Tiny 2-Foot Bomb Could Be ‘Months’ Away From Drone War

Wired.com
July 14, 2012

Updated, 7:10 a.m., July 14

The drone war could be shrinking faster than anyone expected. Raytheon’s teeny, tiny drone bomb might be ready to arm a small drone within months, the defense giant says.

Since 2009, Raytheon has been experimenting with what it understatedly calls a Small Tactical Munition. It’s a laser-guided bomb less than two feet long and barely a 10th the weight of the Hellfire missiles that the iconic Predators and Reapers pack. And the wait for it may be almost over: “We’re just tweaking the software and running some environmental tests,” a business manager for Raytheon’s missile division toldAIN Online.

That would open new worlds of possibility for the U.S. drone arsenal. There are a lot more small dronesthan there are Preds and Reapers. The small-fry robots are used as flying spies, since they’re too lightweight to arm — until now. The Small Tactical Munition is supposed to arm the Shadow, a drone that’s only 12 feet long. The U.S. fleet of killer drones would significantly increase. Alternatively, the existing, large killer drone fleet could carry far more weapons than they currently do.

There are two ways to look at that development. The straightforward way is to consider it a kind of deadly Moore’s Law. That’s certainly commensurate with the miniaturization of killer drones, like the kamikaze mash-up of missile and robot called the Switchblade.

A less intuitive interpretation, not mutually exclusive with the other one, is that a smaller drone war might not be a deadlier one. A smaller munition, with a smaller warhead, kills fewer people than a larger munition. That’s certainly how Raytheon sees it: “This is relevant to the strict rules of engagement,” said J.R. Smith from its missile shop.

That’s probably cold comfort if the armed robot fleet expands from hundreds to thousands before a single new ‘bot is purchased. But not all drones are equal: The Shadow has a loiter time of about four hours aloft before it runs out of gas; a Predator can hover for the better part of a day. But having an armed Shadow to launch would be a big asset to a commando team in, say, East Africa. Smaller also means cheaper, and easier to deploy.

Update, 7:10 a.m.: There’s some confusion about the Small Tactical Munition; Raytheon has alternatively characterized it as a missile and a bomb. But spokesman Dave Desilets sets the record straight: it’s a bomb. We’ve changed this post accordingly.

Five Words For the United Nations: "FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!"

Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan
July 12, 2012

In January of this year reports began surfacing that members of the United Nations were conspiring with American politicians to further erode the Second Amendment rights of the people of these United States:

“In New York, right here on our own shores, we’ve got a Trojan horse. They won’t accept U.S. firearms policy. They want to take the decision away from the U.S. electorate and undermine our Constitution.”
Ambassador Faith Whittlesey
US Delegate to UN Small Arms Conference
January 2012

While actions at the UN posed a serious threat to our right to bear arms, few acknowledged the legitimacy of the issue and fewer still had even heard anything about it.

The Obama administration is now just a matter of weeks away from joining other foreign powers in the signing of the Arms Trade Treaty at United Nations.

While many will argue that the new treaty will not restrict gun ownership in America, 2nd Amendment proponents disagree and maintain that the new treaty could pave the way for an eventual nationwide gun grab.

Dick Morris, who is spearheading a petition to stop Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the United States from signing the treaty, explains the inherent dangers within:

…Obama is planning, with Hillary, a backdoor move to impose gun control on the United States.

It’s totally outrageous. You know, Obama has not pushed gun control during his administration – a notable absence for a liberal. But it’s because he was saving the best for last.

Hillary is now negotiating a small arms treaty in the United Nations… The purpose of the small arms treaty is to stop small arms, which they define as pistols, handguns, rifles, assault weapons, even machine guns from being exported to other countries.

…

What Obama is doing with Hillary is to negotiate a treaty that would allegedly stop individual citizens and businesses from selling their arms overseas. To do that each country would be obliged to set up its own system of registration, and controls, and inventory controls…

It’s entirely a backdoor effort to force gun registration and eventually bans and restrictions with the act of the United States Congress – to do it with international treaty.

