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Who Wants To Hear My Crazy, Kooky Conspiracy Theory About 1/6?
Post Date: 2021-06-19 15:34:52 by Ada
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Glenn Greenwald has a new article out titled “Questions About the FBI’s Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media” about the backlash against right wing media highlighting the incredibly suspicious fact that rank-and-file participants in the January 6 Capitol riot have been harshly prosecuted while many of its actual leaders and organizers have not been. Greenwald goes over the FBI’s extensive and well-documented history of using undercover agents and informants to entrap easily manipulated individuals into participating in “terror” plots that they themselves initiated and then swooping in to save the day, how unlikely it is that ...
Who Wants To Hear My Crazy, Kooky Conspiracy Theory About 1/6?
Post Date: 2021-06-19 15:14:33 by Ada
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Glenn Greenwald has a new article out titled “Questions About the FBI’s Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media” about the backlash against right wing media highlighting the incredibly suspicious fact that rank-and-file participants in the January 6 Capitol riot have been harshly prosecuted while many of its actual leaders and organizers have not been. Greenwald goes over the FBI’s extensive and well-documented history of using undercover agents and informants to entrap easily manipulated individuals into participating in “terror” plots that they themselves initiated and then swooping in to save the day, how unlikely it is that ...
To Fight Crime, The FBI Sponsors 15 Crimes a Day
Post Date: 2021-06-19 07:55:36 by Ada
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Americans are suffering the blowback of the FBI’s mafia-style justice. Law-abiding citizens now paying the price for the government’s insatiable greed & quest for power. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”— Friedrich Nietzsche Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry—purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure—has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government. Think about it. Cyberwarfare. Terrorism. Bio-chemical attacks. The nuclear arms race. Surveillance. The drug wars. Domestic extremism. ...
The Criminalization of Dissent
Post Date: 2021-06-07 09:31:42 by Ada
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One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the totalitarian system. Global capitalism has been inching its way toward this step for quite some time, and now, apparently, it is ready to take it. Germany has been leading the way. For over a year, anyone questioning or protesting the “Covid emergency measures” or the official Covid-19 narrative has been demonized by the government and the media, and, sadly, but not completely unexpectedly, the majority of the German ...
Porklips Now!
Post Date: 2021-06-03 05:39:08 by Esso
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Memorial Day: Remembering the Political Lies that Spurred Mass Killing
Post Date: 2021-06-01 09:14:20 by Ada
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On Memorial Day, the media do their usual sacralizing of war. Instead, it should be a day for the ritualized scourging of politicians. During the last 70 years, their lies have resulted in the unnecessary deaths of almost 100,000 American soldiers and millions of foreigners. And yet, people still get teary-eyed when politicians take the stage to talk about their devotion to the troops. On Memorial Day 2011, for instance, the Washington Post included numerous touching photographs of graves, recent widows or fatherless kids by the headstones, and stories of the troops’ sacrifices. The Post buried a short article in the middle of the A-Section (squeezed onto a nearly full-page ad for ...
Memorial Day
Post Date: 2021-05-30 17:37:21 by Lod
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Memorial Day is their day, isn't it? It is supposed to be the day a grateful nation pauses to quietly thank the more than one million men and women who have died in military service to their country since the Revolutionary War. Or is it the day the beach resorts kick into high gear for the summer season, the day the strand is covered by fish-belly white people basting themselves in coconut oil, the day the off-season rates end and the weekend you can't get in a seaside seafood restaurant with anything less than a one hour wait. Or is is one of the biggest shopping center sales days of the year, a day when hunting for a parking space is the prime sport for the holiday ...
Autonomous drones may have ‘hunted down’ and attacked troops in Libya without human control – UN report by RT
Post Date: 2021-05-29 08:16:02 by Ada
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A UN report found that autonomous drones armed with explosive devices may have “hunted down” fleeing rebel fighters in Libya last year. If true, the report chronicles the world’s first true robot-on-human attack. According to the report, anti-government Libyan National Army fighters, under military commander Khalifa Haftar, were retreating last March following an unsuccessful attack on Tripoli, when they ran into a swarm of terrifying aerial opponents. They were “hunted down” by unmanned drones, as well as “lethal autonomous weapons systems,” the latter of which can be programmed by controllers to seek out and attack targets, and carry out these ...
