Quiklinx for the week of 6/17 (see Quicklinx Page above for previous)

Proof of the Bilderberg Conspiracy – 100+ Actual Documents, Now Public (Photos) – by Marc Stinebaugh, 911Disclosure.blogspot.com – “George Crews McGhee from Waco, Texas was born the son of a banker, he later became a Rhodes Scholar, a successful oilman, Bilderberg member, and a U.S. Ambassador, among other titles that he held. He passed away in 2005, and left his detailed personal archives to Georgetown University in Washington D.C.”

Supreme Court Tears Into Fifth Amendment, Rules Silence Can Be Used Against You If Questioned – by Scott Shackford, Reason.com

The Illuminati Depopulation Agenda – by Dean Henderson, VeteransToday.com

AT&T iPhone Users Forced to Receive Obama Alerts Which Can’t Be Turned Off – by Joe Schoffstall, CNSNews.com

Icy Revolt: Putin send clear message to G8 that Russia won’t support Syria ‘nightmare’ – by Shawn Helton, 21stCenturyWire.com

Russian Advanced Weapons for Syria: Unrevealed Secrets of Vladimir Putin’s Recent Visit to London – by Gordon Duff, VeteransToday.com

People Around the World Oppose Arming Syrian “Rebels” – by WashingtonsBlog.com

JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe – by Stefan Steinberg, WSWS.org

Climate Alarmists Caught Doctoring ‘97 Percent Consensus’ Claims – by James Taylor, HumanEvents.com

My friend Malcolm Brabant and his descent into madness after a routine (yellow fever immunization) jab – by Helena Smith, Guardian.co.uk

The FUKUS Bully-Boys – How The G8 Joint Statement Should Read – by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, InformationClearingHouse.info

A New Financial Scandal – Bigger Than LIBOR? – Last Monday, our Malcolm Massey, Neil Foster and Mark Anderson took a post-Bilderberg walk around the Grove Hotel to see what they could see. What they found was a meeting room with a Thomson Reuters display panel…- by Mike Robinson, UKColumn.org

Quiklinx for the week of 6/10 (see Quicklinx Page above for previous)

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I do not expect to see home again” - Source for the Guardian’s NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation – and what comes next – by Ewen MacAskill, Guardian.co.uk

After Win in Court “NJ Weedman” Plans Jury Nullification Awareness Tour – by JG Vibes, Intellihub.com

If GM crops are bad, show us the evidence – It’s no longer tenable to call GM ‘unnatural’ and so inherently wrong – by Steve Connor, Independent.co.uk – Unbelievable! Just look at the comments below this industry hit piece.

DHS-Funded Exercise Portrays “Free America Citizens” as Terrorist Cell – by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com – “The drill (in Boston)..centered on the scenario of domestic terrorists leaving explosive-filled backpacks at locations around the city.”

Texas Students Thrown in Jail for Days … as Punishment for Missing School? – Texas’s solution to truancy appears to be making kids miss even more school as they sit in jail – by Joaquin Sapien, Alternet.org

Despite secrecy, interest builds around mysterious First Temple find outside Bethlehem – A 2,800-year-old pillar discovered by a tour guide under a Palestinian orchard points to major construction dating from Biblical times. So why isn’t it being excavated? – by Matti Friedman, TimesOfIsrael.com

Alabama Police Set Up Roadblocks To Take Blood, Saliva Samples of Drivers – by Elizabeth Leafloor, RedIceCreations.com – It’s OK though, It’s Voluntary!

As “Rebels” Near Defeat – US Plays WMD Card – US to Give Military Support to Syrian Rebels as ‘Red Line’ Crossed (w/Video) – from RT.com via InformationClearingHouse.info

Man Behind Syrian ‘Chemical Weapons’ Claim Is Fiction Writer Who Ran Benghazi Cover-Up – White House makes miraculous discovery to distract from domestic scandals – by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com

US ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria, blame it on Assad govt’: Report – from ANI via News.Yahoo.com

Replay: Turkish Police find Chemical Weapons in the Possession of Al Nusra Terrorists heading for Syria – by Gearóid Ó Colmáin, GlobalResearch.ca

4,000 Iranian IRGC Troops Heading To Syria, More To Follow – by Mort Amsel, BeforeItsNews.com

Iran to Send 4,000 Troops to Aid President Assad Forces in Syria – World Exclusive: US urges UK and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing conflict – by Robert Fisk, InformationClearingHouse.info – Deep background by veteran reporter Fisk

Israel and U.S. Coordinating How to Target Assad’s Arsenal – by Karl Vick, InformationClearingHouse.info

Russia says illegal to impose Syria no-fly zone from Jordan – from Reuters via News.Yahoo.com – ” ‘You don’t have to be a great expert to understand that this will violate international law,’ (said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov)”

Russia questions Syrian chemical weapons evidence – from AP via News.Yahoo.com – “Russia’s foreign minister (Sergei Lavrov) said Saturday that the evidence put forth by the United States of chemical weapons use in Syria apparently doesn’t meet stringent criteria for reliability.” – ” ‘The regime doesn’t have its back to the wall. What would be the sense of the regime using chemical weapons, moreover at such a small quantity?’  (Lavrov) said.”

‘Camera cowboys’ repossessing cars – by Angelique Serrao, IOL.co.za – “…the South African Board of Sheriffs said it was illegal for anyone but a sheriff of the court to hand people court orders and repossess their belongings.”

