Justice Department spies on Reporters

Associated Press says Justice Department spied on reporters’ phone calls in sweeping surveillance campaign

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/13/4327784/associated-press-says-justice-department-spied-on-reporters-phone

“The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know,” Pruitt said.

The government would not say why it sought the records.” Source: FoxNews

□ N4TM Commentary
Obama’s administration spying on US citizens is not “breaking news” to us paranoid folk. I have been saying it all along.  This weekend, in an effort to distract from the growing Benghazi debacle, a story leaked that the IRS had targeted “tea party members. ” Today, news that the Justice Department taped AP reporters phones is adding more fuel to the fire. It’s a good thing for Obama that Americans are overwhelmingly apathetic to being spied on, and totally adjusted to not having civil liberties to consider fighting over these new findings.  If it weren’t for years of pre-conditioning us to accept invasions into what was once termed “privacy” Obama might have had to worry about riots. Lo, even the few hot blooded Americans left won’t fight back (there’s no ammo available for a civil war in America), back to Bad Piggies. Next up, we’ll find out those FEMA camps were made for Christians!

I read this post via a tweet of this picture link Here This disclaimer was in place for filming of the new Captain America sequel (filming in Washington D.C). I just thought the wording on this sign was over dramatic and kind of errie. It also made me wonder if Marvel llc. should write these for the US Government and post them all over America!

iSpy NSA Builds Beheomth Data Center in Utah

 

 

Pictured: Bluffdale, Utah the NSA’s biggest Data Center to date. The following information is from Wired.com Click HERE for full article.

Once built, it will be more than five times the size of the US Capitol.

 

Rather than Bibles, prophets, and worshipers, this temple will be filled with servers, computer intelligence experts, and armed guards. And instead of listening for words flowing down from heaven, these newcomers will be secretly capturing, storing, and analyzing vast quantities of words and images hurtling through the world’s telecommunications networks. In the little town of Bluffdale, Big Love and Big Brother have become uneasy neighbors.

 

The NSA has become the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever.

 

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.

 

But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.” End of Quote from WIRED.com for full article see linked site source above.

see also: Pentagon’s new massive expansion of ‘cyber-security’ unit is about everything except defense

Excerpt here: “Back in 2003, the Rumsfeld Pentagon prepared a secret report entitled “Information Operations (IO) Roadmap”, which laid the foundation for this new cyber-warfare expansion. The Pentagon’s self-described objective was “transforming IO into a core military competency on par with air, ground, maritime and special operations”. In other words, its key objective was to ensure military control over internet-based communications:

It further identified superiority in cyber-attack capabilities as a vital military goal in PSYOPs (Psychological Operations) and “information-centric fights”:

And it set forth the urgency of dominating the “IO battlespace” not only during wartime but also in peacetime:

As a 2006 BBC report on this Pentagon document noted: “Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military’s psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.” And while the report paid lip service to the need to create “boundaries” for these new IO military activities, “they don’t seem to explain how.” Regarding the report’s plan to “provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum”, the BBC noted: “Consider that for a moment. The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.” End of Quote for full article see linked site source above.

See also: The Ugly Truth Behind Obama’s Cyber War

Excerpt Here:

”Extreme Data Collection”

The Obama Administration is building a huge data center in Bluffdale, Utah whose role is to capture and store all data everyone in this country (and most of the world) transmits. You read that right.

“Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication,” wrote James Bamford in Wired Magazine, “including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails — parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital ‘pocket litter.’”

While having your entire on-line life tracked and stored in Utah is pretty creepy, the more pressing issue is how government officials plan to use this data and how they are collecting it. To mine its value, they need to order it to make searches, filtering and lists possible. You need a strategy and while Obama officials have been pretty open about what they’re building, they are closed-mouth about what they intend to do with it.

We know they are working hard on developing code-breaking technology which would allow them to read data which is super-encrypted, the last wall of privacy and protection we have. We also know that, to get this data, they have a remarkable system of surveillance that includes direct capture (capturing data from your on-line sessions), satellite surveillance and the tapping (through easily available data captures) of major information gatherers like Google and Yahoo. The fact that they plan to open this center in September, 2013 means that the intense surveillance and data gathering is in place. You are now never alone.

“Internet Usage Restriction”

If you’re conducting a war, you can’t have people running around the battlefield trading information and distributing it because, after all, you need secrecy. But collecting and distributing information is entirely what the Internet is about.

No reasonable person expects the entire shut-down of the Internet but the curtailment of on-line expression is now happening and getting worse, re-defining the meaning of free speech and making it an embattled concept.

Under the law, for instance, any corporation or individual can claim you are violating their copyright and demand you remove offending material from a website. You can challenge and litigate that but it doesn’t really matter because, under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act your web hosting service faces huge penalties if they keep the site on-line and the copyright violation is proven. So, to avoid the legal fees and the risk, they’ll just wipe your website. This happens all the time.

