Police State: Ferguson, Missouri riots (video)

SelfEsteemMedia; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

Killing in the name of? Black teen "accidentally" shot on purpose in the back with his hands up while yelling, "Hands up, don't shoot!" Ferguson, St. Louis County, MO (dayandadream.com).

When people rise up against injustice, the police state cracks down harder on any pretext.

Social media has changed so much about the way we live, how we love, and how we get our news. [Apart from all the government spying and corporate data collection, which is handed over to the NSA, CIA, FBI, NSC, or pretty much any government agency that asks for it, social media is nice for being peer-to-peer, or at least appearing to be.]

• Los Angeles to join the fray Sunday at LAPD HQ
• Anniversary of Egypt's mass killing of protesters - a "crime against humanity" on par with China's Tiannamen Square and Massacre at Uzbekistan

Police state deployed after backlash to murderous cop executing black teen (inlandsocal.com)

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Egypt, worse than Tiananmen? 1st anniv

A tragic  [murder] shooting by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer of an unarmed [black] teenager, Mike Brown, has brought about anger, rioting, shooting, looting, arson, and injuries [by citizens fed up with police state abuses, endemic departmental racism, the hiring of white police-troops carrying assault rifles and deploying SWAT tactics at the slightest provocation  -- or with no provocation at all but just to practice -- to patrol predominantly black  areas in a heavy handed, siege mentality, paramilitary style].

The town of Ferguson has been turned upside down. Yet, the national media is largely silent on the issue. The local Quicktrip has been looted and burned to the ground. Store owners are rushing to their establishments to try to deter the protestors from any further [riot-related] theft and destruction. But CNN is still running stories on the new U.S. war on Iraq, the beautiful “Super Moon,” and [Israeli crimes] in Gaza [which it never fails to blame on the victims of the assaults].

 

Ferguson Faceoff after Mike Brown murder causes riots in Ferguson, MO (selfesteemmedia).

 

People are turning to social media to see photos, videos, and other content showing what is happening in St. Louis, MO. Social media gives every average person the ability to break news before the professionals. In April, 1992 during the LA Riots the world had to wait to hear about the unrest in Los Angeles while 16 years later the world has the ability to watch the riots in real time, on-line through the eyes of the people that are living through it.

 

The Quicktrip was burned down after being looted during outrage over police shooting.

 

It is said that those that do not learn history are destined to repeat it. There are lessons to be learned on both sides of this tragic and likely racist crime. Perhaps the free flow of information social media facilitates will help us all remember history with enough detail to avoid future riot situations. The national media has been caught asleep at the wheel on this issue... More

• VIDEO: Uzbek Massacre (Journeyman Pictures) In June 2010 ethnic tensions in [formerly Buddhist now Muslim] Kyrgyzstan overflowed, and a conflict ensued that killed hundreds and displaced hundreds of thousands. Now it is emerging that the government may have been behind the attacks. 
• VIDEO: Egyptian Army kills 800+ during anti-coup protests

(David Lim) Chinese troops are sent in in full military gear to quiet pro-democracy uprising in China's Tiananmen Square by shooting unarmed civilians killing over 800. Most of the world's Chinese have no idea this ever took place thanks to government's clampdown on the media and disinformation campaigns.

"Net Neutrality" going down the drain (video)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org, May 15, 2014); Sarah Jaffe, Joel Serino (occupy.com); OccupytheFCC

Net: it's a utility, the "People's Platform," not a portable TV for corporate media (occupy)

 

Not until a fair accounting of votes does anything happen in a democracy. (It sure would be nice to live in a democracy). All those who say otherwise are stirring up anarchy. Destroy the deviants, troublemakers, and perverts! Corporate profits depend on it. That should keep the police state busy. In the meantime, what about our Internet?

 

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is voting today on new rules that may effectively abandon "Net neutrality," the concept of a free and open Internet. (Watch this).

(CGP Grey/cgpgrey.com) Let's tell the FCC to reclassify broadband Internet as a public utility, a Title II common carrier telecommunications service. (Discuss). Music: Broke for Free.

The FCC proposal would let Internet providers charge corporate media companies extra fees to receive preferential treatment, such as faster speeds for their products and content.

