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Best of the Web: Police state now! Monitoring Internet chatter the 'vital frontline in war against popular protest movements'

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An actual British government propaganda campaign poster to remind the people why they need totalitarian government

Comment: The following UK Independent article reveals the true reason for the Woolwich 'terror attack' and subsequent moves to increase 'the watchful eyes' of the British police state. The British government was quick to cast the south London knifing (by people MI5 tried to recruit as informants and whose families have stated were manipulated for years by the security services) as a 'terrorist attack', recalling the entire cabinet for an emergency meeting to discuss reviving legislation that had previously been shelved because the Liberal Democrats leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg resisted this Orwellian move. The Communications Data Bill requires Internet service providers and mobile phone companies to maintain records of everyone's internet browsing activity (including social media), email correspondence, voice calls, internet gaming, you name it. Although the draconian law is now couched in terms of clamping down on 'extremist Islamic websites', it's clear that its real goal is to monitor online chatter, gauge the general mood, then insert sockpuppets to 'win hearts and minds' and dampen the potential for mass protest movements overthrowing their despotic rule.

The "would-be terrorists" are YOU.


Experts are trying to pre-empt terrorism by bombarding jihadist websites with alternative messages

The major battle in the war against extremism is being fought over the internet by elite teams stationed behind keyboards and engaged in winning the hearts and minds of would-be terrorists.

It is a sign of the increasing understanding that small-scale, unsophisticated attacks such as the one in Woolwich are a growing threat: the Government, police and other agencies are involved in a propaganda war to counter extremism.

Comment: This has in fact been going on for quite some time; here the British government is using the recent so-called 'terrorist attack' to retrospectively win public approval for totalitarian measures that are already up and running.

See also:

CIA media infiltration is real: From Operation Mockingbird to Pentagon social media trolls

The Pentagon and its Sock Puppets

"Infocrafting" or Propaganda Online? USA Today journalists targeted by Pentagon sockpuppets


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Obama losing the moral authority to lead this nation says Rand Paul

Tea party-backed Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday warned President Barack Obama that he was in danger of "losing the moral authority to lead this nation" because the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) unfairly scrutinized the tax-exempt status of conservative groups.

"I don't know if people were targeted for conservative religious values or just conservative political values, and sometimes there's an overlap," Paul told ABC's Martha Raddatz, adding that the IRS scandal, last year's terrorist attacks in Benghazi and the news that some journalists were investigated for national security leaks were all taking away from "the president's moral authority to lead the nation."

"Nobody questions his legal authority," the Kentucky Republican explained. "But I think he's really losing the moral authority to lead this nation. And he really needs to put a stop to this."

"If no one is fired over this, I really think it's going to be trouble for him trying lead in the next four years," Paul added.

The president announced earlier this month, that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had asked for and received a letter of resignation from Steven Miller, the IRS acting commissioner.

Comment: This is just the tip of the iceberg - Obama lost what little "moral authority" he had ages ago!
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Obama speech: 'Stop me before I kill again'
Bradley Manning: A tale of liberty lost in America


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Obama speech: 'Stop me before I kill again'

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume thinks it is very peculiar for President Barack Obama to call for executive power to be scaled back.

Hume noted on Fox News Sunday that Obama had "made generous use of" drone strikes.

"There's an odd quality to this whole thing, and it is almost like he's saying, with regard to the drone policy, 'We need something to stop me before I kill again,'" he explained. "We can see that in his support on an unrelated matter on the shield law for journalists. He's carried out these oversteps in pursuing journalists who are doing their job, and now he says 'we need a shield law,' as if to say we need a law to protect them from us."

Obama called for additional oversight of drone strikes on suspected terrorists in a major speech at the National Defense University on Thursday. Earlier this month, the President called for legislation to protect journalists from being coerced into revealing their sources.

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Criminalising journalism: Obama administration facing widespread backlash over seized phone records

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© Doug Mills/The New York TimesAttorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. defended the seizure of journalists’ telephone records, calling an article one of “the top two or three most serious leaks” in decades.

The Obama administration has been accused of criminalising the press, as US lawmakers called for an independent investigator to look into the way the Justice Department conducts cases involving reporters.

President Barack Obama is facing widespread criticism for the aggressive way in which his government investigates leaks, after it emerged that officials had secretly seized phone records from the Associated Press and monitored personal emails of the Fox News reporter James Rosen.

Mr Obama last week directed his Attorney General, Eric Holder, to review the Justice Department's procedures. Mr Holder is due to report back in July - but his position as the head of the department at the centre of the controversy has led lawmakers to question whether he is the right person to lead the review.

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Illinois illegally seizes bees resistant to Monsanto's Roundup; Kills remaining Queens

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The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, without providing him with a search warrant and before the court hearing on the matter, reports Prairie Advocate News.

Behind the obvious violations of his Constitutional rights is Monsanto. Ingram was researching Roundup's effects on bees, which he's raised for 58 years. "They ruined 15 years of my research," he told Prairie Advocate, by stealing most of his stock.

