BLACKMAIL? NSA, OBAMA, ROBERTS & CONGRESS - HOW DEEP DOES IT GO?

BLACKMAIL? NSA, OBAMA, ROBERTS & CONGRESS - HOW DEEP DOES IT GO?

By: Devvy
July 6, 2013NewsWithViews.com

The NSA spying revelations has sparked a great deal of speculation as to whether information mined by the NSA has been used to blackmail a whole lot of individuals at all levels of government -- including high level military.

On June 13, 2013, radio and Internet TV powerhouse, Glen Beck, stated that within 24 hours he would: Break WhistleBlower Revelation That Will ‘Take Down’ GOP, Dems, ‘Whole Power Structure. Beck said, "This country is going to be rocked in the next 24 hours with some things that have been going on in Washington. You are going to witness things in American history that have never been witnessed before."

As far as I know, that's the last we ever heard of that one. Beck did say the whistle blower was so afraid for his life he would only go public in front of Congress. Problem is, Beck also made the claim in his broadcast, the information would also bring down members of Congress. Sticky. Beck apparently did tweet or twitter or whatever it is, this: "Trying to find way to protect." The whistle blower, who ever he is, should be very worried about his next breath. The power elites who control the White House and Congress play for keeps and they don't care who gets in their way.

For those of us following the plethora of stories on NSA's spying on Americans and government officials, the scope of their treachery has become breathtaking. The million dollar question I and many others have is as serious as it can get:

Has the NSA, meaning past and current directors and a close cabal, used information illegally harvested to blackmail Barry Soetoro aka Obama, Chief Justice John Roberts and members of Congress?

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Roberts, stunned the country when he hallucinated Obamacare is a tax. Literally from coast to coast, everyone from court watchers to tv pundits to the man on the street were absolutely shocked. How could he? How could he, indeed. I know people who live in Virginia, but work in Washington, DC. It has long been openly discussed Roberts is a sexual deviant and that his marriage is only for public consumption. Add a couple of adorable little girls he and his wife adopted and there you have the picture of the all American family.

There's no question in my mind Barry Soetoro aka Obama is a sexual deviant also hiding behind a for 'public consumption' marriage. His militant Marxist wife, Michelle, doesn't seem to mind as she lives like a queen off the sweat of our labor.

There's no longer any question Soetoro was and is forever constitutionally ineligible. There's no longer any question his birth certificate is a poor forgery as well as his Selective Service card - which is a felony. Was he born in Hawaii or Kenya? Who knows. There's certainly enough smoke to light a fire he wasn't born in Hawaii.

On June 20, 2013, another explosive story hit the Internet; completely ignored by all the boob tube news networks, including cable:

Bush-Era NSA Whistleblower Makes Most Explosive Allegations Yet About Extent of Gov’t Surveillance

"Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst and Bush-era NSA whistleblower, claimed Wednesday that the intelligence community has ordered surveillance on a wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military officials, lawmakers and diplomats. He also made another stunning allegation. He says the NSA had ordered wiretaps on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama back in 2004.

“They went after–and I know this because I had my hands literally on the paperwork for these sort of things–they went after high-ranking military officers; they went after members of Congress, both Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence committees and on the armed services committees and some of the–and judicial,” Tice told Peter B. Collins on Boiling Frog Post News.

"He went on: “But they went after other ones, too. They went after lawyers and law firms. All kinds of–heaps of lawyers and law firms. They went after judges. One of the judges is now sitting on the Supreme Court that I had his wiretap information in my hand. Two are former FISA court judges. They went after State Department officials. They went after people in the executive service that were part of the White House–their own people.”

"Then Tice dropped the bombshell about Obama.

“Here's the big one,” he said. “[T]his was in summer of 2004, one of the papers that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated with a 40-something-year-old wannabe senator for Illinois. You wouldn't happen to know where that guy lives right now would you? It's a big white house in Washington, D.C. That's who they went after, and that's the president of the United States now.”

"FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and Tice agreed that such wide-ranging surveillance of officials could provide the intelligence agencies with unthinkable power to blackmail their opponents.

“I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on,” Tice said."

For those unfamiliar with Sibel Edmonds, she is the most censored FBI whistleblower in the history of this country --- to shut her up about 9-11. I highly encourage you to listen to this interview on her network with Russ Rice:

NSA Whistleblower Goes on Record -Reveals New Information & Names Culprits

"In this bombshell episode of the Boiling Frogs Post Podcast Show NSA whistleblower Russ Tice joins us to go on record for the first time with new revelations and the names of official culprits involved in the NSA’s illegal practices. Mr. Tice explains in detail how the National Security Agency targets, sucks-in, stores and analyzes illegally obtained content from the masses in the United States. He contradicts officials and the mainstream media on the status of the NSA’s Utah facility, which is already operating and “On-Line.” He reveals the NSA as a Deep State that targets and wiretaps US political candidates for its own purposes. We discuss the latest controversies involving the NSA, PRISM, Edward Snowden, and the spins and lies that are being floated by the US mainstream and pseudo-alternative media."

According to Tice, the NSA went after individuals in the House and Senate - especially those on intelligence committees, judges, lawyers and law firms. This might explain why so many judges kicked quality cases against Soetoro, i.e.:

First and Only Clean Eligibility Supreme Court Petition brought by the Liberty Legal Foundation. From judges in the State of Georgia, including their Supreme Court - to the U.S. Supreme Court - the case that absolutely could have blown Soetoro's lies right out of the water. Did the U.S. Supreme Court hear that case? No. They refused to uphold the Constitution of these united States of America for political considerations. There is a reason and I believe it's blackmail.

Sibel Edmonds Blows the Whistle on Government Blackmailing

"In this remarkable conversation, Sibel Edmonds reflects on Russ Tice’s recent revelations to Boiling Frogs Post and The Corbett Report that the NSA has wiretapped top government officials for years. Edmonds discusses from her own experience how the FBI collects dirt on Congressman and public officials for use as political leverage. We also talk about how this scandal proves that there is no “official channel” for whistleblowers to follow when they want to expose wrongdoing because the system is being controlled from behind the scenes by the criminals in the national security establishment." I encourage everyone to listen to Sibel. If you haven't read her book, you should: Classified Woman.

This out and out lawlessness must stop - The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant

We need to go back to 2008. The passport files of Soetoro, Clinton and McCain were breached:

Time for New Look at 2008 Obama Passport Breach

"Among the unexpected findings of the Sheriff Arpaio cold case was this one:

"Records of Immigration and Naturalization Service cards filled out by airplane passengers arriving on international flights originating outside the United States in the month of August 1961, examined at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. are missing records for the week of President Obama's birth, including the dates Aug. 1, 1961 through Aug. 7, 1961.

