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Activists airdrop flyers onto NSA base appealing to conscience of agents to quit their jobs

Carey Wedler
Anti Media
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC
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On Friday, a drone-like device dropped flyers over a key NSA intelligence facility that advised employees to quit their jobs on ethical grounds. The effort is the most recent attempt by privacy advocates to chip away at the power of the surveillance state using direct action campaigns.

Peng!, a tactical media and activist group, used a remote-controlled plane to drop flyers over a U.S. military base in Germany that serves as the NSA's European hub of signals intelligence known as the Dagger Complex. The flyers were designed by Intelexit, the specific campaign Peng! launched to encourage security agency employees to quit their jobs. A video posted to Youtube shows footage from the remote-controlled plane intercut with panoramic shots of the flying overhead.

Comment: In a career that is fraught with paranoia, secrecy, revolving doors, corruption, malfeasance, and law-breaking by any other description, dropping out and even whistle blowing requires an incredible amount of courage and fortitude. But it would probably do us well to remember that most many of the individuals who sign on to these jobs do so precisely because they fit in with the pathological culture of control, and lack the conscience to stand up to it to begin with.

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Eye 1

California mayor detained at airport by DHS, forced to give up electronics and passwords

Nathan Mattise
ars technica
Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:26 UTC
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Stockton, California Mayor Anthony R. Silva attended a recent mayor's conference in China, but his return trip took a bit longer than usual. At the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) this week, agents with the Department of Homeland Security detained Silva and confiscated his personal cell phone among other electronics. According to comments from the mayor, that may not even be the most alarming part.

"Unfortunately, they were not willing or able to produce a search warrant or any court documents suggesting they had a legal right to take my property," Silva told SFGate. "In addition, they were persistent about requiring my passwords for all devices."

The mayor's attorney, Mark Reichel, told SFGate that Silva was not allowed to leave the airport without forfeiting his passwords. Reichel was not present for Silva's interaction with the DHS agents, either. The mayor was told he had "no right for a lawyer to be present" and that being a US citizen did not "entitle me to rights that I probably thought," according to the paper.
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Sheriff

Donut shop employee writes Black Lives Matter on cop's coffee cup, sets off local media storm


RT
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:04 UTC
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A police officer in Providence, Rhode Island, received a coffee at Dunkin' Donuts with the message, "#blacklivesmatter" written on the cup, referring to the national movement highlighting police brutality towards people of color

An employee at Dunkin' Donuts on Atwells Avenue in Providence "was immediately rude, and didn't appear to want to serve him in Uniform," according to Providence police officer William O'Donnell, who wrote of the incident involving a fellow officer in a private Facebook post.

The incident occured on Friday. The local police union ‒ Providence Police Patrolman and Providence Fraternal Order of Police ‒ held an emergency meeting on Sunday, according to Boston.com, and released a statement "condemning the employee and the Black Lives Matter movement."

The statement went on: "Providence FOP #3 finds this action to be unacceptable and discouraging... The negativity displayed by the #Blacklivesmatter organization towards Police across this nation is creating a hostile environment that is not resolving any problems or issues, but making it worse for our communities."

Comment: This may not have been the most strategic action by a person concerned with police brutality, but it isn't hard to understand their motive:

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Alarm Clock

Understanding the sickness of the American psyche

Larry Malerba
Waking Times
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:54 UTC
There is a deep sickness beginning to take hold of the American psyche that threatens to undermine the already shaken stability of the lives of everyone in this country.

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It appears that America is coming apart at the seams. Routine school shootings, the reemergence of overt racism, anti-government paranoia on the rise, exaggerated threats of germs and terrorists lurking around every corner, government indifference to the hollowing out of the middle class, military tactics employed by officers of the peace—signs of societal disintegration are everywhere. And now we have witnessed the murder of two journalists on live TV and must endure the relentless exploitative media coverage that inevitably follows. While it is true that there always will be social unrest and all manner of cultural crises, the current state of affairs strikes many as beyond the ordinary—and I must cautiously cast my vote in agreement.

Is the sky falling? Maybe, maybe not, but there is a deep sickness beginning to take hold of the American psyche that threatens to undermine the principles that have long held the democratic experiment together. Although there are a variety of legitimate perspectives concerning this dilemma, I will propose my analysis of the psychiatric state of the American mind, an analysis that is largely colored by my vantage point as a holistic physician with a conventional medical educational background.

Comment: This very complex issue begins with each individual doing their best to take personal responsibility in seeing reality as it is. This starts with the very disturbing realization that there are those amongst us who don't think the way that we do or have the best interests of society at heart. Learning all we can about psychopathy and their antisocial tactics may help the general public to stop being at war with each other and understand who the real enemy is.

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Bandaid

The worst environmental disaster in American history only cost BP $21 billion?


