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Abby Martin goes over the 6 corporations that control nearly everything in the mainstream media, and discusses a few of the most famous cases of media censorship with BTS producer, Manuel Rapalo.

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There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the NSA is actually doing.  Are they reading our emails?  Are they listening to our telephone calls?  Do they target American citizens or is it only foreigners that they are targeting?  Unfortunately, the truth is that we aren’t going to get straight answers from our leaders about this.  The folks running the NSA have already shown that they are willing to flat out lie to Congress, and Barack Obama doesn’t exactly have the greatest track record when it comes to telling the truth.  These are men that play word games and tell lies for a living.  So it would be unrealistic to expect them to come out and tell us the unvarnished truth about what is going on.  That is why it is so important that whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden have come forward.  Thanks to them and to the brave journalists that are willing to look into these things, we have been able to get some glimpses behind the curtain.  And what we have learned is not very pretty.  The following are 21 facts about NSA snooping that every American should know…

#1 According to CNET, the NSA told Congress during a recent classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls…

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed on Thursday that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed “simply based on an analyst deciding that.”

If the NSA wants “to listen to the phone,” an analyst’s decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. “I was rather startled,” said Nadler, an attorney and congressman who serves on the House Judiciary committee.

#2 According to U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, members of Congress learned “significantly more than what is out in the media today” about NSA snooping during that classified briefing.

#3 The content of all of our phone calls is being recorded and stored.  The following is a from a transcript of an exchange between Erin Burnett of CNN and former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente which took place just last month…

BURNETT: Tim, is there any way, obviously, there is a voice mail they can try to get the phone companies to give that up at this point. It’s not a voice mail. It’s just a conversation. There’s no way they actually can find out what happened, right, unless she tells them?

CLEMENTE: No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. It’s not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present in court, but it may help lead the investigation and/or lead to questioning of her. We certainly can find that out.

BURNETT: So they can actually get that? People are saying, look, that is incredible.

CLEMENTE: No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not.

#4 The chief technology officer at the CIA, Gus Hunt, made the following statement back in March…

“We fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever.”

#5 During a Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee hearing in March 2011, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted that the intelligence community has the ability to access emails “as they come in”…

“We put in place technological improvements relating to the capabilities of a database to pull together past emails and future ones as they come in so that it does not require an individualized search.”

#6 Back in 2007, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell told Congress that the president has the “constitutional authority” to authorize domestic spying without warrants no matter when the law says.

#7 The Director Of National Intelligence James Clapper recently told Congress that the NSA was not collecting any information about American citizens.  When the media confronted him about his lie, he explained that he “responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner“.

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With all the controversy circling in the mainstream media about the necessity of GMO farming due to world population explosions and a diminishing global food supply, it is time to debunk some of the biggest myths about GMO foods. Don’t be fooled by the propaganda being fed to you by Monsanto and other corporate industrialists who want to keep you on their fishing line with lies about the ‘importance’ of genetic modification. Natural Society is here to bust the myths with solid proof:

1.   GMO seeds are sterile. FALSE. However, GMO seeds have been called suicide seeds or terminator seeds because they have an approximate termination date so that farmers have to keep purchasing new seed from the companies that make them, like Monsanto. This, in turn, allows those companies to maintain a monopoly on the world food supply. Once all our major crops are sewn with patented seeds with specific termination dates, Monsanto and its cohorts will be able to collect royalties just like Michael Jackson’s family does on the song ‘Thriller.’

2.   GMO foods taste as good or better than organics. FASLE. Most people can taste the difference between an organic apple and a poison one. Even squirrels can taste the difference in organic vs. non-organic food.

3.   Monsanto can sue farmers who grow organic crops but later grow ‘contaminated’ or GMO cross-bred plants – FALSE. However, organic farmers recently lost a federal court battle with Monsanto when they tried to sue the company for contaminating their organic fields.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a previous ruling that found ‘organic growers had no reason to try to block Monsanto from suing them as the company had pledged it would not take them to court if biotech crops accidentally mix in with organics.” This still makes Monsanto-crops a concern for farmers who don’t trust that Monsanto will be good for their word. Monsanto, is after all, suing farmers who save seed, claiming they are violating patents.