A certified letter from the Ag Dept.'s Apiary Inspection Supervisor, Steven D. Chard, stated:
"During a routine inspection of your honeybee colonies by ... Inspectors Susan Kivikko and Eleanor Balson on October 23, 2011, the bacterial disease 'American Foulbrood' was detected in a number of colonies located behind your house.... Presence of the disease in some of your colonies was confirmed via test results from the USDA Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland that analyzed samples collected from your apiary...."
Ingram can prove his bees did not have foulbrood, and planned to do so at a hearing set in April, but the state seized his bees at the end of March. They have not returned them and no one at the Ag Dept. seems to know where his bees are.

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'See Something, Say Something' Propaganda: DHS Pushes Fear on Indy 500

Homeland Security is quickly taking over all our major sporting events. What's next? Shopping malls? Hospitals? Grocery stores? (Terrorists gotta eat, after all). Your porch? The TSA has caught a lot of terrorists you know (or none ever).


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IMF chief Lagarde avoids charges in French payout scandal

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Do as I say, not as I do
IMF chief Christine Lagarde avoided immediate charges Friday but was named an "assisted witness" after French prosecutors grilled her for two days over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon when she was finance minister.

"My status as assisted witness is not a surprise," she told reporters.

"I have always acted in the best public interest and in accordance with the law."

The status of assisted witness falls between that of simple witness and being placed under formal investigation and implies there is some evidence against the person questioned.

"My explanations came as a response to the doubts that had been brought up regarding the decisions I had taken at the time," Lagarde said, adding that she was heading back to Washington to brief the board of the International Monetary Fund.

Lagarde, 57, was questioned for a total of 24 hours by prosecutors working for a court that probes cases of ministerial misconduct over her 2007 handling of a row that resulted in 400 million euros ($515 million) being paid to controversial business figure Bernard Tapie.

Had she been charged Lagarde's future would have been in question, though the IMF expressed confidence in its first woman leader.

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Flashback The interests behind France's intervention in Mali

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French soldiers, mercenaries for Areva and other French monopolists
France has intervened in Mali in an effort to stop the advance of Islamist rebels - at the request of the government in Bamako and with the UN's blessing. But critics accuse Paris of pursuing a neo-colonialist agenda.

It's unclear how long France's military campaign in Mali will last, since preventing radical Islamists from taking control of the country requires stabilizing the region for the long term. The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), a Göttingen-based NGO, has called on France to present a realistic plan for achieving its goals.

"After all, the Islamists will use their old strategy and pull back quickly in order to regroup with the protection of mountains and caves," explained STP spokesperson Ulrich Delius.

Officially, President Francois Hollande's government says that security interests explain its decision to intervene, and Paris insists it wants to act early to prevent the rebels in Western Africa from becoming a danger to Europe.

Comment: Make no mistake about it; just as France and friends created 'the terrorist threat' in Libya and Syria, so they did in Mali and Niger.


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Self-inflicted wound: Car bombings in Niger target French-run uranium plant, army base as Hollande vows to 'destroy' attackers

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What better way to fight a war on terror than to create and control the terrorists to do exactly what you need them to do?
Twin car bombings at an army base and a French-run uranium mine in northern Niger killed at least 10 people Thursday, in unprecedented attacks claimed by an Islamist group fighting French-led troops in neighboring Mali.

The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) claimed the bombings, calling them punishment for Niger's participation in a French-led military offensive against Islamist extremists who had seized control of northern Mali last year and ruled it under a brutal version of Islamic law for some 10 months.

"Thanks to Allah, we have carried out two operations against the enemies of Islam in Niger," MUJAO spokesman Abu Walid Sahraoui told Agence France Presse.

"We attacked France and Niger for its cooperation with France in the war against sharia (Islamic law)."

Comment: Fomenting terrorism: Mysterious fatal crash offers rare look at U.S. commando presence in Mali (July 9, 2012)

French special forces 'to protect' Niger uranium mines (Jan 24, 2013)

The U.S. was operating in Mali months prior to French incursion: Meet the "intelligence and security command"

Blonde haired, blue-eyed American and Canadian 'terrorists' led international 'al Qaeda' brigade in siege on BP gas plant in Algeria, while 'English-speaking Islamic militants of European appearance' roam Mali

France launches war in Mali in bid to secure resources, stamp out national rights struggles


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French government ministers implicated in scandal to use police to protect themselves from tax evasion

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© AFPDo as we say, not as we do
High ranking ministers in the French government can expect a grilling in the coming days as an investigation into a tax fraud scandal got underway on Tuesday. The probe was set up after the former budget minister admitted having a secret bank account.

France's parliament on Tuesday kicked off a high-profile public probe into a major tax fraud scandal that has shaken the Socialist government and the squeaky-clean image it is seeking to project.

The special parliamentary commission will examine whether the government mishandled the scandal, in which former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac repeatedly lied about owning an undeclared foreign bank account.

Political heavyweights such as Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici, Interior Minister Manuel Valls and Justice Minister Christiane Taubira will be given a grilling, as will Cahuzac himself.

On Tuesday, journalists at investigative news website Mediapart - which broke the story in December - kicked off proceedings by alleging police interference in the case.