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Now we all have to read the damn thing to see what’s in it. It’s a little disturbing that this comes so hot on the heels of the US rollout of aspects of its new Einstein wiretapping and ‘cybersecurity’ program and the CSIS announcement that they’ll be undertaking outreach and liason programs with the private sector, exactly what this plan proposes. The reason Einstein is relevant here is that it too details ways in which the United States government will federalize and standardize the network infrastructure of what they regard as private sector concerns vital to the security of the state. (Note: The first skim through the index looks like it’s giving Public Safety Canada a FEMA-inspired protocol, in which the state is run by the government cabinet committee through the ‘GOC’ (Government Operations Centre) and its regional Public Safety offices in an emergency, but watch this space for more details. The question becomes – what defines an emergency, this document has just announced that the ruling government’s cabinet can seize power in an emergency, this journal initially reads it. Get involved! Read it yourself and comment below.)

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The Canadian Press
March 15, 2010

OTTAWA — The government has released an “all-hazards” national emergency response plan four months after it was chastised for not having one approved by cabinet.

The plan outlines the responsibilities departments and agencies have in national or provincial emergencies, as well as international ones that could affect Canada.

“It outlines the processes and mechanisms needed for an integrated response to an emergency,” Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Monday.

“It’s also designed to co-ordinate emergency response efforts by federal, provincial and territorial governments, as well as the private sector and NGOs.

“Most of all, it will help to ensure that the government’s response to an emergency is seamless and timely and that key decisions can be made quickly when disaster strikes.”

Largely logistical in nature, the plan touches on virtually every conceivable natural or man-made disaster, from toxic spills and plane or train crashes to earthquakes, deadly storms and pandemics.

It also addresses government roles in tackling “cyber incidents” and terrorism – all in the name of protecting lives, property, national security and the economy.

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Flashback: Government will review ‘anti-terror’ security certificates: Van Loan | Adil Charkaoui, ‘terror suspect’, to be freed | Charkaoui asks court to toss security certificate case | Selective enforcement: Charkaoui barred from US airspace on flight from Fredericton to Montreal | CSIS reviews security certificate cases in wake of criticism | Tories aim to bring back anti-terrorism provisions | High court reprimands CSIS policy of destroying secret evidence in security case | More secrecy added to already secret process | Charkaoui set to fight new security certificate law | New security certificates issued | The New Security Certificate: Rushing injustice through the Senate | Court puts security certificates in limbo

The Canadian Press
March 12, 2010

A simple “sorry” and an offer to pay his legal fees might have sufficed, but Adil Charkaoui said he didn’t even get that courtesy from the federal government.

So the Moroccan-born Montrealer who was accused by Ottawa of being a terrorist and who spent several years living under tight restrictions believes he was left with little choice but to sue the federal government.

Charkaoui said Friday he intends to sue for $24.5 million to restore his tattered reputation after failing to get an apology from Ottawa.

He said the civil suit, filed in Quebec Superior Court on Feb. 22, is not about the money.

“I’m doing it to clear my name, this is very important for me,” Charkaoui told The Canadian Press in a telephone interview between teaching classes.

He said he sent a letter asking for an apology, Canadian citizenship and compensation for lost income and legal fees after a federal judge quashed a security certificate against him.

The response he says he received was that the government was just doing its job.

“To me it meant ‘Go to hell’,” Charkaoui said. “This is about accountability. I want to restore my name, and they made a mistake and destroyed my life in Canada and outside Canada, and they have to pay for what they did.”

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It’s good to see that the emergency workers are finally able to hold the government accountable for some of its lies on 9/11. For greater detail on the suffering the first responders have been through, point your browser towards the documentary Truth Rising. Skip over the opening montage to the 3:10 mark.

CBC News
March 12, 2010

$650M pact for police, firefighters in cleanup still needs approval

A $650-million US tentative deal has been reached between lawyers for the City of New York and thousands of emergency workers claiming cleanup from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks made them sick.

The $657 million coming out of a federal emergency insurance fund would be dispersed to police officers, firefighters and other workers involved in the cleanup.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who must approve the settlement, said at a hearing Friday that he needed time to ensure the deal is “fair, appropriate and just to all affected.”

Hellerstein said he would hold another hearing March 19 to let people weigh in on the settlement.

