Commentary: "Israeli Company Has FAA Permission to Fly Drones in U.S. Airspace" [05/16/12]
"The Israeli company Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is not so much from Mississippi as it is from Israel. Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries! And the Federal Aviation Administration has given them permission to fly their drones in American
airspace. Israel started its drone program with a contract in July of 1970 with the American company Teledyne Ryan. Since then it has moved to making its own drones which it uses to wage war with its neighbors as well as to keep Palestinians suppressed and under Jewish control. While being employed to control the Palestinians Israeli drones have been used in the direct killings of Palestinian children in Gaza. [...]"
Related: Beyond 2012: "Nano Drones, Ethical Algorithms: Inside Israel’s Secret Plan for Its Future Air Force"
Propaganda
Theatre: "Sen Diane Feinstein: “Get Ready For More Invasive TSA Searches to Save Us From
"Al Qaeda" [05/15/12]
"Despite widespread negative coverage of the now proven to be manufactured CIA underwear bomb plot, influential Senator Diane Feinstein has warned Americans that more invasive TSA searches are coming in order to keep us safe from al
Qaeda. Appearing on Fox News, Feinstein literally chided Americans for complaining about invasive sexual molestation type searches in airports throughout the country while applauding TSA for doing what appears to be absolutely nothing besides a slew of illegal, unconstitutional acts against innocent Americans, including children and the elderly. [...]"
Note: This reincarnated retread is so very suppressive and
terrorizes the very society she claims to 'protect'.
Commentary: "The
Spectacle Of Terror And Its Vested Interests" [05/11/12]
"The news stories, which quickly surface, long enough to cause scary headlines, then vanish before people can learn how often the cases are thrown out. These are stories about "bumbling fantasists", hapless druggies, the aimless, even the virtually homeless and mentally ill, and other marginal characters with not the strongest grip on reality, who have been lured into discourses about violence against America only after assiduous courting, and in some cases outright payment, by undercover FBI or police informants. They have become a litany in recent years. The terrifying 2003-2004 national news stories that a Detroit "sleeper cell" had sent Muslim terrorists to blow up Disneyland and other landmarks, including in Las Vegas, was later thrown out of court, with accusations of prosecutorial misconduct, to almost no press attention - the same cycle of hype and failed convictions that have characterized many such stories. The evidence had included a home video taken in Disneyland, "doodles", and a guy with a credit card fraud problem, who had been pressured to diminish his own sentence by accusing his buddies.
But the tales of entrapment and terror hype continue apace - ten years after 9/11. Judith Miller, in
Newsmax, writes that one recent case was so lame that even the FBI distanced itself from NYPD: "Despite FBI Doubts, NYPD Convinced Pipe Bomb Case Posed Real Danger", noted the headline on her 28 November 2011 article. A 27-year-old Dominican immigrant, Jose Pimentel, aka Muhamad
Yusuf, had been monitored by NYPD for two years. Last fall, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr charged Pimentel with constructing pipe bombs to attack "police cars, post offices, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and other targets". [...]"
Related: See below.
Commentary:"The
Yemen Underwear Bomb And Other Hobgoblins" [05/11/12]
"The danger in such juvenile acceptance of war propaganda is the creeping hand of despotism that must emerge. For if the public is lead to believe danger lurks in every shadow of the world, it will demand greater and greater protection from exactly those who salivate at the chance to provide it. From the Patriot Act to the National Defense Authorization Act, private correspondence and due process have been casually tossed aside for the promise of safety. This vicious cycle is reinforced by contrived instances of impending doom. The ruling class creates them and then feeds off the panic.
Even Bush administration spokesman Ari Fleischer admitted that “fake” terror alerts were used in 2002 to quell growing criticism amongst the public and particular Congressmen.
The famous Randolph Bourne quote “war is the health of the state” is often invoked as a simple dictum to demonstrate the irrefutable connection between government usurpations of authority and organized combat on a massive, industrialized scale. Almost any respectable writer, historian, or economist will cite the phrase when addressing the topic of warfare. That’s because in just seven plain words the mentality and violent temperament of those who sit at the state’s controls are defined so explicitly, it completely disrobes the glory and prestige too often associated with bloodthirsty crusades of patriotism.
Murray Rothbard recognized the underlying immorality of the government’s war machine complex when he wrote: It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute domination over the economy and the society. Society becomes a herd, seeking to kill its alleged enemies, rooting out and suppressing all dissent from the official war effort, happily betraying truth for the supposed public interest. Society becomes an armed camp, with the values and the morale—as Albert Jay Nock once phrased it—of an “army on the march.”
The alleged Yemen “underwear” bomber was just another fabricated spook in the long line of mounting justifications to keep the war on terror and its profiteers going; no matter the cost. As long as the American people are still easily whipped into a frenzy over forged menaces from afar, their blood and treasure will go on to be squandered on military boondoggles and redundant intelligence agencies. War and fear end up becoming a way of life. And so does the state’s command over what could be a life of peace and tranquility for the nation it supposedly protects. [...]"
Commentary: "Undercover
Agent In Al-Qaeda Bomb Plot "Was British National" [05/11/12]
"The device did not contain metal making it difficult to detect even in a rigorous airport security check.
The man who foiled a Yemen-based al-Qaeda "underwear bomb" plot is reported to have been a British man of Middle Eastern origin, according to US media.
UK officials declined to comment on the reports, but earlier this week the US said foreign agencies were involved in the operation.
The agent was sent by al-Qaeda to attack a US-bound plane, but left Yemen and gave the device to US intelligence.
The US insists the bomb never posed a threat to the public. Western passport-holders have long been seen as prime targets for militant groups seeking to plan attacks.
However, as well as reporting that the secret agent was a British citizen, NBC News in the US also says UK intelligence agencies were "heavily involved" in his recruitment. [...]"
Related: "British Intel MI5 And MI6 Behind Underwear Bomb Plot"
"British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 were ultimately behind this week's contrived underwear bomb plot, it has been alleged by sources spoken to by London's The Telegraph.
MI5 reportedly recruited a British passport holder of Saudi origin with the mission to infiltrate Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and gather intelligence which could be used to kill purported master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri in a drone strike... [...]"
Note: See also "Al Qaida
'Bomber' Was British Spy" Hertfordshire Mercury, and articles
below on this panel: "Al-Qaida Airline Bomb Plot 'Thwarted' By CIA" [05/09/12]
with related materials.
Propaganda
Theatre: "Al-Qaida
Airline Bomb Plot (Created by CIA) 'Thwarted' By CIA" [05/09/12]
"Plan hatched by "Yemen affiliate of al-Qaida" involved more sophisticated version of 2009 underwear bomb [...]
The Associated Press quoted unnamed US officials as saying that the would-be bomber, based in Yemen, had been given the bomb by al-Qaida, which had left the choice of plane and the timing to him. The CIA intervened to seize the bomb, AP reported. The fate of the alleged bomber is still unknown."
In spite of the alleged Yemeni bomb plot going on in the background, the US department of homeland security last week issued a statement saying that although threats from al-Qaida and its affiliates continued to evolve, officials had
"no indication of any specific, credible threats or plots against the US tied to the one-year anniversary of Bin Laden's death".
Related: MSM:
"CIA
Unraveled Bomb Plot From Within"
"The latest al-Qaeda bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including a double-agent — working on behalf of the CIA and its counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, said U.S. and Middle Eastern officials.
The Saudi service played a particularly important role in penetrating al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen and recovering the explosive device, according to officials who described an elaborate espionage operation in which the CIA tracked the bomb’s movements for weeks and then killed suspected plotters in a drone strike after the device was seized.
Senior U.S. officials continued to withhold certain details, including the location and status of the individual — described by officials as a Saudi informant — who penetrated al-Qaeda posing as a willing suicide bomber then turned over the device to authorities after leaving Yemen.
But comments by White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan and others made it clear that the involvement of the CIA and its partners went well beyond simply watching the bomb plot unfold. [...]
| "Double-Agent
Infiltrated Al-Qaeda To Foil Bomb Plot"
"Looks like a nice coup for the CIA: The agency and its counterpart in Saudi Arabia teamed up to fool the Yemen branch of al-Qaeda with a double-agent, reports the Los Angeles Times. The infiltrator convinced the group to give him a newly designed non-metallic bomb so he could attempt a terror attack aboard a US-bound plane. But as soon as the would-be "underwear bomber" got the device, he left Yemen and turned it over to intelligence officials from the US and other nations.
The informant also provided information that led to this weekend's successful CIA drone strike against one of the planners of the USS Cole attack in 2000, reports the New York Times. The double-agent is reportedly a
Saudi citizen who works for that nation's intelligence agency. [...]"
|
"Drone Strike 'Connected' To Underwear Bomb Plot"
Note: More false flag scenarios designed by controllers. Just
like with the 2009 'underwear bomber', the CIA is again involved. Last time,
they got him on the plane without a passport .. and the patsy was surprised
when his pants caught on fire after they were already in Detroit ... all
clearly a classified operation to boost control from the national security
state.
Flashback: "Hillary Clinton Admits the U.S. Government Created
'al-Qaeda'" [05/09/12]
[1:23]
Note: From April 2010.
Commentary: "FBI Informer Entraps Occupy Protestors Into US Government Plot to Blow Up Cleveland Bridge" [05/09/12]
"The latest plot involves five subjects allegedly planning to bomb a Cleveland area bridge. More on it below. Entrapment occurs when law enforcement officials or agents induce, influence, or provoke crimes that otherwise wouldn't be committed. It doesn't apply if subjects willingly act lawlessly. Government aiding, abetting, or facilitating them is considered lawful. Entrapment involves government operatives initiating the idea. If individuals go along under pressure despite no intent or desire to do so, they committed no crime. To convict, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that subjects weren't entrapped. Otherwise, judicial fairness requires exoneration. That's not how things turn out today. Innocence or guilt doesn't matter. Once charged, prosecutorial misconduct and right-wing courts convict. Juries are pressured and intimidated to go along even in cases with no plot, no crime, or intent to commit one. Attorney Eric Holder defends the practice. He calls stings a vital tool. He stops short of admitting entrapment. He must because it's illegal. It's nonetheless repeatedly used to convict innocent people. As a result, hundreds rot unjustly in America's gulag. Gerald Celente calls cops enforcers for crime bosses. So are FBI agents. They serve wealth and power. Corporate crooks are rewarded. Ordinary people are targeted. Familiar story lines repeat. They sound more like film plots than real ones. [...]"
MSM: "Police
Believe Domestic Dispute Led To Gun In Stuffed Animal At RI Airport" [05/09/12]
"Gun parts discovered by TSA officers inside stuffed animals in a child’s carry-on luggage at Rhode Island’s T.F. Green Airport on Monday were a result of “a domestic dispute,” Rhode Island Airport Police told
WBZ-TV. Officers uncovered a disassembled .40 caliber hand gun and ammunition that had been
“artfully concealed” inside of three stuffed animals. According to TSA officials, the main frame of the gun was inside one stuffed animal, a magazine loaded with two .40 caliber rounds and a firing pin were found inside a second stuffed animal, and a slide release lever was wedged inside a third stuffed animal.
TSA Spokesperson Ann Davis says those components when pieced together, are enough to make up a functioning gun.
The 4-year-old child was traveling with his father. After interviewing the father, authorities said they believed his story that he did not know the gun parts were there.
“It appears to be the result of a domestic dispute,” said Rhode Island Airport Police Chief Leo D. Messier.
Officers confiscated the weapon. The man and his son were allowed to continue on their trip on board a Pinnacle Airlines flight to Detroit.
“It was determined that there was no threat at any time to air safety,” Chief Messier said.
This incident is currently being investigated by the RI Airport Police, FBI and the RI State Police.
None of the agencies were willing to comment on the nature of the domestic dispute or where the gun came from, because a criminal investigation was ongoing. [...]"
Buffoonery:
"Border
Checks On Drugs And Guns 'Dropped' At Heathrow" [05/06/12]
"Labour urges Theresa May to probe claim that long queues and staff shortages have forced customs to drop guard on smuggling.
Customs checks aimed at thwarting drugs and arms smugglers have been downgraded in order to deal with the growing queues at Britain's major airports, according to frontline officials.
Senior immigration officers and border force unions say staff shortages and growing political pressure to reduce
queuing times mean that operations to combat the influx of drugs, guns and other contraband into the UK have, in effect, been placed on hold. [...]"
Note: Nice of them to let everyone know ahead of time, so as to
encourage maximum chaos, in order to justify in-place and planned elements of
the national security state.
Commentary:
"NY
Times Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebrating Breaking Up Its Own Terrorist Plots" [05/03/12]
"Over the last few years, we’ve noticed that nearly every victory the FBI celebrates against terrorism is actually about stopping its own terrorist plots that it feeds to hapless individuals, often nudging them and pushing them down the road to “become” terrorists, despite commonly displaying little to no aptitude for actual terrorism.
Add the NY Times to the newspapers who are beginning to question the FBI’s penchant for setting up its own plots for the sake of a high profile arrest of some clueless individuals. The United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years – or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts. But all these dramas were facilitated by the
F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested.
As the article makes clear, claims of entrapment rarely work in these cases, but it certainly raises questions about whether the FBI is actually protecting us from real plots or spending time creating publicity stunts that leave some people in jail. No doubt, some of these setups bust people who could potentially be interested in taking part in attacks if they had any real opportunity to do so. But, in most cases, it doesn’t seem like they would ever have the opportunity (unless the FBI was helping). In one case, the judge — even as she was sentencing the guy to decades in prison — admitted that the guy wouldn’t be a “terrorist” if it weren’t for the FBI: “Only the government could have made a ‘terrorist’ out of Mr.
Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope….” This is the same guy who laughed at earlier attempts by an FBI informant to get him to get involved in a plot.
There’s no doubt that there are real plots being attempted. But wouldn’t the FBI be better off focusing on those, rather than play acting all the time? [...]"
Note:
Related: See below.
Security Theatre: "FBI Informant In Cleveland Bridge 'Bombing Plot' Is Unmasked" [05/03/12]
"The paid informant who helped orchestrate the FBI sting that resulted in the arrest of five anarchists for allegedly plotting to blow up an Ohio bridge is a convicted felon who was arrested on bad check and theft charges in the midst of his cooperation with federal investigators, The Smoking Gun has learned.
Shaquille Azir, 39, was named in a pair of felony indictments filed in January in Cuyahoga County, according to court records.
Azir, who TSG has identified as the informant in the federal bombing case, is accused in the indictments of passing bad checks on July 25, 2011 and December 22, 2011.
Azir, pictured in the mug shot at right, “has been working as a source for the FBI since July 20, 2011,” according to the U.S. District Court complaint filed yesterday against the alleged bomb plotters. Wearing a body recorder, Azir captured the five self-styled anarchists plotting to use C-4 explosive to take down a Cleveland-area bridge.
Azir arranged for the purchase of the C-4 from an undercover FBI agent. He also fronted the alleged conspirators money for the buy of the material, which had been rendered inert by federal investigators. If the bombing case goes to trial, defense lawyers will certainly portray the 6’ 5”, 350-pound Azir as the plot’s instigator, a snitch who pocketed the FBI’s money to help entrap the five defendants, who range in age from 20 to 35. [...]"
Related: "FBI
Arrests 5 Men In Alleged Plot To Blow Up Bridge Near Cleveland" [05/02/12]
"...The FBI said the five men planted what they thought were explosives underneath the bridge’s column and tried to set it off remotely. Instead, they were arrested by undercover agents who were monitoring the group by video. [...]"
MSM: "TSA Hires Criminals and Sexual Predators Without Checking Backgrounds: Breaches Own "Security" [04/29/12]
" ...You can’t put unsecured people or people that you haven’t checked in a secured environment,” security expert Brent Brown of
Chesley-Brown Security told WSBTV. “By that very definition, you’ve breached security.”
The latest revelations concerning the TSA once underscore the undeniable fact that the agency is not only incompetent and dysfunctional, but poses a threat to aviation and the traveling public at large.
Instead of addressing the issue of criminals and sexual predators working for the agency, the TSA has once again decided to engage in public relations damage control. It will continue to hire criminals and perverts and insist that molesting passengers is necessary for national security and protection against largely nonexistent terrorists. [...]"
MSM: "TSA Hired Agents Without Completing Background Checks" [04/27/12]
"Facing a backlog of background checks, the Transportation Security Administration gave airport employers the ability to hire any workers needed at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport, according to a memo obtained by WSBTV Atlanta. The "regulatory relief" affects airports across the country, WSBTV Atlanta reports.
TSA officials said they ultimately resolved the backlog of background checks at the Atlanta airport, but made no mention of whether the situation had been fixed at other airports, according to
WSBTV. [...]"
MSM:
"Republicans Push For Department of Homeland Security Takeover of National Parks" [04/27/12]
"Republicans in the House are pushing to give control of at least 50 national parks within 100 miles of the US border to the Department of Homeland Security.
The National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act would allow DHS to suspend any federal law on lands run by the departments of Agriculture and Interior.
A recent article published in the LA Times documents the way most Rhino conservatives will be thinking heading into the November elections. [...]"
MSM: "63 Active Drone Sites in USA" [04/26/12]
"There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit.
The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states.
Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority. [...]"
Commentary: "Experts Agree: War On Terror Is A Racket, CIA And Wall Street Are Financed By Global Drug Trade"
"The Obama administration has declared that the “War on Terror” is officially over, but this move only signifies a change in public terminology, not official U.S. policy. [...]"
Commentary: "TSA
Goons Give Pat-Down To Girl With Cerebral Palsy, Family Misses Flight" [04/26/12]
"The Transportation Security Administration is once again the subject of national scrutiny, this time after aggressively screening a 7-year-old female passenger with cerebral palsy which caused her family to miss their flight.
The girl, identified as Dina Frank in a report by The Daily, was waiting with her family on Monday to board a flight departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York headed to Florida.
Since Dina walks with the aid of leg braces and crutches, she cannot pass through airport metal detectors, and must instead submit to a pat-down by TSA agents.
Dina, who is also reportedly developmentally disabled, is usually frightened by the procedure. Her family reportedly requests that agents on hand take the time to introduce themselves to her.
However, the agents on duty at the time began to handle her aggressively instead.
Air travel is difficult to the family due to Dina’s disabilities, but the nature of Monday’s inspection was especially traumatic for the child.
“They make our lives completely difficult,” her father, Dr. Joshua Frank, a Long Island pediatrician, told The Daily. “She’s not a threat to national security.”
Frank taped the encounter, which ended when a supervisor inspected her crutches and let them pass. But agents followed up and insisted upon doing a full inspection of Dina.
Ultimately, the family missed their flight. “They’re harassing people. This is totally misguided policy,” Frank told The Daily. “Yes, I understand that TSA is in charge of national security and there’s all these threats. [But] for her to be singled out, it’s crazy.”
Dina, from Long Island, had recently experienced triumph after Botox and phenol injections helped her to gain control of her legs, enough to take several unassisted steps.
After being born prematurely and suffering from bleeding in the brain, Dina struggled for years to get around, even enduring a double hip replacement to assist in her recovery, CBS New York reported. [...]"
MSM: "TSA
Screeners Charged In LA Drug Trafficking Probe" [04/26/12]
"Two former and two current Transportation Security Administration employees have been arrested on federal drug trafficking and bribery charges for allowing large amounts of cocaine and other drugs to pass through X-ray machines at security checkpoints in exchange for cash, authorities said.
A 22-count indictment unsealed Wednesday outlined five incidents where the employees took payments of up to $2,400 to provide drug couriers unfettered access at Los Angeles International Airport over a six-month period last year.
"The allegations in this case describe a significant breakdown of the screening system through the conduct of individuals who placed greed above the nation's security needs," said U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr.
Among those arrested and charged are Naral Richardson, 30, of Los Angeles, who was fired by TSA in 2010 and accused of orchestrating the scheme; John Whitfield, 23, of Los Angeles, a current TSA screener; Joy White, 27, of Compton, who was terminated last year; and Capeline McKinney, 25, of Los Angeles, also a current screener. [...]"
Buffoonery:
"Dept.
Of 'Homeland Security' Raids Flea Market Over Bogus Sports Jerseys" [04/26/12]
"Vendors at the Patapsco Flea Market have a history of allegedly selling counterfeit and pirated merchandise, according to an affidavit, which outlined the latest accusation that resulted in a raid Sunday by federal Homeland Security Investigations special agents.
Capping a 2 1/2-year-long investigation into counterfeit apparel and accessories as well as pirated DVDs and musical recordings, federal investigators confiscated numerous items being sold there.
Federal authorities released few details about the raid, but the affidavit details several undercover operations that found that many of the items sold at the flea market were fake. They included goods with high-end brand names such as Nike, Uggs, Polo, North Face, Louis Vuitton and Gucci. [...]"
Note: So, protecting corporate brand name products is a matter
of 'national security' .... fools and buffoons.
MSM: "TSA
Pats Down 4-Year-Old After She Hugs Grandmother" [04/25/12]
"A 4-year-old girl was patted down recently by Transportation Security
Officers (TSO) at a Wichita, Kan., airport after she embraced her grandmother
at the security checkpoint. Michelle Brademeyer, the girl's mother, wrote
about the incident on her Facebook page last week. She said the trouble began
when her daughter, Isabel, successfully passed through security, but then ran
to hug her grandmother, who had triggered an alarm and had been asked to sit
and await a pat-down. "The Transportation Security Officers who were
present responded to this very simple action in the worst way
imaginable," Brademeyer wrote. [...]"
Related: "Weeping
Four-Year-Old Girl Accused Of "Carrying A Gun By" TSA Officers"
"Of all the many complaints about airport security and the TSA, one of
the most common is that they make little distinction between plausible
security threats and passengers unlikely to be doing anything wrong. And a
recent incident in Wichita, Kansas has reinforced that argument, as a
four-year-old girl was apparently subjected to a humiliating ordeal after she
hugged her grandmother while she was waiting in line. The girl was accused of
" having a gun" and declared a 'high security threat', while agents
threatened to shut down the whole airport if she could not be calmed down.
When asked about the overbearing treatment the girl received, a TSA spokesman
did not apologise and insisted that correct procedures had been followed.
[...] But their nightmare was not yet over, as on a connecting flight in
Denver, an airport employee demanded to know which of the family was Isabella
- and 'looked really confused' when the girl was pointed out to her.
[...]"
Note: Of course. These are reincarnated retreads ...
sequentials, and minions ...low-life lying people with power. Former victims
make the best tyrants over others ... notice how they don't treat 'children'
as 'children' .. in the sense that they are used to 'their own kind' ...
children with adult minds ... not simultaneous incarnations, which have a
child's mind in a child's body ... just some thoughts. [...]"
Interviews: "National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance" [04/21/12]
[32:24]
"In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA’s massive power to spy on Americans and why the FBI raided his home after he became a whistleblower. Binney was a key source for investigative journalist James Bamford’s recent exposé in Wired Magazine about how the NSA is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in
Bluffdale, Utah. The Utah spy center will contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of communication collected by the agency, including private emails, cell phone calls, Google searches and other personal data.
Binney served in the NSA for over 30 years, including a time as technical director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Since retiring from the NSA in 2001, he has warned that the NSA’s data-mining program has become so vast that it could “create an Orwellian state.” Today marks the first time Binney has spoken on national television about NSA surveillance. [...]"
Related:
Flashback:
"Coming Soon: Retroactive Surveillance on Anyone"
"As the price of digital storage drops and the technology to tap electronic communication improves, authoritarian governments will soon be able to perform retroactive surveillance on anyone within their borders, according to a Brookings Institute report. [...]"
Trends:
"Drone Use Takes Off on the Home Front"
[04/21/12]
"With little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft known as drones, according to documents obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests by an advocacy group.
The more than 50 institutions that received approvals to operate remotely piloted aircraft are more varied than many outsiders and privacy experts previously knew. They include not only agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security but also smaller ones such as the police departments in North Little Rock, Ark., and Ogden, Utah, as well the University of North Dakota and Nicholls State University in Louisiana.
The information, released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, came to light as the Federal Aviation Administration gears up to advance the widespread use of the drones. By the fall of 2015, Congress wants the agency to integrate remotely piloted aircraft throughout U.S. airspace. [...]"
Commentary: "The
TSA's Mission Creep Is Making The US A Police State" [04/20/12]
"The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports – now it's checkpoints and roadblocks.
Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive
groping based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists have shouted down all constitutional or human rights objections with the mantra "If you don't like it, don't fly!"
This callous disregard for travelers' rights merely paraphrases the words of Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano, who shares, with the president, ultimate responsibility for all TSA travesties since 2009. In November 2010, with the groping policy only a few weeks old, Napolitano dismissed complaints by saying "people [who] want to travel by some other means" have that right. (In other words: if you don't like it, don't fly.)
But now TSA is invading travel by other means, too. No surprise, really: as soon as she established groping in airports, Napolitano expressed her desire to expand TSA jurisdiction over all forms of mass transit. In the past year, TSA's snakelike VIPR (Visual Intermodal Prevention and Response) teams have been slithering into more and more bus and train stations – and even running checkpoints on highways – never in response to actual threats, but apparently more in an attempt to live up to the inspirational motto displayed at the TSA's air marshal training center since the agency's inception: "Dominate. Intimidate. Control. [...]"
Commentary: "Homeland Security's 'Pre-Crime' Screening Will Never Work" [04/19/12]
"First, predictive software of this kind is undermined by a simple statistical problem known as the false-positive paradox. Any system designed to spot terrorists before they commit an act of terrorism is, necessarily, looking for a needle in a haystack. As the adage would suggest, it turns out that this is an incredibly difficult thing to do. Here is why: let's assume for a moment that 1 in 1,000,000 people is a terrorist about to commit a crime. Terrorists are actually probably much much more rare, or we would have a whole lot more acts of terrorism, given the daily throughput of the global transportation system. Now lets imagine the FAST algorithm correctly classifies 99.99 percent of observations -- an incredibly high rate of accuracy for any big data-based predictive model. Even with this unbelievable level of accuracy, the system would still falsely accuse 99 people of being terrorists for every one terrorist it finds. Given that none of these people would have actually committed a terrorist act yet distinguishing the innocent false positives from the guilty might be a non-trivial, and invasive task.
Of course FAST has nowhere near a 99.99 percent accuracy rate. I imagine much of the work being done here is classified, but a writeup in Nature reported that the first round of field tests had a 70 percent accuracy rate. From the available material it is difficult to determine exactly what this number means. There are a couple of ways to interpret this, since both the write-up and the DHS documentation (all
pdfs) are unclear. This might mean that the current iteration of FAST correctly classifies 70 percent of people it observes -- which would produce false positives at an abysmal rate, given the rarity of terrorists in the population. The other way of interpreting this reported result is that FAST will call a terrorist a terrorist 70 percent of the time. This second option tells us nothing about the rate of false positives, but it would likely be quite high. In either case, it is likely that the false-positive paradox would be in full force for FAST, ensuring that any real terrorists identified are lost in a sea of falsely accused innocents.
The second major problem with FAST is the [...]
Commentary: "Homeland Launches Undercover TSA Spies To Ride Houston
Buses" [04/18/12]
[1:34]
"Texas: A new program in Houston will place undercover TSA agents and police officers on buses whose job it will be to perform bag searches, watch for “suspicious activity” and interrogate passengers in order to ‘curb crime and terrorism’.
Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee unveiled the program, labeled Bus Safe, during a press conference on Friday. According to a Metropolitan Transit Authority of Houston (METRO) press release, agencies involved in the scheme will, “ride buses, perform random bag checks, and conduct K-9 sweeps, as well as place uniformed and plainclothes officers at Transit Centers and rail platforms to detect, prevent and address latent criminal activity or behavior.”
“If you think you’re going to be a bad actor on buses, get ready. You are going to have a short-lived time frame,” Jackson Lee said during the press conference. The Congresswoman is a
staunch advocate of the TSA, having recently chastised the passage of a new law that allows airports to evict TSA agents and replace them with private screeners by claiming it would lead to a new 9/11-style attack. [...]
TSA agents are now being used to literally occupy America with an expansion of the 9,000 plus checkpoints that were already operational last year. 12 more TSA VIPR teams (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) will be added to the 25 who are already present at transportation hubs throughout the country.
... If the mass rollout of the TSA’s occupying army of minimum wage morons is not abated, Americans will have to get used to being interrogated, frisked and treated like criminals by TSA goons on a regular basis, meaning the United States’ transformation into a Soviet-style police state festooned with internal checkpoints will be complete. [...]"
Note: Lee, a reincarnated retread fascist control freak, needs
to go back to the planet from whence she came. Here, she IS a social
terrorist, promoting terrorization of the population by sadistic goons.
MSM: "TSA
Inspector Accused Of Stealing Ipads At DFW Airport" [04/16/12]
"A Transportation Security Administration baggage inspector at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport has been indicted in the theft of Apple iPads from luggage over eight months.
Clayton Keith Dovel, 36, of Bedford was arrested Feb. 1 and has been suspended indefinitely, officials said.
The investigation led to the recovery of eight stolen iPads, including one that was among Dovel’s possessions at Terminal E when he was arrested, airport police said.
His attorney, Greg Westfall, declined to comment. The indictments that the Tarrant County grand jury issued this week charge Dovel with theft by a public servant of items valued at up to $20,000. If convicted, he could face two to 10 years in prison. [...]"
Note: More low-life losers in the TSA stable of 60,000 blue-shirts,
many hired off pizza boxes.
Commentary: "Former TSA Head Slams Agency: 'No More Banned Items'" [04/14/12]
"In a scathing article for the Wall Street Journal, former Transportation Security Administration chair Kip Hawley slammed the agency saying "it is a national embarrassment that our airport security system remains so hopelessly bureaucratic and disconnected from the people whom it is meant to protect."
Hawley, who served as TSA chair from 2005 to 2009, says the agency requires a complete overhaul, and that it has spent years standing behind a "wrongheaded approach to risk."
He goes on to say that the rules and regulations in place today are outdated given modern security improvements.
"Never again will a terrorist be able to breach the cockpit simply with a box cutter or a knife," he says. "The cockpit doors have been reinforced, and passengers, flight crews and air marshals would intervene."
In order to improve, the TSA must focus on managing risk, not enforcing regulations: "Terrorists are adaptive, and we need to be adaptive, too. Regulations are always playing catch-up, because terrorists design their plots around the loopholes," he writes. Otherwise, the TSA will continue to waste time and money that can be better spent preventing risks, he explains.
To that respect, Hawley proposes five initiatives to improve the agency. Here they are: [...]"
Commentary: "Homeland Security Office Accused of Faking Reports on Internal Investigations" [04/07/12]
"Homeland Security Office Accused of Faking Reports on Internal Investigations.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's watchdog agency is in turmoil amid allegations that its agents in Texas were told to falsify reports ahead of an office inspection last fall, according to an internal email and interviews.
Thomas M. Frost, the department's chief investigator, and deputy John Ryan were placed on administrative leave March 29, according to the email sent to managers nationwide last week.
Frost and Ryan declined to comment as did Acting Inspector General Charles K. Edwards.
Wayne H. Salzgaber, another deputy, wrote in the email that Ryan, who oversees the inspection operations, and Frost were on leave pending the conclusion of a U.S. Department of Justice and FBI investigation into the matter. [...]"
Interviews:
"Rense & Emord - TSA - 10 Years Of True Terror And Counting
" [04/06/12]
[8:49]
"Jeff and Jonathan discuss the total waste of the TSA charade. The TSA has just had its 10th anniversary, caught no-one and spent a fortune.
Is the TSA's purpose only to humiliate? [...]"
MSM: "TSA
Screener At JFK Hurls Hot Coffee At American Airlines Pilot Who Told Her To
Stop Swearing" [04/05/12]
"An airport security worker was arrested after throwing a cup of hot coffee over a pilot who told her to stop swearing.
Transportation Security Administrator (TSA) Lateisha El, 30, was in the middle of a conversation with work colleagues at a JFK Airport terminal when she was interrupted by the American Airlines pilot.
Off-duty airman Steven Trivett, 54, was exiting terminal 8 when he overheard El swearing and asked her to tone down the profanity.
Trivett, of Butler, Tennessey, told them they should 'conduct themselves more professionally in uniform and not use profanity or the n-word,' according to the New York Post.
One TSA screener told Trivett to 'mind his own business' and swore at him. Trivett then identified himself as a 'TSA officer' - an armed pilot - before trying to grab the ID tags of screener El to get her name.
But Port Authority police sources told the newspaper that El responded by hurling a 'full cup' cup of hot coffee over the pilot.
Trivett was not seriously injured. El, of Brooklyn’s East New York, was charged with harassment and
misdemeanor- assault for the incident at 5am on March 28.[...]"
Note: It never ends with these moronic losers.
Commentary: "DHS
Isn’t The Only Ammunition Hog In The United States" [04/05/12]
"There are two stories that have come to light recently, the first is the awarding of a contract to a munitions manufacturer for 450,000,000 hollow point rounds for the .40 caliber.
The second story which I wrote is how the Department of Homeland Security had already ordered 200,000,000 rounds of .40 caliber, but also ordered 15,000 gun cleaning kits for the .40 caliber weapons, and has put a request out for a virtual shooting gallery for the .40 caliber handguns.
650,000,000 round of ammunition is quite a bit of lead and brass. It will sure to drive the price of copper and brass way up. But Homeland Security is not alone in their requests. [...]"
MSM: "Authorities Probe Drug Trafficking Scheme Involving Delta, TSA Workers" [04/01/12]
"Authorities are probing a drug trafficking scheme involving Delta Airlines and Transportation Security Administration workers in Los Angeles and Hawaii.
John Tai of Carson is among several arrested for allegedly having drugs and cash flown to and from California and Hawaii.
Investigators say TSA or Delta Airlines employees would find a checked bag after it had been screened and put drugs or cash inside.
A passenger would then pick it up at baggage claim like any other bag. A federal investigation has already found that hundreds of thousands of pounds of methamphetamine was smuggled between the two states over the past two years. [...]"
MSM: "TSA
Agents Trashed Hotel Room, Fired Gun From Window" [03/30/12]
"Miami Beach police say two Transportation Security Administration officers partied a little too hard Tuesday night, trashed their South Beach hotel room and then picked up a semi-automatic handgun and shot six rounds out the window.
One bullet pierced a $1,500 hurricane impact resistant window at a nearby Barneys New York, penetrated a wall and tore into some jeans in the closed store’s stockroom, according to store manager Adelchi
Mancusi. Jeffrey Piccolella, 27, and Nicholas Anthony Puccio, 25, were arrested just before midnight. The Palm Beach County men have been charged with criminal mischief and use of a firearm while under the influence.
In a city known for wild, late-night behavior, merely tossing speakers, lamps, a phone, ice chest and vase out a second floor room at the Hotel Shelley, 844 Collins. Ave., might not have drawn much attention. [...]"
Note: More losers hired from pizza box advertisements, no
doubt.
Commentary: "FBI Taught Agents They Could 'Bend or Suspend the Law'" [03/29/12]
"According to the FBI's internal inquiry on counterterrorism training, the FBI taught agents that the Bureau "has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedoms of others"; that agents should "never attempt to shake hands with an Asian"; that Arabs were "prone to outbursts" of a "Jekyll & Hyde" nature. [...]"
MSM: "TSA Manager Arrested for Running Prostitution
Ring" [03/29/12]
"A manager at the Transportation Security Administration has lost his job after being arrested on prostitution-related charges. According to court documents, the agency had received a complaint of "very similar" activities back in 2009.
Bryant Jermaine Livingston, 39, was arrested while on the job as a supervisor of TSA agents at Dulles International Airport. The Manassas, Virginia resident, said by phone he is innocent of the charges, but declined to discuss the details of the case.
According to charging documents, on February 15th, Livingston used cash to rent a room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring, Md. The hotel manager recognized Livingston as a previous customer who, on earlier occasions had "groups of males and females frequently entering and exiting Livingston's room," according to a court document.
Similar activity was happening on February 15, so the manager called Montgomery County Police to report likely prostitution. Responding officers offered to accompany the manager as she went to evict the people from the room.
At the doorway, Livingston denied prostitution was occurring, and invited the manager and police into the room.
Responding officers say they saw, "11 people inside the room [including] three naked females and four males attempting to get dressed. Multiple people were laying on the two beds and other people were sitting in chairs and standing in the room."
In a hallway interview, Bryant Livingston told the police officers he "runs the airport security at Dulles," according to the charging document.
A spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration confirmed that Livingston had worked for the agency since Oct. 29, 2002, but he is now "no longer employed by TSA." [...]"
Note: More low-level perspective incarnations or minions with
nothing else to do with their time.
Legal Case:
"Class Action Suit Calls 'Homeland Security' School a Scam
" [03/28/12]
"A for-profit school offering counterterrorism programs is "preying on the hopes and dreams of vulnerable students" by lying about post-graduation job prospects, leaving graduates jobless and unable to pay off student loans, a graduate claims in a Superior Court class action. Brian Wilhelm says he was in a state of "economic despair" when he enrolled at defendant International Development Center's campus in Hollywood, seeking its "Homeland Security and Investigation Fast-Track Diploma." He paid $15,000 in tuition and was an A student, Wilhelm says, but he ended up jobless in a government-assisted shelter, saddled with student loans. "This lawsuit arises out of the fraudulent and deceptive business practices of defendant International Career Development College, Inc. This for-profit corporation has churned out graduates from the Homeland Security and Investigation Fast-Track Diploma program and/or Homeland Security Associate's Degree program, many of whom have little or no hope of working at the United States Homeland Security Department at any point in their careers or find similar employment. This for-profit college has misled students into enrolling into its educational programs by adopting misleading/deceptive names for its educational programs, adopting a practice of misrepresenting its post-graduation employment statistics, and by making other misleading and false representations," the complaint states. [...]"
Related: "Repress
U, Class Of 2012 - Homeland Security Goes To College"
"Since 9/11, the homeland security state has come to campus just as it has come to America’s towns and cities, its places of work and its houses of worship, its public space and its cyberspace. But the age of (in)security had announced its arrival on campus with considerably less fanfare than elsewhere—until, that is, the “less lethal” weapons were unleashed in the fall of 2011.
Today, from the City University of New York to the University of California, students increasingly find themselves on the frontlines, not of a war on terror, but of a war on “radicalism” and “extremism.” Just about everyone from college administrators and educators to law enforcement personnel and corporate executives seems to have enlisted in this war effort. Increasingly, American students are in their sights.
In 2008, I laid out seven steps the Bush administration had taken to create a homeland security campus. Four years and a president later, Repress U has come a long way. In the Obama years, it has taken seven more steps to make the university safe for plutocracy. Here is a step-by-step guide to how they did it. [...]"
Commentary: "FBI
Explanation Of Missing Oklahoma City Bombing Tapes Not Credible, Judge Says" [03/28/12]
" There are many problems with the official story of the bombing. Let's start with McVeigh's whereabouts on April 17. McVeigh had been filmed by a security camera at a nearby McDonald's 24 minutes before the time stamped on the truck rental agreement, wearing clothes that did not match either of the men seen at Elliott's. There is no plausible explanation of how he traveled the mile and a quarter from McDonald's to the rental agency, carless and alone as he claims, without getting soaked in the rain.
The three people interviewed agreed John Does 1 and 2 were dry. (Ref)
... According to Stephen Jones, who has seen the interview transcripts, it took 44 days for the FBI to convince the car rental agency owner that John Doe 1 was Timothy McVeigh. And in the end they did not dare put him on the witness stand, for fear of what might happen under cross-examination. There is also an unanswered question with regard to the truck, namely what was the Army doing with a Ryder Truck just before the Murrah blast?
From the time of the assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Boothe to the present, there has been a consistent fairytale that Americans found almost comforting in times of losing a loved and respected national figure,namely that of the alleged "lone nut assassin", which has been rarely born out by a true examination of the facts.
It is painfully obvious in this case, that the FBI doesn't want the true facts of this horrendous act to be known, because it would shatter a number of Americans' illusions about what covert evil the US government is truly capable of doing. [...]"
MSM:
"Congresswoman Blackburn Wants To Know Why TSA Is Searching Semi Trucks At Roadblocks In Tennessee" [03/28/12]
[7:48]
Commentary: "TSA
Bars Security Guru From Perv Scanner Testimony" [03/28/12]
"Security expert Bruce Schneier was been banned at the last minute from testifying in front of congress on the efficacy – or otherwise – of the US Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) much-maligned perv scanners.
Schneier is a long-time critic of the TSA's policies for screening travelers, and was formally invited to appear before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure hearings. However, the TSA objected to his presence because he is currently involved in a legal case over the use of said scanners in US airports. [...]
"I was looking forward to sitting next to a TSA person and challenging some of their statements. That would have been interesting," Schneier told The Register. "The request to appear came from the committee itself, because they'd been reading my stuff on this and thought it would be interesting."
Schneier, who is currently involved in an Economist debate on just this issue, has criticized the TSA's procedures as "security theater", designed to give the appearance of security without actually being effective. He has pointed out that the scanners are easily defeated, and that since people who do have items are merely forced to give them up and sent on their way, terrorists simply need to send enough people through the systems until one of them succeeds.
This isn't the first time the TSA has been less than willing to have itself subject to anything like the same scrutiny that aircraft passengers are routinely put through. Last year they ducked out of similar hearings at the last minute, apparently because they didn't want to sit next to representatives from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)."
Note: Never mind that the scanners don't work ... even the Israelis
have said this for years, and that the Chertoff Group and others profit from
the sale of the machines ... all fraud and theatre ...
MSM: "TSA
Agent Arrested For Involvement In Meth Operation" [03/23/12]
"A Transportation Security Agent at Nashville International Airport remains behind bars Wednesday in connection to a Maury County meth operation.
Members of the Maury County drug task force made the discovery at an apartment Tuesday night in Columbia, during a normal probation and parole check on one of the residents.
Police said two people were taken into custody, including Erin Barger, a 29-year-old TSA screener.
When asked whether Barger had anything to say regarding the incident, the drug agent responded by saying, "She made statement she worked with TSA as a screener. She was asked could she pass a drug screen, her words she [said she] ‘didn't want to talk about it.'" [...]"
Propaganda
Theatre: "Hundreds' of Hezbollah Agents in US: Peter King"
[03/23/12]
"The US is crawling with Hezbollah agents, many of whom have been trained as terrorists, Rep. Peter King said in a CNN appearance today. "The American intelligence community … believes we are very much at risk for an attack by Iranian operatives, which would be Hezbollah," King said, according to Politico. "It really is the ‘A’ team of international terrorism—far more sophisticated than
al-Qaeda." King said he wasn't sure how many agents there were, but "we estimate it to be at least in the hundreds, maybe the thousands." He cited the alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US as evidence of the danger, and wondered aloud if Iran might "take preemptive action" if tensions rose over its nuclear program. King chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, and is holding a hearing today that he says is intended to "educate" Americans on the threat of an Iranian attack. [...]"
Note: As I've said before, sociopath Rep King has severe
psychological problems.
Commentary: "French Terror Attack: All the Hallmarks of an Intelligence Psy-op and False Flag" [03/23/12]
"Mohammed Merah, the suspect in the killing of seven people outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, fits the pattern of an al-Qaeda intelligence asset. According to the BBC, he was on the radar of French authorities because of visits he made to Afghanistan and the “militant stronghold” of Waziristan in Pakistan. [...]
The fact Mohammed Merah was in the custody of the Joint Special Operations Command in Afghanistan – and his supposed jail break at the Sarposa Prison was reportedly orchestrated by the Taliban (also
created by the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI) – certainly raises questions about the attack in France, where a national election will soon be held.
The Telegraph reports that the attacks of the supposedly al-Qaeda connected Merah will play into the election bid of National Front candidate Marine Le Pen, who is unlikely to ever become the president of France.
It has, however, provided Nicholas Sarkozy with a pretext to put the southern part of the nation on high alert and cancel the campaigns of presidential contenders. Sarkozy stands to benefit from the terror attacks and play the role of a strong leader during a national crisis.
“In the short term it is likely that President Nicolas Sarkozy will benefit. Very quickly he took charge. He
' rushed to the scene'. He ' suspended his campaign'. He ' spoke as the president of the
republic',” writes Gavin Hewitt for the BBC." :
Related: "France is on its
' Highest Anti-Terror Alert' After Shooting"
[1:07]
"Following the racist murder by a scooter riding gunman outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, president Nicolas Sarkozy has put the region on its highest terrorism alert. [...]"
| Commentary: "The Return of Gladio And The Rebirth of Terror Under French Tyrant Nicolas Sarkozy"
"Another day, another false-flag terror event in another advanced Western democracy. This time, the people of France are the target of Western state-sponsored terrorism and the strategy of tension. The patsy's name is Mohammed
Merah. The names of the people who were murdered by the French state are Jonathan
(Yonatan) Sandler, plus two of his young children named Aryeh and Gabriel, and another child named Myriam
Monsonego. This is an ordinary state-run terrorist operation to increase tension, fear, and hatred in Western society. This is what the fascist State does when it is free to write history on the spot and blow stuff up. It kills innocent children to make the submerged public gasp for air, hate the scapegoat, and demand security and steel nerve from the leaders of the State.
Vincenzo Vinciguerra, an Italian neo-fascist and terrorist, described in 1984 the
existence of a shadow network of military officials and political leaders in Italy who frequently
organized terror attacks to keep the country within the sphere of right-wing
politics. This network was part of a larger structure known as Gladio that included government fascists in Europe,
America, and NATO. Vinciguerra, who was a mercenary of this secret state-terror network until the day he raised awareness of its existence, said in the famous documentary,
"Operation Gladio": "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security." [...]" |
"Sarkozy
Opens Poll Lead After France Shootings"
"President Nicolas Sarkozy has surged into the lead in election opinion polls following his handling of the crisis in Toulouse where a gunman is under siege suspected of killing of seven people. [...]" |
"Suspected
Toulouse Killer Jumps To Death During Police Raid"
"Mohammed Merah, the suspected attacker of a Jewish school in Toulouse, jumped to his death from his apartment window during a police raid on his home in that southwestern French city.
Merah, 23, and police had been engaged in a standoff for more than a day when police entered his apartment on Thursday afternoon. [...]"
Note: Well, he won't be doing any talking, now. | "Al
Qaeda' Killer's Extensive Links To French Authorities"
"The man accused of killing seven people during recent gun attacks in Toulouse has been killed, following a 32-hour standoff with police -- as more information has come to light about his extensive links to the French authorities... [...]"
Commentary:
"Reading the Tea Leaves on Real ID" [03/22/12]
"When a hearing is calm and subdued on an issue that has been contentious for seven years, is it news? Maybe - when that issue is Real ID. I blogged last fall about how Real ID was dead and the committee room for today's House Judiciary Committee hearing on Real ID had the atmosphere of a funeral home: quiet, unhurried, with no raised voices or angry emotions. It was sparsely attended both in the audience and among committee members, without a single rank-and-file Republican attending.
Contrast that with the history of Real ID — states in open rebellion against a federal statute and refusing to comply. Privacy, civil liberties, libertarian and other groups starting websites with names like
www.realnightmare.org. Packed hearings from 2009 with vocal debates about repealing the law. So how did we get here and what does it mean?
As background, it's important to understand that Real ID is stalled, as currently constituted. It's a huge unfunded mandate that forces states to conform to one-size-fits-all drivers' licenses rules. At least 15 states have rejected that mandate and the federal government's only solution under the statute is to bar citizens of those states from using their driver's licenses to pass airport security. Since that would bring air travel to a halt, it isn't going to happen. So — stalemate.
The other key background fact: the Real ID regulations don't actually match the Real ID statute. The regulations ignore key requirements like the need to build a national database of drivers' information. Also the regulations (and Department of Homeland Security [DHS] officials) generally talk about "material compliance" with Real ID — i.e. general compliance with the law's broad principles rather than its precise provisions. [...]"
Commentary: "FBI Linked to Yet Another Domestic Terrorism Plot" [03/22/12]
"In its latest effort to panic the American public, the FBI last month fabricated an alleged al Qaeda terror plot against the U.S. Capitol Building. According to reports published by Russian news outlet RT and others, after arresting an intoxicated
American- born drug dealer of Moroccan descent, FBI agents drove him to the Capitol and handed him a fake bomb before summarily rearresting him on Feb. 17. Over the course of a year, 29-year-old Amine El
Khalifi, who was clearly mentally ill and often high on cocaine and other drugs, was persuaded by an FBI informant to agree to attack the U.S. Capitol. Because El Khalifi didn't have a gun, a bomb or a car, the FBI informant graciously offered to provide him all three - and thus El Khalifi was driven to the U.S. Capitol building by the FBI, handed a gun and a bomb, and then arrested as an "al Qaeda operative." [...]
Over the course of a year, 29-year-old Amine El Khalifi, who was clearly mentally ill and often high on cocaine and other drugs, was persuaded by an FBI informant to agree to attack the U.S. Capitol. Because El Khalifi didn't have a gun, a bomb or a car, the FBI informant graciously offered to provide him all three - and thus El Khalifi was driven to the U.S. Capitol building by the FBI, handed a gun and a bomb, and then arrested as an "al Qaeda operative."
Khalifi was best known for his years of selling drugs and strutting through D.C. nightclubs in designer suits, living a playboy lifestyle. But two years ago, while dating a Muslim woman of Bulgarian and Turkish descent, El Khalifi embraced Islam and became religious, friends said. After the relationship ended, the girlfriend, obviously disgruntled, contacted the FBI and suggested her ex-boyfriend might be a good target for a frame-up.
[...]"
MSM:
"CNN Runs Desperate TSA Propaganda Piece as Video of Toddler Grope Down Goes Viral" [03/21/12]
[2:50]
"In a desperate attempt to save face for the TSA, CNN has run a propaganda piece that literally justified the grope down of a wheel chair bound 3 year old toddler.
During a segment on John King USA, a so called aviation security expert (TSA apologist) played a short clip of an obviously much longer interview with the toddlers father who claimed that agents were disrespectful and that if the search happened anywhere else the person would be arrested on child sex charges.
The CNN expert then goes on to cite all the supposed changes that the TSA has initiated since the toddler grope down.
Sadly the reality is children and the elderly have been groped by TSA numerous times since September 2011 with each and every instance of TSA thuggery downplayed or completely covered up by the corporate controlled media.
The idea that anyone could spend two minutes legitimatizing an agency that routinely groups children as possible terrorists just goes to show how far gone the mainstream media actually is. [...]"
Beyond 2012: "NSA
Building Massive $2 Billion Heavily Fortified Spy Complex" [03/17/12]
"
"Deep in the heart of Mormon country in Bluffdale, Utah – home of America’s largest polygamist sect known as the Apostolic United Brethren – the National Security Agency (NSA) is constructing a surveillance center the likes of which the world has never seen.
This facility, which is projected to be operational around September
2013, is in fact so large that it actually required Bluffdale to expand the town boundaries and once finished will be over
five times the size of the U.S. Capitol, according to Wired. Dubbed the Utah Data Center, the complex is being built by contractors who all possess top secret clearance, evidence of the highly secretive nature of the project.
The sheer amount of information the NSA will be collecting at this facility is nothing short of shocking. [...]"
Note: This is an example of what would happen in the totally
unacceptable (experientially) dystopian world from 2013 on ... and why we're out
of here before then. There is nothing in it for normal people. Remember that
perception of 2013 has been blocked .... no remote viewing ... no psychic
impressions ... not even access by Final incarnations ... by the galaxy game
creators.
Beyond 2012:
"DHS/ICS
Secures Contract For 450 Million Rounds Of .40 Caliber Ammunition" [03/17/12]
"ATK announced that it is being awarded an Indefinite Delivery/
Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS, ICE) for .40 caliber ammunition. This contract features a base of 12 months, includes four option years, and will have a maximum volume of 450 million rounds. [...]
ATK was the incumbent and won the contract with its HST bullet, which has proven itself in the field. The special hollow point effectively passes through a variety of barriers and holds its jacket in the toughest conditions. HST is engineered for 100-percent weight retention, limits collateral damage, and avoids over-penetration.
"We are proud to extend our track record as the prime supplier of .40 caliber duty ammunition for DHS, ICE," said Ron Johnson, President of ATK's Security and Sporting group. "The HST is a proven design that will continue to serve those who keep our borders safe."
ATK will produce the ammunition at the Federal Cartridge Company facility in Anoka, Minn. Deliveries are expected to begin in June.
"
Note: Doesn't bode well for after 2012.
Beyond 2012: "CIA
Wants To Spy Through TV: Agency Director Says It Will 'Transform' Surveillance" [03/17/12]
"When people download a film from Netflix to a flatscreen, or turn on web radio, they could be alerting unwanted watchers to exactly what they are doing and where they are.
