Zebra 3 Report by Joe Anybody
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Im Going to Washington DC
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: protesting the war outside the White House
Topic: PROTEST!
Mark Your Calendars! We Need You- YES YOU!!!
Peace Of The Action website is here http://peaceoftheaction.org/

Please visit the site and sign up to
Join us in Washington DC March 2010.


We’ve marched, written, called and faxed but the wars continue.......

It is time for new creative strategies and bolder action.
Peace of the Action will bring forward an historic escalation of Peace Activism like we have not seen in the United States in a very long time.

We cannot allow business as usual go on in the Capital of the American Empire.
On a daily basis, Peace of the Action will perform courageous deeds of civil resistance until our demands are met.
We will show our righteous outrage at U.S. militarism by showing our elected officials that “Peace means Business,” by clogging up government business. We want an end to Empire so we can build a new economy that is not drained by the costs of Empire and war. This Empire does not create jobs abroad while it has the effect of destroying jobs here on the domestic front. This Empire builds the profits of transnational businesses while Americans go further into debt and fights wars for oil and resources. It’s time to stop using militarism as the PRIMARY tool of foreign policy. It’s time to start adhering to the U.S. Constitution and International Law.

Our demand is simple:

Troops out of the Middle East, which includes drones, permanent bases, contractors and torture/detention facilities.

We will begin Peace of the Action on March 13th when we gather in Washington, DC to erect Camp OUT NOW on the lawn of the Washington Monument, directly across the street from the White House and our actions will begin on March 22nd.

We need individuals who realize that time is running short for us to truly affect change through commitment and dedication to humanity through the end to the U.S. Empire (and its subsidiaries).

Individual commitment will entail at least a once a week civil resistance mission and support to the group at large through contributing to the running and infrastructure of our encampment.

Your commitment can range from the entire action: Until our demands are met, or any other chunk of time that you are available. Click here to join now!
If you have questions please write Cindy Sheehan at action@peaceoftheaction.org

Posted by Joe Anybody at 10:24 PM PST
Police arresting videographers .... and are usually in the wrong to do so
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: cell phone cameras to a secret mic up the sleve - people are filming the police
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
Published on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by The Boston Globe

Article printed from www.CommonDreams.org


Posted by Joe Anybody at 10:24 PM PST
Survivalist Podcasts & Links...and General Survival Information
Mood:  lucky
Now Playing: great sourse of information - I recommend the podcasts
Topic: Survivalist

There will be no show today as I will be spending the day reflecting on how much 2009 has changed our lives with my family.  There are several exciting announcements I want to share today.

  • One - I have been answering a lot of emails from new and even long time listeners that tell me that many of the features on the Survival Podcast website may not be as easy to find and use as I think they are.  Hence I created a video tour, by Monday it will be featured on the home page of our site for all new listeners, until then you can check it out on YouTube by clicking here.
  • Two - As I announced yesterday Western Botanicals one of our really great sponsors is now providing a free preferred membership to all Member’s Support Brigade participants.  This membership gets you 25% off EVERYTHING at the Western Botanicals Website.  The normal cost of this preferred membership is 50 dollars a year.  So this one benefit fully covers the cost of your MSB Membership.  Full details are on on the benefits page of the MSB Website.
  • Three - Also mentioned on the show yesterday was that I am in communication with Dave Duffy of Backwoods Home Magazine about adding them as a supporter to the MSB.  We have a few details to work out on discount codes but it looks like we will be offering a 20% discount on first year subscriptions and 20% on several of their publications including Growing and Canning Your Own Food by Jackie Clay and  “The Coming American Dictatorship” by John Silveira.  I am a long time reader of Backwoods Home and think they are a great addition to the MSB.  Even if you are not a MSB member and don’t get the discount I really recommend reading their web site and picking up a subscription to them.  You can do that at the Backwoods Home Website.
  • Four - As I have mentioned a few times I am going to be a staff write with Ron Hoods new magazine, Survival.com Magazine.  The first edition is due out in February.  I really recommend subscribing to it as well.  Also remember all MSB Members get 10% off of all DVDs in the Survival.com General Store.
  • Five - Sometime in the next week or two Bill Wilson (owner of Midwest Permaculture) will be on TSP as my guest to talk about sustainable agriculture and all permaculture principles.  Bill is a pretty amazing guy and I have learned a lot taking his Webinar Course already.  I think he will be a great guest so send all your permaculture questions to me as soon as possible and I will include them in the interview.  Again Bills website is called Midwest Permaculture and I am really enjoying his “Permaculture Webinar Course“.
  • Six - As I have said a few times I am working hard on a new eBook called, “Mastering the 22 Rifle“.  This book should be finished before the end of January.  It is a treasure trove of rifle craft wisdom and will teach you everything I know about shooting the 22 effectively as a hunting and survival tool.  You can’t actually order the book yet, what you can do is click on the order button and get on a list to receive a large discount for registering in advance.  This eBook is a major project, there are going to be over 100 full color photographs in it.  Learn more at MasterRifleman.com

