A TSA letter proves that naked body scanners transmit images. The government at first forced its dangerous and intrusive naked body scanners at airports around the country. The media said that these machines are unable to save images even from the Associated Press. Now, the TSA admits that these machines can save and trasmit images. A letter sent to Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (or the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security) say that the TSA is a government requirement to save images. “TSA requires AIT machines to have the capability to retain and export imagines (sic) only for testing, training, and evaluation purposes,” states a TSA letter dated February 24, 2010 and signed by Gale D. Rossides, Acting Administrator. According to Rossides, this ability is limited to engineers, training contracts, and Z level users. Z level users are described as select lab personnel from the TSA's Office of Security Technology.
A woman was hospitalized after botched abortion at California Planned Parenthood. An ambulance appeared at the Riverside, California Planned Parenthood abortion business on Tuedsay to transport a woman to a local hospital after a botched abortion. The Planned Parenthood in Riverside is the place where 3 women have already died from failed abortions. Ashely Colantuono of the pro-life group Survivors explains that an ambulance, fire truck, and a police car arrived, sirens blaring, in the parking lot at Planned Parenthood late Tuesday morning. Rachelle is a local pro life woman helping women outside the center find abortion alternatives. She said that: "...I was so confused. I've been at this clinic three times now when ambulances have responded to a call, but they never used sirens (before).” Colantuno said the abortion practitioner appeared outside the Planned Parenthood about 10 minutes later and escorted a woman into the ambulance. The ambulance left the property and the other emergency response vehicles vacated shortly thereafter. "At this time, we do not know any specifics about the well being of the woman taken transported in the ambulance," she said. The Survivors activist is not suprised that another woman is in medical danger following an abortion. This isn't the first time an ambulance that has been linked to this particular clinic. Edrica Goode was 21 when she died on Valentines Day in 2007. Edrica went to Planned Parenthood Riverside to attain a second trimester abortion. After having laminaria inserted to dilate her cervix, she became mentally disoriented, developed a fever along with vomiting and then died. Edrica is the third known death among Planned Parenthood patients in California in the last 4 years. Holly Patterson died when she was 18 of an infection after an RU 486 abortion in 2003. "...Diana Lopez, 25, bled to death in 2002 after her cervix was punctured during an abortion procedure," Colantuono adds. More deaths and injuries may continue if only because state officials are not holding Planned Parenthood accountable and may not even know of the problems. "Edrica’s mother’s lawyer indicates that Planned Parenthood did not report any of these deaths to the state, as required by law," Colantuono said.
The FCC wants Congress to spend more money to push PBS-style govenrment sponsored journalist in the Internet to compete with privately funded Internet journalist. The government is angry that the real truth about the world is coming out in the Internet than in any other time in history. So, they want to use avenues to push their views in the world wide web. This is part of the Federal Communications Commissions's National Broadband Plan. This plan has been submitted to Congress on March 15. The FCC view the Internet based public media as a 21st century successor to the local public broadcasting television and radio station of today. This means of the media is a vital and unique part of American society. The FCC wants public media to be apart of the media eocsystem. They want cohesion and participating in our communiction. The current public broadcasting system, the FCC explains, is at a “crossroads” as sites such as YouTube and Wikipedia make local public broadcasting obsolete. “Public media has historically focused on broadcasting,” the plan says. “Today, public media is at a crossroads. That is why public media must continue expanding beyond its original broadcast-based mission to form the core of a broader new public media network that better serves the new, multi-platform information needs of America.” The FCC wants federal taxpayer funding to make their plans to be a reality. They want the public media to have additional funds. The proceeds according to the FCC will go into local public broadcasters themselves. The report says that one avenue for the funding of online content. Congress accoridng to the FCC should create a trust fund for digital public media that is endowed by the revenues form a voluntary auction of specturm licensed to public television. The FCC Broadband does't make a difference between public broadcasting in local area, Internet areas, etc. Rutgers University Law Professor Ellen Goodman, who is also working on the FCC’s Future of Media Project, talks about the government's need to have an Internet environment act in a specific way. This way is allowing the content creation to be determined not by supply and demand market forces, but by local concerns along the concepts of creation, curation, and connection. Goodman wants connections to be fast and flexible. Some of these goals are legitimate to make the Internet perform better. Yet, we should be careful not to allow the government to control all of the content within the Internet. This is what the Libertarian get right since if that occurs, the government can delete content that they find "offensive" even if it isn't offensive at all.
