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0 Police Pepper Spray Peaceful UC Davis Students



UPDATE: UC Davis Faculty Assoc calls for Immed Resignation of Chancellor Katehi 
Second UPDATE: Chancellor Katehi leaving peacefully. Protestors are remaining quiet. http://pic.twitter.com/l7hPk0vJ


UC Davis Chancellor Kotehi walk of shame to her car



UC Davis Students came to the consensus that they give Kotehi a silent walk of shame to her car.

0 Fatah, Hamas to Unify Despite US Objections

Israeli and American opposition won’t stop the Palestinian Authority from proceeding with its plans to achieve reconciliation with Hamas, PA officials said on Sunday.


The officials told The Jerusalem Post that the US and Israel were trying to “foil” the plans to end the dispute between Fatah and Hamas and reach agreement on the formation of a new unity government.

0 Drones protest London - Nov 16th


A knowledgable Chris Cole from http://dronewarsuk.wordpress.com is regularly engaged as a speaker against the Drones.

Here, he along with others protest at an annual meeting taking place for the proliferation of Drones.

A Lady from Pakistan also speaks up about the use of Drones against Pakistanis ( http://www.reprieve.org.uk ).

http://dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/uas_nov2011.pdf

0 As drones continue to kill, drone protests go global


We reported two weeks ago on the killing of 16 year-old Yemeni teenager Abdul-Rahman, the son of Anwar al-Alwaki  who was himself the victim of a drone strike a few weeks previously.  However Abdul-Rahamn was not the only 16 year-old killed in a drone strike this month.

Tariq Aziz attending the drone meeting in Islamabad
  A few days before being killed, Tariq had attended a meeting on the drones organised by British human rights group, Reprieve with the aim of encouraging local people to document the strikes taking place in their area.  Lawyer and campaigner, Clive Stafford Smith talks about the Jirga and meeting Tariq in his piece for the New York Times piece: 

"Tariq was a good kid, and courageous. My warm hand recently touched his in friendship; yet, within three days, his would be cold in death, the rigor mortis inflicted by my government.  And Tariq’s extended family, so recently hoping to be our allies for peace, has now been ripped apart by an American missile — most likely making any effort we make at reconciliation futile."

Two thousand miles west and Israeli drones fly constantly over Gaza with the latest strike killing seven members of Islamic Jihad.  The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an eye-opening interview this week with a ‘Lt Col Ido’ (his surname was withheld for security reasons) who teaches ethics to Israeli drone operators.   The Lt Col says “When people are killed by mistake, we are tormented, and that’s how it should be… I’ve met some people who had a very hard time with it. Some coped, and others wanted to leave. I told them, ‘This is dirty work. Who would you like to have do it? We would all like to be professors.’”

The whole article, looking at how Israel uses drones for “everything from gathering intelligence in what the air force calls the “third circle” – namely, the Iranian sector and its satellites – to assisting fire-fighters in the Mount Carmel forest fire and guarding worshipers at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus” is well worth reading.  Israel is also about to deploy the giant Eitan drone for use in Gaza and Lebanon as Ynet news reports.

Fifteen hundred miles south of Israel is the Ethiopian city of Arba Minch from where, according to a recent  report in the Washington Post,  the USAF are flying Reaper drones over Somalia.  While the US say the drones based in Ethiopia are for surveillance purposes only (the Ethiopian government are refusing to admit the drones are even in Ethiopia) US drones are undertaking strikes against al-Shabab in Somalia.

Meanwhile it has been confirmed this week that US drones in Iraq are to be move to the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey from where they will be used to ‘monitor’ Kurdish separatists in Iraq and presumably Turkey.

But it is not only the drones that are circling the globe.  Resistance to the drones is growing and going global too.  We have repeatedly reported on the anger in Pakistan against US drone strikes and the many protests taking place there, the latest of which saw some 2,000 people protests outside the Parliament building in Islamabad.

For the first time (as far as we know) anti-drone protests have also taken place in Yemen, with some extremely brave people coming together in Sana’a to protest the strikes there (see video below)



In the US, protestors have recently gone on trial  following a civil  disobedience action at the main entrance of Hancock Air National Guard Base on  April 22, 2011, where 38 people were arrested at a die-in protesting the  drones.  The verdict will be handed down on 1st December (see http://www.upstatedroneaction.org/  for lots more info.

0 Seattle Police Compare Occupy Protesters To Drug Dealers & Prostitutes After Mayor's Apology

Police Newspaper "The Guardian" also thanks protesters for the abundant amount of overtime pay they are now receiving..


0 Benetton's soon to be banned 'Unhate' campaign photos....if only they were true.


Obama gets a double dose...and the Vatican bans one featuring the Pope and Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, of Cairo's al-Azhar institute, the pre-eminent theological school of Sunni Islam.
Here's the rest...

