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The simple image sharer. YOU DO REALIZE THAT THE U.S. FUNDED AND TRAINED ISIS, RIGHT? Just so we are all clear here. Now that ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is becoming a threat so powerful Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters at the Pentagon that the terrorist group is “beyond anything we’ve seen,” it’s time to remind everyone of a few little factoids regarding how exactly that came to be. Hagel’s exact quote was: “They are beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of … military prowess. They are tremendously well-funded. Well-trained in military prowess. And how do you think they got that way so fast? Apparently the mainstream establishment media would more likely attempt to have people believe such a thing exists rather than expose the blatant reality that yes, the U.S. has trained and funded ISIS and without the U.S. government, ISIS would not be the threat it has become.

So future ISIS members were specially trained by the U.S. government, huh? Oops. But the government won’t even admit what they’ve done here. Protesters Gather at CNN’s Atlanta Headquarters. Ferguson chief: Officer didn't stop Brown as rob suspect. Your video will begin momentarily. NEW: Woman: Protesters "united," says cause is "not a race thing, it's ... right or wrong"Police ID the officer who fired fatal shot as Darren Wilson; chiefs calls him "gentleman"The same day, they release video documents tying Michael Brown to store robberyBrown's family, activists criticize how the Ferguson police have handled the case Have you documented the protests in Ferguson?

Share your photos, videos and opinions with CNN iReport. For local coverage of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown and its aftermath, go to CNN affiliates KMOV, KSDK, KTVI and KPLR. Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) -- The Ferguson police officer who shot Michael Brown didn't stop him because he was suspected in a convenience-store robbery, but because he was "walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic," the city's police chief said Friday. Jackson said he distributed the store videotape "because the press asked for it," noting he couldn't withhold it indefinitely. The NY Times’ Hypocritical Employee Drug Tests, Like Marijuana Prohibition, Need to End. MH17 Show & Tell: It’s the West’s Turn – Russian Satellites and Radars Contradict West’s Baseless Claims.

Russia has now shown its satellite pictures and radar information from the Donetsk, Ukraine region during the July 17, 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash. The Wall Street Journal reported in its article, “Russia Presents Its Account of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Crash,” that: Russia’s Defense Ministry on Monday presented its first detailed account of the final moments of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, saying Russian radar had spotted a second aircraft in the vicinity shortly before the crash and that satellite imagery showed Ukraine had moved missile systems into the area before the incident. At a news conference, air force chief Igor Makushev didn’t say who the ministry thought had fired the missile that apparently brought down the airliner on Thursday. The Wall Street Journal also reported: In an elaborate presentation displaying radar and satellite imagery, Mr.

Makushev said it was likely that the second airplane was a Ukrainian fighter jet. Mr. What Happened to the Malaysian Airliner? Washington’s propaganda machine is in such high gear that we are in danger of losing the facts that we do have. One fact is that the separatists do not have the expensive Buk anti-aircraft missile system or the trained personnel to operate it. Another fact is that the separatists have no incentive to shoot down an airliner and neither does Russia. Anyone can tell the difference between low-flying attack aircraft and an airliner at 33,000 feet. The Ukrainians do have Buk anti-aircraft missile systems, and a Buk battery was operational in the region and deployed at a site from which it could have fired a missile at the airliner. Just as the separatists and the Russian government have no incentive to shoot down an airliner, neither does the Ukrainian government nor, one would think, even the crazed extreme Ukrainian nationalists who have formed militias to take the fight against the separatists that the Ukrainian army is not keen to undertake–unless there was a plan to frame Russia.

66 Percent of Americans Now Live in a Constitution-Free Zone. US Border Patrol agents in Yuma, Arizona (Reuters/Jason Reed) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. Shena Gutierrez was already cuffed and in an inspection room in Nogales, Arizona, when the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent grabbed her purse, opened it, and dumped its contents onto the floor right in front of her.

There couldn’t be a sharper image of the Bill of Rights rollback we are experiencing in the US borderlands in the post-9/11 era. Tumbling out of that purse came Gutierrez’s life: photos of her kids, business cards, credit cards and other papers, all now open to the official scrutiny of the Department of Homeland Security. There were also photographs of her husband, Jose Gutierrez Guzman, whom CBP agents beat so badly in 2011 that he suffered permanent brain damage.

