Greenwald: CIA and NPR propaganda (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Glenn Greenwald (The Intercept) Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.org, Aug. 13, 2014)

NPR propaganda uses CIA-linked firm's report on Snowden's whistle blowing

Iraq: Is U.S. "humanitarianism" only summoned to control oil-rich areas?

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The NSA illegally spies on everyone it can.

Earlier this month, The Intercept published documents provided by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden that revealed the deep ties between Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies.

In a recent article, investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald cites one 2013 document that described a "far-reaching technical and analytic relationship" between the National Security Agency (NSA) and its Israeli counterpart against "mutually agreed upon geographic targets."

The partnership includes a "dedicated communications line" supporting "the exchange of raw material, as well as daily analytic and technical correspondence." More

NPR's disinformation for the state

Whistleblower former NSA Agent Snowden

Furthermore, Greenwald’s latest article for The Intercept is headlined "NPR is laundering CIA talking points to make you scared of NSAb eporting." 

Greenwald takes a highly critical look at a story by NPR’s counterterrorism correspondent, Dina Temple-Raston, which aired on Morning Edition earlier this month. Temple-Raston’s propaganda-ridden report focused on claims by the tech firm Recorded Future that it has "tangible evidence" that NSA whistleblower Snowden harmed national security by inadvertently prompting "terrorists" to use better encryption programs to maintain their privacy.

 

Greenwald says the NPR report erred in failing to mention that the firm is funded by the CIA, even though Temple-Rason was well aware of this. "This was such a pure and indisputable case of journalistic malpractice and deceit," Greenwald charges. "NPR radically misled millions of people with this report." More

Rise of CIA's "ISIS": US re-invasion of Iraq, backing of Syrian rebels fuels Jihadis’ advance

LA Police Commission gives LAPD Chief Beck 2nd term Beck has worked for the LAPD for more than three decades. Violent crime has fallen under his tenure it's also come with controversy.

• Clippers sale to Steve Ballmer goes through
• VIDEO: Robin Williams: Officials say actor hanged himself with a belt [while partially clothed]
• 4 teens plead not guilty to killing Chinese USC student  
• U.S. Sends 130 More Troops to Iraq 
• Report: U.S. Conditions New Weapons to Iraq on Maliki’s Departure
• Gaza Ceasefire Enters Final Hours as Cairo Talks Continue
• 5 Killed in Gaza During Attempt to Dismantle Israeli Missile
• WHO: Gaza Hospitals, Health Facilities "In Dire Need"
• U.K. to Suspends Arms Exports to Israel if Gaza Assault Resumes 
• Venezuela Sends Humanitarian Aid to Gaza 
• Israel Apologizes for Labeling Brazil "Diplomatic Dwarf"
• Israel: U.N. War Crimes Probe a "Kangaroo Court"
• WHO Approves Untested Drugs for Ebola Outbreak
• Police Shooting Leaves Man Critically Wounded After New Ferguson Protests
• Ferguson Police Continues to Withhold Identity of Officer Who Killed Michael Brown 
• Barneys to Pay $525,000 Settlement over Racial Profiling
• Judge Steps Down in Immigration Fraud Trial of Chicago Arab-American Activist
• HRW: Rabaa Massacre in Egypt "a Crime Against Humanity"

How Israel's PR controls the media (video)

Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; documentary directors Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff (mediaed.org, IMDB.com)

Why is the U.S. public unaware of the war crimes our government (military-industrial complex) and Israel are committing even though it's in the news all day long? Careful public relations, also known as well crafted propaganda. Jahlly and Ratzkoff explain in Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land.

This video shows how the foreign policy interests of American political elites -- working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies -- influence U.S. news reporting about the Middle East conflict.

Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and political activists, "Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land" provides a brief historical overview, a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, [controlled] American public opinion.

- Exerpted from Media Education Foundation

What will it take to get the U.S. public's attention about our and Israel's crimes? Topless FEMEN protesters conduct a "Slut Walk" in Tel Aviv, May 10, 2014 calling attention to religious sexism, patriarchy, militarism, and crimes against humanity.