Spies will no longer have to plant bugs in your home - the rise of 'connected' gadgets controlled by apps will mean that people 'bug' their own homes, says CIA director David
Petraeus. The CIA claims it will be able to 'read' these devices via the internet - and perhaps even via radio waves from outside the home.
[...] Everything from remote controls to clock radios can now be controlled via apps - and chip company ARM recently unveiled low-powered, cheaper chips which will be used in everything from fridges and ovens to doorbells.
The resultant chorus of 'connected' gadgets will be able to be read like a book - and even remote-controlled, according to CIA CIA Director David Petraeus, according to a recent report by Wired's 'Danger Room'
blog. Petraeus says that web- connected gadgets will 'transform' the art of spying - allowing spies to monitor people automatically without planting bugs, breaking and entering or even donning a tuxedo to infiltrate a dinner party.
"
Note: The spirit who is playing David Petraeus, another
reincarnated retread, only knows how to do certain things in his lives, and
none of them are good for anyone.
Propaganda
Theatre: "Federal
Officials Warn New York City That "The Taliban May Plan Revenge Attacks"
[03/17/12]
"The feds put the NYPD on high alert Thursday for revenge attacks spurred by a deranged American soldier’s massacre of 16 innocent Afghans in the heartland of the Taliban.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent out a bulletin warning cops in New York and elsewhere that the slaughter Sunday could trigger “acts of violence” on U.S. targets.
“The FBI and DHS are concerned that this event could contribute to the radicalization or mobilization of homegrown violent extremists in the homeland,” the bulletin reads.
It said the rampage by a 38-year-old Army sergeant in the volatile Panjwai District “will likely be incorporated into violent extremist propaganda and could contribute to an individual’s radicalization to violence.”
The NYPD said it had received the bulletin and was closely monitoring events in Afghanistan.
“We’re not aware of any specific threat to the city,” said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, adding that the force’s counterterrorism unit has remained on high alert since the 9/11 attacks. [...]"
Note: Yeah, they've 'been on high alert since 2011' all right,
reading all the garbage that's sourced at the federal level so that the
psychopathic, paranoid national security element can have jobs screwing with
normal people smarter than they are.
Buffoonery:
"DHS Terror Document Lists Yawning, Goose Bumps As Suspicious Behavior" [03/17/12]
"Infowars has obtained a document from the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security & Preparedness that lists banal bodily activities such as yawning, staring and goose pumps as “suspicious activity” indicative of terrorism.
The document (PDF), entitled Terrorism Awareness and Prevention, is presented as a guide for both “residents and workers of New Jersey,” along with employees of federal, state and local agencies, on how to “assist in combating terrorism” by identifying “unusual or suspicious activities and behaviors.”
The guide encourages participants to “look for signs of nervousness in the people you come in contact with.” “Signs will become particularly evident in a person’s eyes, face, next and body movements.”
The document then lists examples of suspicious behavior indicative of terrorism, which include, “Exaggerated yawning when engaged in conversation,” “glances,” “cold penetrating stare,” “rigid posture,” and “goose bumps”.
Of course, any of these behaviors could be explained by a million other circumstances and the likelihood that they are indications of terrorist activity is
virtually zero. [...] Last month we reported on the FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism (CAT) program, which encourages store managers and staff of numerous different businesses to report examples of suspicious activity to the authorities.
In a flyer handed out to Internet Cafes, workers are encouraged to report people who use cash to pay for their coffee as potential terrorists.
Expressing an interesting in protecting online privacy when surfing the web in public is also characterized as a suspicious activity.
Even more chilling, the feds have also begun to characterize perfectly legitimate political and economic beliefs as those held by terrorists, effectively denouncing them as thought crimes.
As Reuters reported in February, authorities are now treating those who “believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard” as extremists who are a potential violent threat to law enforcement.
Characterizing behavior which millions of Americans engage in every day as a potential indication of terrorism only serves to breed paranoia and distrust. If anything, it actually helps terrorists to blend in and not be identified, by increasing the chances exponentially of innocent Americans being mistaken for
' terrorists."
Note: The only terrorism these days comes from the people
claiming to protect people from terrorism. What DHS is doing has been done
before in other fascist governments. It's immature, childish and totally
transparent, since these reincarnated retreads can't do anything differently
from one life to another ... it's all so stupid.
MSM: "FBI Issued Almost 300,000 National Security Letters Over the Last Decade" [03/15/12]
"National security letters are written demands from the FBI that compel internet service providers, credit companies, financial institutions and others to hand over confidential records about their customers, such as subscriber information, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, websites visited and more. NSLs have been used since the 1980s, but the Patriot Act expanded the kinds of records that could be obtained with them. They do not require court approval, and they come with a built-in gag order.
The public has become aware of only a handful of some 300,000 NSLs handed out over the last decade, and those became public only after the recipients launched legal battles opposing them. As a result of these battles, courts have chipped away at the gag order requirement as a violation of the First Amendment, and internal watchdogs have uncovered some abuses of the FBI’s NSL authority. But the letters are still one of the FBI’s most powerful tools; a tool that is rarely discussed inside or outside Congress these days. [...]"
Related:
"Unknown Tech Company Defies FBI In Mystery Surveillance Case"
"Sometime earlier this year, a provider of communication services in the United States – perhaps a phone company, perhaps Twitter – got a letter from the FBI demanding it turn over information on one, or possibly even hundreds, of its customers. The letter instructed the company to never disclose the existence of the demand to anyone – in particular, the target of the investigation.
This sort of letter is not uncommon post-9/11 and with the passage of the U.S. Patriot Act, which gave the FBI increased authority to issue so-called National Security Letters
(NSLs). In 2010, the FBI sent more than 24,000 NSLs to ISPs and other companies, seeking information on more than 14,000 individuals in the U.S.
The public heard about none of these letters. But this time, the company that received the request pushed back. It told the agency that it wanted to tell its customer that he or she was being targeted, which would give the customer a chance to fight the request in court, as a group of Twitter users did last year when the Justice Department sought their records under a different kind of request. The minor defiance in this latest case was enough to land the NSL request in a federal court docket last Friday, where the government filed a request for a court order to force the company to adhere to the gag order.
In its petition, the government asserted that disclosure of the fact or contents of its NSL “may endanger the national security of the United States” and urged the court to issue an order binding the company to the nondisclosure provision, or be in violation of federal law and face contempt charges.
Although documents in the case are redacted to hide the identity of the company and the target of the investigation, they shed a little light on how NSLs are working these days, after a few reforms. [...]"
Commentary: "Major US Airport To Evict TSA Screeners" [03/15/12]
"One of America’s busiest airports, Orlando Sanford International, has announced it will opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers, a move which threatens the highly unpopular federal agency’s role in other airports across the nation.
“The president of the airport said Tuesday that he would apply again to use private operators to screen passengers, using federal standards and oversight,” reports the Miami Herald.
With Sanford International having originally been prevented by the TSA from opting out back in November 2010 when the federal agency froze the ability for airports to use their own private screeners, a law passed by the Senate last month forces the TSA to reconsider applications.
Larry Dale hinted that the move was motivated by the innumerable horror stories passengers have told of their encounters with the TSA, noting that the change was designed to provide a more “customer friendly” operation. [...]"
MSM: "TSA
Shake-Down Quadruple Amputee At Phoenix Airport" [03/13/12]
[3:23]
"Jeff Lewis is a nationally known motivational speaker and a
quadruple amputee. Even though he is well known by the TSA and other airport
staff. He is routinely subjected to demeaning enhanced pat downs by TSA staff.
[...]"
MSM:
"TSA: Complete $8 Billion Failure" [03/08/12]
[4:34]
"This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe (radiation what?) and non-invasive (nude pictures who?). This video is not intended to teach anyone how to commit criminal acts, nor is intended to help "the terrorists" -- if I could figure this out, I'm sure they've long figured it out, and by exposing it to the public, we now have an opportunity to correct it. The scanners are now effectively worthless, as anyone can beat them with virtually no effort. The TSA has been provided this video in advance of it being made public to give them an opportunity to turn off the scanners and revert to the metal detectors. I personally believe they now have no choice but to turn them off. [...]"
Related: Transcript
Commentary:
"FBI LulzSec Hacker Informant: Hacking Groups Government Black Op?" [03/08/12]
"Five key members of the hacker group LulzSec have today been arrested, with the revelation that the alleged leader of the group has been working for the FBI since mid-2011.
Hector Xavier Monsegur, a 28-year-old Puerto Rican living in New York and known by his nickname "Sabu", was reportedly charged with 12 criminal counts of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking and, according to documents unsealed in a Manhattan court on Tuesday, subsequently pleaded guilty to attacks on the websites of PayPal and
Mastercard. According to The Guardian, charges were filed via a "criminal information" form, meaning that it is likely Monsegur has been cooperating with the government whilst maintaining the pretense of operating as an underground hacker. Following today's arrests, which included two British and two Irish hackers, it appears Monsegur may have betrayed them by turning them over to the FBI, presumably to secure a reduction in his sentence.
LulzSec is linked to the more well-known hacking group, Anonymous, who have been responsible for a series of high-profile attacks on the websites of organizations including the CIA and Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency. Today's revelation raises questions about how many other hackers associated with LulzSec and Anonymous are actually working as government informants -- and increases suspicions, already voiced in the alternative media, that such loose collectives may unwittingly be helping governments in their efforts to further control and restrict the internet. [...]"
Buffoonery:
"DHS
Does Own Study Of DHS-Contracted Studies, And Concludes Airport Scanners Are
Safe" [03/06/12]
"A new report by the DHS Inspector General concludes that the
Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) full body scanners are safe;
the IG reviewed five independent studies and concluded that an airline
passenger would have to be subjected to 17,000 screenings a year, or
forty-seven a day, to reach the limit of acceptable radiation dosing
[...]"
Note: This seems to be 180 degrees opposite from real
independent studies that were not contracted by DHS.
Related: See below on page.
Commentary:
"FBI
Organizes Almost All Terror Plots In The US" [02/24/12]
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975.
If you think that’s a few spies too many — spies earning as much as $100,000 per assignment — one doesn’t have to go too deep into their track record to see their accomplishments. Those agents are responsible for an overwhelming amount of terrorist stings that have stopped major domestic catastrophes in the vein of 9/11 from happening on American soil.
Another thing those agents are responsible for, however, is plotting those very schemes.
The FBI has in recent years used trained informants not just to snitch on suspected terrorists, but to set them up from the get-go. A recent report put together by Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkley analyses some striking statistics about the role of FBI informants in terrorism cases that the Bureau has targeted in the decade since the September 11 attacks.
The report reveals that the FBI regularly infiltrates communities where they suspect terrorist-minded individuals to be engaging with others. Regardless of their intentions, agents are sent in to converse within the community, find suspects that could potentially carry out “lone wolf” attacks and then, more or less, encourage them to do so. By providing weaponry, funds and a plan, FBI-directed agents will encourage otherwise-unwilling participants to plot out terrorist attacks, only to bust them before any events fully materialize.
Additionally, one former high-level FBI officials speaking to Mother Jones says that, for every informant officially employed by the bureau, up to three unofficial agents are working undercover.
The FBI has used those informants to set-up and thus shut-down several of the more high profile would-be attacks in recent years. The report reveals that the Washington DC Metro bombing plot, the New York City subway plot, the attempt to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and dozens more were all orchestrated by FBI agents. In fact, reads the report, only three of the more well-known terror plots of the last decade weren’t orchestrated by FBI-involved agents. [...]"
Trends:
"DHS Hires Security Guards To Protect Government Buildings"
[02/22/12]
"The Department of Homeland Security has hired hundreds of security guards to protect scores of government buildings across the country as the federal agency prepares for terror threats and potential civil disorder in the United States. [...]
The contracts were awarded by the DHS’ Federal Protective Service, which is tasked with securing over 9,000 federally owned and leased buildings. The FPS also stoked controversy last month when it posted agents armed with semiautomatic guns at a Social Security office in Florida.
The armed agents checked identifications of locals as part of Operation Shield, an unannounced drill centered around “detecting the presence of unauthorized persons and potentially disruptive or dangerous activities.”"
MSM:
"Feds Watched Would-Be DC Bomber for a Year" [02/20/12]
" The FBI is keeping quiet about the 29-year-old Moroccan-born man who tried to bomb Washington on Friday, but details about Amine El Khalifi and his plan are beginning to seep out, reports the AP. The FBI believes El Khalifi was acting alone and was not affiliated with
al-Qaeda. He came to the United States when he was 16 as a tourist visiting Orlando with his parents, says the Orlando Sentinel, but overstayed his visa, eventually moving to northern Virginia. In 2010, a former landlord called the police on him, saying El Khalifi stopped paying his rent and threatened to assault him. "He was going to harm me, and I think I'm very lucky to be alive today," said the landlord.
But El Khalifi only came to the FBI's attention after an anonymous tip from Arlington, Va., in January 2011. In December, El Khalifi traveled to Baltimore, where he told an undercover officer and an informant that he wanted to blow up a building in Alexandria that contained military offices and "use a gun and kill people face to face." Over the next two months, El Khalifi's plans kept evolving, sometimes involving a remote-detonated bomb, other times a suicide bomb. He even detonated a practice bomb in a quarry. El Khalifi has a bond hearing set for Wednesday, and could face life in prison if convicted. [...]" |
"Washington DC: FBI Foils Own Terror Plot (Again)" [02/18/12]
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has once again proven that the only thing Americans need fear, is their own government, with the latest "terror attack" foiled being one entirely of their own design.
USA Today reports that a suspect had been arrested by the FBI who was "en route to the U.S. Capitol allegedly to detonate a suicide bomb." While initial reports portrayed the incident as a narrowly averted terrorist attack, CBS would report that a "high ranking source told CBS News the man was "never a real threat."" The explosives the would-be bomber carried were provided to him by the FBI during what they described as a "lengthy and extensive operation." The only contact the suspect had with "Al Qaeda" was with FBI officials posing as associates of the elusive, omnipresent, bearded terror conglomerate. The FBI, much like their MI5 counterparts in England, have a propensity for recruiting likely candidates from mosques they covertly run.
This is but the latest in a string of national terror plots carried out from start to finish by the FBI, who has made a business of approaching likely candidates and grooming them to carry out terror attacks. In September 2011, another FBI terror operation targeting the Capitol was "foiled," involving a patsy who believed he was to take part in an assault that would involve multiple gunmen and even a drone bomber provided to him by the FBI.
And perhaps the most dubious of all, was the December 2010 Portland "Christmas Tree Bomber," who was also approached by the FBI, provided demolition training, including a demonstration with live explosives performed in a Lincoln County park, and a van within which the patsy believed his handlers had provided him a bomb. The van with the inert device was parked next to a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony where the patsy attempted to detonate it remotely before being arrested by FBI agents.
It would later turn out that Portland had heroically withdrew from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, (JTTF), with the operation then being carried out behind Portland Mayor Sam Adam's back only for its conclusion to humiliatingly catch the mayor off guard. The city of Portland would eventually rejoin the JTTF after the fallout from the FBI's own terror plot.
The FBI is carrying out what is essentially a campaign of entrapment fueling what alternative news outlet Media Monarchy appropriately calls "terronoia." And while it is true that these incidents are being used to foment a climate of fear to justify the ongoing "War on Terror," there is a more sinister implication readers must be aware of.
In 1993 the FBI was carrying out an identical "sting operation" in New York City. [...]"
Related:
"Capitol
Bomb Plot Raises FBI Sting Questions "
"A Moroccan immigrant wearing what he thought was a suicide vest and carrying a military-style automatic weapon was arrested Friday in a parking garage near the U.S. Capitol, where federal authorities say he intended to carry out a terrorist attack in the name of al-Qaeda. The case is certain to raise new questions over what constitutes foiling terrorism and entrapment.
[...]"
Commentary: "Government False Flag Operation Exposed During Underwear Bomber Sentencing" [02/17/12]
"Exclusive: Personal Statement from Kurt Haskell, Delta 253 Passenger [...]
"Every victim of a crime in Michigan is entitled to make a statement in open court regarding the impact of the crime on their life. The statement is limited to the victim’s physical, emotional and financial well being as it relates to the crime. Keep that in mind as you read my statement.
Below is a copy of the victim impact statement I gave today at the Underwear Bomber sentencing hearing. When reading my statement, keep in mind that I am a practicing attorney in the State of Michigan.
In addition, I regularly practice in the Court the hearings are taking place at and therefore, I am somewhat limited as to what I can say. We were limited to 5 minutes each.
I wish to thank the Court for allowing me these 5 minutes to make my statement. My references to the government in this statement refer to the Federal Government excluding this Court and the prosecution.
On Christmas Day 2009, my wife and I were returning from an African safari and had a connecting flight through Amsterdam. As we waited for our flight, we sat on the floor next to the boarding gate.
What I witnessed while sitting there and subsequent events have changed my life forever. While I sat there, I witnessed Umar dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt, being
escorted around security by a man in a tan suit who spoke perfect American English and who
aided Umar in boarding without a passport. The airline gate worker initially refused Umar boarding until
the man in the tan suit intervened. The event meant nothing to me at the time. Little did I know that Umar would try to kill me a few hours later as our flight approached Detroit. [...]"
Related: "Underwear
Patsy - Staged Airline Security Threat To Usher In Naked Imaging Scanners"
Commentary: "FBI: 9/11 Truthers Should Be Treated As Possible Terrorists" [02/15/12]
"In the last few weeks the FBI, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, have sent out 25 flyers that label normal everyday activities as possible terrorist indicators.
These flyers also specifically target political speech and the belief that the CIA and others had a part in 9/11 in order to justify, among other things, multiple foreign wars.
That’s right, our government is teaching state and local law enforcement nationwide that 9/11 truthers should be immediately looked at as possible terrorists.
In an FBI, Bureau of Justice document on spotting potential sleeper cells within the United States it specifically states that someone may be a terrorist sleeper agent if they believe that the CIA had a hand in 9/11. (A fact that has been heavily documented by thousands of experts. Rogue elements does not mean the entire CIA) [...]
Late last week Intel Hub contributing writer Madison Ruppert wrote an extensive article that highlighted the details of all the 25 flyers that were sent out." [...]
Although all the supposed possible terrorists indicators are absolutely absurd, the fact that the FBI choose to specifically target 9/11 truthers shows how important, even after ten years, covering up the truth of the horrendous 9/11 attacks is to the powers that be.
In August 2011 a video report from media outlet Russia Today highlighted a bill introduced in Congress that would allow indefinite detention of any American that the government declares a terrorist or terrorists
sympathizer (which we now have with NDAA) [...] The report specifically spoke about the possibility of 9/11 truthers being locked up throughout the country and now, with an FBI flyer specifically stating this very thing, questioning 9/11 is becoming an increasingly dangerous use of free speech.
Video clip
[4:47] [...] Meanwhile, the fact that the United States and Israel openly support and fund an al Qaeda affiliated terrorist group in Iran
(MEK) is in the public domain yet everyday Americans are being labeled terrorists by the very officials who either indirectly or directly support terrorists themselves.
An article written by Tony Cartalucci on his Land Destroyer blog and syndicated on The Intel Hub outlined the documented facts that show that high levels US politicians and the Israeli government openly endorse and support the terrorist group
MEK. (listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization) [...]"
Note: See "9/11"
big news link , and the "Social Control and Theatrical Fabrications"
link at the top of this panel for related stories.
Commentary: " DHS Report: If You Love “Individual Liberty” Of If You “Believe In Conspiracy Theories” You Are A Potential Terrorist
" [02/09/12]
" [...]"
Note: The company that prepared this warped, ridiculous report
for DHS has a really twisted view of reality which is an out and out
fraudulent and skewed representation of society ... which aides and abets DHS
fabricated attempt to justify their warped paradigm of control. Cowards. Once they declare
everyone is guilty ... it's only a matter of time before they get absorbed by
their own warped dynamic. Happens EVERY time. But, they're conceptually
hobbled.
Security Theatre:
" U.S. Detained and Deported Irish and British Citizens Over Idiotic Twitter Messages" [02/06/12]
"Two UK pals were barred from entering the US after innocent tweets joking about “destroying America” were picked up by the country’s anti-terror cops.
Despite telling officials at LAX airport the term “destroy” was British slang for partying, the pair were held on suspicion of planning to “commit crimes”. [...]"
Related: " Man Sends Text Message Urging Colleagues to ‘Blow Away’ the Competition at Trade Show, Has Life Turned Upside Down as Government Launches Terrorism Investigation"
"A casual text message to work colleagues encouraging them to ”blow away” the competition at a trade show allegedly plunged a
Canadian Muslim man into a terrorism probe. [...]"
Commentary: "According To The FBI, Internet Privacy Is Now Considered To Be Suspicious Activity" [02/04/12]
"... Millions of Americans have become deeply concerned about the constantly expanding definition of “suspicious activity” in the United States. Sadly, the federal government is now engaging in an all-out attempt to have us all spy on one another. [...]"
Note: Infantile paranoia, with expanded sequential pigeon-holing with no logic or reason, foisted on a population with no capacity for critical thought as a fear-generation and control dynamic, locking down society, solely to protect the criminals and the psychopaths 'in control' from getting their due from the very public they are terrorizing.
MSM: "TSA
Agent Charged With JFK Theft, Latest In Series" [02/02/12]
"Authorities say a TSA agent stole $5,000 from a passenger as he was going through security at Kennedy Airport.
Police and the Transportation Security Administration say Alexandra Schmid took the cash from a passenger’s jacket as it went along an X-ray conveyor belt around 8 p.m. Wednesday in JFK’s Terminal 4.
Police spokesman Al Della Fave (fahv) says surveillance video showed Schmid wrapping the money in a plastic glove and taking it to a bathroom.
He said the money has not been recovered. Police are investigating whether Schmid gave it to another person in the bathroom.
Schmid was arrested on a charge of grand larceny. The name of her attorney was not immediately known. [...]"
Related: TSA Agent Steals 8 iPads From Travelers"
"A TSA agent at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport is suspected of stealing iPads from fliers over the past year. Clayton Keith Dovel,
35, who works in the airport's "Resolution Room" (where checked bags are screened by hand), reportedly stole eight iPads from travelers' checked bags.
One of the victims tracked his stolen iPad, leading authorities to Dovel's home, the station reports.
In a statement to the station, the TSA said: "The action of one individual in no way reflects on the outstanding job our more than 50,000 security officers do every day."
Dovel is currently out on administrative leave, WNEM.com reports. In July 2011, a TSA worker at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International was charged with two counts of grand theft for stealing more than $50,000 worth of electronics from passengers over a six-month period. That same month, a Los Angeles Airport TSA officer was indicted for stealing roughly $23,000 worth of watches from passengers' bags and listing them on eBay. [...]"
Note: So, it's not one individual ... it's really hundreds or
thousands of individuals .... out of 50,000 .... who are ethically
bereft.
Commentary:
"The U.S. Constitution Vs. Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology" [01/28/12]
"The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that law enforcement could not use GPS technology to track cars or their occupants without a warrant issued by a judge.
This judgment was not expected given the Supreme Courts record on upholding law enforcements actions that trample on the Constitutional rights of the American people.
A similar case, Olmstead V. United States, came before the Supreme Court in 1928. This case involved the use of wire tapping and whether or not it violated the fourth and fifth amendments.
The plaintiffs argued that wire tapping violated Olmsteads fourth and fifth amendment rights guaranteed under the Constitution and that wiretapping was the same as illegal search and seizure and therefore in violation of the Constitutional rights of all United States citizens.
The Supreme Court justices at the time of the ruling did not see it that way, stating: [...]"
MSM: "U.S.
Security Contractors Head To Mexico" [01/28/12]
"With waning U.S. presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, security contractors are finding work in Mexico despite its ban on foreigners carrying guns, records show.
Security spending by private companies in Mexico, as well as the Mexican and U.S. governments, has increased since Mexican President Felipe Calderon‘s ramped up war on the country’s drug kingpins in December 2006, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The U.S. State Department has promised nearly $2 billion in aid toward the cause since 2008.
With the Iraq war over, U.S. security contractors are shifting their focus south of the U.S. border, where demand for personal protection services has increased by at least 20 percent each year, the newspaper said.
However, Mexican law forbids foreigners from carrying firearms in the country.
“Everyone thinks if they worked in Iraq and Afghanistan they can work in Mexico, but it’s a different ballgame,” said Rick Sweeney, chief executive officer of California-based
SECFOR, a company that provides security services to business executives. “I’m not looking for the guys who come to me and say they’re an expert shot or a black-belt. I’m looking for guys who can plan and stay out of trouble, rather than blast their way out of trouble once it starts.”
Instead, many U.S. contractors team with Mexican partners who provide the firepower they need, or they train Mexican troops in counterinsurgency and electronic surveillance. [...]"
MSM: "LAPD
Joining In “Multi-Agency Tactical Exercises” In Los Angeles" [01/26/12]
"According to Daily Breeze, part of the massive MediaNews Group (MNG) and the LA.com network, joint military training exercises are going to be held in the evening in downtown Los Angeles and “other portions of the greater Los Angeles area” through Thursday of this week.
They cite the Los Angeles Police Department without giving a precise name of a source, and they do not say when exactly the drills will begin, although the article was posted in the morning of January 24.
However, upon visiting the Los Angeles Police Department website, I realized that they had actually released a
news item about it on January 23, which says, “Multi-agency tactical exercises are to be conducted during evening hours around the downtown area January 22-26, 2012.” [...]"
MSM: "Homeland Security Detains Senator Rand Paul After
Pat-Down Refusal: Obama Sides With TSA" [01/23/12]
"The White House is standing by the Transportation Security Administration in its standoff with Sen. Rand Paul
(R-Ky.) and his father, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
The elder Paul called the TSA a "police state" Monday after Rand Paul was reportedly detained by TSA after he refused to take a pat-down from TSA officials at the Nashville International Airport.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that he didn't have any reaction to Paul's "police state" comments.
But Carney sided with the TSA saying, "I think it is absolutely essential that we take necessary actions to ensure that air travel is safe." [...]"
Related:
"Ron Paul Slams “Out Of Control Police State” After Rand Paul Detained By TSA"
|
"Rand Paul’s Pat-Down Standoff With TSA in Nashville Ends"
MSM: "Aberrant TSA 'Air Marshal' Arrested in Mugging of Boston Occupier" [01/17/12]
"What was a TSA air marshal doing at an Occupy camp at 3:40 on a Saturday morning, just an hour before protestors were evicted by Boston police?
Stealing the iPhone of one of the camp’s prominent voices, then slapping her, apparently.
TSA air marshal Adam Marshall was arrested by the Boston police department at 3:50 a.m. on Dec. 10 after he allegedly argued with members of Occupy, called some of them prostitutes, struck one of Occupy’s organizers and main tweeters in the face, grabbed her iPhone and then fled. [...]"
Related: "TSA
Agents Steal $40,000 From Passenger Luggage; Sentenced To Only Five Months In
Prison"
"Any normal person found guilty of stealing $40,000 from, say, a bank or an employer, would likely be sentenced to at least five years of prison. But when you work for the US Transportation Security Administration
(TSA), you can expect to be given special legal treatment and sent on your way.
The Associated Press reports that two former TSA screeners, 44-year-old Coumar Persad and 31-year-old Davon Webb, both of which worked at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, have pleaded guilty to grand larceny, obstructing governmental administration, and official misconduct, for stealing nearly $40,000 from an airport traveler's luggage. But rather than receive a normal prison sentence for such crimes, the two were sentenced to just six months in prison with five years of probation. [...]"
Note: There are 50,000 low-life losers out there who are
employed by the TSA ... shills for domination.
MSM: "TSA
Official Nailed On Corruption Charges" [01/14/12]
"The investigation established that while on official duty, Walker assisted certain individuals in bypassing the normal security procedures, measures, and requirements at the Buffalo Airport. The defendant’s criminal conduct included allowing one suspected narcotics trafficker -- Miguel Guzman -- to travel under a fictitious name, and permitting that individual to bypass the ticket document checker, whose job is to examine persons, property and other articles entering aircraft and the airport area at the Buffalo Airport.
Walker also on occasion directed the suspected narcotic trafficker to bypass the body image scanner/pat-down security line and interfered with a screener’s ability to monitor the x-ray of his belongings.
In addition, the defendant admitted that she alerted at least one other suspected trafficker to the fact that police officers were conducting undercover surveillance of him. The two suspected narcotics traffickers are pending indictment on unrelated narcotics conspiracy charges. [...]"
Propaganda
Theatre:
" Feds Nab Man in Tampa Bomb Plot"
[01/10/12]
" Federal agents have arrested a suspected Islamic extremist who allegedly planned to attack Tampa hotspots. Sami Osmakac, 25, a naturalized US citizen from the former Yugoslavia, allegedly plotted attacks using explosives and an assault rifle, the AP reports. Osmakac was reportedly caught buying weapons from an undercover agent; he's due in court today on a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
A federal complaint says Osmakac "discussed and identified potential targets in Tampa" with a source. That source referred him to an undercover FBI agent to purchase weapons, including an AK-47, Uzi submachine guns, an explosive belt, and grenades. He also planned to use a car bomb and take hostages, the complaint says, noting that he made a video explaining his reasons for the plot. When the source suggested he could change his plans, he reportedly said, "'We all have to die, so why not die the Islamic way?'" [...]"
Note: All a bunch of cretins ... this is seemingly all the FBI
does, is create the justification for expenditure of funds using
entrapment, in order to keep a legion of thuggish security parasites, and
parasitic companies, employed.
MSM:
"Proposed
Chicago Anti-Protest Laws To Be Permanent" [01/10/12]
"Not even a month has passed since Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat, requested that the Chicago city council enact what he termed “temporary” and “one-time only” anti-protest measures in advance of the overlapping NATO and G-8 summits that will be held in the city from May 15-22. During a press conference held on January 4, Emanuel claimed that he “misspoke,” and that many of the proposed antidemocratic ordinances will in fact be permanent.
Emanuel, who resigned as President Obama’s Chief of Staff in October 2010 to take the position of Chicago mayor, told reporters: “I made a mistake. Real simple, OK? I thought when I answered the question, I was answering the question about contracting, OK? So, if I made a mistake, I bear the responsibility.” According to Emanuel, only the powers given to the mayor for the purpose of concluding contracts in relation to the meetings will be temporary.
The new laws will impose drastically increased fines on protesters, increasing the maximum fine assessed against those found to be resisting arrest or “aiding escape” from $500 to $1,000. The maximum duration of demonstrations would also be reduced by 15 minutes, to two hours. In addition, public parks and beaches would “open” at 6 AM, two hours later than they do currently. Loud noise, music or amplified sound would only be legal between 8 AM and 10 PM.
Other provisions impose onerous requirements on parade organizers, and allow the city to levy punitive fines when they are violated. For example, one of the new regulations demands as part of the permit application process “a description of any recording equipment, sound amplification equipment, banners, signs, or other attention-getting devices to be used in connection with the parade.” Another regulation requires the presence of one parade marshal per 100 marchers.
One notable change gives the police superintendent the power to deputize law enforcement officials from other agencies, including the FBI,
DEA, ATF, Illinois State Police, Illinois Attorney General, Department of Justice, Cook County State’s Attorney and other unspecified agencies.
Even the temporary measures relating to contracts, referred to in the Chicago Tribune as “blanket spending authority,” have implications for the protesters, as they allow Emanuel to conclude contracts for, among other things, security and logistics [...]"
MSM: "London 2012: Police
Smuggled Fake Bomb Into Olympics Site To "Test Security" [01/10/12]
"Undercover police officers smuggled a fake bomb into the London 2012 Olympics site in order to test security, it has been reported.
The dummy run saw officers carry the “device” around the Stratford Olympic Park last year, the Evening Standard reported.
The test was carried out to check electronic and human surveillance systems at the site.
Police have refused to reveal details of the breach but a spokesman for the Olympic Delivery Authority said it was working with the Met to improve security.
[...] Today it also emerged small attack helicopters known as “killer eggs” will be deployed across the capital during the Olympics.
The Evening Standard revealed SAS and SBS commanders will borrow the aircraft from US special forces to help combat terror attacks.
"
Related: "London 2012 Olympics: 200 Days To Go"
"The London 2012 Olympic countdown has begun with the 9 January marking 200 days till the games begin.
Contracts for the long term running of the London 2012 parks have been drawn up with six of the eight main venues having secured a legacy after the Olympic games [...]"
Commentary: "Homeland
Security Monitors Journalists" [01/08/12]
"Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.
Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the written permission to retain data on users of social media and online networking platforms.
Specifically, the DHS announced the NCO and its Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters or
anyone who may use “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s own definition of personal identifiable information, or
PII, such data could consist of any intellect “that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable to that individual.” Previously established guidelines within the administration say that data could only be collected under authorization set forth by written code, but the new provisions in the NOC’s write-up means that any reporter, whether someone along the lines of Walter Cronkite or a budding
blogger, can be victimized by the agency. Also included in the roster of those subjected to the spying are government officials, domestic or not, who make public statements, private sector employees that do the same and “persons known to have been involved in major crimes of Homeland Security interest,” which to itself opens up the possibilities even wider.
The department says that they will only scour publically-made info available while retaining data, but it doesn’t help but raise suspicion as to why the government is going out of their way to spend time, money and resources on watching over those that helped bring news to the masses. [...]"
MSM:
"Radiation Doctor Admits TSA Naked Body Scanners Can Cause Cancer" [01/06/12]
"No matter how many times the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims the machines are safe and pose no threat to travelers or personnel, naked body scanners that emit ionizing radiation are, indeed, a very serious health threat. [...]"
Legal Case:
"Underwear Bomber's Nemesis Sues Airlines"
[12/27/11]
" A passenger who claims he was injured risking his life subduing the "underwear bomber" and prevented the destruction of a Detroit-bound passenger jet on Christmas Day 2009 demands $10 million in damages from the airlines he says negligently allowed the terrorist to board the flight.
In a federal complaint in Manhattan, Theophilus Maranga says he was a passenger aboard Northwest Airlines flight 253 when "a passenger named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate an explosive that he had hidden in his underwear."
Maranga blames defendants Delta Airlines and Air France-KLM, whom he claims were negligent in screening passengers and allowing Abdulmutallab to board the fight with an explosive. He sued under U.S. law and under the Warsaw Convention and the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, also known as the Montreal Convention. Maranga is represented by Neil Grimaldi of the Bronx. [...]"
Note: US Government agent and Israeli security company allowed
him on the plane.
MSM: "Passenger's
Frosted Cupcakes Spark Airport Terror Alert" [12/25/11]
"A woman who flew home from Las Vegas claimed an airport security officer confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk.
Rebecca Hains from Peabody, Massachusetts, said a Transportation Security Administration agent at McCarran International Airport took her cupcake as she passed through security.
He told her its frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions on allowing liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them from being used as explosives.
'I just thought this was terrible logic,' Hains, a 35-year-old communications professor at Salem State University, told ABC.
Hains said the agent didn't seem worried that the cupcake, which was in a jar, could actually be explosive.
Instead, he was only concerned that it fit some bureaucratic definition about what was prohibited.
She said he even offered to let her eat it away from the airport security area.
Hains said she told the agent she had passed through security at Boston's Logan International Airport earlier in the week with two cupcakes packaged in jars, that were gifts from a student. [...]"
MSM: "Congress To Fund Massive Expansion Of TSA Checkpoints" [12/24/11]
"Congress is set to give the green light on funding for a massive expansion of TSA checkpoints, with the federal agency already responsible for over 9,000 such checkpoints in the last year amidst increased fears America is turning into a police state following the passage of the ‘indefinite detention’ bill.
The increase in funding has nothing to do with the TSA’s role in airports – this is about creating 12 more VIPR teams to add the federal agency’s 25 units that are already scattered across the country and responsible for manning checkpoints on highways, in bus and train terminals, at sports events and even high school prom nights.
“The TSA’s 25 “viper” teams — for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response — have run more than 9,300 unannounced checkpoints and other search operations in the last year. Department of Homeland Security officials have asked Congress for funding to add 12 more teams next year,” reports the L.A. Times. [...]"
Related:
"Experts: TSA Security Checkpoints ‘Accomplish Nothing’"
"As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts. Plus, the security bottlenecks are regularly bypassed by large numbers of people—airport workers, concession-stand employees, airline personnel, and T.S.A. agents themselves. “Almost all of those jobs are crappy, low-paid jobs. They have high turnover. If you’re a serious plotter, don’t you think you could get one of those jobs?” [...]" |
Commentary: "Smoke Screening
"
"As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the
T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts. [...]"
MSM: "Alaska Lawmaker Takes On TSA Over Airport Scanners" [12/22/11]
"A state lawmaker in Alaska really doesn't like the TSA's airport body scanners. Democrat Chris Tuck is running ads on local TV reminding Alaskans that they, like everyone else, have the right to turn down the scans and get a patdown instead, reports the Anchorage Daily News. "And if they touch you inappropriately, call the airport police," Tuck adds. The state representative mostly cites privacy concerns, saying that "these machines still allow TSA screeners to see through your clothes" and that the TSA then stores the images, notes CNN. The agency says he's wrong on both counts.
New machines take only a generic body outline and don't store images, says a spokesman. "Might be my mistake on that one," Tuck says of the news that the devices can't store images, but he still wants to see proof. Tuck also mentions health concerns over the scanners, which the TSA similarly discounts, but his real beef is the "unnerving" routine itself. "You have people holding their arms out like they're criminals and being treated like criminals. And it's the whole psychological effect that we're imposing on society, and instilling fear and ... breeding suspicion of one another." [...]"
MSM:
"Florida
Airport Could Be First In US To Ban Naked Body Scanners" [12/19/11]
"Air travelers flying out of Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport
(FTL) in Florida may soon no longer have to worry about being forced through the US Transportation Security Administration's
(TSA) naked body scanners. CBS 4 in Miami reports that the commission of Broward County, where the airport is located, is considering a measure that would ban the cancer-causing devices from the popular travel hub. [...]"
MSM: "Unannounced
Verizon Emergency Alert Causes Panic In New Jersey" [12/13/11]
"An unannounced test of a soon to be mandatory emergency alert system caused panic in New Jersey today after Verizon customers received text messages warning them that a “civil emergency” was in progress and to “take shelter,” prompting alarmed citizens to flood 911 lines with anxious calls.
However, media reports concerning the alarm completely ignore the fact that Verizon was almost certainly running a test for the federal government’s soon to be mandatory PLAN alert program, which the company has signed up for.
“A mass text message warning New Jersey cell phone users of a “civil emergency” was sent out by Verizon Wireless earlier today,” reports the New Jersey Star-Ledger. Verizon Wireless later apologized to its customers for causing alarm.
The alert message included the text “U.S. Govern,” suggesting to customers the text had come from the federal government itself, which undoubtedly fueled the panic. [...]"
Commentary:
"MIT
Study With Major Corporate “Advisers” Promotes Centralized Control Of
Power Grid" [12/08/11]
"The so-called threat to our electrical grid is something oft touted in the mainstream media as something dire which is calling for grand solutions at the federal level.
This is exactly what happened in the wake of what turned out to be blatant disinformation pushed by a so-called expert in cybersecurity who peddled the complete lie that a water pump in Illinois had been sabotaged by Russian hackers.
At the time, false flag alarms were ringing loud and clear and, lo and behold, in a matter of days they backtracked on the entire story.
Now CNET – which is owned by CBS Interactive, making it part of the “Big Six” that controls the establishment media – is covering a paper published by MIT which promotes the need for more centralized control of our utilities.
The researchers claim that due to the lack of a single entity controlling the security of the entire grid along with preparedness, response, and recovery, there is a gaping security vulnerability.
Their proposed solution is for the federal government to “designate a single agency to have responsibility for working with industry and to have appropriate regulatory authority to enhance cybersecurity preparedness, response, and recovery across the electric power sector, including bulk power and distribution systems.”
We’ve seen how well centralization works, and any sane person would not continue to promote the fallacy that putting more power in fewer hands is somehow going to solve everyone’s problems.
This is exactly what happened with the Department of Homeland Security (which, incidentally, the Obama administration has said should head up securing the grid) which has become a behemoth organization so wildly out of control that it is almost surreal.
Yet the MIT study, chaired by John G. Kassakian and Richard Schmalensee, still recommends that we unify our system under the command of a single government entity.
Not to mention, so-called “advisory committee members” from corporations that could very well stand to gain considerable amounts of money if such a plan were put into action.
The most questionable individuals come from the following corporations: the Microsoft Corporation, General Electric Company, Cisco Systems, the Exelon Corporation, Southern California Edison, Nexant, Inc., and the ABB Group.
Other entities involved with the advisory committee are worth listing:
[...]"
Related:
MSM: "Feds
Concerned About Hackers: DHS Says Industrial Control Systems Not
Supposed To Be Connected To Internet" [11/06/11]
"Federal authorities are concerned about "new research" showing
" U.S. prisons are vulnerable to computer hackers, who could remotely open cell doors to aid jailbreaks.
“You could open every cell door, and the system would be telling the control room they are all closed,” said John J. Strauchs, a former CIA operations officer who helped develop a cyber-attack on a simulated prison computer system and described it at a hackers’ convention in Miami last week. [...]
The security systems in most American prisons are run by special computer equipment called
industrial control systems, or ICS. They are also used to control power plants, water treatment facilities and other critical national infrastructure. ICS has increasingly been targeted by hackers because an attack on one such system successfully sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program in 2009. [...]
Sean P. McGurk, who led the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to secure ICS until leaving in September, said the department had looked into the researchers’ claims using the special ICS computer test bed at the Idaho National Laboratory.
“We validated the researchers’ initial assertion … that they could remotely reprogram and manipulate” the special software controllers that run the systems, Mr. McGurk said.
... Teague Newman, another member of their team, said ICS systems are not supposed to be connected to the
Internet."
Note: So, ultimately it's not about security (false flags,
controlled 'allowances' of discord, etc. are used to justify actions) ... it's
about control of people, manipulation, profiteering, and suppression. Good
thing they're just about out of time.
Commentary:
"Senate Bill Would Have Allowed Americans to be Detained Even After They Had Been Found Innocent" [12/07/11]
"The Senate on Dec 1st attempted to pass an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have allowed Americans to be detained even if they had been found not guilty by a trial.
Although the fact that indefinite detention without trial has now been codified into law by way of Section 1031 of the National Defense Authorization Act, an attempt was made at the last minute to fast-track an even more horrifying amendment into the NDAA bill via a voice vote.
Amendment No. 1274 would have given the federal government the power to detain U.S. citizens until Congress declared the ‘war on terror’ over, which we have been told is a never-ending multi-generational conflict. The provision also gave the feds the power to keep an American incarcerated even if they were tried and found not guilty.
Thankfully, Republican Senator Rand Paul discovered the provision and was able to request a last ditch roll call vote. The amendment was eventually defeated by a worryingly narrow final vote of 41-59.
Forget Kafkaesque, the very fact that the Senate even attempted to enact a law that would put the likes of Stalinist North Korea to shame speaks volumes about the contempt that lawmakers have for the bill of rights. [...]"
Flashback: "Federal Court Rules Videotaping Police Is A First Amendment Right"
[12/07/11]
"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. [...]"
Note: An interesting read, dated 8/26/11.
Commentary:
"The
War On Terror Is A Hoax" [12/06/11]
"The best article yet written on this subject was penned by none other than Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. [...]
"The US government creates whatever new bogeymen and incidents are necessary to further the neoconservative agenda of world hegemony and higher profits for the armaments
industry. If we look around for the terror that the police state and a decade of war has allegedly protected us from, the terror is hard to find. Except for 9/11 itself, assuming we accept the government’s improbable conspiracy theory explanation, there have been no terror attacks on the US. Indeed, as RT pointed out on August 23, 2011, an investigative program at the University of California discovered that the domestic “terror plots” hyped in the media were plotted by FBI agents."
"As there apparently are no real terror plots for this huge workforce to uncover, the FBI justifies its budget, terror alerts, and invasive searches of American citizens by thinking up “terror plots” and finding some deranged individuals to ensnare. For example, the Washington DC Metro bombing plot, the New York city subway plot, the plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago were all FBI brainchilds organized and managed by FBI agents."
Robert goes on to explain the real motivation behind the war on terror. It's not to fight terrorism, as has been publicly claimed, but rather to scare Americans into a state of blind obedience to a police state government:
"When I observe the gullibility of my fellow citizens at the absurd “terror plots” that the US government manufactures, it causes me to realize that fear is the most powerful weapon any government has for advancing an undeclared agenda. Apparently, Americans, or most of them, are so ruled by fear that they suffer no remorse from “their” government’s murder and dislocation of millions of innocent people. In the American mind, one billion “towel-heads” have been reduced to terrorists who deserve to be
exterminated. [...] "
Related:
MSM: "Gingrich: Gov. Should Allow Terror Attacks To Remind People How Much We Need Them"
MSM:
"Confusion
Center: Feds Now Say Hacker Didn't Destroy Water Pump" [11/23/11]
"A report from an Illinois intelligence fusion center that a water utility was hacked cannot be substantiated, according to an announcement released late Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security. [...]"
Note: So they lied.
Related: See stories below: "Political Theatrics: "Foreign Hackers Targeted U.S. Water Plant In Apparent Malicious Cyber
Attack" [11/20/11] and
attached stories.
Security Theatre: "Egypt’s
Secret Police Renames Itself "Homeland Security" Link
Fixed [11/22/11]
"Notorious human rights abusers draw inspiration from US authorities.
Egypt's infamous state security apparatus, notorious for spying on political
activists and torturing dissidents, has renamed itself "homeland
security," presumably in homage to its American namesake, which has also
been used as a tool of political repression. As part of the re-branding of
dictatorship in Egypt, the same security force implicated in the imprisonment
and torture of anti-Mubarak activists is busy reorganizing itself while
maintaining intimidation and spying campaigns targeted against parliamentary
candidates by bugging phone calls and harassing prominent critics of the
ruling military regime's bloody crackdown on protesters. "After some
initial moves to purge the security forces, attempts at systemic reform were
halted, say analysts and political observers. Under the auspices of the
Ministry of Interior, the 100,000-strong state security service has been
renamed homeland security and personnel moved around," the Financial
Times reports today. Like the Egyptian secret police, the Department of
Homeland Security has reinvented its role to serve as a tool of political
repression in recent years. Under the Federal Protective Service (FPS), the
DHS tracks the political activities of peaceful advocacy groups. The FPS was
seen arresting photographers in Portland last week during an OWS rally. In
2004, the FPS arrested a veteran for the crime of complaining to his local VA
office in Des Moines. [...]"
Related:
Commentary:
"Egypt’s
Brutal Military Junta is Supported by the Obama Administration"
"Fresh off the back of bombing Libya under the guise of
“humanitarian intervention” while calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
to step down over mistreatment of
Commentary: "Non-Profit
Group Linked To Homeland Security Promotes Absurd Fear Of Non-Existent Threat
Of Terrorism" [11/22/11]
"A so-called “Community Awareness Program” (CAP) has been launched by the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (the CELL), a non-profit group directly linked to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The CELL is the same group behind the absurdist fear-mongering video entitled “Recognizing the 8 Signs of Terrorism” which is nothing more than a clear attempt to strike illogical fear into the hearts of Americans. [...]"
Commentary: "9 Ways The Hijacked Federal Government Is Waging War Against The American People
" [11/22/11]
"The minute we fell for 9/11 we signed our doom," said Paul Craig Roberts on the Alex Jones Show on November 9, 2011.
Alex responded, "9/11 is America's death warrant." In the ten years since 9/11, America has been turned into a third world police state with a large underclass, a rapidly declining middle class, and a plutocracy that has broken its economic, political and emotional ties with America.
America's traitorous political establishment has abandoned ship. They are treating America like a dump. Instead of building new bridges and creating jobs at home, they are shipping jobs overseas and forcing millions of Americans to beg for a piece of meat. [...]"
Commentary:
"NYC 'Lone Wolf' is Just Another Patsy Entrapped by a Paid Informant" [11/21/11]
"Same story, new patsy. A 'lone wolf' American citizen becomes radicalized on the Internet, a paid "informant" escorts him to buy bomb-making material, and authorities arrest him in the nick of time to save us from a dangerous terrorist plot.
Reuters reports, "A U.S. citizen born in the Dominican Republic, (Jose) Pimentel was arrested on Saturday in a Manhattan apartment while putting the bomb together, police said. They called him a 'lone wolf' who had converted to Islam and became a radical."
New York City police said that Pimentel has been under surveillance for two-and-a-half years, since May 2009 and was monitored by a paid informant who helped him acquire materials for a bomb.
"The criminal complaint said a police informant recorded meetings with Pimentel over a period of months and accompanied him as he bought materials for the bomb..."
Although the police released the deranged and sordid details of the plot to applaud their investigative work, as usual "the information from the police could not be independently confirmed." [...]"
Related: "Alleged
‘Lone Wolf’ Arrested In New York On Terror Charges"
"A Muslim convert arrested for allegedly making bombs in New York City was
' inspired by radical cleric Anwar Awlaki and was allegedly plotting to attack U.S. servicemen and police
officers', according to officials.
A five-count criminal complaint against Jose Pimentel of Washington Heights says that Pimentel planned “to build a bomb and use a bomb to assassinate U.S. servicemen and women returning from active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan."
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said during a press conference this evening that Pimentel, an unemployed loner who lives with his mother,
' also wanted to kill police officers', and called him a “27-year-old al Qaeda sympathizer.”
“We had to act quickly,” New York police commissioner Ray Kelly said, “because he was in fact putting this bomb together.” [...]"
Commentary: "Supreme
Court Blocks Government Plan To Claim Ownership Of DNA" [11/20/11]
"In a long running case, a Supreme Court has ruled to limit the use of
blood samples collected from newborns by the government. The case has exposed
the fact that there is an ongoing semi-covert movement by state and federal
governments to claim ownership of every newborn baby’s DNA for the purpose
of genetic research without the consent of individual citizens. The Minnesota
Court ruled Wednesday that the Minnesota Department of Health is violating the
law in storing, using and disseminating newborn screening test results and
newborn DNA. Overruling a lower court’s decision, the state Supreme Court
found that the samples are “Genetic Information” under the State Genetic
Privacy Act, and held that “unless otherwise provided, the Department must
have written informed consent to collect, use, store, or disseminate [the
blood samples].” In 2003, The Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF),
formerly known as The Citizens’ Council on Health Care (CCHC), discovered
that The Minnesota Department of Health had been indefinitely storing the
blood of newborns since the mid 1980s, and using the samples for purposes
beyond the State’s newborn screening program since 1997. The state treated
the activity as an “opt out” program, whereby if the parents of the
newborn infant do not specifically opt out of the process, the state presumes
its has “informed consent” and that the parents have opted in.
Consequently, the DNA of nearly a million children is considered government
property under Minnesota law. Without the knowledge or consent of the person
or their parents, the government has been selling the DNA for genetic research
purposes. [...]"
Political Theatrics: "Foreign Hackers Targeted U.S. Water Plant In Apparent Malicious Cyber Attack"
Washington Post (CIA-Influenced)
[11/20/11]
"Foreign hackers (allegedly Russian) caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail last week, according to a preliminary state report. Experts said the cyber-attack, if confirmed, would be the first known to have damaged one of the systems that supply Americans with water, electricity and other essentials of modern life.
Companies and government agencies that rely on the Internet have for years been routine targets of hackers, but most incidents have resulted from attempts to steal information or interrupt the functioning of Web sites. The incident in Springfield, Ill., would mark a departure because it apparently caused physical destruction.
Federal officials confirmed that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were investigating damage to the water plant but cautioned against concluding that it was necessarily a cyber-attack before all the facts could be learned. “At this time there is no credible corroborated data that indicates a risk to critical infrastructure entities or a threat to public safety,” said DHS spokesman Peter Boogaard. [...]"
Note: In the first story, They mention nothing abut the fact
that the industrial control systems are connected to the internet, allowing
the very hacking they seem to 'fear'. However, according to the DHS a
couple of weeks earlier, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are not
supposed to be connected to the internet. See this related article: "Feds"
Concerned About ' Hackers': But DHS Says Industrial Control Systems Not
Supposed To Be Connected To Internet" [11/06/11]
"Federal authorities are concerned about "new research" showing
" U.S. prisons are vulnerable to computer hackers, who could remotely open cell doors to aid jailbreaks.
“You could open every cell door, and the system would be telling the control room they are all closed,” said John J. Strauchs, a former CIA operations officer who helped develop a cyber-attack on a simulated prison computer system and described it at a hackers’ convention in Miami last week. [...]
