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What we see now is a war against reality. It's a war against the truth.
The government is injecting into the minds of every american citizen what they will believe.
This is beyond George Orwell, this is on a scale more massive than anything Orwell contemplated.
Orwell knew about television telescreens, 2 way telescreens but Orwell never contemplated
that we'd have technology so portable so intrusive no matter where someone is located
they cannot escape this grid that they find themselves embedded in.
My first job in journalism was with my highschool newspaper which was a very political.
We had our own political stance and we were very much opposed to Richard Nixon's administration
and Nixon tried to go after the press but the press retaliated and exposed Nixon.
Nixon wound up resigning before he faced certain conviction by the US senate
after his empeachement by the house of representatives.
But what we have in president Obama is somebody much worse than Richard nixon,
much worse than George W Bush.
Barack Obama has brought 7 espionnage charges against people in the government
who brought information about government wrong-doings, whistleblowers if you will,
some ppl call'em truth teller, brought information to the media.
President Obama has endicted 8 individuals if we know include Edward Snowden as the 8th.
None of president Obama's predecessors all put together since the Espionnage act
was passed in 1917 by president Woodrow Wilson,
no predecessor has endicted so many people under the Espionnage Act.
In fact most presidents never used the Espionnage Act but president Obama has endicted
more people under the Espionnage act than all of his predecessors combined
since the administration Wilson.
And this has sent a chill through the investigating journalism community
in Washington and around the country.
Journalists are now afraid to talk to sources becuse they don't wanna expose their sources,
sources are in fact afraid to talk to a journalist because of
the fear they may be endicted and sent to prison for an awfully long time.
We've seen president Obama and his attorney general Erik Holder
conduct illegal surveillance against over 100 reporters and editors of the associated press,
a fox news reporter who covers the state department, the NY Time reporter James Risen,
who had a source within the government. They're trying to get the NY Time reporter, Risen
to sit and testify before a grand jury to expose his source.
This is rather unprecedented and even Richard Nixon as much as he may wanted
have done some of these things knew what his constraints were
and we never even saw this type of activity at the height of Watergate.
Everything that's been released by Ed Snowden was pretty well known,
it was a subject of a European Union investigation by the EU parliament in the 99-2000 time frame,
it was the subject of a number of magazine articles, newspaper articles
and was in James Banford's book "The shadow factory" and the only real
new information we got was the intensity and the size of NSA surveillance network
and some of the new codewords assigned to the surveillance projects.
What we were told about was metadata surveillance capturing data
off the transatlantic 14th cable TAT-14.
This was a joint operation between NSA and its sister activity in Britain
called the Government Communications HeadQuarter GCHQ.
The tap of the cable was done at this facility in Cornwall
and the project according to the information released by Snowden was called Tempura.
That was new information, the fact that the cables were being tapped and
not just the one going from Cornwall to New Jersey but many other
cables around the world were also being similarly tapped.
What we were told about was the NSA cover term for that operation, Tempura.
We also know that prism, this metadata collection project was also revealed by Snowden.
We had not heard that name before although there is a commercial product that basically
does the same thing, that's offered up by federal contractors called Palentir.
We've seen attacks on journalists in the past but we've also seen journalists
around the country trying to expose those who *** journalists.
In 1976 a very brave journalist names *Don Balls* was investigating the mafia in Phoenix, Arizona.
And he got into a lot of areas that were very unconfortable to a lot of people
and Don Balls got into his car and it blew up but.
Before he died, he urged ppl to continue the investigation he started.
The investigative reporters and editors group was founded basically in his name.
Journalists came together but nowadays, when Michael Hastings dies in his car,
in a manner very similar to what happened to Don Balls, we have ppl:
"oh that must be an accident" they're going along with the flow.
They're not questionning the LAPD, every journalist should question anybody from the gvt.
The white house press secretary J. Carney should not have these slugfest that he has whith
these White House press conferences, they should be confrontational by nature, but they're not.
You know they might aswell be coffee clutches where the journalists get together and talk about
the weather and what Carney's weekend plans are, but that's essentially what we have today.
We don't have a confrontational press and if we get a reporter in the white house or
at the Pentagon or at a state department briefing who gets a little confrontational,
they have their press credentials called. And without credentials, without access,
you no longer have a job in the corporate media.
Michael Hastings of course did try to bring to the attention of the american people
what was going on behind the scenes.
As any true investigative journalist would do, but one evening in LA his car literaly blew up
and he was burned beyond recognition and here again we have another case of
yet another journalist dying under mysterious causes.
The corporate press goes along the merry old way
and believes everything that the LAPD is telling it.
