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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Rand Paul Filibuster on NSA Spying - 24 Hour Warrant Judges - David vs Goliath - (Clip)
A TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT - STOP THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOT ACT
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Activists Place Hidden Tape Recorders Throughout New York to Protest NSA
Group posts private audio online to combat “nothing to hide” mentality
Mikael Thalen
Prison Planet.com
May 20, 2015
Activists have placed hidden tape recorders throughout New York City to protest NSA surveillance and the Patriot Act.
The recently announced campaign, entitled “We Are Always Listening,” is currently collecting private conversations in an attempt to discredit the “nothing to hide” narrative espoused by many Americans.
“Eavesdropping on the population has revealed many saying ‘I’m not doing anything wrong so who cares if the NSA tracks what I say and do?'” the group’s website states. “Citizens don’t seem to mind this monitoring, so we’re hiding recorders in public places in hopes of gathering information to help win the war on terror.”
Video provided exclusively to WIRED by the group shows a tape recorder, complete with a “PROPERTY OF NSA” stamp, being placed under a table at an unknown restaurant.
Remaining anonymous for obvious legal reasons, the group says it plans to expand the pilot program to other states.
“We’ve started with NYC as a pilot program, but hope to roll the initiative out all across The Homeland,” the site notes.
Some of the collected audio recordings, which have been posted online, detail the intimate conversations of multiple unsuspecting New York residents.
“A woman at a gym tells her friend she pays rent higher than $2,000 a month. An ex-Microsoft employee describes his work as an artist to a woman he’s interviewing to be his assistant—he makes paintings and body casts, as well as something to do with infrared light that’s hard to discern from his foreign accent,” writes WIRED’s Andy Greenberg. “Another man describes his gay lover’s unusual sexual fetish, which involves engaging in fake fistfights, ‘like we were doing a scene from Batman Returns.'”
The site encourages those “angry” about surveillance to contact Congress as Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows bulk domestic metadata collection, reaches expiration on June 1.
As the group will likely prove in the coming weeks, most Americans with “nothing to hide” often change their tune after a breach of privacy. Somewhat similar pranks conducted in the wake of former NSA-contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations have also highlighted Americans sudden reversal on spying when confronted with a microphone or camera.
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This article was posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 6:44 pm
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Rand Paul Says He Will Do “Everything Humanly Possible” To Abolish Patriot Act
“I call for the president to obey the law”
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
May 19, 2015
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has declared that he intends to do “everything humanly possible” to end the draconian Patriot Act, the legislation enacted after 9/11 that has led to mass government spying on Americans and all manner of other desecrations of liberty.
“I’ll do whatever it takes to stop it,” Paul said in a CNN interview.
Paul says he intends to filibuster the proposed reauthorization of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the specific area of the legislation used by the government to justify NSA snooping.
“I will do a formal filibuster. Whether or not that means I can go to the floor, some of that depends on what happens because you’re not always allowed,” Paul said.
Big Brother advocating Senate Republicans are pushing for the reauthorization of the legislation without any reform. The bill will need 60 votes in order to pass.
Speaking as to whether Paul would repeat his epic 13 hour speech on drone strikes from last year, the Senator stated “Nobody can predict how long you can talk, but I plan on doing everything humanly possible to try to stop the Patriot Act.”
“Whether that happens or not, I will filibuster the Patriot Act, and I’ll do everything I can to try to adhere to the courts — the courts have now said the bulk collection of records is illegal,” Paul urged, adding “They should stop immediately.”
Paul noted that it will be difficult to push for an end to the Patriot Act due to the fact that the lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee are somewhat untouchable.
“The people on our side who believe in the Constitution, Bill of Rights and privacy, we have a more difficult time though because they don’t give us the intelligence information,” he said.
“I can see very little. The Intelligence Committee gets to see 100 times more than I get to see, and the thing is [you’re] getting information given to you by people who believe in this bulk collection of records…so you’re only getting one side. We don’t get a two-sided evaluation of any of this.” Paul added.
Paul also warned about the overreach of government power in general.
“What Madison said about government, what Madison said about laws, is that if government were comprised of angels, we wouldn’t have to worry about giving them power,” the Senator said.
“Government will never be comprised of angels and that’s why whether there’s been an abuse or not, I worry about restraining power and making them.” Paul added.
In a further public appearance in Philadelphia Monday, Paul repeated his vow to end the Patriot Act, stating “Our Founding Fathers would be appalled to know that we are writing one single warrant and collecting everyone’s phone records all the time.”
