Saturday, December 15, 2007

Intrusive Brain Reading Surveillance Technology: Hacking the Mind


Global Research, December 13, 2007
Dissent Magazine, Australia, Summer 2007/2008


"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.

The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.È

Dr José Delgado.
Director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974.

The Guardian newspaper, that defender of truth in the United Kingdom, published an article by the Science Correspondent, Ian Sample, on 9 February 2007 entitled:

‘The Brain Scan that can read people’s intentions’, with the sub-heading: ‘Call for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation".

"Using the scanner, we could look around the brain for this information and read out something that from the outside there's no way you could possibly tell is in there. It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall", the scientists were reported as saying.

At the same time, London’s Science Museum was holding an exhibition entitled ‘Neurobotics: The Future of Thinking’. This venue had been chosen for the launch in October 2006 of the news that human thoughts could be read using a scanner. Dr Geraint Rees’ smiling face could be seen in a photograph at the Neurobotics website, under the heading "The Mind Reader". Dr Rees is one of the scientists who have apparently cracked the problem which has preoccupied philosophers and scientists since before Plato: they had made entry into the conscious mind. Such a reversal of human historical evolution, announced in such a pedestrian fashion, makes one wonder what factors have been in play, and what omissions made, in getting together this show, at once banal and extraordinary. The announcement arrives as if out of a vacuum. The neuroscientist - modern-style hunter-gatherer of information and darling of the "Need to Know" policies of modern government - does little to explain how he achieved this goal of entering the conscious mind, nor does he put his work into any historical context. Instead, we are asked in the Science Museum’s programme notes:

How would you feel if someone could read your innermost thoughts? Geraint Rees of UCL says he can. By using brain-imaging technology he's beginning to decode thought and explore the difference between the conscious and unconscious mind. But how far will it go? And shouldn’t your thoughts remain your personal business?

If Dr Rees has decoded the mind sufficiently for such an announcement to be made in an exhibition devoted to it, presumably somewhere is the mind which has been, and is continuing to be, decoded. He is not merely continuing his experiments using functional magnetic resolution scanning (fMRI) in the way neuroscientists have been observing their subjects under scanning devices for years, asking them to explain what they feel or think while the scientists watch to see which area lights up, and what the cerebral flow in the brain indicates for various brain areas. Dr Rees is decoding the mind in terms of conscious and unconscious processes. For that, one must have accessed consciousness itself. Whose consciousness? Where is the owner of that consciousness – and unconsciousness? How did he/she feel? Why not ask them to tell us how it feels, instead of asking us.

The Neurobotics Exhibition was clearly set up to make these exciting new discoveries an occasion for family fun, and there were lots of games for visitors to play. One gets the distinct impression that we are being softened up for the introduction of radical new technology which will, perhaps, make the mind a communal pool rather than an individual possession. Information technology seeks to connect us all to each other in as many ways as possible, but also, presumably, to those vast data banks which allow government control not only to access all information about our lives, but now also to our thoughts, even to our unconscious processing. Does anyone care?

One of the most popular exhibits was the ‘Mindball’ game, which required two players to go literally head-to-head in a battle for brainpower, and used ‘brainpower’ alone. Strapped up with headbands which pick up brain waves, the game uses neurofeedback, but the person who is calm and relaxed wins the game. One received the impression that this calmness was the spirit that the organisers wished to reinforce, to deflect any undue public panic that might arise from the news that private thoughts could now be read with a scanner. The ingress into the mind as a private place was primarily an event to be enjoyed with the family on an afternoon out:

Imagine being able to control a computer with only the power of your mind. Or read people’s thoughts and know if they’re lying. And what if a magnetic shock to the brain could make you more creative…but should we be able to engineer our minds?

Think your thoughts are private? Ever told a lie and been caught red-handed? Using brain-scanning technology, scientists are beginning to probe our minds and tell if we’re lying. Other scientists are decoding our desires and exploring the difference between our conscious and unconscious mind. But can you really trust the technology?

