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By Daisy Luther | The Daily Sheeple | December 21, 2013

While everyone is distracted with the holiday festivities, Congress has been hard at work, screwing us over in the name of national security

(Photo by Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images)

Yesterday the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act was fast-tracked through the Senate, with no time for discussion or amendments.  And you know, its Christmastime, so they just passed it so that they could recess for the holidays. The new version of the NDAA has already been quietly passed by the House of Representatives.

It authorizes massive spending, including $527 billion in base defense spending for the current fiscal year, funding for the war in Afghanistan, and funding for nuclear weapons programs.

The indefinite detention allowed by the original NDAA is still here, and it’s actually worse now, because there are provisions that will make it easier for the government to target those who disagree.  Section 1071 outlines the creation of the “Conflict Records Research Center”, where the unconstitutionally obtained information that the NSA has collected is compiled and shared with the Department of Defense.  The information, called in the wording  “captured records,” can be anything from your phone records, emails, browsing history or posts on social media sites.

The New American reports in detail on the expansion of powers:

For two years, the NDAA included provisions that purported to authorize the president of the United States to deploy the U.S. military to apprehend and indefinitely detain any person (including an American citizen) who he believes “represent[s] an enduring security threat to the United States.”

Such an immense grant of power is not only unconscionable, but unconstitutional, as well.

Regardless of promises to the contrary made every year since 2011 by President Obama, the language of the NDAA places every citizen of the United States within the universe of potential “covered persons.” Any American could one day find himself or herself branded a “belligerent” and thus subject to the complete confiscation of his or her constitutional civil liberties and to nearly never-ending incarceration in a military prison.

Finally, there is in the NDAA for 2014 a frightening fusion of the federal government’s constant surveillance of innocent Americans and the assistance it will give to justifying the indefinite detention of anyone labeled an enemy of the regime.

Section 1071 of the version of the 2014 NDAA approved by the House and Senate committees this week expands on the scope of surveillance established by the Patriot Act and the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF).

Section 1071(a) authorizes the secretary of defense to “establish a center to be known as the ‘Conflict Records Research Center.’” According to the text of the latest version of the NDAA, the center’s task would be to compile a “digital research database including translations and to facilitate research and analysis of records captured from countries, organizations, and individuals, now or once hostile to the United States.”

In order to accomplish the center’s purpose, the secretary of defense will create an information exchange in cooperation with the director of national intelligence.

Key to the functioning of this information exchange will be the collection of “captured records.” Section 1071(g)(1), defines a captured record as “a document, audio file, video file, or other material captured during combat operations from countries, organizations, or individuals, now or once hostile to the United States.”

When read in conjunction with the provision of the AUMF that left the War on Terror open-ended and the prior NDAAs’ classification of the United States as a battleground in that unconstitutional war, and you’ve got a powerful combination that can knock out the entire Bill of Rights.

Finally, when all the foregoing is couched within the context of the revelations regarding the dragnet surveillance programs of the NSA, it becomes evident that anyone’s phone records, e-mail messages, browsing history, text messages, and social media posts could qualify as a “captured record.”

After being seized by the NSA (or some other federal surveillance apparatus), the materials would be processed by the Conflict Records Research Center created by this bill. This center’s massive database of electronic information and its collaboration with the NSA converts the United States into a constantly monitored holding cell and all its citizens and residents into suspects. All, of course, in the name of the security of the homeland. (source)

One thing that was omitted is the amendment on the prosecution of sexual assaults in the military.  So, we can all be locked up indefinitely for crimes that haven’t been proven, but they don’t care so much if military members continue to rape other military members.

The final compromise, fashioned by the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees, leaves out Democratic language that would have eased restrictions on transferring Gitmo detainees to the United States — a provision that would have helped the administration achieve its goal of shuttering the facility.

It also does not include a controversial amendment by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to remove decisions about prosecuting sexual assault from the military chain of command. The New York Democrat says she’s secured a commitment from Reid to bring her proposal to the floor as a stand-alone measure next year. Although she may get her vote, the legislation is not expected to survive in the Republican-controlled House.

