Thursday, October 31, 2013
School Test Teaches Kids: “Commands Of Government Officials Must Be Obeyed By All”
Steve Watson
Oct 29, 2013
A parent of a ten year old was shocked to discover a grammar and writing test paper that their child brought home from school reads more like document from an authoritarian country such as China.
The parent sent a portion of the test paper to Infowars, revealing that it contains sentences such as “The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all.”
The paper uses such sentences and asks school children to replace certain words in order to make the sentence contain a possessive noun.
Others within the paper include:
Upon further investigation it appears that the paper is part of a set produced by Pearson Education, a global corporation that provides education publishing and assessment services to schools in the US and the rest of the world. Pearson is the world’s largest for-profit education business.
The particular sentence about everyone obeying government commands appears in other Pearson papers, such as this fifth grade grammar test.
According to the company’s Wikipedia page and its website, Pearson owns leading educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, BBC Active, Bug Club, eCollege, Fronter, Longman, MyEnglishLab, Penguin Readers, Prentice Hall, Poptropica and Financial Times Press. Pearson is part of Pearson PLC, which also owns Penguin Books and the Financial Times.
In 2010, Pearson also negotiated a 5 year, $32 million, contract with the New York State Department of Education to design tests for students in grades 4-8.
Some have criticized the company’s test papers. Last year papers designed for NYSED were found to contain over 30 errors. Writing for the New York Times, Gail Collins noted:
Along with enforcing government mandated rules such as banning packed lunches, this will be seen by many as yet another example of how the nanny state is encroaching via the public education system.
Oct 29, 2013
A parent of a ten year old was shocked to discover a grammar and writing test paper that their child brought home from school reads more like document from an authoritarian country such as China.
The parent sent a portion of the test paper to Infowars, revealing that it contains sentences such as “The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all.”
The paper uses such sentences and asks school children to replace certain words in order to make the sentence contain a possessive noun.
Others within the paper include:
“The job of a president is not easy.”Here is the portion of the paper Infowars received:
“He makes sure the laws of the country are fair”
“The wants of an individual are less important than the needs of a nation”
Upon further investigation it appears that the paper is part of a set produced by Pearson Education, a global corporation that provides education publishing and assessment services to schools in the US and the rest of the world. Pearson is the world’s largest for-profit education business.
The particular sentence about everyone obeying government commands appears in other Pearson papers, such as this fifth grade grammar test.
According to the company’s Wikipedia page and its website, Pearson owns leading educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, BBC Active, Bug Club, eCollege, Fronter, Longman, MyEnglishLab, Penguin Readers, Prentice Hall, Poptropica and Financial Times Press. Pearson is part of Pearson PLC, which also owns Penguin Books and the Financial Times.
In 2010, Pearson also negotiated a 5 year, $32 million, contract with the New York State Department of Education to design tests for students in grades 4-8.
Some have criticized the company’s test papers. Last year papers designed for NYSED were found to contain over 30 errors. Writing for the New York Times, Gail Collins noted:
“We have turned school testing into a huge corporate profit center, led by Pearson, for whom $32 million is actually pretty small potatoes. Pearson has a five-year testing contract with Texas that’s costing the state taxpayers nearly half-a-billion dollars.”Collins outlines the fact that Pearson is being contracted under the controversial No Child Left Behind program set up by the government in 2001:
“This is the part of education reform nobody told you about. You heard about accountability, and choice, and innovation. But when No Child Left Behind was passed 11 years ago, do you recall anybody mentioning that it would provide monster profits for the private business sector?”Collins continues:
“[Pearson's] lobbyists include the guy
who served as the top White House liaison with Congress on drafting the
No Child law. It has its own nonprofit foundation that sends state
education commissioners on free trips overseas to contemplate school
reform.”
Ah… all becomes clear. Government contracted education papers telling
children that they must obey the commands of the government. Nice.Along with enforcing government mandated rules such as banning packed lunches, this will be seen by many as yet another example of how the nanny state is encroaching via the public education system.
It’s a concept also being promoted by the mass media. Earlier this year, MSNBC ran a segment pushing
the notion that kids belong to the “collective,” and that the “idea
that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families”
should be eliminated.
These revelations also remind one of Common Core, federally mandated education principles, which are effectively dumbing down students by standardizing education across the board and shutting out diversity in teaching.Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Neurologist Warns of Exploding Neurodegenerative Disease Due to Chemtrail Toxins
Christina Sarich
October 28, 2013
Chemtrails are real and they are dangerous, yet so many people still deny their existence. Well if a former Airforce veteran, chemicals and bio-environmental engineering whistle blower or other researchers aren’t convincing enough, then perhaps a neurologist will help people wake up to the fact that millions of tons of cancer-causing and brain-debilitating nano-particles are being dumped from the air by our government.
