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Interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney

Please take the time to view this important interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney. Important source information is contained herein. Mr. Binney is obviously very intelligent and provides important key insights and details of the inner operations of the NSA that most are unaware. It is also obvious that Mr. Binney has been so close to the action and so focused on the duties of his 36 year career, he has not had the time to investigate what part his actions have played in the larger picture. For example, he was not aware of operation Gladio, or the grander Anglo-American Geopolitical strategies and goals that direct the NSA; and though he found the official 9/11 report not credible, he still seemed to hold out a faint belief that mistakes were made; not that they were orchestrated by the same system he served. Despite this, this is a key video to be aware of; so please invest the time to become knowledgeable –up close and personal with William Binney– of the imminent and existential threat we all face at the hands of the NSA and the Stasi state they are currently creating.

–David Brown

View Richard Grove’s Tragedy and Hope interview with Mr. Binney at the link below…

The Future of Freedom: A Feature Interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney from Tragedy and Hope on Vimeo.

A 36-year veteran of America’s Intelligence Community, William Binney resigned from his position as Director for Global Communications Intelligence (COMINT) at the National Security Agency (NSA) and blew the whistle, after discovering that his efforts to protect the privacy and security of Americans were being undermined by those above him in the chain of command.

The NSA data-monitoring program which Binney and his team had developed — codenamed ThinThread — was being aimed not at foreign targets as intended, but at Americans (codenamed as Stellar Wind), was destroying privacy here and around the world. Binney voices his call to action for the billions of individuals whose rights are currently being violated.

William Binney speaks out in this feature-length interview with Tragedy and Hope’s Richard Grove, focused on the topic of the ever-growing Surveillance State in America.

On January 22, 2015: (Berlin, Germany) – The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is proud to announce that retired NSA Technical Director and GAP client, William “Bill” Binney, will accept the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Award today in Berlin, Germany. The award is presented annually by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) to a professional who has taken a strong stand for ethics and integrity. whistleblower.org/press/nsa-whistleblower-bill-binney-wins-prestigious-sam-adams-award

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Benghazi Deception

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Good, fact-based reporting by Jerome R. Corsi in the article linked just below. We’re inching slowly toward the truth, but the truth is yet to be told. Missing pieces: Why was the stand-down ordered after the embassy was attacked? Why did the so called rebels who attacked the embassy yell “Morsi sent us!” Morsi like Obama’s half brother Malik Obama is part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi was installed by the US and the MB as a result of the US-backed MB coup in Egypt only to be deposed by Egypt two months later. The truth is that Christopher Stephens knew too much about the state department and the illegal arms shipments and had to be eliminated. The truth is that these illegal shipments of arms came directly from a CIA cut-out company here in the US. Shipped to Benghazi => Turkey => Syria to be used against Syria’s Assad. The US has been, and continues to use ISIS (aka Al-Qaeda) as a US proxy force to destabilize countries in this region.

Admiral: U.S. could have ousted Gadhafi peacefully by Jerome R. Corsi

Psychopath, Hillary Rodham Clinton Celebrating the death of Gadhafi (above)

Read more from ClearNFO about ISIS and Benghazi here

CIA Whistleblower faces the ire of an angry Justice Department over Benghazi questions

Background – Russia and Turkey’s Pipeline Deal

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Important article by Joaquin Flores …

Russia and Turkey’s Gas Pipeline Deal: Implications for the European Union

Some helpful definitions below …

TEP: Third Energy Package

OMV is an integrated international oil and gas company, headquartered in Vienna. Its main businesses are exploration and production of oil and gas, natural gas distribution and power generation, and refining and marketing oil

Alexei Miller
Alexey Borisovich Miller is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom, Russia’s largest company and the world’s biggest natural gas producer.

Nabucco project
The Nabucco-West pipeline (also referred to as the Turkey–Austria gas pipeline) is a proposed natural gas pipeline from the Turkish-Bulgarian border to Austria. It is a modification of the original Nabucco Pipeline project, which was to run from Erzurum in Turkey to Baumgarten an der March in Austria. The aim of the Nabucco pipeline is to diversify the natural gas suppliers and delivery routes for Europe, thus reducing European dependence on Russian energy. The original project was backed by several European Union member states and by the United States, and was seen as a rival to the South Stream pipeline project. The main supplier was expected to be Iraq, with potential supplies from Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Egypt.[1] The main supply for the Nabucco West was to be Shah Deniz gas through the proposed Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP).

Shah Deniz energy consortium
The Shah Deniz consortium announced today that 25-year sales agreements have been concluded for just over 10 billion cubic metres a year (BCMA) of gas to be produced from the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan as a result of the development of Stage 2 of the Shah Deniz project. Nine companies will purchase this gas in Italy, Greece and Bulgaria.

The Shah Deniz Stage 2 project is set to bring gas directly from Azerbaijan to Europe for the first time, opening up the Southern Gas Corridor.

Levant
Countries and regions located in the Levant region (Cyprus, Hatay, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria)
Countries and regions sometimes included in the Levant region (Iraq and Sinai)
Entire territory of countries whose regions are included in the Levant region (Egypt and Turkey)

Atlanticism is a belief in the importance of cooperation between Europe and the United States and Canada regarding political, economic, and defense issues, with the purpose of maintaining the security and prosperity of the participating countries, and to protect the values that unite them.

Additional Reading:

Russia and Turkey’s Gas Deal can Save Europe and the World

Who is the Boss?

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | January 1, 2015

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FSB & BIS building (shaped like a boot) in Basel, Switzerland.

In 2008, we bailed out the banks with GW Bush’s TARP. Now we are set to BAIL-IN the banks. What that means is that if the banks need the money in your checking or savings account, they can just take it. You are in effect a creditor loaning your money to the banks when you make a deposit into one of the too big to fail banks and they can just take it if they need it. And what is worse, you are not first in line as a creditor to get paid back when and if they have the money. They will first pay off their derivatives obligations and if there is any money left –unlikely–you can have that. But with $303 trillion in exposure on derivatives amongst these US too big to fail banks, there may be no money left to pay for the money they took from your bank account. This is a bail-in, not a bail-out. But on what legal authority?

Citigroup Wrote the US Spending Bill – side by side view

Your Democrats and your Republicans hid this provision which was actually written by Citigroup not by Congress on page 615 of the 1,603 page spending bill they passed last month. Government Psyop: “We wouldn’t want another government shutdown now would we?”

So how did the Cyprus-style bail-in come to America? Here’s how it works… The FSB (Financial Stability Board) writes a white paper and takes it across the hall to the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) both located in the same building shaped like a boot in Basel, Switzerland. The BIS and the G20 then rubber stamp this recommendation and the vassal countries like the USA then pass it into law without consultation with you, the sovereign citizen. So if you want to know who’s boss, it ain’t you pally.

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

–George Orwell

Carroll Quigley in “Tragedy and Hope”…

“The Power of financial capitalism had a far reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks, which were themselves private corporations.”

Letter to Col. Edward Mandell House (21 November 1933); as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945, edited by Elliott Roosevelt (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), pg. 373:

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson — and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson’s fight with the Bank of the United States — only on a far bigger and broader basis.”

Additional Reading:

Interesting to note that Basel, Switzerland is also the home of Novartis AG, a Pharmaceutical company, but not just any pharmaceutical company: Novartis International AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number one in sales among the world-wide industry in 2013. According to Bloomberg, in 2009 “the CDC agreed to pay London-based Glaxo and Novartis, based in Basel, Switzerland, more than $415 million for adjuvants that could be added to the swine flu vaccines, according to a July 13 statement”.

The Times They Are A-Changin’

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Now granted not all children are happy or even have the opportunity for happiness; and those that do are not happy all the time, but when I look back on my childhood, most of my memories are of happiness and joy about everything. I had no balance sheet or income statement. I owed no taxes or bills and was completely unaware of world-events or problems that might impact me. I was focused on my immediate emotional, physical and intellectual –as they were—transactions with my local environment. And now as a Grandfather, I can see this same joy in my grandkids and I just cannot find the words to express my gratitude, thankfulness and happiness just to get the opportunity to see them play and interact with their environment as I once did. This represents a profound renewal for me and a chance to remember my sweeter, more innocent times when all manner of things could bring me joy.

