dec 21 2017
whole foods market, sedona, arizona
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Hi kristin-
Listen, I've decided to withdraw my employment interest in working for Whole Foods for the time being.
Any corporation or business that requires or FORCES its employees to have a phone number just to be
able to complete an online application process is not worthy of being my employer.
FORCED phone number policies are being used by Facebook, Twitter, Google Gmail and most recently
by E-bay/Paypal in order to conduct transactions, business and online communications- among other things.
It now seems like Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon (and receives hundreds of millions of dollars
from the CIA) is instituting similiar measures with regards to prospective employees. I'm sorry, but
its NOT a crime to NOT own or use a phone.
I believe FORCED phone numbers are being used by these corporations to ILLEGALLY identify, track,
monitor, record, spy and surveil (both with GPS tracking and via audio records) on all American citizens
who submit to this new business protocol. Its widely known that the personal phone number is being
used today as the PRIME means through which the NSA (the National Security Agency) is ILLEGALLY
spying on the American people. Along with biometric ID cards and FORCED background/drug tests,
these policies are being used to digitally enslave every man, woman and child in this country to a tyrannical
plutocratic electronic digital police state regime that willfully and maliciously violates our core
constitutional civil liberties when it comes to the 4th Amendment and our right to personal privacy. I'm
sad to say that Whole Foods and Amazon seem to have recently joined that dictatorial cabal.
Thus said, there is always space for corporations like WF/Amazon to turn away and reject such
tyrannical practices and policies and learn to respect the privacy and dignity of its employees and its
customers. If and when WF/Amazon turns from its wicked ways, i would be happy to to re-submit my
interest and employment prospects with Whole Foods Market. Whole Foods, on whole, is a great market,
with lots of good employees and products, however, the company also has alot of serious problems and
conflicts of interest to sort out, in my opinion.
I was hoping to partner with WF/Amazon to further pursue the global environmental work and values i am
trying to promote to help salvage what we have left of our beautiful planet. As i stated previously, we have
ALREADY lost roughly 50% of all life on Earth. With support and employment from environmentally conscious
institutions such as WF/Amazon, i was hoping to work with the company to salvage what's left before we descend
into an irreversible downward spiral of species extinction. But, it seems, for now, I will have to take my efforts and
employment elsewhere. Out of respect, though, for the good environmental/organic values that WF/Amazon does
support and endorse, I pass onto the company my online book, SAVING THE PLANET: http://stp.neocities.org
AND my most recent proposal for a GLOBAL MARSHALL PLAN: http://leftcoast7.simplesite.com
to save what's left of our planet.
In summation, I would highly recommend that WF/Amazon abandon its current police state trajectory and learn
to EVOLVE a more sane and survivable business strategy that protects and upholds the right to personal privacy,
as welll as, supports and endorses an environmental ethos that most of your customers expect when doing business
with WF/Amazon.
Regards,
Steve Jones
Global Environmentalist
Sedona, Arizona
USA
cc: WF Customer Service, WF/Amazon CEO's, Green Festivals, Refuse Fascism, Commondreams, Democracy Now!
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Monday, December 18, 2017
Friday, December 8, 2017
'Hot New World': Raging California Wildfires Expose Reality of Climate Threat: 2017
'Hot New World': Raging California Wildfires Expose Reality of Climate Threat 2017:
www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/07/hot-new-world-raging-california-wildfires-expose-reality-climate-threat
As a "once-in-a-generation" firestorm has raged across nearly 90,000 acres in Southern California this week—covering an area about six times the size of Manhattan and forcing more than 100,000 people to evacuate their homes—experts are warning how climate change is fueling fires on the West Coast. LA meteorologist Anthony Yanez tweeted that he has "never seen" the wildfire threat index reach the designation for "extreme," as it did late Wednesday, and quoted Ken Pimlott, director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, who reportedly told NBC, "There will be no ability to fight fires in these winds." Environmentalist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben indicated the elevated threat warning is a consequence of the "hot new world," a reference to an increasingly warming planet being caused by fossil fuel emissions and other human activity. Writing for Pacific Standard earlier this week, meteorologist Eric Holthaus notes even though it's still fire season in Southern California, "the current conditions in Southern California seem exceptional." Describing the largest of the region's five fires, he writes: The Thomas Fire, first identified late Monday night, grew 30-fold in size in just three hours and advanced at a rate of more than an acre per second for 12 hours into neighborhoods in the cities of Santa Paula and Ventura. At the time of the fire, the National Weather Service rated the fire-related weather conditions as "extremely critical," its worst assessment level. Wind speeds near the fire were measured near hurricane force. "This week's Southern California fires will add to an already disastrous fire season," Holthaus concludes, pointing to wildfires in Northern California that killed at least 44 people earlier this year and are collectively "ranked as the worst fire disaster in California history." Images and videos from the fires continue to circulate virally on social media, especially from commuters and evacuees on the 405 and 101 highways. Officials were forced to shut down a section of the 101 early Thursday, which the Los Angeles Times reports left "no more open routes between Santa Barbara and Ventura counties." Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles and writer of the Weather West blog, was among the group of experts who explained to The Verge how rain is essential to quenching the California wildfires, and how scientists believe climate change has contributed to below average rainfall in the region that is likely to persist into the future. "By this time of year, usually, there's been some rain that's wetted things down," Swain said, but in the current warm winter dry spell, "it's just as dry as it was in the summer months." From October to May, strong winds in the upper atmosphere, called the jet stream, typically bring rain storms to California, but National Weather Service meteorologists John Dumas and David Sweet note that so far this year, Los Angeles has seen five percent of its average rainfall, while Burbank has seen even less. In the bottom part of the state, where some areas are enduring a moderate drought, "we're quite parched," Sweet said. As The Verge reports: Storms in the jet stream can get diverted by high-pressure bubbles of warm air. A version of this phenomenon called an "atmospheric ridge" is to blame for Southern California's current dry spell. And even bigger one has started forming along the entire West Coast of the U.S. that could shunt rainfall into Canada or Alaska, Swain writes. "We were dry before and now the prospects for rain look even less likely because of the size of this thing," Sweet says. This is the same atmospheric phenomenon that squatted over the state for three winters in a row during California's record-setting, five-year drought. "The real question is how long it persists," Swains says. During the drought, these ridges lasted for months at a time—but we don't know what's in store for this new one. Even worse news: these atmospheric ridges are getting more common—possibly thanks to human-caused global warming, Swain and his colleagues reported in a 2016 study. "What should make Southern California fearful is that climate change could mean a future of more frequent and more intense wildfires," the Los Angeles Times editorial board wrote this week. "Today's fires will end, and what we do afterward—assessing how to better prepare, and how and whether to rebuild—will influence the damage from the fires next time." But even getting to that point—where policymakers can consider taking further steps to address climate change and plan for future fires—has proven difficult, as evacuations continue and firefighters find it difficult to contain the fires due to weather conditions—particularly the powerful Santa Ana winds that are expected to remain strong throughout Thursday.
www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/07/hot-new-world-raging-california-wildfires-expose-reality-climate-threat
As a "once-in-a-generation" firestorm has raged across nearly 90,000 acres in Southern California this week—covering an area about six times the size of Manhattan and forcing more than 100,000 people to evacuate their homes—experts are warning how climate change is fueling fires on the West Coast. LA meteorologist Anthony Yanez tweeted that he has "never seen" the wildfire threat index reach the designation for "extreme," as it did late Wednesday, and quoted Ken Pimlott, director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, who reportedly told NBC, "There will be no ability to fight fires in these winds." Environmentalist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben indicated the elevated threat warning is a consequence of the "hot new world," a reference to an increasingly warming planet being caused by fossil fuel emissions and other human activity. Writing for Pacific Standard earlier this week, meteorologist Eric Holthaus notes even though it's still fire season in Southern California, "the current conditions in Southern California seem exceptional." Describing the largest of the region's five fires, he writes: The Thomas Fire, first identified late Monday night, grew 30-fold in size in just three hours and advanced at a rate of more than an acre per second for 12 hours into neighborhoods in the cities of Santa Paula and Ventura. At the time of the fire, the National Weather Service rated the fire-related weather conditions as "extremely critical," its worst assessment level. Wind speeds near the fire were measured near hurricane force. "This week's Southern California fires will add to an already disastrous fire season," Holthaus concludes, pointing to wildfires in Northern California that killed at least 44 people earlier this year and are collectively "ranked as the worst fire disaster in California history." Images and videos from the fires continue to circulate virally on social media, especially from commuters and evacuees on the 405 and 101 highways. Officials were forced to shut down a section of the 101 early Thursday, which the Los Angeles Times reports left "no more open routes between Santa Barbara and Ventura counties." Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles and writer of the Weather West blog, was among the group of experts who explained to The Verge how rain is essential to quenching the California wildfires, and how scientists believe climate change has contributed to below average rainfall in the region that is likely to persist into the future. "By this time of year, usually, there's been some rain that's wetted things down," Swain said, but in the current warm winter dry spell, "it's just as dry as it was in the summer months." From October to May, strong winds in the upper atmosphere, called the jet stream, typically bring rain storms to California, but National Weather Service meteorologists John Dumas and David Sweet note that so far this year, Los Angeles has seen five percent of its average rainfall, while Burbank has seen even less. In the bottom part of the state, where some areas are enduring a moderate drought, "we're quite parched," Sweet said. As The Verge reports: Storms in the jet stream can get diverted by high-pressure bubbles of warm air. A version of this phenomenon called an "atmospheric ridge" is to blame for Southern California's current dry spell. And even bigger one has started forming along the entire West Coast of the U.S. that could shunt rainfall into Canada or Alaska, Swain writes. "We were dry before and now the prospects for rain look even less likely because of the size of this thing," Sweet says. This is the same atmospheric phenomenon that squatted over the state for three winters in a row during California's record-setting, five-year drought. "The real question is how long it persists," Swains says. During the drought, these ridges lasted for months at a time—but we don't know what's in store for this new one. Even worse news: these atmospheric ridges are getting more common—possibly thanks to human-caused global warming, Swain and his colleagues reported in a 2016 study. "What should make Southern California fearful is that climate change could mean a future of more frequent and more intense wildfires," the Los Angeles Times editorial board wrote this week. "Today's fires will end, and what we do afterward—assessing how to better prepare, and how and whether to rebuild—will influence the damage from the fires next time." But even getting to that point—where policymakers can consider taking further steps to address climate change and plan for future fires—has proven difficult, as evacuations continue and firefighters find it difficult to contain the fires due to weather conditions—particularly the powerful Santa Ana winds that are expected to remain strong throughout Thursday.
