THE GOAL OF THE ISIS PSYOPS IS WORLD WAR III

From:  The Common Sense Show

by Dave Hodges

ISIS is everywhere and America should be paralyzed with fear. ISIS is in Ferguson, they are on Twitter, they are in Iraq and Syria, they are crossing our undefended southern border. TheY could be carrying Ebola into the country. Stop, stop, stop! Here is a phrase that I would like all Americans to memorize and recite often:

“ISIS is everywhere, because the CIA is everywhere”.

ISIS Is a Classic PSYOPS

America is both shocked and horrified at the video posted  on August 19th, on YouTube,  showing American Journalist, James Foley kneeling next to a man dressed in black. Foley reads a message, presumably written by his captors, that his “real killer” is America.

“I wish I had more time. I wish I could have the hope for freedom to see my family once again.”

Foley can be heard saying in the video.  He is then shown being beheaded. ISIS controls vast territory of both Syria and Iraq, and they just posted a video on the Internet of the beheading of an American journalist. America can expect to see much more of the same in order to maximize the PSYOPS that is being directed at American public opinion as we rapidly move towards our date with World War III.

ISIS has released a number of tweets which proclaims they are going to bring to America extreme harm.

#AmessagefromISIStoUS

We are in your state

We are in your cities

We are in your streets

You are our goals anywhere

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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part I

From:  Occupy

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is funding a multimillion dollar university research program to develop new data mining and analysis tools for the U.S. military intelligence community to track political radicalism among British Muslims and other activist groups around the world.

Leading intelligence experts including former National Security Agency (NSA) official Thomas Drake – the whistleblower who inspired Edward Snowden – confirm that the tools are designed to enhance the intelligence community’s capabilities to identify potential terrorism suspects that could face a range of sanctions, from surveillance to no-fly injunctions to, at worst, being targeted for extrajudicial assassination via the CIA’s "kill lists."

But, they say, inherent flaws in the program are instead likely to facilitate the criminalization of political dissent and the targeting of innocent civilians – and that such trends are increasingly likely to affect not just "hostile theatres" abroad, but even domestic populations in the U.S., Britain and Europe.  MORE

PART II

TUE, 8/19/2014 - BY NAFEEZ MOSADDEQ AHMED

This is the second installment in a four-part investigative series about U.S. Defense-funded programs to spy on activists and Muslims worldwide. The series runs Monday through Thursday this week on Occupy.com. Read the first installment here.

The Pentagon’s multimillion dollar Minerva research program to fund social science research for military applications includes a flagship project established in 2009 at Arizona State University (ASU) to examine “radical” and “counter-radical” Muslim movements in Southeast Asia, West Africa and Western Europe.

The project’s "expert wisdom gathering tool," used by academics involved in the project to assess and rank the threat-level from organizations and civil society groups, set its sights on the UK, Germany, France, Europe generally, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.

Although purportedly designed to assess Islamic movements, among the 36 UK organizations targeted for ranking on the tool’s "radicalization" scale are several non-Muslim activist groups critical of US, British and Israeli foreign policy. A deeper analysis of the criteria used by the project to label organizations discloses serious deficiencies that tend to cast suspicion of propensity for violence on any group calling for radical social, political or religious change.  MORE

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is funding a multimillion dollar university research program to develop new data mining and analysis tools for the U.S. military intelligence community to track political radicalism among British Muslims and other activist groups around the world.
Leading intelligence experts including former National Security Agency (NSA) official Thomas Drake – the whistleblower who inspired Edward Snowden – confirm that the tools are designed to enhance the intelligence community’s capabilities to identify potential terrorism suspects that could face a range of sanctions, from surveillance to no-fly injunctions to, at worst, being targeted for extrajudicial assassination via the CIA’s "kill lists."
But, they say, inherent flaws in the program are instead likely to facilitate the criminalization of political dissent and the targeting of innocent civilians – and that such trends are increasingly likely to affect not just "hostile theatres" abroad, but even domestic populations in the U.S., Britain and Europe.

- See more at: http://www.occupy.com/article/exposed-pentagon-funds-new-data-mining-tools-track-and-kill-activists-part-i#sthash.KHlGIh3A.dpuf

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Why I blockaded an oil train | GUEST OPINION

From:  Bainbridge Island Review

BY ANNETTE KLAPSTEIN

On Monday, July 28, I joined Jan Woodruff of Anacortes and Adam Gaya of Seattle in locking ourselves to barrels full of concrete on the rail spur into the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes in order to keep an oil train from leaving the refinery.

Why would a 62-year-old retired lawyer and long-time resident of Bainbridge Island take such a drastic action?

The short answer is: I could not do otherwise.  MORE

July Ocean Temperature Hits Record High—Again

From:  EcoWatch

by Anastasia Pantsios

Last month, Earth’s ocean surfaces tied the previous record for the hottest July during the 130 years the U.S. government has been compiling data.

Ocean surfaces last month tied for the second hottest July on record. Photo credit: Shutterstock

The National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the average temperature was 62.56 degrees Fahrenheit, 1.06 degrees above the 20th-century average. The ocean surfaces also reached that temperature in July 2009. It’s the third straight month this year that ocean surface temperatures set a record.

The NOAA reported:

Much warmer than average and record warm temperatures were prevalent in every major ocean basin, particularly notable across parts of the Arctic Seas between Greenland and northern Europe, the southern Indian Ocean, and the western equatorial Pacific Ocean. Neither El Niño nor La Niña conditions were present across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during July 2014. Temperature departures from average in this region, a major indicator of the conditions, cooled slightly compared with the previous month. 