"This revelation evoked memories of one of the great underreported stories of the 2008 campaign: the multiple breaches of the presidential candidates' passport records in March of that year. In one of its more egregiously dishonest moments, the Washington Post headlined the story on March 22, "Rice Apologizes For Breach of Passport Data; Employees Looked at Files On Obama, Clinton, McCain."

"The "Rice" in question is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The offended party in the Post story was Barack Obama. He told reporters that he expected "a full and thorough investigation," one that "should be done in conjunction with those congressional committees that have oversight function so it's not simply an internal matter."

"It is not until the thirteenth paragraph of the Post story that the reader learns that of one of the three contract employees caught in the act worked for the Analysis Corporation, the CEO of which was John Brennan, a 25-year CIA veteran." (Do read the rest of Jack's excellent reporting.)

Shortly after the revelation regarding the breach and I believe, altering of Soetoro's passport records, a key witness in the investigation was murdered in cold blood; the killer(s) remain free:

Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot

"A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday. Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department's Criminal Investigations Division.

"Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would describe only as a blue car. Emergency medics pronounced him dead at the scene. City police said they do not know whether his death was a direct result of his cooperation with federal investigators."

A young man murdered because I believe he read or heard something that needed to die with him. Who did it remains a question that must be answered.

Larry Klayman, a very shrewd and experienced attorney, has filed a couple of class action lawsuits over NSA's spying: Turning the tables on the spies.

I have given the worthless career politician who allegedly represents me in the U.S. House of Representatives a piece of my mind along with a few questions about the NSA and their spying. Act surprised: he has not responded to my certified letter.

Congress has held some hearings which have produced more lies and obfuscation. No one has been fired or even demoted. We know Lois Lerner took the Fifth (IRS) and refused to testify about her role in targeting applications for tax exempt status for tea party and conservative groups. Apparently, she is being called back - at least for now.

Not good enough. The only thing all these congressional committees seem to accomplish is political posturing for the tv cameras and a lot of indignation backed up by nothing from the cover ups about Fast and Furious, Benghazi to the current crop: IRS targeting conservative groups for tax exempt status, NSA spying and God only knows what else is to come.

If the NSA or even the FBI have been targeting judges, high ranking members of the military and members of Congress, who in Congress is clean and not afraid to demand full blown hearings and ask pointed questions that a skilled prosecutor would to get to the truth?

If members of Congress are being blackmailed for whatever reason (alcoholism - brings to mind John Boehner, extra martial affairs, pederasty [men who have sex with a boy], consorting with prostitutes, illegal bribes, illegal campaign money, hiding sexual preference) then we the people have an absolute right to know (1) If the information by Russ Tice and Sibel Edmonds is true, and I have no doubt it is; and (2) we want the names of targeted members of the U.S. Congress, judges, military. We want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Who is dirty? What do those NSA files say? Would this explain why so many members of Congress continue to sell out this country and their own constituents? Would blackmail explain why some members of Congress do 180 degree turns on an issue in defiance of massive resistance by their constituents? The slimy, Sen. Lindsay Graham comes to mind who can't seem to out run the whispers he's a sexual deviant.

We need to know. It is our RIGHT to know. No more stonewalling we the people. This is OUR country. Our government and you people in the U.S. Congress only govern with OUR consent.

The U.S. House of Representatives has absolute control over the NSA, the FBI and the CIA. Those agencies are created by Congress and Congress has legal authority of oversight and investigations. No hiding behind the big cover up blanket: national security.

We want the truth. If only 1/10th of the allegations made are true, this is a monstrous crisis for this nation.

What can we all do? We have to put the pressure on our congress critters on specific committees and keep it on. Congress critters initially put up indignation, hold a few hearings and then something else comes along and people are deliberately steered away. They hope you will forget or give up. We cannot.

I'll tell you flat out right now, skip John Boehner and Paul Ryan. We all need to hammer on committee members even if they don't represent our district. Those who refuse or give you Washington double-speak might very well be one of those targeted by the NSA. We don't know, but we must find out - especially committees like Homeland Security.

Committees

Ethics -- Click on About to get list of committee members.
Foreign Affairs -- Ditto
Homeland Security -- Ditto
Judiciary -- Ditto
Oversight and Government Reform - Ditto
Intelligence -- Ditto

I would recommend writing one letter and getting members of your tea party group, 9-12 or even just your family and friends to sign one letter and fax it to their Washington, DC office and their district office.

We the people have had enough of the bull manure coming out of Washington, DC. We have had enough of being spied on for the nebulous "war on terror". You can't go to war against ideas using our military. As I have written before: the 'war on terror' is nothing but a cash cow for the military-industrial complex and members of Congress who have been profiting off it for more than a decade.

I sincerely hope you will join me in blitzing the committees above with demands that full and open investigations begin immediately. Not behind closed doors. We want answers. Not 20 or 30 letters, but tens and tens of thousands of them is the only way to shake them up and take us seriously. The spying has to stop. That new mega spy center in Utah must not be used for domestic spying on we the people.

"NSA Director Keith Alexander says his agency's analysts, which until recently included Edward Snowden among their ranks, take protecting "civil liberties and privacy and the security of this nation to their heart every day." (see link 3 below). Know what, Director Alexander? I wouldn't believe you if you swore on a stack of Bibles.

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Congress critters put directors of those agencies on notice in writing: We want the files you're holding -- and be specific - made public. If they don't respond within 30 days, start impeachment proceedings and a referral for a criminal investigation. No more jacking around like Rep. Issa has allowed for almost two years over Fast and Furious. I don't care what color the corrupt, racist, Eric Holder is, the House should have impeached him a long time ago. If a member of Congress has caved into blackmail because the NSA has a file on them, the constituents of that district and we the people have the absolute right to know.

The Republicans hold the majority in the U.S. House. We'll see who is clean and who is hiding something -- before the 2014 mid-term elections.

Important Links:

1 - The Fuse Has Been Lit: Seven Critical Points on Uncle Sam's Spying Program
2 - Did the CIA give the NSA documents to Ed Snowden?
3 - NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls
National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.
4 - “Washington establishment rats” seek to cover up NSA scandal at the expense of the American people
5 - Fox News Focuses on Snowden, Ignores Gov't Assault on Bill of Rights
6 - NSA Has Total Access Via Your Computer System

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Gog and Magog? Another Odd One.....

 Gog and Magog? Another Odd One.....

A complete 180 degree turn in 30 years, both for the location of strong Christian faith and the media who report on Christianity. 

I don't know:  Antichrist or Defender of the Faith, as looks likely?  After all, Martin Luther, like the genius Wagner, was an execrable human being ("peasants should be herded like cattle and slaughtered like dogs."), in addition to his effect on Christianity. Matthew was an IRS agent.  All emphasis mine.  Guess where this is written?  Answer at bottom. 

