Raw Footage. FBI Op. Rescued 84 from Human Trafficking Arresting 120!

Nationwide 120 people were arrested for child human trafficking with a total of 84 children rescued.
The youngest was 3 months and the oldest was 15.  The FBI conducts an annual law enforcement action program focused on recovering underage victims of prostitution and trafficking dubbed "Cross Country"  In October 2017 the operation involved 58 FBI field offices as well as hundreds of local and state law enforcement agencies in an investigation that took place in hotels, casinos, truck stops, street corners and online, the FBI said. Authorities from Canada, Britain, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines also were involved.

I would like to point out a few concerns:
1)  Operation "Cross country" is only a four day out of a 365 day year law enforcement program.
2)  120 is a high number and one cannot imagine what the numbers would be if they did this all year long.  They do not stop investigations, but this particular operation is only four days.
3)  Because this is a known annual operation, the main traffickers would know this and keep a low profile during this time.  Are the people who are getting arrested the offenders who were not aware of the operation taking off, shall I say amateurs in the human trafficking scene?

The 3-month-old girl and her 5-year-old sister were rescued in Denver after a friend of their family had offered to sell the two children for $600, the FBI said in a statement. Officials are working with a protective services agency to house the two girls; a suspect has been arrested. (Washington Post: Operation Cross Country )

For more background information read the FBI result news story.

Freedom of Speech: The Walls Are Closing In - The David Icke Dot-Connect...

Okay, so in line with "fake news" I had to put this out there folks.  The term fake news that is pointed from mainstream media to the independent agencies/individuals implies that what those outside of the big names are reporting is not real, misrepresented, not fact checked, lies and not to be believed by the general public.  It implies that only the MSM's are authorized and professional enough to be believed by the general public.



However, the term "fake news" towards the independents suffocate the ability to use freedom of speech, say what they will, how they want and talk about what they desire.  (such as I in this blog). How is this suffocating?  Well, Facebook is not doing a "fake news watch" Google, puts everyone down at the bottom of their searches and twitter bans some folks while Google removes advertising and You Tube either deletes them or bans advertising from their channels.



This in turn minimizes any little income someone who is actually trying to be truthful and get the word out, it decreases visibility to possibly get requests to give talks to generate a small income and the donor list decreases because the ability to be visible decreases.



When MSM's say "fake news" they are saying, "We don't want you to talk about those things, or reveal these facts, or change the political arena, generate truth to the populations, i.e. GMO's, (Monsanto) etc...because if you say these things, then we cannot have control of the population and fight our wars and spend trillions!  Okay, I am ranting here.



Point is this:  it is attacking the Freedom of Speech.  Here is another example of the attack on Freedom of Speech.  Not only in America folks, but worldwide.

Gresham Oregon Police assaulting me for filming drug raid that woke the ...

Military police vehicles used in the middle of the night for a search warrant.  I went from looking at the military vehicles in the Middle East to seeing them here with our local police.  The neighbor who filmed this was arrested for filming.  Our 1st amendment is ignored.  It never made the local news.



This is not normal and it is not okay.  The news should have made a big deal and the people should be protesting this and the militarized vehicles to use against the American people.  We are not the enemy to the police, but watching this makes the police an enemy of me.

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Max Keiser Report: Banks renting homes

Disclose.tv - Max Keiser: 'Colossal Collapse Coming!' [Ian Williams © KeiserReport]

Banks still have 0% interest rates, but still charge much more to the common person, other than the 1%. Banks are now renting the homes and raising the prices even though the incomes are going down and the lack of jobs.

Our Tax Dollars At Work

Susan Brannon
22 June 2011

After Obama decided to go into Libya and “safe the people” from the atrocities of Gadaffi,  I quickly discovered saw that his words of assurance to the people to stay in Libya for “only a few days”  was false and is ongoing. The estimated cost for going into Libya is 2 billion US dollars of the Americans tax money and more. 

This is not petty change. Considering the realities of our current economic situation and our leaders decide to do as they desire, I decided to find out how much have we been spending on our wars up to date and who has been getting money. The data was not easy to find and not all in one place and not always current.  However, I tried the best that I could to gather the information together and put it into one place.  Not only did I include in this article the cost of our current “wars”, but also a list of defense contractors and how much our tax dollars paid them along with a few sidelines of corruption facts and figures that reflect the reality of our current situation.  While "researching" who is getting the money, I started writing information on each company and some background information.  These will be posted separately.
 