Afghanistan: George W. Bush’s First Disastrous War
Post Date: 2021-05-25 08:54:10 by Ada
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It was a misguided effort from the start, built on lies and false idealism, and it has left a bloody legacy Former President George W. Bush is bewailing President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Bush told Fox News last week, “I’m also deeply concerned about the sacrifices of our soldiers, and our intelligence community, will be forgotten,” after the war ends. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the American media has already forgotten how Bush’s lies turned U.S. intervention in Afghanistan into a quagmire that pointlessly killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers. After Al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes on September 11, 200 ...
Suitable for Framing
Post Date: 2021-05-24 16:23:03 by Ada
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The term “anarcho-tyranny” was coined by the late great Sam Francis to mean a condition in which the state tyrannically regulates the lives of the citizens but refuses to enforce fundamental protective law. When Francis was alive, gun control was often used as an example. The state harassed citizens over their ownership of firearms but did nothing to protect them from violent criminals. A modern example is something people experience every day. Drive around any city and you will notice the streets are festooned with cameras. This is true in the surrounding suburbs. These cameras primarily function as a revenue enhancement for state and local government. You cannot drive ...
Liz Cheney Lied About Her Role in Spreading the Discredited CIA "Russian Bounty" Story
Post Date: 2021-05-16 07:44:41 by Ada
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As part of her ideological war to reclaim the GOP for neocons, the now- deposed House leader falsely denied her role in a tale designed to block withdrawal from Afghanistan. In an interview on Tuesday with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) denied that she spread the discredited CIA "Russian bounty” story. That CIA tale, claiming Russia was paying Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, was cooked up by the CIA and then published by The New York Times on June 27 of last year, right as former President Trump announced his plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. The Times story, citing anonymous intelligence officials, was then continually invoked ...
Pimp this book
Post Date: 2021-05-13 07:21:50 by ghostdogtxn
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Will Biden Have Blood on His Hands in Afghanistan?
Post Date: 2021-05-11 07:16:32 by Ada
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President Biden has announced that America’s forever war in Afghanistan is finally coming to an end. He says that U.S. forces will exit the country by next September 11. That’s a good thing. And it is long overdue. But there is one big problem with Biden’s timetable: It violates an agreement that the U.S. government entered into with the Taliban to exit the country by May 1 of this year. Under that agreement, the Taliban agreed not to attack U.S. troops prior to their scheduled departure on May 1. With Biden’s decision to deliberately violate the agreement by unilaterally extending the withdrawal to September 11, he is knowingly placing the lives of the 3,500 ...
Safety First
Post Date: 2021-05-10 10:41:53 by Esso
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Poster Comment:Damn, that cracked me up.
An Empire in Love with Its Afghan Cemetery
Post Date: 2021-05-08 08:38:11 by Ada
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One cannot but feel mildly amused at the theatrical spectacle of the US troop pullout from Afghanistan, its completion day now postponed for maximum PR impact to 9/11, 2021. Nearly two decades and a staggering US$2 trillion after this Forever War was launched by a now immensely indebted empire, the debacle can certainly be interpreted as a warped version of Mission Accomplished. “They make a desert and call it peace,” said Tacitus – but in all of the vastness of the Pentagon there sits not a single flack who could imagine getting away with baldfacedly spinning the Afghan wasteland as peaceful. Even the UN bureaucratic machinery has not been able to properly account for ...
CNN Going Full Iraq on China
Post Date: 2021-05-03 10:23:07 by Ada
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This is at the top of CNN today: There is a 90% chance that this is simply made up by some intelligence agency. The CNN article only gives his surname – “Zhou.” For those who don’t know, there are tens of millions of people in China with that surname. I don’t think it would be physically possible to navigate both the Chinese and Taiwanese navies, let alone the American spy grid. Furthermore, I don’t really think you could get across the entire strait in a dinghy. It’s 200 kilometers. Click for Full Text!
End of an era? Afghanistan is now graveyard of contractors, too.
Post Date: 2021-04-29 08:57:21 by Ada
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They formed their own shadow army, some 90,000 in the country at its peak, but their problematic predomination is coming to an end. The golden post-9/11 years of the war contractor — the providers of food and transportation, fuel, construction, maintenance, IT, not to mention security and interrogation services for the U.S. military — appear to be drawing down. With the (hopeful) withdrawal of the remaining 3,600 troops in Afghanistan by September, attention is also on the nearly 17,000 contractors on the U.S. payroll there, 6,147 of whom are American citizens. “The U.S. contractors will come out as we come out. That is part of the planned withdrawal we have in place ...
