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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Obama Orders All Federal Employees To Engage In ‘PreCrime’ Reporting

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 19:27

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Looking for that Minority Report
WASHINGTON — In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.
The techniques are a key pillar of the Insider Threat Program, an unprecedented government-wide crackdown under which millions of federal bureaucrats and contractors must watch out for “high-risk persons or behaviors” among co-workers. Those who fail to report them could face penalties, including criminal charges.
Obama mandated the program in an October 2011 executive order after Army Pfc. Bradley Manning downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from a classified computer network and gave them to WikiLeaks, the anti-government secrecy group. The order covers virtually every federal department and agency, including the Peace Corps, the Department of Education and others not directly involved in national security.
Under the program, which is being implemented with little public attention, security investigations can be launched when government employees showing “indicators of insider threat behavior” are reported by co-workers, according to previously undisclosed administration documents obtained by McClatchy. Investigations also can be triggered when “suspicious user behavior” is detected by computer network monitoring and reported to “insider threat personnel.”
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do “harm to the United States.” Managers of special insider threat offices will have “regular, timely, and, if possible, electronic, access” to employees’ personnel, payroll, disciplinary and “personal contact” files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms.
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Over the years, numerous studies of public and private workers who’ve been caught spying, leaking classified information, stealing corporate secrets or engaging in sabotage have identified psychological profiles that could offer clues to possible threats. Administration officials want government workers trained to look for such indicators and report them so the next violation can be stopped before it happens.
“In past espionage cases, we find people saw things that may have helped identify a spy, but never reported it,” said Gene Barlow, a spokesman for the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, which oversees government efforts to detect threats like spies and computer hackers and is helping implement the Insider Threat Program. “That is why the awareness effort of the program is to teach people not only what types of activity to report, but how to report it and why it is so important to report it.”
But even the government’s top scientific advisers have questioned these techniques. Those experts say that trying to predict future acts through behavioral monitoring is unproven and could result in illegal ethnic and racial profiling and privacy violations.
“There is no consensus in the relevant scientific community nor on the committee regarding whether any behavioral surveillance or physiological monitoring techniques are ready for use at all,” concluded a 2008 National Research Council report on detecting terrorists. source – McClatchy
 
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The Decline Of Breadwinner Jobs Has Resulted In The Longest Bread Lines In American History

hey ! you remember in the debates way back? & that little guy wit the funny ears ...said that sucking sound We WILL hear IS  the good jobs ..leaving America . you remember that ?    & ALL the   media 'whores' & pretty much ALL you's kooky Democraps & Republithugs ...laughed ?    .... well welcome to Wal~Mart ,motherfuckers :o           looks like that funny eared feller ...was right.   
We are witnessing a fundamental shift in our economy.  Full-time jobs are on the decline.  Part-time and temp jobs are on the rise.
In fact, the second largest employer in the United States is now a temp agency.  Kelly Services has become the second largest employer in the country after Wal-Mart.
But it is really hard to pay the bills stocking shelves at Wal-Mart or working temp jobs for Kelly Services.
 

The Decline Of Breadwinner Jobs Has Resulted In The Longest Bread Lines In American History

The_Bread_Line_by_George_Benjamin_Luks,_Dayton_Art_InstituteAs the number of good jobs continues to decline, the number of Americans that cannot take care of themselves without government assistance continues to explode.  On Friday, we learned that the U.S. economy added "195,000 jobs" last month.  But when you look deeper at the numbers, another story emerges.  Last month, the U.S. economy actually lost 240,000 full-time jobs.  Overall, the U.S. economy has only added 130,000 full-time jobs in 2013, but it takes about 90,000 full-time jobs a month just to keep up with population growth.  So we are losing quite a bit of ground as far as full-time jobs are concerned.  Meanwhile, the U.S. economy has added more than 500,000 part-time jobs so far this year.  Unfortunately, there are very, very few part-time and temp jobs that can be considered "breadwinner jobs".  Part-time jobs are great for teenagers, university students and elderly people that only want to work a limited number of hours, but what most Americans need are good paying full-time jobs with benefits that will allow them to take care of their families.  Unfortunately, those jobs are continually becoming a smaller part of our economy.
As David Stockman has noted, the U.S. economy has only regained 200,000 of the 5.6 million breadwinner jobs that were lost during the last recession...
By September 2012, the S&P 500 was up by 115 percent from its recession lows and had recovered all of its losses from the peak of the second Greenspan bubble. By contrast, only 200,000 of the 5.6 million lost breadwinner jobs had been recovered by that same point in time. To be sure, the Fed’s Wall Street shills breathlessly reported the improved jobs “print” every month, picking and choosing starting and ending points and using continuously revised and seasonally maladjusted data to support that illusion. Yet the fundamentals with respect to breadwinner jobs could not be obfuscated.
This is a big problem.  As I wrote about the other day, the quality of jobs in America is falling very fast.  Only 47 percent of all adults in the United States have a full-time job at this point, and 53 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.
Meanwhile, the number of part-time jobs has hit an all-time record high, and the number of temp jobs is absolutely exploding.
Incredibly, the number of temp jobs has increased by more than 50 percent since the end of the recession.  Approximately 10 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were temp jobs, but close to 20 percent of the jobs gained since then have been temp jobs.
We are witnessing a fundamental shift in our economy.  Full-time jobs are on the decline.  Part-time and temp jobs are on the rise.
In fact, the second largest employer in the United States is now a temp agency.  Kelly Services has become the second largest employer in the country after Wal-Mart.
But it is really hard to pay the bills stocking shelves at Wal-Mart or working temp jobs for Kelly Services.
Unfortunately, these days millions of American workers find themselves having to take whatever they can find.  We live during a period of chronic unemployment.  In fact, according to John Williams of shadowstats.com, unemployment in the United States is now higher than it was at any point during the last recession after you factor in discouraged workers and workers that have taken part-time jobs for economic reasons.
So why don't more Americans go out and start businesses and create their own jobs?
Unfortunately, thanks to the federal government, state governments and local governments, the environment for small businesses in America today is incredibly toxic.  In fact, the percentage of self-employed workers in this country is at an all-time record low.
As a result of everything that I have discussed above, more Americans than ever find that they cannot take care of themselves without government assistance.
I have often written about the fact that the number of Americans on food stamps has skyrocketed in recent years.  In the year 2000, there were only 17 million Americans on food stamps.  Today, there are more than 47 million Americans on food stamps.
But the number of Americans that are dependent on our "modern day bread lines" is actually far higher than that.
According to a recent CNS News article, a total of 101 million Americans are enrolled in food assistance programs.  The following are some of the staggering numbers for some of these programs...
The National School Lunch program provides 32 million students with low-cost or no-cost meals daily; 10.6 million participate in the School Breakfast Program; and 8.9 million receive benefits from the Woman, Infants and Children (WIC) program each month, the latter designed for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, as well as children younger than 5 years old.
In addition, 3.3 million children at day care centers receive snacks through the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
There’s also a Special Milk Program for schools and a Summer Food Service Program, through which 2.3 million children received aid in July 2011 during summer vacation.
At farmer’s markets, 864,000 seniors receive benefits to purchase food and 1.9 million women and children use coupons from the program.
Yes, there is some overlap in some of these programs.  So the actual number of Americans receiving food assistance is going to be less than 101 million.
But clearly something has gone horribly wrong.  Our economy is not producing enough good jobs, and more Americans than ever cannot take care of themselves as a result.
This is not normal.  What we are witnessing is the slow-motion collapse of the middle class.  The number of Americans that are dependent on the government for their daily bread is so large that it is difficult to comprehend.  The following are a few statistics from my recent article entitled "21 Facts About Rising Government Dependence In America That Will Blow Your Mind"...
-Back in the 1970s, about one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps.  Today, about one out of every 6.5 Americans is on food stamps.
-Today, the number of Americans on food stamps exceeds the entire population of the nation of Spain.
-According to one calculation, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of “Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.”
You can read the rest of that article right here.
So what is the solution?
Well, we need a lot more full-time "breadwinner jobs" that will enable men and women to be able to take care of their families.
Unfortunately, we continue to ship millions of good jobs overseas, and our politicians continue to pursue policies which are making the business environment in this country very toxic.
There is not going to be any easy way to fix all of this.  We should have seen a nice bounce in the employment numbers during this so-called "recovery", but that did not happen.  And now the next wave of the economic collapse is rapidly approaching, and the employment crisis in this country is going to become a lot more painful.
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Venezuelan Asylum Achieved, Snowden reveals UFO Documents

