Showing posts with label spying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spying. Show all posts

Monday, 23 June 2014

Football in Brazil, NSA in Bahamas, Rush, Nader

(Thoughty2) The most secretive places on Earth (except the NSA may be there, too)
If there's no safe harbor, no privacy, on a faraway tropical island, how about the city?
The Bahamas Wants to Know Why NSA is Recording Its Phone Calls
Greenwald says there's no place to hide (PIN)
Government officials in the Bahamas want their U.S. counterparts to explain why the National Security Agency has been intercepting and recording every cell phone call taking place on the island nation.
 
Responding to a report published by The Intercept on Monday, which revealed that the NSA has been targeting the Bahamas’ entire mobile network and storing the audio of every phone call traversing the network for up to 30 days, Bahamian officials told the Nassau Guardian that they had contacted the U.S. and vowed to release a statement regarding the revelations.

Chaplain anti-gay is a virtue
In a front-page story published Tuesday, Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell told The Guardian that his government had reached out to the U.S. for an explanation. Mitchell said the cabinet was set to meet to discuss the matter and planned to issue a statement on the surveillance. The Bahamian minister of national security told the paper he intended to launch an inquiry into the NSA’s surveillance but did not provide a comment.

Nader: Climate, Iraq...
A source familiar with the situation told The Intercept that the cabinet meeting had indeed taken place, but an official in Mitchell’s office said there would be no comment Tuesday. “You’ll have to call back,” said the official, who did not identify herself. More

Repressing World Cup Football protests in Brazil is big biz; What we don't see on TV
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(The Intercept/June 4)
How Secret Partners Expand NSA’s Surveillance DragnetHuge volumes of private emails, phone calls, and Internet chats are being intercepted by the National Security Agency (NSA) with the secret cooperation of more foreign governments than previously known, according to newly disclosed documents from heroic whistleblower Edward Snowden. The classified files, revealed today by the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information in a reporting collaboration with The... More

Ron Paul’s Secret Shame
ron paul
(DavidFeldmanShow.com, August 13, 2013) Who killed Ron Paul’s campaign manager? Why won’t CNN ask that question? Dr. Nancy, Mark Thompson, Will Ryan and the Cactus County Cowboys. Plus Michael Snyder talks movies.
 

Rush on women in workplace

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

China: Tiananmen 25th anniversary

Amber Larson, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; )
Artist/activist's rendition of the famous "Tank Man," the brave Chinese citizen who stood up to state and corporate power by famously placing his body between a tank and Tienanmen.


China tightens security in Beijing on Tienanmen [massacre's] 25th anniversary
Police state cameras, Tienanmen today
Human rights advocates say it’s only a matter of time before government recognizes killings of pro-democracy protesters.

Human-rights advocates reported unprecedented security measures at China’s Tienanmen Square on Wednesday that barred Chinese from marking the 25th anniversary of pro-democracy protests there that ended with a government crackdown killing hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians.
 
Gearing up for Tiananmen 2.0
Eyewitnesses in Beijing reported that access to the square, a symbol of the Chinese Communist Party’s nearly 65-year rule, had been restricted. Walking from Beijing’s Wangfujin shopping district a little over half a mile to Tienanmen, Twitter user Ban Yue Ban posted photos of three checkpoints he had to pass, with law enforcement officials checking his identification and searching his bag.

The human rights monitoring organization Amnesty International reported that 48 known dissidents -- including activists, lawyers, and artists -- had disappeared or been detained by authorities ahead of the June 4 anniversary. [The U.S. government's spying apparatus known as] Google and a number of other websites were blocked ahead of the day.
 
Chinese youth reflect on Tienanmen Square 25 years later 
Comrade, are you wearing eyeliner? - Maybe.
Renowned Chinese human rights advocate Hu Jia told Al Jazeera, while under detention in his Beijing home, that he hoped Chinese would still “return to the square” to achieve what he believes are China’s inevitable objectives of democracy and rule of law.
 
NRA calls open-carry gun demos foolish
But by late afternoon in Beijing, it appeared that access to the site had been so heavily restricted that there would be no mass movement reminiscent of the one in 1989, despite attempts by New York-based dissident blogger Wen Yunchao to have people “Return to Tiananmen.”

Wen had mounted a long-distance campaign to return the ideals of democracy and transparency for China to the nation’s public and international media. More

Thursday, 15 May 2014

"Net Neutrality" going down the drain (video)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org, May 15, 2014); Sarah Jaffe, Joel Serino (occupy.com); OccupytheFCC
Net: it's a utility, the "People's Platform," not a portable TV for corporate media (occupy)
 
Not until a fair accounting of votes does anything happen in a democracy. (It sure would be nice to live in a democracy). All those who say otherwise are stirring up anarchy. Destroy the deviants, troublemakers, and perverts! Corporate profits depend on it. That should keep the police state busy. In the meantime, what about our Internet?
 
