truthstream:

Have you seen the “I’m in!” Obama campaign ads? Have you come across blogs where people have jumped on that trendy bandwagon by taking pictures of themselves holding up signs with reasons they are “in” and voting for Obama again this November?

Well, if I could be any more out, I’d break a space time barrier, circle around to being in, then back to out again. I. Am. OUT.

Filmed this, then I realized I forgot Obamacare, Guantanamo, continuing the phony drug war, cutting health benefits to our active military/veterans, Bradley Manning, and attempts to play on people the MSM during the Trayvon Martin case to ultimately limit our 2nd Amendment. And probably 8 bagillion other things that would make this video go on for nine months and take up reams of dead trees.

Iran was assisting Osama bin Laden with his “American Hiroshima” plan to blow up 10 American cities with nuclear bombs, and now that Osama is dead, Iran has taken over the plan. The leaders of Iran have a fanatical religious belief that if they kill millions of Americans and Israelis (“infidels”) with nuclear weapons, they can usher in the coming of their messiah, the “12th Imam” or “Mahdi”. Ahmadinejad has said this will happen soon. Iran may already have some nuclear weapons,including the suitcase nukes Osama bin Laden acquired on the black market.

truthstream:

This:

Although the executive order is an update to the almost identical EO 12919, which was signed by Bill Clinton in 1994, in Section 201(b) of the new version, the words “under both emergency and non-emergency conditions” have been added.

plus all of this:

You don’t have to witness a Waco siege every day with tanks and the government killing citizens to be under a state of martial law.

- We already have the executive branch claiming the power to have Americans abducted and imprisoned without trial under the NDAA.

- We already have the executive branch claiming the power to assassinate American citizens with no legal process whatsoever.

- We already have checkpoints manned by TSA goons as well as other militarized forces spreading across America.

- We already have the Pentagon claiming it doesn’t have to even recognize Congress to launch wars and that the only superior body it has to answer to is the United Nations.

- We already have the Department of Defense characterizing protest as “low level terrorism” while the federal government is busy labeling banal activities and behavior as indicative of terrorism.

Those five things alone illustrate beyond any conceivable doubt that America is already under a degree of martial law.

equals this:

PEACETIME MARTIAL LAW

These are not my words. This was a message sent to Michael Mozart.

therealworldorder:

On Monday afternoon, Barack Obama became the first president to host a virtual town hall live on the Internet.

While that might be a feat worthy of the record books, President Obama did something else during his address that America has become accustomed to: he lied to the world.

Speaking Monday during a live web-chat hosted by Google, the president took on a series of issues submitted by the American people. Over the span of 45 minutes, President Obama addressed the Stop Online Piracy Act while refusing to side with either end of the argument, admitted to the world that he isn’t all that swell of a dancer and took a query from a professional puppeteer. In between ignoring the real issues or offering any sort of solid solution to the nation’s biggest problems, the president did put something rather important out for the world to ponder: America’s ongoing drone missions aren’t really all that bad.

If you ask anyone outside of the Oval Office — or especially America — they might tell you otherwise.

Tackling a question posed on drone strikes, President Obama defended the ongoing missions on Monday, saying they were necessary to target terrorists in a most effective manner. “For us to be able to get them in another way would involve probably a lot more intrusive military action than the ones we’re already engaging in,” the president said on the topic of drones. While an argument could easily be made that operating drone missions in lieu of putting boots on the ground is best for the US Armed Forces, the president put a lot on the line Monday when he downplayed the result of the strikes.

Those drone attacks, carried out by unmanned aircraft controlled thousands of miles away, don’t do a lot of harm, said the president. According to Obama, drones had “not caused a huge number of civilian casualties” and he added that it’s “important for everybody to understand that this thing is kept on a very tight leash.”

How small is that not-so huge number? If you ask anyone outside of the American intelligence community, they’ll tell you it is in the hundreds.

But what’s a few hundred civilian deaths, right?

Obama suggested that continuing the drone program would not be detrimental to the safety of foreign citizens, but studies conducted outside of the US say otherwise. Last summer, the UK’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism argued that since America began drone strikes, at least 385 civilians had been executed in US-led attacks. Of those statistics, the Bureau added that around half of the dead were children under the age of 18.

