Mile Markers on the Road to Fascism

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US/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War

Exclusive: The U.S. government and NATO have entered the Brave New World of “strategic communications,” merging psy-ops, propaganda and P.R. in order to manage the perceptions of Americans and the world’s public, reports veteran war correspondent Don North.

By Don North

As reflected in a recent NATO conference in Latvia and in the Pentagon’s new “Law of War” manual, the U.S. government has come to view the control and manipulation of information as a “soft power” weapon, merging psychological operations, propaganda and public affairs under the catch phrase “strategic communications.”

This attitude has led to treating psy-ops – manipulative techniques for influencing a target population’s state of mind and surreptitiously shaping people’s perceptions – as just a normal part of U.S. and NATO’s information policy.

Continue . . . https://consortiumnews.com/2015/09/02/usnato-embrace-psy-ops-and-info-war/

The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5#ixzz3kzqoPa5w

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

Defense Bill Legalizes US Propaganda

https://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/11/defense-bill-legalizes-us-propaganda/

Why is it that the mainstream media will only show us dead babies whose murders they can blame on regimes that the US wants to bomb, invade, or overthrow?

http://www.infowars.com/mainstream-media-exploits-photos-of-dead-babies-to-advocate-war/

 

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Video of the Day – Three Former U.S. Treasury Secretaries and a Facebook Executive Laugh About Income Inequality

If there was ever a “let them eat cake” moment in modern American history, this is it.

Earlier this year, at 2015’s Milken Institute Global Conference, Facebook Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was moderating a panel with three former U.S. Treasury Secretaries. The topic of income inequality was raised, and they all burst out laughing. The biggest uproar came from the man who orchestrated the 2008 banker bailouts, former Goldman Sachs CEO, Hank Paulson, as Sandberg enthusiastically claps her hands like a privileged, primped out Panem aristocrat. To the right of Hank is Clinton puppeteer Robert Rubin, and all the way to the left, Timmy Geithner.

You have to see it, to believe it:

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/09/06/video-of-the-day-three-former-u-s-treasury-secretaries-and-a-facebook-executive-laugh-about-income-inequality/


America : Freedom to Fascism

"I went on a quest to find out whether there was a law requiring Americans to file an income tax . . ."

America Freedom to Fascism exposes the fraud and deceit of the Federal Reserve Banks (Fed), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the 16th Amendment, the income tax, the Federal Reserve System, national ID cards (REAL ID Act), human-implanted RFID tags (Spychips), Diebold electronic voting machines, New World Order (globalization), Big Brother, taser weapons abuse, and the use of terrorism by government as a means to diminish the citizens' rights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ayb02bwp0

 

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Over 200 Maryland Corrections Officers Arrested… and They Still Have Their Jobs

Baltimore, MD — It was reported last week that over 250 Maryland corrections officers have been arrested since January of 2013 — and well over 200 are still employed by Maryland’s corrections department.

Many of the arrests actually involve on the job corruption, but most of the officers have yet to face any actual consequences from their employers. In one case where officers actually were prosecuted, 24 correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center were convicted in a massive conspiracy case, along with a number of prisoners. That case involved corrections officers smuggling drugs into the prison and becoming very close with the inmates. On more than one occasion, male inmates who ran prison gangs impregnated female prison guards.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/over-200-maryland-corrections-officers-arrested-and-they-still-have-their-jobs_092015

NYPD Fires 84 Rounds at Suspect, All but One Miss Their Target

In the early morning hours of September 4th, 27-year-old Jerrol Harris was found rummaging through a car by its owner, Leon Faison, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. After Harris shot him in the arm with a stolen .40 caliber pistol, Faison tried to chase him down, and eventually ran into two police officers on the street. After providing a description of Harris, the officers pursued the suspect, and eventually found him several blocks away.