If the hosting service stands strong — as some progressive providers do — the people claiming the violation will just go “upstream” to the company that provides your web hosting service’s connection to the Internet and, to avoid legal problems, that “upstream provider” will just unplug the server. Servers host many websites, sometimes in the hundreds, and other services and so not only do you lose your site but everyone else on the server has theirs taken off-line. And this happens without even going in front of a judge.

Sure, there is still robustly exercised “freedom of speech” on the Internet. But the laws are in place to curtail it and, if the government wants, it can (and will) curtail. It’s a modern-day version of benevolent dictatorship which can, as history demonstrates, become pretty darn malevolent pretty fast.” End of quote. For full article see linked site source above.

N4TM Commentary:

CISPA and Obama’s Executive Order on Cyber-”Security” are not to keep companies protected or to share data with the Government. We are not stupid.

All I want to know is, “Who are you looking for?”

Data mining is about Control and Power. The NWO doesn’t need more money, they really don’t need anymore power, they own the world. So, WHO are “they” looking for? What’s all the hubbub about, bub?

Todays Headlines Breaking News and Short Synopsis N4TM style

Here’s a quick recap of today’s news:

The two men who were considered suspects, whose photo was released by CNN and New York Post, were refuted this morning by Drudge Report: “I didn’t Do it” read the headline, the link was to the story below.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/teen-boston-marathon-bomber/story?id=18990057#.UXBAY7WcdXa

This poor kid was being accused of Domestic Terrorism (that’s what I’m calling it even though no official word from Obama’s White House or FBI has even called it that) and turned himself in to authorities to prove he was not a bomber he is a runner who was there to watch the race! Apparently the huge lobby from the Neo-cons to predetermine every heinous act of violence done on American soil must be done by Al Qaeda has been successful. The brainwashed religious right was right there to jump to the conclusion that the Boston Bombings were committed by Islamic Terrorists. This sickens me, especially in light of all the readily available information and the fact that other activities within the US point to a Domestic Terror act, but I’m getting ahead of myself here, and I already wrote my theory here.

After the MSM spent the better half of the morning back tracking on these two men they no sooner turned their glazed eyes over to Barack Obama in Boston for the “LIvE” feed of him at an Interfaith service for the Boston Marathon Victims.

I had the misfortune of watching it live and had to hear the Potus quote scripture. The man is in direct opposition to God’s word so it does bother me just a smidge when he quotes from it. As one fellow tweeter put it, “When Obama quotes the bible it’s sacrilege.” He sounded like he was campaigning, or in the least stumping and that’s just low even for Obama it’s low. We runners run for reasons not political and we don’t need Potus giving pep talks and giving us new running slogans. Moving on…

Next up, while everyone was distracted with Obama’s “Spirit” rally there was a vote in the House on a gun measure, Barrasso #717 (privacy) amendment to S.649 (AKA Reid’s Gun Control bill), it is related to the Gun Bill that was voted on yesterday. Much of the gnarly parts of the bill were shot down yesterday, seven out of nine amendments were voted on yesterday, two remained today to be voted on. #717 had to do with keeping gun owners privacy and it was voted in favor, so it was good it passed. I haven’t checked back on the last piece that needed a vote.

“WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), successfully included an amendment to (S. 649) that protects law abiding gun owners across the nation from having their private gun ownership information released to the public.  The amendment passed the Senate by a vote of 67 to 30.

Barrasso’s amendment # 717 specifically withholds 5-percent of Community Oriented Policing Services program funding if a state or local government publicly releases information on individuals that have licenses to purchase, possess, or carry firearms. The withheld money will be redistributed to compliant states.  The amendment also has a criminal investigation and court proceedings exception.” yeah finally some good news. Source Here.

Wait more bad news! #CISPA passed today also. This CISPA, or H.R. 624, was presented by a Republican and a Democrat. It passed; however, it is not a favored piece of legislation by the LEFT. Weird I know. This same piece of legislation has had a make-over and it is a sort of triple cross. The original CISPA was opposed by Ron Paul at one time. Where is that guy by the way? Today’s CISPA was rewritten by a bi-partisan group and was passed even though Barack Obama threatened to Veto it if it passed. But why would he VETO it if he already passed an Executive Order Cyber security Law that never went to the house? Wouldn’t that mean he looks opposed to something he’s not truly opposed to, and doesn’t that make the Republicans look equally hypocritical since they acted opposed to Obama’s version of CISPA but rewrote one of their own? It appears as if both parties are in favor of prying into our private internet activities. But wait, China’s spying on us and stealing our pattens and trade secrets, that is why it is crucial to US Government security that they have the ability to read and store your emails and tweets. Because you may not know it, but you my friend are a spy!

CISPA passes house Obama threatens to Veto

Obama signs long-awaited cybersecurity executive order- Source Cnet (feb.2013)

U.S. National Security Adviser Warns China of Further Cyber Crimes-Source Defense.org

US House of Representatives passes CISPA cybersecurity bill

If you don’t believe you’re a spy, maybe invoking the Boston Bombing would cause you to vote for CISPA (the 4th amendment shredder)? Congressman Mike McCaul did so this morning:

“But perhaps the most eyebrow-raising comments of all came from Texas Republican Mike McCaul, who invoked the Boston bombings on the House floor this morning to argue why passing the bill was so important.