In the years following the attacks, many have complained about respiratory problems like asthma and other more serious health-related diseases including cancer.

Marc Bern, a senior partner with the law firm Worby, Groner, Edelman&Napoli, Bern LLP, which negotiated the deal, said it was “a good settlement.

“We are gratified that these heroic men and women who performed their duties without consideration of the health implications will finally receive just compensation for their pain and suffering, lost wages, medical and other expenses, as the U.S. Congress intended when it appropriated this money,” he said in a statement.

Thousands of police officers, firefighters and construction workers had filed lawsuits against the city, claiming they had been sent to ground zero without proper protective equipment.

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By who, Dr. No? It’s difficult to believe that any state agency would do this sort of thing to its citizens – and yet there are plenty of examples of it. Wartime germ spraying tests in England. The MKULTRA brainwashing program. Yet here, truth is not only stranger than fiction – it literally trips you out. Ergot (the bread mould), has long resulted in psychedelic experiences for ancient Europeans who dubbed it St. Anthony’s Fire. Sandoz, the CIA, Timothy Leary, Huxley and others synthesized the drug from this mould and/or popularized its use in popular psychiatry , on unsuspecting psychiatric patients and in grotesque mind control experiments on soldiers. It was thought to create a ‘model psychosis’. In the controlled experiment undertaken in a small French village outlined below, a psychological false flag event has been staged. It’s a simple misdirection trick, like the street performer’s shell game, only in this case undertaken by the state. The bread, here, stands in for the more usual ‘terrorism’. The side effects of the drug have to be blamed on something (usually someone in the ordinary wartime false flag) . The desired outcome is to gather data on the social effects of mass drugging, undertaken without consent. And if it has a traumatizing, pacifying effect as well then so much the better. Just like torture.

Flashback: Report: France ‘deliberately’ used soldiers as ‘nuclear guinea pigs’ | ‘They were looking for the ideal Manchurian Candidate’ | Government Experiments on U.S. Soldiers: Shocking Claims Come to Light in New Court Case | Psychologists Helped Guide CIA Interrogations | Vets Sue CIA Over Mind Control Tests | Atomic-testing veterans to receive whopping $24,000 each in compensation | Remembering Brainwashing | Chinese Torture Techniques Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo | Canadian MKULTRA project mind control victim to tell of pills, shocks, brainwashing | Much of Britain sprayed in secret germ warfare tests

Henry Samuel, The Telegraph
March 11, 2010

French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment

Heads, made out of bread by this Thai artist. Seemed appropriate somehow.

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

The mystery of Le Pain Maudit (Cursed Bread) still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France.

On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants were suddenly racked with frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.

One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: “I am a plane”, before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets.

Time magazine wrote at the time: “Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead.”

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People are being taught this new religion by the media – that it’s tough and cool to have the army doing checkpoints domestically, to have police now carry submachine guns around in London, UK, on the New York subway, etc. They’ve even launched these little pilot projects in Britain where your kids watch a ‘Spy Kids’ video, (same brand as the film) and are taught how to file reports to the police like the Young Spies in 1984. It’s as though Britain is just implementing Orwell’s visions in 1984 one after the other. And what did he learn, working at the BBC? He learned a lot about how powerful a tool propaganda can be when a state amps it up to engineer cultural mores.

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Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
March 11, 2010

Government ad running on British radio station tells public to report people who close their curtains as potential suicide bombers

A new government commercial currently running on one of Britain’s most popular radio stations is selling one thing – fear – by encouraging Londoners to report their neighbors as terrorists if they use cash, enjoy their privacy, or even close their curtains.

The advertisement, produced in conjunction with national radio outlet TallkSport, promotes the “anti-terrorist hotline” and encourages people to report individuals who don’t talk to their neighbors much, people who like to keep themselves to themselves, people who close their curtains, and people who don’t use credit cards.

“This may mean nothing, but together it could all add up to you having suspicions,” states the voice on the ad, before continuing “We all have a role to play in combating terrorism” (we’re all indentured stasi informants for the government).

“If you see anything suspicious, call the confidential anti-terrorist hotline….if you suspect it, report it,” concludes the commercial.

Listen to the ad below.

