ISIS proclaimed Islamic order on territories they captured both in Iraq and Syria. The area they now hold contains economically vital oil sites. Where does ISIS get the funding it needs to snatch power in the region? Even Washington has played its role in the rise of ISIS - as RT's Marina Portnaya explains.
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US installed puppet in Ukraine Yatsenyuk, who has no qualms calling 7 million people living in the SE of Ukraine evil and inhuman. How that will encourage the people of the southeast to accept the Kiev junta is not known.
US installed puppet in Ukraine Yatsenyuk, who has no qualms calling 7 million people living in the SE of Ukraine evil and inhuman. How that will encourage the people of the southeast to accept the Kiev junta is not known.
The way to remove a democratically elected President (and/or Prime Minister) is by constitutional means; and a coup is not constitutional - not even in Ukraine, and it's certainly not supposed to be the constitutional means in the U.S. Yet we immediately recognized the coup-government, because we had actually installed it.
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NSA, spying on the whole world.
NSA, spying on the whole world.
The Washington Post published on Monday official documents provided by Mr. Snowden that shows new proof concerning the extent of the NSA's vast surveillance apparatus.
One of the documents - a file marked "top secret" from 2010 and approved by the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - shows that the NSA has been authorized to conduct surveillance on 193 foreign government, as well as various factions and organizations around the world, including the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorized to intercept information from individuals 'concerning' all but four countries on Earth, according to top-secret documents," journalists Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman wrote for the Post.
Comment: Looks like the NSA has the whole world covered. And some still deny the existence of an American Empire... Thankfully, all empires fall, and the U.S. will be no exception.
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Activists and politicians called Facebook's experiment 'scandalous', 'spooky' and 'disturbing'.
Activists and politicians called Facebook's experiment 'scandalous', 'spooky' and 'disturbing'.
It has published details of a vast experiment in which it manipulated information posted on 689,000 users' home pages and found it could make people feel more positive or negative through a process of "emotional contagion".
In a study with academics from Cornell and the University of California, Facebook filtered users' news feeds - the flow of comments, videos, pictures and web links posted by other people in their social network. One test reduced users' exposure to their friends' "positive emotional content", resulting in fewer positive posts of their own. Another test reduced exposure to "negative emotional content" and the opposite happened.
The study concluded: "Emotions expressed by friends, via online social networks, influence our own moods, constituting, to our knowledge, the first experimental evidence for massive-scale emotional contagion via social networks."
Comment: Creepy.
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While the main objective of the meeting was to support the Mujahidin military base in Iraq, Camp Asharaf and their fight against Iran, MEK president Maryam Rajavi seized the opportunity to violently lash out against Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and rejoice over the progress achieved by the Islamic Emirate in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
Comment: Can it be more obvious that the West are sponsoring ISIL and terrorism and that the chaos in the Middle East is by design?
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The negative growth rate of -2.9 percent is itself an understatement. This number was achieved by deflating nominal GDP with an understated measure of inflation. During the Clinton regime, the Boskin Commission rigged the inflation measure in order to cheat Social Security recipients out of their cost-of-living adjustments. Anyone who purchases food, fuel, or anything knows that inflation is much higher than the officially reported number.
It is possible that the drop in first quarter real GDP is three times the official number.
Regardless, the difference is large between the January forecast of +2.6 percent growth and the decline as of the end of March of -2.9 percent.
Any economist who is real and unpaid by Wall Street, the government, or the Establishment knew that the +2.6 percent forecast was a crock. Americans' incomes have not grown except for the one percent, and the only credit growth is in student loans, as those many who cannot find jobs mistakenly turn to education is the answer.
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#1 The Bank for International Settlements has issued a new report which warns that "dangerous new asset bubbles" are forming which could potentially lead to another major financial crisis. Do the central bankers know something that we don't, or are they just trying to place the blame on someone else for the giant mess that they have created?
#2 Argentina has missed a $539 million debt payment and is on the verge of its second major debt default in 13 years.
Comment: It is far better to be prepared for collapse than caught unaware.
See: Should one prepare for a collapse or not?
Also see our Forum thread here on Preparedness.
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Arseny Yatsenyuk has more in common with Ukraine's Neo-Nazi political parties Right Sektor and Svoboda than perhaps most people think.
Arseny Yatsenyuk has more in common with Ukraine's Neo-Nazi political parties Right Sektor and Svoboda than perhaps most people think.
Yatsenyuk made his comments amid ongoing fighting in the east of Ukraine, where Kiev is waging war upon fellow Ukrainians, shelling and bombing cities in provinces that refuse to recognize the regime's seizure of power during late 2013 - early 2014. After a significant loss of life during one of Kiev's many ill-conceived military operations, Yatsenyuk stated:
They lost their lives because they defended men and women, children and the elderly who found themselves in a situation facing a threat to be killed by invaders and sponsored by them subhumans. First, we will commemorate the heroes by wiping out those who killed them and then by cleaning our land from the evil.From fabricating an "invasion," to claims of "threatened" lives, to the labeling of Russians as "subhuman," Yatsenyuk has recited fully the script of Nazism used to justify its various historical crimes against humanity. Kiev's forces in eastern Ukraine are not fighting an "invasion," but constitute an invading force themselves, making incursions into eastern Ukraine and holding territory only through unmitigated brutality against local populations clearly collaborating with armed self-defense forces intent on resisting Kiev's authority.
Comment: Is it any wonder then that the mostly Russian population of Crimea called for a referendum that would bring them under the protection of the Russian Federation? And that those living in the eastern regions of Ukraine, who also have strong cultural and ethnic ties to Russia would be terrified of the new regime in power in Kiev? They have every right to be.
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As The Times reports, based on documents which were turned over to plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Blackwater... According to the documents, the investigators found numerous violations, including changing of security details without the State Department's approval, reducing the number of guard details and storing of automatic weapons and ammunition in Blackwater employees' private rooms.
There were also discipline problems, with guards having parties with heavy drinking and female visitors, including one episode in which an armored Blackwater car was requisitioned by four drunken employees, who drove to a private party and crashed the $180,000 vehicle into a concrete barrier.
Comment: The disparity between truth and lies in the Ukraine crisis has become so obvious, it's a wonder that anyone still buys the MSM swill being shoved down Americans' throats. Opinions on the conflict are thus a clear indicator of where an individual's true loyalties lie: those who buy the lies are either lying themselves (e.g., the psychopaths Obama, Nuland, etc.) or give truth absolutely no value. Either way, a stand must be taken. Do you support truth and justice? Or lies and brutal psychopathy?