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is voting today on new rules that may effectively abandon "Net neutrality," the concept of a free and open Internet. (Watch this).

(CGP Grey/cgpgrey.com) Let's tell the FCC to reclassify broadband Internet as a public utility, a Title II common carrier telecommunications service. (Discuss). Music: Broke for Free.

The FCC proposal would let Internet providers charge corporate media companies extra fees to receive preferential treatment, such as faster speeds for their products and content.

Under previous regulations struck down earlier this year, providers were forced to provide ALL content at equal speeds, including Wisdom Quarterly, Democracy Now!, Occupy.com, FEMEN, CodePink, and other outlets.

The encampment begins with activists from popularresistance.org and Fight for the Future
 
Just steps from the vote, demonstrators have set up an "Occupy the FCC" (occupythefcc.com) encampment calling for federal regulators to reclassify broadband service as a public utility.

"Trust me; I'm a banker!"
This will allow for the requirement of "Net neutrality" rules.

The CEOs of 28 U.S. broadband providers and trade groups told their FCC not to classify broadband as a utility, explaining that regulating broadband would "impose great costs [to our private corporations], allowing unprecedented government micromanagement of all aspects of the Internet economy."

Save the Internet (freepress.net)
This debate on Net neutrality features guests Timothy Karr of the media reform group Free Press, who want corporations to be regulated for the good of everyone who uses the Net, and Joshua Steimle, a tech entrepreneur who argues that the government should not be entrusted with regulating the Internet. More

Friday, 4 April 2014

Is USAID the new CIA? Another Twitter (video)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS); Amy Goodman, Peter Kornbluh, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.org)


USAID, the new CIA?
How America (under its secret-government as the US Military-Industrial Complex) runs the world: By co-creating Facebook, Google, Twitter -- and/or coopting them after someone else creates them -- CIA agents and operatives (as well as the FBI, black-budget Pentagon, DARPA, DHS, the Secret Service, and of course the NSA) foment and agitate for civil war, "revolution," and liberation. 

They're doing what to my America?!
But the goal is not actual freedom and democracy for people in the US or elsewhere, it is to topple uncooperative governments without overtly sending in soldiers. Secret operatives do a quieter, and therefore better, job by avoiding all the sticky accusations of "imperialism," "war crimes," and "illegal intervention."

The CIA learned its lessons well in Vietnam, the Philippines, Egypt (Arab Spring), Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Central America, Kosovo, Grenada, Cambodia, Laos, Tibet/China... It's been all over the world.

Ussupremecourt
McCutcheon means 1% now rules US legally
It rules the world by subterfuge and deceit, raking in billions in drug dealing, market manipulations, and international banking. Ask the author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman for the details of how we loan money to nations (Hello, Ukraine!) through the World Bank and IMF then send in jackals to call the shots making those nations very friendly to the West. What choice will they have when we assassinate their leaders who are for the people and prop up new politicians corrupt enough to do whatever America asks of them?

Berniesanders
Senator: Billionaires now "buy elections"
Now we clearly see that USAID, following the playbook, created a Twitter for Cuba. A hummingbird whispers via mobile phones and cell networks, and a government comes down with flash mobs, "Occupy" style events, protests, demonstrations, disruptions, Anarchist Bible (written by the CIA) vandalism, general hooliganism and drug use (brought in by the fine Company folks who work with the authorities who will arresting the buyers and sellers but never the distributors)...

AP reports a complex and intricate strategy devised by the U.S. gov't to artificially foment political dissent in Cuba and spur a "democratic" uprising -- rigged by the CIA -- using a fake social media platform. It's the Latin Twitter ZunZumeo (vator.tv)

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ZunZuneo reveals how US gov't spies in US
NSA, Twitter, DARPA, Facebook, FBI, Google
"U.S. Secretly Created 'Cuban Twitter' to Stir Unrest" is the name of an explosive new article by the Associated Press detailing how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) created a fake Twitter program to undermine the Cuban government.
 
The CIA has many guises and operatives
[As Americans, we have the real Twitter spying on us and undermining actual dissent while seeming to stir up all sorts of trouble by facilitating peer-to-peer conversations that are thoroughly documented and used for later investigations and to set people up.]

The communications network was called "ZunZuneo" -- slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet. It was reportedly built with secret shell companies financed through [CIA-controlled] foreign banks. According to the AP, the United States [the MIC] planned to use the platform to spread political content that might trigger a Cuban Spring.