The Israeli Lab and the Palestinian Guinea Pigs – by Gilad Atzmon, Gilad.co.uk – New Israeli documentary: ” ‘The Lab’ makes it evidently clear that the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank and Gaza have become test subjects for Israeli tactics, weaponry and fighting philosophy (‘Fighting Torah’, Torat Lechima – as the Israelis call it). The destruction of the Palestinians has now been transformed into a very profitable industry. We are dealing here with nothing short of highly calculated murder.”

Trans Pacific Partnership & RIMPAC: Is The Pivot To Asia About Corporate Control? – by Shawn Helton, 21stCenturyWire.com

Video Game Casts Patriot Groups as Enemy Terrorists – Magazine article literally asks, “Do you have what it takes to pull the trigger on a fellow citizen?” – by Adan Salazar, Infowars.com

Former French Foreign Minister: The War against Syria was Planned Two years before “The Arab Spring” – by Gearóid Ó Colmáin, InformationClearingHouse.info

Egyptian Journalist: Mursi Expected to Close Israeli Embassy Instead of Cutting Ties with Syria – TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Egyptian journalist expressed regret over President Mohammad Mursi’s decision to close the Syrian embassy in Cairo, and said Mursi was expected to shut down the Israeli mission as the enemy of the Muslim world, instead. – from English.Farsnews.com

Quiklinx for the week of 6/3 (see Quicklinx Page above for previous)

Hemp Oil’s Healing Benefits Now Legally Attainable Anywhere After Years of Suppression – by Paul Fassa, NaturalSociety.com

Inventor of Rotavirus Vaccine Wants To End Parental Exemptions For School Vaccinations – by Dave Mihalovic, PreventDisease.com – Paul A. Offit, MD: “…the commonwealth…should repeal its religious exemptions for medical neglect. Otherwise, children will continue to suffer and die needlessly.”

Obama Appoints Another Interventionist to His National Security Team – by Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com – “At the NSC, (Samantha) Power reportedly played a key role, with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in pushing the administration towards intervention in Libya in March 2011.”

Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches – from Washington.CBSLocal.com – Feel Safe Yet?

Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops – by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD, GreenMedInfo.com

Nestle’s Wet Dream: They Mark Up Water 53 MILLION Percent – by Daisy Luther, TheOrganicPrepper.ca

Syria Army continues cleaning operation in Qusayr – from PressTV.ir – “More than 200 pickup trucks carrying militants left the town and moved to a nearby village in the north of Qusayr.”

Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge – by Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras, WashingtonPost.com – Hey, people, this is from the freekin’ Washington Post. It’s OFFICIAL!

Erdogan defies Turkish protesters – • Turkish PM insists Taksim Square will be redeveloped • Erdogan accuses protesters of manipulating concerns • Turkish stock markets plummet • Protesters vow to continue occupation of Gezi Park – by Matthew Weaver, Guardian.co.uk

Police Tase Man For Trying to Rescue His Baby From Fire – Baby Does Not Make It – by Cassius Methyl, Intellihub.com

DID YOU KNOW?: Two Secretive Israeli Companies Reportedly Bugged The US Telecommunications Grid For The NSA – by Michael Kelley, BusinessInsider.com

Smart meter waves reported to have devastating impact on all life – by Jonathan Landsman, NaturalNews.com – “Dr. George Carlo, public health scientist warns, ‘When you put the science together, we come to the irrefutable conclusion that there’s a major health crisis coming, probably already underway.’  “

The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: “Owning the Weather” for Military Use – By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca

Syrian Army recaptures key Golan Heights crossing – …shortly after the border crossing in Israeli-occupied area fell into the hands of foreign-backed militants – from PressTV.ir

UK Tories demand Commons vote to block arms supply to Syria militants – More than 80 Conservative backbenchers have written to British Prime Minster David Cameron, demanding a Commons vote – from PressTV.ir – “…there should be a full debate in the Parliament before any decisions are made on the issue.”

Pro-Vaccine Trolls: Use Emotional Warfare on Parents…- The Value of Your Child’s Life According to Those Promoting Vaccines – by Markus Heinze, ActivistPost.com – Excellent concise article from a parent, on the vaccination “debate.”

Nikola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers! – by Rand Clifford, ActivistPost.com – Part one of a valuable overview of Tesla’s life and work

Obama defends massive surveillance program as former Justice Department prosecutor files lawsuit – by Madison Ruppert, ActivistPost.com

Director of National Intelligence criticizes ‘reckless disclosures’ of PRISM as another secret tool is exposed – by Madison Ruppert, ActivistPost.com

Smoking Gun: The direct link between Agenda 21 and local planners – by Tom DeWeese, ActivistPost.com

Pakistan Really Doesn’t Want to Be a U.S. Drone Target Anymore – by Connor Simpson, TheAtlanticWire.com

Texas bans drones used for surveillance – by J. D. Heyes, NaturalNews.com – Texas State Sen. Craig Estes: ‘Our legislative intent was to have law enforcement be able to use drones’ – “House Bill 912 carries more than 40 exemptions, including one that permits members of the media to use drones to photograph and record breaking news activity.”

