Showing posts with label Fascism. Show all posts
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Monday, July 21, 2014
Saturday, April 12, 2014
The Bundy Ranch, OathKeepers, and the Koch Brothers...the 1%'s revolution?
"Power is getting other people to do what you want."
Edit 4.19.2014: Obama's solar projects includes Gold Butte for tortoise habitat, but the tortoise is being euthanized, presumedly clearing the way for mining the precious metals a government survey noted as being highly likely in that and nearby locations, plus the land-grab and big business of solar:
http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2014/04/bundy-ranch-dry-lake-solar-project-and.html
Edit 4.14.2014: It turns out that some powerful organization is removing BLM pages from Google cache (!) which...well, see for yourself and download for yourself. The Kochs are definitely involved in this but they are not the core. Keep digging, the criminal will be exposed! And there -are- potentially valuable minerals in the area, see report posted at the end of this article.
Edit 4.16.2014: The author of the below video, Storm Clouds Gathering, has removed it due to what he calls a factual error and will produce a new one shortly. Suffice to say, he showed the archive engine containing the deleted BLM document found below, debunked as I have the Reid/China connection, etc.
Edit 4.21.2014:
Superb researchers scgnews.com replacement video for the above, detailing some interesting bits about Senator Reid which are well worth keeping in mind:
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Original article:
I was as outraged as anyone upon hearing the BLM and government's intent, but all of that changed when I saw the Koch's name. The Kochs are using the Bundy Ranch situation to organize and mobilize a personal militia.
We've all seen how the Koch brothers' PACs "citizens united" and the "tea party" [1] have installed Koch-friendly legislation and de-regulation in state and Federal government. Republicans unfriendly to "tea party" politics are threatened with "tea party" competition in the next election if they don't toe the line. With the McCutcheon ruling added to the Koch's "citizens united", there is now unlimited corporate spending possible in elections, eliminating "one person, one vote" and shifting speech into money...whomever has the money, gets to speak in media, and through flooding tactics, you will remember their politicians come election time.
And who doubt the Koch's true agenda should immediately familiarize themselves with this:
"David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country.
What if they're more ambitious than that? What if they'd actually work to topple the Federal government? Such a thing would not affect them negatively financially; it would open the way for the installation of a Koch- and 1%-friendly government, a fascist take-over. Note that Goldman Sachs have nearly done this to the majority of Europe, having, after the forced "austerity" of their purposeful smash-and-grabs, installed executives in major banks and lending boards as well as momentarily in Greece and Italy, installing their executives as Prime Ministers. Of course, Greece then went over to the neo-nazi "Golden Dawn" party. Note that Ted Cruz, architect of the most recent US government "shutdown", is married to a Goldman Sachs VP. Note the "end game memo" describing banks' orchestrated elimination of regulation in the EU and what followed. [2]
Instability and take-overs resulting in corporate-friendly government. Something they'd like. The Kochs are already working hard to own and thus stifle media as well as installing politicians in governorship in Florida, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Note Detroit having been forced into "emergency manager" status, pensions destroyed, unions busted, infrastructure sold to the highest bidder. Disaster Capitalism, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", smash-and-grabs. And the Kochs are storing highly toxic bitumen, tar sands waste, in the open along the Detroit river-front. The world is their toilet.
So how would you create such causes and conditions in America? You've learned much in Europe so apply the same tools. And if you want unrest even greater than "tea party" rallies and marches, you'll need to stir revolutionary sentiment, stir unrest, convey the notion of a horribly unfair government requiring significant modification or complete removal.
They want the land as well, to exploit it:
The Nevada Standoff Has Nothing To Do With "Tyranny," "Sovereignty," "Freedom," or Cows.
Stirring discontent
The Bundy Ranch as of this writing is under a "no fly" zone and electronic communications have been cut off and jammed, never a good sign. A rancher who has defied the Federal government and multiple court orders is now under direct attack by armed land management agents (!) But what is the back story?
AFP Nevada also promoted as a 'must read' a blog post from conservative pundit Dana Loesch where she described the standoff as 'harassment' from the federal government. The group also accused the BLM of 'strategically regulating hard-working Americans out of business.'"
The Koch brothers are definitely the single unifying thread through all of this. They want to interfere with land interests:
State Efforts To ‘Reclaim’ Our Public Lands Traced To Koch-Fueled ALEC
Mobilizing armed resistance and the Koch connection
So the Kochs' PACs are using this to rally Americans against an evil, oppressive government, exactly as does the "tea party" PAC and other Koch entities. This alone would not be so alarming excepting the estimated hundreds plus of militia descending upon the area.
"'We need to be the barrier between the oppressed and the tyrants,' Ryan Payne of the West Mountain Rangers told the Review-Journal. 'Expect to see a band of soldiers.'” [3]
"Oath Keepers is calling for Boots On The Ground. Because this is a federal incursion we are calling for volunteers from all over America. Anyone who can, please get to Nevada ASAP." [4]
The problem is that Oath Keepers are aligned with the "tea party", which of course is the Koch brothers. [1]
"I want to thank the Tea Party Organizers for inviting me to speak to you on behalf of Oath Keepers. It’s a humbling honor to be a part of such a great and laudable gathering of Americans taking on this grand intellectual revolution." [5]
Note that the Koch brothers founded the PAC "Americans for Prosperity". In the video at the end of this page, the first thing you'll hear is David Koch state that he and his brother funded AFP. Now note that AFP organizes the "tea party".
(CNN) -- "Tens of thousands of people spent part of April 15 at organized 'tea party' demonstrations across the country, protesting what some view as excessive government spending and bailouts.
CNN's Rick Sanchez spoke Wednesday afternoon to one of the organizers of the 'tea party' protests, Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity. The organization's Web site identifies him as "a veteran political strategist and one of the nation's premier grassroots organizers with nearly two decades of experience, including presidential, gubernatorial and congressional races, as well as state legislative, local and issue-advocacy campaigns." [6] (Bold emphasis mine.)
In the Oath Keepers speech snippet above, they thank "tea party organizers". The Koch's AFP are "tea party" organizers.
Koch brothers > Americans for Prosperity > "tea party".
Koch brothers > Americans for Prosperity > Bundy Ranch / Oath Keepers.
Oath Keepers also seem to be showing up where John Birch Society members do...google "oath keepers john birch society" for more. Suffice to say, on one visit to the Oath Keeper's website, I noted a link to the JBS website (as well as to The Eagle Forum, another extreme-right organization). Note that a Koch was a founding member of the JBS.