One of the deadly parts about this is that when a treaty is signed and made binding in the United States it acquires the force of a Constitutional Amendment. Under the Supremacy Clause, every Congress and every state legislature has to honor that treaty, unless a Constitutional Amendment is passed to the contrary or unless all the other signatories let the U.S. out of the treaty.

So this would be permanent, long-term gun control…all done without Congress.

We have five words for the United Nations and those who would supplant the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution through international treaties and backdoor political machinations:

REPORT: PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT ABBAS ENRICHING SELF WITH AID MONEY

Breitbart

July 13, 2012

When you put unaccountable leaders in place and throw money at them, almost without fail they steal it. While not endemic to only the Arab world, it does seem to happen there with unsurprising regularity.

Rumor has it that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak squirreled away close to a $70 billion. Yasser Arafat, who “managed” a billion dollars a year in international aid to the Palestinian Authority, had a personal fortune of anywhere between $300 million and $1.3 billion.

Well, there’s a new sheriff in town--sort of. Mahmoud Abbas, who was voted in as president of the PA in 2004 (and hasn’t stepped down even though his term officially ended in 2009), seems to have taken over where his predecessor left off.

While he doesn’t seem to have reached Arafat's level, a new congressional report say he may be on his way. In the testimony, it came out that Abbas has transferred $13 million of American aid money to a secret bank account. The report also states that Abbas uses his political connections to profit himself and his family while the Peace Process goes nowhere. This is in addition to $160 Million that Abbas may have received for selling PLO property in Lebanon.

One of the main issues is the lack of oversight. America gives more than $500 Million a year to the PA with almost no real oversight. The PA was pledged $7.7 Billion in aid between 2008 and 2010. Bush-era National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams claims that many Arab leaders wouldn’t fulfill those pledges because of corruption rooted in Palestinian institutions.

Gulf governments refused to transfer money to PA, stating, “Why should we give them money when their officials will just steal it?”

The bottom line is, when you have an unaccountable dictatorship--even one that was voted into power--you end up with corruption. Unfortunately, the American taxpayer is footing the bill for it.

Racism and Secessionism: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of the Romney-Ron Paul Alliance

Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program
rense.com
July 11, 2012

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They Want To Sterilize American Women: Sterilization Won’t Cost Women A Penny Under Obamacare

Michael Snyder
The American Dream
July 13, 2012

Did you know that sterilization will not cost women a penny under Obamacare? A new regulation that goes into effect on August 1st requires that health plans cover sterilization for all women with “reproductive capacity”.

That includes teenage girls. According to the new regulation, women must have access to sterilization “without having to pay a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible.” So women will not have to pay a single penny out of pocket if they want to get sterilized. Of course this sterilization mandate will make health insurance more expensive for all of us, but the social engineers in Washington D.C. feel that increasing access to sterilization is a very important public policy goal. So why are they doing this? They are doing this because they love death. They truly believe that they are saving the planet by reducing human numbers. That is why “family planning” is always at the very heart of the “green agenda”. They want to sterilize women because that will help keep the population down. And if there are less people running around, there will be less of us to ruin “their planet” with all of our pollution.

The new Obamacare regulation requires health insurance policies to offer 100% coverage for all “approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity.”

But to fully understand what is going on, you have to look at this in context with what is being implemented all over the globe.

Have you heard of Agenda 21? It is an international effort coordinated by the United Nations to make the world a more “sustainable” place in the 21st century.

To the social engineers at the forefront of this effort, the number one threat to “sustainable development” is overpopulation. That is why population control is one of the central pillars ofAgenda 21.

So all over the globe, family planning programs are being pushed and funded by the United Nations. In many UN-funded family planning facilities all over the planet sterilizations are being offered for free.

The United Nations seems absolutely obsessed with population issues. In particular, they seem quite determined to get women in poorer countries to have less children. For example,the March 2009 U.N. Population Division policy brief began with the following statement….