Thursday’s defense bill also sidesteps the debate over Iran. Senators who wanted to offer amendments imposing tougher sanctions were blocked because of the bill’s fast-track process, which supporters said was necessary to get it finished before the end of the year. So Iran sanction hawks’ efforts will have to wait until next year. Movement now toward stricter sanctions, the White House has warned, would undermine its ongoing negotiations to curb Iran’s nuclear program.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested Reid had fast-tracked the defense bill because he “can’t stomach” a politically uncomfortable Iran vote. (source)

If you’re wondering who this year’s enemies of the Constitution are, here is the roll call from the Senate yesterday.

source: Activist Post

Unsurprisingly, there is little hope that President Obama will fail to sign this into law.

Under the new and “improved” NDAA, I’m a belligerent for writing this, and you’re a belligerent for reading this.  God help you if you email someone about it or share it on Facebook. We’re all going to be busted as belligerents under this one.

See you at Gitmo or the FEMA camps!

This article originally appeared at The Daily Sheeple

http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6110:nuclear-holocaust-yes-he-can&catid=113:oped&Itemid=296

It comes to something when the slippery Iranian regime is more reliable in reporting the facts than is the American Presidency.

This is backwards global stewardship.  At a time when we should be dismantling these poison pills, the Muslim-in-Chief is handing nuclear power over to a psychotic country bent on the destruction of western civilization, and which has stated that an entire country should die.  This is a continuation of a distinct pattern of behavior that our Prezzie exhibits:  he is arming the Muslim nations.  Why?  Because he is one.  Is this a conflict of interest?  Yep.  Big time.  In a really bad way.  Is it treason.  HELL YES!!!!!

In the Cobra interview with Alfred Webre Lamont on 12.11.13, the following dialogue took place:

Cobra:  ... "As you probably know, just a few hours after the opening of this [Aion] portal, a historic agreement was reached with Iran, which was not possible for many years before that. So it’s a big breakthrough."

Without talking specifically, Cobra has indicated that by allowing Iran to freely pursue nuclear power that "a big breakthrough" has been made.  A breakthrough for peace?  Is he kidding?  Another black mark in my book on the Cobra entity.  The deception is incredible.  Call black white and get as many people possible to believe it.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/13/news/economy/light-bulb-ban/index.html

http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/central-bankers-controlling-u-s-iran-talks/

http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/braces-glasses-cost-more-under-obamacare/

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/12/12/uk-iceland-kaupthing-idUKBRE9BB0UV20131212

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-19/guest-post-do-we-even-need-banking-sector-not-any-more

Hmm.  Sounds like a good idea.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-20/hsbc-gets-slap-wrist-helping-finance-terrorists

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-20/obama-caves-delays-obamacare-momentum-fizzles-customer-pool-smaller-and-sicker

Interesting ....

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/19/White-House-Floats-Fear-that-Repeal-of-Obamacare-Will-Cost-too-Much

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/christmas-travel-snow-to-tornadoes/21156700

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/experts-fear-nuclear-famine-a-disaster-so-massive-in-scale-that-no-preparation-is-possible_12192013

Amazingly, this article focused on "what if" and not "what already is."  There wasn't any mention of Fukushima.  However, I think the end results are the same.  This is happening and without outside intervention, we are "screwed, glued, and tattooed."

Brazil is looking better and better each day.

http://beforeitsnews.com/earthquakes/2013/12/fuku-warning-to-northern-hemisphere-increasingly-critical-reactor-blocks-are-sinking-2481962.html

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/North-Texas-man-dies-of-swine-flu-could-be-mystery-illness-from-Houston-236558201.html
Dustin Wright, 30, came down with flu-like symptoms just before Thanksgiving. Ashley said he seemed to be getting better, before taking a sudden turn for the worse.

"Every breath was a struggle for him,” she recalled. “Every single breath. And I woke him up at 11:30, and his lips were purple and his fingers were purple, and he was like a green color -- like he was just changing colors.

...

"He had not gotten a flu shot. H1N1 is one of the viruses included in this year's shot."  "I'll never look at this the same ever again for sure,” Ashley said. “Always just get your flu shot, because you never know."  [This will cause people to panic and go get their flu shot.]

http://patdollard.com/2013/12/out2enroll-obamacares-gay-christmas/ 

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