Secondly, Why does he have Campaign Signs on the Courthouse Lawn?

The insert in the picture is the man who was doing the campaigning upon the Courthouse Grounds.

I went to great lengths to try and render the insert so that the man is not readily recognizable.

The insert is only to show that he was in fact wearing an official Deputy Sheriff hat.

Comments/Answers… anyone?

The perpetrators of these crimes range from rogue elements of every level of government to corporations to private citizens.

Not since the late 70’s has a serious look been given to the increasing intrusion by the US intelligence agencies into the private lives of American citizens. A congressional hearing and investigation into these covert activities is way overdue. A gathering of engineers, doctors, authors, a psychologist, and human rights activists, to name a few are expected to speak. One of the speakers is a Missouri statehouse representative and one of the guest speakers appeared in an episode last season of Jesse Ventura’s “Conspiracy Theory” television series. The importance and prominence of this assembly of individuals signals the rise of a major issue in this country whose time has come to be addressed.

EVENT SPEAKERS: (in alphabetical order)
Chris Crowder, Mechanical Engineer
Dr. John Hall, Anesthesiologist, Author, A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America
Robert Duncan O’Finioan, former Manchurian Candidate
Rep. Jim Guest, Missouri House of Representatives
Cyndie Spanier, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Terry Robertson, Anesthesiologist
Tim White, Human Rights Activist, Telecommunications Engineer
Katherine Moore, former Vice-Mayor, Wilmington, NC
Mary Ann Stratton, Human Rights Activist
Michael Lauria, commercial airline pilot, ret.
Joan Germano, Real Estate Agent
Jo Rabjohn, Author
Brian Uram, Real Estate Agent

For more information about this unfolding story, please review the following news stories:

This is a segment from a recent History Channel documentary called “That’s Impossible” about Mind Control, which aired approx. 8/25/09. At about 5:30 into this segment, the story begins about a targeted individual, Cheryl Welsh who is a victim of modern-day mind control technologies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBQXdgQRjFc

Here is a TV news story in San Antonio, Texas about organized stalking perpetrated by covert harassment groups:

http://www.kens5.com/home/Stalked-drugged-and-raped-Is-it-happening-in-San-Antonio.html

Local TV newstory from WLKY, Louisville, KY about electronic torture victim Connie Marshall, candidate for mayor

http://www.wlky.com/politics/22317065/detail.html

Contact information:

Connie Marshall, Candidate for mayor of Louisville, Kentucky

carlenamarshall@yahoo.com

www.justiceforallcitizens.com

502-322-3449

Derrick Robinson, President
Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance

derrickcrobinson@gmail.com
www.freedomfchs.com

Salvaged from Google’s Cache.

This is the post containing the most current information.
Links have been broken until find a cache to the older pages -[@] … aka [pseudonomen]

The archive of these discussions can be found by following the links below:
Digital Television (archive 1)
Digital Television (archive 2)
Digital Television (archive 3)

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46 Responses to “Digital Television Transition, Analog, Over The Air, And FTA Discussion (Part 4)”

1. nighthawk says:

   February 7, 2009 at 9:22 pm

   Sorry about having to splice some posts together in the old DTV thread, but the software was confusing everyone and I had waited too long to archive the old page.

2. nighthawk says:

   February 15, 2009 at 7:57 pm

   If you are having trouble receiving WSAZ Digital then you have one more day before the analog signal goes black. WSAZ has decided to go full blown digital on February 17, 2009 which means many eastern Kentucky antenna viewers will no longer be able to receive the signal. I spoke with somebody in the WSAZ newsroom about this situation and although they confirmed that many were calling in very upset, the folks who makes the decision are still dead set upon turning off analog despite losing a large number of viewers. When I ask him why he didn’t do a news story about all of the viewers who were calling in to ask for more time being ignored by the management, he said “Unfortunately I’d probably lose my job if I done a story like that.” I quickly responded with “What ever happened to freedom of the press??” only to be answered with silence… prompting me to say “Hello?” to verify that he was still on the phone with me. The reporter said that he understands the frustration that this will cause many viewers, and confirmed that many other antenna viewers shared my concerns. I suppose that I may be able to reach an engineer for comment on Monday. Perhaps they will up their wattage some after going total digital. WSAZ has a good strong analog signal in this area, but digital reception seems very patchy and varies by your location.

3. TechKnomen says:

   February 15, 2009 at 10:07 pm

   yep folks that remember WVAH when it was on 23 remember how hard it was to pick up in analog. FM radio is so strong that it can create harmonics in a amplifier or tuner that is right in the 23 6mhz channel and that is where WSAZ is for the digital; What I DONT get is why they are telling everyone to rescan the tuners after the analog shutdown IF you are not getting the digital signal now you will not get it after rescanning either UNLESS they are going back to channel 3 or just want folks to get the old channel 3 off their tuner memory. I get DIGITAL signals on stations that I can not get the analog for right now, like 65 WLJC had never come in on “65? but it comes in pretty reliable in Southern Rowan Co. on DTV7, same with 53 but less reliable. The other Huntington UHF digitals are less easy to pic up than WSAZ like ION (39 same as WLEX and I have yet to get 17DTV which is the 30from Portsmouth 7 on cable) Confused yet?

4. TechKnomen says:

   February 16, 2009 at 12:17 am

   Also any distribution amp can get a local FM signal in it. A cheep spectrum analyzer substitute is to use a hyper scan scanner radio in narrow band FM and step through the channel after hooking up the antenna to the output of the distribution amp to see if you can hear a FM station program on the wrong frequency in the Channel 23 bandwith Or channel 24 for pikeville KETDT Of course alot of cheep amplified rabbit ears do not have FM traps so some folks may have problems with ION DT on 21(67) as it is susceptible too.

5. nighthawk says:

   February 16, 2009 at 2:49 am

   Confused isn’t the word for it… I remember the TV-23 WVAH “Make the turn for the best” slogan and ironically this seems to be the case with Channel 67 (digital 21), I have to turn the antenna around backwards (away from) the transmitter tower to receive ION… Don’t understand why… Not pointed toward anything that would reflect the signal — just pointed into an open field. I would think the reflector beams would reject the signal? ? Maybe the signal is too strong? or ghosting (reflection) when I point to ION causing the converter box to reject the signal? ?

6. TechKnomen says:

   February 18, 2009 at 9:03 pm

   The “cartoon” is funny by the way, I still cant figger out how to hack these DTV boxes to get the movie channel free? The headline on the Hurld Liberal was misleading if interesting? Concerning the shutoff of TVQ 36, Theirs is likely the easiest DTV signal to get as there is no co-channel to deal with (unlike WLEX that has to compete with at least one other DTV on 39 RF channel, out of WVA (ION net. station) Wkyt requires a different type of antenna than the “Lexington” antenna so many call the 4 to 8bay UHF’s that are so common. “Little Pain for the DTV transition” or something like that is the headline. TVQ says they fielded 250calls of folks having problems or complaints. WELL TVQ also was beat out in their own market by WYMT that is in HAZARD in the ratings game so I do think the jury is still out on how much “pain” is really going to be felt from folks giving up on antenna TV and getting a subscription service or just watching what they can get from KET/ION/ or what ever is not going MM Max ax ax Hea Head Roo Room studder digital “cliff effect” as they moved their feet on the footstool.

7. Required Volutary Compliance says:

   March 21, 2009 at 7:49 pm

   watched WKRC 12.1 12.2 12.3 again the other morning as I noticed the analog signals skipping in so I scanned and found 12.1 and 44.1 ANOTHER reason to flip over to analog often to notice the skip interference with the lower 2 to 27 channels, when you see skip way up on 27 that is some serious Ionospheric skip Ususally occurs around the equinoxes

8. nighthawk says:

   March 24, 2009 at 7:39 am

   Well I have been sticking to local (Morehead) broadcasts lately. A list of the digital channels would be useful here for the times when I can find the time to program new channels into the stb. The thing deprograms itself sometimes after hitting what it thinks is a black channel and rescanning causes me to lose those stations that I am not pointed towards. This is probably happening to others too. So if anybody has a copy and paste list ready, please copy & paste.

9. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

   March 26, 2009 at 11:31 am

   AREA Possible, not always probable DTV OTA channels include (but not limited to) “RF” CHANNELS TO SCAN: (some may change by june) NORTH/NW (out of DMA market) Portsmouth 17(weak) 43 stronger OSU PTV Cincinatti 31 (12) (skips in) 33 (64 WSTR) 35 (WLWT 5) 29 (WXIX 19 interfererce from 29analog Charlston) 10 (WCPO local 10 interference in Rowan possible) North East/WVA 23 (wsaz) 19 WVAH (wxix analog cochannel possible til june?) 47 (wowk 13) 41 (wchs skip interference? from 41 WHIO- 7 Dayton West (Lexington DMA Market) 42 (Ket WKLE) 39 WLEX co-channel from ION 29/39 Charleston 40 WTVQ only on DTV now 13 WKYT (on Analog 27 “accident” took out 13 WOWK?) 4 (set to change to 30? 46? WDKY 56analog) East or SE 22 KET Pikeville 12 WYMT/WKYT (57 off) Hazard 21 ION 67 (frenchburg) 15 WKMR-38 7 WLJC Beattyville (did have some possible interference from Local 7 IF receivable in the first place) mapped, aiming directions look like a asterisk almost *in five or six general directions but just a tweek of 1/4inch on the rotation will lose some signals; most of these signals are only gonna come in during unusual skip conditions at dawn or dusk fall and spring. UNLESS you are up on a flat or open ridge with a very deep fringe antenna with low noise booster and some basic filters; FM trap and such, or there is a open gap in the hills in the direction you are aiming. Analog signals still on the air can give hints of when to scan for skip ins or signals in general direction of a analog skip provide aiming clues for the DTV. Nothing in the consumer market I have tried has a fast signal meter built in to use for aiming (YET) Reflected signals, local interferences, good antenna…all major factors, duh.

10. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    March 26, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    took me 3 times to post that (over an hour phew)

11. nighthawk says:

    April 8, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    Thank You for that channel list. It takes the confusion of wondering what channel that channels 3, 13, 18, 27, etc… are on. Now that I’m about to upgrade my antenna, I need to find a low loss a-b switch (or make one) to allow analog pass through. I had stripped the guts out of a splitter and rewired it with minimal signal loss but it still effects the digital signals a little bit. Maybe If I put some diodes inline it will prevent back-feed from the analog tuner disrupting the digital?

12. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    April 8, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    well there are those quick disconnect ends you can get that thread in to regular F connectors, I saw some at a “dollar” store a while back or the usual more expensive places. You could just put one of those on as a temp solution BUT a better solution would be to eliminate high loss of the “balun”/matching transformer with a “booster” at the antenna and then you would have enough signal to split it without loss? To see if a analog tuner is causing some sort of reflected signal switch channels on it if on a seperate TV and see if the signal “tiles” out. My washing machiene is the worst culpret right now it has a spike of EMF that locks up the picture as it goes through cycles. OF course neighbors cars that need better sparkplug wires are not good either; Most of that is momentary stuff.

13. MICHAELforTV10 says:

    May 4, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Has to be moderated?

14. MICHAELforTV10 says:

    May 4, 2009 at 11:30 am

    THANKS for the Calls in to the Cable Co. (I’ve been told there are some Antenna viewers on here dealing with the DTV stuff funny cartoon BTW) We are back on, supposely some glitch from Richmond lock us and TV Guide channel up since aobut 12:47am Sunday/Monday. Should be on Tonight as per ususal 7-8pm with ALL CALLS see tv10morehead dot com THANKS again for all the calls to the Richmond Customer Service number for Time Warner.

15. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    June 3, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    I noticed a little improvement in my reception of DTV channel 7 out of Beattville since analog channel 7 out of Morehead has been off BUT I am south 9+miles towards beattyville AND my yagi all band antenna is pointed towards TV-10 so I am getting channel 7 off the back side. I Seriously doubt anyone that can reliably pick up WCPO channel 10digital has ANY interferance problems from Analog 10 LPTV in Morehead. The yagis look pointed at Owingsville and South in a “>” direction looking at the tower aabove city park. I know a guy with a attic antenna that watches out past Park Hills. So WCPO must not be knocking TV-10 out much either. I Sure will miss analog signals, when my DTV starts that cliff effect on WLEX it is nice to be able to switch over to analog and continue watching.

16. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    June 3, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    Just SO you know WSAZ ANALOG 3 HAS STILL BEEN ON all this time running their news but all other programming is the DTV ANSWERS shows; ALL “Full Power” analog signals left on the air will be shut off as of June 16th with the exception of some signals like WSAZ has been putting out on how to hook up the converter boxes; Radio Shack is the only place advertising a converter with analog pass thru. All tuners in TVs and VCRs that I have tried still scan for analog signals when doing a signal scan so you can use them to pick up LPTV signals (or in some locations further south, Mexico Analogs will still be receivable for some time)

17. [the artist formerly known as pseudonomen] says:

    June 14, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    This is a little off topic, but hoping that TechKnomen or Required Voluntary Compliance can help. I have a couple of different brands of DVD players that play some DVDs fine but others have a darkened snowy pictures during segments of the movie. The older DVDs which contain collections of movies (which I think are public domain) play fine and some later releases play good too. Problem is that some movies will play the sound fine, but the picture will have colorful tracer bullets all through the movie and the picture will darken to unwatchable levels. Any suggestions or ideas? I have heard of a type of external equipment that might correct the video problems but don’t know what it’s called, where to find one, or what it even costs (probably over my budget anyways).

18. [the artist formerly known as pseudonomen] says:

    June 14, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    Is there any truth behind the 700mhz channels being the only (TV) frequencies auctioned and/or reallocated to public safety, etc.?

19. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    June 16, 2009 at 11:32 am

    I tried to post a response but it didn’t go up and the browser lost it so I gave up

20. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    June 16, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    GOOD ! “FCC chairman Michael Copps experienced this problem personally”: DTV reception remains a concern Jun 15, 2009 11:22 AM, By Michael Grotticelli Digital television may be a new technology, but a distinctly unmodern aspect of the transition is the antenna. It dates back 60 years and — in this age of pay television — had been relegated to a cultural artifact by many viewers. Now, with on-air viewers facing bleak reality, the antenna problem has become very real. There’s no getting around it. To receive digital television signals for free, many viewers will need a good antenna capable of receiving channels 2 through 51. Because of the digital cliff effect, it’s no longer good enough to create a makeshift antenna that can suffer through reception artifacts. With DTV, you’ll either get a signal, or nothing. In some cases, rabbit ears will work. However, more often than not, it will take a rooftop, rotor-controlled antenna that can be aimed at stations to get reliable coverage. Because more stations moved to the UHF frequencies — channels 14 through 51 — antennas will need to be equipped to pick up those signals. It could be a bow tie, a loop or some other antenna technology. And, of course, this is in addition to the VHF channels residing on channels 2 through 13. Most American TV viewers now receive signals via cable, so antennas are not necessary. But viewers who do not subscribe to pay television services and have analog television sets will need to have digital-to-analog converter boxes — and a good antenna — attached to their televisions in order to continue receiving over-the-air television programming. If the viewer didn’t know that, they got a reality check over the last weekend. It should also be noted that converter boxes are not simple plug-and-play devices. The box has to scan or auto tune signals first and then every few weeks to pick up every available channel. This is necessary because some stations are moving to a different frequency as part of the transition. Scanning of the converter boxes has been very confusing to many viewers and has resulted in the largest number of calls to various hotlines. The same procedure must be done with digital TV sets. “The emphasis now is on scanning and rescanning converter boxes and telling consumers to adjust antennas,” said Julius Knapp, chief of the Office of Engineering Technology at the FCC, during a recent agency meeting about the transition. Knapp said viewers should make sure they are using an antenna that can receive both UHF and VHF signals and check the FCC’s mapping tool at http://www.dtv.gov for signal coverage in their area. “We’re seeing a wide variation in the performance of different antennas,” he noted. Every U.S. household can order up to two $40 coupons to offset the cost of converter boxes, which typically cost $50 to $80 each. The coupons take about 10 days to arrive. If you waited until the last minute, many discounted boxes are available from eBay or Craigslist. Another dirty little secret about the DTV transition is that some viewers will completely lose a few channels — antenna or not. With analog signals, even viewers on the fringe of a station’s coverage area were able to receive an imperfect picture. Interference with the signals — tall trees or bad weather — would cause the screen to get noisier, but the picture would remain. A new generation of indoor antennas might be enough to receive a DTV signal. A new generation of indoor antennas might be enough to receive a DTV signal. Digital signals, however, are different. They only extend about 40 miles from the station’s transmitting antenna and are more susceptible to multipath interference caused by tall trees or buildings. Even a small obstruction of the signal will cause a TV set’s picture to freeze, pixilate or disappear completely. For this reason, expect some familiar stations to disappear completely. FCC acting chairman Michael Copps experienced this problem personally. When Copps upgraded his TV set for digital reception in February, he at first got an excellent picture. But now that the leaves have grown back on the trees surrounding his house, he is getting interference. Of course, a good TV antenna costs money, which the government is not willing to subsidize. Also, professional installations are expensive (about $250), and many viewers are too old or lazy to do a rooftop installation themselves. And the cost couldn’t come at a worse time in this sour economy. Cable and satellite providers know about this cost and are standing by, ready to offer basic TV service in many cases for as little as $10 a year. This lure is considerably cheaper than the antenna for “free” TV. However, a recent survey sponsored by transmitter manufacturer Harris Broadcast states that of more than 1000 consumers queried, more than half said they are somewhat or very likely to switch to antennas to receive free, over-the-air HDTV signals, versus subscribing to cable or satellite subscriptions. In addition, Antennas Direct, a provider of TV antennas for consumers, reported a 224 percent increase in sales for the first quarter of 2009. More than 4.4 million TV antennas were sold in the United States in 2008, up 48 percent from the previous year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. The number of viewers who lost TV signals last week is not fully known and probably won’t be for a few more weeks. However, Nielsen predicted about 3.1 million homes — or 2.7 percent of U.S. households — were still not ready for the transition at the time of the analog shutdown. We’ll soon find out.

21. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    June 16, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    As this article from Broadcast Techknowlegy hints at TV will be on channels 2 through 51 at least for now. Some areas might have “White Space” that is opened up for other services but these will be going thru the TV transmitters unused portion of their “bandwidth”, kinda like KET’s Datacasting service if you have heard of that.

22. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    July 15, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    (just got this RFID email and responded: I read a very similar article on this RFID skeme, it is just not plausible since there are no consistent blank channels across the country in the DTV band(s) and RFID already has alloted frequencies: 13.56Mhz 125to148Mhz, 915mhz, &2.45Ghz(802 11b) . In Lexington for instance channel 18 was abandoned along with 27 and 36 and 56 (channel 62 is still on) but the abandoned channels in Huntington are 3, 8, 11 & 13, WKYT took 13 in Lexington for their DTV. SO, to implement some “New” chip tracking scanner channels would be inconsistant from one market to the next. Unless, there is some auction of the upper bands that has not been scheduled 700mhz? Channels 52-62? As in Lexington there are still a few LPTV stations out there not digital yet and the conpiracy against them is in full tilt since most of the set top boxes did not pass the analog signal on to TVs as promised, the CBA/community broadcasters association, has been entertaining legal action. ONE of the excuses/uses for “white space” was to be for “first responders” two way radio signals to be allocated channels in the TV band(s) that would allow the fire, police, rescue, forrest service and others to have a common channel when needed, but this would take up a very small bandwidth in any given market and the Freq./channel would be varied as it is now for these radios; The upper channels folks may remember from the old dial TV’s are already gone and soon channels from 52 to 69 will be or up for auction (70-83 UHF have been gone for a number of years for phones and such.) Wireless or mobile TV is one service that might buy auctioned off channels. There was some talk of eliminating channels 2 thru 6 but FCC and industry types seem to think no one wants to buy those channels and some of the TV stations on them do not want to leave. Channel 6 is just below the FM band and many radios can pick up LPTV station’s audio at 87.75fm, in bigger markets some LPTV essentially just uses it as a radio station and plays slides of pictures of the area for the video. (I have thought of doing that) WDKY Fox 56 was on channel 4 on antenna until the switchover and then went to a UHF channel like 34 or something, I have never picked it up, but others did over here, WDKY claimed there was too much interference from AC electric lines and car ignitions and such so they applied for theUHF channel. Most “Passive” RFID has a very limited range of inches to a few feet, some battery powered “Active Tags” for toll booths and such can be read reliably up to a mile with special equipment that is not commercially available. SO a hugh infrastructure of readers would need to be placed around the country (a billion?) to be able to track people using RFID type devices, CELL phones offer the best possiblility, if new models were to include a reader, then folks that pass close enough to a cell phone and have a RFID tag in there watch or breast implant or shoes could conceivably be scanned and their location transmitted via the cell phone but the tag in purchased merchandise would have to be linked to that person via a credit card or ID card used at the time of purchase and this data included in some data base of all purchases made, possible but highly unlikely, Canada for instance Abandoned its gun registration database after the cost overruns went up TEN TIMES the original allocatoin of 100million bucks and that was just to register all the serial numbers and location of firearms in Canada. I am not worried about RFID as a replacement to the UPC barcode anytime soon. Chips in a mandated ID card and the Passports are not fool proof, have been cloned and scanned as people walk down the street already demonstrated. The can probably be jammed or dug out of the document. Putting Chips in “paper money” seems more likely, when you get cash at a ATM the thing assigns the scrip chip to your ID and then a register could report purchases made with that scrip but It will not know if you gave that cash to someone else that used it. I have found what I think to be a flec of pepper sized “mU chip” in a 50 Fed Reserve Note. I have no way of knowing without a scanner, and they are not in every 50 as I have looked at a lot of them over the last 4yrs since a Atlanta Journal Constition article suggested the Bureau of Ingraving and Printing and Fed might be experimenting with RFID, the Euro scrip has openly admitted to using RFID in the paper “notes”. — On Tue, 7/14/09, l@netzero. wrote: Subject: Analog Bandwidth utilized for “other purposes”.. now we know “WHY”~! To: Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 7:57 PM Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips Posted by sakerfa on July 12, 2009 According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and products throughout the world. So while the American people, especially those in Texas and other busy border states, have been inundated lately with news reports advising them to hurry and get their expensive passports, “enhanced driver’s licenses,” passport cards and other “chipped” or otherwise trackable identification devices that they are being forced to own, this digital television/RFID connection has been hidden, according to Patrick Redmond. Redmond, a Canadian, held a variety of jobs at IBM before retiring, including working in the company’s Toronto lab from 1992 to 2007, then in sales support. He has given talks, written a book and produced a DVD on the aggressive, growing use of passive, semi-passive and active RFID chips (Radio Frequency Identification Devices) implanted in new clothing, in items such as Gillette Fusion blades, and in countless other products that become one’s personal belongings. These RFID chips, many of which are as small, or smaller, than the tip of a sharp pencil, also are embedded in all new U.S. passports, some medical cards, a growing number of credit and debit cards and so on. More than two billion of them were sold in 2007. Whether active, semi-passive or passive, these “transponder chips,” as they’re sometimes called, can be accessed or activated with “readers” that can pick up the unique signal given off by each chip and glean information from it on the identity and whereabouts of the product or person, depending on design and circumstances, as Redmond explained in a little-publicized lecture in Canada last year. AFP just obtained a DVD of his talk. Noted “Spychips” expert, author and radio host Katherine Albrecht told AMERICAN FREE PRESS that while she’s not totally sure whether there is a rock-solid RFID-DTV link, “The purpose of the switch [to digital] was to free up bandwidth. It’s a pretty wide band, so freeing that up creates a huge swath of frequencies.” As is generally known, the active chips have an internal power source and antenna; these particular chips emit a constant signal. “This allows the tag to send signals back to the reader, so if I have a RFID chip on me and it has a battery, I can just send a signal to a reader wherever it is,” Redmond stated in the recent lecture, given to the Catholic patriot group known as the Pilgrims of Saint Michael, which also is known for advocating social credit, a dramatic monetary reform plan to end the practice of national governments bringing money into existence by borrowing it, with interest, from private central banks. The group’s publication The Michael Journal advocates having national governments create their own money interest-free. It also covers the RFID issue. “The increased use of RFID chips is going to require the increased use of the UBF [UHF] spectrum,” Redmond said, hitting on his essential point that TV is going digital for a much different reason than the average person assumes, “They are going to stop using the [UHF] and VHF frequencies in 2009. Everything is going to go digital (in the U.S.). Canada is going to do the same thing.” Explaining the unsettling crux of the matter, he continued: “The reason they are doing this is that the [UHF-VHF] analog frequencies are being used for the chips. They do not want to overload the chips with television signals, so the chips’ signals are going to be taking those [analog] frequencies. They plan to sell the frequencies to private companies and other groups who will use them to monitor the chips.” Albrecht responded to that quote only by saying that it sounds plausible, since she knows some chips will indeed operate in the UHF-VHF ranges. “Well over a million pets have been chipped,” Redmond said, adding that all 31,000 police officers in London have in some manner been chipped as well, much to the consternation of some who want that morning donut without being tracked. London also can link a RFID chip in a public transportation pass with the customer’s name. “Where is John Smith? Oh, he is on subway car 32,” Redmond said. He added that chips for following automobile drivers – while the concept is being fought by several states in the U.S. which do not want nationalized, trackable driver’s licenses (Real ID ) – is apparently a slam dunk in Canada, where license plates have quietly been chipped. Such identification tags can contain work history, education, religion, ethnicity, reproductive history and much more. Farm animals are increasingly being chipped; furthermore, “Some 800 hospitals in the U.S. are now chipping their patients; you can turn it down, but it’s available,” he said, adding: “Four hospitals in Puerto Rico have put them in the arms of Alzheimer’s patients, and it only costs about $200 per person.” VeriChip, a major chip maker (the devices sometimes also are called Spychips) describes its product on its website: “About twice the length of a grain of rice, the device is typically implanted above the triceps area of an individual’s right arm. Once scanned at the proper frequency, the VeriChip responds with a unique 16 digit number which could be then linked with information about the user held on a database for identity verification, medical records access and other uses. The insertion procedure is performed under local anesthetic in a physician’s office and once inserted, is invisible to the naked eye. As an implanted device used for identification by a third party, it has generated controversy and debate.” The circles will keep widening, Redmond predicts. Chipping children “to be able to protect them,” Redmond said, “is being promoted in the media.” After that, he believes it will come to: chip the military, chip welfare cheats, chip criminals, chip workers who are goofing off, chip pensioners – and then chip everyone else under whatever rationale is cited by government and highly-protected corporations that stand to make billions of dollars from this technology. Meanwhile, the concept is marketed by a corporate media that, far from being a watchdog of the surveillance state, is part of it, much like the media give free publicity to human vaccination programs without critical analysis on possible dangers and side effects of the vaccines. “That’s the first time I have heard of it,” a Federal Communications Commission official claimed, when AFP asked him about the RFID-DTV issue on June 2. Preferring anonymity, he added: “I am not at all aware of that being a cause (of going to DTV).” “Nigel Gilbert of the Royal Academy of Engineering said that by 2011 you should be able to go on Google and find out where someone is at anytime from chips on clothing, in cars, in cellphones and inside many people themselves,” Redmond also said. To read Redmond’s full lecture, go to this online link: Full Lecture – Click Here http://dprogram.net/2009/07/12/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid-chips/

23. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    August 4, 2009 at 11:33 pm

    You do not have to split the signal, VCRs will pass all the signals for you, plug in the antenna to the VCR s and take the “out to TV” RF jumper into the DTV Tuner. Then you can take the video and audio from the tuner in to the aux jack. You do have to be careful with the VCR/TV button. as that will cut off the signal passed to the tuner. More later maybe ther eare more than several ways to skin a cat LOL

24. pseudonomen says:

    August 6, 2009 at 2:47 am

    Good suggestion there… Using the VCR for analog pass through. I will share that information with some folks out on the ridge who have been having trouble watching “Buy A Hog – Sell A Dog” ever since they hooked the converter up. Still having trouble watching newer DVDs and VHS Videos. They fade in and out. Parts too dark to see. Excessive screen trash (snow) at times. This doesn’t occur on all videos, but does with many of the “Box Office Smashes” or “Anniversary Editions”. Any suggestion for a cure for this problem would be greatly appreciated.

25. Required Voluntary COmpliance says:

    August 6, 2009 at 11:12 am

    If you have a old CRT Tube tv (or even a old flat panel with no digit tuner) that has no inputs but you have a VCR (EVEN if it does not play tapes) you can use this tuner trick as it is sorta a amplified splitter. | | | ****** | | | (antenna ) \ \RF IN Video out — VCR –video–in–\ | | | | | | | RF in DTV Box_ Box Video Jacks (and audio) | | Back into VCR input | RF to 2nd TV? | Video In Jacks on TV (play a tape to see if video is pasing to TV you should see the menu for the DTV box on the TV when selecting “AV in” or “input” or “00? on some models AND the DTV box power is on. You could split the RF out of the VCR send half to the TV and half to the DTV tuner but you will lose some signal level (and maybe reception) of DTV channels that are already at the threshold. (Not KET or ION in most cases it will be long distance) The VCR input jacks can be used to plug in a DVD player as well (using a switch) *((that is where you get the fade in a out problem since there is copy protection in the AGC/vertical interval that affects the VCR record ability)). A higher end VCR with built in TBC (Time Base Corrector) will allow these to be copied too! (EBAY Panasonic model 1960 1970 1980 and other brands) Some “video processors” used to be sold where you could gain up or adust the video between VCRs and copy tapes, this might work for DVDs but Id say the picture will not be Ideal, it just will not fade as bad?

