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Paranoia strikes deep - In David Cameron's Orwellian Britain They Now Snoop on Seaside Postcards

Richard Cottrell
TheIntelHub.com
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:53 UTC
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A country crosses the Rubicon to a full blown totalitarian state when its agents decide to read the contents of seaside post cards.

In the future anyone sending the traditional vacation greeting 'wish you were here' to family and friends through the UK's Royal Mail will do so in the knowledge that faceless clerks working for the intelligence services will try to decipher exactly what 'having a lovely time' really means.

A lovely time making bombs perhaps? Is 'the sea is a bit cold for the time of the year' some kind of code to transmit concealed instructions to a cell of fiendish plotters?

God forbid that anyone should send love and kisses from anywhere east of Sussex and sign off 'Mohammed.' That will be quite sufficient to earn a 4 a.m. wake up call from Scotland Yard's finest.

Nor is it just about plain old postcards by any means. A new bill crawling through parliament conveys the power to read inscriptions written on the outside of envelopes.

There used to be a very famous message popular with service personnel posted around the empire, who were inclined to inscribe BURMA on the back of coming home letters addressed to wives and girl friends. Decoded, it read: Be Undressed and Ready My Angel.

Lord knows what the censors might make of that in these days of synthetic paranoia manufactured by the denizens of law and order and the security-obsessed guards of the state.
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Google Bans Sales of Constitutionally Protected "Guns, Ammunition and Knives"?


ijreview.com
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:41 UTC
In a letter hosted on Guns and Ammo, Google has informed some of their merchants they will no longer allow the sale of products associated with guns, ammunition, and knives.
Weapons

As highlighted on our new policy page , in order to comply with the Google Shopping policies you need to comply first with the AdWords policies.

We do not allow the promotion or sale of weapons and any related products such as ammunition's or accessory kits on Google Shopping.

In order to comply with our new policies, please remove any weapon-related products from your data feed and then re-submit your feed in the Merchant Center. For more information on this policy please visit here."
In the letter, Google lists four principles by which they govern Google Shopping.

1) Google Shopping should provide a positive experience to users.

- If someone can't find a product that is perfectly legal to purchase, how is this a positive experience? Clearly they do not want criminals purchasing weapons and ammunition for malicious reasons - as Guns and Ammo puts it, "But what about law-abiding, responsible gun owners?"

2) Google Shopping should be safe for all users.

- This point in Google's letter is referring to the virtual safety of its users. This point states "Scams, phishing, viruses, and other malicious activities on the Internet damage the value of the Internet for everyone." Nothing here implies they are worried about the physical safety of customers. Guns and Ammo points out "it's still OK to shop for kitchen knives, which work just the same on people as they do on veggies."
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Blackbox

Department of Homeland Security 'Enforcement Training Center' Puts in Order for More Ammo

Alex Thomas
TheIntelHub.com
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:48 UTC
Over the last month we have reported on the numerous and increasingly alarming purchases of hollow point ammuntion by the Department of Homeland Security.

While many have claimed that it is completely normal for domestic government agencies to order over 750 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow point ammo, the fact remains that these purchases have been anything but normal and signal a full scale militarization of various government agencies that could one day take on the American people.

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Now, a new post on the infamous FBO.gov website by Homeland Security is once against raising eyebrows.

In the request, the Combined Synopsis/Solicitation shows that the following ammunition is set to be delivered in May.
Item No . Description Qty Unit

001 .22 long rifle, 36 grains hollow point (HP) 5 TH
002 .308 175 grains match boat tail hollow point (BTHP) 1000 EA
003 .45 ACP 230 grains jacketed hollow point (JHP) 500 EA
004 .45 Colt / Long Colt, 25 grains lead 100 EA
005 .300 AAC black out, 125 grains open tip match 250 EA
006 .44 mangnum, 240 grains jacketed soft point 100 EA
007 .44 special, 240 grains lead flat nose 100 EA
008 .22 magnum, 40 grains jacketed hollow point 400 EA
009 .30-30 winchester, 150 grains soft point 100 EA
010 12 GA, # 8 bird shot 400 EA
011 .30-06, 168 grains match 500 EA
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MIB

Three Former NSA Employees Expose 'Mass Illegal Surveillance' in Court

Madison Ruppert
TheIntelhub.com
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:37 UTC
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The National Security Agency (NSA), which has recently been protected from having to disclose their relationship with the search engine giant and data mining powerhouse Google, is back in court over the case Jewel v. NSA.

The case, which was reinstated by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in late 2011, is challenging the NSA's now well known massive warrantless surveillance program.

This case is more important than ever with the NSA pouring a whopping $2 billion into a heavily fortified data center which will almost certainly be used to monitor the communications of Americans.

The National Counterterrorism Center's new guidelines allowing extended data retention make matters even worse, if you can imagine such a thing.

Three former employees of the NSA, William E. Binney, Thomas A. Drake, and J. Kirk Wiebe, have come forward with evidence to back up a case being valiantly fought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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Canada will pay failed refugee claimants up to $2,000 to go home

Steve Mertl
Daily Brew
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:06 UTC
Call it a parting gift, or maybe a bribe. Refugees claimants who failed in their claims for asylum in Canada are being given up to $2,000 and a one-way plane ticket home if they leave voluntarily, the Toronto Star reports. A pilot program being run in the Greater Toronto area is being greeted with some approval by lawyers who work with refugee claimants but some say the money is little more than bribe, and a puny one at that, to get claimants to forego further appeals.

The Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration pilot program, launched last week, is run jointly by the Canada Border Services Agency and the International Organization for Migration. "Currently, many failed refugee claimants do not respect their obligation to leave Canada, which leads to deportation, costly enforced removals by the CBSA and a permanent bar on returning to Canada," the agency says on its web site.

"Often this happens because people are unaware of the consequences of failing to comply with removal orders or simply do not have the means to leave or to support themselves when they return to their home countries." The CBSA says the program could achieve up to 6,955 voluntary returns, allowing its enforcement officers to focus on higher-priority cases, such as catching suspected war criminals and foreign crooks.

"It's a win-win situation," Peter Showler, a law professor at the University of Ottawa told the Star. Failed applicants retain their ability to reapply to come back to Canada and get some money to re-establish themselves, while the government gets prompt, trouble-free removal, he said.
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Cult

Scientology's Shocking Treatment of Children Held in a Suburban Sydney Labor Camp

Tony Ortega
The Village Voice
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:46 UTC

Shocking news this morning from journalist Bryan Seymour in Australia. In a story for the program TodayTonight that took him more than a year to put together, Seymour blows the lid off a re-education camp operated by Scientology in a suburb of Sydney, where children as young as eight years old have worked long hours for no pay. One of those kids, Shane Kelsey, now 21, finally left the camp last year, and Seymour was there to film Shane's reunion with his father, who now feels horrible guilt for leaving the boy in the camp to begin with. At only 8 years old, Shane signed a billion-year contract with Scientology's Sea Organization and was working 35 hours a week -- by the time he was 15, he was working 100 hours, for about $35 a week.

In a statement, Scientology made its standard claim that its "Rehabilitation Project Force" (which Shane experienced at 16) is a voluntary program, and is intended for Sea Org members who "commit serious breaches of ecclesiastical rules."

Let that sink in a minute. A prison-like camp for members who break ecclesiastical rules -- while only 16 years old.
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Cult

BBC Panorama: The Secrets of Scientology


BBC
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:28 UTC
Reporter John Sweeney's previous investigation into the Church of Scientology resulted in an explosive confrontation with church officials. This time, in a Panorama Special, one of those officials has turned whistleblower to help him reveal the dark secrets of the church, which boasts Hollywood A-listers Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its devotees.


Comment: To understand the dark origins of this cult that is run like an intelligence agency, watch this:



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Footprints

Tough sentences in Argentina stolen babies case

Josefa Suarez
AFP
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:29 UTC
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Two former Argentine dictators are handed heavy prison sentences for overseeing the systematic kidnapping of babies from leftist activists killed during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Two former Argentine dictators were handed heavy prison sentences for overseeing the systematic kidnapping of babies from leftist activists killed during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

Jorge Videla, 86, was sentenced to 50 years in prison and Reynaldo Bignone, 84, was given a 15-year jail term, presiding judge Maria Roqueta said as she read the ruling before a packed courtroom in Buenos Aires.

Hundreds of people -- relatives of the victims, children reunited with their families and activists -- cheered the ruling, which they watched on a giant television screen set up outside the courthouse. Many were in tears.

Several other former military officers were handed sentences of up to 40 years for their roles in a "systematic plan" to kidnap the babies of activists, in a trial that started in February 2011. Two of 11 defendants were acquitted.
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Pirates

Mexico's So-Called Elections Described as Biggest Operation of Vote-Buying and Coercion in the Country's History

F. Brinley Bruton and news services
MSNBC
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:03 UTC
Mexico elections
© Claudia Daut / Reuters
An electoral worker carries a sealed ballot box for a recount of votes at a district office of the Federal Electoral Institute in Mexico City on Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's next president denied that his party had been involved in any form of intimidation during his party's campaign, in the wake of allegations by at least one observer that Sunday's elections were "perhaps the biggest operation of vote-buying and coercion in the country's history."

"I am totally, totally certain that the party acted within the law," Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, told a journalist from BBC News on Wednesday.

Leftist runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has refused to concede and demanded a new tally, alleging vote-buying and coercion by the PRI, whose seven decades of rule until it lost power in 2000 were marked by widespread allegations of vote-rigging.

Comment: It is sad that the elite thinks so little of the people that they are willing to buy their voting rights for 20 silver coins. Even sadder that some are willing to sell them, and thus sell their country - their family, their friends and all they supposedly value - to psychopaths. Can there be any hope for the human race if they give in so easily?

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Magic Hat

Propaganda Alert! Six arrested in London in MI5 effort to hype 'Olympic terror threat'

Vikram Dodd, Sandra Laville and Nick Hopkins
The Guardian
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 01:37 UTC
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Aftermath of the London Bombings: "We need to remind them WHY THEY NEED US!"
Three brothers from Stratford - home to the Olympic Games - have been arrested in a pre-planned counter-terrorism operation.

The three were among six individuals - including one woman - whom investigators arrested on Thursday. The group is understood to have included a former police and community support officer for the Metropolitan police, but Scotland Yard would not confirm that detail.

The raids were carried out by counter-terrorism officers investigating a suspected plot to attack targets in Britain. Although police said they were not linked to any threat to the Olympics, officials say they will intervene quicker than usual in disrupting suspected plots in the runup to the event, which counter-terrorism forces fear is a major target.
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