Under previous regulations struck down earlier this year, providers were forced to provide ALL content at equal speeds, including Wisdom Quarterly, Democracy Now!, Occupy.com, FEMEN, CodePink, and other outlets.

The encampment begins with activists from popularresistance.org and Fight for the Future

 

Just steps from the vote, demonstrators have set up an "Occupy the FCC" (occupythefcc.com) encampment calling for federal regulators to reclassify broadband service as a public utility.

"Trust me; I'm a banker!"

This will allow for the requirement of "Net neutrality" rules.

The CEOs of 28 U.S. broadband providers and trade groups told their FCC not to classify broadband as a utility, explaining that regulating broadband would "impose great costs [to our private corporations], allowing unprecedented government micromanagement of all aspects of the Internet economy."

Save the Internet (freepress.net)

This debate on Net neutrality features guests Timothy Karr of the media reform group Free Press, who want corporations to be regulated for the good of everyone who uses the Net, and Joshua Steimle, a tech entrepreneur who argues that the government should not be entrusted with regulating the Internet. More

• VIDEO: Today I help free the Internet

Greenwald: "Collect it ALL" (U.S. spying)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (democracynow.org)

"Collect it All": Glenn Greenwald on NSA bugging electronic hardware, economic espionage, and spying on U.N.

Today and tomorrow, Democracy Now! airs a two-part special with The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who brought the Edward Snowden information to light.

• Edward Snowden: "The [criminal, unconstitutional] stuff I saw [being done by the NSA] really began to disturb me": How the U.S. Drone War pushed [me] to leak NSA docs

The National Spying Agency wants it all

He, Laura Poitras, and others went through The Guardian, a mainstream media British publication at one time brave enough to expose U.S. spying activity through the government's National [Spying] Agency the NSA. This revealed a web of corporate complicity in the "social media" arena. The CIA, NSA, FBI, DHS, and others have been up to their elbows in Facebook, SnapChat, Twitter, Google (especially Google), Yahoo, and other data collection businesses. Everyone used to wonder how they made money while reporting quarterly losses period after period. Now the world knows; it was more than Wall Street speculators propping it up.

• Glenn Greenwald: The explosive day we revealed Edward Snowden's name to the world (The Guardian)

I think we sold out for the right pice. - Me, too

And Greenwald has more to say after winning a Pulitzer for his reporting and being threatened by the military-industrial-spying complex. An American, he now lives abroad in Brazil but was brave enough to return to the U.S. talking about his new book. Snowden is fighting the good fight to rein in our out of control secret-government. But it doesn't want to be reined in and hopes to do more harm to our privacy before anyone stops it or enacts laws to curb it. Some localities already have. But the cover up is the size of tsunami raising all boats in the harbor and threatening to smash us to smithereens against the rocks. More (MP4 video only)

When is social media too much? (cartoon)

Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Tom Tomorrow (thismodernworld.com)

If teens have been peddled to and become addicted and obsessed with social media, what are they really after? It used to be "being part of the group." Now it's all about money and FAME.

Stimulating the brain's reward centers with addictive devices (thismodernworld.com)

In a day and age obsessed with social media and spying technology, it's hard to picture life without them.

Is that good or bad or neither? According to Andrew Keen, author of the book Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us, the Internet, and particularly social media, is changing society in a way that is worrisome. (Christians agree).
 

Keen has long been known for the position he has taken on the addictive Internet, claiming that it is having an adverse effect on society and people personally. After voicing this position in his book The Cult of Amateur, he has been given nicknames like the "Net's supreme cyber-grump" and the "Antichrist of the Silicon Valley."

Speaking to WebProNews he explains that, while he supports the Internet and social media, he is concerned that the public nature of the social age is resulting in "losing something essential about what it means to be human." 

(The National, Feb. 2014) How are teens being affected by social media? Research suggests the impact is emotional - bullying, obsession with money and fame (defined as likes), and sexting.

"One of the problems, I think, with social media is that it isn't very social. It's really just an aggregation of individuals," he says. As he explains, many of our actions on social networks aren't pro-social. The movements that have developed are not coherent, viable movements. For example, Occupy or the movements in the Middle East, are atomized and radically individualized not "social" movements. Most social networks, instead, represent "just an aggregation" of people.

