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Edward Snowden, v 1.0: NSA Whistleblower William Binney on Government Spying
NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers
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The NSA: Here, There and Everywhere
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Learn to Encrypt Your Emails against an invasion of privacy by NSA
As NSA Slammed, EU Panel Wants to Hear Directly from Snowden
Obama expected to curb spying on foreign leaders, limit NSA access to phone records
Monsanto seed plant construction halted in Argentina
​US govt attempts to block lawsuit against NSA
​Former NSA whistleblowers plead for chance to brief Obama on agency abuses
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It’s not paranoia – NSA is spying on everyone
The Incredibly Flat World of Monsanto
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Bipartisan Push to Stop NSA’s ‘Direct Threat to Our Liberty and Freedom’
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NSA in Your iPhone?
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Apple Strikes Back at NSA’s “Malicious Hackers”
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Breaking the Code: NSA Working on Quantum Computer to Defeat Encryption
​NSA building a ‘quantum computer’ to break all forms of encryption
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Apple denies working with NSA
Apple execs deny company helps NSA monitor iPhone users
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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance
Former NSA Chief: Obama Should Keep Spying, Ignore Panel Recommendations
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The NSA is Building the Foundation for a Global Police State
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The Courts and the NSA
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NSA ‘installing’ spy malware on laptops
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Democrats condemn NSA surveillance
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US judge ruling on NSA ‘comic opera’
Judge Falls for The Big Lie About NSA Spying
NSA Whistleblower: “National Security is A Scam”
Greenwald: More NSA documents coming
NSA spying activities legal: US judge
N.Y. Judge: NSA Spying “Imperils Civil Liberties of Every Citizen” but “Legal”
10 most shocking NSA revelations of 2013
ACLU Plans Appeal of NSA Fourth Amendment Ruling
US Judge Deems NSA Phone Surveillance Lawful
Federal Judge Rules NSA Surveillance Legal
US judge rules NSA phone surveillance program is legal
NSA easily identifies people by metadata
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The NSA Paid to Steal Your Private Data
NSA’s telephone meta-data program
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Non-denying denial? RSA aims to distance itself from NSA scandal
Snowden Slams NSA Review as ‘Cosmetic’
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Obama’s NSA reforms ‘window dressing’
NSA Panel Member Recommends Increased Data Collection
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White House panel: Little to no indication mass NSA surveillance thwarts terrorism
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Beyond Criminals & Terrorists: NSA/GCHQ Targeted Humanitarian Groups
Obama is wrong on NSA surveillance
Military operations rely on NSA: Hagel
Backwards King: Intelligence Head Who Lied To Congress About NSA Spying Is A “Patriot”
NSA, GCHQ spied on Israel, Germany, UN and others – new Snowden leaks
Angela Merkel Tells Obama: NSA is Like the Stasi
Obstructions in Halting NSA Surveillance
White House Panel Slams NSA, Says Mass Spying Is Unnecessary
Saab wins Brazil jet deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid
Saab wins Brazil jet deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid
Arkansas mom destroys Common Core in four powerful minutes
Obama Review Panel: Strip NSA of Power to Collect Phone Data Records
Government Using NSA to Change Amount in Bank Accounts, Warns Panel
White House releases recommendations for limiting NSA programs
White House Releases Findings of Internal NSA Review
Former Top NSA Official: “We Are Now In A Police State”
Greenwald Reveals ‘Crux’ of NSA Spying: The ‘Elimination of Individual Privacy Worldwide’
“Almost Orwellian”: US Judge Indicts NSA Spying
Tech execs steer away from HealthCare.gov, to NSA in Obama meeting
Federal Judge Rules NSA Phone Data Collection Unconstitutional
Why the NSA Ruling Could Backfire into a Court Disaster We’ll Regret for Decades
Sen. Feinstein Defends NSA Spying as ‘Major Tool’ to Stop ‘Terrorists’
Lawyer who won ruling against NSA claims the government has been harassing him
Edward Snowden Says Judge’s Ruling on Unconstitutionality of NSA Surveillance Methods Vindicates His Disclosures
700+ March Against Monsanto and GMOs in Hawaii
NSA Official Says First Amendment Should Be “Reformed”
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‘Snowden Vindicated’: Judge Rules Against ‘Indiscriminate’ NSA Spying
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Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional
DC Judge: NSA Tech “Almost Orwellian”
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Let us spy: NSA chief pleads with Senate to keep surveillance programs
NSA uses advertisers’ cookies to track specific web browsers – report
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NSA chief: Spying best way to protect US
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Is the NSA Blackmailing Its Overseers In Washington?
Are the Intelligence Committees Being Blackmailed? During the Vietnam war, the NSA spied on two prominent politicians – Senators Frank Church and Howard Baker – as well as critics of government policy Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, and a Washington … Continue reading →
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NSA Mass Monitoring Cell Phone Calls Globally
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Arizona, Kansas: ‘Motor Voter’ Forms Should Require Proof of US Citizenship
NSA Claims Collecting Cellphone Location Data Is Legal Under Executive Order – From 1981
NSA tracks phones by executive order
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UN Rapporteur to “Investigate” NSA / GCHQ Agency Spying
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Snowden leak reveals NSA tracks cell phone locations on unprecedented scale – report
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Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance
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Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance
“Control oil and you control nations,” said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. “Control food and you control the people.”
Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.
Profits Before Populations
Genetic engineering has made proprietary control possible over the seeds on which the world’s food supply depends. “Terminator” genes enable the production of sterile seeds, using a synthetic chemical catalyst appropriately called “Traitor” to induce seed sterility. Farmers must therefore buy seeds from their patent owners year after year. To cover these costs, food prices are raised; but the harm is far greater than to our pocketbooks.
According to an Acres USA interview of plant pathologist Don Huber, Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, two modified traits account for practically all of the genetically modified crops grown in the world today. One involves insect resistance. The other, more disturbing modification involves insensitivity to glyphosate-based herbicides (plant-killing chemicals). Often known as Roundup after the best-selling Monsanto product of that name, glyphosate poisons everything in its path except plants genetically modified to resist it.
Glyphosate-based herbicides are now the most commonly used herbicides in the world. Glyphosate is an essential partner to the GMOs that are the principal business of the burgeoning biotech industry. Glyphosate is a “broad-spectrum” herbicide that destroys indiscriminately, not by killing unwanted plants directly but by tying up access to critical nutrients.
Because of the insidious way in which it works, it has been sold as a relatively benign replacement for the devastating earlier dioxin-based herbicides. But a barrage of experimental data has now shown glyphosate and the GMO foods incorporating it to pose serious dangers to health. Compounding the risk is the toxicity of “inert” ingredients used to make glyphosate more potent. Researchers have found, for example, that the surfactant POEA can kill human cells, particularly embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells. But these risks have been conveniently ignored.
The widespread use of GMO foods and glyphosate herbicides helps explain the anomaly that the US spends over twice as much per capita on healthcare as the average developed country, yet it is rated far down the scale of the world’s healthiest populations. The World Health Organization has ranked the US LAST out of 17 developed nations for overall health.
Sixty to seventy percent of the foods in US supermarkets are now genetically modified. By contrast, in at least 26 other countries—including Switzerland, Australia, Austria, China, India, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, Mexico and Russia—GMOs are totally or partially banned; and significant restrictions on GMOs exist in about sixty other countries.
A ban on GMO and glyphosate use might go far toward improving the health of Americans. But the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a global trade agreement for which the Obama Administration has sought Fast Track status, would block that sort of cause-focused approach to the healthcare crisis.
Roundup’s Insidious Effects
Roundup-resistant crops escape being killed by glyphosate, but they do not avoid absorbing it into their tissues. Herbicide-tolerant crops have substantially higher levels of herbicide residues than other crops. In fact, many countries have had to increase their legally allowable levels—by up to 50 times—in order to accommodate the introduction of GM crops. In the European Union, residues in food are set to rise 100-150 times if a new proposal by Monsanto is approved. Meanwhile, herbicide-tolerant “super-weeds” have adapted to the chemical, requiring even more toxic doses and new toxic chemicals to kill the plant.
Human enzymes are affected by glyphosate just as plant enzymes are: the chemical blocks the uptake of manganese and other essential minerals. Without those minerals, we cannot properly metabolize our food. That helps explain the rampant epidemic of obesity in the United States. People eat and eat in an attempt to acquire the nutrients that are simply not available in their food.
According to researchers Samsell and Seneff in Biosemiotic Entropy: Disorder, Disease, and Mortality (April 2013):
Glyphosate’s inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes is an overlooked component of its toxicity to mammals. CYP enzymes play crucial roles in biology . . . . Negative impact on the body is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body. Consequences are most of the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
More than 40 diseases have been linked to glyphosate use, and more keep appearing. In September 2013, the National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina, published research finding that glyphosate enhances the growth of fungi that produce aflatoxin B1, one of the most carcinogenic of substances. A doctor from Chaco, Argentina, told Associated Press, “We’ve gone from a pretty healthy population to one with a high rate of cancer, birth defects and illnesses seldom seen before.” Fungi growths have increased significantly in US corn crops.
Glyphosate has also done serious damage to the environment. According to an October 2012 report by the Institute of Science in Society:
Agribusiness claims that glyphosate and glyphosate-tolerant crops will improve crop yields, increase farmers’ profits and benefit the environment by reducing pesticide use. Exactly the opposite is the case. . . . [T]he evidence indicates that glyphosate herbicides and glyphosate-tolerant crops have had wide-ranging detrimental effects, including glyphosate resistant super weeds, virulent plant (and new livestock) pathogens, reduced crop health and yield, harm to off-target species from insects to amphibians and livestock, as well as reduced soil fertility.
Politics Trumps Science
In light of these adverse findings, why have Washington and the European Commission continued to endorse glyphosate as safe? Critics point to lax regulations, heavy influence from corporate lobbyists, and a political agenda that has more to do with power and control than protecting the health of the people.
