Video that played during the DNC includes the line "The Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To" (September 4, 2012).

Much of the debate over cybersecurity legislation like CISPA and the Cybersecurity Act focused on getting more private companies to "share data" with federal government agencies, including the FBI and the NSA. As we've pointed out time and time again, beyond the basic privacy rules that the bills tended to bulldoze through, any time you increase the sharing of private data, you're only making it that much easier for hackers to access that info because you're putting it in more places -- some of which will almost definitely be insecure. In other words, even though these bills were ostensibly about "protecting" from hack attacks, by increasing the sharing of data, they'd almost certainly open up new attack opportunities and make it easier for hackers to get info. While neither bill passed (yet), the latest example of what happens when you have widespread data sharing comes from some Antisec hackers, who claim that -- in response to a presentation from the NSA's General Keith Alexander -- they wanted to probe the security of various government agencies, including the FBI. End result? They claim to have hacked into the laptop of FBI agent Christopher Stangl, who has appeared in recruitment videos for the FBI looking to hire "cyber security experts."

The US Department of Agriculture has said that nearly 17 million of US citizens across the country suffered from “very low food security” in 2011. - The department said in a report on Wednesday that the number of poor Americans who repeatedly ran short of food increased by 800,000 in 2011, Reuters reported. The report added that women living alone and African-American households suffered the biggest increase in very low food security. The US government said on Tuesday that a record number of 46.7 million people were enrolled for food stamps in June, showing a 173,000-increase compared with May.

220 people evacuated from Swiss postal hub after a white substance was found in an envelope, 34 got hospitalized because they felt sick. Turns out it was cornflour. - Some 220 people were evacuated from the building in the Schlieren district north of Zurich late Tuesday after workers at the facility complained that white powder found in two letters had made them ill. In all, 34 people were sent to hospital, but by Wednesday they had all been released, the ATS news agency reported. Doctors who arrived on the scene found that a number of people were showing symptoms of poisoning, including headaches, vomiting and respiratory difficulties. When questioned by ATS, Roland Portmann of the Zurich police rescue services could not explain how harmless starch could have provoked such symptoms, but suggested there may have been a nervous reaction to the stressful situation and evacuation. The Mülligen postal centre, where the incident occurred, is the biggest in the country, and the only one to handle mail from abroad. The evacuation remained in effect for about three hours on Tuesday evening, but by midnight police allowed employees back in to continue working.

World Trade Center 7 was not hit by an airplane. Fires can not
make a skyscraper collapse. - WTC7 clearly was demolished.
This had to be prepared weeks in advance. WTC7 also housed
high-level government offices including the FBI, CIA and the
Secret Service. Could the alleged perpetrators have been pre-
paring the demolition of the WTC buildings for weeks on end,
right under the noses of the FBI, Secret Service and the CIA?
The conclusions we can draw from this are pretty obvious.

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The tragic events of September 11, 2001 constitute a fundamental landmark in American history. a decisive watershed, a breaking point. Millions of people have been misled regarding the causes and consequences of 9/11. September 11 2001 opens up an era of crisis, upheaval and militarization of American society. A far-reaching overhaul of US military doctrine was launched in the wake of 9/11. Endless wars of aggression under the humanitarian cloak of “counter-terrorism” were set in motion. 9/11 was also a stepping stone towards the relentless repeal of civil liberties, the militarization of law enforcement and the inauguration of “Police State USA”. September 11, 2001 marks the onslaught of the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT), used as a pretext and a justification by the US and its NATO allies to carry out a “war without borders”, a global war of conquest.

The tragic events of 9/11 provided the required justification to wage war on Afghanistan on “humanitarian grounds”, with the full support of World public opinion and the endorsement of the “international community”. Several prominent “progressive” intellectuals made a case for “retaliation against terrorism”, on moral and ethical grounds. The “just cause” military doctrine (jus ad bellum) was accepted and upheld at face value as a legitimate response to 9/11. In the wake of 9/11, the antiwar movement was completely isolated. The trade unions and civil society organizations had swallowed the media lies and government propaganda. They had accepted a war of retribution against Afghanistan, an impoverished country in Central Asia of 30 million people. The myth of the “outside enemy” and the threat of “Islamic terrorists” was the cornerstone of the Bush administration’s military doctrine, used as a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention the repeal of civil liberties and constitutional government in America.

