tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62301343656006292012024-02-19T18:06:01.990-08:00! 1984 NEWSPEAK !* In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell *
This blog gives current examples of how George Orwell's novel became a primer for the American government circa 2014 jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-34356383765711388072020-11-02T13:43:00.001-08:002020-11-02T13:43:02.600-08:002020 election summary<p>So far, 2020 has seen the most prolific production of Newspeak in history.</p><p>The 2020 election in the United States has been the culmination of several years of fake news and hoaxes. The most notorious was the Russia collusion hoax, which generated the Mueller report that itself omitted key evidence that contradicted Mueller's conclusions.</p><p>The "fine people" hoax was so well choreographed by the media and the Democrat party that Joe Biden used it as the premise for his entire campaign. </p><p>The best single summary of 2020 was this cartoon by Scott Adams. </p><p>(click to enlarge)</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuoHDcQcQtb9RSlfFyzNxab0zGut3uqqFYju9fNW0d5B9dtXhsGbIEVcQFO2yTih1mC0jjzpofjjvkwRMpXMFkqJm-iMWXInL7fkC5ddfv_eiFzm8NBPg-ieJF56QGoMZ-CUHDFGCK2R8/s2664/Robots+Read+News-2+Nov+2020.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="2664" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuoHDcQcQtb9RSlfFyzNxab0zGut3uqqFYju9fNW0d5B9dtXhsGbIEVcQFO2yTih1mC0jjzpofjjvkwRMpXMFkqJm-iMWXInL7fkC5ddfv_eiFzm8NBPg-ieJF56QGoMZ-CUHDFGCK2R8/w400-h178/Robots+Read+News-2+Nov+2020.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Some say this was the last election determined by humans. Others say this election may be the first decided by Artificial Intelligence, in the sense that the algorithms developed by the Big Tech companies decided what news could and could not be shared.<div><br /></div><div>The most infamous example was the way Twitter banned news about Hunter Biden's laptop, but there were many other examples.</div><div><br /></div><div>After the election we will post a rundown.</div><div><br /></div><div> <br /><p><br /></p></div>jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-68701666655507079062017-08-12T16:03:00.004-07:002017-08-12T16:03:42.063-07:00Democrats and Republicans speak different languages — and it helps explain why we're so divided<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Good article that shows how Frank Luntz helped change the rhetorical wars.<br />
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-12348691964779927692017-07-23T05:47:00.003-07:002017-07-23T05:47:49.591-07:00AP style guidelines<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
NEWSPEAK is the official language of the Associated Press now. Soon to be followed by college writing guidelines. Then gradeschool guidelines.<br />
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Brainwashing at its most fundamental level.<br />
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<a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2017/07/18/bozell-graham-column-ap-style-book-getting-crazy">http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2017/07/18/bozell-graham-column-ap-style-book-getting-crazy</a><br />
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Bozell & Graham Column: The AP Style Book Is Getting Crazy</h1>
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Back in those ancient days when teletypes gave us the sound effects for news, the Associated Press was esteemed as the gold standard of objective news coverage. Inside a liberal media bubble, that pretense continues, but for decades now, the AP has tacked hard to port along with the rest of the media establishment. They’ll deny it, of course, because that’s what they do.</div>
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But the evidence is there, emblazoned in the AP Stylebook, which sets the rules for the language of news reporting. This stylebook sets the tone of the media elite’s daily composition, in every format – print, online, or broadcast. They say it “defines clear news writing” and calls it “the journalist’s bible,” which is a fairly damning phrase, since it rejects the Bible time and again.</div>
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In the biblical account, we are created by God and assigned our sex. But the term “gender,” AP’s gurus now instruct, is “not synonymous with sex. Gender refers to a person’s social identity while sex refers to biological characteristics.” The “objective” reporter is required to set biology aside and describe people as they “identify” themselves socially.</div>
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The AP doubles down, exploiting the authority of “medical organizations” to bend biology. “Not all people fall under one of two categories for sex or gender, according to leading medical organizations, so avoid references to both, either or opposite sexes or genders as a way to encompass all people.”</div>
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The AP Stylebook rejects the principle of marriage, lecturing reporters not to call the children of unmarried parents “illegitimate,” and must always avoid referring to a homosexual “preference” or “lifestyle.” </div>
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Labels have power. In the abortion debate there are the preferred labels, “pro-life” and “pro-choice,” but if the reporter’s preference is to label one side “anti-abortion,” that’s fine too – so long as the other is labeled “pro-abortion.” When it comes to killing unborn children, the AP insists you should not use the term “pro-life.”</div>
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The AP instructs reporters to say “anti-abortion,” in keeping with the constant desire to define conservatives in the negative: anti-tax, anti-immigrant, anti-abortion, and so on.</div>
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What about the other side? The AP Stylebook has that covered: they are “pro-abortion rights.”</div>
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Let’s go international. There too the AP bows to left-wing pressure. They discourage the use of “Islamist,” along with that they now say are its negative connotations with “Islamic fighters, militants, extremists or radicals, who may or may not be Islamists.” Terrorists should be defined as “militants.” We may rout Islamic State on the battlefield, but the Stylebook waves a white flag on the language.</div>
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Years ago we were told to stop using the phrase “illegal aliens.” They’re “immigrants,” we were instructed. Bizarrely, the AP is now discouraging the plain words “migrant” or “refugee” as Syrians flee to Europe. Instead this is what the experts tell reporters to call them (and we’re not making this up): “People struggling to enter Europe.” We might struggle with our luggage when arriving at the airport in Venice. Does that make us “refugees?”</div>
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In the climate debate, the Left wants conservatives labeled “deniers” or “denialists” or worse. The AP pushes back, but only a bit. “To describe those who don’t accept climate science or dispute that the world is warming from man-made forces, use climate change doubters –” Oh if only they’d stopped there. But they had to add this: “– or those who reject mainstream climate science.”</div>
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Perhaps next they will instruct that critics of the AP Stylebook must be described as “those who reject mainstream media political correctness.”</div>
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Maybe the Left is solving the problems they have created by suppression their own speech.<br />
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In the morning, I saw a two-day-old tweet by Steve Pinker:</div>
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<a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/07/21/richard-dawkins-deplatformed-at-a-book-talk-berkeley-for-abusive-speech-about-islam-on-twitter/" style="color: #ccffdd; text-decoration-line: none;">The article that Pinker linked to</a> reveals (see also <a href="https://www.google.cz/search?hl=en&tbm=nws&q=dawkins+berkeley&gws_rd=cr&ei=Rh90Wc67EoqvaseAmpgE#q=dawkins+berkeley&hl=en&safe=off&gl=us&tbm=nws&source=lnt&tbs=sbd:1&sa=X&biw=925&bih=775&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&cad=b" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ccffdd; text-decoration-line: none;">other</a> <a href="https://news.google.com/news/story/d5shJ2Zg1Di45iM9IR7x55iqDa5lM?ned=us&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ccffdd; text-decoration-line: none;">outlets</a>) that a radio station disinvited Richard Dawkins who was supposed to give a talk at the First Congregational Church on August 9th.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br />
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The talk should have followed the August 8th publication of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Science-Soul-Selected-Passionate-Rationalist/dp/0399592245?tag=lubosmotlsref-20" style="color: #ccffdd; text-decoration-line: none;">Science in the Soul</a>, Dawkins' new book. The organizers' explanation why they cancelled the talk is rather amazing. It obviously includes the usual assumption that the "free speech" may only include the speech that the self-appointed ideologues-in-chief like – all the other speech must be banned as "abusive or hurtful speech". Well, the statement that "the speech that is liked by everybody is allowed" isn't a principle that may underlie a civilization: it is a worthless tautology.<br />
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We know that the overgrown haters of the freedom of speech at Berkeley have banned right-wingers Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, and Milo With-a-Greek-name before. But there's another layer of craziness in this particular e-mail.<br />
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<a href="https://beta.tunein.com/radio/KPFA-941-s34653/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ccffdd; text-decoration-line: none;">The KPFA radio station</a> wrote the following to the ticket buyers:<br />
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Dear Richard Dawkins event ticket buyers,<br />
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We regret to inform you that KPFA has canceled our event with Richard Dawkins. We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science, when we didn’t know he had offended and hurt – in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people. KPFA does not endorse hurtful speech. While KPFA emphatically supports serious free speech, we do not support abusive speech. We apologize for not having had broader knowledge of Dawkins views much earlier. We also apologize to all those inconvenienced by this cancellation. Your ticket purchases will automatically be refunded by Brown Paper Tickets.<br />
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Sincerely, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM</blockquote>
The explanation is absurd and proves that these people's brains are broken beyond repair. Dawkins' book is about atheism and so was the scheduled talk. One only needs to know one basic bit of information to be sure that Dawkins is against religions; he is arguably the world's most famous outspoken atheist intellectual. And in the present world, Islam is obviously the most extreme religion that puts all the characteristics that atheists may dislike about religions on steroids.<br />
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So how can the organizer of a talk by the world's leading atheist be <em>surprised</em> that this atheist also opposes Islam? And its irrational approach to science, celebration of brute force, dogmatic attachment to the Middle Ages, suppression of human freedoms and women's basic rights, and tons of other things? The mental dissonance of the KPFA people is absolutely staggering.<br />
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Just to be sure, none of the leading atheist pundits suffers from this kind of a flagrant inconsistency. The fact that Islam is a strengthened version of the things that they dislike about religions is often pointed out by every single leading atheist pundit in the world – including Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg, Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and others. All sane people know that it would be crazy to fight against religions for hours every day and defend Islam at the same moment. After all, Islam <em>is</em> a religion. And when we say that it's not just a religion or it's not a true religion, we mean that Islam is trying to be even more far-reaching than other religions and this makes things <em>worse</em>, not better.<br />
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The KPFA and similar people may be utterly insane. But they may also be just immoral jerks who don't actually care an iota about atheism or science. Instead, they only use "atheists" as allies against their actual enemies – the traditional social and moral values of the Western civilization. Because most of the people in their environment who defend these values are Christians, they simply decide that Christianity is the enemy and atheists might be allies. But these extreme leftists only treat them as allies for political reasons. They don't actually understand the logic of the atheists. They don't really care about it at all.<br />
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What they care about are things like "identity politics". Along with practitioners of assorted sexual deviations etc., the Muslims have been declared by their ideological movement to be a minority (in the West) that must enjoy privileges and they mindlessly work to make this happen. When they need to disinvite the most famous atheist, they happily do so. When they need to sacrifice their life in fights on the side of ISIS, they probably won't but they will happily sacrifice yours. A leftist is a person who is willing to sacrifice your life for his delusions. A Muslim warrior is at least willing to sacrifice his own, too.<br />
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Aside from comments that are compatible with my thoughts about the event, we could enjoy some texts by these brain-dead leftists. For example, Pat Mc Ginley wrote on the WhyEvolutionIsTrue website:<br />
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Unfortunately, it’s true that leading atheists, like, Dawkins, Harris, Maher are blatantly Islamophobic. Allowing their politics to harm their great work for atheism. Politically-motivated Islamophobia coincided precisely with the so-called war-on-terror. It was easier to get public support to invade Muslim countries by demonising Muslims. Bush even called it ‘a crusade’.</blockquote>
Wow. Again, leading atheists must <em>obviously</em> be Islamophobic because this implication follows from the very definitions of these two words. An atheist is someone who is repelled from every God ("a" is negation and "theism" is some acknowledgement or celebration of God's existence). An Islamophobe is someone who is repelled by a specific God, namely Allah, the God of Islam. The previous sentences imply that every atheist must be an Islamophobe. If you can't understand this simple logic, your brain is broken beyond repair and I recommend euthanasia to you, Pat.<br />
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Note that even the very word makes it unambiguous that Islamophobia is a phobia of Islam as a faith, not a phobia as Muslims as human beings.<br />
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As other participants of the discussions have mentioned, the term "Islamophobia" was coined by the Muslim Brotherhood, the parent organization of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. The word "Islamophobe" was intended to be a precise synonym of a "heretic". Except that an "Islamophobe" lives at places that the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda don't control yet. So different tools have to be used against these heretics than the tools that are usable on the territory of Daesh or other Islamic regimes. Instead of the "stoning to death", they have to fight the heretics by tools like "terror by the politically correct left-wing useful idiots in their fifth columns". But the term "Islamophobe" has been defined very clearly and the definition can't be changed. It's spectacularly clear that every good and sane person in the West is an Islamophobe to one extent or another. So although the ending -phobia was designed to indicate that there was something ill about Islamophobia, the truth is obviously opposite: It's utterly sick <em>not to be</em> an Islamophobe.<br />
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Incidentally, Bush may have used the term "crusade" at one moment because the conflict against the Islam <em>was</em> a crusade. The purpose of the original crusades was to liberate the Holy Land from Islamic rule. At least to some extent, some parts of the war on terror had similar sides and a similar purpose so they may have deserved to be called "crusades".<br />
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Incidentally, Dawkins himself responded with a kind letter to the radio station:<br />
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...I used to love your station when I lived in Berkeley for two years, shortly after that beloved place had become the iconic home of free speech. I have criticized the appalling misogyny and homophobia of Islam, I have criticized the murdering of apostates for no crime other than their disbelief. Far from attacking Muslims, I understand – as perhaps you do not – that Muslims themselves are the prime victims of the oppressive cruelties of Islamism, especially Muslim women...<br />
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...I am known as a frequent critic of Christianity and have never been de-platformed for that. Why do you give Islam a free pass? Why is it fine to criticize Christianity but not Islam? ...<br />
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...You say I use 'abusive speech' about Islam. I would seriously – I mean it – like to hear what examples of my 'abusive speech' you had in mind. When you fail to discover any, I presume you will issue a public apology, which I will of course accept in a spirit of gratitude for what KPFA once was. And could become again...</blockquote>
One more comment. If you read <a href="https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/888512858371350528" style="color: #ccffdd; text-decoration-line: none;">the responses to Steve Pinker's tweet</a>, they are absolutely terrifying. Many of them hysterically attack both Pinker and Dawkins and the authors seem to be biology students and similar things. I would be scared of teaching this brain-dead, brainwashed youth. It's a bit surprising that these Western allies of the Islamic terrorists haven't started their own terrorist attacks yet – if we don't count things like the destruction of the Berkeley campus. When these fanatical savages figure out that <em>yes, they can</em>, things may be tough.</div>
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This is one of the best examples of how to break through the media.<br />
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-52727104270096833002017-03-08T05:14:00.002-08:002017-03-08T05:14:44.278-08:00False Flag attacks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is an amazing list of "false flag" attacks from around the world:<br />
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<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-07/ever-growing-list-admitted-false-flag-attacks">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-07/ever-growing-list-admitted-false-flag-attacks</a><br />
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Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror</h3>
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In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">admit </em>to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:</div>
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(1) Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_Incident" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="known as">known as</a> the “Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rHainkH7pdEC&pg=PA321&dq=%22Several+of+the+participators+in+the+plan,+including+Hashimoto,+have+on+various+occasions+admitted+their+part+in+the+plot+and+have+stated+that+the+object%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NrOtVLiQGsm6ogT49oCQAg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Several%20of%20the%20participators%20in%20the%20plan%2C%20including%20Hashimoto%2C%20have%20on%20various%20occasions%20admitted%20their%20part%20in%20the%20plot%20and%20have%20stated%20that%20the%20object%22&f=false" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="found">found</a>: “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">have on various occasions </em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rHainkH7pdEC&pg=PA321&dq=%22Several+of+the+participators+in+the+plan,+including+Hashimoto,+have+on+various+occasions+admitted+their+part+in+the+plot+and+have+stated+that+the+object%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NrOtVLiQGsm6ogT49oCQAg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Several%20of%20the%20participators%20in%20the%20plan%2C%20including%20Hashimoto%2C%20have%20on%20various%20occasions%20admitted%20their%20part%20in%20the%20plot%20and%20have%20stated%20that%20the%20object%22&f=false" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army ….” And see <a href="http://imtfe.law.virginia.edu/collections/morgan/2/5/newspaper-article-titled-ex-jap-army-leader-tells-mukden-plot" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a>, this and this.</div>
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(2) A major with the Nazi SS <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> at the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland.</div>
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(3) The minutes of the high command of the Italian government – subsequently approved by Mussolini himself – <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-hollow-legions-Mussolinis-1940-1941/dp/B0006CKCQE" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that violence on the Greek-Albanian border was carried out by Italians and falsely blamed on the Greeks, as an excuse for Italy’s 1940 invasion of Greece.</div>
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(4) Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring#Possible_responsibility_for_the_Reichstag_fire" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> to setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson.</div>
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(5) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939 – while blaming the attack on Finland – as a basis for launching the “Winter War” against Finland. Russian president Boris Yeltsin <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="agreed">agreed</a> that Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War.</div>
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(6) The Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin and former Soviet leader Gorbachev all <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/26/russian-parliament-guilt-katyn-massacre" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admit">admit</a> that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, and then falsely blamed it on the Nazis.</div>
