Civilan Spy Programs

The Federal government is fast approaching it plan of unifying local Police, Fire and Rescue,  State Police, and all departments of the homeland security  whose underpinnings are the new Civilian spy  programs.   This marriage of Federal and Civilian  domestic spying is being called..."Threat fusion centers" which integrates real time data from public and private sources.

The FBI has now made public their "Communities Against Terrorism" Suspicious Activity Reporting flyers.


Listed below are all 25 known flyers that should be read in their entirety if one wishes to discover just how far the United States has traveled in its attempt to replicate a level of citizen snitches not seen since the Stasi of East Germany.

1. Airport Service Providers -- Includes on-craft providers: baggage, cleaners, cargo, catering, mechanics, ground crew, food service, cleaners, security, taxi, limos, and shuttles.
2. Beauty/Drug Suppliers -- People who have burn marks, missing limbs, travel a long distance, nervous, who are picked up, make illogical requests (even of consumer-grade products).
3. Bulk Fuel Distributors -- New customers not from the area, those using cash for large transactions, nervous, large purchases, having a rental vehicle.
4. Construction Sites -- People with environmental slogans and/or anti-government slogans, banners or signs that threaten or imply violence.
5. Dive/Boat Shops -- New customers reluctant to provide complete personal information, customer who does not have certification, using cash for expensive transactions, extended rentals, appearing uninterested in safety rules, experiencing guarded behavior. 
6. Electronics Stores -- Person who alters appearance from visit to visit (changing hair color, shaving, etc.), fills a "shopping list" of components while lacking knowledge about their use. Pays cash for large purchases. 
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8. Farm Supply Stores -- New customers not from the area, nervous or impatient, suspicious inquiries regarding equipment specifications, failing to state legitimate use for supplies, rental vehicle, cash for large transactions.
9. Financial Institutions -- No evidence for legitimate business activity, those with multiple accounts, banks, parties, and jurisdictions (layering).  Mixed deposits (money orders, third-party checks, and/or payroll into a business account).  Large volume of wire transfers, or repetitive patterns, shell entities, "pass through" points by foreign jurisdictions.
10. General Aviation -- Taking flying lessons but appear uninterested, renting under vague reasons for doing so, requests to fly over specific locations without substantiated reason, taking pictures or videos of potentially sensitive locations, actions outside the norm, parking near the perimeter of airport, asking questions without substantiation. 
11. General Public -- Basically everything exhibited by those with an inquisitive nature: questions, note taking, drawing, annotating maps, inappropriate photos or videos, people in places where they do not belong.
12. Hobby Shops -- Interest in remote-controlled aircraft, interest that does not seem genuine, possessing little knowledge of purchase, exhibiting unusual interest, exhibiting no interest, using cash for large transactions.
13. Home Improvement and Large Retail Stores -- Large quantity of ammunition, firearms and ammunition out of season, combination of unusual items, interest in night vision and camouflage apparel, purchases of pipe fittings and supplies, rental vehicle, refusal to complete firearms paperwork, using cash for large transactions.
14. Hotels/Motels
15. Internet Cafes
16. Shopping Malls -- Wearing backpacks, discreet use of cameras, note-taking, or video over an extended period, several men arriving together then splitting up, continuing to communicate (dry run?), speaking to security guards, comments regarding radical theology, vague or cryptic warnings, or anti-U.S. sentiments that appear out of place and provocative.
17. Martial Arts/Paintball -- Insist on paying with cash, travels long distance to participate, interest in learning offensive moves in a confined space, learning the use of hidden weapons, learning kill and restraint techniques with no occupational need, group training, uttering racist, religious, unusual, anti-US, or vague and cryptic warnings, close combat training, paintball tactics of ambush or kidnapping scenarios, operating a private facility, converting large plots of rural land to conduct these activities.
18. Mass Transportation -- Altering one's appearance, exhibiting burns, bleached body hair, concealed wires, nervous, actions suggesting use of a hidden camera, unusual comments, questioning security/facility personnel via normal means of communication, groups arriving together then splitting up and communicating via cell phone.
19. Military Surplus -- Demanding identity privacy, insisting on paying with cash, suspicious comments, bulk purchase
20. Peroxide Explosives -- Unknown customer, individual requesting more information.
21. Recognizing Sleepers -- Arrival from countries where violent militant Islamic
22. groups are known to operate, long unexplained absences, fury at the West for reasons ranging from personal problems to global policies of the U.S., conspiracy theories about Westerners (e.g. the CIA arranged for 9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands), accusing the West of trying to destroy Islam.
23. Rental Cars -- Reluctance to provide complete personal information, using cash, unusual questions.
24. Rental Properties -- Using cash for large transactions, inquiries about local sites, refusing maintenance or service over extended time, not using property for intended purpose, unusual number of package deliveries, unusual amounts of traffic, discovery of unusual items.
25. Rental Trucks -- Reluctance to provide personal information, cash for large transactions, inquiries about renting a truck with a wooden floor, questions about vehicle specifications.
26. Storage Facilities -- Failing to provide complete personal information, using cash to pay fees in advance, placing unusual items in storage, disposing of tools, gloves, masks, or clothing, discarding clothes or shoes in new condition, avoiding contact with rental facility personnel, accessing facility an unusual number of times, storing items that emit unusual odors or leak liquids.
27. Tattoo Shops -- Demanding identity "privacy," paying cash, altering appearance (beard, hair style, hair color, style of dress, etc.), making racist or extreme statements, suspicious comments that suggest or appear to endorse violence in support of a cause, repeated returns with multiple individuals requesting identical tattoos, inquiries about unusual methods of tattooing or placement which could allow the concealment of extremist symbols

