NSA Central to U.S. Assassination
Program
Posted by:
George Washington Post date:
09/29/2013 - Intelligence Agencies Central In
Assassination Programs Carried out Without Oversight
Karen
Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department
of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she was fired for
blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position
of Senior Counsel. She was in a unique position to see exactly how the
global elite rule the world, and the information that she is now revealing to
the public is absolutely stunning. According to Hudes, the elite use a
very tight core of financial institutions and mega-corporations to dominate the
planet. The goal is control. They want all of us enslaved to debt,
they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our
politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into
their campaigns. Since the elite also own all of the big media companies,
the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something
fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works. (Read More....)
FLASH:
Senate Kills Bill to Fund Gov't...
DEMS VOTE TO KEEP TAX ON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT...
House
GOP: Eliminate subsidies for Congress!
REQUIRE
ADMINISTRATION TO SIGN UP!
CORN:
Will Obama get very mad?
Even
in shutdown, Feds get overtime, comp time, 'Sunday pay'...
Kerry
still going on Tokyo/Bali trip...
What
are human workers going to do when super-intelligent robots and computers are
better than us at doing everything?
That is one of the questions that a new study by Dr. Carl Frey and Dr.
Michael Osborne of Oxford University sought to address, and what they concluded
was that 47 percent of all U.S. jobs could be automated within the next 20
years. Considering the fact that the percentage of the U.S. population
that is employed is already far lower than it was a decade ago,
it is frightening to think that tens of millions more jobs could disappear due
to technological advances over the next couple of decades. I have written
extensively about how we are already losing millions of
jobs to super cheap labor on the other side of the globe. What are middle
class families going to do as technology also takes away huge numbers of our
jobs at an ever increasing pace? We live during a period of history when
knowledge is increasing an an exponential rate. In the past, when human
workers were displaced by technology it also created new kinds of jobs that the
world had never seen before. But what happens when the day arrives when
computers and robots can do almost everything more cheaply and more efficiently
than humans can? (Read More....)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 17:52
US
companies are warning about Q3 earnings at the second highest level since 2001,
with estimates well below what they were just three short months ago. Of
course, the US equity markets don't care - having rallied aggressively in the
face of this collapse; lubricated by multiple-expanding QE and rev. repo. As Reuters
reports, companies
issuing negative outlooks outnumber positive ones by 5.2-to-1,
the most negative since the 6.3-to-1 ratio in the second quarter, when however
the "second half recovery" (which has been once again indefinitely
delayed, perhaps to the third half?) was said would take place momentarily and
lead to another mythical rebound. Industrials, Materials, and Tech top the list
for negative pre-announcements.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 17:14
Over
the past week, many have been scratching their heads over why JPMorgan is so
eager to comply with the DOJ's investigation into the banks misrepresentation
of the quality of its RMBS bundled mortgages, having gone so far as to suggest
a number that could be as large as $4 billion in cash (with a $7 billion
non-cash component), though still shy of the DOJ's $20 billion ask. The reason,
as
the WSJ reports, may be very simple one: a rat is providing the Feds with
information deep from within the house of the whale. "The Justice
Department's pursuit of possible criminal charges against J.P. Morgan Chase
& Co. is based in large part on a key cooperator from inside the bank who
is aiding the government and has provided information suggesting the bank
vastly overstated the quality of mortgages that were being bundled into
securities and sold to investors, according to people familiar with the
matter."
