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Media ignores calm amid chaos: The story you were never told on 9/11

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Uhm, remind us again, what do we need leaders for?...
Original video produced by BrasscheckTV.com

Narrated by Goodman Green

On Sept. 11 last year, up to 1 million people were evacuated from Lower Manhattan by water "in an emergent network of private and publicly owned watercraft--a previously unplanned activity." It was an American Dunkirk, like the epic rescue of the British army at Dunkirk in 1940 by an armada of similar craft.


Comment: The above appears to have been written in the run-up to the first anniversary of 9/11.

This is very interesting research because it reveals the contrast between how the psychopathic mind sees the world (and wishfully believes that normal people see it too by casting their hysterical, paranoid net far and wide through the media) with how the inherently social human perceives and responds to its environment. We note with sadness, however, that humanity's propensity to "seek information from one another and make inquiries" didn't extend far enough to question what really happened on 9/11.

Perhaps another way of looking at it is that yes, people do ask questions, but they have long since been dumbed down through atrocious diets and overwhelmed by a daily dose of lies, which have combined to subvert these natural pro-social traits towards support of unnatural warfare and torture of fellow humans.


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Addicted to slavery: Amazon.com workers REJECT unionization

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Amazon.com has managed to avoid unions since its creation in 1994. On Wednesday night, the mega-company's workers rejected a union by a vote of 21 to 6.

The purpose of the proposed union would have been to demand higher wages and the right to strike. It would have been formed under the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW).

Mary Osako, a spokeswoman from Amazon, said, "With today's vote against third-party representation, our employees have made it clear that they prefer a direct connection with Amazon. This direct connection is the most effective way to understand and respond to the wants and needs of our employees. Amazon's culture and business model are based on rapid innovation, flexibility, and open lines of direct communication between managers and associates."

After the union was shot down, IAMAW accused Amazon of pressuring their workers to not unionize.

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Revisit the horror of Travis, the bloodthirsty chimpanzee

He lived like a human for 14 years - until he went berserk and mauled his owner's friend.
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Travis the chimp went berserk in 2009, mauling his owner’s friend, Charla Nash.
Travis the chimp suppressed his bloodthirsty nature for 14 years before going on his vicious rampage that left his owner's friend severely disfigured.

It was a bloodbath.

Raised by Sandy Herold in Stamford, Conn., essentially from birth, Travis was thought to have been fully socialized and not pose a threat to his human masters who regarded him as one of the family.

The tremendously powerful primate could open doors using keys, ate at the dinner table with a glass of wine and adored ice cream. He was a big fan of baseball, could drive a car, enjoyed painting and even took baths with Herold.

But on Feb. 16, 2009, Travis snapped.

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Number of Americans who don't believe in climate change on the rise

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More Americans than ever before believe global warming isn't happening, a new study has found.

The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication study found the number has risen to 23 percent, up 7 percentage points since April 2013.

The latest survey, taken in November 2013, finds that the majority of Americans - 63 percent - do believe in climate change, and 53 percent are 'somewhat' or 'very' worried about the consequences.

'The great majority of climate scientists have concluded that global warming is happening, mostly human caused and, if left unchecked, will have serious consequences for human societies and the natural world,' the report's authors said.

Comment: It's unsurprising more people are questioning the global warming political doctrine, although it may very well be more than 23% of Americans. The problem with conducting surveys as these is when questions are based on faulty and limiting assumptions, which prevents an accurate measurement of the situation. It should be obvious the planet is experiencing dramatic changes, but global warming 'science' falls flat in trying to explain them and actively omits evidence that doesn't fit it's theory. Check out these articles for some of the reasons why more people might be questioning the status quo:

Volcanic eruptions, rising CO2, boiling oceans, and why man-made global warming is not even wrong

The top seven global warming alarmist setbacks in 2013

Ice age cometh: No warming left to deny... Global cooling takes over... CET annual mean temperature plunges 1°C since 2000

From 'Hiding the Decline' to 'Burying the Pause': Man-made Global Warming is still a lie


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Google Glass driving charge dismissed

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Cecilia Abadie outside the San Diego traffic court where a ticket for driving while wearing Google Glass was thrown out.
Court tears up ticket issued in San Diego after Cecilia Abadie argues she had glasses switched off while on freeway

A San Diego traffic court has thrown out the case against a woman who authorities said was driving while wearing Google Glass.