Using Independent Media such as MMN, as a resource in the attempt to open the people’s eyes is a difficult task, because those who read Independent Media are normally those who already understand that there is a problem.  We need to reach those who do not have the time to research on their own to generate a "flood of letters, protests and sit-ins” telling our government that we will not take this anymore.  (Sadly, I am beginning to think that it is too late, and nothing will work in our country, I feel that we have a "false" sense of Freedom, that does not exist) We can try to boycott each and every company that supports corruption, possibly hurting the conglomerates where it hurts, and that is their wallets.

Cost of the Wars As of 17 June 2011

Iraq:        720,000.000 per day   7.9 billion per month (CRS)
Afghanistan:    300,000.000 per day (AFP) 6.7 billion per month (CRS)
Libya:            2,000,000  per day  (DM)

Amounts Paid to the Top Fifteen Defense Contractors during these wars:
1.  KBR Inc (KBR.N)                                               $16,059,282,020
2.  DynCorp International                                        $ 1,838,156,100
3.  Washington Group Int'l Inc WNG.N                    $ 1,044,686,850
4.  IAP Worldwide Services Inc                                $    901,973,910
5.  Environmental Chemical Corp                            $    899,701,070
6.  L-3 Communications Holdings Inc (LLL.N)         $    853,535,680
7.  Fluor Corp (FLR.N)                                             $    736,853,200
8.  Perini Corp PCR.N                                              $    720,859,110
9.  Orascom Construction Industries (OCIC.CA)      $   617,089,510
10. Parsons Corp                                                     $   579,265,450
11. First Kuwaiti General Trading And Contracting Co. $   495,404,500
12. Blackwater USA                                                  $   485,149,590
13. Tetra Tech Inc (TTEK.O)                                     $   362,107,010
14. AMEC PLC (AMEC.L)                                         $   317,171,280
15. Laguna Pueblo                                                    $   312,677,530
(Reuters) 

Facts of Corruption:
•    Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported - $1.4 billion
•    U.S. government contracts for work in those countries have
jumped more than 50 percent a year, from $11 billion in 2004 to
nearly $17 billion in 2005 and more than $25 billion in 2006.
•    Spent & Approved War-Spending - About $900 billion of US taxpayers' funds spent or approved for spending through November 2010.
•    Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money and $549.7 million in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.
•    Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (Per CBS News on Dec 6, 2007.)



There is one company that keeps "popping up:

Created in 1992, Cerberus is a hedge fund, a type of private investment group that's not regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. ...
Cerberus Capital Management (dba, Cerberus-Gabriel), is at the center of an emerging Pentagon and CIA contracting scandal that has the attention of three Congressional Committees.The companies under investigation have links to prominent GOP figures, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Vice President Dan Quayle, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and several Republican Congressmen indicted for corruption involving kickbacks from defense contractors. The Republican Congressional Campaign Commitee (RCC) has also received substantial contributions from conservative fund managers running Cerberus, a virually unregulated $30 billion hedge fund, which owns the second largest bank in Israel.

The Cerberus scandal involves its holding, International American Products (IAP) Worldwide Services, awarded a $120 million contract to manage facilities at Walter Reed, is only the latest in a long line. IAP’s President, Alfred V. Neffgen, was formerly Chief Operating Officer for KBR's government operations group, which was forced to repay tens of millions of dollars to the Defense Department for food and fuel overcharges in Iraq. IAP has other contracting connections with Dick Cheney’s Halliburton/KBR. Most recently, IAP bid on part of the Iraq oil reconstruction project as a partner with Halliburton KBR. The Army Times reports about Halliburton tie-in:

Cerberus owns, or had a major interest in, a string of now-bankrupt companies that had contracts with U.S. defense and intelligence agencies that were found to have a common pattern of large-scale fraud, security problems, and financial scandals involving GOP lawmakers and lobbyists.