If you ever wonder why the weasel west media always calls Putin a dictator or demonizes him, just look at what has been happening recently. By watching the US news last week one would think all of America has turned gay with the Supreme Court ruling on married same-sex couples.  The New York Times called it a, "major victories for the gay rights movement".  Some even compare it to racial equality.  If Putin was the dictator the West claims, the new law that defends Christianity would have been in effect immediately after the pussy riot blasphemy which happened last year. Recently President Putin signed a 'gay propaganda' ban and law criminalizing insult of religious feelings.

Oddly enough the West is the only place where some Christian leaders are gay. Their Christian churches omit certain biblical teachings against homosexuality. Yes, Russia's Christianity and anyone who defends it rain on the gay parade and their upside down world. In the past they demonized Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and ridiculed Christians in America as crazed right-wingers. They danced when President Reagan, Jerry Falwell and Charlton Heston died. There is no longer a real powerful conservative in the West the liberals fear. 

In the East there is someone that causes the western liberal's maniacal laughter to stop.  Vladimir Putin.  He has real world power, which causes the liberal media to fearfully ignore or warp his image. Like a good Christian King he leads a nation to Christ. Deep down in their evil souls they shriek like devils because they know Christ is true God and true power that they cannot defeat. They thought the Bolshevik revolution destroyed Holy Mother Russia.  Christ cannot be defeated and his servant Putin has welcomed Christ and His church.

Pravda-US.  Never thought I'd see that.

I don't recall seeing this in many US News outlets.

For the rest of the article, see

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/01-07-2013/124992-russia_christianity-0/#

Matrix: Who is Edward Snowden?

Matrix: Who is Edward Snowden?

Jon Rappoport
jonrappoport.wordpress.com
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:35 CDT

This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I've written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn't replace them, but it hits the high points... 

Let's begin here: If you absolutely must have a hero, watch Superman movies.

If your need for a hero is so great, so cloying, so heavy, so juicy that it swamps your curiosity, don't read this.

If you can't separate Snowden's minor revelations from the question of who he is, if you can't entertain the notion that covert ops and intelligence-agency games are reeking with cover stories, false trails, and limited hangouts, you need more fun in your life.

NSA? CIA? These guys live for high-level bullshit. They get down on their knees and worship it. They fall into a suicidal funk if they aren't lying on at least three or four levels at once.

Okay. Let's look at Snowden's brief history as reported by The Guardian. Are there any holes?

Is the Pope Catholic?

In 2003, at age 19, without a high school diploma, Snowden enlists in the Army. He begins a training program to join the Special Forces. At what point after enlistment can a new soldier start this elite training program?

Snowden breaks both legs in an exercise. He's discharged from the Army. Is that automatic? How about healing and then resuming service?

If he was accepted in the Special Forces training program because he had special computer skills, then why discharge him simply because he broke both legs?

"Sorry, Ed, but with two broken legs we just don't think you can hack into terrorist data anymore. You were good, but not now. Try Walmart. They always have openings." Circa 2003, Snowden gets a job as a security guard for an NSA facility at the University of Maryland. He specifically wanted to work for NSA? It was just a generic job opening he found out about?

Snowden shifts jobs. Boom. He's now in the CIA, in IT. He has no high school diploma. He's a young computer genius.

In 2007, Snowden is sent to Geneva. He's only 23 years old. The CIA gives him diplomatic cover there. He's put in charge of maintaining computer-network security. Major job. Obviously, he has access to a wide range of classified documents. Sound a little odd? He's just a kid. Maybe he has his GED. Otherwise, he still doesn't have a high school diploma.

Snowden says that during this period, in Geneva, one of the incidents that really sours him on the CIA is the "turning of a Swiss banker." One night, CIA guys get a banker drunk, encourage him to drive home, the banker gets busted, the CIA guys help him out, then with that bond formed, they eventually get the banker to reveal deep secrets to the Agency.

This sours Snowden? He's that naïve? He doesn't know by now that the CIA does this sort of thing all the time? He's shocked? He "didn't sign up for this?" Come on.

In 2009, Snowden leaves the CIA. Why? Presumably because he's disillusioned. It should noted here that Snowden claimed he could do very heavy damage to the entire US intelligence community in 2008, but decided to wait because he thought Obama, just coming into the presidency, might keep his "transparency" promise.

After two years with the CIA in Geneva, Snowden really had the capability to take down the whole US inter-agency intelligence network, or a major chunk of it?

If you buy that without further inquiry, I have condos for sale on the dark side of the moon.

In 2009, Snowden leaves the CIA and goes to work in the private sector. Dell, Booze Allen Hamilton. In this latter job, Snowden is assigned to work at the NSA.

He's an outsider, but, again, he claims to have so much access to so much sensitive NSA data that he can take down the whole US intelligence network in a single day. The. Whole. US. Intelligence. Network.

This is Ed Snowden's sketchy legend. It's all red flags, alarm bells, sirens, flashing lights.

Then we have the crowning piece: they solved the riddle: Ed Snowden was able to steal thousands of highly protected NSA documents because...he had a thumb drive.

It's the weapon that breached the inner sanctum of the most sophisticated information agency in the world.

It's the weapon to which the NSA, with all its resources, remains utterly vulnerable. Can't defeat it.

Not only did Snowden stroll into NSA with a thumb drive, he knew how to navigate all the security layers put in place to stop people from stealing classified documents.

"Let's see. We have a new guy coming to work for us here at NSA today? Oh, whiz kid. Ed Snowden. Outside contractor. Booz Allen. He's not really a full-time employee of the NSA. Twenty-nine years old. No high school diploma. Has a GED. He worked for the CIA and quit. Hmm. Why did he quit? Oh, never mind, who cares? No problem.

"Tell you what. Let's give this kid access to our most sensitive data. Sure. Why not? Everything. That stuff we keep behind 986 walls? Where you have to pledge the life of your first-born against the possibility you'll go rogue? Let Snowden see it all. Sure. What the hell. I'm feeling charitable. He seems like a nice kid."

NSA is the most awesome spying agency ever devised in this world. If you cross the street in Podunk, Anywhere, USA, to buy an ice cream soda, on a Tuesday afternoon in July, they know.

They know whether you sit at the counter and drink that soda or take it and move to the only table in the store. They know whether you lick the foam from the top of the glass with your tongue or pick the foam with your straw and then lick it.

They know if you keep the receipt for the soda or leave it on the counter.

They know whether you're wearing shoes or sneakers. They know the brand of your underwear. They know your shaving cream, and precisely which container it came out of.

But this agency, with all its vast power and its dollars...

Can't track one of its own, a man who came to work every day, a man who made up a story about needing treatment in Hong Kong for epilepsy and then skipped the country.

Just can't find him.