What would it take to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries?

A statement like that should be setting off all kinds of alarm bells in your head.

Questions like that are only a few steps away from all-out genocide.

But the social engineers at the United Nations are so obsessed with “saving the earth” that the fact that human lives are being destroyed in the process does not seem to bother them.

Many in the environmental movement believe that the number one problem facing the earth is climate change, and many of them also believe that carbon emissions being produced by human activity are the number one cause of climate change.

So that makes all of us the number one enemy of the planet.

This disturbing philosophy was clearly reflected in a 2009 report released by the United Nations Population Fund entitled “Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate“. The following are three quotes that were pulled directly out of that report….

1) “Each birth results not only in the emissions attributable to that person in his or her lifetime, but also the emissions of all his or her descendants. Hence, the emissions savings from intended or planned births multiply with time.”

2) “No human is genuinely “carbon neutral,” especially when all greenhouse gases are figured into the equation. Therefore, everyone is part of the problem, so everyone must be part of the solution in some way.”

3) “Strong family planning programmes are in the interests of all countries for greenhouse-gas concerns as well as for broader welfare concerns.”

So the goal is to reduce the human population by as much as possible in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

That is why those associated with this movement like abortion and absolutely LOVE sterilization.

When a woman has an abortion, she might get pregnant again.

But when a woman is sterilized, her “problem” is gone for good.

And guess what?

Your tax dollars go to pay for abortions and sterilizations all over the planet.

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DHS emergency power extended, including control of private telecom systems

Washington Times
July 13, 2012

Janet Napolitano (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

The Obama administration has given the Department of Homeland Security powers to prioritize government communications over privately owned telephone and Internet systems in emergencies.

An executive order signed June 6 “gives DHS the authority to seize control of telecommunications facilities, including telephone, cellular and wireless networks, in order to prioritize government communications over private ones in an emergency,” said Amie Stephanovich, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

The White House says Executive Order 13618, published Wednesday in the Federal Register, is designed to ensure that the government can communicate during major disasters and other emergencies and contains no new authority.

“The [order] recognizes the creation of DHS and provides the Secretary the flexibility to organize the communications systems and functions that reside within the department as [she] believes will be most effective,”White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in an email. “The [order] does not transfer authorities between or among departments.”

She said the order replaced one originally signed in 1984 by President Reagan and amended in 2003 by President George W. Bush after DHSwas set up and took responsibility for emergency response and communications.

When the original order “was written during the Cold War, the motivating national security concern was maintaining communications capability following a devastating nuclear strike,” Ms. Hayden said.

The new order “address[es] a world in which our economy and government are far more reliant on communications technologies to maintain essential functions than we were then,” she wrote.

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SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
July 12, 2012


Melinda Gates, the wife of Bill Gates, and a life-long Catholic, has defied the Catholic church by "vowing to dedicate her life to improving access to contraception for women in the developing world," according toThe Independent.


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Thomas Kean Admits He Stayed at Bohemian Grove with George Shultz

We Are Change
July 12, 2012

After a lecture at the Drew University, Thomas Kean, Chair of the 9/11 Commission and Former Governor of New Jersey, after being confronted by We Are Change, opens up about his time at Bohemian Grove and admits to staying in a cabin with George Schultz.

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Catholic Melinda Gates Pushes Eugenics and Birth Control In "Defiance" to Vatican

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
July 12, 2012

Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates, the wife of Bill Gates, and a life-long Catholic, has defied the Catholic church by "vowing to dedicate her life to improving access to contraception for women in the developing world," according to The Independent.


Her and her husband are going to be donating $560 million through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation toward "reducing unwanted pregnancies in poorer countries, which experts say lead to more than 100,000 women dying prematurely every year, according to the article.


This announcement came in London yesterday at a summit co-hosted by Gates Foundation and The Department for International Development.


