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Psychopaths in Power and the Imminent Collapse of Global Society (It's all your fault!)

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:22 UTC
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I can't really comment in any informed way on societies in the East, except to point to the Chinese slave workers who produce mountains of plastic crap for Western nations to use and then dump in the ground and oceans; the Middle East's role as a bombing target, 'terrorist' recruiting ground and civil war factory for Western warmongers, and South East Asia and Africa as a block of new 'nations' born out of the 'white man's burden' to civilize their people via brutal colonization and then grant them 'independence' in the form of never-ending debt to Western banks.

In the West, on the other hand, where I live, I can say with confidence that our modern society, its political and social conventions, customs and morality, has passed its expiry date and is well and truly moribund. If I were a political or social cartoonist, the image would be a giant rotting corpse plastered in thick make up and doused in cheap perfume with a greedy banker's hand up its ass making it move and talk to fool the public into thinking that they actually have a future to look forward to.

Leading the cast in this tragicomedy (heavy on the tragi) we find our psychopathic leaders and their media whores trying extra hard to convince us that everything is just fine. But that smell, that stench of lies and the screaming contradiction between what they say and what we can all see (if we look) is making it increasingly hard to believe them, and even our own wishful thinking.
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Attention

Government labels those who grow their own food 'extremists'

Christina Sarich
NaturalSociety
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:09 UTC
Extremists
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Those who mean to lord over us, such as the Department of Defense, have now called people who grow their own food 'radical' and extremists. Sound familiar? It's just like the US calling other nations terrorists when our government has terrorized more of the 'free' world than we could even imagine. It has basically called its own citizens terrorists already with NSA spying.

How in the world has it come to this? Americans are becoming 'serfs' to their own government much the same way that the British monarchy forced self-sufficient farmers to divide up their land into mono-cropping plots so that they could tax the heck out of everyone and make them reliant upon the same system of tenet farming which then enslaved the masses.

What's worse, even the founding fathers are considered 'extremists' by the Pentagon, according to a new training manual that labels farmers as such. This bit of information was discovered by the legal watchdog, Judicial Watch, as part of a Freedom of Information Act request, and was included in over 133 documents provided by the Air Force.

To teach our military to root out 'extremism' in a 'student guide', those who would decide to grow some organic cabbage, non-GMO corn, and tomatoes, for example, would be considered a threat to national defense. Even though the document says that this is 'for training purposes only' and 'do not use on the job,' why on earth would such a reference be made? It is simply preposterous.
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Dollar Gold

War is a racket: How the Bushes and Bin Ladens made billions$ for the Carlyle Group in the War on Terror, then bought the NSA

Truthloader
YouTube
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:42 UTC
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The Carlyle Group... the Bush Family... the Bin Laden family... Booz Allen Hamilton... the NSA.

One big happy family coming up with "US policy", then profiting from it, coming up with more "US policy", then profiting from it again...

Edward Snowden didn't actually work for the NSA; he worked for a contractor called Booz Allen Hamilton. How did it come to be that Snowden, working for a private company, was able to leak information about a top secret surveillance program? Watch and learn that the 'NSA' is no longer a public government agency...

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Cult

Guess how Britain's 'Conservative' finance minister repaid favor to former tabloid editor who 'downplayed' coverage of his cocaine sessions with dominatrix...


Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:42 UTC
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British finance minister, George Osborne
  • Former prostitute's lawyer questions Andy Coulson's appointment as Cameron's communication chief
  • Mark Lewis claims former NotW editor was helped into No10 role by his paper's 'soft' coverage of story
  • Osborne has repeatedly denied Natalie Rowe's claims about drug-taking
  • Miss Rowe says she was victim of phone hacking
George Osborne is facing questions over his relationship with Andy Coulson after claims he was paying back a favour by helping the former News of the World editor get a job with the Tories.

A lawyer representing phone hacking victims says the now-defunct tabloid underplayed their coverage of sex and drugs allegations against him in October 2005.

Six years ago the paper ran on its front page hotly disputed claims from former prostitute and ex-drug user Natalie Rowe that the Chancellor took cocaine in his early 20s, before he became an MP.

