Report by Latin News – The newly confirmed President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto of the traditional Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) has assembled a transition team of 46 to liaise with a counterpart team assembled by the outgoing President Felipe Calderón. Peña Nieto represents broad continuity with the outgoing administration in economic policy terms, but has pledged to follow through on long since pending structural reforms. For that to happen though, the PRI will have to construct alliances in parliament.

Veil is lifted on Santos’s secret peace negotiations with Farc

Report by Latin News – The government of President Juan Manuel Santos is embarking upon the fourth attempt to negotiate with the Fuerzas Armadas Revoluncionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas an end to the internal conflict that had already lasted half a century.

The previous attempts, by presidents Belisario Betancur (1982-86), César Gaviria (1990-94) and Andrés Pastrana (1998-2002), never really got off the ground. Indeed the last attempt created a ‘distension zone’ of 43,000 square kilometres in which the Farc were able to rebuild their strength unhindered for three years. This time round, the Santos administration has the advantage of a Farc that has been greatly weakened by 10 years of strong military offensives by two governments.

Massive protests against austerity measures continue in Spain

(Prensa Latina) Already the epicenter of 10 days of mass demonstration, the Spanish capital see another day of protests against social and labor cuts applied by Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government.

On Tuesday morning the headquarters of the Congress of Deputies was protected by more than a thousand policemen, due to the call of several popular organizations to carry out a demonstration of “nonviolent civil disobedience”.

Under the slogan Surround the Congress, organizers urged citizens to surround the grounds of the lower house with three simultaneous marches that will converge at the public plazas of Puerta del Sol, Neptuno and Cibeles.

Costa Rican businesses disadvantaged by FTA with Colombia

Costa Rican industrialists announced that the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia may cause layoffs and bankruptcies especially in small and medium companies in this Central American country.

Industrialists warned that both countries economies are rivals and not complementary, and such an agreement can damage the chemical, plastics, textile, leather, footwear, electronics, paper and cardboard sectors.

He added that the industry is seeking the exclusion of the vast majority of their products from the agreement, as well as the textile, food and printing industries in their entirety.

Colombians produce or import industrial raw materials from nearby nations, its production costs are almost 30 percent lower and companies have greater credit facilities and tax benefits, he stated. He said that Colombia offers energy and electricity to the productive sector at a cost that is 31 percent cheaper than that offered by Costa Rica and also has a less expensive workforce.

Costa Rican and Colombian businessman have unequal advantages, which would lead to a greater trade imbalance between exports and imports, favoring Colombia, he warned.

Unelected European “Green” Commissioner says markets must be governed

October 2, 2012

by Jurriaan Maessen
Infowars.com

Unelected European commissioner for the environment calls for de-industrialization of the West and centralization of power to govern free markets

Speaking at a recent European summit on the future of plastics in the world economy, the European Commission’s “green” commissioner Janez Potočnik stated that markets can and must be governed by the European Commission if the earth’s resources are to keep up with global population growth.

In a transcript of his speech on the EC’s website, marked “check before delivery”, Potočnik quoted his “good friend” Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, as saying the idea of governing markets was agreed upon when Agenda 21 was formally created in 1992 at the original Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro:

“Twenty years ago, we agreed what to do, now we have the tools to do it. If we do not go into the heart of economic policy, we will meet here at Rio+40 even more culpable. Markets are social constructs.

They are not a force like gravity. They can be governed.”

In these couple of sentences effect, the UNEP Secretary-General reveals several things. First, that current economic disparity offers “the tools” to roll out an agenda (21) which was already “agreed” upon in the early 1990s; second, that our dear Secretary-General wants to go “into the heart of economic policy”; and third, that from the onset of Agenda 21 the idea was to govern free markets.

In response to the quote by his “good friend” at the UN, the European environmental commissioner piled some more absolutism onto this already formidable stack of proposals by stating:

“Yes they can be governed and they must be governed. And for that we need also your help and your support. Your vision which goes beyond the short term interests and takes into account the unavoidable changes needed in our production and consumption patterns.”, the commissioner said.

