AmerCIA

Simple typo-- or subtle clue about who controls Mitt Romney-- and the US?

Hmmmm???

Most Over-Hyped Whistleblower Ever?

God, I really had to struggle through this to see if anything new was said... and, nope.

Sibel Edmonds and Alex Jones.

The Obama Administration Assures You That Its Drone Kill List Is in Good Hands

Wonkette sums up the situation well:

Good morning, liberals! Did you spend yesterday carefully poring over the extremely long The New York Times article about the list of people the administration carefully compiles, personally selected by the President (except in those cases when they’re not!) to be killed by missiles from flying death robots? Probably you didn’t, because it’s obviously one of the most depressing things you could possibly read, being as it is about your Hopey solemnly deciding who should live and who should die. But you really should, to face the world as it is and do your duty as a citizen. The reality, of course, is that being the President is a job that, structurally, comes with the duty of making up a list of who you want dead, which is why every president ends his four or eight years in power looking about 20 years older than when he started. But even if you have accepted in your heart that, yes, explosive-tipped missiles are an acceptable means of forwarding foreign policy, maybe there are some things in this article will make you mad! Or drink yourself into a stupor, either one.

Here is a thing to know about this article, before you decide what to think about it: It contains a note in paragraph eight that it based on sourcing from “three dozen of [Obama's] current and former advisers,” most of whom go unnamed. You don’t get that kind of acknowledged cooperation from White House underlings unless the White House is really pretty OK with the article as it stands, either in the sense that they pitched it to the Times or that they heard the Times was working on it and decided to get out in front of it. So it represents more or less the Administration’s idea of what they think the serious-minded liberals who read the Times want to hear.

That having been said, though: are you a pacifist? Then there is no way to sugar-coat the fact that your tax dollars continue, under President Obama, to be used to kill people with missiles in foreign countries. Sorry! But if you think that sometimes you need to perpetrate violence for the greater good — even in a politicized Obama only when necessary kind of way — then you’ll probably be satisfied, queasy-satisfied, or talk-yourself-into-it-satisfied, at the general description of how the Secret ‘Kill List’ is compiled, with Obama signing off on the drone strikes done by the military and most of the strikes done by the CIA (which is in charge of the Pakistani strikes for the usual byzantine reasons). Everyone tries really hard to make sure that only double-confirmed terrorists who are actually working on killing USA Americans and who aren’t hanging with civilians are vaporized by flying death robots.

And even when the wrong people are killed (AND OF COURSE THE WRONG PEOPLE GET KILLED SOMETIMES), less of them get killed than were killed constantly in the wars Obama ended/is ending, OK? Because if there’s one thing that kills more people than flying death robots firing missiles at camps and villages a couple times a week, it’s full-on wars with armies and soldiers invading your country for years and years.

And here's Glenn Greenwald, to fully depress you if you weren't already.

Pushing for War in Syria

BBC Engages In Anti-Syria Propaganda?
Truth behind BBC’s vicious tactic

By Press TV

Britain’s state-run broadcast BBC has been heavily criticized for using a fake photo of Iraqi dead children in order to sell a new NATO-led invasion, this time targeting Syria. Continue

West's Houla Syria Narrative Crumbles, Expels Syrian Diplomats Anyway

By Tony Cartalucci

UN admits almost all of the 108 killed in Houla were killed at close range by militants, not Syrian soldiers firing artillery. Continue

Syrian Houla Massacres: Divide & Conquer Strategy Exposed

Video By Syrian Girl

The massacres in Syria are purposeful, to fuel a civil war in my country and pave the way for foreign interventions. Continue

‘Military Option’ for Syria: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

By MACKENZIE WEINGER

Dempsey, the president’s top military adviser, also told CBS’s “This Morning” on Monday that he found the events in Syria “just horrific. Atrocious, really. I expect that the international community, that pressure will mount.”

(via Information Clearing House)

Also important to note that just like in Libya, the "rebels" in Syria are Islamic fundamentalist terrorists allied with al-CIA-duh.

Richard Dolan: UFOs and the National Security State

I enjoyed this interview of Dolan with Jim Fetzer -- the whole thing was good*, but the 2nd hour was really good, where they discussed the issue of UFOs being top-secret US craft versus ET in origin, and the fascism brought on by 9/11.

I'm sure that Anonymous Physicist thinks that Dolan is intel, and that I am promoting this interview is more evidence that I am intel too. So be it.

That being said, Dolan does not get much into deep truths, and certainly not "ultimate truths". He deals more with basic academic facts about UFO and history, though he clearly has broken with academia (despite being trained as an academic-- something I can relate to). I do think the fact that university academicians are not willing to seriously study UFOs, when it is such an incredibly important topic, shows the corruption in academia when it comes to anything related to conspiracy.

*The one off-moment was towards the end, when Dolan mentioned astronaut Edgar Mitchell as a proponent of ETs, and said he was a moon-walking astronaut without any sense of irony. It's not clear whether Dolan thinks we went to the moon, but he didn't indicate otherwise...

