Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts)

 

source: wired.com

Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data, according to data provided to Congress.

The revelation marks the first time figures have been made available showing just how pervasive mobile snooping by the government has become in the United States.

The companies said they were working around the clock and charging millions in fees to keep up with ever-growing demands. At least one of the carriers urged Congress to clarify the law on when probable-cause warrants were required to divulge customer data.

Nine mobile phone companies forwarded the data as part of a Congressional privacy probe brought by Rep. Edward Markey, (D-Massachusetts), who co-chairs the Congressional Bi-partisan Privacy Caucus.

Geoengineering Could Backfire, Make Climate Change Worse

source: wired.com

By Joel Winston, Wired UK

Deploying giant space mirrors and spraying particles from stadium-sized balloons may sound like an engineer’s wild fantasy, but climate models suggest that the potential of geoengineering to offset rising atmospheric carbon dioxide may be significantly overstated.

Through a variety of computer simulations used for reporting to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the team investigated a scenario where an increase in the world’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels was balanced by a “dimming” of the sun.

 

Across all four models tested, the team showed that geoengineering could lead to adverse effects on the Earth’s climate, including a reduction in global rainfall. They therefore concluded that geoengineering could not be a substitute for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Monsanto Protection Act’ to grant biotech industry total immunity over GM crops?

source: naturalnews.com

Sunday, July 15, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson

(NaturalNews) While millions of Americans were busy celebrating freedom from tyranny during the recent Independence Day festivities, Monsanto was actively trying to thwart that freedom with new attacks on health freedom. It turns out that the most evil corporation in the world has quietly attached riders to both the 2012 Farm Bill and the 2013 Agriculture Appropriations Bill that would essentially force the federal government to approve GMOs at the request of biotechnology companies, and prohibit all safety reviews of GMOs from having any real impact on the GMO approval process.

The Alliance for Natural Health – USA (ANH-USA), the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), and several other health freedom advocacy groups have been actively drawing attention to these stealth attacks in recent days, and urging Americans to rise up and oppose them now before it is too late. If we fail to act now as a single, unified community devoted to health freedom, in other words, America’s agricultural future could literally end up being controlled entirely by the biotech industry, which will have full immunity from the law.

You can fight back now against these threats to food freedom by visiting:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_25711.cfm

Full exemption from the law for the biotech industry

Oakland City Council Seeks to Cut Goldman Sachs Ties After Bank Profits from Lowered Interest

source: YouTube

Published on Jul 9, 2012 by Sheeplehearder

The Oakland City Council has voted unanimously to end a contract with Goldman Sachs that locked it into a financial deal called an high interest rate swap. The city signed on with the bank in 1998 on the premise it would reduce costs of its bonds amid rising interest rates. But after the 2008 financial meltdown, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to near zero. As a result, Goldman’s rate dropped to 0.15 percent — even as it continued to require Oakland to pay a rate of almost 6 percent. The city council is calling on the city to refuse to do business with Goldman Sachs unless it ends the deal without requiring a $15 million payout. The vote comes after a long campaign by city workers, unions, the Occupy movement and local clergy members. “It’s really been through direct action and public pressure that we’ve been able to build for this,” says Alysabeth Alexander, political action chair for SEIU Local 1021, who helped organize the Oakland community and present testimony to the council members. “This is actually the second swap that SEIU 1021 has taken on and we’re going to continue to do this with our community partners and take on Wall Street. It’s not right that, in this fiscal crisis, that they’re profiting off of our local governments.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/9/oakland_city_council_seeks_to_cut

United Arab Emirates seeks to recruit 3000 Colombian soldiers: Report

IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER, CORPORATISM WILL BE THE RULE OF LAW.

It was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini that once said “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

Not to be confused with Capitalism

source: colombiareports.com

The United Arab Emirates is seeking to enlist 3,000 Colombian soldiers in the oil-rich Arab country’s armed forces, weekly Semana reported Sunday.

According to the weekly, 842 Colombian soldiers and retired soldiers have already joined the UAE army which is paying salaries up to ten times what the Colombian state pays the members of its armed forces.

The transfer of soldiers to the foreign army is causing unease among Colombia‘s military commanders because the military fears the higher salaries abroad are draining the army of its best men and women.

French police raid home of former president Nicolas Sarkozy

SO IT BEGINS, ALL THE PAWNS/SCAPEGOATS WILL BE PERSECUTED.

THIS ONLY TAKES THE ATTENTION OFF OF THE POWERFUL 1%, THE BANKERS AND THE MONARCHIES

(THE BILDERBERGS)

WE WILL SEE A LOT MORE OF THIS HAPPENING THROUGH OUT 2012

Published: 03 July, 2012, 19:12

source: RT.com

Police officers have carried out a number of raids in Paris – on the villa Nicolas Sarkozy shares with his wife Carla Bruni, on the law offices of the former president’s attorneys and on the apartment provided to him by the government.

OBAMA CARE IS A TAX (Sept. 2009 FLASBACK- Obama: Mandate is Not a Tax)

source: abcnews.go.com

By Jacqueline Klingebie     Sep 20, 2009 9:00am

President Obama signaled in our interview that he was prepared to address some of the concerns raised by key Senator Jay Rockefeller, who called the Baucus bill a “big middle class tax increase” this week.

That means he’ll support more subsidies for middle class families.

But in our most spirited exchange, the President refused to accept the argument that a mandate to buy health insurance is equivalent to a tax.

Agenda 21 For Even Bigger Dummies Part 1

source: Youtube

Uploaded by NAUresistance on Jan 15, 2010

A movement of vital proportion, ignored by the major media, kept off-limits from the general public, has been on the United Nations (UN) drawing board for well over ten years. This movement would nullify our Constitutional structure with its freedoms and prerogatives enshrined in the Bill of Rights, including our unhampered right to religious freedom. It masquerades behind the facade of “sustainable development.”

JUST LIKE NIXON: Obama Hides Behind ‘Executive Privilege’ In Damage Control Over Fast and Furious

source of article: prisonplanet.com

Patrick Henningsen
Infowars.com
June 20, 2012

The House Oversight Committee hearings have put both Eric Holder and the White House on their back heels this morning, further fueling a scandal which has now forced the White House into a rear-guard action.

Vandana Shiva’s thoughts on RIO+20 and the “Green” Movement (a must watch)

THE “GREEN ECONOMY” REALLY MEANS PRIVATIZING THE PLANET. 

Published on Jun 20, 2012 by LibertyNewsNetwork1

source: Youtube

Alex Newman, correspondent for The New American, catches up with Vandana Shiva, author and environmental activist, to get her thoughts on the conference happening in Rio de Janeiro and other topics.
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