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Media-Government Collusion For War & Power

"In 2005, the Bush White House admitted to producing videos that were designed to look like news reports from legitimate independent journalists - and then feeding those reports to media outlets as prepackaged reports, ready to air on the evening news. When the Government Accountability Office ruled that these fake news reports in fact, constituted illegal covert propaganda, the White House simply issued a memo declaring the practice to be legal." 



"The only recourse the public has, is to turn away from the mainstream media altogether. And that is precisely what is happening."



WHISTLE-BLOWER SACRIFICES SELF FOR HIS COUNTRY:
U.S. Media Assists Gov't Witch Hunt & Distortions - Per Usual [video]

A young man with the world in his hand, gives it all up for the pursuit of Truth & Justice. One brave whistle-blower at the highest levels of secret-government domestic spying programs, stands tall and looks directly into the eyes of the 'super power' of the United States to say, enough is enough; Liberty or death.



While the corporate-state media carries the water - yet again - for a White House who would really like to reframe the topic of authoritarian domestic spying programs, former CIA and NSA contract employee risks his life to take a stand against extraordinary U.S. government fascism. For those unfamiliar with the story, Edward Snowden took extraordinary steps this past week to expose enormous government abuse of power. Particulary, that the United States government's intelligence agencies are spying on every single American. Can this really be so surprising to a people who have just recently found out that, this same government also falsely claims the authority to assassinate citizens at will - without due process, without even providing evidence of the government's claims against said murdered parties?

 SECRET COURTS = OXYMORON 

U.S. corporate-state media helps the White House sell false stories of legitimacy by airing the obviously bias opinions (dressed up as 'legal analysis') of the very government officials who got caught holding the indiscriminate, immoral, and in no way ethical dragnet of intelligence operations aimed at the entire public at large. That the president's friends and other government officials, themselves implicated in this tragic dishonor to the rule of law and the basic Human Right to SOME level of privacy, are filling the airwaves with assertions of their own interpretation of how legitimate their own actions have been - should be an obvious pulling back of the curtain, exposing further the corporate-police-state. Every time these criminals in government get caught, their corporate partners help them sell their stories. Just as every time corporate criminals are caught, their government partners let them off with a slap on the wrist. 

 'The SECRET courts which WE created to justify our enormous police-state 
 domestic spying programs told us we could do it.' - U.S. Government 

 Well, what are the odds of that?! You mean to tell us that your own 
 private courts, which you created and employ, told you it's 'legal' 
 to do whatever you want? Go on... 

The indignant government officials who brazenly defend such an obviously reprehensible secret-police program in the U.S. (the kind that would have impressed Nazi-Germany in the 1940's)  predictably behave with the same old cowardice of shooting the messenger to distract from the message. They expect you to believe that having their secret spy programs against you being exposed, means 'national security' is threatened. Not that national security is threatened by authoritarian regimes who spy on their own people - but that the people KNOWING ABOUT IT has somehow endangered us as a nation. 

They are desperately clinging to any angle that can keep their recently revealed EXTREME ABUSES OF POWER from being seen for what they are. Edward Snowden is not a 'threat' to the United States. He is a threat only to those who have worked very hard - in dark corners - to corrupt the United States and to destroy any semblance of liberty left in this once great nation. Edward Snowden is a hero of the people. Don't let the bastards who got caught - being bastards - tell you otherwise. 

 When GOVERNMENTS collude with CORPORATIONS to SPY on and 'police' the people, the result is an authoritarian type of government known definitively as "fascism". 

Knowing that he gave his life for his country, whistle-blower Snowden said, "You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk, because they're such powerful adversaries that no one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you - they'll get you in time." Unlike Bradley Manning who is still facing the wrath of the U.S. government (currently in military trial - after extended periods of isolation) for exposing U.S. war-crimes which every sentient being has a right to know about - Snowden took the opportunity to go public and explain his moral-compass. In the video interview with Glenn Greenwald (above), he tells more about the NSA abuses than the initial story told. He also disassembles the predictable hit-piece propaganda which has been coming out of the White House and their media lackeys. He shows that he is NOT in any way an enemy of the United States, but rather, that he took these actions because he is willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good of the American people.

