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Veteran New York Times Reporter: “This Is Most Closed, Control-Freak Administration I’ve Ever Covered”

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American constitutional experts say that Obama is worse than Nixon.

The government has taken to protecting criminal wrongdoing by attacking whistleblowers … and any  journalists who have the nerve to report on the beans spilled by the whistleblowers.  (The government has also repealed long-standing laws against using propaganda against Americans on U.S. soil, and the government is manipulating social media – more proof here and here).

The Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined.

And it goes out of its way to smear whistleblowers, threaten reporters who discuss whistleblower information and harass honest analysts.

Journalism is not only being criminalized in America, but investigative reporting is actually treated like terrorism.

The government admits that journalists could be targeted with counter-terrorism laws (and here). For example, after Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and others sued the government to enjoin the NDAA’s allowance of the indefinite detention of Americans – the judge asked the government attorneys 5 times whether journalists like Hedges could be indefinitely detained simply for interviewing and then writing about bad guys. The government refused to promise that journalists like Hedges won’t be thrown in a dungeon for the rest of their lives without any right to talk to a judge

After the government’s spying on the Associated Press made it clear to everyone that the government is trying to put a chill journalism, the senior national-security correspondent for Newsweek tweeted:

Serious idea. Instead of calling it Obama’s war on whistleblowers, let’s just call it what it is: Obama’s war on journalism.

Moreover:

  • The Bush White House worked hard to smear CIA officersbloggers and anyone else who criticized the Iraq war
  • In an effort to protect Bank of America from the threatened Wikileaks expose of the bank’s wrongdoing, the Department of Justice told Bank of America to a hire a specific hardball-playing law firm to assemble a team to take down WikiLeaks (and see this)

And the American government has been instrumental in locking up journalists in America (and here), Yemen and elsewhere for the crime of embarrassing the U.S. government.

Moreover, while the Obama administration is spying on everyone in the country – it is at the same time the most secretive administration ever (background). That’s despite Obama saying he’s running the most transparent administration ever.

The Washington Post reports:

With the passage of the Patriot Act after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a vast expansion of intelligence agencies and their powers, the aggressive exploitation of intrusive digital surveillance capabilities, the excessive classification of public documents and officials’ sophisticated control of the news media’s access to the workings of government, journalists who cover national security are facing vast and unprecedented challenges in their efforts to hold the government accountable to its citizens. They find that government officials are increasingly fearful of talking to them, and they worry that their communications with sources can be monitored at any time.So what are they doing? Many reporters covering national security and government policy in Washington these days are taking precautions to keep their sources from becoming casualties in the Obama administration’s war on leaks. They and their remaining government sources often avoid telephone conversations and e-mail exchanges, arranging furtive one-on-one meetings instead. A few news organizations have even set up separate computer networks and safe rooms for journalists trained in encryption and other ways to thwart surveillance.

 

“I worry now about calling somebody because the contact can be found out through a check of phone records or e-mails,” said veteran national security journalist R. Jeffrey Smith of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit accountability news organization. “It leaves a digital trail that makes it easier for government to monitor those contacts.”

 

“We have to think more about when we use cellphones, when we use e-mail and when we need to meet sources in person,” said Michael Oreskes, senior managing editor of the Associated Press. “We need to be more and more aware that government can track our work without talking to our reporters, without letting us know.”

 

These concerns, expressed by numerous journalists I interviewed, are well-founded. Relying on the 1917 Espionage Act, which was rarely invoked before President Obama took office, this administration has secretly used the phone and e-mail records of government officials and reporters to identify and prosecute government sources for national security stories.

 

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In addition to ongoing leak investigations, six government employees and two contractors, including fugitive NSA contractor Edward Snowden, have been prosecuted since 2009 under the Espionage Act for providing information to reporters about, among other subjects, the NSA’s communications surveillance, the CIA’s aggressive interrogation of terrorism suspects and, in the case of Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, diplomatic cables and Iraq and Afghanistan war documents.

