Graham Hancock: The Sovereignty of Consciousness

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Ayahuasca the Sacred Vine of the Amazon

Take a mind-bending journey with Graham Hancock as he describes his experiences with psychedelics and shamanism, the effects on consciousness, and "spirit molecules" in general. Regarding these journeys into consciousness, Hancock asserts these decisions "should not be devolved onto the state". We have "psychic sovereignty", sovereignty of individual consciousness, and government control is a "fundamental abuse of human rights in our society".

"Our society is a society under the guise of all kinds of propagandistic bs which is denying us the right of sovereignty over our own consciousness. If we are not sovereign over our own consciousness, then actually we are not sovereign over anything. Then all the so-called freedoms of our society are complete illusions when that society does not allow us to make fundamental decisions about what we wish to explore or not to explore with our own consciousness. That's what we are - we are consciousness. We are not these bodies, we are not matter. We are consciousness - pure consciousness manifested in physical form. If we can't make decisions about that, then everything else is just a bad joke."

Graham Hancock and the Sacred Vine London Real meets Graham Hancock, author of "Fingerprints of the Gods".



"Fingerprints of the Gods" author Graham Hancock explains why all politicians should drink Ayahuasca 10 times, the gruesome Aztec history behind his new book "Wargod", why he took Ibogaine to gain closure with his late father, and how Joe Rogan is just an all-around cool dude.

"You said that all politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office." - Brian (00:46)

"All across the world we have a venal class of dishonest, self-serving bureaucrats who are using the power we give them to oppose themselves upon us." - Graham (01:52)

"You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'." - Graham (03:10)

"In a way it's a very Orwellian world where language is being used against us. It's almost impossible to approach the issue of 'drugs' without immediately linking it to the notion of 'abuse.'" - Graham (04:47)

"Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our own consciousness without reference to the powers of the state or must we seek permission from the state in order to explore our own consciousness?" - Graham (05:17)

"I find again and again you get these instant knee-jerk reactions. 'Oh they're talking about a drug, this isn't be for me. They must be dirty people.'" - Graham (08:37)

"I don't believe I would have written that book if I hadn't had this nudge from this curious plant ally called cannabis." - Graham (13:37)

"I don't do things by half-measures. I was smoking a very great deal of cannabis for 24 years." - Graham (14:10)

"During those Ayahuasca sessions whatever intelligence spoke to me directly and made it very clear to me that my journey with Cannabis had come to an end." - Graham (15:33)

"It's astonishing that one plant intervened to stop me working with another plant." - Graham (19:20)

"There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure." - Graham (24:06)

"I want to find out about your new book. Can you talk about it?" - Brian (45:30)

"There is very clear documentation of the sacrifice of 80,000 human beings over the course of 4 days so the entire city was filled with human blood." - Graham (49:58)

"The demonic realm got involved in the human world and said. 'We've made things really bad in Mexico already, how can we make things worse?" - Graham (51:20)

"The 22yr old Graham Hancock had an awful lot to learn." - Graham (59:42)

"Iboga is the root bark of a bush that grows in Central Africa." - Graham (1:00:53)

"It's a sacred duty to see a loved one through the transition and it's also a tremendous gift that the loved one gives to us, the opportunity to learn from it." - Graham (1:05:23)

"The one thing I'm glad about is that I did have the opportunity to tell my Dad that I loved him." - Graham (1:06:58)

"If you were really a tough guy you'd take Iboga and Ayahuasca at the same time." - Nic (01:08:28)

"The active ingredient in Ayahuasca is Dimethyltryptamine. I've done some work with pure D.M.T. as well, I've done 11 journeys." - Graham (01:08:48)

"Did you get stoned with Joe?" - Nic (01:17:10)

"Joe is such a lovely, wonderful human being with an incredibly open and inquiring mind and just very very gentle and very very intelligent and I definitely got high on the conversation." - Graham (01:17:55)

"I've really enjoyed this conversation, time has really flown, it reminded me of my conversation with Joe Rogan. Nice, relaxing, positive, enjoyable feeling." - Graham (01:20:40)

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Big Brother and the National Defense Authorization Act: Americans Lose More Freedoms and Rights

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Americans Lose More Freedoms and Rights: Big Brother and the National Defense Authorization Act When Alex Jones agrees with Steven Colbert, Occupy Wall Street, and the ACLU, something is going down. What went down was on December 31, 2011 when President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA is approved annually to appropriate funding for the Department of Defense, along with other provisions. Among the provisions is an expansion of powers of the President against enemies of the United States, including indefinite detention by the Armed Forces.

