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Zionist ABC airs Gaza bombing devastation images - says it's in Israel


RT
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:17 UTC
Palestinian woman in Gaza after military strike
© AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams
A Palestinian woman gestures as she stands amidst destruction following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City on July 08, 2014
In the latest case of Western mainstream media confusing the geographical location of warzones, an ABC News anchor described footage of Gaza homes shortly after their destruction by the IDF as belonging to Israel.

On July 8, veteran ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer, 68, opened up a news segment, entitled Under Attack, with the following introduction: "We take you overseas now to the rockets raining down on Israel today, as Israel tried to shoot them out of the sky, all part of the tinderbox, Israelis and Palestinians [sic]."

In two images that accompanied Sawyer's narration, she says, "Here are two Israelis trying to salvage what they can, while a woman is standing speechless among the ruins."


There was just one problem: The images of wide-scale physical destruction and human suffering shown in the images were not from Israel, but rather from the Gaza Strip, where the locals have been enduring days of aerial bombings.

Comment: Western media is purely a zionist propaganda organ. Goebbels would be envious at how the Western media again and again get away with blatant propaganda and without any consequences when it is exposed as propaganda.

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Arrow Down

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

Antony Lowenstein
The Guardian
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:18 UTC
William Binney
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William Binney testifies before a German inquiry into surveillance.

William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington's move towards mass surveillance.

On 5 July he spoke at a conference in London organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and revealed the extent of the surveillance programs unleashed by the Bush and Obama administrations.

"At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US", Binney said. "This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores."

The NSA will soon be able to collect 966 exabytes a year, the total of internet traffic annually. Former Google head Eric Schmidt once argued that the entire amount of knowledge from the beginning of humankind until 2003 amount to only five exabytes.

Binney, who featured in a 2012 short film by Oscar-nominated US film-maker Laura Poitras, described a future where surveillance is ubiquitous and government intrusion unlimited.

"The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control", Binney said, "but I'm a little optimistic with some recent Supreme Court decisions, such as law enforcement mostly now needing a warrant before searching a smartphone."
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Light Sabers

Change of fortunes!: 'At least 30' Ukrainian military killed as militia shell convoy with Grad rockets


RT
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:59 UTC
Ukraine convoy attack
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Dozens of Ukraine's government troops have been reportedly killed after local militia shelled pro-Kiev military forces with Grad rocket launchers. President Poroshenko has vowed "killing hundreds" for each deceased soldier.

Self-defense troops attacked a Ukrainian military unit at around 5:00am near Zelenopolye village in the Lugansk region, not far from the Russian border, Kiev's officials reported.

A military official described the consequences of what he called "a bloody terrorist act" as "destruction" saying that about 30 were feared killed.

"About 30 servicemen are thought to have been killed in a shelling by militants using Grad multiple rocket launchers at units of the Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation (ATO) forces near the village of Zelenopolye," Zoryan Shkyryak, an adviser to Interior Minister Arseny Avakov, said at a briefing. "There might be more victims."
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Gift 3

Putin's Latin American tour: Russian leader meets Fidel Castro, writes off 90% of Cuba's Soviet-era debt, and signs oil and gas exploration deals


RT
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:45 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin
© RIA Novosti
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russia has written down $32 billion of Cuba's Soviet era debt. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law ahead of his official visit to Latin America, with Havana as his first stop.

The agreement was first signed in October 2013 and draws a line under a twenty-year dispute.

Cuba is now required to pay back $3.2 billion over the next 10 years.

The first payment from Cuba is expected in October, and the money will be transferred to an account of the Russian lender Vnesheconombank opened at the National Bank of Cuba.

The agreement was signed into a law on Friday ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's official visit to Latin America, where Cuba comes the first.

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Sherlock

NSA bombshell has senators clueless

Tim Mak
The Daily Beast
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
These are the men and women who are supposed to keep watch over the nation's spies. And they have no idea about the latest revelations of inappropriate NSA snooping.
Lindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein
© www.politico.com
Lindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein: a couple of clueless senators
The newest revelations about the National Security Agency may be shocking to the rest of us. To the congressional overseers of the American intelligence services, not so much. They're still catching up from a holiday weekend. Or maybe they've just become numb to the whole spying-on-ordinary-people thing.

Using files provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the NSA scooped up the communications of innocent Internet users, including Americans, and that those not targeted by the agency far outnumber those targeted by the agency.

