RECON ALERT: Strange Occurrence in New York Subway – Requesting Intel
The Intel Hub
January 25, 2012
NEW YORK — Last Friday a strange event took place in a New York Subway.The event seems out of the ordinary, therefore we have chosen to report on it in an attempt to flush out more information from whistleblowers and/or eyewitnesses. At this time we are not exactly sure what prompted this event in the subway near One World Trade.
The original report from Earth Walker reads;
Thousands of passengers, mostly financial district workers were suspiciously herded into the Path Trains boarding area. A passenger over heard a police officer as saying they need crowd control in this area while the trains were being re-routed.
There was no explanation offered as to why this happened but, the passenger that experienced this event did point that most of these people worked in the financial district. The suspicion is that because this happened near the entrance of the One World Trade Center , this might possibly be staging of a false flag event to potentially eliminate the financial workers and Wall Street, thus eliminating traces of money laundering and astronomical financial impropriety. This suspicion is perhaps a logical leap to consider the fallout if such an event would actually occur.
Much like the destruction of the World Trade Center, the evidence of money laundering and astronomical financial impropriety would be eliminated if such an event did happen.
Maybe the NYPD is practicing for such an event or if this is a staging, this must not turn into another 9/11.
If anyone knows more about this incident in the subway, now is the time to expose it.
If you have any information on this event contact us: tips@theintelhub.com
Update: We received this email shortly after publishing the above article:
I have an uncle who works in lower Manhattan and takes the path train during the weekdays. He spoke to me about a similar incident on the path train in which an NYPD female Sergeant apparently became upset that several rookie cops were allowing passengers to walk in-between the cars.
She scolded the officers and ordered them to get everyone off the train. The rookie cops, embarrassed obviously, and wanting to gain her approval began to systematically walk from car to car removing everyone off the train. Most of the passengers were of the corporate type who work in the financial district.
My uncle was shocked at how blatantly irresponsible this female Sergeant was behaving and how arrogantly she was pushing her weight around with these rookie cops. She might have been a rookie Sergeant as well. Anyway, this may or may not be the same incident that you’re reporting on in your article. Hope it helps.
It ‘rained fish’ in Agusan del Sur
By Jaime Laude
The Philippine Star
January 15, 2012
MANILA, Philippines – Small fish of still unknown species mysteriously fell from the skies over Loreto town in Agusan del Sur Friday afternoon during a heavy downpour, leaving residents and officials baffled and amused.
Blance Gobenciong, Office of Civil Defense (OCD) director in Caraga, confirmed the phenomenon but offered no explanation.
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Benito Ramos also could not provide an explanation for the strange incident.
“It came with the rain and about a kilo of these live fish is in the aquarium now,” Gobenciong said. Surprised residents went out of their houses despite the heavy rain to collect the fish that landed on rooftops and on the streets.
It’s Raining Apples: Freak Wind Drops Apples From The Sky in England
By Dan Evon
The Inquisitr
December 15, 2011
It was just an average day during rush hour in the English Midlands… and then it started raining apples. Motorists were hit with more than 100 pieces of fruit as they sat in traffic in Coventry.
The Daily Mail reports that there were several storm warnings issued earlier in the day but meteorologists neglected to mention that England had a 20% chance of apples. At 6:45 on Monday, apples started falling from the sky in Coventry. Car roofs and windshields were battered by more than 100 pieces of fruit, and according to the mail, a thick green slush was left on the ground after the storm.
Red Spotlights to Mark ‘Pre-crime’ Suspects [video]
By Aaron Dykes
Infowars
January 23, 2012
In a glowing review of the rising prevalence of high-tech big brother surveillance gadgets in police force use, the Associated Press reports that East Orange, New Jersey plans to cut crime by highlighting suspects with a red-beamed spotlight — before any crime is committed — a “pre-crime” deterrent to be mounted on nearby street lights or other fixtures.
According to the report, police officers monitor hundreds of video feeds from across the city and opt to brand would-be criminals with a red glow if they believe they are about to engage in a crime, such as a street corner mugging.
“Whereas London has talking cameras, we’re about to deploy light projecting cameras, better known as light-based intervention systems.” said William Robinson, Police Chief for East Orange. He added, “The message to criminals is, we’re observing you, the police are recording you, and the police are responding.”