We may not be wholly surprised that the European Commission’s communication department wants this particular speech checked before delivery to the press. The commissioner is after all quite upfront about the prospect of a de-industrialization campaign under the guidance of unelected commissions. His talk is littered with words as “governed”, “growth models”- not to mention “overpopulation.”

O yes, the “green” commissioner starts out his speech by quoting population matters patron Jonathan Porritt, who wrote: “‘Human population growth and the per-capita consumption rate underlie all of the other present drivers for global change“. I know that Jonathan (Porritt) has long argued for attention to population and family planning in relation to sustainability, particularly as patron of the “Population Matters” charity. But this was quite an astounding statement… I repeat; it would “underlie all of the other present drivers for global change.”, Potočnik said.

The rest of Potočnik’s speech was related to the issue at hand, namely the future of plastics and what to do about all those consumers, especially in the West.

“I’m afraid that one cannot govern the world of the 21st Century without taking into account the longer term picture and consequences. It would be simply self-destructive. We need industry and investors on board. Rather than fighting the power of capital, or trying to legislate away its environmental downsides, we need to harness market forces to turn economies onto a track that is sustainable economically, financially, socially and environmentally. We need green economics… also in the plastic industry.”

The commissioner also stressed that for him “this is the new industrial policy. We must recognize that our future competitiveness will depend increasingly – perhaps overwhelmingly – on our ability to do more with less.”

More with less. Agenda 21 in a nutshell. More carbon taxes, less freedom. Or: more resources, less people. It’s important to point your attention to the pre-planned nature of this agenda unfolding, and the population-aspect dominating this agenda. A 1991 policy paper prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) outlines a strategy for the transfer of wealth in name of the environment to be implemented in the course of 35 to 40 years. As it turns out, it is a visionary paper describing phase by phase the road to world dictatorship under Agenda 21. As the author Ignacy Sachs states in the policy paper:

“To be meaningful, the strategies should cover the time-span of several decades. Thirty-five to forty years seems a good compromise between the need to give enough time to the postulated transformations and the uncertainties brought about by the lengthening of the time-span.”

In his paper The Next 40 Years: Transition Strategies to the Virtuous Green Path: North/South/East/Global, Sachs accurately describes not only the intended time-span to bring about a global society, but also what steps should be taken to ensure “population stabilization”:

“In order to stabilize the populations of the South by means other than wars or epidemics, mere campaigning for birth control and distributing of contraceptives has proved fairly inefficient.”

In the first part of the (in retrospect) bizarrely accurate description of current events as they unfold, Sachs points out redistribution of wealth is the only viable path towards population stabilization and- as he calls it- a “virtuous green world”. Sachs:

“The way out from the double bind of poverty and environmental disruption calls for a fairly long period of more economic growth to sustain the transition strategies towards the virtuous green path of what has been called in Stockholm ecodevelopement and has since changed its name in Anglo-Saxon countries to sustainable development.”

“(…) a fair degree of agreement seems to exist, therefore, about the ideal development path to be followed so long as we do not manage to stabilize the world population and, at the same time, sharply reduce the inequalities prevailing today.”, the professor states.

“The bolder the steps taken in the near future”, Sachs asserts, “the shorter will be the time span that separates us from a steady state. Radical solutions must address to the roots of the problem and not to its symptoms. Theoretically, the transition could be made shorter by measures of redistribution of assets and income.”

Viva Dolores Huerta! reception

October 2, 2012

by the El Reportero’s staff

Machete: LR – Marco Diaz (piano, trumpet), Dr. John Callway (flute, percussion, piano), Lil’ Davey Flores (drumset), Melecio Magdaluyo (saxes), Saul Sierra (bass), John Santos (percussion)

A reception to honor Dolores Huerta, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award will be held on Sunday, Sept. 30 from 2 -5 p.m. in San Francisco at the Mission Language & Vocational School Latino Culinary Academy, 2929 19th Street/Florida. Tapas & Sangria Tardeada with music by Danza Azteca Xitalli, Orgullo Mexicano Mariachi Femenil, and the Blanca Sandoval Band. Tickets $50. Proceeds benefit the Dolores Huerta Foundation.