Massive US prep for attack on Iran

The US military continues it's break neck preparation for it's soon attack on Iran with a massive concentration of US air, sea, and land forces on the two strategic islands.  The first being Soqotra, is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean. The largest island, also called Socotra, is about 95% of the landmass of the archipelago. It lies some 240 kilometres (150 mi) east of the Horn of Africa and 380 kilometres (240 mi) south of the Arabian Peninsula.

The second island being Masirah an island off the East coast of Oman, 95 km long north-south, between 12 and 14 km wide. 


 This concentration of US military forces is the largest since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. If the current pace of arrivals on the two island bases continues unabated, 50,000 US troops will have boots on the ground on both Socotra and Masirah by mid-February.

This is in addition to the 50,000 US military troops already present in the Persian Gulf. 

The drums of war are beating loudly as the US will shortly command over a 100,000 boots on the ground.  Lessons learned in the Iraq war I & 2 have taught Washington that success in the middle east depends more on a military presence then just point and click air power. 

Adding to the massive manned military build up, the American Navy will have three US aircraft carriers and their strike groups plus a French carrier in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea all by February 15th 2012. 

Those ships include the USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Carl Vinson, USS Enterprise and the Charles de Gaulle nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

A fourth US carrier and it's strike group will be near by in the Pacific Ocean. In less then 48 hours sailing time they can be off of Iran’s coast ready to fight.

Soon, very soon, the world will see 1 of 4 scenarios:

1) A False flag, staged event whose bloody body count will have the public into demanding
      an attack on Iran.

2) A sudden FIRST STRIKE attack by Israel, in the early morning hours, which will be
     the spark which  ignite the entire Middle east.

3) Economic/ Military / Humanitarian sanctions so severe that Iran threatens to
     cut all oil supplies to the West (and / or) threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz. 
     This will cause the Western finical markets to nearly collapse, forcing the US and
     Israel to attack Iran or risk the collapse of the Western Democracies.    

4) An unknown, preplanned action, which causes a Known reaction leading the entire world into WW3

Yeah Right!

Obama to Ignore Order to Appear in Atlanta Court

by Keith Koffler on January 25, 2012, 11:34 pm

President Obama will ignore an order by an Atlanta judge to appear in court Thursday for a hearing in a case challenging his qualifications under the Constitution to be president.
According to the White House, Obama will continue with his current trip out West, starting the day in Las Vegas and then continuing on to Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado before heading to Detroit where he will spend the night.

The Associated Press reported last week that the judge had denied a motion to quash a subpoena for the president to show up for the hearing, which is scheduled for 9 am ET.

The case centers on whether Obama, whose father was Kenyan, qualifies as a “natural born citizen,” as required of a president under the Constitution. Some contend that “natural born citizen” means both of a presidential candidate’s parents must be U.S. citizens.
The Atlanta lawsuit would deny Obama the right to participate in the March 6 Georgia Democratic primary, though backers of the suit clearly hope to establish a precedent that would help make a national issue over whether Obama can serve as president.

