http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Corporations Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:19:15 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Corporations Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:21:10 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45d_1371109263 NelsonAldrich There are some obvious liberal/socialist viewpoints espoused in this video, but it kind of comes with the territory of those who create this sort of multimedia. However, it does present some pretty interesting, albeit alarming facts regarding our consumption. Video Description From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45d_1371109263 NelsonAldrich The Story of Stuff environment; waste; corporations; oil; money; products; advertising; planned obsolescence; landfill; economics, globalization, labor. resources Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:22:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f92_1371494242 aydeo From time to time another clown trying to show how Arabs only suffer in Israel, How Israel is the worst place on the planet, or other false claims which are being pulled from the ass... In recent hours two such items were created, one regarding the scud attacks over Israel in the 1991 Gulf war, and the other regarding the old Hebrew posters, which to the haters reminded the Nazi propaganda, even that it was a pure socialist style of the 30-40-50's all over the world. The item owner of the Scud missiles claimed that Israel was affraid to strike Iraq back and preffered America and the coalition will do the job... FALSE. Actually Saddam main objective in launching more than 40 long range scud missiles at Tel-Aviv and Haifa during January-February 1991 WAS TO PULL ISRAEL INTO THE WAR. By that he hoped the American coalition will fall apart, since it was based on Arab countries as well, even Syria...! The Likud gov. of back then wanted to retaliate, so the IDF detterence won't be damaged, but the Bush administration made huge efforts on Shamir (Israel PM back then) not to launch an air strike. Shamir was also under allot of pressure by his own ministers to send the air force and eliminate the Scud batteries, but eventually he decided to restraint the IAF from reacting. The 1991 war was the first time (since the war of 1948) the rear in Israel became the front, with sirens,Gas masks and loud explosions almost every night. Hundreds of houses were damaged, but very lucky the amount of casulties was small. If a Scud was causing dozens of victims (Like heppened to the Americans in a similiar Scud attack over Saudia) Israel was probably forced to strike Iraq, regardless of the implications. * As for the Hebrew posters in the second item - All of them are quite old (50-80 years ago) and were inspired by the Russian (Soviet) art and posters. Back then Israel was a hard socialist state, with the myth of the Kibutzes and the fame of the Hebrew worker. The young ones were volunteer to establish small coperative settlments near the borders and in the desert, and Israel was celebrating May 1st each and every year. It all started to change since the 70's, specially in the 80's, when Israel became a hard capitalist American style country, with global networks, massive urbanization and the down fall of the Kibbutz (which also went trough privetization and seized to function as uniqe corporations). Somewhere in the late 80's May 1st holiday was canceled, and that was the sign the transformation was complete... Photos: Israel during the 1991 Gulf war (1-9 and the last photo), Socialist Hebrew workers (10-13) men and women http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f92_1371494242 aydeo Time to fix some (regular) false claims regarding Israel Fix,False claims,1991,Gulf war,Socialist,Posters Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:51:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0f7_1371404860 MartinE You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don't meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don't meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be powerless to shut down imports of unsafe food or food ingredients. And if it tries, multinational corporations will be able to sue the U.S. government for the loss of anticipated future profits.More frightening? Negotiations for both agreements are taking place behind closed doors, with input allowed almost exclusively from the corporations and industry trade groups that stand to benefit the most. And the Obama Administration intends to push the agreements through Congress without so much as giving lawmakers access to draft texts, much less the opportunity for debate. read rest of article http://www.blacklistednews.com/Secret_Trade_Agreements_Threaten_to_Undo_Our_Last_Shreds_of_Food_Safety/26669/0/38/38/Y/M.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0f7_1371404860 MartinE Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:43:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=300_1371353794 God_Himself Shahien Nasiripour Christina Wilkie Paul Blumenthal WASHINGTON -- The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on Friday made public what it calls the most extensive collection of records on offshore accounts in history, encouraging sleuths to ferret out possible tax evasion. The online portal, called the Offshore Leaks Database , contains hundreds of thousands of records showing corporations set up in so-called "tax-haven" countries, gleaned from the contents of about 2.5 million emails and financial documents that ICIJ said it received in early 2012. Over the past year, the data have been used by journalists around the world to detail alleged tax evasion by billionaires, oligarchs, emirs, princes and multinational corporations on nearly every continent. Publication of the documents may heighten scrutiny of some of the world's largest financial institutions and their clients. Governments worldwide have renewed efforts to stamp out tax avoidance as fiscal authorities, including those from Europe and the United States, confront record budget deficits and slow-growth economies. Click here to search the Offshore Leaks Database. A 2012 report by the Tax Justice Network (TJN) found that untaxed wealth invested in offshore tax havens ran between $28 and $32 trillion dollars, equal to two years' worth of U.S. economic output. The report estimated that if the money were to have been invested in home countries, even at low rates of return, it could have generated hundreds of billions of dollars per year in tax revenue. The TJN report also described the secrecy enveloping the world of offshore tax havens as a "subterranean system that ... is the economic equivalent of an astrophysical black hole." The new ICIJ OffShore Leak Database provides a small window into that world for the public to peruse. The database contains documents covering 30 years from the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Singapore, Hong Kong, Samoa, Seychelles, Mauritius, Labuan and Malaysia. According to ICIJ, the information came from a leak of documents from two offshore service companies, Singapore-based Portcullis TrustNet and British Virgin Islands-based Commonwealth Trust Limited (CTL). The documents have been used to unearth stories, starting in April 2013, about tax evasion by politicians in Canada, France, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan and the Philippines; how offshore companies are used to hide the foreign investors in London's real estate market; the use of tax havens to buy and sell on the fine art market; the involvement of companies like Deutsche Bank to help create offshore entities; arms trading in war zones; and how the world's ultra-rich hide their money from taxation. In making the database freely available, ICIJ hopes to engage the public in its ongoing work to expose the use of offshore tax havens by international corporations and wealthy individuals. Readers are encouraged to contact journalists if they come across promising leads. Tax havens are nations that offer favorable tax treatment to assets held within their boundaries, often offering zero or near-zero tax rates with very few questions asked. Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Dubai and the micro-state of Jersey, off the coast of England, are just a few of the countries that host corporate entities and trusts created by the world's wealthy and powerful to shield their money from taxes in their home-country. While the transactions listed in the database likely are legal in countries considered to be tax havens, use of offshore accounts by a corporation or individual often are decried as tax evasion in home countries, regardless of the circumstances. In some cases, authorities have targeted offshore accounts when accusing banks of facilitating illegal tax evasion. UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, in 2009 avoided criminal prosecution by entering into a deferred-prosecution agreement and paying $780 million to settle allegations it defrauded the U.S. government. The bank admitted it participated in a scheme to defraud the federal government by "actively assisting or otherwise facilitating" tax evasion by Americans from 2000 to 2007. Peter Kurer, then-chairman of UBS, said at the time : "UBS sincerely regrets the compliance failures in its U.S. cross-border business that have been identified by the various government investigations in Switzerland and the U.S., as well as our own internal review. We accept full responsibility for these improper activities." Thousands of wealthy U.S. customers eventually turned themselves in. The Swiss government also turned over the identities of U.S. account holders to U.S. officials. In 2010, Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest lender, agreed to pay $554 million to U.S. authorities to settle criminal accusations that it helped create fraudulent tax shelters for clients from 1996 to 2002 that deprived the U.S. Treasury of revenue. The bank admitted wrongdoing and entered into a non-prosecution agreement. At the time, the bank said it was "pleased that this investigation, which concerned transactions that ceased more than eight years ago, has come to a resolution." "Since 2002, the bank has significantly strengthened its policies and procedures as part of an ongoing effort to ensure strict adherence to the law and the highest standards of ethical conduct," it added. In response to growing allegations of evasion, the U.S. in 2010 enacted the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) to enlist financial institutions in the government's fight to recoup lost tax revenues. FATCA forces foreign banks to report information on overseas accounts held by U.S. individuals and businesses, and foreign corporations in which U.S. taxpayers hold a substantial ownership stake. Other nations are now following suit. The eight leading industrialized nations that comprise the Group of Eight (G8) are due to discuss efforts to combat tax dodging at their coming meeting June 17-18 in Northern Ireland. "The upcoming G8 summit is poised to deliver a hammer blow to offshore corporate tax avoidance," Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said. "The G8 summit should take advantage of the emerging international consensus that we can no longer allow profitable multinational corporations to play one country off another, ducking corporate taxes and leaving other taxpayers to pick up the slack," he added. Banks that structure and facilitate offshore corporate entities designed to minimize tax payments may feel the brunt of the pressure. A review by The Huffington Post of the ICIJ database, which comprises only a portion of the total data trove in the leak, revealed that UBS was linked to more than 3,000 offshore accounts. It allegedly served as a "master client" -- defined by the ICIJ as "an intermediary or go-between who helps a client set up an offshore entity" -- or as a "nominee shareholder," a shareholder who is not the real owner or beneficiary of the corporation. The bank declined to comment. The database shows Deutsche Bank linked to more than 1,000 offshore accounts. A spokesman declined to comment. Though not all of the offshore accounts listed in the database are currently active -- many are listed as defunct or dissolved -- the data covers three decades of offshore accounts, potentially providing tax authorities with a road map to discover tax cheats. A slew of ICIJ-inspired reporting in April had dramatic effects. Herbert Stepic, Raiffeisen Bank International chief executive, resigned his post after news reports alleged he had numerous offshore accounts. A month later, police in South Korea raided the home of business titan Lee Jay-Hyun, CJ Group chairman and a billionaire grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-Chul, as part of a tax evasion probe. The revelations unearthed by ICIJ and journalists around the world also prompted stern responses from a number of European leaders, and in some cases helped lead to calls for changes in laws to promote banking transparency and prevent tax evasion. In May, British Prime Minister David Cameron said at a White House press conference that "we need to know who really owns a company, who profits from it, whether taxes are paid." Algirdas Semeta, the European commissioner for taxation, said: "Recent developments, fueled by the outcome of the Offshore Leaks, confirms the urgency for more and better action against tax evasion." Semeta further called for European nations operating as tax havens , including Luxembourg and Monaco, as well as protectorates controlled by European countries like the British Virgin Islands, to adopt the European Union's standard of banking transparency. After Semeta's statements, Luxembourg announced that it would end secret banking for investments by European nationals. Britain's overseas territories also announced that they would begin sharing banking information with the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. In Washington, ongoing congressional hearings on American companies' use of offshore tax havens to avoid paying U.S. corporate taxes appeared to reach an apex in May, when Apple CEO Tim Cook testified before Levin's Senate investigative subcommittee on the company's aggressive use of strategies allegedly for the sole purpose of minimizing taxes. "We pay all the taxes we owe, every single dollar. We not only comply with the laws, but we comply with the spirit of the laws," Cook said. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/offshore-tax-haven-_n_3443722.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=300_1371353794 God_Himself Offshore Tax-Haven Data Made Public As Companies Brace For Scrutiny FOLLOW: islands &amp; beaches, Apple, Video, Deutsche Bank, Tax Evasion, Corporate Taxes, Offshore Tax Haven, Offshore Tax Havens, Tax Havens, Tim Cook, Ubs, Politics News Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:42:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b2b_1371325227 dcmfox Bill Maher and former Rhode Island Representative Patrick Kennedy sparred on the effects of marijuana Friday night, with Maher often aghast at Kennedy's claims that pot "destroys the brain and expedites psychosis." "It sounds like you've been hanging around with Nancy Reagan in 1983," Maher told him. "I used to have your position, I used to think marijuana was no big deal," said Kennedy, who leads the organization Smart Approaches to Marijuana. "When I learned more of the facts, I changed my views on this." Kennedy's primary complaint was that legalization would lead to rampant use among children. "If you give a permissive environment you're gonna have more kids use," he told Maher. "Come on, man," Maher said. "This is like global warming denying. This is stuff we heard years ago." Kennedy argued that the marijuana legalization would primarily benefit major corporations, who would follow the tobacco industry's lead in targeting children. "You're reasoning is adults shouldn't do things because kids might," Maher said. "Adults shouldn't have fire or drive cars under that reasoning, too. Kids might do all sorts of bad things. Parents have to stop them and teachers have to stop them...It just seems so un-Kennedy like to be against what I called two weeks ago was the new gay-marriage. It is the new civil rights movement." "I led the effort in Congress for drug courts, because I don't believe people out to be incarcerated because of an addiction," Kennedy said to applause, the only time in the segment the audience was with him. He insisted that if the public knew the facts about marijuana, they would change their minds about the drug. "If you legalize, there's going to be greater use, that's a fact." "You still haven't proved to me why that's a bad thing," Maher said, but added, "I don't think kids should use it." This was Kennedy's sticking point. "We know with a developing brain, if kids think there's no big deal with this thing, and more of them use, it's going to impact their developing brain. The bottom line is if we care about kids' healthy development, why do we want to add a new drug-" "Well, it's