Other searching questions are raised in the program notes, and more games:

Find out if you’ve got what it takes to be a modern-day spy in this new interactive family exhibition. After being recruited as a trainee spy, explore the skills and abilities required by real agents and use some of the latest technologies that help spies gather and analyse information. Later go on and discover what it’s like to be spied upon. Uncover a secret store of prototype gadgets that give you a glimpse into the future of spy technologies and finally use everything you’ve learnt to escape before qualifying as a fully-fledged agent!

There were also demonstrations of grateful paraplegics and quadriplegics showing how the gods of science have so unselfishly liberated them from their prisons: this was the serious Nobel Prize side of the show. But there was no-one representing Her Majesty’s government to demonstrate how these very same devices can be used quite freely, and with relative ease, in our wireless age, to conduct experiments on free-ranging civilians tracked anywhere in the world, and using an infinitely extendable form of electrode which doesn’t require visible contact with the scalp at all. Electrodes, like electricity, can also take an invisible form – an electrode is a terminal of an electric source through which electrical energy or current may flow in or out. The brain itself is an electrical circuit. Every brain has its own unique resonating frequency. The brain is an infinitely more sensitive receiver and transmitter than the computer, and even in the wireless age, the comprehension of how wireless networks operate appears not to extend to the workings of the brain. The monotonous demonstration of scalps with electrodes attached to them, in order to demonstrate the contained conduction of electrical charges, is a scientific fatuity, in so far as it is intended to demonstrate comprehensively the capability of conveying charges to the brain, or for that matter, to any nerve in the body, as a form of invisible torture.

As Neurobotics claims: ‘Your brain is amazing’, but the power and control over brains and nervous systems achieved by targeting brain frequencies with radiowaves must have been secretly amazing government scientists for many years. The problem that now arises, at the point of readiness when so much has been achieved, is how to put the technology into action in such a way, as it will be acceptable in the public domain. This requires getting it through wider government and legal bodies, and for that, it must be seen to spring from the unbiased scientific investigations into the workings of the brain, in the best tradition of the leading universities. It is given over to Dr Rees and his colleague, Professor Haynes, endowed with the disclosure for weightier Guardian readers, to carry the torch for the government. Those involved may also have noted the need to show the neuroscientist in a more responsible light, following US neuroengineer for government sponsored Lockheed Martin, John Norseen’s, ingenuous comment, in 2000, about his belief about the consequences of his work in fMRI:

‘If this research pans out’, said Norseen, ‘you can begin to manipulate what someone is thinking even before they know it.’ And added: "The ethics don’t concern me, but they should concern someone else."

While the neuroscientists report their discovery (without even so much as the specific frequency of the light employed by this scanner/torch), issuing ethical warnings while incongruously continuing with their mind-blowing work, the government which sponsors them, remains absolutely mute. The present probing of people’s intentions, minds, background thoughts, hopes and emotions is being expanded into the more complex and subtle aspects of thinking and feeling. We have, however, next to no technical information about their methods. The description of ‘shining a torch around the brain’ is as absurd a report as one could read of a scientific endeavour, especially one that carries such enormous implications for the future of mankind. What is this announcement, with its technical obfuscation, preparing us for?

Writing in Wired contributing editor Steve Silberman points out that the lie-detection capability of fMRI is ‘poised to transform the security system, the judicial system, and our fundamental notions of privacy’. He quotes Cephos founder, Steven Laken, whose company plans to market the new technology for lie detection. Laken cites detainees held without charge at Guantanamo Bay as a potential example. ‘If these detainees have information we haven’t been able to extract that could prevent another 9/11, I think most Americans would agree that we should be doing whatever it takes to extract it’. Silberman also quotes Paul Root Wolpe, a senior fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, who describes the accelerated advances in fMRI as ‘ a textbook example of how something can be pushed forward by the convergence of basic science, the government directing research through funding, and special interests who desire a particular technology’. Are we to believe that with the implied capability to scan jurors’ brains, the judiciary, the accused and the defendant alike, influencing one at the expense of the other, that the legal implications alone of mind-accessing scanners on university campuses, would not rouse the Minister for Justice from his bench to say a few words about these potential mind weapons?

