Headlines of note for October 2013
Glenn Greenwald's Snowden series continues to trickle...
Guardian: NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
And then halts, for a new venture...
BuzzFeed: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization
Raising red flags...
Rancid Honeytrap: A Harbinger of Journalism Saved
Others are eking it out...
Spiegel: Fresh Leak on US Spying - NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email
Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin
Monde: Comment la NSA espionne la France
El Mundo: La NSA espió 60 millones de llamadas en España en sólo un mes
Panorama.it: Papa Francesco intercettato - ecco come gli 007 spiano il Vaticano da anni
Washington Post: NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
The Hill: NSA admits tracking locations of cellphones in the United States
The Local: Author and NSA critic denied entry into US
The fall-out...
DW: NSA affair could block EU-US free trade talks
Germany and Brazil want UN vote on NSA spying
Cryptome: Privacy and Cybersecurity Illusions Have to Go
Strategic Culture (Wayne Madsen): NSA’s Global Economic Intelligence Net
Madsen is the unsung hero among journalists covering the NSA. Unlike Glenn Greenwald and James Bamford, he won't be invited to comment on cable news or to produce PBS NOVA reports. Perhaps his "pithy comments" page might have something to do with this. The following story however goes into levels of detail and import that have yet to be found in the pages of the Guardian, Washington Post, N.Y.Times,Der Spiegel, etc., and is worth quoting at length...
Wayne Madsen Report: NSA has only itself to blame for leaks
At the outset of the English-speaking signals alliance after World War II, there were only five countries involved in carrying out signals intelligence operations: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This alliance was based on the UK-USA Agreement of 1946 that had its actual roots during World War II and the BRUSA (Britain-U.S.) agreement of 1943.
During the Cold War era, the four non-U.S. English-speaking SIGINT alliance countries, known as "Second Parties," as opposed to the U.S. (the First Party), managed to keep their operations largely secret. Soon, agreements to share signals intercepts with NSA, were concluded with "Third Parties." Third parties were non-English speaking countries that were allies of the United States. The sharing was largely one-way, with Third Parties providing more to NSA than what they received in return. NSA "product" was usually highly-sanitized analysis reports. Third Parties originally included countries like Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and West Germany. Later, such countries as Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal joined the Third Party partners.
France, which withdrew from NATO's military structure in 1967 and which carried out intelligence operations against the United States, was kept distant from the NSA partnership. However, France gradually became a Third Party, especially after French President Nicolas Sarkozy returned France to NATO's military fold in 2009.
Israel, which was considered a hostile intelligence nation by U.S. counterintelligence agencies until the Obama administration, was never even considered for Third Party status by NSA. The premeditated Israeli attack on the NSA intelligence collection ship, USS Liberty in 1967, Mossad's penetration of NSA operations via a spy ring at RCA Corporation in 1995-6, and the damage down by Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, discovered in 1995, ensured that Israel would never have official access to NSA's intelligence. NSA carefully covered its intercept operations mounted against Israel by having NSA Hebrew linguists described as being proficient in "Special Arabic."
Keeping Israel removed from NSA operations all changed under the Obama administration when a Memorandum of Understanding was drafted between NSA and the Israel SIGINT National Unit (also known as Unit 8200 or Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) to share highly-classified SIGINT data. France's relationship with NSA graduated from Third Party to a category that can be described as Third Party plus. NSA SIGINT and Communications Intelligence or COMINT material was marked with the special caveat REL TO USA, FRA if it was authorized to be released to France. Likewise, Israel appeared to have received a Third Party plus status since NSA material authorized for release to Israel received a handling category of REL to USA, ISR.
While NSA's control over its "FIVE EYES" English speaking partners was relatively without major incident, aside from a spat with New Zealand in the 1980s over its policy of refusing to allow U.S. nuclear-powered warships into its waters, the same was not the case with Israel and France.
The TOP SECRET//COMINT//REL to USA, ISR (but not releasable tol FIVE EYES) MOU with ISNU not only permitted NSA SIGINT, including raw intercept traffic, to be shared with Israel but also stipulated that SIGINT collected by the FIVE EYES alliance could also be shared with the Israelis. However, the other four members of FIVE EYES were not included in the releasing authority granted by the NSA-ISNU memorandum. ISNU was merely "requested" in the MOU to protect the SIGINT handling laws and regulations of the FIVE EYES countries. [Excerpt of the MOU below].
The nature of ISNU's special relationship with NSA was highlighted by the description of the duties of SUSLAIS (Senior U.S. Liaison Adviser Israel) in the MOU. The SUSLAIS, similar to the SUSLO (Senior U.S. Liaison Officer), officially attached to the U.S. embassy in London but assigned to work closely with the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, England, was to handle any discovery by the Israelis of raw data on U.S. persons foud in raw intercept traffic provided to ISNU. The MOU does not make it clear what kind of access, if any, the SUSLAIS has to ISNU facilities located at Camp Moshe Dayan at Glilot Junction, north of Tel Aviv and near Herzliya.
ISNU was also charged with requesting permission from NSA, presumably through the SUSLAIS, before releasing NSA SIGINT data to any other party, which would include the Mossad, Shin Bet, or other Israeli government agencies. The MOU also refers to a special NSA-ISNU shared communications network codenamed CHIPPEWA.
Israel had been caught over the past decade trafficking in stolen or forged passports from Australia, Britain, New Zealand, and Canada. However, the NSA and the Obama administration concluded that Israel could be trusted with highly-classified SIGINT and COMINT from the intelligence agencies of countries subjected to Israeli intelligence operations.
It was not long before Israel began taking advantage of its new relationship with NSA and its Second and Third Party partners. In April 2013, the French discovered that "cyber-attacks" were taking place against the French Presidential communications network.The French Directorate for External Security (DGSE) requested and received a meeting with senio0r NSA officials at NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. The meeting, held on April 12, 2013, was attended by Bernard Barbier, the Technical Director of DGSE, and Patrick Pailloux, the Director of the National Information Systems Security (ANSSI) unit of France. The information on the attack is contained in an overall TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN, meaning No Foreign Nationals memo issued by NSA for the visit. DGSE and ANSSI first informed NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander about the cyber-attacks in January 2013 during a visit by Alexander to Paris. Alexander was prepared to send two NSA Threat Operations Center analysts to France to investigate. DGSE and ANSSI told Alexander about the cyber-attacks without going through the SUSLAF (Senior U.S. Liaison Activity France) or NSA's FAD (Foreign Affairs Directorate). Rather than receiving NSA analysts in France, DGSE and ANSSI opted, instead, to visit Fort Meade.
The NSA memo on the French visit only authorized for release to France (REL TO FRA) information on the visit of the two French officials to NSA. The unclassified reason for the visit was "Computer Network Defense."
The NSA organization charged with conducting cyber-attacks, Tailored Access Operations or TAO denied that the operations against the French Presidential network was their work. TAO, which includes personnel with the joint NSA-CIA Special Collection Service (SCS), inquired among "First Parties," that is the CIA, and "Second Parties," the UK's GCHQ and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) whether they were responsible for hacking the French network as they "were the most likely suspects," but they denied any involvement. The memo then states something vitally critical" "TAO did not ask either the Mossad or ISNU whether they were involved as France is not an approved target for joint discussion." In other words, NSA's compartmented security controls did not permit Israel to know anything about any NSA, GCHQ, or CSEC cyber-espionage against France. However, it is clear that NSA officials believed that Israel might have been the culprit behind the attacks on the French presidential network...
For another interpretation of the Snowden affair...
Rense (Yoichi Shimatsu): Saving Agent Snowden From His Handlers Greenwald and Omidyar
In a nutshell the Snowden case was used by the British military intelligence in partnership with a CIA faction opposed to the heavy-handed Pentagon-NSA eavesdropping programs that threaten to knock over sensitive operations, for instance, joint operations with Qatar and Saudi intelligence to direct Al Qaeda units in Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. Since assassination targets could include American, British and other allied European officers who know too much, the Agency prefers to operate without its communications with field agents and MK-ULTRA types being monitored by lads like Snowden or any of the many generals who have a grudge against the CIA...
A case in point?...
Telegraph: Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
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In our September headlines summary, we had noted an intriguing comment made by Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his Le Monde interview, on the situation internal to the United States being a factor in his reluctant support for the Obama administration's plan (with the condition of congressional approval) for punitive military action against the Assad regime in Syria. With Russia's diplomatic intervention to prevent war, however, and with it the prevention of the diversion away from those internal concerns to which Brzezinski alluded, these domestic factors now have come to the fore, forcing the U.S. government to face the music, as it were, an existential crisis of the United States itself, in its capacity to honor its ever burgeoning debt.
The Week: US debt default - is world facing 'economic Armageddon'?
Signs of the times in D.C...
Cryptogon: U.S. Capitol Shooting
N.Y. Daily News: Man sets himself on fire at National Mall, one witness says his accomplice filmed the entire ordeal
Todd Zwillich: House Stenographer Rant During Govt Shutdown Vote
D-Day re-enactments outside the White House...
PrisonPlanet: Riot Police Use Force Against Elderly Vets Outside White House
CrimeFileNews: Why The DC Cops Stood Down During The Face Off With Our Veterans
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More accusations against Prince Bandar in Ghouta chemical attack...
Voice of Russia: Saudi black op team responsible for Damascus chemical attack – Russian diplomatic source
Bandar already making good on his threat to Putin to remove his "protection" in the Caucasus...
Al Jazeera: Female suicide bomber blamed for Russia blast
Next to take it out on the U.S...?
Silvia Cattori: Saudi-US Row - Prince Bandar bin ‘Sulking’ Tries Old Bribe and Threat Trick Again
Civil wars continue and spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa...
Al-Alam: Syria terrorists shell Kafteen village, massacre 30 civilians
Voice of America: Syria Spillover Violence in Lebanon Raises Alarms
All Africa: Sudan's Turabi Warns of Civil War and Calls On Bashir to Step Down
Reuters: Militants shoot down military helicopter in northern Iraq-police
Brought down by a shoulder-fired missile perhaps? Where might they have obtained that?
NYTimes: Algeria - Troops Find Large Cache of Weapons Near Libyan Border
Prompted by the deaths of several hundreds of African migrants in the Mediterranean - migrants who if not for the NATO action of 2011 would have found gainful employment in Qadaffi's Libya...
Le Monde: Face à "l'afflux" de migrants, le sénateur UMP Philippe Marini "regrette le régime Kadhafi en Libye"
sic: the tweet states "...regrette la disparition du regime Kadhafi en Libye" - Marini regrets the demise of the Qadaffi regime in Libya; but it was his UMP cohort Sarkozy who led the charge in toppling Qadaffi.
RT: Gunmen attack Russian embassy in Libya's Tripoli
Telegraph: Libyan PM Ali Zeidan 'arrested' at gunpoint and released
Boots on the ground...
Guardian: US special forces raids target Islamist militants in Libya and Somalia
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WWIII triggers at large...?
PrisonPlanet: Top Nuke Commanders Terminated Following Missing Nuclear Warheads Report
Other firings, following the Camp Bastion debacle of Sept. last year...
Washington Post: Two Marine generals fired for security lapses in Afghanistan
It is the first time since the Vietnam War that a general, let alone two, has been sacked for negligence after a successful enemy attack. But the assault also was unprecedented...
So was Benghazi. The Wa-Po article however neglects to mention one crucial detail, which demonstrates to whom U.S. military forces are subject...
Inquisitr: U.S. Marine Generals Fired Over Taliban Attack On Prince Harry
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Perilous Fukushima Daiichi beset by the elements...
ENENews: Footage shows minute-long quake shaking Fukushima nuclear plant... Fukushima Official: “It was fairly big, and rattled quite a bit”
Fukushima Diary: Fukushima plant area had collapse and subsidence due to the last Typhoon / No press release
Expect even less press releases in the future...