There are still people arguing about whether contrails are chemtrails, and the evidence is incredibly right before our eyes. Michigan is hazed out one week, California, the next, then back down south to hit Texas or Georgia. You can see the pictures others have captured if you don’t see them with your own ocular lenses.
Now, Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., called a hack and a self-promoting sycophant by his detractors, is warning us about what thousands of other average citizens have been for years. He says that the tons of nanosized aluminum compounds being sprayed on us via chemtrails are:
Aluminum exposure from chemtrails is helping to lead to aluminum-induced cognitive disorders among the population, as doctor Blaylock, suggests. Aluminum can even affect unborn babies, not just the elderly, since it crosses into the placenta via the blood.
Another toxin being found in chemtrails is Strontium-90. It isn’t any better. Neither is Barium.
The impact of these compounds upon human health is unmistakable. So why is this happening?
There are all kinds of theories, but gaining traction with the overt actions of Monsanto-monopolies, an utter disregard for nature by multiple corporate entities, the ever-present war-mongering that leaves us with tragedies like Fukushima, as well as a general disregard for human life run rampant, some are saying these chemtrails are to kill off most of the population. After all, we are waking up as a worldwide citizenry. But no matter the reason, 2 things are for sure: chemtrails are real, and chemtrails are dangerous.
If you want to learn about chemtrails, regardless of whether or not you agree with the current ‘conspiracy’ theories about why they are taking place everywhere, consider the following for your further edification:
David Keith on Geoengineering
Extensive list of geo-engineering patents
October 28, 2013
Chemtrails are real and they are dangerous, yet so many people still deny their existence. Well if a former Airforce veteran, chemicals and bio-environmental engineering whistle blower or other researchers aren’t convincing enough, then perhaps a neurologist will help people wake up to the fact that millions of tons of cancer-causing and brain-debilitating nano-particles are being dumped from the air by our government.
There are still people arguing about whether contrails are chemtrails, and the evidence is incredibly right before our eyes. Michigan is hazed out one week, California, the next, then back down south to hit Texas or Georgia. You can see the pictures others have captured if you don’t see them with your own ocular lenses.
Now, Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., called a hack and a self-promoting sycophant by his detractors, is warning us about what thousands of other average citizens have been for years. He says that the tons of nanosized aluminum compounds being sprayed on us via chemtrails are:
“. . .infinitely more reactive and induce intense inflammation in a number of tissues. Of special concern is the effect of these nanoparticles on the brain and spinal cord, as a growing list of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) are strongly related to exposure to environmental aluminum.”The concerned neurosurgeon is only commenting on one known toxin, too. There are others, like barium and strontium, and a practically endless cocktail of carcinogenic constituents that can possibly cull the global population. Also speaking out against chemtrails is Dr. Edward Group, who explains how chemicals sprayed from chemtrails can “turn on” certain issues such as shingles within your body (under certain circumstances).
Aluminum exposure from chemtrails is helping to lead to aluminum-induced cognitive disorders among the population, as doctor Blaylock, suggests. Aluminum can even affect unborn babies, not just the elderly, since it crosses into the placenta via the blood.
Another toxin being found in chemtrails is Strontium-90. It isn’t any better. Neither is Barium.
The impact of these compounds upon human health is unmistakable. So why is this happening?
There are all kinds of theories, but gaining traction with the overt actions of Monsanto-monopolies, an utter disregard for nature by multiple corporate entities, the ever-present war-mongering that leaves us with tragedies like Fukushima, as well as a general disregard for human life run rampant, some are saying these chemtrails are to kill off most of the population. After all, we are waking up as a worldwide citizenry. But no matter the reason, 2 things are for sure: chemtrails are real, and chemtrails are dangerous.
If you want to learn about chemtrails, regardless of whether or not you agree with the current ‘conspiracy’ theories about why they are taking place everywhere, consider the following for your further edification:
David Keith on Geoengineering
Extensive list of geo-engineering patents
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Food Bank CEO Suggests Welfare Cuts May Spark Riots
Paul Joseph Watson
October 29, 2013
October 29, 2013
The CEO of the largest food bank in America has
suggested that planned cuts in food stamp benefits set to take effect on
Friday could spark riots.
Margarette Purvis, the president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City, told Salon.com that
the expiration of stimulus funds, which will see the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program reduced by $5 billion dollars, will have an
“immediate impact” and represent a recipe for civil unrest.
