They Know Much More Than You Think by James Bamford. The headquarters of the National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland In mid-May, Edward Snowden, an American in his late twenties, walked through the onyx entrance of the Mira Hotel on Nathan Road in Hong Kong and checked in. He was pulling a small black travel bag and had a number of laptop cases draped over his shoulders. Inside those cases were four computers packed with some of his country’s most closely held secrets. Within days of Snowden’s documents appearing in The Guardian and The Washington Post , revealing several of the National Security Agency’s extensive domestic surveillance programs, bookstores reported a sudden spike in the sales of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984 .
On Amazon.com, the book made the “Movers & Shakers” list and skyrocketed 6,021 percent in a single day. Written sixty-five years ago, it described a fictitious totalitarian society where a shadowy leader known as “Big Brother” controls his population through invasive surveillance. Nestlé Responds to Abby | Corporate Troll Spotting. Conspiracy to Tell the Truth | Interview with Lance deHaven-Smith. U.S. SILENTLY TORTURES AMERICANS WITH CELL TOWER ELECTROMAGNETIC NEUROWEAPON.
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This article is subject to "black-holing" -- making the content inaccessible -- when readers attempt to access it via a "spoofed" or counterfeited URL address -- censorship via fraud and deception. The comments are not displaying over my obviously intercepted and maliciously hacked connection. . • Homeland Security- administered fusion center agencies/commands -- chief among them, U.S. . • Victims' own cell phones may be used to target them. • A government-devised "electromagnetic ghetto.
" • How a young FBI agent's "I believe you" gave victim the faith to go public. America tortures. . “... That is another big lie. How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater. Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus’ VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning. Over the years, CNN.com has become a news website that many people turn to for top-notch reporting. Every day it is visited by millions of people, all of whom rely on “The Worldwide Leader in News”—that’s our slogan—for the most crucial, up-to-date information on current events. So, you may ask, why was this morning’s top story, a spot usually given to the most important foreign or domestic news of the day, headlined “Miley Cyrus Did What???”
And accompanied by the subhead “Twerks, stuns at VMAs”? It’s a good question. There was nothing, and I mean nothing, about that story that related to the important news of the day, the chronicling of significant human events, or the idea that journalism itself can be a force for positive change in the world. But boy oh boy did it get us some web traffic. Side note: Advertisers, along with you idiots, love videos. So, as managing editor of CNN.com, I want our readers to know this: All you are to us, and all you will ever be to us, are eyeballs. Syria War Propagandists Debunked | Weapons of Mass Distraction. 911 Dust. Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i ))) Climate IMC: COP18 UN Climate negotiations in Doha - 18 Dec 2012 Global Warming impacts escalate as Climate negotiations stall in Doha Climate Negotiations are over for another year with little progress in Doha by any one's measure as the scientific statements on climate change and the impacts we are already feeling as evidenced in record Arctic melting, and extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines, and Cyclone Evan in the South Pacific are growing much stronger.
Some of the latest scientific research shows: - 06 Dec 2012 BATTLE OF NOTRE-DAME-DES-LANDES: Megalomaniac Airport Project In Western France During the weekend of 23-25 November, violent clashes occurred, as military police attacked activists and environmentalists on an area slated for an airport project in Notre-Dame-des-Landes – a village near Nantes, while riot police violently dispersed a support demonstration in the city. Economic growth driving Global Warming towards 6 degrees C. Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i ))) West Papua: Neglected genocide - 29 Nov 2013 Indonesian police use Shootings, killings, beatings, arrests on West Papuan independence rallies Indonesian police have opened fire on peaceful protesters in Jayapura, with at least four gunshot wounds and one death. West Papuan activists and families have been forced to flee to the jungle for safety. Indonesian security forces are conducting scores of raids, sweeps and offensives against West Papuan civilians.
The attacks are happening during the visit of National Police Chief General Sutarman with over 200 people arrested across West Papua. Calls for Independence by West Papuans have been made since the sham "Act of Free Choice in 1969". A new academic law and human rights report A slow-motion genocide: Indonesian rule in West Papua (PDF), details the extent of the genocide and abuse of human rights.
Climate IMC: Warsaw COP19 Climate Negotiations - 22 Nov 2013 Civil Society stages mass walkout protest from Warsaw Climate change negotiations. The Libya Secret: How West Cooked Up “People’s Uprising” By Russ Baker on Aug 31, 2011 As I write this, a new day is dawning in Libya. The “people’s revolt” against yet another tyrant is unquestionably exciting, and the demise (political and/or otherwise) of Muammar Qaddafi will, of course, be widely hailed. But barely below the surface something else is going on, and it concerns not the Libyan “people”, but an elite.