The question is whether American citizens, even within the boundaries of the United States, can be arrested by the Armed Forces, by order of the President, and indefinitely detained without trial. Many think so. The ACLU states, "The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision". Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director, said, "President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law. We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court".

Specifically, the President has authority to detain, via the Armed Forces, any person "who was part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners," and anyone who commits a "belligerent act" against the U.S. or its coalition allies, under the law of war, "without trial, until the end of the hostilities authorized by the [AUMF or Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists]." The text also authorizes trial by military tribunal, or "transfer to the custody or control of the person's country of origin," or transfer to "any other foreign country, or any other foreign entity." An amendment to the Act that would have explicitly forbidden the indefinite detention without trial of American citizens was rejected by the Senate.

The Word - Catch 2012 (Steven Colbert) The National Defense Authorization Act strikes at the heart of the most notorious safe haven for terrorists: the U.S. Constitution.

 

Obama Signs Martial Law Bill: NDAA Now Law (Alex Jones) President Obama who pledged to veto the National Defense Authorization Act has signed it. Of course his promise was only for public consumption. After all lying to your enemy is what invading corporate takeover army's do. It was the Obama administration all along that demanded the indefinite detention provisions be added while at the same time telling the America people he was fighting to protect their rights. This is treason on parade, in your face all out despotism!

 

Grand Central Terminal Arrests (OccupyTVNY) Two protesters mic check about the loss of freedom brought about by the passage of the NDAA and both are promptly arrested and whisked out of public sight.



National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Wikipedia)
Bill Text, 112th Congress (2011-2012), H.R.1540.ENR (The Library of Congress)
President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law (ACLU)
Indefinite Detention, Endless Worldwide War and the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (ACLU)

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The Story of Your Enslavement (Video) "The only freedom is freedom from illusion"

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Cry of the Masses

Why You Are Easy to Control The video below provides "the story of your enslavement, how it came to be, and how you can finally be free". Human nature is to exploit resources, including other humans. The argument is that humans became afraid of death. By being afraid of death, and also injury and imprisonment, we become controllable. Humans became the most valuable resource to be controlled and exploited, by other humans. "This human farming has been the most profitable, and destructive, occupation throughout human history and it is now reaching its destructive climax." History is a series of human farms, where farmers own human livestock. These "farmers" are political, religious, economic, cultural, and military leaders and elite. Isn't there benevolence by providing food, water, shelter, health care, and education to the masses in a society? Farmers provide the same, including training, to their livestock. Isn't there freedom and liberty of individuals in the more modern, democratic societies? To an extent, but even farmers provide crop spacing to "increase their yields" and allow exceptional, "prized" animals more space, larger stalls to increase production. Therefore, is a nation such as America merely a "tax farm" and a corporatocracy to perpetuate both the government and corporations? Your "farmer" grants you certain liberties not because of concern for your freedom, but for profit maximization. This is the cage you were born into. Welcome to your cage!

History of Human Farming There have been four phases of human farming in history.
● Originally the human body was controlled by slavery, such as in ancient Egypt. The creativity of the mind was not generally exploited. Brute force was necessary for control and the system was inefficient.
● Next slaves were granted some freedom, as in the Roman Empire, thereby promoting some ingenuity and creativity. This increased productivity.
● Later the feudal system of lords, vassals, and fiefs was developed in Europe and the slaves were "peasants". Perhaps a peasant could control land, or even perhaps own land, as long as the higher ranks were paid taxes and tribute.
● Technology eventually allowed more agricultural productivity. Cities of displaced peasants, now industrial workers, and democracy, became a more efficient organization and method of human ownership via the industrial revolution. Also, it was more efficient to allow humans to choose their own occupations, now that technological advancement provided options. The assertion is that the Mafia model has now been implemented within democracies along with these increased freedoms.