As Robinson mentioned, other “pre-crime” measures have been deployed both in the UK and United States, as well as other countries. Talking cameras in the UK bark orders at ‘anti-social’ offenders, while the Homeland Stasi here has partnered with Intellistreets to release “smart” street lights capable of saving energy while monitoring & recording citizens, as well as displaying government-mandated emergency alerts on digital banners.
Now “pre-crime” spotlights that bathe surveillance targets in a criminally-branded red color will help complete the circle of preemptive suspicion.
But that’s just one flashy feature in a rash of new high-tech solutions provided to the crime-ridden city under federal grant money. In East Orange, and probably a locale near you, too, everyone is a “pre-crime” suspect until proven innocent.
The video goes on to brag that officer squad cars also scan the license plates of every single vehicle they pass, checking them against a variety of lists — from terrorist monitor lists, to unpaid parking tickets, warrants and more. Officers can then pull over vehicles that match watch lists, even if the driver has committed no violations to draw attention from the patrol vehicle.
Further, cameras tied into police video monitor stations can also be accessed from squad cars; officers can zoom in on nearby locations to determine if a situation is underway, or if a suspect can be identified. The red light is intended to help track a would-be criminal once surveillance is already underway.
A spokesperson for the ACLU noted a worrisome climate of monitoring and spying on political groups, anti-abortion activists and more. Meanwhile, the MIAC Missouri law enforcement memo, as well as similar documents released from the Department of Homeland Security, have made clear that returning veterans and supporters of third-party political candidates and many other groups are note only considered “domestic extremists,” but have been put on law enforcement watch lists as well as anti-terrorism databases.
It has further been revealed that numerous non-violent political groups and grassroots campaigns have been labeled as “terrorists” and monitored by regional Fusion Centers.
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Legislating Big Brother under the guise of fighting child pornography
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
January 21, 2012
Deception has become the hallmark of how our government operates in the post-9/11 world, leveraging emotionally charged language in order to trick the public into supporting dangerous legislation.
This is the exact tactic that allowed the PATRIOT Act to be accepted by the public (although it wouldn’t matter much even if the public didn’t support it).
Then President George W. Bush famously stated something to the effect of, “Either you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists,” and that is exactly what our so-called representatives are doing now, except this time it is with child pornography.
Child pornography and the exploitation of children in general is a thoroughly disgusting practice which I think should be punished as harshly as possible, but that does not mean that everyone on the internet should be tracked like never before.
This is exactly what H.R. 1981, or “The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011″ intends to do.
This legislation, which has been dormant since December 16, intends to amend pre-existing legal code in order to create a more comprehensive database of users’ internet activity.
You might be surprised that much of what people are finding most objectionable about the legislation is already law here in the United States.
In an article published in The Atlantic, the author and some of the commenters seem to be most offended by the sheer amount of information that internet service providers (ISPs) are required to store on their users.
However, H.R. 1981 (which should be much more appropriately called H.R. 1984) only adds that service providers must record the IP addresses of users as well.
In order to understand this new legislation, which is actually more of an amendment than wholly new legislation, we must look back to what it is actually amending.
This is Title 18 of the U.S. Code, Part 1, Chapter 121, § 2703: Required Disclosure of Customer Communications or Records, which can be read here.
Under Subsection (c), Records Concerning Electronic Communication Service or Remote Computing Service, we read:
(2) A provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service shall disclose to a government entity the
(A) name;
(B) address;
(C) local and long distance telephone connection records;
(D) length of service (including start date) and types of service utilized;
(E) telephone or instrument number or other subscriber number or identity, including any temprorarily assigned network addresses; and
(F) means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number),
of a subscriber to or a customer of such service when the government entity uses an administrative subpoena authorized by a Federal or State statute or a Federal or State grand jury or trial subpoena or any means available under paragraph (1).
(3) A government entity receiving records or information under this subsection is not required to provide notice to a subscriber or customer.
When we examine the actual text of H.R. 1981, we find that in addition to the above information, providers must “retain for a period of at least one year a log of the temporarily assigned network addresses the provider assigns to a subscriber or to a customer of such service that enables the identification of the corresponding customer or subscriber information under subsection (c)(2) of this section.”
I find the sheer amount of information being collected by these service providers to be stored for an extended period of time for the government’s perusal to be somewhat troubling.