To RSVP, or for more information call 415-621-2665, or email doloreshuerta.sf@gmail.com; www.doloreshuerta.org.

Replacing Obamacare and Curing the Healthcare crisis

In this upcoming event and based on his new book Priceless, Dr. John C. Goodman will take the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to task, reject Obamacare, and offer a no-nonsense approach to healthcare reform.

To end the current bureaucratic malaise and create a vibrant market that would treat the sick—in which health plans compete to solve the problems of diabetics, asthmatics, heart patients, cancer patients, and others with high expected healthcare costs—Dr. Goodman shows that we must undo the government-mandated, bad incentives and constraints that are embedded in the current system and made far worse by the ACA.

On Thursday Oct. 4, 2012, reception at 6:30 p.m.; program: at 7 p.m., at The Independent Institute Conference Center, 100 Swan Way, Oakland.

Outside at Eastside benefit with The John Santos Sextet

Don’t miss this unique BENEFIT concert for one of the most important cultural centers in the nation!

This will be an unforgettable, outside the box event with more unusual turns and surprises than a rollercoaster as we deconstruct the standard and reconstruct the familiar. 100 percent of the proceeds go to the Eastside Cultural Center!

The Eastside Cultural Center does crucial work in the Arts and social justice in the San Antonio/Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland. Please come out and lend your much-appreciated and needed support.

OUTSIDE at EASTSIDE, featuring The John Santos Sextet with special guests.

Faye Carol, Rico Pabón, and Kellye Gray live and in unorthodox concert at The Eastside Cultural Center 2277 International Blvd. Oakland. (510) 533-6629 Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, at 8 p.m. $15 minimum donation.

Zoo Careers Night

Teens! Are you considering a future career at the zoo? Wondering what types of zoo careers might be available to you- or even, what exactly people DO when working at the zoo?

Zoo Careers Night is just the event for you! We’ll discuss the types of jobs that can be had in zoos, how to get a job in a zoo, and what you can do NOW, as high school students, to get started. Program Fee: $15.00 per teen, $7.00 per adult. Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, from 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

For more info contact: Melinda at 510-632-9525, ext 201 or Melinda@oaklandzoo.org. Oakland Zoo is located at 9777 Golf Links Road, Oakland. www.oaklandzoo.org.

Mexican architect Mijares honored for his contribution to modern architecture

October 2, 2012

by the El Reportero’s news services

Carlos Mijares Brach

Mexican architect Carlos Mijares Bracho was honored at an event this weekend in Mexico City for his work on religious and public buildings using the traditional bricks known as “xamixcalli.” Some 200 people took part in the event Saturday at Mexico City’s Christ Church, the Anglican church considered most representative of his style.

Artes de Mexico magazine editor Alberto Ruy Sanchez praised Mijares as a “great architect, thinker and teacher” who has the ability to create modern works using pre-Hispanic construction materials.

Mijares, who was born in 1930, considers bricks a “symbol of life” and uses “this baked object” in a “simple way, prefabricated with earth, water and fire,” giving the material “new uses,” reinventing it and employing it in a creative way, Ruy Sanchez said.

Mijares’s architecture has “achieved greatness with such a simple and common material, something used so commonly,” Spanish-born Mexican artist Vicente Rojo told Efe, referring to the architect’s use of bricks.

Rojo, who founded Artes de Mexico in 1953, said Mijares’s work had “very special value” because he was a creator who was not “in the dominant line.”

Mijares’s best known buildings, other than Christ Church, are the Perpetuo Socorro Church in Ciudad Hidalgo and several houses around Mexico City, such as the Diaz Barreiro house.

Mijares also designed the Baleares project in Bogota, Colombia, with architect Carlos Campuzano.

Mexican actor satisfies his childhood desire to bullfight in new movie

When he was 11 years old, Spanish-born Mexican actor Daniel Gimenez Cacho went to his first bullfight and was absolutely fascinated.

