Archive for the ‘Freedom’ Category

Says Many Gang Members Were Coming After His Family September 7, 2010 11:00 PM UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CBS 2) — He was arrested for protecting his property and family. But it’s how the Long Island man did it that police say crossed the line. He got an AK-47 assault rifle, pulled the trigger and he ended [...]

By Robert Higgs Oct 12, 2009 Because I despise politics in general, and the two major parties in this country in particular, I go through life constantly bemused by all the weight that people put on partisan political loyalties and on adherence to the normative demarcations the parties promote. Henry Adams observed that “politics, as [...]

By Bertrand Russell. May 3, 1919. The battle for political democracy has been won: white men everywhere are to live under the regime of parliamentary government. Russia, which for the present is trying a new form of constitution, will probably be led by internal or external pressure to adopt the system favored by the Western [...]

August 23, 2010 Rene Johnston/Toronto Star Several dozen of the 300 people facing charges for alleged criminal acts during the G20 summit had their charges withdrawn Monday. One young woman high-fived a friend before bolting from the courtroom after hearing the news. Christopher Miller, who was charged with mischief under $5,000, said he was happy [...]

A Public Service announcement from one of those Reality Tv stars people seem to like so much….. http://media.abovetopsecret.com/media/3712/Were_In_A_Lot_Of_Trouble_Here/

The Canadian Press Published on Sunday, Aug. 01, 2010 11:14AM EDT  It may sound like science fiction, but using your brain waves to control the environment around you, like the lights in your home or even your toaster, is already a reality. One Toronto-based company has developed a system called thought-control computing and it’s exploring [...]

Stockwell Day cites ‘alarming’ rise in unreported crime to justify new prisons By Campbell Clark Globe and Mail – August 3, 2010 Although the official crime rate is going down, a senior Harper government minister says there is reason to disbelieve the statistics and spend billions of dollars on new prisons: an “alarming” increase in [...]

By Daniel Emery Technology reporter, BBC News The torrent is attracting hundreds of downloads…. Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net by a security consultant. Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings. The list, which [...]

Microchip Mind Control, Implants And Cybernetics  12-6-1 Actual 1974 Congressional Testimony of Dr. Jose Delgado –  ”We need a program of PSYCHOSURGERY for POLITICAL CONTROL of our society. The purpose is PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be SURGICALLY MUTILATED. ”The individual may think that the most important reality [...]

  Individuals with severe disabilities face challenges performing normal every-day tasks. Today, researchers are developing a technology that could conceivably alleviate many difficulties associated with physical handicaps. Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology allows a living, healthy brain to connect to an external computer system through a chip composed of electrodes. The electrode chip can be implanted into [...]

By Jaya Narain Last updated at 3:43 PM on 23rd July 2010 A soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan has had his disability benefits stopped because he has learnt to walk a few hundred metres on a prosthetic limb. Private Aron Shelton, 26, had his left leg amputated below the knee – while his [...]

                                                    Bertrand Russell, 1936                                                                                                                                              I SEX, MORE THAN any other element in human life, is still viewed by many, perhaps by most, in an irrational way. Homicide, pestilence, insanity, gold and precious stones – all the things, in fact, that are the objects of passionate hopes or fears – have been seen, in [...]

Mises Daily: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Andy Duncan [Pictures of the Socialistic Future • Eugen Richter • Trans. Henry Wright • LvMI, 2010 • 160 pages. This review originally appeared on CobdenCentre.org.] If someone gave me a gold sovereign for every time in my life I had heard a variation on the following phrase, [...]

President could get power to turn off Internet By Grant Gross | Published: 11:02 GMT, 25 June 10 A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack. Senator Joe Lieberman and other [...]

Tom Leonard July 12, 2010 – 9:00AM NEW YORK: Criminals using the Apple iPhone may be unwittingly providing police with a wealth of information that could be used against them, research has revealed. As the device grows in popularity, technology experts and US law enforcement agencies are devoting increasing efforts to understanding its potential for [...]