Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party


Federally-Funded Street Lights Capable of “Recording Conversations”

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:32 AM PDT

By Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com

Federally-funded high-tech street lights now being installed in American cities are not only set to aid the DHS in making "security announcements" and acting as talking surveillance cameras, they are also capable of "recording conversations," bringing the potential privacy threat posed by 'Intellistreets' to a whole new level.

In the days after we first brought attention to the privacy concerns surrounding the new street lights, with our story featuring prominently on the Drudge Report website, the company behind them, Illuminating Concepts, went on the defensive, issuing a press release claiming the devices didn't represent a "big brother" intrusion.

However, as you can see from the video above, 'Intellistreets' is big brother on steroids. George Orwell himself would probably have considered the concept too far-fetched to appear in the dystopian classic 1984.

Not only can the street lights, now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh with Department of Energy backing, act as surveillance cameras, Minority Report-style advertising hubs, and Homeland Security alert systems, they are "also capable of recording conversations," reports ABC 7.

In their press release, the company behind the street lights also denied that they had received DHS funding for the system. In the aftermath of the controversy generated last week, ABC 7 reports that owner Ron Harwood is now "working with Homeland Security" to implement the high tech network, which is connected via a ubiquitous wi-fi system.

To read more, visit:  http://www.infowars.com/federally-funded-street-lights-capable-of-recording-conversations/

GPS Shoes For Alzheimer’s Patients

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:28 AM PDT

From CBS San Francisco

Sixty percent of Alzheimer's patients will wander away from home at some point over the course of the disease. Finding them quickly is critical as the risk of death or injury goes up considerably after 24 hours.

But now there's a new device among a growing number of products designed to keep track of our wandering loved ones.

Sometimes people go looking for family members that have gotten lost going to the grocery store. In other cases the person with Alzheimer's forgets they are retired and they try to go to work. But when they leave the house, they become disoriented.
Ruth Gay, director of public policy and advocacy with the Alzheimer's Association in Northern California and Nevada said wandering can have terrible consequences.

"Wandering in fact is a very big safety issue. We do know that if people aren't found within 24 hours, the risk of death goes up substantially. They don't always know how to protect themselves from the elements or find a safe location," she said.

To read more, visit:  http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/10/30/bay-area-expert-weighs-in-on-gps-shoes-for-alzheimers-patients/

In N.H., How Important Is Tea Party Support?

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:23 AM PDT


By FRED THYS, WBUR.org

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney now leads the polling in three key early primary states in his quest to earn the Republican presidential nomination next year: Florida, South Carolina and the first-in-the-nation primary, New Hampshire.

That's despite the fact conservative Republicans are still searching for an alternative to Romney. Around the country, the Tea Party is expected to play a large role in shaping whoever is the nominee. But things are playing out differently in New Hampshire.

Every month, the Rochester 912 Project group meets at the Salmon Falls Church. The group is important enough to attract Republican House Speaker William O'Brien.

At the last meeting, O'Brien fielded a question about one of his legislative priorities — abolishing no-fault divorce in New Hampshire — from frequent attender Karen Testerman.

"Statistics show us that if you get married and stay married, that that's the biggest weapon we have against poverty. What are we doing to try and turn that around?" Testerman asked.

To read more, visit:  http://www.wbur.org/2011/11/01/tea-party-new-hampshire

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