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(7) The British government <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/19/mi6-attacked-jewish-refugee-ships-after-wwii.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admits">admits</a> that – between 1946 and 1948 – it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust to seek safety in Palestine, set up a fake group called “Defenders of Arab Palestine”, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim responsibility for the bombings (and see <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/incoming/article2731426.ece" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a>, <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/38520/operation-embarrass-you-bet-britains-secret-war-jews" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11378601" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a>).</div>
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(8) Israel <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3065838,00.html#n" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admits">admits</a> that in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/5-1/text/beinin.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a> and <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/lavon.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a>).</div>
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The U.S. Army does not believe this is an isolated incident. For example, the U.S. Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2001/sep/10/20010910-025319-6906r/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="said">said</a> of Mossad (Israel’s intelligence service):</div>
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(9) The CIA <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admits">admits</a> that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.</div>
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(10) The Turkish Prime Minister <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SdubdhMwM1YC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=the+riots+were+purportedly+in+response+to+a+september+5+1955+greek+bombing+attack+on+the+turkish+consulate&source=bl&ots=O7OKEmcJrF&sig=y4vdM7vHk8Z8g1jH4gXDHTXw400&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z2lKVIuEII3wgwTZ04HICA&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20riots%20were%20purportedly%20in%20response%20to%20a%20september%205%201955%20greek%20bombing%20attack%20on%20the%20turkish%20consulate&f=false" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence.</div>
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(11) The British Prime Minister <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/57-years-ago-u-s-britain-approved-use-islamic-extremists-topple-syrian-government.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="admitted">admitted</a> to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change.</div>
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(12) The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,462976,00.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="former head of Italian counterintelligence">former head of Italian counterintelligence</a> admit that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism">NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s through the 1980s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism</a>.</div>
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As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20051130003012/http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/documents/collection_gladio/synopsis.htm" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="“You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security”">“You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security”</a> … <a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrTca_5q89UIAwAVlsnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MzkwOG5yBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwNF8x?p=bbc+gladio&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="so that “a state of emergency could be declared, so people would willingly trade part of their freedom for the security”">so that “a state of emergency could be declared, so people would willingly trade part of their freedom for the security”</a> (and see <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a>) (Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch <a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrTca_5q89UIAwAVlsnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MzkwOG5yBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwNF8x?p=bbc+gladio&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this BBC special">this BBC special</a>. They also allegedly carried out terror attacks in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK">France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK</a>, and other countries.</div>
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The CIA also stressed to the head of the Italian program that Italy needed to use the program to <a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrTca_5q89UIAwAVlsnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MzkwOG5yBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwNF8x?p=bbc+gladio&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="control internal uprisings">control <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internal</em> uprisings</a>.</div>
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False flag attacks carried out pursuant to this program include – by way of example only:</div>
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(13) In 1960, American Senator George Smathers <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/aug/17/john-f-kennedy-fidel-castro" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="suggested">suggested</a> that the U.S. launch “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]”.</div>
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(14) Official State Department documents show that, in 1961, the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/nine-months-before-operation-northwoods-government-leaders-suggested-false-flag-terror-in-the-dominican-republic.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="discussed">discussed</a> blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals.</div>
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(15) As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">blow up AMERICAN airplanes</strong></em> (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">commit terrorist acts on American soil</strong></em>, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="ABC news report">ABC news report</a>; <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="the official documents">the official documents</a>; and watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IygchZRJVXM" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this interview ">this interview </a>with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.</div>
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(16) In 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods#Related_Operation_Mongoose_proposals" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="promoting">promoting</a> attacks on nations within the Organization of American States – such as Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica – and then falsely blaming them on Cuba.</div>
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(17) The U.S. Department of Defense also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods#Related_Operation_Mongoose_proposals" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="suggested">suggested</a> covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United States: “The only area remaining for consideration then would be to bribe one of Castro’s subordinate commanders to initiate an attack on Guantanamo.”</div>
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(18) A U.S. Congressional committee <a href="http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/churchcommittee.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">many</em> provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists.</div>
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(19) A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabri_Yirmibe%C5%9Fo%C4%9Flu" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="top">top</a> Turkish general <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=turkey-burned-mosque-during-cyprus-war-gen-says-2010-09-24" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-222544-100-retired-general-confesses-to-burning-mosque-to-fire-up-public.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="explained">explained</a>: “In Special War, certain <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy</em> to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”.</div>
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(20) A <a href="http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="declassified">declassified</a> 1973 CIA document <a href="http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/top10.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="reveals">reveals</a> a program to train foreign police and troops on how to make booby traps, pretending that they were training them on how to <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">investigate</em> terrorist acts:</div>
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a. Providing trainees with <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">basic knowledge in the uses of commercial and military demolitions and incendiaries</strong> as they may be applied in terrorism and industrial sabotage operations.</div>
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The program provides the trainees with <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ample opportunity to develop basic familiarity and use proficiently through handling, preparing and applying the various explosive charges, incendiary agents, terrorist devices and sabotage techniques</strong>.</div>
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(21) The German government <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celle_Hole" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> (and <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.ndr.de/kultur/geschichte/chronologie/cellerloch102.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.ndr.de/kultur/geschichte/cellerloch102.html%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DymV%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Dsb" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="see this">see this</a>) that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner – a member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on.</div>
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(22) A Mossad agent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Way-Deception-Victor-Ostrovsky-ebook/dp/B002RL9NL2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422773938&sr=1-1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admits">admits</a> that, in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist transmissions recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter.</div>
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(23) The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council <a href="http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/decisions%5C2001/ac21233.htm" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="found">found</a> that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him “to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the ANC for the bombing.</div>
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(24) An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100223012552/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-68004301.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admit">admit</a> that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see <a href="https://youtu.be/2om_F2uaCxA&feature=player_embedded" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this video">this video</a>; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author).</div>
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(25) In 1993, a bomb in Northern Ireland killed 9 civilians. Official documents from the Royal Ulster Constabulary (i.e. the British government) <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/shankill-road-bombing-mi5-ignored-ira-tip-off-that-could-have-prevent-belfast-atrocity-investigation-a6833541.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="show">show</a> that the mastermind of the bombing was a British agent, and that the bombing was designed to inflame sectarian tensions. And see <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jul/06/northernireland.politics" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a> and <a href="https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-9989807.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a>.</div>
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(26) The United States Army’s 1994 publication <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces</em> – updated in 2004 – <a href="http://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_Special_Forces_Foreign_Internal_Defense_Tactics_Techniques_and_Procedures_for_Special_Forces,_FM_31.20-3,_2003" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="recommends">recommends</a> employing terrorists and using false flag operations to destabilize leftist regimes in Latin America. False flag terrorist attacks were carried out in Latin America and other regions as part of the CIA’s “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War_%28disambiguation%29" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Dirty Wars">Dirty Wars</a>“. And <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War#False_flag_actions_by_SIDE_agents" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="see this">see this</a>.</div>
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(27) Similarly, a CIA “psychological operations” manual prepared by a CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/02/playing-chicken-with-nuclear-war/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="noted">noted</a> the value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a “martyr” for the cause. The manual was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_in_Guerrilla_Warfare#Political_reaction" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="authenticated">authenticated</a> by the U.S. government. The manual received so much publicity from Associated Press, Washington Post and other news coverage that – during the 1984 presidential debate – President Reagan was <a href="http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-21-1984-debate-transcript" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="confronted">confronted</a> with the following question on national television:</div>
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At this moment, we are confronted with the extraordinary story of a CIA guerrilla manual for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are backing, which advocates not only assassinations of Sandinistas but the <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hiring of criminals to assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in order to create martyrs.</strong></div>
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(28) A Rwandan government inquiry <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/12/rwanda-hutu-president-plane-inquiry" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that the 1994 shootdown and murder of the Rwandan president, who was from the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hutu</em> tribe – a murder blamed by the Hutus on the rival <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tutsi</em> tribe, and which led to the massacre of more than 800,000 Tutsis by Hutus – was committed by <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hutu</em> soldiers and falsely blamed on the Tutis.</div>
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(29) An Indonesian government fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that “<a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/indonesia/indonesia-1998.htm" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked">elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked</a>”.</div>
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(30) Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060209100406/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/13/wrus13.xml" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admit">admit</a> that the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080413195430/http://www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/res/papers/Satter_edited_final.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this report">this report</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Apartment_Bombings" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this discussion">this discussion</a>).</div>
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(31) As reported by the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/international/europe/17mace.html?th=&pagewanted=all&position=" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="New York Times">New York Times</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3674533.stm" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="BBC">BBC</a> and <a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-94026683.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a>, Macedonian officials admit that in 2001, the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the “war on terror”. luring foreign migrants into the country, executing them in a staged gun battle, and then claiming they were a unit backed by Al Qaeda intent on attacking Western embassies”. Macedonian authorities had lured the immigrants into the country, and then – after killing them – posed the victims with planted evidence – “bags of uniforms and semiautomatic weapons at their side” – to show Western diplomats.</div>
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(32) At the July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, black-clad thugs were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jul/23/globalisation.davidpallister" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="videotaped">videotaped</a> getting out of police cars, and were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jul/23/globalisation.davidpallister" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="seen">seen</a> by an Italian MP carrying “iron bars inside the police station”. Subsequently, senior police officials in Genoa subsequently <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030207160903/http://www.fair.org/activism/genoa-update.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that police planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer at the G8 Summit, in order to justify a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/19/g8-italian-police-sentenced" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="violent crackdown">violent crackdown</a> against protesters.</div>
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(33) The U.S. <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="falsely blamed Iraq">falsely blamed Iraq</a> for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/newly-released-memos-of-donald-rumsfeld-prove-knowing-iraq-war.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="memo from the defense secretary">memo from the defense secretary</a> – as one of the <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="main justifications">main justifications</a> for launching the Iraq war.</div>
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Even after the 9/11 Commission <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5223932/ns/us_news-security/t/panel-sees-no-link-between-iraq-al-qaida/#.UIde6fWUxqI" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="the 9/11 Commission debunked">admitted</a> that there was no connection, Dick Cheney <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/18/cheney.iraq.al.qaeda/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="said">said</a> that the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties. Top U.S. government officials now <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/top-republican-leaders-say-iraq-war-was-really-for-oil.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="admit">admit</a> that the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction.</div>
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Despite previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials now <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/government-officials-say-911-was-state-sponsored-terrorism-but-disagree-about-which-nation-was-behind-attacks.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="say">say</a> that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> the state which backed the hijackers. (Many U.S. officials have <a href="http://patriotsquestion911.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="alleged">alleged</a> that 9/11 was a false flag operation by rogue elements of the U.S. government; but such a claim is beyond the scope of this discussion. The key point is that the U.S. falsely blamed it on Iraq, when it <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">knew</em> Iraq had nothing to do with it.).</div>
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(Additionally, the <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/03/u-s-government-blames-911-iran-fines-iran-10-5b-iran-refuses-pay.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="same judge who has shielded the Saudis">same judge who has shielded the Saudis</a> for any liability for funding 9/11 has awarded a default judgment against Iran for <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/03/u-s-government-blames-911-iran-fines-iran-10-5b-iran-refuses-pay.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="$10.5 billion for carrying out 9/11">$10.5 billion for carrying out 9/11</a> … even though no one seriously believes that Iran had any part in 9/11.)</div>
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(34) Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_fbi_was_told_to_blame_anthrax_scare_on_a.html" id="title_t3_6urf0" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">told</em> to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials</a> (remember what the anthrax letters <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncf0FWhnZJW7S25eZYBku1rsdMd6KiCySF5X-mqobCrg5ch-xDuUSDvHcLYSfrtfSRqfooAoF9HxgpDC701l-4ewV-MUi1IhIhxI8IbFPSxwWTQ7RghwoRsLslx0o2ycGlIx-Ro3CTNSx/s400/anthrax.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="9/11 and the anthrax attack and pretend to be from radical Muslims and be anti-America and anti-Israel">looked like</a>). Government officials also confirm that the white House <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/national/22INQU.html?pagewanted=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="tried to link the anthrax to Iraq">tried to link the anthrax to Iraq</a> as a justification for regime change in that country. And <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/anthrax-dark-winter.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="see this">see this</a>.</div>
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(35) According to the <a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-406202.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a>, Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.</div>