"Oath Keepers and The John Birch Society hosted a meeting in Southington, CT Saturday Nov 17, 2012 for the purpose of organizing opposition to Agenda 21 in Connecticut."... (https://www.facebook.com/WRCCT/posts/430765120310998https://www.facebook.com/WRCCT/posts/430765120310998)
Edit, 4.17.2015:
Precedence
This brings to mind an interesting quote from a 1%er of yesteryear:
"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." [7]
as well as the Business Plot:
"Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow (the) President of the United States..." [8]
As well as the fact that the Kochs have been funding protest and resistance in other countries:
"In 2008, the US-based Cato Institute awarded the US$500,000 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty to student leader Yon Goicoechea for his role in mobilising protests against the suspension of private broadcaster RCTV’s licence." [9]
I for one am not at all comfortable with the notion of heavily-armed citizens, many of them ex-military, doing the Koch's bidding, all the time imagining that they are helping America. Note how many are eager to help AFP and extrapolate this with militias:
Why would the Kochs use the Bundy Ranch situation to deflect the nearby Solar Energy Zone project?
At minimum, using "afp" to stir shit and call out the militia puts a cork in the BLM plans for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone. At the very minimum, this is for them, business as usual.
References:
[1] Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers
[2] The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis
[3] ‘Expect To See A Band Of Soldiers’: Militia Members Arrive At Nevada Ranch
[4] Action Alert: Boots On The Ground Need Donations for food and water at Bundy Ranch Standoff
[5] OFFICIAL OATH KEEPERS SPEECHES THAT JULY 4 TEA PARTY EVENTS CAN USE
[6] Tea party organizer: 'A freedom movement'
[7] Jay Gould, Wikipedia
[8] Business Plot
[9a] Venezuela: The Real Significance of the Student Protests
[9b] (Cato Institute) Founders: Edward Crane and Charles Koch
Further reading:
Edit 4.19.2014: Obama's solar projects includes Gold Butte for tortoise habitat, but the tortoise is being euthanized, presumedly clearing the way for mining the precious metals a government survey noted as being highly likely in that and nearby locations, plus the land-grab and big business of solar:
http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2014/04/bundy-ranch-dry-lake-solar-project-and.html
Edit 4.14.2014: It turns out that some powerful organization is removing BLM pages from Google cache (!) which...well, see for yourself and download for yourself. The Kochs are definitely involved in this but they are not the core. Keep digging, the criminal will be exposed! And there -are- potentially valuable minerals in the area, see report posted at the end of this article.
Edit 4.16.2014: The author of the below video, Storm Clouds Gathering, has removed it due to what he calls a factual error and will produce a new one shortly. Suffice to say, he showed the archive engine containing the deleted BLM document found below, debunked as I have the Reid/China connection, etc.
Edit 4.21.2014:
Superb researchers scgnews.com replacement video for the above, detailing some interesting bits about Senator Reid which are well worth keeping in mind:
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Original article:
I was as outraged as anyone upon hearing the BLM and government's intent, but all of that changed when I saw the Koch's name. The Kochs are using the Bundy Ranch situation to organize and mobilize a personal militia.
We've all seen how the Koch brothers' PACs "citizens united" and the "tea party" [1] have installed Koch-friendly legislation and de-regulation in state and Federal government. Republicans unfriendly to "tea party" politics are threatened with "tea party" competition in the next election if they don't toe the line. With the McCutcheon ruling added to the Koch's "citizens united", there is now unlimited corporate spending possible in elections, eliminating "one person, one vote" and shifting speech into money...whomever has the money, gets to speak in media, and through flooding tactics, you will remember their politicians come election time.
And who doubt the Koch's true agenda should immediately familiarize themselves with this:
What Do the Koch Brothers Want?
"David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country.
It is clear that the Koch brothers and other right wing
billionaires are calling the shots and are pulling the strings of the
Republican Party.
And because of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme
Court decision, they now have the power to spend an unlimited amount of
money to buy the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the next
President of the United States."
What if they're more ambitious than that? What if they'd actually work to topple the Federal government? Such a thing would not affect them negatively financially; it would open the way for the installation of a Koch- and 1%-friendly government, a fascist take-over. Note that Goldman Sachs have nearly done this to the majority of Europe, having, after the forced "austerity" of their purposeful smash-and-grabs, installed executives in major banks and lending boards as well as momentarily in Greece and Italy, installing their executives as Prime Ministers. Of course, Greece then went over to the neo-nazi "Golden Dawn" party. Note that Ted Cruz, architect of the most recent US government "shutdown", is married to a Goldman Sachs VP. Note the "end game memo" describing banks' orchestrated elimination of regulation in the EU and what followed. [2]
Instability and take-overs resulting in corporate-friendly government. Something they'd like. The Kochs are already working hard to own and thus stifle media as well as installing politicians in governorship in Florida, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Note Detroit having been forced into "emergency manager" status, pensions destroyed, unions busted, infrastructure sold to the highest bidder. Disaster Capitalism, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", smash-and-grabs. And the Kochs are storing highly toxic bitumen, tar sands waste, in the open along the Detroit river-front. The world is their toilet.
So how would you create such causes and conditions in America? You've learned much in Europe so apply the same tools. And if you want unrest even greater than "tea party" rallies and marches, you'll need to stir revolutionary sentiment, stir unrest, convey the notion of a horribly unfair government requiring significant modification or complete removal.
They want the land as well, to exploit it:
The Nevada Standoff Has Nothing To Do With "Tyranny," "Sovereignty," "Freedom," or Cows.
Stirring discontent
The Bundy Ranch as of this writing is under a "no fly" zone and electronic communications have been cut off and jammed, never a good sign. A rancher who has defied the Federal government and multiple court orders is now under direct attack by armed land management agents (!) But what is the back story?
"Feds Turn From Landlords To Warlords": Koch Groups Back Rancher Making Violent Threats Against Federal Gov't
"Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the conservative non-profit group, was founded by and has been largely funded by billionaires Charles and David Koch. The Center for Media and Democracy reported that in its previous incarnation as Citizens for a Sound Economy, AFP received $12 million of its $18 million in funding from the Koch Family Foundation.AFP Nevada also promoted as a 'must read' a blog post from conservative pundit Dana Loesch where she described the standoff as 'harassment' from the federal government. The group also accused the BLM of 'strategically regulating hard-working Americans out of business.'"
The Koch brothers are definitely the single unifying thread through all of this. They want to interfere with land interests:
State Efforts To ‘Reclaim’ Our Public Lands Traced To Koch-Fueled ALEC
Mobilizing armed resistance and the Koch connection
So the Kochs' PACs are using this to rally Americans against an evil, oppressive government, exactly as does the "tea party" PAC and other Koch entities. This alone would not be so alarming excepting the estimated hundreds plus of militia descending upon the area.
"'We need to be the barrier between the oppressed and the tyrants,' Ryan Payne of the West Mountain Rangers told the Review-Journal. 'Expect to see a band of soldiers.'” [3]
"Oath Keepers is calling for Boots On The Ground. Because this is a federal incursion we are calling for volunteers from all over America. Anyone who can, please get to Nevada ASAP." [4]
The problem is that Oath Keepers are aligned with the "tea party", which of course is the Koch brothers. [1]
"I want to thank the Tea Party Organizers for inviting me to speak to you on behalf of Oath Keepers. It’s a humbling honor to be a part of such a great and laudable gathering of Americans taking on this grand intellectual revolution." [5]
Note that the Koch brothers founded the PAC "Americans for Prosperity". In the video at the end of this page, the first thing you'll hear is David Koch state that he and his brother funded AFP. Now note that AFP organizes the "tea party".
