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Subject : THIS IS WHAT A PLUTOCRACY LOOKS LIKE: The Twin
Curses of Capitalist Exploitation - Catastrophic Climate Change & Hysterical
Militarism.
5 October 2017
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
The form of government in the United States today
is a plutocracy, and it has been for
a long time. No one should be shocked by the removal of the proverbial mask of hypocrisy. We get what we see and, indeed, it is quite ugly. The poverty, the wars, the
cynical exploitation of ‘careers open to talent’ play
out in a quicksand of desperate inequalities.
In the 18 items below we
continue the third part of our conversation about “the conditions that have
created a submissive population in the face of the awesome violence of war,
inequality, and global climate catastrophe.” The episodes of mercenary
interventions and suicide missions abound in this climate where human life has
been so devalued. The challenge before us all is to somehow contribute to an aesthetics of resistance, a way of life
by which we manifest an understanding of the present-day class struggles evincing our collective hope
for a better future through fulfillment of the human potentials we see around
us in our everyday lives.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor emeritus of American
Studies
University Grenoble-Alpes
Director of Research
University of Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced Study of
American Institutions and Social Movements
The University of California-San
Diego
a.
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20131:New-Study-Says-Extreme-Climate-Change-Preventable
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b.
The US Economy Is Failing
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47916.htm
by Paul Craig Roberts
Do
the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page editors read their own
newspaper?
The
front-page headline story for the Labor Day weekend was “Low Wage Growth
Challenges Fed.” Despite an alleged 4.4% unemployment rate, which is full
employment, there is no real growth in wages. The front page story pointed out
correctly that an economy alleged to be expanding at full employment, but
absent any wage growth or inflation, is “a puzzle that complicates Federal
Reserve policy decisions.” On the editorial page itself, under “letters to the
editor,” Professor Tony Lima of California State University points out what I
have stressed for years: “The labor-force participation rate remains at
historic lows. Much of the decrease is in the 18-34 age group,
while participation rates have increased for those 55 and older.” Professor
Lima points out that more evidence that the American worker is not in good
shape comes from the rising number of Americans who can only find part-time
work, which leaves them with truncated incomes and no fringe benefits, such as
health care.
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c.
The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary
Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll
by Nick Turse
“I
think that when Americans talk about the Vietnam War … we tend to talk
only about ourselves. But if we really want to understand it … or try to answer
the fundamental question, ‘What happened?’ You’ve got to triangulate,” says filmmaker Ken Burns of his celebrated PBS
documentary series “The Vietnam War.” “You’ve got to know what’s going on. And
we have many battles in which you’ve got South Vietnamese soldiers and American
advisors or … their counterparts and Vietcong or North Vietnamese. You have to
get in there and understand what they’re thinking.”
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d.
Pilger Criticizes Ken Burns’s ‘The Vietnam War’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47954.htm
For decades, the U.S. mainstream media
has shied away from a clear-eyed view of the Vietnam War, not wanting to offend
the war’s apologists, a residue of which tainted the recent PBS series, as John
Pilger told Dennis J Bernstein.
Ken
Burns’s 18-hour documentary on the Vietnam War, which
aired on PBS and BBC, presented extraordinary footage of the war’s grotesque
brutality but also soft-pedaled the motivations of U.S. policymakers as
well-meaning albeit misguided, or as the prologue put it, a conflict begun in
“good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings.” This glossing
over of U.S. neocolonialism and its deadly consequences angered John Pilger, who cut his journalistic teeth covering the Vietnam
War for a decade. I spoke to Pilger after he watched
the first couple of hours of the highly touted series.
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e.
The Facts About U.S. War On Vietnam
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47921.htm
Films By John Pilger
None of these films
was shown in the USA.
1.
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
http://johnpilger.com/videos/vietnam-the-quiet-mutiny
Following
its screening on ITV, Walter Annenberg, the American ambassador to London,
complained to the ITA, the commercial channel’s regulator.
2.
Do You Remember Vietnam?
http://johnpilger.com/videos/do-you-remember-vietnam-
1978. Three years after the fall of
Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime.
3.
Heroes
http://johnpilger.com/videos/heroes
1981. The shabby treatment of returning
combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated.
4.