See here:
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=11508675
“Here in front of Independence Hall, I call for the president to obey the law,” Paul said, as the crowd chanted“President Paul!”
“Somebody must stand up and say we will not let you tread on our Constitution or on our Bill of Rights,” Paul told the crowd.
A recent poll commissioned by the American Civil Liberties Union found that 60 percent of Americans oppose NSA mass spying, regardless of political affiliation, ideological beliefs, and age and gender divides.
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Steve Watson is a London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
This article was posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 11:00 am
Monday, May 18, 2015
EXPLOSIVE NEW DOCUMENTS REVEAL OBAMA, CLINTON SPIN AND LIES ON BENGHAZI
Administration knew about gun running, knew attack was planned, not spontaneous, knew rise of ISIS was a threat
by STEVE WATSON | INFOWARS | MAY 18, 2015
Judicial Watch has obtained and released documents today that conclusively prove that the Obama administration lied and engaged in spin over the Benghazi attack on the US consulate on September 11, 2012.
Fox News reported on the documents, obtained via FOIA request, noting that they reveal three key facts.
1. The US had full knowledge of gun running from Benghazi to Syria before the attack.
2. The Obama government knew shortly after the fact that the attack was planned at least 10 days in advance, deliberately to coincide with 9/11, and was in retaliation for a drone strike that killed an al Qaeda strategist.
3. The rise of ISIS and the establishment of a caliphate was predicted by US intelligence in 2012.
The three facts are key, because they reveal that the Obama administration lied and deliberately attempted to spin the facts concerning the Benghazi attack, during which four Americans were murdered.
“The Obama administration says it was a coincidence that [the Benghazi attack] occurred on 9/11. In fact, their intelligence said it wasn’t a coincidence, and in fact, specifically the attack occurred because it was 9/11,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
A Defense Intelligence Agency memo dated Sept. 16, 2012, and shared with the National Security Council, the State Department and the CIA, stated that “The intention was to attack the consulate and to kill as many Americans as possible to seek revenge for the [U.S.] killing of Aboyahiye (Alaliby) in Pakistan and in memorial of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center buildings.”
Despite this knowledge, the President and countless administration officials lied and said that the attack was a spontaneous response to a viral YouTube video about the Prophet Muhammad.
Another DIA memo from around the same time predicted the rise of radical militants who would eventually form ISIS. This information was disseminated in intelligence circles almost a year and a half before Obama played down the extremist threat, referring to ISIS as the “jay-vee” squad.
A third DIA memo, dated Oct. 5, 2012, conclusively proves US intelligence agencies were fully aware weapons were being transferred from Libya to Syria before the attack, a fact that Hillary Clinton denied having any knowledge of under oath.
Clinton was questioned by Senator Rand Paul about the gun running program in January 2013, more than three months after the DIA memo was issued.
Clinton told Paul “I do not know. I don’t have any information on that.” when Paul, rightly as it turns out, accused the Obama administration of running guns to Syrian rebels.
Yesterday, Paul again repeated sentiments that Clinton’s role in Benghazi attack should “forever preclude her” from running for the presidency.
As highlighted in the Fox News piece, former CIA Director Mike Morell recently dodged questions about the gun running, saying he “Can’t talk about it,” but suggesting that CIA agents were tracking the movement of weapons, and that the US government was supporting the program.
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Steve Watson is a London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
http://www.infowars.com/explosive-new-documents-reveal-obama-clinton-spin-and-lies-on-benghazi/
A Joint Military – Police Training Exercise Among Civilian Population Raises Concerns – “…ideal training location”?????? for domestic purposes only!!! Don’t drink the kool aid….
When the federal government considers a U.S. city or state hostile, even for training, some find that troubling.
Randy DeSoto May 13, 2015 at 4:10pm
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A Special Forces unit based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina is conducting joint exercises with a local police force in and around Columbia, South Carolina this week.
The exercises, which involve the 3rd Special Forces Group and the Richland County Sheriff Department’s SWAT team, will be taking place during late-night and pre-dawn hours and will run until May 15.
Columbia CBS affiliate WLTX reported to area residents:
Military and sheriff’s department vehicles will be traveling in the Lower Richland County community near Eastover and Hopkins, in Elgin near Screaming Eagle Road, and North Richland County in the Monticello Road area. The sheriff’s department says people in those areas may also hear ordinance being set off or shots being fired. They say those will be simulations or blanks and do not pose a risk to the community.