Spying on Americans before 9/11: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 – By Washington’s Blog, GlobalResearch.ca

“Occupy Your Home”: Confronting “Electro Pollution” and Smart Meter Toxification – Health Impacts of Radio Frequency (RF) Microwave Emissions – by James F. Tracy, GlobalResearch.ca

Britain, France prodding Obama into attacking Syria – by Webster Tarpley, PressTV.ir – In this long, interesting analysis, Tarpley presents unique and controversial arguments about international political factions represented by the Bilderbergers putting pressure on the U.S. and Obama to play ball with their goals for war and for austerities against the American people. Critical thinking recommended.

We won’t attend Geneva talks unless new arms are sent: Free Syrian Army – from PressTV.ir

Syria – Israel Is Losing the Battle – by Gilad Atzmon, Gilad.co.uk

Video (3 min): Turkish Police Rounding Up People Posting Messages On Twitter In Support Of The Protesters

Quiklinx for the week of 5/27 (see Quicklinx Page above for previous)

Illinois illegally seizes Bees Resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup; Kills remaining Queens – From Global Research.ca – “Behind the obvious violations of his Constitutional rights is Monsanto. Ingram was researching Roundup’s effects on bees, which he’s raised for 58 years. ‘They ruined 15 years of my research,’ he told Prairie Advocate, by stealing most of his stock.”

Drug tests for unemployment benefits approved in Texas – by Michael Brick/AP, KHOU.com

New light shed on US government’s extraordinary rendition programme – Online project uncovers details of way in which CIA carried out kidnaps and secret detentions following September 11 attacks – by Ian Cobain and James Ball, Guardian.co.uk

We’ve moved on from the Iraq war – but Iraqis don’t have that choice – Like characters from The Great Gatsby, Britain and the US have arrogantly turned their backs and left a country in ruins – by John Pilger, Guardian.co.uk – “Each round fired by an A-10 Warthog attack aircraft carried over 4,500 grams of solid uranium. Well over 300 tons of DU was used. It was a form of nuclear warfare.”

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah clinically dead: Report says – from PressTV.ir

John Kerry defends US use of assassination drones – from PressTV.ir – “He also said the drone program was one of the most ‘accountable’ of programs.”

Remove children from criminal families at birth to save them from crime, says top UK judge • Alan Goldsack QC said drastic action needed as crime runs in families • Recorder of Sheffield said taking children away could save thousands • Judge says he sees grandchildren of criminals he prosecuted in court – by Gerri Peev, Dailymail.co.uk

Scotland: Every Child to Have “State Guardian” From Birth – Dystopian plan would see government social worker assigned to spy on every family – by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com

‘Common Core’ Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum – by Ron Paul, Infowars.com

Iran begins ‘massive’ deployment of long-range missile launchers – from RT.com

Warning lands Batavia, Illinois teacher in hot water – John Dryden informed his students of their 5th Amendment rights before giving survey – by Susan Sarkauskas, DailyHerald.com

The Japanese Financial System Is Beginning To Spin Wildly Out Of Control – by Michael Snyder, ActivistPost.com – “It really is very simple. If interest rates rise substantially, Japan will be done.” The same holds true for the U.S…

Legislation to ban Internet cafes moves to Senate floor – by Brandon Blackwell, Cleveland.com

EU ends arms embargo on Syria rebels – Foreign secretary William Hague: “This is the outcome that the United Kingdom wanted” – European Union foreign ministers have said they will not renew an arms embargo on the Syrian opposition, due to expire on Saturday – from BBC.co.uk

Obama at Annapolis – by Stephen Lendman, ActivistPost.com – “Obama concluded saying: ‘I’m absolutely confident that you will uphold the highest of standards, and that your courage and honor and your commitment will see us through, and that you will always prove yourselves worthy of the trust our nation is placing in you today.’ ” If only we could have the same confidence in him…

Courts may be privatized to save Ministry of Justice £1bn – by Ben Bryant, Telegraph.co.uk

“Marijuana” “Laws” Progress Map:

Tony Blair to be in charge of £3billion plan to revitalise Palestine’s economy, U.S. secretary of state John Kerry reveals • Kerry says plan could cut unemployment by almost two-thirds • But Kerry said it all depends on peace between Israel and Palestinians • Kerry has been working with Blair and global business leaders – by Leon Watson, Dailymail.co.uk

Video (5 min 33 sec) – How the Trans-Pacific Partnership can rewrite US domestic laws – RT interview with Lori Wallach of Public Citizen’s (Citizen.org) Global Trade Watch on the TPP

Confirmed: US government records ALL private telephone calls – by J. D. Heyes, NaturalNews.com

We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say – by Brian Merchant, Motherboard.vice.com – “The…motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple.”

British Home Secretary hints at re-drafting ‘Snooper’s Charter’ – (Theresa May) has stepped up attempts to re-draft the controversial Communications Data Bill, known as the ‘Snooper’s Charter’, in the wake of the recent murder of a soldier in a London street – from PressTV.ir

Jordan, Israel working as one over Syria: Report – Jordan has allowed the Israeli regime to fly its drones over the Jordanian airspace in order to monitor the situation in Syria, a report says – from PressTV.ir

The Story of Jude Mohammad: Why Was a U.S. Citizen Secretly Killed by U.S. Drone in Pakistan? – from DemocracyNow.org – Until this week, the FBI had Mohammad listed on its Most Wanted website, even though he was secretly killed by the United States in November 2011. Mohammad was born in Florida and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.”

