Friday, November 12, 2010

Friday Updates, the TSA, etc.

Rand Paul is promoting the same policy of Austrian economics. This form of economics is extreme. Rand Paul and his ilk is trying to force Barack Obama to cut much of the social safety and get rid of federal spending across the world. This policy will cause people to die literally. Rand Paul loves the CATO Institute's "Downsizing the Federal Government" by neo-con Chris Edwards and the evil book "The Road to Serfdom" by Frederick von Hayek. Chris Edwards is recommended by Rand Paul in that Paul wants to cut some programs. He wants to cut the Army Corps of Engineers and NASA (or our scientific edge). Edwards wants the land to exist where Oligarchs dominates our land. Edwards wants to crush Medicare (to have vouchers), Medicaid, and Social Security (and privatization of Social Security, which is evil). Edwards wants to cut the Department of Education and privatized the post office. This is a fruit of radical free trade Austrian economics. This is anti-American since even the Constitution calls for a federal post office. Hayek wants to targeted American political structures and seek to crush nationalism. Hayek attacked Henry Carey and even Abraham Lincoln. Austrian economists desire a feudalism of government. von Hayek attacked scientific achievements and denied that individuals are capable of scientific development. The truth is that man has the right to use the human mind to harness technology and use science to grow the essence of society. Rand Paul wants to cut vital entitlements. These guys like Paul support an agenda that want to crush the social safety net (Schumpeter and his predecessors, Nietzsche supported similar acts). Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and ex-White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, the co-chairs of the President's debt commission (calls for cuts and only tax increases on gasoline). Indeed, after the Simpson-Bowles show today, several of their own commission members, including Congresswoman Jan Shakowsky (D-Ill.), came out saying that the scheme they presented was totally unacceptable. The AFL-CIO also immediately denounced it. Tax cuts for the rich alone don't radically increase the ecnonomy at all.

Many updates have been going on in high tech devices. The Air Force wants neuroweapons to overwhelm enemy minds. Military elites in America want to ask scientists to help them attack the brain's chemcial pathways of people the government consider "enemies." The Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing revamped a call for research proposals examing "Advances in Bioscience for Airmen Performance." It's a six year $49 million effort to deploy extreme neuroscience and biotechnology in the service of warfare. One suggested research thrust to use the external stimulant technology to enable the airman to maintain focus on aerospace tasks and to recieve and process greater amounts of operationally relevant information. Scientists tried to look into fusing multiple human sensing modalities to develop the “capability for Special Operations Forces to rapidly identify human-borne threats.” These actions are similar to the movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats." The program has this following information: "...Conversely, the chemical pathway area could include methods to degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive capabilities.” That’s right: the Air Force wants a way to fry foes’ minds — or at least make ‘em a little dumber. This is the official statement that relates to the CIA planting a microchip in someone's head. The Air Force has the HAARP technology in Alaska. The 711th's call deal with the plan to create technologies to anticipate, find, fix, track, and identify, characterize human intent and physiological status anywhere and at anytime. For years, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with dozens of psychoactive drugs. They did this in various mind control experiments. Even recently, the Pentagon back in 2008 warned that adversaries could form enchacements to their cognitive capabilities that can be a threat to national security. The National Research Council and the Defense Intelligence Agency pushed pharma based tactics to weaken enemy forces. Big Pharma is known to have poison human beings in wars just like the Nazis used Big Pharma to kill people in concentration camps during World War Two. In recent months, the Pentagon has funded projects to optimize troop’s minds, prevent injuries, preemptively assess vulnerability to traumatic stress, and even conduct “remote control of brain activity using ultrasound.” The Air Force is warning potential researchers that this project “may require top secret clearance.” They’ll also need a high tolerance for seemingly loony theories — sparked by the military itself.

There is the Howard Thurman story. He had an influence on Dr. Martin Luther King. Thurman was a classmate at Morehouse College. Thurman mentored the young King and his friends. Thurman lived in segregated Daytona, Florida. A black man gave him money to go on the train in Daytona. When Thurman wrote his autobiography, he dedicated it "to the stranger in the railroad station in Daytona Beach who restored my broken dream sixty-five years ago."  He pracitipated in missionary work and talked with Mahatma Gandhit. Thurman was a student at Boston University and King on many times visited Thurman as the dean of Marsh Chapel. Walter Fluker, who has studied Thurman's writings, has stated, "I don't believe you'd get a Martin Luther King, Jr. without a Howard Thurman." Howard Thurman lived from 1899 to April 10, 1981. He wrote 20 books and he helped to found the first racially integrated, multicultural church in America back in 1944 (called the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, California). Founded on the ideal of diverse community with a focus on a common faith in God, Thurman brought people of every ethnic background together to worship and work for peace. Thurman followed non violent resistance and the idea of Jesus Christ in the New Testament acting as a liberation. Jesus Christ was liberation since he gave the poor, the suffering, the diseased, the outcasts, the rejected in society hope and inspiration that inspite of their suffering, the Father God and the Son of God including the Holy Spirit still loved them (and have a concern for the welfare of the whole human race in a sensitive, authentic fashion).  He got his doctorate at Haveford. Thurman's famous book from 1949 is called "Jesus and the Disinherited." It deeply influenced people of many backgrounds like Dr. King and others. He served as the spiritual advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sherwood Eddy, James Farmer, A. J. Muste, and Pauli Murray. The book wanted to inspire the disinherited to have faith in order to go overcome oppression in society like Jesus Christ overcome sin in his life's journey on Earth.  His wife Sue Bailey Thurman was active in civil rights and the religious communities. His first wife died in 1930 because of tuberculosis. He had Olive by his first wife and Anne Spencer Thurman from his second wife. He is famous for making lovely and philosophical quotations on theology and life. One of my favorite quotes from him is the following words: "..."In the conflicts between man and man, between group and group, between nation and nation, the loneliness of the seeker for community is sometimes unendurable. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. Always he must know that the contradictions of life are not final or ultimate; he must distinguish between failure and a many-sided awareness so that he will not mistake conformity for harmony, uniformity for synthesis. He will know that for all men to be alike is the death of life in man, and yet perceive harmony that transcends all diversities and in which diversity finds its richness and significance." (From The Search For Common Ground; An Inquiry Into The Basis Of Man's Experience Of Community). So, Dr. Thurman is an inspirational figure that desires to fight for the truth and promote the calm grace of God's Spirit.