AMERICAN FASCISM

 GETTING THE MESSAGE??? 



      Did you know:
  1. The US imprisons more
     of Its Own People - than 

      ANY other nation on Earth!  


  2. The Prison-Industrial-Complex is one of the nation's largest Private $ectors

  3.  About 1 in 100 Adult Americans  
     are currently incarcerated!         
      - A figure   unprecedented         
        in all of HUMAN HISTORY!!!      








 PLEASE CHECK THESE FACTS! 

BREAKING NEWS: UK Police Advance on Ecuadorian Embassy
- An Aggressive Affront to Any Nations' Sovereignty

UPDATE [17:14 EST] 8-18-12: Ecuador to announce at 1pm London Time (Sunday 8-19-12) official offer of Asylum to Julian Assange - himself to Speak TOMORROW at 2pm London Time.


Though the Ecuadorian Embassy has granted WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Diplomatic Immunity - the UK is stripping ECUADOR of theirs, in order to physically force Julian Assange back to Sweden. This is a very abnormal move for any nation to make. The UK's interest in silencing Assange is the same as that of the United States. He's exposed a lot of their embarrassing secrets. In particular, the fact that the United States government has been lying about and covering up WAR CRIMES and atrocities around the world - both corporate and military. 

The kind of forced extradition that disavows the sovereignty of an Nation's Embassy within your borders in nothing to ignore. That the UK would be going to such lengths over this particular extradition case, only further clarifies the real objectives of the authoritarian regimes carrying out this such charade.

 STOP SHOOTING THE MESSENGER. 

 WE DESERVE PEACE NOW. 
 FREE ASSANGE. 

BLESS ECUADOR for their bravery in this!

THIS JUST IN from WikiLeaks: 


BREAKING: UK police besieging embassy front door ordered to demand ID of all persons entering and leaving.

 ·  ·  · @wikileaks on Twitter · 7 minutes agovia Twitter · 

A pro-Julian Assange protest outside the embassy of Ecuador, 
in Knightsbridge, central London. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA


Click Here for More on This Story [VIDEO]

- A
ANY ACT of AGGRESSION by the UK and 
the EMPIRE against the ECUADORIAN EMBASSY is an 
ACT of AGGRESSION against ECUADORIAN SOVERGEINGTY. 

 - SOLIDARITY!!! 


#ONYS
occupyNYstate.org

BREAKING NEWS: UK Threatens Ecuador
Over Protection of WikiLeaks' Assange [VIDEO]

ANY ACT of AGGRESSION by the UK and 
the EMPIRE against the ECUADORIAN EMBASSY is an 
ACT of AGGRESSION against ECUADORIAN SOVERGEINGTY. 
 - SOLIDARITY!!! 

Julian Assange, Wikileaks figurehead has been fighting extradition from the UK on trumped up charges of an alleged sexual assault - though the accuser herself admits the sex was consensual and only became upset with Assange days later - after realizing she had contracted an STD. After speaking with another woman who also claims Assange gave her the same STD, both women decided to press charges. Assange has agreed to meet with any Swedish officials for the purpose of their investigation - in England, while under the protection of British Law. Sweden has continually turned down his offer and insists that he be physically imprisoned and forced back to Sweden. Whether the STD came from Assange or not, these local charges (stemming from an encounter in Sweden during one of Assanges speaking tours) have somehow become an international extradition case, leading no one to wonder why. 

Assange has upset very many of the World's Elite in the Military-Industrial Complex, Global Central Banking Schemes, and Corporate Communications & Information Systems ownership and control. He is the one willing to take the fall for exposing the lies of our governments - and our government's corporate-masters. 

Knowing that they would be taking on the weight of the world, Ecuador offered the safety of asylum to Julian Assange and the Ecuadorian Embassy is currently in a STAND-OFF with British officials who are threatening to invade the Embassy - effectively invading Ecuadorian Sovereignty. 

The only question - as is always the case - is whether the UK believes they can get away with their aggression toward other countries by selling it to their own people with a clever enough PR campaign. There is NO possible case that the UK, the US, or any of their corporate-profiteers can make, that would justify their invasion of the Ecuadorian Embassy - which only exists in the UK under the promise that such a thing could NEVER happen. 