 

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The Obama administration has drawn a dubious distinction between whistleblowing that reveals bureaucratic waste or fraud, and leaks to the news media about unexamined secret government policies and activities; it punishes the latter as espionage.

 

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Every disclosure to the press of classified information now triggers a leak investigation, said Washington Post national news editor Cameron Barr. “Investigations can be done electronically. They don’t need to compel journalists to reveal sources.”

 

The Post’s Justice Department reporter, Sari Horwitz, said a Justice official told her that “access to e-mail, phone records and cellphones make it easier to do now.”

 

After the New York Times published a 2012 story by David E. Sanger about covert cyberattacks by the United States and Israel against Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, federal prosecutors and the FBI questioned scores of officials throughout the government who were identified in computer analyses of phone, text and e-mail records as having contact with Sanger.

 

“A memo went out from the chief of staff a year ago to White House employees and the intelligence agencies that told people to freeze and retain any e-mail, and presumably phone logs, of communications with me,” Sanger said. As a result, longtime sources no longer talk to him. “They tell me: ‘David, I love you, but don’t e-mail me. Let’s don’t chat until this blows over.’ ”

 

Sanger, who has worked for the Times in Washington for two decades, said, “This is most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.”

 

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A survey of government departments and agencies this summer by the Washington bureau of McClatchy newspapers found that they had wide latitude in defining what kinds of behavior constitute a threat. “Government documents reviewed by McClatchy illustrate how some agencies are using that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information, not just classified material,” it reported in June. “They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for ‘high-risk persons or behaviors’ among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated with espionage.”

 

Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told me that the Insider Threat Program has already “created internal surveillance, heightened a degree of paranoia in government and made people conscious of contacts with the public, advocates and the press.”

 

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“People think they’re looking at reporters’ records,” Post national security reporter Dana Priest told me. “I’m writing fewer things in e-mail. I’m even afraid to tell officials what I want to talk about because it’s all going into one giant computer.”

 

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“Whenever I’m asked what is the most manipulative and secretive administration I’ve covered, I always say it’s the one in office now,” Bob Schieffer, CBS News anchor and chief Washington correspondent, told me. “Every administration learns from the previous administration. They become more secretive and put tighter clamps on information. This administration exercises more control than George W. Bush’s did, and his before that.”

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Tue, 10/08/2013 - 04:32 | 4033189 Bunders
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"The most transparent administration in history"

www.thefreedictionary.com:transparent

"4.

    a. Easily seen through or detected; obvious: transparent lies."

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:34 | 4032392 are we there yet
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Control of information and news is all around us. The DC mall burning man, who was he?, have they found the car he drove to the mall in? Where is his suicide note for his planned self burning? Where are his friends quoting their insights?  Where is the footage of the camera on a tripod he was in front of? Conflicting stories if he was white or black? The DC mall and all access are awash with cameras, where are the videos? Where is his body now? Why are no news media saying anything other than what leaked out initially on twitter and smartphone cameras? Answer, all such news information is contained, captured, detained, retreived, distracted, diverted, sequestered, controlled, or coerced out of public view.

Tue, 10/08/2013 - 05:18 | 4033198 bunnyswanson
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http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/world-bank-us-shutdown-820/#_=_

Karen Hudes, a Whistleblower on monopolization/Media/Banks/state of affairs and more.

Good Interview finally.  30 minutes and worth watching.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 23:20 | 4032946 dexter_morgan
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My short memory recalls 400 hours of combined videotape from Oklahoma City on the day of the bombing somehow wound up gone missing.........how does that happen?

Would be neat if that somehow leaked out, though likely its all destroyed. Oh yeah, McVeigh did it all by hisself. Just like Oswald did....wink wink

It isn't just Obama, but he has mastered it like no other so far.