RT: Fuk-‘hush’-ima - Japan’s new state secrets law gags whistleblowers, raises press freedom fears
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Miscellania...
Political Vel Craft: Hungary Kills The Rothschild Banks - Ordered To Vacate Country
Voltairenet: Torture is still in practiced in Guantanamo
BoilingFrogsPost: U.S. Government: Documents Pertaining to Awlaki Being an Asset on “An Agency” Payroll Are All Classified
Infowars: FBI Boston Bombing Coverup Accelerates
Steve Pieczenik: Ambassador Samantha Power - The “Hellish Power” Who Bombs her Way Out of Genocide!
Farm Wars: Intestinal Disease, Immune Disease and GMOs
GMOs and Neurological Disease: ADHD, Autism, Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, Bipolar
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The Fall of FEMEN
To the old adage, bad publicity is the best publicity, it might be added - bad publicity from bare-breasted beauties is even better. So it goes with every personage and institution that has been the object of a FEMEN protest. Of late, however, with the release of the film, Ukraine is not a Brothel, FEMEN itself has become the subject of the sort of unmasking publicity that cannot be so good...
Independent: The man who made Femen - New film outs Victor Svyatski as the mastermind behind the protest group and its breast-baring stunts
IBTimes: Femen Founder is a Man - Who Calls Women 'Weak Bitches'
Guardian: If Femen was set up by a man, where does that leave its topless protests?
With the pathetic attempt to seize the narrative in "MODEL DON'T GO TO BROTHEL" that was only met with a punch in the nose...
Model 'punches' Femen protesters who storm catwalk during Paris fashion week
They are now a laughing stock.
Independent: The man who made Femen - New film outs Victor Svyatski as the mastermind behind the protest group and its breast-baring stunts
IBTimes: Femen Founder is a Man - Who Calls Women 'Weak Bitches'
Guardian: If Femen was set up by a man, where does that leave its topless protests?
With the pathetic attempt to seize the narrative in "MODEL DON'T GO TO BROTHEL" that was only met with a punch in the nose...
Model 'punches' Femen protesters who storm catwalk during Paris fashion week
They are now a laughing stock.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Headlines of note for September 2013
Doves take the British Parliament...
Daily Mail: The humbling of David Cameron: On a momentous night, Tory rebellion forces Prime Minister to rule out military strike against Syria... and plunges him into a deep political crisis
The House of Commons has not voted against the Government on an issue of war and peace since February 27, 1782, when politicians voted against further war with America...
There is a certain irony in this; just as in the American Revolution, the only substantial ally of the U.S. is France...
Libération: Obama et Hollande affichent leur entente au sujet de la Syrie
In an interview with Le Monde, Obama's mentor (during his mystery years at Columbia) Zbigniew Brzezinski repeats the vacuous argument that we must bomb Syria in order to preserve the reputation of the U.S. and the West at large on the world stage...
Syrie : "Il faut un certain degré de patience et une vision plus large"
That reputation however has already been soiled; the international goodwill following the election of Obama has long dried up, as it becomes increasingly clear to the world that Anglo-American imperial arrogance continues unswayed through neo-liberal stratagems (of which the neo-conservative Bush Doctrine was but an ideological tributary), and the only "change" has been in tactics (drones rather than "boots on the ground") and stylistics (Obama's metro-sexual "cool" vs. Bush's cowboy swagger). The NSA revelations courtesy of Edward Snowden have brought the distrust of not only the U.S. government but of its telecommunication industry to a head; and with this distrust a vacuum of moral authority has opened, with Vladimir Putin eager to seize the moment, convincingly enough to induce Matt Drudge to declare: Putin is the leader of the free world... - apparently inspired by these comments of Putin on the eve of the G-20 meetings...
RT: Putin to (Nobel Prize winner) Obama: 'Think about future Syria victims'
With the onslaught of recent scandals, moreover, the distrust is simmering domestically as well beyond the partisan divide. Brzezinski acknowledges in his Le Monde interview that the Obama administration is motivated in its push to war not merely by external concerns, but by internal factors...
Depuis le début de la crise, je ne soutiens pas la politique menée par les Etats-Unis. Mais étant donné les réalités de la situation, intérieure aussi bien que géopolitique, dans laquelle se trouvent les Etats-Unis, je n'ai pas d'autre choix que de soutenir la décision du président de procéder à une action limitée de représailles et d'obtenir le soutien du Congrès.
Since the beginning of the crisis, I did not support the policy of the United States. But given the realities of the situation, domestic as well as geopolitical, which find themselves in the United States, I have no choice but to support the president's decision to conduct a limited retaliatory action and obtain the support of Congress. [Google trans., with some rephrasing and our emphasis]
Thanks in large part to the British rejection, Obama's march to the brink has thus been halted - temporarily at least. Given those "interior" concerns, however, he has in turn taken the uncharacteristic measure of conforming to constitutional mandate, cognizant that he himself is at the brink of impeachment...
National Review: GOP Rep.: House Would Impeach Obama if We Brought It for Vote
The situation is fluid...
Monday, September 9th: at a press conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - prompted by a question from CBS reporter Margaret Brennan - offers the hypothetical suggestion that Assad could give up his chemical weapons to avoid U.S. military action. What ensued from these "off the cuff" remarks was a tectonic re-alignment of the diplomatic stand-off between the U.S. and Syria backed by Russia...
Lobe Log: Kerry Gaffe on Syria Takes on Life of its Own
The "gaffe" came at a very opportune time however for the Obama administration, when it was effectively caught between a rock and a hard place in its push for bombing Syria - facing a likely no vote from Congress, the choice for the administration was either bomb without the consent of Congress and potentially face impeachment, or not bomb and accept humiliation. With a series of stories surfacing particularly on Russia's RT implicating the U.S. in fabricating evidence...
'CIA fabricated evidence to lure US into war with Syria'
Intl experts have strong proof images of chemical victims fabricated – Moscow
RT sources: Syrian rebels plan chem attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories
International Business Times: Assad not Responsible for Ghouta Gas Attack, Says Freed Hostage Pierre Piccinin
Infowars: Rush Limbaugh Suspects Obama Conspired With Al-Qaeda to Frame Bashar al-Assad
It would appear then that Obama was offered a face-saving way out of potentially devastating revelations by Putin at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg the previous week...
Al Monitor: Obama, Putin previously discussed plan to secure Syria chemical arms
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he and President Obama had “indeed discussed” the idea during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia last week.
He and Obama agreed “to instruct Secretary of State [John Kerry] and Foreign Minister [Sergey Lavrov] to get in touch” and “try to move this idea forward..."
Putin's trump card may have been incriminating intelligence, or simply "the debt bomb"...
Boiling Frogs Post: Did Putin Quietly Play the Debt Card Over Syria?
As a side note, that Kerry's reverie was prompted by a CBS reporter is perhaps no accident, given certain relationships that exist...
Fire Andrea Mitchell: Ben Rhodes — brother of CBS News president David Rhodes — instrumental in changing Benghazi talking points
Sept. 16: The UN report on the August 21 chemical attack in Ghouta is released, establishing that the weapons used were not substantially improvised, as was the case in previous attacks according to Russian claims...
McClatchy: Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming Syrian rebels for Aleppo sarin attack
The case for assigning blame in the Ghouta attack to the Syrian government has perhaps been more convincingly made by the Brown Moses blog (though it should be noted that for a time Brown Moses hosted a Free Syrian Army donation banner) than by the U.S. government...
Washington's Blog: Congress Members Who Have Seen Classified Evidence About Syria Say It Fails to Prove Anything
The assumption however is that only Assad would have such finished weapons in his stockpile, perhaps being of binary construction, as speculated by chemical weapons expert Dan Kaszeta... Unless, of course, they came from somewhere else... Libya? A flashback to this Wayne Madsen Report...
December 10-11, 2012 -- From Libya with Love: Chemical weapons in Syria, in the hands of the rebels
The Obama administration has managed to accomplish something that is a self-fulfilling prophecy: "Al Qaeda" now possesses weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The WMDs are chemical weapons canisters obtained from well-guarded Libyan warehouses that were opened up to Salafist rebels, many affiliated with "Al Qaeda" cells, during the NATO-supported military attack on the government of Muammar Qaddafi.
The CIA's and Pentagon's propaganda machinery have covered up the presence of Libyan chemical weapons in Syria by claiming the government of Bashar al Assad has started mixing precursor chemicals in preparation for deploying nerve and mustard gas weapons on the battlefield against Syrian rebels...
Were they shipped from Benghazi? This fellow might know...
Washington Free Beacon: Congressman - CIA Employee Who Refused to Sign Non-Disclosure on Benghazi Suspended
In any case, the Syrian government got the precursors of the chemical weapons it does possess from Deutschland...
Spiegel: German Chemicals for Syria - Merkel Denies Military Use
Whatever its origin, that sarin was used in Ghouta is not in significant doubt; the question is why was it necessary to stage the atrocity exhibition...
Global Research: The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria
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Yet another case of the disappearing death-squad...
Liberal America: Possible Second And Third Gunman At Washington Navy Yard
The chief reports they are still searching for the, possible, 2 other shooters. These shooter are described as one white male 40-50 years of age, in a khaki military style uniform with some sort of beret. The second shooter is described as a black male also between the age of 40 and 50 years old, 5ft 10 inches tall, 180 pounds with gray sideburns, wearing a olive military style uniform.
While the patsy was chipped...
Activist Post: ‘My ELF Weapon’ - More Proof Navy Yard Shooter Targeted with Mind Control Weapons
And to insure a double-digit body-count...
BBC: Navy Yard - Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene
The Hill: Radios failed during Navy Yard attack, emergency responders say
Then there is the VA's oops-we-did-it-again extermination program...
CBS: Veterans dying from overmedication
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Terror in Kenya...
Cryptome: Nairobi Mall Attack
Land Destroyer: Kenyan Bloodbath - Reaping the "Benefits" of US AFRICOM Collaboration
Aangirfan: MI6 INVOLVED IN MALL SHOOTING?
WND (Corsi): Egypt eyes Obama's brother for terror list
On that note, Al Shabaab is using Masonic Lodge names and numbers in Charlotte NC (home of the 2012 Democratic National Convention) as code for their target list...
Kenyan Daily Post: Codes used by AL SHABAAB to identify targets - All KENYANS need to READ THIS and BEWARE!
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The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald continues churning out the NSA stories...
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
UK detention of Reprieve activist consistent with NSA's view of drone opponents as 'threats' and 'adversaries'
As do others...
O Globo: Documentos da NSA apontam Dilma Rousseff como alvo de espionagem
NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras
The Hindu: NSA planted bugs at Indian missions in D.C., U.N.
Spiegel: Belgacom Attack - Britain's GCHQ Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm
NYTimes: N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
Naval Research Laboratory (via Cryptome): User Authentication from Web Browsing Behavior
Toward the Attribution of Web Behavior
Washington Post: Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
How Snowden did it...
Ars Technica: Sysadmin security fail - NSA finds Snowden hijacked officials’ logins
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After Wikileaks, after Snowden, and with Russia's assuming the lead on Syria...
NYTimes (V.V.Putin): A Plea for Caution From Russia
...the U.S. has lost its standing as the world's unilateral super-power, its claim to "American exceptionalism" and with it any pretense to moral authority... It's getting so bad, world leaders now turn their backs to the U.S...
VOANews: Brazil's Rousseff Calls off State Visit to US Over Spying
While scolding it at the UN...
UN: At UN debate, Brazilian President urges protection of Internet users
“Tampering in such a manner in the affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and an affront to the principles that must guide relations among them, especially among friendly nations,” she declared.
GlobalPost: Bolivian President Evo Morales accuses US of 'harboring terrorists'
Or hold it under suspicion...
Spiegel: NSA Affair - Germans Conduct Helicopter Flyover of US Consulate
Under orders from Germany's domestic intelligence agency, a federal police helicopter conducted a flyover of the US Consulate in Frankfurt, the government in Berlin has confirmed. Officials were apparently searching for surveillance equipment.
