The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
“DROPOUT JEEP is a software implant for the Apple iPhone that utilizes modular mission applications to provide specific SIGINT functionality. This functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection. All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted.”
"Meaning the NSA can plant child porn on your computer just seconds before the police show up with that arrest warrant, reporters in tow. This means real criminals now have reasonable doubt for evidence found on their computers. The prosecution cannot rule out NSA planting of false-evidence." -- source
I'm not going to remove the blog; however, it is noteworthy that the TrApdOor of a PRISM wasn't introduced until after Jobs was killed.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Santa Works For the NSA
♫ He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake(?), he knows if you've been bad or good, just has to check the database♫
Never to early to indoctrinate an impressionable youngster in the ways of the surveillance state.
He's even got a jet-fighter escort, and was last seen over Connecticut.
Also see:
'Twas the Week Before Chri$tmas....
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Never to early to indoctrinate an impressionable youngster in the ways of the surveillance state.
He's even got a jet-fighter escort, and was last seen over Connecticut.
Also see:
'Twas the Week Before Chri$tmas....
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Friday, August 2, 2013
Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
It might help bring some integrity back to those awards, even if he is part of a psyop. The fact is, who cares? He's obviously much smarter than Bradley Manning, and although all Snowden's leaks have been basic general knowledge for decades, what he has done is enlightened us all that the advancement of tyranny and a global surveillance system has accelerated under Obama. As much as I want Bush before the bar at the Hague, forget about him. This isn't about his spying on the planet; this is about what this government under Obama has done the last five years. It's absolutely shredded any semblance of constitutional or republican government. It's an unlawful and lawless regime now, and it will take its place among the world's greatest tyrannies in history books. And we have a whistleblowing hero to thank for it, Edward Snowden.
Anybody want to second that motion?
Anybody want to second that motion?
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Suggestion For a Google Search
Seeing as the NSA is gobbling every single web search on the face of mother planet I thought I would help keep them employed. I'm thinking terms like "Israel Did 9/11," "FBI false flags"; and "Obama is an Asshole" would be good to use for starters. If you can think of any additional ones on your own, go for it. I know I'll be spending the rest of the day availing myself of several search engines and typing in those terms among many others. I suggest you do the same, dear readers. Let's flood the NSA like a government document dump on a Friday afternoon.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Concert Over
Unfortunately I will no longer be able to blog because apparently blogging has now become aiding the enemy:
"Professor Yochai Benkler, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, told the court in testimony last week: “Once you accept that WikiLeaks is a new journalistic organization, if handing materials over to an organization that can be read by anyone with an Internet connection means that you are handing over to the enemy — that essentially means that any leak to a media organization that can be read by any enemy anywhere in the world becomes automatically aiding the enemy.”
That means the newspaper on my desk is aiding the enemy, for it is filled with anonymous leaks advancing the agenda every single day.
It's okay with me because I haven't really been too enthusiastic about posting lately anyway. I see my mission as having failed because all I sought to prevent has come to pass. The total surveillance society, the continued expansion of empire, the status quo economy that is becoming more extreme in feeding wealth inequality and the money addicts appetites, the continued corporate and bank looting of the American people.
Well, almost everything has come to pass....
"In Washington, the chairman of the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Senate committee that the Obama administration is deliberating whether to use military force in Syria."
After my lying war-promoting newspaper led me to believe that was a non-option, non-starter! And Mad Dog McCain wants them to move even faster! The Israeli Zionist power over this government can be seen by all.
And as odd as this sounds, is it possible a big bang and boom in the form of a false flag attack is on the way? I noticed AMC had yanked King Kong from next week's schedule. Is the Empire State building going to be hit by a plane and destroyed? The Statue of Liberty? Then to be blamed on Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria? Wouldn't put it past our noble leaders at all.
Oh, yeah, never you mind that steam coming from Fukushima.
Related:
"General Wesley Clark, who commanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign in the Kosovo war, recalls in his 2003 book Winning Modern Wars being told by a friend in the Pentagon in November 2001 that the list of states that Rumsfeld and deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz wanted to take down included Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Somalia [and Lebanon]."
I guess they are a little behind schedule, but we see how that has worked out years later. What a coincidence given where we are today, huh?
Oh, and just some reminders for you:
"Last month former government contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents to the Guardian revealing the National Security Agency collects every American’s phone records [and] every phone call in a database. Top Obama administration officials left open the possibility that they could build similar databases of people’s credit card transactions, hotel records, and Internet searches."
Well, they already have the infrastructure for it going back to the ECHELON program of the 1980s; however, All this stuff has been swept up in the last seven years for sure -- just about the time I started blogging.
And it goes beyond that. Turns out all the hacking that is blamed on China and others is actually being done by the U.S. government (after it's paid hacker contractors?). Beware of the drill gone live (not this time, huh?).
"A testament to how closely US spy satellites follow the country’s aging cargo fleet."
But they contracted out the work?
The Korean story -- as silly as it is -- serves a purpose. It alerts the world that the U.S. knows every single move you make. Which begs the question how the "terrorists" and drug dealers are allowed to function -- unless they are covert intelligence operations run by the very government that claims it is fighting them.
One thing I will say is we won the war and our legions are growing every day (as opposed to that pos media I linked here today). That's why my erratic posting activity doesn't bother me. I am only one voice in a sea of growing voices that simply can not be silenced. Take one away and three more appear. They will never put the genie back in the bottle!
It was an honor to have served you, and I thank all who came here and gave me their ear and time. I love you all!!!
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Professor Yochai Benkler, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, told the court in testimony last week: “Once you accept that WikiLeaks is a new journalistic organization, if handing materials over to an organization that can be read by anyone with an Internet connection means that you are handing over to the enemy — that essentially means that any leak to a media organization that can be read by any enemy anywhere in the world becomes automatically aiding the enemy.”
That means the newspaper on my desk is aiding the enemy, for it is filled with anonymous leaks advancing the agenda every single day.
It's okay with me because I haven't really been too enthusiastic about posting lately anyway. I see my mission as having failed because all I sought to prevent has come to pass. The total surveillance society, the continued expansion of empire, the status quo economy that is becoming more extreme in feeding wealth inequality and the money addicts appetites, the continued corporate and bank looting of the American people.
Well, almost everything has come to pass....
"In Washington, the chairman of the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Senate committee that the Obama administration is deliberating whether to use military force in Syria."
After my lying war-promoting newspaper led me to believe that was a non-option, non-starter! And Mad Dog McCain wants them to move even faster! The Israeli Zionist power over this government can be seen by all.
And as odd as this sounds, is it possible a big bang and boom in the form of a false flag attack is on the way? I noticed AMC had yanked King Kong from next week's schedule. Is the Empire State building going to be hit by a plane and destroyed? The Statue of Liberty? Then to be blamed on Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria? Wouldn't put it past our noble leaders at all.
Oh, yeah, never you mind that steam coming from Fukushima.
Related:
"General Wesley Clark, who commanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign in the Kosovo war, recalls in his 2003 book Winning Modern Wars being told by a friend in the Pentagon in November 2001 that the list of states that Rumsfeld and deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz wanted to take down included Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Somalia [and Lebanon]."
I guess they are a little behind schedule, but we see how that has worked out years later. What a coincidence given where we are today, huh?
Oh, and just some reminders for you:
"Last month former government contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents to the Guardian revealing the National Security Agency collects every American’s phone records [and] every phone call in a database. Top Obama administration officials left open the possibility that they could build similar databases of people’s credit card transactions, hotel records, and Internet searches."
Well, they already have the infrastructure for it going back to the ECHELON program of the 1980s; however, All this stuff has been swept up in the last seven years for sure -- just about the time I started blogging.
And it goes beyond that. Turns out all the hacking that is blamed on China and others is actually being done by the U.S. government (after it's paid hacker contractors?). Beware of the drill gone live (not this time, huh?).
"A testament to how closely US spy satellites follow the country’s aging cargo fleet."
But they contracted out the work?
The Korean story -- as silly as it is -- serves a purpose. It alerts the world that the U.S. knows every single move you make. Which begs the question how the "terrorists" and drug dealers are allowed to function -- unless they are covert intelligence operations run by the very government that claims it is fighting them.
One thing I will say is we won the war and our legions are growing every day (as opposed to that pos media I linked here today). That's why my erratic posting activity doesn't bother me. I am only one voice in a sea of growing voices that simply can not be silenced. Take one away and three more appear. They will never put the genie back in the bottle!
It was an honor to have served you, and I thank all who came here and gave me their ear and time. I love you all!!!
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
The Summer of Discontent is Upon Us
"The Preemptive Revolution to Stave Off the Real One
June 7, 2013
by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: And what exactly did all of this domestic full spectrum dominance do to thwart the Boston Bombing or the Aurora Massacre or the shooting at Sandy Hook or the Ricin letters attacks? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Don’t even have so much as a manifesto or a related text message to show for it from any of the suspects. Why is that you think? Why are none of the MSM asking that all important question?
———–
What is happening right now looks an awful lot like a regime change “color revolution” in the making. The American press along with various “alternative” journalists, breathlessly en mass making mountains out of already well established mole-hills as if they are “breaking news” suddenly stirring up unrest and hostility. Typically this pattern has been a clear indicator when they plan to force a color revolution in some other country once our puppet dictator starts acting like he doesn’t want to be our puppet dictator any longer.
As bad as that is, it may actually be something much, much worse.
Nothing happens in a vacuum. The economy is going to crash, Wall Street is going to get all the rest of the loot and control they missed in the first go-round and we are going to be forced to make do with far less than we have now.Economists have been saying since the middle of last year that the beginning of the summer of 2013 will be start of the next collapse. Seems like they were right.
The neoliberal “brick” of Chicago School of Economics austerity is going to hit and hit hard very, very soon, and suddenly, without warning, the Obamatide is turning in a big way and as far as I can see, with no real “breaking news” to support the near universal nationwide MSM shift.
We have a proven agent provocateur in the form of Adam Kokesh setting up his “armed revolution” for July 4th (less than a month away now) and suddenly there are all kinds of scandals being brought to light, mostly from Washington insider leaks, which promise to turn up the heat going into the Summer of Discontent. Here’s a clue: these scandals were already well known to most people and like the Wikileaks psyop, though they didn’t expose anything new, they are being treated as if each and every one are the Pentagon Papers. That should tell you something.
So what does all of this mean? What is the significance of the timing of these carefully scripted leaks and revelations from the very administration that is demonized by them? Gun control, NDAA 2012, drones in our skies, NSA in our phones… and austerity poised to rain down on us like the Chicago School Brick that slammed Chile in ’73. What does it all mean? What of the announcement of the “Final American Revolution”? How would marketers and PR gurus deal with an unstable society and the threat of a real revolution?
They would fabricate one of their own.
You can’t just suddenly have bunches of armed folks running around shooting other folks for no good reason. There has to be a believable pretext created like the “Innocence of the Muslims” video they attempted to use to explain the Benghazi psyop. That’s the exposition to the story, the portion of a story that introduces important background information to the audience answering critical questions like “why a revolution?” and “why now?”
In a world where the manufacturing of preemptive wars and preemptive arrests are commonplace, is a Preemptive Revolution with all the scandals and the angst to justify it, such an outrageous theory? Is that what we are seeing? The exposition stage of the Preemptive Revolution?
Scandals are one thing. There have been plenty of those since 9/11. But for the most part they have been swept under the rug or completely ignored by the complicit MSM. These aren’t the kind of scandals that could have our president arrested and removed from office like killing 23 kids in Dec. of 2009 with cruise missiles in support of a Yemen dictator or killing U.S. citizens illegally without due process or the FBI simply murdering a suspect while being questioned because he refuses to confess to something he didn’t do. Though the drone program factors in, the focus is on lesser crimes, including the lesser crimes of the drone program.
Here’s a list of the scandals that have recently broke with the help of “insiders” who leaked info to the press:
You will also notice that in every case, the critical information was either leaked by someone on the inside or as in the case of the renewed focus on drone policy and the IRS audit scandal, it was brought before the public’s attention by the government themselves for reasons no one is quite sure of.