County Sheriff Leon Lott told CBS that his deputies “will provide simulated scenarios for the military.” According to Lott, the county offers an ideal training location that cannot be replicated on Fort Bragg.
Richland County encompasses Columbia and is the second most populous county in South Carolina with over 400,000 residents.
Announcement of this joint military/civilian exercise comes as many Americans are already skittish about the military conducting training among the civilian population, most notably with Operation Jade Helm 15.
As reported by Western Journalism, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) is launching Jade Helm 15 this summer, which is a series of military exercises across the southwestern states that will include special forces from all four branches. Some Americans speculate that Jade Helm is training the military to suppress rebelling citizens in a coming civil war, whereas the Army refers to it as ‘Realistic Military Training.’
Texas, Utah, and a small portion of California are listed as hostile territory on the training map, which raised concerns particularly in the Lone Star State.
In response to public feelings ranging from a simple desire for more information to discontent, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took the matter up directly with the Defense Department. “I have no reason to doubt” the assurances of the Pentagon about the exercises, he said; “but I understand the reason for concern and uncertainty; because when the federal government has not demonstrated itself to be trustworthy in this administration, the natural consequence is that many citizens don’t trust what it is saying.”
U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC)
“When the federal government begins, even in practice, games or exercises, to consider any U.S. city or state in ‘hostile’ control and trying to retake it,” added Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, “the message becomes extremely calloused and suspicious.”
h/t: Infowars
PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE A COMPLETE FAILURE – GET YOUR CHILDREN OUT NOW BEFORE THEY ARE TOO TRAUMATIZED! Who, in their right mind, thinks that this inhumane treatment fosters a motivation to learn???? SCHOOL SPARKS OUTRAGE AFTER ISOLATING STUDENT IN FRIGID SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
“I asked if I could get my jacket and was told no”
by ADAN SALAZAR | INFOWARS.COM | MAY 18, 2015
A school in Texas has defended its use of a frigid “focus room” where one child claims to have been isolated for more than two days.
Parents Lillian Borjas and Trevor Snowden were disturbed to discover the punishment being meted out to their child at the Carl Schurz Elementary School in New Braunfels.
A blog post entitled The “Focus Room” Horror first published details last week regarding 9-year-old Alex’s claims, accompanied by photos taken by the boy’s mother of Alex sitting in the corner of the room with his hands tucked inside his shirt.
Alex’s mother says she was denied access to the room four or five times before the school’s vice principal escorted her to see her son.
“Immediately Alex’s mom pulled out her phone and started taking pictures as the vice principal tried to block her,” the blog states, adding the mother was also unable to re-enter the room in order to photograph the thermostat.
Photos show the young boy huddled in the corner of a small room, in addition to a “hastily drawn” circle in the middle of the floor where Alex was reportedly ordered to sit for an hour and a half in order to earn classroom minutes.
Alex told his parents the room is “where bad children go and serve their in-school suspension (ISS).”
Asked how often he’d been subjected to the room, Alex responded, “Almost every day, once for two straight days.”
“I asked if I could get my jacket and was told no,” Alex said.
Meanwhile, “the teach [sic] put her own jacket on and said ‘It’s sure nice to be warm,’” Alex claims.
The boy went on to assert he’s not allowed snacks, bathroom breaks or exercise when in isolation.
“If you have a son or daughter attending Carl Schurz Elementary I strongly encourage asking your child about the ‘Focus Room’,”the blog’s author cautioned, adding “go to the school and ask to see it for yourself, insist on it.”
“Isolated, cold, confined to a circle drawn on a floor of a featureless room. Think about that for minute. Who else deploys such tactics? And under what circumstances?”
Admittedly, Alex’s parents confirm he sometimes acts out, and that he was recently diagnosed by a pediatrician as having ADHD, which would make it difficult for him to sit still inside of the circle.
The district defended its use of the space, highlighting the difference between a “focus room” and “safe rooms,” which are used during emergencies.
“A ‘FOCUS Room’ is a classroom environment that allows for behavior intervention such as social skills and counseling,” the district expressed in a letter.
“What it is, is a space that the child can focus their energy,” a spokesperson for the New Braunfels Independent School District explained, professing, “You’ll find it in any school district, in any school in the state.”
On Friday, the Texas Education Agency lodged a complaint against the district alleging faculty may have violated the Texas Education Code, namely a provision prohibiting educators from confining special needs children to secluded areas “contain[ing] less than 50 square feet of space.”
As for the temperature of the room, school officials noted, “It’s set district-wide at a certain temperature. There was no intentional way to keep that child cold in that room.”