26. Required Voluntary COmpliance says:

    August 6, 2009 at 11:15 am

    well that diagram did not post correctly I thought I had made a diagram like that in the past?

27. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    August 7, 2009 at 11:16 am

    Net and phones Documented ripoff; micro-history of Verizon, SBC, Qwest, and BellSouth’s (the Bell companies) fiber optic broadband promises and the consequence harms to America’s economic growth because they never delivered and kept most of the money, about $200 billion. New York: This is one of the largest scandals in American history. America is 16th in the world in broadband and the US DSL current offerings are 100 times slower than other countries such has Japan and Korea. How did we go from Number 1 in the web to 16th in broadband and falling? * Are customers owed $2000 for a fiber optic service they paid for but never received? Did towns and cities, libraries and schools, government agencies, and every residential and business customer subsidize new networks that never showed up? * Did America lose $5 trillion in economic growth,$500 billion annually, because of these missing networks? Broadband Scandals is a well-documented expose, 406 pages and 528 footnotes. Using the phone companies’ own words (and well as other sources), the book outlines a massive nationwide scandal that affects every aspect of state of the Internet. Not only the web but broadband, municipalities laying fiber or building wifi networks, not to mention related issues such as such as VOIP, cable services, the cost of local phone service, net neutrality, the new digital divide, and even America’s economic growth. The fiber optic infrastructure you paid for was never delivered. http://www.tispa.org/node/14 Congress and the FCC allowed certain OUTRAGOUS gouge rates for services like Caller ID and call forwarding and such on the promises to build fiber networks out to the homes and businesses that all need this. Still using dial up 10miles from town and the STUPOR INFO HIWAY?

28. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    August 7, 2009 at 11:18 am

    Shutdown of web and other communications in the works? If “someone” is practicing how to paralyze the social networks (just one day after the US Marines blocked them from their own networks, I might add) then something big is about to happen and shutting down non-governmental forms of mass communication will be part of it. http://www.startribune.com/business/52582807.html? Whether man caused or natural our communications methods are subject to major interruptions from solar magnetic storms or hackers

29. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    August 7, 2009 at 11:24 am

    We should probably have several alternative communications modes available, FRS radios CB Ham, shortwave, micro FM, FTA satellite, and the associated power supplies like solar chargers or wind turbines, rechargeable batteries. Set times to broadcast on Top of each hour for 2minutes? IF no one is out there it would be of little use unless you are long range like ham or illegal CB amplifiers. SOME GMRS FRS radios can go over 10miles supposedly. A 12volt car battery can power many police scanners. Unprepared Neighbors would find this valuable enough to trade something just to listen to or for the information?

30. nighthawk says:

    August 7, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    GMRS (base & mobile 50W units) & HAM (AM) 28-29 Megs would be good. CB would be OK but “High Traffic”, so you’d have to run illegal amplifiers in an emergency—but locals might get jammed by certain folks who think they own all 40 channels? The 50W GMRS units are a little harder to get a hold of but IF you are in “line of sight” (antenna to antenna) would be reliable to some extent. Most (not all) Ham Operators recognize emergency communications as “authorized transmissions”, So… the 28-29Mhz band would be handy for distance. IF you have a FRN then your “legal” anyway I suppose, as the FCC hasn’t been sending renewal forms for a few years now (or it appears so).

31. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    August 17, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    How many national emergencies are we and have we been under since the 1933 Banking emergency? As I understand it there is a section of the FCC code from the height of the cold war like 1956 that says no license is required during a national emergency declared or undeclaired and as such no license is required so that if you have the equipment you might go ahead and use it or at least test it and make it ready for use. Obviously if you are on air traffic freq.s or military channels you are gonna invite a confrontation and Ham’s might report you if you have spurious emissions into harmonics off the channel you are putting out a call on, I have heard that “Channeled CB’s can be out of band to the point of getting into Military or aircraft channels so that is unwise anyway since many do not have the illegal extra channels.

32. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    August 25, 2009 at 1:15 am

    Couple of corrections I noticed Charleston is Northeast not NW I have heard that skip is brining in some channels for folks that are playing around with the antenna aimings HAVE FUN… AREA Possible, not always probable DTV OTA channels include (but not limited to) “RF” CHANNELS TO SCAN: (some may change) NORTH/N East (out of DMA market) Portsmouth 17(weak) 43 stronger OSU PTV Cincinatti 31 (12) (skips in) 33 (64 WSTR) 35 (WLWT 5) 29 (WXIX 19 interfererce from 29analog Charlston) 10 (WCPO local 10 interference in Rowan possible) North East/WVA 23 (wsaz) 19 WVAH (wxix analog cochannel possible til june?) 47 (wowk 13) 41 (wchs skip interference? from 41 WHIO- 7 Dayton West (Lexington DMA Market) 42 (Ket WKLE) 39 WLEX co-channel from ION 29/39 Charleston 40 WTVQ only on DTV now 13 WKYT (on Analog 27 “accident” took out 13 WOWK?) 4 (set to change to 30? 46? WDKY 56analog) East or SE 22 KET Pikeville 12 WYMT/WKYT (57 off) Hazard 21 ION 67 (frenchburg) 15 WKMR-38 7 WLJC Beattyville mapped, aiming directions look like a asterisk almost *in five or six general directions but just a tweek of 1/4inch on the rotation will lose some signals; most of these signals are only gonna come in during unusual skip conditions at dawn or dusk fall and spring. UNLESS you are up on a flat or open ridge with a very deep fringe antenna with low noise booster and some basic filters; FM trap and such, or there is a open gap in the hills in the direction you are aiming. . Nothing in the consumer market I have tried has a fast signal meter built in to use for aiming (YET) Reflected signals, local interferences, good antenna…all major factors, duh.

33. nighthawk says:

    September 18, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Permalinks to the archives changed. Too much coding for me to fool with fixing them. / thread as links from google are now useless.

34. nighthawk says:

    September 18, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    Moving some stuff out of UNCAT Category and older archive of this thread currently appearing on front page.

35. Kat says:

    September 18, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    Nighthawk, Dave said ’someone’ had gone in and messed up the codes and that’s why it wasn’t working. He has it fixed now.

36. nighthawk says:

    September 18, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    I mean the permalinks have been changed Kat & Dave. Instead of permalinks like: RowanReview.com/KATS-SCANNER-SCOOP-FRI-SUN-SEPT-18-20/ the permalinks are like: rowanreview.com/?p=2272 and it isn’t back-compatible with the old system of permalinks. So clicking on one of the old links takes you to the front page. Scroll up to the top of this page and click on one of the “Archive” links for a live example. Could be the only way of fixing the problem, but will require A Lot of work repairing the now dead links. Not really complaining, just explaining why the links up top of this page takes you back to the front page. (Some folks might think the archives have been deleted) At least the newer articles will work right. I’ll eventually find time to go in and fix some of the now broken links, but for the meanwhile I just tried to get all the archived pages into the same categories. That way people who want to find them can find them. Now who could have broken in to the MAIN Admin Panel? Maybe the result of upgrading the software… hummm… I didn’t check the dashboard to see if the software has been updated. Update: I just checked and the software has been updated. This could have been the cause of the problem: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

37. [pseudonomen] says:

    November 19, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    FOX 56 is on 31 now. Is KYT 27 still on 12? Thinking about letting the box sit on channel 12 to see if 27 will skip in while I am watching the local programs this evening. Don’t exactly want to rescan right now.

38. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    November 20, 2009 at 12:43 am

    WKYT is on 13 as the RF channel they are the 57.2 channel on 12(RF) out of Hazard. You need a long All band VHF UHF yagi to bring in 12 or 13 and a FM trap if you are within 10 miles of Morehead or Owings ville or Westliberty as there are about 3 to 5 FM stations per town in those locations and especially if you have a pre-amp or amplified rabbit ears antenna the harmonics in the amp will potentially fuzz out the signal for a lot of locations. If you are triing to pic up anything in the upper band of VHF from 7 (beattyville) to 13 Lexington gennerally only need to pull out the smallest 2 sections of a rabbit ear dipole to tune it to the upper band VHF frequencies, I noticed this several years ago on local analog on unamped rabbitears it lessoned the wavy gravy from the FM without a trap. Of course with 8Vsb DTV you cannot SEE this effect on the picture or even on a fast signal meter since most of them just indicate the pilot signal on the particular channel you are scanning for and not a signal quality like many satellite FTA boxes do.

39. [pseudonomen] says:

    November 20, 2009 at 1:53 am

    Well I’ll try 13.X tomorrow to see if it will change to 13.1>>27.1 at any time while I’m out during the day. 27 scanned in back a year and a half or so ago but can’t get it now and haven’t for quite some time. Might try shortening the VHF beams on a junk antenna or play with some similar size (copper line?) until I get a good signal and take measurements, then try cutting the antenna itself. Just looking for some of the old shows on 27.2 but channel 10 has some good older shows too.

40. Knopp says:

    November 28, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    I had a tough time trying to find the a plasma hdtv but I finally found it and bought it online from http://astore.amazon.com/50-inch-lg-hdtv-for-sale-20

41. nighthawk says:

    December 1, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    I suppose that I am going to be FORCED TO SUBSCRIBE TO CABLE or DISH. I guess that’s what OTA is all about huh? Only a tease “sneak peak” of television broadcasting. Well, why in the hell don’t they just call it cablecasting? There is a radio station that interferes with everything I own. Computer, TV, Shortwave, etc… Name any device right down to my lightbulbs flickering to the beat of the music.

42. nighthawk says:

    December 1, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Me hopes that radio is forced to transition over to a crummy digital system that is so narrow banded that a lawnmower will take them out. I hope radio is forced into a digital system so crummy and crappy that they have to lower their power and modulation to keep from canceling themselves out.

