Ward Churchill on 9/11 - Roosting Chickens & Among Malignant Toads

Article SOURCE https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm Ward Churchill on 9/11 Roosting Chickens & Among Malign Malignant Toads https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm "Some People Push Back" On the Justice of Roosting Chickens By Ward Churchill 3 February 2005 (SELECT) EXTRACTS *Full at source https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm "On the morning of September 11, 2001, a few more chickens – along with some half-million dead Iraqi children – came home to roost in a very big way at the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Well, actually, a few of them seem to have nestled in at the Pentagon as well. The Iraqi youngsters, all of them under 12, died as a predictable – in fact, widely predicted – result of the 1991 US "surgical" bombing of their country's water purification and sewage facilities, as well as other "infrastructural" targets upon which Iraq's civilian population depends for its very survival.  If the nature of the bombing were not already bad enough – and it should be noted that this sort of "aerial warfare" constitutes a Class I Crime Against humanity, entailing myriad gross violations of international law, as well as every conceivable standard of "civilized" behavior – the death toll has been steadily ratcheted up by US-imposed sanctions for a full decade now. Enforced all the while by a massive military presence and periodic bombing raids, the embargo has greatly impaired the victims' ability to import the nutrients, medicines and other materials necessary to saving the lives of even their toddlers. All told, Iraq has a population of about 18 million. The 500,000 kids lost to date thus represent something on the order of 25 percent of their age group. Indisputably, the rest have suffered – are still suffering – a combination of physical debilitation and psychological trauma severe enough to prevent their ever fully recovering. In effect, an entire generation has been obliterated." "... technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire – the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly ... little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers ..." " ... firm-jawed lads" who delighted in flying stealth aircraft through the undefended airspace of Baghdad, dropping payload after payload of bombs on anyone unfortunate enough to be below – including tens of thousands of genuinely innocent civilians – while themselves incurring all the risk one might expect during a visit to the local video arcade. Still more, the word describes all those "fighting men and women" who sat at computer consoles aboard ships in the Persian Gulf, enjoying air-conditioned comfort while launching cruise missiles into neighborhoods filled with random human beings. Whatever else can be said of them, the men who struck on September 11 manifested the courage of their convictions, willingly expending their own lives in attaining their objectives. " "Evil – for those inclined to embrace the banality of such a concept – was perfectly incarnated in that malignant toad known as Madeline Albright, squatting in her studio chair like Jaba the Hutt, blandly spewing the news that she'd imposed a collective death sentence upon the unoffending youth of Iraq. Evil was to be heard in that great American hero "Stormin' Norman" Schwartzkopf's utterly dehumanizing dismissal of their systematic torture and annihilation as mere "collateral damage." Evil, moreover, is a term appropriate to describing the mentality of a public that finds such perspectives and the policies attending them acceptable, or even momentarily tolerable. " " ...  America's indiscriminately lethal arrogance and psychotic sense of self-entitlement have long since given the great majority of the world's peoples ample cause to be at war with it ..." "FBI counterintelligence personnel have proven quite adept at framing anarchists, communists and Black Panthers, sometimes murdering them in their beds or the electric chair. The Bureau's SWAT units have displayed their ability to combat child abuse in Waco by burning babies alive, and its vaunted Crime Lab has been shown to pad its "crime-fighting' statistics by fabricating evidence against many an alleged car thief. But actual "heavy-duty bad guys" of the sort at issue now? This isn't a Bruce Willis/Chuck Norris/Sly Stallone movie, after all.. And J. Edgar Hoover doesn't get to approve either the script or the casting." "The number of spies, saboteurs and bona fide terrorists apprehended, or even detected by the FBI in the course of its long and slimy history could be counted on one's fingers and toes. On occasion, its agents have even turned out to be the spies, and, in many instances, the terrorists as well." "... if the Bureau functions as at best a carnival of clowns where its "domestic security responsibilities" are concerned, this is because – regardless of official hype – it has none. It is now, as it's always been, the national political police force, and instrument created and perfected to ensure that all Americans, not just the consenting mass, are "free" to do exactly as they're told." "The FBI and "cooperating agencies" can be thus relied upon to set about "protecting freedom" by destroying whatever rights and liberties were left to U.S. citizens before September 11 (in fact, they've already received authorization to begin). Sheeplike, the great majority of Americans can also be counted upon to bleat their approval, at least in the short run, believing as they always do that the nasty implications of what they're doing will pertain only to others." "Oh Yeah, and "The Company," Too A possibly even sicker joke is the notion, suddenly in vogue, that the CIA will be able to pinpoint "terrorist threats," "rooting out their infrastructure" where it exists and/or "terminating" it before it can materialize, if only it's allowed to beef up its "human intelligence gathering capacity" in an unrestrained manner (including full-bore operations inside the US, of course). Yeah. Right. Since America has a collective attention-span of about 15 minutes, a little refresher seems in order: "The Company" had something like a quarter-million people serving as "intelligence assets" by feeding it information in Vietnam in 1968, and it couldn't even predict the Tet Offensive. God knows how many spies it was fielding against the USSR at the height of Ronald Reagan's version of the Cold War, and it was still caught flatfooted by the collapse of the Soviet Union. As to destroying "terrorist infrastructures," one would do well to remember Operation Phoenix, another product of its open season in Vietnam. In that one, the CIA enlisted elite US units like the Navy Seals and Army Special Forces, as well as those of friendly countries – the south Vietnamese Rangers, for example, and Australian SAS – to run around "neutralizing" folks targeted by The Company's legion of snitches as "guerrillas" (as those now known as "terrorists" were then called). Sound familiar? Upwards of 40,000 people – mostly bystanders, as it turns out – were murdered by Phoenix hit teams before the guerrillas, stronger than ever, ran the US and its collaborators out of their country altogether. And these are the guys who are gonna save the day, if unleashed to do their thing in North America? The net impact of all this "counterterrorism" activity upon the combat teams' ability to do what they came to do, of course, will be nil. " "On Matters of Proportion and Intent "As things stand, including the 1993 detonation at the WTC, "Arab terrorists" have responded to the massive and sustained American terror bombing of Iraq with a total of four assaults by explosives inside the US. That's about 1% of the 50,000 bombs the Pentagon announced were rained on Baghdad alone during the Gulf War (add in Oklahoma City and you'll get something nearer an actual 1%). They've managed in the process to kill about 5,000 Americans, or roughly 1% of the dead Iraqi children (the percentage is far smaller if you factor in the killing of adult Iraqi civilians, not to mention troops butchered as/after they'd surrendered and/or after the "war-ending" ceasefire had been announced). In terms undoubtedly more meaningful to the property/profit-minded American mainstream, they've knocked down a half-dozen buildings – albeit some very well-chosen ones – as opposed to the "strategic devastation" visited upon the whole of Iraq, and punched a $100 billion hole in the earnings outlook of major corporate shareholders, as opposed to the U.S. obliteration of Iraq's entire economy." "The problem is that vengeance is usually framed in terms of "getting even," a concept which is plainly inapplicable in this instance. As the above data indicate, it would require another 49,996 detonations killing 495,000 more Americans, for the "terrorists" to "break even" for the bombing of Baghdad/extermination of Iraqi children alone. And that's to achieve "real number" parity. To attain an actual proportional parity of damage – the US is about 15 times as large as Iraq in terms of population, even more in terms of territory – they would, at a minimum, have to blow up about 300,000 more buildings and kill something on the order of 7.5 million people. Were this the intent of those who've entered the US to wage war against it, it would remain no less true that America and Americans were only receiving the bill for what they'd already done. Payback, as they say, can be a real motherfucker (ask the Germans)." "... America's abundant supply of major war criminals (Henry Kissinger comes quickly to mind, as do Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton and George the Elder) ..." '' ...  Nuremberg-style trials in which a few thousand US military/corporate personnel could be properly adjudicated and punished for their Crimes Against humanity, and payment of reparations to the array of nations/peoples whose assets the US has plundered over the years, would suffice." https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm -------/\/\/ -------/\/\/ Ward Churchill US author and political activist former prof. ethnic studies University of Colorado Boulder 1990 - 2007 focus:  historical treatment of political dissenters & native Americans [2003, Churchill]: -- Muscogee and Creek descent ( father's side) -- Cherokee (mother's side) Controversy in 2005 -- circulation of essay: -- 2001 - 'On the Justice of Roosting Chickens' -- University of Colorado Boulder -- investigates allegations Ward Churchill committed 'research misconduct' -- University of Colorado Boulder claims he has:  2006 -- Churchill fired 2007 -- Churchill sues for unlawful termination -- 2009:  Denver jury find Churchill wrongly fired (awarded $1.00 damages) -- District judge declined Churchill request to order reinstatement -- & 'vacated the monetary award' (whatever that is) -- *District Judge decides:  university =  'quasi-judicial immunity' -- 2010:  appeals District Judge's decision -- 2010:  Colorado Court of Appeals:  upholds decision -- 2012:  Colorado Supreme Court upholds decision in favour of University -- 2013: US Supreme Court declined to hear case -- 2013:  Churchill moves to Atlanta, Georgia Background: -- Urbana, Illinois -- 1966 drafted - US Army -- Vietnam 10mths volunteer -- politically radicalised as result Vietnam -- allegedly taught Weather Underground (US left-wing domestic terrorists org. campus University Michigan) -- how to build bombs & fire weapons -- BA & MA communications, Sangamon State Uni (Springfield, Illinois) -- affirmative action officer, University of Colorado -- lectured on native American issues in ethnic studies program -- 1990 hired as associate professor -- granted tenure following year (communications dept.)  -- interests: Dawes Act & 'blood quantum' [source:  Wikipedia] -------/\/\/ America's FBI & CIA FBI According to Ward Churchill, FBI: ADEPT AT FRAMING dissenters (incl. anarchists, communists, black panthers) has dissenters assassinated in bed or state executed combats child abuse by burning babies alive (Waco) fabricates evidence against petty criminals has a long, slimy history & FBI was & continues to be a: NATIONAL POLITICAL POLICE FORCE Expect FBI to destroy what rights & liberties are left post 9/11 CIA CIA (aka 'The Company') 250,000 intelligence assets feeding it info in Vietnam 1968 *but could not predict 'Tet Offensive' despite god knows how many Reagan 'Cold War' spies *was caught flatfooted by collapse of Soviet Union conducted 'Operation Phoenix' - Vietnam along with allied elite military 'neutralising' Vietnamese targets of CIA's legion of snitches *over 40,000 Vietnamese (mostly bystanders) were murdered by Operation Phoenix hit squads *yet Vietnamese guerrillas stronger than ever ran USA & USA collaborators out of Vietnam ... so are these CIA guys likely to save the day? with their 'counter-terrorism' activity? https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm -------/\/\/ ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Really enjoyed Ward Churchill's article. Like his irreverence ... and he's so funny. The description of Madeleine Albright was perfect.  LOL Article's also packed full of information.  I might have to come back to this when I'm not so tired. Anyway, Ward Churchill's 'blowback paradigm' views were considered controversial in 2005 ... and he got fired from his academic post not long afterwards. Although he was found to have been dismissed unfairly by University of Colorado, he was only awarded some ridiculous nominal $1.00 amount -- and further court action went in favour of the institution, because the District Judge has decided universities have a 'quasi-judicial immunity' (2009), which means they're not accountable for their decisions, I guess. -------/\/\/ Amazing article. It would probably help knowing the Gulf War history (I don't yet) and wider history of US and allied war machine aggression (eg. Vietnam war).