Vietnam: The Last Battle
http://johnpilger.com/videos/vietnam-the-last-battle
In 1975, John Pilger
reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where
the last American troops fled from the roof-top helicopter pad. He was made
Journalist of the Year and International Reporter of the Year for his reporting
of the Vietnam War over a period of almost ten years.
In 1995’s ‘Vietnam: The Last Battle’, Pilger returns
to Vietnam to review those twenty years, seeking to rescue something of
Vietnamese past and present from Hollywood images which pitied the invader
while overshadowing one of the most epic struggles of the 20th century.
And with the embargo on the country now lifted by President Clinton, he
describes Vietnam's latest battle against the economic plunder of the country
by the United States and other powerful countries.
5.
The Real First Casualty of War
By John Pilger
This is an abridged version of an
address, "Reporting War and Empire", by John Pilger
at Columbia University, New York, in company with Seymour Hersh,
Robert Fisk and Charles Glass
Censorship by journalism is virulent in
Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for
people in faraway countries.
During the 1970s, I filmed secretly in Czechoslovakia, then a Stalinist
dictatorship. The dissident novelist Zdenek Urbánek told me, "In one respect, we are more
fortunate than you in the west. We believe nothing of what we read in the
newspapers and watch on television, nothing of the official truth. Unlike you,
we have learned to read between the lines, because real truth is always
subversive."
This acute scepticism,
this skill of reading between the lines, is urgently needed in supposedly free
societies today. Take the reporting of state-sponsored war. The oldest cliché
is that truth is the first casualty of war. I disagree. Journalism is the first
casualty. Not only that: it has become a weapon of war, a virulent censorship
that goes unrecognised in the United States, Britain
and other democracies; censorship by omission, whose power is such that, in
war, it can mean the difference between life and death for people in faraway
countries, such as Iraq.
As a journalist for more than 40 years,
I have tried to understand how this works. In the aftermath of the US war in
Vietnam, which I reported, the policy in Washington was revenge, a word
frequently used in private but never publicly. A medieval embargo was imposed
on Vietnam and Cambodia; the Thatcher government cut off supplies of milk to
the children of Vietnam. This assault on the very fabric of life in two of the
world's most stricken societies was rarely reported; the consequence was mass
suffering.
It was during this time that I made a
series of documentaries about Cambodia. The first, in 1979, Year Zero: the
silent death of Cambodia, described the American bombing that had provided a
catalyst for the rise of Pol Pot, and showed the
shocking human effects of the embargo. Year Zero was broadcast in some 60
countries, but never in the United States. When I flew to Washington and
offered it to the national public broadcaster, PBS, I received a curious
reaction. PBS executives were shocked by the film, and spoke admiringly of it,
even as they collectively shook their heads. One of them said: "John, we
are disturbed that your film says the United States played such a destructive
role, so we have decided to call in a journalistic adjudicator."
The term "journalistic
adjudicator" was out of Orwell. PBS appointed one Richard Dudman, a reporter on the St Louis Post-Dispatch, and one
of the few westerners to have been invited by Pol Pot
to visit Cambodia. His despatches reflected none of
the savagery then enveloping that country; he even praised his hosts. Not
surprisingly, he gave my film the thumbs-down. One of the PBS executives
confided to me: "These are difficult days under Ronald Reagan. Your film
would have given us problems."
The lack of truth about what had really
happened in south-east Asia - the media-promoted myth of a "blunder"
and the suppression of the true scale of civilian casualties and of routine
mass murder, even the word "invasion" - allowed Reagan to launch a
second "noble cause" in central America. The target was ano-ther impoverished nation without resources: Nicaragua,
whose "threat", like Vietnam's, was in trying to establish a model of
development different from that of the colonial dictatorships backed by
Washington. Nicaragua was crushed, thanks in no small part to leading American
journalists, conservative and liberal, who suppressed the triumphs of the
Sandinistas and encouraged a specious debate about a "threat".
The tragedy in Iraq is different, but,
for journalists, there are haunting similarities. On 24 August last year, a New
York Times editorial declared: "If we had all known then what we know now,
the invasion [of Iraq] would have been stopped by a popular outcry." This
amazing admission was saying, in effect, that the invasion would never have
happened if journalists had not betrayed the public by accepting and amplifying
and echoing the lies of Bush and Blair, instead of challenging and exposing
them.
