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What the Mayan Elders are Saying About 2012


Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder and Ajq’ij (is a ceremonial priest and spiritual guide) of the Eagle Clan. Carlos initiated an investigation into the different Mayan calendars circulating. Carlos along with his brother Gerardo studied with many teachers and interviewed nearly 600 traditional Mayan elders to widen their scope of knowledge.

Carlos found out quickly there were several conflicting interpretations of Mayan hieroglyphs, petroglyphs, Sacred Books of ‘Chilam Balam’ and various ancient text. Carlos found some strong words for those who may have contributed to the confusion:
Carlos Barrios:
“Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It’s just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.”
“We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.”
He continues:
“Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. We are living in the most important era of the Mayan calendars and prophecies. All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions are converging now. There is no time for games. The spiritual ideal of this era is action.”
Carlos tells us:
“The indigenous have the calendars and know how to accurately interpret it — not others. The Mayan Calendars comprehension of time, seasons, and cycles has proven itself to be vast and sophisticated. The Maya understand 17 different calendars such as the Tzolk’in or Cholq’ij, some of them charting time accurately over a span of more than ten million years.
“All was predicted by the mathematical cycles of the Mayan calendars. — It will change –everything will change. Mayan Day-keepers view the Dec. 21, 2012 date as a rebirth, the start of the World of the Fifth Sun. It will be the start of a new era resulting from and signified by the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator and the Earth aligning itself with the center of the galaxy.”
At sunrise on December 21, 2012 for the first time in 26,000 years the Sun rises to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. This cosmic cross is considered to be an embodiment of the Sacred Tree, The Tree of Life, a tree remembered in all the world’s spiritual traditions.
Some observers say this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy to flow through the Earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it, raising all to a higher level of vibration. Carlos reminds us:
“This process has already begun. Change is accelerating now and it will continue to accelerate.
If the people of the Earth can get to this 2012 date in good shape without having destroyed too much of the Earth, we will rise to a new, higher level. But to get there we must transform enormously powerful forces that seek to block the way.”
The date specified in the calendar Winter Solstice in the year 2012 does not mark the end of the world. Many outside people writing about the Mayan calendar sensationalize this date, but they do not know. The ones who know are the indigenous elders who are entrusted with keeping the tradition.
Carlos tells us:
“The economy now is a fiction. The first five-year stretch of transition from August 1987 to August 1992 was the beginning of the destruction of the material world. We have progressed ten years deeper into the transition phase by now, and many of the so-called sources of financial stability are in fact hollow. The banks are weak. This is a delicate moment for them. They could crash globally, if we don’t pay attention. Now, people are paying attention.”
The North and South Poles are both breaking up. The level of the water in the oceans is going to rise. But at the same time land in the ocean, especially near Cuba, is also going to rise. Carlos tells a story about the most recent Mayan New Year ceremonies in Guatemala. He said that one respected Mam elder, who lives all year in a solitary mountain cave, journeyed to Chichicastenango to speak with the people at the ceremony. The elder delivered a simple, direct message. He called for human beings to come together in support of life and light.
“Right now each person and group is going his or her own way. The elder of the mountains said there is hope if the people of the light can come together and unite in some way. We live in a world of polarity — day and night, man and woman, positive and negative. Light and darkness need each other. They are a balance.”
“Just now the dark side is very strong, and very clear about what they want. They have their vision and their priorities clearly held, and also their hierarchy. They are working in many ways so that we will be unable to connect with the spiral Fifth World in 2012.”
“On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group’s understandings, are the key. There’s a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.”
Carlos believes the dark side works to block unity through denial and materialism. It also works to destroy those who are working with the light to get the Earth to a higher level. They like the energy of the old, declining Fourth World, the materialism. They do not want it to change. They do not want unity. They want to stay at this level, and are afraid of the next level.
Site 911: the mysterious $100 million, five-story underground facility being built near Tel Aviv

Site 911: the mysterious $100 million, five-story underground facility being built near Tel Aviv


