New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows  

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       The FEMA camps that was once believed to be the stuff of conspiracy theorists are proven true. People always say that if you want the answers follow the money. Through tracking the governments solicitations for contracts it is undeniable that the government is looking to staff these camps nationwide for extended periods of time. Questions arise when a government is looking to staff and fence off a camp over the whole nation for up to five years. The living space for occupants will not even meet the regulations for federal prisoners. Everything seems to point towards detainment of some kind of category of undesirables rather than the common belief of the camps being for disaster refugees. Now that the President has signed the NDAA bill the possibility of American citizens being detained in such a facility is greatly increased. There is definitely something that the government is preparing for. Best case scenario they are preparing for natural disasters or major influx of refugees from mexico. More likely it has something to do with major civil conflict of some sort in America. They are preparing nationwide. What could need that kind of response?

Other links to the recent developments dealing with FEMA camps:
http://defythematrix.blogspot.com/2011/12/continuity-of-government-plans-prep.html
http://defythematrix.blogspot.com/2011/12/investigating-existence-of-camps-for.html

New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows

By Alan P. Halbert
Of all the rumors flying around on the internet, one just refuses to die, and it concerns America's FEMA camps.

In a nutshell, there seems to be a solicitation of bids occurring for the staffing of FEMA camps within 72 hours of implementation by an order from either Homeland Security or the president.  This situation begs to be investigated, with special consideration paid to the motives of the present administration.

I went to the source, the FedBizOpps.gov, and searched for the solicitation number HSFEHQ-10-R-0027, titled National Responder Support Camp.

A search of the history of the amendments to this Solicitation for Contract showed that it had been modified several times, with the last modification -- number 0008, with an original date of letting out to bid with a synopsis of May 13, 2011 -- occurring on December 16, 2011.  This last modification rescinded the solicitation, with said modification's purpose noted as follows:

1. Cancel Solicitation HSFEHQ-10-R-0027.
2. A new draft solicitation will be issued on January 2012 for industry comment.
3. A Pre-Solicitation Conference will be held approximately two week post draft solicitation.

Okay...score one for the internet and the vigilant citizens who perform an invaluable service to our nation by monitoring the actions of our government and its various agencies.

I began the laborious task of reading the Invitation to Bid -- this tome is 116, pages with many canned and boilerplate requirements for doing business with Uncle Sam duly enshrined amongst the pages.  The Task Order Request (TOPR) under Scenario I & II under Section J of the Appendix made for another 42 pages.  The required size of the camps was fluid, though they had the required capacity of 301 to two thousand, including security and camp cadre.

The staffing requirements or cadre for FEMA personnel for these camps -- which are identified as being located in five (5) distinct regions throughout and within the borders of the USA, with camps located in each and every state -- was three to fifteen each.  The size of these camps will vary around 5 acres per 1,000 inhabitants, though they will never be less than 3 acres for populations of 500 or fewer inhabitants within the camps' boundaries.

This requirement also had a minimum square footage for each inhabitant: either the camp's cadre and first responders of 63 square feet, or approximately 8 feet on each side.  This is slightly less than current Federal Court(s) requirements for housing prisoners, which is approximately 72 square feet.  Perimeter fencing or barricades is required to be six feet high, enclosing the camp, with all traffic in or out to be recorded on a daily log and with security restricting all traffic and access.  The contractor shall also provide fencing and barricades around areas which are "off limits" to occupants.  ID Badges are required and are either blue or red, depending on the carrier is temporary or considered an occupant of the camp.

The first of several anomalies in the solicitation for bid was in the contractor staffing requirements, which puzzlingly required staff to be fully operational within 72 hours.  Furthermore, "[w]henever practical, displaced citizens will be given the first opportunities for employment within the camp, assuming skills and capabilities are pertinent for the open positions."

This led me to question the stated purpose of these camps, considering that the successful contractor would need to have personnel ready to go on such short notice, with notification from FEMA, Homeland Security, or the president within 72 hours.  So the question arises: how could the camp utilize "displaced citizens" in the initial staffing unless the contractor knew where and when a disaster, man-made or otherwise would occur beforehand?

Another anomaly was the requirement that the "off limits" area was to be enclosed before anything else:

The contractor shall also provide fencing and barricades around areas which are "off limits" to occupants. Fencing and barricades are required within 36 hours for "phased" setup timeframes, and 72 hours for the rest of the initial setup timeframe.

