News of the Day: Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit Edition

 The NSA's fucked up "ICREACH" program.

The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept.

The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies. Planning documents for ICREACH, as the search engine is called, cite the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration as key participants.

ICREACH contains information on the private communications of foreigners and, it appears, millions of records on American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing. Details about its existence are contained in the archive of materials provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. (snip)

In a statement to The Intercept, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed that the system shares data that is swept up by programs authorized under Executive Order 12333, a controversial Reagan-era presidential directive that underpins several NSA bulk surveillance operations that target foreign communications networks. The 12333 surveillance takes place with no court oversight and has received minimal Congressional scrutiny because it is targeted at foreign, not domestic, communication networks. The broad scale of 12333 surveillance means that some Americans’ communications get caught in the dragnet as they transit international cables or satellites—and documents contained in the Snowden archive indicate that ICREACH taps into some of that data.

 (note the 333)


Bullshit ISIS threatens the US. Be very afraid, sheeple!


Fraud at the CDC uncovered, 340% increased risk of autism hidden from public.

A top researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) played a key role in helping uncover data manipulation by the CDC. This fraud obscured a higher incidence of autism in African-American boys. The whistleblower, Dr. William Thompson, came forward after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for original data on an autism study was filed and these highly sensitive documents were received with the assistance of U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The CDC documents and discussions with the whistleblower reveal widespread manipulation of scientific data and top-down pressure on CDC scientists to suppress a causal link between the MMR vaccine and later autism diagnosis, particularly in a subset of African-American males who received their immunization “on-time” in accordance with the recommended CDC schedule.

The received documents from the CDC show that in 2003 a 340% increase in autism in African American boys related to the MMR vaccine was discovered and then hidden due to pressure from senior officials. The CDC researchers then recalculated their results by removing a population to get the results that were desired.

A somewhat disturbing account of how the Israel lobby operates.

Israel Versus Nazi Germany and War Crimes

I know I've complained about Ry Dawson somewhat here, but he does put out some good stuff. In this video, he's done the best job I've heard so far of comparing Israel's crimes to the Nazis and putting the Holocaust in proper perspective:

The Gun Mania in the US Is Actually What Is Driving the Militarized Cops and Their Fascist Behavior

In countries with strict gun control, like England and Australia, they don't have militarized cops like this (except maybe for special high security events), and they also don't have "fascism" either. I know, an inconvenient fact for the gun lovers.

The fact is, guns everywhere makes cops paranoid, and more likely to shoot and be well armed.

33 of the Day

Only 33% of White Americans Think Ferguson Police Went Too Far.

(Tip to james ha for link)

Strange But True

FBI's file on Adolph Hitler talks about him going to Argentina in submarine at end of WWII, living in foothills of Andes.

Israel Is Fucked Up, Time for the US to Cut Loose from These Psychos

Israeli teenagers: Racist and proud of it

“For me, personally, Arabs are something I can’t look at and can’t stand,” a 10th-grade girl from a high school in the central part of the country says in abominable Hebrew. “I am tremendously racist. I come from a racist home. If I get the chance in the army to shoot one of them, I won’t think twice. I’m ready to kill someone with my hands, and it’s an Arab. In my education I learned that ... their education is to be terrorists, and there is no belief in them. I live in an area of Arabs, and every day I see these Ishmaelites, who pass by the [bus] station and whistle. I wish them death.” The student’s comments appear in a chapter devoted to ethnicity and racism among youth from a forthcoming book, “Scenes from School Life” (in Hebrew) by Idan Yaron and Yoram Harpaz. The book is based on anthropological observations made by Dr. Yaron, a sociologist, over the course of three years in a six-year, secular high school in the Israeli heartland – “the most average school we could find,” says Harpaz, a professor of education.

and...

500 Palestinian children dead from Israeli bombs in Gaza.

and...

Israel's laws against organ donation leads to Israelis being leaders in the illegal kidney transplantation business. Note the three 33's in the piece.

World Gone Mad, St. Louis Edition

Holy fuck--


More here.

Note-- was this some sort of psyop, perhaps, where the black dude wanted to get shot to inflame tensions?  But beyond question is that the cops resorted to shooting WAY too quickly, within seconds of arriving at the scene.

mI-SixIS? (MI6 + ISIS)

Shades of al-CIA-duh...

