Freedom of Speech The CIA Way That same year, Wisner established the secret program, Mockingbird. Its purpose was to influence the domestic and foreign media. His first recruit for the operation was The Washington Post publisher and co-owner, Philip Graham. After appointing Graham to run the project from within the industry, Wisner went on to recruit other respected members of journalism who were affiliated with The New York Times, Newsweek, CBS, and others. One of the most important journalists controlled by Operation Mockingbird was Joseph Alsop, a columnist who's accredited with having been syndicated in over 300 different newspapers. Cord Meyer who had already been spying on liberal organizations of which he had been a member, was recruited to the CIA by the director, Allen Dulles. By 1953, the entire network came under the jurisdiction of Dulles. It took an immense amount of money to run a media project of such size. In 1954, Wisner arranged for the Hollywood production of George Orwell's classic, Animal Farm.
How the Pentagon Removes Entire Peoples David Swanson | Globalsearch | June 9th 2013 If we think at all about our government’s military depopulating territory that it desires, we usually think of the long-ago replacement of native Americans with new settlements during the continental expansion of the United States westward. Here in Virginia some of us are vaguely aware that back during the Great Depression poor people were evicted from their homes and their land where national parks were desired. Occasionally we notice that environmental disasters are displacing people, often poor people or marginalized people, from their homes. If we’re aware of the 1,000 or so U.S. military bases standing today in some 175 foreign countries, we must realize that the land they occupy could serve some other purpose in the lives of those countries’ peoples. At issue here are not the bombings or burnings of entire villages, which of course the United States engages in during its wars and its non-wars. During World War II the U.S.
Obama signs 'Monsanto Protection Act,' Frankenfish heads to US market On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed the Agriculture Appropriations Bill into law. Within the legislation exists a provision, “The Monsanto Protection Act,” that has many speculating the future of food in American because it protects genetically modified seeds patents from litigation over health risks. Since Obama signed the bill, nearly 250,000 have signed a petition to President Obama. GMO farming practices heavily dependent upon glyphosate herbicide formulations such as Roundup have serious, unintended adverse effects on human and environmental health. The Australian government, in the form of its science research arm, is joining Agribusiness profiteering by designing a GM wheat that could kill people who eat it & be inherited by their children. An Indian high-profile parliamentary panel has recommended that GM crop “field trails under any garb should be discontinued forthwith,” and that further GM agricultural research should “only be done under strict containment.”
Money, Usury, and the Greatest Scam on Earth Where does money come from? What is it, really? We handle it every day. We need it for pretty much everything we do. Most people, I think, live with the assumption that money is created by the government, and somehow distributed out to the people, and that it’s purpose is simply as a unit of exchange to free us from the limitations of barter systems. If that is your belief, then money seems to be a neutral thing, a necessity, a simple unit of exchange that can be used for good or evil. And that one thing is the centralized, private banking system that creates and loans all of our money to us, with an inherent element of debt. I have been aware of this subject for some time, but I was inspired to write about it by this very high-quality film I watched recently, which explains the situation perfectly. I think most people consider the economy to be a complex subject for a select group of “very smart people” to understand and deal with. Let’s look at it in a bit more detail.
Obama Admin Faces Diplomatic Uproar as Massive Surveillance of EU Governments, Citizens Exposed This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Aaron Maté. Over the weekend, the German magazine Der Spiegel revealed the NSA spied on European Union offices in Brussels, Washington and at the United Nations. To talk about these NSA spying revelations in Europe, we’re joined by Malte Spitz. Malte, welcome to Democracy Now! MALTE SPITZ: Yes. AARON MATÉ: Speaking on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry echoed President Obama’s comments downplaying reports of U.S. spying on the EU. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY: I will say that every country in the world that is engaged in international affairs of national security undertakes lots of activities to protect its national security, and all kinds of information contributes to that. AARON MATÉ: That’s Secretary of State John Kerry. MALTE SPITZ: Yeah. AMY GOODMAN: Malte, if you could talk about this map that you made? SEN. SEN.
Lethality of Roundup 'Weedkiller' Extends Beyond Plants To Humans, Study Suggests 7th June 2013 By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A shocking new study finds that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, “…may be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment,” capable of contributing to a wide range of fatal human diseases. A new report published in the journal Entropy links the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide known as glyphosate with a wide range of fatal diseases.[i] Glyphosate is the world’s most popular herbicide and is designed to kill all but genetically modified “Roundup Ready” plants, such as GM corn, soy, beet, cottonseed and canola. The new report, authored by Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anthony Samsel, a retired science consultant from Arthur D. The researchers identified the inhibition and/or disruption of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes as a hitherto overlooked mechanism of toxicity associated with glyphosate exposure in mammals. Article Sources
Web companies and civil liberties groups launch anti-US surveillance campaign A broad coalition of more than 80 web companies and civil liberties organisations -- including Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Reddit -- has formed to demand the NSA stop spying on everyone. Called StopWatching.Us, its members have signed an open letter to Congress calling on it "to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA's and the FBI's data collection programmes". "This type of blanket data collection by the government strikes at bedrock American values of freedom and privacy," they write. "This dragnet surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the US Constitution, which protect citizens' right to speak and associate anonymously and guard against unreasonable searches and seizures that protect their right to privacy." Accompanying the letter is a call for others to sign a petition that will also be delivered to Congress. The site has gathered 27,000 signatures as of the time of writing.
Federal Court Rules Videotaping Police Is A First Amendment Right | PFPM The Federal Appeals Court has ruled that video recording the police in a public place is a constitutional right for all U.S. citizens. This is a great win for the freedom movement. Public officials need to be held accountable for their actions. See ruling below. Plaintiff, Appellee, v. JOHN CUNNIFFE, in his individual capacity; PETER J. Defendants, Appellants. [Hon. Before Torruella, Lipez, and Howard, Circuit Judges. Ian D. David Milton, with whom Howard Friedman, Law Offices of Howard Friedman, P.C., Sarah Wunsch, and ACLU of Massachusettswere on brief, for appellee. Anjana Samant and Center for Constitutional Rights on brief for Berkeley Copwatch, Communities United Against Police Brutality, Justice Committee, Milwaukee Police Accountability Coalition, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, and Portland Copwatch, amici curiae. LIPEZ, Circuit Judge. After placing the suspect in handcuffs, one of the officers turned to Glik and said, “I think you have taken enough pictures.” A. 1. 2. B.