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SOTT Focus: The murder of Sandra Bland and America's 'color revolution'

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:33 UTC
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Sandra Bland and the jail cell where she died under extremely dubious circumstances
With today's release of dash-cam footage of the arrest of Sandra Bland, we're rerunning this breakdown of her case.

Sandra Bland. Remember the name, if you can. She's just the latest in a growing, publicly-known list of American citizens who have been either physically abused or murdered by US police for having the temerity to question their 'authority'.

On July 10th 2015, Sandra Bland had recently arrived in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas from Illinois to begin a new job at her alma mater, A&M University, a historically black school 40 miles northwest of Houston. Texas has been described as the most racist state in the USA, and Waller County the most racist county in Texas. Segregation there is a way of life, from the cradle to grave, literally; cemeteries in the county are divided between black and white, with significantly more money being spent on the upkeep of white cemeteries.

While driving in Prairie View that day, Waller County trooper Brian Encina, with nothing better to do than harass drivers for minor traffic "violations" that endanger no one, pulled Bland over for not signaling a lane change.
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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Psychiatric drugs and the Moral Compass


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Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:00 UTC
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This week on the Health and Wellness Show we'll be discussing Psychiatric drugs and the disruption of the moral compass.What are some of the dangers and pitfalls of psychiatric drugs? How have they damaged our society? We'll be discussing these topics and more. Tune in Weekly, Fridays at 10am EST.

Running Time: 01:49:00

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SOTT Focus: Fmr. NATO Commander Wesley Clark calls for internment camps 'to deal with radicals' in the US and Europe

Niall Bradley & Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:16 UTC
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First we practice 'FEMA camps' abroad on 'lesser peoples', then we try it out 'back home'
Retired US General Wesley Clark recently appeared as a guest on Thomas Roberts' MSNBC show to discuss last week's senseless shootings at military recruitment centers in Tennessee.

Have a listen to what Clark said when asked by Thomas about what to do with 'all these radicals':

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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Anti-Empire Report - Interview with William Blum

Sott Editors
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Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:00 UTC
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On this week's episode of 'Behind the Headlines', Sott Radio Network co-hosts Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley discussed current affairs with author, historian, and U.S. foreign policy critic, William Blum, whose popular online newsletter, 'The Anti-Empire Report', chronicles the global horror that is US foreign policy... or rather, empire-building.

Disgusted at what the United States government was doing in Vietnam, William quit his post at the US State Department in 1967, and became a freelance journalist in the US, Europe and South America. He was also a founding editor of the Washington Free Press, the US capital's first 'alternative' newspaper.

In the 1970s, William worked with former CIA officer Philip Agee in exposing CIA personnel and their misdeeds around the world. Among his many books on US foreign policy, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, first published in 1995, is critically-acclaimed as the best book on the topic.

Running Time: 01:41:00

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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: The myth of the myth of the psychopath

Sott Editors
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Sat, 18 Jul 2015 18:00 UTC
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There are some recent trends in the field of psychopathy: whitewashing, denial, and glorification of psychopathy. On this edition of the Truth Perspective, we go into the reasons why they are completely wrong.

We also discussed the latest shooting in Chattanooga with its similarities to other shooting events in the US, and the recent rumors surfacing that the Dutch Safety Board may be implicating Russia in the MH17 crash.

Running Time: 01:52:00

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SOTT Focus: One year later: All evidence still suggests MH17 shot down by a jet fighter

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:43 UTC
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British tabloid two days after the downing of MH17. Note the 'coincidental' juxtaposition of an image of the royal baby
One year ago today over Eastern Ukraine, someone deliberately shot down Malaysian Flight MH17 killing all 298 passengers and crew, most of them Dutch citizens.

In the immediate aftermath of the event, and I mean, 'immediate', the Western media and the Western political elite it works for, blamed 'pro-Russian rebels', Russia, and even Vladimir Putin himself for bringing down the plane with a Buk M1 missile. No evidence was presented to back up the claim.

Since then, the 'trial by media' has continued, although still without one shred of evidence that 'Russia did it'. With the 1-year anniversary approaching, CNN released a 'damning' new report citing unnamed "U.S. officials" who said they had seen a draft of the final official report by Dutch investigators due in October this year. The draft apparently reveals shocking new hard evidence in the form of the statement: "Russia did it". Slam dunk!
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SOTT Focus: US-sponsored human experimentation and mind control increasingly in mainstream media

Andrés Perezalonso
Sott.net
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:34 UTC
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The small southeastern French town of Pont Saint Esprit, subject to a CIA bioweapon experiment in 1951.
French TV channel France 3 recently aired a documentary that covered an interesting episode in the long history of CIA abuse of innocent civilians. Although the incident and its context are highly disturbing, it is a testament to the persistence of a select few researchers that their findings are reaching a wider audience.

