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Friday, July 25th, 2008
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11:54 am - Tased Until Dead: The Epidemic of Taser Crazy Cops
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Since 'Taser' use has become widespread more than 290 people have been killed, possibly murdered, by taser crazy cops. In response to this epidemic of violence, Amnesty International released a statement damning the use of "... tasers to subdue non-compliant or disturbed individuals who do not pose a serious danger to themselves or others." That --I daresay --describes most of the incidents.
Various police departments have said 'tasers save lives', an assertion unprovable on its face. Secondly, as tasers have proven popular with rogue cops who like to use them, it may be more accurate to conclude that as gun deaths have gone down, deaths by taser have increased.
Taser use has become an outrage, a threat to the rule of law, an overt violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, to say nothing of felony violations of US Codes, and state laws against murder. The epidemic of taser abuse is characteristic of fascist police states run riot when those sworn to uphold the law become nothing more than thugs and/or murderers.
Read full story at: http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/07/tasers-catnip-for-cops-death-for.html
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11:16 am - Mexican currency nears six-year high vs. dollar
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The official market rate -- meaning for large currency transactions at banks -- had the peso at 10.005 to the dollar this morning, down from 10.07 on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg data. Last August the dollar still was worth more than 11 pesos.
The last time the dollar bought fewer than 10 pesos was in October 2002.
For U.S. tourists the greenback already has crossed that line, because most bank exchange rates for smaller transactions are much less favorable than the official rate. Wells Fargo & Co.’s online currency center today was quoting 9.2 pesos per dollar.
Read full story at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2008/07/its-good-to-be.html
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9:28 am - The Hearings
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Hundreds gather for 'imperial presidency' hearing
Spectators began assembling outside a Judiciary Committee hearing room more than an hour before the scheduled start time of Friday's hearing to examine George W. Bush's "imperial presidency."
Read more at:
http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Hundreds_gather_for_imperial_presidency_hearing_0725.html
'Imperial presidency' hearing to feature 13 witnesses
Testifying Friday morning will be Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has introduced several resolutions calling for President Bush's and Vice President Dick Cheney's impeachment; former Rep. Bob Barr, the Libertarian presidential candidate who led the charge to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998; Vincent Bugliosi, author of the just-released book The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder; and 10 other current and former members of Congress, constitutional experts and human rights activists.
Read more at: http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Imperial_presidency_hearing_to_feature_13_0724.html
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9:12 am - LIVE BROADCAST: Friday, July 25th at 6am Pacific - 9am Eastern - 13:00 GMT
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This Could Be Our Last Chance for 9/11 Truth, Stopping the Iran War and Martial Law!!
Listen to the Hearing Carefully! Read Rep. Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment. Then Act!
Call the Judiciary Committee and your Representative and Demand Impeachment Hearings Now.
Be sure to mention Article 18 (Torture) and Articles 33-35 regarding 9/11 Truth.
Call 6 friends to do this also and ask them to call 6 friends...and this will go viral!!!
If this hearing is censored, call the above links and demand immediate impeachment hearings and Conyers resignation!
SPECIAL LIVE COVERAGE: No Lies Radio will carry live the Pacific Radio network (KPFA) broadcast of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Imperial Presidency and possible legal responses entitled "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations".
Listen live at: http://noliesradio.org/
or
Watch hearings at: http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS
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| Thursday, July 24th, 2008
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12:59 pm - Banking Crisis Alert -How Safe is Your Bank
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On today's update, we are going to discuss the following:
1. The new problem banks are facing,
2. The safety of your deposits and savings accounts,
3. How to check on the safety level of your bank, and ...
An action list of recommendations: How to check on the safety level of your bank:
Check on the safety level of your Bank, S&L, or Credit Union that you are banking with.
To do this, go to this link : http://www.veribanc.com/
Read full story at: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5589.html
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12:50 pm - Federal Minimum Wage Raised To $6.55
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About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers.
The increase, from $5.85 to $6.55 per hour, is the second of three annual increases required by a 2007 law. Next year's boost will bring the federal minimum to $7.25 an hour.
Last week, the Labor Department reported the fastest inflation since 1991 — 5 percent for June compared with a year earlier. Energy costs soared nearly 25 percent. The price of food rose more than 5 percent.
So the minimum wage hike is "a drop in the bucket compared to the increases in costs, declining labor market, and declining household wealth that consumers have experienced in the past year," Lehman Brothers economist Zach Pandl said.