Of course, the name of the legislation was carefully chosen in order to make anyone who questions the legitimacy of such tactics as either a child pornographer or someone who sympathizes with such despicable people and practices.
I am neither and I think that many people who are not child pornographers and who in fact have nothing to hide when it comes to their internet activity would find such extensive records troubling.
The classic tactic used by proponents of legislation like this is to ask, “If you have nothing to hide, then why are you concerned?”
That is because in today’s America you don’t have to do anything wrong to get you marked by the government.
For instance, under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, commonly referred to as the NDAA, the government could effectively criminalize certain internet searches or activities which could be labeled “belligerent acts” or terrorist-related activity and thus get you thrown in indefinite military detention.
Furthermore, as the author of the above linked piece from The Atlantic points out, it can also be used for blackmail purposes.
It is far too easy for internet searches to be taken out of context and for someone like me who spends most of their days researching material from across the world on a plethora of subjects, there are bound to be a few searches which could be taken out of context and used to criminalize us.
This legislation is just part of the massive multifaceted approach to eroding all of our most essential civil liberties and the American peoples’ basic sense of freedom and privacy as a whole.
While SOPA and PIPA have garnered widespread opposition, leading to Representative Lamar Smith pulling the legislation for now, the NDAA did not and it seems that H.R. 1981 is getting similarly ignored for the most part.
So long as most of the American people are having their opinions fed to them by the establishment media and various less-than-trustworthy news sources, our so-called representatives will be able to slip legislation like this into law, mostly under the radar with little organized opposition.
Help combat this trend by sharing this article and the many others that cover these important issues that affect us all in ways we can only begin to imagine.
If you have information or a tip on legislation I have yet to cover please email me at admin@endthelie.com with the details.
Related posts:
- Scientists question safety of TSA child pornography devices AKA naked body scanners
- The Next Step in Fighting False Terror-The Thought Police
- Victory (for now): Lamar Smith kills SOPA
- White House to unveil new Big Brother cybsecurity strategies
- The US Air Force wants to monitor, track and analyze everything done on the internet around the globe
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Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio – part VIII
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
January 26, 2012
It gives me no pleasure to report that the situation with Iran is only getting more heated and the push for war continues to get stronger.
An Israeli investigative journalist and highly connected analyst for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Ronen Bergman, recently wrote a piece for the New York Times magazine which states that indeed Israel will strike Iran in 2012.
Bergman bases his analysis and conclusions on meetings with “many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the military and intelligence.”
He says that the United States may choose to intervene, something which I think is quite likely, but he does say that “from the Israeli perspective, there is not much hope for that.”
I am not quite sure why they would think that the United States would take a back seat in this conflict given the unmatched power the Israel lobby has in Washington coupled with the growing American presence in region of the Persian Gulf, which I have been detailing in this series.
However, the British Guardian rightly points out that Bergman’s words are more significant than those coming from most analysts and pundits given his close ties to political, military and intelligence figures in Israel.
The Guardian writes that since he spends “a significant amount of time with the politicians, spies and generals who are going to make the ultimate decision … his assessment carries more weigh[t] tha[n] your average Israel-Iran analyst.”
Note: I had to modify the above text (and other excerpts), as for some reason the Guardian’s article had an egregious amount of errors which one would think might be caught by the editor of a large news outlet but apparently not. It’s always humorous to me when a one-man-operation like End the Lie churns out higher quality content than a large-scale enterprise like Guardian.co.uk which recorded £1 million in profits in 2006 and is owned by the Scott Trust.
Bergman says that the Israelis are already preparing for the strike, something which I think is quite obvious and mirrored in the actions of the United States’ military as well.
Bergman writes, “The Israeli Air Force is where most of the preparations are taking place. It maintains planes with the long-range capacity required to deliver ordnance to targets in Iran, as well as unmanned aircraft capable of carrying bombs to those targets and remaining airborne for up to 48 hours. Israel believes that these platforms have the capacity to cause enough damage to set the Iranian nuclear project back by three to five years.”
Other estimates are much more conservative, but I honestly think that the Israeli estimate isn’t too wildly off the mark, although the author of the Guardian piece characterizes it as “very confident.”