Gleijeses_visions2
Havana, D.C., Pretoria, South Africa
Or it might, as one USAID document put it, "renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society." Democracy Now! speaks to Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. He recently wrote an article in Foreign Policy called "Our Man in Havana: Was USAID Planning to Overthrow Castro?"

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Hitler escaped; Iran claims USA-UFO contact

Wisdom Quarterly; FARS News; HuffingtonPost.com; Exopolitics.com; Coasttocoastam.com
The US has continued policies and military plans established by Germany under Hitler.
"The Book Thief" follows the life of a girl looking at the Holocaust and WW II from the inside out.

Mining conspiracy theory peddling websites based in the United States, Iran’s semi-official FARS News Agency published a series of bizarre claims attributing them to Edward Snowden's NSA leaks on Sunday.
 
A first report published by the news agency over the weekend claimed that documents analyzed by the Russian intelligence services "prove" that U.S. policy is driven by an "alien/extraterrestrial intelligence agenda."
 
The NSA’s electronic surveillance is designed to cover up the alien conspiracy, the report continues, while elite humans along with one or more groups of extraterrestrials plan for world domination. 
  
NSA damage control?
Spy Snowden? (Barton Gellman/Getty Images)
A few hours later FARS published a new story on aliens and the NSA, but this time the aliens were portrayed as the victims.

According to this second FARS report, Edward Snowden is unconsciously transmitting subliminal messages about a "false flag" plot to weaponize space. The report adds that the PRISM surveillance system collects UFO contact data, with the goal of creating a future false "alien invasion" to justify space wars and, ultimately, domination of the solar system. More

Hunting Hitler: Fuhrer survived WW II
Wall Street funded Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s. Why would US bankers back him? The post-Depression dream of Wall Street financiers was for the rebuilding of industrial manufacturing in Europe. Hitler was copying Ford's design for a car (the folks' wagon). Harvard's Dr. Jerome Corsi has turned up a great deal of stunning research on the beginnings of the military-industrial complex, what Franco referred to as "fascism" -- the melding of state and corporate powers. More

Saturday, 18 January 2014

Opposing SEX, promoting violence (video)

"Lone Survivor" - a Hollywood war glorification propaganda reel about the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan based but not telling the actual story of Operation Red Wing.
  
Stop resisting me, stop resisting me (BS)
Torrance, Los Angeles LAPD Officer Brian McGee will not be charged for attempting to murder a white surfer after ramming his vehicle during the dramatic "manhunt" for accused black ex-LAPD Officer Dorner, who allegedly went on a rampage against other members of the LAPD.

Better wrong doing right than right doing wrong
That is the allegation, but we will never know because Dorner was summarily executed by fellow police who turned SoCal into an obvious police state. (Usually it is just a covert one).
Israeli war criminal Sharon dies (TYT)
This was done to prevent an adequate investigation that may have turned up damning evidence against the Department. "Shoot first, ask questions later." You may not get many answers but, hey, that's how it goes when working in a violent culture of killer cops.

(TYT) Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola break down some criminal police 
Citizens can now police the police (ACLU)
Fullerton, Orange County Officer Joe Wolfe, who helped fellow gang members bash in the face of a schizophrenic homeless man before beating him to death, had all charges against him dropped after fellow killers Manny Ramos and Jay Cicinelli were acquitted during their separate trial.
 
Tampa, Florida's retired policeman Curtis Reeves, former Chief of Security for Busch Gardens, murdered a man for having the audacity to text before the movie "Lone Survivor" (see above).
 
Said it about health plans, said it about NSA
He also shot a woman after popcorn was allegedly thrown in his direction, which may have touched his large toe. Reeves says that this gave him the right to shoot the couple, given that he could (later) say he felt "threatened" and thereby go scot-free for his crimes.
 
That's funny! NSA surveillance? "If you like your freedom, you can keep your freedom" is the best summary of President Obama's false speech about "reforming" USA/NSA spying.

The precept against killing
Buddha and aum (Brooke Montes/flickr)
Our world is plagued by conflicts, economic and ethnic, racial and religious, political and ideological, planned and carried out by the military-industrial complex.

"Terrorism" serves as the great pretext to launch all manner of state-sponsored terror thanks to the CIA, NSA, NSC, FBI, DHS, and other spies.
  
Israel's illegal Jewish settlements (DN)
Wars, "low-level kinetic actions" (a euphemism for bloody battles, invasions, and massacres), and genocides are more than just a looming threat. They are an active reality all over the globe.
 
No sex, please, just killing (govexec.com)
The threat of nuclear weapons being used causes worldwide anxiety. The manufacture and sale of weaponry is a thriving industry. So are there wars because there are weapons, or are there weapons because there are  wars? Who manufactures industrial-scale conflicts?