Next question: just what is this "off limits" area to be used for, since the bid proposal specified only two (2) classes of occupants of the camp -- temporary or occupant as first responder?  Furthermore, it indicates that there may be a camp within the camp, or an area that is to be utilized by another group that is not revealed in the bid solicitation...your guess is as good as mine.  Most Americans would not like the ambiguity of this area's function!

Another question arose on the Term of the Contract (F.3), which reads as follows:

The contract shall be effective as of the execution date of the base contract, and shall continue up to five years if all four one-year options are exercised, except that delivery orders placed prior to the expiration date shall remain in full force and effect until deliveries have been completed and payments, therefore, have been made. The final delivery order shall not exceed two years.

The nature of the duration seems to belie a long-term use for these camps, which is also not fitting the transitory nature of natural disasters, with most communities being habitable again after a relatively short period of time.  We're talking months, not years.

Under the Principal Place of Performance (F.4), this solicitation implies that all of the areas outlined below must be staffed:

The effort required under this contract shall be performed in the United States. Task Orders will designate the exact locations where services will be provided. The five (5) areas of coverage are broken down as follows:
Area 1: Includes the states of CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, PA, VT, NY, WV, VA, RI
Area 2: Includes the states of KY, TN, MS, AL, GA, SC, NC, FL
Area 3: Includes the states of CO, IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, MT, ND, NE, OH, SD, UT, WI, WY
Area 4: Includes the states of AR, LA, NM, OK, TX
Area 5: Includes the states of AZ, CA, ID, NV, OR, WA


The language is specific in that all requirements are performed in the United States.  However, the language does not specify that it would be a phased approach or even a localized area that experiences a natural disaster -- simply the entire nation.

In the Task Order Proposal Request, there is a specific requirement for large vehicle parking:

Special Requirements:
- Outsized Vehicle Parking within Security Area (> 2.5 ton vehicles): Estimate required space and add to acreage requirement.
- Outsized vehicle parking outside security area (> 2.5 ton vehicles): Estimate required space and add to acreage requirement.
- Mission Support Work Area(s): Minimum square footage, Accessibility

These requirements suggest that the type of vehicle(s) will be either solely high-occupancy (i.e., buses) or large trucks or heavy equipment combined with buses.  The interesting point about this section is that the authors allude to a "Security Area" and an "Unsecured Area" with no specific requirements coming forth.

To sum up: the solicitation to bid for the staffing of FEMA camps within 72 hours is a curious proposition, since it appears to predict a calamity that will affect the entire nation simultaneously --completely unlike a location-specific natural disaster. 

This may be nothing more than a preparedness exercise by Homeland Security to see if anyone besides the military would be able to meet these stringent requirements for rapid deployment.  However, what I found most striking was the "off limits" areas within each camp and staffing with "displaced persons" and the "Mission Support Work Area(s)," all undefined.   As citizens, we need to know the exact purpose of these camps, given President Obama's propensity to bend our constitutional republic to his own purposes!

(All documents can be found at this website for the GSA Federal Business Opportunities.)

Is Torture to Becomes Commonplace Through Video Games  

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     Video games have become an ever increasing mainstay in people's lives in the last thirty years. Regardless if you want to admit to the effects that these games have had on society it is irrefutable. Even the military had used games to condition soldiers for combat situations. In one of the newest lows for violence and debauchery now you can obtain your own slave and practice torture. If soldiers are more apt to fire on enemies since the advent of first person shooters, what will this lead people to be conditioned to except. Do we need to prepare ourselves for torture to become even more commonplace in this age of hunting terrorists?  

More Bargain Debasement ‘Games’ – Hit Star Wars game lets players ‘own’ and torment female slaves with electric shock collar

By Rob Waugh
Daily Mail
  • Scripted lines such as ‘Obey my every command’
  • Options to beat and torture female slave
  • Gamers boast about how badly they treat her
  • Can force her to watch your character have sex

