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WikiLeaks Releases Secret Saudi Documents
by Stephen Lendman
The more we learn about the secret workings of despotic regimes and faux democracies like America, Britain and Israel among others, the better we understand how they extrajudicially serve powerful monied interests at the expense of popular ones.
On Friday, WikiLeaks began releasing around half a million Saudi documents - including Foreign Ministry communiques and top secret intelligence and interior ministry reports. An initial 70,000 documents were released with much more to come. The organization said information learned shows how Riyadh "managed its alliances and consolidated its position as a regional Middle East superpower (because of its immense oil wealth), including through bribing and co-opting key individuals and institutions."
Netanyahu's Latest Demagoguery
by Stephen Lendman
He's a world-class thug heading Israel's most extremist government ever - a ruthless apartheid regime on steroids holding millions of Palestinians hostage under brutal military occupation.
His agenda is hugely repressive. He's ideologically over-the-top. His style features demagogic fear-mongering. It wore thin long ago.
He remains prime minister only because multi-party Israeli elections always result in coalition governance. His Likud party got only 25% support in last March's elections (30 Knesset seats out of 120) - for sure no mandate.
He rails against opponents. He rejects the slightest criticism of Israeli policy - especially anything related to ruthless Palestinian persecution including genocidal wars.
He called largely tepid Ban Ki-moon criticism of harm committed against Palestinian children in last summer's Gaza war "a dark day for the UN."
He repeated the same old Big Lies he blustered many times before blaming Hamas unjustifiably for premeditated Israeli aggression - killing over 2,200 Palestinians (mostly civilians), including nearly 600 children and 300 women, wounding over 11,000 more, as well as leaving large parts of Gaza in ruins to this day, its 1.8 million population trapped under lawless siege.
Presstitute Media Support Anti-Consumer Fast Track Authority
by Stephen Lendman
It's easy knowing where corporate media stand on fast track and anti-consumer, environmentally destructive, jobs killing trade bills. They one-sidedly support power, profits and privilege. Popular interests be damned.
Instead of explaining harmful trade bills and outlandish fast track authority Obama wants to ram them through Congress irresponsibly, media scoundrels support passing what demands denunciation.
In mid-May, New York Times editors urged passing TPP and TTIP (Trans-Pacific Partnership and its counterpart Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).
They lied claiming both bills are beneficial "in areas like labor standards and environmental protection…"
Israeli Smear Campaign Against Forthcoming UN Report on Gaza War
by Stephen Lendman
On Sunday, Israel released its own distorted version of events during last summer's 51 day Gaza war. The whole world knows it was premeditated naked aggression.
Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) co-founder, physician, political activist and human rights champion Mustafa Barghouti separated myths from reality throughout weeks of carnage.
Hamas didn't start war, he explained. Israel bears full responsibility - 1.8 millions Gazans continue being brutalized under siege. They're being suffocated.
"Entire neighborhoods were completely eliminated last summer in 24 hours," Barghouti said. Dozens of families threatening no one were annihilated to the last man, woman, child and infant. Eight hospitals were attacked. So were clinics, ambulances and healthcare workers. UN refuges were considered legitimate targets.
How Obama’s ‘Trade’ Deals Are Designed to End Democracy
Eric Zuesse
U.S. President Barack Obama has for years been negotiating with European and Asian nations — but excluding Russia and China, since he is aiming to defeat them in his war to extend the American empire (i.e, to extend the global control by America’s aristocracy) — three international ‘trade’ deals (TTP, TTIP, & TISA), each one of which contains a section (called ISDS) that would end important aspects of the sovereignty of each signatory nation, by setting up an international panel composed solely of corporate lawyers to serve as ‘arbitrators’ deciding cases brought before this panel to hear lawsuits by international corporations accusing a given signatory nation of violating that corporation’s ‘rights’ by its trying to legislate regulations that are prohibited under the ’trade’ agreement, such as by increasing the given nation’s penalties for fraud, or by lowering the amount of a given toxic substance that the nation allows in its foods, or by increasing the percentage of the nation’s energy that comes from renewable sources, or by penalizing corporations for hiring people to kill labor union organizers — i.e., by any regulatory change that benefits the public at the expense of the given corporations' profits. (No similar and countervailing power for nations to sue international corporations is included in this: the ‘rights’ of ‘investors’ — but really of only the top stockholders in international corporations — are placed higher than the rights of any signatory nation.)
Dirty Fast Track Authority Politics
by Stephen Lendman
On June 12, House members rejected fast track Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) by a convoluted process explained in a previous article.
It involves combining TPA with Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) authorizing funding programs for workers displaced by jobs-killing imports. Voting down one measure defeats them both - at least that's how it's supposed to work.
House members overwhelmingly defeated TAA by a 176 vote margin rendering their separate earlier approval of TPA meaningless. Obama and corporate lobbyists don't quit easily.
On June 18, House members narrowly approved TPA separately in a second vote. Global Trade Watch director Lori Wallach explained a "procedural gimmick to punt Fast Track…back to the Senate."
