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Dangerous crossroads – A war on Syria, prelude to a World War III

by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research Analysis

In order to facilitate the action of liberative (sic) forces, …a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals. …[to] be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention, …

Once a political decision has been reached to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria, CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main (sic) incidents within Syria, working through contacts with individuals. …Incidents should not be concentrated in Damascus …

Further : a “necessary degree of fear .. frontier incidents and (staged) border clashes”, would “provide a pretext for intervention… the CIA and SIS [MI6] should use … capabilities in both psychological and action fields to augment tension.”(Joint US-UK leaked Intelligence Document, London and Washington, 1957).

Syria occupies a strategic location in the Middle East. The war on Syria is part of a roadmap of military undertakings. It is an integral part of a broader US-NATO-Israel military agenda directed not only against Iran, but also against Russia and China. Moreover, it is part of an extended military agenda which consists in establishing control over Middle East-Central Asian oil reserves as well as strategic oil and gas pipelines.

It is a component part of a broader process of war and of country level political destabilization in the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia.

The failures of the US sponsored Al Qaeda insurgency in Syria (launched in March 2011) integrated by mercenary forces and supported by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel have set now the stage for a conventional theater war involving the deployment of air force as well as boots on the ground.

The US and its allies are now accusing the Syrian government, without evidence of using Sarin gas against its own population, with a view to shaping a pretext to intervene militarily in Syria.

US, British, French and Israeli officials are currently involved in a round of consultations regarding the nature and timing of this operation.

Pretext to Wage War: The Kosovo Model

Referring to the so-called “Racak massacre”, which was a staged event used as a pretext for NATO’s intervention in Yugoslavia, Washington has hinted that it may use the precedent of the Kosovo Model (1999) with a view to justifying an R2P military mandate in Syria.

Ironically, while President Obama has called for military intervention, US intelligence has cast doubt on the official story, pointing to the fact that intelligence is shady and that there is no “smoking gun”:

An intercept of Syrian military officials discussing the strike was among low-level staff, with no direct evidence tying the attack back to an Assad insider or even a senior Syrian commander, the officials said.

So while Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that links between the attack and the Assad government are “undeniable,” U.S. intelligence officials are not so certain that the suspected chemical attack was carried out on Assad’s orders, or even completely sure it was carried out by government forces, the officials said. (AP, August 29, 2013):

Escalation is an integral part of the military agenda. Were a US-NATO military operation to be launched against Syria, the broader Middle East Central Asian region extending from North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with China would be engulfed in the turmoil of an extended regional war.

This war would inevitably spread to Lebanon and Jordan. Israel and Turkey would be actively involved both in the air campaign and the deployment of ground forces. America’s allies in the Gulf including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which have played a key role in recruiting and training the “rebels”, are also involved in the staging of this military operation. Iran and Russia are military allies of Syria. The crucial question is whether they will choose to actively side (from a military standpoint) with Syria if and when the attack is implemented.

Recent reports suggest that a cyber-warfare operation has been launched. Allied special forces are reported to have entered Syrian territory from Jordan and Turkey. British special forces are reported to be searching for Syrian air defense systems “in readiness for Allied strikes”.

Humanity is at dangerous crossroads

There are at present four distinct war theaters: Afghanistan-Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine and Libya.

An attack on Syria would lead to the integration of these separate war theaters, eventually leading towards a broader Middle East-Central Asian war.

Moreover, several other countries including Yemen, Somalia, Egypt, Mali, Niger, among others, are now strung in the midst of US sponsored “civil wars”, invariably leading to economic collapse, political instability and the demise of State institutions. In these countries, US military intervention often takes the form of counter-terrorism operations against Al Qaeda affiliated rebels (who are supported by US intelligence).

Public opinion is largely unaware of the grave implications of these war plans which could potentially lead humanity into a World War III scenario.

Moreover, an extended regional war in the Middle East and Central Asia will inevitably have repercussions in other regions of the World including South East Asia and the Far East, where the US is threatening North Korea, China as well as Russia as part of its “Pivot to Asia” strategy.

The US Sponsored Insurgency

“Mass civilian casualty events” play a central role in US military doctrine. Civilian casualties are triggered with a view to drumming up public support for war on humanitarian grounds.

What we are dealing with is a diabolical staged event of civilian deaths with a view to blaming the Syrian government and triggering a regional war.

From the very outset of the insurgency in Daraa in mid-March 2011, terrorist brigades –largely integrated by mercenaries– have been set loose inside Syria.

A pattern of media disinformation was set in motion. The deaths of civilians have consistently been blamed on the Syrian government. The mass civilian casualties and atrocities committed by so-called “revolutionaries” have been used to demonize the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad.

