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Meet the MQ-4C Triton - A new Navy drone with the wingspan of a Boeing 757

Spying on humanity's every electronic move is clearly not good enough for the U.S. government. It is also necessary to be able to surveil the species' every move from 50,000 feet in the sky. You know, because of the terrorists and all.

The past couple of years have seen many frightening new advances from the U.S. military. From "Atlas" the 6 Foot Tall Humanoid Robot, to "ARGUS" The World's Highest Resolution Video Surveillance Platform, to domestic drone use, the Department of Defense is hard at work making sure that you can never engage in a private act again without the fear of a hellfire missile landing on your head.

Now here's the latest...a Northrop Grumman drone with the wingspan of a 757.
MQ-4C Triton Drones
© U.S. NavyThe MQ-4C Triton drones are getting flight-tested in Palmdale, California.

Oscar

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls has a paranoid conspiracy theory: 'Comedian Dieudonne is financed by Iran'

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Translated by SOTT.net


Manuel Valls is not releasing the pressure on Dieudonné. As the debate rages about banning the comedian's shows, the president of the republic François Hollande reiterated his vows Tuesday to the religious authorities at the Champs Elysee in a ceremony attended by Manuel Valls in his capacity as Minister of Religious Affairs.

During an 'off-the-record' conversation, the minister disclosed that he had to be "uncompromising" towards Dieudonné, before adding: "And anyway, he is financed by Iran..."

A film produced by an Iranian production company

Dieudonné had reached an agreement with an Iranian production company, Haft Aseman, to finance his film The Anti-Semite, released in 2011.

The film tells the story of a woman with cancer who asks her husband to be psychoanalyzed by a Jew in order to cure his anti-Semitism.

Comment: Who is Manuel Valls? France's Socialist Sarkozy


Attention

Is Kim Jong-Un's aunt now dead as well? Reports claim wife of recently executed uncle has suffered fatal heart attack or committed suicide

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Kim Kyong-hui, 67, is said to have died less than a month after her husband was executed by her nephew, Kim Jong-un.
  • Kim Kyong-hui, 67, is aunt of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, 30
  • Her husband Jang Song-Thaek was executed by Kim Jong-un last month
  • Mrs Kim, whose only child died in 2006, is said to have had heart disease
  • North Korean media say officials believe she is dead but not how or where
The aunt of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has died in mysterious circumstances, it was reported today.

Kim Kyong-hui, 67, whose husband Jang Song-Thaek was executed under Jong-un's orders less than a month ago, is said to have either suffered a heart attack or committed suicide by North Korean media.

There has been speculation on her health and whereabouts since the death on 8 December of her husband, also 67, described as 'scum' by his 30-year-old nephew.

Mrs Kim, who was said to have been receiving treatment for heart disease, reportedly had a heart attack soon after her husband was killed in what is believed to be an attempt by Kim Jong-un to tighten his grip on North Korea.

South Korean newspaper the Chosunilbo reported that North Korean intelligence services believed Mrs Kim to be dead, but had not confirmed how or where she had died.

One theory is that she died abroad while seeking medical treatment - she is known to have visited heart specialists in Singapore and Moscow.

Light Saber

Truth: The Enemy of the State

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the Truth and expose lies.

- Noam Chomsky
Hans and Sophie Scholl
Hans and Sophie Scholl
My book, The Wizards of Ozymandias, was dedicated "To the memory and spirit of Sophie and Hans Scholl and the White Rose, who reminded us what it means to be civilized." These wonderful young people - most in their teens or twenties - lived in Germany during the Hitler regime, and spent much of their time writing and distributing leaflets exposing and criticizing the policies and practices of the Nazi state. They were found out; brought to trial; found guilty of treason, the demoralization of the troops, and abetting the enemy, and summarily beheaded. Sophie's Gestapo interrogator raises the same arguments one hears directed against such modern speakers of truth as Chelsea Manning, Ed Snowden, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, and others. Those whose moral and intellectual standards can rise no higher than to whine "the law is the law," would do well to consider the exchange between Sophie and her prosecutor. The Nazi functionary declares: "Without law, there is no order. What can we rely on if not the law?" Sophie responds: "Your conscience. Laws change. Conscience doesn't."

Ambulance

Merkel cracks pelvis in skiing accident in the Alps

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© AP/Markus SchreiberGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel cracked her pelvis during a skiing accident in the Swiss Alps and will have to cut back on her work schedule for the next three weeks, her spokesman said Monday.

Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said the chancellor suffered what she first thought was just a bruise to her left rear pelvic area while cross-country skiing in southeast Switzerland last month. But doctors later determined it was a "incomplete" bone fracture that will require her to rest for three weeks, he said.

"The doctors' orders are to lie down," Seibert told reporters. In response, Merkel canceled a Wednesday visit to Warsaw, Poland, and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel called off his Thursday trip to Berlin.

Merkel, 59, had been skiing "at low speeds" when her fall occurred, Seibert said. He was unable to say if another person was involved.

She will continue to preside over Cabinet and government meetings, using a walking aid to get around, he added.

Last week, Merkel sent her wishes for a speedy recovery to German Formula One legend Michael Schumacher, who suffered a serious head injury while downhill skiing in France. Schumacher has been ina medically induced coma at Grenoble University Hospital and doctors said Monday he is still in critical but stable condition.

Cult

Rule from the Shadows - The Psychology of Power

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Time to look behind the curtain...

The following documentary looks at the way in which early 20th Century psychological concepts were applied by governments and the totalitarian outcomes that resulted. It also charts the history and development of non-governmental organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations, naming many of its members, and analyses how their discrete meetings influence US government policy.


Comment: The weapon in our arsenal is Political Ponerology. Awareness of psychopathy strips them of the power we project onto them. They're not 'enlightened leaders' in any way, shape or form; they're utterly insane.

