Tag Archives: Censorship

Domestic War on Americans Hidden by Secrecy in Homeland Security “Counter-terrorism” & Intel agency activities

Secrecy permits abuse, and today, the massive secrecy in intel operations in the US, accelerated by Homeland Security/Fusion Centers, permits massive abuse on a massive scale, including COINTELPRO operations, slander and defamation operations, directed-energy weapons (DEWs) testing/training operations, community harassment and persecution operations–under covers such as Community Policing, Neighborhood Watch, and Crime Prevention, employment sabotage operations, and human subject experimentation operations, on activists and ethical, active community members, with the collusion of various branches of the Dept. of Defense and the unethical involvement of many, many Universities and medical research institutions, all under the cover and front of state secrets privileges, secrecy laws, and “national security”–this is how a domestic war is being waged on American activists, in communities all over the United States, by the Intel agencies working on behalf of the central bankers and corporations running the country–while Congress and State and local governments sit back and let it happen. 

The tragedy is that everyday Americans are being roped into community harassment activities by Intel agencies setting up illegitimate “criminal” and “intelligence” investigations on non-violent activists and lying about the culpability of activists in any number of made-up “terrorism” and crime scenarios.  The uninformed citizen is coerced into becoming a “citizen activist” or “intelligence partner” or “community activist”–permitting herself or himself to be used openly as a minion-spy for Intel; why do people fall for this? Because the FBI, the NSA, and Homeland Security convinces them they are acting in the interests of “national security,” and, as the Nazis and the KGB accomplished, they believe this is their lawful government they are serving, and that they have no choice. In this way, the mercenary Intel agency arms of the banking cartel strive for community legitimacy.

The articles below throw some light on what is going on. This site hopes to continue to list more articles and sites on these subjects, under Human Rights, in due time.

“The Homeland Security Industrial Complex operates differently than the traditional Military Industrial Complex. Instead of spending on ships, airplanes and other big weapons systems, much of the money goes to secretive intelligence contractors who perform secret counterterrorism work for the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and other agencies. Because it is all classified, there is no public debate about the massive amounts of money being poured into these contractors.”– James Risen, The Post-9/11 Homeland Security Industrial Complex Profiteers and Endless War, article today on Truthout.

“The National Intelligence Program received a total appropriation of $50.5 billion in fiscal year 2014, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence disclosed yesterday, as required by law. The Military Intelligence Program was funded at $17.4 billion in FY 2014, the Department of Defense said. Current and past intelligence budget disclosures can be found here.”–Steven Aftergood, 2014 Intelligence Budget Figures Released, article on Secrecy News.

More information on where the Black Ops money goes: Nov 2013: DHS gets $19 million to hire top-secret domestic security force in Midwest.

Some interesting information on the domestic activities of the CIA, and an article on how the CIA has infilitrated local police departments: 1986 Central Intelligence Agency: Domestic Operations. (Please download the pdf there at ICOMW.org to read the New York Times article. This link has been tampered with and removed once online. If it’s removed again, here is the URL: http://www.icomw.org/archives/cia.asp)

A list of agencies engaged in domestic spying, surveillance, intelligence, and “counter-terrorism” activities: Source Watch, Domestic Spying.

Frontline’s article on Top Secret America.

 

 

 

Perhaps it’s Time for Everyone in America to Re-Think 9/11

Re-Think 9/11

Lately I have been led by various listservs, Facebook groups, and real-media (still termed alternative-media) websites to peruse many of the newly released  accounts, videos, and articles on the subject of 9/11, the horrific event that led us in the US to the horrors of the Patriot Act and everything else in its train, further horrific legislation, the creation of “Homeland Security,” and all sorts of illegal and warrantless surveillance, policing, censorship, harassment. 

It seems like there is a lot coming out currently, but I also found a lot already published, over the last few years, and only slowly becoming more widely known. You can just Google 9/11 and words like “story” and “truth” on the web, or on Youtube, to yield tons of information.

Perhaps this is something all of us in America need to do right now–mired as we are in illegal surveillance, censorship, and COINTELPRO harassment–peruse the evidence, think for ourselves, and figure out the truth for ourselves. Perhaps that could be the first step for more of us to stand up and demand change.  The Patriot Act, the AUMF, the NDAA–and various Executive Orders–perhaps it is time right now for us to bury these pieces of casual oppression aimed at us.

I collected a small set of links to the recent articles and videos and radio shows I have been invited to read and watch and listen to lately, they are here on this Re-Think 9/11 page, which I think important enough to keep permanently linked and easily available from the Restoring Democracy page.  Please read, please share, please spread the word. 

The first link on that list leads to Geoengineeringwatch.org, where I read today’s article and once more watched the short film linked there. It made me think more of us need to be reading this, watching this, thinking more deeply about what exactly has happened to us in the US–and elsewhere–post 9/11.  And asking ourselves: what can we possibly do to change this current reality? Is there anything that can be done?

Raise Your Voice Against War in Syria and Iraq/NIH Funded Torture/US Navy Sonar Testing/Censorship of Journalists

Still vital for the rest of us with conscience to speak out against a new war in Syria, and a return to war in Iraq–at the cost of billions of dollars, and unimaginable cost to human life and peace everywhere. Also vital to keep speaking out against surveillance and censorship of journalists, activists, writers, and everyday working citizens. And PETA tells us new horrors are being unveiled in recent NIH-funded use of baby macaques ($30 million spent in the last 7 years to traumatize newborns) building on 30 years of needless psychological and physical torture. NRDC tells us the Navy is knowingly going ahead with 5-year mid-frequency sonar testing expected to strand, maim, and kill thousands of whales and other sea creatures.

Just Foreign Policy is running a campaign to get Congress to debate bombing Syria. The Committee to Protect Journalists is running a campaign to speak out for journalists. PETA is running a campaign to stop the torture of baby monkeys. NRDC is running a petition to the Secretary of Defense to stop the sonar testing. There is another petition as well on The Petition Site to stop the sonar.

Please drop in to the Peace/Not War page, the  Privacy/Censorship page, the Living Beings page for these petition-links.

News and opinion on Iraq and Syria:

Terrific video from Ken O’Keefe, Military veteran, on the insanity of returning to war.

“The staggering costs of all this—$25 billion to train the Iraqi Army, $60 billion for the reconstruction-that-wasn’t, $2 trillion for the overall war, almost 4,500 Americans dead and more than 32,000 wounded, and an Iraqi death toll of more than 190,000 (though some estimates go as high as a million)—can now be measured against the results. The nine-year attempt to create an American client state in Iraq failed, tragically and completely. The proof of that is on today’s front pages.” Read Peter van Buren’s op-ed at Nation of Change on the madness of returning to war in Iraq and bombing Syria.

“Søren Kierkegaard in “The Present Age” warned that the modern state seeks to eradicate conscience and absorb individuals into a public that can be shaped and manipulated by those in power.” Read Chris Hedges’ op-ed on continuous war, the madness of a new war, and what the US is trending toward, via Simone Weil’s ruminations on war, 1984, and the distant memory of the Roman Empire.

More from Truthdig on Syria.

News and Video from PETA on the tragic abuse of baby monkeys:

NIH Child Abuse: Experiments on Baby Monkeys Exposed

News on US Naval plans to kill Whales while Testing & Operating Sonar:

This article is from Collective Evolution, a fabulous site for news and taking action, they also list petitions. This article also has links to 2 petitions and the email address for the Secretary of Defense so you can send him a note: US Navy Killing Thousands of Whales and Dolphins with Sonar and Weapons Testing