Source – firstlook.org – One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents. Over the…
Source – .washingtonsblog.com – It has long been known by interrogation experts that torture creates false confessions. For example: The C.I.A.’s 1963 interrogation manual stated: Intense pain is quite likely to produce false confessions, concocted as a means of escaping from distress. A time-consuming delay results, while investigation is conducted and the admissions are proven…
Source – journal-neo.org – After weeks of protests and growing suspicion, Dutch authorities overseeing the investigation of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have finally included Malaysia as a member of its Joint Investigation Team (JIT). Malaysia had made it clear it was immensely displeased with its inexplicable exclusion from JIT formed after the downing of MH17 over eastern Ukraine. Including…
Source – trueactivist.com – Nick Hanauer is a Seattle venture capitalist worth $1bn, and he’s been pissing off other one per-centers for some time, even writing articles like this one to warn his “fellow plutocrats” that if the minimum wage doesn’t rise to $15 soon, there will be a revolution in the States. The super-rich…
Source – naturalnews.com – The White House has officially admitted that fake vaccination programs have been used by the United States as a cover for covertly stealing DNA samples from the public as part of the so-called “war on terror.” The aim of the scheme, carried out in the Middle East, was to use DNA…
Source – mysteriousuniverse.org – Following the Vietnam War, the issue of whether American servicemen had been left behind in prison camps was an often raised–and hotly debated–subject in political circles. Inspiring everything from popular action films, to books suggesting conspiracy theories and coverups, the issue came to a head in the 1990s with the formation of…
Source – fellowshipoftheminds.com – On the night of November 24, 2014, St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch’s announcement of the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of black teen Michael Brown, was followed — predictably — by rioting, looting, and burning in Ferguson and environs. Note:…
Source – newdawnmagazine.com, by Sevak Gulbekian – In his book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace Gore Vidal suggests that the American public has been conditioned to respond to the word ‘conspiracy’ with a smirk and a chuckle. Conspiracy, in other words, is for the nuts and the loners, and is not to be taken seriously. In this…
Source – theguardian.com – When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn’t the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith reveal how Churchill’s shameful decision to turn on the partisans who had fought on our side in the war sowed the seeds for the rise of the…
Source – dollarvigilante.com – [The following post is by TDV Editor, Jeff Berwick] I grew up behind the iron curtain in the 1970s in communist northern Canada with a black and white TV that you actually had to get up to change the channel on the knob. The knob had theoretically 13 channels but only…
Source – dailymail.co.uk – With billions of users around the world – not to mention billions of dollars’ worth of business reliant on its very existence on a daily basis – our dependence on the internet is obvious. Families have anti-virus software on their home computers to guard against hackers, while businesses and public bodies…
Source – mintpressnews.com – Global investments in the manufacture of cluster bombs and related munitions rose over the past year, despite the existence of an international convention against the use or production of these weapons. More than half of the institutions involved in those investments are based in the United States. From 2011 to 2014,…
Source – nacla.org – Evidence of this emerged in July when a Congressional hearing featured a discussion on, as Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) put it, “what Mexico is actually doing to help us” regarding the unauthorized movement of Central American children. Some lawmakers and officials hinted that insufficient efforts by Mexican authorities made possible the…
Source – theeconomiccollapseblog.com – Was it a conspiracy or was it incompetence? Those appear to be the only two alternatives that we are left with after the horrific violence that we witnessed in Ferguson on Monday night. The first round of Ferguson rioting back in August took everyone by surprise, but this time authorities had…
Source – – The current establishment has plenty to gain by keeping the people of this planet in the dark about ideas that can lead to a revolution in human consciousness. It’s time to change that. 1. Graham Hancock – The War on Consciousness Hancock’s TED Talk, “The War on Consciousness”, was deliberately removed from…
Source – heyjackass.com – November to Date Shot & Killed: 29 Shot & Wounded: 99 Total Shot: 128 Total Homicides: 32 2014 Chicago Crime & Murder Stats Shortlink Totals Since Ferguson (Aug 9 – Nov 24) Shot & Killed: 130 Shot & Wounded: 725 Total Shot: 855 Total Homicides: 155 2014 Chicago Crime & Murder…