President Barack Obama and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.


North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

 

The President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao and US President Barack Obama.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.


President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.

 

 

 



0 Letter opposing Christian Zionism sparks Israel debate

Evangelical supporters of Israel fired back at a September open letter by two Baptist ethicists questioning theological and moral grounds of “Christian Zionism.” 

David Gushee, a Mercer University professor and columnist for Associated Baptist Press, and Glenn Stassen of Fuller Theological Seminary penned “An Open Letter to America’s Christian Zionist” Sept. 19 denouncing the influence on U.S. foreign policy of the belief the Bible plots out boundaries that by divine right belong to Israel.
“Not to put too fine a point on it, we wish to claim here that the prevailing version of American Christian Zionism -- that is, your belief system -- underwrites theft of Palestinian land and oppression of Palestinian people, helps create the conditions for an explosion of violence, and pushes U.S. policy in a destructive direction that violates our nation’s commitment to universal human rights,” the professors said. “In all of these, American Christian Zionism as it currently stands is sinful and produces sin.”
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem replied with a letter charging Gushee and Stassen with “theological inconsistency and historical ignorance that are deeply troubling in professors of your standing.”
Leaders of the group founded in 1980 to advocate “scriptural responsibilities towards the Jewish people, to remind Israel of the wonderful promises made to her in the Bible and to be a source of practical assistance to all the people of the land of Israel” said their support does not mean they think Israel is perfect or that they support all its policies, and they also share concern, particularly for Palestinian Christians. 

0 Lebanese politicians come to blows over Syria live on TV

"Your boss is a liar!"......"No! your boss is a liar!"

Rival Lebanese politicians came to blows live on national television over the crisis in neighbouring Syria, hurling insults -- and chairs -- at each other before the show cut to a commercial break. Fayez Shukr, representing the Baath Party -- which has links to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's party of the same name -- and opposition former MP Mustafa Alloush locked horns over Assad's credibility in a late night talkshow Monday on Lebanon's MTV station.


"You don't listen. I wish you would listen to what Assad says," said Shukr, to which Alloush responded: "I heard him. I don't believe a word he says."
"Who are you to believe or not believe him?" Shukr said, prompting Alloush to call Assad a "liar."
The two then proceeded to hurl insults and swear at one another, before Shukr chucked a glass of water over the talkshow host's head at Alloush.
Papers and insults flying, both men then jumped out of their seats and charged at each other, with one picking up a chair as their bewildered host urged them to calm down before the show went off the air.


0 Seattle Cops Pepper Spray A Priest, An 84 Year Old Lady & A Pregnant Woman At Occupy Protest

0 US state terrorism kills 17 in Somalia

A US assassination drone strike has killed at least 17 people and wounded nearly 67 others in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.


The attack occurred in a civilian region near the town of Dhobley in southern Somalia on Tuesday.

Somalia is the one of the countries where the United States has used remote-controlled drones to launch deadly missile strikes.

 In October, Washington admitted to flying unmanned aerial vehicles from Ethiopia over some North African countries.

The US military has used assassination drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen.

Washington claims the airstrikes, which are authorized by the Central Intelligence Agency, target militants, though most such attacks have resulted in civilian casualties.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. 

0 History Commons Complete 911 Timeline

This website is filled with documented evidence surrounding the WTC Complex, from construction to destruction.

Open-Content investigative project managed by matt, Paul, KJF, blackmax

This is the home page for the Complete 911 Timeline investigative project, one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History Commons website. The data published as part of this investigation has been collected, organized, and published by members of the public who are registered users of this website.





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0 Israel's War Threats: Sheer Hollow Propaganda

Israel has awkwardly and desperately renewed its outworn war threats against Iran in the recent weeks, indicating that it's getting prepared to launch a military strike on the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities. 


Last week, the Zionist regime successfully test fired a missile which is said to have the capability of carrying a nuclear warhead and reach Iran, as well as Russia and China.
On November 2, the TV stations around the world screened footages of a rocket-propulsion system being launched from somewhere around Israel coastal Palmachim military base. The missile's range is claimed to be 10,000 kilometers and therefore, Iran will be easily within the reach of it, in the case that a military attack on Iran is opted for.



However, now even the most optimistic advocates of war with Iran within the fractured cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu know that "empty vessels make the most noise" and that a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities will be practically the same as the evaporation of the Zionist entity. They are well aware of Iran's unequaled military might and the recent advancements and progresses in Iran's weaponry industry.
Although the hawkish Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman has boasted of "keeping all the options on the table" with regards to Iran's nuclear program, he dismissed the reports that the Israeli cabinet members have reached an agreement over launching an attack against Iran.

