http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Chantilly Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:22:48 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Chantilly Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:20:46 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f8_1366733571 Marcux Press For Truth Presents: The Turning Point You have been selected to attend the 60th Bilderberg conference in Chantilly, Virginia from May 31 - June 3, 2012. This conference brings together leaders of business, economics, media, finance, politics and military in a forum which will allow for open and off the record discussions of current events and global issues. I must stress that this meeting is SECRET and by invitation only. We operate under Chatham House Rules, meaning you are not permitted to discuss anything that is said during the conference to members of the media or otherwise. Please keep all of your arrangements confidential, including all of the information included herein. In recent years we have lost much of our control over the dissemination of information due to the rise of independent media sources and internet-based journalists. We intend to correct this problem and plan to discuss it at this year's conference. The Turning Point - A Press For Truth Production Produced and written by: Steven Davies, Bryan Law and Dan Dicks Edited by Steven Davies and Bryan Law Music by Dan Dicks http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f8_1366733571 Marcux The Turning Point - Full Film The Turning Point - Full Film Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:02:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eb4_1365199242 SAPD_HRT CNET.com - Thu, Apr 4, 2013 Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service has stymied attempts by federal drug enforcement agents to eavesdrop on suspects' conversations, an internal government document reveals. An internal Drug Enforcement Administration document seen by CNET discusses a February 2013 criminal investigation and warns that because of the use of encryption, "it is impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices" even with a court order approved by a federal judge. The DEA's warning, marked "law enforcement sensitive," is the most detailed example to date of the technological obstacles -- FBI director Robert Mueller has called it the "Going Dark" problem -- that police face when attempting to conduct court-authorized surveillance on non-traditional forms of communication. When Apple's iMessage was announced in mid-2011, Cupertino said it would use "secure end-to-end encryption." It quickly became the most popular encrypted chat program in history: Apple CEO Tim Cook said last fall that 300 billion messages have been sent so far, which are transmitted through the Internet rather than as more costly SMS messages carried by wireless providers. A spokeswoman for the DEA declined to comment on iMessage and encryption. Apple also declined to comment. The DEA's "Intelligence Note" says that iMessage came to the attention of the agency's San Jose, Calif., office as agents were drafting a request for a court order to perform real-time electronic surveillance under Title III of the Federal Wiretap Act. They discovered that records of text messages already obtained from Verizon Wireless were incomplete because the target of the investigation used iMessage: "It became apparent that not all text messages were being captured." This echoes what other law enforcement agencies have been telling politicians on Capitol Hill for years. Last May, CNET reported that the FBI has quietly asked Web companies not to oppose a law that would levy new wiretap requirements on social-networking Web sites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail. During an appearance two weeks later at a Senate hearing, the FBI's Mueller confirmed that the bureau is pushing for "some form of legislation." Andrew Weissmann, the FBI's general counsel, said last month at an American Bar Association event that enacting a new law to amend a 1994 law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act is a "top priority" this year. CALEA requires telecommunications providers to build in backdoors for easier surveillance, but does not apply to Internet companies, which are required to provide technical assistance instead. What's difficult, Weissmann said, "is trying to come up with the fairest and most sort of narrowly tailored means to do this." He added: "We don't want to have a system where you're needlessly imposing burdens on thriving industries or even budding industries... So what the bureau has been spending quite a bit of time on, and certainly has as a top priority this year, is coming up with a proposal with other members of the intelligence community that tries to balance all of that. That does tackle the problem of trying to modernize where we were from 1994, given how much technology has advanced." 'Not designed to be government-proof' Apple has disclosed little about how iMessage works, but a partial analysis sheds some light on the protocol. Matthew Green , a cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University, wrote last summer that because iMessage has "lots of moving parts," there are plenty of places where things could go wrong. Green said that Apple "may be able to substantially undercut the security of the protocol" -- by, perhaps, taking advantage of its position during the creation of the secure channel to copy a duplicate set of messages for law enforcement. Christopher Soghoian, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, said yesterday that "Apple's service is not designed to be government-proof." "It's much much more difficult to intercept than a telephone call or a text message" that federal agents are used to, Soghoian says. "The government would need to perform an active man-in-the-middle attack... The real issue is why the phone companies in 2013 are still delivering an unencrypted