(CNN) -- "Tens of thousands of people spent part of April 15 at organized 'tea party' demonstrations across the country, protesting what some view as excessive government spending and bailouts.
CNN's Rick Sanchez spoke Wednesday afternoon to one of the organizers of the 'tea party' protests, Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity. The organization's Web site identifies him as "a veteran political strategist and one of the nation's premier grassroots organizers with nearly two decades of experience, including presidential, gubernatorial and congressional races, as well as state legislative, local and issue-advocacy campaigns." [6] (Bold emphasis mine.)
In the Oath Keepers speech snippet above, they thank "tea party organizers". The Koch's AFP are "tea party" organizers.
Koch brothers > Americans for Prosperity > "tea party".
Koch brothers > Americans for Prosperity > Bundy Ranch / Oath Keepers.
Oath Keepers also seem to be showing up where John Birch Society members do...google "oath keepers john birch society" for more. Suffice to say, on one visit to the Oath Keeper's website, I noted a link to the JBS website (as well as to The Eagle Forum, another extreme-right organization). Note that a Koch was a founding member of the JBS.
"Oath Keepers and The John Birch Society hosted a meeting in Southington, CT Saturday Nov 17, 2012 for the purpose of organizing opposition to Agenda 21 in Connecticut."... (https://www.facebook.com/WRCCT/posts/430765120310998https://www.facebook.com/WRCCT/posts/430765120310998)
John Birch Society Celebrates Koch Family For Their Role In Founding The Hate Group
"Founded last April (2010) by Yale-educated lawyer and ex-Ron Paul aide Stewart Rhodes, the group has established itself as a hub in the sprawling anti-Obama movement that includes Tea Partiers, Birthers, and 912ers. Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Pat Buchanan have all sung its praises, and in December, a grassroots summit it helped organize drew such prominent guests as representatives Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun, both Georgia Republicans."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers
Now ex-military and ex-police heading to the Ranch in its defense, and calls for all militia to join. Join the Koch brothers, that is. If the Feds total the ranch, if they harm any militia or act overbearingly (duh), it will unify militia and the Kochs will have a private army as willing as "tea party" dupes. They'll see an enemy and calls to stop the enemy, not considering that those calling out "enemies" are the Kochs and the 1%.Edit, 4.17.2015:
Ted Cruz’s frightening gun fanaticism: When a presidential contender encourages armed insurrection
Ted Cruz is both "tea party" and is married to a Goldman Sachs VP.Precedence
This brings to mind an interesting quote from a 1%er of yesteryear:
"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." [7]
as well as the Business Plot:
"Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow (the) President of the United States..." [8]
As well as the fact that the Kochs have been funding protest and resistance in other countries:
"In 2008, the US-based Cato Institute awarded the US$500,000 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty to student leader Yon Goicoechea for his role in mobilising protests against the suspension of private broadcaster RCTV’s licence." [9]
I for one am not at all comfortable with the notion of heavily-armed citizens, many of them ex-military, doing the Koch's bidding, all the time imagining that they are helping America. Note how many are eager to help AFP and extrapolate this with militias:
Why would the Kochs use the Bundy Ranch situation to deflect the nearby Solar Energy Zone project?
Conservative heavyweights have solar industry in their sights
"The Koch brothers and large utilities have allied to reverse state policies that favor renewable energy."At minimum, using "afp" to stir shit and call out the militia puts a cork in the BLM plans for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone. At the very minimum, this is for them, business as usual.
References:
[1] Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers
[2] The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis
[3] ‘Expect To See A Band Of Soldiers’: Militia Members Arrive At Nevada Ranch
[4] Action Alert: Boots On The Ground Need Donations for food and water at Bundy Ranch Standoff
[5] OFFICIAL OATH KEEPERS SPEECHES THAT JULY 4 TEA PARTY EVENTS CAN USE
[6] Tea party organizer: 'A freedom movement'
[7] Jay Gould, Wikipedia
[8] Business Plot
[9a] Venezuela: The Real Significance of the Student Protests
[9b] (Cato Institute) Founders: Edward Crane and Charles Koch
Edward Crane and Charles G. Koch
Founders: Edward Crane and Charles G. Koch
Founders: Edward Crane and Charles G. Koch
Although founded by a Koch, may not currently be under Koch decree.Further reading:
Bundy Ranch: The Dry Lake Solar Project and "Competitive Leasing"
Right Wing Terrorists Poised to Spark 2nd American Revolution (Video)
Goldman Sachs making the US like Greece, Italy, Spain...
Cliven Bundy, John Birch Society, And Koch Industries
Billionaire
Koch Brothers’ AFP Endorses ‘Patriot’ Militia Movement At Bundy Ranch -
See more at:
http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/latest-news/billionaire-koch-brothers-afp-endorses-patriot-militia-movement-at-bundy-ranch/#sthash.XNhtun4w.dpuf
Billionaire
Koch Brothers’ AFP Endorses ‘Patriot’ Militia Movement At Bundy Ranch -
See more at:
http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/latest-news/billionaire-koch-brothers-afp-endorses-patriot-militia-movement-at-bundy-ranch/#sthash.XNhtun4w.dpuf
Billionaire
Koch Brothers’ AFP Endorses ‘Patriot’ Militia Movement At Bundy Ranch -
See more at:
http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/latest-news/billionaire-koch-brothers-afp-endorses-patriot-militia-movement-at-bundy-ranch/#sthash.XNhtun4w.dpuf
Billionaire Koch Brothers' AFP Endorses "Patriot" Militia Movement At Bundy Ranch
Goldman Sachs' Global Coup D'etat
“It no longer matters who sits in the White House.” ~Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prins
Everything you need to know about the long fight between Cliven Bundy and the federal government
Cliven Bundy Ranch Speaker Warns Of ‘Civil War,’ Promises Harry Reid Will Have His ‘Balls Ripped Off’
The Harry Reid solar land-grab claims fall flat. It was to be in Laughlin, far south of the Ranch, and the Chinese pulled out of the deal last year. Ugly, but not involving the Ranch.
