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David Swanson: The Revolution Note Being Televised (US Protesters Going to Jail)

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
David Swanson
David Swanson

The Revolution That's Not Being Televised

Hundreds gathered in Dallas to reject the Bush Lie Bury, and three went to jail.  I flew from Dallas to Syracuse, where hundreds protested Obama's drone-murder program, and 32 went to jail and are still there (and will stay until trial unless bail can be raised) — some of them risk major jail time because they violated a protective order that the commander of a U.S. military base gained to protect himself from nonviolent peace activists.  Another drone protester in Missouri, Brian Terrell, is just finishing a six-month sentence.  Climate activist Tim DeChristopher just got out.  The people locked in Guantanamo are refusing to eat, and groups around the world are making plans to fast with them.  The people of Vieques are rallying on May 1st to demand that the U.S. military truly depart their island.  Big plans are being made to rally for Bradley Manning on June 1st.  This week I'm heading to the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee's meeting in North Carolina, after which — just over in Tennessee — three courageous activists go on trial, facing major time in prison, for having entered and protested a nuclear weapons facility.

The revolution will not be televised.

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Chuck Spinney: Iraq Army Losing North, Partition Being Discussed

09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

The author of the attached report, Patrick Cockburn, is one of very best reporters reporting on the Middle East, and perhaps the most knowledgeable on Iraq.  This is a very important report, in my opinion.

Partition could really have a destabilizing influence on the entire Arab region, but especially Syria, as well as non-Arab Turkey.  The neocon (and Israeli) dream enhancing Israeli security by breaking up the Muslim state system into a directionless mass of insecure weak warring statelets may well be on its way to fruition.  Next stop – Iran????

Chuck Spinney
Marina di Ragusa, Sicilia

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Iraqi army losing hold on north to Sunni and Kurdish rebels as troops desert

Patrick Cockburn

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Soldiers are deserting a beleaguered Iraqi army as it struggles to keep its hold on the northern half of Iraq in the face of escalating hostility from Sunni Arabs and Kurds who dominate in the region.

Around the oil city of KirkukKurdish troops have advanced south to take over military positions abandoned by the army, while in Baghdad senior Iraqi politicians say that for the first time there is talk of partitioning the country.

The current crisis was sparked on 23 April when the Iraqi army attacked a sit-in protest in the Sunni Arab town of Hawijah, killing at least 50 people and injuring 110. Outraged Sunni Arab protesters have since stepped up their demonstrations against the Shia-led government. Demonstrators are increasingly protected by armed men, some of whom are accused of dragging five military intelligence soldiers in civilian clothes from a car that came near a protest in Fallujah and killing them.

There are signs that the Iraqi army can no longer cope with a crisis in which it is confronting both Sunni Arabs and Kurds.Many soldiers prefer to desert the army rather than shoot at protesters said Najmaldin Karim, the Kurdish Governor of Kirkuk, where Hawijah is situated, in an interview with The Independent. Most deserters are Sunni, Mr Karim said, but he added that some are Shia who don’t want to fight in strange places for something they don’t believe in. 

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Zahir Ehrahim: A Note on the Mighty Wurlitzer: Anatomy of Modern Propaganda Techniques

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Media, Officers Call
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A Note on the Mighty Wurlitzer: Anatomy of Modern Propaganda Techniques

Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org

Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, began his seminal 1928 book simply titled Propaganda, with these ominous words:

‘The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.' — Edward Bernays, 1928, pg.1, Propaganda

Aldous Huxley, on the 30th anniversary of his own seminal 1931 allegorical novel Brave New World, made the following dreadful observations in the very opening segment of his talk on the Ultimate Revolution upon which mankind and modernity are perilously perched:

‘You can do everything with bayonets except sit on them! If you are going to control any population for any length of time you must have some measure of consent. It's exceedingly difficult to see how pure terrorism can function indefinitely. It can function for a fairly long time, but I think sooner or later you have to bring in an element of persuasion. An element of getting people to consent to what is happening to them. Well, it seems to me that the nature of the Ultimate Revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: that we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably always will exist, to get people actually to love their servitude! This is the, it seems to me the ultimate in malevolent revolution shall we say.' — Aldous Huxley, 1962 speech at UC Berkeley, minute 04:06

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DefDog: Self-Inflicted Terror – An Illustrated Essay About Boston, NATO, & the USA

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Blog Wisdom, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, DHS, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Media, Military
DefDog
DefDog

For reflection — a number of well-sequenced photographs are included.  Concludes that only three people actually died across entire event, virtually all those injured were actors.

‘The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.  Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an
invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.' — Edward Bernays, 1928, pg.1, Propaganda

Domestic Terror and Police-State

Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org

April 18, 2013 | Last updated April 28, 2013 01:32 am

Reflections of a tired activist

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Berto Jongman: ‘Lost’ report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide 25 April 2013

01 Brazil, 06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Military
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

‘Lost’ report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide 25 April 2013

A shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ in a fire.

The Figueiredo report was commissioned by the Minister of the Interior in 1967 and caused an international outcry after it revealed crimes against Brazil’s indigenous population at the hands of powerful landowners and the government’s own Indian Protection Service (SPI). The report led to the foundation of tribal rights organization Survival International two years later.

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The 7,000-page document, compiled by public prosecutor Jader de Figueiredo Correia, detailed mass murder, torture, enslavement, bacteriological warfare, sexual abuse, land theft and neglect waged against Brazil’s indigenous population. Some tribes were completely wiped out as a result and many more were decimated.

The report was recently rediscovered in Brazil’s Museum of the Indian and will now be considered by Brazil’s National Truth Commission, which is investigating human rights violations which occurred between 1947 and 1988.

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Other examples include the poisoning of hundreds of Indians with sugar laced with arsenic, and severe methods of torture such as slowly crushing the victims’ ankles with an instrument known as the ‘trunk’.

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SchwartzReport: EU Set to Pan Pesticides Harmful to Bees

01 Agriculture, 11 Society, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Government

schwartz reportFinally, we may have some good news about the bees. It's not a done deal yet, but it looks possible. It appears that whereas the American Congress, captured as it is by corporate forces, cares nothing for facts concerning the crisis of the bees, the EU has begun to recognize officially what is happening with these small creatures upon whom our wellbeing depends. And they are seem to be willing to do something about it — ban the insecticides that a growing body ! of research say are at least a major cause of the problem.

EU Set To Ban Pesticides Blamed for Decline of Bees: Source
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Eagle: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists May Look at Corrupt Judges in Foreclosure Cases, Beginning in Maryland

03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

This study and a wide variety of email and wiki posts may be a tipping point that puts the full weight of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists into the battle against corrupt judges in the pockets of the banks — specifically, judges that have been ruling against individual home owners being illegally foreclosed, refusing to grant their motions for presentation of the actual mortgage document.  Despite laws being passed that demand exactly that, the judges are being paid to ignore those laws.

Here is the 357 page PDF, one of the most viewed documents (top 5%) on LinkedIn.

Dr. Richard Cordero Esq Memorandum of 23 April 2013 with attachments

Earlier Supporting Study PDF 348 pages):

Exposing Judges' Unaccountability and Consequent Riskless Wrongdoing

 

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