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Operation Defuse Research Intern – Qualifications/Requirements
1. Genuinely interested in the following subjects / enjoys researching / willingness to scour government documents and websites
-fusion centers
-taser abuse
-dhs
-fbi
-databases
-data breaches
-private/public information sharing
-fema
-war on terror
-war on drugs
-surveillance
-redlight traffic cameras
-open records requests
2. Willing to dedicate a minimum of 5 hours per week to researching and documenting your research
3. Understands good citation / research practices, or is willing to learn
4. Willing to help put research into digestible formats such as power point, online wiki technology, spreadsheets, basic 1/4 page fliers, and blogs
5. Has steady access to a computer with Internet
6. Can make one weekly conference call
7. Willing to dedicate 6 months
8. Willing to teach others who are interested in helping
9. Good at Internet research
10. Willing to document their time spent researching and submit weekly
11. Willing to help Operation Defuse State Coordinators with research
Missouri Legislative Intern – Qualifications/Requirements
1. Genuinely interested in learning about the Missouri legislature / willing to pay close attention in 2010
2. Willing to dedicate a minimum of 5 hours per week to researching and blogging about current Missouri Legislation
3. Willing to track specific legislation (10th amendment, nullification, privacy), mobilizing folks to action through the LRP blog, facebook and twitter when needed
4. Willing to help put research into digestible formats such as power point, online wiki technology, spreadsheets, basic 1/4 page fliers
5. Has steady access to a computer with Internet
6. Can make one weekly conference call
7. Willing to dedicate 6 months
8. Willing to teach others who are interested in helping
9. Good at Internet research, willing to contact legislative offices for more details by telephone
10. Willing to document their time spent researching and submit weekly
11. Willing to network with other Missouri grassroots organizations and activists
Benefits
1. The opportunity to learn a *lot* about a subject most people in our movement aren’t yet aware of – basically within one month of research you’d be one of the top fusion center experts in the country.
2. Networking with some of the top activists in the country – great way to launch your role in the activist community.
3. Become a part of a dynamic partnership of two of the most successful grassroots organizations, LRP and TAG – see how we operate – learn how to do what we do.
4. Letters of recommendation from LRP, TAG and potentially dozens of other grassroots organizations who you interact with during the process.
5. If you are a college student, I can work with your university or college to secure you college credit for your internship – the amount of credit hours will likely depend on how many hours you give per week – I still had to pay for my internship college credits when I was in college, too..
6. Build your resume / find potential career contacts
7. Become an official part of the LRP “team” – (photo and bio up on our website!)
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments as well as national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development.
(READ MORE AND WHAT TO DO IN THE ARTICLE POSTED AT THE BOTTOM BY TOM DEWEESE)
Missouri Dues Paying Member Cities (paid with your tax dollars):
Olivette, MO, U.S.A.
Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
University City, MO, U.S.A.
Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Creve Coeur, MO, U.S.A.
Here are the “partners” of the organization:
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Metropolis
World Economic Forum
Clinton Climate Initiative
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
UNFCCC Logo
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Climate Group
World Bankorld Conservation Union (IUCN)
REEEP – Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
Global Footprint Network
International Centre for Sustainable Cities
Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative
Remove ICLEI – Restore the Republic!
Monday, August 24, 2009
Many Americans ask how dangerous international policies can suddenly turn up in state and local government, all seemingly uniform to those in communities across the nation and around the globe.
The answer – meet ICLEI, a non-profit, private foundation, dedicated to helping your mayor implement all of his promises. Originally known as the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), today the group simply calls itself “ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability.”
In 1992, ICLEI was one of the groups instrumental in creating Agenda 21. The group’s mission is to push local communities to regulate the environment – and it’s having tremendous success.
I have included a list of 544 American cities in which ICLEI is being paid with tax dollars from city councils to implement and enforce Sustainable Development. ICLEI is there to assure that the mayors keep their promises and meet their goals. Climate change, of course, is the ICLEI mantra.
Read the rest here: http://deweesereport.com/index.php?p=post&id=2
Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project
http://www.LibertyRestorationProject.org/
blog: http://www.donttreadoncat.com/
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DontTreadOnMe
Freedom reaches across party lines.
Update by Kevin:
Kansas Member Cities:
Lawrence
Mission
Overland Park
Prairie Village
Illinois Member Cities:
Carol Stream
Chicago
Elmhurst
Lake Forest
Northbrook
Oswego
Plainfield
Rock Island
Springfield
Urbana
For a list of all member cities, click here
Press Release
For Immediate Release
Liberty Restoration Project delivers “Sunshine Law” request to Jefferson City regarding Police document.