4.   You can keep bio-tech seeds and organic or heirloom seeds separate. FALSE. Mother nature will always blend seed. Wind, rain, storms, bees, etc. can’t be controlled. Recently two organic farmers in Australia talked about how easily their crops were cross-contaminated with GMO seed after a big storm. The more GMO seed that is planted, the more acreage it covers, the more we need to worry about a non-GMO seed supply.

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Press TV reports on the latest news headlines from around the world.

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Apple received thousands of requests from US authorities for user info, but was unaware of Washington’s PRISM program, the company said. It joins internet giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft, which all disclosed data at the behest of the authorities.

Following similar statements by Google and Facebook, Apple said that it had consented to give customer information to the American authorities.

“We have asked the US government for permission to report how many requests we receive related to national security and how we handle them. We have been authorized to share some of that data,” Apple said in a press release.

From December 1, 2012, to May 2013, Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 such requests. Most of these orders pertained to criminal investigations and matters of national security, such as “searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer’s disease or hoping to prevent a suicide.”

The release stresses, however, that every request undergoes careful consideration by Apples legal department to evaluate its validity. It also noted that conversations over iMessage and FaceTime were encrypted and impossible to tap.

“We will continue to work hard to strike the right balance between fulfilling our legal responsibilities and protecting our customers’ privacy as they expect and deserve,” concluded the release.

Since classified documents were leaked showing that PRISM software, operational since 2007, was collecting private information through the servers of the internet giants Google, Facebook and Microsoft, the companies have been adamant they were ignorant of its existence.

“From time to time, people allege that we have created a government ‘backdoor’ into our systems, but Google does not have a ‘backdoor’ for the government to access private user data,” said Google via statement last week.

The whistleblower Edward Snowden, who divulged the information to The Guardian, has taken refuge in Hong Kong and has said he will fight any order to extradite him.

US President Barack Obama has defended the measures as necessary and justified in the interests of national security. He stressed that Washington struck a balance between personal privacy and security interests.

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Following my last article The Law of Attraction and The Power of Your Mind, the subsequent information intends to further expand into the application of the necessary skill of discernment in order to manifest your desired reality.

To recap: Your mind is a sophisticated broadcasting system. We emit and absorb frequencies according to the frequencies (thoughts and belief systems) that we hold in our mind. In order to reset our innate power of creation, we must get our mind right by consciously applying discernment to every frequency (thought or emotion) that we emit and absorb. In other words, choosing to accept or reject frequencies is the first step in re-setting your broadcast system (your mind). It is how we begin to attune ourselves to source energy, our higher self, our life’s purpose, happiness, love, our true potential, etc.

Since the average individual’s mind broadcasts in the ballpark of 70 000 thoughts per day, we would drive ourselves absolutely mad trying to discern (monitor) every one of those thoughts. Especially since the vast majority of those are ingrained in the sub-conscious through belief systems that have deeply conditioned our habitual neuron pathways. The good news is that there is a shortcut to monitoring your thoughtsand re-attuning yourself to your true manifestation potential. That shortcut is your emotions: your innate guidance system. This is a basic process that is fundamental to manifestation. Focus on feeling good! When your emotions are signaling that something (a frenquency) doesn’t feel good, apply discernment and re-focus your vibration on anything that feels good (a higher frequency). Listen to the ‘whispers’ (aka frequencies) life is offering to you as Oprah would say….

Ok, now it’s time to elaborate on the implementation of discernment, here it is:

DISCERNMENT requires DETACHMENT.  

Detachment is the state of being OBJECTIVE. In order to discern (or filter if that makes more sense to you) a situation (frequency) that you have manifested into your current reality, you must be able to detach yourself from it before compulsively(reptilian brain response) reacting to it. Being ‘impulsive’ is to react without forethought.