MI6, CIA and Mossad operatives as well as Western Special Forces had integrated rebel forces from the very outset. The high profile terrorist attacks were coordinated by highly trained military contractors and intelligence operatives:

Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal and Editor of the globalresearch.ca website. He is the author of The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003) and America’s “War on Terrorism”(2005). His most recent book is entitled Towards a conWorld War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011).

He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His writings have been published in more than twenty languages. He can be reached at crgeditor@yahoo.com.

– NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Due to its length, we are unable to publish the complete article in El Reportero. However, you may read the complete story in the link below. And, if there is no war by the time we print next week’s edition, we might continue publishing this article in parts.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/dangerous-crossroads-a-war-on-syria-prelude-to-a-world-war-iii-scenario/5347370.

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The secrete document that proves China considers the United States to be a mortal enemy

by Marvin Ramirez

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NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: The following is the second and last part of the article from Michael Snyder, of American Dream. He caves in much of what the mainstream media ignores, that China could be a hidden enemy in the bushes getting ready to attack. This is the last of a two-part series. PARTE 2 and LAST.

The secret document that proves China considers the United States to be a mortal enemy

by Michael Snyder
American Dream

And without a doubt, China is defeating the United States on a whole host of fronts right now. The following examples are from one of my previous articles entitled “40 Ways That China Is Beating America“…

#1 When you total up all imports and exports of goods, China is now the number one trading nation on the entire planet.

#2 During 2012, we sold about 110 billion dollars worth of stuff to the Chinese, but they sold about 425 billion dollars worth of stuff to us. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.

#3 Overall, the U.S. has run a trade deficit with China over the past decade that comes to more than 2.3 trillion dollars.

#4 China now has the largest new car market in the entire world.

#5 China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else on the planet.

#6 China is the number one gold producer in the world.

#7 China is also the number one gold importer in the world.

#8 The uniforms for the U.S. Olympic team were made in China.

#9 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China.

#10 The new World Trade Center tower is going to include glass that has been imported from China.

#11 The new Martin Luther King memorial on the National Mall was made in China.

#12 One of the reasons it is so hard to export stuff to China is because of their tariffs. According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs.

#13 The Chinese economy has grown 7 times faster than the U.S. economy has over the past decade.

#14 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

#15 The United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs per month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

#16 Overall, the United States has lost a total of more than 56,000manufacturing facilities since 2001.

#17 According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.

#18 China now produces more than twice as many automobiles as the United States does.

#19 Since the auto industry bailout, approximately 70 percent of all GM vehicles have been built outside the United States.

#20 After being bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, General Motors is currently involved in 11 joint ventures with companies owned by the Chinese government. The price for entering into many of these “joint ventures” was a transfer of “state of the art technology” from General Motors to the communist Chinese.

#21 Back in 1998, the United States had 25 percent of the world’s high-tech export market and China had just 10 percent. Ten years later, the United States had less than 15 percent and China’s share had soared to 20 percent.

#22 The United States has lost more than a quarter of all of its hightech manufacturing jobs over the past ten years.

#23 China’s number one export to the U.S. is computer equipment, but the number one U.S. export to China is “scrap and trash”.

#24 The U.S. trade deficit with China is now more than 30 times larger than it was back in 1990.

#25 China now consumes more energy than the United States does.

#26 China is now the leading manufacturer of goods in the entire world.

#27 China uses more cement than the rest of the world combined.

#28 China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe.

#29 There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork producing nationscombined.

#30 Today, China produces nearly twice as much beer as the United States does.

#31 Right now, China is producing more than three times as much coal as the United States does.

#33 China now produces 11 times as much steel as the United States does.

#34 China produces more than 90 percent of the global supply of rare earth elements.

# 35 China is now the number one supplier of components that are critical to the operation of U.S. defense systems.

#36 A recent investigation by the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services found more than one million counterfeit Chinese parts in the Department of Defense supply chain.

#37 15 years ago, China was 14th in the world in published scientific research articles. But now, China is expected to pass the United States and become number one very shortly.

# 38 China now awards more doctoral degrees in engineering each year than the United States does.

#39 The average household debt load in the United States is 136% of average household income. In China, the average household debt load is 17% of average household income.

#40 The Chinese have begun to buy up huge amounts of U.S. real estate.

In fact, Chinese citizens purchased one out of every ten homes that were sold in the state of California in 2011.

Sadly, most of the people that will end up reading this article will not take it seriously.

In fact, there will inevitably be quite a few comments left after this article mocking the idea that China considers us to be “the enemy”.

A lot of Americans have been deluded into thinking that China “needs us” and that they always will. But that is not how the Chinese think. Once they have extracted as much wealth and technology from us as they want, they will have no problem turning on us.