Japanese Share Sell-off a Sign of Growing Financial Instability – by Nick Beams, GlobalResearch.ca

Hungary torches 500 hectares of GM corn to eradicate GMOs from food supply – by Mike Adams, NaturalNews.com

The Bilderberg, Google and the G8: New Global Tax Regime Already in the Works – by Patrick Henningsen, GlobalResearch.ca

Canada: Harper’s Foreign Policy – Helping the Rich Get Richer Around the World – by Yves Engler, GlobalResearch.ca

Syrian National Coalition on brink of collapse – by Phil Sands, Uruknet.info

US prepares plans of Syria no-fly zones: Report – from PressTV.ir – ” ‘The White House is still in contemplation mode but the planning is moving forward and it’s more advanced than it’s ever been,’ said one official.”

Militants give Hezbollah 24-hour deadline to stop assisting Syria army – from PressTV.ir – “Top commander of foreign-backed militants in Syria, Brigadier General Salim Idris, gave the warning in a telephone interview with the Saudi al-Arabiya news channel on Tuesday.”

After Student is Suspended and Arrested for Wearing NRA “Protect Your Rights” Shirt,100 STUDENTS WEAR SHIRT TO SCHOOL! – by John Hawkins, RightWingNews.com

Banksters attack Syria to enslave America – by Kevin Barrett, PressTV.ir

Jim Rogers: ‘Nobody gets out of this situation until there’s a crisis’ – Jim Rogers interviewed by Félix Moreno – GoldMoney.com

The ObamaCare Meltdown Begins – by Arnold Ahlert, CanadaFreePress.com – “…an IRS rule ‘purports to extend these tax credits and subsidies to the purchase of health insurance in federal exchanges created in states without exchanges of their own,’ they wrote. ‘This rule lacks statutory authority. The text, structure, and history of the Act show that tax credits and subsidies are not available in federally run exchanges. The IRS rule is contrary to congressional intent and cannot be justified on other legal grounds. Because the granting of tax credits can trigger the imposition of fines on millions of individuals and employers, the IRS rule is likely to be challenged in court.’ “

‘Iran nuclear, Syria chemical, Hezbollah rockets: Axis has crossed all red lines’ – from IsraelHayom.com – “(Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz)said Israel was not ruling out any scenario in the Syrian civil war, including a victory by the Assad regime. He warned that the S-300 anti-aircraft system that Russia plans to sell to Syria could potentially be used to shoot down civilian aircraft over Tel Aviv.” – ” ‘I can say that the shipments are not on their way yet,’ (Defense Minister Moshe) Yaalon told reporters. ‘I hope they will not leave, and if, God forbid, they reach Syria, we will know what to do,’ he said, without disclosing how he came by the information.”

Israel Decimates Village, Leaving Many Homeless Including 24 Children – from English.PNN.ps – “this week, residents say, 600 Israeli officers came and ‘destroyed everything’ ” – “The village is home to around fifty people, half of them children. All of the residents are now homeless, with no accommodation made by the Israeli occupation who destroyed their homes.”

Seven undeniable reasons to homeschool your children – by PF Louis, NaturalNews.com

Volunteered Self Extermination – Our new “Normal.” – from BeyondProphecy.blogspot.ca – “Many are now brainwashed into thinking the eugenics and depopulation (of themselves) is a grand idea and entirely logical! This represents the grandest form of volunteered extinction.”

Is This the Man Who “Radicalized” Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? – ” ‘I hope I didn’t contribute to it. That kid and his brother identified with the Chechen struggle.’ –Brian Glyn Williams, South Coast Today, April 19th 2013” – by Joe Giambrone, ActivistPost.com – Deep background on Zbigniew Brzezinski’s “Grand Chessboard” and official U.S. use of “terrorism” to divide and rule Asia. Highly recommended

Bilderberg, Google and the G8: New Global Tax Regime Already in the Works – by Patrick-Henningsen, 21stCenturyWire.com

John Cleese: ‘Syria and Alert to threats in Europe’ – by THE John Cleese, 21stCenturyWire.com | “A masterpiece in prose revisited…”

Secret court jails father for sending son 21st birthday greeting on Facebook after he was gagged from naming him – by Sue Reid, Dailymail.co.uk

Protests Show Turks Can’t Tolerate Erdogan Anymore – The Turkish leader’s opponents lacked a unifying way to denounce his “Ottomania” and heavy-handed leadership. Until now. – by Aaron Stein, TheAtlantic.com

Irish City Hosting The G8 Summit Gets Fake Storefronts To Create Appearance Of Prosperity – by Jacob Sloan, Disinfo.com

Nestle Folds to Consumer Pressure over GMOs in South Africa – Nestle has gone on record in South Africa as saying that “it took consumer preferences into consideration and therefore all its infant cereals in South Africa used non-GM maize”, the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) announced Friday – from SustainablePulse.com

The Chemical Weapon Accusations against Syria are Overshadowing the Insurgent Retreat – by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, GlobalResearch.ca

Mass graves of Palestinians killed in 1948 Nakba discovered in Jaffa  – from English.Al-Akhbar.com

Perpetual War – and Obama’s Perpetual Con Game – by Glen Ford, BlackAgendaReport.com – Another fine analysis by Ford on America’s RealPolitik

Internet companies reject UK’s call for spying – The world’s five biggest internet companies have refused to voluntarily cooperate with the British government’s controversial Communications Data Bill, known as the “Snooper’s Charter” – from PressTV.ir – “Earlier in April, a survey by civil liberties and privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch British also found that British police forces are making as many as 250,000 requests to snoop on people’s email and phone call details every year.”

