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The U.S. government has repeatedly claimed that it was launching aggressive programs solely at foreign enemies, and then launched them at American citizens. For example:

• In 2002, the Pentagon announced that it was considering spreading false propaganda in the foreign press. However, the military has spread propaganda within the U.S. in an operation so aggressive that one participant, a military analyst, called it "psyops on steroids"

• For many years, the government has claimed that it was only spying on foreigners. But it is now clear that the government is massively spying on American citizen’s home and cellphone calls, email and internet usage, credit card and other financial transactions, and just about every other facet of our personal lives

• The Patriot Act is supposed to be aimed at stopping America-hating terrorists. Instead, it is being used to prosecute acts having nothing to do with terrorism, and to harass normal, law-abiding Americans

Can anyone see a pattern here?

Given the above, should we believe that the following programs will just be limited to foreigners?

• The Air Force is seeking to dominate all computers and the Internet, to be able to take over control of every computer, and to turn computers into "zombies" that can be forced to execute Air Force commands. This is supposed to be aimed at enemy states and "rogue individuals". See this summary.

• The Pentagon is running an artificial intelligence program to see how people will react to propaganda and to government-inflicted terror. The program is called Sentient World Simulation:

"U.S defense, intel and homeland security officials are constructing a parallel world, on a computer, which the agencies will use to test propaganda messages and military strategies.

Called the Sentient World Simulation, the program uses AI routines based upon the psychological theories of Marty Seligman, among others. (Seligman introduced the theory of ‘learned helplessness’ in the 1960s, after shocking beagles until they cowered, urinating, on the bottom of their cages.)

Yank a country’s water supply. Stage a military coup. SWS will tell you what happens next.

The sim will feature an AR avatar for each person in the real world, based upon data collected about us from government records and the internet."

• And as former former Congressman Dan Hamburg and others have pointed out:

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees."

But many people have pointed out that the laws governing the program are so vague that they could lead to the imprisonment of American citizens for simply speaking out against the government (see also this).

Actions which the government claims were launched against non-U.S. citizens have in the past been used against Americans within the United States. Why should we believe any differently about its new, even more tyrannical programs?

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ATHENS, Greece - A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.

Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo more than two inches long.

“They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn’t suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo,” hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.

The girl has made a full recovery, he said.

Andreas Markou, head of the hospital’s pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.

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The death toll in China’s outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease has risen to 42 children, with the capital Beijing reporting its first case Wednesday, state media said.

Parents sit with children being treated for the virus in Fuyang, China, last month.

The child died on the way to a hospital Sunday, health authorities told the Xinhua news agency.
Another child died of the virus at a Beijing hospital, but that death was counted in the child’s home province of Hebei, which neighbors Beijing, the news agency said.

So far, the virus has sickened 24,934 children on the Chinese mainland, authorities said. All 42 people who died have been children.

The deaths are blamed on enterovirus 71, or EV-71, one of the most common causes of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD).
The official count of infections has increased dramatically in recent days since an order issued late last week by the Ministry of Health mandating that all cases be reported.

HFMD is not related to foot-and-mouth disease, which affects farm animals. HFMD can be caused by a number of intestinal viruses, of which EV-71 and Coxsackie A16 are among the most common.

In mild cases, EV-71 causes cold-like symptoms, diarrhea, and sores on the hands, feet and mouth. Severe cases can cause fluid to accumulate on the brain, resulting in polio-like paralysis and death.

There is no treatment for severe EV-71 infections nor does a vaccine exist. Adults with well-developed immune systems can usually fend off the virus, but children are particularly vulnerable to it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Public health officials expect the number of cases to peak this summer, since the disease thrives in warm weather.
The virus is a concern for Chinese officials as the nation prepares to host the Summer Olympic Games starting August 8.
Taiwan had a large outbreak of HFMD in 1998 with 78 deaths, and smaller outbreaks in 2000 and 2001, according to the CDC.
China is also coping with the devastation left by a magnitude-7.9 earthquake that struck Monday, killing thousands and leaving even more people trapped in debris or simply listed as missing.

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As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday.

The renegade members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides, contributing to a wave of violence that has claimed some 6,000 victims over the past 30 months, including prominent law enforcement leaders, the Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The slaughter has gained urgency amid high-profile assassinations of law officers in Mexico since May 1, claiming six senior officers, five of them with the federal police.

Poe held aloft a dramatic, poster-board-size photograph that he said showed guerrilla-style commandos crossing into the United States.

He said the Department of Homeland Security had documented "over 250 incursions by suspected military forces" into the United States over the past decade.

"I was surprised to hear that the United States has trained Mexican forces and some of those have deserted and become the reason for these attacks," Poe said.

Officers ’switched sides’

The U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have "switched sides and became assassins and recruiters for the Mexican drug cartels."

