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EU tells defiant Iran it must suspend uranium enrichment activity
by The Extinction Protocol


MAY 9, 2012 – IRAN - The European Union told Iran on Monday it must suspend uranium enrichment, a few days after the Islamic state ruled out doing just that, as Tehran and the West engaged in diplomatic shadow-boxing ahead of nuclear talks this month. The United States called on Iran to take “urgent practical steps” to build confidence during negotiations with world powers on Tehran's nuclear program, which Washington and its allies suspect is a bid to develop an atomic bomb capability. Iran, attending an international conference in Vienna alongside its Western foes, for its part accused the United States of supporting Israel's atomic activities. The Jewish state is widely assumed to hold the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal. Iran and the six major powers resumed discussions last month in Istanbul after a gap of more than a year - a chance to ease escalating tension and avert the threat of a new Middle East war - and both sides described the atmosphere as positive. The next meeting between the powers - the United States, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany - and Iran is to take place on May 23 in the Iraqi capital. Iranian officials say they are “optimistic” about making progress. But with Iran seeking an end to sanctions and Western states reluctant to prematurely ease the pressure they credit with bringing Tehran to the negotiating table, diplomats are already playing down the chances of a settlement in Baghdad. “A lot of people are talking the Baghdad talks up. We are also hopeful. But it is important to remain realistic,” one European diplomat said. “This will be a start, not an end.” Western officials fear Iran may be hardening its demand for relief from sanctions which have been tightened over the past year to target its oil exports, and say this round of talks will at best serve as a stepping stone towards a final deal. –The Star

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The silence over this one was so deafening I all most missed this
story completely. Nary a peep of opposition to this one in Congress
either. It's almost as if the media and Congress held hands and
marked the passing of the First Amendment together in silence.

As silent as we will be, should we wander within earshot of a
Secret Service agent.

With the stroke of a pen, Obama makes free speech a felony...

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Abridged: The First Amendment Is Now a Felonious Criminal Act

by Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com



Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment I
Bill of Rights
United States Constitution
Adopted August 21, 1789

As Congressional representatives overwhelming approved the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act in February of this year, few Americans were paying attention. When President Obama signed the Act into law, he did so in secret, without any of the fanfare that came with his signing of universal health care two years prior – and for good reason. This is one of those laws the government doesn’t want you to know exists until it’s too late to do anything about it.

For many, awareness of the existence of the new law will only become apparent when they are arrested and charged under new Federal trespassing guidelines as they attempt to protest, display signs or disrupt any person or event of national significance. An event of national significance is any activity where Secret Service agents are responsible for security. With several thousand agents in the field at any given time, events involving the President, Congressional members, staff or individuals running for Federal office are all fair game.

Simply standing with a bullhorn, holding up a sign, promoting a contentious message or even being on the grounds of a Secret Service secured event will now make it possible for the government to detain, arrest and charge those involved in these “disruptions” (even if you just happen to be passing through) with a felonious criminal act.

Continue reading here: http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/abridged-the-first-amendment-is-now-a-felonious-criminal-act_05012012

Army Admits Re-Education Camp Manual “Not Intended For Public Release”


Public Affairs Director falsely claims document does not apply within U.S.

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Fort Leonard Wood Public Affairs director Tiffany Wood has provided the first official response to the shocking U.S. Army document that outlines the implementation of re-education camps, admitting that the manual was “not intended for public release” and claiming that its provisions only apply outside the United States, a contention completely disproved by the language contained in the document itself.

After a reader sent Wood a link to where the manual, entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations (PDF), can be downloaded on the army.mil website (but only by military employees with special credentials), Wood responded by stating that the document should not be in the public domain.

“The document was not intended for public release,” said Wood, adding, “Any other questions regarding the
document, you will need to file a FOIA request.”

This means that either hackers have obtained access to a secure military website and downloaded the manual or it was leaked by a military employee concerned about the content of the document.

As we have exhaustively illustrated, the document is a training manual for U.S. Army personnel that details how to treat detainees incarcerated in prison camps both abroad and inside the United States.

The manual outlines how officers will develop programs to “indoctrinate” “political activists” incarcerated in detention camps into developing an “understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions.” The document also explains how “reeducating the I/R facility population or setting the stage for acceptance of future operations,” is the responsibility of ‘PSYOP’ personnel within the camp.

The document also makes clear that the internment facility is not only a re-education camp but also a forced labor camp. Page 277 of the manual states, “Detainees constitute a significant labor force of skilled and unskilled individuals. These individuals should be employed to the fullest extent possible in work that is needed to construct, manage, perform administrative functions for, and maintain the internment facility.”

The manual also directs that political activists be confined to isolation and that prisoners be silenced using by “muffling them with a soft, clean cloth tied around their mouths and fastened at the backs of their heads.”

In her email response, Wood falsely claims that, “The document is intended for operations outside of the continental United States. Depending on the nature and magnitude of an event will determine the level of U.S. military involvement.”

As we have proven using only direct quotations and screenshots from the manual, it is clearly designed to be applied both abroad and “within U.S. territory,” including against “civilian detainees” incarcerated for “security reasons, for protection, or because he or she committed an offense against the detaining power,” as part of “domestic civil support operations” involving FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security.

The manual also details how prisoners will be identified by their “social security number,” another glaring confirmation that the rules apply to U.S. citizens.

The document makes it clear on page 193 that the rules apply to processing American detainees on U.S. soil so long as the President passes an executive order to nullify Posse Comitatus, the law that forbids the U.S. military from engaging in domestic law enforcement.

It is clear from Wood’s response that she has either not read the documents properly or has been directed to downplay their significance by asserting they do not apply within the United States, a claim clearly disproved by the numerous references within the manual to how its instructions can be applied as part of “domestic civil support operations.”

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

2012 Timeline of Events Tightening The Hold of the Police State in America

January 1st -
The previous day, Dec. 31st 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) giving himself and future sitting presidents the authority to detain anyone, including american citizens for any period of time without telling them why and without telling teir families where they are being kept. www.infowars.com/president-obamas-ndaa-signing-statement-i-have-the-power-to-detain-americans-but-i-wont/

January 15th -
SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is shelved indefinately by the House of Reps. SOPA would enable the government to crack down on free speech online. Essentially, posting a video fo one of your favorite songs on your facebook would be illegal under SOPA. The bill is not dead. www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2012/01/18/what-are-sopa-and-pipa-and-why-all-the-fuss/

January 18th -
PIPA, the Protect IP Act, is shelved indefinately. PIPA is similar to SOPA. blog.rockmelt.com/post/13558587507/why-pipa-and-sopa-are-a-very-bad-idea-and-what-you-can-dJanuary 31st - DHA report states that 'domestic terrorists' could be anyone. start.umd.edu/start/publications/research_briefs/LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism.pdf

February 3rd -
FBI Report says internet privacy is 'suspicious activity' endoftheamericandream.com/archives/according-to-the-fbi-internet-privacy-is-now-considered-to-be-suspicious-activity

March 16th -
President Obama signs executive order 13603 otherwise known as the National Defense Resources Prepardness Order giving him control over private property rights and natural resources in times of war or peace. indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/03/21/obama-signs-peacetime-war-preparation-martial-law-order-103922

March 29th -
DHS and ICE buy 450 million rounds of hollow point .40 caliber ammunition from ATK. www.marketwatch.com/story/atk-secures-40-caliber-ammunition-contract-with-department-of-homeland-security-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-dhs-ice-2012-03-12

April 2nd -
The Supreme Court of the United States in Florence vs Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington has decided that police can strip search you at anytime they want endoftheamericandream.com/archives/america-2012-the-supreme-court-has-made-it-legal-for-the-police-to-strip-search-you-any-time-they-want

April 26th -
A Spanish comapny, SCYTL, will be counting our votes. endoftheamericandream.com/archives/a-spanish-company-known-as-scytl-will-be-reporting-election-results-for-hundreds-of-u-s-jurisdictions-on-election-day

The House of Representitives passes CISPA, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, a bill that makes SOPA look weak. www.alaskadispatch.com/article/privacy-concerns-mount-over-cybersecurity-law

May 1st -
US Army buys $266 million of ammo from ATK. www.guns.com/us-army-department-homeland-security-buys-contract-atk-ammunition-alliance-techsystems-7468.html

President Obama signs an executive order violating the US constitution by subjecting US citizens to international law. An executive order that could be used to confiscate your guns and enforced with foriegn troops and bring us closer to a North American Union. endoftheamericandream.com/archives/new-obama-executive-order-pushes-us-closer-to-a-north-american-union-and-a-one-world-economic-system

May 3rd -
Story comes out from a private investigator with sources inside the DHS that they are preparing for a civil war inside the United States www.beaconequity.com/we-are-preparing-for-massive-civil-war-says-dhs-informant-2012-05-03/

May 4th - Leaked US Army and DHS documents provide proof of US/FEMA detention camps being set up all over the united states. www.infowars.com/leaked-documents-confirm-prison-camps-inside-u-s/

There are lies and eyes everywhere. America isn't becoming a fascist police state. It already IS...

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http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2116/011/Elite_is_Planning_Genocide_of_Two-Thirds_of_The_World_Population_-_Kevin_Trudeau_Personally_Spoke_With_Bilderberg....html


http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2113/541/FEMA_Coffins_Being_Moved_Northbound_On_Georgia_Highway_5-8-2012;_Are_They_Being_Transferred_To_Chicago.html


http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2112/509/CIA_HQ_Insider:_30,000_-_100,000_Russian_Troops_Scheduled_To_Arrive_In_America_Within_The_Next_7_Months.html


U.S Army Official Responds to Re-Education Camp Manual
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2116/130/U.S_Army_Official_Responds_to_Re-Education_Camp_Manual.html


AND

The planned re-election of Obama, revolutionary style
http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/5923


2012 Secret Revealed: Mass Bio-Terror Pandemic By December
21, 2012
Truther News
May 10, 2012

The Bio-Terror Bible is a free ebook (PDF) released on May 10, 2012, which was researched and written by David Chase Taylor of Truther.org. The Bio-Terror Bible ultimately connects the dots of an upcoming false-flag bio-terror attack and subsequent pandemic through the lens of over 1,000 data points of news and information in the spectrum of bio-terrorism.