If cattle are loose to graze in a 1,000 mile area, this definitely includes the BLM solar development, 40 miles away: http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/
-2006 survey: "Gold Butte...contains areas with high potential for the
occurrence of nickel-copper-platinum" "Bunkerville district could reveal
a significant resource of nickel, copper, gold..."
http://web.archive.org/web/20090902020405/http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5197/sir2006-5197c.pdf
-2009 note stating that Gold Butte has a 20-year ban on mining to save the endangered tortoise, etc. http://tinyurl.com/kjsw2ym
-2013: Federal funds run out; orders to euthanize the endangered tortoise population: http://www.newser.com/story/173169/endangered-us-tortoises-to-be-euthanized.html
One story claiming Obama is doing a land grab links to a "memo" which states that certain areas, including a park in Nevada half-way up the state north of the Ranch, are candidates for National Monument status, which would protect them from mining, fracking, and other exploitations. Disinformation. Second article on the subject.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090902020405/http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5197/sir2006-5197c.pdf
-2009 note stating that Gold Butte has a 20-year ban on mining to save the endangered tortoise, etc. http://tinyurl.com/kjsw2ym
-2013: Federal funds run out; orders to euthanize the endangered tortoise population: http://www.newser.com/story/173169/endangered-us-tortoises-to-be-euthanized.html
One story claiming Obama is doing a land grab links to a "memo" which states that certain areas, including a park in Nevada half-way up the state north of the Ranch, are candidates for National Monument status, which would protect them from mining, fracking, and other exploitations. Disinformation. Second article on the subject.
Another text version a few of PM Beers video interviews on the ground at #BundyRanch
on Saturday, April 12, 2014. Worth a read!! We've condensed a 40 minute
livestream into a 5 minute article. If you Occupied, you should check
out the concerns of the people on the ground at Bundy Ranch: http://la.indymedia.org/news/2014/04/263861.php
Remember when all the Tea-Party people showed up at Occupy rallies to defend protesters camping on public land?
Me either...
#bunkerville
— Dub Master C (@DubMasterC) April 15, 2014
Thanks to Joel Greenfield for some of these articles, especially regarding the Kochs backing Bundy!
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
They're trolling for a new terrorist attack.
The 1%, in seeking to further advance their imperialist globalization
of all resources and to install their enslaving banking system of debt as far and
wide as it may reach, are attempting to create another terrorist attack
upon the US or ally nations in order to justify further invasions of
sovereign nations as well as to crack down upon liberties at home (the surveillance state is designed to protect the 1% and their corporate interests). "See,
we told you so!" would be their cry, to show us as exposed in "V for
Vendetta", their plans to prove to the little people "why they need
us!" The "war on terror", itself being pure terrorism, would never end, meaning the feeding trough of taxpayer monies would never empty. The actual war "debt" would be used to force "austerity" upon us, a double-dip into taxpayer monies. Then you'll see the smash-and-grab they're doing to Detroit occur in many other US cities, a pattern of destruction they've already demonstrated in Europe.
The planned attack(s) upon Syria and their expected escalations into targeted countries were an attempt to further these neocon/PNAC goals, to cement the US in the role of world police which of course is a thin cover for corporate globalization, to cement in place the systems creating income inequality. The veil is lifting on such massive negativity and selfish agenda, and people sensed it and rejected it outright. Their larger plan is now under increasing revelation. Awareness is increasing. Rejection of the old is increasing. The efforts of the old are also increasing, but witness the Arab Spring, Occupy, the Indignados, Wisconsin activsts, YoSoy132, and very importantly the First Nations' Idle No More campaigns world-wide to protect sacred water and to demand the Earth be treated as Home, not as a disposable resource for short-term profit.
Keep kicking ass! It's working!
More:
"According to critics, including Paul Reynolds, the neoconconservative PNAC aimed to promote American 'hegemony' and 'full-spectrum' dominance in its publications."
"Section V of Rebuilding America's Defenses, entitled 'Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force', includes the sentence: 'Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor'".
"Seven Countries in Five Years"
"In an interview with Amy Goodman on March 2, 2007, U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.), explains that the Bush Administration planned to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia, Somalia, Sudan, Iran."
Karl Rove to Suskind:
"Guys like you are in--what we call--'the reality-based community'. You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." "That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
"WASHINGTON, June 14, 2004 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- Five former Halliburton employees and one former executive of a Halliburton subcontractor describe egregious examples of abuse involving Halliburton's Iraq contracts. In a letter written by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), these whistleblowers describe instances where Halliburton employees would abandon or torch new trucks -- worth $80,000 -- if they acquired a flat tire or other minor mechanical problems. Halliburton would subsequently purchase new trucks with U.S. taxpayer dollars."
"SWAT teams, military contractors and law enforcement from the world over are gathering this weekend in Oakland, CA for the annual event Urban Shield, a training and weapons expo made possible by the Department of Homeland Security and arms manufacturers."
(Protest supression techniques were evidently discussed and shared.)
Michigan's Koch / "tea party" "emergency manager" legislation:
Starting in 2011, Rachel Maddow broke several stories detailing (then) unbelievable agenda in Michigan, starting with Governor Rick Snyder giving himself the power to destroy the funding of Michigan cities and also to then declare any city in trouble, such as may be caused by such de-funding, to then be under the dictatorial power of an "emergency manager". Set up, knock down:
Please watch the above. Even the first two minutes are imperative.
So basically, the Governor of Michigan since early 2011 is purposely de-funding cities and then declaring them emergencies in order to install "emergency managers" with dictatorial power. Such powers and plans just happen to be exceedingly beneficial to the 1%. Ahem. And it gets worse.
Findings revealed in the memo:
...
Page 17, “The Risks to Plutonomy”.
"The risks to Plutonomy: Finally, political pressure to end the increase in income and wealth inequality."
"Perhaps the most immediate challenge to Plutonomy comes from the political process. Ultimately, the rise in income and wealth inequality to some extent is an economic disenfrachisement of the masses to the benefit of the few. However in democracies this is rarely tolerated forever."
“We see the biggest threat to Plutonomy as coming from a rise in political demands to reduce income inequality, spread the wealth more evenly, and challenge forces such as globalization which have benefited profit and wealth growth.”
Page 18:
"So is Plutonomy under threat politically? We are keeping an eye on this one. At the moment it is too early to make this call. ...does not resonate as a population determined to destroy wealth inequality."
"While there are challenges to this, not least through populations/the political process demanding a more 'equitable' share of the wealth, in the short term we think the trend of the rich getting richer is likely to persist."
Wealth Inequality in America:
The planned attack(s) upon Syria and their expected escalations into targeted countries were an attempt to further these neocon/PNAC goals, to cement the US in the role of world police which of course is a thin cover for corporate globalization, to cement in place the systems creating income inequality. The veil is lifting on such massive negativity and selfish agenda, and people sensed it and rejected it outright. Their larger plan is now under increasing revelation. Awareness is increasing. Rejection of the old is increasing. The efforts of the old are also increasing, but witness the Arab Spring, Occupy, the Indignados, Wisconsin activsts, YoSoy132, and very importantly the First Nations' Idle No More campaigns world-wide to protect sacred water and to demand the Earth be treated as Home, not as a disposable resource for short-term profit.
Keep kicking ass! It's working!
More:
US global supremacy
"According to critics, including Paul Reynolds, the neoconconservative PNAC aimed to promote American 'hegemony' and 'full-spectrum' dominance in its publications."
"New Pearl Harbor"
"Section V of Rebuilding America's Defenses, entitled 'Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force', includes the sentence: 'Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor'".
"Seven Countries in Five Years"
"In an interview with Amy Goodman on March 2, 2007, U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.), explains that the Bush Administration planned to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia, Somalia, Sudan, Iran."