“If you look across the world, riots always begin
typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food,” said
Purvis, adding that families face the “daunting” prospect of losing a
whole week’s worth of food every month.
The nationwide cut will take 76 million meals off the
table of poverty-stricken New Yorkers alone, equating to about 16 meals a
month for a family of three. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
has labeled the cut to the SNAP program “unprecedented” in “depth and
breadth.”
As we previously highlighted, even the mainstream media
is invoking the threat of riots that could ensue as a result of the food
stamp cut, with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto linking the issue to
the Department of Homeland Security’s recent $80 million dollar outlay
on armed guards to protect government buildings in upstate New York.
“November 1st could be a very very iffy kind of a day….this could be all hell breaks loose day,” warned Cavuto.
His concerns are not without foundation given that a
glitch in the system which temporarily halted EBT purchases for just a
few hours earlier this month led to looting and mini-riots at several Walmart stores.
Reacting to the downtime, food stamp recipients warned that
if the glitch was to re-occur it would lead to Rodney King-style riots,
a reference to the 1992 L.A. riots which resulted in 53 deaths, 2,000
injuries and over $1 billion dollars in property damages.
Goodbye Free Press? As Europe Erupts Over US Spying, NSA Chief Says Government Must Stop the Media
October 26, 2013
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There are three points worth making about these latest developments.
• First, note how leaders such as Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted with basic indifference when it was revealed months ago that the NSA was bulk-spying on all German citizens, but suddenly found her indignation only when it turned out that she personally was also targeted. That reaction gives potent insight into the true mindset of many western leaders.
• Second, all of these governments keep saying how newsworthy these revelations are, how profound are the violations they expose, how happy they are to learn of all this, how devoted they are to reform. If that's true, why are they allowing the person who enabled all these disclosures – Edward Snowden – to be targeted for persecution by the US government for the "crime" of blowing the whistle on all of this?
If the German and French governments – and the German and French people – are so pleased to learn of how their privacy is being systematically assaulted by a foreign power over which they exert no influence, shouldn't they be offering asylum to the person who exposed it all, rather than ignoring or rejecting his pleas to have his basic political rights protected, and thus leaving him vulnerable to being imprisoned for decades by the US government?
Aside from the treaty obligations these nations have to protect the basic political rights of human beings from persecution, how can they simultaneously express outrage over these exposed invasions while turning their back on the person who risked his liberty and even life to bring them to light?
• Third, is there any doubt at all that the US government repeatedly tried to mislead the world when insisting that this system of suspicionless surveillance was motivated by an attempt to protect Americans from The Terrorists™? Our reporting has revealed spying on conferences designed to negotiate economic agreements, the Organization of American States, oil companies, ministries that oversee mines and energy resources, the democratically elected leaders of allied states, and entire populations in those states.
Can even President Obama and his most devoted loyalists continue to maintain, with a straight face, that this is all about Terrorism? That is what this superb new Foreign Affairs essay by Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore means when it argues that the Manning and Snowden leaks are putting an end to the ability of the US to use hypocrisy as a key weapon in its soft power.
Speaking of an inability to maintain claims with a straight face, how are American and British officials, in light of their conduct in all of this, going to maintain the pretense that they are defenders of press freedoms and are in a position to lecture and condemn others for violations? In what might be the most explicit hostility to such freedoms yet – as well as the most unmistakable evidence of rampant panic – the NSA's director, General Keith Alexander, actually demanded Thursday that the reporting being done by newspapers around the world on this secret surveillance system be halted (Techdirt has the full video here):
The head of the embattled National Security Agency, Gen Keith Alexander, is accusing journalists of "selling" his agency's documents and is calling for an end to the steady stream of public disclosures of secrets snatched by former contractor Edward Snowden.There are 25,000 employees of the NSA (and many tens of thousands more who work for private contracts assigned to the agency). Maybe one of them can tell The General about this thing called "the first amendment".
"I think it's wrong that that newspaper reporters have all these documents, the 50,000 – whatever they have and are selling them and giving them out as if these – you know it just doesn't make sense," Alexander said in an interview with the Defense Department's "Armed With Science" blog.
"We ought to come up with a way of stopping it. I don't know how to do that. That's more of the courts and the policy-makers but, from my perspective, it's wrong to allow this to go on," the NSA director declared. [My italics]
I'd
love to know what ways, specifically, General Alexander has in mind for
empowering the US government to "come up with a way of stopping" the
journalism on this story. Whatever ways those might be, they are deeply
hostile to the US constitution – obviously. What kind of person wants
the government to forcibly shut down reporting by the press?
Whatever
kind of person that is, he is not someone to be trusted in instituting
and developing a massive bulk-spying system that operates in the dark.
