Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Obama Administration Sought to Shield NSA Surveillance Law From Court Review In 2012, the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a legal challenge to one of the most expansive surveillance statutes in American history — the FISA Amendments Act of...
Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
CISPA: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act Explained In April 2012, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), formally designated H.R. 3523, advanced through the U.S. Congress amid fierce debate over digital privacy and national...
Apr 26, 2012 | WAR: By Design
Pentagon Pushes for Military Operatives Under Commercial Cover The Pentagon submitted a formal proposal to Congress seeking expanded legal authority that would allow U.S. military personnel to operate overseas under the guise of civilian business activities. The...
Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News, Video
Senate Bill 1813 and Its Hidden Implications for Gun Owners In 2012, the U.S. Senate passed Bill 1813, officially titled the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act.” While ostensibly a transportation bill, analysts who examined its 1,676 pages...
Apr 25, 2012 | Events & Assassinations
Throughout history, individuals who possessed critical firsthand knowledge of significant events have met untimely and suspicious ends. Whether they were eyewitnesses to assassinations, insiders within government intelligence programs, or journalists exposing...
Apr 25, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step closer to becoming law. Senate Bill 1813 was introduced back in...
Apr 25, 2012 | Government Agenda, Leaks
The FBI and Department of Justice produced a series of 25 flyers under the “Communities Against Terrorism” initiative, designed to be distributed to businesses across a wide range of industries. These documents instructed employees and business owners on...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power
The Private Prison Industry in the United States The American prison system has long functioned as a profit-driven enterprise. Private corporations operate over 200 correctional facilities across the country, and many of these companies are publicly traded on the New...
Apr 24, 2012 | Events & Assassinations
Did individuals with advance knowledge of the September 11, 2001 attacks exploit financial markets for profit? An investigation into put option trading, surveillance software, and the paper trail that regulators chose not to follow. PROMIS Software: The Intelligence...
Apr 24, 2012 | Black Technology, Government Agenda
The NSA’s Massive Expansion After 9/11 In a period of extraordinary growth, the National Security Agency embarked on a construction spree that reshaped the American intelligence landscape. NSA Director General Keith Alexander traveled the country inaugurating...
Apr 24, 2012 | Events & Assassinations, News
The Kandahar Massacre: Official Narrative vs. Afghan Eyewitness Accounts The question is as old as American military controversies themselves: was a horrific act of violence the work of a single disturbed individual, or were there accomplices who have never been...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Government Agenda
A Filmmaker Detained Dozens of Times at U.S. Borders Laura Poitras, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose work examined the consequences of the War on Terror, was subjected to systematic harassment by the Department of Homeland Security every time she returned to...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
In the spring of 2012, Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) rolled out a sweeping Invasive Species Order (ISO) that effectively reclassified heritage-breed pigs — the same animals small family farms had raised for generations — as illegal...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
How Law Enforcement Bypassed iPhone Passcodes A four-digit iPhone passcode might deter a casual snoop, but in 2012, law enforcement agencies had access to commercial tools that could crack that security in remarkably little time. A Swedish firm called Micro...
Apr 24, 2012 | News, Video, WAR: By Design
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWItcSRrM8 “We want the Syrian Army to come into Homs.” “We want the Syrian Army posted on the roofs of the houses, with helicopters and tanks.” “Stop these snipers from killing us.” ~ The Residents...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Globalist Corporations
H.R. 3523 – Letters of Support AT&T Boeing BSA Business Roundtable CSC COMPTEL CTIA – The Wireless Association Cyber, Space & Intelligence Association Edison Electric EMC Exelon Facebook The Financial Services Roundtable IBM Independent Telephone...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Executive Order on National Defense Resources Preparedness: What It Actually Claims In March 2012, President Obama signed an Executive Order titled “National Defense Resources Preparedness” that significantly expanded the claimed scope of executive...
Apr 16, 2012 | Events & Assassinations
The Mysterious Death of a Visionary Inventor Nikola Tesla stands among the most extraordinary minds in human history. Widely regarded by modern scholars as “the father of physics,” “the man who invented the twentieth century,” and “the...
Apr 16, 2012 | WAR: By Design
The push for military confrontation with Iran has been a recurring theme in Western foreign policy for decades. Yet a closer examination of historical context, intelligence assessments, and geopolitical realities reveals a far more complex picture than the one...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Arizona HB 2549: Criminalizing Online Speech In 2012, the Arizona legislature passed House Bill 2549, a measure that would have expanded the state’s existing telephone harassment statute to cover the internet and all electronic communications. The bill’s...
Apr 16, 2012 | Black Technology, Government Agenda, News
Could the NSA Already Defeat Modern Encryption? For roughly two decades, one question has loomed over the digital security landscape: does the National Security Agency possess the ability to crack widely used encryption standards such as PGP? While classified programs...
Apr 16, 2012 | Government Agenda, Video
http://youtu.be/5ED63A_hcd0 This is an old clip showing admittance of the CIA that they use the mainstream media to manipulate the thoughts and ideas of American citizens in the USA. This has not changed obviously and is good to know happened in the past due to our...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Video, WAR: By Design
In April 2012, Harper’s Magazine published “The Warrior Class,” a feature by journalist Charles Glass examining the rapid expansion of private military contractors in the years following the September 11 attacks. The centerpiece of the article was a...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, known as CISPA, rapidly emerged as the internet’s most controversial proposed law following the defeat of SOPA. Critics warned it posed severe threats to online privacy and civil liberties under the guise of...
Apr 16, 2012 | Government Agenda, News
Buried within the sprawling bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security sits a paramilitary force most Americans have never heard of. The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Response Team operates armored vehicles, trains with military-grade weapons,...
