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Hollywood is a propaganda machine that promotes war on behalf of the Deep State

Tom Secker and Matthew Alford
Medium
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Plato's cave
© David SwansonPlato’s Cave reimagined for the Hollywood era 
US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows

Tom Secker and Matthew Alford report on their astonishing findings from trawling through thousands of new US military and intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents reveal for the first time the vast scale of US government control in Hollywood, including the ability to manipulate scripts or even prevent films too critical of the Pentagon from being made — not to mention influencing some of the most popular film franchises in recent years. This raises new questions not only about the way censorship works in the modern entertainment industry, but also about Hollywood's little known role as a propaganda machine for the US national security apparatus.

When we first looked at the relationship between politics, film and television at the turn of the 21st century, we accepted the consensus opinion that a small office at the Pentagon had, on request, assisted the production of around 200 movies throughout the history of modern media, with minimal input on the scripts.

How ignorant we were.

More appropriately, how misled we had been.
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Smoking

The smoking ban ten years later - What did it actually accomplish?

Christopher Snowdon
Health Spectator
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
smoking ban
Saturday sees the tenth anniversary of the smoking ban in England. A curse or a blessing depending on your point of view, July 1st 2007 was - for me - the day when the paternalism of the 'public health' lobby became overtly coercive.

I was a smoker in those days, but despite quitting five years ago I still loathe this vindictive piece of legislation as much as ever. Perhaps it's because it offends my principles, or perhaps because it has morphed into a vaping ban in many venues, but the smoking ban is the wound that won't heal.

The most obvious adverse consequence of the smoking ban was the destruction of a large part of Britain's night time economy, as Rob Lyons has shown in his recent report. The anti-smoking lobbyists who claimed that the ban would lead to a renaissance for pubs have been strangely quiet on this subject since the 'temporary' drop in sales seen in the summer of 2007 (which was initially blamed on wet weather) turned into a permanent slump.
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Stock Up

The truth about North Korea: Its economy is booming

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 21:51 UTC
Pyongyang
As North Korea tests another long range missile reports from North Korea confirm that far from being in crisis its economy is in the midst of a boom.

Both the US and Russia say that the Hwasong-14 missile which was launched today is of intermediate range, and is not as North Korea claims an intercontinental ballistic missile ("ICBM"). It seems that whilst the missile can cover all of Alaska it does not have the range to reach the rest of the continental United States.

Though this is almost certainly true - and is in accord both with what Chinese and Russians specialists say about the North Korean ballistic missile program - the fact that the very first test of such a powerful and sophisticated missile appears to have been completely successful highlights North Korea's growing mastery of ballistic missile technology.
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Ukrainian accounting software firm suspected of spreading global virus, servers seized


RT
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 21:41 UTC
computer server room
© Stephen Lam / Reuters
Police in Ukraine have seized the servers of one of the largest accounting software firms in the country, after it was suspected that a malware virus which hit dozens of global enterprises last week had spread via its malicious update.

As part of an investigation into one of the largest recent cyber attacks, the servers of Ukraine's most popular accounting software, M.E.Doc were seized by Ukrainian police Tuesday, Reuters reported, citing the head of Ukraine's Cyber Police, Sergey Demedyuk.

Cyber Police spokeswoman Yulia Kvitko confirmed an ongoing investigation into M.E.Doc's offices.
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Attention

Casket containing child organs discovered on Philadelphia street


RT
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 18:41 UTC
casket
© Chris JamesThe casket was found in the vicinity of two graveyards.
An evening stroll turned gruesome in Philadelphia Monday, when a casket, discovered across the street from a cemetery, was found to contain a bag of organs belonging to either an infant or a child.

"What was in the bag was sick," Chris James, one of the first to discover the casket shortly after 9pm, told RT. "We were curious to see what was inside but it dangerous in many way to touch something so random," he said.