As you can see we are only 1 day into 2010 and TSP is already expanding, growing and looking for better ways to serve our entire community.  The next year will be exciting, I hope it brings you and your family greater joy, freedom, independence and opportunity then you have ever experienced before.  I think in the next few years our nation and our world is going to be seriously tested, out community will do well though.

Remember we do not prepare due to fear, we prepare so that we may destroy and abolish fear from our lives.  May your new year be blessed and keep on living that better life if times get tough or even if they don’t.


icon for podpress  Episode-345- An Interview with Christopher Nyerges

Join me today as I interview Christopher Nyerges from the editorial staff of Wilderness Way Magazine.  Christopher is also the author of quite a few books and a wealth of knowledge on gardening, permaculture, botany, alternative energy, wilderness survival skills and more.

Note of Correction - In today’s show I mention a 5000 year old food forest, that was an error it was a 2000 year old forest.  I apologize for the misstatement and a link to the Youtube video is in today’s show notes.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Christopher’s new book, The Self Sufficient Home
  • How to be cost effective with solar, wind and other energy projects
  • Why being part of the effort is key to success with alternative energy projects
  • The parallels between surviving urban/suburban disasters and wilderness survival
  • The importance of caring for others in a survival situation
  • Why political awareness is important for modern survivalism
  • The three illusions of money
  • Why Christopher choose the format for his new book of showing multiple families and communities with real world projects
  • The importance of growing your own food
  • Methods of harvesting water and why it is key to your success
  • Why “resource shortage” is more important that political concepts like global warming

Resources for today’s show…

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Posted by Joe Anybody at 4:01 PM PST
Updated: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 4:25 PM PST
CIVIL DAY OF ACTION
Mood:  loud
Now Playing: meet in Washington DC March 2010
Topic: WAR

 

 

It is time for new creative strategies and bolder action.Peace of the Action will bring forward an historic escalation of Peace Activism like we have not seen in the United States in a very long time.
We cannot allow business as usual go on in the Capital of the American Empire.
On a daily basis, Peace of the Action will perform courageous deeds of civil resistance until our demands are met.We will show our righteous outrage at U.S. militarism by showing our elected officials that “Peace means Business,” by clogging up government business.

We want an end to Empire so we can build a new economy that is not drained by the costs of Empire and war. This Empire does not create jobs abroad while it has the effect of destroying jobs here on the domestic front. This Empire builds the profits of transnational businesses while Americans go further into debt and fights wars for oil and resources. It’s time to stop using militarism as the PRIMARY tool of foreign policy. It’s time to start adhering to the U.S. Constitution and International Law.


Our demand is simple:


Troops out of the Middle East, which includes drones, permanent bases, contractors and torture/detention facilities.

We will begin Peace of the Action on March 13th when we gather in Washington, DC to erect Camp OUT NOW on the lawn of the Washington Monument, directly across the street from the White House and our actions will begin on March 22nd.
We need individuals who realize that time is running short for us to truly affect change through commitment and dedication to humanity through the end to the U.S. Empire (and its subsidiaries).


Individual commitment will entail at least a once a week civil resistance mission and support to the group at large through contributing to the running and infrastructure of our encampment.Your commitment can range from the entire action: Until our demands are met, or any other chunk of time that you are available.

 Click here to join now!

If you have questions please write Cindy Sheehan at action@peaceoftheaction.org

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=597032057#v=feed


Posted by Joe Anybody at 12:01 AM PST
Updated: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 4:24 PM PST
Saturday, 2 January 2010
17 Iraqies killed by Blackwater and court case goes no where
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: No Justice: Blackwater court case goes no where due to US Judge
Topic: WAR

 Paul Richmond "...In his 90-page ruling, Judge Ricardo Urbina made no comment on the
legality or otherwise of the shooting. He dismissed the case on the
grounds that the five had had their constitutional rights violated by
the way confession statements they had made had been used by the
prosecution.The statements were made when the men ...
were under
threat of losing their jobs if they did not cooperate with
investigators. The US government had promised that their statements
would not be used against them in a criminal case...."


