Hapry New Wass

Errr, happy New Years. Strap yourselves in, this year is going to be a bumpy ride.

Google Goggles - Picture Recognition

I am going to provide a link to the Google website. They have developed an app that you can put on your phone. When you take a picture of something, the app will search the internet to find the building, cd, restaurant, artwork, whatever to find a match and information on the object.

Google Search app for your phone

If you follow the link, you will find a video for Google Goggles. I recommend that you watch the video.

I Love My Attorney

I go to court in March, it is to get my alimony reduced and it will be reduced. I contacted my attorney and asked her to represent me, she told me she already had it calendered. Pretty cool, huh? I love my attorney and my accountant. Simply the best. It is nice to have people you trust taking care of you.

Life has not been easy; but, I have the best in the world to help me through the rest of it. I have the best friends and assistants that one could hope for. Great people support me and I appreciate it.

Merry Christmas Dear Readers

Dearest Readers,

The Pimpernel wishes to thank all those who come and visit here. I hope the coming year is good for you all. The Pimpernel will spend much of Christmas alone; but, do not shed a tear. I had plenty of places to go. It is a choice.

It has been quite a year and next year is going to be even more interesting. As you go through the year, try and remember that everything is temporary. For me, this year has been a move in the right direction. I am settled in my new place; but, even prior to that I was already becoming accustomed to my new life and I like it, less pressure.

Lets have some Christmas cheer via Cheech and Chong. YouTube - Cheech & Chong - Santa Claus and his Old Lady.

A Passing

My ex-wife apparently had a dream. She had a dream about the mother of someone I grew up with. I knew her as a baby, her family and my family were very tight. Our fathers even went into business together. Her father played music at my wedding. She married someone famous and my wife got to meet her.

Anyways, one of my children told me that after dreaming about my friends mother, she searched on her and found out that my friend had died. I looked it up online and in fact it said that the young lady had died. It happened a little while ago and I had not heard about it.

I have been busy and time passes quickly. I had not checked up on her in a bit and was actually considering contacting her through their secretary. They invited me to one of his shows once and I attended. Afterwards we and the entourage went to dinner together. I only really wanted to talk to her and her mother. I don't claim to have gotten to know the husband, he was pleasant enough; but, not very engaging outside of his circle and I was good with that.

I remember this young lady as 6 years old, she was cute and fun. We had many good times together. I am very sorry for her family friends. This young lady was 6 years younger than me. I am glad that my ex-wife passed on this information to me, it is best to know.

Galazy S III - I saw one

After church today, one of the congregation stopped me to show me his new phone. He showed me how if it didn't recognize his face, you couldn't use it. He put it up next to my face and it didn't recognize me so I couldn't use the phone. I have been talking about this coming technology for some time and the member wanted me to see it in action. He basically said, "Hey, you said this was going to happen and it has".

We have news articles all over the internet discussing how passwords are no longer safe and technologies that allow us to use facial recognition to access our electronics, banking and the internet. That is the future, all transactions recorded and identified specifically to you.

Christmas Shopping and Sermons

I have to give a Christmas sermon. I don't like Christmas services, they are all the same. They don't even have a message or moral. Jesus was born, there were certain things that the Old Testament said that were fulfilled as proof that it was him. We do not know what month or day he was born because it is not stated in the bible. We know what day he died; but, not which day he was born.

Christmas trees, candy canes, giving presents, none of it has anything to do with Jesus. Don't get me wrong, I view Christmas as a nice holiday where you visit family and show your appreciation for them. It is a fun holiday for kids and a lovely tradition. I just don't see how it has anything to do with Christianity.

Every year my mother and I used to watch A Christmas Carol, my kids grew up on "A Christmas Story". Everybody grew up on "A Charlie Brown Christmas"; but, my favorite Christmas show was "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol". It was originally intended as a Broadway play. I am going to include two links to songs from it.

"All Alone in the World" from Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol - Bob Cratchit Dinner and Song

The last real Christmas celebration was 3 years ago for me. There was a young boy living in my house and we did it for him. It was also the last time I saw one of my aunts, she passed away not long after. Last year I celebrated by visiting a graveside and leaving some flowers and candy canes. I will probably do that again this year.

Today one of my daughters and I went Christmas shopping. Okay, she was getting presents and I just paid for them. It sort of put me in the Christmas spirit, memories of Christmas past.

Judy Garland - Have yourself a Merry little Christmas


One of my biggest problems with Christmas is that it is one of two days a year when a bunch of hypocrites go to church. There are people who go to church for Christmas and Easter and not any other time during the year. They listen to some singing, hear about how Jesus was born and even get dressed up for the occasion. It is the excuse they use for calling themselves Christians when they don't live it during the year. They might even chip in to buy someone a dinner on skid row. Doesn't change a life like participating year round does.

You don't have to go to church to be a Christian. Being a Christian is about how you live your life. Going to church is done in order to learn about Christianity and to share fellowship with other believers. What is the point in going if you already know the story of Jesus' birth and have no intention of having fellowship with other believers. At that point it is just a holiday tradition. As a consequence, my Christmas sermon is not going to be about his birth. It won't have anything to do with the holiday we celebrate as Christmas. Maybe I will give another sermon on sex and read through the Song of Solomon.

Christmas is a find holiday, I just we could take Christ out of it and keep it what it is and was. A time of celebrating that a new year is coming. 2013 is coming dear readers and it is going to be a very interesting year. There is not much we can do about that; but, we can celebrate with our loved ones and enjoy each others company over a nice meal and create memories.

UPDATE

So I gave the Christmas sermon. Basically, I said many of the things I said above.

We Are Still Here and it is the 22nd

There is a town in Europe that they said was going to be the only safe place when the world ended, pushed it all over the news. Only one person showed up and over 200 reporters. Nobody really believed the world was going to end, that was all made up by the media. The question is why?

Now what did happen? Well, the stock market took a hit and the bond markets took a hit. Nothing catastrophic; but, substantial. There is no asteroid headed for earth that we are aware of, solar storms are still a possibility throughout 2013 according to Nasa, there is always the possibility of a major earthquake or volcano; but, what is very real is that our economy is really in danger, that one hasn't gone away.

There are very real dangers our there; but, the media chooses to spend more time ridiculing silly beliefs that nobody really believes rather than addressing the real underlying dangers that face our world. Starving children around the world were not worried about the world ending on December 21, 2012, they were worried about dying from starvation and yesterday tens of thousands did, others died from presentable diseases. For those people, it was the end of the world.

So today we will hear endlessly about how people who thought the world was going to end were just more nuts; but, nobody really thought it was going to end. What you are being taught is to only believe the "real" media.

The End of the World, Lets Party

Firstly a poem.

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.


While I personally believe the whole Mayan this is nonsense, I also don't know a single person who actually believes it. Still, the media talks endlessly about it. Why? Who is promoting it? Other than on television, nobody actually seems to believe the world is going to end tomorrow. There is no massive panic in the streets, my employees all plan on going to work tomorrow.

Now what could happen tomorrow that could be disturbing. Tomorrow is Triple Witching Hour, it is when you have to make your investment bets for the next quarter. The stock market crash occurred on a triple witching hour. So here is my end of the world story.

Friday, December 21st, 2012. During the last hour of trading on Wall Street the government finds no buyers for it's treasury bonds. This occurs as a result of former head of Italy, Berlusconi, having warned that Italy may leave the Euro (he just made that announcement for real). As a consequence, the European Union was unable to find buyers for it's bonds causing an immediate default on their debts. Fear that the would spread to the United States causes China, banks and hedge funds to call for their immediate payment; but, the United States is unable to make these payments because they were unable to sell their bonds. The result is a worldwide default on sovereign and Central Bank debts.

All stock market transactions are suspended and banks are to remain closed until a solution is found. As an alternative, banks limit the amount that can be withdrawn while the nations meet to find a solution.

The single largest holder of U.S. Bonds is the Federal Reserve bank. As a result of the U.S. default the Federal Reserve goes bankrupt. In order to avoid this the IMF Plan to hyperinflate all of the currencies at the same time is proposed. Meetings are held at the United Nations over the next few days to discuss the matter and come up with a new international fiscal policy.

The plan for international economic reform is agreed upon. As part of this plan, the world will no longer use the dollar as the reserve currency of the world and will instead set a single standard for currency valuation based on a countries Gross Domestic Product (yearly total worth).

By hyperinflating all of the currencies at the same time, all government and central bank debt is immediately wiped out. The world breathes a sigh of relief as international chaos is avoided and the economic system is rebooted based on system that is more global in nature.