This would be an enormous act of international aggression on the part of the UK. No PR campaign that they wage on their own people, could protect them from the ire of the World, should they act with such aggression.

While the Assange extradition has been playing out for about a year - this story of the Ecuadorian Embassy standing up to the Empire in order to do what's right - is just BREAKING.
The Empire is currently threatening to forcefully remove the Ecuadorian Embassy in order to forcefully remove Assange from Ecuador's protection. However this turns out - Ecuador is the Hero in this. Bless Ecuador for taking this Brave and very necessary stand!

Solidarity!
#ONYS


Assange continually has the support of 
The People in every country whose governments 
and corporations keep trying to silence him. 

His WikiLeaks.org has relentlessly 
exposed governmental, political, &
 corporate secrets - in particular, the secrets of 
the  Military-Industrial-Complex 
 ...the secrets Eisenhower warned us about. 

A truly FREE NATION has no secrets.  

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaking to demonstrators from the steps of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London on Saturday (Leon Neal, AFP / Getty Images)


       Whether you know it or not, 
       your government is  waging a secret war   
           against Whistle-Blowers who are      
          exposing their War-Mongering LIES!!! heir war-mongering LIES.


Other sourced coverage complete with 
LINK to LIVE-FEED outside the Embassy
(feed just went down for battery 
conservation) continues HERE:

POETRY BREAK
"WAR of TERROR"


       Only As Long As You Are Afraid,  
    Can They Keep Getting Away With It. 
  The  WAR  OF  TERROR  has disabled US 
     - Crippled our sense of Strength in Self -   
       as well, Our sense of Right and Wrong.   
              It  only ever could have .    
  It is not the Soldiers in the Field,  
                not the Boots on the Ground,       
                Not the " Foreign Policy "            
    which By The Way, is a make-beLIEve  
      political term, roughly translating as   
        the "Public Relations" campaign,      
              designed to  DISTRACT you  
     from Your Own Once Great Nation's   
         current Worldly  EXPLOIT ations,    
   for the benefit of the Criminal  Bankers, 
   THEIR Politicians, 
   THEIR subsidized investments, 
   THEIR corporal, CORPORATE NATION. 
   THEIR  WEAPONS  FOR SALE 
   THEIR corporations.         

 WE Will Not 
  Remove Them From  POWER  in order to punish them.   
                                       That's  THEIR World .  
                          We WILL Remove Them From POWER   
            in order to FREE ourselves - and EACH OTHER. 



The Hypocrisy of Mike Bloomberg [VIDEO]

Straight from the facebook page of Mike Bloomberg.
It's just amusing sometimes to see him speak about the 'safety of citizens' or really - anything to do with Human Rights at all, since he has so proudly overseen the perpetual abuse of Human Rights through the brutality of his NYPD. Literally breaking the bones and shedding the blood of peaceful protesters who assert their RIGHT to be - and to protest - in public places is far from sincere concern for the wellbeing of The People.

You just can't make this stuff up...
But look at the overt reaction he's been getting since launching constant physical assaults on peaceful protesters. Hey Mike... We Are Winning. Your tyranny dressed up as legitimacy, just isn't fooling anyone anymore. We're coming for you. You and your Wall Street buddies better figure something out quick - because your brutality has served no purpose but to expose you for a brute.
We will not relent.
See you soon.


While trying to capitalize on the current American zeitgiest regarding a tragedy...

“Stand Your Ground” laws pushed by the National Rifle Associationhave not made our country safer. They’ve made us less safe.

Mayor Bloomberg's Campaign of Terror & Distraction

You may remember that last week, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg made the sudden announcement of an emergency press conference on the subject of "terror".  What you may not know is that to people who work inside the news media and in television broadcasting, the rare event of a sudden Sunday evening press conference with top officials is either an actual emergency, or the mark of someone desperately trying to get ahead of the 'weekly news cycle' - perhaps in order to bury one story with an even more sensational one. 

