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“Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today challenged the notion that removing ‘combat brigades’ but leaving 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq constitutes an end to combat operations, let alone an end to the war,” a press release sent to RAW STORY on Thursday stated.
The press release continues:
“Who is in charge of our operations in Iraq , now? George Orwell? A war based on lies continues to be a war based on lies. Today, we have a war that is not a war, with combat troops who are not combat troops. In 2003, President Bush said ‘ Mission Accomplished ‘ . In 2010, the White House says combat operations are over in Iraq , but will leave 50,000 troops, many of whom will inevitably be involved in combat-related activities.
“Just seven days ago, General Babaker Shawkat Zebari, the commander of Iraq ’s military, said that Iraq ’s security forces will not be trained and ready to take over security for another 10 years. One story is being told to the military on the ground in Iraq and another story is being told to their families back home.
“You can’t be in and out at the same time.
“This is not the end of the war; this is simply a new stage in the campaign to lull the American people into accepting an open-ended presence in Iraq . This is not an honest accounting to the American people and it diminishes the role of the troops who will put their lives on the line. This is not fair to the troops, their families or the American people.
“The Administration and the Pentagon would be wise to level with the American people about our long-term commitment to Iraq .
“The cost of the wars has been estimated to be around $1 million per soldier per year. Each year the troop levels stay at 50,000 means another $50 billion is wasted. I object to spending billions of dollars to maintain a charade in Iraq while our own economy is failing and over 15 million Americans are out of work. I object to keeping any level troops in Iraq to maintain a war based on lies. It is time that Congress sees through the manipulation and finally acts to truly end the war by stopping its funding,” said Kucinich.
Kucinich’s statement doesn’t mention President Obama’s name once, but the president also didn’t don a military jumpsuit and fly a plane onto a carrier with a gigantic “Mission Accomplished” banner.
Many of the top liberal blogs who have criticized Obama the past year went silent on the Iraq “exit” coverage (perhaps some are on August vacation).
The debate over a planned Islamic community center several blocks from New York City’s World Trade Center site is a “distraction,” according to Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL).
Instead, the debate should shift in focus to an examination of the administration which “let it happen.”
‘It,’ of course, being the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Doomsday scheme will silence independent voices for good
The net-neutrality ending deal with Verizon is just the beginning of Google’s plans to kill the open and free Internet as part of their takeover agenda to completely control the world wide web and force independent media websites, radio and TV shows out of existence for good.
Google’s agreement with Verizon to speed certain Internet content to users opens the door to the complete sterilization of the world wide web as a force for political change. Under Google’s takeover plan, the Internet will closely resemble cable TV, independent voices will be silenced and the entire Internet will be bought up by transnational media giants.
People who want to run a simple blog will be priced out of existence, online TV and radio shows will cease to exist as the Internet is swallowed up by the corporate borg.
True net neutrality means that independent news outlets who attract an audience by telling the truth can compete on an even keel with corporate giants like ABC, CBS and CNN. The Google-Verizon pact will end that level playing field and in turn eliminate everything that is outside of the mainstream.
“A non-neutral Internet means that companies like AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and Google can turn the Net into cable TV and pick winners and losers online,” writes Josh Silver. “A problem just for Internet geeks? You wish. All video, radio, phone and other services will soon be delivered through an Internet connection. Ending Net Neutrality would end the revolutionary potential that any website can act as a television or radio network. It would spell the end of our opportunity to wrest access and distribution of media content away from the handful of massive media corporations that currently control the television and radio dial.”
The deal will also split the Internet into a two-tier system, a cyber toll road, where satisfactory speeds and service will only be obtainable by those willing to pay substantial fees.
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The pact also gives Google and huge ISPs the leeway to block certain websites on wireless networks, meaning Prison Planet and Infowars will ‘go dark’ for millions of people.
