Thousands of activists march on Washington to rally against NSA spying
Stop Watching Us rally credit: @johnzangas/Twitter
by Madison Ruppert
Activist Post
October 27, 2013
Thousands of activists joined forces on Saturday to protest the NSA surveillance of both domestic and international targets by marching on Washington, D.C.
This comes shortly after it was revealed that the NSA spied on the phones of 35 world leaders. Furthermore, both France and Mexico have recently responded quite critically to U.S. surveillance in their countries, though Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a cleverly worded denial of the reports.
On Saturday, it was also reported that 21 countries are in the process of creating a UN resolution to condemn NSA surveillance.
The march was organized by Stop Watching Us, a coalition of over 100 groups ranging from the ACLU to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to FreedomWorks to Demand Progress to the Council on American-Islamic Relations to Occupy Wall Street and many more.
A statement from Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor responsible for leaking the now famous documents exposing mass collection of phone records and widespread internet surveillance, was read to rally participants.
“Our representatives in Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They’re wrong. Now it’s time for the government to learn from us,” Snowden wrote in the statement read by Jesselyn Radack, national security director for the Government Accountability Project.
Radack gestured in the direction of the Capitol building and said, “We are watching you,” according to USA Today.
“Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no Internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA’s hands,” Snowden’s statement read, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
Participants carried a wide variety of signs, but all promoted the same goal of an end to mass surveillance.
The rally featured many notable speakers, including Rep. Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican noted for his defense of privacy.
Amash was an early critic of the NSA’s surveillance and has been an ardent opponent of other pieces of legislation he deemed to be a threat to the Constitution.
Dennis Kucinich also spoke at the rally:
Multiple NSA whistleblowers also showed up at the rally, including Russell Tice:
And Thomas Drake:
There were even rallies in Germany to protest the NSA surveillance in their country:
It remains to be seen if the government will react to the rise of negative popular sentiment in response to NSA spying.
Up until this point, it hasn’t seemed to sway the Obama administration, many legislators and government agencies all that much, since, as the Chicago Tribune put it, they “have defended the NSA programs as crucial in protecting U.S. national security and helping thwart past militant plot[s].”
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VIDEO — Interview With The Syrian Electronic Army
Syrian Girl
October 3, 2013
Translated into english The first in person interview with the most powerful hacking organisation in the world
U.S. Public Schools Now Legally Torturing and Sometimes Even Killing Students — video included
By Shepard Ambellas | October 27, 2013 | 2:52pm EST | Special Report
From “Skin-Shock Therapy” to exclusion rooms, public school systems across the United States are engaging our youth with in torturous and aggressive discipline measures, in some cases ending in the death of a student.
1912 illustration of an inmate in an American prison receiving “the paddle”, a form of torture used for punishment. This was illegal at the time. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
(INTELLIHUB) — In an extremely shocking and sickening report, thankfully brought to us by Brian Ross of Nightline on ABC News, we can clearly see a pattern and push toward a police state trend in America that’s not slowing down anytime soon. Public and private schools around the country are now in the business of torturing students and in some cases like Corey Foster’s mentioned in the report, even killing them in the process all in the name of discipline and safety.[1]
Foster, now dead from cardiac arrest during a failed restraint session after being told to “stop playing basketball”, is just one of many examples of students that have been killed in school discipline procedures.
Although these restraint and torture methods are barbaric, especially for children, surprisingly the methods are not illegal in most states. In fact, only “17 states” have laws limiting such action within the school system.
Experts are split on the use of these techniques, while some say they are good for the children and can even protect them in some cases, others simply are not having it, claiming that children exposed to such techniques become even more violent displaying even more behavioral problems down the line. Although a general consensus amongst the public concludes these methods are not warranted, the government backed indoctrination programs will continue for now.
As a side note, I myself attended the 7th grade in a Pensacola public school in the “sunshine state” of good old Florida, in the “Bible Belt” mind you, and had one encounter myself that I will never forget.
On one hot summer morning during P.E. class I was attacked by a fellow student in the locker room as he came at me full force in a boxing style stance unloading a melee of punches. Out of instinct, I rapidly reacted and defended myself as would anyone in this situation delivering a one kick K.O. to my attacker. After the fight I was taken to the office and I quickly realized it didn’t matter to the school staff that I did not start the fight, I was going to be punished anyways.