We now know that the BBC and other
British media were used by MI6, the secret intelligence service. In what was
called "Operation Mass Appeal", MI6 agents planted stories about
Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction - such as weapons hidden in his
palaces and in secret underground bunkers. All these stories were fake. But this is not the point. The point is that the dark
deeds of MI6 were quite unnecessary. Recently, the BBC's director of news,
Helen Boaden, was asked to explain how one of her
"embedded" reporters in Iraq, having accepted US denials of the use
of chemical weapons against civilians, could possibly describe the aim of the
Anglo-American invasion as to "bring democracy and human rights" to
Iraq. She replied with quotations from Blair that this was indeed the aim, as
if Blair's utterances and the truth were in any way related. On the third
anniversary of the invasion, a BBC newsreader described this illegal,
unprovoked act, based on lies, as a "miscalculation". Thus, to use
Edward Herman's memorable phrase, the unthinkable was normalised.
Such servility to state power is hotly
denied, yet routine. Al-most the entire British media has omitted the true
figure of Iraqi civilian casualties, wilfully
ignoring or attempting to discredit respectable studies. "Making
conservative assumptions," wrote the researchers from the eminent Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, working with Iraqi scholars,
"we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more, have happened since
the 2003 invasion of Iraq . . . which were pri marily the result of military
actions by coalition forces. Most of those killed by coalition forces were
women and children . . ." That was 29 October 2004. Today, the figure has
doubled.
Language is perhaps the most crucial
battleground. Noble words such as "democracy",
"liberation", "freedom" and "reform" have been
emptied of their true meaning and refilled by the enemies of those concepts.
The counterfeits dominate the news, along with dishonest political labels, such
as "left of centre", a favourite given to
warlords such as Blair and Bill Clinton; it means the opposite. "War on
terror" is a fake metaphor that insults our intelligence. We are not at
war. Instead, our troops are fighting insurrections in countries where our
invasions have caused mayhem and grief, the evidence and images of which are
suppressed. How many people know that, in revenge for 3,000 innocent lives
taken on 11 September 2001, up to 20,000 innocent people died in Afghanistan?
In reclaiming the honour
of our craft, not to mention the truth, we journalists at least need to
understand the historic task to which we are assigned - that is, to report the
rest of humanity in terms of its usefulness, or otherwise, to "us",
and to soften up the public for rapacious attacks on countries that are no
threat to us. We soften them up by dehumanising them,
by writing about "regime change" in Iran as if that country were an
abstraction, not a human society. Hugo Chávez's
Venezuela is currently being softened up on both sides of the Atlantic. A few
weeks ago, Channel 4 News carried a major item that might have been broadcast
by the US State Department. The reporter, Jonathan Rugman,
the programme's Washington correspondent, presented Chávez as a cartoon character, a sinister buffoon whose
folksy Latin ways disguised a man "in danger of joining a rogues' gallery
of dictators and despots - Washington's latest Latin nightmare". In
contrast, Condoleezza Rice was given gravitas and Donald Rumsfeld was allowed
to compare Chávez to Hitler.
Indeed, almost everything in this
travesty of journalism was viewed from Washington, and only fragments of it
from the barrios of Venezuela, where Chávez enjoys 80
per cent popularity. That he had won nine democratic elections and referendums
- a world record - was omitted. In crude Soviet flick style, he was shown with
the likes of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, though these brief encounters
had to do with Opec and oil
only. According to Rugman, Venezuela under Chávez is helping Iran develop nuclear weapons. No evidence
was given for this absurdity. People watching would have no idea that Venezuela
was the only oil-producing country in the world to use its oil revenue for the
benefit of poor people. They would have no idea of spectacular developments in
health, education, literacy; no idea that Venezuela has no political jails -
unlike the United States.
So if the Bush administration moves to
implement "Operation Bilbao", a contingency plan to overthrow the
democratic government of Venezuela, who will care, because who will know? For
we shall have only the media version; another demon will get what is coming to
him. The poor of Venezuela, like the poor of Nicaragua, and the poor of Vietnam
and countless other faraway places, whose dreams and lives are of no interest,
will be invisible in their grief: a triumph of censorship by journalism.