Source – salon.com, By Patrick L. Smith – November 16, 2014 “ICH” – “Salon“- By way of events on the foreign side, the past few weeks start to resemble some once-in-a-while event in the heavens when everyone is supposed to go out and watch as the sun, moon and stars align. There are lots of…
Source – commondreams.org – Internal strategy documents prepared by a public relations firm on behalf of Canadian pipeline giant TransCanada reveal details of an enormous and well-organized effort by the oil industry to neutralized the transnational grassroots movement which has grown up around the industry’s effort to expand tar sands mining and the building of…
Source – trueactivist.com – This special report from Vice should have the world´s attention. While the Japanese government (and mainstream media) continues to ignore the horror unleashed by the Fukushima nuclear plant tragedy, recent reports coming out of Japan paint a whole different picture. Yes, we should be freaking out. Vice travel to Fukushima to…
Source – globalresearch.ca – A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace. Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit…
Source – Consortiumnews.com – Why was I reminded of Vietnam on Saturday when Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Iraq to “get a firsthand look at the situation in Iraq, receive briefings, and get better sense of how the campaign is progressing” against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS…
Source – digitaljournal.com – A Special Report by the Chicago Tribune details declassified cables, from the Israeli State Archive, which add further evidence that Israel knew it was attacking an American ship as it attacked the USS Liberty. Last month, a new documentary broadcast a tape for the first time, of Israeli military transmissions during…
Source – buelahman.wordpress.com – Fool’s Paradise Welcome to the American aquarium Where life can be lived without care. If you swim only where you’re supposed to, You won’t even know that you’re there. But thanks to my curiosity An upsetting thing came to pass: I followed the trail of a mystery And I discovered the…
Source – knowledgeoftoday.org – “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth, because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Living in the third dimension can be a blissful experience when you have power, health, wealth, comforts and freedom. That’s what the ruling elite have manifested for themselves while the rest of the world…
Source – naturalnews.com – Thirty years ago, the diversity of the world’s news media was broad. In 1983, some 50 companies owned “the media” in the U.S. and the world; obviously, with so many companies vying for listeners, viewers and readers, competition was intense — not just for audience but for advertisers as well. Fast…
Source – indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com – Do history books written by white folks tell the truth about Natives? We think not. Here are just some of the lies they tell. Columbus NEVER landed in the Upper 48 – Ever Every year across the country countless elementary school students recite: “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue” and…
Source – macedoniaonline.eu – Storming of the National Palace has been the climax of Saturday’s mass rally which was inspired by Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam’s Friday revelation, that three Guerreros Unidos gang members in custody had confessed to killing the students and incinerating their bodies, and had claimed that the young men were…
Source – knowledgeoftoday.org – According to webometrics, there are more than 17 000 universities, but getting a degree in many of them is quite costly. Many students around the world(and their families) get into big debt or have to work over sixty hours a week in order to afford an education. Two thirds of the…
Source – theatlantic.com – Last week Sen. Rand Paul, a doctor, laid out the threat of Ebola in America thusly, to CNN: “If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.” That statement is, of course, not true, unless the person is symptomatic, in which case he…
Source – jonrappoport.wordpress.com – “For protection on Halloween night, you must rub two grasshoppers together, if you see a cat crossing the road holding a Louis Vuitton monogrammed handbag—which, as everyone knows, is a sure sign of imminent danger. The protection-ritual called vaccination makes about as much sense, except there you have doctors, nurses, and…
Source – jaysanalysis.com – One of the evident patterns that emerges concerning the theater of operations known as “media” is the never-ending rabbit hole of trails and endless, conflicting details that don’t and won’t add up concerning a figure like Edward Snowden. The application of the military term “theater of operations” is especially relevant here,…
Source – theverge.com – There’s an oil ring the size of Rhode Island at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and researchers say it belongs to oil company BP. According to a study published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, about 10 million gallons of coagulated oil now coats the sea floor,…
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