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Blogger "Mish" is fined 8,000 Euros by France for Freedom of Speech

Michael Krieger
LibertyBlitzkrieg
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:26 UTC
Mish
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Well if this isn't one of the more ridiculous things I have read in a while, I don't know what is. Many of my readers are probably familiar with Mike "Mish" Shedlock, who writes a very popular economics/finance blog.

He has a habit of doing what I like best, challenging propaganda, engaging in critical thought and a fearlessness when it comes to saying what he believes.

It appears that such behavior is frowned upon by French banksters and their minions in government.

Incredibly, Mish was fined 8,000 euros for quoting a French blogger's analysis of Societe Generale's leverage ratio. He was also summoned to appear in front of a tribunal in France.

Expect more of this sort of thing as the status quo loses more and more credibility and struggles to censor alternative narratives of what is actually happening. We have even seen similar calls here in the U.S., such as when Eric Posner, a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, bashed the First Amendment in a Slate article.
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Why the CIA cooperated in the killing of JFK


BrasscheckTV
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:52 UTC

The Secret Service stood down.

Dallas and Texas law enforcement stood down.

Military intelligence, which is normally enrolled to provide presidential security, stood down.

The FBI stood down.

These elements opened the door to the assassination, but did not have the resources to deliver the shooters and the complicated cover story and witness elimination program that followed.

Corrupt elements of the CIA and their long term friends and colleagues in organized crime did.

And they did it because their very survival was at stake.

After decades of non-investigation by the epically corrupt J. Edgar Hoover, organized crime was on the receiving end of a massive attack by Robert Kennedy - the president's brother and Attorney General.

At the same time, his brother was going after organized crime, JFK was going after the criminal elements that had taken over the CIA.
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Who mind-programmed Sirhan Sirhan? The story behind the RFK assassin


Brasscheck TV
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:34 UTC

A brainwashed patsy

Just put a gun in his hand and command him to fire. This is how hypno-programmers, the "czars of brainwashing," made sure RFK shut his mouth.

The real shooting takes place from a different location.

Patsy can't remember what he did or why and goes to jail for the rest of his life.

The real killers walk free.

The fascinating, disturbing, dark underbelly revealing some of the depraved history of US government brainwashing, hypno-programming and more.

Comment: The ten-hour documentary Evidence of Revision can be ordered here

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Privacy's worst nightmare: Company advertises over one billion license plate records


RT
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:43 UTC
databases for license plate
© Reuters / Amr Abdallah Dalsh
As police agencies across the United States adopt license plate readers in rapidly growing numbers, the private companies involved in the industry are making their profits at the nightmarish cost of the public's privacy.

The use of license plate readers, or LPRs, has skyrocketed in recent years, with hundreds of police departments from coast-to-coast acquiring these state-of-the-art systems lately that can shoot hundreds of images of car tags a minute and then match that information with constantly growing databases containing automobiles of interest.

Law enforcement officers use LPRs to check for stolen cars in some cities, and reposition agencies elsewhere rely on the systems to see what cars can be collected for a bounty. In some locales, police officials have even credited the technology with helping to catch violent criminals by scouring vast databases for license plate images shot by any LPR camera at the agency's disposal and attempting to pinpoint what car was near a crime scene when it happened and then learning more about that suspicious automobile. According to the Law Officer policing website, the technology has been used "to solve literally hundreds of thousands of crimes across the country."

With data retention laws often absent and oversight all too lax, however, privacy advocates are warning that the private companies that sell LPR systems and administer their associated databases are able to do much more than just help officers locate cars and issue arrests.
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Best of the Web: Confession: Jury verdict prove CIA killed JFK

Dr. Kevin Barrett
PressTV
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 07:04 UTC
JFK Assassination
© PressTV
As the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy (JFK) assassination approaches, the American people and the American media are living in two different worlds.

The corporate media is still pushing the myth that JFK was killed by a communist lone nut named Lee Harvey Oswald. But most of the American people are not buying it. Since the early 1990s, a strong majority of Americans has believed that JFK was killed by a conspiracy, and that the CIA had a hand in it.

The American people are right.

Overwhelming evidence confirms that the JFK assassination, like the assassinations and overthrows of so many of the world's best leaders, was a CIA operation. But the American media - including the foundation-funded pseudo-alternative media - is reluctant to report the evidence.

I encountered the media's distaste for JFK truth when I was a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin in 1980. Shortly before the 17th anniversary of the assassination, I wrote an article assembling the evidence that the CIA killed JFK, and submitted it to several media outlets. The only one that responded was The Progressive, a leading American left-wing magazine, edited by the normally courageous Erwin Knoll. Erwin told me he liked my article, and that if it were on any other subject he would have published it. But he had vowed to never publish any JFK conspiracy article unless it answered more questions than it raised. My article, he said, raised more questions than it answered.
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French government gambles on overhaul of country's complex tax system

Ingrid Melander
Reuters
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:02 UTC
Jean-Marc Ayrault
© ReutersFrench Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault attends the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris November 13, 2013.
France's embattled government has taken a gamble by announcing an overhaul of the country's complex tax system, a move it hopes will prevent popular anger from growing further but which could well backfire.