Tue, 10/08/2013 - 03:24 | 4033174 TruthInSunshine
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I just wanted to thank George Washington for the obvious sweat & effort he puts into so many well intentioned, well written & thought provoking essays concerning the fundamental crises (erosion of constitutional RIGHTS; corruption of the media; environmental concerns such as Monsanto's warfare upon the people; the itself the Bankster-MIC-Technology/Silicon Valley Complex; Fukushima Daiichi, etc.) that we face today and that he stays ever vigilant on.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:28 | 4032147 Mototard at Large
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Banks, Terrorism and other Existential Threats: The Real Invisible Hand

A request for assistance from ZH readers (known for being enthusiastic commenters) :

We have prepared a series of three papers and a podcast on the dangers of the use of fiat/digital currency combined with the near total dependency of most of our economies on the international payments and settlements system.  This leaves us vulnerable to a systemic collapse, an insider threat and/or a foreign attack (read China, Iran, Hezbollah).  In short, banks and anyone who deals with a bank is on the frontline of a new form of warfare.

These research papers and the podcast mark the first time that anyone has been drawn attention to the line between fiat vulnerability and the payments and settlement system. We will be writing a fourth paper on potential solutions and options for moving ahead. Any comments or ideas are welcome here or at cohost@brokenmirrors.ca

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT

** *The Broken Mirrors website is not set up to be a for-profit website or business (yet).   However, we do intend to make the transition to making money sometime in early 2014 as we develop the work on the site and an associated online training program. In other words, no direct financial gain from this posting.

 

Banks, Terrorism and other Existential Threats: The Real Invisible Hand

We can begin the discussion with a simple proposition: what bankers are allowing to happen (consciously or not) at Central Banks and Financial Institutions is far more fearsome than what terrorists have planned in the past. A failure of their jointly operated payments and settlements system would do more systemic damage to the advanced economies than any terrorist attack has done to date. The payments and settlements system is virtually invisible to the public, intelligence and security agencies and most politicians. Yet this ‘invisible’ system has implicated itself into the everyday lives of the populations of almost all of the developed economies.

The other invisible factor lurking in the background is the fiat currency system used by almost all developed nations. Those bank notes in your pocket or wallet are called ‘fiat currency’ as there is little to nothing that supports them other than pure faith – which is by definition invisible.  When individuals lose faith in their government or their financial system, the currency can become nearly worthless in a rapid manner: history is littered with failed fiat currencies.

The intelligence community as a whole has not seriously examined the potential for the application of the use of force (cyber or otherwise) within this economic domain. Nor is it clear that most Western governments have any ability to respond to such an attack (or internal failure) should such an event occur. As Jason Healey, the former White House Director of Cyber Infrastructure Protection noted in a recent address, if the United States is engaged in a cyberwar, Americans would be far better served by contacting Microsoft or AT&T rather than the Department of Homeland Security.

For more on this see:

Banks, Terrorism and other Existential Threats: The Real Invisible Hand http://www.brokenmirrors.ca/?p=230  (intro, list of papers and links)

The Invisible War in Your Wallet – The Sixth Domain of Warfare is You http://www.brokenmirrors.ca/?p=203  (the invisible links between banks, terrorism and existential threats, the international payments and settlements system, the existential threat resident in the current limitations of the (il)legitimacy of the fiat currency system, impact of a failure on the economy and you)

Welcome To The Front – Social and Economic Warfare is all about You http://www.brokenmirrors.ca/?p=252 (future scenario involving the People’s Republic of China, China’s capabilities and intentions, how a potential conflict scenario could develop, previous payments and settlements attacks and failures, conclusions about the state of system security)

The Transformation of the Sixth Domain: Economic Warfare and You in the Information Age.   http://warontherocks.com/2013/10/podcast-the-war-in-your-wallet-the-real-invisible-hand/  or at   http://www.brokenmirrors.ca/?p=261     Podcast (economic warfare, scenarios, fiat currency history, fiat currency current situation, pushing back against the system, community resilience)

FUTURE PAPER: We intend to write one more paper on the payments and settlements system which would identify the path ahead.  Reader comments and ideas will be included and we want your views!  This paper will address issues around the functioning of ATMs in the event of a payments and settlements crisis and whether or not individual FIs would be able/willing to provide cash to only their own customers.  Would this cause a run on the banks?  If there is a breakdown in the payments and settlements system, what would happen to note exchange and provision systems and how would cash get to the FIs?  What would be the effect on securities exchanges, cheques clearing, retail debits, direct deposits, derivatives and foreign currency exchanges? How would they be settled without the payments and settlement system?