A letter apparently sent by Obama attorney Michael Jablonski Wednesday to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp asks Kemp to “bring an end to this baseless, costly and unproductive hearing by withdrawing the original hearing request as improvidently issued.”

Jablonski states that while waiting for Kemp to do as requested, “we will, of course, suspend further participation in these proceedings, including the hearing scheduled for January 26.”

A letter that appears to be from Kemp to Jablonski rejects the demand and holds out the threat of punitive action should Obama and his attorneys withdraw from the proceedings.
“To the extent a request to withdraw the case referral is procedurally available, I do not believe such a request would be judicious given the hearing is set for tomorrow morning,” the Kemp letter states. “Anything you and your client place in the record in response to the challenge will be beneficial to my review of the initial decision; however, if you and your client choose to suspend your participation in the OSAH proceedings, please understand that you do so at your own peril.”


Does anyone think Obama actuallyshowed up for the hearing?


Nope!


Was anything at all done about it?


Nope!


politicians only get in trouble when they do NOT do what their Master's tell them.  As long as a politician dances like a chicken to the tune of their Master's they will continue to be above the law. 

Now ask me what would have happened to a Normal Citizen if they had ignored the Judges orders.


The full extent of the law would have come crashing down on their heads, Stormtroopers, Swat teams, et-all.

Precrime Thought Criminals

 Big brother surveillance by US police forces has exploded.  The Associated Press reports that East Orange, New Jersey intends to identfy criminal by their PRE-ACTIONS by shinning PRE-suspects with a red-beamed spotlight, before any crime is committed.

The “PRE-CRIME” thought deterrent will be mounted on ALL street lights, and, or buildings or any suitable structures.

In East Orange, and cities all over the United States everyone is NOW a “Pre-crime” suspect until the Local, State, or Federal government decides otherwise.

 To add to the 'PRE-CRIME' hysteria officer squad cars also scan the license plates of EVERY SINGLE  vehicle they pass, checking them against a variety of lists– from terrorist monitor lists, to unpaid parking tickets, warrants and more.

Officers can then pull over vehicles even if the driver has committed no violations, so, as to divert attention from BIG BROTHER'S Pre-Crime patrol vehicle.


Cameras tied into police video monitor stations can also be accessed from squad cars as well as the reverse.   Patrolling PRE-CRIME Thought Police can zoom in on nearby locations to determine if a Pre-Crime Thought might be in progress.    A NON-suspect can be identified and arrested BEFORE HE/SHE engages in PRE-CRIME thoughts.

How effective is this New technology?

Only one single crime is solved for every 1,000 CCTV PRE_CRIME Thought cameras

So, to catch one single purse snatcher, 10,000 citizens are monitored minute by minute, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Civil rights are violated, the US Constitution is shredded, and individual privacy, guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, is illegally denied

All to catch 1 single misdemeanor criminal...

Dark Skies

The Main Stream Media (MSM) unwillingness to cover the National Defense Authorization Act, a radical piece of legislation which outrageously redefines the continental United States of America as a “battlefield” is indicative of the Orwellian thought process occurring in America.    

 The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 was signed into United States law on December 31, 2011 by President Barack Obama.
The Act authorizes $662 billion in funding, among other things “for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad.” In a signing statement, President Obama described the Act as addressing national security programs, Department of Defense health care costs, counter-terrorism within the U.S. and abroad, and military modernization.

The Act also imposes new economic sanctions against Iran (section 1045), commissions reviews of the military capabilities of countries such as Iran, China, and Russia, and refocuses the strategic goals of NATO towards energy security.

The most controversial provisions to receive wide attention are contained in Title X, Subtitle D, entitled “Counter-Terrorism.” In particular, sub-sections 1021 and 1022, which deal with indefinite prolonged detention of AMERICAN CITIZENS which the government suspects of involvement in ANY Activity IT, the government deems as threatening.

The N.D.A.A. by DEFAULT makes EVERY US citizens subject to military apprehension and detainment for life without access to a trial or attorney.  When did this become acceptable in a land once called Free and Brave?

 Habeas Corpus the foundational corner stone, the linchpin of the United States Constitution has been struck down by the Tyranny of Evil men masquerading as Agents of change.

The Writ of Habeas Corpus is a judicial mandate requiring that a prisoner be brought before the court to determine whether the government has the right to continue detaining them.

