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Today US rating agency Standard & Poor’s told a court of
law that it figured every reasonable investor would know its promise to
objectively rate securities was mere “puffery,” like a used-car
salesman who tells you the last owner of your car was an old lady who
only drove it on Sundays.
The US government thinks that S&P (a
unit of McGraw Hill Financial) should pay $5 billion in penalties for
giving safe ratings to risky securities while it had cozy relationships
with people creating them. Somebody should have known that all those
chopped up sub-prime mortgages did not actually create bonds as safe as
Treasurys, and it turned out those somebodies were helping S&P
create the models that said they were safe.
Moving to dismiss the suit in a California federal court, S&P
said that reasonable investors would know its assurances of independence
were just marketing, and that its ratings should be treated as free
speech, not as financial statements. The defense ought to worry anyone
who relies on its ratings. But should the government win this case,
those investors will likely file claims for damages in civil court
alleging that they too were defrauded.
Beyond that, the whole industry of rating securities depends on the
idea that ratings have some analytical value. This defense suggests that
securities ratings are more about marketing, and indeed, the market has
tended to ignore some recent sovereign downgrades issued by the
agencies. The US government is trying to strip ratings from the legal
code so that its financial decisions won’t rely on them. But it’s not
likely to fundamentally change the market by, for example, selecting the rater that a securities issuer uses randomly from among the accredited options.
In the meantime—if you’re not already doing so—we suggest you take your AAAs with a grain of salt. Update: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the judge has denied S&P’s request for a dismissal for now and will allow the trial to proceed.
JULY 11--A Delaware man threw semen on a female customer shopping at Walmart Tuesday afternoon, police allege.
Cops arrested Frank J. Short Jr., 22, on an assortment of charges in
connection with the repulsive incident at the store in New Castle.
Short, seen in the below mug shot, was booked into a Wilmington jail, from which he was later released on bail. According to a Delaware State Police report,
the 20-year-old victim was standing in a Walmart aisle texting on her
phone when Short walked past her, saying “Excuse me.” At that point,
police noted, she “suddenly felt something wet on her buttocks, thigh
and leg.”
Upon examination, the woman--who thought she may have been spat
upon--realized there was a “a ‘glob’ of semen on her leg, just below her
knee,” reported police. Preliminary testing of the substance was
“indicative of semen,” investigators added.
The woman, who said she was initially “in shock at what had
happened,” told cops that as she walked through Walmart looking for
help, Short followed her. She subsequently was escorted by workers to a
security office, where a store manager called police (who, upon arrival,
arrested Short).
When confronted by troopers,
Short initially claimed to have “sneezed into his hands, then shook his
hands off,” adding that some of his mucus may have “flung on to her.”
However, Short’s story fluctuated to include the claim that he actually
spit in his hand and threw it at the woman. Short also admitted that he
thought the woman was “hot” and had “pretended to ‘slap her ass.’”
In response to further questioning, Short--who was
hyperventilating--reportedly copped to some severe creepiness, saying
that he was a “loner” who “basically gets a thrill out of such an act.”
Short is facing
offensive touching with bodily fluid; harassment; disorderly conduct;
and lewdness counts. The lewdness charge alleges that Short “did take a
substance into his hand, believed to be his own semen, and did place
this substance upon the body of [the victim] because he was sexually
attracted to her.” (3 pages)
Exposing The Truth About Our World One Story At A Time
Did you know that scientists all over the globe are creating
extremely bizarre human-animal chimeras? Over the past decade, there
have been some absolutely stunning advances in the field of genetic
modification. Today, it is literally possible for college students to
create new lifeforms in their basements. Unfortunately, laws have not
kept pace with these advancements, and in many countries there are very
few limits on what scientists are allowed to do. As you will read about
below, extremely creepy human-animal hybrids are now being created in
laboratories all over the planet. And this is just the stuff that is
publicly admitted. Can you imagine what kind of sick and twisted
experiments are taking place in the dark corners of secret labs that
nobody knows about? And what happens if these creatures get out into
the wild and starting mating? At that point, it would be nearly
impossible to “put the genie back into the bottle”. Scientists seem
very eager to test the limits of what is possible, but what they are
unleashing may have consequences that none of us ever dreamed possible.
