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Getting Away
With Murder: ‘Clash’ as Media Euphemism for ‘Massacre’ After deposing Evo Morales in a US-backed coup November 11, Bolivia’s military
selected Jeanine Añez as president. Añez immediately signed a decree pre-exonerating security forces of all crimes during their
“re-establishment of order,” understood by all sides as a license to kill.
Those same forces have now conducted massacres of Morales supporters near the
cities of Cochabamba and La Paz. https://fair.org/home/getting-away-with-murder-clash-as-media-euphemism-for-massacre/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2yytMDOqp5mweuxOtr6k7DxP0U2YDdNmIIbvRoB8YvbcicNADyf4OFUvw
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Corporate
Media Newsweek
“The appalling story of how Newsweek brutally
enforces the US-Iraeli propaganda line on the “Brutal Assad
Regime”™️ (thanks, Brian Tierney)”:
“Until
several days ago, I was a journalist at Newsweek. I decided to hand my
resignation in because, in essence, I was given a simple choice. On one hand, I
could continue to be employed by the company, stay in their chic London offices
and earn a steady salary—only if I adhered to what could or could not be
reported and suppressed vital facts. Alternatively, I could leave the
company and tell the truth....”
https://tareqhaddad.com/…/lies-newsweek-and-control-of-the…/ Until
several days ago, I was a journalist at Newsweek. I decided to hand my
resignation in because, in essence, I was given a simple choice. On one hand, I
could continue to be employed by the company, stay in their chic London offices
and earn a steady salary—only if I adhered to what could or could not be
reported and suppressed vital facts. Alternatively, I could leave the company
and tell the truth.
In the end, that decision was
rather simple, all be it I understand the cost to me will be undesirable. I
will be unemployed, struggle to finance myself and will likely not find another
position in the industry I care about so passionately. If I am a little lucky,
I will be smeared as a conspiracy theorist, maybe an Assad apologist or even a
Russian asset—the latest farcical slur of the day. Although I am a British
citizen, the irony is that I’m half Arab and half Russian. (Bellingcat: I’m
happy to answer any requests.) https://tareqhaddad.com/2019/12/14/lies-newsweek-and-control-of-the-media-narrative-first-hand-account/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR2uMbeCPgmuMa-IRkO1UweJF5VXEP8ovBA-8OFfXuBlvks7aEuQHspS2CY
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The Most
Unpopular Government in UK Political History
The
disillusionment will be on the same scale as Boris Johnson’s bombastic
promises, writes Craig Murray. I have no doubt that the Johnson government will very
quickly become the most unpopular in U.K. political history. The ultra-hard
Brexit he is pushing will not be the panacea which the deluded anticipate. It
will have a negative economic impact felt most keenly in the remaining industry
of the Midlands and North East of England. Deregulation will worsen conditions
for those fortunate enough to have employment, as will further benefits
squeezes. Immigration will not in practice reduce; what will reduce are the
rights and conditions for the immigrants.
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speaks with Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli spy who worked closely with
Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, as part of their work with Israeli
military intelligence and had frequent encounters with Jeffre Whitney Webb MONTREAL
— In recent weeks, renewed attention has
been brought to the allegations that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking and sexual blackmail operation was run on
behalf of Israeli military intelligence. Those claims revolve around statements
made by a former Israeli military intelligence official turned public relations
consultant Ari Ben-Menashe, whose allegations regarding the Epstein scandal
were reported by MintPress this past October. https://www.mintpressnews.com/ari-ben-menashe-israel-relationship-jeffrey-epstein/263465/
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Why the Media Is Ignoring the
Afghanistan Papers
The documents are a bombshell. So why
do so few news outlets care?
This week, The Washington Post published the Afghanistan Papers, an extensive
review of thousands of pages of internal government documents relating to the
war in Afghanistan. Like the Pentagon Papers, which showcased the lies underpinning the
Vietnam War, the Post’s investigation shows that U.S. officials,
across three presidential administrations, intentionally and systematically misled the American public for 18 years and
counting. As Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1974, told CNN earlier this week, the Pentagon and
Afghanistan Papers revealed the same dynamic: “The presidents and the generals
had a pretty realistic view of what they were up against, which they did not
want to admit to the American people.” ‘George W. Bush started the Afghanistan War
and botched it in plenty of ways, not least by starting another war in Iraq.
But Barack Obama, despite his obvious skepticism of
the war effort, exacerbated Bush’s mistakes by bowing to the Washington foreign
policy blob and authorizing a pointless troop surge. Now, although both
Democrats and Donald Trump seem to be on the same page about getting the U.S.
out of Afghanistan, there has been little progress with peace talk’ https://portside.org/2019-12-13/why-media-ignoring-afghanistan-papers?fbclid=IwAR2HdBaQ3ghsjDuaZETZ8TCLGR0iiD-YGzQx3Vf6-evQYWt_wZY7X8OMI1w
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Trump to
sign executive order defining Judaism as a nationality Donald
Trump will sign an executive
order effectively defining Judaism as
a nationality, not just a religion, in what the White House has described as an
order to combat antisemitism on
US college campuses.
