I'm in love! - "West Coast" (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Lana Del Rey (lanadelrey.com), "West Coast"

In "Ultraviolence," out June 17th, Cuban Lana Del Rey sings about the West Coast

Love is a burning thing. With eyes half open we step into a ring of fire, like Johnny Cash

Part 1. As a primer to love addiction and sex addiction, it might be good to start with this new smash hit all over Los Angeles radio. Now that Amber Larson and Seth Auberon have taken the helm as Wisdom Quarterly's Features Editors, it might give me time to explore affection, emotions, love, and sensuality as addictions the Buddha warned about. But we don't listen. We love it, which is why we were reborn into this Kama Loka, the "Sensual Sphere." And this song by Lana (of "Summertime Sadness" and "Maleficent" fame), better than any, suggests how we are seduced into coming here rather than forced. More importantly, what keeps us here now, like monkeys with our paws in this honey trap? And having been burned again and yet again, what could keep us coming back?

Lana, superstar, H&M supermodel

Down on the West Coast they got a saying
"If you're not [th]inking then you're not playing."
But you've got the music; you've got the music in you, don't you?

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling
Like it all could happen; that's why I'm leaving
You for the moment, you for the moment, Boy Blue, yeah you.

You're flying high at the show, I'm feeling hot to the touch
You say you miss me, and I say I miss you so much
But something keeps me really quiet, I'm alive, I'm a lush:
Your love, your love, your love

I can see my baby swinging
His Parliament's on fire and his hands are up
On the balcony and I'm singing
Ooh, baby, ooh, baby, I'm in love

(MM) Lana Del Rey performs "West Coast" on the West Coast, Coachella 2014

I can see my sweet boy swaying
He's crazy y Cubano como yo la la
On the balcony and I'm saying,
Move baby, move baby, I'm in love

I'm in love (I'm in love)
I'm in love (I'm in love)

Down on the West Coast they got their icons
Their silver starlets, their Queens of Saigon
And you've got the music; you've got the music in you, don't you?

Down on the West Coast they love their movies
Their golden gods and rock 'n roll groupies
And you've got the music, you've got the music in you, don't you?

You push it hard, I pull away, I'm feeling hotter than fire
I guess that no one ever really made me feel that much higher
Te deseo, cariño; boy, it's you I desire
Your love, your love, your love

I can see my baby swinging
His Parliament's on fire and his hands are up
On the balcony and I'm singing,
Ooh, baby, ooh, baby, I'm in love...

• VIDEO: Have you ever had a threesome? (Jimmy Kimmel) 
• Pioneering actress, activist Ruby Dee passes on

Giant Gay Pride Parade Fest (June 6-8)

Dev, Wisdom Quarterly; gaywesthollywood.com/gaypride

LA PRIDE LGBT Pride in West Hollywood 

Christopher Street West Association, Inc. is a non-profit service organization within the... Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration in West Hollywood. The LA PRIDE Celebration is held in beautiful West Hollywood Park.

  

2014 Gay Pride in Los Angeles, California, Gay West Hollywood 

LA Gay Pride Parade and Festival in Los Angeles, attracting 1/2 million visitors... 

City of West Hollywood: One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival 

Each year, the City of West Hollywood celebrates Pride month through the artistic contributions of our community with the One City One Pride Arts Festival. 

West Hollywood Los Angeles Gay Pride 2014 

(GayTravel.about.com) The L.A. Pride Festival occurs over Friday, June 6, Saturday, June 7 (from noon until midnight), and Sunday (from 11:00 am till 11:00 pm) in the heart of West Hollywood.

Native Buddhist artifacts, Grand Canyon (video)

xDhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; David Hatcher Childress (davidhatcherchildress.com), host George Noory (coasttocoastam.com); Karen Slaughter

Lightning bolt illuminates the Grand Canyon (news.yahoo.com, May 14, 2013)

Ancient Mesoamerican site, modern Mexico, panoramic view from pyramids (Tula)

 

Egypt in the Grand Canyon

Lost Cities: Ancient Mysteries of the Southwest

Six years ago archeologist and author David Hatcher Childress discussed his research into Buddhist, Hindu (Vedic), and Egyptian artifacts found in the Grand Canyon, USA.

