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Chilling Effects: US Government's War on the Media Is Frighteningly Effective
Post Date: 2013-06-25 06:15:44 by Ada
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This month's reporting on enormous NSA surveillance schemes sparked a lot of major concerns about government overreach, but it also made many people forget the May revelation that the Justice Department had moved against the Associated Press (AP), seizing the media outlet's phone records in an effort to root out whistleblowers. It still isn't clear whatever came of the initial investigation that was used as the pretext for this, but the overall strategy of the Bush and Obama administrations that underlies such moves has had a calamitously real impact. Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt detailed that impact Wednesday, noting that the revelation of the Justice Department's ...
America: Police State Ruthlessness Writ Large
Post Date: 2013-06-25 02:50:13 by Stephen Lendman
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America: Police State Ruthlessness Writ Large by Stephen Lendman Cold-blooded barbarity reflects US policy. Democracy's more illusion than reality. Rule of law principles don't matter. They're systematically spurned. Dissent's increasingly targeted. Freedom's imperiled. Obama's ruthless. He exceeds the worst of George Bush. He's waging war on truth-tellers. He targeted more whistleblowers than all his predecessors combined. Merrian-Webster calls a police state "a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place ...
Brazilians Demand Social Justice
Post Date: 2013-06-25 02:49:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Brazilians Demand Social Justice by Stephen Lendman Justifiable public anger holds back only so long. On June 11, protests began. On June 17, they erupted across Brazil. Hundreds of thousands turned out. Estimates ranged up to 1.5 million. At issue is scandalous misspending on sports. It's at a time of stalling economic growth, layoffs, rising inflation, and few opportunities for youths. Public need are sacrificed. Billions go for construction. It's spent for the 2014 International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. On June 21, FIFA secretary general Jerome Falcke said: "The Confederations Cup is taking place in Brazil and the ...
Who or whom does the NSA answer to?
Post Date: 2013-06-24 16:15:58 by Itistoolate
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How the Declaration of Independence got Hijacked
Post Date: 2013-06-24 10:51:03 by christine
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This July 4th Americans celebrate their 237th Independence Day. The Declaration of Independence, signed during the midst of the American Revolution in 1776, was not just a statement of grievances against the British monarchy but also a declaration of freedom from it, citing unalienable rights of self-governance. I said un-alienable, not in-alienable rights. Most believe there is no real difference between the two words. But not so fast. When unalienable was replaced with inalienable it diminished the original intention of personal rights; among which are “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The Declaration of Independence begins with the reason for the colonists’ ...
Washington v. Edward Snowden Update
Post Date: 2013-06-24 02:49:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Washington v. Edward Snowden Update by Stephen Lendman Events are fast-moving. On June 23, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's (HKSAR) press release said: "Mr Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel." "The US Government earlier on made a request to the HKSAR Government for the issue of a provisional warrant of arrest against Mr Snowden." "Since the documents provided by the US Government did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law, the HKSAR Government has requested the US Government to provide additional information so that the Department of ...
Advice for Snowden from a man who knows: 'Always check six'
Post Date: 2013-06-23 20:02:45 by scrapper2
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(Reuters) - Thomas Drake is one of the few people who understands from personal experience what the future may hold for Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former NSA contractor who exposed the U.S. government's top secret phone and Internet surveillance programs. His advice for Snowden: "Be lawyered up to the max and find a place where it's going to be that much more difficult for the United States to make arrangements for his return," Drake said. "And always check six, as we said when I used to be a flyer in the Air Force. Always make sure you know what's behind you." Drake, a 56-year-old former intelligence official at the National Security Agency, was ...
Freedom on the Rocks - federal tyranny versus terrorism
Post Date: 2013-06-23 18:42:49 by scrapper2
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Since 9-11, both the Bush and now Obama administrations, along with Congress, have enacted or expanded laws designed to “protect the homeland.” The Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and recent annual National Defense Authorization Acts enhance America’s safety by authorizing certain domestic spying powers for our national security agencies, such as the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency, to target potential terrorists. These laws seem to make perfect sense; however, they’ve caused our national security apparatus to collide with our rights as citizens, as guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. American citizens now are subject to ...
The Secret War INFILTRATION. SABOTAGE. MAYHEM. FOR YEARS, FOUR-STAR GENERAL KEITH ALEXANDER HAS BEEN BUILDING A SECRET ARMY CAPABLE OF LAUNCHING DEVASTATING CYBERATTACKS. NOW IT’S READY TO UNLEASH HELL (sic).