Just the other day, we learned that scientists have created mice that have an artificial human chromosome “in every cell of their bodies”. So what should we call such creatures? They are definitely not fully mice anymore.
Scientists have created genetically-engineered mice
with artificial human chromosomes in every cell of their bodies, as
part of a series of studies showing that it may be possible to treat
genetic diseases with a radically new form of gene therapy.
In one of the unpublished studies, researchers made a human
artificial chromosome in the laboratory from chemical building blocks
rather than chipping away at an existing human chromosome, indicating
the increasingly powerful technology behind the new field of synthetic
biology.
This is quite bizarre.
But creating mice with artificial human chromosomes is one thing.
Creating mice with partly human brains is a whole different ball of wax.
According to LifeNews.com,
researchers at the University of Wisconsin have successfully
transferred cells from human embryos into the brains of mice. Those
cells began to grow and develop, and they actually made the mice
smarter…
Yet experiments like these are going forward just the
same. In just the past few months, scientists at the University of
Wisconsin and the University of Rochester have published data on their
human-animal neural chimeras. For the Wisconsin study, researchers
injected mice with an immunotoxin to destroy a part of their brains–the
hippocampus–that’s associated with learning, memory, and spatial
reasoning. Then the researchers replaced those damaged cells with cells
derived from human embryos. The cells proliferated and the lab chimeras
recovered their ability to navigate a water maze.
For the Rochester study, researchers implanted newborn mice with
nascent human glial cells, which help support and nourish neurons in the
brain. Six months later, the human parts had elbowed out the mouse
equivalents, and the animals had enhanced ability to solve a simple maze
and learn conditioned cues. These protocols might run afoul of the
anti-hybrid laws, and perhaps they should arouse some questions. These
chimeric mice may not be human, or even really human, but they’re
certainly one step further down the path to Algernon. It may not be so
long before we’re faced with some hairy bioethics: What rights should we
assign to mice with human brains?
Is this really a good idea?
Do we really want to start creating entities that are part-human?
Apparently, it is now even possible to grow entire human organs
inside animals. In fact, scientists in Japan plan to start
systematically growing human organs inside of pigs within 12 months.
The goal is to increase the number of organs available for medical
transplants as a recent Infowars.com article explained…
A panel of scientists and legal experts
appointed by the Japanese government will be gathering together to begin
drafting guidelines governing Japan’s historic embryonic research. If
all goes according to plan, scientists hope to begin growing human
organs in animals within the next 12 months.
The research sounds like something out of
a science fiction novel. Scientists place a human stem cell into the
embryo of an animal to create a “chimeric embryo” that can be implanted
into the animal’s womb. According to the Telegraph, the animal in question will most likely be a pig.
Once the embryo is implanted it will grow
into a perfect human organ – a heart, a kidney, a pancreas, and so on.
Then, when the adult pig is slaughtered, the organ will be harvested and
transplanted into someone who needs a new one.
But once a human organ is grown inside a pig, that pig is no longer fully a pig.
And without a doubt, that organ will no longer be a fully human organ
after it is grown inside the pig. Those receiving those organs will be
allowing human-animal hybrid organs to be implanted into them.
One can only imagine what the consequences of doing such a thing would be.
You would think that there should be strict limits on this kind of a
thing. And in a few areas around the globe, there are some limits. But
most of the time the ethical decisions are left up to the scientists…
Two years ago, the UK Academy of Medical Sciences released a groundbreaking report
on “animals containing human material”. It concluded that most research
on chimeras is permitted by existing UK laws. But it also identified
some experiments that should not (yet) be done because of strong ethical
objections. One is to breed an animal that has human sperm or eggs.
Another is to create a non-human primate with a humanised brain.
Most people would be absolutely shocked to learn some of the things that are currently being done in the name of science.
For example, did you know that rice that contains actual human genes is being grown right now in Kansas?…
Unless the rice you buy is certified organic, or comes
specifically from a farm that tests its rice crops for genetically
modified (GM) traits, you could be eating rice tainted with actual human
genes. The only known GMO with inbred human traits in cultivation
today, a GM rice product made by biotechnology company Ventria
Bioscience is currently being grown on 3,200 acres in Junction City,
Kansas — and possibly elsewhere — and most people have no idea about it.