Each and every one of those scandals looks like it was custom tailored to piss off a libertarian or a patriot in the Tea Party. God knows they won’t give a rat’s ass about 122 dead Muslim children or the illegal invasion of other countries or not prosecuting the previous administration for obvious war-crimes and crimes against humanity. But mess with their rights, an invasive IRS? Now them’s fightin words.
Now consider this in light of that rough timeline of “scandals”
So it was cancelled and in it’s place, protesters are instructed to march on the 50 different capital buildings across the country. That would make staging an event easier in that there will be less witnesses and cameras to account for. It also gives the impression of a larger movement when in fact Astroturf Adam couldn’t get 20 people to show up to protest for his release outside the Federal building where he was supposedly being held after his planned arrest a few weeks ago.
Has all of this been scripted to generate a narrative that the public can easily buy into? A narrative that claims political unrest leading up to the July 4th event boiled over into a bloody confrontation and the creation of a new “al Qaeda” type insurgency inside the United States that has to be crushed in the name of “national security”?
The managed nature of these scandals and the timing of them would certainly lead one to that conclusion.
But perhaps the best evidence is the breathless and exaggerated reactions from the MSM which are completely out of character for the status defending instruments of conventional repression.
You have the Huffington Post headlining their website with “George W Obama” which is something that we have been saying for years, even before his coronation (Obama is just the continuation of Bush – Clinton – Bush – Reagan) and in fact for years the Huffington Post would erase comments and ban commenters who dared to make that claim on their site.
The New York Times has gone so far as to claim the Obama administration “has lost all credibility” and again, the sycophantic Huffington Post echoes that sentiment.
Glenn Greenwald and other respected journalists (“real” journalists, not us “conspiracy theorists” who have been making claims like these for years regarding our vanishing freedoms of the press) recently Tweeted:
With the new austerity looking to crash down upon us very soon and the stock market only being propped up by mass infusions and transfers of wealth to the big banks on a monthly basis, it’s very interesting timing isn’t it?
You can also factor in the American Gladio operation that started nearly a year ago in a theater in Aurora. The push for gun grabbing has been building but without a growing popular consensus. At this point, the people still want their second amendment rights and who can blame them.
Finally, factor in the worse intangible, the gradual buildup of the domestic police state and the militarization of our “protect and serve” public servants.
And don’t forget that martial law little rehearsal drill they ran after the staged Boston Bombing event.
When you step back far enough to see the big picture, when you admit to yourself that we all knew for quite sometime that the NSA was scooping up everything we said or wrote in order to use it against us in the future, you come to understand that focusing on this one thing alone isn’t helping one bit.
So-called “alternative” news analysts like Mike Rivero of What Really Happened are out there, once again, promoting the status quo line (just like he’s doing on the Turkey psyop by the way) breathlessly screeching that you HAVE TO BE ANGRY at all of this.
Yeah? To what end Mike?
I’ve been doing this kind of analysis for some time now. I do it under my real name and I do it with the full understanding of the consequences it has brought and will bring. And I tell you this – these are not coincidences. The Summer of Discontent is upon us, early in the Obama second term. The control grid they have been putting in place is about to tighten across the country just like it has in so many other nations where the crippling austerity of neoliberal Chicago School Economics has been imposed. And what we have seen thus far pales in comparison. Left vs Right, White vs Black, Rich vs Poor, Christian vs Muslim… all kinds of divide and conquer tricks are being used while anger and desperation is channeled in all directions but the right ones.
When a country is dragged into 3rd world status and the people grasp the astronomical divide between the oligarchs and the proletariat, revolutions tend to flourish. So what is the best way to counter the instability of such a threat?
The best way is to manufacture it yourself before the real one takes shape. That way you can justify rounding up the potential leaders and participants and disarm the public before the public disarms you.
I don’t do fear mongering, I do observation. You stand far enough back from anything observing without emotional distraction or the blinders of identity politics and you can see it’s form and it’s design from the beginning. Something wicked this way comes… of that I am sure.
--MORE w/VIDEOS--"
June 7, 2013
by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: And what exactly did all of this domestic full spectrum dominance do to thwart the Boston Bombing or the Aurora Massacre or the shooting at Sandy Hook or the Ricin letters attacks? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Don’t even have so much as a manifesto or a related text message to show for it from any of the suspects. Why is that you think? Why are none of the MSM asking that all important question?
———–
Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Provocateur Kokesh announces “The Final American Revolution” (May 6, 2013) Armed March Announced
- Benghazi memo rewrites (May 10, 2013) Benghazi memos reportedly revised 12 times
- FBI surveillance of AP (May 13th, 2013) Justice Department secretly obtained AP phone records
- IRS Informs on themselves in Audit Scandal (May 14, 2013) Treasury Inspector General Review
- James Rosen leak probe (May 17, 2013) A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
- drone program (May 23th, 2013) Obama Looks to Shift Focus to Drone Strikes As Scandals Swirl
Justice Department Admits to Spying on Over 100 Individual Associated Press Journalists – See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/breaking-justice-department-admits-to-spying-on-over-100-individual-associated-press-journalists-over-two-month-period_052013#sthash.uy0YeVuV.dpuf
- NSA leaked contract with Verizon (June 6, 2013) NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
What is happening right now looks an awful lot like a regime change “color revolution” in the making. The American press along with various “alternative” journalists, breathlessly en mass making mountains out of already well established mole-hills as if they are “breaking news” suddenly stirring up unrest and hostility. Typically this pattern has been a clear indicator when they plan to force a color revolution in some other country once our puppet dictator starts acting like he doesn’t want to be our puppet dictator any longer.
As bad as that is, it may actually be something much, much worse.
Nothing happens in a vacuum. The economy is going to crash, Wall Street is going to get all the rest of the loot and control they missed in the first go-round and we are going to be forced to make do with far less than we have now.Economists have been saying since the middle of last year that the beginning of the summer of 2013 will be start of the next collapse. Seems like they were right.
The neoliberal “brick” of Chicago School of Economics austerity is going to hit and hit hard very, very soon, and suddenly, without warning, the Obamatide is turning in a big way and as far as I can see, with no real “breaking news” to support the near universal nationwide MSM shift.
We have a proven agent provocateur in the form of Adam Kokesh setting up his “armed revolution” for July 4th (less than a month away now) and suddenly there are all kinds of scandals being brought to light, mostly from Washington insider leaks, which promise to turn up the heat going into the Summer of Discontent. Here’s a clue: these scandals were already well known to most people and like the Wikileaks psyop, though they didn’t expose anything new, they are being treated as if each and every one are the Pentagon Papers. That should tell you something.
So what does all of this mean? What is the significance of the timing of these carefully scripted leaks and revelations from the very administration that is demonized by them? Gun control, NDAA 2012, drones in our skies, NSA in our phones… and austerity poised to rain down on us like the Chicago School Brick that slammed Chile in ’73. What does it all mean? What of the announcement of the “Final American Revolution”? How would marketers and PR gurus deal with an unstable society and the threat of a real revolution?
They would fabricate one of their own.
You can’t just suddenly have bunches of armed folks running around shooting other folks for no good reason. There has to be a believable pretext created like the “Innocence of the Muslims” video they attempted to use to explain the Benghazi psyop. That’s the exposition to the story, the portion of a story that introduces important background information to the audience answering critical questions like “why a revolution?” and “why now?”
In a world where the manufacturing of preemptive wars and preemptive arrests are commonplace, is a Preemptive Revolution with all the scandals and the angst to justify it, such an outrageous theory? Is that what we are seeing? The exposition stage of the Preemptive Revolution?
Scandals are one thing. There have been plenty of those since 9/11. But for the most part they have been swept under the rug or completely ignored by the complicit MSM. These aren’t the kind of scandals that could have our president arrested and removed from office like killing 23 kids in Dec. of 2009 with cruise missiles in support of a Yemen dictator or killing U.S. citizens illegally without due process or the FBI simply murdering a suspect while being questioned because he refuses to confess to something he didn’t do. Though the drone program factors in, the focus is on lesser crimes, including the lesser crimes of the drone program.
Here’s a list of the scandals that have recently broke with the help of “insiders” who leaked info to the press:
- Benghazi memo rewrites (May 10, 2013) Benghazi memos reportedly revised 12 times
- FBI surveillance of AP (May 13th, 2013) Justice Department secretly obtained AP phone records
- IRS Informs on themselves in Audit Scandal (May 14, 2013) Treasury Inspector General Review
- James Rosen leak probe (May 17, 2013) A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
- drone program (May 23th, 2013) Obama Looks to Shift Focus to Drone Strikes As Scandals Swirl
Justice Department Admits to Spying on Over 100 Individual Associated Press Journalists – See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/breaking-justice-department-admits-to-spying-on-over-100-individual-associated-press-journalists-over-two-month-period_052013#sthash.uy0YeVuV.dpuf
- NSA leaked contract with Verizon (June 6, 2013) NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
You will also notice that in every case, the critical information was either leaked by someone on the inside or as in the case of the renewed focus on drone policy and the IRS audit scandal, it was brought before the public’s attention by the government themselves for reasons no one is quite sure of.
Each and every one of those scandals looks like it was custom tailored to piss off a libertarian or a patriot in the Tea Party. God knows they won’t give a rat’s ass about 122 dead Muslim children or the illegal invasion of other countries or not prosecuting the previous administration for obvious war-crimes and crimes against humanity. But mess with their rights, an invasive IRS? Now them’s fightin words.
Now consider this in light of that rough timeline of “scandals”
- Provocateur Kokesh announces “The Final American Revolution” (May 6, 2013) Armed March Announced
So it was cancelled and in it’s place, protesters are instructed to march on the 50 different capital buildings across the country. That would make staging an event easier in that there will be less witnesses and cameras to account for. It also gives the impression of a larger movement when in fact Astroturf Adam couldn’t get 20 people to show up to protest for his release outside the Federal building where he was supposedly being held after his planned arrest a few weeks ago.
Has all of this been scripted to generate a narrative that the public can easily buy into? A narrative that claims political unrest leading up to the July 4th event boiled over into a bloody confrontation and the creation of a new “al Qaeda” type insurgency inside the United States that has to be crushed in the name of “national security”?
The managed nature of these scandals and the timing of them would certainly lead one to that conclusion.
But perhaps the best evidence is the breathless and exaggerated reactions from the MSM which are completely out of character for the status defending instruments of conventional repression.
You have the Huffington Post headlining their website with “George W Obama” which is something that we have been saying for years, even before his coronation (Obama is just the continuation of Bush – Clinton – Bush – Reagan) and in fact for years the Huffington Post would erase comments and ban commenters who dared to make that claim on their site.
The New York Times has gone so far as to claim the Obama administration “has lost all credibility” and again, the sycophantic Huffington Post echoes that sentiment.
Glenn Greenwald and other respected journalists (“real” journalists, not us “conspiracy theorists” who have been making claims like these for years regarding our vanishing freedoms of the press) recently Tweeted:
Glenn Greenwald
Websites like Drudge and Fox News are pretty much still doing what they’ve been doing, just with more higher caliber ammo than they are typically allowed to use.Accusing James Rosen of committing crimes – for basic reporting – may be the most dangerous thing the Obama DOJ has done yetAnthony De RosaWhat was done to James Rosen “goes above and beyond what the Justice Department did when it monitored the AP” http://t.co/O6wYF0BMMlThe Daily CallerDOJ went through so many of this Fox reporters private records, you have to wonder, what didn’t they look at? http://t.co/Gn2xTU8Qik
With the new austerity looking to crash down upon us very soon and the stock market only being propped up by mass infusions and transfers of wealth to the big banks on a monthly basis, it’s very interesting timing isn’t it?
You can also factor in the American Gladio operation that started nearly a year ago in a theater in Aurora. The push for gun grabbing has been building but without a growing popular consensus. At this point, the people still want their second amendment rights and who can blame them.