The move has already been criticised by free speech advocates, who were
concerned a broader definition of antisemitism could be used to limit criticism
of Israel’s government. https://news.yahoo.com/trump-sign-executive-order-defining-092147899.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJtsyFxoKfUcJXf7MQdd-3bcj1q0nbMl2QkiUDBvRwQJdYawSeIOyXbFxSSuLDBh13-Iz6oynOiVWXuQWBiFn9spjtDnGPGlHwhQ3adsyLdhaFxkdDVOkL94OAJ6MPggsG76mRMzOvqNyRpA603zJrIWaKTHPwE8BHrAEBXuONAC
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New WikiLeaks Bombshell: 20 Inspectors Dissent From
Syria Chemical Attack Narrative
Late
Saturday WikiLeaks released more documents which contradict the US narrative on Assad's use of chemical
weapons, specifically related to the April 7, 2018 Douma incident,
which resulted in a major US and allied tomahawk missile and air
strike campaign on dozens of targets in Damascus.
The leaked
documents, including internal emails of the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) — which investigated the Douma site — reveal mass dissent within
the UN-authorized chemical weapons watchdog organization's ranks over
conclusions previously reached by the international body which pointed to
Syrian government culpability. It's part of a growing avalanche of dissent
memos and documents casting the West's push for war in Syria in doubt (which
had resulted in two major US and allied attacks on Syria).
This
newly released batch, WikiLeaks reports, includes a memo stating 20
inspectors feel that the officially released version of the OPCW's report on
Douma “did not reflect the views of the team members that deployed to
[Syria]”. This comes amid widespread allegations US officials
brought immense pressure to bear on the organization. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-wikileaks-bombshell-20-inspectors-dissent-syria-chemical-attack-narrative?fbclid=IwAR0XlcvsmW7XJJX0KUwPFQcUs-XDs9wripoJOZo-9YUftbIgsucMISXklDs
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Obama Busy
Bee Idea or someone else?
The
Atlantic’s analysis- US is using Social Media for regime change. Zunzuneo
didn’t work out well, however it was a good
a learning experience for them.
Go back to 2014 TECHNOLOGY
The Fall of
Internet Freedom: Meet the Company That Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter'
This
is what Internet diplomacy looks like. he United States discreetly supported the creation of a website
and SMS service that was, basically, a Cuban version of Twitter, the Associated Press reported Thursday. ZunZuneo, as it was called, permitted Cubans to broadcast short
text messages to each other. At its peak, ZunZuneo had 40,000 users. And what
government agency made ZunZuneo? It wasn’t the CIA. No, it was the U.S. Agency
for International Development, USAID, working with various private companies,
including the D.C. for-profit contractor Creative
Associates and a small,
Denver-based startup, Mobile Accord. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/the-fall-of-internet-freedom-meet-the-company-that-secretly-built-cuban-twitter/360168/?fbclid=IwAR3n61ORDNStslfxWVJzQXQgDKNdBtt15mKTh3v6tHSonOMnL57hYyTw9sg
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'America's Dr. Mengele': The Jewish Biochemist
Backed by the CIA Who Experimented on Thousands
Sidney Gottlieb conducted tests on
refugees and prisoners that were as brutal as those carried out by the Nazi
doctor. 'He is undoubtedly the closest thing to Mengele in the history of the
U.S.,' says author of his biography https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-america-s-dr-mengele-the-jewish-biochemist-who-experimented-on-thousands-1.8260541?fbclid=IwAR3hPcO_KYkaUUQXBghqHZ_oVHBfbYnLpk3GCv_ATrynX90gc_jOiMxqa94
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this how neoliberal capitalism works in Civilised Society?
HOW THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY IS ATTEMPTING TO BUY THE GLOBAL YOUTH CLIMATE
MOVEMENT
THE SAME DAY that 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg gave a stirring
speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September, in which she
criticized delegates for “stealing my dreams and my childhood with your empty
words,” the architects of the climate crisis welcomed select youth participants
from the summit to dine. https://theintercept.com/2019/12/13/youth-climate-movement-fossil-fuel-industry/?fbclid=IwAR0MTRpFaz1IzevZMRQdwAclLEBdSpLLcl_zzDnCRAIDBi219fNuUnORbmA
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U.S. LOBBYISTS PREPARE TO SEIZE “HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY” IN TORY-LED
BREXIT TO SHRED CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, RAISE DRUG PRICES
BORIS JOHNSON’S election on December 12 hinges on the British prime
minister’s promise to leave the European Union. Johnson has remade the
Conservative Party, pushing out longtime party members wary of a firm break
from the EU, to cast the election as a chance to build a parliamentary majority
focused on finalizing Brexit. https://theintercept.com/2019/12/09/brexit-american-trade-deal-boris-johnson/?fbclid=IwAR1ACII8yTfkFy3Z3a7JRJoWSMDbo42mCEcbfXjk03fKIFjPYMcxRPInDg8
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Why
Did a Saudi Pilot Kill U.S. Sailors While Three Others Filmed It?
By Doug Bandow December 13, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" - The U.S.
military is training Saudi Arabian pilots here in States, who later leave to
slaughter Yemeni civilians thousands of miles away. Unfortunately, some of that
violence was turned against us, when a Saudi trainee killed three American
sailors at Pensacola Air Station on December 6.
In fact, a half dozen Saudis were arrested
in the incident. Three of them apparently filmed the murders, presumably
to post online. Yet afterward President Donald Trump spent more time justifying
the Saudi royals than supporting the victims’ families.
