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9 Reasons Why You Could Be a Terrorist

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James Wesley, Rawles has been in law enforcement for the past 18 years. He recently wrote a blog on SurvivalBlog expressing his concern with law enforcement teachings, specifically in regards to potential domestic terrorism.

Wesley points out the change of law enforcement training sponsors.
Before they were supported by the “local community” but now Big Brother ( represented here by the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Transportation Security Agency) dominates the training sessions and is concerned with profiling potential terrorists.

According to Wesley this list contains traits and characteristics that Big Brother believes make you a potential terrorist:

  1. Holding Second Amendment-oriented views. (NRA or gun club membership, holding a CCW permit)
  2. Reading survivalist literature. (fictional books such as “Patriots” and “One Second After” are mentioned by name)
  3. Being self-sufficient (stockpiling food, ammo, hand tools, medical supplies)
  4. Fearing economic collapse (buying gold and barter items)
  5. Holding religious views concerning the book of Revelation (apocalypse, anti-Christ)
  6. Expressing fears of Big Brother or big government (Oops)
  7. Being homeschooled
  8. Declaring Constitutional rights and civil liberties
  9. Believing in a New World Order conspiracy

Wesley observes how easy it can be to target someone as a potential terrorist. Here he remembers a lecture that uses a plumber as an example:

The officers were told how to use his employment as a plumber as further evidence of terrorism.  The suspect’s employment would be described as an elaborate scheme to justify possessing pipes and chemicals so as to have bomb making materials readily available

To drive the point home Wesley puts it in laymen’s turns:

It is easy to frame anyone for possessing bomb making materials (or other crimes) if the officer knows what items to list in the report and how to link these items to terrorism.

Wesley goes on to provide multiple ways to calm polices’ phobia of anything without a badge. But after reading this article, meant to enlighten us on how to avoid an ignorant fascist militant dictatorship, my fear of Big Brother’s constant oppressive presence has only been reinforced.

Via: Survival Blog

Lazy press watch: Just what are "global communications," anyway?

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Orwell advises against using the vague language found in the Independent’s story about the dead MI6 guy, saying Gareth Williams worked for an MI6 division that “eavesdrops on global communications.”

Better to have said “international calls and email messages,” or “between the UK and other countries.” “Global,” though often used, is so vague as to be meaningless.

The Independent (link and excerpt, below) also seems in a hurry to shoot down, based on no evidence either way, any suggestion the agent’s murder might be work-related:

The reality, however, is likely to be more mundane. Sources within the murder inquiry led by the Metropolitan Police’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command insisted that “the suggestion there are terrorism or national security links to this case is pretty low down the list of probabilities”. They are believed to be concentrating on Mr Williams’ private life.

via Mystery of the MI6 man who was found dead in his bath – Crime, UK – The Independent.

Verizon's "Rule the Air" message: "Be the surveillance you fear"

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Rules nothing. Photo: Ed Yourdon/Flickr CC

Given that Verizon allowed the NSA to secretly tap millions of calls in the past decade, it’s stunning to see the company selling surveillance as sexy and empowering.

I am referring, of course, to Verizon’s new “Rule the Air” campaign.

In what might pass for a scenes from a remake of John Carpenter’s “They Live,” Verizon’s ads have buildings, a parking meter and other objects flowering into antennae that stalk cell phone-wielding models.

One blogger (excerpt and link below), notes the disturbing surveillance theme in “Rule the Air.”

But it is not enough to say that “Rule the Air” is Orwellian, just because it evokes a surveillance state nightmare. (Invariably, when people say, “Orwellian,” they are referring to “1984.”)

Even more insidious, and Orwellian, is the ad campaign’s vague and contradictory slogan. (Orwell warns of the perils of using imprecise language in his 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language.”)

The truth, dear Verizon customers, is that you rule nothing.

Rather, as you can read here, Verizon and the US Federal Communications Commission “rule you.”