Finally, factor in the worse intangible, the gradual buildup of the domestic police state and the militarization of our “protect and serve” public servants.
And don’t forget that martial law little rehearsal drill they ran after the staged Boston Bombing event.
When you step back far enough to see the big picture, when you admit to yourself that we all knew for quite sometime that the NSA was scooping up everything we said or wrote in order to use it against us in the future, you come to understand that focusing on this one thing alone isn’t helping one bit.
So-called “alternative” news analysts like Mike Rivero of What Really Happened are out there, once again, promoting the status quo line (just like he’s doing on the Turkey psyop by the way) breathlessly screeching that you HAVE TO BE ANGRY at all of this.
Yeah? To what end Mike?
I’ve been doing this kind of analysis for some time now. I do it under my real name and I do it with the full understanding of the consequences it has brought and will bring. And I tell you this – these are not coincidences. The Summer of Discontent is upon us, early in the Obama second term. The control grid they have been putting in place is about to tighten across the country just like it has in so many other nations where the crippling austerity of neoliberal Chicago School Economics has been imposed. And what we have seen thus far pales in comparison. Left vs Right, White vs Black, Rich vs Poor, Christian vs Muslim… all kinds of divide and conquer tricks are being used while anger and desperation is channeled in all directions but the right ones.
When a country is dragged into 3rd world status and the people grasp the astronomical divide between the oligarchs and the proletariat, revolutions tend to flourish. So what is the best way to counter the instability of such a threat?
The best way is to manufacture it yourself before the real one takes shape. That way you can justify rounding up the potential leaders and participants and disarm the public before the public disarms you.
I don’t do fear mongering, I do observation. You stand far enough back from anything observing without emotional distraction or the blinders of identity politics and you can see it’s form and it’s design from the beginning. Something wicked this way comes… of that I am sure.
--MORE w/VIDEOS--"
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Breaking News: Obama Secretly Spying on U.S. Businesses
UPDATE: Seeing Through the PRISM of Obama's Spying Program
I don't like posting that side on this side, but this is that serious.
Time to impeach.
(And while I remain that is the correct thing to do since Obama is the chief executive officer of this government, the fact is the whole government needs to be impeached. )
UPDATE: Collection of phone records is ongoing practice
So, what, that makes it all right?
"US secretly collects data on business calls" by Charlie Savage and Edward Wyatt | New York Times, June 06, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program by collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly classified court order disclosed Wednesday night.
The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over “on an ongoing daily basis” to the National Security Agency all call logs “between the United States and abroad” or “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.”
The order does not apply to the content of the communications.
So we are told.
Verizon Business Network Services is one of the nation’s largest telecommunications and Internet providers for corporations. It is not clear whether similar orders have gone to other parts of Verizon, such as its residential or cellphone services, or to other telecommunications carriers. The order prohibits its recipient from discussing its existence, and representatives of Verizon declined to comment Wednesday evening.
And they called it freedom.
The four-page order was disclosed by the newspaper The Guardian.
Oh, it took a BRITISH PAPER to BLOW the WHISTLE, huh?
That's why the AP scandal just faded away.
Obama administration officials at the FBI and the White House also declined to comment on it Wednesday evening, but did not deny the report, and a person familiar with the order confirmed its authenticity.
Related:
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
And then the AmeriKan media let go.
“We will respond as soon as we can,” said Marci Green Miller, a National Security Agency spokeswoman, in an e-mail.
The FBI sought the order under a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that regulates domestic surveillance for national security purposes, including “tangible things” that the law defines as business records. The provision was expanded by Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which Congress enacted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
This isn't going to make business happy in this nation, and I suspect Obama may have finally stepped over the line on this one. When you do such things to average citizens the corporate pre$$ is in favor of such things (for the obvious rea$ons), but when you are spying on them, well...
The order was marked “TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN,” referring to communications-related intelligence information that may not be released to noncitizens. That would make it among the most closely held secrets in the federal government, and its disclosure comes amid a furor over the Obama administration’s aggressive tactics in its investigations of leaks.
The collection of call logs is set to expire in July unless the court extends it.
The mass collection of communications logs, or calling “metadata,” was believed to be a major component of the Bush administration’s surveillance program that took place without court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The order would suggest that the government later continued a form of that aspect of the program by bringing it under the Patriot Act.
I'm so glad we got change in 2008, aren't you?
The disclosure late Wednesday seemed likely to set off a new furor over the scope of government surveillance.
I hope so. I hope it leads to the impeachment of this president. I know that won't change anything, but I don't care. I want this dismal failure and liar out of office.
Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies, a civil liberties advocacy group, said that “absent some explanation I haven’t thought of, this looks like the largest assault on privacy since the NSA wiretapped Americans in clear violation of the law” under the Bush administration.
IMPEACH!!!
“On what possible basis has the government refused to tell us that it believes that the law authorizes this kind of request?” she said.
For several years, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, have been cryptically warning that the government was interpreting its surveillance powers under that section of the Patriot Act in a way that would be alarming to the public if it knew about it.
Oh, we are MORE than ALARMED, we are FUCKING OUTRAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted section 215 of the Patriot Act,” they wrote last year in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
No, not really, not after all we have seen in the last decade.
They added: “As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows. This is a problem, because it is impossible to have an informed public debate about what the law should say when the public doesn’t know what its government thinks the law says.”
And you thought this government gave a shit about your safety and protection?
A Wyden spokesman did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment on the Verizon order.
The senators were angry because the Obama administration described Section 215 orders as being similar to a grand jury subpoena for obtaining business records, like a suspect’s hotel or credit card records. The senators said the secret interpretation of the law was nothing like that.
Oh, the Obama administration lied?
I don't like posting that side on this side, but this is that serious.
Time to impeach.
(And while I remain that is the correct thing to do since Obama is the chief executive officer of this government, the fact is the whole government needs to be impeached. )
UPDATE: Collection of phone records is ongoing practice
So, what, that makes it all right?
"US secretly collects data on business calls" by Charlie Savage and Edward Wyatt | New York Times, June 06, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program by collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly classified court order disclosed Wednesday night.
The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over “on an ongoing daily basis” to the National Security Agency all call logs “between the United States and abroad” or “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.”
The order does not apply to the content of the communications.
So we are told.
Verizon Business Network Services is one of the nation’s largest telecommunications and Internet providers for corporations. It is not clear whether similar orders have gone to other parts of Verizon, such as its residential or cellphone services, or to other telecommunications carriers. The order prohibits its recipient from discussing its existence, and representatives of Verizon declined to comment Wednesday evening.
And they called it freedom.
The four-page order was disclosed by the newspaper The Guardian.
Oh, it took a BRITISH PAPER to BLOW the WHISTLE, huh?
That's why the AP scandal just faded away.
Obama administration officials at the FBI and the White House also declined to comment on it Wednesday evening, but did not deny the report, and a person familiar with the order confirmed its authenticity.
Related:
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Nothing but a big s*** show fooley?
And then the AmeriKan media let go.
“We will respond as soon as we can,” said Marci Green Miller, a National Security Agency spokeswoman, in an e-mail.
The FBI sought the order under a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that regulates domestic surveillance for national security purposes, including “tangible things” that the law defines as business records. The provision was expanded by Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which Congress enacted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
This isn't going to make business happy in this nation, and I suspect Obama may have finally stepped over the line on this one. When you do such things to average citizens the corporate pre$$ is in favor of such things (for the obvious rea$ons), but when you are spying on them, well...
The order was marked “TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN,” referring to communications-related intelligence information that may not be released to noncitizens. That would make it among the most closely held secrets in the federal government, and its disclosure comes amid a furor over the Obama administration’s aggressive tactics in its investigations of leaks.
The collection of call logs is set to expire in July unless the court extends it.
The mass collection of communications logs, or calling “metadata,” was believed to be a major component of the Bush administration’s surveillance program that took place without court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The order would suggest that the government later continued a form of that aspect of the program by bringing it under the Patriot Act.
I'm so glad we got change in 2008, aren't you?
The disclosure late Wednesday seemed likely to set off a new furor over the scope of government surveillance.
I hope so. I hope it leads to the impeachment of this president. I know that won't change anything, but I don't care. I want this dismal failure and liar out of office.
Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies, a civil liberties advocacy group, said that “absent some explanation I haven’t thought of, this looks like the largest assault on privacy since the NSA wiretapped Americans in clear violation of the law” under the Bush administration.
IMPEACH!!!
“On what possible basis has the government refused to tell us that it believes that the law authorizes this kind of request?” she said.
For several years, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, have been cryptically warning that the government was interpreting its surveillance powers under that section of the Patriot Act in a way that would be alarming to the public if it knew about it.
Oh, we are MORE than ALARMED, we are FUCKING OUTRAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted section 215 of the Patriot Act,” they wrote last year in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
No, not really, not after all we have seen in the last decade.
They added: “As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows. This is a problem, because it is impossible to have an informed public debate about what the law should say when the public doesn’t know what its government thinks the law says.”
And you thought this government gave a shit about your safety and protection?
A Wyden spokesman did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment on the Verizon order.
The senators were angry because the Obama administration described Section 215 orders as being similar to a grand jury subpoena for obtaining business records, like a suspect’s hotel or credit card records. The senators said the secret interpretation of the law was nothing like that.
Oh, the Obama administration lied?
--more--"
That's why we call it AmeriKa.
UPDATE:
"Domestic Spying Revelation Could Be Devastating For The Obama White House
by Peter Foster, The Telegraph | Jun. 6, 2013
The Obama administration will be bracing itself for a torrent of hostile questions this morning following the apparent revelation that the National Security Agency has been data-mining the phone records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans.
Not to be confused with eaves-dropping, or bugging the phones of those suspected of conspiring to commit a terrorist or criminal offence, the top secret court order published by The Guardian appears to show that the NSA has been trawling the anonymous 'metadata' of potentially billions of phone-calls.
On the one hand, American might take comfort that the 'internals' of their phone conversations – ie the voices themselves - are not being routinely recorded, but on the other, it seems from this leak that potentially everyone with a phone is under some form of surveillance in the USA.
For Mr Obama– a president who prided himself on his liberal credentials – this leak is a potentially devastating revelation since it exposes him to attack on two fronts - from both the libertarian Right and the liberal Left.
Already the administration has been hammered over its aggressive prosecution of leakers, including what appeared to be an attempt to criminalise a Fox News journalist, James Rosen, for working a source to obtain a leak from the State Department about North Korea.
That story caused the New York Times – usually a reliable friend of the Obama administration - to write a seething editorial accusing the Department of Justice of over-reaching, and using its powers to send a "chilling" message to the media.
It is not clear how wide the NSA data-mining project goes, it's effectiveness as a counter-terrorism tool in identifying potential terrorist or criminal cells or – indeed – whether it has been used for any other purposes.
It appears from previous reports that the NSA's data-mining operation is not new, and has long been suspected – but this is the first clear-cut proof, in the shape of a highly unusual leak from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Service Court (Fisa), that the practice is occurring.
A report in USA Today newspaper from 2006, quoting anonymous intelligence officials, alleged that the NSA been "secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans" and that the agency was using the data to "analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity".
Since September 11 and the passing of the 2001 Patriot Act, the American public has accepted a great deal of inconvenience and intrusion in the name of national security. The publication of this court order will re-open the debate on how far the security services' writ should run.
Politically, the difficulty for Mr Obama is that even if the NSA is actually doing nothing different than it did for George W Bush, the American public – particularly on the liberal left – had believed that Mr Obama's administration represented a fundamental departure from the excesses of the Bush years.
Now, with the continued debate over the use of drones, the failure to close Guantanamo, the ultra-aggressive prosecution of leaks even to the point, perhaps, of muzzling a free press – the questions from the public and the media are starting to weigh down on the Obama White House.
Already last night, within hours of publication, civil liberties groups who have long warned about the extent of secret surveillance, were jumping on the revelations.