Every time a terrorist commits murder
and mayhem, Americans ask why? U.S. officials usually insist that it is because
we are so “good.” If only. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52702.htm?fbclid=IwAR25j62r-L0g7IyveXpCAvE7xRIFVsUg-oMt817CrSCmGQ4okh_Xr_mAkyM
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WATCH Trump Touts Same Story About Israel Four Times, Each Time Mentioning a
Different Jewish Friend
“U.S.
President Donald Trump has told the same story about his policies toward Israel
on at least four occasions, each time citing a different Jewish friend. A
complication of videos over the past few months collected by the Washington
Post shows Trump touting the 2016 U.S. pull-out of the Iran nuclear deal as the
"biggest thing" for Jews.
In nearly
identical stories, even telling the same anecdote twice in one day, Trump
refers to different Jewish friends. The first time Trump told the story was in
September, he said the conversation occurred with "people." “I said
to people, what is more important, the Golan Heights or the capital of
Jerusalem by moving our embassy there… https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/trump-touts-same-story-four-times-each-time-mentioning-a-different-jewish-friend-1.8267906?fbclid=IwAR1UH4XX5qtbyYdSvlc_DBjroO9Iy7lnNIKxEpeM4nWl5IMcSrsDn4jhF5k
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OPCW: New findings from Wikileaks and Peter Hitchens at Mail on Sunday
expose the bullying and suppression and doctoring of reports with regard to
the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in 2018.
The OPCW's standing is now hugely compromised, it has been proven to
have been open to international pressure to manipulate report findings in order
to place blame on the Syrian government.
We now have to ask whether other investigations carried out by the OPCW,
including that undertaken remotely following the Khan Sheikhoun incident in
Syria was not also compromised.
Please read Peter Hitchens article here:
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Seamus Padraig
December 15, 2019 at 13:15
The most important immediate fight
for radicals in England is to maintain Labour as a mainstream European social
democratic party and resist its reversion to a Clinton-style right-wing
ultra-capitalist party.
Labour hasn’t been a “mainstream
European social democratic party” since the 1980s, and the Blairites are now so
entrenched that not even Jeremy Corbyn could get rid of them. And didn’t you
notice that the Blairites were the absolute most pro-Remain group
in Labour? Why is that, Craig? Could it perhaps be the case that the EU not
quite the bastion of social democracy you seem to think it is? Have you noticed
that what happened to Labour has also happened to the SPD in Germany and the
Parti Socialiste in France? And let’s not even talk about Greece, Spain or
Ireland!
I happen to like and respect Craig
Murray a great deal–he’s been top-notch when defending Julian Assange, for
example. But on the EU, I’m afraid, he’s just missed the boat completely. If
anyone here wants to know what really happened to Labour on
Thursday, try this: www(dot)thefullbrexit.com/why-labour-lost
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Maricata
December 15, 2019 at 12:59
“The most important immediate fight
for radicals in England is to maintain Labour as a mainstream European social
democratic party and resist its reversion to a Clinton-style right-wing
ultra-capitalist party. Whether that is possible depends how many of the
Momentum generation lose heart and quit.”
No, it one doesn’t get to quit being
a victim of capitalism. They either realize their own oppression and those of
others and organize to fight it, or perish under it.
As to maintaining Labor as a social
democratic party?
Social democracy is dead, FDR is far
in the past and the ruthless economics of capitalism are clearly at play.
Britain doesn’t have much more to
privatize, other than NHS, does it?
Keep in mind that those over fifty
voted unanimously for the Tories. However those under 50 voted overwhelmingly
for the manifesto labour put forth.
So, the old actually went and voted
for their own self demise, as NHS is privatized, while the young will soon feel
the increased pressure of precarious work, debt and nowheresville.
and they will organize and they will
rebel. The future by demographics puts the labor manifesto front and center in
the future.
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Richard Morgan
December 15, 2019 at 12:27
McConnell has just committed treason
while laughing all the way as he described his criminal acts against the nation
on Fox News. He and all Republicans refusing to do their sworn duty need to be
arrested and prosecuted. Which citizen will make a citizen’s arrest of any and
all of them off the streets of D.C.?
December 15, 2019 at 09:54
Hmmm, funny how we had Reagan and
Thatcher in the 80’s – Together, Baroness Thatcher and Ronald Reagan championed
fewer government entitlements, less regulation, a more robust free market
economy, British and American exceptionalism, and a foreign policy that had, as
its unofficial motto, “might is right”.
Today we have Trump and Johnson –
This pair have been largely responsible for re-normalizing divisive and
hate-filled rhetoric in their respective countries, stoking fear and prejudice
against the ‘other’ to appeal to frustrated voters looking for someone to blame
for their discontent. Not to mention their rejection of fact-based, scientific
research in favor of conspiracy and outright lies.
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December 15, 2019 at 09:16
This is a good summary of forces set
in motion by Britain’s election of Boris Johnson, a summary coming from Craig
Murray, a writer worth reading.
It seems almost beyond understanding
that a man like Boris Johnson, caught various times recently lying and
misrepresenting things – a man even with an instance of a police call
concerning domestic violence at his girlfriend’s flat not long before the election
– and a man with a long record of schoolboy crassness and name-calling, should
be given a mandate.
But you have only to look at the
United States to see a comparable example in Donald Trump, a man who should
actually embarrass America with his bellowing crassness.
Our Western “democracies” are so
feeble.