 

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land:

U.S. Media on Israel-Palestine

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage.
 

It focuses on the "crisis" [actually Israel's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity] in the Middle East, zeroing in on distortions in U.S. coverage reinforce false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
 

I did what you said. - You'll get over it.

This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites -- big oil, a need to have an American military base in the region, and others -- work in combination with Israeli public relations (PR) strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from Israel is reported.

Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how -- through the use of language, framing and context -- the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied territories appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one.

Jewish-Israeli occupiers demand Muslim-Arab blood: All the U.S. gets in its mainstream media are slanted, spun, pro-Israeli images, explanations, and crafted talking points (newser.com)

 
The documentary also explores the ways that U.S. journalists, for reasons ranging from intimidation to a lack of thorough investigation, have become complicit in carrying out Israel's PR campaign. At its core, the documentary raises questions about the ethics and role of journalism, and the relationship between media and politics.

Interviewees include Seth Ackerman, Mjr. Stav Adivi, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Hanan Ashrawi, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Neve Gordon, Toufic Haddad, Sam Husseini, Hussein Ibish, Robert Jensen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Karen Pfeifer, Alisa Solomon, and Gila Svirsky. More

Arresting and imprisoning children 10 and older: Why is this Palestinian kid dressed in "concentration camp" garb being manhandled by a heavily armed adult Israeli militant?

• VIDEO: An Israeli  general's son tells the truth about Israel

The Truth About Ukraine (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Christopher Greene, Alternative Media (AMTV)

• The Truth About Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (amtvmedia.com)
• VIDEO: Retired Navy general reveals real reason for Ukraine
• Brazil's World Cup: Protest-riots

Misleading Mainstream Media Reports PROMOTE war:
Russia sending tanks across border into Ukraine, Kiev says

Sergei L. Loiko, Carol J. Williams

Russia goes back on its promise to secure its border with Ukraine against further infusions of weapons and fighters. Ukrainian troops destroy some of the Russian convoy.

• Iraqi troops flee militant onslaught, lawmakers do nothing in Baghdad

In dramatic move, Tesla releases patents to rival automakers: Musk says the move will be of modest help to rival car companies and should speed the adoption of electric cars.

• Stocks slip in morning trading; oil prices surge
• Bowe Bergdahl headed home, in Texas on Friday
• Idaho politician speaks out defending Bergdahl's hometown
• Two captured in slaying of Detroit mother; kids missing 
• Career criminal is killed minutes after jury mistakenly sets him free 
• L.A. Now: Grass-roots L.A. group pushes to cap many parking tickets at $23

Christian Zionists and US lawmakers

Afghanistan: Few differences between election front-runners

World Cup: Brazil kicks off World Cup with win over Croatia

Football: Most popular soccer team in US? Mexico

Iraq: Kurds take oil-rich Kirkuk amid advance of ISIL insurgency

Rick Perry: homosexuality like being "an alcoholic"
 

Brazil protesters disrupt Rio military parade 2013 (Al Jazeera America)

Saying no to our U.S. "War Criminals" (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org)

In yer face, killer, war criminal! (Code Pink)

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- a war criminal and unindicted co-conspirator along with Dick Cheney, Karl "the Architect" Rove, both George Bush(es), Donald Rumsfeld, and John Ashcroft -- was forced to withdraw as commencement speaker at Rutgers University following protests by faculty and students over her role in the 2003 American (U.S.)-led invasion of Iraq and our torture of captives.

 

Seeking justice with a torture lawsuit

Rutgers faculty circulated a petition decrying the role Rice played in "efforts to mislead the American people about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." 

 

G.W. Bush, Condi Rice on way to jail (CP)

Last week, Rutgers students occupied a campus building in a call for the invitation (and its $35,000 stipend) to be withdrawn. In a statement this weekend, Rice said her appearance "has become a distraction."