Some Individual Things You Can Do to Fight the PTB

Little things, like moving your money to a local, credit union, keeping just your monthly needs in there. With any excess money, buy bullion, plant a garden, buy extra food, or buy land with the excess. Do not keep your money in the stock market, or any big bank. Shop at local community markets, not Walmart, even if it is cheaper. Ride a bike or walk when you can, instead of using your car. Or, sell your car and use a bus. Eat healthy food, lose excess weight and use natural supplements, so you don't have to use big pharma healthcare-- hospitals or pharmaceuticals. Make sure people know that Romney and Obama are just more the same status quo. Seriously question where your tax dollars go (they do not go to anything to benefit you or your community locally), and find out more about the IRS-- where your dollars go and who really runs/owns it. And most of all, do not buy into the fear they will bombard you with, if you do institute any of this! These are personal decisions, and can be psychologically daunting, but just start with baby steps and you will become stronger with each one. .... cut off their money, and it will cut them off at the knees. Start a community group to share and discuss information. Finally, meditation helps one become spiritually and psychologically stronger also.

via a friend of a friend on Facebook...

Memorial Day

When do we recognize all the innocent people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen we've killed over the past 10 years, in the evil and bogus war on terror?

Happy Memorial Day:

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suspected NATO airstrike killed eight civilians -- including six children -- in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial spokesman said.

Obama's Real Death Panel

Media Blackout As Obama Appoints First Ever Assassination Czar-- who is of course a liar and scoundrel of the highest order, John Brennan.

The Massive Global 9/11 Cover-Up

This Fetzer interview with Daniel Noel brought out some interesting points. The huge point is that there is clearly a massive global cover-up of the 9/11 crime (and other conspiracies), that is larger than the individual crimes in terms of effort involved. It's of course totally obvious that the media in this country is controlled and heavily censors 9/11. Once in a while, some hint of 9/11 truth is brought out in the mainstream media, or by politicians, but then it is quickly buried and forgotten. Some pressure is being exerted somewhere, even though officially the networks and newspaper and blogs are privately owned, and politicians are individuals who are supposed to be working for us and the country. Even human rights groups and peace activists are largely silent about 9/11 and thus must be controlled. One can imagine there is heavy intel influence throughout the US, but does this completely explain the censorship? And then how to explain the control over foreign leaders such as Castro, Chavez and Ahmadinejad-- each of whom has flirted with 9/11 truth and then dropped it.

So, there is some strange control over every public figure, even outside of the US realm of control-- there must be orders to not talk about 9/11 being an inside job, or any such conspiracies.

Noel refers to some vague Platonic shadow game-- the global Platonic conspiracy theater-- based on Plato's allegory of the shadows in the cave, but Noel gives no details on the deeper nature of the conspiracy.

Some, such as Anonymous Physicist, would say that the global censorship is all run by the secret societies, and their key leaders in "London, Langley and Rome". But it's still not clear to me how these groups can exert such powerful control over so many disparate people.

Clearly, to a large extent, the people are brainwashed and conditioned to not question authority and the government. But then, clearly this is not 100% effective. There are a lot of different types of psychological systems at work in the cover-up, but the point it is mind-boggling how:
1) effective it is
2) vast it is
3) deep and old the system must be.

The whole thing is very strange. I'm certainly on board with a deep conspiracy behind much of human history, but the level of control is just stunning.

I think fear must be behind it for many people-- they think their livelihood will be destroyed if they speak out too publicly, this affecting their family's immediate livelihood. I can relate this, anyway. But then again, I suspect the many people who do come out do not face much in retribution, but are just ignored-- as long as they are low-profile people. The REAL key control must be over the celebrities and politicians and newspeople-- everyone famous is likely to have some sort of handler that controls them from saying anything too outrageous. But who controls the handlers??? They can't all be intel agents.

Noel's point is well-taken that people in the theater can't be rudely awakened, they must be taken one-by-one, on an individual basis. But I suspect more people are awake than we realize and just afraid to speak out too much because it won't be worth it. Perhaps it is something like how in US politics people are afraid to vote third party, because they think they will never win. But if everyone who was dissastisfied with the Dems and the Repubs would vote and vote for someone else, it seems like real change WOULD be possible. There's just a mass psychology at work, keeping people from acting on 9/11 and the rest of the conspiracy theater. And of course, in our day to day world, we don't see much evidence of the larger conspiracy, and there is endless work and endless distractions to keep us from thinking about this. So, it ends up just being a small percentage of people who really act on 9/11 and the countless other conspiracies, at all. And even then, there are so many conspiracies, so many outrages, our efforts get diluted further. If one lumps everything together-- and protests it, you come across as a crank or a nut! So escaping the global cover-up is very very difficult.

BBC's September 13th 2001 Article on How the WTC Fell

Still an amazing piece, how blatantly they lie about melted steel from jet fuel fires:

But as fires raged in the towers, driven by aviation fuel, the steel cores in each building would have eventually reached 800C - hot enough to start buckling and collapsing.

The protective concrete cladding on the cores would have been no permanent defence in these extraordinary circumstances - keeping the intense heat at bay for only a limited timespan.

"It was the fire that killed the buildings. There's nothing on earth that could survive those temperatures with that amount of fuel burning," said structural engineer Chris Wise.

"The columns would have melted, the floors would have melted and eventually they would have collapsed one on top of each other." (snip) "But steel melts, and 24,000 gallons (91,000 litres) of aviation fluid melted the steel. Nothing is designed or will be designed to withstand that fire."

