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Did the Onion just sell out? Top Killary supporter and Zionist now controls satire outlet

Jon Schwarz
The Intercept
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:14 UTC
saban

Haim and Killary. Bringing the world into the toilet, together.
Onion staffers may think twice before they produce more stories like Hillary Clinton Tries To Woo Voters By Rescinding Candidacy, Hillary Clinton To Nation: 'Do Not Fuck This Up For Me,' Hillary Clinton: The Merciless, Unrelenting March To The Presidency, or the signed Hillary Clinton editorial titled I'm Weighing Whether Or Not I Want To Go Through The Hell Of Appealing To You Idiotic, Uninformed Oafs.

Many news outlets covered Univision Communications' purchase last week of a stake in The Onion, the world's leading news publication. According to NPR, Univision bought a 40 percent controlling interest in the company, and also acquired the option to buy the remainder of The Onion in the future.

But what's gotten no attention at all is that Haim Saban, Hillary Clinton's biggest fan and financial supporter, is Univision's co-owner, chairman, and CEO. Saban and his wife, Cheryl, are Hillary Clinton's top financial backers, having given $2,046,600 to support her political campaigns and at least $10 million more to the Clinton Foundation, on whose board Cheryl Saban sits. The Sabans are also generous supporters of the overall Democratic Party infrastructure, donating, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a total of $16.1 million since 1989 to Democratic and liberal candidates, party committees, leadership PACs, and federally focused 527s.

Saban badly wants Hillary Clinton to be elected president this year, vowing to provide "as much as needed" to see it happen, since "she would be great for the country and great for the world," and "on issues I care about, [Clinton] is pristine plus."

Comment: "Great for the country and the world"? Absolutely! Why? Because the issues hardcore Killary fans "care" so deeply about are things every decent American can get behind. You know, things like illegal occupation (of Palestine), extrajudicial murder (of Palestinians), Apartheid, genocide, invading and destroying other countries, supporting terrorists, and generally being a force of devious, mendacious, backstabbing, Machiavellian, morally degenerate psychopathy. If these are the kinds of things that make you smile, by all means, vote Hillary!

But seriously, it's a sad day for independent news, and the freedom of the press in general. Whenever anyone anywhere lends their support to a heartless liar and murderer like Killary Clinton, Baby Jesus suffers a depressive episode, an angel has their wings cut off, and more innocent children get murdered in some Middle Eastern country. When it comes to goals like that, Clinton is pristine plus!

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Fire

Crane catches fire in NYC, NY


RT
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:19 UTC
Manhattan crane catches fire
© michaelausiello / Instagram
A crane appears to have caught fire near Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan. Smoke is billowing into the bright, blue sky. The New York Fire Department is on the scene.

The fire is on 40th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.
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Stormtrooper

The art of disinformation and distraction: How trolls control an internet forum

Milicent Cranor
WhoWhatWhy
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:36 UTC
Trolls
© Tristan Schmurr / Flickr
You may well wonder about the material we have chosen to present below. For one thing, it has been around for a while, though mostly on obscure websites. For another, its authors are unknown. More important, we cannot say how accurate, overall, is the analysis offered in it.

Nonetheless, it is tantalizing — and raises some important issues, no matter its provenance.

The document claims to reveal the techniques — dirty tricks, really — that are practiced by trolls, saboteurs, provocateurs, disinformants, spies and other government operatives, as well as their fellow practitioners of the dark arts.

One thing is certain: we've all experienced the frustration of dealing with this phenomenon. We just don't always recognize it for what it is.

Without even knowing it, you may have witnessed these techniques in action. Perhaps in a political forum that feels somehow manipulated to suppress certain facts and points of view. Or in the deceptive comments that often follow a controversial article. Or in the disruptive behavior at a town hall meeting that seems oddly choreographed. Or at a meeting of activists where the "wrong" people seem to be taking over.

Like toxic mushrooms, the words and actions of these operatives can often look just like the benign stuff. That is why they can so easily poison the well of information.

