President Obama’s Interview on Charlie Rose (part of transcript)

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: Obama’s latest crap deconstructed on Hacker News

Obama hit the PR bricks the other day for an interview to be aired last night with Charlie Rose. He cited the Najibullah Zazi case as proof the blanket spying program works, which of course has been soundly dis-proven by many others, including myself. He completely forgot that he has already gone on record saying we can’t have 100% privacy and 100% security now claiming we don’t have to sacrifice one for the other. Then he goes on to contradict himself while remarkable claiming “tradeoffs” like random DUI checkpoints and TSA high school flunkies sticking their hands on your junk are just fine and dandy. “Checkpoints”. You do know that is what the Israelis set up in the West Bank to intimidate and limit the travel of the Palestinians, right? “Checkpoints”… “show me your papers”… Obama then says he sees it as his job to find the “right balance” for us to have to live with. Remember, congress is immune from this kind of collection of personal data as is the president and his family. Obama will never have to go through a “checkpoint” as long as he lives and neither will his children. Neither will the head of Goldman Sachs or Walmart for that matter and you can bet your bottom dollar the “Edward Snowden” character couldn’t get their hands on their phone calls either. Then both Rose and Obama felt the need to praise the NSA like groveling sycophants to power. In the end, and this is only part of the transcript, Obama claims he set up a “privacy and civil liberties oversight board” where he and others will sit around and “set up” the national conversation about the “right balance” we have to come to as a nation. He also stated it’s not just “big guberment” with their smudged little paws on your data and recorded phone calls “because this is not going to be restricted to government entities.”

(see part of the transcript after the break)

Dave Lindorff Defines “Limited Hangout” and “Controlled Opposition”

by Scott Creighton (H/T mangrove)

Dave Lindorff recently wrote a childishly petty diatribe about Naomi Wolf because she dared to ask questions about the legitimacy of the Edward Snowden psyop. His baseless attack on her reasoned article amounts to little more than screeching “how dare she attack our new hero? She must be NSA”

There are tons of reasons to be more than a little suspicious of the Snowden psyop. I myself have been pointing them out one by one every day since the story broke. You can check my archives on the subject and you can also check the comment sections of the various articles for good information on the facts of the case which are leading more and more to the conclusion that something is very wrong with the whole story… it seems to have been produced rather than coming out organically. The hysterics from various “alternative” journalists lends more credibility to my conclusion.

A reader posted a rather complete list of many of those irregularities here. I am going to repost his list at the end of this article in order to emphasis the fact that there are many many problems with the story, not none like Lindorff seems to think.

I myself am on pace to lose several regular readers over my take on the little trick. That has happened before. I won’t lose sleep over it.

What gets me though is how deeply connected people become to these psyops. I understand how identity politics works. I understand how people like to see images of themselves on screen or people who they would HOPE to see come along and lead the way to a better tomorrow always seem to fit the ticket of what a marketing campaign would come up with. Then once they invest so much of themselves in BELIEF they are always extremely reluctant to see the forest for the trees.

In the case of Lindorff, I will not dignify his diatribe with discussion of his particular points of “proof”

But I will say what he has done is the worst kind of smear tactics you can imagine, asking in the title of his screeching attack if Naomi Wolf is now working for the NSA.

Guardian and Greenwald Jump the Shark With Live Chat Interview with Edward Snowden

by Scott Creighton

In what has got to be the most obvious “jump the shark” moment in modern journalism, Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian announced this morning at 9 am eastern that there would be a live chat interview with their fabricated hero Edward Snowden starting at 11 eastern.

It was a credibility infomercial that their little psyop desperately needed considering so many on the left and the right are starting to smell a rat.( See Naomi Wolf ) Imagine Glenn Greenwald in a leather jacket on water-skis flying over a pen with a fake shark in it and you get the picture.

The Real Story Behind the Spying Program: Privatized Hit Lists for Our New Neoliberal Totalitarian State

by Scott Creighton

As I have written before, this is not about catching terrorists before they strike. They have been scoping up your personal data and communications for over a decade knowing full well that you aren’t a terrorist while so-called “terrorist” attacks and lone-wolf mass casualty events occur on a regular basis. The American Gladio operation is well underway as the neoliberalization of America proceeds on schedule.

This isn’t about collecting information to protect us from the terrorists, the people collecting the data and putting it to use are the terrorists.

This is a modern day version of every neoliberalization program the CIA, Chamber of Commerce, the Chicago Boys and the IMF have ever run with a slight twist: privatization. This is about collecting the names of those who will be a problem in the future when the brick of our economic reforms slams down on this country once and for all. It’s about a massive algorithm program that takes all your information in and predicts who the trouble-makers will be. It’s about creating a modern day death squad hit-list for our new totalitarian state and nothing more.

