JDShots' Blog : Why?

Kudos on finally realizing the game is rigged, it will always be as long as there is a FED in place catering to the bankers. As far as outside the financial realm, I believe there are still many pockets of freedom where one can prosper. Keep the internet free and these "gods" of yours will diminish.

JDS,
Why not using the talents that you undoubtedly have to create something new that may improve the world of our kids?
John

JD,
It's worse than you think.

MAGE

A technical anayst and systems engineer should shut out the noise and looks at the numbers - facts in this case as opposed to 'doom and gloom' stare tactics.
Check the numbers - economy - housing - jobs - unemployment - china - germany...all up, abeit slowly...which in the long run is the right way. Fiscal Cliff is another gloom and doom low possibility theory (which isn't going to happen). However Fear is a good thing for those who look for opportunities

US Citizens can be detained indefinitely without a trial.


Senate said ‘no’ to the Udall amendment and ‘yes’ to indefinite detention without charge or trial."[46] The New York Times has stated that the vote leaves the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens "ambiguous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_States#Congressional_suspension_of_habeas_corpus

That means, you, I or ANYBODY, can be arbitrarily designated as a "terrorist" and thrown in jail indefinitely.

Mage has a very good point, but I can see why you could be paranoid wearing a mysterious cloak like that and all....

Wow, thanks for the replies.

I have many hobbies and interests. I can persue only a few of these due to my current financial situation. Since 9/11, interests such as target shooting, aviation, model rocketry, electronics and so on, are considered "suspicious activities" LOL

Being more of a science and math guy than anything else, it's the numbers that scare me. Our current path is unsustainable and they know it; and they know we (the ones that are paying attention) know they know it.

@JTW:
I have far too many projects going on right now, but one of my interests is creating educational electronics kits for kids. The good ones out there are expensive and I know I can do better.

There is a new program that Jameco has where you give them your designs and they source the parts and make the kit available online. This will be a lot of fun! There are some great open source hardware circuits out there and some good software too (open source robotics, CV, speech recognition, voice synth...) and components are a lot cheaper now than when I started out (on a limited budget) nearly thirty years ago.

Not much else that I can do at this point because of medical and financial situation, although this may change once again. However, I've come close to retiring at least twice and am not going to give up now.

I know some of the things that I said are a little radical and maybe a little crazy. I'm not sure if I mean them literary, but these psycho's got where they are because they are driven and think they are "special". They know "what's good for us" and we don't (so they say).

It's hard to overlook the fact that this has all happened before and will happen again (BSG ideology aside).

@MM:
Yes I agree with you and I am not what people would consider a paranoid type or conspiracy theorist, but human history is full of fantastic conspiracy and never has there been so much on the line.

I suppose we are all just looking for a way to prepare ourselves and our families for the future. Waking up is the first step and deprogramming years of propaganda is the next. Planning, analysis and preparation are key IMHO.

Thanks for the comments guys and good luck today!

Hey Queequeg,

If you are not a little bit paranoid, then you haven't been paying attention.

MAGE

Mage,
So if it is worse than you think and if you are a bit paranoid, you live happily ever after by signing up for “In Apple we trust?”
Invest wisely,
John

Government Threatens with Jail Time for Growing Produce in Front-Yard Garden
http://naturalsociety.com/front-yard-garden-attacked-township/

You own your home and the lot that it sits on. So, if you want to plant tomatoes instead of bushes, you should be entitled to that, right? While this may seem like a common sense line of reasoning, many cities and towns across our nation think otherwise. They don’t want their citizens using a front-yard garden to grow food – they want perfectly green and manicured lawns.

Using a Front-Yard Garden to Grow Veges? You May Not be Allowed

It seems like every month a few more stories hit the social media grapevines, where home owners are being punished for growing food. Some of these front-yard gardeners have created landscapes that rival those created by high-paid landscaping companies. The difference—all of this greenery is edible.

Whether it’s the HOA rules or a city ordinance, some front-yard gardeners are being forced to pull up their plants and scrap their edible landscape. Why? If for nothing more than to have a seamless line of green yards stretching through the neighborhood.

When we can’t trust what we find at the grocery store, and farmer’s markets are limited and not always within driving distance, growing our own food doesn’t just make sense, it makes perfect sense.

And once you’ve begun growing your own, you will likely begin to wonder why Americans ever moved away from self-sustaining gardens.

Why can’t many of us grow food in the front-yard garden? Many townships say that the ‘issue’ revolves around yard space, where a vegetable garden may only be allowed to take up to 20-30% of a yard area. It may sound crazy that a city government would spend (waste) resources to target gardeners, but it actually happens more often than you would think.

As reported by Dr. Mercola:

In 2011, Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan was charged with a misdemeanor and threatened with jail time for planting a vegetable garden in her front yard.

In British Columbia, Dirk Becker was threatened with six months in jail for converting an acre of his 2.5-acre lot into an organic farm. What’s even more unsettling about the charges in this case is that the lot was literally stripped bare down to a gravel pit before this.

The owner spent over a decade healing the land and converting it into a self-contained ecosystem that is now home to thriving vegetable crops, fruit trees, bees, butterflies, birds, frogs, dragonflies and more. But because the area is zoned a “residential” lot, the local government is calling on him to “cease all agricultural activity” or pay the consequences.