Vette is a ‘companion’ for your character in the game – players have the option to be pleasant, and have Vette follow out of loyalty, or to torture and coerce her into submission. A script has been written specifically for players who choose to torture their ‘slave’
Gamers playing the hit online game Star Wars: the Old Republic are torturing and abusing a female ‘slave’ character with punches and an ‘electric shock collar’ – and enjoying it.
The character comes with a ‘shock collar’ that allows gamers to ensure ‘obedience’.
YouTube videos show players of the million-selling role-playing hit abusing the character with electric shocks and backhanded slaps to the face, with captions such as ‘Keeping your slave in line.’
The game has dialogue written specifically FOR players who choose to treat their companion like this – Vette continues to respond in a lifelike fashion after players have been torturing her for hours.
One of the first things players are given the option to say is ‘Obey my every command.’
The character, Vette, is a companion that accompanies Sith players – the evil version of Jedi knights – on their journeys.
She is described as a ‘Slave, Treasure Hunter, Survivor’.
Players have the option to treat Vette kindly and have her follow them out of loyalty – or to coerce her using methods including an electric shock collar.
When gamers meet her, they’re offered the chance to give their slave ‘more juice’, electrocuting her.
But the option to treat the character decently does not seem to have been enormously popular with players.
‘Vette is my character’s slave, gifted to him by his dark master,’ writes Mike Fahey on Kotaku, in a blog post detailing how he uncovered the options to maltreat the character via imitating other players.

YouTube videos show players of the million-selling role-playing hit abusing the character with electric shocks and backhanded slaps to the face, with captions such as ‘Keeping your slave in line’

A player looks on as he tortures Vette into submission – before delivering a backhanded blow to her face
‘She comes complete with a convenient high voltage shock collar, allowing me to administer harsh punishment should she speak or act in a manner unbefitting her station. I torture her. I tease her. I belittle her in front of others. On one occasion I even make her watch as I have sexual relations with the wife of a slain enemy.’
‘I first learned of Vette’s sad habit of being regularly tortured into submission during my time with my first Sith Warrior character in Star Wars: The Old Republic,’ writes Fahey.
‘I made it to Dromund Kaas, the capital of the Sith Empire, where all characters on the Empire’s side travel to continue their progression.’

Star Wars is no stranger to slavery: Carrie Fisher plays Princess Leia, enslaved by Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi. But the idea of playing ‘master’ yourself is unsavoury
‘General chat would regularly be filled with other Sith Warriors discussing how poorly they treated Vette. They boasted of her low opinion of them, negative numbers on the game’s companion friendship scale.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2082153/Hit-Star-Wars-game-lets-players-torment-female-sex-slave-electric-shock-collar.html#ixzz1ifhE0L8I

Lab Created Sperm as Men Allowed to Go Infertile  

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     In the age of plummeting fertility scientists are on the precipice of finding the way to make human sperm in a lab. This would be a great leap forward for the infertility medical industries, but there is always more to look at. The most important reason for developing such a method is the quiet disaster of male fertility rates. Some researchers show that the average male sperm count has been slashed in half over the past half a century. So a method like this would be greatly needed in the very near future if this trend continues. Soon only those who have access to laboratory manufactured sperm could have the possibility of producing an offspring. Then comes into the question from a near future where socialism and the supposed "greater good" of the state or (as is more likely in our future) economy, who will be allowed to have access to such science to have an offspring? While there is a call from all "progressives" for greater population control, is this such an unusual possibility? We shouldn't stop progressing the sciences due to a fear of some chaotic future, but we need all the information while realizing what we have right in front of us. People are very unaware of the server problem with male fertility. We need to have those with the knowledge to tell us the sources of the catalysts to the major increase of male infertility. If you do the research plastics, drugs, modern food production and various types of radiation have greatly increased male infertility. The greatest shame is those who release these toxins almost always know of the eventual side effects and disregarded for various reasons. We need to reclaim our health and realize the amazing power of the human body. In this case, if we cleaned up these toxins the human body can almost always do it all its self. If we trust science to patch up this problem of infertility a major disaster will brew in the shadows. 

The Disappearing Male from Life in Pierce County on Vimeo.

Scientists grow sperm in laboratory dish

Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could soon see human sperm grown in the laboratory.