The deceptive and illusory claims of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is lobbying to persuade the cabinet to authorize a military strike against Iran's nuclear installations has even evoked the surprise and astonishment of the American media, who reacted to the war threats skeptically. In a November 2, 2011 report published just a few hours after Israel test fired its nuclear missile, CBS News wrote that the international community is used to hearing of Tel Aviv's war threats against Iran and the recent warmongering statements of Netanyahu are nothing new and unexpected: "it remained unclear whether Israel was genuinely poised to strike or if it was saber-rattling to prod the international community into taking a tougher line on Iran. Israeli leaders have long hinted at a military option, but they always seemed mindful of the practical difficulties, the likelihood of a furious counterstrike and the risk of regional mayhem."

The words of Israeli officials, even though disproportionately aggrandized and exaggerated by the mainstream media, cut no ice anymore. Israeli regime is too fragile and small to pose a threat to Iran's security. Over the past 10 years, the White House, with the unreserved assistance of its client state, Israel, repeatedly threatened Iran against the possibility of a military attack. Even Barack Obama who is unquestionably a wolf in the sheep's clothing and understands nothing of peace and cordiality had once in 2010 talked of the possibility of a nuclear strike against Iran; a reckless statement which was condemned by many politicians and pundits around the world.

It's now clear to the international observers that Israel talks through its hat. It only runs a psychological operation against Iran to force it into giving in its nuclear rights. The irony is that it's Israel, the only possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, which is hell bent on disrupting Iran's nuclear program which it impetuously and irrationally claims to be aimed at military purposes.

The Israeli officials, however, frequently direct war threats against Iran with impunity and in breach of several internationally recognized treaties, conventions and charters. From one hand, any Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities can be considered a war of aggression which is "a military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense" and since the Korean War of the early 1950s, waging such a war is a crime under the customary international law. It's conventional for the criminal state of Israel to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity; however, if it frantically makes such a decision, it will be committing a crime which the international community should categorically respond to.
On July 3, 1933, the first convention that defined aggression was signed in London by representatives of Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Turkey, USSR, Iran and Afghanistan. It was initiated by Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov in response to threats of use of force by the German government following Hitler's rise to power. The government of Finland acceded to the convention on January 31, 1934. These countries decided that any kind of aggressive behavior on behalf of the members of the League of Nations would be illegal and illegitimate.

On the other hand, if Israelis madly attack Iran's nuclear facilities while no serious threat is posed against them on behalf of the Persian Gulf country, their assault can also be categorized as a "preemptive war" which is illegal without the approval of the United Nations Security Council. "The initiation of armed conflict, that is being the first to 'break the peace' when no 'armed attack' has yet occurred, is not permitted by the UN Charter."

Israel's war threats against Iran also violate the UN Charter and so far, the UNSC has given no decisive response to this flagrant breach of the international law. According to Article 2, Section 4 of the UN Charter which is generally considered to be 'jus cogens' (compelling law), all UN members are prohibited from exercising "the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state." The Article 51 of UN Charter stipulates that defense by a member state is justified only if, "an armed attack occurs," against the attacking country.

Moreover, it's crystal clear that Israel is not in a position to threaten Iran against a military strike over its nuclear program. Israel even does not have the credibility of asking Iran to halt its nuclear program while it possesses 300 atomic warheads. It has been repeatedly clarified by the international organizations, including the NIE 2007 report that Iran doesn't possess nuclear weapons and also doesn't have any intention of building such weapons. Of course it's dismantling the nuclear arsenal of Israel which should be put on IAEA's agenda, not Iran's nuclear program which has been clearly demonstrated that is aimed at civilian purposes.

At any rate, there are of course wise and prudent people in the political structure of Israel to know that taking any aggressive action against Iran will be equivalent to the disappearance of the Zionist regime. Furthermore, even the closest friends of the Israeli regime know that Netanyahu's war threats against Iran are sheer hollow propaganda, even if they keep the options "on the table" for good! 


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Screw Microsoft! you have failed on me too many times!

0 Dismantle The Corrupt Ruling Elite

Highly recommend watching this...

FromTube Info:
Just reflecting on the current situation in the UK:- corrupt elite and treasonous politicians, and evolution v's revolution, etc... so I know there is lots more to cover but this was just impromptu.

Part 1/2



Part 2/2

0 Linguists crack 300-year-old occult code

Cryptologists have cracked a mysterious code used by a German Freemason-like group, opening what they describe as a window on the history of secret occult societies 300 years ago. 

The “Copiale Cipher”, a 105-page pamphlet bound in gold and green brocade paper, is thought to be at least 300 years old, and contain the secrets of an underground group obsessed with eye surgery and ophthalmology, although the members are not thought to have been eye doctors.