The show focuses on the 1951 "mass intoxication" case in the French village of Pont Saint Esprit. For one week in August that year, hundreds of villagers suffered from an apparent attack of psychosis that included hallucinations. As a result, seven people died (two of them by suicide) and some sixty were interned in psychiatric hospitals. Just one month after the events, the British Medical Journal explained it away as a case of poisoned bread by ergot mold (a psychedelic mold). However, investigative journalist Hank P. Albarelli Jr has convincingly argued in recent years that this was in fact an experiment carried out jointly by the CIA and the US Army, involving the deliberate use of LSD or a similar psychotropic substance.


The nightmarish scenes of the week that began on the 17th of August 1951 were described as follows:
A French newspaper at the time of the bizarre incident wrote, "It is neither Shakespeare nor Edgar [Allen] Poe. It is, alas, the sad reality all around Pont-St.-Esprit and its environs, where terrifying scenes of hallucinations are taking place. They are scenes straight out of the Middle Ages, scenes of horror and pathos, full of sinister shadows." A brief article in TIME magazine, then a major U.S. news journal, with extremely close ties to the CIA, stated, "Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies." Other newspapers that converged on the scene described people throwing themselves from rooftops, women and men throwing their clothes off and running the streets naked, and children complaining that their stomachs were infested with coils of snakes.
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SOTT Focus: Greek debt and German hypocrisy

Pierre Lescaudron
Sott.net
Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:49 UTC
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The rape of Europa by Titian ( c. 1560)
Spanish philosopher Santayana warned that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, but a more serious problem than mere historical amnesia is historical revisionism, where whole societies somehow become convinced of something that never happened or just the opposite of what really happened. The history of Greek and German debt is a good example.

Money creation VS debt creation

Debt and money are frequently confused. We read about money creation, "money created out of thin air", and we imagine printing presses spewing out tons of paper bank notes.

The only drawback of money creation is the erosion of the value of the currency (inflation) because of excessive supply. To illustrate this process, imagine a gigantic oil field were to be found in Siberia tomorrow; it would reduce the price for oil because of the increased supply.

In this sense, money creation impacts every operator (banks, states, citizens) holding money, by decreasing the value of their holding. The more money that exists, the less it is valued, like most other commodities.

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The exponential growth of world debt
But today, 97% of digital money is "created" through debts issued by private banks. This means that, today, money is not created to serve economic development or national monetary policies but solely to maximize the profits of private banks.
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SOTT Focus: Greek People "crucified" by EU 'elite' for wanting social justice

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:03 UTC
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"They crucified Tsipras in there," remarked a senior EU official who had attended yesterday's European Council emergency summit meeting. "Crucified."

Tsipras has certainly had it tough these last few days and weeks, but who is really being "crucified" by this series of intensive meetings that led to yesterday's "agreement" in the "Greek crisis"? Tsipras is the Greek PM and leader of the Syriza party elected in January this year - very much thanks to a middle- and lower-class populist vote. Their mandate, therefore, was to work in the best interests of the Greek people. Unusually for European governments that get elected on a populist ticket, the Syriza government tried to do exactly that.
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Understanding Grexit - Banksters, Austerity, Debt Control


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Sun, 12 Jul 2015 18:00 UTC
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Forget the funny money, this is war against the people. And not just the people of Greece, although they're currently in the firing line. On this week's episode of Behind the Headlines, we'll be looking at the context that is woefully absent from the utterly inane mainstream media narrative surrounding 'the Greek debt crisis'.

The euphoria of last week's resounding 'NO!' to austerity in the referendum has quickly given way to bitter acrimony in Greece, following the resignation of maverick Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and the apparent capitulation of Prime Minister Tsipras to the EU's demands for the imposition of austerity measures.

How did this situation come about? And whose debt is it really? Will Greece be forced out of the Eurozone currency? What might happen if it does? Do Eurocrats and European leaders even understand what they are doing? And what is Washington's interest in this apparently intra-European affair?

All this and more this Sunday, 12th July 2015, from 2-4pm EST / 8-10pm CET.

Running Time: 01:28:00

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