Sperm being prepared for IVF treatment
Sperm being prepared for IVF treatment Photo: Eddie Mulholland
6:53PM GMT 02 Jan 2012
The development opens up the possibility of infertile men being able to father their own children rather than using donor sperm.
Researchers in Germany and Israel were able to grow mouse sperm from a few cells in a laboratory dish.
In a world first a team headed by Professor Stefan Schlatt, at Muenster University in Germany, were able to grow sperm by using germ cells. These are the cells in testicles that are responsible for sperm production.
Scientists grew the sperm by surrounding the germ cells in a special compound called agar jelly to create an environment similar to that found in testicles.
Prof. Mahmoud Huleihel, who also grew the sperm at Israel's Ben Gurion University in Beersheba, said: "I believe it will eventually be possible to routinely grow human male sperm to order by extracting tissue containing germ cells from a man's testicle and stimulating sperm production in the laboratory."
The findings of the sperm trial have been revealed in a major scientific journal published by Nature.
Now the scientists who made the discovery have begun experiments that will hopefully lead to the 'Holy Grail' - human sperm grown outside a man's body.
Stephen Gordon, a leading NHS male infertility consultant, praised the breakthrough.
He said:"This is an amazing development that could revolutionise fertility treatment and allow every man to be a natural father.
"Infertile men naturally want to be the father of their child but at present have to accept that can't happen. With the mouse discovery, that could now be a possibility."
Professor Richard Sharpe, one of the UK's top fertility scientists, based at Edinburgh University, who hopes to work on the project, said: "This is a significant step forward towards making human sperm."
The problem of male infertility has grown over the last 50 years and has been matched by huge decrease in sperm counts in men. Some of this has been attributed to environmental factors such as pollution and female hormones appearing in plastic packaging. 
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GlaxoKlineSmith Caught Testing Vaccines on Babies  

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    Do you take drugs from GlaxoSmithKline? Maybe you should know how they conduct human drug trials in third world countries in order to skirt laws and regulations in Europe and America. Just more evidence that pharmaceutical companies only care about furthering their business rather than caring for their patients.

GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories company was fined 400,000 pesos by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT in Spanish) for the killing of 14 babies during illegal lab vaccine trials conducted between 2007 and 2008.
Likewise, two doctors -Héctor Abate, and Miguel Tregnaghi- were fined with 300,000 pesos each for irregularities during the studies.
The charges included experimenting with human beings, falsifying parental authorizations so babies could participate in vaccine-trials conducted by the laboratory from 2007 to 2008.
Since 2007, 15,000 children under the age of one from Mendoza, San Juan and Santiago del Estero have been included in the research protocol, a statement of what the study is trying to achieve. Babies were recruited from poor families that attended to public hospitals.
A total of 7 babies died in Santiago del Estero; 5 in Mendoza; and 2 in San Juan.
Pediatrician Ana Marchese, who reported the case through the Argentine Federation of Health Professionals (FESPROSA in Spanish), and was working at the Eva Perón children's public hospital in Santiago del Estero when the studies wee being conducted, said this morning in conversations with Continental AM radio that “GSK Argentina set an protocol at the hospital, and recruited several doctors working there.”
“These doctors took advantage of many illiterate parents whom take their children for treatment by pressuring and forcing them into signing these 28-page consent forms and getting them involved in the trials.”  
“Laboratories can't experiment in Europe or the United States, so they come to do it in third-world countries."
Colombian and Panama were also chosen by GSK as staging grounds for trials of the vaccine against the pneumococcal bacteria.
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Want to Borrow a Library Book? Give Us Your Fingerprint  

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    In England they are choosing to condition children at their libraries rather than spend funds on improving the library catalog. Children will be required to be finger printed in order to check out books. This may seem like the latest and greatest method of tracking library loans, but it will serve another purpose in the long run. Children will be conditioned to give biometric identifiers in order to authorize various actions in their name. This may seem harmless to most, but if you think through all the implications of this method the possibilities are extreme. This will have government run libraries store databases of fingerprint. Government should not be trusted to hold such sensitive information for the general population. As the conditioning takes hold this could be used to prepare our youth for the time when the governments want us to give these biometric identifiers for every transaction. This will allow the government to monitor and eventually regulate the whole economy. Maybe this does not seem like a problem now, but if there comes a time of rationing this will be a major component if the government wants to monitor all goods and purchases. Regulation will also add to the possibility for government to flag your ID and stop your ability to purchase. It is more prudent to fear what could be done tomorrow instead of arguing about how it is used today. 

Children, 4, 'to be fingerprinted to borrow school books from library'

Children as young as four could be fingerprinted to take out books from a school library.

