in a way that lies and secrets are needed to 'protect' them.

I find that when the truth becomes a threat it is usually because something illegal is going on.
They should at least declare a state of permanent emergency if they wish to run the country like a police state, the illusion of living in a republic instead is a rather condescending insult if such is not the case.

FBI knew of plot to kill Occupy leadership, but did nothing.

"Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding." - The Tao

assessment' that is more than sinister, it is downright WRONG! And clearly they KNOW IT or they would not have gone to the trouble of singling out a relatively unknown blog to 'warn' about the 'MSM' possibly asking questions'.

Thank GOD for sunlight on the dark corners of our democracy. As those residing in those corners know only too well, the biggest threat to those who are systematically trashing the consitutional rights of American citizens, is exposure.

On a side note, they need not have worried about the Corporate Media asking any questions, they have been successfully taken over by Corporations and no longer engage in investigative journalism.

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This is why we are being distracted with shiny objects and partisan outrage and insipid arguments about ageism.

This is CORRUPTION. This is the murder of the foundations of our democratic system of government.

...Something is seriously messed up, somewhere. So, Who's calling the Shots? And who's got the Codebook and Password for the private numbered UBS Account in Zurich?

For that is what Occupy did, demonstrated that the powers of the State weren't protecting the People -- they protect the ultrarich and the banks, holding companies and corporations they own.

''Looking Forward'' not only cleared war criminals Bush and Cheney, but the Banksters, as well.

"My administration ... is the only thing between you and the pitchforks." -- President Barack Obama, March 27, 2009

On 3 April 2009, Politico bannered innocuously (and deceptively, given the shocking core that was buried here - Obama's statement), "Inside Obama's Bank CEOs Meeting." Eamon Javers reported Obama telling Wall Street's CEOs, inside the White House, "My administration ... is the only thing between you and the pitchforks." (This essentially secret meeting, and the comment itself, had occurred on 27 March 2009, but Javers failed to cite the date, which was indicated only under the accompanying AP wire photo of the CEOs coming out of this publicly unannounced event.) Obama's remark was implicitly analogizing here: he implied that he was protecting these people not from prosecutions for crimes (which he actually was), but instead from angry irrational mobs outside, who were driven by blind hatred (like the lynch mobs were in the Old South). Obama was metaphorically siding here with the plantation owners, not with the slaves; with the KKK, not with their victims. This elite Black was telling them that he would protect them from prosecution. He wasn't going to protect the public - which he here analogized to simply a hate-obsessed mob of bigots.

SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/obama-finally-lays-his-ca_b_3025743.html

Politico article referenced above: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20871.html

"We're all in this together." -- Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary

The thirteen bankers, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, were:

Ken Chenault, American Express
Ken Lewis, Bank of America
Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon
Vikram Pandit, Citigroup
John Koskinen, Freddie Mac
Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs
Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase
John Mack, Morgan Stanley
Rick Waddell, Northern Trust
James Rohr, PNC
Ronald Logue, State Street
Richard Davis, US Bank
John Stumpf, Wells Fargo

SOURCE: http://13bankers.com/title/

Two months after we were jumping for joy to see what we thought was the end of the Bush/Cheney crimes against the people here and elsewhere.

I guess this is why there is such pushback against those who are not going to be 'soothed' regarding all these crimes by this President or anyone else. He is failing to protect them because the people are not the fools those in power seem to think they are. OWS was then 'a failure to protect' the Wall St Criminals, which explains the brutal crackdown very clearly.

The fraudsters and traitors who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 had kids.

And they are the ones* screwing America now.

What's different today, is we don't have Smedley Butler or FDR to stop them.



Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, share a moment and some information, back in the day.

* Of course, it's not just a few rich families's offspring who screw the majority today. They've hired help and built up the giant noise machine to continue their work overthrowing the progress FDR and the New Deal brought America for 80 years.

Why would the nation and world's richest people do that? Progress costs money. And they don't want to pay for it, even when they've hoarded thanks to trickle down seven times more wealth than all of history put together. Instead, whey continue to work -- legally, through government and lobbyists -- to amass even more, transferring the wealth of the many to themselves and their banks offshore.

And instead of an armed mob led by a war hero on a white horse, their weapon became "Supply Side Economics." To most Americans, that means Trickle-Down. It's a real bad stroke of luck it's still the way of Washington.

...regarding the Attempted Wall Street Coup of FDR, is that after the plot was stopped, FDR let them off the hook.

It is these kinds of inexplicabilities that can be found time and again throughout our shaded history, that cause me to hesitate reaching any conclusions about what that all meant.