Over time, the U.S. will lose its lead in those areas where it remained an economic powerhouse; in telecommunications...
Bloomberg: NSA Spying Seen Risking Billions in U.S. Technology Sales
Economy Watch: Brazil, Argentina To Team Up Against US Cyber-Spying
In arms sales (Is the worry that U.S. contractors would install hack-able back-doors to weapons systems, such as was the case with encryption products?)...
AFP: US spying on Brazil halts talks on warplane purchase
With the almighty dollar: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke had been hinting for months that the time was soon coming to wind down quantitative easing, when against all market expectations he balked - just as the expected war was nixed...
Goldbroker.com: Bernanke’s « Syrian Moment »
These two events are linked and should be understood as some attempts at imposing the US dollar as the world reserve currency and, thus, preserving this paper-money monetary system.
But the opposite is happening : the dollar is being rejected massively, there’s a loss of global confidence in the dollar, and the United States is more and more isolated...
Finally, with its bullying and duplicitous designs to impose GMO's on the world on behalf of U.S. biotech companies, in agriculture...
Blacklisted News: Total GMO Ban To Be Considered By Russia Within Weeks
Reuters: Washington state testing alfalfa for GMO contamination
Biotech alfalfa is approved for commercial production in the United States. But many foreign and domestic buyers require that supplies not be genetically modified, and the possible presence of GMO modified alfalfa in export supplies could result in lost sales for U.S. farmers.
Just this summer, Japan and South Korea temporarily stopped buying some U.S. wheat because an experimental biotech variety was found growing in a field of conventional wheat in Oregon...
These force-feeding efforts are undeterred however...
MintPress News: Trans Pacific Partnership Might Include International Ban On GMO Labeling
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Miscellania...
Commemorating another episode in history in which, like the diplomatic events of this month, the Russians saved the Americans from themselves...
Tarpley: American Banker Wharton Barker’s First-Person Account Confirms - Russian Tsar Alexander II Was Ready for War with Britain and France in 1862-1863 to Defend Lincoln and the Union – Americans “Will Understand”
In the not so distant future we will have cognition factories...
Science News: Tiny human almost-brains made in lab
Looks can be deceiving, but this looks not quite natural...
Seemorerocks: Rain in Colorado
Now we're really "out there"...
NASA: NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey Into Interstellar Space
Doves take the British Parliament...
Daily Mail: The humbling of David Cameron: On a momentous night, Tory rebellion forces Prime Minister to rule out military strike against Syria... and plunges him into a deep political crisis
The House of Commons has not voted against the Government on an issue of war and peace since February 27, 1782, when politicians voted against further war with America...
There is a certain irony in this; just as in the American Revolution, the only substantial ally of the U.S. is France...
Libération: Obama et Hollande affichent leur entente au sujet de la Syrie
In an interview with Le Monde, Obama's mentor (during his mystery years at Columbia) Zbigniew Brzezinski repeats the vacuous argument that we must bomb Syria in order to preserve the reputation of the U.S. and the West at large on the world stage...
Syrie : "Il faut un certain degré de patience et une vision plus large"
That reputation however has already been soiled; the international goodwill following the election of Obama has long dried up, as it becomes increasingly clear to the world that Anglo-American imperial arrogance continues unswayed through neo-liberal stratagems (of which the neo-conservative Bush Doctrine was but an ideological tributary), and the only "change" has been in tactics (drones rather than "boots on the ground") and stylistics (Obama's metro-sexual "cool" vs. Bush's cowboy swagger). The NSA revelations courtesy of Edward Snowden have brought the distrust of not only the U.S. government but of its telecommunication industry to a head; and with this distrust a vacuum of moral authority has opened, with Vladimir Putin eager to seize the moment, convincingly enough to induce Matt Drudge to declare: Putin is the leader of the free world... - apparently inspired by these comments of Putin on the eve of the G-20 meetings...
RT: Putin to (Nobel Prize winner) Obama: 'Think about future Syria victims'
With the onslaught of recent scandals, moreover, the distrust is simmering domestically as well beyond the partisan divide. Brzezinski acknowledges in his Le Monde interview that the Obama administration is motivated in its push to war not merely by external concerns, but by internal factors...
Depuis le début de la crise, je ne soutiens pas la politique menée par les Etats-Unis. Mais étant donné les réalités de la situation, intérieure aussi bien que géopolitique, dans laquelle se trouvent les Etats-Unis, je n'ai pas d'autre choix que de soutenir la décision du président de procéder à une action limitée de représailles et d'obtenir le soutien du Congrès.
Since the beginning of the crisis, I did not support the policy of the United States. But given the realities of the situation, domestic as well as geopolitical, which find themselves in the United States, I have no choice but to support the president's decision to conduct a limited retaliatory action and obtain the support of Congress. [Google trans., with some rephrasing and our emphasis]
Thanks in large part to the British rejection, Obama's march to the brink has thus been halted - temporarily at least. Given those "interior" concerns, however, he has in turn taken the uncharacteristic measure of conforming to constitutional mandate, cognizant that he himself is at the brink of impeachment...
National Review: GOP Rep.: House Would Impeach Obama if We Brought It for Vote
The situation is fluid...
Monday, September 9th: at a press conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - prompted by a question from CBS reporter Margaret Brennan - offers the hypothetical suggestion that Assad could give up his chemical weapons to avoid U.S. military action. What ensued from these "off the cuff" remarks was a tectonic re-alignment of the diplomatic stand-off between the U.S. and Syria backed by Russia...
Lobe Log: Kerry Gaffe on Syria Takes on Life of its Own
The "gaffe" came at a very opportune time however for the Obama administration, when it was effectively caught between a rock and a hard place in its push for bombing Syria - facing a likely no vote from Congress, the choice for the administration was either bomb without the consent of Congress and potentially face impeachment, or not bomb and accept humiliation. With a series of stories surfacing particularly on Russia's RT implicating the U.S. in fabricating evidence...
'CIA fabricated evidence to lure US into war with Syria'
Intl experts have strong proof images of chemical victims fabricated – Moscow
RT sources: Syrian rebels plan chem attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories
International Business Times: Assad not Responsible for Ghouta Gas Attack, Says Freed Hostage Pierre Piccinin
Infowars: Rush Limbaugh Suspects Obama Conspired With Al-Qaeda to Frame Bashar al-Assad
It would appear then that Obama was offered a face-saving way out of potentially devastating revelations by Putin at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg the previous week...
Al Monitor: Obama, Putin previously discussed plan to secure Syria chemical arms
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he and President Obama had “indeed discussed” the idea during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia last week.
He and Obama agreed “to instruct Secretary of State [John Kerry] and Foreign Minister [Sergey Lavrov] to get in touch” and “try to move this idea forward..."
Putin's trump card may have been incriminating intelligence, or simply "the debt bomb"...
Boiling Frogs Post: Did Putin Quietly Play the Debt Card Over Syria?
As a side note, that Kerry's reverie was prompted by a CBS reporter is perhaps no accident, given certain relationships that exist...
Fire Andrea Mitchell: Ben Rhodes — brother of CBS News president David Rhodes — instrumental in changing Benghazi talking points
Sept. 16: The UN report on the August 21 chemical attack in Ghouta is released, establishing that the weapons used were not substantially improvised, as was the case in previous attacks according to Russian claims...
McClatchy: Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming Syrian rebels for Aleppo sarin attack
The case for assigning blame in the Ghouta attack to the Syrian government has perhaps been more convincingly made by the Brown Moses blog (though it should be noted that for a time Brown Moses hosted a Free Syrian Army donation banner) than by the U.S. government...
Washington's Blog: Congress Members Who Have Seen Classified Evidence About Syria Say It Fails to Prove Anything
The assumption however is that only Assad would have such finished weapons in his stockpile, perhaps being of binary construction, as speculated by chemical weapons expert Dan Kaszeta... Unless, of course, they came from somewhere else... Libya? A flashback to this Wayne Madsen Report...
December 10-11, 2012 -- From Libya with Love: Chemical weapons in Syria, in the hands of the rebels
The Obama administration has managed to accomplish something that is a self-fulfilling prophecy: "Al Qaeda" now possesses weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The WMDs are chemical weapons canisters obtained from well-guarded Libyan warehouses that were opened up to Salafist rebels, many affiliated with "Al Qaeda" cells, during the NATO-supported military attack on the government of Muammar Qaddafi.
The CIA's and Pentagon's propaganda machinery have covered up the presence of Libyan chemical weapons in Syria by claiming the government of Bashar al Assad has started mixing precursor chemicals in preparation for deploying nerve and mustard gas weapons on the battlefield against Syrian rebels...
Were they shipped from Benghazi? This fellow might know...
Washington Free Beacon: Congressman - CIA Employee Who Refused to Sign Non-Disclosure on Benghazi Suspended
In any case, the Syrian government got the precursors of the chemical weapons it does possess from Deutschland...
Spiegel: German Chemicals for Syria - Merkel Denies Military Use
Whatever its origin, that sarin was used in Ghouta is not in significant doubt; the question is why was it necessary to stage the atrocity exhibition...
Global Research: The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria
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Yet another case of the disappearing death-squad...
Liberal America: Possible Second And Third Gunman At Washington Navy Yard
The chief reports they are still searching for the, possible, 2 other shooters. These shooter are described as one white male 40-50 years of age, in a khaki military style uniform with some sort of beret. The second shooter is described as a black male also between the age of 40 and 50 years old, 5ft 10 inches tall, 180 pounds with gray sideburns, wearing a olive military style uniform.
While the patsy was chipped...
Activist Post: ‘My ELF Weapon’ - More Proof Navy Yard Shooter Targeted with Mind Control Weapons
And to insure a double-digit body-count...
BBC: Navy Yard - Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene
The Hill: Radios failed during Navy Yard attack, emergency responders say
Then there is the VA's oops-we-did-it-again extermination program...
CBS: Veterans dying from overmedication
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Terror in Kenya...
Cryptome: Nairobi Mall Attack
Land Destroyer: Kenyan Bloodbath - Reaping the "Benefits" of US AFRICOM Collaboration
Aangirfan: MI6 INVOLVED IN MALL SHOOTING?
WND (Corsi): Egypt eyes Obama's brother for terror list
On that note, Al Shabaab is using Masonic Lodge names and numbers in Charlotte NC (home of the 2012 Democratic National Convention) as code for their target list...
Kenyan Daily Post: Codes used by AL SHABAAB to identify targets - All KENYANS need to READ THIS and BEWARE!
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The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald continues churning out the NSA stories...
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
UK detention of Reprieve activist consistent with NSA's view of drone opponents as 'threats' and 'adversaries'
As do others...
O Globo: Documentos da NSA apontam Dilma Rousseff como alvo de espionagem
NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras
The Hindu: NSA planted bugs at Indian missions in D.C., U.N.
Spiegel: Belgacom Attack - Britain's GCHQ Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm
NYTimes: N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
Naval Research Laboratory (via Cryptome): User Authentication from Web Browsing Behavior
Toward the Attribution of Web Behavior
Washington Post: Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
How Snowden did it...
Ars Technica: Sysadmin security fail - NSA finds Snowden hijacked officials’ logins
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After Wikileaks, after Snowden, and with Russia's assuming the lead on Syria...
NYTimes (V.V.Putin): A Plea for Caution From Russia
...the U.S. has lost its standing as the world's unilateral super-power, its claim to "American exceptionalism" and with it any pretense to moral authority... It's getting so bad, world leaders now turn their backs to the U.S...
VOANews: Brazil's Rousseff Calls off State Visit to US Over Spying
While scolding it at the UN...
UN: At UN debate, Brazilian President urges protection of Internet users
“Tampering in such a manner in the affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and an affront to the principles that must guide relations among them, especially among friendly nations,” she declared.
