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Four key claims made by the Remain camp were demolished last night in the final hours of the referendum battle.
As voters prepared to go to the polls in a knife-edge contest, Leave supporters said David Cameron's arguments on Turkey, trade, migration and welfare had fallen apart.
And in a final impassioned plea, Michael Gove declared today was 'D-Day' for current generations of Britons. He urged wavering voters not to flinch from regaining sovereignty from a Brussels machine that would leave their country poorer and less secure.
Unions claim they have been given the right to march on Thursday, after police had earlier announced a ban that sparked outrage from French politicians.
The people are angry, and from this point on, everything governments do only increases that anger!
Francois Hollande - already the most unpopular French president on record - is facing a showdown with unions and students after they threatened to defy a ban on marching through Paris in a day of protests over reforms to France's labor laws.
France has been beset by protests since Hollande's Socialist government forced through changes to the strictly codified French labor laws — known as the Code du travail — in an effort to make it easier for employers to take on permanent staff and allows for more flexible working.
There have been rolling strikes for two months, affecting fuel refineries, fuel depots, the French railway, garbage collections, public services and educational establishments.
Legislation will permit security services to hack all phones and laptops in an entire town, as long as it is overseas
As Reuters reports, like in 2014 and unlike in national elections, British broadcasters on Thursday will not conduct exit polls - in which people are asked as they leave polling stations how they voted
They are going to steal this election!
YouGov Head of Political and Social Research Joe Twyman has confirmed, via Twitter, that there will be an exit poll for the referendum.
Twyman;s tweet reads: "At @YouGov we will run our own On-the-Day #EURef poll on Thursday, as we did for Scot Ref. Findings announced on @SkyNews after polls close." Polls on Thursday June 23rd will close at 22:00 BST.
by Edward Lozansky and Jim Jatras
Since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy could almost have been designed to undermine our national interests. Whether under Republican George W. Bush or Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, we have seen "regime changes" and "color revolutions," facilitation of global jihadism while claiming to combat it, and gratuitous confrontation with post-communist Russia which was going out of its way to become our reliable ally.
Donald Trump is right to question the value of these foolish and dangerous commitments. If he is elected, he needs to take a hard look at the three components that have ill-served us for so long and should be jettisoned the same way Russia dumped Marxism-Leninism in 1991. If on the other hand Hillary Clinton, a Leninist if ever there was one, is elected, we know that she will continue and even intensify them with potentially catastrophic consequences.
A dispatcher who worked over seven years for the Adams County Idaho Sheriff's Department has shared a very powerful and revealing message about her personal experiences with Jack and Donna Yantis. Jack was killed by deputies in front of his wife last Nov. 1 after the Sheriff called him out to attend to a bull in the road. "I have no idea how many times I called Donna and Jack. Never did they get angry or refuse to assist. They would not only move the cattle, even if it wasn't theirs, but help me figure out who the owners were, too." Diane Coon continues "Do I want their pain eased with justice? More than life itself. Standing firm for them!"
Al-Rahab has been suspected of serving as bin Laden's bodyguard in past.
The Yemini national has been held in the controversial Cuban detention facility for 14 years without being formally charged with a crime. The Defense Department announced his release Wednesday, but it is unclear when the release took place, or how Montenegro plans to care for him.
A review board found in 2014 that he was no longer a threat to the United States, and recommended transfer.
Closing Guantanamo by the end of President Obama's term in 2017 is a goal of the administration. It was a central pledge of his 2008 campaign for president, but there is growing speculation he will be unable to make good on that pledge>>> (*enough with the BEX , already !)
If you read the presstitute media, Brexit—the referendum tomorrow on the UK's exit from the EU— is about racism. According to the story line, angry rightwing racists of violent inclinations want to leave the EU to avoid having to accept more dark-skinned immigrants into England.
Despite the constant propaganda against exit, polls indicated that more favored leaving the EU than remaining until a female member of Parliament, Jo Cox, was killed by a man that a witness said shouted "Brexit." Cox was an opponent of leaving the EU.
The world cannot continue to grow naturally before the current debt of $230 trillion together with the $1.5 quadrillion of derivatives have all disappeared. This must and will happen at some point in the not too distant future. The result will be an implosive depression that will make most debt disappear and assets such as stocks, property and bonds to decline by 90% or more. Of course that seems impossible today but the spikes in the charts above all indicate that this is likely. And based on logic this has to happen. It is only a question of when. The consequences will be totally devastating for the world economy and for almost all human beings.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could have added that voters have a short memory. Her former boss, President Barack Obama, has overseen the worst economic recovery in the post-World War II era. Despite this, Obama has a 51 percent approval rating. Hillary is right; the average Democrat voter is just plain stupid, a trait which should serve her well in November.
Nudists in Germany have been told to cover up when a refugee shelter overlooking their beloved colony opens next month. The 400 members of the Familiensport-und FKK-Bund Waldteichfreunde Moritzburg nudist group have been told they will not be able to skinny dip in the lake that will separate them from the prying eyes of residents in the new £1.2million facility. They claim their nudist way of life is being threatened by officials not wanting to offend the migrants. They have also cited the number of shocking migrant related incidents in recent months. 'I don't know whether it is wise to set up the asylum home here,' said Petra Hoffman, 70-year-old club treasurer. 'Many members are worried about camping out on our land in summer with the home across the water. Now they say we can no longer swim nude and have sent the instructions to us in many languages on a laminated board.'
In fact, today marks 200 days since Clinton has held a formal press conference of any sort. 200!
The new hordes of Third World immigrants are meant to be the "soldiers" in this war who are expected to provide all the political support needed because: 1) they will be bought off with welfare; and 2) they will remain ignorant of the importance of a free society and the ideas taken from Western civilization that support it, thanks to the PC-ization of education. That's the plan, anyway. Will we allow these neo-communists to destroy our country and our civilization?
A shuttered Philadelphia prison that was built 120 years ago and once used inmates as test subjects for biochemical research is being readied in case space is needed to hold protesters arrested during the Democratic National Convention.
Tens of thousands of protesters are expected at the July 25-28 convention.
Recently, True Activist wrote about how the U.S. orchestrated the ISIS threat to bring war to Syria and help Israel. Some thought the notion to be ridiculous, but this latest finding about presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton solidifies those suspicions. It turns out that one of the leaked emails from Hillary's private server that were released by WikiLeaks recently exposes how the aspiring Presidential candidate wanted to put Syria into civil war in hopes of overthrowing Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad – something that Clinton calls as "the best way to help Israel," to nullify Iran's nuclear power.
Yesterday on Meet The Press, Chuck Todd asks Attorney General Loretta Lynch if she should recuse herself from the Clinton FBI/DoJ email investigation and appoint a special counsel in order to assure absolute integrity and avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest in the case.
Joseph Digenova and others have called for a special prosecutor.
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Russianvids 4-minute video that proves another corporate media lie: this is not a "live" shot but staged for green-screen with a likely crisis actor (and here, here).
30-second video of a "wounded" man in the right thigh being carried past cameras, then apparently after the team think they're off-camera, simply dropping the "wounded" man back to the ground along with doing a few dance steps!
We the People have obvious reasons to challenge Orlando as a .01% false flag attack, including game-changing histories of creating ISIS, supplying them, and usual use of false flag attacks to sell the 99.99% on offensive war; this time on Syria, and ongoingly in Afghanistan, Iraq, several drone-targeted nations, and ongoing selling of war on Iran. In fact, US .01% historical and present lie-started and illegal Wars of Aggression best label the US as a "rogue state."
In the last prize fight, Trump destroyed the Bush legacy and made a fool of Jeb! Now, he is taking on the true heavyweight usurper Hillary. Both had it coming badly. Trump could throw the fight and give her an easy crown…
But here, Trump lays it all out. Is he for real?
Read more at SHTFplan
Another great video.
Seven hours. No drugs. Multiple penetrations. No warrants. No consent. And all of this will likely be OK -- or at least not enough to leap the "qualified immunity" hurdle.
The courts have frequently held that the Fourth Amendment is nothing to get too concerned about near our nation's borders, what with drugs and terrorism on the loose. If the courts find it acceptable for the CBP to seize laptops and other devices and search them without a warrant, it stands to reason they'll probably find seizing and searching the lower half of a human being without probable cause to be just one of those things that happen in service of the public's "best interest."
The problem with the 100-mile "Constitution Free Buffer" is that here in Hawaii, there is no part of the state more than 100 miles from shore.
Having failed to secure an anti-encryption bill, the FBI and justice department are now engaged in a multi-pronged attack on all sorts of other privacy rights
According to CNN, Federal investigators are trying to find out more specifically what Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman (profiled here), knew about the planned attack at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. The intent is to bring evidence before a federal grand jury to determine whether or not charges will be brought against Salman.
As US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said today, federal authorities are going back and looking at all of the contact with Omar Mateen, as well as those around him in order find out if there is anything that was missed.
AG Loretta Lynch on #OrlandoShooting gunman: "We're going to go back and look at all of our contact with him" https://t.co/bLFolbaCcK
So, the United States' AG, Loretta Lynch, one of the most powerful legal figures in this country, coupled with the FBI, in its entirety, have managed to collectively lose Noor Salman?!?
This is either gross Federal incompetence writ large, or part of a conspiracy to prevent her from talking, as she would most probably have mentioned his having been radicalized by the FBI.
As reported at alternet.org:
Before Omar Mateen gunned down 49 patrons of the LGBTQ Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, the FBI attempted to induce his participation in a terror plot. Sheriff Ken Mascara of Florida's St. Lucie County told the Vero Beach Press Journal that after Mateen threatened a courthouse deputy in 2013 by claiming he could order Al Qaeda operatives to kill his family, the FBI dispatched an informant to "lure Omar into some kind of act and Omar did not bite." While self-styled terror experts and former counter-terror officials have criticized the FBI for failing to stop Mateen before he committed a massacre, the new revelation raises the question of whether the FBI played a role in pushing Mateen towards an act of lethal violence. Since 9/11, the FBI has relied heavily on informants to entrap scores of young, often mentally troubled Muslim men and send them to prison for as long as 25 years. As Aviva Stahl reported for AlterNet's Grayzone Project, the FBI recently encouraged an apparently mentally disturbed recent convert to Islam named James Medina to bomb a South Florida synagogue and pledge allegiance to ISIS, a militant group with which he had no prior affiliation. On trial for planning to commit an act of terror with a weapon of mass destruction, Medina has insisted through his lawyer that he is mentally ill. Trevor Aaronson, a journalist and author of "Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terror," revealed that nearly half of terror cases between 9/11/01 and 2010 involved informants, including some with criminal backgrounds raking in as much as $100,000 from the FBI. The FBI's assets have often preyed on mentally ill men with little capacity to resist their provocations. "Is it possible that the FBI is creating the very enemy we fear?" Aaronson wondered. The revelations of FBI manipulation have cast Mateen's case in a troubling light. Though he refused to bite when an FBI asset attempted to push him into a manufactured plot, he wound up carrying out an act of spectacular brutality years later and allegedly swore loyalty to ISIS in the midst of it.
Of course, this is not the narrative James Comey, or any of the other head honchos of the FBI want to see moving forward.
So how do they try to prevent that narrative?!? By "disappearing" Noor Salman in such a way that she leaves the country without a trace, dead or alive: it doesn't matter to them, as long as they have found a way to prevent her speaking to anyone.