43. nighthawk says:

    December 1, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    I’m lucky to get what little bit of television that I do get. Something is WRONG when KET is being taken out by a certain (group of?) Radio Station(s).

44. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    December 1, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    Well sorry you have such trouble even getting KET, I would try a couple of FM traps between the antenna and any amp devices, if the amp has a FM trap switch it IN and see if you can see any difference in local analog OTA channel 10, the ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wavy gravy should increase as you switch the FM trap out. One FM trap from the Shaq is about 4bucks last I checked but online they are cheaper and might be better so as to not notch out any channel 6 or 5 signal you might be getting skipping in or in the future. (channel 6 audio sub carrier in analog is 87.75Mhz and there is no digital 8vsb allowed on 6 that I have found. FCC has been triing to get rid of low band VHF but some will not budge off of it even with interference problems from AC electric lines and such. All fittings must be good humidity proof so the shield is always making a good ground (or shield if there is DC voltage going up to a pre-amp at the antenna.) I used to have a R.S pre amp with adjustable gain and I could see a analog 38 bleed into 36 as a ghost image as I turned up the gain and eventually wavvy gravvy from the FM stations as the gain was turned up even with the internal FM and a FM trap in line. SO there is a limit to certain amps gain level a inline pot to drop the voltage might help if you are using a non-adjustable power supply. You might find that sweet spot of max gain and least harmonics that will allow the 12.x and 13.x signals to scan in? The 8bay dipole is the best consumer antenna for UHF and two might have to be stacked for enough gain for our deep Fringe area for reliable signals from WV or Lexington I do not know anything for car ignitions except a Christmas present to the offending neighbor of new suppression wires and or plugs?

45. Required Voluntary Compliance says:

    December 1, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    Radio Shack is the only place advertising a converter with analog pass thru. A solution for those without a pass-through Set top box STB is to run the video from the STB back into a VCR input jacks first connect the antenna into the VCR and then the out put of the VCR F connection that says “TO TV” into the antenna connection on the STB DTV box remember that when the VCR tv button is pressed it cuts off the signal to the STB. You can now watch local 10 if you have enough signal that it does not go to blue screen (some VCRs allow this to be turned off in the menu) and then for the DTV signals you go to “input” or video or AV1 or 0-0 or which ever enables the VCR inputs. the signal from the VCR VIDEO outputs is fed into a TV and you have your local LPTV and DTV without a pass through box and without signal loss of a splitter and you can record the DTV or LPTV signals on the VCR/DVDr as long as you remember the VCR/TV button will cut off the signal to the DTV box.

46. nighthawk says:

    December 1, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    Local 10 is the only dependable station that I can get. Really don’t need any more I guess. They have a good lineup. I have to switch from horizontal to vertical antenna at times, but I know that I can most always pull in Local 10 — no matter how hard the radio stations are blasting me. It just got under my skin a while ago as I was watching and had to adjust the radio station out of the signal. The antenna is a part of the tuner on my old televisions, adjust the antenna, then fine tune with the knob. Don’t I have some dinosaurs in service here? It is all I understand and am able to relate to though. Maybe the Bellamy Brothers will write a song about me some day.

By Kat • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Events, Opinions and Editorials, Site Stuff

Sorry to be sending this message so close to Christmas, but we at STAR deal with this more than we would like. Our pound is FULL and when that happens the powers that be state that any dog or puppy that has been there over 10 days is to be put down. STAR NEEDS foster homes immediately to keep that from happening.

Fostering is easy. You provide food, shelter and some attention for a dog or puppy for a period of time while we arrange transport to a rescue. Very easy and it makes a huge difference in the lives of these dogs/puppies that would otherwise be put down, because some jackass didn’t want to do the responsible thing and spay/neuter or just generally take care of a living being that depends completely upon human beings for their well being. (And we are supposed to be the evovled race)

We will be pulling as many dogs as we have foster homes for this weekend as according to our calendar, Monday is the day.

If you would be so generous and want to foster, please reply back to this message or call me at 606-462-0159 or email me at shannon@ekhomefinders.com.

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17 Responses to “CRISIS AT THE DOG POUND”

1. nighthawk says:

   December 12, 2009 at 2:50 am

   Kat,
   Here is one of the problems:

   “I have (below) what laws are being want only broken by the management at Rowan County KY Dog Shelter. The shelter currently has estimated 80 plus dogs housed in 12 runs. The dogs are literally killing each other. Many dogs have old infected bite wounds over much of their bodies, others cannot eat or drink for being attacked by other dogs in the runs, senior dogs placed in with young 70-90 lb dogs that beat the tar out of them, beagles in with large aggressive dogs. Pitbulls in together and other breeds thrown in the same kennel. Several animals were pulled from there today with severe injuries and eyewitness reports with pictures the gross negilgence of the management of the animals in care of this shelter. Many more animals need out of there now before they die of infections from bite wounds. These dogs have maggot infested bite wounds, they are untreated and haphazardly thrown together to fend for themselves. Many of these dogs have been there weeks in these conditions. Because the offenses are repeated, because there is documentation and eye witnesses, some of these things happening could be potential Felonies. Why is nothing being done to change this? Why are these animals allowed to live this way? Should they not be either humanely euthanized to avoid overcrowding or provided more space?”

   STAR needs to pressure those NUTS into laying off from the county
   or accept the fact that the county will be forced to euthanize.

   If you try to cooperate with one group you have another group defaming you.
   There is no way the county can win!
   There is no way the county can help.
   Most folks think that all of these small groups is ONE BIG GROUP, and so…
   all of the groups become a pain in the “chair polisher” to deal with.

2. nighthawk says:

   December 12, 2009 at 3:26 am

   You said you have not seen these postings, but I have:

   “I can no longer afford to care for the animals I have left in the rescue. My husband lost his job and bailed and since July I have tried to keep things running here without him. He left July 23. I just cant do any more. This month I cannot pay the mortgage, again, or our electric bill. The foreclosure notices are coming now. If we don’t have electricity, we have no heat. I don’t have the money, I just don’t have it. All of my money has gone to feed my animals and I am now faced with the proposition of placing them in shelters or trying to once again find rescues who will take them. I have been trying to do this for months, begging to place them, before things got to this point. Well, now I am at the point where they must have a place to go, weather it’s a shelter here in this high kill state or rescues here or out of state. After Thursday this week, we have no heat and no electricity. And its cold here now. I have begged for months for help for them, knowing this day was coming and have gotten little to no response. The day is here, what do I do? I only have one other option and unless I absolutely have no other choice, I will not put them to sleep. But if I have to, I will. I will not let them freeze or starve. I will not take them to any of the shelters here and just abandon them, I would rather put them to sleep, it’s more humane. So I am begging for help, even if you can take just one, it’s one less I will have to try to save.”

   Hopefully there was/is/will-be a happy ending to this.

3. nighthawk says:

   December 12, 2009 at 3:36 am

   Here is another one Kat:

   “PLEASE CROSSPOST! WE NEED TO HELP STAR!

   I am writing on behalf of STAR, our very small rescue group in Morehead (Rowan County) KY.

   The STAR ladies are out of options without our help. They are beyond full, beyond broke and almost beyond hope.

   Right now, Julia has 15 dogs at her house. She is to the point of collapse with trying to foster 6 puppies and 9 dogs and also work a full time job.

   They have huge vet bills (just about $1000 for Franklin and TW alone) and nowhere to turn to collect money, find rescues, etc. “

   I can’t even imagine the resources needed to even
   begin to think about becoming a rescuer.

4. nighthawk says:

   December 12, 2009 at 3:40 am

   Sorry, forgot to close my link tag.

   The ending comment above which reads
   “I can’t even imagine the resources needed to even
   begin to think about becoming a rescuer.”
   Was my commentary.
   It was not from the linked site.

5. nighthawk says:

   December 12, 2009 at 3:56 am

   Don’t get me wrong.
   I think the people of STAR are doing their very best
   for a good cause.

   I can also relate to the other folks who i called “NUTS”
   because they are trying to do what they think is right too.

   There is nothing wrong with helping a poor suffering animal.
   Matter of fact it is a pretty noble thing to do.

   It just, and possibly only from the outside, appears as if
   all of these small groups all compose one large group.

   You either overcrowd the pound or euthanize, It can’t be both ways.

6. nighthawk says:

   December 12, 2009 at 5:04 am

   “Fostering is easy. You provide food, shelter and some attention for a dog or puppy for a period of time while we arrange transport to a rescue.”

   So you pay the dog’s expenses and then you get it taken from you?
   THAT IS CRUELTY!
   Not only to the poor dog that has adjusted to a new home, but to the
   people who have fostered the dog as well.

7. Kat says:

   December 12, 2009 at 8:40 am

   We get it nighthawk…you hate animals. If you COULD not, for whatever reason ADOPT a dog or cat, you could FOSTER it. You know like foster homes for children? Not an ideal situation but better than death…is it not?

8. Kat says:

   December 12, 2009 at 8:49 am

   If you are thinking about adopting a dog – please consider a Rowan County Pound dog. Most will die next week and those that care are scrambling to save as many as possible this weekend. See if you can save a friend at http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/KY251.html

9. Kat says:

   December 12, 2009 at 11:53 am

   attention all STAR supporters – Monday is a kill day at the pound. We need to get as many dogs out today and tomorrow as we can. We can only pull as many as we have foster homes for. Contact me if you would like to foster a dog or puppy while we arrange rescues and transports.

10. nighthawk says:

    December 12, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    I DO NOT hate animals.
    Anyone who takes the time to read my comments should know that.

    Don’t you think it is cruel to take a dog out of a good home that it
    has just adjusted to?

    How ’bout someone lets you foster a cat, and just as you become
    attached to it, they introduce you to it’s new family?

    But your specific statement was;
    “If you COULD not, for whatever reason ADOPT a dog or cat, you could FOSTER it…”
    Well, I could… But if I can’t afford to feed it that would be cruelty.

    If I could afford to feed a dog, I could afford to adopt a dog.
    Anyone who can feed and care for the dogs properly should be able to
    pay the fee to adopt the dogs.

