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Bell

About time! Tide may be turning in UK against the Elites' privatization scam

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© Ina Fassbender/ReutersThe Neurath-based power station of German firm RWE. ‘Control of essential services has not only passed to giants based overseas, but those companies are themselves often state-owned.'
The international revival of public ownership is anathema to our City-led elite. But it's vital to genuine economic recovery

Privatisation isn't working. We were promised a shareholding democracy, competition, falling costs and better services. A generation on, most people's experience has been the opposite. From energy to water, rail to public services, the reality has been private monopolies, perverse subsidies, exorbitant prices, woeful under-investment, profiteering and corporate capture.

Private cartels run rings round the regulators. Consumers and politicians are bamboozled by commercial secrecy and contractual complexity. Workforces have their pay and conditions slashed. Control of essential services has not only passed to corporate giants based overseas, but those companies are themselves often state-owned - they're just owned by another state.

Report after report has shown privatised services to be more expensive and inefficient than their publicly owned counterparts. It's scarcely surprising that a large majority of the public, who have never supported a single privatisation, neither trust the privateers nor want them running their services.

Sheeple

14 propaganda tactics used by lapdog media to manufacture consent for the oligarchy

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The mainstream media is aging and collapsing under the weight of its own hubris and arrogance. Now entirely formulaic in presentation and predictable in substance, the 'major' outlets of news, which are monopolized under only a small handful of corporations, serve the purpose of misleading the public on important issues and manufacturing consent for government and the oligarchs.

The public is still largely numb to this reality, and in a wicked catch-22 for modern man, many people are still addicted to the very media that serves as the primary weapon of social control against them.

The tide is turning, however, and to help break the spell we bring you this comprehensive list of 11 tactics used against the public by the mainstream media to coerce consensus, divide, conquer, ridicule and stifle truthful or meaningful conversation about the state of our world.

Vader

Journalism group blasts Obama oligarchy for its historic suppression of information

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In a letter to President Obama, 38 journalism groups criticized his administration for severely limiting access to federal agencies and a general politically-motivated suppression of information despite the president's pledge of historic transparency.

Led by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the groups said that efforts by government officials to curb free-flow of news and information to the public has reached a peak during the Obama administration following a similarly stifling culture during prior president George W. Bush's tenure in the White House.

"Over the past two decades, public agencies have increasingly prohibited staff from communicating with journalists unless they go through public affairs offices or through political appointees," wrote SPJ president David Cuillier. "This trend has been especially pronounced in the federal government. We consider these restrictions a form of censorship -- an attempt to control what the public is allowed to see and hear."

Cuillier added that while agency personnel are kept mostly off limits to journalists, they are "free [to] speak to others -- lobbyists, special-interest representatives, people with money -- without these controls and without public oversight."

Eye 1

SOTT Focus: Psychopathic 'Morality': The Truth Behind the Kidnapping and Murder of 3 Israeli Teens

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While much of the public was being distracted by news reports of the scoreline in the Germany-Brazil World Cup game, another, admittedly less important, high-scoring 'game' was playing out in Israel/Palestine. While Brazil lost 7 to 1 to Germany, so far, Palestinians losses to Israel are running at 100-0, with no end to the carnage in sight.

A week ago I expressed my suspicions about the timing of the kidnapping and murder of the three Israelis teens. Since then, more details have come to light that confirm that the kidnapping was most likely a carefully orchestrated Israeli government propaganda campaign designed to destroy the Fatah/Hamas unity government, demomize the Palestinians as 'terrorists', and, as always, give the psychopaths in Tel Aviv another opportunity to blow Palestinian women and children to pieces.

As clinical studies on the psychopathic mind make clear, psychopaths periodically experience a compelling drive to give vent to their destructive instincts. In the case of psychopaths in positions of power, this usually means some kind of 'war' where innocent civilians (aka 'non-combatants') are targeted for the most brutal suffering. In the specific case of the Israeli psychopathic 'elite', the psychological profile goes something like this:

Netanyahu and his ilk have a deep, almost unconscious desire to obliterate the Palestinians, to 'erase them from the pages of history', because the Palestinians stand in the way of them achieving their goal of a idealized Jewish state where they reign supreme. The Israeli/Zionist ideologues are frequently and privately enraged at the Palestinians because the Palestinians force the Zionists to struggle to find a way to achieve their racist goals without tarnishing their own self-image as 'seeking peace' 'defending the Jewish people' being 'the only Democracy in the Middle East' etc. To the psychopaths in Israel therefore, all Palestinians are 'evil', but there's a problem: the Palestinians are not evil and their cause is just by normal human standards.
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Not your common or garden variety
If it was up to them, the psychopaths in Israel would just kill all the Palestinians and be done with it. But they can't because they are constrained by human rights, innocence, respect and other 'silly' ideals adhered to by normal people, and to which the psychopaths must also pay lip service if they are to maintain their mask of humanity on the world stage.