Realizing that, we realize that they're not consciously directing global affairs.

So, what then is driving the machine?

That's the $64k question, but in the meantime perhaps we could say that the energy used to power the machine is drawn from the masses of ordinary people.

Stop believing their lies, then they no longer have the energy they need to control you.


Yoda

Pressure mounts on Dieudonne - Power Elite Must be REALLY Scared!

Dieudonne
© Joel Saget/Agence France-PresseControversial French comedian Dieudonne arrives at court in Paris on December 13, 2013 to face charges of defamation, insult and incentive to hate and discrimination.
The mayor of Paris has joined France's interior minister in calling for comedian Dieudonne, whose vitriolic brand of humour targeting Jews has caused outrage, to be banned from the stage.

Anti-racist groups also threatened legal action against a provocative arm gesture Dieudonne makes which has been described as an upside-down Nazi salute.

Dieudonne has been part of France's comedy scene for years, but while he started out with a Jewish comedian in sketches that mocked racism, he gradually veered to the far-right and alienated some fans with anti-Jewish comments -- one of his latest being a joke about gas chambers.

Speaking on Europe 1 radio, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe likened Dieudonne to a criminal who "defends crimes against humanity".

"We must ban the performances (of the comedian)," he said, echoing recent comments made by Interior Minister Manuel Valls.

Dieudonne has been fined several times for defamation, using insulting language, hate speech and racial discrimination, and over his use of the provocative straight arm gesture known as the "quenelle".

But the 47-year-old comedian argues that the horrors of the Holocaust are given too much focus to the exclusion of other crimes, like slavery and racism, and says the gesture merely represents his anti-establishment views.

The "quenelle" has landed several personalities in hot water, including footballer Nicolas Anelka, who recently used it to celebrate a goal.

Bad Guys

US imperial intervention in world conflicts - shape-shifting policies

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Following the Vietnam War, US imperial intervention passed through several phases: In the immediate aftermath, the US government faced a humiliating military defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese liberation forces and was under pressure from an American public sick and tired of war. Imperial military interventions, domestic espionage against opponents and usual practice of fomenting coups d'état (regime change) declined.

Slowly, under President Gerald Ford and, especially President 'Jimmy' Carter, an imperial revival emerged in the form of clandestine support for armed surrogates in Southern Africa - Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau - and neo-liberal military dictatorships in Latin America. The first large-scale imperial intervention was launched during the second half of the Carter Presidency .It involved massive support for the Islamist uprising against the secular government of Afghanistan and a mercenary jihadist invasion sponsored by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the US (1979). This was followed by direct US invasions in Grenada (1983) under President Reagan; Panama (1989) and Iraq (1991) under President Bush Sr. and Yugoslavia (1995 and 1999) under President Clinton.

In the beginning, the imperial revival involved low cost wars of brief duration with few casualties. As a result there were very few voices of dissent, far diminished from the massive anti-war, anti-imperial movements of the early 1970's. The restoration of direct US imperial interventions, unhindered by Congressional and popular opposition, was gradual in the period 1973-1990. It started to accelerate in the 1990's and then really took off after September 11, 2001.

Wall Street

As Citigroup Spun Toward Insolvency in '07- '08, Its Regulator Was Dining and Schmoozing With Citi Execs

Timothy Geithner
© UnknownTimothy Geithner Is Sworn in as 75th U.S. Treasury Secretary As His Wife, Carole, Looks On
Before Timothy Geithner became the 75th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury in 2009, he served as the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for five years. The New York Fed is one of Wall Street's primary regulators. But after leaving his post at the New York Fed, Geithner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services on March 26, 2009 that he was not regulating Wall Street as he earned his $400,000 a year with car, driver and private dining room.

At the 2009 hearing, in response to a question from Congressman Ron Paul, Geithner said:

"That was a very thoughtful set of questions. I just want to correct one thing. I have never been a regulator, for better or worse. And I think you are right to say that we have to be very skeptical that regulation can solve all these problems. We have parts of the system which are overwhelmed by regulation...It wasn't the absence of regulation that was a problem. It was, despite the presence of regulation, you got huge risks built up."

When Geithner says, "for better or worse," I think most Americans would agree that Geithner's failure to know that he was a regulator at an institution he headed for half a decade that employed hundreds of bank examiners was probably worse for the country, not better, given that he oversaw the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression and the most expensive taxpayer bailout in the history of finance.

Vader

Hypocrisy and propaganda: The Guardian laments Sharon

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In a uniquely dishonest piece, The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland paid a tribute today to Israel's veteran PM Ariel Sharon.

According to Freedland, Sharon, "as one of Israel's founders... had the credibility to give up occupied territory - and even to face the demons of 1948". Freedland speculates also that "Sharon's final mission might well have been peace." This is indeed a big statement, but how does Freedland support his creative historical account?

"Sharon's final act" says Freedland, "was to dismantle some of the very settlements he had sponsored. In 2005 he ordered Israel's disengagement from Gaza, seized in the 1967 war in which Sharon had been a crucial, if maverick, commander."

Let alone the fact that Freedland comes short of reminding his readers about Sharon's colossal war crimes, he actually completely distorts the political narrative that led Sharon to the 2005 unilateral disengagement.

Did Sharon have a plan to reconcile with the Palestinians and to address their plight or their right to return to their land? Not at all, we do not have any evidence of Sharon's remorse. The logic behind Sharon's disengagement is simple on the verge of banal. Sharon knew very well that if Israel insisted to maintain itself as the 'Jewish State', it would have to rid itself immediately of Arabs. Late Sharon was becoming aware of the possible implications of the 'Palestinian demographic bomb'. The Palestinians were becoming a majority in areas controlled by Israel.