So what of the ethical debate called for by the busy scientists and the Guardian’s science reporter? Can this technology- more powerful in subverting thought itself than anything in prior history – really be confined to deciding whether the ubiquitously invoked terrorist has had the serious intention of blowing up the train, or whether it was perhaps a foolish prank to make a bomb out of chapatti flour? We can assume that the government would certainly not give the go-ahead to the Science Museum Exhibition, linked to Imperial College, a major government-sponsored institution in laser-physics, if it was detrimental to surveillance programs. It is salutary to bear in mind that government intelligence research is at least ten years ahead of any public disclosure. It is implicit from history that whatever affords the undetectable entry by the gatekeepers of society into the brain and mind, will not only be sanctioned, but funded and employed by the State, more specifically by trained operatives in the security forces, given powers over defenceless citizens, and unaccountable to them.

The actual technology which is now said to be honing the technique ‘to distinguish between passing thoughts and genuine intentions’ is described by Professor John-Dylan Haynes in the Guardian in the most disarmingly untechnical language which must surely not have been intended to enlighten.

The Guardian piece ran as follows:

A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person’s brain and read their intentions before they act.

The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists’ ability to probe people’s minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future.

‘Using the scanner, we could look around the brain for this information and read out something that from the outside there's no way you could possibly tell is in there. It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,’ said John-Dylan Haynes at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany, who led the study with colleagues at University College London and Oxford University.

We know therefore that they are using light, but fMRI has been used for many years to attempt the unravelling of neuronal activity, and while there have been many efforts to record conscious and unconscious processes, with particular emphasis on the visual cortex, there has been no progress into consciousness itself. We can be sure that we are not being told the real story.

Just as rats and chimpanzees have been used to demonstrate findings from remote experiments on humans, electrode implants used on cockroaches to remotely control them, lasers used to steer fruit-flies , and worms engineered so that their nerves and muscles can be controlled with pinpricks of light, the information and techniques that have been ruthlessly forged using opportunistic onslaughts on defenceless humans as guinea pigs - used for myriad purposes from creating 3D haptic gloves in computer games to creating artificial intelligence to send visual processing into outer space - require appropriate replication for peer group approval and to meet ethical demands for scientific and public probity.

The use of light to peer into the brain is almost certainly that of terahertz, which occurs in the wavelengths which lie between 30mm and 1mm of the electromagnetic spectrum. Terahertz has the ability to penetrate deep into organic materials, without (it is said) the damage associated with ionising radiation such as x-rays. It can distinguish between materials with varying water content – for example fat versus lean meat. These properties lend themselves to applications in process and quality control as well as biomedical imaging. Terahertz can penetrate bricks, and also human skulls. Other applications can be learnt from the major developer of terahertz in the UK, Teraview, which is in Cambridge, and partially owned by Toshiba.

Efforts to alert human rights’ groups about the loss of the mind as a place to call your own, have met with little discernible reaction, in spite of reports about over decades of the dangers of remote manipulation using technology to access the mind, Dr Nick Begich’s book, Controlling the human mind, being an important recent contribution. A different approach did in fact, elicit a response. When informed of the use of terahertz at Heathrow and Luton airports in the UK to scan passengers, the news that passengers would be revealed naked by a machine which looked directly through their clothes produced a small, but highly indignant, article in the spring 2007 edition of the leading human rights organisation, Liberty. If the reading of the mind met with no protest, seeing through one’s clothes certainly did. It seems humans’ assumption of the mind as a private place has been so secured by evolution that it will take a sustained battle to convince the public that, through events of which we are not yet fully informed, such former innocence has been lost.

