Many automobile dealerships are using a new technology that enables them to “turn your car off”. By installing a “black box” under the dashboard they can remotely disable the ignition and make the horn honk. It is being used to remind customers that their payment is overdue or disables the ignition so they can repossess the car.
Companies like Pay Technologies provide the devices to car dealerships. It also includes GPS tracking device so dealerships know where the car is at all times.
The fact that this remote immobilization system is vulnerable to hackers also brings to mind that “BIG BROTHER” could easily use this technology to track you down. Ken McEldowney, executive director of Consumer Action, a national non-profit group based in San Francisco said, “It just sounds like Big Brother run amok. There’s got to be a more respectful, less intrusive way of doing this that isn’t so demeaning. I think it’s the level of control that bothers me”
Although the system will not stop a running car (that would be dangerous), it could leave you stranded in a remote area or in a dangerous situation. It was designed to deter repo’s and, if payments are not made, make it easier for dealerships to locate, disable and repossess a car when the customer is in default.
Spring is sprung and it’s time to start your seedlings for a robust garden. Get some Peat Pots
and some good soil and start your seeds to be planted in your garden. Grow what your family will eat and maybe enough to trade or share with neighbors.
Get the seeds started in peat pots and get your garden ready by either tilling a garden spot or building a raised garden. You can also buy ready made DIY raised gardens: Frame It All Raised Vegetable Garden 4 Foot x 8 Foot
Make sure you have good soil. Get a compost bin or build one for future fertilizer.
Visit the website of your local Cooperative Extension for a gardening calendar of planting times/seasons of different crops that will thrive in your region.
Get your garden growing and have confidence that if there should be food shortages this year, that your family will be fed wholesome organic food.
National forecasters and emergency managers warned Tuesday that the Upper Midwest faces a second spring of “potentially historic flooding” with the melting of snow and ice from El Niño-driven winter storms.
Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. “They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran” ~Dan Plesch, director, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, University of London
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore … famous phrase from the 1976 movie “Network” …
As an American citizen, just how much are WE THE PEOPLE going to sit back and take?
1. The collapse of the US economy and the US dollar
2. Rising poverty and unemployment in the US
3. Continuous and impending wars … the war machine which costs us billions each year
4. Unsafe food, unsafe cars, unsafe water
5. Millions of Americans loosing their homes to foreclosure
6. Rising food prices, predicted near future food shortages (see Fungus Spores Bringing Starvation)
7. Rising fuel prices
8. The continuing loss of our privacy, our individual rights, our freedom, our Country
9. The escalating march towards “the New World Order”
10. A redefinition of religious freedom in America
The Constitution of the United States of America and our Bill of Rights were and are and should be the basic building blocks and steadfast rules of our society. These documents, upon which The United States was created, are being ignored, abused, refused and aborted in today’s government.
WE THE PEOPLE need to remember these documents and the individual empowerment that was granted to us as citizens to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. WE THE PEOPLE need to remember that the power is ours, not the “politicians” or the elitists, and that they are OUR servants and not the other way around. We are not “WE THE SHEEPLE”, blindly accepting the tyranny that is being forced upon us, falling prey to the scare tactics the constantly bombard us with, or rolling over and lying helpless as all our human rights are being stolen from us.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America!
We are Patriots, citizens of these United States, who EMPLOY the President and all the government officials to SERVE US in a manner that WE find acceptable to promote the general welfare and secure blessing of LIBERTY!
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us. ~John F. Kennedy
By the way, since they are OUR servants, and since they are our employees don’t you think it’s about time that we give them a benefits and salary review, performance review and decide if their employment should be terminated for “breach of contract”, inability to perform job responsibilities, or misconduct. They all took an oath to SERVE us … we are not their slaves or indentured servants.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. ~John F. Kennedy
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. ~Adlai Stevenson
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. ~John F. Kennedy
We need a peaceful but forceful resolution … a revolution to get back to the fundamental rights and privileges upon which our Republic was founded. We need to stand up and say: “I’M MAD AS HELL, AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!” We need our government to start serving as PUBLIC SERVANTS, and restore and empower THE PEOPLE, once again.
or build one for future fertilizer.
that is a wake-up call which covers the momentous issues of tyranny, democracy, and survival in our American society today. 