The Chinese truly believe that their system is superior to ours and that they will win in the end. Most Americans will never understand this until it is far too late.

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It has happened here, and now what?

by Luke Hiken

In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote a satirical novel entitled It Can’t Happen Here. In the book, a democratically elected President transforms the country into a totalitarian, ruthless regime, relying upon patriotic rhetoric and fear to dominate and control a docile populace.

Just as Lewis predicted it would, it has happened here:

1) Those who identify and expose government misconduct are labeled as traitors and criminals.

2) The bankers and corporations who gambled with the money entrusted to them get off Scot free for the theft of untold trillions of dollars, while the world’s people are forced into conditions of austerity and economic survival. The poor are prosecuted for trying to survive, while the rich are immunized from any negative consequences for their crimes.

3) The U.S. government spies on its entire population, and arrogantly insists upon the right to do so.

4) The U.S., and its overseas puppet, NATO, wage war upon every nation that opposes U.S. economic hegemony over the world. The presence of hundreds of U.S. military bases on every continent bolsters U.S. control over the world’s people.

5) Result-oriented judges, appointed by obedient politicians, immunize transnational corporations and military aggressors for every abuse inflicted upon the working and poor people of the world.

6) Health care, education, and retirement security are reserved solely for the rich, while the poor, minorities, and elderly are left to die and suffer in poverty.

7) The so-called “political parties” are merely servants and handmaidens to transnational corporations, serving their economic masters at the expense of everyone else.

8) The mass media mouths the corporate propaganda of the moment obediently and without question.

9) Prisons, violence and war are the primary vehicles used by the State to control an ever more rebellious and dissatisfied population.

10) Civil rights, voting rights and personal freedoms are viewed as privileges reserved for the rich.

11) Dissent equals treason, and those who oppose authoritarian rule are labeled enemies of the state.

In Lewis’ novel, a disillusioned citizenry eventually rebels and takes up arms against the dictatorial regime that has seized control of the United States. In the book, the ultimate outcome is left in doubt.

For those of us who fear the parallels between Sinclair’s nightmare, and the current military-industrial cabal that runs today’s world, the question arises as to whether the military resistance described by Sinclair is the only avenue of recourse available against the government’s common enemy. If so, we are in serious trouble in this enemycountry. The Pentagon is not only complicit with the corporate-controlled state, but it’s main proponent.

In Sinclair’s book, it is a rebellious faction of the military that fights back against the repressive state. That has not been the case for other revolutionary struggles almost anywhere during the last century. Instead, revolutionary cadres, underground organizations and unorganized rebellious citizens have initiated struggles against the state, and only when the masses came to their assistance were the revolutionaries able to create and sustain an armed force capable of fighting those in power.

In virtually all of the successful revolutions of the last century, there was a political leadership that put forward a vision of what an alternative state would look like, and how it could avoid the fascist tendencies of the current oligarchy. For many struggles, the resistance adopted the mantle of communist revolution (Russia, China, Cuba), in others it was a nationalist, democratic vision that was put forward (South Africa, Venezuela). But in the U.S., there is no unity as to what a different form of government would or should look like.

Americans realize that our present government represents only the interests of the rich, and uses the “electoral process” as a charade to force the poor to act against their own interests and support the racist, reactionary program put forth by their corporate owners. Nonetheless, Americans are years away from unifying around a politics that would replace those in power with a more democratic leadership. In spite of the reality facing us every day, Americans still believe that the problem lies not with our form of government, but with the people we “elect.” That level of naiveté deserves the beating it is taking.

In fact, there are no forms of government that cannot be twisted to serve the interests of the few against the needs of the many. What is needed is a social consciousness as to how to create a democratic, participatory process that meets the needs of the society as a whole, and not merely a handful of billionaires. It is not so much a question as to what structure will enforce such principles, but rather how to unite the masses of people to pursue a common goal.

The list of how and why democracy prevails is as long as the history of social uprisings, themselves.

The ossified, selfperpetuating autocracy that the U.S. government has become is not an indicia of the success of the “American dream,” rather it is the essence of why the citizens of this country are disenfranchised, disillusioned, and ignored by a corporate autocracy loyal only to its own class interests, and not to any particular nation.

Throughout the world today, one nation after another is rejecting American domination – in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, China and elsewhere. As the Pentagon attempts to coerce the international community to support its repressive efforts against those who speak out against U.S. imperialism, a growing number of nations offer sanctuary and asylum to U.S. “enemies.” The American people themselves would honor and applaud the Bradley Mannings and Eric Snowdens of the world, if this government did not manipulate and monitor the propaganda campaigns against them. Sinclair ’s predictions parallel those of all great writers from Socrates to Marx, to the effect that totalitarian regimes sow the seeds of their own destruction.