GlobalPost: Bolivian President Evo Morales accuses US of 'harboring terrorists'
Or hold it under suspicion...
Spiegel: NSA Affair - Germans Conduct Helicopter Flyover of US Consulate
Under orders from Germany's domestic intelligence agency, a federal police helicopter conducted a flyover of the US Consulate in Frankfurt, the government in Berlin has confirmed. Officials were apparently searching for surveillance equipment.
Over time, the U.S. will lose its lead in those areas where it remained an economic powerhouse; in telecommunications...
Bloomberg: NSA Spying Seen Risking Billions in U.S. Technology Sales
Economy Watch: Brazil, Argentina To Team Up Against US Cyber-Spying
In arms sales (Is the worry that U.S. contractors would install hack-able back-doors to weapons systems, such as was the case with encryption products?)...
AFP: US spying on Brazil halts talks on warplane purchase
With the almighty dollar: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke had been hinting for months that the time was soon coming to wind down quantitative easing, when against all market expectations he balked - just as the expected war was nixed...
Goldbroker.com: Bernanke’s « Syrian Moment »
These two events are linked and should be understood as some attempts at imposing the US dollar as the world reserve currency and, thus, preserving this paper-money monetary system.
But the opposite is happening : the dollar is being rejected massively, there’s a loss of global confidence in the dollar, and the United States is more and more isolated...
Finally, with its bullying and duplicitous designs to impose GMO's on the world on behalf of U.S. biotech companies, in agriculture...
Blacklisted News: Total GMO Ban To Be Considered By Russia Within Weeks
Reuters: Washington state testing alfalfa for GMO contamination
Biotech alfalfa is approved for commercial production in the United States. But many foreign and domestic buyers require that supplies not be genetically modified, and the possible presence of GMO modified alfalfa in export supplies could result in lost sales for U.S. farmers.
Just this summer, Japan and South Korea temporarily stopped buying some U.S. wheat because an experimental biotech variety was found growing in a field of conventional wheat in Oregon...
These force-feeding efforts are undeterred however...
MintPress News: Trans Pacific Partnership Might Include International Ban On GMO Labeling
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Miscellania...
Commemorating another episode in history in which, like the diplomatic events of this month, the Russians saved the Americans from themselves...
Tarpley: American Banker Wharton Barker’s First-Person Account Confirms - Russian Tsar Alexander II Was Ready for War with Britain and France in 1862-1863 to Defend Lincoln and the Union – Americans “Will Understand”
In the not so distant future we will have cognition factories...
Science News: Tiny human almost-brains made in lab
Looks can be deceiving, but this looks not quite natural...
Seemorerocks: Rain in Colorado
Now we're really "out there"...
NASA: NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey Into Interstellar Space
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Headlines of note for August 2013...
Last month we noted Saudi Prince Bandar's frustrating visit to Paris in seeking support for the Syrian rebels. Now, in a sign of increasing desperation as the tide has turned in favor of Assad wrapping up the civil war perhaps before the year is out, Bandar has gone to the belly of the beast - Moscow - to make his pitch to Putin...
Al Monitor: Saudi Arabia Tries to Cut a Deal With Russia Regarding Syria
Followups...
Russian President, Saudi Spy Chief Discussed Syria, Egypt
Voltairenet: Saudi Arabia ready to negotiate
PressTV: ANOTHER "US' PROXY" PUSHING FOR WAR!
Telegraph: Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria
It would appear then that Bandar was attempting to make an Al Yamamah type of deal with Putin, such as he had made with Thatcher in the 1980s - the specifics of the latter was a barter arrangement of oil for weapons, the primary beneficiary of which was BAE Systems. It is worth noting then that Richard Evans, the former CEO of BAE in the time frame of the planning of the 9/11 attacks (when at least two of the hijackers received funds from an Al Yamamah account held by Bandar), has been doing business in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan...
Intelligence Online: Dick Evans, the Kazakhstan connections of an arms industry high-flier
What the Brits must be salivating over...
Tengri News: Oil reserves at new Kazakhstan's field estimated at 880 million barrels
Subsequent to the meeting in Russia, Bandar met with Sawers of MI6...
FARS News Agency: Saudi Prince Bandar Meets MI6 Chief on Syria
Asked by Sawers if Riyadh is concerned over the backfiring of the extremist groups who have been armed and sent to Syria, Prince Bandar said all his country's efforts are aimed at "providing security for us and our allies and I assure (you) that I have the power to harness these reinforced streams, given my over 30-year-long experience in controlling and directing these Jihadi groups”.
On that note, it is worth quoting Bandar's veiled threat to Putin from the above cited Al Monitor article...
"I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us, and they will not move in the Syrian territory’s direction without coordinating with us. These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role or influence in Syria’s political future.”
Flashback: Bandar had made a similar threat to Tony Blair when the Serious Fraud Office was investigating Al Yamamah...
Guardian: BAE - secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince
Bandar brigades in action...
Wayne Madsen Report: Lebanon's angst as war against Syria looms
WMR's sources in Lebanon report that three deadly car bombings, one on August 15 in a Hezbollah-controlled area south of Beirut and two outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on August 23 during Friday prayers were intended to import into fragile Lebanon the Sunni-Shi'a/Alawite/Christian violence that is currently raging in neighboring Syria.
Our Lebanese sources claim the three bombings were the handiwork of Prince Bandar Bin Sultan al-Saud, the chief of Saudi intelligence, who engineered the trio of bombings that killed over 60 Sunni and Shi'a Lebanese in south Beirut and Tripoli to outside forces that sought to sow division among Lebanon's religious factions...
Stop NATO: Russia - Syrian Rebels Massacre 450 Kurdish Civilians, Mainly Women And Children
Not to mention the Negroponte/John S. Ford brigades...
Global Research: The Pentagon’s “Salvador Option” - The Deployment of Death Squads in Iraq and Syria
They appear to be going for broke to get the next war going...
New American: Reports - U.S.-led Rebels Sent into Syria Before Chemical Attack
Antiwar: Transparent Hoax Could Lead to War
Boiling Frogs Post: Satellite Imagery Proves Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack Staged by Rebels
WND: Evidence - Syria gas attack work of U.S. allies
And more specifically the evidence is pointing to who else? Bandar...
Mint Press News: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
But that evidence won't stop them from pushing the envelop towards WWIII...
Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): Obama set for holy Tomahawk war
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The following would be old news to us regarding a previous supply line to the Syrian rebels, but that it is finally being "scooped" up by the likes of CNN is perhaps indicative that recent events (targeting of journalists) have startled the mainstream news into actually practicing journalism, albeit in baby steps...
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack
Speculation on Capitol Hill has included the possibility the U.S. agencies operating in Benghazi were secretly helping to move surface-to-air missiles out of Libya, through Turkey, and into the hands of Syrian rebels.
It is clear that two U.S. agencies were operating in Benghazi, one was the State Department, and the other was the CIA.
The State Department told CNN in an e-mail that it was only helping the new Libyan government destroy weapons deemed "damaged, aged or too unsafe retain," and that it was not involved in any transfer of weapons to other countries.
But the State Department also clearly told CNN, they "can't speak for any other agencies."
The CIA would not comment on whether it was involved in the transfer of any weapons.
Meanwhile, a MANPADS free-for-all was underway...
MailOnline: 400 US surface-to-air missiles were 'STOLEN' from Libya during the Benghazi attack, claims whistleblower
Continuing turmoil in Libya...
Viva Libya!: LIBYA - WAVE OF POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS
Egypt in turmoil...
DailyMail: Islamist mob parades nuns in Cairo as prisoners of war after six hours looting church school and replacing cross with banner resembling Al Qaeda flag
IBT: Protesters Ransack Ancient Treasures in Egypt's Malawi Museum
PBS News Hour: Egyptian Ambassador - Objective of Crackdown 'Wasn't to Use Massive Force'
Something the Ambassador diplomatically left out...
Walid Shoebat: Egyptian Official ties Obama’s Brother to Brotherhood
Tahani Al-Jebali stated she would like…
“…to inform the American people that their president’s brother Obama is one of the architects of the major investments of the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
She added…
“We will carry out the law and the Americans will not stop us. We need to open the files and begin court sessions. The Obama administration cannot stop us; they know that they supported terrorism. We will open the files so these nations are exposed, to show how they collaborated with them [the terrorists]. It is for this reason why the American administration fights us.”
If the American system has proven incapable of bringing this war criminal and terrorist supporter in the White House to justice, perhaps the Egyptian system will?
Among his war crimes...
Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Bureau investigation finds fresh evidence of CIA drone strikes on rescuers
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Under pressure from the Feds presumably to open Edward Snowden's email account, the encrypted email service Lavabit shuts down...
My Fellow Users,
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
Sincerely,
Ladar Levison
Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC
And for that...
Liberty Crier: Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service
...as NSA revelations continue...
Guardian: XKeyscore - NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
Washington Post: U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary
Der Spiegel: Mass Data - Transfers from Germany Aid US Surveillance
Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN
Cryptome: PROTON, CLEARWATER and LEXIS-NEXIS
Ben Swann: NSA USING COPYRIGHT CLAIMS TO CRUSH FREE SPEECH?
Russel Tice had already said this in previous interviews - Boiling Frogs Post, for instance, though he was barred from doing so on MSNBC - but what is notable here is the venue, about as "mainstream" as it gets...
News Hour: NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst
The legal acrobatics by which they do it...
EFF: What It Means to Be An NSA "Target" - New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform
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Gestapo USA...
Reuters: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans
NYTimes: T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security
Stratrisks: Homeland Security Taps Generals to Run Domestic Drone Program - The Rise of Predators at Home
Infowars: Insider Blows the Whistle On DHS Takeover Plan
It is time to frog-march this woman into the Capitol jail...
AllGov: Sen. Feinstein Says only Salaried Journalists should be Protected by Shield Law
Wondering who this might have been..?
Daily Mail: Someone within the US Senate edited Edward Snowden's Wikipedia page to change his description from 'dissident' to 'traitor'
You've found the traitor Diane - every morning when you cake on the make-up you're looking at it.
As the war against journalists (and loved ones) rolls on, no rights for Miranda...
Guardian: Reaction to the detention of David Miranda at Heathrow airport – as it happened
This wasn't the only incident to reveal a close collusion between NSA and Britain's GCHQ...
Wayne Madsen Report: UK "D-Notice" resulted in web attack on WMR editor
British intelligence sources have informed WMR that a British Defense Ministry "D-Notice" issued on June 7 to British media organizations, including The Guardian and The Observer, both owned by the same company, served as a pretext to conduct the smear attack on WMR's editor on both sides of the Atlantic. A Confidential D-Notice was issued to the media organizations as a "DA-Notice 03," which was issued pursuant to media reports on "ciphers and secure communications" operations of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain's National Security Agency partner. The DA-3 Notice was authorized by Foreign Secretary William Hague, who has responsibility for GCHQ and Britain's MI-6 foreign intelligence service.
D-Notices are merely advisory in nature but most media operations that receive them understand that they could be charged with violating the Official Secrets Act if choose to totally ignore such advisories.
When The Observer published on June 30 a front-page story quoting this editor on European nations' Third Party agreements to provide the NSA with intercepted data, the word went out from the very highest echelons of the David Cameron Tory-Liberal Democrat government to "attack the messenger." "You've been set up," was the comment to this editor from one MI-6 source...
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Investigations into the death of Michael Hastings continue...
WhoWhatWhy: Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden And Barrett Brown—The War With The Security State
Look for Hastings's posthumous expose on John Brennan in the next issue of Rolling Stone...
San Diego 6: CIA DIRECTOR BRENNAN CONFIRMED AS REPORTER MICHAEL HASTINGS NEXT TARGET
Of note, this hacked Stratfor email from September 2010, courtesy of Wikileaks...
Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning
information from inside the beltway sources.
