Thursday, September 13th, 2012
DAVID ROSEN, - AlterNet (U.S.)
Stephan: Here one sees what I have been predicting for almost ten years, the confluence trend of law enforcement and intelligence agencies and the corporate world. Once again I counsel: Assume everything you say, or write, anything that enters the digital world is recorded. Assume when you walk through a city you are the focus of multiple video recordings. You have no privacy, even your electric meter is spying on you. None of this matters, until you do something or say something that attracts attention so that your data stream rises out of the background noise. Then it matters.
Americans’ personal privacy is being crushed by the rise of a four-headed corporate-state surveillance system. The four ‘heads
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Thursday, September 13th, 2012
KURT EICHENWALD, - Vanity Fair
Stephan:
ADAPTED FROM 500 DAYS, BY KURT EICHENWALD, TO BE PUBLISHED THIS MONTH BY SIMON & SCHUSTER; (C) 2012 BY THE AUTHOR.
The Chilterns lie northwest of London, a vista of sweeping grasslands, honeysuckle-draped cottages and the crack of cricket bats on plush village greens. Church bells ring out across the leafy stillness, adding an almost mystical aura to the scene
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Thursday, September 13th, 2012
LARRY GABRIEL, - Yes! Magazine/truth.org
Stephan: Here is some excellent news, and it exactly illustrates the point I made the other day about how small individual choices expressed locally can spread to become a trend.
Weekend mornings are the busiest days of the week at D-Town Farm. That’s when up to 30 volunteers from across Detroit come out to till the earth and tend the crops at the seven-acre mini-farm on the city’s west side. They sow, hoe, prune, compost, trap pest animals, build paths and fences, and harvestÂ-all the activities necessary to grow healthy organic fruits and vegetables to nurture the community. There is a 1.5-acre vegetable garden, a 150-square-foot garlic plot, a small apple orchard, numerous beds of salad greens in a couple of hoop houses, a small apiary, and a plot of medicinal herbs such as purslane, burdock, and white thistle.
‘One of our goals is to present healthy eating to people,’ says Malik Yakini, Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), which runs D-Town. ‘We think that healthy eating optimizes a good life generally. A diet close to nature allows the human body to function the way it is supposed to function.’
D-Town is set in one of the city’s greenest areas, a former tree nursery in the 1,184-acre River Rouge Park. It’s a couple of miles downriver from Ford Motor Co.’s famous Rouge plant (that once employed 100,000 workers) […]
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Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Stephan: More good news. I am very happy that a consensus has emerged about the Higgs boson particle. But what I find more than a little revealing is that everyone accepts it on a one in 300 million chance while physicalist scientists find the four nonlocal cosnciousness experimental protocols each of which has achieved one in a billion results unconvincing.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: how many scientists does it take to author a study on the Higgs boson particle? Around 6,000.
Two articles by the teams at CERN, about 30 pages each, include 19 pages of single-spaced text with roughly 6,000 names of researchers who peer-reviewed the results of the experiments, making the discovery of the elusive God particle valid.
The papers conclude there is a one-in-300-million chance that the Higgs does not exist, thereby validating the theory on why elementary particles have mass.
Particle physicist Peter Higgs first predicted the particle in 1964. So you might say the 48-year hunt for the God particle reached biblical proportions.
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
KURT EICHENWALD, - The New York Times
Stephan: Anyone who has read SR for more than a few days knows my views about the insane wars the Neocons created. Now the truth about them is coming out. Read this with today's eyes.
Kurt Eichenwald, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former reporter for The New York Times, is the author of '500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars.
On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s ‘presidential daily brief
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