"This confirms what we had long suspected," says Cindy Cohn, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a civil liberties organization that has accused the government of operating a secret dragnet surveillance program told the Washington Post.
"I don't think Congress thought it was authorizing dragnet surveillance" when it passed the Patriot Act, Ms Cohn said, "I don't think Americans think that's OK. I would be shocked if the majority of Congressmen thought it's okay." Over the next few days and weeks, expect a fierce and polarizing debate over just what Americans do feel is acceptable, in the name of their national security.
--MORE--"
Related: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
UPDATED:
"Collection of phone records is ongoing practice" by Donna Cassata and Matt Apuzzo | Associated Press, June 06, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency’s need to collect such records, but critics are calling it a huge over-reach.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday that the court order for telephone records, first disclosed by The Guardian newspaper in Britain, was a three-month renewal of an ongoing practice.
And this has been going on HOW LONG?
The records have been collected for some seven years, according to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
‘‘I think people want the homeland kept safe to the extent we can,’’ Feinstein said at a Capitol Hill news conference. ‘‘We want to protect these privacy rights. That’s why this is carefully done in federal court with federal judges who sit 24/7 who review these requests.’’
This has NOTHING to do with the RAFT of LIES surrounding homeland security, and just wondering why a FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT was used for DOMESTIC SPYING!
The disclosure raised a number of questions: What is the government looking for? Are other big telephone companies under similar orders to turn over information? How is the information used and how long are the records kept?
The sweeping roundup of U.S. phone records has been going on for years and was a key part of the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program, according to a U.S. official.
And your point is what? That this is all OKAY?
The White House had no immediate on-the-record comment. Attorney General Eric Holder sidestepped questions about the issue during an appearance before a Senate subcommittee, offering instead to discuss it at a classified session that several senators said they would arrange.
The order was granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and is good until July 19, the Guardian reported. It requires Verizon, one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies, on an ‘‘ongoing, daily basis,’’ to give the NSA information on all landline and mobile telephone calls of Verizon Business in its systems, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries.
And that is protecting us from the "terrorists," huh?
The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration, the communication records of millions of U.S. citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk, regardless of whether the people are suspected of any wrongdoing.
Yeah, I thought THAT WAS IMPORTANT!
A former U.S. intelligence official who is familiar with the NSA program said that records from all U.S. phone companies would be seized by the government under the warrants, and that they would include business and residential numbers.
Yeah, I thought THAT WAS IMPORTANT, too!
Reaction to the revelation — both pro and con — reflected the vigorous debate in Washington over how best to balance the sometimes-competing goals of protecting the nation from terror attacks while safeguarding the privacy and civil rights of Americans. President Barack Obama, in a recent national security address, said the nation is at a crossroads as it determines how to remain vigilant yet move beyond a post-9/11 mindset focused on global antiterrorism.
Former Vice President Al Gore tweeted that privacy was essential in the digital era.
‘‘Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?’’ wrote Gore, the Democrat who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush.
It's not just you, Al, and for anyone who reads this blog they know am no fan of the man.
Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent whose comments were echoed by members of both parties, said: ‘‘To simply say in a blanket way that millions and millions of Americans are going to have their phone records checked by the U.S. government is to my mind indefensible and unacceptable.’’
But NO CALL for IMPEACHMENT!
But Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he had no problem with the court order and the practice, declaring, ‘‘If we don’t do it, we’re crazy.’’
‘‘If you’re not getting a call from a terrorist organization, you've got nothing to worry about,’’ he said.
That supremely fascist mind-set is sickening!
Btw, ever hear of a WRONG NUMBER, you f***?!!
Related: Feds Using AP and IRS Scandals To Limit First Amendment Rights
I suppose the attitude is not surprising seeing as it is coming from someone who DOES NOT BELIEVE in the FIRST AMENDMENT!
Arizona Sen. John McCain, who ran against Obama for president in 2008, said that if the records sweep was designed to track ‘‘people in the United States who are communicating with members of jihadist terrorist organizations,’’ that might not be a problem. ‘‘But if it was something where we just blanket started finding out who everybody called and under what circumstances, then I think it deserves congressional hearings.’’
Senate Democratic leader Reid played down the significance of the revelation.
Democraps are SO DISAPPOINTING!
‘‘Right now I think that everyone should just calm down and understand that this isn’t anything that’s brand new,’’ he said. ‘‘This is a program that’s been in effect for seven years, as I recall. It’s a program that has worked to prevent not all terrorism but certainly the vast, vast majority. Now is the program perfect? Of course not.’’
That is JUST MAKING ME ANGRIER!!!!
The disclosure of the records sweep was just the latest controversy to hit the Obama administration.
The president also is facing questions over the Internal Revenue Service’s improper targeting of conservative groups, the seizure of journalist phone records in an investigation into who leaked information to the media, and the administration’s handling of the terrorist attack in Libya that left four Americans dead.
And there are like three others that the corporate media isn't even mentioning, including one at EPA.
At the very least, the controversies threaten to distract the White House at a pivotal time, when the president wants to tackle big issues like immigration reform and taxes.
Well, TOO BAD! I don't give a SHIT about the president and his political program in the face of this MASSIVE TOTALITARIAN TYRANNY!
At most, the controversies collectively could erode the American people’s trust in him, threatening both to derail his second term agenda and sully his presidential legacy.
Aww, poor Obama!
Is that SHIT JOURNALISM or what?
As for the TRUST ISSUE, he has LOST THAT LONG AGO and he will NEVER GET IT BACK!
Sorry, but I'm sick and tired of being patient while waiting for the "good change" as the BAD CHANGES CONTINUE and CONTINUE and CONTINUE! It is the GOD-DAMN AGENDA being PUSHED FORWARD and NOTHING ELSE!
The court order did not authorize snooping into the content of phone calls.
So we are told by the lying government and its mouthpiece media.
But with millions of phone records in hand, the NSA’s computers can analyze them for patterns, spot unusual behavior and identify what are known in intelligence circles as ‘‘communities of interest’’ — networks of people in contact with targets or suspicious phone numbers overseas.
Once the government has zeroed in on numbers it believes are tied to terrorism or foreign governments, it can go back to the court with a wiretap request. That allows the government to monitor the calls in real time, record them and store them indefinitely.
I give up on AmeriKa's apologetic pieces of shit.
The court document related to Verizon offers a glimpse into the larger NSA effort. Under the law, the government would need to demand records from each phone company individually. While subpoenas for other phone companies have not been made public, for the data-mining program described by government officials to work, the government would need records for all providers.
‘‘There is no indication that this order to Verizon was unique or novel. It is very likely that business records orders like this exist for every major American telecommunication company, meaning that if you make calls in the United States the NSA has those records. And this has been going on for at least 7 years, and probably longer,’’ wrote Cindy Cohn, general counsel of the nonprofit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, and staff attorney Mark Rumold, in a blog post.
Yes, dear readers, BLOGS are where it is at these days, not pos AmeriKan newspapers.
Jim Harper, a communications and privacy expert at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, questioned the effectiveness of using so-called pattern analyses to intercept terrorism. He said that kind of analysis — finding trends in transactional data collected by Verizon — would produce many false positives and give the government access to intricate data about people’s calling habits.
That last part has been the WHOLE POINT of the MASSIVE AMOUNT of LIES since 9/11.
‘‘This is not just entertainment or a sideshow. This is a record of who you called every day this month,’’ he said, urging Congress to require the government to provide ‘‘a full explanation’’ of how this data turns up terrorism plots.
Under Bush, the National Security Agency built a highly classified wiretapping program to monitor emails and phone calls worldwide. The full details of that program remain unknown, but one aspect was to monitor massive numbers of incoming and outgoing U.S. calls to look for suspicious patterns, said an official familiar with the program. That official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Yes, we knew it was being done by the Bush Administration, and I'm sure I blogged my outrage back then. It GOES ALL the WAY back to BILL CLINTON?!!!!!
After The New York Times revealed the existence of that wiretapping program, the roundup continued under authority granted in the USA Patriot Act, the official said.
So the NYT scoop and exclusive did nothing?
The official did not know if the program was continuous or whether it stopped and restarted at times.
Give me a break.
The official had not seen the court order released by the Guardian newspaper but said it was consistent with similar authorizations the Justice Department has received.
Verizon spokesman Ed McFadden said Wednesday the company had no comment.
The NSA had no immediate comment.
It's all no comment, no comment, no comment. So much for transparency!
The agency is sensitive to perceptions that it might be spying on Americans.
PFFFFFFFFFTTT!
Like this pos tyranny gives a crap about what we think.
In a brochure it distributes, which includes a DVD for reporters to view video that it provides for public relations purposes, it pledges that the agency ‘‘is unwavering in its respect for U.S. laws and Americans’ civil liberties — and its commitment to accountability,’’ and says, ‘‘Earning the American public’s trust is paramount.’’
Like I said, nothing but a mouthpiece.
Verizon Communications Inc. listed 121 million customers in its first-quarter earnings report this April — 98.9 million wireless customers, 11.7 million residential phone lines and about 10 million commercial lines. The court order didn’t specify which customers’ records were being tracked.
Folks, EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN has been SPIED ON! Once again, the AmeriKan media have shown themselves to be collaborators.
Under the terms of the order, the phone numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as are call time and duration, and unique identifiers. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered, The Guardian said.
So we are told! If you believe that I have some of Saddam's non-existent nuclear weapons to sell you.
A senior administration official, defending the collection of phone records by the government, said, ‘‘On its face, the order reprinted in the article does not allow the government to listen in on anyone’s telephone calls.’’ The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
This government is HOPELESS, and it is time to WATER the TREE OF LIBERTY, if you know what I mean!
Interviewed separately, the former intelligence official described a system in which the database needed to be kept current so that if intelligence agencies obtained a phone number from a terror suspect overseas, it could immediately be matched against the records on file. Because it is not easy or quick to obtain the records from phone companies, the Obama administration needed to renew the Bush-era program on an ongoing basis to keep it updated, the former official said.
Have you HAD IT with the EXCUSES!!??
It’s not clear how long the records are kept, or if they are destroyed.
Yeah, right. This government never destroys shit; it simply changes the name of the program.
The former official said that since terror suspects frequently change phone numbers to cover their tracks, there is little need for older records.
Congressional intelligence agencies were briefed extensively on the program, and received support from both Republicans and Democrats to continue it, the former official said. ‘‘Some were nervous about it, but there was never any attempt to stop the program,’’ he said. He described it as a White House-led process.
One reason among many as to why I NO LONGER WANT TO BLOG about the Boston Globe or AmeriKa anymore. We need this government to SELF-IMPLODE so we can START OVER FROM SCRATCH! It is BEYOND SAVING NOW!
The broad, unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is unusual.
Is it? How would we know? Certainly not through the AmeriKan media.
Remember, it took a BRITISH PAPER to BUST THIS STORY OPEN!
FISA court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets. NSA warrantless wiretapping during the George W. Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks was very controversial.
The FISA court order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compelled Verizon to provide the NSA with electronic copies of ‘‘all call detail records or telephony metadata created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad’’ or ‘‘wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls,’’ The Guardian said.
The law on which the order explicitly relies is the ‘‘business records’’ provision of the USA Patriot Act.
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UPDATE:
"Domestic Spying Revelation Could Be Devastating For The Obama White House
by Peter Foster, The Telegraph | Jun. 6, 2013
The Obama administration will be bracing itself for a torrent of hostile questions this morning following the apparent revelation that the National Security Agency has been data-mining the phone records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans.
Not to be confused with eaves-dropping, or bugging the phones of those suspected of conspiring to commit a terrorist or criminal offence, the top secret court order published by The Guardian appears to show that the NSA has been trawling the anonymous 'metadata' of potentially billions of phone-calls.
On the one hand, American might take comfort that the 'internals' of their phone conversations – ie the voices themselves - are not being routinely recorded, but on the other, it seems from this leak that potentially everyone with a phone is under some form of surveillance in the USA.