With 43.6 % of the people’s votes,
Johnson is aid to have a” landslide” victory. Donald Trump actually received a
minority of 46.4 % of the people’s votes.
Such are the outcomes of our
custom-tailored democratic institutions.
In Johnson’s case, I believe two
major circumstances worked for his “landslide.”
First, Britain was bone-achingly
tired of more than three years of previous government leaders’ words and
schemes over BREXIT. For all that time, you could not look at a newspaper
without seeing articles and reports on the subject.
It was an extremely complex,
technical subject demanding more time and effort to grasp than most people
could possibly give, the very reason the earlier Conservative leader, David
Cameron, should never have held such a referendum.
Tiresome to say the least. Johnson
simply threatened to be done with it all, one way or another.
Second, over much the same period –
although four years instead of three – Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour
Party has been under almost constant assault by special interests.
Also a very long, wearying effort.
Corbyn, essentially a decent man of traditional liberal and progressive values,
was called names and challenged regularly by outlandish accusations. We saw
even the direct interference in British politics of several political leaders
from another state, Israel.
Corbyn’s sense fairness and balance
were not wanted in that part of the world. Intensely so.
He survived the assault but was
weakened, and many would say he failed to stand up to accusers as forcefully as
he should have. Even supporters do tire of that kind of response.
Both men have set their efforts for
major, society-changing efforts, destructive efforts in the view of many
observers, yet they do so without even that fundamental democratic concept of
clean and fair support from a majority.
Donald Trump literally threatens the
stability of the much of the world’s trade and economy with tariffs and a
massive sanction regime and telling both friend and opponents how they should
be conducting their affairs. And that is all apart from his many military
threats and open support for coups and the theft of other countries’ resources.
Boris Johnson displays many similar
views and attitudes. He is Donald Trump with an Eton accent and a boyish smile
instead of a grimly-set jaw. The traditional “special relationship” between
Britain and the United States is about to be given a whole new meaning.
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December 15, 2019 at 07:54
Whenever I read Craig Murray these
days I quickly remind myself that probably his sole agenda is the foundation of
a Scottish republic and most all of his energies are directed towards that aim.
And that’s fine. Like Murray I was
born in England and have one Scottish parent and one English parent. If I now
lived in Scotland as Murray does I might well too vote for independence (though
not necessarily for a Scottish republic). But I cannot help now but view his
writing as slanted to reflect his political ambition.
The writing on his blog is often
peppered with a visceral hatred of the United Kingdom and the monarchy.
Murray’s open contempt for the United Kingdom has in fact reduced my enthusiasm
for Scottish independence, but not removed it altogether.
I spoke to my (Scottish) mother on
Thursday. I don’t know her personal views on independence for Scotland, but she
reminded me that support for independence has generally stood at only around
45% (I think Murray would dispute this figure, but it cannot be too far wide of
the mark in my opinion) and that the Scottish people benefit from free higher
education and provision of healthcare for the elderly. Privileges that the
average Englishman can only dream of. In speaking to relatives in Scotland I
find mixed views on the issue. Some are for independence and some against. It’s
not as cut and dried as Murray would like it to be.
I don’t care for Johnson and I voted
remain. However, in taking part in the vote I now believe that I legitimised
the result. And those wishing to leave the European Union won the vote. As
George Galloway – correctly in my view – pointed out some time ago, Corbyn made
a fatal error for Labour in failing to guarantee Brexit.
And as Scotland is (whether Murray
likes it or not) still currently a part of the United Kingdom it will have to
leave along with the rest of the country when the time comes. Despite voting to
remain I do not share the fatalism of many remain voters. There is much wrong
with the European Union. A friend who works as a translator in the European
Parliament has confirmed this view.
I don’t care for Johnson, and I would
not vote Conservative, but I think it is far too early to say whether or not
his administration will prove a successful one in the eyes of the electorate.
Sadly, this Conservative victory is
not good news for Julian Assange who may have fared better with Corbyn as PM.
Corbyn had expressed some support for Assange and may have freed him. It is the
Conservative British government that is holding Julian on behalf of the
Americans and not the state and in my opinion it is to them that supporters of
Julian must direct their energies.
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December 15, 2019 at 05:10
Why do I get the impression that this
article is more of an emotional rant predicting gloom and doom than a well formulated
argumentation about why the promises made cannot be fulfilled ?
For example I am not at all convinced Scotland will automatically be accepted as a new EU member state … It doesn’t fulfill the financial criteria and has only its fishing waters to offer. The UK as the second largest net contributor to EU budget ( 10 Bln € ) is leaving and will be replaced by a new net receiving member. No way …
Another referendum in Scotland will bring only divisiveness and uncertainty, just like the Brexit referendum has done.
For example I am not at all convinced Scotland will automatically be accepted as a new EU member state … It doesn’t fulfill the financial criteria and has only its fishing waters to offer. The UK as the second largest net contributor to EU budget ( 10 Bln € ) is leaving and will be replaced by a new net receiving member. No way …
Another referendum in Scotland will bring only divisiveness and uncertainty, just like the Brexit referendum has done.
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December 15, 2019 at 04:04
Yeah, like the EU is some sort of
social-democratic paradise. Tell that to the Greeks, the Irish, the Latvians,
the Poles the Hungarians, the Italians. The EU is a neo-liberal juggernaut run
by non-elected cliques who were never voted into power. The EU is also the
civilian wing of NATO. Countries like Switzerland and Iceland had the good
sense to stay clear of the EU’s suffocating embrace. That is why Labour lost.
