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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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?”

Berto Jongman: Project Censored 2014

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency, Media
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group–a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff–has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship.

Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-13

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

Berto Jongman: Time to Reassess Goals of Humanitarian Aid

01 Poverty, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

It's time to reassess the goals of humanitarian aid

Those caught in conflict and natural disasters are part of growing trend exemplified by Syria, South Sudan and the Philippines

David Miliband

The Guardian, 28 February 2014

For the first time the UN has declared three simultaneous crises – in South Sudan, Syria and the Philippines – as level 3, the highest band of emergency. So this is a period of intense activity for NGOs such as the International Rescue Committee. But it is also a good time to reflect on the goals and working methods of the humanitarian system.

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Winslow Wheeler: Chuck Hagel on the A-10 – Without a Clue or Without Scruples?

Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military
Winslow Wheeler
Winslow Wheeler

Pierre Sprey and I have authored an analysis of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's statements this past Monday on the A-10.  It follows:

Chuck Hagel's A-10 Legacy

By Winslow T. Wheeler & Pierre M. Sprey

When he spoke about next year's defense budget on February 24, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel addressed his decision to go along with the Air Force and retire all existing A-10 close air support aircraft.  In that statement, he made the following assertions:

·         “To fund these investments [the new long range bomber, the new tanker and the F-35], the Air Force will reduce the number of tactical air squadrons including the entire A-10 fleet. Retiring the A-10 fleet saves $3.5 billion over five years and accelerates the Air Force's long-standing modernization plan – which called for replacing the A-10s with the more capable F-35 in the early 2020s.”

·         “The ‘Warthog' is a venerable platform, and this was a tough decision. But the A-10 is a 40-year-old single-purpose airplane originally designed to kill enemy tanks on a Cold War battlefield. It cannot survive or operate effectively where there are more advanced aircraft or air defenses. And as we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan, the advent of precision munitions means that many more types of aircraft can now provide effective close air support, from B-1 bombers to remotely piloted aircraft. And these aircraft can execute more than one mission.”

·         “Moreover, the A-10's age is also making it much more difficult and costly to maintain. Significant savings are only possible through eliminating the entire fleet, because of the fixed cost of maintaining the support apparatus associated with the aircraft. Keeping a smaller number of A-10s would only delay the inevitable while forcing worse trade-offs elsewhere.”

Many of these statements are questionable; several are poorly informed; at least one of them is materially incorrect. 

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SchwartzReport: Fortune 500 Companies Receive $63 Billion in Subsidies (Not Counting Hundreds of Billions in Tax Avoidance)

Commerce, Corruption, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

We have 17 million kids who aren't getting proper nutrition, because we have no money to feed them — so we are told — but we have enough money to give the richest most profitable corporations in the country $63 billion in subsidies. Our Congress is immoral down to its roots. This story should outrage you.

Fortune 500 Companies Receive $63 Billion in Subsidies

DAVID SIROTA – Pandodaily

Remember when President Obama was lambasted for saying ‘you didn’t build that”? Turns out he was right, at least when it comes to lots of stuff built by world’s wealthiest corporate behemoths. That’s the takeaway from a new study of 25,000 major taxpayer subsidy deals over the last two decades.

Entitled ‘Subsidizing the Corporate One Percent,” the report from the taxpayer watchdog group Good Jobs First shows that the largest corporations in the world aren’t models of self-sufficiency and unbridled capitalism. To the contrary, they continue to receive tens of billions of dollars in government handouts. Such subsidies might be a bit more defensible if they were being doled out in a way that promoted upstart entrepreneurialism. But as the study also shows, a full ‘three-quarters of all the economic development dollars awarded and disclosed by state and local governments have gone to just 965 large corporations” – not to the small businesses and startups that politicians so often pretend to care about.