The hand-written pamphlet contains 75,000 characters - a mix of abstract symbols and Roman and Greek letters. It was found in the East Berlin Academy after the end of the Cold War, and was then bought by a private collector.

An international research team including experts from Uppsala University in Sweden and the University of Southern California (USC) in the United States, managed to get access to the cipher and have cracked it – after going up at least one blind alley.

Kevin Knight, from the USC said in a statement that he and the team had initially focussed on the Roman and Greek lettering, isolating them from the abstract figures and running their patterns through a computer.

“When you get a new code and look at it, the possibilities are nearly infinite. Once you come up with a hypothesis based on your intuition as a human, you can turn over a lot of grunt work to the computer,” he said.

But after trying 80 languages, the team had got nowhere. “It took quite a long time and resulted in complete failure,” said Knight.

They then realised the familiar letters were ‘nulls’ – meaningless figures added to the real code to confuse would-be code-crackers.

The next hypothesis to be tested was that the abstract symbols with similar shapes represented the same letter or groups of letters and eventually the first meaningful words appeared – suitably spooky phrases such as “Ceremonies of initiation” and “Secret section”.

“This opens up a window for people who study the history or ideas and the history of secret societies,” said Knight.

“Historians believe that secret societies have had a role in revolutions, but all that is yet to be worked out, but all that is yet to be worked out and a big part of the reason is because so many documents are enciphered.”

Knight said he is using similar techniques to try to crack other messages, including some by the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorised California in the 1960s and 70s while sending messages to the media. He was never caught.

 External link: Learn more about the secret code »

0 7 Billion People: Press Conference



PRI President Steve Mosher speaks at the Welcome 7 Billion People press conference, National Press Club, October 31, 2011.

0 Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth



The pilot episode of PRI's POP 101 series, this video takes a fresh, humorous approach to the demographic issues facing the world today.
Be sure to watch the sequel here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBS6f-JVvTY

Visit www.overpopulationisamyth.com and spread the word: the world is not overpopulated!

0 The Guardian readers' editor on… averting accusations of antisemitism




Guardian reporters, writers and editors must be more vigilant about the language they use when writing about Jews or Israel

The Guardian has always had a strong commitment to reporting on the Middle East. That means a lot of news reporting, as well as comment and analysis, on the Israel-Palestine situation. It is one of the world's most contested conflicts, in which thousands of people have died or have been displaced. As a newspaper the Guardian has been critical of all sides, but it is seen as being especially critical of the Israeli government and its actions. And that has led to complaints that the Guardian, in print or online, is carrying material that either lapses into language resonant of antisemitism or is, by its nature, antisemitic.
It also leads to the much more rare allegation of Islamophobia. In this column I intend to address the former rather than the latter, because recently there has been a preponderance of such complaints.
This is not a fresh concern. It is a particularly sensitive issue for a core of the Guardian's Jewish readers because CP Scott held strong Zionist sympathies, as did WP Crozier, who came after him as editor. In the Guardian's archives is a letter of thanks from the first president of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, thanking Scott for his help in securing the Balfour declaration, the 1917 statement by the British government approving the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
A shift in attitudes came after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, as Daphna Baram outlines in her book Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel, published in 2004. So, it's not new. But there has been an increase in complaints of antisemitism within the last few months.
As the web has widened the debate, so it has also enabled more opportunities for articles and comments to be questioned. Individuals and organisations monitoring the Guardian's coverage examine the language in articles – and the comments posted underneath them online – as closely as the facts.
For antisemitism can be subtle as well as obvious. Three times in the last nine months I have upheld complaints against language within articles that I agreed could be read as antisemitic. The words were replaced and the articles footnoted to reflect the fact. These included references to Israel/US "global domination" and the term "slavish" to describe the US relationship with Israel; and, in an article on a lost tribe of Mallorcan Jews, what I regarded as a gratuitous reference to "the island's wealthier families".
Two weeks ago a columnist used the term "the chosen" in an item on the release of Gilad Shalit, which brought more than 40 complaints to the Guardian, and an apology from the columnist the following week. "Chosenness", in Jewish theology, tends to refer to the sense in which Jews are "burdened" by religious responsibilities; it has never meant that the Jews are better than anyone else. Historically it has been antisemites, not Jews, who have read "chosen" as code for Jewish supremacism.
One reader wrote of the column: "The despicable antisemitic tone of this rant is beyond reason or decency."
An important feature of the Guardian online is that the comment threads are post-moderated: a team of moderators check almost half a million comments a month posted on the site for language that breaches the community guidelines across a whole range of issues – not just antisemitism. They are experienced in spotting the kind of language long associated with antisemitic tropes such as Jews having too much power and control, or being clannish and secretive, or the role of Jews in finance and the media.
Newspapers have to be aware that some examples involve coded references. They need to ask themselves, for example, if the word Zionist is being used as a synonym for Jew.
I have been careful to say that these examples may be read as antisemitic because I don't believe their appearance in the Guardian was the result of deliberate acts of antisemitism: they were inadvertent. But that does not lessen the injury to some readers or to our reputation. The Guardian should not be oppressed by criticism – some of the language used by our critics is abusive and intimidatory – or retreat into self-censorship. But reporters, writers and editors must be more vigilant to ensure our voice in the debate is not diminished because our reputation has been tarnished.
This article will be open for comments at 9am on Monday (UK time).