For that matter, nobody is.Monday, October 28, 2013
WH: 'It's True' Some Americans Won't Be Able to Keep Their Health Care Plan Under Obamacare
YESHUA HIMSELF is the GREAT PHYSICIAN and HE ALONE will deal with these tyrants
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-its-true-some-americans-wont-be-able-keep-their-health-care-plan-under-obamacare_764860.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-its-true-some-americans-wont-be-able-keep-their-health-care-plan-under-obamacare_764860.html
Catholic Cardinal Says Adam and Eve Didn’t Exist
This evil person will know the real truth when he stands before YESHUA in final judgement
http://consciouslifenews.com/catholic-cardinal-adam-eve-didnt-exist/1127457/
http://consciouslifenews.com/catholic-cardinal-adam-eve-didnt-exist/1127457/
The Yeshiva Boys Choir - "Those Were The Nights (of Chanukah)"
Chanukah is Cheshvan/November 28th (early arrival this year) This is a fun Chanukah song by the Yeshiva Boy's Choir to take away from the seriousness of the world for a little while.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Atheists: Clergy at Crime Scenes Unconstitutional
These 'atheists' are preparing a horrible place for themselves. Our LOVING GOD/YAHWEH has offered them eternal love through YESHUA/JESUS CHRIST our ETERNAL LORD, and they are refusing to repent of their sins and seek YESHUA/JESUS CHRIST and be saved. It is not our LOVING GOD/YAHWEH who is condemning these people, they are condemning themselves.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/atheists-Montgomery-clergy-crime/2013/10/26/id/533238
http://www.newsmax.com/US/atheists-Montgomery-clergy-crime/2013/10/26/id/533238
Saturday, October 26, 2013
'So Help Me God' Now Optional in Air Force Academy Honor Oath
And when the time arrives and they cry out for GOD to help them--what will they do then? These are the days of Noe and Lot.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/air-force-god-oath/2013/10/26/id/533223
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/air-force-god-oath/2013/10/26/id/533223
Dragon Day
(Ask yourself this: Why are they making movies like this now?)
Dragon Day (the Movie) being billed as "Red Dawn for Intellectuals" just may be predicting how the coming collapse begins. This is an article by James Simpson on American Thinker on Dragon Day which opens 1 November in Theatres and just may serve to take people step by step through this possible? probable? catalyst for the coming collapse.
China, by far the largest single owner of U.S. Treasury debt, has been abandoning Treasury bonds to invest directly in U.S. land, building and businesses. Recently, China entered an agreement with the European Union to swap currencies, forgoing purchases of U.S. dollars -- the world's reserve currency -- to finance transactions. Both of these activities are a consequence of the risk associated with astronomical U.S. debt, almost doubled since President Obama took office. On October 11, China called for the world to be "de-Americanized," its leaders ridiculing Washington over the shutdown impasse.
It is against this backdrop of real events that Dragon Day, a tense thriller set to release November 1st, depicts a Chinese takeover of the U.S. after our government defaults on its debt. Dragon Day Director Jeffrey Travis says, "When I would pitch the film to people, I could rarely finish the logline before the reaction was "Oh my God, that's really going to happen". Our joke was we had to finish the film before it became a documentary.
Given where we are today, that may not be so funny.
The story begins with Ex-NSA engineer Duke Evans, who has lost his job due to the continuing financial crisis. Forced to foreclose on his home, he resettles his family (wife, daughter and sister) in a mountain cabin inherited from his recently deceased grandfather. They have barely gotten in the door when things start happening. Lights go out, the TV goes blank and a huge airliner swoops by at treetop level, erupting in a fireball on the next mountain.
The Chinese have launched a cyber attack. A secret computer virus embedded in Chinese manufactured computer chips has allowed the Chinese military to turn them off remotely. America's entire computer-based infrastructure comes screeching to a halt: power goes off, lights go out, autos and trucks stall, trains go off the rails and planes fall out of the sky.
Evans quickly understands what has happened. He was the NSA engineer who designed a secret government cyber warfare program he now realizes was compromised. He thought he was doing this for his country, but it turns out that many in government have been secretly working for the other side all along. TV service is temporarily restored, and the President announces what has happened, followed by an eerie red screen with the enemy flag symbol and announcement:
THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC WELCOMES YOUR ALLEGIANCE
Evans destroys cell phones and anything else that can lead the enemy to his hideaway. The country quickly reverts to pre-industrial conditions, and the movie offers a fairly realistic window into what would actually happen in such a situation. Stores are ransacked. People begin to starve and die of thirst. Roving bands of thugs begin robbing and murdering.
