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Did the U.S. deploy snipers against peaceful Occupy protesters?


Washington's Blog
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:58 UTC
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Snipers are commonly used as "false flag" terrorists to disrupt peaceful protests. And see this.

The FBI treated the peaceful protesters at the Occupy protests as terrorists. More here and here.

Was the U.S. government prepared to deploy snipers to disrupt the Occupy protests ... "if necessary"?

TruthDig reported last year:
"Did the FBI ignore, or even abet, a plot to assassinate Occupy Houston leaders?" asks investigative reporter Dave Lindorff at WhoWhatWhy. "What did the Feds know? Whom did they warn? And what did the Houston Police know?"

A Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Washington, D.C.-based Partnership for Civil Justice Fund yielded an FBI document containing knowledge of a plot by an unnamed group or individual to kill "leaders" of the Houston chapter of the nonviolent Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Senate report on illegal torture by CIA being suppressed

Conor Friedersdorf
The Atlantic
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:51 UTC
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Senate staffers say the agency tortured prisoners in ways that went beyond what the Bush-era DOJ approved, according to an Al-Jazeera America report.

The Senate report on CIA torture is still being suppressed. But details are leaking out, according to a report by Jason Leopold. Citing Intelligence Committee staffers, he writes that "at least one high-value detainee was subjected to torture techniques that went beyond those authorized by George W. Bush's Justice Department." In addition, "harsh measures authorized by the Department of Justice had been applied to at least one detainee before such legal authorization was received."

The notion that Bush-era interrogations were lawful has always been highly dubious. This latest news plucks away even the fig leaf afforded by Bush Administration attorneys. Some say it would be unfair to prosecute anyone told that a tactic was permitted.

Will they call for a criminal investigation of these incidents?
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Dollars

Fortune 100 companies have received a whopping $1.2 trillion in corporate welfare recently

Aaron Cantú
Alternet
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:36 UTC
Corporate Welfare
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Most of us are aware that the government gives mountains of cash to powerful corporations in the form of tax breaks, grants, loans and subsidies--what some have called "corporate welfare."

However, little has been revealed about exactly how much money Washington is forking over to mega businesses.

Until now.

A new venture called Open the Books, based in Illinois, was founded with a mission to bring transparency to how the federal budget is spent. And what they found is shocking: between 2000 and 2012, the top Fortune 100 companies received $1.2 trillion from the government.

That doesn't include all the billions of dollars doled out to housing, auto and banking enterprises in 2008-2009, nor does it include ethanol subsidies to agribusiness or tax breaks for wind turbine makers.

What Open the Book's forthcoming report does reveal is that the most valuable contracts between the government and private firms were for military procrument deals, including Lockheed Martin ($392 billion), General Dynamics ($170 billion), and United Technologies ($73 billion).
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Light Saber

Michael Parenti: U.S. Empire successful in stopping the betterment of the world's people

John Robles
The Voice of Russia
Sat, 21 Dec 2013 17:00 UTC
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In destroying country after country, the US Empire is doing well. One devastated country after the other has made it clear that any country which pursues independent sovereign policies and attempts to better its own position and the state of its people becomes a target for the US Empire.

According to Dr. Michael Parenti, in an interview with the Voice of Russia; "... any leader who uses the resources, and labor, and substance of his country for the well-being and self-development in that country is seen as someone who is evil, has a hidden agenda, hostile toward America and is hostile toward the West." A term which he says really means the western plutocracy. Ukraine is a perfect example after having chosen a path of economic betterment which does not include US/EU/NATO, US backed "color-revolution" assets which have been left in place are being activated to cause another color revolution and more upheaval in that country. According to Dr. Parenti these people are: "... still so rabidly anti-communist, that even the residue of a shadow of a former Communist country is a little too much."
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Black Magic

America's Evil Legacy: The orphans of Agent Orange

Sophie Jane Evans
Daily Mail
Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:15 UTC
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In pain: The attack's devastating effects continue to this day - with many children deformed and suffering.
  • Photos show orphans suffering from the effects of chemical, Agent Orange
  • Can be seen battling range of physical deformities and mental disorders
  • Some have missing or deformed limbs, while others have curved spines
  • Several are deaf, blind and mute and have been bed-ridden most of lives
  • Images taken by photographer Matt Lief Anderson at orphanage in Vietnam
  • U.S. forces sprayed Agent Orange over large areas of jungle during 1960s
  • One million people were reportedly affected, including 150,000 children
These photos show orphans suffering from the horrific effects of America's use of chemical weapons during the Vietnam War.