Forward looking Americans will reject the patriotic tripe urged upon us by the corporate media and join with other progressive forces worldwide, who seek to dismantle the stranglehold that transnational corporations and their G8 allies hold over the governments of the world. Such actions don’t constitute treason; they represent the only means by which working people internationally can regain democratic control over our lives. Saluting the flag, honoring our mercenaries, and glorifying the rich, are nothing short of collective suicide. The corporate military coup has already happened here, and the true patriotic response is to recognize it and overthrow it.

(Luke Hiken is an attorney who has engaged in the practice of criminal, military, immigration, and appellate law).

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Gael García Bernal to depict a undocumented immigrant in new film

by the El Reportero wire services

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Actor Gael García Bernal will star in the next Jonas Cuaron movie, in which he will play an undocumented Mexican immigrant trying to enter the United States illegally, Deadline Hollywood said.

The film will be called “Desierto” (Desert) and will be produced by Esperanto Kino, Itaca Films, BN Films and Canana Productions, of which Garcia Bernal is co-owner.

The screenplay was written by Mateo García and the young Cuaron, who is also co-author of Gravity, a soon-to-premiere film produced by his father Alfonso with co-stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock.

The plot of Desierto has the character played by García Bernal finding love while trying to escape from an American vigilante who sees himself as the border patrol.

Rita Moreno hopes to see more Latino actors in starring roles

Puerto Rican actress Rita Moreno said on her native island that she expects Hollywood moviemakers to offer more starring roles to Hispanic actors, just as it does to artists from other parts of the world.

Moreno, 81, said during a showing of the documentary Latino Americans, in which she participated, that racial discrimination is still a problem in the mecca of American movies, though not as much as it was decades ago.

“The door is open, but not all the way. I keep hoping to see a role for a man or woman, actor or actress, which could win them an Oscar, but that hasn’t happened,” Moreno said at the University of Turabo in this eastern Puerto Rican city of Gurabo.

Moreno, the first and up to now the only Hispanic actress to win an Emmy, an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Grammy and a Tony, recalled that she suffered some of that same discrimination when she was acting Franciscothe part of Anita in the movie West Side Story, which eventually won her some very prestigious awards.
Moreno, born in the town of Humacao in the southeastern part of the U.S. commonwealth but who grew up in the mainland United States from the time she was 5, recalled that “it wasn’t a very good thing to be a Puerto Rican” in those days because of the ugly names she was called for being a Latino woman.

But she got over that oppressive feeling, she said, while studying the role of Anita, described as a woman who “had courage, dignity, strength and self-respect,” which made Moreno think again, overcome her fears and take pride in being Latino.

The documentary Latino Americans will premiere Sept. 17 on PBS public television. The project explores the influence of Latinos in the transformation of America over more than 500 years.

The feature-length film, which lasts six hours, will be aired in the United States on three consecutive Tuesdays to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins in September.

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5th Annual San Francisco Latino Film Fesival

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

A Mamacoalt painting by artist Gabriel Pardo. (GRAPHIC BY GABRIEL PARDO)A Mamacoalt painting by artist Gabriel Pardo. (GRAPHIC BY GABRIEL PARDO)

Cine+Mas SF Latino Film Festival in theatres and cultural centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, screening award winning and critically acclaimed documentary and feature films throughout Latin America, South America and the USA.

The audience will have the opportunity to participate in discussions with local and visiting filmmakers after many of the screenings. Films are screened in their original language with English subtitles. Opening night at the Victoria Theater, on Thursday, September 12, and the festival start on September 13, 2012, doors open 7 p.m. For more info visit www.sflatinofilmfestival.org or call 415-826-7057.

Mamacoalt and singer and actress Alejandra Tejeda Rieloff

Tangos con Chile presents, Mamacoatl, a healer, a poetess, and musician in the Mission district, who has for years been melding music and traditions of Mexico and California. She will perform her music in the neighborhood.

Her debut album Border Crossing Diosa is a testimony of migration and womanhood, a historical document of poetry, prayer and protest.

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Mamacoatl will be accompanied by pianist Damian Núñez and singer Claudio Santome, including jazz singer and actress Alexandra Tejeda Rieloff with a danza in a night of cabaret. Carlos Barón will be the narrator. It will be a show you will not want to miss!!

On Saturday, September 21, 7 p.m., at the Red Puppy Art House, 2698 Folsom Street, San Francisco, for more info call 415-826-2402.

Acting classes at Nahual Theater

We continue with acting classes for the youth and adults, every Saturday morning at the hall of National Hispanic University.

Requirements: desire and eagerness to learn a technique of performance, availability of time, look forward to having fun and participating in the next play with us.

