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America's Surveillance Net

There is a revolution afoot—one that is being carried out by the government against the fundamental law of the land.
http://www.thenation.com/article/174889/americas-surveillance-net#

Hands off Edward Snowden!
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/09/pers-j09.html

How We Ignore Poverty and Blame Poor Peoplehttp://everydayfeminism.com/2013/07/how-we-ignore-poverty-and-blame-poor-people/?upw

DRONES: WHY YOU SHOULD FEAR THEM
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/government/drone-strikes-america-obama-terrorism-innocent-wedding-civilians/photos.html


Shocker: Only 1% of So Called Terrorists Nabbed by the FBI Were Real

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/fbis-terror-scam

A new blow to Native sovereignty

http://socialistworker.org/2013/07/09/new-blow-to-native-sovereignty

Call to Action: We Indict the US Government for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35485.htm

The infrastructure of a police state emerges in Europe
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/10/pers-j10.html

How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire stateshttp://www.opednews.com/articles/How-cryptography-is-a-key-by-Julian-Assange-130709-681.html

Whistleblowers are heroes: The story everyone should hear
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/good-guys-1/whistleblowers-are-heroes.html

Rights group challenges NSA surveillance in Supreme Court
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/rights-group-challenges-nsa-surveillance-in-supreme-court.php

11 Shocking Things Snowden Has Taught Us (So Far)http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/11-disturbing-things-snowden-has-taught-us-so-far

DOJ Says Public Has No Right To Know About The Secret Laws The Feds Use To Spy On Us
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130708/01055723732/doj-says-public-has-no-right-to-know-about-secret-laws-feds-use-to-spy-us.shtml

Weaponized Drones Coming to America?
http://www.alternet.org/weaponized-drones-coming-america

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

4 Shocking Facts About Corporate Tax Dodging
http://www.alternet.org/4-shocking-facts-about-corporate-tax-dodging

10 Most Shocking Things the FBI Has Done Since 9/11
http://www.alternet.org/10-most-shocking-things-fbi-has-done-911

DATA, SECRETS, AND THE SURVEILLANCE STATE
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/07/nsa-snowden-poitras-appelbaum-moma-ps1-panel.html

Bounty Hunters Search for Tony Blair After Latest Sightings of UK's Most Wanted War Criminal
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35494.htm

Federal judge allows NSA surveillance suit to continue
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/federal-judge-allows-nsa-surveillance-suit-to-continue.php

Do We Need Religion?: Part II

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Do-We-Need-Religion--Part-by-Robert-De-Filippis-130708-66.html

U.S. Allies Violate Int. Law Pursuing Snowden
Forced landing of Bolivia president's plane and other tactics show that Snowden needs to speak directly to the public to get political asylum

NSA Recruiters Get Smacked Down By University Of Wisconsin Students

Edward Snowden: 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' – video interview

@dustcirclenews - Free DOCUMENTARIES: Counter-Intelligence Series, Parts 1-5 - The Company, The Deep State, The Strategy of Tension, Necrophilous, Drone Nation

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Counter-Intelligence

It is no secret that CIA is engaged in criminal activities around the world, some of which are quite deadly, some of which are quite provocative in the sense of laying the groundwork for large scale military conflict, and it’s happening in a lot of countries. This is not unique to the United States. The United States learned some of this from the British who learned it in turn during the 19th century when they were a dominant imperial power around the world. They cut their teeth on this stuff.

Part 1: The Company

Part 2: The Deep State

Part 3: The Strategy of Tension

Part 4: Necrophilous

Part 5: Drone Nation

28.Dec.2012 - Syria Invasion, FBI Monitored OWS, Frontier Mentality, Next Financial Crisis, Female Troop Rapes, Nones Taking Over, Against Veterans, CIA's Secret Force, Obamacare Contraception Requirement, Occupied Territory, Gaza Without Water, Florida Homeowners Foreclose, 41 Palestinian Children Killed, Science and Faith Incompatible

US preparing for Military Invasion in Syria: Israel
A senior Israeli official says the United States is gearing up for a possible military intervention in Syria to prevent Syria's alleged chemical weapons from being used against civilians or falling into wrong hands.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33452.htm

Another US Senator Makes a Pilgrimage To Israel


FBI Monitored Occupy Wall Street and Treated the Movement as a Potential Terrorist Threat


America’s Frontier Mentality
Here is part of an Associated Press article from Dec. 20: “Declaring the time for action overdue, President Obama promised … to send Congress broad proposals in January for tightening gun laws and curbing violence after last week’s schoolhouse massacre in Connecticut.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33449.htm

Reality Check: The Next Financial Crisis

The calm before the storm?

