-CIA and European Union Building Social Networking Surveillance System.

Anti-Fascist Calling:

It should come as no surprise then, that the secret state and the capitalist grifters whom they serve, have zeroed-in on the explosive growth of these technologies. One can be certain however, securocrats aren’t tweeting their restaurant preferences or finalizing plans for after work drinks.

No, researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are busy as proverbial bees building a “total information” surveillance system, one that will, so they hope, provide police and security agencies with what they euphemistically call “actionable intelligence.”

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-Boy Scouts being trained by Homeland Security for ‘anti-terror’ operations.-

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The story didn’t surprise me when I seen this the other night, but I found these NYTimes photos mindblowing:

“Before it was more about the basics,” said Johnny Longoria, a Border Patrol agent here. “But now our emphasis is on terrorism, illegal entry, drugs and human smuggling.”

“Put him on his face and put a knee in his back,” a Border Patrol agent explained. “I guarantee that he’ll shut up.”

Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.

That said, 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 law enforcement posts are restricted to those ages 14 to 21 who have a C average, but there seems to be some wiggle room. “I will take them at 13 and a half,” Deputy Lowenthal said. “I would rather take a kid than possibly lose a kid.”

Of course they make children being trained as domestic military officers as a good thing:

“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.”

“Our end goal is to create more agents,” said April McKee, a senior Border Patrol agent and mentor at the session here.

They have 2,000 “law enforcement posts” nationwide, with 35,000 stooges.

Infowars:

Given recent concerns over the DHS definition of “right wing extremists” and the agency’s penchant to affiliate veterans, gun owners, Ron Paul supporters and even those who question the mainstream media with terrorists, one wonders exactly who the boy scouts are being trained to target.

The Explorer program also touches close to home with recent concerns regarding President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force”.

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In Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth succeeded the Boy Scout movement. Hitler Youth training was militarized in comparison to the Boy Scout network, which was largely based around education. Boys aged fourteen and upwards, as well as a separate branch aged 10-14, were trained at preparatory schools to become future Nazi leaders. At its height in 1940, and after it had become mandatory to join, the Hitler Youth boasted no less than 8 million members.

Apparently in a shift away from the traditional Boy Scouts activities of sports, camping, survival skills and team leadership, the government is now training children “to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence” under the banner of the Explorers program, with the aid of military-style exercises aimed at subduing insurgents.

The 2007 film, “Riddles In Stone” sheds interesting light on the founder of the Boy Scouts of America.

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*Near & Long Term Vegetable Profiteering.

There exists a serious profit potential in gardening. Short term would mostly be key “annual” fruit / vegetables, and long term would be key fruiting perennials.

After studying the contents of all the produce stands and grocery stores all around, I eventually picked up on certain pricey items. In my area they came in the form of Heirloom Tomatos, and Kiwi Horned Melons.

I’ve locally found 5 different types of heirloom tomatos so far. Their prices have ranged from $2.39 per tomato (thats EACH) to $4.99 per pound. Each tomato plant produces loads of fruits. Think about that. And what if you produced tons of other types of heirloom vegetable? So far I’ve only found tomatos and some fancy “fingerling” potatos as heirloom at the local grocery’s.

The next hot item is the “Kiwi Horned Melon”. I’ve only found them at one store, for $5.99 each. They’re about the size of a pear, although not shaped liked one. It turns out that these are profilic growing vine plants, that ‘take over’ and produce up to 100 melons each. You get roughly 400 seeds out of one melon (too hard to count them all). Try planting 60. Bonus: They “keep” for roughly 6 months at 50 degrees F.

This brings us to long term perennials. The way it works with any shrub or tree for that matter is the longer its alive the more valuable it becomes. This rule also applies to ‘worthless’ ornamental ‘waste’. My advice is only spend time in this regard on things that will also produce food one day. Any good fruiting shrub or tree over a year old is worth an easy $20.

Imagine 2 years after planting 1,000 exotic fruiting shrubs. Also imagine if SHTF in the coming months and you had masses of all of the above.

Of course you’ll need an inexpensive way to water them…

*Expand your Heirloom Seedbank ‘for free’.

This is an easy one, but you’ll likely need to have some heirloom seeds to start off with.

These 2 sources provide good heirloom starter kits:

http://www.grannywarriors.com/

http://www.internet-grocer.net/seeds.htm

But you can always order packets from other sources.

Now reach out to try to swap others for their types and varieties. Obviously start by contacting likeminded others that you know.

Then try posting ads in the “Barter” section at Craigslist. This should be the best way locally. I’ve never noticed anyone trying to do swaps on Yahoo “Freecycle”, haven’t tried it yet, and don’t know if they’ll allow it.

You could also try other local avenues. Wikipedia mentions a concept known as “Seedy Sunday”, but Google God doesn’t bring up anything for my local city.

This site is a seed swap forum offering some really exotic stuff:

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/exseed/

And there are others like it.

You can also post your email in the comments here and maybe we can get a list of swappers going.

-”National Debt I” passed $11 Trillion.

About a couple weeks ago. Already well past it now:

http://zfacts.com/p/461.html

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/