The security systems in most American prisons are run by special computer equipment called
industrial control systems, or ICS. They are also used to control power plants, water treatment facilities and other critical national infrastructure. ICS has increasingly been targeted by hackers because an attack on one such system successfully sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program in 2009. [...]
Sean P. McGurk, who led the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to secure ICS until leaving in September, said the department had looked into the researchers’ claims using the special ICS computer test bed at the Idaho National Laboratory.
“We validated the researchers’ initial assertion … that they could remotely reprogram and manipulate” the special software controllers that run the systems, Mr. McGurk said.
... Teague Newman, another member of their team, said ICS systems are not supposed to be connected to the
Internet. [...]"
Legal Case:
"Judge Declares Law Governing Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Unconstitutional" [11/19/11]
"In a succinct one-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn N. Hughes of the Southern District of Texas declared that the law authorizing the government to obtain cellphone records without a search warrant was unconstitutional. “ [...]"
Commentary:
"TSA Backs Off Independent X-Ray Scanner Safety Test Knowing Truth Came Out in 1998" [11/18/11]
"After reports as far back as 1998 surfaced and revealed that the TSA’s X-ray scanners could be causing around 100 cases of cancer per year conservatively, the TSA announced that it would be launching an ‘independent’ study over the safety of the machines... [...]"
MSM:
"Fake
Terror Plots, Paid Informants: The Tactics Of FBI 'Entrapment' Questioned" [11/17/11]
"David Williams did not have an easy life. He moved to Newburgh, a gritty, impoverished town on the banks of the Hudson an hour or so north of New York, at just 10 years old. For a young, black American boy with a father in jail, trouble was everywhere.
Williams also made bad choices. He ended up going to jail for dealing drugs. When he came out in 2007 he tried to go straight, but money was tight and his brother, Lord, needed cash for a liver transplant. Life is hard in Newburgh if you are poor, have a drug rap and need cash quickly.
His aunt, Alicia McWilliams, was honest about the tough streets her nephew was dealing with. "Newburgh is a hard place," she said. So it was perhaps no surprise that in May, 2009, David Williams was arrested again and hit with a 25-year jail sentence. But it was not for drugs offences. Or any other common crime. Instead Williams and three other struggling local men beset by drug, criminal and mental health issues were convicted of an Islamic terrorist plot to blow up Jewish synagogues and shoot down military jets with missiles. [...]"
MSM: "Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used At U.S. Airports" [11/16/11]
"The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners [1] in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the scanners as a way to screen millions of airline passengers for explosives hidden under clothing. The European Commission, which enforces common policies of the 27 member countries, adopted the rule "in order not to risk jeopardizing citizens' health and safety." As a ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation detailed earlier this month [2], X-ray body scanners use ionizing radiation, a form of energy that has been shown to damage DNA and cause cancer. Although the amount of radiation is extremely low, equivalent to the radiation a person would receive in a few minutes of flying, several research studies have concluded that a small number of cancer cases would result from scanning hundreds of millions of passengers a year. [...]"
Commentary: "Several
Major Exercises Scheduled On November 9" [10/24/11]
"Two major hazard excercise are scheduled for November 9 2011 and also close approach of
asteroid 2005 YU55. Testing of Emergency Alert System (EAS) and PACWAVE11, a multi-scenario exercise that will allow PTWS countries to exercise using a destructive local or regional tsunami scenario are to be held on the date. [...]"
Related: "FEMA
Communication Takeover Test Scheduled For November 9"
"FEMA, the FCC, and Homeland Security plan to commandeer the airwaves next month. The Emergency Alert System
(EAS) will be tested at 1 PM EST on November 9. EAS alerts are transmitted over radio and television broadcast stations, cable television and other media services.
Local and state EAS components are tested weekly and monthly, but this will be the first national test of the system. It is significant that FEMA will conduct the mandatory test.
FEMA was created by executive fiat. EO 12148 was signed into law by a stroke of Jimmy Carter’s pen on July 20, 1979. FEMA is described as a federal agency designed to coordinate government response to natural disasters that overwhelm the resources of local and state authorities.
In fact, the federal agency was established as part of a martial law mechanism. [...]"
MSM:
"Senator: TSA Forced Me To Go Through Body Scanner" [10/22/11]
"Republican Senator Orrin Hatch was forced to go through a TSA naked body scanner against his will, according to testimony heard at the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, as lawmakers complained to DHS head Janet Napolitano about the “baloney” Americans were forced to put up with at the hands of “arrogant” TSA screeners.
Despite the TSA’s official policy stating that travelers can select whether to pass through the radiation-firing body scanner or take an “enhanced pat down,” Utah Senator Hatch told Napolitano during the hearing that he wasn’t offered the choice.
“Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, raised the issue, saying he’s been forced twice to go through the scanning machines when he would have preferred another method of screening,” reports the Washington Times. “Maybe I look like a terrorist,” Hatch joked sardonically.
Hatch also said that he had witnessed TSA screeners “force” other travelers to go through the naked body scanner when they had expressed a wish to pass through the standard x-ray metal detector instead.
Vermont Democrat and committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy complained that TSA screeners were punishing travelers who rejected the body scanner, stating, “Sometimes you get the impression they almost want to make you miss your plane because you have to go through the pat-down.
Leahy went further, telling Napolitano that TSA workers had an “arrogant disregard for real Americans who have to put up with this baloney,” and were disconnected from reality, while also criticizing the fact that children have to pass through the radiation scanners. The Democrat also slammed TSA agents for claiming that it was illegal to film them. “There is no such law,” Leahy stated.
Napolitano responded to the lawmakers’ grievances with a smug reference to the incident that provided the pretext for the introduction of the scanners in the first place. “I can say the answer in one word, and that’s
Abdulmutallab,” she stated. [...]"
Note: Which was, of course, an event orchestrated by the CIA to
form the basis for this baloney.
Commentary: "Army Of TSA Agents Conduct Random Searches Throughout Tennessee" [10/21/11]
"The full scale Department of Homeland Security takeover of America shifted into high gear Tuesday with an army of TSA agents conducting illegal, 4th amendment killing, random searches throughout Tennessee.
The Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) program was put into motion at 2 public bus stations as well as at 5 weigh stations throughout the state.
The program is billed as a must have anti terrorism measure when in reality no terrorists have ever been arrested by TSA and all the supposed terrorists who have been arrested in America since 9/11 have literally been run by the FBI. [...]"
MSM: "Major Security Firms Detect New Trojan Capable Of Disrupting Power Plants, Oil Refineries and Other Critical Infrastructure Networks" [10/20/11]
"In our October 7, 2011 report There Have Been Intrusions, we noted that DHS Undersecretary Greg Shaffer warned that hackers and foreign governments are “knocking on the backdoor” of the networked systems which connect everything from infrastructure grid control systems to financial networks.It now appears that our interconnected smart grid is actively under attack, as evidenced by a new
Stuxnet-style trojan that has been detected by major cyber security leaders Symantec and McAfee. Much like its predecessor, the trojan dubbed “Duqu” is designed to infilitrate the networks that control everything from power production facilities to oil refineries. It is not yet clear exactly how the trojan operates, what its intended purpose is, or who designed it (though it is believed that the code for Duqu and Stuxnet likely originated with U.S. intelligence agencies). Both Symantec and McAfee continue to investigate the threat: [...]Curiously, the Duqu trojan doesn’t seem to have originated from individual hackers or hacking groups, or foreign intelligence services. Rather, like
Stuxnet, the virus was likely written under control and/or guidance of U.S. intelligence, possibly in collaboration with Israeli intelligence." [...]There seems to be no immediate danger at this time, as the Duqu trojan is reportedly gathering intelligence, as opposed to actively attempting to bring down the systems via a hardware style attack like
Stuxnet. But once it acquires all of the necessary information, such as personnel access codes, security certificates and a mapped layout of a particular grid infrastructure, it wouldn’t take much to take things to the next level.
Imagine for a moment the effect of an attack on major refining operations, cascading electrical outages, urban water purification systems that added excessive chemicals to water supplies, or the massive flooding that might result if a dam were compromised.
Or, consider that the U.S. drone fleet was recently attacked by an unknown trojan or
malware, which was logging access commands and passwords for high security military systems. What would happen if an enemy of the people of the United States gained access to our entire drone fleet, weapons systems and all?
The possibilities for damage via compromised infrastructure systems would be nothing short of a digital apocalypse, with the potential to adversely affect the lives of tens of millions of unsuspecting Americans virtually overnight."
MSM: "FEMA
Communication Takeover Test Scheduled For November 9" [10/19/11]
"FEMA, the FCC, and Homeland Security plan to commandeer the airwaves next month. The Emergency Alert System
(EAS) will be tested at 1 PM EST on November 9. EAS alerts are transmitted over radio and television broadcast stations, cable television and other media services.
Local and state EAS components are tested weekly and monthly, but this will be the first national test of the system. It is significant that FEMA will conduct the mandatory test.
FEMA was created by executive fiat. EO 12148 was signed into law by a stroke of Jimmy Carter’s pen on July 20, 1979. FEMA is described as a federal agency designed to coordinate government response to natural disasters that overwhelm the resources of local and state authorities.
In fact, the federal agency was established as part of a martial law mechanism. [...]"
MSM:
"Sen.
Dianne Feinstein Uses Verbal Repetition In Bid To 'Convince' the Public that
'Iran Plot' Was Real" [10/18/11]
[2:15]
"Senator Dianne Feinstein has employed a form of mind control, using repetition, to convince the public that the Iran terror plot was real.
Feinstein, speaking to stark Zionist and CNN teleprompter reader Wolf Blitzer, repeated
“this was real” at least six times during a three minute
interview. This fake Iran terror plot, run by the FBI and DEA, is so obviously fake that war hawks and Israeli firsters such as Feinstein have gone to great lengths in their bid to alter reality [...]"
Note: Feinstein has no credibility amongst normal people.
Commentary:
"Ten Reasons To Question US Allegations of Iranian Terror Plot"
"There are plenty of valid reasons to doubt the veracity of US's allegation that it has foiled an Iranian terror plot involving a Mexican drug cartel, despite the western media frenzy aiming at the credibility and legitimacy of Iranian regime in the international community. On the whole, these reasons cast serious question marks on US's real motives and raise the distinct possibility of a historical deja vu, i.e., the repetition of the pre-Iraq war ferocious campaign of vilification and manufacturing WMD lies with much media complicity.
First, as Time Magazine has correctly put it, the Mexican drug cartel, known to have made a conscious decision to cease its prior crossborder killings, would never risk its lucrative 4 billion dollar annual business and commit a high profile murder in US capital for the sake of a pitiful 1.5 million dollars reportedly offered by Iran to assassinate the Saudi ambassador.
Second, no credible expert on Iran can possibly have faith in the official US story that the Iranian leaders would plot to murder a Saudi diplomat in Washington simply because of their unhappiness with some of Saudi behavior in the region. But, in spite of certain strains the overall compact of Iran-Saudi bilateral relations has remained intact and there is virtually no sense of panic in Iran about threats from Saudi Arabia that would warrant such a radical departure from the norm. [...]"
Commentary: "Pakistani Intelligence Official Says Mossad Gave Supposed Iranian Terrorist Arbabsiar Fake Papers" [10/18/11]
"The so called Iranian terror plot has continued to come apart at the seems. Today, a Pakistani Intelligence official told the Pakistani Urdu-language daily that the Mossad gave Mansour Arbabsiar fake id papers only three months ago.
Mansour Arbabsiar is accused of plotting to kill the Saudi Ambassador and his arrest has caused a furry of calls to bomb Iran from the usual war hawks on Capital Hill.
“The person who is accused in this case had received fake ID documents from the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, three months ago,” the Pakistani Urdu-language daily, Nation, quoted the official as saying on the condition of anonymity, report Press TV.
These revelations, along with Tehran’s claim that the U.S. and Israel revealed the fake terror allegations against Arbabsiar in order to distract from large scale protests against the 1% and the fact that the U.S. government was openly running the terror plot, paint a clear picture. [...]"
Related:
"Unfolding
A Plot: Mossad At Work"
".... In parallel with this appalling revelation, The Independent ran a story about Adam Werritty, an unofficial “chief of staff” to British Defense Minister Liam Fox, his best man and former flat mate who accompanied him on a number of official visits and virtually made all his decisions and even held top level meetings. Things went wrong though when it became manifest that he had in February arranged a meeting between Fox and senior Mossad operatives at a security conference taking place in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, where they discussed effective plans to overthrow the 'Iranian regime'. Werritty was said to have regularly met Iranian anti-government groups, Israeli operatives and right-wing US groups with an overwhelming interest in destabilizing President Ahmadinejad and overthrowing the Islamic government.
According to the report, Werritty had travelled to Iran on several occasions and held secret meetings with opposition groups with the express intention of expediting the fall of the Islamic government in Iran. Interestingly, MI6 was informed of his connections and debriefed him after he returned from overseas trips.
Werritty was financially backed by murky sources such as Bicom, an Israeli advocacy organization based in the UK. Bicom which stands for Britain Israel Communications Research Center is in fact a front organization based in London tasked with security and intelligence activities as well as promotion of Zionism. Apart from garnering support for the Zionist regime among Britons, the office also serves as a bridge between Mossad and MI6. The CEO of the office, Lorna Fitzsimons, a former MP, is noted for her constant support for the Zionists. She used to be a member of the campaign group, Labor Friends of Israel (LFI). It is basically a lobby group promoting Zionism within the British Labor Party in particular and in Britain, in general. And Werritty is an influential member of the organization and a highly regarded agent for Mossad.
These postulations aside, there has recently emerged an interesting piece of information about a second person held on suspicion of involvement in the alleged plot. The information reveals a man named Gholam Hussein Shakouri who is closely connected with the fabricated prime suspect. Shakouri, who is a cousin of Mansour Arbabsiar, is reportedly a member of the MKO, a notorious terrorist organization now based at the Ashraf camp in Iraq and strongly supported by the US government although the organization has been widely designated as a terrorist organization.
The loosely-structured assassination plot is part of an extensive espionage and sabotage network supported and co-funded by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and CIA. [...]" |
Commentary:
"Israel’s
Mossad Gets Dragged Into Latest British Political Scandal"
"Speculation that defense minister’s aide was “unwitting” agent of Israeli intelligence.
British media have speculated that the man behind the fall of their minister of defense was in cahoots with Israel’s famed intelligence agency, Mossad, perhaps unwittingly, as the perfect spy.
Adam Werritty, an unofficial “chief of staff” to Defense Minister Liam Fox - a much respected, staunch conservative who quit in disgrace this weekend - boasted extraordinary access, had no security vetting and plotted to overthrow the Iranian regime. [...]"
Commentary: "Corporate-Fascists Clamor for Iran War" [10/17/11]
[0:00]
"While US politicians grapple over the credibility of using the US DEA's bomb plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador as a pretext to escalate tensions with Iran, America's unelected, corporate-funded policy makers have already announced their long, foregone conclusion. The DEA's entrapment case is decidedly to be used as a pretext for war with Iran.
The Foreign Policy Institute (FPI), just one such unelected, corporate-funded think tank, has released two statements calling on President Obama to use force against Iran. FPI director William Kristol states:
"It’s long since been time for the United States to speak to this regime in the language it understands—force. And now we have an engraved invitation to do so. The plot to kill the Saudi ambassador was a lemon. Statesmanship involves turning lemons into lemonade. So we can stop talking. Instead, we can follow the rat lines in Iraq and Afghanistan back to their sources, and destroy them. We can strike at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and weaken them. And we can hit the regime’s nuclear weapons program, and set it back."
Likewise, FPI's executive director Jamie Fly claims, in tandem with Kristol's unqualified, corporate-funded opinion, "It is time to take military action against the Iranian government elements that support terrorism and its nuclear program. More diplomacy is not an adequate response." [...]"
Related: "Naming Names: Your Real Government
"
"This is your real government; they transcend elected administrations, they permeate every political party, and they are responsible for nearly every aspect of the average American and European's way of life. When the "left" is carrying the torch for two "Neo-Con" wars, starting yet another based on the same lies, peddled by the same media outlets that told of Iraqi WMD's, the world has no choice, beyond profound cognitive dissonance, but to realize something is wrong.
What's wrong is a system completely controlled by a corporate-financier oligarchy with financial, media, and industrial empires that span the globe. If we do not change the fact that we are helplessly dependent on these corporations that regulate every aspect of our nation politically, and every aspect of our lives personally, nothing else will ever change.
The following list, however extensive, is by far not all-inclusive. However after these examples, a pattern should become self-evident with the same names and corporations being listed again and again. It should be self-evident to readers of how dangerously pervasive these corporations have become in our daily lives. Finally, it should be self-evident as to how necessary it is to excise these corporations from our lives, our communities, and ultimately our nations, with the utmost expediency. [...]" See
below for some of the usual suspects:
US
Politics: "Bill
Kristol: ‘We Need To Hear’ That Obama Has Gone To War On Iran" [10/17/11]
"Bill Kristol writing at the Weekly Standard. Remember, Kristol is the voice of the neoconservative bloc in the establishment. Kristol and Robert Kagan and Bill Bennett wrote 10 years ago that George Bush should attack Iraq because "Israel's fight against terrorism is our fight." And Kristol got his way. This is the one reason I have sympathy for Obama on his capitulation to Netanyahu; he is doing everything to stave off the powerful forces that are calling for war against Iran. His saber-rattling in response to the kooky car-salesman plot is Obama's way of propitiating a powerful constituency inside the Democratic Party too; on Fox News today Dianne Feinstein said, "The question is, Do we want to go to war with Iran at this time?" and though she said, No, our hands are full, she is obviously part of the problem. [...]"
Note: Yeah, these people are intractably entangled in a
psychotic perspective - they're reincarnated retreads who are very immature
and dangerous - control freaks who feel they 'know' best how to tell
others how much 'reality' they may have, and in what flavor.
Commentary: "Why I Published US Intelligence Secrets About Israel's Anti-Iran Campaign
" Richard Silverstein [10/17/11]
"In 2009, Shamai Leibowitz was working secretly for the FBI, translating wiretapped conversations among Israeli diplomats in this country. He passed some transcripts of these conversations to me, which described an Israeli diplomatic campaign in this country to create a hostile environment for relations with Iran.
I published excerpts from them in my blog, Tikun Olam. Leibowitz comes from a family of distinguished Israeli Orthodox public intellectuals.
He first came to prominence inside Israel when he signed a statement refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. He went on to earn a law degree and was one of the Israeli attorneys who represented Palestinian Marwan Barghouti in his terror trial. In a statement certain to enrage Israelis and the Shin Bet officials responsible for apprehending Barghouti, Leibowitz likened his client's leadership of his people to that of Moses.
Though he was referring to the fact that Moses killed an Egyptian who was beating an Israelite slave - which caused him to flee his homeland, accused of being the ancient equivalent of a terrorist - the subtlety of the historical comparison was undoubtedly lost on many Israelis. [...]"
Commentary: "CIA Agent: Israel & Saudi Arabia Are Much More Dangerous Enemies To The US Than The Iranians Are"
[10/17/11]
[3:59]
"Judge Andrew Napolitano weighs in with an interview of an ex-CIA agent. [...]"
Note: Comment on the video page: "Schuer, Giraldi, etc are
really doing a great service to this country. It's funny how all the ex-CIA guys clearly see Israel as a threat to our sovereignty while it's the political and mass-media class that latch onto "Israel is our Friend."
MSM: "Khamenei Warns US: Don't Mess With Iran" [10/17/11]
" Iran's supreme leader warned the United States today that any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington would elicit a "resolute" response. "If US officials have some delusions, (they must) know that any unsuitable act, whether political or security, will meet a resolute response from the Iranian nation," state TV quoted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying.
... Khamenei said that the US accused Iran of terror in order to divert attention from its economic woes and from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. "By attributing an absurd and meaningless accusation to a few Iranians, they tried ... to show that Iran is a supporter of terrorism ... This conspiracy didn't work and won't work," he said. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also dismissed US accusations as a fabricated "scenario." "Iran is a civilized nation and doesn't need to resort to assassination," Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying today. "The culture of terror belongs to you," he said, addressing the United States. [...]"
MSM: "Iran
Demands Access To Accused US Plotter" [10/17/11]
" Iran demanded consular access on Sunday to a man held in the United States over a suspected plot to kill the Saudi ambassador and vowed to respond robustly to any "inappropriate measure" by the West.
Manssor Arbabsiar, who holds U.S. and Iranian citizenship, was arrested in September over the plot which Tehran called a fabricated "comedy show" but which U.S. lawmakers said was "very real" and showed the need for tougher sanctions on Iran.
"Any inappropriate measure against Iran, whether political or security-related, will be strongly confronted by the Iranian nation," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, accusing Washington of inventing the plot to divert attention from the "Occupy Wall Street" protests. [...]"
Commentary: "Petraeus’s CIA Fuels
" Iran Murder Plot" By Ray McGovern
[10/14/11]
"Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, in his accustomed role as unofficial surrogate CIA spokesman, has thrown light on how the CIA under its new director, David Petraeus, helped craft the screenplay for this week’s White House spy feature: the
Iranian- American- used- car- salesman- Mexican-drug-cartel plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.
In Thursday’s column, Ignatius notes that, initially, White House and Justice Department officials found the story “implausible.” It was. But the Petraeus team soon leapt to the rescue, reflecting the
four- star- general- turned- intelligence- chief’s deep-seated animus toward Iran. [...]"
Note: David Petraeus is an incompetent, psychotic, narcissistic
reincarnated retread, a sequential incarnation, with limited cognition and
capability, who is a dangerous guy to have wandering around. At this point,
all he knows how to do is make war and kill others, life after
life.
MSM: "No Direct Evidence of Iranian Government Complicity in
Any Plot" [10/14/11]
"Former CIA agent Robert Baer said the culpability of the Iranian leadership is not believable. “I don’t think it’s credible, not the central government, there may be a rogue element behind it,” Baer said in an interview. “They wouldn’t be sending money through an American bank, they wouldn’t be going to the cartels in Mexico to do this. It’s just not the way they work.”
Carrying out this kind of action, especially within the United States, would be against Iran’s interests, by most expert accounts. It entails a lot of risk of retaliation and potential suffering, and no discernible gain. [...]"
MSM: "FBI
Insider Says Iran Plot Creation Of White House. No Information At All About
Plot Within The FBI." [10/13/11]
[4:15]
MSM:
"Ex
CIA Michael Scheuer Outs Mccain, Israel, And Saudi Arabia As Benefactors Of
Fabricated Iran Plot" [10/14/11]
[3:54]
Commentary: "US Gives Israel Green Light For Iran Strike"
Paul Joseph Watson
[10/14/11]
"The Obama administration’s fabricated terror plot blamed on Iran represents the green light for an Israeli attack on Iran set to take place
within the next two weeks, according to confidential military sources who spoke with Alex Jones. [...]
Israel is concerned that major powers like Germany are moving closer to smoothing relations with Iran and allowing Iran to continue its nuclear enrichment program unimpeded. A two month window has been allocated during which Israel has the opportunity to launch a military assault, waiting until winter when the attack will be more difficult to pull off is not an option.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s October 3 Tel Aviv visit was used by Israeli hawks to convince the United States that it should green light the attack. Less than 10 days later, a fanciful terror plot involving a used car salesman was invented to implicate Iran and create the pretext for a military assault.[...]
“If the Administration fails to win support for a significant escalation of sanctions or other forms of punishment for the Tehran regime after presenting evidence of the latest allegations of Iranian malfeasance, the ball will land back in Obama’s court,” writes Tony
Karon. “Having made the case that Iran has crossed a red line, he will be under growing pressure to act — or risk entering a highly polarized election season haunted by a “soft on Iran” charge.”
... Speaking with the Alex Jones Show today, former State Department official Steve
Pieczenik, who has numerous inside intelligence sources having worked in several sensitive positions during the course of his career, also indicated that the terror plot was completely fabricated and that it would be used a pretext to justify a military strike against Iran.
Pieczenik also pointed out that Israel had recently taken delivery of a large amount of bunker buster missiles.
As we have
documented, the alleged assassination plot against Saudi Ambassador Adel
al-Jubeir, which is now being cited by everyone from John Kerry to John McCain as a justification for a potential military strike, is a complete fantasy.
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer has revealed
[4:15] that an FBI insider with a high security clearance told him no records whatsoever detailing the plot existed within DOJ channels,
clearly indicating the whole episode was manufactured.
It has also now emerged that the alleged “mastermind” behind the plot was a drunk pothead who liked to frequent with prostitutes and was described by those who know him as a
“joke” [...]"
Note: We shall see.
Related: "Pieczenik: Obama and Israel to Attack Iran Under Cover of Bogus Terror Threat" Kurt Nimmo
"... Pieczenik said Iran does not need to wage war within the United States and is more focused on confronting Israel through its Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon. He said the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and the reactionary Likud party are turning up the heat on the long simmering Iranian pretext – based on its alleged and undemonstrated nuclear weapons program – in order to take attention off demands by the Palestinians and a growing contingent at the United Nations for statehood. Israel, according to Pieczenik, also wants to distract its populace from a deteriorating domestic situation.
[...]"
US
Politics: "State
Department In Diplomatic Full Court Press Against Iran" [10/14/11]
"Top officials in the State Department are going to extensive lengths to coordinate international pressure on Iran in the wake of the alleged assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Adel bin Ahmed
al-Jubeir, although it remains unclear exactly what the Obama administration's next retaliatory steps might be.
Hillary Clinton and Deputy Secretary Bill Burns have been calling leaders around the world to discuss the indictment against a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen [...]"
Note: Of course, the whole thing is a fabrication and a pitiful
attempt at a false flag. Who would even buy a car from Clinton?
Commentary:
"Saudi
Arabia, Iran And A Middle East Proxy War" [10/13/11]
"Whatever the truth of the amazing US allegations against Iranian agents accused of plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States on American soil, they have served to highlight the proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.
The Saudis sent troops to Bahrain, where they openly intervened with the blessing of the Gulf Cooperation Council to curb a revolt by the Shia-led majority, and have abandoned Bashar al-Assad in Syria in the hope that his departure from power would put an end to the influence of Iran in the
neighbourhood. The Saudis are also worried about Iranian influence in Iraq under Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen as a “stooge” of Iran by the Saudis, according to Tom Lippmann, a former Washington Post journalist who is bringing out a book on Saudi Arabia next month.
At home, the Saudis have hinted that Iran was behind clashes in its Shia-dominated oil-rich province earlier this month, where more than a dozen people were injured.
King Abdullah has been urging the US to “cut off the head of the snake” (Iran) over its nuclear programme since 2008, according to Wikileaks. In fact a Wikileaks cable says that it was the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, who “recalled the King’s frequent exhortations to the U.S. to attack Iran and so put an end to its nuclear weapons program… He told you to cut off the head of the snake.” Jubeir was to have been the target of the assassination plot revealed by US authorities that allegedly involved the fanatical Iranian al Quds force and a Mexican drugs cartel. [...]"
RT
Interview: "Absurdity of Iranian Assassination Allegations"
Pepe Escobar [10/13/11]
[7:33]
"The American government wants the whole unsuspecting world to believe that the general of the
IRGC, which is a very complex and very sophisticated operation in Tehran, which is more important than their armed forces, they have intelligence operations all over the world… They are going to sub-contract a hit – mafia style killing – to a failed Corpus Christi, Texas salesman with a record of bad checks, and he’s going to contact somebody posing as a member of the Zetas Mexican drug cartel, and boast that ‘I can give you 1.5 million dollars and you’re going to hit the ambassador at his favorite restaurant in Washington… I can provide you with tons of opium if you want to do business with my contacts in Tehran.’
In a script conference in Hollywood this thing would go to the garbage immediately. Problem is it’s being paddled by the Attorney General of the United States.
Is it coincidence that the Attorney General announced this plot on the very day subpoenas were issued over the Fast and Furious perjury debacle? As we’ve said countless times in the past, when politicians and those highly visible to the public come under fire and stand to lose their positions of power, they deflect blame, or in this most recent case of Iran, create a completely new enemy.
With respect to blame deflection, this has all of the hallmarks of an event that took place on August 20, 1998, when then President Bill Clinton launched a cruise missile attack against suspected Sudenese VX nerve gas factories at the height of the Lewinsky scandal that threatened to end his Presidency. You may recall that it was on August 17, 1998 that President Clinton admitted to having an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with the White House Intern. It turns out that the attack, later justified because of ties to Osama Bin Laden, manufactured pharmaceuticals – aspirin. Do you see the pattern?
The Clinton Sudanese incident was easily covered up, as Sudan served no significant strategic importance to the US, its allies or our foreign challengers. The problem with the Iranian situation, of course, is that we have been butting heads over nuclear energy and other regional issues for nearly a decade – with both sides calling for war, albeit indirectly. [...]"
MSM: "FBI
Insider Says Iran Plot Creation Of White House. No Information At All About
Plot Within The FBI." [10/13/11]
[4:15]
False Flags:
"Underwear Bomber Guilty Plea Shields Government Complicity" [10/13/11]
"After initially vowing to plead innocent and call Kurt Haskell, the man who saw him being aided onto Delta Flight 253 by a well dressed man, as a defense witness, alleged underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has changed his mind and admitted all eight charges against him, thereby protecting accomplices involved in the plot.
“Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to detonate an explosive device in his underwear aboard a Christmas 2009 flight to Detroit, pleaded guilty to all counts in court Wednesday. AbdulMutallab had previously pleaded not guilty to the charges,” reports CNN.
In the space of a few days, Abdulmutallab completely reversed his decision to defend himself, and made no proper statement in court, instead simply reeling off a list of cliched extremist statements. [...]"
Related: "Kurt Haskell Says He Will Sue Feds in Underwear Bomber Case"
"Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell said he plans to file a civil lawsuit against the government in the underwear bomber case now that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has suddenly reversed course and decided to plead guilty.
“Abdulmutallab’s reversal now means that Detroit Attorney Kurt Haskell’s contention that the plot was, as in almost every other terror case made public, a product of government entrapment, and that the US intelligence establishment was involved in the aborted attack, will now remain buried, at least for the time being,” Paul Joseph Watson wrote earlier today as news of the reversal was reported.
Abdulmutallab entered a plea of not guilty eight months ago at the start of his trial on charges he attempted to use of a weapon of mass destruction, conspired to commit an act of terrorism and attempted murder.
The corporate media immediately attempted to cover the government’s effort to shut down the case and prevent Haskell from testifying by claiming Abdulmutallab had changed course in order to have the opportunity to read a six-minute speech to the courtroom in which he said that his crimes had been a payback for U.S. military killings of people in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
Kurt Haskell said the lawsuit will allow him to subpoena witnesses and ask questions. He told Alex Jones he is primarily interested in getting “some more truth” out of the case now that the government has moved to shut down the release of further information, in particular the identity of the well dressed Indian man who escorted Abdulmutallab to the flight in Amsterdam on Christmas day, 2009.
Alex noted that it is now government policy to murder suspects like the underwear bomber’s alleged handler and Pentagon dinner guest, Anwar
Awlaki, instead of bringing them to trial. Because of this and the government’s habitual lies and deception, lawsuits like the one Kurt Haskell will file against the government are of particular importance, Jones explained. [...]"|
Commentary: "Underwear Bomber Calls Haskell As Defense Witness" [10/11/11]
"In a shocking development in the trial of the accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, Delta Flight 253 eyewitness Kurt Haskell has been called by Abdulmutallab as a witness for the defense,
a move that could blow the whole case wide open. Detroit Lawyer Haskell has been a prominent skeptic of the government’s official version of events, having witnessed a well-dressed man help Abdulmutallab clear security before the incident on Christmas Day 2009 despite the fact that the bomber had no passport, in addition to the fact that his own father had warned U.S. intelligence officials of the threat posed by Abdulmutallab a month before the attempted attack.
It later emerged that the State Department was ordered not to revoke Abdulmutallab’s visa by “federal counterterrorism officials” even though the accused bomber had known terrorist ties.
Haskell maintains that Abdulmutallab was carrying a fake bomb and was the unwitting dupe in a case of government entrapment. [...]"
Note: Interesting read. After all it's this trumped up case
that they hold as the basis for a lot of security theatre.
ProPublica: "Analysis: Alleged Assassination Plot Doesn’t Fit Past Iranian
Behavior" [10/13/11]
"The alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican cartel gunmen to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington is one of the strangest, most serious terrorism cases to surface in years, a mix of seemingly credible evidence and unlikely scenarios that departs dramatically from Iran’s past record of global terrorist activity [...]"
Related: False Flag -
Iran: "Judge
Andrew Napolitano Accuses AG Holder Of Using Iran Assassination Plot To
Distract From Fast and Furious Scandal"
[4:00]
False Flag -
Iran: "U.S.
Challenged To Explain Accusations Of Iran Plot In The Face Of Skepticism" [10/13/11]
" ... American officials offered no specific evidence linking the plot to Iran’s most senior leaders. But they said it was inconceivable in Iran’s hierarchy that the leader of the shadowy Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, was not directly involved, and that the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was not aware of such a plan.
Iran’s leaders marshaled a furious formal rejection Wednesday of the American accusations, calling the case a cynical fabrication meant to vilify Iran and distract Americans from their severe economic problems. A senior member of Iran’s Parliament, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said he had “no doubt this is a new American-Zionist plot to divert the public opinion from the crisis Obama is grappling with.” [...]
American investigators have speculated that the Iranian-American accused in the scheme, Mansour J. Arbabsiar, who lived in Texas on the Mexico border, may have convinced a cousin, a senior Quds official, that he could recruit a member of one of Mexico’s notorious drug cartels to carry out the killing.
One provocative theory that American officials are considering is that the assassination was intended as retaliation for the killing of several Iranian nuclear scientists during the past two years. Those deaths are widely believed to have been the work of Israel, with tacit American approval, to slow Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon. [...]
One problem for President Obama and his administration is that since American intelligence claims about Iraq’s illicit weapons proved false in 2003, assertions by the United States about its adversaries have routinely faced skepticism from other countries.
... Everyone is extremely skeptical about U.S. intelligence revelations,” said Volker Perthes, an Iran expert who is the director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.
There may indeed have been a plot, Mr. Perthes said. “I don’t regard it as impossible but rather improbable,” he said.
If the Iranian leadership authorized such a plot, he said, that would mark “a major escalation against the United States, of the kind that hasn’t happened since the Iranian Revolution.” It would be “almost an act of war,” and Washington “must react in a different way than it has so far.” [...]"
Commentary:
"Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran"
ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern
[10/13/11]
"Israeli leaders continue to pound the drum about taking out Iran’s nuclear program – and some hardliners may want to strike soon, fearing the window of opportunity will close if President Barack Obama wins reelection and is less susceptible to political pressures, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern observes. [...]
There are mounting signs that the right-wing Israeli government may think the timing is right for an attack on Iran, with growing alarms inside Israel about alleged Iranian progress on building a nuclear bomb – and with President Barack Obama fearing loss of key Jewish political support in 2012 if he doesn’t go along.
On Sept. 26, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Iran’s alleged progress, telling interviewer Charlie Rose that “time is short” before Iran obtains nuclear weapons and poses a direct threat to Israel and the rest of the world. [...]"
Related: "Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern" [10/13/11]
[19:52]
"Ray McGovern, member of Veterans For Peace and former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses his article “Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran;” how the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate thwarted the Bush administration’s push for war; Israel’s increasing isolation as its allies depart en masse; Obama’s acute vulnerability to the “Likud lobby’s” influence during his reelection bid; the former Mossad chiefs who worry about Netanyahu’s warmongering; and whether military leadership will speak up to Israel to avoid war with Iran – like admirals Mullen and Fallon did in 2007. [...]"
Note: Either push the right-arrow play button to listen, or download
the MP3.
False Flag -
Iran:
"4 Things You Need to Know About the
' Iran Bomb Plot'" [10/13/11]
"The assassination was never going to take place. On Tuesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller described Iranian American Mansour Arbabsiar's alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States as straight out of a "Hollywood script."
In a sense he was right—because the plot was controlled from the beginning by the FBI. According to the criminal complaint, when Arbabsiar traveled to Mexico in May 2011, to allegedly find an assassin from the ranks of Mexican drug cartels, he ended up talking to a paid
DEA* informant who dodged drug charges in exchange for cooperating with authorities. [...]"
False Flag -
Iran: "US
Senator Kerry: 'All Options' Open On Iran Plot" [10/13/11]
"Senior US Senator John Kerry left the door open Wednesday to military retaliation against Iran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States... [...]"
Related:
"Alleged
Iran Plot "Dangerous Escalation": Clinton"
| "Rep. Peter King Still Flogging Bogus Iranian Plot To Launch Israel's War Against Iran"
"The New York Democrat also told CNN’s Erin Burnett Tuesday the plot has raised the relationship between America and Iran to “a very precipitous level” and there is a need for “significant action.” [...]"
False Flag -
Iran: "Saudis
Say Iran Must 'Pay The Price' For Alleged Plot As US Resists Retaliation" [10/13/11]
" The Saudi Arabian government has issued a menacing warning to Iran that it will have to "pay the price" for the alleged plot to hire a Mexican drugs cartel to assassinate its ambassador in Washington.
The threat from the Saudis came as the Obama administration resisted calls from within the US, mainly from the conservative right, to retaliate against Iran with military action. [...]
A Saudi prince, Turki al-Faisal, a former ambassador to Washington and a former head of the Saudi intelligence service, told a conference in London: "The burden of proof and the amount of evidence in the case is overwhelming, and clearly shows official Iranian responsibility for this. This is unacceptable. Somebody in Iran will have to pay the price." [...]"
Note: What a contrived show.
False Flag -
Iran: "Iran
Complains To UN Over US Claim" [10/12/11]
"Iran ambassador to the UN forwards a letter of complaint to the world body, voicing outrage over the US allegations of the Islamic Republic's involvement in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington. [...]"
False Flag -
Iran: "Iranian
'Terror Plot': Not Even Good Propaganda" [10/12/11]
"Fake, fake, fake – I’m talking about the latest anti-Iranian
propaganda coming out of Washington, which claims the Iranian Revolutionary
Guards were involved in a “plot” to take out the Saudi ambassador to the
US and blow up both the Saudi and Israeli embassies. The narrative reads like
a formulaic melodrama: two Iranians, one a naturalized US citizen, purportedly
approached someone they thought was a member of a Mexican drug cartel –
according to the indictment [.pdf], it was a “sophisticated” drug cartel,
not the plebeian sort – and proposed paying him $1.5 million to murder Adel
al Jubeir, the Kingdom’s ambassador in Washington – oh, and by the way,
the Iranians supposedly said, “Are you guys any good with explosives?” The
key to understanding just how fake this story is can be found in the New York
Times report, which informs us: For the entire operation, the government’s
confidential sources were monitored and guided by federal law enforcement
agents, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District,
said in the news conference. ‘So no explosives were actually ever placed
anywhere,’ he said, ‘and no one was actually in ever in any danger.’”
Translation: the whole thing is phony from beginning to end. This is another
one of US law enforcement’s manufactured “anti-terrorist” triumphs,
where the feds set somebody up, fabricate a “crime” out of thin air, and
then proceed to “solve” a case that never really existed to begin with.
This has been the general pattern of our “anti-terrorist” operations in
the US since the beginning – because finding and catching real terrorists is
much too hard, at least for our Keystone Kops. Instead of going out and
actually, you know, looking for the Bad Guys, and then apprehending them, they
lure some unsuspecting Muslim immigrant into a trap, and spring it when the
time is right. The long narrative spun by the indictment tells us everything
but what we really need to know, which is: how is it that these two Iranian
“terrorists” just happened to meet up with a Mexican drug cartel assassin
who just happened to be a longtime DEA informant? [...]"
False Flag - Iran: "Holder's
'False Flags For Idiots' Class" [10/12/11]
"Gotta weigh in on this one. Apparently the PTBs are confident the American mass mindset is complete mush. Never mind Holder and the Obama admin obviously trying to cover and distract from their documented involvement in the Fast and Furious arms for drug gangs debacle, and wanting to divert attention from the Occupation of America revolution happening in over 1200 cities now, the rhetoric in this insane story is out of a fascist kindergarten primer.
... Same old fishy "department" connections. Who set up who? And it's all hearsay. That doesn't work in a criminal defense, but sure works in a government accusation out of the blue before any verification, trial or anything! They can come on strong with whatever unsubstantiated propaganda they want and peddle it to the public and their complicit media at will. And then act accordingly.
This is all based on some very questionable informant's supposed words, and they're running with it like it's all a done deal [...]
Watch the idiot mainstream parroting of this false meme, the last guy calling to repeatedly an "act of war". Phony balloney war prod. Keep aware. They're itching to change the playing field to where they want it."
Related: "This Is An Act of War!" Congressman Peter King On Iranian Assassination Plot"
[7:17]
Note: Peter King behaves like a delusional psychopath, which is
about par for him. He needs hospitalization. He is paid to promote societal
terrorism.
MSM:
"AG Holder Announces 'Terror Arrest' and Accuses Iran of "State-Sponsored Plot" [10/11/11]
"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the government has (allegedly) disrupted an
'plot' to kill the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States (allegedly) organized by elements of the Iranian government.
The (alleged) plot was (allegedly) disrupted by the FBI and the DEA, and
(allegedly) two individuals (patsies) have been charged in the (alleged) case — one still
(allegedly and conveniently) at large in Iran. Holder said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force was
(allegedly) behind the plot. "This was (allegedly) directed and approved by elements of the Iranian government," he said.
Holder declared that the United States government is "committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions."
Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the
(alleged) assassination was (allegedly) planned as the "opening act in a series of coordinated attacks." [...]"
Note: This is clearly and transparently a fabrication
geared to distract from Holders problems with the 'Fast and Furious"
arms scandal, and support the psychopaths in Israel, who want the US to
attack Iran. This whole episode is another one of those in which
foreigners are entrapped by the government in a government-designed
scenario in an attempt to 'prove' that the national security apparatus is
'doing it's job'. Anyone astute knows that this is all a set-up for
political purposes. We have seen this how many times now?
Related:
Commentary: "Fast And Furious: 22 Shocking Facts About The Scandal That Could Bring Down The Obama Administration"
"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has been stonewalling all efforts by members of Congress to look into Fast and Furious. A CBS reporter that has been aggressively investigating this story was recently screamed at and cussed at by a high ranking official that works in the White House. It has become abundantly clear that the Obama administration desperately wants to hide what went on during Operation Fast and Furious. So will they succeed or will we eventually find out the truth?
What you are about to read should shock the living daylights out of you. The U.S. government purposely armed Mexican drug cartels with thousands of guns and then ordered agents not to follow the weapons across the border.
This should be a story that the mainstream media is pounding on every single day. [...]"|MSM:
Iran
Rejects US Plotting Accusations"
"Iran has categorically rejected the US accusations that the Islamic Republic was involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, calling it a 'prefabricated scenario.' [...]"
| MSM: "Obama Admin Has Known About Iranian Plot Since June! (So Why Reveal It Now?)"
[1:03]
Note: For the reasons stated in the Note above.
MSM: "FBI Director Vows More Use of ‘Lone Wolf’ Provision of Patriot Act" [10/11/11]
"Testifying yesterday in Congress, FBI Director Robert Mueller and National Counterterrorism Center director Matthew Olsen both agreed that the seldom used “lone wolf” provision of the USA PATRIOT Act, a provision which allows broad intelligence gathering of people with no actual terrorism ties, would become much more widely used in the months and years to come. [...]"
Commentary: "Underwear Bomber Calls Haskell As Defense Witness" [10/11/11]
"In a shocking development in the trial of the accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, Delta Flight 253 eyewitness Kurt Haskell has been called by Abdulmutallab as a witness for the defense,
a move that could blow the whole case wide open. Detroit Lawyer Haskell has been a prominent skeptic of the government’s official version of events, having witnessed a well-dressed man help Abdulmutallab clear security before the incident on Christmas Day 2009 despite the fact that the bomber had no passport, in addition to the fact that his own father had warned U.S. intelligence officials of the threat posed by Abdulmutallab a month before the attempted attack.
It later emerged that the State Department was ordered not to revoke Abdulmutallab’s visa by “federal counterterrorism officials” even though the accused bomber had known terrorist ties.
Haskell maintains that Abdulmutallab was carrying a fake bomb and was the unwitting dupe in a case of government entrapment. [...]"
Note: Interesting read. After all it's this trumped up case
that they hold as the basis for a lot of security theatre.
Commentary: "The
Invisible Surveillance State: DHS And The End Of America As We Know It" [10/10/11]
"Since its inception in response to the September 11th attacks, the behemoth bureaucracy known as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has grown into an organization that is nothing short of nightmarish.
The DHS boasts 216,000 employees (as of 2010), a $98.8 billion budget in the 2011 fiscal year, and child agencies that include: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), United States Coast Guard (USCG), United States Secret Service (USSS), and the National Protection and Programs Directorate
(NPPD). The DHS has been behind countless highly controversial policies and incidents including (but definitely not limited to): [...]
To understand the concept of the subversion of dissent through surveillance, we must examine two factors. First, is the reality of the spying itself, which we just outlined clearly above. Second, are the common arguments and talking points used by the champions of Big Brother culture, and how nonsensical they can be. Let’s take a look some of these arguments now…
[...] "
MSM:
"GOP Rep Peter King: "We Can’t Allow More Coverage Of Occupy Wall Street, Or They Will
Win" [10/10/11]
[1:22]
"It’s really important for us not to give any legitimacy to these people in the streets,” said King on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Friday evening. “I remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.” [...]"
Note: Rabid attack dog Congressman Peter King (R-NY), chief of the
Homeland Security Committee, with Laura Ingraham - Oct. 7, 2011. King behaves
like a psychopathic idiot ... another brainless minion cog in the wheel
of manipulative stupidity. Ingraham is no better, going on about 'union
thuggery' ...
MSM: "Jury
Chosen In US ‘Underwear Bomber’ Case" [10/07/11]
"The trial of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009 is set to go full steam ahead next week as the jury was finally picked Thursday.
After three days of hearings in a Detroit court, a jury of nine women and three men with four alternates was chosen to try Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab. Abdulmutallab, 24, has insisted on representing himself on charges of trying to detonate a bomb on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight with 300 people on board.
The December 25 plot was foiled when explosives allegedly stitched into Abdulmutallab’s underwear failed to detonate and only caused a small fire, allowing passengers and crew members to restrain him.
The botched operation triggered global alarm and led the United States to adopt stringent new screening and security measures, including controversial pat-downs at airports and a massive expansion of the no-fly list.
Jurors will be shown a reproduction of the underwear that Abdulmutallab allegedly wore to hide the explosives and are expected to hear testimony from the plane’s passengers and crew. [...]"
Note: Check out the Dec 2009 News stories in the archive for
what really happened.
MSM: "Hayden Urges Congress to Let NSA Monitor Public Networks for Threats" [10/06/11]
"Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden revived a controversial meme on Tuesday when he urged Congress to allow his former agency to monitor public networks in order to defend against malicious activity coming from nation states and others.
“We’ve got capability on the sidelines wanting policy guidance,” he told the House Intelligence Committee, referring to the NSA. “And when we can enrich that guidance and get them in the field, the better — the safer — we are.”
Hayden’s remarks echoed what Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair told the same committee in 2009 when he said that the NSA, rather than the Department of Homeland Security, which currently oversees cybersecurity issues on government networks and liaisons with the public sector about securing critical infrastructure networks, was the only agency with the skills needed to secure cyberspace. [...]"
Note: Hayden is a psychopath like the rest of them.
MSM: "Abolish the DHS?" [10/04/11]
[7:11]
"Defense spending on weapons systems and our wars abroad aren't the only areas where we see a lot of waste. We've discussed the massive amount of money that's also spent on Homeland Security here at home. We've interviewed John Mueller, who in his new book found by using cost benefit analysis, that in order to justify the increase in homeland security spending post 9/11, we would have to "deter, prevent, foil, or protect against 1,667 attacks per year....or 4 per day. But now some are arguing that we not only take a discerning look at this spending....but perhaps abolish the Department of Homeland Security altogether. Alyona talks to one of those people, Gene Healy a vice president at the Cato Institute and columnist for the Washington Examiner. [...]"
Commentary: "Internet Firms Such As Google, Twitter And Facebook Co-opted For Surveillance"
[10/02/11]
"Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week.
Although such companies try to keep their users’ information private, their business models depend on exploiting it to sell targeted advertising, and when governments demand they hand it over, they have little choice but to comply. [...]"
MSM: "Hundreds
Of Plants, Animals Up For New Protections" [10/02/11]
"The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melodic golden-winged warbler and slow-moving gopher tortoise, to the slimy American eel and tiny Texas kangaroo rat.
Compelled by a pair of recent legal settlements, the effort in part targets species that have been mired in bureaucratic limbo even as they inch toward potential extinction.
With a Friday deadline to act on more than 700 pending cases, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service already has issued decisions advancing more than 500 species toward potential new protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Observers said the agency's actions mark a breakthrough for a program long criticized by conservatives and liberals alike as cumbersome and slow.
"Here at a single glance, you see the sweep of the Endangered Species Act," said Patrick
Parenteau, an environmental law professor at the University of Vermont. "They are moving through this large backlog at a fairly crisp clip now. This is the largest number of listing actions we've seen in a very long time, in decades." [...]"
[Use of violations for social control and manipulation. This will further cripple private use of land and
water, which is the real purpose of the program, not protection or endangered species.]
Commentary: "America is
'Al-Qaeda': Another Look At The Terrorist Threat" Kurt
Nimmo [010/01/11]
"It is a plain fact that Al-Qaeda is a proxy army that was invented by the CIA to intimidate the American people into giving up their rights and constitution and to serve as a justification for the American and Israeli wars of conquest in the Middle East.
This sounds crazy on the surface because of the U.S. government’s assertion that Al-Qaeda is a strategic threat to the United States and that it was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. But ask yourself what is more crazier: thinking for yourself or trusting the government?
Why is it considered insane to question government narratives and statements? The media’s blackout of scientific and eyewitness evidence that proves the CIA and Mossad coordinated the 9/11 attacks from the shadows should make anyone who has an independent mind to dig deeper and ask questions.
Historian Webster G. Tarpley said on Infowars Nightly News on September 28, 2011 that, “what we’ve learned in Libya is that Al-Qaeda is the CIA Arab legion, it always has been, it always will be.”
Tarpley says the CIA speaks through Al-Qaeda, so technically speaking there is no “Al-Qaeda.” It is an imaginary terrorist threat that was created to keep Americans docile and afraid.
The links between Western intelligence agencies and radical Islamist groups emerged in the war against Gaddafi. Back in March, The Telegraph reported that the rebels in Libya had deep connections to Al-Qaeda. These seasoned Al-Qaeda soldiers were financed and trained by the Western powers to do their dirty work in countries like Libya that oppose the arrogant banksters’ plan for world hegemony. [...]"
Propaganda:
"Obama
Calls Awlaki Killing A 'Major Blow' Against ' Al Qaeda'" [010/01/11]
"... Obama credited American intelligence operations and cooperation with the Yemeni government for the death of key Al Qaeda figure Anwar Awlaki on Friday, calling it a “major blow” to the terrorism network's most active operational affiliate and a sign of things to come.
Aside from the fact that Al-Awlaki was a confirmed double agent, having dined at the Pentagon shortly after 9/11 despite being declared the spiritual leader of the hijackers, and going on to become chief patsy handler for intelligence agency entrapment operations, the hypocrisy here is staggering even by Obama’s standards.
If Obama was so concerned about not providing safe havens to terrorists, then why has he just helped hand an entire country over to them in Libya? [...]"
Related:
No More Pentagon Dinners:
'Al Qaeda' Leader Killed… Again"
"According to a “senior US administration official”, Al Qaeda Boogie Man
(and US citizen) Anwar al-Awlaki has been reported killed in an air strike in Yemen, which is the exact
same way he died in 2009. The Yemeni defense ministry confirmed the claim, stating that the same counterterrorism unit that killed Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen to kill al-Awlaki.
Awlaki’s ' death' in 2009 was also reported by Fox News and Al Jazeera. [...]" |
"CIA And Pentagon Asset Anwar Al Awlaki Dined At Pentagon Months After 9/11"
[1:51]
Alex Jones
Interviews:
"Webster
Tarpley : Al-Qaeda Is The CIA Arab Legion" [09/30/11]
Autoplay 3 Video clips
"What we have learned in Libya is that Al-Qaeda is the CIA's Arab Legion it always have been so that's the CIA speaking through
Al-Qaeda saying that it was not controlled demolition that brought down the World Trade center , [...]"
Commentary: "The
FBI Again Thwarts Its Own Terror Plot" Glenn Greenwald [09/30/11]
"... And now, the FBI has yet again saved us all from its own Terrorist plot by arresting 26-year-old American citizen Rezwan Ferdaus after having spent months providing him with the plans and materials to attack the Pentagon, American troops in Iraq, and possibly the Capitol Building using "remote-controlled" model airplanes carrying explosives.
None of these cases entail the FBI's learning of an actual plot and then infiltrating it to stop it. They all involve the FBI's purposely seeking out Muslims (typically young and impressionable ones) whom they think harbor animosity toward the U.S. and who therefore can be induced to launch an attack despite having never taken even a single step toward doing so before the FBI targeted them. Each time the FBI announces it has disrupted its own plot, press coverage is predictably hysterical (new Homegrown Terrorist caught!), fear levels predictably rise, and new security measures are often implemented in response (the FBI's Terror plot aimed at the D.C. Metro, for instance, led to the Metro Police announcing a new policy of random searches of passengers' bags). I have several observations and questions about these matters: [...]"
Related: See below.
MSM: "Plot
To Attack D.C. With Exploding Remote-Controlled (Model) Planes Thwarted: Feds"
[09/29/11]
"A Massachusetts man with a degree in physics was busted Wednesday for plotting to blow up the Pentagon and the US Capitol with homemade drones, officials said.
Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, planned to fill two remote-controlled model airplanes with C-4 explosives and hand grenades and direct them into the iconic Washington buildings, said US Attorney Carmen Ortiz. [...]"
Note: And model airplanes represent NO THREAT at all ... just
an annoyance. How ironic, because the two towers were attacked on 9/11, by
factions in the US and Israeli governments, but using remotely piloted
aircraft as an essential part of the attacks. This article is an attempt to
literally 'belittle' discussion of 'remotely' controlled aircraft, and reduce
it to concepts 'available only in models' ... this story indirectly
supports or protects the US Government 9/11 Conspiracy Theory.
"9/11:
"UK:
"Al-Qaida" Calls On Ahmadinejad To End 9/11 Conspiracy Theories" [09/29/11]
"Terrorist organisation's magazine reportedly says it is 'ridiculous' for Iran's president to blame the attacks on the US government [...]"
Note: Ridiculous propaganda article. The idea that real 'terror
organizations' have 'magazines' is an idiotic ploy by state
provocateurs/propagandists .... Here we have an instance of CIA/Mossad
flunkies putting out a 'magazine', and UK patsies commenting on their
propaganda. The ONLY dynamic that would object to the Iranian statement is the
one supporting those who really were involved with the deed. Ahmadinejad's
comments, even though he is a 'player' on the world stage like all the others,
reflect what actually happened on 9/11, more than not. Any 'Al Qaida' are CIA
assets gone astray who are bribed with drugs, money and weapons to do the
bidding of the 'intelligence' agencies. Notice that the UK newspaper this is
in does not allow comments from readers. Of course, the stupid US/UK press and
even quite a few phenomenally stupid alternative news outlets, parrot this
bullshit article as being a non-propaganda item, despite the obvious fact that
it tows the US government line on 9/11. ... this story indirectly supports
or protects the US Government 9/11 Conspiracy Theory.
MSM: "Even Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on F.B.I.’s Watch List" [09/29/11]
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government’s terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, according to
newly released
documents. The database now has about 420,000 names, including about 8,000 Americans, according to the statistics released in connection with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. About 16,000 people, including about 500 Americans, are barred from flying. [...]"
MSM: "TSA
Official Charged In Fatal Stabbing Of Other TSA Worker" [09/23/11]
"One of the top federal Transportation Security Administration officials in the state of Mississippi has been arrested in connection with the killing of TSA worker Stacey Wright.
On Sunday, D’Iberville police found Wright, 43, stabbed to death in her apartment there.
Authorities said Ruben Orlando Benitez, 45, who serves as assistant federal security director for screening for the TSA in Mississippi, has been arrested.
Bond has been set for $3 million by Justice Court Judge Albert Fountain. [...]"
Commentary: "Major Terrorism Drill “Operation Mountain Guardian” In Denver On 23 September" [09/22/11]
"On Friday September 23, a large scale terrorism drill involving will take place in Denver, Colorado.
The drill, made possible by a FEMA Homeland Security grant, has been dubbed “Operation Mountain Guardian” and will include military personal.
Residents have been warned to expect loud noises and smoke as well as many different emergency and military vehicles.
The exercise will involve first responders from 81 different agencies will be conducted at ten separate locations and will include loud noises, simulated weapons, smoke, emergency vehicles and other equipment that will be audible and visible throughout the day. [...]"
Note: The fact that most major terror attacks have coincided with “drills” used to confuse and distract first responders not privy to the inside plan has been heavily documented, with the 7/7 attacks in London and 9/11 attacks in New York City being prime examples.
Note: Some sort of National Exercise ("drill") seems
to be going on around November 9th, 11/9/11, two days before 11/11/11. I just
don't see that any of those people who perpetrate things, who are also
addicted to numerical memes, can pass all this up.
Commentary: "How an Anti-Terror Program Became a Jewish Earmark: Grants Favor the Orthodox and the Organized" [09/20/11]
"The Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School, in Chicago, put in new lights around its building and parking lot and now has a state-of-the-art video surveillance system with 12 cameras. Congregation Brith Shalom, in Bellaire, Texas, now has blast-proof doors and windows. In Baltimore, the Bais Hamedrash & Mesivta school installed a new gate to the parking lot and placed cameras throughout the building. Earlier this month, Congregation B’nai Israel of Staten Island put new shatterproof windows into its 40-year-old building.
All thanks to the United States taxpayer. A Forward analysis of the 995 grants distributed through the national program from 2007 to 2010 found that 734, or 73.7%, went to Jewish organizations. DHS announced its grants for 2011 in late August, and here, too, Jewish groups were the big winners, with 81% of those awards.
This disproportionate distribution is no accident. Examining the grants program provides a window into Jewish organizational and political power. It is this power that allowed a small community to create and maintain a government program tailored specifically for its needs and catering almost exclusively to its members.
The coalition lobbying for the program was led by United Jewish Communities, now known as the Jewish Federations of North America, and by the Orthodox Union and several other Jewish groups. “No one ever said it was a bill for the Jewish community,” an official involved in the process recalled, “but the main push came from the community.” [...]"
MSM: "TSA
Officers Arrested On Drug Charges In Connecticut" [09/14/11]
"Three federal Transportation Security Administration officers and two other law enforcement officers were arrested on charges of accepting cash or gift cards in exchange for permitting prescription drug dealers to move tens of thousands of highly addictive painkiller pills and cash proceeds from the illegal sales through airports and highways.
The TSA officers, based at airports in Florida and New York, and a Westchester County, N.Y., police officer allowed the oxycodone through airport security, authorities said Tuesday. A Florida state trooper accepted cash and checks for ensuring dealers could freely transport the pills and cash proceeds by car through that state, prosecutors said. [...]"
Commentary: "The Motive for Terrorism That Officials Dare Not Acknowledge"
Foreign Policy In Focus [09/14/11]
"In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of how successful the CIA and the military have been in destroying al Qaeda. Absent from the torrent of opinion and analysis was any mention of how the U.S. military occupation of Muslim lands and wars that continue to kill Muslim civilians fuel jihadist sentiment that will keep the threat of terrorism high for many years to come.
The failure to have that discussion is not an accident. In December 2007, at a conference in Washington, D.C. on al Qaeda, former State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Daniel Benjamin offered a laundry list of things the United States could do to reduce the threat from al Qaeda. But he said nothing about the most important thing to be done: pledging to the Islamic world that the United States would pull its military forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq and end its warfare against those in Islamic countries resisting U.S. military presence.
During the coffee break, I asked him whether that item shouldn’t have been on his list. “You’re right,” he answered. And then he added, “But we can’t do that.”
“Why not,” I asked. “Because,” he said, “we would have to tell the families of the soldiers who have died in those wars that their loved ones died in vain.”
His explanation was obviously bogus. But in agreeing that America’s continuing wars actually increase the risk of terrorism against the United States, Benjamin was merely reflecting the conclusions that the intelligence and counter-terrorism communities had already reached. [...]"
MSM: "Ex-NYPD
Cop Held In Alleged Bomb Hoax" [09/14/11]
"A man identified as a former NYPD detective was taken in to custody at the airport in Kansas City, Mo., today when bomb technicians determined he had a full hoax bomb in his carry on, federal authorities told ABC News. [...]"
Commentary: "TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency"
[09/12/11]
".... A decade after the TSA was created following the September 11 attacks, the author of the legislation that established the massive agency grades its performance at “D-.”
“The whole program has been hijacked by bureaucrats,” said Rep. John Mica (R. -Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation Committee.
“It mushroomed into an army,” Mica said. “It’s gone from a couple-billion-dollar enterprise to close to $9 billion.”
As for keeping the American public safe, Mica says, “They’ve failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years.”
“Everything they have done has been reactive. They take shoes off because of
[shoe- bomber] Richard Reid, passengers are patted down because of the diaper bomber, and you can’t pack liquids because the British uncovered a plot using liquids,” Mica said.
“It’s an agency that is always one step out of step,” Mica said. It cost $1 billion just to train workers, which now number more than 62,000, and “they actually trained more workers than they have on the job,” Mica said.
“The whole thing is a complete fiasco,” Mica said. In a wide-ranging interview with HUMAN EVENTS just days before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Mica said screeners should be privatized and the agency dismantled. [...]
“We are one of the only countries still using this model of security," Mica said, "other than Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, and I think, Libya.""
Note: The same can be said for the "Department of Homeland
Security". They also need to dump Napolitano, Rep. King and the other
psychotics.
Webster Tarpley: "Suppressed But Crucial 9/11 Evidence: “Angel Is Next,” The Invisible Government’s Ultimatum to Bush to Launch the War of Civilizations"
[09/10/11]
Plus, "US State Department Giving Aid To Sadistic 'Al Qaeda' Butchers In Libya"
Related:
"The 46 Exercises and Drills of 9/11"
From the Fifth Edition of 9/11 Synthetic Terror.
Commentary: "DHS
Policy Institute Releases (Flawed) Report: Lends Support For Increased Police
State Measures, Ignores All Contrary Facts And Statistics" [09/09/11]
"A report, called “Counterterrorism Intelligence: Law Enforcement
Perspectives” was released earlier this month through the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute which lends heavy support for increasing local law enforcement efforts to thwart the threat of terrorism.
The report, authored by Frank J. Cilluffo, Joseph R. Clark, and Michael P. Downing, also advocates increased synergy between local, state and federal law enforcement authorities, which is completely reasonable and justified.
Where it gets problematic is the heavy support the report lends to increasing police state measures in the United States and the highly questionable methodology employed in the report.
The report is essentially the findings of a survey conducted with less than 50
participants. You did not read that wrong. They are making attempts at generalizing statements made by a sample of less than 50 so-called experts, all of essentially homogenous opinion.
Even the authors of the report must point out this massive methodological flaw, although they employ classic Orwellian doublethink by claiming just moments later that it isn’t a flaw at all.
The basis for the report was a 44-question survey conducted by the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute with funds from both GWU and the Ahmanson Foundation at a conference of the Intelligence Unit Commanders Group of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, which “is a professional organization of police executives representing the largest cities in the United States and Canada.”
The most astounding part of the study is that there were even less participants than there were questions on the survey. You don’t need to take a statistics course to realize that this is a bit unusual.
Would you consider a two-question study legitimate if they asked one person? Probably not, but the Homeland Security Policy Institute, or
HSPI, thinks it is a reasonable way to go about compiling research. For this 44-question study, the sample size was a measly 42 individuals. On page five of the report, they aptly point out that, “From a purely statistical standpoint, such a sample raises questions about the generalizability of HSPI’s findings.”
That is a massive understatement. These findings are not even remotely
generalizable. If someone attempted to get research published with such a meaningless sample size, they would get laughed out of the room. This is like polling a single class in a single high school then generalizing it to every high school student in the nation.
To justify their incredibly small sample, HSPI uses what is known as argumentum ad
verecundiam, or more commonly, argument from authority or appeal to authority. This type of argument is not always fallacious, and so there are some rough guidelines for determining if an appeal to authority is warranted. [...]"
MSM: "DHS: We Lost Our Own Explosives During Live Drill In Phoenix" [09/07/11]
[2:18]
"DHS has misplaced their own bomb used in a live drill at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix.
For the past few days the Department of Homeland Security and other officials have been hunting for live explosives that have “gone missing” from a drill conducted late last week.
The fact that the agency that is supposed to " protect Americans from terror" is now possibly
" aiding terrorists" by losing track of deadly explosive compounds that could be
" used or blamed in future events" to further " control the populace" shows just how corrupt and inept most government officials
are. [...]"
Note: Live drills can turn into false flag attacks in a second. Who planted the live bomb in the airport for the drill? That person can be cut loose and turned into a patsy.
MSM: "Germany
Scraps Body Scanners After False Alarms" [09/02/11]
"Germany has decided against installing body scanners across the country's airports after a pilot scheme in Hamburg was blighted by false alarms, the interior ministry announced on Wednesday.
"Based on the test results from the pilot scheme, Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has decided not to install body scanners in airports for the moment," said a statement from the ministry.
"The current generation of body scanners ... is not yet ready for widespread implementation. [...]"
MSM: "Female TSA Agent Repeatedly Helped Drug Dealer Evade Security" [08/31/11]
"A former TSA agent has admitted helping a man accused of running a drug ring repeatedly evade security and smuggle money through the Buffalo Niagara Airport. Minetta Walker, 43, confessed that she helped the man get around airport security [...]"
MSM: "With
CIA Help, NYPD Moves Covertly In Muslim Areas" [08/24/11]
"Since the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the NYPD has become one of the country's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies. A months-long investigation by The Associated Press has revealed that the NYPD operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government. And it does so with unprecedented help from the CIA in a partnership that has blurred the bright line between foreign and domestic spying.
Neither the city council, which finances the department, nor the federal government, which contributes hundreds of millions of dollars each year, is told exactly what's going on. [...]"
Note: Extensive article.
Commentary: "FBI
Organizes Almost All Terror Plots In The US" [08/24/11]
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover
agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975. If you think
that’s a few spies too many — spies earning as much as $100,000 per
assignment — one doesn’t have to go too deep into their track record to
see their accomplishments. Those agents are responsible for an overwhelming
amount of terrorist stings that have stopped major domestic catastrophes in
the vein of 9/11 from happening on American soil. Another thing those agents
are responsible for, however, is plotting those very schemes. The FBI has in
recent years used trained informants not just to snitch on suspected
terrorists, but to set them up from the get-go. A recent report put together
by Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of
California-Berkley analyses some striking statistics about the role of FBI
informants in terrorism cases that the Bureau has targeted in the decade since
the September 11 attacks. [...]"
Commentary:
"9/11:Israel
Did It" Wikispooks
[08/24/11]
"Discounting the 'Official narrative' as the absurdity it so clearly is, there are just two organisations on the entire planet with the expertise, assets, access and political protection necessary to have both executed 9/11 and effected its cover-up to date
(ie the means). Both are Intelligence Agencies - the CIA and Israel's Mossad - but only one had a compelling motive - Mossad. That motive dovetailed perfectly with the Neocon PNAC agenda, with it's explicitly stated need for "...a catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor" [1] in order to mobilise US public opinion for already planned wars, the effects of which would be to destroy Israel's enemies. [...]"
Interview: "Retired NYPD Officer Frank
Serpico: American Drug War is A Lie, Just Like 9/11" [08/23/11]
[53:56]
"On this Friday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex welcomes retired NYPD officer Frank Serpico to discuss police corruption and the drug war. Serpico's experiences as a police officer were dramatized in the 1973 film
Serpico, which starred Al Pacino in the lead role. [...]"
Concepts and
Practices: "Sen. Wyden Demands To Know How Many Americans Are Under Surveillance Via The Patriot Act" [08/07/11]
[6:14]
Note: Ron Wyden with Keith Olbermann.
Trends: "UK
Police Tells Public To Report "Anti-Government Beliefs" As
"Terrorism" [08/02/11]
"The London Metropolitan Police is encouraging businesses and the general
public to immediately report anyone who holds anti-government political
beliefs to the authorities as terrorists, calling on people to become
volunteer informants as the state prepares for widespread social unrest.
“This was the surprising injunction from the Metropolitan Police issued to
businesses and members of the public in Westminster last week,” reports the
London Guardian. “There was no warning about other political groups, but
next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police’s
“counter terrorist focus desk” called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers
stating: “Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state
undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless
society, or anarchy. Any information relating to anarchists should be reported
to your local police.” In also calling on people to report Al-Qaeda
paraphernalia to police, the briefing conflates “anarchists” with
terrorists. [...]"
Note: Of course, It would then mean that 'the authorities' who
dress up as anarchists, provocateurs, are also 'terrorists', over and above
everything that is being done by TPTB itself which constitutes 'terrorism' on
society. The pot calling the kettle black.
Irony:
"TSA
Employees Reporting “Cancer Clusters” Among Those Who Work Near Radiation
Body Scanners" [08/02/11]
"In a new twist to the TSA saga to which we can only say, “We told ya so,” the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal TSA employees are reporting “cancer clusters” among their own employees who work near radiation body scanners. At the same time, DHS refuses to issue dosimeters to TSA employees because, obviously, those dosimeters would indicate alarming levels of radiation exposure. So it’s better to just keep everyone ignorant and keep irradiating all the TSA employees and hope nobody notices, apparently. [...]"
Commentary: "Bill
Would Force Intel Chief To Renounce ‘Secret Patriot Act’" [07/30/11]
"For months, two Senators have screamed bloody murder that the government holds a secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act so broad that it amounts to a whole different law giving the feds massive domestic surveillance powers. Now, a measure by
Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Udall would force the U.S. intelligence chief, and by extension the entire intelligence community, to admit that they went too far in their Patriot Act interpretations — if they don’t find a way to wiggle out of it.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence meets Thursday to prepare the annual bill authorizing the U.S. intelligence agency’s operations. During that “mark-up” process, Wyden and Udall will ask their colleagues to include a measure compelling the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General to produce a “detailed assessment of the problems posed by the reliance of government agencies”
(.pdf) on “interpretations of domestic surveillance authorities that are inconsistent with the understanding of such authorities by the public.” Wyden’s staff provided Danger Room with a copy of the proposed amendment.
Specifically, Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper would have to produce “a plan for addressing such problems” with secret legal interpretations regarding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) and the Patriot Act, the government’s two most important domestic spying laws.
The bill, though, doesn’t force Holder and Clapper to roll back those secret interpretations. They’ve just got to basically admit they’ve messed up. Even if Wyden and Udall can get their colleagues to sign on to their effort, it would be naive to think the nation’s top prosecutor and intelligence officer are so thick that they can’t find an artful way of saying they’ve done nothing wrong.
The irony is that this week, Clapper’s office conceded to the Senate panel that they have indeed been secretly re-interpreting the Patriot Act. A letter from a Clapper aide to Wyden and Udall implied as much
(.pdf), and pledged to consider making those secret interpretations public. And Tuesday, the Obama administration’s nominee to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, Matthew Olsen, acknowledged that “some of the pleadings and opinions related to the Patriot Act” to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that approves snooping warrants “are classified.” [...]"
Commentary: "Feds
To Grab Land For Homeland Security" [07/28/11]
"... with respect to certain sections of the international border between the United States and Mexico and between the United States and Canada shall be considered to apply to all sections of the international land and maritime borders of the United States within 100 miles of the international land and maritime borders of the United States for the activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security described in subsection (b), including the construction of infrastructure, to achieve the operational control described in subsection (a). [...]"
Commentary: "Citizen Spies, Brutal Torture Foreshadow the Domestic War on Terror"
[07/27/11]
[0:00]
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Note:
Related:
"DHS
Gives Up On $230 Million Program for Advanced Cargo Radiation Detectors" [07/27/11]
"The U.S. Homeland Security Department has terminated the program to develop the next generation of radiation detection monitors, a senior agency official announced on Tuesday. "The will not proceed as originally envisioned. We will not seek certification or large-scale deployment [...]"
"Oslo Terror: Whose Agenda Does It Serve?" [07/23/11]
"Today’s bombing in Oslo and a related mass shooting that occurred just outside the Norwegian capital are already replete with inconsistencies and questions that demand further inquiry into whose agenda this deadly attack serves.
Authorities have already said that the man who carried out the shootings at a youth camp in a nearby resort has direct ties to the earlier bombing in Oslo of a government building.
- An eyewitness to the blast who was just 200 feet away from the explosion called into the Alex Jones show and stated that there was a “bomb sweep” of the area the day before the attack. Norwegian television also reported this story.
- According to a Norwegian who emailed us, his father who is an explosives expert has analyzed the bombing scene and states that due to the pattern of the damage and debris, the blast was clearly underground. [...]"
Note: Bombing of government building and mass shooting arrive as establishment seeks to manufacture “white
Al-Qaeda” myth.
Commentary: "Oslo Police Conducted Bombing Exercise Days Before
'Terrorist' Blast" [07/23/11]
"In yet another example of how almost every major terror event is accompanied by a security drill focused around the same scenario, Oslo police were conducting a bombing exercise at a location near the Oslo Opera House just 48 hours before a terrorist blast hit a government building in the Norwegian capital.
According to the translated version of an Aftenposten report, “Anti-terror police fired explosive charges at a training center in Oslo, two hundred meters from the Opera,
but forgot to notify the
public.” The exercise occurred on Wednesday and revolved around anti-terror units attacking a disused building at the edge of Bjørvika pier with bombs and firearms.
“The men lowered themselves down from the roof and in through the window that had just been blown out, while they fired hand their weapons,” states the report, noting that the exercise was “dramatic,” produced “violent bangs,” and was watched by spectators at the nearby Opera House.
A video of the drill that accompanies the story shows police scaling the side of a building with an explosion going off below them before they enter the window and start firing.
Police had to publicly apologize today for not informing the public about the exercise.
Although it’s too early to judge the nature of this exercise, the fallback of a drill, which gives the state an excuse should any evidence of complicity in the real attack emerge, has been evident in previous major terror events, including
both 7/7 and 9/11. In the case of the London
bombings, a consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th, a “coincidence” many skeptics of the official story have dismissed as a statistical impossibility. [...]"
Related: "Blond Norwegian, 32, Arrested Over ‘Holiday Island Massacre’ And Linked To Oslo Car Bomb Blasts"
"This falls perfectly in line with the Department of Homeland Securities new propaganda video demonizing white males as terrorists. [...]"
| "Obama
Urges Anti-Terror Cooperation After Norway Attack"
"Obama offered condolences to Norway after deadly twin attacks Friday and urged countries around the world to step up cooperation to combat terror. [...]" |"Camp In Norway Where Shooting Occurred Had Just Concluded Pro-Palestinian Rally The Day Before"
|"Israel: "Norway Inciting Against Us"
"Israel is accusing the Norwegian government of funding and encouraging blatant anti-Israel incitement.
According to reports received by the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, the Trondheim Municipality is funding a trip to New York for students taking part in the "Gaza Monologues" play, which "deals with the suffering of children in Gaza as a result of the Israeli occupation." [...]" |"Norwegian Labor Party Youth Movement (AUF) Demands That Ariel Sharon And Other Israeli Leaders Be Put On Trial"
|"Corporate Media Runs False CIA Story Stating Muslim Group Claimed Responsibility For Olso Bombings"
"All major news outlets ran a report from a CIA analyst claiming a Muslim terrorist group took credit for the Oslo Norway bombings, which the corporate media is trying so desperately to blame on
Al-Qaeda . Even though it would make no sense for Muslims to attack Norway, who is their ally.
Regardless of the absurdity of the claim, the CIA has falsely stated that a Muslim Jihad group has accepted responsibility for the attacks Norway bombings and not the corporate media is running their lies. [...]"
|
Flashback: "Norway Oil Fund Divests From Israeli Companies"
[08/23/10]
"Norway's Ministry of Finance announced that the Norway Oil Fund divested from Africa-Israel Investments and Danya Cebus Ltd. on Monday.
The reason given is the companies' construction in the West Bank. The Norwegian Finance Ministry said, "The ethics council stresses that construction of settlements in the occupied territories violates the decision of the Geneva convention regarding defense of civilians during war time. Several decisions of the UN Security Council and the International Court of Justice have reached the conclusion that construction of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories is prohibited." [...]" |
Flashback: "Norway Activist 'Was Mossad Spy" [10/07/05]
"A leading Norwegian pro-Palestinian activist has said she once worked for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad as a double agent. [...]"
Commentary: "Beware of a Possible False Flag Event, Media & Feds Pushing Fear for 10th Anniversary of 9/11"
[07/23/11]
[15:03] | "FEMA Partners with Homeland Security on Psyops Campaign
"
[9:56]
"War On
Terror Propaganda": "New Terror Report Warns of Insider Threat to Utilities"
[07/22/11]
"Sabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin Laden was planning, according to U.S. officials.
A new intelligence report from the Department of Homeland Security issued Tuesday, titled Insider Threat to Utilities, warns "violent extremists have, in fact, obtained insider positions," and that "outsiders have attempted to solicit utility-sector employees" for damaging physical and cyber attacks.
"Based on the reliable reporting of previous incidents, we have high confidence in our judgment that insiders and their actions pose a significant threat to the infrastructure and information systems of U.S. facilities," the bulletin reads in part. "Past events and reporting also provide high confidence in our judgment that insider information on sites, infrastructure, networks, and personnel is valuable to our adversaries and may increase the impact of any attack on the utilities infrastructure." [...]"
Related: "Homeland
Security Considers White, Middle Class Citizens To Be Terrorists"
"Despite encouraging viewers not to pay attention to a person’s race in determining whether or not they may be a terrorist, almost all of the scenarios in the clip proceed to portray white people as the most likely terrorists. Bizarrely, nearly every single one of the “patriotic” Americans who reports on their fellow citizen is either black, Asian or Arab. Imagine if the video had portrayed every terrorist as an Arab and every patriotic snoop as white, there’d be an outcry and rightly so, but this strange reversal must have been deliberate on the part of the DHS, but why? Is this merely political correctness taken to the extreme or is something deeper at work? [...]
Ample evidence indicates that this is much more than mere political correctness run amok.
Internal documents from DHS specifically list white conservatives as the most likely to become terrorists, and the telltale signs are that they own guns, buy gold, belong to conservative churches, talk a great deal about the U.S. Constitution, and are apt to join grassroots movements such as the Tea Party. Further information on this explosive subject can be found
here. [...]"
Commentary: "How
The FBI Entraps US Citizens To Feign Success Against Terror" [07/22/11]
"The FBI, under considerable pressure to produce results, has resorted to unjust measures to create villains of domestic terror. [...]
The relaxation of criteria required to engage in investigative activity has been a recurrent feature of the post-9/11 world. Mukasey's Guidelines, for instance, allow the FBI to conduct preliminary "assessments" on the activities of individuals or organizations without any prior allegations indicating criminal activity or threats to national security. In these assessment stages that occur prior to preliminary investigations - which themselves can last up to six months! - FBI agents are also permitted to "assess individuals who may have value as human sources," effectively enabling the premeditated recruitment of informants. Crucially, the Guidelines refrain from imposing "supervisory approval requirements in assessments."
Taking advantage of this dearth of checks and balances, the U.S. Department of Justice has heretofore brought charges against just over 400 individuals in "terrorism- related investigations," since 9/11. As noted by David Cole, a professor of law at Georgetown University, this figure is widely regarded as inflated in that it incorporates a vast number of cases that relate to minor offences, such as immigration fraud, rather than actual terrorism. [...]
"
Commentary: "HR
Bill 1505 Allows For Outright Destruction Of Parts Of The U.S. If DHS Claims A
"Security Risk" [07/21/11]
" HR Bill 1505, the “National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act,” would force the Secretary of the Interior to cede authority of coastal public lands, as well as lands located along the borders of Canada and Mexico, to the Secretary of Homeland Security when the latter sees fit. It would give the Dept. of Homeland Security the ability to construct roads and fences, deploy patrol vehicles and set up “monitoring equipment” in the National Seashore with impunity. And it would waive the need for the Dept. of Homeland Security to comply with environmental laws in areas within 100 miles of a coastline or international border. The laws from which the Dept. of Homeland Security would be exempt include the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Clean Air Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and virtually every other piece of environmental legislation passed by Congress.
The bill is not without opposition. Congressman William Keating , who also sits on the House committee for Homeland Security, is concerned about the language in the bill as it appears to allow for outright destruction of parts of the United States as long as the DHS claims that there is some sort of security risk.
There are also massive environmental and legislative problems to be taken into consideration as well. [...]"
Commentary: "Mass
Murder Merger: Petraeus Moves to CIA To Manage Next Phase of Fabricated War on Terror" [07/20/11]
"The elite have once gain shuffled the deck. This time the consummate bureaucrat and insider Leon Panetta moves to the Defense Department and Gen. David Petraeus sets sail for the CIA.
But the move is more than a game of musical chairs. Petraeus will manage the next phase of the so-called war on terror.
As Jack D. Douglas notes for LewRockwell.com, Petraeus “has become the official head of the CIA to consolidate the Murder Black Ops of the CIA with those of the military forces. The Murder Drone Ops are being very rapidly expanded into a worldwide Murder and Invasion Special Ops Force.”
[...]"
MA: "Homeland Security Facial Recognition System Revoked Wrong Citizen’s Drivers License" [07/20/11]
John H. Gass hadn’t had a traffic ticket in years, so the Natick resident was surprised this spring when he received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles informing him to cease driving because his license had been revoked.
“I was shocked,’’ Gass said in a recent interview. “As far as I was concerned, I had done nothing wrong.’’
After frantic calls and a hearing with Registry officials, Gass learned the problem: An antiterrorism computerized facial recognition system that scans a database of millions of state driver’s license images had picked his as a possible fraud. [...]
Last year, the facial recognition system picked out more than 1,000 cases that resulted in State Police investigations, officials say. And some of those people are guilty of nothing more than looking like someone else. Not all go through the long process that Gass says he endured, but each must visit the Registry with proof of their identity.
[...] Massachusetts began using the software after receiving a $1.5 million grant from the US Department of Homeland Security as part of an effort to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and improve the reliability and accuracy of personal identification documents that states issue.
At least 34 states are using such systems. They help authorities verify a person’s claimed identity and track down people who have multiple licenses under different aliases, such as underage people wanting to buy alcohol, people with previous license suspensions, and people with criminal records trying to evade the law. Lisa Cradit, a spokeswoman for L-1 Identity Solutions, the largest developer of the software, said it can reduce fraud by 80 percent.[...]
"
Related: See below.
Commentary: "Full Speed Ahead For Facial Recognition Technology" [07/19/11]
"Face.com has been used to tag over 25 billion faces in over 7 billion photos since launching in late 2007. Facebook users had been using the Face.com facial recognition app to tag friends in photos for two years before Facebook stepped on the Israel-based company’s toes by making facial recognition a default feature for photo tagging this year.
Face.com has a nice head start as interest in facial recognition technology heats up. Photo-sites like Picasa and Facebook are making it widely available commercially for easy people-tagging; bars will be using it so that you can check out the gender ratio at your favorite watering holes via smartphone before deciding where to go; digital billboards are using it to target passersby with relevant advertising; and over 40 police stations around the country are adopting an iPhone tool, MORIS, that will allow them to identify criminal suspects with a face scan.
CEO Gil Hirsch, 37, says he isn’t worried about Facebook making his app irrelevant. “Our technology is better,” he says. Plus the social networking site is not the company’s only outlet. They offer a facial recognition technology API that over 20,000 developers are using for their own projects, such as FindYourFaceMate.com, an online dating site with the narcissistic premise that we get along best with people who resemble us. The site matches you with doppelgangers of the sex you’re interested in.
The technology can also be useful for detecting gender or mood or if there’s a face there at all. “One Chatroulette-like client uses it to make sure that there is a face video-chatting and not a….,” Hirsh trails off. “Not a non-face?” I offer delicately, knowing about Chatroulette’s popularity among men who like the idea of anonymous indecent exposure via webcam. “Exactly,” he says.
The key usage, though, still tends to be identity. The company offers “safe alerts” to let users know when new photos of them appear on a given site. “Like Google alerts for your face,” says Hirsch. At this point, the alert is reserved for a contained site like Facebook, rather than the Internet at large – in part for privacy reasons. You probably wouldn’t want someone else setting up a Google alert for your face; on a site like Facebook, the company knows you are who you say you are and limits searches to photos that have been shared with you by contacts within your social network. [...]"
MSM: "Pentagon
Alleges "Suffering Major Cyber Attack In March" [07/15/11]
"The Pentagon has admitted it suffered a major cyber attack in which
" thousands of files were taken by foreign hackers." The ' admission' came as the Pentagon rolled out a strategy for strengthening US cyber capabilities and addressing threats and attacks in cyberspace. [...]
In a release accompanying the new strategy, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said it was "critical to strengthen our cyber capabilities to address the threats we're
facing." The news comes one month after the Pentagon said it was building its own "scale model" of the internet to carry out cyber war games. [...]"
Note: It's a process of self-justification that never ends with
these psychologically damaged individuals.
Commentary: " George Carlin On Terrorism & Airport Security" [07/15/11]
[7:46]
MSM: "DHS
Plans To Spend $300 Million On Untested And Possibly Unworkable Radiation
Detectors" [07/15/11]
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to spend more than $300 million over the next four years on radiation-detection equipment that has not been fully tested and may not work, according to a budget request and an unreleased report by the Government Accountability Office.
The department’s plan is the latest in a series of efforts involving the troubled Advanced Spectroscopic Portal machine, which was touted by the George W. Bush administration as an advanced way to prevent the importation of radioactive materials that could be used in a nuclear or dirty bomb. [...]
In January, the National Academy of Sciences released a report that found there was no way to know whether the machines, known as ASPs, worked as promised. An academy panel found that in promoting the machines to Congress, the department’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office had presented its findings “in ways that are incorrect and potentially misleading.”
That report followed the department’s decision to abandon plans to use ASPs for primary screening at ports and borders because of such questions. [...]"
Commentary: "George Soros Made $7 Million Off Body Scanners" [07/14/11]
"George Soros made around $7 million trading shares of the company that owns those new
TSA scanners that everyone hates.
Here's how he did it. The maker of the TSA scanners, Rapiscan, got a $165 million contract for the new body image scanners
four days after the underwear-bomber incident this past Christmas, according to the Examiner's Tim
Carney. Shortly after, Soros made a profit off the jump in share price. Soros had bought shares in OSI Systems, which owns Rapiscan, worth ~$316 million around Christmas. He owned 8,700 shares as of
December 31st, according to his
13F. OSI was a new investment for Soros. He owned none as of September 30,
2010. Currently (as of March 31, 2011, the most recent day Soros Fund had to report long holdings), he owns 7,600 shares of OSI Systems, the company that owns the maker of the scanners, according to his Soros Fund's latest
13F holdings
report. We did some quick math and estimated that his earnings could be around $7 million if he bought on the dip (December 2, 2010) and sold 1,100 shares at the peak (February 15, 2010). [...]"
Note: The underwear bomber incident was a classic and overt
intel op.
Propaganda: "UK Authorities Brace For 'Cyber Jihad' By Al Qaeda After Bin Laden Death
" [07/13/11]
"British authorities are bracing for an increase in cyberterrorism as al Qaeda calls for "cyber jihad" following the death of Osama bin Laden,
according to a report released Tuesday. [...]"
Note: Absolute total bullshit propaganda. This is more
of a sub-plot to the original deception: carry out a raid, claim Bin Laden was
there, for political purposes.
Propaganda: "CIA Caught In Fake Vaccination Program In Pakistan … To Get Osama Bin Laden’s Family DNA" [07/12/11]
"... The CIA refused to comment on the vaccination plot. [...]"
Note: This story is, ITSELF, part of the bullshit propaganda CIA story that Bin Laden was ‘there’. Bin Laden is not relevant. If anything, the fact that the CIA maintains that it conducts vaccine programs should be the MAIN point. It’s all a sub-plot of the original deception.
Propaganda:
"Panetta’s
‘Bombshell’ On Afghan Trip" [07/10/11]
"New Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. is “within reach” of defeating
al-Qaida. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski, who is traveling with Panetta, reports. (Nightly News) [...]"
Note: A total fabrication, this from Panetta, previous head of
the CIA ...
Commentary: "VIPR Searches and the American Citizen: ‘Dominate. Intimidate. Control.’"
[07/10/11]
"Incredibly, in the absence of any viable threat, VIPR teams–roving SWAT teams, with no need for a warrant–have conducted 8,000 such searches in public places over the past year. These raids, conducted at taxpayer expense on average Americans going about their normal, day-to-day business, run the gamut from the ridiculous to the abusive.
The question that must be asked, of course, is who exactly is the TSA trying to target and intimidate? Not would-be terrorists, given that scattershot pat-down stings are unlikely to apprehend or deter terrorists. In light of the fact that average citizens are the ones receiving the brunt of the TSA’s efforts, it stands to reason that we’ve become public enemy number one. And how does the TSA deal with perceived threats? Its motto, posted at the TSA’s air marshal training center headquarters in the wake of 9/11, is particularly telling: “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.” [...]"
Commentary: "Secure Communities: Backdoor Big Brother Biometric Surveillance Operation Underway"
[07/09/11]
"Border control operations have long been a convenient cover for introducing policies and technologies that provide a staging ground for incremental rollout of more surveillance across the United States. The Secure Communities program (S-Comm) is no exception.
ICE announced in February that it would begin using biometric identification as a key component of an information sharing nexus with 58 California counties meant to identify aliens who are booked for crimes by local police. However, a recent Freedom of Information Act request by several justice organizations reveals a program involving extensive Homeland Security coordination to expand the Secure Communities biometrics program to include even law abiding American citizens. Rather than a specific initiative to deport known criminals, this is looking more and more like a sweeping move toward a Big Brother total surveillance grid.
A pattern of deception by the federal government is emerging in the wake of a failed attempt to push a national ID card. ICE is already under investigation for misrepresenting its intentions, and the wider role of the FBI only furthers the suspicion that this latest move has ulterior motives.
According to Bridget Kessler of the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice Clinic, one of the organizations that applied through FOIA: "These documents provide a fascinating glimpse into the FBI’s role in forcing S-Comm on states and localities. The FBI’s desire to pave the way for the rest of the NGI project seems to have been a driving force in the policy decision to make S-Comm mandatory. But the documents also confirm that, both technologically and legally, S-Comm could have been voluntary." (Source)
The "NGI project" to which she refers is the Next Generation Identification which will be used to enhance the current database of fingerprints (IAFIS).
[...]"
Exposé: "Secret
FBI Weapon-Smuggling Cover-Up Deepens Probe, Helps Innocent Targets" [07/09/11]
"In an investigation revealing one of the most damning United States human rights violations in history, one ameliorating Targeted Individuals more daily, a high-level whistleblower's testimony has prompted the Senate Judiciary Committee to deepen its probe into the FBI and other Justice Department agencies allegedly allowing thousands of U.S. weapons to cross the Mexican border into hands of dangerous members of cartels including Zetas, all part of the U.S. drug- and gun-smuggling operation costing over 35,000 lives.
Targeted Individuals with no criminal background have consistently reported to the Examiner that the Justice Department stands down when targets present evidence of weapon attacks, repeatedly attempts to silence complainers of those assaults, and repeatedly fails to investigate evidence of targets' injuries or suspected perpetrators. [...]"
Related:
"US Government Openly Admits Arming Mexican Drug Gangs With 30,000 Firearms" [07/08/11]
"It is now a widely-reported fact that under the Obama administration, U.S. federal agents actively placed over 30,000 fully-functional weapons into the hands of Mexican drug gangs, then halted all surveillance and tracking activities of where those weapons were going.
This is not a conspiracy theory, nor a piece of fiction. It is now an openly-admitted fact that this was pulled off by the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, more commonly called
"ATF") under orders from Washington. The program was called "Fast and Furious." [...]"
Internet:
"CIA Just Put A Ton Of Cash Into A Software Firm That Monitors Online Activity" [07/08/11]
"American intelligence communities are interested in your YouTube video, flickr uploads, tweets -- even your online book purchases -- and they're laying down some serious cash to get a better look at all of them.
According to Wired, the tech-focused investment firm In-Q-Tel, that works with the CIA, is investing in Visible Technologies who perform social media monitoring and analytics.
This is a major shift in the spy community's commitment to monitoring public conversations that fill the Internet in blog posts, web uploads, purchases, TV shows, podcasts, YouTube videos, and articles every day.
Visible pulls from over 500,000 every 24 hours, grabbing more than one million posts, conversations, images, videos, and Amazon purchases. Clients get tailored real-time results of what's happening based upon desired keywords.
Once Visible has a handle on what's being said it "scores" each post and labels it negative or positive, mixed or benign. It also factors the influence of the author, or conversation, weighing each comment separately. The end-user interface then allows clients to tag user comments, and dialogue on them with colleagues.
While the program could benefit global security, the possibility for abuse is epic. [...]
The size of the CIA's investment in Visible is unknown, but the infusion of cash is supposed to be sufficient to enhance the company's foreign language capabilities."
Commentary: "Senate
Armed Services Committee Nixes ‘Worldwide War’ Legislation" [07/07/11]
"The version of the National Defense Authorization Act recently passed by the Senate Armed Services Committee omitted a controversial provision that would have authorized the United States to use military force in any part of the world that was suspected to contain terrorists, including within the U.S. itself.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, which first voiced its opposition to the measure, the "worldwide war" provision was "nowhere to be found" in the official language of the legislation recently released by the committee.
Section 1034 was added to the National Defense Authorization Act by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA). The ACLU described the provision as the "single biggest hand-over of unchecked war authority from Congress to the executive branch in modern American history."
Although the ACLU is pleased that the "worldwide war" provision was omitted from the Senate version of the bill, they are upset other provisions were not also omitted.
The "indefinite detention" provisions authorize the federal government to indefinitely detain civilians, transfer some prosecutorial responsibility from the Department of Justice to the Department of Defense and mandate the military detention of certain civilian suspects.
"These provisions are inconsistent with fundamental American values embodied in the Constitution and in this country's adherence to the rule of law," Sam Milgrom of the ACLU said. [...]"
"War On
Terror Propaganda": "Federal Warning: Al Qaeda Wants To Surgically Implant Bombs In Terrorists"
[07/07/11]
"A new and insidious twist on terrorist suicide bombs has federal officials issuing new warnings to international and domestic airlines and stepping up security measures here and abroad.
In 2004 al Qaeda tried a shoe bomb to take down an airplane. Five years later their so-called “Christmas surprise” was an underwear bomb on a plane.
In both cases, they failed. However, new intelligence indicates al Qaeda now wants to surgically implant bombs directly into a suicide bomber’s body, reports CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer.
“It’s definitely a change. It makes al Qaeda more lethal,” said Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. [...]"
Note: Lies ... all lies and deception. Rep. Peter King -
there's something very wrong with this man. He has some psychopathy going on,
just like the rest of the totalitarian clusterfucks in 'homeland security' ...
Commentary: "Over 52 NOTAM (No-Fly Zones) Issued over U.S. In last 28 days" [07/05/11]
"There has been a very suspicious amount of NOTAM (No-Fly Zones) issued over the U.S. in the last 28 days. This behavior is not typical of the FAA or military.
Typically about 5 to 7 NOTAM notices are issued on any given year. [...]"
Commentary: "People Rise Up Against The TSA"
[07/03/11]
"Though it has been a slow and often arduous task, American populists leading the revolt against the intrusive pat-downs and cancer inducing body scanners of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have made significant headway in recent months. What began as a grassroots insurrection against governmental abuse has now attracted the support of state and federal legislators:
[...]"
Commentary: "Acts of Entrapment Ruled OK in The War on Terror"
[07/02/11]
"In a chilling sign of what is sure to become more widespread, three of the Newburgh 4 -- a group of Muslim ex-convicts and American citizens -- were sentenced to 25 years in prison even after it was exposed that the government manufactured the threat, and entrapped the men into their participation in a false terror plot.
Welcome to counterterrorism operations inside the United States. [...]"
MSM: "'War
On Terror' Set To Surpass Cost Of Second World War" [07/01/11]
"The total cost to America of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the related military operations in Pakistan, is set to exceed $4 trillion – more than three times the sum so far authorised by Congress in the decade since the 9/11 attacks.
And even though the wars are now winding down, add in future military spending and above all the cost of looking after veterans, disabled and otherwise and the total bill will be somewhere between $3.7 trillion and $4.4 trillion.
This staggering sum emerges from a new study by academics at the Ivy-league Brown University that reveals the $1.3 trillion officially appropriated on Capitol Hill is the tip of a spending iceberg. If other Pentagon outlays, interest payments on money borrowed to finance the wars, and the $400bn estimated to have been spent on the domestic "war on terror", the total cost is already somewhere between $2.3 and $2.7 trillion. [...]"
Note: All that money goes to contractors, corporations and the
whole network of control freaks that developed before 9/11 was executed, who
are all profiteering from fear mongering and terrorizing the population.
MSM:
"US
Refocuses On Home-Grown Terror Threat" [06/30/11]
"The United States vowed Wednesday to pursue the "utter destruction" of
Al-Qaeda, while refocusing its counter-terrorism strategy to combat the threat of home-grown terror.
The new strategy comes on the 10th year of the US-led "war on terror," launched by former president George W. Bush after the deadly September 11 attacks on the United States.
It is a "pragmatic, not ideological" approach to counterterrorism that "formalizes" the administration's approach since January 2009, said
John
Brennan, President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism advisor. The principal focus is
"Al-Qaeda, its affiliates and its adherents," said Brennan, speaking at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
"We aim to render the heart of Al-Qaeda incapable of launching attacks against our homeland, our citizens, or our allies, as well as preventing the group from inspiring its affiliates and adherents to do so," he said.
"This is a war -- a broad, sustained, integrated and relentless campaign that harnesses every element of American power," he said.
"And we seek nothing less than the utter destruction of this evil that calls itself
Al-Qaeda." [...]"
Note: Brennen is a liar, co-conspirator, thug and a
reincarnating retread sequential. Look at the smirk on his face ... might as
well be part of the mob ...
See
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Commentary: "FOIA
Documents Raise New Questions About Airport Body Scanner Radiation Risks"
[06/28/11]
"In a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, EPIC has just obtained documents concerning the radiation risks of TSA’s airport body scanner program. The documents include agency emails, radiation studies, memoranda of agreement concerning radiation testing programs, and results of some radiation tests. One document set reveals that even after TSA employees identified cancer clusters possibly linked to radiation exposure, the agency failed to issue employees dosimeters – safety devices that could assess the level of radiation exposure. Another document indicates that the DHS mischaracterized the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, stating that NIST “affirmed the safety” of full body scanners. The documents obtained by EPIC reveal that NIST disputed that characterization and stated that the Institute did not, in fact, test the devices. Also, a Johns Hopkins University study revealed that radiation zones around body scanners could exceed the “General Public Dose Limit.” [...]"
Commentary: "9/11 and the Orwellian Redefinition of “Conspiracy Theory”
" [06/22/11]
"While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition.
A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps.
For example, online news broadcasts of RT have been equated with conspiracy theories by the New York Times simply because RT reports news and opinions that the New York Times does not report and the US government does not endorse.
In other words, as truth becomes uncomfortable for government and its Ministry of Propaganda, truth is redefined as conspiracy theory, by which is meant an absurd and laughable explanation that we should ignore.
When piles of carefully researched books, released government documents, and testimony of eye witnesses made it clear that Oswald was not President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, the voluminous research, government documents, and verified testimony was dismissed as “conspiracy theory.”
In other words, the truth of the event was unacceptable to the authorities and to the Ministry of Propaganda that represents the interests of authorities. [...]"
Propaganda:
"Pentagon
Scare Suspect Found With Terror Phrases" CBS [06/18/11]
"A law enforcement source told CBS News that the man detained in the discovery of a suspicious car found outside the Pentagon Friday morning was carrying a notebook that contained the phrases, "al
Qaeda," "Taliban rules" and "Mujahid defeated croatian forces." Despite the references to
" the terror organization that organized the 9/11 attacks", " the group fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan" and the Arabic word for "holy warrior," the source said the man is not thought to have been involved in a terrorist act or plot, CBS News investigative producer Pat Milton reports.
The source said the man's backpack also contained 20 spent 9 mm shell casings and three cans of black spray paint.
FBI Special Agent Brenda Heck, who heads the bureau's counterterrorism division in its Washington field office, told reporters that a non-explosive material was also found in the backpack.
A law enforcement official speaking on the condition of anonymity said officials found what appeared to be an unknown quantity of ammonium nitrate. The official, who was not authorized to release the information, said nothing else was found that would have enabled an explosion. The official said tests were being done to determine the substance and the exact concentration.
Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound that is widely used in fertilizers and can be used in explosives with the correct
concentration. [...]"
Note: Totally laughable, stunningly transparent and infantile
attempt to propagandize and defend rampant and ongoing government stupidity
post 9/2001.
Commentary: "TSA “Security Exercise” Covers 3 States, 5000 Miles" [06/16/11]
"If you’re still living under the delusion that the TSA is just restricted to airports then think again. A joint VIPR “security exercise” involving military personnel has Transportation Security Administration workers covering 5,000 miles and three states, illustrating once again how the TSA is turning into a literal occupying army for domestic repression in America.
The TSA, in alliance with a whole host of federal, state, local agencies as well as military personnel, is currently conducting a massive “security exercise” throughout Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. [...]"
Internet:
"IMF
Hit By 'Major' Cyber Attack Earlier This Year" [06/12/11]
"The International Monetary Fund says it was targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack
earlier this year, causing "a very major breach" of its systems. Officials at the fund gave few details but said the attack earlier this year had been "a very major breach" of its systems, the New York Times reports.
Cyber security officials said the hack was designed to install software to create a "digital insider presence".
The New York Times said IMF staff had been told of the intrusion on Wednesday by e-mail, but that the Fund had not made a public announcement.
The e-mail warned that "suspicious file transfers" had been detected and that an investigation had shown a desktop at the Fund had been "compromised and used to access some Fund
systems" ... CIA Director Leon Panetta told the US Congress earlier this week that a large-scale cyber attack while would cripples power, finance, security and governmental systems was "a real possibility in today's world". [...]"
Note: The phrase 'earlier this year' implies months ago ... why
they waited until June 8th to tell people is kind of odd. And, the tie-in with
Panetta .... it's the perfect environment for a false flag. Awfully convenient
that this article pops up a day or so after the Panetta statement.
Political Theatrics: "DHS
Partners With Jewish Organizations" [06/12/11]
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its first faith-based security partnership on Friday, as it joined ranks with two major Jewish organizations.
The move is part of the agency’s “If You See Something, Say Something” awareness campaign and will work with the Jewish Federations of North America and the Secure Community Network to promote and distribute media materials in Jewish centers, organizations and communities throughout the country. [...]"
MSM: "Panetta:
The Next Great Battle America Faces Is Likely To Involve Cyberwarfare" [06/010/11]
"Leon Panetta: The next Pearl Harbor could be a cyberattack. The next great battle America faces is likely to involve cyberwarfare, Leon Panetta, the Central Intelligence Agency director, warned senators Thursday, predicting that “the next Pearl Harbor that we confront could very well be a cyberattack that cripples" America’s electrical grid and its security and financial systems.
“It’s going to take both defensive measures as well as aggressive measures to deal with that,” said Mr. Panetta, who was appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee in a confirmation hearing for the post of secretary of defense.
Panetta, a consummate Washington insider, is expected to be confirmed easily as the successor to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but that did not stop him from receiving a tough – if cordial – grilling from lawmakers Thursday
[...]"
Note: He should know.
Related:
Commentary: "Pentagon:
Cyber Attacks Tantamount To "Acts Of War"" [06/07/11]
"In a 30-page secret report, the Pentagon classified all cyber attacks sabotaging its installations or strategic infrastructure (pipelines, nuclear plants, etc.) as "acts of war".
Contrary to the Hollywood storytelling that it helped to finance, the Pentagon considers that cyber attacks of such magnitude can not be carried out by individuals, but only by States.
With the approval of the report, the Pentagon is henceforth authorized to launch missiles against enemy hackers.
This decision, however, raises the question of reciprocity: if the United States regards cyber attacks against its strategic interests as acts of war, their adversaries may also demand the right to respond militarily to cyber-attacks inflicted by US forces. The militarization of cyberspace fuels escalation. A case in point is last year’s disruption of Iran’s civil nuclear program through the Stuxnet virus unleashed by the United States and Israel.
A portion of the report is expected to be declassified next month. [...]"
Note: The perfect 'false flag' .... you can 'have' it in one
room in one building, controlled by the same people who claim it as a
provocation. A technological dictatorship run by madmen. This is another
reason that we're going to be out of here in the very near future ...
MSM: "Hacker Groups Thoroughly Infiltrated by Government" [06/07/11]
"The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established.
Cyber policing units have had such success in forcing online criminals to co-operate with their investigations through the threat of long prison sentences that they have managed to create an army of informants deep inside the hacking community.
In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have been run by hacker turncoats acting as FBI moles. In others, undercover FBI agents posing as “carders” – hackers specialising in ID theft – have themselves taken over the management of crime forums, using the intelligence gathered to put dozens of people behind bars.
So ubiquitous has the FBI informant network become that Eric Corley, who publishes the hacker quarterly, 2600, has estimated that 25% of hackers in the US may have been recruited by the federal authorities to be their eyes and ears. “Owing to the harsh penalties involved and the relative inexperience with the law that many hackers have, they are rather susceptible to intimidation,” Corley told the Guardian. [...]"
Exposé: "CIA’s Bin Laden Hunter Ordered to Stand Down 10 Times" [06/07/11]
"Michael Scheuer, the former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA's) Osama bin Laden unit, told the U.K. Daily Telegraph in a recent interview he was prevented from capturing or killing the terrorist by his superiors on at least 10 separate occasions. [...]"
Commentary: "TSA Caving To Pat Down Pressure?"
[06/03/11]
"Following pressure from lawmakers that resulted in the Department of Justice resorting to threats of federal blockades last week to stymie a bill in Texas that would have made TSA groping a felony, a top Transportation Security Administration official has indicated that the agency might be about to cave on its aggressive pat down procedures.
During a roundtable session in Anchorage Alaska hosted by U.S. Sen. Mark
Begich, D-Alaska, TSA Field Operations Manager Scott Johnson said the agency was “considering changes in its screening techniques,” reports the Associated Press.
Instead of groping young children and searching babies’ diapers, the TSA is looking at treating passengers differently based on their potential risk, a policy that would “rank populations of air passengers as more or less potentially dangerous.”
“There are probably people that we have to take a closer look at than others,” said Johnson. [...]"
"Homeland-Security Business Still Booming Ten Years Later" [06/03/11]
"A decade after the 9/11 terror attacks, homeland security is still a growth business.
The niche—that includes James Bond-like tools such as infrared cameras, explosive detectors and body scanners—is expected to grow 12 percent annually through 2013, according to Morgan Keegan.
“Homeland security is reactive,” says Tim Quillen, a senior equity analyst at investment banking firm Stephens Inc. “The stocks are hedges against bad things happening.” [...]"
MSM: "New York Quits Secure Communities Immigration Enforcement Program, Andrew Cuomo Announces
" [06/02/11]
"New York will no longer participate in the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday, making the state the second to rescind its agreement with federal immigration authorities.
"There are concerns about the implementation of the program as well as its impact on families, immigrant communities and law enforcement in New York," Cuomo wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security. "As a result, New York is suspending its participation in the program."
The state will review whether the program is meeting its stated goal of deporting convicted felons, according to a press release from the governor's office. "Based on evidence to date, it appears the program in New York is failing in this regard and is actually undermining law enforcement," the governor's office said.
Reps. Jose E. Serrano (D-N.Y.) and Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), along with a number of immigration advocacy groups, had lobbied Cuomo to stop the state's participation in Secure Communities, arguing the enforcement program causes racial profiling and allows non-criminal undocumented immigrants to be targeted by police for deportation. A petition asking Cuomo to terminate the state's relationship with the program had garnered more than 6,300 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon.
But New York may have difficulty blocking information from going to DHS for immigration enforcement purposes, part of broader confusion over whether DHS allows states or communities to opt out of Secure Communities at all. [...]"
Commentary:
"Texas
Lt. Gov. Flip Flops on Anti Groping TSA Bill. Now Wants Governor Perry to Call a Special Session to Pass Bill" [06/01/11]
"The backlash must have had more of an effect than we have known. The Lt Governor has ask Governor Perry to call a special session on the budget, redistricting and the most Ironic HB 1937 that would make it a felony for Federal Employees to fondle people as a condition to board a plane. Lt Gov. Dewhurst was exposed in his part in killing HB 1937 of any chance of any passage with a full vote on the Senate floor. He threatened and twisted the arms of state senators not to vote yes on this bill doing the bidding for the Federal Government. This very Lt Gov. made threat that air travel will be shut down if HB 1937 became the law of Texas. I wonder what his change of heart was in all of sudden flip flopping on this legislation. I know what it is. There was a backlash nationwide and his hand was exposed playing a part in killing this legislation helping the Federal Government. Lt. Gov. Dewhurst has political aspirations of running for Governor or running for US Senator taking Kay Bailey Hutchinson's seat. What was revealed last week of the Lt Gov. treacherous actions to undermine the will of the people in Texas really damaged his political plans to seek higher office. I believe no matter what he does now. His political career is done. Not only because of this latest scandal. It has been reported and documented that the Lt Gov. was in attendance at Bretton Woods with Robber Baron George Soros seeking to kill the dollar. The Lt Gov. might be in violation of the Logan Act meeting with a foreign power covertly making policy behind closed doors. I have to think about what is the sudden change of heart of Lt Dewhurst to do a one eighty on this legislation? I believe he was by consulted the Federal government to allow bill to go forward to deflect the public backlash over the enhanced pat downs and groping at the airports. If by any chance this bill becomes law in Texas. It is my observation that the TSA will not ground flights. There is a catch to this somewhere. [...]The Texas legislator only meets for 120 days every two years. To get the legislator back in a special session to stop the TSA using official oppression in other ways that can be just as intrusive. This can bring another form of financial terrorism were people will avoid Texas altogether if the TSA implements more oppressive polices that make it worse not better.[...]"
Legal Case: "TSA’s Worst Nightmare Continues: Phil Mocek Now Suing for Civil Rights Violations"
[06/01/11]
"Remember the case of Seattle’s Phil Mocek, the guy who tried to pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Albuquerque airport in November, 2009 without a valid ID? The 37-year-old software developer and political gadfly not only ended up missing his flight home, but was also slapped with a quartet of misdemeanor charges, all four of which were eventually dismissed in January after recordings proved that airport officials made false claims about Mocek’s behavior during the incident. But Mocek’s acquittal, it seems, isn’t the end of his story. He’s now planning to sue the City of Albuquerque, their Aviation Police, and, eventually, the TSA for alleged civil rights violations [...]"
"Utah
Lawmaker Seeks To Limit TSA Pat-Downs" [05/28/11]
"A Utah lawmaker plans to introduce legislation that would limit security pat-downs at Utah's airports.
Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman, posted on his Facebook page he's working on a bill designed to prohibit Transportation Security Administration pat downs in Utah unless agents have reasonable suspicion. TSA agents would be required to follow standards similar to those used by police in determining suspicion.
Wimmer also posted that Utah needs to stand with Texas. Lawmakers there already are considering a similar bill, House Bill 1937, which states it would be an offense to search a person without probable cause.
A U.S. attorney from San Antonio wrote a letter to Texas lawmakers saying the state has no authority to regulate federal employees and the TSA would likely shut down flights if it could not ensure the safety of the passengers and crew.
... Wimmer told KSL News it is the role of the state Legislature to protect Utah residents from illegal searches and seizures, and he said the TSA is violating people's rights every day in the airports.
Wimmer also said people all over the country should be outraged that the federal government threatened Texas after a bill there to regulate the TSA pat downs started moving through their house of representatives.
v
Junk Science:
"Terrorist ‘Pre-Crime’ Detector Field Tested in United States" [05/28/11]
"Planning a sojourn in the northeastern United States? You could soon be taking part in a novel security programme that can supposedly ‘sense’ whether you are planning to commit a crime.
Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programme designed to spot people who are intending to commit a terrorist act, has in the past few months completed its first round of field tests at an undisclosed location in the northeast, Nature has learned.
Like a lie detector, FAST measures a variety of physiological indicators, ranging from heart rate to the steadiness of a person’s gaze, to judge a subject’s state of mind. But there are major differences from the polygraph. FAST relies on non-contact sensors, so it can measure indicators as someone walks through a corridor at an airport, and it does not depend on active questioning of the subject.
The tactic has drawn comparisons with the science-fiction concept of ‘pre-crime’, popularized by the film Minority Report, in which security services can detect someone’s intention to commit a crime. Unlike the system in the film, FAST does not rely on a trio of human mutants who can see the future. But the programme has attracted copious criticism from researchers who question the science behind it [...]"
Related: "Airport
Security: Intent To Deceive?"
" ... No scientific evidence exists to support the detection or inference of future behaviour, including intent," declares a 2008 report prepared by the JASON defence advisory group. And the TSA had no business deploying SPOT across the nation's airports "without first validating the scientific basis for identifying suspicious passengers in an airport environment", stated a two-year review of the programme released on 20 May by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of the US Congress.
In response to such concerns, the TSA has commissioned an independent study that it hopes will produce evidence to show that SPOT works, and the DHS is promising rigorous peer review of its technology programme. For critics, however, this is too little, too late.
Most credibility-assessment researchers agree that humans are demonstrably poor at face-to-face lie detection. SPOT traces its intellectual roots to the small group of researchers who disagree — perhaps the most notable being Paul Ekman, now an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. [...]"
Commentary:
"Patriot Act: The Political Doctrine of Statism"
[05/27/11]
"The Patriot Act that was rammed through after the September 2011 attacks was one of the more egregious blows against liberty in our lifetimes. It shredded core rights and liberties that had been taken for granted for centuries. Liberties are never lost all at once, but the Patriot Act, as disgusting in its details as in its name and the rhetoric that surrounded it, was for the United States the turning point, the law that best exemplifies a full-scale embrace of statism as a national ideology. It is a law so severe, so outlandish, as to cause people to forget what it means to be free.
[...] In 1945, Ludwig von Mises wrote a similar book called Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. It is probably the most blistering and thorough attack on National Socialism ever written. He details the peculiar characteristics of Nazi-style statism (its nationalism rooted in the worship of bloodlines). Just as importantly – and very unusually for this genre of writing – Mises sought to explain how Nazism is only a symptom of a larger problem, which is statism itself. He regarded statism as a special doctrine that people come to embrace often without entirely understanding its teaching and claims. It emerges within a context of economic or security emergency.
There is always some great excuse for the trashing of the human freedom that built civilization as we know it. If the state cannot find one, it is glad to invent one. A population that is ideologically gullible or afraid for its security can permit government to run roughshod over people’s rights and liberties, and a government that gains such power never gives it back on its own. Rights and liberties must be reclaimed by the people themselves, and the spark that makes this happen is reversing the conditions that permitted the rise of statism. The people must lose their gullibility through ideological enlightenment, and they must lose their sense of fear that the world will fall apart if the tyrant is not in control. [...]"
MSM: "DHS Merges with Pentagon and NSA Under Obama’s Cyber Threat Plan" [05/27/11]
Video
clip
[5:07]
"Obama has proposed legislation that will give the Department of Homeland Security more “autonomy” in its effort to protect civilian computer networks from ostensible cyber attack, according to Information Week.
White House officials testified Monday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs about the comprehensive plan presented by the administration two weeks ago to create legislation to protect critical infrastructure and networks. It will merge operations with the Pentagon.
“One key aspect of the plan is to put the DHS’s mission to protect U.S. federal civilian networks on par with the DOD’s mission to protect U.S. military networks, giving the DHS more autonomy to act against cyberthreats on behalf of the government than before,” writes Elizabeth Montalbano for the technology publication.
DHS has also sought to merge the effort with the NSA and various civilian operations. [...]
"We can say that sovereignty's at risk," said Sami Saydjari. He heads the Cyber Defense Agency, an information security company.
"Basically our whole superpower status as the United States depends on computers," he said. "We lose them, we lose our status as a superpower. We become a Third World country
overnight. [...]"
Note: It's essentially already becoming a third world country
overnight.
Commentary:
"Financial Terrorism: TSA Holds Texas Flights Hostage" [05/26/11]
3 Video clips
"Texas HB 1937, a bill that would have made it “A criminal act for security personnel to touch a person’s private areas without probable cause as a condition of travel or as a condition of entry into a public place,” was headed for an imminent Senate vote in Texas having already passed the House unanimously 138-0, before the federal government stepped in to nix the legislation.
In a letter sent to Texas lawmakers, including to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Speaker Joe Straus, the House Clerk, and the Senate Secretary, U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy threatened to cripple the airline industry in the state if legislators did not back down. [...]
The TSA’s initial response to HB 1937 was to claim that it could not become law because it violated the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article. VI. Clause 2), a law that the TSA claimed “prevents states from regulating the federal government.”
In reality, this was a complete fabrication. “The statement is false. Ignorance from the TSA is unlikely, so I’ll call a spade a spade. They’re lying. The supremacy clause says nothing of the sort,” reported Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center.
Here’s the full text: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
“So, in simple terms, what does the supremacy clause mean? Just what it says. The constitution is supreme. And any federal laws made in line with the constitution is supreme. Nothing more, nothing less,” writes
Boldin. [...] Despite the fact that the federal government has resorted to thuggish intimidation tactics to kill the anti-grope down bill in Texas, this only marks the latest chapter in an epic states’ rights battle that has centered on the agenda of the TSA to become a literal occupying force in America, manning internal checkpoints that will litter the entire country. [...]"
US
Politics: "The Last Nail -
Ron Paul Floor Speech May 25 2011" [05/26/11]
[5:08]
"The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions. The rule of law is constantly rejected and authoritarian answers are offered as panaceas for all our problems. Runaway welfarism is used to benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class. Who would have ever thought that the current generation and Congress would stand idly by and watch such a rapid disintegration of the American Republic? Characteristic of this epic event is the casual acceptance by the people and political leaders of the unitary presidency, which is equivalent to granting dictatorial powers to the President. Our Presidents can now, on their own: [...]"
"Texas’s “Come And Take It” Moment" [05/25/11]
"On May 24, 2011, the Texas Senate read on the floor for the first time HB 1937, which bans the TSA and any other State or Federal Government official from using a “pat-down” without probable cause as a condition for entering an airplane or a public building.
Earlier that Tuesday, the US Department of Justice delivered a letter to the Speaker of the House Joe Straus and Lt. Governor David Dewhurst threatening the State of Texas with legal action if they passed this bill:
"If HR 1937 were enacted, the federal government would likely seek an emergency stay of the statute. Unless or until such a stay were granted, TSA would likely be required to cancel any flight or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew." [...]"
Related: "U.S.
DOJ Threatens Texas Over “Restrain-the-TSA” Legislation"
"Rand Paul Exposes the Abuses of the Patriot Act on the Floor"
"Senator Rand Paul takes to the floor of the U.S. Senate to explain his position on the extension of provisions in the USA Patriot Act before the chamber's procedural vote. [...]"
"Big
Sis And DHS Push ID Program For Travelers" [05/24/11]
"... We are moving away from one size fits all in security,” she added. “Trusted traveller programs are where we are focused. But it is more difficult than you imagine. You need to recognize it only takes one plane to go down.”
Napolitano’s remarks fall on the heels of a report commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association that calls on airlines to create a voluntary “trusted traveler” program similar to a mandatory one previously proposed by president Bush and rejected by Congress.
TSA administrator and former deputy FBI director John Pistole told the Wall Street Journal that the agency would use data from frequent-flier programs, which many carriers have kept for decades, to identify potential “trusted travelers,” the Boston Globe reports. Boarding passes of individuals in the program would be marked with a bar code, and those passengers would go through an expedited screening line after presenting their passes and valid identification. [...]"
Commentary: "Peaceful Republic or Police State?"
Judge Andrew Napolitano [05/22/11]
[5:04]
"Judge Napolitano on how our freedoms have been systematically wiped out since the Constitution was signed [...]"
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Screen 
"Congressional
Leaders Agree On Four-Year Extension Of “Patriot” Act" [05/20/11]
"Congressional leaders agreed on Thursday to extend three expiring provisions of the controversial PATRIOT Act for four years.
Sources told the Associated Press that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner agreed to call for a vote to extend the provisions before May 27, when they are set to expire, with as little debate as possible.
The legislation would extend the "roving wiretap" provision, "lone wolf" measure and "business records" provision until June 1, 2015.
The three provisions allow law enforcement authorities to conduct surveillance without identifying the person or location to be wiretapped, permits surveillance of "non-US" persons for whatever reason, and authorizes law enforcement to gain access to "any tangible thing" during investigations. [...]"
The ACLU said it expects so-called delayed-notice warrant numbers to increase so long as the PATRIOT Act remains law.
Related: "Delayed-Notice
Search Warrants Let Agents Enter Homes Without Owner Knowing" [05/18/11]
"A special type of government search warrant that allows authorities to search homes without informing the owner for months is becoming more common, Target 7 has learned.
Imagine someone walking through your neighborhood, coming into your home and rifling through your intimate
belongings. “(They) search through your home, your dresser drawers, your computer files,” Peter Simonson, with ACLU New Mexico,
said. These search warrants don’t involve knocking on doors or any type of warning at all. Delayed-notice search warrants, or
"sneak and peek" warrants, allow federal agents to enter your home without telling you they’ve been there until months later.
The warrants have always been around, but their use has spiked since the revamped Patriot Act in 2005.
The number of delayed-notice search warrants spiked nationally from nearly 700 in fiscal year 2007 to close to 2,000 in 2009. [...]" "Fourth Amendment Busting Sneak and Peek Warrants On the Rise"
WOTP:
"Al Qaeda 'Interest' in Targeting Tankers: DHS"
from ABC News
[05/20/11]
Abuse Under Color of Authority:
"TSA Thug Arrested For Molesting Little Girl" [05/20/11]
[1:47]
Propaganda: "9/11
Lawsuit Reveals Iran's Direct Involvement in 9/11 Plot" [05/19/11]
"Attorneys representing "families of 9/11 victims today" are informing a federal court in Manhattan that they are
" filing comprehensive evidence that Iran played a key role in planning and facilitating the 9/11 attacks" and called on the U.S. Government to
" declassify documents detailing what the U.S. intelligence community knew about Iran's relationship to al Qaeda prior to September 11, 2001." [...]"
Note: So transparently a fabrication, it's not even silly,
over and above the fact that the Iran reference connects this whole fiasco
with the Mossad and Israel, who would love for the US to attack Iran for them.
With the next AIPAC meeting on May 29th, the timing is auspicious, too.
Related: "9/11 Families
Lawyers Say Iran Helped Plan Attacks"
"... Supporting their arguments, the lawyers cited 28 hours of testimony by three defectors from Iran's intelligence service. Papers were filed yesterday in US District Court in Manhattan calling the new developments "clear and convincing" evidence to conclude that damages should be paid to their plaintiffs, families, and personal representatives of some of those killed in the attacks. Iran has not responded to the lawsuit, which was first filed in Washington and later transferred to New York. [...]"
Note: But the testimony was all a lie, because astute people
know Iran had NOTHING to do with the 9/11 debacle. It was US factions and
Mossad.
"Panic
In Minn. Airport When TSA Conducts Bomb Drill -- But Doesn't Tell Police" [05/19/11]
"With their guns drawn, police surrounded a man who reportedly was trying to get through security at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport with a bomb in a carry-on bag.
It was a drill, but the trouble was no one had told the cops, who thought it was real.
"I think a lot of people were alarmed," Patrick Hogan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Airport Commission, said of last week's incident. "There is always a danger that someone could have gotten hurt. It was unfortunate."
The routine drill conducted by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began about 2:40 p.m. last Thursday, when a man with a fake bomb in his bag attempted to get through the security at checkpoint 2, which is near the United, American and U.S. Airways airlines ticketing counters, Hogan said. The screener identified what looked to be an explosive device and immediately notified authorities.
The police quickly evacuated the ticketing area and mall area, and with their guns drawn, confronted the man, Hogan said.
Within seconds, TSA officials notified police that the bomb was fake and the incident was merely a drill to test the response of screeners and the communication system. For security reasons, Hogan declined to say how many officers responded to the incident. [...]"
Note: Creating incidents just to justify your job is rather
transparent and immature.
"TSA
Officer Arrested After Gun Spotted In Luggage" [05/19/11]
"Orlando police arrested a Transportation Security Administration officer who is accused of trying to bring a gun through a security checkpoint.
Officials say 25-year-old Rynel B. Delacruz was arrested Monday night at Orlando International Airport. He was released Tuesday after posting $250 bail. He faces an aviation personal conduct charge. [...]"
"Indiana
School Wants To Allow Bus Drivers To Search Students" [05/19/11]
"A western Indiana school district wants to give its bus drivers the
authority to search students for weapons or drugs. The Tribune-Star reported
that a Vigo County School Corp. proposal would allow the drivers to search a
student and the student's belongings if there is an immediate threat of harm
or danger to those on the bus. [...]"
"Homeland Security's Top Cybersecurity Official Resigns" [05/19/11]
"Phil Reitinger, the Department of Homeland Security's top cyber and computer crimes official, is resigning just days after the administration launched its most ambitious cybersecurity initiative.
"I have decided that the time has come for me to move on from the Department," Reitinger wrote in an e-mail to DHS employees this afternoon. Reitinger, who, as deputy undersecretary in DHS's National Protection and Programs Directorate, was the department's senior interagency policymaker, said in an interview with National Journal that the timing of his announcement was not meant to signal any disapproval with the White House.
[...]"
WOTP:
"DHS Quietly Kills “Redundant” Counterterrorism Program"
[05/19/11]
"The Department of Homeland Security has quietly eliminated a post-9/11 counterterrorism program that required men from Muslim countries with active terrorist organizations to register with federal authorities upon entering the United States.
Known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) the program was created to intercept Islamic terrorists
" like the ones who hijacked airplanes and murdered thousands of Americans in 2001." Most were men who entered the U.S. with legal visas and would have been required to register with immigration authorities under
NSEERS. [...]"
Note: Another shameless 9/11 propaganda piece.
Commentary: "Pakistan
Hushing Up The Issue: "Bin Laden" Compound Owned By CIA Asset"
[05/18/11]
"In light of the reports of a cache of pornography that was also discovered among bin Laden’s effects, the picture that emerges is one of a man who was not quite the zealous, Islamo-facist the government of the United States formerly forwarded as the ultimate “enemy of the state” and “public enemy number one.”
Putting aside the questionable plants growing in the garden and the questionable choice of viewing material hidden inside the house, there’s something much more sinister about the house where Osama bin Laden allegedly met his demise.
An article published by India Today describes a feature of the house that deserves much more attention than marijuana or pornography.
Quoting another piece published in Toronto’s Globe and Mail, the paper reports:
Hizbul Mujahedeen, a militant group active in Kashmir, owned the mansion in the scenic town of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces, a Canadian newspaper has reported, claiming that Pakistan is hushing up the issue of the ownership of the compound. [...]"
Commentary:
"TSA Backscatter Radiation Safety Tests Were Rigged" [05/18/11]
"The document is heavily redacted with red stamps over the words and figures. In every case the electric current used which correlates one to one with X-ray dose has been specifically redacted. Thus there is no way to repeat any of these measurements. While the report purports to present the results of objective testing, in fact the JHU APL personnel, who are unnamed anywhere in the document either as experimenters or as authors, were not provided with a machine by Rapiscan. Instead they were invited to the manufacturing site to observe a mock-up of components (spare parts) that were said to be similar to those that are parts of the Rapiscan system. The tests were performed by the manufacturer using the manufacturer’s questionable test procedures. [...]"
Related: See below.
"Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners" [05/16/11]
"The Transportation Security Administration says its full-body X-ray scanners are safe and that radiation from a scan is equivalent to what's received in about two minutes of flying. The company that makes them says it's safer than eating a banana.
But some scientists with expertise in imaging and cancer say the evidence made public to support those claims is unreliable. And in a new letter sent to White House science adviser John
Holdren, they question why the TSA won't make the scanners available for independent testing by outside
scientists ... There are two types of body scanners. Millimeter wave machines emit a radio frequency similar to
cellphones. Backscatters work like a fast-moving X-ray. In the latter, the rays bounce off the skin and create a fuzzy white image of the passenger's body. Because the beam doesn't go through the body, most of its radiation is received by the skin. [...]
The TSA says the backscatter technology has been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute for Standards and Technology and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Survey teams are using radiation-detecting dosimeters to check the machines at airports. The TSA says the results have all confirmed that the scanners don't pose a significant risk to public health.
According to the agency and many radiation experts, the dose is so low, even for children or cancer patients, that someone would have to pass through the machines more than a thousand times before approaching the annual limit set by radiation safety organizations.
But the letter to the White House science adviser, signed by five professors at University of California, San Francisco, and one at Arizona State University, points out several flaws in the tests. Studies published in scientific journals in the last few months have also cast doubt on the radiation dose and the machines' ability to find explosives.
A number of scientists, including some who believe the radiation is trivial, say more testing should be done given the government's plans to put millions of passengers through the machines. And they have been disturbed by the TSA's reluctance to do so.
"There's no real data on these machines, and in fact, the best guess of the dose is much, much higher than certainly what the public thinks," said John
Sedat, a professor emeritus in biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and the primary author of the letter.
The same group stirred controversy last year when it sent a letter to Holdren arguing that while the overall dose to the body may be low, the TSA hadn't quantified the dose to the skin. Last fall, FDA and TSA officials released a study that estimated the dose to the skin to be twice the dose to the body, though still extremely low.
In the most recent letter sent to Holdren on April 28, the professors note that the Johns Hopkins lab didn't test an actual airport machine. Instead, the tests were done on a model built by the manufacturer,
Rapiscan, and configured to resemble a system previously tested by the TSA. The researchers' names have been kept secret, and the report on the tests is so "heavily redacted" that "there is no way to repeat any of these measurements," they wrote.
[...]"
Commentary:
"The
TSA Fires Back Against Texas Over Passage of Anti Groping Bill" [05/16/11]
"The TSA fires back against the State House passing bill against the banning of TSA's enhanced pat downs citing and body scanners citing the supremacy clause in the US Constitution gives them power over the State. Using a very weak argument in the TSA blogs stating: What’s our take on the Texas House of Representatives voting to ban the current TSA pat-down? Well, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article. VI. Clause 2) prevents states from regulating the federal government. That is the very weak argument they are using to justify the
groping, full body scanners and all the other very intrusive measures they use are unnecessary when there is no probable cause. The argument is very lame on its face the TSA is using to counter Texas. Here is the full text of the supremacy clause of the US Constitution : This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding (Article 6 sec 2) US Constitution . The supremacy clause mentions nothing about the TSA overruling state law. It can not assert itself supreme over the states. I just think the TSA is using selective thinking. They see the word "Supreme" and think it justifies their actions. They forget to read rest of the text or the rest of the Constitution . Especially the word in the same text of the supremacy clause saying"not withstanding" Sorry TSA. The Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights has not been repealed either. Texas has the full legal right to pass laws against groping ,unreasonable search and seizures to protect the people from such abuse by the Federal government . It is the legal obligation of the states to erect barriers against Federal encroachments and abuses through the 9th and 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights. There is a long train of abuses by the TSA. The people ask for the State legislator in Texas to act. They did by passing this bill with overwhelming margin moving to the Senate to be passed. [...]"
Related:
"In
Public Statement, TSA Lies About The Constitution"
| "TSA Blog: Texas House of Representatives Seeking to Ban Current TSA Pat-Down
"
Note: See "TX: "Texas House Bans Offensive Security Pat-Downs" [05/14/11]"
below.
TX: "Texas House Bans Offensive Security Pat-Downs" [05/15/11]
"The Texas House passed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for public servants to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs.
Approved late Thursday night, the measure makes it illegal for anyone conducting searches to touch “the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person” including through clothing.
It also prohibits searches “that would be offensive to a reasonable person.”
The bill’s chief sponsor is Republican Rep. David Simpson, who said, “this has to do with dignity and travel, and prohibiting indecent, groping searches.” [...]"
"GOP
Denies TSA Money To Buy More Body Scanners" [05/15/11]
"The Transportation Security Administration's request to expand its controversial body scanner program was rebuffed this week by a Republican-led House committee. [...]"
"To Serve, to Protect and...to Steal" [05/15/11]
".... Pythias Brown, a 49-year-old TSA screener at Newark Liberty International Airport responsible for the largest one-man theft ring in the short history of the Transportation Security Administration.
For over a year, Brown used his position as a TSA screener to pilfer the bags of airline passengers at will, stealing an estimated $400,000 in goods, according to a federal court complaint. Brown's six-figure eBay fencing operation unraveled when a CNN cameraman discovered his Sony video camera missing from his luggage. The cameraman logged onto eBay and found his camera listed for sale by Brown's Alirla eBay profile. The ensuing investigation resulted in a raid of Brown's Maplewood, N.J., home, where authorities found 66 cameras, 31 laptop computers and other electronics and jewelry with a total value of more than $200,000. In July 2009, Brown was sentenced to three years in federal prison.
According to Transportation Security Administration records, press reports and court documents, Brown is one of approximately 500 TSA officers who've been fired or suspended for stealing from passenger luggage since the agency's creation in November 2001 in response to the attacks on 9/11. Theft among TSA officers is a national problem, but New York City's area airports—John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty—supply some of the most egregious and regular occurrences of theft committed by the same federal officers assigned to protect airliners. [...]"
"School
'Shooting Drill' Panics Children -Sends Students Running For Their Lives" [05/15/11]
"The sound of gunshots split the air last Friday at a Rockford-area high school sending students seeking shelter anywhere they could, including off-campus, to save their lives.
What the students didn't know, was the shots they heard came from a capgun discharged by a disguised sheriff's deputy in an elaborate school safety
drill. [...]"
Note: A negligent and irresponsible terroristic act by the
sheriff's deputy.
See Video
clip [2:21] 30 sec ad before the clip.
TX: "Texas House Bans Offensive Security Pat-Downs" [05/14/11]
"The Texas House passed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for public servants to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs.
Approved late Thursday night, the measure makes it illegal for anyone conducting searches to touch “the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person” including through clothing.
It also prohibits searches “that would be offensive to a reasonable person.”
The bill’s chief sponsor is Republican Rep. David Simpson, who said, “this has to do with dignity and travel, and prohibiting indecent, groping searches.” [...]"
Commentary: "Government Fails To Protect Train Tracks Instead Concentrates On Phoney "No Ride List" [05/12/11]
[2:29]
Note: The whole concept that someone wanting to destroy a train
would also be ON the train is ridiculous on its face. Faced with 140,000 miles
of track, there is nothing they can do except go home and forget about it ...
or, shackle the people who are convinced that delusion means reason.
Ultimately, they don't want people to travel more than 20 miles from their
homes, period.
World Politics: "Iran
Can Prove Bin Laden Was Dead Long Before US Raid – Iranian Minister" [05/11/11]
"Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi claims that Osama Bin Laden died from an illness before the US raid on his compound in
Abbottabad. Iran has documents to prove it, he said. We have credible information that Bin Laden died some time ago of a disease," Moslehi said on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Sunday, as quoted by ISNA news agency.
"If the US military and intelligence apparatus have really arrested or killed Bin Laden, why don't they show him [his body]? Why have they thrown his corpse into the sea?" Moslehi asked rhetorically, FARS news agency reports.
Moslehi labeled the US raid in Abbottabad as a “PR campaign”, created to divert the attention of its citizens from domestic problems, such as the “fragile” state of the US economy.
"We believe that what the US is seeking, by dictated media programs, to overshadow the recent awakening in the region through the release of such reports," ISNA quoted Moslehi as saying.
Bin Laden was killed on May 2 in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, north of the capital Islamabad, during a special operation carried out by US Navy Seals. President Barack Obama announced the news in a special address to the nation.
The news of “justice having been done” sparked mass celebrations in the United States and then ignited a new wave of conspiracy theories after Washington refused to release Bin Laden’s postmortem photographs, claiming that they might instigate a new wave of radicalism. [...]"
Max
Keiser: "Cocaine Economy
" [05/11/11]
[9:17]
Note: In 2007 the Mexican drug cartels withdrew more than 300
billion in cash from the system in protest, over investigations into Wachovia
money laundering, initiating a process in July of 2007 which would result in
the downward spiral of the financial system, just prior to the bankers making
it worse in 2008 by leaching funds out of the system. The banks need the world
drug money to exist because it helps their liquidity and helps fund their
bonuses.
Related:
"US
Special Forces Trains Mexican Drug Cartel"
[3:06] | "How
A Big US Bank Laundered Billions From Mexico's Murderous Drug Gangs" [04/03/11]
"As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored [...]"
UK: "Met
Police To Use Hollow Point Bullets" [05/11/11]
"The Metropolitan Police is to issue all its firearms officers with ammunition described as
"unsurvivable". Hollow point bullets flatten on impact, causing maximum damage to vital organs.
Similar "dum dum" bullets, invented in the 19th Century by the British in India, were outlawed in warfare under the Hague Declaration in 1899.
Hollow point bullets are prohibited to the public. All 3,000 Metropolitan Police firearms officers will now be issued with 9mm hollow point rounds.
Police said the hollow-point bullets had undergone the "most comprehensive" testing process ever undertaken by them.[...]"
UK: "Air
Passengers' Lunch Details To Be Stored In Terrorism Plan" [05/11/11]
"The details of millions of British airline passengers will be stored for up to five years under EU plans to tackle terrorism. [...]"
UK: "Police To Gain Power To Charge Suspects"
[05/10/11]
"British Home Secretary Theresa May has announced plans to allow police charge suspects to give officers more free time to offer frontline services.
As part of plans to free up to 2.5 million hours of police time, May said the forces will be allowed to charge a suspect without the involvement of the Crown Prosecution Service in the process in more than 80 percent of cases.
To make that possible, suspects facing accusations of minor offenses will be charged by the police through letters without any need to their presence in police stations while officers will have to collect fewer details for less serious crimes.
According to May, shifting to charging by post alone will “save up to another 4,000 police officer hours annually”.
Frontline officers will also have the power to cope with most complaints, without the red tape and informally, by themselves.
"We've stopped the weary cycle of overreaction, inquiries, blame, legislation, codes and guidance, and blanket remedial training for all. We will take a different approach - we will trust the police" May said.
She also claimed when the changes come into force, Britain will have a “watershed moment in policing” amid fears that her proposals will lead to huge job losses. [...]"
Related: "Police Infringing On
Right To Protest"
"A coalition of British campaign groups is warning about police seriously infringing on people's right to hold demonstrations by control tactics, mass criminal trials and pre-emptive arrests. [...]"
"British
Security Minister Quits
"
"British Security and Counter-Terrorism Minister Pauline Neville-Jones is stepping down from her post, Prime Minister David Cameron's office said. [...]"
"Osama
Bin Laden’s Funeral As Reported in Newspapers December 2001" [05/10/11]
"The translation from the Arabic has been verified on behalf of Global Research. This funeral announcement was published in the December 26 2001 edition of Al Wafd [...]"
CT: "Arrest in Facebook Threat" [05/09/11]
"A Bristol man finds himself behind bars over a comment he made on Facebook.
State police say 36-year-old Michael Adams of Bristol made a post earlier this week that read, "I hope that Governor Malloy will be shot by an angry New Yorker during his visit to New York." It
drew the attention of police who said they are taking everything seriously in this day and age.
Malloy was in Manhattan Thursday for a ceremony at Ground Zero in memory of those who died in the September 11th attacks.
Neighbors say Adams was in the army and recently went through a divorce. He's now living at home with his parents on Perkins Street.
Some residents say it’s debatable whether Adams comment falls under Free Speech protections.
"I don't think it does. Not in that forum, not with the kind of comment. People should have more common sense than to say something like that," said Donna
Bonin, of Bristol. Police charged Adams with harassment, inciting injury and breach of peace.
He was arraigned Friday morning and held on a $30,000 bond. [...]"
Note: Notice that it says 'the post drew attention of police'
.... they must have been 'notified' through ongoing monitoring processes which
look for key words or phrases that warrant 'examination'. Facebook is a public
forum with known connections to surveillance dynamics, and because people who
have Facebook pages have essentially given their 'first amendment rights'
away, by signing up (just like by entering an airport line, you are
temporarily stripped of many rights and protections), and consent to
monitoring, while more and stories of the creeping legal process of
surveillance and prosecution via Facebook are being ignored by those who use
it. Use people's egos to induce them for construct a platform wherein they can
be monitored, and since the lunatic fringe is more than likely to have an ego
that won't quit, they'll be more than likely to make a statement on 'Ego Book'
... that 500 million people have been convinced to spill their guts about
their lives, and what they're doing, how they're feeling, etc., is simply
nuts! In this specific case, the response was a grievous over-reaction,
because the guy didn't go to New York, nor did anyone in his stead. Anyway,
this case underscores the intrusive nature of the system, yet again.
WOTP: "Sen. Charles Schumer Proposes Increased Security And
'No Ride List' For Amtrak Trains" [05/09/11]
"Just days after the CIA released information allegedly found in the compound of Osama Bin Laden that indicated Al Qaeda is planning to target U.S. railways, a leading Democratic has proposed new security measures for all Amtrak stations nationwide.
The simple fact is that the staged death of a long ago dead man is being used to implement further totalitarian police state actions in a country billed as land of the free.
Soon after the staged media spectacle began, western intelligence sources claimed that they had found evidence that Al Qaeda was planning to attack U.S. railroads.
“Circumstances demand we make adjustments by increasing funding to enhance rail safety and monitoring on commuter rail transit and screening who gets on Amtrak passenger trains, so that we can provide a greater level of security to the public,” the New York Democrat said at a news conference, reported Reuters.
These adjustments include a new Amtrak no ride list and increased TSA security measures. [...]"
Note: More repression ...
"Video:
Abbottabad Residents: Operation Of Killing Bin Laden A Hoax" [05/09/11]
[3:09]
Related:
"Pakistani
Government Decides Not To Probe Abbottabad Attack"
"The government has decided not to conduct inquiry of any kind at any level whatsoever about the shameful Abbottabad incident to find out the real culprits responsible for intelligence failure and violation of Pakistani borders and sovereignty. Only an in-house probe will be conducted by the Pakistan Army, it is reliably learnt from federal cabinet sources.
Credible Foreign Office sources say that this attitude of the Zardari-led Gilani government is also under American pressure that there was no need now to find out how the Pakistan intelligence agencies and intelligence system failed to monitor Osama or detect the arrival, operation and departure of US helicopters and other aircraft. [...]"
MSM:
"In
Wake Of Bin Laden Killing: US Targets American Citizen In Yemen" [05/09/11]
"Barely five days after the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden,
the US launched a Predator drone strike aimed at assassinating an American
citizen in Yemen. The May 5 drone attack, which took place in Yemen’s Shabwa
province, was planned as a targeted assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a
New Mexico-born Islamic cleric with US citizenship, according to US and Yemeni
officials cited Friday evening by the Wall Street Journal. According to media
reports last year, Obama placed Al-Awlaki on a “targeting list” after his
administration asserted a right not even claimed by the Bush White House—to
carry out the extra-judicial execution of any US citizen deemed by the
president to be a “specially designated global terrorist”, without
presenting any evidence or securing any judicial sanction. Al-Awlaki—who has
made anti-American videos and tapes justifying Islamist terrorism—has never
been indicted for any crime in the United States. [...]"
Related:
"Anwar
al-Awlaki Targeted By U.S. Drones" ABC
News [05/07/11]
"After Osama bin Laden raid, U.S. tries to take out al Qaeda cleric in Yemen. [...]"
Note: Yes, this is the SAME Anwar al-Awlaki that was a guest at
the US Pentagon. Of course, the Drones are managed by the CIA.
MSM: "Video:
Pakistanis Insist They Knew Nothing, Did Nothing" [05/09/11]
"Villagers in the town where Osama bin Laden reportedly lived for years insist they had no idea
'bin Laden was there', and Pakistani intelligence officials say they didn't, either. NBC's Peter Alexander reports. (Nightly News) [...]"
Note: It's because he wasn't there at all - other
people in the house were killed and the whole thing is a transparent
fabrication.
Webster Tarpley:
"Bin Laden Reality TV a Mass Brainwashing PsyOp Seeking to Establish Fake Treasure Trove of Terabytes that will be Used to Target US Adversaries Worldwide; Growing Momentum Towards False Flag Attack to be Blamed on Pakistan via al Qaeda" [05/09/11]
Click 'Play" [Audio File ]
Corbett Report:
"The Osama Deception" [05/09/11]
[11:13]
Note: Transcript and Sources available shortly.
Related: Satire: "FKN
NEWZ: Osama Is Dead – Long Live Obama"
[8:43]
MSM: "Dick
Cheney Says Obama Should Reinstate Waterboarding Program" [05/09/11]
[0:00]
"Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that President Barack Obama should put waterboarding back on the table.
Intelligence derived from the Bush-era enhanced interrogation program "probably" contributed to the of death Osama bin Laden, Cheney told Fox News' Chris Wallace.
"It was a good program," he continued. "It was a legal program. It was not torture. I would strongly recommend we continue it."
[...]"
Note: A lying, infuriating sadistic sequential human who ought
to be waterboarded 20 times, just because its 'not torture'; just to
underscore his point.
Related: " Dick Cheney Warns Against Afghanistan Withdrawal"
Commentary: "Secret State’s Domestic Spying on the Rise" [05/08/11]
"Despite last week’s “termination” of America’s bête noire, Osama bin Laden, the reputed “emir” and old “new Hitler” of the Afghan-Arab database of disposable Western intelligence assets known as
al-Qaeda, Secrecy News reports an uptick in domestic spying. Never mind that the administration is engaged in an unprecedented war on whistleblowers, or is systematically targeting antiwar and solidarity activists with trumped-up charges connected to the “material support of terrorism,” as last Fall’s multi-state raids on anarchists and socialists in Chicago and Minneapolis attest.
In order to do their best to “keep us safe,” Team Obama is busily building upon the criminal legacy bequeathed to the administration by the Bush regime and even asserts the right to assassinate American citizens “without a whiff of due process,” as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald points out.
According to a new Justice Department report submitted to Congress we learn that “during calendar year 2010, the Government made 1,579 applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (hereinafter
‘FISC’) for authority to conduct electronic surveillance and/or physical searches” on what U.S. security agencies allege are “for foreign intelligence purposes.”
The April 29 missive, released under the Freedom of Information Act, documents the persistence of our internal security apparat’s targeting of domestic political opponents, under color of rooting out “terrorists.”
[...]"
Related: "Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010"
"The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected “agents” of a foreign power or terrorists on U.S. soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The two-page report, which shows about a 13 percent increase in the number of applications for electronic surveillance between 2009 and 2010, was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists and published Friday.
“The FISC did not deny any applications in whole, or in part,” according to the April 19 report to Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada).
The 11-member court denied two of 1,329 applications for domestic-i
ntelligence surveillance in 2009. The FBI is the primary agency making those requests.
Whether the FISA court, whose business is conducted behind closed doors, is
rubber- stamping the requests is a matter of debate. [...]"
Exposé:
"Army
Embeds PSYOPS Soldiers At Local TV Stations" [05/08/11]
[2:24]
"The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its
psychological operations personnel, according to Yahoo! News blog The Upshot. Since at least 2001, both
WRAL, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., and WTOC, a CBS affiliate in Savannah, Ga., have regularly hosted active-duty soldiers from the Army’s 4th Psychological Operations group as part of the Army’s Training With Industry program. [...]"
Interview: "Webster Tarpley on Jeff Rense 06 May 2011" [05/08/11]
[30:00]
"The assassination of Bin Laden completely fabricated. This story is completely fabricated it's all substantiated , nothing was ever proven it's all unsubstantiated from 911 down to the present day it's all completely invented and it makes no sens going down to debate the details ....it was done by design....one of the several Bin Ladens have dissociated himself from 911 , this is operation canned meat , probably the real Bin Laden was dead for a long time and what we have seen is a parade of doubles , every unemployed actor in the middle east who looked like Bin Laden had a chance to give it a try ...the idea is to demonize Pakistan and prepare for the next false flag attack built as a revenge attack by
Al-Qaeda [...]"
Commentary: "False
Flags – An American Tradition" [05/08/11]
"Wikipedia defines false or black flags as “covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.”
They’re “big lies,” defined by Merriam-Webster as “deliberate gross
distortion(s) of the truth used especially as a propaganda tactic.” America’s decade from September 11, 2001 to May 1, 2011 was punctuated by the (big) lie of our time and (big) lie of the moment.
Put another way, the official stories are falsified, myths, widely believed fantasies contrary to reality.
In his exhaustive research and writings, David Ray Griffin provided convincing evidence that 9/11 was an inside job and that bin Laden died of natural causes in mid-December 2001.
The former spawned a decade of overt and covert “war on terror” lawlessness at home and abroad. Policies and events following the second have yet to unfold, but expect little at best to be positive.
Past US false flags provided pretexts for militarism, wars, occupations, domestic repression, and national security state extremism, antithetical to democratically free and open societies.
Allegedly removing America’s “Enemy Number One,” in fact, may intensify, not diminish, Washington’s scheme for unchallengeable global dominance. More on him below.
With or without bin Laden, bogymen threats are plentiful. Since WW II alone, America’s had numerous ones, including communists, Al
Qaeda, WMDs, the Taliban, Gaddafi, and a host others yet unnamed, as well as numerous “foiled” domestic ones.
Among others, they include: [...]"
WOTP: "Bin
Laden: Security Council Fails To Endorse US Account" [05/07/11]
"France's invitation to unanimously adopt a joint declaration on the death of Osama Bin Laden rubbed members of the Security Council the wrong way. They refused to pen their signature on the initial text which alluded to President Obama's announcement of the recent demise of Public Enemy No. 1, considering that it was reported to have taken place already a decade ago. The wording ultimately adopted is \"the Security Council welcomes the news on 1 May 2011 that Osama bin Laden will never again be able to perpetrate such acts of terrorism\".
[...]"
WOTP:
"Al-Qaida Confirms Bin Laden Death, Vows Reprisal" [05/07/11]
NBC
News
"The terror network confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden and vowed revenge, saying Friday through its official media website that Americans’ “happiness will turn to sadness.” NBC’s Ann Curry reports. (Nightly News) [...]"
Note: Of course, this pure propagandizing, and the BBC
in the UK is right in lockstep with this international conspiracy to defraud,
and more.
Related: "Terror
Expert: Al-Qaida Vows 'There Will Be Revenge'"
NBC News
"NBC News Terrorism Analyst Evan Kohlmann (Zionist) on " the terror network's message of revenge to the United
States". (Nightly News) [...]"
Note: Sounds like the Mossad might be involved in this dynamic,
as well ... WOTP: "Bin
Laden Dead, 'Al-Qaeda' Admits"
BBC News
Note: Of course, 'Al Qaeda' is a CIA asset .... of useful
idiots.
"Obama
In 9/11 Tribute After Bin Laden Death" BBC
News [05/05/11]
WOTP:
"Anwar
al-Awlaki Targeted By U.S. Drones" ABC
News [05/07/11]
"After Osama bin Laden raid, U.S. tries to take out al Qaeda cleric in Yemen. [...]"
Note: Yes, this is the SAME Anwar al-Awlaki that was a guest at
the US Pentagon. Of course, the Drones are managed by the CIA.
WOTP:
"Pakistan Rounds Up Possible Osama Associates"
ABC News
"Hundreds rounded up by ISI and police looking for links to
Osama and al Qaeda. [...]"
Note: Round up the usual suspects. Since the ISI and the
CIA are welded-at-the-hip, this is obviously a 'gift' to the Pakistanis meant
to soothe them, to let this fabricated false flag 'incident' serve a function
for the ISI to do their thing in Pakistan. Since every part of this whole
decade-long dynamic is a fabrication and a total lie, created by madmen, it's
due to unravel at some point, if only due to the influence of Pluto in
Capricorn ...
MSM: "Interview With Cindy Sheehan
- 'If You Believe The Newest Death of Bin Laden, You're Stupid" [05/06/11]
[6:27]
Note: It's amusing, watching the sequential news announcer
trying to deal with the impetus of Sheehan. The news announcer wants to put
her in some kind of category ... it's so funny, and he's a really piece of
work, emotionally bland, and dumb as a stone.
"China Slams US bin Laden Operation" [05/06/11]
"China has criticized the United States for violating' Pakistan's sovereignty by carrying out a military operation to kill
al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. “China holds that the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of any country should be respected,” Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu as saying at a regular news briefing in the capital Beijing on Thursday. [...]"
WOTP: "Bin Laden Raid Discovery: Al Qaeda Considered Attacking U.S. Trains"
[05/06/11]
"New information gathered from the Osama Bin Laden raid show he was considering to attack U.S. trains, according to the AP.
NBC reports that law enforcement officials have been sent an advisory to remain vigilant about train security in light of the new information.
Mass transit authorities had already been on high alert since bin Laden's death.
Politico reported earlier this week that the raid resulted in a large cache of information including computer data.
More from the AP: [...]"
Related: WOTP:
"Staged Al Qaeda Rail Attack Plot To Be Used To Further Implement TSA At “Soft” Spots
Nationwide"
[1:57]
"Just days after the staged media spectacle of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, the corporate media and the Department of Homeland Security have released intelligence that claims that Al Qaeda is considering attacking U.S. railroads on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks.
In a move that is sure to further heighten the fears of local police nationwide, the Department of Homeland Security issued an alert to police about the information that they had “uncovered.”
“The information was obtained from material seized by Navy SEALs in their raid in Pakistan when they killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 1, another U.S. official said, speaking anonymously. U.S. commandos seized computer drives and other material from the compound where bin Laden had been staying,” reported The Associated Press.
The whole Bin Laden assassination psi op is now being used to push the police state in America to a whole new level.
At this point it seems likely that the major reason for the unveiling of a dead man was to condition the public into accepting TSA groping in train stations, malls, sporting venues, and any other major public event.
Yesterday, CBS News reported that experts fear retaliation over the death of the Al Qaeda leader and that the only way to stop such an attack is to implement TSA security checkpoints at soft spots nationwide.
We now live in a country where innocent civilians are now subject to TSA harassment, double pat downs, checkpoints at “soft” spots and 24/7 electronic surveillance all in the name of an invisible enemy ironically named the War on Terror. [...]"
"White
House Calls Halt To Bin Laden Disclosures" [05/06/11]
"The White House on Wednesday declined to shed more light on the special forces operation that killed Osama bin Laden, a day after it was forced to correct explosive details of the undercover raid.
Adjustments to the story, which began to be told late on Sunday, have seen the narrative embroidered with corrections and new details and left a sheaf of unanswered questions.
On Wednesday, however, the White House and the Pentagon called a halt to the disclosures, saying operational techniques that might be used in future raids needed to be protected.
"We have gotten to the point where we cannot cross lines," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. "We've gone to the limit of our ability to do that and still maintain some of the things we need to maintain and be kept secret."
Factual errors concerning some of the most explosive details of the raid related by top officials on Monday had to be publicly fixed. [...]"
"Paul
Craig Roberts On The “Osama Assassination" [05/06/11]
Autoplay 2 Video clips
[20:00]
WOTP:
"Osama Bin
Laden's" Compound Burned" [05/06/11]
[3:22]
Note: Nothing like destroying the scene of a fabrication. Bring
a little Bin Laden DNA, kill a couple guys and burn the compound ..
Corbett Report: "Obama Ground Zero, Radioactive Playgrounds, Canadian Election - New World Next Week" [05/06/11]
[14:49]
Commentary: "Osama bin Laden Murder Fable: A Work in Progress"
[05/05/11]
"The corporate media characterizes the on-the-fly story modifications as an “embarrassing climb-down” for Obama. Jay Carney told the Mockingbird corporate media that the tall tales came from the chief US counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, who put out the pablum “with great haste.”
“We provided a great deal of information with great haste in order to inform you about the operation. Some of the information is being reviewed and updated,” said Carney. In short, the fairy tale is a work in progress. [...]"
Related: "Bin
Laden Story Continues To Change"
"The culmination of years of surveillance, with Navy SEALs bursting into a residence and engaging in an epic firefight with the world’s most wanted terrorist (hiding behind his wife and armed with an AK-47) in his palatial estate certainly makes for good copy, and movie studios were already lining up to turn it into feature films. The only problem was it never happened. [...]"
Webster Tarpley: "Strategic Overview: The World on the Brink"
[05/05/11]
Note: Jeff Rense Program May 4, 2011.
Click "Play".