Oh yeah, I'm sure they have no idea who he is...

(Reuters) - British authorities launched a hunt on Wednesday for a man with an English accent who appeared in an Islamic State (IS) video purporting to show what Prime Minister David Cameron called the "barbaric and brutal" beheading of an American journalist.

A masked IS jihadist, dressed in black, who stood next to a kneeling James Foley in the video released online spoke with what sounded like a London accent.

I Started This Blog Exactly 10 Years Ago

Yay! 10 years of sucky blogging and conspiracy-mongering!

Free ice-cream to anyone who comments today!

Is Ferguson the Start of an Engineered Race War?

A major race war has long been the prediction of right-wingers. The continued protests and upheaval in Ferguson, MO signify something very major going on.

The Ferguson police have repeatedly exacerbated the situation. The latest oddity I found this morning regards the famous robbery video of Michael Brown.

1) the attorney for the market where the video was taken says no one called 9/11 to report a robbery. HOW did the police know about this tape then? Why was it even released?

2) a different video tape that hasn't been widely released shows Brown at the store counter, apparently paying for goods and walking calmly away. How does this fit with robbery?

3) the US DOJ apparently told the Ferguson police not to release the video. But the police did it anyway, certainly inflaming tensions, and then making it worse by saying the cop who shot Brown did not know of the robbery.

Was there even a robbery? What is the Ferguson police doing here? Why have they repeatedly taken inflammatory actions?

Another oddity is how the cop who shot Brown seemed in a daze after the shooting, had no explanation for what happened. Was he mind controlled in some way?

I imagine the rioters/looters are led by agent provocateurs.

Who is running the Ferguson police? It doesn't seem to be the Feds, at least not the DOJ.

Of course Alex Jones is going nuts over this... and as usual, he's partly right, but largely off-base.

33 of the Day-- "Robots Are Taking Over" Edition

33 doesn't come in until later in the video, about 14 minutes in.
But overall, this is a huge and important topic.

Jim Fetzer and His Gang Make a Compelling Case That Sandy Hook Was a Hoax

I get it.

What I don't get is why they tend to act like this is the gravest current threat to the country, or that it's like the most outrageous scam ever foisted on this country, when we've had 9/11 for instance.

Proportionality, people!


I know they don't actually *say* Sandy Hook was the worst in so many words, but they continually act as if this were the case.

Wolfgang Halbig seems to be the worst in this respect. The one reason I don't completely trust him is how can anyone of his age not have been aware of these sorts of psyops before, and then totally buy into the idea that Sandy Hook was a hoax? Like what adult wasn't massively jarred by the 9/11 scam and then the Iraq war lies? Yet Sandy Hook is what "woke up" Halbig?

By all means, if they have an angle to go after on Sandy Hook, please try to expose it and break it open. But don't act like it's the worst thing ever, when according to you, no kids even died!

Rebutting Neil deGrasse Tyson on GMOs

this is a serious and excellent discussion of the potential dangers of GMOs by Jeffrey Smith:


And speaking of Tyson-- I was never quite sure how Tyson all of a sudden became this hugely popular "science" spokesperson, but since he came out uncritically on GMOs, I have to wonder if he is another intel-controlled stooge for the PTB.

The Real Benghazi Scandal

-- was the CIA running guns and arming and building up ISIL/ISIS in Benghazi. Perhaps the attack on the compound was to cover this up. Of course neither party really wants to dig into this aspect of the story, which has basically died now, even though the GOP went nuts convincing themselves there was some vague Obama perfidy involved. 

I suspect the reason Benghazi has disappeared as a scandal, is to allow the media to focus on how enemy #1 is now ISIL/ISIS, and we need to (spend billions to) bomb them in Iraq. And of course, there is hardly any secret that one main thing we are bombing is US military hardware that was left in Iraq.

The age-old pattern of the US military-industrial-intelliegnce-banking complex. Create an enemy and then build up a case to attack it. Of course, the ISIL/ISIS leader al-Baghdadi was apparently radicalized during time he spent in a US military prison...

