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Billionaires Funding Plot To Destroy Dissent And Protest In Colleges. Above Photo: By Gallo Images / Sowetan / Thulani Mbele A multimillion-dollar campaign to stifle protest in universities.

Billionaires Funding Plot To Destroy Dissent And Protest In Colleges

As far-right speakers face loud student opposition at their university speaking gigs, conservative lawmakers in several states are introducing legislation that cracks down on protesters. The Anonymous Blacklist Promoted by the Washington Post Has Apparent Ties to Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying. Photo Credit: Max Borge, Flickr.

The Anonymous Blacklist Promoted by the Washington Post Has Apparent Ties to Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying

WikiLeaks Just DUMPED EVERYTHING – This is HUGE – Historic Activity by Wikileaks – Read and Share before it is taken down! NOTICE: This is a developing story, it is being actively updated as information comes available.

WikiLeaks Just DUMPED EVERYTHING – This is HUGE – Historic Activity by Wikileaks – Read and Share before it is taken down!

Please check back for updates. Last Updated 4:54PM GMT (12:54 PM Eastern United States) 3 Popular Mainstream Media Journalists Come Together & Tell The Truth About Tell-Lie-Vision. The world is changing so fast, and many people, at least in the developed world, are starting to see through corporately owned mainstream media.

3 Popular Mainstream Media Journalists Come Together & Tell The Truth About Tell-Lie-Vision

They’ve been caught red handed ‘faking’ and lying about major global events on multiple occasions, and now, some of their employees are leaving their jobs and telling the truth about something that dominates a large portion of mainstream media. That being said, it’s clear that not every single thing we see on mainstream western television is a lie, but it seems that much of it is or at least has corporate and political bias’ behind it, especially when it comes to major global events like war and terrorism.

Untitled. Administrators at one California high school reacted in all the wrong ways when student reporters tried to write a newspaper article about the recent dismissal of a popular teacher and debate coach.

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San Gabriel High School principal Jim Schofield sent an email telling newspaper adviser Jennifer Kim to kill the story and suggested running a fluffy profile piece instead. WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEES TETHERED BY ILLEGAL GAG ORDERS - As more and more people are becoming aware of the aerosol spraying of our skies, the power structure is tightening the lid.

WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEES TETHERED BY ILLEGAL GAG ORDERS -

NWSEO Executive Vice President Bill Hopkins. “As a taxpayer, I find it highly disturbing that a government agency continues to push gag orders to hide how they operate. This is the work of the American government, owned by the American public, and should be open to the American public.” “The National Weather Service is about the last place where national security-style secrecy rules need to be enforced,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that the broad scope of the gag orders put much of what goes on inside the agency under wraps. “Everyone is free to talk about the weather except for the people working inside the National Weather Service. Imposition of a nondisclosure policy or order not meeting WPEA requirements is classified as a “prohibited personnel practice” contravening fundamental tenets of the federal merit system.

Court Forbids F.D.A. From Blocking Truthful Promotion of Drug. A federal judge said on Friday that the Food and Drug Administration could not prohibit the truthful promotion of a drug for unapproved uses because doing so would violate the protection of free speech.

Court Forbids F.D.A. From Blocking Truthful Promotion of Drug

The decision, by a district judge in Manhattan, could inhibit the ability of the to regulate one aspect of pharmaceutical marketing. Pharmaceutical companies have collectively paid billions of dollars in fines in recent years after being accused of marketing drugs for unapproved uses. What's Scarier: Terrorism, or Governments Blocking Websites in its Name? The French Interior Ministry on Monday ordered that five websites be blocked on the grounds that they promote or advocate terrorism.

What's Scarier: Terrorism, or Governments Blocking Websites in its Name?

“I do not want to see sites that could lead people to take up arms on the Internet,” proclaimed Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. When the block functions properly, visitors to those banned sites, rather than accessing the content of the sites they chose to visit, will be automatically redirected to the Interior Ministry website. Google Moving to Shut Down Alternative Media by Ranking Sites on “Facts” Rather than Popularity.

Search Engine giant Google, the major driver of traffic to the majority of media portals is moving to change the way it ranks websites, declaring that it intends to use known partisan debunking outlets to determine the “truthfulness” of content.

Google Moving to Shut Down Alternative Media by Ranking Sites on “Facts” Rather than Popularity

Currently, Google rankings are determined by the number of incoming links to a web page, meaning that if a story becomes popular it can be driven to the top of search results, and by viewed by millions of people. However, this is a little too democratic for the liking of some, who only like to get their “facts” from pre-approved sources. Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says "I Would Do It All Again" From the YouTube description: In 2007, John Kiriakou became the first CIA official to publicly confirm and detail the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding.

Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says "I Would Do It All Again"

He’s just been released from prison to serve the remaining three months of his 30-month sentence under house arrest, and joins us from his home in Virginia. When asked if he thinks NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden would receive a fair trial if he returns to the United States, Kiriakou responds, “Not under any circumstances. … I think the deck is stacked against him as it is against any whistleblower.” EXPOSED: Governments Pay News Networks To FAKE Stories All The Time. “The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.” - Joss Whedon This week, news reporter Brian Williams created global controversy when he admitted to lying about being in a helicopter crash in Iraq.

When Silencing Dissent Isn't News. Reprinted from Consortium News Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern crying out in pain while being arrested on Oct. 30, 2014, in New York City. (image by (A screenshot from a YouTube video via The Dissenter at firedoglake.com)) What if Martin Luther King Jr. had been arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, in April 1963 and the U.S. news media had decided that it wasn't a story, just some troublemaker getting what he deserved for breaking the law? Would King have gone on to give his "I have a dream speech" in August, win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and change American history?

Charlie Hebdo Fired ‘Anti-Semitic’ Cartoonist For Ridiculing Judaism In 2009. January 14th, 2015 | by hqanon Politics. Journalist Makes Powerful Statement After Receiving 63 Month Prison Sentence. This week, journalist Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for reporting on information that was revealed in hacked documents. Brown has spent the past two years in prison awaiting his trail, so he still has 35 months of his term left to serve. On not understanding "Charlie:" Why many smart people are getting it wrong. Is Sony's crackdown a bigger threat to western free speech than North Korea? Sony leaks reveal Hollywood is trying to break DNS, the backbone of the internet. Do Wars Really Defend America’s Freedom?

When will Obama’s administration stop trying to send this man to jail for telling the truth about spies, nukes and Iran? Courage Foundation. National Security Letter Case Shows the Absurdity of the Government’s Secrecy Rules.