Can't find him in Hong Kong, where he does a sit-down video interview with Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian. Can't find that "safe house" or that "hotel" where he's staying.

No. Can't find him or spy on his communications while he's in Hong Kong. Can't figure out he's booked a flight to Russia. Can't intercept him at the airport before he leaves for Russia . Too difficult.

And this man, this employee, is walking around with four laptops that contain the keys to all the secret spying knowledge in the known cosmos.

Can't locate those laptops. Can't hack into them to see what's there. Can't access the laptops or the data. The most brilliant technical minds of this or any other generation can find a computer in Outer Mongolia in the middle of a blizzard, but these walking-around computers in Hong Kong are somehow beyond reach.

And before this man, Snowden, this employee, skipped Hawaii, he was able to access the layout of the entire US intelligence network. Yes.

He stole enough to "take down the entire US intelligence network in a single afternoon."

Not only that, but anyone who worked at this super-agency as an analyst, as a systems-analyst supervisor, could have done the same thing. Could have stolen the keys to the kingdom.

This is why NSA geniuses with IQs over 180 have decided, now, in the midst of the Snowden affair, that they need to draft "tighter rules and procedures" for their employees. Right.

Now, a few pieces of internal of security they hadn't realized they needed before will be put in place.

This is, let me remind you, the most secretive spying agency in the world. The richest spying agency. The smartest spying agency.

But somehow, over the years, they'd overlooked this corner of their own security. They'd left a door open, so that any one of their own analysts could steal everything.

Could take it all. Could just snatch it away and copy it and store it on a few laptops.

But now, yes now, having been made aware of this vulnerability, the agency will make corrections.

Sure.

And reporters for elite US media don't find any of this hard to swallow.

A smart sixth-grader could see through this tower of fabricated crap in a minute, but veteran grizzled reporters are clueless.

On the ever-solicitous Charley Rose, a gaggle of pundits/newspeople warned that Ed Snowden, walking around with those four laptops, could be an easy target for Chinese spies or Russian spies, who could get access to the data on those computers. The spies could just hack in.

But the NSA can't. No. The NSA can't find out what Snowden has. They can only speculate.

The tightest and strongest and richest and smartest spying agency in the world can't find its own employee. It's in the business of tracking, and it can't find him.

It's in the business of security, and it can't protect its own data from its employees.

If you believe all that, I have timeshares to sell in the black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

Here is a more likely scenario.

Snowden never saw any of those thousands of documents on an NSA computer. Never happened. He didn't hack in. He didn't steal anything.

He was working an op, either as a dupe or knowingly. He was working for...well, let's see, who would that be?

Who was he working for before he entered the private sector and wound up at NSA?

The CIA.

Would that be the same CIA who hates the NSA with a venomous fervor?

Would that be the same CIA who's been engaged in a turf war with NSA for decades?

The same CIA who's watched their own prestige and funding diminish, as human intelligence has given way to electronic snooping?

Yes, it would be. CIA just can't match the NSA when it comes to gathering signals-intell.

Wired Magazine, June 2013 issue. James Bamford, author of three books on the NSA, states:

"In April, as part of its 2014 budget request, the Pentagon [which rules the NSA] asked Congress for $4.7 billion for increased 'cyberspace operations,' nearly $1 billion more than the 2013 allocation. At the same time, budgets for the CIA and other intelligence agencies were cut by almost the same amount, $4.4 billion. A portion of the money going to...[NSA] will be used to create 13 cyberattack teams."

That means spying money. Far more for NSA, far less for CIA.

Turf war.

People at the CIA were able to access those NSA documents, and they gave the documents to Snowden and he ran with them.

The CIA, of course, couldn't be seen as the NSA leaker. They needed a guy. They needed a guy who could appear to be from the NSA, to make things look worse for the NSA and shield the CIA.

They had Ed Snowden. He had worked for the CIA in Geneva, in a high-level position, overseeing computer-systems security.

Somewhere in his CIA past, Ed meets a fellow CIA guy who sits down with him and says, "You know, Ed, things have gone too damn far. The NSA is spying on everybody all the time. I can show you proof. They've gone beyond the point of trying to catch terrorists. They're doing something else. They're expanding a Surveillance State, which can only lead to one thing: the destruction of America, what America stands for, what you and I know America is supposed to be. The NSA isn't like us, Ed. We go after terrorists for real. That's it. Whereas NSA goes after everybody. We have to stop it. We need a guy...and there are those of us who think you might be that guy..."

During the course of this one disingenuous conversation, the CIA is killing 37 innocent civilians all over the world with drones, but that's beside the point. Ahem.

Ed says, "Tell me more. I'm intrigued."

He buys in.

Put two scenarios on the truth scale and assess them. Which is more likely? The tale Snowden told to Glenn Greenwald, with all its holes, with its super-naive implications about the fumbling, bumbling NSA, or a scenario in which Snowden is the CIA's boy?

We have reporters at the Washington Post and at The Guardian. We have Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks. They're all talking to Snowden. The NSA can spy on them. Right? Can listen to their calls and read their emails and hack into their notes. Just like people have been hacking into the work and home computers of Sharyl Attkisson, star CBS investigative reporter.

But the NSA can't do all this spying and then use it to find Snowden. Just can't manage it.

Everybody in the world with a computer has passwords. The NSA can cut through them (as well as encryption) like a sword through hot butter. But Assange and the Post and Guardian and Snowden have super-special passwords.

They got these passwords by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope, along with 25 cents, and a top from a cereal box to The Shadow. These passwords are charged with atomic clouds that obscure NSA men's minds so they cannot see or spy. The passwords are immortal and invulnerable.

The NSA can spy on anyone else in the world, but they can't get their foot in the door, when it comes to the Post, The Guardian, and Assange.

And if Snowden winds up in Venezuela or Tierra del Fuego, that too will become an insurmountable mystery.

"Nope, we don't know where he is. He's vanished. Venezuela has a Romulan shield surrounding it. The cloaking technology is too advanced."

Perhaps you recall that, in the early days of this scandal, Snowden claimed he could spy on anyone in the US, including a federal judge or even the president, if he had their email addresses.

Uh-huh. But the combined talents of the NSA, now, can't spy on Snowden. I guess they just can't find his email address.

If Snowden is still working for the CIA, he and his buds aren't the only people who want to take the NSA down a notch. No. Because, for example, NSA has been spying on everybody inside the Beltway.

Spying on politicians with secrets.

That includes a major, major, prime NSA target: Congress.

So imagine this conversation taking place, in a car, on a lonely road outside Washington, late at night. The speakers are Congressman X and a private operative representing a covert unit inside the NSA:

"Well, Congressman, do you remember January 6th? A Monday afternoon, a men's room in the park off - "

"What the hell are you talking about!"