“What recent events in Boston demonstrate is that we have to come together, as Republicans and Democrats, to get this done in the name of national security. And this case in Boston, they were real bombs, explosive devices–in this case, they’re digital bombs. And these digital bombs are on their way.” Source: Mediaite

The Real Bombers? FBI Released the images of two suspects (not the above “middle eastern looking” men) who are for sure this time, the real bombers of the Boston Marathon.

Pardon my suspicion and pessimism in not believing what the FBI says. I would ask my readers to simply reflect on Benghazi. Remember that the whole DOD, White House Administration, Secretary of State, the State Department, claimed the cause of the attack on US Ambassador in Benghazi Libya had to do with a Youtube video. Ok, I rest my case.

If you can’t remember that story I present to you misinformation piece #2 in the case of Identifying the Boston Bombers (misinformation piece #1 was the first story on this post)

The Associated Press released this tweet yesterday, Wednesday April 17, 2013 that a suspect was taken into custody and was on their way to the Federal Court in Boston!

A lot of mis/dis-information is spewing out. The FBI claims it has video of one of the two most recent suspects leaving one of the bombs (pressure cookers) at one of the respective explosion sites.

I say, “Release the video.” Right now the FBI released this video of the two men walking with their backpacks in the crowd. Still photos of the same men show that there are many others in the crowd with Black backpacks. But we are to believe these two men are the bombers. Although I don’t want to post their photo here I will link to it so you can see for yourself if you live under a rock and haven’t seen the photo yet. Here’s the FBI’s video:

If you really want your head to spin this website (4chan) has a ton of pictures of people who have black backpacks and look out of place. I see the one I posted yesterday is on this site too, hence, the photo I posted is probably mis/dis-isnfo provided to me via google. They can flood the internet with tons of bunny trails you know. Oh, I said, “they.” My bad! Now I sound like a conspiracy theorist.

Last story of the day, for N4TM to report on, is the Explosion in “West” Texas. This explosion at a Fertilizer Plant resulted in a measured 2.1 magnitude on the Richter scale, and has seen little light of day on MSM.

“A massive explosion has rocked a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas. Dozens have been confirmed killed, while authorities are reportedly warning residents that they should evacuate town as soon as possible.

The explosion occurred around 7:50pm local time in the town of West, north of Waco. A fireball of nearly 100 feet high has been reported along with a massive power outage.

“Law enforcement is advising residents to leave town immediately,” West’s school district tweeted, potentially due to fears of another explosion.

Seventy people had been confirmed killed by the blast by late evening Thursday, as reported by KHOU, the local CBS News affiliate, with “hundreds injured.“  Local news KXXV reports that among the dead are five firefighters and one police officer. State officials have yet to confirm these numbers.

Sixty-one others have been confirmed as admitted to Hillcrest Hospital in Waco, just one of the multiple emergency facilities in the area.” Source RT

The Texas Explosion is of course “not related” to the Boston Bombings. As I’m sure this isn’t either: Costa Mesa man blew himself up according to police (on April 15,2013 5:54am PST)

Are we on the Brink of War with North Korea or Mother Russia?

FOX2News (CNN) – The U.S. military is sending a land-based missile defense system to Guam to defend against possible North Korean ballistic missile launches, according to a news release from the Department of Defense.

The statement said the missiles, a truck-mounted launcher, and radar and target acquisition systems will be deployed in the “coming weeks.”

The system, called the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System, fires missiles at enemy targets in the “terminal phase” as they approach defended territory. Guam is about 2,000 miles from North Korea.”

What’s so Important about Guam?

“The strategic significance of Guam is due to the enduring importance of its location and its topography to major maritime nations in the Pacific Ocean. Guam, some thirty miles long and ten miles wide, is the largest of the Mariana Islands, an archipelago of high volcanic islands in Micronesia, a huge expanse of small islands scattered across the western Pacific.

On the axis that crosses 5,000 miles of the Pacific between Hawaii and Asia, Guam is the only island with both a protected harbor and sufficient land for major airports. Guam is also the largest landfall for communications, shipping, and military installations on the nearly 3,000-mile north-axis from Japan to Papua New Guinea and Australia. This geography means that whoever controls Guam has access by air and sea to China to the west, to Hawaii and North America to the east, to Southeast Asia from the north and to Japan from the south. These geopolitical factors make Guam a valuable strategic nexus similar to other small island bastions in military history and maritime trade such as Hawaii, Gibralter, Malta and Singapore.” SOURCE: http://guampedia.com/guams-strategic-value/

So we are sending enforcements to Guam because of the North Korea threat, or someone else?

Russian strategic bombers ‘spotted’ near Guam amid US defense cuts threats

Published time: February 16, 2013 13:33  Source: Russia Today

“Two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers were intercepted near the key US Pacific military base in Guam, the Washington Free Beacon website claimed. The news comes ahead of the possible sequestration of the US military budget.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, several ‘Russian Bears’ – the NATO classification of the Tu-95 – provocatively approached the US stronghold on February 12, the same day that President Barack Obama was preparing to deliver his State of the Union address.”