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(36) The well-respected former Indonesian president also <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Possible-police-role-in-2002-Bali-attack/2005/10/12/1128796591857.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admits">admits</a> that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings.</div>
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(37) Police outside of a 2003 European Union summit in Greece were filmed <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3136382.stm" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="planting Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester">planting Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester</a>.</div>
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(38) In 2003, the U.S. Secretary of Defense <a href="http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB127/03.04.16.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that interrogators were authorized to use the following method: “False Flag: Convincing the detainee that individuals from a country other than the United States are interrogating him.” While not a traditional false flag <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">attack</em>, this deception could lead to former detainees attacking the country falsely blamed for the interrogation.</div>
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(39) Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo <a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/fighting-the-new-terrorism-2/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="suggested">suggested</a> in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">false terrorist organization</strong>. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">launch</strong> <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fake terrorist operations</strong> and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”</div>
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(40) Similarly, in 2005, Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School – a renowned US defense analyst credited with developing the concept of ‘netwar’ – <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/01/24/the-coming-wars" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="called for">called for</a> western intelligence services to<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> create new “pseudo gang” terrorist groups</strong>, as a way of undermining “real” terror networks. According to Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Arquilla’s ‘pseudo-gang’ strategy was, Hersh reported, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/01/24/the-coming-wars" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="already being implemented">already being implemented</a> by the Pentagon:</div>
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“Under Rumsfeld’s new approach, I was told, US military operatives would be permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking to buy contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons systems. In some cases, according to the Pentagon advisers, <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">local citizens could be recruited and asked to join up with guerrillas or terrorists</strong>…</div>
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The new rules will enable the Special Forces community to set up what it calls ‘action teams’ in the target countries overseas which can be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations. <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?’ the former high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the military-led gangs that committed atrocities in the early nineteen-eighties. ‘We founded them and we financed them,’ he said. ‘The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren’t going to tell Congress about it.’ A former military officer, who has knowledge of the Pentagon’s commando capabilities, said, ‘We’re going to be riding with the bad boys.’”</strong></div>
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(41) United Press International <a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2005/06/03/UPI-hears/UPI-64911117829623/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="reported">reported</a> in June 2005:</div>
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U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.</div>
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(42) In 2005, <a href="https://cdn.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2015/Nov/21/LiveLeak-dot-com-750_1448148049-Li3LUXT_1448148058.jpg?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c91b4db65f5e99818bdd29f4e4cd9d011ce&ec_rate=230" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="British soldiers">British soldiers</a> dressed as Arabs were caught by Iraqi police after a shootout against the police. The soldiers apparently <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/iraqi-mp-accuses-british-forces-in-basra-of-terrorism/983" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="possessed explosives">possessed explosives</a>, and were <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091900572.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="accused">accused</a> of attempting to <a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/7249/Why+Basra+is+in+revolt+against+occupation" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="set off bombs">set off bombs</a>. While none of the soldiers admitted that they were carrying out attacks, British soldiers and a column of British tanks stormed the jail they were held in, <a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/british-tanks-in-smash-and-grab-raid-1-1096576" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="broke down a wall of the jail, and busted them out">broke down a wall of the jail, and busted them out</a>. The extreme measures used to free the soldiers – rather than have them face questions and potentially stand trial – could be considered an admission.</div>
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(43) Undercover Israeli soldiers <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/05/operation-glass-houses-idf-agent-provocateurs-admit-to-throwing-stones-at-the-idf-in-bilin/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> in 2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the Palestinians.</div>
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(44) Quebec police <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfzUOx53Rg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers (and <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went-undercover-at-montebello-protest-1.656171" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="see this">see this</a>).</div>
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(45) A 2008 US Army special operations field manual <a href="https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/why-google-made-the-nsa-2a80584c9c1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="recommends">recommends</a> that the U.S. military use surrogate non-state groups such as “paramilitary forces, individuals, businesses, foreign political organizations, resistant or insurgent organizations, expatriates, <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">transnational terrorism adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism members</strong>, black marketers, and other social or political ‘undesirables.’” The manual specifically acknowledged that U.S. special operations can involve both counterterrorism and “Terrorism” (as well as “transnational criminal activities, including narco-trafficking, illicit arms-dealing, and illegal financial transactions.”)</div>
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(46) The former Italian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Cossiga" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Prime Minister, President, and head of Secret Services">Prime Minister, President, and head of Secret Services</a> (Francesco Cossiga) <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://rassegna.governo.it/testo.asp%3Fd%3D32976406&prev=search" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="advised">advised</a> the 2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with protests from teachers and students:</div>
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He should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior … infiltrate the movement with agents provocateurs inclined to do anything …. And after that, with the strength of the gained population consent, … beat them for blood and beat for blood also those teachers that incite them. Especially the teachers. Not the elderly, of course, but the girl teachers yes.</div>
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(47) An undercover officer <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/13/undercover-policeman-admits-spying-danish-activists" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that he infiltrated environmental, leftwing and anti-fascist groups in 22 countries. Germany’s federal police chief <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/26/mark-kennedy-german-bundestag" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that – while the undercover officer worked for the German police – he acted illegally during a G8 protest in Germany in 2007 and committed arson by setting fire during a subsequent demonstration in Berlin. The undercover officer spent many years <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/26/mark-kennedy-german-bundestag" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="living with">living with</a> violent “Black Bloc” anarchists.</div>
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(48) Denver police <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/2008/11/06/undercover-cops-were-among-the-unruly-at-dnc/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that uniformed officers deployed in 2008 to an area where alleged “anarchists” had planned to wreak havoc outside the Democratic National Convention ended up getting into a melee with two undercover policemen. The uniformed officers didn’t know the undercover officers were cops.</div>
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(49) At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/10/g20-policing-agent-provacateurs" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="saw">saw</a> plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence.</div>
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(50) The oversight agency for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/g20-report-clears-rcmp-but-raises-questions-over-kettling-1.1150680" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that – at the G20 protests in Toronto in 2010 – undercover police officers were arrested with a group of protesters. Videos and photos (see <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-toronto-g20-riot-fraud-undercover-police-engaged-in-purposeful-provocation/19928" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbLU9tdDwxo" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a>, for example) show that violent protesters wore very similar boots and other gear as the police, and carried police batons. The Globe and Mail <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/undercover-officers-knew-of-plans-for-downtown-mayhem-during-g20/article555130/?page=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="reports">reports</a> that the undercover officers planned the targets for violent attack, and the police failed to stop the attacks.</div>
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(51) Egyptian politicians <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/prominent-former-egyptian-mp-and-presidential-candidate-the-looting-of-the-cairo-museum-was-carried-out-by-government-employees.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="admitted">admitted</a> (and <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/02/washington-post-confirms-that-egyptian-looters-were-agents-provocateur.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="see this">see this</a>) that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts 2011 to try to discredit the protesters.</div>
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(52) Austin police <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Undercover-Austin-police-officers-aided-Houston-3841846.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admit">admit</a> that 3 officers infiltrated the Occupy protests in that city. Prosecutors <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Undercover-Austin-police-officers-aided-Houston-3841846.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admit">admit</a> that one of the undercover officers purchased and constructed illegal “lock boxes” which ended up getting many protesters arrested.</div>
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(53) In 2011, a Colombian colonel <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-14149676" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that he and his soldiers had lured 57 innocent civilians and killed them – after dressing many of them in uniforms – as part of a scheme to claim that Columbia was eradicating left-wing terrorists. And <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/14/world/la-fg-colombia-false-positives-20120614" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="see this">see this</a>.</div>
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(54) Rioters who discredited the peaceful protests against the swearing in of the Mexican president in 2012 <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.proceso.com.mx/%3Fp%3D326818&prev=search" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that they were paid 300 pesos each to destroy everything in their path. According to Wikipedia, photos also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur#Mexico" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="show">show</a> the vandals waiting in groups behind police lines prior to the violence.</div>
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(55) A Colombian army colonel has <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14149676" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat.</div>
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(56) On November 20, 2014, Mexican agent provocateurs were transported by army vehicles to participate in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping protests, as was <a href="http://aristeguinoticias.com/2111/mexico/identifican-en-redes-a-encapuchados-antes-de-la-marcha-en-df/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="shown">shown</a> by videos and pictures distributed via social networks.</div>
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(57) The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar – recently <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10266957/Saudis-offer-Russia-secret-oil-deal-if-it-drops-Syria.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="reported">admitted</a> that the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists.</div>
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(58) <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/12/syrian-chemical-weapons-attack-false-flag-turkey-isis.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="Two members of the Turkish parliament">Two members of the Turkish parliament</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/nato-member-conducts-false-flag-terror-try-whip-war.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="high-level American sources">high-level American sources</a> and others admitted that the Turkish government – a NATO country – carried out the chemical weapons attacks in Syria and falsely blamed them on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish government <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/nato-member-conducts-false-flag-terror-try-whip-war.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="admitted">admitted</a> on tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian government.</div>
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(59) The Ukrainian security chief <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/former-ukranian-security-chief-alleges-new-government-behind-sniper-attacks.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="admits">admits</a> that the sniper attacks which started the Ukrainian coup were carried out in order to frame others. Ukrainian officials <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/kiev-snipers-everyone-agrees-fired-sides.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="admit">admit</a> that the Ukrainian snipers fired on both sides, to create maximum chaos.</div>
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(60) Burmese government officials <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/10/myanmar-secret-agents-playing-dirty-tricks-151027085402365.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that Burma (renamed Myanmar) used false flag attacks against Muslim and Buddhist groups within the country to stir up hatred between the two groups, to prevent democracy from spreading.</div>
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(61) Israeli police were again <a href="https://correspondent.afp.com/those-disguised-arabs" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="filmed">filmed</a> in 2015 dressing up as Arabs and throwing stones, then turning over Palestinian protesters to Israeli soldiers.</div>
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(62) Britain’s spy agency has <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/02/nsa-engaged-internet-false-flag-attacks.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="admitted">admitted</a> (and <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/02/false-flags-honey-traps.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="see this">see this</a>) that it carries out “digital false flag” attacks on targets, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/spy-agencies-dirty-trick-powers-revealed-snowden.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="framing people">framing people</a> by writing offensive or unlawful material … and blaming it on the target.</div>
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(63) The CIA has <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/03/leaked-cia-document-cia-uses-false-flag-cyberattacks-blame-russian-hackers.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="admitted">admitted</a> that it uses viruses and malware from Russia and other countries to carry out cyberattacks and blame other countries.</div>
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(64) U.S. soldiers have <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SODTI_C1q_Q" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop” automatic weapons near their body so they can <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">pretend</em> they were militants.</div>
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(65) Similarly, police frame innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. The practice is so well-known that the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/11/movies/tv-the-killing-of-randy-webster.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="noted">noted</a> in 1981:</div>
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Newsweek <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/las-dirty-war-gangs-168188" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="reported">reported</a> in 1999:</div>
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Perez, himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department] cop, was caught stealing eight pounds of cocaine from police evidence lockers. After pleading guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter sentence by telling an appalling story of attempted murder and a <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“throwdown”–police slang for a weapon planted by cops to make a shooting legally justifiable</strong>. Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, shot an unarmed 18th Street Gang member named Javier Ovando, then <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">planted a semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect and claimed that Ovando had tried to shoot them</strong> during a stakeout.</div>
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Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources_Against_Street_Hoodlums#Rampart_Division_CRASH_scandal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="notes">notes</a>:</div>
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As part of his plea bargain, Pérez implicated scores of officers from the Rampart Division’s anti-gang unit, describing <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">routinely</strong> beating gang members,<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> planting evidence on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up unprovoked shootings</strong>.</div>
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(As a side note – and while not technically false flag attacks – police have been busted <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/03/police-frame-innocent-people.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="framing innocent people in many other ways">framing innocent people in many other ways</a>, as well.)</div>
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(66) A former U.S. intelligence officer recently <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/03/steele-every-single-terrorist-attack-u-s-false-flag-egged-intelligence-services.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="alleged">alleged</a>:</div>
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Most terrorists are false flag terrorists or are created by our own security services.</div>
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(67) The head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ2VpfUqRoo&feature=player_embedded" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="said">said</a> that most terror attacks are committed by the CIA and FBI as false flags. Similarly, the director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom <a href="http://hammernews.com/odomspeech.htm" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="said">said</a>:</div>
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By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.</div>
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(audio <a href="http://hammernews.com/odom.ram" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="here">here</a>).</div>
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(68) The <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jd-maddox-27b36abb" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Director">Director</a> of Analytics at the interagency Global Engagement Center housed at the U.S. Department of State, also an adjunct professor at George Mason University, where he teaches the graduate course National Security Challenges in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology, a former branch chief in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, and an intelligence advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security (J.D. Maddox) <a href="http://journals.gmu.edu/NandC/article/download/601/1170" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="notes">notes</a>:</div>