The boy’s parents declared this is the last year Alex will be attending public school.
“He will be home schooled,” Borjas told KXAN.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
10 Pictures That Show How America Is Becoming A Lot Like Nazi Germany
At the heart of Nazism was a desire to control everyone and everything, and that is exactly what we are seeing in America today. Most of our “leaders” are psychotic control freaks that want to micromanage every aspect of our lives. For example, a bill that was just introduced in Congress would force all children in public schools nationwide to be vaccinated with no exceptions whatsoever. Other new legislation that was just introduced would ban all sales of ammunition over the Internet and require ammo dealers to report all bulk sales to individuals to the government. Our founders intended for this nation to be a place where individual freedom and liberty were maximized, but today we literally have millions of laws, rules and regulations that wrap us so tightly in red tape that we can hardly breathe.
To say that we are becoming just like the Nazis is a very strong statement, but I think that after reviewing the evidence you will agree with me. The following are 10 pictures that show how America is becoming just like Nazi Germany…
#1 It surprises most people to learn that the Nazis were actually radical leftists that had great animosity for free market capitalism. For example, National Socialist theologian Gregor Strasser once made the following statement…
We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak … and we are resolved under all circumstances to destroy this system.
With that in mind, I want you to check out the following political cartoon from 1934. The same kinds of things that helped the communists rise to power in Russia and the Nazis rise to power in Germany are happening in the United States today…
#2 Just like in Nazi Germany, political leaders in America tend to foster cult followings. At this point, there are millions of Americans that would support Barack Obama and believe whatever he had to say even if he was sacrificing children on the White House lawn. These kinds of followers are called “sheeple” for a reason…
#3 The Nazis were well known for their brutal police tactics, and that is definitely true of us today. The following photo is a powerful commentary on the transformation of police in America over the past several decades…
Just recently, representatives from 117 countries confronted the U.S. about all of this police brutality at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Unfortunately, I don’t think that this is actually going to change anything…
The United States was slammed over its rights record Monday at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with member nations criticizing the country for police violence and racial discrimination, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility and the continued use of the death penalty.
The issue of racism and police brutality dominated the discussion on Monday during the country’s second universal periodic review (UPR). Country after country recommended that the U.S. strengthen legislation and expand training to eliminate racism and excessive use of force by law enforcement.
#4 Why do so many of our police insist on dressing up like Darth Vader these days? Yes, I know that body armor is called for in certain situations, but many believe that the primary goal of these outfits is to intimidate. The following photo was submitted to Flickr by Elvert Barnes…
#5 In recent years, the American people have become conditioned to seeing troops in our streets. This next picture is from the Ferguson protests. The fact that sharpshooters were deployed on rooftops during the unrest there is more than a little disconcerting…
#6 Just like in Ferguson, when rioting started in Baltimore the police were initially ordered to stand down and allow it to spiral out of control. Then after a few hours, National Guard troops were finally deployed to help restore order. We are slowly getting used to the idea that martial law in our cities is a good thing…
#7 Meanwhile, “progressives” continue to use our system of public education to launch a relentless attack on the values that this country was founded upon. The Nazis were also big believers in “public education”, and they used it with shocking efficiency. Today, our children are being brainwashed to accept “progressive values”, and most Americans don’t seem to be too concerned about what is happening…
#8 Yes, the Nazis loved gun control. In fact, they eventually had everyone in the general population turn in their guns, and that is precisely what the “progressives” would love to see take place in the U.S. today. But what would this country look like if that actually happened? I think that this next photo which has been circulating on Facebook gives us a clue…
#9 Under the Nazis, the Germans were taught to salute a new flag and to adopt an entirely new set of values. In America today, it is not “politically correct” to display the American flag publicly or to show honor for it. Instead, we are being trained to think of ourselves as “global citizens” and to never question the growing power of international institutions such as the United Nations. Fortunately, there are many Americans that never plan to accept the “global governance” that the elitists have planned…
#10 In the end, the reason why the Nazis were so successful in Germany was because the vast majority of the German population simply complied with their demands. As Americans, we are going to be faced with our own choices in the years ahead…
So what do you think?
Is America becoming more like Nazi Germany?
10 Pictures That Show How America Is Becoming A Lot Like Nazi Germany
Michael Snyder
Sat, 16 May 2015 17:16:35 GMT
In New Audio Speech, Islamic State (ISIS) Leader Al-Baghdadi Issues Call To Arms To All Muslims: “Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting”
“Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting,” he said. “No one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, … Continue reading →
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