That Monkey Wrench Gang

Suggested by James McEnteer…

 

Wrenched Trailer

http://vimeo.com/64900586

“Drivel that Dominnated the Airwaves”

Chris Hedges on fascism, propaganda, corruption–

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

Wiretaps of US Congress, NGOs Trap Whistleblowers

FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds is on the case.

 

 

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

 

Corporate/State War on Dissent

Keystone XL Protester Faces 1 year in Jail For Speakinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XthAezqn738

Treasonous JUDGES are cooperating with corporations to silence dissenters.  The First Amendment guarantee of free speech is being systematically eroded in the service of increasing corporate power and profit.  This Keystone XL case is a sign of increased crackdown on environmentalists, who are the targets of increased legal penalties for opposing the fossil fuel industry.  The corruption of government is now outlawing free speech by those who seek to stop dangerous, dirty tar sands pipelines and watershed-polluting fracking operations.

 

Yes It’s THAT Bad

Objective Analysis: Obama Versus Nixon

George Washington’s Blog:

Top Constitutional Experts: Obama Is Worse than Nixon”

 

Extreme Douchiness

Yesterday I pointed out the pathetic progressive method of challenging government criminality by not challenging it.  They beg criminals to be nice on a fairly regular basis.  ”Please Mr. Hitler, it’s not nice sending all those people away on cattle cars.  It’s unprecedented.  We’ll still vote for you though, but your unwarranted attacks on our Jewish neighbors doesn’t seem right.“

So today, yet another weasel-worded embarrassment to political action, this time from CREDO:

“Tell Eric Holder: Stop your attack on the First Amendment

“The petition reads:

Attorney General Holder: Your department’s seizure of two months worth of the Associated Press’ phone records amounts to nothing less than an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment. But sadly, this indiscriminate surveillance of journalists is part of a larger pattern within your department to go after whistleblowers without consideration of the vital role a free press plays in our democracy.  We join the Associated Press in calling on you to return the records you seized and to destroy any copies you have made. In addition, we call on you to end your dangerous war on whistleblowers.”"

Iceland is looking better and better all the time.

 

Catalogued, Databased, Controlled

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

 

Latest “Immigration Reform” bill creates biometric database of ALL AMERICANS controlled by high priests in the Department of Homeland Security (SS).

WIRED:

“Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.

Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo.

…It starts to change the relationship between the citizen and state, you do have to get permission to do things,” said Chris Calabrese, a congressional lobbyist with the American Civil Liberties Union. “More fundamentally, it could be the start of keeping a record of all things.”

For now, the legislation allows the database to be used solely for employment purposes. But historically such limitations don’t last. The Social Security card, for example, was created to track your government retirement benefits. Now you need it to purchase health insurance.

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.

 

 

Why “progressive” organizations are pathetic

One post below I posted a link to representatives to demand a stop to Justice Dept. (sic) spying on journalists.

Another organization sent me a similar petition / letter. This one is directed to… who else?  Eric Holder, the Attorney General, the man responsible for the crime.

Progressives don’t get it.

They never did.

They are being misled from above to do inconsequential, meaningless symbolic acts that make their followers feel good and maintain the system exactly as it is.  That is why they won’t support 3rd parties to challenge the criminal two-party duopoly.

It may seem I’m extrapolating a lot from one letter, but it’s simply the last straw, the blatant red flag that makes the whole charade too nauseating to stomach today.

You don’t change the Mafia by writing letters to Al Capone.

Are progressives stupid?

Serious question.

Dear Attorney General Eric Holder:

Your officials are reportedly monitoring journalists’ phone records. You’re supposed to protect journalists’ rights, not trample on them. You must stop this attack on press freedom.

Problem is that this is the same criminal organization that a few months ago they were demanding we re-elect into office.  This is the same criminal clique that for four years should have been impeached for many, many violations of the constitution.   Of course actually removing these people, investigating their crimes against the American people and locking them up cannot be spoken.  So they write pointless letters amounting to: ‘Please stop committing crimes; you’re making us feel bad.‘

Douche bags.

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.”

ObamaCare’s Fascistic Enforcement

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

– Benito Mussolini

 

In a nutshell, why this abomination of a “health” system is a terrible experiment…

“Every January, health insurance companies across America will send out tax documents to each insured individual. This tax document—a copy of which will be furnished to the IRS—must contain sufficient information for taxpayers to prove that they purchased qualifying health insurance under Obamacare.

This new tax information document must, at a minimum, contain: the name and health insurance identification number of the taxpayer; the name and tax identification number of the health insurance company; the number of months the taxpayer was covered by this insurance plan; and whether or not the plan was purchased in one of Obamacare’s “exchanges.”
Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS

 

 

 

Written by insurance company lobbyists, who are of course the problem not the solution, lapdog Obama now wants to penalize you for not proving that you have purchased their inferior products.  Obama delivers millions of new customers to the insurance racket, which is then free to siphon on profits and provide less expenditure for actual medicine.

This is the opposite of what the sane “developed world” does for its citizens.  Their governments don’t act as mercenary goons for private corporate interests.  Theirs is more socialistic, not punitive and profit extraction centered.  Theirs actually works at greatly reduced costs to all concerned.  But don’t let facts get in the way of politics and capitalism.