Did Egyptians visit North America thousands of years ago? Childress reveals his investigation into the history of the Olmecs in the south (Mesoamerica) -- with a great pyramid at La Venta, Mexico -- and the amazing technologies they possessed.

"The more and more I've looked into it over the years, what I've concluded is that, Yes, there is something to it," Childress says of the famous 1909 American media story: At that time a Smithsonian-sponsored expedition into the Grand Canyon found and collected Egyptian and Buddhist artifacts. 

Ancient bald Olmec sitting pose

Childress is off to the American Southwest, traversing the region's deserts, mountains, and forests investigating archeological mysteries. He starts in northern Mexico and searches for the lost mines of the Aztecs and continues north to west Texas, delving into the mysteries of Big Bend, including mysterious Phoenician tablets discovered there and the strange lights of Marfa. He continues northward into New Mexico, where he stumbles upon a hollow mountain with gold bars hidden inside! In Arizona he investigates tales of Egyptian catacombs in the Grand Canyon... In Nevada and California Childress checks out mummified giants and weird tunnels in Death Valley, plus he searches the Mohave Desert for the mysterious remains of ancient dwellers alongside lakes that dried up tens of thousands of years ago...
 

Noble disciple Sayalay Susila, Grand Canyon

He shares one confounding piece of evidence to mainstream history which claims that Native Americans did not practice mummification. "The Thing," a Southwestern roadside attraction, shows that mummies were found in the "New" World.

Mythical meditator (Las Limas)

This odd mummy of a woman and child together was "privately purchased in 1910," according to his sources. Childress theorized that it "may well be one of the artifacts from the caves." Speculating on why this information has been shrouded in secrecy, Childress speculated that "today, history is politically correct, not what happened, but what they want to have happened."

 

He refutes the mainstream belief that ancient peoples were fairly isolated, asserting that "Oceans were highways, not barriers." To support this idea, he points out that the Egyptians, Romans, and Phoenicians had ships bigger than those used by Columbus.

By the third hour of the interview, Childress got into his work exploring the ancient and mysterious Olmec culture of ancient Mexico, which was only discovered in the 1940s. He points out that the Olmecs were a unique looking people who may have been responsible for many works ascribed to the Mayans (Maya), such as very precise and famous cosmic calendar, which share a Buddhist/Vedic view of time measured in epochs and aeons.

Naga guides Olmec pilot (Delange)

Regarding fantastic ancient technologies, Childress discussed the discovery of an old Indian book about the ancient spacecraft, which are called vimanas in ancient India. The Olmecs described metal crafts using mercury as fuel. [This form of propulsion, which is based on manipulating gravity by swirling the mercury within the craft, was detailed in Popular Mechanics and elsewhere decades ago.] More
 

Sitchin with massive Olmec head (cae2k.com)

• Mystery of the Olmecs
• Lost Cities of North and Central America
• Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America
• Lost Cities of China, Central Asia, and India
• Technology of the Gods: Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
• Vimana Aircraft of Ancient India and Atlantis
• The Enigma of Cranial Deformation: The Elongated Skulls of the Ancients

Fukushima disaster: 3rd Anniversary (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; John Lear, host David Ruben (C2C); DemocracyNow.org

Fukushima disaster, Japan, March 11, 2011. 50 million people were almost evacuated, but it was easier to lie about the danger of three failed reactors instead (caravantomidnight.com)

 

Fukushima memorial (Dandemura/flickr)

According to retired airline captain John Lear -- (whose father invented the Lear Jet), a former CIA-pilot and current whistleblower, who appeared on Coast to Coast on March 1, 2014 -- the tsunami and subsequent Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster (Daini) was done on purpose.