To start off the summit, the Indian government pledged to provide free access to family planning for all 64 million women currently denied the opportunity to control when and how many children to have.


“Of course I wrestled with this. As a Catholic I believe in this religion, there are amazing things about this religion, amazing moral teachings that I do believe in, but I also have to think about how we keep women alive,” said Melinda Gates, who said this in advance of the summit, despite the fact that her decision is in opposition to Catholic doctrine.


Or so it would seem.


Despite the charitable appearance of these donations and efforts of the Gates Foundation, these donations are meant for more sinister purposes.

Here are some of the real reasons behind all of the devotion and donations of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:

• They have donated money for the research of bracelets that would be  "capable of gauging both emotional and physical responses to various stimuli. According to The Washington Post (WP), the Gates Foundation has already quietly spent more than $1 million on research into the biometric bracelets, which could forever alter the way students learn and teachers teach." -Infowars
• They have generously donated millions of dollars towards the development of vaccines that would supposedly eradicate polio. The vaccine is known as "OPV" or  live oral polio virus vaccine.  The Salem News reports that the virus used has twice the strength of the original vaccine and reported the number of cases of paralysis; “In 2011 there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP [non-polio acute flaccid paralysis]. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. Through this data was collected within the polio surveillance system, it was not investigated.”  Click here to see video report by Experimental Vaccines website. 
• Some of their other acts of "kindness" are to feed thirdworld populations with "GMOs" or genetically modified organics. According to an article at Mercola.com :                                                                                              In Bill Gates, Monsanto also has one of the wealthiest and most influential "philanthropists" supporting their agenda and spreading misleading propaganda about their products.

In recent years, it has become disappointingly clear that Gates may be leading the pack as one of the most destructive "do-gooders" on the planet... His views on what is required to make a difference in poverty- and disease-stricken third world nations are short-sighted and misinformed at best. A recent article in the Seattle Times¹ joins me in arguing that Bill Gates' support of genetically modified (GM) crops as a solution for world hunger is based on unsound science. A team of 900 scientists funded by the World Bank and United Nations, investigated the matter over the course of three years, and determined that the use of GM crops is simply NOT a meaningful solution to the complex situation of world hunger. 

Instead, the scientists suggested that "agro-ecological" methods would provide the most viable means to ensure global food security, including the use of traditional seed varieties and local farming practices already adapted to the local ecology.

•  Bill Gates has stated publicly that with the improvement of vaccines and health services, the world's population can be reduced by perhaps 15%!!!

The Gates are also into chemtrail spraying and other diabolical measures in order to reduce the population, but they are not the only ones in the act.


According to The Independent, David Cameron announced at the London summit that Britain would be doubling its financial support for family planning services to £1bn over the next eight years, but was immediately asked how he would tackle religious opposition to the efforts.

He said Britain’s contribution would save the life of a woman or girl in the developing world every two hours for the next eight years by preventing deaths caused by too many pregnancies, too close together. 

Other contributors include Australia, Germany, and Nigeria.

And although the Catholic Church appears to be in opposition to contraception measures and abortion, nothing could be so deceptive and wrong. They are very much for these measures - they just don't want you to know it.

In an article published by The New American, it would seem that the Catholic Church is diametrically opposed to eugenics and population control by forceful means. An online Catholic TV show called the Catholic Investigative Agency (CIA?) 

dedicated a recent episode to exposing the Rockefeller Foundation’s ties to eugenics groups, population-control advocates, efforts at global governance, pro-abortion activities, and other highly controversial subjects.
The program, run by Catholic media personality Michael Voris, also highlights the Rockefeller dynasty’s assault against the church — one of the primary opponents of Rockefeller-backed schemes. From the Foundation’s efforts to “purify” humanity by manipulating the gene pool to population-control campaigns aimed at reducing the number of people on Earth, the Rockefellers’ agenda has been consistently at odds with church teachings.
The thesis of the CIA episode is presented early on. “The Rockefeller Foundation is actively undermining the Catholic Church and in the process attempting to erase man’s natural orientation to the eternal,” the show explains. Indeed, after watching the program, that fact becomes obvious. -The New American (Link at Infowars).