To my surprise the school planned to inflict physical pain on me. My discipline was 1-week suspension and what the school refereed to as “ten licks”, meaning I was going to get paddled, and paddled good.
Once I arrived at the school’s Dean’s Office, the staff had me bend over. They made me put my hands on the desk as the Dean proceeded to pull out a 2 foot long wooden paddle about 1–1/2 inches thick waving it around to intimidate me. I was terrified.
The paddle was filled with holes drilled all throughout the paddle’s face so the Dean can gain more speed with each swing, limiting the air resistance before slamming into the victims buttocks. And yes, I was the next victim. Let’s just say the “ten licks” I received that day severely bruised and hurt me beyond any ass beating I have ever received prior to or after for that matter.
Once I arrived at home later that day, my Mom was in shock. She saw the marks on me from the torture the school inflicted and was infuriated. She immediately went down to the school and demanded that someone be held accountable. However, she found out to her surprise, no one cared. In fact, the school staff told her that the torture was “legal” and “approved.
What is wrong with our public school systems? Why should teachers and school staff be able to push the limits of discipline and use these torturous tactics?
Sources:
[1] Death at School: Parents Protest Dangerous Discipline – YouTube.com
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BREAKING NEWS: Environment Canada Releases Geoengineering Programs to C.A.N.
by Frank Gotz
Canadian Awareness Network
October 27, 2013
I sent an e-mail to Environment Canada (EC) on Aug 2nd 2013 asking for a list of companies that are participating in geoengineering in Canada pursuant to the Weather Modifications Information Act. The WMI Act is a piece of legislation which lists the rules, restrictions and punishments for modifying the weather in Canada without government permission.
I received reply back one month later from an EC representative, by the name of Isabelle Landry , who informed me that they need my home address because the amount of information they wanted to give me was too big for an e-mail and they would send me a disc. Approximately one week later I received a package in the mail from EC a long with a letter which wrote:
“Dear Mr. Gotz
Thank you for your email message of August 2nd, 2013, requesting a list of companies participating in geoengineering activities, specifically weather modification, in Canada…
Starting in 1948, the federal government was involved in weather modification experiments. Most of these activities took place in the 1960s and 1970s…. The research programs declined in the second half of the 1970s and ended in the early 1980s.
Currently, there is one hail suppression program operating in Alberta. The activities are conducted by Weather Modifications Inc. In an attempt to reduce damage caused by hail, the company seeds some developing thunderstorms in the Calgary-Red Deer area between May and September of each year since 1996. It uses silver iodide as a seeding agent. Weather Modifications Inc has been the only company undertaking weather modification activities in Canada during the past 15 years.
With respect to the use of silver iodide by Weather Modification Inc, the emissions produced by this compound are considered to have negligible environmental or health impacts. Material safety data sheets for silver iodide are readily available online. Measurements of silver iodide concentrations in regions where silver iodide-based weather modification activities have occurred have not found concentrations that were above the natural background concentrations. For long-term, larger scale weather modification operations, EC endorses the position of the World Meteorological Organization that the implications on ecosystems need to be assessed. For more details please consult www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/wwrp/new/documents/WM_statement_guidelines_approved.pdf
The Assistant Deputy Minister of Environment Canada’s Meteorological Service of Canada is the administrator of the Weather Modifications Information Act. Under the Act, any weather modifications undertaken over Canada need to be formally reported to the Department. Weather Modifications Inc provides the necessary reports to Environment Canada on a yearly basis. Regarding your request for information on who has sprayed what, and where, I am attaching the records from 1996 to 2011 for your interest.
Please accept my best wishes.
Sincerely,
The Honourable Leona Agulukkaq, P.C, M.P
Minister of the Environment”
2 pictures below of the physical letter (click to enlarge):
The Assistant Deputy Minister of the Meteorological Service of Canada is David Grime. David is the administrator of the Weather Modifications Information Act and according to the letter I received it indicates that David literally over sees and knows all weather modification programs that are happening in Canada. David is also President of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization and President of World Meteorological Organization -WMO/OMM. This guy is big.