By Derrick Broze
To understand the roots of the oppression, erosion of liberties, and invasion of privacy that has become the new norm for Americans, we must go back to the days following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
Immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush was promising Americans that he would exact revenge on those who dare attack the empire. Dubya's program of "Shock and Awe" gave the American public an upfront look at what the U.S. military was prepared to do to the enemies of "freedom and democracy." The bombing of Iraq was only the beginning of a larger conflict that the Bush Administration dubbed "The Global War on Terror."
The War on Terror did not end in the physical battlefield, however...
Paul Elam of 'An Ear for Men' has a very interesting video analysis of the San Diego, CA District Attorney's recent video targeting domestic violence victims. During the video, he points out an undeniable bias against men, as well as a very interesting study which notes "286 scholarly investigations, 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600. [Martin S. Fiebert, Department of Psychology, Cal State University, Long Beach]
The Corporation's treatment of Farage this week has taken this negativity to a new, menacing level. It is clear, unequivocal evidence of deep prejudice against the 'exit' side. Last Thursday, Farage unveiled a campaign poster based on a picture of immigrants on European soil that was aimed at drawing attention to the problems caused by the EU's attitudes towards the issue. Controversial? Yes. Unsubtle? Maybe. But without doubt, a depiction of a legitimate aspect of a debate in which control of immigration has played a central role.
Two hours later, 150 or so miles away, a gunman with mental health issues cruelly killed the MP Jo Cox. Despite the dangers of ascribing rational motives to the deranged, the Left instantly hijacked the murder to create political capital, and this has continued relentlessly to the extent that it now defines the 'Remain' case.
People who know the killer insist he had no political views at all, even on the Brexit.
BRUSSELS' top bureaucrat has slapped down David Cameron and warned the Prime Minister there will be NO more reform to Britain's EU membership if the country votes Remain tomorrow.
Remain = EU slaves
Under the guise of "reform," President Obama is dismantling Medicare — dooming seniors to needless pain and disability and shortening their lives.
The stakes are high, because Medicare and the access it gives patients to medical innovations have transformed aging. Before Medicare, older folks languished in nursing homes or wheelchairs with crippling illnesses. Now, seniors dodge that fate, thanks to hip and knee replacements, cataract operations and heart procedures — all paid for by Medicare.
The American Journal of Public Health reports that a man turning 65 can expect to live almost five years longer than he would have in 1970 — and almost all of it in good health. What a priceless gift.
A gift Obama is snatching away.
"Look, we have to come up with all that cash for Israel, and that means you old and useless folks are going to have to forget about hip and knee replacements! Governing is choosing. Governing is prioritizing!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Write that 'Japan is part of the neo-colonialist clique', and you will never again be invited to participate in any public debate conducted by Japanese mass media outlets.
And that is exactly what I wrote several months ago, after being approached by an important publication based in Okinawa.
When my documentary film about the US bases on Okinawan territory was broadcasted by the South American television network TeleSUR in both Spanish and English, there seemed to be at least some appetite to bring my opinions on the subject to the Japanese public. At one point I was asked to write a 1,200 words essay, placing Japan in the world context, whilst also addressing the grievances of Okinawa.
The fate of Britain lies in the balance. In tomorrow's referendum, the British will decide if they wish to remain in Europe and be part of the European Community (EU), or regain their sovereignty and independence.
Once you realize that the European Union is essentially a "Jew Club", you will understand that this referendum is really a choice between throwing off the shackles of international Jewry or continuing to live under Jewish rule and take orders from unelected Jews and their Jewified gentile lackeys in Brussels — unabashed apologists for Zionism such as Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker, both of whom have been accused by conspiracy theorists (rightly or wrongly) of being crypto-Jews.
Confederate Flag supporter Lee Bright, two-term State Senator for the 12th District in South Carolina, is facing a heated runoff election next Tuesday June 28th. SC Governor Nikki Haley, who called for the removal of the confederate flag last year and even said "it should never have been there," has thrown all her support behind Bright's opponent, establishment Republican Scott Talley. Bright needs your help in this very close race! 'Fight the establishment' and support Senator Lee Bright.
They gathered near Vienna for a Patriotic Spring. Europe's right leaders have supported the British peoples desire to leave the EU. They also condemned the unsolved migrant crisis, calling for a restoration of national sovereignty. This happened last friday.
The meeting was hosted by Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ), which almost won presidential elections in May and which is leading opinion polls ahead of the next scheduled elections in 2018. Politicians from nine countries attended the meeting, including Marine Le Pen of France's National Front, politicians from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Italy's Lega Nord.
The so-called political elites of Europe "are scared that the United Kingdom is regaining its liberty, its freedom to trade with whom it pleases," Le Pen told to the people present at the event. "We want all the peoples of Europe to take back these liberties. The will of the people has to be respected," she stated.
An alleged sexual assault on a five-year-old special needs girl has put a small Idaho city at the center of the debate over the Obama administration's move to take in hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Much of what occurred in the June 2 incident is unclear, clouded by emotion and rumor and sealed from public record due to the suspects' ages. At a raucous public meeting Monday, dozens of residents of the city of 44,000 voiced their concerns after word had spread that young Syrian refugees had gang-raped a little girl at knifepoint, defiling her in unspeakable ways.
Some of what they had heard was true, some was not and still more remains unconfirmed speculation. But authorities believe something terrible occurred. Two young boys were arrested Friday and remain in custody.
The bankers' dictatorship and their debt-money system are not limited to one country, but exist in every country in the world. They are working to keep their control tight, since one country freeing itself from this dictatorship and issuing its own interest- and debt-free currency, setting the example of what an honest system could be, would be enough to bring about the collapse of the bankers' swindling debt-money system worldwide.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is getting a tongue-lashing from Republicans for her claim that "love" the best tool to fight terrorism.
"Our most effective response to terror and hatred is compassion, unity and love," Lynch said after meeting with officials in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday — a week after a gunman at a gay nightclub killed 49 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
Lynch should "resign immediately," Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) claimed.
I agree. Let's get an Attorney General who will hand down some Title 18 indictments!
The Political is Personal
Whatever the British people decide about the EU the people who dwell on this island have been pushed to think patriotically and nationalistically. The decision each of us make to vote for 'remain' or for 'leave' will be based on the realisation that this political decision will have a significant personal impact.
Party Politics is A Severe Form Of Detachment
Both major parties failed to assess the huge appeal of the 'call to leave.' This blindness proves that the estrangement between the British political universe and the public is complete. This shouldn't be much of a surprise. Many of the Britain's political leaders are public school graduates. They are foreign to the experience of most of the British people.
President Barack Obama has been looking for an opportunity to pass sweeping gun control laws, and the Islamic terrorist attack might give him the cover to do it!
With only a few months left in office, this is the perfect timing for Obama to ban guns and repeal the rights granted in the 2nd Amendment.
Except that the President can't repeal the 2nd Amendment. Only another Amendment can do that!
Prime Minister David Cameron says the polls are so close that "nobody knows what's going to happen."
Translation: They are going to steal this election like they did the Scottish Referendum!
There's an annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Leaders in business, government, media, and even some celebrities go to these events to discuss the big issues of the day. This conference happens every year in the open. But this year, I think a secret meeting took place during the conference behind the scenes, with huge historical significance…
Immediately after the conference, there was a big acceleration to eliminate paper cash, or at least high-denomination currency notes. A flood of articles from The New York Times, The Economist, Zero Hedge, and other publications picked up on this.
De-legitimized police state
Governments got into this mess by violating four common sense rules regarding their fiscal and monetary policies. These rules are:
1. No sovereign government should ever, under any circumstances, give over democratic control of its money supply to bankers.
2. No sovereign government should ever, under any circumstances, borrow any money from any private bank.
3. No national, provincial, or local government should borrow foreign money to increase purchases abroad when there is excessive domestic unemployment.
4. Governments, like businesses, should distinguish between "capital" and "current" expenditures, and when it is prudent to do so, finance capital improvements with money the government has created for itself.
Sovereign countries must create their own currency via their own public central bank in order to maintain their sovereignty. The EU is set up to eliminate sovereignty, since the member countries become in debt to a currency they don't control.
Martin Schulz is in the UK to meet with the Prime Minister to discuss his proposals tomorrow.
Schulz said he was looking forward to hearing what Mr Cameron has to say but refused to use the term "UK relationship" with the EU.
"You cannot have a relationship with yourself. The EU is and Britain are one thing. The UK belongs to the EU."
If you've been caught up in the circus that is the presidential election, you've likely missed the latest news about all the ways in which the government continues to erode our freedoms, undermine our sovereignty, abuse our trust, invade our homes, invade our privacy, destroy our property, hijack our bank accounts, and generally render itself above the law.
A Brexit vote on Thursday could produce a 'Black Friday' as markets react in horror to instability caused by the result, a billionaire who famously bet against the pound and won in the 1992 crash warned today.
George Soros forced then prime minister John Major to pull Britain out of the 'European Exchange Rate Mechanism' in 1992, sparking chaos in the markets on a day that went down in history as 'Black Wednesday'.
Mr Soros today claimed the collapse in the value of the pound on Friday could be even bigger if Britain votes for Brexit and he warned it would leave people poorer.
The U.S. military will not provide details on specific cases of American service members injured in Iraq and Syria because it could give information to Islamic State militants, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday
The spokesman, Peter Cook, was responding to a question at a Pentagon press briefing seeking confirmation that four Americans had been wounded in Syria earlier this month.
Cook said there had been no a change in policy and aggregate numbers would still be provided.
"Our policy is not to identify wounded service members for a variety of reasons, including operational security, including privacy reasons," Cook said.
"Also, we do not want to provide additional information to the enemy that might enhance their own assessment on the battlefield situation," he said.
However, the Pentagon has released such information in the past and responded to queries, and it was unclear how Cook's comments were consistent with previous disclosures.
The Pentagon does not want to release this information, because it does not want the American people knowing how many of our military have actually been deployed in these countries.
The American prison system is a massive — if invisible — part of our economy and social fabric.
Slavery has been abolished in the United States since 1865, when the 13th Amendment was passed in the ashes of the Civil War.
Well, almost abolished. Actually, the amendment included a caveat: "except as punishment for a crime." Since then, prison and forced labor have always gone together.
In fact, with over 2 million people behind bars in this country, the American prison system is a massive — albeit largely invisible — part of our economy and social fabric.
Recent years have seen a rise in both private prisons and the use of prison labor by private, for-profit corporations. This has created perverse incentives to imprison people and exploit them for cheap labor — often at 50 cents an hour or less.
For-profit prisons of any kind, state or private, should be abolished in this country.
Certain countries, like Sweden, are literally emptying their prisons, because the entire focus of prison is rehabilitation, and their recidivism rate is quite small.
But because prisoners, working at far less than minimum wage in this county, are so profitable for those who sell inmate-produced products to Americans, I seriously doubt that this will happen in the US.
93% of the people who are locked up in the U.S. in order to meet the minimum legal requirements for the number of people who must be locked up on possible violations of U.S. immigration laws, are locked in for-profit prisons, which are owned by corporations that heavily fund a few politicians, including Hillary Clinton.
That 93% finding was published on June 20th, in a study by the Center for Constitutional Rights, titled, "Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigrant Dragnet".
Ghita Schwartz, Senior Staff Attorney for CCR, said, in releasing the report: "Almost all guaranteed minimums are found in facilities that contract with private prison companies, and ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] actively collaborates with these companies to keep details of their contracts secret."
Imagine my (absence of) shock at this!!
The UK is not the only country with increasing doubts about the EU.