If you ask me the whole thing seems a bit Orwellian and the Verizon red coupled with the vintage logo and the tag line, “Rule the air”, strangely evoked old-time war propaganda to me, but the effects are cool—and who doesn’t like the concept of reception everywhere.

via Verizon Sets Out to “Rule the Air”.

Xe not the end of the blood-soaked Blackwater brand

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Photo: Andrew R. Whalley/Flickr CC

Blackwater, among the most tainted blood-soaked brands out there, is now slapping its pay print logo on pro shops.

The shops are located near military bases along the East Coast.

In an effort to distance themselves from the name which many felt was tainted, Blackwater executives came up with the inert name “Xe” to help revamp their tarnished image. Here we are a little over a year later and although Xe didn’t seem to do much for anyone, it seems that the name Blackwater still has some life in it. Despite negative connotations almost everywhere else, the firm still enjoys a great deal of support from the gun owning public. So it only seems natural that the Blackwater name and iconic bear paw logo would begin to see a resurgence. Poised to open are combination pro shops and indoor ranges in Fayetteville, North Carolina and Salem, Connecticut. What is the significance of these two disparate locations you might ask? Fayetteville should come as no surprise as it is home to Fort Bragg. However, many would not know that Salem is right up the road from the Navy’s submarine force based in Groton, Connecticut.

via Blackwater Pro Shops – Coming to a Town Near You « Soldier Systems.

Two sickened when fishing vessel discovers canisters in LI Sound

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Radioactive waste?

Officials closest to shore were notified when two crew members started blistering and had difficulty breathing. They were taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford, Mass. One was expected to be released this afternoon and the other has been transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital, a Coast Guard news release said.

via 2 become sick after fishing vessel discovers 10 canisters – Projo 7 to 7 News Blog | Rhode Island news | The Providence Journal.

Rodriguez making Latino "Birth of a Nation," Alex Jones says

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A typically hoarse, but not-too-hotheaded Alex Jones is waving the script to Roberto Rodriguez’s upcoming Mexican vs. white American violent thriller, “Machete,” saying it might spark racial warfare throughout the country this fall.

The trailer for “Machete” suggests the film is a vengeance story, in which whites are portrayed as the bad guys, and a parody of the blaxploitation films of the 1970s.

Jones calls the film “a psyop, straight out of hell,” crafted to put Whites and Hispanics at each others’ throats.

YouTube – Leaked Machete Script Confirms Race War Plot.

U. of Utah reveals nuke secrets in iPhone app

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This iPhone app will enrich the student experience. — MB

The University of Utah’s nuclear engineers worry that the US is running out of skilled operators for its 100-or-so aging nuclear power plants.

So, to make the field seem more relevant to young engineers, they fed sensitive nuke data into a 3D visualization and simulation app for the iPhone.

A Utah spokesman told me last week that the school will not make the nuke data for the iPhone app — which can be used to visualize core meltdowns and the like — generally available.

I presume that is because the data might appeal to terrorists. But the spokesman was reluctant to detail Utah’s reasons for keeping its data secret.

Alas, I do not imagine the school will have much luck keeping this stuff on campus, once it is on an iPhone.

“The University of Utah’s nuclear engineering program hopes to enrich its students’ learning with an iPhone app that renders in three dimensions the collision of neutrons and uranium inside a nuclear reactor core. Utah last fall released a free 3D iPhone app, ImageVis3D Mobile as part of a biomedical visualization project.Utah does not plan to make the software behind its nuke visualizations, which were also generated for the ImageVis3D Mobile app, publicly available anytime soon.”

via (below the fold) Seagate promises seamless backup and playback – The Boston Globe.

Popular Science makes pitch for "Mark of the Beast"

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Microsoft proposes tattooing patients. PopSci appears to like the idea. — MB

Photo: Yuichiro C. Katsumoto/Flickr CC

You might take this PopSci bit about an “invisible,” ultraviolet tattoo ID system, for another inconsequential workup of an industry press release.