Since about 2006,Ventria has been quietly cultivating rice that has
been genetically modified (GM) with genes from the human liver for the
purpose of taking the artificial proteins produced by this “Frankenrice”
and using them in pharmaceuticals.
We are corrupting nature, and yet very few people seem alarmed. When the Daily Mail reported back in 2011 that scientists in the UK had created “more than 150″ human-animal hybrid embryos, hardly anyone got upset about it…
Last night a campaigner against the excesses of medical
research said he was disgusted that scientists were ‘dabbling in the
grotesque’.
Figures seen by the Daily Mail show that 155 ‘admixed’ embryos,
containing both human and animal genetic material, have been created
since the introduction of the 2008 Human Fertilisation Embryology Act.
This legalised the creation of a variety of hybrids, including an
animal egg fertilised by a human sperm; ‘cybrids’, in which a human
nucleus is implanted into an animal cell; and ‘chimeras’, in which human
cells are mixed with animal embryos.
Sadly, this kind of thing is being done all over the planet. Just
check out some of the truly bizarre human-animal hybrid experiments that
have been taking place all over the globe according to a recent Slate article…
Are you disgusted by those examples?
You should be.
Here are some other ways that humans and animals are being combined…
-Rabbit Eggs with Human Cells
-Pigs with Human Blood
-Sheep with Human Livers
-Cow Eggs with Human Cells
-Cat-Human Hybrid Proteins
And these are just the things that we know about.
What kind of sick and twisted experiments are going on around the globe that we don’t know about?
Like I mentioned at the top, we live at a time when the possibilities in the field of genetic modification seem endless.
But just because we can do something does not mean that we should actually do it.
The movie “Splice”
demonstrated the danger of creating an entirely new lifeform that is
only partially human. When we create something that is neither fully
human or fully animal, what kind of spirit enters that being? What
would the consequences be if such beings started mating with other
animals? Could we end up creating creatures that are far beyond our
capacity to control?
Unfortunately, Pandora’s box has already been opened and it is going
to be extremely difficult to control the creation of human-animal
hybrids. This technology is racing ahead all over the planet, and at
this point even college students can create new lifeforms in their own
basements.
We are entering a strange new world, and nobody is quite sure what comes next.
About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new novel entitled “The Beginning Of The End” is now available on Amazon.com.
John Steele, the
lawyer many point to as the mastermind behind the Prenda Law
porn-trolling enterprise, has remained pretty quiet in the wake of
Prenda's troubles. At an April hearing in US District Judge Otis
Wright's court, he kept silent, pleading the Fifth and refusing to
answer any questions. Wright went ahead and bench-slapped Steele and Prenda with an opinion laced with Star Trek references.
But today Steele spoke, in front of Wright, for the first time. After
Steele and his comrades had filed a set of motions insisting they had
never received the relevant sanctions papers, Wright insisted that Steele fly out to Los Angeles and make that argument in person. And he showed up.
It would seem like the last place Steele would want to be. In the
wake of Wright's April ruling, which included an $81,000 sanction and a
referral to criminal investigators, Prenda Law has become the most
notorious of the so-called "copyright trolling" operations that have
sprouted up in the last few years. Like the others, Prenda's business
depends on mass-suing thousands of BitTorrent users, alleging they broke
copyright law in illegally downloading certian porn titles.
The pro se road to Los Angeles
So how did Steele's second foray into Wright's court come about? It
appears that Steele made an effort to paint Wright—as well as opposing
counsel Morgan Pietz and Nicholas Ranallo—as having steamrolled Prenda
and its cast of characters with no regard for their due process rights.
On June 21, Steele filed an emergency motion
asking that Wright vacate orders requiring Steele and his colleagues to
pay a bond to appeal the sanctions imposed against Prenda, Steele, and
others. The rationale was that Pietz and Ranallo had failed to properly
serve them once they became pro se litigants, representing
themselves. Steele cried foul and argued the Prenda parties were left in
the dark, unable to adequately defend themselves. It was Pietz and
Ranallo who deserved sanctions, Steele wrote—he asked Wright to refer
the matter to the same disciplinary committee Wright has asked to
consider Prenda’s actions.
