Ray McGovern and the Sam Adams party have presented the Sam Adams award to Edward Snowden. I am delighted. This from Ray’s account of the event:
In brief remarks from his visitors, Snowden was reassured — first and foremost — that he need no longer be worried that nothing significant would happen as a result of his decision to risk his future by revealing documentary proof that the U.S. government was playing fast and loose with the Constitutional rights of Americans.
Even amid the government shutdown, Establishment Washington and the normally docile “mainstream media” have not been able to deflect attention from the intrusive eavesdropping that makes a mockery of the Fourth Amendment. Even Congress is showing signs of awaking from its torpor.
In the somnolent Senate, a few hardy souls have gone so far as to express displeasure at having been lied to by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA Director Keith Alexander — Clapper having formally apologized for telling the Senate Intelligence Committee eavesdropping-related things that were, in his words, “clearly erroneous” and Alexander having told now-discredited whoppers about the effectiveness of NSA’s intrusive and unconstitutional methods in combating terrorism.
Coleen Rowley, the first winner of the Sam Adams Award (2002), cited some little-known history to remind Snowden that he is in good company as a whistleblower — and not only because of previous Sam Adams honorees. She noted that in 1773, Benjamin Franklin leaked confidential information by releasing letters written by then-Lt. Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson to Thomas Whatley, an assistant to the British Prime Minister.
The letters suggested that it was impossible for the colonists to enjoy the same rights as subjects living in England and that “an abridgement of what are called English liberties” might be necessary. The content of the letters was so damaging to the British government that Benjamin Franklin was dismissed as colonial Postmaster General and had to endure an hour-long censure from British Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn.
There has been a determined attempt by government to justify the need to intercept everybody’s communications, all the time. We have, yet again, had MI5 claim there are many thousand violent Islamic terrorists running around the UK, (yet somehow not managing to kill anybody). The cry of “paedophiles” is raised, as always. I can imagine them suggesting the entire population be shot dead, and justifying it as making sure they get the paedophiles. The tabloids would go with that.
There still had not been a single credible claim by the mainstream media that any named individual has died, despite that contingency being trotted out all the time as the reason Snowden and Manning should not have revealed state crimes and abuse of power. I am hopeful that, with the internet still largely free to the dissemination of information, out next massive whistleblower is only weeks away.
FYI,
Senate Vote on ENDA TONIGHT: Call Your Senators
Dear Daniel,
ENDA will get a floor vote in the U.S. Senate tonight. Please take a moment and call your senators and encourage them to vote yes on this bill.
Passing this bill in the Senate would be an historic achievement in the fight for LGBT rights and move us one step closer to federally outlawing LGBT workplace discrimination.
If the Senate passes this bill, the pressure will shift to the House of Representatives and President Obama. We’ll keep up the heat on the House to give this bill a vote, and if they don’t, we’ll continue to push the President to sign an executive order as we always have.
Please call your senator and ask them to vote yes on tonight’s vote.
Thanks for your help. For more information on this campaign see my original email below.
Brian Sonenstein – Campaign Director
LINK
I flushed DNS, but it keeps popping back up. Sorry for that.
@ Exexpat,
Twinkle, twinkle little star… @ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1993-051-07,_Tafel_mit_KZ-Kennzeichen_%28Winkel%29_retouched.jpg
“At least 960,000 Jews were killed in Auschwitz. Other victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Roma (Gypsies), and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war; and 10,000-15,000 members of other nationalities (Soviet civilians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians).” @ http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189
I’m not good at numbers, but that doesn’t add up to 4 million now, does it. The question thus arises, how do you ‘un-murder’ 2,5 million people and where did they go? @ http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/memorials/auschBirkMem/
6 million died @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Dda-0Q_XUhk
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304391204579177104151435042
Google are in the process of heavily encrypting their inter-data-centre traffic.
More details http://www.zdnet.com/google-the-nsa-and-the-need-for-locking-down-datacenter-traffic-7000022632/
hasbawanker has been working overtime again. By the looks of it, Xmas shopin has to be paid for, judging by the piece work rates.
anonCvillageCtechniC as per usual concurring, praising, harrumphing along the great hasbawanker busy sweating away and clattering the bejesus out of the keyboard.
