you may think you have 'rights' here in the empire, but this video in the link below will show you how limited those 'rights' are and freedom of speech really ain't one of them at least when enough begin to listen;
Independent Media Solidarity proudly presents the first preview of
our new feature-length film, The Conspiracy Theorist: What Happened to
James Tracy Could Happen to You. From the makers of We Need to Talk
About Sandy Hook, this forthcoming documentary goes behind the scenes of
the most important First Amendment legal battle of our time: Professor
James Tracy’s firing for his controversial online speech.
In 2015 Florida Atlantic University abruptly terminated Professor
Tracy under a false pretext. When Tracy filed a federal civil rights
lawsuit his attorneys discovered how university officials repeatedly
schemed to defeat Tracy’s First Amendment rights without violating the
US Constitution.
After a corrupt federal court threw out most of Tracy’s claims it
then prevented the jury from viewing crucial evidence. News outlets
continued to denigrate Tracy while publicly misreporting the case. The
Conspiracy Theorist sets the record straight through extensive interview
footage of Tracy, his legal team, and university witnesses and
defendants.
Today social media play a gigantic role in our everyday lives. Will
something you or your loved ones say online one day make you the target
of harassment and defamation, perhaps even resulting in the loss of your
livelihood? What happened to James Tracy could happen to you.
http://imsreporting.com/documentaries…
http://memoryholeblog.org
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/promo-the-conspiracy-theorist-what-happened-to-james-tracy-could-happen-to-you/234901
Thursday, October 18, 2018
you might think that there are laws in this land that will protect those who are legally entitled to said protections. you'd be wrong and the following article will show you a small portion of why that's so;
The idea of “whistleblowing” has been in the news a great deal.
Is the anonymous author of a recent New York Times op-ed eviscerating the president a whistleblower?
Is the victim of an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a whistleblower?
I’m fortunate to have access to the media to talk about torture after blowing the whistle on the CIA’s program. I think Ed Snowden, Tom Drake and others would say the same thing about the aftermath of their own whistleblowing.
Cost of Doing the Right Thing
The problem is that we are the exception to the rule. Most whistleblowers either suffer in anonymity or are personally, professionally, socially and financially ruined for speaking truth to power. Darin Jones is one of those people. He’s one of the people silenced in Barack Obama’s war on whistleblowers. And he continues to suffer under Donald Trump.
Jones was an FBI supervisory contract specialist who in 2012 reported evidence of serious procurement improprieties to his superior. Jones maintained that Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) had been awarded a $40 million contract improperly because a former FBI official with responsibility for granting the contract then was hired as a consultant at CSC. Jones said, rightly, that this was a violation of the Procurement Integrity Act. He made seven other disclosures alleging financial improprieties in the FBI, and he was promptly fired for his troubles.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/10/no_author/how-the-fbi-silences-whistleblowers/
The idea of “whistleblowing” has been in the news a great deal.
Is the anonymous author of a recent New York Times op-ed eviscerating the president a whistleblower?
Is the victim of an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a whistleblower?
I’m fortunate to have access to the media to talk about torture after blowing the whistle on the CIA’s program. I think Ed Snowden, Tom Drake and others would say the same thing about the aftermath of their own whistleblowing.
Cost of Doing the Right Thing
The problem is that we are the exception to the rule. Most whistleblowers either suffer in anonymity or are personally, professionally, socially and financially ruined for speaking truth to power. Darin Jones is one of those people. He’s one of the people silenced in Barack Obama’s war on whistleblowers. And he continues to suffer under Donald Trump.
Jones was an FBI supervisory contract specialist who in 2012 reported evidence of serious procurement improprieties to his superior. Jones maintained that Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) had been awarded a $40 million contract improperly because a former FBI official with responsibility for granting the contract then was hired as a consultant at CSC. Jones said, rightly, that this was a violation of the Procurement Integrity Act. He made seven other disclosures alleging financial improprieties in the FBI, and he was promptly fired for his troubles.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/10/no_author/how-the-fbi-silences-whistleblowers/
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
don't know the veracity of this blogger but i find some interesting things here from time to time. there are things here that may be real and so you may wish to consider them, or not;
With the swift volte-face of the Trump administration from the American nationalist platform on which it was elected to a neo-conservative socially-liberal carbon copy of George W. Bush’s administration.
It has forced many people to ask the uncomfortable and dare I say disturbing question: why?
The change all began when former editor of Breitbart and unrepentant American nationalist and architect of Trump’s electoral victory; Steve Bannon was removed from the National Security Council. (1) This was downplayed by supporters of American nationalism at the time, but it has turned out to have been symptomatic of a significant power shift within President Trump’s inner council with Bannon’s former authority occupied by Jared Kushner the jewish husband of Trump’s favourite child Ivanka. (2)
While Bannon was the de facto leader of the America First camp within the Trump administration; the man who he has clearly identified as the leader of the Globalist Israel First camp is Jared Kushner. (3)
Indeed it has emerged that Kushner is now one of Trump’s key advisers; since it is he who has brokered deals with the neo-conservative elements in the Republican Party to support Trump in exchange for certain policy considerations. (4)
He does this primarily through his marriage to Ivanka who is very much her father’s favourite. (5)
One example of this is the sudden policy U-turn on the subject of the Syrian civil war with Ivanka –according to her brother Eric Trump - being the ‘only non-expendable person’ (6) in Trump’s administration pushing her father into bombing President Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Arab Army for an alleged sarin gas attack on Islamist rebels a day or so earlier. (7)
http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/
the future is a boot stamping on the human face forever as orwell said, and here is how that will be made a sure thing, as its almost already so should you wish to consider what you will read herein, below;
http://www.unz.com/article/the-us-militarys-vision-for-state-censorship/
The US Military’s Vision for State Censorship
In
March, the United States Special Operations Command, the section of the
Defense Department supervising the US Special Forces, held a conference
on the theme of “Sovereignty in the Information Age.” The conference
brought together Special Forces officers with domestic police forces,
including officials from the New York Police Department, and
representatives from technology companies such as Microsoft.