In reality, a narrowly-based Libyan elite is being supplanted by a much older, more enduring one of an international variety. The media, as is so often the case, has botched its job. It’s true that Qaddafi, like many—perhaps a majority of—rulers in his region, was a thug and a brute, if at times a comical figure. Let’s start with the official justification for NATO’s launch of its bombing campaign—for without that campaign, it’s highly improbable the rebels could ever have toppled Qaddafi.
Obama (we intervened to stop massacre) You can’t make this sort of thing up. “That it didn’t hit anything or kill anyone is not the point. Is the Government Holding Back Crucial Documents? By Russ Baker on May 30, 2012 Next year will be a half-century since the death of JFK. And the Obama Administration thinks we need to keep secret the records on the matter….a little longer yet. Believe it or not, more than 50,000 pages of JFK assassination-related documents are being withheld in full.
And an untold number of documents have been partially withheld, or released with everything interesting blacked out. Since the government and the big media keep telling us there was no conspiracy, and that it was all Lee Harvey Oswald acting on his own, why continue to keep the wraps on? We don’t have an answer, but in understanding this and any number of other mysteries, we can begin looking for patterns in the way the administration handles information policy.
We Want to Hear From You (But That’s It—We Just Want to Hear From You) But instead of dealing honestly with this matter, the feds have resorted to disinformation. So, what’s with claiming otherwise? The first was held in 2010. Huh? Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden and Barrett Brown—The War With the Security State. By Christian Stork on Aug 7, 2013 At the time of his death in a mysterious one-car crash and explosion, journalist Michael Hastings was researching a story that threatened to expose powerful entities and government-connected figures. That story intersected with the work of two controversial government critics—the hacktivist Barrett Brown and the on-the-run surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden. Any probe into Hastings’s untimely death needs to take into account this complex but essential background. But First, the Raw Facts A little over 12 hours before his car was incinerated on an LA straightaway on June 18, 2013, Hastings sent out a short email headed, “FBI Investigation, re: NSA.”
From: Michael Hastings Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM Subject: FBI Investigation, re: NSA To: [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Hey [5 REDACTED WORDS] the Feds are interviewing my “close friends and associates.” Also: I’m onto a big story, and need to go off the radat for a bit. Michael Deep Background. Classic WHY: Suppressed Saudi 9/11 Story. By Russ Baker on Sep 11, 2013 This originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy on Sept 22, 2011. It is as timely now as ever. Current context: the Saudi intelligence services have been deeply involved in stoking extreme Islamist groups in the Syrian uprising.
Hijackers WhoWhatWhy has found evidence linking the Saudi royal family to Saudis in South Florida who reportedly had direct contact with the 9/11 hijackers before fleeing the United States just prior to the attacks. Our report connects some of the dots first laid out by investigative author Anthony Summers and Florida-based journalist Dan Christensen in articles jointly published in the Miami Herald and on the nonprofit news site BrowardBulldog.org. Now WhoWhatWhy reveals that those alleged confederates were closely tied to influential members of the Saudi ruling elite. The House Then, still well before 9/11, the entire group, now including the father, flew to London and on to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
New Revelations Ziad Jarrah 156Reddit 69Google + The Saudi split - a motive for 9/11? Published via: A little known conflict between the United States and Saudi Arabia in summer 2001 sheds new light on 9/11. What role did the tensions back then play? And why did the attacks occur actually in early September? Until today it is largely unknown that the Saudi government planned a radical course change in summer 2001. Via official diplomatic channels the U.S. government was informed that the Saudis intended to stop coordinating their policy with the United States. The attacks of 9/11 destroyed these plans to separate and gain more independence only weeks later. The intimate relationship between Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador in the United States from 1983 till 2005, and U.S.
This so-called "Petrodollar recycling" is crucial not only for the American economy but also for the U.S. currency itself. So America and the Saudis are bound together in a close economic symbiosis. President Ahmadinejad Meets Neturei Karta Rabbis - 9/24/2007. Untitled. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Natives Land Act, which ratified and legalized the exclusion of South Africa’s black majority from land ownership in favor of the white minority. The result was “just 7% of agricultural land set aside for blacks, though they comprised nearly 70% of the population.” Following changes to the act in 1936, whites would own up to 87% of land by the end of Apartheid. Since the end of Apartheid, the government has been slow in effecting land reform, hampered by a range of factors, including threats from business, organized agriculture (basically white farmers), its controversial “willing buyer, willing seller” approach and a lack of political will.
Ben Cousins is a professor at the University of Western Cape and founder of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies. Since 1989, Cousins has researched land reform, communal areas and small holder agriculture. How would you describe the legacy of the 1913 Land Act? But why have the Act then? Untitled.