For Mr Obama– a president who prided himself on his liberal credentials – this leak is a potentially devastating revelation since it exposes him to attack on two fronts - from both the libertarian Right and the liberal Left.
Already the administration has been hammered over its aggressive prosecution of leakers, including what appeared to be an attempt to criminalise a Fox News journalist, James Rosen, for working a source to obtain a leak from the State Department about North Korea.
That story caused the New York Times – usually a reliable friend of the Obama administration - to write a seething editorial accusing the Department of Justice of over-reaching, and using its powers to send a "chilling" message to the media.
It is not clear how wide the NSA data-mining project goes, it's effectiveness as a counter-terrorism tool in identifying potential terrorist or criminal cells or – indeed – whether it has been used for any other purposes.
It appears from previous reports that the NSA's data-mining operation is not new, and has long been suspected – but this is the first clear-cut proof, in the shape of a highly unusual leak from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Service Court (Fisa), that the practice is occurring.
A report in USA Today newspaper from 2006, quoting anonymous intelligence officials, alleged that the NSA been "secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans" and that the agency was using the data to "analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity".
Since September 11 and the passing of the 2001 Patriot Act, the American public has accepted a great deal of inconvenience and intrusion in the name of national security. The publication of this court order will re-open the debate on how far the security services' writ should run.
Politically, the difficulty for Mr Obama is that even if the NSA is actually doing nothing different than it did for George W Bush, the American public – particularly on the liberal left – had believed that Mr Obama's administration represented a fundamental departure from the excesses of the Bush years.
Now, with the continued debate over the use of drones, the failure to close Guantanamo, the ultra-aggressive prosecution of leaks even to the point, perhaps, of muzzling a free press – the questions from the public and the media are starting to weigh down on the Obama White House.
Already last night, within hours of publication, civil liberties groups who have long warned about the extent of secret surveillance, were jumping on the revelations.
"This confirms what we had long suspected," says Cindy Cohn, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a civil liberties organization that has accused the government of operating a secret dragnet surveillance program told the Washington Post.
"I don't think Congress thought it was authorizing dragnet surveillance" when it passed the Patriot Act, Ms Cohn said, "I don't think Americans think that's OK. I would be shocked if the majority of Congressmen thought it's okay." Over the next few days and weeks, expect a fierce and polarizing debate over just what Americans do feel is acceptable, in the name of their national security.
--MORE--"
Related: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
UPDATED:
"Collection of phone records is ongoing practice" by Donna Cassata and Matt Apuzzo | Associated Press, June 06, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency’s need to collect such records, but critics are calling it a huge over-reach.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday that the court order for telephone records, first disclosed by The Guardian newspaper in Britain, was a three-month renewal of an ongoing practice.
And this has been going on HOW LONG?
The records have been collected for some seven years, according to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
‘‘I think people want the homeland kept safe to the extent we can,’’ Feinstein said at a Capitol Hill news conference. ‘‘We want to protect these privacy rights. That’s why this is carefully done in federal court with federal judges who sit 24/7 who review these requests.’’
This has NOTHING to do with the RAFT of LIES surrounding homeland security, and just wondering why a FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT was used for DOMESTIC SPYING!
The disclosure raised a number of questions: What is the government looking for? Are other big telephone companies under similar orders to turn over information? How is the information used and how long are the records kept?
The sweeping roundup of U.S. phone records has been going on for years and was a key part of the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program, according to a U.S. official.
And your point is what? That this is all OKAY?
The White House had no immediate on-the-record comment. Attorney General Eric Holder sidestepped questions about the issue during an appearance before a Senate subcommittee, offering instead to discuss it at a classified session that several senators said they would arrange.
The order was granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and is good until July 19, the Guardian reported. It requires Verizon, one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies, on an ‘‘ongoing, daily basis,’’ to give the NSA information on all landline and mobile telephone calls of Verizon Business in its systems, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries.
And that is protecting us from the "terrorists," huh?
The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration, the communication records of millions of U.S. citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk, regardless of whether the people are suspected of any wrongdoing.
Yeah, I thought THAT WAS IMPORTANT!
A former U.S. intelligence official who is familiar with the NSA program said that records from all U.S. phone companies would be seized by the government under the warrants, and that they would include business and residential numbers.
Yeah, I thought THAT WAS IMPORTANT, too!
Reaction to the revelation — both pro and con — reflected the vigorous debate in Washington over how best to balance the sometimes-competing goals of protecting the nation from terror attacks while safeguarding the privacy and civil rights of Americans. President Barack Obama, in a recent national security address, said the nation is at a crossroads as it determines how to remain vigilant yet move beyond a post-9/11 mindset focused on global antiterrorism.
Former Vice President Al Gore tweeted that privacy was essential in the digital era.
‘‘Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?’’ wrote Gore, the Democrat who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush.
It's not just you, Al, and for anyone who reads this blog they know am no fan of the man.
Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent whose comments were echoed by members of both parties, said: ‘‘To simply say in a blanket way that millions and millions of Americans are going to have their phone records checked by the U.S. government is to my mind indefensible and unacceptable.’’
But NO CALL for IMPEACHMENT!
But Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he had no problem with the court order and the practice, declaring, ‘‘If we don’t do it, we’re crazy.’’
‘‘If you’re not getting a call from a terrorist organization, you've got nothing to worry about,’’ he said.
That supremely fascist mind-set is sickening!
Btw, ever hear of a WRONG NUMBER, you f***?!!
Related: Feds Using AP and IRS Scandals To Limit First Amendment Rights
I suppose the attitude is not surprising seeing as it is coming from someone who DOES NOT BELIEVE in the FIRST AMENDMENT!
Arizona Sen. John McCain, who ran against Obama for president in 2008, said that if the records sweep was designed to track ‘‘people in the United States who are communicating with members of jihadist terrorist organizations,’’ that might not be a problem. ‘‘But if it was something where we just blanket started finding out who everybody called and under what circumstances, then I think it deserves congressional hearings.’’
Senate Democratic leader Reid played down the significance of the revelation.
Democraps are SO DISAPPOINTING!
‘‘Right now I think that everyone should just calm down and understand that this isn’t anything that’s brand new,’’ he said. ‘‘This is a program that’s been in effect for seven years, as I recall. It’s a program that has worked to prevent not all terrorism but certainly the vast, vast majority. Now is the program perfect? Of course not.’’
That is JUST MAKING ME ANGRIER!!!!
The disclosure of the records sweep was just the latest controversy to hit the Obama administration.
The president also is facing questions over the Internal Revenue Service’s improper targeting of conservative groups, the seizure of journalist phone records in an investigation into who leaked information to the media, and the administration’s handling of the terrorist attack in Libya that left four Americans dead.
And there are like three others that the corporate media isn't even mentioning, including one at EPA.
At the very least, the controversies threaten to distract the White House at a pivotal time, when the president wants to tackle big issues like immigration reform and taxes.
Well, TOO BAD! I don't give a SHIT about the president and his political program in the face of this MASSIVE TOTALITARIAN TYRANNY!
At most, the controversies collectively could erode the American people’s trust in him, threatening both to derail his second term agenda and sully his presidential legacy.
Aww, poor Obama!
Is that SHIT JOURNALISM or what?
As for the TRUST ISSUE, he has LOST THAT LONG AGO and he will NEVER GET IT BACK!
Sorry, but I'm sick and tired of being patient while waiting for the "good change" as the BAD CHANGES CONTINUE and CONTINUE and CONTINUE! It is the GOD-DAMN AGENDA being PUSHED FORWARD and NOTHING ELSE!
The court order did not authorize snooping into the content of phone calls.
So we are told by the lying government and its mouthpiece media.
But with millions of phone records in hand, the NSA’s computers can analyze them for patterns, spot unusual behavior and identify what are known in intelligence circles as ‘‘communities of interest’’ — networks of people in contact with targets or suspicious phone numbers overseas.
Once the government has zeroed in on numbers it believes are tied to terrorism or foreign governments, it can go back to the court with a wiretap request. That allows the government to monitor the calls in real time, record them and store them indefinitely.
I give up on AmeriKa's apologetic pieces of shit.
The court document related to Verizon offers a glimpse into the larger NSA effort. Under the law, the government would need to demand records from each phone company individually. While subpoenas for other phone companies have not been made public, for the data-mining program described by government officials to work, the government would need records for all providers.
‘‘There is no indication that this order to Verizon was unique or novel. It is very likely that business records orders like this exist for every major American telecommunication company, meaning that if you make calls in the United States the NSA has those records. And this has been going on for at least 7 years, and probably longer,’’ wrote Cindy Cohn, general counsel of the nonprofit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, and staff attorney Mark Rumold, in a blog post.
Yes, dear readers, BLOGS are where it is at these days, not pos AmeriKan newspapers.
Jim Harper, a communications and privacy expert at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, questioned the effectiveness of using so-called pattern analyses to intercept terrorism. He said that kind of analysis — finding trends in transactional data collected by Verizon — would produce many false positives and give the government access to intricate data about people’s calling habits.
That last part has been the WHOLE POINT of the MASSIVE AMOUNT of LIES since 9/11.
‘‘This is not just entertainment or a sideshow. This is a record of who you called every day this month,’’ he said, urging Congress to require the government to provide ‘‘a full explanation’’ of how this data turns up terrorism plots.
Under Bush, the National Security Agency built a highly classified wiretapping program to monitor emails and phone calls worldwide. The full details of that program remain unknown, but one aspect was to monitor massive numbers of incoming and outgoing U.S. calls to look for suspicious patterns, said an official familiar with the program. That official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Yes, we knew it was being done by the Bush Administration, and I'm sure I blogged my outrage back then. It GOES ALL the WAY back to BILL CLINTON?!!!!!
After The New York Times revealed the existence of that wiretapping program, the roundup continued under authority granted in the USA Patriot Act, the official said.
So the NYT scoop and exclusive did nothing?
The official did not know if the program was continuous or whether it stopped and restarted at times.
Give me a break.
The official had not seen the court order released by the Guardian newspaper but said it was consistent with similar authorizations the Justice Department has received.
Verizon spokesman Ed McFadden said Wednesday the company had no comment.
The NSA had no immediate comment.
It's all no comment, no comment, no comment. So much for transparency!
The agency is sensitive to perceptions that it might be spying on Americans.
PFFFFFFFFFTTT!
Like this pos tyranny gives a crap about what we think.
In a brochure it distributes, which includes a DVD for reporters to view video that it provides for public relations purposes, it pledges that the agency ‘‘is unwavering in its respect for U.S. laws and Americans’ civil liberties — and its commitment to accountability,’’ and says, ‘‘Earning the American public’s trust is paramount.’’
Like I said, nothing but a mouthpiece.
Verizon Communications Inc. listed 121 million customers in its first-quarter earnings report this April — 98.9 million wireless customers, 11.7 million residential phone lines and about 10 million commercial lines. The court order didn’t specify which customers’ records were being tracked.
Folks, EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN has been SPIED ON! Once again, the AmeriKan media have shown themselves to be collaborators.
Under the terms of the order, the phone numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as are call time and duration, and unique identifiers. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered, The Guardian said.
So we are told! If you believe that I have some of Saddam's non-existent nuclear weapons to sell you.
A senior administration official, defending the collection of phone records by the government, said, ‘‘On its face, the order reprinted in the article does not allow the government to listen in on anyone’s telephone calls.’’ The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
This government is HOPELESS, and it is time to WATER the TREE OF LIBERTY, if you know what I mean!
Interviewed separately, the former intelligence official described a system in which the database needed to be kept current so that if intelligence agencies obtained a phone number from a terror suspect overseas, it could immediately be matched against the records on file. Because it is not easy or quick to obtain the records from phone companies, the Obama administration needed to renew the Bush-era program on an ongoing basis to keep it updated, the former official said.
Have you HAD IT with the EXCUSES!!??
It’s not clear how long the records are kept, or if they are destroyed.
Yeah, right. This government never destroys shit; it simply changes the name of the program.
