Signs Of Change The Past Week Or So December 2013 Pt 1

      Strange and extreme weather events that have taken place over the last 2 weeks

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Justice for Marissa: A Fundraiser for Freedom

   
Marissa Alexander was sentenced to 20 years for defending herself from her abuser, but she was granted a new trial. Funds will help her win her freedom.

UPDATE: As of November 27th, Marissa Alexander has been released from prison on a $200,009 bond.  We're so thrilled!!  But we've got a long way to go to help Marissa and her family win the upcoming re-trial, which starts March 31, 2014.  This campaign has met and zoomed past our goal of $10,000.  Congratulations to all of the amazing supporters!!  Your commitment has fired up the campaign and we raised the freedom fundraiser goal to $20,000! Let’s keep going!  Please bring in more donors and let’s bring Marissa home for good!

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Marissa Alexander is an African American mother of three and survivor of domestic violence from Jacksonville, FL.  In 2010, she fired a warning shot upwards into a wall to defend herself from a life-threatening beating from her  estranged husband. Despite the fact that Marissa caused no injuries and has no previous criminal record, and despite the fact that Florida’s self-defense law includes the right to “Stand Your Ground,” she was subsequently arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to 20 years in prison.  This past September, Marissa Alexander won her appeal, her guilty verdict was overturned, and she secured the right to a new trial.  

FULL ACQUITTAL: A Movement Behind The Trial

Free Marissa Now, an alliance of organizers and thousands of people all around the world, have been organizing for Marissa's freedom from prison and intend to keep going until she is free.  Because State Attorney Angela Corey refuses to drop the case against Marissa Alexander, continuing a pattern of unjust targeting and prosecution, our movement turns to supporting Marissa, her family, and her legal team in winning her freedom through a new trial.

This fundraiser is CRITICAL for at least two reasons:

1. Marissa's excellent legal team is working pro bono, which is wonderful.  However, launching an effective defense can run up significant costs, such as securing expert witnesses, travel costs, depositions, processing evidence, etc.  Marissa's supporters can mobilize to raise funds that will ensure that she has resources for the trial, increasing her chances of securing her freedom.

2. Our continued organizing will make sure that Marissa's name is not forgotten and that our commitment to her freedom remains active.  It also creates opportunities for us to continue to raise awareness about domestic violence and mass incarceration.  

ORGANIZE FUNDRAISERS!

We appreciate all individual donations!  We also encourage people to organize community fundraisers to connect with each other and bring more people into the movement.  Organize community potlucks, local concerts, raffles, talent shows, holiday parties...  Fundraising is a huge part of movement building!

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

This fundraiser is accountable to Marissa Alexander and her family.  All proceeds from this fundraiser go to the Marissa Alexander Legal Defense Fund which is administered by Marissa's family on her behalf. You can find the link to this fundraiser on the family's website:http://justiceformarissa.blogspot.com/.

Contact us at freemarissanow@gmail.com if you have questions.

THANK YOU!

Marissa's supporters are the greatest!  Every step of the way, you have shown up and given deep support and love.  Your donation is just one more way that you give life to the movement to free Marissa and highlight the need to support all survivors who have been criminalized while trying to navigate the conditions of violence.  Thank you so much for your donation!

PS:

If you want to send a donation via check, you can mail the check to:

Global Alliance, Inc.
For: The Marissa Alexander Legal Defense FundGlobal Alliance, Inc.P.O. Box 290956Columbia, SC 29229

But please e-mail a note to us at freemarissanow@gmail.com so we can include your donation in our fundraising total!

   
 

Afghanistan Experts Stumped By Simple Questions

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.) had a simple question Wednesday for three of the Obama administration’s top Afghanistan specialists: How many American troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year? None of the witnesses at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan had an answer.


So let me get this straight....The government is all up into the legislation of the womens womb, but can't answer a simple question in their particular field of expertise. And these are the ppl asking for more money so the can prosecute a War that you & your children will be paying for .....for generations to come!!! Right Right......

Tea Party Leader's Tweet Suggests Blacks Stop 'Bitching And Moaning' About Slavery

   

A New Mexico county tea party leader has sparked controversy by tweeting a meme Wednesday that strongly suggests blacks use the dark legacy of slavery in America for "bitching and moaning about how the world owes them a living."