audio and text service to users. It's disgraceful." The DEA says that "iMessages between two Apple devices are considered encrypted communication and cannot be intercepted, regardless of the cell phone service provider." But, if the messages are exchanged between an Apple device and a non-Apple device, the agency says, they "can sometimes be intercepted, depending on where the intercept is placed." This isn't the first time that federal agencies have warned of surveillance woes. An FBI staff operations specialist in the bureau's Counterterrorism Division complained in 2010 of difficulties in "obtaining information from Internet service providers and social-networking sites." And a Homeland Security report obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation shows that a working group convened by an FBI office in Chantilly, Va. requested details about how "investigations have been negatively impacted" by companies' delays or inability to comply with surveillance requests. Going Dark has emerged as a significant effort inside the FBI, which employed 107 full-time equivalent people on the project as of 2009, commissioned a RAND study, hired consultants from Booz, Allen and Hamilton, and sought extensive technical input from its secretive Operational Technology Division in Quantico, Va. "There is a growing and dangerous gap between law enforcement's legal authority to conduct electronic surveillance, and its actual ability to conduct such surveillance," FBI director Mueller told a House of Representatives committee two weeks ago. "We must ensure that the laws by which we operate and which provide protection to individual privacy rights keep pace with new threats and new technology." As CNET was the first to report in 2003 , representatives of the FBI's Electronic Surveillance Technology Section in Chantilly, Va., began quietly lobbying the Federal Communications Commission to force broadband providers to provide more-efficient, standardized surveillance facilities. The FCC approved that requirement a year later, sweeping in Internet phone companies that tie into the existing telecommunications system. The regulations were upheld in 2006 by a federal appeals court. But the FCC never granted the FBI's request to interpret the law to cover instant messaging and VoIP programs that are not "managed"--meaning peer-to-peer programs like Apple's Facetime and iMessage, Facebook Chat, Gmail's video chat, and Xbox Live's in-game chat that do not use the public telephone network. If Congress does nothing, law enforcement still has options. Police can obtain a special warrant allowing them to sneak into someone's house or office, install keystroke-logging software, and record passphrases. The DEA adopted this technique in a case where suspects used PGP and the encrypted Web e-mail service Hushmail.com. They can also send a suspect malware , purchase a so-called zero day vulnerability to gain control of a target device and extract the contents, or obtain a warrant to seize the physical device and perform a traditional forensics analysis. Apple's privacy policy authorizes the company to divulge customers' information about customers to law enforcement when "reasonably necessary or appropriate" or to "comply with legal process. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eb4_1365199242 SAPD_HRT Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance Iphone, Imessage, Fed Wed, 21 May 2008 09:55:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=69f_1211378101 Illuminated1234 5/15/2008 Bilderberg Confirmed: Westfields Marriott In Chantilly June 5-8. AFP editor Jim Tucker discusses this year's Bilderberg meeting. Are you a Liveleak forum member? Go here to discuss! http://forums.liveleak.com/showthread.php?t=27275 See you on the threads! :) i http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=69f_1211378101 Illuminated1234 The 2008 Bilderberg Meeting in <span class="highlight">Chantilly</span>, VA! 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But all of them clearly minions of the New World Order. by Charlie Skelton, guardian A nightmare is unfolding across Syria, in the homes of al-Heffa and the streets of Houla. And we all know how the story ends: with thousands of soldiers and civilians killed, towns and families destroyed, and President Assad beaten to death in a ditch.This is the story of the Syrian war, but there is another story to be told. A tale less bloody, but nevertheless important. This is a story about the storytellers: the spokespeople, the "experts on Syria", the "democracy activists". The statement makers. The people who "urge" and "warn" and "call for action".It's a tale about some of the most quoted members of the Syrian opposition and their connection to the Anglo-American opposition creation business. The mainstream news media have, in the main, been remarkably passive when it comes to Syrian sources: billing them simply as "official spokesmen" or "pro-democracy campaigners" without, for the most part, scrutinising their statements, their backgrounds or their political connections.It's important to stress: to investigate the background of a Syrian spokesperson is not to doubt the sincerity of his or her opposition to Assad. But a passionate hatred of the Assad regime is no guarantee of independence. Indeed, a number of key figures in the Syrian opposition movement are long-term exiles who were receiving US government funding to undermine the Assad government long before the Arab spring broke out.Though it is not yet stated US government policy to oust Assad by force, these spokespeople are vocal advocates of foreign military intervention in Syria and thus natural allies of well-known US neoconservatives who supported Bush's invasion of Iraq and are now pressuring the Obama administration to intervene. As we will see, several of these spokespeople have found support, and in some cases developed long and lucrative relationships with advocates of military intervention on both