This summer, Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all the data they had on him.
What he received was a massive 1,200-page file. But that wasn’t the biggest surprise. He discovered that the social networking site had kept data he had deleted from his account, like messages and photos, and for its own use, they imported contacts from his personal e-mail account, all of this without his knowledge.
Now, Schrems has lodged 22 complaints against Facebook for data protection breaches. WRS’s Dave Goodman talks to social network specialist Olivier Glassey, a senior lecturer and sociologist at the University of Lausanne, who says that he is not at all surprised.
A man (Oscar Ortega, 21) has been arrested and charged with attempting to assassinate Pres. [of the Corporation of the United States] B.S. Obama. He shot at the White House from a half-mile away... while the Obamas were out of the country. Nevertheless, this will serve as a sufficient pretext to bump up security, strengthen the Secret Police (service), and clamp down on already draconian DC (District of Columbia, a private imperial seat of power like the Vatican and a few blocks of London, outside of the United States proper) measures to seal off the people's capital.
Any Excuse to Step Up Security Christian-Science Monitor (csmonitor.com)
The man accused of shooting at the White House with an assault rifle will appear Thursday afternoon in federal court in Pennsylvania for an extradition hearing, after which he is expected to be moved to Washington, D.C., to face charges of carrying a dangerous weapon.
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez was arrested Wednesday by Pennsylvania State Police acting on a tip from the Secret Service. There are indications that Mr. Ortega-Hernandez felt he was part of a “personal mission from God,” the AP reported, quoting investigative authorities.
The AP also said there are signs the alleged shooter was obsessed with Pres. Obama. The president and Mrs. Obama were on a trip... More
"A lie is a lie." What no one realizes until he arrives in human "hell" is that you never get this view. Half blind behind a mask, gripped by fear, taking orders, killing anything to stay alive, then spitting at anyone stupid enough to call you a "hero" if you survive crippled having served not family or country but corporations and capitalism.VIDEO ANALYSIS
Today, of course, the worst thing about "duty" is that the term is distorted to convince youth that they have a call -- to serve in glorious, murderous campaigns for corporate-government.
"It is your duty, you maggot, grunt, pansy, punk @$$ b!tch."
"Duty" has an interesting and storied history in Indian (Vedic, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Sufi) history. One's dharma is one's social obligation.
Unfortunately, its original spiritual significance -- as one's path to spiritual freedom -- was hijacked. It became something promoting war and accepting slavery (bound to "duties" by birth, caste, race, gender, being drafted/tricked, or factors not under our direct control).
The explanation was that this birth was under our indirect control: We caused and conditioned it (by our karma, actions past and present). There is truth in this but it neglects the fact that we have almost unbounded potential right now. The Buddha did not accept caste as any barrier. Hinduism has taken ancient Vedic-Brahmanism and continued to promote division and discrimination by birth.
If war videogames wanted to be "realistic," they would stay trapped behind foggy goggles, unable to breathe, sweating, and wondering if camouflage is used so you can pee in your pants without showing how scared you were.
It is the folly of empire to ruin countries by ruining soldier's lives. We may accept defense, but we can never accept offense (even if you rename it "preemptive" defense). Invasions are not defensive. Heading off to foreign lands to burn, rape, and pillage is not defensive. Occupying other countries is not defensive. It is folly, and it is nothing new.
The threat to us comes from the government, which no long is of, for, and by the people. Occupy public spaces to decolonize minds. War is unjust, immoral, and very profitable for corporations who pay off representative politicians.
An Old Lie The imperial Roman poet Horace fed a lie to Roman troops long ago: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, or "It is sweet and right to die for country." The US Dept. of War, Pentagon, and CIA still repeat this lie to recruits without enough life experience to have learned otherwise. Videogames do an even better job of seducing children, potheads, and chubby weekend warriors.
But war poet and soldier Wilfred Owen, the greatest British poet of World War I, said it much better:
DULCE ET DECORUM EST(1) Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares(2) we turned our backs And towards our distant rest(3) began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots(4) Of tired, outstripped(5) Five-Nines(6) that dropped behind.
Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! -- An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets(8) just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(9)...
Dim, through the misty panes(10) and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering,(11) choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(12) Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest(13) To children ardent(14) for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.(15)
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The official reports coming over the Western media are false. Gaddafi (Kaddafi, Qaddafi) is alive -- injured or not, RT was told by Stephen Lendman, an American radio host, author, and blogger, who got the news from the independent Mathaba News agency.
“I’m very skeptical of the so-called official reports,” at least media from NATO countries taking part in the Libyan campaign should be distrusted.