hardly a new drug," Maher said, and then pivoted to the rehab industry. "It's money. The more people we put into rehab, for reasons that they don't belong there, the more money for people. I assume these people smell money there for a reason. It's the same reason we have so many people in prison-because we're making customers out of people who should not be customers." Watch the segment here, via HBO: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b2b_1371325227 dcmfox Bill Maher Rips Apart Patrick Kennedy's Anti-Pot Crusade: You Sound Like Nancy Reagan In 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsK-O-aB8o Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:19:47 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a0_1371284254 absu69 Paraguay's April 21 election of Horacio Cartes, a dodgy "tobacco magnate," rancher and banker, whose Banco Amambay has been accused of laundering drug money, tax evasion and other crimes, raises the specter of "state capture" by powerful drug cartels linked to US intelligence agencies. In the context of US efforts to manage not eliminate, the multibillion dollar global trade in illegal narcotics, Cartes electoral victory might very well be a shot in the arm for certain three-lettered US intelligence agencies, eager beavers always on the lookout for new allies--and an endless supply of black funds--to carry out hemisphere-wide dirty ops against leftist governments. The current US destabilization campaign targeting Venezuela's newly elected president, Nicol'as Maduro and the Bolivarian revolution, is instructive in this regard. A key factor driving US regional operations is control over the narcotics market. As researchers Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle revealed in Cocaine, Death Squads and the war on Terror : "Paraguay was the first country in Latin America to be publicly exposed for its involvement in the drug trade. Paraguay in the early 1970s was a vital center for the Corsican mafia, leading to the development of a vast heroin-trafficking network supplied from Turkey, and based in Marseille, the infamous 'French Connection.' Corsicans coordinated the transport of heroin from Marseille to the United States via Paraguay. The CIA," Villar and Cottle averred, "used such networks as transit stops in transporting Asian heroin to the United States with the help of corrupt high-ranking government and military officials." "Later," journalist Vicky Pelaez disclosed in The Moscow News , "cocaine trafficking was added. It was transported through Chaco's wild and rough terrain. Chaco is a vast, semi-arid and semi-humid region in western Paraguay, where there are at least 900 covert airplane runways and where between 60 and 70 tons of cocaine circulate annually, according to former Interior Minister Carlos Filizzola." "Curiously," Pelaez averred, "there are two US bases in that region. One is located in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero, in the Amambay province, and is operated by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The other, run by the Pentagon, is part of the Mariscal Estigarribia airport, in the Boquer'on province, and boasts a 3,800-meter long runway." When Fernando Lugo was removed from office last year after an expedited impeachment "trial" by Paraguay's Senate, it was widely denounced across Latin American as a parliamentary coup d''etat which had more than a passing resemblance to the 2009 ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. And like the Honduran coup against Zelaya, the World Socialist Web Site pointed out that "both countries have been the focus of attention of the US military and intelligence apparatus, which shares intimate connections with its local counterparts. Security forces in both countries have been trained and advised by the Pentagon and would not support the overthrow of an existing government without its approval." Elected in 2008, Lugo, a former Catholic bishop and proponent of Liberation Theology, promised to combat Paraguay's endemic corruption and implement policies favoring a "preferential option for the poor." Lugo however, was no Hugo Ch'avez, Evo Morales or Rafael Correa, populist leaders who defied the Global Godfather by charting an independent course. Despite a mildly reformist agenda which increased access to healthcare and education for Paraguay's working class majority, when it came to the key issue of land reform Lugo's administration hit a brick wall. Shortly after assuming office, Lugo became the target of that nation's entrenched landed oligarchy, multinational agricultural corporations (including such paragons of virtue as Monsanto, Pioneer, Syngenta, Dupont, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, and Bunge) and the transnational drug cartels which continue to rule Paraguay with an iron fist much as they did under the 35-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. Paraguay, a landlocked nation in which 2 percent of the population control more than 80 percent of the landed wealth, most of which had been expropriated by the kleptocratic Stroessner regime and handed out to favored cronies of his Colorado party, agrarian reform should have topped Lugo's agenda. As The Moscow News pointed out, "Monsanto was naturally involved in the conspiracy. The world's largest producer of genetically modified crops disapproved of Lugo's idea to abolish the per-ton royalty of $4 on soybeans, to be paid by growers using Roundup Ready RR1 and Intenta RR2 Pro seeds. Recall that on his fifth day in office, the new president, Federico Franco, offered new concessions to Monsanto concerning the distribution of its GM cotton, soybean and corn seeds in Paraguay." According to Pelaez, "Over the past ten months, unofficial employment has soared to 66% (this proportion is higher only in Peru (67%) and in Haiti (92%)). The bulk of the shadow labor market is formed by farmers pushed off the fields by such groups as Monsanto and Cargill, which use biotechnology to industrialize agricultural production and convert farmland into a contaminated 'green desert,' slowly but surely implanting a system of 'farming without farmers'." Blocked at every step, and relying on the right's largesse to remain in office, Lugo's betrayal of the campesino base that put him in office and his retreat and capitulation to Paraguay's elite doomed his administration. In fact, as journalist and researcher Benjamin Dangl reported in UpSideDownWorld last year, "Lugo was no friend of the campesino sector that helped bring him into power. His administration regularly called for the severe repression and criminalization of the country's campesino movements. He was therefore isolated from above at the political level, and lacked a strong political base below due to his stance toward social movements and the slow pace of land reform." Using a police provocation and subsequent massacre of 11 landless farmers who had occupied land belonging to ex-Colorado Senator Blas Riquelme, illegally seized by the Stroessner regime as a pretext, the Chamber of Deputies launched proceedings to remove Lugo from office. Scarcely 24 hours later, the Senate voted to impeach the president. Who was leading the charge for Lugo's removal? Why none other than the Colorado Party's declared candidate for the presidency, then-Senator Horacio Cartes. But the final straw may have been the decision by Lugo's administration three years earlier, to cut off access to the country by the US military. By 2007, the Pentagon had deployed some 400 Marines under the guise of "medical readiness training" exercises that were denounced by grassroots activists as a ploy to identify "dangerous" rural leaders of the landless movement. At the same time, the Pentagon was planning to expand US operations at the giant Mariscal Estigarribia air base, 120 miles from the Argentine and Bolivian borders. Journalist Conn Hallinan reported back in 2005, "US Special Forces began arriving this past summer at Paraguay's Mariscal Estigarribia air base, a sprawling complex built in 1982 during the reign of dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Argentinean journalists who got a peek at the place say the airfield can handle B-52 bombers and Galaxy C-5 cargo planes. It also has a huge radar system, vast hangers, and can house up to 16,000 troops. The air base is larger than the international airport at the capital city, Asunci'on." During a 2009 press conference, Lugo rejected further US troop deployments under the Bush-era "New Horizons" program. In a decision that greatly angered Washington, Lugo