The former official said that since terror suspects frequently change phone numbers to cover their tracks, there is little need for older records.
Congressional intelligence agencies were briefed extensively on the program, and received support from both Republicans and Democrats to continue it, the former official said. ‘‘Some were nervous about it, but there was never any attempt to stop the program,’’ he said. He described it as a White House-led process.
One reason among many as to why I NO LONGER WANT TO BLOG about the Boston Globe or AmeriKa anymore. We need this government to SELF-IMPLODE so we can START OVER FROM SCRATCH! It is BEYOND SAVING NOW!
The broad, unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is unusual.
Is it? How would we know? Certainly not through the AmeriKan media.
Remember, it took a BRITISH PAPER to BUST THIS STORY OPEN!
FISA court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets. NSA warrantless wiretapping during the George W. Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks was very controversial.
The FISA court order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compelled Verizon to provide the NSA with electronic copies of ‘‘all call detail records or telephony metadata created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad’’ or ‘‘wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls,’’ The Guardian said.
The law on which the order explicitly relies is the ‘‘business records’’ provision of the USA Patriot Act.
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Can You Hear Me Now, Obama?
I sure hope you can.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Obama Should Be Impeached
He's worse than Nixon!
I just saw that he lied about Libya and covered it up, has been spying on his political enemies for over two years (then lied and withheld that information from Congress), and has now been caught spying on the media.
Looks like the only thing that can save Obama now is a false flag attack to be followed by a World War.
Related: Is Obama on SSRIs???
Update: OBAMA SHIT HIS PANTS DURING INTERVIEW
Maybe we could remove him on a medical.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
White House Admits They Knew Of IRS Scandal But Did Nothing
Carney: White House notified of IRS targeting tea party ‘several weeks ago’; Obama: I found out Friday [VIDEO]
What a f***ing liar!!!!! And he thinks it's all a joke? Do I look like I'm laughing?
REPORT: IRS Targeted Local News Anchor After Obama Interview
Liberal Group ProPublica Says IRS Leaked Documents to Them
Obama Administration Under Siege From 3 Huge Scandals: Here’s Why It Could All Come Crashing Down
AP, IRS, Benghazi Scandals Connected
How High Up Does This Go?
Bush Used the IRS, FBI, CIA and Secret Service to Go After Opponents — Where Was the Fox and GOP Outrage?
Good point. There was plenty of outrage here.
Obama Will Not Make It Through 2nd Term
"With a trio of political controversies enveloping President Obama’s administration early in his second term, the White House sought to insulate itself Tuesday from fallout even as it rebuffed repeated questions about the president’s response to the growing problems. The upshot was an image of a president and his top advisers retreating to the bunker....
Just like Nixon.
Some of the problems in which Obama is mired are troubling even to his allies, who worry that he may lose control of one of the core messages he ran on in the first place.... Reporters are demanding to know why this administration has launched more investigations into national security leaks than all other presidents combined. Even the president’s allies are shaking their heads....
The administration on Tuesday continued to say that officials outside the White House — and below any Cabinet-level positions — were the ones who bore responsibility for the controversies.
So Nixonian!
I just saw that he lied about Libya and covered it up, has been spying on his political enemies for over two years (then lied and withheld that information from Congress), and has now been caught spying on the media.
Looks like the only thing that can save Obama now is a false flag attack to be followed by a World War.
Related: Is Obama on SSRIs???
Update: OBAMA SHIT HIS PANTS DURING INTERVIEW
Maybe we could remove him on a medical.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
White House Admits They Knew Of IRS Scandal But Did Nothing
Carney: White House notified of IRS targeting tea party ‘several weeks ago’; Obama: I found out Friday [VIDEO]
What a f***ing liar!!!!! And he thinks it's all a joke? Do I look like I'm laughing?
REPORT: IRS Targeted Local News Anchor After Obama Interview
Liberal Group ProPublica Says IRS Leaked Documents to Them
Obama Administration Under Siege From 3 Huge Scandals: Here’s Why It Could All Come Crashing Down
AP, IRS, Benghazi Scandals Connected
How High Up Does This Go?
Bush Used the IRS, FBI, CIA and Secret Service to Go After Opponents — Where Was the Fox and GOP Outrage?
Good point. There was plenty of outrage here.
Obama Will Not Make It Through 2nd Term
"With a trio of political controversies enveloping President Obama’s administration early in his second term, the White House sought to insulate itself Tuesday from fallout even as it rebuffed repeated questions about the president’s response to the growing problems. The upshot was an image of a president and his top advisers retreating to the bunker....
Just like Nixon.
Some of the problems in which Obama is mired are troubling even to his allies, who worry that he may lose control of one of the core messages he ran on in the first place.... Reporters are demanding to know why this administration has launched more investigations into national security leaks than all other presidents combined. Even the president’s allies are shaking their heads....
The administration on Tuesday continued to say that officials outside the White House — and below any Cabinet-level positions — were the ones who bore responsibility for the controversies.
So Nixonian!
Friday, April 26, 2013
George Bush Asks What Would I Have Done?
The new library -- which must border on Orwellian surrealism -- asks that question?
Okay, a few things I wouldn't have done:
I wouldn't have sat in classroom for 30 minutes after I was told the nation was under attack, and would have wanted to know why my secret service detail didn't hustle me out of there in violation of all protoco.... hey, wait a minute, then he and they must have known something. What I would have done is cancelled the war games drill and false flag operation the way JFK knocked down Operation Northwoods (which horrified him, btw. I believe it was at that point that he finally realized the insidious evil he was dealing with). And I wouldn't have brought in a whole crowd of neo-con Israeli-first crazies to run foreign policy.
I wouldn't have invaded Afghanistan, droned Pakistan, or told lies about weapons-of-mass-destruction (the same lies the AmeriKan ma$$ media is now spewing about Syria and Iran) in Iraq. 'nuff said.
I wouldn't have tortured innocent people that I knew were innocent. And I would have let go the people that are being held in perpetuity. I would have called out all the lies that led to torture. I wouldn't have used chemical weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I wouldn't have allowed Israel to get away with their occasional forays and never-ending siege of Gaza. Of course, by that point I would have been dead somehow.
I wouldn't have allowed the Wall Street banks and other corporations to run roughshod over the economy and develop their fancy looting schemes as they did during your tenure. I wouldn't have allowed the fraudulent foreclosing of homes, although we are now straying into the area of your successor. You just left him the mess. I wouldn't have bailed them out, but at least some Enron crooks went to jail during your term. Obama considers the banks too big to jail, and is thinking of letting Skilling of Enron out early.
I'm sure if I sat here and kept typing I could think of many other things, but those above are a few of the larger items I would have done different.
Okay, a few things I wouldn't have done:
I wouldn't have sat in classroom for 30 minutes after I was told the nation was under attack, and would have wanted to know why my secret service detail didn't hustle me out of there in violation of all protoco.... hey, wait a minute, then he and they must have known something. What I would have done is cancelled the war games drill and false flag operation the way JFK knocked down Operation Northwoods (which horrified him, btw. I believe it was at that point that he finally realized the insidious evil he was dealing with). And I wouldn't have brought in a whole crowd of neo-con Israeli-first crazies to run foreign policy.
I wouldn't have invaded Afghanistan, droned Pakistan, or told lies about weapons-of-mass-destruction (the same lies the AmeriKan ma$$ media is now spewing about Syria and Iran) in Iraq. 'nuff said.
I wouldn't have tortured innocent people that I knew were innocent. And I would have let go the people that are being held in perpetuity. I would have called out all the lies that led to torture. I wouldn't have used chemical weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I wouldn't have allowed Israel to get away with their occasional forays and never-ending siege of Gaza. Of course, by that point I would have been dead somehow.
I wouldn't have allowed the Wall Street banks and other corporations to run roughshod over the economy and develop their fancy looting schemes as they did during your tenure. I wouldn't have allowed the fraudulent foreclosing of homes, although we are now straying into the area of your successor. You just left him the mess. I wouldn't have bailed them out, but at least some Enron crooks went to jail during your term. Obama considers the banks too big to jail, and is thinking of letting Skilling of Enron out early.
I'm sure if I sat here and kept typing I could think of many other things, but those above are a few of the larger items I would have done different.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Bushbama
Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure (Part I) - by Stephen Lendman
Last December, a two-part article discussed Obama's year one betrayal and failure, accessed through the following links:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure_23.html
In year two, the pattern continued, revealing domestic and foreign policies that:
-- outdid George Bush by exceeding his harshness, lawlessness, belligerency, and public trust betrayal;
-- maintained a 30 year agenda of shifting public wealth to the rich, as well as supporting capital, not public welfare, including targeting middle class households for destruction;
-- looted the nation's wealth, wrecked the economy, and consigned growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, homes, savings, social services, or futures;
-- let hunger, homelessness, poverty, and those uninsured grow to unacceptable levels;
-- backed Wall Street's financial coup d'etat by greater Fed empowerment, as well as institutionalizing speculation, "too-big-to fail," super-wealth, and big money power;
-- plans new global monetary measures to control the world's money;
-- continued America's permanent war agenda by expanding imperial adventurism, increasing covert and overt aggression on new fronts with out-of-control military spending, exceeding the rest of the world combined at a time America has no enemies;
-- became the latest war criminal Nobel Peace Prize recipient;
-- executed his first successful coup d'etat in Honduras against its democratically elected president, then backed the fascist regime replacing him;
-- failed attempting regime change in Iran;
-- continued providing military, economic and political aid to the world's most ruthless, corrupt despots;
-- maintained a longstanding policy of supplying Israel with annual billions, more on request, other add-ons and extras, interest-free loans, the latest weapons, munitions and technology, unrestricted US market access, free entry of its immigrants, and unbridled support for its illegal belligerence, occupation, and crimes of war and against humanity;
-- presides over a bogus democracy under a homeland police state apparatus, sacrificing due process, judicial fairness, and other civil liberty protections in the name of national security;
-- continued torture as official policy, extraordinary rendition to prison hellholes, and for the first time, targeted US citizens for assassination;
-- invoked the state secrets privilege to prevent lawsuits by victims of rendition, torture, abuse, and those opposing warrantless wiretapping;
-- targets whisleblowers, dissenters, Muslims, environmental and animal rights activists, anyone challenging state power, and civil rights lawyers who defend them too vigorously called terrorists or threats to national security;
-- endorsed preventive detention without charge for those at Guantanamo considered dangerous, but no evidence allows prosecuting them;
-- expanded Bush administration spying and secrecy;
-- refused to prosecute its officials, suppressing proof of their culpability;
-- planned cybersecurity tyranny, threatening a free and open Internet, consumer privacy, and civil liberties; more on how below;
-- waged war on organized labor through fewer jobs, less pay, reduced benefits, and gutted work rules, including health and safety on-the-job protections;
-- tried controlling the media more aggressively than Nixon;
-- denied budget-strapped states financial help, forcing them to slash welfare programs, education, health care for the poor, and other vital services when they're most needed;
-- continued to commodify public education, end government responsibility for it, and make it another business profit center;
-- promoted dangerous vaccines for a non-existent threat;
-- promoted health care legislation that rations care; enriches insurers, drug giants and large hospital chains; places profits above human need; and keeps a dysfunctional system in place; Peter Singer's July 15, 2009 New York Times article endorsed administration policy, headlined: "Why We Must Ration Health Care," saying it's essential to apportion a "scarce resource" to those who can afford it; others will get only what they can pay for;
-- on the pretext of improving food safety, enacted agribusiness-friendly House legislation, harming consumers, small farms and food producers without improving America's industrial food system; on November 30, the Senate passed its own version; more on that below;
-- wants so far not passed legislation to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by raising energy cost, while creating a speculative bonanza through a new carbon trading derivatives scheme;
-- cracks down harder on undocumented immigrants than George Bush, deporting a record number in FY 2010; others are held in over 300 detention facilities in nearly every state in the country, treated like criminals or terrorists; and
-- promoted a national ID card for all citizens and legal residents to be able to monitor them everywhere at all times.