Related:
"
US, France Eye Faster Afghanistan Exit'"
"The US and France are mulling over plans to accelerate the withdrawal of their troops from Afghanistan following Osama bin Laden's death, the French foreign minister says. [...]"
"Top Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 False Flag Attack" [05/05/11]
"Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different
administrations Steve R. Pieczenik says he is prepared to tell a federal grand
jury the name of a top general who told him directly 9/11 was a false flag
attack. Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held
numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and
still works with the Defense Department, shockingly told The Alex Jones Show
yesterday that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001 and that he was prepared to
testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11
was a false flag inside job. Pieczenik cannot be dismissed as a “conspiracy
theorist”. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three
different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under
Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of
Defense. A former US Navy Captain, Pieczenik achieved two prestigious Harry C.
Solomon Awards at the Harvard Medical School as he simultaneously completed a
PhD at MIT. Recruited by Lawrence Eagleburger as Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for Management, Pieczenik went on to develop, “the basic tenets for
psychological warfare, counter terrorism, strategy and tactics for
transcultural negotiations for the US State Department, military and
intelligence communities and other agencies of the US Government,” while
also developing foundational strategies for hostage rescue that were later
employed around the world. Pieczenik also served as a senior policy planner
under Secretaries Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker
and worked on George W. Bush’s election campaign against Al Gore. His record
underscores the fact that he is one of the most deeply connected men in
intelligence circles over the past three decades plus. The character of Jack
Ryan, who appears in many Tom Clancy novels and was also played by Harrison
Ford in the popular 1992 movie Patriot Games, is also based on Steve Pieczenik.
[...]"
Related: "Dr Steve Pieczenik With Inside Knowledge of Death of Bin Laden"
[120:06]
"Alex Jones interviews Dr Steve Pieczenik on May 3, 2011 regarding the knowledge he has regarding
OBL. [...]"
"Panetta
Admits: Video Blackout During Raid For '25 Minutes'..." [05/05/11]
"The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.
Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, revealed there was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off.
A photograph released by the White House appeared to show the President and his aides in the situation room watching the action as it unfolded. In fact they had little knowledge of what was happening in the compound.
Mr Panetta said: "Once those teams went into the compound I can tell you that there was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we really didn't know just exactly what was going on. And there were some very tense moments as we were waiting for information.
"We had some observation of the approach there, but we did not have direct flow of information as to the actual conduct of the operation itself as they were going through the compound."
Mr Panetta also revealed that the US Navy Seals made the final decision to kill bin Laden rather than the president. [...]"
Note: Gee, that was poorly worded, don't you think?
Overview: "How
And Why The FBI Created The Bin Laden/Al Qaeda Hoax" [05/05/11]
[10:12]
"There is no such thing as "al Qaeda", there is no one on earth who calls himself a member of "al Qaeda". "al Qaeda" is a term made up by the U.S. government to be applied to anyone killed during in the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
There is no formal organization. There is no secret terrorist network. What there is a is a phantom enemy, a boogyman that was easily sold to the American people for the benefit of the Bush Administration and their friends at
PNAC. [...]"
WOTP: "Bin Laden computers a 'gold mine' for US"
[05/04/11]
"Intelligence agencies combing through computers and storage devices found at Osama bin Laden's compound expect a "gold mine" of data that could expose terror plots,
Al-Qaeda figures' locations and funding sources, ex-US officials said Wednesday.
The trove of material hauled away after bin Laden was killed in a US raid on Sunday -- about five computers, 10 hard drives and 100 storage devices -- represents a dramatic intelligence breakthrough for the United States in its fight against
Al-Qaeda, said the experts. "I'll be very surprised if this isn't a gold mine for us," said John McLaughlin, a former CIA deputy director... [...]"
Note: They can fabricate everything and insist it was really
something on a captured computer, right in the middle of a fabricated event,
and use that for justification for any act.
Commentary:
"No Proof Has Been Offered Suggesting That The Official Osama Bin Laden Death Narrative Is Even Remotely True" [05/05/11]
"There has been an endless amount of propaganda coming out dealing with the official Osama Bin Laden death narrative but there hasn’t been one shred of evidence proving that these events actually transpired as we are being told they did.
We are just expected to believe whatever the corporate controlled media propagandists and the criminal government bureaucrats tell us even though there has been zero proof brought forward suggesting that anything they are saying is true. The White House has even changed several significant details of the official story which raises a number of questions about the credibility of anything pertaining to these alleged events.
In fact, this story has been so sloppily put together that one has to wonder if they are intentionally doing this so that people around the world will start to believe that the story is a lie which will result in more people around the world despising the United States. [...]"
Infowars: "Webster Tarpley : Next False Flag Terror Attack will be Blamed on Pakistan" [05/05/11]
[15:17]
"Webster Tarpley says the CIA has announced the next false flag terror op will be blamed on Pakistan's
ISI, China backs Islamabad in looming confrontation, and the collapse of the U.S. empire brings a heightened danger of general war. [...]"
Part 2 [15:28]
Related: "Washington In A Frenzy Over Pakistan Leaving US Empire: Alleged Death of Pseudo-Bin Laden Sets Pakistan Up for US Attack"
[05/04/11]
Full
Screen "CIA Announces that Next False Flag Terror Op will be Blamed on Pakistan’s ISI; China Backs Islamabad in Looming Confrontation; Collapse of the US Empire Brings Heightened Danger of General War [...]" Washington
In A Frenzy Over Pakistan Leaving US Empire – Investigative Journalist "CIA's Garbled Bin Laden Narrative a Prelude to False Flag Terror Campaign" [05/05/11]
Note: Webster on a recent Press TV radio show.
US
Politics: "Obama reserves right to act again in Pakistan" [05/05/11]
"The White House said Wednesday that US President Barack Obama reserves the right to act again against top terror suspects inside Pakistan, following the raid which killed Osama bin Laden.
Obama's spokesman Jay Carney was asked whether the president would be prepared to target fugitives again if they were on Pakistani soil, despite Islamabad's complaints the bin Laden raid was unauthorized and unilateral.
"He made very clear during the campaign that that was his view. He was criticized for it," Carney said.
"He maintained that that was his view and, by the actions he has taken as president, feels that it was the right approach and continues to feel that way," he said.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-senator Obama said that he would order action against bin Laden or other senior Al-Qaeda leaders inside Pakistan if the country's leadership "is unable or unwilling to act."
Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate for president, accused Obama of effectively threatening an allied nation and said that if a target came into view, "you work with the Pakistani government."
Related: WOTP: "U.S.
Probe Of Aid To Bin Laden Likely To Focus On Islamabad's Military And Spy
Services"
"U.S. and European intelligence officials increasingly believe active or retired Pakistani military or intelligence officials provided some measure of aid to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, allowing him to stay hidden in a large compound just a mile from an elite military academy.
The suspicions cast light on where the U.S. is expected to focus as it investigates who might have helped bin Laden hide in plain sight in Abbottabad, a town about 40 miles from the capital Islamabad.
[...]"
Note: Hint ... Bin Laden was not even there. WOTP:
"Report Highlights Alleged Iran Force's
Al-Qaeda Links"
"A Congressional panel released a report Wednesday that alleges that Iran's elite
Al-Quds force offers support to Al-Qaeda, adding a new dimension to the militant threat to the United States.
[...]"
Wikileaks: "Assange: Facebook, Google, Yahoo spying tools for US intelligence" [05/04/11]
Full
Screen [12:55]
"Assange comments on the events in the Middle East and the world power
structures .. and more [...]"
Related: "New Documents Reveal Massive FBI Secret Spyware Operation Ran Through Social Networking Sites"
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a series of documents detailing a secret FBI spyware operation that targets security vulnerabilities in users computers and installs spyware from social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
Once infected the spyware allows the Feds to track the online activities of infected users as well as identify the user’s location software installed on the computer as well as the hardware the user is using.
To make matters worse the FBI is pushing to require websites and applications such as
Gmail, Skype and Facebook give the Feds to install this type of spyware at their demand to give the Feds the ability to spy on our personal data and online communications. If we choose to remain silent about this our expectation of privacy and other constitutional rights will disappear before our very eyes. [...]"
Commentary: "We Got Him" - The Movie"
[05/04/11]
"Scene One: President in ratings nose-dive after doing everything he said he wouldn't do and nothing that he said he would. Pakistan is on the wish-list of countries to invade and subdue leading directly to the border with China - the target, with Russia, for a Third World War. Public support for ever more wars, like the latest in Libya, is waning. Others are planned so support must generated for
them .... Scene Two: Man wrongly blamed for 9/11, who died years before anyway, becomes the manufactured villain in a staged drama in which John Wayne extras have a shoot out in a compound in Pakistan, thus providing further ammunition to
demonize that country for 'protecting Bin Laden' ... Scene Three: The lying and ludicrous President is suddenly an overnight hero (for doing nothing) and enjoys standing ovations when he enters a room. He condemns Pakistan (obligatory) which then
apologizes for 'security failures' hoping this will mitigate the military backlash in the wake of them telling the United States to stop drone-bombing their country and killing their civilians.
Scene Four: Grotesque, beyond grotesqueness - the hero President heads for Ground Zero in New York to exploit the families who lost loved ones on 9/11 to further promote himself, his popularity and poll ratings as he prepares for another run for President.
Scene Five: With new found support triggered in the John Wayne DNA of many Americans the President orders assaults on other countries while he heroically sits in the White House thousands of miles from the men, women and children this man and his beyond evil masters are ordering to be killed.
There was another scene in which the brave men in uniform paraded their 'prize' in full view to prove that what they said they have done they actually did. But, no. This was dropped in
favor of dumping the 'body' into the sea. Saves the cost of hiring a corpse. [...]"
Note: David Icke
comments on:' We Got Him' - The Movie, a sequel to Wag the Dog.
Related:
"Obama
Snatches Defeat From Jaws Of Victory"
As the news of Osama bin Laden’s death filtered out onto the streets of America it triggered unsightly scenes of undiluted hysteria, chest-thumping and back-slapping which has sadly become a trademark of the vengeful ‘hang’em high’ lobby that emerged from the rubble of 9/11.
And just like George W Bush did on that horrific day way back in 2001, US President Barack Obama unashamedly wallowed in a flag-waving, nationalistic wave of emotion, crowing about national unity and everyone pulling together as he revealed the manhunt for the world’s most wanted man had finally been concluded. [...]"
WOTP: "White
House Modifies Osama Bin Laden Account" [05/04/11]
"The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces. [...]"
Related: Commentary:
"Numerous “Oddities” In Osama Bin Laden Compound Photos and Videos"
"There are many unexplainable discrepancies and oddities in the photos and videos from inside and outside the reported Osama Bin laden compound. Here are just a few. [...]"
| Alexander Higgins Blog: "Osama Bin Laden Compound Raid – Exclusive Videos And Photos Live Inside The Kill Site"
Note: Interesting to see what they're presenting, so that the
fabrications can be exposed at some point.
Webster
Tarpley:
"Washington In A Frenzy Over Pakistan Leaving US Empire: Alleged Death of Pseudo-Bin Laden Sets Pakistan Up for US Attack" Russia Today
[05/04/11]
"CIA Announces that Next False Flag Terror Op will be Blamed on Pakistan’s ISI; China Backs Islamabad in Looming Confrontation; Collapse of the US Empire Brings Heightened Danger of General War
[...]"
"Homeland Security and Police Attack Western Illinois University Students G20 Style" [05/03/11]
[10:11]
"Riots broke out at the Western Illinois campus in MaComb Illinois on Saturday after a small group of students started fires and damaged property while police stood idly by.
In a scene all to familiar, police, sheriffs deputies and homeland security agents, in full swat attire, attacked innocent citizens on their own porches according to multiple eyewitnesses. [...]"
Commentary: Link Fixed
"Announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s Death Is A Staged Psychological Warfare Operation"
By Lee Rogers
[05/03/11]
"It was only a matter of time before the criminal terrorists in the United States government decided that it was time to claim that they had finally killed Osama Bin Laden. His reported death is nothing more than a staged psychological warfare operation designed to aid Barack Obama’s credibility as President and to make the claim that progress in this fake terror war is being made.
In reality, Bin Laden required the use of a kidney dialysis machine right around the time of the September 11th attacks and there were even reports of his death around the same time frame. All of the major Bin Laden videos that were either found or released after the September 11th attacks were criticized as fakes. [...]"
Commentary:
"Osama Bin Laden Pronounced Dead…For the Ninth Time" James
Corbett [05/03/11]
"When Obama pronounced Osama Bin Laden dead in a televised announcement heard round the world last night, he was at least the ninth major head of state or high-ranking government official to have done so.
Given Bin Laden’s documented kidney problems and consequent need for dialysis, government officials, heads of state and counterterrorism experts have repeatedly opined that Osama Bin Laden has in fact been dead for some time. These assertions are based on Bin Laden’s failing health in late 2001 and visible signs of his deteriorating condition, as well as actual reports of his death from the same time frame. [...]"
Global Research: "Obama's "Big Lie": White House Propaganda and the “Death” of Osama bin Laden" [05/02/11]
"... The “successful kill” of bin Laden comes at a convenient time. Obama’s popularity has plummeted. His political opponents are threatening to unseat him in 2012. The continued US presence in the Middle East and support for the “war on terrorism” is fragile, weakened by popular protests, and ambivalence among Americans. [...]"
WOTP: "Dick Cheney Congratulates Obama, Team On Bin Laden
Death"
[05/02/11]
"Former Vice President Dick Cheney -- a vocal critic of President Obama's anti-terror policy since the end of the Bush administration -- extended his congratulations to the White House after the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of U.S. forces. Cheney called the killing of bin Laden "a tremendous achievement for the military and intelligence professionals who carried out this important mission."
"I also want to congratulate President Obama and the members of his national security team," Cheney said. [...]"
Note: It's like a play of delusional con artists, unfolding,
cartoon-like, yet again.
Related: "Bin
Laden Dead But 'War Goes On,' Cheney Warns
"
| "Cheney says Enhanced Interrogation Probably Led to UBL Death"
Note: So Cheney is in on this, too ... no surprise to hear
from this vociferous, sadistic individual.
Related: "Reminder:
Group That Killed Bin Laden Was Smeared As Dick Cheney's" "It's been reported that bin Laden was killed by SEAL Team Six, officially known as Naval Special Warfare Development Group or
DevGru. DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh alleged it was Dick Cheney's personal assassination
squad ....... Now that a Democratic President has employed JSOC to take out Osama bin Laden, will the fever swamps of the left continue to assert that it's just a Bush/Cheney plot to run around unjustifiably killing people? [...]"
WOTP: "One Last Osama Bin Laden Video Is Going To Come Out"
[05/03/11]
(AP) "U.S. intelligence officials believe Osama bin Laden made a propaganda recording shortly before his death and expect that tape to surface soon.
It's unclear whether the tape is audio or video, but a U.S. official says that intelligence indicates it's already working its way through al-Qaida's media pipeline. The official said the timing was coincidental and there's no indication he knew U.S. forces were bearing down on him.
A new recording from bin Laden would provide a final word from the beyond grave for a terrorist who taunted the U.S. with recorded propaganda for years. It could also provide fodder to those who insist he is still alive.[...]"
WOTP: "UN:
Osama Death 'Watershed Moment'"
[05/02/11]
"UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has said that the death of Osama Bin Laden is a "watershed moment". [...]"
Note: Which is deeper, the stupidity and naiveté, or the
complicity? Another example: "Bin
Laden Death" A Political Boon To Obama"
"Republican Congressman Peter King, who has often criticized Obama on national security, also praised the president.
"Many things could have gone wrong, and yet, the president had the guts to go forward with it," he told CNN.
"It's a brilliantly carried out operation. The president of the United States, I salute him for carrying out one of the greatest achievements I believe in American
history.[...]"
WOTP:: "Al-Qaeda
May Seek Vengeance For Bin Laden: US" [05/02/11]
"The US government urged police and the public to be on high alert Monday for possible terrorist plots to avenge slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, warning Western targets around the world were at risk.
CIA director Leon Panetta, "a key architect of the daring US special forces raid that left bin Laden dead at a secretive Pakistan
compound", warned "terrorists almost certainly will attempt to avenge
him.[...]"
Note: And here is the police state capitalizing on the contrived news of the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Perfect reason to now ram through the
"See Something Say Something Act", which will help create a Stasi-like citizen spy network and present the CIA and Homeland Security as our saviors.
The bill's sponsor, Peter King, stated, "Al Qaeda is gonna want to avenge this as quickly as they possibly can."
WOTP: "Obama To Announce Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, Threat Level Raised At Hawaii Army Installations" [05/02/11]
Related: "Capturing
Bin Laden 'Would Unleash Hell'" [04/026/11]
"The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe which will unleash a "nuclear
hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed. The terror group also planned to make a 9/11 style attack on London's Heathrow airport
by crashing a hijacked airliner into one of the terminals, the files showed. [...]"
Note: This just goes to show that this 4/26 article was planted
before the 5/1 Obama announcement, and that it was part of a behind-the-scenes
plan for more 'terror theatre' ...
Also Related: Commentary: "Osama Bin Laden Is Dead - Major Psi Op"
[4:49] | "Osama
Bin Laden: A Dead Nemesis Perpetuated By The US Government"
"Bin Laden's voice was detected regularly until [14 December 2001] by intelligence operatives monitoring radio transmissions in Tora
Bora, according to the Pentagon [details]. Since then, nothing has been heard from the
al-Qa'eda leader and President Bush has hinted in private that bin Laden's silence could mean he has been killed. [...]"
"Flashback: Fox News Reported Bin Laden Dead in 2001"
"Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.
"The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead," the source said.
Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.[...]"|
"Benazir Bhutto said Osama Bin Laden is Dead in 2007"
[0:49] | UK:
"Guardian: 'Dead bin Laden
Image Is Fake'"
"The image of the dead face of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, aired on the Pakistani TV channel and then used by the British newspaper websites, is fake, the Guardian has revealed.
The current photo showing on different websites claiming to be bin Laden's corpse has used two different photos, which has been used online for the last two years.
Meanwhile, a US official says bin Laden's body has been buried at sea, alleging that his hasty burial was in accordance with Islamic law, which requires burial within 24 hours of death.
This is while burial at sea is not an Islamic practice and Islam does not determine a timeframe for
burial. Analysts are wondering why the US officials have buried bin Laden's body at
sea, since they could apply the DNA test on his corpse in order to confirm his death. [...]"
Note: Photo-shopped.
WOTP: "Osama
Bin Laden Killed: The White House Background Report" [05/02/11]
"Here's the transcript of an off-the-record conference call held by senior administration officials—and moderated by White House press aide Tommy Vietor—minutes after President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed by US special forces: [...]"
WOTP: "Man
Unknowingly Live Tweets About Raid On Osama Bin Laden's Compound" ABC
News [05/02/11]
"Sohaib Athar of Pakistan tweets about "helicopter hovering above
Abbottabad." [...]"
Note: Sounds like a CIA plant in Pakistan... this is an
orchestrated operation, transparently.
WOTP:
"Osama bin Laden
Killed in Firefight in Pakistan" [05/02/11]
"Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday in Pakistan in a firefight with U.S. special forces 40 miles north of Islamabad. President Obama announced the terrorist leader's death in a late-night address from the Oval Office. The U.S. team, which included Navy SEALS, arrived by helicopters and was in and out in less than 40 minutes. No U.S. soldiers were killed. Bin Laden resisted and was shot in the head. He was identified by DNA testing, the strike team took his body and buried it at sea. [...]"
WOTP: "Bin Laden dies in a hail of bullets!"
Press TV [05/02/11]
"The infamous, firebrand, Saudi born, head of Al-Qaida has been hunted down and killed in a compound in Pakistan by the US and Pakistani special forces. [...]"
Note: Right ...
WOTP: "Capturing
Bin Laden 'Would Unleash Hell'" [04/026/11]
"The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe which will unleash a "nuclear
hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed. The terror group also planned to make a 9/11 style attack on London's Heathrow airport
by crashing a hijacked airliner into one of the terminals, the files showed.
"After Security Lapses at Newark Airport, TSA Official in Charge Promoted to HQ Post" [04/25/11]
"The Transportation Security Administration appointed as a senior adviser at its D.C. headquarters an official who requested reassignment after quitting as federal security director of Newark Liberty International Airport, following a string of security lapses.
Barbara Powell, who served as TSA’s security director at the New Jersey airport since July 2007, has been promoted to the post of “senior adviser in the
Office of Human Capital,” TSA said in a statement this week. Before she left the Newark post, Powell was reportedly the subject of a blistering internal critique that found “inconsistent leadership” under her watch and “a work environment that is often fueled by fear of reprisal and retaliation.”
Powell has worked at the TSA for nine years, having also served as deputy security director at Newark Liberty and deputy assistant administrator for TSA’s Office of Security Technology.
When Powell announced her resignation as federal security director (FSD) to the 1,400 TSA employees at the Newark airport, she acknowledged the security lapses that had taken place there. [...]"
Security
Theatre: "Homeland Security to Conduct Multi-State Earthquake Drill" [04/25/11]
"“If you see something shaking, say something”. The DHS website informs people to “Drop, cover and hold on until the shaking stops," along with other pearls of wisdom.
The New Madrid fault is the focus of the Department of Homeland Security (the first two years of the administration were focused completely on Bush’s fault), and Janet Napolitano and Arne Duncan are overseeing an earthquake preparedness test next week that will focus mostly on schools in the midwest: [...]"
"Infowars": "TSA
VIPR Squads Roam Florida Train Stations" [04/23/11]
"Squads of TSA agents conducted random searches and patrols at a train station in West Palm Beach, Florida yesterday in yet another example of the expansion of TSA Tyranny beyond the nation’s airports.
“Hoping to keep terrorists and others off-guard Transportation Security Administration conducted what it calls a random ‘Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Operation’ on Thursday morning at the West Palm Beach Tri-Rail station.”, reports WPTV news. –
As we have documented, VIPR teams are now occupying America in the name of “security,” having expanded from airports, to train stations, highways and street corners.
The TSA was recently caught in yet another act of deception after claiming that passengers, including young children, who were subjected to an invasive pat down and bag search after getting off an Amtrak train in Savannah, Georgia did not have to enter the station, when in fact according to a firefighter on the scene, TSA agents swarmed the platform as soon as passengers stepped off the train and ordered them to cooperate.
VIPR is quite obviously a 21st century Gestapo designed to indoctrinate Americans into accepting Soviet-style shake-downs, bag searches and groping of genitalia at checkpoints across the country – not just in airports.
If people think they can avoid the TSA by staying away from airports, they’re going to be in for a rude awakening. TSA is clearly engaged in a total takeover of society and plans to have its agents searching, patting down, scanning and harassing Americans at all levels of society. [...]"
"9/11
Responders To Be Warned They Will Be Screened By FBI’s Terrorism Watch List" [04/23/11]
"A provision in the new 9/11 health bill may be adding insult to injury for people who fell sick after their service in the aftermath of the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks, The Huffington Post has learned.
The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake will soon be informed that their names must be run through the FBI’s terrorism watch list, according to a letter obtained by
HuffPost. Any of the responders who are not compared to the database of suspected terrorists would be barred from getting treatment for the numerous, worsening ailments that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health And Compensation Law was passed to address.
It’s a requirement that was tacked onto the law during the bitter debates over it last year.
The letter from Dr. John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, informs medical providers and administrators that they should begin letting patients know before the new program kicks in this July.
“This is absurd,” said Glen Kline, a former NYPD emergency services officer. “It’s silly. It’s stupid. It’s asinine.” [...]"
Social Terrorism:
"New
'Terror Alert System' Starts April 26" [04/22/11]
"The Department of Homeland Security will implement the new National Terror Advisory System on April 26. This new system focuses on communication and simplicity, replacing the color coded system adopted in 2002.
"We are moving to a system that provides factual information to individuals about specific terrorism alerts, sharing with them as much information as we can, what they need to do, how should they prepare and how they can get additional information," said Janet Napolitano, secretary at DHS, at a press conference Wednesday.
[...]"
Social Terrorism:
"FEMA
Camp Handbook: Expedited Printing Order From US Government" [04/20/11]
[1:38] "U.S. Government Printing Office Needs 350,934 National Detainee Handbooks Printed by 29 April 2011"
Related: Procurement Request
|
The Handbook PDF
Social Terrorism:
"Senator John Mica Who Wrote the TSA
Legislation Now Wants To Abolish The TSA" [04/20/11]
[4:20]
" Congressman John Mica says the Transportation Security Administration has become a huge bureaucracy that has "spun out of control" and cries out for reform.
The Florida Republican, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, also says it makes no sense to hire additional air traffic controllers for night duty to deal with the problem of sleeping controllers.
Mica was first elected to the House in 1992, and as chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee he was a major force in the creation of the TSA following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The TSA has recently come under criticism over disclosures about air traffic controllers falling asleep during overnight shifts. The FAA's air traffic chief resigned and the FAA said it is placing additional controllers at 27 airports for overnight work — a move Mica opposes.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, he says: "I can only think of the federal government doubling up on $163,000-a-year average salary employee when one or two fall asleep at the job.
"It also doesn't make any sense to schedule two employees when there's no air traffic in the middle of the night.
"They could do a better job of scheduling, and if heads have to roll, so be it. They have to do a better job in managing employees."
The TSA also sparked controversy when a 6-year-old girl in New Orleans was patted down by security personnel over her parents' objection.
"The TSA is an agency that has spun out of control," Mica declares. "It should be focused on a very narrow number of people who pose a threat. And then I think the agency has to start being a thinking agency, actually get out of the screening business and get into the security and intelligence business where they can be the most effective.
"We're shaking down little old ladies. We're shaking down military, patting down children who don't pose a risk, for goodness sakes. We should pick people out there who can make a better determination of who to go after, and we should have the information. It should be embedded in the ticket. [...]"
Related: "TSA Agent In Londonderry, NH Arrested For Rape, Sexual Assault"
"A Londonderry resident and U.S. Department of Homeland Security employee responsible for conducting passenger screenings at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport has been arrested on four charges of felonious sexual assault and one charge of forcible rape, the Londonderry Police Department and federal officials confirmed this week. [...]"
"TSA
Screener Busted For Stealing International Passengers Money" [04/18/11]
"Being a big fan of irony, I was amused to learn of the arrest of a Transportation Safety Administration screener caught stealing money right out of the wallets of Japanese tourists while they were being screened at the Kona airport. You’d think that the national agency whose main duty it is to screen people getting on airplanes to make sure they aren’t carrying bombs would be able to screen its own screeners to make sure they aren’t thieves. [...]"
"Hawaii, Other States, Form Caucus to Oppose TSA Intrusions" [04/17/11]
" Believing that the federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has gone too far in an assault on individual and states rights, a new, national, bipartisan legislative caucus is emerging to take action.
Dubbed tentatively the “United States for Travel Freedom” caucus, it officially convened on April 14, 2011 via teleconference and video live streaming.
Primary organizers are Alaska State Representative Sharon Cissna and Washington State Senator Val Stevens. Republican and Democrat legislators from Alaska, Hawaii, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington have pledged to work together for common goals to oppose what is perceived as an ever growing threat to liberty by the TSA. Additional state legislative participation is anticipated.
Each of the lawmakers involved to date has introduced legislation in their state to curb what they, and their state’s citizens, believe to be excessive power by the TSA.
Specific issues include constitutional rights, invasion of privacy and civil rights, child protection and fiscal issues. Many of the state bills call for individual state prohibitions on TSA procedures with the ultimate goal federal action against the operations of the TSA itself. [...]"
"Colorado
Man Claims He Was 'Sexually Assaulted' By TSA" [04/17/11]
[2:37] "Geoff Biddulph of Berthoud, Colo. is a frequent flyer. He travels at least 30 times a year for business and has been "pat down" by airport security all across the world.
But he says he has never experienced anything like the pat down he got at Denver International Airport on April 5th.
"I felt like I was sexually assaulted," he said. [...]"
"Comments on TSA Statement That "Arrogant Complaining" About Procedures Indicates A Possible Terrorist" [04/16/11]
Video
clip
[2:35]
"Don't like the way airport screeners are doing their job? You might not want to complain too much while standing in line.
Arrogant complaining about airport security is one indicator Transportation Security Administration officers consider when looking for possible criminals and terrorists, CNN has learned exclusively. And, when combined with other behavioral indicators, it could result in a traveler facing additional scrutiny.
CNN has obtained a list of roughly 70 "behavioral indicators" that TSA behavior detection officers use to identify potentially "high risk" passengers at the nation's airports. [...]"
Related: "B.
Schneier: TSA a stupid game and we should stop playing it" [04/15/11]
[1:52]
"An excerpt from the upcoming documentary "Code
2600" . Famous security guru and philosopher Bruce Schneier deconstructs the TSA masterfully. Well done
Bruce. [...]"
Bruce Schneier:
"What
Is Security?" [04/15/11]
[1:34]
"In a wide-ranging interview, computer security expert Bruce Schneier discusses matters related to security, identification, and civil liberties. The interview has been segmented into eighteen clips, separated by topic area. [...]"
"What
Is National Security?"
[2:08] |
"Technology
and Security"
[2:33] |
"Politics
and Security?"
[2:25] |
"Security
Theatre"
[1:30]|
"Airport
Security"
[3:50] |
"Identification-Based
Security"
[0:35] |
"ID
Card-Based Security?"
[1:24] |
"Problems
With ID-Based Security"
[2:30] |
"The
No Fly Lists"
[2:33] |
"Circumventing the No-Fly List
"
[1:01] | "The Secure Flight
Program "
[1:41] | "The REAL I.D.
Program "
[1:03] | "Cost problems with REAL I.D."
[1:30] | "Security problems with REAL I.D."
[2:04] | "The
Chilling Effect Of I.D.-Based Security"
[0:47] | "Biometric Data
"
[1:58] |
"US Homeland Security Requirements Imposed on Canada: U.S. Dictating North American Air Travel Security" [04/12/11]
"Without much fanfare and overshadowed by Canadians heading to the polls on May 2 for the fourth election in seven years, a controversial bill that would further comply with U.S. aviation security practices became law. The measure supports plans for a North American security perimeter and illustrates how the Canadian government is more interested in appeasing U.S. interests than protecting the privacy and freedoms of its own citizens.
In November of 2007, the Conservative government expressed concerns over privacy implications associated with the U.S. Secure Flight Program and filed objections with the Department of Homeland Security. They were urging an exemption on a measure that would require Canadian airlines to turn over information on passengers flying over the U.S. en route to other destinations. Despite their grievances being dismissed, they eventually caved in to U.S. demands. In a move to further bring Canada in line with American air travel security rules, Bill C-42, An Act to amend the Aeronautics Act was introduced in Parliament on June 17 of last year. With little media attention, it passed through the House of Commons on March 2, 2011, by a vote of 246 to 34. On March 23, it received royal assent and became law. Under Bill C-42, Canadian airlines are required to send traveler information through the Secure Flight Program 72 hours before departure. The Transportation Security Administration checks the data against security watch lists which could result in passengers receiving extra screening or even being barred from boarding their flight.
In an Action Alert from December 2010, the Council of Canadians described how Bill C-42, “requires that a large amount of your personal information be transmitted to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security even if your flight only passes through U.S. airspace. It's not just name, gender, age and destination as government sources claim. Any and all information contained in your travel records will be transmitted to U.S. security officials, who may use it for whatever purposes they see fit.” It goes on to say, “Canada has made many steps to harmonize airline security with U.S. programs but none has been good enough to prevent ever more draconian demands. Our severely flawed made-in-Canada ‘no fly’ list was supposed to prevent the imposition of the U.S. list on Canada. But the benchmark has moved again to the point the U.S. must issue travel permissions to Canadians.” The Conservative government has failed to sufficiently safeguard the privacy of Canadians. Personal information collected could be used for immigration, as well as law enforcement purposes and could also be shared with other countries. Bill C-42 surrenders Canadian authority to the Department of Homeland Security. [...]"
"The Future Expansion of Unmanned Drones Over The U.S." [04/09/11]
[5:37] "In a stark admission, two-star General, John Priddy, from the U.S. National Air Security Operations Center, confirmed in the video below that the continued expansion of predator drone surveillance is a stated goal for the coming years. His comments were echoed by Al Palmer, Director of Unmanned Aircraft Training at the world's largest center at the University of North Dakota, "The world is going to spend $80 billion on unmanned aircraft between now and 2016."
The idea for predator drone surveillance of Americans was kept under wraps until fairly recently. Even after a 2007 local news station in Texas captured drone flight tests on video, it was roundly denied as conspiracy theory that unmanned drones would actually take flight over America. Further investigation revealed that this flight test coincided with a plan already in place to patrol far inland beyond the legal 100-mile security border, also known as the Constitution-free Zone.
Then, early this year, Miami-Dade county openly admitted to ordering a 16-pound T-Hawk micro drone which clearly indicates a move to miniaturize surveillance in order to bring it right into the streets of America, rather than the continued military propaganda stating that unmanned drones will be used only for border control operations.
As Dana Gabriel and others have covered, Canada and the U.S. have formed a clear perimeter security and trade alliance which for all practical purposes removes the border between the two countries, thus allowing for drones to go beyond the previous 16-kilometer buffer zone and continue right to the border of Canada. This ultimately allows for coast-to-coast surveillance.
Now that we know that "the ultimate goal" is 24-hour eye-in-the-sky surveillance by predator drones within civilian airspace from coast to coast, do we believe General Priddy when he asserts that this technology will be applied to "search and rescue" missions during natural disasters? Or, rather, should we be asking if the next logical step is for these drones to be weaponized? [...]"
Media and Culture: "Threats Claim Nuclear Bombs Hidden All Over U.S"
CBS Chicago [03/30/11]
" The threats came in the mail and to date, there have been 25 letters that warn of nuclear bombs destroying America.
People who got them called the FBI and CBS 2′s Kristyn Hartman learned, the Bureau’s Chicago office is leading the investigation.
FBI Special Agent Andre Zavala said, “Yes, they alarmed a lot of people.” Attorney Tracy Rizzo was alarmed. A number of days ago, an envelope, with a
Chicago postmark and a hand-written address to her private investigations firm, came in the mail.
The letter inside said, “The Al-Qaeda organization has planted 160 nuclear bombs throughout the U.S. in schools, stadiums, churches, stores, financial institutions and government buildings.” It also said, “This is a suicide mission for us.”
The writer, who claims to be Osama Bin Laden, tells the reader the nukes are remotely controlled. “It was clear the writer wanted to scare me,” said Rizzo, “Yes, it frightened me.” Rizzo was one of eight people in the Chicago area to contact the FBI.
Agencies in Oregon, California, Texas and Florida also got the letter with the Chicago postmark.
“There are items in the letter that lead us to believe it is a hoax,” said Zavala. “There are several demands documented that aren’t fully coherent.”
He said much of what’s in the message doesn’t add up, but in a post 9-11 world, the FBI can’t let it go – even if it does appear to be a hoax.
“The FBI investigates every element. We can’t take that chance,” said Zavala.
So, why the threats? The writer alluded to how families in Afghanistan have to live. The FBI said it will find that writer, and when it does, he could face 5 to 10 years in prison for each letter mailed. Anyone who’s received a similar letter should call the FBI.[...]"
Note: Chicago ... mob ... Israel .... Mossad .... if this is
anything, how far does it go? The presence on the CBS (known for having hobnobbed
with the
CIA) web page of an audio file and video showing "Osama Bin Laden"
imply or suggest that something like this could also be a CIA/FBI covert
operation on behalf of banks and Wall Street interests. We have heard rumors
of this kind of thing for years, so if it is anything, it has been planned for
years, like all the rest of the actions that have happened.
Related: Commentary: "Letters Claim
Al-CIAda Have Nuclear Bombs Hidden Across United States, Al Qaeda 100% Pentagon Run"
"While this news may be startling to many, it is no surprise to those in the alternative media. The idea of nukes in the United States has run rampant for years, with many believing rogue elements of our government will actually use these nukes within the United States to create enough chaos to initiate a world government.
In 2002 the right wing news organization World Net Daily reported that Bin Laden had snuck over 20 suitcase nukes into the United States, A new book by an FBI consultant on international terrorism says Osama bin Laden’s
al-Qaida terrorist network purchased 20 suitcase nuclear weapons from former KGB agents in 1998 for $30 million. The book,“Al
Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror,” by Paul L. Williams, also says this deal was one of at least three in the last decade in which
al-Qaida purchased small nuclear weapons or weapons-grade nuclear uranium.
This report was one of the first out of a long line of fear mongering reports that have been used to plant the idea of Al Qaeda nuking us into the mind of everyday American citizens.
Most remember the “missing nukes” report that broke in 2007. Apparently several nukes were lost for upwards of 36 hours after leaving U.S.A.F Base Minot in North Dakota.
According to a wide range of reports, [...]"
Note: “The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US.”
- Robin Cook, Former British Foreign Secretary |
"TSA
Security Theatre Costs US Economy $85 Billion And 900,000 Jobs" [03/19/11]
"The U.S Travel Association and a panel of travel and security experts today unveiled a groundbreaking plan to improve security at America's airports and reduce the burden on travelers. Among the most notable recommendations are the creation of a trusted traveler program and a requirement that travelers be allowed to check at least one bag at no additional cost to the ticket price as a means to reduce the amount of luggage going through the security checkpoint.
The need for reform was made especially clear by recent research revealing that travelers are avoiding two to three trips per year due to unnecessary hassles associated with the security screening process. These avoided trips come at a cost of $85 billion and 900,000 jobs to the American economy. [...]"
"Lawmaker Warns TSA Harassment Coming To Sidewalks" [03/09/11]
"The lawmaker behind a bill aimed at curtailing TSA grope downs and naked body scanners warns that Americans will be subjected to such harassment on sidewalks and at football games if the TSA is not stopped in its tracks now, but in reality, TSA-style measures have already been aggressively expanded well beyond airports.
Republican Rep. David Simpson’s bill in the Texas legislature would classify any search without probable cause as an act of sexual harassment, while naked boded scanner images would be deemed criminal voyeurism.
“We’re talking about what would be a criminal act in any other place,” Rep. David Simpson (R) told Raw Story. “If you viewed someone naked without their permission or consent, or as a condition of travel, it would be sexual harassment or voyeurism. If you touched people’s privates, that would be sexual assault.
“This is not a left or right issue,” he added. “They are treating American citizens with great indignity, and we’ve got to make this right.” [...]"
"TSA News 3-8-11" [03/09/11]
"Deluded TSA Worker Arrested After Telling Cop “I’m A Customs Inspector”
/ Bills target full-body scans, pat-down searches at Texas airports / Schumer asks for review of TSA hiring [...]"
US Politics: "Homeland
Security Bows To Real ID Outcry" [03/06/11]
"Americans will be able to use their driver's licenses after May 11 to travel by air after all.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today postponed the effective date of the Real ID Act until January 15,
2013, a move that avoided causing tremendous disruptions to air travel.
The reason that Homeland Security granted the delay is that, apart from some Republican stalwarts in Congress, this law creating a digital nationalized ID is hardly popular, with critics calling it a national ID card. A chart (PDF) updated last month by the National Conference of State Legislatures lists 16 states with laws forbidding them to comply with Real ID and eight states including Colorado, Hawaii, and Illinois that have enacted resolutions effectively boycotting it.
Once the regulations take full effect, the impact on Americans would be dramatic: Residents of those 24 states including Arizona, Georgia, Oregon, and Washington would not be able to use their drivers' licenses to fly or enter a federal building such as a courthouse, even for jury duty. U.S. passports or military IDs would remain valid for identification.
Real ID supporters among the House Republican chairmen reacted angrily to the news of the delay -- the third to date. (See CNET coverage of the previous deadline extension and a related FAQ.)
[...] Homeland Security's announcement today (PDF) carefully neglected to mention the state-by-state revolt against these federal mandates, with state governments citing privacy, federalism, and funding for their refusal to cooperate.
[...]"
Related:
"House Republicans attempt to revive Real ID" [03/04/11]
"If you're a resident of one of at least 24 states including Arizona, Georgia, and Washington, your driver's license may no longer be valid for boarding an airplane or entering federal buildings as of May 11, 2011.
That's the deadline that senior House Republicans are calling on the Obama administration to impose, saying states must be required to comply with so-called Real ID rules creating a standardized digital identity card that critics have likened to a national ID.
The political problem for the GOP committee chairmen is that the 2005 Real ID Act has proven to be anything but popular: legislatures of two dozen states have voted to reject its requirements, and in the Michigan and Pennsylvania legislatures one chamber has done so.
That didn't stop the House Republicans from saying in a letter this week to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that "any further extension of Real ID threatens the security of the United States." Unless Homeland Security grants an extension, the law's requirements take effect on May 11. [...]"
"Texas Legislation Proposes Felony Charges for TSA Agents" [03/04/11]
"Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) introduced a package of bills into the Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday that would challenge the TSA’s authority in a number of ways. The first bill, HB 1938, prohibits full body scanning equipment in any Texas airport and provides for criminal and civil penalties on any airport operator who installs the equipment. The second bill, HB 1937, criminalizes touching without consent and searches without probable cause. [...]"
"Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers" [03/03/11]
PDF
"The 173-page collection of contracts and reports, acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request, includes contracts with Siemens Corporations, Northeastern University, and Rapiscan Systems. The study was expected to cost more than $3.5 million. [...]"
"TSA Agent Busted For Helping Drug Kingpin Bypass Airport Security" [03/03/11]
"Apparently, they are not screening the screeners. In the latest black eye for the troubled Transportation Security Administration, a supervisor was busted for helping a marijuana kingpin and his cohorts bypass airport security measures to smuggle cash and more thatn 200 pounds of pot out of state, the feds said today.
Behavior detection officer Minnetta Walker, 43 - whose position gave her free reign at the airport - used her status to help drug boss Derek Frank's gang avoid full body scanners, luggae x-ray machines and secondary screening at the gates, authorities said. [...]"
"Security Theatre Creep: Full Strength X-Ray Body Scanners Touted For Airports"
[03/02/11]
"The next generation of body scanners to be rolled out in airports will literally be able to see inside the human body, as security personnel gear up to trial machines that use deep penetrating radiation, the same kind hospitals use to examine internal organs and bones.
Australian airports are set to begin using the devices should legislation before Federal Parliament be passed, enabling customs officers to use technology previously only operated by doctors in controlled conditions.
The justification for the technology is to crack down on suspected drug smugglers who swallow illegal substances to evade airport security. However, the notion of placing the technology along airport security lines paves the way for its general use, particularly in light of the recent security theatre explosion we have seen in airports over the last eighteen months.
The current crop of naked body scanners being used by the TSA and other transport security personnel around the globe use either Millimeter-wave or BackScatter radiation. These devices render clothing and organic materials translucent, providing an image of what is concealed underneath, which is why they have caused such controversy. [...]"
"Judge Napolitano Weighs In For FOX About DHS Plans To Begin Testing Portable DNA Scanner"
[03/02/11]
[3:00]
"Bill Would Make Some Airport Screening Sexual Assault"
[03/02/11]
"A bill in New Hampshire will make TSA agents personally accountable for their actions while performing the perverse acts demanded by
Pistole. Looking at or touching private areas of a person without probable cause would put the agent on the (awful) sex offender list for life. The bill also specifies that merely possessing a plane ticket, among other things, does not constitute probable cause. [...]"
"TSA Pat Downs, Bag Searches AFTER Passengers Get Off Trains"
[02/25/11]
Video clip
[0:59]
"According to a first-hand video account from a train station in Savannah, Georgia the Transportation Security Administration is now performing security pat downs and bag searches AFTER passengers disembark from their trips. [...]"
"Seattle-Area Restaurant Refuses to Serve TSA Agents"
[02/23/11]
"Fed up with what he views as crappy treatment from the TSA, the owner of a restaurant near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has decided to put all TSA agents on his No-Eat List.
“We have posted signs on our doors basically saying that they aren’t allowed to come into our business,” one employee tells travel journalist Christopher Elliott. “We have the right to refuse service to anyone.”
She says that whenever a TSA agent attempts to dine at the restaurant, “we turn our backs and completely ignore them, and tell them to leave… Their kind aren’t welcomed in our establishment.” [...]"
"Alaska State Rep Takes Boat After Refusing TSA Search"
[02/22/11]
"An Alaska state lawmaker is making her way back to the state capital of Juneau after refusing what she called an invasive pat-down search at a Seattle airport.
Rep. Sharon Cissna, D-Anchorage, underwent a body scan as she was preparing to leave Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Sunday. In a statement released late Monday, she said scan results displayed – as they had during a prior episode three months earlier – the scars from her breast cancer.
This caught the attention of the Transportation Safety Administration, Cissna said, but she refused to submit to the “invasive, probing hands of a stranger” this time. [...]"
Legal Case:
"Mother of 3 Arrested for Taking Pictures of Tourist Attraction at Airport"
[02/20/11]
"This case is a frightening example of what can happen when a photographer encounters ignorant bullies with badges. According to the complaint filed in Federal Court, Nancy Genovese, a mother of three, was driving home on County Road 31 past Gabreski Airport in Suffolk County. Gabreski Airport displays a decorative helicopter shell by the roadway to the public, which is visible to all who pass by. [...]"
Related: "Nancy Genovese Lawsuit Updates: Town of Southampton in Default"
Note: it will cost the town $70,000,000 for this act of tyranny ...
Video
of Town Council Meeting Where They Discuss the Case and Conclude They Will
Lose
[10:00]
"Obama allocates $44 billion more
Homeland Security for Fiscal 2012" [02/20/11]
"The Obama administration recently announced its $3.73 trillion dollar budget plan for the 2012 fiscal year beginning on October 1. The new budget includes a more than $44 billion allocation for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to purchase 275 more naked body scanners to be installed at U.S. airports, despite continued outcry from health experts and the public about the machines' safety hazards, threats to personal privacy, and complete ineffectiveness. [...]"
Note: $879 million for Michael Chertoff and the others
who are flogging this scam on the US. A lot will go to Israeli connected
companies. Highlights: Obama's proposed homeland security budget would provide money to purchase 275 full-body imaging machines for airports. These machines have been criticized by privacy advocates who say the images are too explicit. Aviation and cargo security remain a top administration concern as terrorists continue to target both for attacks. The president also asked for more funds for federal air marshals than he requested the previous year. And the budget proposal includes money to hire 300 more Customs and Border Protection officers to screen passengers and cargo.
See below for more evidence on how stupid this is ... it shows that it's not
about security - it's about social terrorism of the population... to prevent
'the elite' from 'coming to harm' because of public response to what they have
done.
"TSA Source: Armed Agent Slips Past Dallas Fort-Worth Airport Body Scanner"
[02/19/11]
Video clip included.
"An undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners, according to a high-ranking, inside source at the Transportation Security Administration.
The source said the undercover agent carried a pistol in her undergarments when she put the body scanners to the test. The officer successfully made it through the airport's body scanners every time she tried, the source said.
"In this case, where they had a test, and it was just a dismal failure as I'm told," said Larry Wansley, former head of security at American Airlines. "As I've heard (it), you got a problem, especially with a fire arm."
Wansley said covert testing by the TSA is commonplace -- although failing should be rare. [...]"
Note: But it isn't. The things are useless, just as an Israeli airport security expert has also
said.
"FBI Urges Congress To Expand Internet Wiretapping"
[02/19/11]
"The FBI urged members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security on Thursday to update the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act
(CALEA) and make it easier for authorities to eavesdrop on Internet. The act was passed in 1994 and requires telecommunication companies to design their equipment and services to ensure that law enforcement and national security officials can monitor telephone and other communications whenever necessary.
"Over the years, through interpretation of the statute by the Federal Communications Commission, the reach of CALEA has been expanded to include facilities-based broadband internet access and Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) services that are fully inter-connected with the public switched telephone network," FBI General Counsel Valeria Caproni told the subcommittee.
"Although that expansion of coverage has been extremely helpful, CALEA does not cover popular Internet-based communications modalities such as
webmail, social networking sites or peer-to-peer services." [...]"
"Two More TSA Agents Busted At JFK Airport For Stealing $160,000 From Checked Bags"
[02/18/11]
"Two TSA agents were busted today at Kennedy Airport for stealing $160,000 in cash from bags, authorities said.
Davon Webb, 30, and Couman Perad, who turned 36 today, were arrested after admitting they had regularly stolen from checked bags, sources said.
In one instance, Perad, who joined the Transportation Security Administration in 2002, and Webb, who has been an agent since 2004, stole $39,000 on Jan. 30 from a bag at Terminal 8, sources said.
The passenger whose money was stolen was on his way to Argentina, sources said.
The $39,000 was later found in their homes after TSA notified Port Authority police, sources said [...]"
Related: (see below).
"TSA Workers Admit To Stealing Huge Amounts Of Cash From Passengers"
[02/15/11]
"The revelation that TSA workers have admitted to stealing huge amounts of cash from passengers they singled out for enhanced security screening is far from an isolated incident, and underscores how armies of degenerates are being employed by the federal government to push around and dominate members of the public going about their daily business.
As reported in several mainstream media reports today, a TSA supervisor at the ironically titled Newark Liberty Airport has pleaded guilty in a federal court to multiple counts of theft, as well as admitting to taking bribes and kickbacks from another TSA worker to “look the other way”, while the agent he was supervising stole more money from travelers.
Arato also allowed another worker to steal up to $30,000 in cash from traveller’s bags over a 13-month period, pocketing a share of the ill gotten gains himself. The court heard that the pair specifically targeted foreign travelers, mostly Indian women, who could not speak English and discussed how they should not feel bad about stealing from them because they were leaving the U.S. with “our money”.
Arato was caught pocketing money on surveillance cameras last October when airport authorities began investigating complaints from passengers that their money and valuables were missing after their bags had been searched by the TSA.
In one incident, Arato allegedly took a wad of cash and “gave the middle finger to the office security camera”.
This is just the latest example of how TSA workers are prone to criminal behavior. It is certainly not an isolated incident.
TSA workers have also been caught stealing laptop computers, stealing luggage with thousands of dollars worth of jewelry, sabotaging sensitive screening databases, and joking about planting drugs on travelers.
TSA agents are also prone to predatory crimes, particularly targeting women and children, emphasizing once again why they are attracted to jobs that allow them to sexually molest and ogle vulnerable members of society.
Aside from the hundreds of stories of exposing breasts and forcefully groping travelers, there have also been scores of these even more unsavoury cases.
“A TSA employee based at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport tried to kill himself after allegedly abducting a woman, sexually assaulting her then giving her a suicide note to deliver,” reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. last November. [...]"
Related: "Newark TSA Officer Pleads Guilty To Theft From Passengers" |
"TSA Comes Under Fire Again As Employees Admit To Repeatedly Stealing Money From Passengers"
| "Michael
Arato, Newark Supervisor, Charged With Stealing From Passengers"
"NSC Study Shows You are More Likely to Killed By a Cop Than a Terrorist"
[02/15/11]
"After 9/11, the fear of another attack on U.S. soil cleanly supplanted the fear of having
one's penis chopped off by a vengeful lover in the pantheon of irrational American fears.
While we're constantly being told that another attack is imminent and that radical Islamic fundamentalists are two steps away from establishing a caliphate in Branson, Missouri, just how close are they? How do the odds of dying in a terrorist attack stack up against the odds of dying in other unfortunate situations?
The following ratios were compiled using data from 2004 National Safety Council Estimates, a report based on data from The National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, 2003 mortality data from the Center for Disease Control was used. [...]"
"War On Terror Theatre":
"FBI: 100 Percent Chance of WMD Attack"
[02/15/11]
"The probability that the U.S. will be hit with a weapons of mass destruction attack at some point is 100 percent,
Dr. Vahid Majidi, the FBI’s assistant director in charge of the FBI’s
" Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate", tells Newsmax. Such an attack could be launched by foreign terrorists, lone wolves who are terrorists, or even by criminal elements, Majidi says. It would most likely employ chemical, biological, or radiological weapons rather than a nuclear device.
As it is, Majidi says, American intelligence picks up hundreds of reports each year of foreign terrorists obtaining
WMD. When American forces invaded Afghanistan, they found that al-Qaida was working on what Majidi calls a “nascent” weapons of mass destruction effort involving chemical and biological weapons.
In every other case so far, the reports of foreign terrorists obtaining WMD have turned out to be unfounded. However, Majidi’s directorate within the FBI investigates more than a dozen cases in the U.S. each year where there was intent to use
WMD." [...]"
Note:
FBI assistant director Majidi himself decides to make "terroristic
statements" and threaten the population of the US, in order to
intimidate the population into allowing more tyrannical behavior by bullies,
thugs, sociopaths and psychopaths .... in the face of another apparent false
flag in the future of the population.