truther July 9, 2013
Kilgoar, chronicle.su
Edward Snowden, the leaker of NSA surveillance documents, was granted asylum in Venezuela on Friday. With safe harbors in sight, Snowden was willing to share shocking and world-shattering exclusive secret government documents with The Internet Chronicle.
Venezuelan Asylum Achieved, Snowden reveals UFO Documents
Snowden’s testimony was as follows:
“The highest levels of government don’t know what to do about UFOs, and the official story that they are all merely weather balloons or natural phenomena have been clearly dismissed. If anything, these documents speak about UFOs as if they are surely guided by an intelligence beyond our own. As it turns out, the most credible and inexplicable sightings are of vehicles that have been spotted leaving the sea floor at hydrothermal vents and directly entering solar orbit . . .
“Because ballistic missile tracking systems and deep-sea sonar are kept as state secrets, scientists don’t have access to data about these objects. However, most of the contractors at DARPA are sure that there is a species more intelligent than homo sapiens living in the mantle of the Earth. It makes sense, if you think about it, because that is the only place where conditions have been more or less stable for billions of years. Extremophiles may live at different temperatures than us, but they have been able to thrive and develop intelligence at a seemingly accelerated rate. That’s not true, because they’ve simply evolved at the same rate, but without many of the vicissitudes which set back surface life . . .
“The president receives daily briefings about their activities. Analysts believe their technology to be so far advanced that we stand little chance of survival in any potential war. The general sentiment is that we are but ants from their perspective, so there is little chance they would empathize or attempt to communicate with us, and the current contingency plan is to detonate nuclear weapons in deep caverns to ‘sting’ the foe we have no hope of destroying in hopes it would discourage further attacks.”
Critics may allege that what the 30-year-old former NSA and CIA contractor can state with authority about our ultraterrestrial neighbors is already well-known. But the Ground-Penetrating Radar, or GPR, scans, which The Internet Chronicle has shared and confirmed with sources within intelligence community, will only serve to underscore popular bitterness over strategically timed earthquakes and tsunamis.
Just as PRISM shined a new light on goings-on in NSA’s ECHELON computer systems, revealed in the 1990s, the vast complexes of underground cities  – laser-etched from pure diamond – apparent in the GPR scans will transform public debate about the balance between liberty and security.

Public Official Says She Wants To Hire Someone “Non White”                                     douche bag LOL :o20 "Big Lebowski" Facts That Will Make You Love This Movie Even More

Kristin Tate

Racism is defined as discrimination based on the color of skin. Why then, is racism only called out when non-whites are the victims?
Kim Ratliff, a County Commissioner in Mecklenburg Country, North Carolina, said she wants to hire a “non-white” county manager.
Imagine, for a moment, if somebody said they wanted to hire a “non-black” employee — they would be ripped by the mainstream media and ostracized from society. But the media isn’t interested in Ratliff’s comment, because whites can’t be victims of racism… Right?
Ratliff made the comment last friday while speaking about the departure of Harry Jones, the longtime county manager. Ratliff had obvious issues with Jones’ performance in the position. She said, “There were some people the manager was not talking to. There were county commissioners who were not talking to the manager.”

20 “Big Lebowski” Facts That Will Make You Love This Movie Even More

All of these are Dude approved, and best served with a White Russian.

