FBI Agents Earning Career Points Every Time They Put Someone on the Watch List

Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC "Terrorism Enterprise" for great "statistical accomplishment"

By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia - More than 300 newly released pages of Iowa FBI investigation files confirm the existence of a busy network of federal agents across the Midwest dedicated to clamping down on political dissenters. A Freedom of Information Act request by Des Moines' David Goodner revealed two extensive "Terrorism Enterprise" style investigations against dissenters mainly run by the Omaha FBI office into Iowa, including digging through garbage, watching restaurants, advanced data mining and cell phone record collection. The agents involved claimed "statistical accomplishment" of saving our nation from terrorism: this is exactly, how, and why, federal agents endlessly create pretend counterterror campaigns.

More incidents keep spilling out: yet another report from the Department of Justice oversight office (ZIP 2.4MB), the Office of the Inspector General, spelled out the FBI's deception towards Congress in spying on antiwar activists in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. The DOJ-OIG report focuses on FBI spying against meetings at Pittsburgh's Thomas Merton Center, the friendly group which houses Twin Cities Indymedia's counterpart, PGH Independent Media Center, and hosted many IMCers during the 2009 G20. And of course they cheated on tests about surveillance!

Download Cointelpro Gothic - the Iowa investigation, proving the existence of a national FBI Domestic Terrorism "Anarchists Team":300 pages FBI FOIA [9MB PDF/ Browse]. Related coverage: Iowa FBI investigation in Des Moines Register | ACLU files new PGH G20 lawsuit | PGH Trib-Review: Lawsuit planned after terror list | Docs show anti-drill PA tracking | OIG: FBI Inappropriately Tracked Domestic Advocacy Groups - The Atlantic. Below the fold: How FBI launches counterterror snooping, adds dissidents to terror watchlists!

Dragnet Searches on DC Transit Prompt Local Advocates to Mobilize Against Police State Random Bag Searches

Shahid Buttar | Civil rights lawyer and electronica MC | HuffingtonPost

On the same day that the Washington Post revealed that our federal government is "is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators," the District of Columbia continues to reel from recent news of dragnet searches without individualized suspicion throughout the region's transit system.

Affecting 86 rail stations and more than 12,000 bus stops, the new bag search policy has prompted concerns across the political spectrum. The Washington Times published an editorial last week noting TSA's involvement in the Metro's new search policy andconcluding that "The security theater once exclusive to America's airports is now playing at a local Metro station." Two local coalitions supported by BORDC, the DC Bill of Rights Coalition and the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition, have sponsored an online petition for anyone who "oppose[s] random bag searches of metro passengers as unconstitutional, ineffective and misguided."

While the domestic intelligence collection apparatus described by the Post may be formally distinct from the TSA procedures being implemented on buses and trains across DC, the programs share a similar disregard for the Fourth Amendment. Reacting to this disturbing growth of domestic surveillance without individual suspicion -- in a country which only 20 years ago celebrated a world-historical victory in the name of freedom and individual privacy -- coalitions in nearly 20 cities around the country have mobilized to raise their concerns and seek enforceable protections from their local officeholders.

Aspartame - Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy

Ed. Note: Aspartame is forbidden to US military aircrews in cockpit and 8 hours before flight: 

Both the Air Force's magazine, Flying Safety, and the Navy's magazine, Navy Physiology, published articles warning about the many dangers of aspartame including the cumulative delirious effects of methanol and the greater likelihood of birth defects. The articles note that the ingestion of aspartame can make pilots more susceptible to seizures and vertigo. Twenty articles sounding warnings about ingesting aspartame while flying have also appeared in the National Business Aircraft Association Digest (NBAA Digest 1993), Aviation Medical Bulletin (1988), The Aviation Consumer (1988), Canadian General Aviation News (1990), Pacific Flyer (1988), General Aviation News (1989), Aviation Safety Digest (1989), and Plane & Pilot (1990) and a paper warning about aspartame was presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association (Gaffney 1986).

A hotline was even set up for pilots suffering from acute reactions to aspartame ingestion. Over 600 pilots have reported symptoms including some who have reported suffering grand mal seizures in the cockpit due to aspartame. Makes you wonder when the NTSB claims pilot error as the cause of those crashes.

