at the eleventh hour when it was deemed that only “high value” video products should be protected. It appears the government has changed its mind – again.
Extra requirements will also be placed on those running websites. The amendments state that site owners will be required by law to display their real-world addresses alongside their email addresses on their websites in order to speed up correspondence. They will also be required to incorporate a special form in their sites to streamline the processing of any complaints.
“This will allow the holder to reduce the time of petition, as well as the time spent searching for an address,” the Ministry of Culture said in a statement.
Also up for consideration is the way copyright complaints are formatted and issued. These need to be correctly presented by rightsholders because if information is missing, site owners are not required to respond to their copyright complaints.
“The list of information and the way declarations are made has to be further developed and discussed,” the Ministry said.
Correctly presented complaints must be actioned within 24 hours to include the removal of the infringing content in question. Users responsible for uploading content must be notified of any complaint and given a chance to appeal to the complainant. To escalate the matter rightsholders may file a complaint with telecoms watchdog Roscomnadzor which could result in a site being blocked at the ISP level.
With the government having failed to react to the concerns of companies such as Google and local search engine Yandex before the current legislation was passed, a second chance is now available for them to present their own amendments. A hearing on the bill will go ahead on Friday.

11 Examples Of The Escalating Crime And Violence That Are Plaguing Communities Across America

By Michael Snyder, on August 6th, 2013

Even though the United States has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the world by a very wide margin, hundreds of communities all over America are being overwhelmed by crime and violence.  For many years, violent crime had actually decreased in the United States, but now the trend is going the other way.  Violent crime in the U.S. increased in both 2011 and 2012, and it is being projected that it will increase in 2013 as well.  The frightening thing is that crime statistics are going up even though police departments in some major cities have publicly announced that they will not even respond to certain crimes anymore.  This has the effect of making crime statistics look lower than they actually should be.  For example, in the city of Chicago police will no longer respond in person "to 911 calls reporting vehicle theft, garage burglary or simple assault".  So if someone steals your car or breaks into your garage, you can file a report over the phone if you want, but it probably won't do much good.
So what is causing the rise in crime and violence?  Well, we live at a time when economic opportunities for young people are extremely limited.  The younger you are, the more likely you are to be unemployed, and poverty in America has been steadily rising even in the midst of this so-called "economy recovery".
When people are poor and feel like they are out of options, they tend to get desperate.  And desperate people do desperate things.
Meanwhile, the condition of the family in America continues to deteriorate.  We have the highest divorce rate in the world and approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home without a father.  Without stable families to depend on, our young people have become increasingly vulnerable to other influences.
One trend that is extremely alarming is the growth of gangs in the United States.  According to the FBI, there are now 1.4 million gang members living in America.  Unfortunately, the federal government appears very unconcerned about stopping illegal immigration even though it has been one of the primary factors fueling the astounding growth of criminal gangs in this country.
There is a lot of anger and frustration out on the streets of America right now, and the moral decay that has been eating away at the foundations of our country is really starting to manifest itself.  The following are 11 examples of the escalating crime and violence that are plaguing communities all across America right now...
#1 Flash mob crimes are becoming increasingly common in our major cities.  For example, in Washington D.C. a "flash mob" of 20 or 30 young people recently stormed a convenience store and took whatever they wanted...

"It was crazy. Beyond our control," says the manager of the King Convenience store in the 1500 block of U Street in Southeast D.C.
He says a flash mob of teens stole candy, soda and other items from his store Saturday night.
"Bunch of kids, more than 20 or 30, grabbed everything," he says, asking not to be identified. "They grabbed everything and then ran away from the store."

#2 In the Bronx, police seem to be powerless to do anything about the gangs that are ruthlessly terrorizing law-abiding families...

The gun-toting teen shot by police over the weekend grew up in a gang-infested neighborhood in the Morrisania section of the Bronx where law-abiding families live in constant fear. Even if young boys try to avoid trouble, it comes looking for them.

At first glance, everything looks calm and ordinary in this community. But under the surface, the threat for boys as young as 9 or 10 from gangs and criminal crews pressuring them to join is constant.

One boy, whose identity Fox 5 is protecting, said they have no choice but to join a gang. He said he tries to stay busy and off the streets at night when the gangs are out and hunting for new members. He said most boys don't choose to join a gang, but if they don't, they and their families suffer consequences. He said gangs have ransacked the apartments of reluctant recruits.