Guam is vital to defending the US, NK knows this, Russia knows this. Perhaps we the American people are the last ones to know this.

The RT article went on to say that all the realignment promises to defend Guam could halt due to sequestration (this was prior to 3/13), but we all know that nothing is really being “sequestered” at all. I looked into this “Guam Realignment” issue and found that as far back as July 2011 there has been in place a plan by the DOD to move close to 9,000 marines and their families to Guam and other Micronesia islands, and the cost is outrageous considering the “sequestration” we’re in.

Source:http://www.defensecommunities.org/headlines/marine-corps-realignment-to-cost-23-9b-gao-says/

Marine Corps Realignment to Cost $23.9B, GAO Says

Plans to ready Guam to accommodate 8,600 Marines and 9,000 dependents from Okinawa will cost DOD, Japan and Guam at least $23.9 billion over the next decade, according to estimates released last week by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The estimate includes $7.5 billion in DOD military construction funding. The department’s cost could rise further, though, since it has not developed cost estimates for an air and missile defense system needed to protect the island, GAO stated. Guam’s government estimates it needs $3.2 billion to improve civilian infrastructure such as roads, power, water, sewer and hospitals.

Japan will contribute to the cost of the buildup, but the United States may be forced to pay much of the realignment’s cost, reported Stars and Stripes. Japan has agreed to pay $2.9 billion for construction on Guam and to finance $3.3 billion for installation support structure for utilities and military family housing.

Meanwhile, the chorus of lawmakers calling for the Pentagon to rethink its plans for the Pacific theater continues to grow. The Senate Appropriations Committee last week requested DOD submit detailed plans, along with a justification, for the shift before it allocates funding for military construction needed to support the realignment.”

Final Thoughts/ N4TM Commentary:

The “Realignment” of Guam was factored into the 2012 FY budget and was signed into law by Obama (AKA, NDAA). The funds won’t be drying up to for this process of moving Marines to Guam from Okinawa; it may take a while to happen, but it’s going to happen. And as I pointed out above Guam is highly strategic to the US and it appears it’s also a place of vulnerability when we have reports of Russian bears flying overhead. Clearly Russia’s relationship with the US is strained. John Kerry was given the cold shoulder by Russia once Kerry became the official Secretary of State under Obama earlier this year. For those who don’t know Iraq and Afghanistan, along with Syria’s civil wars, have more to do with our fight against Russia and thirst for oil than for those respective countries need for “Democracy.” I don’t want to start having to give history lessons but you all have access to Google so look stuff up for yourselves. Stop tuning into FOX, CNN, Drudge, and “The Blaze,” for your “truth” serum doses. They won’t tell you what you can figure out on your own with a few strokes of the key. Taking all things into consideration I don’t believe Kim Jung-Un has any real power or wherewithal to start a Nuclear war with South Korea or the US. He’s definitely not 100% in the US pocket ($$) and that’s what makes him a threat and not completely controllable. I think he’s propped by China and ‘Mother’ Russia and those countries ironically support Iran, and former Hussein’s Iraq. So these small skirmishes are signs of bigger things to come. I believe the US has the most power in this current situation and either wants a war with (Russia/China) North Korea (Syria & Iran) or doesn’t. It looks like the US is the instigator  to me not so much like said contries are the ones instigating a war with us. The way the US Government is acting by removing our Civil Rights (2nd & 4th Amendment) it appears the US Government is also at war with its own citizens. Things are lining up for something truly messy. Then again we are a “Global -New World-Order” and anything is possible. Just when it looks like War is about to break out there can be some sort of resolution for the world leaders to compromise on and hence deescalate and delay matters. It remains to be seen if this situation will be for real or if it is just more smoke and mirrors. When it comes to whether or not North Korea will strike the US and/or our allies, I’m leaning towards the, “I don’t think so,” side of things.

*Update 4-3-13

After this went to post this headline appeared on ‘Drudge’ “N. Korea approves nuclear strike on United States“

A Jesuit Elected Pope, that’s Not Breaking News…

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires has been elected to be the 266th pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Francis.

He is the first Latin American pope to lead the church, as well as the first Jesuit priest.

Are we surprised? No. I would think not. Click here for an article on the newly elected pope.

You should look into who the Jesuits are really if you don’t already know. If you’ve ever heard the term “black pope,” you’ll know that the Jesuits operate outside of the Papacy. For the “Pope” to be a former Jesuit is interesting in the least. I’m not as proficient in this area and I can’t teach anything on Jesuits. I chalk them up to being ‘evil’ because they are secret and they’ve done some gnarly things in History but so has the Catholic Church. I have written one post on Jesuits and it was a sort of expose mixed with sarcasm and cynicism that they are “good” and we (Christians) are “evil.”  Jesuits are considered “good” because they do so many humanitarian deeds, thus, they give the appearance of “light” and do “good works;” however, they also take oaths to kill those opposed to the Catholic Order and they are in my opinion dark, scary, and evil. See here for old N4TM post on Jesuits. I don’t believe they are good and ‘we’ are evil, that was the sarcasm. Here’s an interesting article written by TIME no-less on the Jesuit Black-pope take a gander here. Otherwise, remember, I don’t particularly care who the pope is because it’s a false system in my opinion.