Once Google’s fiercest critics have been silenced for good the company can then set aboutimplementing its CIA-backed total information awareness program, which will scour Twitter accounts, blogs and websites for all sorts of information left by individual users, aiming to use this data to “predict the future” and completely direct and control people’s lives and behavior.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has announced that Google, in conjunction with the CIA, is set to become the ultimate Big Brother entity that “will know so much about its users that the search engine will be able to help them plan their lives” by constantly tracking their location via smart phones and telling them where to go and what to do.
The recent scandal involving the company’s street view roaming vehicles accessing the wi-fi details of internet users and mapping their online activities has also raised serious questions over intelligence links and abuse of privacy laws.
Watch this important new video in which Alex Jones breaks down Google’s plan to kill the web and explains why it’s the end of the Internet as we know it unless we stand up now and say no.
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Since the Internet is under attack hardcore and freedom of speech as we know it is almost gone we have decided to stage an all out blitz attack on the New World Order.
What we are doing is simple.
We have been downloading videos, PDFs, pics for over a year now. We have close to 700 gigs of info an we want to share it with all of you. We are going to load it all onto external hard drives that you can than purchase for the cost of the drive + small setup and shipping fee.
Total cost to you $150.00 – Includes Shipping You are only paying for the Hard drive and setup + shipping. You are not paying for any content. This is not a way to make money, the only reason we are doing this is because we really believe in the freedom of information. And we believe that information is going to be hard to come by unless we flood youtube with it. If multiple groups of people have the videos than they can be uploaded to multiple channels by multiple people….get the idea.
You can do screenings wherever, whenever you want. Print out fliers to hand out. Your truth group can strike a blow with just this and a small laptop. Its time to ensure that the truth is preserved and stays mainstream or else its 1984 for us and we at FEDERALJACK refuse to go down without a fight.
All videos & info updated as of 07/2010
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported 298,410 illegal aliens in fiscal 2009, only 2.98 percent of the 10 million people it estimated were in the United States illegally.
The number of deportations in fiscal 2009 was far less than the 400,000–or 4 percent–that John Morton, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said his agency was capable of deporting each year.
In a June memorandum, Morton spelled out why ICE had to prioritize its efforts to fulfill its mission of enforcing U.S. immigration law, including “the apprehension, detention and removal of aliens.”
Morton said ICE’s mission had “direct significance for our national security, public safety, and the integrity of our border and immigration controls.” But, Morton also said ICE’s ability to remove aliens was hampered by a lack of resources.
General Steele is a rapper with a message you normally wouldn’t associate with his genre. His music takes on topics like Bilderberg, war and banker bailouts.
New video from the 2010 Bucktown USA / Duck Down Music release “General Steele Presents: Amerikkka’s Nightmare Part 2 Children of War” directed by Rodolfo Duran for Done Right Digital.
In 2009, Mike Burr with Prefix Magazine did an interview with General Steele:
There is a significant difference between a recording artist who does hip-hop and a genuine rapper. For example, a rapper can flow naturally and doesn’t need multiple takes and studio magic to the point across. There’s also a slight tendency to ramble and a gift for hyperbole in the name of communication. General Steele, familiar as part of Smif-N-Wessun and the Boot Camp Clik, definitely falls into the “rapper” category.
“I’m a creative spirit. Even on our first album, we have a lyric about standing strong on your own two and putting yourself out there. We’re not tyrants or bosses. I’m not trying to rule over anybody, and this isn’t about putting myself forward. That’s not what Duck Down is about, and that isn’t what Bucktown USA Entertainment is about.”
Members of We Are Change San Francisco caught up with David de Rothschild, heir to the notorious Rothschild family, and asked him some relevant questions.
Now David de Rothschild is even taking on crowds and talking to ordinary people to redeem support for phony climate change legislation. At one moment in the video, he attempts to explain away the impact of Climategate in his presentation. Rothschild claims he appreciates the ‘skepticism’ of the public over global warming, but calls it a “futile debate,” arguing that other environmental factors still demand our action… and carbon policing laws.
One member asked, “What’s more important, the sustainability you’re talking about, or the 99% of the public who will feel the crunch of dramatically reducing their consumption.”
Rothschild answered, “It’s both. They are one in the same. You can’t separate the two. I think what we have to do is move from a product-based society to a service-based society.”
