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Oscar

BBC Newsnight interview with Alain Soral: The French government's actions against Dieudonné are illegal

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French philosopher and equal rights advocate Alain Soral explains to BBS Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman what the 'quenelle' really means and that the French government is acting illegally by banning his shows.


Vader

Britain re-occupies Iraq: British Special Forces invited back to Basra as al-CIA-duh goes on the rampage

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'Remember us? We're back!'... two British 'Special Forces' caught 'dressed in Arab garb' and trying to blow up a police checkpoint in Iraq in 2005, their car loaded with explosives and weapons.
Six years after the last British troops left amid a barrage of bombs and mortars, the Iraqi city of Basra is to re-enlist UK military expertise to oversee its security again


Anxious to rid itself of the lawlessness that still plagues Iraq's southern capital, Basra's governor has hired a private military company run by a British general who helped capture the city from Saddam Hussein.

Maj Gen Graham Binns, who is the chief executive of Aegis Defence Services, commanded the 7th Armoured Brigade when it led the siege of Basra in 2003.

Four years later he supervised the handover of the city to Iraqi security forces. Now, amid growing concern about a fresh wave of terrorist violence across the country, Basra's governor has invited Maj Gen Binns's company back to assist at a "strategic level".

Aegis will be asked to provide help with setting up specialised CCTV detection and checkpoint systems across the city, establishing a "ring of steel" security system to thwart suicide bombers.

It will also set up an academy to help security forces improve coordination and intelligence-gathering techniques.

Comment: If you want to understand the explosion of violence in Iraq (again) in the last two years, see also:

U.S. Special Forces deployed in Iraq, again

British Government's Agent Provocateurs Exposed


Arrow Down

Oakland to build surveillance grid tracking political activist's behaviors

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Grants funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and implemented by military contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) are on their way in the City of Oakland to build a Domain Awareness Center (DAC) due to go live in July of 2014. The DAC will cost the taxpayers 10.9 Million dollars and was sold in city council meetings on the fact it could lower local crime rates as seen in the video below.

However, thousands of pages of emails, meeting minutes, and other public documents expose that, behind closed doors, city staffers have not been focusing on how the DAC can lower Oakland's violent crime rate. In over 3,000 pages on the Domain Awareness System the terms "murder," "homicide," "assault," "robbery," and "theft" are never mentioned. So who are they really targeting? The real purpose of the DAC is to track political activists and organizations who speak out against the current establishment in Oakland according to the East Bay Express.

The DAC will include closed-circuit video feeds (CCTV) from all over Oakland as well as 700 cameras at Oakland public schools and 135 cameras at the Oakland Coliseum complex.

The data will be filtered at the DAC, then compared with license plate recognition software, thermal imaging and body movement recognition software, facial recognition software, with subsequently nothing to do with the original pre-approved intent of the DAC.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union studies show "Meta-analyses from the UK, along with preliminary findings from the US, indicate strongly that video surveillance has little to no positive impact on crime."

The government is so corrupt they have to monitor people who provide the public with the truth.

Dollar

100 years of a fraudulent tax system

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The income tax, the Federal Reserve Bank, the draft, the Pentagon...

All these "institutions" were created roughly at the same time. A pro to-version of the FBI and DEA got started then too.

All of them are a violation of the Constitution. All of them are based on fraud.

I don't fight the IRS for one reason and one reason only: they have more guns than I do. But that's the only reason to cooperate with them. The fact is the federal income tax is a total fraud and not supportable by even lightweight legal reasoning.

Wolf

Carla Bruni redux? French president François Hollande's affair with actress Julie Gayet exposed

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© Valery Hache/AFP/Getty ImagesFrench actor Julie Gayet and President François Hollande, who are alleged to be having an affair.
French president says he deplores attack on privacy by Closer magazine, which published alleged images of him visiting actor

The French president, François Hollande, has threatened legal action over claims he is having an affair with an actor.

The glossy celebrity magazine Closer published a special edition on Friday including a seven-page report on the leader's alleged relationship with Julie Gayet.

In a statement from the Elysée Palace, Hollande did not directly deny the report but accused the magazine of breaching his privacy. He said advisers were looking at what action to take against the magazine, which caused a storm in 2012 after publishing paparazzi photographs of the topless Duchess of Cambridge on a private holiday in the south of France.

Bad Guys

SOTT Focus: U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to 'protect women'? Really?

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© Bill Podlich and Jon NyswongeAfghanistan: before and after
As an Afghan woman, I find the propaganda line used by the Yankees and the Brits that they must stay in Afghanistan to 'protect the wimmins' to be particularly breathtaking in its pathological audacity. We know they're really there for the oil and gas pipelines, the rare-earth minerals and the opium, so please, spare us this BS!