And the involvement he had in the setup and financing of Hitler, and the fact that he was never investigated nor charged in the Thyssen case, as far as history is concerned.

and YOU ain't in it." --George Carlin



“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

― Frank Zappa


I got my first glimpse of the "brick wall" when our voting machines were "Privatized",
but the curtain was puled back all the way in 2000 when the Supreme Court stopped the vote count in Florida.

Since then, it seems that the 1% are grabbing up the last things of value from the Working/Middle Class (Social Security & Education Funding) before pulling up the ladders and locking the gate.

...was no better than Farmer Jones had been. Maybe even worse.

by: Dave Lindorff
hu, 10/04/2012 - 16:44

An investigative arm of the Pentagon has termed Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, currently holed up and claiming asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for fear he will be deported to Sweden and thence to the US, and his organization, both “enemies” of the United States.

The Age newspaper in Melbourne Australia is reporting that documents obtained through the US Freedom of Information Act from the Pentagon disclose that an investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, a counter-intelligence unit, of a military cyber systems analyst based in Britain who had reportedly expressed support for Wikileaks and had attended a demonstration in support of Assange, refers to the analyst as having been [font color="red"]“communicating with the enemy, D-104.”[/font color] The D-104 classification refers to an article of the US Uniform Military Code of Military Justice which prohibits military personnel from “communicating, corresponding or holding intercourse with the enemy.”

This is pretty dangerous language, referring to an Australian citizen who many consider to be no more than a working journalist who has been receiving information leaked by whistleblowers and disseminating that information to the public. As David Cole, a civil liberties attorney in the US associated with the Center for Constitutional Rights, notes, “The US military is not at war with Wikileaks or with Julian Assange.”

Certainly if a member of the US military were to go to a news organization like the New York Times -- or the Melbourne Age for that matter -- and leak some kind of damaging secret information exposing US military war crimes, it is hard to believe that the military would call that “communicating with the enemy” (though reportedly the Bush/Cheney administration considered, but then dropped the idea of bringing espionage charges against Times reporter James Risen for publishing in his book secret information about the government’s bungled effort to pass faulty A-bomb fuse technology to the Iranians). In any case, a military leaker could easily be charged under the military code with offenses like revealing national security secrets or some other serious charge, which would not involve charging any media organization that received the information.

[font color="red"]The decision by the Pentagon to instead use the D-104 code to classify Assange as an “enemy” in this context is dangerous because since 9-11-2001, the US government, with the general consent of the courts, has been treating “enemies” of the state in some very frightening extra-judicial ways. Enemies of the US these days can be summarily arrested and carted away to black-site prisons or to a place like Guantanamo without even a requirement that any notice be given to friends or relatives. They can be locked up indefinitely and denied access to a lawyer. They can even be subjected to what is euphemistically called “enhanced interrogation,” which most people, and which international law, call torture, as was done to Private Bradley Manning, charged with providing hundreds of thousands of pages of secret documents to Wikileaks.[/font color]

CONTINUED...

http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1365

It doesn't matter if we are loyal, merely questioning "Why all this war?" makes one an enemy of the state. It also makes clear why the feds don't go after the right-wing nutjobs who propagate hate. They're part of the program.

surprises no one who KNEW those charges were manufactured in an effort to silence and discredit Wikileaks.

But trying to silence the truth is like putting a finger in a dam. They can silence one, but more will get through.

What all this does is to make clear that what we know which is bad enough, is probably only the tip of the iceberg as to what is really going on. Which is why they are so desperate to silence people.

The curtain has been pulled aside.

And here on DU, some dare to tell us the government is benevolent.

When Janet Reno was AG, a conference was called between the DoD, the DoJ, and contractors to the military to cooperate in developing new technologies to address "urban hostiles."

"Urban hostiles" is us. I knew that then, as I read the literature from that conference.

Then, I could not even dream where we would be in 2014. Cynical as I was then, it was not cynical enough.

Mass surveillance, militarized police, mass media control, capture of government, privatization of public commons, ritualized elections, impoverishment of the working classes and the elimination of their organizational structures. It's all there.

We couldn't (or could but didn't) keep it.

Post of the decade.

Operation Garden Plot is a general U.S. Army and National Guard plan to respond to major domestic civil disturbances within the United States. The plan was developed in response to the civil disorders of the 1960s and is now under the control of the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM). It provides Federal military and law enforcement assistance to local governments during times of major civil disturbances.

Garden Plot was last activated (as Noble Eagle) to provide military assistance to civil authorities following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The Pentagon also activated it to restore order during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.

Under Homeland Security restructuring, it has been suggested that similar models be followed.