Personal and intimate information - details on romantic relationships, résumés, pictures - for thousands of non-targeted individuals have all been caught in the NSA's surveillance driftnet, according to the newspaper.

All of that, you might think, would be a matter of some interest to the senators who control the budgets and oversee the activities of the nation's military and intelligence agencies. Or not. Sen. Lindsey Graham - who sits on the Senate's armed services, appropriations, and judiciary committees and is one of the Republican Party's most prominent voices on defense and intelligence issues - wasn't familiar with the Post piece.

Comment: The definition of clueless: having no knowledge, understanding or ability.

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Star of David

Israel plans new war crimes to "exact a heavy toll" on Palestinians

Timothy Alexander Guzman
Silent Crow News
Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:37 UTC
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The state of Israel is ready for another war in Gaza following incidents in the Israeli-Gaza borders where it claims that numerous rockets were fired from the Gaza by terrorists groups according to the Times of Israel.

"Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz on Tuesday expressed their satisfaction with the IDF's preparedness for a possible incursion into the Gaza Strip and declared that such an attack would severely incapacitate terror groups" according to the report. The report also indicated that "their statements came amid a recent spike in the number of attacks emanating from Gaza and, subsequently, the number and intensity of Israeli retaliatory strikes."

The Israeli government is in preparation to hit the Palestinians to disable their military capabilities to attack the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in case of any future war with the Palestinians or any of its neighbors in the Middle East. It would also limit the Palestinians fighting capabilities if Israel were to launch attacks on its neighbors as in the case of Lebanon, Syria or Iran. Both Israel and Lebanon have a strenuous relationship for decades. Israel will launch strikes deep into Gaza if new peace talks fail when US Secretary of State John Kerry who is scheduled to arrive this week. Israel recently complained to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the Security Council that Lebanon committed acts of terror, including the murder of an IDF soldier by a Lebanese soldier.
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House

Did China just crush the housing market in the U.S.?

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:50 UTC
A few days ago we finally closed the door on any argument who the marginal buyer in the US luxury housing segment was - the answer: Chinese oligarchs, scrambling to launder their "hot" domestic money abroad (as we predicted first two years ago) and now that Switzerland is no longer a safe offshore venue where one can park cash, they picked US luxury housing as the best money laundering alternative.
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© Zerohedge.com
This means that far from indicating a recovery, as the recent surge in the high end of the US housing segment had long been touted, all the relentless move higher in ultraluxury properties prices was simply a recycling of China's hot money, which unlike in the US, never made its way into the Chinese stock market (explaining why the Shanghai Composite has barely budged in years) and merely ended up in US real estate. If anything, this is simply another confirmation of the epic capital misallocation, and the complete lack of "trickle down" resulting from failed global central banking policies.

So now that the "who" has been answered, just one question remained: "how?"
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War Whore

War whores: Canadian fighter jets to 'help patrol Baltic skies against commie Ruskies'

Steven Chase
The Globe and Mail
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:32 UTC
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One nation under idocracy
Canadian fighter jets will be patrolling the edge of Russian airspace starting in September when Ottawa sends six CF-18s to join air defence missions over the Baltic states as part of the NATO response to Moscow's efforts to destabilize Ukraine.

The Canadian government announced Wednesday a half-dozen warplanes will join the military alliance's Baltic air policing patrols as NATO tries to bolster allies spooked by Russia's seizure of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula last March.

This new assignment offers a more important role for Canada in the alliance's reaction to Vladimir Putin because air policing over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which are not able to carry out their own air defence, is exactly the sort of weighty role NATO was designed to play - lending stability to the security situation in Europe.


Comment: Lending instability to the situation in Europe, instability.


"CF-18 Hornet crews will work with NATO allies and respond to any violations of Baltic air space," the government stated.

Comment: Canada sending fighter jets thousands of miles away from its borders to "to guard against Mr. Putin's menace and expansionism" is laughable!

Starting in September, eh?

What was Putin advisor Glazyev saying about a possible attempt to recapture Crimea this Fall?

Putin's economic advisor spells out joint Nazi-NeoCon strategy in Ukraine: 'U.S. militarizing Ukraine to invade Russia'

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Bell

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

Seumas Milne
The Guardian
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:26 UTC
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© Ina Fassbender/Reuters
The 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.
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Sheeple

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

Sigmund Fraud
Waking Times
Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:10 UTC
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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.
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