It would seem that by this article, The Catholic Church is exposing David Rockefeller as a Eugenicist and a Pro -abortion supporter, which is in fact true. What they fail to tell you however, is that The Rockefeller family has long standing ties to the Catholic Church and the Jesuit Society.

 When the Jesuits were expelled from every Catholic country in Europe, their only refuge was Russia, Great Britain and the United States. Thousands of them flocked to this country to carry on their war against the Reformation under the banner of U.S. tolerance and freedom of religion for all. Among them were the Morgans, Roosevelts and German Roggenfelders. Roggenfelder was later changed to Rockefeller to make the name sound less German. (emphasis mine)

 By this time the horrible 30 Years' War in Germany was over but the Jesuits were not about to give up. There next attack would be from within and would be aimed at political and financial penetration in order to destroy the Protestant and freedom-loving nations who had escaped Rome's grasp. The Rothschild Bank (founded 1742), which worked so closely with the Rockefellers in later years, was part of this conspiracy.[source]

 The Rockefeller Family made billions in booze in the U.S., they took control of the oil industry, had a hand in the establishment of the "Federal Reserve" cartel, and control of the medical profession. They even bought out the Encyclopedia Brittanica!!

Yes! the Rockefeller Syndicate owns the venerable old Encyclopedia Britannica that so many people consider the "final authority." In 1890, Rockefeller took over a Baptist Seminary called Morgan Park Theological Seminary and renamed it the University of Chicago.

In 1900 the Encyclopedia was bought from the publishers in Scotland. The University of Cambridge now did the editing for the new owners across the pond.

We don't know how much he paid as he always used proxies or front men . . . but you can be sure that it was the lowest possible price.....Roman Catholic editors were soon put to work expunging all derogatory references to Rome:

"The revision of the Encyclopedia Britannica was undertaken with a view to eliminate matter which was objectionable from a Catholic point of view and to insert what was accurate and unbiased. The whole of the 28 volumes were examined, objectionable parts noted, and the reasons for their deletion or amendment given. There is every reason to hope that the new edition of the Britannica will be found very much more accurate and impartial than its predecessors (Lies and Fallacies of the Encyclopedia Britannica., p. 4)."

And they did exactly that....All the true history of the Papacy, the Jesuits, and the infernal Inquisition were removed along with all derogatory references to vaccination.
[source]

Did you notice the last line in that reference? Systematic rewriting of history in the encyclopedia in order to remove any  negative history of the Papacy or the Jesuit Society. or the horrible history of vaccines!

The Rockefellers also took control of education here in the U.S. :

Trustees of the General Education Board, the first Rockefeller foundation, at a retreat in Rockland, Maine, in July 1915. Front row, from left: Edwin A. Alderman, Frederick T. Gates, Charles W. Eliot (former president of Harvard University), Harry Pratt Judson (president of University of Chicago), Wallace Buttrick (executive officer of the Board). Second row, from left: Wickliffe Rose (head of the Rockefeller public health programs), Hollis B. Frissell, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., E. C. Sage, Albert Shaw, Abraham Flexner. Third row, from left: George E. Vincent (president of the Rockefeller Foundation), Anson Phelps Stokes, Starr J. Murphy, Jerome D. Greene. (Picture below)
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Rockefeller "Education" Board in 1915.

 The Twin Towers were called David and Nelson Rockefeller!!

"The country, then, or New York State, therefore possesses two architectural monstrosities single-handedly produced by rivalrous Rockefeller brothers at taxpayers' expense. For at the end of the line the taxpayer in both these cases foots the bill, as he does for everything else financial politicos devise. The two structures therefore represent a double screwing.