Once the steel frame on one floor had melted, it collapsed downwards, inflicting massive forces on the already-weakened floor below. (snip)

The building's design was standard in the 1960s, when construction began on what was then the world's tallest building. At the heart of the structure was a vertical steel and concrete core, housing lift shafts and stairwells.

Steel beams radiate outwards and connect with steel uprights, forming the building's outer wall.

All the steel was covered in concrete to guarantee firefighters a minimum period of one or two hours in which they could operate - although aviation fuel would have driven the fire to higher-than-normal temperatures. The floors were also concrete.

The building had to be tough enough to withstand not just the impact of a plane - and the previous bomb attack in 1993 - but also of the enormous structural pressures created by strong winds.

Newer skyscrapers are constructed using cheaper methods. But this building was magnificent, say experts, in the face of utterly unpredictable disaster.

Funny how that concrete core thing is always ignored...

So Cute...

Neil Armstrong STILL thinks he flew to the moon.

Heart-Rending Heroic Testimonies from Former Soldiers

"No NATO, No War": U.S. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War Medals at NATO Summit

Al Qaeda Is the New Black

"Al Qaeda" really seems to be the catch-all term for any terrorist, any suicide bomber or heck, even any rebel or insurgent who is fighting against the US or a US ally. It's not even clear the term has any meaning any more, except it's still very trendy.

But wow-- 90 people killed by one suicide bomber? That's got to be a record, assuming it was indeed one guy.

Occupy NATO

Kudos to the protestors!

A huge crowd gathered for several hours and marched for over two miles in the hot sun to oppose NATO and U.S. wars on Sunday in Chicago. Finishing the march outside the NATO meeting, numerous U.S. veterans of current wars denounced their previous "service" and threw their medals over the fence, a scene not witnessed since the U.S. war on Vietnam.

This event, with massive turnout and tremendous energy, saw the participation of numerous groups from Chicago and the surrounding area, including students, teachers, and activists on a variety of issues, as well as anti-war activists and Occupiers from around the country and the world. No one can have been disappointed with the turnout, but it might have been bigger if not for the fear that was spread prior to Sunday. In the face of that fear, Sunday's action was remarkable.

The fear was the result of a massive militarized police build up, rumors of evacuations, the boarding up of windows, brutal police assaults on activists, preemptive arrests, disappearances, and charges of terrorism. A segment of the activist world plays into these police tactics, wearing bandanas, shouting curses, antagonizing police, and eroding credibility for claims that violence is all police-initiated.

Yet the vast majority of the crowd was disciplined, nonviolent, and effective. It is critical that the people of Afghanistan know the people of the U.S. oppose what NATO is doing to them. Speaking at the end of the march were members of Afghans for Peace, who read a message from Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers.

It is also vital that the people of Russia know that we do not want to make their nation our enemy; only our government and our weapons makers do. And it is important that those who have been actively opposing NATO in Europe for years see that we in the nation that provides the bulk of NATO's forces are waking up to what that entails.

Americans cannot help but know more about NATO this week than they did a week ago. We've even received a small taste of the violence that NATO imposes on others -- courtesy of the Chicago police and various imported state, city, and federal police/soldiers. For NATO to meet in Chicago it was deemed necessary to import a few night raids and a great deal of brutality.

A massive crowd of activists was significantly outnumbered on Sunday by armed police, many in riot gear. They lined the march route. They swarmed off buses. They looked a little ridiculous as we marched nonviolently, just as we'd intended to do. The marching didn't harm anyone or destroy any accumulated riches or smash any of the windows that were not boarded up.

Police did not allow the day to end without any use of their training and weapons. Not long after I left, according to numerous reports, all hell broke loose. If it hadn't, think of how many of those people fearfully watching Sunday's march from their high balconies would have joined in the next one and invited their friends!

This sort of protest, but with more massive numbers, is the only way we will effect any meaningful change.

Arrests:

About 200 protesters sang and cheered loudly outside a police station at Belmont and Western early Monday morning as marchers arrested in violent clashes several hours earlier were freed.

Some sat in the street or skateboarded while someone played guitar as police shut westbound Belmont to traffic. The protesters even set up a screen on a car and projected anti-corporate videos.

Among the at least 45 arrested Sunday were members of Occupy Chicago and Occupy Wall Street, a lawyer and a Getty Image photographer. However, none of those initially released admitted to be members of the “Black Bloc” anarchist group that was at the center of a bloody melee at Cermak and Michigan, and others who were let go said they did not see them inside the station.

Chicago Police Frame-Up NATO Protestors on Terrorism Charges

Enough use of "three" in this article?

Lawyers for three protesters arrested on terrorist-related charges ahead of the NATO summit have accused police of entrapping them and encouraging an alleged bomb-making effort.

The three were arrested on Wednesday night when members of the Chicago police department battered their way into an apartment in the Bridgeport area of the city.

According to court documents released on Saturday, the three men considered targeting Barack Obama’s re-election headquarters and the home of Chicago nayor [sic] Rahm Emanuel.

The Chicago police department said the men, described as self-proclaimed anarchists and members of the “Black Bloc” movement that has disrupted international gatherings in the past, were arrested on Wednesday and charged on Friday with conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive incendiary device.

The three men charged were listed as Brian Church, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jared Chase, 27, of Keene, New Hampshire, and Brent Betterly, 24, from Massachusetts.

