Off The Top with Red Kingman

It's time to play the eye opening blogger game "Who Said It?".  I willprovide you with a statement, and all youhave to do is tell me who, or, what organization made the statement.  Here we go:

Who or what organization said the following:

“Population policy has a long lead time; other development policies must adapt in the meantime. Inaction today forecloses options tomorrow, in overall development strategy and in future population policy. Worst of all, inaction today could mean that more drastic steps, less compatible with individual choice and freedom, will seem necessary tomorrow to slow population growth.”

And this:

“By taxing and spending in ways that provide couples with specific incentives and disincentives to limit their fertility, government policy can also affect fertility in the short run. Government can offer “rewards” for women who defer pregnancy; it can compensate people who undergo sterilization for loss of work and travel costs; and it can provide insurance and old-age security schemes for parents who restrict the size of their families. Each of these public policies works through signals which influence individual and family decisions- when to marry, whether to use contraception, how long to send children to school, and life expectancy, and whether and how much family members work.”

And finally who said this:

“To complement family planning services and social programs that help to reduce fertility, governments may want to consider financial and other incentives and disincentives as additional ways of encouraging parents to have fewer children. Incentives may be defined as payments given to an individual, couple, or group to delay or limit child-bearing or to use contraceptives. (…). Disincentives are the withholding of social benefits from those whose family size exceeds a desired norm.”

So, who or what organization said those things listed above?  The answer is the World Bank.  Scared yet?  

As voter registration and identity fraud becomes a hot button issue across State legislatures you’d think that at least one group of voters – our elected officials – would understand the importance of laws and procedures designed to maintain the integrity of our legislative process.

According to the rules of the Texas State House of Representatives, for example:

"Any member found guilty by the House of knowingly voting for another member on the voting machine shall be subject to discipline deemed appropriate by the House"

Now watch this video and explain to me how this can happen inplain sight?

A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy in the United States was 47 years. In 2009, the federal government recently announced that it is 78 years. And, now, in an age when NASA has machines roving Mars, many states are extending the voting life of citizens for years after they are medically pronounced dead. There are 116,000 dead eligible voters in Massachusetts.  And in Florida, one major newspaper recently investigated and reported that almost 15,000 dead Floridians are still hanging around on the election rolls - just six weeks before one of the most vicious and important election cycles in our history. Can it be the sun?  Most States have similar statistics. 

Every two years, states must report to the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) information about the integrity and accuracy of their voter rolls. The latest report is not good news for our democracy - or our international reputation.  South Dakota, Texas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Indiana report in excess of a dozen counties with more registered voters than breathing human beings old enough to vote. West Virginia, Maryland, Iowa and North Carolina also reported having eligible deceased voters on their rolls. The list goes on and on.  And so does the real risk that these voters will have illegal votes registered in their names. Close races, like the Franken/Coleman race in Minnesota can be decided on just a handful of votes. 

This outrage MUST BE STOPPED!  Or, are you of the mindset that these are isolated incidents and that there are too many folks crying "wolf" over this issue?

In case you weren't aware of this, let me break the news for you:  High tech street lights with “homeland security applications” are now being installed in major U.S. cities.  The street lights also have loudspeakers that can give audible warnings to individuals,mimicking the talking surveillance cameras in the UK that shout out orders through microphones telling people to pick up litter or leave the area.

“The built-in speaker can broadcast emergency information,” states the press release, adding, “SmartSite luminaires can be equipped with a variety of cameras and sensors to ensure real-time 24/7-security coverage. The sensors detect a variety of threats that enable rapid response from emergency personnel or help prevent crime and gain control of the streets.”

Not only can the street lights, now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh with Department of Energy backing, act as surveillance cameras, Minority Report-style advertising hubs, and Homeland Security alert systems, they are “also capable of recording conversations,”according to a report by ABC 7.

The ABC video clip, featured at the end of this article, includes creepy footage of the street lights being used to transmit Orwellian security alerts, including “pay attention please….please stand by for a public safety announcement,” and “this is a security alert”.

Can anyone see this technology being used for EVIL purposesin addition to "the common good"?  Do you feel that this is a serious threat to your privacy?  Does the crime rate warrant such intrusive technology? 