Post Date: 2013-06-23 13:07:39 by PSUSA2
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Inside Fort Meade, Maryland, a top-secret city bustles. Tens of thousands of people move through more than 50 buildings—the city has its own post office, fire department, and police force. But as if designed by Kafka, it sits among a forest of trees, surrounded by electrified fences and heavily armed guards, protected by antitank barriers, monitored by sensitive motion detectors, and watched by rotating cameras. To block any telltale electromagnetic signals from escaping, the inner walls of the buildings are wrapped in protective copper shielding and the one-way windows are embedded with a fine copper mesh. This is the undisputed domain of General Keith Alexander, a man few even in ...
Michael Hastings called it: 'The Obama administration has clearly declared war on the press'f
Post Date: 2013-06-23 09:55:39 by Itistoolate
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Michael Hastings called it: 'The Obama administration has clearly declared war on the press'
Edward Snowden Leaves Hong Kong On Flight To Moscow
Post Date: 2013-06-23 06:12:20 by Esso
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Edward Snowden is no longer in Hong Kong. About an hour ago, the Hong Kong Authority released a statement which says that the NSA whistleblower has left Hong Kong today "on his own accord through a lawful and normal channel" which was yet another slap in the face of the US, saying the US provisional arrest warrant "did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law." In fact, not only did the HK authority defy the US arrest warrant, but it officially demands that the US clarify its own hacking of Hong Kong computer systems: "Meanwhile, the HKSAR Government has normally written to the US Government requesting clarification on earlier reports ...
Edward Snowden Charged Under the Espionage Act
Post Date: 2013-06-23 02:07:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Edward Snowden Charged Under the Espionage Act by Stephen Lendman On June 21, Obama's Justice Department charged Snowden with espionage. It did so ruthlessly, irresponsibly and unconstitutionally. It wrongfully accused him of violating 1917 Espionage Act provisions. It was enacted during WW I. It's long ago outdated. It has no current relevance. It belongs in history's dustbin. It was about interfering with military operations, supporting enemies, promoting insubordination in the ranks, or challenging military recruitment. At stake are fundamental First Amendment rights. Without them all others are at risk. In Texas v. Johnson, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan wrote ...
Obama: The Worst of Nixon/Bush II Writ Large
Post Date: 2013-06-23 02:06:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama: The Worst of Nixon/Bush II Writ Large by Stephen Lendman Obama's a war criminal multiple times over. He bears full responsibility for genocidal crimes. In a May London Guardian interview, Cornel West said: "We elected a black president and that means we are less racist now than we used to be. That's beautiful." "But when you look at the prison industrial complex and the new Jim Crow: levels of massive unemployment and the decrepit unemployment system, indecent housing: white supremacy is still operating in the US, even with a brilliant black face in a high place called the White House." Obama's "tied to Wall Street. And at this point he is a ...
TSA: Terrorists win
Post Date: 2013-06-22 09:09:48 by PSUSA2
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NSA Whistleblower: NSA Spying On – and Blackmailing – Top Government Officials and Military Officers
Post Date: 2013-06-22 07:25:12 by Ada
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NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping – told Peter B. Collins on Boiling Frogs Post (the website of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds): Tice: Okay. They went after–and I know this because I had my hands literally on the paperwork for these sort of things–they went after high-ranking military officers; they went after members of Congress, both Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence committees and on the armed services committees and some of the–and judicial. But they went after other ones, too. They went after lawyers and law ...
US Asks Hong Kong To Detain Snowden On Charges Of Spying
Post Date: 2013-06-21 20:27:18 by Esso
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The United States has asked Hong Kong to detain Edward Snowden on a provisional arrest warrant after filing a sealed criminal complaint alleging espionage, theft, and conversion of government property. As The Washington Post reports, the complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia - where Snowden's former employer Booz Allen is headquartered: • *U.S. CHARGES SNOWDEN IN SEALED COMPLAINT IN NSA LEAK, POST SAYS • *U.S. SAID TO CHARGE SNOWDEN IN NSA SURVEILLANCE DISCLOSURES While there was really little doubt that the Justice Department would seek to prosecute Snowden over the leaks, the district chosen, according to WaPo, has a long track-record of prosecuting cases ...
Cranking Up the Washington Lie Machine
Post Date: 2013-06-21 13:56:15 by Original_Intent
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Cranking Up the Washington Lie Machine Wed, 06/19/2013 - 21:00 Who knew? The government snoops have been keeping us safe? by: Dave Lindorff Just for the sake of argument, let's suspend our disbelief for a moment and pretend (I know it's a stretch) that the Obama administration and the apologists for the nation's spy apparatus in Congress, Democratic and Republican, are telling us the gods' honest truth. They have, as the Wall Street Journal puts it, "amped up" their defense of the NSA's massive spying program, claiming that not two, but 50 terrorist plots have been foiled thanks to their metadata mining and their intrusive monitoring of ...