sides of the Atlantic."The sand is running out of the hour glass," said Hillary Clinton on Sunday. So, as the fighting in Syria intensifies, and Russian warships set sail for Tartus , it's high time to take a closer look at those who are speaking out on behalf of the Syrian people. The Syrian National Council The most quoted of the opposition spokespeople are the official representatives of the Syrian National Council. The SNC is not the only Syrian opposition group - but it is generally recognised as "the main opposition coalition" (BBC). The Washington Times describes it as "an umbrella group of rival factions based outside Syria". Certainly the SNC is the opposition group that's had the closest dealings with western powers - and has called for foreign intervention from the early stages of the uprising. In February of this year, at the opening of the Friends of Syria summit in Tunisia, William Hague declared : "I will meet leaders of the Syrian National Council in a few minutes' time ... We, in common with other nations, will now treat them and recognise them as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people."The most senior of the SNC's official spokespeople is the Paris-based Syrian academic Bassma Kodmani. Bassma Kodmani Here is Bassma Kodmani, seen leaving this year's Bilderberg conference in Chantilly, Virginia. Kodmani is a member of the executive bureau and head of foreign affairs, Syrian National Council. Kodmani is close to the centre of the SNC power structure, and one of the council's most vocal spokespeople. "No dialogue with the ruling regime is possible. We can only discuss how to move on to a different political system," she declared this week . And here she is, quoted by the newswire AFP : "The next step needs to be a resolution under Chapter VII, which allows for the use of all legitimate means, coercive means, embargo on arms, as well as the use of force to oblige the regime to comply."This statement translates into the headline "Syrians call for armed peacekeepers" (Australia's Herald Sun). When large-scale international military action is being called for, it seems only reasonable to ask: who exactly is calling for it? We can say, simply, "an official SNC spokesperson," or we can look a little closer.This year was Kodmani's second Bilderberg. At the 2008 conference, Kodmani was listed as French; by 2012, her Frenchness had fallen away and she was listed simply as "international" - her homeland had become the world of international relations.Back a few years, in 2005, Kodmani was working for the Ford Foundation in Cairo, where she was director of their governance and international co-operation programme. The Ford Foundation is a vast organisation, headquartered in New York, and Kodmani was already fairly senior. But she was about to jump up a league.Around this time, in February 2005, US-Syrian relations collapsed, and President Bush recalled his ambassador from Damascus. A lot of opposition projects date from this period. "The US money for Syrian opposition figures began flowing under President George W Bush after he effectively froze political ties with Damascus in 2005," says the Washington Post.In September 2005, Kodmani was made the executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) - a research programme initiated by the powerful US lobby group, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR is an elite US foreign policy thinktank, and the Arab Reform Initiative is described on its website as a "CFR Project" . More specifically, the ARI was initiated by a group within the CFR called the " US/Middle East Project " - a body of senior diplomats, intelligence officers and financiers, the stated aim of which is to undertake regional "policy analysis" in order "to prevent conflict and promote stability". The US/Middle East Project pursues these goals under the guidance of an international board chaired by General (Ret.) Brent Scowcroft. Brent Scowcroft (chairman emeritus) is a former national security adviser to the US president - he took over the role from Henry Kissinger. Sitting alongside Scowcroft of the international board is his fellow geo-strategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who succeeded him as the national security adviser, and Peter Sutherland, the chairman of Goldman Sachs International. So, as early as 2005, we've got a senior wing of the western intelligence/banking establishment selecting Kodmani to run a Middle East research project. In September of that year, Kodmani was made full-time director of the programme. Earlier in 2005, the CFR assigned "financial oversight" of the project to the Centre for European Reform (CER). In come the British.The CER is overseen by Lord Kerr, the deputy chairman of Royal Dutch Shell. Kerr is a former head of the diplomatic service and is a senior adviser at Chatham House (a thinktank showcasing the best brains of the British diplomatic establishment).In charge of the CER on a day-to-day basis is Charles Grant , former defence editor of the Economist, and these days a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a "pan-European thinktank" packed with diplomats, industrialists, professors and prime ministers. On its list of members you'll find the name: "Bassma Kodmani (France/Syria) - Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative".Another name on the list: George Soros - the financier whose non-profit "Open Society Foundations" is a primary funding source of the ECFR . At this level, the worlds of banking, diplomacy, industry, intelligence and the various policy institutes and foundations all mesh together, and there, in the middle of it all, is Kodmani.The point is, Kodmani is not some random "pro-democracy activist" who happens to have found herself in front of a microphone. She has impeccable international diplomacy credentials: she holds the position of research director at the Acad'emie Diplomatique Internationale - "an independent and neutral institution dedicated