"Austin, Texas, Forming Solid Resistance to TSA"
[02/09/11]
"Austin, Texas — known for Longhorns, live music, and legislative lollapaloozas — is poised to be the subject of a different kind of notoriety. The nationwide undertone of opposition to the TSA is surfacing in the state’s capitol city. Austin is developing a downright defiance of the agency’s shocking treatment of American air travelers into a cohesive defense of liberty.
Criticisms hurled at TSA from abused would-be air passengers and sympathetic media have taken the form of organized and well-thought-out resistance in Austin, and it could soon be the first American city to turn its dissent into airport relief for beleaguered flyers.
On Dec. 14, 2010, The Austin Airport Advisory Commission (AAAC), tasked with advising the Austin City Council regarding policy at Austin Bergstrom International Airport
(ABIA), voted unanimously to oppose the full-body scanners being installed at the city’s airport.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE AUSTIN AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION: Recommends the City Council oppose the installation of AITs at ABIA and further oppose the practice of invasive body searching and encourages the City Council to inform the TSA, and State and
Federal d elegations of such opposition. Each council member and a group of Austinites who showed up in opposition to the TSA expressed concern about privacy invasions, radiation delivery, and violations of the Fourth Amendment. [...]"
"Napolitano Cites Staged 'Portland Terror Plot' To Expand Domestic Spy Program"
[02/03/11]
"Homeland Security is gearing up to accelerate the roll out of its domestic spying program by teaming up with the Department of Justice to expand the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative, and in doing so cites the justification of the alleged plot to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, a case of entrapment where the would-be bomber was groomed, set-up and even provided with a fake bomb by the FBI.
“To help federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies better share this information, the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative
(NSI) has taken the processes that law enforcement agencies have used for years, and established a unified, standards based approach for all levels of government to gather, document, process, analyze, and share information about behavior-based suspicious activities that potentially have a nexus to terrorism while rigorously protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of all Americans,” states the DHS press release.
[...]"
"TSA Tests Less-Revealing Airport Scanners"
[02/02/11]
"The US Transportation Security Administration began rolling out new airport scanner software Tuesday that produces less revealing images of travelers. The new software "enhances privacy by eliminating passenger-specific images and instead auto-detects potential threat items and indicates their location on a generic outline of a person," the TSA said. McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas [...]"
"TSA Shuts Door On Private Airport Screening Program"
[01/29/11]
"A program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners is being brought to a standstill, just a month after the Transportation Security Administration said it was "neutral" on the program.
TSA chief John Pistole said Friday he has decided not to expand the program beyond the current 16 airports, saying he does not see any advantage to it.
Though little known, the Screening Partnership Program allowed airports to replace government screeners with private contractors who wear TSA-like uniforms, meet TSA standards and work under TSA oversight. Among the airports that have "opted out" of government screening are San Francisco and Kansas City.
The push to "opt out" gained attention in December amid the fury over the TSA's enhanced pat downs, which some travelers called intrusive. [...]"
"AZ Sheriff on Napolitano’s Security Speech:
" This Shows You How Divorced From Reality the Secretary of Homeland Security Really Is"
[01/29/11]
"The National Sheriffs’ Association on Wednesday named Arizona’s Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu “Sheriff of the Year.” On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered the first State of Homeland Security address, in which she gave an upbeat account of the agency’s accomplishments, including its efforts on immigration and securing the U.S. border.
Babeu, however, indicated that Napolitano’s speech was selective in what it emphasized and what it did not disclose.
He said her remarks did not reflect conditions on the ground in Arizona where in the last two years the amount of illegal drugs entering the state that have been confiscated by local authorities has doubled, and the number of pursuits of criminal illegal aliens has tripled.
“Why isn’t the secretary of homeland security speaking to these threats?” Babeu said in a telephone interview with
CNSNews.com. “Why does she keep trying to convince us through argument that everything is just fine to the point that she’s trying to hypnotize us into believing this
crap.” [...]"
Note: I call her "Nappy", the British term for diaper,
because she's full of it and has a clinical pathology that is disturbing.
MSM: "Media To Play Role In New
' Terror Alert' System" [01/29/11]
"The color-coded terror threat advisory system that has been in place since just after 9/11 is going away. NBC Justice Correspondent Pete Williams reports from Washington on what its replacement will look like. (Nightly News) [...]"
"War On Terror
Theatre": "Attempted Plane Attack: Trial Date Set for Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab" [01/29/11]
" ('Underwear Bomber' False Flag Op)
...The Haskells, passengers, say in Amsterdam before boarding the flight to Detroit, they witnessed Abdulmutallab arguing with a ticket agent at the gate because he didn't have a passport when a man in a tan suit with an American accent intervened.
"The ticket agent did not want to allow Abdulmutallab on the flight and this man was very insistent of it, and then she referred them to a manager down the hallway," said Kurt Haskell.
They next saw Abdulmutallab on-board the plane when they saw fire and people screaming.
Video clip included. [2:22] [...]"
Related: Historical
Analysis: "Kurt Haskell, Plane Passenger, Blows Whistle on Underwear Bomber. Government Op"
[2:23]
"Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is the man accused of trying to blow up an airplane over metro Detroit on Christmas Day
2009. This story is just the tip of the iceberg into the US government’s black operations to further the Patriot Act, funding for Homeland Security and the TSA, and to keep intensity up for the so called War on Terror. Respected lawyer and community leader, Kurt Haskell, has nothing to gain from pointing his finger at the federal government. He witnessed the underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, being whisked past security and led onto NorthWest Airlines flight 253, by a well-dressed man with an American accent- all without the passenger’s proper visa and passport documentation. What the news piece doesn’t mention is that the State Dept did indeed put Mutallab on the plane, at the behest of “an unnamed US intelligence agency.” Undersecretary Patrick F. Kennedy [...]"
Note: This case, of course, they "use" as rationale
for the body scanners and the groping at the airports ...
transparently a farce. | "Kurt and Lori Haskell
Blog" |
"BOMBSHELL: Evidence Clearly Indicates Staged Attack on Detroit Flight"
[12/26/09]
[8:23]
"CNN Airs Witness Testimony that 'Well Dressed' Indian accomplice helped Abdulmutallab board without passport and that man on plane filmed entire flight and bombing attempt [...]"
Note: Read the extensive NOTES under this YouTube
Video. 
More
Alex Jones Show: "Eyewitness Revelations: Confirmed FBI Cover-Up Of Flight 253"
Part 1 [12/29/09]
[10:42] Part 2 [10:58]
Part
3 [10:50]
UK: "Terrorism Control Orders To End"
[01/26/11]
"It comes after the man who headed the review, Lord Macdonald, said the UK had over-reacted to 9/11 and 7/7.
The control order regime should now be scrapped by the end of the year and replaced with
T-Pims (Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures). Critics have said the new system is little more than "control orders
lite". [...]"
Note: 7/7 was the UK's false flag op ... the whole
dynamic, as a completely transparent lie and fabrication, is wearing thin with
most people because the proof is clearing available.
"Ventura sues TSA over airport
patdown" [01/25/11]
" Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is suing the Transportation Security Administration for allegedly violating his privacy rights during an airport
patdown. [...]"
"Homeland Security's laptop seizures: Interview with Rep. Sanchez"
[01/16/11]
"For those who regularly write and read about civil liberties abuses, it's sometimes easy to lose perspective of just how extreme and outrageous certain erosions are. One becomes inured to them, and even severe incursions start to seem ordinary. Such was the case, at least for me, with Homeland Security's practice of detaining American citizens upon their re-entry into the country, and as part of that detention, literally seizing their electronic products -- laptops,
cell phones, Blackberries and the like -- copying and storing the data, and keeping that property for months on end, sometimes never returning it. Worse, all of this is done not only without a warrant, probable cause or any oversight, but even without reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in any crime. It's completely standard-less, arbitrary, and unconstrained. There's no law authorizing this power nor any judicial or Congressional body overseeing or regulating what DHS is doing. And the citizens to whom this is done have no recourse -- not even to have their property returned to them. [...]"
"TSA makes ‘nominal’ payment to settle suit over exposing 24-year-old’s breasts"
[01/14/11]
A woman who had her breasts exposed during an airport search by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was to receive a "nominal" payment as a part of a settlement agreement, according to documents released this week.
The 24-year-old woman was selected for "extended search procedures" prior to boarding a plane to Amarillo, Texas in 2008.
A lawsuit claimed that the TSA agent pulled her blouse completely down while frisking her.
Raw Story decided against republishing the woman's name and photograph due to the nature of her ordeal.
"As would be expected, plaintiff was extremely embarrassed and humiliated," the lawsuit alleged.
"For an extended period of time" other agents made jokes about the incident. "One male TSA employee expressed to the plaintiff that he wished he would have been there when she came through the first time and that 'he would just have to watch the video.'"" [...]
"Nader: US airport scanners ‘erode rights’"
[01/07/11]
"Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader said the body scans and enhanced security pat-downs at US airports are eating away at Americans' freedoms and called the agency that conducts them a
"basketcase." "The TSA is a basketcase, collectively," Nader said at the first US conference on controversial new security measures that are being rolled out at airports around the United States. [...]
Simply put, scanners don't work, said international security expert Edward
Luttwak. In a test conducted in Europe, German prison guards were instructed to sneak explosives past three different scanners, including the full-body X-ray machine currently causing such a furore in the United States,
Luttwak, a senior associate at the Center for International and Strategic Studies, said.
"They did it with such ease that the Air Travel Association, IATA, said there is no case for scanners," said
Luttwak."
"8 out of 10 Lobbyists working for TSA scanner technology previously worked in Congress"
[01/06/11]
"The companies that build futuristic airport scanners take a more old-fashioned approach when it comes to pushing their business
interests in Washington: hiring dozens of former lawmakers, congressional aides and federal employees as their lobbyists. [...]"
"As frustration grows, airports consider ditching TSA"
[01/01/11]
"... Some of the nation's biggest airports are responding to recent public outrage over security screening by weighing whether they should hire private firms such as Covenant to replace the Transportation Security Administration. Sixteen airports, including San Francisco and Kansas City International Airport, have made the switch since 2002. One Orlando airport has approved the change but needs to select a contractor, and several others are seriously considering it.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which governs Dulles International and Reagan National airports, is studying the option, spokeswoman Tara Hamilton said.
[...]"
"The TSA's state-mandated molestation"
[01/01/11]
"The ACLU maintains an ever-growing database of these indignities, many so graphic they're illegal to broadcast over public airwaves. Actions that violate FCC standards are embraced by the TSA. "Mary in Texas" reported: [...]"
"Last of Dutch Somalis in alleged terror plot freed"
[12/31/10]
"Prosecutors say the last of a group of 12 Somalis arrested in the Netherlands last week on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack has been freed. The group was taken into custody on 24 December after a tip from the country's intelligence agency and were then released in the days afterward. Prosecutors now say there is no evidence at all against nine. Three, including the man released today, remain suspects, apparently based on evidence contained in the still-secret intelligence agency file. No weapons or explosives were found in raids on their homes and businesses. The intelligence agency and Justice Ministry have say authorities acted correctly in the case, even though apparently innocent people were jailed, as security concerns outweigh other rights... [...]"
"Napolitano admits airport scanners don't work, only real benefit is to "scare" terrorists" [12/28/10]
"Napolitano dismissed those results as old and questionable and said, “Let’s set those aside.” One of the real successes of the machines and procedures, Napolitano said, is that they discourage terrorists from even trying to get on planes. [...]"
"Auditors Question TSA's Use of and Spending on Technology"
[12/24/10]
"Since its creation after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Transportation Security Administration has doled out nearly $14 billion to contractors for products and services ranging from telecommunications and computer networking to advanced passenger-screening technology. Here are the top five recipients, listed by the amount of money they contracted with the TSA for over the past nine years, as ranked by
usaspending.gov: [...]"
"TSA has no regular testing system for its
scanners" [12/24/10]
"When Andrew Schneider, AOL's public health correspondent, contacted the TSA to find out what maintenance and testing is in place to ensure the safe operation of the scanners, he discovered that the TSA appears to have no regime at all to ensure that they are functioning within normal parameters. While the TSA claims that entities like the FDA, the US Army and Johns Hopkins all regularly inspect their machines, none of these groups agrees, and they all disavow any role in regularly maintaining and testing the TSA's equipment (the Army has tested machines in three airports, but has not conducted any further testing). And Johns Hopkins denies that it has certified the machines as safe for operation in the first place -- let alone taking on any ongoing testing and certification program. [...]"
Commentary: "10,000 Child Porn Images Found On Ex-TSA Worker’s Computer"
[12/22/10]
"Yet another TSA worker has been exposed as a pedophile to add the the epidemic of cases that prove those who are inclined to work in jobs that allow them to sexually molest children via invasive groping measures at airports are the most unprofessional, perverted and criminally-minded individuals imaginable.
“A former TSA employee was arraigned on child pornography charges, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said Thursday,” reports
WCVB-TV Boston. “On Oct. 15, a search warrant was executed at Cheever’s home, where the suspected computer was registered, Leone said. As a result of the search warrant, multiple computers, hard drives and multiple pieces of external digital media were confiscated from the home, Leone said. An onsite preview of the computer and two external hard drives confirmed that Cheever was storing more than 10,000 child porn videos and images, Leone said.”
Cheever’s penchant for looking at naked pictures of children was undoubtedly a perk of the job when he applied to become a TSA screener, given the fact that body scanner images show intricate details of a person’s genitalia.
This is another alarming reminder of the fact that a statistically inflated number of people who are attracted to become TSA workers are criminally perverted.
As we previously highlighted, there is an epidemic of cases where TSA workers have been identified as rapists, sexual predators and pedophiles.
In November, “A TSA employee based at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport tried to kill himself after allegedly abducting a woman, sexually assaulting her then giving her a suicide note to deliver,” reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [...]
MSM: "Gaping Holes in Airline Security: Loaded Gun Slips Past TSA Screeners"
ABC News[12/17/10]
"...
Experts tell ABC News that every year since the September 11 terror attacks, federal agencies have conducted random, covert "red team tests," where undercover agents try to see just how much they can get past security checks at major U.S. airports. And while the Department of Homeland Security closely guards the results as classified, those that have leaked in media reports have been shocking.
According to one report, undercover TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times. A 2007 government audit leaked to USA Today revealed that undercover agents were successful slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles's LAX airport in 50 out of 70 attempts, and at Chicago's O'Hare airport agents made 75 attempts and succeeded in getting through undetected 45 times. [...]
Last month, TSA Chief John Pistole told ABC News that the poor performance during undercover tests helped convince him that airport screening needed to get that much tougher -- and a desire to do better helped give rise to the controversial new regimen that includes enhanced pat-downs and back-scatter machines that can see beneath a traveler's clothing.
"We've had a series of reports actually going back several years from the inspector general, from the General Accounting Office, and our own TSA Office of Inspection, where they do, as you describe, covert testing," Pistole acknowledged to George Stephanopoulos last month during an interview on Good Morning America. "And unfortunately, [undercover testers] have been very successful over the years. And one of the findings is that we have not been thorough enough.
[...] Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who called on the Government Accountability Office to conduct its own, independent covert tests of airport screening, decried the decision to classify the results as a
" national security secret". Grassley said on the senate floor in September. "Keeping the results secret will accomplish one thing, however. It will ensure that the public has no idea how effective our airport screening strategy actually is."
Part 2
Part
3 "
Note: Well, I guess it's not secret any more, is it, Senator
Grassley?
Related: "Paper Declares TSA Scanners Don't Work"
"Ironically, it was the purported effectiveness of the scanners that security officials touted in order to assuage concerns over the use of the invasive scanners. Two physics professors at the University of California, Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson, contend that is not the case. In a recent paper published in the Journal of Transportation Security, Kaufman and Carlson assert that the body scanners can easily be fooled. [...]
The Transportation Security Administration has undergone harsh criticism in recent months for its use of naked body scanners during screenings. The majority of the criticism has focused on the constitutionality and intrusiveness of the scanners. New studies reveal, however, that there is yet another reason to oppose the airport naked body scanners: they fail to secure airports. Fox News reports, “Any would-be terrorist can easily outsmart the ubiquitous backscatter scanners found in major airports around the world, two scientists
say. [...] ”
"TSA officer sentenced in thefts from passengers"
[12/17/10]
"A former Transportation Security Officer was sentenced Thursday to three years probation for stealing electronics from airline passengers he screened at Philadelphia International Airport, authorities said.
Troy Davis, 37, of Willingboro, confessed to stealing five laptop computers and a Play Station game in March 2009 after a baggage handler for American Airlines spotted him hide the stolen equipment behind an explosive detection machine. Davis pleaded guilty in October 2009 to theft from interstate or foreign shipments by carrier and theft by a government employee. [...]"
"Woman suing TSA over alleged invasive search at
Sunport" [12/15/10] Video clip [2:44]
"TSA - Insiders Say New Machines Have Poor Detection"
[12/10/10]
"A scientist associated with one of the body scanner manufacturers, Ronald J. Hughes, has submitted patent documents to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for various devices involved in airport screening of passengers to detect terrorist threats. In those documents, Mr. Hughes details serious failings of the x-ray body scanning equipment, including its lack of reliability to detect plastics or ceramics used in bomb making. [...]"
"Trusted Traveler Program Lets Mexicans Skip Airport Security"
[12/10/10]
"As violent drug cartels take over Mexico and expand their criminal enterprises north, the United States has signed a “trusted traveler” agreement that allows pre-screened Mexican airline passengers to bypass lengthy airport security checkpoints.
The foreigners will get “trusted traveler cards” with fingerprints and other biometric data and they must answer customs declarations questions on touch-screen kiosks before leaving airport inspection areas. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claims it’s a way to enhance information sharing and mutual security in the face of “ever-evolving, multinational threats.”
About 84 million Mexicans are expected to qualify for the trusted traveler program, according to Mexico’s Interior Ministry Secretary, who signed the agreement on behalf of his country this week. Celebrating the festive occasion, the Mexican government official assured that the new accord will facilitate the U.S. entry of business travelers and tourists who are key factors in economic development, growth of trade and cultural exchange.
Mexicans will get the perk through the U.S. government’s Global Entry Program, which allows participants to obtain security clearance by presenting a “machine-readable” passport or resident card at airport “Global Entry kiosks.” The machines issue the foreign travelers a transaction receipt and directions to baggage claim and the exit into the United States. Applying is easy. Candidates fill out an online application, provide valid identification and answer a few questions from a Customs and Border Protection officer. [...]"
"TSA refuses to release inspection reports about X-ray machine safety"
[12/09/10]
"Airports have become a minefield of health hazards, and an investigation into airport safety has revealed that radiation emitted from various scanning machines is sometimes much higher than intended, putting workers and passengers at serious risk. And while the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) insists that the machines are safe, the agency refuses to release the actual safety inspection reports to back its claim. [...]"
"Former Assistant TSA Administrator Admits That Airport Security Checkpoints Violate The Fourth Amendment"
[12/03/10]
[1:01]
"Harvard pair sue TSA over screenings"
[12/02/10]
"Two Harvard Law School students are suing the Transportation Security Administration, claiming the so-called “nude body scanners” and intrusive pat-downs used to screen airline passengers are unconstitutional.
Jeffrey Redfern and Anant Pradhan claim use of the scanners and pat-downs as primary screening methods violates their Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures. The frequent air travelers want to stop the TSA from using either without “reasonable suspicion or probable cause.”
“The abstract risk of terrorism without a credible, specific threat … does not justify the (searches),” states the suit, filed in Boston federal court.
“The enhance pat-down procedure, if done non-consensually, would amount to a
sexual assault in most jurisdictions, and the intrusion of peering under his
clothes would be similarly illegal,” the lawsuit states.
[...]"
"Watchdog Probes DHS Spying on Drudge"
Paul Joseph Watson [12/02/10]
"A Freedom of Information Act request filed by former Congressman Bob Barr seeks to discover whether the Department of Homeland Security has been keeping tabs on the Drudge Report and other prominent media outlets who have spearheaded a nationwide revolt against invasive TSA airport security measures.
The FOIA request, filed by Barr’s Liberty Guard organization (PDF here), demands that the Transportation Security Administration, an agency of the DHS, turn over all information related to “Matt Drudge,” the “Drudge Report,” along with other media personalities and websites that have been at the center of the TSA controversy, including “Alex Jones, “John Tyner” and
“prisonplanet.com”. The request seeks to ascertain whether any of these names have been linked with the term “domestic extremist,” in reference to a reported TSA memo that was leaked last week which, according to Doug
Hagmann, “officially addresses those who are opposed to, or engaged in the disruption of the implementation of the enhanced airport screening procedures as ‘domestic extremists’.”
Numerous confirmed memos originating out of federal or state law enforcement agencies, such as the infamous MIAC report, have listed conservatives and libertarians as “domestic extremists” and even potential domestic terrorists for opposing big government and supporting
Constitutionally- minded campaigns and causes. Barr’s attempt to discover whether the federal government is treating critics of the TSA as domestic extremists is key in light of TSA chief John Pistole’s announcement yesterday that all travelers flying in US airspace would be checked against a government watch list before they are given permission to board an aircraft, a system some have likened to Communist-style internal checkpoints. [...]"
"TSA Agent Admits Placing "Cocaine" In
Passengers Luggage" [12/02/10]
[6:24]
"Portland teen ensnared in FBI sting operation pleads not guilty"
[12/01/10]
"A 19-year-old college student, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, pleaded not guilty in federal court to terrorism charges stemming from an FBI sting operation against him. [...]"
Related: See "U.S. Police Arrest Teenager Seeking To Carry Out Terror Attack" [11/27/10] below.
"Fake Terror: The Road to War and Dictatorship"
[12/01/10]
"It's the oldest trick in the book; creating the enemies you need. [...]"
Related: "Why does the FBI Orchestrate Fake Terror Plots?"
"When the US government has to go to such lengths to create "terrorists" out of hapless people, an undeclared agenda is being served. What could this agenda be?
The answer is many agendas. One agenda is to justify wars of aggression that are war crimes under the Nuremberg standard created by the US government itself. One way to avoid war crimes charges is to create acts of terrorism that justify the naked aggressions against "terrorist countries."
Another agenda is to create a police state. A police state can control people who object to their impoverishment for the benefit of the superrich much more easily than can a democracy endowed with constitutional civil liberties.
Another agenda is to get rich. Terror plots, whether real or orchestrated, have created a market for security. Dual Israeli citizen Michael Chertoff, former head of US Homeland Security, is the lobbyist who represents Rapiscan, the company that manufactures the full body porno-scanners that, following the "underwear bomber" event, are now filling up US airports. [...]"
Commentary: "Canada Surrenders Sovereignty and Privacy to U.S. Secure Flight Program"
[12/01/10]
"Canada is under pressure from U.S. officials to further comply with American security rules which in some cases, threatens its sovereignty and the privacy of its citizens. As a result of the war on terrorism, the U.S. government now has more power to restrict air travel and is not only dictating North American, but also international security measures.
Bill C-42, An Act to amend the Aeronautics Act would require Canadian airline carriers that fly over the U.S. to provide the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with passenger information. This includes name, date of birth, gender, as well as passport and itinerary details when applicable. Airlines landing in the U.S. already have to supply this information, but allowing personal data to be shared on passengers who are only flying through American airspace essentially shreds existing Canadian protection and privacy laws. Bill C-42 complies with the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Secure Flight Program which would take effect globally at the beginning of next year. Most Canadian commercial flights pass over the U.S. while en route to Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe which in many cases would give the DHS the final say on who is allowed to travel to and from Canada. [...]"
"Fake Terror: The Road to War and Dictatorship"
[12/01/10]
"It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need. [...]"
"FBI Groomed Portland Suspect For Terror"
[11/30/10]
"The FBI’s elaborate sting operation that led to the arrest of Mohamed Osman Mohamud for allegedly trying to blow up a fake car bomb during a crowded Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland drew praise from many quarters. But Mohamud’s defense attorney and some Muslim leaders questioned whether the FBI tactics went too far, essentially “grooming” the 19-year-old Somali to commit a terrorist attack. [...]"
Commentary: "Unconstitutional, Time to End the Scanner Scam"
[11/30/10]
"Let’s begin with one fact. We are using expensive, dangerous and illegal scanners in our airports for one reason. A year ago, single “terrorist,” really a moronic dupe with a defective bomb in his crotch was escorted onto a plane for Detroit, no search, no passport, not even a ticket, placed on a plane by an airport security officer who is a former IDF “commando.”
These are the facts, plain and simple. The government depends on you not knowing this so you will let them either radiate you or grope you, you get to choose, next time you fly. In order to get away with this affront to decency and common sense, they hid the fact that their “terrorist act” never really happened. Everyone involved, airline personnel, security, all the video, the statements, the names of those who smuggled the “Crotch Bomber” through Schiphol Airport, all missing, vanished into thin air, along with the civil rights of over 300 million
Americans. [...]"
Related: "Why the TSA pat-downs and body scans are unconstitutional"
[11/29/10]
"In a 2006 opinion for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, then-Judge Samuel Alito stressed that screening procedures must be both "minimally intrusive" and "effective" - in other words, they must be "well-tailored to protect personal privacy," and they must deliver on their promise of discovering serious threats. Alito upheld the practices at an airport checkpoint where passengers were first screened with walk-through magnetometers and then, if they set off an alarm, with hand-held wands. He wrote that airport searches are reasonable if they escalate "in invasiveness only after a lower level of screening
disclose[s] a reason to conduct a more probing search." [...]"
Commentary: "How Hayek Would Describe TSA Goons and The Sheeple Who Support Them"
"In his classic, The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek gave several reasons why the supporters of centralized government planning, whether it is called socialism, communism, fascism, or “Homeland Security Bureaucracy” is “not likely to be formed by the best but rather by the worst elements of any society.” I thought of this recently while observing the TSA goons in action on a busy day at BWI Airport, along with some of their more obnoxious cheerleaders on television. Here’s reason #1 from Chapter 10 of The Road to Serfdom (p. 138), entitled “Why the Worst Get on Top.”: [...]"
"TSA Gropers Prone To Predatory Criminal Behavior"
[1:59]
MSM: "U.N. agency pushes new rules on air-cargo security"
[11/30/10]
"The U.N. agency that oversees aviation is pushing new guidelines for cargo security to counter al Qaeda's new mail-bomb strategy but is stopping short of calling for 100 percent screening of packages, as pilots and some U.S. lawmakers have urged.
The proposed changes by the International Civil Aviation Organization concentrate on "supply-chain security," or checking outbound shipments before they even reach the airport. A draft of new guidelines will go out to all 190 member countries in the next few weeks, the agency says.
Governments increasingly are worried about cargo security as the holiday season swells the number of packages moving around the world.
In October, militants based in Yemen tried to blow up cargo jets with 38 bombs hidden in printer cartridges. The bombs were stopped only because of a tip from Saudi intelligence officials, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole told Congress. [...]"
Related: "A
Good Exposé on Pistole"
Note: From a perspective encompassing
Matrix 5, this is an excellent, extremely well written commentary about stupid sequential, John
Pistole, and his recent royal parade around Reagan International Airport. The guy showed up for the purpose of offering his "support to his TSA 'team'" for "doing their job and keeping us all 'safe'."
This stupid sequential acts like some high school football coach, glad handing the TSA workers like they're his own personal high school football team - and boy is he proud of them, he says. This is
a VERY
'sequential' orientation. The depth of their childishness and
lack of understanding of higher matters is PROFOUND."
"U.S. Police Arrest Teenager Seeking To Carry Out Terror Attack"
[11/27/10]
"A Somali-born teenager has been arrested in the United States for attempting to detonate what he
thought was a car bomb at a public ceremony. .... Mohamud, 19, was arrested on November 26 as he called a mobile phone number he thought would ignite a bomb at a ceremony in the western U.S. state of Oregon that was attended by thousands.
The young man, caught in the city of Portland, had to be restrained during his arrest as he lashed out at agents, yelling and kicking them, said a U.S. government complaint.
The fake bomb had been provided to Mohamud by undercover agents as part of a long-term sting operation by the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies.
[...]Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen and student at Oregon State University, had been tracked since 2009 after authorities found out he was in contact with a suspected terrorist believed to be in Pakistan."
Note: Another case where a patsy was OFFERED 'what he
thought was a car bomb" in a 'safe' scenario conducted by the federal
police, later used for propaganda purposes.
Related: "Oregon: FBI Thwarts Own Car Bomb" (EXCELLENT
SUMMARY OF THE DYNAMIC) "The United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims to have thwarted their own car bomb Friday, November 26, 2010 at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon's Pioneer Courthouse Square.
A 19 year old man, Mr. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, was in contact with undercover FBI agents since June of 2010. FBI agents claim they were acting as an accomplice of a supposed Pakistani terrorist that Mr. Mohamud had been in contact with as early as 2008. Unlike the supposed Pakistani terrorist Mr. Mohamud was in contact with, the FBI actually supplied him with a bomb. [...]"
"FBI apparently set up US teen blamed for fake car bomb"
"Boy told undercover agents he could get a gun because he's a "rapper"; authored article containing "jihad" workout tips An Somali-born, American teenager was apparently set up by federal law enforcement officials who posed as radical Islamic fighters and lured the young man into a plot he believed would lead him to detonate a car [...]"
"TSA Lies About Scanner Radiation Dose: 20 Times Worse Than They Say"
James Ridgeway [11/27/10]
"On the eve of some of the busiest travel days of the year, airport scanners are causing hysteria – and with good reason. Never mind the puerile TSA screeners giggling at your naked body. It turns out that the things may pose serious health concerns. In a letter to John
Pistole, administrator of TSA, New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt, a scientist and the Chairman of the House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, raised the possibility that the machines might be carcinogenic.
In March, the Congressional Biomedical Caucus (of which I am a co-chair) hosted a presentation on this technology by TSA, as well as a briefing by Dr. David Brenner of Columbia University on the potential health effects of “back scatter” x-ray devices. As Dr. Brenner noted in his presentation and in subsequent media interviews, the devices currently in use and proposed for wider deployment this year currently deliver to the scalp “20 times the average dose that is typically quoted by TSA and throughout the industry.” [...]"
"TSA Terrorize A Disabled 4 Year Old Boy By Removing His Leg Braces, Then Forcing Him To Walk"
[11/27/10] Video clip [2:01]
MSM: "TSA SCANNERS - How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA"
[11/26/10]
"A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather.
Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and "frisk" people at distance.
The way terahertz waves are absorbed and emitted can also be used to determine the chemical composition of a material. And even though they don't travel far inside the body, there is great hope that the waves can be used to spot tumours near the surface of the skin.
With all that potential, it's no wonder that research on terahertz waves has exploded in the last ten years or so.
But what of the health effects of terahertz waves? At first glance, it's easy to dismiss any notion that they can be damaging. Terahertz photons are not energetic enough to break chemical bonds or ionise atoms or molecules, the chief reasons why higher energy photons such as x-rays and UV rays are so bad for us. But could there be another mechanism at work?
The evidence that terahertz radiation damages biological systems is mixed. "Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none," say Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and a few buddies. Now these guys think they know why.
Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they've found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication. That's a jaw dropping conclusion. [...]"
Commentary: "Police State USA: TSA Gestapo Empire"
[11/26/10]
"Before making up your mind, consider this report from antiwar.com on November 19: “TSA officials say that anyone refusing both the full body scanners and the enhanced pat down procedures will be taken into custody. Once there the detainees will not only be barred from flying, but will be held indefinitely as suspected terrorists . . . One sheriff’s office said they were already preparing to handle a large number of detainees and plan to treat them as terror suspects.”
Who is cowing Americans into submission, terrorists or the TSA Gestapo? [...]"
"TSA behavior detection officer kidnaps, rapes woman before attempting suicide"
[11/26/10]
"Randall Scott King, who has worked as a TSA behavior detection officer for nearly five years, allegedly tried to kill himself after abducting a woman, sexually assaulting her, then releasing her with a suicide note to deliver on his behalf. Police found the 49-year-old suspect inside his home (shown here) in Hogansville, Georgia, with wounds on his body. The attack is reported to have taken place on the night of November 17, 2010.
[...]"
Related: "TSA worker accused of assault did jail time for stalking, harassment"
"A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Georgia has also spent time in jail for stalking and harassment, an investigation by
WTSB-TV has found. [...]"
"TSA whistleblower in 'imminent danger'"
[11/26/10]
"The airline captain silenced for exposing TSA corruption and collaborating government agencies has issued an alert that his life is now in imminent danger.
Numerous aviation industry personnel that joined the fight to expose the TSA and high-level aviation corruption have experienced similar retaliative actions. They are attempting to inform travelers where real threats are, threats that body search human rights violations do not reveal.
My life is in imminent danger...trust me..," wrote Captain Dan Hanley.in a message posted on Facebook on November 24.
Hanley is the National Public Spokesperson of the Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association and 2010 recipient of the Restore Dignity Award. [...]
I am of information and belief that Michael Lynch, former CEO and Chairman of McCook Metals, LLC, with the assistance of local and national organizations and individuals, has turned over to civil and criminal authorities and multiple media entities material evidence confirming the existence of an alleged organized, nation-wide criminal enterprise involving officers of state and federal courts who exploit litigants for their personal financial gain and who unlawfully manipulate and exploit the judicial system at the expense of state and federal taxpayers as well as for their personal financial gain in violation of state and federal tax laws. [...] I am of information and belief that multiple judges and lawyers are aware of and/or involved in the alleged criminal acts by federal court agents. That in alleged violation of Illinois Supreme Court Code of Judicial Conduct Rule 63(B)(3)(a) and/or Rules of Professional Conduct Rules 8.3 and 8.4, these members of the bench and bar have not reported these alleged illegal acts to the appropriate authorities, thereby conspiring with the same, and/or have directly committed these alleged acts. By law, all should have their law licenses permanently revoked and/or be removed from the bench
instantly. [...] "
Commentary: "New airport-security measures don't fly with readers"
[11/26/10]
"I feel that I'm living in a parallel universe. Airline passengers are being treated like criminals. We are being subjected to full body scanners and "enhanced" pat-downs to detect bombs in our underwear because of a
2009 incident that involved a flight from Amsterdam, not from a U.S. city. But we allow our southern border with Mexico to allow more than 12 million unidentified illegal aliens to enter our country. [...]"
Commentary: "TSA Is Recruiting Employees Via Pizza Box"
[11/26/10]
"You've probably noticed that the TSA is having a pretty major PR problem. (Did you hear about the bladder cancer survivor with the urine bag that leaked all over his clothes during a pat down, who then couldn't change until after his flight? Yeah, they eventually apologized for that). Whether it's for just cause or not -- discuss amongst yourselves -- the TSA is on America's most-hated list, and nobody wants to be them.
Enter, at this juncture, the news that the company is recruiting employees...by pizza box (click the image to enlarge). We were alerted to this development by
Consumerist.com, where they note, "One would think that in these tough economic times, placing a help-wanted ad in the paper or online would be sufficient for netting employers a pile of resumes."
One would think! But, actually, this is happening in the D.C. area. In truth, it's been happening since the summer -- but it's something to get a little more fired up about now that TSA is numero uno on the shit list. A job where X-Ray vision and federal benefits come standard, indeed!
Still, everyone likes pizza, even if they don't like the TSA. Hm...this might actually be kind of brilliant. If you are someone who has decided to apply for a job with the TSA due to the ad found on your pizza box, please, get in touch. (The ads are also on gas pumps, though less successfully so, we'd venture to guess.) [...]"
"Homeland Security To Install Hundreds Of Surveillance Cameras In Houston"
[11/26/10]
"The city is installing 250 to 300 cameras at downtown intersections in an effort to prevent and fight terrorism and crime, part of a security initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The cameras, which the city began installing in earnest this summer, already have helped police catch car burglars in the act, said Dennis Storemski, the city’s director of the Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security. Eventually, he said, the cameras could be used to allow dispatchers or officers approaching a crime scene to survey what’s happening from their patrol vehicles before they arrive.
“The intent is to protect critical infrastructure and prevent terrorism,” he said. “Experience has shown that when people plan terroristic acts, they plan and they do dry runs, so what we would be looking for is suspicious activity around certain locations. And for any crimes, you can go back and look at the video and identify the perpetrators.”
More than 50 cameras already have been installed around the George R. Brown Convention Center, Discovery Green Park, the theater district and Minute
Maid Park. Every downtown intersection will be equipped with a camera. Eventually, Storemski said, the program may be expanded to include the Reliant Stadium complex, the Port of Houston, even some city parks where festivals frequently are held. [...]"
MSM: "Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed For Cashing In On Government Experience"
[11/25/10]
"After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whiskerless visage was ubiquitous on cable news. Solemnly warning that the nation needed stronger security procedures, Chertoff patiently repeated his talking points on ABC News's "World News Tonight", "Fox and Friends", CNBC's "Squawk Box" and Bloomberg TV.
Almost unmentioned in these appearances: Chertoff has a lot to gain financially if some of these measures are adopted. Between his private consulting firm, The Chertoff Group, and seats on the boards of giant defense and security firms, he sits at the heart of the giant security nexus created in the wake of 9/11, in effect creating a shadow homeland security agency. Chertoff launched his firm just days after President Barack Obama took office, eventually recruiting at least 11 top officials from the Department of Homeland Security, as well as former CIA director General Michael Hayden and other top military brass and security officials.
Chertoff's predecessor at DHS, Tom Ridge, has also parlayed his experience into a lucrative career. Since 2005, he has served on the board of Savi Technology, the primary technology provider for the Pentagon's wireless cargo-monitoring network, and he has served as a senior advisor to
TechRadium, Inc., a Texas-based security technology company. Chertoff's clients have prospered in the last two years, largely through lucrative government contracts, and The Chertoff Group's assistance in navigating the complex federal procurement bureaucracy is in high demand. One example involves the company at the heart of the recent uproar over intrusive airport security procedures --
Rapiscan, which makes the so-called body scanners. Back in 2005, Chertoff was promoting the technology and Homeland Security placed the government's first order, buying five Rapiscan scanners. [...]"
Commentary: "Your Travel Rights vs. Contract of Carriage"
Lew Rockwell [11/24/10]
"Do you contract away your rights and agree to TSA inspections when you buy an airline ticket accompanied by the Contract of Carriage? The fine print in rule 20 on page 18 says you are subject to security screening under the sole discretion of the government or airline and they are not liable for any damages done to you.
In my opinion, this contract is totally invalid. Mind you, I am not a lawyer, and I am not running a court to decide this, but if I were on a jury, I’d toss it out. Why?
The government and TSA REQUIRE the measures being implemented. The airline is reacting to that. It is covering itself, i.e., its legal liability, by presenting this so-called contract to the public. It’s covering its ass.
A true contract would be entered between two freely-contracting parties. That is not the case here, since the airlines are regulated and told what to do. Even a short perusal of what the TSA requires will convince you that the airlines have no choice. See, for example, this. There are more such requirements issued by TSA. A parallel and additional interpretation is that the airlines have joined the TSA in a cartel-like embrace. (The TSA documents say this explicitly.) In that case also the consumer is not entering an agreement freely. The other side is government, and government is setting the terms. Take it or leave it. Totalitarianism enters by a false facade of legalism.
The contract of carriage is a meaningless, phony, and empty gesture because of these facts, i.e., there is no free market here and no freely-made contract. The contract is entered into by the consumer under the duress of government power. [...]"
Related: See: "Pistole Proven Wrong That Flying Is Not a Right" [11/24/10]
below.
"Beating the TSA: How a determined passenger spent hours arguing his rights before being waved through the checks"
[11/24/10]
"It's the solution that millions of American airline passengers have been searching for - how to avoid bodyscanners and intrusive pat-downs when they fly.
Now one patient traveller has proved it is possible to bypass the high-level security measures in place at all airports, but
only if you have time on your hands. Blogger Matt Kernan recorded his epic experience.
Exasperated at being told to prepare for a body scan and with time on his hands, the determined businessman decided to make a stand - with remarkable results.
Writing on his website noblasters.com, he said: 'I certainly don’t enjoy being treated like a terrorist in my own country, but I’m also not a die-hard constitutional rights advocate.
'However, for some reason, I was irked.' [...]" MORE
on this case.
Related: See: "Profit Ties between Phony Terror Alerts, Airport Security and L-3 Communications" [11/20/10]
below, and: "The Main Argument"
[11/24/10]
[8:24]
"Color-Coded 'Terror Alerts' May Get Scrapped"
[11/24/10]
"The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country's post-9/11 jitters and the butt of late-night talk show jokes... [...]"
"Napolitano Interviews Beck on the TSA (and Ron Paul)"
[11/24/10]
[10:03]
Related: Commentary:
"Are Air Travelers Criminal Suspects?"
Ron Paul
"The growing revolt against invasive TSA practices is encouraging to Americans who are fed up with federal government encroachment in their lives. In the case of air travelers, this encroachment is quite literally physical. But a deep-seated libertarian impulse still exists within the American people, and opposition to the new TSA full body scanner and groping searches is gathering momentum.
I introduced legislation last week that is based on a very simple principle: federal agents should be subject to the same laws as ordinary citizens. If you would face criminal prosecution or a lawsuit for groping someone, exposing them to unwelcome radiation, causing them emotional distress, or violating indecency laws, then TSA agents should similarly face sanctions for their actions.
This principle goes beyond TSA agents, however. As commentator Lew Rockwell recently noted, the bill "enshrines the key lesson of the freedom philosophy: the government is not above the moral law. If it is wrong for you and me, it is wrong for people in government suits. . . That is true of TSA crimes too." The revolt against TSA also serves as a refreshing reminder that we should not give in to government alarmism or be afraid to question government policies. [...]"
"Iris Scan & Fingerprints Substituted For TSA Screening"
[11/24/10]
"An opt-in program that charges airline passengers to bypass airport security lines is being resuscitated more than two years after its abrupt shutdown. The CLEAR program re-launched in Orlando last week, and is preparing to start up in Denver.
After submitting fingerprints and iris scans, members are issued a CLEARcard with these biometric data. Kiosks at participating airports then allow them to confirm their identity and “speed through security.” [...]"
MSM: "Body scanner makers doubled lobbying cash over 5 years"
[11/24/10]
"The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying in the past five years and hired several high-profile former government officials to advance their causes in Washington, government records show.
L-3 Communications, which has sold $39.7 million worth of the machines to the federal government, spent $4.3 million trying to influence Congress and federal agencies during the first nine months of this year, up from $2.1 million in 2005, lobbying data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics show. Its lobbyists include Linda Daschle, a former Federal Aviation Administration official.
Rapiscan Systems, meanwhile, has spent $271,500 on lobbying so far this year, compared with $80,000 five years earlier. It has faced criticism for hiring Michael Chertoff, the former Homeland Security secretary, last year. Chertoff has been a prominent proponent of using scanners to foil terrorism. The government has spent $41.2 million with
Rapiscan. "The revolving door provides corporations like these with a short cut to lawmakers" and other decision-makers, said Sheila
Krumholz, of the Center for Responsive Politics. [...]"
Commentary: "Pistole Proven Wrong That Flying Is Not a Right"
[11/24/10]
"Pistole is totally wrong when he says that flying is a privilege, not a right. Flying is a means of travel, and everyone has a right to travel and to travel by a means of their choice. See my earlier
blog. I add here the following quote from a Supreme Court case (U.S. v. Guest 383 U.S. 745 (1966)): “In any event, freedom to travel throughout the United States has long been recognized as a basic right under the Constitution.”
Another US Supreme Court case, Shapiro v Thompson, 394 U.S. 618 (1969) very strongly supports the right to travel.
“‘The constitutional right to travel from one State to another . . . has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized.’ United States v. Guest, 383 U.S. 745, 757 . This constitutional right, which, of course, includes the right of ‘entering and abiding in any State in the Union,’ Truax v.
Raich, 239 U.S. 33, 39 , is not a mere conditional liberty subject to regulation and control under conventional [394 U.S. 618, 643] due process or equal protection standards. 1 ‘[T]he right to travel freely from State to State finds constitutional protection that is quite independent of the Fourteenth Amendment.’ United States v. Guest, supra, at 760, n. 17. 2 As we made clear in Guest, it is a right broadly assertable against private interference as well as governmental action. 3 Like the right of association, NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449 , it is a virtually unconditional personal right, 4 guaranteed by the Constitution to us all.”
Pistole is also wrong to say that “the government” has a role to play in public safety and specifically airline safety. The national government has no such constitutional safety role. The only time the term appears in the Constitution is where it says “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
The TSA is violating due process at every turn. They do not have warrants. They detain persons (keep them from proceeding) unless they bow to the TSA’s will and be x-rayed or molested. This detainment is assault in and of itself!"
Commentary: "The TSA, the CIA and the hidden truth about the Christmas bomber"
[11/23/10]
"It is increasingly obvious that the onerous "security" procedures at airports today are intended to promote the purchase of body scanners. Many people are talking about the links between former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and the Airport scanner industry. But Chertoff is the fall guy, and his "Chertoff Group" is actually a front for American intelligence. The scanner scandal came about as a result of last year's "crotch bomber" incident. Compelling evidence now suggests that the bomber was himself an undercover intelligence agent posing as a
jihadist. [...]"
"Gerald Celente vs. Fox & Friends on the TSA"
[11/23/10]
[3:37]
Flashback (4/10): "Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says"
[11/22/10]
"leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install "useless" imaging machines at airports across the country.
"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.
"That's why we haven't put them in our airport," Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world.
Note: Indeed. It's all about fear and profit.
Commentary: "Do not let the TSA distraction take our eyes off the Lame Duck Session in Washington"
[11/22/10]
"We hear all the outrage of people not flying over the abuses of authority of the Transportation Security Administration . What my concern is our attention being diverted from a some two or three critical pieces of legislation. Two mainly are of high priority is S-510 that is the Food Safety Modernization Act that will be a threat to small family farm and Farmers Markets. Second is the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. They do not have the votes to pass it to ratify the treaty which requires two thirds approval of the Senate.. What I see them doing like the did back in 1913 during the Christmas passing the Federal Reserve Act while Congress was heading home for the holidays. A quorum on a non business day allowed this bill to pass with a handful of congressmen and Senators present in a voice vote. They will try to ratify this UN Small Arms Treaty treaty by a voice vote a four Senators present in a voice vote with no record. This congress is involved in treachery and treason before they are sent home and giving the American People the middle finger for throwing there pathetic socialist asses out of office. If they try to ratify this treaty without a full Senate vote without everyone on record on how they
voted, the Governors and State Legislators should not recognize this treaty as valid. This manipulation of parliamentary procedure should all the states need to say
"no"to this unconstitutional treaty. Because there was no full senate vote on ratification. We need to find a way to pull the plug on this gaggle of crook and traitors. There is no reason for a
' lame duck' session."
Commentary: "TSA now needs false flag security incident to convince Americans to accept obscene pat-downs"
[11/22/10]
"With the grassroots backlash over the TSA's obscene pat-downs growing by the day, it's becoming fairly obvious that the only way the U.S. government is going to get the public to accept these Fourth Amendment violations is if there is another "terrorist incident" that's stopped by the TSA and its naked body scanners.
So far, the TSA is molesting children, teens and grannies without being able to demonstrate that this gross violation of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights is having any effect whatsoever on improving air travel safety. But if there's anything to be learned from 9/11, it's that the sheeple are always willing to give up their rights if they can be scared into doing so. [...]"
"Beck: Administration Is Setting Us Up For An "Event" So Obama Can Say "I Was Trying To Protect You""
[11/22/10]
[10:03]
"UPDATE: TSA Will Work To Make Pat-Downs Less Invasive, John Pistole Says"
[11/22/10]
"The head of the agency responsible for airport security, facing protests from travelers and pressure from the White House, appeared to give ground Sunday on his position that there would be no change in policies regarding invasive passenger screening procedures.
Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole said in a statement that the agency would work to make screening methods "as minimally invasive as possible," although he gave no indication that screening changes were imminent.
Pistole said that, as in all nationwide security programs, "there is a continual process of refinement and adjustment to ensure that best practices are applied."
Still, he pointed to the alleged attempt by a Nigerian with explosives in his underwear to try to bring down an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight last Christmas. "We all wish we lived in a world where security procedures at airports weren't necessary," Pistole said, "but that just isn't the case." [...]"
Note: Israelis let the 'underwear bomber', who was drugged, to
be put on the plane by a man in a suit .... when the 'underwear bomb'
caught on fire, the 'bomber' was said by other passengers to be surprised
and in a drowsy state ... and, the plane was already on the ground. So,
the case is being misrepresented buy the DHS/TSA as an excuse to cow the public into
submission, since it's really NOT about security.
"Chertoff Condemned on the Floor of Congress"
[11/22/10]
[7:30] "TSA head: 'We know nothing' of Chertoff's
scanner conflict of interest" [11/22/10]
[6:42]
Note: Former CIA employee CNN reporter 'Anderson
Cooper" interviews Pistole. "Proof in Chertoff's Own Words That He Has a Financial Interest in Selling Body Scanners"
Would Clinton submit to a pat-down? ‘Not if I could avoid it’
[11/22/10]
"Count Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as another traveler who is not a fan of the new security procedures at airports. CBS' Bob Schieffer asked Clinton Sunday if she would submit to a pat-down by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent. "Not if I could avoid it," she replied. "No. I mean who would?" [...]"
"TSA Work Slowdown Creating Mega Security Checkpoint Lines? (VIDEO)"
[11/22/10]
[0:25]
"TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine"
[11/22/10]
"A 61 year old bladder cancer survivor is subjected to a humiliating pat-down. The TSA is abusing its power and subjecting people to ordeals of humiliation and loss of dignity. This story will rattle you. [...]"
"George Carlin on the Ridiculousness of Scareport Security"
[11/22/10]
[7:28]
"George Carlin talks about Airport Security and its ignorance. [...]"
"Video: TSA expresses possible flexibility with screenings"
[11/22/10]
"With airports beginning to swell ahead of Thanksgiving, the TSA is signaling that change might just be in the air. NBC’s Kristen Welker reports. (Nightly News) [...]
Commentary: "TSA Nazi-like tactics should be rejected by Americans"
BY MURRAY SABRIN [11/22/10]
"My parents were the only members of their respective families who survived the Holocaust. Dad was a partisan commander in his native Poland, where he and more than 230 heroic fighters killed untold German soldiers, laid mines and attacked convoys. In 1949, my parents decided to immigrate to America so they and their children (including yours truly) would live in their new homeland — the beacon for all oppressed peoples for two hundred years — in peace and freedom.
Mom and Dad had one overriding wish in choosing to come to America; they would never have to fight Nazism ever again, especially in a land that values individual liberty. Unfortunately, despite all the constitutional protections the American people are supposed to have, the Nazification of the United States, a nation I swore to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic, when I became a citizen in 1959, is occurring because the political elites keep telling us the federal government has to use all the means at its disposal to keep our homeland safe and wage a global war against terrorism.
A brief history is in order. [...]"
Related: "TSA Tactics Find Ominous Parallel in Nazi Germany – Alex Jones Tv Sunday Edition"
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"TSA chief John Pistole to put priority on rail, subways"
[11/22/10]
"Pistole, 54, took over the TSA on July 1 after 26 years at the FBI. He said he wants to make the agency a full partner in U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
The attempted bombing of a flight over Detroit last Christmas indicates
"al-Qaeda and affiliates are still interested in doing some type of attack involving aviation," Pistole said.
Members of Congress, including House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., have pressed the TSA to put more money into mass-transit security. Thompson met with Pistole on Thursday and said the two agreed.
Thompson said he was "impressed with Pistole's knowledge of security" and with his experience at the FBI as a manager. "From that, I am confident he won't pass on making difficult decisions," Thompson said.
Deputy FBI director from 2004 until taking over the TSA, Pistole brings an extensive security and counterterrorism experience to the 60,000-person agency that was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was deeply involved in high-profile terrorism investigations, including the Christmas Day bombing attempt and the attempted car bombing in New York City's Times Square in May.
Pistole said he wants TSA workers, including 47,000 screeners at 450
airports, to operate as a "national-security, counterterrorism organization, fully integrated into U.S. government efforts."
"I want to take TSA to the next level," Pistole said. Pistole is President Obama's first TSA chief. [...]"
"Buying a Car a Little Harder Now: Terror Check Required For Financing" [11/22/10]
"If you're in the market for a car, be prepared to prove you are not a terrorist.
The federal government's Red Flags Rule mandates that auto dealers, banks, credit unions and other "creditors" and "financial institutions" take additional steps to prevent identity theft and fraud, beginning Jan. 1. Included in the list of so-called creditors is your family doctor.
Among those steps is determining whether a person applying for financing - or even paying cash for a car - appears on any government watch lists of known or suspected terrorists or terrorist organizations.
