I Will Not Be Represented, But Fracking Will.
It would seem as a voting citizen of the Common Wealth of Pennsylvania, my vote counted for nothing. Because they hold the majority the republicans decided that they don’t care one bit how the people feel about anything. They proved it with the way they are taking money from the Drilling companies.
In order to prevent the Pennsylvania legislature from creating reasonable taxation measures and necessary safety rules, the drilling industry has made more than $3 million in political contributions to Pennsylvania lawmakers since 2001. It has spent an additional $5 million on lobbying in Harrisburg in just the last three years.
And now with the way that they have cut up the districts, especialy ones with a major of fracking activity, which my district falls under. They also showed that they are the education party(snark) with the way that Corbett and his henchmen screwed the kids with their budget. You may say that I am a conspiracy theorist, but when your budget hurts the schools of the state and leans towards the drilling industry something is wrong. If you would rather cut the schools than tax the drilling industry at a fair rate not the laughable rate that was puked up in HB1950.
I was looking at the Redistricting Maps and it seems suspicious, how the Republicans grew into having areas that are being, or are soon to be, involved in Hydraulic Fracturing. Now put this together with, HB 1950, and the fact they want the loss of zoning by the municipalities and the gain by Harrisburg and what do you think is going to happen. I know some of the sleepers are saying, “They wouldn’t dare vote that in.” All I can say to those people is, “look at what they did to our schools with their budget. Look at what they are doing while peeking out of the pockets of the drilling companies.”
Here in the newly drawn up 15th district we get Rep. Jim Christiana Republican from Beaver County who’s record shows that he sides with the Drilling companies. In an article on his site he basically comes out and says that he is all for getting the Marcellus Shale by any means necessary.
“Hydraulic fracturing is absolutely essential to produce natural gas from the Marcellus Shale and other gas shales that promise to hold more than a 100-year supply of natural gas for our nation, which would go a long way in reducing our reliance on foreign oil,” Christiana said. “This clean and safe process has been used on more than one million wells and been the subject of more than 30 studies by various state and federal agencies. There are absolutely NO documented cases linking hydraulic fracturing to contamination of ground water.”
Hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), which has been used to stimulate production of oil and gas wells for more than 60 years and is currently used on more than 90 percent of wells drilled in the United States, involves pumping sand, water and several diluted chemical additives, which represent less than 1 percent of the mixture, into the rock to create a fracture allowing natural gas to escape for extraction.
I added the emphases in the letter to point out, he does not have or refuses to point out, even though the chemicals may only be just over 1%, with a spill it can and has destroyed well water and killed farm animals and wildlife. At a local lake it has killed fish and other aqua life not once but three times. Also drilling companies have been allowed to drain the lake six to eight feet also killing the aqua life. They have done the same in local creeks and streams.
I think that this redistricting should be looked into and check to see if the republicans who drew it up this way, got any political or financial gain. (I know this happens every ten years, but this time it is just a bit strange [to me] the way it was drawn up.) If it turns out this is the case, let the courts handle it from there. (Oh yea, it was a court-appointed Chairman, a Republican judge from Delaware County, casting the swing vote.)
ABA
The Media is Turning This Around, Headline: Did 911 Give Mother Ok To Shoot Intruder.
[This is not a blog on whether or not she should have shot, or if the operator gave her permission. This is about how the MSM is spinning this.]
I knew it would only be a matter of time until this was turned around and someone other than the persons who were breaking into the home of the 18-year-old mother, were blamed for the elimination of one of the intruders.
This morning as I was writing on the Military cuts by this administration, I noticed an article asking, “Did 911 Give Okla. Mom Permission To Shoot Intruder?” (Yes it is in the Huffington Post so I had to read it.)
I along with hundreds of thousands have heard the 911 tape and no the operator did not give permission to shoot. Why are they drawing this out and why are they trying to spin this?
I believe that this person did what was called for to protect her child, and herself. If anybody says they would not have done the same thing they are either liars or really, really stupid and I feel sad for their children.
Below I point out how they spin and use their word placement to try to sway the readers.
A teenage mother shot and killed an intruder after a 911 operator said she was allowed to defend her infant son and herself with force.
In that first paragraph, the writer tries to hang the mother and operator right off the bat. By pointing out that she was a Teenage Mother shot and killed.
Then the writer says, the operator gave the mother permission to do what she has to do to protect her baby. Anyone that has listened to the 911 tape knows that the operator did not give permission, but said to do what she felt she had to.
“I’ve got two guns in my hand — Is it okay to shoot him if he comes in this door?” McKinley asked the 911 operator.
“I can’t tell you that you can do that, but you do what you have to do to protect your baby,” the dispatcher told McKinley when she asked a second time. The call went on for 21 minutes as the men powered their way into McKinley’s house.
The writer does put the what the operator’s response was to the mother’s question the second time, but does not tell what she said the first time. The first time the operator tells her straight out I can’t tell you that you can do that. However, as I said, the writer tries to sway you in the first paragraph.
Ps. I am really interested in what people think about this and would you have done the same thing.
ABA
As the New Year begins, I would like to mention something that most of the citizens of The Common Wealth Of Pennsylvania did not know happened. There has been a major redistricting of our state. In my opinion, it was a power grab by the Republican Party.
However, instead of bitching like I normally do I have decided to explain why I feel here in my area are losing a great Representative.
Pa. Senate Bill 1249 One of Many Bad Moves, (Because of How They Cut The Pie)
This is why we are losing Jesse.
With the passing of the Pa. Senate Bill 1249 we here in the 46 District are losing a good friend who took up the fight for people in our area. Jesse White always fought for the betterment of this area.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Jesse twice. Once at a meeting at the fire hall where he was on a panel explaining the sewage project when it was in the beginning stages for our area.
Jesse was outside before the meeting talking with a few people and introduced myself, and he told me he knew me from FaceBook and my blog. I was impressed. What really impressed me though was he and his staff had all the information needed for those in need of financial help for their connection. Also he answered every question he was asked, without hesitation.
However, the first time I met the man was in that very same building. It was a meeting or may be the better terminology would be discussion on getting a police force for our township and should we join the township with a neighboring township. Jesse took the time to explain all the pros and cons of the move to join the townships and the cost to try to make it happen. (In detail.)
The other speaker was a gentleman that was running against Jesse. When it was his turn to speak he had little to no knowledge of what or how to do it and turned the meeting into a whistle-stop for his Champaign. When he was done he made an excuse and left. Jesse on the other hand stayed and talked to anyone that had questions. I am a man who judges people on first impressions and Jesse made a great first impression with me.
When Marcellus Shale became a hot topic in the region Jesse let the people know right up front, he feels that The Marcellus Shale boon in this area is a good thing for our economy and he is for It. However, he feels the drilling companies should not be allowed to come in to the area and ride roughshod over the citizens and the land. He also does not feel that the politicians in Harrisburg should make zoning decisions in the municipalities and is fighting to stop that from happening and keep zoning in the hands of the local authorities. This is one of the reasons he is working to change Pa. House bill1950.
Jesse brought the municipalities together and formed a Coalition to work out their differences, inform them of their rights, and to help them do what is best for the people of their communities. By doing this, he gave them a forum to air their problems and time for them to get answers to their questions.
Jesse played a key role in bringing sewage systems to many municipalities who because of the cost or other reasons didn’t have them.
We here in Independence Township, Washington Co. Pennsylvania, are losing a State Representative who fights for the people of his district on so many levels they can’t all be listed here. However, I would like to thank Jesse and his staff for all they have done for me and the others in the Western Washington county area.
Jesse White, You sir are a true advocate for the people. You will be missed not only by myself, but by the others in the area, as we lose the passion you have for the people of your district. Like the song says, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” Thank-You for everything you do and have done for us.
ABA
I Promise Right Here and Now, To lead a Political Attack On Anyone That Backs, The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) or The Protect IP Act (PIPA)
That title would hold more weight except, it will be hard to do with the Site shutdown. If these bills or just one of them pass it will be hard for the citizens voice to be heard on the internet.
In both of these acts PIPA the Senates bill, and SOPA the House bill most political blogs will more than likely shutdown or receive no space in search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. There is a section in the bills that,
Some have asserted that the controversial measures would criminalize pages and blogs that link to foreign websites dedicated to online piracy. In particular, this has concerned search engines like Google, which could face massive liability if some form of the bill passes, some say.
The reason for this is “A Nanny State” The reason given by the legislators who back this bill is, to protect the people of The United Sates. The entertainment industry has their greedy paws in it along with the NFL, Walt Disney, and many others.
Listen to Walt Disney, the NFL, Eli Lilly and a slew of entertainment and manufacturing companies, and you’ll hear that the Internet is a lawless Wild West: Congress is only trying to be the sheriff and save American jobs, make sure writers and artists are paid and protect the public from fake Viagra and Coach bags peddled online.
Listen to Google, Facebook, PayPal and other Web companies, and you’ll hear that an online Armageddon is near: Bills now pending in Congress to thwart online piracy would violate free speech, destroy the technological underpinnings of the Web and hinder the user-generated innovation like the next YouTube or Twitter
Emphsis was placed by me
Again I ask, “How stupid does this administration think we are?” These laws are nothing more than a grab for total control of every aspect of the citizens life. As far as the NFL, Disney, the rest of the entertainment industry, manufactures, and pharmaceutical companies, “If you put a good product out there at a reasonable price you would have to worry a lot less about counterfeit knockoffs.
These bills will pass seeing that we don’t have the money or the lobbyists that these MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR COMPANIES do. And if there is anything that we have learned from these last three years our government is for sell to the highest bidder.
ABA
Ps. Just a quick example of what this means to the average person. Say you want to put a video of yourself singing with a recording of you favorite artist up on YouTube to share with friends and family unless it belongs to the public domain you will be fined and possible jail time. And don’t get caught downloading movies or songs, the penalties will be a lot stiffer.
And “For The Love Of Pete” dismiss this warning.
“This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent is prohibited.”
ABA
T’is The Season To Run Ron Paul Out.(It Happens Every 4 Years)
[Right up front: I don’t endorse any person for the presidency as of this time. This is just an observation on my part.]
It’s that time of the cycle, “To Run Ron Paul Out” of the Presidential Primaries. This is done by the other candidates painting him as, a Conspiracy Theorist, Racist, Nut Job. Then there is that other thing that has crept in over the last three decades, The President has to be “Good Looking”. During the 2008 election you don’t know how many times I heard, “Oh My God, Obama’s so hot.” Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were also in that category with some female voters. However, that is another blog.
Ron Paul was interviewed by The Hill the article written by Jonathan Easley.
Congressman Paul tells how National Defense Authorization Act which was passed earlier this month will lead even further down the slippery slope the country is on.
Ron Paul warned that the National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by Congress this month, will accelerate the country’s “slip into tyranny” and virtually assures “our descent into totalitarianism.”
I went over to one of my least favorite blog sites The Daily Kos, to see if there were any reactions to Obama guaranteeing that he would sign this version or the bill. There were and I was not surprised most of the writers and comments were bending over backwards. (Not so much as defending, but making excuses about the wording and interpretation of the structure of the bill.) Which is what they do over at the Kos.
Now for years we have heard words like, Totalitarianism, Tyranny, Despotism, Socialism, Fascism, and the all time favorite communism. Seeing as Ron Paul suggest and rightly so, that this bill, “virtually assures our descent into totalitarianism.” Should I take for granted that everyone know what totalitarianism literally is? So for the sake of argument I have added the definitions.
1. arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.
2. the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler.
3. a state ruled by a tyrant or absolute ruler.
4. oppressive or unjustly severe government on the part of any ruler.
5. undue severity or harshness.
Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed: “A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
First usage was in 1926 it was used to reference Italian Fascism. Totalitarian is used to describe an on party political state that regulates every aspect of a person’s life. This was the type of government that George Orwell used in the Novel “1984”.
The argument that is being made is that the wording (which is tricky), Supporters of the bill say that those being detained will only be detained until the war is over. However since the United States is being declared a war zone in the “War on Terror” a war that theoretically will never end, it is indefinite detention.
Section 1021 and 1022, controversial to the general public, were perceived as threats to the Bill of Rights and the freedoms of America. They allow for the indefinite military detention of potential terrorists, challenging the general judicial status of “innocent until proven guilty.” This most recent addition of the NDAA has critics that say it puts not only civil liberties in danger but also that it is an aggressive but futile attack in the War on Terror.
Despite the act passing overwhelmingly, it is viewed by many as a large threat to the privileges of American citizens. Addressed by many major publications negatively, it also received a direct video message from Anonymous in an attempt to expose the chicanery of the act and its potential consequences.
ABA
We all remember the 700 billion bailout of the Banking/Credit industry that will be close to 1 trillion, or more. Well now that Paulson said that was not the way they would handle it, but instead they would buy interest in the banks. Are you pissed off , or are you apathetic. You probably are one of the majority of people that didn’t hear him call for a one world currency. To be truthful those weren’t the words he used, however that is what he meant.
Now if we go back to the so-called emergency and how they got the “Bailout Package” passed. The way they did it, with threats, against them and the people of the United States. According to California Congressman Brad Sherman, some members of congress were told that the country would soon be in a depression and martial law would be invoked if the Package was not passed. Now that to me means that we were threatened with a Military Coup. To threaten to use the military to force people to do what you want is——well lets face it, what the US has been doing to other countries forever. However, we are seeing things rear their ugly heads, the “Founding Fathers” warned and paced previsions to protect against. Although, when they are removed (by the Patriot Act) these threats will continue. The other major threat to the citizenry is Presidential Directive 51, which allows anything to be considered a National Emergency, and Martial Law to be invoked.
Below is the video of Brad Sherman telling of the threats made.
More below video.
There is a longer version of this video at YouTube ,it is more in depth from the speech. Congressman Sherman tells of a pamphlet that he handed out to Senators and other Congressperson before he took the floor. It can be found here: It seems that it was taken down , but I don’t know why, although I can venture a guess. I did find this more lightly written and more over apologetic Press Release
ABA
Economic Troubles Could Mean an Attack, EMPs, and Threat Warnings?
Well here we go again, US intelligence is now warning that because of the worlds economic troubles the U.S. is in danger.
The reason being given is, as fragile countries like Pakistan begin to have their economy weaken it will become harder for the US and allies to maintain a positive relationship. This would allow factions in the most dangerous part of the world to gain strength.
U.S. government officials and private analysts say the economic turmoil has heightened the short-term risk of a terrorist attack, as radical groups probe for weakening border protections and new gaps in defenses.
They also feel that the western countries having to cut back on defense will add to the problems. As China is gaining powers, the US in weakening, and may change the look of the world order.
The crisis could also accelerate the shift to a more Asia-centric globe, as rising powers such as China gain more leverage over international financial institutions and greater influence in world capitals.
Acording to CIA Director Michael Hayden, there is no hard evidence that this is happening. This would lead me to believe, these departments are pushing the fear card as they are jockeying to avoid cuts under the incoming administration. The things that worked under the Bush administration will work if you keep the public scared out of their head. Intelligence officials are pointing to, the last two administrations being tested early on in their first terms. Bill Clinton in 1993, and of course George W. Bush 9-11-2001.
EMP attack Really?
Ever since the win by Barrack Obama, the right-wing pundits have been talking about an EMP attack, and the fact that Iran has been blowing the missiles up at the height of there flight. So I started researching the Electronic Magnetic Pulse attack. Most know an electro magnetic pulse (EMP) attack could be triggered by a nuclear warhead detonated at high altitude over America. The resulting blast would create an EMP, a shockwave that could “cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure.” Even if it does not kill on the initial explosion, it will eventually do the damage. However, there is a way in which it can be done without a detonation. There is a report called USA Wake Up that is the conclusion of a study on EMPs, The damage that will be caused, possible prevention. In the report they mention an incident that was caused by a ship setting 25 miles off of the San Diego coast.
Taken from the report (Page 3, Chapter 1)
In November 1999, San Diego County Water Authority and San Diego Gas and Electric companies experienced severe electromagnetic interference to their SCADA wireless networks. Both companies found themselves unable to actuate critical valve openings and closings under remote control of the SCADA electronic systems.
This inability necessitated sending technicians to remote locations to manually open and close water and gas valves, averting, in the words of a subsequent letter of complaint by the San Diego County Water Authority to the Federal Communications Commission, a potential “catastrophic failure” of the aqueduct system.
The potential consequences of a failure of this 825 million gallon per day flow rate system ranged from “spilling vents at thousands of gallons per minute to aqueduct rupture with ensuing disruption of service, severe flooding, and related damage to private and public property.” The source of the SCADA failure was later determined to be radar operated on a ship 25 miles off the coast of San Diego.
One would have to wonder, what would be the cause for the sudden concern by the talking heads. Well one reason has to do with the Missile Defense System that the US wants to put on Poland’s border. But is that all? I would have to say no. There is always the need to keep the citizenry in fear, and by letting the thought of a possible EMP attack looming over their heads it becomes the perfect scenario. On one hand, you have Obama saying that he will take the diplomatic approach, and his followers approve of this. Then on the other hand, you have the right-wing war supporters who do not believe in being diplomatic, know if you can keep the country fearful and divided, their job becomes easier.
Threat Warnings?
Maybe it is shear coincidence that Biden, Powell, and now Hal Turner, are saying that there will be a crises in the very near future. Although Joe b
Biden said with in 6 months, and Colin Powell says it will be in January 2010. Turner is more mystical about it and a bit spooky. Below is a small excerpt from Hal Turner’s web-site. For the whole story click here
My Fellow Americans: Something incredible and historic is about to take place here in our country. When it does, the nation will reel in shock and awe at the coordination and execution of such a vast, sudden, dramatic and irreversible series of events.
Every once in awhile, people have to do things they know are bad in order to achieve things they know are good. America as a nation is at such a cross-roads. We are left with two choices: either accept the debauchery, manipulation and usurpation that have taken place, or correct those problems with deliberate and direct action.
Further down in the article he speaks of something that has not been done since 1941. The government is sending “General Mobilization” letters to retired military personnel of all ranks no matter their age.
UPDATE: 9:11 AM 20 November 2008 — The government knows “something big” is coming; they just don’t know what.
They are mailing “general mobilization” letters to EVERY former member of EVERY branch of the U.S. military, no matter their age or physical capability, telling them to prepare for recall into the armed forces for a “general mobilization.” The last time the USA made a general mobilization was in December, 1941.
That’s how big this “thing” is going to be. Prepare yourselves and DO NOT be afraid.
What are these three men talking about? Is it some great religious event, a government crisis, a revolution on the rise, an attack on the country, or World War Three? Is it a possibility that they are telling of the coming of the North American Union. What ever it is they need to be more specific, and prove this is not just another case of the, “Little Boy Who Cried Wolf”.
ABA
Ps. Below is a video that I found on Youtube, that explains how the EMP works.
I Will Not be Silenced
The thought of someone trying to shut me up with threats strengthens my voice. When a man is pushed to be silenced for speaking the truth, it is time for those who truly walk the walk to stand up, and fall in line behind him. No longer should we stand muted to the wrongs that are decimating our rights, but stand and make those who would do such things pay.
We are about to see the change of faces not ideas. If anything they will make worse the conditions for the middle class and working poor. They take our tax dollars and feed them to the corporations and the rich, so that they will thrive, forcing the rest to beg for their own money. They have convinced others that their wealth belongs more to the rich, than themselves.
Well I for one will not lie as I am beaten, told to lay quietly as I am robbed by the ones I refused to put in power. I will scream at the top of my lungs until I am silenced. It is for the youth, and those who cannot speak I do this. Not those who would follow blindly, as not to anger those who feed them. I fight for mine and ours, that they might see a brighter day
If mine is not a just fight, then I have become that which I hate. No better that the lowest form. And if I am unjust, I will surely be lost. However if I am right, those who I oppose will try to quiet myself and those who share my passion, and then it will not be long until they will lose.
ABA
What the Hell, 20,000 troops in the Cities! Why?
I have known that this was going to happen for awhile now, but the Washington Post is reporting, that by 2011 the military will have 20,000 troops in cities and they are saying it is to help with the people during a nuclear disaster. Now we here on the so-call fringe new this going to happen, since George Bush did away with “Posse Comitatus” during hurricane Katrina. Yea you remember, Bush stood in the well lit Court Yard, while the rest of New Orleans was in dark and the people starved, and waiting on help.
This group that now controls the country, has been trying to remove the Posse Comitaus Act of 1878 for a long time now. They have been saying that it does not apply in this times, “when these are the exact times it does apply to”!
There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military’s role in domestic law enforcement.
But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The Bush administration managed to remove an Act that did not allow one states National Guard, to go into another state to take control of the population. That Act was done away with under Bush.
I don’t hear any outrage from the MSM about this move. They are lulling you into a comatose state once again. They are getting ready to put the country under a deep police state, where the police have tanks, jets, and technological weapons that will devastate the population into submission. So we can stand now or cower in the corner. However, if you cower be prepared for you children to suffer.
ABA
Wal-Mart the Family Friendly, Employee Hostile Department Store.
I usually would not write about Wal-Mart because I would be a hypocrite, seeing as my family shops at Wal-Mart. However, seeing as a lot of what is happening could be prevented, by compassion for their workers. The Black Friday incident could have been made safer by spending a little more of the money they save by screwing over their employees on pay and health benefits. By adding more security it could have been made more orderly.
Some are saying the way the ads were presented in away that caused people to riot, however that cannot be blamed on Wal-Mart, people are naturally assholes. When you are running over top of someone to get a toy you should stop and help that person. If that would have been a child, child those who stampeded would be hunted down like dogs. I have not been following the case, but I hope they have it on security cameras.
As I said before, my family does shop at Wal-Mart and what can you do in this economy. I mean there are not many stores that have the buying power of Wal-Mart, and can keep price controlled enough to run smaller businesses out of business. As I use to tell people, buy shopping at Wal-Mart you are killing the community and putting yourself. Well they would just laugh and continue on their way. Now those people are either out of a job, or working at a chain store.
Now that chain stores employ a large part of the community, lay pay below average wages and employ mostly part-time help to get around paying benefits. This is why most Wal-Mart employees are eligible for food stamps, and welfare health benefits.
Employees are being forced to work over time for free, they have been locked in the store overnight. I belong to “Wal-Mart Watch” a group that keeps an eye on Wal-Mart. Below is a video of employees telling their experiences.
It is sad that people have to work under these conditions. Yes, I have heard what some of you are thinking, “just quit and get another job.” That would have been ok in anther time and a better economy. However now people are forced to get and take jobs where they can. Although I don’t think it’s going to happen, I hope all the Obama-tons are right and this will get better.
ABA
Does This Send a Shiver Down Your Spine? (It Should)
For a while now, we have been hearing about a case in which a lawyer from Pennsylvania took it upon himself to challenge wether or not Barrack Obama’s birth certificate is real or not, and if he is a Naturalized Citizen.
Philip Berg, a Democrat and former Assistant Attorney General for Pennsylvania, brought suit alleging that under the Natural Born Citizen Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Obama is ineligible to be President.
The judge overseeing the case made a ruling that was a bit disturbing in that it says, (Paraphrased) A citizen does not have the right to sue to enforce the Constitution, without the backing of Congress. Scary right? Well that’s not the all of it.
Judge Surrick states that citizens may not sue to enforce the Constitution without statutory authorization from Congress.
That concept would result in tyranny.
The United States Supreme Court by not hearing the case, upheld that ruling. No matter what your reasoning is, you knew that the ruling would go for Obama. However, that is not the concern. The concern is, they let it stand that a ordinary citizen (like You and I,) cannot defend the Constitution when we see it being trampled on.
I have the feeling, a door has been opened that will be hard to shut, and will allow future constitutional cases to go with out being heard. This will make it harder for the citizenry to take back what the last eight years have taken from them.
ABA
U.S. and Canadian Economic Troubles Move us ever closer to the NAU
It seems that economic boom was short lived for Canada, the Canadian banks have had to cut their interest rates to 2.2% on home loans. Further more, due to the sharp decline in the price of oil, coupled with the global economic down fall, the Canadian people are feeling that it wont be long until, (you fill in the blank.)
If things were not bad enough for our neighbors to the north, their government is in a political turmoil. It seems that Prime Minister Steven Harper, (one of George Bush’s NAU buddies) has gotten Parliament suspended until after the New Year. This is a move that has and may even do more to weaken the confidence of the Toronto Stock Market.
But it’s merely delayed any direct impact the political fighting might have on equity markets, and thrown one more complication into the mix faced by market players.
Indeed, most analysts agree if there is any impact on Toronto stocks to be felt from the Ottawa stalemate it is the added uncertainty it brings to a market already battered by tumbling commodity prices and gloomy economic data.
Whether or not most Canadians like to admit it, they are seeing their beautiful country decaying from the inside out thanks to the U.S. intervention.
This past Monday’s big retreat was not all due to constitutional battling however, as sliding commodity prices, gloomy U.S. economic news and an urge to lock in profits after six days of gains all contributed to the big sell off.
That led some analysts to surmise it would be difficult, if not impossible, to isolate the direct influence the Ottawa fighting has had, or will have, on the market.
WHY?