The potential implications for abuse by the Presidential authority is staggering!

Where is the oversight?

Where is the oversight?

Where is the oversight?
  
 This is a Oubliette whose offspring bears malice and dark skies...
                                                                                      Robert D Anding III

Alaska Man Cited For forgetting he's a SLAVE

Slaves have no right's, Serf's have no right's on their Master's property or too their Master's property.  

Chad Gerondale, of Alaska forgot that he was a SLAVE.  

Alaska Wildlife Storm-Troopers last week issued Gerondale a summons to appear in court on Feb. 3 to be arraigned on a misdemeanor charge of illegal barter of game meat. Troopers issued a news release Friday stating Gerondale had been cited for agreeing to trade 125 pounds of moose meat for two cords of firewood.

Buying, selling or bartering of game meat, except snowshoe hares, is illegal.

Gerondale allegedly offered to swap moose meat for firewood on the radio show, Tradio, which airs on KFAR 660 AM.

“The allegations are the guy was on Tradio and said, ‘I need some firewood and I’m willing to trade some moose meat,’” Satterberg said.

Trooper Ken Vanspronsen contacted Gerondale to make a deal and then showed up at his house and issued him a citation, Satterberg said.
…

“If you say, ‘I’ve got some moose meat; you’ve got some salmon, let’s trade,’ that’s a crime,” Satterberg said. “Simply making the statement is the crime. That’s a serious First Amendment question.”

What the law says:
AS16.05.920. Prohibited Conduct Generally.
(a) Unless permitted by AS16.05-AS16.40, by AS41.14, or by regulation adopted under AS16.05-AS16.40 or AS41.14, a person may not take, possess, transport, sell, offer to sell, purchase, or offer to purchase fish, game, or marine aquatic plants, or any part of fish, game, or aquatic plants, or a nest or egg of fish or game.

Another example of the enslavement of the American people.

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The US Congress does NOT Fucking own the Internet!

Nor does SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS with lots of $$$ have the right to tell the world What WE can do with our interconnected computers.

Dear SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS Go Fuck yourselves! And take your crappy mediocre movies, pre-packaged shitty pop music, FAke ass A.Idol, and your steaming pile of dog shit called pop-rap and shove it up your ass!

Keep your filthy stinking hands off OUR Internet!




P.S. Dear Politicians..."Go Fuck yourselves, you thieving, lying, back stabbing, country betraying, self-serving, scum!"

US Debt Noose

          United States National Debt Facts...

• It took the country from George Washington until Ronald Reagan—approximately 200 years—to reach the first $1 trillion in debt. 

• Politicians driven by short-term election goals focus on short-term problems. For example, President Bush once told us the problem was shrinking, pointing to  the  annual federal budget deficit, which fell from a high of $413 billion in fiscal 2004 to about $163 billion in fiscal 2007. The debt, meanwhile, continues to explode. 

• All of the taxes you pay, including Social Security, are used for current government services and benefits, NONE of it is saved for OUR future. 

• US Office of Management and Budget, "There is nothing left. There are no finical assets in the Social Security trust fund."

• The Government Accountability Office states , if spending on government retirement programs remains on its current course and revenues grow at their historical averages, interest on the debt could skyrocket from its current 9 percent to almost 50 percent of the budget by 2040.

• Fed Chairman has stated that the time to solve this problem was "ten years ago." Meanwhile, Congressional Quarterly reports that a delay of even 10 years in solving this will triple the impossibility of EVER solving the problem.

• Washington IS absolutely myopically intending to make the nation's fiscal problems much worse by expanding entitlements and bail-outs.  The 2012 US budget calls for adding  more than 3 trillion dollars to the federal debt via deficit spending and as much as another five trillion in unfunded liabilities.

Presidential Betrayal

Americans CAN NOW BE DETAINED INDEFINITELY."


President O has betrayed the American people by signing into law the  NDAA.

No longer is it safe to be an American.  

Never again will America be called the Home of the Free.
 

This video is a good introduction to the NDAA and how it will impact your everyday life

It is truly a dark day for each and every freedom loving American.

I ask you..."Who does this NDAA betrayal serve?  It doesn't serve the American people.  This legislation is paranoid and blatantly anti-American.  Whose interests are being served here, because it's not the interests of the people of the United States of America.  