The blogger also does not believe the latest news that one of Gaddafi's sons, Mutasim, has also reportedly just been killed in Sirte.
“Western media reports are absolutely falsified -- Sirte is not controlled by the NTC, neither is Bani Walid, and as a matter of fact, Tripoli as well,” states Stephen Lendman, saying he admires the loyalist forces who, after seven months of hard stand-off against the world’s most advanced military powers, have the ability to continue fight against Western-led mercenaries.
“Western media is lying, the official reports are lying -- the balance is going back and force,” he claims.
Stephen Lendman informs that as far as he knows, most of the Libyan cities -- including that of Benghazi -- are under loyalist control. More
A United States of Africa under Kaddafi, but not without US approval (RussiaToday).
Oct. 20, 2011 - Col. Kaddafi (Gaddafi, Qaddafi) was reportedly captured alive after two months on the run. The country's new authorities -- sponsored by the US and other western powers -- claim the ousted leader has been taken into custody in his hometown of Sirte, Libya.
It was reportedly overrun by rebel forces. He was soon executed presumably under orders from the people paying the bills. Sirte was the last major stronghold of Kaddafi's old regime supporters for the past two months.
Reporters in Sirte were unable to immediately confirm Kaddafi's capture, or even that the town had fallen to interim forces. Libya's current ruling body, the National Transitional Council, had said they would declare Libya liberated once Sirte fell.
The embarrassing appearance of Kaddafi's son and heir reveals western disinformation campaign (psychological operation).
Reports are now rampant that Kaddafi was assassinated by those who took him into custody for those in the West wishing to keep him quiet. While he was indeed a monster, dictator, and criminal, he was OUR monster, dictator, and criminal. We set him up, kept him going, and are in the market for a new dictator. We will accept nothing less.
War hawks who argue that pacifists should be happy that such a criminal was murdered ignore the fact that this is "business as usual" in the New World Order. Why bother with kangaroo court trials when extrajudicial killings are so much more "convenient"?
Never mind the harm, injustice, or perpetuation of a corrupting system of installing dictators friendly to the West. The people never have a chance to be free or to enjoy the natural resources that are their birthright as citizens born in oil-rich lands.
Moammar Kaddafi's rule in Libya lasted more than four decades, longer than any other world leader. Having siezed power in a military coup at at the age of 27, he imposed a pan-Arab, anti-imperialist philosophy that won him both friends and enemies.Despite admitting that he had a nuclear weapons program, he was tolerated by the international community because of Libya's rich oil deposits, a dwindling international resource. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher takes a look back at his rise and subsequent loss of power.
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CC Liu, Amber Dorrian, PFC Sandoval, Allen Weiss (Wisdom Quarterly)
Unions join Occupy Wall Street demonstrators today. Will the dogs behave? (krittersthattwitter.com)
Should a Cat Strike Back? Just as in the animal plane, so in the human. Dogs tear at cats, aggressors at pacifists, fear against peace. Fear is a form of hate. So love and peace must be demolished, batons against flowers. There is an ancient Indian sentiment about how the peaceful, beautiful flower" people respond to forces dressed in black hoping to provoke "rioting" to justify cracking and instituting Marshall law:
Just as the sandalwood tree sprinkles Perfume on the very axe that lays it low So the good/wise person showers with Love even those who approach as foes.
"Poetic justice" is not justice. Police use these incidents to justify preemptive brutality. There are a great many back up troops to conduct mass attacks in an unending bouts of retaliation.
In the movie "Berkeley in the Sixties," many students talk about how police coralled them, blocking from leaving campus after a sit in/speech. A military helicopter was getting into position to tear gas them. It did as the riot police laughed, swung batons, and arrested anyone still standing. Business as usual.
Police train to corral peaceful demonstrators. Now they are "illegally" assembled. And it is time to round them up. It just happened in the arrest of 700 peaceful activists led onto then trapped on the Brooklyn bridge -- misguiding them into actions they can be arrested, shot, brutalized, or maced over. It is no accident, no crossed signals, no error. This is how they are drilled in from covert training manuals. The CIA has its own Anarchist's Cookbook. They want activists to break the law to counter it with draconian tactics, torture, brutality, and a militaristic mentality.
The US illegally invaded Buddhist countries (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) in covert wars. American college students stood up. Massacres of students by the police that provoke rather than pacify them is exactly what "peace" officers train and hope for.
Dr. James Fadiman, who has been involved with psychedelic research since the 1960s, joined Ian Punnett on Sept. 24, 2011 to discuss the newest research into the psychotherapeutic value of visionary drug use.
