http://ignoregon.com/rss/corvallis Aggregated Blog Posts From Corvallis Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:42:51 +0000 en http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-secret-vote-counts.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-secret-vote-counts.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:51:00 +0000 Ron Paul Delegate Refused Entrance at Gingrich sponsored Jewish Caucaus.Excess Ballots Were Counted In Clark County, Nevada http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/they-love-all-seeing-eye.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/they-love-all-seeing-eye.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 02:39:00 +0000 Vigilant Citizen parses out Madonna's Superbowl halftime showThe performance can be seen in all it's Illuminati drenched imagery here. I had previously thought the 2000 Superbowl halftime with it's giant puppets was the most bizarre symbol ridden show. http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/oakland-shakedown.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/oakland-shakedown.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 02:20:00 +0000 Single Traffic Camera Generates More Than $3 Million a Year for City"California has the most expensive red-light camera tickets in the world - the fine is so steep that one camera in Oakland generates more than $3 million a year - and a Fremont man is launching a protest group to do something about that. If Roger Jones has his way, that freezing dread that knifes through a driver the moment he sees the overhead flash of a traffic camera will become a thing of the past. But he's facing quite an uphill fight against officials hungry for the cash the cameras sweep in and police who are convinced they make the roads safer. Anyone in California snapped violating a red light pays a fine of $480, and according to the traffic-watch site TheNewspaper.com, no other jurisdiction anywhere has a tab that high. The second-highest fine in the United States is $250, and it is usually more like $100. The Legislature passed two bills in the past two years that would have reduced the fine or limited the cameras' use, but both were vetoed. When he killed the most recent measure, Gov. Jerry Brown said the matter should be left to local jurisdictions. The state Department of Finance has estimated that red-light cameras bring in more than $80 million annually to the state and $50 million to cities and counties - and that, Jones and his supporters say, is the real reason they continue to snap away at motorists."destroying traffic cameras is a British national sport http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/complete-transparency-for-you-total.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/complete-transparency-for-you-total.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 02:03:00 +0000 According To The FBI, Internet Privacy Is Now Considered To Be Suspicious Activity"When you use the Internet in a public place, do you prefer to have as much privacy as possible? Well, that makes you a potential terrorist. According to the FBI, Internet privacy is now considered to be suspicious activity. If you are out in public and you attempt to keep snoopers from peeking at your computer screen, then according to the FBI they should gather as much information about you as they can and they should report you to the authorities immediately."FBI Enlists Internet Café Owners to Spy on Customers"The US government has developed massive surveillance capabilities to monitor communications, travel and financial transactions in this country and abroad. But, even the government cannot monitor everything Americans do�"not directly, anyway. Thus, it created the Communities Against Terrorism (CAT) program to enlist your friendly local businesses as spies for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The CAT program, funded by the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program (SLATT) is described as a “tool to engage members of the local community in the fight against terrorism.” The program interprets “local community” to mean businesses, and only registered businesses may access the program’s flyers listing “potential indicators” of terrorist activity. Each flyer is designed for a particular kind of business. For example, this list was prepared for owners of internet cafes. Unquestionably, someone planning a terrorist attack has engaged in one or more of the “suspicious” activities on that list. But so, too, have most of the estimated 289 million computer users in this country. The government’s flyer designates people as suspicious if they “always pay cash” at an internet café. That’s a jaw-dropping assumption considering that we’re talking about businesses that sell $2 cups of joe, not $600 airline tickets. Good luck paying with a credit card for a purchase under $10. Evidence that one has a “residential based internet provider” (such as Comcast or AOL) is another pretext for government snooping. If your home internet connection is unreliable, if you are on travel, or if you simply relish a good cup of coffee with your internet browsing, you run the risk of acquiring an FBI file. Trying to shield personal information on your computer screen from the prying eyes of others will mark you as a potential terrorist, also.It is officially creepy to use a café hotspot to download “photos, maps or diagrams” of a stadium, metro rail stop, or any “populated locations.” To be safe, confine your travel plans to the Alaskan tundra. And, should there be another terrorist attack, do not demonstrate any “preoccupation with press coverage” of the attack. Just move along�"nothing to see here."FOIA Review: More Government Secrecy Under Obama Than Bush"An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major government agencies has revealed that, despite Barack Obama's promise to make government more transparent, more information is now being withheld from the public. " http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/colbert-on-election-theft.