Mafia Model Efficiency The Mafia doesn't necessarily own businesses directly, but extorts payment. Today you are allowed to choose your own occupation, which increases your productivity and therefore the taxes you can pay - to your masters. What freedoms you are allowed to have are profitable to your owners. However, an expansion of freedoms can adversely affect your owners' profitability. At that point, civil rights and liberty must be curtailed through restrictive measures. Taxed livestock must be kept within the compounds of the ruling class.

Maintaining Control of You Your owners maintain control of you through three methods.
● First is indoctrinating the young through education. You need to be trained in skills beneficial to the society, but not be educated in critical and logical thinking to be a threat. Logic should be a required, beginning course in every school, in order to learn, but it is not. Religious training is also useful to the owners for control.
● Second is to divide and conquer, to divide society, through the creation of dependent livestock. Extreme force is unproductive, such as in North Korea. Humans do not breed well and are not productive in direct captivity. However, if humans believe they are free, then productivity increases dramatically. To perpetuate this illusion of freedom, some of the livestock are placed on the farmers' payroll. Now they have a vested interested in the status quo and will resist change by other groups of citizens who protest against the violence, hypocrisy, and immorality of the system of human ownership. In Big Brother speak, "Freedom is slavery, and slavery is freedom". If the elite can get some of the cows, the sheeple, to attack others who protest against the system, then the cost of control is minimized. Those benefiting and and profiting from the largess of the farmer will violently oppose a challenge to the system by others. Those who demand real freedom are a threat to be suppressed.
● Third is the invention and perpetuation of external threats so that the livestock cling to the protection of the farmers. War is Peace!

Human Farming Nearing an End? Will the increases in economic freedoms of the past century cause a collapse of the Western economic systems through overwhelming debt? Is the growth of the state always proportional to the preceding economic freedoms? More wealth is created, but this attracts more thieves and political parasites. This greed then destroys the economic freedoms as the system then collapses. "Freedom metastasizes the cancer of the state". Government begins small but always increases in size and scope. Therefore, there can never be a viable and sustainable alternative to a truly free and peaceful society. To be truly free is very easy and very hard. We avoid the horror of our enslavement because it is so painful to see it directly. We ignore the endless violence of our dying system, because it is unthinkable. We can only be kept in the cages we refuse to see. Wake up, to see the farm is to leave it.

Mountain Vision Conclusion This video presents a dark, thought-provoking, perhaps even campy, version of history and our current human condition. However, human history has been darker, more brutal, and more difficult at a personal level, than books at a general and macro level usually portray. Enslavement, exploitation and control of humans, by humans, persists and thrives, even in the most modern, free countries. Americans like to say they are free, to which I respond, "Go tell the IRS that, that you are free, that you are being extorted, and that you'll not pay taxes henceforth". The threat of imprisonment, but most likely impoverishment, by the IRS will get you back in line, and under control, immediately. The ongoing technological explosion can either enslave or liberate individuals. The worldwide inter-connectivity of people via the Internet, via the global cloud, provides hope. History is written by the victors (Winston Churchill). History is little else than a long succession of useless cruelties (Voltaire). In mass societies, myth takes the place of history (William Bosenbrook). The historian amputates reality (Gaetano Salvemini). I wonder why we hate the past so? (W.D. Howells to Mark Twain). It's so damned humiliating (Twain's reply).