Just as the corporate press destroyed the carreer of enterprising investigative journalist
Gary Webb who we were told shot himself twice in the head.
He exposed the whole CIA *** operation and we've seen in other cases journalists
who were not as well known but definitely were looking into very outrageous situations
with private companies, governments, so forth and so on.
President Obama has waged a war on the press in the US unlike any of his predecessors
it has sent a chill through the journalistic community in Washington and all around the country.
I've been to countries where there is no freedom of the press.
Where dictators rule and I have seen how journalists are harassed by secret police
they're followed they're wretaped they're harassed but I always came back to the US,
knowing at least we can do our job here, that is no longer the case.
With President Obama we now have widespread surveillance of journalists,
intimidation like we've never seen before and presdent Obama has brought about
a tyranny over the 4th estate of the united states that has only been seen in the recent past
in despotic regimes in many developping countries around the world.
Where the corporate press should be holding Obama's feet to the fire as they did Nixon.
We don't see anything even closely approaching that with the corporate media.
We see ppl who frankly aren't even journalists reporting on major stories or
underreporting major stories or ignoring major stories,
they're celebrities they're not journalists, Anderson Cooper for example
and people like him who are entertainers more than anything else.
That is what the american ppl is being given a daily dosage of
and the 4th estate is suffering as a result.
Back in the 1960s, Theodore White, the famous presidential elections historian wrote
a series of books on every election for president called the making of the president.
On Madison Avenue, conducting these advertising campaigns, this is how they created
the new Nixon in 1968, not the old Nixon who was defeated in 1960 for president and
in the 1962 governatorial campaign in California. We now have a new Nixon.
The new Nixon was sold like any kind of dish detergent, it was a product.
But with Obama we've seen the making of a president, actually become the manufacturing of
a president because president Obama when compared to all his predecessors,
we know very very little about his background, his education,
many many holes in his record, many holes in his employment record.
There just is no degree of scrutiny on president Obama as there was on past presidents
because president Obama in many ways is the first manufactured from all clothes president,
from the time he was a college student to the time he worked for the CIA front company
in NY called Business International Corporation,
to the time he spent as a community organizer in Chicago where many ppl didn't trust
his bonifies as far as being a real community organiser, to the time he spent in Harvard lawschool
to the time he supposedly taught institutional law in the university of Chicago.
We have a president who has epic gaping holes in his biography and very very few members of
the coprporate press have been willing to look into these discrepancies because
they're afraid that they'll be called names they'll be called conspiracy theorists that
they'll lose their jobs. journalists are not suposed to be intimidated so easily.
Well we've seen through history those who appease tyrants whether it's the roman emperor who
took the republic of rome and turned it into an oppressive empire to the rulers of Europe.
When you appease these oppressors, you become a slave to them, and americans don't
wanna believe that it can happen here. It has happened here.
It's not just the product of movies about a future dystopian world that people say
"oh they come out fo the movie theaters thank god", it's not like that.
No when they come out in theater they should understand "it is like that",
and it is getting more and more like that every day. We didn't just happen to
have this oppressive government over night, for decades what I referred to as
the secret part of the government, the secret think tanks,
the federal contract research centers that operate under
classified top secret and above contracts have generated paper after paper, report after report,
all classified and very high level, on what they see as the future for the united states.
RAND corporation, many other companies like that that deal directly with the pentagon.
In the 1950s and 60s, RAND corporation got its start by coming out with the
single integrated operated operational plan which basically talked about a nuclear war
and how many megadeaths the united states could experience in an all out
nuclear exchange with the soviet union.
From the seeds of this insanity, we now have the same think tanks operating in secret,
coming out with ways and methods on how to control the american public.
They're scared about the possibility of a pandemic killing millions of people.
A debilitating terrorist attack there wouldn't be planes into buildings or bombings of marathons
but nuclear, biological and chemical attacks. This is all designed to bring about the goal of
turning the united states into a surveillance society.
We already know that people who were officials in the STASI in the old east Germany have said
"we could have only dreamed of the technology that NSA is using today", to monitor,
not only in the americas but people around the world but they've also cautionned,
"although we dreamed of it, we think this is very dangerous".
So for the united states to be lectured by old retirees from the east German STASI
is really beyond anything anyone would have thought of in the past.
We now have ex-STASI officers telling the US you're going too far.
We have the famous Stanley Kubrik movie Docteur Strangelove where the George C Scott character,
General Turgidson says
"if we have an all out nuclear exchange with the soviets mister President, 65 million tops".