Now at 51 his dream has come true, even though it’s on film in Spanish moviemaker Pablo Berger’s “Blancanieves”(Snow White), which won thunderous applause Friday night at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

The father of some friends of mine took me to my first bullfight when I was 11 years old and I loved it. I told my parents I wanted to do that. But they said no, I wasn’t to learn that,” the winner of four Ariel Awards, the highest honor in Mexican cinema, told Efe.

In this atypical take on the Snow White fairy tale, being silent and in black and white, Spanish and about bullfighting, Gimenez Cacho wears a “suit of lights” to play the father of the Brothers Grimm heroine, a character almost invisible in other adaptations.

“He’s a very striking character, whose drama begins when his wife dies giving birth to their daughter on the same day he is gored by a bull,” he said.

But the pain and his physiacal disability put him in a wheelchair from where he observes, tenderly but stoically, the changes in his daughter, the victim of manipulations by a stepmother with the features of Maribel Verdu, with whom he worked in “La Zona” (The Zone).

The son of Spanish parents and born in Madrid, Gimenez Cacho attributes his passion for bulls to “a nostalgia for being Spanish, being the son of emigrants,” for which movies have been a great compensation since “Blancanieves” marks another milestone in a career of Spanish films, having worked previously with Pedro Almodovar, Vicente Aranda, Agusti Villaronga and Joaquin Oristrell.

UK hospitals on the verge of collapse as socialized medicine fails

October 2, 2012

by J. D. Heyes
Natural New

If you want to get a good look at the future of healthcare in America, compliments of the “Affordable Care Act,” the monstrosity reform law known not-so-affectionately known as Obamacare, look across the Atlantic to Great Britain. Because of that law, our system is set to become nearly as socialized a system of medicine as is the system in England, where top doctors are now predicting that a number of hospitals there are “on the brink of crisis,” the BBC is reporting.

That’s not politics, that’s reality.

According to the Royal College of Physicians, a trio of issues – rising demand, increasingly complex cases and falling numbers of hospital beds – is contributing to the destruction of the healthcare system there.

In fact, the college’s assessment said urgent care was already being compromised, warning that the situation was going to get worse unless some real workable solutions were implemented.

As is usually the case, especially in the U.S. – where messianic faith in the “government-knows-best” approach is rampant among our entrenched bureaucracy and many of our elected leaders – British paper-pushers are tut-tutting the school’s assessment, claiming the country’s National Health Service (NHS) can handle any challenge, pending or in the future.

Worsening standards, smaller budgets, less care

Part of the problem, the college said, was that medical science had led to longer lives. But just because people are living longer doesn’t mean they are always living healthy lives; conditions such as dementia are complex and require more care, thereby adding to expenses.

At the same time, the college noted that the number of hospital beds have fallen by one-third in the past 25 years (a similar fate has befallen U.S. hospitals too, by the way), amid rising numbers of emergency admissions.

In addition, the RCP reported that standards of care were also sliding in hospitals throughout the country. The report “cited the way older patients were repeatedly moved around wards, the lack of continuity of care while in hospital and tests being done during the night as some of the examples of how care was suffering,” the BBC reported.

The report went on to highlight the results of member surveys, in which a number of physicians and health care professionals voiced concerns over discharge arrangements and the workload they were enduring.

“This evidence is very distressing. All hospital patients deserve to receive safe, high-quality sustainable care centered around their needs,” said RCP Prof. Tim Evans.

“Yet it is increasingly clear that our hospitals are struggling to cope with the challenge of an aging population who increasingly present to our hospitals with multiple, complex diseases,” he continued. “We must act now to make the drastic changes required to provide the care they deserve.”

But how to fix things?

The RCP report recommended closing some hospitals and concentrating services in fewer, though larger, medical sites that are able to provide better round-the-clock care. But that approach would have to be accompanied by resultant improvements in community services as well, since there have been many British patients who wound up in the hospital because they didn’t have adequate help closer to their home.