The new minimum is less than the inflation-adjusted 1997 level of $7.02, and far below the inflation-adjusted level of $10.06 from 40 years ago, according to a Labor Department inflation calculator.
Read full story at: http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=10922
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12:42 pm - Hearing On Oil Prices & Dollar Scheduled
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Last month Congressman Ron Paul, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy called for a hearing on the relationship between the falling value of the dollar and the recent rise of oil prices, noting:
“The price of oil is currently among the most pressing issues to American workers. Congress should be examining all factors contributing to the high cost of oil, and monetary policy is one of the key factors in the run-up in price.”
That hearing request has been granted and scheduled for July 24 at 2:00pm.
Besides himself, 16 other Representatives signed on to the letter, including ranking member of the House Committee on Financial Services Spencer Bachus, and Chairman of the Republican Study Committee Rep. Jeb Hensarling.
Confirmed witnesses will be:
Economist Walter J. Williams, of ShadowStats.com which examines government economic reporting.
Economist Robert Murphy of the Institute for Energy Research
Economist C. Fred Bergsten, Director of the Peterson Institute
Dr. Joseph Kasputys of Global Insight, Inc.
http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2008/pr072208.htm
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11:45 am - Conyers Tries To Kill Impeachment Hearings Before They Start
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John Conyers is now taking the position that no one at Friday’s impeachment hearing can accuse Bush or Cheney of any crime, or any impeachable offense, or dishonorable conduct, or even lying.
Moreover, Conyers is now saying that he will shut the hearing down if anyone does accuse the boys of crimes, impeachable offenses, or otherwise being naughty.
As David Swanson summarizes it:
“Apparently the rules of Congress are designed to allow impeachable offenses to be discussed only in impeachment hearings. Apparently this didn’t occur to Chairman Conyers when he decided to hold a non-impeachment impeachment hearing. As a result, his hearing may be quickly shut down, and he will have a choice of holding a real impeachment hearing, resigning, or dropping the pretense that he intends to resist Cheney and Bush in any way whatsoever.”
Read more at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34943
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| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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8:12 pm - Kucinich vs. The Establishment: Impeachment Hearing On Friday
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Kucinich should be commended for his brave and restless pursuit of impeachment. Whether Bush had a few months left in office or a few years doesn’t matter one iota - the Congressman’s efforts are aimed squarely at ensuring Bush rightly goes down in history as the most flagrantly criminal and anti-American president in history, while also making sure that a repeat of the debacle we have witnessed over the past eight years is not allowed to happen again.
Read more on this story at: http://www.prisonplanet.com/kucinich-vs-the-establishment-impeachment-hearing-on-friday.html
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7:17 pm - Army Surplus Sale
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If you live near the San Antonio area the National Outdoors Army Surplus store is having a 10% sale. Some items are buy one get second item half price.
This is for personal protection items as well as clothes and camping items.
National Outdoors, Inc
6900 San Pedro Ste 117, San Antonio, TX Phone: (210) 979-8111
5600 Bandera Rd San Antonio, TX Phone: (210)680-3322
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| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
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11:03 am - Calling on all survivalists
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Which are the best solar charging battery systems that you have used that work well.
Also how many hours do the batteries stay charged?
Links are very much appreciated.
I am also looking for alternative refrigeration systems if there are any that could use solar energy. Cooking alternatives without having to worry about constantly using fuel. Low fuel use is also OK. Propane and butane storage is limited for me and I do not know how much I would have to store for long term use 1-2 years(?)
Remember I live in an apartment with only around 4-5 hours of direct sunlight on my balcony.
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10:47 am - Unprecedented Demand Cleans Out Major Storable Food Supplier Through 2009
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It came to our attention today, that the world's largest producer of storable foods, Mountain House, is currently out of stock of ALL #10 cans of freeze dried foods, not just the Turkey Tetrazzini. They will NOT have product now through 2009.
This information was learned by a Mountain House dealer who shared it with me this morning. In personally talking with the company immediately after, Mountain House verified the information is true. Customer service stated, "I'm surprised they don't have this posted on the website yet." She said they have such a backlog of orders, Mountain House will not be taking any #10 can food requests through the remainder of this year and all of the next.
Mountain House claims this situation is due to a backlog of orders, which may very well be true, but who is purchasing all of their food? This is a massive global corporation.
Read more at: http://standeyo.com/NEWS/08_Food_Water/080721.Mountain.House.html
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10:26 am - CDC: Offline generators caused germ lab outage
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A critical germ lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost power last week because the agency had taken two backup generators out of service for upgrades, CDC officials said Friday.