To get what they want therefore, the Israeli psychopaths must solve the problem of the Palestinians not conforming (in reality) to the evil image the Israelis have of them, that would allow the Israelis to freely express their destructive urges and achieve their idealized vision of a Jewish state. The solution that psychopathic types everywhere invariably come up with is to 'create their own reality' where they literally manufacture a 'reality' to fit the demonized image they have of the 'enemy' that stands in their way. At that point, they have the 'just cause' to attack the 'enemy' whose mere existence has been 'unfairly' thwarting their attempts to get what they want i.e. achieve their psychopathic agenda.

With that in mind, let's look at the details of events over the past month in Israel/Palestine.

Stock Down

Former finance manager sez 'unprecedented lies are being told to the public'

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Today a man who has been involved in the financial markets for 50 years told KWN that unprecedented lies are being told to the public. Embry also discussed why governments are lying and what to expect going forward. Below is what John Embry had to say in this timely interview

Embry: "I'm focused on the propaganda that is being laid on the public these days. There was no better example of this type of propaganda than a report I read over the weekend from the Associated Press headlined 'What is making the U.S. economy a world beater? 5 factors.'....

"They cited the increase in jobs (288,000). But anyone who takes the time to examine those jobs would say that statistic is preposterous -- 523,000 full-time jobs were lost and part-time jobs surged by 840,000.

My daughter has a part-time job and she would love a full-time job but she can't get one. Employers don't want to give full-time jobs because they can pay next to nothing for part-time jobs and the employees don't get benefits. So the idea that a job is a job is absolutely bogus.

USA

Unaccompanied minors from violent Central American cartel being held for placement in U.S.

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Despite Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson vowing to "stem the tide" of unaccompanied illegal minors across the southern border with Mexico, thousands more are expected to enter the United States by the end of the year. With the system being overwhelmed, Border Patrol agents are concerned about minors who have admitted to being MS-13 members, a brutal street gang from El Salvador that has been successful in infiltrating American communities. Agents are also concerned about minors who have committed acts like torture and murder in their home countries before heading north to the United States.

"We have six minors in Nogales who have admitted to killing and doing grievous bodily injuries. One admitted to killing as young as eight years old," an agent tells Townhall anonymously for fear of losing his job for speaking out. "They are being held for placement in the U.S."

By U.S. legal standards many gang members operating in Central American countries and traveling north are classified as minors due to being under the age of 18. However, many young males are actively engaged in violent cartel and criminal activity, yet are treated as children when processed through the Department of Human Services or Department of Homeland Security systems.

Bomb

Israeli blitzkrieg: IDF strikes 80 Gaza targets in under thirty minutes

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© Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / ReutersAn explosion in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 8, 2014, after what police said was an Israeli airstrike — one of more than 100 on Monday and Tuesday.
Over 500 targets have been hit since start of Operation Protective Edge; IDF targets infrastructure sites used by Hamas's senior commanders.

Rocket barrages from Gaza continued to pound southern and central Israel on Wednesday, and Hamas struck its northern-most and eastern-most targets to date as it fired long-range rockets at Zichron Ya'acov and Dimona.

Soon thereafter, the Palestinians fired rockets at Rehovot and Ness Ziona, triggering Color Red sirens. One rocket hit in the Yavne area. Two projectiles, likely Syrian-made M302 projectiles, hit in open areas near Zichron Ya'acov, some 60 km. north of Tel Aviv, but did not cause injuries.

Gazan terrorists fired three rockets at the Holon-Bat Yam area in the afternoon; the Iron Dome system intercepted them.

Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for that attack.

Areas near the Gaza Strip, including the Sha'ar Hanegev and Eshkol regions, sustained consecutive rocket salvos, and two homes sustained direct strikes. No injuries were reported.