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December 14, 2019 at 18:42
Congrats Brexiteers!! You seemingly
swallowed a known buffoon liar’s *single election promise*.
In return you traded away your NHS, social security (or what is left of both) public infrastructure, embraced more austerity, authoritarianism via the police surveillance state, cheered for more tax cuts for the uber rich, support the ongoing genocide in yemen and palestine and leave an innocent journalist rotting away in solitary confinement at belmarsh prison. That is only for a start.
I will laugh so much if you’ve been duped, and are still waiting for your soft or hard brexit in 4 years time given how ‘election promises go’ because that is what you deserve.
That said, Corbyn was never going to be allowed to be a PM by your *ruling owners* anyhow, so blaming just the voters alone would be seriously unjust.
In return you traded away your NHS, social security (or what is left of both) public infrastructure, embraced more austerity, authoritarianism via the police surveillance state, cheered for more tax cuts for the uber rich, support the ongoing genocide in yemen and palestine and leave an innocent journalist rotting away in solitary confinement at belmarsh prison. That is only for a start.
I will laugh so much if you’ve been duped, and are still waiting for your soft or hard brexit in 4 years time given how ‘election promises go’ because that is what you deserve.
That said, Corbyn was never going to be allowed to be a PM by your *ruling owners* anyhow, so blaming just the voters alone would be seriously unjust.
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THE REPORT’S DANIEL JONES ON THE ONGOING FIGHT TO HOLD THE CIA ACCOUNTABLE
“The CIA has
always been an instrument of business, not the people. They do whatever they
want. Looking at foreign policy since the inception of the CIA, it could be
argued they actually RULE America on behalf of the fat cats with no real regard
for American interests or security.” https://theintercept.com/2019/12/11/we-tortured-some-folks-the-reports-daniel-jones-on-the-ongoing-fight-to-hold-the-cia-accountable/?fbclid=IwAR1tgB-i7w1pWiz0E9zfyjQ_kCwoba_BhH2UR30HANdZVIqqE5brgcUvEBI
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Q-Do you agree
that Free speech in Social Media is being slowly but surely phased out?
SAD calling corrupt, billionaire-owned propaganda outlets
"authoritative."
YouTube ADMITS To Suppressing Independent News, Pushing CNN & Fox
News
“Authoritative
news” actually just means “corporate news”. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that
Google, a massive corporation, is serving corporate interests and actively
propagating corporate propaganda.
We've let
the tech companies gain too much control and it's difficult to see how to get
it back.
This clip
was interrupted with an ad. So YouTube is profiting off of a show that they're
cracking down on.
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL LET US GO BACK TO JUNE 2019 Global Internet Censorship Lockdown Begins In
Canada On May 15th, 2019, leaders from around the world
met in Paris, France, to discuss how they planned to collaborate with tech
giants such as Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook to ruthlessly censor
the Internet. Many world leaders, including Justin Trudeau, signed something called the 'Christchurch Call to
Action', pledging to
"eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online". By using
a very liberal interpretation of "terrorist and violent extremist
content", they intend to crush all online content that contradicts their
agenda. https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2019/06/global-internet-censorship-lockdown-begins-canada.html?fbclid=IwAR2A7BW-MS3zWPPFZ2PwOBrAfRH8OYlJPVyVn_6nhwnVG3JrrqBaVsRLCYs
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL Q-How many Muslims has the US/Neocon &
its allies interventionist regime change wars uprooted, tortured, maimed and
killed ?
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL I respect Adam green. He’s a man with high
moral compass. His videos are really on point but I want your view on that too.
Please watch the video first and comment on the content of the…. Blackstone
Intelligence Network
Why are
thousands and thousands of Jews standing up in strong opposition to President
Trump's new executive order that defines criticism of Israel with
"antisemitism"? Watch this video to find out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7djsxWO7is&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2N78fYjsLAcGg9hZcgKvUa9o2RWb-TeTv-71dUaUGuIK2z4UWUiFMpxHE&app=desktop
The pot calling the kettle black ..
I am waiting for Iranian papers to publish leaked Iraqi government
documents on how the US government and military have influenced Iraqi officials
and helped to create corruption through the billions of dollars the Pentagon
took to Iraq that has been unaccounted for ..
Zubeidi's
media office told Al-Monitor, “The documents that the American newspaper
published are not official. They are mere words that are not based on facts.
They are just leaks from anonymous sources that might be targeting Zubeidi
personally to bring him down politically."
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/12/iraq-corruption-scandals-new-york-times.html#ixzz68G67opDx
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/12/iraq-corruption-scandals-new-york-times.html#ixzz68G67opDx
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➽➜Q⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL Q-Why Trump wants to send US troops to Mexico is it to fight drug cartels?
ALL SIGHTS ON MEXICO AS IT DISCOVERS WORLD’S LARGEST
LITHIUM DEPOSIT The
largest lithium deposits in the world were discovered in Mexico, as
listed by Mining Technology.
The report indicates that the lithium mine located in Sonora is the
largest deposit with proven and probable reserves of 243.8 million tons,
containing 4.5 million tonnes of lithium-carbonate equivalent.
Construction of the mine was first announced by Sonora Governor Claudia
Pavlovich in May 2018 and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of
2020.