I'm not saying we won't get our hair a little messed up but in that fictionnal dark comedy,
the RAND corporation was called the BLAND corporation,
they came up with a plan for a survivable nuclear war with the soviets but
it wasn't just fiction, the single integrated operational plan the "Sciop" was developped
by RAND corporation to suggest that the US could withstand
multiple nuclear strikes in an all out nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
And this is where RAND corporation made its money and then RAND corporation continued to
be relied on by the secret government to come up with all sorts of scenarios and plans.
Of course the only people that didn't know about this were
the people who were paying the taxes, paying the money for these nonsensical reports.
But we now have RAND Corporation in similar contract research and they're
operating under classified contracts coming up with all kinds of scenarios,
how they're going to control the country if there is a pandemic, an outbreak of
some disease that may come in from another country or maybe developped right here.
The plans are put in place under the authority of the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA,
which most of its work is classified and then when we see there's a real need for FEMA to
do something like the gulf oil disaster with the British Petroleum,
Deep Water Horizon or Hurricane Katrina, we see these bumbling federal bureaucrats
not able to respond to a real disaster because they've spent so much time on these
science fiction-like futuristic disasters, pandemics and **
of nuclear terrorist attacks, things like that.
That's because, these are all done to control the american people to
put in place the secret part of the government.
How the government will react to these scenarios that may or may not ever happen.
There have been so many politicians, for example the late NY senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
who looked at this pension for secrecy in the us he said it's got to stop.
He also advocated taking the Central Intelligence Agency, breaking it up,
getting rid of all special operation units all the paramilitary operations
and taking the intelligence analysts at the CIA and putting them back
in the US department of state from which they originally came.
That was quite a bold statement by Senator Moynihan although I will add that
statement came from senator Moynihan after he decided to retire from the US senate.
There are very very few elected leaders of this country that are willing to
take on this super secret state that has been developped throughout
the cold war then the post cold war and now the years of terrorism.
When the communist block threat disappeared they had to replace it with something else,
what they replaced it with was terrorism, so we've gone from the communists being the enemy
to the terrorists being the enemy to now the lone wolf, the american citizen, being the enemy.
This is the slippery slope we were often warned about,
people say "Oh slippery slope, slippery slope". It's happened.
A few days before president Dwight D. Eisenhower the famous general from WW2 left the presidency,
he gave a televized speech from the White House where he warned America about
the dangers of the military industrial complex and
how it could destroy our democratic form of government.
He handed off the responsabilities to president John F Kennedy who,
when faced with the CIA's abominable plans to asassinate Fidel Castro,
invade Cuba, get the US into a possible nuclear war with the soviet union,
he told the head of the CIA, Allen Dulles:
"I'm going to take your agency and destroy it, we don't need that in this country."
and instead of destroying the CIA, the CIA was involved in destroying president Kennedy,
murdering him in Dallas on november 22nd 1963.
Kennedy was replace by Lindon Johnson who gave the intelligence community and
the Pentagon everything they wanted and since the days of Lindon Johnson, we have never had
a president who has been willing to take on these power structures like the CIA like the FBI,
Lindon would never fire Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI because
Hoover had so much information on Johnson,
he even had more information on Richard Nixon, Johnson successor.
And any time we saw like Jimmy Carter trying to do something, Jimmy Carter was set up with
the hostage situation in Iran and the October Surprise which ensured that
the US hostages would not be released before the 1980 election.
President Kennedy, who heard Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex
and heeded it, also took action when he realized that the joint chief of staff
had concocted something called operation Northwoods which was going to use terrorist events,
staged by the pentagon to blame on cuba to justify a massive US retaliation against that country.
Thse included stagng terrorist bombings at public events, hijacking aircraft and
crashing them into buildings, and other similar false flag terror attacks,
not created n Moscow bythe KGB or by Fidel Castro's government in Havana but
by the american department of defense and the secret state and the CIA.
By the paramilitary secret organiations that existed in the Pentagon.
Kennedy put an end to that, but Kennedy also then, let it be known wasn't gonna
tolerate that kind of behavior any longer, so he fell victim to
one of the very same secret operation he was so adamantly opposed to.
So we go from operation Northwoods in the early 1960 to the Boston Marathnon bombing in 2013.
And what we see at play, we see the Washington DC news helicopters, hovering over the
home of a man named Ruslan Tsarni who had changed his name from Tsarnaev,
the uncle of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who lived in a very very expensive home in
a DC suburbs, in Montgomery county Maryland,
and it turns out he was associated in business with the CIA's long serving
middle east expert, Afghan expert, Graham Fuller
We also found out that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was attending 6 months of training seminars in Tbilisi
in the republic of Georgia sponsored by the Jamestown foundation which was started by CIA director
William Kacy in 1984. So we have a non government organisation the Jamestown foundation funded by
the CIA sending Tamerlan Tsarnaev into Dagestan from the republic of Georgia attending training seminars
in Tbilisi in the republic of Georgia that involve ppl associated with the CIA and then we're told
he's a member of some sort of "AlQaeda" affiliated organisation.