What ensued was embarrassing to say the least. After being spotted by the cops, Harris fired 11 shots at them, hitting an unmarked police car. Now with backup, a total of four cops fired back with 52 bullets, all of which missed Harris as he fled. He eventually ran into two more cops, who fired an additional 32 bullets. One of those bullets struck Harris in the calf, which convinced him to surrender to the NYPD.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/nypd-fires-84-rounds-at-suspect-all-but-one-miss-their-target_092015

U.S. Drops Fleas with Bubonic Plague on North Korea

This happened some 63 years ago, but as the U.S. government has never stopped lying about it, and it’s generally known only outside the United States, I’m going to treat it as news.

Here in our little U.S. bubble we’ve heard of a couple versions of a film called The Manchurian Candidate. We’ve heard of the general concept of “brainwashing” and may even associate it with something evil that the Chinese supposedly did to U.S. prisoners during the Korean War. And I’d be willing to bet that the majority of people who’ve heard of these things have at least a vague sense that they’re bullshit.

If you didn’t know, I’ll break it to you right now: people cannot actually be programed like the Manchurian candidate, which was a work of fiction. There was never the slightest evidence that China or North Korea had done any such thing. And the CIA spent decades trying to do such a thing, and finally gave up.

I’d also be willing to bet that very few people know what it was that the U.S. government promoted the myth of “brainwashing” to cover up.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/u-s-drops-fleas-with-bubonic-plague-on-north-korea_092015

How the IRS and Department of Homeland Security are Expanding Undercover Work (IRS Agents Can Even Pose as Clergy)

Those guidelines apply only to the law enforcement agencies overseen by the Justice Department. Within the Treasury Department, undercover agents at the I.R.S., for example, appear to have far more latitude than do those at many other agencies. I.R.S. rules say that, with prior approval, “an undercover employee or cooperating private individual may pose as an attorney, physician, clergyman or member of the news media.”

Across the federal government, undercover work has become common enough that undercover agents sometimes find themselves investigating a supposed criminal who turns out to be someone from a different agency, law enforcement officials said. In a few situations, agents have even drawn their weapons on each other before realizing that both worked for the federal government.

– From the New York Times article: More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/11/17/how-the-irs-and-department-of-homeland-security-are-expanding-undercover-work-irs-agents-can-even-pose-as-clergy/

Video: Liberals Want Bible Banned From Amazon

In an effort to stop “hate speech,” liberals want to ban the Holy Bible from Amazon.com, which had previously banned the Confederate flag.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/video-liberals-want-bible-banned-from-amazon.html

National security cited in crackdown on journalism worldwide

By The Associated Press | Berlin
Tuesday, 8 September 2015

The detention of three Vice News journalists in Turkey last month came with all-too-familiar charges of terror-related crimes. Similar allegations were leveled against three Al-Jazeera reporters convicted last year in Egypt of fabricating news to help the banned Muslim Brotherhood. So, too, against Eskinder Nega, an Ethiopian journalist found guilty of terrorism charges in 2012 after publishing a critical piece about the government.

“We’re seeing this more and more, this abuse of national security as an excuse to rein in bad news, basically,” said David Kaye, the U.N.’s special investigator on freedom of speech.

Kaye warned that the growing use of anti-terror legislation against journalists is making any kind of critical reporting impossible in some countries.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/digital/2015/09/08/National-security-cited-in-crackdown-on-journalism-worldwide.html

VIDEO: Entire Family Arrested, Child Taken by CPS, for Refusing Unlawful Search at Checkpoint

“So you’re a Constitutionalist? We’ve had problems with this before!”

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/vi...lawful-search-checkpoint/#a5qPcASbMiakvhd8.99

Local cops suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an FBI informant, according to Globe columnist

http://privacysos.org/node/1812

 

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‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11

By John Whitehead, constitutional and human rights attorney, and founder of the Rutherford Institute.

“Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

What began with the passage of the USA Patriot Act in October 2001 has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. Since then, we have been terrorized, traumatized, and acclimated to life in the American Surveillance State.

The bogeyman’s names and faces change over time, but the end result remains the same: our unquestioning acquiescence to anything the government wants to do in exchange for the phantom promise of safety and security has transitioned us to life in a society where government agents routinely practice violence on the citizens while, in conjunction with the Corporate State, spying on the most intimate details of our personal lives.