On November 1, Chemi Shalev posted at Israeli daily Haaretz reported that during a meeting at the White House with Barack Obama’s senior National Security adviser, Israel-Firster Dr. Susan Rice, leaders of four top pro-Israel Jewish lobby groups, gave Obama administration a 60-day moratorium, during which they agreed to refrain from conducting any public campaign urging Congress to impose more ‘crippling sanctions’ against the Islamic Republic.
“For the last several years, the Zionist organizations in the United States, AIPAC and I would say at least 52 Jewish Zionist organizations have been active in trying to undermine the Iranian government and strangle its economy,” says professor James Petras.
http://rehmat1.com/2013/11/05/jewish-lobby-gives-obama-60-day-grace-on-iran/
President Mursi is undoubtedly the President of Egypt as he says. The blood-soaked Military Junta have made themselves look like fools by this show trial.
Whatever possessed the US to think that it could back a party with an Islamic agenda in the political arena? People’s private beliefs cannot be controlled by a majority. They believe what they believe.
It is complete madness to suggest that the democratic process gives legitimacy to the winner to tell the people what to believe. It gives the government legitimacy to run the country, not human souls.
Good to see you have some interest in these crimes mr H
Dunno about 67 – mists of foggy woggy-ness…say a few thousand, they were just getting started after all
Last year it was 7,777 and 3 Branches EXACTLY
year before that it was 5,555 olive trees EXACTLY
I MIGHT be wrong about 67 … Then again I MIGHT not be…. I MIGHT go researching it… then again I MIGHT not….To MIGHT or not to MIGHT… that is my right…i think
it’s not just the uprooting, burning Ect, here’s a good report from the U.N
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=133368349
Someone please explain the physics of JFK’s head snapping BACKWARD, toward the shooter.
If they are going to concoct a story they should have placed the errant muzzle at the FRONT of the limo.
@ Ben,
Bill Hicks on JFK’s assassination
Duck and cover: Israeli army drills in populated Palestinian areas are ‘legal’ – IDF
Since 1967 Israel has razed over 800,000 Palestinian olive trees.
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/10/palestinian-equivalent-destroying.html
Yes, I wondered how our murderous government was going to get around the overwhelming evidence of its 1963 coup as the anniversary drew near. I expected what Brand might term lachrymose sentimentality. I didn’t expect yet another traditional lone nut – at an airport! You have to get up early in the morning to outsmart these treasonous assassins!
Blanket coverage of the poor feckless zombie and his popgun carried them right past the date at which all records are to be made public, as the shredding continues with a CIA cadre in charge of the National Archives. Soon it won’t matter that everyone knows. The permanent state killed the last president who didn’t know he was a puppet ruler, and they got away with it. What better way to entrench official impunity than another armed attack on the civilian population?
@ The Crown Jewel,
Q: ” I’ve heard that some of the records are sealed? Why? When will they be opened to the public for examination for my research?”
R: It is a common misconception that the records relating to the assassination of President Kennedy are in some way sealed. In fact, the records are largely open and available to the research community here at the National Archives at College Park in the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Record Collection. LINK
Yes, my wife’s a little bit pregnant too…
3 expert riflemen tried to recreate Oswald’s stellar performance. Needless to say, they all failed within the allotted time frame.
Warren Commission Hearings, Volume III, page 446 Scan.
Maybe you could explain, Ben, why JFKs head jolts FORWARD on impact of the missile; why head tissue projects FORWARD from the exit wound in the direction of the missile path; why there is a DELAY after the strike BEFORE his body lurches backward; why an entry wound of 6mm was found at the back of his skull with internal bevelling; and finally, why the trajectory of the missile aligns with the position of SS agent George Hickey who was in PROVEN possession of an AR-15 military assault rifle and which several witnesses, including other SS agents, report thinking he used to return fire based on their respective SIGHTING of him waving the rifle around, proximate HEARING of a muzzle blast and proximate SMELLING of gunpowder.
Colin McLaren’s contribution to Donahue’s accidental head shot theory is based on multiple witness statements that gunpowder was smelled at ground level and this supports Donahue’s ballistics assessment that Hickey’s rifle was discharged in the direction of the president.
Many people reject his theory on the basis that such an accident was extremely unlikely – which should also make the 3800 reportedly accidental shooting fatalities in the US from 2005-2010 equally unlikely and therefore the intended outcomes of elaborate conspiracies. It would also mean we cannot accept that friendly fire incidents occur, such as that which killed US Army Ranger, Pat Tillman – and look how they tried to cover that one up!
