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Mali Principii Malus Finis
Post Date: 2013-08-29 13:17:02 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Mali Principii Malus Finis August 24, 2013 Juleigh Howard-Hobson An angel came to me and said: ‘O pitiable foolish young man! O horrible! O dreadful state! Consider the hot burning dungeon thou art preparing for thyself to all eternity, to which thou are going in such career’ I said: ‘perhaps you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will contemplate together upon it and see whether your lot or mine is most desirable’ —William Blake We—as a people—have no spiritual identity. Not that pan-Europeans lack spiritual impulse, or spiritual distinctions—we have all that, from New Age to Calvinism—what we lack is an identity of ...
NSA Bugs UN Headquarters
Post Date: 2013-08-27 03:11:53 by Stephen Lendman
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NSA Bugs UN Headquarters by Stephen Lendman Spying is official US policy. It's conducted at home and abroad. It's lawless. Big Brother watches everyone. Even UN headquarters is vulnerable. More on that below. Spying on the world body is illegal. Doing so violates the 1946 UN convention. It states: "The premises of the United Nations shall be inviolable." "The property and assets of the United Nations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation and any other form of interference, whether by executive, administrative, judicial or legislative action." The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic ...
Just before Hurricane Sandy, Obama signed executive order merging Homeland Security with private sector to create virtual dictatorship
Post Date: 2013-08-25 19:47:46 by Itistoolate
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Just before Hurricane Sandy, Obama signed executive order merging Homeland Security with private sector to create virtual dictatorship (NaturalNews) While all eyes were on Hurricane Sandy in the days leading up to the storm's breach on the mainland of the Northeast, the White House was busy devising new ways to enslave Americans under the guise of protecting national security. On October 26, 2012, Barack Obama quietly signed an Executive Order (EO) establishing the so-called Homeland Security Partnership Council, a public-private partnership that basically merges the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with local governments and the private sector for the implied purpose of giving ...
Britain's Middle East Spy Station
Post Date: 2013-08-25 15:45:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Britain's Middle East Spy Station by Stephen Lendman It doesn't surprise. Washington operates the same way. It's longstanding imperial policy. It relates to waging war on freedom. On August 23, The Independent headlined "Exclusive: UK's secret Mid-East internet surveillance is revealed in Edward Snowden leaks." Did Snowden provide information to The Independent? He categorically denies doing so. Perhaps its "exclusive" stopped short of telling all. More on that below. "Data gathering is part of a ($1.5 billion) web project still being assembled by GCHQ," said The Independent. It's involved in "intercept(ing) and process(ing) vast ...
Monsanto's Harvest of Shame
Post Date: 2013-08-25 03:00:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Monsanto's Harvest of Shame by Stephen Lendman In 1960, Edward R. Murrow hosted CBS Reports. It was television the way it should be. It no longer exists. It was a feature TV documentary series. They're not shown today. They told viewers what they need to know. Modern-day Murrows aren't around. They're excluded from TV. They don't get air time. He discussed how American migrant agricultural workers are exploited. He and colleague Edward P. Morgan covered the issue on CBS Radio. CBS News president Fred Friendly called it natural for Murrow to pursue. He cared. He supported oppressed workers. It showed in his work. CBS featured what's no longer broadcast. Harvest ...
McCarthyism Writ Large
Post Date: 2013-08-25 02:59:29 by Stephen Lendman
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McCarthyism Writ Large by Stephen Lendman In the late 1930s and 1940s, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) targeted alleged communist sympathizers. Uncorroborated hearsay alone mattered. Prominent Hollywood figures were named. Hundreds of actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, musicians, songwriters, and other artists were accused of communist sympathies. They were blacklisted. Notable ones were called the Hollywood Ten. They included screenwriter Alvah Bessie, screenwriter/director Herbert Biberman, screenwriter Lester Cole, director Edward Dmytryk, screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr., screenwriter John Lawson, screenwriter Albert Maltz, screenwriter Samuel Ornitz, ...
British Snoops to The Guardian: Nice Little Newspaper You Got. It'd Be a Shame if Something Happened to It
Post Date: 2013-08-24 07:17:12 by Ada
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The GuardianThis morning, with regard to the detention of David Miranda, NSA- busting journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner, by British authorities at London's Heathrow airport, and the theft of his property by the same goons, I suggested that the whole infuriating incident was a crude effort to deter journalists from further scrutinizing the surveillance state. The unusual questioning of Miranda about Greenwald's journalistic endeavors for the full nine hours allowed under a British law targeted at potential terrorists was a strong indicator that intimidation was the ultimate goal, but not proof positive. Now, though, we have more evidence that British authorities are leaning ...
LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA
Post Date: 2013-08-24 02:19:28 by Original_Intent
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“A Special Surveillance Chip” According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It allows Microsoft to control the computer remotely through a built-in backdoor. Keys to that backdoor are likely accessible to the NSA – and in an unintended ironic twist, perhaps even to the Chinese. The backdoor is called “Trusted Computing,” developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group, founded a decade ago by the all-American ...