The “TIME’s” article I posted was dated 2008, which makes this section highly interesting…

“Most Jesuits steer clear of offending the Vatican hierarchy, focusing on frontline missionary work amongst the poor and oppressed. Noted in particular for their vast network of schools and universities, the Jesuits are widely considered the day-to-day educational and intellectual motor for Roman Catholicism. Pecklers, who teaches liturgy at the Gregorian University in Rome, has lately been working on an education project in the hinterlands of Mongolia. “Whereas a Benedictine is centered around his monastery, the Jesuit’s life is the road. The way we’ve achieved our credibility is getting our hands dirty, getting involved in issues of countries.” Still, the order is facing many of the same challenges that face the entire Church, including declining numbers of clergy, especially in Western Europe and North America, and the tricky balancing act between faith and politics.

Since the Second Vatican Council, many Jesuits have favored progressive reform in the Church, seeking to adapt Catholic traditions to modern life. Kolvenbach’s request to Benedict to step down as he approached the age of 80, Vatican sources say, could have implications for the “white” papacy as well if a Pope were to consider retiring because of old age or ill health.

For now, though, there’s just one “papal” transition to worry about. The delegates will do their voting inside the Jesuits’ vast, marble-lined headquarters on Borgo Santo Spirito. Doors closed, no outsiders allowed in. When one man has received the necessary majority, rather than white smoke, we’ll know there is a new “black pope” by the sound of applause through the wooden doors of the Jesuit sala. As for revealing the new Superior General’s identity to the world: before the delegates are allowed to leave the voting hall, a lone messenger will take the short walk over to St. Peter’s Square to be sure that, by tradition, the first person to know the name of the new Jesuit leader is the one and only real Pope.”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1700157,00.html#ixzz2NSiUrJX8

WEIRD. So the “White Pope” is “black” (ergo a Jesuit). What would that translate to, the shadow government coming to the forefront and running the show in plain sight? WEIRD!

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/03/13/white-house-source-vp-biden-to-lead-us-delegation-for-new-pope-in-rome/

Rise of the Drones Saturday Night Feature

DHS Released Over 2,000 Immigrants

Reblogged from CBS DC:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned.

The newly disclosed figures, cited in internal budget documents reviewed by the AP, are significantly higher than the "few hundred" illegal immigrants the Obama administration acknowledged this week had been released under the budget-savings process.

Read more… 917 more words

Here in Arizona just over 300 illegals were released back into the community. I also read there were a few hundred released in Chicago which is not mentioned in the article. These releases began nearly two weeks before "Sequester." Remember ICE is a federal institution. Janet Napolitano was the former Governor of Arizona, a border state, and she utterly failed at securing the border however she was tagged as Department of Homeland Security Secretary not because she was successful at curbing the influx of Mexican Cartel but because she is a compromised individual who honors 'deals' over public safety. In the area of Domestic Terrorism, from Loughner, Holmes, Lanza, to Dorner, Janet Napolitano has failed. The famed, "Fast and Furious," were agents were willingly and knowingly selling arms to Mexican cartel over the US/Mexico border happened on her watch as well. This women needs to exit, I can think of a few agencies and department heads that if removed could save us quite a bit of money. Obama has moved faster on releasing Illegal Aliens than closing Gitmo, that should speak volumes. Obama wants chaos in our streets, he needs local law enforcement to fail so he can impliment his federal croonies and the military. You don't think all those soldiers coming back are going to go unemployed do you?

Sequester, Catastrophe, Apocalypse or Just Smoke & Mirrors?

se·ques·ter

[si-kwes-ter]

verb (used with object)

1.to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.

2.to remove or separate.

3. Law. to remove (property) temporarily from the possession of the owner; seize and hold, as the property and income of a debtor, until legal claims are satisfied.

4.International Law. to requisition, hold, and control (enemy property).

With headlines such as these it’s no wonder all the little chicks are screaming the sky is falling:

• Sequester cuts will devastate Head Start -SFGate

• As sequester nears, immigration detainees are released- Washington Post

• Kentucky and Indiana would feel federal spending cuts from defense to parks- Courier Journal

• Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the looming defense spending cuts will “hollow out” America’s military. House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester, has called the cuts a threat to national security.- Cincinnati.com

• Department of Homeland Security releasing illegal immigrants before sequesterhttp://bit.ly/Y0HzcU Redlands Daily Facts ‏@RedlandsNews

Here’s a section taken from the White House Propaganda Government Website- this is specific to Arizona the state in which I reside:

ARIZONA IMPACTS
If sequestration were to take effect, some examples of the impacts on Arizona this year alone are:

• Teachers and Schools: Arizona will lose approximately $17.7 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting around 240 teacher and aide jobs at risk. In addition about 19,000 fewer students would be served and approximately 70 fewer schools would receive funding.