Whose interests are being served here?

Who benefits from the false imprisonment of American citizens?

Whose interests are being served here?

Whose interests are being served here?

Whose interests are being served here?

ANTI-Freedom Supporters of the S.O.P.A. Act

 

List of Supporters: 

H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act

60 Plus Association

ABCAlliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP)

American Federation of Musicians (AFM)

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)Americans for Tax ReformArtists and Allied Crafts of the United States

Association of American Publishers (AAP)Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies

Association of Talent Agents (ATA)Baker & Hostetler LLPBeachbody, LLC

BMIBMG ChrysalisBuilding and Construction Trades 

DepartmentCapitol Records NashvilleCBSCengage LearningChristian Music Trade Association

Church Music Publishers’ Association

(CAOVP)Comcast/NBCUniversal

Concerned Women for America (CWA)

Congressional Fire Services Institute Copy hype

Copyright Alliance

Coty, Inc.Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB)

Council of State Governments

Country Music AssociationCountry Music 

TelevisionCovington & Burling LLPCowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLPCowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.Creative AmericaDavis Wright Tremaine LLPDeluxe

 

2Directors Guild of America (DGA)

Disney Publishing Worldwide, Inc.ElsevierEMI 

Christian Music GroupEMI Music 

PublishingESPNEstée 

Lauder CompaniesFraternal Order of Police (FOP)

Go Daddy

Gospel Music AssociationGraphic Artists
GuildHachette 

Book GroupHarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, 

Inc.HyperionIndependent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA)

International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE)

International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC)

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)

International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)

International Trademark Association (INTA)

International Union of Police Associations

Irell & Manella LLPJenner & Block LLPKelley Drye & Warren LLPKendall Brill & Klieger LLPKinsella 

Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP

L’Oreal

 Lathrop & Gage LLPLoeb & Loeb LLPLost Highway 

RecordsMacmillanMajor County Sheriffs

Major League Baseball

Majority City ChiefsMarvel Entertainment, 

LLCMasterCard WorldwideMCA RecordsMcGraw-Hill

EducationMercury NashvilleMinor League Baseball 

(MiLB)Minority Media & Telecom Council 

(MMTC)Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLPMorrison & Foerster LLPMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Moving Picture Technicians

 

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Internet Censorship

If you Belive in Internet FREEDOM! Please I beg you watch and pass along this video!

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that will effectively hand over compete power of the Internet to the Finical Interests of the Motion picture industry and the The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 

This Draconian take over of the Internet was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Now before the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the Protect IP Act.



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Dire Truths-- Part I

The fall of the great Western Roman Empire reached it's apex in A.D. 476.   The end of the Western Democracies began in the Land of the Rising Sun...

Japan was the first country to fall into a deflationary spiral starting in 1989. The United States of America followed suit in early 2000.  A very anemic tepid recovery sputtered to life in 2009-2011, which is where we find ourselves now.   

As of 2010 the European Union has begun to finically come apart due to an unwillingness by the socialists who currently hold power in the weaker E.U. members to face brutal austerity measure.   

The European Union collapse will be a deadly contagion which will swiftly infect the global credit supply, making an already weak US dollar practically worthless.  Financial markets the world over will shut down due to a complete lack of available credit.  All liquidity will be frozen by the stark knowledge that the global collapse has begun and there are no more safe harbors. 

"This massive crash was caused by the massive debt which has been created by the central banks of the world creating credit instruments out of thin air, highly leveraged banking practices, debt based financing, the sale of toxic debt masquerading labeled as 4A credit rating, and outright fraud on a global scale.

Currently, The United States of America has just 4 percent of the world’s population, but owes 82 percent of the entire world's debt. 

The European Union owes a mere 8 percent of the world’s debt.

Japan owes 6 percent.

The remaining debt is held by the other 168 other countries of the world at a measly 4 percent. 

Short term U.S. treasuries yield just 0.02 percent at this present time. If they were to rise by 0.27 percent, this would consume ALL remaining annual income in the United States.  All Federal spending would cease, no Defense spending, no SSI, no Medicaid, no federal employees, nothing. The United States would be forced to do nothing else but pay interest on the national debt.  

America’s gross domestic product is $10 trillion a year.  

The 27 member European Union's gross domestic product is $16.07 trillion a year.

China's gross domestic product is $5.07 trillion a year.