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/colbert-on-election-theft.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 01:50:00 +0000 The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video ArchiveObama returns funding after word gets out it was from Mexican criminals http://catwomanflix.blogspot.com/2012/02/worn-out-and-inflamed.html http://catwomanflix.blogspot.com/2012/02/worn-out-and-inflamed.html Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:40:00 +0000 I am still wanting to doze off, sleep in other words, sore and worn out from the last Snipped trip with the 14 local cats. Always hits me worse about two days later. My hands don't want to work today, from inflammation in joints. My neck is sore. My mind is blurry. I set the trap again over at the better half of the side by side colonies. The side still letting me trap for the three left to http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/israel-to-us-well-give-you-war-you-give.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/israel-to-us-well-give-you-war-you-give.html Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:49:00 +0000 TARGETTING IRAN: The Dogs of War are off the Leash "In meeting rooms in London, Tel Aviv and Washington the dice have been thrown: snake eyes.Flashback, 1963: When John F. Kennedy decided not to escalate the soon-to-be disastrous Vietnam war and issued National Security Action Memorandum 263 (NSAM 263), he signed his death warrant.Scarcely six weeks after vowing to pull all American forces out of South Vietnam by 1965, Kennedy was dead, the target of an "executive action" orchestrated by the CIA, a coup d'état on behalf of America's corporatist masters--the military-industrial cabal of hardline cold warriors who stood to lose billions if Kennedy lived.That sweet little deal to "win" the war in Southeast Asia cost some two million Vietnamese lives, 58,000 dead Americans and precipitated an economic crisis which dealt a death blow to post-World War II prosperity and launched the United States on its inexorable glide path towards becoming a failed state.Flash forward to 2012: We have Barack Obama in the White House; a fraudster who promised "hope and change" and instead led his wilfully blind constituents into embracing the third term of a George W. Bush administration.Comparing Obama with Kennedy one can only conclude: They don't make bourgeois politicians like they used to!Following on from a decades-long drive to transform the Gulf into an "American lake" (under provisions of the so-called "Carter Doctrine," another "peace loving" Democrat), the coming war with Iran is a transparent scheme to ensure U.S. hegemony over the vast petroleum resources of Central Asia and the Middle East--to the detriment of their geopolitical rivals.U.S. and NATO naval forces on high alert threaten the free flow of oil in the Persian Gulf, the life's blood of the global capitalist economy.A war will lead to an oil price spike as Iranian, but perhaps also Saudi and GCC oil is removed in one fell swoop from the market, thereby setting-off a chain reaction that will exacerbate the West's economic decline--to the benefit of financial jackals waiting in the wings who will gobble up what remains of America and Europe's publicly-owned assets at fire sale prices in a desperate move to stave off the crisis.Currently, Iran is ringed with military bases. American, British and Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles keep silent watch. Aircraft carrier battle groups carry out provocative maneuvers. U.S. and Israeli drones routinely overfly Iranian territory. Scientists are murdered in orchestrated terror attacks. Defense installations are bombed.Economic sanctions, universally recognized as a prelude to war, strangle the Iranian people and their economy, all in the quixotic hope of inducing (coercing) "regime change" in Tehran.The U.S. media, reprising their role during the run-up to 2003's invasion and occupation of Iraq, are chock-a-block with scare stories that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are preparing to carry out terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States."When these "terrorist attacks" happen, you'll know who to blame.Israel-Iran War Would Quickly Spread http://oregonecon.blogspot.com/2012/02/picture-of-day-reality-check.html http://oregonecon.blogspot.com/2012/02/picture-of-day-reality-check.html Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:20:00 +0000 Yes the jobs report on Friday was very good, but here is your cold-water moment: things are still historically awful.Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart by Amanda Cox/New York Times.Horizontal axis shows months. Vertical axis shows the ratio of that month’s nonfarm payrolls to the nonfarm payrolls at the start of recession. Note: Because employment is a lagging indicator, the dates for these employment trends are not exactly synchronized with National Bureau of Economic Research’s official business cycle dates. http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/oregon-state-corvallis-collaboration-process-begins-02-06-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/oregon-state-corvallis-collaboration-process-begins-02-06-2012 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:01:00 +0000 This evening the Steering Committee representing Oregon State Universit http://www.writeidea.org/network-marketing-recruiting/network-marketing-recruiting-formula/ http://www.writeidea.org/network-marketing-recruiting/network-marketing-recruiting-formula/ Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:59:00 +0000 The technology nowadays had been improving in a rapid pace in which it allows the enlargement of the networks in our society, contributing to a higher potential reach towards more individuals in different places. The wide network coverage contributes to the easy reach of target audiences by the different industries such as marketing and business. [...] http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-20-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-20-2012 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:02:00 +0000 OSU/City Collaboration Steering Committee MeetingDate : 20 February 2012  &nbs http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/fascist-terror-drones.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/fascist-terror-drones.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000 CIA Tactics in Pakistan Include Targeting Rescuers and Funerals"The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed.The findings are published just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a ‘targeted, focused effort’ that ‘has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties.’Speaking publicly for the first time on the controversial CIA drone strikes, Obama claimed last week they are used strictly to target terrorists, rejecting what he called ‘this perception we’re just sending in a whole bunch of strikes willy-nilly’.‘Drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties’, he told a questioner at an on-line forum. ‘This is a targeted, focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists trying to go in and harm Americans’.But research by the Bureau has found that since Obama took office three years ago, between 282 and 535 civilians have been credibly reported as killed including more than 60 children. A three month investigation including eye witness reports has found evidence that at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up strikes when they had gone to help victims. More than 20 civilians have also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners. The tactics have been condemned by leading legal experts.Although the drone attacks were started under the Bush administration in 2004, they have been stepped up enormously under Obama."Stop and think for a moment how you would feel living under such conditions. http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/managing-perception-real-job-of-media.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/managing-perception-real-job-of-media.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:14:00 +0000 Reuters doing its part to make Iran the villain"Reuters: Iran says will hit any country used to strike its soil"Any spot used by the enemy for hostile operations against Iran will be subjected to retaliatory aggression by our armed forces"Fair enough, as wars go. Reuters begins by saying that Iran will strike back at any source of enemy fire, which would of course include US bases in ME countries. It's obvious the US doesn't have bases there for no reason. It has been planning a confrontration with Iran for a long, long time.But read the final paragraphs of the Reuters article, where the perception is shifted to that of Iran striking US bases and the US having to fire back in "self defence".That's what is called creative writing. Always end with the mental picture you want to instill." http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/transition-from-fairy-tale-to-post.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/transition-from-fairy-tale-to-post.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:54:00 +0000 Slab City"Slab City or The Slabs (located at 33°15′32″N 115°27′59″W) is a camp in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California, used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America. It takes its name from the concrete slabs and pylons that remain from the abandoned World War II Marine barracks Camp Dunlap there. A group of servicemen remained after the base closed, and the place has been inhabited ever since, although the number of residents has declined since the mid 1980s.Several thousand campers, many of them retired, use the site during the winter months. These "snowbirds" stay only for the winter, before migrating north in the spring to cooler climates. The temperatures during the summer are unforgiving; nonetheless, there is a group of around 150 permanent residents who live in the Slabs all year round. Most of these "Slabbers" derive their living by way of government checks (SSI and Social Security) and have been driven to the Slabs through poverty.The site is both decommissioned and uncontrolled, and there is no charge for parking. The camp has no electricity, no running water or other services. Many campers use generators or solar panels to generate electricity. Supplies can be purchased in nearby Niland, California, located about three miles (5 km) to the southwest of Slab City."Quartzsite AZ campingInside California's Tent Cities http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/war-is-their-favorite-justification.