“Drivel that Dominnated the Airwaves”

Chris Hedges on fascism, propaganda, corruption–

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlnlc4CqhFM&feature=player_embedded

That Fraud On Terror

 

Let’s see.  Russia warned US intelligence, twice, both before and AFTER his trip to Dagestan in 2012 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a terrorist.  Saudi Arabia warned the United States at least once.  The FBI even interviewed Tamerlan, the alleged mad bomber, and his family.  Then for some cloudy, unexplained reason shrouded in mystery and deception, the FBI failed to keep track of Tamerlan when he returned from Chechnya and Dagestan, a known hotbed of Islamic radicalism where car bombs explode on a regular basis.

A casual internet search would have turned up the most radical Jihadist videos and pronouncements, and Tamerlan made himself persona non grata at his local Mosque as well.  His radical outbursts got him booted from the Mosque for being too nuts.

Oh, but FBI never heard of “the suspects” before, and needed to enlist the public’s help to identify them from photographs.

On the other hand, in the case of that terrorist fiend Julian Assange of the “terrorist website” Wikileaks, it’s a different matter altogether.

“At least a dozen American governmental agencies, including the Pentagon, the FBI, the Army’s Criminal Investigative Department, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Diplomatic Security Service, are assigned to the WikiLeaks case, while the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are assigned to track down WikiLeaks’ supposed breaches of security. The global assault—which saw Australia threaten to revoke Assange’s passport—is part of the terrifying metamorphosis of the “war on terror” into a wider war on civil liberties. It has become a hunt not for actual terrorists but a hunt for all those with the ability to expose the mounting crimes of the power elite.”

The Death of Truth

By Chris Hedges

 

Yes It’s THAT Bad

Objective Analysis: Obama Versus Nixon

George Washington’s Blog:

Top Constitutional Experts: Obama Is Worse than Nixon”

 

Anti-Frack Activists Targeted

“Fracking Activists Could Face Felony Charges as “Ag-Gag” Laws Spread”

Full blown fascism coming down the tracks.  The joy of living in a criminal state and surrounded by ignorant buffoon flag wavers.

 

 

DOJ (STASI?) Spying on A.P.

“UNPRECEDENTED: [sic] DOJ Caught Spying on the Associated Press

Send Letter to Congress
It’s unprecedented, and it’s outrageous. The Associated Press is reporting that the Department of Justice spied on two months of reporters calls in New York, Hartford, and DC — including their phone line in the press office in the House of Representatives!

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

Please add your name at right to demand a Congressional investigation of the DOJ’s spying on the Associated Press.

This is part and parcel of an ongoing war on freedom of the press and on whistleblowers — with the Obama administration having prosecuted more whistleblowers than all prior presidents combined.

Intrustions like these create a chilling effect that undermines the press and our democracy — and makes our society less free and open.

The AP’s CEO Gary Pruitt wrote a letter to the DOJ that underscores the obscenity of this spying:

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.”

Enough is enough. Add your name at right to help us put an end to the war on freedom of the press.”

Paranoid Society of Idiots

High schooler arrested for science project

State Attorney Jerry Hill: Drop charges against Kiera Wilmot

Sign Petition

Kiera Wilmot has been described as an exemplary student and a wonderful young woman. Why is it then that an experiment gone wrong is being dealt with by the police and school as a felony offense? According to the Miami Times:

“7 a.m. on Monday, the 16 year-old mixed some common household chemicals in a small 8 oz water bottle on the grounds of Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida. The reaction caused a small explosion that caused the top to pop up and produced some smoke. No one was hurt and no damage was caused.”

The principal has said that that he doesn’t believe she had any malicious intentions. Yet she now faces two felony charges as an adult. These includ making, possessing or discharging a destructive device and with possessing or discharging weapons on school grounds!

I’ve learned that the charges have not yet been filed and this means that Florida State Attorney Jerry Hill and Assistant State Attorney Tammy Glotfelty have an opportunity to the right thing, use common sense, and drop these charges against Kiera.

Please sign this petition to challenge any decision to so drastically charge this young woman for something that was a simple mistake. Her life should not be turned upside down, her future crushed, because someone wants to make a statement. There was no criminal activity here – she does not deserve to be punished like this. Help Kiera find real justice!