Anarchy rules. But you are offered escape. If you willingly attach a "Citizen's Freedom Band", presumably you will be spared further anguish. Urgently needed food and water are just around the corner, so you think. But instead it proves to be a high tech dog collar which will kill you if you move out of your assigned zone. Surprisingly, the local sheriff's office has a large supply of these, obviously obtained before the attack occurred.
Unlike Red Dawn and similar fare, there are no absurd heroics, or unrealistic depictions of the town forming a militia to fight off the Chinese hoards. This feels much more authentic. It depicts the kind of anarchy that reigns following major natural disasters, like Hurricane Katrina. Individuals and small groups might band together for good or ill, but organized resistance is nil.
There is no ability to communicate or travel, and food and water are almost nonexistent. Many people do what average citizens would do facing starvation and uncertainty, they put on the bracelets. It becomes obvious that many within government at all levels have conspired with the enemy, but it also becomes obvious that for most, their treason will not pay off
While some might take comfort in the fact that this is "just a movie," according to Defense Tech, an American-designed, Chinese-made microchip used in defense applications was recently discovered to have a virus hardwired into it. The article states:
Basically, Chinese cyber spies can use the chip's built-in malware to decipher military passcodes and gain remote access to the chip and reprogram it to do their bidding; 'permitting a new and disturbing possibility of a large-scale Stuxnet-type attack via a network or the Internet on the silicon itself,'...
This discovery has led experts to worry that all Chinese manufactured chips may have similar vulnerabilities.
Furthermore, the events depicted in the movie are almost indistinguishable from what would happen following an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack. EMP is the result of either an unusually large solar storm or high altitude detonation of an atomic bomb. It roasts electrical circuitry. As in the movie, aircraft would fall from the sky, transportation would cease, and energy, food and water supplies would vanish. Iran has conducted missile tests believed to be test runs for EMP attacks.
Evans' neighbor Albert, a good friend of his deceased grandfather, has the only vehicle that still works, an old 1976 Ford truck, built before computer chips were used in autos, but this is quickly commandeered by the local police. Like most good characters in a movie however, the truck makes a reappearance later on.
There are some gimmicks the tech-savvy will enjoy. Albert brings over an old short wave radio, but the battery is dead. If Evans can just reach his old NSA boss, he knows he can get help. He rigs up a potato battery to run the radio. Don't laugh; they work! The only thing that bothered me was where the heck did he get all those potatoes?
It also bothered me that they didn't appear to be using the apparently plentiful potatoes as a source of food or water when these ran short. They could have, and did give a few potatoes to two kids who came to the door begging.
But this was a small detail. The movie was fast moving and kept me on the edge of my seat. I appreciated the realism. While watching Communist thugs getting blown away by vengeful high school kids in Red Dawn was gratifying, it was also unrealistic.
A genuine takeover would not go well for such resistors. Dragon Day depicted more of the things that would really happen: friends, neighbors and authorities turning against you -- even the U.S. military, I am afraid to say, as would likely happen in such a situation. At least it would now that Obama has purged patriotic leaders from the military. This movie showed a family doing its best to innovate and survive in a chaotic situation -- much more believable.
I don't want to spoil the rest of it for you so I'll just leave it there. If you are into this kind of survivalist, end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it type film, Dragon Day will not disappoint. The acting is convincing and the entire storyline, right down to the way different people might react in such a situation, really rings true. With all the stuff going on around us in the real world, this movie is all the more frightening.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Iran gives Christians 80 lashes for communion wine as UN blasts human rights record
YESHUA HIMSELF will destroy those who harm HIS children!
Our MASTER YESHUA spoke that this would happen in Matthew Ch 24.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/24/iran-gives-christians-80-lashes-for-communion-wine-as-un-blasts-human-rights/
Our MASTER YESHUA spoke that this would happen in Matthew Ch 24.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/24/iran-gives-christians-80-lashes-for-communion-wine-as-un-blasts-human-rights/
SEAL Veteran: Military Leaders Being Asked if They Will Disarm Americans
Paul Joseph Watson
October 23, 2013
Former Navy SEAL Ben Smith warns that the Obama administration is asking top brass in the military if they would be comfortable with disarming U.S. citizens, a litmus test that includes gauging whether they would be prepared to order NCOs to fire on Americans.
October 23, 2013
Former Navy SEAL Ben Smith warns that the Obama administration is asking top brass in the military if they would be comfortable with disarming U.S. citizens, a litmus test that includes gauging whether they would be prepared to order NCOs to fire on Americans.
Smith provoked headlines last week when he appeared on Fox News to assert that the federal government was trying to provoke veterans into violence as an excuse to implement martial law.