The Great Whore, An Unnatural Monstrosity: Warmonger Mercantile Empire

Article SOURCE as marked -------/\/\/ The Great Whore An Unnatural Monstrosity: Warmonger Mercantile Empire -------/\/\/ Senator John McCain Chased Off Navajo Nation https://youtu.be/xlkEraYbUko VIOLATING APACHE SACRED GROUNDS Resolution Copper Mining subsidiary of British-Australian mining conglomerate Rio Tinto unsuccessfully sought ownership:  Oak Flat Campground after 13 attempts new bill slipped through by Sen. John McCain & signed into legislation by Obama Opens up Oak Flat for copper mining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAptwpX-03E Rio Tinto - Environmental Disaster Tonto National Forest - Oak Flat, Arizona LINK | Post -------/\/\/ While I was searching for a list of broken US treaties with native Americans, this is some of what I looked at and found interesting. Still haven't found my comprehensive list of broken treaties, but I understand hundreds of treaties have been broken by the US government, to further dispossess the native Americans whose homelands were invaded by competing European colonists of all descriptions and their respective entourages.  Even today, native Americans are being cheated and dispossessed by the US government (referred to below and here). Yet the brutal proto-Nazi invader of North America and exterminator of Native American peoples, in what is an ignored colossal-scale native American holocaust, committed by an assortment of covetous marauders whose insatiable greed has spawned an unnatural monstrosity that is a corporate warmonger mercantile empire, a 'nation' modelled on a trading company. Mercantile America, the monstrous decayed money-making whore, of her shadowy, god-of-greed worshipping, faceless investor-pimps. America, the whore, whose perverse corporate and oligarchy-controlled politicians and her performer-ambassadors, have the audacity to screw up their lying countenances in feigned 'concern' for the rights of a series of hapless citizens abroad, whose nations they aim to destroy, after yet another relentless campaign of monstrous lies and manipulation. America the great whore of terror, that rains depleted uranium bombs on the very citizens her crass oligarchy-owned politicians and shameless ambassadors profess to seek to 'protect.'  America, the lying, bloated mercantile whore, that's arming terrorists and assassins and knowingly unleashing civil wars,  when her agents are not otherwise promoting  bloody regional conflicts. America, the bloated whore that greedily and mercilessly disregards her own downtrodden, exploited and politically castrated masses, piously lectures the rest of the word on 'hooman rights,' as she prepares to launch yet another unlawful military assault, in pursuit of mass dispossession and mass enslavement abroad; not for the advancement of the many, but for the profit of a mere few that she has always served. And, so, the world stage is set for yet another theatrical performance in aid of this greedy whore's agenda, before the controlled Western press and before a series of supranational bodies that serve to legitimise the great whore's conquests, in what is a long history of greed and brutality,  and deceit and dispossession of other peoples, on behalf of  the privileged, faceless few that control the unnatural monstrosity that is the corporate warmonger American mercantile empire. -------/\/\/ US Program to Subordinate Native American Nations & Expropriate The Land & Resources "U.S. Indian policy has consistently followed a program to subordinate American Indian nations and expropriate their land and resources" [6]   Trail of Broken Treaties Native Americans Dispossessed of Land source NYT & as marked: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html   Starting from the Treaty of Fort Pitt in 1776 -- The US government signed 700 treaties  [3] -- NOTE:  700 signed treaties, to 371 ratified Between 1778 & 1871:  US Congress ratified 371 treaties *establishing hundreds of 'nations within a nation' (ie reservations) at that point:  140 million acres owned by native Americans   as at 2000:  only 56 million acres -- barely 2% of USA controlled by native Americans c. 1800 - native American Indians -- controlled THREE-QUARTERS of the United States eventual land mass Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- eliminated all Indian land rights east of the Mississippi River 1887 - Act -- changed common tribal lands into individual allotments 1887 - Native American had 130 million acres remaining [4] By 1932 - ie within 45 years -- almost 90 million acres of tribal land -- was appropriated or sold privately -- before the act was repealed in 1932 1933 - Native Americans had only 49 million acres left, much of it waste and desert [4] Native American tribes lost almost TWO-THIRDS of their land by private property sales under US government policy "designed to make farmers and capitalists out of them"   Eisenhower era policy:  TERMINATION -- paid native Americans to dissolve their tribal units Result of both US government policies:  devastating impact on tribal land holdings However, as at 2000, NYT reports:  a third of the 554 recognized tribes run some sort of gambling operation -- with revenues of $6 billion per annum (2000 figures), enabling native Americans to buy back a tiny portion of land that was appropriated & to mount legal challenges in respect of some portions of native land above info source http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html   US government has broken hundreds of native American treaties In addition, state governments have violated terms of native American treaties: eg.  