“These latest findings are alarming but, unfortunately, not surprising,” said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society. “It is painfully evident that the healthcare system stands on the brink of crisis. People with dementia are going into hospital unnecessarily, staying in too long and coming out worse.”

Britain is the future

What does all of this have to do with America and Obamacare?

The British NHS is all government (taxpayer) funded; there is very little room for private-sector innovation and management. It is simply a top-down, top-heavy bureaucracy, much like Obamacare when it gets fully up and running.

What’s more, as care becomes more expensive and the resources to fund the system become more scarce, the NHS has resorted to rationing care.

Oh, but wait. That’s Great Britain, right? That can’t happen here in the United States. Obamacare fixes all of that.

No, it doesn’t. A government-run healthcare system in the country of our founding fathers does not work either. And you should know, there are already advocates in the U.S. calling for rationing.

One such advocate is Peter Singer, a “prominent Princeton University ethicist.”

Still confident “the system” will take care of you into your old age?

Digital TV: Mind control by the sound of silence

October 2, 2012

Marvin J. Ramirez

FROM THE EDITOR: Dear readers: I hope all of you have enjoyed the article series from the past weeks. This is the Forth and Last Part of this illuminating story written by By A. True Ott, PhD, ND, The Sound of Silence, which exposes the intention of the elite’ pursuit to gaining total control of all humans in the U.S. and the world through technology. It is a source of information not offered by the mainstream media or the educational system, which much of the time works for these same corporation by conducting researches and studies that will not benefit the people, but rather the elite.

Author’s Note

This is an extremely timely and important essay. It overviews a secret Pentagon psychotronics technology known as Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS) that has been fully operational since the early 1990s. I first found out about the use of this technology from Al Bielek in a 1992 video he made with Vladimir Terziski. This technology was used against battle-hardened Iraqi troops fortified in deep underground bunkers in Kuwait and Iraq in the first Gulf War in January of 1991.

THE SOUND OF SILENCE
The Antithesis of Freedom

Again, the absolute secrecy surrounding the development and deployment of the electromagnetic mind-altering technology of the Sound of Silence in a very real way reflects the tremendous power that is inherent in it. This is why Eisenhower knew that he had to warn the nation about it back in 1961. To put it bluntly, whoever controls this technology literally has the power to control the minds of men — all men and women everywhere.

Of course, whoever controls the minds of all humans, controls the wealth and destiny of planet Earth. Furthermore, Stubblebine, as commander of Army Intelligence would likely follow the prescribed manual of all covert ops, such as is found in a declassified US manual for the planned subversion and coup of the government of Nicaragua. The manual instructs the CIA “guerilla forces” to engage in different “false front” organizations designed to win the respect, trust, and influence of the enemy. Once complete trust and confidence is achieved by means of the activities of the “false front,” then the destruction of the enemy by means of misdirection and disinformation tactics can more easily be executed.

I would submit there is no better “false front” to infiltrate in America than Natural Health proponents, for they are typically healthier, better informed, and more dedicated to preserving individual freedoms and fighting tyranny than other Americans. Thus, there could be no better “false front” to establish, and there is clearly no more potentially vicious wolf hiding in sheep’s clothing than the man who knows more about the Sound of Silence secret deployment than any other human…

There is ample evidence that certain elitists in America and Israel plan to definitely extend the capacity of this technology to encompass all people on every continent. A key to this is the HAARP project where ELF and VHF frequencies can indeed be beamed off of the Earth’s ionosphere to various GWEN towers world-wide.

Of course, the US Government officially denies all of this, telling the talking heads of the controlled news media that the GWEN towers are merely private cell-phone towers with no ulterior agenda, and therefore anybody who thinks otherwise is a lunatic-fringe conspiracy nut.