“Lift Your Shirt, Shake Out Your Bra” Police Search
Post Date: 2013-06-20 22:18:33 by Artisan
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“Lift Your Shirt, Shake Out Your Bra” Police Search The young woman cried as she obeyed the officer’s command. Kit Daniels Infowars.com June 20, 2013 A Florida police officer ordered a young woman to shake out her bra twice during a traffic stop. On May 21, Zoe Brugger was driving her boyfriend home from work when Lakeland Officer Dustin Fetz pulled her over for a busted headlight. A dash cam video shows Officer Fetz telling Brugger to lift up her shirt and shake out her bra, not once but twice under the guise of “finding drugs.” Brugger broke down into tears as she followed the officer’s commands. The traffic stop occurred in plain view of the public. ...
Bye-Bye 5th Amendment! Supreme Court Decides: Anything You Don’t Say Can and Will Be Used Against You
Post Date: 2013-06-20 07:24:33 by Ada
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Everyone knows that when building a police state, it’s vital to strike a few Constitutional rights off the books. Now, we can add the right to remain silent to the graveyard of the American justice system. How can you expect the people to be properly subjugated with all those pesky freedoms that the Bill of Rights blathers on about? The would-be totalitarians can chalk up another victory, because the Supreme Court has made the decision that if you opt to remain silent, that silence can (and will) be used against you in a court of law. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees our right against self- incrimination. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or ...
Big Brother Writ Large in America
Post Date: 2013-06-20 02:33:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Big Brother Writ Large in America by Stephen Lendman Spying on its citizenry reflects one of the most defining police state characteristics. Post-9/11, America crossed the line. Unconstitutional mass surveillance became official US policy. Bush began it. Obama accelerated it. He did so straightaway as president. He promised otherwise. He pledged transparency and openness. He promised no more Bush/Cheney lawlessness. He lied. He exceeded the worst of his predecessors. Free societies don't tolerate these practices. Obama authorized them secretly. He subverted constitutional law. He violated the public trust. He broke a key campaign pledge. He declared war on freedom. It's more ...
Fast-Tracking Toward War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-06-20 02:32:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Fast-Tracking Toward War on Syria by Stephen Lendman America's run by sociopaths. They're out-of-control criminals. They're traitors. They menace humanity. They violate their sacred oaths of office. Presidents "do solemnly swear (or affirm to) faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of (their) Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Congressional members "do solemnly swear (or affirm to) support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; (to) bear true faith and allegiance to the same; (to) this obligation freely, without any ...
The FBI's Nearly Unbelievable Record of "Justified" Shootings
Post Date: 2013-06-19 15:23:02 by Ada
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We're still waiting for the FBI to finish its internal investigation into exactly what happened in an Orlando apartment last month, when an FBI agent shot and killed Ibragim Todashev, a Chechan man who knew Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Since the shooting, unnamed officials have painted a number of different pictures of the scene in the room in the moments before the agent opened fire. Among them, that Todashev was unarmed, that he was brandishing a knife, and that he was carrying a pipe or maybe a broomstick. For all the current uncertainty surrounding exactly what led the agent to shoot and kill Todashev, the bureau's next step appears almost a foregone conclusion: ...
With New Federal 'Rest Rules' Taking Effect July 1st, Feds questioned on why they already violate existing rules
Post Date: 2013-06-19 12:00:16 by Artisan
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With New Federal 'Rest Rules' Taking Effect July 1st, Feds questionedLetter to Feds on Driver Fatigue and following their own rulesBy Martin Hill LibertyFight.comDontWakeMeUp.orgJune 18, 2013 The Federal Government is enacting yet more rules that commercial truck drivers must comply with beginning on July 1st, 2013. The first new rule states that a driver must take a mandatory half hour break after a maximum of eight hours of driving. As noted on their website, the feds had no prior "rest break" rules other than existing sleeper berth provisions. As is stands today, property carrying commercial drivers are allowed to drive 11 hours at a time (14 hour shift maximum) with a ...
Bloomberg - NYC Composting Program
Post Date: 2013-06-18 08:08:59 by Lod
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You have to read the entire article to see the irony. What a pos.
David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller Wish Snowden Had Just Followed Order
Post Date: 2013-06-18 07:31:13 by Ada
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Edward Snowden’s disclosures, the New York Times reported on Sunday, "have renewed a longstanding concern: that young Internet aficionados whose skills the agencies need for counterterrorism and cyberdefense sometimes bring an anti- authority spirit that does not fit the security bureaucracy." Agencies like the NSA and CIA – and private contractors like Booz Allen – can’t be sure that all employees will obey the rules without interference from their own idealism. This is a basic dilemma for the warfare/surveillance state, which must hire and retain a huge pool of young talent to service the digital innards of a growing Big Brother. With private firms ...
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