This is all taking place for a reason, and that would be the preparations for the North American Union. In the many different documents on the Building of the North American Community, it is often mentioned that the economy will be brought DOWN to a level playing field. With weakened economies, the dissolving of sovereignty will become less difficult.
For those who think that the NAU is a conspiracy theory, think back to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, during a press conference on the bank and credit bailout said quickly, (paraphrased) The US cannot remain sovereign, and compete globally. So I have to ask, “What the hell do you think that means?” Well you think about those things and I will get back with you.
ABA
The Question is Who Threatened Martial Law
While I was watching “60 Minutes”, when the piece on Barney Frank came on, and they got into the way he handled the writing of the Financial Bailout with Secretary Paulson. (You know the bill that was written, which gave Paulson complete control over the dispersing of the money.) While they were talking about the way Frank is nicknamed, Saber Tooth Tiger and how he attacks, for what he believes in. Now with that in mind I can move on.
While that piece was on, I remembered how California Rep. Brad Sherman said that members of congress were threatened that if the Bailout Bill didn’t pass the second time a round there would be martial law. However, he did not tell who made these threats. I really doubt that he will, if he wants to remain in good health, or hold on to his position. I wrote on the threat in Did the Bankers Threaten …. Now what I was thinking, and remember I have no evidence to back this assertion., however it seems to points to one of two people, or maybe both, Barney Frank and/or Secretary Paulson.
Below are snipits from Brad Sherman’s press release.
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, October 2nd, I stated on the floor of the House of Representatives that, “The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. That atmosphere is not justified. Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday, that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no. That’s what I call fear mongering, unjustified, proven wrong.”
Now the part of the press release below shows a total turn around from the way he presented it at the debate on the floor. I feel that he was threatened and had to back down. There again, who did it?
Speaking during the second House debate on the bailout bill, I was describing what I regarded as the increasingly unbelievable things that had been said while the House considered the bailout package – extreme things put forward as reasons why Congress had to pass that bill right away.
I urged my colleagues not to take the extreme statements seriously and urged them to defeat the bill. It should be clear from the context of my speech that I did not believe that martial law would be declared under any circumstances and I did not think that such absurd and outlandish comments should cause members to vote for the bill.
Please watch this video again and decide for yourself if he was putting forward that threats were being used to try and get this bill passed.
There is more below the video.
Now I know some of you probably think this doesn’t matter, but if I am right it now becomes proof we are not represented, but can be threatened with out any recourse. I think a friend of mine put best when she said, “They don’t have to sell a product anymore, we are being forced to pay for it. They have cutout the middle man.”
ABA
Bailout or Bankruptcy, Reality or Threat?
As we head to the Christmas holiday, the question still looms. Will it be more cost effective to Bailout the “Big 3” or let them go under? It is a good guess that if they go under they will crush what is left of this floundering economy. However, if they get bailed out they will be back for more in the all too near future
The latest news is that Ford and GM will take the low interest loans from the Government. However, if we let the Big 3 go down will it cost the country more than if we bail them out. I really don’t have the answer to that. What we have to look at is the cost of a bankruptcy. If they file for bankruptcy, they are relieved of there financial responsibilities, which means, we the tax payers will pick up the cost of Warrantees of cars already sold at that time. Also, we the tax payer will pick up the cost of pension packages of those already in retirement. Then we will have to deal those hundreds of thousands that lose their jobs.
Now, let’s say that they take the bankruptcy route and the tax payers pick up these cost. As I stated above we will be left with, pensions, warrantees, and other miscellaneous costs that will also go into the billions, and more likely trillions. On the other hand if they get bailed out, we the tax payer will end up paying much more on the hope that something that has been failing for over a decade will regain strength. Under this plan the companies have said that they will be laying off workers also. The republicans that went against the proposed bailout plan, have said it does not go deep enough. By that they meant among other thinks was, not enough works would be let go. As I see it, either way this goes, does not look economically feasible for the tax payer.
Personally
We are headed to a point in this nations soon to be history, when we have to bite the, “Preverbal Bullet”, letting it fail and rebuild from scratch. We are going to have to do away with the “Free-market System” as it is being called, (however, is resembling a Fascist State more everyday.) and rebuild as a Capital-Social economy. An economy in which the people have more of a say and the local governments have control over their resources, and utilities. What we are witnessing at this point in time is socialism for the corporations, that is not benefiting the people.
In the plan laid on the table today by the Bush administration, the “Big 3” will receive low interest loans that will be paid back only if the Company/Companies show profit. (Now there is a deal we all would like to have.) It will end up being as good, if not better than what the financial institutes received. This will be a lose/lose deal for the American People.
I realize, that most of us don’t understand the whole of finance, but you don’t have to be a Rocket Scientist to know this sucks, and is not in our best interest.
ABA
War College Tells of Military Preparedness for National Economic Unrest.
The US War College is preparing for Civil Unrest in the United States over the drastic down turn in the economy. Treasury Sec. Paulson has told of the use of Martial Law, as I reported before.
Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Rep. Brad Sherman of California disclosed that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson discussed a worst-case scenario as he pushed the Wall Street bailout in September, and said that scenario might even require a declaration of martial law.
The report from the War College’s Strategic Studies Institute warns that the U.S. military must prepare for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” that could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.”
The DOD is sure that if the economy remains on its downfall there will be violence amongst the middle and lower class, cause for a military rule.
Entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development,” the report was produced by Nathan Freier, a recently retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a professor at the college — the Army’s main training institute for prospective senior officers.
writes: “To the extent events like this involve organized violence against local, state, and national authorities and exceed the capacity of the former two to restore public order and protect vulnerable populations, DoD [Department of Defense] would be required to fill the gap.”
The Phoenix Journal reported that according to International Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said last week that there would be global rioting in the international markets. If the lower-income households aren’t made to follow credit limits.
The last paragraph of the article reminds us of what is a possibility of our future, and the plans that were drawn up as far back as 2003.
And Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the U.S. military operations to liberate Iraq, said in a 2003 interview that if the U.S. is attacked with a weapon of mass destruction, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
ABA
January 1st 2009, (N.W.O. is Even Closer) & Video
Here It is January 1st 2009, and the headlines read just the same as they did, December 31st 2008. “Gaza bombing intense”, Gas prices end on a Bang in 2008”,“FBI says Pakistanis linked to Mumbai bombing,” but this proves to be the most important of all, “Zunes Crash en Masses.” (Well it took the front page of Yahoo.) Yes, with all the killing and starvation going on in the world, the Microsoft “Zune” crashed last night at midnight. So, “God help us”!
Things remain the same is one thing I have learned over the years they only change places and names. Of course, that does not apply to technology and the misuse of it by governments.
When I was a Senior in high school (1977), I remember my Civics teacher asking us, “How long until the human race will cease to exist?” Well of course some answered in away that they were thought in their churches, and some answered with what we thought at the time was a cool philosophical answer. (Probably because we were stoned. Civics was right after lunch.) However, my answer was something like this. “I feel that at the rate man is discovering and creating new technology, and the things that he is able to do, or will not have to do because of that technology, will kill him off with in 30 years.”
Well as you know, I was wrong. However, the technology that has been created, has made mankind a slave to that very technology. And because of It, we have lost jobs, and the youth does not have the capacity to do small task. We now base our lives around such technology as our computers, which pulled people away from the main technology of control, the Television. It was cool at first, most “Average Joes” that owned a computer used them for games, emailing, and Instant Messaging friends. However now they are being used for the spreading of information as fast as it happens. More times than not, it is information that you were not suppose to hear about.
More and more, people are moving away from the Television for a source of news, and (controlled) entertainment. When the average night out at the Movies for you and the family, cost as much as a Professional Sporting event, and the Professional Event costing as much as Rent, or your Mortgage. You now see how the computer has become a reasonably priced form of entertainment. However, it does not stop there. You can now take that technology everywhere you go, in the form of Cell phones, and Pocket Computers. (If this was a movie, the background music would sound sinister about now.)
In past blogs I have told of RFID Chips, and other ways you can be tracked and monitored. I have told of laws “YOUR” Legislators have written and passed to allow you to be monitored. Well, you are sitting in front of one of the biggest, and easiest ways to monitor the population, (2nd to the phone). If you are at work reading this, well odds are your company is well aware that you are, and they know what your emails are about. Are you sitting at McDonalds, Star Bucks or staying at a Ho-Jo‘s? Well, that is a Public Access Wi-Fi you are using. Open to anyone.
Now, back to the television. It seems almost conspiratorial, we are being forced into using digital broadcast. It has only been the last 2 or 3 years that they started preparing the people on the North American Continent for the transformation to digital. When on the other hand other countries have been broadcasting in digital for over a decade. I have also pointed out in Could DTV Be… that it has been mandated that by 2013, 180 countries must use digital broadcasting, and we are just finding out about it. The media has downplayed this along with many other things in the past, present, and will continue to do so into the future. The use of DTV allows for many thing to happen from the providers end. The least of which is adjusting and designing advertisements for that viewer, to the worst, vision through the Television Set. Many people have ask how can this be done trough the airwaves? One of the things they are not telling us out right is if you are not with in 30 miles of the broadcast, you cant pick it up. Just as with analog builds, hills and high objects come into play. So most of the people will be forced into purchasing, cable, or a satellite server. Keeping this in mind, more people can be monitored.
So as the New Year begins, this will be something for you to think about as you rush out to get that High Def TV, and sign-up for Verizon FIOS for that perfect picture. I am sure that the governments will thank-you for their perfect view of you.
Well here is wishing you and yours a prosperous and healthy New Year.
Please watch the below video, it explains the way that YOUR TV will be USED AGAINST YOU. I found this after writing this and it fit so well.
ABA
Here is the address, YouTube
I was reading down through the My Yahoo page and a story caught my eye, and really pissed me off. It tells how because things are tuff, the nation has cut back on spending, and the Congress decides to hurt them even more.
A federal commission created by Congress to find a way to make up the growing revenue shortfall in the program that funds highway repairs and construction is talking about increasing federal gas and diesel taxes.
A roughly 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes is being urged by the commission until the government devises another way for motorists to pay for using public roads.
I my opinion, this shows that the Reps. in D.C. are whores for the corporations. They managed to take our tax money and hand it over to the Big 3 Auto Makers, and the Financial Community, and against our wishes. However, to help out the people who put their butts in those seats that they enjoy, they take more of our money. And you can bet that not even 25% of the taxes pulled in will go for the infrastructure.
There is a push for the tax, those in favor are saying that it will force the people to change there travel habits. This has been proven with the last oil price surge. There were people having to quit jobs because it was not feasible to travel with the price of gas. Also schools were cutting the number of hours, even days a week the children would be in school. Also after school activities, and sporting events were canceled. This was also due to the price of fuel.
What a tax on gas will do is, force a change in social habits and travel to and from work. This will be accomplished by, driving up the price on food and necessities. It will eventually drive the mom and pop shops that managed to survive the last oil hike, out of business. Essentially it will be starving people to invoke a change.
Now, though, with gas at a buck and a half, a loose group of economists, academics, environmentalists and even some businesspeople is telling Congress and the incoming Obama administration that the 18.4 cents a gallon you pay in federal gasoline taxes isn’t nearly enough.
“Has there ever been a better time to raise the gas tax?” asked economics professor Thomas Cooley on Forbes’ Web site last week, proposing an increase of up to $1 a gallon.
Paul Foster, chairman of the Western Refining oil company: “The tax on gasoline needs to be at least $2 a gallon.”“We need a significant increase in the cost of gasoline to change our habits,” writes conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, proposing a $1 gas tax hike after the enactment of offsetting tax cuts for workers.
The money for fixing the problem is out there with out trying to tax their way out of it. The people of the United States are going to be facing a lot of economic turmoil in the next decade, and we don’t need what is our life blood harder to grasp. Please bombard your Congressperson and Senators, telling them, “As a nation we can not afford this preposterous idea of a tax, especially at this point in time.”
ABA
DTV Delay Bill Voted Down, The Coming Net Take-Over
There was a bill to delay the conversion from analog to all digital broadcasting, from February 17 2009, (in just 4 weeks) June of 2009. However, today the House voted to keep the February 17th switchover date as planed.
The House voted 258-168 in favor of a four-month delay, but the measure fell 26 votes short of the necessary two-thirds margin for passage. The Senate voted Monday to delay the transition to June 12, fearing that an estimated 6.5 million TV households would be unprepared for the shift from analog TV.
The Obama administration, was afraid that to many people would not be ready in time for the switch. According to a Neilson research poll, 6 million people are not ready for the change. However, it will be higher than their guess. Contrary to what we are being told, rabbit ears will not be able to receive the transmission if you live further than 30 miles from the point of the transmission, and have obstacles in the road, such as high buildings and hills. This will require the purchase of an outdoor antenna, and possibly a an antenna rotor. This is on top of the cost of the converter box, or the new Television you bought.
A federal converter box coupon program created to provide $40 credits toward the purchase of a $40 to $80 converter box ran out of its $1.34 billion in funds on Jan. 5. The program, which now has 2.5 million requested coupons on its wait list, won’t issue coupons until previously distributed vouchers expire. So far, 20.8 million coupons have been redeemed out of 49.8 million requested. Democrats have set aside $650 million in the pending stimulus package to fund the coupon program.
(I added the Bold lettering.)
Is It Extortion?
The only other choices you are stuck with are cable, or Satellite. I have had Direct TV for four years now, and was considering going to over the air digital, but because I live out of range of any broadcast point, if I want to have TV I have to use cable, or satellite. I am guessing that there are more in the same situation. So, we are back to that point of, Being forced to buy something whether we want it or not. However, we could just chose not to have it. There is always the computer.
Or is There
There is talk of the internet providers packaging the internet like they do your satellite, or cable programming. And anything you want that is not in you package, you will have to pay extra for. For example, lets say you package has Google, Youtube, and Pogo, but you want to come over and read my blog, well it will cost you extra. Now that is providing bloggers like myself are still around, because there is also the mention of having to pass the standards of the provider, to get the permit to use the bandwidth. So what it all is about is Government control.
Shut Down 2012
There will be a “Shut Down” of the Free Internet it is scheduled for 2012, to make the switch to the “Package Internet.” Below in the Blockquote is a confirmation.
Dylan Pattyn, who is currently writing an article for Time Magazine on the issue, has official confirmation from sources within Bell Canada and is interviewing a marketing representative from TELUS who confirms the story and states that TELUS has already started blocking all websites that aren’t in the subscription package for mobile Internet access. They could not confirm whether it would happen in 2012 because both stated it may actually happen sooner (as early as 2010). Interviews with these sources, more confirmation from other sources and more in-depth information on the issue is set to be published in Time Magazine soon.
So as you can see it is not looking good for the exchange of ideas, and information. They plan on taking the one tool that allows us to express ourselves , and hunt for the truth in this propaganda filled world, and reduce it to the propaganda tool they have made TV and radio.
Want to stay informed Save the Internet
Please Watch the Video Below and see How it will effect you.
ABA
The Senate Passes the Delay Bill. (Again)
The Senate passed the Bill that will delay the Change over to Digital Broadcasting. This bill is to give Americans a chance to be ready for the conversion. By law the change must be made on February 17th of this year. However, the Delay Bill will extend the time for the change over until June 12th 2009, allowing the 6 million people who are not ready, to get ready.
The House voted on the Bill Monday, however the republicans managed to keep the vote from getting the 2/3 need to pass. One has to wonder, is the fact that 6 million dollars to help people make the switch, is in the Stimulus Package. (Most will be in the printing of more coupons , and advertising.)
The house will now send it back to the Congress, in hope that they will quickly pass the bill.
A federal program to subsidize coupons to help consumers pay for converter boxes ran out of money this month. Many Democrats on Capitol Hill say too many viewers could lose broadcasts if the transition goes on as scheduled, and the Obama administration urged Congress to delay it. Republicans argue a delay would confuse viewers and cost TV stations millions of dollars.
In a statement, a White House spokeswoman urged the House to move quickly to pass the bill, and that the administration “will work with Congress to improve the information and assistance available to Americans as the nation moves to digital television.”
This is starting to make me wonder (and I am not for the mandatory switchover) but why are the republicans stopping this bill. Are they more in step with the N.W.O. than democrats. (As the mandate for 180 countries to be totally digital by 2013 draws closer.) So let’s see what turns up in the next couple of days. I will keep you up dated.
ABA
(Foreclosures) Make Them Carry You Out! (Make Them Produce the Note)
In the past couple of years the rate of foreclosures has been growing because of the Planed Failure of the economy. However, there is a possible way to stave of a foreclosure, and it is legal.
Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, is telling people to Become Squatters in their homes.
Yes, this Ohio Democrat is actually encouraging her financially distressed constituents whose homes have been foreclosed upon, to simply stay put.
There is a case in Ohio, one of the hardest hit areas of the country by foreclosures, This is happening in Lucas Ohio where there were 4,000 foreclosures in 2008 according to “CNN”. Because her payments are behind, lost her job, and her husband is sick, her house is up for foreclosure. She is going to take Rep. Kaptur’s advice and stay put. But, really what else can the families in this situation do? There are a lot of people that are just walking away and giving their houses over to the Banks and Mortgage Companies, when they should be staying and fighting.
Most people don’t know because they cant afford legal representation, to take it to court, where they have the right to make the bank or lending institutions show the court, the ORIGINAL documents for the mortgage.
Why is this Important?
One reason is that you are making the institution foreclosing to prove they have ownership. Rep. Kaptur is one of the biggest advocate in fighting foreclosures using the slogan is, “Present the Note”.
By telling a bank to “produce the note,” a homeowner can delay foreclosure by forcing the lender to prove the suing institution is actually the same which owns the debt.
The reasoning this is a good defense, a lot of the mortgages were sold off as fast as the were closed. This continued, and some ended up outside the country, sold to countries like China, Japan, and in Europe.
“During the lending boom, most mortgages were flipped and sold to another lender or servicer or sliced up and sold to investors as securitized packages on Wall Street,” explains the Consumer Warning Network.
“In the rush to turn these over as fast as possible to make the most money, many of the new lenders did not get the proper paperwork to show they own the note and mortgage. This is the key to the produce the note strategy.”
So if you know of anyone in this situation, tell them to stay in their home and get legal council. Because it is very IMPORTANT they notify the bank to, “PRODUCE the NOTE” before going to court.
In the video below is the CNN story with Rep. Kaptur.
ABA
Look @ the Numbers and Prepare
The thing to do is go outside and look at your back yard. While you are surveying the land, (this is if you live in the country, and the bank hasn’t taken your house.) picture the lot with veggies growing there. “Why would I do that, you may ask. Then again maybe not. Anyway, the Unemployment numbers are out for January, and they are grim.
The January numbers come in at 7.6% unemployed. This is taken from the people that are reporting. (that’s not entirely true) To go along with the bad news, is more bad news. Job Cuts are at 598,000 and they will be climbing by next quarter. Here in the Western Pennsylvania area there is soon to be at least three companies, I know of that will be laying off in the hundreds. Now that does not seem to be a lot, but there will be others that I don’t know of as of yet. Also, not included in job cuts, and only in the unemployment figures for a short period of time is the Construction field layoffs, and others that fall under the same category. So the numbers are not accurate, whether it is an accident or not.
So we need to be prepared for the chance that it is going to get worse. When we have the newly elected President saying that we know it will get worse before it gets better, I will side on “Bad Times” are coming. Hey even if this turns out to be a big scare, we have fresh food, cheap.
You are allowed without any question allowed to stock up on food and other resources for 30 days. Now if you start collecting Guns and ammo well you may be questioned. (If you buy a thermo nuclear device well you are on your own.) If you stock up on gold and silver, not the certificates but the real thing, you are going to questioned. There is something we need to remember, and it was said by a man who helped create our government, yet was leery of its future. “Any government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”…Thomas Jefferson
We are seeing something that should scare the crap out of us. This administration is taking it upon itself to say what the heads of companies can make a year. Now I know, it is companies that are dipping into the Stimulus Package. However, It is setting a dangerous example, and yet it is showing what will happen if we allow the government to pay for things, total control. The Jefferson quote fits well in this case. As we heard in the lead up to the election people were willing to sellout and let the Obama administration, give them everything, and take total care of them. These people forget that 99% of the time when the government is willing to take care of you they will want something in return. Sorry folks, in this case it will be total control over you and yours. We are faced with the stone cold “The S Word.” However, is the “S” word such a bad thing? One thing I always remember is, “Any government that man touches can be corrupted.
ABA
I guess it was inevitable, Big Brother is coming to Pittsburgh. Yesterday morning I caught the latest Editorial by WTAE Channel 4 President and General Manager Rick Henry on security -Vs- privacy. At first I was just hearing, however when I herd cameras and London, I had to sit down and listen.
You can watch Mr. Henry’s editorial here in full.
Mr.Henry pointed out that 71% of the Americans polled on the subject of security over privacy, took security. So the past administration did its job in scaring the citizenry into submission. He also made sure that it was known he is for the new security cameras. He said that we here at Channel 4 are for security, but I doubt that he speaks for everyone at the station. Mr. Henry feels that we should give up our rights for security, but it makes perfect sense coming from the media. WPXI Channel 11 an NBC affiliate, plays it off as More Watchful Eyes in the city. KDKA is the only station that gave the story only with the facts they were given. KDKA is a CBS affiliate.
It seems the media is planting the seeds to excepting the loss of our privacy. What they are not telling you is that the a lot of people in London are against the use of security cameras. There are groups that are painting the lenses of the cameras, others have taken to destroying them altogether.
The cameras to be instaled in Pittsburgh are not like most security cameras, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
These won’t be your typical store security cameras, but rather high-tech devices that look like white tool boxes laying glass eggs. They will send the footage wirelessly to powerful computers that will analyze and store it.
“You can zoom three blocks away and read a business card or a license plate,” said Darrin Lipscomb, president of Avrio Group, a Maryland firm that won a competition to be the city’s surveillance camera vendor. “We’re going to have very sophisticated viewing stations that will allow any number of people to view these cameras in any number of ways.”
What is the need for cameras of this technology? Every time they want to infringe on your rights the throw the “T” word around. The Police chief falls right in line.
There’s little hard data on cameras’ effects on crime. But city officials believe they have a plan to protect against terrorism, link existing Downtown cameras, and deter crime in troubled neighborhoods.
I added the bold lettering.
The plan is to install 112 cameras throughout the city on bridges and in areas considered “Hot Spots”. The most disturbing part is, they are going to hook existing private cameras to the network. Half of the funding for the security cameras and the installation will come from Homeland Security money. (Notice: the money was intended for port safety.)
The final number of cameras depends on when the money runs out. The initial $4.1 million investment includes $2.59 million from the Department of Homeland Security, intended to guard ports against terrorism, $862,000 in local money and $625,000 in state funds. Mr. Ravenstahl said he’ll look for more money to expand the system.
One of the things I see left out, is whether or not the system will be connected to the centralized data base at the DHS. I’ll bet it is.
Rendell’s Budget to Cut PBS Funding Completely! (With Poll)
While watching the woodworking shows on Channel 13 WQED, during one of the breaks a spot was run where a manager was telling how they were not taking a budget cut, they were being eliminated from the budget. She ask that the viewers should contact their Representatives and tell them not to eliminate PBS from the budget. Like that will do any good, we saw that they don’t represent the people who they represent.
WQED recently sent out a plea to public-broadcasting supporters, asking them to petition Gov. Ed Rendell and lawmakers to maintain annual grants at $8 million for the state’s eight public stations, including $1.1 million for WQED. Rendell cut most of the spending for public broadcasting from his budget proposal.
The new 29-billion dollar budget being proposed in the Pa legislature, will elimante funding to all Pennsylvania’s Public Broadcast Stations. The democrats prove once again that they are just following the path laid before them. In 2006 George W Bush cut the PBS federal budget by 80%, however he did not eliminate it. Under the budget that will come before Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell as it is now written, will totally cut the funding for Public Broadcasting in the state. If this budget is passed, it will not totally do away with PBS it will force more layoffs and less programming. While they promised to grow the economy and job market, the lack of funding in the right places is shrinking both.
So if the people don’t wake-up and see that we are being led down the same path we thought that we had just gotten off of, Bert and Ernie could wined up in a tent city in some park.
Well, we should go a head and write, call, and e-mail our Reps letting them know we are against this budget, maybe it will help. However there is something brewing in the coven of the government.
ABA
Friday my wife I went with the In-laws to Kennywood Park, for my niece’s 5th birthday. I had not been to the park since the late 80s, it was way before the Allegheny County smoking ban, and limited smoking restrictions.
There are 12 areas that you can smoke in the (Open-Air Park). (They list 13, but the 13th is outside of the park) he parking lots are owned by Kennywood, so by their rules you can’t smoke there or in your car. However, they don’t enforce that strict. Anyway, I am ok with that (I guess).
The bitch I have is, I pay the same outrageous price as most and less than others, and I cannot smoke in the open air. I mean commonsense tells you that you should not smoke on the rides, or where people eat, or gather in great numbers. However, I understand you have a few that don’t have commonsense. They send you to small out of the way places that are out in the direct sun, and Friday was a warm day. I am a toasty critter.
