What company was it that wanted to put tracking chips in their underwear so they would know how many times we “put them on and took them off”? I think they found a new way of working the consumer rejection issues out…

How about we just let Homeland Security and Local Law Enforcement take a look at what were “getting into” daily? A local Houston news station (channel 2) basically caught them (local law enforcement and Homeland Security) in the act of testing it out in Houston and when confronted — of course - lie about it. Someone had previously reported that they were going to be used for issuing “speeding tickets” roflmao! Public disinformation.

“She kept saying they did this in Germany, they did this in Germany” - Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf and Al Gore, finally speak out against the Bush regime asking Americans to follow suit before it’s too late for us all. I didn’t know Gore had it in him but I applaud his very emotional and moving speech. Did you know the paramilitary group Blackwater just got a contract for a “Billion” dollars to work more closely with the current administration right here in the United States. Thats the same Blackwater paramilitary group that just shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians. Did you know that Blackwater was involved in shootings when they were deployed in New Orleans after tropical storm Katrina? Does this sound familiar? This is scary shit folks, wake up. If you want to do something about what you see in these videos here’s the link: American Freedom Campaign.

A. Rudy Giuliani doesn’t know how to milk a cow.

Not that it would surprise anyone but it appears Rudy Giuliani plans to use the “terrorist attacks” of September 11, 2001 as some kind of selling point for his presidential campaign. Shocking…we know!

Rudy Giuliani is trumpeting his leadership in the wake of 9/11 in campaign mailings to voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. Actually if you look at Giuliani’s 9/11 record it should be humiliating to the former mayor as most of his claims about heroism are completely bogus.

And there are some FDNY members and their families who aren’t going to let this go.

A group of 9/11 firefighters and victims’ family members with eyes on derailing Republican Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign are forming an entity that would run issue ads in key early nominating states.

“TV made him a hero, and we’ll use TV to take him down,” New York Fire Chief Jim Riches told ABC News.

You be the judge…

On Monday the firefighters and family members held a meeting at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire hoping to spread the word about what they say is Giuliani’s “egregious” use of 9/11 for political gain.

Complete story here.

The group also is considering additional trips to early presidential primary states Iowa, Florida, and South Carolina.

To read more from the families of 9/11 victims and their “beef” with Giuliani, click here.

“There’s only three things he (Guiliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.” - Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.)

Dear Friends:

I just received the e-mail below and promptly called Rep. John Conyers’ office to request that he begin impeachment hearings on Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s House Resolution 799 to impeach Vice President Cheney. The lady who answered the phone was very helpful and advised me to stay tuned for further news.

So, please place calls to Rep Conyers’ office and tell him that you support the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. Ask him to hold hearings on Dennis Kucinich’s House Resolution 799 to impeach the Vice President. Be sure to tell them what state you are from.

I received some very helpful feedback from someone who called Rep. Conyers’ office. Here is what he told me:

“It seems Conyers is polling the nation as to where and from whom impeachment support exists. Please call his office asap.” Based on this feedback, it is very important that Rep. Conyers’ receive calls supporting impeachment from every state in the Union. Therefore, please forward this message to others and ask them to do the same.

People need to ask their friends and relatives from all over the nation to participate.
The direct line to Chairman Conyers’ office is (202) 225-5126, or you can call the regular Capitol Switchboard number of 202 224-3121 and ask for Rep. John Conyers’ office.

House Considers Impeachment/Contact Conyers:
As many of you know, Rep. Kucinich introduced a new impeachment resolution H. Res. 799 (for the Impeachment of Vice President Cheney) on the floor of the House of Representatives this last Tuesday. Some odd maneuvers occurred on the floor of the House, which resulted in the resolution being sent to the House Judiciary committee for consideration. This development has made impeachment much more likely than it has been before.

H. Res. 799, as opposed to H. Res. 333, enters the Judiciary Committee with bi-partisan
support and much more media attention. Kucinich also brought this resolution
up as a “privileged resolution” which allows him to bring the impeachment discussion to the floor of the House again and again.
Talk shows and blogs are buzzing about the real possibility of impeachment, and various House Reps. are making their positions public. Notably, Rep. Wexler is demanding impeachment hearings immediately. In an on-air interview, radio personality Ed Schultz
loudly criticized Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her lack of support on impeachment.

While Rep. Kucinich indicated his confidence that House Judiciary Chair John Conyers would hold impeachment hearings, his confidence is surely due in part to an expectation that those favoring impeachment will contact Conyers’ office and pressure him to begin
the process.