Continue . . . http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/09/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death-the-loss-of-our-freedoms-in-the-wake-of-911.html

Government power + Corporate power = Fascism

 

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Tequila, Painted Pearls, and Prada: How the CIA Helped Produce 'Zero Dark Thirty'

On April 21, 2011, Mark Boal called the CIA to tell them he was going to Afghanistan.

The previous year, the screenwriter had been at a dinner when CIA director Leon Panetta asked Boal to alert the agency if he ever traveled to the country. At the time, Boal was working on a movie called Tora Bora, about the CIA's failure to capture Osama bin Laden in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The title referred to the region in eastern Afghanistan where the US felt it had let bin Laden slip through its fingers during a battle in December 2001.

But less than two weeks after Boal made the call, a team of Navy SEALs raided the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan and killed him. Boal would not be going to Afghanistan after all.

Instead, he stopped writing the script for Tora Bora and began writing a different screenplay about what one lawmaker called "the most classified mission in history" — the killing of bin Laden. That movie, which Boal would work on with director Kathryn Bigelow, would become the 2012 Oscar-winning film Zero Dark Thirty. And the CIA would play a huge role in the creation of the script.

https://news.vice.com/article/tequila-painted-pearls-and-prada-how-the-cia-helped-produce-zero-dark-thirty

https://www.baptistboard.com/showpost.php?p=2255856&postcount=21

 

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Operation Gladio - Full 1992 documentary BBC

Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, 'Operation Gladio' reveals 'Gladio', the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe.

This BBC series is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as 'stay-behinds' these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHXjO8wHsA

 

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Five Hard Facts Americans Forgot About 9/11 After Being Reminded Every Year to “Never Forget”

On this, the 14th anniversary of one of the most tragic days in recent American history, U.S. citizens will be bombarded with patriotic imagery, messages, and the oft-repeated 9/11 slogan of “Never Forget.”

Over the course of the day, mainstream media and the like will show the horrific images of planes crashing into towers and the disturbing scene of ground zero in the aftermath.

In the midst of all the grieving, the flag waving, and the speeches from opportunistic presidential hopefuls, there will be an uncomfortable moment of silence. This silence, however, will not be in remembrance of the victims that day, but rather the complete lack of coverage given to the unanswered questions and suspicious facts surrounding that fateful morning.

A slew of unprovable conspiracy theories is associated with the events leading up to and occurring on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. However, the Free Thought Project does not delve into such speculation. We only deal in facts.

The list below contains five hard-hitting facts that the mainstream media and the political powers have relentlessly attempted to keep hidden from the public.


Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/am...-repeatedly-never-forget/#vWmshlLqJ4UGvZ3t.99


‘28 pages’: Sharyl Attkisson dives into still-classified 9/11 intelligence documents

In a preview of her new Sunday morning news broadcast, five-time Emmy winner and former CBS anchor Sharyl Attkisson will delve into the top-secret pages of Congress’ intelligence report on the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which are still kept under wraps 14 years later.

In the report, Ms. Attkisson speaks with current and former lawmakers and family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks to uncover why the documents, known as the “28 pages” are still undisclosed.

No ordinary American can read the highly classified section of the report, and members of Congress, sworn to secrecy, are only allowed to read the pages under strict supervision.

“We spoke to people off- and on-camera who went as far as they could giving hints and information to me about what’s in them,” Ms. Attkisson told The Washington Times.

Rep. Steven Lynch, Massachusetts Democrat, told Ms. Attkisson the report gives names and identities of individuals who were “complicit” in the terrorist attacks.

“They are clearly identified. How people were financed, where they were housed, where the money was coming from, the conduits that were used and the connections between some of these individuals,” Mr. Lynch said in the interview.