Madison Ruppert, Contributor

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reportedly plans to supervise the construction of a mysterious five-story underground facility named “Site 911” for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at an Israeli Air Force base near Tel Aviv, Israel.
While the United States’ supervision of the construction might seem strange to some, it isn’t all that surprising given the tight U.S.-Israeli relationship, especially in security matters. As insane as it sounds, even the New York Police Department has a branch in Israel.
The facility is expected to take over two years to build with costs up to $100 million (surprisingly low given that we earmarked $235 million for Israel’s Iron Dome system last year while the U.S. didn’t have a penny to spend).
According to Walter Pincus’s article for The Washington Post, Site 911 will have classrooms on Level 1, an auditorium on Level 3 along with a laboratory hidden behind shock-resistant doors.
The facility will also be shielded from non-ionizing radiation and boast what Pincus calls “very tight security,” which is likely an understatement based on Israel’s already quite remarkable security measures.
The precise purpose of Site 911 remains unclear since Pincus noted that when he asked the Pentagon and the Army Corps of Engineers, they both said that the answer could only be provided by a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Ministry.
Perhaps most shocking of all is the fact that the Corps is seeking another contractor for an additional secret construction project in Israel, also in the $100 million range, to be awarded next summer.
This second secret construction project will involve “a complex facility with site development challenges” and will require “electrical, communication, mechanical/HVAC [heating, ventilation, air conditioning] and plumbing” services.
This similarly mysterious project will require the U.S. contractor to have a U.S. secret security clearance or an equivalent security clearance from Israel and will take an estimated 2.5 years to complete.
Pincus notes that the other mysterious project “sounds like a secure command center” while the “purpose of Site 911 is far less clear.”
Even those working on the construction of Site 911 will require security clearance and guards will surround the fence. Further, barriers will separate Site 911 from the rest of the Israeli base.
According to the latest Army Corps of Engineers notice cited by Pincus, only American construction firms allowed to bid on the project with proposals due by Dec. 3.
However, Site 911 isn’t all that unique since, according to Pincus, it is just “the latest in a long history of military construction projects the United States has undertaken for the IDF under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program.”
Pincus cites the 1998 Wye River Memorandum between the Palestinian Authority and Israel which led to some $500 million in U.S. construction of Israeli military facilities.
Most of these facilities were built in the Negev Desert “to ensure there were bases to which IDF forces stationed in the West Bank could be redeployed,” according to Pincus.
The many projects have included the Army Corps of Engineers building underground hangers for Israeli fighter-bombers along with facilities for the handling of nuclear weapons, although Pincus points out that Israel refuses to admit that they have such weapons.
Other projects have included command centers, training bases, intelligence facilities, simulators and most recently hangers, maintenance facilities and headquarters to support the Eitan drone.
Yet all of these projects seem to pale in comparison as Pincus says that it is apparently “one of the largest projects” and it definitely seems to be one of the most ambitious.
The first three underground floors will be 41,000 square feet each, according to the notice from the Corps, with the smaller lower two floors designed to hold equipment and thus.
While the construction firms themselves can only be from the United States, they are allowing employees hired by the contractors to be from countries other than America and Israel.
However, the countries allowed (not including the U.S. and Israel, of course) are quite slim and according to the Corps notice can only be from “Canada, Western Europe countries, Poland, Moldavia, Thailand, Philippines, Venezuela, Romania and China.”
The security for the construction is quite tight with the site allowed to have “one gate only for both entering and exiting the site” and “no exit or entrance to the site shall be allowed during work hours except for supply trucks.”
The security for the site will be provided by Israeli civilians with Israeli Air Force experience.
The Corps notice added that “the collection of information of any type whatsoever related to base activities is prohibited.”
Other aspects of Site 911, according to the Corps notice, are designed by Israeli architectural firm Ada Karmi-Melamede Architects. According to Pincus the site will “be decorated with rocks chosen by the architect but purchased by the contractor” and three picnic tables are also planned for the site.
The Corps solicitation included details of mezuzahs “for each door or opening exclusive of toilets or shower rooms” throughout the entirety of the Site 911 facility.
This appears to be in line with the interpretations of Jewish law which demand that the Torah verses written on parchment and placed in a small case be placed on every door in a home.
The Corps notice goes into even greater detail about the mezuzahs noting that they “shall be written in inerasable ink, on . . . uncoated leather parchment” and handwritten by a scribe “holding a written authorization according to Jewish law.”
Continuing, the notice states that the writing can be “Ashkenazik or Sepharadik” yet it cannot be a mixture of both and “must be uniform.”
“The Mezuzahs shall be proof-read by a computer at an authorized institution for Mezuzah inspection, as well as manually proof-read for the form of the letters by a proof-reader authorized by the Chief Rabbinate,” the Corps notice continued.
“All Mezuzahs for the facility shall be affixed by the Base’s Rabbi or his appointed representative and not by the contractor staff.”
Aside from the intricate details, we know very little about Site 911 or the other secret $100 million project.
The looming question is, why the sudden need for all of these expensive, secret and thoroughly mysterious facilities in Israel?
Let us know what you think in the comments section of this post.
UPDATE: Below are the actual Federal Business Opportunities postings. For those who want to maintain this information, it is highly recommended that you mirror the sites or take screenshots of the pertinent information.
Site 911, dubbed simply “Construction Project in Israel” — more information can be found on theArmy’s Single Face to Industry (AFSI) site.
The second project, dubbed “Site 911 Phase 2