After we ate lunch in the cafeteria, where I enjoyed a hot roast beef sandwich, and fries with gravy,(I forget what it cost, but the portion far out weighed the cost.) I went to one of the DSAs, and sat down to enjoy my nasty habit. It was about that time a high school girl about 17 sat down, with her boyfriend. About five minutes later she started throwing snide little remarks aimed at my wife and I, and our smoking. Her boyfriend just chuckled, as she was doing this. I guess it was about the third thing she said and I spoke up. I pointed out that this was in fact One of the Designated Smoking Areas, and she should move along. Well, she snapped something back about, killing the trees, contributing to global warming, and how, and I quote, “How my generation Fucked Up the world.” I just told her she was an idiot, and her boyfriend chuckled, they got up and left. Also as I sat at the DSA at the BMX stunt show, a mother and her young child stood in front of me and did the fake cough as if she couldn‘t breath because of our smoke. This time an old gentleman ask to take her child out of our area. I chuckled.
After setting there for awhile, I told my wife I found the whole confrontation funny, but in a sad way. The younger generations no longer know freedoms that we did as early as 20 years ago. (I use smoking as an example only because many find it easy to understand.) There was a time when if you wanted to smoke you just ask the people around you if they minded, if they didn’t you would light-up. If they did mind you stepped away, or I would go outside. Smoking is just one example of a freedom that the government has taken away or regulated to near extinction. As some set back and say that’s a good thing, remember that things that are being regulated, or priced to their very demise, will cause the tax flow to be cut drastically or end.
The so-called Sin-Taxes bring in a lot of revenue for state, local, and federal government. Where will that money come from when they regulate it out existence? Other taxes that those who were happy to see them go pay will be doubled and even tripled to make up the loss. I have heard the excuse, raising the price on things like cigarettes will stop the youth from smoking. Well I am here to tell you, when I went to the DSA, it was like I was back over the hill in high school sneaking that lunch time smoke again. I have one very important question. “Where did the money come from for their cigarettes?”
ABA
Ps. I also rub snuff on occasion, so what I will do from now on is put a rub in and just spit allover the place, and lets just see how they like that. No one says anything about people spitting hockers allover the sidewalks. That has to be very unhealthy, even more-so now with the “Swine flu” outbreak. Just something to think about.
ABA
Pss. I almost forgot, “Adventure Land” was filmed at Kennywood. I did not see the Movie, but I will. I will look for those DSA’s to see if it is time authenic.
The NewScouts
There was a time when you heard the term Boy Scout and thought of kids dressed in a tan uniform helping a little old lady cross the street, or out in the woods on a camping excursion. The saying he’s a Boy Scout meant he was a good person, or maybe a little naive. It seems that those days are gone, and the scouts are trying to form a new image, but not for the better.
It seems the new Scout image is that of a Military Youth Hit Squad. According to a New York Times article, Scouting is a totally different mindset from when I was a Scout.
The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence — an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters.
It is amazing, parents could lose their children if they tried to do this on their own, or even worse yet, raise them with home schooling and a healthy lifestyle. However, you put them in a group run by some waked-out police or military and it becomes ok.
“This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,” said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock, he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. “It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.”
I added the Bold Lettering
The simulation being run in this story is teaching the Scouts how to raid and apprehend the ever dangerous “POT SMOKER”.
“Put him on his face and put a knee in his back,” a Border Patrol agent explained. “I guarantee that he’ll shut up.”
The children that were at this session had different reasons for being involved, but core was pretty much the same empowerment.
One participant, Felix Arce, 16, said he liked “the discipline of the program,” which was something he said his life was lacking. “I want to be a lawyer, and this teaches you about how crimes are committed,” he said.
Cathy Noriega, also 16, said she was attracted by the guns. The group uses compressed-air guns — known as airsoft guns, which fire tiny plastic pellets — in the training exercises, and sometimes they shoot real guns on a closed range.
“I like shooting them,” Cathy said. “I like the sound they make. It gets me excited.”
Acorrding to the article, there have been no complaints, or objections to the content of these exercises. With that said, there have been many complaints and law suits brought against the officers who run the training.
The Explorers have faced problems over the years. There have been numerous cases over the last three decades in which police officers supervising Explorers have been charged, in civil and criminal cases, with sexually abusing them.
The thing that astonishes me when I come across these types of articles is that, people always ask way the youth do things that they do? “Why are they violent, why do they bully, why are they obsessed with death and killing?” All I can say is, “I don’t know”?
ABA
Why Swear In at the Ball Game? The Politics of Baseball
Last night I saw something I had never witnessed at a baseball game at any level. My wife and I decided that we would treat her aunt and uncle to diner and a Washington Wild Things AAA baseball game at Consol Park, a great time to go Thirsty Thursday. (A dollar for soda, or a beer.) Minor League ball is a great way to spend a summer evening. What happened at around 6:50 PM took me by surprise.
Thursday night at the Wild Things Game
As we all got settled in our seats after buying souvenirs, drinks, peanuts, and Crackerjacks, I saw a group of around 19 young men and one young lady gather in front of us on the third base dugout. They had matching light blue t-shits and jeans on, nothing unusual about them. Then three Marines in their dress blues approached the group. I thought maybe, they were going to sing the National Anthem, but is was then that the Public Announcer informed us what was about to take place. They were about to be sworn in, right there in front of God, and everyone in attendance.
Now as I said above I had never seen anything like this at a sporting event of any kind. As the P.A. announced what was going to happen the crowed clapped and cheered and my wife’s uncle who is retired from the army, (has a son who is getting ready to be re-deployed somewhere in the Middle East for the fifth time) also clapped. However, his facial expression was one of worry. I personally could not bring myself to even watch, knowing that some of them would not come home whole, or might not even come home.
After the ceremony was done and the playing of the National Anthem was over, I ask my wife if she wanted to go has a cigarette with me before the first pitch? When we got to the designated smoking area, she ask why I didn’t clap during the ceremony, and why I looked away from the field. It seems her mother and aunt mentioned this to her. I ask her if she really didn’t know? I ask her, if she remembered how the military recruiters went after out daughter when she was in the 10th grade with the lies and promises that would never be. Then when they did the same thing to our niece, telling her that they weren’t even fighting over in Iraq, and when fighting was the heaviest it had been. They also told her something that not only was wrong, but later I found out they were not allowed to do, they told her to sign over custody of her daughter to her mother for the time she was in the military. I was so happy that I was awake enough to keep the military at bay when it came to my daughter. I knew the things that had to be done while she was in school to make them leave her alone, and explained things to her so that she could make a wise choice when she was of age.
I don’t really know why they would have a Swearing in Ceremony at a sporting event where there would be a lot of impressionable kids. (snark) However, I do know some of those kids looked scared shitless. It was like they realized what they had done, and it was too late.
That brings up another question I have. Why is it the laws says that a person is not capable of making a sound judgment until they are twenty one, but they can decide if they want to die at the age of eighteen?
Oh yea, the Wild Things won 16 to 8. After a shaky start, and being down as much as 7-0 they staged a come back. And as far as the New Recruits, keep alert and keep your head down.</p.
ABA
ps. Keep your children safe and don’t become so wrapped up in patriotism that you let them become Cannon Fodder.
Guess Who is, Controlling the Media and Manipulating the People
It seems like nothing but a thing, however as I went through a few of my old blog entries, I noticed one of the videos had been removed by You-Tube. It was for what they say was violation of the TOS, which could be anything. The video was Robert Reich speaking before Congress on the Stimulus package. He told on how it would hire only minorities when it came to construction. The blog I am speaking of is, A Time to Fight, or a Time to Take it..
I went over to You-Tube and did a search on Robert Reich and Stimulus, what I came up with is one Video from Fox News.
The below video is, “White Males Need Not Apply For Stimulus Package- Racism is Alive and Well in the “White House”. It is put up by a poster who calls himself, ALREADY KNOWNAS X2. The photo he uses is that of a military person, not sure what branch.
(More Below)
I am not writing this because of the massage of the video, or Mr. Riech, However I am concerned on what is becoming a game of media control. As a member of the Left you are taught that certain News outlets are one sided and that Fox is the Rights mouth piece. So lets say you want to make it look like the Right is trying to distort something that was said by your administration you take down all the stories, and videos that come from reputable sources and leave those from the most hated news outlet by the left. This being Fox News.
On that same page you will find the same story run on Lou Dobbs over at CNN. Ok, now we have a voice from the left. However, the problem here is that Lou Dobbs has been discredited by both the Left ad the Right for his reporting on the Immigration and “North American Union”.
The video below is Lou Dobbs reporting o Reich’s remarks. More below the video.
As you can see, one of the tactics that is being used is once these types of stores get out, you control who the people see reporting on them. Making sure that it is an Outlet they don’t trust or a reporter you have discredited. Then you have Talk Radio, but that is another Blog.
ABA
ps. If you would like to read an article on a classy laid who has given administrations fits for years, (Of course I am talking about Helen Thomas.) You can go here. CNSNEWS. It is a good article on how this administration is controlling the media.
Did The Gas Companies take Advantage of Farmers in a Hard Time?
It has been, three or four years since a person that I know told me about the big money they would make when the gas companies start drilling for Natural Gas on his and his neighbors farms. His land was going to be needed for the right-away, for a pipeline to come through. It would be another of the three farms, that would get the most money from the actual drilling.
Well since that time we have heard of the land owners of this area that were blinded by the dollar signs of leasing their land to the gas companies, and even my In-laws fell for the sales pitch of these people.
It started that they would get a few thousand dollars (a onetime payment) to let the company come in and check their two acres for the possibility of a small well. The farm was broken up according to the will, and given in packages of a couple acres to each surviving child, and the rest to be sold off to cover expenses. It just so happen that the acres given to my father-in-law were setting a top a pocket they want to take. Later that year a representative of the gas company came back and informed them that because of cost and a tax that was going to be forced on the gas industry for exploration. They could only pay them a few hundred dollars to lease the land. The deal was signed in their first meeting and it did allow for such things.
So for a few hundred dollars, land will be raped, water will be undrinkable, and all of the vegetation will die, most likely not to grow back. The timing was just right to take advantage of these farmers. Under the Bush administration the economy had a downturn, and under Obama it got worse with no end in sight. The farmer needed the money, and from talking to some people and watching local videos, they were told that it would have no long term effect on the land. (They lied!)
Below is a video, of a person that leased his land to the gas company under the false claims. From this video you can go to others that tell of the adverse effects on communities and the residents.
Oh, did I mention that the corporation behind this is Halliburton. Humm…
ABA
{Update}
The Obsever-Reporter did a Story on this today (10-4-09) form the point of another farmer in Hickory Pa.
Free to Bitch
There are many things we as a people can complain about in our government, and nation as a whole. However, when I read the story about the trail that just took place in Communist Vietnam, I was reacquainted with my feelings of just how happy I am to live in a country where I can express my beliefs and thoughts on how to improve what we have.
In Ho Chi Minh City, a trail was held for four men accused of trying to overthrow the Communist government of Vietnam. The four men wanted democracy for their country.
Vietnam today convicted four democracy activists of trying to overthrow the communist government and sentenced them to up to 16 years in prison for promoting multiparty democracy.
The most well known of the four defendants, U.S.-trained human rights attorney Le Cong Dinh, received a relatively light five-year sentence after judges at the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court deliberated for just a half-hour. The court apparently showed leniency because Dinh acknowledged breaking the law during his testimony.
“From the bottom of my heart, I myself and these three other defendants had no intention to overthrow the government,” Dinh told the court.
This could have turned out a lot worse than it did, the penalty for what they did could have been death. Can you imagine being put to death for peacefully expressing your thoughts about your government.
As part of their defense to avoid the death penalty, Le cong Dinh said that he was influenced by Western ways when he trained as a human rights attorney in the U.S.
The court said it also took into account the fact that the defendants had been “coerced by hostile forces” from overseas who oppose Vietnam’s communist government. Dinh testified today that he had been influenced by Western ideas while studying in the United States.
None of them is better known than Dinh. In addition to handling high-profile human rights cases, he once represented Vietnamese fish farmers fighting an unfair trade complaint brought by U.S. catfish growers. During closing arguments at a 2007 human rights trial in Hanoi, Dinh made a highly unusual public plea for freedom of expression
The one part of this article which should outrage Americans, (besides the human rights violations), is American companies are allowed to do business with Communist Vietnam and its companies. By allowing trade and manufacturing, the U.S. is saying that it agrees with the squashing of human rights.
Currently, Vietnam has about 500 IT companies with over 10,000 professionals ranging from software developers, quality assurance specialists and graphic specialists to network engineers, project managers and operational support specialists. The majority of these companies are small with less than 100 employees. The larger companies are more matured with their operating processes as most are certified with CMM level 3 or above.
Why is it that the government will allow the companies to deal with the likes of Vietnam, China, and numerous other communist countries, but Cuba is off limits? (that is a rhetorical question)
I found a few books and papers that explain how to deal with the Vietnam government and other things you need to know to do business there. However, Myer and Brown have put out a paper that covers pretty much all you need to know. It should be entitled, “Dealing with a Communist Government”, or “How to Help Rape the Destitute”. However, it is titled, “Guide to Doing Business in Vietnam”
ABA
Holly Cowhide! Wallets That Block RFID Signals
Lately I have noticed the searches on this blog have been for, RIFD chips in humans. So in wanting to see why the interest is rising again, I had decided to do a little follow up on the articles I wrote in years past.
My daughter is taking care of a cat for a friend. The cat is chipped out of love of course. People do these things so if the beloved pet is lost it can be tracked by satellite. You may be asking, why should we care about animals being chipped? Well, just remember the argument that humans could not be tracked if they are chipped it would have to be scanned. Well that is no longer the case. You can pick up the signal from at lest seven hundred miles away. Wal-Mart did test on tracking products a couple years ago. With the test they found that they could track Revlon lipstick from the self, all through the store and out the door for about five miles away from the store. What makes that test so frightening, it was being run from 700 miles away.
While checking up on the RFID craze since I last wrote on it two years ago, I found that you can now buy wallets that claim to protect your ID now that most cards now have chips in them. Yes, your information can be stolen from your wallet while it is in your pocket. Depending on the money the thief wants to spend, they can go to the local electronics store and buy a scanner that will read the chip in your cards.
I found a wallet over at Walmart.com for $20.97. Wouldn’t this pose a problem for Walmart seeing as they are starting a policy that all the venders they buy from use RFID tags. I mean where do you hide the chip?
I found a site that shows you how to protect a regular wallet making it scanner proof. He also gives a list of some of the things that now have chips in them.
RFID chips now exist in:
# Chase’s Blink Credit Card
# Mastercard PayPass Credit Card
# Many Corporate IDs
# Many University Ids (My daughters does.)
# United States Passports (Since 2003.)
# Euro Passports etc…So now when you pullout your wallet look around see if you are being scanned, or if a person with in 20 feet of you looks guilty. Isn’t technology is great? You can now be pickpocketed without a hand being put in your pocket.
ABA
Are We in Danger
The question I pose is becoming more and more relevant as a few individuals lash out at the government and are deemed as “The Lunatic Fringe” by the media. This morning on, Good Morning America the shooter at the Pentagon was labeled as mentally ill because he was angry with the government. I will agree, that his actions were that of a person that would fit that profile. However, it was not that he was pissed at the government, but because it led to violence. The pilot that flew into the IRS building was not a hero, he was mentally ill because of his actions to solve a problem.
It is becoming dangerous to voice opinions, if they don’t match those of the administration that holds power at that point in time. We have seen it become increasingly evident in the last thirty years. Even more so in the last twelve. Under the last administration we saw the use of “Free Speech Zones” during appearances by both Bush and Cheney. A Free Speech Zone is an area that is over a mile away from there appearance, for those with opposing views. A place were the motorcade would not have to see the protesters. I personally experienced these when Bush made his last speech at the Post Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown Pa. Bush supporters were at the main gate, we were kept a mile down the road, with State Police between us and the gate.
When writing on the Web or voicing opinions in public you must watch how you word things that you say., or you could be labeled as part of the “Fringe”. You might think that you are free of their eyes, you’re not. More and more sites and programs have enough so called security doors that the government can drive an Hum V in to collect your information.
The man who said there would be changes has signed The Patriot Act back into being. He has yet done away with Presidential Directive 51, or made revisions to the Home Grown Terrorist Act. (Also known as the Thought Crime Bill.) The government can arrest you for a mere thought. Worse yet they can interpret that thought anyway they want. Example: You send your mother a cute shot of your son in the tub, you can be arrested for child pornography. It is how they interpreted your thought behind the thought of sending that photo. Yes these are the things that can be used against us, while they wave them in our faces and say we are protecting you.
So yes we are in trouble. As the media is grouping people that are not happy with the way the administration is running the country. Their spending, or should I say giving our tax dollars to Banks, Corporations, and credit card companies, to bail them out, and let the Average Man sink. Their disguise of a political Godsend as a Stimulus Package to help the very people it is hurting. Please lookup when most of these actions will begin. Midterm and General elections.
ABA
We all as children thought that we knew more than our parents at one time or another. I mean what did they know? They were old and out of touch with what was hip at that time, Right. (Wow, did I just say hip?) Of course we did, but as we got older we realized that our parents were getting smarter.
Well, it seems that today the politicians, and educators are reinforcing those feelings in the youth, telling them that the older generation is not as smart as they are when it comes to the environment, or what is taking place around the world. That they (the children) should not have to listen to the older generation when it comes to things that have to do with the environment. After all it is our generation and the those before us that polluted the air water, and soil. They are sending messages that basically tell them, the government will tell them what is right, and that their parents just are going to harp at them. This is nothing all that new except, unlike generations before them, the kids are taking it to heart.
So as they push that agenda down their throats, that are trying to remove key moments from the history books and classes. As those who have children is the public school system within the last 20 years may have noticed; They have been teaching less and less of the history that we were taught when we were in school, and in some cases are changing it.
When my daughter was in the 10th grade I noticed that in the history book that she had, John Fitzgerald Kennedy had less courage than Marilyn Monroe. That W.W.I, W.W.II, Korea, and Vietnam barely happened according to the book she was reading. It made me wonder what the hell was going on. Not only with the school system, but also with the School Board. The books that were introduced into the system had to be approved by them. I was told by a friend on the board, this was the best of the choices that were given to them.
Back to the present. Books are being introduced into the curriculum that are acting as if World War One or Two never happened. Vietnam, the war that was unpopular because of its length, is covered in a paragraph. Not a mention of George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln. It’s things like these which remind me of the saying, “To takeover a nation, make sure the son knows less than the father.” So when your child comes home tonight, ask to see their school books and pray they are learning at least as much as you know.
ABA
The Clown Has To Go?
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- CAI wants to do away with Ronald McDonald, and make him the scariest clown in America
Last week a watch dog group (Much Dog Group) set their sights on Ronald McDonald saying, that the McDonald Corp. uses the clown to promote unhealthy eating habits.
The article starts off saying,
Nearly half of Americans polled want the kid-friendly, French-fry chomping icon to call it quits, arguing he contributes to the country’s growing obesity epidemic by luring youngsters to fast food joints.
First, did they poll two people or did they poll a thousand and so on. I will bet my Quarter Pound’er with Cheese, it was a low number. The problem with this country is that the people now want the government to take care of all things, unless it bothers them. They are wanting the government to tell them, what is and is not good for them and their children.
The group is saying, the spokesperson for the company, Ronald McDonald is going from school to school promoting unhealthy habits to impressionable children.
Debora Lapidus, of Corporate Accountability International said,
“This clown is no friend to our children or their health,”
CAI is the group that sponsored the poll, and protests against Ronald McDonald across the country outside of McDonalds. I have no great love of McDonalds, even though I have ate there in the past and probably will again. It was their fries more than anything that attracted me, but the watch groups ruined that when they forced them to stop using trans fat cooking oil.
As a kid, (In the 60’s and 70’s) it was a treat when mom took us to, McDonalds, Winkie’s, or Bobs Big Boy, where they waited on you in your car. It seems that we made it ok. We weren’t fat or sickly, from these visits. However, we went maybe once or twice a month, not three or four times a week. Oh yea, we got outside and played, and mom and dad didn’t set our butts in front of a TV.
The sad thing we are finding out is, that the majority does not have a say anymore. It only takes a small group to destroy it for everyone. Anyone that has a brain, and some commonsense knows, too much of anything is not good for you. You can bet the house, (If you still have it.) that Ronald McDonald is going to go the way of Joe The Camel. Soon fast-food will be forbidden from giving toys to children. You will see the disappearance of games for adults because it is luring them into eat unhealthy, against their will.
“He is a deep-fried Joe Camel for the 21st century,” said, Debora Lapidus
You are going to see that it will be in the best Financial interest of these corporations to fold to these so called watch dog groups. One thing we have to remember is that these groups, make no money after they destroy the things they go after, so they will quickly find another crusade, even if they have to make up the reason.
Read more: Source
ABA
Fascism, Police State, and Fear. (The Bills Keep Coming)
The bill. HR645, The National Emergency Centers Act. This bill is in the “Subcommittee of Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities”. it also has been referred to these committees:
1. House Transportation and Infrastructure, 2. Subcommittee on
House Transportation and Infrastructure, 3. Subcommittee on Economic Development, 4. Public Buildings and Emergency Management House Armed Services, 5. Subcommittee on House Armed Services, 6. Subcommittee on Terrorism,
This Bill will clear the way for the building of more FEMA Camps (No fewer than six.) only this time they will be on Military Installations. Below is Section 2 of the bill.
(a) In General- In accordance with the requirements of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish not fewer than 6 national emergency centers on military installations.
(b) Purpose of National Emergency Centers- The purpose of a national emergency center shall be to use existing infrastructure–
(1) to provide temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster;
(2) to provide centralized locations for the purposes of training and ensuring the coordination of Federal, State, and local first responders;
(3) to provide centralized locations to improve the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based organizations; and
(4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
In Section 3 of the bill,
(b)Minimum Requirements- A site designated as a national emergency center shall be–(1) capable of meeting for an extended period of time the housing, health, transportation, education, public works, humanitarian and other transition needs of a large number of individuals affected by an emergency or major disaster;
(2) environmentally safe and shall not pose a health risk to individuals who may use the center;
(3) capable of being scaled up or down to accommodate major disaster preparedness and response drills, operations, and procedures;
(4) capable of housing existing permanent structures necessary to meet training and first responders coordination requirements during non-disaster periods;
(5) capable of hosting the infrastructure necessary to rapidly adjust to temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance needs;
(6) required to consist of a complete operations command center, including 2 state-of-the art command and control centers that will comprise a 24/7 operations watch center as follows:
(A) one of the command and control centers shall be in full ready mode; and
(B) the other shall be used daily for training; and(7) easily accessible at all times and be able to facilitate handicapped and medical facilities, including during an emergency or major disaster
Number 7, c show the division of the country into nine sections under which the citizens will be located, (In times of disasters.)
Regions
I. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont.
II. New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
III. Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia.
IV. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee.
V. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin.
VI. Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas.
VII. Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska.
VIII. Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming.
IX. Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia.
X. Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington.
The FEMA regions map was last updated on 07/24/09. So take it for what is worth, because the bill calls for nine regions.
Look, I am not saying run scared to the mountains like spooked deer over one bill. However, when you look at the other bills that have been passed or are on the table we need to feel a bit of urgency.
A major bill that is on the table now is, Senate bill 3081. (The Enemy, Belligerent, Investigation, Destination and Prosecution Act.) This is a bill sponsored by John McCain. This bill will turn out to be worse than, The Patriot Act for citizens.
Under S.3081, an “individual” need only be Suspected by Government of “suspicious activity” to be dragged off and held in Military Custody indefinitely. Government will have the power to detain and interrogate any individual without probable cause. Government need only allege an individual is an Unprivileged Enemy Belligerent suspect having engaged in hostilities against the U.S. or its coalition partners; or has purposefully supported hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. The hardest thing to prove to Government is, they did not purposely do something?
This bill is designed to frighten the citizenry from speaking out against, a war, the government, and those in power. The bill is also another in the line of “Thought Bills” being produced by the legislature. When you take a bill like this and use it with things such as; The Patriot Act, Presidential Directive 51, and a list of other bills, directives, and Executive orders, you can see the Fascism blooming.
ABA
Have You Read Agenda 21? You Need Too!
Up until a few days ago I had heard of “Agenda 21” in passing in a few conversations with people in political discussions. I knew that it had something to do with the United Nations, but was not certain of the contents. So I looked it to it, and what I found shook my very core.
Agenda 21 is more or less, away to brain wash the children and the uninformed people into accepting a One World Government. (N.W.O.) It is clearly spelled out, how the thought process should be implemented. (Or Implanted)
The paragraph below is from an “American Thinker” article.
Participating in a UN-advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy-fixated groups and individuals in our society such as the National Rifle Association, citizen militias and some members of Congress. This segment of our society who fear ‘one-world government’ and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined ‘the conspiracy’ by undertaking LA21. So, we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management, or smart growth.