New York - Oneidas native Americans -- 1784 - occupied 6 million acres in New York -- obtained treaty with President Washington -- however, next century, state officials bought & sold their land -- in violation of treaty & failure to obtain federal approval for native land transfers -- by 1919, tribal land merely:  32 acres -- present-day gambling revenue buy-backs regain only 11,000 acres -- but legal contest to regain 250,000 acres from reservation -- result 20,000 non-native land owners paying price of New York state not abiding by law above info source http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html -------/\/\/ "Oneidas spilled their blood for the American cause at the Battle of Oriskany in August 1777. One month later the Oneidas would again fight side-by-side with the colonists at the Battle of Saratoga." "During the terrible winter of 1777-78, the Oneida People once again came to the aid of their friend. Then-General George Washington and his troops were near starvation at Valley Forge. The Oneidas carried corn hundreds of miles from their homeland in Central New York to the southeastern corner of Pennsylvania. An Oneida woman, Polly Cooper, stayed at the encampment to show the soldiers how to prepare the white Indian corn which differed from today’s hybrid yellow corn." "In May 1778, the Oneidas again aided the colonists at a skirmish at Barren Hill (near Philadelphia), where this time the bravery of the Oneida scouts saved the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero and commander of the American Army’s Northern Department." "The Oneidas sacrificed much for American cause of freedom. Their villages were burned by fellow Iroquois who sided with the British and they were driven from their homelands. By the end of the war, the Oneidas had lost about one-third of their population." http://www.oneidaindiannation.com/pressroom/morenews/39552757.html -------/\/\/ Lakota Sioux Black Hills, South Dakota -- longest unresolved Indian land claim in USA (2000) -- claim pursuant to 1868 treaty -- land promised to Lakota Sioux opened to white settlement -- AFTER GOLD DISCOVERED -- leading to:  Battle of the Little Big Horn -- century later:  Lakota win settlement -- settlement $106 million (1980) -- Latkota Sioux refuse:  holding out for return of sacred Hills info source http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html -------/\/\/ USA treaties with native Americans: relationship between federally recognised tribes &  USA = relationship between sovereigns (between govt & govt) -- “government-to-government” principle -- grounded in the United States Constitution -- states have no authority over tribal governments (unless expressly authorised by Congress) -- government-to-government relationship with states recognised -- despite this:  tribes frequently collaborate and cooperate with states -- via compacts or other agreements re matters of mutual concern (eg. environmental, law enforcement) Public Law 280 (1953) -- states required to assume civil & criminal jurisdiction -- over federal native American lands:     -- Alaska (see exemptions)     -- California     -- Minnesota (except Red Lake Res.)     -- Nebraska     -- Oregon (except Warm Springs Res.)     -- Wisconsin     -- later acts of Congress, court decisions & state actions -- result to retrocede jurisdiction back to federal US govt. -- muting some effects of Public Law 280 (1953) -- strengthening tribal jurisdiction re civil & criminal reservation matters Limitations on tribal powers of self-govt similar to imitations on states: -- no power to make war -- no power to engage in foreign relations -- no power to print money or issue currency 1970 - term 'Native American' broad usage -- as alternative to 'American Indian' -- 'Native American' broadly applied since then above info source / more information: http://www.bia.gov/FAQs/ 1778 - first treaty with Delawares 1871 - Congress ended treaty-making with Indian tribes 1778 - 1871:  US Senate ratified 370 treaties 1778 - 1871:  US negotiated 45 other treaties but failed to ratify same *note:  treaties broken by being superseded by Congressional legislation Since 1871, relations re native Americans -- formalized and/or codified by:     1.  Congressional acts     2.  Executive Orders     3.  Executive Agreements     USA - three types of federal lands: 1.  military 2.  public 3.  Indian Native American Federal Reservations -- land reserved for tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement -- with United States -- by executive order, or by federal statute or administrative action -- as tribal homelands -- USA government HOLDS TITTLE to land IN TRUST on behalf of Tribe -- abt. 56.2 million acres are held in trust by US govt. -- abt.  326 Indian land areas, administered as federal Indian reservations -- largest:  16 million acre Navajo National Reservation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah -- many smaller reservations equal less than 1,000 acres -- some reservations = remnants of original tribal land holding -- other reservations created by US govt. forced resettlement of Indian tribes -- not all federally recognised Indian tribes have a reservation -- generally, federal Indian reservations except from state jurisdiction (incl. tax) -- EXCEPT when Congress makes a specific authorisation Other types of 'Indian lands': 1.  Allotted lands - mostly post Civil War under various treaties & laws, incl:     -- General Allotment Act in 1887 ('the Dawes Act')     --  Indian Reorganization Act of 1934     allotments conveyed to members of Indian tribes (held in trust - federal govt)     *but removal from trust = subject to state and local taxation     *result:  thousands of acres of land lost by Indians         -- abt. 10 million acres of individually allotted lands held in trust for allottees & heirs      2.  