A Pew Research Center study on Euroskepticism Beyond Brexit shows a huge dip in EU favorability across the board.
France has an even lower overall favorable rating of the EU than the UK. The favorable score is 38% in France, 44% in the UK.
The breakdown by age is interesting. Those who view the EU favorably are the young, who have never known anything but life in the EU, while the older population remembers how different life was prior to the EU.
When people use the term Great Recession, they are playing into the charade laid out by Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.
The years 2008 through 2015 should be known as the Great Fleecing.
During that time, the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world occurred. Some $4.5 trillion was given to Wall Street banks through its Quantitative Easing program, with the American people picking up the IOU.
Catholic League President Bill Donohue on Monday gloated after he successfully helped kill a bill in the New York legislature that would have made it easier for sex abuse victims to bring cases against their accusers.
As The New York Daily News reports, Donohue sent out an email to supporters after the defeat of the Child Victims Act, an act that he said was designed "to rape the Catholic Church." The bill would have extended the timeframe that victims can bring forward cases by five years and would have opened up a six-month period for victims to revive older cases.
"The bill was sold as justice for the victims of sexual abuse, when, in fact, it was a sham," Donohue wrote in an email obtained by The New York Daily News. "[It was] a vindictive bill pushed by lawyers and activists out to rape the Catholic Church."
I am sorry, but such an attitude about children ultimately filing charges for being raped by clergy, and characterizing them as attempting to "rape the church" just makes me physically ill, and Donohue's reaction to the bill's failing does his church no service or favors.
I have a number of friends, even some Catholic religious people, who are good, loving, decent people who really work hard to make a positive difference in this world.
But understanding the systemic, predatory emotional illness in this religious institution, and the fact that the Catholic church appears to be unwilling to fix it, the reality is, you can never, ever leave your child alone with a priest again, because doing that may well be inviting catastrophe into your child's life.
Tea Party Maine Gov. Paul LePage has made quite a name for himself with his embrace of far-right economic policies aimed at punishing the poor over the years, but his latest proposal might be his most far-reaching gambit yet.
Bangor Daily News reports that LePage is now threatening to completely eliminate Maine's entire food stamp program unless the United States Department of Agriculture allows the state to restrict food stamps from being used to buy sugary foods and drinks.
On this, the governor is correct:sugary foods and drinks shouldn't be bought with food stamps, as sugar is a real health hazard.
However, this is really a ploy, potentially enabling LePage to end food stamps in his state completely.
And the question I would like to ask would be, does he want children of food stamp recipients to slowly starve to death, because their parents cannot feed them without the food stamps?!?
Is he going to euthanize young children who, through no fault of their own, were born to very poor parents who cannot find work?!?
Will he institute mandatory sterilization of the poor, below a certain cut off point, so that they will not have children condemned to starve to death under his watch?
Will that be his "final solution" for the poorest of the poor in the state of Maine?!?
Margret Sanger and Josef Mengele would be so proud of this guy.
I would strongly and politely remind Governor LePage that history will judge a civilization not only on its accomplishments, but also on how it treats the most vulnerable in that civilisation's society.
I would strongly suspect that history will not treat the "LePage Era" in Maine history with much empathy, but very strong contempt and condemnation, if he goes ahead in eliminating food stamps completely.
Yes, there are some abuses in food stamp programs; but most of the time, the use of these stamps is about keeping body and soul together, and is the only means of doing so.
The U.S. government intends to further their control over the lives of Americans by introducing microchipping for children in the near future.
As time goes by, the government seems to want to regulate the lives of Americans more and more. Sometimes these decisions for further regulation actually help the American people, which is always up for debate and depends on who you are, and sometimes the reasons behind these decisions are dubious and must be called into question.
The latter scenario has been occurring recently as news of the future of tracking people has been spread around.
The concept is simple but the implications behind it are serious: the U.S. government intends to introduce microchipping for children in the near future in an effort to better keep track of them.
Remember how frequently I have been saying, to people with kids and skills, to get out of the country before it is too late?!?
The word "NOW", is having a strong ring to me right now for all of our readers who fit the description above.
IF in fact the US government starts chipping kids, trust them to do this in the most barbaric and intrusive ways possible.
One has to wonder, as these chips are refined and improved, if the government will not only be monitoring our children with chips, but also performing behaviour modification with those chips, if those government officials are not "pleased" with childrens' behaviour.
And if the US government will be doing this to children, how will they attempt to modify behaviour of the adults in society?!?
The history of the use of such chips has been fraught with huge ethical improprieties, and has definitely moved from science fiction to science fact within a very brief period of time.
The tale of two gun experiences:
1) Liberal New York Daily News writer Gersh Kuntzman.
Kuntzman traveled to a gun range in Pennsylvania so he could shoot an AR-15 rifle for the first time. He said he suffered from "PTSD" and a "bruised" shoulder after the experience was over. In his article, he complained about his ears ringing, the smell of smoke, and how the sounds of the gun are horrifying. In short, he was traumatized.
See video of his shooting:
2) An unnamed 7-year-old little girl.
With her dad providing point by point instructions, the little girl shot an AR-15 for the first time and had a very different reaction than Kuntman. The noise and recoil from the semi-automatic rifle didn't seem to bother the girl one bit.
"That was pretty good!" she exclaimed.
The entire Los Angeles metropolitan area and most of Southern California can expect blackouts this summer.
The power grid is under direct threat as a result of the unprecedented, but little reported, massive natural gas leaks at Alisco Canyon that was ongoing for four months as an intense summer heat wave sets in.
According to Reuters:
California will have its first test of plans to keep the lights on this summer…
With record-setting heat and air conditioning demand expected in Southern California, the state's power grid operator issued a so-called "flex alert," urging consumers to conserve energy to help prevent rotating power outages – which could occur regardless.
It appears that the State of California, when it comes to planning for peak energy consumption, is pathologically, collectively, incapable of thinking a scenario through to its logical conclusion.
And what happens to people in California logically, and intelligently attempting to live off the grid?!? As reported at survivalsullivan.com in February of this year:
Tyler Truitt, of Huntsville, Alabama is a former marine living on his own land. He moved to Huntsville from California, bought 2 acres of land and put the trailer on it. But he then discovered that because of an ordinance banning trailers within the city limits, he could not hook up to city utility services. Not to be deterred, Truitt installed solar panels for electricity and a rain water catchment system and decided to live off the grid. Huntsville city issued Truitt a citation for parking his trailer in a restricted area, violating zoning laws. The house was later condemned for unsafe living, declared structurally unsound and Truitt and his girlfriend were told they could be arrested for trespassing if they continued to live there. The case went to court, Truitt lost because the ban on trailers was in place before he bought the property and put the trailer there. He intends to appeal.
Living on land he had purchased?!? In a trailer he had purchased?!? Installing solar panels and a rainwater catchment system?!? Having the trailer he purchased condemned as "structurally unsound" And he and his girlfriend informed that they could be "trespassing for walking on the land he owned?!?
IF this is not government gone mad, on steroids, I frankly do not know what is.
Yet this is one of the most strident examples of the California government having completely lost its mind, when it cannot manage its energy needs, then punishes people who want to live off grid.
Homeland Security already designated Gun owners, Christians, land right activist, Anti UN activist, returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, Ron Paul and Bob Barr supporters, Libertarians and all the political enemies to the present regime are now considered terrorist. Mr Trump, your supporters will be next on this very list. So do you want this secret extra-judicial list to deny the law-abiding Americans who support you from keeping and bearing arms, be barred from boarding a plane because of their political affiliations? All this with no due process of law having no judge or jury.
so is Hillary radicalizing Democrats as she claims Trump is radicalizing Republicans?
Last week, we reported on the historic insider trading bust that took place at the soon-to-be-sold (and liquidated) Visium Capital, in which, among other accusations, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan charged Sanjay Valvani of fraudulently making $25 million by gaining advance word about FDA approvals of generic drug applications.
Prosecutors said the inside information was provided by Gordon Johnston, a consultant who got tips from a friend and former FDA colleague still working at the agency. Valvani passed some of these tips to Christopher Plaford, then a Visium portfolio manager, who made his own illegal trades, prosecutors said. Valvani pleaded not guilty and was released on $5 million bail.
Moments ago, Dow Jones reported that the former Visium manager, Sanjay Valvani who was at the core of the Visium bust, has allegedly taken his life.
Conservative businessman and GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has won more primary votes than any Republican in history. Trump's uniquely bold message speaks to Republicans and Democrats who are tired of the political establishment, an insecure border, and unfair trade deals.
But the Republican establishment is now officially fighting back, and they want to replace Trump on the ticket!
Dozens of Republican delegates are now openly planning to steal the election from Trump at the RNC convention in Cleveland, even though he's already won enough delegates. This is horrible news:
It's happening more and more: local government nannies forcing Americans to become reliant on "the system," and less independent, so that they can control them.
The latest example of this took place in Miami Shores where, as reported by The Associated Press, local government officials forced a South Florida couple to dig up an organic vegetable garden that they had grown in their front yard for 17 years.
Why? Because city council members passed a new ordinance banishing all gardens to back yards. And now the couple is suing, asking a judge to rule that the front yard ban is a violation of their constitutional rights.
The government's forcing us to be dependent on the system (think King George III in the 1770s) is very dangerous given that the system could collapse just like Venezuela.
The shooting of British Member of Jo Cox is very suspicious.
First, the killer is not known to have ever had any political opinions at all.
Second, not one single real eye witness said he yelled "England First."
Yes, immediately as the news broke, the UK corporate news media all painted this sick individual as an advocate of "Brexit", the leaving the European Union by the UK.
Right before the shooting polls showed that the vote was very likely going to be for exit.
Now, the vote has been suspended and the news media are making a heroine out the victim - and most importantly - villains out of anyone who wants the UK to leave the European Union.
This story stinks to the high heavens.
Actions have consequences, and people can only be pushed so far before they snap. I believe the Paris terror attacks will be a major catalyst that will ultimately usher in nationalist type governments in many parts of Europe, culminating in an end of the EU as we know it and a return to true nation-states. Although I think a return to regional government and democracy is what Europeans need and deserve, the way in which it will come about, and the types of governments we could see emerge, are unlikely to be particularly enlightened or democratic after the dust has settled.
Just like the voters in the US are learning, as Hillary is handed the White House.
Critics charge that the ECB is essentially printing money and lavishing it on states and companies, leaving taxpayers with the risk of one day having to foot the bill.
"We're a fascist system. Of COURSE we make the ordinary people pay for everything! That's what we DO!" -- Dragee
Commenting on Friday's proposal by the Presidents of Kazakhstan and Russia for a Eurasian economic partnership, Russian analysts told the Vzglyad newspaper the union would be an effective counter to US economic expansionism, and help the EU to overcome its crises.
We all have a feeling that something is not quite right any more. We know there is a creeping colonisation of public life by corporations because we know a slow motion coup d'état is taking place by transnational organisations facilitated by our political leaders. The incontrovertible proof stares at us in the face every day with wave after wave of financial, economic, social and ecological crisis. A clear and troublesome picture of corporate power has emerged in recent years where rising inequality is now simply the distinction of expanding corporate activity and those being left behind. A study in 2000 by Corporate Watch, Global Policy Forum and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) revealed some alarming facts about a rising corporatocracy that should have been brought to heel by western government's years ago. Instead, corporations are now literally at the helm.
