“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.” - George Orwell
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Today's Posts from Orwell's Dreams
‘No one will rebel. To rebel you need more than misdirected anger; you need courage and a sense of responsibility. Better just pray and trust in god. On your knees is the strongest position! Rebellion affirms the human spirit and feeds the flames of love and hope. The sheeple don’t have it in them any more. The Tazer is a cattle-prod. Everyday police grow more brutal. The herd will cull itself!’ – Aloysius Fozdyke
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Todays Posts From Orwell's Dreams
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.” - George Orwell
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Todays Posts At Orwell's Dreams
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.” - George Orwell
Friday, July 2, 2010
Todays Posts From Orwell's dreams
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.” - George Orwell
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Victory: Charges Against Student Accused of ‘Disorderly Conduct’ for E-Mail
CLEMSON, South Carolina, May 26, 2010—Clemson University has withdrawn “disorderly conduct,” “harassment,” and two other charges against a student who e-mailed an administrator using “language and tone” that another administrator found “unacceptable.” After undergraduate William Kirwan was charged with a variety of offenses in violation of his First Amendment rights, he turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.
“Public university administrators cannot punish students simply because they disapprove of their ‘language and tone,’” said FIRE Vice President Robert Shibley. “We commend Clemson’s leadership for putting an end to this violation as soon as FIRE brought it to their attention.”
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Reinventing Memorial Day: Beyond the Mattress Blowout Sale
Why has Memorial Day, like so many of our national holidays, been reduced to appliance sales, fast food specials, and vacation deals?
With the recent near-collapse of our economy, the ways in which we understand and celebrate national holidays seem particularly challenged. This erosion of meaning is just one of many examples of the growing gap between the promise of America–freedom and opportunity through sacrifice and unity–and how people experience Brand America. Like any brand, America will have to close this gap to thrive in the future.
Remembering Memorial Day is not about believing in war. It’s an opportunity to reconnect the American Experience with its core promise, and reinvigorate the nation’s signs, symbols, myths, and metaphors with authenticity and relevance. The following is the first in a series of thoughts exploring how design thinking might help do this.
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U.S. Committed to Border Defense: For South Korea
The border between North and South Korea is about 160 Miles long. It is also heavily defended by about 28,600 American troops, walls, guns, searchlights, etc.
“The Mexico – United States border … runs from San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, in the west to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east, and traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts. From the Gulf of Mexico it follows the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) to the border crossing at El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; westward from that binational conurbation it crosses vast tracts of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Desert, the Colorado River Delta, westward to the binational conurbation of San Diego and Tijuana before reaching the Pacific Ocean.
The border’s total length is 3,169 km (1,969 miles), according to figures given by the International Boundary and Water Commission.[1] It is the most frequently crossed international border in the world, with about 250 million people crossings every year. (Source)
North Korea has about 238 United States soldiers per mile along its border, plus the South Korean army.
“Currently, the U.S. Border Patrol employs over 20,200 agents (as of the end of fiscal year 2009), who are specifically responsible for patrolling the 6,000 miles of Mexican and Canadian international land borders and 2,000 miles of coastal waters surrounding the Florida Peninsula and the island of Puerto Rico. Agents are assigned primarily to the Mexico–United States border, where they are assigned to control drug trafficking and illegal immigration. Patrols on horseback have made a comeback since smugglers have been pushed into the more remote mountainous regions, which are hard to cover with modern tracking strategies.” (Source)
For those of you keeping score at home, that is about 2.5 INS Agents (soldiers) per mile. South Korea has 238 American soldiers per mile to defend its borders. We get 2.5 American soldiers per mile to defend ours. But wait, there’s more! Obama has just committed an additional 1200 National Guard troops to border protection. This raises the number to 2.65 soldiers per mile. If only Arizona had the the same lobbyists as South Korea!
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Violent crime declines as American gun ownership rises
For the third consecutive year, violent crime has declined in the United States during the same period when gun and ammunition purchases have increased dramatically, something that should not be happening, if one were to believe the gun prohibition lobby. The FBI on Monday released preliminary uniform crime data showing that the four major violent crime categories are all slipping. Overall, 2009 experienced a 7.2 percent drop in murders, an 8.1 percent decrease in robbery, a 4.2 percent decline in aggravated assault and 3.1 percent reduction in forcible rape. Yet, according to data from the FBI’s National Instant Check System and – from all places – the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, gun and ammunition sales are up dramatically. NICS background checks are up this year, and the excise tax apportionments to the states from the sale of firearms and ammunition have climbed from $336,474,545 in Fiscal Year 2009 to a whopping $472,719,710 for FY 2010. Do any kind of math you like, that still translates to more than $136 million in additional excise tax revenues over 2009, which further translates to a lot more guns and ammunition, and hunting/shooting-related gear changing hands at the retail counter.
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Yet More Reasons (As If We Needed Any) to Abolish the TSA
What would enrage you enough to “kick a wall, throw a suitcase or make a pithy comment to a screener” at an airport? How about the screener’s electronically denuding and then leering at your wife? What if the gizmo whereby he stripped also her exposed both her and the month-old child she didn’t yet realize she was carrying to carcinogenic rays? Fast-forward a few years: now, as your toddler struggles with a congenital deformity, you learn your wife’s virtual strip-search at the airport may have been responsible. How many walls, suitcases and screeners will escape your wrath then?