"Oversight of these homeland security missions should be provided by the National Guard Bureau based on the long-standing Garden Plot model in which National Guard units are trained and equipped to support civil authorities in crowd control and civil disturbance missions." Testimony of Major General Richard C. Alexander, ANGUS (Ret.), Executive Director, National Guard Association of the United States, Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing on Homeland Defense, April 11, 2002(1)

The Rex-84 Alpha Explan (Readiness Exercise 1984, Exercise Plan; otherwise known as a continuity of government plan), indicates that FEMA in association with 34 other federal civil departments and agencies, along with other NATO nations, conducted a civil readiness exercise during April 5-13, 1984. It was conducted in coordination and simultaneously with a Joint Chiefs exercise, Night Train 84, a worldwide military command post exercise (including Continental U.S. Forces or CONUS) based on multi-emergency scenarios operating both abroad and at home. In the combined exercise, Rex-84 Bravo, FEMA and DOD led the other federal agencies and departments, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service, the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Veterans Administration through a gaming exercise to test military assistance in civil defense.

The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major demonstrations and strikes that would affect continuity of government and/or resource mobilization. To fight subversive activities, there was authorization for the military to implement government ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, the arrest of certain unidentified segments of the population, and the imposition of martial law. (1)

Sometimes I wonder if these events, which seem so coincidental, are actually cynically planned to mock the people.

What's also interesting is that from what we are learning, thanks to all the Whistle Blowers, is that our Intel Agencies are spending the billions they are appropriating supposedly to protect the American from terror attacks, and a whole lot of their time, on the PEOPLE as if THAT is where the real threat is.

Not much about actual 'terrorists' anywhere in all these revelations. But they sure are prepared to attack the people 'if necessary'.

The moment, captured by Kodak:



Ollie stared at Brooks and turned to whisper some question to his lawyer, Brendan Sullivan. Before they answered, Sen. Inouye, D-Hawaii, said questions like that were best answered in closed session. Here're a few more details, courtesy of Bartcop and ProRev:

A Primer on INSLAW

This primer has been collated and provided as a courtesy by Brian Wright. (Thank you.)

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Excerpt from:
NEWS RELEASE
August 11, 1992
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary

Jack Brooks, Texas, Chairman

JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPORT CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE THE INSLAW CONTROVERSY

The ("INSLAW Affair&quot report concludes that there appears to be strong evidence, as indicated by the findings of two Federal court proceedings, as well as by the Committee investigation, that the Department of Justice "acted willfully and fraudulently," and "took, converted and stole," INSLAW's Enhanced PROMIS by "trickery, fraud and deceit." The report finds that these actions against INSLAW were implemented through the Project Manager from the beginning of the contract and under the direction of high-level Justice Department officials. The evidence presented in the report demonstrates that high-level Department officials deliberately ignored INSLAW's proprietary rights and misappropriated its PROMIS software for use at locations not covered under contract with the company. Justice then proceeded to challenge INSLAW's claims in court even though its own internal deliberations had concluded that these claims were valid and that the Department would most likely lose in court on this issue.

According to the report, the second phase of the Committee's investigation concentrated on the allegations that high-level officials at the Department of Justice conspired to drive INSLAW into insolvency and steal PROMIS. In this regard, the report states that several individuals testified under oath that INSLAW's PROMIS software was stolen and distributed internationally in order to provide financial gain to associates of Justice Department officials and to further intelligence and foreign policy objectives of the United States. Additional corroborating evidence was uncovered by the Committee which substantiated to varying degrees the information provided by these individuals.

(Chairman) Brooks stated, "Although (the Department of Justice was) faced with a growing body of evidence that serious wrongdoing had occurred which reached to the highest levels of the Department, both Attorney General Meese and Thornburgh ignored these findings of two Federal courts and refused to seek the appointment of an Independent Counsel."


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Excerpt from:

"Summer Of the Octopus"

WASHINGTON POST
by Mary McGrory
August 18, 1991


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(Danny Casolaro) had been investigating the Inslaw case, a tangled affair of government perfidy and international intrigue that has been in litigation since 1983. In his explorations, he found out about possibly related scandals -- BCCI, S&Ls, Iran-contra, the "October surprise" -- but until two weeks ago, he had found nothing about Inslaw. Then, he joyfully told friends, he hit bingo. One more interview and the case was cracked.
Suicides do not tell their intimates within days of taking the hemlock that they are "ecstatic" or "euphoric." Casolaro did. Nor do they attend family birthday parties, as Danny Casolaro was planning to do hours before he died. The last known call was to his mother in Fairfax (VA). He told her he was on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania. He would be late, but he was headed home. A manic-depressive might then kill himself. Nobody ever suggested Danny Casolaro was one.