Monsanto to Fight Potential Lawsuit By Organic Farmer Whose Land Ruined by GMOs

(NaturalNews) Australian organic farmer Steve Marsh recently had his organic certification status pulled by the National Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Australia (NASAA) because his organic wheat field was contaminated by a nearby genetically-modified (GM) canola field. And after Marsh threatened to sue the GM farmer for the incident -- which has cost Marsh his entire business, by the way -- Monsanto, the owner of the GM canola, came out and said it would legally back the GM farmer "in any way [it] could."

A previous NaturalNews report on the issue explains that GM canola materials blew from a nearby GM field about a mile away and contaminated over 540 acres of Marsh's organic wheat fields (http://www.naturalnews.com/030686_G...). As a result, Marsh's fields can no longer be considered organic due to very high standards in the Australian organic industry that hold a "zero tolerance" policy concerning contamination with foreign genetic material.

With Food Safety Bill, U.S. Government Will Spend Nearly $1 Million of Your Tax Dollars Per Person to Prevent Food-borne Illness Deaths

Despite all the food safety hype and fear-mongering, did you know that e.coli transmitted through food only kills 78 people a year in America? (Source: CDC).

In fact, if you actually do the math on foodborne fatalities and what's being addressed by the recent Food Safety Modernization Act, it turns out that the U.S. government is going to spend nearly $1 million for each fatality prevented -- and that's assuming the FDA's food safety plan even works! (And that it stays on budget...)

Here's my economic analysis of the outrageous numbers behind the food safety bill and why this same $1.4 billion would be better spent elsewhere:

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths

(NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?

To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:

• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5n...).

• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, from the CDC's chart). Interestingly, according to the CDC's own numbers (from 1998), more people are killed from being struck by lightning each year than from e.coli.

• Listeria kills 499 people andSalmonellakills 553 people. But salmonella poisoning is easily acquired from store-bought chickens, of which two-thirds are contaminated with salmonellaevery day! Since the food safety bill doesn't even address chickens, cows or other animals because those are handled by the USDA, this salmonella fatality figure probably won't be reduced at all. (Salmonella comes largely from animals: Fowl, reptiles, etc.)

So how many people will the Food Safety Modernization Act actually impact? It's primarily going to address e.coli poisoning and Listeria contamination. So we're talking about a grand total of 78 + 499 people each year, or 577 people.

By the way, for comparison, consider the fact that 300 people die in the U.S. each year from penicillin allergies. Another 14,500 people die each year from taking NSAID painkiller medications. Nearly three quarter of a million people are killed by conventional medicine (drug deaths, surgical mistakes, iatrogenic deaths, etc, source: Death By Medicine). Congress does nothing to address these causes of death, of course. The focus is on the few hundred people who die each year from the common causes of food-borne illness.

So in order to prevent the deaths of 577 people each year for five years, the U.S. Congress is going to spend $1.4 billion!

Unbelievable! S.510 to Invoke Codex Alimentarius Harmonization Utilizing FDA, DHS, US Treasury to Police Food Safety of Global Food Supply of Foreign Nations

When you read S.510 (the Food Safety Modernization Act), it's astonishing to find what's actually written there.

The naysayers complain that there's nothing in the bill about Codex Alimentarius. They are lying. It's on page 195 in the bill and written in plain English (see below).

There's also a section where it says the FDA will run the food safety operations of foreign nations, and that this global food "plan" will involve the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Treasury.

Seriously. I couldn't make this stuff up.

Think I'm kidding? Check it out for yourself below, which includes a link to the U.S. government certified document that contains all this text in plain English that you can see for yourself:

Food safety bill invokes Codex harmonization and grants FDA authority to police food safety of foreign nations

(NaturalNews) Of all the talk about S.510, virtually no one has actually read the language in the bill -- especially not those lawmakers who voted for it. The more you read from this bill, the more surreal it all becomes. For example, did you know there's a global FDA power grab agenda hidden in the Food Safety Modernization Act? Keep reading and I'll quote text straight out of the bill itself.

Section 305 is entitled "BUILDING CAPACITY OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS WITH RESPECT TO FOOD SAFETY" and it gives the FDA authority to set up offices in foreign countries and then dictate the food safety plans of foreign governments. It says, specifically, on page 217 of the bill (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-...):

SEC. 308. FOREIGN OFFICES OF THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.
(a) IN GENERAL. - The Secretary shall establish offices of the Food and Drug Administration in foreign countries selected by the Secretary.

It then goes on to say: