Home | Kolab.org Community. Is The Safety Of The State Really Worth More Than The Truth? It’s a strange and terrible tragedy when a culture forgets its own history and identity. It is even more tragic when that culture becomes deluded enough to think it can replace its heritage from scratch, that it can conjure political and social reformations out of thin air and abandon the centuries upon centuries of accomplishment and failures of generations past. To think that one can live without the lessons and principles of one’s ancestors is a disease — a mental disorder of the highest caliber. It is an insanity that leads to terrifying catastrophe.
There is no such thing as “starting over” or “rising anew.” Unique ideas are very rare. The concept of citizen self governance is extremely uncommon in the annals of humanity, namely because there has always been an establishment of elitists within any given epoch that has sought to destroy it. Though we have been given an astonishing guide map in the form of the U.S. In their world, leaders do not owe allegiance to the citizenry. New. FREE: Encryption Tools to Protect Your Data. Use Encryption to Protect Your Privacy Encryption is the last barrier between your personal business and other people’s noses. The good news is that free, high-security encryption tools are widely available, and they're easier to use than ever. But it does take a bit of extra effort to make them part of your secure communications and data storage.
With the government snooping into our phone records, emails and who knows what else, it may be time to trade some convenience for greater security. I have written about encrypting local hard drives and removable storage media with free software such as TrueCrypt and SafeHouse Explorer. But lots of data resides in the cloud now, passing through and being stored on other people’s servers. Your only defense is to encrypt your data in such a way that intermediaries cannot decrypt.
Government surveillance aside, service providers themselves may mine stored copies of your data for profit. Encrypting Your Email Encrypting Your Social Media Postings. News - A First-Timer’s Guide to WWOOF-ing. First night at the farm Some time very late I was startled by a rustling, no, more like a crunching sound, coming from the woods behind my tent. I sat up and reached for the knife Don had given me the previous morning.
“If something decides to poke its nose into your tent, you want to be able to poke back,” he’d said. The thing kept coming closer, so close I heard it brushing up against my tent. I woke up at first light to the crowing of the neighbors’ rooster and peaked out of the tent cautiously, half expecting to be greeted by a bear or a mountain lion. Then I saw them – three deer, three little Bambis with their spots still on, munching away at the flora behind my tent. Greatly relieved (and only mildly humiliated), I got dressed and prepared for a day of work on the farm. What is WWOOF? One of my goals as a WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) volunteer, was to make sure that the second half of this statement would not apply to me.
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If Manning was mentioned at all, it was to be described as an impetuous, angry kid who downloaded the documents on to a CD and leaked them as a result of a "grudge" or "tantrum". Here's what really happened. Manning signed up when he was just 18, believing he would be protecting and defending his country and the cause of freedom. He soon found himself sent to Iraq, where he was ordered to round up and hand over Iraqi civilians to America's new Iraqi allies, who he could see were then torturing them with electrical drills and other implements. The only "crime" committed by many of these people was to write "scholarly critiques" of the occupation or the new people in charge. Manning had to choose between being complicit in these atrocities, or not. You can see the results everywhere.
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If we want to ensure that we’re living for ourselves and not serving some corporation’s agenda, we have to put on our mental armor. Here are 10 tools you can use to avoid brainwashing and retain the ownership of your mind: 1. The media uses many different tools and angles to sensationalize things that aren’t inherently sensational. Be wary of any claims where the sources aren’t explicitly stated. 2. Have you ever noticed that the most genuinely talented people don’t feel the need to convince you of their ability? 3. This approach is most popular among the military. Sometimes we think there is no other choice but to follow the leader with our heads down. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Share: The Tenth Amendment - States Rights.
By Robert Romano, Americans for Limited Government Often, talk of the nation’s founding principles is discarded as an irrelevancy in public discourse. But in truth they are more salient than ever as power in Washington grows to untold heights. And those who still value liberty must take note of this unprecedented rise and take action if this nation is to ever take steps back toward constitutionally limited government.
In an effort to cast off the shackles of never-ending federal mandates from Washington, Michigan State Representative Paul Opsommer (R-DeWitt) has offered “House Concurrent Resolution No. 4†to “affirm Michigan’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to urge the federal government to halt its practice of imposing mandates upon the states for purposes not enumerated by the Constitution of the United States.†They derive said sovereignty from the consent of the governed. Robert Romano is the Editor of ALG News Bureau. How to stop the drug wars.
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