Putin: "We Know and they Know that we Know…People do not Understand how Dangerous the Situation Really Is"
Washington is putting its nuclear missiles on Russia's borders, conducting war games on Russia's borders, and stationing its Navy off Russia's coasts in the Black and Baltic seas. To cover up its reckless, irresponsible aggression toward a nuclear power, Washington accuses Russia of aggression.
propaganda flop
torture cases
civil forfeiture
Puerto Rico rules
other news stories
They can't put their money in the bank or use credit cards or checks because it is illegal under federal law.
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – The murder of a security guard Saturday night at a licensed Aurora marijuana dispensary may have been caught on camera.
Police are searching for two suspects described only as black males.
The memorial near the door gave a clue to the sad story. Along with the flowers was a toy figure of a man in a combat uniform. The security guard killed was 24-year-old Travis Mason, a former Marine.Mason's wife Samantha introduced CBS4 to his three young loving children who had not yet been told their father was murdered.
"I want these people to be found and I want them to be punished for what they did," Samantha Mason said.
Security for legalized marijuana dispensaries is critical business because the transactions are done in cash.
"Crimes against humanity" include any of the following acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
the crime of apartheid;
other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering or serious bodily or mental injury.
– International Criminal Court (ICC)
Let's consider a Christian religious perspective on Republican and Democratic leaderships' policies as the American public face the 2016 election for president. Down from 78% in 2007, 70% of Americans say they are Christian; the largest number within a nation on our planet.
The Supreme Court on Monday gave police more power to stop people on the streets and question them, even when it is not clear they have done anything wrong.
The study on Monday shed light on one of the major concerns about America's recovery: while unemployment has been falling, a large number of people have also been dropping out of the jobs market altogether.
I bet President Obama is laughing his ass off watching Texas AG Paxton and Gov Abbott file lawsuit after lawsuit. While waiting for a day in Federal court. The lawlessness doesn't stop. The President keeps breaking the law putting Texans at risk with crime and diseases being brought in by these refugees from the Middle east, Mexico, Central America and South America. These people are not being screened about their criminal history nor having their health checked.
Dear Mr Trump,
I am a supporter of your candidacy for President even though I have some disagreements about some policy stances you maybe for.
Ever since Sept 11, 2001. The congress passed legislation forming the TSA and passed the Patriot Act. Both bills President George W. Bush singed into law. Both bills now law have not caught one single terrorist. But these two laws have eroded the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans. They have taken away the right of Due process when it comes to right, liberty and property. Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty and the right to face your accusers?
The former CBS News investigative reporter who left her job after both the White House and her own employers stonewalled her coverage of the truth behind the Benghazi terror attack said recently that all Americans should be concerned about the amount of control elites have over the world media.
"Here's the short version. Whatever power you give politicians and bureaucrats to use against other people will eventually be used by future politicians and bureaucrats against you." –Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center.
Machine Bias: There's software used in courts across the country to predict future criminals. And it's biased against blacks.
A private government contractor is seeking role players for a simulated military drill set to take place next month in Burlington, Vermont – the site of candidate Bernie Sanders' campaign headquarters – at the same time as the Democratic National Convention.
The arguments of course are mostly self-serving. The financial services industry loathes Warren, who more than anyone in the last 80 years has channeled the rage against Wall Street that began with the Great Depression and continues to course through the nation following the 2008 financial crisis. Warren wants to break up the nation's largest banks. She created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The mere mention of her name draws groans from bankers.
According to the GAO Report, FBI's Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE) Services unit not only has access to FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) face recognition database of nearly 30 million civil and criminal mug shot photos, it also has access to the State Department's Visa and Passport databases, the Defense Department's biometric database, and the drivers license databases of at least 16 states. Totaling 411.9 million images, this is an unprecedented number of photographs, most of which are of Americans and foreigners who have committed no crimes.
Thanks to the FBI and the administration, [omitted] has suddenly become Twitter's unwitting joke of the day.
The enemies of the republic of Texas will not back off by reason and persuasion. Nor will they cease by a court ruling that favors Texas. It is by force and the willingness to use it that keeps the lawless in check. Gov Abbott, it is time to grab the bull by the horns and deal with the threat to Texas or you will be just like your predecessor Rick Perry who is " All hat no cattle" Only time will tell.
The war on Terror gave the Government a license to abuse the American people while allowing the real terrorist to go free wreaking havoc all over America. An excuse attacking the bill of rights making law-abiding Americans suspects as possible threats to national security while the real external threats are allowed to travel freely planning their next attacks on innocent Americans.
New York is the "number one terrorist target in the world. We are focused on preventing it to the best of our ability. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when" terrorists strike again, Bratton warned. He noted that as a child, he feared a 'nuclear holocaust' and participated in drills at school, hiding in the basement surrounded by asbestos, which posed a greater danger than nuclear war. He tied that in with today's fear of terrorism, ironically advising that people should not give in to fear and surrender their liberties, the very thing which Bratton and his ilk have been promoting for nearly two decades. "We can't let fear dominate our lives, we are Americans.. we can't let fear start dictating loss of freedom that we enjoy."
Mass surveillance, gun control, and other restrictions on our liberty will not prevent future Orlandos. In fact, by preventing law-abiding Americans from defending themselves, gun control laws make us less safe from criminals. Similarly, mass surveillance and warrantless wiretapping erode our rights while making it more difficult for law enforcement to identify real threats. If Congress really cared about our security and liberty, it would repeal all federal gun laws, end all unconstitutional surveillance, and end the hyper-interventionist foreign policy that causes many around the world to resent the U.S.
Venezuela's super-rich are enjoying lavish parties and gourmet cuisine, while middle-class people are forced to scavenge for food as the Socialist country's economy collapses.
In the opulent Caracas Country Club, where membership costs an astonishing £77,000 – 458 times the average Venezuelan salary – glamorous women in cocktail dresses were seen relishing a banquet of beef and lobster, followed by a colourful selection of puddings.
Meanwhile, in the Petare slum a few miles away, home to 370,000 Venezuelans, ordinary middle-class people were rummaging in stinking piles of rubbish for rotten cabbage leaves, desiccated limes and scraps of fetid meat.
Pay very careful attention to what is happening in Venezuela because it will happen here in the US!
The perfect organism is achieved when one can impute to you his philosophical thoughts and you adopt them as your own, believing that they are your own thoughts and that they originated in your own mind. This is not only the perfect organism, it is the perfect crime and it is the foundation of sagacious stagecraft under our present system of government.
In a 5-3 ruling, the justices relaxed the so-called exclusionary rule and upheld the use of drug evidence found on a Utah man who was stopped illegally by a police officer in Salt Lake City.
The court, in an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, said that because the man had an outstanding arrest warrant for a traffic violation, the illegal stop could be ignored.
In the wake of the Orlando shooting, the corporate TV news networks have gone into overdrive to hammer the same talking point on the desperate need for gun control legislation to be pushed, despite the fact that it is easily provable that such legislation would not have prevented the massacre.
I've always believed that one should not speak ill of the dead – and especially someone so brutally murdered as was Jo Cox MP on Thursday. But when that dead person is being deified out of all proportion– rather as Princess Diana was after her death – by a mainstream media hand-in-glove with a prime minister who is desperate to create false hysteria in order to sway the most important decision of our generation – our vote in the EU referendum – then something has to be said, and it is this:
Jordana Cutler, also chief of staff at the Israeli embassy in Washington, has joined Facebook's Israel office to oversee the planning and execution of measures taken to combat BDS campaigns.
Cutler's new post was applauded by the minister of public security Gilad Erdan, who announced on Thursday a series of legislative measures taken by his government against promoting the boycott of Israel.
"If we want to convince the world that de-legitimation of Israel is something wrong and that there should be consequences, we must start here in Israel," Erdan was quoted by Israeli media as saying during a conference in Herzliya.
"There will now be a real price to pay for someone working […] to isolate [Israel] from the rest of the world. I set up a legal team, together with the ministry of justice, that will promote governmental legislation on the matter," Erdan said.
The response to this is very simple; just don't post anything on Facebook, EVER AGAIN, even if it doesn't pertain to Israeli apartheid against Palestinians.
USA Today's TC Palm reports in an article titled, "Exclusive: PGA Village residents want answers from security firm," that (emphasis added):
The FBI launched an investigation into Mateen after Sheriff's Office officials reported the incident to the agency. As part of its investigation, the FBI examined Mateen's travel history, phone records, acquaintances and even planted a confidential informant in the courthouse to "lure Omar into some kind of act and Omar did not bite," Mascara said. The FBI concluded Mateen was not a threat after that, Mascara said.
OK, so everything we have been told about the "incident" at the Pulse club in Orlando is an absolute, complete lie; what now, America?!?
When are you going to get angry enough to give every politician in this country, at the national level, a much-needed pink slip, and get them our of power?!?
Because if THIS is what they condone as the FBI's "cost of doing business", the radicalization of American Muslim toward their being blamed for some massive assassination event, when there is massive evidence that the man didn't act alone, the cost is too great for this country to bear.
The FBI, CIA, and NSA leadership need to be sacked, and immediately; the NSA should be disbanded; Loretta Lynch, our country's AG should also be sacked, for lying to the American people yesterday, because on all of her TV appearances, she indicated that the FBI "didn't know" about Mateen until he started his killing spree at the club in Orlando.
Officials lying to the American public CANNOT BE TOLERATED as an expression of free speech; it needs to be dealt with in the most peaceful, strong way possible, which is to throw all the bums out of DC this November who condone this behaviour on the part of the FBI.
Anticipating massive demonstrations in the streets during the Republican National Convention in mid-July, Cleveland police authorities are using emergency funds to stock up on the latest in crowd control equipment — armoring themselves as if they are going to war.
According to the Washington Post, Cleveland officials are using a $50 million "security grant" to beef up security around the convention, but are not tipping their hand on everything that they have purchased which is alarming some civil liberties groups concerned about the rights of protesters.
Local police will be overseeing what they describe as "event zones," where rallies, marches and other protests will be allowed to take place, with the Secret Service responsible for the "secure perimeter," nearest to the convention hall.
It is painfully clear to me that the America I thought I understood exists no more.
Political conventions and the voting process gives Americans the illusion they are still in control of their country, when they are absolutely not.
Look for massive election fraud this November, with an amazing number of discounted, or altered ballots.
Generally, by the time candidates on the national arena are "vetted" by the corporations which own them, those corporations have made absolutely certain that they will have delivered by their purchased politicians, whatever their agenda may be, and no matter how bad that agenda may be for We the People; this is why Trump poses such a threat to the "Business as Usual" Republicans, because he cannot be bought.
The coming riots in Cleveland will be bought, paid for, and engineered by those in the Republican party who will do anything to prevent a Trump nomination, and potential presidency, and those Democrats who understand that it will be very hard for a swimming-in-baggage Clinton to defeat Trump in a fair Presidential run.
And I do mean...ANYTHING, including a possible assassination attempt on Trump, something disturbingly common on the American political scene.
And I would like to politely point out to the Cleveland police that these IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE SPEECH ZONE identified in the Constitution or Bill or Rights; politicians just made this fantasy up out of thin air.
Cohen's rant is just one example of an astonishing amount of sheer nonsense that has filled the Internet since the terrorist attack in Orlando. Anti-gun politicians, and so-called opinion columnists and TV talking heads – who pretend to be "experts" on every topic under the sun, but who in reality know virtually nothing about even one topic – are confidently calling the AR-15 an "automatic" weapon, a "military" weapon," and a "weapon of war," and telling everyone that the most popular rifle in America should be banned.