 

Fukushima disaster, TEPCO (rt.com)

Japan had hired Israel to run this and other plants for it. But when Israel discovered that Japan was selling refined nuclear byproducts (weapons grade fissionable material, presumably), to punish Japan, Israel detonated a nuclear blast strategically to cause a massive tsunami, which led to the destruction of the plant and a massive nuclear fallout not only for the island but for the ocean and entire planet.

Kukushima in 2012 (uprisingradio.org)

(More and more one can see what drunken, racist, spouse-abusing Hollywood insider Mel Gibson was talking about when he yelled in a very candid and drunken rant about the state of Israel, a boon for the CIA in the Middle East, and its role in many of the world's conflicts).

"The tsunami that hit the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was caused by an atomic bomb set off by Israelis," Lear stated. Lear implicated Israel's Mossad (spy ring) in the John F. Kennedy assassination and attributed Hurricane Katrrina's destruction of New Orleans to HAARP guided by the U.S. military-industrial complex.

• John Lear: therealjohnlear.com, thelivingmoon.com, immaculatedeception.com

Former-Japanese PM talks about  how Fukushima meltdown was worse than Chernobyl

 

Former PM now opposes nuclear power

(DemocracyNow.org) Three years ago today (March 11) a massive earthquake triggered [by a nuclear detonation by Israel triggered] a devastating tsunami that struck Japan’s northeast coast. It resulted in an unprecedented nuclear crisis: a triple meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station. 

As Japan marks the anniversary with continued uncertainty around Fukushima’s long-term impact, Democracy Now was joined by Naota Kan, Japan’s Prime Minister at the time (2011). It’s rare that a sitting world leader changes his position completely, but that’s what Kan has done. 

 

What does radiation do to human body?

He explains how he came to oppose nuclear power while still in office, as he weighed Tokyo’s evacuation: "It’s impossible to totally prevent any kind of accident or disaster happening at the nuclear power plants," Kan says. "And so, the one way to prevent this from happening, to prevent the risk of having to evacuate such huge amounts of people, 50 million people, and for the purpose, for the benefit of the lives of our people, and even the economy of Japan, I came to change [my] position, that the only way to do this was to totally get rid of the nuclear power plants."

Chomsky: from Hiroshima to Fukushima, Vietnam to Fallujah, state power harms all

• "The Lopper" (Seinfeld) arrested in Los Angeles: LAPD arrest man in severed head case (AP) Los Angeles police say they've solved the case of a severed human head found two years ago near the Hollywood sign.
• Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
• VIDEO: Giant snake attacks and eats crocodile in Australia
• 4 California universities: top schools in world rankings
• The Sochi Paralympics could be the political showdown
• How to Punish Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin

• Malaysia Airlines: What we know about the missing plane With no confirmation that the Boeing 777 had crashed, hundreds of distraught relatives still waited anxiously Monday for any news. 
• Affirmative action amendment has some Asian-Americans furious (Josie Huang with Leslie Berestein-Rojas) In the last month, a proposal to reinstate affirmative action at California’s public universities has inflamed some Asian-American groups unlike any recent issue. 
• See how SoCal recycles its raw sewage What may sound like the ugliest place in SoCal is actually very beautiful: Orange County's Groundwater Replenishment system, where toilet waste is turned into tap water.
• VIDEO: Malaysian jet 370, with 239 on board, missing en route to Beijing

1. Light Graffiti Made With The Wave Of A Magic Wand
2. Elizabeth Kolbert On The Vanishing Of Species
3. Modular Phones Are A Brilliant Idea. It’s Too Bad We May Never Have Them.
4. Keurig Wants To Lock Down Its Pods With Coffee DRM
5. Solar-Powered Drone Designed To Fly For 5 Years Nonstop
6. Pacemaker Membrane Can Keep Heart Beating Perfectly
7. Apple CarPlay Puts iOS In Your Dashboard
8. Native American Tribe Adopts Its Own Bitcoin Clone
9. Ask Anything: Why Is The Milky Way A Spiral?
10. A Cheap, Promising Way to Filter Water: Through A Twig
    

Everyone loves a good ghost story

Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Roger Clarke (Telegraph.co.uk)

I don't see anything because I'm not looking to the left. OH NO! Shapeshifter!