Restricted status - individually held Indian land - approval for transfer required 3.  State Indian reservations - held in trust by state / no state property tax (but state tax) -------/\/\/ John Trudell -- American Indian Movement activist -- d. 8 Dec. 2015 1979 in Washington D.C -- re Leonard Peltier Defence Committee -- convicted of murdering two FBI agents in June 1975 - Pine Ridge Reservation -- Trudell delivered anti-government speech - steps of FBI building -- in 12 hours, at 1:30 in morning Trudell's:     -- pregnant wife Tina     -- their three children     -- his mother-in-law     -- burned to death fire at home - Shoshone Paiute reservation in Nevada     -- FBI declined to investigate     -- later proved the cause was arson         http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/12/188457/remembering-john-trudell-voice-american-indian-movement -------/\/\/ "The message embedded, not only in Peltier's imprisonment, but in the scores of murders, hundreds of shootings and beatings, endless show trials and all the rest of the systematic terrorization marking the FBI's anti-AIM campaign on Pine Ridge, was that the Bureau could and would make it cost-prohibitive for Indians to seriously challenge the lot assigned them by policy-makers and economic planners in Washington, D.C. The internal colonization of Native America is intended to be absolute and unequivocal." "The logic of COINTELPRO, as evidenced in this excerpt from a 1976 document concerning the basis for an "investigation" of AIM and its supporters. Note the mention of the deliberate fostering of "paranoia" among AIM leaders through the use of informers, and insistence that the right of government to suppress dissent outweighs the rights of citizens to "privacy and free expression."" source - http://www.whale.to/b/cointelpro_7.html -------/\/\/ [1]  http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/weekinreview/the-nation-mending-a-trail-of-broken-treaties.html [2]  http://www.bia.gov/FAQs/ [3]  Manipulating Treaties, Rosanna Masiola & Renato Tomei (2015) [4]  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5058 [5]  http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/12/188457/remembering-john-trudell-voice-american-indian-movement [6]  COINTELPRO - American Indian Movement (AIM)      http://www.whale.to/b/cointelpro_7.html [7]  http://www.oneidaindiannation.com/pressroom/morenews/39552757.html -------/\/\/ ---------------------- ---------------------- Native Americans Still Being Dispossessed by US Govt & Capitalist Greed Bills introduced by Senator John McCain: (Public Law 93-531 as amended in 1996 (Partition)1999 (Settlement) 2001 (Enforcement of Resettlement) 2005 (Expansion of Resettlement) " ... bills introduced by Senator McCain - has led to the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Hon Abdeltalif Amor's condemnation of human rights violations inside the US, over the stripping of rights and forced resettlement of these gentle and deeply spiritual band of Dineh-Navajo Indians from Arizona, swept off of lands they'd owned since 1500 A.D. so that Peabody Western Coal could mine the Coal from beneath their farmlands and tap their wells to slurry pipe it to a power station in Nevada)." "ACSA study reveals that after assembling a team of "pro-Peabody Western Coal" Indians and obtaining a false "Hopi-Navajo" Tribal Counsel designation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for these paid Tribal representatives, in the period 1974-1996, Senator McCain was able to get large bands of the Dineh-Navajo relocated off their lands, so that Peabody Western could mine the coal under their farms at nominal expense. Common Cause has suggested McCain was indirectly compensated by street name cash contributions to his Federal Election Fund during three Presidential runs, and through family business with Las Vegas Casinos who benefited from the coal driven power he supplied." http://warisacrime.org/node/33033

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch Admits Ordering FBI Go-See re Global Warming 'Deniers' Censorship

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch at Senate Judiciary Committee admitted she asked FBI to examine if federal govt should take legal action 'climate change deniers' RON PAUL INSTITUTE Loretta Lynch Wants to Censor Climate Skeptics By Ron Paul   |   Tuesday, 15 Mar 2016 03:47 PM During her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted that she asked the FBI to examine whether the federal government should take legal action against so-called climate change deniers. Lynch is not responding to any criminal acts committed by climate change skeptics. Instead, she is responding to requests from those frustrated that dissenters from the alleged climate change consensuses have successfully blocked attempts to create new government programs to fight climate change. These climate change censors claim that the argument over climate change is settled and the deniers' success in blocking congressional action is harming the public. Therefore, the government must disregard the First Amendment and silence anyone who dares question the reigning climate change dogma. This argument ignores the many reputable scientists who have questioned the magnitude, effects, and role of human action in causing climate change. If successful, the climate change censors could set a precedent that could silence numerous other views. For example, many people believe the argument over whether we should audit, and then end, the Federal Reserve is settled. Therefore, the deniers of Austrian economics are harming the public by making it more difficult for Congress to restore a free-market monetary