New Site, New Look, Old Posts

After almost a year of stagnancy of the website, I have decided that its time to upgrade the site to WordPress. After all This site really is a blog, nothing more, nothing less.

I have decided that its time to upgrade the site and make my life a lot easier and remove a few items from the whole site. The forum is being removed due to inactivity, it has never been active enough to warrant its existence.

All the old urls will be forwarded to the new locations of the articles.

Any part of the website that I have not used or not paid attention to will go by the wayside.

All Ground Zero media video’s will go as I am no longer interested in the show.

The Joomla site has been seperate for months and a link will be made to it, however in upcoming times I will be moving the joomla site and integrating it as part of a software site.

I lost my heart this past year in blogging,  so I want to start to get back to doing it.

My Best

Max

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Eye Test

The Eye Test was designed to test your sight and thinking abilities.

Test Your Eyes

Test Your Eyes

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Carbon tax to cover all B.C. fuels

Written by Tom Fletcher
Feb 20, 2008 at 01:51 AM
The B.C. government will collect an estimated $1.8 billion over the next three years from a new “carbon tax” on all fossil fuels, but Finance Minister Carole Taylor vows it will all be given back to individuals and businesses.

The carbon tax is to take effect July 1, adding an estimated 2.4 cents to a litre of gasoline this year and rising to 7.2 cents by 2012. It will also apply to natural gas, starting at 49.88 cents per gigajoule, and diesel fuel starting at 2.8 cents a litre. Taylor said legislation will be tabled this spring requiring the government to return every dollar collected by the carbon tax. As the carbon tax is phased in over four years, income tax on the first $70,000 of earnings is to be cut two per cent in 2008 and five per cent in 2009.

Lower income people will also receive a “climate action tax credit,” amounting to $100 per year for each adult and $30 for each child. A single person earning $30,000 or less, or a couple earning $35,000 or less, will qualify for the full amount, to be paid quarterly with the GST tax credit starting in June.

Taylor said the tax cuts and credits will “give dollars to individuals to make their own lifestyle choices,” and those who choose fuel efficiency will come out ahead. An average family with a minivan would pay $46 a year in carbon tax, which could be saved by driving 10 km less each week, or weatherstripping doors and windows to cut heat loss, she said.

NDP finance critic Bruce Ralston said the budget exempts major industries from the carbon tax, at least until a carbon trading system comes into place. He also noted that the biggest business tax cut is for financial institutions.

“It’s a great day for banks and big polluters,” Ralston said. “They figured out in 13 months how to make ordinary people pay a carbon tax. There are a few one-time benefits, but the real beneficiaries here are the big banks.”

The government is also sweetening the carbon tax deal with a one-time-only “climate action dividend” of $100, to be sent out in June. People are encouraged to spend it on something that helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but there are no strings attached.

The carbon tax is based on $10 per tonne of carbon emissions, rising by $5 a year to $30 in 2012.

NDP environment critic Shane Simpson questioned whether 2.4 cents per litre on the price of gasoline will be enough to change people’s driving habits. He also noted the government is increasing financial incentives to oil and gas exploration.

The budget also includes $1 billion in government spending on climate change efforts. These include $370 million for public transportation, $57 million for bioenergy and alternative energy such as solar power, $31 million for innovation and carbon storage in forests and related industry, and $49 million to prepare for global warming by improving river flow data and funding flood protection works.

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You Lost My Vote!

I am writing this to inform all elected officials that you have lost my vote. My reasons are simple; you are not for the people, for the truth, and right and honorable things in which our society needs.

You vote against good ideas to make our nation better. You listen to the lobbyists instead of me. I voted you there did I not? Or am I wrong.

I’m tired of voting for people that lie, and say things and do not do it. I am tired of voting for people that think being elected is an entitlement. Its not, it’s a privilege, understand me. Its not a Right. You think your there to serve yourself, wrong, your there to serve me.

I am one of the people that is tired of voting for people that do not have my values. That do not believe that we need to change the way things are done in this world. I am tired of the businesses controlling the world.