These are terms that we are hearing a lot more in the media when describing what Bills, Programs, the administration, are doing with the Stimulus and other monies. Conspiracy Theory, or Conspiracy Theorist, are also terms that are being thrown around more and more these days. These terms are for one, are being used in the wrong context when applied to those who speak out against the government, or any entity that the people feel don’t have their best interest in the plan. Some new terminology that has started by the Left to have the same meaning are Teabagers, and Birthers. The use of these terms in a debate, is meant to discredit anything said by a group or person.
It is clear that Agenda 21, or Smart Growth is, the merging of Environmentalism and Socialism. It uses the environment as a the means of creating socialism. There are 1,168 cities, towns, and counties worldwide who have taken the United Nations Smart Growth agenda and putting It into action,. Even in my home town, the citizenry have not realized that is what has taken place with the way the sewage project was drawn up. Also the way they went about the end run getting a new Township building approved, against the public outcry. This is done by the blatant act of shuffling property rights. One of the ways it is done is a Municipality extending, and or widening Right-a-Ways using Eminent Domain.
While looking for information on Agenda 21, I came across “Agenda 21 NOW”. This is a website aimed at the youth in this nation, using Global Warming as a means for discussion.
On the home page there are two conferences listed. One that was just completed on 04/29/2010, and one set to begin, 05/05/10 – 05/06/2010. The starting age to participate in this conference is fourteen and up. It’s not a coincidence Global Warming is a major issue the youth of this country are talking about. It is forced on them at an early age. Yes most of you are saying, “Well that’s a good thing.” Not really. This is a scare tactic they found works on kids and they use it from the shows the watch to the music they listen to. Don’t get me wrong, I am one who believes that we need to take care of the blue marble we live on so that our kids and grand kids don’t look at us and say, “What in the heck did you leave us.”
ABA
Ps. While the American Thinker article was a good synopsis, below are the links you should really look at if you care what the children are left.
2. Agenda 21
Let me ask a question. How many of you listen to Glenn Beck, or have heard some of his radio shows, or caught a show on Fox or maybe when he was on CNN? The reason I ask is that I have listened to his radio show because he speaks on some of the subjects, I and countless others have been writing on since 2000, and before. However, today pissed me off.
Glenn pissed me off when he said, There are no FEMA camps (Detainment camps), but I let that slide to a degree. However, I won’t let him get away with it from now on. If he would have done the research he claims he does, he would have seen that KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) received millions of dollars to refurbish some of the old camps and build new ones. He would have come across the fact that, HR645, “The National Emergency Centers Act”, calls for at least six of the nine FEMA regions to build or turn sections of military bases into detention centers incase of emergency, population unrest, and the training for such events.
In the last part of today’s radio show after he had said yet again, “There are no FEMA Camps.” Glenn brought up a topic that those of us so-called conspiracy theorist have been watch and blogging about for a very long time, “A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF THE INTERNET via the FCC”! If you have ever listened to what he puts out there he tends to acted as if he is the first to bring these topics to the forefront.
Boot Shaking Time”
Although courts have ruled the FCC doesn’t have power to takeover and regulate the internet, we new that this administration would do it anyway.
Well as of today the FCC will handle the internet and control of it as a public utility, as they did with Bell Telephone. (Now I know that some of you are saying, “What the hell is Bell Telephone?”) Bell was the largest phone service in the country until the FCC and the government decided they had to be broken up for the sake of letting smaller companies like GTE and Contel compete. The accomplishment of this, skyrocketing rates, and Verizon the old Ma’ Bell is more powerful than ever.
Yet, out of control pricing is not the reason we need to fear the FCC’s move today. The reason is total government control of the internet. One major reason is, Dissenting voices can be silenced and propaganda can be shown as truth. This latest move by the Obama administration, in juncture with what the Bush administration put in place, gives more power to this Executive Branch, than even the FDR had.
The thing upsets me about people like Glenn Beck is they don’t go back to the Bush administration and point to the things they put in place to help this movement take a fast track. If they really wanted the people to put it together they would point this out. Instead they tell their listeners, “I am not Republican or Democrat, I will point out anyone who does something not in out best interest.”
ABA
Ps. (FYI) KBR still is receiving No-Bid Contracts
under the Obama administration. Where is the out cry? Oh yea, this isn’t the Bush cabal, so they will let it slide. Fuck’en Hypocrites
Marcellus drilling is Fracking Up Our Communities
Last night as I laid in my bed, I could hear a sound that I had not heard before around this area. So I turned down the TV, (Nick is have a, “That 70s Show marathon) I knew the sound from my work in construction, it was the sound of a diesel generator. The sound is coming from a Marcellus drill site not more than 2 miles from my house, (as the crow fly’s). I say is running because, the damn thing is still running as I type this!
This has been happening off and on, about two weeks now. I have not had a good nights sleep in the past three nights. Before the generator, it was the constant vibrations they sent through the ground. I believe they are seismic testing. I cannot wait for the burn offs of the Co2. This close to the site, it will light the night sky as if it were day. (That’s sarcasm if you couldn’t tell.)
When I talk to people in town, they are under the impression that it is a little inconvenience for the benefits it will provide for the area. So, I ask them what they felt would be the benefit would be. Some said, that it would be a step in reducing the cost of natural gas, and dependence on foreign sources for our energy needs. However, the most popular answer was, the money.
Now it is true, people are making lots of money buy allowing the companies to drill on their land, or run pipelines through their property. However, the cost is, or could be their health, the health of the families, and neighbors in the future. Like many of chemicals used in industry, the side effects don’t show up for years.
Now if you read the stories on line, farmers that have leased to the gas companies, they are sorry they did. Spills have killed the vegetation, and sickened or killed livestock.
AVELLA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -
A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling technique with environmental contamination.
George Zimmermann, the owner of 480 acres in Washington County, southwest Pennsylvania, says Atlas Energy Inc. ruined his land with toxic chemicals used in or released there by hydraulic fracturing.
Water tests at three locations by gas wells on Zimmermann’s property — one is 1,500 feet from his home — found seven potentially carcinogenic chemicals above “screening levels” set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as warranting further investigation.
Jay Hammond, general counsel for Atlas, said Zimmermann’s claims are “completely erroneous” and that the company is in compliance with Pennsylvania’s gas-drilling regulations. Hammond said Atlas will “vigorously” defend itself in court and declined further comment.
But Zimmermann says he has evidence that chemicals used by Atlas contaminated his land.“There are substances that can’t be made by nature and that’s what’s in the ground,” he told Reuters during an interview in his 12,000-square-foot house on a remote hilltop.
Atlas is exploiting the Marcellus Shale, a vast gas reserve that underlies about two-thirds of Pennsylvania and parts of West Virginia, Ohio and New York State. Experts estimate it contains enough natural gas to meet total U.S. demand for at least a decade.
The gas is being extracted by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, in which a mixture of water, sand and chemicals is forced a mile or more underground at high pressure, fracturing the shale and causing the release of natural gas.
Development of the Marcellus, together with other major shale fields in Texas, Louisiana and other states, is being aided by advances in fracking combined with horizontal drilling, which provides more exposure to a formation than a vertical well and leads to less surface disturbance.
If Zimmermann wins his case, it would be the first in America to prove that hydraulic fracturing causes water contamination. Such a finding could slow the development and use of cleaner-burning natural gas that would reduce American dependence on overseas energy.
It should be noted that the chemicals that are used in Fracking were removed off the DEPs’ list and allowed for use by Halliburton. This was done while Dick Cheney was Vice President in 2005.(Dick Cheney sits on the board of Halliburton.) The tankers that deliver the chemicals around the Avella sites are Halliburton tankers.
Baseline tests on Zimmermann’s water a year before drilling began were “perfect,” he said. In June, water tests found arsenic at 2,600 times acceptable levels, benzene at 44 times above limits and naphthalene five times the federal standard.
Soil samples detected mercury and selenium above official limits, as well as Ethylbenzene, a chemical used in drilling, and Trichloroethene, a naturally occurring but toxic chemical that can be brought to the surface by gas drilling.
The chemicals can cause many serious illnesses including damage to the immune, nervous and respiratory systems, according to the Endocrine Disruption Exchange, a researcher of the health effects of chemicals used in drilling.
This is only one of hundreds of stories, on what Fracking has done to the farm land that it has used. However, it is not only the farmland that is effected by the processes. Because of the enormous amount of water that is required for the process, creeks and streams are being sucked dry, and the aquatic live is being effected.
A very informative site with photo documentation isBob‘s Blog
Below is a notice that was sent out to costumers of American Water. (I am guessing, because I nor anyone I have talked to around here received this.)
Pennsylvania American Water
Alert Notifications
PWSID: Total Dissolved Solids in the Monongahela River
Issue Date: 11-10-2009
Attention Pennsylvania American Water Customers Living in Southern Allegheny and Washington Counties
The Monongahela River is Pennsylvania American Water’s primary source of supply for drinking water. The river has been periodically experiencing increased levels of total dissolved solids (TDS), which have been affecting the quality of your drinking water. Our water plants, as well as other water treatment facilities in the Monongahela River basin, do not have treatment to remove TDS from the Monongahela River source.
Although noticeable TDS levels are usually temporary, Pennsylvania American Water is dedicated to providing you with the highest quality water service, and we are working with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to monitor this condition and the community’s water quality.</p?
I will be writing more on this because, it is about to consume the Town of Avella. One thing that everyone who owns land should learn, especially if you bought it bought it with in the last fifty years, (Who owns the mineral rights?) There are many stories of land owners, who have had their land ruined because they could not fight the gas companies, don‘t become one of them.
ABA
(The Fracking Stench, The Fracking Ground Spillage, and Fracking Death to the Wild Life and Crops)
[Update] I found some information on a SPILL that happened a little over a year ago, at the Cross Creek Park killing fish, and other aquatic life. I dont think I would be eating any of the fish caught out of the lake. Below is a snipit from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The source is a great site, Seeps, Leaks and Spills. Although I dont feel everything is there.
June 5, 2009
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteA leaking waste water pipe from a Range Resources Marcellus shale gas well drilled in Washington County’s Cross Creek Park has polluted an unnamed tributary of Cross Creek Lake, killing fish, salamanders, crayfish and aquatic insect life in approximately three-quarters of a mile of the stream.
The state Department of Environmental Protection said Range Resources reported the May 26 waste water discharge from a coupling on a 6-inch pipe running from a recently drilled well to a waste water impoundment.
I will keep the info coming as I find it. Lets not let what happen in Texas and many other areas happen here. All for the love of money.
The Stench
Ah, Friday and Saturday mornings were ….. well really stinky to be honest. I got up both mornings and drove my wife to work in Claysville. As we started up Painters Hill, I began to smell an unpleasant odder. This was an odder I had only run into one other time, that was when I worked at St. Joe Lead in Monaca Pa. The smell was that of CO2 being burnt off. If you have never had the unfortunate honor of smelling this process you are lucky. The smell was giving my wife a headache. (Granted, the reason it was so strong these two days was due to the fog holding it down to the ground.) It wasn’t until I had driven about one mile away, the smell had started to dissipate. The other thing about these burn offs is that they light the sky as if it were day. Imagine having that in your backyard. Or worse yet surrounding you.
The Spill
In March of this year (2010) The Texas based, Range Resources Corp, and Atlas Resources were fined $23,500 for spillage from a brine pipeline. The liquid that was leaking on to the ground was a production fluid. The leaks were taking place in Green, Fayette, and Washington Counties. The spill that was to close for comfort was at Cross Creek Park, right outside of Avella Pa.
Cross Creek park is a beautiful lake set between Avella and Hickory Pa. The lake is ranked in the top ten of man made lakes. It also is ranked high for its dense Bass population. Cross Creek Park is a nice place to spend a day with the family. However, these small spills can pollute many acres, and make ground water toxic.
The Death
I started searching for what these production fluids are, and basically came up with a blank. It seems that the companies don’t have to disclose the chemicals that are used in the fracking process. (Ancient Chinese Secret) It is my understanding that a Material Safety Data Sheet, (MSDS) is to be on every jobsite. The EPA is saying that the chemicals are safe. Let’s take a look at an incident that happened in Colorado in 2008.
Cathy Behr, an emergency room nurse in Durango, Colo., had almost died after treating a wildcatter who had been splashed in a fracking fluid spill at a BP natural gas rig. Behr stripped the man and stuffed his clothes into plastic bags while the hospital sounded alarms and locked down the ER. The worker was released. But a few days later Behr lay in critical condition facing multiple organ failure.
Her doctors searched for details that could save their patient. The substance was a drill stimulation fluid called ZetaFlow, but the only information the rig workers provided was a vague Material Safety Data Sheet, a form required by OSHA. Doctors wanted to know precisely what chemicals make up ZetaFlow and in what concentration. But the MSDS listed that information as proprietary. Behr’s doctor learned, weeks later, after Behr had begun to recuperate, what ZetaFlow was made of, but he was sworn to secrecy by the chemical’s manufacturer and couldn’t even share the information with his patient.
It seems that ZetaFlow is nothing to worry about, or so says the EPA after Halliburton (Dick Cheney) managed to get it, and most fracking fluids removed from the Safe Water Act.
EPA says not to worry.
It’s difficult or nearly impossible to get information about what companies pump into the ground. The federal government, however, says the risk chemicals like ZetaFlow pose to water wells is minimal.
ZetaFlow is used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracing, which entails pumping large amounts of liquid and sand into a well to break the rocks and let the gas flow out.
The Environmental Protection Agency abandoned a study in 2004 on frac-fluid use in coal-bed methane wells, saying its investigation showed no risk.
“EPA has concluded that the injection of hydraulic fracturing fluids into CBM wells poses little or no threat to (underground sources of drinking water) and does not justify additional study at this time,” the agency wrote in June 2004.
The next year, Congress exempted frac fluids from the Safe Drinking Water Act as part of the 2005 energy bill.
This is a link to The Sierra Club site, at the bottom of the page you will find the MSDS for drilling in New York, I think it will be the same as one used at any site.
Below is a testimonial from a lady in Texas who lost her husband to the ground pollution that happens from Fracking.
Deadly Environmental Devastation
In the 1980′s, your Haliburton Company participated in drilling an illegal oil well on my farm in Texas on the 4th of July, so no courts or agencies were open. My husband and I did everything we could to protect our pristine 70 acres with remnants of an ancient hardwood forest, springs, spring-fed pond, wells, creek, wetlands, orchards, gardens and prime farm land.
Days after the well was drilled, all the fish in my spring-fed pond died. The water in my house well was poisoned and my husband and I could never drink from it again.
My husband was the first to drink the well water after the drilling & got horribly ill. Fifteen years after he drank the poisoned water, my husband died from acute myelogenous leukemia. How do I know his death wasn’t caused by the unregulated chemicals used in drilling the illegal well? How do I know the oil industry doesn’t just use oil drilling as an excuse to avoid paying to dispose of hazardous chemicals? How do you sleep?
I took parts of her response because of the length. You can go Here to read it.
These are stories that are being covered up in the name of profit. I also see it happening here and in other small towns. People are selling their futures and the futures of their children for a dollar. You know that is fine, it is their land and their lives. However, you have to ask yourself, is it ok their actions are harming you and your loved ones?
ABA
Ps. I will continue to inform of the dangers of Fracking, and I hope it will sink in, before we have no town left to live.
Now I admit, when I first heard that they were coming through West Middle Town I thought it would help out some of my friends. However in the years following I have found that it hurts more that it helps. I also thought it might lower the price of Natural Gas. Boy was I wrong. A large percent of the gas being extracted is being exported to foreign countries and Canada. I have not seen a reduction in my gas bill. And don’t expect one, in fact it was just raised. The claim, cost for exploration.
People I have talked to, did not know there was one spill in the area, let alone multiple spills. I have warned my neighbors, that there was a spill at Cross Creek Lake, and that they should really think twice about eating anything from the lake. Will that hurt the traffic to the lake? I doubt it. People will ignore these warnings because, they didn’t here it on the airwaves. The reason these things are not known by most of the public is, the majority of the people use television and radio for their news source. There are a few people like myself, who have the time to set behind the computer and dig these facts and figures up.
The Thing That Pissed Me Off
Yesterday morning I turned on the Quinn and Rose show, which is on weekdays from (6:00am to 10:00am on WPBG 104.7 and 158 XM radio), just as Jim was reading an article about Robert Casey’s stance on the fracking process. Casey is worried about the drilling for the same reasons I am, the water table and ground contamination.
The problem with Quinn is he goes off on rants that some of the time have very little if any facts behind them. So for that reason, from here on I would like to address this to Jim Quinn.
Dear Mr. Quinn
I would like to address the rant you went on during and at the end of an article you read on Bob Casey’s stance on Hydraulic Fracturing. (06/03/10) I would like to inform you that you need to check your facts on the process of fracking and the end result.
I would like to first point out , I am not what you call, an Enviro-weenie by any means. I am just a person that sees his town being taken over, and remembers the aftermath of the coalmining boom. Which started out much like this natural gas boom is starting, and will more than likely end the same way.
During the process creeks and lakes are drained for the water to fracture the shell to release the Natural Gas. 800,000 gallons of water are removed a day from Cross Creek Park.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection allows 800,000 gallons to be taken from Cross Creek Lake every day; Range Resources, a Texas based oil and natural gas company, is the recipient of that permit.
The second stage of natural gas production, the “fracking” process, is very expensive: each fracking job requires 2-9 million of gallons of water to be extracted from local water sources and creates 1-4 million gallons of toxic liquid waste, which must be brought to a hazardous waste dump or extensively filtered before entering the public watersheds. This amount of waste is generated numerous times per well, as each well can be fracked up to 10 times.
Almost half of the water used in the fracking process is left in the ground, and yes is showing up in drinking water, lakes and their tributaries. As I pointed out in my blog entry Marcellus Drilling… Pennsylvania American Water sent out notifications of, un-dissolved particles in the water supply in Allegheny and Washington counties. These particles are from the well filtered water that is being dumped back into the environment from fracking.
I am willing to bet that you are not being surrounded by these monster rigs and the destruction of the land it takes to build them. If you travel the roads and highways around the town of Avella, you would also notice the deplorable condition of the roads from the heavy tankers carrying the water and chemicals to and from the work sites.
Your big argument is, “They are 7,000 feet below ground and it will not effect the ground water.” Just so you know, it is really 8,000 feet below the surface, however there have been numerous reports of water contamination. If you care to look at the facts I will give you this link. Source
In closing, I would suggest that you check the facts before you go on a rant that will be heard by many people. If these people take what you say to heart without check into what you say, we will have more misinformation doing damage to this beautiful land.
Ed (ABA)
(Clearfield Co. Pa.) Well Ruptures, Spewing N.G. and Chemicals for 16 Hours Causing an One Mile Evacuation
As the strong storms hit the area, the fire whistle went off about three times in an twelve hour period Friday, and Saturday. These were storm related, but not for any great emergency. Such as a Marcellus well having a problems, as they did in Clearfield County in northern Pa.
Yesterday as I watched the local news keeping an eye on the storm activity, one of the stories that was reported was, a well in Clearfield County ruptured sending natural gas and Fracking chemicals into the air and on the ground for sixteen hours. This is being called, the worst accident in the history of Hydraulic Fracturing. There was a one mile evacuation around the accident site. The well was out in the National Forest away from any populated area and is said that it was lucky to be out there. I would agree that they were lucky as far there was no immediate human fatalities. As the chemicals seep in the ground what effect it has on the ground water and the animals of the forest. As we have seen in the Gulf with the B.P. tragedy and other spills the damage will show up for decades.
Natural gas and drilling fluids spewed from an out-of-control well in Clearfield County on Friday afternoon.
Emergency officials said a mile-wide area was evacuated after an operation drilling into the Marcellus Shale ruptured.
The FAA issued a flight restriction in the immediate area.
The DEP says there will be an aggressive study done on what happen and how it can be prevented in the future. Here again this is a example of the government coming in too late. Although this could have been held to a lesser problem if congress would have not dropped the regulations and removed the Chemicals used in Fracking off their list of dangerous chemicals in the 2005 Safe Water Act.
Elizabeth Ivers, a spokeswoman for driller EOG Resources, said the well was brought under control just about 16 hours after it started spewing gas.
EOG Resources said the rupture happened because of unexpectedly high gas pressure after they fractured the shale about a mile below ground.
Spadoni said no one was injured and there are no homes within a mile of the well. The extent of damage to the environment was still being assessed Friday night, but no waterways were believed to have been contaminated.“Right now, we’re focused on limiting any further environmental damage, but once that work is complete, we plan to aggressively look at this situation and see where things went wrong and what enforcement action is necessary.”
The danger all communities face if they chose to allow Hydraulic Fracturing is, will their Fire and Safety Departments be prepared for this type of accident, and if not how long will it take a Hazmat, and containment crews to get to the scene.
One thing that bothers me is, in the Avella area there are many wells in close proximity of one another. So, what can happen if there is another accident like the one in Clearfield happens in this area? Is the Avella, West Middle Town, Burgettstown, and Wellsburg fire departments prepared and equipped for a catastrophe? Do the drilling companies have the resources needed to contain until outside help gets to the site?
These are things that need to be looked at if your township, town, city, or neighbors are thing about giving access to a hydraulic fracturing company. Also, what effect is it going to have on water, crops, and livestock.
ABA
[Update on the Clearfield Explosion]
In Pennsylvania, environmental regulators are investigating what caused another well to spew explosive gas and polluted water for about 16 hours last week until it was brought under control. That company, EOG Resources Inc., has been barred from drilling until an investigation is complete and necessary changes made.
Another Fracking Accident
Today outside of Moundsville West Virginia, about 55 miles from Pittsburgh Pa. there was a explosion at a Marcellus drilling site, injuring 7 workers. This operation was less than a week old. This is according to DEP Permit dated June 2 2010.
The workers drilled through an abandon Console energy Coal Mine, releasing a pocket of methane gas. The flames shot 70 foot in the air, but fell under 50 within hours, according to the article.
Gittins said AB Resources is the operator of the well, while Chief has a “participation interest.” It is Chief’s responsibility to drill and complete the well, she said.
Chief’s site contractor, Union Drilling of Buckhannon, had drilled the first 1,000 feet of a second well on the property and was preparing to install surface casing when crews apparently hit and ignited the methane, she said.
Crews had drilled through the abandoned Consol Energy mine before without incident, she said.Methane is a known risk when working near old mines, and the company typically takes a variety of precautions, including venting systems. Gittins could not immediately say what precautions were in place at this site.
Prentice Cline, assistant area director for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Charleston, said blowout preventers are typically required on gas rigs.
But DEP spokeswoman Kathy Cosco said the Union rig didn’t have one because it hadn’t yet reached a depth where a blowout preventer is required. When the accident occurred, it was still drilling a hole through rock, not pumping gas.
The law of averages will tell you, as the push becomes faster to remove the Natural Gas from the Marcellus shell, more mistakes and accidents will occur. I have seen it happen many times on construction jobs I have worked on.
Some Unbelievable Things I Did Not, Know Did You?
In my digging for facts on the dilemma some of our neighbors and I have also come to find the “Washington County Commissioners” (Cross Creek Park)when I came across this site called No Fracking.com. It is a Anti-Fracking site that is trying to keep Hydraulic Fracturing out of New York State. On their home page was a brief bit of fracking history, and some of the messed up ways that they remove gas from the shell.Read below
Like some industry proponents claim, fracking has a history that goes back over 60 years–but not in its current form. The first forays were meant to squeeze the last drops from existing traditional wells. The first stimulation experiment anywhere near today’s scale was related to the U.S. Government’s Peaceful Nuclear Explosions program, known as Operation Plowshare, and in particular Project Rulison.
In 1969, a 40 megaton atomic bomb was detonated deep underground outside Rulison, Colorado to stimulate the release of natural gas1. This massive experiment was successful in that the gas was freed, but unfortunately it was too contaminated with radioactive isotopes from the blast to be useful.
Today, fracking companies are back in the area of the Rulison blast2, which is no surprise given that many of the target “plays” for fracking, deep underground, themselves have naturally-occurring radioactivity far in excess of safe levels.
Here is a PDF that should shake you up a bit. Plow Share The government tested the release of natural gas with mega ton explosions most with nuclear devices. What should scare you is they are going back to the test sites to remove the contaminated gas.
ABA
After talking to one of my neighbors, I had to ask myself; “Is this worth pursuing?” I really mean it. Is the fight to try and stop or slow the extraction of natural Gas by the means of Hydraulic Fracturing worth the headache? I have done the research, I have tried to give the facts and stats, I have talked with the locals about the dangers of the chemicals used in fracking, by pointing out the fish kills in the local park, caused by the fracking chemicals. I also pointed out that in some cases, the companies have lowered their price for leasing the land after they tell you one price. What do I get back, the spewing of company propaganda.
This neighbor (who use to be a friend) had attended the last meeting with the Chesapeake Energy, he informed me that everyone had signed even those who really would not be effected. I also found that they are buying friendship by “giving” the communities things like statues and ballparks for local sports teams. (They haven’t done that here or have they.)
This is an excerpt from their magazine. Turn to page 22. Drill Bits They have taken a page out of Homeland Security, get backing from local religious leaders. The guy in the article and my neighbor, show the Christian why of thought for the most part. (Summary) I got mine, the hell with you. The company paid 3 times the worth of the pig. From the sounds of things money well spent.