to promoting modern diplomacy". The Acad'emie is headed by Jean-Claude Cousseran, a former head of the DGSE - the French foreign intelligence service.A picture is emerging of Kodmani as a trusted lieutenant of the Anglo-American democracy-promotion industry. Her "province of origin" ( according to the SNC website ) is Damascus, but she has close and long-standing professional relationships with precisely those powers she's calling upon to intervene in Syria.And many of her spokesmen colleagues are equally well-connected. Radwan Ziadeh Another often quoted SNC representative is Radwan Ziadeh - director of foreign relations at the Syrian National Council. Ziadeh has an impressive CV: he's a senior fellow at the federally funded Washington thinktank, the US Institute of Peace (the USIP Board of Directors is packed with alumni of the defence department and the national security council; its president is Richard Solomon, former adviser to Kissinger at the NSC).In February this year, Ziadeh joined an elite bunch of Washington hawks to sign a letter calling upon Obama to intervene in Syria: his fellow signatories include James Woolsey (former CIA chief), Karl Rove (Bush Jr's handler), Clifford May (Committee on the Present Danger) and Elizabeth Cheney, former head of the Pentagon's Iran-Syria Operations Group.Ziadeh is a relentless organiser, a blue-chip Washington insider with links to some of the most powerful establishment thinktanks. Ziadeh's connections extend all the way to London. In 2009 he became a visiting fellow at Chatham House , and in June of last year he featured on the panel at one of their events - "Envisioning Syria's Political Future" - sharing a platform with fellow SNC spokesman Ausama Monajed (more on Monajed below) and SNC member Najib Ghadbian.Ghadbian was identified by the Wall Street Journal as an early intermediary between the US government and the Syrian opposition in exile: "An initial contact between the White House and NSF was forged by Najib Ghadbian, a University of Arkansas political scientist." This was back in 2005. The watershed year.These days, Ghadbian is a member of the general secretariat of the SNC, and is on the advisory board of a Washington-based policy body called the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies (SCPSS) - an organisation co-founded by Ziadeh.Ziadeh has been making connections like this for years. Back in 2008, Ziadeh took part in a meeting of opposition figures in a Washington government building: a mini-conference called "Syria In-Transition" . The meeting was co-sponsored by a US-based body called the Democracy Council and a UK-based organisation called the Movement for Justice and Development (MJD). It was a big day for the MJD - their chairman, Anas Al-Abdah, had travelled to Washington from Britain for the event, along with their director of public relations. Here, from the MJD's website , is a description of the day: "The conference saw an exceptional turn out as the allocated hall was packed with guests from the House of Representatives and the Senate, representatives of studies centres, journalists and Syrian expatriats in the USA."The day opened with a keynote speech by James Prince, head of the Democracy Council. Ziadeh was on a panel chaired by Joshua Muravchik (the ultra-interventionist author of the 2006 op-ed "Bomb Iran"). The topic of the discussion was "The Emergence of Organized Opposition". Sitting beside Ziadeh on the panel was the public relations director of the MJD - a man who would later become his fellow SNC spokesperson - Ausama Monajed. Osama Monajed Along with Kodmani and Ziadeh, Ausama (or sometimes Osama) Monajed is one of the most important SNC spokespeople. There are others, of course - the SNC is a big beast and includes the Muslim Brotherhood. The opposition to Assad is wide-ranging, but these are some of the key voices. There are other official spokespeople with long political careers, like George Sabra of the Syrian Democratic People's party - Sabra has suffered arrest and lengthy imprisonment in his fight against the "repressive and totalitarian regime in Syria" . And there are other opposition voices outside the SNC, such as the writer Michel Kilo, who speaks eloquently of the violence tearing apart his country: "Syria is being destroyed - street after street, city after city, village after village. What kind of solution is that? In order for a small group of people to remain in power, the whole country is being destroyed." But there's no doubt that the primary opposition body is the SNC, and Kodmani, Ziadeh and Monajed are often to be found representing it. Monajed frequently crops up as a commentator on TV news channels. Here he is on the BBC , speaking from their Washington bureau. Monajed doesn't sugar-coat his message: "We are watching civilians being slaughtered and kids being slaughtered and killed and women being raped on the TV screens every day."Meanwhile, over on Al Jazeera , Monajed talks about "what's really happening, in reality, on the ground" - about "the militiamen of Assad" who "come and rape their women, slaughter their children, and kill their elderly".Monajed turned up, just a few days ago, as a blogger on Huffington Post UK , where he explained, at length: "Why the World Must Intervene in Syria" - calling for "direct military assistance" and "foreign military aid". So, again, a fair question might be: who is this spokesman calling for military intervention?Monajed is a member of the SNC, adviser to its president, and according to his SNC biography , "the Founder and Director of Barada Television", a pro-opposition satellite channel based in Vauxhall, south London. In 2008, a few months after attending Syria In-Transition conference, Monajed was back in Washington, invited to lunch with George W Bush, along with a handful of other favoured dissidents ( you can see Monajed in the souvenir photo , third from the right, in the red tie, near Condoleezza Rice - up the other end from Garry