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Personal home page of Steven Raker.  Issues, opinion, history, ramblings, rants and sometimes demented musings, articles and scribblings on life and life's issues - life, death, politics, religion, happiness, sex, love, war, etc. selected or written by Steven Raker.  My links and scribblings are on the left Nav bar in various places.  Please visit Tiny Victims of Desert Storm  This is an issue every American should be aware of.  Iraq War Dead @ CNN.com

Issues, Opinions, History and Events

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cordyceps Sinensis Mushrooms for Health and  Bedroom Energy

 

The Hell of War Comes Home

 

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Websites of Interest

PRISON PLANET.com News Archive: 9/11 Prior Knowledge and Government Complicity

EconomyinCrisis.org    Council for the National Interest

Defense in the National Interest    Spychips.com    Water Wars   

National Priorities Project     TheCampaign.org

Global Food Supply Near the Breaking Point

Iran the next war (Rolling Stone)

 PopulationConnection.org   

America No. 1?

Timelines

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GlobalWarming1.net     EconomyinCrisis.org

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Big Brother is Watching in Amerika

It can be used on them - - - or it can be used on us!!!

 

Big Brother Really Is Watching

Current research focuses on three key areas. The first is recognition of gestures and so-called "microfacial expressions" -- a poker player might call them "tells" -- that flash across a person's face in about one third of a second. Some researchers say micro expressions can betray a person when he is trying to deceive.

The second area is analysis of variations in speech, such as pitch and loudness, for indicators of untruthfulness.

The third is measurement of physiological characteristics such as blood pressure, pulse, skin moisture and respiration that have been associated with polygraphs, or lie detectors.

 

According to a senior government official… ”There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously.” … One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect. In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and possibly even detention.

  

 CIA and Pentagon Deploy RFID “Death Chips.” Coming Soon to a Product Near You!

Radio-frequency identification tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed to or implanted within physical objects, including human beings. The chip itself contains an Electronic Product Code that can be read each time a reader emits a radio signal.

FBI “Going Dark.” Budget Request for High-Tech Surveillance Capabilities Soar

According to published reports, the company maintains a 45 megabit/second DS-3 digital line that allowed the FBI and other security agencies virtually “unfettered access” to the carrier’s wireless network, including billing records and customer data “transferred wirelessly.” Verizon and other telecom giants have supplied FBI technical specialists with real-time access to customer data.

 

Regarding The End of the World

ExitMundi.nl



Warren Buffet says . . .
The Future of the Corporation


Bailout for the People:

“The Cook Plan”
By Richard C. Cook


The American Dictatorship Institute

 

Do You Know the Country You Live in ??

 

 

 

 

 

USA We're Number 15??

The Issue of the Media.  Quotes on the Media

"There's really 5 companies that control 90% of what we read, see and hear.  It's not healthy."  ~ Ted Turner 2003

Top 5

(1) AOL Time Warner     (2) News Corporation     (3) Walt Disney Company     (4) Viacom     (5) Vivendi

"If media moguls control media content and media distribution, then they have a lock on the extent and range of diverse views and information.  That kind of grip on commercial and political power is potentially dangerous for any democracy."  ~  Chuck Lewis, executive directory of the Centre for Public Integrity 2004

"You don't get rewarded in commercial broadcasting for trying to tell the truth about the institutions of power in the country. . . . I think my peers in commercial television are talented and devoted journalists, but they've chosen to work in a corporate mainstream that trims their talent to fit the corporate nature of American life.  And you do not get get rewarded for telling the hard truths about America in a profit seeking environment . . ."  ~ Bill Moyers upon his retirement after 30 years in television journalism. 

"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media."  ~ Former CIA Director William Colby

The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media conducted a survey of regular political talk show listeners.  it said: "exposure to those programs is not significantly related  to even elementary tests of political information."

 

 

 

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National Endowment for the Arts survey: "the number of non-reading adults increased by more than 17 million between 1992 and 2002." 

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In 2002 National Geographic conducted a survey of young Americans. 

85% of those 18 to 24 years old could not find Afghanistan, Iraq or Israel on a map. 