Although the case involves the alleged theft of computer software by the Justice Department in the time of Ed Meese, Thornburgh took it to his bosom. Bill Hamilton, a perfectly nice midwesterner who owned a Washington firm called Inslaw, had invented Promis, a software especially adapted to crime statistics, which he sold to Justice. The second year, Justice stopped making payments. Hamilton and his wife, Nancy, believe that cronies of Meese were given the franchise to sell around the world. Promis has turned up in Canada and Pakistan. Thelink with the "October surprise" is Earl Brian, a former Reagan political associate who allegedly paid off Iranians to keep the hostages until after the 1980 election -- and allegedly was paid off himself with huge profits from Promis.


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Excerpt from:

"The Inslaw Octopus"

by Richard L. Fricker
WIRED

But the real power of PROMIS, according to Hamilton, is that with a staggering 570,000 lines of computer code, PROMIS can integrate innumerable databases without requiring any reprogramming. In essence, PROMIS can turn blind data into information. And anyone in government will tell you that information, when wielded with finesse, begets power. Converted to use by intelligence agencies, as has been alleged in interviews by ex-CIA and Israeli Mossad agents, PROMIS can be a powerful tracking device capable of monitoring intelligence operations, agents and targets, instead of legal cases.

Apparently, Israel was not the only country interested in using PROMIS for internal security purposes, Lt. Col. Oliver North also may have been using the program. According to several intelligence community sources, PROMIS was in use at a 6,100 square-foot command center built on the sixth floor of the Justice Department. According to both a contractor who helped design the center and information disclosed during the Iran-contra hearings, Oliver North had a similar, but smaller, White House operations room that was connected by computer link to the DOJ's command center,

Using the computers in the command center, North tracked dissidents and potential troublemakers within the United States as part of a domestic emergency preparedness program, commissioned under Reagan's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), according to sources and published reports. Using PROMIS, sources point out, North could have drawn up lists of anyone ever arrested for a political protest, for example, or anyone who had ever refused to pay their taxes. Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon's enemies lists or Sen. Joe McCarthy's blacklist look downright crude. The operation was so sensitive that when Rep. Jack Brooks asked North about it during the Iran-contra hearings, the hearing was immediately suspended pending an executive (secret) conference. When the hearings were reconvened, the issue of North's FEMA dealings was dropped.

Freelance reporter Danny Casolaro spent the last few years of his life investigating a pattern which he called "The Octopus." According to Casolaro, Inslaw was only part of a greater story of how intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice and even the mob had subverted the government and its various functions for their own profit.


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Excerpt from:

"The Dirtiest Bank of All"

by Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne
TIME
July 29, 1991

The more conventional departments of B.C.C.I. (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) handled such services as laundering money for the drug trade and helping dictators loot their national treasuries. The black network, which is still functioning, operates a lucrative arms-trade business and transports drugs and gold. According to investigators and participants in those operations, it often works with Western and Middle Eastern intelligence agencies. The strange and still murky ties between B.C.C.I. and the intelligence agencies of several countries are so pervasive that even the White House has become entangled. As TIME reported earlier this month, the National Security Council used B.C.C.I. to funnel money for the Iran-contra deals, and the CIA maintained accounts in B.C.C.I. for covert operations. Moreover, investigators have told TIME that the Defense Intelligence Agency has maintained a slush-fund account with B.C.C.I. apparently to pay for clandestine activities.
But the CIA may have used B.C.C.I. as more than an undercover banker: U.S. agents collaborated with the black network in several operations, according to a B.C.C.I. black-network "officer" who is now a secret U.S. government witness. Sources have told investigators that B.C.C.I. worked closely with Israel's spy agencies and other Western intelligence groups as well, especially in arms deals.

---a bookstore for democracy ---

http://www.copi.com/articles/inslaw_primer.htm

Surprised to see that one article from Mary McGrory..(RIP)... 's

that they had garnered enough power to become untouchable. Still, they ARE scared, of the people.

To think that Brooks' question was dismissed so blatantly, such an important question, is shameful.

I too wish we had 500 like him in Congress, enough to shout down those who are working to destroy the Constitution. Maybe some day ....

Danny Casolaro, for instance...

important

When challenged by Franklin P. Adams to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence, Ms. Parker replied: "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

Really appreciate that you understand the situation is major, malaise.

A reminder for those who may've missed the boat while watching next installment of The Charlie Rose Show:

....with a special program about him.

It's an important work -- tough to read, with all the details and documents and facts and stuff, but the truth about the fellah is mighty important.

https://archive.org/details/AV_483_484-THE_MAFIA_THE_CIA_AND_GEORGE_BUSH

But hate a free press

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell

The United States was founded on truth, that kings and princes are no better than their subjects they rule and lord over. Today, the nation has been debased by lies -- from those which get us into wars without end for profits without end, to those which imprison the likes of Don Siegelman and Bradley Manning, while allowing the likes of George Bush and Richard Cheney to run free.

DU's hair ought to be on fire.