Since 2004, Theatre Nahual has been developing a methodology to teach acting classes totally in Spanish to the Hispanic population in the Bay Area. Nahual Theatre has the mission to bring education and entertainment THROUGHOUT the English language plays. In Addition, this community theater organization has supported the arts giving Opportunities to mature and young artists, musicians and writers: such as to Promote Their talents and solidify With The wonderful theatrical experience.

The acting Classes with Theatre Nahual will start this month in a classroom at the National Hispanic 14271 Story Road. San Jose, CA. For more information dial: (650) 793-0783 or send an e-mail to: info@teatronahual.org. Website: www.teatronahual.org.

Since 2004, Teatro Nahual has been developing a methodology to teach acting classes totally in Spanish to the Hispanic population in the Bay Area. Teatro Nahual has the mission to bring education and entertainment throughout the Spanish language plays.

In addition, this community theater organization has supported the arts giving opportunities to mature and young artists, such as musicians and writers to promote and solidify their talents with the wonderful theatrical experience.

The acting classes with Teatro Nahual will start this month in a classroom of the National Hispanic 14271 Story Road. San Jose, California. For more information dial: (650) 793-0783 or send an e-mail to: info@teatronahual.org. Website: www.teatronahual.org.

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Boxing

The Sport of Gentlemen

September 14, 2013 Showtime Ppv Las Vegas, NV

Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul “Canelo” Álvarez 12 rounds, Ring Magazine, Wba/Wbc junior middleweight unification.

Mayweather v Canelo Undercard: Danny Garcia vs. Lucas Matthysse 12 rounds, for Garcia’s Ring Magazine, Wba/Wbc junior welterweight title

Mayweather v Canelo Undercard: Ishe Smith vs. Carlos Molina 12 rounds, for Smith’s IBF junior middleweight title.

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XKeystone: Instrument of mass surveillance

A protester rallies holding a poster against Obama administration’s unconstitucional spying on Americans.

by Stephen LendmanEvidence mounts. America crossed the line. It operates lawlessly. It reflects police state ruthlessness. Big Brother’s real. It watches everyone.
It’s about control, espionage and intimidation. It targets fundamental freedoms. It has nothing to do with national security. America’s only threats are ones it invents. It does so for political advantage.
On July 31, London’s Guardian headlined “XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the Internet.’ ”
Evidence mounts. America crossed the line. It operates lawlessly. It reflects police state ruthlessness. Big Brother’s real. It watches everyone.
It’s about control, espionage and intimidation. It targets fundamental freedoms. It has nothing to do with national security. America’s only threats are ones it invents. It does so for political advantage.

On July 31, London’s Guardian headlined “XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the Internet.’ ”

It “gives ‘widest reading’ collection of online data. NSA analysts require no prior authorizations for searches.” They sweep up “emails, social media and browsing history.”

Every keystroke enters a database. NSA training materials call XKeyscore its “widest-reaching” online intelligence gathering tool. Agency officials call it their Digital Network Intelligence (DNI). It collects “nearly everything a typical user does on the internet.”

London’s Guardian used classified information. It’s sourced from a February 2008 presentation. It’s about meta-data mining. It’s chilling. It’s worst than previously thought.

It explains what Edward Snowden meant, saying:

“I, sitting at my desk, (can) wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email” address.

At the time, US officials scoffed. House Republican Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chairman Mike Rogers said:

“He’s lying. It’s impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do.”

According to Guardian contributor Glenn Greenwald:

XKeyscore lets analysts “mine enormous agency databases by filling in a simple on-screen form giving only a broad justification for the search.”

“The request is not reviewed by a court or any NSA personnel before it is processed.”

Agency personnel use XKeyscore and other systems for “real-time” interception of personal online activity.

US statutes require FISA warrants when targeting a “US person.” It doesn’t matter. NSA operates extrajudicially. XKeyscore permits doing so with technological ease.

It lets analysts search meta-data, emails, and other online activity. They can do it with “no known email account (a ‘selector’) in NSA parlance) associated with the individual being targeted.”

“Analysts can also search by name, telephone number, IP address, keywords, the language in which the internet activity was conducted or the type of browser used.”

A December 2012 slide titled “plug-ins” explains easily accessed information fields.

They include “every email address seen in a session by both username and domain, every phone number seen in a session (eg address book entries or signature block), and user activity.”

It includes webmail, usernames, buddylists, and machine specific cookies, etc.

According to Snowden, XKeyscore lets analysts conduct “searches within bodies of emails, webpages and documents.”

They can access “To, From, CC, BCC, (and) ‘Contact Us’ pages on websites.” Analysts can monitor anyone. They can read and save their personal communications.

Doing so simply requires “clicking a few simple pull-down menus designed to provide both legal and targeting justifications.”