Leading up to last weekend, both Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD had earned plenty of negative attention that they were desperate to divert the public away from. Between the regular reports of NYPD brutality being inflicted on the peaceful protesters in lower Manhattan and the middle of the night NYPD assault on the Occupy encampment in Liberty (Zuccotti) Park just earlier in the week - which involved the NYPD securing the ground and airspace from all news media in apparent efforts to disallow any evidence of their assault on the protesters and the illegal destruction of their property - as well as their blatant contempt for Judge Lucy Billings' temporary restraining order against the City and the NYPD the next morning - it was going to take a serious hijacking of the media's attention in order to redirect the public's focus.


While holding a very rare and in this case, quite unnecessary Sunday evening press conference on the subject of a supposed "terror" suspect who was both already in custody and considered by the FBI to be no legitimate threat, the Mayor and Police Commissioner - who recently found themselves in hot water over a slew of  civil rights violations against both protesters and journalists attempting to report on the city's aggressive suppression of the Occupy protests - desperately pushed all of their chips into the center of the table and apparently hoped to bluff the public into fear-based loyalty, while at the same time distracting us from their recent crimes against democracy.

Within 90 seconds of the start of the press conference, a video was shown of a car blowing up. That video was created by the NYPD. So was the bomb used in the video. Why is the NYPD assembling bombs and video taping them blowing up cars? Why was there a theatrical "model" bomb at the press conference? If they arrested the suspect just after he was "drilling holes" in preparation for a bomb, as they said, then he had no completed bomb at the time of his arrest. This begs the repeat of the question:

Why is the NYPD producing shock and awe propaganda videos of cars blowing up, when their suspect did not even have a completed test bomb?! 


If this were a legitimate legal case, wouldn't it be inappropriate for these officials to produce propaganda like this against their suspect and show it to the news media and general public before that suspect even has a day in court to be officially charged? Wouldn't it be inappropriate for city officials to poison the potential jury pool by making and publicizing this such propaganda? Wouldn't this kind of conduct hurt the prosecutors case against the suspect, if in fact it were a legitimate case? If they are willing to threaten the stability of this such case once it is actually tried in a court of law, with these theatrical props and unnecessary, but visually frightening video presentations - what might be the real motive behind these presentations to the public? Does the suggestion of a terrorist, combined with the video of an explosion, frighten you?


Why would city officials show us their own video of an exploding car that is in no way directly connected to their suspect?

Bloomberg stated during the press conference that the suspect, "was not part of a larger conspiracy." He also referred to the suspect several times as a "lone wolf" as he pleaded his case about this supposed solo-terror-threat. The police commissioner repeated this term more than once as well. So, why the concerted branding of, and emphasis on a "lone wolf" aspect of this supposed suspect? One reason might be that the City and the NYPD want to give the clear impression that there is no need for any outside entities - FBI or otherwise - to further investigate their "terror threat" allegations.



In any event, within 48 hours of the press conference, some interesting points came to light.

Not only did the FBI not consider the suspect to be a credible threat, but they apparently also considered the NYPD's tactics in dealing with him, to be dangerously close to entrapment.

More than 50% of the general public who have commented on the Billionaire Mayor, Mike Bloomberg's facebook post announcing this arrest, have shown up to display their lack of faith in the honesty of Bloomberg's terroristic press conference. This figure holds strong even though it appears that many of the posts have somehow been censored/removed. This is reassuring that the fear-mongering tactics of the Bush era are still no longer welcome among the majority - or at least the majority of those who feel obliged to speak their minds on such matters.

Even the mainstream media questioned the timing of this sudden and rare Sunday evening announcement.

However Bloomberg aims to distract the public, or to scare us back into submission and blind obedience - the awakening of the world around him cannot be stopped. His pathetic attempt at playing the terror-card is as transparent now as it was initially (see our coverage PRE & POST press conference). His crimes against The People of New York City, the Occupy Movement, and democracy itself, are on record. He cannot wash away what he has done - and we will not forget.


Having ignored The People of New York City twice voting to keep their mayoral term limits in place and skirting their wishes by throwing his monied-weight around to stay in power, we already knew that Billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg is a tyrant. Now we know that he is a terrorist too.

Mayor Bloomberg, this is your legacy.