As a result, consumers hoping to finance a new or used car, a home or even a major appliance will be required to supply personal information - such as their Social Security number and birth date, as well as the answers to five questions designed to confirm a customer is who they say they are - to the business at the time of the sale. Those questions could include anything from previous addresses and area codes to the names of other members of the consumer's household. [...]"
"Officials get to skip TSA screens"
[11/21/10]
"Members of Congress get to opt-out of airport security altogether. Representative John A. Boehner, soon to be the Speaker of the House, has pledged to fly commercial airlines back to his home district in Ohio. But that does not mean that he will be subjected to the hassles of ordinary passengers, including the controversial security pat-downs.
As he left Washington on Friday, Mr. Boehner headed across the Potomac River to Reagan National Airport, which was bustling with afternoon travelers. But there was no waiting in line for Mr. Boehner, who was escorted around the metal detectors and body scanners, and taken directly to the gate.
Mr. Boehner, who was wearing a casual yellow sweater and tan slacks, carried his own bags and smiled pleasantly at passengers who were leaving the security checkpoint inside the airport terminal. It was unclear whether any passengers waiting in the security line, including Representative Allen Boyd, a Florida Democrat who lost his re-election bid, saw Mr. Boehner. [...]"
Investigations: "Profit Ties between Phony Terror Alerts, Airport Security and L-3 Communications"
[11/20/10]
"Since September 11, 2001, our government has been operating with a demand for the understanding of the people. We, as part of this demand, are to allow for certain limitations of our liberty in order to gain a certain level of security. But, given the questionable nature of what are likely exaggerated threats, coupled with Congressional enrichment from these expensive security technologies, the U.S. public is losing both liberty and security, as well as money.
Former director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge revealed details about how the terrorism alerts were used. Among other things, Ridge admits that he was pressured to raise the terror alert to help Bush win re-election in 2004. According to the Associated Press, “He said the episode convinced him to follow through with his plans to leave the administration; he resigned on Nov. 30, 2004.”
Now, since his election, President Obama has made sure that he could also utilize increased terror alerts for his own political ends. Indeed, on October 30, 2010, the president used terror scares involving packages on UPS flights that evidence is suggesting were fabricated. [...]
Airport Security Contractors Have Ties To Policy Makers: L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (not L-3 Communications Corp.) is a defense contractor whose primary interest is creating security scanner devices for commercial airports, detention facilities, postal facilities and government buildings. Many are familiar with their most recent and most controversial product using advanced imaging technology
(AIT). Their ProVision scanner can be seen at many airports and in some correctional facilities. While TSA officials claim that images created by the scanners are immediately discarded, according to CNET News, the exact opposite is true. Tens of thousands of images have been stored and transmitted to other agencies.
L-3’s annual sales are in the $14 “B”illion dollar neighborhood, and their primary customer is the US Taxpayer. The board has some very well connected people on it. Lead Director Robert B. Millard receives paychecks from a number of activities. Two of these activities include his seat on private organizations that influence government policy: The Population Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. Through the Population Council, he has access to Justin Rockefeller as well as Senator Jay Rockefeller. [...]
"
"Poll: 96 percent of travelers changing plans due to new airport scanning, pat-down procedures"
[11/20/10]
"U.S. airports just got a whole lot more invasive with recent announcements by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that new "enhanced" pat-down procedures will become the norm for travelers who opt out of complying with full-body naked imaging scans. But a recent Reuters poll shows that, as of this writing, an astounding 96 percent of travelers plan to make alternate travel plans to avoid this gross invasion of privacy.
Over 73,000 people have responded to the survey thus far, and although it is a simple internet poll, it speaks volumes about how people feel about the new procedures. And over the past several months, these procedures have gotten progressively worse, as the pat-downs have morphed into a form of full-blown sexual assault. [...]"
Internet:
"Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill"
[11/20/10]
"It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet.
A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor the Internet will not pass this year thanks to the Oregon Democrat, who announced his opposition during a recent committee hearing. Individual Senators can place holds on pending legislation, in this case meaning proponents of the bill will be forced to reintroduce the measure and will not be able to proceed until the next Congress convenes.
Even then, its passage is not certain. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) would have permitted a blanket takedown of any domain alleged to be assisting activities that violate copyright law, based upon the judgment of state attorneys general.
"Deploying this statute to combat online copyright infringement seems almost like using a bunker-busting cluster bomb, when what you need is a precision-guided missile," Wyden said. [...]"
Related: "The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet"
"This is hardly a surprise but, this morning (as previously announced), the lame duck Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to move forward with censoring the internet via the COICA bill — despite a bunch of law professors explaining to them how this law is a clear violation of the First Amendment. What’s really amazing is that many of the same Senators have been speaking out against internet censorship in other countries, yet they happily vote to approve it here because it’s seen as a way to make many of their largest campaign contributors happy. There’s very little chance that the bill will actually get passed by the end of the term but, in the meantime, we figured it might be useful to highlight the 19 Senators who voted to censor the internet this morning: [...]"
Commentary:
" ‘Anti-TSA’ American Commies "
LINK FIXED [11/20/10]
"In the good old days of Hungarian communism, the “happiest barrack in the camp” existed tenuously as a Western-financed bubble wherein the unworkable centrally planned economy was propped up by Western loans (which for the most part enriched the
nomenklatura) under the condition that the Commies in charge loosen their political grip a little, for appearances sake. Being clever, the communist leadership simply created out of whole cloth a “democratic opposition” of “former” commies who could actually support the regime by challenging it. Define the limits of debate so as to deny any real anti-communists a place at the table, thereby managing the eventual political transition and enriching themselves in the process. A brilliant plan and it for the most part worked.
How does this relate to the dangerously grassroots opposition to TSA’s new pro-sexual assault policy?
One of the prime drafters of the legislation creating the TSA is taking his place as the leader of the opposition “against” the TSA, trying to nudge from any place at the table
real opponents of the TSA and the national security state. The goal of course, as was the goal of the Hungarian communists above, is to make sure any opposition to the system is contained within “reasonable” boundaries, i.e. that no matter what happens the state is in control.
Hence the statists’ proposal to “privatize” the TSA’s “gate rapes” to
federally-approved Blackwater-type security firms, cutting out the unions and enriching Republican party donors in the
process. And your next airport security screener, whose salary is now three times the salary of the old TSA screener, may well have had a few tours at Abu Ghraib under his belt. Enjoy your opt-out! [...]"
"TSA Takes Nail Clippers From Gun-Toting Soldier"
[11/20/10]
"Another day, another tale of the seeming absurdity of airport security. This one comes from a soldier coming home from Afghanistan on a military charter plane. The troops aboard the plane all went through security at Baghram Air Field, the soldier says in an email to
RedState, passing through full-body scanners and having their bags inspected by bomb-sniffing dogs. Yet when the plane stopped in Indianapolis to let 100 National Guard members off, the TSA insisted on re-searching all the passengers. “It’s probably important to mention that we were ALL carrying weapons,” the soldier writes.
“All of us were carrying actual assault rifles, and some of us were also carrying pistols,” though they weren’t loaded, and everyone had already been searched for ammo. Yet when the TSA found nail clippers on one of the soldiers, they insisted on confiscating them. “You can’t take those on the plane,” the TSA official said. “They can be used as a weapon.” When the solider replied that he was permitted to take an actual weapon on the plane, the agent replied, "Yeah but you can’t use it to take over the plane. You don’t have bullets." Asked the soldier, "And I can take over the plane with nail clippers?" Apparently. He reboarded without them ... but with his weapon, along with 232 other gun-toting fliers. [...]"
"Secretary of Transportation LaHood: We’re looking into technology to disable cell phones in vehicles"
[11/19/10]
"Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said using a cell phone while driving is so dangerous that devices may soon be installed in cars to forcibly stop drivers — and potentially anyone else in the vehicle — from using them.
The hosts of Morning Joe pushed the secretary about the possibility of requiring scrambling technology installed in vehicles.
LaHood has called distracted driving an “epidemic” and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says about 5,000 people a year, or about
.001 percent of the U.S. population, die as a result of it. In 2009, however, the NHTSA found that highway fatalities were at the lowest levels since the 1950s. At the time, Lahood applauded the announcement but vowed he “would not rest” until the roads were even safer.
“Am I on a rampage,” said LaHood, who has made distracted driving a top priority of his tenure, in February 2010. “Yes, I am, and why shouldn’t I be?” [...]"
Note: After being told that fatalities are at their lowest,
this idiot goes delusional. A stupid sequential, dumber than a stone, with
nothing to do but IMPOSE himself on others through his paltry thoughts. It's
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, Ray!
"Napolitano to exempt some
Muslims from body scans; defends their use for everyone else" [11/19/10]
"Facing mounting criticism and pushback from fliers over increasingly invasive procedures to ostensibly protect U.S. travelers, Janet Napolitano is defending the use of body scans or body pat downs for all travelers - except for some Muslims. The use of body scans or body pat downs applies to passengers and pilots alike, but not for Muslim women, who would be exempted from the full procedure and require only a limited pat down in the head and neck area, or
optionally a self pat-down in the head and neck area. If non-Muslim women want to avoid the intrusive scanning and pat-down procedures, could they simply declare themselves Muslim?
Here's an idea that the TSA might like: increase the scanning intensity or add cavity searches for non-Muslim-women; maybe that would help make up for the plastic explosives or other dangerous items hiding beneath Muslim women's
burqas. However by no means should TSA use intelligence, as Israel does, to keep travelers safe. That might offend someone. [...]"
Related: "TSA Can Only Pat Down Muslim Women’s Head, Neck"
"The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued a travel notice to Muslim airline passengers, warning them that new regulations from the Transportation Security Administration violate certain religious rules.
According to CAIR, the TSA’s new “enhanced pat down” policy should be limited to searching only around Muslim women’s head and neck if they are wearing a hijab and that Muslims objecting to the enhanced full-body scans have the right to request the pat-down procedure be done in a private place. [...]"
Note: So, it's NOT about anyone 'hiding' anything. It's
about fucking with people.
"Scanners – The Prequel"
[11/19/10]
"How did we get to the point of full body scans at airports, the massive personal intrusion that represents, and the tens of millions spent for machines that irradiate us as a consequence of merely flying from here to there?
The proximate cause is the attempted bombing of a December 25, 2009 Northwest airlines flight. Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, an engineering student, attempted to mix, then detonate a bomb as Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam made its descent to Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport. Mr. Abdulmutallab somehow got on the flight with the chemicals undetected, hidden in his underwear. (Image)
There was furor followed by calls for tighter airport security. Specifically, Michael Chertoff, former Bush Homeland Security chief, claimed full body scanners were the solution. One thing led to another and here we are today. Full body scanners are in
68 airports and planned for 1,000 across the United States by the end of
2011. Those who refuse the full body scans will be subject to “pat-downs, which include searches of passengers’ genital areas.” [...]"
Note: Somehow, I see this sequentially imposed fiasco falling
apart.
"The One Stop Shop For Your Official TSA Groping Guide Shirt!"
[11/19/10]
Note: "Some group created a tee shirt. I think it's too tame, and should be more funny
- something to the effect of: "If you are going to touch me here (arrow), you will need to buy me dinner, AND if you're not good looking enough for me, you can just give me the money for the dinner;" OR ... "Please stroke lightly in a counterclockwise direction using thumb and index finger if you are going to touch here - you can stop when I tell you to;" OR ... "If you touch anything below this line (arrow) you could wind up serving jail time and/or my father/boyfriend/girlfriend (pick one) who has nothing more to lose will deal with you at a later date of his or her choosing. Do not say you were not warned." OR how about, "You touch my kid, and I will have you arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. You will go to prison and someone will make you their BITCH."
"Disobedience Is The True Foundation Of Liberty "
[11/19/10]
[4:06]
"Judge Napolitano weighs in. [...]"
MSM: "City councilors move to ban
'porno scanners' from NYC airports"
[11/19/10]
"Four New York City councilors have proposed legislation that would ban the TSA's full-body scanners from airports inside New York City, in a sign that lawmakers around the country are heeding calls from travelers outraged at the federal government's intrusive new airport screenings.
If successful, the move could affect airport screenings at JFK, the country's biggest airport for international flights, as well as the busy LaGuardia Airport.
"Just think about whats happening in our community. The next time you want to [fly] they want to force you to go through a machine that literally shows your naked body to a TSA employee. It's an outrage, it's unacceptable, it's ineffectual," city councilor David Greenfield told
Yeshiva World
News. [...] Municipal politicians in New York City aren't the only ones who are taking steps to fight the TSA's new procedures. The New Jersey state legislature is considering a resolution calling on the TSA to stop using the body scanners. The Senate's commerce committee held hearings on the matter earlier this week.
The city councilors pushing a New York-wide ban point to the example of Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport, considered to have the best airport security in the world, as proof that body scanners and intrusive pat-downs involving the touching of breasts and genitals aren't needed to secure the skies.
"Everybody knows Ben Gurion airport in Israel is the most secure and the top terrorist target in the world. Their former head of security has said these naked body scanners do not work and that he himself could get through enough explosives to take down a jumbo jet." Greenfield said.
He was referring to Rafi Sela, who told Canadian parliamentarians in April: "I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing
747. [...]"
"The TSA is out of control"
[11/19/10]
[9:29] TSA agent at LAX gets arrested, saying "I'm God" ...
I'm in charge" .. and more stories....
Related: "TSA Gone Wild: Airport Thugs Are Out Of Control - Alex Jones
Tv"
6 Video clips and related videos on this subject. "Woman Claims Sexual Assault By TSA Agent"
[1:01]
Alex Jones:
"DA Now Sending Deputies to SF Airport to Investigate Felony Groping"
[11/18/10]
[15:01] "Homeland Security has used 9/11 as a precursor to eradicate individual rights. TSA, an extension of Homeland Security, has been upping the ante with their new groping procedures. A nationwide backlash is standing up to this organization and saying 'enough is enough'.
One such voice is that of Steve Wagstaffe, DA of San Mateo County in California. The District Attorney has announced that his office will pursue cases of abuse perpetrated by government officials who grope travelers in the name of national security."
Note:
"Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, incoming chief deputy DA of San Mateo Steve Wagstaffe said his office will prosecute TSA employees who engage in lewd and lascivious behavior while conducting Homeland Security mandated
pat-downs at the San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County. “The case would be reviewed and if we could prove the elements of it, that it was inappropriately done with a sexual or lewd intent, that person would be prosecuted,” Wagstaffe told the
Berman Post on Tuesday.
Wagstaffe told Alex Jones that county police will be sent to into the San Francisco International Airport. If they witness TSA employees engaged in criminal conduct, they will make arrests and the DA’s office will prosecute. Sexual battery in Mateo County is a felony if the molestation occurs beneath clothing and makes contact with skin and a misdemeanor if the touching occurs outside clothing.
The new government mandated hands-on searches are used for passengers who find naked body inappropriate, when something suspicious appears in screening, or randomly. They can take two minutes per passenger and involve sliding of the hands along the length of the body, along thighs and near the groin and breasts,
according to the Associated
Press. In addition, a district attorney in the county south of San Mateo, Santa Clara, told Wagstaffe his office will also prosecute TSA employees for inappropriate sexual behavior at the San Jose International Airport.
Since the new search procedures went into effect, the web has exploded in opposition to naked body scanners and intrusive
patdowns. Reports posted by the The Drudge Report, Infowars.com, and Prison Planet.com have gone viral on the internet and forced the mainstream corporate media to cover the issue.
“Nationwide outrage against the TSA is not only bringing to light new cases of airport abuse, it’s throwing fresh attention on previous incidents that have been going on for years,”
Paul Joseph Watson wrote
on Wednesday. Watson notes several lawsuits initiated against the TSA, including one connected to a 2008 incident at the Corpus Christi airport where the TSA exposed a young woman’s breasts.
Coverage of TSA groping and public outrage has resulted in airports around the country reconsidering the procedures.
Earlier today, Orlando Sanford International Airport decided to opt out from TSA screening. Larry Dale, the director of the Sanford Airport Authority in Florida, said he will send a letter requesting to opt out from TSA screening, and instead the airport will choose one of the five approved private screening companies to take over, according to central
Florida’s
WDBO. “The outcry is huge,” Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison told the TSA administrator, John
Pistole, at a Capitol Hill hearing yesterday. “I know that you’re aware of it. But we’ve got to see some action.”[...]"
Related: MSM: "Florida airport to opt out of TSA screening"
"The backlash continues over those new TSA screening measures, and now one Central Florida airport has decided to go with a private security screening firm.
Orlando Sanford International Airport has decided to opt out from TSA screening... [...]"
Note 2: Placing
these devices at airports has NOT be authorized YET by Congress, so
that all these are there illegally. Chertoff
Group and George
Soros profited from this scam. It is a matter of record that Chertoff
promoted these body scanners BEFORE the 'underwear bomber' was ever let on the
plane by Israeli security at the airport in Amsterdam, and that the US DHS
used the 'underwear bomber' case to justify the scanners later. Even the
Israelis state that the body scanners are useless, underlining the FACT
that this is all a scam to terrorize the American public and make profit from
social terror.
"Ron Paul to
TSA: Enough is Enough! Citizens Treated Like Cattle" [11/18/10]
[5:29]
"Ron Paul introduced legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration
(TSA) employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports. Ron Paul’s new anti-TSA legislation enshrines the key lesson of the freedom philosophy: the government is not above the moral law. If it is wrong for you and me, it is wrong for people in government suits, too. That includes bombing, kidnapping, stealing, and counterfeiting, and calling these acts war, conscription, taxation, and monetary policy does not change their essence. That is true of TSA crimes too.[...]"
"Ron Paul’s Anti-TSA Legislation"
[11/18/10]
"Ron Paul introduces HR 6416, the American Traveler Dignity Act: Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and
emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports. We have seen the
videos of terrified children being grabbed and probed by airport screeners. We have read the stories of Americans being subjected to humiliating
body imaging machines and/or forced to have the most intimate parts of their bodies poked and fondled. We do not know the potentially harmful
effects of the radiation emitted by the new millimeter wave machines. In one recent well-publicized case, a TSA official is recorded during an
attempted body search saying, “By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights.” I strongly disagree and am sure I am not alone in believing that
we Americans should never give up our rights in order to travel. As our Declaration of Independence states, our rights are inalienable. This TSA
version of our rights looks more like the “rights” granted in the old Soviet Constitutions, where freedoms were granted to Soviet citizens — right up
to the moment the state decided to remove those freedoms. [...] Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same
conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every
cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same
degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries. I warned at the time of the creation of the TSA that an unaccountable
government entity in control of airport security would provide neither security nor defend our basic freedom to travel. Yet the vast majority of
both Republicans and Democrats then in Congress willingly voted to create another unaccountable, bullying agency– in a simple-minded and
unprincipled attempt to appease public passion in the wake of 9-11. Sadly, as we see with the steady TSA encroachment on our freedom and
dignity, my fears in 2001 were justified. The solution to the need for security at US airports is not a government bureaucracy. The solution is to
allow the private sector, preferably the airlines themselves, to provide for the security of their property. As a recent article in Forbes magazine
eloquently stated, “The airlines have enormous sums of money riding on passenger safety, and the notion that a government bureaucracy has
better incentives to provide safe travels than airlines with billions of dollars worth of capital and goodwill on the line strains credibility.” In the
meantime, I hope we can pass this legislation and protect Americans from harm and humiliation when they choose to travel."
"TSA Unionization: A $ 30 Million Annual Gift to Union Bosses"
[11/18/10]
"Now, the Transportation Security Agency’s blue shirts who are doing Janet Napolitiano’s bidding frisking, groping, molesting and seemingly sexually
assaulting the American public, are about to get license for further abuse—a union card. In a significant victory for federal employee unions, the
Federal Labor Relations Authority decided Friday that Transportation Security Administration staffers will be allowed to vote on union
representation. The decision clears the way for a campaign by the government’s two largest labor organizations, the American Federation of
Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union, to represent some 50,000 transportation security officers. It was bound to
happen. Before it became an agency known as Fourth Amendment violators, due to its critical national security responsibilities, the TSA was
created in 2001as a non-union agency. [...]"
"New Jersey Legislators Take on the
TSA" [11/18/10]
"Senator Michael J. Doherty (R-Hunterdon, Warren) and Senator James Beach (D-Camden) today announced they will present resolutions to the
Senate and Assembly calling on the U.S. Congress to end TSA screening procedures requiring full body scans and pat downs at U.S. airports Their
action comes in response to widespread concerns over privacy and radiation, as well as reports of inappropriate conduct by TSA agents during the
screening process. The pursuit of security should not force Americans to surrender their civil liberties or basic human dignity at a TSA
checkpoint,” said Doherty. “Subjecting law-abiding American citizens to naked body scans and full body pat downs is intolerable, humiliating,
vulnerable to abuse, and is fast becoming a disincentive to travel. Particularly concerning to us is the fact that physical searches result in children
being touched in private areas of the body. Terrorists hate America because of the freedoms upon which this great nation was built. By
implementing these screening measures, the TSA has already handed a victory to those who seek to destroy our freedoms.” [...]" Video clip
[12:21]
Related: "Colbert on the TSA Scanners"
"Colbert interviewed Jeffrey Goldberg (read about his ), and has a great introductory monologue:
"The Things He Carried: 2008 tests of the
TSA" Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get
through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease. [...]"
"Rep. Duncan Blasts TSA "Pat Downs," Scanners on House
Floor" | "TSA Chief Faces Lawmakers On Pat-Downs, Body Scans"
"The alternative news has made it IMPOSSIBLE for the corporate media to ignore the intrusive naked body scanners. This story has gone ultra viral,
with thousands of American citizens demanding that their genitals not be fondled by low IQ TSA Mongrels. The head of the Transportation
Security Administration Wednesday defended his agency’s security procedures, telling lawmakers it is “using technology and protocols to stay
ahead of the [terrorist] threat and keep you safe.” John Pistole’s testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and
Transportation follows a controversy that broke out over the past week about the agency’s full body scans and pat-downs.
[...]"
"Cook County Jail: Taxpayers to shell out for $55 mil. strip-search settlement"
[11/18/10]
"Taxpayers will pay the bulk of a $55 million settlement with Cook County Jail inmates who won a federal lawsuit over illegal strip-searching
practices. Cook County commissioners approved the settlement Tuesday morning. It includes $45 million from the county’s coffers and another
$10 million covered by the county’s insurance. According to county records, as many as 400,000 inmates could step forward to claim a piece of
the settlement. County officials said payouts for each individual could hover
around the $1,000 mark. In August 2009, a federal jury ruled that Cook County Jail employees broke the law in the way they conducted strip-searches of inmates between 2004 and 2009. The jury found that the
strip-searches were unconstitutional because they were discriminatory against men, that the strip-searches were used as a form of sexual
degradation and that they constituted an unreasonable search. That includes the discontinued practice of strip-searching men side by side in
groups. Body-scanning machines are now at the jail, which houses 10,000 inmates. [...]"
"DHS Source: TSA Infuriated With Coverage Of Nationwide Backlash"
[11/18/10]
"A Department of Homeland Security source has told CNN that the TSA is infuriated with the attention the media has given to the nationwide
backlash against naked body scanners and aggressive new airport pat down procedures. During an appearance on CNN’s Anderson Cooper, TSA
chief John Pistole attempted to downplay CNN’s Homeland Security source who told them that the TSA was “angry” with the media’s coverage of
the issue and also fuming at the portrayal of the “don’t touch my junk” guy as a “folk hero”. Pistole also ludicrously claimed that TSA workers were
“professionals in terms of how they carry out their business,” despite a deluge of stories about TSA officials abusing, sexually assaulting and
humiliating travelers, including a case currently the subject of a lawsuit where TSA goons pulled down a 21-year-old woman’s blouse before
laughing and joking about her exposed breasts. Pistole also parroted Janet Napolitano’s discredited claim that Johns Hopkins University declared the
naked radiation scanners to be safe, despite the fact that just three days ago Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray lab at the department of
biophysics and biophysical chemistry at the Johns Hopkins school of medicine told AFP that “statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from
these X-rays”. [...]"
Note: Video clip
[6:42]
"Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening"
[11/17/10]
"Did you know that the nation's airports are not required to have Transportation Security Administration screeners checking passengers at security checkpoints? The 2001 law creating the TSA gave airports the right to opt out of the TSA program in favor of private screeners after a two-year period. Now, with the TSA engulfed in controversy and hated by millions of weary and sometimes humiliated travelers, Rep. John Mica, the Republican who will soon be chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, is reminding airports that they have a choice.
Mica, one of the authors of the original TSA bill, has recently written to the heads of more than 150 airports nationwide suggesting they opt out of TSA screening. "When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees," Mica writes. "As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law."
In addition to being large, impersonal, and top-heavy, what really worries critics is that the TSA has become dangerously ineffective. Its specialty is what those critics call "security theater" -- that is, a show of what appear to be stringent security measures designed to make passengers feel more secure without providing real security. "That's exactly what it is," says Mica. "It's a big Kabuki dance."
Now, the dance has gotten completely out of hand. [...]"
"Feds saved over 35,000 nude scans from just one Florida courthouse"
[11/17/10]
"In light of flaring controversy over the Transportation Security Administration's enhanced pat-downs and nude body scan imaging systems, officials have continued to stress that detailed photographs of passengers' anatomy are not saved and do not get passed around.
But, that's not true in all cases. An attorney for the US Marshals admitted in August that over 35,000 images from a body scanner in an Orlando, Florida courthouse were recorded and stored.
Tech blog Gizmodo published 100 of the images on Tuesday, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, noting that marshals had "mismanaged" the machine. The photos are not of a graphic nature as they were taken using a less advanced scanning method than what's generally employed in airports. [...]"
"George Soros also profiting off controversial new TSA scanners"
[11/17/10]
"Be sure and read Tim Carney’s Examiner column today on the politically-connected lobby for the controversial new TSA scanners that are upsetting airline employees and travelers everywhere. Carney notes that a company called Rapiscan got a $165 million contract for the new body image scanners four days after the underwear-bomber incident this past Christmas. Not surprisingly, Rapiscan is politically connected, observes Carney: Rapiscan got the other naked-scanner contract from the
TSA, worth $173 million. Rapiscan’s lobbyists include Susan Carr, a former senior legislative aide to Rep. David Price,
D-N.C., chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee. When Defense Daily reported on Price’s appropriations bill last winter, the publication noted “Price likes the budget for its emphasis on filling gaps in aviation security, in particular the whole body imaging systems.”
Then this morning Carney also noted that former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff was flacking for
Rapiscan. As for the company’s other political connections, it also appears that none other than George Soros, the billionaire funder of the country’s liberal political infrastructure, owns 11,300 shares of OSI Systems Inc., the company that owns
Rapiscan. Not surprisingly, OSI’s stock has appreciated considerably over the course of the year. Soros certainly is a savvy investor. [...]"
Note: See below for related stories.
Commentary: "Fear and Control at the Airport"
[11/15/10]
"The National Journal reports some of the truth about the
porno-tron and the dirty feel-ups, while acting as a transmission belt for the usual lies from Napolitano and
Pistole. (Janet: her naked scanners “protect passenger privacy” and the gropes are “discreet.”) However, the TSA is clearly anxious to make a deal with the pilots to sell out the people. But if airline workers–like Napolitano,
Pistole, and other officials–are to be spared the police state while passengers are not, this will only increase anti-airline and anti-flying sentiment. On the other hand, as I once heard an ex-Republican congressman advocate, many fascisti want the airlines nationalized and travel restricted to officials, big businessmen, media stooges, and other corporate state types. All in the name of public safety, of course."
Related: "Daedalus Shrugged: The Mounting Resistance to the TSA's Grope Gauntlet"
"...
The function of any "security" checkpoint, as Richard Ben Cramer observes in his valuable book How Israel Lost, "is to show who's boss." [...]
U.S. Attorney Steven Bispukic piled on, protesting that TSA officers, who perform a "vital
function, "are "entitled to protection from assault" -- that is, they're entitled to "protection" from the same treatment they inflict on their betters. It's difficult to find a better illustration of the principle that
government is simply a criminal syndicate that has achieved
impunity.[...] .... Exhibit A is a former TSA employee known as Robert Joe Harrison Jr. who was a TSA security screener in Ketchum, Idaho.
In April 2006, Harrison was arrested by the local police after he had brought home a 10-year-old boy whom he had enticed into his pickup truck. After they arrived at Harrison's home, the adult put in a movie and left the room. The youngster quite sensibly bolted the premises, fled to his home and and described the incident to his mother, who called the police.
When police searched Harrison's apartment, they found (in the words of an MSNBC report) found "four additional Social Security numbers and documents showing four other dates of birth." The TSA hired Harrison (as I'll call him for the sake of convenience) without even establishing his actual name and identity. [...]
"
Exposé:
"Attorney with multiple constitutional claims confirms orders for nude body scanners come straight from the top"
WND
[11/15/10]
"A constitutional attorney preparing to legally challenge the Transportation Security Administration's enhanced screening procedures – which reveal a virtually nude image of passengers – says airline passengers have Barack Obama to thank for the process.
"Legislation has been proposed to mandate full-body scanners and make them the primary screening method in all U.S. airports by 2013, but
Congress has yet to act on it," John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, wrote in a new commentary.
"So we can thank President Obama for this frontal assault on our Fourth Amendment rights. Mind you, this is the same man who insisted that 'we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans,'" Whitehead said. [...]
Whitehead told WND he's working on assembling numerous allegations regarding the constitutionality of the scanners in light of the Fourth Amendment's provision that 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."
"It's a huge civil liberties issue," he told WND. "In the United States, we've never before strip-searched – full-body strip searches – unless there's reasonable suspicion of some kind of criminal activity."
For the third straight day, TSA officials declined to respond to WND requests for comment or explanation.
" So, Congress never authorized scanners to be at airports ...
they're there illegally ...
"After Encounter with
TSA, Man Decides Not to Fly, Government Goon Threatens to Sue for $10,000"
[11/14/10]
"[These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired, and they are correct to the best of my recollection. I will admit to being particularly fuzzy on the exact order of events when dealing with the agents after getting my ticket refunded; however, all of the events described did occur.
I had my phone recording audio and video of much of these events. It can be viewed below.
Please spread this story as far and wide as possible. I will make no claims to copyright or otherwise.] [...]"
3 Video clips The comments are
priceless. The sequential TSA dullards are especially stupid and tied into
their hierarchies.
TSA:
"DHS chief tells pilot, tourism reps scans and
pat-downs will continue" [11/13/10]
"In a hastily-called emergency meeting at the White House today, DHS director Janet Napolitano told representatives from the most powerful pilot’s union as well as the travel & tourism lobbies that despite the backlash of concerns about airport security, TSA’s use of invasive body scanners and humiliating
pat-downs, including the groping of passenger’s breasts and genitals, would continue. The frustrated executives were anything but satisfied by her statements.
Geoff Freeman, Executive Vice President for the U.S. Travel Association, walked away from the meeting stating that it was “not entirely reassuring.” With tangible irritation, he commented, “We understand the challenge DHS confronts but the question is where we draw the line.”
The ramped up security measures have set off what Freeman says are hundreds of calls from travelers threatening not to fly. A whole range of interconnected tourism industries are concerned about the detrimental effect of security on business and travel. The airlines estimate that they’ve lost $9.4 billion in revenue due to “avoided” travel. Further, a 2008 survey found that 41 million potential fliers stayed home due to concerns about a “broken” or badly impaired system.
Travel-related industries are particularly concerned that the onset of a ‘travel revolt’ and a flurry of news coverage about groping and molestation occurrences at check points have come right before the holidays, the heaviest travel season of the year. Citizen groups have advocated either not flying or refusing to go through the body scanners. A “National Opt Out Day” protest has been coordinated on Nov. 24, the day before Thanksgiving, traditionally the busiest single day for air travel of the entire year.
[...] In truth, the security measures have not been put in place to curb terrorism—major media outlets have reported on the fact that in TSA’s nine year history, it has failed to stop even one
'terrorist'. Instead, the economic and privacy costs of security are shifted directly into the private security complex. Michael Chertoff authorized contracts for the body scanners and other security technology during his reign as head of Homeland Security, only to benefit directly from multi-billion dollar contracts as an industry representative and lobbyist for the body scanners after leaving the Bush Administration."
Related: "Michael Chertoff's Company Manufactures TSA Naked Scanners"
[11/13/10]
"Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports.
What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency,
includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program
Wednesday, in response to a question. [...]"
Flashback:
"Group slams Chertoff on scanner promotion"
[01/02/10]
"An airport passengers’ rights group on Thursday criticized Chertoff’s use of his former government credentials to advocate for a product that benefits his clients.
“Mr. Chertoff should not be allowed to abuse the trust the public has placed in him as a former public servant to privately gain from the sale of full-body scanners under the pretense that the scanners would have detected this particular type of explosive,’’ said Kate
Hanni, founder of FlyersRights.org, which opposes the use of the scanners.
Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners - five from California-based Rapiscan Systems. Rapiscan is one of only two companies that make full-body scanners in accordance with current contract specifications required by the federal government.
Currently 40 body scanners are in use among 19 US airports. The number is expected to skyrocket, at least in part because of the Christmas Day incident. The Transportation Security Administration has said it will order 300 more machines.
In the summer, TSA purchased 150 more machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. Rapiscan was the only company that qualified for the contract because it had developed technology that performs the screening using a less-graphic body imaging system, which is also less controversial. (Since then, another company, L-3 Communications, has qualified for future contracts, but no new contracts have been awarded.) [...]"
TSA: "Child rape charge rocks
TSA" [11/13/10]
" A Transportation Security Agency worker who pats down members of the flying public was charged with multiple child sex crimes targeting an underage girl yesterday.
The bust outraged privacy and passenger advocates who say it justifies their fears about Logan International Airport’s full-body scanner. [...]"
Note: All they hire is freaks and goons ... the lowest
intelligence they can find ... losers ...
TSA: "Pilots and passengers rail at new airport
pat-downs" [11/12/10]
""We spend my child's whole life telling him that only mom, dad and a doctor can touch you in your private area, and now we have to add TSA agent and that's just wrong," he told Reuters. "At some point the terrorists have won."
TSA defends the body scanners as safe and says the devices and friskings are key tools to help detect
'hidden explosive'. "While for security reasons we can't get into the specifics about our
'security procedures', our officers are trained to work with parents to ensure a respectful process for families and we are reviewing our policies for children," the agency said. [...]"
Bullshit.
Related:"Napolitano to meet Travel Industry Over Security Measures"
TSA:
"Airborne
rebellion: Group urges ‘national opt-out day’ for airport body
scanners" [11/11/10]
"TSA employee reportedly admitted pat-down involving touching of genitals
meant to intimidate people into using body scanners. As public anger grows
over the TSA's body scanners and intrusive new airport pat-down procedure, a
Web site is urging travelers to "opt out" from the body scanners and
instead choose to have a pat-down in public view, so that everyone can
"see for themselves how the government treats law-abiding citizens."
OptOutDay.com
declares November 24 to be the day when air travelers should refuse to
submit to a full body scan and choose the enhanced pat-down -- an option many
travelers have described as little short of a molestation. [...]"
Related: See "TSA Resistance Taking Off: Are
the Elitist Airlines Worried, Yet? [11/10/10]; "Stewardesses Send Message
to TSA" [11/11/10] ; "TSA: No Fondling, Groping Or Squeezing Is
Taking Place At Airports " [11/10/10] ; "World’s Pilots
Reject Naked Body Scanners Over Radiation Danger, Privacy Breach"
[11/08/10] " and related stories earlier this month.
TSA:
"Nude
Protest: Airport Body Scanners in Germany" [11/11/10]
[1:01] "The underwear bombers Christmas Day attack has prompted
calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports. So to protest,
members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized a fleshmob of people who
stripped down to their skivvies last Sunday and converged on the Berlin-Tegal
airport. The protesters marked their bodies with a number of messages such as,
Something to hide? and Be a good citizen — drop your pants. One woman has
the word diaper scrawled on her lower back with an arrow pointing to her
underwear and the word prosthetic printed on her leg. The word piercing and an
arrow point to one of her breasts. The full-body scanners use high-frequency
radio waves to produce an image of a passengers naked body beneath clothes.
Anything a passenger is carrying against the body — weapons, drugs or
explosives — would be exposed. The scanners would also reveal the presence
of prosthetic devices and breast implants. As such, there have been privacy
and legal concerns raised about the invasive equipment, particularly because
its unclear if the scanners would be able to detect explosives hidden in body
cavities and would therefore likely provide only minimal security.
[...]"
TSA:
"Stewardesses Send Message to
TSA" [11/11/10]
"This is excellent news. Stewardesses say to TSA: Keep your hands off my private parts. Pilots are saying the same, and so are many passengers. The State has, I think and hope, finally gone too far with its genital gropes and nuclear naked-photos. Even the MSM are starting to cover this police-state scandal, though not truthfully. Airports are today microcosms of what the State wants all of society to be. That is, they see taxpayers as cattle, and expect us to shut up and obey their thugs in blue costume. Well, maybe there’s a stampede coming.
Video clip included.
TSA:
"TSA Resistance Taking Off: Are the Elitist Airlines Worried, Yet?
[11/10/10]
"This entire nonsense about harassing airline passengers with cancer causing naked body scans and groping pat downs started as a result of airlines attempting to prevent ticket buyers from selling their tickets to others if they couldn't fly themselves. Newspaper classifieds pre-9-11 were filled with ticket sellers selling tickets at huge discounts. Sharp entrepreneurs even figured out how to get the cheapest tickets, bought them in bulk and sold them to savvy buyers. It was really the only way to fly and it didn't matter what name was on the ticket. No airline ever checked the names on tickets against the person
traveling on the ticket. The airlines didn't like this type of ticket use, but didn't have the balls to check ID's against tickets, which would have pissed customers off. But once 9-11 hit, the elitist airlines (especially the bastards at United Airlines) got behind the mandatory government check of ID's to boost ticket sales fight terrorism. Naturally, a bureaucracy exploded around this ID check scam. The bureaucracy has now grown to the point of the naked body scan nonsense, which has now resulted in blowback against the airlines, as the resistance is promoting the end to air travel. Web sites have been launched.[...]"
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TSA:
" No Fondling, Groping Or Squeezing Is Taking Place At Airports "
[11/10/10]
"Despite multiple reports of TSA agents groping, molesting and sexually assaulting passengers in a nationwide epidemic of abuse, a TSA.gov website claims that there are no instances of groping or even squeezing occurring at all, and that TSA agents are completely “professional” in their duties.
The denial appears on the blog.tsa.gov website, an official Transport Security Administration clearinghouse for news about the TSA and airport security.
After being asked the question, “Why are you posting about this and not about TSA’s ongoing sexual assault on travelers who don’t wish to be irradiated by untested machines run by poorly trained screening clerks?,” Bob the TSA blogger responds with the following.
“There is no fondling, squeezing, groping, or any sort of sexual assault taking place at airports. You have a professional workforce carrying out procedures they were trained to perform to keep aviation security safe.”
This claim is of course a flagrant lie designed to quell the massive backlash against invasive new airport security measures which is being led by numerous prominent travel and pilots associations.
New TSA “pat down” measures introduced at the end of last month for people who refuse the dangerous naked body scan involve TSA agents using the front of their hands and literally cupping and squeezing women’s breasts and men’s testicles. As USA Today reported last week, “The searches require screeners to touch passengers’ breasts and genitals.” [...]"
Related: Flashback: TSA Worker, Arrested For Attempting To Make Girl His 'Sex Slave'"
[01/31/10]
"A federal Transportation Security Administration employee has been arrested in connection with the molestation of a
12 year-old girl, Orange County sheriff's deputies said. The man told investigators he planned to make her his "sex slave," according to the arrest report uncovered by Local 6. [...]" "American Air Security Is A Farce"
[01/08/10]
"I was in the Atlanta Hartsfield airport one day headed to Europe and a TSA goon was groping the breasts of a 14 year old Belgian girl that was traveling alone. She was understandably both offended and horrified. She spoke Flemish and French, very little English. I told him to take his filthy hands off the girl's breast before I sent him on an emergency room run to the hospital.
He stepped back and drew his gun on me, at which time I told him to go for it. He glanced around and hundreds of people were glaring at him just like I was. He had to take an "emergency break" he forgot to take earlier in the day. [...]"
Private Security Continues to Invade American Towns
[11/07/10]
"APS is a private investigations and security contractor functioning in
only two states, as of yet – South Carolina and Arizona. Its staff is drawn
from former law enforcement and military personnel and its services range from
property and nightclub security to community patrol. The latter, which is
stated clearly on the APS website, is particularly concerning due to the fact
that, while there may be a place for private security firms, “community
patrol” is a local police duty. Interestingly enough, APS patrol cars are
similar to Horry County and Myrtle Beach city police cars and have been seen
in the area before. Whether or not these vehicles were patrolling is unknown.
However, a presence has clearly been established. Nevertheless, without
the benefit of local advertising, one might have been lulled into thinking
that the new cars patrolling their neighborhoods with “Advanced Protection
Services” painted on the side were merely the result of the creation of
another specialized task force designed to harass the citizenry and waste
taxpayer money. Unfortunately, while this would be bad enough, it appears that
South Carolina has now been invaded by a miniature version of Blackwater Xe.
This is a clear indication of the rise of the trend in private security firms
engaging in work that was once done by local police who are allegedly
accountable to the people.
Note: See October 2009 archives for related activities
in Montana. This article is cross-posted on the Society and Living panel, with
further background links.
"Pennsylvania Homeland Security monitored residents’ tweets
(through Israeli Security Company)" [11/05/10]
"Emails recently released from a Right-To-Know request show that the Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security monitored the twitter activity of law-abiding citizens.
The emails, obtained by the website PARevolution.com, show that a private firm used twitter to collect intelligence on anti-war protests as a part of their contract with the department.
Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR) monitored the activities of the Berks Peace Community, a group of Quaker-affiliated senior citizens, who routinely meet on the Penn State Bridge in Reading to protest America's "war habit." [...]"
Related:
Israeli Company Targets US Dissidents as Terrorists
[09/16/10]
UK: "Mail bombers
'would not have known where device would explode'" [11/03/10]
"The terrorists behind the cargo bomb plot would not have known exactly where the deadly device was to strike, UK Home Secretary Theresa May said Sunday, according to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
The unpredictable routes taken by freight planes meant it was "difficult" to say even now whether the explosions would have happened over Britain or America. [...]"
Note: Which again points to this as a cover operation by
military-corporate-intel complex. See related stories on 11/01/10 below
and Oct archives, "U.S.-bound explosives identified" [10/30/10] and
it's adjacent and related stories.
For first time ever, US facing scrutiny of UN Human Rights Council
[11/02/10]
"The United States will come under the spotlight at the UN's top human rights assembly's for the first time over the coming week along with other countries that face scrutiny by the Human Rights Council. The 12-day session of the 47 member council starting on Monday will include regular "universal periodic reviews" of 16 members [...]"
NSC Study Shows You are More Likely to Killed By
the Police Than a Terrorist
[11/01/10]
"After 9/11, the fear of another attack on U.S. soil cleanly supplanted the fear of having one`s penis chopped off by a vengeful lover in the pantheon of irrational American fears.
While we're constantly being told that another attack is imminent and that radical Islamic fundamentalists are two steps away from establishing a caliphate in Branson, Missouri, just how close are they? How do the odds of dying in a terrorist attack stack up against the odds of dying in other unfortunate situations?
The following ratios were compiled using data from 2004 National Safety Council Estimates, a report based on data from The National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, 2003 mortality data from the Center for Disease Control was used.
-- You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack
-- You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack
-- You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane
-- You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack
--You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack -- You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack
-- You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack
--You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack
--You are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack
--You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist
--You are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack
-- You are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack [...]"
Commentary: "U.S.
'intelligence' trades on fear" [11/01/10]
"Anyone of a nervous disposition was sent in to a tailspin of panic over the increasingly dramatic news coverage… this manifested itself in a tsunami of 911 calls in America which paralyzed parts of New York, Maine and Philadelphia for several hours.
Mercifully in Britain the majority of us refuse to get caught up in this bloody nonsense for many different reasons. The primary one being we had already endured more than three decades of this during the height of the IRA activities in London.
Virtually every single day for 30 years there would be some terror alert in the English capital -- it was called shoestring terrorism. One telephone call could bring a halt to a section of the London Underground.
The police would make their necessary checks, the media would ignore it and we all got on with our lives refusing to be intimidated by Irish terrorism.
And that is exactly how we should have treated Friday’s terror nonsense -- that does not mean to say people should be reckless or less vigilant but governments should stop trying to impose a fear factor on its citizens.
We can not sacrifice our freedoms and liberties just because the United States wants to impose its own neurosis, hysteria and paranoia on the rest of the world. [...]"
Commentary: "Toner Bomb Plot" Used to Empower CIA
[11/01/10]
Video clip
[0:45]
"In addition to adding new urgency and a fresh dose of hysteria to the flagging war on manufactured terror, the toner bomb plot has provided an excuse to rationalize the global reach of the CIA.
“Officials said support was growing both within the military and the administration for shifting more operational control to the CIA — a move that would allow the U.S. to strike suspected terrorist targets unilaterally with greater stealth and speed,” reports the Wall Street Journal today. “Allowing the U.S. military’s Special Operations Command units to operate under the CIA would give the U.S. greater leeway to strike at militants even without the explicit blessing of the Yemeni government,” or the American people who, as usual, remain woefully uninformed.
Corporate media does its part to justify expanding war on terror into Yemen.
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) conducts several covert and clandestine missions, such as unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, psychological operations, direct action, counter-terrorism and war on drugs operations.
Exploiting the obviously contrived Yemen toner bomb plot (see Paul Watson’s article today) as an excuse to shift more operational control to an unaccountable CIA would reduce conflict between the CIA’s National Clandestine Service and the more clandestine parts of
USSOCOM. It would also consolidate operations. Moreover, a commissioned Pentagon study revealed that such a move would allow the CIA to maintain its covert capability and be the “sole government agency conducting covert action.” The DoD found that under U.S. law and the Constitution it does not have the legal authority to conduct covert action, nor the “operational agility” to carry out these types of missions. [...]"
Commentary: "The UPS Terror Flight From Yemen That Never Was"
[11/01/10]
"Obama’s “scare the Americans into voting Democratic” plan is already in trouble. The official story on Friday October 29th was that an unnamed ally issued a warning for British authorities to be on the lookout for a suspicious package sent from Yemen to Great Britain on a UPS flight. A search of the UPS flighty on the ground in Britain yielded a package containing a printer toner cartridge sprayed with a white substance that looks like plastic Christmas tree snow.
To make the “toner cartridge of death” look even scarier, a circuit board was attached to the outside with wires. Careful analysis of the card itself suggests it is a circuit card from a TV set, most likely the tuner, circa 1980s.
Note carefully there is no battery to power this object, nor were any detonators found.
The initial reports of the toner cartridge reported no explosives were found in it.
Of course, Obama claimed exactly the opposite, which left the BBC struggling to placate the President while not allowing themselves to look like they were changing the original story to do it!
But the story gets better! The original claim was that the suspicious package originated in Yemen and flew to Britain on an aircraft owned by UPS, and the media showed us all the video of a UPS aircraft being stopped and searched on the runway in Britain. [...]
But there is a problem. There are no UPS aircraft flying in and out of Yemen! UPS own website (from before the so-called terror incident) does not list Yemen as one of their service regions.
A PDF file (which includes the history of the document from weeks ago) listing of all the international airports the UPS aircraft fleet flies to does not list Yemen as a destination!
In short, there was not and could not be a UPS aircraft flying out of Yemen. UPS uses a subcontractor, Sun Tours, to handle shipping in and out of Yemen. Sun Tours sends their shipments via Yemenia Air, and Yemenia Air’s Cargo Director reports there were no shipments sent through Yemen to Chicago for the 48 hours prior to the “discovery” of the toner cartridge in Britain.
A second claim that a flight from Dubais carried packages from Yemen has been refuted by the United Arab
Emirates Civil Aviation Authority. In short a toner cartridge that cannot explode shows up on a UPS jet which could not have come from Yemen, and Obama pounds it for all its worth trying to save the Democrats next Tuesday. Frankly I think Americans should be outraged not that Obama tried such a stunt, but that after all the times Bush was caught using terror scares for political gain that Obama thinks you are all stupid enough to fall for it again! If tonight’s polls are accurate, you weren’t and you didn’t and Obama may have just screwed his own party to the point where they are all praying for Diebold to save them!"
Related Updates: Exposé:
Saudi
bomb-maker emerges as key suspect behind parcel bombs | MSM:
U.S. Feared Parcel Bomb Plot Was Coming; Saw September 'Dry Run'
"Saudi intelligence provided UPS, FedEx tracking numbers to stop 'real thing.' [...]" |
Qatar Airways says Dubai bomb parcel flown on its aircraft
"Qatar Airways confirmed on Sunday that a suspected Al-Qaeda package intercepted in Dubai was flown on one of its aircraft and only discovered after an intelligence tip-off. can confirm that a recent courier consignment was carried aboard one of its aircraft from Sanaa to Dubai via Doha International Airport," it said in a statement. "The explosives discovered were of a sophisticated nature whereby they could not be detected by x-ray screening or trained sniffer dogs. The explosives were only discovered after an intelligence tip-off," the airline added. However, "it is not the responsibility of the country in which the cargo transits to x-ray or inspect" it. This is the responsibility of "the country from where the consignment originates," it said. Two suspected
Al-Qaeda packages from Yemen intercepted on aircraft in Dubai and Britain on Friday and addressed to synagogues in Chicago contained powerful explosives and could have exploded, authorities said.
[...]" | Yemen official: Arrested woman didn't mail bombs, is released on bail
[11/01/10]
The young Yemeni woman arrested on suspicion of mailing powerful bombs to U.S. synagogues was released on bail Sunday, and a Yemeni official said authorities no longer believe she shipped the bombs.
Authorities arrested the woman after tracking the name and address used on the packages. But after the woman was arrested, the shipping agent said she wasn't the one who signed the shipping documents, the official said."
See: All the back-story on this in the Oct 2010 archives
(top of this panel). See "U.S.-bound explosives identified" [10/30/10] and
it's adjacent and related stories. Interesting how the US is selling the
Saudis $60 billion in fighter aircraft.
Commentary: "Farooque Ahmed - Entrapped By An FBI Sting"
[11/01/10]
"The story is disturbingly familiar. FBI agents arrest a suspect on terrorism related charges, nearly always a Muslim, photographed full bearded to look menacing. Media reports highlight it, headlining government charges to incite fear. Announced arrests are strategically timed, this one days before mid-term elections. The message - Obama keeps America safe, vote Democrat.
Though too early to conclude guilt or innocence, what's so far known is worrisome, involving an FBI sting to entrap. Based on numerous previous cases, without exception, innocent men and occasionally women have been targeted, evidence later showing no plot and no crime. Yet suspects are arrested, charged, tried, and convicted by manipulated/intimidated juries, right-wing judges sentencing them to long prison terms.
[...]"
Commentary: Cargo Cult: Questions on the "Latest Terrorist Threat"
[11/01/10]
"First we were told that the recently intercepted package bombs sent, we are told, from Yemen, were targeted at synagogues in Chicago. Now we are being told that they were intended to blow up the cargo planes themselves. We are also told that the bombs' design shows the mark of a "highly sophisticated" operation by extremist Islamists, most likely al
Qaeda". All of which prompts one question. If you were indeed a "highly sophisticated" Islamist extremist operation wishing to blow up cargo planes bound for the United States with package bombs, would you really a) mail those bombs from Yemen, a country currently under intense counterterrorism
scrutiny by the United States, and b) address these packages, from Yemen, to Jewish institutions -- in Barack Obama's home city?
Either a) or b) alone would be enough to set alarm bells clanging all through the thick mesh of security systems that now overlay modern life. Put them together, and what you have is either a) the mark of a very unsophisticated, cack-handed, two-bit operation whose sporadic and isolated threats hardly justify a world-wide, never-ending, mass-killing, liberty-gutting,
multi-trillion dollar war, or b) the mark of a highly sophisticated organization that wished to ensure maximum publicity for this attempted terrorist attack -- and even more publicity for its heroic thwarting ... especially on the eve of a national election, and after weeks of leaks and bad press about atrocities and corruption that call the whole Terror War ethos into question.
Points perhaps worth pondering in the coming weeks as we watch the ever-more profitable security mesh seize on this incident to call for ever-greater funding, and ever-greater measures of control over our lives. [...]"
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