Please leave comments here or send directly, in confidence, to cohost@brokenmirrors.ca

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:31 | 4031751 traderjoe100
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They sow the seeds of their own destruction.  They assure that ever more damaging whistle-blowers will arise.  To all of this, they remain blind, as a result of hubris, and arrogance.

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 14:16 | 4031171 silverserfer
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I predict that this article will able to be repeated with every new president we have. I dont see it getting any better with the power structure we have and the technology they are attaining

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 14:45 | 4031292 wearef_ckedwith...
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There is something terribly, terribly bad about to happen.  And it involves the "life support in a coma" TBTF banks and the entire global banking system.

There are a very few who know - but preparations are being made.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 12:11 | 4030614 Ignatius
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They will all be "worse" from here on out, absent truth and principles that are broadly understood and adhered to.

They murdered JFK in front of everyone and got away with it.  9/11, same story.  There are many others.

At its base it's always about resources and markets.  Thugs always seek to control each in an attempt to lock in their wealth stream.  America and the world has a severe 'thug problem', which is a product of human nature (we all want to 'get over' to some degree, though some are far better at it and/or more ruthless).

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 13:26 | 4030944 moneybots
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"They murdered JFK in front of everyone and got away with it."

 

Oswald did not get away with it.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 13:32 | 4030963 FeralSerf
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You need to be REALLY STUPID to believe that Oswald killed JFK.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:50 | 4032453 Bastiat
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Oswald:  "I'm the patsy"

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 11:42 | 4030492 TheABaum
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You should not criticize your government, it's unpatriotic, just like Senator Obama said about increasing the debt limit.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 11:20 | 4030369 proper1
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Take a minute and read this, written before the sheep re-elected obozo, ahead of the curve at the time with statistics to back it up.

http://arizonadailyindependent.com/2012/09/13/just-dont-look-behind-the-door-no-easy-day/

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 11:19 | 4030362 James-Morrison
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We have tried self-government and decided we did not like it.

How else can you explain today's world?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 11:01 | 4030272 The Heart
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If you haven't read this article, read it now. It perfectly describes the present situation the corrupted USA is in.:

http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/congressional-war-criminals-socie...

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 11:05 | 4030264 Son of Captain Nemo
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If everything they are saying here is "true", then why do they stay on disregarding their loyalty to protecting the public trust and keep collecting a paycheck working for the same news organizations? Quit your MSM job and come out and tell the American people the TRUTH!!!
Mon, 10/07/2013 - 23:12 | 4032939 dexter_morgan
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Gee....I dunno. Couldn't be because they like having income, enjoy still being alive, and don't want to end up like Snowden?

Nah, I'm sure the real reason is that its all made up.

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 10:33 | 4030143 Widowmaker
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Puhlease.

The Bush syndicate has put anyone and everyone to shame since 1963... Let's guess -- no one seen a thing.  Washington has a short memory.

Everyone needs to do some homework, the worst examples in US history are still polluting this earth with every breath out of their broken worthless bodies.

Here's to Jenna and Barb, may a piano not fall on your unfortunate heads.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 12:08 | 4030601 Emergency Ward
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My short memory tells me that the Obama Adminstration made sure the Bush Adminstration got protection from investigation and immunity from prosecution for any and all crimes.  Remember?  Let's look forward?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 21:24 | 4030696 Widowmaker
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Ignoring the past only assures the failure of the future.

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 10:26 | 4030110 TrustbutVerify
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How many of these "shocked - shocked, I say" reporters carry Democratic, and in this case, Obama's water 99% of the time?  What percentage of "reporters" (journalists - lol) vote Democratic?  What percentage of DC area voters vote Democratic?  (Correlation)

These reporters have ignored the combined problem of growing debt, deficits, debt service payments rigged (temporarily) to phony non-market interest rates, the astounding amount of unfunded (and unfundable) entitlements that are 4-5x the debt.  