The power of the people is going to be happening whether you like it or not. We the people have decided we do not believe in your level of ethics. You don’t have the morals and ethics that I have.

You do not believe that we need to get rid of Gas power cars and change away from that polluting filth. I guess you do not seem to understand that friend or relative that you have that died of cancer was related to our way of life.

We the people want lower costs of living and higher wages, but you will not do anything to help us! You are only interested in padding your pockets. You make me sick.

We the people want products that are not filled with chemicals that harm our children. You’re not helping here, are you?

You go and decide that our voice does not matter because we do not have the big money to give to your campaigns. You lost my vote because you will not listen to me.

I’m tired of voting for people that do not listen. People that do not care about what I have to say, or are not willing to stand up for change. I’m tired of my government officials doing things that are bad for the people.

Yes its ok, to pass laws that are bad for the environment. And sell out the people of the world for the big profit. It’s ok, that you lie to us, and make us believe it’s for our own good. You’re belief is WRONG, dead wrong.

You think that it’s ok for gas to be over $5.00 a US gallon. You think that’s its ok for us to have to pay more for going to work, and make less money.

You think it’s ok that we want people like you representing us? No, we don’t. Your Values seem to represent big business, and big dollars.

I want to tell you I am voting for an independent in the next election. Forget voting for a democrat or republican, or conservative, or liberal. I’m tired of voting for people that are not going to fix problems in this world or this nation.

I have had my fill of the lies and lip service.

I am going to tell you one last time. You have lost my vote. I will vote independent for the rest of my life.

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News at 11…

The fade comes back from black, the music cues up and oh how the tension rises, the music holds you downs to your seat as you expect something important and scary to be presented to you. As you sit on the edge of your seat, the newscaster speaks in a tone of voice that could slice through the hardest metal, it upsets you, it scares you, and saddens you as they talk about something horrific, a fire or accident that killed an entire family except two kids.

Your heart sinks to the floor as you feel as if you knew those people your whole life. You try not to cry for people you don’t know… but your heart aches… its sad, as memories of someone you knew had a family member die in a horrific accident or event..

It all comes back in that moment, and your emotions run wild, and in less then 45 seconds it’s all over. Its done, and on to the next story….

A child predator just got out of jail and could be living your area, but more after the break…

Your sit there glued to the TV wondering does he live in my neighborhood, are my kids safe, what do I have to do to keep them safe, oh my god! what do I do?

Then back from the break, you find out that, you know where he is living and your friend lives nearby… you get scared as they tell you about the ages of children that he abused in the past and will likely to re-offend again; and there is nothing you can do.

You panic and call your friend who lives close by and tell her what is on the news, you tell her about this man, word for word form the newscast. Now your friend is scared because she was just about to go to a PTA meeting and leave the kids at home; now she decides to take the kids with her to be safe.

News at 11!!!

Are you informed of scared?? It is time to make a decision! The decision is yours, live your life informed knowing the truth, without the fear, READ your news.

Why I say read your news is because although there is slant in written news, and takes more time, however the drama, the sounds and the emotion, are removed.

Do not rely on the big media sources to get your news. STOP. They are towing the line, of what they THINK you should know. The media part of the problem, subjecting the news, removing REAL news from the news and covering idiotic topics, that they think people will be interested in.

Stop and think for yourselves.

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A few thoughts on American Healthcare.

Today, I sat there on my day off and sat back and flipped through the channels on my TV, and of course it happened to be Oprah, and Michael Moore, and several other people…

I honestly can say that I do agree with Mr. Moore on many great details of the American Healthcare system. For many years they have known there is a problem with their system and a situation in which the health care system is for profit. I agree with Mr. Moore when he says that we should not be playing roulette with peoples lives when it comes to the health care system.

How I see the only change being made is on a state level where each of the states purchases healthcare facilities and then hires the staff to do the job. All it takes is passing a law stating that no person shall be denied healthcare, irregardless if they are insured or not. They should be able to receive healthcare needed for an operation.