Kasparov).At this time, in 2008, the US state department knew Monajed as "director of public relations for the Movement for Justice and Development (MJD), which leads the struggle for peaceful and democratic change in Syria".Let's look closer at the MJD. Last year, the Washington Post picked up a story from WikiLeaks , which had published a mass of leaked diplomatic cables. These cables appear to show a remarkable flow of money from the US state department to the British-based Movement for Justice and Development. According to the Washington Post's report: "Barada TV is closely affiliated with the Movement for Justice and Development, a London-based network of Syrian exiles. Classified US diplomatic cables show that the state department has funnelled as much as $6m to the group since 2006 to operate the satellite channel and finance other activities inside Syria."A state department spokesman responded to this story by saying: "Trying to promote a transformation to a more democratic process in this society is not undermining necessarily the existing government." And they're right, it's not "necessarily" that.When asked about the state department money, Monajed himself said that he "could not confirm" US state department funding for Barada TV, but said: "I didn't receive a penny myself." Malik al -Abdeh, until very recently Barada TV's editor-in-chief insisted: "we have had no direct dealings with the US state department". The meaning of the sentence turns on that word "direct". It is worth noting that Malik al Abdeh also happens to be one of the founders of the Movement for Justice and Development (the recipient of the state department $6m, according to the leaked cable). And he's the brother of the chairman, Anas Al-Abdah. He's also the co-holder of the MJD trademark : What Malik al Abdeh does admit is that Barada TV gets a large chunk of its funding from an American non-profit organisation: the Democracy Council. One of the co-sponsors (with the MJD) of Syria In-Transition mini-conference. So what we see, in 2008, at the same meeting, are the leaders of precisely those organisations identified in the Wiki:eaks cables as the conduit (the Democracy Council) and recipient (the MJD) of large amounts of state department money. The Democracy Council (a US-based grant distributor) lists the state department as one of its sources of funding. How it works is this: the Democracy Council serves as a grant-administering intermediary between the state department's "Middle East Partnership Initiative" and "local partners" (such as Barada TV). As the Washington Post reports:"Several US diplomatic cables from the embassy in Damascus reveal that the Syrian exiles received money from a State Department program called the Middle East Partnership Initiative. According to the cables, the State Department funnelled money to the exile group via the Democracy Council, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit."The same report highlights a 2009 cable from the US Embassy in Syria that says that the Democracy Council received $6.3m from the state department to run a Syria-related programme, the "Civil Society Strengthening Initiative". The cable describes this as "a discrete collaborative effort between the Democracy Council and local partners" aimed at producing, amongst other things, "various broadcast concepts." According to the Washington Post: "Other cables make clear that one of those concepts was Barada TV."Until a few months ago, the state department's Middle East Partnership Initiative was overseen by Tamara Cofman Wittes (she's now at the Brookings Institution - an influential Washington thinktank ). Of MEPI, she said that it "created a positive 'brand' for US democracy promotion efforts" . While working there she declared: "There are a lot of organizations in Syria and other countries that are seeking changes from their government ... That's an agenda that we believe in and we're going to support." And by support, she means bankroll. The money This is nothing new. Go back a while to early 2006, and you have the state department announcing a new "funding opportunity" called the " Syria Democracy Program ". On offer, grants worth "$5m in Federal Fiscal Year 2006". The aim of the grants? "To accelerate the work of reformers in Syria."These days, the cash is flowing in faster than ever. At the beginning of June 2012, the Syrian Business Forum was launched in Doha by opposition leaders including Wael Merza (SNC secretary general). "This fund has been established to support all components of the revolution in Syria," said Merza. The size of the fund? Some $300m. It's by no means clear where the money has come from, although Merza "hinted at strong financial support from Gulf Arab states for the new fund" (Al Jazeera). At the launch, Merza said that about $150m had already been spent, in part on the Free Syrian Army.Merza's group of Syrian businessmen made an appearance at a World Economic Forum conference titled the " Platform for International Co-operation " held in Istanbul in November 2011. All part of the process whereby the SNC has grown in reputation, to become, in the words of William Hague, "a legitimate representative of the Syrian people" - and able, openly, to handle this much funding.Building legitimacy - of opposition, of representation, of intervention - is the essential propaganda battle. In a USA Today op-ed written in February this year, Ambassador Dennis Ross declared: "It is time to raise the status of the Syrian National Council". What he wanted, urgently, is "to create an aura of inevitability about the SNC as the alternative to Assad." The aura of inevitability. Winning the battle in advance.A key combatant in this battle for hearts and minds is the American journalist and Daily Telegraph blogger, Michael Weiss. Michael Weiss One of the most widely quoted western experts on Syria - and an enthusiast for western intervention - Michael Weiss echoes Ambassador Ross when he says : "Military intervention