"Hubris": New Documentary Reexamines the Iraq War "Hoax"
Karl Rove to Suskind:
"Guys like you are in--what we call--'the reality-based community'. You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." "That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
"WASHINGTON, June 14, 2004 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- Five former Halliburton employees and one former executive of a Halliburton subcontractor describe egregious examples of abuse involving Halliburton's Iraq contracts. In a letter written by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), these whistleblowers describe instances where Halliburton employees would abandon or torch new trucks -- worth $80,000 -- if they acquired a flat tire or other minor mechanical problems. Halliburton would subsequently purchase new trucks with U.S. taxpayer dollars."
Police militarization expo Urban Shield descends on Oakland (VIDEO)
"SWAT teams, military contractors and law enforcement from the world over are gathering this weekend in Oakland, CA for the annual event Urban Shield, a training and weapons expo made possible by the Department of Homeland Security and arms manufacturers."
(Protest supression techniques were evidently discussed and shared.)
Michigan's Koch / "tea party" "emergency manager" legislation:
Starting in 2011, Rachel Maddow broke several stories detailing (then) unbelievable agenda in Michigan, starting with Governor Rick Snyder giving himself the power to destroy the funding of Michigan cities and also to then declare any city in trouble, such as may be caused by such de-funding, to then be under the dictatorial power of an "emergency manager". Set up, knock down:
Please watch the above. Even the first two minutes are imperative.
So basically, the Governor of Michigan since early 2011 is purposely de-funding cities and then declaring them emergencies in order to install "emergency managers" with dictatorial power. Such powers and plans just happen to be exceedingly beneficial to the 1%. Ahem. And it gets worse.
The leaked 2006 Citigroup Plutonomy memo Part 1
Findings revealed in the memo:
-The economies of the US, UK, and
Canada are driven by the very rich, not everyone else combined
-They enjoy specific modes of growth
(Globalization and politics used to insure it [the Trans Pacific
Partnership])
-Threats to their growth (historic
models reveal trends and outcomes predicting the Occupy movement or
similar; weaknesses of Plutonomy)
-Equities are the main asset of the
rich; homes are that of the rest. The housing bubble and the illegal
foreclosure engine do not harm the rich; on the contrary
-Methods of Plutonomy self-protection
include direct corporate influence of the political process (Citizens
United, oppression of Occupy, formation of the “tea party”, etc.)
-The very rich profit from the spy
technology revolution (TSA scanners, militarization of police, etc.)
which also provides for social control and the oppression of dissent
(Occupy, etc.).
-As the economy is driven by the rich,
the challenge is to switch that to one driven by the 99%.
The memo does not even include mention
of the corporate alliance ALEC who are writing laws which are being
passed in various states, such as “stand your ground” and “right
to work”. Corporations writing laws. The TPP are a global version
of this and we do not get to vote.
This is WWIII. It is economic, it has
long since begun, and it is the 1% against all the rest of us.
...
Page 17, “The Risks to Plutonomy”.
-Inflation
-Financial collapse
-Ending technological revolution
-Political pressure to end the
increase in income and wealth inequality
-Destroy globalisation
-Destroy right-wing, anti-immigration
political parties which support the rise in profit share/fall in wage
share
Page 18
-Call for relaxing immigration
controls/deportation
-”The political process is the
greatest threat to Plutonomy.”
-Page 21 lists equity strategies.
“Equities are the main asset of the rich.” -Page 12 of the memo.
So, attack equities.
Of course, it says that the rich
actually drive the economy, and the economy mainly serves the rich.
So live outside the economy and destroy the economy."The risks to Plutonomy: Finally, political pressure to end the increase in income and wealth inequality."
"Perhaps the most immediate challenge to Plutonomy comes from the political process. Ultimately, the rise in income and wealth inequality to some extent is an economic disenfrachisement of the masses to the benefit of the few. However in democracies this is rarely tolerated forever."
“We see the biggest threat to Plutonomy as coming from a rise in political demands to reduce income inequality, spread the wealth more evenly, and challenge forces such as globalization which have benefited profit and wealth growth.”
Page 18:
"So is Plutonomy under threat politically? We are keeping an eye on this one. At the moment it is too early to make this call. ...does not resonate as a population determined to destroy wealth inequality."
"While there are challenges to this, not least through populations/the political process demanding a more 'equitable' share of the wealth, in the short term we think the trend of the rich getting richer is likely to persist."
Wealth Inequality in America:
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Police Department Spying and Retaliation for the Surveillance State
"...there was no division between corporate spying and government
spying." ~Noam Chomsky on Jeremy Hammond's Stratfor revelations
"They're going to nationalize police departments. That's your military coup!" ~John Trudell
The collection of data regarding all citizens of America has been revealed to be egregiously intrusive and totalitarian despite a 2013 promise by Obama that nothing of the sort is occurring.
Obama To Leno: 'There Is No Spying On Americans'
Of course, Obama has made it possible:
Obama White House had NSA limits reversed
(2011) "The Obama administration quietly got a court to undo U.S. surveillance limits on the use of intercepted phone calls and emails, The Washington Post reported."
Of course, anyone who by this time does not fully understand Obama to be a complete and utter traitor to the American people is somehow not paying actual attention. Browse this blog for more if for some reason you still don't get it.
Most recently egregious is Seattle PD's attempt to set up their own mesh net across the city, one which like the later-mentioned "Sting Ray" technology, would allow them to continuously ping the location of any citizen with a cell phone or WiFi device.
Continuous, total spying upon citizen location and movement. Stored for later use against you. Let that sink in. This is Fascism, pure and simple. This is so completely beyond acceptable it is ridiculous. I initially did not forward the stories I saw regarding it, believing it to be conspiracy theory.
Seattle police deactivate surveillance system after public outrage
"Police in Seattle, Washington have responded to a major public outcry by disabling a recently discovered law enforcement tool that critics said could be used to conduct sweeping surveillance across the city.
...The SPD told The Stranger previously that the system was not being used, but anyone with a smart phone who wandered through the jurisdiction covered by the digital nodes could still notice that their devices were being discovered by the internet-broadcasting boxes, just as a person’s iPhone or Android might attempt to connect to any network within reach. In theory, law enforcement could take the personal information transmitted as the two devices talk to each other and use that intelligence to triangulate the location of a person, even within inches.
When the SPD was approached about the system last week, they insisted that it wasn’t even in operation yet. David Ham of Seattle’s KIRO-7 News asked, however, how come 'we could see these network names if it’s not being used?'
'Well, they couldn’t give us an explanation,' Ham said at the time."
More:
Privacy Concerns, Black Bars, and Seattle’s Municipal Mesh Net Project
Much more:
The Stranger: You Are a Rogue Device
Much much more:
Trapwire surveillance system exposed in document leak
"Papers released by WikiLeaks show US department of homeland security paid $832,000 to deploy system in two cities." via @SeattlePrivacy
It could allow investigators in a surveillance vehicle to park in a crowded area and track the movements of anyone nearby with a cellphone and capture the numbers of people’s incoming and outgoing calls and text messages.