The "No Rice Campaign" at Rutgers is discussed by student protester Carmelo Cintrón Vivas and Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. More

 

PEACE ON EARTH! WOMEN FOR JUSTICE, CODE PINK FOR PEACE (codepink.org)

Occupy Wall Street on Trial: Cecily McMillan convicted of assaulting cop, faces seven years

• "You might get hit by a car": On secret tape, FBI threatens American-Muslim refusing to be an informant 
• Secret tape could oust Clippers owner Donald Sterling, but has NBA long ignored his public racism? 
• Posing as U.S. officials, Yes-Men announce renewable energy revolution at Homeland Security Congress
• Ralph Nader on TPP, GM recall, nuclear power, and the "Unstoppable" left-right anti-corporate movement

NYC to reform Stop and Frisk, end racial profiling 

New York’s new Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced the city will drop its appeal of a ruling by a U.S. district court that found the NYPD’s controversial "stop-and-frisk" program unconstitutional and settle an ongoing lawsuit.

 

Years after vowing to close Gitmo, Obama signed NDAA instead

Saying he would close Guantánamo years after it opened, Pres. Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act, barring the use of federal funds to transfer detainees from the notorious American torture prison in Cuba to U.S. soil. Of the 166 prisoners remaining, 86 have been cleared for release...

Sexy "Obama Girls" turn on Barack (video)

Amber Larson, CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Carey Wedler; Amber Lee Ettinger (RT America); Leah Kauffman; Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan (democracynow.org)

(Carey Wedler/inrogue.co/facebook) Carey speaks for us on WHY at 0:55 and 2:45

Join me as I wreck my last artifact of support for our War-Criminal-in-Chief. I figured out the fraud a while back but only recently found his shirt in my closet. 

B----, please! she said.

It’s been a couple of weeks since burning Obama’s shirt face, It got far, FAR more views than I ever expected! Technically, viral is over a million views in a week, so call it mini-viral.
 
Regardless, not only does the all-knowing Internet have me pegged for everything from a leftist anarchist to a tea party conservative. (I’m neither). It has earned me overwhelming support.

 

Tom Tomorrow (thismodernworld.com)

It is exciting and encouraging to have experienced firsthand how disappointed, disgusted, and frustrated many people are with B.S. Obama and to see how many people have dropped the fantasy of America having a two-party system. It is one party with two wing, and it serves the people in power. I’ve done some fun interviews this week. Check them out! These are full episodes, so you may need to listen to what else they have to say before you find my segment: Pete Santilli, The Big Plantation, Ed & Ethan, The Rundown. 

Before Obama became president, his message of "change" had many falling in love with the well-groomed CIA operative and Illinois senator. One busty individual, model Amber Lee Ettinger, became an instant Internet hit when she declared her "love" for the then-candidate. Ettinger's "Obama Girl" video went viral. But years of the commander-in-chief in office has her looking for a new crush. She joins RT America with more on why she has had a change of heart.

The voice behind Obama Girl, Leah Kauffman

A new Obama Girl video -- “Still Got a Crush on Obama” -- was released in 2012: If “Obama Girl” looked different but sounded exactly the same, that’s because Leah Kauffman -- the original singer and songwriter behind the 2008 “Crush on Obama” song and video -- actually stars in this one.  Last time Kauffman and partner Ben Relles, who is not involved with this new video, hired a [hot] model, Amber Lee Ettinger, to lip-synch the original song. But in 2012 Kauffman finally stepped up to take center-stage. VIDEO

Obama defends more NSA spying

China sees Obama girls, but not Xi girl

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Pres. Obama on Monday (March 24, 2014) defended U.S. surveillance programs as serving national security rather than [civil liberties or] commercial interests, in a wide-ranging meeting with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of a nuclear summit. More

• Exclusive: NSA, FBI, DIA sued over refusal to disclose U.S. role in imprisonment of Nelson Mandela
  
• Breastfeeding mom jailed for drinking, informer waitress...
• Over 300 earthquakes hit country of Chile
• Prophecy and Ukraine (Russia, Crimea, and America)
• VIDEO: Anti-Chinese sentiment as "China invades US"
• VIDEO: Ron Paul on B.S. Obama's Martial Law Plans
• Prejudice in an Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)

Soft Dictator and new Pope
(Gwen Ifill/PBS NewsHour) Pres. Barry and Pope Francis met for the first time at Corporate Church HQ, the Vatican. The papal audience emphasized different points. Obama claims they focused on their shared interest in helping the poor, while Vatican officials emphasized areas where their views differ like birth control mandates.

