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May 21, 2012 at 10:01 PM

Activist Post

Pennsylvania State Constable Ed Quiggle, Jr., the elected Constable for the City of Sunbury’s 9th Ward, will sign a resolution in opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, also known as the NDAA, on Saturday, May 26th, 2012 at 10 a.m., in Cameron Park directly across the street from the Northumberland County Courthouse in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. The NDAA authorizes the federal government to arrest and indefinitely detain Americans and legal aliens without charge or trial.

On January 17th, 2012 the County Commissioners of Elk County, Pennsylvania unanimously passed a resolution opposing the NDAA, titled “To Preserve Habeas Corpus And Civil Liberties.” Sheriff Mike McMoran, Comanche County, Kansas, Sheriff Grayson Robinson, Arapahoe County, Colorado, and former Sheriff Richard Mack have signed resolutions opposing the NDAA and ordering no one in their department to cooperate with the enforcement of the NDAA.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/5befOZoumC0/pennsylvania-constable-to-sign.html

May 21, 2012 at 8:32 PM

Should it be legal for the U.S. government to spend billions of dollars on propaganda designed to change public opinion in the United States? Should it be legal for the U.S. government to use television, radio, newspapers, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and Internet forums to conduct “psychological operations” targeted at the American public? An amendment that has been added to a new defense bill in Congress would make it legal to target propaganda and “psychological operations” directly at U.S. citizens. The latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act would overturn the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987.

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/new-bill-would-make-it-legal-to-target-propaganda-and-psychological-operations-directly-at-u-s-citizens?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-bill-would-make-it-legal-to-target-propaganda-and-psychological-operations-directly-at-u-s-citizens

May 21, 2012 at 5:26 PM

Why isn’t the U.S. economy in a depression right now? The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of living. Whether the federal government spends money wisely or foolishly, the truth is that the vast majority of it still ends up in the pockets of the American people who then use it to buy the things they need for their daily lives. If the U.S. government had not borrowed and spent an extra five trillion dollars that we did not have over the past several years, we would be in the middle of a rip-roaring economic depression right now. So any talk that Barack Obama is “improving the economy” is a total farce. It is a five trillion dollar lie. The reality is that Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have been stealing trillions of dollars from future generations in order to make things tolerable in the present.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/obamas-five-trillion-dollar-lie

May 21, 2012 at 11:37 AM

Liberty Groped – Anthony Freda

SARTRE, Contributor
Activist Post

The horror stories about the Transportation Security Administration are indisputable. In the post-9/11 environment, civil liberties are routinely ignored or eliminated and have become a mere memory in a country that once prided itself as the beacon of freedom for the entire world. The TSA is part of the�Department of Homeland Security. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is also an agency of DHS.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/fiYmvNlUdKQ/homeland-security-in-land-of-free.html

May 21, 2012 at 10:17 AM

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

In a report from the World Bank, Africa’s economic development was outlined as a “golden opportunity for a green future”.

At the 4th Africa Carbon Forum (ACF) “The vast potential represented by African countries in the fight against climate change cannot be underestimated,” said Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

“The Africa Carbon Forum is where potential projects and developers and funders can meet, exchange ideas, and – it is hoped – take the concrete steps toward greening Africa’s future.”

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/t978nwcpvag/un-to-control-worlds-information-and.html

May 21, 2012 at 6:41 AM

By RODERICK MacFARQUHARIN

The heyday of the Soviet era, Communist leaders were described by the dissident Yugoslav theorist Milovan Djilas as the “New Class,” whose power lay not in ownership of wealth but in control of it: all the property of the state was at their beck and call.There was the apocryphal but appropriate story of Brezhnev’s showing his humble mother around his historic office, his magnificent collection of foreign luxury cars and his palatial dacha with its superb meals, and asking for her impressions — to which she replied: “It’s wonderful, Leonid, but what happens if the Bolsheviks come back?” But if even a fraction of the stories about the wealth and lifestyles of China’s “princelings” — the descendants of Mao’s revolutionary generation — are to be believed, China’s New Class wants not only control, but also ownership.

http://chinhdangvu.blogspot.com/2012/05/in-china-fear-at-top.html

May 21, 2012 at 6:53 AM

The whole point of political office is to steal as much money as possible as fast as possibleBy David IgnatiusPerhaps when Chinese leaders began to speak over the past several years about a new “Beijing Consensus” and the triumph of the “China Model,” that was a warning that the bubble was about to burst.

http://chinhdangvu.blogspot.com/2012/05/chinas-wobbly-transition.html

May 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM

Sayer Ji, Contributor
Activist Post

After a recent trip to the juice bar at the Naples Whole Foods – a place, mind you, I usually avoid at all costs because they don’t explicitly label the ingredients in their prepared foods as being certified organic – I allowed my good judgment to be euthanized by the sweet-sounding clerk’s assurance that they use “mostly organic” ingredients, with the highly non-binding qualification: “whenever possible.”

Of course, my main concern with not buying 100% organic juice is the greater likelihood that the produce was grown in factory-farmed animal manure, or raw-human sewage, which is a breeding ground for serious, even deadly pathogens, and which may contaminate both the food grown in it, and the people who consume the contaminated food.

But, a battery of factors conspired against what I would like to consider my better judgment: 1) being fatigued by the morning outing at the Zoo. 2) knowing our favorite organic juice bar (at Food & Thought) was taking a much-deserved day of rest. 3) being in the company of less “neurotic” and equally exhausted child-towing company … I just decided to shut up and give it a shot.

And so, with all my pre-purchase doubts happily behind me I sat down to an already half-consumed glass of raw vegetable juice, only to discover the following warning sticker staring back at me, declaring in CDC-speak that I had just engaged in highly risky, if not downright dangerous behavior:

WARNING: This product has not been pasteurized and, therefore, may contain harmful bacteria that can cause serious illness in children, the elderly and persons with weakened immune systems. — Whole Foods Market
And then, to my dismay, I noticed that my sweet 3-year-old daughter’s Whole Foods Almond Milk Smoothie also bore the same terrible warning, which needless to say was giving me a bit of indigestion as I contemplated the implications of the statement further.

First, I was a bit incredulous! “Really?? I just spent a good chunk of the remainder of my last paycheck buying a presumably healthy drink for my family, and I’m being told that it could make us terribly ill??”

Second, angry: “Good lord. I can buy genetically engineered (GE) food in this country (which should bear the skull and crossbones), without any label warning me of this fact, but I can’t buy an organic raw juice without being told that it may contain ‘harmful bacteria’ and could cause serious illness in my child because it was not pasteurized????”

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/Ke3QZJYIpdk/whole-foods-adds-creepy-warning.html

May 21, 2012 at 9:59 AM

Mike Barrett
Activist Post

Since early 2011, there has been a lot of information circulating regarding Monsanto’s purported purchasing of the natural health food store known as Whole Foods; topics like “Monsanto buys whole foods” and others quickly became hot search terms.

Interestingly enough, Monsanto was also rumored to have bought Blackwater (Xe), a private military company. While it is understandable that Monsanto would buy or at least work with Blackwater (as they are both in the same corrupt business), who would believe that Monsanto could scoop up Whole Foods?�

In actuality, the biotechnology giant did not buy Blackwater, and did not buy Whole Foods. Here are the details.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/hQtYP7rilB8/monsanto-buys-whole-foods-fact-or-rumor.html