The letter also made mention that geoengineering programs in Canada started in 1948 and most of the activities took place in the 60s and 70s and died out by 80s but it did not give any details as to what type of geoengineering activities occurred. So I am replying to the letter requesting more details as to what type of geoengineering experiments were conducted in those times, so please stayed tuned and visit this site in the future to see there is a reply from EC to my letter.
So the information about who oversees the geoengineering projects in Canada and the release of the dates of when it started is a news breaker for me and I was quiet satisfied with receiving it. As to the information about cloud seeding and hail mitigation is information that is absolutely not new to me and I’ve written articles about Weather Modifications Inc and cloud seeding in the past. Click HERE for a past article written in the summer. Also by just going to Weather Modifications Inc website by clicking HERE it goes into details of all the geoengineering projects that are in operation.
Below are reports made by Weather Modifications Inc to EC pursuant to the WMI Act that I received from EC. I have not gone through it all but I figure I get this information out:
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1996
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1997
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1998_Vol1
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1998_Vol2
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1999
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2000
- 2001 report was too large to upload
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2002
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2003
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2004
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2005
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2006
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2008
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2010
- WMI_Notification_May 1996
- WMI_Notification_May 1997
- WMI_Notification_May 1998
- WMI_Notification_May 1999
- WMI_Notification_May 2000
- WMI_Notification_May 2001
- WMI_Notification_May 2002
- WMI_Notification_May 2003
- WMI_Notification_May 2004
- WMI_Notification_May 2005
- WMI_Notification_May 2007
- WMI_Notification_May 2008
- WMI_Notification_May 2009
- WMI_Notification_May 2010
- WMI_Notification_May 2011
- WMI_Notification_May 2012
- 2011 AB Flight Summary Environment Canada
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week01 ENDING 20110604
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week02 ENDING 20110611
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week03 ENDING 20110618 – Revised
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week03 ENDING 20110618
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week04 ENDING 20110625
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week05 ENDING 20110702
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week06 ENDING 20110709
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week07 ENDING 20110716
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week08 ENDING 20110723
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week09 ENDING 20110730
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week10 ENDING 20110806
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week11 ENDING 20110813
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week12 ENDING 20110820
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week16 ENDING 20110915
If you notice above, in the last paragraph of reports there are 3 weeks missing. Week 13-15 were not on the disc. I wonder if there was something in those reports EC didn’t want to share with me on purpose or if it is because there were no operations happening those weeks? I will also be asking them for more information about the missing weeks in my reply letter.
Conclusion
New questions arise after reading the letter that I received from Leona Agulukkaq, the Minister of Environment.
- What type of geoengineering experiments/programs were being conducted from 1940s – 1980s?
- Where are the reports for week 13-15 in 2011?
- And what about the year 2012?
They gave me no information about the persistent chemtrails that we see in our skies and I was surprised (but not that surprised) that they never supplied me with the declassified EC documents outlining geoengineering projects. I find it funny that there were mainstream reports of Canada doing geoengineering experiments in the ocean by adding iron to create more plankton growth, which they say ‘binds’ carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and yet in the letter Leona told me there hasn’t been any other geoengineering projects happening in Canada. Click HERE for an article from CTV News.
In the summer of 2012, EC declassified documents that outlined proposed geoengineering projects which outlined carbon-dioxide removal (CDR) via dumping iron into ocean and solar-radiation management (SRM) by reflecting solar radiation back into the atmosphere via sulfur injections along with other things. Click HERE for that declassified document that was just mentioned.
Also in the same summer EC declassified another document that outlined geoengineering projects titled “Geoengineering: Science and Governance”. Click HERE to view document. If you go to page 10 it mentions the plankton growth and if you scroll to page 13 it makes mention of dispersing sulfur into the atmosphere via airplanes, rockets or balloons to reflect solar radiation. Could some chemtrails we see in the sky contain sulfur?
So it looks like I will be sending a reply to EC outlining everything mentioned in Conclusion section so stay tuned for future reports.
Gone to Pot! Giant Marijuana Plants All Over California!