Note -- There is specific tasker from the WH to go after anyone printing
materials negative to the Obama agenda (oh my.) Even the FBI is
shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode...
Was Aaron Swartz a subject of these "witch hunts" as well?...
Wired: First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released
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Tepco continues to poison the planet...
ENENews: Gov’t: Radioactive iodine detected in 6 seaweed samples by South Korea — Concerns over Fukushima contamination after Tepco admits plant is leaking into ocean
Japan Today: Gov't says Fukushima plant leaking 300 tons of toxic water into sea daily
ENENews: Anonymous Official - Tank at Fukushima may have leaked tons of highly radioactive liquid every day for a month… “We didn’t detect it for as long as 30 days” — Spokesman: Leakage is continuing… Other tanks may be affected
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Miscellania...
Vice (Greg Palast): THE CONFIDENTIAL MEMO AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
As relates to matters discussed in President Weatherman, part I...
FOXNews: Gov't Knows Best? White House creates 'nudge squad' to shape behavior
Away with your nellie nudges Obama - you might command more respect if you talked like this...
Africa Review: Go hang, Mugabe tells rivals
Add to the list of all time greatest tin-pot dictator quotes...
Organic Systems: A long-term toxicology study on pigs fed a combined genetically modified (GM) soy and
GM maize diet
Get ready...
NASA: The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip
Pedos in high places...
Donde Vamos?: About the satanic and pedophile practices of the English royal family
Last month we noted Saudi Prince Bandar's frustrating visit to Paris in seeking support for the Syrian rebels. Now, in a sign of increasing desperation as the tide has turned in favor of Assad wrapping up the civil war perhaps before the year is out, Bandar has gone to the belly of the beast - Moscow - to make his pitch to Putin...
Al Monitor: Saudi Arabia Tries to Cut a Deal With Russia Regarding Syria
Followups...
Russian President, Saudi Spy Chief Discussed Syria, Egypt
Voltairenet: Saudi Arabia ready to negotiate
PressTV: ANOTHER "US' PROXY" PUSHING FOR WAR!
Telegraph: Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria
It would appear then that Bandar was attempting to make an Al Yamamah type of deal with Putin, such as he had made with Thatcher in the 1980s - the specifics of the latter was a barter arrangement of oil for weapons, the primary beneficiary of which was BAE Systems. It is worth noting then that Richard Evans, the former CEO of BAE in the time frame of the planning of the 9/11 attacks (when at least two of the hijackers received funds from an Al Yamamah account held by Bandar), has been doing business in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan...
Intelligence Online: Dick Evans, the Kazakhstan connections of an arms industry high-flier
What the Brits must be salivating over...
Tengri News: Oil reserves at new Kazakhstan's field estimated at 880 million barrels
Subsequent to the meeting in Russia, Bandar met with Sawers of MI6...
FARS News Agency: Saudi Prince Bandar Meets MI6 Chief on Syria
Asked by Sawers if Riyadh is concerned over the backfiring of the extremist groups who have been armed and sent to Syria, Prince Bandar said all his country's efforts are aimed at "providing security for us and our allies and I assure (you) that I have the power to harness these reinforced streams, given my over 30-year-long experience in controlling and directing these Jihadi groups”.
On that note, it is worth quoting Bandar's veiled threat to Putin from the above cited Al Monitor article...
"I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us, and they will not move in the Syrian territory’s direction without coordinating with us. These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role or influence in Syria’s political future.”
Flashback: Bandar had made a similar threat to Tony Blair when the Serious Fraud Office was investigating Al Yamamah...
Guardian: BAE - secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince
Bandar brigades in action...
Wayne Madsen Report: Lebanon's angst as war against Syria looms
WMR's sources in Lebanon report that three deadly car bombings, one on August 15 in a Hezbollah-controlled area south of Beirut and two outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on August 23 during Friday prayers were intended to import into fragile Lebanon the Sunni-Shi'a/Alawite/Christian violence that is currently raging in neighboring Syria.
Our Lebanese sources claim the three bombings were the handiwork of Prince Bandar Bin Sultan al-Saud, the chief of Saudi intelligence, who engineered the trio of bombings that killed over 60 Sunni and Shi'a Lebanese in south Beirut and Tripoli to outside forces that sought to sow division among Lebanon's religious factions...
Stop NATO: Russia - Syrian Rebels Massacre 450 Kurdish Civilians, Mainly Women And Children
Not to mention the Negroponte/John S. Ford brigades...
Global Research: The Pentagon’s “Salvador Option” - The Deployment of Death Squads in Iraq and Syria
They appear to be going for broke to get the next war going...
New American: Reports - U.S.-led Rebels Sent into Syria Before Chemical Attack
Antiwar: Transparent Hoax Could Lead to War
Boiling Frogs Post: Satellite Imagery Proves Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack Staged by Rebels
WND: Evidence - Syria gas attack work of U.S. allies
And more specifically the evidence is pointing to who else? Bandar...
Mint Press News: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
But that evidence won't stop them from pushing the envelop towards WWIII...
Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): Obama set for holy Tomahawk war
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The following would be old news to us regarding a previous supply line to the Syrian rebels, but that it is finally being "scooped" up by the likes of CNN is perhaps indicative that recent events (targeting of journalists) have startled the mainstream news into actually practicing journalism, albeit in baby steps...
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack
Speculation on Capitol Hill has included the possibility the U.S. agencies operating in Benghazi were secretly helping to move surface-to-air missiles out of Libya, through Turkey, and into the hands of Syrian rebels.
It is clear that two U.S. agencies were operating in Benghazi, one was the State Department, and the other was the CIA.
The State Department told CNN in an e-mail that it was only helping the new Libyan government destroy weapons deemed "damaged, aged or too unsafe retain," and that it was not involved in any transfer of weapons to other countries.
But the State Department also clearly told CNN, they "can't speak for any other agencies."
The CIA would not comment on whether it was involved in the transfer of any weapons.
Meanwhile, a MANPADS free-for-all was underway...
MailOnline: 400 US surface-to-air missiles were 'STOLEN' from Libya during the Benghazi attack, claims whistleblower
Continuing turmoil in Libya...
Viva Libya!: LIBYA - WAVE OF POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS
Egypt in turmoil...
DailyMail: Islamist mob parades nuns in Cairo as prisoners of war after six hours looting church school and replacing cross with banner resembling Al Qaeda flag
IBT: Protesters Ransack Ancient Treasures in Egypt's Malawi Museum
PBS News Hour: Egyptian Ambassador - Objective of Crackdown 'Wasn't to Use Massive Force'
Something the Ambassador diplomatically left out...
Walid Shoebat: Egyptian Official ties Obama’s Brother to Brotherhood
Tahani Al-Jebali stated she would like…
“…to inform the American people that their president’s brother Obama is one of the architects of the major investments of the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
She added…
“We will carry out the law and the Americans will not stop us. We need to open the files and begin court sessions. The Obama administration cannot stop us; they know that they supported terrorism. We will open the files so these nations are exposed, to show how they collaborated with them [the terrorists]. It is for this reason why the American administration fights us.”
If the American system has proven incapable of bringing this war criminal and terrorist supporter in the White House to justice, perhaps the Egyptian system will?
Among his war crimes...
Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Bureau investigation finds fresh evidence of CIA drone strikes on rescuers
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Under pressure from the Feds presumably to open Edward Snowden's email account, the encrypted email service Lavabit shuts down...
My Fellow Users,
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
Sincerely,
Ladar Levison
Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC
And for that...
Liberty Crier: Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service
...as NSA revelations continue...
Guardian: XKeyscore - NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
Washington Post: U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary
Der Spiegel: Mass Data - Transfers from Germany Aid US Surveillance
Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN
Cryptome: PROTON, CLEARWATER and LEXIS-NEXIS
Ben Swann: NSA USING COPYRIGHT CLAIMS TO CRUSH FREE SPEECH?
Russel Tice had already said this in previous interviews - Boiling Frogs Post, for instance, though he was barred from doing so on MSNBC - but what is notable here is the venue, about as "mainstream" as it gets...
News Hour: NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst
The legal acrobatics by which they do it...
EFF: What It Means to Be An NSA "Target" - New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform
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Gestapo USA...
Reuters: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans
NYTimes: T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security
Stratrisks: Homeland Security Taps Generals to Run Domestic Drone Program - The Rise of Predators at Home
Infowars: Insider Blows the Whistle On DHS Takeover Plan
It is time to frog-march this woman into the Capitol jail...
AllGov: Sen. Feinstein Says only Salaried Journalists should be Protected by Shield Law
Wondering who this might have been..?
Daily Mail: Someone within the US Senate edited Edward Snowden's Wikipedia page to change his description from 'dissident' to 'traitor'
You've found the traitor Diane - every morning when you cake on the make-up you're looking at it.
As the war against journalists (and loved ones) rolls on, no rights for Miranda...
Guardian: Reaction to the detention of David Miranda at Heathrow airport – as it happened
This wasn't the only incident to reveal a close collusion between NSA and Britain's GCHQ...
Wayne Madsen Report: UK "D-Notice" resulted in web attack on WMR editor
British intelligence sources have informed WMR that a British Defense Ministry "D-Notice" issued on June 7 to British media organizations, including The Guardian and The Observer, both owned by the same company, served as a pretext to conduct the smear attack on WMR's editor on both sides of the Atlantic. A Confidential D-Notice was issued to the media organizations as a "DA-Notice 03," which was issued pursuant to media reports on "ciphers and secure communications" operations of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain's National Security Agency partner. The DA-3 Notice was authorized by Foreign Secretary William Hague, who has responsibility for GCHQ and Britain's MI-6 foreign intelligence service.
D-Notices are merely advisory in nature but most media operations that receive them understand that they could be charged with violating the Official Secrets Act if choose to totally ignore such advisories.
When The Observer published on June 30 a front-page story quoting this editor on European nations' Third Party agreements to provide the NSA with intercepted data, the word went out from the very highest echelons of the David Cameron Tory-Liberal Democrat government to "attack the messenger." "You've been set up," was the comment to this editor from one MI-6 source...
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Investigations into the death of Michael Hastings continue...
WhoWhatWhy: Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden And Barrett Brown—The War With The Security State
Look for Hastings's posthumous expose on John Brennan in the next issue of Rolling Stone...
San Diego 6: CIA DIRECTOR BRENNAN CONFIRMED AS REPORTER MICHAEL HASTINGS NEXT TARGET
Of note, this hacked Stratfor email from September 2010, courtesy of Wikileaks...
Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning
information from inside the beltway sources.
Note -- There is specific tasker from the WH to go after anyone printing
materials negative to the Obama agenda (oh my.) Even the FBI is
shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode...
Was Aaron Swartz a subject of these "witch hunts" as well?...
Wired: First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released
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Tepco continues to poison the planet...
ENENews: Gov’t: Radioactive iodine detected in 6 seaweed samples by South Korea — Concerns over Fukushima contamination after Tepco admits plant is leaking into ocean
Japan Today: Gov't says Fukushima plant leaking 300 tons of toxic water into sea daily
ENENews: Anonymous Official - Tank at Fukushima may have leaked tons of highly radioactive liquid every day for a month… “We didn’t detect it for as long as 30 days” — Spokesman: Leakage is continuing… Other tanks may be affected
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Miscellania...
Vice (Greg Palast): THE CONFIDENTIAL MEMO AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
As relates to matters discussed in President Weatherman, part I...
FOXNews: Gov't Knows Best? White House creates 'nudge squad' to shape behavior
Away with your nellie nudges Obama - you might command more respect if you talked like this...
Africa Review: Go hang, Mugabe tells rivals
Add to the list of all time greatest tin-pot dictator quotes...
“Those who were hurt by defeat can go hang if they so wish... Even if they die, dogs will not eat their flesh!”
Perhaps the same should be said of GMO consumers...
GM maize diet
Get ready...