Another thought is that part of the reason for building that huge US embassy complex in Baghdad was to have a good reason to intervene when they brought in ISIS to destabilize Iraq...

Finally, even dropping humanitarian aid can be, errr... complicated:

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon says it is changing the color of the food aid packages being dropped over Afghanistan because of fears they could be confused with unexploded cluster bombs.

Both are yellow and approximately the same size.

In future the food packages, known as Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR), are likely to be colored blue -- although the decision on the new coloring has yet to be finalized.

Announcing the change Air Force General Richard Meyers described the possibility of a mix-up between the HDR packages and unexploded cluster bomblets as "unfortunate".

However, he said with thousands of packages already in the pipeline it would be some time before the new ration packs were available to be airdropped.

Speaking at a Pentagon news conference Meyers said that since the bombing campaign began on October 7 more than a million food packets had been dropped.

The dropping of food aid as well as bombs on Afghanistan has been an important part of the public relations campaign pushed by the Bush administration, which has repeatedly stressed that it has no quarrel with the Afghan people themselves.

Warnings

The U.S has dropped leaflets warning Afghans how to tell the difference between bombs and food packages. 

The individual cluster bombs units used in Afghanistan -- known as 'bomblets' -- are metal, shaped like a soft drink can and packed with high explosives.

The HDR packages are rectangular, of a similar size to the bomblets, covered in yellow plastic and contain a 2,000 calorie meal.

Yay, freedom.

Seems Like a Lot of Freedom Fighters Start Out a Bit "Terroristy"

This is a brilliant conversation with Israeli peace activist, and former member of the Jewish Irgun terrorist group, Uri Avgeny.

He even calls Hamas "freedom fighters". He has the most clear-eyed view of Israel-Palestine that I've seen yet.

I also watch this video, which is very disturbing:


It's really just so sickening that a country like Israel promotes such suffering, maintains such lies, and that the US supports it.  If this outrages me, I can't even begin to understand how Muslims and especially Palestinians might feel.

So many problems in the world would be solved by simply giving the Palestinians a proper state. 

But NO-- the evil PTB would not be able to sell their weapons of destruction and murder and make money off endless war. Evil bastards.

We need to all work together to solve this outrageous situation. This bullshit has gone on far too long.

33 of the Day

33 years after the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, his wounded press secretary James Brady dies... coroner rules his death as a homicide.

Brady of course, became a huge activist for gun control laws.

"Brotherhood of the Bell"-- Secret Societies, and Exposing Conspiracies

A cool conspiracy-related movie I only recently knew about:


I heard about from this site, Age of Transitions, and listened to this excellent, extremely interesting podcast. Lots of really good points about conspiracies, mysticism, numerology, people waking up and psychology. Well worth the time.

Our Fucked Up World Can Be Overwhelming

Was flight MH17 shot down by Ukraine?

Ebola-infected patients brought to US.

Toxic Algae Blooms Threaten Water Supplies All Over

CIA's illegal spying, and ridiculously idiotic lying, over torture cover-up.

9/11 was a British/Saudi job? What countries were redacted from 9/11 report? LaRouchites have an idea.


and then... there is Israel-Gaza

The Israeli war-crimes continue (note this was from Sunday 8/2).
A cease-fire apparently has taken hold, Israel has withdrawn for now.

Twitter has the most gruesome Gaza news.

Democracy Now! has been amazingly and refreshingly pro-Palestinian during this horrible war. They even did a piece questioning the Iron Dome system.  They had a great interview with Norman Finkelstein today,  about brutally evil Israel, the tunnel scam and their missle scam.

Excellent overview of the Gaza situation.

Tunnel propaganda from the NYTimes.

A good piece on what the bombing of Gaza looks and sounds like.

How Israeli media propaganda works.

Israel insanely tries to control freedom of speech in Europe.

Israel's genocidal tendencies, here is where is starts.

Great and fascinating piece from lefty Jews visiting Israel during the war.

Why Israel should stop teaching the holocaust and evil.


More criminal Israeli acts-- here, here, and this is fucked up.



Good basic info about Israel:


Cut off all aid, yes, but won't happen in the near future.

Until then-- Boycott, Divest, Sanction = BDS