I also recommend checking out this article about the situation

http://feministing.com/2013/05/01/the-effects-of-unchecked-criminalization-teen-charged-with-felony-for-science-experiment/

Commentary

Mike Judge was not talking about 500 years in the future when he wrote Idiocracy.  The nation of zombies is not fiction either, it’s here now.  They keep tapping and yapping and playing video games while the earth burns.  Metaphorically, it’s impeccable.

The society is now a top down authoritarian regime under total surveillance.  Corporate / government partnership has erased the civil liberties that once made America different from military dictatorships.  Justice is selective and does not apply to state crimes.  Citizens are trained not to challenge government criminality, first by being harassed as “conspiracy nuts” — as if the government is incapable of breaking the laws of the land — and then whistleblowers who show proof of government crimes are arrested and disappeared into gulags.  Their evidence is ignored by the corporate partners and the media empires they command.

The distraction society has reached a critical tipping point where people can obsess and communicate constantly as long as it is isn’t about anything actually important.  Actual citizenship, diligence, keeping the state in check is no longer even a part of the society for the great majority in America.  They have abandoned their responsibilities as citizens and accepted the dictates of the criminal political class.  By accepting a criminal state and failing as citizens, America is collapsing every day into outright fascism.

Secret Elixir

Public Awakening?

Congress is also less popular than ”cockroaches, lice, root canals, colonoscopies, traffic jams, used car salesman and Genghis Khan”

Washington Blog finds that the public’s overwhelming cowering and douche bagginess since 9/11 may be turning around:

Americans Are More Afraid of the US Government than of the Terrorists

 

NY’s Finest Assholes

Fascist “Stop and Frisk” policy on trial — a whistleblower faces retaliation for calling out unconstitutional policies of the New York Police Department.

 

Moyers Interviews G. Greenwald

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bsqwErd6sPg

Egypt’s Warrant on Jon Stewart

Egypt Issues Arrest Warrant For Jon Stewart

The Egyptian government has issued an arrest warrant for American comedian Jon Stewart, accusing him of blasphemy and fomenting “anti-Egyptian” sentiment.

There’s that “blasphemy” charge again. Isn’t theocracy grand?

Now I consider Stewart a sold out little shit and a propagandist for the empire, but arrest warrants for “blasphemy?” Really?

“According to a statement issued by Minister of Justice Ahmed Mekki, Stewart will also be charged with “contributing to the delinquency of an Egyptian” for his role in inspiring Youssef to challenge the Islamist regime.”

“Mr. Stewart may think he’s funny. But in reality he is destroying the moral fiber of Egypt with his numerous references to penises and openly flamboyant homosexuals like Larry Craig, Marcus Bachmann, and Lindsey Graham.”

 

The Failure Of Laissez Faire Capitalism

Paul Craig Roberts has a new book.

The Failure Of Laissez Faire Capitalism And Economic Dissolution of the West 

I don’t always agree with Roberts (especially concerning the Reagan legacy); however, he often make a lot of sense economically and in defense of civil liberties.

“In the late 20th century and early 21st century, governments in the US and Great Britain chafed under the requirement that government, like the people, is ruled by law and took steps to free government from accountability to law.

Appleton says that the result is a “tectonic shift in the relationship between the state and the citizen.” Citizens of the US and UK are once again without the protection of law and subject to arbitrary arrests and indictments or to indefinite detention in the absence of indictments.

In the US, citizens can be detained indefinitely and even executed without due process of law. There is no basis in the US Constitution for these asserted powers. The unconstitutional powers exist only because Congress, the judiciary and the American people have accepted the lie that the loss of civil liberty is the price paid for protection against terrorists.

In a very short time the raw power of the state has been resurrected. Most Americans are oblivious to this outcome. As long as government is imprisoning and killing without trials demonized individuals whom Americans have been propagandized to fear, Americans approve. Americans do not understand that a point is reached when demonization becomes unnecessary and that precedents have been established that revoke the Bill of Rights.”

 

Maybe You Thought It Was Years Away

 

I’ve been pilfering quite a bit from Disinformation today. But be forewarned, I’m not adding them to the blogroll because they also post all kinds of wacky ass shit over there, that I take no responsibility for promoting. Surf at your own risk, suckas.
 

The Black Hornet, Mini Surveillance Drone