•  Education for Children with Disabilities: In addition, Arizona will lose approximately $10 million in funds for about 120 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.

• Work-Study Jobs: Around 2,310 fewer low income students in Arizona would receive aid to help them finance the costs of college and around 330 fewer students will get work-study jobs that helpthem pay for college.

• Head Start: Head Start and Early Head Start services would be eliminated for approximately 1,000 children in Arizona, reducing access to critical early education.

• Protections for Clean Air and Clean Water: Arizona would lose about $2.1 million in environmental funding to ensure clean water and air quality, as well as prevent pollution from pesticides and hazardous waste. In addition, Arizona could lose another $1.1 million in grants for fish and wildlife protection.

•  Military Readiness: In Arizona, approximately 10,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed, reducing gross pay by around $52.5 million in total.

• Army: Base operation funding would be cut by about $43 million in Arizona.

•  Air Force: Funding for Air Force operations in Arizona would be cut by about $6 million.

• Law Enforcement and Public Safety Funds for Crime Prevention and Prosecution: Arizona will lose about $298,000 in Justice Assistance Grants that support law enforcement, prosecution and courts, crime prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, and crime victim and witness initiatives.

•  Job Search Assistance to Help those in Arizona find Employment and Training: Arizona will lose about $781,000 in funding for job search assistance, referral, and placement, meaning around 26,360 fewer people will get the help and skills they need to find employment.

• Child Care: Up to 500 disadvantaged and vulnerable children could lose access to child care, which is also essential for working parents to hold down a job.

• Vaccines for Children: In Arizona around 2,570 fewer children will receive vaccines for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, influenza, and Hepatitis B due to reduced funding for vaccinations of about $176,000.

•  Public Health: Arizona will lose approximately $611,000 in funds to help upgrade its ability to respond to public health threats including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events. In addition, Arizona will lose about $1.9 million in grants to help prevent and treat substance abuse, resulting in around 4,500 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs. And the Arizona State Department of Health Services will lose about $186,000 resulting in around 4,600 fewer HIV tests.

•  STOP Violence Against Women Program: Arizona could lose up to $132,000 in funds that provide services to victims of domestic violence, resulting in up to 500 fewer victims being served.

•  Nutrition Assistance for Seniors: Arizona would lose over $1 million in funds that provide meals for seniors.

Click here for full PDF of Arizona and here for a State by State list of the impact of Sequester.

The “Nationwide” Impact bullet points weren’t so terrible. Getting rid of TSA is not a bad thing in my opinion. Both Republicans and Democrats are always looking for a reason to allow slave labor illegals into the US for cheap labor and if they get citizenship it just is a bonus for everyone since they will be new tax revenue generators. Really, read through the “National” effects and you’ll see it isn’t all that bad. Don’t buy into the hype and there’s plenty of that. Don’t forget while you’re reading the Potus himself came up with this plan. As much as Obama desires to blame the Republicans for being obstinate, he’s the one who appears to be withholding progress.

Obama Rejects Plan For More Say In Spending Cuts- CBS DC

“The impact won’t be immediate. Federal workers would be notified next week that they will have to take up to a day off every week without pay, but the furloughs won’t start for a month due to notification requirements. That will give negotiators some breathing room to work on a deal.”

See more at: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/obama-rejects-plan-for-more-say-in-spending-cuts/#sthash.XwLKra02.dpuf

Sequester is not the end of America and it’s certainly not the end of the world. Look at the UK, Portugal, Greece, and other countries that have survived Austerity, they’re still alive. However, it is odd how this particular crisis is lining up with the drama being drawn out in Rome (Vatican City is paralleling Washington DC in relationship to the ‘governmental’ changes taking place). Weird. Maybe if a few meteors fall out of the sky on Friday we’ll be more inclined to buy the barrels of seed and drums of barley. For now we endure $4.50 gallon gas, less pay, more taxes, and Michelle Obama procuring her next invasion of pop culture showing up on TV shows.

WhiteHouseGov explains Sequester for the people in colorful slides and cool fonts.

Gov. Bobby Jindal To Obama: Stop Scaring The American People-Fox2now St. Louis

  As long as we continue using the term “Sequester” it keeps us preoccupied and distracted by the “Austerity” package that is being manufactured for consumption.

Austerity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In economics, austerity refers to a policy of deficit-cutting by lowering spending via a reduction in the amount of benefits and public services provided.^[1] Austerity policies are often used by governments to try to reduce their deficit spending^[2] and are sometimes coupled with increases in taxes to demonstrate long-term fiscal solvency to creditors.^[3]

Supporters of austerity predict that under expansionary fiscal contraction (EFC), a major reduction in government spending can change future expectations about taxes and government spending, encouraging private consumption and resulting in overall economic expansion.^[4]

Critics argue that, in periods of recession and high unemployment, austerity policies are counter-productive, because: a) reduced government spending can increase unemployment, which increases safety net spending while reducing tax revenue; b) reduced government spending reduces GDP, which means the debt to GDP ratio examined by creditors and rating agencies does not improve; and c) short-term government spending financed by deficits supports economic growth when consumers and businesses are unwilling or unable to do so.^{Source Here}

Don’t lose sight people, this may turn out to be either the most devastating act of Obama onto the American people or, it’ll be a huge facade of nothingness like the Fiscal Cliff, the Debt Crisis, and that great Recession he ‘inherited.’