So today, we as a nation and we as a global village, will soon face –what will be in my opinion– the greatest threat to humanity since records have been written. There is no clear exit plan or strategy that can completely avoid this; even for those who have made and accumulated massive fortunes by corrupting the system we all depend on, have no guarantee of a prosperous or even tolerable future when the last feather is plucked from that golden-egg-laying goose. So this is Mother Nature’s way of saying she has had enough corruption and now it is time to slough off the dead and decaying to bring forth a new system. With few exceptions, history has taught us that new systems are rarely as good or kind as the old ones; it does provide a unique and short opportunity-window for positive change to make a better system; but the system we get is completely dependent on us, and we must learn from our mistakes. So get busy learning and thinking and working on the new system you want, because “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and “The chance won’t come again”.

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.

Death Roster for 2014

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Celebrity Deaths 2014

Robin Williams
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
British vocalist Joe Cocker
Lauren Bacall
Joan Rivers
Harold Ramis (Ghost Busters)
Ann B. Davis, Alice from the (Brady Bunch)
Casey Kasem
Actor James Garner
District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry
Richard Attenborough
Child movie star Shirley Temple
“Pete” Seeger
Sid Caesar
Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia
Comedian David Brenner
Mickey Rooney
Eli Wallach the Ugly in the good bad and the ugly
James Traficant, D-Ohio
James Brady
Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee
Oscar de la Renta

INFANTICIDE (2014)

1.21 million Abortions in the USA
40 to 50 million worldwide or 125,000 abortions per day
Abortion Has Killed 1-2 Billion Worldwide in 50 Years

Elite pedophile rings probed by Scotland Yard

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From The Telegraph in UK:

“Five Westminster paedophile rings probed by Scotland Yard -Claims emerge of a complex web of child abuse at the heart of government, as leading MP in campaign for justice hands list of 22 names to police”

Wide-spread pedophilia amongst the elites, oligarchs and monarchs has long been common knowledge in the Alt media and is much more pervasive than reported here; and extends into the UN, the CIA, the U.S. Congress and of course the Royal Family. Interesting to note this article is reporting past offensives, not what is currently going on in America and Western Europe in spades among the elite and the powerful of the world. These pedophile rings have been fed these fresh new bodies and souls mostly from the former soviet-block countries through NATO ally Turkey. This is one of the perks of being an elite. There are no laws and no rules for our ruling oligarchs. It is interesting that the powers that ‘shouldn’t be’ are willing to let a few of these older cases surface via the captured MSM so that they can feign their fake moral outrage; at the same time, protecting the core of these long-established groups with new laws said to protect privacy and national security. This proclivity may also suggests a possible nexus between the debauched Anglo-American Establishment and their seemingly irrational acceptance and sometimes promotion of the Islamic Sharia Law’s promotion of Child Marriage.

The Telegraph in UK: Elite pedophile rings probed by Scotland Yard

Additional Reading:

Secrecy laws passed to hide pedophile ring connection to Royal Family
Child sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers
The Story of the CIA’s “Finders” Abduction Operation: The CIA Traffics in Drugs, Child Ritual Sexual Abuse, and Global Murder
Dutch Pedophile Political Party Wants Legal Sex Age Of 12
Hollywood pedophile parties: Symptom of a rampant disease feeding on innocent children
In Great Britain, Protecting Pedophile Politicians is a Matter of “National Security”
The Franklin Coverup Scandal

New Headlines in the Press …

Jeffrey Epstein profile: the billionaire paedophile with links to Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Robert Maxwell – and Prince Andrew

Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused

NOTE: In the 1950’s the U.S. federal government funded Dr. Alfred Kinsey, to research sexual effects on children as young as 6 months.

U.S. Government Race-Baiting

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Okay so the likes of Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and others have managed to ignite the smoldering ember of racial suspicion and distrust –granted sometimes supported by the facts; as any good propaganda campaign should be. You doubt me on this? Exhibit A: Eric Holder purposefully with malice and forethought cleverly re-stimulated a very painful memory in the minds of many blacks; knowing full-well most whites are blissfully unaware. That memory is the brutal and horrific torture and murder of a young innocent 14 year old black boy by white racists in 1955.