policy. So why shouldn't the government silence Paul Krugman? The climate change censorship movement is part of a larger effort to silence political speech. Other recent examples include the IRS' harassment of tea party groups as well as that agency's (fortunately thwarted) attempt to impose new rules on advocacy organizations that would have limited their ability to criticize a politician's record in the months before an election. The IRS and many state legislators and officials are also trying to force public policy groups to hand over the names of their donors. This type of disclosure can make individuals fearful that, if they support a pro-liberty group, they will face retaliation from the government. Efforts to silence government critics may have increased in recent years; however, the sad fact is the U.S. government has a long and shameful history of censoring speech. It is not surprising that war and national security have served as convenient excuses to limit political speech. So-called liberal presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt both supported wartime crackdowns on free speech. Today, many neoconservatives are using the war on terror to justify crackdowns on free speech, increased surveillance of unpopular religious groups like Muslims, and increased government control of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Some critics of U.S. foreign policy have even been forbidden to enter the country. Many opponents of government restrictions on the First Amendment and other rights of Muslims support government actions targeting so-called "right-wing extremists." These fair-weather civil liberties defenders are the mirror image of conservatives who support restricting the free speech rights of Muslims in the name of national security, yet claim to oppose authoritarian government. Defending speech we do not agree with is necessary to effectively protect the speech we support. A government that believes it can run our lives, run the economy, and run the world will inevitably come to believe it can, and should, have the power to silence its critics. Eliminating the welfare-warfare state is the key to protecting our free speech, and other liberties, from an authoritarian government. This article first appeared on the Ron Paul Institute website. Ron Paul is a physician, author, and former Republican congressman. Paul also is a two-time Republican presidential candidate, and the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in the 1988 U.S. presidential election. His latest book is “Swords into Plowshares." For more of Ron Paul's reports, Go Here Now. © 2016 by Ron Paul Institute http://www.newsmax.com/RonPaul/Loretta-Lynch-Climate-Global-Warming/2016/03/15/id/719204/ Freedom of speech restrictions an issue at universities March 7, 2016 EXTRACTS The 501(c)(3) is a section of the Internal Revenue Code that defines nonprofit institutions, including most public and private colleges and universities, as tax-exempt. Taxpayers essentially give financial benefits to schools based on the educational value they offer. “Institutions often cite their tax-exempt status to justify banning political activity by students on campus or forbidding them to use university resources, broadly defined, for political purposes,” Catherine Sevcenko, director of litigation for Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said. The IRS has concluded that the restriction on political activity does not apply to individual academic community members, Sevcenko said. Since FIRE’s founding in 1999, the organization has won 385 cases for students and faculty at 250 colleges and universities, advancing freedom of expression for over 3.5 million students. Private universities are not the only higher educational institutions that have attempted to impose limits on speech. Private universities have no legal requirements for freedoms, but public universities have a legal obligation to allow students to speak freely. That’s because the First Amendment refers only to government suppression of speech. The University of Oklahoma sent an email to its community during the 2008 election cycle stating that personal university email accounts “may not be used to endorse or oppose a candidate, including the forwarding of political humor/commentary.” OU President David Boren revoked the email after extensive criticism. ... [Princeton Open Campus Coalition] Zuckerman founded the coalition to maintain Princeton’s vibrant culture after Princeton students led by the Black Justice League occupied President Christopher Eisgruber’s office in November and issued demands, including creation of cultural spaces on campus and cultural training. ... EXTRACTS ONLY - FULL HERE http://flyernews.com/freedom-of-speech-restrictions-an-issue-at-universities/ ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT And why would the US tax office be policing the political freedom of expression?  That's an abuse of powers:  it's not their role to limit criticism of politicians pending election, so they're exceeding their function. It looks like they've since ruled that they cannot limit the expression of 'individuals' on campus, but I take it that means politically based groups on campus remain subject to on-campus censorship? If they have altered their position on political censorship on campus, look what it has taken:   385 winning legal cases.  That's enormous. Too bad if you cannot find legal backers to protect rights. Two hundred and fifty educational institutions tried to censor and deprive students of their rights.  That's also massive. The US Attorney General sending the FBI on a mission to find a pretext to censor global warming 'deniers' is scary.  What a totalitarian state.