"A stall in the men's room. The kid. He was wearing white high-tops. A Skins cap. T-shirt. Dark hair. Scar across his left cheek. Blue tattoo on his right thigh."

"Jesus."

"We have very good audio and video. Anytime you want to watch it, let me know."

Dead silence.

"What do you want?"

"Right now, Congressman? We want you to come down hard on Snowden. Press it. He's a traitor. He should tried and convicted."

The Congressmen pulls himself together:

"Yeah, well, there's another side to this story. If Snowden gets enough support, if the wave rises high enough, the NSA could take a hit. I know a dozen Washington players who'd like that very much. They're pissed off. They don't like to be spied on. It's possible Snowden was their guy from the beginning. I couldn't say..."

Let's make a deal. That ends up being the topic of this and other similar conversations inside the Beltway.

"Senator, we know about the underage cheerleader in Ohio. Your trip there in 2012, just before the election."

"Look, you've brought this up before. But now I've got a trump card to play. Ed Snowden. This whole scandal can escalate like a tornado in Kansas, or it can die down..."

Let's make a deal.

Here's another vector. A Congressman gets a visit from his favorite lobbyist, who works for a private defense contractor in the Congressman's home state:

"Congressman, here's the thing. The NSA is an integral part of our nation's defense system. Right? This Snowden thing is messy. We want it to go away."

"It may not go away. I'm not some kind of traffic cop who can put up his hand and stop the tide."

"We understand that. I was just talking to XXX at NSA, and he'd really appreciate your help on this. Slam this bastard Snowden. Make him into the worst scumbag in the world."

"And if I do?"

"Your offshore account in Panama will remain protected. That's what XXX wanted me to tell you."

Calling in markers. Putting on pressure. Let's make a deal.

If you're a Congressman or a Senator, and you know NSA is spying on you, because it's spying on everyone in the Congress, who's your potential best friend?

Somebody who can go up against the NSA, somebody who wants to go up against the NSA.

And who might that be?

The CIA.

It's not perfect, but it's the best you can do.

So if you're a Congressman, you go to a friend in the CIA and you have a chat about "the NSA problem." How can you get NSA off your back? Your CIA friend has his own concerns about NSA.

He tells you in confidence: "Look, maybe we can help you. We know a lot about the NSA. We have good people. You might say one of our jobs is watching the watchers at NSA, to, uh, make sure they don't go too far in their spying."

This sounds interesting. If you have to sell your soul, you'd rather sell it to the CIA than the NSA. It's a judgment call.

And a few weeks or months later...you read about Ed Snowden blowing a hole in the NSA. You take note of the fact that Snowden worked for the CIA. He worked for them in Geneva. Then he left for the private sector and got himself assigned to the NSA.

Hmm. Maybe you have some cause for optimism.

You, the Congressman, don't give a damn about the NSA spying on all Americans all the time. You couldn't care less about that. You just don't want NSA looking over your own shoulder.

You know the incredibly naïve American public would never imagine what's going on behind the scenes, with CIA, NSA, and Congress. The yokels and rubes in America actually believe their Congressional representatives are, well, representing them in Washington.

This fact is good. It means privacy for you: you can try to work out your problems without public scrutiny. You can play all the necessary games to hide your own secrets and crimes, and you can do it in back rooms.

Unless those bastards at NSA decide to leak one of your embarrassing secrets. That's why you need your friend at CIA.

And now, again, you look at the recent article and see that Ed Snowden worked for the CIA. You hope this a signal from the CIA that they're taking a battering ram to the NSA.

Some schmuck reporter asks you about the current NSA scandal and you say, "Of course we have to protect classified data, in order to prevent terrorist attacks. But at the same time, we need to respect the Bill of Rights. People can't go around spying on anyone for no reason."

You're sending your own signal.

You're tipping your CIA guy. You appreciate his help, if in fact he's helping you. You can't ask him directly. If you did, he'd never give you a straight answer. But just in case...

As for the naïve rubes in your home state, the voters, you don't give them a second thought. They're not on your radar. They're merely clusters of polling data. They don't have a clue about how the game is played, and they never will.

You're representing two defense contractors, a pharmaceutical company, a big Ag corporation, and a bank. Those are your only true constituents. You give them all the time they need.

To keep those relationships on track, you only need to hide your peccadillos from embarrassing exposure. The hooker in DC, the bank account in Panama, the influence you used to move a sizable donation to a university where you intend to teach when you retire.

There are only two things you really need to think about in your job. First, what happens when your Party leaders come down the hall and tell you which way you're going to vote on a bill - and you know your vote is going to upset one of your key constituents back home.

That's a tricky situation. But you've been successful in keeping feathers from being ruffled. That pharmaceutical company understands you can't side with their interests every single time.

You've got to go with your Party. The Pharma boys don't like it, but they get it.

The other thing you've got to think about is darker. Nobody is going to give you stats on it, because stats don't exist. Here's how it shakes out:

How many people in Congress are so controlled by the NSA that they'd never try to break out? How many people, with how many secrets, are so blackmailed, they'd never dare go up against NSA?

This is an important calculation. The battle might already be lost. You might not stand a chance. Maybe nobody can help you. Maybe you can't escape.

Maybe you shouldn't even hint that NSA has overstepped its legal boundaries by spying on Americans.

That's the conundrum that keeps you up at night.

What if the spies spying on their own government are running the government beyond the ability of anyone to stop them?

You don't give a damn about what this would mean for America. You only care about what it means for you and your secrets.

Maybe this is the jail you're in for the rest of your life.

When you're back in your home state showing your face and giving speeches, and a voter comes up to you and voices a concern about his dwindling paycheck, his house payment, his endangered pension...and when you nod and gaze out at the horizon, as as if to pluck a magic answer from the aether, you're really thinking about the conundrum.

You're thinking about the life sentence you're serving in the Surveillance State.

And that night, in your hotel room, you get down on your knees and pray that Ed Snowden is still working for the CIA.

Who else, besides the CIA and numerous politicians inside the Beltway, would be aching to take the NSA down a notch? Who else would be rooting hard for this former (?) CIA employee, Snowden, to succeed?

How about Wall Street?

Still waiting to be uncovered? NSA spying to collect elite financial data, spying on the people who have that data: the major investment banks. NSA scooping up that data to predict, manipulate, and profit from trading markets all over the world.

A trillion-dollar operation.

Snowden worked for Booz Allen, which is owned by the Carlyle Group ($170 billion in assets). Carlyle, the infamous. Their money is making money in 160 investment funds.

A few of Carlyle's famous front men in its history: George HW Bush, James Baker (US Secretary of State), Frank Carlucci (US Secretary of Defense and CIA Deputy Director), John Major (British Prime Minister), Arthur Levitt (Chairman of the SEC).