At a hearing on Saturday bail was set at $1.5m for each of the three. Their next court appearance is on Tuesday.

Supporters of the three men disputed the charges, saying the men had come to protest at the NATO summit peacefully and that the police had confused beer-making equipment with explosives.

A lawyer for the three, Michael Deutsch, said undercover police officers had entrapped them by infiltrating the group and encouraging the bomb-making effort. The Chicago police department declined to comment on the tactics employed in the case.

The Cook county state’s attorney’s office said the three men had other weapons including a mortar, knives and a hunting bow. It said they considered attacking police stations and cars in Chicago to disrupt police operations for the two-day NATO summit that begins on Sunday.

“Some of the proposed targets included campaign headquarters of US President Barack Obama, the personal residence of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and certain downtown financial institutions,” the court papers said.

On Saturday several hundred activists protested outside Emanuel’s home. The event was peaceful.

“The men had been making Molotov cocktails out of empty beer bottles filled with gasoline and fitted with cut bandanas for fuses,” Cook county state attorney Anita Alvarez told a news conference after the bond hearing.

“It is pretty clear from the evidence they were making the bombs,” Alvarez said. “There was a lot of discussion about making these Molotov cocktails and what they were going to do with them.”

The charges were the state’s first for violation of Illinois anti-terrorism statutes, she said.

“When it became evident there was an overt act in this conspiracy, we had to act,” Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said, adding the investigation that began in early May was continuing. “We did not want to take this case down as quickly as we did but we had to because of the imminent threat.”

Deutsch, the attorney representing the suspects, said at the hearing that police had planted weapons at the scene of the arrests. “This is a way to stir up prejudice against a people who are exercising their First Amendment rights,” Deutsch said. “There were undercover police officers that ingratiated themselves with people who come from out of town.”

Just like the FBI, the Chicago police seem to be best at breaking up their own terror plots...

More here and here.

That's It!

I'm taking Anonymous Physicist off my Christmas card list.

I am assuming AP wrote that piece...


Not really clear how much of the stuff at the blog is written by "John" or whether "John" just posts stuff for AP or whether "John" is the name AP is using now.

Harvard Law Review Says Obama Born in Kenya?

Hmmm... wonder where this will go. They'll likely say it was just a mistake.

UPDATE: That was fast.

Also-- I wonder if this is where Sherman Skolnick got the idea that Obama was born in Kenya. He was the earliest to say so, at least until this pamphlet came out.

A Judicial Hero-- Katherine Forrest

Great news:

In a rare move, a federal judge has struck down part of a controversial law signed by President Obama that gave the government the power to indefinitely detain anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world without charge or trial — including U.S. citizens. Judge Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York ruled the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act likely violates the First and Fifth Amendments of U.S. citizens. We speak with Chris Hedges, a journalist who filed the suit challenging the NDAA along with six others, and Bruce Afran, the group’s attorney. "This is another window into ... the steady assault against civil liberties," Hedges says. "What makes [the ruling] so monumental is that, finally, we have a federal judge who stands up for the rule of law."

Greenwald:

A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial indefinite provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Obama last December. This afternoon’s ruling came as part of a lawsuit brought by seven dissident plaintiffs — including Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir — alleging that the NDAA violates ”both their free speech and associational rights guaranteed by the First Amendment as well as due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”

The ruling was a sweeping victory for the plaintiffs, as it rejected each of the Obama DOJ’s three arguments: (1) because none of the plaintiffs has yet been indefinitely detained, they lack “standing” to challenge the statute; (2) even if they have standing, the lack of imminent enforcement against them renders injunctive relief unnecessary; and (3) the NDAA creates no new detention powers beyond what the 2001 AUMF already provides.

Protest NATO in Chicago

Still relevant:

Protest NATO - Join us in Chicago in May 20/21 to take a stand against the war criminals with NATO!

Humanity and the Planet Come First!

NATO = War Criminals Alliance

The "North Atlantic Treaty Organization" (NATO) promotes its mission as “security, cooperation among nations, and peace keeping.” In fact, it is an organization led and dominated by the world's best-armed war criminals, led by the United States. The war in Afghanistan, ‘surged’ by Obama, is prosecuted under the NATO banner. Nighttime drone attacks have killed so many civilians there even the Karzai puppet government had to object. But civilian casualties are just so much collateral damage in a war of occupation, and the killing continues.
Multi-lateral War Crimes Are Still War Crimes, No Matter Who Commits Them

Led by the US, NATO is a military alliance of 28 countries that began after World War II in opposition to the Soviet bloc. After 9/11, the US invoked a provision of NATO’s Charter stating that, when a NATO member state is attacked by a non-member country, all member countries must come to the defense and aid of the country attacked. But no country attacked the US, certainly not Afghanistan, far from the North Atlantic.

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." The Nuremburg tribunals that tried Nazi military and political leaders established that principle, which the US-led NATO violates on a daily basis. Ten years after it was initiated, the aggressive war in Afghanistan is far from over and deadly drones now kill hundreds in Pakistan and Yemen as well.