FBI Caught Pants-Down - FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear

ꕤ FBI Caught Pants-Down FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear 1971 FBI Illegal Tactics Program Exposed city:  Media, Pennsylvania, USA Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI ('CCIF') -- leftist activist group USA early 1970s -- breaks into 2-man FBI office Media, Pennsylvania -- theft of over 1,000 classified documents -- documents mailed anonymously to several USA newspapers -- some news outlets refused to publish info Stock rationale: -- related to ongoing 'operations' -- disclosure might 'threaten lives' of agents or informants Complete collection published for first time 1972 -- publisher WIN Magazine -- WIN mag associated w. War Resisters League FBI COINTELPRO op revealed (ie counter intelligence program) EXTENSIVE list of FBI POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE  etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Led to: 1.  Church Committee inquiry 2.  FBI cessation of op Noam Chomsky statement re analysis of FBI docs: -- 1% re organised crime (gambling) -- 30% manuals, forms etc -- 40% POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE     - x2 right-wing groups     - x10 immigrants     - x200 left or liberal groups -- 14% draft resistance -- 15% serious crime: murder, rape, robbery etc FBI documents self-incriminating: use of postal worker snitches use of switchboard operator snitches use of like civilian services snitches to spy on: -- black college students -- various non-violent black activist groups Statement to media: EXTRACT "These files will now be studied to determine: one, the nature and extent of surveillance and intimidation carried on by this office of the FBI, particularly against groups and individuals working for a more just, humane and peaceful society. Two, to determine how much of the FBI's efforts are spent on relatively minor crimes by the poor and the powerless against whom they can get a more glamorous conviction rate. Instead of investigating truly serious crimes by those with money and influence which cause great damage to the lives of many people—crimes such as war profiteering, monopolistic practices, institutional racism, organized crime, and the mass distribution of lethal drugs. Finally, three, the extent of illegal practices by the FBI, such as eavesdropping, entrapment, and the use of provocateurs and informers." FBI Fail: -- 200 FBI agents investigation followed -- investigation was closed when 5-year statute of limitations ran out -- unsolved *Members of group revealed IDs recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Don't think anything's changed since the early 1970s. Take a look at UK political policing and New Zealand political policing, also.  It's much the same thing, even today. The leftist activist groups of the early 1970s are a lot like the 'hacktivist' & whistleblower groups of today:  only difference is technology. It looks like the American agencies that serve plutocracy may regard the left as the most dangerous threat to maintenance of power by the American elites ... going by the 1970s. Mainstream Western media has a long history of failing to go to print and of  unreliability as far as whistleblowers are concerned.   So how is this any different to the suppressive techniques of the governments that are maligned as 'repressive regimes' by the US and West, the hypocrites? ꕤ

One Man War on Tor

ꕤ Unofficial / 'Civvies' FBI Support for Tor? LINK | Vice Article [ CLICK image to enlarge / for clarity] One Man War on Tor [ CLICK image to enlarge / for clarity] [ CLICK image to enlarge / for clarity] Tor Project Runs Away From Public Questions at 32c3 Dec 29, 2015 http://surveillancevalley.net/blog/tor-project-runs-away-from-public-questions-at-32c3 Tor military contractors try to shut down my reporting Dec 27, 2015 http://surveillancevalley.net/blog/tor-military-contractors-try-to-shutdown-my-reporting [ CLICK image to enlarge / for clarity] What Snowden won't tell you: The conflicted government ties of the Tor Project Oct 11, 2015 http://surveillancevalley.net/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-tor-project ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- US Politics | Koch Industries A People’s History of Koch Industries: How Stalin Funded the Tea Party Movement http://exiledonline.com/a-peoples-history-of-koch-industries-how-stalin-funded-the-tea-party-movement/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- [Tor's a privacy browser]   No time to properly read all of these right now, but I think the one-man-war on Tor is interesting, as is the lengthy Koch Industries article, I would say. These are on the 'to-see' list. The Tor 'debate' has been ongoing for a while, I think. Not sure what the go is with Tor.   I've no idea if it secure or not, or whether it's part of some US regime change greater strategy. It's not the end of my world if it's not 100% secure, because the most I'd ever probably want to do with Tor would be to maybe bypass censorship or something like that. ꕤ

Assange & the Swedish Hothouse

ꕤ Article SOURCE various Anders Danielsson is the current Director General of the Swedish Migration Agency, which is under the Justice Department. Previously, Daneilsson was head of Sapo (Swedish security police - here), also under the Swedish Justice Department. 