    One group wants to save the dogs
    while another group wants to euthanize.

    The group that wants to euthanize has STATE LAW on their side.
    The group that wants to euthanize appears to be trying to destroy STAR.
    Don’t you see that?
    It doesn’t take any mystic powers to see through the fog.

    Why doesn’t STAR “claim jurisdiction” and run the pro-euthanize group out?

11. Kat says:

    December 13, 2009 at 7:22 am

    FOSTERING A DOG is less an a week in most cases I was just told nighthawk. Just a few days or something just a day or two, until they are either adopted or taken to NO KILL shelters in other states. I just learned this from 2 emails last night. STAR drives hundreds of miles to take dogs to different states like Penn., Alabama, etc. to keep them from being tossed in the garbage….afterall…they’re JUST DOGS…right? EVERYONE could do something…drop of a bag of dog food, a used blanket, whatever, if you can’t spare a few days to spare a life. Looks like to me if you can afford internet, you can afford a bag of dog food every now and then. Kentucky is just one of those states that doesn’t give a damn about their animals that is made clear everytime you open a newspaper and see a beautiful creature hanging lifeless with a smiling kid or so called adult standing proudly beside their ‘catch’. There is a really good book out called: ‘LOVE A DOG, EAT A PIG, WEAR A COW’. No one is going to convince you or anyone else with a closed mind that killing something that has a heartbeat and breathes the same air you do is plain and simple murder. I didn’t see any exceptions after the commandment of THOU SHALT NOT KILL…..EXCEPT FOR????? It’s 6:20a.m. Sunday morning, I’ve been up all night sick again and almost hit the 911 button and am no mood for bs. Well just agree to disagree on what is HUMANE and RIGHT and JUST and MORAL.

12. nighthawk says:

    December 13, 2009 at 7:34 am

    I don’t think you are reading my comments.
    So I’ll quit commenting.
    Good luck!

13. Kat says:

    December 13, 2009 at 7:38 am

    Nighthawk, why are you so adamantly
    opposed to STAR or anyone else trying to help save a life?

14. Kat says:

    December 13, 2009 at 7:43 am

    You’ll quit commenting and (This thread is a continuation from the original Digital Television Discussion. This is the last one)? PRAISE GOD AND PASS THE VEGAN BISCUITS!

15. Kat says:

    December 13, 2009 at 7:47 am

    If dog is man’s best friend, why are they chained outside in the elements instead of inside with the rest of your family? Maybe the owner should be chained outside.

16. nighthawk says:

    December 13, 2009 at 8:57 am

    IF YOU READ THE COMMENTS — I AM NOT OPPOSED TO STAR.
    HAVE FUN WRITING EVERYTHING ON YOUR OWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

17. nighthawk says:

    December 13, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Now I am FINISHED using Kat’s Rowan Review.
    I left the couple of posts that I put up here for TechKnomen.

So here is a page where you can discuss anything and everything.

(Please keep it clean though)

I have quit linking to the archived pages for now, but will add the links back asap.

The last page of the last Talk About Anything Page is here.

SPLC Insinuates Alex Jones, Infowars Mobilizing Armed Insurrection

After Infowars and Prison Planet reported on the Department of Homeland Security’s “rightwing extremism” report earlier this year and the story went mega-viral on the internet — and was subsequently picked up by the corporate media, often with the usual dismissive caveats — it was discovered the agency had based much of its “research” on reports generated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League. The SPLC was also instrumental in the Missouri Information Analysis Center’s report. The MIAC story went public after an anonymous source in the Missouri State Police provided Alex Jones with a report characterizing Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin as extremists and their supporters as terrorists.

The SPLC has lately made a cottage industry out of maligning members of the patriot and consitutionalist movements. After it was discovered accused cop killer Richard Poplawski posted on Infowars, the SPLC and a handful of writers (in particular, Dennis B. Roddy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) attempted to forge a link between Poplawski and Alex Jones. As Alex Jones has pointed out on numerous occasions, Poplawski did indeed post on Infowars. It was not mentioned by the SPLC or the writers, however, that the comments posted on the site were critical or Jones, nor was it mentioned that Jones does not share Poplawski’s racist and antisemitic beliefs.

The ADL has posted similar articles on its website.

The SPLC has a double standard when it comes to comments on websites. In August, a comment attached to a libelous article on Alex Jones posted on the SPLC website declared that Jones and his ilk should receive “a lethal injection or a bolt of electricity,” in other words that they be executed by the state simply for espousing political viewpoints that some may disagree with. The comments were made on April 15th by a person calling themselves “Hawkeye”. The comments have remained on the SPLC website for nearly four months without being removed, notes Paul Joseph Watson.

The SPLC is determined to link Alex Jones and Infowars to terrorism and “rightwing extremism.” In the Fall, 2009, issue of the SPLC’s “Intelligence Report,” Larry Keller takes the SPLC agenda one step further. After a rather tedious and long-winded run-down of the so-called militia movement — fashioned as a domestic terrorist threat by the government and corporate media after the federal massacre at Waco and the murder of Randy Weaver’s family at Ruby Ridge — Mr. Keller warns against the “extremism” and putative racism of the COINTELRO operative Glenn Beck, CNN broadcaster Lou Dobbs, and former Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan.

However, the SPLC’s enmity is reserved for Alex Jones. Near the end of the article, Keller writes the following:

A good illustration of antigovernment Patriot movement paranoia was the reaction to a National Guard exercise planned for April in the little town of Arcadia, Iowa. The guardsmen had intended to conduct a four-day mock search for an arms dealer that would include patrolling the town’s streets, distributing photos of the fictional bad guy and knocking on doors of residents who agreed to participate in the drill.

Alex Jones, the radio host and conspiracy theorist, got wind of the plans and interviewed a National Guard official, setting off an avalanche of angry calls and visits to his website from people who feared the exercise was really about imposing a dictatorship or martial law on the country. “Tell them that ANY violation of your rights will result in a ‘Live Fire Exercise,’” one such person wrote on Jones’ Infowars.com website. “If they come, come loaded for war!”

That incident showed how quickly militia enthusiasts now mobilize, thanks to the Internet. The National Guard rapidly scaled back its planned exercise, although it denied that the deluge of complaints had anything to do with its decision.

The “exercise” in Arcadia, California, was a brazen attempt to portray gun owners and Second Amendment activists as domestic terrorists that pose such an ominous threat to local police as to require the participation of the National Guard. It also served to underscore the fact the Posse Comitatus Act is a dead letter and acclimate civilians to armed soldiers performing what should be considered police work. In the last year, soldiers have been deployed to perform police duties in California, Ohio, New York, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Kentucky. National Guard troops were present at the Kentucky Derby and the Boston Marathon.

Keller and the SPLC are insinuating that Alex Jones is actively mobilizing “militia enthusiasts” bent on violence against the government. Jones has repeatedly stated that he does not believe in violence and has denounced comments on Infowars and Prison Planet calling for armed insurrection and violence against police officers and soldiers. Infowars and Prison Planet both share an open posting policy and the only restrictions on the sites are related to direct threats and pornography.

“The sounds of violence are growing louder,” Keller concludes. In fact, the sounds of outrage with the federal government and the New World Order are getting louder. The SPLC invariably characterizes such disagreement as violence and shamelessly dredges up the most fringe element declarations and outrageous actions as indicative of the intent of the patriot, libertarian, and constitutionalist movements.

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Back around 1987 we were promised a wider road between Clack Mountain and Morehead. Here it is 2009 and they are still working on it.

Not because they have been working on actual road construction for the last 22 years, the construction itself began last year (or was that year before last?).

In any event I thought it was only fitting that a highway construction project that spent 20 some years in the planning stages have it’s own article.

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ATV’s are all over the dang place, wherever the brownshirts ain’t.

“Thomas said the road construction in Rowan County was done to attach Laurel Road to Trent Ridge Road and to bring the road out of the creek bed, because [ATV's] were using it and muddying the water.”:http://www.themoreheadnews.com/local/local_story_078193135.html

The best efforts to contol erosion end up thuwarted by these 4whleers spinning in circles slinging mud in all directions with no reguard to themselves or others. What’s the real backstory here? Why is Thomas being made an example of? What did he not do that garners this much nitpicking.
Didn’t get the exit in or
the powerline thru the bird sanctuary…

I really like to have time to get out and enjoy our woodlands, hiking, camping, kayaking, mountain bike, fishing and such. I have been in several National park area and there are roads thru the creeks in say the Great Smokies International Biosphere that go right thru the creek and that is a biosphere where core areas are supposed to be free of all human activitiy to be a scientific reference.

Now I aint that gung ho about everything the Thomas days brought us but that is not my point. The level of attention to this one incident and the zealous enforcement of the letter of the regulations here are to be taken as a barometer of things to come. The UN man and the biosphere project would have all of the Daniel Boone or the boone as the tree huggers call it turned into a international biosphere reserve and use “non-governmental funny funds foundations”: and such to buy up whatever could be bought in Lewis county to make a corridor for large carnivors (from OHIO,inc. to Tennessee) that are said to require millions of acres to maintain breeding population MORE THAN 20 MILLION ACRES OF PRIVATE LAND COULD BE PURCHASED OVER THE NEXT DECADE WITH NO CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT (Search on google-earth and notice the green corridor from Ohio down into Tennesee).

Many many laws and regulations and code and executive disorders, signing statements and “decision directives” have been “passed” but not implemented in full as there have been a few pollitical snags and backlashes so for now “policy” keeps the car from being confiscated and crushed that dripped a few spots of ole’earl on the driveway.

All that has to happen is for the alphabet soup news networks to convince the sheeple that the demopulicrats have recieved a mandate from the sheople thru the electro shock voting machines. Hillbillery, Albercore, or Ketsup Kerry or the likes of the manchuriane Candidate McCain, take yur pick and say goodbye to your car. Of course the flipside of the same status quo coin is not much better; rfid, gps, tax by the mile and whatever else that supposed to make us feel safe.