Children as young as 4 'to be fingerprinted to borrow school books'
Critics labelled the plans 'appalling' and a waste of resources. Photo: GETTY IMAGES
8:00AM BST 28 May 2010
Students in Manchester are having their thumbprints digitally transformed into electronic codes, which can then be recognised by a computer program.
Under the scheme, pupils swipe a bar code inside the book they want borrow then press their thumb on to a scanner to authorise the loan. Books are returned in the same way.
The scheme is being trialled on junior classes at Higher Lane Primary in Whitefield, Bury, Greater Manchester.
Officials confirmed it is due to be extended to all pupils at the school, one of the areas largest primary schools, with 453 pupils aged four to 11.
School authorities defended the scheme on Thursday, and moved to reassure parents that the voluntary system, is heavily encrypted or coded and that no images of fingerprints would be stored.
But critics said they were “appalled” at the system, developed by Microsoft which is also being trialled in other parts of the country.
“This is quite clearly appalling,” said Phil Booth, national coordinator of NO2ID, a privacy campaign group.
“For such a trivial issue as taking out of library books the taking of fingerprints is way over the top and wrong.
“It conditions children to hand over sensitive personal information.”
He added: “The money for such a system could be spent on actual school resources. How about some more books for the library instead?
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DARPA Can Make Time Disappear  

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      Here is just another example of how the science behind closed doors are leaps and bounds beyond what most people find feasible. As what should always be asked, now that we have been given this peek into this science, how far have they gone behind the doors that remain closed? It would make no sense at all for the military to reveal any science that is at the forefront of their research.

Off the clock: Scientists create cloaking device that 'hides' whole events - making time itself disappear

By Rob Waugh
Most of the human race don't have any problem making time disappear - but scientists have cracked a very hi-tech way of doing exactly that.
Scientists have developed a 'temporal cloaking' device that can hide events from view.
The demonstration 'hid' events for 40 trillionths of a second - or 40 picoseconds - by speeding up and slowing down different parts of a light beam.
The different parts of the light beam were then put back together, so that any observers could not detect what happened during the 'hidden' time.
The information is simply not there to be read or reconstructed.
So far, the technique only works on periods of 0.00012 of a second - so the police can probably rest easy, as evildoers would have to move far faster than human beings ever could to 'conceal' their actions.
Instead, the 'hidden' fractions of a second could be used for ultra-secure communications.
The scientists think that the technique could even be combined with recent advances in optical 'cloaking' - to hide an event in both space and time.

Mother Shows Why We Need to Be Free to Defend Ourselves  

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     As the economy worsens and police department personnel have cut backs, it becomes more important than ever for Americans to exercise their birthright to arm and protect themselves. If guns are taken away from everyone than only the criminals have weapons. Freedom is essentially the ability to protect yourself from those who would seek to deny you the inalienable rights guaranteed within the founding principles of America. Americans voted with their dollars this past holiday season by having the best season for gun sales on record. We need to preserve our sovereignty from the forces aligned with the UN and those who seek to spread fear of what it essentially means to be independent and free.

Justified Self Defense: Mom Kills Armed Intruder with Shotgun; 9-1-1 Operator Gives Her the OK To Shoot

Mac Slavo
January 4th, 2012
SHTFplan.comWhile foreign politicians at the United Nations debate the merits of allowing American citizens to own firearms, yet another example of the absolute necessity of the right to bear arms in a free society emerges from Oklahoma, where an 18 year old mom and widow who lost her husband on Christmas Day was at home with her young son on New Year’s eve.
McKinley told ABC News Oklahoma City affiliate KOCO that she quickly got her 12 gauge, went into her bedroom and got a pistol, put the bottle in the baby’s mouth and called 911.
“I’ve got two guns in my hand — is it okay to shoot him if he comes in this door?” the young mother asked the 911 dispatcher. “I’m here by myself with my infant baby, can I please get a dispatcher out here immediately?”
The 911 dispatcher confirmed with McKinley that the doors to her home were locked as she asked again if it was okay to shoot the intruder if he were to come through her door.
“I can’t tell you that you can do that but you do what you have to do to protect your baby,” the dispatcher told her. McKinley was on the phone with 911 for a total of 21 minutes.
When Martin kicked in the door and came after her with the knife, the teen mom shot and killed the 24-year-old. Police are calling the shooting justified.
Source: ABC
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Use of VAT Spreading  

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       Value Added Taxes are important to understand since it has been discussed for Americans and a common global tax practice in recent economic history. With sales taxes goods are taxed only at the point of sale to the consumer. VAT is the practice of taxation along the whole chain of manufacturing a product. Ultimately it adds much more to the final price to the consumer. However it may be very lucrative for governments, the burdens will eventually be pushed down the line to the consumer. This creates massive increases in prices for goods. Most of the world already understand the tremendous impact VAT has on cost of living, Americans need to be prepared for this being implemented in our future as well.