I think that if anything happens tomorrow, my scenerio is much more likely than an asteroid, an awakening or any other end of the world scenario. The problem is, mine is based on real world possibilities and I had previously posted a link to the IMF plan that calls for exactly what I stated.

One of my favorite books was written by a man named Douglas Adams, it is called, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". It is a marvelously ludicrous novel. It has a space traveler who has a copy of the guide. The cover of the book is the most useful thing one needs to remember, it simply says, "Don't Panic". Fear is a tool that is used against fools.

The world will still be around tomorrow, though some of it will not see it. People die everyday and it is always the end of the world for someone. If the currencies all crash tomorrow, people will still survive and new systems will be put in place. I may not like all of the solutions; but, that will not prevent them from being put in place.

Here is what we do know, the current international economic system is failed. A change is coming and it is unavoidable. In fact, the average person's opinion will not have any impact on the final outcome and design of the new system.

UPDATE:

Dear readers, I might put my money on the 21st being the day. Apparently, the futures trading is taking a bath overnight. They are blaming it on Boehner's statement about the fiscal cliff. LOL. So lets see what we have, we have a very important person in Italy claiming Italy will default and Boehner saying that we will not solve our "fiscal cliff". Then we have the overnight traders dropping all bets on futures. Yep, today could be the day. What happens when the bonds are not refinanced and we cannot pay our national debts? Will my friends remember that I said this was coming and how it would happen and the consequences?

To the family of Pastor Daniels

I cannot tell you how deeply I have been moved by your prior comment to me. Pastor Daniels has been such an inspiration to me. Her life and knowing about it gave me the strength to go before empty churches or ones where one or two people showed up. I am by nature a very private person and try and respect the privacy of others. Our choices are only for God to judge and I believe the dear Pastor would agree with me on that.

My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family and friends. I pray that someday I can meet with you and you can know that I really care. I also pray that you enjoy the holidays as she as she would have wished you all could. A lovely soul that only wished well for others. I am sorry that I never met her, I am pretty sure she could have only given me good advice.

I believe that your dearly departed relative wants nothing more than for you to enjoy your lives as you enrich the lives of those around you. I also believe based on your words that you learned that from her, by her actions even more than her words. Tonight, I miss the love of my life, a woman so dear to me, a woman that died last year and I did not take the opportunity to touch again. We can regret missed opportunities or appreciate the opportunities that we did take. You spent time with Pastor Daniels and learned from her and loved her. Please celebrate those times, that is what I believe she would want. Do not let the tragedy overwhelm the real story, the story of who she was, celebrate the Pastor Daniels that you knew.

This post will be ignored by most of my readers and that is okay with me. I know it will not be ignored by the OSBI and I ask that they make sure you are aware of it. We do not know when Jesus was born and his death was what he focused on. It proved who and what he was. I believe in my heart that Pastor Daniels has proven herself. When I die again, lol, I wish to be met by my parents. I pray that they tell me that I became the man that they could admire. I wish to meet the love of my life and I pray that she tells me I became the man she I knew I would become (she was really smart and loving and understood me). I also want to meet Pastor Daniels and I want her to tell me, "Stop worrying, you squeaked by." I will ask her where my broom is so that I can sweep the streets in Heaven because Heaven is where she is and where she deserves to be. I just need a broom. LOL. Smile and enjoy your lives because that is what she wanted for everyone. Peace and God's love to all.

It was not the movie that caused Benghazi

Just a follow up. Fox News - Analysis of social media in Libya finds no reference to anti-Islam film on day of attack.

Benghazi and Baloney

A prior post.

General Petraeus and the Defense Intelligence Agency

It seems very convenient, as has been noted by others, that Hillary Clinton bumped her head and could not give testimony on Benghazi. In addition however, it appears a number of high ranking State Department officials have had to resign. Reuters - Yahoo News - U.S. State Dept officials resign under pressure over Benghazi killings. Now, one article pointed out how the State Department had been given conflicting reports on what caused the attacks. That is pure fiction. When they claimed that the attacks were caused by the YouTube video called the "Innocence of the Muslims" it was a lie. Nobody surveyed the attackers, it was just a lie.

Let us consider this. If the CIA had claimed it was because of the movie then the analysts would have been asked to resign and not people at the State Department for believing them. The lies originated in the State Department and the Intelligence Agencies responded in whatever way they did. We know the result, Patreaus = Gone. Clinton = Gone. Senior State Department Officials = Gone. I would say that is CIA 3, State Department = 0.

Now, here is the real question. What was really going on in Benghazi? Why were the Ambassador and 3 agents allowed to be killed? If the official story about the movie had been believed then what would have been the US response. I bet we would have left the country and the Muslim Brotherhood would have taken over. The Ambassador was a hero to the moderates and was to be part of a peaceful transition. Maybe a peaceful transition was not what was wanted.

School Security Round 2

I just read and watched this report from ABC News that was posted on Yahoo News. Pretty much what I said would be promoted. While everyone is arguing over gun control, the real agenda is being played out and it is total monitoring of people in schools. The school in the report even does criminal background checks on everyone entering the school.

Eventually you will not be allowed in the school classrooms to even see your kids or hear what they are being taught. Inside One School's Extraordinary Security Measures.

How Much Internet Freedom and Why the Government is Hypocritical

I have a question to ask my readers. If I use the internet to hack into government computers, it is a crime; but, at the same time the government claims that nothing on the internet is private and internet service providers and cell phone providers giving away anything they are asked for without a warrant. So, which is it, are there privacy rights on the internet or not?

At some point in time we need to make a societal decision and we cannot have it both ways and neither can the government or companies. If we believe in any degree of privacy then we need to establish a set of rules and they will need to be international in scope. Extremism results in bad decisions and at some point in time we must make the hard decisions. In my opinion, the rules should be universal.

3:54 in the monring, lets hear some music

I do seem to have woken early today. I have a sandwich so I am dangerous, lol. Lets listen to some music.

YouTube - Alice Cooper - Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)

YouTube - 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry

YouTube - Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) |Lyrics|.

YouTube - Over the Rainbow / What a wonderful World - IZ, Israel Kamakawiwo`Ole (Musikvideo

YouTube - Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful

YouTube - Led Zeppelin-In The Evening

YouTube - Tarney/Spencer Band - No Time To Lose


YouTube - In The Dark by Billy Squier, with lyrics

More Internet News

Wired - The Internet of Everything: Let’s Get This Right. A simple article calling for everything to be accessible. It calls for the end of privacy and constant monitoring of all human endeavor while having computers explain it all to us. It calls for a justification for doing what we are told and giving up free will and self definition in exchange for "winning".

Wired - Why We Fight to Keep Registered Sex Offenders Online. Here is the simplest answer, we cannot prevent anyone from using the internet if they need to use it to pay their bills. The article does not mention that; but, it is the truth. If we cannot keep pedophiles off the internet then we must be able to identify them and restrict what they can do on it. That will be the argument. The first people required to have individual internet identification will be pedophiles and then criminals and eventually all of us.

Wired - Internet Safe From Globalized Censorship as UN Treaty Fails. The American representative said that restrictions to the internet must be determined by all people. Sounds pretty good; but, why should the international society be allowed to determine how I may use the internet in my country or in my house. There is no legitimacy to international governance. We as a world would need to agree on that first.

The Connecticut Shooting and How it Will Be Used

I believe most of my readers are probably aware of what happened in Connecticut today. A 20 year old man entered a elementary school and killed 20 kids and 6 adults. While many people are calling for more laws against guns, that is unlikely to happen in a significant manner. People will correctly point out that on this same day, 20 children were injured at a school in China by a man wielding a knife. You do not need a gun to kill people.

So, how will we protect schools and our children? Lets go back to an earlier post that I made. XBox with kinnect can now identify everyone in a room. As many of you may or may not know, many schools are now requiring students to have a Facebook account so that they can receive their homework assignments. I find it amusing that "Face"book has some of the best biometric facial recognition in the world and over 1 billion users. The schools will be equipped with facial scanners at the entrances and classrooms will be equipped with cameras that identify all the students, there will not be a requirement to have an RFID chip in your school ID, it simply is not necessary.

My heart and prayers go out to the families and friends of all those who have been impacted by these horrendous events in China and Connecticut. I cannot possibly understand what they must be going through and searching for a way to prevent this from ever happening again is natural. The purpose of this post is merely to outline what I believe will occur in response to what has already happened.

Spies, spies and the military.

