Scott Morgan
StopTheDrugWar

If anyone needs another reminder that the adrenaline-addicted anti-drug armies we've unleashed in our own communities are more dangerous than any drug on the planet, well, get a load of this...

Online voting for Human Rights Hero 2011 closed one month early, and result censored, after Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi took clear lead

Obama czar proposed government should ‘infiltrate’ social network sites, chat rooms, message boards.

Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) launched an investigation in response to a lawsuit filed by six FDA whistleblowers and documents released by the National Whistleblowers Center that show the FDA targeted whistleblowers for special monitoring and intercepted personal communications to Congress, including emails to Senator Grassley's staff...

"I found many accounts through which hundreds of thousands of dollars were being flowed as a conduit on a monthly basis,"

trailer from The National Film Board of Canada’s Pink Ribbons

The United Nations says that the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the problem. In a shocking new report entitled, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing" the UN declares that the entire way that we currently approach economics needs to be changed. Instead of focusing on things like "economic growth", the UN is encouraging nations all over the world to start basing measurements of economic success on the goal of achieving "sustainable development". But there is a huge problem with that. The UN says that what we are doing right now is "unsustainable" by definition, and the major industrialized nations of the western world are the biggest culprits.

Early Friday afternoon, members of the loose-knit online collective Anonymous began circulating news that the website for Puckett and Faraj, the high-profile attorneys that represented Sgt. Frank Wuterich in his recent trial, had been hacked. Wuterich admitted to leading Marines into two civilian homes in Haditha, Iraq in 2005, massacring 24 civilians including women, children and an elderly man confined to a wheelchair.

In response, hacktivists with Anonymous have uncovered gigabytes worth of correspondence from Sgt. Wuterich’s attorneys and affiliated parties.

This guest essay on derivatives was written by frequent contributor Zeus Yiamouyiannis.

Here is how the counterfeit value derivative con works. It’s a game of “I pretend, you pretend, we all pretend, and the taxpayer will pay in the end”.

1) I’ll create an instrument, say a credit default swap (CDS), an unregulated insurance with no capital requirements, with a certain “notional” value. Notional value is just something I assign. It does not have to be attached to or backed by any real asset or actual money/principal, but I can pretend as if it is. (Notional amount.)

I did an hour of radio this morning with Clay Douglas, Free America Radio. We were cut off. Surprise.

Allen Rolland was the guest on Mike Harris’ radio show today, Republic Broadcasting. They were cut off. Same thing with John Stokes on Orion.

Lee Wanta, whistleblowing former White House Intelligence Coordinator had his phones cut.

Real news today is that we just quit the war in Afghanistan with no notice at all. We cut combat operations to nothing, and are moving to the exits in total violation of our stated policies.

Call it a reelection ploy or a promise kept but it was a bad war, an illegal war, a lost war, a drug war and I don’t want one more life lost in Afghanistan.

The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, seeks “a declaration that the alleged practices violate the law, as well as injunctive relief, damages for harmed homeowners, and civil penalties” — which could be a very big bill indeed for the plaintiffs.

Sayer Ji, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

The scientific literature indicates that there are at least two dozen adverse health effects linked to exposure to mineral oil, a crude oil derivative. New research indicates these fat-soluble hydrocarbons are accumulating to disturbing levels in our bodies, and affecting newborns by contaminating breast milk...

The UPI published a story ‘Monsanto to Pull GM Operation from Britain’ was removed from the UPI website.

We were able to locate the UPI story on another website (dated February 3, 2012), which says that Monsanto is leaving Britain due to opposition against GMO crops and that it is selling off its crop-breeding centers in France, Germany and the Czech Republic.

The UPI story may have been based on an article published by the Daily Mail in 2003 that states only the GMO wheat growing operations would be closing in the UK, France, Germany and the Czech Republic, citing government research about contamination concerns. As NaturalNews reported, the Daily Mail was actually displaying the published date as February 2, 2012:

That's all there is.....

By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON, Feb 1, 2012 (IPS) – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to accounts from well-placed senior military officers.

Dempsey’s warning, conveyed to both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, represents the strongest move yet by President Barack Obama to deter an Israeli attack and ensure that the United States is not caught up in a regional conflagration with Iran.