Steele’s suggestion was rejected out of hand. So Steele asked again, filing a motion to reconsider. The other characters of the Prenda saga simultaneously filed their own pro se ‘notices’ complaining that they had not been served, including a bizarre stream-of-consciousness filing from paralegal-cum-CEO Mark Lutz.
If Steele really wanted to get an up-close-and-personal version of
that bright red "DENIED" stamp on his first motion—well, Wright was
going to give it to him. The judge set a hearing for July 12. Steele asked to phone it in, but the request was rejected.
Even before this hearing, Pietz and Ranallo had slammed Steele's
accusations in writing. Denial of due process rights is a serious
charge, so Pietz and Ranallo hired outside counsel (Lawrence Heller) and
fired back, pointing out:
A "motion to reconsider" has to provide new evidence or law that wasn't available the first time around. Steele didn't bother.
Team Prenda's professed lack of awareness was of their own making:
when they filed the forms to represent themselves, they largely
neglected to include their e-mail addresses, fax numbers, and phone
numbers, all of which are required by local rules of Los Angeles federal
courts.
Steele had argued that “scores” of papers had not been
served, but only two filings were really at issue. Moreover, Steele had
actual knowledge of the filings, Pietz said—he wasn't in the dark at
all. Steele was submitting Pietz e-mails in court, despite the fact that
they weren't going through—Steele's own e-mail was "bouncing back."
That suggests he got the e-mail after it was circulated by another
Prenda-affiliated party.Further,
Prenda's lawyer had circulated a draft of an appeal to the Ninth
Circuit over the bond issue (an issue which included a filing Steele had
not been served with), inadvertently including Pietz. Steele replied
with suggested changes.
Wright on Steele’s accusations: “Why do I care?”
Steele came to court alone, and left alone. He walked in just a few
minutes before the scheduled start of the hearing. A handful of Prenda
watchers—former Prenda defendants, EFF representatives, interested
defense attorneys, and others who just like a good legal showdown—were
already seated inside.
Judge Wright walked in promptly at the scheduled time. The first
thing he noted is that Steele and other Prenda affiliates had been
submitting last-minute documents to the court, as late as this morning.
Paul Hansmeier, for instance, had filed a motion to appear by
telephone—“for what, I don’t know,” mused Wright, as Hansmeier’s motion
was not the subject of the hearing.
He didn't like all the new filings, either. Among them were thick complaints from
Mark Lutz and John Steele to the California State Bar concerning former
Prenda lawyer Brett Gibbs. “Why do I care?" snapped Wright. "You
assumed I needed more paper?”
Defense lawyer Pietz was working with Gibbs, said Steele. Therefore,
Gibbs' misdoings were part of a "pattern of fraud" by Pietz. Wright
tossed it aside: the hearing today was about Steele's knowledge of
particular filings, he said.
Then the court's flat-screen monitors popped up with a copy of Steele’s substitution of attorney form. Had Steele ever seen this document, Wright demanded to know?
Steele sat for an awkwardly long period of time staring at the
monitor before answering. "I'm sure I did at some point," he
said. Wright asked if the address was correct, and Steele said that it
was not. The incorrect address was listed twice on the form, said Wright—and it was never corrected.
Next method of contact? Steele's e-mail address, which was sending
bounce-backs to lawyers who tried to contact him. Steele said that he
shut it down because of “spam and hacking and attempts to mess up not
only my e-mail but websites.” At some point, he “literally could not
open” his e-mail account, he said. He had used an auto-responder to tell
people about his alternative address until June, he said.
Wright asked Steele if he had another e-mail address. "I have an old
one,” Steele responded. “Were you planning on letting anyone else in on
it?" Wright asked, noting that the court’s Local Rules require litigants
to provide an e-mail address if they have one.
Then Steele actually tried to argue, ever so briefly, that the e-mail
address was really beside the point. The issue wasn't relevant to his
overall point: that he had been deprived of his Due Process rights.