Speaking exclusively to the Alex Jones Show, Smith
stated, “Going back to the beginning of this administration, I’ve had
friends within the community talking about how they were brought in and
questioned with people from more towards the top side and the
questioning….where it was pointing was do you feel comfortable disarming
American citizens,” adding that this was one of the many “funny things”
occurring within the military.
When Smith was asked by radio host Alex Jones if this
line of questioning included a litmus test whereby military officers
were asked if they would fire on U.S. citizens, he responded in the
affirmative.
Smith said the litmus test was related to the recent firing of top military commanders Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina and Maj. Gen. Michael Carey.
Smith linked the premise to former Obama advisor Van
Jones, who was forced to resign in September 2009 after his links with a
Marxist organization were revealed.
“You drop the radical pose for the radical ends,” said Smith, paraphrasing Van Jones.
The idea of U.S. soldiers being asked if they will fire
on American citizens during a crisis or mass disarmament program has
emerged from several different sources over the last two decades.
In January, 2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow claimed he
was told by a top military veteran that the Obama administration’s
“litmus test” for new military leaders is whether or not they will obey
an order to fire on U.S. citizens.
Concerns over U.S. troops being given orders to fire on
American citizens in the event of mass gun confiscation first arose in
May 1994 when hundreds of Marines at 29 Palms, California were given a survey as
part of an academic project by Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest Guy
Cunningham which asked the Marines if they would, “Fire upon U.S.
citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the
United States government.”
The survey was subsequently leaked because many of the Marines who took it were shocked by the tone of the question.
Obamacare Operator Fired After Taking Call From Hannity; Hannity To Give Her A Year's Salary
Anyone seeing the corruption? This operator told the truth about the corrupt affordable health care plan and she was fired for her courage to do so.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/24/obamacare_operator_fired_after_taking_call_from_hannity_hannity_to_give_her_a_years_salary.html
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/24/obamacare_operator_fired_after_taking_call_from_hannity_hannity_to_give_her_a_years_salary.html
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
HealthCare.gov Delays Are Way More Than Just Glitches
This affordable health care act is treason against america to steal from and harm the american people--they need your money to cover their debts, therefore, they created this act to steal your money through this forced extortion.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/16784-healthcare-gov-delays-are-way-more-than-just-glitches
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/16784-healthcare-gov-delays-are-way-more-than-just-glitches
Security Check Now Starts Long Before You Fly
By
Susan Stellin
Published: October 21, 201
The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.
Published: October 21, 201
The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.
Michael Stravato for The New York Times
Mr. Darrat said the SSSS printed on his boarding pass meant he had to have enhanced screening.
While the agency says that the goal is to streamline the security
procedures for millions of passengers who pose no risk, the new measures
give the government greater authority to use travelers’ data for
domestic airport screenings. Previously that level of scrutiny applied
only to individuals entering the United States.
The prescreening, some of which is already taking place, is described in
documents the T.S.A. released to comply with government regulations
about the collection and use of individuals’ data, but the details of
the program have not been publicly announced.
It is unclear precisely what information the agency is relying upon to
make these risk assessments, given the extensive range of records it can
access, including tax identification number, past travel itineraries,
property records, physical characteristics, and law enforcement or
intelligence information.
The measures go beyond the background check the government has conducted
for years, called Secure Flight, in which a passenger’s name, gender
and date of birth are compared with terrorist watch lists. Now, the
search includes using a traveler’s passport number, which is already
used to screen people at the border, and other identifiers to access a
system of databases maintained by the Department of Homeland Security.
Privacy groups contacted by The New York Times expressed concern over the security agency’s widening reach.
“I think the best way to look at it is as a pre-crime assessment every
time you fly,” said Edward Hasbrouck, a consultant to the Identity
Project, one of the groups that oppose the prescreening initiatives.
“The default will be the highest, most intrusive level of search, and
anything less will be conditioned on providing some additional
information in some fashion.”
The T.S.A., which has been criticized for a one-size-fits-all approach
to screening travelers, said the initiatives were needed to make the
procedures more targeted.
“Secure Flight has successfully used information provided to airlines to
identify and prevent known or suspected terrorists or other individuals
on no-fly lists from gaining access to airplanes or secure areas of
airports,” the security agency said in a statement. “Additional risk
assessments are used for those higher-risk passengers.”
An agency official discussed some aspects of the initiative on the
condition that she not be identified. She emphasized that the main goal
of the program was to identify low-risk travelers for lighter screening
at airport security checkpoints, adapting methods similar to those used
to flag suspicious people entering the United States.