Quotes from the founder of planned parenthood herself Margaret Sanger. After reading these tell me again that planned parenthood isn’t a eugenics based organization filled with people who are truly racist and inhuman to the core.

Uri Avnery… you are not a peace activist. You do not represent solidarity. You are not a friend of Palestine. You are not a comrade of the oppressed anywhere and you never will be. You are an occupier, Uri Avnery. You are a land thief. You are a usurper. You are a colonist. You are a settler. You are an ethnic cleanser.

Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Late last year I reported on how the Department of Justice refused to reveal the legal justification for the United States’ highly secretive drone-based targeted killing program in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the New York Times.

After that failed attempt, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has stepped up to the plate in an effort to get the Obama administration to actually live up to their promises of transparency.

However, the government continues to nonsensically claim that the program is indeed so incredibly secret that they cannot even confirm or deny the existence of the program itself...

Today on Off the Grid Radio, Bill Heid interviews Austin Green and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof, part of the team that has produced an explosive new video, A Noble Lie. This film is an effort to bring to light the truth behind the April 19th, 1995 attack against the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City that killed 168 men, women, and children.

Our guests on today’s show tell us that for every white operation, there is a black operation that goes on as well. What was our intelligence community trying to do when it was keeping Timothy McVeigh under surveillance, when it was providing him the material to destroy a federal building? What is the truth behind the deaths of first responders and whistleblowers?

Listen here: http://www.offthegridnews.com/2012/02/03/a-noble-lie-with-austin-green...

Noble Lie trailer:

A Noble Lie is the culmination of years of field research, interviews and investigative reporting conducted by independent journalists and ordinary citizens in their quest to find the truth. At times risking their lives and their sanity, the evidence they have uncovered threatens to blow the lid off of the official story of the bombing.

Utilizing unseen-before footage and explosive eyewitness testimony, A Noble Lie will change forever the way you look at the face of terrorism.

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post

McDonald’s has recently caved to consumer demands to cease the utilization of ‘pink slime’ scrap meat covered with ammonium hydroxide in their hamburgers and chicken sandwiches.

Evidence continues to mount that, rather than simply pursuing commercial interests with then Defence Secretary Liam Fox, Adam Werritty was involved centrally in working with the British and Israeli intelligence services to try to engineer war against Iran. His official contact in all this was Matthew Gould, now British Ambassador to Israel.

This video starts with familiar Ron Paul footage and you may think you have seen it before but probably not just continue. Also the graphic at 8:05 is perfect.

We've heard this crap before.

The Bilderberg Crime Network will fail to extricate themselves from the coming Depression. Hyperinflation and Austerity will not do it. A war will not save them in the next 16 months before the dollar crashes. And a plague will only enrage a people who have been robbed and lied to all their lives.

We will win. And they will lose.

Boston Herald struggles to defend against Defamation case after losing on Summary Judgment. They are going to trial folks after lying and saying a woman had sex with an inmate and snuck into prison with State Rep Gloria Fox. The women were there to report on abuses within the prison, and the Herald is all buddy-buddy with the prison folks so they had to try to put her down. Thing is, the victim/survivor is like a magna cum laude college grad and her father is an attorney. I met her on a talk show I was co-hosting a couple years ago and helped her present her case to her attorneys, who took it on pro bono/contingency.

The IMEU shares the following op-ed from the University of Pennsylvania’s school newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, as well as a link to today’s press briefing with Ali Abunimah and Anna Baltzer who discuss the first-ever national BDS Conference, which will bring together supporters of the movement this weekend at UPenn. The op-ed, written by UPenn graduate Max Blumenthal, is in response to Alan Dershowitz’s scheduled visit to the campus which aims to counter the UPenn BDS Conference. This is the first media result of the IMEU’s newly launched outreach to student groups on campuses across the country.

Michael Brown — Communications Director, IMEU

NaturalNews) A massive victory against Monsanto and genetically engineered seeds has been achieved in the United Kingdom today. Monsanto has announced a total withdrawal from the UK, shuttering its Cambridge-based wheat production operation. UK newspaper Daily Mail was instrumental in promoting opposition against Monsanto through its "Frankenstein Foods" educational campaign (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-199884/GM-giant-quits-Britain...).