Psychedelics can be effective at micro-doses that have no intoxicating effects that are nevertheless medicinal. They have the capacity to increase personal awareness, produce spiritual epiphanies, and treat a host of serious medical conditions. Before it was banned LSD was in fact the most researched psychiatric drug on the planet, according to Dr. Fadiman.
Dr. Fadiman on Coast to Coast 9/24/11
The compound, which grows naturally and is derived from ergot fungi on rye, was first synthesized in 1938. It is effective in miniscule doses at only millionths of a gram, he stated, adding that mainstream researchers used LSD therapeutically to treat common neuroses, alcoholism, and even autism before it was banned in 1966.
Among hardcore alcoholics there was a 50% success rate. The efficacy rate was even higher for those with autism, he noted.
Curiously, according to the doctor, the main effect of LSD occurs after the drug itself has left the body.
It is thought to work by opening up one's "awareness capacity." Religious Studies scholar Dr. Huston Smith learned this after taking LSD and having an experience that confirmed what he understood to be at the core of all religious faiths, Fadiman explained.
"Psychedelics give you a kind of a different view of everything... they take you much more into observing your life," he said.
A recent study at UCLA demonstrates how this inner journey can help people diagnosed with terminal cancer. Psilocybin, according to Fadiman, is a drug similar to LSD that has successfully been used to treat anxiety in late-stage cancer patients. Source
"Psychedelics and Freedom"
Psychedelic Explorer's Guide
"This is some of the most thoughtful, wise, heartfelt, and essential instruction for the use of sacred medicine." - Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, (Spirit Rock) author of A Path with Heart
"Jim Fadiman's manual offers helpful and well-informed guidance for those who seek 'the divine within' through sacred plants and psychedelic substances." - Daniel Pinchbeck,(Reality Sandwich) author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head
The official announcements will start trickling in once [titular] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage to give his keynote speech at 10:00 am PT/1:00 p.m ET. But there are already a lot of whispers regarding what's coming.
(Whirledenergy) We are being manipulated, have been manipulated, and will be more manipulated -- as long as we allow it to continue, according to Jordan Maxwell. We can learn about this control and therefore how to avoid it. We must know ourselves, learn about our power and expand it. Aloha (exchange life energy).
(thefilminformantt, Now Playing, Sept., 2011) Buddhist cosmology speaks of devolutions and evolutions and epochs of quiescence and chaos, after Earthlings descended from space (Aganna Sutra), genetic manipulation (usually by nagas in a kind of creationism or celestial intervention), and always more revolutions through the aeons (kalpas in an Indian context of yugas).
US teachings about Evolution vs. Creationism
How things turn and have turned may only seem comprehensible as envisioned in the Wheel of Samsara, the "continued wandering on" or cycling through rebirths (due to our skillful and unskillful karma) in countless worlds within 31 Planes [broad categories] of Existence.
But for all that, we still get excited that our mobile device (cell phone) connects us to the Web and lets us tune in and drop out by feeling "connected." Tiffany Shlain is onto something: We are interdependent.
Selling out at every turn wedded to opinion polls and willing to say whatever it takes (justpolitics)
American Jobs Act (is all an act) Today B.S. (Barry Soetoro) Obama addressed the nation to pander to what pollsters and his PR firm told him people wanted to hear, particularly Republicans. He said it -- jobs, jobs, jobs for everyone. Cut corporate taxes. Cut the deficit. Minimize government. Fix the roads. Free money for all. Raw-raw-raw, we're Number One! USA, USA, USA, USA!
Obama's speech fails to unite US... over his speech again (nymag.com).
And for all that, concession man got only yawns of disinterest from his new party. Maybe his dissemblance and mendacity have worn thin his message. No one believes it anymore... except the corporations who (s)elected him and stand to benefit the most.
He is so clearly misleading by oration, making empty promises, uttering almost the opposite of what he knows to be true, all for what? To be re(s)elected? To buoy the jobless. To stick it to the opposition? The mainstream media must have had advanced notice and have their spin-doctoring and supportive propaganda ready to go. Let the onslaught begin.
Brown nosing or white facing, Barack bows to Boehner and the Republican party even before they ask (truff pix).
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth [would be] a revolutionary act." -George Orwell
It has been reported that the black community is falling out of love with Pres. Barack Obama. Loyal and hopeful voters, the Congressional Black Caucus...
A massive power outage knocked out electricity for nearly 1.4 million customers in San Diego as well as parts of Southern Orange County, Palm Springs, Tijuana... (See sdge.com)
[So how could we leave Iraq, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Airport Security Area, or the Internet? We must extend these costly and illegal/unethical wars and fight, fight, fight. We are sure taxpayers understand. Hey, and nice that we say this right around 9/11 to keep people cowering and cooperating. Who says the CIA/Pentagon are not geniuses?]