The problem is that healthcare companies do not understand politics and nor do they care to understand the taxation quotient that decides how much taxes have to be paid. If that person was able to be healed and put back into work, and if they made 7 dollars an hour, how much in taxes would there be put back into the system.

When people are healthy, they tend to enjoy life more, and tend to spend more. Thus in the mathematics of everything brings in more taxes.

You see, politicians in America are not in your pocket, and that also needs to change, they need to be there for the people. There needs to be accountability to the highest levels of government. People need to be in control of their Government, and the people in America need to stand up for their constitution, their rights, what many have fought and died for. The constitution is not just “a god damned piece of paper” you know, it’s an ideal, it’s a belief in a better way of living. In the words, “We the people of the United States of America”, it does not say “We the corporations of America in order to form a larger bank account and line our pocket books”.

People need to stand up and realize that when all that violence that happened with the Civil Rights Movement, it changed America, it made the Governments take notice and listen. I believe that it is time for Americans to once again wake up and use their voice, use their vote.

Don’t vote for the Democrats or the Republicans. They have the same sponsor’s stickers on the side of their car. Vote for the person that you believe to be honestly there for the people and by the people… do you realize what would happen if there were a lot more independents in the House and Senate?? It would change the shape of politics in Washington. Political parties would take notice, that lies and deceit will not be tolerated in America.

Don’t vote one way because of your grand pappy did it or your brother does it or another family member or your best friend. Stand up use your voice, and let them know that “We the People” will not sit here and take their lies anymore.

Let us find a way to change the healthcare system in America as I said on a state level. Do you realize what it would do to the corporate healthcare system? While it would not destroy it, it would sure make it smaller. There should be both sets of systems, one for those that want to pay and those that can not afford it.

Honestly, the costs that they were talking about on Oprah today for procedures have to be highly over priced. How the hell can you justify seven hundred thousand dollars for a procedure? I believe that the prices are unjustified and are highly over inflated.

The American healthcare system is flawed because of how it operates and is setup. There needs to be a change and no one seems to want to deal with it because it is too much of a problem.

In American Politics they never solve the problem only talk it to death and another election comes along and talk about it again.

It is time for a serious change in both the healthcare system and the political system. If it takes the people, marching and voicing their opinion in the streets so be it, because talking on the radio sure the hell as not done anything at all to change anything.

It if takes an amazing amount of civil disobedience like during the civil rights movement, so be it.

But if it be your will, to live in a flawed system and do nothing; not to take your government to task for their wrong doing and their evil deeds against you, then you are as guilty as those that destroyed your country. Take heed knowing that your choices are yours.

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Art bell retires again

well damn, what can you say art retired again…

I have to say this guy has more magic acts going on then most radio hosts. Like many I can understand why he would do it, and how come he would take leave once again, however, Art just can not stay away… I know he can’t.

So one night in the next while, you will hear: From the high desert and the great American southwest, once again on Coast to Coast.

Max

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Growing up & destroying the Dream

It starts when you’re young, when you have no resistance, nothing holding you back, and all the dreams in the world, and all the belief that you can do it.

Then it happens.

Your parent tells you, you can’t do that, or your not good enough, or you will never amount to anything, or white or your not black, or this or that or whatever stereotype that’s available at the moment.

Your parent tells you time and again and again that you can not achieve. Your teacher tells you to be realistic you can’t do that. Be realistic, your only a C- student, your failing most of your courses, you will never be good at anything, you should do manual labor and be happy with that.

Everywhere you go, you are told you can’t, you just are not good enough; and you can not succeed with this level of education. You’re told you need to be certified. Your told you need to be educated, you’re told that you must be certified to get hired.

You are told to conform or you will never succeed. You are told to be a good person, conform to their way of thinking. You are told their way of thinking is the best way, and conforming is the only way to be anything in this world.

Then one day your old enough to look back on the dreams you had, that were great dreams and ideas, and each one of them stepped all over by someone you loved, admired, or looked up to.