By press time, some 90 rockets had been fired into Israel on Wednesday, and around 30 were intercepted.

The IDF carried out attacks in Gaza throughout Wednesday, hitting at least 200 terrorist targets.

The IAF struck more than 80 targets in under 30 minutes on Wednesday evening.

Comment: Psychopathic 'Morality': The Truth Behind the Kidnapping and Murder of 3 Israeli Teens


Dollar

The EPA aims to garnish the wages of 'polluters'

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© Cliff OwenUnder Gina McCarthy, The EPA has been flexing its regulatory muscle, collecting more fines and hitting individuals with penalties for violating environmental rules
The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly floated a rule claiming authority to bypass the courts and unilaterally garnish paychecks of those accused of violating its rules, a power currently used by agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service.

The EPA has been flexing its regulatory muscle under President Obama, collecting more fines each year and hitting individuals with costly penalties for violating environmental rules, including recently slapping a $75,000 fine on Wyoming homeowner Andy Johnson for building a pond on his rural property.

Comment: So the EPA goes after the "little guy" while large, polluting corporations get off with little more than a slap on the wrist.


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Robert Fisk: The true Gaza back-story that the Israelis aren't telling this week

A future Palestine state will have no borders and be an enclave within Israel, surrounded on all sides by Israeli-held territory

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© Associated PressSmoke and debris rise after an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip seen from the Israeli side of the Israel Gaza Border, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Since the Gaza offensive began Tuesday, Israel has attacked more than 400 sites in Gaza
OK, so by this afternoon, the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won't be hearing from anyone else in the next few hours.

It's about land. The Israelis of Sederot are coming under rocket fire from the Palestinians of Gaza and now the Palestinians are getting their comeuppance. Sure. But wait, how come all those Palestinians - all 1.5 million - are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn't they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out - or fled for their lives - when the Israeli state was created.

And - a drawing in of breath is now perhaps required - the people who lived in Sederot in early 1948 were not Israelis, but Palestinian Arabs. Their village was called Huj. Nor were they enemies of Israel. Two years earlier, these same Arabs had actually hidden Jewish Haganah fighters from the British Army. But when the Israeli army turned up at Huj on 31 May 1948, they expelled all the Arab villagers - to the Gaza Strip! Refugees, they became. David Ben Gurion (Israel's first Prime Minister) called it an "unjust and unjustified action". Too bad. The Palestinians of Huj were never allowed back.

And today, well over 6,000 descendants of the Palestinians from Huj - now Sederot - live in the squalor of Gaza, among the "terrorists" Israel is claiming to destroy and who are shooting at what was Huj. Interesting story.

And same again for Israel's right to self-defence. We heard it again today. What if the people of London were being rocketed like the people of Israel? Wouldn't they strike back? Well yes, but we Brits don't have more than a million former inhabitants of the UK cooped up in refugee camps over a few square miles around Hastings.

Comment: Of course it is about land. It has been since the foundation of the state of Israel on somebody else's land. Without the land theft there can be no Israel. But you cannot simply grab land without excuses and propaganda.
And now let's cross to the West Bank. First of all, Benjamin Netanyahu said he couldn't talk to Palestinian "President" Mahmoud Abbas because he didn't also represent Hamas. Then when Abbas formed a unity government, Netanyahu said he couldn't talk to Abbas because he had unified himself with the "terrorist" Hamas. Now he says he can only talk to him if he breaks with Hamas - even though he won't then represent Hamas.
Netanyahu's bizarre logic is easily explained if we accept that Israel does not want peace, and therefore does not want to talk, because peace will not give Israel more land.
"And Netanyahu said," according to Avnery, "if they are not stopped by the permanent Israeli garrison there (on the Jordan river), they will appear at the gates of Tel Aviv." The truth, of course, is that the Israeli air force would have crushed Isis the moment it dared to cross the Jordanian border from Iraq or Syria.

The importance of this, however, is that if Israel keeps its army on the Jordan (to protect Israel from Isis), a future "Palestine" state will have no borders and will be an enclave within Israel, surrounded on all sides by Israeli-held territory.
Surrounded, as in a military siege. Isn't that the whole point?


Propaganda

Abby Martin: Why doesn't the media care about dead Palestinians?