Alongside those Greek morality plays and biblical injunctions, we are also reminded by history itself that the use of unethical means to achieve a "worthy end" can be self-destructive. Power, by definition, is isolated from the correcting signals of external criticism.
Or perhaps the feeling of fighting "evil" fits so comfortably, that it is difficult to shed even after objective circumstances change.
The history of U.S. intelligence since World War II follows both patterns. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA's predecessor, had jurisdiction over wartime covert operations and propaganda in the fight against fascism.
OSS chief William Donovan recruited heavily among social and academic elites. When the CIA was launched in 1947 at the beginning of the Cold War, these pioneers felt that they had both the right and the duty to secretly manipulate the masses for the greater good.
OSS veteran Frank Wisner ran most of the early peacetime covert operations as head of the Office of Policy Coordination. Although funded by the CIA, OPC was not integrated into the CIA's Directorate of Plans until 1952, under OSS veteran Allen Dulles.
Both Wisner and Dulles were enthusiastic about covert operations. By mid-1953 the department was operating with 7,200 personnel and 74 percent of the CIA's total budget. More
The Steve Jobs and Apple Story (Telegraph.co.uk). "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" - George Orwell author of 1984.
Jobs quits. (Steve Jobs is the face and founder of Apple Computers). That was his latest bombshell announcement for Apple, a company with more discretionary cash than the United States and almost as much as oil industry giants. Some reports say more than them, too. Apple stock was down 5% on the news -- and this creates a great opportunity.
With new iPhones everyone must have, apps, new modes of computing, and above new ways of looking cool in a down economy, Apple is set to rise. The stock is expensive, but when it corrects, it will be an easy profit of at least 5 percent. Technology, style, iTunes, eBooks, and Apple are not going anywhere but up. Jobs' replacement has already been at the job since January.
And Jobs is not leaving completely but will still be hanging on advising and trying to spend his hundreds of millions to get his health back, what with a recent liver replacement and pancreatic cancer and helping the CIA/NSC/TSA defeat the concept or possibility of "privacy" in the Orwellian world of today. Remember, new investors, "Buy low, sell high." That's all one needs to know to capitalize on stock trades. Lows only come on bad news or when things are new. And one never really knows when the high has been reached (until after the fact with 20/20 hindsight).
On January 12, 2010 the [unofficial, shadow] US government caused the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. Why Haiti? Haiti is an independent black nation, a longstanding challenge to American imperialism. It defeated the colonizers in the past, and it has been an enemy our government control structure for years. Earthquakes are thought to be caused by the shifting plate tectonics. This is impossible given the geographical location of Port au Prince, Haiti's capital. Donate to Haiti relief, spread this video, visit freeplanet2012.com to see its efforts to liberate the people.
(Danielofdoriaa) Many events were predicted beforehand. Not only was the alien invasion movie "Battle for Los Angeles" was released on the same day as the Japanese tsunami. Moreover, channel and contactee Alex Collier revealed it in 1995! There were strange clouds above Japan prior to the earthquake. There was a weird water vortex sucking ships in the harbor. US corporate designed nuclear reactors were compromised. And long before that a hidden group threatened Japan's government with the possibility of this "natural" disaster if it did not cooperate monetarily and geopolitically. It was told to give over control of its monetary system, but it refused. And the shadowy group (CIA or some such) followed through on their threats making Japan the example (for the second time, Nagasaki and Hiroshima being the first to world governments what the US military is both capable of developing in secret and deploying on a massive scale. Hugo Chavez revealed what the US (new world) government did in Haiti and plans for Iran. He was thanked personally.
The number of UK police, whose abuse brought on the rioting, is tripled to deal with the country's worst unrest since the 1980s, adding gasoline to the fire. More
Meanwhile, in the US, Orange County begins to brew.
Protect and Serve (Themselves)
Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
Good thing our police do not abuse us in America. Our officers may be racist, sexist, and poorly educated, but they would never harm the most vulnerable members of our affluent society. Oh wait, unless such members are mentally disabled and helpless. Police can break laws, commit felonies on a routine basis, murder, execute, assault, and rape -- all under "color of law"?
But if abuse were ever the answer, the police would be right. And rioters should join the police force. The answer to all questions is compassion.