Thirty-year-old Ben Scott has lived in the vicinity of Hickory, Pa. all his life. In fact, his family settled in the area prior to the revolutionary war and has lived in the same 10-mile radius ever since. Given his long history in the area and his vocation as a Presbyterian minister, Ben has a good pulse on what is happening in the community. “We are living in a boom town!” he said. Ben is very excited about what Range and other natural gas drillers are doing for the local economy. “I am a youth minister, so my work brings me in contact with lots of people under 30.
My cousin, who belongs to the local 4-H Club, sold her pig to Range at the Washington County fair for a crazy-high price of $4,000.
“Of course, there will always be naysayers. The people who do not own their mineral rights, but have to put up with the inconveniences of drilling are the biggest detractors.
They are giving people up to $3,000.00 to sign. I reminded him that everyone had not signed, there are two people on the block, Myself and another neighbor. He said something about the money and if we don’t sign they will do it anyway. I informed him that I wouldn’t sign if I was ask. He informed me that if you didn’t get an invitation to the meetings, it was because you don‘t own the mineral rights, so my opinion didn‘t matter.
In this bass-ackward town and township, they stopped zoning back in the 70s, because they felt there was no need for it. The land behind my lot was made agricultural two years ago. This was done because the family that bought it raised pigs right on the boundary line of my back yard, and the smell was to much to take. They also dumped 10 cats out and let them run free. Well I went to the township and they in their infinite wisdom, decided that it was farmland because the logged it out, and that made it a tree framing.
So anyway, the land is hillside and the is an old abandon mine shaft under it, and the shaft is full of water. On the back corner of this land near the West Virginia border, is where they are talking about putting a new platform. I fear that we will end up with what happened in Moundsville and other sites where they drilled down through abandon mines. He replied, “I have my money I don’t care if the whole place blows. Look at this town.” He was right about the shape of the town. As those of you who read my other blog, Avella Bank Restoration know, we try to improve the town and meet with resistance.
So, what I have come up with by venting on this blog entry is, to say F_ _K this town! If the people are so greedy that they can’t see the forest for the trees, (Which will no longer be there.) and won’t listen when someone gives you the truth, well all I can say is F_ _K YOU. Really, should I sellout my values, and belifes? I can’t bring myself to do it. I guess I will be one of the have nots for a while longer.
ABA
Ps. Under the Eminent Domain laws, if you stand in the way of the betterment of the community, or the country, you are shit out of luck.
2010 Relay for Life (McGuffey High School)
2010 Relay for Life (McGuffey High School)
This past weekend (06/12-13/10) was the 2010 Relay For Life. The event was held at McGuffey High School, and sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The weather was a bit humid and in the mid to high 80s. However, on the field it was probably 10 degrees hotter, which shows the dedication of the team members, to beat a disease that could effect anyone at any time.
I helped the Curtis Crusaders. The team is made up of employees of Curtis Pharmacy and their family members and friends. I cooked, breakfast, dinner, supper, and the occasional in between burger or sausage for the team walkers. (Hey, I did walk a whole mile over the weekend. Four laps in two days.)
The relay consisted of theme laps that kicked off the beginning of a new hour. The opening ceremony started at 12:00pm and was M.C.ed, by Dr. Six. Followed by the first lap, which was the Survivor Lap.
There were fun laps and serious laps. Some of the fun laps were, Crazy Sock lap, Crazy Hat lap, and at 1:00am Sunday morning there was the P.J. lap. On the more serious side there was, 8:00pm The Fight Back Ceremony, followed by the Luminaria Ceremony at 9:00pm Saturday. Sunday morning at 9:00am Caregiver lap, 11:00am ACS Can lap, and at 11:30 was the Closing Ceremony and the Group lap.
The weather out look was not good for the weekend, but the weather gods must have felt that this was a noble cause and gave us two decent days. The only stoppage was around 3:00am Sunday, a brief thunderstorm blew in. (That was just the time I had decided to retreat to the tent and grab some Zs.) Just as I fell asleep my wife woke me and said, I had to go to the Gym because the lightning was not to far off. However, 45 minutes later the lightning was gone and the teams headed back to the track and began walking again, (In the rain) although I think at that point the rain was a welcome relief.
The weekend in my opinion, was a success. Everyone had fun, a lot of money was made for the fight against cancer, and we got to hear great music for 24 hours, supplied by D.J. Brad and D.J. Niles. In fact I can’t wait to do it again next year. For those who are sore the next morning remember, it was for a good cause.
If you would like to learn more about the Relay For Life, or just donate to the American Cancer Society. Click on this link, A.C.S. Remember any donation is always welcome.
Curtis Crusaders
1.Peggy T. “Thing 1” (Team Captain)
2. Peggy V. “Thing 2”
3. Edmund V. (Cook & Bottle Washer)
4. Tiffany V.
5. Kyle M.
6. Erin L.
7. Erin S.
8. Larry K.
9. Ingrid K.
10. Nancy K.
11. Amanda A.
12. Linda M.
13. Renee M.
14. Carol B.
15. Celestine S.
16. Michael H.
Helpers
1. Eric C.
2. Tina C.
3. Rachel K.
4. Bob S.
5. Evelyn S.
The team held a Bake Sale, sold raffle tickets, and a candy sale, to help with the gift that the team would make towards “The Fight Against Cancer”. Along with the generous donations from, friends, family, and the community, the Crusaders raised over $1,000.00. You can still go to the, Curtis Crusader donation page and help us raise our total. Please help us defeat this disease in our life time.
ABA
The 25 Million Proposed For “Pa. House Bill 2606“, Is Needed to Make Fracking Safer for the People and Environment.
Look, there is a need for the Natural Gas that is gained by Hydraulic Fracturing. However, there has to be stricter laws and regulations put on the companies performing these operations. Instead of hiring for tax credits, there should be more money set aside for enforcement and creation of regulations.
As of this date, 06/26/2010 no one but the Halliburton chemist can tell you what exactly is in “Zeta-Flow”. The makeup is protected by law. It is freaking amazing that under the EPA regulations that spills don’t have to be reported unless they are at five barrels or more. Zeta-flow vapors can cause organs to start to shutdown, also contact with the skin. I am guessing here, but this might be because, one of the chemicals found in Zeta-flow is Benzene. Animals that have drank from the spill areas have literally exploded, according to Bobs Blog Scroll down to the picture of the raccoon by the bank after drinking the water. This is not the only report. Dogs and cats have also gone blind after drinking from the spills.
State Rep. Jesse White D-Washington/Allegheny/Beaver, has introduced a bill that will give the drilling companies tax credits of $2,500 as incentive for each Pa. resident it employees. (Pa. House Bill 2606) I feel that Jesse’s Heart is in the right place, however it is more important that the money be used for health and safety. Below is an article on the bill.
HARRISBURG, June 23 – State Rep. Jesse White, D-Washington/Allegheny/Beaver, has introduced legislation that would give Marcellus Shale drilling companies a tax credit for hiring Pennsylvania workers.
“Natural gas drilling in the Commonwealth is a booming economic sector with the potential to create thousands upon thousands of good-paying jobs,” White said. “We have a ready-made workforce here with the skills, training and work ethic to power the development of the Marcellus Shale.
“My bill would create and retain a large pool of workers in this burgeoning field that will contribute greatly to Pennsylvania’s economic recovery,” he said.
House Bill 2606 would give natural gas companies that drill in the Marcellus Shale an incentive for hiring Pennsylvania workers by allowing them to apply for a $2,500 Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale tax credit for each resident it employs. Under the bill, companies could only apply for residents that have completed a qualified apprenticeship training program approved by the state Department of Labor and Industry.
Additionally, at least 75 percent of a company’s workforce would have to be state residents in order to be eligible for the tax credit. Each company also would be required to submit to the department an application for the tax credit, along with a copy of its Department of Environmental Protection-issued drilling permit.
Companies also would have to present a signed statement certifying that it will employ residents for which it received a tax credit for five years.
White said under the bill, $25 million would be set aside each year for the Department of Labor and Industry to administer the tax credits.
“Pennsylvanians have a long and proud history of getting their hands dirty to get the job done, and we need to make sure that tradition continues in the natural gas drilling industry,” White said.
However, my understanding is there are workers that are relocating to the state because they will remain here. So once they have trained the personal, relocate the certified personal to the state. (Then again I have not read the whole bill) this loophole might be addressed.
I have an Idea, lets introduce a bill that will shutdown all future “Hydraulic Fracturing” until Halliburton reveals all the chemicals use in the process. Maybe that will get their attention. Well maybe it is just something that is said in the political forum, “The loss of one life, is one too many.”
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The report is back on the Clearfield fracking accident and it shows, ignoring safety procedures was the main reason for the spill that spewed around 35,000 gallons of the fracking chemicals on the ground in a sixteen hour period. In the article it points out, if the fluid and gas would have ignited, the loss of humane life and environmental damage could have been catastrophic.
EOG Resources cut corners by failing to put proper pressure barriers in place and caused the incident on the Marcellus shale gas reserve, said Department of Environmental Resources Secretary John Hanger.
The company used one barrier to prevent blowouts between the shale formation and surface, even though standard industry practice calls for two barriers, Hanger said. DEP notified gas well operators by letter that they must have “at a minimum two barriers.”
“Make no mistake, this could have been a catastrophic incident,” said Hanger. “Had the gas blowing out of the well been ignited, the human cost would have been tragic, and had an explosion allowed this well to discharge wastewater for days or weeks, the environmental damage would have been significant.”
The blow out contaminated a stream, but the article does not say how close the stream was to the blowout. In fact it hardly mentions it at all.
Houston-based EOG Resources, which has natural gas reserves in Canada, Trinidad, the United Kingdom and China, cooperated with DEP’s investigation, Hanger said. But the state could revoke the company’s license following another serious violation, he said.
This accident was preventable, he said. The blowout contaminated a stream.
The Pa. legislators will decide whether or not to place a surcharge on natural gas extraction in September. The budget was passed, and called for the tax but could not agree on the rate or the use for the money.
Now the troubling thing about the accident was, the site was inspected in January, February, and March, by the state. However, the blatant violations were not caught. The DEP requires that a person with well control certification be on site at all times.
Three state inspections at the Clearfield site — in January, February and March — found no violations. Hanger said an inspector would have flagged the lack of a blowout preventer if the inspector saw that.
DEP will require operators or subcontractors to keep someone with well-control certification on site. The agency cited lack of training for personnel as a problem at the Punxsutawney Hunting Club 36H well in Clearfield.
EOG, formerly Enron Oil & Gas Co., has 279 active wells in Pennsylvania, 139 of them tapping Marcellus shale. After the accident, DEP suspended its operations for 40 days.
I have a suggestion on the persons that have to be on the site with well control certifications. “Use state or 3rd party employees. Also require daily reports from these employees.
The people I have talked too about the fracking process and the great chance of land and water contamination say the process is going on six miles under the ground. In their defense this is what the companies are telling them. However, the incident in Clearfield Pa. happened from under the ground. While in the process of drilling for extraction, in broke through the shield meant to contain.
On the Chesapeake Energy Fact Sheet the key points they point out are;
KEY POINTS
Hydraulic fracturing is essential for the production of natural gas from shale formations.
Fracturing fluids are comprised of more than 99% water and sand and are handled in self-contained systems.
Freshwater aquifers are protected by multiple layers of protective steel casing surrounded by cement; this is administered and enforced under state regulations.
Deep shale gas formations exist many thousands of feet underground.
However, in the same Fact Sheet the say;
In addition to water and sand, other additives are used in fracturing fluids to allow fracturing to be performed in a safe and effective manner. Additives used in hydraulic fracturing fluids include a number of compounds found in common consumer products.
That is not entirely true because I don’t know of anyone that uses ZETAFLOW in the home. In fact, the five-page data sheet advises people handling ZetaFlow to wear goggles and chemical-resistant clothing and boots.
Inhalation of the chemical can lead to headaches, dizziness, low blood pressure and low oxygen levels in the blood, according to the data sheet. On the data sheet it does not tell that if the chemical comes in contact with the skin, the same thing can happen also it will start to shut the body down. See Source for the terrifying story.
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It use to be that we figured that the authorities were watching the bad guys, especially on the internet. While the nightmare is that the Government along with the FCC want to control the internet and what you can read, watch, and listen to. China and Australia, plus many other countries already do this. It seems that it is coming soon.
It gives the government new powers to break up companies involved in practices threaten the economy, puts more light on the financial markets that escaped the oversight of regulators and — one of Obama’s biggest victories — creates a new consumer financial protection bureau.
(But that’s another blog.)
Senate to Give Obama the Kill Switch to the Internet
It came to light in the spring of 2009, when the senate decided they wanted to hand over the internet to the Executive Branch. The bill gives Obama, or who might be in office the power to shut the public sector off the Net.
Jay Rockefeller spent months behind closed doors drafting another version which is not much better. Senator Rockefeller’s version was even more vague. SourceHere is a link to a snippet of the Rockefeller bill.
Rockefeller put my mind at easy when he said, this will like what Bush did on 9-11. I feel better, how about you?
If you read my last blog you see the importance of the Obama Kill Switch. The Executive Branch does not need to have more power. It is time to remove some of the powers instilled over the last two decades.
Now we have the investment arm of the CIA and Google Ventures, the investment arm of Google teaming up to monitor the internet.
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”
“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science.
This is another step towards internet control and censorship, using fear to gain position.
There is a saying, “The government should fear the people, not the people fear the government. There are some countries where that is true, but this ain’t one of them. The better part of the United States citizenry are in such a hurry to turn over full and complete power to the Federal government because they were told, the boogieman will get them unless they, (The Government) watch everything that happens. The part of this plan that should shake you to the core is, they don’t even try to hide it. The people have been so conditioned by fear, they curl up into the fetal position not wanting to rock the boat.
I am still trying to understand, why people choose to hand over their rights and freedoms over to a government that fear mongers and drags their loved ones off to fight wars on foreign soil. Over the last three decades, our troops have been used to protect resources, or take them. Don‘t believe, me find the location of the oil and natural gas pipelines in Afghanistan.
What they are fighting for
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A Town Destin Not to Learn From Its Own Past
I don’t know how true it is but, I have always said that if you want to see the outlook for the country, look at the town I live in. Also, if that is actually factual then it is a sad state we are in.
Avella is a small village in south western Pennsylvania, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh. The area played a role in the Whisky Rebellion, and in later years would play a major role in the “Underground Railroad”.
However, the village of Avella was developed thanks to the rich veins of coal discovered in the late 1800’s running beneath the surface. We have come to find out, a large field of Marcellus Shell rich in natural gas is now making the area as desirable, if not more so than when coal was king. The problem with this is, it has the people seeing dollar signs and we all know that money can block the commonsense of some.
At this point, not many of the original people remain that remember the Coal Era of the area. The truth is, there are not many true Avella-ites left. The ones that remember the after affects of the coal mining, are becoming fewer everyday. However, when you enter the village on Rout 50 the biggest reminders are the slate dumps that setoff to the right. It has been cleaned up a bit because, there was an old Wheel, or Cable House right at the bottom of the hill. They were taken out in the 80s. A few years ago they correctly sealed the opening of the mine shaft the Wheel House pulled the coal from
To this day, if you travel down Highland Ave. onto Brown Town Rd. you will see the hillside spewing sulfur from one of the old mine shafts that was abandoned and is full of water. The woods around Avella are full of sinkholes. As kids I remember being told, don’t play in the woods because of the sinkholes. (Yes, we did anyway.) If you walk out Deer Lane (A access road to the slate dumps, off of Brown Town Road) you will find the old settling ponds, and the remains of blast sheds.
Just like the dangerous and unsightly reminders of the Coal Era, there are and will be more reminders that the people allowed the energy industry rape the land. And just like the Coal Era, millions of taxpayer dollars will have to be used to clean up the aftermath caused by Hydraulic Fracturing. Also like the coal companies, drilling companies will treat the people like a “Twenty Dollar Hooker” tossing them aside and moving on after they have used them.
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In my blog on August 1, 2010 I posted part of a story from Wired about the CIA and Google working together in monitoring the Net and a company they have invested in together.
For the past couple of months there have been rumors and stories that Verizon and Google were going to team up for the control of the internet. Google and Verizon both denied this. Well, they did it, on Monday, Google and Verizon made it official and yet the FCC says nothing. It seems that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, has said nothing on the ungodly pact of these two industry giants. In fact, this makes Net Neutrality a freaking joke. What this joining could mean is, the little guy like me, would fall to the wayside. You will lose the true right to choose.
The public outcry has been deafening and strong objection from some members of congress has fallen upon deaf ears in the FCC. For years, the loss of a free internet has been a topic I have written on. It was one of the things that worried me when I first read The Patriot Act in late 2001. (Well that and a little thing called, the loss of privacy.)
Below is the E- Petition “Save The Internet” is gathering signatures for.
Dear Chairman Genachowski,
Google and Verizon’s pact has sparked a massive public outcry. People are upset because we’ve seen what happens when we let big companies regulate themselves or hope they’ll do the right thing.
Please denounce this deal and deliver on your promise to restore the FCC’s authority to protect Internet users and make Net Neutrality the rule of the road.
We know such a move may not be popular on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley, but it’s the kind of leadership we need now.
It’s not up to Google and Verizon to make public policy. We’re counting on you to save the Internet.Chairman Genachowski has heard plenty from Google and Verizon. Now he needs to hear from you. href=https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=471&JServSessionIdr004=ag2podl232.app246b>“ Please sign the letter now.”
Thank you,
Craig Aaron
Managing Director
Free Press
This should scare the hell out of the citizenry, if not for the fact that Google just recently teamed up with the CIA, then that the two largest entities in the internet business will have control over what you pay and where you can go on the “Internet Super Highway”.
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Speech Of Freedom?
What does Freedom of Speech protect? I think the type of speech that is in need of protection is, stupid or unpopular speech. If you think about it, popular speech most times does not get shot down, it is the stupid things that are said that need protection. Yes the prime example is the preacher that wants “Burn the Quran Day”. This might have just passed unnoticed, except for that small demographic in Florida. However, the Obama administration had to draw attention to this “Stupid” action. Just incase you just woke-up after a month in a coma, here is what I am talking about.
A Florida pastor planning a Quran-burning rally on Saturday’s 9/11 anniversary came under more pressure today to drop it from White House and religious and military leaders, but the Rev. Terry Jones says he isn’t backing down.
Ok, I would have not said a word about this because he is getting “Freedom of Speech” for his stupid idea, however the fire department will not give Rev. Terry Jones the needed permit for his bonfire. Is it because he will endanger others? No it is because they are feeling the pressure of the Obama administration, who is hearing it from the very same countries that have no problem burning “American Flags” or burning bibles, but will stick their hands out for the money. Not to mention the religion that calls for a woman to be Stoned, or beaten to death for infidelity. Oh yea, if she is raped she is jailed or killed, because it is her fault.
I was raised that you respect others and there beliefs. I ask you to remember, I was raised in a much simpler time. Every war we fought, we were fighting the communist, “So we didn’t have to fight them here.” Religions were; Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish. Oh yea, The rest of the world hated us because of our freedoms. Since then I have adjusted my views on those topics.
1. Wars; Religion.
2. Religion; No God.
3. Why Most of the World hates us; Religion.
Well on 9-11-2010 I will be carrying on with my life as if it was any other Saturday, and it really is. Isn’t It?
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Monopoly Goes Cashless. (Sign of Things to Come)
I know some people will say that I am making a big deal out of nothing and I hope that is the case, but I don’t think it is. Although it is not Hasbro’s plot to corrupt you kids. It does point to the cashless society that is a means of getting control of all aspects of the economy. However, that might be getting too deep, too quick.
It was about six years ago I wrote a series of blolgs on the cashless society, including the Real ID and RFID Chips. The chip is being used in your credit cards and implanted. I wrote on the chip being offered to kids going into clubs so they would not need id, cards, or cash. Then I followed that up with wallets and clothing being sold that protect your ID, and credit cards from the bad guys with “Hand Held Scanners” trying to steal your info. If you see someone standing outside the doors of a bank, or store they might be trying to get information with a H.H.S.
A cashless society is one of the changes that is being made as the N.A.U. and the N.W.O. are being ushered in. In a cashless society all transactions can be watched and wages will be decided by the government. England is in the process of doing this with workers wages. “British Government to Seize All Paychecks”
There is another thing to think about when cash is no longer a hindrance to the fast moving society, and it is something we have seen happen already with CostCo, and a few other bulk stores. They no what you have bought and how much. There was a shortage on rice and flour a year ago and if you tried to buy more that what they set the limit per person, they would know by your card. This is also a practice with store cards like Get-Go, and Kroger. Yes you save three cents and give them your information.
This is just one of those things I had to bring to your attention and ask you in this confusing time “The Election Cycle”, follow the old saying, “Don’t believe what you hear, and in the day and age of Photoshop about one percent of what you see.
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Should “Marcellus Shell” and “Hydraulic Fracturing” Sway Your Vote in the Pennsylvania Governor Race?
The answer to the Title Question should be “Yes”. In fact it should Sway Your Vote in all the Races. It is a very important issue that will effect the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for a long time to come. It has as much, if not more than the coal mining industry did back at the turn of the 20th century.
The biggest issues with fracking are, jobs, environmental safety, how much tax should be levied, what level of government should get what percentage of those taxes.
There is no doubt, the drilling boon has helped lower the jobless rate in the state. There is a bill that has been presented in the state legislature that would reward the companies for hiring persons from Pennsylvania to work in the drilling and gas field. I believe that this is being done for the right reasons. The problem I see with this is, the money could be used by effected communities to help in the after effect of the drilling, and a percentage set aside to help those who have suffered damage and contamination from the fracking operations. (Yes, despite the Happy Face the Gas and Drilling companies are advertising, spillage and accidents are happening.)
I don’t know how many of you have received phone calls from a committee calling itself, The Pa. Action Network. A well spoken person (recorded) tells of the taxes that Jessie White is going to vote for. Also, these taxes will raise the price of Natural Gas in the Commonwealth, and kill jobs. Let’s look at this logically.
1. A tax is needed, so the municipalities where the extraction of the gas is taking place will make something off of this. (Think back to the coal mining boon.)
2. If the need for the gas is there, the need for people to extract it is also there. The jobs are not going to go away over a few dollars.
3. A small tax on the gas in production might cause a slight increase, however there is no real cause for alarm do to the fact a large percent of the natural gas that will be drilled here will be exported. It is the same scare tactic they use when they want to drill for oil on U.S. territory. Most of the resources captured in the U.S. are exported, and we buy from other countries. It‘s just more cost effective.
So yes, Fracking is a large issue when we go to the voting booth next month. Jobs and environmental safety, I will vote for the candidates that show me that they have a positive plan which incorporates both. Oh, and don‘t take money form the Gas Industry.
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As the title suggest, October tenth, two thousand ten is just another day. It is six days off, but I insure you these consistent number sets have happened in the past, and we have gotten through them just fine. However, there are some activities planned for that date. These activities are positive, even if you think the reason behind them is foolish.
The star of Juno, Ellen Page has produced a You-Tube video asking everyone to take part in 350.org’s “Global Work Party Day”. But wait aren’t we being programmed that if we do things that help the planet, and by helping the planet we help our fellow man, we are “Leftwing Extremist”? It is easy just to say that anyone or thing that wants to help the planet because they believe in Global Warming/Climate Change or what ever the next administration will call It is a nut and so is their idea. However, maybe it is just a young person wanting to help.
Now, if we look at the other end of this mine set and that would be the TEN-TEN movement. 1010 put out a series of videos showing how to cut carbon emissions. Now this should scare you to well…. to death. Some will say that I am over reacting to this but I don’t think so. Check it out below. (More after the video.)
Well, shake you up a bit? I don’t mean horror flick scare. I mean, “Oh my God is this what they are willing to do to achieve what they want?” There is a Donald Duck video out there that is humorous to a point, but it ends with the message the only way to stop Glenn Beck is to kill him.
I remember people getting upset to the point of calling for harm to George W. Bush when his administration was in power. I admit I wanted him out because of the things they were doing to the country and the rights of it citizenry. I was not calling for violence, I was calling for the removal by impeachment.
I thought I was on the left, only to find out I am more center with a conscious. These people that are calling themselves democrats, are not the democrats I was exposed to in my political youth. These people remind me of the criminals of that era. These people are looking at the violent answer to shutting up the opposition, while talking of the freedom of speech. So think long and hard about which side you side with.
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Friday Night Lights Moved, Faithful and New Fans Are Upset
ABC Family has moved “Friday Night Lights from its promoted time slot of 6:00pm EST, to 11:00 am EST. The move has drawn a large outcry from the many fans of the show. In its place the cable network has decided that My Wife and Kids should be in that time slot.
So far there has been no reason given by the Network as to why they would take a fresh show to syndication and replace it with a show that has been out in syndication for awhile and just about every cable network runs.
Friday Night Lights is a show about a small Texas town and stories that revolve around its high school football team. It also points out the devotion that small towns around the country put behind their high school sports. Below is a short clip.