Suppose you're one of the princes in the NSA castle, and Ed Snowden has just gone public with your documents. You're saying, "Let's see, this kid worked for Booz Allen, which is owned by the Carlyle Group. We (NSA) have been spying over Carlyle's shoulder, stealing their proprietary financial data. What are the chances they're getting a little revenge on us now?"

Yes, you're thinking about that. You're looking into it.

The Surveillance State has created an apparatus whose implications are staggering. It's a different world now. And sometimes it takes a writer of fiction to flesh out the larger landscape.

Brad Thor's novel, Black List, posits the existence of a monster corporation, ATS, that stands along side the NSA in collecting information on every move we make. ATS' intelligence-gathering capability is unmatched anywhere in the world.

At his site, BradThor.com, the author lists some of the open-source material he discovered that formed the basis for Black List. The material, as well as the novel, is worth reading.

On pages 117-118 of Black List, Thor makes a stunning inference that, on reflection, is as obvious as the fingers on your hand:

"For years ATS [substitute NSA] had been using its technological superiority to conduct massive insider trading. Since the early 1980s, the company had spied on anyone and everyone in the financial world. They listened in on phone calls, intercepted faxes, and evolved right along with the technology, hacking internal computer networks and e-mail accounts. They created mountains of 'black dollars' for themselves, which they washed through various programs they were running under secret contract, far from the prying eyes of financial regulators.

"Those black dollars were invested into hard assets around the world, as well as in the stock market, through sham, offshore corporations. They also funneled the money into reams of promising R&D projects, which eventually would be turned around and sold to the Pentagon or the CIA.

"In short, ATS had created its own license to print money and had assured itself a place beyond examination or reproach."

In real life, whether the prime criminal source is one monster corporation or the NSA itself, the outcome would be the same.

Total surveillance has unlimited payoffs when it targets financial markets and the people who have intimate knowledge of them.

"Total security awareness" programs of surveillance are ideal spying ops in the financial arena, designed to grab millions of bits of inside information, and then utilize them to make investments and suck up billions (trillions?) of dollars.

It gives new meaning to "the rich get richer."

Previously, we thought we needed to look over the shoulders of the men who were committing major financial crimes out of public view. But now, if we want to be up to date, we also have to factor in the men who are spying on those criminals, who are gathering up those secrets and using them to commit their own brand of meta-crime.

And in the financial arena, that means we think of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as perpetrators, yes, but we also think about the NSA men who already know everything about GS and Morgan, and are using this knowledge to steal sums that might make GS and Morgan blush with envy.

Goldman Sachs, Chase, and Morgan consider trillion-dollar trading markets their own private golden-egg farm. They run it, they own it, they manipulate it for their own ends.

If NSA has been looking over their shoulders for the past 30 years, discovering all their knowledge, and operating a meta invasion, siphoning off enormous profits, NSA would rate as Enemy Number One.

And would need to be torpedoed.

Enter Ed Snowden.

Finally, we need to understand what NSA and other agencies are doing, are really doing in their ongoing creation of the Surveillance State.

Number one, they're technocrats who are ultimately Globalists, in sheep's clothing. Their tracking of every human on Earth is designed to morph into a system for distribution of goods and services from a central control point. To the whole planet. In this system, a human is a unit, a data point that surrenders to a set of ruling algorithms.

And number two, they're trying to create a single universal mind. Which is to say, the flattening and reducing of human thought down to manageable parameters of conformity and sameness.

Surveillance itself tends to achieve this over time, because when people know they are being watched and evaluated, they simplify their mental processes. They avoid many subjects, they avoid controversy, they express fewer ideas, they monitor their own responses.

Surveillance tacitly encourages a limited range of thought in which all people participate. You wind up with one cookbook of recipes for the human condition. People make the same meals. The meals taste the same. Everybody eats the same thing.

So far, the revelations of Edward Snowden have done nothing to stop the juggernaut. No major hearings to expose the overall Surveillance State are scheduled.

The NSA could take a hit, but that means nothing in the long run.

In this sense, what Snowden has exposed could be called a limited hangout. A way to let a little steam off, a way to avoid the deeper issues.

The true wild card in the op to lock down the planet is, as always, the free individual. The individual who takes his own freedom. The individual who creates something unexpected, something that can't be predicted by any system.

The individual who finds himself in the middle of the labyrinth and suddenly has a lawnmower and cuts a new path out.

Some people think that's Snowden.

Is it?

Whatever you believe, the idea that individuals - rather than groups and collectives - can achieve shattering breakthroughs is exactly what the Surveillance State is trying to destroy.

http://www.sott.net/article/263777-Matrix-Who-is-Edward-Snowden

THE "LIGHT VERSUS DARK" TRAP OF THE GOD OF DUALITY

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A RESOURCE FOR THE AWAKENING HUMAN: THE "LIGHT VERSUS DARK" TRAP OF THE GOD OF DUALITY

THE "LIGHT VERSUS DARK" TRAP OF THE GOD OF DUALITY

In the movie The Truman Show, the character who was orchestrating Truman's synthetic life experience offered an insightful quote...

"We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented"...

...and with this quote in mind, I ask you, "What is the reality of the world with which you and I are presented?"

The reality we are shown is one of spiritual warfare between the forces of "light" and "dark." It is a world divided into two polarities which are set in conflict with each other, and we are assaulted with fear by both camps as they demand we choose a side. "Which master will you choose," they ask, "Christ or Anti-Christ? Who is your Lord, 'god' or the devil? Do you serve the light or the dark?" But I think a more accurate way of phrasing these questions would be...

..."Which hand do you choose, the right or the left?"...

...This photograph shows the Masonic art outside of the IRS headquarters building in New Carrollton, Maryland. As you can see, there is a hand on the left that sits upon a dark base, and it is pointing towards an open hand on the right that sits upon a white base. This symbolism reflects the Occulted Powers' method of using the Dark and the fear it generates (the Left Hand) to direct people into the open, receiving hand of the false-Light (the Right Hand).

The interesting thing about this symbolism is that a left hand and a right hand do not represent different entities; they are body parts connected to the same entity. To show you what I mean, here is a rendering of Baphomet, who is wielding both the Left Hand (which is pointing down towards the dark crescent)...

...and the Right Hand (which is pointing up towards the light crescent). On the forehead, you also see an upright pentagram, which represents him/her/it wearing the "god" mask. When this entity presents itself as god, it offers you the religious spirit of conditional love, self-righteousness, judgment and rigidity.

And in this rendering, we see an inverted pentagram...

...which represents him/her/it wearing the devil mask. When this entity presents itself as the devil, it offers you the evil spirit of hatred, degradation, destruction and chaos.