Production capacity in its first stage of operations is expected to be
15,500 tonnes per year of lithium carbonate, Mining Technology said, while
capacity will double to 35,000 tonnes per year in a second stage. The mine is
being developed by Canada’s Bacanora Minerals and China’s Ganfeng Lithium.
Mexican Environment Secretary Víctor Manuel Toledo said that this would be
Mexico’s “new oil.” Potential lithium reserves have also been identified in
Baja California, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas.
https://southfront.org/all-sights-on-mexico-as-it-discovers-worlds-largest-lithium-deposit/?fbclid=IwAR0dtPoWHkIjNeRTYpG0_mYC-JsPjMHOuSHbFuw_GR6CaTrRptzkuVMezQw
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL Australian commando Kevin Frost, who raised
Afghanistan war crime allegations, found dead A "fearless" Australian commando who went public
three years ago about his involvement in an alleged war crime in Afghanistan
has died. Sergeant
Kevin Frost is among hundreds of former and serving Defence Force personnel who
have taken their own lives in the past two decades.
Last week the 45-year-old went missing near his
Busselton home, and over the weekend his family confirmed he had been found but
had "tragically passed away".
Friends have paid tribute online to their mate
"Frosty", who they say was a "fearless", "proud"
and "witty" man.
His death comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison
says his Government will consider calling a royal commission next year into
veterans' suicides.
In 2016 Sergeant Frost told the ABC he had helped to cover up the alleged
murder of an Afghan prisoner. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-16/australian-kevin-frost-who-raised-afghanistan-war-crimes-dead/11802068?fbclid=IwAR0yiHeMCxHYfK4fNzBHT1Bvi_IW8WQ1f_7YRpYsJwBI5KcwYURJZiq2Hd8
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL Priti Patel a Dangerous idiot or cloned MP?
A second generation, Indian immigrant and
Zionist stooge, floating the idea of starving the Irish people. Sounds about
right as far as Tory ethics go. Outrage after British MP
suggests Irish food shortages could be used to force EU to drop Brexit backstop
Sinn Fein described the comments
as 'despicable' A
Tory MP’s claim that fears of food shortages here after Brexit should have been
used to force the Ireland to drop its border backstop have been described as
“despicable”.
It has emerged that former
Conservative Party minister Priti Patel suggested that the UK should use the
threat of food shortages in Ireland to persuade the EU to drop the backstop
demand.
The claims are described as
outrageous in light of the suffering endured during the Great Famine -
exacerbated by British trade policy - when up to a million people died.
Ms Patel comments are linked to
a leaked report yesterday which said that there was the possibility that food
exports to Ireland could be disrupted in the event of a hard Brexit.
Priti Patel told The Times that
the British government should use the potentially disastrous economic
predictions as leverage against the EU. https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/outrage-after-british-mp-suggests-13700520?fbclid=IwAR0MtpC3quN03uzB5G45Oo6DwgtzMdagpQk2igyUzqOtNNl1weTYR-VcpM8
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Perhaps some miserable crime family twit has decided that if they can
buy up or infiltrate the press, and bully all decent journalists out, they can
control what we think. Perhaps it's that simple? Wiesenthal Center names UK’s Corbyn top anti-Semite
of 2019
Ahead of
Thursday’s British elections, Labour chief placed above US synagogue killer on
group’s annual list; rabbi warns electing him would make UK a ‘pariah’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-group-names-uks-corbyn-top-anti-semite-of-2019/?fbclid=IwAR0pIuJ8tNZUgriHWL2sDHyPxIWYMJO5TnWNztwtTP--Cjx6VGZHVufmZ-I
Q-Why MR CORBYN lost the election?
➽➜W⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL Other views: Batool D from UK
Honourable Mr Corbyn lost because the West/
Warmongers/ War machine... went and bombed, destroyed, killed millions in many
countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen,…. and for that reason ISIS was created
by Wahabi Terrorist with the help of…/........people of those countries running
from war, ISIS and 100 more terrorist groups from suicide bombs, hunger, cancer,
pain.....rape......UK/EU/.. Governments and some good people let refuges in in to UK EU..so the Far Right uses the refugee card and that is 100% winning
card...HOW DO WE KNOW? We asked more than few White English men/women over 67... why do you
so strongly support conservative when you are not even rich ..they all replied .because labour will let
all refugees if. And another 10 replies-like-they take our jobs (like if they
would go and wipe floors clean WC at night and...people are being bombarded by
brain washing machines BBC,... mail newspaper ..other Channels.
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL Terrorist Plot Uncovered: Popular Will Planned to
Storm Military Units on December 15
December 14, 2019 orinocotribune
coup
d’etat, Fernando
Orozco, Guaido, Josnar
Baduel, Leopoldo
Lopez, Lester
Toledo, terrorism, Voluntad
Popular, Yanet
Fermin
On December 15, the Voluntad Popular terrorist
group, headed by Leopoldo López and Juan Guaidó, planned to carry out
destabilizing actions in the country, a plan that attempted to assault two
military units: the Mariscal Sucre Military Base and National Guard Command
#53, located in Sucre state. This was denounced by the vice president of communication,
culture and tourism, Jorge Rodríguez. https://orinocotribune.com/terrorist-plot-uncovered-popular-will-planned-to-storm-military-units-for-december-15/
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Q-Did the British people get the
government they deserve?