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Provocation is one of the most basic, but confounding, aspects of warfare. <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite its sometimes obvious use, it has succeeded consistently against audiences around the world, for millennia, to compel war</strong>. A well-constructed provocation narrative mutes even the most vocal opposition.</div>
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The culmination of a strategic provocation operation invariably reflects a narrative of victimhood: <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we are the </em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">victims of the enemy’s unforgivable atrocities</em>.</div>
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In the case of strategic provocation the deaths of an aggressor’s own personnel are a core tactic of the provocation.</div>
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The persistent use of strategic provocation over centuries – and its apparent importance to war planners – begs the question of its likely use by the US and other states in the near term.</div>
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(69) Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the “benefits” of of false flags to justify their political agenda:</div>
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“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tell them they are being attacked</strong>, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.</div>
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“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">carry out</strong> acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />– Josef Stalin</div>
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Postscript: The media <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/01/propaganda.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="plays along">plays along</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/u-s-reporters-always-pro-war.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="as well">as well</a>. For example, in 2012, NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, was kidnapped in Syria. NBC News said that Engel and his reporting team had been abducted by forces affiliated with the Syrian government. He reported that they only escaped when some anti-Syrian government rebels killed some of the pro-government kidnappers.</div>
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However, NBC subsequently <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/new-details-2012-kidnapping-nbc-news-team-syria-n342356" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="admitted">admitted</a> that this was false. It turns out that they were really kidnapped by people associated with the U.S. backed rebels <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fighting</em> the Syrian government … who wore the clothes of, faked the accent of, scrawled the slogans of, and otherwise <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">falsely impersonated</em> the mannerisms of people associated with the Syrian government. In reality, the group that kidnapped Engel and his crew were <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/04/16/nbcs-conduct-richard-engel-kidnapping-serious-brian-williams-scandal/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="affiliated with the U.S.-supported Free Syrian Army">affiliated with the U.S.-supported Free Syrian Army</a>, and NBC <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/04/16/nbcs-conduct-richard-engel-kidnapping-serious-brian-williams-scandal/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="should have known that it was blaming the wrong party">should have known that it was blaming the wrong party</a>. See the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/business/media/nbc-news-alters-account-of-correspondents-kidnapping-in-syria.html?_r=0" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> and <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/how-nbc-knowingly-let-syria-rebels-false-war-propaganda-stand-years/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="the Nation’s">the Nation’s</a> reporting.</div>
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Of course, sometimes atrocities or warmongering are falsely blamed on the enemy as a justification for war … when <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">no such event ever occurred</em>. This is sort of like false flag terror … without the terror.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The NSA <a href="http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/press20051201.htm" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="now admits">admits</a> that it <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080203204207/http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Report_reveals_Vietnam_War_hoaxes_f_01082008.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="lied">lied</a> about what really happened in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Gulf of Tonkin incident">Gulf of Tonkin incident</a> in 1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the central lies used to justify the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq after Iraq invaded Kuwait was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_%28testimony%29" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="false statement">false statement</a> by a young Kuwaiti girl that <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Iraqis murdered Kuwaiti babies">Iraqis murdered Kuwaiti babies</a> in hospitals. Her statement was arranged by a Congressman who knew that she was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. – who was desperately trying to lobby the U.S. to enter the war – but the Congressman <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/15/opinion/deception-on-capitol-hill.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="hid that fact from the public and from Congress">hid that fact from the public and from Congress</a></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another central lie used to justify the Gulf War was the statement that <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040628010553/http://foi.missouri.edu/polinfoprop/nocasusbelli.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title=" a quarter of a million Iraqi troops were massed on the border with Saudi Arabia">a quarter of a million Iraqi troops were massed on the border with Saudi Arabia</a> (see also<a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/15/Worldandnation/US_satellites_won_t_b.shtml" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title=" this article"> this article</a>)</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12308.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="reports">reported</a> that the White House ordered the CIA to forge and backdate a document falsely linking Iraq with Muslim terrorists and 9/11 … and that the CIA complied with those instructions and in fact created the forgery, which was then used to justify war against Iraq. And see <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Suskind_Bush_ordered_fake_letter_linking_0805.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="this">this</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/12/u-s-pressured-czech-government-falsely-claim-911-hijacker-met-iraqi.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e439a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="this">this</a></li>
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-6389277424496652082017-02-10T05:35:00.002-08:002017-02-10T05:35:18.821-08:00DSM and mind control<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I think there's a lot of truth in this article: <a href="http://www.infowars.com/the-number-one-mind-control-program-at-us-colleges/">http://www.infowars.com/the-number-one-mind-control-program-at-us-colleges/</a><br />
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-15139069613843534042017-02-10T05:33:00.004-08:002017-02-10T05:33:54.490-08:00The law and the courts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Lawyers love ambiguity. They can turn any term into a debate. President Clinton made the famous defense that depended on "what the meaning of is is." We see this played out over and over, but the most famous example right now is the temporary ban on immigrants from 7 listed countries.<br />
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I've seen and read news coverage, but until I saw this article, I didn't know President Trump had actually read the statute in an important meeting, covered by all the media. The media forgot to tell us the President read the statute.<br />
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<a href="http://www.infowars.com/trump-rips-leftists-judges-after-disgraceful-hearing-we-are-at-risk/">http://www.infowars.com/trump-rips-leftists-judges-after-disgraceful-hearing-we-are-at-risk/</a><br />
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The Seattle District Judge apparently didn't even address the statute.<br />
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When the courts embark on imaginary interpretation of plain language, there really is no law; everything is up to the individual preferences of the judges hearing the cases.<br />
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-50153476900611773242017-02-09T19:06:00.002-08:002017-02-09T19:06:26.549-08:00terrorist letter to President<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Some pretty good NEWSPEAK in here, both ways.<br />
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<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article131466809.ece/binary/ksmlettertoobama.pdf">http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article131466809.ece/binary/ksmlettertoobama.pdf</a></div>
jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-30084117063497125122017-02-08T10:43:00.000-08:002017-02-08T10:43:50.744-08:001984 #1 on Amazon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Because I've long wanted every American to read 1984, I'm thrilled that the book has seen a resurgence in popularity. Maybe now's the time to sell my first edition copy on ebay...<br />
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I think people will see it is the media, not Trump, who is using NEWSPEAK and other Orwellian tactics.<br />
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There's a great list of dystopian novels here: <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/top/2571/30/1984-George-Orwell-30-most-popular-dystopian-novels.html">http://www.deseretnews.com/top/2571/30/1984-George-Orwell-30-most-popular-dystopian-novels.html</a><br />
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During Donald Trump’s first week as president, sales of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel, “1984,” skyrocketed. The book appeared on Amazon’s best-sellers list — a record of the website’s top-selling texts updated hourly — on inauguration Monday and jumped to No. 1 the following Tuesday evening, a position it continues to hold at the time of this article’s publication.<br />
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According to literary experts and political commentators, “1984” is one among a variety of best-selling books Americans are reading to better understand Trump’s presidency.<br />
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Orwell’s “1984,” originally published in 1949, has long been popular as it became required reading for many high school and college English courses. But recent sales represent a measurable spike.<br />
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The New York Times reported that last week, “1984” reached a 9,500 percent increase in sales since the Friday before the inauguration.<br />
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A spokesman from Penguin, the novel’s publishing house, told CNN the company had to order a 75,000 copy reprint to keep up with demand.<br />
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The Atlantic observed that becoming Amazon’s best-selling book across all genres is a difficult feat for any book, let alone a novel published 67 years ago.<br />
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Many commentators have argued the timing of the novel’s rise is no coincidence, drawing parallels between Trump’s administration and Orwell’s depiction of a society threatened by a totalitarian government’s surveillance and distortion of facts.<br />
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“1984” features a dystopian society called Oceania where government creates its own reality through pervasive propaganda and careful censorship of all media threatening its power. The novel’s protagonist, Winston, works at The Ministry of Truth, revising past newspaper articles to better support government positions — essentially rewriting history.<br />
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The New York Times suggested White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s claim that the crowd at Trump’s inauguration was “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration,” despite evidence to the contrary, mirrored Orwell’s depiction of government “reality control.” In “1984,” Winston explains Oceania’s government taught citizens to embrace a worldview that countered logic by forcing them to accept “two and two make five.”<br />
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The New York Times also noted the novel shot to No. 1 after Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway defended Spicer’s statements, dubbing them “alternative facts,” a rhetorical move strikingly similar to The Ministry of Truth’s efforts to reshape reality.<br />
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Moreover, The New Yorker argued Trump illustrates what Orwell got right about authoritarianism: “that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”<br />
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But others have suggested Orwell’s novel shouldn’t be interpreted as an indictment of Trump specifically.<br />
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The Washington Post contended past presidents also adopted Orwellian methods, noting “The Obama administration did its best to conceal that the National Security Agency is listening to our electronic communications” and that President Bill Clinton “brought the country to a constitutional climax by claiming that the truth of his testimony regarding ‘that woman’ depended ‘on what the meaning of the word “is” is’ — an Orwellian clarification if there ever was one.”<br />
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CNN reported a spike in “1984” sales also occurred in 2013 when leaks by Edward Snowden sparked a national conversation about government surveillance.<br />
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Other totalitarian classics<br />
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While “1984” is a No. 1 best seller, other books exploring totalitarianism are also selling remarkably well.<br />
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The Atlantic reported that Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here,” “a 1935 novel about the rise of an authoritarian fascist leader in the U.S.,” saw a spike on Google Trends corresponding with the presidential election on Nov. 8. It is currently the ninth-best-selling book on Amazon.<br />
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Dystopian classics featuring authoritarian governments, including Aldous Huxley’s 1932 “Brave New World,” Ray Bradbury’s 1953 “Fahrenheit 451” and Margaret Atwood’s 1985 “The Handmaid’s Tale,” have been climbing Amazon’s best-selling charts as well.<br />
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“The Origins of Totalitarianism,” a dense 500 pages of political theory, also experienced rising sales after November’s election. Written in 1951 by Hannah Arendt, the book traces the rise of Stalinism and Nazism, and is not typically a hot commodity, according to KQED.<br />
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Jim Milliot, editorial director of Publishers Weekly, told KQED that typically 50 copies of “The Origins of Totalitarianism” sell nationally each week. But in December of last year, when sales peaked, it sold at 16 times that rate.<br />
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Roger Berkowitz, founder of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, told the station that the rise in sales likely reflects “right-wing populism and dissatisfaction with government sweeping through Europe and the U.S.,” which is “reminiscent of what happened in the 1920s and ’30s in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia.”<br />
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But Berkowitz urges readers to avoid exaggerating parallels between these historical movements and Trump, insisting Arendt would argue Trump is no totalitarian.<br />
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Books on rural America<br />
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Other books enjoying a post-election sales boost are less overtly political. Many texts in this category probe white rural America, composing what The Washington Post labeled “Trumpology” — “a nascent genre of reading material exploring a certain portion of the electorate that seems most likely to vote for Donald Trump.”<br />
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Chief among these books is J.D. Vance’s 2016 “Hillbilly Elegy.” Currently Amazon’s No. 2 best-selling book of 2017, the memoir follows the history of Vance’s working-class family from Kentucky’s Appalachia to Ohio’s Rust Belt. Its Amazon profile boasts that The New York Times named it “one of ‘6 books to understand Trump’s win’” and the Economist concluded, “you will not read a more important book about America this year.” “Hillbilly Elegy” reached the top of The New York Times best seller list in August 2016, but KQED reported it started selling three times as fast after the presidential election.<br />
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In a Q&A with Lafayette Journal & Courier last week, Vance speculated his memoir resonated with readers post-election because Trump’s win spurred a stronger desire among Americans who didn’t vote for Trump to understand his supporters. He also noted post-election readings of the book felt less politically charged and more engaged with “some of the deeper questions about why we have those upward mobility issues here in the U.S.”<br />
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Many Americans are also reading Nancy Isenberg’s 2016 “White Trash,” a former New York Times best-seller still frequently mentioned in post-election commentary. Isenberg’s book traces the 400-year history of class struggle in America and the emergence of the “redneck” stereotype. The New York Times explained it elucidates how America’s economic system has systematically harmed the working poor as well as the ways Trump appealed to the wealthy and working class alike.<br />
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Other similar books in the cultural consciousness include Robert P. Jones’s 2016 “The End of White Christian America,” Carol Anderson’s 2016 “White Rage” and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s 2016 “Strangers in Their Own Land.”<br />
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While these books may be intended to engender liberal empathy for Trump supporters, some find them somewhat insulting. The Washington Post called their popular reception at once “deeply earnest and slightly disturbing,” noting their titles often include pejoratives and that many approaches to these texts seem “tinged with a feeling of superiority.”<br />
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Bob Hutton, an American studies professor at The University of Tennessee, wrote that “‘Hillbilly Elegy’ should have been titled ‘Hillbilly Reprimand,’ because Vance doesn’t want to mourn the hillbilly — he wants to make him a good worker.”<br />
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Trump as anti-reader<br />
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Although many Americans report finding insight on Trump through literature, Trump has been criticized for not being much of a reader himself.<br />
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Obama published a yearly summer reading list and had a much-celebrated exit interview with The New York Times’ chief book critic on the literature that shaped him as a person and a politician.<br />
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Trump, however, recently declined naming a favorite book when asked, as Vox reported, and has said he doesn’t “have the time” to read.<br />
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While Trump’s stance on literature has garnered a fair amount of criticism and unfavorable comparisons to his predecessor, The Washington Post argued Trump’s comments on reading are purposeful. Obama seemed in many ways a “professor in chief.” Yet by positioning himself in direct contrast to Obama’s intellectualism, Trump can better channel “the will of the people, a group that has been ignored or laughed at by coastal elites over the past decade.” Thus, even in his relationship to literature, Trump represents a president championing change.<br />
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<span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: interface, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Obama published a yearly </span><a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/08/12/presidents-summer-reading-list" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: interface, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">summer reading list</a><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: interface, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> and had a much-celebrated </span><a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/books/president-obamas-reading-list.html" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: interface, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">exit interview</a><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: interface, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> with The New York Times’ chief book critic on the literature that shaped him as a person and a politician.</span><br />
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During Donald Trump’s first week as president, sales of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel, “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934/ref=zg_bs_books_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=5X8NZRPKDKYXH6P63N5B" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1984</a>,” skyrocketed. The book appeared on Amazon’s best-sellers list — a record of the website’s top-selling texts updated hourly — on inauguration Monday and jumped to No. 1 the following Tuesday evening, a position it continues to hold at the time of this article’s publication.</div>
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According to literary experts and political commentators, “1984” is one among a variety of best-selling books Americans are reading to better understand Trump’s presidency.</div>
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Orwell’s “1984,” originally published in 1949, has long been popular as it became required reading for many high school and college English courses. But recent sales represent a measurable spike.</div>
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<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/books/1984-george-orwell-donald-trump.html" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> reported that last week, “1984” reached a 9,500 percent increase in sales since the Friday before the inauguration.</div>