Source of Obama Cartoon was this article: Phil Gramm: Obama and the Sequester Scare

“For a typical American family that earns less than it did in the year President Obama was elected, the anguished cries and dark predictions coming out of the White House should elicit not sympathy but revulsion.

When the 1985 sequester was created, the formula for cuts was closely examined, debated, amended and agreed to by a Democratic House and a Republican Senate and White House. Today’s sequester is denounced because of the allegedly arbitrary nature of its across-the-board cuts. Yet the sequester formula that goes into effect on Friday preserves the spending priorities legislated by the Congress and the president, including exemptions and limitations they favored when the Budget Control Act of 2011 became law. The president himself first proposed the sequester. He may not like the way it works, but he has offered no real alternative.” Click here for more

The Pope is Resigning and I don’t care

OCTOBER 23rd 2011 Vatican Calls for “World Central Bank”

Pope Benedict XVI will be leaving the Vatican this week in a historical resignation not seen in over 600 years. The last pope before Ratzinger was John Paul II and he died as pope, however, he was more frail and comatose than the one currently exiting the stage. I guess there are those in the Catholic Church who still lift up ‘men’ and see the pope as a figure to be worshiped but I just don’t get that line of thinking. I’m a recovering non-denominational person, in the ‘church’ I had attended we know nothing of lifting up men to the status of pope and blindly following everything they say (sarcasm). Since my former days in the non-denomination to remained unnamed here, the education I received in that system taught that the “evil Catholic Church” is the harlot of Revelation. The pope no less was  is the Anti-Christ at all times past, present, and future. Once I started relying on the Holy Spirit to teach God’s word I understood something greater; that anyone, not just the pope or the Catholic church, who denies Christ as God incarnate is anti-Christ(like) and thus part of the greater system or “harlot.” This revelation was a tad bit liberating in a sense and discouraging at the same time. So all those years of digesting the false claims that all the world would come under Catholic Roman Rule once again seemed to fade away into the distant past like old fads usually do and I began to see the hypocrisy that was being preached from the non-denominational pulpit. It appeared very clear that these brainwashers pastors who kept a continual monastic declaration at every ‘prophesy conference’ I had attended that, “the Pope would one day reunite the whole entire world under the Catholic Church,” were perhaps hiding a bit of their own ties to Rome itself and also to the same church government. I’m fairly young, although nearing four decades soon, so I don’t have a lot of personal first hand history to account for but I recall John Paul II being labeled the AC, then once he died his replacement figure would be sure to accomplish what JP had started in terms of Ecumenical bridge building and the spirit of Anti-Christ would enter the next pope (Ratzinger). Once Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger was chosen all that was needed was a war in the middle east and it would be all over. Coincidentally, none of the false prophets prophesies in the Evangelical/Non-Denominational camp came true regarding Ratzinger and lo here we are on the precipice of another pope to be named.

The Vatican is Gay?

I did a little research, excruciatingly little research, on this topic before taking this to post. I wanted to make sure that I absolutely do not care about this man’s resignation or his successor. I was right, I do not care. I found articles from a number of sources, some “legitimate” MSM sources, other seedy not so tactful gross sources online, that talk about the various reasons why Pope Benedict XVI is leaving. Here are the articles I read:

• Pope Benedict XVI Resigned Partly Because Of Powerful Vatican Gay Lobby, Italian Paper Claims- HuffingtonPost

• Vatican Slams Media Reports Of Gay Scandal- HuffingtonPost

• Gender and career, blackmail the Vatican behind the resignation of Benedict XVI- LaReupbblica.it (translated to English)

• Pope says Vatileaks probe will stay secret, adding intrigue to final days- WorldNews on NBC

• Vatileaks Scandal Exposes Secrets Of Pope’s Empire- The Daily Beast

• Vatileaks Scandal: Documents Expose Pope’s Frail Leadership- Spiegel Online

• The Catholic Church’s Vatileaks scandal: A guide- The Week

• Vatileaks scandal- Breaking News

• Pope’s ex-butler Paolo Gabriele gets 18-month sentence in ‘Vatileaks’ case- WorldNews NBC

• Did a Cross-Dressing Priest Sex Ring Bring Down Benedict XVI?- The Daily Beast

• Pope accused of crimes against humanity by victims of sex abuse- The Guardian UK

• GAYS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH- CatholicLeague.org

• Victims’ groups file charges against Vatican for ‘crimes against humanity’- CatholicCulture.org

• WI – Cardinal Dolan likely deposed today in Milwaukee Archdiocese bankruptcy, sex abuse cases- SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests)