December 21, 2012 is not the end of the world; it’s the end of America. Based on the storied history of pandemics, approximately 90% of the people currently living in America today will be terminated. A terror “event” to will start the chain reaction of a pandemic which will most likely take place on Live TV for all the world to see at either the NATO Summit in Chicago, Illinois, on May 20-21, 2012, or at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, on July 27-August 12, 2012.

"The Department of Homeland Security may be dangerous to your health." ~U.S. Strategy For Bioterrorism Emergency Medical Preparedness And Response, Army War College

Based on the cumulative data of bio-terror research, a made-for-tv bio-terror event will likely involve the use of agents known as Anthrax or Smallpox, but the real pandemic that will kill of millions of people will the result of poisonous vaccines that will be issued to the public by the government and medical establishment in the aftermath of a bio-terror attack. As those who took the first vaccines begin to die, the government will likely say that the virus has mutated and subsequently issue more vaccines that will no doubt kill as well.

As evidenced below, bio-terrorism is blinking red on every level. Aside from having the means, the motive and the opportunity to conduct a major bio-terror attack, the government is the only entity with the resources to organize, plan, drill and execute a major bio-terror false-flag operation. A major terror operation would cost millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars, all of which would be needed in order to blackmail scientists, steal or develop the virus or agent, weaponize it, deliver it, and execute the operation without getting arrested or properly investigated. The sheer logistics, security, communication and cover-up needed before and after the bio-terror attack is so daunting, there is only one suspect (government) even capable of carrying it out.

Bio-Terror Drills
Since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, there has been over 175 bio-terror drills in America which have conditioned first responders, law enforcement and military for an upcoming bio-terror attack and subsequent pandemic. The fact that these bio-terror drills exist in mass confirms that bio-terror attack is in the cards and may be played in a last ditch effort to regain political, economic and militarial control of society. Although there are numerous biological and chemical agents, roughly 90% of the bio-terror drills conducted were for response to an anthrax or smallpox attack.

Bio-Terror Plots & Pasties
Since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, there has also been over 50 bio-terror plots that have allegedly been subverted. In most cases, individuals were been arrested for biological or chemical related crimes that never came to fruition. Despite the ever growing number of high-profile bio-terror plots and patsies, the historical record indicates that 99% of all bio-terror plots, attacks, “tests”, “accidents” and drills are conducted by the government who has the means, the motive and the opportunity for a bio-terror attack.

Bio-Terror Scares & Hoaxes
Since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, there has also been over 50 bio-terror scares in America. A bio-terror scare is essentially a live bio-terror event except that the public and most of the authorities are unaware that there is no real bio-terror danger. Generally, once the incident is over, the news is broken hat there was no real threat. Bio-terror “scares” enable authorities to gage real time reactions to bio-terror and allow for better understanding of how the public, law enforcement and first responders will react in a real bio-terror emergency.

Mystery Biological Outbreaks
Since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, there have been at least 19 "mystery disease" outbreaks in the world. While some of the mystery diseases may have been legitimate outbreaks, most if not all of them appear to be generated man-made outbreaks with the overall goal of convincing American and the world that it is on the precipice of a major pandemic.

Identified Biological Outbreaks
Biological outbreaks worldwide have skyrocketed since 2011 with roughly 50 outbreaks in 2012 alone. While some of the documented reports may have been legitimate biological outbreaks, most if not all appear to be generated man-made outbreaks with the overall goal of convincing America and the world that it is on the precipice of a major pandemic.

Bio-Terror Scapegoats
In the aftermath of man-made bio-terror generated pandemic, the government and media will be feeding the public any number of different scapegoats in a desperate attempt to shift the blame and responsibility for the deadly pandemic onto anybody or anything but themselves. Various scapegoats have been developed over the last 20 years via the government, scientific community, mainstream media, education system, medical establishment and international politics specifically for the aftermath of a global bio-terror generated pandemic. Bio-terror scapegoats include the continent of Africa, agriculture (food and animals), airports and air travel, Al Qaeda, bio safety labs, the notion that bio-terrorism is easy, bio-hackers, the black market, bugs and insects, censorship or lack thereof, domestic terrorists, transmission of disease from exotic animals (zoonosis), government ineptitude and stupidity, mail-order DNA , the country of Mexico, missile shield failure, diseased monkeys, and genetic mutation.

Biological Lab Accidents
Totally inexcusable and unlikely lab “accidents” have been occurring recently at BSL Labs (biosafety level labs) within the United States and around the world. It appears that a majority of these “accidents” were done on purpose with the overall goal of convincing the medical community and the public that a lab “accident” could in fact lead to a global pandemic. Should a bio-terror pandemic arise, it is possible that a lab “accident” may serve as the scapegoat and source of the deadly pathogen.

The Bio-Terror Psyop
In December of 2011, a global bio-terror psyop (psychological operation), hoax, or false-flag was executed when it was revealed that a mutated airborne form of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza was created by a Dutch team of scientists led by Ron Fouchier, of Rotterdam's Erasmus Medical Centre. This major discovery was fabricated in a calculated attempt by the modern medical establishment to deceive the world that into believing that humanity is on the precipice of a genetically mutated pandemic. After the story made international headlines and a 60 day moratorium on flu research was called, the claim of the new deadly air-borne pathogens was all but debunked by medical researchers in Wisconsin.

Real Causes of Bio-Terror
If and when a full-scale bio-terror attack occurs, the live pathogens or agents responsible for the pandemic will likely be dispersed via chemtrails by government airplanes or drones, by the U.S. Postal Service via Tide detergent samples, by the government and medical establishment via tainted vaccines, or by clinics via the portable petri dish commonly known as a Trojan condom. Although the aforementioned causes are all a possibility, it is most likely that tainted vaccines will be the root cause of millions of deaths.

Bio-Terror Propaganda
The overall goal of bio-terror propaganda is to convince America and the world that it is on the precipice of a bio-terror induced pandemic. Bio-terror propaganda is currently at an all-time high and confirms that an upcoming bio-terror attack is in the cards and may be played in a last ditch effort to regain political, economic and militarial control of society. Propaganda also has little regard for the actual reality of biological related sciences and is mostly fictitious in nature.

Potential Bio-Terror Dates
Due to the relatively slow moving nature of a biological disease, it is impossible to know the exact date at which a natural occurring outbreak will occur. However, since the outbreak will be man-made, the 1,000 data points of evidence documented in The Bio-Terror Bible suggest that the pandemic will start prior to the doomsday of December 21, 2012. The dates of May 20-21, 2012 (NATO Summit in Chicago) and July 27-August 12, 2012 (Summer Olympics in London) appear to be the dates at which it is most likely that a man-made bio-terror attack will transpire. Other potential dates include the Republic National Convention in Tampa, Florida on August 27, 2012, the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 6, 2012, the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on September 11, 2012, and April 19, 2013, the second most infamous terror date in American history.

Potential Bio-Terror Locations
Although a bio-terror attack and subsequent pandemic could theoretically occur in any city, region or country, there are two specific locations which have drawn red flags due to their recent bio-terror related incidents and the global events that will occur there in 2012, namely Chicago, Illinois (NATO Summit) and London, England (Summer Olympics). Other potential bio-terror locations include Atlanta, Georgia, Boston, Massachusetts, Cruise Ships worldwide, Disney parks California and Florida, India, Pacific Islands, Mall of America in Minnesota, the subway in New York City and the airport in San Francisco.

Potential Bio-Terror Events
The NATO Summit in Chicago on May 20-21, 2012 and the Summer Olympics in London on July 27-August 12, 2012 appear to be the chosen locations for a made for television bio-terror attack that will likely start a global pandemic that will cull millions. Other potential bio-terror events include the Occupy Wall St. Protests, the 2013 NCAA Final Four in Atlanta, Georgia, the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Poland, and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Source with active links: http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2118/359/2012_Secret_Revealed:_Mass_Bio-Terror_Pandemic_By_December_21,_2012.html

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This is a video from the site of the event that has been banned from youtube, so infowars embedded it on their website. The victim in the video later died from the massive and insessant beating & tasering later at the hospital.

http://www.infowars.com/police-hunt-man-for-sport/

Warning this one is hard to watch. This is the result of the 'training' the globalists are providing to law enforcement personnel.

Forward this far and wide...the militization of law enforcement needs to stop. We are NOT pre-war Germany or Soviet Era Russia. Each and every citizen in this nation is responsible for stopping the tyranny that is spawning stuff like this.

There is no excuse for ignorance.

FEMA and Pentagon’s National Guard Homeland Response Force Trains in New York

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 14, 2012

Seven hundred National Guard members from the Northeast and Caribbean will be in central New York this week for disaster preparedness training. They will train for certification as a regional disaster response force capable of assisting responders following a chemical, biological, nuclear or high-explosive incident, according to the Associated Press.

National Guard Homeland Response Force.They are part of the National Guard Homeland Response Force (HRF) controlled by the Department of Defense. There are currently ten HRF units hosted by one state in each FEMA region, according to the Pentagon.

