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Protocol 12: How 'American neocons' stage attacks against alternative media - report

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The recent on-air resignation by former RT news anchor Liz Wahl was just the latest stunt orchestrated by a neo-conservative think tank, according to a new investigative report shedding light on the group's role in an ongoing Cold War revival campaign.

An extensive account of the days and minutes leading up to Wahl's remarks and public denunciation of "propaganda" tactics during her news segment on March 5 by authors Max Blumenthal and Rania Khalek via truthdig has revealed connections with the little known neoconservative think-tank Foreign Policy Initiative.

FPI was founded in 2009 by a group of high-profile neo-conservative figures, including Robert Kagan and William Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard, who themselves were cofounders of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) -- an organization that played a key role in advocating for the US invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration following the 9/11 terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda.

According to the authors, as well as evidence readily available online via the group's Twitter feed, FPI was privy to what would take place at RT on-air that day.


Comment: Protocol 12 - Control of the Press:

"9. In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They will always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant.

10. In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attack the tepid and indifferent.

11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, opposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards.

12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions -- aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the constitution exists .... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them."

The Protocols of the Pathocrats


Oscar

Feinstein spying allegations: 'Treason' sez Chair Darrel Issa

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© APHouse Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said he is incensed about allegations the CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee, calling it "treason."

"I think Senator Feinstein is as outraged as anyone and I share her outrage. I think the violation of the Constitutional separation of powers should be an offense of the highest level - virtually treason," Issa told Breitbart News on Tuesday.

"Spying on the executive branch - spying on Congress or violating the separation of powers as to the Supreme Court or as to Congress is effectively treason. Treason - it's written up in the Constitution," Issa said of Feinstein's revelations, adding, "I don't know who gave the orders, but to spy on other branches is in fact a constitutional violation at the level of high crimes and misdemeanors and certainly should cause the removal of anyone involved."

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, Tuesday accused the spy agency of secretly examining her committee's computers and taking documents relating to the CIA's interrogation methods on terror suspects who were held overseas after the 9/11 attacks.

Comment:
Bride of Feinstein: The monstrous hypocrisy of the U.S. Congress vs. NSA/CIA


USA

Flashback U.S. Navy mistakenly sends internal memo to reporter requesting info about Navy Yard Shootings: details how to reject request

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U.S. Navy officials have issued an apology for their response to a News4 reporter's request for materials related to the September 2013 Navy Yard shooting rampage.

In an email to News4's I-Team reporter Scott MacFarlane, Navy administrator Steve Muck asked MacFarlane to "accept [his] apologies" for an internal memo sent to MacFarlane by a Navy Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) officer.

In the memo, a Navy FOIA officer details a strategy to reject and stymie MacFarlane's requests for emails, photos and memoranda related to the Navy Yard shooting, in which 12 people died.

Another Navy official acknowledges the memo was sent to MacFarlane by mistake.

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New York Times Editor: Government requests to hold info are 'almost blanket policy'

The Associated Press revealed Monday that the U.S. government is considering a drone strike to kill an American citizen with alleged terrorist ties.

Several anonymous officials made the case for killing the American without due process and despite restrictions called for last year to carry out drone strikes through the Pentagon, rather than the CIA. The American, the officials claimed, is a member of al Qaeda actively plotting to kill U.S. citizens who is currently in a remote location and has been involved in previous terrorist attacks - - all arguments that bolster the case that a strike should be authorized against an imminent threat.

Vader

Obama planning another vacation

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Like the annual return of pinkletinks and crocuses, inns and hotels around the Island are getting familiar calls this week from White House officials planning a vacation on Martha's Vineyard for President Obama and his family.

Three reliable sources, who asked not to be named because they are not authorized to release information, told The Times that Mr. Obama will return to the Island in August. Two sources said the vacation is scheduled on or about August 9, a week earlier than the first family visited in previous years.

The president brings a large entourage of Secret Service agents, White House staffers, and support personnel, and the White House began arranging for lodging this week, according to the sources.