The US and its key European allies have re-purposed NATO to dominate the globe. Today the countries in NATO account for 75% of the world's military spending. NATO provides cover for US and allies’ aggression and occupations in Libya, spreading into Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and now threatening Syria. And who can forget the 38,000 NATO/US bombing runs over Kosovo in 1999? These are promoted as “humanitarian interventions” but civilians in targeted countries suffer torture, rendition, murder, night raids against civilian populations, indefinite detention without charge or trial and targeted assassination by unmanned drones. Member countries of NATO thus perpetrate the supreme war crime of aggressive war against the people whose countries it bombs, invades and occupies.

Visible Protest Needed! The US-led NATO military machine is carrying out illegitimate, unjust, and immoral wars on three countries. When we visibly protest in Chicago at the NATO meeting, we will show the world that people here do not accept the crimes carried out in our names by the principal NATO countries. International media must see thousands of us demanding that our governments stop committing these war crimes. Humanity and the planet come first.
Join the protest in Chicago to send this urgently needed message! Call 866-973-4463, email debrasweet@worldcantwait.net

May 14-18:
Outreach to schools & communities in Barack Obama's hometown, where people are being propagandized to welcome NATO as "humanitarian interveners."
YOU are invited to join us! Call or text Chicago World Can't Wait at: 773-739-3743 for the place we will be meeting everyday.

Thursday - noon - Chicago 10 the story of the 1968 protests in Chicago and the conspiracy trial that followed: MUST SEE for all Chicago NATO Summit protesters!

Friday - noon - The Bush Crimes Commission - documentary of 2005/6 hearings convened concerning the criminal aggression against Iraq, rendition, detention, and torture, culpability for Katrina crisis and more!

Thursday May 17 at noon after a press conference of international supporters of the NATO protest, World Can't Wait and other organizations will protest downtown, focusing on the victims of the drone war carried out by the US and NATO countries. This is an opportunity to reach people working downtown and at all the NATO consulates with why we are protesting the NATO summit. The action starts at Obama Campaign HQ: #1 Prudential Plaza, (close to corner of Michigan & Randolph).

Thursday May 17:
Post-9/11 Targeting of Muslims: Naming the Victims, Naming the Repression with Lynne Jackson of Albany-based Project SALAAM
7 pm, St. Luke's Logan Square, 2649 N. Francisco

Friday May 18:
World Can't Wait's International Voices for Humanity and the Planet: An Evening of Arts to Oppose NATO
David Rovics and an acoustic set by rockers Outernational unplugged headline an evening of music, spoken word, and more celebrating our resistance! With speakers from countries targeted by NATO and the US.
7 pm, St. Luke's Logan Square, 2649 N. Francisco

Saturday May 19:
War Criminals Watch advisor David Swanson on "Lifting the Shadow of War"
Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ
7 pm, 615 W. Wellington Ave.

Sunday May 20:
1st Day of NATO Summit
12 noon - Mass March: Say NO to NATO!
Meet at 11am at Petrillo Shell, Jackson Blvd & Columbus Dr., Chicago
Join the World Can't Wait contingent - see details & sign up

Monday May 21:
2nd Day of NATO Summit
Stay tuned!

Terror from Above

Typical BS from the govt:

A human rights lawyer and a group of investigative journalists who have exposed the extensive civilian casualties from CIA drone strikes in Pakistan are being smeared by anonymous U.S. government officials, who have even accused them of being sympathetic to al Qaeda.

Two of the anonymous accusations came in articles in The New York Times, despite the paper's own rules against personal attacks by unnamed sources.

Pakistani human rights attorney Shahzad Akbar and the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) say the campaign is intended to deter mainstream news organizations from reporting that the White House is lying about how many innocent people are being killed by the drone strikes.

President Obama's top terrorism adviser John O. Brennan recently contended that civilian deaths were "exceedingly rare." The BIJ, though, puts total drone deaths in Pakistan since 2004 at between 2,440 and 3,113, and they say between 479 and 821 of the dead were civilians, including 174 children. Drone attacks in Pakistan have dramatically increased since Obama took office: President Bush was responsible for 52; Obama for 270 and counting.

Google's New Motto: Be Evil!

SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s harvesting of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive personal information from unsuspecting households in the United States and around the world was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer, as the company long maintained, but a program that supervisors knew about, according to new details from the full text of a regulatory report.

The report, prepared by the Federal Communications Commission after a 17-month investigation of Google’s Street View project, was released, heavily redacted, two weeks ago. Although it found that Google had not violated any laws, the agency said Google had obstructed the inquiry and fined the company $25,000.

On Saturday, Google released a version of the report with only employees’ names redacted.

The full version draws a portrait of a company where an engineer can easily embark on a project to gather personal e-mails and Web searches of potentially hundreds of millions of people as part of his or her unscheduled work time, and where privacy concerns are shrugged off.

Police Psychopaths, Judicial Psychopaths and "Useful Pain"

This is just so wrong:

WASHINGTON — There have been many hundreds of varied rulings in the lower courts on when the use of Taser stun guns by the police amounts to excessive force, and sooner or later the Supreme Court will have to bring order to this area of the law. Next week, the justices are scheduled to decide whether to hear an appeal from three Seattle police officers who say they are worried about the future of what they call “a useful pain technique.”

The case involves Malaika Brooks, who was seven months pregnant and driving her 11-year-old son to school in Seattle when she was pulled over for speeding. The police say she was going 32 miles per hour in a school zone; the speed limit was 20.

