Chaos & Tyranny

NYPD Become Domestic Secret Police!

A months-long investigation by The Associated Press has revealed that the NYPD operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government. And it does so with unprecedented help from the CIA in a partnership that has blurred the bright line between foreign and domestic spying.

Neither the city council, which finances the department, nor the federal government, which contributes hundreds of millions of dollars each year, is told exactly what's going on.

They've monitored daily life in bookstores, bars, cafes and nightclubs. Police have also used informants, known as "mosque crawlers," to monitor sermons, even when there's no evidence of wrongdoing. NYPD officials have scrutinized imams and gathered intelligence on cab drivers and food cart vendors, jobs often done by Muslims.

A veteran CIA officer, while still on the agency's payroll, was the architect of the NYPD's intelligence programs. The CIA trained a police detective at the Farm, the agency's spy school in Virginia, then returned him to New York, where he put his new espionage skills to work inside the United States

EPA Hits Struggling Americans With Energy Rate Hikes

“Wisconsin Public Service Corp. of Green Bay said its residential customers can expect an increase of more than $4 a month next year, including about $2 linked to the new rules designed to limit air pollution from coal-fired power plants,” reports the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

Power plants supplied by General Electric, one of Barack Obama’s biggest campaign contributors, have received an EPA waiver and will not be subject to the regulations.

US streets full of formerly middle class

 

The Government Is Still Paying Banks Not To Lend

How much money are banks keeping in "excess reserves" that they might be encouraged to lend if the Fed weren't paying them not to?

Oh, only $1.6 trillion. (See chart)

The Fed pays banks about $4 billion of interest a year on that money--the money the banks aren't lending. And bankers get big bonuses based on that interest, for being so smart as to not lend money and instead just take the free interest from the Fed.

S. 1403 Puts All Smokers in the Poor House

  Short Title- This section may be cited as the `Saving Lives by Lowering Tobacco Use Act'. 

SMALL CIGARS- Section 5701(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking `$50.33' and inserting `$100.50'.

CIGARETTES- Section 5701(b) of such Code is amended--  by striking `$50.33' in paragraph (1) and inserting `$100.50', and  by striking `$105.69' in paragraph (2) and inserting `$211.04'.

PIPE TOBACCO- Section 5701(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking `$2.8311 cents' and inserting `$49.55'.

ROLL-YOUR-OWN TOBACCO- Section 5701(g) of such Code is amended by striking `$24.78' and inserting `$49.55'.

The Police State Always Has Money For New Officers

Eight new police officers were sworn in Thursday. Another seven officers are scheduled to be hired in October. Salaries start at $38,161 per year. So an additional $572,415 is being spent even though crime rates are relatively flat in Hammond Indiana.

Our Troops do NOT Protect Our Freedom

The only people on this planet Earth who can affect your freedom are members of Congress, local legislators and the members of enforcement institutions who will blindly follow the rulers who sign their paychecks. And, while your beloved troops are murdering people around the globe, yes, I said murdering, your Congress and local legislators are eliminating your freedoms, en masse, without any intervention by our so-called protectors in the armed forces.

Americans have swallowed whole the concept of our troops “protecting our freedom” without ever once asking “how, how does killing foreigners in Iraq or Afghanistan protect our freedom?”  Here is another question Americans have not asked, “How can an Iraqi, Pakistani, Afghan or Islamic fundamentalist in other nations take away our freedom?” The answer to this question is of course...by becoming a member of the US Congress.

So how free are you and who exactly are the terrorists.  Here is how free you are in your own home in your own country. These are just a few examples - off the top of my head. - there are more...but to start...

1. You are not allowed to drink raw milk, no matter how healthy it is, because under certain rare conditions may cause health issues), but you do have the right to smoke chemically addicting cigarettes that when used as directed WILL KILL YOU!
2. You don't have the right to stop your food supply from being contaminated and genetically manipulated, leaving you with no alternative.
3. You don't have the right to collect rain water or grow your own vegetables to feed your family.
4. You have no right to stop corporations from poisoning your air and water.
5. You have no right to treat your ailments naturally because your government has declared that the only way to become healthy is by medications and treatments that will produce big profits for corporations. Healthy food can not benefit your health and if it does the FDA will classify it as a drug.
6. You have no right to raise your child without injecting toxins and dangerous chemicals directly into their blood streams.
7. During the Bush/Cheney administration you had no right to free speech. Special zones called “free speech” zones were created and kept far from Bush and Cheney where those who wanted to speak as free Americans could gather.
8. You are not free to exchange goods and services on your own terms. You must use Federal Reserve Notes, which is NOT U.S. CURRENCY. It is a system of money created and maintained, unconstitutionally, by a cadre of private banks.
9. You are not free to feed homeless people and if you are homeless you are not free to be fed by your fellow citizens.
10. We are not free to know about or have any say about secret activities in which our rulers partake. For example what terrible weapons they create, what biological or chemical programs that may accidentally or purposely destroy us all, how they set up and instigate wars and conflict as well as events that justify actions for which they want to take but have no legitimate justifications.

Use fresh ingredients? Illinois will shut you down!

The State of Illinois is shutting down local, artisan ice cream makers for such terrible offenses as using fresh fruit instead of fruit syrup and fresh cream instead of pre-packaged soft serve mix.  Health officials in this state are known for being overzealous when it comes to making sure that small, independent businesses follow obscure rules

The 666 Tag Goes High Tech

A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform  spy operations.

"Our goal was to develop an electronic technology that could integrate with the skin in a way that is mechanically and physiologically invisible to the user."

The wireless device is nearly weightless and requires so little power it can fuel itself with miniature solar collectors or by picking up stray or transmitted electromagnetic radiation, the study said.

Less than 50-microns thick -- slightly thinner than a human hair -- the devices are able to adhere to the skin without glue or sticky material.

"Forces called van der Waals interactions dominate the adhesion at the molecular level, so the electronic tattoos adhere to the skin without any glues and stay in place for hours," said the study. Northwestern University engineer Yonggang Huang said the patch was "as soft as the human skin."

The End of Family Farming

A new rule being proposed by the federal Department of Transportation would require farmers to get commercial drivers licenses.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is a part of DOT, wants to adopt standards that would reclassify all farm vehicles and implements as Commercial Motor Vehicles, officials said. Likewise, the proposal, if adopted, would require all farmers and everyone on the farm who operates any of the equipment to obtain a CDL, they added.

The proposed rule change would mean that anyone who drives a tractor or operates any piece of motorized farming equipment would be required to pass the same tests and complete the same detailed forms and logs required of semi-tractor trailer drivers.

Drivers would keep logs of information including hours worked and miles traveled. Vehicles would be required to display DOT numbers. A CDL in Virginia costs $64 for eight years, or $8 per year, not including the cost of an instructional class and the written test.

If the DOT reclassifies farm vehicles and implements as commercial vehicles, the federal government will have regulatory control over the nation’s farm workers, estimated at over 800,000, by requiring them to have commercial drivers licenses.