With all the dangers and possible pitfalls of modern life, none is so worrisome as possibly being selected to be the shadow government's next patsy. This short video should help with finding the warning signs, and what to look for when avoiding this potentially dangerous situation...Article written by Henry Makow, Ph.D.. Used with permission. Edited for video by "Betsy McGee"

Governments from around the world admit they carry out false flag terror. ■ This tactic is so common that it was given a name for hundreds of years ago. “False flag terrorism” is defined as a government attacking its own people, then blaming others in order to justify going to war against the people it blames. The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang the flag of its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy. Because the enemy’s flag, instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, was hung, it was called a “false flag” attack. Indeed, this concept is so well-accepted that rules of engagement for naval, air and land warfare all prohibit false flag attacks. People are slowly waking up to this whole con job by governments who want to justify war. More people are talking about the phrase “false flag” than ever before.

Israel, believed to be the only nuclear power in the region, says allowing any enrichment is dangerous since Iranian centrifuges could quickly convert even low-grade uranium to weapons grade. Israeli officials say the agreement hands a massive victory to Iran. The Economics Minister, Naftali Bennett, said: “If a nuclear suitcase blows up five years from now in New York or Madrid it will be because of the deal signed this morning.”

Reddit: Be on the look out for a coming false flag involving Iran (Xymphora)
He may huff and puff but Benjamin Netanyahu is on his own now as nuclear agreement isolates Israel

US District Judge William H. Pauley, III heard more than two hours of oral arguments in American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper. (James Clapper is the director of national intelligence). At issue were both the Obama administration’s request to dismiss the case and the ACLU’s motion for a preliminary injunction to suspend the metadata collection program pending a trial on its legality. “If you accept the government’s theory here, you are creating a dramatic expansion of the government’s investigative power,” Jameel Jaffer, lead attorney for the ACLU, argued. Calling the NSA program “a general warrant for the digital age”—a reference to the written authorizations for indiscriminate British searches that were a primary catalyst for the American Revolution—the ACLU claimed that the government surveillance had a “chilling effect” on its ability to communicate with “whistleblowers” and others, a violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech. The civil liberties organization also maintained that the program violated the “subjective expectation of privacy that society recognizes as reasonable,” a right protected by the Fourth Amendment. The First and Fourth amendments are part of the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights. “Generalized surveillance of this kind has historically been associated with authoritarian and totalitarian regimes,” the ACLU argued, “not with constitutional democracies.” This statement is absolutely correct.

Tom Carter: NSA strategy document envisions unrestrained global surveillance ■ The five-page document dated February 23, 2012, which was published by the New York Times on Saturday, is entitled “SIGINT Strategy 2012-2016.” The name of the author does not appear on the document, nor is it clear who was responsible for it. Among the document’s central themes is that the law has “not kept pace” with the NSA’s “mission.” Translated into plain English, this means that the NSA is knowingly engaged in illegal activity. The NSA’s strategy is to remedy this situation by campaigning for what amounts to the abolition of basic constitutional rights. Existing law must be “adapted,” the document states, in order to facilitate unlimited spying. “For SIGINT [signals intelligence] to be optimally effective, legal, policy, and process authorities must be as adaptive and dynamic as the technological and operational advances we week to exploit.” In fact, the NSA’s spying activities—as well as the activities of the numerous other government agencies engaged in domestic spying—are in flagrant violation of the letter and spirit of the Fourth Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights.

The Daily Dot: Snowden reveals NSA's virtually unrestricted intel-sharing deal with Israel

US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden. ● The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments. The agencies, the documents reveal, have adopted a battery of methods in their systematic and ongoing assault on what they see as one of the biggest threats to their ability to access huge swathes of internet traffic – "the use of ubiquitous encryption across the internet".

Israeli authorities have given the go-ahead for the construction of 829 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Monday. ● The new homes are to be built north of Jerusalem, in the settlements of Givat Zeev, Nofei Prat, Shilo, Givat Salit and Nokdim, Amihai said. The latest move comes two weeks after Israel announced its largest plan for settler homes ever, saying some 20,000 would be built in the West Bank. Netanyahu cancelled the order after pressure from the United States, which brought the two sides to the table in July, and as he sought to dissuade Washington from striking a nuclear deal with Iran.

