The following are some really sobering statistics about crime in the United States....

*There are nearly 12 million crimes committed in the United States every single year.  That is by far the worst in the world.  No other country has more than about 6 million reported crimes per year.

*There are currently over 2.2 million people in prison in the United States.  The U.S. leads the world in the number of prisoners and in the percentage of the population in prison. The United States has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's incarcerated population.

*The United States also has 100,000 rapes every single year.  That is the highest number for any of the countries in the United Nations.

*There are approximately 500,000 robberies in the United States every single year.  However, this is only the second highest number among the countries belonging to the United Nations.

*There are about one million police officers in the United States - the highest number in the world.

*There are over 17,000 murders in the United States every single year, and that number is only going to go up as the economy crashes and people become more desperate.

*There are over 1.2 million car thefts in the United States every single year - by far the most in the world.

*One out of every five people is a victim of a crime every year in the United States.  Once again, this is the worst rate in the world.

The following is from the manufacturer's own description of this toy set.....

The woman traveler stops by the security checkpoint. After placing her luggage on the screening machine, the airport employee checks her baggage. The traveler hands her spare change and watch to the security guard and proceeds through the metal detector.

While this may seem like a perfectly innocent toy to most people, the reality is that it is just another example of how even the youngest Americans are being conditioned to submit to the emerging Big Brother police state.  Fascists thugs dressed in black will rule over us as we cower before our technocratic overlords - all in the name of safety.

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Overall, there were allegations of sexual abuse of inmates by prison staff at all but 1 of the 93 prison sites under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Prisons.  In addition, there were allegations of sexual abuse of inmates against staff in every single occupational category except human resources.

So what does this all mean?  It means that this is a very, very widespread problem. 

The rape and sexual abuse of prisoners by U.S. federal prison staff is a systemic problem and it is growing.

But of course the sexual abuse by prison staff pales in comparison to what prisoners are doing to each other.

In 2007, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report entitled: “Sexual Victimization in State and Federal Prisons Reported by Inmates, 2007”.  According to that report, a whopping 4.5 percent of the state and federal prisoners surveyed actually admitted that they had been sexually victimized during the past 12 months.  The shame of being raped is a huge factor in cases, such as these, so it is likely that even this number understates the reality of the problem. 

But even if you just take the 4.5 percent number, the implications are staggering.  Assuming a national prison population of about 1.5 million prisoners, the BJS report suggests that in just one year alone more than 70,000 prison inmates were raped or sexually abused.

So the next time that you consider doing something that could end up with you behind bars, perhaps you should consider these statistics.  The reality is that U.S. prisons and NOT safe and they are full of sexual perverts.  It is a silent tragedy that goes on every single day across the nation, and government officials have been extremely slow to do anything about it.

So now that addicts do not have to fear going to jail, is this going to help solve Mexico's drug problem or is it going to make it worse?

Are the drug gangs that are terrorizing northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. suddenly going to stop selling drugs?

Hardly.

If anything, this will make things worse, because now people in Mexico will not be afraid to buy drugs, so there will be more of a market.

As if the gang problem in the U.S. and Mexico was not bad enough already.

U.S. authorities claim that there are now over 1 million members of criminal gangs inside the United States. According to federal statistics, these 1 million gang members are responsible for up to 80% of the crimes committed in the U.S. each year.

Those numbers are absolutely staggering.

And the reality is that gangs are not just for the big cities anymore either. Smaller U.S. cities such as Omaha, Nebraska and Nashville, Tennessee have a devastating gang problem. According to USAToday, 58% of state and local law enforcement agencies reported that violent criminal gangs were active in their local areas last year, up from 45% in 2004.

The truth is that urban America is absolutely overrun with gang violence. When the gangs are not killing each other, they are raping, murdering and intimidating the peaceful communities around them. Wherever gangs are active, home invasions are very common and drug dealing is rampant.

Now there are many areas in the U.S. where you simply DO NOT go out of your house at night. People in those areas are literally prisoners in their own homes.

The current economic turmoil is just making the situation that much worse. You have a horde of young men that cannot get jobs and that do not see a positive future for themselves in American society.

So what do they do?

In many cases, they join gangs.

The United States pushed God out of their schools and out of public life, so this is one of the results.  We now live in a nation where an increasing number of young men are turning to gangs and crime.

The young men of America have become godless, brutal and violent.  This is another sign that the U.S. is quickly becoming a cesspool of godlessness.  In 2 Timothy 3:1-4, it describes how people will be in the last days.....

"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God"

The reality is that this nation is becoming more dangerous every day.

So what do you do if you live some place where gangs have taken control?

Well, either you move or you get some serious security.  Things are not going to get any better any time soon, and we all need to understand that.