Earlier this year, city inspectors bulldozed more than 100 types of plants, including garlic chives, strawberry and apple mint, being grown by Denise Morrison in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The inspectors said her plants were too tall, but city code allows for plants over 12 inches if they’re meant for human consumption, which hers were. Morrison is now suing the city for violating her civil rights.

Steve Miller was fined $5,200 for growing vegetables in his Clarkston, Georgia backyard, which he not only consumed but also sold at farmers markets and shared with friends.

Has anyone else noticed the Egyptian/Babylonian (Lucifarian) symbolism at the 2012 Olympics?

TPP Copyright Provisions Threaten Internet Freedom, U.S. Sovereignty
http://thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/12685-tpp-copyright-provisions-threaten-internet-freedom-and-us-sovereignty

As The New American has reported, among the many problems with shrouding the details of such a binding agreement behind a thick veil of secrecy is the fact that if the TPP is approved by the Senate, it would become the law of the land, and the laws of the United States would be subject to abrogation by an international body that is unelected and unanswerable to the people of the United States.

According to a proposed draft version of the treaty leaked to the public, the United States, as part of its membership in the TPP, would agree to exempt foreign corporations from our laws and regulations, placing the resolution of any disputes as to the applicability of those matters to foreign business in the hands of an international arbitration tribunal overseen by the Secretary General of the United Nations.

Furthermore, the text of the agreement reveals that U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk has agreed to place the approval of “domestic stakeholders” (read: large corporations) on a level with that of the Congress. It is precisely this exalting of big business that has troubled many of the people’s representatives in Congress.

Food prices jump will hit poor, World Bank warns
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19431890

Global food prices have leapt by 10% in the month of July, raising fears of soaring prices for the planet's poorest, the World Bank has warned.

•IOPS is anti capitalist, anti racist, anti sexist, and anti authoritarian. It centrally addresses economics/class, politics, culture/race, kinship/gender, ecology, and international relations without privileging any one focus above the rest.
•IOPS seeks to transcend 20th Century market and centrally planned socialism with a new participatory society - or participatory socialism - that combines classless economy, feminist kinship, intercommunalist culture, and self managing polity.
http://www.iopsociety.org/mission

House Reauthorizes Unconstitutional Surveillance Law
http://www.aclu.org/national-security/house-reauthorizes-unconstitutional-surveillance-law

September 12, 2012

WASHINGTON – The House today passed a reauthorization of an unconstitutional domestic spying bill that violates the Fourth Amendment and gives vast, unchecked surveillance authority to the government. The FISA Amendments Act, originally passed in 2008, authorizes the National Security Agency to conduct dragnet surveillance of Americans’ international emails and phone calls.

The Senate is expected to take up the law’s reauthorization later this year. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has put a hold on the bill citing privacy and transparency concerns.

“Yet again, the House has rubberstamped a law so broad and vague that, despite its passage four years ago, we still have little idea how the government is using it,” said Michelle Richardson, ACLU legislative counsel. “It is at the very heart of the Fourth Amendment that Americans and their communications are fiercely protected from government intrusion. This law should be amended to include much stronger privacy protections when the Senate takes it up later this year.”

On October 29, the Supreme Court will hear the ACLU’s challenge to the constitutionality of the law. The plaintiffs include human rights, media and legal organizations. The government claims that the plaintiffs should not be able to sue without first showing that their own communications have been or will be monitored under the statute – information that the government refuses to provide.

The Revolution From Above
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
Sept 13, 2012

Today the Western peoples are experiencing the destruction of their well being that is comparable to what the one percent in Rome imposed on Roman citizens and conquered peoples. Here is how John Williams (shadowstats.com, 9-12-12) phrases the wipeout of Americans’ hopes:

“Consumers simply cannot make ends meet. Inflation-adjusted, or real, median household income declined for the fourth-straight year, plunging to its lowest level since 1995. Deflated by the CPI-U, the 2011 reading actually stood below levels seen in the late-1960s and early-1970s.”

“At the same time, despite the ongoing nature of the economic and systemic-solvency crises, and the effects of the 2008 financial panic, income dispersion—the movement of income away from the middle towards both high- and low-level extremes—has hit a record high, instead of moderating, as might be expected during periods of financial distress. Extremes in income dispersion usually foreshadow financial-market and economic calamities. With the current circumstance at a record extreme, and well above levels estimated to have prevailed before the 1929 stock-market crash and the Great Depression, increasingly difficult times are likely for the next several years.”

Apparently, Americans are the first people in history who are so idealistic, or so thoroughly brainwashed, that they prefer to pay for wars and bail out banks than to make their mortgage payments and help their children with student loan debt.

The federal court in Germany has ruled that Germans are to be just as idealistic as Americans. The federal court has produced a ruling that it is OK for the EU to require German citizens to provide $190 billion to pay off the private banks who lent too much money to Greece.

In exchange for paying off the banks for Greece, the Greek people are to be driven into poverty and hopelessness. Pensions are cut, taxes are raised, employment is cut, social services are curtailed, prices of utilities are raised. The Greek people are to be destroyed in order that the private European banks do not lose money on their bad loans.

In the West the Revolution From Above has succeeded. The peoples are re-enserfed. The promised land is a promised land for the one percent.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously the editor of the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating.