Apr 122015
 

Sign the Petition:  http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/initiate-a-world-peace-conference I am chuckling. Last week I didn’t think it was possible to stop the “defense” industry people who should be locked in an insane asylum.   Their “business plan” is for “growth”, of course. The targeted markets for their “capabilities” (weapons) are areas of tension in the world.   ONE of these corporations […]

Apr 092015
 
2014-07-18  Police Militarization: The New Search and Seizure

TBF writes:     Our police are not too far removed from this sit. in US   I would prefer NOT to circulate the article.  However,  examples easily come to mind to support the arguments presented in the article below by Ted Baumann.  Just two supporting articles from a number:    Massively organized information (MOI). SWAT team raids Ohio Food […]

Apr 082015
 

  To me,  the economic strategy paper below  for the defense industries, by McKinsey,  is a blueprint for  Obama’s Record Arms Sales . . . bizarre interview with CEO Lockheed Martin. The economic argument:  the “defense” corporations should target areas of unrest in the world as the way to “grow” their sales of weapons.  The CEO of Lockheed […]

Apr 082015
 

CBC Victoria interviewed a professor  about making vaccinations mandatory. I was bothered by the interview because the interviewer (who is usually very good) did not do a good job, in my opinion, of presenting the other side of the story. There was little attempt to understand the source of the resistance to vaccinations. I have […]

Apr 082015
 

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now.   I find this to be a stunning video.   A few perspectives are addressed: http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/04/08/are-obamas-record-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-yemen-egypt-and-iraq-fueling-unrest-in-middle-east/     Canada is now entangled with U.S. foreign policy. Pay attention to what’s going down!  Due to “a slight blip in Pentagon procurement” U.S. arms dealers are looking to international “growth markets.”  (In the Lockheed Martin […]

Apr 072015
 
2015-04-06  The Big Chill: How Big Money Is Buying Off Criticism of Big Money, by Robert Reich

http://robertreich.org/post/115695610915  ROBERT B. REICH, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written thirteen books, […]

Apr 022015
 

From: Sandra Finley Sent: April 2, 2015 To: <bschneier  xxx@xxx   cyber.law.harvard.edu> Subject: thwarting activists by intrusion into wordpress Hello Bruce Schneier, Maybe you could use following info?   Maybe it’s already known?   (Or maybe my surmisal is incorrect.) The sharing of information by bloggers is a problem for corporations. I think that NSA or Lockheed Martin […]

Apr 012015
 

 33 Tips To Being A Better Writer (Plus One Key To Creativity I Forgot To Tell You About)by James Altucher   I wrote a blog post that was horrible. Claudia said, “People won’t relate.” I rewrote it completely. She said, “much better”. I published it and that practically ruined my life. I loved it so […]

Mar 272015
 

Chris Hedges may be right  – – Chris Hedges on Bill C-51: They have won, and it is up to us   Bill C-51 exists in an unprecedented corporate era.  “P-3’s” (so-called “Public-Private-Partnerships”) are exalted by Governments and their Corporate partners.  “The Public”‘s  translation is “Pick the Public Purse”. One of the biggest areas of corporate takeover […]