July 2012

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Glenn Greenwald: How America's Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear

http://www.alternet.org/story/156170/glenn_greenwald%3A_how_america%27s_surveillance_state_breeds_conformity_and_fear?akid...

Once the government is able to monitor everything we do and say, we will be unable to fight back.
July 4, 2012 |

Editor's note: The following is a transcript of a speech delivered by Glenn Greenwald at this month's Socialism 2012 conference, on the massive growth of government and corporate surveillance and their chilling effects on Americans' rights.

Last year was my maiden trip to the Socialism 2012 world. I started off by standing up and saying -- I was actually surprised by this, pleasantly surprised, because I didn’t know what to expect -- how amazingly inspirational I actually found this conference to be. The energy of activism and the sophisticated level of the conversation and the commitment that people displayed and the diversity of the attendees, really is unlike any other conference. And so when I was asked back this year, I was super excited to come back and accept. Not only because of that, but also because the conference organizers asked if I could speak about challenging the Surveillance State.

The reason that I was so eager to come and do that is because I really think that this topic is central to all of the other activism that’s being discussed here this weekend.

The Surveillance State hovers over any attacks that meaningfully challenge state-appropriated power. It doesn’t just hover over it. It impedes it, it deters it and kills it. That’s its intent. It does that by design.

And so, understanding what the Surveillance State, how it operates -- most importantly, figuring out how to challenge it and undermine it, and subvert it -- really is, I think, an absolute prerequisite to any sort of meaningful activism, to developing strategies and tactics for how to challenge state and corporate power.

Newly Released CIA Documents Show 9-11 Warnings Before Attack

http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2012/07/newly-released-cia-documents-show-9-11-warnings-before-attack/

Newly Released CIA Documents Show 9-11 Warnings Before Attack

Could 9/11 have been prevented?

Up until now the common sentiment was that the 9/11 attacks came as a complete shock to the U.S., which had no idea that the devastation that happened on September 11, 2001 was going to occur.

However, a trove of documents have been released concerning Osama bin Laden and terrorist attacks that paints an alarming picture that President Bush had actually been warned of an imminent attack, but had chosen to ignore the warnings.

The CIA documents are newly declassified and have been released to the National Security Archive. The documents are available to read on DocumentCloud, a document uploading site that gives users access to extensive information about organizations, people and places.

The highly damning documents provide readers with a clearer account of U.S. knowledge about the possibility of its country being attacked, which blatantly contradicts claims made by Bush officials, that the U.S. government was aggressively pursuing bin Laden and al-Qaida prior to 9/11 and that nobody could have predicted the 9/11 attacks.

From June until August 2001 a series of documents made clear reference to bin Laden, and his associates impending attack on the U.S.

Was there Advanced Knowledge of the 7/7 London Bomb Attacks? 7 Years Ago, 7/7 2005 By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Researc

Was there Advanced Knowledge of the 7/7 London Bomb Attacks?
7 Years Ago, 7/7 2005

By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, July 7, 2012

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31748

The London 7/7 Bombings

Seven Years Ago, The London July 7, 2005 Bombings

Global Research Analysis and Selected Articles

Michel Chossudovsky (Editor)

On the 7th anniversary of the London Bombings (July 7, 2005), we bring the following collection of articles to the attention of our readers.

INTRODUCTION

Coincidence? Unanswered Questions?

Was there Advanced Knowledge of the 7/7 London Bomb Attacks?

A fictional "scenario" of multiple bomb attacks on London's underground took place at exactly the same time as the bomb attack on July 7, 2005.

Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, a private firm on contract to the London Metropolitan Police, described in a BBC interview how he had organized and conducted the anti-terror drill, on behalf of an unnamed business client.

Pennsylvanians for 9/11 Truth

Please join me at my new Yahoo group Pennsylvanians for 9/11 Truth.

