Unnamed Source Claims Unconfirmed Cyber Attacks are from Iran

"American officials have not offered any technical evidence to back up their assertions of Iranian authorship of the latest attacks." - The New York Times

Eric Blair

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The New York Times ran a story Friday from an unnamed source about an unconfirmed story with unnamed victims. Why would the paper of record run such a story? Propaganda of course.

Any chance the officialdom can demonize Iran while simultaneously inflating the fear of cyber attacks, they'll take it, even if it's completely fabricated.

The NYT article New Computer Attacks Traced to Iran, Officials Say is pure propaganda. Take a look at some of the excerpts to determine what is supposed to be news.

American officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking American corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran. 

The targets have included several American oil, gas and electricity companies, which government officials have refused to identify. The goal is not espionage, they say, but sabotage. Government officials describe the attacks as probes looking for ways to seize control of critical processing systems.

Indoctrination Revealed in Utah School Curriculum

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Teacher Resigns Over Curriculum Mandates and Disrespect

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A veteran teacher explains why the "No Child Left Behind" mandates are killing creative learning in schools and how teachers have been diminished. This is formidable resignation letter and a damning example of what schools are being forced to become.

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Hershberger Verdict In After Judge Orders Jury NOT to Vote With Conscience

Heather Callaghan
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Into the wee hours of last night, after about 16 hours of deliberating, the Baraboo, Wisconsin court decided not to wait until Tuesday for a verdict.

Four criminal misdemeanor charges are aimed at Vernon Hershberger for providing fresh food to his community through a contractual agreement with members. Paraphrased by Derrick J Freeman the "crimes" include:

1. distributing milk from his “Grazin’ Acres” dairy farm without a milk producer’s license,
2. operating a retail food establishment without a state license,
3. operating a dairy plant without a state license, and
4. violating a “hold order” placed on his dairy products after the state raided his farm.

Prosecution (State) tried to drive home the twisted view that Vernon's family and barn was a "retail operation," instead of the membership agreement where the members (who are owners) thereof put in a lot of the hard work there, like a co-op. Also, there have never been complaints. The 2010 armed raid was initiated by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP).

Obama Heckler: "I think killing innocent people with drones is rude"

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A CNN host called peace activist, Medea Benjamin, "rude" for interrupting the president's foreign policy speech.

Benjamin responded, "I think killing innocent people with drones is rude," Benjamin replied. "I think keeping innocent people in detention for 11 years is rude. I think not respecting the lives of Muslim people who are killed is rude. There are a lot of rude things about our policies. Speaking out is actually not rude."



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Media Responses to Obama's Speech

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Stephen Lendman
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They didn't surprise. Media scoundrels support his worst policies. His neoliberal harshness is endorsed. His alliance with monied interests gets no coverage.

His crimes of war, against humanity and genocide go unmentioned.

His partnership with Israel against Palestine isn't explained. His systematic disdain for rule of law principles gets ignored.

Responses to his Thursday speech were largely positive. Challenging them follows below.

Obama Expands Militarization of Police

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Among items transferred to local law enforcement agencies have been assault rifles and grenade launchers, even Blackhawk helicopters and .50 caliber machine guns; In fiscal year 2011 alone, the Pentagon transferred almost $500 million worth of materials to domestic law enforcement -- near double the previous year's total.


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CDC Declares 1/5 of U.S. Kids Have Mental Disorders

Melissa Melton
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A fresh report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that 20 percent of American children now have mental health issues.

Here are some of the report’s highlights:

• The most prevalent mental health diagnosis of children studied between the ages of three and 17 was Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), followed by depression, behavioral issues, and anxiety.
• Anxiety rates were considerably higher in this new study than data collected on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2001 to 2004.
• Suicide was the second leading cause of death among children aged 12–17 years in 2010. Of children who committed suicide, more than a quarter (26.4%) were receiving treatment for a mental health disorder.
• Children with health insurance had more ADHD and anxiety, whereas uninsured children were more likely to report substance use disorders.
• It is estimated nearly $247 billion is spent on childhood mental disorders each year.

The release of this study comes just months after President Obama signed 23 Executive Orders for gun control which involve a large focus on mental health issues in youth and referring adolescents to mental health treatment.

Rand Paul introduces bill to extend Fourth Amendment protection to electronic communications

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Madison Ruppert
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has introduced legislation that seeks to extend Fourth Amendment protection to electronic communications, which if successful would be a major move to protect online privacy.