The paper is now reporting that Monsanto plans to sell off GMO crop-breeding centers in France, Germany and the Czech Republic. Daily Mail reported, "...the company has given up hopes of introducing GM crops to Europe." (Are you grinning as wide as I am right now?)

Rady Ananda
Activist Post

If Washington State’s GMO-label bills, HB 2637 and SB 6298 don’t get voted out of committee by Friday at 5 pm, they’re dead, which is exactly what Monsanto-funded legislators on both the House and Senate Ag committees want...

Few can define fascism. Many cannot recognize it. History provides shocking stories of its past episodes. But its root structural feature is the tight relationship between the state and large corporations of a nation, which permit enormous fraud and lead to grand inefficiency, even while aggression and war accompany its handiwork in an ugly fabric weave. Nowhere is the bond more scummy and corrupt than with the banking industry, not in general but in Wall Street where defense of the USDollar has come. That defense was contracted from the USGovt to Wall Street, whose ties developed into a vast network of corruption. That cozy relationship led to the gutting of Fort Knox and its gold bullion in the 1990 decade of so-called prosperity.

Sometimes the most vicious thing you can do to the OPD is to not use violence, give them enough rope to hang themselves.
Remember, if they attack us, it only helps us, unless we attack them, then all people see of us is violence, our message is crushed.

Not all strategies are equal, and it’s not enough to just look at how justified you think it is, there are also overarching consequences which should not be ignored.
Throwing bottles at officers only makes their show of excessive force look justified and damages the footage, they’re well protected by riot gear you aren’t hurting them, but doing that does hurt the protesters next to you.

Washington continues to push a vision of a world from which Iran has been radically disconnected. State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland is typical in saying recently, "Iran can remain in international isolation." As it happens, though, she needs to get her facts straight.

"Isolated" Iran has $4 billion in joint projects with Venezuela including, crucially, a bank (as with Ecuador, it has dozens of planned projects from building power plants to, once again, banking). That has led the Israel-first crowd in Washington to vociferously demand that sanctions be slapped on Venezuela. Only problem: how would the US pay for its crucial Venezuelan oil imports then?

Much was made in the US press of the fact that Ahmadinejad did not visit Brazil on this jaunt through Latin America, but diplomatically Tehran and Brasilia remain in sync. When it comes to the nuclear dossier in particular, Brazil's history leaves its leaders sympathetic.

The Engineering of “Pandemics"

Connect the dots; the constant aerial aerosol bombardment of Chemtrails, the continued fluoridation of our water and acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods has pacified Americans to the extent that they willingly submit to the dictates of the corporate state, to the disintegration of their liberties and to the inevitability of a New World Corporate Order where the only choice is the sedating blue pill of public apathy

The numbing out of America through the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat can only be clearly seen when we seek the red pill of the truth and let go of our addiction to the sedating blue pill of apathy and unquestioned conformity.

Last September, Dana announced that the autopsy report showed O'Loughlin was the victim of a homicide. He said the report showed O'Loughlin sustained 12 separate injuries to his head, chest, abdomen and legs during his arrest, including the lacerated liver that caused him to bleed to death.

"In short, Ryan was beaten to death," Dana said at the time.

During the arrest, Dana said, O'Loughlin never assaulted any of the officers but only refused to put his hands behind his back. He said toxicology tests showed O'Loughlin had no drugs or alcohol in his system.

Paul Craig Roberts
Activist Post

If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government tells you with statistics, subscribe to John Williams shadowstats.com.

John Williams is the best and utterly truthful statistician that we the people have.

The charts that follow come from John Williams Hyperinflation Report, January 25, 2012. The commentary is supplied by me...

Sayer Ji, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Cell phones and the communications infrastructure that makes them possible are ubiquitous today, making complete avoidance of their radiation next to impossible. Plenty of evidence already exists which shows that cell phones emit a type of electromagnetic radiation -- in the microwave range -- capable of adversely affecting a wide range of organs, with the nervous system of those exposed perhaps most sensitive to its adverse effects. Below is a sampling of some of their adverse health effects as demonstrated in the biomedical literature...