The two oppressive structures stand, one in New York City, the other in Albany, like giant bookends of the gods, with Rockefellerland-on-the-Hudson stretching in between, the home domain. In the meantime, ordinary citizens crawl along in the overpowering structural shadows like bugs, reduced in physical proportion to their true spiritual proportions in the established scheme of things: nothings, serfs. Neither structure is anything the psyche can humanly absorb. Each repels" (The Rockefeller Syndrome by Ferdinand Lundberg, p. 24).

The Twin Towers were affectionately named David and Nelson Rockefeller because they were the driving force behind their construction. Immediately after their demolition on 9-11-01, the Rockefeller Syndicate controlled Pentagon invaded Afghanistan and set up bases by the Caspian sea. Caspian sea oil, controlled by Russia, was the main competition to Standard Oil since 1890!!

"Russian competition was the subject of many top-level conferences at the headquarters of the Trust at 26 Broadway in New York. One of the methods of meeting the threat was price-cutting" (The Rockefeller Billions, p.165).[source]

 

Governor Nelson Rockefeller (left) with Mayor John Lindsay inspect model of Twin Towers.

David and Nelson on Wall St. during Nelson's 1970 race for Governor of New York State.

David Rockefeller was Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and provided the finances for the Twin Towers.

David Rockefeller even had front row seats to the 9/11 event, courtesy I'm sure, of his masters at the top:

(turn volume up to hear)



The Rockefellers are also responsible for donating the land upon which the United Nations Building in New York now stands.

John D. Rockefeller, III, (right) presents a check in the amount of $8,5000,000 to Trygve Lie, First Secretary General of the United Nations. The money is to purchase the land on Manhattan Island which will house the U.N. building.

The pretense of "opposition" between the Gates Foundation and the Catholic Church is just that - a pretended propaganda measure to hide the real intentions of those at the top of the Pyramid Scheme called the "New World Order". This is being done with the Obama administration as well in order to pull the masses of protestant Christian organizations and the Catholic Church together under the cause of fighting against legislation endangering them both.

Henry Kissinger, an Advisor to the Pope, published a paper in 1974 calling for severe population measures to be taken in third world countries.  A portion of the paper states:

13.  If significant progress can be made in slowing population growth, the positive impact
on growth of GNP and per capita income will be significant. Moreover, economic and social
progress will probably contribute further to the decline in fertility rates.
14.  High birth rates appear to stem primarily from:
a.  inadequate information about and availability of means of fertility control;
b. inadequate motivation for reduced numbers of children combined with motivation
 for many children  resulting from still high infant and child mortality and need for
support in old age; 

The Catholic Church has for years been pushing to undermine and destroy Protestantism, and set up a One World Government, meanwhile supporting agendas such as third world depopulation through eugenics and vaccination measures.

Pope Calls for a "New World Order"

 ^"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.                                                                                        And then shall that Wicked One be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." - II Thessalonians 2

Monsanto’s GM Corn Approved Despite 45,000 Public Comments in Opposition

Mike Barrett
NaturalSociety
January 10, 2012

As previously reported, while people were de-stressing and enjoying their much needed time off during the holidays, the United States Department of Agriculture announced its approval of Monsanto’s ‘drought tolerant’ genetically engineered corn. The decision to give the green light to Monsanto regarding their GM corn didn’t seem too difficult for the Obama Administration, despite receiving nearly 45,000 public comments voicing opposition and only 23 comments in favor since comments opened. Prepare to see this new GM corn unleashed into the environment as well as the American food supply.

Monsanto Continues Expansion of GM Corn and Other GMOs Despite Massive Public Opposition

The news comes after experiments with the seeds were conducted in five African nations, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Monsanto’s drought-resistant GM corn seeds were given to African farmers facing drought conditions, replacing traditional and sustainable farming with Monsanto’s GMO crops. Bill Gates himself has purchased 500,000 Monsanto stocks as of August 2010, and has heavy ties with Monsanto and even genetically modified mosquitoes which could be released in Florida early next year.