In the ongoing war of words between president Obama on one hand, who has repeatedly said that Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was "self-radicalized" and was not influenced by Islamic elements, and Donald Trump prominently on the other, where the Republican presidential candidate has repeatedly alleged that Mateen's actions were provoked by "radicalized Islam" which has prompted Trump to renew his calls for a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants as well as profiling Muslims already in the US, it appears that the president is about to get some much needed help from none other than the Department of Justice, which will step into the debate, by releasing Mateen's 911 transcripts however only after heavy edits which censor and remove all references to Islamic terrorism.
This is absoflippinglutely unbelievable!!
So, I have a memo for AG Lynch: just don't release the transcripts, if you have been ordered by the administration that you cannot release them without these idiotic redactions.
Whatever shred of credibility you might have had with a small minority of the American people, you have just self-destructed, in this move, because it makes absolutely zero sense.
We can never believe anything you say, henceforward, because of these redactions.
With his recent comments, Manchin has displayed a gross disrespect for one of the most basic protections our constitution affords. Sadly, given the clamor in the U.S. Congress for renewed gun control measures, this disrespect appears to infect more than just a few of our elected representatives.
Voters who have relied on the network evening newscasts for information about the 2016 presidential candidates saw four times more airtime devoted to controversies involving presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump than to the scandals surrounding his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton
Gun control advocates use tortured logic to defend their positions. Take the Bloomberg-distributed commentary Why Israel has lots of guns but few gun crimes by Rabbi Daniel Gordis [above]. It starts out like this: "Early in 2002, as the Second Intifada was raging, guns — normally ubiquitous in Israeli society — were even more in evidence. In restaurants, at synagogue and especially on the street, you could see pistols stuck into men's belts or pants. One of my wife's closest friends kept a gun in her purse." And then he takes a sharp turn to the left . . .
The smarter neocons are already lining up to endorse Clinton, especially given Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party and his disdain for neocon strategies that he views as simply spreading chaos around the globe. As The New York Times has reported, Clinton is "the vessel into which many interventionists are pouring their hopes."
Chaos ensued during an "emergency preparedness drill" after distraught witnesses called Irvine, CA Police about an active shooter at an elementary school in August 2015. Irvine police responded with real weapons but were unaware that the active shooter was actually an Irvine police officer, taking part in a drill. The Irvine police chief confirmed that one of his officers was the gunman. The school district confirmed that they have had drills at the school with Irvine Police for eight years.
In the wake of the Orlando massacre, the United States and Saudi Arabia are vowing to turn up the heat against terrorists and religious extremism in the Middle East. But these allies have a history of supporting the same tenets of religious extremism that lead to terrorism and repression of human rights. On June 13, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry hosted Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Kerry's home in Washington, where the pair shared dinner. The meeting came a day after Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more at a LGBT nightclub in Orlando, apparently pledging allegiance to Daesh (an Arabic acronym for the terrorist group known in the West as ISIS or ISIL) during the attack.
Seriously man, you can't make this shit up. U.S. Homeland Security Chief 'Jeh Johnson' insists that 'we can and we MUST' welcome refugees from the middle east into the United States. He then introduces 9-year-old 'Jaafar,' a chubby kid whom he met in Turkey a few months ago, who learned perfect English from watching a lot of TV. Johnson then invokes the memory of two prior refugees to our country, Madeline Albright and Eli Weisel, whom he described as "two Jews displaced by Nazi Germany." Readers may recall that Albright is the former Secretary of State who said on 60 Minutes that the deaths of 500,000 innocent Iraqi children was 'worth it.' Elie Wiesel is a prominent holo-hoaxer and fraudster who goes around drumming up sympathy for Israel.
S. Rifai, also known as @THE_47th, is a Syrian "activist" from Homs. He was involved since early 2011 when the U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford (@fordrs58) fermented the "revolution" in Syria. He has since tweeted about the "revolution" and has shown lots of insider knowledge. Below S. Rifai corrects the U.S. propaganda record. The former ambassador Ford allegedly had a hand in last weeks "dissident" letter by some State Department employees. The letter urges launching an open U.S. war against Syria and its government. Ford was recently interviewed about the letter for an exculpatory piece in the New Yorker.
Luckily, ruling over people is a lot harder than it used to be. Herding cats is much easier. For every national security letter or military or domestic mishap that people are sworn to secrecy over, there are ten thousand facts floating freely, and a million or ten or twenty million who just don't care about what the government says. That's how all dictatorships and empires end. It is how ours will end too, ideally sooner rather than later.
Scores of riot police with barking dogs, loud smashing sounds, and a helicopter hovering overhead were described by witnesses observing mayhem in London's borough of Barking early on Sunday. Police say they are dealing with "large scale public disorder."
The "French contagion" spreads to Great Britain?
Meanwhile Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested British Prime Minister David Cameron had called the referendum to "blackmail" and "scare" Europe. "Why has he set up this referendum? To blackmail Europe? Or to scare it? What is the purpose if he himself is against"
If Brexit wins on June 23, the low odds accorded by experts and financial markets to successful populist revolts in America and Europe will immediately look suspect, while the higher probabilities suggested by opinion polls will gain greater credibility. This is not because US voters will be influenced by Britain; of course they will not be. But, in addition to all the economic, demographic, and social similarities, opinion polling in the US and Britain now face very similar challenges and uncertainties, owing to the breakdown of traditional political allegiances and dominant two-party systems.
In other words, populist revolts are bad because the money-junkies will have to stop being money-junkies!
Russia will not fall back and allow the winter to kill the invaders.
They have adapted to new technologies and ways to make war.
There is disturbing opinion circulating about Jo Cox may have been assassinated to prevent a BREXIT vote. Many are starting to believe there is a conspiracy plot connecting the dots to ensure a sympathy vote to remain within the EU. People are pointing to the familiar tool of assassination often used to achieve political agendas.
We are a group of concerned U.S. citizens currently visiting Russia with the goal of increasing understanding and reducing international tension and conflict. We are appalled by this call for direct U.S. aggression against Syria, and believe it points to the urgent need for open public debate on U.S. foreign policy.
The author picks US$13,000 as the appropriate number that he feels should be granted to all US citizens over the age of twenty one and placed automatically into their individual bank accounts in monthly installments, for the rest of their lives.
Since this concept is unquestionably socialistic in nature and encourages the government's role as a nanny state to an even greater degree than it already operates, the reader may understandably raise an eyebrow at reading it in a publication such as Forbes. Whilst I would agree, I would add, in all fairness, that, today, the article might also have been acceptable in that old British stalwart, The Economist.
Remember that government cannot give you anything it hasn't first taken away from you!
We know that governments lie in order to serve their agendas. To mention only a few recent proven government lies: the Gulf of Tonkin North Vietnamese attack on a US Navy ship, Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, Assad's use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russian invasion of Ukraine. These lies are monstrous. They resulted in wars that killed thousands of US soldiers and killed, maimed, and displaced millions of Vietnamese and Muslims, some of whom are now overrunning Europe as refugees from Washington's wars. Other of the government's lies brought risk of war with more powerful militaries such as Russia's and Iran's.
It seems to me that a government that will lie on this scale will lie on smaller scales as well, such as Orlando, Boston, San Bernandino.
Send this to everyone you know in Great Britain!
One of the more maddening parts of being a responsible citizen in America and trying to be properly informed is banging up against the wall of ignorance and bias that the mainstream media puts up.
And what is even more insane is how willing they are to DENY their bias, all while wallowing in it.
If you don't believe me watch this amazing video of "objective" anchors demanding gun control:
NEW ORLEANS: Donald Trump's unconventional campaign is about to feel the heat of political organization.
Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies have invested at least $41 million in commercials in crucial states such as Ohio, Florida and Nevada over the next six weeks, a series of summer broadsides against her Republican opponent. Those messages will be echoed by hundreds of Clinton workers in those same states and amplified by President Barack Obama and other top Democrats.
(*Add that $41Million to the sum Hillaries allies in the GOP have already invested .
Though I Walk Through The Valley Of Death I Shall Fear No Evil !
But I have to admit , I had no idea it was such high maintenance ! )
Some of these events have plenty of real dead people. Some of these events are totally staged with no dead people. And some are hybrids with real dead people and staged events all rolled into one to keep everybody utterly confused!
Could it be that the KM/EH deployed a new hybrid form of false-flag, one that used both really dead victims and really stupid obvious crisis actors and staged phony victims afterwards? Could it be that they figured they could set a big trap and later release actual photos and autopsies and death certificates on some real victims?
A hybrid false-flag with both some real dead victims and some stupid looking phony crisis actors to provide the appearance that the whole op was virtual only with no dead, would serve a very big trick, if it could be sold both ways — First as a phony op to the researchers, and later as a real op to everyone by releasing real incontrovertible evidence later of actual dead victims.
Rumors of a coup developing against the mercurial businessman by the boys in the smoke filled rooms
The temptation would be for the Republican establishment to install a "safe" candidate such as Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney. That would be a serious blunder. As compromised as Trump has made himself, the voters are still in the mood for an outsider to go to the White House and shake things up. For better or for ill, that person in Ted Cruz. The Republican establishment may not like him, but next to Trump, he is the soul of propriety and sanity. He also has the skills and discipline necessary to take the fight to Hillary Clinton.
the voters are still in the mood for an outsider to go to the White House
(*When we voters say we want an outsider , what we mean is "outside of the political Hoi polloi" , NOT "from outside the nation's borders" )
According to the UN, the global body has more than 12,500 UN "police" officers deployed in 18 different UN "peace" missions around the world. Many of those UN "peace missions" have been noteworthy primarily for the horrifying abuses of women and children by UN forces, as documented extensively in this magazine and even in official UN reports. From raping eight-year old children in Haiti and the Central African Republic in recent years, to persecuting whistleblowers who try to protect the children, to backing Muslim militias that butchered Christians in the Ivory Coast, to trafficking child sex slaves out of Bosnia in the 1990s, to indiscriminately slaughtering civilians and medical workers in Katanga in the 1960s, among countless other atrocities, the UN's "peace" forces have rightfully developed an unparalleled reputation for savagery and barbarism with impunity.
They're not letting the markets actually be markets… I've never seen the government or the central banks so involved in the markets as they are today… these politicians and bureaucrats actually think they have the authority to manipulate the markets on behalf of the people… yet they are hurting the people… I think the entire system has to be dismantled and we have to start over again…
eaking on ABC Sunday Morning, Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended the FBI for not anticipating the mass shooting that claimed 49 lives at an Orlando nightclub last Sunday.
Among the many topics discussed after the shooting were reports that a gun shop owner notified the FBI that shooter Omar Mateen had come in and attempted to buy body armor, leading the shop owner to grow suspicious.
"Of all the things that we have learned, the FBI has acknowledged, that people at this gun shop in Jensen Beach, Florida, warned FBI agents that somebody had been in there, somebody who we now know would become the killer in Orlando, had tried to buy body armor, was acting suspiciously," host Jonathan Karl pressed. "Did the FBI do enough to follow up on that tip? This is the person — this is — this is the killer?"
According to Lynch, the FBI contacted the gun shop but were unable to get any "identifying information" about the would-be purchaser.