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Too much at stake 4thRiek Super NAFTA & TERRORISTS AT OKLAHOMA CITY
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-03-25 11:24 PM)

Right
(Posted by Americarus at 2007-03-26 09:16 PM)

“never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning” Okcity
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-03-27 10:05 AM)

Re: crick picture in paper
(Posted by sdundee at 2007-04-22 01:11 PM)

YOU THINK THAT’S BAD? WELL LOOK AT THIS DISTURBING PIECE
(Posted by templar at 2007-04-22 03:24 PM)

WELL LOOK AT THIS DISTURBING PIECE
(Posted by templar at 2007-04-22 03:25 PM)

That’s why I connected it to the biosphere stuff; just saw a piece last week on KET’s KentuckyLIFE about turning private property into core areas by foundations funny funds. The Forrest they showed was near the one turned into a core area (since they cant go there?) it was said to be old growth, never logged, and they pointed out old tree falls created cups in the hill side as a proof? Let me tell you as a woodsman/hiker/Mt.Biker; I have seen those all my life and nearly every tree was cut in and around Morehead at one time for corn fer the pigs to be sent for soapfat to P&G in Sinsinatti and/or “KAHNS” or other non-koshier packers with jewish names? If you ‘member the old McDonalds before it was rebuilt gay, they had blowup huge photos of Morehead/Clearfield with corn, crik to the ridgetop (circa 1880-1910). ((If you know where to look you can find old log “snake’n” trails where they used mules teams/trains to get out the ones that were not so big as to be split and quartered by dynomite. ))

SO this KET piece tells me their plans or goals for biospheres and core areas where humans may not go except by special dispensation from “guiya” and Capt. Planet are never ending meant to encompass all woodlands and any distigishable subspecies localised to a definable watershed.

By Doreen Hannes April 22, 2007 NewsWithViews.com

All you have to do is register your property with the USDA under the National Animal Identification System. You’ll be assigned a seven-character number that stays with the property forever and the USDA “owns” that number according to ” A User Guide” which is their latest public document on the program.

The premise id number or PIN will set you solidly in the position of giving up your rights to ownership. How can I say that? Well, words have meaning for a reason. The USDA, in their original documents regarding NAIS, refers to participants as “stakeholders” repeatedly, twenty one times in the Draft Strategic Plan alone. They also use the term “national herd” and tell us that NAIS is necessary to protect the health and marketability of the “national herd”. First let’s look at the PIN and then at animal identification with official NAIS compliant tags.

The USDA claims to “own” the PIN (page6 A User Guide) and when one is assigned a PIN either through truly volunteering for it or being rolled into it via other disease control programs, it stays with the property forever (Draft Program Standards pg 16-read the whole section on PIN) and the person who owns the property becomes a stakeholder. The definition of stakeholder is as follows:

“The term stakeholder, as traditionally used in the English language in law and notably gambling, is a third party who temporarily holds money or property while its owner is still being determined.”

Yep. While it’s owner is still being determined. It doesn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Now let’s look at the definition of ownership as a comparison. Wikipedia defines the term as follows:

“Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive possession or control of property, which may be an object, land/real estate, intellectual property or some other kind of property. It is embodied in an ownership right also referred to as title.”

So, if you have exclusive possession or control of the property in question, how can you be a stakeholder? Well, you can’t be. Either it’s your property, or it’s someone else’s property. With the NAIS, it’s not your property once you have a PIN making you a stakeholder and putting you under the jurisdiction of the Area Veterinarian In Charge or AVIC. (”A User Guide” is loaded with consult your AVIC with any questions about anything.)

This brings about some very serious questions regarding not only livestock but also real estate. Since the USDA “owns” the Premise Identification Number (page 6 “A User Guide”) and the number can only be inactivated and not expunged or completely annihilated, does it create an encumbrance on property with the PIN? Should that be part of the disclosure on the property? What happens if someone who doesn’t want to be in NAIS in any way buys property with a PIN? (You know, since it’s “voluntary”.) Are they automatically put into the position of stakeholder under the authority of the AVIC? Will the USDA expunge that PIN upon request? According to USDA documents, even though the program is ‘voluntary at the Federal level”, the PIN stays permanently with the property, not with the person who applied for the PIN. What about the person whose property was assigned a PIN via the roll in procedures that have been employed to increase premise registration numbers using other programs like scrapie and brand registration or participation in the QSA program for cattle? What are the answers to these questions? It sure looks like they will need to be determined in court, as the USDA has no answers available in any of their documents.

Then of course we want to know who owns the “national herd” anyway? It can’t be the stakeholder who has been assigned a premise identification number, because the stakeholder is waiting for the rightful owner to be determined, and it can’t be the county or the state if this is indeed the National Animal Identification System. When NAIS is in full implementation, all covered animals, 29 species from clams to cattle, will be required to have official identification. Official identification consists of a NAIS compliant number issued with the country code at the beginning. The country code for the United States is 840. It may or may not surprise you to learn that the 840 code covers all financial instruments, like stocks, checks, and bearable securities otherwise known as dollar bills. You can find this beautiful tidbit by searching for ISO-4217. This International Organization of Standards code covers only financial instruments. When I first looked into the 840 country code there was no designation for 840 under the claimed code of ISO-3166 which is a manufacturing standard. There were only two and three character alpha codes, like US and USA, in ISO-3166. The only assignations 6 months ago for “840″ were in the ISO-4217 standard which covers financial instruments and a UN assigned country code.

Regulations are already in place making it unlawful to remove or tamper with an official identification device. (User guide page 39) This regulation will lead to fully implemented three component NAIS in the not too distant future. Here’s the thing, if you cannot remove an NAIS tag from an animal and the person who sold the animal is a participant in NAIS then the sale of the animal will need to be reported as a high risk activity, and the premise id of the person buying the officially identified animal will have to be recorded, or assigned whichever the case may be, the premise id is not to be expunged only inactivated if animals are no longer held on the property. No rules have been promulgated regarding whether or not official devices must be disclosed as being affixed to the animal at a sale barn, so one could actually purchase an animal with no foreknowledge of it’s status as an NAIS compliant animal. However there are plenty of references to participation in the NAIS being built upon the PIN as the foundation of the system. You can’t have an NAIS id device on an animal without having a PIN, you can’t record events regarding an animal in the NAIS information repositories without having an NAIS identification device on the animal. It’s one, two, three, with the foundation of the entire system being premise identification and changing the status of the property holder from owner to stakeholder.

To further substantiate my claims, please look into the case of Mr. Dobbins in the United Kingdom. Some of his numbers on his registered show herd of dairy cattle were not jibing with their passports, so Defra (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, the UK’s USDA) took all of his cattle passports and confiscated his entire herd giving him 48 hours to positively identify all 576 of his cattle before they destroyed them. He couldn’t identify them because Defra had confiscated all of his documents. It’s like show me the title to the car, while I have taken the title and hidden it in my house thirty miles away. As an added slap in the face, no indemnity is necessary under EC regulations when animals are not identified in exact compliance with their regulations. The man’s entire livelihood was destroyed because not every piece of paper was in the prescribed order.

The USDA doesn’t seem to think we can add these things together well enough to see why we have no choice but to resist this scheme with everything we have because they truly believe we are not competent enough to see the correlations between other nation’s experiences with these systems and then extrapolate the consequences for ourselves. In the USDA’s NAIS How-To-Handbook for their partners in the crime of NAIS implementation, they advise that all messages for potential NAIS stakeholders be designed for a sixth grade reading level. They also give the major themes of those of us opposing the program and state that our arguments all fall into a few buckets. They never do address any of the arguments, and they fail to acknowledge two of the largest arguments of religious objections and Constitutional issues. The Handbook is quite a piece of work and illustrates how “open and transparent” the USDA really is about their desires for the program….After all, they are so open that we had to get a user name with a password to even see the documents they’ve spent taxpayer money developing to sell this program to people without full disclosure and with no actual cost analysis.

It seems to me that those at the top of the NAIS food chain think that since we trade real labor for fake money to pay fraudulent taxes on stuff we don’t own we wouldn’t notice just one more affront. It’s time to shake off your righteous indignation and ask these officials if they’d like some Boston Tea. ***

Please check out these links:

1, Christopher Booker’s notebook, Papers were not in order, so they had to die 2, Visit: www.nonais.org and scroll down the right hand side for USDA documents on NAIS. At the very least you need to read the 2005 Draft Strategic Plan, then The Implementation Plan and the User Guide.

© 2007 Doreen Hannes – All Rights Reserved

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Doreen Hannes is a homesteading mom, and a truly grass roots activist for small scale and traditional farming rights. She has thoroughly researched the origins and impacts of “Free Trade” agreements and National Animal Identification System in particular and has been a major force in the anti-NAIS movement both nationally and in Missouri for over a year.

Her mission is to expose the procedures and methods being employed to destroy the God given rights of this once great republic. Doreen is a frequent guest on talk radio programs and has written extensively on the NAIS.

E-Mail: animalwaitress@yahoo.com

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in less than 20years these chips and scanners will be evarwhair
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-04-26 10:26 AM)

Great Nature surrounds the owl of Bohemia and can take care of the forrest without our stewardship?

The Ice and wind storms that leave damaged and disease suseptable trees are part of nature and it should just run its course, healthcare should be stopped for humans as well, let nature ruin its course “The Boone” was the term used when I first ran into a leader of these activists, that lived in a log cabin, about 10years ago, if you can hang out without suspicion when they talk casually, you’ll get the adgenda to refer to the easter 3rd of the state as a forrest not just the national and state forrest holdings, but the strategic uses of foundations aquisistions to knit together the millions of contiguous acres for large carnivores, like cougar and black and brown bears, wolves, red wolves, cayote and maybe a cloned sabertooth?LOL?