I'm watching CNBC report only the superficial details of the government shutdown instead of the substantial facts of our perilous financial situation.  

I predict there will be a mass safe saving effort by these clowns when it all hits the fan.  

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 12:40 | 4030718 Emergency Ward
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A lot of cognitive dissonance going on with journalists.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 10:49 | 4030170 Widowmaker
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Journalism is dead bruh.

Let's face it, nigger-news ain't going to pull a rabbit or print truth to save it's own ass.

Oh look, Kuntashians went outside!

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:56 | 4031623 bigkahuna
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not sure why you had to use the racial slur - black people know whats going on too and they are likewise upset with the pandering and race baiting...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:46 | 4032212 Oldrepublic
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see Black agenda report

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 10:07 | 4030042 Vendetta
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fascism isn't just for breakfast anymore.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 09:43 | 4029985 halfawake
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is someone from nyt even allowed/capable of saying something like this? #whenbrainwashgoeswrong

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 09:28 | 4029953 rustymason
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It still won't stop the lefties from slamming Nixon every chance they get.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 08:41 | 4029807 screw face
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Oligarchical madness strikes deep. ..'screw everyone then annihilate yourself' ...................~ Global Corporate Credo~
Mon, 10/07/2013 - 08:33 | 4029805 kragsquest
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This is another reason why it is absolutely critical for those calling for accountability in government continue to be part of exposing dishonesty and fraud; Judicial Watch has been extremely dilligent in pursuing the Obama administration.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 06:52 | 4029687 Radical Marijuana
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"Obama’s war on journalism" is an aspect of the overall way that the government is almost totally based on runaway systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, which are pushing their boundaries into becoming done under the colour of law, without actually being properly legalized. There is a WAR AGAINST REALITY, in which "Obama’s war on journalism" could be seen as a continuation of the way that the banksters bought up control of the biggest newspapers:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19120

The Financial Oligarchy Reigns:

Democracy's Death Spiral From Greece to the United States

By David DeGraw, May 15, 2010.

...  consider Congressman Oscar Callaway's report to Congress in 1917 on JP Morgan's master plan, which has been in effect since 1915:

"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached. The policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month, an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."

In 1922, President Theodore Roosevelt who died in 1919, was quoted in the March 27th edition of the New York Times with the following statement,

"These International bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these newspapers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government."

The reason the New York Times ran this article, was due to the Mayor of New York, John Hylan, who had been reported in the same paper the previous day, March 26th, with the following statement,

"The warning of Theodore Roosevelt has much timeliness today, for the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state, and nation...It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection... To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interest and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. This little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States Government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make cat's paws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business...these International Bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and magazines in this country."

THE DESTRUCTION OF JOURNALISM IS NOT NEW, HOWEVER, IT IS ON AN ACCELERATING TRAJECTORY, THE SAME AS THE BASIC SYSTEM OF FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING IS ON AN EXPONENTIAL TRAJECTORY, WHICH IS TRANSFORMING DEBT SLAVERY INTO NUMBERS WHICH ARE DEBT INSANITY. SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME FRAUD, THEREFORE, ANY JOURNALISM WHICH REPORTS RELATIVELY MORE OBJECTIVE TRUTH ABOUT ANYTHING IMPORTANT IS NECESSARILY GOING TO BECOME REGARDED AS AN ENEMY OF THE STATE.