The Price of Revolutionary Illusions

he 20 school kids slaughtered in their classrooms in Connecticut - and many other children who die of gun violence every day - are a sacrifice that some Americans feel is "worth it" for their personal dreams of waging some violent revolution sometime in the future, whether from the Right or the Left.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15254-focus-the-price-of-revolutionary-illusions

Almost a quarter of female troops become victims of sex assaults in combat zones

Almost half of all US women deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan say they were sexually harassed, while nearly one-quarter claim they were sexually assaulted. The findings shed light on the additional stress military women face when they work abroad.

http://rebel-institute.org/politics/americas/126-united-states/336438-almost-a-quarter-of-female-troops-become-victims-of-sex-assaults-in-combat-zones

2013: The Year Americans Realize They Cannot Afford Any More Wars For Israel

I met a US Marine Corps colonel who had killed a lot of men up close and personal in two of America’s many wars. It did not take more than a minute for him to absorb the truth after I started talking. I recently remarked that Great Britain fought two Opium Wars against China to benefit the Rothschilds and their business partners in the City of London. America is now fighting its second Opium War. The Rothschild Crime Network and its Gentile allies has an annual gross of one trillion dollars a year in illegal drugs and weapons sales. And that is why President Obama was told to keep American troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan until 2024.

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/tyranny/335091-2013-the-year-americans-realize-they-cannot-afford-any-more-wars-for-israel

Consumer Confidence Plunges, Unadjusted New Homes Sales Slide To Lowest Since February

Just as we saw with UMich, it appears the hope for change is wearing thin among the people. Today's Consumer Confidence data missed by its biggest margin in 7 months, dropped below the year's average, and saw the largest 2-month drop in over 15 months. All age cohorts lost confidence with the eldest most and it appears those earning over $35k are also beginning to worry (as those between $35k and $15k seem more confident). Over 40% expect stock prices to decline and it is expectations that have plummeted from a hope-filled 80.9 to a 13-month low of 66.5.

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/money/335475-consumer-confidence-plunges-unadjusted-new-homes-sales-slide-to-lowest-since-february

Which stories did the media ignore this year?

The Nones are Taking Over!

When the US set the military against veterans

80 years ago - and no one noticed

Higgs boson theorist criticizes Richard Dawkins over anti-religious ‘fundamentalism’

On one side is Richard Dawkins, the celebrated biologist who has made a second career demonstrating his epic disdain for religion. On the other is the theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, who this year became a shoo-in for a future Nobel prize after scientists at Cern in Geneva showed that his theory about how fundamental particles get their mass was correct.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/27/higgs-boson-theorist-criticizes-richard-dawkins-over-anti-religious-fundamentalism

Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Obamacare contraception requirement

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a request by the Hobby Lobby chain of arts and crafts stores to temporarily block a provision in the Affordable Care Act making employers responsible for covering the insurance costs of their employees’ birth control, NBC News reported on Wednesday.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/26/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-challenge-to-obamacare-contraception-requirement

Rape As Weapon of Domination

http://www.countercurrents.org/abubacker271212.htm

O Little Town In Occupied Territory

http://www.countercurrents.org/fleming271212.htm

Julian Assange, Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali

Thousands remain without water, power one month after attack on Gaza

 On 17 November, four days into Israel’s eight-day assault on the Gaza Strip, deputy Israeli Prime Minister Eli Yishai publicly called for the Israeli army to “blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water.”

http://electronicintifada.net/content/thousands-remain-without-water-power-one-month-after-attack-gaza/12040

Tables Turn As Florida Homeowners Foreclose On Banks

When the housing bubble burst in Florida, about 400,000 homeowners had their mortgages foreclosed on by the banks and lenders that held them. But now the banks are in trouble for not paying dues and other expenses on those repossessed properties. The homeowners and condo associations are now turning the tables on them.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/26/tables-turn-as-florida-homeowners-foreclose-on-banks/

41 Palestinian children killed during the Israeli aggression on Gaza

The report issued by the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory of Human Rights today, pointed out that the Israeli forces killed 41 Palestinian children, including seven infants and 21 under the age of ten, during the military operation which was launched on 14 November following the assassination of a military commander in the armed wing of Hamas.

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/41-palestinian-children-killed-during-the-israeli-aggression-on-gaza/

Why science and faith are incompatible

17.Dec.2012 - Anonymous Vows to Destroy Westboro Baptist Church, and many more articles, videos, views, and a documentary on Satanism

Anonymous vows to ‘destroy’ Westboro Baptist Church over Sandy Hook picket plans

“Your impact and cause is hazardous to the lives of millions and you fail to see the wrong in promoting the deaths of innocent people,” an “Anonymous” video featuring a computerized voice says over ominous music. “You are self-appointed servants of God who rewrite the words of his sacred scripture to adhere to your prejudice. Your hatred supersedes your faith, and you use faith to promote your hatred.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/17/anonymous-vows-to-destroy-westboro-baptist-church-over-sandy-hook-picket-plans/

“Did We Just Kill a Kid?”: Drone Operator Who Killed Afghan Child Can't Sleep After Waging War Miles Away

The German publication Der Spiegel shines light on how drones are having an effect on the soldiers back home controlling them.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/did-we-just-kill-kid-drone-operator-who-killed-afghan-child-cant-sleep-after

5 Lies the Gun Lobby Tells Youmerica's seems to be in for another debate over gun regulation after the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School left 27 (mostly children) dead. So it's worth reviewing five made against regulating gun ownership in the United States:
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/415-gun-control-/15071-5-lies-the-gun-lobby-tells-you

Three Progressive Ways to Reduce Medicare Costs
orporate lobbyists and their allies on Capitol Hill have a terrible new idea: hiking the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. This would save the federal government about $5.7 billion a year, butcost seniors $11.4 billion over the same period.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/272-39/15070-three-progressive-ways-to-reduce-medicare-costs

Dangerous food additive

Brominated vegetable oil

What happens when citizens can't defend themselves

"Gun Control" in the Soviet Union

Israel lobby boasts of role blocking presentation by Veolia opponents in London’s Hackney Council
No to Veolia Action Group has been campaigning for two years to keep Israeli occupation profiteer Veolia at bay in a multi-billion pound waste management tender in north London. UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk recently lent his support by urging the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) not to award the contracts to Veolia “due to its deep and ongoing complicity with Israeli violations of international law.”
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/israel-lobby-boasts-role-blocking-presentation-veolia-opponents-londons-hackney

Freedom Of The Press Foundation Launches To Support WikiLeaks, Increase Transparency

Increased government scrutiny and criticism from lawmakers prompted several companies, including MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, to stop processing donations to the non-profit organization. WikiLeaks eventually suspended publication due to the “bank blockade.”

http://libertycrier.com/front-page/freedom-of-the-press-foundation-launches-to-support-wikileaks-increase-transparency/

Michigan Right-to-Work: All Money and Influence Can Buy

The Right to Know

In December 2010, WikiLeaks started publishing a selection of leaked U.S. State Department cables through the New York Times, the Guardian, and other traditional media, opening a deep crack in the thickening wall of secrecy that has been forming worldwide around the internal processes of democracy since 9/11. They helped catalyze the "Arab Spring." They struck a blow for the right of citizens everywhere to know what is being done in our names. And they thoroughly freaked out the U.S. Government, sending it into a security spasm of Cold War proportions.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15077-focus-the-right-to-know

10 Girls Dead Following Deadly Blast in Afghanistan

As US mourns 20 children killed in gun massacre amid calls for greater gun control, landmine blast leaves Afghans mourning

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/17

Building a Nonviolent Culture After Newtown

The December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. that left 28 people dead — including 20 children — has sent shock waves through our society. It penetrated the elaborate defenses that we as individuals and as a culture have erected to live with the internal contradictions of the bargain we have made to both oppose and embrace violence. Occasionally reality exposes and trumps the cognitive dissonance of this uneasy but deeply embedded arrangement.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/17-1

How the US Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows

Weren’t those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game?  Governments went down in Guatemala and Iran thanks to you.  In distant Indonesia, Laos, and Vietnam, what a role you played!  And even that botch-up of an invasion in Cuba was nothing to sneeze at.  In those days, unfortunately, you -- particularly those of you in the CIA -- didn’t get the credit you deserved.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/17-0

Gaza is no Longer Occupied. Really?

The Visible Government
How the U.S. Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33356.htm

Counter-terrorism Agency: Every Citizen a Suspect

Regulations recently signed into effect by Attorney General Eric Holder allow the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to monitor records of citizens for any potential criminal activity, without a warrant and without suspicion.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/13934-counterterrorism-agency-every-citizen-a-suspect

Official Secrets by the Petabytes

As he aggressively seeks the sources of news media leaks of government secrets, President Obama might want to pay close attention to an important and overdue new report that he ordered on classified information from the Public Interest Declassification Board.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/official-secrets-by-the-petabytes.html

The Price of Our Freedom

re we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?" -- Barack Obama, Newtown Address, December 16, 2012. That sentence, uttered by President Obama in his Newtown Address, may turn out to be a turning point in American history. 
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/15076-focus-the-price-of-our-freedom

The Woes of an American Drone Operator
A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United States Air Force in New Mexico. He kills dozens of people. But then, one day, he realizes that he can't do it anymore.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33337.htm

"We Can’t Tolerate This Anymore": Obama Vows Action After Worst Grade School Massacre in U.S. History

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Debate: After Newtown, Will Nation’s Worst-Ever Grade School Shooting Spur Tougher Gun Control?

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Occultism, Satanism & Black Magic

Time for Sanctions Against the USA

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POST 09 AUGUST 2012

BY RODNEY SHAKESPEARE

US President Barack Obama

With its usual insufferable arrogance, its egregious hubris, and its all-encompassing self-righteous, bumptious hypocrisy, the USA is proposing to revoke the license of Standard Chartered, a British bank, for trading with Iran. 

Completely controlled by an aggressive, expansionist Zionism, the USA wants to impose its sanctions against Iran on everybody else.

It does not matter if all sixteen of the USA’s intelligence agencies clear Iran of making a bomb (as do MI6 and Israel’s Mossad); the USA demands stringent sanctions against Iran to be implemented by every country around the world. It does not matter if those sanctions wreck a country’s economy because, such is its hatred of a modern, rapidly developing and successful Iran (which is a complete contrast to the corrupt feudalisms of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the Gulf Sheikdoms), the USA demands complete obedience.

Indeed, even if those sanctions result in widespread war with millions killed, the USA smiles because its deep video-arcade longings to inflict death everywhere are coming to pass.

Of course, the UK, controlled by compliant Zionists like UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, is pleased to agree because it naively believes that sanctions against Iran are in its long term interest.

Which is a big mistake. The long term interest of the UK is to trade openly and naturally with modern, democratic Islamic nations right throughout the Middle East. Cosying up to corrupt, kleptomaniac, torturing feudalisms is about as stupid a historical error as could ever be made.

But all is not lost. As with the Olympics there can be surprises. Coming out of nowhere (or rather, in this case, from the Standard Chartered Bank) a star bursts into the sky!

So step forward a brave man who puts the spineless William Hague to shame!

Step forward Richard Meddings, finance director of the Standard Chartered Bank!

Responding to warnings about the bank’s Iranian operations, Richard Meddings spoke with remarkable economy and a deeply felt anger.

“You (swearword) Americans. Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we’re not going to deal with Iranians?”

Yes, precisely and splendidly put, Richard Meddings. Thank you. More than anybody else you deserve a Gold Medal! 

Decent British people have been despairing that there would ever be anybody in the UK who would have the courage to tell the Americans (controlled by the Zionists) and the British government (controlled by the Zionists) that they have no right to demand that a country cannot trade with another country.

Say it again, Richard Meddings, so that we may get it deeply into our minds! 

“Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we’re not going to deal with Iranians?” 

Indeed, it’s time to give the bullies of this world a taste of their own medicine. If sanctions are implemented against a country which (totally unlike Israel and the USA) is behaving lawfully), then those who implement the sanctions must have sanctions implemented against them. Those who sanction must themselves be sanctioned. 

That means sanctions against the USA, Israel and the UK. 

And let nobody think that such sanctions are impossible because, right the way around the world, countries are quietly (and not so quietly) making new regional agreements and arrangements, all of which are essentially aimed at breaking the economic and political power of the West. This is happening simply because the West (particularly in its Zionist aggressions) is becoming everywhere hated. 

In a profound way, the West has declared war on the ordinary people of the world, particularly if they are Muslims. Always supporting the most tyrannical of regimes, the West has told people everywhere that they can be deprived, tortured and assassinated as long as it is in the interests of Zionism to do so.

And, believe it or not, the same deprivations and assassinations will soon be coming to the USA itself. By 2015, there will be 30,000 (thirty thousand) drones patrolling the American skies (with President Obama, telling a big lie, if there ever was one, that those drones will not be armed with missiles). 

Meanwhile, the USA Homeland Security Agency has just bought 450,000,000 dum-dum bullets (they are the ones which explode on impact) with another 250,000,000 on order. This is because, with 50,000,000 people on food stamps, real unemployment around 20-22% and the middle classes having had a real income decline for twenty five years, the USA is approaching civil war. The drones, missiles, bullets bombs (and, Heaven knows, even depleted uranium munitions) are going to be inflicted on a people who are still supinely tolerating the infliction on others elsewhere.

But let us remember the splendid Richard Meddings. Let decent people everywhere stand up and demand that, from now on, those who sanction will themselves be sanctioned. 

If countries can agree among themselves not to use the American dollar in their trade relations, if the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation can break past patterns with new security and economic arrangements, if South American countries can say that they are sick of being exploited, then it can only be a matter of time before those who arrogantly sanction others find that the boot is now on the other foot and they themselves are sanctioned in return. 

RS/HJL

Source: PressTV