Before I get into the meat of this post, let's look at the pros and cons of genetically engineered food:

PROS

• Genetically engineered food is cost effective. Because it is designed to resist pests and prosper under non-optimal conditions, it can also help people in areas where regular crops would not prosper. Large savings in production may lead to financial gain and help fight poverty.
• Genetically engineered food can be naturally pest-resistant and thus reduce the need for additional chemicals, pesticides, and other dangerous additives.
• Genetically engineered food may help reduce world hunger, at least in theory. As new species are altered to grow faster or more effectively, they can be used to feed poor nations or chosen for countries where crops may not normally prosper because of less than desirable environmental conditions. Some companies now claim to be producing crops that can help against certain diseases or provide specific nutrients, such as milk proteins and iron, which would otherwise not be available to some populations.

CONS

 

• Genetically engineered food is too new for us to know if it may have an effect on the human body. Modifying the essence of a food may also alter the dynamics of it in ways not known. Since many of the alterations include adding chemical properties to the crops, some people fear what effect those same chemicals may have on us.
• Poor countries will not have easy access to genetically engineered food unless directly given to them, which means that the world's richest nations will control the market. This may result in a high dependency on the side of the poor nations, which will in turn lead to a broken economy.

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I personally tend to agree with truthout.org's Jim Hightower when he writes: Thanks to the blessings of nature and good farmers through corn, you and I can enjoy many variations of this truly great grain. And now, thanks to Dow Chemical and federal regulators, we can look forward to "Agent Orange Corn." The chemical giant is in line to gain approval for putting a genetically altered corn seed on the market that will produce corn plants that won't die when doused with high levels of 2,4-D.

Dow now sells 2,4-D to help kill various weeds, but the herbicide is so strong that it also kills nature's own version of corn plants. Thus, Dow's genetic engineers went into the corporate lab and manufactured a new corn that's immune to the weed-killer. This would let the chemical maker profit from selling the patented seed, plus enjoying a huge increase in sales of its 2,4-D herbicide. How happy for Dow! Not so happy, though, for consumers worried about the untested long-term health consequences of the altered corn and the carcinogenic possibilities of ingesting more 2,4- D. Also, when sprayed, this herbicide can vaporize and spread for miles, killing crops that are not immune, poisoning the surrounding environment, and endangering the health of farmers and townspeople throughout the area.

Those are irrefutable facts, as is the fact that 2,4D has Yet to be proven to cause cancer.  So why wouldn't Monsanto or Dow continue to study this herbicide before rushing it to the marketplace?  I'll tell you why, greed over a moral imperative.  Or what is your opinion?

Here's a story that deserves some attention about a Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane hathaway who is under fire for some questionable real estate dealings.

7 Action News first reported Hathaway avoided potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in mortgage payments by convincing her bank to have a short sale. 

They say that she shuffled properties out of her name prior to the short sale: two homes were taken out of her name and put into her step children's: a 4,300 square foot home in a Windermere, Florida country club, complete with a private boat dock and pool, went to her step daughter, and a home on Windmill Pointe in Grosse Pointe Park  went out of Hathaway’s name, and into her stepson’s.

After the bank agreed to sell the house, the Florida property—valued at almost $740,000—went back into Justice Hathaway’s name. And a third home that was bought with cash months earlier in Hathaway’s other stepdaughter’s name was put into Justice Hathaway’s.  It’s not clear if Hathaway’s stepdaughter ever lived in that home, but Hathaway is living there now.

"It raises questions," said attorney Howard Young, who specializes in asset protection and estate planning.  "Those are typically fraudulent transfers, because they are done with the intent to delay, hinder, or defraud creditors.  And we are very careful to advise against making such transfers because even as an attorney, you can well be considered a co-conspirator in a fraud and that has significant ethical issues, and the state bar is going to come looking," he said.

Hathaway is a Democrat.

The First Roads Laid Out By The Settlers Of Michigan Followed What Pre-Existing Routes?

a. Indian Foor Trails

b. Slug Slime

c. Migratory Paths

So just how is the ongoing Red Cross worker strike in Lansing affecting service and what is the impact?  Local officials are finally speaking up about it.

Red Cross spokeswoman Monica Stoneking speaking to mlive.com's Angela Whitrock said many of the Red Cross' services will remain unaffected.

"Disaster services, military assistance, some food banks and CPR training won't be affected by the strike," she said. "However the number of blood collection drives will be affected which in turn hurts our blood supply," Stoneking said.

Managers and other trained officials are stepping in to fill the vacancies left by striking workers, but it's not enough to maintain the number of drives planned before the strike. The Red Cross supplies both Sparrow Hospital and McLaren-Greater Lansing with blood.

For the time being the Red Cross is able to fill its requests by calling on other suppliers to fill the void, but Stoneking said she is worried that a prolonged strike could lead to an actual blood shortage.

So the question that has yet to be answered is WHY are the Red Cross workers striking in Lansing?  