Your fortune may have been just enough to keep you in power after you had worn out your welcome in New York City, but every single penny of your enormous empire cannot save you from your place in history.

Our legacy will be to create a better world; one without the likes of criminal oligarchs like
you.


ter·ror·ism

   [ter-uh-riz-uhm]  
noun
1.
the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce,especially for political purposes.
2.
the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3.
a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.








Bloomberg About to Announce False "Terror" Alert
to Bury Damning Story of NYPD Opression Against Political Dissent


Today, New York State Senator Eric Adams and others held a press conference from Zuccotti Park condemning the Bloomberg administration for using the NYPD to violate the rights of the protesters in the park. Their language was certain, direct, and damning of Bloomberg and the actions of the NYPD over the course of the OWS occupation of Zuccotti Park. "Never again, in New York City," he said, while speaking of the police brutality, the illegal eviction from the park, the arrest of reporters and other efforts to disallow the press to witness and report on the assaults on the protesters 1st and 4th amendment rights - not to mention the assaults on their physical bodies.

Right now, Bloomberg has Police Commissioner Ray Kelly about to give an emergency press conference on the topic of "terror". This is an obvious attempt to bury the story that could help bury Bloomberg. His assault on the civil liberties of the people of New York City has gotten the attention of New York State officials and they are calling him out. This press conference of Bloomberg's is not fooling anyone.

Even CNN just reported that 'the mayor wants to distract from the occupy movement'.

When even the mainstream media is on to you, Mayor Bloomberg, your days are numbered!


UPDATE (post-conference):
They stumbled, they bumbled, they for some unexplained reason showed a video of a car blowing up. 
They pulled out all the stops. They are desperate.

They mentioned that this supposed "terror suspect" wanted to change his name to "Osama Hussein" in honor of his two heroes, Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. This suggestion is almost obnoxiously ridiculous. Those two people are from two completely different spectrums of the Arab world. They did not like each other. They did not have much in common at all. In fact, the greatest thing they had in common was large scale American propaganda. The Mayor's office is clearly grasping at whatever straws might be left of the Bush Era 9/11 fear-mongering that assumed all Arabs were the same - and that these two were easy enough tools to use to manipulate the American people to live in fear. We're not as malleable as we used to be - and we are shocked that this silly combination of two opposites was used in an attempt to garner legitimacy in the Mayor's comic book style fear-mongering, diversionary tactics.

When asked why if this was a terrorist situation, the FBI wasn't involved, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said that they were "notified." He claimed in one moment that there just wasn't enough time to get the FBI involved, and in the next moment that the FBI needn't be involved moving forward. When asked about what clearly would be a federal case, if federal charges have or will be filed, the police commissioner said that New York has it's own legal process for terrorists (one that somehow supersedes obvious federal jurisdiction?!). We know that this does not add up to truth. These overwhelmingly cartoon-evil-villainous tactics of deception, diversion, and fear-mongering are as clear and present as the danger that this type of politics is to any legitimate government. This administration is both a danger to the people and a fraud.

Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly are trembling.
They should be.
The jig is up.

It's time to go.
Leave on your own, while you still can.

Oakland Rises Up Against Corruption & Violent Oppression


Following last weeks brutal assault by Oakland Police on their peaceful assembly - which left Marine, Iraq War Veteran, Veteran for Peace, and Occupy Movement supporter, Scott Olsen hospitalized in critical condition among the wounded - Occupy Oakland had their largest General Assembly attendance to date. With over 1,600 in attendance and voting, they passed a proposal for a "general strike" in Oakland to take place this Wednesday, November 2nd. The proposal passed with an amazing 96.9% approval.

Oakland has experience another such general strike in it's history, in 1946. The Oakland General Strike of 65 years ago however, was spurred by more spontaneity that seemed to follow the inspiration of a sweep of similar actions around the nation at the time. This time the strike is being officially called for, organized, and broadcast.

It should be a very interesting Wednesday in Oakland, this November 2nd, as The People rise up as one against capital corruption and governmental oppression. Let us all keep our eyes on Oakland, as our hearts remain in unity.



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   8,000 Protesters Arrested 
 Not A Single Banker Indicted [link]


  

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is a FAILURE at best

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