President Obama and the Democratic Party announced today that they would no longer support a “platform” that advocates listing the city of Jerusalem as the capital of a Jewish state. - The President and the majority party made this statement for a variety of reasons, primarily however, based on pragmatism. The president is assured the vast majority of Jewish voters in the United States, where recent polls indicate only 15% are “concerned” about Israeli security and 4% about relations with Iran, will continue to support him. These figures reflect the approximate percentages of Jewish voters believed to support Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate tied to extremist elements in Israel and suspected members of organized crime. This minority of “outcasts” have created a bitter divide among the Jewish community in the United States.

[Editor's Comment:] This probably means that Mitt Romney will be elected President of the United States in November. We believe Obama already has been told he's a one-termer. - His newfound backbone is because he's been given a red light. He now is showing a modest measure of independence from his Zionist handlers, because they've already told him they don't need him anymore. Obama is reacting out of disappointment and fear, not out of courage or anything remotely like that. Far from it. Ever their servant, he's obediently given them everything they wanted and more, much more, but his hesitation with regard to Iran was intolerable. He now has to go. (Vote fraud will see to that.) The deeper reasons for Obama's turn around however probably are the catastrophic US economy and the incipient insurrection among the ranks of the US army. - It's finally dawning on the US military establishment that we've been taken for a ride by a shitty little country in the Middle East. Mitt Romney is too stupid to see this. He's willing to drive this nation into the abyss for Israel. America (as we know it) is finished, whichever way you look at it. Like Israel, America too will "vanish from the page of time". - Iran will undoubtedly prevail.

Wayne Madsen: Democratic Party platform omits Jerusalem as capital of Israel. Platform also omits mention of Israel as America's closest ally in Middle East. Someone is recognizing that Israel poses a distinct national security threat to the United States. Of course, all the Israel backers -- Leslie Wolf Blitzer, Eat More Candy Crowley, Dana Face Bash, and Andrea Mitchell Greenspan -- are having conniption fits over PLI (Poor Little Israel). Good on you President Obama, Joe Biden, and Democrats on the Platform Committee, including Mayor Cory Booker. You're forgiven Booker over your earlier Bain Capital defense. Platform adoption by DNC convention is followed by a video address by President Jimmy Carter, who is no fan of Israeli policies and who was omitted from the 2008 convention.

Israeli press reports today that PM Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved an Israel’s security cabinet meeting on Wednesday, saying someone in the forum “betrayed the national trust by leaking details of its top-secret discussions on Iran.” - It is pretty easy to grasp why PM Netanyahu reacted angrily. The pretext for a new world war is pretty much gone - the Hasbara lie is exposed once again. PM Netanyahu was quick to say today that "the security of the state and of its citizens depends on the ability to have confidential and in-depth discussions in the security cabinet.” Netanyahu was practicaly suggesting that ‘the security of the Jewish State’ depends on the ability of Israeli official to spread propaganda lies and commit more and more crimes in the name of the Jewish people. I guess that for the time being, there is no Israeli plan to attack Iran. Israel doesn’t posses the military capacity to execute such a strike. And as we learn from Israeli press, even Israel ministers realise that Iran is not exactly a threat anyway.

The West’s “perverse” empire is leading to the collapse of human rights, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said. The whistleblower, currently holed up in the UK’s Ecuadorian embassy, expects to leave in a year if Sweden drops its case against him. "The Swedish government could drop the case. I think this is the most likely scenario. Maybe after a thorough investigation of what happened they could drop the case,” Assange said, adding that he hopes his case will be solved through diplomacy “in between six and 12 months.” During the interview with Venezuelan TV station teleSUR from London’s Ecuadorian Embassy, Assange condemned an “avalanche of totalitarianism” incited by the US government. He argued that democracy in Western countries is an illusion, and that the constant surveillance of citizens is leading to the creation of a “transnational totalitarian state.” “This is an international phenomenon that isn’t just happening in the US, it’s bigger than the US and it’s taking us to a dark place,” Assange said. He alleged that human rights in the West are undergoing a severe deterioration, and that the public is being influenced by “massive press manipulation.”