in Syria isn't so much a matter of preference as an inevitability."Some of Weiss's interventionist writings can be found on a Beirut-based, Washington-friendly website called "NOW Lebanon" - whose "NOW Syria" section is an important source of Syrian updates. NOW Lebanon was set up in 2007 by Saatchi &amp; Saatchi executive Eli Khoury . Khoury has been described by the advertising industry as a "strategic communications specialist, specialising in corporate and government image and brand development".Weiss told NOW Lebanon , back in May, that thanks to the influx of weapons to Syrian rebels " we've already begun to see some results. " He showed a similar approval of military developments a few months earlier, in a piece for the New Republic : "In the past several weeks, the Free Syrian Army and other independent rebel brigades have made great strides" - whereupon, as any blogger might, he laid out his "Blueprint for a Military Intervention in Syria".But Weiss is not only a blogger. He's also the director of communications and public relations at the Henry Jackson Society , an ultra-ultra-hawkish foreign policy thinktank. The Henry Jackson Society's international patrons include: James "ex-CIA boss" Woolsey, Michael "homeland security" Chertoff, William " PNAC " Kristol, Robert "PNAC" Kagan', Joshua "Bomb Iran" Muravchick, and Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle. The Society is run by Alan Mendoza, chief adviser to the all-party parliamentary group on transatlantic and international security .The Henry Jackson Society is uncompromising in its "forward strategy" towards democracy. And Weiss is in charge of the message. The Henry Jackson Society is proud of its PR chief's far-reaching influence: "He is the author of the influential report "Intervention in Syria? An Assessment of Legality, Logistics and Hazards", which was repurposed and endorsed by the Syrian National Council."Weiss's original report was re-named "Safe Area for Syria" - and ended up on the official syriancouncil.org website, as part of their military bureau's strategic literature . The repurposing of the HJS report was undertaken by the founder and executive director of the Strategic Research and Communication Centre (SRCC) - one Ausama Monajed.So, the founder of Barada TV, Ausama Monajed, edited Weiss's report, published it through his own organisation (the SRCC) and passed it on to the Syrian National Council, with the support of the Henry Jackson Society.The relationship couldn't be closer. Monajed even ends up handling inquiries for " press interviews with Michael Weiss ". Weiss is not the only strategist to have sketched out the roadmap to this war (many thinktanks have thought it out, many hawks have talked it up), but some of the sharpest detailing is his. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights The justification for the "inevitable" military intervention is the savagery of President Assad's regime: the atrocities, the shelling, the human rights abuses. Information is crucial here, and one source above all has been providing us with data about Syria. It is quoted at every turn: "The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told VOA that fighting and shelling killed at least 12 people in Homs province."The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is commonly used as a standalone source for news and statistics. Just this week, news agency AFP carried this story : "Syrian forces pounded Aleppo and Deir Ezzor provinces as at least 35 people were killed on Sunday across the country, among them 17 civilians, a watchdog reported." Various atrocities and casualty numbers are listed, all from a single source: "Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP by phone."Statistic after horrific statistic pours from "the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" (AP). It's hard to find a news report about Syria that doesn't cite them. But who are they? "They" are Rami Abdulrahman (or Rami Abdel Rahman), who lives in Coventry.According to a Reuters report in December of last year: "When he isn't fielding calls from international media, Abdulrahman is a few minutes down the road at his clothes shop, which he runs with his wife."When the Guardian's Middle East live blog cited "Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" it also linked to a sceptical article in the Modern Tokyo Times - an article which suggested news outlets could be a bit "more objective about their sources" when quoting "this so-called entity", the SOHR.That name, the "Syrian Observatory of Human Rights", sound so grand, so unimpeachable, so objective. And yet when Abdulrahman and his "Britain-based NGO" (AFP/NOW Lebanon) are the sole source for so many news stories about such an important subject, it would seem reasonable to submit this body to a little more scrutiny than it's had to date.The Observatory is by no means the only Syrian news source to be quoted freely with little or no scrutiny ... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d1e_1362611825 nutsflipped Meet the Fake Syrian Opposition Syria,fake,revolution,fake,opposition,orchestrated,propaganda,SNC, Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:58:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=109_1344279464 MaKaElectric Coming This Winter http://ShadeTheMotionPicture.com Full-scale depopulation procedures have been implemented as Population Reduction, Geoengineering, Land Grabs, and Criminal Banking Scams rule the populace. All human activity will soon be under surveillance and the remaining world population of 1 Billion will exist in Mega-Cities controlled by oligarchs tracking the RFID Chipped Population -- the "Useless Eaters" as the elite have termed us. The future of humanity will be a world in which oligarchs decide who lives and who dies. Webster Tarpley, Alex Jones, Dan Dicks, Shepard Ambellas, Jason Bermas, and Mark Dice set the tone of this ominous presentation. Shot from multiple locations such as Maui Hawaii, Chantilly Virginia, several locations in Arizona, Texas, and more, the filmmakers stop at nothing to bring you the compelling details of an overarching diabolic agenda. This agenda -- Does not involve you, or your family. In fact it involves the systematic extermination of 90% of the earths population. The "Useless Eaters" The movie also talks solutions and boasts an All Original Motion Picture Soundtrack featuring Global Resistance, Chronic Vibe, and more. (c) SHADE The Motion Picture. All Rights Reserved. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=109_1344279464 MaKaElectric SHADE The Motion Picture 'Official Trailer' SHADE The Motion Picture, SHADE, The Motion Picture, Shepard Ambellas, Jason Bermas, Alex Jones, Webster Tarpley, Michael Murphy, Dan Dicks, Luke Rudkowski, Mark Dice, Servando Gonzalez, Bob Tuskin, Alex Thomas, Chris Geo, Avalon, Al DiCicco, Global Resis Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:07:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ce3_1341611825 amy2x Alex Jones has once again sparked controversy, this time with accusations that his critique of the 'Devil Pyramid' in Memphis, Tennessee as an occultic temple is "slanderous." The local news outlet WMC-TV used the label, while conversely admitting that the central claim-- that a crystal skull was found at the apex of the pyramid-- is true. VIEW VIDEO 'Illuminati Pyramid Rotting to pieces in Memphis' AT LINK BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kgbIVmx8IM "Jones' so-called 'facts' are mostly slanderous," the station claims, without any supporting evidence or even clarifying what that means, which is itself slanderous (and technically libelous, as it appears in print) against Jones. But as usual, Alex was just going off of reports from local sources. When Alex Jones and crew were traveling back from Chantilly, Virginia, stopping in Memphis was more or less random. But discussion of the "Great American Pyramid" looming over the city was unavoidable. Was it really built by occultists? If so, for what purpose? Was Alex's memory correct about hidden charms found on top of the Egyptian-inspired structure? Yes, we soon found out, after scouring the Internet for answers before shooting the now controversial You Tube video and subsequently heading downtown for some of Memphis' world famous barbecue. The business about the crystal skulls was reportedly first exposed in the Memphis Flyer by John Branston. In 2010, he recapped his original report for the Internet audience, suggesting that it was part of an effort by the Tigrett family to "activate" the pyramid: In late 1991, The Pyramid was new and exciting. Befitting the weird building, there was a weird rumor that, during construction, workmen were paid to weld a metal box inside the apex. The installation supposedly took place late at night, with the mysterious box carried by persons dressed in black and carrying a transit pointed to the North Star. One thing led to another, and in December an expedition of county officials and Pyramid management climbed to the top to have a look. Sure enough, there was a metal box welded to a beam 300 feet above the Mississippi River. Someone mounted a ladder and detached it. It was stuck in a vault over the weekend. When it was opened, there was a wooden box inside the metal box and a black velvet box inside the wooden box. Inside the velvet box was a crystal skull about the size of a man's fist, with sunken eyes, a sunken nose, and elongated teeth. The next day, Isaac Tigrett confirmed that he had placed the skull in The Pyramid as part of a ... promotion called "The Egyptian Time Capsule." by Aaron Dykes http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-attack-on-memphis-pyramid-slanderous-claims-news-station/ hh http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ce3_1341611825 amy2x Illuminati Pyramid Rotting to pieces in Memphis Alex Jones,Infowars,Freemasonry,Anti-Christ,NWO,911,9/11,Illuminati,Pope,Rome,Catholic,Cult,Jesuit,Jesuits,Skull and Bones,black pope,illuminati,nazi,collaboration,New World Order,Witchcraft,Satanism,conspiracy,molest,molesting,pedophile,documentary Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:32:05 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7e8_1340742492 ttj1776 http://www.infowars.com/syria-regime-change-on-bilderberg-agenda/ Attending Bilderberg 2012 as an 'international' participant was Bassma Kodmani. So who is Bassma Kodmani? The answer to that question is also the answer to the question: what the hell is happening in Syria? This is where it gets interesting (and worrying) for Bilderberg followers. Kodmani was at Bilderberg in 2008, the last time it was here in Chantilly. She is a member of the European Council on foreign relations - its parent group, the council on foreign relations, is a sort of "uber lobby group, a couple of rungs down from Bilderberg, but still hugely powerful. There's a lot of CFR/Bilderberg crossover. Honorary chairman of both is David Rockefeller; co-chairman of the CFR is Robert Rubin (he was here); and on the CFR's board of directors are Fouad Ajami and Henry Kravis, both at Bilderberg 2012. Bassma Kodmani is also the executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative. This body, set up in 2004 by the CFR, is helping to steer "a comprehensive process" of "democratic reform" in the region. In 2005, the Syrian National Council came into being. Bassma Kodmani was a founding member, and is on the executive committee. Kodmani is one of the SNC's two spokespeople, alongside Radwan Ziadeh (who has a flawless Washington pedigree - look him up). According to its website, the SNC is a non profit public policy research organization register in the District of Colombia and headquartered in Washington DC. Just up the road. I asked Tarpley about Kodmani. He doesn't mince words. "She's a Nato agent, a destabilizer, a colour revolution queen. The fact that Kodmani was there is a scary one for Syria", says Tarpley. To