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What if the Surgeon General were to declare “stupidity” a disease and the National Institutes of Health were to declare a National Emergency and manpower and money were utilized to eliminate stupidity from the human condition? That would be cool!
Years ago, as a young city hall reporter in my hometown of Clinton, Iowa, at the end of a contentious debate over whether or not Clinton would remain the largest city in the state without even a basic building code (it would), one of my favorite council members gave me a quote that I will never forget. As the building code ordinance was defeated yet again, the councilman leaned over to the press table and sighed these words.
“If only stupidity were painful…”
http://deepbrainmedia.com/2012/02/09/lets-declare-a-national-war-on-stupidity-treat-it-as-a-disease-2/What if the Surgeon General were to declare “stupidity” a disease and the... more
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What we are not hearing much about is the excessive police force which resulted in the death of a British youth, and which elicited a small familial protest that ignited the festering discontent of social and financial disenfranchisement of British youth. As here in the U.S., British government has condoned and facilitated the corporate and banking fleecing of the people and the national treasury. Such smoldering discontent is like small tender building up on a forest floor which ignites into an out of control forest fire with one lightning strike, or a carelessly tossed match; such as excess police brutality or prohibiting police action filming. It's bound to happen here as well under the current circumstances and course of government action. One comment from a victim of the riots characterizes the issue completely: ["No one's stolen anything," Graham Reeves said. "They just burnt it down."] The purpose isn't looting, as alleged, it's to vent anger and frustration at the "establishment" which has exploited and victimized the average person in the U.K. Our criminally militant corporate & banking right believe that they will be unharmed if such an outbreak occurs within the United States, but I suspect they will be terminally mistaken. The dissatisfied in this country have a very good idea of who has stolen their lunch and beds.
"UK riots claim 1st death; Cops weigh new tactics"
"Police to flood London streets amid riots"
"(CBS/AP) LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer recess Tuesday and nearly tripled the number of police on the streets after three days of rioting in London blossomed into a full-blown political crisis.
Cameron described the scenes of burning buildings and smashed windows in London and several other British cities as "sickening," but refrained from more extreme measures such as calling in the military to help beleaguered police restore order.
Instead, he said 16,000 officers would be on the streets of the capital Tuesday night, almost tripling the number that were out Monday night.
Some 525 arrests have been made in London alone and dozens were arrested in other cities. Police announced Tuesday that plastic bullets would be "one of the tactics" available to officers to quell the riots.
London riots spread to 3 other U.K. cities
London riots said fueled by BlackBerry (Really?)
The riots also claimed their first death — a 26-year-old found shot dead in a car."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/09/501364/main20089926.shtml?tag=nl.e875What we are not hearing much about is the excessive police force which resulted in the... more
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While Tom Dispatch and Mother Jones prognosticates the details of the struggle to stop the further earth heating burning of fossil fuels, it seems inevitable that people will have to suffer sufficient out of control fires, massive floods, devastating heat increases and corresponding droughts, acidification of environments, poison water supplies, oil spill damaged ecosystems, and smog poisoned air before they'll shout "STOP KILLING US!".
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-tar-sands-middle-east
Perhaps the organizers of the August anti fossil fuel march on Washington will think to two prong the effort with a call for clean and sustainable energy research on a national emergency basis, while they have the nation's attention! If we're going to ask to "keep it; (fossil fuel), in the ground", then we need to demand what we want as an alternative. After all, it's all our money, so we should dictate how it's spent! It's our environment, so we should dictate how we want it treated!While Tom Dispatch and Mother Jones prognosticates the details of the struggle to stop... more
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What caused President Obama to change his mind, declaring a National Emergency over the Swine flu?
Were H1N1 Vaccine sales down?What caused President Obama to change his mind, declaring a National Emergency over... more
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When President Obama declared the swine-flu outbreak a national emergency, he tapped into America’s time-honored tendency to freak out.When President Obama declared the swine-flu outbreak a national emergency, he tapped... more
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friday evening ? not closed for business ? does BO need overtime pay ?
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According to the CDC, swine flu infections have already peaked, and the pandemic is on its way out. Peak infection time was the middle of October, where one in five U.S. children experienced the flu, says the CDC. Out of nearly 14,000 suspected flu cases tested during the week ending on October 10, 2009, 99.6% of those were influenza A, and the vast majority of those were confirmed as H1N1 swine flu infections. (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/)
Even though the H1N1 pandemic appears to have peaked out, U.S. President Barack Obama has now declared a national emergency over swine flu infections. The reasoning behind such a declaration? According to the White House, it's designed to "allow hospitals to better handle the surge in patients" by allowing them to bypass certain federal laws.
Emergency powers trump the Bill of Rights
That's the public explanation for this, but the real agenda behind this declaration may be far more sinister. Declaring a national emergency immediately gives federal authorities dangerous new powers that can now be enforced at gunpoint, including:
• The power to force mandatory swine flu vaccinations on the entire population.
• The power to arrest, quarantine or "involuntarily transport" anyone who refuses a swine flu vaccination.
• The power to quarantine an entire city and halt all travel in or out of that city.
• The power to enter any home or office without a search warrant and order the destruction of any belongings or structures deemed to be a threat to public health.
• The effective nullification of the Bill of Rights. Your right to due process, to being safe from government search and seizure, and to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination are all null and void under a Presidential declaration of a national emergency.
*Read more at linkAccording to the CDC, swine flu infections have already peaked, and the pandemic is on... more
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency.
The White House on Saturday said Obama signed a proclamation that would allow medical officials to bypass certain federal requirements. Officials described the move as similar to a declaration ahead of a hurricane making landfall.
Swine flu is more widespread now than it's ever been and has resulted in more than 1,000 U.S. deaths so far.
Health authorities say almost 100 children have died from the flu, known as H1N1, and 46 states now have widespread flu activity.
The White House said Obama signed the declaration on Friday evening.WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a... more
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WMR has learned from knowledgeable Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sources that the Bush administration is putting the final touches on a plan that would see martial law declared in the United States with various scenarios anticipated as triggers. The triggers include a continuing economic collapse with massive social unrest, bank closures resulting in violence against financial institutions, and another fraudulent presidential election that would result in rioting in major cities and campuses around the country.
In addition, Army Corps of Engineer sources report that the assignment of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) to the Northern Command’s U.S. Army North is to augment FEMA and federal law enforcement in the imposition of traffic controls, crowd control, curfews, enhanced border and port security, and neighborhood patrols in the event a national emergency being declared. The BCT was assigned to duties in Iraq before being assigned to the Northern Command.
On April 3, 2008, WMR reported on a highly-classified document regarding the martial law scenario: WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources within the US financial community that an alarming confidential and limited distribution document is circulating among senior members of Congress and their senior staff members that is warning of a bleak future for the United States if it does not quickly get its financial house in order. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those who have reportedly read the document. The document is being called the "C & R" document because it reportedly states that if the United States defaults on loans and debt underwriting from China, Japan, and Russia, all of which are propping up the United States government financially, and the United States unilaterally cancels the debts, America can expect a war that will have disastrous results for the United States and the world. "Conflict" is the "C word" in the document. The other scenario is that the federal government will be forced to drastically raise taxes in order to pay off debts to foreign countries to the point that the American people will react with a popular revolution against the government. "Revolution" is the document’s "R word.WMR has learned from knowledgeable Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sources... more
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