How could they do that to you, how could they be so heartless as to do such a thing? Why would they do it? What made them do this?? When will people realize this has to stop?? Who are these people to destroy a child’s dream and aspiration?

I, like many, had parents, teachers, and those I looked up to and admired, that said all that be realistic your grades are not good enough to be successful your not good enough, etc, etc..

Dream slayers & dream killers are those that hate their life, and have it only within themselves to make others miserable. These are the people that are the disease in society; the people without love, imagination, fun, hopes and dreams.

Parents are the worst offenders of this, and little do parents and teachers ever realize, that your child will never forgive you, EVER.

Teachers, you are the second worst, because you believe in a flawed learning system, you destroy their dreams almost as fast as they are born, just like parents.

Brothers and sisters are damned near as bad as parents in many ways and worse then teachers, because you have to live with them, because years later they will bring something up that they stomped on.

Friends and bullies are really bad, and can be as worse or worse then family and teachers, because these are people you actually fear, and hate. These are the people that will humiliate and embarrass you for malice and glee, just to torture you and that I will have to say just has to stop.

We make our children into drones and idiots we create the problems we have in schools, we create school shootings, because of how we structure and have our education system.

We force children to be in school for 6-7 hours a day and then another 1-4 hours more of homework. The human mind can not handle that much information being put into their minds. Yet, we think it’s good for students to have to spend 70% of their waking day on school and homework. That is called stupidity and insanity.

After striving to reach that dream we have to say to get here or there you need a 3.75 GPA to get anywhere in life. Unfortunately that’s a lie, and one of many students are told to believe.

Students go to elementary school and teachers send them home with homework. Then, high school, more homework, and then off to college or university, more homework, and after college or university its debt.

The system seems to teach two things, working hard gets you burnt out, and in debt. The little detail they don’t tell you when you decide to go to college or university, it costs a lot of money to do so. What they don’t tell you is that what you learn in life will be more important then what you learned in high school.

To this day the public schools simply Betty-Crocker the girls and GI-Joe the boys. Meaning either way the students are not prepared for society, and nor are they told they too can be leaders in schools, well because most of them are prisons.

Schools are by design, designed to make your child a moron a complete idiot, void of free thinking ideas, and the ability to think outside the box. They label free thinkers and those that don’t conform to the system of education, trouble makers, and need Ritalin.

These are the people that are classed as the problem child and need to be controlled. Let me explain something to those people and professionals, you’re the morons and idiots. You do not get it at all, you do not understand what is wrong, and make no attempts to understand what is wrong with the education system, so I will tell you.

You are using an old style of thinking for starters and an old style of education, which was used at the turn of the last century, also called the 20th century. This system is old flawed, weak, and does not work for the students in this day and age. Dictating information to students is archaic, standing at the front of the classroom dictating for an hour does not work, and then giving them homework on top of that due tomorrow is completely stupid.

Teachers need to learn how to impart information in a new method of teaching by teaching, engaging, and reviewing, and having a small assignment based on that class, without the extra homework.

Homework for one, takes time away from downtime, from the ability to recharge their brain and absorb that information, and most of all understand it.

The style of education that is taught today is as old as the hills. It is time to change education where there is more interactivity in classes, more conversation, review, and understanding. When students walk away from your class and hate it, its time to look at what you’re doing wrong, and fix it.

Educating the youth and imparting information in a way that makes these youth wanting to come back again and learn more should be a priority of all teachers.

The system needs to be fixed, and it needs to be changed. Teachers stand up for the students, and students stand up for yourself, you have a right to a good education, and teachers should be there to teach not dictate.

Teachers give back students that yearning to reach for the stars, tell them they can achieve, tell them they can strive for that goal, help them along the way, point them in the right direction, mentor them, and if you can’t mentor, find them someone that will.

The way students are taught is just as important as the information that is imparted.

Stop being a dream killer is all I ask.

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9/11… The conspiracy of the facts..

I often think as I listen to all these people that sit and argue about 9/11 and who did what and it was either gravity or an inside job.