Barack Obama: The Least Transparent President in History

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan (DemocracyNow.org)

Six years into the Obama administration, the president’s promise of “a new era of open government” seems just another grand promise, cynically broken. LISTEN

As colleges across the country, from Harvard to U of Mississippi, deal with (often unconscious but sometimes blatant) racism, a new film tackles the issue with comedy and satire: "Dear White People" follows a group of black students on a fictional Ivy League campus. One of the students hosts a campus radio show of the same name. It confronts racist stereotypes and dilemmas faced by students of color. Tensions come to a head when a group of mostly white students throw an African-American-themed party, wearing blackface and using watermelons and fake guns as props. More

VIDEO: Bush was bad, but Obama fooled the world

The U.S. President has no clothes! (comedy)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.org, New York); Kshama Sawant, Mitch Jeserich (KPFA, Berkeley)

It doesn't really matter what I say. It's all subject to revision and White Out (TW). Obama, like Bush before him and everyone after, is a puppet. Who really wields the power? The MIC

Even I could read a prompter. - Pointin' is cool. - If only I could tell Obi how much I agree.

A breakdown of Pres. Obama's Newspeak and nonsense with Jeremy Scahill (Democracy Now!)
  

Look, Jo/Jo, I'm movin' further to the right.

G.W. Bush was as terrible liar, whereas President B.S. Obama is a great one. Let's give the devilish man his due: He is a great speaker, a great orator, and a pretty good pacifier. If only what he said were true.

Scahill: "drone president," NSA whitewash

Some is. Unfortunately, it has proven to be the stuff we would never let Dub'ya and Dick get away with -- depriving Americans of peace, privacy, prosperity, civil liberties... What do we get instead?

• Letters and Politics, Mitch Jeserich and guests analyze Obama's speech (Jan. 29, 2014): PLAY NOW (download)
• VIDEO: Best Tweets of the night for SOTU 2014 (Huff Po)

Shut up, Jeremy, I'm warning you.

Executive order drone assassinations, business-as-usual banking, indefinite detentions, illegal NSA surveillance, Department of Homeland Harassment, police shootings, police beatings, a war on whistleblowers, a crumbling "permanent-war" economy, weather modification, environmental degradation, electrical and frequency pollution, oil and chemical spills, joblessness, corporate control of policies and politics and, well, other than that, everything's great.

VIDEO: The many FUNNY faces of Jo Boehner behind Barry Obama

  

Bush, Cheney families love Obama policies

Poor Jo Biden. Poorer Jo Boehner sitting back there trying not to roll his eyes seeing his political party mate speak so eloquently. Yes, all three are in the same party with its two nearly identical wings, one moderate, one extreme right. The 99% has got to learn to start taking direction from the 1%, or the dogs, paramilitary troops, water canons, spies, agent provocateurs, and batons are going to have to be sent in. Hey, you, OBEY! Or else.

What will cure right-wing extremism from the Republocrats?

   
A third party response
David Ferguson (rawstory.com)

Kshama Sawant, Seattle's Socialist

Socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant ripped not only Pres. Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday, but the Democrats and Republicans alongside him as he delivered it.

We bow to the same MIC masters.

“We will make progress only on the basis of a fundamental and systematic change,” Sawant said in a response on behalf of the Socialist Party.

“We need a break from the policies of Wall Street and corporate America. We need a break from capitalism. It has failed the 99 percent. Both parties bow down before the free market and loyally serve the interests of their corporate masters, with the only difference being in matter of degree. The political system is completely dysfunctional, and it’s broken.”
 