The Story of Your Enslavement We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. A brief history of human enslavement - up to and including your own. From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy conversation in the world. http://www.freedomainradio.com

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About Stefan Molyneux I am Stefan Molyneux, the host of Freedomain Radio. I have been a software entrepreneur and executive, co-founded a successful company and worked for many years as a Chief Technical Officer. I studied literature, history, economics and philosophy at York University, hold an undergraduate degree in History from McGill University, and earned a graduate degree from the University of Toronto, focusing on the history of philosophy. I received an 'A' for my Master's Thesis analyzing the political implications of the philosophies of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. I also spent two years studying writing and acting at the National Theatre School of Canada. I have been fascinated by philosophy - particularly moral theories - since my mid-teens. I left my career as a software entrepreneur and executive to pursue philosophy full time through my work here at Freedomain Radio. I have written a number of novels as well as many free books on philosophy. In my podcasts and videos, I try to avoid opinions, and instead talk about proof and rationality. If the theories I propose are reasonable, and are supported by evidence, well and good, we have both learned something. If not, listeners such as you are quick to point out errors, which I receive with gratitude. This approach is fundamentally different from most "talk shows." I am a rigorous philosopher, and I will always bow to reason and evidence. The only freedom is freedom from illusion...

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Beware of Online Filter Bubbles (Review, Video) *Your Internet information is being controlled!*

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Map of the Internet by the Opte Project

What We Want to See Versus What We Need to See Will the Internet continue to be beneficial to democracy and freedom? Eli Parser raises concerns that the information we are receiving via the Internet is filtered by providers such as Google search and Facebook. Facebook edits the friends' posts you see by the pattern of interests you have shown, what you have clicked on. Pariser calls this an "invisible algorithmic editing of the Web". Google reviews 57 signals about you, including your location, the type of computer you use, and the Internet browser you use, to personally tailor the search results you receive, i.e. customized query results. Therefore, everyone sees their own individual results. Pariser gives an example of his and friends' different Google results for the search query "Egypt", illustrating the vastly different results each received. It's not just Facebook and Google, this is pervasive across the Internet, including Yahoo News, Huffington Post, Washington Post, New York Times, et. al. are all provide some degree of personalization and therefore filtering. Pariser notes, "This results in an Internet showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see".

Filter Bubbles and Your Information Universe Eli Pariser continues quoting Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, "It will be very hard for people to watch or consumer something that has not in some sense been tailored for them". Pariser says a filter bubble is all these algorithms, personalizations, and customizations combined to tailor the individual Internet experience. This is "your own personal, unique Universe of information that you live in online". The problem is that you don't decide what is in your filter bubble, the providers and their algorithms do. "More importantly, you don't actually see what gets edited out."

Important Information Versus Irrelevant Information Your future aspirational self versus more impulsive present self determines what you see on the Web. These algorithmic filters weight what you click on first, therefore your impulsive, perhaps less relevant, clicks are more important in designing your Information Universe. Therefore, Pariser says this "information diet" of yours can be skewed to "information junk food".

Myth of Internet Freedom of Information? In our prior broadcast world, there were gatekeepers, editors who controlled the flow of information, who determined what see saw on TV and what we heard on the radio. The emergence of the Internet removed these gatekeepers, at least initially. Eli Pariser maintains, "that is not actually what is happening right now". "What we are seeing is a passing of the torch, from human gatekeepers to algorithmic ones." Further, these algorithmic gatekeepers do not have "embedded ethics" while they "curate the world for us" and decide what we get to see and what we do not get to see on the Internet.

Filter Bubble Parameters and the Web of One These algorithmic gatekeepers are determining what we see, our Information Universe, by sorting by relevance. Eli Pariser asserts that additional parameters, filters should be included, such as important information, uncomfortable information, challenging information, and other points of view. He also notes that a good functioning democracy needs a good flow of information. Pariser gives the example of newspapers circa 1915. Are we back in 1915 on the Web? Do we need to break the information logjam again? Pariser thinks so. The new algorithmic gatekeepers need to add more parameters and open the flow of information to include a sense of "public life" and "civic responsibility". Further, these algorithmic gatekeepers and what is being filtered should be transparent. Ultimately, we need control of the algorithmic gatekeepers to decide "what gets through and what doesn't", what is in our Information Universe on the Internet. The Internet needs to introduce, connect, add perspective to people and ideas for us. The algorithmic gatekeepers are creating a Web of One.