“Laws of Physics for a Holographic Universe” –New Theories of Space-Time – from DailyGalaxy.com – “Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe. One of the main recent advances in theoretical physics is the holographic principle. According to this idea, our Universe may be thought of as a hologram and we would like to understand how to formulate the laws of physics for such a holographic Universe.”

California Police Paying Cellphone Companies to Read Texts Without Warrants, Busting Teenage Cannabis Dealers – In Roseville, California, police are sifting through teenagers texts without warrants, busting cannabis dealers, and giving citations to kids for the smallest things to get their phone numbers on record – by Cassius Methyl, Intellihub.com

Internet Currency Exchange Charged With “Laundering” $6 Billion Under “Patriot Act” – Multiple people have been arrested and are facing serious jail time. What does this mean for bitcoin and other online currencies? – by JG Vibes, Intellihub.com

Israel is Fighting a Regional War in Syria – by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, GlobalResearch.ca

Deflation Smackdown: Bernanke’s Madcap Money Printing Fails to Boost Inflation – by Mike Whitney, GlobalResearch.ca

Gun Violence and the Spell Cast by Santa Cruz “Government”

On Tuesday, Feb. 26, the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors met to deliberate on the second phase of John Leopold’s initiative to, as he claims, protect the people of his County from the dangers presented by gun stores. While there was a storm of interest in the Jan. 15th initial unanimous passage of Leopold’s proposed Moratorium on gun store permits, on Tuesday by the time the Supervisors had conducted a lengthy County Workers’ Awards ceremony and a presentation on solid waste management, along with a lunch break, there were only a handful of people left to observe the vetting of the proposed new ordinance.

The ordinance had been brought to the Board by County Counsel Dana McRae on a tight timeline to meet with the deadline on the soon-to-expire 45-day Moratorium. Along with the Supervisors’ approval for moving forward on the new ordinance, they also approved an extension on the Moratorium. This will essentially end the hopes of the applicants who’d applied for a permit to open their gun store in Live Oak.

The ordinance text from McRae includes many provisions culled from other counties’ gun-safety ordinances, most of which are common-sense and general standard practice for gun stores. However, it also includes mandatory “set-backs” requiring that stores be sited varying distances from Schools, Day-care Centers and Parks. A map on the wall of the Chambers showed the impact that these set-backs would have on available locations for new gun businesses in Live Oak. These showed that approximately half of the area would be off-limits under the proposed ordinance.

When comments were allowed from the very few remaining onlookers, I pointed out that the set-back provisions had no reasonable effect on public safety, and merely interfered with their constituents’ freedom to govern their own lives. However, as if to underscore the Supervisors’ power to control peoples’ “land-use,” when instructing Counsel on the language to bring back to the Supervisors the next week for a first-reading of the new ordinance, John Leopold asked that an additional set-back of 300 feet from any areas zoned as residential be added to the ordinance. I suspect that this will not leave much of Live Oak available for siting gun stores.

What (or who) is benefitted by these provisions of the proposed ordinance related specifically to places associated with children? The primary effect I see is that guns are again associated in the public mind with a need to “protect the children” from “gun violence.” The Supervisors deny that this initiative by them has anything to do with the anti-gun hysteria sweeping America. The upshot is a continuing amplification of a push from a nationally Federalized governmental administrative structure (including the corporate media) to manage the American people using duplicity, public relations and fear.

It’s highly synchronous that this meeting took place on the same day that Santa Cruz had both an anti-gun demonstration at the Town Clock (at which Supervisor Leopold spoke) and the brutal murders of two police officers by gun-fire. The dramatic shootings, unlike the many recent incidents in which women, men and even young people have defended their lives and families with guns, became national news, adding to a general perceived urgency to “do something NOW to end gun-violence.” While such feelings are understandable, there doesn’t seem to be much, if any, informed discussion of the situation around our Constitutional possession of arms, particularly in the context of a Federal government which uses its military might to murder children around the world for political expedience. The policies recently announced by Sec. of State John Kerry, among others, to directly provide weapons to the “rebels” in Syria who are murdering Syrian civilians wholesale, are one example of the ongoing hypocrisy which is not mentioned. Most people who seem unconcerned about the possibility of malfeasance by a government that purports itself to be responsible for protecting us, are not aware of the concerted effects of encroaching surveillance, militarization of our police under Federal command, and “laws” like the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, the NDAA and Barack Obama’s 1,000 over-reaching Executive Orders which seem to outline the structures of something that resembles a dictatorship.

It’s perhaps also synchronous that the Feb. 26 Supervisors meeting also included the unanimous approval by them of the Santa Cruz County Climate Action Plan, a 158 page document that will cause unknown impacts on Santa Cruzans’ way of life for years to come. The origins of this plan are shrouded in obscurity, while County planners claim that it is in response to California mandates designed to take action on “climate change.” They say the science is not subject to debate. As the Supes voted to make this unwieldy document County policy, Board Chairman Neal Coonerty said something to the effect that “Even if the (climate) premises of this are wrong, it’s better to err on the side of caution” – even if the well-being of the people they purport to represent is violently compromised.

In the cases of the upcoming gun store ordinance and of the Climate Action Plan, we have been given almost no information about what is being done in our names. If you choose to take a half a day out of your busy life to attend a semi-weekly Tuesday morning meeting, you may be given three minutes to respond to the business of “your” county government. Almost no one was there to do that this week when these important measures were rubber-stamped.