On the 148th anniversary of the end of slavery, Glynis Racine of the Lincoln County Tea Party Patriots tweeted the following and deleted it shortly thereafter:

The tweet seems to reference Irish enslavement in the 17th and 18th centuries, claiming they were "treated worse than any other race" and seemingly attempting to delegitimize the experience of African-Americans.

ProgressNow also slammed the tweet in a press release.

"In an apparent attempt to contribute to our modern understanding of American history, the tea party leader reminds followers that early American slavery included African and non-African people alike," wrote the group. "But her quest for 'facts' includes her own assertion that all African-Americans are 'bitching and moaning' about how the world owes them a living.”

“Glynis is exactly the type of fear mongering leader Fox News and the conservative movement push to the front of their movement," said Patrick Davis of Progress Now New Mexico. "They shouldn’t be surprised they are having a hard time recruiting blacks, Hispanics or reasonable people of any color to their side.”

Though she deleted the tweet, Racine defended herself, saying it was time to "move on" from slavery.

The Lincoln County Tea Party Patriots and representatives for TeaParty.org, a national tea party site, did not immediately return requests for comment from The Huffington Post.

The tweet comes at a particularly bad time for conservative groups, which were thrust into the unflattering national spotlight during last week's budget deal negotiations.

In a press conference about the budget deal, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) slammed the Republican Party's more conservative sects, calling their unwillingness to compromise with Democrats "ridiculous," and accusing them of "misleading their followers."

As Boehner said, "Frankly, I just think they've lost all credibility."

EDWARD SNOWDEN: MAN OF THE YEAR 2013....PERIOD!!!

Quite expectedly, the mainstream media (MSM) has ignored many of the most profound and fundamental changes that Snowden’s revelations have wrought in virtually every sphere of life around the globe. In truth the Snowden Revelations have forever changed the way the world operates. Everything from international diplomacy to global commerce, from national sovereignty protection to national internet management, from intergovernmental communication to United Nations protocols have been deeply affected for the better.  Of course, international relations have never been worse this millennium, but that’s part of the process.

Because of Edward’s extraordinarily courageous and self-sacrificing initiative to expose the NSA PRISM surveillance program, the world is now a much better place. His unusually brave actions were carried out at an age (in his late 20s) when most of his peers are much busier looking out for themselves than others, which make his sacrifice all the more exceptional.

How else can we say this: E D W A R D  J.  S N O W D E N is perhaps the greatest hero the planet has known throughout this New Millennium! There, we said it. Something that will never appear in or uttered by the MSM.

What Edward Snowden truly accomplished for the liberation of the human race will not be fully understood for years to come.

That’s because the numerous governments involved, their corporate collaborators and the mainstream media will make sure that the most consequential truths are never revealed. They have already been working overtime to squeeze off the pipeline of Snowden Revelations coming from the MSM outlets such as The Guardian.

What we have seen in the MSM are various statements issued by Presidents and Prime Ministers, Corporate CEOs and Foundation Chairs.  The vast majority of these pronouncements repeat the same sentiment:  NSA spying on the masses must be stopped; their routine and criminal invasion of privacy must cease post haste.

The other point of general agreement is that the state (aka the US Federal Government) has unlawfully arrogated power unto itself to illegally spy on the entire world.  This is the awesome legacy of the Snowden Revelations.  Yes, everyone to some degree has known that government snooping has been way out of control.  However, no one really knew the situation was so over the top … until Edward pushed the upload button.

Because of the global connectivity of the internet, entities like the NSA, CIA, DIA, FBI, DEA, etc. can acquire a warrant to tap internet, telephonic and other electronic communications in a heartbeat.  The courts that oversee this process are nothing but a rubber stamp on’law enforcement’ requests for clandestine surveillance that are oftentimes unjustifiably submitted.  The Snowden Revelations exposed this whole surreptitious process and procedure for its admitted lack of integrity.

 

REAL whistleblowers are the bravest of the lot because of what they go up against, and what they knowingly sacrifice!

One of the reasons why truly great heroes like Snowden are never given their due is because the very system which created them doesn’t want to admit the truth.  The same system also created the term “whistleblower”, and then very begrudgingly allows for the whistleblower to receive their rightful praise and commendation.   Depending on the act of courage, the MSM even takes great pains to contextualize certain whistleblowers in a subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, pejorative context.  Everyone has heard the term snitch … or much worse — traitor!