Trained light, targeted atomic spectroscopy, the use of powerful magnets to absorb moisture from human tissues, the transfer of radiative energy – these have replaced the microwave harassment which was used to transmit auditory messages directly into the hearing. With the discovery of light to disentangle thousands of neurons and encode signals from the complex circuitry of the brain, present programs will not even present the symptoms which simulated schizoid states. Medically, even if terahertz does not ionise, we do not yet know how the sustained application of intense light will affect the delicate workings of the brain and how cells might be damaged, dehydrated, stretched, obliterated.

This year, 2007, has also brought the news that terahertz lasers small enough to incorporate into portable devices had been developed.

Sandia National Laboratories in the US in collaboration with MIT have produced a transmitter-receiver (transceiver) that enables a number of applications. In addition to scanning for explosives, we may also assume their integration into hand-held communication systems. ‘These semiconductor devices have output powers which previously could only be obtained by molecular gas lasers occupying cubic meters and weighing more than 100kg, or free electron lasers weighing tons and occupying buildings.’ As far back as 1996 the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board predicted that the development of electromagnetic energy sources would ‘open the door for the development of some novel capabilities that can be used in armed conflict, in terrorist/hostage situations, and in training’ and ‘new weapons that offer the opportunity of control of an adversary … can be developed around this concept’.

The surveillance technology of today is the surveillance of the human mind and, through access to the brain and nervous system, the control of behaviour and the body’s functions. The messaging of auditory hallucinations has given way to silent techniques of influencing and implanting thoughts. The development of the terahertz technologies has illuminated the workings of the brain, facilitated the capture of emitted photons which are derived from the visual cortex which processes picture formation in the brain, and enabled the microelectronic receiver which has, in turn, been developed by growing unique semi-conductor crystals. In this way, the technology is now in place for the detection and reading of spectral ‘signatures’ of gases. All humans emit gases. Humans, like explosives, emit their own spectral signature in the form of a gas. With the reading of the brain’s electrical frequency, and of the spectral gas signature, the systems have been established for the control of populations – and with the necessary technology integrated into a cell-phone.

‘We are very optimistic about working in the terahertz electromagnetic spectrum,’ says the principal investigator of the Terahertz Microelectronics Transceiver at Sandia: ‘This is an unexplored area, and a lot of science can come out of it. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of what THz can do to improve national security’.

Carole Smith was born and educated in Australia, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts degree at Sydney University. She trained as a psychoanalyst in London where she has had a private practice. In recent years she has been a researcher into the invasive methods of accessing minds using technological means, and has published papers on the subject.

She has written the first draft of a book entitled: "The Controlled Society".
The ethical implications of building machines to read people's minds, DISSENT, Issue 25, http://www.dissent.com.au/index.htm

From Carole Smith newcriteria@blueyonder.co.uk Dec 12/07. The Canberra-based magazine DISSENT is sold at selected bookshops and by subscription.

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© Copyright Carole Smith, Dissent Magazine, Australia, Summer 2007/2008, 2007

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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Power Of The People

By Ted Lang
Exclusive to Rense.com
2-4-7

Governments, including our own, react swiftly and decisively to any threat or military action directed against it. Nowadays, instant and immediate military retaliation by a government under attack is in all probability completely automatic in light of today's astonishing technology. Complex radar networks and their automatic tie-ins to retaliatory missile and laser weaponry are to be expected of most of the world's technologically up-to-date nations. It is this dimension of highly advanced military retaliatory defenses that makes our government and the 9/11 Commission's "reasoning" for the success of those "terrorist" attacks so laughable.

And offering that these were perpetrated against America by desert-based Third World citizens agonizing on a daily basis over our freedoms and wealth puts the focus of such jealousies not on them, but instead and more directly upon our own government. It is they who loathe and despise our wealth and freedoms more than any nomadic and desert village inhabitants, the latter merely interested in eking out a means for basic daily survival for themselves and their families.