Anyone who has never traveled outside the United States would not have a
passport number on file and would therefore not be subject to the rules
that the agency uses to determine risk, she said, although documents
indicate that the agency is prescreening all passengers in some fashion.
The official added that these rules consider things like an individual’s
travel itinerary, length of stay abroad and type of travel document,
like a passport. If an airline has a traveler’s passport number on file,
it is required to share that information with the T.S.A., even for a
domestic flight.
The agency also receives a code indicating a passenger is a member of
the airline’s frequent-flier program and has access to details about
past travel reservations, known as passenger name records. This official
could not confirm if that information was being used to assess a
passenger’s risk.
The effort comes as the agency is trying to increase participation in
its trusted traveler program, called PreCheck, that allows frequent
fliers to pass through security more quickly after submitting their
fingerprints and undergoing a criminal-background check.
NSA Busted Conducting Industrial Espionage In France, Mexico, Brazil, China and All Around the World
Countries do not have the love of GOD within them
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-busted-conducting-industrial-espionage-in-france-mexico-brazil-china-and-all-around-the-world/5355026?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nsa-busted-conducting-industrial-espionage-in-france-mexico-brazil-china-and-
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-busted-conducting-industrial-espionage-in-france-mexico-brazil-china-and-all-around-the-world/5355026?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nsa-busted-conducting-industrial-espionage-in-france-mexico-brazil-china-and-
Monday, October 21, 2013
U.S. quietly releasing $1.6B in Pakistan assistance
Every ask yourself where the tyrants are getting all this money when america is suffering for work?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/19/us-quietly-releasing-16b-in-pakistan-assistance/3030043/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/19/us-quietly-releasing-16b-in-pakistan-assistance/3030043/
Uh Oh: 47 Million Food Stamp Recipients Are Having Their Benefits Cut Back On November 1st
I do believe firmly in self-dependence, but for those who sometimes need a little help, this step shows how corrupt this country really is. And while the tyrants are cutting benefits back here in america
Uh Oh: 47 Million Food Stamp Recipients Are Having Their Benefits Cut Back On November 1st
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/uh-oh-47-million-food-stamp-recipients-are-having-their-benefits-cut-back-on-november-1st
The tyrants are doing this here in pakistan
U.S. quietly releasing $1.6B in Pakistan assistance
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/19/us-quietly-releasing-16b-in-pakistan-assistance/3030043/
Anyone awake out there yet!
Uh Oh: 47 Million Food Stamp Recipients Are Having Their Benefits Cut Back On November 1st
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/uh-oh-47-million-food-stamp-recipients-are-having-their-benefits-cut-back-on-november-1st
The tyrants are doing this here in pakistan
U.S. quietly releasing $1.6B in Pakistan assistance
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/19/us-quietly-releasing-16b-in-pakistan-assistance/3030043/
Anyone awake out there yet!
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Report: Massive Vulnerability Detected In National Power Grids: “There Is No Way to Stop This”
Mac Slavo
October 20th, 2013
If you think that our multi-billion dollar electrical power grids are
secure and capable of withstanding a coordinated attack, think again.
According to one group of engineers, the grid is so vulnerable that it wouldn’t even require a skilled hacker to compromise. In fact, when Adam Crain and Chris Sistrunk decided to test some new software they were developing they identified a vulnerability so serious that it could literally blind operational controllers to such an extent that they would be locked out of monitoring systems and unable to maintain grid integrity.
The consequences, according to the engineers who note they are in no way security specialists, could be a total downing of the national power grid with nodes across the nation being taken over all at once. Moreover, the same systems used to maintain the U.S. power grid are also being used in other industries, like water treatment facilities.
You’d think that such a vulnerability would be a top priority for the Department of Homeland Security, considering they are spending millions of dollars and promoting their coming Grid Ex exercise in November.
But you’d be wrong. The kicker is that when Crain and Sistrunk advised the DHS Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, they got what essentially amounts to no response. It took Homeland Security a full four months before they even acknowledged the problem.
They know that these systems are vulnerable, and the steps needed to protect the grid from cyber attacks and other potential hazards like a Super EMP or a severe geo-magnetic event would cost in the multiple billions of dollars to fix.
The fact of the matter is that DHS and the vendors who produce these software control systems are dragging their feet, leaving the entire country vulnerable.
Crain and Sistrunk are not hackers or security experts. They are software engineers and they were able to compromise our entire national power grid and water utility systems from remote locations.
What do you think China, Russia, and rogue hackers are capable of doing?
If you don’t think they’ve mapped our entire grid and its vulnerabilities you are kidding yourself.
This is deadly serious.