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Ukip leader Nigel Farage


EU plans for a radical tax shake-up could cost struggling families and pensioners £800 a year.
The European Commission wants VAT exemptions on food, children’s clothes and other essentials abandoned in an effort to harmonise the sales tax across Europe.
Its plans come after the Coalition raised the VAT rate to 20 per cent last year but kept an exemption for food, children’s clothes, passenger travel, books, newspapers and other products.
Last night the proposals sparked outrage among politicians and public-spending campaigners who attacked the Eurocrats for trying to interfere in ­Britain’s tax affairs. Ukip leader Nigel Farage said: “In their desperation to raise cash, the EU is prepared to do anything and hurt the most vulnerable.
“These plans would add up to 20 per cent costs on food and children’s clothes. To put an extra tax on books and newspapers would be a strike for ignorance over education.
“Everyone would suffer, but the most vulnerable would suffer the most.”

Obama Says He Already Had the Power to Indefinitely Detain Citizens  

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         Obama has finally signed the NDAA bill(when he promised to veto it), which raises the executive branch to the level of total dictatorship. The only question now is if the President desires to be an authoritarian tyrant or keep some semblance of freedom. Possibly the most disturbing aspect of the final approval of this bill has to do with how the President reiterated what his problems with the bill is. Obama believes that once the Congress begins to define the powers which the President has it begins to regulate these powers. In fact through the Presidents signing statement and previous comments Obama believed he already had the power to have the military indefinitely detain American citizens. The biggest problem is now that this power is enacted through law it will be nearly impossible to withdraw a power such as this. It will now be highly unlikely but up to the courts and states to exercise their authority over unconstitutional laws. American values are truly deteriorating. 
     This fits perfectly within the need to lump all power into the heads of state or federal legislative bodies. This will allow for it to be easier for the sovereignty of the states and nations to be usurped, as is the plan for globalization (and already happening in Europe at a much accelerated pace). 

Obama says he doesn’t even need NDAA to indefinitely detain Americans

J. D. Heyes
Natural News
January 4, 2012
(NaturalNews) It’s called “Washingtonspeak,” and it’s different than the rest of the English language. President Obama used some of it last week when he agreed to sign the National Defense Authorization Act that allows, among other things, the military to detain American citizens indefinitely, to conduct secret kidnappings of suspected terror suspects (even if they are Americans living on American soil), and murder of same if said suspect is deemed a threat to national security. All without a trial. All without any deference to any other constitutional protection.
Very mindful of what the NDAA truly authorizes, Obama, in signing the legislation, said this: “The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it. In particular, I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists. Over the last several years, my Administration has developed an effective, sustainable framework for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected terrorists that allows us to maximize both our ability to collect intelligence and to incapacitate dangerous individuals in rapidly developing situations, and the results we have achieved are undeniable. Against that record of success, some in Congress continue to insist upon restricting the options available to our counterterrorism professionals and interfering with the very operations that have kept us safe.”
“My Administration has consistently opposed such measures. Ultimately, I decided to sign this bill not only because of the critically important services it provides for our forces and their families and the national security programs it authorizes, but also because the Congress revised provisions that otherwise would have jeopardized the safety, security, and liberty of the American people. Moving forward, my Administration will interpret and implement the provisions described in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded.”
The president went onto say that the provisions in question – specifically Sect. 1021, which he said merely “affirms the executive branch’s authority to detain persons covered by the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.” He describes the provision as “unnecessary.”
President Obama stated: “Two critical limitations in section 1021 confirm that it solely codifies established authorities. First, under section 1021(d), the bill does not limit or expand the authority of the President or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military Force. Second, under section 1021(e), the bill may not be construed to affect any existing law or authorities relating to the detention of United States citizens, lawful resident aliens of the United States, or any other persons who are captured or arrested in the United States.”
In other words, the president is using Washingtonspeak to say he already had the authority to do what the NDAA law merely “codifies.”
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Antiwar Message Possibly Cutoff By CNN  

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I am not concerned about the issue of electing Ron Paul, but in this video a Ron Paul supporting soldier was cut off from expressing how unnecessary it is to provoke Iran into a war. The important thing is that this solider was expressing support of the only antiwar politician running for the Republican nomination for President, and oddly was cutoff. This could be a mere coincidence, but this would fall into the realm of the usual purpose of the media, which is controlling the messages to the people.

Did CNN censor this solider from expressing an anti-war message?