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As you would say, “we do not make this up.”

Florida Makes Off-Grid Living Illegal – Mandates All Homes Must Be Connected To An Electricity Grid

It’s no secret that an opposition to sustainable living exists. Earlier this year, Texas state brought several SWAT teams to a sustainable community and threatened to shut it down. Each one of the community members were initially handcuffed at gunpoint. It was called “The Garden of Eden Community,” and was totally self sustainable. You can read more about that here.

off grid This time, it’s Robin Speronis that’s come under fire. She lives off the grid in Florida, completely independent of the city’s water and electric system. A few weeks ago, officials ruled her off-grid home illegal. Officials cited the International Property Maintenance Code, which mandates that homes be connected to an electricity grid and a running water source. That’s just like saying our dependency on corporations isn’t even a choice. The battle to live without most utilities has been ongoing for Robin, the self-sufficient woman has lived for more than a year and a half using solar energy, a propane camping stove and rain water.

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2014/03/072014/03/07

Berto Jongman: Full Text of Edward Snowden Testimony to European Parliament

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call

PDF (12 Pages): Introductory Statement & Answer to Questions

Highlights:

00 The included links are a “best of the best” selection of media stories.

01 EU security agencies have created a bazaar allowing NSA to get it all.

02 There are many other undisclosed programs.

03 According to Snowden, at least ten specific individuals are liable for failing to act on his alarm — those names are being withheld by Booz Allen and the various US agencies and Snowden has not named them himself.

04 “The culture within the US Intelligence Community is such that reporting serious concerns about the legality or propriety of programs is much more likely to result in your being flagged as a troublemaker than to result in substantive reform.”

05 Oversight focuses on limiting public discovery rather than on enforcing the limits of the law.

06 Indiscrinate economic intelligence is the true purpose of such technical collection programs as do work.

07 Defensive intelligence is more important to democracies than offensive intelligence — NSA and GCHQ have been obsessing on offensive intelligence (economic and political espionage) in what they process, while continuing indiscriminate mass surveillance that does not appear to have been processed, only stored against future possible exploitation.

Full Text with Links Below the Line

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2014/03/06

SchwartzReport: Psychiatry Confesses to Idiocy — Can It Change?

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society

It is long past time to pull back the curtain on the truth about the unholy relationship between psychiatry and Big Pharma. Here's a start.

Psychiatry Now Admits It's Been Wrong in Big Ways – But Can It Change?
BRUCE E LEVINE – Truthout

When I interviewed investigative reporter Robert Whitaker in 2010 after the publication of his book Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, he was not exactly a beloved figure within the psychiatry establishment. Whitaker had documented evidence that standard drug treatments were making many patients worse over the long term, and he detailed the lack of science behind these treatments.

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Phi Beta Iota: Mental illness is often caused by cognitive dissonance and external insanities. What we have done to our veterans and our families can easily be categorized as an atrocity, a high crime against society. Completely aside from the inherent corruption attentant to charlatans practicing psychiatry and crooks practicing faux pharmaceuticals, is the larger matter of social design. Industrial era top-down Weberian practices and the commoditization of human beings makes people crazy. It's not their fault. They are in fact the canaries in the coal mine.

Insanity @ Phi Beta Iota

Mental Illness @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/03/042014/03/05

Owl: Wayne Madsen on Top UK Pedophiles — Could Pedophilia be Catalyst for Revolution in UK and US?

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Officers Call

Wayne Madsen: Operation Spade Catching Bigger Pedo Fish in UK Government – Crimea Connection?

Madsen's comments on this story have explosive implications – will the veil finally be lifted revealing many of the 1% of the 1% are pedophles?

“UK Prime Minister's adviser on combating online child porn arrested for possession of child porn. Get ready for the pedo lobby to claim that would-be Lord, Patrick Rock, was “conducting research.” Operation SPADE now engulfs Cameron, along with Merkel's government and US Sen. Lamar Alexander. This story is only going to get bigger. And Azov Films used Crimea as a filming center. What will Russian troops uncover there in the way of evidence?”

UK Prime Minister's adviser on combating online child porn arrested for possession of child porn.

This article mentions many pieces of information, including a significant connection to Stafford VA:

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2014/03/042014/03/04

SchwartzReport: US Atrocity – Debtor Prisons, Offender-Funded “Probation” Industry

01 Poverty, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Law Enforcement

I find it hard to believe the United States is bringing back debtor prisons, but that appears to be the case, as reported in the Guardian, arguably the best and most independent newspaper in the English language. The elimination of debtor prisons was something the Founders took as a very serious goal for their new country. So much for the Founders, they are trumped by the new private for-profit prison trend.

Thrown in Jail for Being Poor: the Booming For-profit Probation Industry
LAUREN GAMBINO – The Guardian (U.K.)/ The Associated Press

Many poor Americans face jail when they can’t pay steep fines for nonviolent crimes, like $1,000 for stealing a $2 beer

2014/03/032014/03/03

JZ: The Most Important Film on Education You May Ever See…

04 Education, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Academia, Cultural Intelligence

Jason "JZ" Liszkiewicz — Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz

This is a movie that has been in development for years and is still not finished partially due to lack of funds. It could turn out to be the most important movie on American education ever made.

http://www.nicolefilms.com/work/4thpurpose.html

I've emailed them twice in the last few years telling them to use Kickstarter.com or IndieGoGo.com but I think they have completely ignored this.

2014/02/272014/02/27

SchwartzReport: The Private Prison Racket

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement

Here is the latest in the For-profit American Gulag Trend. This is a truly shameful development.

The Private Prison Racket
MATT STROUD – Politico Magazine

EXTRACT:

As inmate populations have soared over the last 30 years, private prisons have emerged as an appealing solution to cash-starved states. Privately run prisons are cheaper and can be set up much faster than those run by the government. Nearly a tenth of all U.S. prisoners are housed in private prisons, as are almost two-thirds of immigrants in detention centers-and the companies that run them have cashed in. CCA, the oldest and largest modern private prison company, took over its first facility in 1983. Now it’s a Wall Street darling with a market cap of nearly $3.8 billion. Similarly, GEO Group, the second largest private-prison operator, last week reported $1.52 billion in revenue for 2013, its most ever and more than a hundredfold increase since the company went public ten years ago.