This was a complete, false flag event, from beginning to end. Mateen's dad is a CIA asset in Afghanistan, for heaven's sake. As reported at zerohedge.com a couple of days ago:
How close was presumed killer Omar Mateen to the bizarre world of Washington politics? Close enough to raise your hackles about what is really going on. Mateen's father, Seddique Mateen, apparently visits the Capitol frequently, take pictures in front of the State Department and White House press room, and likes to pose with Congressmen, especially from the Foreign Affairs Committee. Seddique is currently running for president in Afghanistan, and has been lobbying for State Department backing in what would be a tense balance between support for the Taliban and U.S. alike. He also broadcasts a TV show in California that feature his political views and campaign material. It is father Seddique who planted the story in the media that Mateen was driven to kill after becoming upset at seeing two men kissing in Miami – framing the issue in terms of hate crimes and politically-loaded groups in conflict: "We were in Downtown Miami, Bayside, people were playing music, and he saw two men kissing each other in front of his wife and kid and he got very angry. They were kissing each other and touching each other and he said, 'Look at that. In front of my son they are doing that.' And they we were in the men's bathroom and men were kissing each other." Given that his son was a long-time security contractor at G4S in conjunction with Homeland Security and FEMA government contracts before he apparently pledged loyalty to ISIS and shot up a gay nightclub, there are many questions about the penetration of security inside the U.S. by radical Islamic, foreign and/or ISIS elements.
And the FBI, at this point in its existence?!?
It has now become:
1. The Federal Bureau of Ineptitude
2. The Federal Bureau of Idiots
3. The Federal Bureau of Incompetence
4. The Federal Bureau of Impotence
5. The Federal Bureau of Insanity
6. The laughingstock of every intelligence agency in the world which can actually protect its citizens from harm.
Take your pick; but any degree of competence, for which this agency used to be appreciated and commended, has fallen away from its current leadership like a really horrific wardrobe malfunction, after this farce.
A petition has been created, and received over 20,000 signatures calling for the EU Referendum to be scrapped because of the murder of MP Jo Cox.
A quick check of the UK Government's Petition site shows only one petition calling for the scrapping of the EU Referendum, and that one was started last March and ended in September. Note that the above article does not include a link to this supposed petition.
In the aftermath of the Orlando shootings, mass censorship on /r/News, Reddit's main forum for discussing breaking news, led to a massive user exodus to /r/The_Donald, a community known for its commitment to free speech. According to The Daily Beast, more than 11,712 subscribed to the Trump-supporting subreddit on Sunday alone, making it the most successful day in the community's relatively short history.
Notorious for ending the career of a four-star general, Rolling Stone contributing editor Michael Hastings suspiciously died in a fiery explosion three years ago on the streets of Los Angeles. Although the FBI eventually admitted to investigating his work while CIA Director John Brennan continued to lead "witch hunts" against investigative journalists, Hastings' death was immediately ruled an accident while unanswered questions remain years later.
Early on the morning of June 18, 2013, freelance cameraman Scott Lane recorded a dash cam video of Hastings' Mercedes C250 coupe speeding south on Highland Ave and running a red light. Down the street, a surveillance camera at Pizzeria Mozza recorded a brief video appearing to show two small explosions near the bottom of his car moments before hitting a tree and bursting into flames.
Extrajudicial assassinations, crafted to appear accidental deaths or suicides, are part of the CIA's stock in trade; I wouldn't immediately discount the possibility that this was an extrajudicial assassination, for fear of what Hastings had found, or would find out,and report, about Brennan.
but even more troubling, was NATO's assessment that it may now have grounds to attack Russia when it announced that if a NATO member country becomes the victim of a cyber attack by persons in a non-NATO country such as Russia or China, then NATO's Article V "collective defense" provision requires each NATO member country to join that NATO member country if it decides to strike back against the attacking country.
Over one million people took to the streets in France this week in protest against an ever-increasing totalitarian French government, in some of the largest anti-government protests the country has ever seen.
Rebellious Republican delegates are trying to figure out how to change the convention rules so they can make a last-stand revolt against Donald Trump's presidential nomination in Cleveland next month.
They might be better off passing the hat among all their friends.
On Friday, Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger tweeted that a "former Trump adviser" speculated that a big payday would convince the presumptive GOP nominee to abandon his unusual campaign and go back to real-estate deals and reality TV.
In less than two weeks, three different Oakland Police Department chiefs have either resigned or been fired amid multiple scandals.
The department is under an investigation stemming from a suicide note an Oakland officer left last year admitting to an extramarital affair with a teenage sex worker. That one relationship has turned into a full-blown sex scandal involving more than a dozen officers in the department.
A groundswell of opposition is building among pro-Israeli politicians in the US against Boeing's plans to sell aircraft to Iran.
The Chicago-based aerospace giant has reportedly received requests for more information after Iran said on Tuesday it had reached an initial agreement with Boeing for the supply of jetliners.
We are not talking about war planes here, but passenger jets! Boeing frankly needs this sale, but the Israel-firsters in this government are perfectly willing to allow an iconic American company slide closer to bankruptcy just to please their masters in Tel Aviv!
Donald Trump has said key Republicans are plotting a last-ditch bid to stop him from becoming the party's presidential nominee.
Obama is either leading the most incompetent administration in history or many of these events are false flags in order to continue his push for gun control and ultimately gun confiscation.
Donald Trump on Saturday accused Jeb Bush of mounting a convention coup against him, after reports that Republican delegates who don't personally support Trump are looking for ways to avoid voting for him this summer.
"By the way, Jeb is working on the movement, just so you understand," Trump said to supporters at a rally in Las Vegas.
"Jeb is one of the people that's working — and the other one should be obvious," http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/content/could-ted-cruz-be-republican... he said, though he didn't elaborate further.
Earlier at the rally, however, Trump echoed the Republican National Committee and said the reports were a media hoax.
"It's all made up by the press, folks. It's a hoax," Trump said. "This is a story — who are they going to pick? I beat everybody. I beat the hell out of them."
the voters are still in the mood for an outsider to go to the White House
(*When we voters say we want an outsider , what we mean is "outside of the political Hoi polloi" , NOT "from outside the nation's borders" )
He also has the skills and discipline necessary to take the fight to Hillary Clinton.
(*Despite the nation witnessing his display of having a lack of skills and discipline necessary to take down Donald Trump when he had the chance ?)
(*and finally)
he is the soul of propriety and sanity
(*Oh Christ !)
The Orlando massacre is fueling demands that the government greatly expand the number of people it monitors as potential terrorists, a proposal that critics worry veers dangerously close to the dystopian science fiction of "Minority Report.
So "right wing extremists" will no doubt make it on one of those "lists." And who are right wing extremists? According to DHS they include Ron Paul supporters, people who fly Gadsden flags, Tea Party people, veterans, people who pay with cash, people who store food or buy in bulk, Christian "fundamentalists," people who oppose abortion and those who talk about the Constitution as the law of the land.
If the founding fathers had known this gun would have been invented, they wouldn't have rewritten the Second Amendment—they would have fortified it in stone," he says. "They knew the only way for us to stay free was by having whatever guns the bad guys have. This firearm gives average people the advantage they so desperately need and deserve to protect their life, liberty, and happiness."
So no, central bankers should not be treated as wise oracles who's guidance is desperately needed. Instead, we should throw off the tyranny of the Ph.D.'s and embrace the decentralization of power that is desperately needed to allow civilization to thrive. Brexit would be a great way to start.
Every freedom loving person on the planet has their eyes fixed on this referendum. A clear majority voting for Brexit and therefore for more decentralization, would show that the British realized they can break free from their self-imposed nonage, and reclaim individual liberty. It would be nothing short of an act of courage to challenge the status quo and a chance for the British to speak their own mind.
New Intel CPUs come with a hidden backdoor that can allow hackers or the NSA to control your computer remotely even while PC is turned off.
Hardware security export Damien Zammit revealed some startling revelations in a recent SoftPedia about the secret backdoor built in to new Intel CPUs that no one can touch or disable.
The backdoor, called the Intel Management Engine (ME) is works as a secret subsystem inside your computer's CPU and runs constantly even when your computer is not turned on.
It works but setting up a TCP/IP server and since the subsystem has complete uncontrolled access to your computer's hardware, including the network card and memory, it works without the knowledge of your computers operating system and can not be disabled by the OS or by your computer's firewall.
The American people can be counted upon to cower in fear every time, then pop their heads up only long enough to yell, "These colors don't run!" They're going to start screaming for the government to "Do something!" and that is exactly what the government wants them to say. If these people were cows, within four months, they'd all be sitting there in the meat display case over at Food Bazaar crowing about how "free" they are. And, gee, how swell it is to be taken care of so well by the government. Ok, so it meant being turned into cube steak, but at least they're safe, right? Right, and these colors don't run—at least not until we sign the cease-fire and run with our tails between our legs. Then ten years later, we'll claim it as a victory and sell t-shirts crowing about it. Meanwhile, all the great patriots will line up for their USA Red-Blooded American Freedom Isn't Free Federal ID Card.
More than fifty U.S. diplomats have circulated an internal memo to fellow Department of State employees, criticizing the administration's policies in Syria and calling for air strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government forces. The Wall Street Journal reports that the "dissent channel cable" was signed by fifty-one mid-to high-level State Department officials involved in advising on Syria policy. The document calls for "targeted military air strikes" against Assad's government.
A study commissioned by Harvard has analyzed primary coverage of thousands of news statements issued by the largest corporate media outlets in the United States.
It found that coverage of Bernie Sanders at crucial parts of the race was too insignificant to make serious inroads to be successful in the campaign.
Furthermore, by the time coverage did pick up on Bernie it was far too late and even then the coverage was far less than given to any of the other candidates including not only Hillary Clinton but also lagging behind the top 5 GOP candidates –Trump, Bush, Cruz, Rubio, and Carson.
In fact Hillary received 3 times more coverage and after analyzing the data Harvard found that Hillary Clinton was the only candidate whose campaign generated an unfair balance of news coverage.
Britain exiting the EU would be a nightmare for the for the NWO. Today they showed us how far they will go to prevent a potential "Brexit". All the way, whatever it takes. They have now turned things into a "hot war", pitting the will of the people, against the crush of power. Today's psyop was as easy as it was obvious. But if British people are still feisty—even waking up to their EU shackles, this little victory by the EU/NWO might be Pyrrhic. The whole Brexit war has planted the will of the people against the perpetuation of power shackles over the people.
What happened today transcends any false flag aimed at disarming Americans, such as the latest false flag psyop in Orlando.
A new EU law will ban the sale of many halogen lightbulbs and homes will have to be fitted with energy saving LED bulbs instead, which cost around 25 times more.
Homes in Britain have an average of 11 spotlight bulbs, which means it would cost up to £275 in replacement costs, according to the Association for the Conservation of Energy.
This latest piece of bureaucracy is set to take effect in 2018.
Webmaster addition: We've gone totally LED here and we love them, although you have to be careful about the brands. The Phillips seem to be robust; while the Cree have a high failure rate.
What is the likely result of the just-concluded conclave of the global cabal known as Bilderberg? In short, it looks as if "the great and the good," the high and the mighty of worldly power, have reached a "consensus" on a number of key issues. Foremost among these are the U.S. presidential election in November and the rapidly approaching Brexit referendum — coming up on June 23. And what is the Bilderberg consensus on these two issues? Simple: Trump must be stopped (and Hillary elected); the Brexit must be stopped (and the U.K. kept forever trapped in the evolving EU "Project"). More Bilderberg consensus: Flooding the EU with "refugee" migration must continue; populist political revolts against the elites in Austria, Hungary, the U.K., Italy, France, and elsewhere must be neutralized; the TPP and TTIP globalist trade schemes must be formally approved; more bailouts (and "bail-ins") of Too-Big-to-Fail banks and corporations must be readied — and much, much more.