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, laughs with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, as he endorses Romney on Feb. 16, 2012, at the Livonia Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Farmington Hills.  AP FILE PHOTO

Gov. Rick Snyder stands out as a potential vice presidential candidate for likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney, according to a Florida Republican political consultant.

Chris Ingram, in his weekly columnfor the Tampa Tribune, analyzed state delegations’ hotel assignments for the Republican National Convention,scheduled for August in Tampa.

National media has focused on Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as a potential vice presidential candidate.

Could a Romney/Snyder ticket unseat Obama/Biden?

Two years ago I wrote in this blog about the HARP Program, and many thought it smacked of conspiracy theory.  "Our government is NOT in the business of controlling the weather, nor do they possess the technology to do so" was the general consensus, and then comes this from the folks who own the patent on the HARP technology:

This patent is from ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI) the contractor that built the HAARP facility in Alaska. (APTI is owned by the Atlantic Richfield Company, one of the world’s biggest oil companies.)

• “Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth’s atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of various yields at various altitudes… “

• “…it is possible not only to interfere with third party communications but to take advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the world’s communications are disrupted. Put another way, what is used to disrupt another’s communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this invention as a communication network at the same time.”

• “… large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction.”

• “Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device…. molecular modifications of the atmosphere can take place so that positive environmental effects can be achieved. Besides actually changing the molecular composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules can be chosen for increased presence. For example, ozone, nitrogen, etc., concentrations in the atmosphere could be artificially increased.”

The words in this patent make the sinister intents of HAARP very clear. The USAF intends to control the weather.

This brings into question the meteorological anomalies that have been occurring the world over.  Unprecedented numbers of tornadoes in the United States.  Brutal winter storms in Europe coating the continent in ice. Fifty rainstorms in a Middle Eastern desert.  And this is just the tip of the ionospheric iceberg.

Weather Wars

Of course, the military is unlikely to have interest in technology that cannot be weaponized.  The fact that the Alaskan HAARP facility is a USAF facility is evidence enough that the intention exists to use this either offensively, defensively, or both.

Read the entire article here and you tell me what the heck the Air Force is up to?

This tid bit of news passed quietly without much more than a whisper in the nation media.  It was that a senior State Department official announced, “The war on terror is over.”  WOW!  And that wasn't headline news??  This thing called the war on terror typified by the viscous attacks on 9/11/2001, was now officially over?  Where were the parades and speeches, the kissing ifo babies, and workers all across the country getting the day off in celebration.  Ding dong the witch is dead!  

While preparing for this blog post I came across two different stories that put this latest episode of "Being Obama" and this administrations announcement into perspective.

First there is BEN SHAPIRO, of Breitbart News who wrote:

The simply stated purpose of the bill is to allow Border Patrol agents to access public lands in the interest of securing the border. In actuality, HR 1505 wipes out our Constitution, overrides the jurisdiction of other agencies, negates over one hundred years of law and policy, infringes on state’s rights… without congressional oversight and without recourse.

Read here about the latest outrage from Washington from NOISYROOM.com and read how more of our freedoms are being eroded by our own government.

At what point does paranoia become reality?  How about when the predictably named “Moving Ahead For Progress in the 21st Century Act,” also known as Senate Bill 1813 passes the House. (See here for the full text of the bill itself; the relevant section is 31406.)

If/when passed the bill  will impose a legal requirement that all new cars made beginning with the 2015 models be fitted with so-called Event Data Recorders (EDRs). These are the “black boxes” you may have read about that store data about how you drive – including whether you wear a seat belt and how fast you drive – ostensibly for purposes of post-accident investigation.

The question arises: why?  Well for one, the EDRs could – and almost certainly will be – tied into your vehicle’s GPS. (Most new and late model cars, conveniently, already have this, too.) Then data about your driving can be transmitted – as well as recorded. To whom? Your insurance company, of course. Progressive Insurance already has such a system in place – voluntary, for the moment. (See here for more on that.)

When EDRs are mandated, you will no longer have a choice.

We’ll be told it’s all for the sake of (groan) “safety” – just like the old 55 MPH highway speed limit and every radar trap in the country. Of course, it’s really for the sake of revenue – the government’s and the insurance company’s. Your rates will be “adjusted” in real time, for every incident of “speeding” or not buckling up. It’ll be so much more efficient than using cops to issue tickets. After all, so many fishes escape! With an EDR in every car, no one will escape. Your “adjusted” premium will be waiting for you when you get home.

Now isn't that convenient.....but for whom?