The Return of Total Information Awareness
Feb 9 at 3:03am by Jagwire X
The government project known as TIA (Total Information Awareness) has returned. It’s now known as ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement) and run out of Homeland Security instead of Defense. You trust Homeland Security more than Defense right? We weren’t really using the fourth amendment anyway, were we?
To quote a friend:
“I knew they’d have to drive a stake through Poindexter’s heart to put this to rest.”
Here is a lengthy Christian Science Monitor article about it: Link
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Source of new U.S. “terror” alert is years old
Aug 3 at 8:08am by Jagwire X
This week, the Bush administration raised the “terror” level to high and warned of possible attacks soon, naming the New York Stock Exchange, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund as potential targets in the New York and Washington areas.
However it appears that much of the information obtained from al Qaeda that led the Bush administration to raise “terror” alerts in Washington and New York is at least three years old.
So what does that mean? I”d say it means the Bush administration is using more scare tactics to manipulate and control the public mind. This would be one of the characteristics of fascism - Obsession with National Security: Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
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Selection from the 9/11 report
Jul 23 at 10:10am by Anonymous
From page 362:
“But the enemy is not just “terrorism,” some generic evil. This vagueness blurs the strategy.The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism—especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideology.
As we mentioned in chapter 2, Usama Bin Ladin and other Islamist terrorist leaders draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within one stream of Islam (a minority tradition), from at least Ibn Taimiyyah, through the founders of Wahhabism, through the Muslim Brotherhood, to Sayyid Qutb. That stream is motivated by religion and does not distinguish politics from religion, thus distorting both. It is further fed by grievances stressed by Bin Ladin and widely felt throughout the Muslim world—against the U.S. military presence in the Middle East, policies perceived as anti-Arab and anti-Muslim, and support of Israel.”
The slight against “evil” as a useful term is of course a slight against Bush’’s useless rhetoric, but in a footnote, they specifically reference a Feb 2003 document, the “National Strategy for Combating Terrorism“, which begins rather melodramatically:
“The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Pennsylvania were acts of war against the United States of America and its allies, and against the very idea of civilized society. No cause justifies terrorism. The world must respond and fight this evil that is intent on threatening and destroying our basic freedoms and our way of life.”
So, bravo to the commission for trying to quell the insipid use of rhetoric that helps no one understand anything.
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Election Postponement: Republic or Fascism?
Jul 15 at 9:09am by Jagwire X
When I first heard about this I thought it must be joke. I thought surely this is a mistake, some foolish rumor that made it into the news. But on closer inspection I see that no - the idea is indeed being bandied about like it is something that happens every so often.
Ostensibly this is part of the whole idea of “guaranteeing” secure elections in the event of a terrorist act. It’’s bullshit.
DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission, wants Ridge to ask Congress to pass legislation giving the government power to cancel or reschedule a federal election. Seems rather counter to the ideals this country was founded on.
Currently, no federal agency has the power to cancel or reschedule a national vote. There is a reason for this, elections are about the people’s right to choose who their leaders are, not of the leaders to tell us when we can choose, or even worse who we can choose. There is no historical or constitution precedent for this.
If Bush and company want to cancel the election and we let the Bush administration do so, then how about we, the people, just hand over our rights, burn the Declaration of Independence and throw away the Bill of Rights while were at it. If we allow the federal government to control when we can have elections then we”ll be doing just that.
At this point, it’s unlikely to happen, there has been a lot of public and private outcry about it and Bush and company could not get away with it. Yet. But it would be wise to remain vigilant.
It is interesting to note that as of January 2004 the United Stated government meets all of the criteria of fascism. This is precisely why we must be aware and try to make others aware. Or we run the risk of living in a country where we no longer have a voice.
I know what you are thinking, your thinking this is the United States, we are not fascist we fight against fascism. Read this article: What is Fasism? and see for yourself.
Sources:
U.S. Mulling How to Delay Nov. Vote in Case of Attack
Whose Coup in America?
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Hermann Goering, Nazi leader at the Nuremberg Trials
Mar 21 at 5:05pm by Jagwire X
“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of thecountry who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” -Hermann Goering, Nazi leader at the Nuremberg Trials, April 18, 1946
Does it sound familiar to you? It should, it’s what’s happening in this country right now. If you believe otherwise you need to dig deeper and find out what is really happening in this country. This is not some conspiracy laden plot, this is the truth. These things really do happen in the world. It’s easy to dismiss the truth when you don’t like what you hear. Act now before it’s really too late!
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