Courts had used paper for years, Steele said. He started to make an
argument that involved the year 1965, but wasn't quite clear. In any
case, he insisted on his right to get notice on paper, saying that he
didn't have an active ECF (electronic filing) account in the federal
courts system. Wright's anger
boiled over in a sarcastic tone. "Don’t worry about our rules!" he said.
"Do whatever you want. When you don’t get served, fly out and complain
about it."
Before Steele could respond, Wright started driving through the
additional flaws in Steele's "never got served" complaints. Steele’s June motion listed 21 documents that Steele claimed he had not been served with, but only six had been filed after Steele went pro se, Wright noted.
“Six documents!" said Wright. "Six is not scores of
documents." In any case, how could Steele not have known? “I know
you’re deeply and intimately involved in every aspect of this case.”
“I’m not,” sputtered Steele, arguing that there was “no evidence” that he had received the documents.
As for the other 15 documents, even if Steele wasn't yet representing himself, other Prenda parties had already gone pro se, Steele said. Their failure to get the papers established a "pattern [of] fraud."
Wright was amazed he would even use that language. “I find it laughable that you used the word ‘fraud,'” said the judge.
“You're getting all the due process you can stand!”
Steele also had
trouble identifying any legal authority for the motion to reconsider. He
kept invoking the Fifth Amendment, saying that alone was the authority.
“How? You got this from the Fifth Amendment? This is absurd," retorted Wright. "Last time I let you assert [the Fifth Amendment], and let you go right back to the airport!"
"That's a different Fifth Amendment right," responded Steele. The
court's actions here amount to an illegal "taking," which wasn't right.
"My rights... I get them no matter what,” he said. His June motion had
not been argued or heard, he said, as it was denied “within minutes.” “You’re getting all the due process you can stand!” said Wright. Steele’s arguments had been made—by Steele. Steele, growing audibly and visibly frustrated, replied, “If Your Honor doesn’t care, [then] this is an appellate issue.”
Wright didn't exactly need a heads up that Steele was planning to
complain about his rulings to an appeals court. “They’ve got a reserved
parking spot for you at the Ninth Circuit,” he said. So far, everything
had happened with nary a word from Pietz’s counsel, who had merely
recited a few points from the opposition they filed. He got about two
minutes in, talking about who was cc'd on various e-mail chains, when
Steele interrupted him, saying that he had never said he wasn't in contact with the other Prenda parties.
“Settle down,” Wright ordered. “Do they allow that in Florida?”
“I don’t know," said Steele, flustered. "I’m not licensed in Florida
and never practiced in Florida or California. Can I not object?"
“No,” said Wright, turning the floor back to Pietz’s counsel.
Pietz’s counsel asked Wright to issue a preservation order on
Steele’s e-mail address in order to determine just what e-mails he did
receive. Wright wasn't interested in helping out on that front. He'd
tired of Prenda's antics so much that he said he'd rather remain
willfully blind. "I don’t want to learn that another forged
document” was filed with the court, he said. Pietz's lawyer also asked
for a further hearing to discuss sanctioning Steele, which Wright
granted.
Wright had only a few more questions. “Who typed your papers?” he
asked. Steele sheepishly responded: “I typed part of it," and some of it
was typed by others.
“I couldn’t help but notice [that] Peter Hansmeier’s notice, Paul
Hansmeier’s notice, Mark Lutz’ notice, and your motion... all followed
the exact same format,” said Wright. They even had the same footer.
"They're almost indistinguishable. No way they were not typed by the same person."
“It’s called cutting and pasting!” Steele bellowed.
"Raise your voice again and I’m going to introduce you to the United
States Marshals," said Wright. "Get out.” Wright stood and walked off
the bench.
A couple of hours later, the court clerk posted a minute order. John Steele's motion is currently "under submission." Adam Steinbaugh writes an uncreatively-named law and technology blog. He holds a J.D. from Loyola Law School and resides in Los Angeles. You could follow him on Twitter if you habitually make poor decisions.
Dustin Theoharis was asleep in his bed when a Department of Corrections
officer, and King County Sherriff’s deputy rushed into his house,
busted into his bedroom and began to unload their pistols on this
unarmed man.
