FBI and Fascism

Some prose from a report from Rutherford Institute.  

There are quotes and no sources. The page is not slick, which could be a good thing. Here are some data points to consider and/or research. One needs to be wary of excited blather even where it fits one's preconceptions. However, I added some supportive links.

Of course, our government is duplicitous and secret, so anything that may concern you below is only that which has been permitted to reach you.  The key to the future is to have two computers, one that is never part of the Internet.  Of course, anyone who has two computers or a locked file cabinet would be "suspects."

As the saying has it, a word to the wise is sufficient:

...Then again, to those familiar with COINTELPRO, an FBI program created to “disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and neutralize” groups and individuals the government considers politically objectionable, it should come as no surprise that the agency has mastered the art of government disinformation. [Gene: COINTELPRO saved us from the likes of Albert Einstein and his mad subversion of ignorance.] 

The FBI has been particularly criticized in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks for targeting vulnerable individuals and not only luring them into fake terror plots but actually equipping them with the organization, money, weapons and motivation to carry out the plots—entrapment—and then jailing them for their so-called terrorist plotting. This is what the FBI characterizes as “forward leaning—preventative—prosecutions.” [Sic. Those who studied English know the word is "preventive." 

Another fallout from 9/11, National Security Letters, one of the many illicit powers authorized by the USA Patriot Act, allows the FBI to secretly demand that banks, phone companies, and other businesses provide them with customer information and not disclose the demands. An internal audit of the agency found that the FBI practice of issuing tens of thousands of NSLs every year for sensitive information such as phone and financial records, often in non-emergency cases, is riddled with widespread violations. 

The FBI’s surveillance capabilities, on a par with the National Security Agency, boast a nasty collection of spy tools ranging from Stingray devices that can track the location of cell phones to Triggerfish devices which allow agents to eavesdrop on phone calls.  In one case, the FBI actually managed to remotely reprogram a “suspect’s” wireless internet card so that it would send “real-time cell-site location data to Verizon, which forwarded the data to the FBI.” 

Now the FBI is seeking to expand its already invasive hacking powers to allow agents to hack into any computer, anywhere in the world. As journalist Brett Wilkins warns: 

If the proposed rule change is approved, the FBI would have the power to unleash “network investigative techniques” against computers anywhere in the world, allowing the agency to secretly install malware and spyware on any computer, effectively allowing it to control that computer and all its stored information. The FBI could download all the computer’s digital contents, switch its camera or microphone on or off and even control other computers in its network….

James Corney, of FBI czar, want Congress to direct Apple and Android to provide a back door into their new secure phones. (I can't find an enabling clause in the Constitution for this.]  If I were you, I would investigate who votes for this and vote them out. There is no partial corruption. The mere fact there is endless subversion of rules and opinions proves corruption.

From a Florida case, reported by Wired, where the ACLU was stunned to see evidence of Stingray use in a law suit was preemptively taken by the U.S. Marshal (Treasury) in order to prevent routine evidentiary examination. Is there an official "finger?"  Notice Tallahassee police used Stingray more than 200 times since 2010.  This is just one small city. Again, word to the wise:

...The government has long asserted it doesn’t need a probable-cause warrant to use stingrays because the device doesn’t collect the content of phone calls and text messages, but instead operates like pen-registers and trap-and-traces, collecting the equivalent of header information. The ACLU and others argue that the devices are more invasive than a trap-and-trace. 

Recently, the Tallahassee police department revealed it had used stingrays at least 200 times since 2010 without telling any judge because the device’s manufacturer made the police department sign a non-disclosure agreement that police claim prevented them from disclosing use of the device to the courts….

I wonder if the Mafia can have people sign a "non-disclosure agreement" to hide its crimes?

We need to assume everything we say is recorded and categorized. Lawyers call this "chilling" the right of free speech. This unconstitutional concept is no long an abstraction. Further, everything you are told must be assumed to be a lie of some sort. All is spin. For example, the feisty nurse who refused to accept a week or two of quarantine in Maine (and New Jersey) has her license in Texas. Odd no?  Not when you realized she is a paid "intelligence" officer of the CDC.