I previously wrote about General Patreaus and the military's attempt to take over the CIA, didn't go to well for him did it? ROFL. I then provided my readers with an article about how the military wanted to create it's own CIA called the DIA. This article from Wired is all over that, they act as if this agency has been around for ever and is forward thinking. Wired - SpyPhone: Pentagon Spooks Want New Tools for Mobile ‘Exploitation’. Imagine having a military with information that the CIA and FBI did not have, that is dangerous.

Here is another article from Wired that complains that the FCC is being hindered from doing their job of giving us all WiFi because of the big bad cellphone service providers. Wired - It’s Time to Fix the Pitifully Slow, Expensive Internet Access in the U.S.. This is really just propaganda by them, I have previously written about how the FCC is attempting to take over local right of ways, this is just another piece of the same baloney. Wave bye bye to local rights.

Wired - Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans. The article mentions how the government will take information from all of it's databases to compile information on everyone in them. Hmmm, taxes, social security, travel, purchases, what information will they not have?

Lots of news stories with silliness

Sorry, still getting things straightened out in my life. Lots going on at work and lots going on in my life. Still, I want my readers to at least know somethings that are going on and for them to look a little deeper.

Los Angeles Times - Santa Cruz County beaches flooded with dead squid. So we have another mass die off of a single species of animals. At first it was claimed that the squid beached themselves, then it was claimed that they washed ashore dead. Does anyone actually investigate before writing their stories? Simple question, what could possibly kill them all at the same time, disease could not, they would each die on their own. Pollution and poison could not, it would kill other animals too. Now here is the best question, since 2010 we have seen a large number of mass die offs and each time we are told what "probably" killed them and none of the answers are ever validated. Nobody ever comes back after checking the animals and gives us the final determination or any proof. Why not?

I am not going to give a link to David Icke's website. I am not an Icke follower; but, he has provided a link to a video about the Royal family. It is from a Russian version of YouTube; but, it is in English and it has not been censored as it is being in England. It is about the death of Lady Diana and raises some interesting questions. Personally, I believe that we will see the Royal family taken out of power because you cannot have world government while you still have Kings. "How the royal family have got away with it so long - the blatant cover up of what happened to Princess Diana superbly exposed in this banned documentary, Unlawful Killing". The video has some places where it stops, just go to the time bar at the bottom of the video and click a couple of seconds beyond the skips and hit play at that point.

Yahoo News - NYC teachers’ fund pledges $1 billion to post-Sandy rebuilding. This article is fascinating, apparrently the NYC teachers pension is not in trouble so it is giving a billion dollars to help rebuild after Hurricane Sandy. What? When did the pension fund become a charitable society? This is a pattern, across the nation, governments are getting money from public pensions that are supposedly underfunded and a drain on the public. More fraud on the public pensions is all I see.

Yahoo News - Associated Press - Jackie Chan suggests Hong Kong curb protest rights. I used to like Jackie, now he makes me sick to my stomach because he is such a sell out. He has said that the Chinese need to be controlled and should not be allowed to protest. I bet he still has all his houses in Hong Kong. Get a little money, sell out the others.

Media Lies are Predictable

There used to be investigative reporters, what happened to them all? Reporters are just repeaters anymore. They don't have their own words they just tell you what someone else said. There is certainly no real analysis. I would like to use a couple of recent stories to demonstrate this fact.

Bloomberg - Fed Links Rates to Joblessness, Expands Bond Purchases. The Federal Reserve plans to continue buying bad mortgages and keeping interest rates low until unemployment drops below 6.5%. The lengthy (by today's standards) article basically just quotes different people and summarizes what they were told. It does end by pointing out that one of the members of the Federal Reserve doesn't see how buying the mortgages is helping the economy. Unfortunately, the reporter doesn't even bother getting an answer from Bernanke.

For the first time in history, interest rates are going to be artificially deflated until unemployment changes. Nobody seems to really ask why or how the two are related. Consider this, having the government hold bad mortgages does not cause one new house to be built, the amount of distressed and vacant housing is still too high. There is no need to build more houses in the United States. Lets look a little further. Is the Federal Reserve paying current market rate for these loans or a rate based on the original valuation. To buy it at the original valuation would be utter insanity as the mortgages are 40% under original valuation. I cannot believe the Federal Reserve would pay $1.00 for 60 cents. If they bought them at current value then the banks that sold them would have to show massive write downs; but, that is not happening. How come nobody is asking that question?

Now, lets go back a few posts to where the International Monetary Fund called for hyper-inflating all the currencies at once and then deflating them. If we hyper-inflate in unison and then pay off the debts instantaneously, it will be governments and central banks that will eliminate all their debt. You will not be able to pay off your debts as this occurs, it will be in milliseconds. What does the day after look like, well, the government and Federal Reserve will still own all the mortgages. They will have experienced debt forgiveness; but, you will still owe them. At that point they can easily reduce your mortgage by half and still make a profit. You will be happy too because you get to keep the house you could never afford.

Here is another article. Yahoo News - Reuters - U.S. should automatically register voters: Attorney General. You should be disturbed by the article. It says, "By coordinating existing databases, the government could register "every eligible voter in America" and ensure that registration did not lapse during a move, Holder said.". It also says that it would not require a national ID; but, it merely that is exactly what it does, it creates a format for identifying every eligible voter. To do that, the databases would have to give your age and nationality. Conservatives will love it because we will know that all voters are good Amaricans and liberals will love it because it ensures that all eligible can vote. Privacy advocates, well, they are nut jobs.

Different News Stories You Need to Know

Hello dear readers. It has been a rough five days; but, I am now back. I thought I might provide you with some news and analysis. Before I do, my thoughts go out to my friends in Oregon, it seems that some fool began shooting people at a mall up there.

First article. CBS - New York - Jersey City Unveils 3-Story High ‘Eye In The Sky’ Surveillance Tower To Fight Crime.

Caltech - News - A New Tool for Secret Agents—And the Rest of Us. Basically, they are saying that a small chip added to your cell phone would allow you to see through walls and inside of things just like with an x-ray except it would not use x-rays so no damage done, right? Now as an interesting side note, here is another article. Design News - Mystery Signals Show Up in Neurological Amplifiers. The article is a tough read unless you are an electrical scientist; but, let me give the gist of it.

There was this scientist working three stories underground using electrical amplifiers to read and effect the brainwaves of monkeys. Now that in and of itself is really creepy if you think about how it could be used. The scientist begins picking up a very special type of wave, the kind that could penetrate anything. You see, the laboratory was three feet underground and surrounded by things to prevent it from being seen. The electric guy discovers that the waves are coming from a nearby airport (what do you want to bet it was a military airport). He brings this to the attention of the airport and it immediately stops. Guess nobody was supposed to notice.

On another note, the Federal Reserve is going to buy even more bad debt in order to help the economy. It will now hold $4 trillion in assets although much of those assets are in bad mortgages. Makes perfects sense doesn't it. Bloomberg - Fed Seen Pumping Up Assets to $4 Trillion in New Buying.

Wired - Getting Your DNA Scanned Now Costs Less Than an iPhone 5. A company that is owned by Google has can now scan your DNA for only $99. What a perfect gift for Christmas, according to the article. Heck, if we can get everyone's DNA scanned wouldn't that be the perfect way to verify your identity? Now, why would you need to put a chip into people when a simple DNA and biometric scan will do?

Wired - Google Accidentally Transmits Self-Destruct Code to Army of Chrome Browsers. The program that apparently caused this was a program that works with the cloud called Sync. It allows a Google Chrome user to use any computer or phone and have it automatically configure itself to the users preferred settings. I think I wrote about that before. What is interesting about this article is that apparently Google has a kill switch on all of their products.

People retain very little information because they work basically the same. A person hears something, their first response is to wonder how it may or may not effect them directly. If it does not effect them, they accept whatever lame excuse was given and forget about it. If later the issue comes up again they will say that they had heard something about it and parrot back the excuse they heard and not look at the issue any further. At that point in time you can tell them how there is more at stake; but, they have already decided they are safe and will gleefully remain ignorant.

The Pimpernel is in a weird mood, too much has happened in the last few days and I am not sure what to think. Have a great week.

Partially Moved In and News

Thanks to a very dear friend and a young relative, I am partially moved into my new place. One small hiccup and I resolved that problem. I liked my old place; but, the new digs have many advantages, mainly, it is a little larger.

The Telegraph - Text messages direct to your contact lens. Sort of like Google glasses except nobody has to look at them except you.