NASA: The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip
Pedos in high places...
Donde Vamos?: About the satanic and pedophile practices of the English royal family
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Headlines of note for July 2013
As the domestic U.S. press obsessed over the George Zimmerman trial (covered by us as exemplary of a much bigger story: President Weatherman II), Anthony Wiener's again errant wiener, and the new runt of the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha (future George VII? -unless Charles III suffers the fate of the first Charles that preceded him and the people of Albion have the good sense to make it permanent this time!), something that went virtually unreported strikes us as a watershed. Former president Jimmy Carter declares the republic dead, in German...
Der Spiegel: NSA-Affäre - Ex-Präsident Carter verdammt US-Schnüffelei
"Amerika hat derzeit keine funktionierende Demokratie" : America has at this time no functioning democracy.
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Royals abdicating like little beelzebubs...
Independent: ‘I am old and sick’ - Belgian King Albert II to abdicate in favour of son Prince Philippe
Reuters: Qatar's emir hands power to son in unusual Gulf abdication
Elizabeth II next..?
The Hallett Report: The Abdication of ‘Queen’ Elizabeth II
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Egypt in a pharonic shuffle...
Xinhua: Egypt's ousted president facing espionage, jailbreak charges
New English Review: Is Egyptian Gen. Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi the “new Nasser”?
This should give pause...
Cumberlink: Egypt's army chief studied at War College in Carlisle
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A tale of two fugitives... For one Edward Snowden, wanted in the US, a head of state is barred passage through the airspace of vassal nations at the whiff of a rumor that he was harboring the fugitive...
Reuters: Morales back in Bolivia after plane drama over Snowden
For another, wanted in Italy, one Robert Seldon Lady is quietly ushered back to the U.S. upon arrest in Panama, INTERPOL extradition warrants notwithstanding...
IntelNews: Panama arrests ex-CIA chief of station wanted by INTERPOL
AP: Panama sent ex-CIA officer to US, not Italy
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Having hacked a U.S. drone...
Cryptome: Iran Report on Downed Sentinel Drone RQ-170
Hongpong: Mysterious Parastoo apparent Iranian hacker group claims UAV flight inside USA; Redhack Turkish hackers on the Move, accused "cyber terrorist organization"
...brings us to question the cause of these incidents...
Star-FL: Unmanned drone crashes in Gulf
WJHG: US 98 at Tyndall Blocked Due to Drone Crash
...or a case of vigilante rebellion? -Where elsewhere, others are pursuing a legal route...
XRepublic.tv: Colorado town considers licensing bounty hunters to shoot down drones
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We predicted this...
Maghreb Confidential: Libya soon a failed state?
Not to mention Iraq...
Antiwar: Conflicting Reports on Baghdad Jailbreaks; 105 Killed in Multiple Attacks
Still working on Syria...
Shabab Libya: Comrades in Arms: How Libya sends weapons to Syria’s rebels
But are cooler heads prevailing, finally...?
The head of Saudi intelligence failed to get a firm guarantee on arming Syria’s rebels from either the French president or his European counterparts.
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Obama's war against whistle-blowers and journalism continues...
DC Clothesline: Who Broke Into The Law Offices That Represent State Department Whistleblower Aurelia Fedenisn?
Secrecy News: Appeals Court Rejects Reporter’s Privilege in Leak Case
Corbett Report: Crashes of Convenience - Michael Hastings
RT: Hacker dies days before he was to reveal how to remotely kill pacemaker patients
Fears of revelation of kiddie porn network with Nicholas Negroponte at the center of it? In a rare move by a non-governmental institution, MIT blocks FOIA request...
Wired: MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File
Able Danger: Public Announcement for Activists Being Framed With Child Porn - Protect Yourself - Verify All Emails - Secure Your Laptop Computers
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Miscellania...
NYTimes: Modest Debut of Atlas May Foreshadow Age of ‘Robo Sapiens’
ActivistPost: US Military, Monsanto Targeting GMO Activists and Independent Scientists, New Investigation Alleges
RealNewsNetwork: Wikileaks Cables Reveal State Dept. Promoting GMOs Abroad
But it isn't working...
DW: Monsanto to drop all requests for new GM crops in EU
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
President Weatherman, part II
Our job is to tap the discontent seething in many sectors of the population, to find allies everywhere people are hungry or angry, to mobilize poor and working people against imperialism.
- The Weather Underground, Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism
Everything about the Trayvon Martin case suggests that this killing has been cherry-picked and profiled as an iconic outrage of racially motivated injustice in order to refocus the seething discontent of America's blacks away from the underpinnings of their continuing economic plight, and back onto a white devil bogeyman. In President Weatherman part I we noted the methods by which so-called "community organizers" shape public discourse and activism in such a way as to induce a predetermined outcome; we summarized the methodology in a nutshell as profile, agitate, nudge. In the case of the Trayvon Martin killing and subsequent George Zimmerman trial, however, the latter step of this triad seems to have been replaced with the intent to ignite - in other words, to agitate even more, to what purpose we can only speculate, outside of the general aim of refocusing the attention of America's increasingly desperate underclass away from headlines such as...
Crew of 42: Black Youth Unemployment Hits 43.6%, 10 Point Spike Over 3 Months
...when meanwhile...
CNNMoney: Goldman Sachs profits double
...and as the following should dispel any illusions about Barack Obama wanting to do anything about such obscene discrepancies in the distribution of wealth...
FireDogLake: Obama’s “Smoking Gun”: His Hamilton Project Speech shows his links to Goldman, Entitlement Cuts (Part 1) (Part 2)
...it should be clear then, Weathermen doublespeak notwithstanding, who is on the side of financial imperialism.
-But never mind all that; the media says we need to have a conversation about this...
USAToday: Remembering Trayvon Martin
What, when it happened in late February 2012, was a local story to Orlando, Florida, suddenly was propelled a month later into network headlines as a yet another case for the "national conversation" on race. The delay would suggest that this particular tragedy was the most suitable candidate selected out of - in Patrick Buchanan's words - "a scavenger hunt for a hate-crime".
The visuals of the case were inflammatory enough - a black teenager with nothing but Skittles and a hoodie traipses through a gated community only to be profiled and pursued by a wannabe cop... a scuffle ensues and the white-looking George Zimmerman (notwithstanding Afro-Peruvian ancestry from his mother) shoots Trayvon Martin dead. The legal details of the case however were much more ambiguous; Zimmerman as a self-appointed cop did go against the instructions of a dispatcher in following the pedestrian, and he got much more than he bargained for when the "suspect" proceeded to beat him to a pulp. The circumstance of mortal peril however was enough to give Zimmerman a sturdy self-defense position if and when the case should eventually come to court.
There were other incidents around the country that were equally inflammatory in their visuals but not as ambiguous in their details. Many of these were black on white crimes however and so were out of the question. Others did involve racially motivated white on black violence, including the case of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. an elderly black veteran killed in his own apartment by white policemen calling him "nigger" on a recording. This case, however, is unheard of in the national media. Had it received the same degree of attention as Trayvon, it likely would have resulted in a reconvening of the grand jury and the conviction of the accused. Such an unambiguous hate crime, however, does not satisfy what was made to order. Trayvon Martin's death combined the tragic element of a youth snuffed in the prime of his life with the outrage of the "thug" who took it likely getting off scot-free. The stage was thus set to potentially turn this "national conversation" on race into a national conflagration. The American public had been profiled and divided into black and white factions, with a subset of the latter - being "white-guilt" afflicted - expected to take the side of the former.
With the case selected, thanks in large part to the efforts of PR executive Ryan Julison...
WaPo: Trayvon Martin story found the media
...the agitation machine then got into gear, with full assists from the "liberal" media...
Newsbusters: NBC Never Tells Viewers it Smeared Zimmerman with Doctored Audio
...and even with a little bit of help from Eric Holder's Justice Department...
Judicial Watch: Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch Detail Role of Justice Department in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
The arrest and, most importantly, the overcharging of George Zimmerman ensued. The intent was never "justice" (for which a manslaughter charge would have at best been suitable), but acquittal. The fuse was thus lit with the intention of igniting a race-bomb and a crisis necessitating further advancement of the police-state juggernaut.
For the most part, the bomb has fizzled, though not without some incendiary incidents...
Baltimore Sun: Witness claims youths yelled 'this is for Trayvon' in beating
Daily Caller: Conservative filmmaker - Trayvon Martin protesters in Oakland ‘slugged me,’ ‘kicked me’ in the head
Infowars: Trayvon Martin Supporters Stage Second Night of Fury
So then, the agitator elites may not have gotten the big enchilada - a full-blown race war - out of this operation, but they did manage to divert the attention of "seething discontents" for a little while longer. More importantly, this case - by virtue of the legal ambiguities guaranteeing that many, especially whites, would take the side of Zimmerman - has only further deepened the racial entrenchment that, following the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, certain agitators among the ruling class have expended considerable effort in ensuring would never abate...
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To get past racism, we must here take account of race. - McGeorge Bundy, in The Issue Before the Court..., The Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1977
That is to say, following the classic British imperialist "divide and conquer" stratagem, we must tribalize and hyphenate America...
So it seems to me that when a man calls himself Afro-American or Mexican-American or Italian-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American, what he’s saying is “I’m a divided American.” - John Wayne, The Hyphen
The Duke might have been surprised to learn that perhaps no one did more to introduce the hyphen into the American psyche than such a prototypical establishment figure as Skull and Bonesman McGeorge Bundy in his capacity as head of the Ford Foundation beginning in 1966. As we read in this passage censored from the 1972 edition of James Forman's The Making of Black Revolutionaries, and quoted in...
Swans: Elite Philanthropy, SNCC, And The Civil Rights Movement, Part III
After the call for Black Power had become popular in the United States and other countries, McGeorge Bundy, former National Security Advisor under the late President John F. Kennedy, called a meeting at the Ford Foundation in New York City of twenty or more Black leaders. At that time McGeorge Bundy was the President of the Ford Foundation. Bundy announced to the assembled Black leaders that a decision had been made to destroy the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and to save the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). This decision was based on an assessment that it was possible to wean CORE away from the concept of Black Power through massive infusion of money for its operation. In the case of the SNCC, however, the assessment was that it was too late to save it; it had to be destroyed.
Was the intent really to wean these groups away from separatism? As Tamar Jacoby writes in McGeorge Bundy: How the Establishment's Man Tackled America's Problem with Race...
And it wasn't long before Ford found itself paying for street gangs and avowed Black Power leaders. Among the most controversial of these grants went to the Cleveland chapter of CORE. Like even the most moderate civil-rights organizations, CORE had been drifting leftward through the 1960s. Its integrationist national director James Farmer had been replaced in 1966 by the younger and angrier Floyd McKissick, who along with Carmichael was among the first proponents of Black Power. Outflanked on the left by SNCC and even tougher ghetto leaders advocating violence and a separate black nation, McKissick felt under strong pressure to prove his militancy. He began to talk of "revolution" and to forge links with black Muslims; he explicitly repudiated the phrase "civil rights," replacing its appeal to morality with bristling talk of race-based "power." Before long, his escalating racial rhetoric had driven most white members out of CORE. By 1967, SNCC had actually expelled whites, and in July CORE deleted the word "multiracial" from its constitution. With this, it dropped all pretense that it was pursuing integration or the hope of progress based on racial harmony.
None of this apparently bothered the Ford Foundation, which announced two weeks later--even as the Newark ghetto erupted in riots--that it was giving $175,000 to CORE's Cleveland chapter. Bundy explained at a press conference that his board had considered the grant "with particular care." (In fact among some 16 trustees, only Henry Ford himself had expressed any doubts.)
Among those swept up in the racial rage that McBundy's Ford Foundation had been fostering was a future Attorney General of the United States, but who in 1970 was thoroughly hyphenated as a leader in the "rise of black consciousness" with the Student Afro-American Society (SAS)...