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 16:36
We've
heard from Boehner, Reid has chipped in, and even Schumer had a cameo but now
the big man steps up to point fingers, clarify where the blame should lie, and
demand his way or the highway. We are sure soon after we will get the same
speech from Boehner wit ha word replace "Republicans" for
"Democrats" but the farce continues...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 16:11
As headline after headline hit today, US
equity markets jumped and dumped as the early POMO ramp faded
in an oh-so-familiar manner. As the day-session opened, "most
shorted" stocks tumbled hard (-1.6% vs the market -1%) and that provided
the ammo for the ramp as POMO and PMI hit. That rally stopped on time as EU
closed and POMO ended and then Washington took over. FX and commodity markets
were volatile early on a settled late as a EUR surge early on (on Italian
political news) smashed the USD lower and sparked some risk on. The USD spent
the rest of the recovering back to unchanged. Commodities ended the day cuffed at -0.5% in an oddly
cozy way given the early rips and dips in Gold and Silver. The S&P has
fallen 3.5% from its all-time un-taper highs, is closing right at its 50DMA,
and underperformed gold and
silver for the quarter.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 15:39
Want
to fund your "grilled
cheesus" project? Need money to continue your "edible
cup" business? Kickstarter is the platform of choice. But now, with
the muni bond market suffering from outflows in retail funds and bankruptcies
mounting across the nation, cities
are increasingly turning to 'crowd-funding'. As Bloomberg
reports, Central Falls (which filed for bankruptcy 2 years ago) is using
Citizinvestor to seek $10,044 in funds for 5 new trash cans. "Even with
attractive yields, there aren't a lot of people lining up to get involved with
places that have gone through bankruptcy," as the initiative has raised $295 so far...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 15:15
As pointed out earlier,
the Federal Reserve does not depend on Congressional appropriations, and will
not see any cutbacks due to a shutdown which with every passing hour seems more
inevitable. It also means that even if the entire US government were to be
shutdown, the daily wealth effect injection into the stock market for the
benefit of the 0.01% will continue and the confidence show must go on.
Specifically, as was released moments ago by the NY Fed, Bernanke will inject
another $45 billion in the capital markets courtesy of 18 distinct
bond-monetizing POMO operations over the next 31 days. These will take place
regardless of anything else that may happen to the government, which perhaps
better than anything else, shows who is truly in control of this country and on
whose behalf they operate.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 15:02
The
major headline of the day is the pending government shutdown in the Land of the
Free. This is nothing more than an obvious symptom that they have passed the point of no return.
As we have routinely discussed, the US government now fails to collect enough
tax revenue to pay interest on the debt and cover mandatory entitlement
spending. They’re already in the hole before they write a single check for
anything we consider ‘government’, from national parks to the Internal Revenue
Service. Basically all the stuff that will be shut down now. Unless you missed your IRS agent today, it
should be clear that all this stuff they waste money on is completely...
unnecessary. Or can/should be privatized.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 14:46
Update: and just to seal the
deal, Reid literally adds insult to injury: REID CALLS HOUSE REPUBLICANS `ANARCHISTS'
Now that the Senate has killed the
latest proposal passed by the House, and with Harry Reid making it clear he is
not interested in a one week Continuing Resolution stopgap, Bloomberg reports
that the House will take the tabled bill and make these two changes to it:
- HOUSE PLAN SAID TO DELAY INDIVIDUAL MANDATE OF HEALTH CARE LAW
- HOUSE PLAN SAID TO CUT HEALTH SUBSIDIES FOR LAWMAKERS, STAFF; U.S.
HOUSE WILL TRY TO PASS NEW EMERGENCY FUNDING BILL REQUIRING OBAMA AND
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS TO SIGN UP FOR OBAMACARE-REP. ISSA
And, as expected, if and when this
iteration of the dead-end bill passes, the Senate will kill it again. So unless
there is a dramatic change in strategy by either party, the government shutdown
in just over 9 hours (however brief or not so brief) seems inevitable.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 14:43
The Senate Democrats need to have a
few minutes of uber blame...
- *REID SAYS THERE ARE ENOUGH VOTES IN HOUSE FOR `CLEAN' BILL
- *REID SAYS BOEHNER SHOULD LET HOUSE VOTE ON SENATE BILL
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 14:22
With 54
voting Aye (and 46 against), the Senate has enough votes to kill the house
proposal to delay Obamacare and send it back to the House. What happens next,
only Vince Gilligan knows.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 13:59
Harry
Reid has already made it abundantly clear that they will take up the
House-passed continuing resolution and immediately table (or put aside) the two
amendments added on Saturday night (Sunday morning). Under Senate rules, a move to table one or both of the
amendments would require a simple majority vote and send the Senate-amended
version of the bill back to the House. News reports indicate
that the House leadership is planning for this possibility (and will not acceot
a "clean bill". Given Reid has scheduled a press conference
for 245ET, it would appear he is not too hopeful that anything else will occur.
Once the new new new 'clean' bill is passed, it ping pongs back.. and we start
all over again... with a new blame game starting.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 13:49
Before
the Senate begins its "debate", we thought it worth a glance at who
the average US citizen believes wil be to blame if the government does
shutdown...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 13:21
Update Well, that didn't last long:
REID SAYS HE WOULDN'T
ACCEPT ONE-WEEK CONTINUING RESOLUTION
Curious why the market just spiked?
The reason: first Obama flip flops, now it is the republicans' turn to prove
that all is fair in faux war and Congressional IMAX drama. Here's the headline
that drove it.
SEN. REPUBLICANS SAID
DISCUSSING 1-WEEK STOPGAP BILL: POLITICO
Can kicked for one more week: BTFATH.
Now that Breaking Bad is over, perhaps it is time for Congress to hire Vince
Gilligan to make this tragicomedy somewhat more believable.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 12:58
Last week Obama was unwilling to
negotiate on the two key issues in the current government pre-shutdown debacle:
Obamacare and the debt ceiling. Things seem to have changed quite quickly, now
that the government shutdown is just 11 hours away.
- OBAMA SAYS EVERYONE MUST SIT DOWN AND NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH, CAN'T
HAVE TALKS UNDER RISK OF POTENTIAL U.S. DEBT DEFAULT
- OBAMA SAYS HE IS NOT RESIGNED TO A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN TAKING PLACE
- OBAMA SAYS U.S. DOLLAR IS RESERVE CURRENCY OF THE WORLD, "WE DON'T
MESS WITH THAT
- OBAMA SAYS EXPECTS TO SPEAK TO CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS MONDAY, TUESDAY,
WEDNESDAY
In other words, Obama blinked (for
the n-th time in what has not been a good year for presidential
leverage). And to think it took less than a 1% drop in the S&P (and a
rather stubborn Republican party) to get "diplomacy" going...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 12:57
POMO
Magic... Politicians Tragic? The question is - will it end differently this
time?
Julie Wilson |
“People are scared to go into the streets and businesses are deserted.”
Kit Daniels |
Rep. Chaffetz rejected Sen. McCain’s claim that Americans approve Obamacare
because they elected Obama.
Paul Joseph Watson
| Alarmist hyperbole also used to ram through 2008 financial heist.
Steve Watson | Only 37 percent of
Americans are aware of new health exchanges.
Adan Salazar |
“He’s not a king. He’s the president. He serves us.”
Paul Joseph Watson
| Incident re-ignites debate about threat posed by near-earth objects.
Paul Joseph Watson
| Vast majority of federal activity will continue as normal.
Ron Paul | A short-term government
shut down will not cause the country to collapse.
Dow
Jones and Nasdaq down sharply as US government shutdown looms
The Guardian |
Dow Jones Industrial Average lost almost 140 points.
Gridlock may force Congress to take down its own website
Fox News |
“Funds to operate websites in general are not available.”
NYC’s yearly cost per inmate almost as expensive as Ivy League
tuition
Fox News | The department says it spends $30.3 million annually alone on
transportation costs.
Julie Wilson | “People are scared to go into the
streets and businesses are deserted.”
Kit Daniels | Rep. Chaffetz rejected Sen. McCain’s
claim that Americans approve Obamacare because they elected Obama.
Paul Joseph Watson | Alarmist hyperbole also used to ram
through 2008 financial heist.
Steve Watson | Only 37 percent of
Americans are aware of new health exchanges.
London Guardian | Metadata provides a record of almost
anything a user does online.
Adan Salazar | “He’s not a king. He’s the president. He
serves us.”
Weekly Standard | A quiet change was
made on the Healthcare.gov website.
Prison Planet.com | NC GOP Rep. Mark
Meadows speaking on the House Bill that would fund the U.S. Government but
would delay ObamaCare for one year.
Paul Joseph Watson | Incident re-ignites debate about threat
posed by near-earth objects.
