The Straight and Narrow

Source: News With Views

The Matrix, easily the most thought-provoking film in a generation, tells the story of a computer hacker going by the alias Neo (played by Keanu Reeves) who discovers that the world he has taken for granted his entire life is an illusion. The “Matrix” is a virtual-reality simulation created by a powerful artificial intelligence. Since birth Neo has been wired directly into an immense computer system that can project a panorama of sensory information directly into his brain and central nervous system. This creates the illusion of his living in a world where by day he is Thomas A. Anderson, a programmer for a software giant. One of the working premises of the film is that the majority of human beings are born, live out their lives, and die inhabiting cocoon-like structures, plugged into this system, never suspecting the truth. Their life-experiences are fabricated, while their life-energies sustain the ruling entity.

Neo has long suspected that something is amiss without being able to put his finger on it. It was this something that drew him into hacking and into the world of computers generally. His presence became known to Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), leader of a band of rebels fighting to free the human race from bondage to the artificial intelligence. Of course, Neo’s nocturnal computer explorations have also become known to the “agents,” living programs who service the artificial intelligence. The first half-hour or so of the film is a race to see which side can get to him first.

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Source: wired.com

The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: The  nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying.

Fortunately, a judge says that relationship isn’t enough to squash a rights group’s open records request for communications between the nation’s telecoms and the feds.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation wanted to see what role telecom lobbying of the Justice Department played when the government began its year-long, and ultimately successful, push to win retroactive immunity for AT&T and others being sued for unlawfully spying on American citizens.

The feds argued that the documents showing consultation over the controversial telecom immunity proposal weren’t subject to the Freedom of Information Act since they were protected as “intra-agency” records:

“The communications between the agencies and telecommunications companies regarding the immunity provisions of the proposed legislation have been regarded as intra-agency because the government and the companies have a common interest in the defense of the pending litigation and the communications regarding the immunity provisions concerned that common interest.”

U.S. District Court Judge Jeffery White disagreed and ruled on September 24 that the feds had to release the names of the telecom employees that contacted the Justice Department and the White House to lobby for a get-out-of-court-free card.

“Here, the telecommunications companies communicated with the government to ensure that Congress would pass legislation to grant them immunity from legal liability for their participation in the surveillance,” White wrote. “Those documents are not protected from disclosure because the companies communicated with the government agencies “with their own … interests in mind,” rather than the agency’s interests.”

The feds were supposed to make the documents available Friday, but in a motion late Thursday, the Obama administration is asking for a 30-day emergency stay (.pdf) so it can file a further appeal.

Read more at the EFF’s blog.

This next piece is from a blog called What’s Happening. Pretty good newsletter that sums up what’s going on economically right now and in the near future. Check it out…

The “News” is telling us each night that the Recession is OVER.
The Government is announcing “Green Shoots”

They’re lying.

We are all being set-up for a MUCH bigger fall
Not one issue that brought us to the 2008 Economic collapse has been addressed.
In fact, most are MUCH WORSE.
The “toxic assets” remain, the derivatives problem is MANY times bigger than the ENTIRE World GDP, Commercial Real Estate hasn’t even tipped over yet, and the second round of mass-foreclosures (residential) is approaching

And the Banksters stole the TARP money without loaning it to us as promised…

They sent it overseas….

And the Fed can’t find TRILLIONS… it just… disappeared.

And China, Russia, and the rest of the World are dumping the Dollar.

But…

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Okay…  what to make of the situation in Iran?  Well first of all, I’m inclined to believe that this “uprising” was setup by the West.  I believe that the whole situation has been setup so that people here in the U.S. will think, “Awww, those poor Iranians!  They don’t have the freedom to choose their leaders!  They’re being oppressed by that regime!”  This way, with the people already thinking this, it won’t be so hard to sell the idea of invasion to “liberate” them in the way that only USA can.  I mean, look how happy the Iraqis are now that they’ve been liberated!

How much different would he make if he were the president?  I mean, the Iranian president doesn’t even have full authority!  Their “Supreme Leader” does.  The Supreme Leader can override anything the President sets in motion.  They are exactly what their title says… the Supreme Leader.

Anyway, be cautious of what you believe.  Pray for discernment!

Update:  This video illustrates what I believe is currently happening.

What would a New World Order be without its own neat little currency?  Well, looks as if we’ll be seeing a push for a global currency from our friend Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president.  Check out the piece here.