This will be a great challenge at first, I’m not gonna sugar coat it, I’ve found that this can stir up all kinds of change in your life. Because until recently in our history, we had been conditioned to operate and function mainly out of the reptilian brain. We had been operating/ manifesting out of the ‘survival’ mode section of the brain. Once you can understand this concerted mental oppression, you can begin to re-train your mind (free yourself from constant reptilian brain generated reaction) and re-set your innate human gift of creative power.

This will be easier to apply if you can give yourself a minute to comprehend and really soak in the following aspects about the functioning of your brain:

Humans have 3 independent yet interconnected sections in our brain:

1)  The Reptilian section 2) The Limbic section  & 3) The Neo-cortex section.   Each section has it’s purpose.

The Reptilian section (1) is the instant (no discernment) ‘survival mode’ response section of the brain. It is the oldest in terms of our human evolution, ‘The Old Brain’, The Reptilian Brain.

The Limbic section (2) is the section of the brain that first emerged in Mammals. It generates our feelings and emotions in regard to our current reality.

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(NaturalNews) How did a plant that is so easily cultivated with so many uses since it was first grown in China around 6,000 BC become illegal? Even the original Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

Hemp fiber was used for sails and ropes for sea-going vessels during the 17th and 18th Centuries. Up until the early 20th Century, removing hemp fiber by hand was too tedious and slow for hemp to compete with other industries propelled by the burgeoning machine age.

But as WWI broke out, a German immigrant in California, George Schlichten, invented and successfully tested the first hemp decorticator, which could mechanically strip hemp of its fiber rapidly and efficiently.

Associates of the USA’s newspaper magnate of that time, EW Scripps, showed some interest in using the decorticator on a 100-acre plot of hemp near San Diego for Scripps’ paper sources. Economic circumstances and the war discouraged their plans. [1]

During the late 1930s, editions of Popular Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering exclaimed hemp could now become a billion dollar industry because of the hemp decorticator, making it seem it was a new invention even though it had been around since 1917.

But those re-emerging headlines may have have motivated industrial and banking giants with connections in Roosevelt’s administration to rid the hemp threat to their interests. This led to the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, the first step in squashing the hemp industry.

Even the AMA was thrown off by this legislation because hemp tinctures and oils had been prescribed for several ailments.

Here’s a summarized story that names the vested interests behind that legislation: http://www.princeton.edu.

Amazing hemp benefits

(1) Medicinal: Medical marijuana or cannabis edibles and THC hemp oils have been studied internationally by reputable labs and clinics for their healing properties, especially regarding cancer, for decades.

According to GreenMedInfo founder Sayer Ji, “Indeed, the GreenMedInfo.com project has uncovered 129 distinct disease categories that may benefit from this remarkable plant thus far, and new studies are being added on a weekly basis.” [2]

Classifying marijuana as a drug without medical merit is a lie perpetuated by the Justice Department’s DEA to keep it illegal for their business of arresting and prosecuting peaceful marijuana users.

Then came a Canadian, Rick Simpson, who cured his Nova Scotia neighbors with his own cannabis or hemp oil (http://www.naturalnews.com/027756_cancer_cure_Big_Pharma.html).

(2) Foods: Hemp seeds and oils are an abundant source of perfectly balanced omega-6, omega-3, and omega-9 fatty acids. The high level of essential protein amino acids hemp offers provides a more bio-available complete protein than most all other protein sources, plant or animal. [3]

(3) Clothing: Cloth from hemp is tougher and allows for better ventilation than even cotton. You can buy hemp clothing today. Legalizing hemp would lower the costs of the imports of hemp fibers.

(4) Plastics: Around 1940, Henry Ford built a “vegetable car” with mostly hemp fibers, not including the drive train of course. The body was so strong two men with sledgehammers and axes couldn’t harm it. [4]

Properly produced hemp plastics are 100 percent biodegradable and can replace all current petroleum based chemically infested plastics. [5]

(5) Building materials: Several types of building materials, stronger and lighter than wood and concrete with better insulation properties have actually been used recently for housing. [2 - video] [5]

(6) Paper: Instead of deforesting for wood to mill paper with harsh chemicals, a process that manifests countless ecological problems, hemp fibers could be used for paper. It had been used for paper before wood pulp processing. And the paper’s quality is considered superior by many.