In February, it was reported that FEMA plans to move National Guard troops from one FEMA district to another during natural disasters and other emergencies. FEMA administrator Craig Fugate made the announcement after Obama signed Presidential Policy Directive 8 on March 30, 2011.

“PPD-8 reflects the Obama Administration’s belief that the whole community – including all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and individual citizens – plays a key role in preparedness efforts,” the National Guard website reported.

PPD-8 allows FEMA to “facilitate an integrated, all-of-nation/whole community, capabilities-based approach to preparedness” that involves “federal partners, state, local and tribal leaders, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, faith based and community organizations ─ and most importantly the general public” in the effort, according to the FEMA website.

“HRFs will increase the focus of DoD Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High explosive (CBRNE) Consequence Management Response forces on life-saving objectives and increase operational flexibility while recognizing the primary role that the governors play in controlling the response to CBRNE incidents that occur in their states,” a DoD PDF explains.

In 2008, it was announced that Northcom 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, at the time recently home from deployment in Iraq, would be assigned within the United States to “deal with catastrophes in the U.S., including terrorist attacks and natural disasters,” CNN reported on October 3, 2008.

Based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, the Army said the combat unit would concentrate “primarily on logistics and support for local police and rescue personnel,” which is a direct violation of the Posse Comtatus Act forbidding collaboration between the U.S. military and domestic law enforcement.

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 strictly forbids federal troops from being deployed on American soil for the purpose of law enforcement. The one exception is provided by the Insurrection Act of 1807, which lets the president use the military only for the purpose of preventing rebellions.

CNN reported that the plan drew criticism after it was reported that the combat unit had trained with equipment “generally used in law enforcement, including beanbag bullets, Tasers, spike strips and roadblocks… That kind of training seems a bit out of line for the unit’s designated role as Northern Command’s CCMRF (Sea Smurf), or CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force.”

On September 18, 2008, the Army Times reported that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team had trained how to use “nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them” in the United States and also how to set-up “hasty” roadblocks with “spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic.”

In 2010, Wikileaks released nearly 400,000 U.S. Army documents on the Iraq War. A number of the documents describe how U.S. troops killed approximately 700 civilians for coming too close to checkpoints, including pregnant women and the mentally ill. At least a half-dozen incidents involved Iraqi men transporting pregnant family members to hospitals.

The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team spent 35 months in a combat role in Iraq.

The National Guard training in New York represents a further blurring of important lines of distinction between the federal government, the Pentagon, state and local government, corporate entities, “and most importantly the general public.”

Since the National Defense Act (or Militia Act) of 1903, the federal government has worked tirelessly to absorb the National Guard and take control of it away from the states. In 2007, the John Warner Defense Authorization Act moved to remove state governors as sole commanders in chief of their state’s National Guard during emergencies within the state, a move that angered a number of state governors.

Russia, US start first joint anti-terror war games on American soil

Flashback: Russian Troops To Target Terrorists in America As Part of Drill

Original: RT
Monday, May 14, 2012

Russia and the US are holding their first ever joint anti-terror military exercises on American territory. A group of Russian paratroopers has taken off to Fort Carson military base, located in the US state of Colorado.


A special unit of American land forces and a reconnaissance unit of Russian special forces will be taking part in the exercises.

Russian paratroopers will first familiarize themselves with American small arms, military equipage, munitions, communication and reconnaissance equipment, parachute systems and types of landing operations.

In addition, Russian and American servicemen will have joint gun practice, mountain training and will take a course in demolition techniques. They will also have parachute training using American military equipment.

At the end of May the exercises will enter the “active” stage with combat training, in the course of which participants are supposed to find, seize and destroy a large base of international “terrorists”.


http://www.infowars.com/russia-us-start-first-joint-anti-terror-war-games-on-american-soil/

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/22/feds-buying-surplus-ammo-ordering-stores-cease-sales-102511/

UN & World Bank Strangle Sovereign Nations Into Accepting Global Population Reduction Dictates

Jurriaan Maessen
Infowars.com
May 15, 2012

According to two subsequent documents put out by the World Bank, its guidelines dictate that in order to qualify for World Bank lending, sovereign nations must implement population reduction objectives as outlined by the World Bank and UN Population Fund. If they refuse, lending will be withdrawn.

Already pre-tested and implemented in Yemen and Niger, these guidelines are destined for global implementation within the next decade, says the World Bank.

In the World Bank’s Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010-2015, published in April of 2010, the Bank speaks of Millennium Development Goal number 5 (or MDG5), which stands for “Reproductive Health” (or RH).

As we know, this is eugenics-new-speak for population control. As pro-death globalist professor John Cleland argued at a 2006 gathering in the company of like-minded individuals from the United Nations Population Fund, the International Planned Parenthood Foundation, the European Commission, the World Bank and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:

“It does this cause no service at all to continue to shroud family planning in the obfuscating phrase “sexual and reproductive health”. People don’t really know what it means. If we mean family planning or contraception, we must say it. If we are worried about population growth, we must say it. We must use proper, straightforward language. I am fed up with the political correctness that daren’t say the name population stabilization, hardly dares to mention family planning or contraception out of fear that somebody is going to get offended. It is pathetic!”

The 2010 report put out by the World Bank however, chooses to use this deceptive phrase continually. And, from its dark point of view, it is right to do so- for the resistance against this 21st century eugenics grows steadily. The Bank, just like the UN, has no choice but to cloak itself in deceptive language so as not to raise too much suspicion as they move forward:

“(…) a renewed global consensus on the need to make progress on MDG5, together with greater attention to gender issues within and outside the Bank is refocusing attention on RH and offering an unprecedented opportunity to redress the neglect of the previous decade. Notable among these developments is that in 2007 the UN fully incorporated RH within the MDG framework.”
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Apart from all the available evidence of a global push for population reduction, The term Global Consensus alone proves it:

“The Global Consensus”, says the report, “recognizes that MDGs 4 & 5 will not be reached without country leadership and the prioritization of reproductive, maternal, and newborn health at country level. The Global Consensus proposes a five point plan that includes: (i) political, operational, and community leadership and engagement; (ii) a package of evidence-based interventions through effective health systems along a continuum of good quality care, with a priority on quality care at birth; (iii) services for women and children free at the point of use if countries choose to provide them; (iv) skilled and motivated health workers in the right place at the right time, with supporting infrastructure, drugs, and equipment; and (v) accountability for results with robust monitoring and evaluation.”

Speaking of a global consensus. It was Klaus Töpfer, 1996 Bilderberg attendee and former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) who in the year 2000 admitted to an “international consensus” on worldwide population control. During a speech given in Berlin in the beginning of the new millennium, Töpfer stated outright:

“Most people and policymakers are unaware that there is an international consensus that grounds population policy in human rights and development, emphasizing building the capacities of women to manage their own lives.”

In order to translate this international, or global consensus to the nation-states under its control, the World Bank boasts:
“The World Bank is uniquely positioned at the country level to take on advocacy for reproductive health, particularly in reaching Ministers of Finance. This will require utilizing the World Bank‟s economic analysis and technical resources to marshal arguments for investment in reproductive health. Bank’s country directors have key role to play in process of making RH a country priority through their policy dialogue with governments.”

There it is again. The World Bank- as lender- has the dependent nations in a stranglehold. If nations don’t comply with its directions, the Bank can cut the financial lifeline, no problem at all. Or, as its 1984 World Development Report states, the World Bank threatens nations who are slow in implementing the Bank’s “population policies” with “drastic steps, less compatible with individual choice and freedom.”

A World Bank discussion-paper from 2007 called Population Issues in the 21st century: The Role of the World Bank, explains how this process works in more detail:

“The Bank has a potential comparative advantage to address these issues at the highest levels of country policy setting, not only with ministry of health counterparts, but also with officials from finance and planning. This is important given the increasing recognition that political economy is a critical factor in the implementation of population and reproductive health programs, particularly in high-fertility countries.

“Its involvement in many sectors in countries”, the authors continue, “can produce synergies that will allow faster progress than a more narrow focus on family planning services. The Bank will need its partners – United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), World Health Organization (WHO), key bilaterals – to provide technical expertise and administrative knowledge in areas such as procurement of contraceptives, service delivery, and demand creation.”

The document makes clear that this global and coordinated push for total control is not some vague dream. It is already being test-cased in several developing nations. The document states two cases that are currently underway. In the first example, Niger, the World Bank already has in place so-called “benchmarks” that the nation in question has to live up to in order to enjoy the continued support of the World Bank. In the case of Niger, considered by the IMF as a “Highly Indebted Poor Country”- and therefore easy to subdue- the document states:

“Population growth is documented and a population ESW (Economic and Sector Work) planned. A national Population and Reproductive Health Strategy is not only a CAS (Country Assistance Strategy) benchmark, but also a lending trigger, while reproductive health is included in one of the CAS pillars.”

“High fertility and rapid population growth were not only acknowledged as major problems, but fertility was also used as one of the CAS performance benchmarks. Moreover, a population ESW was planned and subsequently delivered. That ESW has been most instrumental in enhancing the in-country policy dialogue on population issues, and has led to a free-standing International Development Association (IDA) population operation, currently in preparation, which is the first population-specific operation in many years in the World Bank Africa Region. The preparation of a National Population and Reproductive Health Strategy was also a CAS benchmark as well as a lending trigger, while reproductive health was included in one of the CAS pillars. Other Bank partners such as the EU have joined the effort. Finally, population issues have also been given a high priority in the new Rural and Social Policy Reform (Development Policy Lending) Credit.”