1. The Dude is secretly an heir to the Rubik’s Cube fortune.

The Dude is secretly an heir to the Rubik's Cube fortune.
In an early draft of The Big Lebowski, it was revealed that The Dude’s income came from his status as an heir to the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube. But Joel Coen cut that detail out, deciding it was best to keep the audience guessing.

2. Because Steve Buscemi’s character in “Fargo” didn’t know when to shut up, Walter constantly tells Donny to “Shut the fuck up!”

Because Steve Buscemi's character in "Fargo" didn't know when to shut up, Walter constantly tells Donny to "Shut the fuck up!"
Source: m.brobible.com

3. The character of Walter was inspired by writer-director John Milius.

The character of Walter was inspired by writer-director John Milius.
The self-proclaimed Zen anarchist is obsessed with guns and penned the first two Dirty Harry films, Apocalypse Now, and Red Dawn, among others.
Source: m.brobible.com

4. Johnie’s Coffee Shop was not only the setting for Walter and The Dude’s coffee scene, but it has also appeared in American History X and Reservoir Dogs.

Johnie's Coffee Shop was not only the setting for Walter and The Dude's coffee scene, but it has also appeared in American History X and Reservoir Dogs .
It’s also appeared in the music videos of Sean Kingston and Reba McEntire.

5. The Dude is never shown bowling in the movie.

The Dude is never shown bowling in the movie.
Even though he’s a legit member of the bowling team.

6. The Jesus’ hilariously obvious bulge is thanks to a large bag of bird seed shoved down his pants.

The Jesus' hilariously obvious bulge is thanks to a large bag of bird seed shoved down his pants.
Awesome.

7. Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann made a cameo in the film.

Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann made a cameo in the film.
She plays a nine-toed nihilist at the diner.
Source: virginmedia.com

8. The character of The Dude was based off of Jeff Dowd, an independent film producer.

The character of The Dude was based off of Jeff Dowd, an independent film producer.
He met the Coen brothers while helping them secure distribution for their first feature, Blood Simple.
Source: ifc.com

9. The F-bomb is dropped 292 times.

20 "Big Lebowski" Facts That Will Make You Love This Movie Even More
That’s more than in The Departed and Scarface.

10. You’ll hear the word “dude” around 161 times in the movie.

20 "Big Lebowski" Facts That Will Make You Love This Movie Even More
It’s uttered 160 times, and we see it as text in the credits for the Gutterballs dream sequence.

11. And The Dude says “man” 147 times overall.

20 "Big Lebowski" Facts That Will Make You Love This Movie Even More
That’s nearly 1.5 “man”s a minute.

12. Number of White Russians The Dude drinks: 9

Number of White Russians The Dude drinks: 9
One is lost when The Dude drops it at Jackie Treehorn’s mansion. RIP, that White Russian.
Source: imgur.com

13. We see Jackie Treehorn’s thugs twice, and the second time they’ve switched shirts!

We see Jackie Treehorn's thugs twice, and the second time they've switched shirts!
Sneaky thugs, very sneaky.

14. None of Donny’s bowling shirts bear his actual name.

None of Donny's bowling shirts bear his actual name.
Nice to meet you, Austin!
Source: imageshack.us

15. Charlize Theron was in the running to play Bunny Lebowski.

Charlize Theron was in the running to play Bunny Lebowski.
But Tara Reid got the honor of saying, “I’ll suck your cock for a thousand dollars.”

16. Bunny’s license plate says “LAPIN,” which is French for rabbit.

Bunny's license plate says "LAPIN," which is French for rabbit.
Rabbit, bunny, same diff.
Source: imcdb.org

17. The photo of Bunny’s farm is from Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.

The photo of Bunny's farm is from Truman Capote's In Cold Blood .
Coincidentally, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played Brandt, would go on to star as Truman Capote in the 2005 film Capote.

18. There’s a 9/11 conspiracy theory surrounding the film.

There's a 9/11 conspiracy theory surrounding the film.
That’s because The Dude writes a check for half and half, dated September 11, 1991, and while he’s writing it, George Bush can be heard on the TV in the background.
Source: zeropaid.com

19. Walter’s famous line, “This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!” was edited down so it could air on TV.

Walter's famous line, "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" was edited down so it could air on TV.
The line was changed to “This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!”
Totally makes sense.
Source: diylol.com

20. A lot of The Dude’s clothes came from Jeff Bridges’ closet.

A lot of The Dude's clothes came from Jeff Bridges' closet.
Including those fab Jellies sandals.

Michael Bloomberg Accused of Illegal Gun Trafficking

   
“Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.”
Naked Gun 33 ½: The Final Insult (1994)                    or hey NEW YORK ?    Lt. Frank Drebin: Good evening, commissioner. You're looking lovely tonight.
Commissioner Anabell Brumford: Do you realize that because of you this city is being overrun by baboons?
Lt. Frank Drebin: Well, isn't that the fault of the voters?
[Frank walks away, leaving Commissioner Brumford with an astonished face]                  Walter ?

Walter’s famous line, “This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!” Oops New York ...

Michael Bloomberg Accused of Illegal Gun Trafficking

NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg is being accused of committing thousands of gun-related felonies.