Fourth Amendment rights don’t matter. Privacy no longer exists.

Amounts of information collected are “staggeringly large.” One – two billion records are added daily. Information gathered is so voluminous, it can only be stored for three to five days. Meta-data is kept 30 days.

NSA solves the problem by “creat(ing) a multi-tiered system that allows analysts to store ‘interesting’ content in other databases.”

In 2012, over 40 billion records were collected and stored monthly. Americans are lawlessly monitored. Warrant authorization isn’t gotten.

NSA lied telling the Guardian:

Its “activities are focused and specifically deployed against – and only against – legitimate foreign intelligence targets in response to requirements that our leaders need for information necessary to protect our nation and its interests.”

“XKeyscore is used as a part of NSA’s lawful foreign signals intelligence collection system.”

“Allegations of widespread, unchecked analyst access to NSA collection data are simply not true.”

“Access to XKeyscore, as well as all of NSA’s analytic tools, is limited to only those personnel who require access for their assigned tasks.”

“In addition, there are multiple technical, manual and supervisory checks and balances within the system to prevent deliberate misuse from occurring.”

“Every search by an NSA analyst is fully auditable, to ensure that they are proper and within the law.”

“These types of programs allow us to collect the information that enables us to perform our missions successfully – to defend the nation and to protect US and allied troops abroad.”

At issue is control, espionage and intimidation. Fundamental freedoms are targeted. Claiming national security priorities doesn’t wash. It’s one of many big lies. Obama officials lied.

They claim surveillance isn’t authorized without demonstrable suspicions. Monitoring, they say, is subject to FISA court oversight. It’s illegitimate. It authorizes virtually all requests. It operates extrajudicially.

It’s been around for 35 years. No case ever went to the Supreme Court.

Things are getting worse.

Freedom’s disappearing in plain sight. Congress and federal courts are co-conspirators. Congress members’ criticisms ring hollow. Legislation prohibiting lawless spying could stop it.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper committed perjury. He lied to Congress. He said NSA doesn’t spy on Americans. Clear evidence proves otherwise. Holding him accountable won’t follow.

Congress approves lawlessness. So do federal courts.

Big Brother is official policy. Political Washington supports it. August 4 is 1984 Day. Nationwide rallies are planned.

Thousands are expected to participate. “Big Brothers have seen enough,” they say. Sustained public pressure’s essential. Congressional inaction demands it.

On July 31, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) headlined “Huge Global Coalition Stands Against Unchecked Surveillance.”

Over 100 organizations endorsed 13 protect human rights principles. Doing so challenges lawless spying.

They advise “on how surveillance laws should respect the law, due process, and include public oversight and transparency.”

According to EFF’s Danny O’Brien:

“It’s time to restore human rights to their place at the very heart of the surveillance debate.”

“Widespread government spying on communications interferes with citizens’ ability to enjoy a private life, and to freely express themselves – basic rights we all have.”

“These principles announced today represent a global consensus that modern surveillance has gone too far and must be restrained.”

Organizations involved represent over 40 nations. “International human rights law binds every country across the globe to a basic respect for freedom of expression and personal privacy,” said EFF’s Katitza Rodriguez.

“The pervasiveness of surveillance makes standing up for our digital rights more important than ever.”

“We know that surveillance laws need to be transparent and proportionate, with judicial oversight, and that surveillance should only be used when absolutely necessary.”

Operating this way assures tyranny. It’s practically full-blown. Police states operate this way. America’s by far the worst.

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33 shoking facts which show how badly the economy has tanked since Obama became president

by Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse

Barack Obama has been running around the country taking credit for an “economic recovery”, but the truth is that things have not gotten better under Obama.

Compared to when he first took office, a smaller percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our jobs has declined substantially and the middle class has been absolutely shredded. If we are really in the middle of an “economic recovery”, why is the homeownership rate the lowest that it has been in 18 years? Why has the number of Americans on food stamps increased by nearly 50 percent while Obama has been in the White House? Why has the national debt gotten more than 6 trillion dollars larger during the Obama era? Obama should not be “taking credit” for anything when it comes to the economy. In fact, he should be deeply apologizing to the American people.

And of course Obama is being delusional if he thinks that he is actually “running the economy”. The Federal Reserve has far more power over the U.S. economy and the U.S. financial system than he does. But the mainstream media loves to fixate on the presidency, so presidents always get far too much credit or far too much blame for economic conditions.

But if you do want to focus on “the change” that has taken place since Barack Obama entered the White House, there is no way in the world that you can claim that things have actually gotten better during that time frame. The cold, hard reality of the matter is that the U.S. economy has been steadily declining for over a decade, and this decline has continued while Obama has been living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

It is getting very tiring listening to Obama supporters try to claim that Obama has improved the economy. That is a false claim that is not even remotely close to reality. The following are 33 shocking facts which show how badly the U.S. economy has tanked since Obama became president…

#1 When Barack Obama entered the White House, 60.6 percent of working age Americans had a job. Today, only 58.7 percent of working age Americans have a job.