Feud at The Fed: Horrific Consequences for Unlimited Easing


The Fed’s plan to purchase $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities and $45 billion in long-term US Treasuries every month for the foreseeable future is now creating internal feuds.
The Federal Reserve’s latest round of quantitative easing has no timetable to end or any measurable goal. Yesterday, the Dallas Fed President said this policy without limits would result in “horrific consequences”.
Reuters is reporting today on these “deep divisions” at the Federal Reserve:
Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank and one of the Fed’s most outspoken doves, said interest rates should stay near zero until the jobless rate falls to at least 6.5 percent. Such a policy would carry ‘only minimal inflation risks,’ and could boost growth faster than otherwise, he said.
Evans, who rotates into a voting seat on the Fed’s policy-setting panel in January, also said the Fed should step up its program of quantitative easing in the new year to keep its overall level of asset purchases at $85 billion a month for most, if not all, of 2013.
But Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, a self-identified inflation hawk, said the U.S. central bank could get into trouble if it does not set a limit on the amount of assets it is willing to buy.
‘You cannot expand without limits without horrific consequences,’ he told reporters on the sidelines of the conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute in Berlin. ‘There is no infinity in monetary policy, we know that from the German experience.’
No one at the privately-owned US central bank has been able to explain how spending $85 billion per month ($1.02 trillion for 2013) on these purchases will reduce unemployment and maintain dollar price stability, the only tasks the Fed is charged with.
In fact, they don’t even pretend to be achieving these duties anymore. Both Evans and Fisher agreed that fixing unemployment is more important than controlling high inflation. Therefore, they’re willing to trade one for the other.
“I am not worried about inflation right now, I am worried about an underemployed workforce in America,” said Fisher indicating that he is willing to go along to get along despite his “horrific consequences” remark.
Evans believes the Fed should keep interest rates at zero, continue or even “ramp up” purchasing Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities until the unemployment rate is 6.5 – 7 percent and inflation doesn’t threaten 3 percent.
And, of course, they are using the “official” numbers for inflation and unemployment which everyone now knows are bogus to begin with.
The only reason the official unemployment number is marginally improving is because hundreds of thousands are scrubbed from the equation.
In September, Bloomberg reported, “The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent, but that was only because 368,000 people left the labor force. The share of working-age people who are either working or looking for work—known as the labor-force participation rate—fell to its lowest level since September 1981.”
Source
So it is highly unlikely that buying bad paper from banks and monetizing the US government’s debt will make one bit of difference for the real unemployment problem no matter how much they spend doing it. And when it doesn’t work, we can be assured of one thing:  they will throw even more money at it, and it will most certainly result in “horrific consequences” for the value of the dollar.