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He’s already proven he’s too special to abide by election laws and NY’s term limits. He’s also skirted the law by using his fortune to influence the outcomes of elections across the country. Now, Bloomberg is accused of paying straw purchasers to buy thousands of guns for him using his money – something that is highly illegal.
Bloomberg above the law
The definition of ‘oligarch’ according to Google is, ‘A very rich businessman with a great deal of political influence.’ And the definition of ‘oligarchy’ is, ‘A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. A state governed by such a group.’
For a man who’s so extreme when it comes to dictating the lives of Americans, NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg just can’t seem to obey the law. The most well-known example is Bloomberg’s strong-arming of the New York City Council to change the term limit law of the nation’s largest city so that he could be Mayor as long as he wished – something not afforded to any other New Yorker until then.
Bloomberg’s self-named corporation also ran afoul of the law recently when it admitted that Bloomberg’s employees had been spying on not only Wall Street corporations, but the Federal Reserve as well. One suspects that if the kids from Anonymous or LulzSec had done it, they’d find themselves being tortured in Guantanamo Bay right now. But not the rich, powerful oligarch Michael Bloomberg.
And let’s not forget Michael Bloomberg’s current favorite pastime – buying elections across the country with his personal fortune to flood Congress with anti-gun representatives. And it’s this passionate mission of his that has gotten the NY Mayor into a world of criminal trouble. At least that’s what 2nd Amendment advocates are insisting.
Using ‘straw purchasers’ to buy guns
All states require some form of identity check in order to purchase a firearm. That’s to prevent ineligible people from buying guns. One such instance is the prohibition against one person buying hundreds or thousands of guns in one day. But once again, Michael Bloomberg appears to be above yet another criminal law.
How do you buy 2,000 guns, out of state, with no paperwork? Ask Michael Bloomberg. According to AmmoLand.com, ‘If it was billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg as the well-founded rumors suggest, he would have had to do it anonymously, and wash the money pretty good, because it’s illegal to buy guns like that across state lines. Buying 2,000 guns that way would be 2,000 federal and state felonies.’
What they’re talking about is a popular urban program wherein a local city buys unwanted guns from its citizens, usually for $100 payable in the form of a debit card or grocery store gift card. The strategy is to get as many guns off the street as possible, especially if the owners are eager to get rid of them. After all, society is definitely better off if those guns are sold to the government and melted into scrap rather than sold to the neighborhood street gangs.
But towns and cities under financial constraints can no longer afford to fund the gun buy-back programs these days. And stepping in to buy all those firearms is a wealthy, anonymous gun control activist. Many have speculated that the mysterious donor is none other than NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Explaining further, the outlet goes on to write, ‘Giving money to someone else to buy guns for youknowing you can’t buy them yourself would be a “straw purchase,” something mayor Bloomberg knows is strictly illegal, since he has been fighting against straw buyers publicly for a long time. We don’t know who put up the cash and he sure isn’t saying. The crime doesn’t require that the true buyer ultimately receive the guns, just that the money moves through a knowing straw man (or woman).’
The evidence
The outlet AmmoLand.com continues its investigation into the funding source for the recent Phoenix gun buy-back program. They’ve identified the straw purchaser, as well as the method used to buy all those guns. And for their part, local police officials aren’t cooperating with anyone pointing out that the private mass gun buys are highly illegal.
‘We know how it was done,’ the publication writes, ‘The anonymous bag man gave the money to Hildy Saizow and her anti-gun-rights group, the deceptively named Arizonans for Gun Safety (AGS), according to Phoenix police. Who has AGS taught gun safety to lately? That’s rhetorical, the answer is no one, ever. They’re in the business of buying guns to melt. And campaigning against gun ownership and gun rights.’
Saizow then took the anonymously donated money and bought $200,000 worth of Basha’s grocery store gift cards in $100 increments. That’s 2,000 gift cards, each loaded with $100. The publication points out that those numbers aren’t official, as ‘there is zero accountability’. They also point out that, ‘Phoenix PD didn’t just get 2,000 guns, as one officer feebly mumbled. Those guns cost somebody two hundred grand.’ But who now owns those guns? That’s a good question.
In closing their contemptible review of the anonymous gun buying program in Phoenix, AmmoLand.com calls government officials on one of their most dishonest statements of the program. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, who coincidentally happens to be a member of Michael Bloomberg’s gun control organization, repeatedly announced that not a single tax dollar was used for the gun buy-back event.
But in reality, ‘Scores of city police officers have been involved. Scheduling, cruisers, traffic control, coordination with the churches, advertising, press conferences.’ The outlet goes on to add the cost for storing the 8 tons of guns, checking them, inventorying them, transporting them and putting them away somewhere. Who paid for all that? The reporter answers his own question writing, ‘No one believes that no tax money was used. But that’s their story and they’re sticking it to Phoenix tax payers.’

Harvard Professor Wants to Abolish The White Race

gee if a 'white' person said something like THAT about 'black' people ...gee wiz you'd have to get on " O's "  couch & shed a few tears  & 'apologize' about every "sin"   you  EVER did & beg that fat douche bag 4 fer~give~ness  LOL             hey  wheres ole rev. al  or the good rev jesse ?   oh yea  'race~ism'  IS only committed  by whites         hey 'prof ' go fuck yourself ...wit all due respect :0

Harvard Professor Wants to Abolish The White Race

Kristin Tate

Noel Ignatiev, a professor at Harvard University, wants to abolish the white race. He says the purpose of his work is to “keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed.”
You probably haven’t read about this story before now, since the mainstream media doesn’t like to cover racism stories when whites are the victim.
On the other hand, if a distinguished professor said he wanted to abolish the black race, there would no doubt be extensive media coverage on his bigoted statements. He would also most likely be fired.
The hypocrisy is laughable.
Ignatiev runs a journal at Harvard called Race Traitor and is a fellow at the university’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute, a black studies department.

Your Calls and Emails Aren’t Just Being Tracked, They’re Being Sold

Daniel G. J.
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July 9th, 2013
Updated 07/09/2013
Telephone companies, wireless providers, and search engines are not just sharing data about your internet usage and call records with the National Security Agency. Many of them are also selling it to advertisers.
sell-data-attWe’ve long known that Google sells data about our searches and Gmail activity to advertisers. This is why ads for Sam’s Club pop up on your browser if you run a search for Costco. Well, now big companies are selling data to advertisers as well.
AT&T (which acquired Bell South) has announced plans to sell data it collects about subscribers’ habits to advertisers. That means if you call to order a takeout pizza, you might start seeing ads from pizzerias in your area cropping up on your browser. You might also start getting text messages and emails from Papa John’s and Dominos featuring their latest offers.