Our government continues to demonstrate its hatred for our freedoms by passing illegal and unconstitutional legislation proven so by such criminal measures as the USA PATRIOT Act and the Military Commissions Act. They demonstrate their hatred for our wealth by passing unjust and inequitable inheritance tax laws, by expanding our horrific income tax laws, by fully supporting the Supreme Courtesan's abolition of private property, and by continuing as well, their unjust, unconstitutional and illegal war based on the lies, fraud, and falsehoods perpetrated by America's greatest traitor. An unending continuation of imperial wars and invasions serve to guarantee the total devaluation of our money via ratcheting up our debt to the international Zionist bankers. Do not all these criminal activities beg two simple over-arching questions: why does our government so continuously and fervently oppose our interests and well-being, and why do we need such government in the first place?

The quickest and most obvious response from the legions of America's most simple-minded would, of course, point out our dire need for defense from other invading nations. But let's assume the same posture toward our government as it now assumes towards US, as evidenced via their PATRIOT and Military Commissions Act. Just as they now presume US guilty until we prove our innocence, while at the same time blocking US from even doing that to save ourselves, let US presume their complete and total guilt in perpetrating the 9/11 massacre against just as they did at Waco, Oklahoma City and in shooting down TWA 800. We the people are not to presume that the Government of the United States of America deliberately slaughtered 3,000 of its own citizens in order to induce the blind rage that sought vengeance and even nuclear retaliation against the very first sovereign suspect that our government offered up. What have they done to persuade US otherwise?

American simpletons will roll their eyes, parrot the line of a notable nabob of nattering broadcast babble, and conclude that you simply fail to appreciate the incompetence of our military commanders and leaders. After all, where but from the military did such terms as "snafu" and "fubar" come from if not our own military? SNAFU: situation normal, all 'f'd up! FUBAR: f'd up beyond all recognition. See?! The military has always been this badly snafued and fubared. Such easy explanations fail to deal with the automated, highly sophisticated and technologically superior defense systems our military has specifically designed to avoid such human error. How many times have you read or heard, even through our highly controlled and editorialized information gate-guarding media, false alarms resulting in split-second responses when scenarios much less threatening were so over-responded to? Yet, we are expected to believe the 9/11 Commission's bullshit answer that human error was to blame in all four aircraft hijackings and the resultant terrorism of 9/11.

Our own government wasn't the least bit concerned about our safety and well-being. It was only concerned with designing and executing a means of generating public opinion to serve its own interests and desires. Cheney is growing richer by the second on the profits generated by the Iraqi "war" which is increasing immensely the wealth of Halliburton. The Bush crime family is cashing in on yet another fascist military venture, the first one having launched the Bush wealth via the financial partnership of Grandpa Prescott Bush and Adolf Hitler. The "war," read illegal imperial invasion, serves to liberate Iraq's oil reserves in response to direction from Israel, and is now lost. We've dislodged the lid Saddam held on that pot of potential mayhem due to the varying religious and political factions, and have created instead a deadly and devastating civil war in that once secular and sovereign nation. The civil unrest Bush and Congress created now threatens the entire region. It may bring US into conflict with the whole of Islam. Our smirking "decider" is fondling his nuclear toys and getting ready to initiate another first: invading other nations with nuclear weapons to expand his "war on tur."

Reality precludes Bush from launching his imperial invasion on Iran in the style supported by his grandfather: jackbooted legions goose-stepping with precision through the main thoroughfares of Tehran. Regrettably, and most unfortunately for Iran, Bush must use his nuclear toys and Israel theirs, the latter provided to that rogue nation by the American taxpayer to comply with the schedule and requirements of the Zionist Agenda. It's a real bad scene for Iran: Bush has to comply with Israel's orders yet simply doesn't have enough American boys and girls to sacrifice for Judah. Hence, nuclear attack!