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL Hundreds of Billions in Gold and Cash Are Quietly
Disappearing
"We can’t fully explain why holdings of cash are rising and where
they are going." (ZH
Op-Ed) —
Something strange is going on: at the same time that central banks are injecting $100 billion each month in electronic money to crush volatility
and ramp markets, a similar amount in hard physical currency and precious
metals is literally disappearing.
Take gold: as we reported last week, it was none other than Goldman Sachs which recently laid
out the case for gold, saying “gold’s strategic case still strong.” One reason
for this is that the same central banks that are “full tilt” printing cash, they
have also been splurging on gold, and as a result of “geopolitical uncertainty”
there has been a record surge in gold demand by central banks themselves. As
Goldman notes, “CBs globally have been buying gold at a very strong pace” and
“2019 looks to be a record year for CB gold purchases with our target of 750
tonnes combined purchases likely to be met.”
➽➜Q⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL Q-Is NATO “Brain Dead”?
NATO Is “Brain Dead”.
Institutionalized Killing as the “New Normal”
NATO’s
70th Birthday Party, in London – the Birthday of a brain-dead child! What a
feat! he two-day London NATO conference just ended – and calling it a
NATO “crisis” is an understatement. The crisis is such that President Trump
canceled the Press Conference at the end of the summit, officially saying that
there was enough press briefing during the conference, but rather more honestly
hinting at the all-pervading conflict-loaded ambiance between and among the
NATO partners, that their disagreements should not be further exposed through a
media event.
To
start with, French President Emmanuel Macron
at the onset of the Conference declared NATO unequivocally as “brain dead”. For
once he is absolutely right. Trump chastised Macron as ‘unrespectful’. These
remarks were not only inappropriate but they were outright insolent, he said.
Trump was more critique at Macron and all those who expressed any kind of doubt
about NATOs justification for further existence. Trump left the summit before
the end. Some say that his early leaving had to do with ‘his’ audacious, agenda, to ask European NATO members to
increase their military budget to at least 2% of GDP – for which he didn’t get
much applause. It would be additional wasted defense money that most countries
could rather use for much needed social programs. https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-brain-dead-institutionalized-killing-new-normal/5696966
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➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL Fires Rage in Canada as
Professor Attacks the Myth of Holodomor University
of Alberta Assistant Professor Dougal MacDonald raised
hell on November 20 by writing in a
personal Facebook post that the 1932-33 genocide of Ukrainians referred to as
Holodomor never happened but was rather a “myth fabricated by Hitlerites”.
If such remarks were made in most nations today, it wouldn’t be such a
big deal (as only 16 nations have chosen to recognize this event as an act of
genocide rather than the tragic act of nature which MacDonald and countless eminent scholars maintain.)
Canada is not however “most nations”, but has rather had the misfortune
of hosting some of the most virulent groups of rabid ultra-right wing Ukrainian
fascists who were transplanted into the Prairies by Anglo-American intelligence
networks in the wake of WWII. Today, many of these 2nd and 3rd
generation Banderites control powerful institutions like the Ukrainian Congress
of Canada (UCC) and have bred such confused and dangerous fascists as Canada’s
own Deputy Prime Minister (and leading Rhodes Scholar) Chrystia Freeland. https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/12/15/fires-rage-in-canada-as-professor-attacks-the-myth-of-holodomor/
I'm Not Even Muslim But Am
At The Frontline": Jamia Student Breaks Down
Jamia Millia Islamia protests: Protests escalated
at Jamia when a march led to clashes between protesters and the police. The
police later entered the Jamia campus without permission and detained around
100 students, who were released around 3:30 am. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/delhi-jamia-millia-islamia-university-protests-jamia-student-on-night-of-violence-thought-university-2149409?fbclid=IwAR0UjOM-uV8FVOB0LdkF_B4odY_cIswKg6lgKgYZpzS9dYDX3VbVAotOkSI
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On Mars, Auroras Glow All Summer Long in UV
Light SAN
FRANCISCO — Auroras unfurling in Martian skies are stunning displays, and they
also offer important clues about how the Red Planet's water escapes into its
atmosphere, scientists reported on Dec. 12 here at the annual meeting of the
American Geophysical Union (AGU).
A type of aurora called a proton aurora was first
identified on Mars in 2016, using data from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile
Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft. This aurora, which occurs during daytime and
produces ultraviolet light,
is invisible to the naked eye, but was spotted by MAVEN's Imaging UltraViolet
Spectrograph (IUVS) instrument. https://www.livescience.com/martian-proton-auroras.html
Huge New Storm Creates Hexagon
at Jupiter's South Pole SAN FRANCISCO — NASA's Juno probe discovered a giant new storm swirling near Jupiter's south pole
last month, a few weeks after pulling off a dramatic death-dodging maneuver.
Juno spied the newfound maelstrom, which is about
as wide as Texas, on Nov. 3, during its most recent close flyby of Jupiter.
The storm joins a family of six other cyclones in Jupiter's south polar region,
which Juno had spotted on previous passes by the gas giant. (Those encounters
also revealed nine cyclones near Jupiter's north pole, by the way.) https://www.livescience.com/giant-storm-discovered-jupiter.html
➽=ALL This Brainless,
Single-Celled Blob Can Make Complex 'Decisions' Tiny, brainless blobs might be able to make decisions: A
single-celled organism can "change its mind" to avoid going near an
irritating substance, according to new findings.