To avoid a potential harmful impact, Keen says the Internet needs to become more civilized and habitable. He also suggests that government regulation regarding privacy protections against spying could help prevent the concerns from getting worse.

• The problem is not loving Facebook; it's hating it but still using it: Top 10 Reasons to Quit Facebook (Diggnation Daily)

Making a new fake threat: CIA's "Boko Haram"

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY); BBC

Is it possible to control the weather? Can social media catch bogeymen? Some agencies already wield the power to make it rain (by cloudseeding with toxic heavy metals), "drive" hurricanes/cyclones and cause/avert catastrophic weather disasters (with HAARP). But let's pretend they are not yet doing it: the BBC investigates.

 
UPDATE: The photos of the "abducted" girls are fake

American invaders arrive to find, rape, kill...

BORNO, Nigeria (BP News) - More than 200 Christian girls Boko Haram [is said to have] kidnapped a month ago from a state school are not the same girls shown in a ransom video the ["]terrorists["] released, Nigerian relations expert Adeniyi Ojutiku told Baptist Press today (May 13).

When the Borno state government shared copies of the video with the parents of the kidnapped [CIA abducted] teenagers, none of the parents could find their children in the video, Ojutiku said he learned from the Borno government.

"They are not the same. They are not the girls abducted," said Ojutiku, a Southern Baptist in Raleigh, N.C., who receives frequent updates from members of the grassroots group Lift Up Now. He co-founded the group to address political, economic and social challenges in his homeland Nigeria. More

• Video of Boko Haram killing a girl found to be fake

Fear, fear, don't forget to be afraid! They're savages! They're monsters! Protect us, military-industrial complex, protect us! They're mean to innocent little schoolgirls and puppies! They're black! They're Muslims! And worst of all they hate "Western education" for girls!

 

First it was the Red Menace, those darn Cold War communists taking over the capitalist world like a big Dominoes game, one nation falling after another trying to set up a just economic system that does not exploit workers. Then it was Al Qaeda and the Bogeyman (Emmanuel Goldstein/Osama bin Laden). Now it's Bo Go Harm, Bogeyman II, the BOGUS black monsters of Boko Haram ("Western-style education is forbidden"). What kind of Fear of a Black Planet is this farce exploiting?

The CIA paid me to launch a media campaign

Look, they confessed! They say Allah is making them do it! Jehovah would never sell kids! Be afraid, be more afraid! Hey, let's not forget to vote to get some boots on the ground in Africa with American troops searching for Kony, too!

Who are Boko Haram?

The group that has claimed responsibility for abducting hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls has long waged a campaign of terror. BBC News takes a look at the leadership, methods, and beliefs of Boko Haram.

Boko Haram "to sell" abducted girls

Oh no! Be afraid, very afraid! The Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram says it will "sell" the hundreds of schoolgirls it abducted three weeks ago.

How to be "cool" (guide)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal (A MODERN GUIDE TO LIFE)

Hey, don't look at me, creep!

You know, first thing you want to do to be "cool" is click on a lot of ads, like especially the ones that say "free." They usually end up costing more. And spending buku bucks is definitely cools-ville, holmes.
 
Next you want to do all things cell phone/mobile -- tweet like there's no idea too stupid to talk about, and start with "OMG, can't believe she said that!" so ppl will know you're serious. Instagram it, f Facebook tho, dump that. SnapChat it, baby, same corporation.

(Double Take) Be totally HOT...and still have problems

Hey, look at those guys!

And makes lots of friends. It's easy! Just say, "Hey, 'friend' me, ese! I'm aiming for 10,000 likes!" Always talk with exclamation marks. Oh, and, aim for 10,000 likes. That's a good number of friends to have on social media in case you want to sell girl scout cookies outside of a medical dispensary or something. Get all krazy; like, y b norml? Listen to the s/he devils.

Be a gavone. We don't give an f'n s, b-tches!

And get a motto. You can have ours: "Always be good, except when you're bad. Choose to be happy, except when you're sad. Don't quote me on this, don't hold me to that. Should you live a good life? I guess it shall be."

Or how 'bout JC's? "Cut me some slack. I can't make up my mind. Get off of my @$$. I heard y'all the first time. I'll get to it eventually. Just leave me be!"

