“The TOR Project promises its users a modicum of privacy protection from would-be information gatherers, both small time crooks and nation-state cyber-security agencies. But do these promises hold up to scrutiny? And who is behind the TOR Project itself? And why did a TOR developer recently doxx a critic on Twitter? Joining us today to dissect this onion stew is Pearse Redmond of Porkins Policy Review.”
On this week’s episode we peel back some of the layers behind the TOR Project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a man at the center of both, John Perry Barlow. We take a look at Tor’s longtime government funding and how this has helped shape the project. We investigate some of the project members such as Jacob Applebaum and Runa Sandvik, both of whom have played up their techno-activist street cred while simultaneously receiving massive salaries from the US government. Lastly, we take a critical look at the founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Perry Barlow, and make the case for his integral partnership in the Snowden/NSA psy-op. This is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is really going on with the NSA scandal, but hopefully this will open up the door for you to begin investigating for yourself.
Our good friend Tom Secker has recently launched a brand new website called Humanarchy. The site deals with both philosophy and politics, and like all of Tom’s work, will prove to be very interesting and worth your time. The above video is the first open source intelligence broadcast. It deals with the upcoming propaganda film based on Glenn Greenwald’s new book detailing his relationship with Snowden and the leaking of documents he acquired from the so-called whistle blower. As with all of Tom’s work he presents a concise and informative piece that details what is really going on. For the sources that Tom references and more click here.
A newly leaked document from Edward Snowden shows that the NSA uses a persons proclivity for pornography to discredit them. The practice is employed against those that the state believes are “radicalizers”. Of course all of the targets are Muslim, and of course they have minute if not nonexistent ties to terrorism. There is nothing particularly new about this practice. J Edgar Hoover used these very same tactics during his decades long reign as FBI director. Buried deep in this article is a disturbing nugget of information.
Two of the targets chosen to have their porn collections scrutinized are considered radical extremists because they believe that “the U.S. brought the 9/11 attacks on itself” and that “the U.S perpetrated the 9/11 attack.” One of these individuals is a well know celebrity, while the other merely has had his writing featured in jihadist websites. For simply voicing an opinion that the security state doesn’t like (an opinion that is widely held and accepted outside the United States) they are viewed as a serious threat to national security. There is a concerted effort by the security state to stifle any all discussion of alternative conspiracy theories. Either you believe the official conspiracy theory of 9/11, or you will be discredited and publicly humiliated. The targeting of those who espouse alternative views to official conspiracies theories in and of itself is nothing new either. After the JFK assassination the CIA penned a memo to their “media assets” urging them to discredit anyone who questioned the official conspiracy theory as to how Kennedy was murdered.
What is terrifying is that the CIA no longer has to publish secret memos to their media assets. Instead they can simply rely on them to take the stance that questioning 9/11 is obviously “radical” and “extreme.” Gloss it over with the sensationalism of pornography, and most people will either ignore it, or be irritated that the NSA would use ones personal online choice to look at pornography as a weapon. The silver lining of all this is that the truth movement is in fact challenging the power structure of the state. The efforts of individuals to expose the states complicity in 9/11 has obviously had a profound impact on the government. So much so, that they are willing to spend tax dollars trolling a random person’s visits to porn sites, for no other reason than his choice not to believe the official conspiracy theory of
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Here is another admission of the shadow government that rules our lives.
Now, just more specifically, then, on Brazil and Mexico. I said that I would look into the allegations. I mean, part of the problem here is we get these through the press and then I’ve got to go back and find out what’s going on with respect to these particular allegations — I don’t subscribe to all these newspapers, although I think the NSA does — now at least. (Laughter.)
Yes that is the allegedly democratically elected President of the United States admitting that he doesn’t actually know what the NSA does. Instead he reads the news like so many of us to figure out what the NSA does, and then goes and ask’s the NSA if there is an validity to the news reports. Ladies and gentleman of Amerika, our “elected” leaders are merely puppets of a shadowy cabal which seeks to control every single aspect of your lives. When the President of the United States doesn’t know what an intelligence agency that is under his command is doing we are living in very scary times.
This is an update to both the NSA spying scandal and my recent podcast on it. It seems that the public by and large is still very much in dark about the true nature of the Security State and its iron grip on America. While many have just woken up out of the daze of the controlled media propaganda about domestic spying, on the whole most do not truly understand just how far the Security State has come in the past decade. The official narrative has been narrowly focused around the use of NSA data mining of Americans digital communications. While reprehensible, this is merely a government smoke screen designed to shift attention away from the true scandal. The scandal being of course that the shadow government (NSA) is collecting EVERYTHING that we say on the internet and on our phones. As I stated in my recent podcast this has been know since the early 2000’s thanks to the courageous work of whistle blowers Mark Klein and Russel Tice. Following the government script this is simply not spoken of whatsoever in the corporate controlled media. Russel Tice recently gave an interview to both Boiling Frogs Post and the Corbett Report in which he exposes that the NSA was wiretapping everyone from key Congressional and Senate leaders from both parties, every Supreme Court Justice, Bush’s press secretary Scott McClellan, General David Petraeus, to our current great leader Barack Obama. What does this mean? It means that all of these individuals can or are being blackmailed to some degree. As Sibel Edmonds recently stated in an interview, the more dirt on these people the better they are for the government. They will not expose the criminality of the State for fear of the retribution that they could face. According to Sibel Edmonds she witnessed blackmail being used numerous times by the FBI as political leverage against Congressmen and other government officials. This is the scandal. Not data mining or any of the other red herrings that have been put forth, which have coincidentally taken the spotlight off of the recent scandals such as the AP syping, Bengahzi, IRS, and collaboration between the West and jihadists in Syria. What sort of skeletons does NSA director General Keith Alexander have dangling over the heads of government officials. Was golden boy and possible GOP presidential candidate General Petraeus’ only “crime” sleeping with Paula Broadwell? Or was there perhaps something else that Emperor Alexander had on him?
This poses an even more disturbing question about who truly controls the United States of America. Is it the president? Or is it instead people like Gen. Keith Alexander who has access to all the dirty secrets of our government overlords? President Obama himself made a veiled allusion to this during his press conference regarding the exposure of the PRISM program. He said that when he leaves office he could certainty be a person of interest to whomever becomes president after him. This in turn reveals the futility of those who vociferously advocate “electing the right people into office.” It does not matter who sits in the oval office or in the senate when there are criminals such as Keith Alexander listening and watching everything you say and do.
All is not lost though. After Russell Tice’s interview on Boiling Frogs Post exposing the real scandal, several mainstream outlets such as Huffington Post, The Blaze, and BuissnessInsider did in fact do there job and report the facts. This is a small but significant development in the fight for liberty here in America. The more people are exposed to the truth and reality of the Security State the more powerful we as a people become. We can not falter in the face tyranny and acquiesce our liberty to the criminal gangs that run our country. Please spread this to everyone you can. It is our job to bring forth the truth. We can not rely on messengers and messiahs to help show us the way.
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. – Samuel Adams
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