It’s hard to give up a silly old theory in which you have invested so much emotion and conviction, but give it a try.
3800 Unintentional Shooting Deaths in US 2005-2010 :
http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/
JFK Slow Motion Impact – WARNING GRAPHIC :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU83R7rpXQY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/05/russell-brand-robert-webb-revolution
Only revolution can save England, that has been obvious for years — George Orwell
Yet tonight many will be burning effigies of Guy Fawkes… should be bliar on there…
@Daniel Rich
Howard Donahue was one of the men who were invited by H.P. White Ballistic Lab to reenact the three shots under six seconds using a Carcano rifle, for CBS News. He was the only one to succeed, in 5.2 seconds, after three trials.
The experiment however, is invalid when we accept that Oswald fired only two shots, the first missing, the second connecting and quickly followed by the third shot from Hickey’s AR-15.
Most of this discussion is unneccessary if you review all of the available material related to McLaren’s presentation. My intention was simply to draw attention to McLaren’s docudrama and offer my own thoughts wrt the political response of the Kennedys and the Secret Service in the event of an act of gross negligence resulting in the presidents death.
We saw how Edward Kennedy responded to the Chappaquiddick incident and I think that was consistent with the Kennedy way of doing things. Ironically, it seems that the Kennedys were major players in covering up the real cause of JFK’s death.
A nice little deal with the Nazis for Hildebrand Gurlitt who was a liar and a thief. Vornelius, the son, is no better. Why have the German police in Bavaria kept this coverered up since 2011 when the hoard was found?
‘Hildebrand Gurlitt, who had been a museum director in Zwickau until Hitler came to power, lost his post because he was half Jewish, but was later commissioned by the Nazis to sell works abroad. The discovered loot may show that Gurlitt in fact collected many of the artworks himself and managed to keep them throughout the war.
After the war, allied troops designated Gurlitt a victim of Nazi crimes. He reportedly said he had helped many Jewish Germans to fund their flight into exile, and that his entire art collection had been destroyed in the bombing of Dresden.’
Modernist art haul, ‘looted by Nazis’, recovered by German police
About 1500 works, includining pieces by Chagall, Klee, Matisse and Picasso, had been considered lost until raid in Schwabing
Philip Oltermann in Berlin
The Guardian, Monday 4 November 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/03/nazis-looted-modernist-masterpieces-germany-police
Cornelius, the son…..
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The UK press, especially the tabloid press, are running stories about the White Widow again.
eg
Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed: Burka fugitive is fanatical follower of White Widow
Mirror.co.uk - by Tom Pettifor - 27 minutes ago
Burka fugitive Mohamed in White Widow gang | The Sun |News
http://www.thesun.co.uk/…/Burka-fugitive-Mohamed-in-White-Widow-gang.htm...
7 hours ago – MOHAMED fought in support of the group behind Kenya’s deadly mall massacre.
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The tabloids will not be giving this story any prominence however.
5 November 2013
Recent immigrants to UK ‘make net contribution’
The 2011 census showed that 13% of England and Wales’ population were born abroad
Immigrants to the UK since 2000 have made a “substantial” contribution to public finances, a report says.
The study by University College London said recent immigrants were less likely to claim benefits and live in social housing than people born in Britain.
The authors said rather than being a “drain”, their contribution had been “remarkably strong”.
/..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24813467
When is there going to be a stop to this relic of our feudal past?
Duchy of Cornwall’s tax exemptions ‘may give unfair advantage over rivals’
Commons public accounts committee calls for investigation into Prince of Wales’s estate, which generates £28.8m a year
5 November 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/05/duchy-of-cornwall-tax-prince-wales-charles
‘Under the Duchy, established in 1337 by King Edward III, the heir to the throne is exempt from paying corporation and capital gains taxes on land and property transactions.
The Duchy’s main activity is the management of land and properties which make up its estate, providing an income for the present and future Dukes of Cornwall.
Its portfolio is made up of 131,000 acres of land, properties spread across 24 counties and more than 3,500 individual lettings.
All together over the last financial year it generated £28.8m and the Prince received an income of £19m, up 4% on the previous year.’
http://news.sky.com/story/1163994/duchy-of-cornwall-not-advantaged-by-tax-break
Israel to drill for oil in the West Bank
A large reserve may lie under Israel and the occupied territories, but Palestinians are unlikely to reap the benefits.