Continue . . . http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/10/sharyl-attkisson-returns-tv-news-look-911-classifi/

 

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EFF Shows Evidence That AT&T, Verizon And Sprint Helped NSA With Mass Collection Of Phone Records

The EFF provided evidence in two of its cases that it was not just AT&T that helped the NSA collect phone records for millions of Americans, but also Verizon Wireless and Sprint. This information was not previously given by the government, which claimed that it was a state secret.

Continue . . . http://www.tomshardware.com/news/eff-att-verizon-sprint-nsa,30074.html

 

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There are only two logical conclusions that can be reached about American foreign policy leadership in the 21st century.

1) American leadership is ruthlessly pursuing immoral wars all over the world with the intent of creating outside enemies to focus public anger on, as a conscious diversion away from the criminality happening domestically. As an added bonus, the intelligence-military-industrial complex makes an incredible sum of money. The end result: serfs are distracted with inane nationalistic fervor, while the “elites” earn billions.

2) American leadership is completely and totally inept; being easily manipulated into overseas conflicts by ruthless corporate interests and cunning foreign “rebels” in order to advance their own selfish interests, which are in conflict with the interests of the general public.

I can’t come up with any other logical conclusion. Either way, such people have no business running the affairs of these United States, and their actions are merely increasing instability and violence across the planet. The longer they remain in charge with no accountability, the more dangerous this world will become.

In charge they remain, which is why we continue to be tortured with fiction-esque stories of incompetence such as the following.

Continue . . . http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/09/12/further-details-emerge-on-the-epic-u-s-foreign-policy-disaster-that-is-syria/

The Real Afghanistan Surge is in Heroin Production and Tripled Opium Cultivation since the US military arrived/ UN and US Government documents

You can frame stories about the current heroin problem in many ways. But the real heroin story isn’t being discussed–which is that since the US military entered Afghanistan in 2001, its opium production doubled, per the UN Afghanistan Opium Survey, 2014 , p.34. The area under opium cultivation in Afghanistan tripled. And the resulting heroin appears to more easily make its way deep into our rural, as well as urban communities. The graph below is from the 2014 UN Opium Survey:

Continue . . . http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/09/the-real-afghanistan-surge-is-in-heroin-production-and-tripled-opium-cultivation-since-the-us-military-arrived-un-and-us-government-documents.html

 

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Clinton Wraps Last-Minute Endorsement of Iran Deal with Hawkish Threats of Military Force

Journalists and foreign policy analysts say speech serves as a reminder to voters that Clinton is 'prepared for war'

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Dissecting her comments afterwards on MSNBC, Steve Clemons, Washington editor of The Atlantic, said the speech struck a very "neoconservative" tone.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/09/clinton-wraps-last-minute-endorsement-iran-deal-hawkish-threats-military-force

She said this during a speech at a corporate funded think tank. This is what corporatism looks like. Politicians auditioning for the corporations who formulate foreign policy.

 

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How American ‘Conservatives’ Went from Fighting the Police State — to Worshiping It

While “police brutality and false claims of police abuse can be minimized,” isolated and increasingly rare violent deaths of on-duty police officers should be seen as part of a “war on police” being waged primarily by Marxist-aligned black radicals, contends The New American magazine. The September 21st issue of that fortnightly periodical, entitled “Police Under Fire,” inaugurates a renewed national “Support Your Local Police” campaign by the John Birch Society, which publishes the magazine.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...-police-state-worshiping/#JtiUutZddrCcfh28.99

 

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17-minute video: Documenting US .01% lies, War Crimes to initiate WW 3. Either 99.99% demand arrests or face literal death

StormCloudsGathering’s 17-minute video hits highlights of recent events that document US .01% lies and unlawful wars that predictably lead to World War 3. This recent history continues literal centuries of US lie-began Wars of Aggression that involved your families in two horrific previous global wars.

We the People have a choice to either demand arrests to lawfully stop obviously unlawful current Wars of Aggression, all based on lies known to be false as they were told, or predictably witness the same history of our grandparents and parents.