CNNTech - Time - Why 'Six Strikes' could be a nightmare for anyone with shared Internet. Basically, Internet carriers are going to be responsible if you download illegal material. If you share an internet connection you will be held responsible so you better keep an eye on those who share a connection with you. You watch, this will be used so that people want to have their own individual ISP because Starbucks will not want to be held accountable for what you do.

Mail Online - Paedophiles who trade child porn will not be sent to prison: New sentencing laws suggest community punishments. It sort of speaks for itself, in England the penalty for child pornography will be community service. Funny, this is the same nation that intends to give classes on pornography to children in school.

Detroit News - NHTSA gets White House OK to mandate vehicle 'black boxes'. I had previously written about how this was coming; but, the article also says something very interesting. It turns out that most cars already have them, did they bother telling you that when you bought your car?

The Royals Baby

So Prince William and Kate Middleton are having a baby. Personally, I find the idea of having kings and queens to be ridiculous in the modern world. I don't really want to pay someone taxes so that they can look down on me, they can do that for free. Still, Prince William no more chose his parents than any of us do. They are newlyweds having a baby, I wish them nothing but well.

It must be hard to be royalty, it so stunts one's growth. It is nice to know how to fix a car, how to cook for oneself, how to sew (yes, the Pimpernel can actually sew clothes together, not well; but, enough to get the job done). It is nice to know that you can survive any circumstances, they don't get that privilege, they believe they must rely on commoners. That is a prison that I do not have to live in, I am good to go just about anywhere.

General Petraeus and the Defense Intelligence Agency

Now here is something amusing. The civilian CIA was placed under the control of an acting General, they were militarized for four months. The General is somehow convinced to quit. I wrote about this just a couple of posts back in great detail and questioned the official story. Now that the general is no longer in charge of the CIA, an new organization is to be created. The Defense Intelligence Agency, a military version of the CIA.

I had read about the DIA earlier today; but, I didn't put two and two together until I read another article about it tonight. I don't remember where I read the original article, it would have been a major new source so you can search it. I am including a link to an article from Russia Times just because it is the second one I read.

Double agents: Pentagon grows CIA twin out of own spy pool

Here is something interesting from the article, originally the CIA was against the creation of the DIA; but, now they support it because the operatives will report to the CIA station chiefs. What do you think the CIA really thought about being put under the control of an active General?

I have always had a great affinity for the intelligence although, the FBI has annoyed me on more than one occasion. I still respect them. Still my heart has always been with the CIA and their nerdy little analysts, sitting in little rooms, reading everything on their subject matter and then writing contingency plans. Solving puzzles that don't even exist yet.

The CIA is the worlds largest think tank is dedicated to protecting the United States by knowing what others are thinking. Very little gets past them and their games are exquisite often. When we think of spy agencies, we think of James Bond; but, that is one in a hundred. Don't worry about the man with the gun, worry about the man that sent him because he can always send more.

I like to think that there is nothing that I have written in any of my posts that were investigative in nature that some darn CIA analyst hadn't also figured out. A very long time ago; before I became the loving Pimpernel that you read, I was approached by someone who wanted to recruit me into one of the organizations. I had been told in advance what to look for and what to expect. Cryptic, no, the people read this and know me can ask me about it if they so choose, just not for the consumption by those who do not know who I am. I messed his game and he had to go away, my attempt at indicating no when I was still young and easily annoyed.

Whatever you think is going on in the world, so do the fools that think they run this place. The world is run by contingency planners, by intelligence operatives and not by the military and only by the politicians and wealthy when they play by the rules and there are rules. I come from a military family and there is quite a lot I admire about people who willingly put their lives at risk for others. They were not designed to decide when to act. Diplomacy, it is said, is war by other means. War means that you have already failed or that you simply don't care about others.

So, hopefully you find the irony in all of this. Originally an active General was put in charge of the civilian intelligence agency and now, the Military Intelligence will report to the CIA, to the civilians, just like the Constitution intended. A civilian, the President, control the military. I have very little respect for "Homeland Security", they are not very subtle, a grotesquely created animal with little sense.

Sometimes, not often, I regret that I had not followed a different path. I grew up too close to such things and decided to just be the loving Pimpernel that we all know. Yet, somewhere, in the back of my head, I think I would have been an okay analyst, sitting in some little room, reading all that there was about my subject matter. Perhaps it is the hermit in me. LOL.

Eye Control and Computers

I was busy changing accounts and getting ready to move so this will be short.

Yahoo News - The Sideshow - Eye-controlled functionality coming soon to smartphones and tablets

I recommend you watch the short video. The article says that the computer first calibrates itself with your eye movement. You see, everyone's eye movement is unique biometrically to them. I have written numerous times about how this is what is coming and this is just one more piece in the puzzle. It is not coming in ten years, it is coming over the next three to five.

I was over at the supermarket today and a very nice Englishman was in front of me. I knew the clerk and was just waiting, no hurry. The man was amusing and mentioned how all purchases would be electronic, plastic money. He said he was okay with that; but, that he would never let himself be chipped. I knew what he was talking about and mentioned that chips were unnecessary as in the future we would be biometrically identified to make any purchases.

It has been and remains my belief that the threat of placing RFID chips in everyone is nothing more than an intimidation factor to get people to accept unlimited biometric recognition for all purchases. I repeat my belief, it is that eventually everyone will have an individual IP address required to access the internet or other technological devices. That is an international biometric identification. I believe eventually the database will also have your unique dna sequence.

Moving Again

I may not have much to say for the next week. I am moving, I am only moving from one apartment to another in the same building; but, I still have a lot to do. I have to get curtains, turn on the utilities and move all my furniture. At least I don't have to rent a truck.

I think every place we live ends up with emotions attached to it. All the things that have transpired in our living spaces that create memories. My current apartment marked a milestone in my life. It was the first time in over 20 years that I did not live in a place that I owned for one. It was also a break from the past in other ways, it was a break from my married life. A place that is not associated with my ex-wife. A new place with new memories. A new beginning if you will.

Amazing Humans

It is 12:46 in the morning. I woke up and am sort of fuzzy in the head. I like that feeling, the feeling between sleep and awake. This has to be one of the most random blogs in the universe, sometimes I have some very important things to discuss and other times it is utter nonsense. Currently I am getting a lot of traffic over a two year old post regarding NASA. NASA said they were going to have an important announcement which turned out to be nothing, a few days ago they said the same thing and somehow I am drawing traffic to my old post regarding the "new" announcement. Heck, the old one turned out to be nothing.

This is the third iteration of this blog, I have posted somewhere around 3,000 different articles. I don't even remember them all. Only about 1,100 remain as I destroyed the first two versions of this blog. I lost control over the blog a long time ago, it is it's own creature, random thoughts from a random person. LOL. Along the course of this trip I have acquired readers, some who know me and others that came here for whatever reason. Hello Robbie.

My most read post was on Pastor Carol Daniels. I guess some people might assume that post was more than it was. I cannot make that claim, her death touched me and I wrote about it. I didn't know it would touch others. One person left a comment asking me if I was trying to make money or notoriety because of my posts about her, heck, I didn't think anyone other than my loyal readers would ever see it. We don't control who reads our blog, just as random as I am. Her family contacted me a couple of times and I have yet to come to grips with that. I wonder if they kept reading my stuff and think how disappointing it must be for them as I have no more insight into the case. I wish I did.

Now for some randomness and something to remind you why we all matter. You see, a young lady in Austin, Texas, proved how awesome we can be. She makes donuts; but, more importantly she cares about others and is as crafty as they come, a real problem solver. She loves a challenges and rises to them, she tests herself. I promise you will enjoy it.

Yahoo News - The Sideshow - Sweet Krispy Kreme worker surprises man on quest for rejection.

Now, as I am dreamy, lets post some music. Have a great week.

YouTube - Dr. Hook - Sylvia's Mother. That song is actually from the first record album I ever bought. A song of sadness.

YouTube - Ringo Starr - Back Off Boogaloo. My favorite Beatle and the first 45 I bought was "It Don't Come Easy", his first hit after leaving the Beatles.

YouTube = ROCK AND ROLL HEAVEN RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS MIKE

YouTube - Curtis Mayfield - Diamond in the Back. The Pimpernel hated Disco; but, was into funk. In the 70s a friend of mine asked me if there was funk after death. LOL.

YouTube - Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman Too good to funk up.

I am going to link to a song that I hate. The Commodores had a lot of good tunes and this one I hate. I had to light a dance crew back in the 70s and this was the song they danced to. It is stuck in my head and I never liked it. YouTube - The Commodores-Brick House. It is the dumbest songs I have ever heard. And worst of all, Lionel Richie, someone who actually has talent, sang this. Let us wash the bad taste out of our mouths with something better by him.