Huge Potential for Abuse

This isn’t just annoying; it’s also potentially a major violation of privacy. What’s to stop people other than advertisers, such as the FBI, private detectives, journalists, and credit bureaus, from buying that data to see who you’re calling and what you’re searching for?
Or for that matter, a foreign intelligence agency could set up a dummy company and buy that data as part of an effort to spy on American citizens. We now know that the NSA has been spying on Brazilians. It’s a safe bet that foreign intelligence agencies are spying on U.S. citizens for a wide variety of reasons.
Read: Documents Reveal NSA Reads Your Internet Chats: Here’s How to Avoid Being Spied On
Do you really want your employer to know that you’ve been searching for another job or calling headhunters to see what they can do for you? Or for a potential employer to know that you checked out the cost of a gambling junket to Las Vegas or beer online?
Somebody could even determine what your political beliefs are through this; say, if you made several visits to website for a particular political candidate.
Here’s the good news: You can opt out of such searches. This article explains how AT&T customers can tell the company they don’t want their information shared with advertisers.

Data Still Exists

Now here’s the bad news. Even if you tell your phone company that you don’t want the information shared, it still exists. That data can still be hacked or turned over to intelligence agencies or the FBI with a search warrant as our friend Edward Snowden has demonstrated. It could also be sold to hackers and other criminals by corrupt phone company employees.
It looks like there is as little privacy on our mobile devices as on the Internet. We’re going to have to make major changes to those technologies if we want to preserve our privacy.