We’ll Just Have to Agree to Disagree

I recently received the email directly below from an acquaintance who sends out articles and newsletters to a list I’m on. During the (I think ridiculous and pathetic) election, he was sending out email extolling Obama and excoriating Romney. After one particularly trying exercise which tried to create the impression of a big contrast between the candidates, I wrote him a comment on the basic “responsible” homogeneity of them, focusing on how Obama is institutionalizing and expanding Drone Murder, whereas Romney was saying that he would simply do more of it.

In response, my acquaintance wrote back, not only avoiding any comment on what I’d written at all, but closing with the comment “We’ll just have to agree to disagree.”  The exchange below occurred about a month later:

<Name Redacted> wrote:

Title: Surprised at lack of response

Dear Friends and Readers, I am surprised that I didn’t get more of a response on the article I wrote in <my last newsletter> on the biggest threat to the democratic process in the US. It was about the GOP House intentionally filibustering congress with pre-arranged pledges to take a hard line and ignore the debate and compromise process. Such seemed mean-spirited, reckless, unconstitutional, and maybe even illegal. And then for Romney to blame the president as not being able to work with the GOP…ahh!  Were Romney’s Democrats so dead set against him in Massachusetts? I don’ think so. Even the  jury-selection process cannot get away with such openly stated prejudiced mind sets.

All this seems pretty obvious to me, maybe too obvious for others to respond and that I’m just beating a dead horse, but the silence worries me. Maybe  people and friends I love and respect are just too tired, depressed, or jaded to respond. Tell me it isn’t so, tell me you are fired up, tell me you are passionate, tell me you still believe, and that you still have hope.  Let us stoke each other’s flames in the last hours of the most important election in our lifetimes, and maybe the renewed chemistry will carry us as it did our SF Giants to a much more important victory, bringing about a change of heart for the survival of the planet.

Is this too much to ask or am I off base?

Peace, passion, and love,

<Name Redacted>

And my response:

Hi <Name Redacted>, Thanks for your continuing outreach with information and your newsletters.

Of course, Norquist’s pledge is ridiculous and potentially very harmful grandstanding. It’s force is almost exclusively in the realm of public relations, having, as you point out, no force of law. It continues to demonstrate the shambles of Congress’s lack of management of our country and, in particular, its economic underpinnings.

But that said, our Constitution has demonstrably become, as W is reliably quoted as saying “A God damn piece of paper.” We could discuss such things as the hidden creation of a separate corporate state with its own “Constitution OF the United States of America” in Congress’s Act of 1871 which created a “government for the District of Columbia.” That’s probably a little bit complicated for most to delve into.

However, how about the institutionalization of the “income” tax? The 16th Amendment supposedly gave Congress the right to tax “incomes” regardless of the sources from which derived, without apportionment. However, this amendment does not repeal the language in the TWO places in the Constitution where direct taxes are prohibited.

Though the government (and we could talk all day about exactly what that is) now represents that the framers of the Constitution were talking about something extremely limited in the way of direct taxes, the document specifically names “Capitation” as one form of them not to be permitted. Nowadays, spokespeople for the U.S. gov’t. maintain steadfastly that by Capitation the framers were referring to some arcane form of tax they call either a “head tax” or a “poll tax,” which they labor strenuously to define in impenetrable ways.

However, in 1787 when the (unlawful) Constitutional Convention was convened, one of the most widely read books in America, which at the time was vastly more literate than it is today (for which we can partially thank the wide-spread apathy that you cite in your email) was,  for the previous two decades, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, in which he very specifically describes capitation as exemplified by a French tax system that is basically identical to the “income” tax as practiced in the U.S. today.

The development of the income tax has been well documented by careful research to have included ever-more deceptive language in the U.S. “tax code” (Title 26 U.S.C). This language is, to critical thinkers, obviously designed to contribute to the impression that average Americans within the 50 States who exchange their labor (described unequivocally by key figures in the founding of the U.S. as the fundamental property of the average members of society) for compensation have a liability to pay a portion of that revenue to the Federal gov’t.

Careful analysis of Title 26 has revealed that nowhere in it is any such liability laid out. This is as it must be, because the income tax, as practiced today, directly violates the clear language of the Constitution. This leads to the reasonable conclusion that the laws have been drafted to conform to the Constitution while creating the false impression of liability. The IRS, challenged very directly for almost two decades to do so, has so far refused to reveal any statutory language authorizing their actions to extort revenue from average Americans.

In fact, the Supreme Court, when it still had some vestiges of integrity, ruled on at least three occasions that the 16th Amendment did not give Congress any new powers of taxation, and merely moved certain Constitutional taxes from the category of duties to that of imposts. “Income” is now a Constitutionally defined word describing revenue from certain Federally privileged activities.

Yet, with the creation of the unlawful processes of withholding of “income” in the workplace at the end of WWII, the arcane Income Tax became an institution enabling what has become a rogue Federal administration to literally steal from the entire population it claims to hold authority over. Up to the “financial crisis” of 2008, this was the greatest fraud in world history, and has enabled our government to become the Empire that it is today.