This shading of the label “whistleblower” has done a terrible dis-service to the Edward Snowdens of the world.  By deliberately casting many of them in a less than positive light, future heroes are discouraged from stepping forward.  Not only are they not afforded the accolades that they richly deserve, they are sometimes made the victim of completely unwarranted persecution … or prosecution at worst.

Here are two perfect examples of the MSM carrying water for the NSA et al.

Snowden stole ‘keys to the kingdom’: NSA official – Yahoo News

Runner-Up: Edward Snowden The Dark Prophet | TIME.com

Let’s face it, the US Federal Government had the most to lose from the endless worldwide fallout let loose by the Snowden Revelations.  It also exerts the most control over international diplomacy, military assets, media, commerce, academia, scientific research, etc.  Therefore, these revelations pose a greater threat to US hegemony than any other similar act in recent history.  That’s because they revealed the primary mechanisms and MOs by which such NSA ‘oversight’ (sometimes known as ‘overheard) is implemented in every corner of the world.

Furthermore, the Snowden Revelations quite effectively laid bare the intelligence infrastructure of the Orwellian snooping superstructure which had been insidiously created over decades.  He was also very purposeful about acquiring just the right proof of impropriety where it concerned the usurpation of national sovereignty.  Nations such as Brazil, Germany, France, Spain, Mexico and India are angrier than ever at the gross violations of governmental privacy which have been systematically committed by the NSA.

Exactly what did Edward Snowden reveal for the benefit of his fellow countrymen, as well as his fellow residents of Planet Earth?

“Snowden’s release of NSA material was called the most significant leak in U.S. history by Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. A series of exposés was published in June 2013 revealing Internet surveillance programs such as PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora, as well as the interception of US and European telephone metadata. The reports were based on disclosures Snowden leaked to The Guardianand The Washington Post while employed by NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. By November 2013, the Guardian had published 1 percent of the documents, with “the worst yet to come”. ”
(Per Wikipedia — Edward Snowden)

Surely you just read that only 1% has been published and that the ”the worst yet to come”.  In view of how much of a tizzy the “Intelligence Establishment” has been thrown into, we’d say that they are in for a dizzying ride for the next few years, yes?!

The primary publisher of the Snowden Revelations is The Guardian.  Therefore, the following link is a great place to begin digging through the info treasure trove that Edward Snowden has bequeathed to humankind.

NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden’s surveillance revelations explained | World news | theguardian.com

His quite awesome endeavor, according to Snowden himself, was put into motion for the sole purpose of informing the citizenry of the profound violation of the public trust which NSA spying had become as an ongoing enterprise.  Likewise, he felt it was his moral, legal and civic obligation to reveal the extent to which the social contract between citizen and government has been broken.  In his own words Edward Snowden has expressed his sole motive as follows:

“To inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.”

In times past some of the recipients of TIME’s Man of the Year distinction were individuals who were not the best examples of what humanity might aspire to. However, the realm of alternative media has a completely different take on such a high profile and worldwide honor. Especially in the digital age is it necessary to applaud the actions of those who have sacrificed so much for the benefit of humanity; because of how far and wide such accolades are disseminated. The young minds and hearts are particularly impressionable, and so they ought to be indelibly imprinted with the ideals of true heroism.

Thank you, Edward Snowden, for your glowing example for decades to come ! ! !

U.S. Army Tests Wireless Robots With Machine Guns..Robo-Cop??

Robo- Cop???
Researchers are conducting cutting-edge investigations in the area of unmanned systems. Commercial companies lined up to displayed their armed robots to U.S. Army officers at Fort Benning, Georgia. Military leaders were anxious to see what the technology is capable of and how it could be used on the battlefield.These robots will be able to carry hundreds of pounds of supplies through difficult terrains.  The robots can be controlled from a laptop computer or a mobile controller from a remote location. Robots will likely be prepared with grenades, guns and anti tank missiles.

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Researchers are conducting cutting-edge investigations in the area of unmanned systems. Commercial companies lined up to displayed their armed robots to U.S. Army officers at Fort Benning, Georgia. Military leaders were anxious to see what the technology is capable of and how it could be used on the battlefield.