Russia's gross domestic product is  $1.48 trillion a year.

Africa's collective gross domestic product is $.07 trillion a year.

The gross domestic product for the entire WORLD is  $33 trillion. 

The total global toxic debt is $300 trillion and growing.  
 

What can be done to stop this?

 Part II "The Solution"

Salvation Army

The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit is still $5 million away from reaching its $8.2 million 2011 Red Kettle Campaign fundraising goal, and 9 percent below its fundraising pace from last year.

Nearly 20 percent of 16.8 percent of Michigan residents living in dire poverty.

According to Governor Rick Snyder, The Salvation Army is the largest private provider of social services in the state.
This past year, The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit was involved in providing...

3,194,802 million meals 

and 687,203 nights of shelter for the homeless. 

The Salvation Army uses $.85 of every dollar raised to provide direct services to people in need each and every day of the year.

Disaster relief by the Salvation Army

Today the Salvation Army is best known for its charitable efforts.
The Salvation Army is a non-governmental relief agency and is usually among the first to arrive with help after natural or man-made disasters. They have worked to alleviate suffering and help people rebuild their lives. After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, they arrived immediately at some of the worst disaster sites to help retrieve and bury the dead.
Since then they have helped rebuild homes and construct new boats for people to recover their livelihood. Members were prominent among relief organizations after Hurricane Hugo and Hurricane Andrew and other such natural disasters in the United States. In August 2005, they supplied drinking water to poor people affected by the heat wave in the United States. Later in 2005 they responded to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Most recently they have helped the victims of the May 2006 Indonesian Earthquake.

Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, The Salvation Army has allocated donations of more than $365 million to serve more than 1.7 million people in nearly every state. The Army’s immediate response to Hurricane Katrina included the mobilization of more than 178 canteen feeding units and 11 field kitchens which together have served more than 5.7 million hot meals, 8.3 million sandwiches, snacks and drinks.

Its SATERN (Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network) network of amateur ham-radio operators picked up where modern communications left off to help locate more than 25,000 survivors. And, Salvation Army pastoral care counselors were on hand to comfort the emotional and spiritual needs of 277,000 individuals. As part of the overall effort, Salvation Army officers, employees and volunteers have contributed more than 900,000 hours of service.

The Salvation Army was one of the first relief agencies on the scene of the 9/11 attacks in New York. They also provided prayer support for families of missing people.


Donate NOW to the Salvation Army

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Donate NOW to the Salvation Army

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School Ain't what it Use to Be

A Bachelors degree at a 4 year university is no longer worth the $25,000 investment.  Instead of preparing the next generation of leaders for the jobs of tomorrow a 4 year university degree college has become a finical black hole that most people will NEVER pbe able to pay back. 

High school students have it drilled into their heads that they MUST go to college!   It USE TO BE true that a college education WAS worth the money.  The fact of the matter is that the quality of education at America's colleges and universities is ranked just above West Nigeria in SAT scores.   The thing NO ONE is talking about is that there are way too many college graduates and not nearly enough quality jobs.

In the USA there are millions upon millions of Americans that are enslaved, FOR LIFE, to student loan debt.   The cold hard truth is that 98 percent of  college graduates with a bachelor degree just bought a ticket to a crappy low level job. 


Disturbing Facts about a College Education  

1) After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.

2) The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.

3) Over the past 25 years, the cost of college tuition has increased at an average rate that is 7-10 percent higher than the average rate of inflation.

4) The cost of college textbooks has tripled over the past decade.

5) The student loan default rate has doubled since 2005 and will soon triple.

6) 15 percent of all students that graduate with student loan debt end up defaulting within 3 years of making their first student loan payment.

7)  Federal statistics reveal that only 40 percent of the full-time students who began college in 2001 received a bachelor's degree within four years.

8) 33 percent of college grads end up taking jobs that don't even require college degrees.

9) In the United States today, over  100,000 janitors that have college degrees.

10) In the United States today, over 450,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.

11) In the United States today, over 360,000 cashiers now have college degrees.

12) Today in 2011 there are more then 8 million college grads under 25 living with their parents because they have a diploma, but can't find a job.

13)  Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households for the ages of 25 to 34 have fallen by about 12 percent, while college costs have increased by 50 percent in the last ten years.

14) The only way 99 percent of college grads will be able to pay off their college loans in their life time is to win the Lottery.