Trenton Oldfield was imprisoned for interrupting a boat race last year. Now, the protester faces deportation. The government that directly interfered to cause his incarceration wants him out of the country. Their rationale: he may “threaten national security.” ● Recalling his protest swim that challenged classicism and elitism in Britain while targeting a 2012 boat race between the U.K.'s two most exclusive universities, Oldfield said: “On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Government continued to push ahead with privatizing state healthcare and legislation that attacked people's digital privacy. On Thursday, they told the public to inform on their neighbors, if they 'might' protest against the Olympics; so I bought a wetsuit to swim on the Saturday.” A U.K. resident for over a decade, Oldfield, 37, works alongside his British wife Deepa running a publishing house. With his legal appeal due December 9, Oldfield spoke with Occupy.com about his deep critique of the British establishment and explored how one peaceful protest made the government so insecure it now seeks to deport him. “The government's attack on protesters is like 1960s East Germany," said Oldfield in our recent interview. "Peaceful protests often end due to state violence, like the anti fascist rallies, the 182 cyclists arrested at the Olympics and the heavy policing of Thatcher's funeral.” Oldfield drew attention to the consequences for individual protesters, including two occasions when people were criminally charged for shouting during speeches given by Prime Minister David Cameron. One shouted: "No Ifs – No Buts – No public sector cuts," and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service. Another, said Oldfield, was found guilty of intimidation for shouting, "You have blood on your hands," in reference to U.K. government cuts in support for the disabled. The decision finally to remove Oldfield from Britain came from a senior government minster, Home Secretary Theresa May. Oldfield said he was informed the week his wife was due to give birth to their first child.

Le fondateur du site Hollande-demission.fr a été arrêté cet après-midi à 16 heures par la police. ● Quand exprimer ses opinions devient un délit. David, le fondateur du site 'Hollande-demission.fr' en a fait la triste expérience ce mercredi. Pour avoir conduit une voiture où brillait le slogan « Hollande-demission.fr », ce dernier a été arrêté porte de Passy vers 16 heures par 4 motards. Motif invoqué : ‘outrage au Président’. Ce mini-évènement a ensuite pris des proportions démesurées : la police a saisi la voiture, qui a été ensuite enlevée par des véhicules de fourrière. Près de trente policiers ont été diligentés sur place. La circulation s’en est retrouvée totalement bloquée. Hollande-Demission.fr

China sent its sole aircraft carrier on a training mission into the South China Sea on Tuesday amid maritime disputes with some neighbors and tension over its plan to set up an airspace defense zone in waters disputed with Japan. | The Liaoning, bought used from Ukraine and refurbished in China, has conducted more than 100 exercises and experiments since it was commissioned last year but this is the first time it has been sent to the South China Sea. Though considered decades behind U.S. technology, the Liaoning represents the Chinese navy's blue-water ambitions and has been the focus of a campaign to stir patriotism. The Liaoning left port from the northern city of Qingdao accompanied by two destroyers and two frigates, the Chinese navy said on an official news website (http://navy.81.cn/). While there, it will carry out "scientific research, tests and military drills", the report said. "This is the first time since the Liaoning entered service that it has carried out long-term drills on the high seas," it added.

PressTV: Two US bombers fly over China air defense zone
ABC News: China Sets Air Defense Zone Over East China Sea

[Les Visible:] Wow! What can I say? By any standards, the Seek-Speak-Spread Truth conference was a rousing success. For this, massive kudos must go to Tahra with the able assistance of Tyler Vincent, James and Steven along with Tom Fry and Anthony doing the video which you will see shortly somewhere. I'll link it when possible. We'll forget about my presentation. It's not my place to comment on it. Someone or several someone's will come around with their two pence at some point.

Alan Hart started it off and was lucid and very well informed. After that the day took off and never stopped. Ken Shot came up and did a slideshow about his amazing work in Sweden. The amount of work and industry put out by himself and his associates is impressive. There are a lot of good things going on on this planet. I had an epiphany of sorts at the conference where my former perceptions about someone did a big 180. In keeping with Visble's Full Disclosure Act of 2003, I'm left with no choice. I'd had certain reservations about Gilad Atzmon, on the publicity end and Litmus Test end and what I found in real life was a larger than life personality, which canceled out my concern on the first concern and made moot my second concern. Ken O'Keefe followed Gilad and continued in the spirit of the extemporaneous, which seemed to be the order of the day for nearly all of us. [...] My great thanks to all of you who remain unnamed. Thank you for your exquisite generosity and unqualified support!!! We will do it again. I probably should be living in the U.K. despite the political situation. The quality of humanity there is incredible.