0 Cyprus Central Bank chief says taxes may have to rise

Athanasios Orphanides
CYPRUS MAY need to raise taxes to help it pull out of an economic crisis, central bank Governor Athanasios Orphanides said yesterday, a day after Moody's warned the island would probably need to seek emergency funding at some point.

Moody's downgraded Cyprus's credit rating by two notches to Baa3, one level above junk, on Friday, forecasting the government would have to bail out its banks next year due to their exposure to Greek debt. As the government has lost access to international capital markets, it would probably need to seek emergency funding from official sources, the ratings agency said.

The downgrade was the latest blow to the Mediterranean island, which has been hammered by ratings agencies and financial markets in the past year because of its banks' exposure to Greek debt and fiscal slippage, which has seen runaway deficits nudging 6.5 to 7.0 per cent of gross domestic product.

Orphanides, who is also a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council, said the authorities were slow to address signs of stress.

An austerity package cutting salaries in the civil service and plans to trim spending were a step in the right direction but more was needed, he said.

"In the position we are in right now, we cannot rule out that an increase in tax may be warranted," Orphanides told a conference at the University of Cyprus.

"We need to convince the world that we are reliable enough to overturn this situation."

Cyprus, the third smallest member of the euro zone, recently secured a loan from Russia for 2.5 billion euros to help finance debt maturing in 2012

Source:http://www.cyprus-mail.com/central-bank/central-bank-chief-says-taxes-may-have-rise/20111106

0 Minister Farrakhan Blasts Media & Reporters During Radio Interview Commercial

Minister Farrakhan smashes on media reporters during a commercial break on a local Chicago radio station

0 Essential Knowledge For A Wall Street Protestor

0 Is smart meter giant "Sensus" For Sale?

Reuters cites unnamed sources who say smart meter giant Sensus is seeking a buyer. Will it follow fellow meter giant Landis+Gyr into the arms of a corporate parent?

 

Could smart meter giant Sensus be for sale? That’s what Reuters reported late Thursday night, citing two unnamed sources who said Sensus has hired Credit Suisse to find a strategic buyer or private equity firm willing to pay $800 million to $1 billion for the Raleigh, N.C. metering company.

If true, that would be big news in the small world of the global smart meter giants. A Sensus sale could start a smart grid bidding war, like the one that ended in rival smart meter giant Landis+Gyr’s $2.3 billion sale to Toshiba earlier this year. But then again, with a sizeable debt load and sliding sales, Sensus might not be as attractive an acquisition target as its rival.

Sensus is one of five companies — the others are Itron, General Electric, Elster and Landis+Gyr — that dominate today’s smart meter market, and held about 21 percent of U.S. smart meter market share as of last fall, in third place behind L+G and Itron. Reuters’ unnamed sources said that Sensus was seeking a valuation of 8 to 10 times its $100 million in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), and was expecting interest from both strategic buyers and private equity firms. Both Sensus and Credit Suisse declined to comment on the report.

What might a potential buyer be getting? Although Sensus is privately held, the company has filed financial reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission because it had issued publicly traded debt. According to those reports, the company has seen net losses of $8.3 million in fiscal year 2008, $18.4 million in FY 2009 and $7.5 million in FY 2010, although its sales from continuing operations have risen steadily over that time, from $722 million in FY 2008 to $866 million in FY 2010.

In May of this year, Sensus landed a $675 million credit facility that allowed it to purchase $275 million in existing 2013 company notes, thus closing its SEC reporting obligations. But an April filing prior to that deal revealed that Sensus was carrying a total debt of $451 million and had $38 million cash on hand as of March 31. In other words, as the company said in its 2010 annual report, “We are highly leveraged and have significant debt service obligations,” and any potential buyer would presumably have to deal with that debt.