The evidence to the contrary, however is clear and unequivocal. Dr Michael Persinger is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada. Concerning this subject, Dr Persinger writes:

“Temporal lobe stimulation can evoke the feeling of a presence, disorientation, and perceptual irregularities. It can activate images stored in the subject’s memory, including nightmares and monsters that are normally suppressed. Contemporary neuroscience suggests the existence of fundamental algorithms by which all sensory transduction is translated into an intrinsic, brain-specific code. Direct stimulation of these codes within the human temporal or limbic cortices by applied electromagnetic patterns may require energy levels which are within the range of both geomagnetic activity and contemporary communication networks. A process which is coupled to the narrow band of brain temperature could allow all normal human brains to be affected by a sub-harmonic whose frequency range at about 10 Hz would only vary by 0.1 Hz.”

Dr Persinger concludes the article by writing:

“Within the last two decades a potential has emerged which was improbable, but which is now feasible. This potential is the technical capability to influence directly the major portion of the approximately 6.5 billion brains of the human species, without mediation through classical sensory modalities, by generating neural information within a physical medium within which all members of the species are immersed.

“The historical emergence of such possibilities, which have ranged from gunpowder to atomic fission, have resulted in major changes in the social evolution that occurred inordinately quickly after the implementation. Reduction of the risk of the inappropriate application of these technologies requires the continued and open discussion of their realistic feasibility and implications within the scientific and public domain.”

How can one have an “open discussion” on the subject when government circles continually deny the existence of such technology?

Register and make it count in November

October 2, 2012

by Maria Teresa Kumar is CEO President of Voto Latino

Sometimes, elections draw attention to our differences, the places where we have competing ideas about what’s right for our country and what it will take to solve our most serious problems.

But, there are a couple of things we can all agree on. Every citizen has the right to participate in these critical decisions about America’s future. And the more people who are involved in making those decisions, the stronger our nation will be going forward.

That’s why I’m so excited about September 25th. On that day, we have the chance to launch a new American holiday – National Voter Registration Day.

Over the course of a remarkable 24 hour period, volunteers, celebrities and organizations from all over the country will hit the streets to register voters and collect pledges to vote from people who are already registered.

Groups that aren’t usually involved in registering and mobilizing voters will be joining in on this special day, amplifying the work of organizations that devote their heart and soul to encouraging more people to register and vote.

We’ll use on-the-ground organizing, special events and social media to reach and register tens of thousands of people in person and online. By the time we’re done, we will have drawn the attention of people all across the nation to our simple message: Register in September, Make It Count in November.

In 2008, 6 million Americans didn’t vote because they missed a registration deadline or didn’t know how to register. This year, we want to make sure no one is left out.

National Voter Registration Day is the most compelling way we can do that. I hope you will join citizens all across the nation – people of every party and political persuasion – as we put our differences aside and come together to celebrate the rights that unite us as Americans. You can register today in a few minutes by going to www.VotoLatino.org. National Nurses United is the sponsor of this article.

Maria Teresa Kumar is CEO/President of Voto Latino. Named by PODER Magazine as one of the most notable 20 US Hispanics under 40 years old. Under her leadership, Maria Teresa grounded the organization in technology developing the first voter registration via text message in 2006. She has grown the organization from a voter registration outlet to the leading social media, online community with over 15 media partners, 120 bloggers, 20 national partners and a field operation in seven states which have registered over 120,000 voters. Maria Teresa most recently hosted the first English language, prime-time townhall with MSNBC called “Beyond Borderlines: Latinos & Immigration”.

Boxing

October 2, 2012

Oct. 6 At Kiev, Ukraine

Zaurbek Baysangurov vs. Lukas Konecny, 12, for Baysangurov’s WBO junior middleweight title.

At Bayamon, Puerto Rico

Moises Fuentes vs. Ivan Calderon, 12, for Fuentes’ WBO minimumweight title;

Rafael Marquez vs. Wilfredo Vazquez Jr., 12, for the vacant WBO International super bantamweight title.

Oct. 13 At Liverpool, England

David Price vs. Audley Harrison, 12, heavyweights.

At Home Depot Center, Carson, Calif. (HBO)

Nonito Donaire vs. Toshiaki Nishioka, 12, for Donaire’s WBO and IBF super bantamweight titles;

Brandon Rios vs. Mike Alvarado, 10, junior welterweights.