Stealth Terror: Weather Warfare and the End of America, Part I 

By James Hanson*
The following is the first installment of an exclusive four part series on memoryholeblog.com probing the relationship between America’s police state and less-understood weather warfare programs. The work will run weekly through July 30. -JFT
Mother Nature does not engage in terrorism.  Her ravages are integral to the natural world in which mankind must adapt or die.  Insofar as we know, Mother Nature has no motive to induce terror.  That’s where human beings come in.
The following report is about aspects of weather and environmental modification which are not presented in the corporate media but can be found at alternative news and analysis websites offering explanations of weather phenomena caused by human beings. For example, in an introductory note of an article found at Global Research, Prof. Michel Chossudovsky states:
Environmental modification techniques (ENMOD) for military use constitute, in the present context of global warfare, the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.  Rarely acknowledged in the debate on global climate change, the world’s weather can now be modified as part of a new generation of sophisticated electromagnetic weapons.  Both the US and Russia have developed capabilities to manipulate the climate for military use.
…  The US military has developed advanced capabilities that enable it selectively to alter weather patterns.  The technology, which is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), is an appendage of the Strategic Defense Initiative – “Star Wars”.  From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, operating from the outer atmosphere and capable of destabilizing agricultural and ecological systems around the world.
There is no official statement or major media recognition of the uses that have been made of this capability to bring death and ruin to large numbers of people.  In my report I provide details which I believe illustrate the high probability of implementation of these capabilities including their use in planned debilitation of the people and productive capacity of the United States.
Hurricane Sandy is my first subject because it fit such a use of the power.  Before one dismisses this particular possibility as a fool’s errand they must conclude that it is never used for deleterious effects upon the United States, even if it might seem more than coincidental in its use on nations such as Russia or Iran at critical places and times.
Along these lines, for a conspiracy researcher such as I, Sandy has been an especially suspicious phenomenon. I couldn’t turn away because it was so historically unprecedented and affected the political situation at such a high level.  With terrorist events—such as 9/11—one is left more so to guess at the suspects, and it takes a while to find out because the news media can’t seem to hear those low notes.  While the aftermath of Sandy was still bounding around in the public consciousness there was a smaller event called “Sandy Hook” that understandably got to everyone’s heart and made them want to do something. Further, because it featured  firearms and the slaughter a flock of first graders in their schoolrooms, naturally enough many wanted to ban guns so that such an event would never happen again.
Mother Nature didn’t do that one, of course, nor in my estimation Hurricane Sandy, a form of terrorism unrecognized as such.  “The Sandy Hook massacre” is a new form used to alter public policy.  One can sense the terror that energizes action due to the pain in everyone’s heart for those lovely young children who were mercilessly slaughtered.  I felt it.  But after a calm appraisal of the facts my reaction turned to assessing the named terrorist, Adam Lanza, to be as innocent as the children–a probable victim of terrorists who established his reputation as having performed the single most unfathomably dreadful deed in collective memory.  As one faces the actual facts, he finds the same sort of evil (illegal) force behind Sandy Hook as that responsible for Hurricane Sandy, the result in both cases being debilitation of the American people and their human rights.
The similarity to 9/11 terror was not apparent at first.  Sandy Hook Elementary School was much smaller and it focused on the horror of blood-drenched children who were 100% innocent, while 9/11 destroyed all the buildings in the World Trade Center and some 3,000 100%-innocent adults.  (The thousands who had notice and didn’t come to work that day were not 100% innocent, and survived.)  If you are amazed that intelligent people can still believe that it was attributable to four airplanes flown by amateurs, you will be blown away by the national credibility accorded the “Sandy Hook massacre.”  Blown away.  It is connected by the same old principle of substituted reality, or “false flag,” used for terrorism designed to affect the judgment of target groups of people–e.g. leaders of a fleet, an army, or the people in a republic.  With 9/11, the blame was placed falsely on 19 Muslim hijackers in order to create hatred to permit our leaders to start illegal wars against Middle Eastern countries populated by Muslims.  Most Americans and most media are still buying the “hijacker” explanation as correct in reference to that underworld event.
The enemy selected as the villains of Sandy Hook are not Muslims but gun owners said to be led by the National Rifle Association, known for its history in preserving firearm ownership.  When one examines the detail, one finds that a false image was created at Sandy Hook to stampede citizens for a political end just as was the historic event of 9/11.  The desired effect by managers of the false flag of Sandy Hook is a diminution toward ultimate deletion of Article II of the U.S. Constitution which grants states and their citizens a means to defend themselves against a federal tyrant to replace the one they rejected by use of firearms in 1776.  That tyrannical voice echoes as Englishman Piers Morgan speaks down to those bold enough to stand up for American principles inconsistent with those of the royal tradition, as if dim-witted American loyalists should be taught of their error.
If the Sandy Hook event had been a tornado someone could point to the damage and say “That’s Mother Nature for you!”  The essence of Sandy Hook is that the declared damage is fictional, devised, playing Americans as dull, complacent folks who are confident that the commercial media would analyze the facts before nullifying dissent with their opinions.  Surely, the people behind this would not be a party to the construction of a police state.  This hope is dashed by the way the media has succumbed to a carefully-organized plot for just that.  You will find me critical of the New York Times on this subject because it is not unlike the “hometown paper” for Newtown, Connecticut, and likely knew of the falsehood.
An Election Season Hurricane
Hurricane Sandy was the largest in history for Atlantic hurricanes, rather specially put together as hurricanes go, the most costly since Katrina, and remarkably timed by Mother Nature to “freeze” the presidential campaign by closing airports and roads in east coast states.  She crossed into New York and New Jersey on October 29 just before hurricane season closed on October 31.  The presidential election was held on November 6.  In the society of hurricanes, Sandy was a stranger.  President Obama immediately went out to the disaster area to promise help to everyone when they badly needed reassurance.
In this four-part report that begins with an analysis of Sandy, I want to describe connections between this storm and other apparently natural events.  After hurricanes and aspects of weather control, I’ve included earthquakes, which are like an ancestor of “weather warfare.”  I must refer to Sandy Hook because it is an eminently notable part of deceptive democracy.  You and I are arguably connected to all this by the phenomenon called “chemtrails,” which are connected to the police state that Paul Craig Roberts so eloquently describes in “It Has Happened Here in America: The Police State is Real.”According to Roberts, “9/11 was used to create an open-ended ‘war on terror’ and a police state.  It is extraordinary that so many Americans believe that ‘it can’t happen here’ when it already has.”
New York City had a notable hurricane in 1938. Remarkably the next one of similar notability was Hurricane Irene in 2011–73 years later.  Overnight, Irene had spread out and didn’t flood the subway as feared.  Before Sandy hit, people thought she would be another Irene.  Sandy turned out the lights, the water, all transportation, and future prospects of life near the seacoast.  She flooded the subways like they had never been flooded before and destroyed or made unlivable more than 300,000 homes, of which New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he would buy 10,000 to turn the land into flood-proof parks and beaches.  The state would pay for flood-proofing structures in the hazard areas.  Buildings at sea level would require giant 15-foot pylons.  In March more than 2,000 people were still living in hotels at an average $252 a night, paid for by FEMA, because they could not afford to rent an apartment.