If you don’t take the word of foreign reporter’s, even American intelligence can confirm that the “not a huge number” statistic might be a bit of an exaggeration. One senior US official speaking on condition of anonymity added to CNN last year that CIA drone strikes had taken the lives of 50 civilians in all. As drone strikes go unreported and deaths unaccounted for, the actual number, unfortunately, is probably much higher than what either the CIA or the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can come up with. In a single strike last March, 26 Pakistanis were killed during a US strike over Islamabad. Once all deaths were accounted for, it was revealed that over a dozen of the deaths in that single raid were suffered by innocent civilians.

When the Bureau of Investigative Journalism released their findings last year, they said that the number of civilians killed in US drone strikes were probably 40 percent higher than what the US was actually reporting. Between 2004 and 2011, they put the estimate of civilian deaths at a figure of 385, but added in the research that the toll could actually come close to tallying 775 casualties.

Which, if you ask President Obama, is not a huge number.

If 775 isn’t a huge number, than 56 is practically a fraction. That’s the number of children executed by US drones in the first 20 months of the Obama administration.

“Even one child death from drone missiles or suicide bombings is one child death too many,” responded Unicef to the news at the time.

In 2009 alone, almost 600 civilians were killed on the ground in Afghanistan, and the United Nations put 60 percent of that figure as a direct result of airstrikes, drone or otherwise. In Pakistan, civilians say they are terrified of the robotic planes and the damage that they have already done. “There was not a single Taliban militant in Pakistan before 9/11 but since we joined this war, we are facing acts of terrorism, bombing and drone strikes,” Movement for Justice leader Imran Khan told the press in 2011.

In Libya, where the United States never even engaged in an official war, according to Obama, American troops launched 145 drone strikes in an attempt to oust the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in a matter of months. As with most drone missions, the Department of Defense has not released any official statistics on what casualties were caused by the strikes.

Regardless of what damage a drone strike can have on enemy insurgents, experts say that the toll visited on civilians is several times that of militants. In a 2009 report from the Brookings Institute, Senior Fellow Daniel L Byman wrote that “for every militant killed, 10 or so civilians also died.”

In Pakistan where drone strikes have become practically commonplace, civilians are terrified that they will become the next accidental target of American aircraft. Saadullah, a teenage boy who spoke with a BBC reporter last year, lost both of his legs in drone strikes. Three of his relatives, all civilians, have also been killed by American strikes. Asghar Khan, an elder in Islamabad that also spoke to BBC, said three of his relatives were also shot down in airstrikes.

“My brother, my nephew and another relative were killed by a drone in 2008,” said Khan. “They were sitting with this sick man when the attack took place. There were no Taliban.”

A decade after the US began so-called cooperation with Pakistani intelligence, anti-American sentiments continue to grow as do the number of casualties. “When we intervene in people’s countries to chase small cells of bad guys, we end up alienating the whole country and turning them against us,” counterterrorism expert David Kilcullen tells the Brookings Institute.

Now as the US puts surveillance drones over the skies of Iraq even after that war has officially ended, yet another country is becoming concerned that drones will drop bombs on their own civilians. “We hear from time to time that drone aircraft have killed half a village in Pakistan and Afghanistan under the pretext of pursuing terrorists,” 37-year-old café owner Hisham Mohammed Salah told the New York Times just this week. “Our fear is that will happen in Iraq under a different pretext.”

Under the Pentagon’s new revised budget, the US will phase out around 100,000 military staffers while adding droves of drones to its already established arsenal of robotic planes. Will drones soon become the United States’ not-so-secret weapon and phase out its Armed Forces personnel entirely? It’s not out of the question. After all, a drone strike authorized by Obama last year led to the death of two American citizens with alleged terrorist ties.

Don’t worry, though. Obama says these things are kept on a tight leash. Who actually pulls on that is as good of a guess as anyone’s, though. In November, the Wall Street Journal wrote that the “signature” strikes that account for most of the CIA’s drone missions only end up on the desk of the president after they are carried out. The US must only inform Pakistan of those strikes, by the way, if they believe the death toll will exceed 20.

Which really isn’t that big of a number either.

Monday, January 30, 2012 - starting at 7pm EST beyond

National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA twitter bomb!