The children were born decades after U.S. forces sprayed the herbicide dioxin, Agent Orange, over large areas of jungle in the 1960s.

But they are still battling the effects of the chemical today - including physical deformities and mental disorders.

The shocking images were taken by American photographer Matt Lief Anderson, 30, at an orphanage outside of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
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Malaysia Airlines and the case of the missing legs

Terri Rupar
The Washington Post
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:32 UTC
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Or maybe it's the case of the extra legs?

The photos circulated Tuesday of the two Iranians who got on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight showed two men with different bags, different T-shirts and the same pair of legs.

The New Straits Times reports that Malaysian police said there was no purposeful doctoring of the photographs -- the photo of one man was simply placed on top of the photo of the other when they were photocopied.

"It was not done with malice or to mislead," police spokeswoman Asmawati Ahmad said.

Comment: Was it Photoshopped?

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Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee thinks the Constitution is 400 years old


The Washington Free Beacon
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:08 UTC
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It isn't

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) declared the U.S. Constitution to be 400 years old Wednesday on the House floor, which would mean it was signed in 1614.

"Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not," she said.
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Airplane Paper

Obama and EU try bluffs: Extend sanctions against Russia to include wealthy Putin allies

Dan Roberts, Ian Traynor and Alec Luhn
The Guardian
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:39 UTC
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  • US suggests order might not be the end of measures
  • EU leaders add 12 unnamed Russians to blacklist
President Obama has extended financial sanctions against Russia to include wealthy supporters of Vladimir Putin and a bank close to the Kremlin, in a bid to deter Russian military incursions into eastern and southern Ukraine.

Amid growing pressure for a tougher US response to the crisis, the White House also issued a new executive order authorising a co-ordinated economic blockade with the European Union against key Russian industries if the situation escalates.

EU leaders agreed to add 12 unnamed Russians to a blacklist of 21 individuals and ordered the European commission to examine the impact of broader trade and economic warfare action against Russia and also said they would implement a trade agreement with Kiev.
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Top Secret

Public feud follows years of tension - CIA, Senate and the interrogation report

Greg Miller and Adam Goldman
The Washington Post
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
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For years, a small group of Senate staffers made regular commutes to a Virginia office used by the CIA, took the elevators down to the basement and tapped the keypad combination to an unmarked door.

Inside, a collection of eight or so computers were loaded with millions of CIA cables, memos and other records that documented what many regard as one of the darker chapters of the agency's history - its use of harsh interrogation measures to get terrorism suspects to talk.

The bulk of the research was completed more than a year ago, yielding a report by the Senate Intelligence Committee that amounts to a damning chronicle of that CIA program. But the struggle to shape whether and how that history is presented to the public has triggered a fight between the CIA and the committee over what happened behind that locked door.

The dispute, which spilled into public view this week, centers on whether the committee broke laws in obtaining a set of documents the agency never intended to share, or whether the CIA broke laws in its searches of committee computers to see how those files ended up in the panel's possession.
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SOTT Focus: Unelected Ukrainian Government Creates 'Facts on the Ground' - No One Protests

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:51 UTC
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The USA’s unelected man in Ukraine signs a deal with the EU
I don't understand the Ukrainian 'revolution'.

Before the Ukrainian protests kicked off last October, a general election was scheduled for 2015. As the protests grew and intensified, the elected Ukrainian president, Victor Yanukovych, agreed to bring elections forward to this year and to implement a host of measures, including reverting to the 2004 constitution, which drastically reduced Presidential power.

On paper, these changes met the vast majority of protestors' demands, and promised a new government this year, via elections. Yet just as this agreement was being signed, the violence in Kiev flared and 100 people, including policemen, were shot dead...by someone.
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