Of course, the Zionist media tells US that only non-binding legislatively meaningless resolutions are the only powers Congress has. And Pelosi and the Hillaroid will confirm the media's observations. But that is nonsense! We were neither attacked nor invaded, and there is as yet no armed insurrection on the part of the American people. Therefore, there is no constitutional reason or prohibition restraining Congress from rescinding Bush's war-making powers. All Congress has to do is cancel Bush's special and unconstitutional "war powers" to rein in this mass-murdering genocidal lunatic. Considering his now proven lies, his now-proven falsehoods, and his beyond-any-doubt fraud, and recalling legal scholar Jonathan Turley's statement on FOXNews during the Clinton impeachment, all that has to be proven to impeach the president is that he lied to the people.

And that's a done deal! And the biggest lie Bush offered was during his constitutionally mandated State of the Union Address when he uttered those famous 16 words stating that Saddam tried to obtain uranium from Niger. He lied to the American people and their representatives while performing a required duty prescribed by the Constitution of the United States of America, our Rule of Law, which he dismisses as just being a "goddamned piece of paper."

What else does Congress really need to impeach this genocidal, power-drunk, mass-murdering lunatic and White House Moron? The answer is simple: nothing! Congress can do it right now, but with the help and the promotion of political and government confusion orchestrated chiefly by the Zionists, their media and their lobby, they and their moronic stooge Bush are buying time to figure out the pretense, the precise moment, and the tactical nuclear hits to take out Ahmadinejad and Iran. Maybe the hits will be orchestrated, as occasionally they were, to happen on a significant Christian holiday such as Good Friday. Maybe this time, it will be the high Christian holiday of Easter. North Korea, the third point of Zionist agitator David Frum's "axis of evil," will have to wait. They're crazy enough to fight back, and just like the rogue and nuclear-armed nation of Israel, North Korea also has a need to distract its citizens from the realities of its horrible government.

I have offered a solution. What is needed in America is a totally new approach to governance. Under the leadership of an outsider, meaning someone virtually free and independent of the current, corrupt spoils system of American politics' two-flavored single party system, the Democrat-Republican Party, such a leader now has, more than during any other time in America's history, a real chance of uniting the American people in a populist movement. Just as happened during our Founding, patriotic colonists, originally committed to loyalty to the British Crown began by first complaining to the British government, which then morphed eventually into civil disobedience and minor demonstrations, and then finally to open armed rebellion. Armed rebellion, like war, should be avoided at all costs. This is so for the same reason articulated by Sun Tzu who warned against destroying the social infrastructure of the vanquished. Basically, the reasoning is to preserve as much of that which is familiar to a defeated people to avoid continual uprising and rebellion. Too bad Bush genius L. Paul Bremer wasn't familiar with this basic premise.

Political parties were abhorrent to both patriotic factions that founded this nation. Government centrists in the form of Federalists, as well as those despising large, powerful central government and recognizing it as a great threat to individual freedom and calling themselves anti-Federalists Jeffersonian "Republicans," both vehemently opposed political parties for the great inherent danger they pose to both the people and their government. You see, Federalists and anti-Federalists did not see themselves as organized political parties, but as antagonists on the philosophical battlefield framed upon the motive to do what was best for of the people of this potentially great nation. Is there today any doubt whatsoever that their fears were completely justified? Our political parties serve neither our people nor our form of government. And that is why we now have a dictatorship that only serves the Zionist Agenda and its timetable!

It has oft been pointed out, especially when considering the Zionist media-suppressed Downing Street Memo, that Bush recklessly and deliberately called for false intelligence to help him launch the Iraqi invasion. Key to that criticism concerning Bush's recklessness was the reference to his failure to consider an exit strategy. Now what outcome strategy do you suppose our "decider" has put together to follow the nuclear attack on Iran, hmmmmm? Does "the smirk" even have one? Don't count on it! His job, as the illegitimately appointed decider and White House Moron, is to comply with the Zionist Agenda mandated by the Zionist Network and The Lobby. It is not for him to reason why, just to sacrifice Americans to do and die.