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/war-is-their-favorite-justification.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:11:00 +0000 And it's all they have left.Homeland Security Will Use The Excuse Of A Wartime Crisis To Liquidate The Resistance To The Police State"The threat that most unsettles the criminal U.S. ruling class is not the threat of Iran or the threat of terrorism, but the threat of a second American revolution, triggered by the political awakening of the American people.The scale of America's political awakening and mankind's political awakening is too demographically large and geographically widespread to manage, ignore, or suppress with traditional methods of control such as propaganda and the political manipulation of elections.The incredible rise of Ron Paul's popularity despite the media conspiracy against him as well as the growing influence of the global alternative media are proof that the American mass media has become an ineffective mind control tool.The murderous and traitorous owners of Homeland Security Fascism who staged the tragic 9/11 events know very well that the political awakening of the American people represents the biggest threat to their existence. The growing public awareness of deceptions and crimes by the bankster dominated U.S. government is causing a volcanic political and psychological rift between the American people and the globalist oligarchs.The rift is exposing a systemic crisis within American society, which has come about after decades of acts of injustice, murder, treason, and state terrorism against the American people by the hijacked American government.There's no way to put the genie of revolution and restoration back in the bottle of stability and security. The U.S. ruling class cannot crush and kill the rebirth of the American spirit of liberty because the people are wide awake now, unlike in the 1960s when JFK, RFK, and MLK were taken from America by the terrorists in the CIA/FBI.But the cannibalistic U.S. ruling class is not impotent and weak. It is trying everything in its power to revive the credibility of the war on terror, convince the American people that conspiracy theorists are wrong, and keep their illegal monopoly over money creation, the media, and the political process.The banking oligarchs and war lobbies think they can secure their control over the domestic agenda in America as well as the global agenda by engineering a war with Iran through false flag terrorism.On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Tony Cartalucci warned that the war criminals in the U.S. and Israel will stage a false flag attack on American soil to demonize Iran in his article, "US Intel Director Prepares Public for False Flag Event." Cartalucci wrote:Iran has nothing to gain and everything to lose by attacking the United States. US policy makers have expressed a documented desire to provoke the Iranians into a war the Islamic Republic is clearly trying to avoid. The United States government is on record funding, arming, and training terrorist organizations (LIFG & MEK) on it’s own “foreign terrorist organization” list,a violation of their own anti-terrorism laws. They have failed categorically to provide convincing evidence regarding the alleged “Iranian-Saudi assassination plot,” more over, the evidence suggests it is instead, the latest in a long string of contrived federal entrapment cases. If an attack occurs on US soil or against US allies in the near future under these circumstances, it is most likely Clapper, General Petraeus at the CIA, and Israel’s Mossad that will be to blame.Others in the global alternative media have raised similar red flags, thereby letting the war criminals in Washington and Tel Aviv know that they are on notice."I believe the psychos are sweating their next lolapalooza, but they have to try to pull it off to start the shitty little terror state's war on Iran. Sacrificing 3,000 americans on 9/11 proved that the insane murderers in this criminal syndicate called the US government will do anything to advance Eretz Israel, even sacrificing more american citizens with another false flag that might involve sinking an aircraft carrier or nuking a city.But an awful lot of people have woken up. Which is why they've rammed all their draconian police state unconstitutional laws down our throats in the last several months and have their detention camps oiled and ready.9/11 came as a surprise. the next shit will be instantly transparent.The murdering scum have reason to be nervous.Arab league monitors find slaughter in Syria the work of foreign-backed subversives http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/dr-frothy-mixture.