Well he is, because when we look at the whole history of AlQaeda and all of its franchises,
AlQaeda in Mesopotamia, AlQaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, AlQaeda in the Maghreb,
AlQaeda here AlQaeda there. It all tracks back to the CIA
and the Mujahideen support operations of the 1980s that involved vice president George H W Bush
and a plethora of people including mister Casey at the CIA.
So we go full circle, the people that were accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing
were associated with CIA activities, with people with long histories in the CIA
but after this information came out the word came from above don't pursue these angles any longer,
so after the news chopper's disappeared from Montgomery county flying over uncle Tsarni,
Ruslan Tsarni's home, there was no more information on the CIA connections.
We had ppl who were involved with the Tsarnaev brothers, one individual lived in Orlando,
he was killed by an FBI agent during an interview, he hadn't been charged with any crime.
There was a huge amount of secrecy surrounding sending his body back to the Russian Federation.
Why was all this secrecy put in place about somebody who knew the elder Tsarnaev brother ?
We also had information that the older Tsarnaev was involved in the drug trade,
well certainly when you mention the CIA and you mention Tchetchnia and you mention southern Russia
and you mention the republic of Georgia and Turkey you're talking about major drug transshipment points
that the CIA's been involved with, basically shipping *** from Afghanistan trough the Caucasus into Europe.
Where was all the followup by the media ? where were the frontlines, the PBS ?
Where were the other special investigative programs looking into these problems ?
They're not there anymore because public broadcasting is being defunded,
the government doesn't want investigative reporting any longer because president has basically
criminalized investigative reporting, as any despot would want to do.
He's no different than despots that have ruled other countries,
they don't want state funding obviously for programs that are gonna expose their
criminal wrong doings and we saw the same thing with the lack of follow up on the Boston marathon,
foreign connections and the provable connections to the CIA.
But filling the gap today, because we have Infowars, we hae independant journalism in the field,
we are able to find out about some of the things that happened in Boston.
During and after the bombing, and it's because independant journalists were asking the questions
that in one time in this country, major network reporters would ask,
and of course when somebody who's not on the A list of journalists in this country, who can't be controlled,
asking questions, people get very unconfortable and they like to deny access.
They like to threaten, they like to intimidate,
that is the sign of journalism in a country that does not practise freedom of the press.
We know that infowar's reporter Dan Bidondi in Boston courageously asked questions
at the press conferences in the aftermath of the bombing and was frightened by the US secret service.
One can question now why is there this coming together of jurisdictions from federal to state to municipal
when there is an event where we have the federal government walking out of its bounds into
local law enforcement matters because another sign of a tyranny.
And we saw this with the GESTAPO in Germany and we saw it with the KGB in the soviet union
and we saw it with the STASI in east germany and we saw there is no division of labor
when it comes to security, it's one security unit and it answers to the same boss.
And that's what we're seing more and more in the US with the fusion of federal,
state and municipal law enforcement functions where all people wearing
any sort of law enforcement uniform answer to the same boss.
In the united states that boss is the president of the US acting through
the attorney general and the secretary of homeland security.
The news media has known that the administration has been wanting to go directly
to the american people without the media being able to parse and question
and take out what is clearly propaganda from the administration.
They wanna have this direct feed and bypass the media.
And the media by ignoring what the White House is doing has slit its own throat because
we're now almost to the point where we don't need the anchor man, we don't need white house reporters,
we don't need people in the White House pressroom asking questions because
these people are not needed when you're doing direct feeds from the White House to the american public.
So we have now reached the precipice where the government will be delivering news and their opinion
and there will not be any room for any sort of question, dissent, other opinions, that is not in the cards.
For many many years, independant observers, independant truth tellers were warning about
what the government was doing, about how they were aiding and abeting and financing AlQaeda.
And we've come full circle and now the united states, with the support of the US congress with
the support of ppl in the opposition political party like senator John Mccain advocating
arming rebel groups in Syria that are absolutely known to be affiliated with AlQaeda,
the Al-Nusra front for example, which has commited heinous human rights abuses,
where their fighters have eaten human organs on film to the point where president Vladimir Putin of Russia
had to say "what in the world is wrong with the west when they support people who
commit acts of cannibalism on human organs on television ?"
That's where we are today, and the US supporting AlQaeda in Syria, we supported them in Lybia,
Muhammar Gaddafi said "I don't understand, why are the americans, why are the
NATO countries supporting AlQaeda in eastern Lybia". And he was scoffed at, how ridiculous.