Ghosts/phantoms permeate European culture through and through (telegraph.co.uk)

 

"Hungry ghosts" (pretas) depicted in Asia

It’s the time of year [the dead of winter] -- a little before that other time of year -- when many people’s minds turn to spooks and ghost stories. Once, the parish bells rang out on Hallowe’en to scare away such prowling phantoms and demons speeding forth from what M.R. James, the Victorian ghost-story writer, would call “sequestered places.”

But now, a commercialized Hallowe’en presents itself, imported from the United States, which in turn took its antecedents from an Irish Catholic celebration of seasonal misrule.

 

Ghosts are real. Just ask Dr. Gabor Mate.

Up to the 19th century, it was often said in rural England that none but a “Popish priest” could lay -- or exorcise -- a ghost, and much of traditional English belief in ghosts comes from the unquiet spirit of hidden Catholic traditions. 

 

In earlier centuries, for example, to say you believed in ghosts was to identify yourself as a Catholic, or at the very least a religious dissident, since early Methodists believed in the same thing also.

 

The infamous Cock Lane ghost that so convulsed London in 1762 was very much gingered up by a parish priest with Methodist inclinations; all of society, including Horace Walpole (who wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto), flocked to a house in Smithfields to hear the ghost that scratched out pronouncements on the living and dead. 

 

Ghosts can cook (M.A. Winkowski)

The founder of the Methodist faith, John Wesley, came from a haunted family. The account of the Epworth Poltergeist in 1716 is one of the classic ghost stories in the canon, and it took place in the Lincolnshire rectory while 14-year-old Wesley was away from home. In letters to John’s brother Sam, his mother detailed how the arrival of two new servants at Martinmas (the feast of St. Martin on Nov. 11) was the beginning of... a whole panoply of terrifying sounds, groans and crashes that not even a sceptical father could explain. John Wesley’s father, a bad-tempered man who was constantly at war with his own parishioners, finally decided that these sounds came from Old Nick himself. More

Real "ghosts" (shadows, poltergeists)

 (COMMENTARY)

Seance faked hand image (Museum archive 1920)

Ghosts (Sanskrit pretas, Pali petas) are real, though mostly harmless. They are unfortunate "spirits" (with subtle physical forms and often the power to appear in various shapes and guises). All of them lived before -- like all beings everywhere, just revolving and revolving in endless cycles of samsara.

 

It is rebirth that can be brought to an end and, with it, all suffering (dukkha, disappointment) once and for all. But people are not interested in that. We're interested in trying to get ahead on this plane of existence. Just below us are the animals suffering terribly. No one cares. The ghosts have it even worse, though not nearly as bad as the ogres (yakkhas), cruel titans (asuras, "demons") and hellions (narakas).

Shapeshifting "Old Hag" ghosts

Just the other night I was accosted by "ghosts" due to the "Old Hag Syndrome." The female ghosts (not old, not hags) held my hands down against my will while I was conscious, upset, awake, and struggling. Because there was sleep paralysis, people will say d'uh it was "sleep" and therefore a dream. While dreamlike, it is not semiconscious, closed eye sleep. We can trigger paralysis through deep relaxation without actually being in a sleep state. The struggle to come out of paralysis lasted for what felt like ten minutes.

(paranormal.about)

Of course, it couldn't have helped that Mesmerist/hypnotist Rick Collingwood (mindmotivations.com) was on Coast to Coast talking about Hypnosis and Evil Spirits. He was not a believer until he hypnotically exorcised a "speed spirit" (a possession resulting from the use of speed such as meth or cocaine), which so weakens a person as to make him/her susceptible to entities seeking to attach or to behave parasitically as energy vampires).