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/dr-frothy-mixture.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:57:00 +0000 Santorum suggests abortion causes breast cancerLittle Ricky still bedeviled by that insidious google problem. http://rachelprickett.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/deluge-2012/ http://rachelprickett.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/deluge-2012/ Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:52:00 +0000 This is so 2 weeks ago, but I’m still having the occasional nightmares about my house being full of water.  Clearly I have PTSD due to the Great Mary’s River Flood of 2012.   Clearly the only therapy is to … Continue reading → http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/city-manager-focus-on-future-of-corvallis-02-04-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/city-manager-focus-on-future-of-corvallis-02-04-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:48:00 +0000 Saturday was a work session for the Corvallis City Council, City Manager Jim Patterson and each o http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/city-manager-focus-on-future-of-corvallis-02-04-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/city-manager-focus-on-future-of-corvallis-02-04-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:48:00 +0000 Saturday was a work session for the Corvallis City Council, City Manager Jim Patterson and each o http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/new-york-giants-win-super-bowl-xlvi-02-05-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/new-york-giants-win-super-bowl-xlvi-02-05-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:08:00 +0000 The New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 21-17 today in Super Bowl XLVI. The prognos http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/new-york-giants-win-super-bowl-xlvi-02-05-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/new-york-giants-win-super-bowl-xlvi-02-05-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:08:00 +0000 The New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 21-17 today in Super Bowl XLVI. The prognos http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-16-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-16-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:41:00 +0000 The annual Corvallis Boys and Girls Club All Service Club Luncheon will be held Thursday, Februar http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-16-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-16-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:41:00 +0000 The annual Corvallis Boys and Girls Club All Service Club Luncheon will be held Thursday, Februar http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/invasion-of-syria-underway.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/invasion-of-syria-underway.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:26:00 +0000 Armed Groups Inside Syria: Prelude to a US-NATO Intervention?"Russia and China have vetoed the UN Security Council draft resolution on Syria pointing to the existence of armed groups involved in the killing of civilians as well as terrorist acts. These armed groups have been involved since the outset of the "protest movement" in Daraa, southern Syria, in March 2011. The statement of Russia's envoy to the UN Viktor Churkin remains within the realm of international diplomacy. It does not mention who is behind these armed groups and the fact that NATO is supporting an armed insurrection. "Churkin said that resolution's Western co-sponsors had not included key proposals such as isolating the Syrian opposition from violent extremist groups or a call to arms for other states to use their influence to prevent such alliances". (Russia Today, February 4, 2012)Ironically, Russia's decision to veto the resolution is consistent with the report of the Arab League's Observer Mission to Syria, which confirms the existence of an "Armed Entity". Unexpectedly, however, neither Washington nor the Arab League, which commissioned the Observer Mission to Syria in the first place, have accepted the interim report presented by the AL Mission. Why? Because the Mission --integrated by independent observers from Arab League countries-- provides a balanced and objective assessment of what is happening on the ground inside Syria. It does not serve as a mouthpiece for Washington and the governments of Arab states. It points to the existence of an "Armed Entity"; it acknowledges that "armed opposition groups" including the Syria Free Army are involved in criminal and terrorist acts. "In some zones, this armed entity reacted by attacking Syrian security forces and citizens, causing the Government to respond with further violence. In the end, innocent citizens pay the price for those actions with life and limb. "In Homs, Idlib and Hama, the Observer Mission witnessed acts of violence being committed against Government forces and civilians that resulted in several deaths and injuries. Examples of those acts include the bombing of a civilian bus, killing eight persons and injuring others, including women and children, and the bombing of a train carrying diesel oil. In another incident in Homs, a police bus was blown up, killing two police