those gathered outside, at least, it looks increasingly like, at this year's Bilderberg, the war of regime change got signed off. In the airport lobby, on the way home from Bilderberg, I looked up at a TV monitor to see Bilderberg attendee and CFR board member Fouad Ajami talking about how Syria is about to become another Libya. That sound you can hear? It's all those juicy defence contracts being scratched out around Chantilly. Fuel the jets and open the champagne, boys. We're going in. Bassma Kodmani of the Syrian National Council leaves Bilderberg 2012. Photograph: Carter Osmar http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7e8_1340742492 ttj1776 Bassma Kodmani of the Syrian National Council Attends Bilderberg 2012 and 2008 Syria, Syrian National Council, bilderberg, NATO, free Syria army, FSA, Russia, Iran, Israel, Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:37:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d14_1338647604 gorgonzatropolis Last month, police in Thailand arrested a British citizen after six roasted fetal corpses were found in his luggage. The bodies were believed to be between two and seven months old, according to the Guardian. Some were plated in gold leaf, apparently for use in black magic rituals. Outside the annual Bilderberg meeting in Virginia on Thursday, Alex Jones of Infowars accused attendees of possessing the same thing - to eat. Video posted online captured Jones shouting into a bullhorn outside the meeting place, claiming Bilderberg members "ship in roasted babies wrapped in gold foil for them to eat" - and making it clear he wasn't kidding. "Every week they catch them shipping little babies wrapped in gold foil for these guys to eat. They admit that's where it goes to, I'm not making this up," Jones said. Watch video here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/alex-jones-believes-bilderberg-attendees-ship-in-gold-covered-roasted-babies-to-eat/ Transcript below: "Alright this is just a person going to pick somebody up, they're probably bringing him some child to rape or something in the trunk - no I'm not kidding, these people are sick. "Every week they catch them shipping little babies wrapped in gold foil for these guys to eat. They admit that's where it goes to, I'm not making this up. "You think I'm talking about babies wrapped in gold foil for them to eat - I'm not, I'm not joking about that. "This officer's laughing at me - $10,000 they try to ship in roasted babies wrapped in gold foil for them to eat, $10,000 right now. You will lose, you will lose the bet!" The private, three-day meeting is taking place in Chantilly, Va., 25 miles outside the nation's capital. It has brought together protesters and conspiracy theorists convinced the secretive group runs the world. Officially, Bilderberg is a forum for a "broad cross-section of leading citizens" to discuss "topics of current concern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and the international economy." The meeting concludes June 3. SOURCE: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/alex-jones-believes-bilderberg-attendees-ship-in-gold-covered-roasted-babies-to-eat/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d14_1338647604 gorgonzatropolis Alex Jones wants you to believe that Bilderbergers eat gold-covered baby corpses alex jones, disinfo agent, cia operative, psyops, cointelpro Sun, 22 Apr 2012 08:58:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=783_1335099403 USFORCESTV 4/19/2012 After thirty years of faithful service to NASA, space shuttle Discovery has retired in Chantilly, VA at the Smithsonian National Space and Air Museum. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=783_1335099403 USFORCESTV Space Shuttle Discovery's Last Flight and Retirement to the Smithsonian Space Shuttle Discovery Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:25:27 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1aa_1328840468 jbpnw State and federal investigators are expected to look into what caused an electrical malfunction in the dash of a school bus that caught fire Wednesday afternoon in southeast Charlotte. The bus driver was able to get the six Chantilly Montessori Elementary students off bus 295 before it burst into flames around 5 p.m. All school buses are required to be inspected every 30 days by the district. CMS refused to release that information, citing an ongoing investigation. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction did hand over its records for CMS bus inspections. The state selects 10 percent of the buses in each district for random inspections and road tests every year. Bus 295 was not on the lists from the past two years. The CMS bus fleet scored better than average in those inspections. However, the 2011 score was worse than 2010. According to CMS data, on any given day six percent of the fleet is parked due to maintenance issues. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1aa_1328840468 jbpnw Raw Video: School Bus Fire school bus, fire, caught on tape, raw video, firefighters Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:27:10 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=58f_1327623448 vinman90501 Gotta love that Jihadi background music he's listening to! Prosecutors also released a video, made by Melaku, that was part of the evidence in the case, in which Melaku is seen firing shots at the National Museum of the Marine Corps as he drives by from I-95, where the museum is easily visible. In the video, Melaku shouts "God is Great!" in Arabic and talks about targeting the museum and "turning it off permanently.". The overnight shootings in October and November of 2010 twice targeted the Marine Corps museum and once each targeted the Pentagon and military recruiting stations in Woodbridge and Chantilly. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=58f_1327623448 vinman90501 Pentagon Shooter Yonathan Melaku Films Himself Shooting Yonathan,Melaku,pentagon,shooter,ex-marine