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		<title>Census Workers Marking GPS Coordinates of U.S. Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Livingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Census workers are on the streets of America. But they’re not just counting the number of people in each house. In fact, the census doesn’t even start until next year. Read this story to find out what the government has them doing now…]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The  United States Constitution calls for an enumeration (census) to be taken every  10 years to determine the number of representatives each state will send to  Congress. The next one is set to begin on April 1, 2010.</p>
<p>But  census workers are already on the streets of America, and they&#8217;re doing more  than just seeking the number of people in each household. They&#8217;re tasked with  marking the Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates of every house in America.</p>
<p>According  to the U.S. Census Bureau website, &#8220;This GPS technology allows us  to reduce the amount of time spent by census workers in locating addresses  while increasing productivity. Most importantly, by adding a GPS coordinate to  each housing unit, the Census Bureau is able to ensure that residents are  counted in the right location.&nbsp;This is important as the data are used to  apportion congressional representation and used to draw redistricting lines.&#8221; </p>
<p>But the  idea of mapping GPS coordinates for every front door in America reeks  of Big Brother intrusion. And it&#8217;s just a continuation of Big Brother  Government&#8217;s efforts to compile more and more data on each individual.</p>
<p>Already  the census goes far beyond its Constitutional charter of counting the  population. Census forms ask intimate questions that are not the government&#8217;s  business. </p>
<p>Information  such as income, description of your property, whether you have running water, a  shower or bathtub, type of heating system, the type of fees you have to pay in  your community, rental or mortgage payment amounts, education level, whether  you have insurance, whether you have a disability, how you get to work and much  more is requested on some forms. All of it beyond the scope of what our  Founders had in mind when they set up the enumeration.</p>
<p>All that  information is great for pencil-pushing, snooping bureaucrats and newspaper  editors writing statistical stories. But it&#8217;s much too much information for the  government to have on its citizens.</p>
<p>Now comes  the GPS coordinates as a further intrusion. As blogger Douglas V. Gibbs wrote  on his <em>American Daily Review</em>, &#8220;GPS  coordinates of your front door will make it easier for the government to  monitor you. The U.S. Census Bureau is simply an excuse&mdash;a harmless-looking  means of obtaining the front door coordinates. The creation of GPS coordinates  for front doors has nothing to do with the Census, in all honesty, no matter  how much the United States Government tries to convince you that it does.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why  would the U.S. Government desire the exact location of your front door to be  entered into their GPS data base when they already have the location of your  home in the system?&#8221; Gibbs asked.</p>
<p>How&#8217;s  this for a scenario? With the military stretched thin by fighting a two-front  war, what&#8217;s going to happen in the case of a national emergency?</p>
<p>Gibbs  posits that perhaps United Nations troops, many non-English speaking and  certainly unfamiliar with U.S. communities, would use them to locate the  neighborhoods they are required to police or the houses of people they are sent  to take into custody.</p>
<p>Certainly  foreign troops would be more willing than U.S.  soldiers to quell an uprising of U.S. citizens fed up with an  increasingly socialist/fascist government.</p>
<p>And who  can forget the scenes of smart bombs and tomahawk missiles, guided by GPS coordinates,  going through the windows and doors of buildings during the invasion of Iraq?</p>
<p>Who  thinks this is what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the census  into the Constitution?</p>
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		<title>Airport Body Scanners Too Revealing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Livingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will install naked body scanners in airports across the country this summer. These scanners reveal more than just weapons. They show a digital photo of the passenger's body beneath his or her clothing. Read this article and decide whether the TSA has gone too far to ensure security...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is the  Transportation Security Administration (TSA) looking for hidden weapons or  making pornographic movies? After looking at images from the naked body  scanners being deployed in U.S.  airports nationwide later this summer the answer is not so clear.</p>
<p>What is  clear is that these scanners reveal far more than hidden weapons. They reveal  every curve, nook and cranny in the human body and throw that image up on a  computer screen for a TSA agent to view.</p>
<p>Called  millimeter wave scans, the devices are set to replace the traditional metal  detectors that passengers must go through to get from the ticketing to the  boarding area of the airport.</p>
<p>The  technology was first implemented a couple of years ago as a trial in the  airport in Phoenix, Ariz. Similar machines were later put into  operation in New York and Los Angeles.</p>
<p>When the  TSA first began pushing the new technology it did so saying it would be used on  a voluntary basis by those who didn&#8217;t want to have a more invasive physical pat  down during a secondary screening.</p>
<p>In other  words, those suspicious-looking white-haired grandmothers who didn&#8217;t want a TSA  agent touching and feeling them all over would step into the machine so a TSA  agent could instead ogle their image.</p>
<p>But now  it&#8217;s not just the white-haired ladies, it&#8217;s everyone&mdash;children, teenagers, 20-somethings,  middle agers and old-timers&mdash;going through the image scanners. There remains an  option for those too squeamish to have their image made. You can step off to  the side and a TSA agent can pat you down.</p>
<p>TSA says  that the scanners will blur faces so no one will know whose body is being  revealed. And TSA assures you the image is deleted the instant the passenger is  cleared through the checkpoint. It also says only male TSA agents will view the  males and only female agents will view the females.</p>
<p>Well  that&#8217;s encouraging. We know there&#8217;s never been a man or woman who got their  jollies from looking at naked members of his own sex.</p>
<p>Besides,  the idea that the TSA is going to go to the trouble of separating the males and  females into special lines once the checkpoints get backed up during peak  travel times is unbelievable. And, in a news report demonstrating the working  technology at an airport there was but one computer terminal in the room and  the female agent was viewing a male scan. Later in the report a male agent was  viewing a female image.</p>
<p>While news  articles about the technology showed mixed reactions to the scanners by  passengers, the very idea that one would have to submit to a virtual strip  search just to travel on an airline should throw up all kinds of red flags. Big  brother government already has too much data on your finances, medical records  and shopping habits. This will give them a digital photo to go with it.</p>
<p>Thankfully  the American Civil Liberties Union is considering filing a lawsuit against the  TSA. Hopefully they&#8217;ll follow through.</p>
<p>If not, expect to have to reveal your naked body  at every public venue in the near future because, coming soon to a subway  station, stadium, concert hall and shopping mall near you, enhanced body  scanners for the viewing pleasure of government agents.</p>
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		<title>Homeland Security Out of Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Livingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Homeland Security" is a new phase of government out of control. U.S. authority is at war with the American people under the pretense of "war on terrorism."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Homeland Security&#8221; is a new phase of government out of control. U.S. authority is at war with the American people under the pretense of &#8220;war on terrorism.&#8221; This strategy is an age old Machiavellian system of building up external fear and using the emergency as an excuse for all kinds of domestic suppression.</p>
<p> What to expect:<br />
  • More censorship.<br />
  • Jailed dissidents.<br />
  • Expropriated property.<br />
  • Nationalization of bankrupt companies.<br />
  • Expropriation of savings and retirement funds with currency debasement (the massive creation of “money”).</p>
<p> How will the American people respond?<br />
  • People will finally dump the currency for gold/silver and barter.<br />
  • “Tax evasion” will escalate.<br />
  • Silent and open civil disobedience.<br />
  • Vast increase of political dissidence.<br />
  • Mistrust in government will spark bank runs as government freezes all bank accounts.<br />
  • Open hostility in the streets.</p>
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