...But officials at Indiana’s largest police agency aren’t saying what they do with the technology; they’re mum on whose data they’ve collected so far; and they’re not talking about what steps they take to safeguard the data."
In a joint investigation with Gannett television stations across the country and USA Today, WUSA9 obtained documents that show police in Fairfax County, Montgomery County and the Metropolitan Police in DC have purchased cell phone spy gear capable of tracking your whereabouts - even if you're not the one being investigated."
Cellphone spying technology being used throughout Northern California
"At least seven law enforcement agencies in California are using controversial technology that allows them to secretly collect data from cellphones and track people, News10 has learned."
Secret Military Device ‘Hailstorm’ Used By Michigan Police, FOIA Request By Detroit News Denied
"‘HailStorm’ is a new device obtained by the Oakland County Sheriff with monies from a U.S. Homeland Security Grant and so far, there isn’t much information available on what exactly it can and cannot do. There were no questions asked when Oakland County commissioners unanimously approved the use of this cellphone tracking device previously used by the US military in Iraq."
LICENSE PLATE READERS are becoming standard issue equipment for PDs across the country, but there are severe down-sides in terms of collecting and correlating data on citizens:
License plate data not just for cops: Private companies are tracking your car
“'This sort of constant surveillance makes it very dangerous for us as a society,' said Michael Katz-Lacabe, a network security engineer and member of the San Leandro, Calif., school board.
Katz-Lacabe has first-hand experience with the reach of LPR data – police cameras in San Leandro captured his two vehicles more than 100 times over two years, which he discovered from a public records request in 2010. In one of the images, he and his daughters are stepping out of the family’s Toyota Prius in their driveway."
More:
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS AND 'STING RAY'
Bringing the argument home about domestic spying
By Dan Bluemel, laactivist.com
"Since March 2008, LAPD officers have been reporting on behavior they believe to have a nexus to terrorism. In what are called suspicious activity reports, or SARs, officers report on what the department considers suspicious behavior. Through another police program, called iWatch, civilians too can report on suspicious behavior.
The behavior being reported by police may be as innocuous — and legal — as taking photographs of buildings or inquiring about its hours of operation. The reports garnered from these two programs are sent to fusion centers where they are shared with local, state and national law enforcement agencies across the nation.
...Besides the SARs and iWatch programs, the LAPD also has several cameras positioned around the city that use TrapWire technology, a predictive software that can allegedly detect suspicious behavior in connection with terrorism.
Another technology employed by the LAPD is a suitcase-sized device called StingRay. It mimics a cell phone tower, tricking every cell phone in a neighborhood into connecting to it. Once connected, police can grab information from everyone’s phone in the area, not just the suspects.
StingRay was purchased with Dept. of Homeland Security Funds. It was meant for counterterrorism, but according to documents obtained by LA Weekly, in 2012, the LAPD used StingRay 21 times within four-months in burglary, drug and murder investigations."
"Photographers, both amateur and professional, as well as tourists, artists, college students, contractors, engineers, journalists, activists and others, have been secretly reported to the FBI by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies for nothing more than taking pictures, according to documents obtained from a public records request filed by the ACLU of Southern California."
Complete breaches of the Fourth Amendment
"A Pennsylvania community is asking questions after a government contractor, with help from the local police, pulled drivers off the road and into a parking lot to ask about their driving and – most notably – pressure them into providing a DNA sample."
Now they have our DNA as well. Another list upon which they want all of us to be. Total information awareness against the people of this country.
Note the wording of the Fourth Amendment:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Not any more:
"They're going to nationalize police departments. That's your military coup!" ~John Trudell
The collection of data regarding all citizens of America has been revealed to be egregiously intrusive and totalitarian despite a 2013 promise by Obama that nothing of the sort is occurring.
Obama To Leno: 'There Is No Spying On Americans'
Of course, Obama has made it possible:
Obama White House had NSA limits reversed
(2011) "The Obama administration quietly got a court to undo U.S. surveillance limits on the use of intercepted phone calls and emails, The Washington Post reported."
Of course, anyone who by this time does not fully understand Obama to be a complete and utter traitor to the American people is somehow not paying actual attention. Browse this blog for more if for some reason you still don't get it.
Most recently egregious is Seattle PD's attempt to set up their own mesh net across the city, one which like the later-mentioned "Sting Ray" technology, would allow them to continuously ping the location of any citizen with a cell phone or WiFi device.
Continuous, total spying upon citizen location and movement. Stored for later use against you. Let that sink in. This is Fascism, pure and simple. This is so completely beyond acceptable it is ridiculous. I initially did not forward the stories I saw regarding it, believing it to be conspiracy theory.
Seattle police deactivate surveillance system after public outrage
"Police in Seattle, Washington have responded to a major public outcry by disabling a recently discovered law enforcement tool that critics said could be used to conduct sweeping surveillance across the city.
...The SPD told The Stranger previously that the system was not being used, but anyone with a smart phone who wandered through the jurisdiction covered by the digital nodes could still notice that their devices were being discovered by the internet-broadcasting boxes, just as a person’s iPhone or Android might attempt to connect to any network within reach. In theory, law enforcement could take the personal information transmitted as the two devices talk to each other and use that intelligence to triangulate the location of a person, even within inches.
When the SPD was approached about the system last week, they insisted that it wasn’t even in operation yet. David Ham of Seattle’s KIRO-7 News asked, however, how come 'we could see these network names if it’s not being used?'
'Well, they couldn’t give us an explanation,' Ham said at the time."
More:
Privacy Concerns, Black Bars, and Seattle’s Municipal Mesh Net Project
Much more:
The Stranger: You Are a Rogue Device
Much much more:
Trapwire surveillance system exposed in document leak
"Papers released by WikiLeaks show US department of homeland security paid $832,000 to deploy system in two cities." via @SeattlePrivacy
Indiana State Police tracking cellphones - but won't say how or why
"This year, the Indiana State Police paid $373,995 for a device that law enforcement personnel have described as a powerful tool in the fight against crime and terrorism.It could allow investigators in a surveillance vehicle to park in a crowded area and track the movements of anyone nearby with a cellphone and capture the numbers of people’s incoming and outgoing calls and text messages.
...But officials at Indiana’s largest police agency aren’t saying what they do with the technology; they’re mum on whose data they’ve collected so far; and they’re not talking about what steps they take to safeguard the data."
DC, Maryland and Virginia cops spying on cell phone data
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) -- It's not just the NSA - local cops are mining the cell phone data to reveal the location, identity and call information of hundreds of people at a time -- whether they're suspected of criminal activity or not.In a joint investigation with Gannett television stations across the country and USA Today, WUSA9 obtained documents that show police in Fairfax County, Montgomery County and the Metropolitan Police in DC have purchased cell phone spy gear capable of tracking your whereabouts - even if you're not the one being investigated."