But what bothers me about this webby, is that it uncritically pushes the RFID industry’s latest, dubious storyline: that the only way to be “truly safe” (from phantom villains, hacking into pacemakers) is with “permanent,” implanted devices and IDs.

This graf, for example, exemplifies the imprecise prose George Orwell describes, in Politics and the English Language. Rather than encouraging critical thinking, it conceals and prevents it:

“More and more implantable devices, like pacemakers or defibrillators, are turning to wireless signals as a means to communicate with external devices, but in doing so they open themselves to security breaches. Several solutions are in the works that tackle this problem by upping device defenses, but by piling on security measures, yet another risk emerges: that at a critical time an authorized physician might not be able to access the device.”

The graf — as does the rest of the piece — tosses up unspecified threats, against which it proposes tattooing patients (i.e., everyone). In all that vagueness, the vulnerabilities posed by implanted devices become infinitely vast and dark.

Without those threats, the RFID industry will have a tough time tattooing serial numbers on people for whom the tagging, tracking, and tracing of humans remains a bitter, and fresh, memory, and Christian end-timers, for whom the Mark of the Beast is a very real fear.

via Tattooing Patients With UV Ink Could Protect Pacemakers From Hackers | Popular Science.

The PopSci piece uses this Microsoft paper, proposing the tattoos, as its primary source.

US Government to Scrutinize Patriot Radio

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Alan Watt makes the MSM, again, this time for hosting his show on RBN. Also, a prediction: By 2011, the federal government will confirm that it is directly investigating RBN, or another underground radio network. — MB

Photo: Kyle May/Flickr CC

John Stadtmiller’s Republic Broadcasting Network is taking heat in the Christian Science Monitor, for broadcasting a show hosted by the head of the Guardians of the Free Republics.

Stadtmiller, a competent broadcaster, appears to be getting out in front of this week’s story, about the Guardians’ apparently clumsy attempt to get dozens of US governors to step-down. (The word “investigation” alone is enough to make a broadcaster’s heart skip a beat.)

RBN also broadcasts Alan Watt’s Cutting Through the Matrix. The weeknight show features excellent insights — often on science and technology news stories — from Watt, one of the underground’s best-known conspiracy historians. (Watt’s commentary has informed my MSM reporting on RFID technologies, for example.)

But the network also airs a show by one, rabid anti-Semite, along with other voices that might not otherwise find a significant audience. And it runs ads from Holocaust-denying publishers:

“Republican Broadcasting Network is a satellite, shortwave, and Internet radio station that features 31 shows with names like ‘Cutting Through the Matrix, ‘Govern America,’ and ‘Road Warrior Radio.’ It has loose ties to the American Free Press newspaper, which Michael calls “the most important newspaper of the radical right.’”

Watt receives no money from RBN for his show, which is supported by direct book sales and donations to his website.

via Guardians of the free Republics tied to Texas radio station / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com.

Scientists: Vaccines provide "herd immunity"

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Naked apes. Photo: Peter O'Connor/Flickr CC

By using “herd,” the scientific community belies its insensitivity, if not its outright contempt, for the rest of humanity.

Dose the kids, protect the “herd.” That’s the language hardhearted epidemiologists are using to describe how vaccinations work to protect human populations:

“An unusual study done in 49 remote Hutterite farming colonies in western Canada has provided the surest proof yet that giving flu shots to schoolchildren protects a whole community from the disease. Although previous studies have demonstrated what scientists call ‘herd immunity,’ none have been so incontrovertible, because they were done in less isolated places with more sources of flu passing through.

Stanhope to English, Irish, herd: "Go to hell."

Credit Canadian conspiracy historian Alan Watt, for noting how scientists use the word, “herd,” in a way that fails to jibe with any citation in popular dictionaries.

The scientists are, however, using the same, precise language of that obnoxious prig, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield,  Philip Dormer Stanhope (click the excerpt below, for the full text):

via NYT: Flu shots in kids provide ‘herd immunity’ – The New York Times- msnbc.com.