“Please stop stepping on the pictures,” Shena asked him. A Standing Army. Boston Truth Revealed. U.S. State Dept. Document Confirms Regime Change Agenda in Middle East | Middle East Briefing. The Obama Administration has been pursuing a policy of covert support for the Muslim Brotherhood and other insurgent movements in the Middle East since 2010.

MEB has obtained a just-released U.S. State Department document through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that confirms the Obama Administration’s pro-active campaign for regime change throughout the Middle East and North Africa region. The October 22, 2010 document, titled “Middle East Partnership Initiative: Overview,” spells out an elaborate structure of State Department programs aimed at directly building “civil society” organizations, particularly non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to alter the internal politics of the targeted countries in favor of U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives. In a section of the document titled “How MEPI Works,” three core elements of the program were spelled out: region-wide and multi-country programming, local grants, and country-specific projects.

The 2014 Grammy Awards: Still Pushing the Illuminati Agenda. The 2014 Grammy Awards featured a black magic witchcraft ritual disguised as a Katy Perry performance. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. This has been going on for years. We’ll look at the Illuminati Agenda pushed in the 2014 Grammy Awards. This year’s Grammy Awards apparently had something for everyone. While old-school rockers might have enjoyed seeing Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson and Metallica performing live, it is the current industry puppets who reach the youth. And it is their performances that are riddled with symbolism and messages. For years, I’ve been stating that music awards ceremonies are a celebration of what the Illuminati industry stands for, as their choreographed format offers the industry an opportunity to imprint the collective mind with specific messages and symbolism. Even E! Let’s look at the lowlights (a term I coined because that’s pretty much what I do on this site) of the 2014 Grammy Awards.

Beyoncé Representing Beta Kittens Katy Perry the Witch. On 6/5, 65 Things We Know About NSA Surveillance That We Didn’t Know a Year Ago. It’s been one year since the Guardian first published the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order, leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, that demonstrated that the NSA was conducting dragnet surveillance on millions of innocent people. Since then, the onslaught of disturbing revelations, from disclosures, admissions from government officials, Freedom of Information Act requests, and lawsuits, has been nonstop. On the anniversary of that first leak, here are 65 things we know about NSA spying that we did not know a year ago: 1. We saw an example of the court orders that authorize the NSA to collect virtually every phone call record in the United States—that’s who you call, who calls you, when, for how long, and sometimes where. 2. We saw NSA Powerpoint slides documenting how the NSA conducts “upstream” collection, gathering intelligence information directly from the infrastructure of telecommunications providers. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

Intelligence Policy Bans Citation of Leaked Material. Putting the Ukraine Crisis in Context. When the Ukraine crisis began, the mainstream U.S. media cast aside any pretense of objectivity and joined in the service of State Department propaganda. But – given the emergence of the Internet – a far more honest and nuanced story is possible to detect, as William Blum describes at Anti-Empire Report. By William Blum “The Russians are coming … again … and they’re still ten feet tall!” So, what do we have here? Try and find an American mainstream media entity that has made a serious attempt to capture the horror. Russian President Vladimir Putin laying a wreath at Russia’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on May 8, 2014, as part of the observance of the World War II Victory over Germany.

And how did this latest example of American foreign-policy exceptionalism come to be? That can serve as an early marker for the new cold war while the corpse of the old one was still warm. In February of this year, U.S. The current protestors in Ukraine don’t need PHDs in economics to know what this portends. Seymour M. Hersh · The Red Line and the Rat Line: Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels · LRB 17 April 2014. In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the Syrian government for allegedly crossing the ‘red line’ he had set in 2012 on the use of chemical weapons.[*]​* Then with less than two days to go before the planned strike, he announced that he would seek congressional approval for the intervention.

The strike was postponed as Congress prepared for hearings, and subsequently cancelled when Obama accepted Assad’s offer to relinquish his chemical arsenal in a deal brokered by Russia. Why did Obama delay and then relent on Syria when he was not shy about rushing into Libya? The answer lies in a clash between those in the administration who were committed to enforcing the red line, and military leaders who thought that going to war was both unjustified and potentially disastrous. 4 April. Fareed Zakaria talks to Zbigniew Brzezinski re Iran Syria Obama and more. Series of small earthquakes rock Oklahoma in record seismic activity. By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - Earthquakes rattled residents in Oklahoma on Saturday, the latest in a series that have put the state on track for record quake activity this year, which some seismologists say may be tied to oil and gas exploration.