Cellphone spying technology being used throughout Northern California
"At least seven law enforcement agencies in California are using controversial technology that allows them to secretly collect data from cellphones and track people, News10 has learned."
Secret Military Device ‘Hailstorm’ Used By Michigan Police, FOIA Request By Detroit News Denied
"‘HailStorm’ is a new device obtained by the Oakland County Sheriff with monies from a U.S. Homeland Security Grant and so far, there isn’t much information available on what exactly it can and cannot do. There were no questions asked when Oakland County commissioners unanimously approved the use of this cellphone tracking device previously used by the US military in Iraq."
Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls
"To show what the CryptoPhone can do that less expensive competitors cannot, he points me to a map that he and his customers have created, indicating 17 different phony cell towers known as “interceptors,” detected by the CryptoPhone 500 around the United States during the month of July alone. (The map below is from August.) Interceptors look to a typical phone like an ordinary tower. Once the phone connects with the interceptor, a variety of 'over-the-air' attacks become possible, from eavesdropping on calls and texts to pushing spyware to the device."LICENSE PLATE READERS are becoming standard issue equipment for PDs across the country, but there are severe down-sides in terms of collecting and correlating data on citizens:
License plate data not just for cops: Private companies are tracking your car
“'This sort of constant surveillance makes it very dangerous for us as a society,' said Michael Katz-Lacabe, a network security engineer and member of the San Leandro, Calif., school board.
Katz-Lacabe has first-hand experience with the reach of LPR data – police cameras in San Leandro captured his two vehicles more than 100 times over two years, which he discovered from a public records request in 2010. In one of the images, he and his daughters are stepping out of the family’s Toyota Prius in their driveway."
More:
Privacy’s worst nightmare: company advertises over one billion license plate records
Boston police halt license tracking system as media probe points to privacy violations
Homeland Security is seeking a national license plate tracking system
Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS AND 'STING RAY'
Bringing the argument home about domestic spying
By Dan Bluemel, laactivist.com
"Since March 2008, LAPD officers have been reporting on behavior they believe to have a nexus to terrorism. In what are called suspicious activity reports, or SARs, officers report on what the department considers suspicious behavior. Through another police program, called iWatch, civilians too can report on suspicious behavior.
The behavior being reported by police may be as innocuous — and legal — as taking photographs of buildings or inquiring about its hours of operation. The reports garnered from these two programs are sent to fusion centers where they are shared with local, state and national law enforcement agencies across the nation.
...Besides the SARs and iWatch programs, the LAPD also has several cameras positioned around the city that use TrapWire technology, a predictive software that can allegedly detect suspicious behavior in connection with terrorism.
Another technology employed by the LAPD is a suitcase-sized device called StingRay. It mimics a cell phone tower, tricking every cell phone in a neighborhood into connecting to it. Once connected, police can grab information from everyone’s phone in the area, not just the suspects.
StingRay was purchased with Dept. of Homeland Security Funds. It was meant for counterterrorism, but according to documents obtained by LA Weekly, in 2012, the LAPD used StingRay 21 times within four-months in burglary, drug and murder investigations."
Photographers beware! Big Brother is watching you
"Photographers, both amateur and professional, as well as tourists, artists, college students, contractors, engineers, journalists, activists and others, have been secretly reported to the FBI by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies for nothing more than taking pictures, according to documents obtained from a public records request filed by the ACLU of Southern California."
Complete breaches of the Fourth Amendment
DNA samples taken at police checkpoint ‘gross abuse of power,’ say PA drivers
"A Pennsylvania community is asking questions after a government contractor, with help from the local police, pulled drivers off the road and into a parking lot to ask about their driving and – most notably – pressure them into providing a DNA sample."
Now they have our DNA as well. Another list upon which they want all of us to be. Total information awareness against the people of this country.
Note the wording of the Fourth Amendment:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Not any more:
Texas judge: Search warrants can be obtained based on predictions of future crimes
"Police in Texas may now obtain a search warrant based on 'a prediction of a future crime,' according to a dissenting judge on the state’s criminal appeals court."
Police to Begin Inspecting Homes For “Illegal Tenants”
"The community of Westbury, NY has announced the creation of a new police task force to inspect people’s homes unannounced in search of 'illegal tenants.' The town of 15,000 will hire two new police officers and recently held a town meeting about the new 'zero tolerance policy' against renting rooms illegally. The task force – aptly named the Housing Enforcement Unit – is calling these tenants 'unpermitted guests.' And by 'illegal' they don’t mean immigrants – they mean anyone not on the mortgage or lease agreement."
Boston Transit Police Conducts Warrantless Searches on All Bus, Subway Riders
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/boston-transit-police-conducts-warrantless-searches-bus-subway-riders/#RJPByxvlx9GAF4to.99
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/boston-transit-police-conducts-warrantless-searches-bus-subway-riders/#RJPByxvlx9GAF4to.99
Boston transit police conducts warrantless searches on all bus, subway riders
Supreme Court: Pennsylvania cops no longer need a warrant to search citizens’ vehicles
Boston Transit Police Conducts Warrantless Searches on All Bus, Subway Riders
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/boston-transit-police-conducts-warrantless-searches-bus-subway-riders/#RJPByxvlx9GAF4to.99
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/boston-transit-police-conducts-warrantless-searches-bus-subway-riders/#RJPByxvlx9GAF4to.99
Boston Transit Police Conducts Warrantless Searches on All Bus, Subway Riders
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/boston-transit-police-conducts-warrantless-searches-bus-subway-riders/#RJPByxvlx9GAF4to.99
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/boston-transit-police-conducts-warrantless-searches-bus-subway-riders/#RJPByxvlx9GAF4to.99
POLICE INTIMIDATION AND RETALIATION
If police (and through them, the Feds and the corporations and money interests controlling the Feds) do not like you, they may use surveillance data to cause you suffering and harm...especially if you are protesting the trade show promoting the deadly militarization of police:
"Last Friday, the City Corporation of Oakland hosted a four day ‘Urban Shield‘
conference in which SWAT teams and other militarized police troops from
around the globe came together to trade best practices on fighting
terrorism, first response training, and of course protest suppression techniques.
...In an effort to either silence a vocal activist or just plain out fuck
with his life, Oakland police secretly photographed one protester’s
vehicle and sent the photos, along with one of the protester himself, to
his employer. According to @Anon4justice
on Twitter, OPD falsely accused him of being involved in a hit-and-run
accident, which contributed to the dissident losing his job. (Side note; Anon4justice called in sick that day to be able to join his comrades in the streets.)"