The devil is in the details. The extend to which the World Bank and UN are willing to blackmail “Highly Indebted Poor Country’s” in implementing globally coordinated population control policies also becomes obvious in the second test-case example: Yemen:

“In the lending portfolio, restructuring of the Health Sector Reform Project (which includes family planning) is proposed and is expected to lead to a Population II Project to specifically address high fertility and family planning issues. Pillars two and three address population and reproductive health. Contraception is addressed effectively, and CPR is included as a CAS indicator. Furthermore, earlier in 2006, the Bank produced a study on “Promoting the Demand for FP in Yemen.”

“High fertility and rapid population growth”, the document reads, “were not only acknowledged as major impediments to economic growth and poverty reduction, but was included as one of the specific goals that was subsequently translated into policies, programs, and an indicator (reduce population growth rate by 3 percent per annum). Moreover, budget was allocated specifically for each of the four population policies that were outlined.”

The dimensions of this “Global Consensus” are extensive. These diabolical dimensions are being described in the 2007 “Discussion Paper” with the help of the catch-phrase: “Multisectoral approach”:

“A more systematic approach to mainstream population within the core agenda (…) would greatly enhance the adoption of a truly multisectoral approach. (….) The Bank’s comparative advantages in strengthening health systems are mainly in the areas of health financing, system governance, accountability for health service delivery, and demand-side interventions, all of which are important to further the population agenda.”

The authors continue:

“By supporting large-scale implementation of an integrated health sector plan that includes family planning, the Bank can play an important role in keeping family planning as a priority in high fertility and high-population-momentum countries. Even though historically some successful family planning programs were based on a vertical approach, such an approach is now considered less attractive, both from a sustainability standpoint as well as from a comprehensive reproductive health approach.”

However deceptive and “rational” the language, the document is nevertheless strangely upfront about their full-spectrum dominance, to make use of a military phrase:

“Unless population issues are approached in a multipronged fashion, it is unlikely to accelerate a demographic transition in these countries.”

The report goes on to say that: “The Bank is well positioned to systematically include population and reproductive health dimensions in key strategic documents (…). The Bank is particularly well placed to provide the fiscal and economic analysis to ensure that funding of population issues is placed within the overall development financing agenda of the country.”

“This strategy can be best achieved by a coordinated strategy implemented by a visible, strong, and high-level in-country unit with the mandate to design, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness of the program. The Bank can help strengthen such institutional mechanisms, and foster collaboration with external national or international partners.”

There it is. World Bank “in-country units” will “strengthen” the institutions that distribute the Rockefeller-funded anti-fertility vaccines and GM Food. Above all this, the Bank uses the tools confided to them by the scientific dictatorship:
“The role of political economy in the implementation of population and reproductive health programs and policies is critical. The Bank, by providing the necessary analytical basis for policy discussion, can play a constructive role in prompting policy makers to take action now for future changes in population structure and size.”

Speaking of the scientific dictatorship, the World Bank works in concert with all the other arms of the octopus:
“As was noted in the section on the global policy context, it is impossible for the Bank to work on reproductive health issues without the support and collaboration of the broader international community. The UNFPA is the lead technical agency in the population field, with a large network of field offices. The Bank already uses UNFPA’s contraceptive procurement know-how and has intensified its collaboration in other areas (e.g., training and country program management). The WHO, as the normative agency, is a critical partner at both the global and country levels. As population issues are linked to reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and child survival, the Bank works also with WHO, UNAIDS, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), respectively.”

Returning to the essence, the intention and the strategy leave little for the imagination: a global consensus is in place between all the major transnational institutions and banks: the earth’s population must be brought down, with all means necessary. The World Bank uses financial tools to bring nations on their knees, demanding they cull their numbers; the UN guarantees the political legitimizing for these depopulation policies (Agenda 21); the Foundations develop the anti-fertility vaccines and GM Food, the World Health Organization takes care of the “health-standards” and distribution. With the help of this global construct, carefully coordinated from the top-down, the scientific dictatorship has circled the wagons around all of free humanity.

This first appeared at Jurriaan Maessen’s blog ExplosiveReports.Com.

Relay from: http://www.infowars.com/un-world-bank-strangle-sovereign-nations-into-accepting-global-population-reduction-dictates/

CIA HQ Insider: 30,000 - 100,000 Russian Troops Scheduled To Arrive In America Within The Next 7 Months

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John Moore said on Wednesday's broadcast, that he got news from the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. reports within the next 7 months, there will be between 30,000 - 100,000 Russian Spetsnaz Troops coming to America to stay. First wave of troops begins on May 21st.



Please note this video contains edited parts from the John Moore show on May 2, 2012. I have been given permission to use the audio form John's shows for my videos.

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More on the World Bank pushing the depopulation agenda.

Chicago In A Jam: Security Services To Block Cell Phone Towers Ahead Of NATO Summit?

Reports suggest local law enforcement agencies are considering shutting down cell phone services in the city over the weekend and while it will most likely be very effective, many are questioning if the move is legitimate. The Daily Beast reports that the FBI and Secret Service have standing authority to jam signals and they can also push for the shutdown of cell towers, thanks to “Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 303," which lays out the nation’s official “Emergency Wireless Protocols.” According to the National Communications System, the protocol details a “shutdown and restoration process for use by commercial and private wireless networks during national crises.” It was created after the London bombings in 2005, when federal security services shut off cellular networks in New York’s tunnel, fearing a similar attack.

more: http://rt.com/usa/news/chicago-nato-cell-phone-jam-525/

Elias Alias
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Tip of the hat to "Lark" for fetching this one -

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2012/05/25/henry-lamb-on-maurice-strong_un_bilderberg_agenda-21/

Read entire article (written in 1997) at above link.

Teasers from article -


In 1983, Strong was appointed to the U.N.’s World Commission on Environment and Development, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vice President of the World Socialist Party. Strong also had a colleague appointed as Executive Director, Warren “Chip” Lindner, an American lawyer, based in Geneva who had handled an intricate merger for Strong and who later went to work for the World Wildlife Fund in Gland, Switzerland. Strong, and the World Wildlife Fund, were largely responsible for the content of the Brundtland Commission’s final report, Our Common Future. Before the report was released, Strong was looking to the future.

At a luncheon with Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson in 1986, Strong proposed another world conference on the environment to be held on the 20th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference. Both Sweden and Canada wanted to host the event, but Strong’s visit to Collor de Mello, prospective Brazilian President, convinced Strong that the event should be held in Rio de Janeiro. Dewar says: “I was beginning to understand that the Rio Summit was part of a Rockefeller-envisioned Global Governance Agenda that dated back before World War II….”

As Strong organized the Rio Conference, he utilized his vast network to ensure the outcome. His office bought Bella Abzug’s airplane tickets to attend a preparatory meeting in Geneva. He asked her to schedule a special conference in Miami for women through her recently formed NGO called Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). Another NGO formed by Abzug in 1981, the Women’s USA Fund, had been almost dormant until 1991, when the NGO received nearly $1 million. He arranged for the creation of the Business Council on Sustainable Development. Strong’s long-time colleague, and former cabinet minister to Pierre Trudeau, J. Hugh Faulkner, was asked to leave his post as Executive Director of the International Chamber of Commerce to take charge of the new organization. The new organization was immediately accredited to the Rio Conference and designated to advise Strong who “needed people with their feet on the ground to do a reality check on these U.N. guys.” The Canadian Participatory Committee for UNCED (CPCU) was entirely funded by the Canadian government and consisted of carefully selected individuals who represented various NGOs.

The practice started by Strong at the 1972 conference, of cloaking the agenda in the perception of public grassroots support from NGOs, culminated in Rio in 1992, with the largest collection of NGOs ever assembled in support of Agenda 21. Only those NGOs that were “accredited” by the U.N. Conference were permitted to attend. And only those which had demonstrated support for the agenda were funded. Dewar calls these NGOs — PGOs — Private Government Organizations.

Strong has influence with the major Foundations which provide the funding for NGOs and he has influence with the major international NGOs that coordinate the activities of the thousands of smaller NGOs around the world. Strong has served, or is currently on the Board of Directors of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF); and the World Resources Institute (WRI); the three international NGOs that have developed and advanced the global agenda since the early 1970s.

Strong also served on the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance, co-chaired by Ingvar Carlsson, and Shirdath Ramphal, former President of the IUCN. The Commission’s final report, Our Global Neighborhood, sets forth detailed plans to achieve what is called “Global Governance.” In his new position as Senior Advisor to Kofi Annan, Strong is again well positioned to implement the agenda he has been developing by calling its implementation “reform.” Undoubtedly, Strong’s NGO network, funded by Foundations and governments tied to Strong’s worldwide interests, will be used to promote the agenda at the national level and at the U.N. level....


This projection is based upon published recommendations of the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance — of which Maurice Strong was a member. The implementation of this “reform” will require an amendment to the U.N. Charter.

The G-77 nations, which represent 135 of the 185 member nations of the U.N. held a conference in Costa Rica in January [7] to outline amendments to Article 13 of the U.N. Charter which will be necessary to bring about global governance as described in Our Global Neighborhood. Costa Rica is the international headquarters of Strong’s most recent NGO, Earth Council, and the U.N. University, where a portion of the conference was held. Among the other recommendations of the Commission on Global Governance is the elimination of the veto power of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, and a review of the entire concept of permanent member status in ten years. Another recommendation would make decisions of the International Court of Justice binding on all nations. Still another would create an International Criminal Court, and a U.N. standing army, and another would provide for independent finance in the form of various global taxation schemes.

Strong has worked diligently and effectively to bring his ideas to fruition. He is now in a position to implement them. His speeches and writings provide a clear picture of what to expect. In 1991, Strong wrote the introduction to a book published by the Trilateral Commission, called Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World’s Economy and the Earth’s Ecology, by Jim MacNeil. (David Rockefeller wrote the foreword). Strong said this:

“This interlocking…is the new reality of the century, with profound implications for the shape of our institutions of governance, national and international. By the year 2012, these changes must be fully integrated into our economic and political life.”