YouTube - Commodores - Sail On. One of the best break-up songs ever. Very insightful. Let us not judge him by Brickhouse.

YuoTube - Hello by Lionel Richie

YouTube - The Hollies - The air that I breathe [1974] Original Version [HQ]

The most spiritual song I know is by the Hollies. YouTube - THE HOLLIES - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.

I want my Robbie to contact me and tell me she still likes my choice in music. I don't get enough feedback on this blog. It should be a two way conversation. Tell me I suck, tell me I was pithy. Whatever, more music as I am still sleepy.

YouTube - George Michael - Father Figure

YouTube - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Live)

YouTube - My divorce meant losing everything. ROFL. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon

YouTube - George Michael - Freedom! '90

YouTube - Flash and the Pan

YouTube - Animotion - Obsession

A few days off - Media Nonsense

The Pimpernel had a few days off and went on a short trip. While I was gone I stayed up late, I even watched television. I watched all the hardcore news channels and the stock market channels. The channels that cater to the educated and well off spin more garbage and pander to their audience worse than reality shows. LOL.

In college I took advanced statistics, the only math I really enjoyed, it looked for answers when used properly. Math can help us understand answers or at least probabilities. I saw it twisted to lie about taxes and deductions. I saw experts lie using math, trying to justify why the wealthy, those who benefit the most from our infrastructure (which we all pay for) should pay less. The threat was that if we ended deductions for charity then people would stop giving. That was one of the jokes. Yet, they never brought up the fact that people can deduct for putting on a Broadway show or other such lunacies.

99.5 of the deductions only apply to the wealthy. Nobody bothered mentioning that. I think most people who earn (wages, actually earn and not inherit through a trust), would be okay with getting rid of deductions for putting on Broadway plays. I believe that people who earn over $250,000 would be happy with getting of deductions that are simply unfair.

I would be okay with getting rid of a deduction for charitable giving if we get rid of the others that only apply to the rich. A flat tax is find as long as we don't tax our own taxes. It makes no sense to tax welfare and only creates more paperwork.

More on the General

Lets start with the ex-CIA agent who says that this makes no sense. Any conversations with the General would have been in private.

YouTube - CIA Agent Bob Baer Insist More To General Petraeus Resigning "This Isn't How This Is Handled"

Then we have this article from the Associated Press pointing out how the FBI deviated from their normal procedures via Boston.com - In unusual CIA case, FBI detoured from usual path

Wired has this article - Now the CIA Is Investigating Petraeus. I like this article because it states how the CIA agents didn't like him for his "military" ways. Seeing as how he no longer works there, why is the CIA investigating him?

And finally we have this from PressTV - Two more US military commanders relieved for misconduct

It looks to me like there is an ongoing shakeup of military personnel and that the intelligence agencies are the ones taking them out. Now, while I have bagged on the FBI in the past, the truth is that I admire many in the intelligence community. I have a friend that is retired from the FBI.

That sounds like I am defending myself from being a bigot. Back in the 70s people would claim they weren't bigots and had a black friend. It is not like that, I really like the guy and took him to Las Vegas when his wife passed away. It was his first time there.

While I believe our law enforcement and intelligence agencies have degraded over the past three decades, the military has really gone in the wrong direction. When I was in law school, I had a friend, he was ex-West Point. His father had been in one of the intelligence agencies. He left West Point because he was not a straight A student; but, he was darn close. A very smart man who became a Federal Prosecutor. One day he took me to dinner at a French restaurant that was owned by a retired French Foreign Legionnaire, great chicken. The Pimpernel has met many fascinating people and the ones in intelligence always seemed to take a liking to me, maybe because I am old school.

My point, if I have one. In order to get into West Point, you used to have to be the son of a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient or be recommended by a congressman or senator. West Point meant something. If I had wished I could have gone; but, I am glad that I never sought it. To be accepted to West Point was a high honor and to disgrace that honor was unthinkable. General Patreas (or betray us) was a graduate of West Point as was Ms. Broadwell. Seems strange to me that both of them would violate the code of honor.

Most people do not understand living old school. Most people do not understand death before dishonor. Please allow me to explain. It starts by believing in people, it starts by believing that we can be better. Once you get past that, you have to live it. Sexual immorality or thievery is beyond their ability to understand. You look down upon such things, white glove stuff. You would not trust someone who engaged in such activities.

I may have become a pacifist; but, I still believe in the whole honor thing. I am thinking that the good General was removed because the military should not control the intelligence agencies, that is a no no. The military is a blunt tool that you use when you have to. It lacks the elegance of the intelligence agencies, why kill a million when one or two will achieve the same goals?

Now lets talk about intelligence analysts, my little brothers and sisters. They are trained in understanding what the other guy is going to do before he knows what he is going to do. LOL. These are people who can never tell others about what they do, well, who you can talk to is limited. It is not so much about secrecy as confidentiality, a heavy burden. You cannot tell your spouse where you are going or what you are doing. When Intelligence Agents die, their own family is not told why.

I have hope for the world, I have hope that the best and the brightest still have integrity and are still able to effect the outcome of anything that is done wrong. I believe we are better than the worst of us. I believe we are capable of great kindness and lovr.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

To all of my dear readers I wish a very happy Thanksgiving day. Enjoy Mr. Arlo Guthrie as he sings YouTube - "Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording".

Something to watch and General David Petraeus

I know, I have been lax in my writing. I am going to be off for a few days and want to rest. I will be much better next week. In the meantime somethings for you to watch.

Security Camera Video Captures Good Too

PEOPLE ARE AWESOME 2011

I considered writing about General David Petraeus. The whole thing is just ridiculous from the outside; but, there is much more about all of this that they are not telling. The guy was in charge of the CIA, don't you think he was being watched by other nations? Do you think he did not know that the FBI could find his little e-mail drop box, heck the CIA uses the same techniques. The technique is used by terrorists and the CIA breaks into their accounts.

So lets review. Some character makes a movie called Desert Warriors, after making the movie he changes the name to "The Innocence of Bin Laden", he shows the movie for one night in Los Angeles to the outrage of a Jewish gadfly. The gadfly raises a big stink at the City Council (there is a previous post on this that goes into detail). Two LAPD officers go to the showing and even talk to the Producer. The title of the movie is changed to "The Innocence of the Muslims", except it is not a movie. It is a fifteen minute piece of nonsense and makes fun of Mohammed. That is the first bit and it is stupid. Oh, I forgot and the producer is arrested for violating his parole for using the internet? Huh? And of course we never see a good picture of him and nobody knows where he is.

Second part, a U.S. Ambassador is killed in Libya supposedly by the Libyans; but, in fact he is loved by the Libyans and considered a hero. It just keeps getting better because it turns out that the Embassy had called for assistance from CIA operatives in the area and it is denied. Hmmm. This too, Hillary Clinton and Obama blame all of this on the movie; but, it later turns out that the attack was planned in advance of the movie supposedly making Muslims unhappy.

Third part. General David Petraeus is forced to resign because of an affair. The head of the CIA. He doesn't argue the point, he doesn't bother keeping his job. Another question, why was a military officer in charge of the CIA? The first three months he had the job he was still active military. He retired from the military and remained in charge of the CIA. An officer can get removed for having an affair; but, he was no longer in the military, he was a civilian.

Just some guesses here. General David Petraeus an active General was put in charge of the CIA a civilian intelligence agency. Why? That means for a few months, the CIA was under the military as the Generals oaths and requirements were still in effect. Was this a case of marital law? Does any of this make any sense, cause it does not to me.

Usually the media is pretty good about lying; but, not with this story. Either they want you to think there is more going on or they didn't get their story straight in advance and are winging it. Bill Clinton had an affair and didn't quit. The General was friends with the media. How come there were not a bunch articles talking about how we shouldn't force everyone that has had an affair to quite their job?

It also turns out that there is a video of the other woman, Ms. Broadwell, saying that the attack in Libya may have been because of a secret prison there. This all supposedly came up because of "threatening" emails that Broadwell supposedly sent to another woman who was not having an affair with Petraeus. Oh, and Broadwell also apparently had confidential documents in her possession. The person that Broadwell supposedly threatened is refusing to talk.

This story stinks of baloney from the beginning to the end. None of it rings true.