This comes after it was revealed that both the IRS and the FBI claimed they did not need a warrant to spy on the electronic communications of Americans.

However, some might be skeptical given Paul’s much-criticized apparent flip-flop on the drone issue.

Nonetheless, Paul has made some much needed statements about the lack of protection given to the private electronic communications of the American people.

Obama: Defending the Indefensible

Anthony Freda Art

Stephen Lendman
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His doublespeak duplicity reflects the last refuge of a scoundrel. He's the worst in recent memory. Perhaps the worst ever. Forked tongue rhetoric can't disguise it.

Throughout his tenure, he governed lawlessly. He's done so at home and abroad. He spurns rule of law principles and other democratic values.

Nothing suggests change. Business as usual continues. War on humanity is policy. Rogue leaders govern that way. Obama threatens everyone.

On May 23, he spoke at Washington's National Defense University. He defended what he urged changing four years earlier. More on his Thursday address below.

Turmeric's Cardiovascular Benefits Found To Be As Powerful As Exercise

Sayer Ji

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Nothing can replace exercise, but turmeric extract does a pretty good job of producing some of the same cardiovascular health benefits, most notably in women undergoing age-associated adverse changes in arterial health.

Despite the general lack of interest by conventional medical practitioners in turmeric's role in preventing heart disease, there is a robust body of published research on its remarkable cardioprotective properties, with three dozen study abstracts on the topic available to view on our database alone: turmeric's cardioprective properties.

Last year, we reported on a study published in the American Journal of Cardiology that found turmeric extract reduces post-bypass heart attack risk by 56%. Now, we would like to bring attention to a remarkable study published in the journal Nutrition Research in 2012 that revealed that curcumin, the primary polyphenol in turmeric and which gives the spice its golden hue, is as effective in improving vascular function in postmenopausal women as a moderate aerobic exercise training regimen. [1]

The People's Movement Against Monsanto

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Monsanto is a company feared and reviled by the public in equal measure. But whatever cases Monsanto has lost in the court of public opinion it has made up for in the courts of justice thanks to its revolving door with the upper reaches of Washington. Now, a new movement is seeking to galvanize grassroots resistance to the corporation, and derail its agenda.


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Writing Contest: EXPOSE Agenda 21

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2nd place receives a $250 cash prize

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Agenda 21 wears a green cloak of caring and happiness to hide its much darker trappings. By utilizing universal concerns such as the environment and the economy, this United Nations program has co-opted legitimate activism to create a many-tentacled beast that aims to get it hooks into local communities across the globe . . . by stealth.

At its heart, Agenda 21 is a communitarian system -- essentially collectivism -- where the very nature of the human desire to connect and cooperate with one another is distorted to become a system of regulations, control mechanisms, dependence and servitude, and a revamp of the global economy, based on natural, human, and social capital. Humanity itself becomes the source of all problems instead of the source of all solutions and progress.

This writing contest seeks to address the many facets of Agenda 21. A lot of people are still confused about what it is and what its true purpose is.  It is time to fully expose it with crowd-powered journalism.

Please use the following bullet points as a guideline to help expose the full reach of Agenda 21 and how it affects us. Agenda 21 is not a "conspiracy theory", it is an Action Plan. This is your chance to take back the conversation and stop this plan.

• Balancing all 3 ‘E’s of Agenda 21- environment, economy, equity. 
• Redistributing our wealth – financing economic expansion into the ‘developing world’.
• Measuring Gross Global Happiness; the 9 domains; survey questions; happiness action groups.
• Smart phones / self-reporting; the future of telehealth – electronic records, neural profiling, AI doctors, telemedicine, genetic profiling, phone sensing, quantified self, Biostamps, transhumanism.
• The history and theories of the ‘beyond GDP’ movement, and who is involved.
• The rise of the New Economists – who profits?
• ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ (CSR) and how it can be ‘leveraged’ by consumers for justice.
• Global Happiness (i.e. the correct standard of physical and mental health) and identity profiling; Identity Providers, and other trust facilitators/reputation systems, such as Ripple, for the global virtual economy.
• Mobile finance and tracking, including programs rolled out across the developing world, such as M-PESA, and the ‘Better Than Cash Alliance’. Can we use our P2P Power to set up truly grassroots local currencies which commit to enabling truly anonymous transactions, without measuring ‘giving’ or ‘having’? (Community currencies tend to be based on measures of qualities such as ‘social value’ and ‘reputation capital’, which exclude those who are unable to give, or do not have.)
• Local activism and solutions; is your community beginning to feel or discuss specific Agenda 21 programs such as Wildlands, ICLEI, and others? Has your community successfully resisted? How?
• Recognizing true solutions like self-sufficiency, which is the real definition of "sustainable".