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Flashback: Washington Times: Architects for 9/11 Truth Present Petition to Congress | Blair lied and lied again: Mandarins reveal that 10 days before Iraq invasion PM knew Saddam couldn’t use WMDs | Able Danger and DIA had advanced knowledge of 9/11 | A Sibel Edmonds Bombshell – Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 | 9/11 Commission Counsel: Government Agreed to Lie About 9/11 | FDNY Lieutenant Admitted Plan To ‘Take Down’ WTC 7 | Key Witness to WTC 7 Explosions Dead at 53 | US Government Questioned on Forged Letter Linking Saddam to 9/11 | Emergency Official Witnessed Dead Bodies In WTC 7 Prior to Collapse | 9/11 widows call for new investigation after revelations of White House, commission ties | Director of 9/11 commission “secretly spoke with Rove, White House” | Eight U.S. State Department Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 | Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11

The Corbett Report
March 5, 2010

When losing a discussion on the facts of 9/11, a so-called 9/11 “debunker” will often rely on an old canard to “prove” that 9/11 could not have been an inside job: “So many people want their quarter hour of fame that even the Men in Black couldn’t squelch the squealers from spilling the beans,” write self-satisfied defenders of the government story. According to the logic of this argument, if there are no 9/11 whistleblowers then 9/11 was not an inside job.

So what if there are 9/11 whistleblowers? What if these whistleblowers come from every level of government and private industry, individuals who have even had their cases vindicated by internal government reports? As you are about to see, there are numerous such whistleblowers and each one is a thorn in the side of those who want to pretend that the 9/11 Commission represents the sum total of knowledge on the 9/11 attacks.

That is precisely why these whistleblowers are not lauded by legislators or trumpeted by the media, but actively suppressed by government officials and the corporate media alike. These courageous insiders have been sidelined, gagged, hounded from their positions and ignored to the point where their stories are virtually unknown among the general public. And that is exactly why it is vital for the alternative media to make these stories known by bypassing the filters and control of the establishment media.

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The CBC/CP in their reposting of this article, and in prior coverage, have been stripping out references to ‘conspiracy theories’ and the 9/11 truth movement. And they are well to do so, since to point to a couple of online postings from 2006 and to highlight concerns Bedell shared with large swathes of the American and Canadian populations as a suggested motivating factor for his suicidal attack on the pentagon is, well, rampant speculation. Why no media highlight of the paranoia and suicidal ideation caused by going off of anti-depressant meds? In light of the fact that the 9/11 truth angle was being widely covered in the American media mere hours after the shootings took place (well before any real police investigation could get underway), it was quite possibly an ideologically motivated propaganda campaign: as PrisonPlanet journos reveal, media mentions of the looming danger of 9/11 truth groups spiked in the weeks prior to the shooting (including in the conservative press), culminating in the release of a major SPLC report conflating populist dissent – constitutionalism, etc. – with skinheads and violent extremism. The CBC omission mentioned above is thus likely well intentioned and appreciated, but in the interest of covering this story completely, StatismWatch has opted to reproduce the text of the original unedited article. Note how the writers throw in a suggestion at the end for the reader to connect recent anti-state lone wolf attacks with ‘radical Islamic extremism’. In the interest, then, of fully examining – or stretching – all parallels between such cases, this journal also feels compelled to include mention of the case of another psychiatric patient engaged in a robotic attack that led to a security crackdown.

Flashback: Gunman shot and killed after shooting 2 Pentagon police officers | Public may not hear fate of Greyhound bus killer | Against protocol, bus decapitation accused released from Ontario institution in 2005 | Bus decapitation accused was guided by voices, trial hears | Greyhound introduces security screening of passengers, bans fruit, carry-ons | Second Greyhound stabbing suspect also required ‘psychological help’, media clamour for airport-style security renewed | Police drop off and pick up new Greyhound knife assault suspect | Greyhound bus passengers now subject to arbitrary luggage searches | ‘Please kill me,’ bus beheading suspect pleads as history of psychiatric treatment surfaces | Psych tests ordered for beheading suspect | Edmonton bus terminal ‘wide open’, security needed: ex-security guard | Bus beheading ‘a mystery’

Tracier Cone, Brooke Donalds, Associated Press
March 5, 2010

The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday.

It’s still unclear why John Patrick Bedell opened fire Thursday at the Pentagon entrance, wounding two police officers before he was fatally shot. The two officers were hospitalized briefly with minor injuries.

Bedell was diagnosed as bipolar, or manic depressive, and had been in and out of treatment programs for years. His psychiatrist, J. Michael Nelson, said Bedell tried to self-medicate with marijuana, inadvertently making his symptoms more pronounced.

“Without the stabilizing medication, the symptoms of his disinhibition, agitation and fearfullness complicated the lack of treatment,” Nelson said.

His parents reported him missing Jan. 4, a day after a Texas Highway Patrol officer stopped him for speeding in Texarkana. Bedell told the highway patrolman he was heading to the East Coast, and began acting strangely — sitting on his knees by the side of the highway and turning off his cell phone when it would ring.

Bedell said it was his mother calling, prompting the patrolman to answer the phone and talk briefly with her. Family friend Reb Monaco said Kaye Bedell asked the officer to take him to a mental health facility, but that the son refused.

The patrolman let Bedell go after issuing a speeding ticket and a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, including a pipe and a green plastic box with marijuana residue.

The next day, Kaye told deputies in California that her son had no reason to travel to the East Coast because he had no friends or family there and she and her husband were worried about his mental state, San Benito County Sheriff Curtis Hill said.

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The system eats its own.

Flashback: Alleged 9/11 mastermind to go on trial in NYC | CIA waterboarded 2 al-Qaida suspects 266 times | Sept. 11 suspects want to “confess” | Guantanamo 9/11 suspects on trial

Jennifer Loven, Associated Press
March 5, 2010

Senior officials say White House advisers are close to recommending military tribunals for self-professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen

In a potential reversal, White House advisers are close to recommending that U.S. President Barack Obama opt for military tribunals for self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his alleged henchman, senior officials said.

The review of where and how to hold a Sept. 11 trial is not over, so no recommendation is yet before the president and Mr. Obama has not made a determination of his own, officials said. The review is not likely to be finished this week.

Officials spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss private deliberations.

Attorney General Eric Holder decided in November to transfer Mr. Mohammed and the four other accused terrorists from the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to New York City for civilian trials. That was initially supported by city officials, but was later opposed because of costs, security and logistical concerns.

When opposition ballooned further into Congress and an attempted Christmas airline bombing brought massive scrutiny to Mr. Obama’s terrorism policies, the administration said it would review Mr. Holder’s trial decision and consider all options for a new location.

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So, the increased online surveillance and tracking we’ve been expecting is revealed as an ‘updated’ version of the Einstein program. Looking back on previous reports on the Einstein program, it’s clear that a Federal pilot program intended (initially) to spy on government employees is now to be ready to be rolled out to the rest of the Internet. Wayne Madsen revealed through his sources in Sept 2008 that Einstein, far from conducting routine traffic analysis – the official line at the time – conducts analysis of message content, and that the technology, codenamed Pinwheel, was developed for foreign signals intelligence. Mr. Madsen further reported that “The DNI and NSA also plan to move Einstein into the private sector by claiming the nation’s critical infrastructure, by nature, overlaps into the commercial sector. There are classified plans, already budgeted in so-called “black” projects, to extend Einstein surveillance into the dot (.) com, dot (.) edu, dot (.) int, and dot (.) org, as well as other Internet domains” This should not be news to anyone – whistleblowers within the telecom industry have already revealed the extent to which the NSA wiretaps Americans. Lawsuits against the telcos were dismissed in January for reason that the damages inflicted were ‘non-specific’. But this story’s even bigger than that: US net surveillance is just one aspect of a global program. You’d best speak up now while you can.

Flashback: Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet | Google, NSA may team up to probe cyberattacks | UN agency calls for global cyberwarfare treaty, ‘driver’s license’ for Web users | Death Of The Internet: Censorship Bills In UK, Australia, U.S. Aim To Block “Undesirable” Websites | Australia introduces web filters | Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned | UK Internet surveillance plan to go ahead | Security boss calls for end to net anonymity | Case for Internet spying not closed | Planned Internet, wireless surveillance laws worry watchdogs | UK ISPs condemn Internet surveillance plans | UK to found new ‘cyber-security’ units attached to national eavesdropping centre | ISPs must help police snoop on internet under new bill | UK plans to integrate ‘cybersecurity’ centre with US, Canada | Cybersecurity Is Framework For Total Government Regulation & Control Of Our Lives | Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate | EU wants ‘Internet G12′ to govern cyberspace | UK Home Secretary has secret plan to surveil, ‘Master the Internet’ | Munk Centre researchers discover botnet, call for international cyberspace ‘legal regime’ | NSA Dominance of Cybersecurity Would Lead to ‘Grave Peril’, Ex-Cyber Chief Tells Congress | Do We Need a New Internet? | Defense Contractors See $$$ in Cyber Security | RCMP to helm a Canadian “cyber-security strategy” | Sweden approves wiretapping law | Law Professor tells tech conference: plans to shut down Internet already on deck