#2 Since Obama has been president, seven out of every eight jobsthat have been “created” in the U.S. economy have been part-time jobs.

#3 The number of full-time workers in the United States is still nearly 6 million below the old record that was set back in 2007.

#4 It is hard to believe, but an astounding 53 percent of all American workers now make less than $30,000 a year.

#5 40 percent of all workers in the United States actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968.

#6 When the Obama era began, the average duration of unemployment in this country was 19.8 weeks. Today, it is 36.6 weeks.

#7 During the first four years of Obama, the number of Americans “not in the labor force” soared by an astounding 8,332,000. That far exceeds any previous four year total.

#8 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the middle class is taking home a smaller share of the overall income pie than has ever been recorded before.

#9 When Obama was elected, the homeownership rate in the United States was 67.5 percent. Today, it is 65.0 percent. That is the lowest that it has been in 18 years.

#10 When Obama entered the White House, the mortgage delinquency rate was 7.85 percent. Today, it is 9.72 percent.

#11 In 2008, the U.S. trade deficit with China was 268 billion dollars. Last year, it was 315 billion dollars.

#12 When Obama first became president, 12.5 million Americans had manufacturing jobs. Today, only 11.9 million Americans have manufacturing jobs.

#13 Median household income in America has fallen for four consecutive years. Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span.

#14 The poverty rate has shot up to 16.1 percent. That is actually higher than when the War on Poverty began in 1965.

#15 During Obama’s first term, the number of Americans on food stamps increased by an average of about 11,000 per day.

#16 When Barack Obama entered the White House, there were about 32 million Americans on food stamps. Today, there are more than 47 million Americans on food stamps.

#17 At this point, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless. This is the first time that has ever happened in our history. That number has risen by 57 percent since the 2006-2007 school year.

#18 When Barack Obama took office, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $1.85. Today, it is $3.53.

#19 Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.

#20 Health insurance costs have risen by 29 percent since Barack Obama became president, and Obamacare is going to make things far worse.

#21 The United States has fallen in the global economic competitiveness rankings compiled by the World Economic Forum for four years in a row.

#22 According to economist Tim Kane, the following is how the number of startup jobs per 1000 Americans breaks down by presidential administration…

Bush Sr.: 11.3

Clinton: 11.2

Bush Jr.: 10.8

Obama: 7.8

#23 In 2008, that total amount of student loan debt in this country was 440 billion dollars. At this point, it has shot up to about a trillion dollars.

#24 According to one recent survey, 76 percent of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

#25 During Obama’s first term, the number of Americans collecting federal disability insurance rose by more than 18 percent.

#26 The total amount of money that the federal government gives directly to the American people has grown by 32 percent since Barack Obama became president.

#27 According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation conducted by the U.S. Census, well over 100 million Americans are enrolled in at least one welfare program run by the federal government.

#28 As I wrote about the other day, American households are now receiving more money directly from the federal government than they are paying to the government in taxes.

#29 Under Barack Obama, the velocity of money (a very important indicator of economic health) has plunged to a post-World War II low.

#30 At the end of 2008, the Federal Reserve held $475.9 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds. Today, Fed holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds have skyrocketed past the 2 trillion dollar mark.

#31 When Barack Obama was first elected, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio was under 70 percent. Today, it is up to 101 percent.

#32 During Obama’s first term, the federal government accumulated more new debt than it did under the first 42 U.S presidents combined.

#33 When you break it down, the amount of new debt accumulated by the U.S. government during Obama’s first term comes to approximately$50,521 for every single household in the United States. Are you able to pay your share?

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Correa takes big risk by bailing on Ysumí

by the El Reportero’s wire services

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Reports LatinNews – Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has taken several gambles since coming to power in 2007 – but none bigger than now. Correa signed an executive decree on 15 August paving the way for the exploitation of oil in the Yasuní national park.

He blamed “the world” for failing to back his government’s innovative proposal to pay Ecuador to leave the oil untapped, but in truth he had long since split from the “infantile leftists” with which he co-founded the ruling Alianza País (AP), and departed from the spirit of Pachamama which infuses his constitution.

He has embraced extractive industries to spur Ecuador’s development even more than his neoliberal forebears. Yasuní, however, was the last redoubt, a source of national pride cultivated by his government. Indigenous groups and an emasculated opposition now have a rallying point for protests.