Uncivilized Western Civilization
by Stephen Lendman
So-called Western civilization should terrify everyone. It’s a monster threatening life on earth.
Policy agendas pursue destructive objectives benefitting monied interests at the expense of all others - no matter how much human suffering is caused.
Endless wars of aggression target independent countries threatening no one - glorified in the name of peace, supported by echo chamber media scoundrels profiting by spreading Big Lies.
Mass murder is called humanitarian intervention. Western-style democracy is code language for control, plunder and exploitation.
We the people ain't ordinary folks. Powerful, corrupted elites in charge want whole continents carved up for profit. They want their resources stolen, their people exploited, fundamental freedoms eliminated to crush dissent.
Cellphones, Flouride and Your Brain ... Connect the Dots
Disclaimer: This article is really sketchy. I'm posting it despite my reservations because aspects of it are fascinating and may encourage further investigation. Please trust your own judgment and do more research.
I question most everything in this article: the references to Andrija Puharich, the "pendulum expert", the "extraterrestrials", and also the "vaccine implants", nature of GWEN etc.
It's hard to find answers about these things!
But, here are a few things I have learned:
Andrija Puharich was a brilliant but questionable (even sinister) character. I include him in a special category with other shadowy types such as Steven Greer, Ingo Swann, Courtney Brown, Timothy Leary, and Thomas Bearden and many, many more. You really can't trust these guys.
Some are probably aware that they spread disinformation, while others naively let themselves be used as "assets". Maybe they were just really brilliant guys and going down the rabbit hole screwed them up too much. Often they are sort-of in-the-military, but also sort-of not-in-the-military. They may dabble in drugs or the occult. They may be interested in mind control. They may seem to work for the government and also against the government.
Sometimes they are being duped and used by nonhuman entities. Andrija Puharich was influenced by such entities. These beings have had many names: aliens, spirits, Etherians, Extraterrestrials, etc. I prefer to identify them as Jinn.
In modern times we naively assume that these beings come from other planets, but they've always visited us and they come from another "dimension" or "space" that is a part of this world we call Earth.
The entities may pretend that they come from another planet. Or they may refer to themselves as Space beings. "Space" doesn't necessarily mean the "Outer Space" of NASA. "Space" is also defined as: "the unlimited expanse in which everything is located", or "the boundless regions of the infinite". Well, that pretty much includes everything -- including those realms and dimensions which modernized western society is amazingly ignorant about. Seems like those jinn are having another big laugh at our expense. They do that all the time.
The jinn are quite often tricksters and liars. Some are demonic and like to frighten or debase and corrupt. They have free will like humans, so they can range from good to bad. However, the ones who confuse and mess around with us aren't likely to be good. The best approach is to avoid them. They love to pose as gods or masters-of-the-universe and create followings. They often make predictions (which don't come true). They are channeled by people who are willing to go into a trance and let strange, unknown entities take over their bodies and minds.
In the case of Andrija Puharich the entities were called "The Nine".
The extraterrestrials mentioned in this article were undoubtedly jinn.
There really is no such thing as a "pendulum expert". Pendulums can't be trusted for consistent, truthful or scientific responses.
I'm posting this article despite serious reservations. Please trust your better judgment and do more research!! ~~Lydia http://www.bariumblues.com/index.htm
Senator Lindsey Graham is an Idiot
Michael Collins
CNN interviewed Senator Lindsey Graham (R ) of South Carolina on the propriety of continuing to fly the Confederate flag in front of the state capitol. Many have called on the state to take down the flag as a show of respect for the nine victims of alleged killer Dylann Storm Roof, the 22 year old killer with a clear affinity for the flag and other racist symbols. Graham’s responses are telling. (Image: AK Rockefeller)
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN: Is it time to stop flying the Confederate flag?
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Well, at the end of the day, it’s time for the people of South Carolina to revisit that decision, would be fine with me but this is part of who we are.” CNN, June 20
What could Graham mean by “this is part of who we are”? Is he referring to the people of South Carolina. Blacks comprise 30% of the state’s population. The Confederate flag is hardly who they are. Is he referring to the state’s white majority? Do all white South Carolinians think of the flag as who they are?
Syriza: Plunder, Pillage and Prostration (How the ‘Hard Left’ embraces the policies of the Hard Right)
James Petras
Introduction
Greece has been in the headlines of the world’s financial press for the past five months, as a newly elected leftist party, ‘Syriza’, which ostensibly opposes so-called ‘austerity measures’, faces off against the “Troika” (International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and European Central Bank).
Early on, the Syriza leadership, headed by Alexis Tsipras, adopted several strategic positions with fatal consequences - in terms of implementing their electoral promises to raise living standards, end vassalage to the ‘Troika’ and pursue an independent foreign policy.
We will proceed by outlining the initial systemic failures of Syriza and the subsequent concessions further eroding Greek living standards and deepening Greece’s role as an active collaborator of US and Israeli imperialism.
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