Their absence from a complex, centralized backup generator system created a power fluctuation when the system was activated during a July 11 power outage, causing the whole system to shut down, CDC spokesman Dave Daigle said. The problem is being fixed, he said.
The backup power failure — the second in 13 months — is the type predicted years ago by some CDC engineers. And it has heightened concerns in Congress about lab safety at the Atlanta agency, which experiments on smallpox, Ebola, anthrax and other deadly germs.
Read full story at: http://www.ajc.com/wednesday/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/18/cdc_power_outage.html
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10:11 am - 8,500 U.S. Banks; Many Will Die Soon
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The FDIC is an insurance operation. They make an educated guess as to how many banks will fail and what the total exposure is, then they collect insurance premiums from them. They’ve got $51 billion … and Indymac alone sucked up 10% of that. If a big one lets go, like Washington Mutual or Wachovia, then the FDIC will look just like FEMA did facing down hurricane Katrina. Don’t go and look at the scoreboard on the Bank Implode-O-Meter unless you’ve got a very strong stomach. Oh, and do note that a good bit of those write downs are investment banks - the FDIC does not cover their activities.
OK, very scared now, so what do I do?
Run, don’t walk, to your bank and get the funds you have clear of this mess before it gets any worse. The safe deposit box … isn’t. There were rules during the Great Depression such that a treasury agent got to paw through any that were opened before the owner got to touch their stuff; gold, silver, and cash could easily be confiscated in an emergency.
So, what to do? Cash at home in the First Bank of Serta? A fire proof safe? Maybe cashier’s checks in your name and leave the receipts in the safe deposit box, thusly meeting the portability requirement with safety? Nope on that last one, cashier’s checks drawn on a dead bank are dead. Treasury Bills? Wow, look at the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout … they’ll not go *poof* instantly, but they’re going down in value bigtime. Swiss bank account? Hey, look at that first salvo in making sure dollars in the U.S. stay in the U.S.
OK, terrified, what do I do?
Read full story at: http://cryptogon.com/?p=2994
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| Monday, July 21st, 2008
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11:45 am - Levels of protection and protective gear
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11:34 am - ADVANTAGE® 1000 CBR-RCA Gas Mask
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11:09 am - News Updates
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10:33 am - Concern Mounts About FDIC Deposit Fund
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The FDIC is looking for ways to shore up its depleted deposit fund, including charging higher premiums on riskier brokered deposits, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said Friday.
However, that fund is "a myth," according to longtime banking consultant Bert Ely, and consumers may end up paying the price of what is expected to be a growing wave of bank failures.
NYU Economics Professor Nouriel Roubini predicts that Congress will have to intervene in order to bail out the deposit fund.
"They're going to run out of money, with certainty," he predicted. "Congress is going to have to recapitalize the FDIC, those $50 billion plus is not going to be enough, by no means."
Read full story at:
http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=658688&pageNum=2062_3100_1
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9:09 am - The Goat Mayors of LajitasTexas
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The Mayor -- the world-famous Clay Henry III -- is a strapping mountain goat with a people-loving disposition.
His responsibilities consisted of being available for tourists who wanted a peek at the beer-drinking goat. But he did apparently affix his hoof print to at least one piece of legislation introduced at the state capitol. Mr. Ivey said the goat appeared in movies, drank beers with country music stars like Willie Nelson and held office until the early 1990's.
Clay Henry Sr., the first goat mayor, was elected in the 1980s and held office until his death in the mid-1990s, at age 23. He was killed in a fight over a nanny with a much younger goat.
Clay Henry's son, Clay Jr., had a shorter tenure and left office in 1998. For a while, the trading post was without a goat and the town was without a mayor, until tourists visiting the resort demanded a successor. Clay Henry III officially became mayor in 2000, winning an election against a field that included a wooden Indian and a dog named Clyde.
( Read more... )
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| Friday, July 18th, 2008
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2:40 pm - Ron Paul: “Some Big Events Are About To Occur”
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I’m convinced the time is now upon us that some Big Events are about to occur. These fast-approaching events will not go unnoticed. They will affect all of us. They will not be limited to just some areas of our country. The world economy and political system will share in the chaos about to be unleashed.
I’m fearful that my concerns have been legitimate and may even be worse than I first thought. They are now at our doorstep.
More at: http://www.infowars.com/?p=3459
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