Jonathan Cook
2 Nov 2013
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/11/israel-drill-oil-west-bank-201311114571416794.html
Note how the positioning of the ‘wall’ has been conveniently relocated.
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From the same website.
Israel MPs mull Jewish prayer at al-Aqsa site
Arab-Israeli MPs ejected from parliamentary meeting on plan to allow Jews to pray at holy site in East Jerusalem.
04 Nov 2013
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/11/israel-mps-mull-jewish-prayer-at-al-aqsa-site-201311413318362256.html
Even the chief rabbinate is opposed to Jewish prayer in the compound.
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Palestinians risking their lives for a job
West Bankers trying to find work in Israel face prison, injury, and even death.
4 Nov 2013 06:26
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/10/palestinians-risking-their-lives-job-2013102891726114420.html
So desperate for work, they ‘enter’ illegally.
@ Jemand,
Are you a marksman?
@ Mary,
Exposing the “Nazi” Epithet – Who started it, why, how, and who benefits.
Excerpt: “As a German child growing up in a foreign country during the 60s, I was often called a “Nazi” by some of my peers when they learned that I was German. It was of course, simply ignorant repetition or “parroting” of what was said on TV in hundreds of TV shows, Hollywood movies, alleged ‘documentaries’, in newspaper and magazine articles, as well as in radio programs, not to mention classroom indoctrination, and probably by their parents too…”
Brian. 11 34pm yesterday.
Thanks for posting the list of of the remorseless destruction of Palestinians, their livelihoods and their ancient olive trees for just September and October.
Can you imagine any other group experiencing such brutality for a week, let alone sixty five years, without the international community closing ranks and insisting on a just and civilised solution?
Isn’t it a measure of the success to date of the Holocaust Industry that all this happens largely unseen and those who seek to draw attention to the criminality of the Israeli state are labelled as “self-hating Jews or antisemites.
On this issue alone it’s just as well that support from an economically and morally bankrupt US is faltering.
When all those bombs and dollars dry up and the global majority insists on the rule of international law maybe then we’ll see an opportunity for genuine peace and reconciliation.
A good dentist takes an interest in his patient.
https://cheezburger.com/5733465344
Dad!
Of course you are right that the left does hypocrisy too.
But when it comes to swivel-eyed, frothing madness you’ll have to admit the US right shares a special talent with the Zionists.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/bolton-israel-must-make-fateful-decision-on-iran-hit/
Fujisan
“Good to see you have some interest in these crimes mr H
Dunno about 67 – mists of foggy woggy-ness…say a few thousand, they were just getting started after all
Last year it was 7,777 and 3 Branches EXACTLY
year before that it was 5,555 olive trees EXACTLY”
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Are you unable to read?
You had mentioned that 800.000 olive trees had been destroyed in the OTs since 1967.
In order to see this question in the round, my question was: how many olive trees were there IN TOTAL in 1967 and how many olive trees there still are, IN TOTAL, today.
You appear to have given us the number of olive trees destroyed in 2011 and 2012.
Hence you have not answered the question.
Mary
“I trust that there will not be a repeat of the lies, slander and insults from Habbabkuk this morning”
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No lies, no slander and no insults.
However, if YOU accuse ME of impersonating you on this blog (which you did at 16h01 yesterday), then I will accuse YOU of being the “Flaming June” poster on the Stormfront website and of also posting as “Macky”.
It’s called sauce for the gander, I believe.
Daniel Rich
I note that you’ve repeated the numbers for the people killed at Auschwitz, as you have your comment about the 2.5 million you characterise as “un-exterminated”.
Any comments on the 1.950.000 people (mainly Jews) exterminated at Sobibor, Belzec, Chelmo and Treblinka?
Dad!
You know what Dr Frobisher said about not getting too excited.
Just because Mary’s under the dentist’s anaesthetic doesn’t give you an advantage. You need to know your limitations.
Now just take my hand and we’ll have you back in front of a nice warm fire before you do anything else silly.
‘Now just take my hand and we’ll have you back in front of a nice warm fire before you do anything else silly.’
Exactly what you said….
ibid.
Jews “disgusted by Israel’s plans for its own citizens”
http://jfjfp.com/