Scientists Discover New Technique to Remove Fluoride from Drinking Water

Scientists Discover New Technique to Remove Fluoride from Drinking Water


Written by Andrew Puhanic
Published on Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Globalist Report


AROUND the world, it is estimated that tens of millions of people are affected by both dental and skeletal fluorosis. In many cases, it is the addition of fluoride into drinking water supplies by governments that is the primary cause of both dental and skeletal fluorosis.
Common techniques used for defluoridation are coagulation-precipitation, membrane process and ion exchange.
The problem with these three techniques is that they are either too expensive or they further pollute the water.
Researchers from the National University of Sciences and Technology in Pakistan have discovered an effective method to removefluoride from drinking water that is less expensive than conventional filtration processes and is safe to use.
The study, published in the Journal of Chemistry, concluded that the removal of fluoride from drinking water using modified immobilized activated alumina (MIAA) resulted in a removal efficiency that was 1.35 times higher than normal immobilized activated alumina.
Modified immobilized activated alumina (MIAA) was added to water that was tainted with fluoride and then analysis was conducted to evaluate the quantity of fluoride that was removed from the water.
Effect of an adsorbent dose on the removal of fluoride
Effect of an adsorbent dose on the removal of fluoride at 20 ± 1°C.
It was discovered that MIAA, at 20 +/- degrees celsius has the capacity to remove more than 95% of fluoride from water. In fact, the adsorption capacity of MIAA was much higher (0.76 mg/g) when compared to the adsorption capacity of activated charcoal (0.47 mg/g) for the same concentration fluoride samples.
The adsorption method that is used by modified immobilized activated alumina (MIAA) is much more cost-effective (Ali, I., & Gupta, V. K. (2007) Advances in water treatment by adsorption technology. Nature Protocols) than the popular Reverse Osmosis Filtration method.
Considering that both MIAA and Reverse Osmosis Filtration remove more than 90% of fluoride, MIAA could be a viable alternative to removing fluoride from drinking water supplies in developing countries.
Unfortunately, there are some limitations to the use of MIAA in removing fluoride from drinking water. The greatest challenge in the use of MIAA for removing fluoride from drinking water is filtering MIAA once all fluoride has been absorbed.
Real water samples with initial fluoride concentration
Real water samples with initial fluoride concentration and final concentration
However, considering that the granules produced by MIAA varied from 3 to 6 mm, all that was required during the study to remove the MIAA granules from the water was basic water filtration.
Ultimately, the primary challenge faced when trying to removing fluoride from drinking water is cost.
The use of modified immobilized activated alumina (MIAA) to remove fluoride from drinking water could become a viable option that would enable communities in both developed and developing nations to remove fluoride from drinking water.
To download a copy of this publication, click here.



October Surprise? 7 Shocking Rumors That Could Change The Outcome Of The Election

October Surprise? 7 Shocking Rumors That Could Change The Outcome Of The Election

Michel Snyder, Contributor

This is proving to be one of the tightest presidential elections in U.S. history, and with less than two weeks to go even a minor scandal could completely change the outcome of the race. Now is the perfect time for an October surprise. If I was an operative for either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, now would be the time to unleash any big secret that you were still holding back.
 Greek Editor Publishes Names of 2,000 Wealthy Greeks With Swiss Bank Accounts; Police Arrest Him

Greek Editor Publishes Names of 2,000 Wealthy Greeks With Swiss Bank Accounts; Police Arrest Him


“Instead of arresting the tax evaders and the ministers who had the list in their hands, they are trying to arrest the truth and free journalism.”