Google
pays $55 million tax in Britain on 2012 sales of $5.5 bln
Reuters | The Internet search giant
paid a tax rate of 2.6 percent.
Barrasso: ‘Duct tape and chicken wire’ holding ObamaCare together
The Hill | Sen. John Barrasso
(R-Wyo.) said Sunday that ObamaCare insurance exchanges set to go live this
week “are being held together right now with duct tape and chicken wire.”
Marc Faber Warns “We Have Reached The Endgame Of Monetary Policy”
Zero Hedge | “One day this whole
credit bubble will be deflated very badly – you are going to experience a complete
implosion of all asset prices and the credit system…”
State
and Local Taxes at All Time Highs
Lew Rockwell Blog | I thought
Republicans on the state and local levels were more “conservative” than those
on the national level?
You
are about to read some of the most shocking quotes that Barack Obama has ever
uttered in public. A few of these have been widely circulated, but most
of them are very obscure. Even though he claims to be a Christian,
throughout his political career Obama has repeatedly attacked traditional
Biblical Christianity and he has a very long history of
anti-Christian actions. In public speeches he has repeatedly cast doubt
on the Bible, he has repeatedly stated that he does not believe that Jesus is
necessary for salvation, and he has consistently said that he believes that all
“people of faith” believe in the same God. At the same time, Obama has
always referred to Muhammed as “the Prophet”, he has always expressed great
love and respect for Islam, and he has even removed all references
to Islam from terror training materials used by federal government
agencies. So what in the world does “the leader of the free world”
actually believe? Read the quotes below and (Read More....)
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam
#1 “The future must not belong
to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”
#2 “The sweetest sound I know is
the Muslim call to prayer”
#3 “We will convey our deep
appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries
to shape the world — including in my own country.”
#4 “As a student of history, I
also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
#5 “Islam has a proud tradition
of tolerance.”
#6 “Islam has always been part
of America”
#7 “we will encourage more
Americans to study in Muslim communities”
#8 “These rituals
remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in
advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
#9 “America and Islam are not
exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share
common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all
human beings.”
#10 “I made clear that America
is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”
#11 “Islam is not part of the
problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting
peace.”
#12 “So I
have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was
first revealed”
#13 “In ancient times and in
our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and
education.”
#14 “throughout history, Islam
has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious
tolerance and racial equality.”
#15 “Ramadan is a celebration of
a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”
#16 “The Holy Koran tells us,
‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into
nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”
#17 “I
look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White
House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”
#18 “We’ve seen those results
in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to
lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build
some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our
universe.”
#19 “That experience guides my
conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what
Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as
president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam
wherever they appear.”
#20 “I also know that Islam has
always been a part of America’s story.”
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity
#1
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
#2 “We do not consider ourselves a Christian
nation.”
#3 “Which
passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with
Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an
abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your
child if he strays from the faith?”
#4 “Even
those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural
edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in
Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more
culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”
#5 “The
American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of
Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage
nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious
leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they
should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”
#6 From Obama’s book, The
Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to have the state deny American
citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as
hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they
love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that
considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than
the Sermon on the Mount.”
#7 Obama’s
response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with
my values.”
#8 “If all it took was someone
proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was
all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would
they.”
#9 “This is something that I’m
sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the
difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some
level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There’s the belief,
certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their
personal savior that they’re going to hell.”
#10 “I find it hard to believe
that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t
imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never
interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity.
That’s just not part of my religious makeup.”
#11 “I don’t presume to have
knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether
the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to
my faith and my values is a good thing.”
#12 “I’ve said this before, and
I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not
believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I
know … I do not believe she went to hell.”
#13 “Those opposed to abortion
cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some
principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”
#14 On his
support for civil unions for gay couples: “If people find that controversial
then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”
#15 “You got into these small
towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs
have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell
through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each
successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna
regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter,
they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or
anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their
frustrations.”
#16 “In our household, the
Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of
Greek and Norse and African mythology”
#17 “On Easter or Christmas Day,
my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist
temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient
Hawaiian burial sites.”