Once upon a time, Americans would have never thought that they would be endangered at a public political event. Back in the old days, Americans were civil with each other and while they certainly did debate the issues hard, they generally never attempted to threaten, intimidate or physically attack the other side.

But the reality now is that the Democrats and Republicans absolutely HATE each other, and an increasing number of people hate both political parties.

Trust is breaking down. People don't trust the government and the government does not trust the people. Employers don't trust their employees and employees don't trust their employers. People even seem less likely to trust their own family and friends than ever before.

The truth is that you can't have society without trust. As trust continues to break down, society will continue to unravel.

And the sad thing is that the American people have very good reasons not to trust politicians anymore. Both political parties have lied to the American people over and over and over and over, and ordinary Americans are waking up and are getting completely sick and tired of it.

Perhaps you are skeptical. The following is a collection of YouTube videos that should prove to you beyond any doubt that the American people are getting angrier at both political parties than we have ever seen in our lifetimes.....

#1) Tampa, Florida

#2) Elkhart County, Indiana

#3) Detroit

#4) Austin, Texas

#5) Philadelphia

#6) Arkansas

#7) St. Louis

#8) Romulus, Michigan

#9) Denver

#10) Mehville, Missouri

#11) Troy, Michigan

#12) Maryland

The reality is that the American people are steamed. They are upset about health care, cap and trade, taxes, deficits, personal security, jobs and a whole host of other issues that members of both parties have been lying about for years.

Instead of addressing those concerns, the politicians in Washington are dismissing the protesters and in some cases even calling them names.  That is not going to help things.

Perhaps the politicians could try something different and actually listen to their constituents.  But we all know that is very unlikely to happen.

As you watch this video, try to think about what you can do to improve the security of your home and workplace.....

What do you all think about this safety video? Feel free to leave a comment below.....

 
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“Bjornstad, who was jolted for 1.5 seconds as part of his training, said all of his muscles contracted and the shock was like a finger in a light socket many times over. “Anyone who has experienced this will remember it forever…You don’t want to do this. It is very uncomfortable…and that’s an understatement.” (The Olympian, 14 October 2002)

“It’s like getting punched 100 times in a row.” (The Olympian, 2 March 2002)

“It felt terrible…it hurts. I’m going to think twice before I use this on anyone.” (Mobile Register, 8 April 2002)

“It’s the most profound pain I have ever felt. You get total compliance because they don’t want that pain again.” (Associated Press, 12 August 2003)

“They call it the longest five seconds of their life…its extreme pain, there’s no question about it.” (The Kalazazoo Gazette, 7 March 2004)

While tasers are supposed to be "non-lethal", the reality is that hundreds of victims have been killed by tasers.  The truth is that when a situation turns physical, it can be way too easy, even for trained police, to go overboard. 

The following YouTube video is of Police taser training in Riverside, Ohio. Police Officers there are required to be tased before they can carry a taser. By experiencing how incredibly painful it is, hopefully it will make them a little bit more hesitant to deploy it.

One of the disturbing trends in the United States is the increasing use of tasers by police officers in schools.

It has been documented that police officers patrol schools with tasers in Kansas, Minnesota, Kentucky, Virginia and Florida.

In 2004, the parents of a 6 year old child in Miami sued the police because they actually tasered their little boy.

But even with all of the abuses, the truth is that a taser is an effective, non-lethal way to escape a dangerous situation.

Deploying a taser for three to five seconds will deliver a high voltage shock to your attacker causing a loss of balance and muscle control, confusion, and disorientation

It will bring him to his knees and making him incapable of further aggressive activity.

And sometimes that is all you need to get out of a bad situation.

The NSA has officially confirmed that Pinwale exists, although they are refusing to talk about the latest allegations or about how the database works.

Supporting these latest allegations is the whistleblower testimony of a former N.S.A. analyst who claims to have been trained in 2005 for a program in which the NSA routinely intercepted and examined millions of domestic emails without court warrants.

According to the Guardian, two other intelligence officials have confirmed that the program is still in operation.

Representative Rush Holt, Democrat from New Jersey and the chairman of the House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel had this to say about the NSA's actions:

“Some actions are so flagrant that they can’t be accidental.”

Kevin Bankston, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was even more bluntin his assessment of the NSA's snooping: "Ordinary Americans' most private emails have been and still are being intercepted in bulk and then stored in secret NSA databases, without probable cause."

But the reality is that the NSA is not just satisfied with snooping on your emails.

Now the NSA is creating an artificial intelligence system called "Aquaint" that will literally intercept information from thousands of websites and databases to figure out not only who you are and what you are doing, but also what you are thinking.