Before It’s News
October 27, 2013
By Dan Rather
The old expression about everything being bigger in Texas just got trumped by what’s happening in California. In my career as a reporter, I’ve been on more than a few drug raids and seen my fair share of marijuana plants. But nothing prepared me for what’s growing in northern California. As Mendocino Sheriff Tom Allman describes them, they’re “super-mega-steroid marijuana plants. We followed Sheriff Allman along on a raid near Ukiah where deputies had just discovered more than a hundred plants the size of giant Christmas trees, some reaching 15 feet high. It’s the latest trend in pot farms, or what are increasingly looking like pot plantations! So how’d they get so big? Sheriff Allman says it’s a combination of genetic modification, fertilizers, pesticides, California’s ideal growing climate and water, lots of water.
While the super plants we found in an illegal growing operation were in Mendocino County, they’re popping up all over the state, and much of the time on public land where illegal large-scale cultivation of marijuana is destroying local ecosystems. And, increasingly, it’s not locals who are farming the pot plants. Allman told me that Latin American, even European syndicates, have moved in to the back woods where they are growing far from prying eyes. This is a multi-billion dollar business and those who I spoke to used words like “crisis” and “out of control” to describe what’s going on here. Think about this — illegal marijuana farms in northern California are actually sucking the mighty Eel River dry, and that’s threatening the native salmon population.
While the diversion of water from rivers is a big concern, the use of toxic pesticides — some banned long ago in the U.S. — to keep anything and everything away from crops is also troubling. These pesticides are poisoning wildlife and contaminating the water supply. We also discovered that these chemicals show up in marijuana that’s not only headed for the black market, but in supplies due to be sold in California’s medical dispensaries.
Fukushima Fraud and Corruption: Japanese Organized Crime Involved in Recruitment of “Specialized Personnel”
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
October 25, 2013
What prevails is a well organized camouflage. The public health disaster in Japan, the contamination of water, agricultural land and the food chain, not to mention the broader economic and social implications, have neither been fully acknowledged nor addressed in a comprehensive and meaningful fashion by the Japanese authorities.
The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. In the words of renowned novelist Haruki Murakami:
“This time no one dropped a bomb on us … We set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives.”
Several Global Research reports and background articles have outlined the dangers of Worldwide radiation resulting from the Fukushima disaster.
This disaster is now being sustained and aggravated by the incompetence of TEPCO as well as political camouflage by the Abe government.
Fukushima and the Yakuza
There is another dimension: The coordination of the multibillion dollar Fukushima decontamination operation relies on Japan’s organized crime, the Yakusa, which is actively involved in the recruitment of “specialized” personnel for dangerous tasks.
“The complexity of Fukushima contracts and the shortage of workers have played into the hands of the yakuza, Japan’s organized crime syndicates, which have run labor rackets for generations.” (Reuters, October 25, 2013)
The Yakuza labor practices at Fukushima are based on a corrupt system of subcontracting, which does not favor the hiring of competent specialized personnel. It creates an environment of fraud and incompetence, which in the case of Fukushima could have devastating consequences. The subcontracting with organized crime syndicates is a means for major corporations involved in the clean-up to significantly reduce their labor costs.
Officer Goes on Dangerous In-Store Rampage…For a Squirrel
by Amanda Warren
Activist Post
October 24, 2013
For the second time in two days I have had the opportunity to write about Dollar General store as the scene of a violent crime. Unlike yesterday’s post where a pastor with a conceal-carry pistol saved the life of the Dollar General store staff and the criminal involved, this second incident involved an officer who was tasked with protecting the public, but instead acted as perpetrator of the crime.
This incident which occurred in Mountain City, TN in late September involved former officer Jody Putnam who felt justified in using deadly force in a crowded store when confronted inside with a vicious…and frightening…squirrel.
Property owner Carl Duffield had tried unsuccessfully to remove the frightened creature from the store and reached out to animal control, but that officer was out – so Putnam, who had no animal control experience or common sense, was dispatched instead.
Rather than find a humane trap, Putnam began immediately firing shots from his gun at the squirrel in the back of the crowded store. When that failed to kill something, he wildly hosed the area with pepper spray.
Duffield said:
Shooting back there, of course that should not have been, that should not have happened. Then [he] began to spray it with mace and pepper spray.
But the spray got on more than just the little squirrel:
There was a lot of people that come out and just like me they came out and they were coughing and a hacking it was comical…but I’m sure they didn’t feel that way, the customers that came out.
Traumatized customers who re-entered the store were most likely further horrified to find the dead squirrel under Putnam’s shoe.
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