Daily Caller: As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office
While the SAS itself was not directly funded by Ford, another group present at the 1968 Columbia strike - The Weathermen - did have some support from the Foundation, according to a 1976 report of the LaRouche associated US Labor Party, Carter and the Party of International Terrorism...
The Weathermen were created as a joint project of the Ford Foundation, IPS [Institute for Policy Studies], and the Institute of Social Research (ISR) [at the University of Michigan]. The group was spawned in May, 1968 at a "secret meeting" in the midst of the Columbia University student strike. Weatherman founder Mark Rudd constituted the initial cell around a Ford Foundation grant under which the group agreed to bust the strike through anarchist provocations... - cited in Webster Tarpley's Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, 2008, Pg. 187.
Following the dialectical method of manufacturing a crisis - here through the Weathermen - in order to arrive at an outcome more amenable to the ruling class, Ford at the same time funded a moderate group that brought the conflict to a resolution while sidelining those less tractable factions of the Students for a Democratic Society...
Red Pepper: 1968 The mysterious chemistry of social change
Leadership passed from SDS to the more broad-based Students for a Restructured University, which, with the aid of a $40,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, negotiated a compromise with the university administration.
The SRU hence came to relieve the SDS once it had been factionalized from within...
Weathermen were constituted as a national faction within the IPS-dominated Students for a Democratic Society by means of the selection process conducted during 1968-1969 through a series of position papers published in the Radical Education Project, run by Marcus Raskin and Arthur Waskow. In fact, the position papers... were synthetic belief structures drafted by psychological warfare experts at ISR and published under the bylines of SDS leaders like Bill Ayers and Jim Mellon - both ISR graduate students... - USLP, Carter and the Party of International Terrorism, Tarpley, ibid.
Bill Ayers was the son of Thomas Ayers, chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison, and board member of defense contractor General Dynamics. His future spouse, Bernardine Dohrne, came under ruling class tutelage via future Attorney General (under President Ford) Edward Hirsch Levi...
EIR (Vol 33 No 3): Where Terrorism And Terrorists Get Their Legal Start
Levi returned in 1945 to the University of Chicago as a
Professor of Law... Although Levi held no official
government position during this period. he functioned as a
national security operative. running missions for the Rocke-
feller family. Those missions included:...recruitment of
Bernardine Dohrn. also a student of Levi, to the Weathermen...
It may be said that such "tutelage" was hardly received in good faith by the likes of Ayers and Dohrne. They might have laughed that they were really sticking it to "the man" by utilizing these resources in their war against "the system". In the end, however, they would find themselves the butt of the joke, whose punchline they failed to anticipate in so far as their activism was simply one phase of a dialectical system designed to keep "the man" on top of things. Much as we would chide current Russian activists like Voina and Pussy Riot to be wary of whose geo-political and economic interests their aktions ultimately serve, so it goes for Ayers and Dohrne; if they were sincere in their war against imperialism, then they failed to see this coming...
Real Clear Politics: Bill Ayers - Try Obama for War Crimes
While Ayers would dismiss his relationship with Barack Obama - particularly the launching of his career in politics in Ayers and Dohrne's living room - as not very 'thought out,' it would appear nevertheless that somebody was thinking these things out with a long logic that reveals itself in the individuals and institutions with which they were mutually associated. Steven F. Diamond has examined Barack and Michelle Obama's relationship with the Ayers family on his Global Labor/King Harvest blog entries...
That “Guy Who Lives in My Neighborhood”: Behind the Ayers-Obama Relationship
Barack Obama’s Visit to the Other Ayers House
...where we learn: according to Thomas Ayers' postman, Obama received financial support towards his tuition at Harvard Law School from the Ayers patriarch; that the Obamas would have known the Ayers and Dohrne at Sidley and Austin, the law firm where in fact Barack and Michelle first met; and that Obama and Ayers probably first met when they were both advocates for "local control" in the Chicago school system, a movement which enjoyed ascendance following the 1987 teachers strike. This strike and its outcome was in many ways similar to the 1968 teachers strike in NYC. We can't devote much attention to these strikes here other than to say that they share certain common denominators, particularly in the tendency for "local control" of schools to devolve into ethnic favoritism, i.e. a consequence the sort of racial "consciousness" fostered by Ford Foundation programs. Without traditional union protections, teachers were thus at the mercy of the local boards who often had ulterior (racial) motives in hiring and firing teachers. Needless to say, the ruling class stood to benefit from weakened teachers' unions and hence supported this movement, as did Bill Ayers' wealthy father Thomas. It is in this context that we should consider, as Diamond writes in Who "sent" Obama?, that...
...in late 1994 or early 1995, Obama... was named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), a $50 million grant program to funnel money into reform efforts at Chicago schools. It turns out that the architect of the Annenberg Challenge was Bill Ayers, who convened the working group that designed the grant proposal, he sheparded it to success and had responsibility for appointing its board members, including Obama.
A parenthetical observation of Diamond's in Peeling the Obama/Ayers Onion is also worth noting here...
Interestingly, this issue – watch dogging teachers and administrators – is one reason why it is hard to accept the idea of the right that Ayers and Obama are traditional left wing radicals. In fact... Ayers and Dorhn are really neo-stalinists – a type of anti-capitalist that thinks there are bureaucratic and authoritarian solutions to problems created by capitalism.
Obama meanwhile became an advocate of "public-private partnerships" throughout his political career, purportedly a sort of hybrid of capitalism and socialism, but more deserving of the epithet "crony capitalism" or "corporate feudalism" which we regrettably find supplanting the system of rule of law constrained free market capitalism.
Nothing could be more exemplary of governmental and corporate intermingling (and the disasters spawned) than the chartered maze of front companies fostered by the Central Intelligence Agency. Diamond in his articles focuses on Obama's time in Chicago, but he would perhaps get a more telling answer to the question, "Who 'sent' Obama?" if he looked to NYC, where Obama was first employed upon graduation from Columbia University...
Export Blueprint (WMR): Verified CIA Front, Business International Corp, Paid for Obama’s Columbia College Tuition
WTPOTUS: Taking Care of Business International Corporation - Obama’s Co-Workers
Curiously enough, the history of the man called "Obama" traces in rough outline that of the Weathermen, from their role at the Columbia strike in '68 to their eventual transformation into terrorist cells as the Weather Underground out of Chicago in late 1969 - it is said that the targeted assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton at the hands of the Chicago police in December 1969 was the catalyst of this transformation. The rough outline here is ironic enough, since Obama would go on to become a perpetrator of targeted assassinations as president. These assassinations along with every other extra-constitutional measure instituted by George W. Bush and continued if not enhanced by Obama of course have their impetus in a certain spectacular attack that took place on the morning of September 11, 2001. Many commuters into lower Manhattan and executives arriving in their offices would have read, in that morning's New York Times, just as the shit hit the fan....
No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen
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Further reading...
Chapter IV of Webster Tarpley's Barack H. Obama: the Unauthorized Biography, summarized here...
The Most Revolutionary Act: Who Did Obama Work for in Chicago?
More on the Chicago foundation networking...
CNS News: Ayers Brothers Led Annenberg Grantees and Contributed to Obama
PJ Media: Obama and the Woods Fund
LaRouche on Ayers on the eve of the election...
Executive Intelligence Review: The Weathermen
Jack Cashill's comparative analysis of Obama's Dreams from My Father and Ayers' Fugitive Days as well as the Weather Underground's Prairie Fire (which Ayers co-wrote) leads him to the conclusion that Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams. (For instance the name of French author Frantz Fanon is misspelled "Franz" in both Prairie Fire and Dreams). It is a claim that is difficult to prove, but tantalizing nonetheless...
American Thinker: Who Wrote Dreams and Why It Matters
Finally, a sundry speculation: as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrne were deployed to discredit the SDS and anti-war movement in the late '60s, so are Aaron Greene and Morgan Gliedman similarly deployed to discredit the Occupy Wall St. movement?
Conservative Hideout: Alleged OWS Activitst, Aaron Greene, Caught With Bomb Making Materials
Pragmatic Witness: New York Couple’s Terrorist Connection to the Sandy Hook Tragedy
- The Weather Underground, Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism
Everything about the Trayvon Martin case suggests that this killing has been cherry-picked and profiled as an iconic outrage of racially motivated injustice in order to refocus the seething discontent of America's blacks away from the underpinnings of their continuing economic plight, and back onto a white devil bogeyman. In President Weatherman part I we noted the methods by which so-called "community organizers" shape public discourse and activism in such a way as to induce a predetermined outcome; we summarized the methodology in a nutshell as profile, agitate, nudge. In the case of the Trayvon Martin killing and subsequent George Zimmerman trial, however, the latter step of this triad seems to have been replaced with the intent to ignite - in other words, to agitate even more, to what purpose we can only speculate, outside of the general aim of refocusing the attention of America's increasingly desperate underclass away from headlines such as...
Crew of 42: Black Youth Unemployment Hits 43.6%, 10 Point Spike Over 3 Months
...when meanwhile...
CNNMoney: Goldman Sachs profits double
...and as the following should dispel any illusions about Barack Obama wanting to do anything about such obscene discrepancies in the distribution of wealth...
FireDogLake: Obama’s “Smoking Gun”: His Hamilton Project Speech shows his links to Goldman, Entitlement Cuts (Part 1) (Part 2)
...it should be clear then, Weathermen doublespeak notwithstanding, who is on the side of financial imperialism.
-But never mind all that; the media says we need to have a conversation about this...
USAToday: Remembering Trayvon Martin
What, when it happened in late February 2012, was a local story to Orlando, Florida, suddenly was propelled a month later into network headlines as a yet another case for the "national conversation" on race. The delay would suggest that this particular tragedy was the most suitable candidate selected out of - in Patrick Buchanan's words - "a scavenger hunt for a hate-crime".
The visuals of the case were inflammatory enough - a black teenager with nothing but Skittles and a hoodie traipses through a gated community only to be profiled and pursued by a wannabe cop... a scuffle ensues and the white-looking George Zimmerman (notwithstanding Afro-Peruvian ancestry from his mother) shoots Trayvon Martin dead. The legal details of the case however were much more ambiguous; Zimmerman as a self-appointed cop did go against the instructions of a dispatcher in following the pedestrian, and he got much more than he bargained for when the "suspect" proceeded to beat him to a pulp. The circumstance of mortal peril however was enough to give Zimmerman a sturdy self-defense position if and when the case should eventually come to court.
There were other incidents around the country that were equally inflammatory in their visuals but not as ambiguous in their details. Many of these were black on white crimes however and so were out of the question. Others did involve racially motivated white on black violence, including the case of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. an elderly black veteran killed in his own apartment by white policemen calling him "nigger" on a recording. This case, however, is unheard of in the national media. Had it received the same degree of attention as Trayvon, it likely would have resulted in a reconvening of the grand jury and the conviction of the accused. Such an unambiguous hate crime, however, does not satisfy what was made to order. Trayvon Martin's death combined the tragic element of a youth snuffed in the prime of his life with the outrage of the "thug" who took it likely getting off scot-free. The stage was thus set to potentially turn this "national conversation" on race into a national conflagration. The American public had been profiled and divided into black and white factions, with a subset of the latter - being "white-guilt" afflicted - expected to take the side of the former.
With the case selected, thanks in large part to the efforts of PR executive Ryan Julison...
WaPo: Trayvon Martin story found the media
...the agitation machine then got into gear, with full assists from the "liberal" media...
Newsbusters: NBC Never Tells Viewers it Smeared Zimmerman with Doctored Audio
...and even with a little bit of help from Eric Holder's Justice Department...
Judicial Watch: Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch Detail Role of Justice Department in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
The arrest and, most importantly, the overcharging of George Zimmerman ensued. The intent was never "justice" (for which a manslaughter charge would have at best been suitable), but acquittal. The fuse was thus lit with the intention of igniting a race-bomb and a crisis necessitating further advancement of the police-state juggernaut.