Mark Lewis said Mr Coulson, editor of the paper the time the story broke in October 2005, deliberately played down the scandal in the leader column, effectively saving Mr Osborne's political career.
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Pirates

U.S. arms being smuggled to Syria as British Special Forces direct rebel attacks

Alexander Higgins
blog.alexanderhiggins.com
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:06 UTC
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Well, we'll see about the invincible part
Reports reveal that British special forces are directing rebel attacks in Syria utilizing U.S. arms being smuggled through Turkey and Lebanon following wave of rebel bombings

Reports are now surfacing that Syria rebels attacks are being led at the direction of British and Qatari special forces. The attacks are being fueled by U.S. arms which are being smuggled through Turkey after a cargo plane of U.S. arms was seized in Lebanon.

The reports of the U.S. arms smuggling and assistance of the British special forces coincide with a wave of rebel bombings that have left over 200 wounded in the Aleppo, Syria.
The US is setting up an international coalition aimed at supporting rebels in their struggle. The so-called "Friends of Democratic Syria" will involve countries willing to prop up the opposition, and pile more pressure on the regime. Direct military action is ruled out, but reports suggest British and Qatari special forces are already in the conflict zone. And while the US and its allies criticize Russia for supplying military hardware to Damascus, there are now calls from American lawmakers to arm the opposition. As RT's Marina Portnaya reports, the region's already been flooded with firepower made in the USA.
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Alarm Clock

CIA given free hand in Lithuania

Nik Nikandrov
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 06 Dec 2013 04:53 UTC
Lithuania
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«Irina» is from Kaliningrad. She was recruited with the help of blackmail and threats. The NTV documentary Call Agent is based on her confession. The film reveals the methods of work employed by the State Security Department of the Republic of Lithuania. At first they wanted her to operate on the territory of the Kaliningrad region, the Russian exclave sandwiched between Lithuania, Poland and the Baltic Sea, but then the plans changed. The Lithuanian secret service curators tasked «Irina» with gathering information to discredit Lithuanian politicians, entrepreneurs, journalists and diplomats. She conducted her activities under the guidance of former Lithuanian consul in Kaliningrad Mindaugas Jaskevicius and the head of security service Renatas Pyatkus among others. The both men are on the CIA's payroll. There are other Central Intelligence Agency's informers in the Lithuanian State Security Department ranks.

Years have passed since Lithuania became independent but Washington still harbors doubts about political reliability of the country's political elite... It's not excluded that someone may be secretly working for Moscow or «Belarusian dictator» Lukashenko. Even if it is not so, still the discrediting information on Lithuanian politicians and military received from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Lithuanian State Security Department is often used by Americans to influence the Lithuanian ruling circles. «Irina» told about the missions she was assigned, the task was to create delicate situations to discredit former presidents and prime-ministers close to incumbent President Dalia Grybauskaite, as well as promising politicians and military. Everything was thoroughly copied and transferred to Americans.
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Pirates

Orwell was hailed a hero for fighting in Spain. Today he'd be a terrorist‏

George Monbiot
The Guardian
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:30 UTC
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'The British government did threaten people leaving to join the International Brigades, by reviving the Foreign Enlistment Act. But the act was unworkable.'
If George Orwell and Laurie Lee were to return from the Spanish civil war today, they would be arrested under section five of the Terrorism Act 2006. If convicted of fighting abroad with a "political, ideological, religious or racial motive" - a charge they would find hard to contest - they would face a maximum sentence of life in prison. That they were fighting to defend an elected government against a fascist rebellion would have no bearing on the case. They would go down as terrorists.