Cerberis donated $100,000 at a single fundraiser to Rep. Jerry Lewis, fmr. Chair of the House Appropriations Comm  (USA Today)
•    Lewis' Future Leaders PAC gave $407,000 to 69 House candidates in the 2004 election. The Cerberus-related money was equal to nearly a third of that amount. In 2003, the PAC collected $522,725 — a quarter of it connected to Cerberus.
•    Cerberus is chaired by former U.S. vice president Dan Quayle. (Haaretz)
•    US investor disclosure regulations will cause Cerberus-Gabriel problems.— Ministry of Finance officials have declared a great victory in the Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) (An Israeli Bank)  tender, but banking specialists are not so enthusiastic. They say that the victory wasn’t so great: the buyers (Cerberus Capital Management LP and Gabriel Capital Management Cerberus-Gabriel hedge fund buys stake in Leumi Bank (FundStreet)
•    Israel is on its way to privatization. (Globes Company)
•    former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon awarded a large contract to the company at the center of the Walter Reed Army Hospital scandal. Rumsfeld may have financially benefited from it along with other major GOP figures, including former Vice President Dan Quaile, and former Treasury Secretary Snow, who also invested in or are employed by, or received campaign contributions from the same Wall Street hedge fund that owns the company. (BusinessWeek)
•    Cerberus has been shopping up a storm for a year now, seemingly coming out of nowhere to build a corporate empire. With more than $16 billion of investors' assets on its books -- almost double what it had in 2003 -- it has bought 28 companies and snapped up stakes of at least 15% in an additional 15 over the past decade. According to BusinessWeek they estimate, Cerberus controls companies that ring up at least a combined $30 billion in annual sales (BusinessWeek)
•    LAPS  business groups are controlled by the following families: Sami Ofer, Nochi Dankner, Shari Arison, the Cerberus-Gabriel consortium, Charles Bronfman, Yitzchak Tshuva, the Saban group, Lev Leviev, Matthew Bronfman, Tzadik Bino, the Borovich family, and Eliezer Fishman. The 12 families own 60 percent of the aggregate market value of all Israeli public companies (excluding the even larger Teva Pharmaceutical Industries) (IsraelNews)

From this information, it is clear that our tax money funds many of the corporations who are involved in war efforts and efforts in other countries as well as in our own country.  The money that is paid to them has made a few wealthy and has started to displace the American middle class.  Not only do we pay for their efforts to "Help our troops" we pay for their corruption across the board.  On my blog I have posted a ton of videos, from various angles, regarding the companies listed above.  For more in-depth information please see: After The War

American Fenced, razor wired closed in camps

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded Halliburton's KBR subsidiary a $385 million contract to build "detention facilities" (prisons) for immigrants arrested on charges of entering the country illegally and to provide construction and logistics support services in the event of an "immigration emergency," Halliburton announced in a press release today.

The announcement comes at an opportune time for Halliburton since the Bush administration has accelerated the number of immigration arrests and prosecutions nationally, but most remarkably in the Houston area, where Halliburton is headquartered.

According to a study by Syracuse University, the number of immigration arrests and prosecutions in the Southern District of Texas, which includes Houston, is "literally off the chart" compared to areas with greater illegal migration problems. Immigration prosecutions spiked by 14,030 cases in the district between 2003 and 2004, a 345 percent increase.

The number of immigration prosecutions is dramatically skewed in favor of Halliburton's hometown in Texas even though over half of the 1.1 million people entering the United States illegally in 2004 crossed the border through Arizona.... at Hallburton Watch

The Story about GM Seeds

Susan Brannon-Robens

9, June 2011

Genetically Modified (GM) seeds have been introduced into the world from the early 1990’s.  The seeds are mainly soybean, corn, canola, and cotton. The seed was developed to increase food production, lower production costs and lower the amount of pests that destroy the crops. The process is the insertion, deletion or transfer of genes. They add a genetic material into an organism. GMO’s are used in biological and medical research, the production of pharmaceutical drugs, gene therapy and agriculture.

Monsanto is the company located in Missouri, that develops and patients the GM seeds.  In 2007, Monsanto’s seeds were planted on 246 million acres (1,000,000kn2) throughout the world. Monsanto developed “triple-stack corn” that contains Roundup Ready 2 weed control technology with YieldGard Corn Borer and YieldGard Rootworm insect control and tops the market in the U.S.  The forecast is by 2014 they will plant 56 million acres in the US.  (Check BioTech) I must insert here the concept of growing our food injected with pesticides, that are eaten by cows, pigs, pets and humans does not make any sense.  We all know that what we eat absorbs into our bodies.  Many of the products on the grocery store shelves contain some type of corn by-product.  This is not like the corn of yesterday, but genetically modified with the insertion of Roundup a weed killer accepted by the USDA?

The crops are called “Biotech Crops” that reflects the latest technology, in agriculture in order to “save our hungry world”.  Yet the facts, are that there is enough food for the world, including the developing countries.  The problem is that we don’t get the food over to developing countries.  However, that is another issue for a different article. 

It is said that out of 14 million farmers who grew biotech crops in 2009, 90% of them were poor farmers from developing countries.  In China, 7 million farmers grew cotton (Bt. Cotton), 5.6 million grew cotton in the Philippines. The commercial value of biotech crops grown in 2008 was 130 billion US dollars.  (ISAAA)

As of 2009/2010 data there are a number of seeds that are in our food system:
Soybens:    USA 93%    World 77%
Corn        USA 86%    World 26%
Cotton        USA 93%    World 49%
Alfalfa        produced from 2005-2007 banned until January 2011, currently legal
Hawaiian
Papaya        USA 80%
Tomotes    Taken off the market commercial failure
Rapeseed    USA 93%    World 21%
Sugar cane    no data
Sugar beet    USA 95%    World 9%
Zucchini    USA 13%
Monsanto found it easy for the farmers in America to use and purchase the GM seeds, but later discovered the European market is concerned about mixing crops grown from GM seeds next to conventional and organic crops. Japan and the entire European Union, have outright banned GMOs and products associated with them. In the end, Monsanto settled for developing countries as another marketing target.