He told the opening session of the Rio Conference (Earth Summit II) in 1992, that industrialized countries have:

“developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.”

In an essay by Strong entitled Stockholm to Rio: A Journey Down a Generation, he says:

“Strengthening the role the United Nations can play…will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.”

“The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. What is needed is recognition of the reality that in so many fields, and this is particularly true of environmental issues, it is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.”

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2012/05/25/henry-lamb-on-maurice-strong_un_bilderberg_agenda-21/

Read entire article (written in 1997) at above link.

Salute!

Elias

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Secret meeting of international bankers meet to discuss Eurozone’s fate: Greece thrown under the bus

by The Extinction Protocol

May 26, 2012 – LONDON - London will this week host a private global summit on the world financial crisis amid mounting pressure on eurozone economies. No agenda has been published and there will be no communiqué issued afterwards. ‘It is a private, off-the-record meeting,’ said a source. In the past two days, Spain’s fourth biggest lender, Bankia, said it needed a 19 billion euros (£15 billion) bailout and the prosperous region of Catalonia warned that it needed more funding from Madrid. The yield on Spanish government bonds – the government’s likely cost of borrowing – jumped to 6.3 per cent, a figure widely regarded as unsustainable. The summit will be dominated by central bankers including the host, Sir Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England. Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, and Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, have been invited. The eurozone is paralyzed as it awaits the outcome of elections in Greece on June 17. The left-wing Syriza party is leading in the polls and is pledged to reject austerity. Hawks led by Germany insist that Greece must stand by the cuts program if it is to keep receiving bailout money. Greece might have to exit from the euro. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, also struck an uncompromising stance this weekend, saying she had little sympathy for Greeks who did not pay their taxes and said the country needed to stick to its austerity package. Meanwhile, banknote printer De La Rue releases full-year results on Tuesday. Its shares have jumped as Greece may soon need drachmas. -TIM

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/secret-meeting-of-international-bankers-meet-to-discuss-eurozones-fate-greece-thrown-under-the-bus/

Lloyd’s of London prepares for Eurozone collapse: The chief executive of the multi-billion pound Lloyd's of London has publicly admitted that the world's leading insurance market is prepared for a collapse in the single currency and has reduced its exposure “as much as possible” to the crisis-ridden continent. Richard Ward said the London market had put in place a contingency plan to switch euro underwriting to multi-currency settlement if Greece abandoned the euro. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph he also revealed that Lloyd's could have to take write-downs on its £58.9bn investment portfolio if the eurozone collapses. Europe accounts for 18pc of Lloyd's £23.5bn of gross written premiums, mostly in France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The market also has a fledgling operation in Poland. Lloyd's move comes as a major Franco-German provider of credit insurance for eurozone trade, Euler Hermes, said it was considering reducing cover for trade with Greece because of the risk the country might leave the eurozone. When a company goes bust, it is often sparked by withdrawal of credit insurance for suppliers wanting to trade with it. A spokesman for Euler Hermes, Bettina Sattler, told Bloomberg: "The outcome of the new elections in June remains highly uncertain. Consequently, the situation is further deteriorating. The risk of Greece exiting the eurozone has been revived. “In light of the recent developments, Euler Hermes will most probably have to switch to a more prudent approach…now we are confronted with a changing situation.” Lloyd's fears are likely to be shared by a number of European businesses, which are watching developments in Greece. On Saturday, Juergen Fitschen, co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank, described Greece as a “failed state” run by corrupt politicians. "I'm quite worried about Europe," Mr Ward said in one of the first admissions by a major UK business leader of the scale of the crisis that would be prompted by a eurozone collapse. –Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9292511/Lloyds-of-London-preparing-for-euro-collapse.html

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from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2012, Issue No. 56
June 11, 2012

Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/


** SOME UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURES OF CLASSIFIED INFO ARE ROUTINE
** LOOPHOLE IN LAW MAY ALLOW WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE OF AMERICANS


SOME UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURES OF CLASSIFIED INFO ARE ROUTINE

The brewing controversy over leaks of classified information presumes that
disclosures of classified information to unauthorized persons are always
impermissible and undesirable. But that presumption does not correspond
precisely to the reality of government operations as they are conducted in
practice.

The leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees said last week
that they would work "to ensure that criminal and administrative measures
are taken each time sensitive information is improperly disclosed."

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2012_cr/leaks060612.html

In fact, however, classified information is frequently disclosed at the
interface between national security agencies and the news media. This is
not necessarily a surreptitious or underhanded process. Rather, though it
is not often discussed, it is how the system normally functions.

"I refer to classified information a lot," admitted then-Pentagon press
secretary Kenneth Bacon at a November 2000 press briefing, when asked
whether all of his statements from the podium were unclassified.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2000/11/dod110700.html

"There are certain questions that I can only answer by referring to
classified information," Mr. Bacon said at that time, adding that "I do
this carefully, after consultation with our intelligence authorities, to
make sure that I don't answer questions in a way that causes any problems."

This type of routine public discussion of classified information would
have been obstructed if there were a law that categorically prohibited all
unauthorized disclosures of classified information. When Congress passed
such a measure in 2000, Mr. Bacon and other executive branch officials
quietly opposed it, and it was ultimately vetoed by President Clinton.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2000/11/wh110400.html

"There are certain types of questions that can only be answered with
references to classified information," Mr. Bacon told reporters following
the presidential veto. "One of the concerns that I and other spokespeople
had [about the vetoed provision was that] it would prevent reference to
classified information in answering everyday questions."

Thus, the peculiar reality is that certain officials routinely take it
upon themselves to discuss classified information with unauthorized
persons. They do so not to subvert policy but to explain it, to defend it
and to execute it. Though it may seem counterintuitive (and may in fact
violate formal procedures), sometimes officials will even reveal currently
classified information in order to enhance security.

Veteran aerospace journalist Craig Covault wrote an article last week in
which he recalled once such incident in the 1970s. At that time Mr.
Covault was the space technology editor at Aviation Week, which was
sometimes referred to as "Aviation Leak" because of the prevalence of
(actual or purported) classified information in its pages. In the course
of his reporting, Mr. Covault learned some details about the KH-11
intelligence satellite shortly following its first launch in December 1976.
After he queried Air Force public affairs about the matter, he received an
urgent summons to discuss it that afternoon with the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. As he described it:

http://www.americaspace.org/?p=20825

"I showed up at the Pentagon at the appointed time and was taken up to the
suite of offices used by Joint Chiefs Of Staff, then ushered into the
office of Air Force General David Jones, a four star that had commanded the
Strategic Air Command before becoming Chairman. My escort then departed and
it was just Jones and myself left to discuss this issue."

"He said he was familiar with my coverage then asked 'what have you got?'
I explained in significant detail what sources had told me about the new
reconnaissance system."

"'You are exactly right' said Jones, 'and now I am going to give you the
reasons why we request that you not publish'."

"He then cited specific examples where the Soviets were not taking any
measures to conceal what they were doing as this first KH-11 approached and
passed overhead. Unlike the KH-9s, they did not realize yet that this was a
high resolution imaging spacecraft that could see people, and tell if they
were carrying a lunchbox or not."

"Jones said the Soviets were leaving missile silo doors open allowing us
to 'look right in' and keeping their own new secret aircraft in the open. If I published, it would ruin a major U. S. intelligence advantage. Jones
had clearly demonstrated that no articles on the KH-11 should be written at
that time so I agreed to his request to hold."

"And on the way out he asked. 'Now is there anything I can do for you?'"

"There was certainly no quid pro quo in my mind for this discussion, so
his question was a surprise. But when he asked that, I told him I had not
received any consistent backgrounders on the Soviet space program. 'You
will have them now,' Gen. Jones said, and for the next two years I received
classified backgrounders on the Soviet space program at the Defense
Intelligence Agency."

This is a remarkable anecdote in several respects. Significantly, General
Jones did not declassify the information about the KH-11 satellite, which
remained highly classified. Instead, he simply revealed it to Mr. Covault,
an uncleared reporter, even though this was technically inconsistent with
procedures in effect then and now. Gen. Jones did not insist that Mr.
Covault sign a non-disclosure agreement, or that he submit his work to some
kind of prepublication review. Rather, he simply argued the case for
secrecy on the merits, and he succeeded in persuading Mr. Covault not to
publish the information in question, to the presumptive benefit of national
security. (On another occasion described by Mr. Covault in the same
article, he found the government's request not to publish unpersuasive and
disregarded it.)

Was General Jones guilty of "leaking" information to Mr. Covault? Should
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been fired or sent to prison
for his actions? He certainly disclosed highly classified information to
an unauthorized person, and he did so not once but repeatedly through the
ongoing classified briefings that he arranged for Mr. Covault.

In other respects, though, this story is quite unremarkable. Many
national security reporters who write about classified government
activities and seek a response from a government spokesman will have a
similar (though perhaps less dramatic) tale to tell.

If members of Congress are determined to impose punitive measures "each
time" that classified information is disclosed, then they will be confusing
means (secrecy) and ends (security). They run the risk of turning an
already sluggish classification system into one that is so rigid as to be
self-defeating.
There is no doubt such a thing as a wrongful and unlawful disclosure of
classified information, but it seems that there are also wise, prudent and
appropriate disclosures of classified information. The actions of General
Jones -- or of Kenneth Bacon or innumerable others who have acknowledged or
revealed classified information in similar circumstances -- were not those
of a criminal, and it would almost certainly be counterproductive to try to
designate them categorically as crimes.


