If you are a whistle-blower where afterwards multiple employees at multiple government organizations, companies, professionals have taken actions to harm you or your loved ones, you will often come across those (mostly naive individuals), who when hearing you tell of your experiences will say: “it sounds like you think there is/was a conspiracy”. This is… Continue Reading
This is the podcast for Indelible, a documentary in progress for the week of July 31, 2018. The first of a new series of podcasts which will focus on more specific issues underlying the Indelible project. This discussion centers around the current trend towards divisiveness: the way unwell authorities achieve this through social media and… Continue Reading
Why it matters that a “gun” gesture was directed towards former Goldman Sachs whistle-blower Greg Smith on CNBC, the day his book came out. The same is true in our broken world of finance. Greg Smith, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, noticed banking at the company he loved was broken. So he decided… Continue Reading
A clip from a larger discussion with Noam Chomsky. Here Greenwald discusses the use of law by the elites and those with power in the United States as a means of coercion. He also describes this behavior as it has been used against whistle-blowers.
Interview with Diane Roark. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/the-frontline-interview-diane-roark/ Rarely do you ever hear of Diane Roark, one of the initial NSA Whistleblowers who has endured many years of harassment by the US Government for daring to try to speak out against unconstitutional practices at the NSA. I learned of her story from an interview with NY Times reporter… Continue Reading
…today, I read an article by John Keane, a professor at the University of Sydney, on his recent lunch with Julian Assange at Equador’s Embassy in London, where Assange has been confined for over 8 months. It was the first time someone took the time to address the strength that can shine through a person targeted and harassed for leaking facts that defy our modern authorities.
Complaints have only ever been a starting point. With this approach, we take one step further and begin to address the community ills. In doing so, we set up a standard for honor and dishonorable behavior at any level of leadership or citizenship.
Our community resides on a framework of anti-ethics. And until we recognize this, walk away from it, and build something else, where all individuals are respected and graced with honor, we will only be the indentured subjects of the one-eyed man, in the blind kingdom of cruelty and exploitation.
A 2011 interview, (below), with Aaron Swartz, hacker and activist. He discusses how the Wall Street Journal is planning their own “leaks” site. Apparently even though the New York Times harshly criticizes Julian Assange and Wikileaks, over 1/2 of all their papers contain source material they obtained from Wikileaks. Swartz was later targeted by the US government, and committed suicide, on January 10, 2013.
Jesselyn Radack, a former Justice Department attorney and whistleblower, discusses the expanding culture of secrecy in the US government as well as in our most respected institutions, including academia and the press.