And never be sarcastic or ironic; peeps hate that cuz u'd have to think 'n stuff, and who's got time for that, yeah?

(Mr. Show with Bob and David) JC "Jeepers Creepers Semi-Star" the Musical

This guy, this guy right here, he's got it.

There's another way. But it's a big hassle. And who needs that? Why not just wake up late, bake, eat things in crinkly plastic bags, and breathe with ya mouth, and blow yer nose later?

Way back, like, in the beforetime, in India, this guy was totally done with the party-n-the-palace life, the naked dancing girls and musicians, the soma and ambrosia, the hoopla and the sports meets... 

The Four Noble Truths are all that's needed.

Quest. Why not seek FREEDOM? Be set free by the highest liberating truths.

1. There is a thirst, a TANHA. 2. It gives rise to terrible feelings of dissatisfaction and disappointment, to dookie, to DUKKHA. 3. There is a COOL, cooling, quenching, slaking allayer of all ills, NIRVANA. 4. And there's a way to get to it, a MAGGA. So it is possible to be free.

• Dear Sex Diary
• Sex vs. Meditation?
• Start a "Something Spring" (riot) 
• We love sex! - Harvard study agrees
• Dance: We be the ILLEST in here (FM) 
• Is Carcass cooler than Club Cooee?

PHOTOS: "#my NYPD" (police state on Twitter)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Newser; Occupy; PoliceStateUSA

F your dolly Lama, motherfather, you don't block crosstown traffic on my beat! (RB/T)

What's this, tainted baby food?! Hell no, b_tch, you're goin to be occupying my nightstick!

"I saw a movie once...only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List.'"

Need a mammogram, b_tch? #myNYPD has you covered!Yeah you do, you Occupy sl*t. Comply, wh**e, comply! Forget Obamacare! Fusv3WhiRZ — आनिल् (@guru0509) 4-22-14.

(OS) Think we're kidding, think we're exaggerating? Occupy protesters in the U.S. were kicked, punched, maced, assaulted, arrested, and falsely charged with the very crimes committed on them all with impunity for speaking up against corporate and police corruption.
 

Lemme at 'im, let me at 'im, I'll kill the muthaf*ther! Die, you dirty hippie, die!

You're a bad man, a very bad man. All  of you are bad men. Get out of here!

 

Occupy police brutality

An NYPD (New York City Police Department) campaign to get Twitter users to share photos of themselves with officers got a massive response -- but not the kind the department had in mind. 

 

Instead of citizens posing with friendly cops, the #MyNYPD tag became the top trending hashtag on Twitter with thousands of photos of police brutality, Occupy Wall Street arrests, and headlines about unarmed citizens being brutalized by police and even shot, reports the NY Daily News.
 

Hey, [n-word], move and you die! Break his arm, break the f'n [subhuman mongrel]'s arm! Free massages from my NYPD. What do YOUR police offer? #MyNYPD (@OccupyWallStNYC)

 

USA/MIC/CIA trained Egypt

[See plenty of shocking examples of the impending police state at the Daily Dot. Our future was evident at this year's Boston Marathon, a year after launching in the false flag operation that was the Boston Marathon "terrorist" bombing of 2013, when police shut down an entire U.S. metropolitan area, acted on Martial law, and rolled out a paramilitary door-to-door "search" for cultivated-and-planted suspects, which suspended civil liberties as citizens were forced to hunker down (Newspeak: "shelter in place") so as not to be shot, arrested, or disappeared in the crossfire.] More

• NYPD's Twitter outreach backfires in most predictable way
• NYPD in social media fail with #myNYPD
• This NYPD idea backfired horribly on Twitter

I would sooner worship a pharaoh as trust the Egyptian paramilitary police.

Punishers come to punish all perceived disobedience and disrespect (policestateusa.com)

Please stop the killings and brutality! - Are you kidding? This is why we took the job.