Violent protests over a green levy, fierce business criticism over their tax burden and record-low popularity dragged even lower by plans for more contributions in 2014, have pushed the government to announce a revamp of the tax system.

After back-pedaling on several occasions over the past few months over individual tax plans - including the green levy on trucks, now suspended - the government hopes the move can bring more clarity and reassure voters on an issue now at the top of concerns ahead of local and EU elections next year.

But by touching on an issue which has become very contentious amid raging unemployment and a stagnating economy, the already very unpopular government is taking a risk, analysts said.
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McDonald's advice to underpaid employees: Break food into pieces to keep you full

Alex Kane
AlterNet Org
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:10 UTC
McDonald
© AlterNet Org
The latest friendly advice from McDonald's to their low-wage workers includes tips on how to better handle stress--as well as how to fill yourself up better with dinner. The fast-food corporation instructs workers that breaking food "into pieces" will keep you full.

The advice was published on the "McResource" website, meant to give tips to fast-food workers. While you need to be a McDonald's worker to log-in to the website, details of the advice have been publicized by the group Low Pay Is Not OK, a union-backed group seeking to organize low-wage workers at McDonald's. The effort is part of the larger campaign to push for living wages, benefits and the right to organize among low-wage workers across a variety of industries.

A video published by Low Pay Is Not OK shows the website's advice to workers. One piece of advice given is for workers to take two vacations a year--an impossible task given that many employees work two low-wage jobs. It tells workers to "sing away stress" because it "can lower your blood pressure." And it tells McDonald's employees to break "food into pieces," which "results in eating less and still feeling full."
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Hawaii lawmaker 'solves' homeless problem by destroying their stuff with a sledgehammer

David Edwards
Hawaii News Now
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:11 UTC
hnn-bower
© Hawaii News now
A Democratic state representative in Hawaii says he wanted to do something constructive to solve the state's homeless situation so he has taken to the streets and is destroying people's possessions with a sledgehammer.

"I got tired of telling people I'm trying to pass laws," state Rep. Tom Brower told Hawaii News Now. "I want to do something practical that will really clean up the streets."

Brower showed the TV News crew how he scours streets for shopping carts that homeless people use to transport their belongings and then and uses a sledgehammer to destroy them.

"I find abandoned junk, specifically shopping carts, and I remove them," he explained. "I also create a situation where those carts can't be pushed around the city. I think it's a good thing."

Mental Health America of Hawaii Executive Director Marya Grambs said that Brower's tactics were sending the wrong message.

"His message to the public is that it's okay to commit acts of violence against homeless people, against vulnerable people. It's okay for vigilante justice," she noted.
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Australian politician Clive Palmer says green groups like Greenpeace are funded by CIA to ensure U.S. global economic hegemony

Matt Wordsworth
ABC News, Australia
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:46 UTC
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Apparently the reason why Greenpeace is so well equipped is because it's a front for US imperialism
Mining magnate Clive Palmer has accused the United States government of funding environmental group Greenpeace via the CIA to undermine Australia's coal mining sector.

Mr Palmer made the extraordinary claim over Greenpeace's plan to use the court system to tie up coal mining applications.

He is angry at Greenpeace's plan to use lawyers to thwart future coal mining projects and claims funding is coming from US environmental charity the Rockefeller Foundation.

He alleges it is funded by the CIA and says it is trying to harm Australia's industry and help American interests.

Mr Palmer referred to a paper produced by environmental group Greenpeace which calls for action to stop the expansion of the Queensland coal industry.

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Russia rebuilds ties with Vietnam

Roberto Tofani
Asia Times Online
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:55 UTC
Putin in Vietnam
© Unknown
An old friend is never forgotten. After the collapse of old ideologies and Cold War patron-client relations, Russia and Vietnam are now rebuilding robust commercial, industrial and strategic ties.

Relations have "stood the test of time, having lived through the numerous tragic events of the 20th century, drastic changes in the world as well as in our countries", Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in an article published in Vietnam's state media ahead of his November 12 state visit in Hanoi. He later quoted Vietnamese independence hero Ho Chi Minh, saying the deceased revolutionary's words still provided "spiritual instruction" for both nations' peoples.

Rhetoric aside, Putin and his Vietnamese counterpart, Truong Tan Sang, signed 17 bilateral agreements for enhanced strategic and energy cooperation. The bilateral deals will boost Moscow's role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) buoyant and integrating economies. They will also insert Russian influence into escalating territorial disputes in the South China Sea that pit Vietnam against China.
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