The DHS may want to try to use body scanners that store biometrics. The TSA and Homeland Security authorities may be preparing a body scanner bait and switch by proposing new devices that advocates claim do not see under clothing and don't emit dangerous radiation. There do store a biometric record of the person using them which would grease the skids for authorities to track individuals in real time. There is a video proving that the new body scanner proposes that it be used in airports, banks, retail establishments, apartment blocks, and other transport hubs. Body scans done in order to go shopping, cash a check, catch a bus, or even to enter your home is apart of a Minority Report style electronic prison. There has been a nationwide opposition to naked body scanners and the new invasive TSA gropping procedures. Even DHS leader Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John Pistole were forced to recently meet with executives from major travel associations who are spearheading the resistance. The TSA is trying to have new body scanners that have the optional biometric technologies and identity verification techniques. Iscoon is the company behind the new 1000D whole body scanner. Its makers believe that the device don't fire harmful radiation at the user and the machine doesn't display details of naked bodies. These claims have been made by the TSA and many don't believe them. The new device uses a thermo-conductive infrared technology. It causes a 360°scan of the human body in 30 seconds, capturing every facet of biometric data. Although the video demonstration claims that the device “does not create any privacy issues,” the fact that the government will have the blanket power to use technology designed to catch criminals on the general public is an obvious violation of privacy. Even in the immediate health and privacy risks of the current airport body scanners are neutralized, the government being allowed to keep an indefinite record of the biometric identify of your whole body causes a huge threat to our personal liberties more than the current scanner coming now. There has been U.S. Marshals Service who were forced to admit that they were saving naked body scanner images earlier this year. It goes to show that information is being illegally stored despite the assurances of authorities. Biometric measures only promotes the false ideas of Americans being guilty until proven innocent. Iscon brags that it has already introduced like minded devices into U.S. prisons. There has been cutting edge satellite and other surveillance technology. If the government can make a biometric blueprint for the whole human body, then real time tracking of people isn't too far off. There shouldn't be a total, gargantuan Minority Report like surveillance grid at all (that such scanners are eventually intended to be used to control access to shopping malls, banks, transport hubs and even apartment blocks, as the makers admit). Detailed personal information can be open for abuse. Facial recognition can be manipulated if someone altered one's appearance or wearing a disguise. A full body biometric blueprint will allow the authorities to identify you in any situation. A mircochip in ones forehead isn't far off. This Iscon system can be used in airports, courthouses, and local malls plus sports arenas. This is an one stop biometric data collection technology. The FBI said that it wants a billion dollar effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics. This project can give the government an unprecendented ability to identify individuals in America plus the world (as the Washington Post reported in December of 2007). The Department of Homeland Security collected biometrics for years like the use of iris scans at certain airports under the guise of identify verificaiton of travelers (who have passed background checks and want to move through lines quickly). “The department is also looking to apply iris- and face-recognition techniques to other programs,” the Post added. Napolitano and Pistole may be preparing to present biometric body scanners as the “solution” to the nationwide outrage over TSA groping and naked body scanners, but such a system will only arm Big Brother with yet more power and more information with which to catalogue, track and trace American citizens.

Secret Societies are real all over the world. One of the interesting and new points of research from religious Brother Troy from the UK is about William Schaw. He was the man that was involved in the development of modern Freemasonry. Masonic orders existed long before 1717 as people know.On  December 28, 1598 Schaw, in his capacity of Master of Works and General Warden of the master stonemasons, issued "The Statutis and ordinananceis to be obseruit by all the maister maoissounis within this realme". The preamble states that the statutes were issued with the consent of a craft convention, simply specified as all the master masons gathered that day. Schaw's first statutes root themselves in the Old Charges, with additional material to describe a hierarchy of wardens, deacons and masters. Freemasonry developed from the stonemasons in Medieval Europe. The masons wanting philosophical and learning back then developed into the modern Freemasonic order that you see today. The Second Schaw Statues were signed in December 28, 1599 at Holyroodhouse and it was made up of 14 separate statues. Some of thsese rules existed for Kilwinning Lodge in Scotland. The art of memory that Schaw promoted related to magic (or renaissance esotericism as Bruno had this magical system). There were the Sinclair statues that competed against Schaw's Lodge infrastructure.  In 1598, Schaw issued the first of his statutes, setting out the duties of masons to their lodge and to the public, imposing penalties for unsatisfactory work and inadequate safety practices. Schaw drew up a second statute in 1599 wherein the first veiled reference to the existence of esoteric knowledge within the craft of stone masonry can be found.







By Timothy

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