Judges invent a new right (New Mexico)
Post Date: 2013-08-24 01:51:42 by X-15
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Homosexuals not only have a right to marry in a state that does not recognize same-sex "marriage," but also have the right to compel others to violate their own beliefs: The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that, by refusing to photograph a gay wedding, a photography studio violated the New Mexico Human Rights Act (NMHRA). The court found that Elane Photography’s refusal to serve Vanessa Willock violated the act, which “prohibits a public accommodation from refusing to offer its services to a person based on that person’s sexual orientation,” according to the ruling. Justice Richard C. Bosson, writing in concurrence, said that the case ...
Bradley Manning: Imprisoning a National Hero
Post Date: 2013-08-23 03:05:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Bradley Manning: Imprisoning a National Hero by Stephen Lendman We're all vulnerable. We're all Bradley Manning. His fate is ours. Charging, prosecuting, convicting, sentencing and imprisoning him reflects the shame of the nation. It reveals its true face. Previous article said American honors its worst. It spurns its best. It vilifies them. It persecutes them. It does so shamelessly. It does it irresponsibly. It does it repeatedly. It does it lawlessly. War criminals win Nobel Peace Prizes. They're awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom. They deserve prosecution. They deserve prison. They deserve the hardest of hard time longterm. When exposing crimes of war and against ...
Lawless NSA Spying Exposed
Post Date: 2013-08-23 03:04:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Lawless NSA Spying Exposed by Stephen Lendman It's longstanding. It's no secret. It's well known. Now we know more. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) deserves credit. On August 21, it headlined "Intelligence Agency Attorney on How 'Multi-Communication Transactions' Allowed for Domestic Surveillance." EFF filed a FOIA lawsuit. For over a year, it fought for public disclosure. It demanded release of an 86- page FISA court opinion. In October 2011, it was gotten. It called NSA's so-called "upstream collection (UC)" system illegal and unconstitutional. It violates the FISA Amendments Act. It breaches constitutional provisions. NSA ...
Bradley Manning Wrongfully Sentenced
Post Date: 2013-08-21 14:17:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Bradley Manning Wrongfully Sentenced by Stephen Lendman On July 30, he was wrongfully convicted on 20 of 22 charges. They included multiple Espionage Act violations. It's a WW I relic. It belongs in history's dustbin. It's unrelated to exposing serious government wrongdoing. Manning revealed what everyone needs to know. He disclosed grave war crimes. Perpetrators are free to kill again. Doing the right thing got Manning convicted. Judge Col. Denise Lind sentenced him to 35 years. It's by far the longest ever punishment for leaking government information. Manning will be 26 years old in December. He'll be eligible for parole in around eight years. Chances appear ...
Britain's War on Freedom
Post Date: 2013-08-21 02:54:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Britain's War on Freedom by Stephen Lendman Arguably America, Israel and Britain are the developed world's most repressive states. Democracy's a convenient illusion. It exists in name only. Police state ruthlessness reflects policy. It's not new. It's worse than ever now. Modern technology makes it easy. It's used oppressively. It targets ordinary people. It's done for any reason or none at all. On August 18, UK authorities detained Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda. Washington was conspiratorially involved. It didn't surprise. Both countries operate lawlessly. They partner against freedom. They're waging war on fundamental rights. They ...
Police State Terror in Egypt
Post Date: 2013-08-20 02:57:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Police State Terror in Egypt by Stephen Lendman Protracted conflict continues. Reports suggest Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) plans to declare the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) a terrorist organization. On August 19, Russia Today (RT) said Egypt's draft constitution may prohibit religious parties from engaging in political activities. Word is expected by Wednesday. Interim President Adly Mansour created a ten-member commission. It includes six pro-government judges and four constitutional law professors. They're tasked with proposing constitutional amendments. A second pro-regime committee comprised of 50 public figures will review proposed amendments. They ...
Abolish NSA - Kucinich
Post Date: 2013-08-20 00:33:34 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV...Former US Congressman Dennis Kucinich has called for the National Security Agency to be abolished, saying that the US government agencies destroyed the idea of privacy. “There needs to be a measure of responsibility. And if they go beyond the pale, which the NSA has, they just ought to be abolished. We don’t need the spying,” he said at the premiere of a documentary on government and corporate abuse of digital data. “We have the CIA, the FBI, a dozen other intelligence infrastructures. Frankly - and I’m saying this with a lifetime’s experience in government here - it’s time to punch the NSA’s ticket here,” Kucinich was quoted as ...
Mubarakism 2.0
Post Date: 2013-08-19 02:46:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Murarakism 2.0 by Stephen Lendman February 11, 2011 marked the end of Mubarak's 30-year dictatorship. July 3, 2013 reflects its reincarnation. Iron fist junta power's reinstated. Perhaps it'll be worse than before. For sure it is now. Violence continues daily. Many hundreds, perhaps thousands, died. Countless numbers were injured and arrested. State terror targets Morsi supporters. Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) generals demand things their way. Human lives are a small price to pay for power. Tyranny defines today's Egypt. It's always been that way. It's worse than ever now. Police state terror targets dissenters. Egypt's Emergency Law was ...