For the most part, the bomb has fizzled, though not without some incendiary incidents...
Baltimore Sun: Witness claims youths yelled 'this is for Trayvon' in beating
Daily Caller: Conservative filmmaker - Trayvon Martin protesters in Oakland ‘slugged me,’ ‘kicked me’ in the head
Infowars: Trayvon Martin Supporters Stage Second Night of Fury
So then, the agitator elites may not have gotten the big enchilada - a full-blown race war - out of this operation, but they did manage to divert the attention of "seething discontents" for a little while longer. More importantly, this case - by virtue of the legal ambiguities guaranteeing that many, especially whites, would take the side of Zimmerman - has only further deepened the racial entrenchment that, following the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, certain agitators among the ruling class have expended considerable effort in ensuring would never abate...
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To get past racism, we must here take account of race. - McGeorge Bundy, in The Issue Before the Court..., The Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1977
That is to say, following the classic British imperialist "divide and conquer" stratagem, we must tribalize and hyphenate America...
So it seems to me that when a man calls himself Afro-American or Mexican-American or Italian-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American, what he’s saying is “I’m a divided American.” - John Wayne, The Hyphen
The Duke might have been surprised to learn that perhaps no one did more to introduce the hyphen into the American psyche than such a prototypical establishment figure as Skull and Bonesman McGeorge Bundy in his capacity as head of the Ford Foundation beginning in 1966. As we read in this passage censored from the 1972 edition of James Forman's The Making of Black Revolutionaries, and quoted in...
Swans: Elite Philanthropy, SNCC, And The Civil Rights Movement, Part III
After the call for Black Power had become popular in the United States and other countries, McGeorge Bundy, former National Security Advisor under the late President John F. Kennedy, called a meeting at the Ford Foundation in New York City of twenty or more Black leaders. At that time McGeorge Bundy was the President of the Ford Foundation. Bundy announced to the assembled Black leaders that a decision had been made to destroy the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and to save the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). This decision was based on an assessment that it was possible to wean CORE away from the concept of Black Power through massive infusion of money for its operation. In the case of the SNCC, however, the assessment was that it was too late to save it; it had to be destroyed.
Was the intent really to wean these groups away from separatism? As Tamar Jacoby writes in McGeorge Bundy: How the Establishment's Man Tackled America's Problem with Race...
And it wasn't long before Ford found itself paying for street gangs and avowed Black Power leaders. Among the most controversial of these grants went to the Cleveland chapter of CORE. Like even the most moderate civil-rights organizations, CORE had been drifting leftward through the 1960s. Its integrationist national director James Farmer had been replaced in 1966 by the younger and angrier Floyd McKissick, who along with Carmichael was among the first proponents of Black Power. Outflanked on the left by SNCC and even tougher ghetto leaders advocating violence and a separate black nation, McKissick felt under strong pressure to prove his militancy. He began to talk of "revolution" and to forge links with black Muslims; he explicitly repudiated the phrase "civil rights," replacing its appeal to morality with bristling talk of race-based "power." Before long, his escalating racial rhetoric had driven most white members out of CORE. By 1967, SNCC had actually expelled whites, and in July CORE deleted the word "multiracial" from its constitution. With this, it dropped all pretense that it was pursuing integration or the hope of progress based on racial harmony.
None of this apparently bothered the Ford Foundation, which announced two weeks later--even as the Newark ghetto erupted in riots--that it was giving $175,000 to CORE's Cleveland chapter. Bundy explained at a press conference that his board had considered the grant "with particular care." (In fact among some 16 trustees, only Henry Ford himself had expressed any doubts.)
Among those swept up in the racial rage that McBundy's Ford Foundation had been fostering was a future Attorney General of the United States, but who in 1970 was thoroughly hyphenated as a leader in the "rise of black consciousness" with the Student Afro-American Society (SAS)...
Daily Caller: As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office
While the SAS itself was not directly funded by Ford, another group present at the 1968 Columbia strike - The Weathermen - did have some support from the Foundation, according to a 1976 report of the LaRouche associated US Labor Party, Carter and the Party of International Terrorism...
The Weathermen were created as a joint project of the Ford Foundation, IPS [Institute for Policy Studies], and the Institute of Social Research (ISR) [at the University of Michigan]. The group was spawned in May, 1968 at a "secret meeting" in the midst of the Columbia University student strike. Weatherman founder Mark Rudd constituted the initial cell around a Ford Foundation grant under which the group agreed to bust the strike through anarchist provocations... - cited in Webster Tarpley's Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, 2008, Pg. 187.
Following the dialectical method of manufacturing a crisis - here through the Weathermen - in order to arrive at an outcome more amenable to the ruling class, Ford at the same time funded a moderate group that brought the conflict to a resolution while sidelining those less tractable factions of the Students for a Democratic Society...
Red Pepper: 1968 The mysterious chemistry of social change
Leadership passed from SDS to the more broad-based Students for a Restructured University, which, with the aid of a $40,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, negotiated a compromise with the university administration.
The SRU hence came to relieve the SDS once it had been factionalized from within...
Weathermen were constituted as a national faction within the IPS-dominated Students for a Democratic Society by means of the selection process conducted during 1968-1969 through a series of position papers published in the Radical Education Project, run by Marcus Raskin and Arthur Waskow. In fact, the position papers... were synthetic belief structures drafted by psychological warfare experts at ISR and published under the bylines of SDS leaders like Bill Ayers and Jim Mellon - both ISR graduate students... - USLP, Carter and the Party of International Terrorism, Tarpley, ibid.
Bill Ayers was the son of Thomas Ayers, chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison, and board member of defense contractor General Dynamics. His future spouse, Bernardine Dohrne, came under ruling class tutelage via future Attorney General (under President Ford) Edward Hirsch Levi...
EIR (Vol 33 No 3): Where Terrorism And Terrorists Get Their Legal Start
Levi returned in 1945 to the University of Chicago as a
Professor of Law... Although Levi held no official
government position during this period. he functioned as a
national security operative. running missions for the Rocke-
feller family. Those missions included:...recruitment of
Bernardine Dohrn. also a student of Levi, to the Weathermen...
It may be said that such "tutelage" was hardly received in good faith by the likes of Ayers and Dohrne. They might have laughed that they were really sticking it to "the man" by utilizing these resources in their war against "the system". In the end, however, they would find themselves the butt of the joke, whose punchline they failed to anticipate in so far as their activism was simply one phase of a dialectical system designed to keep "the man" on top of things. Much as we would chide current Russian activists like Voina and Pussy Riot to be wary of whose geo-political and economic interests their aktions ultimately serve, so it goes for Ayers and Dohrne; if they were sincere in their war against imperialism, then they failed to see this coming...
Real Clear Politics: Bill Ayers - Try Obama for War Crimes
While Ayers would dismiss his relationship with Barack Obama - particularly the launching of his career in politics in Ayers and Dohrne's living room - as not very 'thought out,' it would appear nevertheless that somebody was thinking these things out with a long logic that reveals itself in the individuals and institutions with which they were mutually associated. Steven F. Diamond has examined Barack and Michelle Obama's relationship with the Ayers family on his Global Labor/King Harvest blog entries...
That “Guy Who Lives in My Neighborhood”: Behind the Ayers-Obama Relationship
Barack Obama’s Visit to the Other Ayers House
...where we learn: according to Thomas Ayers' postman, Obama received financial support towards his tuition at Harvard Law School from the Ayers patriarch; that the Obamas would have known the Ayers and Dohrne at Sidley and Austin, the law firm where in fact Barack and Michelle first met; and that Obama and Ayers probably first met when they were both advocates for "local control" in the Chicago school system, a movement which enjoyed ascendance following the 1987 teachers strike. This strike and its outcome was in many ways similar to the 1968 teachers strike in NYC. We can't devote much attention to these strikes here other than to say that they share certain common denominators, particularly in the tendency for "local control" of schools to devolve into ethnic favoritism, i.e. a consequence the sort of racial "consciousness" fostered by Ford Foundation programs. Without traditional union protections, teachers were thus at the mercy of the local boards who often had ulterior (racial) motives in hiring and firing teachers. Needless to say, the ruling class stood to benefit from weakened teachers' unions and hence supported this movement, as did Bill Ayers' wealthy father Thomas. It is in this context that we should consider, as Diamond writes in Who "sent" Obama?, that...
...in late 1994 or early 1995, Obama... was named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), a $50 million grant program to funnel money into reform efforts at Chicago schools. It turns out that the architect of the Annenberg Challenge was Bill Ayers, who convened the working group that designed the grant proposal, he sheparded it to success and had responsibility for appointing its board members, including Obama.
A parenthetical observation of Diamond's in Peeling the Obama/Ayers Onion is also worth noting here...
Interestingly, this issue – watch dogging teachers and administrators – is one reason why it is hard to accept the idea of the right that Ayers and Obama are traditional left wing radicals. In fact... Ayers and Dorhn are really neo-stalinists – a type of anti-capitalist that thinks there are bureaucratic and authoritarian solutions to problems created by capitalism.
Obama meanwhile became an advocate of "public-private partnerships" throughout his political career, purportedly a sort of hybrid of capitalism and socialism, but more deserving of the epithet "crony capitalism" or "corporate feudalism" which we regrettably find supplanting the system of rule of law constrained free market capitalism.
Nothing could be more exemplary of governmental and corporate intermingling (and the disasters spawned) than the chartered maze of front companies fostered by the Central Intelligence Agency. Diamond in his articles focuses on Obama's time in Chicago, but he would perhaps get a more telling answer to the question, "Who 'sent' Obama?" if he looked to NYC, where Obama was first employed upon graduation from Columbia University...
Export Blueprint (WMR): Verified CIA Front, Business International Corp, Paid for Obama’s Columbia College Tuition
WTPOTUS: Taking Care of Business International Corporation - Obama’s Co-Workers
Curiously enough, the history of the man called "Obama" traces in rough outline that of the Weathermen, from their role at the Columbia strike in '68 to their eventual transformation into terrorist cells as the Weather Underground out of Chicago in late 1969 - it is said that the targeted assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton at the hands of the Chicago police in December 1969 was the catalyst of this transformation. The rough outline here is ironic enough, since Obama would go on to become a perpetrator of targeted assassinations as president. These assassinations along with every other extra-constitutional measure instituted by George W. Bush and continued if not enhanced by Obama of course have their impetus in a certain spectacular attack that took place on the morning of September 11, 2001. Many commuters into lower Manhattan and executives arriving in their offices would have read, in that morning's New York Times, just as the shit hit the fan....
No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen
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Further reading...
Chapter IV of Webster Tarpley's Barack H. Obama: the Unauthorized Biography, summarized here...
The Most Revolutionary Act: Who Did Obama Work for in Chicago?
More on the Chicago foundation networking...
CNS News: Ayers Brothers Led Annenberg Grantees and Contributed to Obama
PJ Media: Obama and the Woods Fund
LaRouche on Ayers on the eve of the election...
Executive Intelligence Review: The Weathermen
Jack Cashill's comparative analysis of Obama's Dreams from My Father and Ayers' Fugitive Days as well as the Weather Underground's Prairie Fire (which Ayers co-wrote) leads him to the conclusion that Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams. (For instance the name of French author Frantz Fanon is misspelled "Franz" in both Prairie Fire and Dreams). It is a claim that is difficult to prove, but tantalizing nonetheless...
American Thinker: Who Wrote Dreams and Why It Matters
Finally, a sundry speculation: as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrne were deployed to discredit the SDS and anti-war movement in the late '60s, so are Aaron Greene and Morgan Gliedman similarly deployed to discredit the Occupy Wall St. movement?
Conservative Hideout: Alleged OWS Activitst, Aaron Greene, Caught With Bomb Making Materials
Pragmatic Witness: New York Couple’s Terrorist Connection to the Sandy Hook Tragedy
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