An article in the Arts section of the New York Times for November 20 by Michael Kimmelman refers to “no brainers” that aggravated the damage from Sandy, like not having floodgates at subway entrances, not getting transformers and switching stations out of harm’s way, and not getting Congress to order a Corps of Engineers study on the impact of barriers and barrier islands.  “Hurricane Sandy was a toll paid for procrastination.”  Early pledges were made by officialdom to bring things back the way they were.  But that’s the last thing we want to do, says Kimmelman.  “Now the task is to create a whole new ecological infrastructure for the region.”  This seems to make Sandy a blessing, like a timely gift from God.
The Times had synthesized the problem in a November 1 editorial, “Worrying Beyond Hurricane Sandy.” This piece views Sandy as a lesson for both cities and citizens for ignoring the “grimly precise detail by scientists in the latest state and city climate studies.”  The coastal waters are rising as the ocean warms and expands.  The editor quotes Klaus Jacob, research scientist at the Columbia University’s Earth Institute and adviser to the city on climate change as saying the political process hadn’t recognized that we’re playing Russian roulette.  Governor Cuomo wants surge barriers, involving billions of dollars, which the Times editors see as “a bargain if Sandy and Irene are truly harbingers of more frequent disasters eating deeper into the city’s heart.”
The fact that Sandy came ashore eight days before the presidential election gave President Barack Obama time to find his way through the debris in New Jersey for a tearful embrace and endorsement (before the television cameras) of Governor Chris Christie, who had become known for his livid excoriation of Obama in the election season.  With the election less than a week away the President must have said something to the Republican governor that made him very happy.  New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, neither Republican nor Democrat, enthusiastically joined in the endorsement.  Definitely not a Mormon hurricane, Sandy put Mitt Romney’s campaign out of action in the transportation vacuum of critical eastern states where his staff was organized for a strong finish.  No airports, railroads, highways, restaurants, hotels, parking lots, schools, welcoming crowds, or time for paying attention to TV ads even if they had electricity.
A few weeks after Obama’s re-election, using the entire front page of its November 25 Sunday Review for a picture of the Statue of Liberty, the flame of her torch breaking the surface of the water just above her head, the Times asked “Is This the End?”  This headlined a James Atlas op ed with the explanatory subhead “Whether in 50 or 100 years, there’s a good chance that New York City will sink beneath the sea.”  Now this is getting serious.
In the midst of this gnawing uncertainty, a rather small event occurred, compared with Hurricane Sandy.  On December 14 the national attention was yanked from the still-flowing stream of unnerving discoveries of debilitating harm from Sandy, to an event in the track of Sandy: a new nightmare named “Sandy Hook Elementary School,” envisioning a pile of 20 shredded first graders.  It instantly overcame Hurricane Sandy’s rank in national attention, gaining daily with wholehearted engagement of the media as if it were the essence of what news should be.  No need for a huge investigation.  When 20 innocent children are murdered, we don’t need one.  It was obviously a local boy, Adam Lanza, who killed himself, thus no need for a trial.  He was seen as a mental case, with a whole bunch of guns which evidently were his mother’s.  Gun control was now equated with the subject of “Sandy Hook.”
Mother Nature: not guilty
Hurricane Sandy thus far has taken 44 American lives, almost 300 total.  Older people were affected in ways that will hasten their demise.  They weren’t tourists in a hot air balloon, or vacationers on a 4,000-passenger cruise ship, they were people simply trying to live day by day wherever they happened to be located and had no choice but to stay, wait, and hope.
If I hear Mother Nature being blamed, I rise to her defense.  Anyone analyzing the current atmosphere of threat to human rights must clearly see the fact that the USA does not have to experience any hurricane it does not prefer to experience.  “We” have long had the capability to prevent hurricanes and tornadoes, and to guide and empower them.  Sandy was not the result of “Russian roulette,” it was more likely the result of targeting with our military assault weapon: weather.
For the states or the Congress to be preparing gun control bills in this light is corrupt in itself, because its motivational reference is presumptively false.  If directed from the White House—to which the event does not appear unimportant, but rather, vital—one must bear in mind that human life and justice, even for Americans, is not considered as important as the need for respect of fabrications vital to secret government objectives.
Would our federal government lie to us?  We hear of nameless agencies equipped with “black budget” money of secret and incredible amounts that even the president and Congress are not permitted to know, and we are required to pay taxes without knowing how the money is spent in addition to wars that have clearly been improper and wasteful.
The Iraq “war clock” is currently approaching $900 billion, the estimated overall damage in trillions   That was enabled by a Bush/Cheney lie.  But Obama?  In order to adequately defend the nation, no one outside the black budget agency can know what it is doing because of the presumed advantage that knowledge would give to the nation’s enemies.  The black budget that has grown and been used continuously since World War II could by itself make it impossible for the United States to survive as the free state we say we admire.
Hurricane Sandy has the fingerprints of a criminal phenomenon, one being shielded by the President, the Vice-President, all federal agencies concerned with the military or the environment, and the major media which are threatened and commercially blackmailed into silence.
Blackmailed?  That is a generalization, but I must assert that for one reason or another the flow of facts has been so restricted that it feels like the atmosphere after 9/11.
Some weeks ago I watched a couple of Weather Channel programs—“Hacking Tornadoes” and “Hacking Hurricanes,” presented as cheery-jokey explanations for schoolchildren, in which the object of each was ways to protect ourselves from them.  “What if we could have pushed a button and prevented Sandy?”  Hurricanes have been getting more numerous in the past decade due to ocean warming.  “We need to reduce insurance claims.”  Or play offense, attack the hurricanes the way they attack us.  Some ideas, nothing practical, need more resources for study and experiment.  Sorry, folks, nothing yet, but silver iodide produced rain in Vietnam a few decades ago.
For comparison I watched my DVD of “Weather Warfare,” from the History Channel, one clearly for adults, telling us about the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) and its 3.6 megawatt ELF wave projection from Alaska.  These waves are Extremely Low Frequency which allows them to penetrate the earth, or bounce off the ionosphere to cause an earthquake or a hurricane, or re-route the jet stream and decide who gets rain and who doesn’t.  Or—affect the human mind.
There is much more information available in books I reference is subsequent installments of this series, but I find that most people don’t see what’s happening to us.  The History Channel DVD came out about four years ago, was shown a few times on TV, then the History Channel refashioned its programming to focus on trivial things such as artifacts in a pawn shop.  The DVD is still available for purchase under the politically correct title, “THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE.”  Yes, I had thought it impossible that several of the best-informed people on this subject would be allowed to do an exposure on television.
Before New York City is re-designed as a subterranean metropolis, why not look to the well-funded and forward-looking scientific community and ask if there isn’t some way to prevent another Sandy, not just sit back and let it happen?  I picture the late Senator Claiborne Pell looking down at all this and shaking his head.  He had seen the future clearly when the Treaty on Environmental Modification (ENMOD) was being discussed in 1976-77.  Its main thrust was to prohibit use against an enemy of “techniques that would have widespread, long-lasting or severe effects through deliberate manipulation of natural processes and cause such phenomena as earthquakes, tidal waves, and changes in climate and weather patterns.”
Pell lost in his challenge to an amendment allowing research and experimentation on these prohibited techniques, correctly picturing any agency permitted to develop them as becoming unable to resist the temptation to use environmental modification as a military weapon.  He may have anticipated their domestic use, but should he have seriously anticipated illegal (criminal) domestic use to distort public opinion and Congressional motivation?  Or long-term, to convert the United States into a police state on par with the Soviet Union or a Nazi Germany?