Over
a century ago, American zoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings conducted an
experiment on a relatively large, trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism called Stentor roeselii.
When Jennings released an irritating carmine powder around the organisms, he
observed that they responded in a predictable pattern, he wrote in his
findings, which he published in a text called "Behavior of the Lower
Organisms" in 1906. https://www.livescience.com/single-celled-organisms-decisions.html
➽=ALL Warning: Potentially Toxic Chemicals in Nearly Half of
Household Dust Samples Tested
Chemicals
commonly used in smartphone, television, and computer displays were found to be
potentially toxic and present in nearly half of dozens of samples of household
dust collected by a team of toxicologists led by the University of Saskatchewan
(USask).
The
international research team, led by USask environmental toxicologist John
Giesy, is sounding the alarm about liquid crystal monomers–the chemical
building blocks of everything from flat screen TVs to solar panels–and the
potential threat they pose to humans and the environment. https://scitechdaily.com/warning-potentially-toxic-chemicals-in-nearly-half-of-household-dust-samples-tested/
Global Mercury Contamination and Warming When
Dinosaurs Perished The impact of
an asteroid or comet is acknowledged as the principal cause of the mass
extinction that killed off most dinosaurs and about three-quarters of the
planet’s plant and animal species 66 million years ago. But massive volcanic eruptions in India may
also have contributed to the extinctions. Scientists have long debated the
significance of the Deccan Traps eruptions, which began before the impact and
lasted, on and off, for nearly a million years, punctuated by the impact
event.
https://scitechdaily.com/global-mercury-contamination-and-warming-when-dinosaurs-perished/
➽=ALL DNA recovered from Arctic lakes holds clues for our future world
By Paul VoosenDec. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—High in the Canadian
Arctic on Baffin Island, beneath 10 meters of water and many more of mud, sits
a refrigerated archive of Earth’s past life. The deep sediments in a small lake
called CF8 hold ancient pollen and plant fossils. But it now appears that the
mud harbors something else: ancient DNA from as far back the Eemian, a period
125,000 years ago when the Arctic was warmer than today, left by vegetation
that otherwise would have vanished without a trace.
➽=ALL How brightly the moon glows is a mystery, but maybe
not for long
A
telescope soaring on an airplane above the clouds has begun measuring
moonlight The lunar dark side may be the
moon’s more mysterious face, but there’s something pretty basic scientists
still don’t know about the bright side — namely, just how bright it is.
Current
estimates of the moon’s brightness at any given time and vantage point are
saddled with at least 5 percent uncertainty. That’s because those estimates are
based on measurements from ground-based telescopes that gaze at the moon
through the haze of Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA’s Parker
probe reveals the sun’s rogue plasma waves and magnetic islands
Launched
in 2018, the spacecraft has flown closer to our star than any other
mission https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-parker-solar-probe-reveals-sun-plasma-waves-magnetic-islands
➽=ALL Is Norton
Antivirus Slowing Down Your PC
This article discusses common issues such as
viruses and malwares. Slow downs may also occur due to fragmented disks, memory
limitations, background programs or even viruses. https://www.africanexponent.com/bpost/4679-is-norton-antivirus-slowing-down-your-pc
Many human grandmothers love to spoil
their grandchildren with attention and treats, and for good reason: Studies
have shown that having a living grandmother increases a child’s chance of
survival. Now, new research shows the same may be true for killer whales. By
providing young animals with some freshly caught salmon now and then—or perhaps
with knowledge on where to find it—grannies increase their grand-offspring’s chance
of survival. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/granny-killer-whales-pass-along-wisdom-and-extra-fish-their-grandchildren
➽=ALL Should aging lab monkeys be retired to sanctuaries?
By David GrimmDec. 5, 2019 , 9:00 AM WINAMAC, INDIANA—It’s been a long
road to retirement for Bush the monkey—and not just because he’s spent the past
15 hours in the back of a van motoring red-eye from New Jersey to Indiana.
For nearly his entire life, the 23-year-old macaque
lived in a lab at Princeton University. There, researchers conducted MRI scans
on him to understand which parts of the brain perceive faces, and he spent much
of his time in an indoor cage. In 2017, with Bush suffering from arthritis and
nearing the end of his life span, the lab decided to send him to a
sanctuary. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/should-aging-lab-monkeys-be-retired-sanctuaries
➽=ALL Secret video shot inside German testing lab shows monkeys
screaming out in pain.... WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE - The upsetting footage,
taken at a lab in Hamburg, also shows cats and dogs that appear to be bleeding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7mztkGleSM
➽=ALL Horrifying footage showing
monkeys screaming in pain inside a German laboratory has prompted calls for a
change to EU laws.The distressing video, released by animal rights activists, also
shows cats and dogs that appear to be bleeding and even dying after undergoing
cruel tests. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/secret-video-shot-inside-german-20584332
➽=ALL The future that graphene built Move over, flat carbon. Meet borophene, phosphorene
and the rest of the next generation of “atomically thin” super-materials.
The wonder material graphene — an array
of interlinked carbon atoms arranged in a sheet just one atom thick — promised
a world of applications, including super-fast electronics, ultra-sensitive
sensors and incredibly durable materials. After a few false starts, that
promise is close to realization. And a suite of other extremely thin substances
is following in its wake.
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