The wrongs police do are doubly wrong because they are done under color of law. A criminal act of mayhem is more reprehensible when six "officers" beat and electrocute a homeless and disabled man than when two sports fans beat a rival fan. The police were not satisfied to beat the face, Taser, and torment their victim; they thought it would be a good idea to kill him and then lie about it on official reports (a serious crime unto itself). But all of Los Angeles was in an uproar to find the assailant in the horrible Dodger Stadium beating. Now the same sort of crime that has sparked England, which twice before set off mass rioting in Los Angeles (most recently due to the abuse of Rodney King), threatens Southern California again.
It's good to "know your enemy." Most Americans watching riot footage on TV mistakenly assume that police protect citizens. The fact is they criminally abuse some of them.
But where will peace of mind and a serene heart be found? In a war zone? On the streets? During a riot? These things are of course found within and nowhere else. Paramilitary police forces cannot take them away even if they concentrate us in FEMA camps.
Having returned from the horrors of Afghanistan and Iraq, where do most soldiers want to show off their savage training? In police agencies around the country. It's the new world order -- force fighting force until nothing but force consumes the country.
The mass [white] murderer who mowed down teenagers at the Utoya youth camp in one of multiple attacks in Norway today was seen in Oslo prior to his attack at the youth camp. After the Oslo blast he went to Utoya, dressed as a policeman, and in order to gain entry to the the youth camp, said he was on security detail in light of the Oslo bombings. Got that? He got through security and opened fire on the children. It takes an evil of unimaginable depravity and barbarity to conceive and execute such carnage. More
OSLO - The Baloch community of Norway extended its condolences in Norway on June 6, 2010 with respect to the extrajudicial killing/execution of Abdul Hameed Rigi. The Baloch community of Norway paid tribute to him, declaring him a martyr because he sacrificed himself for a noble cause. His execution is condemned. More
"The real measure of a society is how it treats its weakest members."
The weakest means its imprisoned citizens, the disenfranchised, impoverished, jobless, its animals. These are in need of more compassion, not less.
There are unconfirmed reports that Pelican Bay torture (Special Handling Unit) victims have begun taking food. Their hunger strike to call attention to deplorable conditions tantamount to CIA-sponsored secret prisons on foreign soil. Pelican Bay is in California and represents a kind of prison built for psychological and physical torture.
SuperMax housing is not more secure housing, as it is intended to be. It is less safe by virtue of the fact that victims of this kind of treatment go insane by being deprived of human contact. Worse is the fact that what gets one sent to such facilities has little to do with the danger they present. Any documented affiliation with a gang -- even standing in a picture with a prisoner who is later determined to be a member -- means permanent lock up in maximum security. The real reason for this? Pressure by California's largest and most powerful union, the Prison Guard's Union ensuring is growth and success. As difficult as this is to believe, three-strikes legislation was also lobbied for and financed by this union. And going deeper, the real reason behind this SuperMax movement is a worldwide fascist movement. The Nazis did not lose WW II as we are taught. They went underground (often invited to America to work and prosper here teaching SS techniques to clandestine services like the CIA, NASA, FBI, NSA, Mi5, Mi6, Moussad, KGB, and so on around the world. Impossible? Our CIA would never do that or teach others to do that?
PrisonerHungerStrikeSolidarity, July 20, 2011 Reaching at least 6,600 prisoners across 13 prisons, this massive and inspiring act of solidarity and people power across prison-manufactured and exacerbated racial and geographic lines has dumbfounded the CDCR (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, nothing about routine torture). While the daily numbers of hunger strikers fluctuates, the CDCR is underestimating how many people inside prison are participating in and supporting this strike.
Richard C. Hoagland put together the pieces -- NAZIs, NASA, and global fascism because the NAZI movement itself lived on stronger than ever after WW II.
Losing the Plot: The Afghan War after bin Laden Jim Naureckas (fair.org)
With Osama bin Laden [Emmanuel Goldstein long gone and now "officially"] dead, can the United States finally bring an end to the Afghan War, its longest-lasting foreign military conflict?
It’s an obvious question, since the invasion of Afghanistan was largely portrayed as an effort to catch the leader of the group that carried out the September 11 attacks. [Create a problem, overcome reaction, and people will demand the "solution" you want -- because a pretext for war is easy if war is the goal.*]
Corporate media did sometimes address this issue.
On ABC (5/4/11), Christiane Amanpour asked in regard to bin Laden’s killing, “And many people are saying, well, does this require the U.S. to leave Afghanistan right now?”
She answered her question: “The job is not finished there. You’ll talk to the commanders. We’ll talk to them, it’s the Taliban there who are waging war against the United States, and that job is not finished.” More
*"Problem-reaction-solution" manipulation/propaganda technique explained by David Icke:
(Sweden The Local, Info-wars.org/Ireland)
This summer, Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all the data they had on him.