Ms. Brooks said she would accept a ticket but drew the line at signing it, which state law required at the time. Ms. Brooks thought, wrongly, that signing was an acknowledgment of guilt.

Refusing to sign was a crime, and the two officers on the scene summoned a sergeant, who instructed them to arrest Ms. Brooks. She would not get out of her car.

The situation plainly called for bold action, and Officer Juan M. Ornelas met the challenge by brandishing a Taser and asking Ms. Brooks if she knew what it was.

She did not, but she told Officer Ornelas what she did know. “I have to go to the bathroom,” she said. “I am pregnant. I’m less than 60 days from having my baby.”

The three men assessed the situation and conferred. “Well, don’t do it in her stomach,” one said. “Do it in her thigh.”

Officer Ornelas twisted Ms. Brooks’s arm behind her back. A colleague, Officer Donald M. Jones, applied the Taser to Ms. Brooks’s left thigh, causing her to cry out and honk the car’s horn. A half-minute later, Officer Jones applied the Taser again, now to Ms. Brooks’s left arm. He waited six seconds before pressing it into her neck.

Ms. Brooks fell over, and the officers dragged her into the street, laying her face down and cuffing her hands behind her back.

In the months that followed, Ms. Brooks gave birth to a healthy baby girl; was convicted of refusing to sign the ticket, a misdemeanor, but not of resisting arrest; and sued the officers who three times caused her intense pain and left her with permanent scars.

The officers won a split decision in October from a 10-member panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco. The majority said the officers had used excessive force but nonetheless could not be sued because the law on the question was not clear in 2004, when the incident took place. While the ruling left the three officers in the clear, it did put them and their colleagues on notice that some future uses of Tasers would cross a constitutional line and amount to excessive force.

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski dissented on the first point, saying Ms. Brooks had been “defiant” and “deaf to reason” and so had brought the incident upon herself.

As for the officers, he said: “They deserve our praise, not the opprobrium of being declared constitutional violators. The City of Seattle should award them commendations for grace under fire.”

Another dissenter, Judge Barry G. Silverman, said “tasing was a humane way to force Brooks out of her car.”

“There are only so many ways a person can be extracted from a vehicle against her will, and none of them is pretty,” he explained. “Fists, batons, chokeholds, tear gas and chemical spray all carry their own risks to suspects and officers alike.”

I just don't understand whatever happened to fucking humanity.

Poisoning with Chloramine -- and a 33

Disturbing:

The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority is more than halfway through introducing a new chemical disinfectant to the city’s water supply, but the planned change has sparked anger among some residents who say the new compound isn’t proven safe, and could cause dangerous lead leaching.

Last month, the RWSA announced its decision to replace chlorine with chloramine, a compound of chlorine and ammonia, in the second phase of water treatment in the city. According to RWSA Executive Director Thomas Frederick, the switch was prompted by stricter regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency. The RWSA currently uses chlorine for both the initial disinfectant process and stage-two “backup” water cleansing, meant to keep drinking water pathogen-free as it travels through pipes. But Frederick said chlorine produces too many toxic byproducts to be an acceptable backup disinfectant, and according to the EPA, chloramine is an acceptable substitute.

In a memo to the RWSA Board of Directors, Frederick reported the EPA has written that when proper chlorine to ammonia ratios and appropriate pH balance are maintained, chloramine can be a “practical and effective secondary disinfectant.”

The memo detailed costs of chloramine in comparison to other systems, with the chloramine process being the least costly at $3.3 million in initial costs.

Chloramine is NASTY, and this is a disturbing trend. Stupid EPA.

Flag Blowing Out to the Side

This should be obvious to anyone -- maybe even AP cult members:

Now the AQAP Double Agent Is MI5?

And oh boy, new robot plane killings:

The United States launched airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday that killed as many as seven militants, the second American missile attack in the country since the CIA and other spy agencies disrupted an al-Qaeda airline bomb plot, U.S. officials said.

The strike came as new details surfaced about the foiling of the plot, including the disclosure that the operative who posed as a willing suicide bomber and later turned the device over to authorities was a British citizen, according to Western officials.

The operative’s background as a Saudi with a British passport helps to explain why he may have been selected by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to smuggle an advanced explosive onto a U.S.-bound flight. In reality, officials said, the operative was working as part of an elaborate espionage mission directed by the CIA and its Saudi counterpart.

The CIA declined to comment on any aspect of the mission or the airstrike. But officials confirmed details about the operative’s background, including that he held a British passport, and did not dispute accounts in the British press about his recruitment by MI5, that country’s equivalent of the FBI.

Officials said the operative had been in place for months and had gained the confidence of senior al-Qaeda figures, who sought to take advantage of his Western passport and other travel documents.

A Western intelligence official described the operation as a “joint venture” that relied on cooperation among multiple agencies to put the operative in position to penetrate al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP.

After taking possession of the bomb, the operative turned it over to Saudi handlers in Yemen before leaving the country. The device is in FBI custody in the United States and is being examined to determine whether it would have been detected by airport security systems.

The operative was among a network of informants in Yemen working on behalf of the CIA as well as the Saudi and Yemeni spy services. The informants have provided intelligence used in targeting for an escalating campaign of U.S. drone strikes.

So the guy with a British passport was selected because they knew he was a fellow agent???

“Nonconsensual Surveillance”

Sort of like surveillance rape?