Full Story: http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/is-sensus-for-sale/ 

0 PG&E Begins Removing ‘Smart’ Meters Due to Health Effects

Widening Call for Immediate Return of Analogs;Disconnection of “Mesh” Wireless Network


UPDATE, Nov. 3, 2011: Glendale CA resident also has ‘smart’ meter replaced with analog meter by utility GWP. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_jT3-36KRg



SANTA CRUZ, CA—Just as PG&E enters the final phase of its deployment of wireless “smart” meters in California, the largest of the state’s Investor Owned Utilities (IOU’s) has reversed course, quietly beginning to replace the ‘smart’ meters of those reporting health impacts with the old trusty analog version.  Consumer rights and health groups immediately seized on the news, demanding that millions of Californians unhappy with their new wireless meters get their analogs returned immediately at no cost.

Full Story:http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/11/01/pge-begins-removing-smart-meters-due-to-health-effects/

0 SmartMeters send almost 10,000 signals a day.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s wireless SmartMeters are designed to communicate directly with the utility, eliminating the need for meter readers.....Turns out they do a lot of talking.

According to a document PG&E filed with the California Public Utilities Commission this week, the typical meter sends out almost 10,000 radio-frequency signals per day.


The signals are very, very brief. Add them together, and the meter’s total transmission time equals a little more than 45 seconds per day. And the signals’ peak energy level falls well within federal standards, according to a PG&E spokesman.
Still, the sheer volume of transmissions will likely anger people who consider the radiation from cell phones, Wi-Fi computers and SmartMeters to be a health hazard. PG&E has often countered their criticism by noting that the digital meters don’t transmit continuously.The company, which has installed 8.7 million of the meters, maintains that their signals pose no threat. And of course the entire notion that wireless signals can be dangerous remains fiercely contested.
Earlier this year, the utilities commission ordered PG&E to offer its customers an alternative to receiving a wireless SmartMeter. In response, the company proposed giving people who request it a SmartMeter with the transmitter turned off. The commission is still studying that proposal, and the new details about the meters’ signals come from a document the company filed as part of that process.
The document cites information gathered by Silver Spring Networks, a Redwood City company that makes the meters’ communications components. Silver Spring examined data from about 88,000 meters that had already been installed, and found that on average, they sent out 9,981 signals per day. (That average, by the way, is the median. In other words, half of the meters sent more transmissions per day, while half sent less.) The vast majority of those signals — 9,600 — came from the devices relaying information from other meters. They’re designed to work as a mesh network, with meters keeping frequent contact with each other.
Silver Spring found one meter that sent out more than 190,000 signals in one day, according to the document. Although each signal was brief, the total transmission time topped 14 minutes. PG&E spokesman Greg Snapper noted that meter was far outside the norm.

0 Met police to charge TV producers to appear in programmes

Documentary-makers shocked at fees of £500 a day and 15% share of any profits from sale of shows abroad

ITV documentary In The Line of Fire
ITV documentary In The Line of Fire followed officers from CO19’s uniformed response team. Photograph: ITV
The Metropolitan police is trying to raise money by charging TV producers who want the force to feature in their programmes £500 a day and a 15% share of any profits from the sale of the show abroad or merchandising.
Scotland Yard's Income Development Unit will also charge for "for any resources used" including "bikes, cars, dogs and horses". Documentary-makers are shocked at the fees, which they say are too high and will affect coverage of the Met in TV programmes.
Previous shows that have featured the force include ITV1's In the Line of Fire, which followed the work of part of CO19's uniformed response team.
According to the Met, the increase in the number of digital television channels has "resulted in a significant increase in the number of documentary requests".



I wonder how much was paid for this piece of....
"Pure Action Filming"?


Are our "police officers" now going to try and outdo each other in the "Action Scenes"?....

0 South African intelligence investigates role of British company in Col Gaddafi's attempt to flee Sirte

The South African intelligence services are investigating the role of a British company in a mission to help Colonel Gaddafi flee from Libya which ended in his capture and death. 

According to a senior intelligence source, both the British firm and a woman in Kenya who is thought to have recruited South African mercenaries on its behalf are "of interest" in their investigation.
It has been alleged that one of the security firms who provided mercenaries for the mission may have acted as a “double agent”, helping Nato to pinpoint Gaddafi’s convoy for attack, and that the dictator’s escape was “meant to fail”.
The affair risks further straining relations between London and Pretoria. President Jacob Zuma repeatedly clashed with the West over its involvement in Libya, at one stage accusing it of pursuing “illegal regime change”.
A total of 50 private soldiers, including 19 South Africans, are reported to have travelled to Libya on instructions to smuggle the former dictator from his birthplace of Sirte over the border to Niger.
Among them were said to be members of the team led by former SAS officer Simon Mann on the “Wonga coup” to unseat Equatorial Guinea’s dictator.