Thursday, December 7, 2017
US Dept of Homeland Security: America's Nazi Gestapo
December 21, 2017
The US Dept of Homeland Security, located in Washington, DC, is America's Nazi Gestapo.
America is now a fascist, dictatorial Nazi Police State- a literal 4th Reich in the world today.
The TSA (Transportation Security Agency), an offshoot of the DHS (Dept of Homeland Security), is conducting ILLEGAL
searches and seizures of US citizens and their personal belongings at most of our airports today.
As long as the American people cooperate with this level of illegal police state intrusion, it will persist.
To the degree that US citizens DO NOT cooperate and challenge the TSA at our airports, so shall this illegal,
criminal, over-militarized system of oppression and control be destroyed and overthrown.
DO NOT willingly agree to a forced pat-down, DO NOT go through a radiation scanner, which produces a full-body biometric scan and is then entered into an ILLEGAL biometric DHS/NSA database. DO NOT willingly handover your facial, fingerprint and/or iris scan to any official of the TSA at our airports in order to travel domestically, and especially, internationally. The 4th Amendment of the US Constitution is the LAW here in America. This amendment states that all US citizens are protected from any and all unreasonable and unwarranted searches and seizures. This is the LAW. The TSA, is therefore, engaged in ILLEGAL and CRIMINAL police state activity against your fundamental civil liberties and rights as American citizens.
It is NOW time to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate all agents of the TSA at our airports and put them in JAIL for the rest of their lives for the CRIMES that they have all willfully and maliciously committed against the laws and rights of the American people. There is ZERO-TOLERANCE for a fascist, nazi police state in America (or anywhere in any nation on this planet in the early 21st century). As the JEWS said after World War 2: "Never Again".
Its time for ALL Americans also to stand up NOW and say "Never Again". There will be no trade off of our liberty for any suspicious activity that strips us of our freedoms. The DHS/TSA are, in fact, using the false pretenses of "safety" and "security" to strip the American people of their constitutional civil liberties and corral us all into a digital enslavement Nazi police state network of total surveillance and control.
DO NOT willingly agree to a forced pat-down, DO NOT go through a radiation scanner, which produces a full-body biometric scan and is then entered into an ILLEGAL biometric DHS/NSA database. DO NOT willingly handover your facial, fingerprint and/or iris scan to any official of the TSA at our airports in order to travel domestically, and especially, internationally. The 4th Amendment of the US Constitution is the LAW here in America. This amendment states that all US citizens are protected from any and all unreasonable and unwarranted searches and seizures. This is the LAW. The TSA, is therefore, engaged in ILLEGAL and CRIMINAL police state activity against your fundamental civil liberties and rights as American citizens.
It is NOW time to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate all agents of the TSA at our airports and put them in JAIL for the rest of their lives for the CRIMES that they have all willfully and maliciously committed against the laws and rights of the American people. There is ZERO-TOLERANCE for a fascist, nazi police state in America (or anywhere in any nation on this planet in the early 21st century). As the JEWS said after World War 2: "Never Again".
Its time for ALL Americans also to stand up NOW and say "Never Again". There will be no trade off of our liberty for any suspicious activity that strips us of our freedoms. The DHS/TSA are, in fact, using the false pretenses of "safety" and "security" to strip the American people of their constitutional civil liberties and corral us all into a digital enslavement Nazi police state network of total surveillance and control.
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