Oct. 20 At Barclays Center, New York (SHO)

Danny Garcia vs. Erik Morales, 12, Garcia’s WBC-WBA junior welterweight titles;

Paulie Malignaggi vs. Pablo Cesar Cano, 12, for Malignaggi’s WBA welterweight title.

Oct. 27 At Tokyo

Takahiro Ao vs. Gamaliel Diaz, 12, for Ao’s WBC super featherweight title.

At Moscow

Denis Lebedev, vs. Guillermo Jones vs. 12, for Lebedev’s WBA World cruiserweight title.

DHS enlists citizen spies via new Smartphone App

October 2, 2012

Encourages Americans to take photographs of “suspicious” persons & vehicles

by Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com

Smartphones: instruments of espionage?

Homeland Security officials in Delaware are hoping to enlist citizens as spies for the state by encouraging them to use a new app which allows smartphone users to attach pictures of “suspicious” vehicles or persons and send them directly to the federal government.

“The Delaware Information and Analysis Center (DIAC) now offers a mobile app to report suspicious activities in real-time by attaching a photo, sending location information, or entering details about suspicious vehicles or persons. In addition, users can choose to make their report anonymously or can include contact information for follow-up by law enforcement,” reports DailyFinance.com.

The new “Anti-Terrorism Mobile FORCE 1-2 App” is available for both iPhone and Android users and is being touted as a method of leveraging tips provided by citizens to “help protect the State”.

The information received is channeled through the state Fusion Center (DIAC) and then shared amongst federal, state and local law enforcement.

The federal government has moved to aggressively protect federal Fusion Centers, which are littered across the country, from Congressional insight and has shielded their employees from taking responsibility for their actions.

A memorandum of understanding written by the FBI back in 2008 dictated that information collected by Fusion Centers could only be disclosed to Congress as part of an investigation “after consultation with the FBI.”

The memorandum also, “Exempts even reports and statistics that could show overzealous surveillance and other possible misbehavior by Fusion Center staff,” writes Declan McCullagh.

Under the Department of Homeland Security’s See Something, Say Something initiative, all manner of banal activities have been characterized as “suspicious”.

A 2011 PSA for the program labeled behavior such as opposing surveillance, using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application as potential indications of terrorism. The last example is particularly ironic given that the DIAC app requires people to take photographs in public to report suspicious activity – an activity which in itself has been characterized as suspicious by the authorities.

Earlier this year, we reported on a number of flyers issued under the FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism (CAT) program which identified behavior such as paying for a cup of coffee with cash, showing concern for privacy when using the Internet in a public place, or using Google Maps as potential signs of terrorist activity. Enlisting untrained citizens to be the eyes and ears of the state is a classic hallmark of an authoritarian society.

At the height of its influence around one in seven of the East German population was an informant for the Stasi.

History clearly tells us that using citizens to inform on their fellow countrymen does not make a nation safer and only serves to breed distrust and suspicion amongst a host population.

As Robert Gellately of Florida State University has highlighted, Germans under Hitler denounced their neighbors and friends not because they genuinely believed them to be a security threat, but because they expected to selfishly benefit from doing so, both financially, socially and psychologically via a pavlovian need to be rewarded by their masters for their obedience.

Having the state encourage citizens to report “suspicious activity” is not only un-American, it represents a SF now opens until 3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays direct attack on the idea that a law abiding citizen can go about their business without the onerous psychological pressure of knowing that their every behavior could be analyzed and misinterpreted by a fellow citizen.

This psychologically compels people not only to moderate their behavior, including their political speech and exercising of inherent freedoms, but it also bolsters the myth that terrorists are potentially lurking around every corner and that the vast bloated budgets swallowed up by federal Fusion Centers are justified.