Beware Online "Filter Bubbles" As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our world-view. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.

About Eli Pariser

Shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Eli Pariser created a website calling for a multilateral approach to fighting terrorism. In the following weeks, over half a million people from 192 countries signed on, and Pariser rather unexpectedly became an online organizer. The website merged with MoveOn.org in November 2001, and Pariser -- then 20 years old -- joined the group to direct its foreign policy campaigns. He led what the New York Times Magazine called the "mainstream arm of the peace movement" -- tripling MoveOn's member base and demonstrating how large numbers of small donations could be mobilized through online engagement.

In 2004, Pariser became executive director of MoveOn. Under his leadership, MoveOn.org Political Action has grown to 5 million members and raised over $120 million from millions of small donors to support advocacy campaigns and political candidates. Pariser focused MoveOn on online-to-offline organizing, developing phone-banking tools and precinct programs in 2004 and 2006 that laid the groundwork for Barack Obama's extraordinary web-powered campaign. In 2008, Pariser transitioned the Executive Director role at MoveOn to Justin Ruben and became President of MoveOn’s board; he's now a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.

His book The Filter Bubble is set for release May 12, 2011. In it, he asks how modern search tools -- the filter by which many of see the wider world -- are getting better and better and screening the wider world from us, by returning only the search results it "thinks" we want to see.

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Behind the Arab Democracy Movements: Why Now? (Video) *Reasons behind the revolutions are 1,000 years in the making*

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Mohammed Bouazizi of Tunis, Tunisia set himself on fire on December 17, 2010 in protest and dejection

The subsequent Arab revolts were literally sparked by this initial action
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Behind the Arab Democracy Movements: Why Now?

On December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi of Tunis, Tunisia, who sold vegetables from a push cart, was fined for not having a license for his vegetable cart. He was then slapped and insulted by a municipal inspector (some reports said policewoman). His immediate appeal to municipal authorities was of no avail. In frustration and dejection, Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of the municipal building within an hour of the incident. This act of protest literally sparked a revolution in Tunisia. On January 14, 2011 - 28 days later - the tyrant President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia was overthrown. Protests spread to other countries and on February 11, 2011, President Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak of Egypt resigned. The uprisings have spread to virtually every Arab country.

Fareed Zakaria of CNN in the video below reviews the history of the Arab people. Through the centuries, non-Arab empires appointed, approved, and/or supported the despots who ruled in Arab lands. The Arab people were suppressed with no rights and little hope. Zakaria states, "For the first time in a 1,000 years, Arabs are taking control of their own affairs. Since the 11th century, Arab lands have been conquered and controlled by foreigners." First it was the Mongols, Pashtuns, and Turks. For centuries the Ottoman Empire ruled. Then in the 19th century the Europeans came, "who carved up the region after WWI creating most of the states we know today." Then came the Cold War, with the USA and USSR "protecting and funding their client states." After the collapse of the USSR, "the U.S. became the only game in town and most of the Arab regimes made their peace with Washington, though Iran tried to present itself as a rival regional power."

Zakaria continues, "Two American shifts have taken place that have unlocked the region."
* "First, after 911, Washington became acutely aware of the fact that supporting Middle Eastern dictatorships had a downside. It was breeding an extreme, anti-American opposition movement that had embraced terrorism (al-Qaida). So, the U.S. started pushing its allies towards reform and offering much less unqualified support for the dictatorships and monarchies of the Middle East."
* "American power itself was waning. Iraq, Afghanistan, the financial crisis all showed the U.S. was an exhausted superpower. The result, the United States is less willing and less able to play the old imperial role and prop up the old regimes."