#3 In Baltimore, there have been several reports recently of vicious mobs assaulting innocent pedestrians...

A man was assaulted by a group of people early Sunday morning in Baltimore's Little Italy neighborhood and part of the attack was captured on camera.
The attack happened at around 12:45 a.m. at Bank and Exeter Streets. The victim, who works at a restaurant in the area, was walking down the street when a mob of people approached him and started beating him.
The video shows the victim trying to get away, but stumbles and the mob starts attacking him again. The victim was finally able to run into a nearby wine bar for help.
Coworkers of the victims say he is still in the hospital after having surgery on his jaw. They also say they are now taking extra steps to be safe. "A girl at my work got robbed right before that, we think, by the same people. So she's been staying at my house just because it's not safe for her to be by herself. But our managers are making sure that nobody's walking to the garage anymore. So they're driving us to our cars from now on," coworker Jackie Quattrochi said.

#4 Drug abuse is rising all over the country, and the results are often deeply tragic.  In Memphis, Tennessee one mother recently stabbed her two little boys to death because "voices told her to do it"...

A mother charged with fatally stabbing her two young sons told police she is schizophrenic and that voices told her to do it, court records show.
Jamina Briggs, 29, also told officers who arrived at her home on Wednesday night that she was sorry about the stabbings, according to an affidavit of complaint.
Officers arrested Briggs after they found the boys, 6-year-old Nicholas Briggs and 23-month-old Jeremiah Briggs, lying face down on a couch with multiple stab wounds. The boys died at a hospital.

#5 One man from Staten Island was recently charged with trying to sell his 2-month-old baby on Craigslist because he didn't want her anymore...

A Staten Island man is accused of trying to sell a 2-month-old baby on Craigslist.
Paul Marquez, 23, posted an ad on the website twice late last month, offering a baby for sale for $100, law enforcement sources said.
The ad read, “I have a 2-month-old baby, she loves to play and have her little fun, but there’s one problem, doctors say she has asthma and if she turns a certain way she can stop breathing. She’s really getting on my nerves and I don’t want her,” WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell reported.

#6 You wouldn't normally think of Fairfax, Virginia as a hotbed of violent crime, but a vicious mob attack was filmed there recently...

A wild assault in Fairfax, Virginia, was recently caught on video. The incident, dubbed by WJLA-TV as a “savage” and “mob-style attack,” included at least six individuals brutally punching and kicking one person (presumably a teenager or a young man).

The brawl was recorded by a local resident named Jack Webb. He had installed a security camera in an effort to nab the individuals who have been breaking into his work van, but, instead, he ended up capturing the incident — one that has residents and authorities, alike, deeply troubled.

The victim is seen in the video being stomped on and repeatedly beaten. The incident was so severe, Webb said, that it looked like the individual being attacked “wasn’t going to be getting up again.”

#7 Even young schoolchildren are going absolutely crazy these days.  Just check out what happened on one school bus in Pinellas County, Florida last month...

A cell-phone video captures the 13-year-old boy’s screams for help as he’s pummeled with fists and kicked by three bigger, older youths who “ganged up” on him as he was about to get off at his bus stop.
The black teens beat the white sixth-grader for roughly a minute before opening the emergency-exit door and fleeing the bus.
As the relentless assault unfolds, the bus driver John Moody yells at the teens to leave the boy alone. He also asks dispatchers to send help.
“You gotta get somebody here quick, quick, quick, quick,” he urged. “They’re about to beat this boy to death over here.”

#8 And of course this moral decay is not just limited to the cities.  What two men up in northern California did recently to one very young girl is absolutely horrifying...

Two Northern California men made brief appearances in federal court Wednesday in what began as another big pot-growing drug bust but what has become a horrifying story of one teenager's alleged torment, captivity and sexual abuse.

The criminal complaint against the two men -- Ryan Balletto, 30, and Patrick Pearmain, 24 -- outlines the allegations of a 15-year-old girl's ordeal of being held in a coffin-like box for hours on end at a marijuana-growing "farm" where she worked trimming plants.

#9 I have written extensively about the tremendous crime wave that we have seen up in Detroit in recent years, but even the police were shocked by one particular crime that took place recently...

Detroit police are wondering if they have a serial attacker on their hands after a third woman’s burned body was found on the west side.