~Kostas Vaxevanis, the owner and editor of Hot Doc 
A magazine editor published the list of 2,059 Greek citizens with bank accounts at the HSBC in Geneva that came from an anonymous leak from an HSBC employee.  This list included the speaker of the Greek Parliament, several employees of the Finance Ministry, famous celebrities and businessmen; the speaker of the Greek Parliament did not disclose this bank account and vehemently denies it.
The magazine redacted how much money was in each account, but it did say the largest deposits were €500 million Euros (or $646 million).  Within hours of publication – the police were looking to arrest the editor.  The Greek government has been sitting on this list of potential tax evaders for two years and has done NOTHING with it.
NADA.  ZIP.  BUPKUS.  ZILCH.  The Greeks need to overthrow their government and leave the Eurozone; control their own currency, throw out the bankers, fire the politicians and create a new Constitution just like Iceland.
When you read this story …. just remember a few things here.
#1 – Greek citizens have had to undergo unbelievable austerity measures that have absolutely crippled their economy (source); they are going through an economic DEPRESSION there and the middle class is getting screwed.
#2 – The Swiss Bank – HSBC – which is at the epicenter of this scandal has already been busted in the U.S. of money laundering and tax evasion for wealthy clients, drug traffickers, and terrorist organizations (source).  No – I’m not kidding.
3 – This was only ONE bank.  There are 211 banks listed in Switzerland with eight MAJOR banks; HSBC is not one of the major banks (source).  So how many wealthy people in the world do you think are hiding wealth in Swiss bank accounts and how much?  The former chief economist at McKinsey Consulting who specialized in tax evasion and loopholes says AT LEAST $21 trillion (source).
Reuters has the story HERE:
Greek police are seeking to arrest the editor of a weekly magazine for publishing a list of more than 2,000 names of wealthy Greeks who have placed money in Swiss bank accounts, police said on Saturday.
The so-called “Lagarde List” – given to Greece by French authorities in 2010 with names to be probed for possible tax evasion – has been a topic of heated speculation in Greek media in recent weeks. It is named after International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, who was French finance minister when the list was handed over.
The “Hot Doc” magazine published the list of 2,059 names including some well-known figures on Saturday. The magazine said it had been sent the list anonymously. Authorities did not confirm if the list was authentic.
But the NY Times gets really, really in depth with this and explains in a must read HERE:
Hot Doc said its version of the list matches the one that Christine Lagarde, then the French finance minister and now the head of the International Monetary Fund, had given her Greek counterpart in 2010 to help Greece crack down on rampant tax evasion as it was trying to steady its economy. The 2,059 people on the list are said to have had accounts in a Geneva branch of HSBC.
Questions about the handling of the original list reached a near frenzy in Athens last week as two former finance ministers were pressed to explain why the government appeared to have taken no action on the list. The subject has touched a nerve among average Greeks at a time when the Parliament is expected to vote on a new 13.5 billion euro austerity package that could further reduce their standards of living.
The publication of the list is likely to exacerbate Greeks’ anger that their political leaders might have been reluctant to investigate the business elite, with whom they often have close ties, even as middle- and lower-class Greeks have struggled with higher taxes and increasingly ardent tax collectors.



What If We Adopted A System Where The Banks Did Not Create Our Money?

What If We Adopted A System Where The Banks Did Not Create Our Money?



Michael Snyder, Contributor

What if there was a financial system that would eliminate the need for the federal government to go into debt, that would eliminate the need for the Federal Reserve, that would end the practice of fractional reserve banking and that would dethrone the big banks? Would you be in favor of such a system? A surprising new IMF research paper entitled “The Chicago Plan Revisited” by Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof is making waves in economic circles all over the globe.

The Great Culling has begun: Will your genetic lineage survive?


(NaturalNews) The "Great Culling" of the human population has quietly begun. Covertly, insidiously, mercilessly, a global depopulation agenda has been launched. As this plays out, the vast majority of the human race will be removed from the gene pool. Genetically annihilated. Will you and your genetic lineage survive?

GMOs cause animals to lose their ability to reproduce, Russian scientists discover.

by Jonathan Benson, staff writer

(NaturalNews) A study presented at the Days of Defense Against Environmental Hazards in Russia has unveiled once again the implicit dangers associated with the consumption of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). According to Voice of Russia, scientists from the National Association for Gene Security and the Institute of Ecological and Evolutional Problemsdiscovered that animals fed GMOs as part of their normal diet eventually develop the inability to reproduce.

UN Asks: How Many People Could Live on Planet Earth?


Susanne Posel, Contributor


The Tellus Institute, a non-profit sustainability research organization, created “sophisticated human population models” with their PoleStar project (PSP). Using data provided to them by the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank (WB), they analyzed parameters such as energy consumption, land use and pollution.
The PSP predicts simulated outcomes that are being used to shape international policy. Richard Rosen, executive vice president of Tellus claims that if we are to make this world a pleasant place to live, we should “get going immediately. There’s no leisurely way.”

The Real Cause of Mass Shootings and Why Gun Control Will Never Work


Written by Andrew Puhanic
There has been considerable debate throughout the United States whether the government should enforce more stringent gun control policies on ordinary citizens.
Due to the recent mass shooting in the Aurora movie theatre, the globalists and opponents of gun ownership and the second amendment in the United States have capitalized on the emotion of a grieving nation to push their false agenda.