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A spokesman from Penguin, the novel’s publishing house, told <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/25/media/george-orwell-1984-best-seller/" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CNN</a> the company had to order a 75,000 copy reprint to keep up with demand.</div>
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Many commentators have argued the timing of the novel’s rise is no coincidence, drawing parallels between Trump’s administration and Orwell’s depiction of a society threatened by a totalitarian government’s surveillance and distortion of facts.</div>
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“1984” features a dystopian society called Oceania where government creates its own reality through pervasive propaganda and careful censorship of all media threatening its power. The novel’s protagonist, Winston, works at The Ministry of Truth, revising past newspaper articles to better support government positions — essentially rewriting history.</div>
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<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/books/why-1984-is-a-2017-must-read.html?mtrref=undefined&_r=0" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> also noted the novel shot to No. 1 after Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway defended Spicer’s statements, dubbing them “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/22/how-kellyanne-conway-ushered-in-the-era-of-alternative-facts/?utm_term=.56292c178371" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">alternative facts</a>,” a rhetorical move strikingly similar to The Ministry of Truth’s efforts to reshape reality.</div>
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Moreover, <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/orwells-1984-and-trumps-america" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The New Yorker</a> argued Trump illustrates what Orwell got right about authoritarianism: “that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”</div>
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But others have suggested Orwell’s novel shouldn’t be interpreted as an indictment of Trump specifically.</div>
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<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/why-orwells-1984-matters-so-much-now/2017/01/25/3cf81964-e313-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?utm_term=.b5d5bb47939a" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> contended past presidents also adopted Orwellian methods, noting “The Obama administration did its best to conceal that the National Security Agency is listening to our electronic communications” and that President Bill Clinton “brought the country to a constitutional climax by claiming that the truth of his testimony regarding ‘that woman’ depended ‘on what the meaning of the word “is” is’ — an Orwellian clarification if there ever was one.”</div>
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<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/25/media/george-orwell-1984-best-seller/" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CNN</a> reported a spike in “1984” sales also occurred in 2013 when leaks by Edward Snowden sparked a national conversation about government surveillance.</div>
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While “1984” is a No. 1 best seller, other books exploring totalitarianism are also selling remarkably well.</div>
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<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/1984-george-orwell-alternative-facts-trump-kellyanne-conway/514259/" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Atlantic</a> reported that Sinclair Lewis’ “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Happen-Here-Signet-Classics/dp/0451465644/ref=zg_bs_books_8?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=5X8NZRPKDKYXH6P63N5B" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">It Can’t Happen Here</a>,” “a 1935 novel about the rise of an authoritarian fascist leader in the U.S.,” saw a spike on Google Trends corresponding with the presidential election on Nov. 8. It is currently the ninth-best-selling book on Amazon.</div>
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Dystopian classics featuring authoritarian governments, including Aldous Huxley’s 1932 “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0060850523&pd_rd_r=8R16CNYTH5RHVPVS31M3&pd_rd_w=mYWz3&pd_rd_wg=cav69&psc=1&refRID=8R16CNYTH5RHVPVS31M3" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Brave New World</a>,” Ray Bradbury’s 1953 “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/1451673310/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1451673310&pd_rd_r=MS4KYE2K8RF1TF399FEM&pd_rd_w=hRFzl&pd_rd_wg=fUek5&psc=1&refRID=MS4KYE2K8RF1TF399FEM" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Fahrenheit 451</a>” and Margaret Atwood’s 1985 “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/Handmaids-Tale-Margaret-Atwood/dp/038549081X/ref=zg_bs_books_24?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=N6MV5MY2Y5367CMB21A5" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Handmaid’s Tale</a>,” have been climbing Amazon’s best-selling charts as well.</div>
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“<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Totalitarianism-Hannah-Arendt/dp/0156701537/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485817230&sr=1-1&keywords=the+origins+of+totalitarianism" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Origins of Totalitarianism</a>,” a dense 500 pages of political theory, also experienced rising sales after November’s election. Written in 1951 by Hannah Arendt, the book traces the rise of Stalinism and Nazism, and is not typically a hot commodity, according to <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/19/trump-election-spurs-sales-of-books-about-white-working-class-and-totalitarianism/" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">KQED</a>.</div>
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Jim Milliot, editorial director of Publishers Weekly, told KQED that typically 50 copies of “The Origins of Totalitarianism” sell nationally each week. But in December of last year, when sales peaked, it sold at 16 times that rate.</div>
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Roger Berkowitz, founder of the<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="http://hac.bard.edu/" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College</a>, told the station that the rise in sales likely reflects “right-wing populism and dissatisfaction with government sweeping through Europe and the U.S.,” which is “reminiscent of what happened in the 1920s and ’30s in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia.”</div>
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But Berkowitz urges readers to avoid exaggerating parallels between these historical movements and Trump, insisting Arendt would argue Trump is no totalitarian.</div>
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Other books enjoying a post-election sales boost are less overtly political. Many texts in this category probe white rural America, composing what <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/everyone-is-reading-books-trying-to-explain-trump-voters/2016/09/02/9c11ccc6-6bc5-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html?utm_term=.94929e1ff8fa" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> labeled “Trumpology” — “a nascent genre of reading material exploring a certain portion of the electorate that seems most likely to vote for Donald Trump.”</div>
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Chief among these books is J.D. Vance’s 2016 “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300547" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hillbilly Elegy</a>.” Currently Amazon’s No. 2 best-selling book of 2017, the memoir follows the history of Vance’s working-class family from Kentucky’s Appalachia to Ohio’s Rust Belt. Its Amazon profile boasts that The New York Times named it “one of ‘6 books to understand Trump’s win’” and the Economist concluded, “you will not read a more important book about America this year.” “Hillbilly Elegy” reached the top of The New York Times best seller list in August 2016, but <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/19/trump-election-spurs-sales-of-books-about-white-working-class-and-totalitarianism/" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">KQED</a> reported it started selling three times as fast after the presidential election.</div>
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In a Q&A with <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="http://www.jconline.com/story/opinion/columnists/dave-bangert/2017/01/28/q-trump-and-hillbilly-elegy-effect/97089626/" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lafayette Journal & Courier</a> last week, Vance speculated his memoir resonated with readers post-election because Trump’s win spurred a stronger desire among Americans who didn’t vote for Trump to understand his supporters. He also noted post-election readings of the book felt less politically charged and more engaged with “some of the deeper questions about why we have those upward mobility issues here in the U.S.”</div>
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Many Americans are also reading Nancy Isenberg’s 2016 “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Trash-400-Year-History-America/dp/0670785970" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">White Trash</a>,” a former New York Times best-seller still frequently mentioned in post-election commentary. Isenberg’s book traces the 400-year history of class struggle in America and the emergence of the “redneck” stereotype. <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/books/6-books-to-help-understand-trumps-win.html" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> explained it elucidates how America’s economic system has systematically harmed the working poor as well as the ways Trump appealed to the wealthy and working class alike.</div>
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Other similar books in the cultural consciousness include Robert P. Jones’s 2016 “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/End-White-Christian-America/dp/1501122290" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The End of White Christian America</a>,” Carol Anderson’s 2016 “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Rage-Unspoken-Racial-Divide/dp/1632864126/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RA6RKY0XMJSEH5VVNP2M" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">White Rage</a>” and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s 2016 “<a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning/dp/1620972255/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RA6RKY0XMJSEH5VVNP2M" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Strangers in Their Own Land</a>.”</div>
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While these books may be intended to engender liberal empathy for Trump supporters, some find them somewhat insulting. <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/everyone-is-reading-books-trying-to-explain-trump-voters/2016/09/02/9c11ccc6-6bc5-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html?utm_term=.94929e1ff8fa" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> called their popular reception at once “deeply earnest and slightly disturbing,” noting their titles often include pejoratives and that many approaches to these texts seem “tinged with a feeling of superiority.”</div>
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Bob Hutton, an American studies professor at The University of Tennessee, <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/hillbilly-elegy-review-jd-vance-national-review-white-working-class-appalachia/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">wrote</a> that “‘Hillbilly Elegy’ should have been titled ‘Hillbilly Reprimand,’ because Vance doesn’t want to mourn the hillbilly — he wants to make him a good worker.”</div>
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Although many Americans report finding insight on Trump through literature, Trump has been criticized for not being much of a reader himself.</div>
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Obama published a yearly <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/08/12/presidents-summer-reading-list" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">summer reading list</a> and had a much-celebrated <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/books/president-obamas-reading-list.html" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">exit interview</a> with The New York Times’ chief book critic on the literature that shaped him as a person and a politician.</div>
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Trump, however, recently declined naming a favorite book when asked, as <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/1/21/14329888/barack-obama-donald-trump-favorite-books" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Vox reported</a>, and has <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://newrepublic.com/minutes/133566/donald-trump-doesnt-read-books" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a> he doesn’t “have the time” to read.</div>
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While Trump’s stance on literature has garnered a fair amount of criticism and unfavorable comparisons to his predecessor, <a class="sense-link" data-contentid="481378" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/19/the-aggressive-anti-intellectualism-of-donald-trump/?utm_term=.1398bab533a9" style="border: 0px; color: #46b9ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> argued Trump’s comments on reading are purposeful. Obama seemed in many ways a “professor in chief.” Yet by positioning himself in direct contrast to Obama’s intellectualism, Trump can better channel “the will of the people, a group that has been ignored or laughed at by coastal elites over the past decade.” Thus, even in his relationship to literature, Trump represents a president championing change.</div>
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-2545475624713999572017-01-24T12:56:00.002-08:002017-01-24T12:56:36.336-08:00The collapse of the Left, finally<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
George Orwell would be proud to see what is happening now.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan17/collapse-Left1-17.html">http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan17/collapse-Left1-17.html</a><br />
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Also see <a href="http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-protected-privileged-establishment.html">http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-protected-privileged-establishment.html</a><br />
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The Collapse of the Left</h1>
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<i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Left is not just in disarray--it is in complete collapse because the working class has awakened to the Left's betrayal and abandonment of the working class in favor of building personal wealth and power.</i></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The source of the angry angst rippling through the Democratic Party's progressive camp is not President Trump--it's the complete collapse of the Left globally.</b> To understand this collapse, we turn (once again) to Marx's profound understanding of the state and capitalism.</div>
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We turn not to the <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cultural Marxism</i> that is passingly familiar to Americans, but to Marx's core economic analysis, which as Sartre noted, is only taught to discredit it.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cultural Marxism</i> draws as much from Engels as Marx.</b> In today's use, <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cultural Marxism</i> describes the overt erosion of traditional values--the family, community, religious faith, property rights and limited central government--in favor of <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rootless Cosmopolitanism</i> and an expansive, all-powerful central state that replaces community, faith and property rights with statist control mechanisms that enforce dependence on the state and a mindset that <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the individual is guilty of anti-state thinking until proven innocent by the state's own rules.</i></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marx's critique of capitalism is economic: capital and labor are in eternal conflict.</b> In Marx's analysis, capital has the upper hand until the internal contradictions of capitalism consume capital's control from the inside.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Capital not only dominates labor, it also dominates the state.</b> Thus the state-cartel version of capitalism that is dominant globally is not a coincidence or an outlier--it is the <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the only possible outcome of a system in which capital is the dominant force.</i></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To counter this dominance of capital, <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">social democratic political movements</i>arose to wrest some measure of control out of the hands of capital in favor of labor.</b> Social democratic movements were greatly aided by the near-collapse of the first version of cartel-capitalism in The Great Depression, when writing down the bad debt would have brought down the entire banking system and crippled capitalism's core function of <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">growing capital via expansion of debt</i>.</div>
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The decimated owners of capital realized that they faced a bleak choice: either resist and be toppled by anarchism or Communism, or cede some of their wealth and power to the social democratic parties in exchange for social, political and economic stability.</div>
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Broadly speaking, the Left favored labor (whose rights were protected by the state) and the Right favored capital (also protected by the state).</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But over the past 25 years of globalized neoliberalism, social democratic movements have abandoned labor to embrace the self-serving wealth and power offered by capital.</b> The essence of globalization is: <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">labor is commoditized as mobile capital is free to roam the globe for the lowest cost labor.</i> In contrast, labor is far less mobile, and unable to shift as fluidly and frictionlessly as capital to exploit scarcities and opportunities.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Neoliberalism--the opening of markets and borders--enables capital to effortlessly crush labor.</b> The social democrats, in embracing open borders, have institutionalized an <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">open immigration that shreds the scarcity value of domestic labor in favor of lower cost immigrant labor that serves capital's desire for lower costs.</i></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Globalization and neoliberal financial / immigration policies signify the collapse of the Left and the victory of capital. Now capital completely dominates the state and its cronyist structures</b>--political parties, lobbying, campaign contributions, charitable foundations operating as pay-for-play cash vacuums, and all the other features of cartel-state capitalism.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To mask the collapse of the Left's economic defense of labor, the Left's apologists and PR machine have substituted <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">social justice movements</i> for economic opportunities to acquire economic security and capital.</b> This has succeeded brilliantly, as tens of millions of self-described "progressives" completely bought the left's Great Con that "social justice" campaigns on behalf of marginalized social groups were the defining feature of Progressive Social Democratic movements.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This diversionary sleight-of-hand embrace of economically neutered "social justice" campaigns masked the fact that social democratic parties everywhere have thrown labor into the churning propellers of globalization, open immigration and neoliberal financial policies</b>--all of which benefit mobile capital, which has engorged itself on the abandonment of labor by the Left.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, the fat-cats of the Left have engorged themselves on capital's largesse in exchange for their treachery.</b> Bill and Hillary Clinton's $200 million in "earnings" come to mind, as do countless other examples of personal aggrandizement by self-proclaimed "defenders" of labor.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please examine this chart, which depicts labor's share of GDP (economic output), and tell me the Left hasn't abandoned labor in favor of personal wealth and power.</b><br />
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Left is not just in disarray--it is in complete collapse because the working class has awakened to the Left's betrayal and abandonment of the working class in favor of building personal wealth and power.</b> Anyone who denies this is still in the fatal grip of the Left's Great Con.</div>