Below are two quick quotes from scholarly articles about two supposedly separate moments in time which are actually connected by a long process of gradual usurpation and unconstitutional power grabbing.

They are the crux of what I have been warning about since I started this website almost 6 years ago to the day.

Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Glenn Greenwald Goes “Full Retard”

by Scott Creighton

The other day I wondered if the Guardian set Glenn up for a fall on this one. I figured maybe they told him they vetted this new NSA whistle-blower and sent him off to Hong Kong to meet a high-school drop-out with his Rubic’s Cube in what appeared to be a secret meeting scenario written by the former writing staff of Get Smart. Turn’s out I wasn’t far off…

“Thus far we have revealed four independent programs: the bulk collection of telephone records, the PRISM program, Obama’s implementation of an aggressive foreign and domestic cyber-operations policy, and false claims by NSA officials to Congress. Every one of those articles was vetted by multiple Guardian editors and journalists – not just me. Democratic partisans have raised questions about only one of the stories – the only one that happened to be also published by the Washington Post (and presumably vetted by multiple Post editors and journalists) – in order to claim that an alleged inaccuracy in it means our journalism in general is discredited.” Glenn Greenwald

Yes Mr. Greenwald, when you make an inaccurate statement in your article, your journalism is discredited. If you come out backing some sudden NSA whistle-blower as the next Daniel Elsburg and then it turns out he’s a high school drop-out flake with no real intel to speak of, your really going to be discredited. And unfortunately I fear you don’t really understand that is why you and the filmmaker, the Academy Award-nominated Laura Poitras, were specifically requested by the career NSA employee and manufactured hero… in case you hadn’t figured that out yet.

Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: A Tale of Two Tellers and the Tales they Tell

by Scott Creighton

The list of the “Hero Edward Snowden” detractors is short but growing. I’m talking about real detractors, not the jackasses who are playing the scripted roles set forth for them who call him a traitor and wonder aloud if China is behind it all. Those aren’t detractors anymore than John Cena is a bad guy. Heels are apparently popular these days. Go figure. We live in a lawless society for the elites and a ruthless police state for everyone else. I’m not surprised that WWE fans have taken to rooting for the bad guys. Somewhere Clinton and Cheney are laughing til their scotch spills on the dusty floor.

I wanted to do a quick search just to see something.

PRISM Logo Reveals Sense of Humor at the NSA – Are They Mocking Us? Or is it Hipgnosis?

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: Chuck Smarr found the original image the PRISM logo was lifted from. OUTSTANDING work Chuck. How did you find this? Chuck wrote: “Weird that a multi billion dollar program would just grab an image from a free multimedia site for their logo. Absolute rabbit hole stuff. I wonder if this guy even exists.”.

photo with a copy-write held by Adam Hart-Davis ends up as the PRISM logo?

Adam Hart-Davis is another Brit, supposedly second cousin once removed of the British Prime Minister David Cameron

UPDATE: (see end of article) Who is the man who’s image appears in the pyramid on the PRISM logo?

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When I first noticed this, I thought it had to be a joke. Then I realized along with the “pole dancing super hero” and the 200k a year for the high school drop-out, that it was a joke. The whole thing is a joke. They’re mocking us with this distraction…

At first I noticed the slides released from the Guardian and the slides released from the Washington Post were different. That may be because these two agencies want to track their outreach or brand their products. Or, it may be because the group that leaked them wanted to see who had more reach. Or, maybe someone wanted to see if we were really paying attention.

Or maybe they wanted to call more attention to the logo itself…

Either way, it’s a subtle difference, but obvious once you see it.

The big story is the logo itself. It’s about how we were taken down the road to the Dark Side by the likes of Cheney and others and the life and times of a cult level artist named Storm Thorgerson. A BRITISH cult level artist.

Snowden Distraction: You WILL NOT Notice Obama’s Undemocratic Trade Agreements

Obama is providing the CHANGE he promised. Pure unadulterated fascism… with two completely undemocratic “trade” agreements that have little to do with trade and everything to do with handing unheard of powers to massive multinational corporations and financial institutions…

… And we are being urged to rally in support of a former NSA employee who told Glenn Greenwald nothing we haven’t heard before?

April 10th 2013 – TPP is a secret Obama trade agreement that will trump national sovereignty

June 13th 2013 – Senator Warren Presses White House to Release Pacific Trade Text

April 5th 2013 – Obama’s Ambitious Trade Agenda

June 12 2013 – The Trade Deal Scam

June 12 2013 – A Fairer Way to Fast-Track Trade Deals

June 11 2013 – Think Asia, Think Hong Kong (Hong Kong?)

