StopTheLie.com News update 06-15-2015
Same Game, Different Name
Source: theGuardian.com
--Cisa, which supporters have euphemistically labeled "info-sharing" legislation, essentially carves a giant hole in our privacy laws to allow tech companies like Google and Facebook to hand over our private data to the government with no legal process whatsoever. The bill is a disaster for transparency too: it contains what would be the first exemption to the Freedom of Information Act in 50 years, which could allow corporations to hide all sorts of information from public view that have nothing to do with cybersecurity.
Read full article at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/13/cisa-cybersecurity-surveillance-government-data-access
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TSA's Fake Security Fails to Detect Threats 95% of the Time
Source: FEE.org
--"An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation's busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News has learned.
The series of tests were conducted by Homeland Security Red Teams who pose as passengers, setting out to beat the system.
According to officials briefed on the results of a recent Homeland Security Inspector General's report, TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints.
--One way to think about this is as a grave threat to national security. The agency that's in charge of addressing threats to America's air travel is rudderless, and even the acting administrator has been kicked off the boat. ...
Another way to think about it is, so what? … Flying remains exceptionally safe, despite such high TSA failure rates. Like vaudeville theater, the screening process seems to exist largely to create a spectacle."
Read full article at: http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/tsa-fails-95-of-the-time
COMMENT: Fails to detect threats 95 percent of the time; successfully conditions citizens to accept "suspicion without cause" 100 percent of the time. (Mission accomplished.)
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Logistics 101: Where Does ISIS Get Its Guns?
Source: journal-neo.org
--While many across the West play willfully ignorant as to where ISIS truly gets their supplies from in order to maintain its impressive fighting capacity, some journalists have traveled to the region and have video taped and reported on the endless convoys of trucks supplying the terrorist army.
Were these trucks traveling to and from factories in seized ISIS territory deep within Syrian and Iraqi territory? No. They were traveling from deep within Turkey, crossing the Syrian border with absolute impunity, and headed on their way with the implicit protection of nearby Turkish military forces. Attempts by Syria to attack these convoys and the terrorists flowing in with them have been met by Turkish air defenses.
Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) published the first video report from a major Western media outlet illustrating that ISIS is supplied not by "black market oil" or "hostage ransoms" but billions of dollars worth of supplies carried into Syria across NATO member Turkey's borders via hundreds of trucks a day.
Read full article at: http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/09/logistics-101-where-does-isis-get-its-guns/
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Previous Week's News 06-08-2015
Rep. Massie on Letting the PATRIOT Act Expire (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Massie explains (in 5 minutes) why laws are enacted with expiration dates, and why the "Patriot Act" is a perfect candidate for expiration.
Watch video at: https://youtu.be/b0nZgxYdz4Q
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USA Freedom and Obama's Doublespeak
Source: DailyBell.com
Almost everything the president says about the USA Freedom Act is false. He does not at all "welcome" the law's passage. If Obama had his way, Congress would have never even considered this law because the National Security Agency's illegal activities would still be secret.
The only reason any of this is happening is that Edward Snowden spilled the NSA beans. If the president truly welcomes surveillance reform, then he should thank Snowden instead of charging him with crimes against the state.
The president's claim to have himself called for reforms is laughable. His own Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, convened after the Snowden leaks, gave him 46 specific recommendations in its January 2014 report. To date, he has implemented exactly zero of them.
Read full article at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36333/USA-Freedom-and-Obamas-Doublespeak/
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Regime Change: The JFK Assassination (Video)
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
What really happened to JFK? Future of Freedom Foundation President Jacob Hornberger joins Ron Paul to discuss his latest book on of of the enduring questions of our times.
Watch video at: https://youtu.be/RbilID2LY_g?t=4m
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Big Brother is Watching Closer Than You Think
Source: DailyBell.com
There was a time in America when fear of government observation would get one accused of tinfoil-hat paranoia. Those days are gone. Thanks to Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers, we know Big Brother is watching. The only question is how close.
The newest development is that Big Brother seems to have a secret air force. Mysterious, ostensibly private planes are loitering over major cities in the same way U.S. drones loiter over Pakistan.
Unlike drones, the observation planes are not armed with Hellfire missiles – at least so far as we know. This does not mean they are harmless. If they contain the same kind of advanced imagery equipment the military deploys overseas, the potential loss of privacy is breathtaking.
Read full article at: http://tinyurl.com/q9gm4mr
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