remarked, "we don't see it as convenient that the Southern Command has a presence in Paraguay." Coming on the heels of Ecuador's 2009 closure of the giant US airbase at Manta, of which Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa famously said: "We can negotiate with the US about a base in Manta, if they let us put a military base in Miami," the Pentagon and CIA looked to Paraguay for a platform for what Southern Command described as "counternarcotics surveillance," but which regional neighbors denounced as a threat to hemispheric security. Ominously, the US ambassador in Asunci'on, Liliana Ayalde declared: "It's a regrettable decision." Indeed it was, for Lugo and the Paraguayan people. The (Narco) Ties that Bind In their relentless drive to accumulate riches at the expense of their citizens, comprador elites, particularly those who mix land grabs, far-right politics with currying favor from their imperialist overlords, utilize state institutions as cash cows. And when those elites are also plugged into the international narcotics trade and control the state's machinery of repression, well, it's a win-win all around! Who would imagine that a central banker would have ties to criminals and narcotraffickers? Why, the US Embassy that's who! A 2007 Cable Gate file published by WikiLeaks noted that former Central Bank president Dr. Angel Gabriel Gonz'alez C'aceres, "a strong Colorado with close ties to President Duarte, who appointed him Central Bank president in September 2003," was named "Paraguay's new director of SEPRELAD, the Secretariat for the Prevention of Money Laundering," and that reviews of his previous performance were "quite mixed." Variously described by the Embassy as "a technician with a long trajectory at the Central Bank who has cooperated with the Embassy on money laundering and terrorist financing," as Banking Superintendent however, Gonz'alez "opposed creation of SEPRELAD because he wanted the Central Bank to retain responsibility for fighting money laundering." But perhaps there were other factors, and interests, at work? According to Asunci'on Deputy Chief of Mission Michael J. Fitzpatrick, Paraguay's counternarcotics director Hugo Ibarra would have "nothing to do with" Gonz'alez. The counternarcotics chief then "volunteered that Gonz'alez had a direct personal role as Central Bank president in white-washing ('blanquear') funds for so-called pillar of the community Horacio Cartes and his Banco Amambay, noting that 80 percent of money laundering in Paraguay moves through that banking institution." "Ibarra indicated," Embassy officials averred, "that Gonz'alez is still involved with Amambay, and questioned why a former Central Bank president would take a lower level position as SEPRELAD director--managing an office with less than a dozen employees--in the absence of some other financial incentive." Certainly a relevant question; however, no answers were forthcoming. In 2008, another WikiLeaks file disclosed that shortly after assuming office, Lugo informed the US Embassy of his interest "in closer counternarcotics cooperation with the United States and requested U.S. assistance with microenterprise development during a Friday, August 29 dinner with the Ambassador." Significantly, "Lugo made clear that he does not trust some of his closest advisors or cabinet ministers. During dinner, which took place before the weekend rumors emerged regarding coup planning, Lugo told Ambassador about a tape recording of former President Duarte and General Lino Oviedo betting that Lugo will last only three to eight months in office." A 2009 secret WikiLeaks file, "Paraguayan Pols Plot Paraguayan Putsch," noted that "discredited General and UNACE party leader Lino Oviedo and ex-president Nicanor Duarte Frutos are now working together to assume power via (mostly) legal means should President Lugo stumble in coming months." Oviedo, "serving time for involvement in the 1999 assassination of Vice President Luis Argana and the subsequent Marzo Paraguayo massacre of unarmed student protesters," the Embassy noted it was Duarte "who used his control of the Supreme Court to free Oviedo from jail" in 2007. A 2003 CIA report published by the Library of Congress informed us that "Brazilian and U.S. officials generally consider former General Lino C'esar Oviedo to be head of the so-called Paraguay Cartel. He reportedly has amassed at least US$1 billion, including numerous properties in the TBA ." The Argentine investigative news magazine P'agina/12 published a 2001 Argentine Chamber of Deputies report on money laundering which noted that according to Brazilian officials, the US Embassy and the DEA, Oviedo was involved with "drug trafficking (cocaine and marijuana), weapons, money laundering and the smuggling of various items." In 1994 for example, a "load of seven tons of cocaine, worth $70 million, which was seized with the participation of the CIA, and destined for the USA," was linked to Oviedo and his employees. Later that year, according to DEA documents, another load of five tons of cocaine was seized from "Oviedo accomplices" attempting to smuggle it across the Paraguayan border. The Chamber of Deputies report concluded: "Oviedo is accused of being the head of a drug trafficking, arms trafficking and being involved in the murder of media entrepreneur Carlos Honorio Cubillas and Paraguayan Vice President Argana. The various charges against him made by the DEA were, by former U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay and the Brazilian CPI." As noted above, in 2007, Oviedo's conviction for orchestrating an attempted military coup in 1996 was annulled by Paraguay's Supreme Court. Again a candidate for the presidency in 2013, nominated by the ironically named National Union of Ethical Citizens (Uni'on Nacional de Ciudadanos 'Eticos, UNACE), Oviedo died in a "helicopter accident" after a campaign appearance in February, clearing the path to power for Horacio Cartes. The Cartel: Back in Power Last Sunday in an unusually critical article, The New York Times reported that during the campaign, Cartes "was pressed to explain why antinarcotics police officers apprehended a plane carrying cocaine and marijuana on his ranch in 2000; why he went to prison in 1989 on currency fraud charges; and why he had never even voted in past general elections." Good questions, all of which were dismissed by Cartes' top aides as "conspiracy theories" and "slander." The most serious charges involve Cartes connection to drug trafficking, money laundering and the smuggling of contraband cigarettes. Another WikiLeaks file, this one from 2010, informed us that a joint that a joint ATF-DEA-ICE-OFAC US anti-money laundering investigation dubbed "Heart of Stone," revealed that Cartes is the head of a transnational criminal organization and the main target of the operation. "OPERATION HEART OF STONE is a coordinated, transnational investigation focused on the disruption and dismantlement of a significant drug trafficking and money laundering enterprise operating within the Tri Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, and elsewhere throughout the world. This investigation has established links between and among drug trafficking, money laundering and other criminal organizations and, as such, was approved as a designated Consolidated Priority Organizational Target (CPOT) investigation during April 2009." The WikiLeaks file averred: "The investigative team has implemented strategies and operations aimed at attacking the financial infrastructure of drug trafficking supply network (DTO's) and other criminal enterprises operating within the TBA. Using a strategic approach to target the international command and control centers of these criminal organizations based in the TBA, agents have successfully focused investigative activity in an effort to develop this investigation with an aim toward a DEA UC introduction to CPOT designee Horacio CARTES. Through the utilization of a DEA BACO cooperating source and other DEA undercover personnel, agents have infiltrated CARTES' money laundering enterprise, an organization believed to launder large quantities of United States currency generated through illegal means, including through the sale of narcotics, from the TBA to the United States." Despite the seriousness of the allegations, and others enumerated below, The Independent reported that Cartes "has publicly denied the allegations and says he has received assurances from the embassy that the US Drugs Enforcement Agency and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are conducting no investigations against him, something the cables allege." If true, this raises a disturbing question: did the DEA drop the ball or were they ordered to back away from the investigation by Obama's State Department? "'When it comes to drug trafficking, Horacio has made it clear what his position is,' says Julio Velazquez, a Colorado senator standing for re-election tomorrow." Ludicrously, Velazquez told The Independent: "'There's no concrete allegation against him. Horacio has investments in the US. Do you think the Americans would allow a narco to bring money into their country?'" Memo to Senator Velazquez: Not only would the Yankees "allow a narco to bring money into their country," they'd look the other way as US banksters laundered the funds and extracted hefty fees in the process! Another front in the Cartes empire involved Banco Amambay and illegal tax evasion. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ( ICIJ ) reported earlier this month that "five directors of Banco Amambay created a secret bank in the Cook Islands with no building and no staff." Journalists Marina Walker Guevara and Mabel Rehnfeldt disclosed that "top officials of a Paraguayan bank owned by Horacio Manuel Cartes, the country's leading candidate in this month's presidential election, operated a secret financial institution in a tax haven in the South Pacific." According to the ICIJ's investigation, "Cartes' father, Ram'on Telmo Cartes Lind, and four other executives of Paraguay's Banco Amambay S.A. created Amambay Trust Bank Ltd. in 1995 in the Cook Islands, a tiny chain of atolls and volcanic outcroppings more than 6,000 miles away from the South American nation." "The Cook Islands bank, which was operational until 2000," the same year the Cook Islands landed on of the OECD's money laundering blacklist, "a dishonor roll for places the OECD considers havens for dirty money," was de-registered a month prior to OECD sanctions. Guevara and Rehnfeldt reported that the Cook Islands were condemned for "'excessive secrecy provisions'" that "allowed owners of offshore companies and accounts to hide in the shadows. It noted the islands' government had 'no relevant information on approximately 1,200 international companies that it had registered' and that the offshore banks located in the Cooks weren't required to document the identity of their customers." "It was not the only time that Banco Amambay and its officials made headlines for alleged money laundering, but the accusations have never resulted in convictions." "Just last month," the ICIJ averred, "the head of Paraguay's anti-money laundering agency said that the bank was being investigated alongside other financial institutions for illegal money transfers abroad. The following day the official recanted his words and said he had misspoken. Amambay denied any involvement in criminal activities." With the election of another "teflon president" accused of operating a drug trafficking and money laundering enterprise, and with powerful connections to prominent right-wing politicians suspected of decades' long ties to global narcotics rackets, the Pentagon and US secret state agencies must be salivating over the prospect of the cartel's return to power. After all, as State Department spokesperson Patrick Ventrell said during an April 22 press briefing when queried about Cartes dodgy record: "The United States values its relationship with Paraguay and looks forward to working with the President-elect, with President-elect Cartes, on many of our shared interests, such as defending and promoting democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, and expanding trade and economic opportunities." When pressed about Cartes long history of criminal allegations, Ventrell didn't bat an eyelash and averred: "I'm not aware of specific allegations one way or another, but we do congratulate him on his electoral victory. And I think I just was clear about working with him going forward." http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a0_1371284254 absu69 In the Wake of Last Year's 'Soft Coup' Against Paraguay's President, Will a New Narco-Dictatorship Emerge? drug,war Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:33:41 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e73_1371252549 USMC_SRT Someone is watching you. What you spend. Where you eat. Whom you call. Where you travel. What you Google. What you give to charity. Recent reports of government access to records from phone companies, Internet providers and credit card companies raise anew questions of just how much other people can know about you, especially in the age of the Internet and high technology. They watch from the air, from cameras, from computers. And you help them, volunteering vast amounts of information about yourself in the magnetic stripe on the back of your credit card, the SIM card in your phone, the sites you visit on the Internet. The government has access to some of it. And might have access to more from the vast corporations that compile it. U.S. officials insist they only tap into information that points at suspected terrorists and that there are plenty of safeguards to make sure they don't snoop on good guys. "I want the American people to know that we're trying to be transparent here, protect civil liberties and privacy but also the security of this country," Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency, told Congress on Wednesday. He also acknowledged that the government could look at such things as phone records and what site someone Googled. All of it alarms civil libertarians. "We don't want to live in a world where anytime you do anything you have to stop and ask yourself, 'Could this come back to hurt me if somebody found out about it?' " said Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties Union. "Because absolutely nothing we do is private." Indeed. Here are just some of the ways Americans can be watched. Internet A quick Google search for a lunch spot? There's a record of that. Arranging a vacation? Someone knows where you're planning to go. Check in with Facebook? It tracks all the sites you visit that have "like" buttons or allow you to sign in with Facebook - pretty much all of them. If those Internet giants can record so much about you, who can look at this electronic diary? The government can access any emails, chats, searches, events, locations, videos, photos, log-ins and any information people post online with a warrant, which the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court can grant secretly. And the revelation of PRISM, a secret government program for mining major Internet companies, suggests the government could have direct access to Internet companies' data without a warrant. Every company reportedly impacted - Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, PalTalk and AOL - denied knowing about the program or giving any direct access to their servers. Email The government also might be able to look at your email. A warrant can grant access to email sent within 180 days. Older emails are available with an easier-to-get subpoena and prior notice. Government officials also could read all the ingoing and outgoing emails on an account in real time with a specific type of wiretap warrant, which is granted with probable cause for specific crimes such as terrorism. Google received 16,407 user data requests involving 31,072 users from the U.S. government in 2012. It granted about 90 percent of those requests. Microsoft, with its Outlook/Hotmail email service, received 11,073 requests involving 24,565 users, at least partially granting 65 percent of those requests. Phones With the advent of smartphones and SIM cards, cellphones are no longer strictly for storage of digits and 180-character short messages. We use cellphones to navigate road trips, buy vintage boots on eBay and watch the game when we're stuck on the subway. We deposit checks with a bank app and a camera, find the closest happy hour and board a train with the flash of a QR-code. Phones hold our coupons, our favorite cat videos and functions as a credit card when we forget ours at home. The NSA collects subscriber information from major cellphone carriers. This information is primarily based on metadata, such as location and duration of calls, along with numbers dialed, all in search of links to suspected terrorists. In 2011, the last year with available information, law enforcement agencies made 1.3 million requests for subscriber information. These government requests, both from 2011 and more recently from the NSA, are limited to metadata. That