This
meeting of top military, police and corporate representatives went
unreported and unpublicized at the time. However, the Atlantic Council
recently published a 21-page document summarizing the orientation of the
proceedings. It is authored by John T. Watts, a former Australian Army
officer and consultant to the US Department of Defense and Department of
Homeland Security.The
Atlantic Council, a think tank with close ties to the highest levels of
the state, has been a key partner in the social media companies’
censorship of left-wing views. Most notably, Facebook acted on a tip
from the Atlantic Council when it shut down the official event page for
an anti-fascist demonstration in Washington on the anniversary of last
year’s neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville.
Confident
that none of the thousands of journalists in Washington will question,
or even report, what he writes, Watts lays out, from the standpoint of
the repressive apparatus of the state and the financial oligarchy it
defends, why censorship is necessary.
The
central theme of the report is “sovereignty,” or the state’s ability to
impose its will upon the population. This “sovereignty,” Watts writes,
faces “greater challenges now than it ever has in the past,” due to the
confluence between growing political opposition to the state and the
internet’s ability to quickly spread political dissent.
http://www.unz.com/article/the-us-militarys-vision-for-state-censorship/
the author of this article has always delivered as my thinking goes, and in this he does somewhat. the snip below comes from midway thru his 'discussion' with elizabeth warren about her running for prez. its a longer than usual piece with some bits i thought good and others, not as fully so. your call;
we Americans believe that we are a peaceful people. Our elected and appointed leaders routinely affirm this as true. Yet our nation is permanently at war. We Americans also believe that we have a pronounced aversion to empire. Indeed, our very founding as a republic testifies to our anti-imperial credentials. Yet in Washington, D.C. — an imperial city if there ever was one — references to the United States of America as the rightful successor to Rome in the era of the Caesars and the British Empire in its heyday abound. And there is more here than mere rhetoric: The military presence of U.S. forces around the planet testifies in concrete terms to our imperial ambitions. We may be an “empire in denial,” but we are an empire.
http://www.unz.com/article/unsolicited-advice-for-an-undeclared-presidential-candidate/
we Americans believe that we are a peaceful people. Our elected and appointed leaders routinely affirm this as true. Yet our nation is permanently at war. We Americans also believe that we have a pronounced aversion to empire. Indeed, our very founding as a republic testifies to our anti-imperial credentials. Yet in Washington, D.C. — an imperial city if there ever was one — references to the United States of America as the rightful successor to Rome in the era of the Caesars and the British Empire in its heyday abound. And there is more here than mere rhetoric: The military presence of U.S. forces around the planet testifies in concrete terms to our imperial ambitions. We may be an “empire in denial,” but we are an empire.
http://www.unz.com/article/unsolicited-advice-for-an-undeclared-presidential-candidate/
buchanan makes good sense after you've read all of his words herein, and you may wish to do so;
Over the weekend Donald Trump warned of “severe punishment” if an investigation concludes that a Saudi hit team murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Riyadh then counter-threatened, reminding us that, as the world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia “plays an impactful and active role in the global economy.”
Message: Sanction us, and we may just sanction you.
Some of us yet recall how President Nixon’s rescue of Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War triggered a Saudi oil embargo that led to months of long gas lines in the United States, and contributed to Nixon’s fall.
Yesterday, a week after Jared Kushner had been assured by his friend Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that Khashoggi walked out of the consulate, Trump put through a call to King Salman himself.
According to a Trump tweet, the king denied “any knowledge of whatever may have happened ‘to our Saudi Arabian citizen.'”
Trump said he was “immediately” sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Riyadh to meet with the king on the crisis. The confrontation is escalating. Crown Prince Mohammed and King Salman have both now put their nation’s honor and credibility on the line.
Both are saying that what the Turks claim they can prove — Khashoggi was tortured and murdered in the consulate, cut up, and his body parts flown to Saudi Arabia — is a lie.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/10/patrick-j-buchanan/should-us-saudi-alliance-be-saved/
Over the weekend Donald Trump warned of “severe punishment” if an investigation concludes that a Saudi hit team murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Riyadh then counter-threatened, reminding us that, as the world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia “plays an impactful and active role in the global economy.”
Message: Sanction us, and we may just sanction you.
Some of us yet recall how President Nixon’s rescue of Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War triggered a Saudi oil embargo that led to months of long gas lines in the United States, and contributed to Nixon’s fall.
Yesterday, a week after Jared Kushner had been assured by his friend Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that Khashoggi walked out of the consulate, Trump put through a call to King Salman himself.
According to a Trump tweet, the king denied “any knowledge of whatever may have happened ‘to our Saudi Arabian citizen.'”
Trump said he was “immediately” sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Riyadh to meet with the king on the crisis. The confrontation is escalating. Crown Prince Mohammed and King Salman have both now put their nation’s honor and credibility on the line.
Both are saying that what the Turks claim they can prove — Khashoggi was tortured and murdered in the consulate, cut up, and his body parts flown to Saudi Arabia — is a lie.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/10/patrick-j-buchanan/should-us-saudi-alliance-be-saved/
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