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Flag across from Wendy’s at the park
(Posted by Kat at 2007-04-29 01:26 AM)

Huddle House Menu?
(Posted by Kat at 2007-04-29 01:35 AM)

Uh yeah anthing fer a diabetic?
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-04-29 01:48 AM)

what’s the deal about ‘diabetic’ tech?
(Posted by Kat at 2007-04-29 02:40 AM)

Someone else can answer your post I cant or wont prevent that?
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-04-30 10:45 AM)

You’re slamming ME for having diabetes!
(Posted by Kat at 2007-04-30 09:27 PM)

RE:WaffleHouse (duh)
(Posted by Kat at 2007-04-30 09:31 PM)

Ole to Technonut
(Posted by Kat at 2007-05-01 02:59 AM)

100 years ago Average folks ate 4lbs of SUGAR a year now its 60-160lbs.
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-05-01 11:04 AM)

McDougall Program Dietary Program
(Posted by Kat at 2007-05-01 11:40 AM)

but but I saw it on oprah?
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-05-01 04:03 PM)

Memo to the FDA: you folks are supposed to KNOW, scientifically, not just “believe”
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-05-02 10:24 AM)

I was not harping on you but the selections on the menu in the supposed land of free choice
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-05-01 11:11 AM)

Thread was for the enviromental implications for the cold water crik story…
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-05-01 03:41 PM)

flip it upside down
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-04-29 01:57 AM)

Some background on “the boone”
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-04-29 01:39 AM)

A deputy assistant secretary at the Interior Department resigned Monday, a month after the department’s inspector general issued a stinging report that said she violated federal rules by giving industry lobbyists internal agency documents and rode roughshod over agency scientists.

The resignation came about a week before a House committee was set to hold hearings on political interference with biologists, and the same day that Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, wrote Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne demanding that he take action to address the concerns about the official, Julie A. MacDonald, who was overseeing the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Efforts to reach Ms. MacDonald were unsuccessful.

The department issued no formal statement about her resignation, nor did it release the text of any resignation letter. Hugh Vickery, a spokesman for the wildlife service, said that the resignation was a personnel matter and that department officials would not comment on it.

Even as environmental groups issued statements of satisfaction with the departure of an official who had become a magnet for accusations of political interference with the work of federal biologists, they and Congressional critics said they were not convinced that the interference would end.

Representative Nick J. Rahall II, Democrat of West Virginia and chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said Tuesday in a statement, “The problems at the Fish and Wildlife Service are not merely a matter of people and personalities; the faults run much deeper than Julie MacDonald.”

Mr. Rahall added that his committee would investigate them in its House hearing next week.

Kieran Suckling, policy director of the Center for Biological Diversity, said: “Julie MacDonald’s reign of terror over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is finally over. Endangered species and scientists everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief. But MacDonald was the administration’s attack dog, not its general.”

Among other actions that drew the ire of wildlife biologists and lawyers, Ms. MacDonald had heavily edited biologists’ reports on sage grouse, a species that in the end was not placed on the threatened or endangered lists. Their habitat overlaps with vast parts of the Rocky Mountain West, where oil and gas drilling and cattle ranching are prevalent; listing the grouse as endangered or threatened could have curbed those industries’ access to federal lands.

In another case in the inspector general’s report, Ms. MacDonald demanded that scientists reduce the nesting range for the Southwest willow flycatcher to a radius of 1.8 miles, from a 2.1-miles, so it would not cross into California, where her husband has a ranch

(because she knows it defects the title as to more restricted use by “stakeholders”)

Everything you didn’t want to know about Colony Collapse Disorder
It sounds” like the start of a Kurt Vonnegut novel

Nobody worried all that much about the loss of a few animal species here and there until one day the bees came to their senses and decided to quit producing an unnaturally large surplus of honey for our benefit. One by one, they went on strike and flew off to parts unknown.

Among the various mythologies of the apocalypse, fear of insect plagues has always loomed larger than fear of species loss. But this may change, as a strange new plague is wiping out our honey bees one hive at a time. It has been named Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, by the apiculturalists and apiarists who are scrambling to understand and hopefully stop it. First reported last autumn in the U.S., the list of afflicted countries has now expanded to include several in Europe, as well as Brazil, Taiwan, and possibly Canada. (1)(24)(29)

Apparently unknown before this year, CCD is said to follow a unique pattern with several strange characteristics. Bees seem to desert their hive or forget to return home from their foraging runs. The hive population dwindles and then collapses once there are too few bees to maintain it. Typically, no dead bee carcasses lie in or around the afflicted hive, although the queen and a few attendants may remain.

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I have been looking for a hive or three for a while…
(Posted by TechKnomen at 2007-05-03 03:08 PM)

Common Dreams

In a strongly worded declaration, many of the world’s leading environmental scientists warned Thursday that exposure to common chemicals makes babies more likely to develop an array of health problems later in life, including diabetes, attention deficit disorders, prostate cancer, fertility problems, thyroid disorders and even obesity.

The declaration by about 200 scientists from five continents amounts to a vote of confidence in a growing body of evidence that humans are vulnerable to long-term harm from toxic exposures in the womb and during their first years. 0525 02

Convening in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, toxicologists, pediatricians, epidemiologists and other experts warned that when fetuses and newborns encounter various toxic substances, growth of critical organs and functions can be skewed. In a process called “fetal programming,” the children then are susceptible to diseases later in life – and perhaps could even pass on those altered traits to their children and grandchildren.

The scientists’ statement also contained a rare international call to action. The effort was led by Dr. Philippe Grandjean of Harvard University and the University of Southern Denmark, and Dr. Pal Weihe of the Faroese Hospital System, who have spent more than 20 years studying children exposed to mercury.

Many governmental agencies and industry groups, particularly in the United States, have said there is no or little human evidence to support concerns about most toxic residue in air, water, food and consumer products. About 80,000 chemicals are registered in the United States.

Yet the scientists urged leaders not to wait for more scientific certainty and recommended that governments revise regulations and procedures to take into account subtle effects on fetal and infant development.

Chemicals with evidence of developmental effects include compounds in plastics, cosmetics and pesticides.

“Given the ubiquitous exposure to many environmental toxicants, there needs to be renewed efforts to prevent harm. Such prevention should not await detailed evidence on individual hazards,” the scientists wrote in the four-page statement.

Genetic concerns

The scientists are particularly concerned that the newest animal research suggests that chemicals can alter gene expression – turning on or off genes that predispose people to disease. Although the DNA itself would not be altered, such genetic misfires in the womb may be permanent, and all subsequent generations could be at greater risk of diseases too.

“Toxic exposures to chemical pollutants during these windows of increased susceptibility can cause disease and disability in childhood and across the entire span of human life,” the scientists concluded.

The “Barker hypothesis,” conceived by a British scientist in 1992, says human fetuses are “programmed” for diseases by their early environment. The scientists concluded that this is now well-documented for toxic exposures by a large collection of animal experiments and some human data.

“A sad aspect with many of these prenatal exposures is that they leave the mother unscathed while causing injury to her fetus,” said Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician who chairs the Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Department of Community and Preventive Medicine. He was one of the statement’s authors.

In a more optimistic vein, the researchers said that if contaminants do play a big role in human health problems, some diseases could be prevented.

“Reducing exposure would lead to tremendous benefits,” said Dr. Bruce Lanphear, director of the Environmental Health Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. “We shouldn’t wait for an epidemic to fully mature before we develop policies to protect children.”

For centuries, the basic rule of toxicology has been “the dose makes the poison.” Now, the scientists say “the timing makes the poison” – in other words, when a toxic exposure occurs is as important as the amount people are exposed to.

The fetus “is extraordinarily susceptible to perturbation of the intrauterine environment,” they wrote.

The growing brain is the most sensitive. Mothers’ exposure to mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in fish and other seafood can cause slight declines in a child’s IQ and motor skills. In addition, early exposure to pesticides might trigger Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

Also, children exposed to lead, organophosphate pesticides or cigarette smoke have greater risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. One of every three cases – or an estimated 560,000 children in the United States – can be attributed to lead exposure or prenatal tobacco smoke exposure, Lanphear reported in a study published in December.

The immune, reproductive and cardiovascular systems also are vulnerable to early damage. Children exposed prenatally to PCBs have a high rate of infections and weak response to vaccinations. Many chemicals also can mimic hormones, and in animal tests, they feminize newborns, lowering sperm counts and promoting prostate, testicular, uterine and breast cancers.

In the newest area of research, metabolic systems, which control how nutrients are converted into energy, have been altered by chemicals administered in animal experiments – changes that may contribute to obesity and diabetes.

Chemical danger

“These adverse effects have been linked to chemical pollutants at realistic human exposure levels similar to those occurring from environmental sources,” the scientists wrote.

Among the risky chemicals they named are bisphenol A, found in polycarbonate plastic food and water containers; the pesticides atrazine, vinclozolin and DDT; lead; mercury; phthalates used in some cosmetics and soft plastics; brominated flame retardants; arsenic, which contaminates some water supplies; and PCBs, banned but ubiquitous, particularly in fish.

Some of the chemicals have been regulated in the United States, but many have not. Moreover, the scientists said, tests for developmental effects are not routinely required, so “the potential for such effects is therefore not necessarily considered in decisions on safety levels of environmental exposures.”

There is “an incredible gap,” Landrigan said, because 80% of major chemicals in commerce have never been tested to see if they damage early development.

The conference was funded by the World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health, European Environment Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Denmark’s Faroe Islands, just south of the Arctic Circle, were the venue because the region is home to the longest-running human experiment analyzing prenatal toxic exposure. Since 1986, Grandjean and Weihe have tracked Faroese children from the womb to adolescence to monitor neurological effects of mercury in seafood. Their findings prompted U.S. advisories that children and women of childbearing age avoid swordfish and other highly contaminated fish.

In addition to Landrigan, three Californians and six other U.S. scientists served on the 28-member committee that wrote the consensus: Brenda Eskenazi of UC Berkeley, Irva Hertz-Picciotto of UC Davis, Beate Ritz of UCLA, Jerry Heindel and Kimberly Gray of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Larry Needham of the CDC, Terry Huang of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, David Bellinger of Harvard University and Howard Hu of the University of Michigan.

marla.cone@latimes.com

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