The need for your involvement in the impeachment process has never been more urgent for the sake of our Constitution and the lives of U.S. soldiers and innocent civilians overseas.
Please forward this information to your friends and contact Chariman
Conyers’ office: at (202) 225-5126 Congressional Switchboard (ask for Conyers’ office) (800) 828-0498.

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.”

Samuel Adams

Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff was told by a Clinton staffer what to ask from a list of questions. Muriel wanted to ask her own question about energy but was told that Clinton didn’t know what the other candidates position was on energy so lets ask about global warming. Come to find out that Geoffrey Mitchell of Hamilton, Illinois has also come forward and told a similar story about the Slick Hilly campaign wanting him to ask a certain question at an Iowa event in April.

“He asked me if I would ask Sen. Clinton about ways she was going to confront the president on the war in Iraq, specifically war funding,”

Former presidential adviser David Gergen said the front-runner’s campaign could take a hit from the incident.

“When a campaign plants a question, it’s a pretty minor infraction of the rules — like a parking ticket,” Gergen said. “The problem here is it feeds a damaging perception of Hillary Clinton that she can’t quite be trusted.” Really no shit? It’s not a perception friend it’s a fact and if it was anyone else in the world you’d call it exactly what it is “bullshit”.

I think she summed it up perfectly, “Personally I want to know that I have someone who’s honest representing me.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” - William Arthur Ward

1. Our educational system is in need of a paradigm shift.
2. We have a shortage of truly great teachers.
3. Despite government regulations, our children ARE being “left behind”.

Only now is American government beginning to realize that all those other countries that we never really paid attention to before have suddenly sprouted strong economies and their educational systems are harnessing available technologies faster than we ever have. We’re falling behind globally in many fields, and education is the most important of these.

As wonderful a step forward as public education was, it hasn’t kept up with all of the changes in the world around it. We still have the same basic emphasis in our schools – training one child to perform one job. In our present-day reality those simple jobs don’t exist. As new markets and technologies emerge, new jobs are created and people are needed to fill them. Some of the job skills that are deemed vital today were unimportant five years ago and every day more are added to the list. People must adapt to new types of challenges every day and be able to fill whatever positions are open in the companies of today.

Read this nationwide poll indicating how many Americans feel about the current state of U.S. Education. (click here)

But sadly we continue to teach in the same way we have for decades. Even with the integration of computers into our schools, most classroom learning is still accomplished via rote memorization and note-taking. Very little teaching of that type occurs in real-world work today, where an employee is given a project and told to accomplish it and are then expected to teach themselves whatever skills necessary for the project’s completion. In the workplace of today, employees are educated by actually facing a problem and developing the skills and strategies to overcome it, in much the same way that we taught ourselves how to speak and walk as infants.

Because of the failure of education to adapt to the changing needs of the world around it, we’re being forced to cope with the problems the old system has caused. Our system of education is still set up the way it was back in the Industrial Revolution; attempting to educate the average student at a rate frustrating to the exceptionally gifted and those needing more reinforcement in order to succeed. Students in low-income areas attend schools that can’t provide the same resources to them that their counterparts in higher-income areas receive. Thousands of students graduate from college every year with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans to repay and find they are competing with ever-increasing numbers of graduates for the same jobs and are consequently forced to take whatever job they can in order to pay off educational loans. This creates a type of educational inflation - because so many people are obtaining bachelor’s degrees, positions now require master’s degrees, or P.H.D.s. Whereas, in the past, obtaining your bachelor’s set you apart now it simply shows that you’ve done the bare-minimum.

Our educational system has long been criticized for its chronic inability to adapt to the world around it. It is sad that it has taken major change in other fields, such as politics or technology, to cause it to re-evaluate itself and recognize the need for change. The past two decades have proven again and again that more efficient and engaging ways of teaching exist and that they are inexpensive and easily accessible to the public.

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” - Alan Cohen

This is the time for change.

GM would have you believe there really isn’t enough power in electric motors. What do you think? Can we just say “No” to gas now? This monster has a name, “Killacycle” sets a world record at the drag races.

ON THE OTHER HAND — maybe it’s too fast. This video shows one of the owners being a complete dumb ass, as he loses control of the bike, crashes and almost dies right after telling the reporter that “he’s seen a man die drag bike racing” and how dangerous it is.

Kind of a Law of Attraction for Forrest Gump types ???