Pondering this, we see that both hands and both masks are aspects of the same entity, whom I call "the god of duality" or the DIC (Devil In Charge). Whether you are a Christian or a Jew or a Satanist (or are of any other mind-controlling religion), this is the entity you serve. And if you look upon the current world situation and perceive a conflict between "dark hats" and "white hats," you are merely observing the coordinated movements of the Left Hand and Right Hand as they build the New Order this entity seeks to create for us.

This being so, if you find yourself rooting for "the light" to win, you'd better be careful what you wish for. When you cheer for either side, you are cheering for the DIC, and...

WHEN YOU CHOOSE A SIDE, YOU CHOOSE THE WAR.

The spiritual game here on Earth is rigged, just the same as the political game. Will it be light or dark? Republican or Democrat? I say that it's time to choose neither and side with a unified humanity instead.

Love always....

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An attorney arrived home late, after a very tough day trying to get

a stay of execution. His last minute plea for clemency to the

governor had failed and he was feeling worn out and depressed.

    As soon as he walked through the door at home, his wife started on

him  about, 'What time of night to be getting home is this? Where have

you been?  Dinner is cold and I'm not reheating it'. And on and on and

on.

    Too shattered to play his usual role in this familiar ritual, he

poured himself a shot of whiskey and headed off for a long hot soak

in the bathtub, pursued by the predictable sarcastic remarks as he

dragged himself up the stairs.

    While he was in the bath, the phone rang. The wife answered and was

told that her husband's client, James Wright, had been granted a stay

of execution after all. Wright would not be hanged tonight.

    Finally realizing what a terrible day he must have had, she decided

to go upstairs and give him the good news.

    As she opened the bathroom door, she was greeted by the sight of her

husband, bent over naked, drying his legs and feet.

'They're not hanging Wright  tonight,' she said.

    He whirled around and screamed, 'FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOMAN,  DON'T

YOU EVER STOP?!'

    When you stop laughing, send this to a friend!!!

911 Truth ~ Experts Speak Out

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911 Truth ~ Experts Speak Out

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Date: Thursday, 11-Jul-2013 08:58:26

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Asiana 214 - An uncorrected high visual descent path led to an unstabilized approach

Subject: Asiana 214 - An uncorrected high visual descent path led to an unstabilized approach

Jim,

Interesting, but the problem remains that they were high all the way in.

The FMS (Flight Management System) displays distance from the runway – the pilot should have been constantly monitoring the target visual descent profile. For example, using the standard 300 feet per mile profile, at 5 miles from the runway his altitude should have been about 1500 ft. The flight profile shows that he was over 2200 feet. This is an extremely high descent path, and very difficult to correct inside 5 miles, yet he apparently did nothing to correct it until he was less than 2 miles from the runway. At that point, he had to close the throttles to get down to the slot altitude for landing in the touchdown zone, probably by disconnecting the auto-throttles. This (closing the throttles) is very dangerous that close in, given the extremely high drag configuration. He immediately got into a high sink rate, and let the airspeed bleed off. He was over 30 knots below bug speed (known as Vref). Even five knots below bug is absolutely unsatisfactory and unacceptable. It is grounds for automatic failure on a check ride, either a simulator or line check ride.

Again, this is a classic picture of a pilot who has weak basic flying skills, was way behind the aircraft, and was relying entirely too much on the auto-flight system.

It is very difficult to manage the auto-flight system to correct an extreme off-descent path situation. It typically deteriorates into a frenzy of button pushing which takes the focus off the basic flight instruments (airspeed, altitude, pitch/roll attitude). The proper and safest technique is to take over manual control to re-establish a normal descent path, then re-activate the auto-flight system if that is desired. However, in this case it was so close in that the safest and best alternative would have been to continue manual flying to the landing.

The visual descent path should have been corrected at ten miles out, no more than five miles out. When that was not done, an unstabilized approach was almost inevitable.

This is a tragic and needless accident. I continue to believe that Asiana Airlines, and probably Korean Airlines as well, should be grounded until the proficiency of every single pilot flying for those airlines can be verified and documented by an outside agency.

Dave

Using radar data  from FlightAware, I plotted the altitude and airspeed of AAR214, as well as that of UAL852, another 777 which landed successfully only 10 minutes beforeAAR214. Both flights were long distance international flights (UAL852 originated at Heathrow, London), probably both full of people but without much fuel, so both aircraft would have had more or less the same weight on landing, and therefore the same reference approach speed, V ref   . It's instructive to compare the landing profile of these two flights. The first plot below is the altitude vs. distance from the touchdown zone for both aircraft. UAL852 is in black, and AAR214 is in red.

http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

From: XXXX
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 4:22 AM
To: David LaRocque
Subject: FW: Asiana 214 / Korean airline training culture

Dave, FYI: From my friend (and former Team-mate) Harry Butler, who flew many years for Gulfstream.  Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: XXXX
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:54pm
To: XXXX
Subject: Asiana 214 / Korean airline training culture

Spaceman,

One big assumption everyone makes is that this guy was flying the 777. Our company designed the Avionics suite the Boeing uses and the whole system, with all the automation, is for the FGCs(Flight Guidance Computers) to do all the flying not the pilot.

In the big scheme of things the pilots program the IFR Arrival, Approach and Runway into the FMS(Flight Management System) and it does everything else. We don't even touch the throttles till after touchdown and deploy the buckets.

I've flown into KSFO a gaggle of times, my guess is that they were on the Quiet Bridge arrival for a long lazy almost straight in approach to the duty runway. Everything was coupled to the FMS + Auto-throttles then when they got in close the decision was made to disconnect the FGCs and hand fly it. That's when the shit hit the fan. You got my previous email about how fucked up lots of foreign air carriers are.

HB

Interview with Whistleblower: NSA Blackmailing Obama?

Interview with Whistleblower: NSA Blackmailing Obama? (Video)

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Date: Wednesday, 10-Jul-2013 22:48:30

Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how the recent NSA scandal only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus, citing specific targets the he saw spying orders for including former senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Link to the video on YouTube http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=282064

Vagos Mexican Motorcycle Gang Busted in California : Mexican Drug Cartel

Vagos Mexican Motorcycle Gang Busted in California : Mexican Drug Cartel

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Date: Wednesday, 10-Jul-2013 18:48:34

In Response To: Biker gangs moving into New Mexico 'Vagos' already challenging Bandidos for influence (RumorMail)