Earlier this month Hilary Clinton made a major foreign policy address in which she criticized Trump's statement in April that Japan and South Korea should have their own nuclear armaments rather relying on the US because it is costing too much money.
"I would rather have them not arm, but I'm not going to continue to lose this tremendous amount of money. And frankly, the case could be made that let them protect themselves against North Korea. They'd probably wipe them out pretty quick," Trump said.
"If they fight, you know what, that'd be a terrible thing. Terrible…. But if they do, they do."
In response, Hillary Clinton said that Trump is "not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin."
In the National Interest, Eland points out that despite criticism from Clinton, Japan and South Korea, Trump's foreign policy idea actually makes more sense.
Clinton's hubristic, war-hawk stance guarantees that under her watch, if she wins/steals the election, there will be more wars, and because of them, a universal draft of both young men and women; more economic misery in the US; more outsourcing/offshoring of American jobs; and more "pay for play" by foreign governments, as demonstrated by the contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
And for the Clintonistas out there, please remember this fact; the countries in the Middle East which contributed money to this foundation all still permit female genital mutilation.
What kind of a conscience in an allegedly "pro-woman" presidential candidate would possibly permit the acceptance of money from countries which still allow this barbaric practice to continue?!?
Food for thought, ladies, and the men who love you; just... food for thought.
We don't have to go far to see the hand of intelligence agencies in this catastrophe. The shooter himself was an employee of G4S, described by journalist Alex Emmons as "a giant, often controversial global contracting corporation that provides mercenary forces, prison guards and security services."
Additionally, the shooter's father is said to be a CIA asset.
Given that Intelligence agencies are well-positioned to engineer synthetic terror threats, author Naomi Wolf argues that it is "crazy" not to question new events, since "spectacles" drive "outcomes". Further, she observes that propagandizing the public includes films (i.e. "Zero Dark Thirty") – arguing that the Pentagon must have "signed off" on it —which indirectly seek to "normalize" intelligence operations such as torture and mass surveillance.
Seafaring slave ships didn't vanish in the 19th century. They still persist.
And there's a good chance they're catching your dinner.
Just a few years ago, the dark underworld of forced labor in Thailand's fishing sector was little known. The dirty secrets of this $7.3 billion powerhouse industry have since been explored by the media and international watchdog groups.
But this international outcry has changed little on the lawless seas, where men still slave away on Thai-captained trawlers under savage conditions. Implications for the US are disturbing: Thailand is America's second-largest seafood supplier behind China.
The men who haul these fish from the sea were typically suckered into working for zero pay. Almost all of the victims are smuggled from destitute villages in Myanmar or Cambodia under false promises of gigs in factories, farms or construction yards.
So, will the US Congress, understanding clearly that Thailand uses maritime slavery, do for Thailand what it did for Malaysia in its reclassification of its labor status in order to join TPP, which Thailand ultimately wants to join?!?
As reported at huffpo on 27 July 2015:
The Obama administration outraged human rights advocates on Monday by removing Malaysia from its list of the world's worst human trafficking offenders — a move that the activists said damages U.S. credibility — simply to boost the president's trade agenda. "The Administration has turned its back on the victims of trafficking," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a written statement. "They have elevated politics over the most basic principles of human rights." Hundreds of Democrats and a handful of Republicans had previously urged the State Department to maintain Malaysia's ranking as a "Tier 3" human trafficking violator. For years, the Malaysian government has largely turned a blind eye to sex slavery involving men, women and children. Forced labor is rampant in several sectors of the country's economy, particularly the electronics industry. In April, mass graves holding more than 130 human trafficking victims were discovered near the country's northern border with Thailand. That same month, the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia said the government needed to take human trafficking prosecution more seriously. Nevertheless, the State Department officially upgraded Malaysia's status to Tier 2 on Monday.
It never ceases to amaze me to what depth President Obama is willing to sink to get his agenda successfully enforced to enrich the elites of this world, even when that agenda means the acceptance of slave labor, as it did with Malaysia's being accepted as a TPP member.
"You all are intolerant. I don't want to coexist with this hate," a female SJW ("social justice warrior") at Portland State University tells members of Students for Trump.
"We're gonna make it against the law for this," she threatens in response to their peaceful promotion of an ideology she hates. "We are going to expand the definition of 'hate speech' to include what you are doing right here."
On June 8, the Argentine government notified the Latin American television network teleSUR that their services would be shut off in the country within 15 days.[1] TeleSUR, the brainchild of Hugo Chávez, is an alternative left-wing news organization founded through the cooperation of seven left leaning Latin American governments including Venezuela, Ecuador and Cuba. It gives a voice to the popular sectors of the hemisphere, covering news that often calls into question some of the right-wing biases of the hegemonic news media and provides information which promotes regional integration in Latin America. Although Argentina cited a "[renewal of] program listings," as the reason for teleSUR's dismissal, Patricia Villegas, the president of teleSUR, pointed toward underlying reactions against the left-leaning network, decrying the notice as "censura" (censure).
The lead financial writer at the Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, wrote in 2000:
Declassified American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe.
The head of the Ford Foundation, ex-OSS officer Paul Hoffman, doubled as head of ACUE [below, we'll explain who these players are] in the late Fifties. The State Department also played a role. A memo from the European section, dated June 11, 1965, advises the vice-president of the European Economic Community, Robert Marjolin, to pursue monetary union by stealth.
It recommends suppressing debate until the point at which "adoption of such proposals would become virtually inescapable".
In other words, the U.S. State Department recommended ramming through the creation of the EU before Europeans knew what was happening.
Our concern then was simple: we did not believe that the Common Market was just about trade. We felt it would be followed by an attempted common government, which would have disastrous effects on a continent distinguished by its glorious diversity.
The whole project seemed to be a protectionist scam, an attempt to try to build a wall around the continent rather than embrace world trade.
The French boss of the International Monetary Fund sparked anger last night by implying that Eurosceptic voters are narrow-minded.
Christine Lagarde stepped up her pro-Brussels campaign with a last-ditch plea for the UK to remain in the EU. Pressing her case for a 'united Europe', she expressed disbelief that the British public could contemplate severing ties with Brussels.
Miss Lagarde said too many Europeans 'are led to believe things would be better if only Europe returned to closed borders and economic nationalism'.
Let's be honest. Under the EU, things pretty much suck (except for those unelected EU commissioners; they have it pretty good!)
"[Hollande] may actually do it, but people will just start breaking the law. [Hollande] should start negotiating and stop making idle threats," Hedley tells Loud & Clear host Brian Becker, referring to the French president's threat to ban mass protests is real.
With Donald Trump's poll numbers sinking into a death spiral, dozens of Republican delegates are now openly plotting a coup to overthrow him at this year's Republican National Convention.
The Washington Post has scored an interview with GOP delegates who are leading the effort to allow delegates to vote their consciences at this year's RNC so they can choose someone other than Trump. The rule change would allow delegates to unbind themselves based on "personal or religious conscience."
Kendal Unruh, a Republican delegate from Colorado, says that their plan is to stop Trump from becoming the nominee first and then hoping the delegates can then pick a consensus non-Trump candidate afterward.
"This literally is an 'Anybody but Trump' movement," he told the Post. "Nobody has any idea who is going to step in and be the nominee, but we're not worried about that. We're just doing that job to make sure that he's not the face of our party."
A short memo to Kendal Unruh and Cecil Stinemetz.
Congratulations!! You have just let Republicans know that no matter who their choice is for this election, their views on the candidacy are completely irrelevant, and do not matter to the party elite whatsoever.
You will engineer a convention, falsely throw the nomination to one of your "preferred", and by doing that, will throw the election to Hillary Clinton, if she remains unindicted between now and the election.
Republicans who sincerely thought that they might have some small degree of preference in the matter of who becomes your candidate for President are not going to forget this for one hell of a long time.
Widespread allegations of election fraud and voter suppression across the United States during the 2016 Democratic Primary has sparked the interest of several academic researchers and what they discovered in their research is disturbing.
The researchers each performed independent studies in which a few different statistical was applied to analyze various subsets of vote data and of the studies came to the same conclusion.
Namely that Hillary's win was could have only been possible a result of widespread election fraud.
In fact, one of the statistical models applied by Standford University researcher Rodolfo Cortes Barragan to a subset of the data found that the probability of the "huge discrepancies" of which "nearly all are in favor of Hillary Clinton
See BILL CLINTON LOOTED SOCIAL SECURITY TO CREATE HIS FEDERAL BUDGET SURPLUS
The problem with this is that millions of innocent Americans have been put on these fraudulent 'terrorist watch lists' and 'no-fly lists' since the false flag 9/11 attack, which was actually conducted by the CIA and Israel.
After applying various statistical models to subsets of 2016 primary voting data several academic researchers conclude Hillary Clinton's win was only possible through widespread vote fraud.
If Donald Trump has even a partial clue about the nation's monumental economic mess one of his first acts will be to demand Janet Yellen's resignation. And for sheer incompetence among countless other failings.
Is it mere "coincidence" that the uncle of the two young men accused of the Boston bombings was related in marriage to the CIA figure who advocated using the networks which were later named "Al Qaeda" across Central Asia including Chechnya where the Tsarnaev brothers had roots? The more independent researchers examine evidence around the Boston terror bombings, the more the official US Government version of events stinks
A defining characteristic of socialism in all its forms in all places and at all times is a relatively small political elite (and its "private sector" cronies) that lives lavishly by plundering its population, destroying its economy, imposing a regime of equality of poverty and misery; and turning almost everyone into a dependent on the state for survival
Gun laws are not an answer, end the war of drugs. Gun laws don't prevent shooting any more than drug laws stop illegal drugs. All throughout Latin America there are countries that ban guns and yet have 2 to 6 times the fire arm death rate of the Unites States. Most shootings are over and because of the war on drugs. Mass shootings and Bombings are usually people entrapped and enticed by our own FBI. This Orlando shooter had a father in the CIA he had met with the FBI at least twice and he didn't even know the difference between Al Qaeda and Hezbollah. He was a mentally ill closet homosexual who the FBI had profiled as a target who could be manipulated into violence.?
Most of the mass killings by gun in the United States in recent years—Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, San Bernardino, and now Orlando—took place in venues where local or state law prohibited carrying guns, even by those lawfully licensed to do so. The government cheerfully calls these venues "gun-free zones." They should be called killing zones.
As unspeakable and horrific as is the recent slaughter in Orlando, it has become just another example of the tragic consequences of government's interfering with the exercise of fundamental liberties. After a while, these events cease to shock; but they should not cease to cause us to re-examine what the government has done to us.
The defense contractor attempted to extort one of the most powerful sovereign countries in the world, warning that as many as 10,000 jobs would be lost if the country did not commit to purchasing a fighter jet that 'does not work.'
Forcing people to buy bad products has become the new American business model, whether it's the F-35, GMO seeds, or tainted vaccines!
Texas on Thursday lost its fight against the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state, ending a monthslong battle during which refugees from the war-torn country continued to arrive.
Dealing the final blow to Gov. Greg Abbott's effort to keep Syrian refugees out of the state, a federal judge dismissed Texas' lawsuit against the federal government and a refugee resettlement agency over the resettlement of the refugees.
The remain camp is so desperate, they know they are going to lose.