PRD launches offensive to prevent privatization of Petroleos Mexicano

With no change to the Constitution, progressive, nationalist and patriotic, defined the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) its energy reform proposal presented today to transform national oil enterpirise Pemex, but without privatization. Engineer Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, founder of the party and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who expropriated the Mexican energy resources in 1938, presented on behalf of PRD Monday which promotes to change the energy regime without making any change in the Constitution.

It includes changes to 12 secondary laws among which reduce the tax to which it is subjected Pemex, described by Cuauhtemoc as confiscatory, economically irrational and financially unsustainable.

Cardenas said on the esplanade of the Monument to the Revolution, where the initiative was launched, that he was available full time to unleash a campaign to prevent the government and the Mexican rightwing to fufil its claims of privatization of hydrocarbons.

He appreciated the importance of promoting a referendum, given the case that the majority of the Congress approves, with the vote against from patriots, he said the reforms aimed by the Executive to change the Articles 27 and 28 of the Mexican Magna Carta.

In that case, he argued, would need a million 635 000 voters to query the first Sunday in July 2015 that he would call federal

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Before he explained that PRD reforms have among their objective to prolong oil reserves; gradually decrease export of resources, development of productive chains, increase production capacity and refining, and build new facilities.

The proposals of PRD, he argued, seek grant budgetary autonomy and management of Pemex and CFE, and transform both public companies.

They are also designed to reduce him the tax burden to that entity; boost energy transition as well as giving a new destination to the resources of surplus oil for example to areas of priority such as education and health.

In the first part of his speech Cuauhtemoc Cardenas evaluated the reform initiative filed Monday by President Enrique Pena Nieto, which in his opinion threatens the sovereignty and independent development of the nation.

He noted that the official exchange search amend Articles 27 and 28 of the Constitution but also incomplete because nothing says nor secondary legislation provides specific elements that underpin how to achieve competitiveness for Pemex.

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Amazing research: Fish oil found to reverse liver disease in childre

by Jonathan Benson

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have made a breakthrough discovery that could mean the end of liver disease in children with intestinal failure. Published in the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the findings from their new study reveal that intravenous injections of fish oil, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, are capable of completely reversing liver disease, thus eliminating the need for liver transplants and other drastic medical interventions.
Entitled “Six Months of Intravenous Fish Oil Reverses Pediatric Intestinal Failure Associated Liver Disease,” the study involved testing the effects of intravenous fish oil treatment on a group of 10 children between the ages of two weeks and 18 years old. Each of the children in this group had been diagnosed with advanced intestinal failure-associated liver disease, a high-risk health condition that, for many of the people diagnosed with it, ends in early death.

These children were given the novel treatment for a total of six months, and their outcomes were compared to a group of 20 children who also had the disease but were given conventional treatment rather than the fish oil. Compared to this conventional control group, the fish oil group experienced dramatic recovery — after just 17 weeks of treatment, 80 percent of the children in the fish oil group experienced a complete recovery from their liver disease.

“With this particular study, we set out to determine if a finite period of six months of intravenous fish oil could safely reverse liver damage in these children, and we have had some promising results,” says Dr. Kara Calkins, a physician and assistant professor at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital Department of Neonatology and Developmental Biology, about the findings.

Current FDA-approved treatment protocol involves injecting children with GMO soybean oil So what did the children in the control group receive for their treatment?

Shockingly, they were given an injection of soybean oil, as this is the only treatment currently approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Despite the fact that a miniscule percentage of children given soybean oil derive any benefits whatsoever — the vast majority of soy-based products like soybean oil are also genetically-modified (GM), which carries its own inherent dangers — this is what the FDA considers to be “safe” and “effective” treatment for intestinal failure-associated liver disease.

“[B]ecause intravenous fish oil is not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration and is much more costly than soybean oil, it is typically not covered by insurance,” adds Dr. Calkins about the barriers to using fish oil. “As a result, this oil is considered experimental and is currently available only under special protocols. If it proves safe and effective for patients, we hope it would eventually be available for wider use.”

Study also reveals that soybean oil is a highly-toxic poison that can kill children

Besides its complete ineffectiveness — compared to fish oil’s 80 percent success rate after 17 weeks of treatment, soybean oil was found to be only five percent effective — the study also reveals that the conventional soybean oil treatment is highly toxic and often leads to early death in children. According to a UCLA study press release, soybean oil injections can actually cause intestinal failure-associated liver disease, which, in turn, can lead to early mortality.

Previous studies have already demonstrated the merits of intravenous fish oil injections over conventional soybean oil injections with regards to treating intestinal failure-associated liver disease, but none of them determined an appropriate duration for treatment.

Thanks to this new study, experts hope the FDA will eventually approve fish oil as a preferable treatment option over soybean oil, which has now been proven to be ineffective and completely unsafe.

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