#18 “we have Jews, Muslims,
Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that
we have to revere and respect as much as our own”
#19 “All of us have a
responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and
Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of
the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when
Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and
a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in
the story of Isra — (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus,
and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)”
#20 “I
believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that
there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”
About the author: Michael
T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled “The
Beginning Of The End” is now available on Amazon.com.
SHOCK:
Black Pastor Shot by Black Man, Killed During Church Service...
Number of
Americans giving up citizenship soars...
Maine
communities contemplate 'neighborhood secession'...
Pelosi
absent for vote...
Senate
Will Reject...
Obama
Will Veto...
'SHUTDOWN'
LOOMS...
Digital
Revolution Rallies Troops...
DELAY
OBAMACARE OR WE WILL SHUT IT DOWN
BOEHNER
MAKES MOVE
Over the past couple of days, we
have witnessed some absolutely horrific examples of Islamic terror groups
specifically targeting Christians and those from other non-Muslim
religions. Sadly, this is not a new phenomenon. Radical Islamic
jihadists are constantly attacking churches and slaughtering Christians all
over the planet. The recent events in Pakistan, Kenya and Egypt may have
taken this persecution to a new level, but this is just the continuation of a
trend that has been building for years. Unfortunately, Barack Obama does
not seem too concerned about Islamic terrorism. In fact, he specifically
directed that “all references to Islam” be
removed from terrorism training materials that the federal government
uses. If that wasn’t bad enough, now Obama is actually supplying weapons
to the radical jihadist rebels that want to take over Syria, and he appears to
be very ready to use the U.S. military to attack the Assad regime directly if
“negotiations” with the Syrian government fail. In essence, Obama wants
the United States to be allies with psychotic jihadists that have the exact
same radical philosophy that those who are killing Christians in Pakistan,
Kenya and Egypt have. (Read More.....)
NSA
Central to U.S. Assassination Program Posted by:
George Washington Post date:
09/29/2013 - Intelligence Agencies Central In
Assassination Programs Carried out Without Oversight
Spy Agencies Are Doing WHAT? Posted by: George Washington Post date: 09/23/2013 - New Revelations Are Breaking Every Day
Revelations about the breathtaking scope of government
spying are coming so fast that it's time for an updated roundup:
The government
is spying on essentially everything
we do. It is not just
"metadata" ... although that is enough
to destroy your privacy
The government
has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend
that "everything"
is relevant ... so it spies on everyone. For example, the NSA
"oversight" court believes the mere
claim that terrorists use the phone system is enough to show that all phone
records are relevant
NSA
whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word
It's not just
the NSA ... Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS – concerned only with domestic
issues - spy on Americans as well. The Drug Enforcement Administration has
had direct access to AT&T phone records for 25
years
The information
gained through spying is shared
with federal,
state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty
crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally
"launder" the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend
that they got the information in a more legitimate way ... and to hide
that from defense attorneys and judges
The Department
of Health and Human Services will also have access to vast
quantities of sensitive federal data on Americans as part of Obamacare
(here's the underlying Government Accountability Office report)
The NSA not
only shares our information with other American agencies, it
also gives personal, sensitive unfiltered information on Americans to Israel and
other
foreign nations
And it's not
only governments. Private contractors can also view
all of your data (and the government isn’t
keeping track of which contractors see your data and which don’t). And
because background
checks regarding some contractors are falsified, it is hard to know the
types of people that might have your information. Indeed, private contractors
are involved in spying on behalf of governments world-wide
It's not just
your computer and your phone. It is well-documented that the government may be
spying on us through cars
and buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and
drones, through our smart meters, and in many other ways
Top
counter-terror experts say that the government’s mass spying doesn't keep us safe
Indeed, they
say that mass spying actually hurts U.S.
counter-terror efforts (more here
and here)
They say we
can, instead, keep
everyone safe without violating the Constitution ... more cheaply and efficiently
than the current system
There is no real oversight
by Congress, the courts, or the
executive branch of government. And see this and this.
Indeed, most Congress
members had no
idea what the NSA is doing. Even staunch defenders of the NSA -
and congress
members on the intelligence oversight committees - now say they've
been kept in
the dark
A Federal judge
who was on the secret spying court for 3 years says
that it's a kangaroo
court
Even the current
judges on the secret spying court now admit that they're
out of the loop and powerless to exercise real oversight.