The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. signed the treaty in 1978, bringing a momentary quiet, but after the U.S.S.R. was dissolved in 1991 it announced that as “Russia” it was no longer bound by the treaty, followed by the U.S. position that neither was the U.S.  The race was on.  Ten years later, Representative Dennis Kucinich could be quoted in “Columbus Alive” for January, 2002:  “The truth is there’s an entire program in the Department of Defense, ‘Vision for 2020,’ that’s developing these weapons.”  Publisher Bob Fitrakis was asking him about the use of “chemtrails,” an operation which the U.S. Air Force denied, and still routinely denies, calling them “a hoax.”  In print, the Air Force had announced its objective to master (“own”) the weather, once seen essentially as an answer to Russia.  There is no reason whatsoever to believe that this objective has been discontinued or reduced.  The more useful it becomes, the heavier the silence surrounding it.
Representative Kucinich has been constant in his attempt to enact legislation to prevent weather control from becoming standard operating procedure, as has Fitrakis in keeping it before readers of the Free Press.  The Ohio Republicans, as of this Congressional term, have thrown the courageous Kucinich off the train by isolating him from his voting support through re-districting.  That’s “dirty trick” democracy.
Gun control is a foremost ingredient to a “police state.”  Guns of sufficient number and size are an obstacle to the growing concretion of such a police state, which following rules of the rapist, gets its way unless someone can effectively say “no.”  It needn’t come to a violent revolution.  Gun ownership gives the people confidence, just as it gives pause to officials who would compress the middle class and enslave all but the wealthy.  It cannot be discussed rationally with everyone weeping over dead children.  It’s too serious for snap judgment, either way, when “the people” are democratically disabled.
When I first heard a talk on the subject of weather control in a water management conference some 25 years ago, chatting with a civil engineer at intermission I found him enthusiastic about the possibilities of growing crops more predictably and economically by reallocating rainfall.  As an attorney I was appalled, picturing the impossible confluence of this human factor in life or death with due process of law, which requires that the taking of property meet standards decided by U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the U.S. Constitution.  Secret weather control turns the Constitution into a worthless document.
The tough question is not just the taking of property by drought, flood, snow, or wind but the accompanying deprivation of life and health.  Will there be a special court for that?  One who can control the weather has his hand on a switch (perhaps a keyboard) to kill people, a subject still considered by most as improper, and clearly unconstitutional.  Today we talk about use of drones and the thoughtless murder of innocents, including children not unlike those said to have been killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School and considerably more numerous.  This is justified by those who defend it as necessary if the U.S.A. is to be “safe from terrorists.”  We openly deplore it, but it will most likely be the course again on any day somewhere, to our discredit as Americans.
It has become increasingly impressed on all involved that the outstanding aspect of weather as a military force is that it must appear to be the action of Mother Nature.  It thus cannot be successfully attributed to a particular source to attract a reaction, military or political, by the injured party.  In the United States at the present time the façade includes disciplined fabrication by all federal agencies concerning the ability to affect the weather, from chemtrails to floods, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes.   This phenomenon of tight secrecy is intended to furnish “plausible deniability,” an overriding objective that is most feasible with a controlled media, as in a police state.  The inherent problem that undercuts virtue, and thus human rights, is that the method requires that the government lie to its citizens, and that the media cooperate–  not just now and then, but by principle, all agencies, always.  It all but makes the country destined to become a police state.
In considering the morality of weather warfare bear in mind that weather kills people, whether you intend it or not, including kindergartners and first graders in much greater numbers than massacres by assassins.  As discussed extensively in the U.S. Congress in the lead-up to approval of ENMOD, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, heat waves, extreme cold, and earthquakes amount to lethal weaponry capable of being used secretly by a military force to destroy another nation without its knowing who did it, feigning innocence and tsk-tsking about Mother Nature and global warming.  Masked by “plausible deniability” it starves an enemy, drowns it, tears up its cities, destabilizes its people and its military gradually without their knowing what is happening.  With the same facility, it can spread toxins and hallucinogens from the air, unsuspected, or endured for lack of proof—that is, “plausible deniability.”
With weather warfare used against an avowed enemy, cooperation of citizens would be considered patriotic.  Using it against one’s own citizens would be a crime of the highest order, the withdrawal of human rights, a police-state standard.  In a police state, people who protest would be “disloyal” and subject to penalty as severe as necessary to prevent cracks in the illusion of national greatness.  A letter-writer to the Columbus Dispatch asks “Is the U.S. government tyrannical?  Of course not!”  He asserts that to make such an allegation demonstrates contempt for the democratic principles that make our country great.  “To express disagreement one goes to the voting booth,” says he.
If one has studied Ohio elections as have Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, one must see this letter-writer as the ideal citizen for a police state, an element of which would be elections decided by those able to prevent media from reporting or acknowledging substitute vote counts, as seen by those of us watching from Ohio.  The newspapers in Ohio, one being the capital city’s Columbus Dispatch, saw no evil in the method that gave Bush/Cheney another term—Ohio being the swing state in 2004.  Bush had been overwhelmed.  Depression ruled in the Bush camp until the next morning after things had been rearranged.  The Republican state chairman, to whom I had earlier written to tell him he was head of a criminal organization, got the last laugh.
That banditry changed elections in more ways than we realized at the time.  It allowed Bush appointee John Roberts to become Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, where he chose the “Citizens United” case for hearing even though the subject upon which the court acted was not the issue on appeal.  It allowed Roberts, with the court majority, to declare that a corporation be treated as a “person” for purposes of political contributions, thus without the limits intended to keep corporate contributions from overpowering those from individuals.  It has had the predicted undemocratic result by shifting the effect of money to those who have the most.  It took us a long step away from a free state where the “common man” still had a voice that could be heard.
In these reports it is my purpose to examine weather control, not detailing how it is done, but to give the reader a circumstantial and statistical basis for seeing it in a different light.  One must start with the reality of the power.  There is no question whether it is possible.  The “chemtrail” factor, for one, is not just possible, but an actual, provable crime that anyone who chooses can witness being committed, yet another manifestation of a permanent police state, enshrouded in official lies.
*James R. Hanson is a native of Nebraska and graduate of Oberlin College. His first job was as reporter for the Defiance, Ohio Crescent-News.  Drafted, he was with the Korea Military Advisory Group (KMAG) 1952-1953.  His law degree is from the University of Michigan, where he learned the importance of well-drafted legislation.
For the Ohio Water Commission, born of the 1959 flood, Hanson assisted in creating an intelligent framework for water management.  He was legal advisor to the Director of Natural Resources, then legislative counsel for the Ohio Legislative Service Commission.
In private practice Hanson’s long-term representations were for environmental organizations such as the volunteer Water Management Association of Ohio and the Ohio Water Development Authority, bond-issuing agency for municipal sewer and water facilities.  The Wildlife Legislative Fund and the Wildlife Legislative Fund of America became his major clients, which he created under the direction of James H. Glass as the defenders of sportsmen’s interests in Ohio and wherever wildlife laws came under attack.  Their present successor is the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance.
Retired, Hanson was writing histories of immigration into Nebraska when he suddenly found himself duty-bound to concentrate on the flood of government falsehoods spilling over especially since 2001./http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/07/09/stealth-terror-weather-warfare-and-the-end-of-america-part-i/#more-5030