Zakaria notes that Arabs always had local rulers, but these sheiks, kings, and generals were appointed or supported  by the outside imperial powers. These tyrants ruled the local people by force and bribery. "That game is in trouble and the Middle East is witnessing a revolt against the old order everywhere. Where it will lead, where it will succeed, where it will fail, all of this is totally unclear. But this is a big, system-wide and historic shift. So buckle your seat belts, you are watching history in the making."

There is another factor, a crucial factor - the Internet. Expansion of knowledge via technology creates profound change. Specifically, the key factor has been online social media whereby people can organize to cause change. The answer to the Behind the Arab Democracy Movements: Why Now? - the Internet. First it was the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg about 1440 and was widespread in Western Europe by 1500. The Renaissance, while arguably by some scholars had already began with small steps, was immeasurably boosted by the printing press and "modern" history began. The Protestant Reformation ensued in 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his Thesis on the door of Castle Catholic Church in Wittenberg, Saxony. Periodicals, newsletters, newspapers, and magazines of all kinds were created in subsequent centuries that challenged the thinking of people. Next was radio developed by Marconi, et. al. in the late 1800s. The first radio news was broadcast in 1920. During this time the telephone was invented by Alexander Bell, et. al. in the late 1800s and early 1900s and while profound was not a true mass communication medium. Later was television, though being developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the first regular programming was in Germany in 1929, but widespread use was not until after World War 2. Widespread commercial television began in the USA in 1948. The USA civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements in the 1960s benefited immeasurably from television. The Internet incorporates all of these mediums on a worldwide scale and instantaneously. For the first time in the history of humanity, people can talk to each other anywhere on Earth and join together for common goals, bypassing controlling institutions such as governments or religions. People can challenge, reform, and overthrow these institutions as a more organized group.

CNN: Behind the Arab Democracy Movements CNN's Fareed Zakaria says that the Arab democracy movements are 1,000 years in the making.





Libyan protester holds sign revealing the scope of the Arab uprisings

Egyptian revolution

Libyan revolution

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Security Web Monitoring USA (Video) *FBI Guardian Database = 160,000+ "Suspicious" Americans*

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"See Something, Say Something"
American web of 4,058 federal, state, and local organizations are monitoring USA citizens via the FBI Guardian Database

Monitoring America: Security Web = 161,948 "Suspicious" Americans

Yes, Big Brother and The Matrix are watching. Top Secret America is a Washington Post project that describes the huge security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This report was written by Dana Priest (in the video below) and William M. Arkin. We're not talking about several federal, state, and local law enforcement and security agencies here, we're talking about thousands. CBS reports on this project, "It describes a web of 4,058 federal, state and local organizations, each with its own counterterrorism responsibilities and jurisdictions. At least 935 of these organizations have been created since the 2001 attacks or became involved in counterterrorism for the first time after 9/11."

This "massive web of bureaucracy is tasked with keeping America safe". This intelligence web includes technology built for the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan, an FBI classified database of "suspicious" citizens, and experts who train law enforcement on the Islam religion. 

FBI Guardian DataBase Nowadays, to be "suspicious" is determined by the "grass roots" (a citizen, local law enforcement, even a bank). The information then goes to a state "fusion center", which the federal Department of Homeland Security assisted in funding. After assessment for a possible link to terrorism, the information is sent to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFsJ. If the data is determined to be valid, i.e. suspicious, it is entered into the FBI Guardian Database. To be "suspicious can be something as simple as snapping a photo of your local ferry boat" (or generating this blog post?). Files are kept on Americans who have never been charged with any security violation and some have been turned in by their neighbors "who think they look suspicious". To date, over 160,000 Americans are in the FBI classified database and another 7,000 are in an unclassified database. The "file" on each "suspicious" American citizen includes name, address, employment, financial and residential history, multiple phone numbers, and anything that "adds value". Many of the files are in limbo, waiting for additional information to come along to clarify the initial suspicious activity report.


(MSNBC Dylan Ratigan Show) "Top Secret America" The Washington Post's Dana Priest takes viewers inside the security web monitoring America.



Some USA citizens are listed in the FBI Guardian Database because a neighbor reported them as "suspicious"

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