It is estimated that the two officers fired over 20 rounds of which 16
landed in Mr. Theoharis. According to Theoharis’s attorney, Erik Heipt,
“Theoharis suffered “a broken shoulder, 2 broken arms, broken legs, he
had a compression fracture to his spine, damage to his liver and
spleen.”
The kicker here is that Theoharis was not the guy the police were after. According to King 5 news Seattle,
The King County Sheriff’s deputy and Washington Department of
Corrections officer who shot him were at the house to arrest a man who’d
violated his parole. But in a search of the house after the shooting,
they surprised Theoharis in the basement room he was renting.
Cole Harrison, who was at the house, described it this way: “They (the
officers) rushed into that room like they were going to get somebody. I
mean they rushed down there and then all of a sudden. Boom, boom, boom,
boom.” According to a review
requested by Charles Gaither, a civilian watchdog of the Sheriff’s
Office, which was conducted by a police accountability expert, Merrick
Bobb, the officers refused to be interviewed on the scene and no
internal investigation was ordered. In fact Deputy Aaron Thompson didn’t
even issue a statement until a month later.
The report also suggests that the Sheriff’s Office did more to cover
for the two officers than it did to investigate the shooting; citing an
apparent conflict of interest right from the start. “Under KCSO policy,
the first supervisor to arrive at the scene is obliged to assume control
of the crime scene, direct involved personnel, and take on preliminary
investigation responsibilities. (G.O. 6.02.015, subd. Clearly, given the
sensitive issues that often accompany deadly force incidents, the
neutrality of the supervisor needs to remain unquestioned. In this case,
however, the first responding supervisor, KCSO Sergeant D, did not
maintain the position of neutrality. Shortly after arriving on the
scene, he switched roles from supervisor and neutral party to officer
advocate.”
Also noted in the report is the severe incompetency or deliberate
deficiency of the Sherriff’s Office when conducting the investigation.
“Nonetheless, we were deeply troubled by serious deficiencies in the
underlying investigation and the apparent unwillingness of KCSO to
question its own officers about the use of deadly force once it appeared
that they have not committed a crime. For example, the involved
officers were not immediately interviewed about their actions, but
instead were given over a month to provide a written account of the
shooting. In addition, physical evidence was overlooked or moved,
witness interviews were not thorough, and inconsistencies were not
adequately addressed.”
Meanwhile, Dustin Theoharis has undergone 12 surgeries and will never
be the same again. This is a travesty of justice and yet another example
of how the state can shield themselves from crimes they commit by being
above the law. Sadly stories like this one are becoming more frequent
as police forces are militarized across the country. “Protecting” and
“Serving” are seemingly being replaced with “Oppressing” and
“Silencing.”
I am writing you this story to share a few PROVEN hints on how to go
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I recently shared these tips with a Beforeitsnews contributor Susan Duclos of Wake Up America Blog.
She has shared with me that since doing so, her own websites traffic
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Finally, as I mentioned above in #3, I always add a video to every
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I’ll search for something that is very close though not completely
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from Mass Tea Party called “Health Care Law & What Is Costing America! – Wake Up America!”
Software
giant Microsoft worked closely with the National Security Agency in its
effort to surveil the American public, according to The Guardian. The British newspaper cites documents provided by on-the-run whistleblower Edward Snowden.
In particular, the technology company permitted the NSA to skirt the
encryption used on its Outlook.com email service. It also made it easier
for the agency to surveil its cloud system, SkyDrive, and Skype video, a
recent Microsoft acquisition. SkyDrive has approximately 250 million
users worldwide.
Data captured by the NSA was routinely passed on to the FBI and the
CIA, according to the report. “Prism is a team sport!” is how one NSA
document described the relationship between intelligence agencies and
corporations.
In April, Microsoft launched a public relations campaign claiming it
protects customer data. “Your privacy is our priority” is the campaign’s
tagline.
Microsoft and other technology companies were quick to deny roles in
NSA surveillance after Snowden made his revelations public beginning in
June of this year.