June 13 2013 – Obama ramps up negotiations on Trans-Pacific Partnership

June 11 2013 – Trans-Pacific Partnership: Amid Scandal, A Global Opportunity to Display Positive American Policy

June 13 2013 – TPP secrets: Obama covertly granting more power to multinational corporations

June 6 2013 – Obama-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Expands Corporate Lawsuits Against Nations for Lost Profits

Snowden Distraction: You WILL NOT Notice Massive World-wide Protests Against Global Capital

by Scott Creighton

While we, like simple little dupes, are focused on the unlikely teaming up of the likes of  Glenn Beck, World Can’t Wait, Lew Rockwell, Kim Dotcom (?) and Avaaz on the “Stand with Edward Snowden” non-disclosure “bombshells”, the world outside our castle walls is fighting for survival against the real enemy which is at the heart of all of this: neoliberal globalization.

Savage austerity, deregulation, unemployment and massive transfers of public wealth to the masters of the universe (the same masters who have created the non-disclosure distraction of Edward Snowden) are causing riots across the globe. Markets are falling, the dollar is dropping, and the Summer of our Discontent is upon us.

As the economic brick of neoliberal economics (Washington Consensus) is being slammed on every Westernized nation that still laughingly considers themselves a 1st World Nation, the people are moving in droves to oppose it. Our MSM is blind to it all. And what are we “alternative” journalists focused on? Coincidence?

When you stop to think for a moment, think about the fact that these people are protesting our neoliberal program created by the IMF and the World Bank and the financial sector of London and Wall Street, and then you remember that the NSA and CIA do nothing other than service to those very institutions, you start to understand part of what this distraction is all about.

(videos of some recent protests and clashes after the break)

Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Language is a Tricky Thing Mr. Snyder

by Scott Creighton

Language is a tricky thing and to fully comprehend what it is your are hearing or reading, you have to hear and feel the nuance that makes the real message crystal clear.

I was reading an article by Michael Syner over at Economic Collapse called “22 Nauseating Quotes From Hypocritical Establishment Politicians About The NSA Spying Scandal” when it occurred to me that Michael, for all his good intentions, doesn’t quite understand what it is he is angry about. He thinks he does because he sees these quotes he puts up and on the surface level they seem outrageous, but the reality is vastly more horrifying than he knows.

The truth is, for the most part, these quotes that he uses to add to the growing outrage in America (exactly what the NSA and the CIA and the administration wants by the way) are not lies. They aren’t.

I picked only 4 to make my point but if I had more time I could do this with all of them, the ones that aren’t just statements of someone’s opinion, which again, aren’t lies.

In these four “nauseating quotes from hypocritical establishment politicians” I will show you they aren’t really being hypocritical and they certainly aren’t lying about anything. You can be nauseated or you can be stunned or just simply saddened that  this is what our country has devolved into. I won’t presume to instruct you as to your reaction.

There’s been enough of that surrounding this fabricated hero.

Edward Snowden: 1. Glenn Beck Goes all “Brokeback Mountain” on Us and 2. New Groundbreaking “Bombshells”

by Scott Creighton

If you didn’t know that Edward Snowden is a fabrication by now, all I have to offer you is this…

@glennbeck

Glenn Beck

I think I have just read about the man for which I have waited. Earmarks of a real hero. http://t.co/H63dlBdX2d

He was waiting all this time for a high school and community college drop-out who exaggerates his income and his military record and tells us nothing we haven’t been hearing since 2006? Is this Broke-back Mountain?

He’s a hero to the Glenn Beck clans and a hero to the Ray McGovern set… a hero on Huffington Post and a hero Reddit.

He’s a hero for hanging out in a high dollar hotel up the road from Hong Kong’s CIA offices and telling Glenn Greenwald nothing that hasn’t already been told to us by real whistle-blowers who live right here in the U.S. and you can talk to every day.

(pssst… hey Glenn Beck, you want to know where your man is for that “one on one” you’ve been waiting for? Try the CIA offices in Hong Kong. That would be my guess. )

Oh wait… according to the Huffington Post, Snowden dropped another “big bombshell” leak on the world today!

The Program (short video) – William Binney Explains “Stellar Wind” in Aug. of 2012

by Scott Creighton

“They took the system I built to spy on other countries and they turned it against you.” Binney

“According to the NSA’s USSID 18 (their manual) an “intercept” (taking data from sources… all kinds of data) doesn’t happen until a human actually listens to it. So they can “legally” grab up everything and hold it indefinitely without having “intercepted” anything illegally from U.S. citizens.” Bamford (paraphrase)

“The problem is the software, once it pulls in the data, builds profiles of everyone in that data” Binney

“This is something the KGB, the Stazi or the Gestapo would have LOVED to have had. Just because this is a democracy doesn’t mean we will stay that way” Binney

In this video, long time NSA employee William Binney, considered by many to be one of the best code-breakers ever, explains the NSA’s domestic spying program “Stellar Wind” a.k.a. “The Program”

He admits they can turn your cell phone on and listen to you while it sits in your pocket or your purse. He explains that they targeted everyone and everything. Video was released in Aug. of 2012.