In reality, as Ohio University’s John Mueller has documented, the likelihood of actually being a victim of terrorism is infinitesimally small, a fact which only highlights how such threats are hyperbolically exaggerated for political and monetary purposes.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

Rats fed lifetime of GM grow horrifying tumors, 70% females die early

October 2, 2012

by Mike Adams
Natural News

Eating genetically modified corn (GM corn) and consuming trace levels of Monsanto’s Roundup chemical fertilizer caused rats to develop horrifying tumors, widespread organ damage, and premature death. That’s the conclusion of a shocking new study that looked at the long-term effects of consuming Monsanto’s genetically modified corn.

The study has been deemed “the most thorough research ever published into the health effects of GM food crops and the herbicide Roundup on rats.” News of the horrifying findings is spreading like wildfire across the internet, with even the mainstream media seemingly in shock over the photos of rats with multiple grotesque tumors… tumors so large the rats even had difficulty breathing in some cases. GMOs may be the new thalidomide.

“Monsanto Roundup weedkiller and GM maize implicated in ‘shocking’ new cancer study” wrote The Grocery, a popular UK publication. (http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/technology-andsupply-chain/monsant…)

It reported, “Scientists found that rats exposed to even the smallest amounts, developed mammary tumors and severe liver and kidney damage as early as four months in males, and seven months for females.”

The Daily Mail reported, “Fresh row over GM foods as French study claims rats fed the controversial crops suffered tumors.” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2205509/Fresh-fears-GM . . . )

It goes on to say: “The animals on the GM diet suffered mammary tumors, as well as severe liver and kidney damage. The researchers said 50 percent of males and 70 percent of females died prematurely compared with only 30 percent and 20 percent in the control group.”

The study, led by Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen, was the first ever study to examine the long-term (lifetime) effects of eating GMOs. You may find yourself thinking it is absolutely astonishing that no such studies were ever conducted before GM corn was approved for widespread use by the USDA and FDA, but such is the power of corporate lobbying and corporate greed.

The study was published in The Food & Chemical Toxicology Journal and was just presented at a news conference in London.

Findings from the study. Here are some of the shocking findings from the study:

• Up to 50% of males and 70% of females suffered premature death.

• Rats that drank trace amounts of Roundup (at levels legally allowed in the water supply) had a 200% to 300% increase in large tumors.

• Rats fed GM corn and traces of Roundup suffered severe organ damage including liver damage and kidney damage.

• The study fed these rats NK603, the Monsanto variety of GM corn that’s grown across North America and widely fed to animals and humans. This is the same corn that’s in your corn-based breakfast cereal, corn tortillas and corn snack chips.

The Daily Mail is reporting on some of the reaction to the findings:

“France’s Jose Bove, vice-chairman of the European Parliament’s commission for agriculture and known as a fierce opponent of GM, called for an immediate suspension of all EU cultivation and import authorizations of GM crops.

‘This study finally shows we are right and that it is urgent to quickly review all GMO evaluation processes,’ he said in a statement. ‘National and European food security agencies must carry out new studies financed by public funding to guarantee healthy food for European consumers.” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2205509/Fresh-fears-GM . . . )

Read the study abstract The study is entitled, “A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health.” Read the abstract here: http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm.

That abstract include this text. Note: “hepatorenal toxicity” means toxic to the liver.

“Our analysis clearly reveals for the 3 GMOs new side effects linked with GM maize consumption, which were sex- and often dose-dependent. Effects were mostly associated with the kidney and liver, the dietary detoxifying organs, although different between the 3 GMOs. Other effects were also noticed in the heart, adrenal glands, spleen and haematopoietic system. We conclude that these data highlight signs of hepatorenal toxicity, possibly due to the new pesticides specific to each GM corn. In addition, unintended direct or indirect metabolic consequences of the genetic modification cannot be excluded.”

Here are quotes from the researchers:

“This research shows an extraordinary number of tumors developing earlier and more aggressively – particularly in female animals. I am shocked by the extreme negative health impacts.” – Dr Michael Antoniou, molecular biologist, King’s College London.

“We can expect that the consumption of GM maize and the herbicide Roundup, impacts seriously on human health.” – Dr Antoniou.

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