Yeah, we golf. Obama and Boehner (WP)

Sawant, who in November of 2013 became the first socialist elected to office in Seattle in 50 years, also criticized Pres. Obama’s remarks vowing to fight income inequality, saying he was prodded by public demonstrations staged by fast-food workers and others... More

Making fun of Obama (The Daily Show)

• Jon Stewart: Republicans’ response to Obama was "world’s sh*ttiest open mic night"
• Fox News host: Women don’t want equal pay because they already get "exactly what they’re worth"
• House passes bill cutting $8 billion from Food Stamps

• "A Silent Coup": Jeremy Scahill and Bob Herbert on Corporate-Military Interests shaping Obama’s fifth State of the Union (SOTU) address 
• In SOTU, Obama tells divided Congress to expect unilateral "executive action" in face of continued obstruction 
• 5 years of the "same rhetoric": Immigration activist faults Obama’s SOTU, police state deportation policy
• 85 richest people hold wealth equal to 3.5 billion poorest
• 11 arrested protesting agri-poison giant Monsanto

Pick a finger. Go on. See if I care.

• Obama pretends to seek Guantánamo U.S. Prison closure (again), supports Iran deal 
• GOP suggests challenge to minimum wage hike for future federal contractors 
• Syria talks resume after Dictator Assad Regime cites "terrorist" backing 
• Homs City, Syria remains without humanitarian aid despite gov’t pledge 
• Egypt's military junta orders trial for 20 detained Al Jazeera journalists 
• U.N. Security Council approves European troop deployment to Central African Republic 
• Latin American, Caribbean leaders meet in Cuba 
• Tunisia (site of first uprising of Arab Spring) approves landmark constitution 



That sucked. We must obstruct! (gawker.com)

• Republican resigns after his cocaine arrest 
• Postal workers rally against gov’t contract with Staples 
• College football team seeks union; player comes out as gay 
• Supreme Court halts Missouri death penalty execution over disclosure of unsanctioned lethal drug cocktail to be used

Evidence of alien abduction (shocking video)

Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Dr. Roger Leir, M.D., Jamie Maussan, "Mistero"

(Dennis4706) "Alien Abduction of the Fourth Kind"; European ET-human pregnancy: 5:25

True events at shapeshifter Sherman ranch

We are conditioned to laugh and ridicule at so much as the possibility that the Earth is, or has ever been, visited by intelligent extraterrestrials.

Although millions of people have seen UFO craft and reported their sightings, very deliberate government propaganda campaigns have us all dismissing such reports out of hand. It is all nonsense and conspiratorial, something only yokels see and never have evidence to substantiate. 

UFOs (ET craft) in ancient India: vimanas

However, what is really happening is a suppression of evidence and the simultaneous over-exposure of frivolous reports, hoaxes, and strategic distractions.

At one time, according to researcher Robert Morningstar (UFODigest.com), the US had to convince the USSR that Americans did not believe in UFOs. This was because such objects were appearing and being tracked all over Russia. Russians suspected that they were in fact futuristic American technology. 

(History Channel) "Russia's Roswell" at the secret Cold War era military base Kapustin Yar

What Big Business wants, that's what we do...

Psychological warfare led our secretive government to convince Russia that it had no involvement as Americans did not believe in such things. Disinformation was deployed to ensure that. This happened in spite of the Roswell incident in New Mexico, USA, in 1947 and the day after (and "Mexico's Roswell" in 1974, Canada's Roswell in 1967, Russia's Roswell in 1948, Brazil's Roswell in 1977, Britain's Roswell in 1980) and the bringing down of similar craft then reverse engineering the technology aboard.

National reports (ufocenter.com)

There are in fact many groups with various purposes, some beneficent others artificial and maleficent. Yet how we view them depends so much on our government, its mainstream media partners, and our conditioning. We can laugh, but since truth is much stranger than fiction, we choose to investigate. Everyone else will come to believe when the military-industrial complex wants them to. And it's a safe bet that that will be for self-serving purposes.

(IC) "Skinwalker Ranch" A scientific research team investigates

and documents the supernatural phenomena surrounding the

disappearance of a cattle rancher's son. Inspired by true events.