Aquaint ("Advanced QUestion Answering for INTelligence") is being designed to collect information from cell phones, credit card receipts, social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, GPS devices, Google searches, Amazon book purchases and even E-Z Pass toll records to give government agents information on where you are, what you are doing and what you are thinking.

Oh, you didn't think that the U.S. government could do that?

Oh, you didn't think that the U.S. government was ALLOWED to do that?

Think again.

Welcome to the 21st century - the century of "Big Brother".  It is a century in which ideas such as "personal privacy" and "personal security" are considered to be outdated concepts by the governing authorities.

The truth is that Acquaint is being designed to be so incredibly intrusive that at least one researcher has left the project because of concerns about what it is evolving into.

Imagine what a technology like this could mean if it fell into the wrong hands.

It is time to face the fact that we are nearing the end of the "open society".

Each day America sinks deeper towards becoming a scientific technocracy where "Big Brother" will rule all, but most Americans still do not seem to care.

Most Americans still do not seem to realize that their personal security and the security of their families is directly tied into their privacy.

How can Americans ever feel free if every single thing that they do is watched, tracked and traced?

The reality is that if we continue down this road as a society, then we will truly cease to be "the land of the free".

Obvious Tip 1- Install a firewall.  A firewall acts as a barrier between your home computer and the internet. It can help screen out unauthorized access and can log attempts to enter your system.

Obvious Tip 2 - Choose Passwords that are not obvious.  Make it difficult for programs that are specially written to crack your password. Don't use words you can find in the dictionary, or obvious things like the name of your child, your pet's name or your month of birth.  Have a book with the record of your passwords to different forums or on line magazines ect.

Obvious Tip 3 Be cautious attachments. Don't open e-mails and attachments from people you do not know.  Make sure your e-mail program isn't set to automatically download attachments.

Tip 2 Spyware scanners- Spyware are programs that monitor your computer use, or look for personal data stored on your computer. It can be installed on your computer without your knowledge, sometimes through free programs downloaded from the internet, or peer-to-peer file sharing. Some spyware can hijack your home page or redirect your web searches. Others can cause pop-up ads out of the blue. These programs do slow down your computer.  Others can record a user's keystrokes and gain access to passwords and financial information.

Tip 3 Having A Secure Wireless Network

Having a wireless network that is not secure is like leaving your doors wide open while you are sleeping at night, with signs that say "robb me"  Even if you have a firewall, but do not protect the wireless end of your system, anyone will be able to access your computer or network. Someone with bad motives could use your with malicious intent can use your internet connection to attack other systems, or download illegal material such as child pornography.

 
Tip 4 Secure your Internet browser under Internet Options. Turn off features that allow automatic downloads, and turn on your browser's built-in security features. Get a blocker to stop those pop-up banners, and don't click on links in those pop-ups.

Tip 5 Make backups of important files onto separate disks. Just don't store it on your computer.  If you have sensitive pictures, take them off of your computer.  If you have sensitive material, such as financial statements, store them on disk.  Not only if your computer crashes, you have a back up disk, but also if by chance someone gains access to your computer there is nothing left to take.  

Tip 6.  Our electricity bill dropped 20 dollars by turning our computers off while we sleep.  To be honest, our older computers took some time to boot in the morning so we figured to leave them going.  We got into the habit of turning it off, and not only did our monthly bill drop, but disconnecting our computers from the internet reduced the chance an intruder will be able to access our system.

For any of you who doubt this, please watch the incredibly shocking news report below.....

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

Did that get your attention?

The reality is that cell phone conversations never have been private and they never will be.

Not only does your cell phone company potentially have access to your phone whenever they want, but the U.S. government actually screens all phone calls in order to "protect" all of us from terrorism.

If you doubt that the U.S. government does this, just see what happens if you make a joking remark about airport security over a cell phone while you are headed to get on a plane.

It is likely that you will be picked up within minutes.

But as you witnessed in the video above, an even more frightening scenario is that stalkers and criminals can get complete access to your calls and personal conversations if they can get spy software on to your phone.

And with more cell phones than ever connecting to the Internet, that little hurdle is now easier to overcome.

Not only can stalkers and criminals listen to all of your cell phone calls with spy software, but they can also listen to your personal conversations even when your phone is completely turned off.

They can even listen to you at home in your most private moments.

And thanks to GPS cell phone tracking, stalkers can even constantly follow your location 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Not that cell phones are bad.

You just need to be aware of their limitations.

Cell phones are not private and they probably never will be.

Cell phone tracking and cell phone stalking are realities that you need to be aware of if you are going to own and use a cell phone. Cell phones can be very useful, especially in emergency situations, but it is important to understand that they are not a completely secure form of communication.