A newly discovered Air Force intelligence brief states that should fleets of unmanned drones accidentally capture surveillance footage of Americans, the data can be stored and analyzed by the Pentagon for up to 90 days.

The instruction, dated April 23, admits that the Air Force cannot legally conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” on Americans, but also states that should the drones”incidentally” capture data while conducting other missions, military intelligence has the right to study it to determine whether the subjects are legitimate targets of domestic surveillance.

Racist, Genocidal Monsters In Charge of US Military Training

U.S. Military taught officers to use ‘Hiroshima’ tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam

Of course, there is reason to think Fallujah actually was nuked, as well as the Baghdad airport. Starting with the nuking of the WTC on 9/11.

Someone sure likes to nuke things... and I don't think it is the Muslims...

Limo Flag

Can see the flags on the front fenders here:


Here is a close-up of the left fender flag (note JFK is grasping his throat here-- just has been shot):


Here is the photo AP is totally obsessed about:

He claims behind that white car, there is a man coming out of a manhole, whose face has been blacked out. I said that there is no man, that is the flag.

Here is a blow-up of the flag:

In the Zapruder film, you can see the flag waving around there.

AP would have us believe somehow the flag on the front left fender of the limo magically disappeared.

Also, check out the photos here. Is there ANY sign of a manhole anywhere in the street before the bypass?

At AP's blog, he accuses me of being an agent over this, and lying about what I said about this. Sadly, AP is totally lying and distorting things. Really really sad.

JFK Head Wound

This video makes some interesting points, and specifically explains why the back of the head looked intact in the Bethesda photos-- they put the rear skull flap back into position (while accentuating the right side flaps, which were likely cut during the autopsy).

One Guy with a Crotch Bomb Is NOT an Ambitious International Plot

WASHINGTON -- The successful blocking of an ambitious Al Qaeda plot to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner was an international sting operation worthy of Hollywood, with spies tricking terrorists into showing their cards.

Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency, working closely with the CIA, used an informant to pose as a would-be suicide bomber. His job was to convince the Al Qaeda franchise in Yemen to give him a new kind of non-metallic bomb that the militants were designing to easily pass through airport security.

I mean give me a freaking break. If "al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" were any kind of real group[, they would have sent dozens of such bombs by now. One dude willing to blow himself up with a crotch bomb, who is actually a double agent, DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A REAL TERROR GROUP OR REAL TERRORISM THREAT, FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

Al-CIA-duh Watch

Jeez, could it get any more obvious?

An insider, working with the United States and an allied security service, thwarted the al-Qaida bomb plot hatched in Yemen and provided information that allowed the U.S. to launch a Predator drone strike that killed the group’s operations chief, senior U.S. officials tell NBC News.

"It was managed so that it was not a threat," said one senior Obama administration official, who like the others spoke on condition of anonymity. “We were confident that we had inside control over any plot that might have been associated with this device.

“The device never got near an airplane. To our knowledge, it never got near an airplane or airport.”
The bomb -- a refined version of an “underwear bomb” used in two previous failed terror plots -- was driven out of Yemen by the insider into Saudi Arabia. It is now in the hands of U.S. bomb experts at the FBI labs in Quantico, Va., where experts have been examining it for a week, the officials said. The infiltrator also is safely out of Yemen.

I guess the CIA wants to get in on the FBI's action of breaking up terror plots that it itself creates.

"Beastie Boys" Adam Yauch -- Spoke Out for Peace and Against Bombing Muslims

1998 appearance, about 7:50 in:


Last Friday, Yauch died of cancer at 48 years old.

Coincidence?

Now HERE'S Some Major League Disinformation

CIA/NSA agent AC Griffiths talks about chemtrails, and says they are just:

a sub-program of the US Navy's Radio Frequency Mission Planner (RFMP) program called the Variable Terrain Radio Parabolic Equation (VTRPE) - a system for creating 3D battlefield imaging that the US military has been using in Iraq and Afghanistan."

- Some of the chemtrail contents are biological in nature such as BCTP - an anti-anthrax inoculation that was tested on US populations

- Clifford Carnicom has identified many of the very harmful biologicals coming out of chemtrails.

But really chemtrails are all about PROTECTING US! And it just so happens these agents have negative health effects.

Then, this guy deftly and swiftly switches gears to scalar weapons from the Russians-- says how we are so unprepared for the Russians, who are attacking us, modifying our weather!!! And says how Israel has protected us from the Russians! And the Israelis are blackmailing the Russians with nukes in Russian cities! Importantly, he never explicitly links chemtrails to scalar weapons-- he implies there is a link but it seems like it is really just a huge diversion.

Griffiths keeps talking about how dangerous this topic is, how top secret, and people have died who knew too much, etc. But never says what the real danger is. If it's all part of the navy mapping our terrain for defensive purposes, or protecting us against anthrax, what's the big deal? Right?

But the even scarier thing is the Russians are attacking us!

He says he's taking a big risk by talking about this... but he's doing it because he loves the country and for patriotism... riiight...

This last segment of the interview is nauseating.

Big Brother Watch

Oy:

The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone system to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities, CNET has learned. The FBI general counsel's office has drafted a proposed law that the bureau claims is the best solution: requiring that social-networking Web sites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail alter their code to ensure their products are wiretap-friendly.