This is mostly due to estimates from the likes of United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta who estimated one to two years in a best case scenario and Rafi Eitan, a Mossad veteran, who told Bergman it would set them back “not even three months.”
The two factors at play here are Iran’s physical capability to continue the nuclear program after taking a massive hit along with Iran’s drive to become self-sufficient and a scientific leader in the region.
It seems that Iran has been able to survive and continue their efforts in the face of tough sanctions, something which the country’s Supreme Leader Khamenei boasted about not too long ago.
There were also reports of roughly 1,300 students switching their major over to the field of nuclear sciences due to the most recent assassination and the many others that have occurred as of late.
It seems to me that the Western world’s hyperfocus on Iran has only served to embolden their efforts, as they feel they’re being unfairly targeted and thus should fight back by doing exactly what the West is trying to stop them from doing.
However, I must emphasize that this does not mean that I believe Iran will use a nuclear weapon against Israel or any other target, as I think it is quite clear that they are not, in fact, pursuing any nuclear weapons program at all.
Indeed Leon Panetta himself said as much on national television, yet the talking heads in the establishment media and the bought-and-paid-for politicians in Washington continue to spread disinformation about their nuclear ambitions.
I think that continued strikes and sanctions will in fact serve to embolden the Iranians and drive them to work even harder on their nuclear program.
A direct strike on their facilities would likely have a similar effect but the larger question is if they actually have the money and material capability to continue at this rate after an attack.
While they have indeed announced that they have created an underground enrichment facility which would be much harder to take out from the air, this is only one facility and I doubt that they have enough facilities which are sufficiently protected from air strikes to sustain their program after an Israeli assault.
If Israel managed to strike all above-ground facilities and take them out completely, perhaps even damaging their underground facilities with the use of so-called “bunker buster” bombs, I seriously doubt that they would be able to recover in the “not even three months” cited by Eitan.
Honestly, I think Eitan’s statement very likely represents the ever-present Israeli fearmongering about Iran which is intended to make us believe that Iran is some bloodthirsty nation itching to pull the trigger and nuke Israel and/or the West.
I think this assertion is laughable in its inaccuracy given that Iran is more peaceful than both Israel and the United States and they likely are well aware of the fact that any strike would be seen as justification for an attack on their nation.
I seriously doubt that the Iranian leadership is clueless enough to think that the West wouldn’t take any attack as an opportunity to utterly destroy Iran.
Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, spent a great deal of time with Bergman which allows us to get a peek into how the Israeli leadership views Iran.
“From our point of view,” Barak said, “a nuclear state offers an entirely different kind of protection to its proxies. Imagine if we enter another military confrontation with Hezbollah, which has over 50,000 rockets that threaten the whole area of Israel, including several thousand that can reach Tel Aviv. A nuclear Iran announces that an attack on Hezbollah is tantamount to an attack on Iran. We would not necessarily give up on it, but it would definitely restrict our range of operations.”
“And if a nuclear Iran covets and occupies some gulf state, who will liberate it?” Barak asked. “The bottom line is that we must deal with the problem now.”
This is a prime example of the Israeli approach: propagandize, instill fear, posit hypothetical situations with no basis in reality, then once you have your subject completely fearful and looking for a solution, you offer the solution which is inevitably a strike on Iran.
The problem here is that all of what Barak said is completely divorced from reality.
Since when was Iran threatening to occupy a gulf state? In reality, it is the United States and the West in general which poses a greater threat of occupying a gulf state.
Furthermore, if anyone is guilty of occupation, it is Israel, which has illegally occupied Palestinian land for decades and committed egregious war crimes in the process.
Has Iran done such a thing? Is Iran flouting international law on a daily basis by illegally occupying territory captured during a war?
However, not all individuals are easily duped by this type of psychological operation which is exemplified by Barak.
Take, for instance, Bruce Riedel, a former Middle East specialist for the CIA.
In a recent piece published in the Lebanese Daily Star, Riedel argued that even if Iran had a nuclear bomb (which it doesn’t) it would still not be an existential threat to Israel.
The Guardian thinks that Riedel’s view is representative of the majority opinion of the CIA and White House, even though there are no indications that this is the case.
Bergman goes on to examine this supposed divergence between the approaches of the United States and Israel (something which I think is wholly superficial) and wonders what notice, if any, Israel would give Washington of an attack on Iran.