In the ground-breaking 2007 book Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, William Engdahl states that global food control and depopulation became US strategic policy under Rockefeller protégé Henry Kissinger. Along with oil geopolitics, they were to be the new “solution” to the threats to US global power and continued US access to cheap raw materials from the developing world. In line with that agenda, the government has shown extreme partisanship in favor of the biotech agribusiness industry, opting for a system in which the industry “voluntarily” polices itself. Bio-engineered foods are treated as “natural food additives,” not needing any special testing.
Jeffrey M. Smith, Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, confirms that US Food and Drug Administration policy allows biotech companies to determine if their own foods are safe. Submission of data is completely voluntary. He concludes:
In the critical arena of food safety research, the biotech industry is without accountability, standards, or peer-review. They’ve got bad science down to a science.
Whether or not depopulation is an intentional part of the agenda, widespread use of GMO and glyphosate is having that result. The endocrine-disrupting properties of glyphosate have been linked to infertility, miscarriage, birth defects and arrested sexual development. In Russian experiments, animals fed GM soy were sterile by the third generation. Vast amounts of farmland soil are also being systematically ruined by the killing of beneficial microorganisms that allow plant roots to uptake soil nutrients.
In Gary Null’s eye-opening documentary Seeds of Death: Unveiling the Lies of GMOs, Dr. Bruce Lipton warns, “We are leading the world into the sixth mass extinction of life on this planet. . . . Human behavior is undermining the web of life.”
The TPP and International Corporate Control
As the devastating conclusions of these and other researchers awaken people globally to the dangers of Roundup and GMO foods, transnational corporations are working feverishly with the Obama administration to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement that would strip governments of the power to regulate transnational corporate activities. Negotiations have been kept secret from Congress but not from corporate advisors, 600 of whom have been consulted and know the details. According to Barbara Chicherio in Nation of Change:
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history. . . .
The chief agricultural negotiator for the US is the former Monsanto lobbyist, Islam Siddique. If ratified the TPP would impose punishing regulations that give multinational corporations unprecedented right to demand taxpayer compensation for policies that corporations deem a barrier to their profits.
. . . They are carefully crafting the TPP to insure that citizens of the involved countries have no control over food safety, what they will be eating, where it is grown, the conditions under which food is grown and the use of herbicides and pesticides.
Food safety is only one of many rights and protections liable to fall to this super-weapon of international corporate control. In an April 2013 interview on The Real News Network, Kevin Zeese called the TPP “NAFTA on steroids” and “a global corporate coup.” He warned:
No matter what issue you care about—whether its wages, jobs, protecting the environment . . . this issue is going to adversely affect it . . . .
If a country takes a step to try to regulate the financial industry or set up a public bank to represent the public interest, it can be sued . . . .
Return to Nature: Not Too Late
There is a safer, saner, more earth-friendly way to feed nations. While Monsanto and US regulators are forcing GM crops on American families, Russian families are showing what can be done with permaculture methods on simple garden plots. In 2011, 40% of Russia’s food was grown on dachas (cottage gardens or allotments). Dacha gardens produced over 80% of the country’s fruit and berries, over 66% of the vegetables, almost 80% of the potatoes and nearly 50% of the nation’s milk, much of it consumed raw. According to Vladimir Megre, author of the best-selling Ringing Cedars Series:
Essentially, what Russian gardeners do is demonstrate that gardeners can feed the world – and you do not need any GMOs, industrial farms, or any other technological gimmicks to guarantee everybody’s got enough food to eat. Bear in mind that Russia only has 110 days of growing season per year – so in the US, for example, gardeners’ output could be substantially greater. Today, however, the area taken up by lawns in the US is two times greater than that of Russia’s gardens – and it produces nothing but a multi-billion-dollar lawn care industry.
In the US, only about 0.6 percent of the total agricultural area is devoted to organic farming. This area needs to be vastly expanded if we are to avoid “the sixth mass extinction.” But first, we need to urge our representatives to stop Fast Track, vote no on the TPP, and pursue a global phase-out of glyphosate-based herbicides and GMO foods. Our health, our finances and our environment are at stake.
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Ellen Brown is an attorney, president of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books, including the best-selling Web of Debt. In The Public Bank Solution, her latest book, she explores successful public banking models historically and globally. Her blog articles are at EllenBrown.com.
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- "Collect(ing, including through clandestine means), process, analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes to support national and departmental missions;
- Acting(ing) as the National Manager for National Security Systems as established in law and policy, and in this capacity be responsible to the Secretary of Defense and to the Director, National Intelligence; (and)
- Prescrib(ing) security regulations covering operating practices, including the transmission, handling, and distribution of signals intelligence and communications security material within and among the elements under control of the Director of the National Security Agency, and exercise the necessary supervisory control to ensure compliance with the regulations."
- "Align (it) with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004;
- Implement additional recommendations of the 9/11 and WMD Commissions; (and)
- Further integrate the Intelligence Community and clarify and strengthen the role of DNI as the head of the Community; Maintain or strengthen privacy and civil liberties protections."
- the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID). It relates to foreign intelligence gathering, and
- the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD). It protects US information systems.
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Consider, for example, the circumstances that led to open war in Vietnam. According to official history, two US destroyers patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam were victims of unprovoked attacks in August 1964, leading to a congressional resolution giving President Johnson the power "to take all necessary measures."