¤ProletarianDissent¤
@Anon4justice
They found out the garage I parked in and got pics of my truck. Also got me at the rally. #policestate #ftp
¤ProletarianDissent¤
@Anon4justice
I was served by city of Oakland today demanding $1,138.50 for leaving sign at rally. Check the return address:
They found out the garage I parked in and got pics of my truck. Also got me at the rally. #policestate #ftp
¤ProletarianDissent¤
I was served by city of Oakland today demanding $1,138.50 for leaving sign at rally. Check the return address:
The Ferguson and St. Louis police executions of unarmed people of color have sparked righteous outrage and rebellion...and cops are again attempting to make it personal:
Help @Stackizshort Fight the St. Louis MPD Officer Who Tried to Hurt Her Job!
https://storify.com/seanjjordan/help-stackizshort-fight-the-st-louis-mpd-officer-wDHS have been forced to reveal that they have an internet "kill switch"...and Obama has given them full control of nation-wide communications.
Court rules Dept. of Homeland Security must reveal ‘internet kill switch’ protocol
White House gives Homeland Security control of all communication systems
Connect this with the "Urban Shield" story and the significantly clear militarization of police by DHS, police and the government who are highly interested in supressing public dissent can have full communications while the rest of us have nothing. Nice little plan, there.
Oakland OKs money for surveillance centerChris Knall
David "Debt" Graeber evicted, implicates NYPD intelligence, claims revenge-harassment for OWS participation: http://boingboing.net/2014/04/03/david-debt-graeber-evicted.html …
OUTRIGHT MILITARIZATION OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS
‘Welcome to Police Industrial Complex’ – former Philly commissioner
OUTRIGHT MILITARIZATION OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS
‘Welcome to Police Industrial Complex’ – former Philly commissioner
Millions of dollars’ worth of military gear being distributed to local police forces on an annual basis.
Drones, M-16s and so many other hand-me-downs from over a decade of war making their way from US forces abroad to a local police force near you."
More:
DHS Spy Files on the Occupy Movement Part 2
ACTUAL DOMESTIC TERRORISM
The FBI and the "patriot act" define "domestic terrorism" as:
"A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act...if the act appears to be intended to:
(i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population..."
How the USA PATRIOT Act redefines "Domestic Terrorism"
How then are the Federal and local police department actions against Occupy and Anon4justice not domestic terrorism? How is tracking every citizen's every minute location and documenting it photographically not intended to intimidate and coerce, to play upon fear and paranoia? To get us to SHUT UP AND GO HOME AND STAY THERE and allow the powers that be to continue their path without checks or balances?
If there is a price to be paid for voicing your 1st Amendment rights, if there is an obvious risk in so doing, something may be terribly wrong.
Complete breaches of the Fourth Amendment
Toledo, Ohio
Jefferson County, Colorado
AP exclusive finds 165 MRAP vehicles used in Iraq handed to local police departments
"These are not the first armored military vehicles given to U.S. police departments. A little-known 1033 program, originating from the National Defense Authorization Act of 1997, allows the Department of Defense to donate what it considers surplus military equipment to police and sheriff departments, Michael Shank and Elizabeth Beavers wrote in The Guardian. A total of $4.2 billion in such equipment, including tanks and grenade launchers, has been donated so far."
NH legislator introduces bill to stop small-town cops from buying tanks
Iowa town given 49,000 pound MRAP
More:
How the Los Angeles Police Department are made into tentacles of Homeland Security.
ACLU Launches Nationwide Police Militarization Investigation
10 000 cops ordered on to Sofia streets to contain anti-government protests
Stop LAPD Spying!
Forget the NSA, the LAPD Spies on Millions of Innocent Folks
Yes, Virginia, there is a police state
Utah considers law to increase SWAT raid transparency
No Man's Air: Military And Police Drones Proliferate In Latin America
Hedges: Jeremy Hammond Exposed State's Plan to Criminalize Democratic Dissent
"JAY: So, quickly, for people--most of our viewers must know this, but quickly, just what is it that Jeremy exposed?
HEDGES: He broke into the private security firm known as Stratfor, which does work for a variety of intelligence agencies--for the Marine Corps and the Defense Department, the Pentagon, but also for corporations, including Raytheon, Dow Chemical, and others. And he turned over 3 million emails, email exchanges within the company to Rolling Stone, WikiLeaks, and other publications. Now, this was quite a significant dump, because it illustrated two or three very chilling things about the security and surveillance state, first of all that there was no division between corporate spying and government spying. It was seamless, including the same people going back and forth. It was from that dump that we realized the extent to which the Occupy movement was being spied upon and infiltrated and monitored and followed. And we also found from those email exchanges that there was a concerted attempt on the part of security officials, both inside the government and within the private security contracting agency, to link, falsely, nonviolent dissident groups with terrorist groups so that they could apply terrorism laws against these groups.
And when I sued Barack Obama over Section 1021 of the National National Defense Authorization Act, which permits the U.S. military, overturning 150 years of domestic law, to seize U.S. citizens who 'substantially' support--that is not a legal term, it's not material support, it's an amorphous term--'substantially' support al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or something called associated forces--again another nebulous term--hold those citizens in military facilities without due process indefinitely, part of the email exchanges were entered as evidence in my case. And those email exchanges showed that this private security firm, along with government officials, was attempting to link a group called U.S. Day of Rage, founded by a journalist and activist named Alexa O'Brien, who was one of my coplaintiffs, with al-Qaeda. And why were they trying to link that group with al-Qaeda? So that they could employ the draconian terrorism laws against nonviolent democratic dissidents. That all came out from Hammond."
---
"They're going to nationalize police departments. That's your military coup!"
"JAY: So, quickly, for people--most of our viewers must know this, but quickly, just what is it that Jeremy exposed?
HEDGES: He broke into the private security firm known as Stratfor, which does work for a variety of intelligence agencies--for the Marine Corps and the Defense Department, the Pentagon, but also for corporations, including Raytheon, Dow Chemical, and others. And he turned over 3 million emails, email exchanges within the company to Rolling Stone, WikiLeaks, and other publications. Now, this was quite a significant dump, because it illustrated two or three very chilling things about the security and surveillance state, first of all that there was no division between corporate spying and government spying. It was seamless, including the same people going back and forth. It was from that dump that we realized the extent to which the Occupy movement was being spied upon and infiltrated and monitored and followed. And we also found from those email exchanges that there was a concerted attempt on the part of security officials, both inside the government and within the private security contracting agency, to link, falsely, nonviolent dissident groups with terrorist groups so that they could apply terrorism laws against these groups.
And when I sued Barack Obama over Section 1021 of the National National Defense Authorization Act, which permits the U.S. military, overturning 150 years of domestic law, to seize U.S. citizens who 'substantially' support--that is not a legal term, it's not material support, it's an amorphous term--'substantially' support al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or something called associated forces--again another nebulous term--hold those citizens in military facilities without due process indefinitely, part of the email exchanges were entered as evidence in my case. And those email exchanges showed that this private security firm, along with government officials, was attempting to link a group called U.S. Day of Rage, founded by a journalist and activist named Alexa O'Brien, who was one of my coplaintiffs, with al-Qaeda. And why were they trying to link that group with al-Qaeda? So that they could employ the draconian terrorism laws against nonviolent democratic dissidents. That all came out from Hammond."
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"They're going to nationalize police departments. That's your military coup!"
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