YouTube - Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking

Now here is something that you probably did not know. The FBI would not have released the information regarding the General's affair. It is not a crime. There are rules to the game kids. I just had to think about it for a bit. The FBI is allowed to monitor many people for the security of the nation. There are limits on what things are actionable. Lets say you have a top secret clearance, if the FBI finds out that you are cheating on your spouse, they are NOT allowed to tell your spouse. It is against the law for them to reveal that information so long as it was not part of a crime, lets say sleeping with an enemy agent.

Here is something else funny. It has been reported that Ms. Broadwell had sought $80 million for brokering a deal in South Korea and that she had intended to move to Los Angeles and run for office. The same city that showed the original film, The Innocence of Bin Laden".

Lets get back to Broadwell, the other woman, for a moment. This is not some idiot, she has her Masters and worked with the FBI anti-terrorism unit. She has been married since 1996 and there is no indication that she is getting divorced. It does not appear that the general is getting divorced either, his wife has talked about how it has been hard on her husband and how she has barely seen him since the war began. Do you smell the coverup yet?

I am very proud to say that one of the people I mentored saw through all this garbage immediately, doesn't know the answer; but, can smell the garbage. My guess, the General was told it was time to go. They chose this as the excuse; but, the real question is what was the real reason. If he were truly guilty of giving away secret documents then he would be charged on treason. That is if they did not decide he needed a good heart attack or accident.

You do not put an active military officer in charge of a civilian intelligence agency. It is a conflict of interests. I have known people in these agencies, I know how they operate. The CIA would never allow the military to take over the civilian intelligence agencies and neither would the FBI. Let us hope that the military did not attempt to control the CIA, that would be bad for them and the Constitution allows the U.S. Marshall's to control military.

The United States Constitution creates the Unites States Marshalls. They are the only legal law enforcement agency in the country, they cannot be changed without the changing the constitution and that hasn't happened. Here is a good question, while still being a General and the head of the CIA, was he receiving two checks or just the one for being a general. LOL. I bet you he was just getting one, who he got it from tells you who he reported to, follow the money.

The question now becomes what the heck is going on in Washington and why. Why is all of this going on after the election? The military are a necessary evil, the brutes that you use when diplomacy has failed. Their job is to attack and kill whoever they are told. The intelligence agencies are different, they have a different role. They are the warriors of the old cold war and are very smart, they have contingency plans for everything and many experts. They are not about war, they are about understanding.

I gave a sermon last Saturday on sex and deceit. Sort of co-exists with this post. LOL. Wherever you find corruption, you find sexual immorality. Have a great Thanksgiving, hope yo enjoyed the post even if I don't have all the answers today.

Wired Magazine and Music

An article from Wired magazine on how passwords are not enough and how the only security in the future will be in having your phone and computer identify you by your actions and biometrics and possibly your DNA. Awhile back I read an article about how IBM was creating a way that a machine the size of a cigarette pack with a pencil type thing attached could lightly scratch you and identify you by your DNA. I wonder what sort of mark it might leave.

Wired - Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore

Here is the three paragraphs that you really need to know from the article, they come at the end.

The other thing that’s clear about our future password system is which trade-off—convenience or privacy—we’ll need to make. It’s true that a multifactor system will involve some minor sacrifices in convenience as we jump through various hoops to access our accounts. But it will involve far more significant sacrifices in privacy. The security system will need to draw upon your location and habits, perhaps even your patterns of speech or your very DNA.

We need to make that trade-off, and eventually we will. The only way forward is real identity verification: to allow our movements and metrics to be tracked in all sorts of ways and to have those movements and metrics tied to our actual identity. We are not going to retreat from the cloud—to bring our photos and email back onto our hard drives. We live there now. So we need a system that makes use of what the cloud already knows: who we are and who we talk to, where we go and what we do there, what we own and what we look like, what we say and how we sound, and maybe even what we think.

That shift will involve significant investment and inconvenience, and it will likely make privacy advocates deeply wary. It sounds creepy. But the alternative is chaos and theft and yet more pleas from “friends” in London who have just been mugged. Times have changed. We’ve entrusted everything we have to a fundamentally broken system. The first step is to acknowledge that fact. The second is to fix it.

Some of you may have wondered why I often use Wired magazine as a source. It is simple, it has been around a long time and has been a leader in reporting on technology and the internet. Look up it's history on Wikipedia.

Now for some music.

YouTube - Alice Cooper - Crazy Little Child

YouTube - Fleetwood Mac - The Dance-1997-Silver Springs

YouTube - Berlin - Masquerade

And one last song for those who like to watch. YouTube - Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid.

Only New Cars Allowed - With Chips

Here is a nice little news story for you.

Fox News - Paris mayor looks to ban old cars from city

It is all about limiting and monitoring movement. How many times do I have to say it? Older cars did not have gps chips in them, all of the newer ones do. Remember the old Cash for Clunkers car trade as part of the stimulus? Did you know or ever wonder why Russia had a program that was almost identical at the same time? The press called it Rubles for Wrecks. Make sure everyone has a newer car. Even if your car does not have a GPS display, it still has the traceable GPS chip that can be read and tracked.

Just in case you might think this is about the environment, it isn't. If it was about the environment then you would smog check and require catalytic converters. And lets face it, people that own very expensive older cars are going to be able to keep using their cars so long as they pay some sort of carbon tax.

Please Read This - The Future, No debt in exchange for a cashless society

Dearest readers, I have been trying to explain many things with this blog. One of the things I have discussed is money and the future of the economy. There is a woman named Ann Barnhardt, she was a commodities trader and closed her company because she believed the economy is going to collapse and she could not protect her clients in her opinion.

Mr. Barnhardt is a Christian, very anti Islamic and very conservative. She is also very knowledgeable about the economy. The woman is radical and I absolutely part ways with here on many things she says. I am still a pacifist and there just isn't any racial prejudice in me. I present these videos so that you can understand what she is saying about the economy. Me and her would part on social issues; but, her presentation on the economy is dead on and I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Let me try and explain. The system is corrupt and we all know that. The economic system was intentionally destroyed so that a few could benefit. Ms. Barnhardt is an absolutist capitalist, she is an absolutist Catholic and she is an absolutist Libertarian. I am none of those things. I believe we are supposed to be as close to an absolutist in our personal decisions; but, I believe we should not be the same in regards to how we respond to others about their personal choices. Those are between them and God.

The problem is that the mainstream media and out elected officials have lied to us about the state of the economy and seek to use tricks to fix it. Bernake, Paulson and Greenspan all lies to us, the banks lied to us, the media lied to us. The only people telling the truth are those who do not accept what we are being told, outliers. Unfortunately, the only ones that will tell the truth are extremists; but, their solutions are also extremist and I, your dear Pimpernel, am not an extremist. A radical moderate at best.

I strongly disagree with Ms. Barnhardt regarding healthcare and her solutions. What do agree with is her analysis of where we are economically and how we got here. I also believe that she is being completely sincere, even though I disagree with her. This is where my problem comes in, sometimes I have to present information to my very dear readers, from people who I do not agree with. I do not agree with Mr. David Icke, I do not believe aliens from an alternate universe run this world; but, I do agree with much of the information he has put forth about HOW the world is run. Left, right, alternate, none of it matters to me, the source does not matter, the quality and accuracy of the information is what matters.

I really had to think about posting these, heck, it took a long time just to watch them all and decide if they were worth passing to my very dear readers. I have friends that are gay, Hispanic, black, poor, rich, you name it. I really felt uncomfortable with the things she said. She admires Ayn Rand and I detest the selfishness of Ayn Rand and you cannot really be a Christian and like Ayn Rand. This woman claims to be both which shows she does not understand Christianity and first and foremost I am a Christian. Yet, she is willing to die for her beliefs to help others and that is very Christian. Still, this is my blog and I say what I want, she has her own.

Next time I might find a leftist who has a good explanation of something and I will post them and give a similar explanation. My readers are free to decide what it all means for themselves; but, I believe this is worth everyone's time to watch and think and understand This woman understands how economies work, recognizes we are all being taken advantage of and explains it in a good manner; but, I have to admit, even I do not understand 100% of what she is saying. I have been asked by a couple of really good accountants to write a book on accounting and she still through me off on some things.

I know a lot of you do not read my source documentation because you trust that I will not lie and I will not, I say what I believe. I cannot explain what this lady explain well enough to translate it to you. That is why I ask you to take a couple of hours and watch the videos.

Basically, she explains how the economy must collapse and she is correct and you will hear many things I have written about previously. She explains how gold is garbage, she explains how the derivative market works, she explains how we have passed the tipping point and that there must be a massive default on all debt. She discusses what she sees that we must do after the crash, that is where we disagree in part. She correctly identifies that money is nothing more than a promise of labor in whatever form. As was almost once said in a movie, sometimes you have to take the poop with the sugar. Be discerning and determine what is her attitude, her opinion and facts. She has plenty of facts. Just to let you know, she cusses in the video.