Iraq threatens action after

Blackwater case collapses

Officials and relatives of 17 Iraqis killed in Baghdad react with fury to US judge's decision to dismiss all charges

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/01/iraq-us-blackwater-case-trial

Car torched in protest at the site of Blackwater shootings

A car torched in protest at the site where 17 Iraqis were killed by a Blackwater security escort in Baghdad in 2007. Photograph: Ali Yussef/AFP/Getty Images

Iraqi officials and relatives of 17 Iraqis who were killed in a crowded Baghdad square in September 2007 in an allegedly unprovoked shooting spree by Blackwater private security guards reacted with fury today to the decision by a US federal judge to dismiss all charges against five of the guards.

A spokesman for the Iraqi government said the collapse of the case in the US courts would lead to an intensified criminal prosecution of Blackwater through the Iraqi legal system. Ali al-Dabbagh said the criminal suit was already well advanced against the firm, which would not be allowed to restart its private military work in the country.

"The government will monitor proceedings against Blackwater in Iraqi courts to prosecute the company and will preserve the rights of Iraqi citizens, of the victims and their families affected by this crime," he said.

Abdul Wahab Abdul Kader, 35, who was shot in the arm, said he was bitterly disappointed. ""I call for the government to stop all foreign security companies working in Iraq. Their work here has been full of dangers for us and has caused real peril."

Haitham Ahmed, whose wife and son were killed, said the dismissal of the case cast doubt on the integrity of the US justice system. He told Associated Press: "The whole thing has been a farce. The rights of our victims and the rights of the innocent people should not be wasted."

The shooting, on 16 September 2007, caused outrage around the world and strained relations between the US and Iraq. A series of congressional hearings was held, and militant groups leapt on the bloodshed as evidence of US brutality.

Blackwater was expelled from most of its key contracts in Iraq and forced into a major damage-limitation exercise that included rebranding itself Xe Ltd.

The incident began when a heavily armed Blackwater convoy moved into a busy square in Baghdad, after breaking an order to stay in the US-controlled green zone of the city, prosecutors allege. The five were accused of opening fire with automatic weapons and grenade launchers on unarmed civilians, killing children, women and men attempting to flee in their cars. One victim was alleged to have been shot in the chest while standing with his hands in the air. Defence lawyers said they had been responding to an earlier car bombing and were attacked by Iraqis they believed to be enemy insurgents.

In his 90-page ruling, Judge Ricardo Urbina made no comment on the legality or otherwise of the shooting. He dismissed the case on the grounds that the five had had their constitutional rights violated by the way confession statements they had made had been used by the prosecution.

The statements were made when the men were under threat of losing their jobs if they did not cooperate with investigators. The US government had promised that their statements would not be used against them in a criminal case.

Urbina said that despite this immunity deal, the statements had been used, thus tainting the investigation. He said the government's case had been "contradictory, unbelievable and lacking in credibility".

If convicted, the five guards, all of whom were former US military personnel, would have faced a 30-year sentence.

"It feels like the weight of the world has been lifted off his shoulders," said Steven McCool, a lawyer for one of the five, Donald Ball. "Here's a guy that's a decorated war hero who we maintain should never have been charged in the first place."

The legal fate of a sixth guard, Jeremy Ridgeway, is now unclear. He pleaded guilty to killing one Iraqi and wounding another, and gave evidence against his five former Blackwater colleagues.

Xe said that the dismissal of the case meant "we can move forward and continue to assist the US in its mission to help the people of Iraq and Afghanistan find a peaceful, democratic future".

However, relatives have lodged civil charges against the five in the Virginian courts. Tareq Harb, an Iraqi lawyer, said of the US federal court: "They did not call local witnesses, or victims, or officials who responded to the scene. The guards were protected under Bremer's law [US administrator in Iraq before 2004]. There was no due process, or natural justice."


Posted by Joe Anybody at 1:45 PM PST
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
2009 War - Killing And Death = 50 pictures from an ugly decade on planet earth
Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: 50 Photos - War is the Word
Topic: WAR

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/the_decade_in_news_photographs.html

 

December 18, 2009

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The decade in news photographs

Call it what you will, "the noughties", "the two-thousands" or something else, the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009) is now over. Looking back on the past ten years through news photographs, it becomes clear that it was a dramatic, often brutal decade.
Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and wars were by far the most dominant theme.
Ten years ago, Bill Clinton was ending his final term in office, very few had ever heard of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban ruled Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein still ruled Iraq - all that and much more has changed in the intervening time.
It's really an impossible task to sum up ten years in a handful of photographs, but below is my best attempt at a look back at the last decade - feel free to let me know what I missed in the comments below.
 


