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Thomas Drake – Intelligence, Leaker
Thomas Drake is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency, a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower.is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency, a decorated United States Air...
John Kiriakou – Intelligence, Leaker
John Kiriakou is a former CIA analyst and case officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News, blogger for Huffington Post, and author.former CIA analyst and case officer, former...
Jeremy Hammond – Hacker, Activst
Jeremy Hammond is a political activist and computer hacker from Chicago. He was convicted and sentenced in November 2013 to 10 years in US Federal Prison for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing the leaks through the whistleblowing website...
Chelsea “Bradley” Manning – Military, Humanitarian
Chelsea "Bradley" Manning Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is a United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after releasing the largest set of classified documents ever leaked to the public.Chelsea...
Julian Assange – Hacker, Activist
Julian Assange Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher and journalist. He is known as the editor-in-chief of the website WikiLeaks, which he co-founded in 2006 after an earlier career in hacking and programming.Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher and...
Edward Loomis – Intelligence, Leaker
Edward Loomis worked as an NSA cryptologist from 1964 to 2001. Prior to the 9/11 attacks, Loomis unsuccessfully lobbied the agency to adopt a sophisticated data-collection program -- nicknamed "ThinThread" -- to monitor foreign Internet traffic going through the...
Mehran Tavakoli Keshe – Science, Free Energy
Mehran Tavakoli Keshe is an Iranian-born (in 1958) nuclear engineer known for his research on plasma reactors and interests in free energy applications and for his claim that he pioneered a space technology that was, according to some, used by Iran and resulted in the...
Kenneth O’Keefe – Military, Humanitarian
Kenneth O’Keefe Kenneth Nichols O'Keefe is an Irish-Palestinian citizen and activist and former United States Marine and Gulf War veteran who attempted to renounce US citizenship in 2001.is an Irish-Palestinian citizen and activist and former United States Marine and...
Mordechai Vanunu aka John Crossman – Science, Nuclear
Mordechai Vanunu, also known as John Crossman, is a former Israeli nuclear technician who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.
Robert David Steele – Intelligence, Activst
Robert David Steele Vivas is an American activist and a former Central Intelligence Agency clandestine services case officer known for his promotion of open source intelligence.Vivas is an American activist and a former Central Intelligence Agency clandestine services...
Rob Schneider – Entertainer, Humanitarian
Rob Schneider Robert Michael Schneider Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist "I'm for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can't do with our kids...It's illegal...You can't make people do procedures that they don't...
Mos Def – Rapper, Activist
Mos Def Dante Terrell Smith Rapper, Actor, Activist “I don’t believe it was bin Laden today. I don’t believe it was ever him…I’m sorry, I’m from the projects, I know danger. I don’t feel danger from that sh*t…Highly-educated people in all areas of science have spoken...
Sharon Stone – Entertainer
Sharon Stone WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 "I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media"WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 "I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media"WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 "I...
Lupe Fiasco – Rapper, Activist
Lupe Fiasco Wasalu Muhammad Jaco Rapper, Producer, Entrepreneur, Activist "In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America...I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism....
Willie Nelson: Seven Decades of Music, Activism, and Speaking His Mind
A Legend Beyond Music Willie Hugh Nelson, born April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas, is one of the most recognized figures in American music history. With a career spanning more than seven decades, Nelson has produced an extensive catalog of music across country, folk,...
Robbie Williams – Entertainer
Robbie Williams Robert Peter Williams Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Activist "[I'm] mainly interested in conspiracy theories, and the hidden hand that's guiding everything! [I'm] fascinated by...all of this may be rubbish, or there may be something to it... I'm into the...
NAS – Rapper, Activist
NAS - Rapper Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones Rapper, Actor, Activist "Watch what you're watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching""Watch what...
Charlie Sheen – Entertainer, Activist
Charlie Sheen Carlos Irwin Estevez Actor, Activist "I am an American citizen that loves my country and as a citizen with my passion for this great country I demand that I be challenged on the [9/11 conspiracy] facts, not on immature behavior from twenty years...
Dwight Yoakam – Entertainer, Activist
Dwight David Yoakam Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Director, Activist "Sandy Hook was an anomalous horror...[but] guns aren't for hunting, they're used to protect yourself against tyranny...I don't trust the government...We're worried about tyranny from within.""Sandy...
Ice-T – Rapper, Entertainer
Tracy Marrow Rapper, Actor, Activist "I'll give up my guns when everybody else does...The right to bare arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny...not to hunt, it's to protect yourself from the police."Rapper, Actor, Activist "I'll give up my...
Richard Belzer – Entertainer, Investigator, Author
Richard Belzer Richard Jay Belzer has played the wise-head Munch on almost a dozen TV shows, ranging from “SVU” to such huge successes as “The X-Files,” “30 Rock,” “The Wire,” “Arrested Development” and even “Sesame Street.” That’s a record for any single fictional...
Janeane Garofalo – Entertainer, Activist
Janeane Garofalo Actress, Comedian, Author, Talk Show Host, Activist, Janeane Garofalo WeAreChangeSeattle 9/15/2008 "The 9/11 Commission did a pitiful job! There's no transparency, no accountability, and no responsibility! It's probably going to be 20 or 30 years...
Bruce Willis – Entertainer
Bruce Willis 'Walter Bruce Willis' Actor, Singer, Songwriter Bruce Willis Vanity Fair 5/5/07 "They still haven't caught the guy that killed [President] Kennedy...I'll get killed for saying this but I'm pretty sure those guys are still in power, in some form...The...
Alicia Keys – Entertainer, Activist
Alicia Keys aka 'Alicia Augello Cook' Singer, Musician, Actress, Activist Alicia Keys "'Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. `Gangsta rap' didn't exist" [prior to the 'elites' creating and promoting it for sinister purposes]. The bi...
Randy Quaid – Entertainer, Activist
Randy Quaid Actor, Comedian, Activist "Up until a year ago, Evi and I had never had any run-ins with the law, whatsoever. We are not criminals, nor are we fugitives from justice...nor are we crazy! We are simply artists and film makers who are being racketeered on! I...
Jesse Ventura – Military, Entertainer, Investigator
James George Janos Governor, Veteran, Actor, Author, Wrestler, Activist Jesse Ventura About.com 3/10/10 "I would say the biggest one to me was the killing of John F. Kennedy because of what happened after that. Imagine if you can kill the president and get away with...
Norman Finkelstein – Politics, Activist
Norman Finkelstein Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist, professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust.Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political...
Coral Castle
Coral Castle Coral Castle is a stone structure created by the Latvian-American eccentric and mysterious Edward Leedskalnin north of the city of Homestead, Florida in Miami-Dade County at the intersection of South Dixie Highway and SW 157th Avenue.Coral Castle is a...
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a mysterious and prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles west of Amesbury and 8 miles north of Salisbury. The stones lie atop a major intersection of magnetic 'ley lines' suggesting the builders had a highly scientific awareness...
Easter Island
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people.Easter Island is a...