Beware: the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), keeper of blacklists to which it secretly adds folks it has never charged with any crime, let alone tried in a court of law, and from which its victims have little recourse, maintains yet another list, this time of “people who make its screeners feel threatened… A TSA report says the database can include names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone numbers of people involved in airport incidents, including aggressors, victims and witnesses.”
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap For 05-26-10
Here are the 29 police misconduct reports recorded in our National Police Misconduct News Feed yesterday, Wednesday the 26th of May, 2010:
- The once-police chief of Jacksonville North Carolina has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of 1st degree murder in the 1972 shooting death of a US Marine sergeant. The chief, George Hayden, killed William Miller with two shots to the back of the head with an M-16 after Miller’s then wife lured him into an ambush so that she and Hayden wouldn’t lose custody of Miller’s daughter when they got married just a few months later due to a fraud case Miller was building against Hayden at the time.
- The state of New Jersey and two New Jersey transit cops will have to split up paying a $760,000 judgment that was awarded to the woman who was raped by the two officers. The pair were convicted of official misconduct and sentenced to 3 years in prison for talking the woman into following them after she had asked for help and then forcing her to have sex in the weeds under an overpass under threat of arrest.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Canada’s Effort to Criminalize Criticism of Israel
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
UK recruits army of child spies to report on ‘anti-social neighbours’
Child spies will be encouraged to report their neighbours as part of the latest drive to cut thuggery and anti-social behaviour on estates.
As part of a campaign launched yesterday, youngsters will look for residents with untidy or litter-strewn surroundings and then try to persuade them to clean up their homes.
As part of a campaign launched yesterday, youngsters will look for residents with untidy or litter-strewn surroundings and then try to persuade them to clean up their homes.
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
A funny thing happened to me at airport security this week: The full-body scanner appeared to detect my fake left breast.
Felony Snowball Tossing Charges Lodged
FEBRUARY 9–Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday’s blizzard.
Mall Riots: Why Are Some Americans Becoming Violent Shoppers?
Americans used to protest in the streets; now some have resorted to fighting each other in shopping malls. What happened?
Facebook Hit With More Privacy Lawsuits
Facebook has been hit with two new potential class-action lawsuits stemming from recent re visions to its privacy settings.
The cases, filed recently in federal district court in San Jose, Calif. on behalf of nine Facebook users, allege that the new settings are “confusing and materially deceptive” and lessened their privacy.
The cases, filed recently in federal district court in San Jose, Calif. on behalf of nine Facebook users, allege that the new settings are “confusing and materially deceptive” and lessened their privacy.
The Myth of the Good War: America in World War II + Salughter House 5
60 Years Ago, February 13-14, 1945: Why was Dresden Destroyed
In the night of February 13-14, 1945, the ancient and beautiful capital of Saxony, Dresden, was attacked three times, twice by the RAF and once by the USAAF, the United States Army Air Force, in an operation involving well over 1,000 bombers. The consequences were catastrophic, as the historical city centre was incinerated and between 25,000 and 40,000 people lost their lives
Judge calls MI5 “devious, dishonest and complicit in torture”
MI5 faced an unprecedented and damaging crisis tonight after one of the country’s most senior judges found that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, deliberately misled parliament, and had a “culture of suppression” that undermined government assurances about its conduct.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tell Google Not To Enter Into an Agreement With the NSA!
The Washington Post reported that Google is negotiating an information-sharing agreement with the National Security Agency (NSA) to help the company defend its networks.
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Brainwashing” a new generation of North American citizens
This is just another example of an overarching movement on behalf of globalist business leaders and politicians to merge the three nations of North America into an EU like federation.” He added, “Integration meetings such as the NAFI Triumvirate are simulations of the exact practices currently being undertaken by the SPP and its offshoot organizations. The NAFI Triumvirate is designed to familiarize ‘future Canadian, American and Mexican leaders’ with the processes involved in such practices.”
Macho and excessive armed policing
Although violent crime is down, the police are increasingly using guns to make bungled, inaccurate and potentially deadly raids.
Victoria Coren asked in the Observer last week why we need a police force that has become “a tooled up army of Schwarzeneggers” if, as Tony Blair claimed at the Iraq inquiry, the invasion of Iraq has made Britain a safer place.
Victoria Coren asked in the Observer last week why we need a police force that has become “a tooled up army of Schwarzeneggers” if, as Tony Blair claimed at the Iraq inquiry, the invasion of Iraq has made Britain a safer place.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Goldstone co-author: The court of world opinion is determined to see the report prevail
Goldstone co-author: The court of world opinion is determined to see the report prevail
by Philip Weiss
Hanan Chehata of Middle East Monitor goes to Dublin to interview Desmond Travers, the retired Irish colonel who was one of the authors of the Goldstone Report. The money:
The best statement I can make about that is the one that Richard Goldstone made when an American spokesperson for the State Department said it was a very biased, flawed report and he said to them by way of response, “Show us where the bias is and where the flaw is and we’ll do our best to correct it.” That invitation stands. I have subsequently issued the same invitation in a Dutch newspaper and elsewhere; so far, no substantive critique of the report has been received.
by Philip Weiss
Hanan Chehata of Middle East Monitor goes to Dublin to interview Desmond Travers, the retired Irish colonel who was one of the authors of the Goldstone Report. The money:
The best statement I can make about that is the one that Richard Goldstone made when an American spokesperson for the State Department said it was a very biased, flawed report and he said to them by way of response, “Show us where the bias is and where the flaw is and we’ll do our best to correct it.” That invitation stands. I have subsequently issued the same invitation in a Dutch newspaper and elsewhere; so far, no substantive critique of the report has been received.
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