As it happens, the British government did threaten people leaving the country to join the International Brigades, by reviving the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870. In 1937 it warned that anyone volunteering to fight in Spain would be "liable on conviction to imprisonment up to two years". This was consistent with its policy of non-intervention, which even Winston Churchill, initially a supporter, came to see as "an elaborate system of official humbug". Britain, whose diplomatic service and military command were riddled with fascist sympathisers, helped to block munitions and support for the Republican government, while ignoring Italian and German deployments on Franco's side.
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Evil Rays

The Eastern European Islands of the global GULAG

Nikolai Malishevski
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 04:41 UTC
CIA secret prisons worldwide
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Among the first to report the existence of CIA special prisons and concentration camps in a number of countries, for example, in Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and on the territory controlled by the Kosovar Albanian regime, were the Swiss media. In December 2005 the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza confirmed that the «main European secret CIA prison» is located in Poland. The scandal which was at that time hushed up has now resurfaced. In Strasbourg hearings have begun in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on a suit brought by two prisoners of the American Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Palestinians Al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah, who assert that in the early 2000s U.S. intelligence agencies detained them in a Polish military prison...

For several months lawyers demanded that the court hearings be held behind closed doors and that the press not be admitted. However, the results of the investigation and the details of the abductions and tortures were made public anyway. It turned out that the Poles actively assisted in what the CIA calls «enhanced interrogation techniques», which include refined tortures and abuses like dehydration, hypothermia, and «putting the heat on» with death threats by putting a gun or a drill to someone's head. That is how they interrogated prisoners in the secret CIA prison near the village of Stare Kiejkuty, 170 km from Warsaw.
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Bug

Barclays hikes bonuses despite fall in profits and warning of up to 12,000 job cuts this year‏

Jill Treanor
The Guardian
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:51 UTC
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Barclays has made £5.2bn profit in 2013, lower than in 2012.
Barclays stoked the row over City pay on Tuesday by announcing a 32% fall in profits but a rise of 10% in the bonus pool for its 140,000 staff around the world.

Antony Jenkins, promoted to run Barclays in the wake of the £290m fine for rigging Libor, defended the decision to increase bonus payouts as he warned that between 10,000 to 12,000 jobs would be cut this year as he races to cut costs. Some 820 senior roles are to go along with 7,000 jobs in the UK.

In a move that sparked the fury of the TUC, which accused the bank of "sticking two fingers up to hard-pressed families across Britain", the bank announced it was paying bonuses of £2.4bn - up from £2.2bn a year ago - across the bank. Within that, the investment bankers enjoyed bonuses of £1.6bn compared with £1.4bn a year ago, even though the investment banking side suffered a loss in the fourth quarter and its annual profits tumbled 37%. The bank as a whole saw its profits fall to £5.2bn from £7bn.

Comment: As Lobaczewski wrote: "Germs are not aware that they will be burned alive or buried deep in the ground along with the human body whose death they are causing."

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Vader

'Destroy immediately': Top U.S. commander ordered Bin Laden photos purge


RT.com
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:44 UTC
Osama
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Policemen and residents stand near while demolition work is carried out on the building where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces in Abbottabad.
Eleven days after the 2011 US elite forces raid that resulted in the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the head of US special operations ordered the destruction of all photos of the corpse or for them to be given to the CIA, new evidence shows.

The disclosure was revealed Monday in an email obtained and released by non-profit legal group Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The heavily-redacted email was sent by Admiral William McRaven, head of US Special Operations Command, to subordinate officers on May 13, 2011, instructing them that any remaining photos of Bin Laden's body must be destroyed or handed over to the CIA.

Bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011 at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by the special operations team commonly known as Seal Team Six during Operation Neptune Spear.

In the email, addressed to "Gentlemen," McRaven wrote, "One particular item that I want to emphasize is photos; particularly UBLs [Usama Bin Laden, as US military referred to him] remains. At this point - all photos should have been turned over to the CIA; if you still have them destroy them immediately or get them to the [redacted]."

The order to purge the photos came 11 days after the conservative government transparency organization Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the Defense Department seeking "all photographs and/or video recordings of Usama Bin Laden taken during and/or after the U.S. military operation in Pakistan on or about May 1, 2011."

Comment: The "destroy the photos of the remains immediately" email is a smoking gun revealing the fact that the raid and murder of individuals unknown, had nothing whatsoever to do with "killing Bin Laden". As everyone knows, Bin Laden died of kidney disease years ago.

Still, it is jaw-dropping that such liars and frauds are in charge of governments.



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