“All the major tech firms are lobbying the government to allow them
to disclose more fully the extent and nature of their co-operation with
the NSA to meet their customers privacy concerns,” Glenn Greenwald
writes. “Privately, tech executives are at pains to distance themselves
from claims of collaboration and teamwork given by the NSA documents,
and insist the process is driven by legal compulsion.”
Earlier today, we reported on Microsoft’s intimate relationship with the NSA and the military-intelligence complex.
Greenwald’s latest report underscores the fact transnational
technology corporations are indispensable to the government’s
surveillance of the American people.
In short, when you use products produced by these corporations you are consenting to the act of being surveilled.
Here’s something you certainly won’t hear about in the mainstream
media despite the 24/7 coverage of the Trayvon Martin case which may
generate riots: Trayvon Martin’s dad is a ‘Grand Master’ Freemason. More
to come on what this means and the occult history of Freemasonry, but
for now here is this fact displayed in video form using images that I’ve
compiled through user tips and investigation.
I’d love to give credit for the Facebook screenshots and share further details on the subject, so please get in contact via News Tips if you were responsible and have further information.
A disturbing FBI-created photo from the ‘COINTEL’ 1969 phony Black Panther coloring book distributed to children by the agency.
Disturbing and highly racist photos from a 1969 coloring
book distributed to kids via the FBI’s ‘COINTEL’ program were a part of
the secretive operation that sought to infiltrate groups like the Black
Panthers by spreading such insane propaganda in their name.
Amazingly, the COINTEL program is an admitted staple in what makes up
the secret programs that the FBI and federal government at large have
and continue to run against public interest.
What’s more, anyone can easily access a large amount of information on
programs like COINTEL with a simple Google search. You’ll find that COINTEL has a major entry on Wikipedia, where the operation is plainly stated as historical fact that was both illegal and conducted secretly until busted in 1971. You can also see the images on the The University of Notre Dame website.
Another disturbing excerpt from the 1969 coloring book for kids:
Another excerpt from the fake COINTEL coloring book.
From the Wikipedia article, which is linked up with albums of photos
from the program as well as other items used as phony propaganda pieces
to discredit movements:
“COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.”
In other words, this is simply admitted history that you’ve probably
never heard about until now. Especially not in the mainstream media.
You can even find the entirety of the phony 1969 Black Panther coloring book on Archive.org. And there’s no real reason to believe that the project stopped back in 1971 when the Citizens’
Commission to Investigate the FBI went and broke into the FBI offices
to expose the program through stolen dossiers. Until then, it was a
highly secretive shadow operation that was meant to work through
CIA-style deception and slander. Today, intelligence agencies continue
this war through attempting to infiltrate the alternative news, militia
groups, and others.
Here are some more images, including the cover of the phony COINTEL Black Panther coloring book for kids:
On June 25, 2013 President Obama laid out his long term agenda for reducing US industrial and consumer “greenhouse emissions.” On July 11th the Department of Energy warns
that “climate change”-related events will be threatening traditional
sources of energy production and causing more energy supply disruptions.
All the while, the notion that unusual or extreme weather events are
primarily due to an excess of atmospheric CO2 and the consequent
“greenhouse effect” is arguably based much more on long term economic
and political designs than sound science.
As a response to the urgent pleas accompanying the purportedly thorough and unbiased
research from scientists comprising the United Nation’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that seeks to link climate
change to human and industrial activity, an array of programs are being
proposed and implemented by fiat in both Europe
and the US. Such programs will drastically change the standard of
living of most every individual in the developed world. Indeed, since
global temperatures do not readily correlate
with the minute rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, there has been a
marked shift within the CO2 public relations machine from the “global
warming” meme to the more amorphous and catchall term, “climate change.”
The real agenda behind this international agenda
and promotion of its almost religious ideology is establishing the
rationale for a massive regulatory and taxation system to reshape human
behavior and lifestyle, in addition to carving out an entirely new area for technology outlays and financial speculation using carbon-related securities and derivatives.
Ostensibly a not-for-profit enterprise, preaching
the climate change creed has also become a lucrative endeavor, with
immense financial resources provided for its continued proselytization.