When these
judges raised concerns about NSA spying, the Justice Department completely ignored
them
A former U.S. president
says that the spying program shows that we no
longer have a functioning democracy
The chairs of
the 9/11 Commission say that NSA
spying has gone way too far
Top
constitutional experts say that Obama and Bush are worse
than Nixon ... and the Stasi East Germans
While the
government initially claimed that mass surveillance on Americans prevented more
than 50 terror attacks, the NSA’s deputy director John Inglis walked that position
back all the way to saying that – at
the most
– one (1)
plot might
have been disrupted by the bulk phone records collection alone. In other
words, the NSA can't prove that stopped any terror attacks. The government greatly
exaggerated an alleged recent terror plot for political purposes (and
promoted the fearmongering of serial liars). The argument that recent
terror warnings show that NSA spying is necessary is so weak that American
counter-terrorism experts have slammed it as "crazy
pants"
You're much
more likely to be killed by brain-eating amoeba,
lightning or a toddler than by terrorism. Even President Obama
admits that you're
much less likely to be killed by terrorists than a car accident. So the
government has resorted to lamer
and lamer excuses
to try to justify mass surveillance
Experts say
that the
spying program is illegal, and is exactly the kind of
thing which King
George imposed on the American colonists ... which led to the Revolutionary War
A Harvard law
school professor - and director of the Berkman Center for Internet &
Society at Harvard University - says:
"The NSA has mounted a systematic
campaign against the foundations of American power: constitutional checks and
balances, technological leadership, and market entrepreneurship. The NSA scandal is no longer about
privacy, or a particular violation of constitutional or legislative
obligations. The American body politic is suffering a severe
case of auto-immune disease: our defense system is attacking other critical
systems of our body".
The top
counter-terrorism Czar under Clinton and Bush says that revealing
NSA spying programs does not harm national security
The
feds are considering prosecuting the owner of a private email company -
who shut down his business rather than turning over records to the NSA - for
refusing to fork over the information and keep quiet. This is a little like
trying to throw someone in jail because he's died and is no longer paying taxes
Whistleblowers
on illegal spying have no "legal"
way to get the information out
Spying
started before
9/11 ... and various
excuses have been used to spy on Americans over the years
Governments and
big corporations are doing everything they can to
destroy
anonymity
Mass spying creates
an easy mark for
hackers.
Indeed, the Pentagon
now sees the collection of "big data" as a "national
security threat" ... but the NSA is the biggest data collector on the
planet, and thus provides a tempting mother lode of information for foreign
hackers
Mass
surveillance by the NSA directly
harms internet companies, Silicon Valley, California … and the entire U.S. economy.
For example, Facebook lost 11
millions users as of April mainly due to privacy concerns (and that was before
the Snowden revelations). And see these reports from Boingboing and the Guardian
IT
and security
professionals are quite
concerned about government spying
Some people make
a lot of
money off of mass spying. But the government isn't
using the spying program to stop the worst
types of lawlessness
The NSA spying
program is unambiguously being used for industrial espionage, by spying on large
foreign corporations, and the biggest financial
payments
systems such as VISA and Swift. Indeed, in a slide leaked
by Edward Snowden, "economic"
was one of the main justifications for spying
The top U.S.
spy's justifications for such financial spying is not
very reassuring:
"We collect this information for many important
reasons: for one, it could provide the United States and our allies early
warning of international financial crises which could negatively impact the
global economy. It also could provide insight
into other countries' economic policy or behavior which could affect global
markets."
Top financial
experts say that the NSA and other intelligence agencies are using the
information to profit
from this inside information
The Wall Street
Journal reported that the NSA spies on Americans’ credit card transactions.
Many other agencies are doing the same. In fact, virtually all U.S. intelligence agencies
– including the CIA and NSA – are going to spy on Americans’ finances.
