Behind The Woodshed Blogcaster – October 27, 2013.

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A Most Important Obstruction

• Language  
• Clint Richardson and Gary Long on Crucial Terms 
  

Corporate Constitutional Circumvention

• First Congress Member Allowed to Read Secret Treaty Says “There Is No National Security Purpose In Keeping This Text Secret … This Agreement Hands The Sovereignty of Our Country Over to Corporate Interests”  “Indeed, the decision to keep the text of TPP secret was itself classified as secret:”

International Honor

• Syria Meets Deadline for Arms Destruction Plan  “Syria submitted a formal declaration of its chemical weapons program and plans for destroying its arsenal three days ahead of the deadline”

International Dishonor

• What “Sanctions” Will Happen If Syrian “Rebels” Are Shown To Have Used Poison Gas?
• Please tell me, Mr President, why a US drone assassinated my mother   “The last time I saw my mother, Momina Bibi, was the evening before Eid al-Adha. She was preparing my children’s clothing and showing them how to make sewaiyaan, a traditional sweet made of milk. She always used to say: the joy of Eid is the excitement it brings to the children. Last year, she never had that experience. The next day, 24 October 2012, she was dead, killed by a US drone that rained fire down upon her as she tended her garden.
  Nobody has ever told me why my mother was targeted that day. The media reported that the attack was on a car, but there is no road alongside my mother’s house. Several reported the attack was on a house. But the missiles hit a nearby field, not a house. All reported that five militants were killed. Only one person was killed – a 67-year-old grandmother of nine.”

Domestic Dishonor

• Police militarization expo Urban Shield descends on Oakland (VIDEO).  “Urban Shield, coordinated by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, exists under the guise of fighting terrorism and “disaster preparedness” in heavily-populated areas. The event is partly a trade show for a myriad militarized tactical gear and weapons, but there are also training exercises and war-game competitions that teams from California to Guam to Qatar will take part in this weekend. The exercises include protest suppression techniques and SWAT-team-raid simulations. “
• If They Come To Confiscate Guns You Have to Know What to Expect
• A “Fearful” Police Mindset Leads to a Dead Child 
• NSA Monitored Phone Calls Of 35 World Leaders: Report
• Lavabit ‘fatally undermined’ by US request for encryption keys  “The ACLU has filed a “friend of the court” briefing in defence of Lavabit and its founder, Ladar Levison, who faces contempt of court charges after his decision to close down his service rather than co-operate with US authorities.”
• Filesharing site revealed to be anti-piracy ‘honeypot’  “A honeypot is a facility, in this case a site, run under false pretences that encourages criminal behaviour in an effort to collect incriminating data.
  “That’s right – the biggest swerve ever,” the operator of UT, known only as WDF, said in a statement about the purchase of the site. “I, WDF, work for the anti-piracy people!””
• Privacy is Becoming a Crime – Why Intel Chips May Present a Whole New Risk  “The new Intel Core vPro processors contain a new remote access feature which allows 100% remote access to a PC 100% of the time, even if the computer is turned off. Core vPro processors contain a second physical processor embedded within the main processor which has its own operating system embedded on the chip itself. As long as the power supply is available and in working condition, it can be woken up by the Core vPro processor, which runs on the system’s phantom power and is able to quietly turn individual hardware components on and access anything on them.
  Let’s make this perfectly clear. This eliminates ALL possible privacy. It will allow IT professionals to view the contents of hard drives, check the memory, or hunt for problems on a machine without actually being in front of it. Nothing in your computer will ever be private again. Someone will be able to even install software unknown to the owner.”

Global Parasites

• As long as China’s domestic growth and stability are boosted by American debt, the deep ties between the two countries will likely endure.  China state media blasts US shutdown, calls for a ‘de-Americanized’ world.

Domestic Parasites

• Despite Glitches, Obamacare Profit Windfall To Insurers Well Underway 
• New EPA Guidelines Could Control Streams And Ditches On Private Property
• The EPA Legally Controls All Water, Food Production and Private Property  

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