Eric Blair
Activist Post

I've gotten to the point where I cringe whenever I hear the word 'war'. Even when it's used to seemingly combat something noble sounding such as the war on poverty or the war on hunger. It's become apparent that all wars cause damage no matter if it's a figurative war or an actual war. It's also obvious that when a war is declared on a social problem, the State is announcing a power grab which is going to result in less freedom...

Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas’s recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration’s public relations incompetence and argues: “If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and galvanize the whole movement into action against the corrupt political class, they will have to find leaders of a much higher calibre – and fast.”

In a failed attempt to appear unbiased and objective, the BBC now “reveals”, almost a year after the information was relayed by several alternative media, that British Special Forces played a key role in steering and supervising Libya's "freedom fighters" to victory. Known and documented many of these so-called rebels were mercenaries under contract to NATO.
British efforts to help topple Colonel Gaddafi were not limited to air strikes. On the ground - and on the quiet - special forces soldiers were blending in with rebel fighters:
This is the previously untold BBC account of the crucial role part played by British and Allied Special Forces in leading the insurrection largely integrated by Al Qaedas affiliated operatives:

A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. The document, part of a program called “Communities Against Terrorism”, lists the use of “anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address” as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious activity along with steganography, the practice of using “software to hide encrypted data in digital photos” or other media.

Britain condemned Israeli settlements as “deliberate vandalism”

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in London recently.

The British Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg today met the Palestinian Authority ‘President’ Mahmoud Abbas on his visit to London.

Cameron said that ‘time was running out’ for the two-state solution which was why the ‘settlement issue’, or ‘facts on the ground’, was so important. Clegg went further and condemned ‘continued settlement building in the strongest possible terms’ because

The passage of the Patriot Act in October 2001 is by now an all-too-familiar story. The American people, already suffering from the trauma of 9/11, were pushed into outright panic by the anthrax attacks, a series of anthrax-laced mailings that killed five, injured 17 and shut down Congress for the first time in modern history. The Act itself was introduced on a Tuesday and signed into law on Friday, before anyone had read let alone understood the sweeping changes it would introduce to American law.

Iran has apparently found a way to stay in business despite a new EU oil embargo and asset freeze. India is reportedly agreeing to pay Iran in gold for its oil, instead of US dollars. Reports suggest Iran's biggest customer, China, could follow suit. Christoph R. Horstel, a government consultant and political analyst in Potsdam, Germany says he thinks the EU embargo is doomed to fail.

Assange will be the Simpsons' new neighbour after the family leaves home and moves to a rugged and isolated area.

“Afghan civilians frequently prefer Taliban governance over GIRoA [the Afghan government], usually as a result of government corruption, ethnic bias and lack of connection with local religious and tribal leaders”.

That is a direct quote from a NATO report. This blog has been telling you for six years that the Afghan government rigged its elections, is enormously corrupt, full of warlords and deeply implicated in the heroin trade. That the “Afghan army” is a tribal construct based on the Northern Alliance, and channels weapons to warlords. That no development is really happening. That the government of Afghanistan is comprised of individuals who make money from war and have no interest in peace.

Alan Hart views an instance where, as a result either of pro-Zionist bias, Israeli pressure or cowardice, BBC television censored a report by one of its own correspondents, originally broadcast on BBC World Service radio, cutting out from an audio clip a passage in which a Tunisian Jew stated that it would be crazy of him to emigrate to Israel.

(NaturalNews) Mass vaccination is apparently not the only depopulation strategy being employed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as new research funded by the organization has developed a way to deliberately destroy sperm using ultrasound technology. BBC News reports that the Gates Foundation awarded a grant to researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) to develop this new method of contraception.

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

“The United States is waging a terroristic war against at least four nations,” but its president is somehow perceived as “cool.” Obama’s fans, the corporate media and, apparently, the commander-in-chief himself see no contradiction between coolness and international criminality. “Barack Obama has surpassed George Bush in lawlessness.” He’s “cool like Jesse James.”