“President Obama and Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack just sent a clear message to the American public that they do not care about our concerns with genetically engineered food and their questionable safety, adverse environmental impacts, and detrimental effects on farmers, especially organic farmers,” says Mark A. Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst with The Cornucopia Institute.

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Obama gives himself control of all communication systems in US

Press TV
July 11, 2012

PressTVGlobalNews

President Obama's latest executive order holds a lengthy title, the "Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions." It's designed to deliver messages from the government through the internet in case of emergency or threat to national security.

WSJ: High Unemployment Rates Will Stick Around for Years

Moneynews.com
July 11, 2012


If history serves as a lesson, today's high unemployment rates will stick around for several years to come, Wall Street Journal analysis of government jobs reports shows.

The U.S. unemployment rate has hovered over 8 percent for more than three years, yet for seven decades after the Great Depression, the rate averaged 5.4 percent.

Job growth has averaged 125,000 new net jobs a month since 2009, when the labor market was at its worst.
At that job pace, unemployment rates won't even dip to 7 percent until around the end of this decade, the Journal reports.

The Labor Department expects the labor force to grow to 164.4 million by 2020 based on long-run population growth and a declining labor force participation rate, mainly due to retiring baby boomers.

"If the current recovery’s pace of household employment growth held on, the jobless rate would fall below 8 percent in 2014, but it would not reach 7.0 percent until late 2019," the Journal finds. 

"That means this decade’s jobless rate would be about 7.9 percent, the highest for a decade since the Great Depression, beating out the reigning champ of the 1980s."

Even those with jobs are feeling the sting of a weak economy.

Pay raises haven't kept the pace of inflation, which remains low in itself.

For the fiscal year ended in March, wages and salaries increased an average of 1.7 percent, the Christian Science Monitor reports, citing Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

During that same timeframe, consumer prices rose 2.7 percent. 

Don't expect employers to rush out and raise salaries any time soon either, experts say.

"We're expecting another economic slowdown in the U.S. in the second half of this year," says Gad Levanon, macroeconomic research director at The Conference Board, the Monitor adds. 

"With the unemployment rate declining slowly, if at all, there are still a lot of job seekers, and employers will still have the upper hand in wage determination. So I expect very low wage growth even through 2013."

Closure of Border Patrol stations across four states triggers alarm

Judson Berger
foxnews.com
July 11, 2012

The Obama administration is moving to shut down nine Border Patrol stations across four states, triggering a backlash from local law enforcement, members of Congress and Border Patrol agents themselves.

Critics of the move warn the closures will undercut efforts to intercept drug and human traffickers in well-traveled corridors north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Though the affected stations are scattered throughout northern and central Texas, and three other states, the coverage areas still see plenty of illegal immigrant activity — one soon-to-be-shuttered station in Amarillo, Texas, is right in the middle of the I-40 corridor; another in Riverside, Calif., is outside Los Angeles.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it’s closing the stations in order to reassign agents to high-priority areas closer to the border.

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Garbage Collectors Trained To Spot Terrorists Before RNC

Terrorist in training video depicted as young white woman

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Garbage collectors are being trained by police to be on the lookout for terrorists in the run-up to this year’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. The terrorist depicted in the role playing scenario used to train garbage workers is a young white woman while her victim is a Middle Eastern man.

“Anarchists, terrorists and plain old thieves and creeps, your new foe wears work boots and fluorescent vests. Meet the garbage men,” reports the Tampa Bay Times, noting that police are involved in training garbage collectors to “spot suspicious activity on their routes” in preparation for this August’s RNC in Tampa.

Told that the Waste Management company itself could be a target, workers were shown examples of “suspicious” activity which included a man taking pictures of a garbage truck and were ordered to be on the lookout for anyone “taking an undue interest in our bins.”

Workers were told not to get involved in any potential incident, merely to report the suspicious activity to police.

The fact that the training video showed to the workers also outlined a scenario, “showing an image of a young white woman who was a suicide bomber, a young Middle Eastern man who was a victim,” is becoming par for the course.