• Vatican Approaches Conclave As Pool Of Pope Benedict XVI’s Possible Successors Dwindle- HuffingtonPost

• New Pope Conclave May Be Redesigned By Benedict XVI, Vatican Spokesman Confirms- HuffingtonPost

Yes, I did read all those articles and I did a little research on the VatiLeaks website. garbage. [NOT an endorsement: www. vatileaks. com/_blog/Vati_Leaks/post/Position_vacant_New_Pope_Wanted/]. What’s wrong with it, number one, is that it’s authored by a ghost writer who refuses to use his real name or ID, yet he states he’s exposing all of the Vatican’s dirty secrets. However, he is happy to sell his books on his websites to you. Secondly, from what I read he’s not a believer in Jesus at all.  Thus, his whole entire aim is to discredit the scriptures not just “expose” the Vatican. If this is the guy responsible for the red folder and the videos of priests caught on tape in disparaging acts than it looks more like a hit job than a real case of journalism. I’m sure there are gay priests in the Vatican and throughout the Catholic church. I don’t think there is one Catholic who would argue that gay men often run to that cloth to hide their real sin; and, I don’t discount that there are real cases of sexual abuse by pedophile priests in the Catholic Church. The church in Rome, the Catholic Church, and the church abroad, the other denominations and non-denominations all have the same fate of failure because they are based on a system of lies perpetuated by men. This is not the church of Christ, the body of the regenerate souls that are no longer in bonds to the condemnation of death from their sins. Those who cry out and receive Salvation in Christ alone are a part of the body of Christ that will inherit the real kingdom of God. It’s horrible that these sorts of actions happen inside churches made of hands, and I pray that those who are recovering from their circumstances don’t lose faith in Christ Jesus because of men who have sinned against them. This is why I don’t care who the pope is, because, the pope is not Christ Jesus, the pope is a man, a fallible man who cannot forgive sins and cannot redeem anyone. It is by Christ alone and His full accomplished work on the Cross by which we are saved. Please don’t look to man, not this man Ratzinger or any other man that follows him.

“10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: ¹¹ There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.¹² They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: ¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood:¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways:¹⁷ And the way of peace have they not known:¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.²⁰ Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;²⁴ Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶ To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.²⁷ Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.²⁸ Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.²⁹ Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:³⁰ Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.³¹ Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.” Romans 3:10-31

Continued Coverage of Christopher Dorner Case: Affidavit Released by Judge for Media

Dorner Affidavit Details Fugitive’s Alleged Shootings in Corona, Riverside

The document was filed Feb. 11 and it was put together by Riverside police Detective Greg Rowe, who requested at that time that it be sealed ‘due to the potential violence associated with the suspect and the threat to police officers and their families.’

• By Guy McCarthy released via Redlands Patch

The document was filed Feb. 11 and it was put together by Riverside police Detective Greg Rowe, who requested at that time that it be sealed “(d)ue to the potential violence associated with this suspect, the threat to police officers and their families, the on-going criminal investigation, the fact that Dorner continues to avoid arrest, and the media attention this case has received.”

Rowe stated in the declaration:

“On 2-7-13 at 0124 hours LAPD Officers were following up on threats in the City of Corona from a suspect, Christopher Dorner, who was wanted for a double murder in the City of Irvine. Dorner had written a manifesto in the social media alluding to his involvement in the murder of the couple in Irvine and outlining his desire to kill police officers from LAPD.

“Domer was identified as being a former LAPD officer who was fired, which he explained was his motivation for killing certain LAPD officers who were involved in his firing or their family members.

“LAPD Officers were contacted in Corona by a citizen, who saw the news coverage of Dorner and that he was wanted for the murders in Irvine, Ca. LAPD Officers located Domer and his vehicle a dark grey Nissan Titan pickup truck with CA license 8D83997 off Wierick Rd in Corona.

“LAPD Officers followed the vehicle to the area of Magnolia and the 15 freeway in Corona. While waiting for a backup to contact Domer, the suspect vehicle stopped and Domer exited firing multiple .223 caliber rounds from a rifle into the LAPD Officers vehicle.

“One of the officers received a grazing wound to his head. The vehicle was last seen fleeing eastbound Magnolia Ave from the shooting. An LAPD Officer positively identified Domer as the suspect who shot at he and his partner.”

At about 1:33 a.m., information was relayed to Riverside police advising Dorner was last seen eastbound on Magnolia Ave in the Nissan Titan towards Riverside, Rowe said in the declaration.

“A few seconds later RPD Officers put out over the radio an 11-99 request, that an officer had been shot,” Rowe stated. “Assisting officers from Riverside PD and surrounding agencies responded.

“An RPD Officer and his trainee were shot inside the police unit. The Officers were transported to Riverside Community Hospital. One of the officers was pronounced deceased at the hospital and the other received multiple gunshot wounds to both his arms.” Click on the link above “Redlands Patch” hyperlink to view the official affidavit in PDF form.

**See also this article with video of 2 of Dorner’s named targets from his “manifesto” talk to media about their ordeal:

Click here for full article Source KTLA