And when we say deadly, we mean it, because according to a report from the Center for Security Policy presented to Congress in 2010, if our power grid were to be taken offline for an extended period of time, 9 out of 10 Americans would be dead within a year.
October 20th, 2013
According to one group of engineers, the grid is so vulnerable that it wouldn’t even require a skilled hacker to compromise. In fact, when Adam Crain and Chris Sistrunk decided to test some new software they were developing they identified a vulnerability so serious that it could literally blind operational controllers to such an extent that they would be locked out of monitoring systems and unable to maintain grid integrity.
The consequences, according to the engineers who note they are in no way security specialists, could be a total downing of the national power grid with nodes across the nation being taken over all at once. Moreover, the same systems used to maintain the U.S. power grid are also being used in other industries, like water treatment facilities.
You’d think that such a vulnerability would be a top priority for the Department of Homeland Security, considering they are spending millions of dollars and promoting their coming Grid Ex exercise in November.
But you’d be wrong. The kicker is that when Crain and Sistrunk advised the DHS Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, they got what essentially amounts to no response. It took Homeland Security a full four months before they even acknowledged the problem.
The two engineers who discovered the vulnerability say little is being done.When outgoing DHS head Janet Napolitano suggested that a cyber attack on the nation’s power grid is imminent, she meant it.
Adam Crain and Chris Sistrunk do not specialize in security. The engineers say they hardly qualify as security researchers. But seven months ago, Mr. Crain wrote software to look for defects in an open-source software program.
The program targeted a very specific communications protocol called DNP3, which is predominantly used by electric and water companies, and plays a crucial role in so-called S.C.A.D.A. (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems. Utility companies use S.C.A.D.A. systems to monitor far-flung power stations from a control center, in part because it allows them to remotely diagnose problems rather than wait for a technician to physically drive out to a station and fix it.
Mr. Crain ran his security test on his open-source DNP3 program and didn’t find anything wrong. Frustrated, he tested a third-party vendor’s program to make sure his software was working. The first program he targeted belonged to Triangle MicroWorks, a Raleigh, North Carolina based company that sells source code to large vendors of S.C.A.D.A. systems.
It broke instantly.
“When Adam told me he broke Triangle, I worried everything else was broken,” said Mr. Sistrunk.
Over the course of one week last April, the two tested Mr. Crain’s software across 16 vendors’ systems. They did not find a single system they couldn’t break.
By the end of the week, the two had compiled a 20-page report replete with vulnerabilities in 16 different system vendors for the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, I.C.S.-C.E.R.T., which notifies vendors of vulnerabilities and issues public advisories.
And then, they waited. It would take I.C.S.-C.E.R.T. another four months to issue a public advisory for Triangle MicroWorks’ system.
…D.H.S. did not return a request for comment.
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Mr. Crain found that he could actually infiltrate a power station’s control center from afar. An attacker could use that capability to insert malware to take over the system, and like Stuxnet, the computer worm that took out 20 percent of Iran’s centrifuges, inflict actual physical harm.
“This is low-hanging fruit,” said Mr. Crain. “It doesn’t require some kind of hacker mastermind to understand the protocol and do this.”
What makes the vulnerabilities particularly troubling, experts say, is that traditional firewalls are ill-equipped to stop them. “When the master crashes it can no longer monitor or control any and all of the substations,” said Dale Peterson, a former N.S.A. employee who founded Digital Bond, a security firm that focuses on infrastructure.“There is no way to stop this with a firewall and other perimeter security device today.”
The New York Times
They know that these systems are vulnerable, and the steps needed to protect the grid from cyber attacks and other potential hazards like a Super EMP or a severe geo-magnetic event would cost in the multiple billions of dollars to fix.
The fact of the matter is that DHS and the vendors who produce these software control systems are dragging their feet, leaving the entire country vulnerable.
Crain and Sistrunk are not hackers or security experts. They are software engineers and they were able to compromise our entire national power grid and water utility systems from remote locations.
What do you think China, Russia, and rogue hackers are capable of doing?
If you don’t think they’ve mapped our entire grid and its vulnerabilities you are kidding yourself.
This is deadly serious.
And when we say deadly, we mean it, because according to a report from the Center for Security Policy presented to Congress in 2010, if our power grid were to be taken offline for an extended period of time, 9 out of 10 Americans would be dead within a year.
There would be no way to transport food because gas
stations pumps would be inoperable. And even if they did work, the
commerce systems which makes the exchange of goods possible would be
offline. Couple that with water utilities not functioning due to lack of
electricity, and we’re talking about a worst-case scenario so bad that
this country may never recover.
Former Congressman Roscoe Bartlet has urged those who can to move out of major cities for this reason.