YouTube - The Economy Is Going To Implode Pt.1 of 8

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The Cover-up in England

Yesterday I was reading the news from England, I bookmarked the pages so I could write about it later. It was going to be a long post and I had a lot to research before writing it. It was going to be on how situations and the media are used to muddy the waters and keep people from going to justice if they are rich enough and powerful enough. Today they proven me write in the manner I expected.

The BBC is government owned television and radio. It is very near and dear to the English people. One of its most popular celebrities was a man named Jimmy Saville (I have seen it spelled with both one and two ls. Mr. Saville had a show called "Jim'll fix it" where he fulfilled kids wishes in some manner. I wrote about him recenlty; but, will repeat things to make a point about the media.

Mr. Saville died and over 300 allegations of child molestation were made about him. In addition, things he wrote and said took on a new meaning and many people who knew came forward saying that it was commonly known that Mr. Saville was a pedophile. It also turns out that he had complete access to homes that cared for children and even a room at a couple of them and the keys to the buildings. Some of the people who allege that he molested them were from those places.

Mr. Saville was good friends with the royal family and the powerful in England. He was even given a title, he was made Sir Jimmy Saville. A group at the BBC made a documentary about Mr. Savile in which they went into how Mr. Savile was child molester. At the last minute the documentary was pulled, it would not be shown; however the BBC did broadcast a show honoring him.

It came out that the documentary had been pulled and the allegations came out. The media immediately tried to steer the conversation to the issue of what the BBC did and away from the people that Mr. Savile supplied children to. But, it wasn't working and people were investigating what Savile did. Another televsion station aired their own documentary on Mr. Savile's pedophilia.

It didn't take long to get more damning statements against Mr. Savile. All the stuff about the group that he had improper access to, the fact that he had been investigated for such things back in the 90s. Those cases just sort of went away and he was allowed to continue. Mr. Savile bragged that he was untouchable and could do whatever he wanted.

Now Mr. Savile even organized parties for the Royal Family. It also came out that others were involved and that some were politicians. Oddly enough this was not the direction the media wished to go. The British then arrested a couple of old celebrities, one was a known pedophile and the other went on television professing his innocence and saying how he had never even been in Mr. Savile's dressing room. He explained how the whole thing was killing him. Both were released and they were the only people arrested, no politicians.

Now in England they do not name names while a case is being investigated, they have a different set of legal rules. There was however a man that came forward and said that one of his molesters was high up in Thatcher administration. When that happened people started looking a little deeper at their politicians, judges, police and the whole system. Over the years their had been a number of scandals involving pedophilia at certain state run bording facilities, the places where they kept troubled and in need youths.

The investigation kept heading back to who the people were that Mr. Savile was supplying children to. It was pointed out that although he had not worked in quite a while, he had lots of money and houses. Anyways, this man that had been molested and said that it was a high up person in the Thatcher administration got people looking to determine who it was he was talking about. Neither the BBC nor the boy ever publicly said who it was and neither did the police.

This when the media stepped into high gear to get people to believe that nobody in the government was involved. The British Primer Minister went on television and said that they were doing all they could, they were conducting multiple investigations all at the same time. They had investigations on all these group homes, on the BBC and well, they were going to investigate just about anything they could. Basically focus on everything, spread their investigators too thin and at the same time he started to imply that the whole things could turn into a witch hunt and he didn't want that. NO, he wanted it to appear to be a witch hunt because then nobody would believe anything that came out.

While on the show, the interviewer said that he had spent 3 minutes on the internet and had a list of names of suspected pedophiles in the government and handed it to the Prime Minister on air. Again, the media jumped on the meaningless and tried to make the story of the day about how this interviewer had possibly violated the law if the note had been seen by the television viewers (again you can get in a lot of trouble in England naming names prior to the arrest). It was a beautiful piece of theater.

The other point the Prime Minister was trying to make was that he didn't want the investigation into the politicians to be an attack on gays. I guess I should discuss how I came across this all. There is a man named David Icke, he claims that alien reptilians rule this earth. He also made a lot of predictions about how things were run that turned out to be correct. 20 years ago, Mr. Icke who had been a broadcaster for the BBC had said that both Mr. Heath (famous politician) and Mr. Savile were pedophiles.

There are a number of websites that list alternative news that I read, I just don't link to them, I will independently find the same information from more reliable and accepted sources. When this all broke Mr. Icke began reminding people of what he said in the past. At the same time others were continuing to come forth and mentioning politicians. This video hit me in the head yesterday.

YouTube - CARE HOME ABUSE VICTIM -Tells of Sex Parties "Exclusive Personal Interview" DOCUMENTARY

The whole thing sounded just like the scandal and cover-up that happened in Omaha, Nebraska involving Boys Town, politicians and pedophiles. They made a documentary about that there was pulled the day before it was to be shown on television.

YouTube - Conspiracy of Silence: The Franklin Cover Up - Censored Documentary!

The way to kill a story is to sensationalize the parts of it that you don't care about and keep the focus away from the real issues. In this case the real issues are who was Mr. Savile supply children to and which politicians used these children.

Back to the interview with the Prime Minister. He makes a big deal about saying that the investigation should not be some anti-homosexual thing; but, it never was. Mr. Savile liked little girls and the issue should have remained focused on pedophilia regardless if the people were straight or not. It was another attempt at misleading people and it wasn't enough.

Back to the man who reported how he had been molested by the high ranking person in the Thatcher government. People were wondering; but, nobody was saying and then Lord McAlpine a former high ranking official came out and said that it wasn't him and that he would take legal action against those who accused him. Problem is, neither the BBC or the witness ever publicly accused him of anything. The man who was talking in fact said that it was not Lord McAlpine publicly.

How convenient that someone who has not been accused tries to make it look like he has. Makes it all look kind of funny to those who don't read the whole articles. What gets interesting is how this is all portrayed in the media. Articles now say that the reports of politicians being pedophiles is false; they say that the mans allegations were false; but, he did not allege and the BBC did not report that it was Lord Alpine, the allegations of a high ranking politician being involved have yet to be fully investigated and they are not of Lord McAlpine as far as we know,

The media in England is actively engaged in attempting to confuse the issues and apparently protect some important people. In order to further create smoke, the head of the BBC resigns and apologizes for allowing these false accusations to be broadcast. Huh? They were not.

Well, when I saw that the head of the BBC had resigned and that the media was making all attempts to misstate what had occurred, I was not surprised at all. I kind of expected it and was going to say so yesterday; but, I never finished the post. I am going to post a link to the article on Mr. Icke's site from today. He sees it all as a sham also.

Is it only me??

What can we expect next, I suggest unexplained deaths with at least one being of an ex-politician who commits suicide. Perhaps they will confirm that is the person who abused the witness. It all depends on how the republic responds to the non-sense they are being told now.

What will be forgotten is that Mr. Savile supplied numerous people with children to abuse. That is how these things always go when the rich and powerful are accused of being involved with pedophile rings.

Hopefully the British public will not lose their focus and will insist upon fully investigating the claims from the Savile case. That is where the proof lies and it will lead back to those in power.

SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

England has had all of these problems with pedophiles at their government run group homes and yet in the midst of the current scandal, the Mail Online reports that Teaching union calls for porn lessons on national curriculum amid fears children as young as 11 are addicted to adult websites

The Newspaper basically states that you have two choices, filter the internet and require adults to opt in to view porn or have your kids taught about porn. What do you think those lessons will be like. I have a guess. You cannot show the kids porn so you show nudes and explain why they are not pornography. Old paintings, nude statues, provocative advertising and pictures. Take them right to the line of what is not considered pornography.

UPDATE 2

Well, once I finished the last update there were some interesting new developments aimed at directing the course of the discussion away from the people Mr. Savile provided children to. A 70 year old man has just been arrested in connection with the case. Here is your fall guy. There is an old saying in chess, when in doubt, kick a pawn. It means that you give unimportant to protect the more important. The other story being pushed today is about a friend of Mr. Savile's who is devastated by Mr. Savile's pedophilia and he telling how Mr. Savile had introduced him to one of the most famous serial killers in English history.

UPDATE 3

It turns out that the 75 year old man they arrested was one of the people on the ITV documentary who said that he found Mr. Savile in bed with a girl about 12 to 14. That sounds about right, arrest the witnesses who helped expose Mr. Savile.

