Owl: Crimean Tatars — Long Genocided by Russia — Threaten Jihad

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Genocide, 09 Terrorism, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military
Who?  Who?
Who? Who?

Tatars comprise 12% of Crimean population, and they are are real badasses with a lot of jihadis, and will be a major component in a volatile mix over there.

Phi Beta Iota: Tatars have been subject to genocide by the Russians for a very long time. They are a wild card, but the Russians have probably planned for this minority as a  threat.

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Ukraine @ Phi Beta Iota

Berto Jongman: Six Ukraine Videos CENSORED in the USA

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Videos From Ukraine that The U.S. Media Will Never Show You

The Sugar coated story that the U.S. media has been feeding the public is completely out of sync with the events unfolding on the ground in Ukraine. Here are six videos that you'll never see aired on the mainstream news.

LIST:

1. Ukrainian “protesters” setting fire to police officers

2. “Freedom fighters” brutally beat man with batons while he is down

3. Literal Neo-Nazis openly marking  through Kiev displaying their emblems

4. Alexander Muzychko vows to fight “against Jews communists, and Russian scum” for as long as he lives.

5. Muzychko brandishing an Ak-47 in parliament and letting them know who is in charge

6. Right sector members saluting Nazi style and shout nationalist slogans like “Glory to the nation! Death to enemies!” “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”

Access all six videos free online.

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Gladio B @ Phi Beta Iota

Ukraine @ Phi Beta Iota

Mini-Me: Hillary Clinton is NOT a Moron — She Just Thinks YOU Are…Clinton Compares Putin to Hitler

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War
Who?  Mini-Me?
Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

Hillary Clinton compares Putin moves to Hitler's: Report

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has compared Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent steps in Ukraine to aggression by Adolf Hitler in 1930s Nazi Germany, a local paper reported.

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Owl: Wayne Madsen on Top UK Pedophiles — Could Pedophilia be Catalyst for Revolution in UK and US?

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Officers Call
Who?  Who?
Who? Who?

Wayne Madsen: Operation Spade Catching Bigger Pedo Fish in UK Government – Crimea Connection?

Madsen's comments on this story have explosive implications – will the veil finally be lifted revealing many of the 1% of the 1% are pedophles?

“UK Prime Minister's adviser on combating online child porn arrested for possession of child porn. Get ready for the pedo lobby to claim that would-be Lord, Patrick Rock, was “conducting research.” Operation SPADE now engulfs Cameron, along with Merkel's government and US Sen. Lamar Alexander. This story is only going to get bigger. And Azov Films used Crimea as a filming center. What will Russian troops uncover there in the way of evidence?”

SchwartzReport: US Atrocity – Debtor Prisons, Offender-Funded “Probation” Industry

01 Poverty, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Law Enforcement
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I find it hard to believe the United States is bringing back debtor prisons, but that appears to be the case, as reported in the Guardian, arguably the best and most independent newspaper in the English language. The elimination of debtor prisons was something the Founders took as a very serious goal for their new country. So much for the Founders, they are trumped by the new private for-profit prison trend.

Thrown in Jail for Being Poor: the Booming For-profit Probation Industry
LAUREN GAMBINO – The Guardian (U.K.)/ The Associated Press

Many poor Americans face jail when they can’t pay steep fines for nonviolent crimes, like $1,000 for stealing a $2 beer

Daniel Ellsberg: US Culture of Secrecy & Security Overreach

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg

Q&A: Daniel Ellsberg on US surveillance

The famed American whistle-blower discusses US national security, and those who expose its overreach.

Sadie Luetmer

Al Jazeera, 24 February 2014

Huntingdon, United States – In 1971, US military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked thousands of pages of a top-secret study on the Vietnam War to the American press. The Pentagon Papers, as the leak would come to be called, revealed previously shrouded layers of deception on the part of the US executive branch regarding decades of military involvement in Indochina.

The famed whistle-blower has since remained active politically, and is a vocal supporter of WikiLeaks and other government challengers such as Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning and Edward Snowden. US Army Private Manning leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, and was convicted in 2013 of violating the Espionage Act.

 

Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg

Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, released classified documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in 2013, and is currently residing in Russia.

Citing a wide array of historical and contemporary American intelligence programmes and policies, Ellsberg advocates critical consideration of the privacy needs of a free press and an active citizenry.

Nearing 83 years old, Ellsberg's political energy shows no sign of atrophy. He spoke to Al Jazeera after giving a speech at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Al Jazeera: For a lot of Americans it seems obvious that national security requires secrecy, but you have described some of the dangers of “secrecy culture”. Why is secrecy culture problematic?

Daniel Ellsberg: “Well I certainly don't take the point of view that no secrecy is justified, or that national security never required secrecy. For example, in the Second World War, the time and place of the Normandy invasion was a very well kept secret, and moreover secured by lies as well as secrecy. It's an interesting example, by the way – which people often bring up – because, of course, the necessary secrecy for that date and place expired rather rapidly in the course of June 1944. And yet, my guess is that there still are thousands of pages, perhaps more, tens or hundreds of thousands, that are still classified from that period. I could be wrong, by this time maybe it's all been declassified; but it could have all been declassified certainly by 1946-47, and was not until many years later, if ever.

“Most of the documentation still called classified by this country, and I'm talking now about billions and billions of pages, most of that has long ago lost any justification for being held secret from the American people. The need is generally measured more in weeks, months, or a year or two, and yet it remains classified indefinitely. Why?

“Really, if you want to know the answer to that, my best guess as someone who worked inside the system, is that they never know what part of that may become embarrassing at some point in the future. What prediction will turn out to look absurd? Not merely wrong, but discreditable. What action may appear as part of the programme that all in all is unconstitutional, or illegal? What policy will appear to have been not only unsuccessful, but undertaken for unjustifiable, self-interested motives? It's very hard to predict that, so simply keep it all secret, if possible, forever.”

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SchwartzReport: Colorado Communities Declare State and Federal Governments Failures (Corrupt) Seek Self-Governance

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here is some excellent news. I hope this initial story becomes a trend. You can help make that happen.

Colorado Community Rights Network Files Constitutional Amendment To Secure the Right to Community Self-Government Free from State Preemption
BEN PRICE – Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

DENVER — The Colorado Community Rights Network (COCRN) has submitted to the state for review and comment the language for a Community Rights Constitutional Amendment to be placed on the 2014 ballot. The significance of the proposed state constitutional amendment was explained by COCRN member, Cliff Willmeng:

‘Communities throughout Colorado and across the country are finding that, in the face of corporate exploitation, they don’t have full authority, due to state preemption, to protect public health, safety and welfare, economic and environmental sustainability, property value, and overall quality of life. To do so without repeated challenges from corporate lawyers and our own state requires changes to our structure of law. The Community Rights Amendment would codify into law the right to local self-government, enabling local governments to define fundamental rights and prohibit activities that violate those rights.”

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