Editor’s Translation: Yes to feeling the crunch. Expect to see an economy with no manufacturing, where the only jobs available are service jobs, and those will be tightly controlled by the green police and (green) tax collectors.
Rothschild was also asked if population reduction would fit ‘conveniently’ into the sustainability agenda. He shrugged, “Well, nature has a way of doing that.” He made no mention, however, of the depopulation agenda that has been an obsession of the global elite, including his clan, for over a century.
Rothschild also commented that “GM is whack,” an “off-the-cuff” slang remark he used to note both his and the public’s opposition to genetically-modified foods. However, while they could be forced on the majority of the population, Rothschild, like other members of the Super Class, have access to their own supply of unadulterated foods and are unlikely to encounter such tainted and potentially dangerous food stocks.
Nevertheless, he did engage the public; that says something. There has been a noted disaster of public confidence following the Climategate scandal. Though ‘investigations’ cleared the particular professors’ names, the real blow from the leaked documents was the distrust it brought out in their previously willing suckers. Rothschild and everyone else are desperate– in as much as they wish to still push climate laws– to win back the masses. That even means ‘joking’ about Internet rumors that his family descend from a line of rather ‘lizard-like’ ancestors. Ha?
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LAS VEGAS--The United States should decide on rules for attacking other nations` networks in advance of an actual cyberwar, which could include an international agreement not to disable banks and electrical grids, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency said Thursday.
Michael Hayden, who was the principal deputy director of national intelligence and retired last year, said the rules of engagement for electronic battlefields are still too murky, even after the Defense Department created the U.S. Cyber Command last spring. The new organization is charged with allowing the U.S. armed forces to conduct "full-spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains," which includes destroying electronic infrastructure as thoroughly as a B-2 bomber would level a power plant.
Even a formal cyberwar may have rules different from those applying to traditional warfare, Hayden suggested. One option would be for the larger G8 or G20 nations to declare that "cyberpenetration of any (financial) grid is so harmful to the international financial system that this is like chemical weapons: none of us should use them," he said at the Black Hat computer security conference here.
Another option would be for those nations to declare that "outside of actual physical attacks in declared conflicts, denial of service attacks are never allowed and are absolutely forbidden and never excused," and a consensus would "stigmatize their use," said Hayden, who`s now a principal at the Chertoff Group. Nations "do not do it and they do not allow it to happen from their sovereign space."
In 2008, for instance, Georgia accused Russia of launching a coordinated denial-of-service attack against Georgian Web sites, which coincided with military operations in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
One complication is that Internet intrusions and denial-of-service attacks are notoriously difficult to trace back to their actual source; is a successful break-in the work of a national government or a 14-year-old hacker in Shanghai or Moscow? The U.S. State Department has linked China to penetrations into Google employees` computers, but China has officially denied it.
The United States` current cyberwar policy remains vague. Earlier this year, a congressional committee asked Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, now the head of the NSA and Cyber Command, when he would "fire back" without consulting the host government first, whether the use of offensive force would be "pre-authorized" below the level of the president, and whether there should be "classes" of networks operated by allies that should be off-limits to infusion.
"You can`t just have 23 different intelligence services hacking their way through the electrical grid."
--Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and NSA
In his written response (PDF), Alexander refused to answer any of those questions publicly, saying the information was classified.
Power grids are another example of where traditional military doctrine may need to shift, Hayden said. "A power grid is, according to traditional military thought, a legitimate target under some circumstances," he said. "Mark 82s are kind of definitive and it`s a one-way switch--that thing`s kind of gone." (An MK-82 is a general-purpose, 500-pound unguided bomb used by the U.S. military since the 1950s.)
But destroying, or at least thoroughly disabling, a power grid through an offensive cyberattack means penetrating it well in advance. And if there are dozens of different nations stealthily invading a grid`s computers and controllers all the time, it`s probably not going to be stable. "There are some networks that are so sensitive that maybe we should just hold hands and hum "Kumbaya" and agree they`re off limits," he said. "One is power grids...You can`t just have 23 different intelligence services hacking their way through the electrical grid."