There has been rumblings of a boycott against ABC Family Channel and Disney the parent company. Straight out boycotts against networks never last long enough to hurt them. However, contacting the advertisers and threatening to stop using their products has an effect.
I would hate to boycott ABC Family and Disney because they do have some family oriented show also. If you would like to join in and send a message of displeasure at the move go to, ABC Family/FNL and let them know how you feel.
Ps. Please be civil about it. I feel that it has more of a chance if its done respectfully. Also The 101 on Direct TV has the Last Season, starting on Wednesday, October 27, 2010.
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The Difference in the Race for the 46th District for the Pennsylvania State House Of Representatives is Apparent, DeLuca No Shows.
I know it wont matter to most of you out there however, I will be endorsing Jesse White for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As most of the readers of this blog know I am for a very strict hand over the Marcellus drilling by the government and EPA. (Which is not happening at this point.) Jesse and I don’t really see eye to eye on how to achieve this. We disagree on the way to get the result. I feel Jesse and I are one the same page, just different paragraphs.
As for Mr. DeLuca the major turn off for me is, the fact that he doesn’t feel my main issue is worth talking about. Instead of debating an issue that is very important to the economical and environmental welfare of the 46th District, he refused to debate the issue saying, “The Marcellus Shale debate is a dog and pony show”. He has canceled twice, not only on The League of Women Voters, and Jesse White. HE CANCELED on the PEOPLE of HIS DISTRICT. Also, DeLuca repeatedly refused to return phone calls from Jesse White or the League of Women Voters.
To read the email that Jesse sent out trying to explain what happen go to, Source Below is an excerpt of the letter.
I was looking forward to discussing how I have hosted workshops with our municipal officials, gas industry representatives and the DEP to develop reasonable local ordinances to preserve the essence of our communities. I also wanted to talk about the different pieces of legislation I have written to protect property owners’ rights, increase accountability for drilling activity in small towns and provide tax credits for companies who hire Pennsylvania workers to develop the Marcellus Shale in a safe and responsible way.
So, I am voting for Jesse White, for many reasons. One of the biggest being the help he gave towards getting the long awaited Sewage project. He has secured Grants, and low cost loans to help the township, and its citizenry. By working to get these sources of moneys he helped get it done right and at a low cost to the people of Cross Creek and Independence townships.
If you would like to find out more on these two candidates, you can go to these Websites;
Jesse White;
1. I’m From the Government. I’m Here To Help.
Greg DeLuca;
It is important that the people vote in this Midterm Election. In the past midterm election have a low turn out. We as a country cannot follow that pattern this time and all elections afterwards.
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Full Body Scans Are Being Forced on the Citizens, By making the Pat Down a Grope Fest.
Update:11:14am; The government rolled out Vans can see through buildings…and your clothes. Their excuse for everything has become:
.” This is neat stuff because it can aid in cracking down on terrorism — god knows we don’t need another failed underwear bomber on Christmas again — and for tracking down illegal aliens who are trying to sneak over our U.S. borders.
Update:10:50am You could be arrested if you refuse the Full Body Scan and try to leave the airport. Here is the story of what happen to a gentelman with video. Source
It seems that if you don’t want something that the government wants you to do they will make your life unbearable. If you wouldn’t hand over your land for the Trans Texas Corridor the government took it by eminent domain, or if your taxes were behind they grabbed it. I have a couple of friends that had that happen for the NAFTA Super Highway (Trans Texas Corridor). However, that is not what this blog is about.
View from the control room.
I started blogging on the Full Body Scan machines, when the first one was put in the airport in Arizona. I was told not to worry, there will be such an outcry, they won’t use them in every airport and the ones out there will disappear. Well, they were wrong, and they were quietly being place in airports through out the country. They have be used in other countries for a while now. (You know where they have no right to privacy.)
Well you don’t have to go through the “Naked Machine” line, you can opt out. However, from what the author of the article says of his adventure, they make it so horrible that you really don’t know if your privacy or your health is worth it.
Two ladies refused to go through the Full Body Scan and were refused the right to fly. Unless they sprouted wings.
When selected at random to undergo a full body scan in the new machine that became compulsory in February, one of the women refused for religious reasons and the other for medical reasons.
The management released this statement about the incidents.
“Body scanning is a big change for customers who are selected under the new rules and we are aware that privacy concerns are on our customers’ minds, which is why we have put strict procedures to reassure them that their privacy will be protected.”
The photo below is what the person scanning you will see if you are picked for the scan.
This could be your wife or daughter
The above article took place in Manchester England, but with the placement of these machines in major airports in the USA we will be subject to the same treatment. However, here in the states as of now the TSA has order employees to give anyone that opts out of the Full Body Scan a very humiliating Full Body Pat Down.
Perhaps hoping to embarrass people into choosing the full body scanners, TSA agents have now been ordered to make the pat-downs much more humiliating, so much so that they’re tagged on FlyerTalk and elsewhere as “molestation searches.” The way we know that this is a deliberate tactic is because TSA agents flat out said as much to the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg. While laughing about it:
I told the officer who directed me to the back-scatter that I preferred a pat-down… When I made this request, a number of TSA officers, to my surprise, began laughing. I asked why. One of them—the one who would eventually conduct my pat-down—said that the rules were changing shortly, and that I would soon understand why the back-scatter was preferable to the manual search… I asked him if he was looking forward to conducting the full-on pat-downs. ‘Nobody’s going to do it,’ he said, ‘once they find out that we’re going to do.
What it comes down to is Agents will basically grope the people that opt out of the Scan. This is just the governments way of saying, “You think that’s bad just wait.” They will get you to comply under the false cloak of “Protection”. Yes, it is false feeling of security in a high percentage of cases.
Some of the pilots have come forward saying, these machines miss most weapons, in fact they will pick up drugs before most weapons. If you want to read on this go to, Source
I will be keeping an eye on this along with most things that will effect our lives.
ABA
The Means to An End. (Of the Internet)
Yesterday WikiLeaks was shout down by a cyber attack, but who was the perpetrator or perpetrators? Some might say, it was the US Government showing that they will not be played. It might have been, however it is more likely that it is a step in the grand scheme for the present administration to take control of the internet with in the borders of the US. They must convince the citizenry that it is a danger to them and their loved ones to allow open minded bloggers and websites to run without government control.
Prime examples of this would be China and Australia. Although, Australia as of today has taken WikiLeaks off their blacklist. It just shows what a government with too much power can do to its people.
Access to the WikiLeak’s Cablegate page, as well as certain Chinese language news articles covering the topic, have been blocked in the country since Monday. Other articles from the Chinese press that are accessible on the web appear to only concern the U.S. response.
In March 2009 the ACMA revealed that a number of pages on WikiLeaks were put on the blacklist of banned Web sites because the pages linked to Web sites on Denmark’s blacklist.
However, the ACMA today revealed that WikiLeaks was no longer on its blacklist of Web sites.
“Currently, the ACMA list of prohibited URLs that is notified to accredited filter providers does not contain any URLs within the WikiLeaks Web site,” the ACMA told ZDNet Australia in a statement. “Since April 2010, the ACMA has investigated two complaints about specific pages of content on the WikiLeaks Web site, which both resolved to content found to be not prohibited.”
Yes this could just be a paranoid conspiracy theory, however think about the power that was given to Obama over the internet. Then you look at the power Janet Napolitano has given to Homeland Security over the internet also. These two actions should scare the population in to action.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has extended the jurisdiction of her sprawling department to the Internet. The “Homeland Security Investigations” division of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized control of 82 websites last week. Considering the mess Ms. Napolitano has made of airport screening, it’s a bad idea to let Big Sister decide which websites will be allowed to exist in the future.
So, with all the other powers still in place from the George W. Bush administration, with these new powers over Cyberspace, we should really step back and think about we let transpire. Then we should pray we have not made a mistake by letting the government grow so big and gain this much power.
ABA
Ps. Obama has sited The Communication Act of 1942/Section 706 d, as giving him powers to shutdown sections on the internet.
‘Tis The Season For Scams and Rip Offs. Fa-la-la-la-la-la,la,la
Just a quick reminder this is one of the busiest seasons for rip-off scams and not just on the internet. A friend of mine sent me an email about one of the latest scams right at the checkout counters at the retail stores.
It seems that when some customers at Wally-World checked out, they found that their receipts showed that they got cash back when really they did not. The cashier would say, it was the Swipe-Pad acting up if they were questioned. In the cases below the customers questioned and did not accept the excuse that the Swipe-Pad was the culprit.
The following exerpt is from the Email I received form Rachie. I formatted it so it was easier to follow fron the email format.
CHECK YOUR RECEIPTS BEFORE LEAVING ANY CASHIER’S STATION!!!!!
THIS COULD HAPPEN ANYWHERE. CHECK YOUR RECEIPT
BEFORE LEAVING THE STAND. I’VE SEEN PEOPLE DO JUST THAT.
PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS, KIDS, LOVED ONES.It happened at Wal-Mart (Supercenter Store #1279,
10411 N Freeway 45, Houston , TX 77037 a month ago.
I bought a bunch of stuff, over $150, & I glanced at my receipt as the
cashier was handing me the bags. I saw a cash-back of $40. I told her I didn’t request a cash back & to delete it.She said I’d have to take the $40 because she couldn’t delete it. I told
her to call a supervisor. Supervisor came & said I’d have to take it! I said NO! Taking the $40 would be a cash advance against my Discover & I wasn’t paying interest on a cash advance!!!!! If they couldn’t delete it then they would have to delete the whole order.
So the supervisor had the cashier delete the whole order & re-scan
everything!The second time I looked at the electronic pad before I signed & a
cash-back of $20 popped up. At that point I told the cashier & she deleted it. The total came out right. The cashier agreed that the electronic pad must
be defective. (yeah, right!) Obviously the cashier knew the electronic pad wasn’t defective because she NEVER offered me the $40 at the beginning.
Can you imagine how many people went through before me and at the end of her shift how much money she pocketed?Just to alert everyone. My coworker went to Milford , DE Wal-Mart last
week. She had her items rung up by the cashier. The cashier hurried her along and didn’t give her a receipt. She asked the cashier for a receipt and the cashier was annoyed and gave it to her.
My coworker didn’t look at her receipt until later that night. The receipt
showed that she asked for $20 cash back. SHE DID NOT ASK FOR CASH BACK!My coworker called Wal-Mart who investigated but could not see the cashier pocket the money. She then called her niece who works for the bank and her niece told her this. This is a new scam going on. The cashier will key in that you asked for cash back and then hand it to her friend who is the next person in line.
Please, please, please check your receipts right away when using credit or debit cards! This is NOT limited to Wal-Mart, although they are the largest retailer so they have the
most incidents.
So this is just one of thousands of scams out there, people have thought up to separate you from your money. Remember that senior citizens are the biggest targets of the lowlifes, so talk with grandmother and grandfather, and Mom and Dad, let them know about this latest scam.
These Piss Me Off. (Suing McDonalds, And Trying to Ban the E Cigarette)
There are two things that are getting air time that should not even be an issue. Some idiots are making a little noise and well the media has jumped on them.
The first one is, a mother can’t say “NO” to her daughter. We have all been there when the kid sees something that they really want and they cry and throw a fit trying to wear you down. Well it seems, Ms. Monet Parham has a child that she has let get totally out of control, and has decided that her bad parenting is the fault of McDonalds, and her television set. So she ran to the Food Police.
Ms. Patham has filed a lawsuit against the McDonalds corporation for enticing her child with toys in the marketing of Happy Meals. Ms. Parham said that the reason she is suing is;
“I object to the fact that McDonald’s is getting into my kids’ heads without my permission and actually changing what my kids want to eat.”
If this is the case then what will she sue for next? Could it be the Toys ‘R’ Us Giraffe, Jeffry. no I have it the Monopoly guy, hell he has enough money.
If this is even looked at by the courts it will be one of two things; a gigantic waste of time or, will set a case that will be cited in tons of suits to come, and that would be wrong.
Ms. Parham is employed by the Sate of California and works in the field of children’s nutritional health. The suit is being back by Center for Science in the Public Interest. John Banzhaf, the founder of ASH the lobby against smoking, sees a similarity in the way tobacco and food are marketed.
“I think there’s a good case to argue that it’s unfair and deceptive to target young children with something that means a lot to them in order to induce them to eat something so unhealthy,” he says.
Acorrding to the article, the blame for a quarter of the children’s obesity in Santa Clara county, California, is McDonalds, and its competitors using toys in their children’s meals.
Chief executive Jim Skinner commented on the case telling the Financial Times,
The “food police” were trying to “dictate behavior through legislation”. In a statement, the company said it would “vigorously defend” its brand.
Banning The “E” Cigarette
This week cases against the E Cigarette were brought to light in the state that will save us all from ourselves, Washington. It seems that some of the residents of the state feel people are so stupid if they see someone with an E Cigarette they will get confused and light up a real cigarette causing second hand smoke.
Five years ago King County in the State of Washington along with three quarters of the country ban smoking in public places, they now want the Electronic Cigarette added to the list.
They cant say that it causes second hand smoke because, the only thing that is emitted from them is harmless water mist. The reason given for this concern is,
Public health officials say they’re so similar to the real thing that they make tobacco enforcement difficult and often prompt smokers to think it’s OK to light up in public. And that leads to second-hand smoke, health officials reason.
“The idea is that even though they’re not exactly identical to cigarettes, people see folks using e-cigarettes, and they think somebody else is smoking,” said Bud Nicola, a King County Board of Health member and affiliate professor with the University of Washington School of Public Health.
“It makes it very difficult for inspectors.”
This is freaking amazing,
The Board of Health is scheduled to discuss and vote on the proposed regulation Thursday.
The proposal also includes restricting the sales of e-cigarettes and similar devices to people 18 and over, and a ban on free giveaways and heavily discounted sales of the products.
What is this country headed towards? Were the people really voting for the government to control and take over the thought process for the people, when they voted Obama into office? It really seems to be the case, especially when you think back to the video of the two ladies who said Obama is going to give them money and pay their bills. I feel that they might as well go ahead and make smoking illegal and cause another prohibition, then people will really feel the pinch of the taxes.
While we are at it lets just fine and take away any parent that take their kid to a fast food restaurant because, they are endangering the welfare of a minor. Sounds stupid doesn’t it. Well, that is just a ridiculous as the above lawsuits. This is also the way “Unelected Officials” write and get laws passed.
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The Marcellus Shale Gas Companies are Allowed to Dump in the Rivers, Why Do I have to Pay to put in sewage?
Now the title is a rhetorical question, because everyone knows why there is the need for sewage control. Well that is most people, it looks as if those in Harrisburg don’t get it.
The DEP allows Marcellus Shale drilling companies to dump their contaminated Fracking water into the Pennsylvania rivers.
The natural gas boom gripping parts of the U.S. has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.
Not in Pennsylvania, one of the states at the center of the gas rush.
There, the liquid that gushes from gas wells is only partially treated for substances that could be environmentally harmful, then dumped into rivers and streams from which communities get their drinking water.
One of the chemicals used is really a mixture of many chemicals, the mixture is called Zeta-Flow, Not all the chemicals used are known and Halliburton the producer and user of Zeta-Flow will not release the make up of Zeta-Flow saying it is protected under industrial patens. They did not even give up the information when it meant the life of a worker and a nurse that worked on him. (However, after a legal fight they did and the doctor that was given the information was not able to give out that information under the threat of penalty of law.)
It is starting to effect more people than those close to the sites, and with this new law allowing the dumping into the water ways of Pa., where millions of Pennsylvanians get there drinking water.
The municipal authority that provides drinking water to Beaver Falls, 27 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, began flunking tests for trihalomethanes regularly last year, around the time that a facility 18 miles upstream, Advanced Waste Services, became Pennsylvania’s dominant gas wastewater treatment plant.
Trihalomethanes are not found in drilling wastewater, but there can be a link. The wastewater often contains bromide, which reacts with the chlorine used to purify drinking water. That creates trihalomethanes.
The EPA says people who drink water with elevated levels of trihalomethanes for many years have an increased risk of cancer and could also develop liver, kidney or central nervous system problems.
So when you write your State Legislators, thank them for taking the side of Big Business instead of you and the welfare of your families.
ABA
Fracking Comes To Brown Town Rd. and Hillside Way Avella.
Last night 02/23/2011)at approximately 6:15, The Joseph Powers Hydraulic Fracturing drill site experienced an explosion that sent flames and a thick plume of black smoke into the air. The percussion from the blast was felt as far away as 3 miles according to witnesses. I happen to be a witness that lives about a football field away as the crows fly.
We were eating diner when I felt and heard the blast. Without even thinking I went outside a turned to the drilling site. (I have had a bad feeling about this site since they started building it last summer.) So it was not a big surprise there was fire and black smoke coming from the site. For those who follow my blog know that my biggest thing with the fracking companies is safety. Also the fact, they were allowed to come into the state with a free hand. The regulations are virtually invisible, or are not being enforced with a stern hand. (Especially when lawmakers are going to sporting events as guest of energy companies.)
After I saw that fear had come true, I went and grabbed my camera.
This was shot the night of 02-22-11, and the morning of 02-23-11.
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Here we are day two after the explosion in Avella. According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette the investigation is still on going at the Chesapeake Energy, Joseph Powers site. The site is still shutdown and will remain down until the investigation is completed.
Yesterday at the company’s South Point facility vice president of corporate development, Scott Rotruck gave the companies explanation of what is happening with the investigation. Rotruck also declined to comment on reports Wednesday from residents near the wells that they had smelled natural gas before the fire.
“We’d like to apologize to nearby residents who may have been concerned or had their Wednesday evening disrupted,” Rotruck said, reading from a news release.
Other Fracking News For The Region
It seems that we have an up hill battle to get strict regulations enforced in Pennsylvania. According to many articles on the web and in the papers, we have a governor that sides with the gas and drilling companies. Governor Corbett had let it be known that he would be siding with the gas companies when he took over 1 million dollars in campaign contributions from the gas industry.
Console Energy is a company that is mostly known for its coal production in this area. It has been brought to light, Console is now wooing lawmakers from districts that have vast amounts of Marcellus shell. This is not a Republican or Democratic thing because Console offered Super Bowl trips as gifts to both Dems and Reps. In the end Democrat Tim Solobay, and Republican Joe Scarnati excepted the trips.
I went to the Observer Reporter news site on line and found Range Resources adds all over the paper with the people that are making thousands a month if not more in leases saying, that range is the best thing that happened. I know this because some are friends. (I have found when things go bad for companies, they ram the propaganda down the throats of the uninformed.)
Here is a story that tells of a group filing a Intent to Sue against Governor Corbett to stop the leasing of State owned land such as parks and game lands. More Here
This is not a local story however, it is one that shows what could take place here.
The mayor of Dish Tx. Is leaving his home because of health dangers do to Hydraulic Fracturing.
According to the Associated Press, residents of Dish have complained of nosebleeds, pain, and poor circulation since the first compressor station was built in their town in 2005, though there is no hard proof linking the health problems to the natural gas drilling. The air over the Barnett Shale near Dish was found to contain high levels of the toxic chemical benzene, shown to cause cancer. The town’s mayor is leaving it all behind.
While Mayor Tillman acknowledges there could be other explanations, he feels, “It’s one thing if I’m exposing myself to something… but with our children, it’s just a completely different story. We just couldn’t take the chance after that.” Around the country, similar reports of nosebleeds can be found among residents living near hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” sites, though the energy companies insist that their methods are safe.
Look, its time to decide is the money that can be made from this worth the health of our children. I personally don’t think so.
ABA
Ps. This is a story by a friends daughter Samantha Malone: SAM
We are in the middle of a big Marcellus Shale drilling boon here in South Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. This has become a hot topic in this area especially since we had an explosion on the drilling pad right across the valley from my house on Wednesday. The company that is operating that site is Chesapeake Energy.
So it was not that big of a shock when while I was digging for another blog that I am writing I came across this little tidbit. What should really anger people is that there was no announcement or even an explanation of why it was done by Corbett. One might guess that it is because this administration is in the Drilling Industry’s bed.
On Friday Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s administration rescinded an EPA rule that would make drilling companies gather small collections of air from sites and compressor stations and basically count them as one lager sample.
Corbett is bending over backwards to grant the every whim of Marcellus Shale drilling industry. Corbett let it be known during his run for Governor that he was on the side of the drilling industry, and for that he received 1 million in campaign contributions.
It is no surprise that people that are speaking out in favor of letting these companies ride roughshod over the state have received gifts from the companies in a mortuary, or other form.
The policy DEP rescinded today set criteria for DEP to consider a collection of smaller sources of air pollution associated with related gas drilling activities as one large source of air pollution and require the drillers to install pollution controls to reduce the pollution. By rescinding the policy, DEP gives up a valuable tool for evaluating and reducing air pollution.
“If this rollback stands, it could effectively exempt Marcellus drilling from key air pollution laws, close the door on citizen involvement in permits, and lead to more air pollution,” said Jarrett. “PennFuture will be working hard to get this policy reinstated so drilling does not make air pollution worse and pose larger threats to public health.”
This is the second rollback by Corbetts administration. The regulations for drilling on public lands also suffered a serious blow early on in the Corbett administration./
The Corbett administration took the step as the former head of Rendell’s parks and forests agency warned that drilling companies are studying about a half-dozen state parks, including Ohiopyle in Southwestern Pennsylvania and Pymatuning and Maurice K. Goddard in Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Road cutting, pipe laying, truck traffic and drilling will be a jarring experience for people who use the parks for camping, rafting and hiking, said John Quigley, who led the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources under Rendell
Maybe it is a great thing that Corbett is rolling back these regulations. Maybe it’s time that South Western Pennsylvania got its own LOVE CANAL.
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One State Gets It, N.J Places a Ban On Fracking
One State Gets It
It seems that last Friday New Jersey decided to send a clear message to the neighboring states (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and New York) by signing (unanimously) into law S-2576. This law outright bans Hydraulic Fracturing from the state of New Jersey. It also restricts the 105 superfund toxic waste dumps from taking waste from fracking.
The bills sponsor New Jersey state senator Bob Gordon describes the need and what the impact for this ban will be.
“The environmental dangers of this procedure and the risks they would pose to New Jersey residents are abundantly clear. In fact, I believe it poses the greatest risk we have seen to our drinking water in our lifetime.
This is something we simply cannot allow to come to our state.”
“By passing this legislation we can prevent this hazardous process from happening in New Jersey before it ever gets started. Moreover, we can set the environmental protection example for all other states in the country.”
New Jersey has the knowledge to say no to the money. and yes to cleaning the air, land, and water. However, they are protecting the health of the people.
Of course they are looking at what this relatively new industry is doing to other parts of the country. They also are learning from their past mistakes. Something the Governor of other states are not. Pennsylvania and West Virginia should have learned from the coal industry especially from strip mining and in West Virginia Mountain Top removal, all because they did not fallow through with regulations.
Here in Pennsylvania our newly elected and in need of a recall Tom Corbett has seen it fit to allow the drilling companies to dump fracking water directly in to the rivers of the state where most of the drinking water comes from. He has also opened public lands to drillers. These lands include State Parks, Forrest, and Game Lands.
In New York the governor is going to lift the seven month moratorium on fracking in June. This is being done despite the public outcry in the state.
With his past actions clearly showing his disregard for the environment, law makers feel that Governor Christie might attempt to overturn this action.
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One of Things Governor Corbett is Doing to the State By Siding With the Fracking Industry
What the people in towns like Avella need to realize is, even though we get our water piped in we are still drinking this crap, because we get the water from those waters. I switched to bottled water after reading that our Governor rescinded laws stopping the dumping of this waste water directly into the waterways where our water is taken from.
I started filtering my water a few years ago when the water from my tap was making my dog sick. By doing that I fixed the problem. However, with in the past six months he was getting sick when he would drink his water, so I bought some bottled water and after a few days he was doing fine.
I don’t cook with or anything but wash clothes, dishes and shower. Even filtering does not remove all pollutants. Yes, I realize that not all the pollutants in the water come from Fracking, however dumping fracking waste waters in the source of our drinking water is just criminal.
The clip below is very informative on what is being dumped in the waters we are suppose to drink cook and clean with. Also, Dr. Volzs assistant is the pride of Avella when it comes to this subject.
As I am writing this, talk radio is trashing people that understand what the Hydraulic Fracturing industry is getting away with. Also that Dr. Volz is a crack pot. As for the people I am listening to right now (at 9:48 am, in the Pittsburgh area, and on the same station that runs a show on Sunday that is Pro Fracking) Figure it out yet? I will not give the name because of the fear of legal possibilities. However, I wonder have their opinions been swayed by the industry? (Hummm).
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“INCASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW”
While I was checking my FaceBook page, a friend put up a message and one of the comments was, “They should put Zolloft in the water with the fluoride.” Well that got me to thinking, does this generation realize what the whole Fluoride thing is about, and do they know why it came to be? Well I answered back with what is below. However, I had to edit it because of character limits.
What I put on FB was:
Incase you didn’t know: In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, adjusted the fluoride content of its water supply to 1.0 ppm and thus became the first city to implement community water fluoridation.
Have you ever wondered why on the back of a tooth paste tube it tells you to call poison control if swallowed.
