Thing I've Found, August 4, 2012

The Police: Useless, but not Harmless

Police departments exist to enforce the will of the municipal corporations that employ them. Any actual service they render with respect to the protection of person and property is incidental to that mission.

Moon Dust, Rocket Engines, and NASA

Note: Up until today I was skeptical of lunar skepticism.

Dust, or lack of same, is one of many puzzles about the Apollo missions NASA showed us over four decades ago: how the heck could there be no surface disturbance below the lunar module (LM), no crater blown out by the LM's rocket engine? All six moon landings NASA "conducted" (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17) showed the same 'no hole' below the LM. No disturbance whatever..

A Free Website for Periodicals, Books, and Videos

Note: This looks like a keeper.

This web site is intended to provide an extensive free library of written content to everyone on the Internet, eventually containing a comprehensive collection of high-quality books and periodical issues.

How it works: Thorium Reactor

Note: This seems like something promising.

Things I've Found August 3, 2012

Infamous UC Davis 'Pepper Spray Cop' Finally Loses His Badge

Lieutenant John Pike, the infamous police officer who pepper sprayed seated student Occupy protesters at the UC Davis campus last November, has permanently turned in his badge, said the university’s spokesman Barry Shiller...

Oh, the irony...

British judge approves Christian conversion for 10-year-old Jewish girl

A British judge has allowed a 10-year-old Jewish child to convert to Christianity against her mother’s wishes.

In November 2011 the mother of the girl applied for a court order to prevent the father from having the girl baptized until the girl turned 16, according to the London Jewish Chronicle. The mother argued the girl had been “brainwashed” and was too young to change faith.

BBC: Bush's Grandfather Planned Fascist Coup In America

A BBC Radio 4 investigation sheds new light on a major subject that has received little historical attention, the conspiracy on behalf of a group of influential powerbrokers, led by Prescott Bush, to overthrow FDR and implement a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. based around the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler.

Pro Libertate: Rubicon in the Rear-View, Part I: Militarizing the Police

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. Garet Garrett, The Revolution Was (1938)

The future of law enforcement: The 193rd Military Police Battalion, Colorado National Guard, trains at Ft. Carson last July 12 in preparation for deployment as part of JTF-DNC -- the military component of security arrangements for the Democratic Convention in Denver.

The seamless integration of the military and law enforcement into a single "Internal Security Force" is the defining characteristic of a fully realized police state. Once this fusion is accomplished, the question becomes not "whether" a police state exists, but rather how acute its institutional violence against the subject population will become.

That condition now exists in the country that still calls itself -- without any apparent irony -- the United States of America.

Pro Libertate: Rubicon in the Rear-View, Part I: Militarizing the Police