doesn't mean that the content of conversations is off-limits. To listen in, the government just needs a warrant, one that's granted through the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The court approves almost every request, fully denying just nine out of 33,900 government applications for surveillance over its 33-year existence, according to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reports submitted to Congress. The overwhelming rate stems in part because most requests go through an intense vetting process by department lawyers before ever going to the court, said Timothy Edgar, fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. By the time it gets in front of the court, he said, it's nearly foolproof. Credit cards Have a favorite spot where you buy your coffee? Uncle Sam might know where it is. It all starts with that stripe on the back of your credit card, which gets swiped through thousands of readers every year. That solid black bar is made up of millions of iron-based magnetic particles, each one 20-millionths of an inch wide. Each credit card owner has a personalized strip full of intimate data sitting right inside his or her pocket. Any purchase can be traced directly back to your wallet. And the NSA is doing just that, according to The Wall Street Journal. Although the scope of credit card tracking efforts are unknown, the Journal reported that the NSA has established relationships with credit card companies akin to those that they had established with phone carriers, which provide them with data under warrant, subpoena or court order. These former officials didn't know if the efforts were ongoing. What could they find? Based on the technology of the mag stripe, quite a bit. Even with just the metadata - digitally contained bits of information - on a credit card, they could most likely see when and where a purchase was made, and how much it cost. Cameras Whether they're walking to work, withdrawing money from an ATM or walking into their favorite local grocer, Americans could be within sight of one of the United States' estimated 30 million surveillance cameras. Police use them to monitor streets, subways and public spaces. Homeowners put them on their houses. Businesses mount them in stores and on buildings. In Boston, for example, the FBI used still photos and video pulled from cameras to identify suspects after the Boston Marathon bombing. The images showed the suspects making calls from their cellphones, carrying what the police say were bombs, and leaving the scene. New high-tech, high-definition security camera manufacturers give police departments the options of thermal imaging, 360-degree fields of view and powerful zoom capabilities for identifying people. Advances in camera technology enable new ways to monitor American citizens. Some states such as Colorado are using cameras as an alternative method of charging motorists toll fares. As a motorist drives through the toll lanes, motion-activated cameras capture an image of the license plate and the driver is billed. Cameras are watching if you speed or run a red light, too. Also, police departments in several metro areas began employing cameras to deter traffic infractions and raise revenue. Libertarians and electronic privacy advocates oppose these methods, citing a lack of transparency in the use of the cameras and the retention of the data they collect. Drones If Americans are not within sight of a camera, they could soon be spotted from the air. As many as 30,000 domestic drones will travel the skies above U.S. soil within 20 years, according to a report for Congress by the Federal Aviation Administration. Gearing up, Congress has called on the FAA to integrate unmanned aircraft into the national air system even sooner, by 2015. Already, the FAA has approved domestic drone use by 81 agencies, including schools, police departments and the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group of privacy advocates. Among the applicants approved: the Arlington Police Department in Texas; California State University in Fresno; Canyon County Sheriff's Office in Idaho; the city of Herington, Kan.; the Georgia Tech Research Institute; Kansas State University; the Miami-Dade Police Department in Florida; the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; Pennsylvania State University; the Seattle Police Department; and the Universities of Alaska at Fairbanks, California-Davis and Florida. In March, the American Civil Liberties Union addressed the dangers of domestic drones and warned of the surveillance capabilities of this technology. Although these drones range in size, most are able to hover tens of thousands of feet in the sky, collecting images of people on the ground below. "Based on current trends - technology development, law enforcement interest, political and industry pressure, and the lack of legal safeguards - it is clear that drones pose a looming threat to Americans' privacy," the ACLU report argued. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e73_1371252549 USMC_SRT All the ways you're being watched USA, NSA, Watching, You, Spying Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:49:14 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=337_1371181318 omniradar I,m sick of these bastards presuming this is good for all citizens !!!! Senior politicians from across the political divide have united to call for UK security services to be given greater internet monitoring powers. In a letter to The Times newspaper three former Labour home secretaries, three senior Tories and one Liberal Democrat urge changes. They say "coalition niceties" must not hinder counter terror efforts. A bill allowing the monitoring of all UK citizens' internet use was dropped after Liberal Democrat opposition. However, following the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich there have been calls for the Communications Data Bill, dubbed the "snoopers' charter" by opponents, which was shelved in May to be revived. Quote from letter issued by Jack Straw, David Blunkett, Alan Johnson, Lord Baker, Lord King, and Lord Carlile The letter was signed by former Labour home secretaries Jack Straw, David Blunkett and Alan Johnson, along with former Conservative home secretary Lord Baker and defence secretary Lord King, and Liberal Democrat Lord Carlile, who until 2011 was the independent reviewer of government anti-terror laws. In issuing the letter Mr Straw teamed up with Ben Wallace, the MP for Wyre and Preston North and parliamentary aide to minister without portfolio Ken Clarke. As a parliamentary aide Mr Wallace must not differ from the government position. The letter, which was passed to Newsnight and which will be published in The Times on Friday, puts renewed pressure on the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, whose party claimed a month ago they would not allow the bill to become law while the Liberal Democrats were in government. It also shows support amongst backers of the bill is undiminished, despite claims British security services used information gathered on UK citizens by Prism - the US secret intelligence programme revealed last week. Instead, referring to the recent murder of Drummer Rigby, they write: "When such a threat reveals itself, government has a duty to ensure they can do all they can to counter it." Without Liberal Democrat support in parliament, the Conservatives alone could not get the bill on to the statute book, but this letter is the first sign that Labour politicians are prepared to combine in principle with the Conservative party to help ensure the security services are given the new powers. In an attack on Liberal Democrat opposition, they write: "Coalition niceties and party politics must not get in the way of giving our security services the capabilities they need to stay one step ahead of those that seek to destroy our society." They also accuse the Liberal Democrats of siding with the interests of large communications companies, writing: "We find it odd that many critics of the Bill prefer to champion the rights of corporations over democratically accountable law enforcement agencies." Speculation is mounting in Westminster that to avoid complicated votes in parliament, measures will be brought forward by Home Secretary Theresa May that are not presented in a formal bill, but instead use other means of achieving the same ends. The Communications Data Bill would have given police and security services access, without a warrant, to details of all online communication in the UK - such as the time, duration, originator