ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers and Shredding Documents, After Exposed as Players Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests

Fox News

November 3, 2011

Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York -- operating as New York Communities for Change -- have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers to blame disgruntled ex-employees for leaking information in an effort to explain away a FoxNews.com report last week on the group’s involvement in Occupy Wall Street protests, according to sources.

NYCC also is installing surveillance cameras and recording devices at its Brooklyn offices, removing or packing away supplies bearing the name ACORN and handing out photos of Fox News staff with a stern warning not to talk to the media, the sources said.

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“They’re doing serious damage control right now,” said an NYCC source.

NYCC Executive Director Jon Kest has been calling a series of emergency meetings to discuss last week’s report—and taking extreme measures to identify the sources in their office and to prevent further damage, a source within NYCC told FoxNews.com.

Two staffers were fired after NYCC officials suspected them as the source of the leaks, a source told FoxNews.com. “One was fired the day the story came out, the other was fired on Friday. (NYCC senior staff) told everyone that they were fired because they talked to you,” a source said.

NYCC spokesman Scott Levenson denied that anyone was fired for talking to the press.

FoxNews.com’s report identified NYCC as a key organizing force behind the Occupy Wall Street protests. Sources within the group also told FoxNews.com NYCC was hiring people to carry signs and join the protests. NYCC -- a nonprofit organization run almost entirely by former ACORN officials and employees --did not reply for comment prior to the publication of the initial article, but later posted a statement on its website dismissing the article and denying that it pays protesters.

A source said that immediately following publication of the FoxNews.com report staff were called into the Brooklyn office for meetings headed by NYCC’s organizing director, Jonathan Westin. Westin handed out copies of the article and went through it line-by-line, the source said.

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Video: Ventura Expresses Fury At TSA Court Ruling

You Tube

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Jesse Ventura tells reporters he has no more patriotism left after “cowards” tossed out his case against the TSA.

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Extreme Poverty Is Now At Record Levels

19 Statistics About The Poor That Will Absolutely Astound You

The Economic Collapse
Saturday, November 5, 2011

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty than they have ever measured before. In 2010, we were told that the economy was recovering, but the truth is that the number of the “very poor” soared to heights never seen previously.

Back in 1993 and back in 2009, the rate of extreme poverty was just over 6 percent, and that represented the worst numbers on record. But in 2010, the rate of extreme poverty hit a whopping 6.7 percent. That means that one out of every 15 Americans is now considered to be “very poor”. For many people, this is all very confusing because their guts are telling them that things are getting worse and yet the mainstream media keeps telling them that everything is just fine. Hopefully this article will help people realize that the plight of the poorest of the poor continues to deteriorate all across the United States. In addition, hopefully this article will inspire many of you to lend a hand to those that are truly in need.

Tonight, there are more than 20 million Americans that are living in extreme poverty. This number increases a little bit more every single day. The following statistics that were mentioned in an article in The Daily Mail should be very sobering for all of us….

About 20.5 million Americans, or 6.7 percent of the U.S. population, make up the poorest poor, defined as those at 50 per cent or less of the official poverty level.

Those living in deep poverty represent nearly half of the 46.2 million people scraping by below the poverty line. In 2010, the poorest poor meant an income of $5,570 or less for an individual and $11,157 for a family of four.

That 6.7 percent share is the highest in the 35 years that the Census Bureau has maintained such records, surpassing previous highs in 2009 and 1993 of just over 6 percent.

Sadly, the wealthy and the poor are being increasingly segregated all over the nation. In some areas of the U.S. you would never even know that the economy was having trouble, and other areas resemble third world hellholes. In most U.S. cities today, there are the “good neighborhoods” and there are the “bad neighborhoods”.

According to a recent Bloomberg article, the “very poor” are increasingly being pushed into these “bad neighborhoods”….

At least 2.2 million more Americans, a 33 percent jump since 2000, live in neighborhoods where the poverty rate is 40 percent or higher, according to a study released today by the Washington-based Brookings Institution.

Of course they don’t have much of a choice. They can’t afford to live where most of the rest of us do.

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Feds Set First Test Of Nationwide Emergency Alert System

FEMA, FCC, and NOAA seek better way to share natural disaster information with public.

By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek
November 04, 2011 03:47 PM

The Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Emergency Management Agencies, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are preparing for the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System.

Top officials from FEMA and the FCC this week sent a joint letter to governors, federal legislators, broadcasters, news networks, and other stakeholders informing them of the importance of the test and asking them to raise awareness of it among their constituencies.

"The various disasters our country has faced this year underscore the need for effective and well-tested emergency alert and warning systems that could be used in a time of real emergency, at a moment's notice," FEMA Administrator Fugate and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wrote in their letter. "The purpose of the test is to allow FEMA and the FCC to assess how well the Emergency Alert System would perform its primary function: alerting the public about a national emergency."

Officials also want to garner feedback from the public about what technological changes can be made to the system to improve its effectiveness, they said.

The test of the system--which will be similar to local tests that have occurred over the last several decades--will occur simultaneously on all broadcast radio and TV stations, cable TV systems, and satellite TV and radio systems across the United States and all U.S. territories on Wed, Nov. 9 at 2:00 p.m. EST.

The test will last 30 seconds, after which regular programming will resume. Territories affected include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.

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AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook

Yahoo News

November 4, 2011

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day.

At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms — anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.

From Arabic to Mandarin Chinese, from an angry tweet to a thoughtful blog, the analysts gather the information, often in native tongue. They cross-reference it with the local newspaper or a clandestinely intercepted phone conversation. From there, they build a picture sought by the highest levels at the White House, giving a real-time peek, for example, at the mood of a region after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden or perhaps a prediction of which Mideast nation seems ripe for revolt.

Yes, they saw the uprising in Egypt coming; they just didn't know exactly when revolution might hit, said the center's director, Doug Naquin.

The center already had "predicted that social media in places like Egypt could be a game-changer and a threat to the regime," he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press at the center. CIA officials said it was the first such visit by a reporter the agency has ever granted.

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Greek government on brink of collapse over debt crisis

David Gow and Helena Smith
The Guardian
November 3, 2011

The Greek government stands on the point of collapse, with the country set for a general election over membership of the euro rather than the referendum planned for early December.

Calls for a national unity government embracing the opposition also intensified as EU political leaders and financial markets demanded an end to the regional uncertainty unleashed by a small country on the periphery of the eurozone and called for measures to prevent a slide into Europe-wide slump.

George Papandreou called an emergency meeting of his cabinet for noon local time (10am GMT) on Thursday after his finance minister broke ranks over the referendum and several socialist deputies quit or threatened to quit his Pasok bloc in parliament.

Obama Tells Allies U.S. Will Attack Iran By Fall 2012

President prepared to use war as re-election campaign tool

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, November 4, 2011

Barack Obama has told America’s allies that the United States will attack Iran before fall 2012 unless Tehran halts its nuclear program, a time frame that suggests Obama is willing to use war as a re-election campaign tool to rally the population around his leadership.

A subscriber-only report by DebkaFile, the Israeli intelligence outfit which has been proven accurate in the past, reveals that shortly after the end of NATO operations in Libya at the start of this week, “President Barack Obama went on line to America’s senior allies, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Israel and Saudi Arabia, with notice of his plan to attack Iran no later than September-October 2012 – unless Tehran halted its nuclear weaponization programs.”

According to the report, the window of opportunity for an attack before Iran moves the bulk of its nuclear processing underground is quickly evaporating.

Obama’s directive contributed to the flurry of reports this week about NATO powers putting their Iran war contingency plans on standby.

“Obama’s announcement was not perceived as a general directive to US allies, but a guideline to blow the dust off the contingency plans for a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities which stayed locked in bottom drawers for three years,” states the report, adding that “Obama’s announcement spurred Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Israel into girding their navies, air forces, ballistic units and anti-missile defense systems for the challenges ahead.”

The imminent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is part of a program to re-arrange the United States’ presence in the Gulf. This dovetails with numerous reports over the past few weeks that large numbers of U.S. troops are being stationed in Kuwait.

“Military sources in the Gulf report that NATO and Persian Gulf leaders are treating the prospect of a US strike against Iran with the utmost seriousness,” states the article, adding that America plans to rebuild its Gulf presence as part “of a new US focus on cutting Iran down to size.”

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Warning: Obama Ed aims at U.S. takeover

Rand Paul

All schools – even parents at home – may be forced to teach gov't agenda
World Net Daily
November 2, 2011By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WND

An organization that monitors the U.S. government's influence on education, and specifically on parents who choose to school their own children, is warning of a pending move in Washington that would result in "de facto national education standards."