Journalists and Snowden expose NSA (video)

Ashley Wells, Irma Quintero, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.com, April 14, 2014); Firstlook.org/TheIntercept

Journalists exposing NSA (zimbio)

Months ago, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald (The Intercept) flew from New York to Hong Kong to meet NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Poitras and Greenwald did not return to the US until Friday when they flew from Berlin to NY to accept the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting. They arrived not knowing if they would be detained or subpoenaed after Director of National Intelligence James Clapper described journalists working on NSA stories as Snowden’s "accomplices." At a news conference following the ceremony, Poitras and Greenwald took questions from reporters about their reporting and the U.S. government intimidation it has sparked. More

Obama: Yes to NSA's unconstitutional spying

In their first return to the US since exposing the NSA’s mass surveillance operations, the Intercept journalists were honored in NYC on Friday. They play key roles in reporting the massive trove of documents leaked by Snowden. 

They were joined by colleagues Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, with whom they shared the award. In their acceptance speeches, they paid tribute to their source: "Each one of these awards just provides further vindication that what [Snowden] did in coming forward was absolutely the right thing to do and merits gratitude, and not indictments and decades in prison," Greenwald said. "None of us would be here...without the fact that someone decided to sacrifice [his] life to make this information available," Poitras said. "And so this award is really for Edward Snowden."

Is USAID the new CIA? Another Twitter (video)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS); Amy Goodman, Peter Kornbluh, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.org)

USAID, the new CIA?

How America (under its secret-government as the US Military-Industrial Complex) runs the world: By co-creating Facebook, Google, Twitter -- and/or coopting them after someone else creates them -- CIA agents and operatives (as well as the FBI, black-budget Pentagon, DARPA, DHS, the Secret Service, and of course the NSA) foment and agitate for civil war, "revolution," and liberation. 

They're doing what to my America?!

But the goal is not actual freedom and democracy for people in the US or elsewhere, it is to topple uncooperative governments without overtly sending in soldiers. Secret operatives do a quieter, and therefore better, job by avoiding all the sticky accusations of "imperialism," "war crimes," and "illegal intervention."

The CIA learned its lessons well in Vietnam, the Philippines, Egypt (Arab Spring), Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Central America, Kosovo, Grenada, Cambodia, Laos, Tibet/China... It's been all over the world.

McCutcheon means 1% now rules US legally

It rules the world by subterfuge and deceit, raking in billions in drug dealing, market manipulations, and international banking. Ask the author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman for the details of how we loan money to nations (Hello, Ukraine!) through the World Bank and IMF then send in jackals to call the shots making those nations very friendly to the West. What choice will they have when we assassinate their leaders who are for the people and prop up new politicians corrupt enough to do whatever America asks of them?

Senator: Billionaires now "buy elections"

Now we clearly see that USAID, following the playbook, created a Twitter for Cuba. A hummingbird whispers via mobile phones and cell networks, and a government comes down with flash mobs, "Occupy" style events, protests, demonstrations, disruptions, Anarchist Bible (written by the CIA) vandalism, general hooliganism and drug use (brought in by the fine Company folks who work with the authorities who will arresting the buyers and sellers but never the distributors)...

AP reports a complex and intricate strategy devised by the U.S. gov't to artificially foment political dissent in Cuba and spur a "democratic" uprising -- rigged by the CIA -- using a fake social media platform. It's the Latin Twitter ZunZumeo (vator.tv)

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ZunZuneo reveals how US gov't spies in US

DemocracyNow.org

NSA, Twitter, DARPA, Facebook, FBI, Google

"U.S. Secretly Created 'Cuban Twitter' to Stir Unrest" is the name of an explosive new article by the Associated Press detailing how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) created a fake Twitter program to undermine the Cuban government.

 

The CIA has many guises and operatives

[As Americans, we have the real Twitter spying on us and undermining actual dissent while seeming to stir up all sorts of trouble by facilitating peer-to-peer conversations that are thoroughly documented and used for later investigations and to set people up.]

The communications network was called "ZunZuneo" -- slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet. It was reportedly built with secret shell companies financed through [CIA-controlled] foreign banks. According to the AP, the United States [the MIC] planned to use the platform to spread political content that might trigger a Cuban Spring.

Havana, D.C., Pretoria, South Africa

Or it might, as one USAID document put it, "renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society." Democracy Now! speaks to Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. He recently wrote an article in Foreign Policy called "Our Man in Havana: Was USAID Planning to Overthrow Castro?"