Year two: Obama's destructive agenda continued.
Militarizing and Exploiting Haiti
An earlier article explained that Haiti is no stranger to adversity. Except for a brief time after its successful 1791 - 1803 revolution turning slaves into citizens and during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's tenure, it's experienced over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, occupation, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to powerful earthquakes, most recently on January 12. It devastated greater Port-au-Prince, killing up to 300,000, leaving around 1.5 million Haitians homeless with little aid and no help to rebuild.
Some countries reacted quickly, mostly a few Latin American ones, including Cuba and Venezuela. Washington did nothing, deploying marines and paratroupers instead, militarizing the country, obstructing, not providing aid, promising $1.1 billion, delivering none, planning only exploitation of Haiti's resources and cheap labor.
Haiti was opened for business, occupied to be plundered, its people on their own, sink or swim under circumstances assuring mass suffering, starvation, disease and for many, death. Only corporate interests mattered at a time of dire need.
Eleven months later, Haiti is still plagued by rubble everywhere, extreme deprivation, promised aid undelivered, none from Washington, 1.5 million without shelter in streets and other open spaces, and now raging cholera, and the aftermath of a sham election, institutionalizing coup d'etat rule.
Washington's imperial hand orchestrated it, denying Haitians any chance for real change. It represents another betrayal by a president showing contempt for essential needs, human rights, and basic freedoms, at home and abroad, even under the most dire conditions.
America's Permanent War Agenda
America glorifies wars in the name of peace, historian Gore Vidal titling his 2002 book, "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace," saying:
"Our rulers for more than a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own."
It's persisted mainly since Franklin Roosevelt goaded Japan to attack us. It then continued in Korea, Vietnam, numerous proxy wars, the Cold War until the Soviet Union's 1991 dissolution, and now Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and new wars to be launched at opportunistic times against unnamed enemies.
Obama is America's latest warrior president, talking peace, waging war, packaged as liberating ones for democracy, freedom, and justice against bogus threats, when, in fact it's an imperial agenda for wealth, power, and unchallengeable global dominance.
He lied calling Afghanistan a "war of necessity, not choice," doubled the force contingent since taking office, yet stays mired in an unwinnable quagmire. He also destabilized Pakistan, plans control over the Caspian Sea's oil and gas riches, as well as energy routes to secured ports for export.
He approved US military bases encircling Russia, China and Iran, obstructing their solidarity and cohesion. He promised change and delivered betrayal, nearing year three of his tenure. Like his predecessor, he aroused global anger, his agenda endangering everyone, including Americans, heading the country for tyranny and ruin.
Enacting Obamacare
An earlier article called March 21 a day of infamy when House and Democrat leaders bullied, bribed, cajoled, muscled, and jerry-rigged Obamacare to pass, despite most Americans opposing it with good reason. Ralph Nader called it a "pay-or-die system that is the disgrace of the Western world," costing double what other Western countries spend and delivering less, rationing care to enrich corporate providers while making a dysfunctional system worse.
Henceforth, junk insurance policies will leave millions underinsured. Costs will remain out-of-control. Insurers can still deny care by delaying, contesting, preventing or over-charging people from accessing it. Everyone must have coverage or be penalized if opt out, a provision many states are contesting. A Virginia federal judge just ruled it unconstitutional, a battle the Supreme Court will decide. Company-provided policies will be taxed as ordinary income, harming working households most of all.
Physicians for a National Health Program denounced it, saying the new law "will enrich and further entrench (private insurers, forcing) millions of Americans to buy" defective coverage leaving most worse off than before at a cost of hundreds of billions of tax dollars given predators to game the system for profit, the public losing out. Moreover, 23 million Americans will remain uninsured, "translate(d) into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths annually and an incalculable toll of suffering."
Obama's centerpiece domestic policy scammed the public with a package of expensive mandates, new taxes, and sweetheart deals, creating a fragmented, dysfunctional, unsustainable system, denying Americans what they urgently need - universal coverage, an expanded, improved Medicare for all, everyone in, no one out, what neither party or Obama delivered.
Capitulating on Financial Reform
Omitting real structural reforms, Democrats, Republicans, and Obama agreed on a patchwork of half-measures. Instead of restraining financial fraud, too-big-to-fail empowerment, an out-of-control Fed, and casino capitalism's ability to game the system with public money, it institutionalized business as usual. The Financial Times (FT) quoted a Wall Street banker saying "We are all breathing a sigh of relief here....we can live with this." Indeed so since Wall Street lawyers wrote it. The FT added: investors believe the "overhaul in financial rules would not have a significant impact on the industry's structure and profitability."
Indeed not by:
-- empowering a financial aristocracy;
-- letting Wall Street run the country;
-- institutionalizing fraud, speculation and bailouts;
-- leaving executive pay, bonuses and perks untouched;
-- letting credit agency scams continue;
-- permitting giant banks, insurers and other financial firms to get bigger; and
-- establishing a toothless Consumer Financial Protection Bureau along with other anti-reform provisions.
Bottom line: the worst of bad practices will continue, besides teams of lawyers devising ways around whatever regulations emerge. According to University of San Diego Law Professor Frank Partnoy, "Wall Street has always been very skilled at getting around rules, and this law will be no different," especially with its loopholes, half-measures, and overall weakness. Bankers got the best deal big money can buy. The public again was scammed.
Part II will conclude Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure.
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Last December, a two-part article discussed Obama's year one betrayal and failure, accessed through the following links:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure_23.html
In year two, the pattern continued, revealing domestic and foreign policies that:
-- outdid George Bush by exceeding his harshness, lawlessness, belligerency, and public trust betrayal;
-- maintained a 30 year agenda of shifting public wealth to the rich, as well as supporting capital, not public welfare, including targeting middle class households for destruction;
-- looted the nation's wealth, wrecked the economy, and consigned growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, homes, savings, social services, or futures;
-- let hunger, homelessness, poverty, and those uninsured grow to unacceptable levels;
-- backed Wall Street's financial coup d'etat by greater Fed empowerment, as well as institutionalizing speculation, "too-big-to fail," super-wealth, and big money power;
-- plans new global monetary measures to control the world's money;
-- continued America's permanent war agenda by expanding imperial adventurism, increasing covert and overt aggression on new fronts with out-of-control military spending, exceeding the rest of the world combined at a time America has no enemies;
-- became the latest war criminal Nobel Peace Prize recipient;
-- executed his first successful coup d'etat in Honduras against its democratically elected president, then backed the fascist regime replacing him;
-- failed attempting regime change in Iran;
-- continued providing military, economic and political aid to the world's most ruthless, corrupt despots;
-- maintained a longstanding policy of supplying Israel with annual billions, more on request, other add-ons and extras, interest-free loans, the latest weapons, munitions and technology, unrestricted US market access, free entry of its immigrants, and unbridled support for its illegal belligerence, occupation, and crimes of war and against humanity;
-- presides over a bogus democracy under a homeland police state apparatus, sacrificing due process, judicial fairness, and other civil liberty protections in the name of national security;
-- continued torture as official policy, extraordinary rendition to prison hellholes, and for the first time, targeted US citizens for assassination;
-- invoked the state secrets privilege to prevent lawsuits by victims of rendition, torture, abuse, and those opposing warrantless wiretapping;
-- targets whisleblowers, dissenters, Muslims, environmental and animal rights activists, anyone challenging state power, and civil rights lawyers who defend them too vigorously called terrorists or threats to national security;
-- endorsed preventive detention without charge for those at Guantanamo considered dangerous, but no evidence allows prosecuting them;
-- expanded Bush administration spying and secrecy;
-- refused to prosecute its officials, suppressing proof of their culpability;
-- planned cybersecurity tyranny, threatening a free and open Internet, consumer privacy, and civil liberties; more on how below;
-- waged war on organized labor through fewer jobs, less pay, reduced benefits, and gutted work rules, including health and safety on-the-job protections;
-- tried controlling the media more aggressively than Nixon;
-- denied budget-strapped states financial help, forcing them to slash welfare programs, education, health care for the poor, and other vital services when they're most needed;
-- continued to commodify public education, end government responsibility for it, and make it another business profit center;
-- promoted dangerous vaccines for a non-existent threat;
-- promoted health care legislation that rations care; enriches insurers, drug giants and large hospital chains; places profits above human need; and keeps a dysfunctional system in place; Peter Singer's July 15, 2009 New York Times article endorsed administration policy, headlined: "Why We Must Ration Health Care," saying it's essential to apportion a "scarce resource" to those who can afford it; others will get only what they can pay for;
-- on the pretext of improving food safety, enacted agribusiness-friendly House legislation, harming consumers, small farms and food producers without improving America's industrial food system; on November 30, the Senate passed its own version; more on that below;
-- wants so far not passed legislation to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by raising energy cost, while creating a speculative bonanza through a new carbon trading derivatives scheme;
-- cracks down harder on undocumented immigrants than George Bush, deporting a record number in FY 2010; others are held in over 300 detention facilities in nearly every state in the country, treated like criminals or terrorists; and
-- promoted a national ID card for all citizens and legal residents to be able to monitor them everywhere at all times.
Year two: Obama's destructive agenda continued.
Militarizing and Exploiting Haiti
An earlier article explained that Haiti is no stranger to adversity. Except for a brief time after its successful 1791 - 1803 revolution turning slaves into citizens and during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's tenure, it's experienced over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, occupation, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to powerful earthquakes, most recently on January 12. It devastated greater Port-au-Prince, killing up to 300,000, leaving around 1.5 million Haitians homeless with little aid and no help to rebuild.
Some countries reacted quickly, mostly a few Latin American ones, including Cuba and Venezuela. Washington did nothing, deploying marines and paratroupers instead, militarizing the country, obstructing, not providing aid, promising $1.1 billion, delivering none, planning only exploitation of Haiti's resources and cheap labor.
Haiti was opened for business, occupied to be plundered, its people on their own, sink or swim under circumstances assuring mass suffering, starvation, disease and for many, death. Only corporate interests mattered at a time of dire need.
Eleven months later, Haiti is still plagued by rubble everywhere, extreme deprivation, promised aid undelivered, none from Washington, 1.5 million without shelter in streets and other open spaces, and now raging cholera, and the aftermath of a sham election, institutionalizing coup d'etat rule.
Washington's imperial hand orchestrated it, denying Haitians any chance for real change. It represents another betrayal by a president showing contempt for essential needs, human rights, and basic freedoms, at home and abroad, even under the most dire conditions.
America's Permanent War Agenda
America glorifies wars in the name of peace, historian Gore Vidal titling his 2002 book, "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace," saying:
"Our rulers for more than a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own."
It's persisted mainly since Franklin Roosevelt goaded Japan to attack us. It then continued in Korea, Vietnam, numerous proxy wars, the Cold War until the Soviet Union's 1991 dissolution, and now Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and new wars to be launched at opportunistic times against unnamed enemies.
Obama is America's latest warrior president, talking peace, waging war, packaged as liberating ones for democracy, freedom, and justice against bogus threats, when, in fact it's an imperial agenda for wealth, power, and unchallengeable global dominance.
He lied calling Afghanistan a "war of necessity, not choice," doubled the force contingent since taking office, yet stays mired in an unwinnable quagmire. He also destabilized Pakistan, plans control over the Caspian Sea's oil and gas riches, as well as energy routes to secured ports for export.
He approved US military bases encircling Russia, China and Iran, obstructing their solidarity and cohesion. He promised change and delivered betrayal, nearing year three of his tenure. Like his predecessor, he aroused global anger, his agenda endangering everyone, including Americans, heading the country for tyranny and ruin.
Enacting Obamacare
An earlier article called March 21 a day of infamy when House and Democrat leaders bullied, bribed, cajoled, muscled, and jerry-rigged Obamacare to pass, despite most Americans opposing it with good reason. Ralph Nader called it a "pay-or-die system that is the disgrace of the Western world," costing double what other Western countries spend and delivering less, rationing care to enrich corporate providers while making a dysfunctional system worse.