Whether or not Iran retaliates is not an issue ­ they will, but we won't know where or when. Think the decider cares? And they may not use "conventional" means, such as nuclear ground, air or submarine-based missiles. In fact, it may not even be Iran that retaliates. Since we and our decider have targeted ALL of Islam, perhaps it will only be some of Islam that retaliates. Perhaps it will be another nation that isn't even part of the huge Islamic block. Perhaps they will come to realize that the most powerful and dangerous rogue nation on the planet, made so by a brain trust of insane, power hungry lunatics bent on world domination, will eventually attack them also after Islam has been conquered. What ever happened to those missing 200 suitcase nukes that disappeared from the former Soviet Union? Is our decider considering these things? Of course not! He's too stupid and dedicated only to the Zionist Agenda. And so are virtually all in Congress including Pelosi and the Hillaroid.

But why does our rogue and unrepresentative government need a buy-in from US? As others have pointed out, the Zionist bankers have commandeered the governments of virtually every powerful nation on Earth; why do they need to continue to bullshit US and pretend that we the people have the potential to make a difference?

That's because WE DO have the potential to make a difference! Good Friday, huh? How about April 15th people???? Know what that date signifies? How about Labor Day, huh? Remember, the District of Crime gangsters in Washington would instantly starve to death without US! We pay them their salaries and provide them luxurious, cushiony and generous pensions and health care upon their "retirement." We make their limousines, grow and prepare their food, build their computers, provide their power and heating fuel, make and fly their airplanes for 'em. What do they do for US in return?

Let's count the ways they serve US! They tax [read steal] our incomes via an unjust Zionist-imposed income tax, and steal the inheritances we intended for our children. They steal our children and make them fight and die and lose limb, mind and sight for a tiny foreign nation whose population barely equates to that of New York City. They federalize our police, turning them against US via "federal aid" provided by our own stolen tax money in the form of funds and powerful military equipment and materiel to restrain US. They tell US Social Security is going bankrupt, a scheme which we have unwillingly been paying into all our working lives, and not facing insolvency because of their unnecessary, unjust and costly wars to serve their political party interests, but because of OUR greed and selfishness. And how is pissing-off one sixth of the world's population and attacking them with nukes going to make US safer? Is this how our government intends to protect US and our future?

I'm sorry, but I must be having trouble with my eyes. I simply cannot see how the decider's reasoning is going to protect US from attack. If anything, his "logic" will do just the reverse. Not only are the attackee's interests served by retaliating against US, but ANY nation can now justify hitting US first, and with nukes, and FOR ANY REASON! Thanks Bushman! Bush is an aborigine dressed up in a Brooks Brothers' suit and wearing a $500 tie. The moron can't even efficiently operate a spear and bamboo shield, but he's got his finger on the red button of nuclear disaster! Thanks for setting US up as the New World Order's threat to all mankind! We're number one in the rogues' gallery of every post office in the world!

The American people are vulnerable to this Zionist moron and stooge because there is no free and independent press in America. Americans are vulnerable because they are divided against themselves by the many diverse factions and interest groups to which we all identify. And because of a tradition of illegal, Zionist-inspired gun control, the way is paved for the DC criminals to confiscate ALL guns door-to-door. The latter scheme was Hitler's, and it worked. And former Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut brought Hitler's gun control act of 1938 to America. It is Amerika's 1968 Gun Control Act. Get ready people ­ they'll be coming for them next!

America must join all anti-government, anti-war, and anti-Bush factions together, and unite as one people, and may even have to consider shutting down the country. This is how the Zionists [Communists and Bolsheviks] eventually brought down the Christian monarchy of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. It worked for them! Perhaps if we were to advise the United States Congress of Criminals that since they are jumping through hoops backwards in protecting America's greatest arch criminal, we are going to consider them as accessories before, during and after the fact. America needs a national showdown between its contemptible rulers, and those who now wish to serve the great American people on a new battlefield of logic and reason.

© THEODORE E. LANG 2/04/07 All rights reserved

Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.