Gaddafi was telling the truth, president Assad is telling the truth about what the rebels represent,
so it's now admitted that AlQaeda is the key member of the rebel factions in Syria.
Where does the money come from ? It comes from america's military allies, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates, where the United states has military bases.
* * * to someone who doesn't look at a map of the middle east and is able to figure out,
it's the United States government that supported the most radical forms of Islam including
rebel groups affiliated with AlQaeda against secular governments in the middle east,
in lybia, in syria, in egypt and therefore Obama who's very sensitive to any kind of
ridiculous accusations that he' a secret muslim from Kenya is putting himself in the position of
having to defend himself from people who say well maybe you're not but why is your foreign policy
looking like a radical muslim from east africa because every decision you're making is
helping saudi arabia, helping wahabism, the most radical form of Islam against secular government
where women have the right to vote, women dont have have to wear a veil,
they can have any job they want, based on their qualifications,
to take countries like Syria and Lybia and turn them back into the 13th century ?
Because the US is allowing Qatar and Saudi Arabia and members of the muslim brotherhood to
pump all kinds of weapons and money and personals who have killed american troops in Afghanistan
and Irak fighting the secularian Syrian government with arms provided by the united states.
The united states, the Obama administration signing with the most radical elements in
the middle east after they conditionned the american people to hate radical muslims because
we were told they carried out the 9/11 attack on the US for the govt now to turn around and try to
anesthetise the american public about these radical groups, because we're now supporting them in
their attempt to overthrow the government of Syria an independant country is mind boggling,
it's beyond absurd. But the administration knows that they can get the american public to
turn on a dime because of their constant conditionning of the american public to accept a new reality.
The gvt controls the means of communications with the american public, so the american government,
if it doesn't like the reality they've created in 30 minutes they can change it.
Here's what Karl Rove said, he said "we control the media in this country therefore we control the
reality and if we don't like the reality we've created just like in
the fictional movie "Wag the Dog“, we can change that reality in 30 minutes or so.
The famous marine corp General Smedley Butlers said, in the 1930, "war is a racket".
He led marine corps invasions of coutries in the caribbeans and central america,
the now dominican republic, haiti, nicaragua, mexico and he later said
"You know, we were just foot soldiers for the guys on wall street, it had nothing to do with
national security, we were working for the big money interests that are on wall street."
That's exactly where we are today, except wall street has become even more powerful.
So the military does not go into other countries to protect the united states,
it goes in the other countries to protect the interests of the money, megabanks, the hedgefunds,
the vulture, venture capitalists on wall street. when the united states goes into Lybia,
it has nothing to do with US national security, it has everything to do with grabbing Lybia's oil.
When the US funds AlQaeda in Syria it has nothing to do with national security it has to do with
opening up Syria for new pipelines to be built from the middle east into Turey and into Europe.
These decisions are made in Wall Street, not even necessarily in the Pentagon.
And Smedley Butler had it right in the 1930s and if he were around today, he would just shake his
head and say "I warned you". I warned you but to see my warnings were to no avail.
We're at a point in this country where there is no easy way out, and we know with the Edward Snowden case.
Edward Snowden has gone from Hong Kong to a transit lounge in Moscow, he's in limbo,
the US gvt has threaten every country in the world who would give this indiviual asylum,
that they will face trade sanctions, they will face all kinds of punishment.
So we are now in position where even if you want to leave the United States,
where do you go today to be far away from the long reach of what's becoming a tyrannical government.
There is not a whole lot of options available. We see it everyday now in the United states where
people want to make their tormenters, their opressors like them, they don't wanna irritate them,
we see it at the airport on a regular basis with the TSA checks, you know where government employees
in uniforms are demanding people do things, take off your shoes, take off your belt.
People who are in wheelchairs, peopel who have children, people with mental problems and medical problems
are harassed by these people and we just say "oh well, it's necessary because
we don't want our planes to be hijacked and flown into a building.
People are willing to give up their privacy and their own independance for this false sense of security
and we see TSA now spreading itself from airports to train stations to bus stations
to shopping mauls to theaters to sporting arenas.
Soon there'll be TSA at checks on interstate highways.
When you pay a toll you also have to show your identification because the american people have been
so taken in with this "Stockholm syndrom". They want to make their kidnappers, their oppressors,
their tormentors like them, not the other way around.
They don't demand that this stops, they wanna be complicit in their own abuse.
Tyranny's here, you wanna lay down in the face of tyranny, you're gonna be ran over by it,
the only option is to stand up and be counted.