56% couldn't locate India

30% couldn't locate the Pacific Ocean

Issues, News and Opinion

MSM (Main Stream Media) TV News is no place to get your news/views on issues if you want a good picture of what is going on.  It's basically entertainment.  First there's a news event.  Then you get the opinions about the news event.  Then the opinions about the opinions and so on.  Then you get the whole thing repeated over and over ad nauseam.  There is some redemption in their websites and specials but it is still Corpglomerate (corporate conglomerate) in nature.  The Internet is a better source (though Corpglomerate is there too) and you must be discerning and use that thing on top of your neck.  It's not just for show.

Try some of these for news, views, issues and discussion:

Online News and Opinion Links

 

Wars and Genocides of the 20th Century

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Do You Know Where You Are ??

Let's take a look at where we are and what we're up to!!

Somewhere in all this:

 

 Original Google image here

 You are on the third rock from the sun.  Which is actually a star.  A rather small out of the way star at that.  In a small out of the way galaxy known as the Milky Way There are, of course, billions of other galaxies.  Blue Star Galaxy  Sombrero Galaxy

It is a very old rock by our standards.  Another view

 

 

It is a rock that is fast becoming overcrowded and we are nowhere near being able to leave.  Unless changes are made we may be headed for a Dieoff.  Word Hunger will be an increasing problem as our resources decline.  Yet obesity is a major problem in America. 

Virtually all the energy available for life in our biosphere is made available through photosynthesis.  Global photosynthesis captures more than 10 times the total energy requirements of mankind for both food and fuels.  It was the origin of the fossil fuels we now depend on and may be the salvation of mankind.  If the breakthroughs come in time.

We live on a rock with 6 Billion other modified monkeys some of them nuclear armed and all of them dangerous.  A significant number belong to Bronze Age religions that tell them they are chosen by God to lead the other monkeys to slavation, oops, excuse me, salvation.  In my humble opinion Divinely Inspired Monkeys (DIM's) pose one of the greatest threats to basic freedoms, the species and the planet, that exist here on this wobbly little mud ball.  Osama is a DIM as is Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and George Bush. 

 

 

"Whenever we read ... the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind. And, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel." -- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

 

 

 

Actually we are now considered to be in the family of  Hominidae which includes the Great Apes.  Some may take offense.  (Some of the Great Apes that is)  Perhaps we should come up with another name for ourselves.  I vote for the Spunky Monkey.  (Someone should invent a Spunky Monkey dance.  I tried but caught sight of myself in the mirror.)  (The horror.  The horror.)

We haven't been around that long.  If all of history were a year the United States would appear on December 31, at 11:59:59.6 PM   (Timelines links) We have accomplished a lot.  But a what a cost.  Last century about 110 million people died as a result of war.  If I remember correctly the deaths due to war go up by about 50% each century.  So we can expect around 150 million+ to die in wars this century.  Of course our dwindling resources may increase that number and science could significantly increase it.

 We sure do love to tinker with stuff.  Glowing Monkey  And keep in mind genetics and biology may produce the weapons of the future.  These could produce a future Armageddon that could just about wipe us out.  Of course genetic weapons would be used to target enemies that are genetically different that the group running the scientist thereby leaving one group alive.  But every so often you get a bad scientist.  Or two.  Or apocalyptic types like Aum Shinriko who attacked a Tokoyo subway with Sarin.  I'll be gone by the time this stuff rolls around so you young'uns can worry about this particular problem.

We face perhaps the greatest challenge mankind has ever faced with global warming climate change starting and global peak oil coming up.  These issues should be on everyone's mind.  Let me tell you a simple truth.  You can't haul two ton of fertilizer in a one ton truck.  Sooner or later the population of the planet will have to stabilize.  We can do it ourselves or that old bitch mother nature can do it with her usual tools: Disease,  Starvation and War.  The choice is ours. 

 

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Deism

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 deist.info     uniteddeistchurch.org

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"I scribble, therefore I am." You have arrived on this site while it is in a state of disarray and unfinishedness.  It will always be thus.  Hopefully you will find something of interest. ~ Good links, hard truths, ramblings, rants  and sometimes demented musings on life's issues and events by the libertarian, deist, infidel to all the world's religions; Steven Raker; on life, happiness, war, religious issues, sex, love, religion, Etc."  And a lot of good and sometimes sobering scribblings from others.  

 Contact: stevenraker@yahoo.com

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