Fever Outbreak !

Beiber Fever broke out in downtown Albany NY, as thousands of Justin Beiber fans gathered outside the Times-Union Center, anxiously waiting to enter the arena to see their idol perform. Local radio statin FLY 92.3 launched Beiber T-Shirts to the crowd, leading to squeals of delight, as fans scrambled to catch one.

It Can’t Happen Here…Or Can It?

If you believe that tyranny can’t happen here in the United States, because we are a free nation, with a Constitution, you may want to study history. America has become an empire, and the history of past empires shows that they all eventually collapse. An empire’s decline occurs due to military adventurism, economic collapse, and internal political corruption, and this decline often leads to tyranny, as the leaders try to hold onto their power.


From the Campaign For Liberty: 


None Dare Call It Tyranny
By Sheldon Richman

If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around.

The national government -- specifically the executive branch -- can do pretty much what it wants. It could bomb Iran tomorrow without a declaration of war from Congress. It can -- and does -- conduct secret wars and covert operations against countries that have done nothing to us. Of course, they are secret only to the ignorant taxpayers who must finance them and perhaps suffer when the provoked retaliation occurs. It can have men behind PlayStation consoles in Nevada fire Hellfire missiles from aerial drones on people in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere.

Can it really be tyranny if we get to vote? Yes. Thomas Jefferson warned of "elective despotism." How valuable is your one vote when the government manipulates and distorts the flow of information, when Congress capitulates, and when the "adversarial" mainstream media act like government press agents, if not adoring lapdogs. The ugly truth is out there, but you have to want to know it.

Read the full article here:   http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1072

Four Months Trapped Underground !

I can't begin to imagine what it must be like to know you'll be trapped deep underground for 4 months before seeing the light of day again.

Links to related articles:
http://bit.ly/dCobj9

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/chile/7961349/Trapped-Chile-miners-survived-18-days-underground-on-pieces-of-tuna-and-milk.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/chile/7962583/Trapped-Chile-miners-Nasa-asked-to-help-with-psychological-trauma.html

The Frame-Up that Failed

Well,let's see.  A few years ago, the US government pressured the Swedish government to prosecute the founders of the PirateBay :
"US government officials put pressure on the Swedish government shortly before the raids on Pirate Bay took place."         (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/19/us_pushes_sweden/).
Recently the US government pressured Sweden again over WikiLeaks:
"The Pentagon on Thursday urged Sweden-based whistleblower website WikiLeaks to "do the right thing," and return thousands of leaked US military documents and stop any future public release".    (http://www.swedishwire.com/politics/5656-the-us-puts-pressure-on-sweden-over-wikileaks).
Now it desperately wants to get its hands on Julian Assange, and suddenly, some trumped-up charges are brought against him. 
Doesn't take a genius to figure out where that plan originated.

Fortunately, the Swedish prosecutor was smart enough to see past the ruse.
"Swedish authorities revoked a short-lived arrest warrant for the founder of WikiLeaks on Saturday, saying a rape accusation against him lacked substance."
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100821/ap_on_hi_te/eu_sweden_wikileaks)

How Television Works

The way advertisers influence TV, and the effects it has on Human behavior.