These robots will be able to carry hundreds of pounds of supplies through difficult terrains.  The robots can be controlled from a laptop computer or a mobile controller from a remote location. Robots will likely be prepared with grenades, guns and anti tank missiles.

We are comforted by the fact that the military assured us these will not be unmanned. The U.S. Officer in the video below states “humans will have some role” and will ultimately make the final decision on who these robots will kill.

The controller of these robots at 1:10 in this video is functioning what looks like a Xbox 360 controller. This seems to be a repeating theme in the military which would make one believe there was a plan in place. Will this desensitize war and provide the user with a “Call of Duty” style entertainment? Should killing be fun?

Florida Judge Orders Homeschool Children to Attend Public School

We need to program your children to go along with the masses , and we don't need you to go messing up theirs minds making them Critical Thinkers who can problem solve and be individuals!!

The right for parents to educate their children as they desire is under attack. As we have reported previously, homeschooling is growing seven times faster than public schooling, and the U.S. government is progressively taking actions to restrict it. Parents are increasingly keeping their children at home to educate them, avoiding government intrusion into their family lives, which includes mandatory vaccinations, toxic school meals, and questionable educational materials among other things.

Having access to the nation’s children is an economic necessity for the distribution of vaccines and government subsidized food provided to the schools. As public school enrollments decrease, it causes economic hardship on pharmaceutical companies and large commodity processed food corporations.

Prejudice against homeschooled children is still prevalent, as can be seen in this recent case in Florida, where a judgeordered homeschooled children to attend public school. The children had been appointed a guardian by the court in a visitation dispute between their divorced parents. While neither parent had any issues with the children being educated at home, the guardian and judge acted independently and decided for themselves what they deemed best for the children, and ordered them to start attending a public school, even though both parents were committed to raising them Catholic.

Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has filed an Amicus Brief on behalf of the children. Here is HSLDA’s reportfrom their website:

The mother and father have been fighting over visitation for years, and a scheduled hearing last summer seemed to be just the latest skirmish in the war. A court-appointed psychologist testified that the children were all doing well academically. But at the hearing, the guardian ad litem—appointed by the court to represent the children’s best interest—testified that her “gut reaction” was that the children should be in public school for socialization. The guardian also used the mother’s “ultra Catholic” beliefs as evidence against homeschooling, even though the divorce agreement had mandated that the children be raised Catholic.

Without warning, the judge used the hearing not just to rule on the visitation schedule, but also to order the kids into public school, even though the father had not made education an issue before the hearing. The judge lectured the mother, “When are they going to socialize? Is homeschool going to continue through college and/or professional schooling? At which point are these children going to interact with other children, and isn’t that in their best interest?” With that, the judge changed a long-standing court order permitting homeschooling and ordered the children into the local school.

HSLDA filed a brief arguing that the family should be allowed to continue homeschooling. In our amicus brief, we contended that if the mother had received warning that homeschooling would be at issue, she could have presented a substantial body of evidence that homeschoolers are well-socialized. We pointed to a number of academic studies that show homeschool graduates to be successful college students and adults.

“It is truly unfortunate that after decades of homeschooling, parents are still fighting a battle against ignorance and ‘What about socialization?’” said Jim Mason, HSLDA’s litigation counsel. (Full article here.)

Will We See More Forced Education to Support “Common Core”?

HSLDA is also producing a documentary on the federal Common Core program. Here is the trailer:

From HSLDA:

What is Common Core?

Common Core proponents offer upbeat descriptions of utopian educational goals along with detailed practical lists of what students should know and be able to do in grades K–12 in mathematics and English language arts. But those goals and standards are just two facets of the conglomeration of federal funding, preschool–workforce invasive student tracking, and one-size-fits-all computer-based learning that has become the Common Core.

We’ve taken a closer look at how the Common Core got started, who’s behind it, and what it will mean to homeschoolers.

#CommonCore

http://www.commoncoremovie.com - 

Releasing ONLINE for FREE, February 2014 (30 min). Full Documentary (approx. 70 min) will release on DVD, late spring 2014.

Stay tuned for more sneak previews in upcoming weeks as we explore both sides of the Common Core State Standards initiative controversy. In the documentary, both proponents and opponents will present their perspectives so that you can draw your own conclusions on this important educational issue.