The previous three links fully document, explain, and prove the above claims

Continue . . . http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/09/17-minute-video-documenting-us-01-lies-war-crimes-to-initiate-ww-3-either-99-99-demand-arrests-or-face-literal-death.html

 

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All Republican Presidential Candidates Stand For War

Paul Craig Roberts

There is not a peaceful person among the Republican candidates. Even the female is heartless. Carly Fiorina positioned herself along side the macho men as a warmonger. She let the military/security complex know that she, too, was for sale. Send in the campaign donations, and she will see that the money flows back to the military/security complex in the buildup of fleets and armaments that will send the Russians a message.

Alas, the only message US politicians want to send to the Russians is a war message. The Pentagon has upgraded the newly orchestrated “Russian threat” to “potentially aggressive” and is updating its plans for war with Russia.

What has Russia done to cause Washington to plan war with Russia? Don’t you know? Russia invaded Ukraine, just like Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaeda connections.

If Russia invaded Ukraine, how come Ukraine is still there? If weak insignificant Ukraine fought off a Russian invasion, then how is it possible that Russia is a threat?

Continue . . . http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/09/20/republican-presidential-candidates-stand-war-paul-craig-roberts/

"You can’t do it out here, otherwise I’m going to have to lock you up."

Video has emerged of two students at the College of DuPage, a university in Illinois, being threatened with arrest by a cop for handing out pocket Constitutions the day after Constitution Day.

The two students were also handing out fliers that stated “America is a free speech zone,” when they were approached by a police officer who subsequently threatened to take them to jail.

http://www.infowars.com/video-cop-threatens-students-with-jail-for-handing-out-pocket-constitutions/

Global One Percent Celebrate at the Bohemian Grove

July 18th 2015 was the first day of this year’s summer camp for the world’s business and political aristocracy and their invited guests. 2,000 to 3,000 men, mostly from the wealthiest global one percent, gather at Bohemian Grove, 70 miles north of San Francisco in California’s Sonoma County—to sit around the campfire and chew the fat—off-the-record—with ex-presidents, corporate leaders and global financiers.

Speakers this year giving “Lakeside Chats” include past Secretary of Defense and the CIA Leon Panetta, Paul Volcker Jr. former Federal Reserve Chairman, retired Admiral Mike Mullen former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NYU Law Professor Bryan Stevenson, producer Norman Lear, the founder of AOL Steve Case, and Christopher Hill former US Ambassador to Iraq.

Continue . . . http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/21/global-one-percent-celebrate-at-the-bohemian-grove/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mziyg9ofPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-job9wwKPM

Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and David Gergen (top presidential advisor) all share very weird and telling reactions when asked about the legendary secret elite club in the redwood forest of California...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsbKIiU7OP0

On the surface, the Bohemian Grove is a private place where global and regional elites meet for fun and enjoyment. Behind the scene, however, the Bohemian Grove is an American version of building insider ties, consensual understandings, and lasting connections in the service of class solidarity. Ties reinforced at the Grove manifest themselves in global trade meetings, party politics, campaign financing, and top-down corporatism.

Far out solid and right on man. :type:

 

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In New York City, Workers with Full Time Jobs Are Living in Homeless Shelters

Puleo added he has “never seen” the homeless situation this bad.

Dilcy Benn, president of the union’s Local 1505, said more than 100 of the 1,000 parks workers she represents are living in shelters and at least another four, including Torres, are living on the streets on Staten Island and The Bronx.

– From the Market Watch article: Hundreds of Full-Time New York City Workers are Homeless

One of the main data points that pundits and politicians who claim there is an “economy recovery” point to is jobs created. Please tell me, what good is a job if it can’t earn you a roof over your head?

Welcome to the Oligarch Recovery.

From Market Watch: http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/09/21/in-new-york-city-workers-with-full-time-jobs-are-living-in-homeless-shelters/

 

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Oliver Stone: Forget ISIS, America Is the Real Threat to the World

Many people thought Oliver Stone’s days of rankling the establishment were over. Many people were wrong. His 2012 book and TV series, The Untold History of the United States, suggests the iconic filmmaker is renewing efforts to challenge the mainstream narrative regarding American exceptionalism, economic imperialism, and our government’s “nefarious involvement” in the Middle East.