"BREXIT is still ahead on the polls! Find me some more politicians to shoot! I need bloody shirts! I need bloody shirts!" -- Number 9 3/4
Confirming once again that the entire US Middle-East campaign over the past 4 years has been one ongoing plan to destabilize and eliminate Syria's president Bashar al-Assad from power - certainly including the involvement of ISIS which as we reported a year ago was "created" and facilitated by the Pentagon as a tool to overthrow Assad, an analysis which yesterday gained renewed prominence - overnight the WSJ reported that dozens of State Department officials this week protested against U.S. policy in Syria, signing an internal document that calls for "targeted military strikes against the Damascus government and urging regime change as the only way to defeat Islamic State."
In other words, over 50 top "diplomats" are urging to eliminate Assad in order to "defeat ISIS", the same ISIS which top US "diplomats" had unleashed previously in order to... eliminate Assad.
Amarillo is bursting at the seams with foreign refugees, from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and its mayor has pleaded repeatedly with the government to stop sending refugees to his city.
But they keep coming.
The schools are stretched, and the local police department is having a hard time getting a handle on the rising crime.
On Tuesday, it was just another example. Mohammad Moghaddan, a Somali refugee, was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies after he had taken two Walmart employees hostage.
"Refugee resettlement is not about 'humanitarianism'! It is about globalists and greedy industries wanting to improve their bottom lines – the social and economic condition of your towns and cities be damned," Corcoran wrote in a recent blog.
"Nobody should feel pressurised, while they travel on the Tube or bus, into unrealistic expectations surrounding their bodies, and I want to send a clear message to the advertising industry about this," Khan said in a press release about the move.
But why stop at bodies? Surely ad campaigns can "pressurise" us in other ways. Car ads can make us feel insecure — we are riding public transit after all — while ads for baby diapers can upset a woman struggling to get pregnant.
Hair-loss clinics make those with less hair than they'd like self-conscious; shouldn't the ad simply say that everyone is beautiful, no matter how much hair they have? Why hair shame?
Actually, many ads play to our sense of shame. What's the message of bathroom-cleaner ads if not "Eww, your bathroom is gross"? Or kids' snacks: "Are you seriously going to feed your child that?" Then there's sucker-shaming: "You're not still overpaying for cable/cell phone service/auto insurance, are you?"
And so on.
I have an idea. If an ad showing a hot babe in a bikini makes you feel bad .... look away! Those of us who like to look at hot babes in bikinis won't complain! I promise!
While Bernie Sanders' supporters and independent media outlets have exhaustively pointed out that corporate media's fatuous prattling over Hillary Clinton likely tipped the elections in her favor, we now have solid proof — leaked emails show the DNC colluded with mainstream outlets to heavily favor Clinton.
"Our goals in the coming months will be to frame the Republican field and the eventual nominee early and to provide a contrast between the GOP field and HRC," reads an email dated May 26, 2015, referencing the former secretary of state by her initials, posted by "Guccifer 2.0" — after the Romanian hacker who allegedly accessed Clinton's private email server multiple times.
One of the strategies listed for "positioning and public messaging" states, "Use specific hits to muddy the waters around ethics, transparency and campaign finance attacks on HRC."
This is the kind of campaigning one does when one cannot, possibly, run on the facts, or a detailed description of one's business ethics.
Sanders got well and truly screwed in California, and most probably beyond.
Oh, and BTW, you may love this little "factoid: Saudi Arabia's crown Prince went on the record (only to subsequently retract this) in saying that he was supporting 20% of Hillary's campaign costs. As reported this week in zerohedge.com:
Where there is a big, and potentially law-breaking, problem is what Jordan's official news agency, Petra News Agency, reported on Sunday citing the Saudi crown price, namely that Saudi Arabia is a major funder of Hillary Clinton's campaign to become the next president of the United States. As MEE notes, the Petra News Agency published on Sunday what it described as exclusive comments from Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman which included a claim that Riyadh has provided 20 percent of the total funding to the prospective Democratic candidate's campaign. The report was later deleted and the news agency has not responded to requests for comment from Middle East Eye. However, the deletion took place too late, as the Washington-based Institute for Gulf Affairs managed to capture the report and has re-published the original Arabic Petra report, which quoted Prince Mohammed as having said Saudi Arabia had provided with "full enthusiasm" an undisclosed amount of money to Clinton.
Now, if in fact this interview is true, what does it mean for the future of US foreign policy, should Hillary steal/win the election?!?
IF in fact she is well and truly bought, look for:
1. More arms sales to Saudi Arabia, whose government and military have never found a war crime they didn't want to embrace (particularly in its war against Yemen's Houthis), such as the killing of civilians, the use of cluster bombs against civilians, and the shelling of hospitals and schools.
2. A concerted, collective "looking the other way" as Saudi Arabia exports its violent, Wahabi culture of jihad into other Middle Eastern countries.
3. Favorable financial deals from the US government, because Saudi Arabia "payed to play."
Please remember; the depth to which this woman can be bought has no boundaries whatsoever.
Special agents at the IRS equipped with AR-15 military-style rifles? Health and Human Services "Special Office of Inspector General Agents" being trained by the Army's Special Forces contractors? The Department of Veterans Affairs arming 3,700 employees?
The number of non-Defense Department federal officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000).
Less than 48 hours after President Obama reassured the nation that his strategy against ISIS is working, Obama's CIA director told the Senate the exact opposite. ISIS is, he said, as formidable a threat as it ever was.
Obama's remarks came after a meeting with his National Security Council, during which he spent a significant amount of time detailing all the many successes his strategy is having against the Islamic State (which Obama calls ISIL instead of ISIS), progress that he thinks is being obscured by recent terrorist attacks in the U.S. committed in the name of ISIS.
Sounds like Obama's really on top of the situation, doesn't it?
Except that on Thursday, CIA Director John Brennan told a far different story about ISIS.
Given Obama's penchant for discarding members of his team who have a different "narrative" on what is going on, both nationally, and internationally, I am rather surprised that Brennan still has his job.
But that being said, one has to look at these issues with a great deal of logic, and ask yourself, who benefits?!?
Certainly, jihadist attacks at home or abroad do not benefit the American people at all.
But the narrative supported by US government-enabled jihadist attacks in the Middle East is supposed to make Americans believe that by US staging military attacks against these operatives, we will be safer here at home.
And yet, the US government was impotent to prevent the horrific massacre in Orlando, and what has been the primary call of politicians?!? To enact more gun control, and take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. This has all the earmarks of yet another false flag.
Let's be intelligent about this; there are people who should not have access to guns, including felons, and people on psychiatric medications.
But that being said, there were some very viable reasons why the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution was created; the founding fathers (and the women who loved them) knew all too well that a disarmed populace was an enslaved population.
We as Americans, would do well not to forget that.
The original "Contract with America" consists of the Constitution and Bill of Rights
In short, I wrote it off as Fox News boilerplate, until the other day when, in the wake of the Orlando massacre, Donald Trump said the following on Fox: "Something is going on. He doesn't get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It's one or the other." Reiterating this trope later on in the same show, he averred that the President "is not tough, not smart – or he's got something else in mind."
Barack Obama warned the US will "keep seeing more massacres" like the Pulse nightclub shooting unless gun laws are tightened after meeting grieving relatives in Orlando.
The installation of Lt. Gen. John Nicholson Jr. as the 17th commander of nearly 15 years of US-led occupation in Afghanistan provided yet another occasion for the US to take stock, this time with an eye on Nicholson's proposals to loosen the rules of engagement for US combat troops.
That meant another accounting of just how badly the war is going, and it's bad. After ousting the Taliban, which was Afghanistan's government before the 2001 invasion, they've been slowly but surely losing ground back to them, and the Taliban now controls more territory than any time since the war began.
That reflects both the steady erosion of Afghan government territory in the south, and more rapid Taliban gains in both Helmand Province and around the city of Kunduz. The Taliban has intermittently taken Kunduz itself, a northern city which was largely rebel-controlled before the war.
Absoflippinglutely unbelievable!!
This is an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions, and there is utterly no military metric by which the US/NATO occupation could ever be characterised as a "success".
The bottom line here is: the situation is worse than when the invasion began in 2001, and for all the blood and money spent, only to achieve an absolute failure in Afghanistan, after 15 years, is staggering and pretty damned near incomprehensible.
IF President Obama is looking at having any sense of a "legacy" from his Presidency, he would be wise to pull the US out of Afghanistan as quickly as would be safe for our troops.
Of course, wisdom, and the current, and previous administrations, didn't have much of an on-going relationship, unfortunately...
THE HOUSE ON THURSDAY narrowly defeated a measure that would have banned the transfer of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, but the closeness of the vote was an indication of growing congressional opposition to the conduct of the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing coalition in Yemen.
The vote was mostly along party lines, with 200 Republicans – and only 16 Democrats – heeding the Obama administration's urging to vote against the measure. The vote was 204-216.
"The Department of Defense strongly opposes this amendment," said Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., chairman of the House Committee on Defense Appropriations, during floor debate. "They advise us that it would stigmatize cluster munitions, which are legitimate weapons with clear military utility."
This proxy war against the Houthis, abetted and enabled by the US government in Yemen has been an absolute....fluster cluck.
The Saudi government and military have never met a war crime they didn't embrace, such as killing civilian targets, women, children, and the medically fragile elderly, and bombing hospitals and schools.
And these bombs, if unexploded, and played with by kids, do a magnificent job of tearing toddlers, limb from limb.
And you had better see what this looks like. The following images are from a Syrian bombing of a rebel held city near Damascus, but the carnage these bombs create is still the same today.
image of cluster bomb destruction
And because they so resemble emergency food packages which are dropped, kids who cannot read English cannot tell the difference.
food package and unexploded bomblet
The reason these bombs should not be used, ever again, is that it is estimated that 98% of their victims are civilians, and 40% are children, as estimated at reddit.com
Should these cluster bomb munitions be "stigmatized" for the deaths and injuries they cause civilian victims?@/
HELL, yes!!
The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) met five times behind closed doors this past year to discuss the possibility of reviving Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) experiments exposing humans to harmful air pollutants.
NAS is examining the findings of a 2014 EPA inspector general reporting, which found the agency had exposed human test subjects to ostensibly deadly air pollutants without disclosing the risk of death or the total amounts of pollutants subjects would have to inhale.
But the lack of public participation in the study has Steve Milloy worried EPA could be trying to revive its "potentially illegal" testing regime, which has exposed children, asthmatics and people with heart disease to concentrated doses of pollutants.
I would very strongly and politely suggest to the NAS that they experiment only upon themselves and their kids, and not risk the health of even one member of the general public in what has to be and illegal and immoral program of testing these pollutants.
These people are crazy!
Bucking current US policy, dozens of State Department officials have reportedly signed an internal document calling for military action and regime change in Syria, claiming it is the only way to defeat Islamic State and end the war.
The document is alleged to have expressed frustration with America's inability to halt a civil war in Syria that has killed around half a million people and contributed to a worldwide refugee crisis.
Seems appropriate given current events!
Too bad we can't secure our own borders... The federal Commission of Fine Arts has given its preliminary approval for a taller White House fence to better protect the presidential mansion after a rash of fence-hopping incidents.
Even with how manipulated the GDP numbers are these days, Barack Obama is on course to be the only president in all of U.S. history to never have a single year when the economy grew by at least 3 percent. The truth is that our economy has been stuck in the mud ever since the end of the last recession, and now a major new downturn has clearly already begun.
So, do more guns equal more crime? The data would seem to indicate the answer is "obviously not."
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