Russian Times
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:28 UTC
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© © U.S. Coast Guard / ReutersFire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in this handout photograph taken on April 21, 2010.
The US government and BP have finalized a $20.8 billion deal to settle the energy giant's 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. BP plans to stretch its payment, described as the "biggest in US history," over 15 years.

"This resolution is strong and fitting," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. "BP is receiving the punishment it deserves while also providing critical compensation to the damage to the Gulf region."

The final agreement comes more than three months after the deal was first announced in July, but still needs to be approved by a federal court.

Comment: Mother of all gushers - BP Oil Disaster in Gulf of Mexico - A Timeline

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Book 2

Ridiculous hysteria: Ohio court upholds school suspension of black child accused of staring at white girl

Tom Boggioni
Raw Story
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 10:59 UTC
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An Ohio court has upheld the suspension of a 12-year-old black boy for staring at a white girl at school in what he called a "staring contest," Fox 19 is reporting.

The unidentified student was suspended from a private Catholic school, St. Gabriel Consolidated, in September of last year after school officials say he "intimidated" his classmate.

According to the boy, he and the girl were engaged in a staring contest and that she was giggling the whole time.

Court documents state that the girl said she "felt fearful," leading the school to suspend the boy despite the fact that he wrote an apology saying he meant no harm.

"I never knew she was scared because she was laughing," he wrote. "I understand I done the wrong thing that will never happen again. I will start to think before I do so I am not in this situation."

According to his parents, they filed suit to have the suspension removed from his record.

"The perception is he intimidated her," said his mother, Candice Tolbert. "My son stared at a girl who was engaged in a staring game. She giggled the entire time."

According to Tolbert, the same girl was involved in an incident at the school that was much worse, yet led to no repercussions.

"The same girl that accused my son of this act of perception of intimidation, aggressively poured milk on someone else's lunch. When she did that there was no penalties for that. She received nothing for that," she explained.


Comment: Pathocracy:
The first phase of macrosocial disease, i.e. social hysterization, is the opening through which pathocracy manifests. Such a period of societal spiritual crisis is associated with the exhausting of the ideational, moral, and religious values heretofore nourishing the society in question. Individuals and groups grow increasingly self-serving, and the links of moral duty and social networks loosen. People become concerned with trifling things, ignoring more important issues such as commitment to the future, or involvement in public matters.

The most characteristic feature of such a period is widespread hysteria, like that of the quarter century in Europe preceding WWI. "Happy" times of peace are necessarily dependant on social injustice, and children of the privileged class learn early to repress ideas that they and their families are benefiting from the injustice of others. Such unconscious defense mechanisms cause these individuals to disparage the values of those whose work they exploit. These processes lead to an hysterical state of inhibited logic and reasoning. This rigidity of thought then gets passed on to the next generation to an even greater degree.

The hysterical patterns finally get passed from the ruling class to the less privileged classes. This characteristic contempt for factual criticism, for normal thought patterns and nations, obviates the need for media censorship. A pathologically hypersensitive censor lives within each citizen. This has been repeatedly demonstrated by the American media in relation to the omissions and distortions of the Kean-Zelikow 911 Commission Report, the propaganda leading to the Iraq war, the death toll of Iraqi citizens, the reality in Palestine.

"When three "egos" govern - egoism, egotism, and egocentrism - the feeling of social links and responsibility toward others disappear, and the society in question splinters into groups ever more hostile to each other. When a hysterical environment stops differentiating the opinions of limited, not-quite-normal people from those of normal, reasonable persons, this opens the door for activation of the pathological factors of a various nature to enter in." (Lobaczewski, 17)


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Magnet

Migrant Germany: A state of siege and the mood is changing

Sue Reid
Daily Mail
Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:27 UTC
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© www.dailymail.co.ukRefugees queue at the compound outside the Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs as they wait for their registration in Berlin.
Merkel was cheered when she opened the floodgates to migrants. Now, with gangs of men roaming the streets and young German women being told to cover up, the mood's changing...
  • Thousands of economic migrants are posing as refugees to reach Europe
  • David Cameron said this week that Europe must send failed asylum claimants back to their countries
  • Demands for Germany's 'open doors and windows' policy to be scrapped
  • Women said rape and child abuse were rife in Giessen's refugee camp
On the busy shopping street in Giessen, a German university town twinned with Winchester, migrant Atif Zahoor tucks into a chicken dish with his brother and cousin at the curry restaurant Chillie To Go. They have left good jobs back in Karachi, Pakistan, and now want to be Europeans.

In late July the three slipped into Germany with their wives and children, using illegal documents. They live together in a five-bedroom house, rented for them by Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, a 40-minute drive away from Giessen, which is home to the biggest migrants' camp in the country. 'We paid a trafficking agent for false visas to fly here to Germany,' says 34-year-old Atif. 'We claimed asylum and came to Giessen camp with other migrants. Three weeks ago, because we had families, they gave us a proper home.'