Description:

Welcome to Pennsylvanians for 9/11 Truth, a group for people from the Keystone State who question the official 9/11 story and other 9/11 activists wishing to post action alerts. In an effort to avoid the drama that comes from divisive issues in the 9/11 Truth Movement, e.g., what hit the Pentagon, directed-energy weapon theories, TV-fakery, etc., it is asked that postings are kept centered around Pennsylvania specific 9/11 truth events and activism ideas/reports. This type of activism related material is welcome from other states and countries as well, but the group's central focus will be on Pennsylvania related items to the greatest extent possible.

All Pennsylvanians, as well as others, who are interested in the the range of topics pertaining to 9/11 Truth are cordially invited to join the group and actively participate.

Ray McGovern : "Has The CIA Gone Rogue?"

Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern speaking to the Deerfield Progressive Forum

US patent 5505799 looks like manual for 9/11 "explosive"

Two weeks ago a german fellow found this patent by accident in search for an online discussion with so called debunkers, originally by searching the temperature of thermite burning.
US patent 5505799: called, Nanoengineered Explosives, Filed 1993, granted 1996,

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=5...

I forwarded this patent to Prof. Harrit who did immediately respond and called it a good catch, and begged me I should write a blog entry about it. Also, Prof. Jones did respond immediately, too, with the multilayers working on his mind. Because this patent describes a three-layered “near” explosive material.

This patent looks like the manual for what was found in the WTC dust. Maybe the biggest hint is the last figure (31) published in the work “Actice Thermitic Material Discovered In Dust Of The World Trade Center Catastrophe” by Niels Harrit et al,
http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tocpj/articles/V002/7TOCPJ.htm
showing a residue with two red-grey-layers and other layers as well.

New York regulator seeks data from insurers in 9/11 case

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/04/new-york-regulator-seeks-data-from-insurers-in-11-case/

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York's top insurance regulator has directed insurers to detail payouts and reserves for claims in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks in an effort to prompt settlement of the decade-old federal case.
Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the Department of Financial Services, says in a letter that ongoing claims against the two airlines and security companies, following the terrorist attack on the twin towers in Manhattan, has slowed redevelopment and "undermined public confidence in the insurance industry."
Developer Larry Silverstein has complained to the department about gridlock in settlement negotiations.
Federal law limited the insurers' liability and created a special fund that paid victim claims.
Remaining insurer liability is estimated at about $2 billion.
Lawsky also seeks the insurers' investment return rates since 2002 and their itemized bailout benefits.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/04/new-york-regulator-seeks-data-from-insurers-in-11-case/print#ixzz1zkoR2yWd

Can Americans Escape the Deception? Paul Craig Roberts Wednesday, July 4, 2012

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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/
Can Americans Escape the Deception?

"Washington’s account of 9/11 is the wildest conspiracy theory known to mankind. The absurdity of Washington’s account is as follows: A few Saudi Arabians without any government’s backing or that of any intelligence service outwitted not only the CIA and the FBI but all 16 US intelligence agencies, even the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, together with the intelligence agencies of all of Washington’s NATO allies and Israel’s Mossad, which has infiltrated every radical Muslim group."

Paul Craig Roberts

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Hot Air Day is upon us. On July 4 hot air will spew forth all over the country as dignitaries deliver homilies to our “freedom and democracy” and praise “our brave troops” who are protecting our freedom by “killing them over there before they come over here.”

Peace Fresno Sponsors Talk By Jon Gold - 7/3/2012

Many thanks to Peace Fresno for allowing me the opportunity to speak.

The Gitmo Goat Herders

The President ordered Gitmo to be closed and then changed his mind. This is because he only thinks he is commander-in-chief.

One possible reason for this flip-flop is that somebody decided to tell him the truth about the prisoners there - that they are mostly innocent farmers and goatherders.

The following is from infowars.com

Obama Puts Off Gitmo Closure Until After 2011

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
December 23, 2009

Yes We Can… be exactly like the Bush administration. In another glaring example of the near seamless transition between the Bush and Obama administrations, The New York Times is reporting Obama may not close the Gitmo torture concentration camp until after 2011, maybe later...........

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