Posted by Joe Anybody at 7:02 AM PST
Updated: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 10:48 AM PST
Monday, 28 December 2009
SENATOR DEMINT (R) BLOCKS TSA NOMINEE
Mood:  loud
Now Playing: Anti Union Senator Demint is dragging feet and allowing a lack of leadership in the PHONEY war on terror
Topic: FAILURE by the GOVERNMENT

Thanks to GOP Obstructionists,

TSA Has Little Money, No One In Charge

Posted by Steve Benen, Washington Monthly 

 December 29, 2009.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144848/thanks_to_gop_obstructionists%2C_tsa_has_little_money%2C_no_one_in_charge_

Senator DEMINT BLOCKS TSA NOMINEE.... A few weeks ago, there was a mildly embarrassing dust-up over the Transportation Security Administration posting materials online that, if manipulated, revealed sensitive security information. When "The Daily Show" did a segment on this, Jon Stewart highlighted the fact that the TSA doesn't actually have an administrator.

What Stewart didn't mention is why.

An attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration -- if there were one.

Instead, the post remains vacant because Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has held up President Barack Obama's nominee in an effort to prevent TSA workers from joining a labor union.

President Obama nominated Erroll Southers, a former FBI special agent and a counterterrorism expert, to head the TSA a few months ago. Southers is the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department assistant chief for homeland security and intelligence, and the associate director of the University of Southern California's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events. Two Senate committees considered the nomination, and easily approved Southers with bipartisan support.

But the Senate hasn't been able to vote on the nomination because DeMint hates unions, and isn't sure if Southers might allow TSA workers to organize. Without that guarantee, DeMint not only opposes Southers' nomination, but prefers to leave the Transportation Security Administration without a permanent administrator.

 

This realization, in the wake of the attempted terrorism on Christmas, should make DeMint back down. It hasn't -- he still supports blocking Southers' nomination until he knows TSA workers won't unionize. The terrorist threat is bad, but the threat of collective bargaining is the real danger.

Also note, congressional Republicans also opposed funding for the TSA, including money for screening operations and explosives detection systems.

The GOP is desperate to politicize the attempted terrorism. That's probably not a good idea.


Posted by Joe Anybody at 12:01 AM PST
Saturday, 26 December 2009
Wall of Hate in the Holy Land
Mood:  crushed out
Now Playing: Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Topic: HUMANITY


 


Posted by Joe Anybody at 11:15 AM PST
Thursday, 24 December 2009
911 truth - did the cockpit door even open?
Mood:  amorous
Now Playing: Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened During 9/11 "Hijack"
Topic: 911 TRUTH

 copied from Portland Indy Media  http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/12/396334.shtml

 

greetings citizens,
I ran across this article (via no lies radio (link below) and thought I'd pass it on. Other interesting research in article: NTSB didn't have the required standard info on flight recorder AND evidence of pentagon airliner low altitude "flyover" timed with explosion...

rockcreekfreepress.com/ by Sheila Casey 12-15-2009

 http://www.noliesradio.com/

 

The Rock Creek Free Press: A fiercely independent newspaper, not afraid to print the truth.

Contact us at:  editor@RockCreekFreePress.com


Dec 15 2009

Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened During 9/11 "Hijack"


Flight Data Recorder By Sheila Casey / Rock Creek Free Press / www.rockcreekfreepress.com

Pilots for 9/11 Truth has reported that the data stream from the flight data recorder (FDR) for American Airlines flight 77, which allegedly struck the Pentagon on 9/11, shows that the cockpit door never opened during the entire 90 minute flight. The data was provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which has refused to comment.

The FDR is one of two "black boxes" in every commercial airliner, which are used after accidents to help determine the cause of a crash. One black box records flight data, the other records voice data (everything said in the cockpit during the flight). With those two sets of data, NTSB investigators can usually piece together the events that led to a crash. The status of the door to the cockpit is checked every four seconds throughout a flight and relayed as a simple 0 or 1, where 0=closed and 1=open, with approximately 1,300 door status checks performed during AA77's 90 minute flight. Every one of those door status checks shows as a 0, indicating that the door to the cockpit never opened during the entire flight.

Accident investigators monitor the cockpit door with the FDR because it may yield clues to pilot error in a crash. The FDR begins recording once the pilots are in their seats and readying for takeoff, and the plane cannot take off unless the FDR is working.

The official story about flight 77 is that five Muslim terrorists brandishing box cutters forced their way into the cockpit and herded two pilots, four flight attendants and all the passengers to the back of the plane. This story came into being via Ted Olson, US Solicitor General, who told CNN — that he received two phone calls from his wife Barbara Olson, a passenger on the doomed flight. Ted Olson's story changed several times. Sometimes he claimed that the calls from his wife were made from seat back phones, other times that she used her cell phone.