Atif is well-dressed and speaks perfect English. He used to be a transport manager at Karachi airport and is from a well-to-do family. Between mouthfuls of curry, he adds: 'But there is violence between political gangs in Karachi. Lots of people are leaving for Europe. The trafficker decided that Germany was the place for us because it is welcoming refugees.'

Yet the raw truth is that Atif is not fleeing war or persecution. He is one of thousands of economic migrants getting into Germany as the EU's immigration crisis grows bigger each day.
This week, David Cameron said Europe must send failed asylum claimants back to their own countries, while European Council president Donald Tusk has warned that millions more migrants are on their way and 'the policy of open doors and windows' must be scrapped.
They are tough words, but it's action that is needed. As Jens Spahn, a deputy finance minister in Chancellor Merkel's government, said this week: 'Not everyone can stay in Germany, or in Europe. If people are coming for poverty reasons... we have to send them back.'

Comment: There will always be those who take advantage of a terrible situation for their own gain. On a micro level, it is the economic migrants pretending to be refugees to con the system. On a macro level, it is the US, Israel and NATO pretending to fight the war on terrorism they initiated and for which they are grossly responsible. It is a sad, sad day when the innocent have to pay with fear, violation and death for the iniquities, ideologies and pathological agendas of the few.

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Dollars

Feudal America: How student loan debt is turning us into serfs

Joshua Krause
The Daily Sheeple
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:01 UTC
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The Medieval era is well-known for being littered with feudal societies, ruled by royalty and served by serfs who kept the system running with back-breaking labor. Contrary to popular opinion though, the serfs weren't exactly what we would call 'slaves.' They definitely had more rights and opportunities than many of their ancestors from the Roman Empire, and they weren't owned by other people.

Instead, they were merely 'tied down.' They often didn't have the freedom to move about, not because there were walls and watch towers keeping them penned up, but because they were beholden to the land. They had to pay part of their income if they wanted to stay on that land, and if they wanted any kind of protection.

Comment: The student loan debt problem is atrocious. For more see:

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Life Preserver

Preparation is key: Sink or swim - observations from the South Carolina flood

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:37 UTC
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As the flood waters began to rise in South Carolina, so did the level of awareness that the vast majority of South Carolinians were wholly unprepared for such a disaster.

As the flood crisis got under way, South Carolina saw its major cities inundated with so much water that city centers were unnavigable without a boat, coastal areas saw houses collapse, and both city and rural areas saw roads wash out completely. With dams bursting and bridges washing away, local governments, citizens, and emergency management personnel clearly had their hands full. Most of them, to their credit, did their jobs well enough with the resources they had, despite the violation of rights by some local administrations.

Still, we can learn at least three lessons from the recent flooding in South Carolina.
  1. A very small minority of people are equipped to deal with an emergency in a competent fashion.
  2. A slightly larger number of people attempt to be prepared but fall short if the emergency persists.
  3. The vast majority of people are wholly unprepared for even a slight disturbance in their usual routine or living conditions.

Comment: Preparation really is key! Considering the following: Signs of Change: Extreme weather and environmental upheaval in September 2015 and how being informed and aware could save your life:
Michael Snyder is very well known for his blogs 'End of the American Dream' and 'The Economic Collapse' and from the sheer number of other sites that republish his articles.

Michael is also the author of the book Get Prepared Now: Why a Great Crisis is Coming and How You Can Survive It, which he wrote with Barbara Fix, and the novel The Beginning of the End, a mystery thriller set in the near future, both of which are available on Amazon. He also has a new DVD called "Economic Collapse, World War III & The Death of America", which is available on ProphecyClubResources.com.


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Woman sues cops after video emerges of cops punching her in face during arrest over seatbelt violation

David Ferguson
Raw Story
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:41 UTC
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A woman in Carlsbad, California is suing police after an officer punched her in the face while arresting her over an alleged seatbelt violation.

The New York Daily News reported on a police brutality suit brought by 40-year-old Cindy Hahn, who was arrested and beaten in 2013 as her two children, ages 7 and 11, watched.

According to Hahn's complaint, on July 31, 2013, she and her children were leaving a birthday party when they came upon a vehicle which was unoccupied with its alarm blaring.

Police cruisers with their lights flashing surrounded the vehicle, but officers were allowing the alarm to blare. When Hahn — whose father is a police officer — asked an officer on duty why police weren't shutting off the car alarm, the officer — identified in court documents as Officer Kenyatte Valentine — reportedly told her to mind her "own fucking business."

Comment: Not only should the officer be fired and charged with assault, but any other officer who didn't stop him should be penalized by his superiors for allowing the illegal action to occur.

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