Commissioner John Blair ruled that Cecilia Abadie was not guilty because the code she was cited for required proof that the device was in operation. Blair found there was no proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Abadie is believed to be the first motorist cited for wearing Google Glass while driving. She was also found not guilty of speeding.

Abadie, a software developer, said she was among 30,000 people called "explorers" selected to try out Google Glass before the technology goes on sale. The device on a frame worn like glasses features a thumbnail-size transparent display above the right eye. The frames are equipped with a camera, a display and a computer that responds to voice commands.

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Police State USA: Man who gave homeless man 75 cents gets harassed by police

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A man said he was wrongly targeted by Houston police, handcuffed and detained for more than an hour, after he gave a homeless man 75 cents.

Greg Snider said he was driving in downtown Houston around 2 p.m., when he pulled into a parking lot at Commerce and La Branch to take a business call.

"That's when the homeless man came up to me. He said, 'Hey my name is Dave. I'm from Dallas. I'm down on my luck. Do you have any change,'" said Snider.

Snider said he gave the man some change and drove off.

"I had no idea at all what was about to happen," said Snider.

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Case study of a sexual psychopath: Former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt

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In 2004, former Oregon Gov. Neil Goldschmidt admits to having sex with a teen-aged neighbor nearly 30 years earlier.
She was emaciated and looked far older than her 42 years. Her hair was thin, her eyes sunken. Her hands shook; occasionally, her whole body shook.

But she appeared intelligent, well-spoken and quick-witted. She seemed kind.

I was at my desk at The Oregonian, where I was working as a columnist in 2004, when the call came that would lead me to Neil Goldschmidt's victim.

A woman I'd written about a few years earlier was on the line. She had another story for me, she said. Her best friend since childhood was Goldschmidt's victim, and she wanted to tell her story.

Comment: Having gotten away with this crime, the former governor remained one of the most powerful people in Oregon and is now retired from public life, but continues to prey on others.


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Al Qaeda is blocking aid from reaching starving Syrians, says Palestinian minister

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Palestinians children holds bread and pots on January 8, 2014, as they take part in a protest against the poor living conditions at the Yarmuk refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, on January 8, 2014, in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian minister on Tuesday accused "terrorists" fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of blocking aid access to the Yarmuk refugee camp in southern Damascus.

Rebels control swathes of Yarmuk, but for months government forces have imposed a suffocating siege on the camp, where some 20,000 Palestinians live despite terrible shortages.

Palestinian labour minister Ahmad Majdalani, who was visiting Damascus to negotiate aid access to the camp, said its Palestinian residents must not be used as "hostages" in the conflict.

An aid convoy heading to Yarmuk was targeted on Monday "some 100 metres (yards) away from the agreed meeting point," on the edges of the camp, Majdalani said at a press conference in Damascus.

He said "the source of fire was known... to be controlled by Al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham and Suqur al-Golan," directly accusing rebel groups battling Assad's troops.

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The reality of Dr. King's Nightmare

As we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s 85th birthday, we've all come to know his dream. Above all else, he dreamed that one day this nation would rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Yet here's the grim reality facing black America today:

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Distorted worldviews and lack of empathy? Viewers 'unmoved' by bad news

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An academic study suggests that people who are told about awful things happening abroad in the news often remain unmoved by the reports.

Aid agencies refer to so-called compassion fatigue, which means people do not feel sympathy for the victims of war or natural disaster indefinitely.

However, journalists argue that if reporters can find a way of bringing the reality of suffering home, then audiences may feel sufficiently moved to demand that something be done.


Comment: Many might say, it happened "over there", to them, and not here, to me, or they may think that over there they must be "bad" and therefor I'm good. Journalists are having a difficult time reporting truth and can't seem to "find a way" out from within the MSN's reporting of a continuum of lies. The lies help people here, not over there, which may help them tune out.
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people....Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can read further from 'The message sent by America's invisible victims '.