He never claimed he could “shut down the NSA tomorrow”. He never claimed he could listen to Obama’s phone calls. He never claimed he was paid 200k when he was actually paid a little over half of that. And he never claimed to have been training for Special Forces when he actually didn’t.

As luck would have it, this guy lives in Maryland. He’s not staging some huge dramatic “run like Assange” reality show.

Makes you think doesn’t it?

New York Times Pulls their Weiner… story

by Scott Creighton

“wow a jewish girl who sucks c***! this thing is ready to do damage.” Anthony Weiner, future Mayor of New York City

“I was hoping my fat c*** would be a selling point too.” Anthony Weiner, future Mayor of New York City

Anthony “Pure Class” Weiner by all accounts has led a charmed life. And now the New York Times pulls a story about the lasting damage this prick (opps… sorry) did to his wife and 6 other women while jacking off on his office keyboard because he’s running for office as a Jewish man in NYC who just happens to be best-est buddies with another political couple who have their own martial problems.

Mayor Anthony “Wanna See My C*ck?” Weiner and the editorial staff of the New York Times. Pure Class baby.

Boston Bombing Psyop, Operation Urban Shield, Cytel Group and … Israel

by Scott Creighton

Operation Urban Shield was (is) more than simply a staged event scheduled to take place today in Boston involving a mock terrorist group called “Free America Citizens” in which back-pack bombs were to be used in Boston. It’s actually a corporation which runs similar drills and planning across the country, complete with their own FACEBOOK page. This image is plastered on that page as their cover…

They are using a photo taken during the 12 hours of martial law that multiple police agencies imposed on the people of Boston because they could not find one wounded, unarmed 19-year-old boy.

According to the official story, the mass casualty event which was nearly identical to the one they had been “producing”  had nothing to do with Urban Shield, but there it is, a photo of the event gone real-time, front and center of their FACEBOOK page. Apparently Urban Shield is very proud of that martial law moment.

This article is an attempt to shed some light on the Urban Shield project and their connections to “irregular warfare” training centers and James Baker and of course, Israel.

Boston – Operation Urban Shield and the “Free America Citizens” Terrorists Drill

UPDATE: ajmacdonaldjr makes a great point: Why were they planning to run another drill so soon after the one they held in November in Boston? Most cities that run these drills run one a year.

(The scenario planned by the “producers” of this event unfolded much like the actual Boston Bombing psyop.  And it had been planned months in advance by the heads of the various agencies who were then put in charge of the investigation of the Boston Bombing.

According to the story, they had already recruited actors to play various roles. The operation centered around a bombing using back-packs and the investigation using security camera videos to identify the suspects; “terrorists” using a stolen car going into neighboring counties and eventually a dead suspect near the stolen car being used to lead them to the other suspects. What is perhaps even more frightening than all of those coincidences and law enforcement agency officials acting like “producers” creating the plot and logistics for all of this, is the fact that they were using the fictional “Free America Citizens” as the mock terrorist group.

Using the term “America Citizens” as your terrorist group is bad enough, but think about this mock al Qaeda-like group in terms of what I have been saying in relation to the latest spate of “leaks”… what I have said is this series of leaks and the rash of uncharacteristic coverage across the spectrum of the media may have been created to produce a narrative that a new terrorist group of “homegrown insurgents”, has sprung up as a reaction to the growing resentment of the oppression we see being suddenly presented on the MSM daily.

Kinda like a “Free America Citizens” group?)

Officials from a dozen agencies had been meeting for months to plan the scenario. They behaved much like movie producers, recruiting students from Northeastern University and the Boston Police Academy to play the parts of terrorists and witnesses.

They scouted warehouses and homes around Chelsea and Winthrop that could be used as a terrorist safe house.

from Boston Globe   (H/T Razz)

The scenario had been carefully planned: A terrorist group prepared to hurt vast numbers of people around Boston would leave backpacks filled with explosives at Faneuil Hall, the Seaport District, and in other towns, spreading waves of panic and fear. Detectives would have to catch the culprits.

Months of painstaking planning had gone into the exercise, dubbed “Operation Urban Shield,” meant to train dozens of detectives in the Greater Boston area to work together to thwart a terrorist threat. The hypothetical terrorist group was even given a name: Free America Citizens, a home-grown cadre of militiamen whose logo would be a metal skull wearing an Uncle Sam hat and a furious expression, according to a copy of the plans obtained by the Boston Globe.

But two months before the training exercise was to take place, the city was hit with a real terrorist attack executed in a frighteningly similar fashion. The chaos of the Boston Marathon bombings disrupted plans for the exercise, initially scheduled for this weekend, forcing police to postpone. Now officials must retool aspects of the training.

“The real thing happened before we were able to execute,” said a law enforcement official …