The measure could not only require parents who homeschool their children to teach certain government agenda issues but also effectively remove much of the decision-making authority of local school boards and districts, warns theHome School Legal Defense Association.

The organization focuses on issues affecting homeschool students and their parents in the United States and overseas but also keeps an eye on the larger picture of education policy.

Just exactly what's wrong with Washington? Let Sen. Tom Coburn's "Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders" explain it.

The concern is about Democrat-driven plans in the U.S. Senate to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, a massive federal program last reauthorized in 2001 as the NoChildLeftBehind Act.

"HSLDA's federal relations staff have read this 868-page bill, and we believe that while it does not directly impact homeschool freedom, the bill will 1) increase the federal role in education at the expense of state, local and parental control, and 2) will greatly increase the pressure on states to align theircurriculumand standards, resulting in de facto national education standards," said the report compiled by Melanie P. Palazzo, the organization's congressional action program director, and William A. Estrada of the organization's federal relations office.

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Carolyn Lanham: Goodbye to a Dear Friend and Patriot

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LANHAM Carolyn Lanham, age 69, of Grove City, passed away Monday, October 31, 2011. She was born on January 4, 1942 to the late James Edward and Thelma Irene (Barcus) Willis, in Radnor a small town near Delaware. Married Paul Edward Lanham on July 9, 1960 her husband of 45 years. He died in 2006. Carolyn had resided in Croton, Centerburg, Sedalia, and Grove City. She is survived by children, Carla (Michael) Smock, Scott (Rhonda) and James (Enas) Lanham; grandchildren, Joshua Michael Smock, Taylyn, Aubrey, and Eden Lanham; sisters, Maxine Brown and Margaret Wright. Carolyn graduated from Hartford High School in 1960 as Class President. She gave her heart to the Lord in service to children's' church ministry in various independent Baptist churches. This ministry included chalk talks, Bible messages, music and puppets. When called to this ministry, she was also called to awaken her fellow citizens to the loss of their Constitutional liberties. She received a "Freedom Award" from deceased Honorable Congressman Larry McDonald whose life was taken by the Russians on Korean Flight 007. She was noted for many articles and letters to the editor for various publications and speaking engagements. As well as giving her opinion on the local radio shows. A special thanks goes out to HomeReach Hospice, the Kobacher House, as well as to family and friends for their support and prayers. Friends may call 5-8 p.m. Friday at the DeVORE-SNYDER FUNERAL HOME, SR 3 at 61, Sunbury, where service will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, with Pastor Dan Scarberry officiating. Interment will follow in the Trenton Cemetery. Condolences may be expressed at www.snyderfuneralhomes.com.

Published in The Columbus Dispatch on November 3, 2011

Federally-Funded Street Lights Capable of “Recording Conversations”

Orwellian ‘Intellistreets’ system now being installed in major cities

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Federally-funded high-tech street lights now being installed in American cities are not only set to aid the DHS in making “security announcements” and acting as talking surveillance cameras, they are also capable of “recording conversations,” bringing the potential privacy threat posed by ‘Intellistreets’ to a whole new level.

In the days after we first brought attention to the privacy concerns surrounding the new street lights, with our story featuring prominently on the Drudge Report website, the company behind them, Illuminating Concepts, went on the defensive, issuing a press releaseclaiming the devices didn’t represent a “big brother” intrusion.
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Last Tuesday, Occupy Wall Street Endorsed the 1% Wall Street Sales Tax and Became a Real Threat to Financier Power. That Same Day, Big-Time Police Repression Started. Learn the Lesson: Escalate Programmatic Demands Now!

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.

PressTV
October 27, 2011

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Gulf countries conspiring to topple Assad

Editor's Note: Read my report:U.S. Amassador to Syria with Possible Links to CIA Calls Upon Protesters in Syria to End 41 Year Rule of President Assad

October 31, 2011

There is a conspiracy involving regional powers that is aimed at overthrowing the Assad regime in Syria, warned Beirut-based political analyst Kamel Al Wazne.

He argued that Syria’s neighbors are getting involved in the country’s political process out of a personal vendetta again President Bashar al-Assad.

“As you can see, the regional powers haven’t been neutral with the situation that is taking place inside Syria,” Al Wazne told RT. “Actually, some of these countries have been fueling weapons and money and a certain ideology to topple Assad’s regime.

The reason, Al Wazne says, is simple.