Israel has previously said that they will not necessarily warn the United States of an upcoming attack on Iran, but I do not think that Israel would actually carry out a large-scale attack without telling the United States.
First of all, these two nations are the closest of allies, secondly the United States would likely be aware of an Israeli air campaign the second it began due to the presence of carrier strike groups in the region which have advanced radar capabilities.
However, a piece recently published in Mondoweiss claimed that Israel would give the United States 12 hours of warning before an attack on Iran because Netanyahu supposedly doesn’t trust Obama. This seems a bit off to me given that 12 hours is enough time to mobilize the troops in the region to some extent.
On the other hand, Matthew Kroenig, who was formerly an advisor at the Pentagon, now serving at the infamous Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), thinks that Israel’s warning will be “an hour or two [before the attack], just enough to maintain good relations between the countries but not quite enough to allow Washington to prevent the attack.”
This is borderline absurd to me, given that the United States has no ostensible interest in preventing an attack on Iran.
Figures in the United States’ military establishment have been pushing for an attack on Iran for years, leading many analysts to believe that an attack was imminent even though it never materialized.
What’s more, the increasing American military presence in the region surrounding Iran, which you can read about in painstaking detail in the previous installments of this series (a list of which can be found at the bottom of this article), indicates that the United States is indeed preparing for an assault on Iran.
In writing for The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg rightly points out that the same individuals giving intelligence to Bergman had convinced Goldberg that an attack on Iran would come last summer.
Goldberg blames his miscalculation on the success of the Stuxnet attack, although honestly I think this is more of an attempt to keep whatever scrap of reputation he has left untarnished.
This makes me wonder, why would Israeli military and intelligence figures be trying to convince individuals in the media that a strike on Iran is imminent?
I believe that this very well might be in an attempt to pressure individuals in America to preemptively strike Iran or prepare for such a strike in order to make the Israeli job easier.
My impression is reflected in the Guardian piece in the passage which reads, “Clearly, [Israel] has a motive in conveying the impression that an attack might be imminent, to stir up urgency in the West to confront Iran.”
In my analysis of the events surrounding Iran, I have found that this is very likely the case and the constant “leaks” regarding plans to attack Iran are meant to push the United States into taking action first.
The military buildup in the region very well might be proof that this approach being taken by Israel is working.
There is also the issue of a third carrier strike group making its way into the Persian Gulf region, a group which would include the aging USS Enterprise.
In the previous installment of this series, I discussed the possibility that the “Big E” could be used as a target for a false flag attack which would give the West free license to assault Iran.
I find this to be likely because it would not only give the West the justification they so desperately have been seeking which has been proving difficult to achieve through pure propaganda, but it would also save the United States a great deal of money in decommissioning the vessel.
While I went over this in some detail before, I believe it is worth exploring more closely in an article devoted entirely to the subject, something which I plan to do in the near future.
If you have any information to share which could help me in this series or in my analysis of a possible false flag attack on the USS Enterprise, please do not hesitate to e-mail me at admin@EndtheLie.com with whatever you have to share.
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Morgellons Report by CDC, No Surprises Here Morgellons Disease is Determined to be Delusional
Carman’s Weblog; Morgllons, MRSA, Lyme & Candida
January 25, 2012
Although we have known the results of the long-awaited study by the CDC into Morgellons Disease, the Morgellons community at large is hugely disappointed by the results, published today. For well over a year, our insider, someone who was actually in the CDC study, shared the results with us. According to our insider, Dr. Joe Shelby, the head of the Kaiser Permanente Hospital study into Morgellons disease in Oakland, California, told him that the study would conclude that Morgellons disease is delusional, all in the heads of Morgellons victims.
According to the Associate Press in Atlanta, Georgia; “Imagine having the feeling that tiny bugs are crawling on your body, that you have oozing sores and mysterious fibers sprouting from your skin. Sound like a horror movie? Well, at one point several years ago, government doctors were getting up to 20 calls a day from people saying they had such symptoms.”
“Many of these people were in California and one of that state’s U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein, asked for a scientific study. In 2008, federal health officials began to study people saying they were affected by this freakish condition called Morgellons.”
The study cost nearly $600,000. Its long-awaited results, released Wednesday, conclude that Morgellons exists only in the patients’ minds.
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