LOOPHOLE IN LAW MAY ALLOW WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE OF AMERICANS

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are divided over whether
there is a loophole in current law which would permit government agencies
to monitor the communications of American citizens without any kind of
warrant or other judicial authorization.

The dispute was presented but not resolved in a new Senate Intelligence
Committee report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments
Act (FAA) Sunsets Extension Act, which would renew the provisions of the
FISA Amendments Act through June 2017.

"We have concluded... that section 702 [of the Act] currently contains a
loophole that could be used to circumvent traditional warrant protections
and search for the communications of a potentially large number of American
citizens," wrote Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall.

But Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Committee chair, denied the existence of
a loophole. Based on the assurances of the Department of Justice and the
Intelligence Community, she said that the Section 702 provisions "do not
provide a means to circumvent the general requirement to obtain a court
order before targeting a U.S. person under FISA."

It is unclear from the public record which of these conflicting positions
is more likely to be correct.

Senators Wyden and Udall offered an amendment to explicitly prohibit
searches of U.S. persons' communications that are incidentally gathered in
the course of FISA surveillance of foreign persons abroad unless there is a
warrant or other authorization permitting surveillance of that specific
person, but their amendment was voted down in Committee by 13-2.

"We have sought repeatedly to gain an understanding of how many Americans
have had their phone calls or emails collected and reviewed under this
statute, but we have not been able to obtain even a rough estimate of this
number," Sens. Wyden and Udall wrote. An Inspector General review is now
underway to determine whether it is feasible to estimate the number, Sen.
Feinstein noted.

See FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012, Senate Report 112-174, June 7,
2012:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2012_rpt/faa-extend.html

The first three semi-annual reports on compliance with the procedures of
Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act were recently released in redacted
form by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Those reports generally found no evidence of "any intentional or willful
attempts to violate or circumvent the requirements of the Act." On the
other hand, "certain types of compliance incidents continue to occur,
indicating the need for continued focus on measures to address underlying
causes, including the potential need for additional measures."

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/sar-mar09.pdf

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/sar-dec09.pdf

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/sar-may10.pdf


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Weekly Enewsletter: An Executive Order You Should Know About
Mar 30, 2012 Issues: Defense, Global War on Terror

Dear Friend,

With all that is going in Washington these days some things don’t make the news the way they should. Fourteen days ago President Obama issued an Executive Order that you should know about. This order gives an unprecedented level of authority to the President and the federal government to take over all the fundamental parts of our economy - in the name of national security - in times of national emergency.

This means all of our water resources, construction services and materials (steel, concrete, etc.), our civil transportation system, food and health resources, our energy supplies including oil and natural gas – even farm equipment – can be taken over by the President and his cabinet secretaries. The Government can also draft U.S. citizens into the military and force U.S. citizens to fulfill "labor requirements" for the purposes of "national defense." There is not even any Congressional oversight, only briefings are required.

By issuing this as an Executive Order the President puts the federal government above the law, which, in a democracy, is never supposed to happen.

As President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, he has the Constitutional authority to issue executive orders. And while similar orders have been made before by presidents from Eisenhower and Reagan to Clinton and George Bush – it has never been done to this extent.

It is still unclear why this order was signed now, and what the consequences are for our nation – especially during times of peace. This type of Martial Law imposes a government takeover on U.S. citizens that is typically reserved for national emergencies, not in a time of relative peace.

I want you to know I am following this very closely. If you would like to read the order for yourself please click here


Sincerely,



Kay Granger, TX
Member of Congress


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Quote from linked document:

(c) "Farm equipment" means equipment, machinery, and repair parts manufactured for use on farms in connection with the production or preparation for market use of food resources.

(d) "Fertilizer" means any product or combination of products that contain one or more of the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium for use as a plant nutrient.

(e) "Food resources" means all commodities and products, (simple, mixed, or compound), or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals, irrespective of other uses to which such commodities or products may be put, at all stages of processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for human or animal consumption. "Food resources" also means potable water packaged in commercially marketable containers, all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal or marine fats and oils, seed, cotton, hemp, and flax fiber, but does not mean any such material after it loses its identity as an agricultural commodity or agricultural product.

(f) "Food resource facilities" means plants, machinery, vehicles (including on farm), and other facilities required for the production, processing, distribution, and storage (including cold storage) of food resources, and for the domestic distribution of farm equipment and fertilizer (excluding transportation thereof).

Europe Has Three Days, Not Three Months, to Avoid 'Fiasco': Soros


By Eleazar David Meléndez: Subscribe to Eleazar's RSS feed

June 25, 2012 12:05 PM EDT

Multibillionaire financier George Soros said Monday Europe's leaders have three days to agree on how to fix the euro zone crisis ahead of this week's summit of world leaders -- a dramatically shorter timetable than the "three months' window" he said at the beginning of June that Europe's leaders had to fix their problems.

"Unless that is resolved in the next three days, then I am afraid the summit could turn out to be a fiasco. That could actually be fatal," Soros said on CNBC Monday morning. Soros, who is quickly becoming an éminence grise on the topic of the euro zone financial crisis, was making an appearance following the publication of an editorial in the Financial Times, where he warned the negotiating stance of German chancellor Angela Merkel going into this summit "threatens to turn the June summit into a fiasco."

In his Financial Times piece, Soros, the notable hedge fund manager -- who last month delivered an explanation of the euro zone crisis to an Italian economics conference that went viral -- suggested the best way to proceed involves some kind of German guarantee of the peripheral countries' debt "in return for Italy and Spain undertaking specified structural reforms." The idea is to have some austerity combined with a German safety net for the debt of weak economies, stabilizing the economic crisis in the Continent so as to hopefully spur growth. It is a pro-unification framework that "will be the prelude to the establishment of a full political union and the introduction of euro bonds," Soros notes in his article.

Read more here.

Blogger Aaron Walker Latest Swatting Victim
June 25, 2012

Another conservative blogger has become the victim of a "swatting," where a false report of a murder sends the police, armed and ready, to a victim's home. The victim this time was blogger Aaron Walker, who had just this morning won a legal victory against convicted felon and leftist activist Brett Kimberlin.
Breitbart News contacted the Prince William County, Virginia police department to confirm the swatting. A dispatcher affirmed that police were called to the home of Mr. Walker based on a fraudulent 911 call. The individual did not take the call and could not disclose any details of the call's content but immediately confirmed that Mr. Walker had been swatted.

The swatting occurred hours after Walker's hearing. A judge had modified a previous ruling that prohibited Mr. Walker from exercising his right to free speech.

Walker told Breitbart News that he was home with his wife this evening at approximately 6:00pm when there was a "pretty insistent" knock at his door. Walker answered to find about six police cars in the street and two officers taking positions against the wall with M4 rifles. Since he was aware of the previous swattings of Patrick "Patterico" Frey, Erick Erickson, and Mike Stack, Mr. Walker asked the police if someone had called and claimed he had killed his wife, and police confirmed that that was the case.

In a statement to Breitbart News, Walker said, "This is obviously very upsetting but my wife and I are fine. Whoever did this had the intent to put our lives in danger."

Developing...


Source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/25/Blogger-Aaron-Walker-Swatted

A police officer from St. Louis calls in to the Alex Jones show on June 24th and gives a report

"We have been told that in October we need to be prepared for an event that will require us to use air and ground support, in conjunction with the military here."

more here:

Secrecy News -- 09/28/12

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Volume 2012, Issue No. 99
September 28, 2012

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** SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MOVES TO AMEND FISA AMENDMENTS ACT
** DNI ISSUES DIRECTIVE ON CIVIL LIBERTIES AND PRIVACY
** DNI DIRECTIVE PROMOTES USE OF "TEARLINE" DOCUMENTS
** REAGAN DIRECTIVE ON "PRE-EMPTIVE NEUTRALIZATION" OF TERRORISTS


SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MOVES TO AMEND FISA AMENDMENTS ACT

The Obama Administration proposal to renew the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act for another five years would be
amended to a three year extension, if the Senate Judiciary Committee has
its way.

Last June, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved -- without amendment
-- the Administration's request for a five year renewal of the intelligence
surveillance authorities of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) that are due to
expire at the end of this year. Shortly thereafter, the Senate Judiciary
Committee asked that the measure be referred for its consideration as well.

Last week, the Judiciary Committee reported its version of the bill and,
unlike the Intelligence Committee, it insisted on amending the
Administration proposal, over the opposition of Republican members of the
Committee.

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2012_rpt/faa-sjc.html

The amended version of the bill would not curtail the scope of existing
surveillance authorities.

However, the Committee amendment would extend those authorities until
2015, rather than 2017 as the Administration asked. It would further
require the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community "to conduct a
comprehensive review of the implementation of the FISA Amendments Act, with
particular regard to the protection of the privacy rights of United States
persons." The Inspector General would also be required to publicly release
an unclassified summary of the review. A similar proposal offered by
Senators Wyden and Udall was rejected by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

These modest amendments to the Administration proposal are necessary and
appropriate, the Judiciary Committee said in its new report on the bill.

"The alternative of a five-year extension [...] without any additional
oversight or accountability requirements, and without the benefit of the
complete work of the inspectors general, is ill-advised and inconsistent
with this Committee's constitutional responsibility to provide vigorous and
effective oversight."

All Republican members of the Committee voted against the amended bill and
urged that the Obama Administration's position be adopted by Congress.

"Our oversight of the statute has found no evidence that it has been
intentionally misused or that more oversight is needed," the Republicans
wrote in a minority statement appended to the report. "The combination of
the statutory limitations on collection, targeting and minimization
procedures and guidelines, and compliance oversight by the Administration
and Congress, ensure that the rights of U.S. persons are sufficiently
protected when their communications are incidentally collected in the
course of targeting non-U.S. persons located abroad."

