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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

Charlie Sheen’s 9/11 “truth” stance made him target of mind controllers, author suggests

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Charlie Sheen’s questions about the 9/11 attacks may have him in the crosshairs of mind controllers trying to embarrass the outspoken actor, says Sign of the Times blogger Joe Quinn:

Obviously, the topic I am broaching here is the possible link between Sheen’s public stance on 9/11 and his subsequent psychological collapse and the media portrayal of him with good reason as being ‘crazy’. Despite what many think, the idea that Sheen may be the target of surreptitious psychological interference by those who would prefer he keep his mouth shut about the 9/11 attacks is a reasonable one.

The idea, as in the case of former MI5 agent David Shayler, who become a cross-dresser and a self-proclaimed messiah, is to secretly drug and otherwise destabilize whistleblowers and outspoken government critics…

via Charlie Sheen, Mind Control, 9/11 and The Sixth Extinction — Society’s Child — Sott.net.

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.

Gulf oil spill a sucker punch to lazy science reporters

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The takeaway: Too many science journalists lack skepticism, and balls. — MB

Science reporters and bloggers are guilty of overstating the ability of microbes, nanobots and other technologies to prevent and to lap-up oil spills.

As a result, TV and Web viewers are being lulled into thinking there’s a fix for everything, including BP’s latest pooch-screw.

Here is the underlying problem: Rather than treating scientists and technologists as potential liars — as we are trained to do with pols, for example — we science journos typically treat our subjects with reverence.

To the science writer, I say, the next time any company puts a hard hat on you, and gives you the nickel tour of its facilities, wipe that look of astonishment off your face, and remember to ask, “Will this work?” “Is it safe?” “Where’s the documentation?” and “What if…?”

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There’s a stunning slide show, meanwhile, over at Boston.com. Here’s a snip from the text accompanying the images, via PuppetGov:

“While tracking the volume of the continued flow of oil is difficult, an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil possibly much more continues to pour into the gulf every day. While visible damage to shorelines has been minimal to date as the oil has spread slowly, the scene remains, in the words of President Obama, a ‘potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.’”

via The Big Picture: Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico | PuppetGov.

U. of Utah reveals nuke secrets in iPhone app

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Photo: James Vaughan/Flickr CC

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.

Intel aircraft over NYC tapped cell phone calls

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SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) aircraft such as this one, bristling with antennae, swirled above New York after this week's failed bombing attempt. Photo: US Navy

That’s how officials caught up with the stumblebum Times Square terrorist:

“In the end, it was secret Army intelligence planes that did him in. Armed with his cell phone number, they circled the skies over the New York area, intercepting a call to Emirates Airlines reservations, before scrambling to catch him at John F. Kennedy International Airport.”

via Army Intelligence Planes Led To Suspect’s Arrest – wcbstv.com.

Pentagon shooter aimed to create synthetic life

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Mad scientist proposed creating self-assembling nanobots and “smart dust” with DNA.

This week’s anti-government, lone gunman, John Patrick Bedell, is another perfect poster boy for the government’s crackdown on the pro-pot and 9/11 truth movements.

Bedell, who was killed at a subway entrance to the Pentagon, was bent on according to the LA Times,

“revealing the truth behind the 9/11 “demolitions.”

Bedell also bore a grudge against the authorities, who busted him with weed at his California home some time ago.

But the mad scientist’s greatest passion may have been bringing about the Singularity — that future point in human evolution, predicted by Ray Kurzweil and others, when genetics, nanotechnology and robotics become a single science, reality and virtual reality become indistinguishable, and people become immortal.

Bedell, in 2006, proposed blending DNA with standard, integrated circuits, to create self-propagating “smart dust,” tiny, self-propagating — indeed, living — sensors and robots that could provide governments will blanket surveillance capabilities.

And in this way, Bedell shares something with another gun-wielding nerd in the news: UAH shooter, Amy Bishop, designer of a cyborg mechanism, the Neuristor.

Here’s Bedell’s proposal for the DNA-integrated circuit hybrids:

via Pentagon shooter apparently doubted 9/11 facts in Web posting – latimes.com.

Click here for a primer on synthetic biology.

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UM's foot of fury makes walking more efficient

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Amputees wearing prosthetics have to expend almost a quarter more energy than the rest of us, to walk the same distances.

This new, microchipped artificial foot (above) compensates for that.

via PLoS ONE: Recycling Energy to Restore Impaired Ankle Function during Human Walking.

Ventura's numbers confirm that conspiracies are a "guy" thing

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Photo: Stefan Kloo/Flickr CC

Photo: Stefan Kloo/Flickr CC

No wonder so many women I know, roll their eyes whenever I mention my blog, or what I’m reporting on.

One friend, a librarian at the Milton Public Library, said, “Yeah Mark, it’s a guy thing.”

Now, some statistical confirmation. Men flocked this week to Jesse Ventura’s new show, Conspiracy Theory, the numbers show:

CONSPIRACY THEORY Ratings Highlights:

* CONSPIRACY THEORY WITH JESSE VENTURA premiered with 1,635,000 viewers, truTV’s biggest audience ever for a new series launch.

* The premiere episode also scored truTV’s biggest deliveries of men 18-34 (206,000); men 18-49 (494,000); men 25-54 (532,000); and adults 25-54 (812,000) for a 2009 series launch.

* Additional deliveries for the premiere include 341,000 adults 18-34 and 767,000 adults 18-49.

via Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura Delivers 1.6 Million Viewers, truTV’s Biggest Audience Ever for a New Series Launch – TV Ratings, Nielsen Ratings, Television Show Ratings | TVbytheNumbers.com.

One of many, but a great one

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Some of my friends are remembering this great man, who died on 9/11 (I attended Syracuse University with Michael):

The Michael J. Armstrong Memorial Foundation was established in loving memory of Michael J. Armstrong, who made the ultimate sacrifice as a victim of the World Trade Center tragedy on September 11, 2001.

The family, fiancée and friends of Michael have created this Foundation in his name to preserve his memory and the core values that Michael exemplified – love, generosity and loyalty. The Foundation’s goal is to perpetuate the principles by which Michael lived every day and through which he made a profound impact on many lives.

via MJA: Home.