officers. A fuel pipeline and some small bridges were also bombed. " "Such incidents include the bombing of buildings, trains carrying fuel, vehicles carrying diesel oil and explosions targeting the police, members of the media and fuel pipelines. Some of those attacks have been carried out by the Free Syrian Army and some by other armed opposition groups." While the Mission does not identify the foreign powers behind "the armed entity", its report dispels the mainstream media lies and fabrications, used by Washington to push for "regime change" in Syria. The AL Mission report also intimates that political pressure was exerted by officials of Arab League states to unreservedly support Washington's political stance.Moreover, the Mission was also pressured into upholding the lies and fabrications of the mainstream media, which have been used to demonize the government of Bashar al Assad: "Some observers reneged on their duties and broke the oath they had taken. They made contact with officials from their countries and gave them exaggerated accounts of events. Those officials consequently developed a bleak and unfounded picture of the situation." Iran and Syria sign defense cooperation pactRussia: Attack on Tehran is Attack on Moscow http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-17-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-17-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:51:00 +0000 Friday, February 17th – Mike Miller Trail and South Beach. Heading south on Hwy. 101 in our ca http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-17-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-17-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:51:00 +0000 Friday, February 17th – Mike Miller Trail and South Beach. Heading south on Hwy. 101 in our ca http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-09-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-09-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:48:00 +0000 THURSDAY, FEB. 9 (6:00 pm) GREENBELT LAND TRUST ANNUAL MEETING http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-09-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-09-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:48:00 +0000 THURSDAY, FEB. 9 (6:00 pm) GREENBELT LAND TRUST ANNUAL MEETING http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-03-01-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-03-01-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:40:00 +0000 THURSDAY, MARCH 1 (Fair 5-7 pm, Town Hall 7-9 pm)ANNUAL SUSTAINABILITY FAIR & TOWN HALL 20 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-03-01-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-03-01-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:40:00 +0000 THURSDAY, MARCH 1 (Fair 5-7 pm, Town Hall 7-9 pm)ANNUAL SUSTAINABILITY FAIR & TOWN HALL 20 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-25-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-25-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:38:00 +0000 SATURDAY, FEB. 25 (1:00 to 5:00 pm)THE LOCAVORE’S WINTER TABLEDiscover the abundan http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-25-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/events-02-25-2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:38:00 +0000 SATURDAY, FEB. 25 (1:00 to 5:00 pm)THE LOCAVORE’S WINTER TABLEDiscover the abundan http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/fascism-is-all-about-paranoia.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/fascism-is-all-about-paranoia.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:08:00 +0000 According To The FBI, Internet Privacy Is Now Considered To Be Suspicious ActivityWhen you use the Internet in a public place, do you prefer to have as much privacy as possible? Well, that makes you a potential terrorist.According to the FBI, Internet privacy is now considered to be suspicious activity. If you are out in public and you attempt to keep snoopers from peeking at your computer screen, then according to the FBI they should gather as much information about you as they can and they should report you to the authorities immediately.If this seems completely and totally ridiculous to you, then you are not alone. Millions of Americans have become deeply concerned about the constantly expanding definition of "suspicious activity" in the United States. Sadly, the federal government is now engaging in an all-out attempt to have us all spy on one another.All over America, the Department of Homeland Security is running ads promoting the "See Something, Say Something" campaign. They even had 8,000 stadium workers at the Super Bowl this year go through special training on how to spot potential terrorists. So the next time you see a hot dog vendor, keep in mind that he might also be part of a special anti-terrorism task force.The following are some quotes from a government document entitled "Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Internet Café". In between each quote, I have included some commentary. It is absolutely amazing what the definition of "suspicious activity" now includes...."Are overly concerned about privacy, attempts to shield the screen from view of others"Look, if I am doing some online banking, or am composing an email to a friend, I don't want someone peeking at my screen. Aren't most Americans "concerned about privacy," and don't most people want to keep their Internet activity to themselves?"Always pay cash or use credit card(s) in different name(s)"We have seen the government warn about this before. It appears that from now on using cash in America is going to get you labeled as a potential terrorist. How bizarre is that?"Act nervous or suspicious behavior inconsistent with activities"Some people are just naturally nervous. This kind of vague language could be applied to almost anyone."Are observed switching SIM cards in cell phone or use of multiple cell phones"What if your cell phone battery is dead and you need to use your wife's cell phone? Does that make you a potential terrorist?"Travel illogical distance to use Internet Café"A lot of times people will use Internet cafes when they are out of town on a trip. Is there something inherently suspicious about that?"Evidence of a residential based internet provider (signs on to Comcast, AOL, etc.)"Why in the world would this be considered to be suspicious activity?"Use of anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address"These are lots of people out there that take Internet security very seriously and that use things like this. And how would a casual observer know that these kinds of things are being used? You would have to be watching someone pretty closely to know that something like this is going on."Suspicious or coded writings, use of code word sheets, cryptic ledgers, etc."What would "suspicious or coded writings" include? Again, this is very vague language and could include a vast array of different things."Encryption or use of software to hide encrypted data in digital photos, etc."So nobody should use encryption anymore?"Suspicious communications using VOIP or communicating through a PC game"What exactly would fall under the category of "suspicious communications"?Also, if you are talking to someone through a PC game, there is a good chance that it is a very violent PC game and that you would say something that you normally wouldn't say in real life.You might say something like this: "Okay let's get the guys together and go kill the boss. We'll meet at the Gates of Endor in a half hour."According to the FBI, that could easily be labeled as "suspicious activity" that needs to be reported to the authorities.So exactly what are we being instructed to do if we see something suspicious?Well, the following is one of the action points from the FBI flyer...."Identify license plates, vehicle description, names used, languages spoken, ethnicity, etc."That sounds like something the KGB would ask people to do.You can view the complete FBI flyer right here." http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/life-under-jackboot.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/life-under-jackboot.html Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:41:00 +0000 Lawsuit Alleges Another Isolated Incident"According to the complaint, which made its way to Courthouse News yesterday, Cantu, a diesel mechanic, was making his lunch January 22, 2010, when he saw a few cops streaking across his yard. A deafening explosion shook the room as a flash bomb shot through the door. Nearly 20 officers crashed in. “Get on the ground!” they allegedly ordered him. Cantu, according to the complaint, obliged and was zipcuffed. Inexplicably, the filing claims, the officers kicked and punched him until he was unconscious, lying in a pool of his own blood on the kitchen floor. Meanwhile, they searched his house and allegedly didn’t find what they were after. Cantu’s alleged butcher’s bill: a broken orbital bone, a broken nose, a concussion, traumatic brain injury, a loss of vision in his left eye and loss of hearing in his left ear. According to his complaint, the “injuries required surgical intervention and caused significant scarring and disfigurement.” Cantu was arrested but never charged with a crime.This one gets stranger, in that there seems to be no record of the incident anywhere. And Cantu’s lawyers didn’t respond to the Dallas Observer’s request for comment."Most home invasions can be successfully defended with the right ammo. Most brain dead lizards wear type 2 vests that can be defeated by the following - hard cast lead bullets in any caliber, any ammunition bigger than .44 magnum, or small swift calibers like .22 magnum in handguns or similar small caliber rifle bullets.“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more �" we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/911-fascist-co-conspirator.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/911-fascist-co-conspirator.html Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:11:00 +0000 Just a couple of days after Black Tuesday, here's the Newt: http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/beware-ides-of-march.html http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2012/02/beware-ides-of-march.html Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:23:00 +0000 The Double Blow of Economic Collapse And World War Is Coming"The world economy is on the brink of a crisis that will end modern civilization as we know it. Nations, or I should say banking colonies, will collapse left and right. Global poverty and unemployment rates have risen to levels that are socially and economically unmanageable under the current global