Thinking

I wrote a post last night; but, did not publish it. When I got up this morning it turned out that what I was expecting happened. The problem is that to fully explain will take a bit of time. I don't know when I will finish; but, I will give it a shot later tonight. Have a great weekend.

Electronic Money and Travel

Before I get to the article, I must apologize. Somehow I managed to injure my neck yesterday. I thought after a good nights rest it would feel better; but, it doesn't. As a consequence I will keep this short.

Forbes - Department Of Homeland Security To Scan Payment Cards At Borders And Airports

As we go to a cashless society, methods have to be put in place to prevent you from taking all your money with you and moving. It is about control.

Just a link, no paper trail, just electronic money

NCR - Going Green with Your ATM

Scary Xbox technology coming the internet

So the Pimpernel has been talking about how you will need to be biometrically identified to use the internet in the future and you may think this is decades rather than months away, well, guess again.

ReadWrite Play - Microsoft Wants To Turn Xbox 360 Kinect Into Big Brother!

The article states the Microsoft has applied for a patent that would allow Xbox (the videogame machine) to use kinect (hardware that watches you and responds to your moves allowing you to play games with just your movement) to count the number of people in your room watching a movie and charge you per person. It can also identify the people in the room. Not only that; but, it will know the age of the people in the room and keep out age inappropriate content, no porn for your kids.

Haven't I been talking about this for years? This is real and you are going to pay for the privilege of being watched. Next up will be voice recognition being used to interact with video game characters who will respond to what you say. We do not live in the Matrix, we are building it so that we can live in it.

Restricting Your Movement

What we are seeing on an international level is the restriction of your ability to move about freely. It began with border patrols and then passports were created. Passports were not actually required for traveling from country to country until after World War I. The primary purpose of the passport was only to prove the country of citizenship and allow the person to return to their own country, it was not needed to leave your country. Why should I need permission to leave my country if another country will allow me in. Up until 911, Americans could travel to both Mexico and Canada without a passport.

Now here is where we get into what is really going on. After 911, Mexico did not require a passport for US citizens to go there, the United States did. If the problem is terrorists coming into the United States then why should I need a passport to leave if the other country will let me in?

Okay, lets look at other travel restrictions. In order to drive a car you need to have a drivers license. In the United States we tend to believe that drivers licenses were intended to prove that you had taken a test and knew how to drive; but, the reality is that up until 1977 you could buy a car and drive on the roads of Belgium with no drivers license. It was not until 1913 that any state of the union required a drivers license of all people who drove within the state and years later before all the other states required it. It has now become our primary form of identification.

The people in many countries hate the idea of having to have a national identification as it was used by the Nazis and the Communists, you needed permission to move about in your own country and people did not like it. Your drivers license and Social Security card served the same purpose and both were sold on the idea that neither was required to travel or for use as identification and both became exactly that.

You cannot take a boat, plane or car to another country without having a passport and a drivers license today. Lets fast forward. The TSA is now conducting check ins at train stations in the United States. Why should I need to prove who I am to take a train within the United States. Oh, in Sweden to take a bus you must use electronic currency and it identifies you. LOL.

You can take your boat and sail to another country; but, the United Nations is about to pass the Law Of the Sea Treaty (yes we are truly lost). What do you want to bet that it will require a form of identification is required to just sail in the international waters which no man has a right to control?

So our right to travel is restricted by plane, boat and train. It is restricted by car. Well, maybe I can use horses. Sorry, those are chipped and the wild horses are being killed, this has been going on against the law by the government for about 10 years.

My question is then, by what manner of transportation am I allowed to move about freely? I guess by bicycle in most places and by foot. Prior to the 1900s most people in history had never been further than 20 or so miles from their home in their life.

Well here is a thought, at least you can still take the bus or subway without having to report who you are. Well, up until now. Here is a lovely story from The Baltimore Sun - MTA recording bus conversations to eavesdrop on trouble

The local transit authority for Maryland is going to begin not only filming inside the buses; but, it will also be recording all of your conversations and storing them electronically. Here is what their defense is according to the article (the next two paragraphs are taken directly from the linked article.

"But one of the bills' sponsors, Del. Melvin Stukes, an MTA customer service investigator, said state officials have been "gun-shy" in dealing with the ACLU and unions. The intent of the legislation, he said, was to eliminate bad language that often sparks violence.

"This is not your bathroom. This is not your bedroom. Buses are public spaces and people are elbow to elbow," Stukes said. "I'm not trying to punish people. I'm just trying to clean up problems I hear about every day so that people realize that MTA is trying to provide a more congenial, more cordial ride."

I guess just want us to talk nicely. That is the dumbest thing I have even heard. There is no law against cussing on a bus, cussing itself is not illegal. They do not claim that they will arrest people for using profanity so why do they need to record the conversations?

I do hope my wonderful and intelligent readers see where this is going. Your travel will not be restricted just as long as we know who you are and where you are going and eventually why; but, we can guess that using the internet. You might ask why restricting travel is so important, it is fairly simple it is to control communications that do not go over the internet or cell phones, those are already claimed to be unprotected by the courts, no right to privacy with either.

While there are those who might think the Pimpernel is just some slob, the fact is that I am a recognized expert on the Constitution. Ask your attorney how many American Jurisprudence Awards they have, I have two and one is in Constitutional Law. People who know me personally read this blog and are more than welcome to see it; but, they know. Now lets talk about cell phones.

When radio first came out, it was determined that there was only so much band with that existed and therefore any company wishing to broadcast radio had to do so in a proper manner, they sort of had to fulfill a public benefit because there was a limitation on how many could broadcast. That made sense and the court cases gave the government the right to regulate the airwaves. Times change and now we have cell phones, yet, the same old court cases were used to say that the government has the right to listen into your private conversations because they have the right to monitor the airwaves; but, that is to make a joke of the reasons behind the original cases. The logic was twisted.

The government was not allowed to tap your phone, to record or listen to your private calls because they could not be heard by others, they were not public broadcasts that could be heard by anyone with a radio. It was presumed that the operators were not listening in and the rules prohibited them from doing so, though some did. Cell phones can be listened to by anyone with the proper equipment and that was used as one of the excuses for allowing the government to tap all cell phone conversations; but, the joke is that I am less concerned about some random person attempting to listen to ever cell phone conversation than the government doing the same. The government has taken the prior court decisions and completely ignored the logic behind them to get to the result they want.

I want you to think about this. The laws were put in place to protect the unwitting public from seeing or hearing obscenity without knowing what they might be exposed to. If a parent was just checking out different radio stations they didn't want their child to hear things that were improper. If something were not publicly broadcast with the technology of the time, the telephone, then it was protected and nobody was authorized to listen in. This same logic and court rulings apply to e-mails, they are unprotected because someone with a lot of time could read them and the solution is that the government can read them all. We made the rules to protect your privacy and those same rules are now used to say you have none, that is not good logic.

So, the government does not trust it's own citizens. They want to know everything that you say and do. The restriction travel allows them this ability because you are only going to walk so far.

Your Face is Your Passport, Now What Else Can We Use it For?

Everyday there is something new in the news about biometrics and it all keeps heading in the same direction. Here is where we are going, in the future your ability to travel will require that you have been biometrically, positively identified and authorized. No fly lists are already in effect. I personally am on a watch list (not a no fly list as far as I know). Yet, how much concern does the average person have over the fact that we have these lists, they will not tell you are on one and there is nothing you can do to get removed from them.

EndTheLie - Facial recognition-based border control system in Netherlands to process millionth passenger by end of year


There are many people who are afraid that the government wants to put a chip in us, an RFID chip to be precise. The same chip that is in your cell phone, your car, your dog and your passport. The idea biometrics is therefore much more pleasant; but, the effect is exactly the same, you can be monitored and prevented from traveling.

I will tell a story that I wrote about once before. I was going to Hawaii a number of years ago right after the shoe bomber. As we were going through security the TSA agent asked me if I wanted to take off my shoes. I asked them if it was required and they told me it was not, so, I said I would prefer to keep them on. I was taken out of line and told that I had to take my shoes off and checked out further. I asked what type of game they were playing and asked why they hadn't just told me it was required if it was. The answer was as stupid as possible, I was told it wasn't required but that if someone didn't then they were given additional checks which included removing their shoes. It was funny how the other people all got anxious as I questioned these people.

Biometrics and facial recognition are only a carrot if you have a stick and the stick is the RFID chip. Fear and hatred of the chip convince people to accept the same result by means of another technology.