I will tell you, if it was an inside job, a black op, such as many of those carried out. If it was, if it was the highest part of the most secret parts of the United States Government, military, alphabet agencies, and so forth acting on their own to remotely control aircraft, or having pilots actually flying those planes or other people flying those planes into the buildings.

Let me ask one question, and this is the one that I love, is proof. You can prove there was a crime scene on 9/11, and planes flew into those buildings. You can prove that people died. You can prove the buildings fell, and you can prove a lot of things.

But what can not be proven is a conspiracy in the highest levels of government, what can not be proven is explosives brought down those buildings.

Eye witness testimony 4-5 years later is not really accurate, as can be shown in The Pentacon where one witness says he is at one place in the Citgo gas station but really in another. At one of the front, pump instead of the back pump. But he does remember when asked. I don’t see conspiracy in this movie, as I recall it.

Recalling your story 5 years later with so much media and controversy and getting it correct is at best ambiguous. I am not saying these people lied, what I am saying is time does play tricks on the memory, and media influence plays tricks on the memory.

The people were doing the news that morning would probably recall things differently, as well as the people that watched it. Time is a major factor in recalling your memories, like it only happened yesterday, but I tell you if you wrote down what happened so many years ago, and recalled it, and then read what your wrote it would be different. But then again going back and re-reading what you wrote is also a level of self-indoctrination otherwise known as brainwashing.

We listen to what is said in loose change, but there are also a lot of truths omitted in that as well, we listen to so many people that say they are an expert without being one. We listen to other people that saw the buildings collapse and take that as gospel, and we take what the passerby says to be the truth.

Let me say this, if there was a conspiracy, you and I assure you are not going to figure it out completely. I like to say people that know the truth, know there is no conspiracy.

The conspiracy is in not knowing and a lot of people seem to think there was a conspiracy and others say there was not one.

There are two sides to all this right???  I have to say, dead wrong.

Let’s look at facts, the real facts, not surmised facts by someone that is a film making student, using artistic license to sell his movie.

When you look at the one side, and that’s the truth, you seem to find out what is going on. Ignore the hapless arguments by those that smoke their drugs, and suffer from paranoia.

Ignore the arguments by those that can not provide evidence and proof. Ignore the lies and the assumptions and suppositions. Separate the crap from the truth. That is the biggest problem with the “truth movement†they want to say it was an inside job without looking at science.

In all investigations you have to find one thing, and that’s the truth. Evidence never lies, only the interpretation of that evidence can be skewed to what ever truth the person is telling their perception of that evidence.

Perception and Reception of information, as well as facts in this case is overwhelming, and too much for one person to absorb and completely understand. The magnitude of information is staggering, and to understand it all is too much.

The truth movement would have you believe it was an inside job, and I say find the witnesses and people involved and the truth to prove that theory, find the proof, and find the people that are willing to talk. People are always willing to talk it is a fact of life.

I can not firmly believe one way or another that it was a terrorist attack or a staged event. If this was a staged event, then they had to have their own people in place either controlling the planes or otherwise. If this was a staged event, then let me ask one thing, where would you control those airplanes from to make sure they flew into those buildings with perfect precision??

In many of these movies we always see one side of building 7; we never see the other side. I like to call it the picturesque side of the building; the side that everyone can believe looks perfect.

What I am saying is conspiracy theorists use their logical deduction to prove a conspiracy without using science and facts and knowledge of science or being educated in such fields. They provide people that are also known in the conspiracy group, as valid resources and knowledgeable to talk about something as fact without proof.

I have listened to enough conspiracy people to know how they think. They huddle in their group and look to each other for answers and when they find the best one, which has to be the truth.

Meanwhile the rest of us listening to the television being told what the truth is; because, we know for a fact that the news does their research and does not grab the story from the newswire and repeat it verbatim back to us.

I have watched a lot of television, and I can say for a fact that being without it for a while is actually good for you.

What I am looking for is proof based on math, which is based on factual numbers on why those buildings fell in the first place. Let us use actual mathematical computations, based on actual data available, for the plane itself, the building design, where and how the plain hit the buildings, the instant damage done on impact.