The threat posed by Islamic extremists has now been largely marginalized in the effort to portray average American citizens as potential terrorists. As we reported last week, a DHS-funded study characterized conservative Americans as terrorists while glossing over Muslim extremists. Numerous Homeland Security PSA videos have also depicted white Americans as the most likely terrorists.

On completion of training, garbage workers get a certificate confirming their status as a ‘Waste Watch’ snoop and also receive a special baseball cap.

Garbage workers are already being used by large companies and the state to spy on American citizens across the country. Local authorities across the U.S. are using cutting edge technology to spy on the contents of people’s trash cans and issue them with fines for non-compliance.

Such programs are already in place in major cities such as Miami Beach Charlotte, N.C., Cleveland, Ohio, Boise, Idaho, and Flint, Michigan, where ‘trash supervisors’ are dispatched to intimidate homeowners and issue them with fines for failing to recycle properly.

Back in 2010, we reported on how the FBI was involved in training garbage collectors to watch for suspicious activity under the Waste Watch program.

However, Waste Watch is not the only program of its type which trains blue-collar workers to look out for terrorists and report suspicious behavior.

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Are we nearing the death of cash?

CNN
July 11, 2012



Is cash about to become a thing of the past? New technology may make it possible to say goodbye to paper money.

New Homeland Security Laser Scanner Reads People At Molecular Level

CBS DC
July 11, 2012

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Department of Homeland Security will soon be using a laser at airports that can detect everything about you from over 160-feet away.

Gizmodo reports a scanner that could read people at the molecular level has been invented. This laser-based scanner – which can be used 164-feet away — could read everything from a person’s adrenaline levels, to traces of gun powder on a person’s clothes, to illegal substances — and it can all be done without a physical search. It also could be used on multiple people at a time, eliminating random searches at airports.

The laser-based scanner is expected to be used in airports as soon as 2013, Gizmodo reports.

U.S. moving submersibles to Persian Gulf to oppose Iran

LA Times

July 11, 2012

WASHINGTON — The Navy is rushing dozens of unmanned underwater craft to the Persian Gulf to help detect and destroy mines in a major military buildup aimed at preventing Iran from closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the event of a crisis, U.S. officials said.

The tiny SeaFox submersibles each carry an underwater television camera, homing sonar and an explosive charge. The Navy bought them in May after an urgent request by Marine Gen. James Mattis, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East.

Each submersible is about 4 feet long and weighs less than 100 pounds. The craft are intended to boost U.S. military capabilities as negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program appear to have stalled. Three rounds of talks since April between Iran and the five countries in the United Nations Security Council plus Germany have made little progress. 

Some U.S. officials are wary that Iran may respond to tightening sanctions on its banking and energy sectors, including a European Union oil embargo, by launching or sponsoring attacks on oil tankers or platforms in the Persian Gulf. Some officials in Tehran have threatened to close the narrow waterway, a  choke point for a fifth of the oil traded worldwide.

The first of the SeaFox submersibles arrived in the Gulf in recent weeks, officials said, along with four MH-53 Sea Dragon helicopters and four minesweeping ships, part of a larger buildup of U.S. naval, air and ground forces in the region aimed at Iran.

The U.S. already has sent two aircraft carriers and a squadron of F-22 fighters to the Persian Gulf, and is keeping two U.S. army brigades in Kuwait. Though much of the buildup has been publicly acknowledged by the Pentagon, the deployment of the submersibles has not been publicly disclosed, apparently to avoid alerting Iran.

The SeaFox is small enough to be deployed from helicopters and even small rubber boats, but it also can be dropped off the back of a minesweeper. It is controlled by a fiber optic cable and sends live video back to a camera operator. 

It can be used against floating or drifting mines, which Iran has used in the past. It operates up to 300 meters deep, and moves at speeds of up to six knots. But the $100,000 weapon is on a what amounts to a suicide mission. The “built-in, large caliber shaped charge” it carries destroys the mine but also the vehicle itself.