Sprint Manager: ‘Half’ of all Police Surveillance Includes Text Messaging

(RawStory) – According to a graduate student’s research into the spying policies of major U.S. telecommunications companies, at a recent security conference a Sprint surveillance manager told a group of onlookers that half of all police requests include the target’s text messages.

Environmental Warfare: Climate Modification Schemes

(GlobalResearch) – If human activities could change climate, why not change it on purpose, to suit us better? From 1945 into the 1970s, much effort went into studies of weather modification. American entrepreneurs tried cloud-seeding to enhance local rainfall, Russian scientists offered fabulous schemes of planetary engineering, and military agencies secretly explored “climatological warfare.”

MSM: Dr Kelly Was Murdered and There Has to be a New Inquest, Say Six Top Doctors

(MailOnline) – Six doctors who believe government scientist David Kelly was murdered have launched a ground-breaking legal action to demand the inquest into his death is reopened.

HRW Urges Civilian Protection in Yemen, Houthi Crisis

(PressTV) – Human Rights Watch is calling on those fighting against Yemeni Houthis to take all necessary measures to spare civilian lives and ensure they receive humanitarian assistance.

Breaking Through a Wall of Police Protection for International Crime

When Splitting the Sky broke through police lines in his attempt to conduct a citizen’s arrest of former US President, George W. Bush, the Mohawk Freedom Fighter pierced a thick wall of tyranny. He broke through a tight phalanx of state protection for the perpetrators of War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Crimes Against the Peace.

Savvy to a Fault: Coming to Terms With Imperial Power

“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.” — Henry David Thoreau
To me, this quote from Thoreau expresses the only rational, moral and humane stance that a citizen can take toward the vast and brutal machinery of the American imperial state in our time. The crimes of this state are monstrous, and mounting. But what is worse is that these crimes are not aberrations; they are the very essence of the system — they are its goal, its product, its lifeblood.

MSM: Defiant banks pay millions in bonuses

(TimesOnline) – A fresh row over City bonuses is set to engulf ministers after it emerged last night that 200 executives at Lloyds, the partly state-owned bank, are set to receive one-off payments worth up to 80 per cent of their annual salaries.

BPA found in 90% of newborns

(JSOnline) – A study released Wednesday which found that nine of 10 babies tested were born with bisphenol A in their systems has renewed calls for the chemical to be banned.

MSG Causes Obesity, Hides Behind Many Fake Names

(Rense) – MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as “Natural Flavoring”. MSG is even in your favourite coffee from Tim Horton’s and Starbucks coffee shops.

Climategate News

(DailyWorld) – Snow in Houston Texas Earliest Snowfall in City’s History; Closes Schools

Houston this morning broke a record with the earliest snowfall ever recorded in the city’s history. Read more Here

(GlobalResearch) – There Is No ‘Consensus’ On Global Warming

According to Al Gore’s new film “An Inconvenient Truth,” we’re in for “a planetary emergency”: melting ice sheets, huge increases in sea levels, more and stronger hurricanes and invasions of tropical disease, among other cataclysms — unless we change the way we live now. Read More Here

(Fox) – Video: Climategate reaches NASA – Caught manipulating data?

So why would anyone at NASA have any motivation to manipulate data? Funding. Watch Here

(Fox) – Video: Glenn Beck Covers Climate-Gate Watch Here

Video: Dennis Kucinich Speaks out on Obama & Afghanistan – Democracy Now

Congressman Kucinich Addresses Escalation in Afghanistan – MSNBC ‘s Ed Show ->

A Day In Palestine

December 3, 2009 passes, just another day among 365 days of the year. But no day here is boring. I videotape at length (mostly for another project) but put a tiny bit on youtube (Link Here) to give you a visual to accompany this description since I am still experimenting with video productions but hopefully will get better with time. Anyway, here are some of the events and interactions:
– I wake up t the news that 15 Palestinian youths were kidnapped overnight by the Israeli military. In the past few weeks Israel seems to be filling up its jails to replace those they will release as part of a prisoner exchange with Hamas (which is holding one Israeli occupation soldier).