The IRS will also be spying on
Americans’ shopping
records, travel, social interactions, health records and files from other
government investigators
Polls show that
the public doesn’t believe the NSA … and thinks that the
government has gone way too far in the name of
terrorism
While leaker
Edward Snowden is treated as a traitor by the fatcats and elites, he is considered
a hero
by the American public. Members of the Executive,
Legislative and Judicial branches of government have all praised
the debate on spying which Snowden's leaks started
The heads of
the intelligence services have repeatedly
been caught lying
about spying. And even liberal publications are starting to say that Obama
has been intentionally lying about spying. The government claimed that most
spying programs ended in 2011, when - in fact - they were expanded
that year
Obama says
he'll rein in spying ... but his words
and deeds indicate that he won't. Indeed, Obama appointed
the fox to guard
the chicken coop. No wonder only
11% of Americans trust Obama to actually do anything to rein in spying
A huge majority
of Americans wants the director of intelligence - Clapper - prosecuted for perjury.
One of the chairs of the 9/11 Commission agrees
While the Obama
administration is spying on everyone in the country – it is at the same time
the most secretive administration ever (background). That’s despite Obama saying
he’s running the most transparent
administration ever
The NSA treats
the American people with contempt. For
example, Spiegel notes:
"The authors of the [NSA slides] draw a comparison
with "1984," ... revealing the agency's current view of smartphones
and their users. "Who knew in 1984 that this would be Big Brother …"
the authors ask, in reference to a photo of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. And
commenting on photos of enthusiastic Apple customers and iPhone users, the NSA
writes: "… and the zombies would be paying
customers?
Worse, the
intelligence agencies often view normal, true-blue Americans as potential
terrorists
(and see
this)
A Congressman
noted that - even if a mass surveillance program is started
for good purposes - it will inevitably turn
into a witch
hunt
There are
indications that the spy agencies aren't just passively gathering information,
but are actively
using it in mischievous ways
Surveillance
can be used to frame you
if someone in government happens to take a dislike to you
Government
spying has always
focused on crushing dissent … not on keeping us safe
An NSA
whistleblower says that the
NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military
officers (and see
this)
High-level US
government officials have warned
for 40 years that mass surveillance would lead to tyranny in America
A top NSA
whistleblower says that the only way to fix things is to fire all
of the corrupt government officials who let it happen. As the polls above
show, the American public is starting to wake up to that fact
NJ
property taxes up 13% under Christie...
Obama
applauds mayoral candidate's vow to hike taxes in NYC...
CNN:
3 alleged Kenya attackers from USA...
Raises
concerns in U.S....
Gunmen
executed non-Muslims after asking them to name Prophet Mohammed's mother...
Deep cuts at
agency responsible for investigating health-care fraud...
Secret
American Subculture of Putin-Worshippers... { Secret … I doubt it … I
believe the Russia/Putin ‘miracle’ is worthy of praise and world class global
recognition as such! }
Movement
grows to repeal Obamacare 'exemption' for Congress...
'Could they be more out
of touch?'
OBAMA:
Republicans 'trying to mess with me'...
'We
are not some Banana Republic'... { Au contraire … http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm }
13
shot in mass shooting at Chicago park...
3-year-old
boy shot in face...
CA
Dem wishes death upon Ted Cruz staffer's children...
17,679
things the federal government has done since sequestration...
DOCTOR OBAMACARE, a
photo by WilliamBanzai7/Colonel
Flick on Flickr.
Are you ready for bone chilling cold this winter? The
Old Farmer’s Almanac and other weather forecasters that rely on solar activity
as a factor in their weather forecasts are projecting that this upcoming winter
will be bitterly cold. Solar activity is at a 100 year low, and even
though we were supposed to be in the midst of a solar maximum this year, our
sun has been eerily quiet. So precisely what in the world is going
on? There have been other periods throughout history when solar activity
has been extraordinarily quiet, and those times have corresponded with periods
of extreme cold. For example, the “Maunder Minimum” which stretched from
1645 to 1715 corresponded with the most bitterly cold period that the earth
experienced in the last 1000 years. So could we be heading toward another
“mini-ice age”? That is a question that some scientists are now beginning
to ask.
Clearly, something unusual is happening with our
sun. The following is from a Universe Today article that was posted back in (Read More....)