Is a serial killer hunting women in Detroit?  At this point police are not sure what to think...

Police say it’s the third case in recent weeks where a woman has been set on fire and left for dead. However, investigators aren’t yet sure if the cases are connected. In late July, two women were found just miles apart in vacant fields – both severely beaten and without any clothing.

#10 If you are the victim of a crime in Detroit, it may not even be safe to call the police.  In some instances, they are actually the criminals...

A Good Samaritan snapped photos of what appeared to be two men impersonating police officers involved in a pistol-whipping and robbery outside a Citgo gas station on Detroit's east side on July 21.
Once Fox 2 aired those photos, an even more disturbing picture developed.
"Several unidentified police officers were working this particular robbery case, recognized one of the suspects in the photographs as being a member of the Detroit Police Department," Chief James Craig said Monday.

#11 In this day and age, the hearts of most people are growing cold.  In fact, many parents don't even seem to care for their own children anymore.  Just check out what recently happened in Live Oak, Texas...

Police said a young child found was in a garbage bin and his mother was arrested for child abandonment. Police also said the mother was high on synthetic marijuana.
It happened Tuesday night in the 200 block of Shin Oak in Live Oak.
Sgt. Anita Seamans said the woman,identified as 21-year-old Brittany Ciccotti, was arrested and charged with abandoning a child, a second degree felony.
"She has put him in a garbage can in the driveway of a home and by the grace of God, the child made enough noise in this can and somebody found him," said Sgt. Seamans.

All of these examples show that the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is rapidly breaking down.
This is what happens when we throw morality out the window and we don't teach our kids right from wrong.
And all over the country police departments are finding themselves overwhelmed right now.  Due to budget cuts, many police forces are actually getting smaller at the same time that crime rates are surging.
So what can be done?
Well, in Boston they are actually setting up cardboard cutouts of police officers in an attempt to deter crime.
Does anyone believe that will actually help?
Even though communities all over America now feel under siege by the growing wave of crime and violence that we have been witnessing, the truth is that this is only just the beginning.  When the next major economic downturn strikes things are going to get much worse.
The seeds that we have been planting for decades are now springing to life, and America is about to reap a very bitter harvest.
I hope that you are getting prepared.

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THE EARTH-SUN MAGNETIC PORTAL (YES YOU READ THAT CORRECTLY)

August 7, 2013 By Joseph P. Farrell 

As you can tell, I’ve been on a space-technology-hidden finance-and-covert-agendas kick in my blogs the past few days, and today is no different. First, there was a curious article about how Edward Snowden “revealed” (yet another in his endless list of revelations purloined – yea right! – from the USA’s Reichsicherheithaupamt) that USA intelligence agencies were concerned about a “kill shot” from the Sun, a massive coronal mass ejection(Here’s a typical example: Edward Snowden: Solar-Flare ‘Killshot’ Cataclysm Imminent.) Of course, at this juncture, never one to have taken all this Snowden nonsense seriously to begin with (I mean, c’mon here. The NSA spies on everyone, and we’re supposed to believe this was news? Since when didn’t the Reichsicherheit…er…NSA spy on everyone?), it is now safe to write him off as just another internet hysteria mongerer.
But… before we write him off too quickly, there’s this intriguing article and analysis that, when I saw it, I just had to share it, for reasons that will become evident as you read it:
Portals Leading Directly to the Sun from Earth’s Atmosphere Discovered by Scientists
Now, for those fans of the electric-universe/plasma cosmology theory, this is nothing new, but merely more confirmation, that the relationship between the sun and various planets is not one of electrical neutrality, but dynamism.
Beyond the overblown inaccuracies in the report – such as NASA being founded by a Nazi Rocket scientist (Oh c’mon!), there is interesting grist for the mill nonetheless. For me, the most interesting two paragraphs are these:

“NASA used its THEMIS spacecraft, as well as a European Cluster probe, to examine this phenomenon; essentially portals leading from the sun to earth and perhaps functioning vice versa as well, transferring tons of highly magnetically charged particles directly to earth. They found that these portals open and close dozens of times each day. Ancient writings and philosophy often has come true, and has been recently understood to depict highly sophisticated technology. So to reference ancient writings, many depict the sun being a sort of portal for the ‘gods to pass back and forth from other dimensions’. NASA has allegedly discovered portals from the Earth’s general area that lead directly to the sun, commonly located tens of thousands of miles from Earth. They seem to open for just a moment; most of them are only briefly ‘open’, others can be vast and sustained.
“These portals function for an unknown reason, in the transfer of the magnetic field from the Sun to the Earth. As far as these government scientists allegedly can determine, these portals aid in the transfer of tons of magnetically charged particles that flow from the Sun causing geomagnetic storms, the northern and southern auroral lights and possibly more. Perhaps the program HAARP had something to do with these portals? They aid in the transfer of the magnetic field from the Sun to the Earth.
“NASA funded the University of Iowa for this study, yet no one can quite determine what these portals are, or what they really do, or if they are somehow necessary or beneficial for the health of the earth. Essentially, they observed charged particles flowing through these things they deemed portals, that cause electro-magnetic phenomenon such as auoral lights in Earth’s atmosphere. The thing about the discoveries of mainstream/paid off/ corporate institution serving scientists, is that when something is this officially announced, it MUST fit into someone or some entity’s agenda, it must. The most amazing and likely important discoveries, scientific and historic facts, are typically suppressed by the mainstream. That also is a good indicator for who is serving who’s interests- a scientist doing a controversial study with little funding or help is likely to actually be serving the people, so just keep in mind how corrupt the mainstream is. Whether it is mainstream news, science, music, politics, anything.”

Could large high power phased arrays such as HAARP or EISCAT presumably affect such “portals”? Well, given the stated ability of the Eastland patents for such arrays to create relativistically charged particles in areas of the Earth’s atmosphere, one would think the answer to this to be an inevitable “yes,”since that would imply the ability to create one end of an Earth-Sun dipole. That in turn might conceivably imply an ability thereby to “tickle” the Sun, to cause it to “burp,” or even to open and maintain such a “portal.”
In short, following my “Farrell corollaries” to the Kardashev classification system, one begins to approach class one or class two civilization capabilities not, pace Kardashev, when one requires the energy output of planets(class one) or stars(class two) in order to sustain the civilization, but rather, when one develops the technologies capable of manipulating systems on those scales.
In short, if the corollaries are true, then we are approaching not just class one status, but class two status.
Which brings us back to the theme of the past week’s blogs: the retrenchment to North America, the almost (what appears to be frantic) attempt to introduce 3-d printing, and the efforts to “mine space”, the “cover space collateralization” that I suggested was underway in Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations. Here the article is correct in its assumption that science appears to be validating the stranger aspects of ancient lore and legends. But additionally, science is enabling technologies that allow men to play gods, and to create wholesale destruction, and then, utilizing their technologies of divine emulation, hide behind it all and right off weather or other disasters as “acts of God, or the gods.” It would allow them, so to speak, to stage apocalyptic events.
So perhaps Snowden isn’t quite so kooky after all, and perhaps, this too, is a factor in Russia granting him asylum.

Read more: THE EARTH-SUN MAGNETIC PORTAL (YES YOU READ THAT CORRECTLY)

9/11 in the Academic Community

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Documentary Preview and Press Release
(August 5, 2013)
Coming this fall, 9/11 in the Academic Community, a Winner of the University of Toronto Film Festival, is a unique film that documents academia’s treatment of critical perspectives on 9/11 by exploring the taboo that shields the American government’s narrative from scholarly examination. Through a powerful reflection on intellectual courage and the purpose of academia, the film aims at changing intellectual discourse on 9/11 and the War on Terror.

All efforts are being made to make this film available by this October. Please consider sharing the following preview:

Through the experiences of prominent academics, the film probes the nature and dimensions of the repercussions various academics endured in investigating 9/11. Academic Reviewer Morton Brussel, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, stated: “The main thesis of the film concerns the silence of the academic community on this vital issue. I think it is extremely important and very well produced.”
The documentary provides an eye-opening analysis on the various ways in which blind spots and impairments in professional inquiry are embedded in the academy, ranging from the failure to critically reflect on the notion of terms functioning as thought stoppers, such as “conspiracy theory,” to the structural approach academics use that restricts inquiry to the broader implications of 9/11 rather than examining the day itself.
By bringing to light various methods used to suppress academic expression, the film investigates the academy’s mistreatment of professors such as John McMurtry and William Woodward by examining the subtle alliances between the university and the state, and why some academics aggressively identify with the Bush administration’s official narrative of 9/11 while being harsh critics of the administration.
Despite articles that have entered the peer-reviewed literature questioning the official narrative, as well as university classes in which students found the official narrative to be implausible, the film provides an insightful analysis on the systematic exclusion of critical perspectives by examining the workings of the taboo in limiting any further discussion of literature critical of the official narrative on campus.  In view of the academy’s failure to address the limitations in the narrative, Alvin A. Lee, President Emeritus of McMaster University, stated in his endorsement for the film, that a large number of academics should “stand sufficiently outside society intellectually to see, understand, and interpret what is going on.”
As 9/11 served as the rationale for the Global War on Terror, the expansion of the military and intelligence complex, the invasion of other countries in violation of international law, and the curtailing of civil liberties, the film provides an inspiring demonstration of intellectual courage that will cause many scholars to deeply reflect on the academy’s role and strength to dismantle the war system.
Adnan Zuberi
Director and Producer
Website: 911inAcademia.com

Harry Truman and Memory of Mass Murder

Posted on August 7, 2013 by DavidSwanson

Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: “If we see that Germany is winning,” he said, “we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.”
Did Truman value Japanese lives above Russian and German?  There is nothing anywhere to suggest that he did.  Yet we debate, every August 6^th or so, whether Truman was willing to unnecessarily sacrifice Japanese lives in order to scare Russians with his nuclear bombs.  He was willing; he was not willing; he was willing.  Left out of this debate is the obvious possibility that killing as many Japanese as possible was among Truman’s goals.
A U.S. Army poll in 1943 found that roughly half of all GIs believed it would be necessary to kill every Japanese person on earth. William Halsey, who commanded the United States’ naval forces in the South Pacific during World War II, thought of his mission as “Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs,” and had vowed that when the war was over, the Japanese language would be spoken only in hell. War correspondent Edgar L. Jones wrote in the February 1946 Atlantic Monthly, “What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off  the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers.”
On August 6, 1945, President Truman announced: “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T.  It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British ‘Grand Slam’ which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.”Hiroshima was, of course, a city full of people, not an Army base. But those people were merely Japanese. Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey had told the New York Times: “Fighting Japs is not like fighting normal human beings. The Jap is a little barbarian…. We are not dealing with humans as we know them. We are dealing with something primitive. Our troops have the right view of the Japs. They regard them as vermin.”
Some try to imagine that the bombs shortened the war and saved more lives than the some 200,000 they took away. And yet, weeks before the first bomb was dropped, on July 13, 1945, Japan sent a telegram to the Soviet Union expressing its desire to surrender and end the war. The United States had broken Japan’s codes and read the telegram. Truman referred in his diary to “the telegram from Jap Emperor asking for peace.” Truman had been informed through Swiss and Portuguese channels of Japanese peace overtures as early as three months before Hiroshima. Japan objected only to surrendering unconditionally and giving up its emperor, but the United States insisted on those terms until after the bombs fell, at which point it allowed Japan to keep its emperor.