Attention

Ukraine, "colored revolutions", swastikas and the threat of World War III

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As the US, EU and Britain huff and puff in barrel loads of clichés: "red lines" are "crossed", "sovereignty and territorial integrity" has been "violated", they stand "shoulder to shoulder" with their shoe-horned in fascist government in Ukraine, they are "resolute" against "Russian aggression", and will not "stand idly by", sanity seems in short supply.

US Secretary of State, John Kerry representing a country which makes Genghis Khan look like a wimp when it comes to illegal invasions, still retains the prize for jaw dropper of the decade: "You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext", he pontificated on CBS' "Face the Nation."

On the thirteenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq and the total destruction of it's "sovereignty and territorial integrity", by America and Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has scuttled off to Brussels for a meeting of European Union Ministers to agree a "robust response" to Russia - who has fired not a shot, invaded no one and threatened nothing except to respond that if sanctions were imposed on Russia they might consider a trading response. Fair enough, surely?

The government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea called a referendum, distinctly disturbed by the threat by Kiev's US proxy government that the Russian language was to have no status, and Jews and blacks would not be tolerated.

A fraction under 97% voted to cede to Russia, with a turnout of over 80% - an electoral enthusiasm of which Western governments could only dream.

As much of the main stream media and the usual politicians thundered of voting under pressure or even at gunpoint, one hundred and thirty five international observers from twenty three countries said, consistently, they saw no pressure of any sort, and they had "not registered any violations of voting rules."(1)

Briefcase

House votes on bill to expedite congressional lawsuits against Obama

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Ignoring President Barack Obama's veto threat, the House voted on Wednesday for a bill that would expedite congressional lawsuits against the chief executive for failure to enforce federal laws.

The vote was 233-181 in the Republican-led House as GOP lawmakers excoriated Obama for multiple changes to his 4-year-old health care law, steps he's taken to allow young immigrants to remain in the United States and the administration's resistance to defend the federal law banning gay marriage.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the ENFORCE the Law Act, delivered a fiery speech and read a series of statements by Obama when he was an Illinois senator in which he warned of the encroachment of the executive on the powers of the other branches of government.

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Iran and Russia draft agreement to build two more nuclear power plants

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© Press TVNuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr, Iran.
Iran's official news agency is reporting that Iran and Russia have discussed a draft agreement to build two more nuclear power plants in the Islamic Republic.

The report Wednesday by IRNA said visiting Russian official Nikolai Spassky and Iranian nuclear officials reached an initial agreement about building two new nuclear power plants for Iran. Each plant would have 1,000-megawatts capacity plus water purification capabilities.

It said a formal agreement would be signed later. It did not elaborate.

Iran built its first nuclear power plant in southern port of Bushehr with Russia's help. That plant has been online since 2011 with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts.

Handcuffs

Police State America: Kansas drafts bill to legalize police retaliation

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The Kansas House Standing Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice has introduced a bill that will require private citizens who file complaints against police officers to sign an affidavit, acknowledging that if their allegations are proven false, they can be charged with perjury, which is a felony charge.

Furthermore, this bill prohibits a Kansas law enforcement agency from opening an investigation into a complaint if another law enforcement agency has already investigated the complaint and found in favor of the officer.

In other words, this bill would allow police departments to arrest the people who file complaints against police officers. In Wichita, Kansas, complaints are almost always dismissed, by the Wichita Police Department, so, according to this bill and its vague wording, the WPD, could now go arrest the people who file complaints against their officers.

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Let the games begin: Moscow strikes back with sanctions against US officials

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Russia's Foreign Ministry has published a reciprocal sanctions list of US citizens, consisting of 10 names, including: House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, Senator J. McCain; and advisers to President Obama D. Pfeiffer and C. Atkinson.

These officials, along with another five named by the Foreign Ministry, are banned from entering the country.

The move comes in response to US sanctions imposed against Russian officials after the March-16 referendum in Crimea, which Washington considered "illegitimate."

Comment: Looks like the adults in Moscow are being forced to respond to the teenage brats in Washington, in their usual calculated and reasonable fashion. How anyone can take Western "leaders" seriously anymore is beyond us, and watching all of this play out over the past few months has been like watching one excruciating extended version of Idiocracy.