 

The fireplace will keep them away

As usual, these usually-unseen beings seemed more mischievous than malevolent. But they are very happy to scare a person, as if to feed on the distress. If there are shining beings on the Abhasvara Plane who feed on joy, why not miserable eaters who zap energy away? So I cultivate compassion and annoyance rather than fear or actual malice ready to banish them with positive and protective energy.

• BOOK: A Natural History of Ghosts (Roger Clarke)
• Hungry Ghosts Eat Dead Bodies, Skin Flakes, and... (tofugu.com)
• The Hungry Ghost Realm (Tibetan Buddhist Altar) The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Why P'howa? The next of the lower realms is the realm of the...
  
• The Realm of Hungry Ghosts (China Buddhism Encyclopedia)Hungry ghosts (pretas) are pictured as beings with huge, empty stomachs, but they have pinhole mouths, and their necks are so thin they cannot... 
  Hungry Ghosts: The Diet of the Dead among the Grigori... (esoterx.com) The Realm of the  Hungry Ghosts, Hindu/Buddhist... Take for example, the Hindu preta (a Sanskrit term meaning “departed, deceased, a dead...”)
• What are "Hungry Ghosts"? (Barbara O'Brien)
• VIDEO: Black bear loose in Pasadena
• Jim Earl's big page of poop
• Jimmy Dore Comedy

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

• VIDEO: White supremacist finds out he's black (karma)
• VIDEO: Hitler's Prophecy for a New World Order
• VIDEO: Megyn Kelly on Glenn Beck at FOX News
• Snowden says Russian spy allegations are absurd 
• NSA whistleblower Snowden NOT a Russian spy



Heinrich Himmler

• Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler's archive emerges in Israel (RT News) Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was at the very top of the Nazi hierarchy... His private documents were believed to be lost.... Germany investigates Nazi commander found living in US since 1949.
• Heinrich Himmler's love letters found in Tel Aviv, Israel German paper Die Welt will also make Himmler's letters public for the first time, after the impressive collection was found in a Tel Aviv... 
• Letters by senior Nazi found in Israel, Die Welt reports (Aus) Years of missing private letters written by Heinrich Himmler, a top Nazi who ... documents belonging to Himmler's foster son and other papers.
• Private letters of SS Chief found in Tel Aviv (Haaretz - Jewish World News) Hundreds of letters written by Heinrich Himmler to his wife are found... Some of the documents, stored in a bank vault in Tel Aviv, will be...
• Hitler henchman's private documents found in Israel 
• David Irving's dossier on Heinrich Himmler (David Irving)
• Heinrich Himmler's missing letters surface (Die Welt) "Die Welt" exclusive: 69 years after Heinrich Himmler's alleged "suicide" his... It is the largest and most significant find of private documents of a...
• Hitler henchman Himmler's private documents found in Israel (Aus) Hundreds of private letters, notes and photographs belonging to Hitler's henchman Himmler have been found in Israel, a German... 

Fukushima exploded; State says never mind

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Dr. Len Horowitz, SherriKane.com; ClimateViewer.com; C2C; Chase Madar (pasadenaweekly.com)

"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.

• AUDIO: Fukushima 2014 (Coast to Coast)

"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).

 

• Is U.S. Gov't stockpiling iodine after Fukushima? (Dr. Coldwell)
  
• Jeff Rense, Michael Collins: Fukushima radiation in the USA
• President Obama: NSA? "Yes we [s]can!"
• The Battle of Fukushima: On Fukushima Beach
• (RT) Fukushima nuclear waste still leaking into Pacific Ocean
• Japan's triple meltdown: Tour of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Oct. 2013

 
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

• AUDIO: NSA uses radio waves to spy on typewriters
• Russian guard reverts to typewriters after NSA leaks 
• Soviet Cold War tapping of US Embassy in Moscow
• VIDEO: Showing how 9/11 was done using science
• CODEPINK to stage protest outside of Pres. Obama’s NSA reform speech [as he pretends and promises to scale back outrageous illegal US spying]

CODE PINK FOR PEACE