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-63315075662152460882017-01-20T21:16:00.001-08:002017-01-20T21:16:11.887-08:00President Trump vs. the establishment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">President Trump’s brief inaugural speech was a declaration of war against the entirety of the American Ruling Establishment. All of it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">As Paul Craig Roberts details, Trump made it abundantly clear that Americans’ enemies are right here at home: globalists, neoliberal economists, neoconservatives and other unilateralists accustomed to imposing the US on the world and involving us in endless and expensive wars, politicians who serve the Ruling Establishment rather than the American people, indeed, the entire canopy of private interests that have run America into the ground while getting rich in the process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">If truth can be said, President Trump has declared a war far more dangerous to himself than if he had declared war against Russia or China.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The interest groups designated by Trump as The Enemy are well entrenched and accustomed to being in charge. Their powerful networks are still in place. Although there are Republican majorities in the House and Senate, most of those in Congress are answerable to the ruling interest groups that provide their campaign funds and not to the American people or to the President. The military/security complex, offshoring corporations, Wall Street and the banks are not going to roll over for Trump. And neither is the presstitute media, which is owned by the interest groups whose power Trump challenges.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Trump made it clear that he stands for every American, black, brown, and white. Little doubt his declaration of inclusiveness will be ignored by the haters on the left who will continue to call him a racist just as the $50 per hour paid protesters are doing as I write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Indeed, black leadership, for example, is enculturated into the victimization role from which it would be hard for them to escape. How do you pull together people who all their lives have been taught that whites are racists and that they are the victims of racists?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Can it be done? I was just on a program briefly with Press TV in which we were supposed to provide analysis of Trump’s inaugural speech. The other commentator was a black American in Washington, DC. Trump’s inclusiveness speech made no impression on him, and the show host was only interested in showing the hired protesters as a way of discrediting America. So many people have an economic interest in speaking in behalf of victims that inclusiveness puts them out of jobs and causes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">So along with the globalists, the CIA, the offshoring corporations, the armaments industries, the NATO establishment in Europe, and foreign politicians accustomed to being well paid for supporting Washington’s interventionist foreign policy, Trump will have arrayed against him the leaders of the victimized peoples, the blacks, the hispanics, the feminists, the illegals, the homosexuals and transgendered. This long list, of course, includes the white liberals as well, as they are convinced that flyover America is the habitat of white racists, misogynists, homophobes, and gun nuts. As far as they are concerned, this 84% of geographical US should be quarantined or interred.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">In other words, does enough good will remain in the population to enable a President to unite the 16% America haters with the 84% America lovers?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Consider the forces that Trump has against him:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Black and hispanic leaders need victimization, because it is what elevates them to power and income. They will turn a jaundiced eye toward Trump’s inclusiveness. Inclusiveness is good for blacks and hispanics, but not for their leaders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The executives and shareholders of global corporations are enriched by the offshored jobs that Trump says he will bring home. If the jobs come home, their profits, performance bonuses, and capital gains will go away. But the economic security of the American population will return.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The military/security complex has a 1,000 billion annual budget dependent on “the Russian threat” that Trump says he is going to replace with normalized relations. Trump’s assassination cannot be ruled out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Many Europeans owe their prestige, power, and incomes to the NATO that Trump has called into question.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The financial sector’s profits almost entirely flow from putting Americans into debt bondage and from looting their private and public pensions. The financial sector with their agent, the Federal Reserve, can overwhelm Trump with financial crisis. The New York Federal Reserve Bank has a complete trading desk. It can send any market into turmoil. Or support any market, because there is no limit on its ability to create US dollars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The entire political ediface in the US has insulated itself from the will, desires, and needs of the people. Now Trump says the politicians will be accountable to the people. This, of course, would mean a big drop in their security in office and in their income and wealth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">There are a large number of groups, funded by we-know-not-who. For example, RootsAction has responded today to Trump’s forceful commitment to stand for all of the people against the Ruling Establishment with a request to “ask Congress to direct the House Judiciary Committee to open an impeachment investigation” and to send money for Trump’s impeachment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Another hate group, human rights first, attacks Trump’s defense of our borders as closing “a refuge of hope for those fleeing persecution.” Think about this for a minute. According to the liberal-progressive-left and the racial interest group organizations, the US is a racist society and President Trump is a racist. Yet, people subject to American racism are fleeing from persecution to America where they will be racially persecuted? It doesn’t make sense. The illegals come here for work. Ask the construction companies. Ask the chicken and animal slaughter houses. Ask the vacation area cleaning services.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">This list of those on whom Trump has declared war is long enough, although there are more that can be added.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">We should ask ourselves why a 70 year old billionaire with flourishing businesses, a beautiful wife, and intelligent children is willing to give his final years to the extraordinary stress of being President with the stressful agenda of putting the government back in the hands of the American people. There is no doubt that Trump has made himself a target of assassination. The CIA is not going to give up and go away. Why would a person take on the grand restoration of America that Trump has declared when he could instead spend his remaining years enjoying himself immensely?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Whatever the reason, we should be grateful for it, and if he is sincere we must support him. If he is assassinated, we need to take up our weapons, burn Langley to the ground and kill every one of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">If he succeeds, he deserves the designation: Trump the Great!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and any other country on the CIA’s hit list should undersand that Trump’s rise is insufficient protection. The CIA is a worldwide organization. Its profitable businesses provide income independent of the US budget. The organization is capable of undertaking operations independently of the President or even of its own Director.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The CIA has had about 70 years to entrench itself. It has not gone away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">But, as Jeremiah Johnson explains (via SHTFPlan.com), it will take a complete sea change to rectify the course this country has been heading in the past eight years. These are some of the problems that Trump will need to reverse when he becomes President Trump, many of which he promised to either change or end completely:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The (Un)Affordable Health Care Act, now law, termed “Obamacare” that is the most heinous piece of legislation…a law that mandates a requirement for a citizen to have health care coverage as dictated by government requirements.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">“Differentially permeable” borders: where foreigners, such as Mexicans and Canadians can come and go as they please, and illegal aliens have free access…but Americans are confined until a full cavity search is conducted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">An economy based not on true GNP, but on consumer spending (almost 80%); convincing one company not to pick up and relocate overseas is an illustration of the concept, and not the implementation…not yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">A reversal of the Entitlement Nation: the EBT and Food Stamp users, the unemployment collectors, the Social Security Disability recipients whose corpulence from overeating is termed a “disability,” the illegal aliens on the dole for all of the above, plus free healthcare, the almost 100 million no longer “in the work force.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Knocking the knees off lobbyists, NGO’s, and NPO’s who have been holding administrations hostage (the 1st), or acting as if they were a government agency (the 2nd), or with executives profiting immensely while running on slave labor using socially misfortunate people and writing it all off (the 3rd).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Revitalizing a military whose Air Force is forced to scavenge parts from “the Boneyard,” and where levels of service members in terms of numbers and readiness have fallen to their lowest point since before WWII.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Resetting an abysmal foreign policy where (for the past eight years) we have instituted coup d’états, undermined relations that worked throughout the world, placed ourselves in position to start a new Cold War, and turned the Middle East and Eastern Europe completely upside down.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Revitalizing a crumbling infrastructure of roads, bridges, and buildings very dangerously in disrepair…where maintenance charges and fees continue to rise with very little return on taxpayer dollars and nothing changing on our highways, ports, and bridges.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Permitting (yes, permitting) and encouraging American businesses to be able to start up, operate, and produce in the United States without Soviet-style restrictions, regulations, and an army of bureaucratic “flying monkeys” inserting themselves into the business’s “fourth point of contact,” preventing U.S. businesses (especially the small proprietorships and Mom-and-Pop concerns) from either starting, or succeeding.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The Supreme Court: just look at them…and nothing else really needs to be said: Except that a branch of the U.S. government meant to be a “check and balance” does not need to circumvent the Constitution and be the sole arbiter and (in essence) a lawmaker to institute policy for a presidential administration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Bring about a change in the hearts of the American people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Perhaps the most important item in that list is the last one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">When Reagan took office, we (and he) faced double-digit unemployment, double digit inflation, and enormous taxation and loss of liberties. We faced a crumbling infrastructure, a military that was in shambles (Desert One to free the Iranian hostages, conducted with helicopters in a sandstorm as Carter approached the midnight hour to lose the election should never be forgotten). The Soviets were strong, and we were not…having recently ended the war in Vietnam. We weren’t doing too well, in the world and in our own minds and hearts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Then Reagan came, and he turned it around. He was not perfect, but he made up for his imperfections by surrounding himself with an excellent staff. He had a heart for the United States, and the fortitude to stand up for it. His leadership staved off the fall of the U.S., and turned things around for us. Do you remember that Lake Placid victory of the amateur U.S. hockey team in the semifinals against the professionals of the Soviet hockey team? Remember the moment…a small thing, perhaps, and many may discount it as being “completely unimportant” or “unrelated to problems we now face.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">But that victory was neither one of those disparaging remarks. It was something that we all could focus upon, to form some kind of cohesive unity and think of ourselves together as Americans…to take pride in accomplishment in something…for once, after four years of Carter. There was a sea change made. Did it last? Perhaps it didn’t, and yet, if the memory of those years is still alive in even one person with the hopes of a repeat…then maybe others can feel the same.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">This is still the best country in the world. Trump’s campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again.” Cliché, perhaps, but we must start somewhere. Last time I checked, the preamble to the Constitution starts out with “We the people.” Yes, we the people need to do the best we can with what we have, to be vigilant in our undertakings to prevent another eight years akin to the ones we are just emerging from, and to move forward and improve our lives. Many will say that it doesn’t matter, and that there are forces that are out of our control that will prevent us as a nation from overcoming obstacles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Such may be for a while, as it was under Obama. Those times cannot last forever, and eventually the change has to occur. We have perhaps a bigger job than those 12 items I listed for Trump to accomplish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Number 12 is not all on him: it’s also on us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida_granderegular, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">In order for the country to succeed, the people have to return to core values of family, hard work, respect (for self and others), and faith, with one another and in God. Trump can do a great deal, but in the end, it is we the people who will enable him to turn it around or not. Change can’t be forced upon you by some jerk with a perfect smile who tells you that change is a movement “we can believe in,” and then assumes the role of a dictator and forces it on you. Change is something that comes from within, precipitated by a feeling that is in one’s heart. We have our chance to change it all, and let us wish success for this man who will become the president of the United States in a couple of days. Let us hope that he has that feeling inside of himself and holds onto it…to unite the United States of America again.</span></span></div>
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-91579257081401290612016-12-04T18:02:00.000-08:002016-12-04T18:02:11.569-08:00The Orwellian war on skepticism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's always been delightfully ironic that so-called "scientists" complain about climate change "skeptics." What good is a scientific theory if it can't hold up to skeptical inquiry? This alone is a legitimate reason to reject the "consensus" about climate change.<br />
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Here's a fun article on the Orwellian war against skepticism. This one focuses on the latest "fake news" meme.<br />
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<a href="http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/12/03/orwellian-war-skepticism.html">http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/12/03/orwellian-war-skepticism.html</a><br />
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-82589028864980073172016-11-19T06:59:00.000-08:002016-11-19T06:59:26.328-08:00Awesome display of self-unawareness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Vox publishes a lot of unintentionally ironic material because its authors and editors are so unaware of their own biases and prejudices. This one was especially funny, though.<br />
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<a href="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/16/13426448/trump-psychology-fact-checking-lies">http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/16/13426448/trump-psychology-fact-checking-lies</a><br />
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Trump understands what many miss: people don’t make decisions based on facts</h1>
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How can we make facts matter? Research in psychology and political science offers a little hope.</h2>
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The entire piece is based on the premise that Trump lies and Hillary doesn't. That's laughable on its face, but there's more.<br />
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Look at this:<br />
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"This track record doesn’t portend an era of truthfulness at the Trump White House. And many are questioning if facts are under genuine assault. <b>NPR's senior VP of news, Michael Oreskes, recently reminded listeners, “Our first principle is that facts exist and that they matter.”</b><br />
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"But Trump was actually just trading on something psychologists and political scientists have known for years: that p<b>eople don’t necessarily make decisions based on facts. Instead, we are often guided by our emotions and deeply held biases. Humans are also very adept at ignoring facts so that we can continue to see the world in a way that conforms to our preconceived notions.</b> And simply stating factual information that contradicts those deeply held beliefs is often not enough to combat the spread of misinformation."<br />
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NPR is one of the most notoriously slanted news organizations in existence. The second paragraph quoted above is aimed at Trump and his supporters, but the article itself engages in exactly that kind of behavior and the author (and the editors) don't even recognize it.<br />
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The article cites the fear psychology.<br />
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"Trump is especially good at tapping into fear, a particularly motivating emotion. Studies find when white people (any white people, even liberals) are reminded that minorities will eventually be the majority, their views tilt conservative. A recent experiment showed that this reminder increased support for Trump. Which doesn’t mean all white people are racist: It means fear is an all-too-easy button to press. We fear, unthinkingly. It directs our actions. And it nudges us to believe the person who says they will vanquish our fears."<br />
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But which campaign relied most on fear? According to Hillary, Trump can't be trusted with the nuclear codes! According to Obama, Trump is a threat to democracy! He's racist, sexist, a KKK sympathizer, and every other list of adjectives that fit a basket of deplorables.<br />
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When you read the liberal press, watch for these examples of self-unawareness. They are abundant.<br />
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That said, the article does summarize the psychology pretty well:<br />
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Donald Trump made an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/11/10/fact-checking-in-the-aftermath-of-an-historic-election/" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">“unusual degree”</a> of blatantly false and misleading statements for a presidential candidate. And he won. Since then, we’ve seen the continuation of the pattern: On November 10, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=election+day&oq=election+day&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j0j69i60l2j0.1939j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">a day after the election</a>, he insisted, with no credible evidence, that election protesters were paid actors. On Sunday, he described elements of his first 100 days’ plan — the deportation of 3 million “illegal immigrant criminals” — that are, as Vox’s Dara Lind has reported, based on <a href="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/14/13623004/trump-deport-million-immigrants" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">faulty statistics</a>.</div>
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This track record doesn’t portend an era of truthfulness at the Trump White House. And many are questioning if facts are under genuine assault. NPR's senior VP of news, Michael Oreskes, recently <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/11/12/501853660/npr-news-chief-on-the-role-of-journalism-facts-exist-and-they-matter" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">reminded</a> listeners, “Our first principle is that facts exist and that they matter.”</div>
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But Trump was actually just trading on something psychologists and political scientists have known for years: that people don’t necessarily make decisions based on facts. Instead, we are often guided by our emotions and deeply held biases. Humans are also very adept at ignoring facts so that we can continue to see the world in a way that conforms to our preconceived notions. And simply stating factual information that contradicts those deeply held beliefs is often not enough to combat the spread of misinformation.</div>
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The map is fake. The story is incredibly misleading. And it's spreading like crazy all over Facebook.</div>
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When we’re part of a group, our brains like to see that group in a positive light. In lab experiments, when researchers<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"> </span>randomly assign people to teams, almost immediately <a href="http://www.psych.nyu.edu/vanbavel/lab/documents/Cikara.VanBavel.inpress.PopS.IntergroupNeuroscience.pdf" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">participants will start to like their teammates</a> better than the other guys. It’s almost instinctual, unthinking. It’s thought that group identities quickly become part of our individual identities. That’s why when you see a hate group burn your flag, it feels like a personal insult. Similarly, when a fact is hostile to our group, we’re keen to avoid it.</div>
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Here’s an amazingly clear example of that. It’s partisan bias in one chart.</div>
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Our number one bias is to make ourselves feel good. It just feels bad to be wrong, to lose. So we avoid it at the cost of reckoning with the truth. Psychologists call this “confirmation bias” — we seek facts to support the ideas we already believe to be true. “Most Americans are not paying attention to data, and even people who should be tend to discount it when it doesn’t fit their expectations,” Ingrid Haas, a political psychologist at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, explains in an email.</div>
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When people <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;">do</em> pay attention, they’re more and more likely to seek out news sources that conform to their worldview. (Cable news and Facebook have<a href="http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/6/13509854/facebook-politics-news-bad" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;"> made this easier than ever</a>.)</div>
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Evidence continues to mount that political sensibilities are, in part, <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/39846/how-politics-breaks-our-brains-how-we-can-put-them-back-together" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">determined by biology</a>. These inborn sensibilities create our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Foundations_Theory" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">"moral foundations."</a> It's the idea that people have stable, gut-level morals that influence their worldview.</div>