Indeed, the climate-related tax-exempt 501C3 organizations constitute a multi-billion dollar public relations machine
devoted to driving home one central theme: humans are to blame for
every weather-related disaster graphically presented in every electronic
media outlet. Such phony environmentalism involves vigorous efforts to
transform public policy based on dubious science while ignoring genuine
environmental threats.
While such 501C3s may be found encouraging
donations from the general public, the scale of many such organizations’
annual revenue and assets suggests reliance of very deep-pocketed
individuals and institutions with an eye toward selling government
officials and the broader public on the notion that almost every
aberrant weather event is the result of greenhouse emissions.
The following list of nonprofit organizations
devoted to pushing the view of climate change and sustainability—by no
means complete—has been gathered from their 990 tax forms for 2010. In
that year such 501C3s brought in over 1.7 billion in revenue
($1,742,350,656), with the Nature Conservancy, led by former Goldman
Sachs managing director Mark Tercek, accounting for over half that
amount. Data in the fourth column demonstrates the extent of such
entities’ public presence; some command greater journalistic attention
while others operate with almost complete anonymity.
501C3 Name
2010 Income
Net Assets
Mentions in Major World News Publications, July 1 2012-June 30 2013 (LexisNexis)
Sierra Club
$97,757,678
$52,209,573
726
World Wildlife Fund
$267,993,426
$182,067,246
993
Friends of the Earth
$5,495,897
$3,407,984
1,831
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
NA
NA
697
United Nations Environmental Program
NA
NA
115
United Nations Foundation
$197,737,803
$231,213,165
101
Nature Conservancy Inc.
$997,037,663
$5,180,558,726
242
Greenpeace Inc.
$27,465,948
$824,056
2,879
Climate Works Foundation
$83,026,313
$215,248,816
1
World Resources Institute
$50,079,176
$59,901,847
125
Center for Biological Diversity
$7,181,472
$10,734,072
115
Defenders of Wildlife
$30,229,512
$23,839,354
35
International Institute for Environment and Development
$30,335,978
$5,121,919
1
Natural Resources Defense Council
$97,957,964
$197,413,060
484
National Council for Science and the Environment
$3,526,925
$562,386
8
Global Green USA
$4,633,587
$4,372,965
8
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
$6,424,365
$4,666,874
2
Institute for Sustainable Communities
$15,007,337
$6,207,761
0
Sustainable Markets Foundation
$4,347,579
$1,660,940
0
US Climate Action Network
$2,414,999
$1,067,116
1
350 Org
$3,013,995
$2,250,300
109
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
$2,362,495
$736,159
0
The Alliance for Climate Protection
$19,150,215
$12,052,979
5
Climate Solutions
$2,642,682
$907,901
29
Alliance for Climate Education
$2,749,291
$369,251
2
Climate Central Inc.
$3,273,478
-$808,414
49
Climate Group Inc.
$2,746,784
$465,685
0
For example, the Al Gore-funded Climate Project was first set up for “educational purposes,” principally to have the message of An Inconvenient Truth
carried into US classrooms. Another organization, Association for the
Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, similarly carries out
the less prominent work of promoting the green agenda within colleges
and universities. Overall, such resources are utilized to emphasize the
alleged dangers of greenhouse gas emissions to the very existence of
civilization and life itself. The extent of such resources is comparable
to what many transnational corporations spends on advertising annually.
While Obama and the array of well-funded environmental organizations
campaign on the purported dangers of gaseous emissions, they are wholly
silent on what are truly grave threats to the environment and
humanity—namely the widescale contamination of the food supply from
genetically modified organisms, the array of clandestine weather
modification and geoengineering programs, the destruction of the Gulf of
Mexico, and grave pollution of entire global regions from depleted
uranium and Fukushima radiation that will last many lifetimes.
In light of these ongoing catastrophes and the
powerful financial interests behind carbon-centric environmental
advocacy, Obama’s posturing over anthropogenic climate change and
environmentalists’ well-funded overtures may be seen for what they
actually are—the visible components of a complex social engineering
program far advanced in convincing the public that its return to a
pre-feudal-like existence will not only be agreeable, but absolutely
imperative for the greater good.
booked into a Wilmington jail, from which he was later released on bail.