financial, political, and bureaucratic system which favours the few at the expense of the many. It is fitting that the collapse of Western Civilization is beginning in its ancient cradle, Greece. This great nation has fallen to the banksters who are behind the despotic new world order. In the article, "Art Cashin: Beware The Ides Of March--Or Maybe A Few Days Later," journalist Gus Lubin says that global investors are expecting a structured default to take place in Greece on March 20. Some people believe a Greek default and a collapsing global economy is a good and beneficial development for the planet, especially anti-growth radicals in elite and new age circles who are committed to the view that the planet is under attack from economic development and modern industrialization. They don't mind seeing nations like Greece go under. They justify their economic warfare and financial looting by saying the destruction of national economies is done for the sake of the environment. But the real reason for bankrupting nations such as Greece and America is to consolidate political power and create a global authoritarian police state. Nations that are not in the Banksters' sphere of political and economic influence like Libya are overthrown and bombed, and nations that are like America are pillaged and burned to the point of collapse."Finalizing WW3I've seen multiple warnings about world changing events a month from now.Paying attention and preparing for the last several decades, even moving to a more secure location with my wife, makes me more sanguine about weathering potential storms.A trip to Home Depot for garden preps and one last visit to Costco to become the Toilet Paper King when it all goes south and I can sit back with a bowl of popcorn. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BreakingWaves/~3/HB9D8-z1lCk/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BreakingWaves/~3/HB9D8-z1lCk/ Sat, 4 Feb 2012 15:55:00 +0000 The newest addition to Oregon State University’s research fleet, the R/V Oceanus, entered the Panama Canal today to make the transit from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, marking roughly the mid-point of the trip from her former home port at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to her new home at OSU’s docks in Newport, Oregon. [...] http://catwomanflix.blogspot.com/2012/02/pimped-out-scion.html http://catwomanflix.blogspot.com/2012/02/pimped-out-scion.html Sat, 4 Feb 2012 14:45:00 +0000 I was dog dead tired last night. I had made the trip to Snipped with 14 cats and instead of napping during the day, at some point, as usual, I worked doing laundry at the clinic, hoping they could get a break and not be there til 9:00 p.m. again. I got up at 3:30 in the morning, after five hours of sleep, to begin the day. I had "pre-slept" some, earlier in the day, however. I had to be in http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/marys-peak-winery-chardonnay-review-02-04-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/marys-peak-winery-chardonnay-review-02-04-2012 Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:59:00 +0000 Mary's Peak Winery is in the Boutique Winery Category. Mary's Peak Winery is located in Philomath http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/marys-peak-winery-chardonnay-review-02-04-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/marys-peak-winery-chardonnay-review-02-04-2012 Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:59:00 +0000 Mary's Peak Winery is in the Boutique Winery Category. Mary's Peak Winery is located in Philomath http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/mt-jefferson-and-the-sisters-02-04-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/mt-jefferson-and-the-sisters-02-04-2012 Sat, 4 Feb 2012 07:14:00 +0000 The past few days have been sunny and clear with endless visibility. These photos were taken from Hi http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/mt-jefferson-and-the-sisters-02-04-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/mt-jefferson-and-the-sisters-02-04-2012 Sat, 4 Feb 2012 07:14:00 +0000 The past few days have been sunny and clear with endless visibility. These photos were taken from Hi http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/stone-wolf-vineyards-pinot-noir-review-02-04-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/stone-wolf-vineyards-pinot-noir-review-02-04-2012 Sat, 4 Feb 2012 05:16:00 +0000 Bold, Robust, Quality, Enjoyment, all words th http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/stone-wolf-vineyards-pinot-noir-review-02-04-2012 http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/stone-wolf-vineyards-pinot-noir-review-02-04-2012 Sat, 4 Feb 2012 05:16:00 +0000 Bold, Robust, Quality, Enjoyment, all words th http://catwomanflix.blogspot.com/2012/02/14-local-cats-fixed-today.html http://catwomanflix.blogspot.com/2012/02/14-local-cats-fixed-today.html Sat, 4 Feb 2012 01:57:00 +0000 Five Crawfordsville ferals were fixed today, four of them girls. All three brown tabby tux girls were quite ill, but we decided to fix them anyhow, since this was their only chance. All survived and now will be housed and given some tender loving after care including antibiotics and wormer. In addition, Bitsy had a heart murmur, but survived nonetheless.Gracie, gray and white female, spayed