Feel free to write about any specific aspect of Agenda 21 like a local zoning regulation or write about the broader agenda behind it.

Please see the specific guidelines for submissions below:

• Length: 1,500 words maximum. Footnotes do not count as part of the total.
• Originals Only: The article must be original content for our exclusive use as the first website to publish it on the Internet.
• Deadline: The contest officially begins on June 1st, 2013 and will run through August 1st, 2013. Articles will be reviewed and published in the order they are received. 
• Winner: The winner will be determined by total page views, the earlier you submit your article the better chance you have to win. The winner will be announced on September 15th, 2013.

Important Submission Guidelines:

• Please submit completed articles via email to contest@activistpost.com. 
• Submissions can be cut-and-pasted into an e-mail, or you may attach a Word file. 
• We can only make minor edits, so submissions that have poor formatting, or need heavy editing will be disqualified. 
• We are not able to attend to follow-up edits once a submission is posted, so please take time to be sure that you are submitting a final version you are happy with. 
• Multiple submissions are permitted, but will not count toward a cumulative page view total; each entry will stand on its own. 
• We cannot accept images, due to the length of time it takes to post them, but you may provide 1 video that is relevant to your article. 
• Please provide a title. 

 Best of luck to all, we look forward to hearing and sharing your research and activism.

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The Digital Crossover: How is Technology Changing our Society?

Daniel Taylor
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In a recent article, Old-Thinker News reported on the Google-Bilderberg partnership and the likely strategy this group will pursue into the future. To summarize; The global elite are pushing the globe toward a dystopic future in which all aspects of life are in some way managed by their interests. Future urban development of computerized “U-cities” will reflect this goal. Mega corporations will provide advanced technology to their constituents and thus gain loyalty.

How will this technology impact our society? How has it already impacted our lives?

The wider trends in the world will play a key role in how this situation develops. Technology itself can be used for good or evil. The political, economic and social atmosphere – intertwined with individual choices – will mold the outcome. Here’s a scenario:

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Hershberger Trial: List of Things You Can't Say and Wear Gets Bigger

Heather Callaghan
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Hopefully, you already know what's going down in Baraboo, Wisconsin. It's one of the biggest, precedent-setting food freedom cases in history that's got even conventional dairy industries watching. Raw milk is the smallest part of this trial - Vernon is fighting for you and he didn't have to. A large, mostly eclectic group has been gathering since Monday and a verdict is expected Friday.

The judge, Guy Reynolds, is essentially directing the jury how to vote and what they are allowed to hear....The whole case hinges on these words that are banned.

Vernon Hershberger is facing over two years prison time and $10,000 in fines for four criminal misdemeanor charges aimed at him for providing fresh food to his community through members in agreement. Some background here. Prosecution from the State is having a hard time proving that Vernon is running a "retail establishment". He's not, unless you consider horse boarding, co-ops and Craigslist storefronts with retail transactions requiring business licenses to use. Government would love to eradicate "herd share" type agreements and so it's no surprise that there is NO discussion of herd share memberships allowed in the courtroom - see how they are keeping the jury in the dark below.

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The individual vs. the collective in the Matrix

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Jon Rappoport
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In the 1950s, before television had numbed minds and turned them into jelly, there was a growing sense of: the Individual versus the Corporate State.

Something needed to be done. People were fitting into slots. They were surrendering their lives in increasing numbers. They were carving away their own idiosyncrasies and their independent ideas.

Collectivism wasn’t merely a Soviet paradigm. It was spreading like a fungus at every level of American life. It might fly a political banner here and there, but on the whole it was a social phenomenon and nightmare.

Television then added fuel to the fire. Under the control of psyops experts, it became, as the 1950s droned on, the facile barrel of a weapon:

“What’s important is the group, the family, peers. Conform. Give in. Bathe in the great belonging…”

It's Airborne: Human Transmission of Deadly H7N9 Virus Now Confirmed

Mac Slavo
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In April of this year researchers studying the H7N9 bird flu virus in China advised global governments to get prepared for the worst-case scenario. According to the World Health Organization, H7N9 is one the most lethal influenza strains ever identified because it mutates eight times faster than a normal flu virus, and, according to official records, has a death-to-infection ratio of about 25%.