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Politicians intuitively use moral foundations to excite like-minded voters. Conservative politicians know phrases like "Make America Great Again" get followers' hearts beating. They’re reacting strongly to the idea of protecting the country. To them, it’s a feel-good, positive thing. Don’t try to tell them otherwise.</div>
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Trump is especially good at tapping into fear, a particularly motivating emotion. Studies <a href="http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/02/0956797614527113.abstract" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">find</a>when white people (any white people, even liberals) are reminded that minorities will eventually be the majority, their views tilt conservative. A recent <a href="http://gpi.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/10/20/1368430216677304.abstract" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">experiment</a> showed that this reminder increased support for Trump. Which doesn’t mean all white people are racist: It means fear is an all-too-easy button to press. We fear, unthinkingly. It directs our actions. And it nudges us to believe the person who says they will vanquish our fears.</div>
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It doesn’t help that there’s more misinformation than ever before</h3>
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Besides our fallible brains, there’s another big reason facts can be insignificant: The internet and social media make misinformation that reinforces<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"> </span>our beliefs<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"> </span>easier to access and more visible.</div>
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"We select the things to hang on a wall, sources to listen to,” said Michael Lynch, a University of Connecticut philosophy professor and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Us-Knowing-More-Understanding/dp/0871406616" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;">The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data</em></a>. “That means people can experience this sort of sense of the ground moving underneath them — like when liberals woke up and realized Brexit had happened."</div>
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This is particularly true for the politically engaged, particularly in this time of polarization. As <a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/3/14/11211204/sanders-trump-disrupting-politics" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">Vox’s Tim Lee</a> reported, <a href="https://research.facebook.com/blog/exposure-to-diverse-information-on-facebook/" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">researchers at Facebook </a>found liberal-leaning Facebook users are more likely to see liberal articles in their newsfeeds, while those with conservative affiliations see more conservative articles.</div>
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"Partisanship and ideology haven’t just become more polarized but also better sorted," Dartmouth political science professor <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">Brendan Nyhan</a> pointed out. "So Democrats are more likely to be liberal and Republicans more likely to be conservative, and they tend to associate with people like them, which may prevent them from getting exposed to different kinds of information on the margin."</div>
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This state of affairs is fueled by the fact that the <a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/3/14/11211204/sanders-trump-disrupting-politics" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">traditional gatekeepers</a> of public information — big newspaper outlets, nightly news broadcasts — no longer wield as much influence.</div>
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"Politicians have responded accordingly" by reaching out to audiences directly through blogs and social media campaigns, Nyhan said. This can help fuel our biases, reinforce our beliefs, shut out opposing views — and perhaps make us more gullible.</div>
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And not only are the like-minded gathering together on social media but there’s also evidence to suggest that whole communities <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/11/26/247362143/how-republicans-and-democrats-ended-up-living-apart" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">are becoming more ideologically unified</a> in our hyperpartisan age. We’re further apart than ever before, both virtually and physically.</div>
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The research on how to make facts matter is scant, but hopeful</h3>
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To be honest, we’re not entirely optimistic that facts will ever thrive in 21st-century America. Academics are pessimistic too.</div>
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“So long as we are all immersed in a constant stream of unbelievable outrages perpetrated by the other side, I don’t see how we can ever trust each other and work together again,” psychologist Jonathan Haidt <a href="http://xn--dch/" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">recently told </a>Vox’s Sean Illing. “We have to recognize that we’re in a crisis, and that the left-right divide is probably unbridgeable.”</div>
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The world we live in is simply structured to amplify our divides and, in doing so, make us more psychologically resistant to inconvenient facts.</div>
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For facts to matter more, we need environments that incentivize truth telling — ones that give us rewards for truth telling, and where lies are costly to us personally. That a man with as flimsy of a relationship to the truth as Trump can win a presidential election goes to show that fibbing is a winning strategy. If evolution theory can be instructive, it would tell us that the winning strategy will come to dominate the environment.</div>
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So how can we change the environment to harken the evolution of a world where facts matter? Researchers have found that it is possible to foster that kind of environment, at least in theory.</div>
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In one experiment, when researchers paid political partisans to be honest, they were more likely to <a href="http://johnbullock.org/papers/partisanBiasInFactualBeliefs.pdf" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">answer</a> questions about the country and the economy correctly. And for politicians to care about being called out on lies, there has to be a credible threat that it will hurt their reputation.</div>
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There’s also some work that suggests that if people <a href="http://psp.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/06/12/0146167215590986" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">affirm</a> their individual identity over their group identity, they’ll feel more free and willing to go against the group and embrace facts that would otherwise seem hostile. But it’s hard not to believe that our group identities and differences are more salient and un-ignorable than ever.</div>
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Fact-checking websites can also help, particularly when the fact-checking comes with a consequence.</div>
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"In some cases, fact-checking can backfire, particularly with people who are resistant to the information in the first place," Nyhan’s research collaborator Jason Reifler said. But, he added, "some of our other research shows the public does benefit from fact-checking."</div>
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In another <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12162/abstract" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">small study</a>, Nyhan and Reifler found some evidence that down-ballot candidates who were sent letters reminding them "politicians who lie put their reputations and careers at risk, but only when those lies are exposed" were somewhat more truthful in their campaigns, as measured by newspaper fact-checks.</div>
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Facebook is starting to take some action on its <a href="http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/13/13613826/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-fake-news" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">fake news problem</a>. Some 40 percent of Americans <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/pew-report-44-percent-of-u-s-adults-get-news-on-facebook/" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">read their news</a> on Facebook. It would be extremely meaningful if facts were incentivized there. But Facebook is just a start.</div>
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Facts need a champion more than ever.</div>
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Further reading:</h3>
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-6537340559033646152016-11-02T13:24:00.001-07:002016-11-02T13:24:14.839-07:00google spending $1 billion + on the election<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You can't make this up. At least, George Orwell didn't.<br />
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<a href="http://realclimatescience.com/2016/11/google-spending-billions-of-dollars-to-corrupt-the-election/">http://realclimatescience.com/2016/11/google-spending-billions-of-dollars-to-corrupt-the-election/</a></div>
jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-31494495528941328302016-11-01T08:14:00.000-07:002016-11-01T08:14:02.873-07:00google controlling elections<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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TOP PSYCHOLOGIST: GOOGLE’S ALGORITHM WILL RIG THE ELECTION FOR HILLARY</h1>
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Search engine's power to manipulate public opinion represents a "threat to democracy"</h4>
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After several years of research involving more than 10,000 people in 39 countries, Epstein concluded that Google has “the power to control elections” and that by favoring one candidate over another in some demographics up to 80 percent of undecided voters can be easily manipulated.</div>
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Google’s long standing support for Hillary Clinton runs so deep, that Google parent company Alphabet’s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, met with Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/10/31/wikileaks-googles-eric-schmidt-wanted-to-be-head-outside-advisor-to-clinton-campaign/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">asked</a> if he could be Hillary’s “head outside advisor.”</div>
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<a href="http://www.infowars.com/top-psychologist-googles-algorithm-will-rig-the-election-for-hillary/">http://www.infowars.com/top-psychologist-googles-algorithm-will-rig-the-election-for-hillary/</a></div>
jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-7041630511481444632016-10-24T08:19:00.000-07:002016-10-24T08:19:07.844-07:00Wikileaks exposes 1984<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wikileaks has been ignored by the major media, as expected, but it has released material that not even George Orwell dreamed up.<br />
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<a href="http://www.infowars.com/clinton-insider-dems-to-commit-massive-election-fraud/">http://www.infowars.com/clinton-insider-dems-to-commit-massive-election-fraud/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.infowars.com/video-satellite-feed-cut-as-soon-as-congressman-mentions-wikileaks-on-cnn/">http://www.infowars.com/video-satellite-feed-cut-as-soon-as-congressman-mentions-wikileaks-on-cnn/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/new-email-reveals-missing-link-oh-shit-moment-hillary-admits-i-asked-they-be-deleted">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/new-email-reveals-missing-link-oh-shit-moment-hillary-admits-i-asked-they-be-deleted</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/ignore-pink-elephant-room-dilberts-adams-explains-anti-trumpers-shared-illusion">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/ignore-pink-elephant-room-dilberts-adams-explains-anti-trumpers-shared-illusion</a><br />
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<a href="http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152024526021/i-wake-you-up-for-the-presidential-debate">http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152024526021/i-wake-you-up-for-the-presidential-debate</a><br />
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<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/18/exposed-dem-operative-who-oversaw-trump-rally-agitators-visited-white-house-342-times/">http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/18/exposed-dem-operative-who-oversaw-trump-rally-agitators-visited-white-house-342-times/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mrctv.org/blog/breaking-video-exposes-dncs-plan-use-women-against-trump-supporters">http://www.mrctv.org/blog/breaking-video-exposes-dncs-plan-use-women-against-trump-supporters</a><br />
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-39427551266937283462016-10-24T08:18:00.003-07:002016-10-24T08:18:57.892-07:00Media in full NEWSPEAK mode<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As many of us have documented, the media has been manipulating the public with tactics right out of Orwell's book <i>1984</i>.<br />
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Thanks to wikileaks, we have direct evidence of how they've been doing it.<br />
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And now they are in full NEWSPEAK mode, to the point where they don't even care if the public knows they are colluding with the Democrats, first to defeat Bernie Sanders, and now to defeat Donal Trump.<br />
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The latest: <a href="http://observer.com/2016/10/no-consequences-from-media-peers-for-reporters-caught-colluding-with-hillary/">http://observer.com/2016/10/no-consequences-from-media-peers-for-reporters-caught-colluding-with-hillary/</a></div>
jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-87998742286776214942016-10-06T07:59:00.000-07:002016-10-06T07:59:25.026-07:00Hillary manipulates child actor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Fake "random" questioners and getting questions before interviews is routine for Hillary, but the major media have no problem with it.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-05/clinton-caught-using-child-actor-ask-planted-question-pennsylvania-townhall" style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-05/clinton-caught-using-child-actor-ask-planted-question-pennsylvania-townhall</a></div>
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The Spanglevision analysis is awesome.</div>
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And, of course, Hillary supporters celebrate the fake question because it fits their narrative. They don't care that the entire thing is staged.</div>
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My favorite part is how the NYTimes and CNN covered the fake "random" questioner. It's a wonder to behold.</div>
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Then there's this:</div>
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<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-06/leaked-memo-confirms-hillary-was-given-questions-ahead-interview" style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-06/leaked-memo-confirms-hillary-was-given-questions-ahead-interview</a></div>
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If Julian Assange doesn't get on with it, others are going to release material before he does.</div>
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-20636977800194917822016-10-05T07:04:00.005-07:002016-10-05T07:04:55.225-07:00NEWSPEAK in action<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Banning words and phrases is an essential element of NEWSPEAK.<br />
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Now they're getting specific:<br />
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<a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29307/">http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29307/</a><br />
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Student leaders of this year’s freshman orientation at James Madison University were given a list of 35 things they should avoid saying, including phrases such as “you have such a pretty face,” “love the sinner, hate the sin,” “we’re all part of the human race,” “I treat all people the same,” “it was only a joke,” “I never owned slaves,” and “people just need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps,” among other expressions.</div>
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Those phrases and others on the list “widen the diversity gap” and do not “create a safe and inclusive environment,” according to the seven-page handout, a copy of which was provided to <span style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">The College Fix</span> by a campus spokesman.</div>
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Adapted from Dr. Maura Cullen’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dumb-Things-Well-Intended-People-Say/dp/1600374913" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">book</a> “35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say: Surprising Things We Say that Widen the Diversity Gap,” the list also classifies some compliments and encouraging words, such as calling someone “cute” or saying “I know exactly how you feel,” as a no-no.</div>
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Many of the “dumb” statements also pertained to race. “I don’t see color,” “I’m colorblind” and “I don’t see difference. We’re all part of the same race, the human race” were all advised against. “If you are going to live in this country, learn to speak the language” also made the list.</div>
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After each phrase, an explanation as to why it should be avoided was given. Expressions on race allegedly make people of color feel invisible and diminish their life experiences, the handout states. Statements of empathy supposedly “shuts the other person down,” it adds. Saying to LBGTQ people “what you do in the privacy of your own bedroom is your business” is “hurtful and annoying” because it does not acknowledge the quality and depth of their relationship outside the bedroom, the handout states.</div>
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The last item on the list warns against labeling something as political correct, calling it “an attempt to shut the other person up.”</div>
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James Madison University’s director of communications Bill Wyatt told <span style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">The College Fix</span> via email that “this was just an exercise, prior to orientation, to get our volunteers to understand how language affects others. The list was not distributed to our first-year students nor were the volunteers instructed not to use the phrases.”</div>
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Yet page one of the handout, written by JMU, reads that orientation leaders should “use this handout as a resource” to help accomplish the goal of creating a “safe and inclusive environment for your first year students.”</div>
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They were also called upon by the handout to “take some time to reflect on your prejudices and biases, and how that might affect your interactions with students.”</div>
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The full list of 35 “dumb” expressions is:</div>
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1. “Some of my best friends are …”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />2. “I know exactly how you feel.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />3. “I don’t think of you as …”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />4. “The same thing happens to me too.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />5. “It was only a joke! Don’t take things so seriously.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />6. What do ‘your’ people think.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />7. “What are you?” or “Where are you really from?”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />8. “I don’t see color” or “I’m color blind.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />9. “You are so articulate.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />10. “It is so much better than it used to be. Just be patient.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />11. “You speak the language very well.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />12. Asking black people about their hair or hygiene.<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />13. Saying to LBGTQ people “what you do in the privacy of your own bedroom is your business.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />14. “Yes, but you are a ‘good’ one.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />15. “You have such a pretty face.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />16. “I never owned slaves.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />17. “If you are going to live in this country, learn to speak the language!”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />18. “She/he is a good person. She/he didn’t mean anything by it.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />19. “When I’ve said the same thing to other people like you, they don’t mind.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />20. Calling women “girls, honey, sweetie pie” or other familiar terms.<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />21. When people of color say, “It is not the same thing.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />22. When people of faith say, “Love the sinner, hate the sin.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />23. When white men say, “We are the ones being discriminated against now!”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />24. Referring to older people as “cute.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />25. Asking a transgender person, “What are you really? A man or a woman?”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />26. Referring to the significant other, partner, or spouse of a same gender couple as their “friend.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />27. “Why do ‘they’ (fill in the blank) always have to sit together? They are always sticking together.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />28. “People just need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />29. People with disabilities are “courageous.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />30. “That’s so gay/queer. That’s so retarded.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />31. “I don’t see difference. We are all part of the same race, the human race.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />32. I don’t care if you are pink, purple or orange, I treat all people the same.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />33. Asking a transgender person, “Have you had the operation.”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />34. Saying to a Jewish person, “You are so lucky to have ‘your’ Christmas spread over a week!”<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" />35. “Here’s another book on political correctness.”</div>