Poe, a former prosecutor and criminal court judge, issued the allegations in an unsuccessful effort to persuade the House Foreign Affairs Committee to revamp President Bush’s Merida Initiative.

Bush’s blueprint calls for $1.4 billion in training, equipment and law enforcement assistance to Mexico and Central America over three years.

Bush also is seeking $500 million in emergency assistance for Mexico this year as part of the supplemental war spending measure.

Democrats have included only $400 million of Bush’s request in the $161 billion war spending measure.

Poe tried to require the Bush administration to evenly split spending between the United States and Mexico rather than sending the entire amount south of the border.

"It seems as though the United States has a history in some cases of giving support (to Mexico) and that support turns around and is used against the very people we’re trying to protect, in this case, us," Poe said. "We have no assurance that the equipment we’re sending to Mexico won’t be turned over to the drug cartels and used against us."

Panel backs original plan

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, also tried to persuade the Democratic-controlled panel to shift part of the Mexico-bound spending to the United States to bolster law enforcement efforts on the border.

McCaul, a former federal prosecutor who specialized in counter-terrorism, called border drug violence "an imminent security threat right on our doorstep" that deserves the same effort as the war on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The 50-member panel, led by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., largely endorsed the Bush administration’s version of the proposal, expanding assistance beyond Mexico and Central America to include the Caribbean nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Berman referred Poe’s and McCaul’s proposed changes to the House Judiciary Committee, saying their plans for greater spending by U.S. law enforcement along the border fell within that panel’s jurisdiction.

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The technological enslavement system is now being implemented on a grand scale by the architects of the global scientific dictatorship. Aviation News reported recently that the TSA will be installing 200 body scanners in airports around the United States. The body scanners are reminiscent out of something you’d see in the science fiction film Total Recall. The difference between the body scanners in Total Recall and the body scanners being deployed in real life is that the body scanners in Total Recall are actually less intrusive. The real life body scanners are a complete invasion of privacy and actually reveal a person’s naked body when they go through the scanners. In addition to the deployment of body scanners, there have been reports indicating that face scanning technology is now going to be used to prevent underage smoking and drinking. These are just some of the technological horrors that are being deployed and their purpose is not to keep people safe from terrorists. Instead, this technology is meant to enslave the people of the world in an Orwellian technocratic control grid.

From Aviation News:

TSA Administrator Kip Hawley, during congressional testimony on May 13, announced plans to deploy hundreds of next generation, multi-view x-ray machines and whole body imagers.

During the next two weeks, the agency will install more than 200 of the faster, clearer x-ray machines to airports, including Philadelphia, Washington Dulles and Reagan National, Los Angeles, Denver, Las Vegas and others. The new x-ray machines include multiple views of carry on baggage and a much clearer image, allowing officers to screen carry-on bags with fewer physical searches.

Millimeter wave whole body imagers will be deployed to several airports in the coming weeks, including Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, Detroit, Las Vegas, Washington Reagan National, Denver and others. These technologies allow officers to screen passengers for metallic and non-metallic items without conducting pat-down inspections. Millimeter wave is currently deployed to airports in Phoenix, Los Angeles International and New York’ JFK. At the airports where millimeter wave is currently deployed, more than 90 percent of passengers have chosen the machines over pat-down inspections by officers.

The ACLU and others have been critical of these body scanning devices dating back to 2002 because they reveal the naked bodies of the people going through them. Of course the TSA doesn’t care about any of that since they have to keep us safe from Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is really nothing more than a psychological warfare operation directed against the American people, but that doesn’t matter to the average TSA employee that gets off on their childish power trips.

Other technological horrors that are being developed to enslave the people of the world include face scanners to combat underage drinkers and smokers. The BBC and other media outlets have reported on a plan to use face scanning technology to stop underage smoking in Japan as well as a plan to use similar technology to stop underage drinking in the United Kingdom.

The following is taken from a Daily Mail report on the face scanning technology being deployed by a supermarket chain to stop underage drinking.

Underage drinkers who attempt to buy alcohol may be thwarted by the technology that police use to identify suspected criminals.

A supermarket chain is introducing face recognition cameras to prevent staff mistakenly selling cigarettes and alcohol to under-18s.

The biometric technology is being piloted by Budgens at one of its London branches.

If successful, it could be rolled out across the country to create a database of youngsters who try to buy alcohol.

It is ridiculous that any organization would need a database of young people who try to buy alcohol. Maybe they are getting ready to that claim underage drinkers are with Al-Qaeda. Why not? Their assertions and claims surrounding Al-Qaeda are getting to be that insane. Joking aside, none of this has anything to do with fighting terrorism or keeping people safe. Teenagers have always experimented with alcohol and drugs, and intrusive technology like face scanners is simply not going to change that.