Presidential advisor James Byrnes had told Truman that dropping the bombs would allow the United States to “dictate the terms of ending the war.” Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal wrote in his diary that Byrnes was “most anxious to get the Japanese affair over with before the Russians got in.” Truman wrote in his diary that the Soviets were preparing to march against Japan and “Fini Japs when that comes about.” Truman ordered the bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6thand another type of bomb, a plutonium bomb, which the military also wanted to test and demonstrate, on Nagasaki on August 9th. Also on August 9th, the Soviets attacked the Japanese. During the next two weeks, the Soviets killed 84,000 Japanese while losing 12,000 of their own soldiers, and the United States continued bombing Japan with non-nuclear weapons. Then the Japanese surrendered.
The United States Strategic Bombing Survey concluded that,”… certainly prior to 31 December, 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November, 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”  One dissenter who had expressed this same view to the Secretary of War prior to the bombings was General Dwight Eisenhower. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William D. Leahy agreed: “The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.”
Whatever dropping the bombs might possibly have contributed to ending the war, it is curious that the approach of threatening to drop them, the approach used during a half-century of Cold War to follow, was never tried.  An explanation may perhaps be found in Truman’s comments suggesting the motive of revenge:
“Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, and against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international law of warfare.”
Truman doesn’t say he used the bomb to shorten the war or save lives.  He says he used the bomb because he could. “Having found the bomb we have used it.”  And he provides as reasons for having used it three characteristics of the people murdered: they (or their government) attacked U.S. troops, they (or their government) brutalized U.S. prisoners, and they (or their government) — and this is without any irony intended — oppose international law.
Truman could not, incidentally, have chosen Tokyo as a target — not because it was a city, but because we (or our government) had already reduced it to rubble.
The nuclear catastrophes may have been, not the ending of a World War, but the theatrical opening of the Cold War, aimed at sending a message to the Soviets. Many low and high ranking officials in the U.S. military, including commanders in chief, have been tempted to nuke more cities ever since, beginning with Truman threatening to nuke China in 1950. The myth developed, in fact, that Eisenhower’s enthusiasm for nuking China led to the rapid conclusion of the Korean War. Belief in that myth led President Richard Nixon, decades later, to imagine he could end the Vietnam War by pretending to be crazy enough to use nuclear bombs. Even more disturbingly, he actually was crazy enough. “The nuclear bomb, does that bother you? … I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christsakes,” Nixon said to Henry Kissinger in discussing options for Vietnam.
I just want you to think, instead, about this poem:
Hiroshima
by Sherwood Ross
I am the Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto
A graduate of Emory College, Atlanta,
Pastor of the Methodist Church of Hiroshima
I was in a western suburb when the bomb struck
Like a sheet of sunlight.
Fearing for my wife and family
I ran back into the city
Where I saw hundreds and hundreds fleeing
Every one of them hurt in some way.
The eyebrows of some were burned off
Skin hung from their faces and hands
Some were vomiting as they walked
On some naked bodies the burns had made patterns
Of the shapes of flowers transferred
From their kimonos to human skin.
Almost all had their heads bowed
Looked straight ahead, were silent
And showed no expression whatever.
Under many houses I heard trapped people screaming
Crying for help but there were none to help
And the fire was coming.
I came to a young woman holding her dead baby
Who pleaded with me to find her husband
So he could see the baby one last time.
There was nothing I could do but humor her.
By accident I ran into my own wife
Both she and our child were alive and well.
For days I carried water and food to the wounded and the dying.
I apologized to them: “Forgive me,” I said, “for not sharing your burden.”
I am the Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto
Pastor of the Methodist Church of Hiroshima
I was in a western suburb when the bomb struck
Like a sheet of sunlight.