and recipient, and the location of the device from which it was made. It would also give access to some details of Britons' web browsing history and details of messages sent on social media. The police would have to get a warrant from the home secretary to be able to access the actual content of conversations and messages. In April, Mr Clegg told his weekly LBC radio phone-in: "What people have dubbed the snoopers' charter - I have to be clear with you, that's not going to happen." "In other words the idea that the government will pass a law which means there will be a record kept of every website you visit, who you communicate with on social media sites, that's not going to happen. It's certainly not going to happen with Liberal Democrats in government." "We all committed ourselves at the beginning of this coalition to learn the lessons from the past, when Labour overdid it, trying to constantly keep tabs on everyone. We have a commitment in this Coalition Agreement to end the storage of internet information unless there is a very good reason to do so." But in the letter the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat grandees say: "Far from being a 'snoopers' charter', as critics allege, the draft bill, seeks to match our crime fighting capabilities to the advances in technologies. "The proposed Communications Data Bill does not want access to the content of our communications but does want to ensure that enough data is available in the aftermath of an attack to help investigators establish 'who, where and when' were involved in planning or supporting it."rjs2662 13th June 2013 - 19:42 If you value security over freedom you will end up losing both +62 Comment number 24. Welsh Ben 13th June 2013 - 19:55 And the terrorists have almost won... They've pushed the UK to the point where we are more in fear of state snooping on our private lives than we are of the potential terrorist acts. +59 Comment number 18. jay 13th June 2013 - 19:53 "However, following the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich" Not only would police/local authorities monitoring all UK internet use without a warrant due to one terrorist attack be grossly disproportionate, but I haven't heard a single objective, evidenced-based argument for how these powers would have prevented Woolwich. Cynical, manipulative and dangerous. Go through the courts. +49 Comment number 3. BikerAndy 13th June 2013 - 19:44 disgusting invasion of privacy. together with the current trend of net censorship, it just goes to show that all the major political parties have no interest in what the public actually want. big brother gone mad. i for one will be voting pirate party in the next elections to make my feelings clear to the next government. +49 Comment number 6. vin 13th June 2013 - 19:46 They already monitor everything. They are just trying to legalise it. +46 Comment number 4. oOLJCOo 13th June 2013 - 19:46 Any one think that people who do not wish to be monitored will just go back to pens and paper? This isn't for "terror", it's for policing of the population incase we ever decide to turn off Big Brother or Downton Abbey and head down to the Capital to remove the fat cat bankers and their MP henchmen who have robbed and stole from the common person. +46 Comment number 109. yournext 13th June 2013 - 20:31 First they came for the communists, I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I didn't speak out. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. +40 Comment number 68. ePug 13th June 2013 - 20:14 What? I must be dreaming. More surveillance? More scrutiny? Terror? What terror? This is insane. +37 Comment number 85. Tony 13th June 2013 - 20:23 Jack Straw is a creep.. a power freak who was behind the British ID card system.. oh how that man loves the idea of Big Brother. +34 Comment number 12. beesaman 13th June 2013 - 19:50 This will make both Labour and Conservative unelectable in the next election. +34 Comment number 13. Mooker 13th June 2013 - 19:50 We are doomed if we do not unite and take a stand against this NOW! +33 Comment number 38. BeesAreTrendy 13th June 2013 - 20:02 It's funny how Governments want its citizen's business out in the open for it to see, but it does not want its own business out in the open for its citizen's to see. Yes, funny that. +33 Comment number 45. Dragonwight 13th June 2013 - 20:04 Lee Rigby would not have been saved by new powers so any mention of him is just political opportunism and an insult to his family. This lot should just learn to go away gracefully they had their time in office. Given the number of MP`s who seem to have trouble with basic morality like not stealing from the public purse I certainly wouldn't trust them with a complex issue like privacy. +31 Comment number 67. Big John the Red 13th June 2013 - 20:14 Why not "chip" us all like dogs and have done with it? Oh, and in the UK, you are around 50 times more like to die of an allergic reaction to a cat than in a terrorist attack! +31 Comment number 29. TQ 13th June 2013 - 19:56 "if you are not guilty of anything then what is there to fear?" let me give you a list... corrupt politicians (for examples see the last decade of UK politics), corrupt police (for examples see last 30 years of Police history), hackers, corrupt civil servants, corrupt judges... the list goes on but when too much power is centralised then abuse of that power isn't far behind (See the Prism scandal) +28 Comment number 51. GodsSon83 13th June 2013 - 20:07 The nazis may of lost the battle but they def won the War Welcome to Soviet United kingdom of Europe where your "security" is our top priority. Whilst the "Terrorists" are about we will have to remove your rights and spy on you without probably cause or due process I AM SICK OF THIS NONSENSE Where are they going to draw the line on this "security" which there pretty useless at! +27 Comment number 65. Citizen Too 13th June 2013 - 20:13 It has taken a thousand years for us to win the level of freedom of speech and action that we now enjoy so we should be prepared to accept risks and dangers in order to maintain it and not be browbeaten into accepting any further curtailment. +27 Comment number 87. JoJoDeathunter 13th June 2013 - 20:24 Politicians take note... we the British people don't want this! We're the people who survived the bombs of the Blitz and the collapse of the largest empire the world has ever seen, only to come out stronger than ever, a few lousy terrorists can't faze us. For once listen to your people rather than trying to grab as much power as you think you can get away with. +26 Comment number 66. blogitusmaximus 13th June 2013 - 20:13 Show me where in the snoopers charter they have developed the technology to crack encrypted tunnelled traffic. Any idiot with a VPN renders this legislation pointless. It is a gross oversight to allow those in power to acquire snooping powers that once in place cant be recinded easily. Beware future not-so-benevolent power hungry governments. +25 Comment number 46. Sane or not 13th June 2013 - 20:04 To give police and security services the right to monitor all communication data is a recipie for a civil liberties /privacy disaster. It's impossible to guarantee that it will only be used to deal with terrorism and serious organised crime. Usage of the anti-terrorism bill has not been confined to war on terror. What stops any officialy body snooping on people who oppose their policies. Page 1 of 23 Newer 1 2 3 4 5 ... 23 Older Sign in with your BBC iD, or Register to comment and rate comments All posts are reactively-moderated and must obey the house rules . Share this page 709 Share Facebook Twitter Email Print Top Stories US: Syria 'used chemical weapons' Cuts could be dangerous - army chief Man charged over Queen painting Alcohol liver disease care 'lacking' Pensioners' incomes 'rising fastest' Features Launch time The plane that Airbus did not want to build All change Is tipping so unfair it should be banned? 