Make no mistake – this is what California has become due to the mexican invasion. If they were still in Mexico , California wouldn’t have a gang problem. Authorities arrested 10 members suspected of drug-trafficking and a rash of violence — including the recent murder of a rival Hells Angel member in a Nevada casino — in a series of raids Thursday across Southern California. The crackdown comes after an 18-month investigation led by the state Department of Justice into one of the most violent criminal motorcycle gangs in the nation, authorities said. Members of the gang, which started in the Inland Empire in the 1960s, stand accused of suspicion of murder, rape, extortion, weapons violations, money-laundering and drug trafficking and violations. “It’s a dangerous organization … that’s responsible for putting drugs into our communities and schools,” said Senior Special Agent David King, head of bureau of narcotics enforcement in Riverside. “These individuals are armed to protect their criminal enterprise, and they’ve shown how quickly they are willing to use their guns in public.’’ State agents joined with local law enforcement agencies early Thursday to execute 52 search warrants in San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Imperial counties at 7 a.m. Arrest warrants also were issued for 12 high-ranking Vagos members, 10 of whom were in custody by late morning. A team of officers from the San Bernardino Police Department and state Department of Justice took a battering ram to the door of the Vagos international president in Colton, busting into the house with weapons drawn. The Vagos leader was gone, but officers handcuffed another man inside and escorted a woman and young child outside while they searched the house. The tiny stucco home, with its tot-sized basketball hoop in the driveway and towering palms outside, blended into others in the blue-collar neighborhood. The only indication that a Vagos member lived inside was the black Harley Davidson emblem decorating the home’s address number on the Orange Avenue curb. The Vagos leader remains at large. Authorities asked that he not be identified until his arrest. A few miles away, near the Cal State San Bernardino campus, another squad raided the house of Scott Rivera in the 1400 block of Sheridan Avenue, spending hours inside searching for weapons, drugs and evidence of his involvement with the Vagos. Rivera, a bald, heavyset man with a Fu Manchu mustache, gave only a silent, icy stare as officers led him out of the house in handcuffs and loaded him into a squad car. Minutes later, a neighbor poked her head over the fence: “Did someone get killed?” she asked, and was quickly told no. Rivera was arrested on suspicion of stealing cars. Authorities raided a Vagos clubhouse in the remote Riverside County town on Anza as well as one in North Hollywood, a storefront biker clothing story on Lankershim Boulevard. More than 200 weapons were seized, including 100 from a house in Alhambra and 50 in Diamond Bar.“It’s going to be a tremendous blow, because we’re targeting their top leaders,” said Special Agent Andy Spillman of the Department of Justice, one of the lead investigators on the case. Before Thursday’s raids, more than 25 Vagos members already had been taken into custody, and authorities had recovered 26 firearms, a rocket launcher and grenade launcher during the investigation. Earlier in the operation, investigators also had seized 20 kilos of cocaine during a raid in Los Angeles not far from Cal State L.A. The state Department of Justice launched “Operation Simple Green” in 2010 to dismantle the Vagos’ extensive narcotics and money-laundering operations, which included the wholesale distribution of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana. The Mexican drug cartels are one of the many narcotics suppliers Vagos members are suspected of using, said San Bernardino Police Officer Erick Bennett. Bennett said the sweeping investigation began with a simple narcotics case back in 2010 that eventually led to a vast drug enterprise run by Vagos members. During the investigation, authorities uncovered an unsuccessful murder-for-hire plot and two suspected rapes. Among the Vagos members taken into custody were some suspected to be involved in a Sept. 23 shooting that killed Jeffrey “Jethro” Pettigrew, 51, the president of the San Jose chapter of the Hells Angels during the annual Street Vibrations motorcycle festival in Sparks, Nev. http://snoremonster.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/vagos-mexican-motorcycle-gang-busted-in-california-mexican-drug-cartel/

Asking UN leaders to agree to put every child on the planet in school,

Dear friends,

The Taliban shot 15-year-old Malala in the head for her education activism. But she survived, helped win education for all girls in Pakistan, and will address the UN in 3 days asking leaders to agree to put every child on the planet in school, a shockingly achievable goal. Let's stand with her, and call for education for all:

The young women were heading home from college in Pakistan when the Taliban firebombed their school bus, burning 14 of them alive. The survivors were rushed to the hospital, where another bomb went off, injuring their friends and the nurses who came to help.

Sometimes out of the deepest darkness come our brightest lights. In the face of this horror, 15-year-old Malala has dared to campaign for girls education in Pakistan. She was shot in the head for it last year, but she survived, and with almost 1 million of us behind her, she helped win a new government policy to put all Pakistani girls in school!

But she's not stopping there. On Friday, Malala will speak at the UN to propose a new global goal: to put every child on the planet in school. Her request is shockingly doable -- with experts saying it would cost the same as just two nuclear power plants! In the next 72 hours, let's show world leaders that Malala has millions of us behind her as she appeals to them to act, and turn Taliban horror into powerful new hope -- education for all:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/every_child_in_school_global/?bBbiodb&v=26874

Malala will present our campaign to the UN Secretary General on Friday, and work with an army of youth delegates around the globe to lobby the UN Security Council to pass a resolution recognizing the global education crisis and listing concrete steps to promote education for all. Then we'll help them take the message to capitals around the world, until governments write cheques and change policies.

Here are top lines from the plan:

• guarantee equality for girls and marginalized youth disproportionately denied education
• provide rigorous training for teachers
• increase education funding with higher aid from donors and all countries better targeting their spending to close the gaps and guarantee every child has at least 9 years education

Getting every child into school may sound ambitious, but it's actually entirely achievable with a moderate increase in international financial support of $26 billion, and will yield massive benefits for the future peace and prosperity of our world. Let's seize this moment and momentum, and make it happen:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/every_child_in_school_global/?bBbiodb&v=26874

When Malala was shot, our community rallied to her support and helped build an effective strategy to advance her cause, working closely with the UN Envoy on Education, Gordon Brown, to press the Pakistani government to announce a stipend programme to get all kids into school. Let's do it again now, and make the Malala magic work across the world.

With hope and determination,

Mia, Diego, Ricken, Alex, Anne, Dalia, Pascal, Wen-Hua and the entire Avaaz team

PS - Many Avaaz campaigns are started by members of our community! Start yours now and win on any issue - local, national or global: http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/start_a_petition/?bgMYedb&v=26859


MORE INFORMATION:

Reductions in Aid Jeopardise Schooling for Millions of Children (Huffington post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/pauline-rose/education-aid-reductions-jeopardise-schooling_b_3413691.html

Drop in aid for primary schools puts education MDG at risk (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jun/11/drop-aid-primary-schools-mdg-risk

Poorly-educated worst off in economic crisis (EU observer)
http://euobserver.com/education/120636

Malala's global voice stronger than ever (CNN)
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/30/world/malala-girls-education

Education For All Global Monitoring Report (UNESCO)
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/efareport/

The Youth Resolution: The Education We Want
http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/352851

Gordon Brown: Malala’s Fight for Girls’ Education in Pakistan Continues (The Daily Beast)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/17/gordon-brown-malala-s-fight-for-girls-education-in-pakistan-continues.html

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