One earthquake recorded at 3.8 magnitude by the U.S. Geological Survey rocked houses in several communities around central Oklahoma at 7:42 a.m. local time. Another about two hours earlier in the same part of the state, north of Oklahoma City, was recorded at 2.9 magnitude, USGS said. Those two were preceded by two more, at 2.6 magnitude, and 2.5 magnitude, that also rolled the landscape in central Oklahoma early Saturday morning. A 3.0 magnitude tremor struck late Friday night in that area as well, following a 3.4 magnitude hit Friday afternoon. Austin Holland, a seismologist with the Oklahoma Geological Survey who tracks earthquake activity for the USGS, said the earthquake activity in the state is soaring. Most earthquakes occur naturally. NSA Blows Its Own Top Secret Program in Order to Propagandize.

Over the last 40 years, the U.S. government has relied on extreme fear-mongering to demonize transparency. In sum, every time an unwanted whistleblower steps forward, we are treated to the same messaging: You’re all going to die because of these leakers and the journalists who publish their disclosures! Lest you think that’s hyperbole, consider this headline from last week based on an interview with outgoing NSA chief Keith Alexander: The NSA engages in this fear-mongering not only publicly but also privately. As part of its efforts to persuade news organizations not to publish newsworthy stories from Snowden materials, its representatives constantly say the same thing: If you publish what we’re doing, it will endanger lives, including NSA personnel, by making people angry about what we’re doing in their countries and want to attack us. FT. John “Chris” Inglis just revealed to the world that the NSA was–is? Thus, writes the L.A.

The 67 People As Wealthy As The World's Poorest 3.5 Billion. Geoengineering Whistleblower ~ Ex-Military ~ Kristen Meghan, Hauppauge, NY, January 18th, 2014. U.S. Tries To Stop India's Solar Policy While Pushing Fight Against Climate Change. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration talks a lot about the need to develop renewable energy around the world to curb climate change. But right now, it's trying to kill India's effort to boost its domestic solar industry. The U.S. wants India to back off a policy that would require local sourcing for solar energy technology, and has sought World Trade Organization enforcement action.

Representatives from the two nations reportedly met last week to try to settle the trade battle over India's rapidly developing solar industry, but reached no resolution. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said in February that India's rules for locally made products for its solar power program "discriminate against U.S. exports" and break WTO rules. "We are determined to stand up for U.S. workers and businesses," he said. The dispute centers on the second phase of India's solar power policy, known as the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. India has, so far, resisted pressure from the U.S. U.S. U.S. Air Force relieves nine officers following nuclear test cheating probe. The scandal, which came to light after a probe into suspected drug use among missileers at Malmstrom, has been among the most embarrassing ethical lapses the Pentagon has had to contend with in recent months. The military also faced questions about its ability to prosecute cases of sexual assault and is investigating a similar cheating scandal involving sailors.

“We do have some systemic issues in our missile community,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told reporters Thursday afternoon at the Pentagon. She called the cheating at Malmstrom a “major failure in integrity.” Dozens of junior officers will face a range of disciplinary sanctions from letters of reprimand to court-martial, officials said. Investigators found that many airmen were sharing test questions and answers via text messages. Air Force officials said the cheating on job-proficiency tests became routine among airmen who described themselves as being demoralized. Col. ObamaCare's Secret Mandate Exemption. New York Times’ Risen Calls Obama Administration “The Greatest Enemy of Press Freedom” In A Generation. 1, March 25, 2014 by jonathanturley I recently wrote a column on the wholesale attack on press freedoms under President Obama that parallel his attack on other civil liberties and privacy principles (here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here).

I testified on the erosion of press freedom under President George W. Bush but the assault on the free press has worsened under President Obama while Democratic members and supporters remain conspicuously silent. Reporters have not been so silent or reticent and have repeatedly tried to educate citizens of the danger to press freedoms under this President.