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post

Farmers are taking a stand against Monsanto, launching a landmark lawsuit against the mega corporation for widespread genetic contamination.

The farmers are concerned that Monsanto’s aggressive agenda to genetically alter the planet will ultimately result in a severe threat to the organic integrity of farms worldwide...

Like millions of others, my wife and I have been enjoying the PBS Masterpiece series, "Downton Abbey."

Set in an English Manor House during World War One, the costume drama depicts the prevalent attitude to the war: that a man's virility and honor are measured by his willingness to sacrifice his life for his country.

There is no questioning the necessity of this war, or that it may be a sinister ruse.

In fact, the only character who is cynical about the war is the villain, Thomas, who engineers a minor injury to escape service.

Twitter just announced that it has set up the ability to block content on a country specific basis (e.g., if Germany demanded some content be taken down, Twitter can now just have that content blocked in Germany). I know some people saw this and got upset about "censorship!" but looking at the details, it actually looks like Twitter is doing a smart thing here. You could argue that the proper response would be to stand up to local governments and say, "sorry, we don't block anything" -- and I'd actually have sympathy with that response. But the truth is that if a government is demanding censorship, then Twitter is likely going to have to comply or face complete blocking.

The information in the report comes from interrogations of 4000 arrested Taliban fighters and terrorists. It states that the fighters are often hiding out in areas where NATO soldiers are stationed. As soon as they leave, the Taliban take over, assisted by the Afghan army and police.
According to the report the Taliban are convinced that after the departure of the US-led international force in Afghanistan they will come back to power again.

Active support:
According to the NATO report the influence of the Taliban grows in areas when soldiers of the NATO peacekeeping force ISAF leave. Then, Afghan security forces make no effort to stop the Taliban. In some cases, the Taliban have the active support of the Afghan army and police, the report said.

When America beats the drums of war over Iran it may not always be driven by the Islamic state's nuclear intentions. Would-be US presidential candidates aren't shy when it comes to voicing their anti-Iran rhetoric in front of America's influential Jewish community.

Listen to this five minute video. I guess being an "existential threat to Israel" as allegedly Iran is based on the opinion of the editor of an American Zionist newspaper and Mitt Romney is sufficient to be nuked by US and Israel.

Why is it that Israel can have over 200 nuclear weapons but Iran cannot have one. When will people wake up to the outrageously inordinate influence that Israel has over US foreign policy. if we do not wake up soon, we will be involved in world war three.

Desperate for war, US prepares to blame Iran for false flag attack.
by Tony Cartalucci

Cassandra Anderson
Natural Society

The industry-controlled EPA promised to release its dioxin hazard reassessment report, but blew its own deadline – again. Amazingly, the original dioxin toxicity report was due out in 1985...

P.A. Farruggio
Activist Post

Ok, Barack, from one Brooklyn boy to one Chicago boy, let’s talk straight and pull no punches. I don’t care how nice of a guy you may be, or how intelligent and articulate… ya blew it kiddo! Just like with your predecessors, especially Clinton and Junior Bush, you simply are a stooge of the wizards who control this empire...

The recommendation is "unprecedented" but responsible, the members say

This two minute clip from South Park says it all.

*hyperlinks and NEW PuppetGov video live at source*

“Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to some deviation from justice…the rich, if the constitution gives them power, are apt to be insolent and avaricious… In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.” – Aristotle, Politics, Book V. 350 B.C.E.

The United States was the role model of the international community for decades and we truly stood for great values, morals and ethical conduct. Something has happened in our glorious nation, something awful. The people we elect aren't doing their jobs, they take 20 weeks off a year, blatantly and publicly waste the money we're required to give to them and they repeatedly with arbitrary power limit our rights as human beings, not just as US citizens. We're told from a young age that we are to comply with laws and respect authority, but where is the line drawn? The answer is anywhere.

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

If current events continue in their present direction, seven of the world’s largest and most influential tech companies may have to pay anywhere from 5% to 10% of the yearly earnings of tens of thousands of their employees. Not only that, but these payouts may have to be calculated all the way back to 2005...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD0eow8YW18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ9GncGaNLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjNLFQvDHxo

Desperate for war, US prepares to blame Iran for false flag attack.

Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post