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Click <a href="https://issuu.com/thecollegefix/docs/jmu25thingslist" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a> to read the entire document.</div>
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jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-56280798826182701292016-10-04T08:15:00.002-07:002016-10-04T08:15:21.633-07:00Best Summary of the election choice so far<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
How to counteract NEWSPEAK:<br />
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<a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/10/03/donald-trumps-incredible-speech-in-loveland-colorado-the-impossible-is-our-starting-point/">https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/10/03/donald-trumps-incredible-speech-in-loveland-colorado-the-impossible-is-our-starting-point/</a><br />
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The people of Colorado know what it takes to rebuild this country.</div>
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This is a state with a rich immigrant history, and a rich Latino history. Though you hail from all regions of the world, you are united by this one thing: You are all Americans.</div>
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And, as Americans, you are entitled to the same protections as every other American. Everyone lawfully living inside our borders are entitled to the same things: safe communities, a great education, and access to high-paying jobs.</div>
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This is the change I will deliver. Hillary Clinton has been there for 30 years and delivered nothing but failure. Her policies have brought death and destruction overseas, and poverty at home. She also put Iran on the path to Nuclear weapons, and on the path to a massive infusion of cash and resources– including the lifting of sanctions on banks used to finance their missile program.</div>
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In America, she’s brought massive poverty for everyone, but especially African-American and Hispanic Citizens.</div>
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She’s turned a blind eye to rising crime, and has no solutions for the suffering people in Chicago, and Baltimore, and all across our nation. Instead, she attacks the police.</div>
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She opposes school choice, and wants to trap poor African-American and Hispanic children in failing government schools – because she wants the money from the teachers’ union.</div>
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Hillary Clinton supports Obamacare, and wants to expand it – Obamacare is an absolute disaster. Premiums in Colorado are set to go up another 20 percent – the only way to stop this disaster is to vote Trump.</div>
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Hillary Clinton also supports the terrible trade deals, like Bill Clinton’s NAFTA and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization – and next she wants the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the deal she calls the “Gold Standard.”</div>
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Colorado has lost more than 1 in 7 manufacturing jobs since the NAFTA and China deals.</div>
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But while you’ve lost out, Hillary Clinton has raked in cash from her contributors. She and Bill have made $150 million in speeches to special interests. They gave 39 speeches to Big Banks, including $2 million in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs. And never forget Hillary’s deal that allowed Russia to get 20% of America’s uranium.</div>
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To hide her corruption, Hillary Clinton put her emails on an illegal secret server open to foreign hacking. Then she deleted and bleached 33,000 emails – after a congressional subpoena — to hide them from the public. She lies to Congress, under oath, and her staffers took the fifth amendment and got immunity deals. It’s worse than Watergate.</div>
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The investigation of Hillary Clinton was rigged, and it’s a shame, and it’s one of the saddest things that have ever taken place in our nation.</div>
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We have become a Banana Republic.</div>
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Now, today, we learned, that the FBI made a side deal with Clinton’s top aides to DESTROY their laptops.</div>
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Hillary Clinton is the ringleader of a criminal enterprise that has corrupted our government at the highest levels, and the American people have one chance to stop it – by showing up and voting on November 8<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span>.</div>
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People have had it with the years, the decades of Clinton Corruption.</div>
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Now, another issue I want to address today is immigration. Colorado is filled with wonderful hardworking immigrants. It is these hardworking immigrants who stand to lose the most from our open borders immigration policy.</div>
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Illegal immigration, and broken visa programs, take jobs directly from Hispanic workers living here lawfully today.</div>
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Illegal immigration also brings with it massive crime, and massive drugs – including a terrible heroin problem right here in Colorado.</div>
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We are going to build a border wall, and we are going to stop the drugs, gangs and the violence from pouring into Colorado.</div>
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I've been curious about why FBI director James Comey reached the decision he did based on the evidence he described. For example, it's unbelievable that although Hillary destroyed 30,000 emails that, by statute, should have been public records, in such a way that they could never be recovered, in a scenario when she had violated several national security statutes, and this is not considered obstruction of justice.<br />
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I was also curious about why Comey, the #2 Justice Department official under George Bush, would be appointed FBI director by Barack Obama.<br />
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So I looked into Comey's background. The Wikipedia entry is pretty straightforward, except it doesn't mention the Clinton Foundation connections to the companies Comey worked for. He left DOJ to become General Counsel for Lockheed Martin, and then left Lockheed to become General Counsel at Bridgewater, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, where he made <a href="http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2013-06-19-Comey-James-B-OGE-Form-278-New-Entrant-Financial-Disclosure-Year-2012-submitted-06-19-2013-Office-of-Government-Ethics-Jun-19-2013.pdf" target="_blank">over $33 million</a> in 2012 alone. In 2013 Obama appointed him head of the FBI.<br />
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This stuff is more corrupt than a Robert Ludlum novel.<br />
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<b>James Brien Comey, Jr.</b> (born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer. He is the seventh and current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation">Director</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>.</div>
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He was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Deputy_Attorney_General" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United States Deputy Attorney General">United States Deputy Attorney General</a>, serving in President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>'s administration. As Deputy Attorney General, Comey was the second-highest-ranking official in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> (DOJ) and ran the day-to-day operations of the Department, serving in that office from December 2003 through August 2005. He was <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Attorney_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a> prior to becoming Deputy Attorney General.</div>
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In December 2003, as Deputy Attorney General, Comey appointed the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, close friend and former colleague <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Fitzgerald" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Patrick Fitzgerald">Patrick Fitzgerald</a>, as Special Counsel to head the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_leak_grand_jury_investigation" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="CIA leak grand jury investigation">CIA leak grand jury investigation</a> after Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="John Ashcroft">John Ashcroft</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuse" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Recuse">recused</a> himself. In August 2005, Comey left the DOJ and he became General Counsel and Senior Vice President of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lockheed Martin">Lockheed Martin</a>. In 2010, he became General Counsel at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Associates" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bridgewater Associates">Bridgewater Associates</a>. In early 2013, he left Bridgewater to become Senior Research Scholar and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hertog" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Roger Hertog">Hertog</a> Fellow on National Security Law at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Columbia Law School">Columbia Law School</a>. He also joined the London-based board of directors of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC_Holdings" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="HSBC Holdings">HSBC Holdings</a>. In 2013, Comey was appointed as the director of the FBI by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>.</div>
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One <a href="http://americans4innovation.blogspot.com/2016/04/hillary-server-gate-covered-up-by-fbi.html" target="_blank">web page</a> summarized the situation as follows:<br />
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<em style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 22.176px;">The FBI and Justice Department have stubbornly refused to prosecute heinous criminal acts of the Obama Administration. They include Benghazi, Fast and Furious gun running, Hillary’s private server, 2008 bank bailout, social networking patent theft, illegal NSA snooping, energy company subsidies, IRS targeting of conservatives, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) confiscations, baby parts trafficking, LIBOR rigging, open borders, overstayed visas of more than one million people, religious persecution and so on.</em></div>
jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230134365600629201.post-88644099101449965412016-07-05T13:26:00.001-07:002016-07-05T13:26:43.969-07:00More equal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZJ2ZfeFnsMMDTG6eR99SCHNmx3_Ttp2WAQnbMzy9VT11mCxvOVo0LOkv7dCqF_s8xfhWmV7eQ_tLF5m2iqyidm5DK-TwioAyYWzbxIJN877yephruaqKev_dsABHMBRtLPtXROX2N4w/s1600/all_animals_are_equal_but_some_animals_are_more_equal_than_others.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZJ2ZfeFnsMMDTG6eR99SCHNmx3_Ttp2WAQnbMzy9VT11mCxvOVo0LOkv7dCqF_s8xfhWmV7eQ_tLF5m2iqyidm5DK-TwioAyYWzbxIJN877yephruaqKev_dsABHMBRtLPtXROX2N4w/s320/all_animals_are_equal_but_some_animals_are_more_equal_than_others.jpg" width="320" /></a>Orwell said it best in Animal Farm:<br />
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Peak FBI Corruption? Meet Bryan Nishimura, Found Guilty For "Removal And Retention Of Classified Materials"</h1>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3;">In a scandalous announcement, FBI director James Comey moments ago said that "</span><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information" </strong><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3;">and he gave extensive evidence of just that, </span><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"our judgment is that <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case</span>." </strong><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3;">He added that "prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">especially regarding intent</strong></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3;">. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past."</span></div>
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What is shocking is that the FBI director was clearly ignoring the US code itself, where in Section 793, subsection (f),"Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information", it makes it quite clear that intent is not a key consideration in a case like this when deciding to press charges, to wit:</div>
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What is even more shocking is that according to Comey, "<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts."</em></div>
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman immediately sentenced Nishimura to two years of probation, a $7,500 fine, and forfeiture of personal media containing classified materials. Nishimura was further ordered to surrender any currently held security clearance and to never again seek such a clearance.</div>
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According to court documents, Nishimura was a Naval reservist deployed in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008. In his role as a Regional Engineer for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Nishimura had access to classified briefings and digital records that could only be retained and viewed on authorized government computers. <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nishimura, however, caused the materials to be downloaded and stored on his personal, unclassified electronic devices and storage media. He carried such classified materials on his unauthorized media when he traveled off-base in Afghanistan and, ultimately, carried those materials back to the United States at the end of his deployment. In the United States, Nishimura continued to maintain the information on unclassified systems in unauthorized locations, and copied the materials onto at least one additional unauthorized and unclassified system</strong>.</div>
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This case was the product of an investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Jean M. Hobler prosecuted the case</div>
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Here is Nishimura, this man charged after committing the same crimess as Hillary:</div>
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It doesn't end there.</div>
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Here is former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker who told CNBC moments ago, that in his view Comey should have brought charges as "<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he seemed to be building a case for that and he laid out what I thought were the elements under the gross negligence aspect of it, so I was very surprised at the end when he said that there was a recommendation of no prosecution and also given the fact-based nature of this and the statement that no reasonable prosecutor would entertain prosecution<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">, I don't think that's the standard</span></strong>."</div>
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His conclusion: "<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The facts are the facts, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">and in this case I think there are a lot of things that are very unusual about this</span>.</strong>"</div>
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And then there is Ian Bremmer who said that "it's very clear that in trying to make it go away actually <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lied, repeatedly</strong>, about whether or not these materials were classified at the time. And it's the cover up frequently that gets people in trouble, it's not the actual misdeed. This was very badly mishandled by Hillary all the way through."</div>
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But then she got some much needed help from the FBI to complete the cover up.</div>
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In retrospect, perhaps former Attorney General Eric Holder said it best when he justified with the US DOJ simply refuses to bring up criminal cases against those it deems "too big to prosecute": </div>
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And just like that, Hillary is "systemically important", if mostly for her countless Wall Street donors.</div>
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Trump: "I want to secure the border and follow immigration laws."</div>
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Trump: "I want to make good trade deals to bring jobs back to America."</div>
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The article describes how Trump fought the establishment in Palm Beach because he allowed Jews and Blacks into his club when they were barred from other clubs. </div>
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James Taranto at the Wall St. Journal gives an excellent run-down of the latest Orwellian move by the federal government <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/benghazi-without-the-shame-1466441599" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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It’s a leap year, which means it’s even more important than usual for the Obama administration to deny the threat of Islamic terrorism. In September 2012, it fell to Susan Rice, then ambassador to the U.N., to make the rounds on the Sunday-morning talk shows and peddle the falsehood that the attack at Benghazi, Libya, was just a high-spirited reaction to an amateur video.</div>
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Yesterday—a week after the biggest terror attack on American soil since 9/11—the Rice role fell to Attorney General <a class="icon none" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/06/19/lynch_partial_transcript_of_orlando_911_calls_will_have_references_to_isis_cut_out.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Loretta Lynch</a>. This time, the administration didn’t even bother pretending it was going to tell the truth.</div>
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There’s no mystery here; it’s been widely reported (including by the <a class="icon none" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/06/14/fbi-director-orlando-shooting-probe-also-looks-backward-into-agency-files-on-shooter/?utm_term=.ad1d9e3ec451" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>) that the attacker pledged allegiance to the Islamic State—though the second “pledge” in this transcript appears to refer to a man, perhaps the one known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.</div>
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So why the censorship? We can understand withholding the audio, lest ISIS incorporate it into its own audiovisual propaganda. But the Mad Libs blanks are easy enough to fill in. Indeed, the transcript as released is an invitation to <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">any </em>terrorist group to insert its name and take “credit” for the attack. (Update: Within hours after this column’s publication, the FBI and DOJ <a class="icon none" href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/joint-statement-justice-department-and-fbi-regarding-transcript-related-orlando-terror-attack" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reversed course</a> and released the full transcript.)</div>
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It seems clear the administration’s purpose here is not to frustrate terrorist propaganda but to further <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">its own </em>propaganda. As with Benghazi, a terror attack on President Obama’s watch could imperil Democratic prospects in November. Thus the administration has been at pains to pin the Orlando attack on armed Americans, not Islamic terrorism.</div>
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In public, Obama himself has consistently refused to acknowledge the reality of Islamic terror—even though, as we <a class="icon none" href="http://bit.ly/2660LJ0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">learned last week</a> from the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, in private he acknowledges the truth. And many in the news media have played along with the official lie.</div>
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Here’s the headline from a Friday story from the <a class="icon none" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article84490037.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">McClatchy Washington Bureau</a>: “Mateen Had a Troubled Past. Why Isn’t That the Story?” Usually the purpose of a headline is to tell the reader what the story <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is,</em> but McClatchy is using it to express its dissatisfaction with other media outlets for hewing insufficiently closely to the administration’s version of events.</div>
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The cognitive dissonance occasioned by the administration’s official posture of denying that Islamic terrorism is Islamic is perhaps most vividly illustrated by the headline on a local story in <a class="icon none" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/nyregion/orlando-killings-rob-young-new-york-muslims-of-a-cherished-holiday-respite.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Saturday’s Times</a>: “Orlando Killings Rob Young New York Muslims of a Cherished Holiday Respite.” How could that be if, as Mrs. Clinton has insisted, Muslims “have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism”?</div>
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But this is the American myopia. They think of the three million Muslims in America—who are by the way the lucky ones because they can come out of the closet or they can elope with someone who’s not of their faith. Or they can leave the religion. Or they can draw a cartoon without getting killed.</blockquote>
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This is not the case for so many millions of Muslims around the world. Where are the liberals to stand up for them? The people who could not abide by apartheid for one second, somehow when it comes to gender apartheid which is in so many countries around the world they are not to be heard. It is a liberal cause, or it should be. There are millions and millions of Muslims who are gay around the world who have no one to stand up for and I didn’t hear it this week.</blockquote>
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Something is very wrong with the government and the news media when Bill Maher is a voice of sanity. The same can be said of Donald Trump.</div>
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