Comment: It's very likely that the US government has itself engaged in many or all of the above activities in order control the population and direct discussions away from subjects they would prefer remain in the dark. They likely employ many questionable individuals in this pursuit:

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Megaphone

Haiti on brink of bloody revolution: 'The people are just fed up'


Sputnik
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:36 UTC
Protesters in Haiti
© REUTERS/ Jeanty Junior Augustin
Haiti's current government, in an effort to suppress an uprising over alleged voter fraud, may "deploy terror in an effort to break the spirit of the people," international journalist Kim Ives told Radio Sputnik.

Haiti is in the midst of a political crisis, with protesters demanding new elections amid allegations of fraud in the first two rounds of elections held on August 9 and October 25. A third round was scheduled for January 24, but was canceled after tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the capital city of Port au Prince.

Comment: Haiti is in a big mess, no thanks to the US:

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Snakes in Suits

Psychopaths have perverted capitalism

Jon Rappoport
John Rappoport's Blog
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC
capitalism
"An era of corruption is built for those who lead corrupt lives. They revel in the era. They belong. They are home. They don't care what you call the prevailing system, they'll find their way, because they know the unspoken rules and how things actually work. Naïve idealists and academic hair-splitters? The corrupt eat them for breakfast." (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
The recent acceleration of attacks on capitalism leaves no ground un-scorched. Whatever capitalism is, it's all bad. It needs to be banned. A wiser and saner alternative must be found—and naturally that alternative will be handed down from Above, where wondrous altruists in government can point us toward the Promised Land.

For the sake of humanity, they will assume the reins of power. They'll organize businesses and companies and corporations under the umbrella of government, and all will be well.

Forget the fact that they cooperate and collude and conspire and commit crimes with their erstwhile corporate and banking partners. That's a minor footnote.
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Snakes in Suits

Woman sues San Francisco police and city after her rape kit goes untested for years

Kaitlyn Schallhorn
The Blaze
Sat, 23 Jan 2016 19:42 UTC
Heather Marlowe

Heather Marlowe
When Heather Marlowe was drugged and raped in 2010, she went to the hospital and reported the crime to the police.

After the San Francisco woman did not receive any word regarding her case, she took matters into her own hands and began to investigate the investigation. Marlowe discovered that her rape kit, like hundreds of others, remained untested.

Marlowe is now suing the City of San Francisco as well as the San Francisco Police Department for the mishandling of her case. The lawsuit alleges that not only did the police department not test the rape kit, which can contain DNA evidence, a law enforcement official told her that he would not prosecute her case unless she met with her alleged rapist.

According to the lawsuit, Marlowe was taken by a police officer to the house where she said she believed the incident to have occurred during the annual Bay to Breakers event in San Francisco.

"[Officer Joe] Cordes instructed Marlowe to make contact with suspect, and flirt with him in order to elicit a confession that suspect had indeed raped Marlowe," the federal lawsuit filed earlier in January alleged. "Cordes also instructed Marlowe to set up a date with suspect to prove that Marlowe could identify suspect in a crowd. Cordes told Marlowe that if she refused to engage in these actions, SFPD would cease its investigation of her rape."
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Passport

Greek island of Lesvos runs out of cemetery space for dead refugees washing ashore


ekathimerini
Sat, 10 Oct 2015 19:30 UTC
refugess greece

Flowers are placed on the grave of an unidentified migrant, who drowned at sea during an attempt to cross a part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast, at the Saint Panteleimon cemetery of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesvos, October 7.
He stood on the mud, crows cawing overhead, pointing at unmarked graves. "Here's a mother with her baby. And here's another young woman. Over there, that's a 60-year-old man."

Buried beneath low mounds of earth, facing Mecca, lay Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian refugees who drowned this summer in the Aegean Sea trying to reach Europe in flimsy inflatable boats.

Scanning the area, Christos Mavrakidis, a somber, hardened man who looks after one of the main cemeteries on Greece's Lesvos island, listed the years of other deaths: "2013, 2014, 2015."