1980 - Master of Laws 1982-1984 -- Police Chief training -- Reservist 1990-1991 -- Superintendent Sapo 1992-1997 - National Crime Investigation Dept -- training FBI (1993), several months, USA 1998-1999 -- Director Police Bureau National Police 1999-2002 -- Director Police Bureau National Police, Devel & Strategic Unit 2002-2007 -- County Police at Police Authority in Skane County 2007-2012 -- Director General of SAPO What I found interesting is that Anders Danielsson would have been head of Sapo right at the time that Julian Assange, publisher WikiLeaks, would no doubt have been a target of Sapo, Carl Bildt (then Foreign Minister of Sweden), the FBI and the US State Department, in 2010. Daneilsson underwent FBI training of several months duration in Virginia, USA, in 1993, and as head of Sapo, presumably, maintained good relations with his American counterparts over the years. What is unexpected and very intriguing is that Danielsson is a friend of Carl Bildt's brother, Nils Bildt, dating back to his reservist UN evacuation of Cyprus days: Nils Bildt, entrepreneur, lieutenant colonel and friend since reservist training (brother of Carl Bildt):     "Anders is such a friend that you can call around the clock and without the need to specify what terms he will. He is incredibly reliable. Now I feel that he is the weight of the seriousness of the situation, but occasionally there is a twinkle in his eye, the little bus to arrive. We've had a lot of fun together." http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/han-klarar-flyktingvagen-om-han-far-vara-sig-sjalv/ So, this is a very interesting Swedish hothouse of cross-over relationships:  American and Swedish security and other relationships; Sapo and FBI; Justice Department and Sapo; Justice Department and Swedish prosecutor Ny; Justice Department and Swedish lawyers; Sapo and then Foreign Minister Carl Bildt etc.  Imagine what Daneilsson must know about the shifty Swedish goings on in relation to the US State Department's determined hunt for Australian journalist Julian Assange. Please leak Anders Danielsson.  xxx  ;) Speaking of shifty:  check out Bodström, Säpo & Mossad  https://archive.is/t93UW Written Question 2002/03 1044 Security Service and the Mossad June 3 Question 2002/03 1044 Gustav Fridolin (MP) to the Minister of Justice Thomas Bodström Säpo and the Mossad The Security Service report for 2002 can read the following: "In 2002, the Security Service conducted a continued monitoring of groups and individuals in Sweden who are likely to commit violent acts because of the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Until spring 2002, Palestinian groups in Sweden generally manifested their loyalty by demonstrations and fundraisers . During the spring of 2002, however, a change when pro-Palestinian demonstrations in some cases turned violent. Säpo's investigation shows that it was not dealing with organized violent actions, but rather about individual movements. In 2002, the Palestinians carried out a numerous terrorist attacks against Israeli interests in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and SAPO guard with cooperative security and intelligence services development in order to prevent any such attacks internationally. " The Israeli intelligence service Mossad, according to several analysts one of the world's most ruthless organizations and has conducted many of the extrajudicial executions by the Swedish government hard criticized. I would therefore ask the Minister of Justice if the Minister is able to illuminate if there is an organized collaboration between the Swedish security police and the Israeli Mossad. https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/Dokument-Lagar/Fragor-och-anmalningar/Fragor-for-skriftliga-svar/Sapo-och-Mossad_GQ111044/ Got curious about Sapo & Mossad and came across the above 2002 parliamentary question. It's difficult to work out what the question is.   Did Gustav Fridolin, Member of Parliament, ask the Swedish Minister of Justice Thomas Bodström to disclose whether there is a collaboration between Sapo and Mossad to conduct extrajudicial executions in Sweden? Bodström goes on to give a non-answer:  https://archive.is/B85ZW While this is really shocking, we shouldn't be surprised if it was happening.  Generally speaking, states are lawless.  Sweden is definitely known to be lawless.  And Israel was founded on assassinations (including one in Europe), so Mossad conducting assassinations would just be carrying on the Israeli national traditions. Check out what this site has to say about Thomas Bodström: The intermingling between government, prosecutor Ny, and the ‘accusers” law-firm Borgström & Bodström ... intermingling between the Swedish police officer, taken the declaration of her friend and party comrade AA ... Mr Thomas Bodström, member of the social democratic party, is the Swedish former minister of Justice identified as main collaborator with the CIA renditions of political refugees from Sweden that occurred during the government of Göran Persson. At the time of their case against Assange, Thomas Bodström was a permanent resident at Virginia, U.S. There, in his blog Bodströmsamhallet (Bodstrom’s society), he proudly announced that his law firm defended the plaintiff against Assange (see down below). Mr Claes Borgström, then member of the social democratic party, was a government-appointed Gender ombudsman ... also known in Sweden for his claims that “all men carry a collective guilt for violence against women”. "This woman accuser, AA, also an active member of the Social Democratic Party, was at the time the political secretary of the organization “Brotherhood” (now renamed “Religious Social Democrats of Sweden“), [9] integrated by the group of Christian social democrats where former Minister Thomas Bodström was highest ranking member after the ex PM Göran Persson – the U.S. (and Bush’s) friend, according to their own declarations." Bodstrom, Borgström & Ny Marianne Ny, Thomas Bodström and Claes Borgström participated in the same governmental consulting team set by the Swedish government for the formulation of new sexual-crimes legislation. With the time, has Claes Borgström himself felt obliged to acknowledge that he – previously to their initiation of the ‘Assange case’ – has worked together with Marianne Ny in a governmental committee and that he has met her also at a workshop on genders issues. [7] Regarding the ‘expert-assignment’ prosecutor Marianne Ny  received from the part of the Swedish government, it is noteworthy to mention that this assignment was still going on at the time she decided to open a case against Mr Assange – times that overlap, as we wrote before, with the period in which the U.S. government requested the countries participating in the military occupation of Afghanistan to open a prosecution against the founder of WikiLeaks. source:  here ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Well, that was fun.   Too tired to find out if there were Mossad extrajudicial assassinations in Sweden, tho. Must sleep.  lol ꕤ