This is a reprint of the transcript of Wolf Blitzer <insert favorite adjective here> and Ron Paul interview. A couple of things I found really interesting about this interview. Rosa Parks, I thought it interesting that Paul wanted to pass the hat for her medal but NO other politician would pony up unless the tax payers paid for it. Those are your other choices Black America I hope you have the heart to call them on it.

Secondly, I find it EXTREMELY interesting that the Troops feel Ron Paul is the best candidate for the Job. Even they think it’s time to come home from this war.

Let’s go to Capitol Hill right now. The Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is joining us.

Congressman, I can only say congratulations. It’s really an unbelievable thing that you’ve achieved right now. First of all, how do you attribute it — what do you attribute to this amazing financial support within 24 hours?

REP. RON PAUL (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, it is amazing and I don’t claim a whole lot of credit for it. I think we have a very good platform that’s very appealing to the people who care about what’s happening in the country. I think we’re also tapping into the sense of frustration that people are feeling.

I think it’s much more intense than anybody realized. Probably more intense than I had expected. So it’s coming together and people have rallied around it.

But I think it’s a strong message, strong (INAUDIBLE) of what is happening here in this country. I happened to being there, and the grassroots have really put this together. So it’s a grassroots effort, and I think that makes it even stronger.

BLITZER: In our latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, among registered republicans nationwide you have gone up to five percent, but you’re still way behind the top tier.

How do you plan on using the new cash to try to challenge Giuliani, Thompson, McCain, Romney, some of the others?

PAUL: Well, the money was sent to us to be spent, and we will be spending it. We’ve started to do that. We’re buying television in the early primaries, we’re doing a lot of direct mail. We’re on the radio. And we’re hiring a few more people.

I know the other campaigns have had huge staffs, but I think they waste a lot of their money. But now we are getting more reasonable staffing positions. And we’re spending the money in many ways in an ordinary way, but we will continue with this grassroots effort that has been going on, that’s been ongoing here on the Internet.

BLITZER: Are you going to support Nancy Pelosi’s new effort to have some partial funding for the war, $50 billion stop gap to underscore her opposition, a lot of Democrats’ opposition to the war and trying to get a timeline in there? Are you going to support that?

PAUL: No, not really, because I think that’s ducking the issue. As long as you’re funding the war you’re supporting the war, and it’s been going on for all the years. I didn’t support it before the war, and I haven’t supported any money for the war.

I support the troops. The troops should come home. And amazingly, I get more money from the troops than any other candidate. So…

BLITZER: Let me interrupt you, Congressman. If you support the troops, the administration argues, how can you not give them the funding they need for the body armor, the weapons they need to protect themselves?

PAUL: Well, we have $500 billion, $600 billion in the pipeline. We have all the money we need to bring the troops home. And that’s the best way to protect the troops.

They’re not going to run out of money. The money is there. This is all fluff for expanding the war and playing on war, going into Iran, all these things. So there’s no shortage of funds to get the troops out, believe me.

BLITZER: All the other Republican candidates not only support the funding, but they are basically with the president on this surge, this strategy that he’s using now in Iraq. Let’s say Rudy Giuliani gets the Republican nomination. Could you support him as the Republican nominee?

PAUL: Well, I’ve been asked that question a lot. And I can’t support a candidate that has — will contradict everything I’ve stood for for 30 years. The supporters I have couldn’t make any sense out of that. So, you know, if they change their policy and say that they are now supporting bringing the troops home and ending the war, which on occasion,
you know, politicians do change their mind, then I would reconsider. But the odds of that happening are pretty slim.

BLITZER: So what happens then — let’s say — and obviously you want to get the republican nomination, and you don’t get it, but Giuliani or Thompson or Romney or McCain, somebody who supports the president’s strategy in Iraq gets it? What do you do then? Do you run as a third party, Libertarian, for example, which you have done in the past back in, what, 1988?

PAUL: I have no plans, no intention of doing that. We have a very biased system here in this country against democracy really working. It’s hard to get on ballots. Unless you’re a billionaire, you might as well forget about it.

You’re excluded from the debates so it’s very difficult. And I, right now, don’t have a stomach for that, so I’m concentrating on exactly what I’m doing. And as long as we have this expansion of our campaign and these funds just rolling in without us doing very much, I better stick to my guns and what I’m doing right now.