To complete the 10-part documentary series and 750 page book, Stone collaborated with World War 2 scholar Peter Kuznick. The controversial filmmaker says that in assessing American history since the 1930s, it’s our involvement in the Middle East that really grabbed his attention.

“We’ve destabilized the entire region, created chaos. And then we blame ISIS for the chaos we have created,” Stone said.

According to Stone, the U.S. government’s destabilizing role actually goes back much further than ISIS. His new series pinpoints moments of American intrusion in the region as far back as the 1930s and follows it all the way to the CIA-backed Iranian coup in 1953, support for Afghanistan-based, anti-Soviet Union militants in the 1980s, George H.W. Bush’s Iraq invasion of 1990, and present-day efforts in Iran, Syria, and other countries.

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The last episode in the series is called Bush & Obama: Age of Terror. It covers the following subjects:

The Project For A New American Century, a neoconservative think tank that called for a Pearl Harbor-type event to catalyze military action in the Middle East

The tyranny of neoconservatives who pushed us to war with Iraq using faulty intelligence

The rushing through of the Patriot Act, which stripped Americans of a wide variety of civil liberties while bestowing legal precedent to the new surveillance state

The national brainwashing and fear-mongering of the War on Terror

Invading Afghanistan to defeat some of the same terrorists the U.S. armed and trained two decades earlier

Unconstitutional torture and interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay

The mainstream media’s facilitation of war through propaganda and corporate collusion

Obama selling out to J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, General Electric, and Big Pharma

The $700 billion financial bailout paid for by workers, pensioners, homeowners, small businessmen, and students with loans

The rise of CEO compensation amid the collapse of the middle class

Obama’s failure to deliver hope, change, or transparency, his prosecution of government whistleblowers, his fortification of Bush’s national security state (though he repudiated the unilateralism of Bush, he doubled down on troops and, according to Stone, “lacked the courage of a John F. Kennedy”)

Obama’s targeted drone strikes on Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia (includes a breathtaking clip of his remark to troops: “Unlike the old empires, we don’t make these sacrifices for territory or for resources….We do it because it’s right.”

Continue . . . http://theantimedia.org/oliver-stone-forget-isis-america-is-the-real-threat-to-the-world/

 

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Obama Mobilizes U.S. Troops To Build Security Wall In Niger – Still Hasn’t Secured Southern Border With Mexico

In 2005 then-Governor of Arizona Janet Napolitano famously said that building a wall on the southern border of the United States to stem the flow of illegal immigration would be ineffective. “You show me a 50-foot wall and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder at the border. That’s the way the border works,” she argued.

That deep seeded focus on domestic security was apparently enough for President Obama to eventually appoint her as head of the Department of Homeland Security, overseeing the safety of the American people.

An actual wall designed to keep unknown individuals and potential terrorists out of the country, however, was never part of the security infrastructure and was never effectively implemented in the years following.

Because, of course, walls don’t work.

Except when you are building them in foreign countries.

Though the broader mainline media refuses to touch this story, it shows just how politicized the debate over illegal immigration in the United States has become.

A wall is apparently good enough to stop Boko Haram terrorists in Africa, but would do little in the way of stopping the rising tide of undocumented immigration into the U.S.

Continue . . . http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/obama-mobilizes-u-s-troops-to-build-security-wall-in-niger-still-hasnt-secured-southern-border-with-mexico_09182015

 

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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States Episode 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNM9lOFRgCI

The Untold History of the United States examines World War II. It offers special attention to the Spanish Civil War, Roosevelt's desire to enter the war on the side of the allies, the strategic Japanese decisions that lead up to Pearl Harbor Attack, and the often overlooked role that the Soviet Union had in winning the war.

 

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White House-Linked Groups Bankroll New ‘Fact Checking Network’

Project backed by organizations that funded Kiev coup

A new global news fact checking project announced yesterday by the Poynter Institute will be funded by two organizations with close ties to the Obama White House.