Now there is no room left in the narrow plot of land in the pauper's section of St. Panteleimon cemetery, close to where the colonnaded tombs of wealthy Greeks are built in the classical Greek style, and flowers adorn lavish marble graves.

"Something must be done," he said. "They are a lot. They are too many."

Comment: For all the children who drowned and keep drowning in the Aegean Sea

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Pistol

No charges for LAPD cops who fired 107 shots at innocent woman and her daughter during Chris Dorner manhunt

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:22 UTC
bullet holes in truck

Detectives investigate a scene where officers fired on a vehicle they believed was Christopher Dorner's.
Exposing the double standard between police and civilians, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday that no criminal charges will be filed against the eight LAPD officers responsible for nearly killing an innocent woman and her daughter. Although the cops ambushed the unarmed women without warning and fired over 100 bullets without provocation, the district attorney justified the case of mistaken identity due to the fact that the officers involved were afraid and incompetent.

At 5 a.m. on February 7, 2013, Margie Carranza and her mother, Emma Hernandez, were delivering newspapers throughout a residential neighborhood in Torrance when eight LAPD cops suddenly opened fire. As Carranza suffered cuts from the flying glass, Hernandez was shot twice in the back while trying to protect her daughter. One bullet exited just above Hernandez's collarbone, while the other bullet struck her lower back, near her spine. A fragment of shattered glass also flew into her eye.

After firing 107 bullets at the innocent women, the LAPD cops ordered them out of the vehicle and immediately realized their mistake. Instead of a 33-year-old black man, two Hispanic women exited the pickup truck and demanded to know, "Why did you shoot at us?"
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Bomb

Devious terror plot exposed! Australian teen charged for planning to stuff a kangaroo with explosives, paint an ISIS flag on it and set it loose on police

Piper McGowin
The Daily Sheeple
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:32 UTC
kangaroo bomb plot
Is it just me, or are the highly publicized events in the war on terror taking a turn for the utterly absurd?

Australian teens have now been handed multiple charges for what we're being told is a rather involved terror plot... to load C4 into a kangaroo and paint an ISIS flag on it, after which it would be set loose at police.

Seems really plausible, right?

The attack was set for Anzac Day in Melbourne. A 15 year old has already been charged. Nineteen-year-old Sevdet Besim has recently pleaded not guilty to four charges related to the terrorist kangaroo plot. He faces a life sentence. The two reportedly communicated via telegrams because... I guess... they really wanted to make sure there was a paper trail old school style on such an amazing terror plot?
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USA

The lunacy of the War on Drugs: Woman who sold dog food as heroin to informant facing 19 years in prison

William N. Grigg
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:57 UTC
woman jail sell dog food police

Megan Meyer of Plymouth, Wisconsin
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In a relatively free and reasonable society, heroin addiction would be treated as a medical problem, not as an excuse to put people in cages. The perverted priorities of prohibition, however, dictate that people struggling with addiction not only be punished as criminals, but be manipulated into an obscene inverted pyramid scheme in which they are offered a reduction in punishment for informing on their friends. This helps explain how 22-year-old Megan Meyer of Plymouth, Wisconsin faces up to 19 years in prison for selling fake heroin to a police informant.

Last November, Meyer — who was on probation for previous drug-related convictions — was arrested after officers affiliated with the Lake Winnebago Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group (MEG), a federally subsidized narcotics task force, used another socially marginalized petty offender to target her for a "controlled buy." Since Meyer was already "in the system," police could have arrested her for probation violations without the trouble of manufacturing a drug charge. The incentive structure of the "war on drugs" dictated a different course of action, however. Accordingly, a confidential informant (most likely someone looking for a "downward departure" on her own charges) bought a small quantity of what looked like heroin and an unmarked pill identified as Percocet.

Lab tests showed that the alleged heroin was actually crushed dog food, and the "Percocet" was actually an aspirin tablet. In a society that valued property rights, and recognized that the government has no authority to punish people for freely consuming anything they choose, Meyers might have been charged with defrauding her customer. As things stood, the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Office had to wait for another opportunity to carry out a triumphant drug bust.
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