Double oy:

NATO Summit in Chicago: Airport-Style Security Screenings for Trains. Some stations on the Metra Electric Line and South Shore Line could be shut down during the upcoming NATO summit, and passengers at other stations could face airport-style security screenings, due to the Secret Service security plan that could be released as soon as Friday afternoon.

Federal Judiciary-- Accomplices to War Crimes and the Bogus War on Terror

Quite disgusting, especially considering how the judiciary is supposed to serve as a check to power and act independently:

(1) not a single War on Terror victim — not one — has been permitted to sue for damages in an American court over what was done to them, even when everyone admits they were completely innocent, even when they were subjected to the most brutal torture, and even when the judiciary of other countries permitted their lawsuits to proceed; and,

(2) not a single government official — not one — has been held legally accountable, either criminally or even civilly, for any War on Terror crimes or abuses; perversely, the only government officials to pay any price were the ones who blew the whistle on those crimes.

That is how history will record the behavior of American federal judges in the face of the post-9/11 onslaught of anti-Muslim persecution and relentless erosions of core rights.

Even worse, if you’re a Muslim accused of any Terror-related crime, your conviction in a federal court is virtually guaranteed, as federal judges will bend the law and issue pro-government rulings that they would never make with a non-Muslim defendant; conversely, if you’re a government official who abused or otherwise violated the rights of Muslims, your full-scale immunity is virtually guaranteed. Those are the indisputable rules of American justice. So slavish and subservient are federal judges when it comes to Muslim defendants that if you’re a Muslim accused of any Terror-related crime, you’re probably more likely at this point to get something approximating a fair trial before a Guantanamo military tribunal than in a federal court; that is how supine federal judges have been when the U.S. Government utters the word “terrorism” in the direction of a Muslim or any claims of “national security” relating to 9/11.

Also filed under Bush Administration War Criminals.

This article on the recent Guantanamo hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and other 9/11 defendants is worth a read-- a very weird, chaotic scene.

Abraham Bolden-- First Black Secret Service Agent on Presidential Detail

Interesting speech by Bolden here.

Most interestingly, he says, that the Secret Service hated Kennedy and would shoot him themselves if they had a chance.

He also details racism, carousing and dereliction of duty by the Secret Service-- so nothing new perhaps with the recent scandal involving Obama's SS detail.

Also, Bolden says there was a plot to kill Kennedy in Chicago, that was covered up by the SS. He wanted to tell this to the Warren commission but wasn't allowed and was apparently framed for bribery by the SS. Wiki on the here.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW-- THE WTC WAS NUKED

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LISTEN TO THIS EXCELLENT PRESENTATION ON NUKES AT THE WTC, BY JEFF PRAGER, on Fetzer's radio show.

THE ANONYMOUS PHYSICIST WAS RIGHT.

Prager has written a couple of books on the topic "911 American Nuke", part 1 and 2. The books can be downloaded for free. I have downloaded them but not read.

Basically, Prager proposes maybe 50 "apple-sized" high-tech fission mini-nukes were used to demolish the twin towers. Each nuke would have a very limited vaporization radius 50-100 feet. This fits perfectly with what ANONYMOUS PHYSICIST has proposed since 2006. Prager explains the paper phenomenon at the WTC as being poor targets for the high energy neutrons from the nuclear devices -- whereas steel and water-containing objects (people) were much more strongly affected.

Prager really focuses mostly on the dust evidence, as showing evidence of fission products-- a point William Tahil made some time back. Tahil's work was problematic though, as he proposed the basement of each tower had a nuclear reactor that went critical and somehow caused the towers to collapse from the top down. Somewhat disturbingly, Prager says people should look up the Tahil book, without saying anything about its serious problems. Prager did mention Anonymous Physicist briefly, but did not reference his book, unfortunately. Two things that Prager didn't touch on at all, unfortunately, are aspects that Anonymous Physicist has described in detail-- the EMP and the China Syndrome. Still, Prager gives a beautiful intro to the idea of nukes at the WTC. Prager's ideas are perfectly consistent with what Anonymous Physicist has proposed, and which is the model I totally support.

Prager and Fetzer do a great job calling out thermite and Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan for the steaming pile of limited hangout bullshit they really are. They also take on Judy Wood and DEW a bit. Prager and Fetzer are fairly gentle on Wood, while more strenuously calling out Jones for being a disinfo agent.

One very interesting thing Prager mentions is two witnesses on 9/11, saying they saw people running and then get vaporized in a fireball-- which I had never heard of before but obviously is consistent with nukes. The REALLY odd thing though, is Prager says Patricia Ondrovic was one of these witnesses and was a Red Cross volunteer. Either Prager is mistaken/confused about Ondrovic, or there is more than one Ondrovic. This article talks about Ondrovic and fireballs and the Red Cross, and maybe Prager was confused on Ondrovic being in the Red Cross. He gives a name of a red Cross worker, not Ondrovic-- cant' recall it though, maybe it is in his book.

Overall, though, kudos to Prager for giving such a clear and compelling interview-- and for spreading the word about the nuking of the WTC.

(Side note-- pretty cool to see Jim Fetzer becoming a die-hard no-planer/nuker!)

Please spread this important info to anyone you think would be receptive to it.

The Anthrax Attacks Were an Inside Job!

Really good discussion of the attacks here.