It doesn't take a genius to see that the Western elite use economically corrupt policies to exploit and steal the wealth from the people the world over (including using starvation, robbery, murder, and theft of resources). People talk about the middle class all of the time, but the poor should take great consideration in building the U.S. as well not just the middle class. The middle class in America expanded greatly after the Industrial Revolution. They have wealth, power, and influence. Some of them in times past didn't know about or care about the plight of the world's majority poor. Then, the economic recession hit in the 21st century harming them as well not only the poor. One big reason for this economic situation is the debt crisis. The over reliance on credit cards have caused issues ever since the modern credit card was invented by the Bank of America in 1958 (which evolved into Visa). In 2004, PBS published a special report on the “secret history of credit cards.” One of the researchers explained that, “The almost magical convenience of plastic money is critical to our famously compulsive consumer economy,” as “With more than 641 million credit cards in circulation and accounting for an estimated $1.5 trillion of consumer spending, the U.S. economy has clearly gone plastic.” It's not a secret that credit card companies benefit from people getting more credit cards adding debt after debt (even if a person pays their credit card payments on time). This debt trap isn't just being promoted against the middle class via credit cards. It's promoted by the IMF and World Bank in Third World nations as well in the guise of structural adjustment. Much of the income for the middle class has been stagnant since 2001. Some want to blame the consumers for this, but it isn't true. Many banks like the Bank of America encouraged the debt based consumption culture nd engaged in far riskier debt-based transactions on a global scale, which caused the global financial crisis. Subsequently, the banks, like Bank of America, were given a blank check by the government that bought their bad debts, and are now going to charge the taxpayers, of which the Bank of America report states they need to “work off a chunk” of their own personal debt. They forgot to mention that the taxpayers would also be paying off the bankers’ debts, too. Colleges have students have huge college debt and trouble finding jobs too. Even when government bailed out the finance industry, they failed to reform or regulate any of the problems in financial markets that created the crisis, and “some rescue plans have pushed banks to maintain their lending practices of the past.” Ironcially, Geithner and others claim to want economic solution when they are allies of Wall Street (that contributed to the financial crisis in the first place via the derivatives bubble). Laurence Summers once said that middle class tax cuts won't exist, but he won't rule it out recently. Some extremists want austerity measures to cut services, cut job creating programs, etc. that won't increase economic growth long term at all. Transnational corporations are certainly gaining more power in these times via globalization (or allowing the big banks not nation-states control the majority of the economic decisions in the world. This is related to Global Goverance). This process has been facilitated by the major nations of the world, primarily the United States, and it has in turn led to the formation of a truly global ruling class. David Rothkopf refers to this global class as the ‘Superclass’ and has concluded that it is a class consisting of roughly 6,000 individuals, roughly one member of the ‘Superclass’ for every one million people. It's very hypocritically for the neo cons to rail against Big Government when they support big Government to expand the military expenditures & police state policies in American society. Bush inherited a $230 billion budget surplus from Clinton, which he quickly turned into large deficits. There certainly needs to be radical solutions like legitimate regulation, banning derivatives, crack down on corporate corporations (that includes Goldman Sachs even investing in Barack Obama), cutting a boaded military budget to fund serivces in our society (to assist especially the poor), a rebuilding of our nation infrastructure, etc.
Ron Paul is an unique man. He is right on many issues like being opposed to a draft, wanting individual liberties, disagreeing with the Patriot Act, and desiring Second Amendment rights. Yet, I disagree with Ron Paul the most on economic issues. Paul seems to reject the economic populism that made this American nation once of the most potent economcially viable countries in human history. Of course, Paul accepts the flawed economic system called Austrian Economics. This philosophy teaches that most if not all government intervention in the economy is wrong and that we should have the free markets have supreme authority on economic policies. It's a distorted and simplistic view since legitimate regulation and real reforms that sometimes involve government intervention isn't evil. It's purely necessary to build up the standard of living, our housing, and other components of our domestic atmosphere. What we have in the economy is the heavy influence of a Wall Street oligarchy. An oligarchy is a power base that makes a select group of people to control the majority of power (pertaining to money, wealth, political power, etc.). They allow the Federal Reserve to be privately run banking system (of a fractional reserve system) that inflates money and can deflate earning to allow folks to be kicked out of their own homes, etc. These banking elite are unelected people that isn't even representative of a elected, free republic. So, the bankers issue public debt to control the government and businesses (in a monopoly system). Now, the Austrian School doesn't work totally since free markets alone can prevent a privately ruled police and armies from oppressing, harming, and enslaving people. Also, even the privatized Federal Reserve has enacted corrupt financial policies that Paul ironically oppose. A real policy isn't given the corporations the power to run government, but it's giving the people the power to run the government. Private banking cartels shouldn't run our society at all. Ron Paul is against mostly the government having the right to promote the general welfare of the people. Ron Paul is against parts of the 14th Amendment because it doesn't punish a child for other people's actions. He doesn't want any federal government policy to help the poor, to help victims of natural disasters, senior citizens, and health care. Ron Paul wanted all public education banned back in 1988. Ron Paul justifies this view by saying that the Constitution doesn't allow for this. This is false on many levels. The real reason is that the Constitution always have provisions in it to allow Congress to pass laws to make the nation a more perfect union. In others, new laws to help people is perfectly legal and has existed centuries ago. Even Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives the government the right to levy taxes, build roads, have commerce among the states (plus foreign lands), promote sciences & the arts, etc. So, Ron Paul doesn't mention that the government has a constitutional right to promote progress, science, and infrastructure in many arenas. Ron Paul is against meaningful policies to even regulate environmental corruption. Even if you disagree with man-made global warming, you should be for environmental protection. He wants to end welfare to stop illegal immigration, but people will surely be in the streets if that occurs. A better solution is to offer compassion toward illegal immigration and offer a real pathway where immigrants are given citizenship in a flexible, real way (and to allow illegal immigrants to be punished via fine, etc. before they get an opportunity for citizenship). Paul has a civil rights issue. Ron Paul opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Ron Paul opposes the Voting Rights Act, he is accused of calling Dr. King slurs, and authored racist newsletters before. Don Black is the founder of Stormfront, which is a racist site. Don Black is a neo-Nazi that is a major supporter and campaign contributor of Ron Paul's 2008 Presidential campaign. Ron Paul's views are similar to Ronald Reagan's opinions. He voted against a resolution to call for the criticism of genocide of Darfur and he was against the Armenian Genocide Resolution Bill. He claims to be against foreign interventionism, but he supports business interventionism in the affairs of Third World nations. He also believes in foreign military intervention in the war of Afghanistan. So, it's best for me to be independent and not adhere to the Democrats or the Republicans.
By Timothy
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