Yet such oversight has failed in the past, the Committee report noted. In
its narrative account of the background to the bill, the Committee majority
recalled that the post-9/11 surveillance program began outside the
framework of the law and without proper congressional notification or
approval.

"This warrantless surveillance was conducted outside the scope of FISA,
without any approval by the FISA court, and without the full knowledge or
consent of Congress," the Committee report noted. "The public first became
aware of the existence of this warrantless surveillance program in December
2005 through a report in the New York Times."

Although the Judiciary Committee bill, as amended, is inconsistent with
the version reported out of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the report
noted that the amended bill was supported by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the
chair of the Intelligence Committee, which should presumably increase the
likelihood of its approval by the full Senate. If approved, the amended
bill would then have to be reconciled with the "clean," unamended extension
that was approved by the House.


DNI ISSUES DIRECTIVE ON CIVIL LIBERTIES AND PRIVACY

The Director of National Intelligence "is committed to protecting civil
liberties and privacy, which are foundational principles of our Nation's
democratic society, preserved in the Constitution of the United States, and
guaranteed in Federal law."

So states a new Intelligence Community Directive on Civil Liberties and
Privacy, signed by DNI James R. Clapper on August 31, 2012.

http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/icd/icd-107.pdf

Beyond affirming the value of civil liberties, the new directive -- ICD
107 -- also directs the establishment of oversight mechanisms and of
procedures for redress of alleged violations.

The DNI directive does not include definitions of privacy or civil
liberties, and its practical meaning is somewhat elusive.

"Intelligence activities shall be conducted in a manner that protects
civil liberties and privacy," the directive states. But that seemingly
categorical statement is rendered ambiguous by the very next sentence.

"The IC shall protect civil liberties and privacy in a manner that enables
proper intelligence integration and information sharing and safeguarding."


DNI DIRECTIVE PROMOTES USE OF "TEARLINE" DOCUMENTS

In order to promote improved information sharing, the Director of National
Intellingence told agencies to make use of "tearlines." This refers to the
practice of segregating and withholding the most sensitive portions of a
document, allowing the remainder to be "torn off," literally or
figuratively, and widely disseminated.

"Tearlines are portions of an intelligence report or product that provide
the substance of a more highly classified or controlled report without
identifying sensitive sources, methods, or other operational information,"
a new DNI directive states. "Tearlines release classified intelligence
information with less restrictive dissemination controls, and, when
possible, at a lower classification."

"Tearlines shall be written for the broadest possible readership in
accordance with established information sharing policies, and requirements
in law and policy to protect intelligence sources and methods."

See "Tearline Production and Dissemination," Intelligence Community
Directive 209, September 6, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/icd/icd-209.pdf

In the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Congress
mandated that "the President shall... issue guidelines... to ensure that
information is provided in its most shareable form, such as by using
tearlines to separate out data from the sources and methods by which the
data are obtained" (section 1016(d)(1)).

Although the tearline approach also lends itself to public dissemination
of national security documents, with particularly material removed, the new
intelligence directive does not explicitly extend to sharing information
with the public.


REAGAN DIRECTIVE ON "PRE-EMPTIVE NEUTRALIZATION" OF TERRORISTS

In 1984, President Reagan ordered the Director of Central Intelligence to
develop "capabilities for the pre-emptive neutralization of anti-American
terrorist groups which plan, support, or conduct hostile terrorist acts
against U.S. citizens, interests, and property overseas."

The President further ordered the DCI to "develop a clandestine service
capability, using all lawful means, for effective response overseas against
terrorist acts commmitted against U.S. citizens, facilities, or interests."

Those instructions were contained in National Security Decision Directive
138, "Combatting Terrorism," which was issued on April 3, 1984.

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/nsdd-138.pdf

A few weeks earlier, Hezbollah forces in Lebanon had kidnapped William
Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut.

NSDD 138 remained classified for many years and was not fully declassified
until two years into the Obama Administration.


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Volume 2012, Issue No. 110
October 24, 2012

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** PRIVACY & CIVIL LIBERTIES OVERSIGHT BOARD INVITES PUBLIC INPUT
** FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH, AND MORE FROM CRS


PRIVACY & CIVIL LIBERTIES OVERSIGHT BOARD INVITES PUBLIC INPUT

The long-dormant Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)
announced that it will hold its first public meeting next week and it
invited members of the public to provide input to help shape the Board's
near-term agenda.

"In anticipation of setting the agenda of issues on which the Board will
focus its attention, the Board would welcome the views of nongovernmental
organizations and members of the public," stated a notice in the October 23
Federal Register.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2012/10/pclob.html

The PCLOB was created in response to a recommendation of the 9/11
Commission that "there should be a board within the executive branch to
oversee... the commitment the government makes to defend our civil
liberties."

By statute, the PCLOB is mandated to "(1) analyze and review actions the
executive branch takes to protect the Nation from terrorism, ensuring that
the need for such actions is balanced with the need to protect privacy and
civil liberties; and (2) ensure that liberty concerns are appropriately
considered in the development and implementation of laws, regulations, and
policies related to efforts to protect the Nation against terrorism."

In response to the announcement of next week's meeting, we wrote in to
propose that the PCLOB should review the government's problematic use of
Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. "The use of Section 215, the so-called
'business records' provision, is the subject of intense and unresolved
controversy that warrants the Board's attention," we suggested.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2012/10/pclob-let.pdf

Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have stated that "most Americans would
be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have
interpreted section 215 of the Patriot Act." If so, the members of the
PCLOB can be stunned on behalf of most Americans by virtue of the security
clearances and right of access that they possess.

For background on the origins and development of the PCLOB, see "Privacy
and Civil Liberties Oversight Board: New Independent Agency Status,"
Congressional Research Service, August 27, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34385.pdf


FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH, AND MORE FROM CRS

Newly updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that
Congress has not made publicly available include the following.

Federal Support for Academic Research, October 18, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41895.pdf

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: History, Impact, and Issues, October 22,
2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40957.pdf

Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Foreign Policy Issues for Congress,
October 19, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/R41004.pdf

Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Policy Implications of Expanding Global
Access to Nuclear Power, October 19, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL34234.pdf

U.S. Sanctions on Burma, October 19, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41336.pdf

Burma's Political Prisoners and U.S. Sanctions, October 19, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42363.pdf

Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for
Congress, October 18, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL32109.pdf

Navy Ohio Replacement (SSBN[X]) Ballistic Missile Submarine Program:
Background and Issues for Congress, October 18, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R41129.pdf

Navy Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense: Background
and Issues for Congress, October 19, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R41526.pdf

Navy Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Operations: Background and
Issues for Congress, October 18, 2012:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22373.pdf


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Important because: understanding OathKeeping matters to everyone even those who have not taken the Oath.

Why Denny Rehberg deserves to be “Conrad Burned” today

by Stewart Rhodes, Former Ron Paul Staffer and Founder of Oath Keepers

Today, on election day, Denny Rehberg deserves to go down in flames just like Conrad Burns did in 2006. Conrad Burns lost to Tester precisely because he lost the liberty vote in Montana. And Burns lost the liberty vote because he had abandoned the Constitution and violated his oath by voting for unconstitutional laws, such as the Patriot Act.

Even GOP propagandists like Ed Berry acknowledge that the liberty movement killed Conrad Burns’ political career, with 10,000 Montanan’s choosing to instead vote for the Libertarian candidate, which is a larger number of votes than the number by which Tester beat Burns. The Montana liberty movement simply refused to vote for an oath breaker – they withdrew their consent. And without them, Burns was burnt.

Today, the very same thing is likely to happen to Denny Rehberg – and he deserves it. He deserves to be “Conrad Burned.” Like Conrad Burns, Rehberg is an oath breaker who has abandoned the Constitution by repeatedly and willfully voting for some of the most dangerous and spectacularly unconstitutional laws to ever be passed in Congress during the short life of this Republic. Rehberg voted for both the Patriot Act, and for the NDAA, among many others.

The NDAA of 2012 (Sections 1021 and 1022) in particular is a deal breaker. It is intolerable. It is the single most dangerous law in American history and is the death knell of this Republic if it is not stopped. Anyone who would strip you of your right to jury trial, for which your forefathers bled and died, is a traitor and an enemy of this Republic. Anyone who would subject you and your children to arbitrary imprisonment, in a military brig, or to military trial, or to rendition to ANY foreign nation or ANY foreign entity, or who thinks the President has a legitimate power to just order you killed by a Predator drone if HE thinks you are a terrorist – anyone who supports that government supremacist view, is a traitor and a modern Tory. He is your enemy.

Rehberg and Tester both hold that view, and both voted for the NDAA. I don’t give a flying *&@#% if Rehberg is supposedly “not as bad as Tester.” He supports the destruction of the Bill of Rights in the name of fighting terrorism. Both of them are my enemy. Both are enemies of the American Revolution and all that came from it.

And Rehberg is not a man who just made a mistake, and is sorry. No, he is defiant in his defense of his oath breaking vote for the NDAA. After his speech at the Lincoln Dinner in Kalispell, I walked up to Rehberg and asked him to explain his vote for the NDAA, which authorizes military detention of Americans. He didn’t try to explain his vote, or try to tell me it didn’t do what I thought it did, or try to defend why he thinks that is OK. He just said “you just don’t support the troops. Shame on you!” Yeh, right Denny. That’s it. I’m a disabled Army Airborne veteran who nearly died twice while serving my country, and the founder of a national organization made up of current serving military and veterans, but I just don’t support the troops. He said that to me twice during our short conversation. It was no off the cuff remark. Obviously it was some talking point his staff had cooked up for him to use as a weapon against anyone who publicly challenged him over his vote for the NDAA. Typical neocon. If you dare oppose anything they do in the name of national security or war, they accuse you of not supporting the troops.

