Whistling with a Mouthful of Crackers

How ironic to talk of whistleblowers and never mention Chelsea, nor Julian, nor Ed Snowden who are all being persecuted by the very people hollering about protecting whistleblowers. Not to mention it was a CIA agent within the white house spying on Trumpilini....and he worked his way through channels? Let's see how did that work out for John Kiriakou or Tom Drake or Jeffrey Sterling? They all served time. Like Russiagate, Ukrainegate looks like a CIA propaganda tool. Now instead of discussing real issues we'll be observing the circus of clowns dancing around and around and getting nowhere. Meanwhile there are real things happening like:

I know you've been hearing about the importance of protecting whistleblowers from all the usual suspects. For example...
MoveOn's Phony New Campaign for 'Protecting Whistleblowers'. In the last decade, MoveOn—which says it has an email list of 8 million "members"—has refused to do any campaigns to help Manning, Drake, Snowden, Kiriakou, or Sterling. MoveOn.org has just cherrypicked a whistleblowing hero it can support.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/09/30/moveons-phony-new-campaign...

Let's look at these real whistleblowers.

The courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning has now been held in a federal detention center in Alexandria, Virginia for more than six months. Manning has not been charged with or committed any crime. She was sent to jail on March 8, 2019 for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury that has indicted persecuted WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, who published the information she leaked exposing rampant US imperialist criminality.
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Among the information that Manning provided to WikiLeaks in 2009-2010 was the infamous “Collateral Murder” video—which documented the indiscriminate killing of civilians and Reuters journalists in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad. She leaked a trove of 400,000 documents that became known as the “Iraq War Logs” and another 91,000 documents that became part of the “Afghan War Logs.”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/21/pers-s21.html

Revealing US war crimes is NOT acceptable but going after Trump is condoned.

Caitlin weighs in on the hypocrisy about Chelsea...
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/27/msm-defends-cias-whistleblower-ign...

Julian Assange
TPTB are applying a full court press trying to extradite Julian (an Australian citizen) to the US for the crime of publishing Chelsea's leaks. You better not tell the world of our criminal activities!

Assange’s father describes his son’s ‘degradation’ in prison (2 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6el_lq2rq0k

The Washington security establishment is salivating for its quarry, and Britain is playing minder. This means keeping him in indefinite detention, or at least till US authorities make their case, however unconvincing. UN Special Rapporteur, Nils Melzer, wrote “In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political prosecution, I have never seen a group of democratic states gang up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law. The collective punishment of Julian Assange must end here and now.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/03/dangerous-detention-julian-assan...

The Treatment of Julian Assange Proves That There Is No Law, Moral Conscience, or Civilization Left in the West
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/10/karen-kwiatkowski/run/

Julian needs support from all over the world, please write to him at…

Mr Julian Assange
DOB: 3/07/1971
HMP Belmarsh
Western Way
London SE28 0EB
UK

Tens of thousands of letters arriving on a daily basis… Will disrupt the prison staff and create more problems for both the UK Royal Mail and the staff at HMP Belmarsh. That will be great news as Julian Assange must get out of HMP Belmarsh as quickly as possible – because they are torturing him which is a violation of human rights. You must write your own name and address on the back of the envelope or it will not be delivered to the prisoner. You don’t have to write a prisoner number if you include his date of birth (July 3,1971) next to his name.

Jimmy talks with Actual CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou who revealed our torture program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSG800M8n9c (23 min)
For those who prefer reading here's John article on the subject of the whistleblower. He also tells Tom Drake's story.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/30/john-kiriakou-what-was-this-cia-of...

Ray McGovern had an interesting interview with Joe Lauria this week. He's grown his beard and looks like he would fit into our local crowd. This is a terrific interview. If you don't care for the historical aspect of Ray's experience, fast forward to the last 10 min or so, but the entire interview was interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugBMF9HRg2Q (32 min)

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) is a group of current and former officials of the United States Intelligence Community, including some from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the U.S. State Department's Intelligence Bureau (INR), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It was formed in January 2003 as a "coast-to-coast enterprise" to protest the use of faulty intelligence "upon which the US/UK invasion of Iraq was based." The group issued a letter before the 2003 invasion of Iraq stating that intelligence analysts were not being listened to by policy makers.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/veteran-intelligence-professionals-...

Bill Binney was on 'the whistleblower newsroom' this week. Another insightful interview....

National Security Agency whistleblower Bill Binney explains why the CIA agent who reported that multiple government sources told him that President Trump pressured Ukrainian President Zelensky during a phone call is a “rumorblower,” not a whistleblower and how the CIA engineered Russiagate and now Ukrainegate to bring down Trump in the face of forensic evidence Binney uncovered showing that the Russians did not hack the DNC’s server. Binney is currently suing the government for illegal data-gathering and surveillance activities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0iueBda-r0
(58 min podcast- sorry there's no text but worth your time IMO)

Netflix has a surprisingly positive biopic about Bill called "A Good American"...

A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution. The tool was perfect - except for one thing: it was way too cheap. Therefor NSA leadership, who had fallen into the hands of industry, dumped it - three weeks prior to 9/11. In a secret test-run of the program against the pre-9/11-NSA database in early 2002 the program immediately found the terrorists. This is the story of former Technical director of NSA, Bill Binney, and a program called ThinThread.