This recent Reuters article is a prime example of how the mainstream media distorts reality to fit the imperial agenda:
Violent crime against women in Afghanistan hit record levels and became increasingly brutal in 2013, the head of its human rights commission said on Saturday, a sign that hard won rights are being rolled back as foreign troops prepare to withdraw.
"Hard won rights"? Which rights, exactly? Ever since the appearance of the 'Taliban' and the U.S. invasion and occupation, Afghanistan has been pushed into a downward spiral of destruction, death and misery. You would think that if the U.S. had any intention of improving the situation in Afghanistan during these past 12 years, things would have been... well, improving. But, obviously, that's not the case. In short, if violent crime against women in Afghanistan has hit record levels, it is a direct result of the 12 years of US and British occupation of my home country.

But before we wade further through the mire of this particular Reuters article, let's look back at how media reports described violence against women and women's rights in Afghanistan under U.S. military occupation:

Dollar

UK Cabinet split over George Osborne's plan for £12bn more welfare cuts

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© Hallgreenlabour.co.ukGeorge Osborne
George Osborne is facing a battle with the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, over his plan to impose an extra £12bn in welfare cuts after the next general election.

Conservative sources said Osborne's intervention - a proposal that also prompted Nick Clegg to publicly warn that the chancellor is in danger of making a "monumental mistake" - had highlighted stark differences of approach between the chancellor and Duncan Smith over how to reform Britain's social security system. Osborne demanded that roughly half of future spending cuts in the next parliament come from the welfare budget.

"There is a difference in narrative between George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith who both want to cut back the welfare state," one senior figure said. "There is the lopping off narrative of George Osborne and then there is the narrative of making people less reliant on the welfare state by making work pay. But that takes a long time."

Osborne alarmed Duncan Smith and angered Clegg when he said on Mondaythat £25bn in spending reductions, due to be imposed between 2016-17 and 2017-18, would have to include £12bn in welfare cuts. The move risks creating a cabinet row that runs beyond Monday's public spat.

Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, had estimated after the chancellor's autumn statement last month that such welfare cuts would have to be introduced if day-to-day government spending on departments such as the Home Office is to be reduced no further than the 2.3% a year cut that has been imposed by the coalition since 2011.

Eye 1

It's 30 years late, but Orwell's 1984 has arrived

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I remember reading George Orwell's famous book, "1984," as a young student in junior high. At the time, Orwell's horrific vision of a future ruled by Big Brother, whose spies intruded on every facet of every citizen's life, seemed an impossibly long ways off. We were, after all, in the early '60s, John F. Kennedy was president, and America's state of being was widely described as "Camelot."

In a couple short decades, however, 1984 was chronologically upon us, a grandfatherly figure named Ronald Reagan was president, and the advent of computers allowed the federal government to store almost unimaginable amounts of information in data banks that instantly made paper records obsolete.

Now, a full 30 years after Orwell's predicted date, Big Brother has fully and finally arrived. Ironically, it has done so in the form of a Democratic President, Barack Obama, who campaigned on government transparency, civil rights, tolerance for diversity, and the dignity of individual privacy.

But that's not what happened. Instead, the Federal Bureau of Investigation that vastly overstepped its legal boundaries under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover half a century ago, has been joined by the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and a host of other acronym agencies that describe and implement the "Big Brother" intrusion into every facet of life on a level even Orwell couldn't foresee.

As our personal and business lives evolved from snail mail and landline telephone communication to the digital wonders of cellphones, credit cards, email, and the incredible online offerings of everything from shopping to social media to information on just about any topic worldwide, so too did the sophistication of the federal agencies' data gathering capabilities.

Stormtrooper

The dangerous militarization of our local police forces

Police departments across the U.S. have a growing collection of toys used by the army.

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What a Christmas little Bastrop had! It's still a mystery how Santa Claus got it down the chimney, but Bastrop got a nifty present that most children could only dream about: A big honkin', steel-clad, war toy called MRAP.

But Bastrop is not a six-year-old child, and an MRAP is not a toy. Bastrop is a Texas county of some 75,000 people, and MRAP stands for "Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected." It's a heavily-armored military vehicle weighing about 15 tons - one of several versions of fighting machines that have become the hot, must-have playthings of police departments all across the country.

USA

US Marines deliberately shoot dead four-year-old Afghan boy in 'peaceful' Helmand

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Psychopathic child killers
US troops in Afghanistan have shot and killed a young child in Helmand province, leading to a fresh rebuke from President Karzai just as America is trying to persuade him to allow Western forces to stay in the country after the end of this year.

As the stand-off over a long-term security pact continues, The Times has learnt that the boy, aged about 4, was fatally wounded after an incident involving US Marines in Nad-e Ali district on Tuesday.

It was unclear what led to the shooting. Civilians are often caught in the cross-fire between insurgents and foreign troops but there were claims last night that the area was peaceful and the only shots fired were at the child.

Officials from the Kabul headquarters of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed that the child had been killed and said the incident was under investigation.