I guess you see what I am saying, eliminate all the facts first, and if the answer is not there, then use theory.

Ockham’s Razor is the principle proposed by William of Ockham in the fourteenth century: “Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate”, which translates as “entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” Or in plain English “All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.”

But let us add another to all of this, Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”.

Let us look at all the stupidity that happened the day of 9/11, let us look at the Flight Traffic Controllers that did not have clue what to do, there was procedure right, of some kind?

There was procedures, and there were rules, but where these rules in place or did people not know what to do?

Many of these conspiracy movies talk about planes that were flown way out into the southern USA. What they don’t talk about is what was their standard base assignment, flight assignments, assignment roster, preplanned maneuvers, which happened to be on that day. But it’s all implied that it was setup in the highest levels of government to change plans and set this up from the beginning. There may be proof, but we need a whistle blower to be protected that will tell the truth sure protected my ass. These people have more power and the knowledge of who is who and what is what to deal with people that might talk or will talk.

People don’t understand that in the military you are given a direct order you follow it without question. Let me explain what that means, reduction in rank, prison time, dishonorable discharge, no pension, etc. Let’s think about this carefully, a reduction in rank means less salary, which means you, might not be able to pay your bills. Prison time usually follows a trial, and disobeying a direct order of a superior officer, is not something people are willing to do, knowing the rules are given to them before hand to follow.

What I am saying is people follow orders because that’s the rules, regardless of a gut feeling or knowing that they should not do it, but they do. Failure to follow the orders of a superior officer is not something that is taken lightly.

So back to that little conspiracy, those planes were not in position, not because the pilots felt like it, but because they followed orders. And in loose change they say the planes should have been elsewhere up north near their base. Let’s look at that little fact again as stated above. None of the film makers know or even have a clue what the military is about and what failure to follow an order really means. You can not just choose not to follow an order without violating the UCMJ.

Another conspiracy is that the buildings were brought down by explosives, in a controlled demolition ask experts that know what the rubble looks like after a proper demolition, don’t just create supposition based on hearsay evidence.

All I ask is people to think logically and not jump into one theory or another unless they can back it up by fact.

On 9/11 there was confusion among those that were supposed to know what to do, why was there not?? That’s simple; there was no rule in place saying which agency took control of the situation. No one knew which agency should take the lead in this situation.

Was it NORAD, the Whitehouse, FAA, Military Command, which group here had the lead, who had seniority, who was in charge?? Do you know? And If you do, please enlighten me, because I am interested in facts, not supposition.

What I am looking for is simple facts, to put together a factual time line of events of that day. The: who, what, when, where, why, and How?? Yes those questions I was taught in school which is the basis of investigations.

Provide facts and provide truth, and provide the data and all sources, no hidden or private sources, about that day.

There are people that know what happened that day and are not talking under national security rules. Remember what I said about following orders? These people can only talk after their oath has expired and their national security authorization has expired and after they can not provide proof. They can talk, but they don’t because they take that oath as serious as it gets, no joking in what I say. I have asked a few people about what it means when they take that oath of secrecy.

People that are not in the military do not get it when the people in the military are given a direct order. That order stands until it is rescinded. It is that simple.

Those conspiracy theorists have to learn all the rules that government organizations have to follow, before they can say it’s a conspiracy but they don’t.
There is only one conspiracy, and that’s withholding of the information that has been kept secret/classified. That’s it, and that’s all.

But there is no conspiracy if you are in the know. Conspiracy as defined: A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design. Please note the words as if. If you know the truth it’s no longer sinister or is it??

People are so afraid; I say stop watching television and read. Learn your history and understand the present. History only repeats itself when we do not learn from the past.

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C2C Website to get an upgrade?

A bit of an inside scoop perhaps??

In an email checking into something with the C2C Website, I have learned that there is a planned website redesign or upgrade in the works, for the coast to coast am website… What is in store?

We dont know, all we know is this is on the DL (downlow) at the moment, so Max is breaking the scoop thus far.

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