Report: Disaster Looms: FEMA Scrambles To Stockpile Food Reserves

Report: Disaster Looms: FEMA Scrambles To Stockpile Food Reserves

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Major Publication in China Predicts That The Communist Regime Will Collapse by 2016

Wednesday, August 7, 2013 4:11

(Before It's News)

Despite the praise of China’s development in the global media there are many indications that the current regime is on its way out

Renminbi: official currency of China

By JG Vibes
Intellihub.com
August 7, 2013
According to the Hong Kong magazine Frontline, a Chinese political news source, the Chinese Communist Party will collapse entirely by 2016.  According to the report, this collapse will be triggered by the reverse in cash flow that is currently taking place in the country, with large sums of money actually now moving out of China.
If this truly is the case it could be entirely possible that China is just the next stop on the central banking looting spree.  Regardless of the background politics at play, there are many indications that China will be going down with the US Dollar, the Euro and the rest of the world economy.
Of all the challenges facing China the most dangerous three are the real estate bubble, shadow banking, and local government debts, because of how pervasive and large-scale they are, says Dr. Frank Tian Xie, a business professor at the University of South Carolina Aiken.
It is important to remember that a collapse isn’t always a bad thing, sometimes this is just what the people need in order to topple an authoritarian regime.  This situation gives the general population an upper hand that they wouldn’t usually have. Also many times the population needs to see a regime fail, in order to cut through the propaganda so they can understand that they are are being oppressed.  The report also mentions that corruption will play a vital role in this collapse, which again ties in with the idea that maybe the people will be better off without the current power structure.
Although it has been unreported in the media China has been experiencing large strings of protests, riots and revolts.  China may have a reputation for being the home of some extremely obedient people, but many westerners would be surprised to believe that there is far more defiance and resistance in a place like China than there is in the United States.
Earlier this year thousands of people revolted in China smashing police cars and overturning police vans, after a checkpoint caused an accident and the ambulance took over an hour to arrive.
From all accounts it seems that the local police had some sort of racket going on, and were stopping citizens to make sure all of their papers were up to code.
It has even been suggested that these police were forcing fake registrations on the people to collect extra loot on top of their already astronomical pay from the state.
When a car tried to run away from one of these checkpoints to protect themselves from the police, they were chased until a crash occurred.
After the crash onlookers gathered and many called for an ambulance, but for over an hour there was no response.
What has obviously happened here is that the onlookers saw that one of their neighbors was being attacked by the state, and they rushed to that neighbors defense.
In areas as repressive as China the tempers of the people are always just below the boiling point, waiting for something like this to happen at any moment.
Last year in China one family actually refused to leave their house when they were told to move so a road could be built through their property.  In response the government surrounded their house with a highway and threatened to tear it down until they eventually gave in.  Now many residents living in areas that face similar problems are beginning to fight back against this land theft, and share their stories with the world.
There have been many other circumstances where villagers have fought back against having their land seized through imminent domain.
According to the Epoch Times:
A mass protest by villagers in the south-central province of Hunan is the latest of several similar incidents drawing attention to land acquisitions for development projects being exploited by communist officials.
More than a thousand Hui Muslims from Pingfeng Village, Shaoyang City, protested in front of the municipal government building on Feb. 25, demanding that authorities hold the relevant officials accountable for a recent land acquisition during which villagers were attacked with batons.
One of the villagers, Mrs. Ma, told The Epoch Times that the protesters held up banners and photos taken of the villagers being beaten. “We waited for over an hour and no officials came out to meet us, so we went into the office building and were met by at least a hundred police. Then finally an official came out to meet us.”
The protestors stated that the land was forcibly taken, and more than a dozen people were injured. Supported by the villagers, the families of the victims demanded that the municipal government investigate the local law enforcement department and punish the perpetrators. However, they were told to wait for the outcome of the government’s investigation.
According to Mrs. Ma, the beatings occurred on the morning of Jan. 10, when over a hundred Shuangqing District government staff members, policemen, and urban management officers arrived in police vehicles, and commenced a hostile land acquisition. “They came to the village and beat whoever spoke up with police batons, injuring 14 people; seven were even hospitalized,” she said.
In addition to the political and economic concerns that come along with communism, there are also issues with the massive amounts of pollution,censorship and many other issues surrounding the ever present police state.  All these factors and more could play a role in the demise of the current Chinese regime, and this is actually a possibility that is more realistic than most people think.
Sources:
^http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/232752-china-and-party-will-collapse-by-2016-says-hong-kong-media/
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U.S. fretting over Japan’s desire to militarily strike enemy bases

Source: Japan Times

The United States has expressed concern about Japan’s desire to acquire the ability to attack enemy bases in an overhaul of its defense policies pursued by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a government source said in Tokyo.
One of the American officials attending bilateral talks on foreign and defense policy cooperation late last month in Tokyo asked the Japanese side to consider the possible negative fallout on neighboring countries if Abe’s administration embarks on such a policy shift, the source said Tuesday.
The U.S. official conveyed Washington’s message that Tokyo should not further worsen relations with China and South Korea that have been plagued for months by territorial rows, as well as the issue of Japan’s wartime aggression.
Tokyo is currently compiling new defense guidelines, an interim report of which stated last month that Japan should take on a greater regional security role and reinforce its defense capabilities, including enabling the Self-Defense Forces to attack enemy bases.
The proposal comes as Japan faces threats from North Korea’s missile and nuclear development. The government is planning to agree within the year on the long-term guidelines, which would also mention the need to counter China’s increasing military assertiveness.
At the working-level talks July 25, Japanese officials briefed their American counterparts on the interim report. The U.S. officials called for further explanation on what countries and measures Japan is specifically considering while seeking to acquire the ability to strike enemy targets, according to the source.
The U.S. side also said that Japan must carefully work to obtain understanding for the policy from neighboring countries, and the Japanese officials replied they will make efforts to that end, the source said.
“Japan needs to enhance its ability to respond to ballistic missile attacks in a comprehensive manner,” the interim report said in reference to the option of attacking enemy bases.
Some officials in Tokyo have said such an attack could possibly use U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles. But other officials say difficulties remain in introducing such a measure, including the need to clarify what would be considered as self-defense.
“We cannot easily decide on that,” a senior Defense Ministry official said.