The man is an unrepentant oath breaker who has, so far, gotten away with it. And the reason he has gotten away with it has been the “lesser of two evils” con game. Being told that you have “no choice” but to vote for oath breaker A or oath breaker B is like being given a false choice between voting for Joseph Stalin or Adolph Hitler, with so-called conservatives urging you to vote for the fascist to keep the communist out of office. “Vote for Hitler or Stalin will win!” I won’t do it. No sir. I will fight them both, or either one.

My oath was not “I will support and defend the Republican Party.” Nor was it “I will support and defend the Constitution by voting for the lesser of two evil oath breakers who both violate it.” My oath was to defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic, and of whatever party. I am an American first, not a Republican first. Political parties are like a cancer that is now killing the host. Republicans, with all too few exceptions, are loyal to party first, not country first, and certainly not the Constitution first, just as Democrats, with few exception, are loyal to their party first, before their country.

This Republic is on the verge of destruction precisely because Republicans have chosen the lesser of two evils (the lesser of two oath breakers) in each election, swallowing principle and pulling the lever for a demonstrated oath breaker each and every time just to try and keep a Democrat from winning. When you take a slightly reduced dose of poison, say 80% poison instead of 100%, you are still poisoning yourself, and you will still die. This Republic has been subjected to a reduced dose of poison over and over, for decades, and is now about to die. And yet, the GOP bigwigs offer us yet another dose of slightly reduced poison and the great majority of the Republican rank and file are all too happy to open wide and swallow it down. It’s time to take a stand, and say NO MORE!

I challenge anyone to explain why a vote for Rehberg is not a violation of your oath, now that it is clear he supports the application of the laws of war on Americans, and supports military detention and military trial rather than trial by jury, and now that it is clear that he is unrepentant and will continue to do so. You vote for an oath breaker, you become one. Either stand for all of the Constitution, all of the time, against anyone of any party, or stop pretending, renounce your oath, burn your pocket Constitution, and then just openly join the ranks of the oath breakers.

I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man. I conceive likewise a horrid idea in receiving mercy from a being, who at the last day shall be shrieking to the rocks and mountains to cover him, and fleeing with terror from the orphan, the widow, and the slain of America…. ~ Thomas Paine

Likewise here. Don’t make a whore of your soul by electing and empowering a stottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man who has already violated all that our forefathers fought to win and preserve, by violating our Bill of Rights. It is now very clear that the small window we had for a political solution at the national level has been slammed shut by the GOP leadership by forcing on us yet another oath breaker. Last time it was John McCain – who went on to author Section 1021 of the NDAA which is a declaration of war on the American people. Now it is Romney, who also supports it. As did Pual Ryan, Allan West, Rubio, and a bunch of other “Tea Party” freshmen, right along with Rehberg. The GOP has utterly failed to field true constitutionalists. It has turned its back on the Constitution and thrown away a chance to stop the destruction of our Republic. Now all we have left is nullification and resistance at the state level.

Here in Montana, we need to clean house and sweep our own porch clean by rooting out the oath breaking neoconservatives who are so deeply entrenched in power. Let’s start with Rehberg. Let’s root him out. But wouldn’t that mean that Tester wins again? Yes, it does. Just like back in 2007, when we rooted out Conrad Burns. After that defeat, the Montana GOP should have caught a clue. To guarantee a win this time around, all they had to do is field someone who didn’t vote for the same crap that Conrad Burns had voted for. Duh! As Ed Berry acknowledges, over on Polymontana, if the liberty movement votes for the GOP candidates, they have the election in the bag. Rehberg, Hill, etc. will win if all liberty movement people vote for them. But if the liberty movement doesn’t support them, then they will lose.

To win the Senate seat all the Montana GOP needed to do is run a candidate who had not voted for the Patriot Act and the NDAA, and who pledged to vote against such obvious and blatant violations of the Bill of Rights. Our votes were theirs if they just ran someone who wouldn’t make us throw up in the voting booth. They could have done it, and easily won, but once again, they blew it. Our votes were theirs to lose, and they lost them by yet again running a demonstrated oath breaker. And now they tell us that we need to set aside our revulsion for Rehberg, set aside our principles, and vote for Rehberg to stop Tester.

If you do that – if you set aside your constitutional and liberty principles and vote for a demonstrated constitutional violator, you will just be telling the Montana GOP leadership that they can do as they please, and that they don’t need to run true constitutionalists to win. And you will be telling the GOP faithful that they can continue to vote neocon and still win elections. That is the wrong message to send. The message should instead be that unless, and until, the Montana GOP faithful root out the neocons who are killing their party, they will lose. Election after election, they will lose, until they clean house and return to the Constitution.

Rather than the neocons accepting the blame for losing the Senate seat to Tester in the first place, and acknowledging their transgressions and repenting of their sins, they are doubling down and once again running an oath breaking traitor, while telling us that if Tester is reelected it is our fault. What a joke. The fault lies with a party that has largely abandoned our Constitution, and until the GOP returns to it, and actually defends it, it deserve to lose, and will lose.

Once Rehberg is entrenched as an incumbent in the Senate, how will you ever get rid of him? In a primary? Not likely. We just tried that, and failed because the GOP faithful are willing to vote for an oath breaker who they think can defeat the Democrat. That is all they seem to care about. If you help Rehberg win, you will just be telling them they are correct, and that running an oath breaker is a winning strategy. That will make it all the harder to ever reform the Montana GOP.

Once Rehberg is in the Senate, the only way to get rid of him would be to withdraw your consent in some future election, just like you did with Conrad Burns, and let the Democrat win. And then you would still have to try and defeat the Democrat by once again trying to convince the GOP faithful to finally get behind a real constitutionalist to run against the Democrat, and that would be all the harder after they had had a successful election cycle running an oath breaker for U.S. Senate.

Why kick the can down the road and have to go through all of that all over again? We are in the middle of this fight for the heart and soul of the Montana GOP (and for the heart and soul of this Republic) right now. So let’s get it over with now. Root out Denny Rehberg, and then run a real constitutionalist against Tester in the next election and root Tester out too.

We did the right thing in 2006 by rooting out Conrad Burns. His political career was done. If the GOP had come to their senses and run a constitutionalist against Tester, we could have rooted Tester out this year and finally Montana would have a Senator who was not an oath breaker.

The GOP should have learned their lesson, but apparently need to have another trip to the wood shed. Let’s give it to them. Let’s root out Denny Rehberg and end his political career. He is seen as a “party leader” here in Montana, just as Burns was. As with Burns, he needs to go. We need to root him out as part of our battle to root the neocons out of the Montana GOP.

And then let’s run a real constitutionalist against Tester next election, and finally root him out.

The neocons have joined with the Marxists on the left and are placing this nation on a short track to having to fight another bloody revolution/civil war. The only way to possibly pull us back from the brink is to purge all oath breakers out of office and to clean up our own state. And even if we do that, we may still have to fight. But at least we will go into battle with a clear conscience and the knowledge that we did not give our consent and support to the destruction of our own Republic.

When I confronted Rehberg at the Lincoln Dinner in Kalispell, I told him that he would go the same way that Conrad Burns did – that because of his vote for the NDAA, constitutionalists and liberty movement people in Montana would not support him and he would be “Conrad Burned.” Let’s make it so. Withdraw your consent. Take a stand. Send Rehberg back to his fake ranch where he can play cowboy. “Conrad Burn”him today.

Stewart Rhodes

PS- the views above are my own only, as an individual American, and not in my capacity as President of Oath Keepers. I would like to personally thank Ed Berry for inspiring me to write this, at the 11th hour. It was his incessant, ankle biting, petty attacks against me and Chuck Baldwin, and his revolting cheer leading for oath breaking GOP traitors that reminded me of my obligation speak out today. Thanks Ed! I was going to just sit this one out, and give the Montana GOP faithful some “tough love” after the election by trying to point out why they lost, in the hopes of talking some sense into them, but you have prompted me to instead send this message out to thousands of Montanans in the liberty movement today to do my small part in purging the neocons out of Montana politics. If Rehberg loses, and I am given any small part of the credit for his loss, then I wish to share that credit with you, since you prompted me to write this.

Posted by O.K. at 7:01 AM

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If you have been following the over thirty plus states via petitions on whitehouse.gov for the president to consider states to peacefully secede from the union then this might interest you too.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Cwx2h7fGNig [/youtube]

The petition in question that is requesting any citizen who signs the other petitions for consideration of secession to be stripped of citizenship and deported has been pulled from the whitehouse.gov website as it is no longer available at the original link. Apparently it made sense that such a petition was inappropriate and those secession petitions were within the rights of citizens per the Constitution. It really isn't an outdated document.


*Edit to add: and now the video has been pulled by the owner. Lol.

Well I watched the video several times and it was the petition site at whitehouse.gov and it looked just like this template with the petition requesting the stripping of citizenship: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-montana-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/l76dWhwN

The above link by the way is one of the state secession petitions the citizenship stripping petition was complaing about. At the time of this posting it has 10,400 electronic signatures and a few hours ago Texas another state had over 40,000. I heard that yesterday evening TX surpassed the 25,000 minimum for consideration. And this is just in their first couple of days of posting. They have till approx Dec 10th of this year 2012. now times that by roughly 30 or so states that have joined the vote of no confidence bandwagon and...

Yeah that means quite a few people across the nation are tired of the national security state corruption, endless wars, demonizing of the citizenry, and the dismantling of the nation's functionability. What can one say... states petition message is "Hey Guys time to clean up the act. Enough is Enough!"