Kansas City, MO. March 16th, 2009:
Today representatives of the Liberty Restoration Project (LRP) hand delivered a “Sunshine Law” request to 3 offices in Jefferson City. The Sunshine Law in Missouri is a version of the Federal Freedom of Information Act that allows groups to petition for information. This request was delivered to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s office, Missouri Highway Patrol office and State Emergency Management office. The LRP is operating as a mouthpiece to a national “Freedom Movement” that feels that a document released by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) on February 20th, 2009, has placed a peaceful movement into the same groupings as “Paramilitary”, white supremacists, hate groups and unconstitutional Militia. This document was released to the Missouri Highway Patrol offices and was released from the desk of Governor Nixon’s desk. This document was leaked to the public by someone who obtained it from their law enforcement agency.
The document in question is being criticized by the freedom movement because of such generalized information provided in the document. The document was written as a training tool for the police to be able to identify Militia members and protect officers as well and citizens. Instead the document managed to label anyone with a political view that differs from the two party designs. This document indicates current Texas Congressman Ron Paul as an icon for the Paramilitary movement, as well as displaying an inverted American flag, or having copies of documentaries that discuss issues that are relevant to the freedom movement. This document indicates that displaying a 3rd Party bumper sticker, or a “Gadsden Flag”, or even carrying a copy of the United States Constitution could be considered “political paraphernalia”. The freedom movement as a whole feels that this document will allow Missouri police to profile vehicles, individuals, organizations, or even political figures as “radical” or “extremists”, and will infringe upon a person’s 1st amendment right to express their views. The most immediate threat to this peaceful group will come at the end of March when Congressman Ron Paul will hold a regional conference in St. Louis, MO. This conference will bring in hundreds of supporters into Missouri, and now most are fearful of being singled out and profiled against, and potentially having their rights violated by the police, all because of a generalized and poorly informed document.
The Liberty Restoration Project is requesting on behalf of a national freedom movement for a retraction of this document, and a formal apology from the Governor, MIAC, and the Missouri Highway Patrol. The Liberty Restoration Project in Kansas City will extend a hand in drafting information that will not only clarify a position of a freedom movement, but also assist in better informing law enforcement officials in hopes to protect our peacekeeping officers and citizens.
For More information about the LRP, please visit: www.libertyrestorationproject.org
Please contact Bryon Huber at: 816-739-8064
Attached you will find the Sunshine Law request that was submitted.
Full MIAC report can be found at : http://www.scribd.com/doc/13232178/MIAC-Strategic-Report-The-Modern-Militia-Movement
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United,
Bryon Huber
Director of Public Relations
Liberty Restoration Project
www.libertyrestorationproject.org
Today, five major record labels sell 80% of the music in the entire world. These companies are BMG, Sony Music, AOL/Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, and EMI. Each of these companies has purchased many smaller labels on its way to a major share in what is fast becoming the monopoly of the music business. MCA Records, which gave us such names as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, is now a small part of the French record giant, Vivendi. Vivendi also owns Mercury Nashville and Universal Records. Former giant Capitol Records, the label which gave us The Beatles and The Beach Boys, is now controlled, alongside several others, by EMI.
In the past, DJs selected the music that they played over the air. Currently, every DJ is given a playlist. Certain songs must be played every hour, and others, every half hour.
So what does this mean for the average consumer of popular music? As is typically the case with monopolies, prices have increased and variety, arguably as well as quality of product, has gone down. Artists with talent, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, have been replaced on the “main stage,” by sensational, fly-by-night one-hit wonders such as Britney Spears, Ricky Martin, N’Sync, and The Backstreet Boys. Music with substance has been replaced with the pop-star image. The conglomerates are less concerned with developing lasting talent, and instead concerned with furthering a “get rich quick” formula. The result, in my honest opinion, is a decline in the quality and substance of the music.
Countering this centralization and subsequent decline in quality is the emergence in recent years of the internet as a medium for music. The record companies, as of now, do not own the internet, and the price for a band to create its own website is relatively small, compared to the costs of getting radio stations to play the music. Artists and bands such as Blackberry Smoke, Poker Face, Aimee Allen, and Cross Canadian Ragweed, now have an avenue to advertise their music to the consumers.
Over the past several years, the media in our nation has become more centralized, with less regard for truth, diversity, and freedom, instead placing emphasis on unification of thought. Critical thinking is no longer valued as essential to the development of a healthy mind. Instead, “go along to get along,” seems to be the phrase of the day. As fewer people have gained control of the education system, the music and film industry, and cable television stations and networks, quality has declined, prices have increased, and political correctness has taken precedence over diversity of thought and constitutional liberty. Over the next several weeks, I will focus on how the media and education system have attempted to control public opinion, providing an analysis of the effects of centralization, followed by a free individual’s call to action. Enjoy!