According to American Airlines customer service, the American Airlines maintenance manual for that aircraft, and American Airlines Captain Ralph Kolstad, seatback phones on 757s had been deactivated prior to 9/11/01. (They were later removed entirely, as they never worked well.)

Barbara Olson couldn't have used a cell phone either: numerous 9/11 researchers, most notably David Ray Griffin, have pointed out that cell phones did not work on airplanes on 9/11. The speed and altitude of a commercial airliner both present overwhelming obstacles to a cell phone's need to lock onto a cell tower and then hand off to another tower in a new location.

It was the FBI that revealed the evidence that decisively disproves Ted Olson's story. In the Zacarias Moussaoui trial in 2006, the FBI presented a report on the cell phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. Their report on AA77 shows that there was only one phone call from Barbara Olson, but that it was an unconnected call lasting zero seconds. So Ted Olson either lied about receiving calls from his wife or was deceived into believing he received calls from her.

According to the UK Telegraph, Barbara Olson delayed her flight on 9/11 so that she could have breakfast with her husband on his birthday. That delay put her on the doomed flight. Ted Olson remarried in 2006 to tax attorney Lady Booth, whom he reportedly met the year after Barbara died.

There are numerous oddities and contradictions about AA77's black boxes.

The government claims that the voice data recorder was damaged during the crash and that no usable data was retrieved from it. If true, this would be the first time in aviation history that a solid-state data recorder was destroyed during a crash.

While it was widely reported in the media that the FDR for AA77 was found at 4 am on September 14, 2001, the file containing the FDR data was dated over four hours earlier. In other words, we are asked to believe that the data from the FDR was downloaded prior to the FDR being found.

Researcher Aidan Monagahan has established that the NTSB does not have either serial or part numbers for the FDRs from AA77. The NTSB's own handbook indicates that the part number and serial number of the FDR are required for data readout of the FDR. The NTSB did not have this information, giving us another reason to question how the FDR data was created.

Structural engineer Allyn Kilsheimer claimed that he personally found AA77's black box on 9/11. But in the Popular Mechanics book Debunking 9/11 Myths, Kilsheimer is quoted as saying, "I stood on a pile of debris that we later found contained the black box ... "

Kilsheimer's story changes again in August 2007 in a piece done by the History Channel, "The 9/11 Conspiracies," where he claims "I tripped over something; it was the black box."

In earlier work, Pilots for 9/11 Truth (P4T) has determined that the same data set provided by the NTSB shows the plane too high to hit the Pentagon, based on an altimeter that uses air pressure to calibrate altitude.

As reported in the April 2009 Rock Creek Free Press, Citizen Investigation Team, citizen journalists from southern California, has collected evidence from 14 eyewitnesses that shows that the plane seen that morning near the Pentagon did not hit the building, but flew over it at the moment explosives detonated in the Pentagon, leading observers to conclude that the plane had crashed into the Pentagon.

Questions about what happened at the Pentagon have intrigued 9/11 researchers for years, beginning with photos from the alleged crash scene which do not show the wreckage of a plane.

This new evidence, showing that the cockpit door never opened during flight, is another nail in the coffin of the official story about flight 77. Clearly, if the cockpit door never opened, then hijackers did not storm the cockpit and herd the pilots to the back of the plane. The data, which originated from the government, does not support the government's story.

Why would the government release data which contradicts its own version of events? It is possible they were just sloppy, or that they never anticipated that anyone would parse the data as carefully as Pilots for 9/11 Truth have. They may have also felt secure, that regardless of what damning revelations were contained in the FDR data, no mainstream media outlet would give them ink or air time, keeping the official story intact for the vast majority of Americans who receive their news from mainstream sources.

Rob Balsamo, founder of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, stated: "We have not located any independently verified data which confirms the government's story. The FBI and NTSB refuse to comment." Founded in August 2006, Pilots For 9/11 Truth is an organization of aviation professionals from around the globe who are investigating the government's claims about the attacks of 9/11.

Sheila Casey is a DC based journalist. Her work has appeared in The Denver Post, Reuters, Chicago Sun-Times, Dissident Voice and Common Dreams.

 


Posted by Joe Anybody at 12:49 PM PST
Updated: Thursday, 24 December 2009 1:01 PM PST
Sunday, 20 December 2009
portland independent media rose peace sign
Mood:  hug me
Now Playing: ZEN
Topic: SMILE SMILE SMILE


 


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