Now one of the most respected journalists in the country, New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Risen, has declared that the Obama Administration is the greatest threat to a free press in a generation. Risen is not just some disgruntled reporter. Previously, the New York Times editors lambasted Obama for his attack on the free press. Like this: uCePtq4.jpg (596×626) Agenda of The Education System. 24 Hard Facts About 9/11 That Cannot Be Debunked. NASA Study Concludes Civilization Is About To Collapse… and It’s the 1%’s Fault. Former U.S. Ambassador: Behind Crimea Crisis, Russia Responding to Years of "Hostile" U.S. Policy. The simple image sharer. Unusual News - Why is the CIA Fighting Release of Documents Relating to 4 Planes that Went Missing in 1980? Manhunt leads to massive roadblock, warrantless car-to-car searches.

Paranoia leads Vladimir Putin to the point of no return. P8IAHdp.jpg (1200×459) Our Unemployment Problem Has Been The Result of Decades of Bad Policies. Senators Okay With Spying On Citizens, But Outraged It Happened To Congress. Six important facts you’re not being told about lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | Natural Guru. US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup. Are 'Blackwater' now active in Ukraine? Videos spark talk that U.S. mercenary outfit has been deployed to Donetsk. Ukraine is About Oil. So Was World War I. Putting Crimea Propaganda into Perspective. Judge strikes down NDAA, rules Obama must obey Constitution.

Oklahoma House votes to nullify Agenda 21, 66-26. "Behind The Kiev Snipers It Was Somebody From The New Coalition" - A Stunning New Leak Released. If We Learn Our History, We're NOT Doomed to Repeat It Washington. Neoconservatives Planned Regime Change Throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa 20 Years Ago Washington. Inventing Demons. US media escalates propaganda offensive on Ukraine. 33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True. Stephen F. Cohen: Leaked Tape Suggests U.S. Was Plotting Coup in Ukraine. Breaking: Russia Recalling Ambassador From U.S., Sending Troops Into Ukraine. The outrageous strategy to destroy Russia | Zbigniew Brzezinski: the Empire's Adviser. ** FLASH ** Earthquake Strikes Crimea; Russian Troops Blame U.S. HAARP - Furious - Saying U.S. "Used a Weapon of Mass Destruction against Russian Military" American Anthrax. US and Russia clash over Ukraine.

Who’s a TERRORIST? Pentagon Says: You Are | General Strike to end Corruption. Supreme Court Gives Police More Leeway to Search Homes without a Warrant. Top 15 Defense Budgets 2013. U.S. Military spending versus the rest of the world. We need to remember this, when the government starts using "terrorist" as a buzzword, to control you. And the brainwashing commences. How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations.

MEANS: U.S. economy on schedule to crash March 4, 2014. Orwellian ‘Newspeak’ Coming to Common Core Classrooms Everywhere. Venezuela Threatens CNN With Expulsion. JJ44ibn.jpg (595×430) Government Monitors in Newsrooms? | Free Speech. » School Shooting Expert Threatened Over Sandy Hook Investigation Alex Jones. Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters - The InterceptThe Intercept. Ukraine's Military Releases The Armored Vehicles And Fighter Jets; Independence Square Is In Flames - Live Feed. JPMorgan suicide is 3rd mysterious death in weeks. Jerusalem silent on report Greece blocked Israeli arms shipments to Iran. America’s Lofty Self-Regard: Why It’s Misplaced, and Why It May Lead Us to Ruin. Local Police Train With Special Forces To Raid Farm Houses, Conduct Domestic Raids. America’s Lofty Self-Regard: Why It’s Misplaced, and Why It May Lead Us to Ruin.

Aldous huxley - darkness and light. » JP Morgan Executive Becomes 5th Banker to Die in Last 2 Weeks Alex Jones. Caught Red-Handed. Obama Told Aides He's 'Really Good At Killing People,' New Book 'Double Down' Claims. DOJ pursues immunity for Bush and six others for Iraq war crimes - Las Vegas Democrat. US, Israel plan to occupy south Syria: Report. Saudi-US lovechild of terror running amuck: Academic. Pakistan anti-drone campaigner missing - Central & South Asia. The simple image sharer. The Next American Revolution, featuring Gar Alperovitz (TRAILER)

Conversations w/Great Minds - Prof. Gar Alperovitz, America Beyond Capitalism. Clint Richardson - Common Core, Agenda 21, And Global Privatization. US response to leaked call confirms US/EU regime-change plot in Ukraine. US response to leaked call confirms US/EU regime-change plot in Ukraine.