Other recently reported measures being employed by governments and private companies include an Internet provider’s plan to eavesdrop on customer’s web surfing activity, a high flying sky spy guard for the 2010 World Cup, cameras to catch cars in bus lanes in New York City, airport styled scanner devices in the streets of the UK, airport styled checkpoints in Chinese subways and many others of which there are too many to mention. Regardless of the excuse for these initiatives, it is clear that there is a real pattern of technology being used not to preserve liberty but to ensure a tyrannical enslavement grid.

As crazy as all that is, the Air Force has even gone public with their intention to have control over every single computer in the world as part of their quest to achieve wholesale domination in the information war. Considering that they are receiving billions to fund these types of cyber warfare operations, it is very likely that they will be able to achieve this goal.

There is no doubt that the technological enslavement system is here and it is growing increasingly out of control. Would free societies have face scanning cameras to catch underage drinkers and smokers? Would free societies have virtual strip searches at airports as part of an initiative to fight an imaginary terrorist organization? Would free societies be doing any of these things that are covered in this article? The answer is no. Even if you believe in the war on terror fraud, ask yourself why there are all of these initiatives from both governments and private companies to destroy the very things that this war on terror is supposedly meant to protect and preserve.

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Two representatives have urged Congress to take action to address the worsening situation on the southern border which has been described by reporters and activist groups as "an all out war."

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, has urged the Congress to take action regarding the frequent incursions of military style Mexican commandos into the U.S. that has seen over 6000 deaths in the past two and a half years according to conservative estimates.

The Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams, trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have defected and are now in the pay of drug cartels.

Poe highlighted the fact that the guerrilla-style commandos are regularly crossing the border into the U.S. and have been involved in violence and killings as far north as Dallas.

The San Francisco Chronicle has picked up the story:

He said the Department of Homeland Security had documented "over 250 incursions by suspected military forces" into the United States over the past decade.

"I was surprised to hear that the United States has trained Mexican forces and some of those have deserted and become the reason for these attacks," Poe said.

Congressman Poe criticized the lack of oversight on current programs to assist law enforcement in Mexico and central America:

"It seems as though the United States has a history in some cases of giving support (to Mexico) and that support turns around and is used against the very people we’re trying to protect, in this case, us," Poe said. "We have no assurance that the equipment we’re sending to Mexico won’t be turned over to the drug cartels and used against us."

Another Congressman, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, called border drug violence "an imminent security threat right on our doorstep" and compared the urgency of situation to that of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In March, award winning National Security and Pentagon reporter for the Washington Times, Sara A. Carter, detailed the national media blackout on the Mexican incursions and the border war:

"There’s a lot of people who don’t realize how serious the situation is on the southern border." Ms. Carter told the Alex Jones show. "Even to the extent when sometimes some of our own government officials choose to ignore it, even though they know it’s going on."

"It is a huge story. It is bigger than most of us even know, and people are afraid of covering the story. We hear reports but we don’t see in depth detail." Carter said.

Aside from Carter herself it has been left entirely to the alternative media to expose the reality of the situation on the border.

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Get Ready to Spend $6,000 a Year on Gas

Two years ago a leading economist published a study provocatively titled: “What would $120 oil mean for the global economy?” Answer: a global recession, if the price stayed there for a year.

Now the future has arrived, with the United States and other nations getting a double whammy from both the mortgage crisis and oil futures hovering at $120 per barrel. If oil prices stay stratospheric, the cost of fueling cars and planes could slash US economic growth up to 2.3 percent and global growth by 3.6 percent, says Robert Wescott, former chief economist of the president’s council of economic advisers and author of the $120 oil report.

While many energy-security experts worry about a terrorist attack that suddenly crimps global oil supplies and hammers the US economy, Dr. Wescott and other experts say a terror attack is hardly the only, or even the worst, oil threat the nation now faces. “What we are seeing today is more of a slow-motion, rolling oil crisis rather than a sharp shock, yet ultimately we end up with the same sorts of impacts [as a terror attack],” says Wescott, now president of Keybridge Research, a Washington economic-consulting firm.

Unlike the 1970s, when an oil embargo left Americans waiting in long lines at gasoline stations and paying higher prices, today’s oil crisis has been stealthy. Its economic impact has been masked by consumers tapping credit cards and home equity to cover the rising cost of energy and some consumer goods.

“We’re having a replay of the 1970s without the Arab oil embargo part, so it’s been hard for many people to see,” says Amy Myers Jaffe, an energy scholar at the Baker Institute at Rice University in Houston.

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Justeen Mancha’s dream of becoming a psychologist was born of the tropical heat and exploitation that have shaped farmworker life around Reidsville, Georgia, for centuries. The wiry, freckle-faced 17-year-old high school junior has toiled in drought-dry onion fields to help her mother, Maria Christina Martinez. But early one September morning in 2006, Mancha’s dream was abruptly deferred.