Chaos Erupts After Anaheim Police Open Fire on Unarmed Crowd Including Women and Children

Activist Post
The video marks a new low in police conduct. The final horrific incident on display allegedly was sparked by the suspicious killing of a man who witnesses say did nothing more than turn to run from police.
After “an unruly crowd” — as the reporter below conveniently states — gathered to ask questions and express anger at what was perceived to be a senseless killing, the officers further proved that those who were gathered had valid concerns about their local police force. In response, police quickly opened fire with rubber bullets, and even set a dog loose on a woman with a baby stroller. The woman was able to grab her baby before the dog arrived, but she was slightly injured, while a man can be seen in the video having his arm bitten.
Police brutality videos are legion, with many of the worst, such as the infamous torture killing of Kelly Thomas, carrying “age restricted” notices (the one below is now included). This restricted notice in many cases restricts them from going viral, even though other scenes of violence classified as “entertainment” are readily available.
This story is still developing and is under investigation, but a very strange aspect to it is mentioned by the reporter in the final moments of the video: witnesses are claiming that Anaheim officers were offering to buy the cell phone footage that some people captured.
It is up to anyone appalled by these actions to inform whomever they can that life in America continues to degenerate at an alarming pace. Police are being trained to see the American people as a threat first, and as citizens of a Constitutional Republic a very distant second. We must be prepared to demand that our local law enforcement use the utmost restraint, and punish those who have offended the honor and duty of what it means to protect and serve. In the meantime, local residents are being urged to take action by protesting in front of the Anaheim Police Department — a large group is taking shape on their Facebook Event Page HERE.
Here are additional sources – some with video footage. News anchors say angry witnesses to the deadly shootout started throwing rocks and bottles – but that is not seen in the YouTube video which takes place during day. Another point worth noting is that some of the mainstream news sources are emphasizing that these were non-lethal rounds being shot, but how could the crowd be aware of that … especially children?
Additional sources and updates can be found by clicking “read more” below.  Please include your own links in the comment section to help people stay informed.
Here are additional sources – some with video footage. News anchors say angry witnesses to the deadly shootout started throwing rocks and bottles – but that is not seen in the YouTube video which takes place during day. Another point worth noting is that some of the mainstream news sources are emphasizing that these were non-lethal rounds being shot, but how could the crowd be aware of that … especially children?http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=8744764The above ABC footage took place at night. Anchors say that police “accidentally” set dogs loose.

Yahoo & AP below:


LA Times Blog:

Authorities Seek to Destroy Couple’s Edible Landscape


Authorities Seek to Destroy Couple’s Immaculate Edible Landscape
Will international activism save this couple’s garden from a town code?

Heather Callaghan
People are hungry, economies everywhere are tanking. The answer to that problem used to be “do what you can on your own.” In America, it was the now iconic Victory Gardens. In Montreal, Canada there is a move to defeat such self-reliance. For some strange reason, helping yourself is the very last thing the governments in both the U.S. and Canada will “allow” you to do; not even on your own land. Stranger still, it is the lower-rung, local governments that show up in news stories extinguishing property rights in the name of almighty municipal code.
Physical inactivity kills as many people as smoking

Physical inactivity kills as many people as smoking



If ever you needed a shock to the system to make you get off your backside and into a pair of trainers, this is it: Lack of physical activity kills roughly as many people as smoking. That is the shocking message from a series of papers published this week on the health impact of inactivity.

The papers, published in The Lancet suggest that more than 5.3 million deaths would be avoided each year if all inactive people exercised, about the same toll as the 5 million deaths annually from smoking.
Cybersecurity ‘Compromise’ Distracts From Destruction of Internet Freedoms

Cybersecurity ‘Compromise’ Distracts From Destruction of Internet Freedoms


Cybersecurity 'Compromise' Distracts From Destruction of Internet Freedoms
Susanne Posel, Contributor

Last week, “compromise legislation” was brought before the US Senate that will enable federal agencies to assess cyber threats while giving them “permission” to exchange information with corporations “under certain conditions” under the justification of better protecting corporations from cyber-attacks.