Fluoride is a poisonous by-product… of copper, iron and aluminum manufacturing.
I think it gets the message across. I hope when I post this it draws people to read it. So they get the whole message.
Incase you didn’t know:
In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, adjusted the fluoride content of its water supply to 1.0 ppm and thus became the first city to implement community water fluoridation. By 1992, more than 60 percent of the U.S. population served by public water systems had access to water fluoridated at approximately 1.0 ppm, the optimal level to prevent tooth decay.
However: Fluoride in the wrong PPM (Parts Per Million) is poisonous. Have you ever wondered why on the back of a tooth paste tube it tells you to call poison control if swallowed.
Should you use this?
Fluoride is a pollutant – a by-product of copper, iron and aluminum manufacturing. The companies needed a way to dispose of this byproduct and what better way than to use a bit of public relations to sell it to the public as a healthy way to prevent cavities.
And that’s incase you didn’t know.
I am thinking on doing a blog under the title, Incase You Didn’t Know, Pointing out little tidbits like Fluoride and other things that thanks to the new curriculums are being cut or because of an agenda are being left out of textbooks.
Here is a quick example of things being dropped from history books, The Vietnam War and parts of World War Two. This makes one think that we are falling under the, If you make sure a son knows less than his father, you will conquer the nation.
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Range Resources Wants to Take Their Ball and Go Home
Well it has finally happened. Range Resources is seriously threatening to pullout of Mt. Pleasant Township because the township supervisors are doing what the people put them in place to do. And that would be, to watch out for the well being of the people and the township.
In response Range Resources has sent out three confusing letters to some of the citizenry of Mt. Pleasant Township over the last seven days. One letter points to the possibility of those who have money coming in from leasing will lose their cash flow because of the actions of the supervisors.
“While we have made every effort to establish a positive and robust working relationship with your elected officials, our attempts continue to be rejected,” says the unsigned letter on company letterhead. “As a result, we are sending this communication to inform you that we have revised our future long-term plans in the township.” It notes those revisions “may prove detrimental to leaseholders.”
What this is, is a way for R.R. and others in the drilling industry to divide the community in hope of stopping the Co-Op of neighboring municipalities. They want to stop them from gaining a better grip on what the drilling companies can and cannot do to their communities to get to the gas under their municipality.
From what I am reading is the township does not want living quarters on the actual well site. One of the other issues is that the supervisors want to be able to visit the site of a gas well anytime, along with the building of noise fences.
A meeting March 8 was held with William Dinsmore, supervisor chairman, Larry Chome, zoning officer, township manager Mary Ann Stevenson and attorney Christopher Rogers for the township, and James Cannon, public affairs specialist, and attorney Kenneth Komoroski from Range.
Range provided a draft of a model ordinance it wants the township to adopt.
According to a follow-up letter Stevenson sent six days later, Cannon had said a letter would be sent to residents and, if the township adopted the model ordinance, the letter would paint supervisors in a good light. If not, it would spell out how landowners could sue the township and individual supervisors. The company said they had to make a stand somewhere and Mt. Pleasant was that place.
So why is it that R.R would chose to make a stance in Mt. Pleasant? It might be because the largest percentage of the gas wells are in that area. It might also be, the people have built their lives around the money from Range.
There are nightmare stories about drilling companies going into other states and bulling the people and communities until they have gotten their way with the laws and ordinances.
The biggest mistake that was made before the Gas Industry came into Pennsylvania was we did not put a Marcellus severance tax on the industry. The company is saying how bad it is to work in the state, it can’t be that bad seeing that we are the only state that does not have that tax in place.
I hope that if Range does pullout the other municipalities don’t tuck their tails and cave to the company without thinking of their citizenry first. It would be a real hit to the areas’ economy for the industry to leave however you can‘t just let them come in and do what they want
The meeting to night will be held at the Hickory Fire Hall tonight from 6:00 to 8:00. It is sponsored by Range Resources to explain their future plans for the township.
ABA
With the leadership in Harrisburg doing everything in their power to capitalize off of Fracking at any cost. Chesapeake Energy is at the center of another accident that has the potential to pollute hundreds of acres of land at the least. If the runoff is not handled it could reach the streams and rivers. By the way the Gov. Tom Corbett has already removed laws that would stop dumping fracking water in water supplies.
Pennsylvania’s top energy utility regulator says he’s enthusiastic about the potential of the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation and that critics of the industry’s environmental record aren’t taking the time to educate themselves about it.
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“He told a crowd of several hundred that the industry wouldn’t be in business if it didn’t seek to protect the environment, and that Pennsylvania will develop regulations that fully utilize shale gas.”
That seems all that is left for them to do because, they have started doing away with the regulations that were put in place to help protect the communities. After the spill in Leroy Pennsylvania there will be an on slot of propaganda from the drilling industry.
Here in Avella it has been over three months and the only news on the Powers explosion is that they will not release the EPA’s report. They keep saying that there is no danger, however they wont release the findings to the public.
The local news ran right out to Avella and interviewed some of the people that witnessed the explosion that night. One of the people interviewed was Carol Moten. She was touched personally by her well being contaminated by fracking.
So it is looking more and more that the citizenry of Pennsylvania is not going to have a voice, but the drilling industry will be able to do what ever the want.
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Osama Bin Laden Killed After Ten Years. Is It the Shot in the Arm A Hurting Nation, and Leader Needs?
Osama Bin Laden Killed After Ten Years. Is It the Shot in the Arm Hurting Nation, and Leader Needs?
Yesterday Osama Bin Laden was removed from the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List. Not so much removed as updated to deceased.
American Intelligence working on a tip from a detainee in Guantanamo Bay Cuba started an eight month mission to capture Bin Laden. The mission ended yesterday (5/1/2011) with the death of Osama Bin Laden.
At the time of the raid Bin Laden was held up in a Multi-Million dollar compound in Pakistan. U.S. Navy Seals raided the compound 800 yards from Pakistan’s top military academy. It is being reported that the battle took about forty minutes. It is also being reported that Osama was told to surrender and refused.
I cannot stress enough, if the Media is smart they will not dig to find out who made the kill. If they do it will make those involved a target for the rest of their life.
Another Look
Not to take away from the celebration of the finding of Osama Bin Laden, however with that said, it was something said by a gentleman on “Good Morning America” that reminded me, “9-11-2001 did not have to happen.” It was so many breakdowns in security, coupled with the lack of communication between departments that allowed it too happen.
Also, why is it that before the public could see the body it was buried at sea? What we are being told is, it is in accordance with the Muslim religion. I will be the first to tell anyone, I know very little about the Muslim religion but, there are so many coincidences and blanks, it is a conspiracy theory waiting to happen.
One last thing, and this may be a question on a Trivial Pursuit card one day.
Question: What is the one thing Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler have in common?
Answer: Their rein of terror ended on May First, sixty six years apart.
Bin Laden’s death was announced on May 1st, 2011. Hitler’s death was announced on May 1st, 1945.
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Ps. Thanks to Braden Parker for that piece of trivia.
The Psychology of Gas Prices
Has anyone noticed that in the last couple of decades, the price of oil has been driven to the point that people think they will no longer make ends meet. Then magically it drops to where it is usually around one dollar higher than the previous year and everyone is happy. Well maybe not as much happy as relieved.
The reason I brought this up is, the media is reporting that gas has fallen two cents nationwide. They also are reporting that with in the next couple weeks the price will settle in around a dollar higher that last year. Yes these are the same so called experts that said, five dollars by June. So take it for what it’s worth.
The oil companies have noticed this also and will continue to take advantage of this Psychology until we act as one people and figure how to stop them. With in the last three years I have seen a number of Mom & Pop stations go under because they cannot come up with the cash to buy the next load of gas.
A few years ago I ask the owner of the B.P. Station that use to be in Wellsburg West Virginia, “Why is it when we here that the price of oil has went down, the price of gas stays the same or goes up in price?”
“That is because the privately owned stations are trying to recoup their losses from the last load or, we know the load after this one is going up”, he said.
Outside of Berkley W.V. there is a B.P. station that does not accept credit cards when you buy anything inside the store, because he has to make his living off of the cakes, soda, and other groceries. He hardly makes enough money on the gas to cover the cost of selling it.
Now, is it sad that we are totally dependent on petroleum? Yes it is. Should we dump gas powered engines and move over to electric powered vehicles? I don’t really think that is the answer.
I also don’t think that it is financially feasible (for the consumer) to switch to ethanol or boost the percentage of ethanol mixed in the gas. The use of ethanol in a modern day automobile breaks down the rubber hoses and parts faster than just gas. The biggest thing the environmentalist should look at is, it takes more energy to make ethanol and is not worth the environmental impact.
The amount of energy it takes to charge a battery and make a gallon of ethanol, it doesn’t make sense to make the change. Refining the ethanol also pollutes the air, water, and land. The same for powering electric cars.
Do I have the perfect answer to cut the cost and curve the pollution? Well no. However, I do know you don’t burn your food for power. Not for long anyway. Within the short period of time that ethanol production was raised, the price of grain foods have gone up.
We are not dependent on Middle East oil. Eighty percent of our oil in the U.S. comes from Canada.
According to Sullivan (and contrary to claims by many that the U.S. buys oil from its enemies), most of our oil is imported from non-Muslim states. About 80 percent of our imported oil comes from Canada (1.9 million BOPD), Mexico (1.2 million BOPD).
So if you have a good answer for how to get off oil and lower the cost of travel, without polluting more, and starving the population, please leave a comment.
ABA
Fracking and The Great White Lie
It really gets to me when I hear people say, we should let companies like Range Resources and Chesapeake Energy drill with out paying tax and Impact Fees here in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Because, by doing that we are getting closer to becoming energy independent. They also believe, it will lower the cost of heating our homes. If these people could see past the almighty dollar these companies dangle in front of them like a carrot in front of a mule, they might realize most of the natural gas from fracking is being bought up by foreign governments, liquefied and sent overseas. Countries like China are buying controlling interest in some of these companies and reaping profits.
The question is becoming is it worth the poisoning of our waterways and ground water to supply counties with what we are falsely being told will allow the United States to break free of foreign oil. (Which is in itself false, because we get the most of our oil (80%) from Canada and Mexico.)
A leading player in the natural gas grab is China, whose thirst for energy to fuel its industrial explosion is growing rapidly. Others include the governments of South Korea and India, and companies in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Japan and Australia.
Paul Cicio, the president of Industrial Energy Consumers of America which represents large U.S. manufacturers said,
“Exporting newfound natural gas is a strategic blunder that will cost American manufacturing jobs by hiking the price of gas here. This is not good for our country.”
In my opinion, allowing this to continue will be as big of a hit to the economy of The United States as NAFTA was. (If not worse.)
Most from Pennsylvania know, Governor Corbett took large contributions from the Drilling Lobby and Drilling companies during his campaign. Corbett also rescinded laws that tightly controlled drilling in state own forest and parks, and did not allow the direct dumping of Frack waste water in rivers and creeks. So is it any wonder that Corbett is all for the exporting of the Natural Gas? This from the man that told school districts, lease to the drilling companies to over come the cuts in latest budget. Some school districts have leased (Fort Cherry) and it is still not enough to over come the cuts. FYI, there is a billion in surplus, which is enough to lighten all the cuts to schools, and community service programs. Including medical cuts.
Patrick Henderson, senior adviser on energy matters to Gov. Tom Corbett, said the possible export of Marcellus gas overseas “doesn’t hurt the argument that we need to develop the resource.” He said it underscores that the United States needs to develop technology that uses natural gas.
“Exporting is generally a good thing, though our first choice would be to use it here,” he said. Corbett doesn’t believe Pennsylvania should tax Marcellus shale gas aimed for overseas because it would be difficult “to craft a tax” based on where the gas is used, he said.
People get the impression I am against Hydraulic Fracturing. The truth be known, I am not totally against it. It needs to be done safely, and not the way coal was ripped out of the ground and the towns left in shambles. All precautions must be taken to save the water, and not let them take devastating amounts from lakes and creeks killing the aquatic live there. At three different time Cross Creek lake was hurt from spills and the pulling of water from the lake for fracking.
We must stop the dumping of waste water directly into the rivers and creeks, from which our city water is drawn from. It was suspicious that town where show contaminated water, but the latest report said that none was found.
We were told that the Marcellus boon would create thousand of jobs for the area, however it hasn’t. The majority of workers are from out of state. Which points to the short lived upside of Fracking, the economy.
Stores and shops along with rentals might have seen a slight up swing in business, but will that money go to the community. As I said this is all a short lived benefit of fracking. Like I said in another blog there are few left in this village that remember what happen after the coal companies were done with Avella. It is now a shell of what it once was.
ABA
Ps. I just got this in. It seems Chevron who is going to buy Chesapeake Energy’s Marcellus end, put out an ad that tells of the dangers of fracking. It was an accident. Grist.org
Monday June 11, 2011, The Dept. of Energy held a meeting at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington Pa, on the subject of Hydraulic Fracturing, and the environmental impact. Here in Washington County we set on one of the largest Marcellus Shell gas deposits on the Eastern Seaboard. In the past months it has also become a Hotbed of controversy, because Range Resources threatened to pull out of Mt. Pleasant township for trying to protect their, and their citizens interests.
At Monday night’s meeting, Range Resources tried to pack the hall with Pro-Drilling attendees. Range has the most to gain or lose, because they operate the most drilling sites in Western Pennsylvania. According to the article:
On Saturday the WashCo GOP got into the fray, in an email asking drilling supporters to get in line to speak two and a half hours before the hearing begins.
From the mail:
The opposition groups are already mobilizing people from outside of the region and state to flood this event. We need employees, service companies, land owners, sub contractors and everyone else. They will be accepting speakers on a first come basis. Meaning we need to have people lining up no later than 4:30 for registration and then to fill the room.
Anti-Drilling groups received this information about the meeting. Source
Josh Fox the director of the documentary “Gasland” was at the meeting and pointed out, he felt John Deutch’s comments proved that the meeting was “a sham.”
“You are using this forum to justify your conclusion,” he said
When Fox’s time ran out, he was shouted down by drilling supporters. However, opponents of drilling applauded wildly as he walked back to his seat.
Those who were locked out chanted and voiced their feelings to the reporters outside of the meeting. One of the chants was, “six out of seven belong to the drillers.” This refers that six out of the seven panelist are in bed with the drilling companies.
One of the comments made to the media was from Mel Packer with Marcellus protest.org
“This commission should go home. (Go) back to Washington and tell Obama and Congress there’s a rebellion brewing here.”
The director of the film “Gas Odyssey” brought up the one talking point that in fact is a misconception if not an out right lie, when he ask.
“Why should Americans fight overseas to guard our oil when a cleaner resource is available here?”
Many other statements voiced my feelings on the whole drilling issue.
Many said they were not opposed to gas drilling but the hydraulic fracturing method which uses high volumes of water, sand and chemicals to force natural gas from the shale.
Calling for a statewide health assessment, Dana Donley said the state first needs to monitor risks of living and working near drilling or compressing sites.
“No one begrudges anyone a job but why do you begrudge me my health?” the breast cancer survivor asked.
ABA
Pa. S.B. 1100 Will Hurt More Than Help
I am really sorry I let this slip by while I was taking care of other things. Yes, like most of the people that read this blog, I was busy and missed it. However, on June 14 2011 the Pennsylvania Senate passed SB 1100, entitled; An Act amending Title 58 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, imposing a natural gas impact fee and providing for a model zoning ordinance, and that’s the short title. It has been referred to ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, May 16, 2011
SB 1100 is an amendment to Title 58 (Oil and Gas) Act. It forces local governments to choose between receiving revenues such as Impact Fees and adopting protective measures, and “punishes those that choose protective measures.” In other words by coming up with zoning ordinances to protect the municipality and the citizens of that municipality from the impact of Fracking, and the chemicals used in that practice they will cut themselves off from the funding of the impact fees.
In essence the amendment makes the elected officials choose between getting much needed monies for their municipalities because of a negative impact caused by Hydraulic Fracturing or ignore the health and welfare of their constituents.
I know that people have more important things to do than read a dry document. These amendments send you to many other bills to see what is being changed. This is why we elect and send people to the capital to do that and cover our butts. However, there are those that hope we don’t know what these bills mean, so that they can pad their own financial intere$t.
We need to read and understand what these bills mean. They are written so that the common man and woman don’t understand them. They are long and drawn out so that, they are very dry in the reading. One of the best example of this is “The Obama Healthcare Law”. Here is the link to Pennsylvania SB 1100 so that you can look at it and make up your own mind on the impact it is going to have on your life. I really believe, once you read it you will agree it hurts more than it helps.
ABA
Direct TV to Drop News Corp Network
Come November 1 2011 Direct TV will drop Fox Cable Networks if Fox does not give Direct their way. Fox has offered to let Direct continue to carry the programming until the differences are settled, but Direct has said no.
The stations that will go black on November 1 2011 will be:
1. Geographic Channel
Speed
2. Fuel TV
3. Fox Soccer
4. Fox Movie Channel
5. Fox Deportes
6. 19 Fox regional sports networks
FOX NETWORKS: Despite Fox Networks’ offer of an extension during our ongoing negotiations, DirecTV has informed us and their customers that unless we agree to their demands, they “will suspend our networks on November 1.”
To be fair News Corp is wanting a 40% increase and does not want to offer the programming separate, they will only provide it in a bundle package. However, one of the demands that Direct TV wants is what they wont give their subscribers and that is the right to pick channels they want. By doing this you could save money and get programming you want and not 10 Christian channels, and over 20 shopping channels.
DIRECTV CEO MIKE WHITE:
DirecTV’s agreement with News Corp./Fox for some of their national cable networks and regional Fox Sports networks has expired.
News Corp. has demanded that DirecTV customers pay nearly 40% more for the same channels they already receive. If a new deal is not reached, we will be forced to suspend the channels as early as Nov.1.
I for one will be forced to either go to through the air digital broadcasting or pick up a local cable company like HTC, if they drop these cannels or pass the cost of the 40% on the consumer.
We went through this VS sports channel two years ago and missed a hand full of Pittsburgh Penguin games. This time around we will miss two Steeler games and some shows that I like.
I am sorry but I come from an era that only had three major networks and if you were lucky you picked up PBS and a couple of UHF channels. Now if you want to get any reception you have to be be within thirty miles of the broadcast or by an expensive antenna. However, you can pay for it with cable, or satellite.
We got cable when I was a kid and our basic package was 12 channels for 5.00 a month and HBO was another 2.50. Of course we didn’t get HBO. My dad told me once, when we all take the antennas down they will charge us what ever they want to see what was once free. He was right.
I know to a lot of people it makes no difference what happens to TV. However, there are some older Americans that use it to take the place of their family, who never come to see them. Others it is Thier only contact will the outside world.
ABA
10/31/11; News Corp and Direct TV have come to an agreement which will allow Direct TV costumers to view the forty channels that the company was ready to drop. If an agreement was not reach by November 01, 2011. Direct TV was going to drop all of the Fox Channels and then some.
You can expect this type of thing to happen every year because the networks ever increasing cost of original programming. On the other side of the satellite feed you have companies like Direct TV trying to keep the cost down to keep their subscribers from leaving.
Although the exact details are not available on the agreement, one of the sticking points was, Direct TV wanted something that they don’t even offer the subscribers. (The choice to pick channels instead of having to buy a package.)
<So for the next month I will be sticking with Direct TV until I get Hickory Telephone Company (HTC) to hook up their “phone, internet and cable. I will get that package for $100.00 less than I pay now and my DSL connection will be faster than what I have now.
It’s Official My Home Town is on the Grid
As of yesterday my house is totally on the so-called SMART-GRID. For about 2 years the electric meter on my house has been a Smart Meter. As of yesterday the gas company hooked up the monitoring device to my gas meter.
I was not notified that they were going to change out the electric meter, but the gas company did send notification two weeks in advance that they would be placing these boxes on the existing meters. There was no other info given like, how to object to this being done.
There are a lot of people that ask me, why I care that they put in smart meters. Well the thing is, I don’t want the utility companies able to control my house. If you don’t believe that this is going to be done, please read Agenda 21, the United Nations plan of global control through the environmental regulations. Oh yea, there are a few other things in there also.
Well that’s it for now. I implore you to read Agenda 21. Just don’t do what so many do and say that it is just a conspiracy whack job thing and wonder when things got taken from you.
ABA
Setting The Record Straight Independence Township Wash Co. Pa.
It seems, while I was out of town for an extended weekend the race for Independence Township heated up with mud-slinging and a bit of untruthfulness was addressed and sent to the homes of registered voters in Independence Township Wash Co.
The letter starts out; To the voters of Independence Township:
If you care about our future, please read this all the way through before you vote – then decide. So I did, and it was written in a defamatory way, with accusations and falsehoods.
The letter opens attacking Kevin Balzer the republican candidate, calling him and what he has done for the community and township a, “Nothing, Zero, Zip!!” They say that Kevin ask the township if they would contribute 200 thousand towards renovating the Lincoln Bank Building. I was always told, “It never hurts to ask, because they can only say no.”
(Incase you don’t live in the township, the bank renovation was a hot topic. I say was because it is now being done by a private group, with donations, grants and other fund raising activities.) However, some people would have you believe it is taking money from the township.
In the next paragraph they go after Louis Brandenburg. Lou is the democratic candidate. As with Kevin, they say in his time living here Lou has done absolutely nothing, zero. zip. However, they word this as if there is doubt if Mr. Brandenburg has ever lived here. The facts are, he was born and raised in the town of Avella and graduated from Avella High School.
They also attack Mr. Brandenburg’s service as a Hopewell Township Supervisor by saying that he was appointed to fill an empty seat for 2 years. This is an out right lie, as I am setting with possession of the Certificate Of Election, dated December 8, 1997, from the Washington County Board of Elections. It states, “LOUIS A BRANDENBURG Jr. was duly elected SUPERVISOR (6 YEARS)
Please understand that the letter written on behalf Jim Wright, was mailed at a time so close to the election that a rebuttal by the other candidates would be all but impossible. Also so that the average citizen would not be able research or question the allegations.
The Democratic and Republican candidates whom are on the ballot, came together and put out a letter to rebut the untruths of The committee for Jim Wright as a Write-In, put in their strategically mailed letter.
The two men on the ballot care enough about the township, they have come together to put the truth out there in the hope that one of them are elected to improve and move the community forward. Their letter is below.
</aThe Land Of The Free. Part? and Part??
editor’s note; The second article is more important than gambling. However, both hold a single excuse for the Federal Government to remove freedoms and gain control.
The other day I was watching a Texas Hold’em tournament on ESPN while waiting on the Ravens -vs.-Steelers game. (I should have finished watching the Poker tournament.) While I watched, I noticed that a most of the players didn’t have sponsors on their hats, shirts or jackets. For many years it was common place to see Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars, and other online sites, advertising on articles of clothing during the final table. Why not this time? Then I remembered, Here in the land of the free we are not allowed to gamble on line. For those who don’t follow poker ten years after the fall of the Towers, The Terrorist Are Still Winning!!
It seems those of us who would like to put ten or twenty dollars down and play poker, or any type of game of chance on line, “We are helping the Terrorist! I mostly play for free on line and get into a Free-roll Tournaments to try and win entry to a TV tournament, or a trip to Los Vegas to play. However, because of you poker playing terrorist these sites were seized by the U.S. Government at the domain level and I have no place to play poker “online”.
Ok, you are asking yourself, “What in the hell does terrorist have to do with online gambling?” The legislature in their infinite wisdom decided to shut this down because, one Asshole congress man made this his crusade and said, 9-11, poker, and terrorist in the same sentence. You can also bet he was from below the Bible Belt. Oh wait, no you can’t bet on that or you are helping the terrorist. “LAND OF THE FREE MY ASS”.
The reason they are going after online gambling, has something to do with the laundering of money to the boogieman. Why I think they really did it, “They couldn‘t figure out a way to get more money out of it.” However that didn‘t last long because, they are fining the [craps] right out of these sites. They are using laws that were never meant for this, to seize and shutdown gambling sites.
When you go to a site to play you receive a message that reads something like this; “You cannot play on this site because your IP address shows you are in a country that does not allow online gambling.” I have also run into the sites that spell it out, You are in the United States.
Land Of The Free. Part??
One of the other things that sticks out and shows, you are not in a Free Choice Country is Medical Marijuana. One of the ways this is like their war on Online Gambling is they use the propaganda, “If you buy marijuana you are helping the terrorist.” When most of the Marijuana used for medical purposes is grown in the United States.
In years past, if you were running for office you stayed away from this. In the last Presidential Primary Obama did a YouTube Town Hall, and the main question was about medical marijuana and he played it off as there is no way that we will fix the economy by selling joints. Also the question retrievers made it seem as if it was the last question ask, when in fact it was the most ask question.
I am not going to go through the reasons that it was made illegal, because either you know or you don’t buy the history. I will tell you that there are stories out there about how amazing this natural herb heals. Hemp oil has been scientifically tested and proven to help in the cure and remission of cancers.