Obama is outdoing what Orwell predicted. We are watching the horrible truism develop that in times of near universal deceit, those who report any more truth are necessarily radical and revolutionary, and so, will be attacked by those who control the government as being enemies of the state. Furthermore, we have not seen anything yet, since the fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems are automatically and necessarily getting worse, faster, because of their basic design structure. After the international banksters succeeded in taking back control over the American money supply, and therefore, had the leverage to eventually take over more and more of entire economy, they worked to consolidate their control over the political processes, which included controlling the school systems and mass media. After a Century of that, the public space in the USA is almost totally dominated by astronomically large deceits and frauds. Any genuine journalist, doing good investigative reporting, is going to be able to discover and document one or another aspect of that situation.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 10:49 | 4030214 lakecity55
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That's why Hastings was Liquidated.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 08:46 | 4029833 mvsjcl
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I always like how clear you think, Radical, despite the fog of THC that seems to permeate your immediate surroundings <cough cough>.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 08:07 | 4029774 johnQpublic
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-1 just in case they are tracking up arrows

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 06:52 | 4029685 Gadfly
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Like all of our politicians, Obama is merely a tool.  The question is who is he working for?  Who really calls the shots?  Who's behind the curtain?  I think most people on this website know the answer to that question.  They rule the world by controlling money, credit, and debt, and by controlling the flow of information through the press and intelligence gathering agencies like the NSA.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 12:58 | 4030800 monad
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Ultimately its the black nobility & friends. The history of "conservation" is revealing. 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 09:36 | 4029959 rustymason
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Who? You know who. Unfortunately, it is illegal in many European countries to invoke their unholy name.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 11:54 | 4030543 Ignatius
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"Who?"

National security whistleblower Sibel Edmonds weighs in: 

http://www.corbettreport.com/sibel-edmonds-explains-whos-at-the-top-of-t...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 05:03 | 4029654 lakecity55
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"I haven't seen a leader this secretive and paranoid since Stalin."

OMG, what if he had an agency that could listen to every phone call, read every letter or electronic fax? What if he had blimps and license plate readers and flying robot planes, all with super-high resolution that could track your every move co-ordinated with a mobile phone one could carry on their person?

If Stalin had that, we would all be doomed. His super-computing machines would have everyone tagged by loyalty! He could easily ID millions to be jailed or killed in a vast gulag in our remote western states! Reporters would die mysteriously! Military leaders would be relieved of command! Spetsnaz members would be killed in helicopter accidents!

What if Stalin sent all our brave russian troops off to fight and aligned himself with an evil leader like Hitler, who would gladly send thousands of his troops to Russia to enforce military law and kill us while our guys are spread out fighting a ghost enemy?

Stalin could mismanage the economy and borrow more money than all the czars! It would crash the Russian economy and everyone would be dying of lack of medical care, food, or be shot by German mercenaries!

One night, Stalin would then make his move, by creating a Crisis! Everyone would be taken by surprise!

We must stop Comrade Stalin!

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 11:25 | 4030379 Son of Captain Nemo
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To help translates what you just said.

This is when you know you have Nero and Caligula as your President and V.P.

Oh where, oh where is the "Praetorian Guards" when you need a job done and fast!...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 12:06 | 4030599 Uncle Remus
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"Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap."

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 04:29 | 4029641 luckylongshot
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The question this raises is why the Government is behaving like this. Would they be doing this if they were planning to do something in the interests of the general public?..obviously not.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 04:22 | 4029639 Money 4 Nothing
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He forgot to mention paranoid megalomaniacs hell bent on destruction.  Possibly omitted because that's too much to the point. 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 02:23 | 4029572 are we there yet
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They may be controlling more information about the man that burned himself up on the mall a few days ago. That painful a death with such planning would have to have a suicide note. Where is it? inquiring minds want to know.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 10:56 | 4030246 lakecity55
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Perhaps a rejected gay love interest of the Bath House Sheik?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 01:49 | 4029548 PacOps
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Another one of those things that no-one could have possibly seen coming?   /

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 07:58 | 4029762 CH1
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Message from MINTRUE: Orwell was a terrorist and Huxley a child molester. Their books never existed.

That is all.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 00:49 | 4029482 Peter Pan
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It appears that the only way to avoid suveillance etc is to be one of the baddies.

There are two types of baddies.

The ones that work for the government.

The second are the ones who know what the government is capable of and take the necessary precautions.

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