Henceforth, junk insurance policies will leave millions underinsured. Costs will remain out-of-control. Insurers can still deny care by delaying, contesting, preventing or over-charging people from accessing it. Everyone must have coverage or be penalized if opt out, a provision many states are contesting. A Virginia federal judge just ruled it unconstitutional, a battle the Supreme Court will decide. Company-provided policies will be taxed as ordinary income, harming working households most of all.
Physicians for a National Health Program denounced it, saying the new law "will enrich and further entrench (private insurers, forcing) millions of Americans to buy" defective coverage leaving most worse off than before at a cost of hundreds of billions of tax dollars given predators to game the system for profit, the public losing out. Moreover, 23 million Americans will remain uninsured, "translate(d) into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths annually and an incalculable toll of suffering."
Obama's centerpiece domestic policy scammed the public with a package of expensive mandates, new taxes, and sweetheart deals, creating a fragmented, dysfunctional, unsustainable system, denying Americans what they urgently need - universal coverage, an expanded, improved Medicare for all, everyone in, no one out, what neither party or Obama delivered.
Capitulating on Financial Reform
Omitting real structural reforms, Democrats, Republicans, and Obama agreed on a patchwork of half-measures. Instead of restraining financial fraud, too-big-to-fail empowerment, an out-of-control Fed, and casino capitalism's ability to game the system with public money, it institutionalized business as usual. The Financial Times (FT) quoted a Wall Street banker saying "We are all breathing a sigh of relief here....we can live with this." Indeed so since Wall Street lawyers wrote it. The FT added: investors believe the "overhaul in financial rules would not have a significant impact on the industry's structure and profitability."
Indeed not by:
-- empowering a financial aristocracy;
-- letting Wall Street run the country;
-- institutionalizing fraud, speculation and bailouts;
-- leaving executive pay, bonuses and perks untouched;
-- letting credit agency scams continue;
-- permitting giant banks, insurers and other financial firms to get bigger; and
-- establishing a toothless Consumer Financial Protection Bureau along with other anti-reform provisions.
Bottom line: the worst of bad practices will continue, besides teams of lawyers devising ways around whatever regulations emerge. According to University of San Diego Law Professor Frank Partnoy, "Wall Street has always been very skilled at getting around rules, and this law will be no different," especially with its loopholes, half-measures, and overall weakness. Bankers got the best deal big money can buy. The public again was scammed.
Part II will conclude Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Internet Death List
"One thing that is certain, is that the writer of these words, and all of you who read these words have been marked for “disappearance,” or termination.... The Internet was given to the American people for just that purpose"
For my part, it has been an honor to serve you, my beloved readers.
We will meet again -- on the other side, in a better world. Aloha.
"Internet Death List
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For my part, it has been an honor to serve you, my beloved readers.
We will meet again -- on the other side, in a better world. Aloha.
"Internet Death List
by: Peter Chamberlin
The human race must learn to be more than just cattle. We move like a herd, we think like a herd, we are controlled like a herd. We are about to be stampeded into thousands of slaughterhouses, just like the end of all livestock herds.
Perhaps we are more accurately compared to industrious ants in a global ant farm? We are trapped in an enclosed environment by an unseen sadistic hand, which collapses our carefully dug tunnels and incinerates us with magnifying glasses. Many independent ants try to get a glimpse of our tormentors, spending hours speculating about the motives of those who so cruelly command our fate. It is important to our overlords that they identify who all of these free-thinking rebellious ants are, in order that they might be marked and sorted-out for termination.
The masters of our universe always follow this pattern in stamping-out resistance to their immoral plans. The American government has carefully planned for the elimination of all those who resist their master plan to dominate all things on this earth. Through covert operations with code names like Phoenix, Condor and Gladio, they have methodically used torture, terrorism and murder to identify and eliminate all potential left/liberal resistance to its ultra right-wing plans for allied nations.
According to researcher John Dinges, at the center of each of these CIA terror campaigns was a data collection system, used to collect the lists for the death squads to target. The idea was always to use covert agents to artificially stimulate the production of an organized left, in order to identify all those who might one day be compelled to rise in opposition. While the liberal resistance rose-up, the hard-core right (which was a reflection of the US government’s belief system) was massively built-up, waiting for the inevitable day of conflict.
In America today, we see the same game plan being playing-out. When the liberal resistance explodes in reaction to the sight of the slaughterhouse, coming into view, then the herd will be culled, removing all the free-thinking trouble-makers who resist the stampede. To that end, lists have been drawn-up of war-resisters, in preparation for the round-up. The Internet was given to the American people for just that purpose.
The American resisters are self-identifying themselves by their Internet searches and activities, in effect, signing their names to subversive lists every time they surf conspiracy or antiwar sites, or dare to express themselves on any forum. This is the sinister motive behind the seemingly benign creation of the Internet. Every technological innovation in communications is co-opted into servicing the malignant government plans through the insertion of “backdoors” and the secret installation of government software.
The Patriot Act provided the long-awaited opportunity to launch a nationwide dragnet to find the new radicals. Mass surveillance of all the American people was authorized. All phone calls and emails will soon be monitored to compile lists of growing personal networks. This will help the government to identify potential radicals who are not yet politically active, or those who do not use the Internet. All the plans for replacing democracy with the police (martial law, FEMA camps, FISA bill) are steps that have been taken in preparation for the day when the people will justify the use of these fascist measures against them, in reaction to the bombing of Iran, another “false flag” terror attack, a general uprising, or some other undefined “emergencies.”
The Internet itself is the “backdoor” into the most private secrets of every web surfer. Not only is the Internet the backdoor, but it serves as an instrument for subversive agitation, for agents provocateurs to cultivate “extremist beliefs systems,” and the spreading of radicalization, just as the government claims in its public witch hunt, known as the “Homegrown Terrorism Act.” But the real hidden issue, that the grand inquisitors of the homegrown radical hunt will not examine is – how much of the radicalization and the extremist beliefs are the natural products of moral outrage and acts of self-defense, and much of it is the product of secret government agencies’ handiwork, meant to inflame a radical leftist movement?
How much of the division today within the antiwar and anti-fascist movements has been caused by covert disinformation agents, sowing half-true government propaganda? How many of the divisions in the 911 Truth Movement were manufactured by these agents of division? The movement cannot unite around a central issue because every issue has been splintered. This is evidence that the government’s secret plans are succeeding. If we cannot unite around a common understanding of events, including the identification of the real masters of America, before they give that dreaded final order (for us), then there will be no immovable mass of united Americans standing squarely in the path of their incoming irresistible force.
Who are the conspirators? Are the principle powers behind the plot to be described as international bankers, Zionists, Illuminati, or some mysterious combination of all of them, as has been described in detail by former British spy John Coleman, in “Committee of 300”? Elements of all these subversive secretive groups are definitely the financial powers driving the New World Order, but, on another level, they are merely pawns as well, dancing to the tunes of the CIA puppeteers. All lesser conspiracies must be subject to one primary driving group of plotters. Many (if not most) of the conspiracy sites on the Internet are agency creations, serving to divide and mislead the real truth-seekers in a thousand different directions. The right-wing conspiracy against freedom is driven by leftist impersonators.
Many of the sources of new conspiracy theories keep turning-out to have connections to various intelligence agencies, like Coleman, who is alleged to have been a member of MI6. This calls his veracity into question, especially considering that his work largely ignores the Zionist connection to world events, blaming everything on the super-secret “Committee,” that he alone knows the inner workings thereof.
Another questionable source of alternative conspiracy theories was Joe Vialls (a.k.a. “Ari Ben-Menashe,” formerly of the Israeli Mossad). His constant usage of insider information to support his wild theories, such as Israel’s military plans for Iraq’s oil pipelines led many people to question his work. His “Operation Shekhinah” report was validated after the US invasion of Iraq. His report on the Falklands War about gigantic new oil fields was confirmed by recent reports of vast oil fields recently discovered off the coast of Brazil. Vialls later discredited himself with exposes which never came true, like a planned al Qaida attack on the US using airliners spreading ricin, and another called “Fortress America,” which allegedly involved 250,000 Israeli assassins in the United States.
What really destroyed Joe’s credibility with the 911 movement was his attempt to cover-up CIA and Mossad involvement in the attacks, blaming them instead upon the French, the Russians and the Germans. He ignored the obvious fact that America and Israel had wanted the war on terrorism, which the terrorist attacks would justify. His theory was that the attack on the New York financial center was revenge committed upon the Zionist bankers, intended to disrupt their oil pipeline steal underway in Central Asia.
In spite of all of this, Joe Vialls provided invaluable insights into the countless intrigues unfolding around pipelines and oil fields. Just as his information on Iraqi pipelines and South American oil fields proved to be true and very helpful in understanding conspiracy motives in the war on terrorism, his revelations concerning conflict with Russia over Central Asian oil and gas fields help us to understand the benefits to be obtained from our standoff with Putin. As hard as it may be to believe, the continuity of freedom in the Western world may very well rest in the hands of a former general of the KGB.
If Joe Vialls was really a Mossad mole, then why did he base his theories about the Israeli connection to the war on terrorism on the darkest anti-Semitic beliefs, making his work unreadable to a majority of Americans? His theories concerning the inner workings of the conspiracy are worth examining, regardless of how his seemingly racist views on the importance and rank of the Zionists in the plot have been portrayed.
Joe’s version of the conspiracy known as the “war on terror” –
“The Jewish State is a true parasite, wholly dependent on massive American funding in order to survive. Remove that funding either intentionally or accidentally, and the Jewish State would be overrun and destroyed in a matter of months…
So what is a poor parasite to do, when its host appears to be running out of the fiscal nourishment it depends on for its very survival? Most normal parasites would seek out a new host, but this is an impossible task for the Jewish State. There is simply no other country on earth capable of generating sufficient revenue to cope with the greed and corruption in Tel Aviv.”
In Joe’s view, the coming collapse of the American economy would take Israel down with us. It was therefore imperative for both Israel and America that the United States seize the Middle Eastern oil fields and pending pipeline routes, in order to base the American/Israeli economies on this new source of unlimited wealth. Israel was to become the “new Rotterdam,” the hub of oil world, even as Rotterdam was the axis of the world’s diamond market. Despite Vialls’ anti-Israeli views, even though the war on terrorism was exactly what America and Israel desired, he maintained that:
“9/11 was a calculated high-tech surgical strike against the Zionist banking heart of New York City,” [carried-out by the French, Russian and German intelligence services]
It is obvious that Joe Vialls was correct about American and Israeli goals, to seize the oil fields of the Middle East and the Caspian Sea region, in order to pipe this strategic resource away from Russia and China, into American tankers and the strategic reserves that we maintain for Israel. His contentions about the power of “New York (Jewish) money” are also correct. The fascist ethnic-cleansing policies of the Israeli military did provide the bloody template that was to be used throughout the war on terrorism, in order to subjugate and rob the Muslim people. It seems that most of his reporting was usually dead-on, except when he relied on intelligence leaks from inside the Israeli establishment, which then proved to be misinformation.
As far as his most startling claims in “Fortress America,” about the secret army of 250,000 Israeli war veterans being sent to the US, to eliminate the targeted enemies of Israel and the patriot militias, only time will tell, whether he was right or wrong. But we must keep in mind, that America’s radicals and extremists are being targeted to be rounded-up and eliminated by some right-wing force. This hardcore group of right-wing killers may as well be Israelis.
Whether the conspiracy against American freedom, known as the New World Order, is the culmination of an ancient Jewish conspiracy to elevate a group of men who claim to be “God’s chosen people,” therefore God’s representatives upon this earth, or merely an extensive intelligence operation that has co-opted this ancient conspiracy, making it the centerpiece of its plans, is still uncertain. One thing that is certain, is that the writer of these words, and all of you who read these words have been marked for “disappearance,” or termination. In the end, it will matter very little about the nationality of the man who shoves the gun in our faces, for whoever he proves to be, he will surely be an immoral monster.
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