Even though a growing amount of people in the United States feel that marijuana has healing qualities and some states have made medical marijuana legal, the Federal Government does not recognize these qualities. The problem is that organizations like NORMAL don’t have the monetary resources that companies like Pfizer and DOW Chemical have.
A father in Montana (Cash Hyde) faced one of the most devastating things any parent could ever face. His two year old son was diagnosed with brain cancer. The boy had gone through chemo treatments that left so weak for forty days he could not eat anything solid. The medical field told them that they had to just go home and let nature take its course. Not being able to believe it was over for his son, so he turned to medical marijuana therapy.
The little boy had to have arduous chemotherapy treatment to reduce the growth, which had drastic side effects including seizures and a blood infection.
His distraught parents were repeatedly told he was likely to succumb to the illness because the condition was so bad.
After one bout of high-dose chemotherapy, Cash was so weak he could not lift his head and was too sick to eat any solid food for 40 days.
It was at this point that Mr. Hyde decided to take action and go down the route of medical marijuana to try to help his young son.Mr Hyde said: ‘He hadn’t eaten a thing in 40 days – and, it was really incredible to watch him take a bite of a piece of cheese. It shows that he wants to live’.
He credits the cannabis oil with helping his son get through the chemo, and say Cash has now been declared cancer free by doctors.
The boy is now back and home and living the life of a typical young boy, playing with his elder brother Colty.Medical marijuana is legal in some states, including Montana, but its use for children is poorly understood and quite rate.
The US federal government does not recognize the legality of using the drug for medical reasons and frequently clashes with states over the issue.
To save the life of a child or a loved one, is there any better reason to allow the use of an herb put here by a higher power to heal. I would go to any extreme to save a loved one.
ABA
The Marcellus Shale Saga Continues. The GOP Wants To Control Zoning
Where Do They Stand
Well its here, the time for the Pennsylvania legislators to show what they are really made of and what side the are on. This bill makes them show their hand. House Bill 1950 is basically Governor Corbett’s, but that isn’t a shocker seeing since his swearing in he has done everything but let the drilling companies write their own laws. (Up front that is.)
More than two months after his Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission laid out a road map for natural gas regulation, Governor Corbett has unveiled a wide-ranging plan to, among other things, impose an impact fee on drillers.
Before you start saying, Well at least he is doing something, lets not forget it will be the lowest in the nation at (one percent). Corbett and the GOP are going to protect the drillers before the voters and they have and are making that clear.
In my last entry on this bill, I pointed out how this makes the local municipalities chose between receiving a very low percentage of a ridiculously low severance tax. (The percentage the bill asks for is one percent.) Or ask for nothing bearing in mind, they may not receive any financial on the repair of road and property damage. This is something that is already needed. If you have traveled from Avella via rout 50 /844 to Washington, or Avella to Claysville you see that the roads are in ruins. It is almost as bad going from Avella to West Virginia.
If the bill passes as it is written, Pennsylvania will be the only state with Marcellus Shale drilling taxing lower than two percent. Even West Virginia has a severance tax of 5.8 percent. Texas, who has been drilling friendly in the pasty has a Tax of 2 percent. With a 1 percent tax to be collected by the counties, some are afraid that they won’t even bother to invoke or collect.
The GOP wants the counties and municipalities to handle the collection of the tax, but are on the opposite side with the zoning. Apparently they feel that they can know what’s better for the citizenry and their property, or should I say that they feel they can help the drillers to get the land owners land easier if they set the zoning. House Bill 1950, is in line with United Nations Agenda 21. One way to help defeat this bill is, get the word out that “It will take the zoning out of the hands on the local level and put at the state level, and higher up.”
ABA
House Bill 1950 Passes and Local Control is a Thing of the Past
Tonight the GOP passed HB 1950, a bill that gives a laughable (1 percent Impact Fee) and hands control of zoning over to the GOP in Harrisburg. That was a big sticking point of the bill for those who opposed it. On his FaceBook page yesterday, Jesse White said
Just finished a 4 hour caucus on HB 1950, the Marcellus Shale Impact Fee bill being pushed by Gov. Corbett. Serious statewide pushback against eliminating local ordinances is clearly making this a very tough vote for many colleagues (and rightfully so
I will give Jesse White and a few others in Harrisburg credit, they are looking out for the citizens of the state and not the gas companies and the few making money off of this. They are trying to be fair about it.
It seems the Governor and the members of the GOP don’t care what the citizenry of the state cares about. Especially when it comes to Hydraulic Fracturing and education.
When it came to this bill, the majority of voters were against it even though the GOP and “Your Friends At Range” would have you believe the opposite. Municipalities were against it because the loophole will now exist for the drilling companies to call the shots.
No matter how you look at it, this Bill is a joke. It does not help the local governments as Corbett said it would. With the (1 percent Tax) or (FEE as the GOP is calling it) so that it can’t be said they broke their word and added anew tax. If they would have done the right thing and set the “Fee” at 5.8 Percent like West Virginia did it might have helped more than the Drilling companies.
ABA
Update:N17 Day of Action, Occupy Wall Street Gets Ugly 1:45 11/17/11
The police opened the Gates and let the protesters in this morning and then they brought in reinforcements and then raided the park. They are using it to hold them. The cops then proceeded to beat them with their baton. The police rushed the park and began beating them. This is not the America I know. They will not let the protesters leave they are holding them. One of the cops split a protesters head open. There was nothing done that warranted this action by the cops.
OWS at around 4:10 the crowds took to the street and the police were out numbered but that changed quickly as the police swarmed in and took the streets back pushing the marchers back. By doing this the police tied up the traffic. The marchers turned on to 14th street and police ran trying to block them off. Instead of allowing the marchers to move on through getting the roads open they are trying to stop the march.
The New York people are getting to see what a police state looks like, as they are having to show their papers to get from point A to point B. The marchers have been surrounded by the police on Broad Way. The police are being leery about the live stream cameras. The unions are going to join the 3 to 5 Thousand marchers already there. It has been reported by different live stream reporters that undercover police have been trying to incite violence.
OWS: 4:39, The police have moved most of the protesters to the sidewalks. The crowd was stop at the crosswalks as 50 unmarked police cars and vans drove through. At 5:00 est the marchers are suppose to try and shut down the bridges. With darkness closing in in will become harder for police to keep control with the threat of Black Blockers. Black Blockers are, people that are radicals that are not affiliated with the OWS. There is footage of OWS protesters stopping Black Blockers from overturning dumpsters and slashing the tires of police cars.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson
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As I watch the Occupy Wall Street two month march on Wall Street Ustream.com it is peaceful. However there have been reports of a few arrest, one was a person in a wheel chair.
The police have ask the protesters to remove a banner that was placed on one of the buildings and the protesters complied with that request. So far the crowd upwards of one thousand remain peaceful and have chanted “We Are The 99%”, A unity clap, and other chants started by people in the crowd.
As of 10:05 the crowd showed the Unhappy hand sign, meaning that they want to move to another spot on the route. One of the favorite chants is “Mic Check, followed by a message.” They want to march and they show that by the happy hands signal which is “Holding Up Their Hands and wiggling their fingers.” So at 10:10 they started to march towards Broad Way and Pine. The police are asking the protesters to get on the sidewalk. At 10:12 the police are said to have the Riot control Sound-wave machine. This has been used 3 or 4 time before. What it does is, disorient the people with sound waves. It was first used in this country in New Orleans, during Hurricane Katrina. At 10:18 the crowd reach Zuccotti park. The protesters are disbanding until one-o-clock.
One of the what should be a big story is the arrest of Ray Lewis a Philadelphia police captain, that was with the Occupy crowd. At 10:22 the police opened Zuccotti park to the protesters. There were about 40 arrest as of 10:15.
ABA
Time Shows The United States Citizenry For How They Are.
Today a friend of mine put the covers of this week’s Time magazine. It’s basically the same issue except for one disturbing thing, the cover picture.
Click on the photo to enlarge
Are we this self absorbed?
Is it any wonder that the rest of the world think we are a bunch of fools for the things we find important? We have become a nation who for the most part are self-absorbed. We have become a civilization of things over morals and ideals.
In my view of what happen on “Black Friday” proves we are fast becoming a nation of spoiled children that act like three year olds. A three year old feels that if he wants it but can’t have it no one can. The only difference is, a three year old doesn’t have access to guns, mace, pepper spray, and knives to take what they want.
ABA
There is a New Sign on the White House Door That Reads; Never Mind the Military, Beware of the D.O.J.
Sign hanging on Obama's door
When your grandchildren ask you, “What happened on December 1, 2011,” what will you say? You will have to tell them, “It was the day the people we elected sold us out and gave our rights away. While we weren’t looking!”
While most of the nation was worried about many other things, the US Senate passed The National Defense Authorization Act. This will give Obama, and his predecessors the power to imprison United State citizens indefinitely, and not have to bring them to trail.
What the bill does is, declare the United States and the rest of the world a battle field and allows the military to detain U.S. citizens. This is the first time that this has been put into writing. George W. Bush did it by declaring a war or terror, but it was never put into a bill and passed.
Below is a section from Firedoglake.com
If enacted, sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA would:
(1) Explicitly authorize the federal government to indefinitely imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others picked up inside and outside the United States;
(2) Mandate military detention of some civilians who would otherwise be outside of military control, including civilians picked up within the United States itself; and
(3) Transfer to the Department of Defense core prosecutorial, investigative, law enforcement, penal, and custodial authority and responsibility now held by the Department of Justice.
This law is something you need to worry about. Especially when you look back at the other power grabbing laws, Presidential Orders and Presidential Directives that were passed under the George W. Bush rein.
During his stay in the White House, George W. Bush allowed some bills to pass through the office that put American’s rights in jeopardy. Also the Democratic controlled legislator allowed Bush to put some Presidential Orders, and Directives on the books because, they didn’t raise a finger to shoot them down. The most notable one is P.D. 51; giving the President in time of a National Disaster, almost dictatorial powers over the United States by allowing the president to overrule all branches of the government. Also because the president can declare the disaster and is the only one to end it.
The most asinine comment I here about this type of bill is, “Only those doing wrong need to worry about it. However, that is not true. If you speak out about the government and the wrong people hear what you said, well then you have trouble. The same if what you say is taken out of context. This might not mean much when you are shooting the bull with a friend at the bar, but what you say in the cyber-circle of FaceBook, My Space, or Google+, could get you ass in a lot of hot water. Awhile back bloggers were under attack by the Bush administration for things they printed, and sites they went to for information. I myself have had to move my blog two times.
It was leaked a few months ago that the Obama administration has people befriending people on FaceBook. And years ago it was reported that the government had Google and Yahoo turning over emails and chat transcripts from different chat rooms. All in the name of saving you from terrorist.
So keep those covers pulled over your head and all will be fine. However, remember when you get out of bed it might be that no one is left. Not even your loved ones.
ABA
It has been over three years since George W. Bush left office. His father has been out for eighteen years. What does that have to do with anything, you might be asking yourself. Well it was George Herbert Walker Bush that is credited with being the first president to use the term “New World Order”. (That is incorrect though, LBJ used it in his speeches.) However, that is a story for another blog. His son George w. pushed forward the signing of the SPP treaties which are helping to form a One Nation continent.
Now let’s not forget Bill Clinton, he also helped in this plan with the signing of the North American Fair Trade Act. (NAFTA) Noticed that I said signing, he signed it, but George H.W. Bush and the Republicans were the architects of the bill. NAFTA was the stepping stone needed for corporations to leave the United States.
Now the reason I went on that little tirade is because I am getting tired of the people that called me and those that have been on top of things Conspiracy Theorist, now making a living off the very things we reported. The one thing they changed or at least did the Mamba around, is the fact that republicans are also involved with this.
I have been writing on the United Nations Agenda 21 and related topics for about 12 years. A few years back my blog was mentioned on a rightwing radio program, however it was to run me down as a conspiracy nut. Now the same people who ran me and others down, are telling their followers about Agenda 21 and how this is Obama’s doings. Don’t get me wrong, he is helping the Agenda reach its completion.
While serving to confirm the agenda to integrate the United States, Mexico and Canada into an EU-style political and monetary union, the Wikileaks cable will come as no surprise to those who watched Alex Jones’ 2006 documentary Endgame, in which precisely the same information was outlined, with particular focus on the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP meetings.
However, I am getting away from Agenda 21 and what this means for the U.S. and the rest of the world. The United Nations when forcing third world countries to except the money The World Bank offers them attaches strings that forces these countries to follow guidelines established in Agenda 21.
There are over six hundred cities, towns, counties, and townships in the United States that are abiding by Agenda 21 guidelines, and the citizenry doesn’t even know.
What is even more alarming, The United Nations with the help of the green movement in this country are passing laws and with the use of eminent domain can take the property of the people.
Here in Pennsylvania the republican controlled legislature just passed House Bill 1950 which gives control over zoning to the state legislature, especially when Hydraulic Fracturing is involved. Hydraulic Fracturing (better known as Fracking) is used to remove the natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. The use of natural gas is part of the Green Initiatives, claims being it is cleaner source of energy. However, being from the hotbed of fracking in Western Pennsylvania I can tell you Hydraulic Fracturing is a dirty, noisy, and can be highly dangerous form of extraction. The chemicals used in the drilling process have killed cattle, wild life and aquatic life. There have been reported human deaths also.
So don’t argue whether it is the Democrats or the Republicans who are enabling Agenda 21, they both are. Remember that it is being pushed by people in higher places than in the State and Federal legislature. Also Agenda 21 has a grip in this and other countries already, but if enough of us push back and call them on it, we still can stop it.
ABA
These are some of the related entries related to this topic.
1.Agenda 21, Look Around It Is Underway
2.Have You Read Agenda 21…
3.The Marcellus Shale Saga Continues
4..House Bill 1950 Passes and Local Control is a Thing of the Past
5.There is a New Sign…
The Wording of Some Bills Are Being Changed, But The Effectiveness Doesn’t Seem to Change
Certificate of Public Convenience, (Under Federal Eminent Domain Law) Is a polite way of saying that a gas company can take the land that is needed for their operation, if you say no or can’t agree on the price of your land they want to us. To be fair under eminent domain they must offer you market value for your property. However, once they have the property condemned that value isn‘t anywhere near a fair market value.
Below are a few ways that they can do just what I mentioned above to get the land. The first is a bill that will be voted on hopefully soon, but let’s hope that bringing attention to the wording will get it changed.
Here in Pennsylvania a bill that is supposed to stop the Natural Gas companies from taking your land for their gas lines was just voted out of committee and will be heading to the floor for a full vote. The bill is House Bill 1926 P.N. 2617. This is all well and good except there is a part that still scares me, (Sec.2 lines 12 through 20.) This allows a company to file for Certificate of Public Convenience through the court or another way they can go is to decide to go under the Natural Gas Act.
Below is a section taken out of the Natural Gas Act.
Condemnation Issues Under the Natural Gas Act
When any holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity cannot acquire by contract, or is unable to agree with the owner of property to the compensation to be paid for, the necessary right-of-way to construct, operate, and maintain a pipeline or pipelines for the transportation of natural gas, and the necessary land or other property, in addition to right-of-way, for the location of compressor stations, pressure apparatus, or other stations or equipment necessary for the proper operation of such pipeline or pipelines, it may acquire the same by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in the district court of the United States for the district in which such property may be located, or in the State courts. The practice or procedure in any action or proceeding for that purpose in the district court of the United States shall confirm as nearly as may be with the practice and procedure in similar action or proceeding in the courts of the state where the property is situated: Provided, that the United States district courts shall have jurisdiction of cases when the amount claimed by the owner of the property to be condemned exceeds $3,000.
This is how the PA HB 1926 reads from line 11 to line 20.
Section 2. Section 1104 of Title 66 is amended to read:
12 § 1104. Certain appropriations by right of eminent domain
13 prohibited and eligibility for certificate.
14 (a) Prohibition.–Unless its power of eminent domain existed
15 under prior law, no domestic public utility or foreign public
16 utility authorized to do business in this Commonwealth shall
17 exercise any power of eminent domain within this Commonwealth
18 until it shall have received the certificate of public
19 convenience required by section 1101 (relating to organization
20 of public utilities and beginning of service).
So even though the bill changes some wording, they still have a shot at condemning the property they need by going around any laws put in their way. Below is a story on how the gas companies go after what they want at any cost to the tax payers.
{Note; Sally Vaughn is the Bradford County <a href=prothonotary>Protonotary.}
Vaughn said she was motivated to attend the commissioners’ meeting on Thursday after a company in the natural gas industry filed 30 proposed condemnations of properties with her office that same morning.
She estimated it would take one of her staff two weeks to take care the filing of the 30 proposed condemnations.“I don’t think we’ve ever received 30 condemnations all at once,” she said.
Vaughn said she had not had a chance to review the condemnations in-depth, but said they probably involve a gas-related company seeking to acquire the right-of-ways for the installation of pipelines. Bradford County Commissioner-elect Daryl Miller said the condemnations involve acquiring rights-of-way for the installation of interstate gas transmission lines, since gas companies cannot obtain rights of ways by eminent domain for gas gathering lines.It appeared that most, if not all, of the proposed condemnations were filed by Central New York Oil & Gas, Vaughn said.
The condemnation process for pipeline rights of way starts when the landowner refuses to accept the gas company’s monetary offer for the right of way, Vaughn said. As part of the condemnation process, the gas company is required to set aside an amount that it will use to acquire the right-of-way, and Vaughn said she will now have to open and maintain 30 different bank accounts containing those funds, which will also take up her time.
This is being done for the most part using The Natural Gas Act 2010. I have trying to find the new bill that is to be voted on by the federal legislative branches and is said that it will pass with ease, but I can’t find it as now. However, we couldn’t find a copy of the Healthcare Bill until weeks before the vote either.
ABA
Obama Speaks of Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizenry?
It was back early after The Patriot Act was rammed into place under the cover of night, I began writing on the renovation of the Internment Centers. From there I did more research and found out about new detention centers being built. It was also around that time that the Republican talking heads started shooting down anyone that brought the subject up. I have been called a conspiracy nut and a Tinfoil Hat wearer. I did not let that get me down or stop my looking into this subject.
Glenn Beck use to talk with Ron Paul about the detention centers, then he changed his tune saying, his research shows that there are no detention centers or FEMA Camps. I am now waiting to see what those who called us conspiracy nuts and the like will say. Will they use this as political propaganda since Obama is the one who said, people who are suspect should and will be held indefinitely. Back under Bush the Right-wingers thought that those of us that would speak out on this topic were talking about George W. Bush. However, anyone that knows the real history of this country realizes that it is much deeper than the person setting in the puppet seat.
Below is a MSNBC video (not one of my favorite sources) on the Obama speech telling of his plans.
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A bill that passed last week that goes right along with his speech was drafted in secret by Sen. Carl Leven (D) and Sen.John McCain ( R ) the bill is Senate passed S. 1867, National Defense Authorization Act. This activates the opening of FEMA camps across the country. The Congress and the President have declared the United States a Battlefield in war against terror. If you look back under the Bush administration, he really had already done this. Also there were many bills, presidential directives, and presidential orders that hand over power to the executive branch. If anyone remembers, P.D.51 gives the president power even over the Supreme Court. (Dictatorial powers)
Shortly after the Senate voted in The National Defense Authorization Act, S. 1867, according to an exclusive and confidential report given to Alex Jones at www.infowars.com, FEMA camps all over the country are now being activated. The report talks of outsourcing and providing temporary fencing, medical, laundry equipment, catering, refuse collection and power supplies. Alex Jones walks us through several acts and bold movements toward confining US citizens into camps.
It seems that the same people who were name calling when it came to things they really don’t know about, might be some of the first to be moved into these facilities if they don’t sling the government propaganda handed them.
ABA
ps. If you want to understand more on the loss of your freedoms before you no longer can, go to:
The Bill
Here is a term we don’t hear much anymore, Neoconservative, or (Neo-Con) This is a term that was used a lot back in the mid 70s to the late 80s. It had a resurgent’s during the George W. Bush Presidency.
By definition a Neo-Con is;
Neo-conservatism in the United States is a branch of American conservatism. Since 2001, neo-conservatism has been associated with democracy promotion, that is with assisting movements for democracy, in some cases by economic sanctions or military action.
However, back before the George W. Bush administration it was used a bit differently.
In contemporary usage, the term “neoconservative” was used from 1973 to criticize American liberals and social democrats who had criticized the ambitions and outcomes of the Great Society’s welfare programs.
Although neoconservatives favor free-market policies in economics, they accept a role for the national government in fighting poverty and promoting the public good, like traditional conservatives in Europe and Canada and unlike most American conservatives, influenced by libertarian traditions.
Irving Kristol is known as the Godfather of Neo-conservatism. He is known in the political arena for “Starving The Beast” (With the Tax Code). In case you think the Beast is the corporation, it’s not. That would be us. He said the first thing you don’t do is mention “starving” when you are Starving The Beast. This philosophy is the main reason you will not see a Fair Tax any time soon.
Irving is the father of William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and signatory of The Project for a New American Centary Doctrine. Irving Kristol played a big part in the Neo-Con movement as does his son. Both are members of The Council Of Foreign Relations (CFR) a seemingly harmless organization which has a very big part in picking the presidential candidates. The CFR is apart of British Royal Institute , which can be traced to J.P. Morgan in 1921. Back then control of the media was easier, control of the print media meant you controlled it all. Then came a new fangled media called radio. The 1940s saw television but on a small-scale until the late 1960s.
Today the CFR controls American media and what you are told. One of the best examples of this happened this month (12-5-2011) with the cover of Time Magazine. The Cover around the world was “Revolution Redux“. The cover here in the US was “Why Anxiety Is Good For You”. The CFR felt that the people of the United States didn‘t need to worry about the Revolution, but that even though you may think that your world is falling apart because of the near depression economy, it’s good for your health.
The term Neo-Con has changed more to the party that it is used to label, as to the actual meaning. One thing remains, no good will ever come from it. It is not about democracy, but control through force, manipulation, and deception.
ABA
“Anonymous” Getting The Message Out On, Government Takeover
Last night my friend Rachie (My old partner in crime) put a few videos on face book that made me smile. It wasn’t because they were funny, quite the opposite. They were terrifying. Terrifying in, they should never have had to be made. The videos are made by a group called “Anonymous”. She titled the post “Game Over”. I think she maybe right, we have hit the point of no return with the passing of this bill
Some say that Anonymous are a group of hackers, others say they are just a bunch of protesters from the 99% movement. For this entry I don’t care which they are or if they are both. The message they are getting out on the passing of HR 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act, is important and the correct information.
The videos inform the viewer of the latest bills that are being passed that take away his or her freedoms and rights. Then they explain what is in the bill and how it will accomplish that very thing. These videos are a must watch and then I encourage you to share them with your friends. Below I have embedded, “NDAA. SOPA .U.S. Call to Action”. As I said, This is a must watch and SHARE.
ABA
Plans of control throughout the Last 2 Decades
There have been a plans drawn up in the last decade by the Pentagon on how to handle the US population with the military. Make no mistake that there has been a fear that the citizenry would become restless and unruly do to many different scenarios.
The fear of another collapse of the economy as we had in “The Great Depression”. This was brought about because, the government tried to fix the situation by throwing money at the problem. Not many people know that before 1929 there was another failure of the economy that was allowed to right itself with no interference from the government. Because of that it took less than 1 year to turnaround.
The biggest fear, is something I wrote about under the George W. Bush administration “The Hourglass Economy”.
The Hourglass Economy is when you have the upper echelon, (Millionaires and above) followed by what would then be considered (The upper middle class) The working poor and the Poor.
One of the plans the Pentagon has devised is called, USARNORTH CONPLAN 3502 NLE, 2011 Final. It looks innocent enough, however with everything that has taken place over the last decade and a half, well to me it looks damn scary.
Back under the Bush administration, Homeland Security came up with a plan called “Endgame”. Endgame is a plan to renovate and build new internment camps for the housing of American Citizens and Illegal Aliens.
In the last couple of entries to this blog I have told you about Kellogg, Browning, and Root (KBR) a subsidiary of Halliburton and the Multi-Million Dollar contract they were awarded by the Bush head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff. Under the Endgame contract, KBR is to be ready within 72 hours of notification to staff and have these camps ready for population.
Another plan that was passed through congress no less is, The Civilian Inmate Labor Program. The Civilian Inmate Labor Program has been on the books since 1997, under the Clinton administration. Another little thing that was drawn up in 1993 but had to wait until they could get the right set of circumstances to put it in place is (Drum role Please), The Patriot Act. The Patriot Act is such a bad piece of legislation, it had to be passed in the early hours of the morning by phone calls and those who said they could not vote for it were threatened.
USA PATRIOT ACT is an acronym for, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. This was the litmus test that showed how fast the American people would give up the freedom for a false sense of security. And it worked. For a number of years following the passing of the Act all the Bush administration had to do was mention 9-11, Al-Qaeda, or The Terrorist, and the people handed over their rights faster than a public crack deal. Even to this day there are those whom would still do it and The National Defense Authorization Act proves that.
There are many other plans, some are still classified and a few I didn’t get to. However, with what I have laid out in the last four entries to this blog it doesn’t take a ‘Rocket Scientist’ to see how we got here.
ABA