Declan McCullagh, CNET News
March 4, 2010

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who told a House appropriations hearing that Einstein 3 could only be discussed in a classified setting, speaks at the RSA conference on Wednesday. (Credit: James Martin/CNET)

SAN FRANCISCO–Homeland Security and the National Security Agency may be taking a closer look at Internet communications in the future.

The Department of Homeland Security’s top cybersecurity official told CNET on Wednesday that the department may eventually extend its Einstein technology, which is designed to detect and prevent electronic attacks, to networks operated by the private sector. The technology was created for federal networks.

Greg Schaffer, assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications, said in an interview that the department is evaluating whether Einstein “makes sense for expansion to critical infrastructure spaces” over time.

Not much is known about how Einstein works, and the House Intelligence Committee once charged that descriptions were overly “vague” because of “excessive classification.” The White House did confirm this week that the latest version, called Einstein 3, involves attempting to thwart in-progress cyberattacks by sharing information with the National Security Agency.

Greater federal involvement in privately operated networks may spark privacy or surveillance concerns, not least because of the NSA’s central involvement in the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping scandal. Earlier reports have said that Einstein 3 has the ability to read the content of emails and other messages, and that AT&T has been asked to test the system. (The Obama administration says the “contents” of communications are not shared with the NSA.)

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This site’s purview is not to cover the actions and injustices perpetrated by individuals, but by the state, which throughout history has been far more culpable in mass death than any lone gunmen. However, this recent event is being used in the media and the blogsphere to tar those in 9/11 truth groups (and indeed nearly anyone expressing dissent) as some sort of dangerous time bomb. If that’s true, then as this recent CNN poll reveals, the majority of Americans must be dangerous, given that 56% of them believe the government represents a threat to citizen’s rights. A few things of interest to note about the case. [1. The postings being referred to breathlessly to point out John Patrick Bedell's dangerous antisocial beliefs are four years old. See here and here. 2. As ABC news reports from Arlington, "Bedell's family says he was treated for bi-polar disorder and been in and out of mental health facilities at least four times. He tried to treat depression and anxiety with marijuana. Bedell's psychiatrist says his marijuana use inadvertently made his symptoms more pronounced." Mixing weed and SSRIs, or abruptly going off of antidepressants, more than likely the medication which Bedell was on, is not a good idea since it can lead to suicidal ideation. 3. Bedell's family had warned the authorities multiple times that they suspected their son was unstable and in possession of weapons. These warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears - odd considering the recent twitchiness of law enforcement in the US.] In short, any social movement is going to have its crazies, and 9/11 truth has a broad appeal. 39% of Canadians have their doubts about 9/11, as was revealed in a recent Angus-Reid poll. What about the citizens of these twelve towns in New Hampshire that have taken a municipal ballot on 9/11 truth? All dangerous? This seems unlikely. If a schizophrenic martial artist – a movement notorious for it’s advocacy of self defence – robs a liquor store, is this a reflection on the ideals of the martial discipline? Is black-hat hacking a reflection on computer security consultants? It’s ridiculous.

Christine Simmons, Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press
March 4, 2010

Police say man calmly walked up to security checkpoint before drawing weapon from his pocket and opening fire

A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at a security checkpoint into the Pentagon on Thursday in a point-blank attack that wounded two police officers before the suspect was fatally shot.

The two officers suffered grazing wounds and were being treated in a hospital, said Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police. The shooter, identified as John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., died hours after being admitted to a hospital in critical condition, authorities said. They had no motive for the shooting.

There were signs, however, that Mr. Bedell may have harboured resentment for the military and had doubts about the facts behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

In an Internet posting, a user by the name JPatrickBedell wrote that he was “determined to see that justice is served” in the death of Marine Colonel James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover-up.

The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was “a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.”

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