If you have ever used Google Trends you will know the top column is the frequency a topic is searched, and the bottom column is the frequency the topic is discussed in the news.

National Defense Authorization Act - Allows for the unlawful indefinite detention of American citizens, it has been largely ignored by the media and politicians all over. 

On Monday we urge you to Google every thing you can about NDAA and post it on your twitter account. Use the hashtag #NDAA or better write out National Defense Authorization Act.

Look up YouTube videos, Jon Stewart did a piece on the bill, many others have voiced opposition towards the bill and now you should too!

Please, help the cause and raise awareness about the destruction of our civil liberties! 

Official News about NDAA:

THE YOUNG TURKS
NDAA & Obama: Defenders Are Wrong - Here’s Why
Obama Signs NDAA, ACLU Disgusted
ACLU
http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/NDAA
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/trust-me-is-not-enough-of-a-safeguard-says-amnesty-international-as-president-obama-signs-the-ndaa-i
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/12/14/us-refusal-veto-detainee-bill-historic-tragedy-rights
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD
http://www.nlg.org/news/announcements/nlg-condemns-ndaa-provisions/
JONATHAN TURLEY/THE GUARDIAN:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/02/ndaa-historic-assault-american-liberty
GLENN GREENWALD
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detention_bill/
THE NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/opinion/guantanamo-forever.html?_r=1
JUSTIA
http://verdict.justia.com/2012/01/02/the-ndaa-explained
NATURAL NEWS
http://www.naturalnews.com/034538_NDAA_American_citizens_indefinite_detainment.html

therealworldorder:

Rush Limbaugh speaks out against legislation in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that allows the president of the United States to detain INDEFINITELY any citizen of the United States that is suspected of terrorist activity, thereby eliminating habeas corpus for all Americans. Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate that has spoken out against it and the mainstream media has largely ignored this extremely dangerous piece of legislation.

(Source: youtube.com)

(Source: therealworldorder)

(Source: fucknsteff)

VIDEO: Scary Crackdown on NDAA Occupy Wall Street Protest

Oh, so maybe this is what life in post-NDAA America looks like. Gotcha. (Video below if you want to skip the background info.)

An apparently peaceful protester at Grand Central Station in Manhattan yesterday was, without warning, arrested and dragged away by NYPD.

What crime did she commit? (It is not a crime to speak at Grand Central; and, if you’ve ever lived in New York as I have, you’ll know that both Grand Central and Penn Station are filled with far louder — and more disagreeable — homeless people shouting things at all hours of the day. This, on the other hand, was a coherent, peaceful, and non-offensive protest of the NDAA — which is arguably the single scariest piece of legislation signed into law since the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.)

Has she been released from police custody yet?

Is she considered an enemy of the state, or “associated forces,” and therefore eligible for a one-way ticket down to the Guantanamo Beach Club?

I asked for her identity and whereabouts on Twitter. Shortly thereafter, @udipl tweeted: “I shot that video. I think someone said her name is Laura. I’ll ask around.”

Chilling. I can imagine, at some point in the not distant future, someone tweeting, “I think someone said his name was David. He wrote some blog posts about NDAA or something. I’ll ask around.”

At time of publication, I still have not been able to locate “Laura” — nor even verify if she has been released by the police yet. In NDAA America, they can keep you for as long as they want. Until “hostilities end,” which could be quite a while. Laura’s blue hair may be a light gray by the time we get to interview her.

UPDATE 4:28pm: Her name is Lauren Digioia, Gothamist has more details on the tenuous reasons given for her arrest here.

https://plus.google.com/104621204832216628958/posts?hl=en

(Source: youtube.com)

We are at war (with peaceful protesters, and with the 95% of Americans who disapprove of Congress’ performance).

As a result, we have suspended all of your civil rights. We can now detain, torture and kill American citizens — on US soil — using military force.

This isn’t a sci-fi movie. This actually passed into law on New Year’s Eve. Please educate yourselves. Google NDAA, or search for the #NDAA hashtag on Twitter real-time.

NDAA ‘US Is A Battlefield Bill’ Is Now Law (by davidseamanonline)

Obama’s Сhange: From kidnapping & torture to assassination (by RussiaToday)