BLITZER: But I can assume from your answer, therefore, if you don’t get the nomination, you stay in the Congress, you stay in the House of Representatives, you continue doing what you’re doing in the Congress?

PAUL: That is true. And my plan B is I am still running for Congress in Texas. I’m allowed to run for both. So, yes, I would be glad if my people vote for me to stay in the Congress. I would.

BLITZER: We have done some checking of your record, and it’s amazing, Congressman. You know this. On so many pieces of legislation you are the only, only member of the House, Democrat or Republican, that has opposed some legislation, some resolutions.

For example, a bill calling on the Arab — the League of Arab States to step up efforts to stop genocide in Darfur. The vote was 425-1. You were the one.

A bill calling on Vietnam to release political prisoners, 425-1. You were the one.

Condemning the Robert Mugabe violence against Zimbabwe citizens, 421-1. You were the one.

Awarding a gold medal to Rosa Parks. We could go on.

Why — tell us — explain why you so often have been the sole voice in the U.S. House of Representatives on what everybody else supports and what to so many people would seem like a no-brainer?

PAUL: Right. No, I think maybe I’m the only strict constitutionalist because I look at that from the Constitution.

It’s not that I’m against what they’re proposing, but some of those resolutions is just interference, unnecessary. Carry that to the next step of that resolution between, you know, condemning the Turks about Armenia. Just think of the chaos that created.

Getting ourselves involved in some event a hundred years ago, it makes no sense at all. I should — we should deal with our problems here, with our defense, and not pretending that we know what is best. So it’s a principle that I defend. I don’t think I have the authority. It’s meddling where we shouldn’t and it usually leads to trouble. Of course, the Armenia vote was much more troublesome, and look at what — the chaos it’s caused between Turkey and the Kurds.

BLITZER: Congressman, I can understand your principle stance on the foreign policy-related issues, but what could be unconstitutional about giving the gold medal to Rosa Parks, the civil rights activist and leader that all of us are quite familiar with?

PAUL: Well, you know, that wasn’t easy for me because I think she’s a real hero because I believe in civil disobedience. And I believe peaceful change has come about that way.

But I was dealing with the money. Why should I tax you to give her a medal?

I went to my members, fellow members of Congress and I said, “I’ll be glad to give her a medal. Let’s each put in a hundred bucks, and I’ll put in a hundred bucks and we can pay for it.”

But to do good by taking money from the people, that is not a precise authorization in the Constitution. So the principle is that you don’t have this right to do it, but to say something good and to, you know, honor people like that would be fine. But we ought to do it with our own money, not with your money.

BLITZER: Congressman Ron Paul has become a phenomenon.Congressman, thanks very much for joining us. We’ll see you out on the campaign trail.

PAUL: Thank you very much.

This is a snipit  that I’ve seen going around but it’s worth thinking about.

“This is the most interesting thing I’ve read in a long time. The sad thing about it, you can see it coming.

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years” During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;

Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won has mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore’s territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in  government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…”

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.

If you realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom, tell a friend.

Thanks for reading

Trevor Darnborough, whose company, Darnbro, filed for a patent on securing RFID tags to clothing, hopes other schools will be interested.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
October 25, 2007 03:00 PM

Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being tracked by RFID chips in their school uniforms as part of a pilot program.If the program proves successful as a way to hasten registration, simplify data entry for the school’s behavioral reporting system, and ensure attendance, Trevor Darnborough, whose company, Darnbro, filed for a patent on securing RFID tags to clothing, hopes other schools will be interested, according to the Doncaster Free Press.

The chipped children are enrolled at Hungerhill School in Edenthorpe, England, a secondary school for ages 11 to 16.

David Clouter, a parent and founder of Leave Them Kids Alone, a children’s advocacy group, condemned the plan. “With pupils being fingerprinted and now this it seems we are treating children in a way that we have traditionally treated criminals,” he told the Doncaster Free Press.

“The system is not intrusive to the pupil in the slightest,” Hungerhill teacher Graham Wakeling told the Doncaster Free Press. He also said that all the patents of the children in the trial supported the tracking effort.

Video surveillance is already commonplace in the United Kingdom, and a growing number of schoolchildren are fingerprinted for administrative and security reasons. Since 2001, nearly 6,000 pupils have been fingerprinted in the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail reported earlier this month, with 20 new schools embracing the practice every week.

In a blog post about the report, security expert Bruce Schneier quipped, “So now it’s easy to cut class; just ask someone to carry your shirt around the building while you’re elsewhere.”