It was initially believed that the virus could only be transmitted to humans who have had direct contact with poultry. After 36 H7N9 deaths and 131 of infections officially reported since the virus was first identified, the worst-case scenario that many feared may now be on the horizon.

The Sun China Morning Post is reporting that researchers have confirmed that, not only can the virus be transmitted from one human to another, but it has gone airborne.

The Colorado River, The High Plains Aquifer And The Entire Western Half Of The U.S. Are Rapidly Drying Up

Michael Snyder
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What is life going to look like as our precious water resources become increasingly strained and the western half of the United States becomes bone dry?  Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century in the western half of the country in 1000 years, and now things appear to be reverting to their normal historical patterns.  But we have built teeming cities in the desert such as Phoenix and Las Vegas that support millions of people.  Cities all over the Southwest continue to grow even as the Colorado River, Lake Mead and the High Plains Aquifer system run dry.  So what are we going to do when there isn't enough water to irrigate our crops or run through our water systems?

Already we are seeing some ominous signs that Dust Bowl conditions are starting to return to the region.  In the past couple of years we have seen giant dust storms known as "haboobs" roll through Phoenix, and 6 of the 10 worst years for wildfires ever recorded in the United States have all come since the year 2000.  In fact, according to the Los Angeles Times, "the average number of fires larger than 1,000 acres in a year has nearly quadrupled in Arizona and Idaho and has doubled in every other Western state" since the 1970s.  But scientists are warning that they expect the western United States to become much drier than it is now.  What will the western half of the country look like once that happens?

Rep. Adam Schiff preparing legislation that could end AUMF, remove authority for war on terror

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Madison Ruppert
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According to a report, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is preparing legislation that would end the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) and in doing so would remove much of the authority for the war on terror and all that comes with it.

The AUMF has been used to justify everything from indefinite detention of Americans to assassinations carried out by drones so legislation that would “sunset” the AUMF would bring about many changes.

“The current AUMF is outdated and straining at the edges to justify the use of force outside the war theater,” Schiff said to Wired’s Danger Room.

Schiff is still in the very early stages of drafting the bill and doesn’t even have a timeline for introducing it. Yet Schiff’s effort is quite noteworthy since there was only one previous effort to change the AUMF. Obviously that failed.

Oregon Woman Told by 911 ‘There are no cops available…Just ask him to go away’ Right Before Sexual Assault

Kimberly Paxton
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The saying goes, “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”

If you live in Josephine County, Oregon, apparently they’re only minutes away on weekdays. Budget cuts have reduced department coverage to only 5 days per week.

An unidentified woman was physically and sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend, Michael Bellah, after calling 911, only to be told that it was “unfortunate” that there were no officers to help her that day.

“Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the 911 dispatcher told the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away? Do you know if he’s intoxicated or anything?” 

The woman told the dispatcher that Bellah previously attacked her and left her hospitalized a few weeks prior to the latest incident. The dispatcher stayed on the phone with the woman for more than 10 minutes before the sexual assault took place. 

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Breaking: No Mention of "Liberty" Allowed During Hershberger Raw Milk Trial

Heather Callaghan
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Things are coming to a fiery head in Baraboo, Wisconsin this week as supporters, big league food freedom heroes, and non-corporate media activists gather outside the court house in solidarity to support fresh food farmer Vernon Hershberger. The big trial started on Monday and reportedly goes until Friday.

As you may have heard, Hershberger is facing over two years prison time and $10,000 in fines for four criminal misdemeanor charges aimed at him for providing fresh food to his community through members in agreement - mainly for breaking a holding order. For more details into the background story including a raid, government destruction of his food and previous hearings, check our running story.

Simply put, the government would like to eradicate "herd share" type agreements that act outside the State. But, that would be similar to outlawing horse boarding, co-ops and Craigslist interactions. Agents twist this practice so that it magically becomes a "retail establishment." There seems to be a major bias from the court against Vernon, but he remains in good spirits and can be seen on Facebook pages smiling with his supporters.

ALL eyes are on Hershberger this week, including non-raw dairy industry experts, as this case is expected to set a legal precedent, according to them. The "legalities" here are under heated debate. You can watch too, with the streaming video below.

Obama's War Speech Interrupted by Peace Activist

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Peace activist Medea Benjamin of Code Pink heckled Obama during his anticipated foreign policy speech today. As he was trying to pass the buck for closing Guantanamo to Congress, Benjamin shouts "You're Commander in Chief, you can close Guantanamo."  Watch the exchange below:

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