Apparently, the CDC thinks calling a department "intelligence" will add some to the department. Remember when the CDC was interested in helping us combat disease?

Yes, the CDC needs clandestine operatives to keep you from the flu. Oh, I have never had a shot and have never had the flu. If I get it, I will have a fever for a few days. OMG!!! You can understand the need for the government to spend billions of dollars, given to drug companies, to fight last year's flu. More oligarchy. Interwoven corruption is daily ooze.

Do you really trust the government to inject you with pathogens? Did you know that after the vaccine killed a few dozen people, what in the 1978 alleged outbreak, Congress passed a law making vaccine manufacturers immune, themselves.  That means immune from the infection of your family's law suit after you have been sacrificed.

As an afterthought, the world has turn upside-down as I wonder if contributing to the ACLU is worthy action. Certainly, the Republican elite has no interest in preserving the rights of the individual as recounted in the Constitution.  Our highest priority is protecting our rights. If this is done, all the other subversive stuff goes nowhere without force.

Our rights predated the Constitution and were not granted by the government. They are human rights that were freed from British tyranny.

Allegre: Grandad of Global Warming Withdraws

Just republishing a recent article, below.  Immediately below, is an Izmite and it has nothing to do with this entry other than to offer some visual attraction:

Wait, no, it means we have to stay aware and keep our ears and eyes open to Global Something.


In 2010 a survey of scientists, who I have never seen named, said 97% of climate scientists agree that man is causing global warming and that the 3% who disagreed were poorly qualified, like Dr. Lindzer of MIT. Who are these "scientists" and what is a "climate scientist?"  To see,  I took a quick look at report authors, obvious climate scientists.

You make your own decisions as to qualifications. Not that is matters because one does not add up credentials and votes to determined a fact.

Here is the end of an article about this often quoted report:

The study authors were William R.L. Anderegg, James W. Prall, Jacob Harold and Stephen H. Schneider.

The report comes as the Earth continues to sizzle in 2010. So far, through May, 2010 is the warmest year ever recorded, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

OMG, it is a good thing I missed the warmest year (5 months) ever! Screw the records showing we are int a cooling phase for some 15 years.

INFO on the Climate Scientist Author, if you wondered what a climate scientists was:

Angeregg: Princeton's Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology. (That is a biology department, according to courses offered)

Prall: University of Toronto: " I am a system administrator and tech support contact for all research computing within ECE"

Jacob Harold:  Washington DC. Boss Guide Star, an NFP information publisher. (Lobbyist)

Stephen H. Schneider, (Ph.D. 1971 Columbia: ME and Plasma Physics). With IPCC at the beginning in 1998. Until death: at Stanford's Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biology (Fascinating job considering his training. Wonder if he taught or was a figure head?)  Died in 2010

National Climatic Data Center is at NOAA, the US government agency predicting multiple catastrophic hurricanes every year since Katrina.  (NONE)

--Recall: Publish or Perish, as well as who is paying salaries.

In the piece below, Mr. Allegre demonstrates a respect for the scientific method where conclusions and assumptions are honored by being challenged.

Claude Allegre, another photo to keep readers interest:

NATIONAL POST:

NEWS

Allegre's second thoughts

Claude Allegre, one of France's leading socialists and among her most celebrated scientists, was among the first to sound the alarm about the dangers of global warming.

"By burning fossil fuels, man increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which, for example, has raised the global mean temperature by half a degree in the last century," Dr. Allegre, a renowned geochemist, wrote 20 years ago in Cles pour la geologie.." Fifteen years ago, Dr. Allegre was among the 1500 prominent scientists who signed "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity," a highly publicized letter stressing that global warming's "potential risks are very great" and demanding a new caring ethic that recognizes the globe's fragility in order to stave off "spirals of environmental decline, poverty, and unrest, leading to social, economic and environmental collapse."