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LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin FOLLOW Manuel Rapalo @ http://twitter.com/Manuel_Rapalo http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=244_1370712925 chairmand 6 <span class="highlight">Corporations</span> That Control Your Perception corporations, mainstream media, censorship, comcast, cbs, time warner, disney, viacom, news corp., self censorship, orwellian Sun, 26 May 2013 19:33:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=609_1369610869 HumanRightsAlert Usually I don't do UFOs and martians... Martians at the Boston Marathon So here goes: Last Friday, early morning, around 3:00am, on the corners of Ibn-Gabirol and Marmorek, two main avenues in Tel Aviv, I sighted a couple of martians. The area is mostly coffee-shops and restaurants, and this being summer, there were people, mostly young, walking leisurely around, dressed casually, or in summer party outfits.. On that background, the two martians stood out, walking briskly. They were dressed in perfectly matching uniform and gear. Military style olive pants, grey t-shirts, olive caps, military style walking shoes, military style matching small backpacks. No logos, national, corporate name or ID on the uniform or gear. Both had bright orange necklaces holding name-tags, and both name-tags were concealed in the t-shirt pockets. They spoke English. The location - 5 min walking distance from IDF command and control center, and the future site of 5 story underground US bunker... For a second I thought of taking a photo. Had it been Israeli police or military, I would not hesitate. But martians can respond with lethal violence to being photographed... Israelis are not informed, since media here is relatively silent on the abuse of the civilians of other nations, where the US government operates private security forces. Such people are considered by themselves and by the US as operating above any law. PLEASE HELP FIND OUT IF I AM DELUSIONAL OR NOT... I F YOU HAVE SEEN ANY PERSON OF SIMILAR DESCRIPTION ANYWHERE IN ISRAEL, PLEASE EMAIL ME at 123456xyz@gmail.com If you can safely produce a photograph,that would be super. Be careful, they are usually armed and dangerous. JZ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=609_1369610869 HumanRightsAlert 13-05-24 Dispatch from Tel Aviv - martians sighted! US private security corporations, Israel Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:07:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2eb_1370856069 standoff PRISM is an electronic surveillance program classified as top secret that has been run by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007. PRISM is a government codename for a collection effort known officially as US-984XN. Documents leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden in June 2013 describe the PRISM program as enabling in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information. It provides for the targeting of any customers of participating corporations who live outside the United States, or American citizens whose communications include web content of people outside the United States. Data which the NSA is able to obtain under PRISM allegedly includes email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice over IP conversations, file transfers, login notifications and social networking details. http://thedocs.hostzi.com/ Greetings Netizens, and Citizens of the world. Anonymous has obtained some documents that "they" do not want you to see, and much to "their" chagrin, we have found them, and are giving them to you. These documents prove that the NSA is spying on you, and not just Americans. They are spying on the citizens of over 35 different countries. These documents contain information on the companies involved in GiG, and Prism. Whats GiG you might ask? well... The GIG will enable the secure, agile, robust, dependable, interoperable data sharing environment for the Department where warfighter, business, and intelligence users share knowledge on a global network that facilitates information superiority, accelerates decision-making, effective operations, and Net-Centric transformation. Like we said, this is happening in over 35 countries, and done in cooperation with private businesses, and intelligence partners world wide. We bring this to you, So that you know just how little rights you have. Your privacy and freedoms are slowly being taken from you, in closed door meetings, in laws buried in bills, and by people who are supposed to be protecting you. Download these documents, share them, mirror them, don't allow them to make them disappear. Spread them wide and far. 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PRISM,US-984XN,spy,nsa Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:34:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=720_1370795523 juba776 The western-backed terrorist filth which has infested many parts of Syria in the last two years is being systematically exterminated and removed from its hideouts before the areas are sterilized by the Syrian Armed Forces, heroically waging a winning war against NATO's mercenaries, special forces and Islamist terrorists they have brought into the fray. As the west becomes desperate and the common EU policy literally falls apart while bully boys France and the UK gnash their teeth to launch another imperialist spectacular, as they did in Libya, the terrorist strongholds collapse like a house of cards and the demented vermin which has infested so much of Syria over the last two to three years runs screaming. In the border town of al-Qusayr, the Syrian Armed Forces are progressing steadily, exterminating pockets of takfiri terrorist bands of murderers, rapists, arsonists, thieves and torturers. Sources quote "significant losses" among the terrorist forces as they fled, after denying access to the civilian population of the city to flee, something which the Syrian Armed Forces had insisted upon. The towns of Mansoura, Aldalbh, Tal Saka and Saka have been cleansed and sterilized, and large numbers of terrorists have been liquidated. The leader of the Descendants of the Prophet brigade, Abdullah Alkhator, was killed, as was the Benghazi Libyan terrorist Ayman al-Bosifi (terrorist filth exported by NATO?). Meanwhile, there are reports from the Syrian Arab News Agency that another stash of chemical weapons has been found among terrorist forces, this time Sarin Nerve Gas, taken by the Syrian Armed Forces during a raid against terrorist elements in the city of Hama. Along with the nerve gas, a large number of weapons and munitions were apprehended. The west has repeatedly accused the Syrian authorities of using chemical weapons - there is not one shred of evidence that it has, while on the contrary there have been several incidents pointing towards the "opposition" deploying such weapons, met with a wall of silence by the western backers of those who fight President Assad and wish to turn Syria into an Islamist State. Russia and Syria have insisted that every alleged case of the use of chemical or biological weapons should be exhaustively investigated by an independent commission. Why have such commissions not materialized and who is blocking them? Not Syria, not Russia. Then, we have our answer. The UN Commission into the use of chemical weapons did carry out a study in Aleppo, where it discovered that the chemical weapons deployed were fired from a rebel-held area. Who is carrying out the west's dirty work? There are allegations that the terrorists are moving freely inside Turkey, that Qatari money has been used to finance the terrorist groups inside Syria and that the Saudi government has opened up old smuggling routes through the south-western tip of Iraq. Increasing number of areas back to normal The Syrian Armed Forces have sterilized the capital city, Damascus, with peace returning to all its districts after the liquidation of bands of terrorists, rapists, murderers, child molesters, thieves and arsonists. A unit of the Syrian Armed Forces exterminated terrorist bands in Huseinieh village, Um al-Shaker, Kherbt Gimrah, Aqrab and the countryside of Daraa. Jabhet al-Nusra terrorists were eliminated in the Lattakia countryside as they fled. Among the dead was the Libyan terrorist commander. Finally, dozens of terrorists were exterminated in Bait Shurooq and al-Suda, where the terrorist commander of the Nour Eddin al-Zinki battalion, Bashar Wadfa, was destroyed. Right from the very beginning, the West, buoyed by its imperialist escapade in Libya to destroy the dream of the African Union which Colonel Gaddafi was financing, got it wrong in Syria. Finally, after all these years, we see who the evil ones are and we see who sides with terrorists. Shame on the FUKUS Axis (France- UK- US) and their partners in murder, NATO. Their foreign policy has been exposed for what it is: pandering to the whims of the corporations which control these.....er.....democracies. Photo: One of NATO's unarmed civilian darlings http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=720_1370795523 juba776 Syria: Western-backed terrorists running like rats Syria,fsa,SAA,bashar alassad,