James, who streamed the incident live on his Facebook page, said another witness called police who opened the casket to find layers of cloth which once removed, revealed the bag containing the organs.
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Fire

Man burns down garage trying to use fireworks to take out bees' nest

SHANNON MILLARD
MLive
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 19:37 UTC
firefighters garage bees' nest
© Shannon Millard/MLive.com
A Grand Blanc-area garage was reduced to a pile of ashes this evening after a homeowner attempted to use fireworks to remove a bees' nest from the building, fire officials said.

Fireworks shot into the sky from the burning garage on Monday, July 3, as crews from Grand Blanc, Burton and Mundy Township arrived at the scene on the 6000 block of Grove Avenue in Grand Blanc Township.

"The homeowner was doing something with a smoke bomb trying to get a bees nest out of the garage," said Grand Blanc Fire Chief, Bob Burdette.
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Green Light

Vietnamese capital Hanoi to banish motorbikes by 2030


RT
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 19:28 UTC
motorbikes in Hanoi
© Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters
Hanoi lawmakers have endorsed a proposal to remove the city's most popular mode of transport from its central streets by 2030. The resolution is expected to reduce traffic and pollution, which is largely caused by more than five million motorbikes.

The decision to ban the scooters from downtown areas and replace them with adequate public transport was overwhelmingly approved at a Hanoi People's Council meeting on Tuesday, receiving 95 of 96 votes.

Warning that the number of vehicles is growing at "an alarming rate," the legislators are also poised to restrict cars in some districts during certain hours, as well as introduce higher parking fees.
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People 2

Cuba looking to revive popular 'love motels' for its citizens


RT
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 19:13 UTC
cubans
© Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters
The Cuban government is seeking to revive a long-lost tradition that was integral to popular Cuban culture throughout the 20th century: the posadas or 'love motels' which afforded citizens respite from the stresses, and prying eyes, of everyday life.

"We want to revive this service that is in high demand, has a big social impact and without a doubt is very profitable," said Alfonso Munoz Chang of the Provincial Housing Company of Havana, the government body set to run the love hotels, as cited by the Trabajadores weekly magazine.

The posadas were hugely popular in days gone by, with queues of love-struck Cubans stretching around the corner a common site. In 1973, there were a total of 60 posadas around Havana but that number halved by the end of the 1980s due to economic pressures.

Given ever-increasing maintenance costs as the economy declined, posadas were converted into housing shelters for hurricane victims.
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Megaphone

Western media silent as UN calls for worldwide decriminalization of drug use

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 18:34 UTC
weed un
A little-noticed public statement issued by the United Nations last week contains a dramatic shift in thinking on the issue of "illicit" substance use. After recommitting to the failed idea of prohibition just last year, the UN is now calling for the worldwide decriminalization of drug use and possession.

The statement, put out by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the U.S. is in the midst of another political debate over health care, calls for "ending discrimination in health care settings." The WHO calls on states to end discrimination against "marginalized and stigmatized populations" in a variety of ways, and includes a blunt and rather shocking statement on the drug war.
"We, the signatory United Nations entities, call upon all stakeholders to join us in committing to taking targeted, coordinated, time-bound, multisectoral actions in the following areas. Supporting States to put in place guarantees against discrimination in law, policies, and regulations by... Reviewing and repealing punitive laws that have been proven to have negative health outcomes and that counter established public health evidence. These include laws that criminalize or otherwise prohibit...drug use or possession of drugs for personal use."
This is an admission that the problem of drug abuse is a public health issue, not a criminal justice issue. Locking people in cages for the victimless behavior of ingesting substances arbitrarily deemed illegal by the State does nothing to reduce drug use or supply, as evidenced by the utter failure of the War on Drugs.
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Wedding Rings

Silicone squeeze: Japanese men choose life with sex dolls over real women


Sputnik
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 18:01 UTC
Japanese sex dolls
© Agency France Presse 2017/ Behrouz MEHRI
An increasing number of Japanese men are finding true love in silicone sex dolls. However, for these men the reasons for such an unusual companionship is sometimes more than just sex.

Masayuki Ozaki's marriage lost its spark some years ago and although he still lives in the same house with his wife and daughter, he also has a live-in girlfriend, a life-sized doll called Mayu.

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