Full Story Here:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8865403/South-African-intelligence-investigates-role-of-British-company-in-Col-Gaddafis-attempt-to-flee-Sirte.html


And the UNITED NATIONS are supposedly....
"The Good Guys"?? 

0 WMD in Syria?.....Iraq was leveled over that same lie.



The UN nuclear watchdog says it has discovered a secret facility in north western Syria that matches the design of a uranium-enrichment plant. The findings have raised suspicions that the Syrian government has been trying to produce nuclear arms. However there's no evidence the building, which resembles a textile plant, has ever been in operation. The situation has led some experts to draw comparisons with the WMD allegations that led to the occupation of Iraq...

0 Ritalin Not Safe for Kids Contrary to Recent Study

I read an article in the news today about how a federally funded study found that Ritalin and other similar drugs that millions of children and teens are forced to take to due to alleged hyperactivity and to presumably increase attention do not raise their risk of serious heart problems. The news item, which mentioned no source for the study, relayed false information as if Ritalin and similar drugs are a good thing that pose no danger. Nothing could be further from the truth.

With the news today largely on the internet, fact checking of what is real news and what is not has generally gone out the window. One blog written by a person with no professional accreditation whatsoever may write about something as if they are an authority on a subject or a conveyer of truth about a circumstance. Hours or even minutes later, perceived credible major news sources or blogs simply duplicate the information with no fact checking of their own whatsoever. To say that journalistic standards of truth has declined with the internet is an understatement. Lets look for example a little more closely concerning the real truth about this drug called Ritalin. 
As a healthy, normal student in 6th grade with good marks, I recall when a doctor came in with permission slips for parents to sign for their kids to be tested for ADHD. All kids parents I knew of agreed, and myself and many kids I knew were forced at around ten, eleven, and twelve years old to take Ritalin.
I recall countless nights of pleading, screaming, crying, and begging my mother not to force me to take that tiny little white, bitter tasting pill with the cross on it called Ritalin which caused me to have horrific nightmares, tremors, shakes, cold sweats, hallucinations, double and multiple visions, churning stomach aches and pains, head spinning, dizziness, nausea, diarrhea ,vomiting, and waking up shivering in cold sweat soaked sheets night after night. Finally my parents came to their senses and stopped making me take the pill, contrary to doctors demands.

Ritalin is a poison, and diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactive disorder are fraudulent labels of either kids being kids, or some other underlying condition such as improper diet and nutrition. I for example, was allowed to generally eat as much candy, sugar, and have as much caffeinated drinks as I could consume at around this time- which was a lot.
For anyone to tout the benefits of Ritalin and undermine its dangers have not- I'll bet - taken the poison which is Ritalin. And as a result, any one that advocates Ritalin use are as guilty as the vile people who push it on kids who are at the mercy of adults for their survival. Do you condone Ritalin use? If so, I dare you to take it daily for a month. Tell me how much fun and good it is then after you experience its hell.

Source:http://newsblaze.com/story/20111102073134ente.nb/topstory.html

2 Prominent Zionist rabbi indicted on two counts of sexual assault of his students

Rabbi Mordechai (Moti) Elon, a leader of the religious Zionist movement, indicted for assaulting students, including one minor; Elon says his actions misunderstood. 

Rabbi Moti ElonAn indictment was served Wednesday against Rabbi Mordechai (Moti) Elon, one of the most prominent rabbis in the religious Zionist movement, for two counts of indecent and sexual assault against a minor.
According to the indictment, in 2005, Rabbi Elon assaulted A., a student of his born in 1988, who came to him for advice after going through an emotional crisis.
During hearings at the State Attorney’s office, Rabbi Elon has claimed that he did not break the law, and that his actions were misunderstood. He said his actions stemmed from the love of a teacher for a student, and that they were in no way sexual abuse. The State Attorney’s office did not accept this version of events.
Police recommended that Rabbi Mordechai (Moti) Elon be indicted on charges of sexual crimes in August 2010. Police suspect Elon of forcibly committing indecent acts on two minors.
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and State Prosecutor Moshe Lador closely followed the case while the police were still investigating Elon.
In February 2010, Weinstein instructed the police to examine complaints about Elon that had been made public by Takana, a forum that fights sexual abuse in the Orthdox community.
Suspicions against Elon came to the attention of Takana in 2006. The forum demanded that Elon cease his educational activities, and placed various restrictions on him. With no explanation to his students and followers, Elon, who was popular with students, left his post as head of Yeshivat Hakotel in Jerusalem, and moved with his family to Migdal on the Kinneret.
In 2006, Takana informed then attorney general Menachem Mazuz of the complaints against Elon. Mazuz conveyed the information to the police, but decided not to order an investigation against Elon.
Takana said they decided to go public with the allegations at the time because Elon "did not follow the restrictions imposed on him." 