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Monday, June 04, 2007

Jurisdiction

Thanks to: Shane (Infoseekr)

JURISDICTION

The People enjoy their God-given natural rights in the Republic. In a democracy, the Citizens enjoy only government granted privileges (also known as civil rights). There was a great political division between two major philosophers, Hobbes and Locke. Hobbes was on the side of government. He believed that sovereignty was vested in the state. Locke was on the side of the People. He believed that the fountain of sovereignty was the People of the state. Statists prefer Hobbes. Populists choose Locke. In California, the Government Code sides with Locke. Sections 11120 and 54950 both say, "The people of this State do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them." The preambles of the U.S. and California Constitutions also affirm the choice of Locke by the People. It is my hope that the U.S. will always remain a Republic, because I value individual freedom.


The Buck Act

Act of 1871

REDEMPTION Rice McLeod [terdal@gbronline.com]

Rice McLeod Meeting 01-19-05 IMPORTANT NOTES

AMERICA'S ROYAL FAMILY

THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC

Definition of DEMOCRACY

CONSTITUTIONS

The Declaration of Independence & The Constitution

Expatriation Act of 1868

THE FLAG, AS WITH ALL THINGS IN LAW, IS HIGHLY DEFINED

Flag Code, Etiquette and Laws

YOUR GOVERNMENT'S DEFINITION OF THE WORD ?CITIZEN?

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDURE

Administrative Procedure Masquerading as Law?

GOING AFTER THE WRONG PEOPLE?

House Joint Resolution 192

Taking Back Your Power

YOU, Inc. - The Basis of the Monetary Con Game

NOTICE AND DEMAND

THE LAW, THE MONEY, AND YOUR CHOICE

COMMERCE GAME EXPOSED and How To Play it

THE BOND Rice McLeod

THE STRAWMAN

YOUR ARE A CORPORATION UNTIL YOU DENY IT VIA AFFIDAVIT!

Our American Common Law

HOW TO RESPOND TO 'CONTEMPT' IN THE COURTROOM

Judges Acting Under False Oaths

The Hierarchy of the Law

The Application of Commercial Law

Allocution: Oral declamation of rights and non-consent at sentencing

WHY WE ARE IN THE ADMIRALITY JURISDICTION

FORMING THE 'SILVER BULLET'

THE MAGIC BULLET

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The Myth of Just Taxation


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VIDEO: How the Israeli Lobby (AIPAC) Warps US Foreign Policy - Walt and Mearsheimer in Action

How the Israeli Lobby (AIPAC) Warps US Foreign Policy - Walt and Mearsheimer in Action




You can't really understand what happened [in the war in Lebanon] if you don't understand the political power of pro-Israel groups in the United States.

Our bottom line [is] that the influence of the Israel lobby has led to policies that are not in the US national interest, not in the interest of other countries in the region, and ultimately not in Israel's long term interest[.]

[The US gives] about $3 billion [in] economic and military assistance each year. That's about $500 per year, per
Israeli citizen despite the fact that Israel is a relatively wealthy industrial power.

That aid is largely unconditional.

It's not linked to Israeli behavior.

It gets its aid when it builds settlements.

It gets its aid when it spies on US,

when it sells American high technology to countries like China,

or when it attacks civilians in the West Bank, Lebanon, or Gaza.
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The bottom line here is that no other country gets the same level of economic, military and diplomatic support [from the United States as does Israel].

The remainder of Walt's discussion focuses on why this unconditional support is not only disastrous for United States strategically, but also indefensible morally.

Mearsheimer gives a scathing talk on
Israel's morally indefensible war on Lebanon, categorically rejecting Israels claim that Hizbullah used civilians as human shields.

This panel discussion is a MUST SEE and a MUST PASS ON.

Hearing about Walt and Mearsheimer's paper is one thing and seeing them in action is a whole different experience. I urge everyone to watch them.

They give a compelling, comprehensive, and cogent presentation of everything that's wrong with the US
Israel relationship.




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