Emmett Till http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

Wikipedia:

“Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Several nights later, Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till’s great-uncle’s house. They took Till away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Three days later, Till’s body was discovered and retrieved from the river.”

“In September 1955, Bryant and Milam were acquitted of Till’s kidnapping and murder. Protected against double jeopardy, Bryant and Milam publicly admitted in an interview with Look magazine that they killed Till.”

Real Clear Politics: Attorney General Eric Holder likens the shooting of Michael Brown to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till after an event where a tree was planted in Till’s memory on Capitol Hill.

“The struggle goes on,” Holder said Monday. “And it’s not only Ferguson, there are other communities around our country where we are dealing with relationships that are not what they should be, be they official communities they are supposed to serve or whether it’s on a more personal level. There is enduring legacy that Emmett Till has left with us that we still have to confront as a nation.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/…/eric_holder_likens_micha…

It is clear to any thinking person who has bothered to pay the slightest bit of attention that Al Sharpton, like Jessie Jackson have made a very comfortable living keeping the racial divide festering by using a ‘race baiting’ tactic. Obama no doubt learned this useful tool from his many mentors including his parents (father a communist; mother a Marxist), Frank Marshall Davis (pornographer and communist), William Ayers (communist and terrorist), Saul Alinsky (rules for radicals) and of course his work as a community organizer under the intellectual guidance of Alinsky.

We have not just the clear evidence above of Eric Holder’s comments but the many statements by Obama and Al Sharpton to pour fuel on the fire of racial distrust and hatred … but for what purpose?

To get the answer to this question, we must stand back a bit and take a look at the bigger picture. The bigger picture is that while Obama and his minions are inflaming racial division and public hatred for the police, they are at the same time militarizing the police and giving massive new powers to the police state. On first glance, this does not make sense. The two positions seem to be polar opposites until you consider the political strategy here. Both the blacks and the police are being used for a larger goal. Just as the US orchestrated the civil war in Ukraine, they are setting the police against the blacks and the blacks against the whites and to cause additional fractures in these ‘United’ States, they are training the police to be suspicious and afraid of the ‘Constitutionalists’, the TEA Party, gun owners, veterans and any other group they that might pose a threat to their grander goals. The sad part of this story is that it is all working beautifully according to design.

The Most Dangerous Place for Blacks

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Here’s your ‘Joe Friday’ moment: “Just the facts, ma’am.”

The most dangerous place for a Black person in today’s America is in his mother’s womb: 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the United States and in NYC more black babies are aborted than were born.

Out of 2,928 black murders per year, 93% of black victims were murdered by blacks.

The offending rate for blacks was almost 8 times higher than whites.

(8/15/14): USA Today reported that on average there were 96 cases of a white police officer killing a black person each year between 2006 and 2012.

So far in 2014, 114 Police Killed on Duty in 2014; 46 Were Shot to Death.

“Several years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los, Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black.”

–Erma Clardy Craven (deceased) Social Worker and Civil Rights Leader

Additional Information & Resources:

http://www.blackgenocide.org/home.html

Ice Picks and Shotguns

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | December 5, 2014

You can buy shotguns and ammo at Walmart, but an ice pick … whoa … neighbor, now that’s just too dangerous.
When I was younger, you could stop into virtually any store and buy an ice pick. Not so true today. So, the other day, Amy and I went looking for an ice pick, but after visiting a hand full of stores, we were still empty handed so we went to our old standby, Walmart, and we were surprised to find nary a one, so I stopped the lady stocking product in the housewares section and asked her point blank why Walmart doesn’t have icepicks. She told me that they no longer carried them because they were too dangerous. I protested that they sold knives which are dangerous but not ice picks? She said that the knives on display had bolts in them and were therefore unusable; the others were sealed in a box. I started to explain that they could do the same with ice picks but I concluded I was wasting my time. As I started my way out of Housewares to the exit, I passed by the Walmart hunting section replete with shotguns and ammo and wondered about the real reason there were no ice picks.

I promptly went home and was pleasantly relieved when I typed ‘Amazon ice pick’ and immediately found a wide selection of this endangered tool. So in no time, I ordered Amy the ice pick of her dreams on Amazon. Problem solved.