And these perverts are the greatest  of 
"Gods Chosen People"??......
this God guy has some serious people issues.

0 BAE Systems celebrate production of more than 15 million Modular Lightweight Load Carrying Equipment components for U.S. military forces.


A ceremony to commemorate the milestone was Monday at BAE Systems' Protection Systems business in McKee, Ky. where the components are manufactured.


As the primary field equipment system for the U.S. Army, the MOLLE system is made of a variety of load-carrying equipment, including vests, pockets, backpacks and hydration systems, all of which are configurable for specific mission requirements.

The system is a highly modular platform that enables warfighters to carry gear and supplies critical to their mission. The basic MOLLE system is the Core Rifleman configuration, which is comprised of a Large Assault Pack, a variety of general purpose and magazine pouches as well as a hydration system.

"The MOLLE system provides users with a completely customizable set of equipment which allows for readiness, mobility and efficiency of the warfighter," said Don Dutton, vice president of BAE Systems' Protection Systems. "Reaching a milestone, such as the production of 15 million components, is an exceptional achievement for BAE Systems."

BAE Systems first developed MOLLE in 1997 in conjunction with Natick Soldier Systems Command, winning a contract to support a modernization effort within the U.S. Marine Corps.

Designed with the intent to improve load carrying equipment effectiveness and sustain heavier loads, MOLLE quickly became the system of choice for various service organizations.

0 Boston Dynamics PETMAN





PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by the US Army. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does simple calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to provide realistic test conditions. PETMAN development is lead by Boston Dynamics, working in partnership with Measurement Technologies Northwest, Oak Ridge National Lab and MRIGlobal. The work is being done for the DoD CBDP. For more information about PETMAN visit us at www.BostonDynamics.com.


I'm thinking that anything that's "openly publicised" is not anywhere near the technology these companies
"really have"....history tells us that much.
It's more of a "psychological beatdown" a "wow look at that" moment, then when the really futuristic stuff without all the power leads and cables is released....it's not such a hit on the senses...and it's "oh we seen that before"

0 Google Search now picks up EVERY comment you make on Facebook

What's your most embarrassing Facebook comment ever? No, don't tell me, I'll just look it up on Google because the search engine is now displaying comments for the first time. 
 
That's right, your every ROFL, LOL, or "God I can't believe I drank that much" is available for the whole world's reading pleasure, thanks to a change to the way Google looks at Javascript.
Previously Facebook comments weren't visible to Google's search bots, because they were tied to JavaScript. Now Google has begun trawling JavaScript for search results.
The results are not limited to Facebook comments, Google is trawling Disqus, Intense Debate and other add-on comment systems found in blogs.

Unlike? If you've been leaving trollish comments, or your value your privacy you should. Your online profile just got a little more complicated, because this does away with privacy settings you had in place on Facebook, sharing comments for your approved friends with the whole web.
Now when a friend, or future employer, searches for your name, your comments will turn up too.
The move ties in to Google's efforts for more authenticity and transparency in online identity. Just as Googleplus forces users to identify themselves with their proper names, this new search method may encourage users to be more accountable for their comments.
Who's going to "Like" this development? Businesses like the media, and private bloggers, who value high google rankings. For instance, leave a nice comment saying "This article on internet privacy by Melanie Hick on the Hufffington Post is great! Check my web privacy blog at bloggymcblog.com" and your comment will come up in searches for the terms "internet privacy", the author's name and searches for your blog title.
Comments won't suddenly appear at the top of search results today, but will gradually make their way up the Google rankings when they match specific searches.
Check out the most embarrassing Facebook comments ever, below. We're pretty sure these guys won't be fans of the changes. 




0 Fighting Cancer and Infection With IBM's Injectable "Medic chips"




IBM invented tiny, nanoscale particles to make silicon chips smaller. Those same particles, which are biocompatible, may be used in the human body to fight antibiotic-resistant staph infections and to carry potent cancer meds directly to tumors, bypassing healthy cells.

Inject it, it delivers it's package, then it dissolves without a trace....
and I thought assassins had been using this technology for years.

0 The Fox News Spin Machine Hits Full Speed!

0 9-11 Cop Who Arrested Dancing Israelis Speaks

AFP PODCAST -
In the first ever interview of its kind, AMERICAN FREE PRESS speaks with the police officer responsible for arresting the “Dancing Israelis” on September 11, 2001, who were caught filming and celebrating while the WTC burned and people died. Sgt. Scott DeCarlo reveals the details of that day, details the Zionist-controlled mainstream media conveniently overlooked.  DeCarlo has promised that this is his first and last interview on the subject, in the hopes of quelling ongoing interest in his role that horrible day.

Interview