“President Assad has taken a very strong position in the past, supporting the resistance in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran and the idea of a regional alliance against Israel,” he stated.“Certain regional powers – namely Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar – don’t like that.”

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Understand the 'Why' and You Understand Everything

JBS.org

Understand the "Why" and You Understand Everything. Why? In the news we hear a great deal about What, When, and Where, but the real Why is left out; Understand the Why and you understand everything. 

JBS CEO Art Thompson's weekly video news update for October 24-30, 2011.

U.N. Investigators Find 'New Signs' of Syrian Nuclear Efforts

Fox News

November 1, 2011

Editor's note: The WMD story again?

WASHINGTON – U.N. investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could be used to make nuclear arms.

The buildings in northwest Syria closely match the design of a uranium enrichment plant provided to Libya when Muammar Qaddafii was trying to build nuclear weapons under Khan's guidance, officials told The Associated Press.

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Red Dawn Remake: Government Propaganda - " Hollywood Style"

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
November 1, 2011

Red Dawn will be coming to theaters across the nation in 2012. This film directed by Dan Bradley, and written by Jeremy Passmore, is a remake of the original movie from 1984. In the 1984 version, it was the Soviet menace invading the shores of America. In the latest version it will be the North Koreans hitting the shores.

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When the remake version of the film was first being written, the script called for a Chinese invasion, but this apparently offended the country that holds massive amounts of U.S. debt, and was then changed to appease the Chinese.

MGM announced that the remake version would be made "keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in". It certainly seems to reflect this idea in some of the footage of the film set seen in the pictures below:

Photo:Infowars.com

Notice the poster with pictures of a computer monitor and laptops with the word "LIES" on the monitor screens, and then the words "Now there is truth". Obviously the subliminal message here is that the information sites on the Internet are lying to you, and that you can only find the truth from the Mainstream Media.Take for example former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, who has called the Internet the “number one national hazard” to America's National Security. He has exaggerated the threat of cyber attacks and has advocated government control of the Internet for the "safety "of the American people.

On the other side of the photo there is a poster that sounds like it was written by the "Occupy Wallstreet" movement currently protesting in cities all across America. "DECEITFUL LEADERS -GREEDY CORPORATIONS -THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY".

The first two statements may reflect an accurate picture of our current situation in the U.S., but the third statement is deceptive in its presentation due to the fact that we are in fact not a Democracy. We are the REPUBLIC of the United States. The deception being presented here is the fact that the average American thinks we are a democracy, and that mob rule should be the way things are ran here in the U.S.

This is dangerous because the masses in the U.S. have been deceived into believing that government is actually "here to help" us. Therefore if we go by the mob democratic rule mentality, we will indeed continue to have an ever-increasing, all encroaching, blood sucking, Big Brother type of government.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch... Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Benjamin Franklin.

We are a Republican Government, Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy... it has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny: their figure deformity. - Alexander Hamilton

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%" - Thomas Jefferson

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death" - James Madison

As you can see, the founding fathers of this nation were very much against the idea of our country being ran by democracy, or mob rule.

In the next photo you will see a public sign with "Dangerous citizen Alert". Pictures of so-called dangerous people are displayed. Of course in the movie, this would be done for the protection of the others who are not dangerous, and those not dangerous would most likely be called upon to "say something" if they "see something".

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Currently, we have the Department of Homeland Security that has a similar program called "See Something-Say Something".

The Department of Homeland Security has partnered with the NCAA as well, in order to set up the "Big Brother is Watching You" agenda at sporting arenas:

Walmart has also introduced the program into their stores, with Janet Napolitano encouraging Americans to be suspicious and tell on fellow Americans they deem to be acting mysteriously or abnormally:

Unlike the movie in which the threat is coming from North Korea, our present administration is targeting "homegrown terrorists" that might be a threat. The real threat is the growing police state here in the U.S. that will ultimately deprive us of all liberty and privacy using terror as the excuse.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

In the film, there are also re-education centers as well. Here in the U.S. we have what is known as the "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" and FEMA internment facilities.

Basically, everything being shown as tyrannical and destructive to the freedom of America in this film, are things that come with the invasion of an outside force. The same threats shown in the film however, are the very threats coming against us from within our own borders! They are coming from our own government!

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within" - Ariel Durant (Russian Born Writer and historian, 1898-1981)

When the film comes out, remember that the real threat comes when a country is conquered first - from within.