Fear Grips Egypt
Post Date: 2013-08-18 15:25:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Fear Grips Egypt by Stephen Lendman There's good reason to worry. Egypt's a virtual war zone. No end of confrontations loom. Junta officials say crackdowns will continue. Live fire's officially authorized. Pro-Morsi supporters demand he be reinstated. They're defiant. They promise daily protests. EU officials said they'll review relations with Egypt. Expect little change ahead. Rhetoric substitutes for policy. Obama promises business as usual. He refuses to call a coup, a coup. John Kerry called it restoring democracy. White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters "we're going to encourage (interim government officials to keep) promises ...
Wag the Dog - an NSA production
Post Date: 2013-08-18 11:10:36 by Lod
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NSA Caught Red-Handed
Post Date: 2013-08-18 02:52:44 by Stephen Lendman
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NSA Caught Red-Handed by Stephen Lendman It's a longstanding rogue agency. It always operated extrajudicially. It's worse than ever now. It's a power unto itself. Obama claims "(w)e don’t have a domestic spying program. What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat." False! Obama knows it. He lied. He always lies. He's a serial liar. NSA has a longstanding domestic spying program. On August 15, the Washington Post headlined "NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds." Most infractions involved "unauthorized ...
Egypt's Bloody Friday
Post Date: 2013-08-18 02:52:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Egypt's Bloody Friday by Stephen Lendman Egypt's bloody crackdown continues. On Friday, scores more died. Some estimates say close to 200. More on that below. On August 16, the Muslim Brotherhood's Ikhwanweb headlined "Statement: Friday of Rage," saying: "Despite our deep pain and sorrow following the August 14 Rabaa massacre and others committed since the bloody coup, the crimes of the coup regime have only increased our steadfastness and firmness in rejecting it and determination to remove it." "The struggle to overthrow this illegitimate regime is an obligation, an Islamic, national, moral, and human obligation which we will not steer away from ...
Institutionalized Spying: More Than NSA's Involved
Post Date: 2013-08-17 14:18:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Institutionalized US Spying: More Than NSA's Involved by Stephen Lendman Washington has 16 known US spy agencies. NSA and CIA are best known. Perhaps few Americans know much about the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It calls itself "first in all-source defense intelligence to prevent strategic surprise and deliver a decision advantage to warfighters, defense planners, and policymakers." "DIA deploys globally alongside warfighters and interagency partners to defend America's national security interests." Last December, the Washington Post headlined "DIA sending hundreds more spies overseas," saying: It's "part of an ambitious plan to ...
Police State Egypt
Post Date: 2013-08-17 02:59:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Police State Egypt by Stephen Lendman Bloody Wednesday revealed state-sponsored police state harshness. Egypt exhibits classic characteristics. Wikipedia calls a police state one "in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the population." "A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive." Merrian-Webster's definition is "a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an ...
World Leaders Declare America and Israel Pariah States: A Fable
Post Date: 2013-08-17 02:58:41 by Stephen Lendman
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World Leaders Declare America and Israel Pariah States: A Fable By Stephen Lendman They're responsible for state-sponsored terrorism. They violate fundamental international law doing. It's no longer tolerated. Victor Hugo once said, "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." It's now. It arrived. It's here. It's real. August 17, 2013 won't be forgotten. It's a turning point in world history. It's hugely important. It's historic. It's long overdue. It's been long awaited. It finally arrived. It'll be long remembered. UN Secretary-General Desmond Tutu will announce a ...
Really, another Ineligible RNC Candidate?
Post Date: 2013-08-16 20:46:40 by Southern Style
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Really, another Ineligible RNC Candidate? By JB Williams: Clearly, the RNC has no more use for the constitution than the DNC does today. Nowhere is that more obvious than in their repeated effort to advance a constitutionally ineligible candidate equal to Barack Obama. But something much more troubling is afoot. Tea Party types are beginning to look like the most useful of all idiots. After five years of intense research and publication on the very basic topic of natural born Citizen, desperate “patriots” are still overlooking the most obvious attempt to use even “patriots” as useful tools of the left. The latest in a string of ineligible RNC darlings for the Oval ...
Bradley Manning Addresses Sentencing Hearing
Post Date: 2013-08-16 02:48:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Bradley Manning Addresses Sentencing Hearing by Stephen Lendman He's an American hero. He's no spy. He committed no crimes. He acted responsibly. He did the right thing. He deserves praise, not prosecution. He exposed US war crimes. He fulfilled his legal obligation to do so. He's victimized unjustly. Police state injustice wants him imprisoned longterm. Systemic unfairness defines US policy. Manning was convicted on 20 of 22 charges. They include six espionage counts. He potentially faces 90 years imprisonment. On August 14, he addressed his sentencing hearing. More on that below. Manning's a 2013 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Over 100,000 people worldwide support him. On ...
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