From the living room of the battered trailer she and her mother call home, Mancha described what happened when she came out of the shower that morning. “My mother went out, and I was alone,” she said. “I was getting ready for school, getting dressed, when I heard this noise. I thought it was my mother coming back.” She went on in the Tex-Mex Spanish-inflected Georgia accent now heard throughout Dixie: “Some people were slamming car doors outside the trailer. I heard footsteps and then a loud boom and then somebody screaming, asking if we were ‘illegals,’ ‘Mexicans.’ These big men were standing in my living room holding guns. One man blocked my doorway. Another guy grabbed a gun on his side. I freaked out. ‘Oh, my God!’ I yelled.”

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The Arlington pharmacy cashier had every reason to believe the man standing at the counter was a cop.

He wore a navy-blue nylon jacket with what appeared to be a State Patrol patch on the chest. At his side was a German shepherd who wore a harness and a vest with a star-shaped badge.

The cashier later told police that the uniform and apparent police K-9 put her at ease, so much so that she let the man walk out of the store with $400 worth of OxyContin while he ostensibly went to retrieve cash from his car. When he didn’t return, she called police.

That 911 call in October touched off a months-long investigation that led to the arrest last week of Ronald R. Johnson, formerly of Orting, who police say repeatedly impersonated law-enforcement officers over more than 30 years — many times to obtain OxyContin illegally.

Johnson, 50, has been charged with theft in connection with the Arlington case and is under investigation for allegedly impersonating a police officer in both Arlington and Bothell.

"There’s wannabes, but this guy has taken it way off," Arlington Police Chief John Gray said Wednesday. "He has represented himself many times as a police officer, a firefighter, even a Coast Guard member."

Gray said Johnson, a former truck driver, walked into clinics and pharmacies in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Kentucky pretending to be a police officer in need of painkillers. His uniformed appearance was believed to put many people at ease, including physicians who wrote out prescriptions.

"Everyone who talked to him said this guy looks like a police officer," Gray said.

Though Johnson was first investigated for allegedly impersonating a police officer in Lynnwood in 1977, it wasn’t until the incident at the Arlington Rite-Aid last fall that local police launched the investigation that led to his May 6 arrest.

In that case, the cashier said Johnson initially tried to pay for the OxyContin with a credit card, according to an affidavit for a search warrant. When the transaction failed to go through, Johnson allegedly told the cashier he would go to his car to get cash, but never returned. That failed transaction provided police with Johnson’s name.

Johnson was arrested outside a Smokey Point Safeway store on a warrant stemming from the Oct. 29 theft, Gray said. Though Johnson wasn’t wearing a police uniform, he did have police badges, fire department identification cards, a handcuff key and OxyContin on him, Gray said.

Gray said police are looking for Johnson’s dog, a German shepherd named Sweetie.

"It is so shocking and disappointing because law enforcement works so hard every day to maintain the public’s trust," Gray said. "Then you have a person who uses that trust for their own selfish addiction, and that diminishes that trust."

Johnson was recently released on bail from the Snohomish County Jail, Gray said. He said Johnson has been charged with second-degree theft, a felony, because it carries a stiffer penalty than impersonating a police officer, which is a misdemeanor.

Police in rural north Idaho say they’ve known about Johnson’s penchant for impersonation for years.

Shoshone County Undersheriff Mitch Alexander said Johnson had been "heavily investigated for impersonating law-enforcement officers and firefighters on several occasions," according to the affidavit for a search warrant. It’s unclear how those cases were resolved.

Alexander said Johnson once owned a cafe in Wallace and carried a badge because he served as an escort for funeral processions. Idaho State Police investigated Johnson for police impersonation as well, according to State Police Sgt. Rick Field.

In August, Johnson was fired from Floyd Blinksy Trucking in Eastern Washington for unusual behavior, including telling people he was a cop, company manager Dave Brown told police.

Johnson listed the State Patrol and Orting Fire Department on his employment application and told co-workers that his dog was trained to sniff for drugs, according to the affidavit.

A spokesman for the Washington State Patrol said on Wednesday that Johnson has never worked for them.

Ten days after Johnson was fired, he walked into the Lakeshore Clinic in Bothell, dressed in a police uniform and accompanied by his dog, to get painkillers, said Bothell police Detective Sgt. Elmer Brown. When clinic staff checked a database and saw that Johnson had been banned from clinics in Idaho and Washington for "drug-shopping" — going to multiple pharmacies to get a prescription filled — they refused to fill his prescription, police said.

Gray said Arlington investigators are looking to add an additional theft charge against Johnson for what he allegedly did when he bailed out of jail following last week’s arrest. Johnson checked into the Arlington Quality Inn and asked for the "law-enforcement discount." He then ran up several charges and fled the motel without paying, Gray said.

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