Twenty Years Of The War On Terror
Post Date: 2021-04-25 09:57:04 by Ada
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A citizen journalist marks a grim anniversary. Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, by Scott Horton (The Libertarian Institute: 2021), 330 pages. We’re approaching the 20th anniversary of the Global War on Terror when the George W. Bush administration made the decision to ruin the 21st century. Trillions of dollars spent, a permanent and expanding war bureaucracy on our shores, upwards of a million civilians dead, tens of millions more displaced, entire regions of the globe destabilized, and the American people no safer than they were on September 10. When the immensity of the nefariousness is laid bare, a normal man is tempted, in the words of satirical cynic H.L. ...
Montana Becomes First State To Pass Resolution Against Unconstitutional Wars
Post Date: 2021-04-23 09:12:42 by Ada
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The Montana state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan and unprecedented resolution Tuesday calling on the federal government to end endless wars. The resolution passed 95-3 in the House and 47-2 in the Senate. House Joint Resolution 9, sponsored by Rep. Ron Marshall (R-Hamilton), is the first of its kind to be introduced by any state and is currently being used as a model for other states across the country. The resolution specifically urges President Joe Biden and the United States Congress to “end the endless war in Afghanistan,” repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, resist sending U.S. troops into combat without a declaration of war from ...
The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media
Post Date: 2021-04-16 10:26:41 by Ada
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. Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all. Journalist Glenn Greenwald just highlighted an interesting point about the reporting by The New York Times on the so-called “Bountygate” story the outlet broke in June of last year about the Russian government trying to pay Taliban-linked fighters to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan. “One of the NYT reporters who originally broke the Russia ...
A Letter on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation
Post Date: 2021-04-15 12:45:56 by Esso
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TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation. I have determined that specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation — in particular, efforts to undermine the conduct of free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the United States and its allies ...
Media Concern Trolling About Afghanistan Withdrawal Again
Post Date: 2021-04-11 08:57:15 by Ada
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“Concerns mount that US withdrawal from Afghanistan could risk progress on women’s rights,” blares a new headline from CNN. “Concerns are mounting from bipartisan US lawmakers and Afghan women’s rights activists that the hard-won gains for women and civil society in Afghanistan could be lost if the United States makes a precipitous withdrawal from the country,” CNN tells us. What follows is yet another concern-trolling empire blog about why US troops need to stay in Afghanistan, joining recent others geared toward the same end like this CNN report about how the US military will open itself up to “costly litigation” if it withdraws now because it ...
The military signed contracts for Afghanistan well into 2023. That’s their problem.
Post Date: 2021-04-08 08:14:43 by Ada
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This is clearly the week that every argument against getting U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by May 1 is being thrown up — to borrow a line from Robin Wright — like spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks. The latest, this little nugget highlighted by CNN’s Oren Liebermann this morning, which suggests Washington will be sued by private companies that have contracts with the U.S. government if they cannot continue operating in Afghanistan through 2022 and 2023. In fact, according to Liebermann, some 18 contracts totaling $931 million dollars were signed after the Doha Agreement in 2020 that outlined the U.S. departure this spring. Much of the contract work involves ...
The Kremlin Has Allowed the US/Ukraine Attack on Donbass to Go on Far Too Long
Post Date: 2021-04-03 13:41:53 by Ada
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Will war be the result? Kiev now claims a US “guarantee.” This is a situation similar to the “guarantee” the idiot British government gave to Poland, thus encouraging Poland to provoke Germany into war. The worst decision the present-day Kremiln has made is to refuse the request of Donbass to reunite with Russia. This deplorable decision has produced ongoing conflict, ongoing deaths of Russian people in Donbass, a buildup in Ukrainian military forces, and now a Pentagon guarantee against Russian defense of Donbass. The normally low-key Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that attempts to start a new military conflict in Donbass could end up destroying ...
The Endless War: Afghanistan Goes On and On
Post Date: 2021-04-02 08:58:25 by Ada
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All indications are that the Pentagon will be able to maneuver more effectively in Washington than on the battlefield. Given the present atmosphere in Washington in which there is no lie so outrageous as to keep it out of the mainstream media, a great deal of policy making takes place without even key players in the government knowing what is going on behind their backs. Of course, there is a long tradition of government lying in general but most politicians and officials have probably convinced themselves that they are avoiding the truth because complicating issues might lead to endless debate where nothing ever gets done. There may be some truth to that, but it is a self-serving notion ...
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