(Netflix currently is offering 30 free days of streaming)

Edward Snowden is one of the world’s most famous whistleblowers. Ed Snowden has been living in exile in Moscow since 2013 after he released to journalists millions of pages of documents he had taken out of the National Security Agency, where he had worked on the nation’s most closely guarded surveillance programs. He's been making the circuit (digitally) due to the release of his new book.
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/3/snowden_knows_exactly_why_no_one (text only)

He had an extended interview on Democracy Now this week - see all 5 parts at this link:
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/26/edward_snowden_memoir_permanent_r...
(video or text)

More Ironies and hypocrisy...
Throwing rocks when you live in a glasshouse is rarely a good idea. Despite all the effort that went into Russiagate, the claims against Donald Trump just wouldn’t stick. Luckily for the Democrats, there are plenty more Eastern European countries that can be used to try to bring down a president.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOAPpTisvHw (3 min)

Jimmy and Aaron look into Ukrainegate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6by-4RQ1ZY (14 min)

Lee Camp takes a swing at Ukrainegate in the first 15 minutes but the whole 30 min show is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CHX3Mjj0TA

Not only is there the irony of the Biden's Ukrainian corruption, but also the irony of seeking foreign dirt on your political opponent. Consider the so called Steele Dossier -

How is it the Dems pay a Brit, Steele, to gather dirt on Trump in Russia and the resulting report is used as evidence for the Russiagate conspiracy with nary a word from the lame brain media?

During the Republican presidential primary contest, The Washington Free Beacon hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on multiple candidates, including Donald Trump. Knowing that the law firm Perkins Coie represented the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie and offered to continue the opposition research on Donald Trump that it had begun with The Washington Free Beacon. Together, the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS $1.02 million for those services via Perkins Coie.
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The Steele Dossier has been used to secure Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) warrants, to validate House and Senate investigations, and to justify the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the president’s ties to Russia. Despite this, there remains no credible evidence substantiating the primary allegations made within the dossier.

https://forerunnersofamerica.com/article/steele-dossier-timeline-just-th...

In rushing out their assessment of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Obama-administration officials chose not to include the risible Steele-dossier allegations that they had put in their “VERIFIED APPLICATION” for warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) because . . . wait for it . . . the allegations weren’t verified.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/the-steele-dossier-and-the-verifi...
more on the dossier...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expa...

I'm no fan of Trumpilini, but I really hate this lopsided coverage about pressuring governments for dirt on Biden without a mention of the democrats dirty dealings....despite the tape of Biden bragging about pressuring Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating his son.

As Ray McGovern said earlier it isn't just the MIC, it is the -
Military, Industrial, Congressional, MEDIA, intelligence (agencies), Think Tank, Academia Complex or MICMITAC

More interesting news items...
Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva has refused to be put in a semi-open prison with better conditions, claiming he "won't accept bargaining with his rights and freedom".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0g1oWMfjGg (2 min)

Jason Fung explains how the medical profession lost its way and no longer uses evidence to base their recommendations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IO2DZjOkY (50 min)

A good run down of all the protests going on around the world starting with Iraq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmAshbHvtts (1st 10 min)

Max and Stacy examine the state of our global economy and suggest we are trying to make recessions great again. (1st 15 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK7Ogn7gMXg
Another excellent Max and Stacy analysis in the 1st 15 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aengR6fWk

Well let's get out of the weeds and... get back to the garden.

I've been enjoying two market gardeners, Josh Sattin and Mike Dickson (and his family).

Here's a couple of sample videos...first Josh on growing microgreens. This is for all of you with no room to garden who want easy to grow high quality fresh produce. Of course you scale this down for home production. (18 min)

I empathize with Mike cause we've been in the same drought he describes in this video, where he asks how to farm with no rain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtFte1tgOKQ (15 min)

Relief finally last night...over a half inch of rain and much cooler temperatures today. True pennies from heaven.

Climate chaos is affecting everyone!

Chris Hedges talks with activist Christine See and Rory Varrato of Extinction Rebellion about the upcoming non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience events during the week of October 7 in cities across the world. Protesters demand an end to the corporate control of the political and economic systems that they claim are leaving us all unprepared for a future of climate emergency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hAKcDxf8c (27 min)

Tomorrow XR plans to shut down 60 major cities around the world. I keep waiting to hear someone in power start real actions to mitigate the radical changes climate collapse is sure to bring.

From over a decade ago...it is going much faster now.

On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.

I wrote an essay about water management awhile back. Had I known about Viktor Schauberger then I surely would have included him in that discussion. I find him fascinating in that he observed and copied nature in order to speed the flow of water to ship timber down stream. However the process of deforestation began to drop water levels and he had to adapt his approach to reforestation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXPrLGUGZsw (1.25 hour documentary)

You can't whistle with a mouthful of crackers. At least I can't, and I whistle a good deal. It's a way to keep lots of tunes resident in the old noggin. My alarm bell went off on this current "whistleblower" when all the media began and the dims chimed in talking protection. This smells of another DNCIA russiagate fraud. What a great tool of distraction. I found it interesting the real whistleblowers concur with that assessment.

Have you heard any coverage of XR's actions tomorrow in the corporate news? Or all the unrest in South America (and around the world)? Similar to the yellow vest movement higher fuel prices have sent people to the streets. They don't want you to know that the people can shut down the system. Ralph Nader suggest several excellent examples of why we should take to the streets, but reaches a mistaken conclusion IMO about WARren as a way to get there. So here we are misdirected and swimming in a sea of propaganda. Ray McGovern said something like my friends think I'm a nut because they have no idea what is really going on because they read the NYT and think they've been informed. I'm grateful to this community for helping me to stay aware and providing me a community of like minded truth seekers. I'll leave you with a song by my friend Carl Jones, and look forward to your thoughts, stories, and comments below. Have a wonderful Sunday!