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Fukushima exploded; State says never mind


"Radiation Raining Death" in the US (Hagmann & Hagmann Report)
 
California's last big disaster
Dr. Len Horowitz and Jim Lee discuss the public relations side of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear meltdown in long form radio interview (or see longer video). Judging by the plume at the time of the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown disaster, there was an nuclear explosion. What are the implications of the massive contamination of Japan with radioactive caesium? What about ten years of Fukushima radiation crossing the Pacific Ocean? What are the 10 Most Radioactive Places on Earth? The best way to find out about nuclear reactor leaks around the world is by live radiation monitoring.

Fukushima update: January 2014
Nuclear energy experts Scott Portzline, Arnie Gundersen, and Kevin Kamps (C2C, 1-6-14)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are Japanese cities. US war crimes extended to dropping nuclear bombs over noncombatant civilian populations for the first time in history (kootation.com).
  
Three experts discussed the status of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, the cover-ups of scientific data, and general issues about nuclear waste and power. 
 
How much fallout is too much? (CR)
Last week there was a spate of reports about Fukushima's Unit 3 having new radiation plumes. The reports of steam emissions and people living on the West Coast of the US needing prepare for evacuation were false, according to Scott Portzline. It was a hoax, but the climate of uncertainty is very real. It has been created by the lack of truth from TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company), the US government, and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), he explained. "In my opinion, Fukushima is a Level 8 on the international nuclear event scale; the levels normally only go up to 7," Portzline emphasized. He continued: There are multiple sources of radiation, and the situation requires international assistance and monitoring.
"Yes we scan!" Obama to help NSA (dw.de)
Arnie Gundersen concurs. Fukushima is a dire situation -- in contrast to Chernobyl (USSR) and Three Mile Island (USA). The "spigot" isn't turned off yet, and radiation continues to leak into the Pacific Ocean. Fish are picking up extraordinarily high levels of radioactive materials. Gundersen claims he will not eat any fish that comes from the West Coast. In Japan, "the epidemiological data that will develop over the next 30 years [will show that] somewhere between 100,000 and 1 million new cancers will develop as a result of this." But the nuclear industry can hide behind the fact that a high percentage of people get cancer anyway, he points out. Stressing the importance of stopping the groundwater contamination with radioactive waste, Gunderson suggests building a trench of zeolite to absorb the radiation surrounding the plant.

Kami in Shinto (mondojapan.net)
Kevin Kamps points out that 72,000 gallons of contaminated water a day is flowing into the ocean. That radioactivity adds up over nearly three years since the accident. Making matters worse, Kamps explains, Unit 4 may be on the brink of collapse. Some countries, such as Germany, are wisely phasing out dangerous  and expensive nuclear power entirely after the lessons of Fukushima and Chernobyl, Kamps explains. As an alternative, wind power is being tapped as having a great deal potential. And the first offshore floating wind turbines were just installed in the Gulf of Maine, which could provide as much electricity as five atomic reactors, Kamps asserts.

Zen Buddhism will live on. But this may be the end of Japan as a country. Inhabitants will die off or emigrate off the island nation and leave it to the kami (the pre-Buddhist shapeshifting mountain monsters of Shinto Japanese lore).
 
 
Living in a Police State
Part 4: Chase Madar (pasadenaweekly.com), edited Wisdom Quarterly
David Brooks smoked illegal cannabis (Tom Tomorrow/thismodernworld.com)

Snowden: fake controlled-disclosure for NSA?
There is digital over-policing. For a time the Internet was new territory, free of overly aggressive law enforcement. Not anymore. The late Aaron Swartz, a young Internet genius and activist affiliated with Harvard University, was caught downloading publicly subsidized scholarly articles from an open network on the nearby campus of MIT. Swartz was federally prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for violating a “terms and services agreement.” It was a transgression that anyone who has ever disabled a cookie on a laptop has also committed, technically. Swartz committed suicide earlier in 2013 while facing a possible 50-year sentence and up to $1 million in fines.
 
The NSA has a message for the world.
(Why? That is how the corporations wanted it; it sends a message). Recently, thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we have learned a great deal about the way our country's NSA “stops and frisks” us. It apparently does the same to other citizens -- stealing copies of all digital communications (encrypted or not), 200 million texts a day, emails, telephone calls, meta-data, every and anything electronic in nature. The security benefits of such indiscriminate policing are zero, despite the government’s pretense that that is why our spies are allowed to violate laws and international agreements. What comes into sharper focus with every volley of new revelations is the emerging digital infrastructure of what can only be called a police state.  More
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