Posted on January 7, 2008 by anotheropinionatedyouth
According to Privacy International, the United States has dropped from Extensive to Endemic, now tied with China, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, and the UK(with the UK being more-or-less the worst in the free world). But never fear! We are still number one in a few things. They are:
* Legal protections
* Privacy enforcement
* Use of [...]
Filed under: Knowledge, Overseas, Politics, United States | Tagged: endemic, government, identity, legal, monitoring, Politics, protection, surveillance, theft | No Comments »
Posted on November 29, 2007 by anotheropinionatedyouth
From court.shrock.org
First, you have the shoe manufacturers (SM1, SM2, and SM3). SM1 and SM2 get together and form the SMAA (Shoe Makers Association of America). The SMAA is an organization concerned with one thing only–self preservation–it uses private contracts and proprietary specifications to lock out competitors.
SM1 and SM2 start selling all of their shoes with [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2007 by anotheropinionatedyouth
A man was tasered for asking why he was pulled over at a traffic stop September 15th. The full story is here and the video is below.
We had 150 taser-related ‘incidents’ last year and an incredible amount of unresolved cases. There was the tasering of a 6 year old, a 9 year old, a [...]
Filed under: Knowledge, Personal, Politics, Technology, taser | Tagged: cops, death, police, Polish, Politics, taser, UCLA | No Comments »
Posted on November 20, 2007 by anotheropinionatedyouth
I have added two links on the right side of my page for your perusal. One of them being the acclaimed Political Compass website, which rejects the traditional left-right scale and adds another, and the more in depth 3-Line Quiz, which adds another dimension to the scale. If you don’t really know your own ‘alignment’ [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2007 by anotheropinionatedyouth
Congress.org is a website that tracks what each individual Congressman is voting on, recording every vote. On the link to the right of my page(under politics), you can have these votes emailed to you. I personally see it as a great way to determine the track record of your representatives and senators, without more than [...]
Filed under: Knowledge, Politics | Tagged: committee, congress, congress.org, power, record, representatives, senate, senator, voting | No Comments »
Posted on November 17, 2007 by anotheropinionatedyouth
Unfortunately, our military seems to underestimate the Chinese, especially their technology. Deployed with a battle fleet during exercises, the 160 ft Song Class slipped through a contingency of at least a dozen warships and 2 of our own submarines undetected, then proceeded to go into visible attack range before surfacing. The U.S.S. Kitty Hawk is [...]
Filed under: Knowledge, Overseas, Technology | Tagged: carrier, China, government, Navy, outdated, ships, Song Class, submarine, super carrier, Technology, USS Kitty Hawk | 4 Comments »
Posted on November 16, 2007 by anotheropinionatedyouth
At 8 AM Wednesday, November 14, the FBI assaulted the Sunshine Mint in an effort to control the distribution of the massively-popular Liberty Dollar. In short, the Liberty Dollar is money which is completely inflation-proof, and 100% backed by gold and/or silver. Their main goal is education of the Federal Reserve and the distribution of [...]
Filed under: Knowledge, Politics | Tagged: liberty, Federal Reserve, liberty dollar, dollar, sunshine, mint, gold, silver, currency, FBI, theft | No Comments »
Posted on November 14, 2007 by anotheropinionatedyouth
From Spring.org.uk - What psychological experiment could be so powerful that simply taking part might change your view of yourself and human nature? What experimental procedure could provoke some people to profuse sweating and trembling, leaving 10% extremely upset, while others broke into unexplained hysterical laughter? What finding could be so powerful that it sent [...]
Filed under: Knowledge, Personal, taser | Tagged: Milgram, psychology, WWII, cruelty, Stanley Milgram, Yale University, Yale, experiment, obedience, conformity | No Comments »
Posted on November 13, 2007 by anotheropinionatedyouth
Should You Vote For Ron Paul?
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Great video on why you shouldn’t vote Ron Paul.
I would post this in the page, but I can’t seem to get it to work. if anyone could let me know how to do that(without an external plugin) I would greatly appreciate it.
On a separate note, Google “myspace blocks ron paul”. [...]
Filed under: Knowledge, Politics | Tagged: against Ron Paul, google, myspace blocks ron paul, Politics, research, Ron Paul, satire, voting | 12 Comments »
Posted on November 10, 2007 by anotheropinionatedyouth
Although blessed by the donations on Guy Fawkes Night totaling $4.3 million dollars(the largest amount EVER raised online), this December 16th another grassroots effort is rising to help his campaign. On the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, http://teaparty07.com/ is asking people to, once again, donate $100 to his campaign.
We need him.
He needs us.
I [...]
Filed under: Knowledge, Politics | Tagged: Politics, Ron Paul, December 16th, Guy Fawkes Night, moneybomb, money bomb, boston tea party | No Comments »