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.

The Chinese Defense Ministry on Saturday issued a map of an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone that includes a chain of disputed islands also claimed by Japan, triggering a protest from Tokyo. Beijing also issued a set of rules for the zone, saying all aircraft must notify Chinese authorities and are subject to emergency military measures if they do not identify themselves or obey orders from Beijing. It said it would “identify, monitor, control and react” to any air threats or unidentified flying objects coming from the sea. The rules went into effect Saturday. In Tokyo, Junichi Ihara, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, protested by phone to China’s acting ambassador to Japan, Han Zhiqiang, saying the zone is “totally unacceptable,” according to a ministry statement.

PressTV: China slams US, Japan over identification declaration

The P5+1 deal with Iran may be finalized, but keeping it intact is still a battle, as the sanctions relief in the deal is under immediate threat from the US Congress, where hawks are threatening to impose more sanctions on Iran. For some, like Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R – GA), the argument is that Iran is in a weak position right now and the sanctions could really stick it to them and dictate even harsher terms. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif is warning that new sanctions would kill the deal, however, and for many Congressmen, that’s the whole point. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – NY) and others have made it no secret they oppose the deal, and are pushing new sanctions as a way to “protest” against the deal, and ideally sabotage it outright.

Israel Renews Warnings of Military Action After Iran Nuclear Deal - Time Magazine

Peter Symonds: Interim agreement reached on Iran’s nuclear programs ■ After four days of extended international talks in Geneva, an interim deal was reached on Iran’s nuclear programs early Sunday morning, setting the stage for negotiations over a longer term, comprehensive agreement. Negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group (the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany) recommenced in Geneva last Wednesday, after the previous round earlier this month broke up without agreement. With the US Congress threatening to impose punitive new sanctions on Iran that could derail further talks, an agreement was sealed that effectively freezes all Iran’s nuclear programs and allows for intrusive inspections in return for very limited relief from the existing crippling sanctions regime. Washington was at pains to stress that Iran received very little in return.

Stephen Lendman: Deal in Geneva: Hold the Cheers ■ Longstanding hardline US/Israeli policy won't change. Sanctions Iran most wants removed remain in place. Stiff new ones may follow later on. For now they're postponed. A six month interim deal was agreed on. It's temporary, modest and reversible. It can be changed, rescinded or ignored if Washington wishes. Iran has no guarantees. It has legitimate demands. It wants its sovereign rights respected.

Xymphora: Let the negotiations begin! ■ Of course, the real negotiations are between the elected government of the United States and the real government of the United States, the Zionist Occupation Government. The job of a successful American Administration is to frame these second negotiations, the real negotiations, in such a way that real American interests, and not solely the interests of a truly insane group of violent group supremacists who would not hesitate to blow up the entire world to steal another square millimeter of land, prevail. The deal provides almost no benefit to Iran except to put the world's real warmongers in the spotlight if the next six months don't produce a lasting agreement due to ZOG blocking.

Home secretary working on legislation allowing removal of UK passport from "suspects" even if they have no other citizenship. ● Theresa May plans to strip British "terror suspects" of their citizenship and take away their UK passports even if it leaves them stateless, Whitehall sources have confirmed. May wants to bring in legislation allowing the removal of a UK passport from any "terror suspect" whose conduct is "seriously prejudicial to the interests of the UK", in a move designed to make it harder for them to return to Britain if they travel abroad. The home secretary already has the power to take away British citizenship from those with dual nationality, and since taking office May has confiscated the UK passports of 16 individuals alleged to have links with terror groups. She has repeatedly said that a UK passport is a "privilege, not a right".

A beautiful thing happend in nottingham on the 23ed of February as anonymous protesters took to the streets. On this day there aim was to shutdown all the tax avoiding shops, this is in response to the tax dodging corporations on the high streets who have evaded in excess of £70 billion in [taxes]. Stephen a homeless man in Nottingham cached the eye of Anonymous members who stopped and gave him money, overwhelmed with love, Steven starts to cry as anonymous member give him hugs and change. Under code name of Robbin Hood, they truly made this homeless mans day.

At least six people are killed in the latest US assassination drone strike in the central eastern part of Afghanistan, Press TV reports. ● According to Afghan officials, the airstrike was conducted in Maidan Wardak Province, late on Tuesday. The identity of the victims have yet to be revealed, though Taliban militants are said to be among the dead. Three other Afghans were also killed in the US-led airstrike in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nuristan, on Tuesday. Washington has repeatedly claimed that its drone strikes target militants, but reports on the ground suggest that civilians are the main victims of such attacks. The unrelenting US air raids across the`2 war-torn country come as the pressure is mounting on Washington over the assassination drone attacks in several Muslim countries, mainly Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Pepe Escobar: Digging in: Why US won’t leave Afghanistan ■ We came, we saw, we stayed. Forever. That’s the essence of the so-called Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) to be struck between the Obama administration and Afghanistan – over 12 years after the start of the never-ending War on Terror. All about pivoting to Asia: The Maliki government in Baghdad had the balls to confront the Pentagon and veto the immunity for US forces – effectively kicking out the occupying force in Iraq. Hamid Karzai, for his part, caved in on virtual every US demand. The key question in the next few months is for what; Mob-style protection if he stays in Afghanistan, or the equivalent of the FBI’s witness protection program if he moves to the US? Even assuming the Loya Jirga endorses the BSA (not yet a done deal) and Karzai’s successor signs it (with Karzai removing himself from the tight spot), to say this opens a new Pandora’s box is an understatement. The occupation, for all practical purposes, will continue. This has nothing to do with fighting the War on Terror or jihad. There’s no Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. The few remnants are in Waziristan, in Pakistani territory. The US is – and will remain - essentially at war with Afghan Pashtuns who are members of the Taliban. And the Taliban will keep staging their spring and summer offensives as long as there are any foreign occupiers on Afghan soil. The drone war will continue, with the Pentagon and the CIA using these Afghan bases to attack Pashtuns in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Not to mention that these US bases, to be fully operational, need unrestricted access to the Pakistani transit routes from the Khyber Pass and the Quetta-to-Kandahar corridor. This means Islamabad keeps profiting from the scam by collecting hefty fees in US dollars. No one knows yet how the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will respond to this.

The United States lacks moral authority to condemn other nations' use of chemical weapons.

Staggering new numbers are shedding light on a critical problem in the American healthcare system. ● A recent report by the Journal of Patient Safety indicates that between 200,000 and 440,000 people are killed each year in the United States from preventable medical errors. These patients aren’t dying from the condition that forced them to go to the hospital in the first place. They’re dying from unintended mishaps. Eric Andrist is overcome with emotion as he remembers the death of his sister Cali. Andrist cared for his mentally disabled sister day and night, and recalls that once he took her to the emergency room at Providence St Joseph's in Burbank, California for a stomachache. Days later she was dead.

The deal that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the international community to strike with Tehran is basically an Iranian surrender, not a proper agreement, John Limbert, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran, tells RT.

RT: You were the highest-ranking diplomat dealing solely with Iranian issues. Given your expertise, do you see a real chance that a deal can be made?

John Limbert: I do, but it is going to take time, and it is going to take lots of patience. The rule on these things is whatever you’re going to do is going to take longer than you think. And it is going to be harder than you think.

Stephen Lendman: US hostility toward Iran over ‘sovereignty’

The American intelligence service - NSA - infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. Documents provided by former NSA-employee Edward Snowden and seen by this newspaper, prove this. A management presentation dating from 2012 explains how the NSA collects information worldwide. In addition, the presentation shows that the intelligence service uses ‘Computer Network Exploitation’ (CNE) in more than 50,000 locations. CNE is the secret infiltration of computer systems achieved by installing malware, malicious software. One example of this type of hacking was discovered in September 2013 at the Belgium telecom provider Belgacom. For a number of years the British intelligence service - GCHQ – has been installing this malicious software in the Belgacom network in order to tap their customers’ telephone and data traffic. The Belgacom network was infiltrated by GCHQ through a process of luring employees to a false Linkedin page.

Officials at the National Security Agency, intent on maintaining its dominance in intelligence collection, pledged last year to push to expand its surveillance powers, according to a top-secret strategy document. In a February 2012 paper laying out the four-year strategy for the N.S.A.'s signals intelligence operations, which include the agency's eavesdropping and communications data collection around the world, agency officials set an objective to "aggressively pursue legal authorities and a policy framework mapped more fully to the information age." Written as an agency mission statement with broad goals, the five-page document said that existing American laws were not adequate to meet the needs of the N.S.A. to conduct broad surveillance in what it cited as "the golden age of Sigint," or signals intelligence.

Russia Today: Latest Snowden leak reveals NSA’s goal to continually expand surveillance abilities

Ordinary Americans Have No Say, Officials Insist ● Government lawyers are demanding that the US District Court immediately throw out an ACLU lawsuit against NSA surveillance, insisting that there is no avenue by which “ordinary Americans” could even theoretically challenge its legality. The ACLU is arguing that the surveillance, involving collecting every phone record of every American, exceeds the authority the NSA has under either the Patriot Act or the Constitution. The government is arguing that only phone companies could challenge the collection orders, however, and then only in super-secret FISA courts, which have already rubber-stamped the surveillance time and again. The lawyers are also arguing that the judge himself isn’t qualified to hear questions of “national security” and that he should simply trust the administration’s officials to figure things out on their own, outside of courts.

The Guardian: NSA bulk data collection violates constitutional rights, ACLU argues

Eric London: US Congress moves to legalize unconstitutional surveillance programs ■ In the wake of damning revelations about the Obama administration’s illegal surveillance operations, Democrats and Republicans in Congress are moving forward competing bills that would both secure the indefinite use of the spying programs. The proposal with the widest Congressional support, a bill sponsored by California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, would entrench and expand many of the most sinister features of the National Security Agency (NSA) programs. The bill would “legalize” backdoor warrantless content searches of government-collected metadata, authorize bulk record collection of phone and Internet data under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, allow for bulk data to be kept by the government for five years, and maintain non-adversarial, ex-parte judicial proceedings in the secret FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] Court [FISC]. Section 6 of the Feinstein-Chambliss bill states explicitly that the proposal “does not limit the authority of law enforcement agencies to conduct [content] queries of data acquired pursuant to Section 702 of FISA [the bulk-collection provision] for law enforcement purposes.”

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Kenny's Sideshow: JFK and His Boy ■ In the 1973 film Executive Action there's the line "The Plan is perfectly plain, two terms for JFK, two for Bobby and two for Ted." That idea would be the culmination of Joe Kennedy Sr.'s dream. Joe Jr., the first born who was groomed to lead the Kennedy political dynasty didn't make it back from WWII so it was left to the less well prepared JFK and the younger ones. Future generations would be encouraged to continue the tradition as time went on. But a funny thing happened on the way to Camelot.

"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know."

"Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.

"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations."

Rediff India Abroad: Israel killed JFK,says Vanunu
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The UN has apparently been considering a proposal pushed by Brazil and Germany, to clarify that basic offline rights to privacy should apply to online information and activities as well. The proposal is targeted at attempts by governments -- mainly the US -- to ignore privacy issues in spying on people around the globe. Not surprisingly, the US is (quietly) working hard to stop this plan.