Mainstream Media Ignores 132 Arrests at White House

I've been away from the computer for some time (I have to go to the library just to check my email) due to the Christmas holiday and some particularly nasty weather. I didn't even know about this ... one of the largest mass detentions in recent years. I would have remembered it if I'd heard about it in the mainstream news (I was actually arrested with Daniel Ellsberg in another mass arrest a few years ago in San Francisco).

Over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.

According to this link, "No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times, blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked out in the Los Angeles Times, blacked out of the Wall Street Journal, and even blacked out of the capital's local daily, the Washington Post."

Video here.

Why I don't trust Wikileaks

I agree with Mike Rivero's assessment of these red flags:

1) Julian Assange keeps insisting there was no 9-11 conspiracy.

2) Julian Assange included a claim that Osama bin Laden is still alive and controlling Al Qaeda. (Someone with access to Assage's knowledge should know better)

3) WikiLeaks tried to claim that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq, justifying the invasion.

4) There is nothing negative about Israel in all these diplomatic messages, an impossibility given the lethal Israeli attack on the Aid Flotilla last May. That suggests who Assange really works for.

WikiLeaks Being Used to Justify "Patriot Act" Legislation For Internet

GORDON DUFF: WHY WIKILEAKS DOESN’T ADD UP

BuildingWhat? Awareness Campaign enters Second Phase

Thanks to the generosity of thousands of supporters across the globe, the BuildingWhat? TV ad campaign was able to raise $100,000 and reach a remarkable 1 million viewers in the New York Metropolitan Area during the month of November, most of them seeing footage of World Trade Center Building 7’s destruction for the first time ever.

The campaign also received the media attention it deserved in the form of an appearance on FOX News’ Geraldo At Large in front of a national audience of 1 million more viewers.

More at:
http://www2.ae911truth.org/actionalerts/2010/12/BuildingWhat.php

China and Russia dump the dollar

We aren't hearing much about it these days, but this is the real news of the day ... not Israel's Wikileaked propaganda. If you're wondering about the consequences of this long in coming situation, listen to my 2004 radio commentary Dollar Hegemony.

Let's pat down the "underwear bomber" story ...

Thousands of people traveling today will be forced to parade naked in front of TSA employees, subjecting their bodies to backscatter ionizing radiation, or else submit themselves to be groped. Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds writes well about the state of affairs here: Paying To Be Raped

Remember the justification for this obnoxious violation of our civil rights? The "underwear bomber"? Let's examine his particular case, which happened just before Congress was set to consider extending some odious provisions of the thoroughly unconstitutional Patriot Act.

Unlike the average U.S. traveler, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was on the watch list. His father told the US Embassy he was a security threat. However, there was no bomb-sniffing dog present when he boarded the plane with no luggage. According to eye-witness Detroit lawyer Kurt Haskell, a well-dressed Indian man helped the accused bomber board the plane despite the fact that he had no passport.

“While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, ‘He’s from Sudan and we do this all the time,’” reported the Michigan Live news website.

Gee, I wonder if any of this has to do with the fact that one of the main clients of Former Department of Homeland Security Chief, Michael Chertoff, happens to be Rapiscan (yep, that's their name, I'm not making it up) -- the company that makes those backscatter ionizing radiation machines that display the naked human body in so much detail you can tell if a man is circumcised or whether a woman shaves her pubic hair.

Lest we forget, here's the 4th amendment to the Constitution of the United States:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

A law to outlaw gardening? (!)

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/stops510now16nov10.shtml

Just so you know, I don't consider myself subject to any government that would outlaw and subjugate people's rights to grow their own food!

I finally know what's wrong with me ...

I've got O.D.D.! ("oppositional defiant disorder")

from http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/people-who-resist-authority-stand-privacy-cou:

"According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is published by the American Psychiatric Association, nonconformity and freethinking is a mental illness labeled "oppositional defiant disorder" or ODD. If psychiatrists follow the Fourth Edition of DSM diagnosis guidelines, people who stand up for privacy and freedom might be labeled as mentally ill.

U.S.G.W.O. reports that it has confirmed "basically that anyone who disobeys authority or even questions authority is now considered mentally ill and can be thrown in a prison-like mental institution under tax payers dollars." I haven't read the entire book, but U.S.G.W.O. states that according to the psychiatric manual the following people would be diagnosed as having ODD:

* Freethinkers
* Constitutionalists
* Oath Keepers
* Nonconformists
* Peaceful Activists
* Peaceful Resistors
* Those who partake in Civil Disobedience
* Those that question Authority
* Highly creative artists"

(... we're getting more and more like the old USSR every day, aren't we ...?)