The full Deniers series

Statistics needed -- The Deniers Part IWarming is real -- and has benefits -- The Deniers Part II
The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science -- The Deniers Part III
Polar scientists on thin ice -- The Deniers Part IV
The original denier: into the cold -- The Deniers Part V
The sun moves climate change -- The Deniers Part VI
Will the sun cool us? -- The Deniers Part VII
The limits of predictability -- The Deniers Part VIIILook to Mars for the truth on global warming -- The Deniers Part IX
Limited role for C02 -- the Deniers Part X
End the chill -- The Deniers Part XI
Clouded research -- The Deniers Part XIIAllegre's second thoughts -- The Deniers XIII

In the 1980s and early 1990s, when concern about global warming was in its infancy, little was known about the mechanics of how it could occur, or the consequences that could befall us. Since then, governments throughout the western world and bodies such as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have commissioned billions of dollars worth of research by thousands of scientists. With a wealth of data now in, Dr. Allegre has recanted his views. 

To his surprise, the many climate models and studies failed dismally in establishing a man-made cause of catastrophic global warming. Meanwhile, increasing evidence indicates that most of the warming comes of natural phenomena. Dr. Allegre now sees global warming as over-hyped and an environmental concern of second rank.  (It is years, now, you have been reading about the major impact of solar activity, here, as well as undersea volcanic eruptions.)

His break with what he now sees as environmental cant on climate change came in September, in an article entitled "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" in l' Express, the French weekly. His article cited evidence that Antarctica is gaining ice and that Kilimanjaro's retreating snow caps, among other global-warming concerns, come from natural causes. "The cause of this climate change is unknown," he states matter of factly. There is no basis for saying, as most do, that the "science is settled."

Dr. Allegre's skepticism is noteworthy in several respects. For one, he is an exalted member of France's political establishment, a friend of former Socialist president Lionel Jospin, and, from 1997 to 2000, his minister of education, research and technology, charged with improving the quality of government research through closer co-operation with France's educational institutions. For another, Dr. Allegre has the highest environmental credentials. The author of early environmental books, he fought successful battles to protect the ozone layer from CFCs and public health from lead pollution. His break with scientific dogma over global warming came at a personal cost: Colleagues in both the governmental and environmental spheres were aghast that he could publicly question the science behind climate change.

But Dr. Allegre had allegiances to more than his socialist and environmental colleagues. He is, above all, a scientist of the first order, the architect of isotope geodynamics, which showed that the atmosphere was primarily formed early in the history of the Earth, and the geochemical modeller of the early solar system. Because of his path-breaking cosmochemical research, NASA asked Dr. Allegre to participate in the Apollo lunar program, where he helped determine the age of the Moon. Matching his scientific accomplishments in the cosmos are his accomplishments at home: Dr. Allegre is perhaps best known for his research on the structural and geochemical evolution of the Earth's crust and the creation of its mountains, explaining both the title of his article in l' Express and his revulsion at the nihilistic nature of the climate research debate.

Calling the arguments of those who see catastrophe in climate change "simplistic and obscuring the true dangers, the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man's role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters."

Calling the arguments of those who see catastrophe in climate change "simplistic and obscuring the true dangers," Dr. Allegre especially despairs at "the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man's role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters." The world would be better off, Dr. Allegre believes, if these "denouncers" became less political and more practical, by proposing practical solutions to head off the dangers they see, such as developing technologies to sequester C02. His dream, he says, is to see "ecology become the engine of economic development and not an artificial obstacle that creates fear."

Lawrence Solomon@nextcity.com

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- Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Urban Renaissance Institute and Consumer Policy Institute, divisions of Energy Probe Research Foundation.

CV OF A DENIER:

Claude Allegre received a Ph D in physics in 1962 from the University of Paris. He became the director of the geochemistry and cosmochemistry program at the French National Scientific Research Centre in 1967 and in 1971, he was appointed director of the University of Paris's Department of Earth Sciences. In 1976, he became director of the Paris Institut de Physique du Globe. He is an author of more than 100 scientific articles, many of them seminal studies on the evolution of the Earth using isotopic evidence, and 11 books. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Science.