For example, Monsanto controls more than 60% of commercial seeds in India including “hybrids” that combine different crop varieties. However there has been a reported increase in suicides of over 200,000 Indian farmers since the introduction of the GM seeds. Physicist, Vandana Shiva blames the suicides in part on farmer indebtedness to be forced to buy the seeds each planting year at rising costs.  The seeds cannot be used to plant a new crop from the last years crop. The seeds arrived in India in 2002 and the price of the seeds has jumped from Rs. 7 a bag that covers one acre to Rs. 750.  There are no regulatory systems in India, and “Monsanto sells its GMO seeds on fraudulent claims of yields of 1,500 kilograms a year when farmers actually harvest 300 kg a year on average.”  The developing countries are told, you can grow more for less, control the pests, make money from your farms, and help your society to diminish poverty.  Some of the seeds are drought protected, injected with oils for nutrition to increase health.  My question, is this Monsanto a corporation statement really true? 

In America, the Obama administration decided in January 2011 to radically approve unrestricted production of biotech Monsanto “Roundup Ready” alfalfa and sugar beets creating our food system dependent in a handful of corporations, with only profit to guide them.  In spite of the World Health Organization’s concerns over the spread of GM crops and the indirect effect on food safety and security, the GM seed use continues to expand.  The concept of creating and selling patented GM seeds is based on corporate control with the need to be purchased each season eliminating the right for farmers and consumers to choose what they will eat and grow. 

At this time, at least 2,391 farmers in 19 states have been sued for “seed piracy”.  Monsanto has an annual budget of 10 million dollars that is solely devoted to investigating and prosecuting farmers.  When a farmer buys the Monsanto seeds, they sign an agreement that they will not save the seeds and replant them.  More than 275,000 farmers buy the seeds under this agreement.  What I do not understand is why America is so willing to “trust” corporate control to the most important of concerns, our food system.

In addition there are health and ethical concerns, the quality and impact of farming, the use of pesticides, and threat to native and natural species are other major issues. Since their commercialization in 1992, GMO’s have had a startling correlation with the explosion in food borne illnesses, obesity, diabetes, and other food-related illnesses.

GMO’s allow for the breeding of super weeds that can both resist their pesticides and decimate the land. GMOs, in essence, stem from an infant science that has been thrust upon the world in the last two decades.  How can cross cropping not exist?  Bees fly around and carry its pollen from one plant and crop to another, the wind blows carrying with it Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. If you eat meat or dairy, you consume alfalfa and corn, the leading source for hay and food for cattle. GMO products are not allowed in the USDA-certified foods and soon it will be all but impossible to find organic milk and meat.  The bill has already passed and the decision was made in spite of organic farming groups, activists, and watch groups who number into the tens of thousands.

Bt. Cotton has also shown some diverse effects through the years, Bt. Cotton first controlled the pests and reduced the amount of insecticides need by 90%, but the Bt. Cotton has created new pests, and to control the new pests, farmers are using 13 times more pesticides than they were using before the introduction of Bt. Cotton.  (Huffington Post April 2009)

Organic farming groups, food outlets and activists responded to the deregulation of GM alfalfa:

"The USDA's decision to allow unlimited, nationwide commercial planting of Monsanto's GE Roundup Ready alfalfa without any restrictions flies in the face of the interests of conventional and organic farmers, preservation of the environment, and consumer choice. USDA has become a rogue agency in its regulation of biotech crops and its decision to appease the few companies who seek to benefit from this technology comes despite increasing evidence that GE alfalfa will threaten the rights of American farmers and consumers, as well as damage the environment." 

Commenting on the ruling, in a Joint Statement U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter DeFazio said:

    "This long approval process began as a search for a workable compromise, but it has ended as a surrender to business as usual for the biotech industry. USDA officials had an opportunity to address the concerns of all farmers, whether they choose to farm genetically altered crops, conventional crops, or organic crops, and to find a way for them to coexist. Instead, what we now have is a setback for the nation's organic and conventional agriculture sectors. Instead of settling this issue, USDA's decision regrettably guarantees further rounds in the courts."

When our leaders approve the expansion of the use of seeds that endanger biodiversity and the farmers’ choice, we should have an outcry as a nation.  This regulated control over our food system; our lifeblood and food supply is not a little thing and is not a democracy.

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