The project, which purports to be focused on holding public officials accountable, “is funded by grants from the Omidyar Network and the National Endowment for Democracy, and “it will support and study the work of 64 fact-checking organizations spanning six continents,” according to the Poynter Institute’s website.

The Omidyar Network is headed up by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Visitor logs reveal that Omidyar has visited the White House half a dozen times since 2009, with other members of the organization having also visited an additional seven times.

“To put the numbers in perspective, Omidyar’s six visits compare to four visits during the same period by NBCUniversal chief Stephen Burke, two by Fox News boss Roger Ailes, two by MSNBC’s Phil Griffin, one by New York Times owner Arthur O Sulzberger, and one each by Dow Jones’ Robert Thompson, Gannett/USA Today’s Gracia Martore and Omidyar’s fellow tech billionaire turned media owner, Jeff Bezos,” reports Pando.com.

President Obama also personally appointed Omidyar to sit on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Omidyar’s White House visits included conversations focused on the “Omidyar Network’s desire to shape US foreign policy.”

Documents also show how Omidyar, along with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), funded revolutionary groups that were involved in the overthrow of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych last year.

The National Endowment for Democracy, the other group behind the “fact checking” project,” is considered to be the CIA’s “civilian arm” and has been deeply embroiled in innumerable instigated uprisings, attempted coups and acts of regime change since its creation in 1983, including the contrived 2004 “Orange Revolution” that brought US puppet Viktor Yushchenko to power in Ukraine, as well as the more recent uprising in Kiev.

As Ron Paul explains, the NED is a ‘new kind of CIA’ that funds and promotes “regime change” operations worldwide. The notion that a “fact checking” project bankrolled by the NED is in any way independent or impartial is ludicrous.

“The misnamed National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is nothing more than a costly program that takes US taxpayer funds to promote favored politicians and political parties worldwide. The NED injects “soft money” into the domestic elections of foreign countries in favor of one party or the other,” reports the MassPrivateI blog.

Continue . . . http://www.prisonplanet.com/white-house-linked-groups-bankroll-new-fact-checking-network.html

 

[poncho]

Oliver Stone - The Untold History of The US - Bush & Obama Age of Terror

In it, Oliver Stone and his collaborators focuses the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration. It presents how many American lives were lost as well as the torture incidents that American soldiers were involved in. As for the conspiracies involved, it also presents the personal motive of Bush was more of a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein rather than catching the terrorist who are guilty of the September 11 attacks in New York. Added to that, it also tries to portray how the Bush administration tried to manipulate the terror warnings to the Americans to fulfill their political motives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_0S80jMeg0

Note, personally I still don't buy the narrative of Osama Bin Laden's execution.

In an earlier post in this thread it was revealed how the Pentagon and CIA worked hand in hand with the producer of the film "Zero Dark Thirty" to reinforce the government narrative.

See this . . .https://www.baptistboard.com/showpost.php?p=2256423&postcount=25 and this . . https://www.baptistboard.com/showpost.php?p=2255856&postcount=21

As with most government narratives there's just to many questions left unanswered and too much demonization and ridicule of those seeking answers.

 

[poncho]

The Worst Part Is Central Bankers Know Exactly What They Are Doing

The best position for a tyrant or tyrants to be in, at least while consolidating power, is tyranny by proxy. That is to say, the most dangerous tyrants are those the people do not recognize: the tyrants who hide behind scarecrows and puppets and faceless organizations. The worst position for the common citizen to be in is a false sense of security and understanding, operating on the assumption that tyrants do not exist or that potential tyrants are really just greedy fools acting independently from one another.

Sadly, there are a great many people today who hold naïve notions that our sociopolitical dynamic is driven by random chaos, greed and fear. I’m sorry to say that this is simply not so, and anyone who believes such nonsense is doomed to be victimized by the tides of history over and over again.

Continue . . . http://www.alt-market.com/articles/2701-the-worst-part-is-central-bankers-know-exactly-what-they-are-doing