Other July statistics from the NOAA:

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Panda in Ferguson - CNN

NDAA Resistance:
Ferguson, Missouri. 
Most Americans had never heard of the city before this week. Just a small town in Missouri, that has now become America's battlefield.
America's warzone. 
I have been here since Saturday morning. I have seen everything from prayer circles and press conferences with the protesters, to National Guardsmen positioned as snipers on store rooftops. I have been directed out of parking lots by military police, and ordered to keep moving by highway patrolmen. 
I have taken my time to connect with community leaders, and hopefully made some progress in that regard. I have helped clean up this community with the people here, and had conversations with Ferguson residents - some wonderful, some slightly hostile. 
I have had my eyes completely opened while down here. I originally showed up quietly, not intending to make a ruckus, just to connect with community leaders and help out in the area. Today, I live streamed to nearly 25,000 people, and slammed the militarization of our nation on CNN. 
This is what the NDAA looks like. When the only difference between the police and military is one is under the DoD (Department of Defense), and one is not, there is no practical difference. The Ferguson police coalition treated peaceful protesters like criminals, instead of dealing separately with a small criminal element.  They acted like, and continue to act like, an occupying force in the community. 
Of course, now even the National Guard is here. 
I would love to write a longer report, and at one point I will. For now, I will be reporting live from this channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/feelinsofly
Please check that out, and you can support PANDA's efforts here in Ferguson, to help this community recover and send a message to the rest of the country that this type of response is unacceptable in any community in America. Ever. 
Please support our efforts here: http://www.gofundme.com/d1yrig
I will be here in Ferguson until the community no longer needs me. This is what PANDA was made for. This is what we were meant to do. I challenge any organization that considers liberty important to send people down here and truly stand up against the military state. 
-Dan Johnson
Founder, PANDA
People Against the NDAA
Invite others to get breaking news from the NDAA Resistance: https://tinyletter.com/pandaunite
 

Those robo-cops in Ferguson--and not just there--are out to kill the poor

From:  Time Magazine

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Ferguson is not just about systemic racism -- it's about class warfare and how America's poor are held back, says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Will the recent rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, be a tipping point in the struggle against racial injustice, or will it be a minor footnote in some future grad student's thesis on Civil Unrest in the Early Twenty-First Century?

The answer can be found in May of 1970.
You probably have heard of the Kent State shootings: on May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University. During those 13 seconds of gunfire, four students were killed and nine were wounded, one of whom was permanently paralyzed. The shock and outcry resulted in a nationwide strike of 4 million students that closed more than 450 campuses. Five days after the shooting, 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C. And the nation's youth was energetically mobilized to end the Vietnam War, racism, sexism, and mindless faith in the political establishment.

You probably haven't heard of the Jackson State shootings.

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How California's extreme drought will lead to a wave of earthquakes

From:  Natural News 

by Ethan Huff

(NaturalNews) With about 60 percent of the state now limping through the worst categorical level of drought on record, California faces an unprecedented water crisis that, besides triggering shortages, stands to greatly influence the availability of fresh produce nationwide. And as far as its own residents and the residents of nearby states are concerned, there is an additional threat also waiting in the wings: the increased likelihood of earthquakes.

A new study published in the journal Nature raises some serious questions about the stability of California now that underground aquifers are plunging to record lows. All throughout the Central Valley, which grows most of the nation's lettuce, almonds and other produce, more water is being pumped out of the ground than is being put back in, a phenomenon that researchers say is causing the ground to shift.

According to a team of geologists led by Colin B. Amos from Western Washington University, the subterranean landscape beneath the earth, also known as the lithosphere, is literally separating from the land on top throughout California. The California Coast Ranges, the Tehachapi Mountains, and the southern Sierra Nevada, says TakePart's Chris Clarke, are rising by as much as three millimeters per year, or roughly an inch every 10 years.

A series of 500 GPS recorders carefully placed throughout the Central Valley and its surrounding mountains revealed that the water table throughout the area is rapidly dwindling. This means that the 176 billion-ton water load that normally holds down the lithosphere is becoming increasingly lighter, resulting in a land separation that, historically speaking, has made the ground more prone to seismic activity.

"Groundwater pumping unburdens the lithosphere," said William Hammond, a geologist at the University of Nevada and co-author of the study, as quoted by TakePart. "When you pump that much groundwater, the load gets taken away and the landscape essentially bounces up. The Sierra Nevada is rising more quickly as a result of groundwater pumping in the Great Valley."

2011 earthquake in Spain caused by water overdrafts, say scientists

Back in 2011, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that rocked Lorca, Spain, killing 10 people and causing extensive infrastructure damage, was found to have been caused by the overdraft of water from local aquifers. A cohort of researchers determined that, based on the fault slip pattern and movement of land at the surface, changes in aquifer volumes were the most likely cause of the quake.

"The area of fault slip correlates well with the pattern of positive Coulomb stress change that we calculate to result from the extraction of groundwater in a nearby basin aquifer," wrote the authors of a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. "Our results imply that anthropogenic activities could influence how and when earthquakes occur."

In the Central Valley, a similar phenomenon has been documented in relation to when the most water is drawn from underground aquifers to nourish crops. In the late summer and early fall, according to geologists, the Parkfield section of the infamous San Andreas Fault system typically experiences increased seismic activity exceeding 1.25 magnitude or higher, which is also the time when the most water is drawn.

"That seasonal change means loading and unloading on the lithosphere," added Hammond. "The earth flexes up and down, and small earthquakes seem to respond to that."

Sources for this article include:

http://www.takepart.com

http://www.nature.com

http://www.bbc.com

http://science.naturalnews.com