Finally, in what has become a much longer email than I had any intention of writing, I will again commend your attention to the Fed’s now-institutionalized drone assassination program. And, with their so-called campaign of “signature strikes” (how Orwellian can we get?) this has become out and out murder base on highly suspect circumstantial evidence from remote observation. How does this line up with the core guarantee of western justice since the Magna Carta, as made binding in the U.S. by the fifth Amendment: “No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

I think the argument that this unprecedented violation of due process is excused because we’re at war is entirely indefensible. The “war” we’re currently involved in, the untenable “war on terror,” has been variously stated by U.S. “officials” as extending ten to thirty years into the future, against shadowy enemies that we are creating daily as we go due to the grisly inhumanity of our actions.

The “government” has now made clear that it hopes to be flying 30,000 drones over the U.S. by 2014 (it’s now admitted that there are more than 60 active drone bases on U.S. soil already). It’s impossible for me to imagine that our escalating movement toward this nightmarish and technocratic form of now-institutionalized violence can have any reasonable or workable ending other than the ultimate destruction of our society. Are we truly a “nation of laws” at all?

I’m more than willing to have a discussion with you on these issues, and anything else you care to write about. But, it seems to me that any discussion ends when anyone steps back to say something like “we’ll just have to agree to disagree.”

Kind regards,
Bruce

Postscript: <Name Redacted> did not respond

Come and See WHY

The Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails Conference (CBC2012.com) took place August 17-19 at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Hollywood, and streamed live around the world. It featured fascinating, information-packed presentations by most of the key American researchers into the Geoengineering program that’s hidden-in-plain-sight over our heads much of the time. The center piece of this display of evidence and analysis was the World Premiere of Michael Murphy’s hard-hitting and eagerly awaited Chemtrails sequel film, WHY In The World Are They Spraying?

The movie screened after dinner on Saturday, following a day of great live and recorded lectures and star-quality turns by Peace and Freedom Party Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr and former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. However, the excitement and anticipation peaked for the film’s debut, as Murphy’s first Chemtrails documentary, What In The World Are They Spraying?, was probably one of the main factors driving the creation of the Conference. According to Michael Murphy, What In The World has now been seen by well over 10 million people. It’s single-handedly responsible for raising many peoples’ awareness of Aerosol Geoengineering from the netherworlds of “conspiracy theory” into solid conspiracy fact.

Where What In The World was a somewhat rambling effort, with much speculation among the factual content and a loose narrative that outlined its making, WHY is a taut set of interviews, supported by superb visuals. It documents the aerial assault against nature and humanity represented by Geoengineering being done with, literally, megatons of nano-particulate toxic metals. One of the main themes of the movie is uncovering the weather-modification aspects of these covert programs that have dominated our skies since at least the late 90’s. The U.S. Military’s own papers state that for them weather is a “force multiplier.” In WHY we’re shown how relatively modest inputs (considered on a global scale), particularly over the U.S. Northwest, are leading to weather disasters across the Midwest that are creating financial chaos and threatening our food supply. Masterfully edited interview segments unveil the deep background complexities that explain why elite interests might invest in such audacious and secret agendas.

In his introduction to WHY at the Conference, Murphy presented his “Buy One and Share One” ethic for distributing it massively, urging us to “burn as many copies as possible” and get them into the hands of anyone who will watch. You can buy the DVD online from the production team at WhyInTheWorldAreTheySpraying.com.

Or, come to see WHY In The World Are They Spraying? and pick up a copy of the DVD, at the Freedom Forum meeting Sept. 19th, 7 pm at the Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz. On the cutting edge as usual, Freedom Forum was planning to show the film for this meeting even before it was released. As always, attendance is free of charge, come at 6:30 for the social hour.

If you find yourself still undecided on the truth about chemtrails and the elite planning underlying the global program, why not take a look at the clearly presented, highly documented information about this ongoing impact on our lives? If the information presented at CBC2012 is accurate, the effects of this ongoing assault are mounting rapidly, and planetary healing MUST begin as soon as we can make it possible.

(to be published in Connection Magazine, Santa Cruz, California, Sept. 2012. Note: WHY In The World Are They Spraying? is also available on YouTube.)

Off to “Conscious Beyond Chemtrails Conference”

Cynthia and I leave tomorrow morning, very early, for the Conscious Beyond Chemtrails Conference at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. The conference runs from 1 pm Friday to Sunday evening.

Along with watching the many lectures from veteran Chemtrails researchers like Clifford Carnicom, Sofia Smallstorm, and Dane Wigington, Alternative media luminary Kerry Cassidy, outspoken celebrities Rosanne Barr and Cynthia McKinney, the conference will show the World Premiere of Michael Murphy’s chemtrails sequel film, Why In The World Are They Spraying. The film is slated to be available on YouTube after the screening.

We’re going with audio and video recording equipment to document the event to the extent possible, and hope to be able to do pocket interviews with some of the presenters.

After wrapping up around 5 pm Sunday, we’ll hit the road again for the trip home. We look forward to an exciting (and challenging) three days!

Do check out the possibility of watching the streaming video online (only $40 for the 3 days, with a 10% discount with the discount code “Connection”). The link for the event is
http://www.consciousnessbeyondchemtrails.com

The Thrive Controversy: What On Earth Will It Take to Have a Conversation?

In the wake of the official Santa Cruz premiere of Foster and Kimberly Gamble’s movie, Thrive, in the middle of March, and the venomous (not too strong a word, I think) review by Eric Johnson in the Santa Cruz Weekly (online at SantaCruz.com) seemingly prompted by it, a controversy about Thrive is exploding across a small sector of the Internet.

Local Santa Cruz celeb John Robbins, who is featured in Johnson’s second attack on Thrive published in Santa Cruz Weekly, “Author John Robbins, Other Progressives Denounce Thrive,” has now written an 11-page  PDF diatribe – “Humanity and Sanity – Standing for a Thriving World  (and challenging the Movie Thrive),” in which he details why he finds his former friend’s encyclopedic film “dangerously misguided” as it’s described in a statement (drafted by John?) signed onto by nine of the interviewees included in Thrive.

To dip a toe into this fascinating and potentially quite significant battle of ideas and values, I recommend a perusal of the comments to Johnson’s second “Denounce” article on the Weekly’s website. It’s difficult to avoid the glee with which some of the commenters taking exception to Thrive seem to take this dissociation by some interviewees. The people doing this dissociating are generally identified as “Progressives.” This is a nebulous political label, but whatever it means, they are apparently for “progress,” so I guess those they oppose are not.

One link in the comments on the “Denounce” article is to a 56-page PDF created by the “Think Tank” of the Praxis Peace Institute entitled “Deconstructing Libertarianism – A Critique Prompted by the film Thrive.” Edited by Georgia Kelly, founder of the Institute, it asserts that “The Thrive message must be forcefully and publicly repudiated,” as it could otherwise, as Kelly claims, dissipate our “revolutionary energies” from the serious “political struggle,” as the New Age movement did in blunting the “Awakening of the 1960’s,” as if that was what really did the blunting.  How we’re going to struggle against the current system without understanding its real nature is not made clear.

Robbins, Kelly, Johnson and other liberal/progressives have many complaints about content in Thrive that varies from their opinions about what they think is right. However, they pointedly do not dispute the accuracy of the information presented in Thrive. They attack the film for having high production values, for being “libertarian,” for being idealistic and naive. But mostly, they seem to reject it for its world view. Thrive presents a big picture of the world situation. I think that it is this wide-open window on “reality” that is at the root of the arguably orchestrated attacks against it. The Progressive “Leaders,” as characterized by Robbins, who have flourishing careers within the context of what so many of us experience as a deeply pathological world order, seem to want their followers to not pay attention to Thrive.

Are we really going to do what these denouncers see as the serious work of revolution by remaining a responsible loyal opposition, wearing blinders? Why aren’t they willing to talk openly about ideas in Thrive that many people (like dozens who stood up and enthusiastically thanked Foster and Kimberly after the Del Mar showing) are obviously excited about finally seeing acknowledged in public? How are we going to generate the political will, from the grassroots up, to change the course of what we’re creating together if we can’t have a conversation, in good-faith and with compassion, with deep listening, and find a workable common ground that might lead to real solutions?

Note: The Gambles have written a response to some of this criticism at:
http://www.thrivemovement.com/foster-and-kimberlys-response-to-john-robbins-critique-of-thrive

There is a new Thrive Meetup in Santa Cruz: 
http://www.meetup.com/Thrive-Santa-Cruz/

2/10/12 – Comment on Foster Gamble’s Thrive Movement Blog

Reply to Foster Gamble’s video blog on his experience at the recent Occupy Solidarity Social Forum. His theme is “Liberty, Democracy and Occupy,” and he links to a document titled “Unanimous Declaration of Independence,” available HERE. I put the link below to my post on this blog of Core Values and Mission Statements for Occupy Santa Cruz from last October:

http://berealtruth.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/proposed-core-values-and-mission-statements-for-occupy-santa-cruz/

I think the word “Liberty” is also problematic. It’s not equal to “Freedom.” Freedom is at the core of our unalienable rights, the radical term arising from political philosophers of the early 1700′s, that truly made the rest of the world respond to the American Revolution as something new.

Unalienable rights don’t appear in the Unanimous Declaration of Independence, nor does Jefferson’s (I suspect) masterful “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” So, governments theoretically are a creation of human society, whose legitimate purpose is to secure rights, not “govern.”

Liberty is something that’s granted (like rights supposedly guaranteed by the Bill of Rights), begging the question “by whom.” It presupposes a hierarchy, which would seem to be anathema to the concept of the kind of radical equality hinted at in the “Unanimous Declaration.” One of the great questions facing us at this time is whether we can really create governing systems that don’t include assumptions of hierarchy or rank (which devolve from the concept of personal identity, a psychological sense of being a separate self truly distinct from the All-That-Is). There is a contradiction between this sense of what Adyashanti calls the Imaginary Self, and the growing realization of our interconnectedness within the web of life.

The defensive responses by world hierarchical systems at this time, which seem to be leading inexorably toward a prison-planet, scientific (technocratic) dictatorship of a hidden oligarchy, are, I would argue, being triggered and accelerated by the awakening of the so-called 99% to this ineffable interconnectedness (which Brzezinski chronically characterizes as an “inconvenient” Global Political Awakening). If we want to realize a new social contract based on this interconnectedness, it’s incumbent on each of us to see our own defensive responses, which constantly work against the radical (not sovietized) cooperation and openings that will make the arising of the much-touted New Paradigm possible.

And I will point out a crucial distinction about “The State.” “It” doesn’t ever do anything. It is clearly a conceptual artifact, with existence only in human minds. The evils ascribed to it are from the actions of those who use the conceptual structure to promote what they see as their own strategic advantages. “It” is, literally, an instrument of mind control.

–Bruce