So far, the United States government has been cagey, even reticent, about discussing offensive possibilities in actual cyberwars. Hayden suggested that this should change, saying that one option proposed by the Council on Foreign Relations would provide an example for the rest of the world by saying that "no American service would penetrate any other nation`s power grid absent a presidential finding."
Then there`s defending against foreign cyberattacks. For the last few years, it was a little unclear about which federal agency would win this important turf battle, which carries with it billions of dollars in cash and the opportunity for bureaucratic or political advancement.
Last year, a top DHS official quit in disgust, saying that the NSA`s attempted takeover of cybersecurity functions could threaten "our democratic processes." Earlier this month, though, the White House published a memo saying that Homeland Security "will exercise primary responsibility within the executive branch for the operational aspects of federal agency cybersecurity" for civilian agencies. (The military`s Cyber Command will handle the defense of other federal agencies.)
"I`m told that at the new Cyber Command, 90 percent of their thinking is about attack," Hayden said, but at least 90 percent of their actual work is spent on defense.
Hayden used the opportunity to challenge attendees of Black Hat--thousands of programmers, analysts, and security researchers--to devise ways to reshape the Internet`s security architecture.
"You guys made the cyberworld look like the north German plain--and then you bitch and moan because you get invaded," he said. "We made it flat. We gave all advantages to the offense. The inherent geography in this domain plays to the offense. There`s almost nothing inherent in the domain that plays to the defense."
In yet another terrifying expose, The Washington Post continues to lift the veil on just how massive the US government`s spying operation has become.
Dana Priest -- whose Pulitzer prize winning journalism exposed the existence of U.S. secret prisons abroad, continues in today`s story to show just how much money is being shelled out to the private companies that now operate the lion`s share of America`s spy network.
From the road, it`s impossible to tell how large the NSA has become, even though its buildings occupy 6.3 million square feet - about the size of the Pentagon - and are surrounded by 112 acres of parking spaces. As massive as that might seem, documents indicate that the NSA is only going to get bigger: 10,000 more workers over the next 15 years; $2 billion to pay for just the first phase of expansion; an overall increase in size that will bring its building space throughout the Fort Meade cluster to nearly 14 million square feet.
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More than 250 companies - 13 percent of all the firms in Top Secret America - have a presence in the Fort Meade cluster. Some have multiple offices, such as Northrop Grumman, which has 19, and SAIC, which has 11. In all, there are 681 locations in the Fort Meade cluster where businesses conduct top-secret work...
The existence of these clusters is so little known that most people don`t realize when they`re nearing the epicenter of Fort Meade`s, even when the GPS on their car dashboard suddenly begins giving incorrect directions, trapping the driver in a series of U-turns, because the government is jamming all nearby signals...
Once this happens, it means that ground zero - the National Security Agency - is close by. But it`s not easy to tell where. Trees, walls and a sloping landscape obscure the NSA`s presence from most vantage points, and concrete barriers, fortified guard posts and warning signs stop those without authorization from entering the grounds of the largest intelligence agency in the United States.
Drinking or over-extending your credit card limit is a no-no.
Inside the locations are employees who must submit to strict, intrusive rules. They take lie-detector tests routinely, sign nondisclosure forms and file lengthy reports whenever they travel overseas. They are coached on how to deal with nosy neighbors and curious friends. Some are trained to assume false identities.
If they drink too much, borrow too much money or socialize with citizens from certain countries, they can lose their security clearances, and a clearance is the passport to a job for life at the NSA and its sister intelligence organizations...
Training spies is a serious job, apparently:
That white van is followed by five others just like it. Inside each one, two government agents in training at the secretive Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy are trying not to get lost as they careen around local roads practicing "discreet surveillance" - in this case, following a teacher in the role of a spy. The real job of these agents from the Army, U.S. Customs and other government agencies is to identify foreign spies and terrorists targeting their organizations, to locate the spies within and to gather evidence to take action against them.
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