(7) Agriculture: Hemp is a hardy plant requiring little water and no synthetic fertilizers or herbicides. It’s a perfect rotation crop because it boosts soil health. In a relatively warm temperate climates, it can be planted and harvested twice a year.

Because it’s easy to grow and harvest with less overhead, it’s also a perfect cash crop for struggling small farms. Kentucky senator Rand Paul is pushing for a bill to legalize industrial hemp growth. It’s already happening in Colorado (http://www.naturalnews.com).

Sources for this article include:

Original decorticator history http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/02/ECH02_20.HTM

http://www.naturalhealth365.com/food_news/hemp-protein.html

http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewcommentary.php?storyid=85

http://www.hemphasis.net/Building/plasticmettle.htm

http://www.naturalnews.com/032904_marijuana_legalization.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/034599_medical_marijuana_juicing_cures.html

Today more so than ever, music artists are exposing the industry. Countless artists from each genre are helping to lift the veil that have been blinding the masses since the industries inauguration. Many have shown that they’re pushing the agenda of the global elite and have sold themselves out for money and fame. The mainstream music industry has long been used as a form of mind control, attempting to shape the humans perception of reality and feed them their wants, desires and needs coupled with subliminal messaging that becomes implanted in the subconscious mind. It’s one portion of the global control matrix that programs the human mind and contributes in preventing the human being from knowing it’s natural state and true self. It’s a branch of the entire “military industrial complex.” This article will examine connections that go beyond the artists and make you think.

Who are the artists working for? Who owns the mainstream music industry? Who’s pushing the agenda and where did the mainstream music industry come from? Royal bloodlines have always used mechanisms for control. The only difference today is that more tools for control have been developed. The mainstream music industry is controlled by a small group of entities. The largest and first developed  is the Universal Music Group.

Universal Music Group (UMG) is a multinational music company. It’s the largest of the “Big Three” record companies which include Sony Music Entertainment and Warner music group. UMG was originally the company attached to the film studio Universal Pictures. However, it’s origins go back to the formation of  Decca Records. Decca Records originates in England, which is one of the main control hubs of the Illuminati. The Decca corporation of England created their American branch in 1939. Decca Records was renowned for it’s development of recording methods, Decca and UMG are now owned by General Motors and Comcast, and originally owned by Vivendi, a media conglomerate headquartered in France which we will examine later on in this article. Decca referred to themselves as “The Supreme Record Company.” It was formed by merging the word “mecca” with the initial D of their logo, meaning a place that draws a lot of people. When the Decca branch in America was developed, they set up their studio headquarters in the Pythian Temple located in New York City. Why would Decca/UMG set up their headquarters at the Pythian Temple? UMG has it’s roots in the Illuminati, at a specific level of the pyramid. Music was to be used strictly for control purposes. As we see today, most forms of human art and creation are now being used as tools of manipulation and deception. The Pythian Temple is a building that belonged to theKnights of Pythias at the time Decca/UMG set up their studio there. The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society founded and  formed in February of 1864, in Washington, DC. They were the very first fraternal organization to receive a charter under an act of the United States Congress. It was founded by Justus H. Rathbone, whom not surprisingly was a music composer and actor.  Some notable Pythian Knights include:

•  Nelson A. Rockefeller, U.S. Vice President                           
•  Warren G. Harding, U.S President
• William McKinley, U.S President 
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President 
• Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Benjamin Cardozo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Louis Armstrong, Jazz Musician, actor
• Sun Ra, Jazz Musician
• Hubert Horatio Humphrey, U.S. Vice President

Can you see the connection? Universal Music Group (UMG) originated within Decca Records. Decca Records originates in the United Kingdom, and expanded to America which began the inauguration of the UMG. The studio was headquartered at the Pythian Temple at the time, home of the Pythian Knights. Interesting connection that sheds light on a recent brief history of UMG’s major music label.

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