It is said that the internet offers an
alternative, and what is wonderful about the rebellious spirits on the
worldwide web is that they often report as many journalists should. They are
mavericks in the tradition of muckrakers such as Claud
Cockburn, who said: "Never believe anything until it has been officially
denied." But the internet is still a kind of samizdat, an underground, and
most of humanity does not log on, just as most of humanity does not own a
mobile phone. And the right to know ought to be universal. That other great
muckraker, Tom Paine, warned that if the majority of the people were being
denied the truth and ideas of truth, it was time to storm what he called the
"Bastille of words". That time is now.
This is an abridged version of an
address, "Reporting War and Empire", by John Pilger
at Columbia University, New York, in company with Seymour Hersh,
Robert Fisk and Charles Glass
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f.
Russia-gate’s Shaky Foundation
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/29/russia-gates-shaky-foundation/
by Daniel Herman
The
Russia-gate hysteria now routinely includes rhetoric about the U.S. being at
“war” with nuclear-armed Russia, but the shaky factual foundation continues to
show more cracks, as historian Daniel Herman describes.
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g.
Whose Bright Idea Was RussiaGate?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47952.htm
by Paul Craig Roberts
The
answer to the question in the title of this article is that Russiagate
was created by CIA director John Brennan. The CIA started what is called Russiagate in order to prevent Trump from being able to
normalize relations with Russia. The CIA and the military/security complex need
an enemy in order to justify their huge budgets and unaccountable power. Russia
has been assigned that role. The Democrats joined in as a way of attacking
Trump. They hoped to have him tarnished as cooperating with Russia to steal the
presidential election from Hillary and to have him impeached. I don’t think the
Democrats have considered the consequence of further worsening the relations
between the US and Russia. Public Russia bashing pre-dates Trump. It has been
going on privately in neoconservative circles for years, but appeared publicly
during the Obama regime when Russia blocked Washington’s plans to invade Syria
and to bomb Iran. Russia bashing became more intense when Washington’s coup in
Ukraine failed to deliver Crimea. Washington had intended for the new Ukrainian
regime to evict the Russians from their naval base on the Black Sea. This goal
was frustrated when Crimea voted to rejoin Russia.
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h.
Cracks in Dollar Are Getting Larger
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47927.htm
By James Rickards
Many readers are familiar with the original petrodollar deal
the U.S made with Saudi Arabia. It was set up by
Henry Kissinger and Saudi princes in 1974 to prop up the U.S. dollar. At the
time, confidence in the dollar was on shaky ground because President Nixon had
ended gold convertibility of dollars in 1971. Saudi Arabia was receiving
dollars for their oil shipments, but they could no longer convert the dollars
to gold at a guaranteed price directly with the U.S. Treasury. The Saudis were secretly
dumping dollars and buying gold on the London market. This was putting pressure
on the bullion banks receiving the dollar. Confidence in the dollar began to
crack. Henry Kissinger and Treasury Secretary William Simon worked out a plan.
If the Saudis would price oil in dollars, U.S. banks would hold the dollar
deposits for the Saudis.
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The End of Empire
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47936.htm
by Chris Hedges
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Israelis
Speak Candidly to Abby Martin About Palestinians
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47951.htm
(Must
Watch)
In several candid interviews, disturbing comments reveal commonly-held
views about Palestinians and their future in the region.
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A Crash Course on the True Causes of “Anti-Semitism”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47931.htm
by The
Saker
This is a topic which has had so much
written about it that you could fill an entire city library with books entirely
dedicated to this topic. Marx took a shot at it.
As did Sartre.
There were, of course, also plenty of good books written on this topic, but
rather than list them all, I want to suggest a few simple common sense points
and then go to what I consider an authoritative explanation of this thing we
call “antisemitism” and which, of course, has nothing
to do with Semites.
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How
I Got Fired
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47942.htm
by
Philip Giraldi
Exposing Jewish power in America has
real consequences
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Roger Waters Targeted In Smear Campaign Over Palestine Advocacy
http://www.mintpressnews.com/roger-waters-targeted-in-smear-campaign-over-palestine-advocacy/232764/
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UN Takes
First Step To End Israel’s Impunity
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47913.htm
by Ali Abunimah
UN officials are finally moving to hold
Israel accountable for breaking international law, though they are facing
fierce resistance from Israel and its allies. “After decades of Palestinian
dispossession and Israeli military occupation and apartheid, the United Nations
has taken its first concrete, practical step to secure accountability for
ongoing Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights,” said Omar
Barghouti, a founder of the boycott, divestment and
sanctions (BDS) movement. “Palestinians warmly welcome this step.” On
Wednesday, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported that
the UN’s human rights office began sending letters to some 150 companies around
the world warning them that they may be added to a database of firms doing
business with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East
Jerusalem. This week Nickolay Mladenov,
the top UN political official in Jerusalem, told the UN
Security Council that “Israel’s illegal settlement activities
have continued at a high rate” in gross breach of UN resolutions. There is
a growing legal
consensus that international law requires governments to
prohibit all trade with the settlements.
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Why Won't
US Media Tell the Truth About
What's
Happening in Venezuela?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47926.htm
by Justin Podur
A
Washington-sponsored opposition bent on regime change threatens a fragile
democracy.
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Spanish Police Attack Voters During
Catalan Independence Vote
Mayor
of Barcelona and others called for Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to resign in the wake of police violence against
Catalonia citizens during Sunday's vote, in which 90% voted in favor of
independence
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From: "Mark Crispin
Miller" <markcrispinmiller@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 4 October, 2017
Subject: A public inquiry into the massacre
in Vegas, "questions that need answers" !
The summary below was
posted on “Godlike Productions,” by a Scottish blogger who calls himself
"the Original Mind."
MCM
From "the Original
Mind":
I have compiled a list of
unanswered questions concerning the shooting in Las Vegas.
I am not claiming this
attack was a false flag, that there were multiple shooters, that
ISIS or Antifa were behind
- or, in general, anything. There are questions that need
answers, and so far the answers
haven't been provided.
Maybe there are easy and obvious answers to these questions. If you have
any
information that helps answer them,
please post.
If you have other unanswered questions and if you have pertinent sources,
please
let me know and I'll update
the OP.
- The Original Mind
THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
(1) THE SHOOTER
a. Why would an old, retired, drunken, multi-millionaire gambler with no
clear political or religious ideology and motive plan and then execute the most
expensive, complex, and effective mass shooting attack in US history?
- Source (Stephen Paddock): [link
to www.zerohedge.com]
- Source (the expense and complexity of the attack): [link
to www.thegatewaypundit.com]
- Source (drunk in casinos): [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
b. So far, four motives have been attributed to the shooter: ISIS
affiliation (below), Antifa affiliation (below),
gambling losses, and a psychological break, i.e. he "snapped." This
was an expensive, carefully planned, resource intensive,
and premeditated event. Is this consistent with a man who simply
"snapped"?
- Source: [link
to www.dailymail.co.uk]
- Source (expense and prep): [link
to www.thegatewaypundit.com]
c. There are reports that the shooter converted to Islam several months
prior to the attack. ISIS has officially claimed responsibility for the attack,
in spite FBI denials. Did the shooter convert? Was ISIS involved? What is the
FBI's assessment based on?
- Source: [link
to sputniknews.com (secure)]
- Source: [link
to www.washingtonexaminer.com]
- Source: [link
to www.cbsnews.com (secure)]
- Source: [link
to pjmedia.com (secure)]
- Source: [link
to twitter.com (secure)]
- Source (FBI denial): [link
to www.sfgate.com]
- Source (ISIS calls him Abu Abdul Bar al-Amriki): [link
to pjmedia.com (secure)]
- ISIS doubles down on responsibility: [link
to www.thegatewaypundit.com]
d. There have been reports that the shooter and his girlfriend, Marilous Danley (surname
from a her second marriage), were seen in
the Middle East. Were they ever there?
- Source: Thread:
Active Shooters at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas possibly at Harvest Festival (Page
135)
- Source: [link
to twitter.com (secure)]
e. There have been reports that the shooter and his girlfriend attended Antifa and anti-Trump events in the United States and
possessed Antifa literature. Antifa
in Melbourne, Australia initially claimed responsibility for the attack and
called the shooter their "brother." Was the shooter and/or his
girlfriend affiliated with Antifa? Was Antifa involved in the attack?
- Source: [link
to streamable.com (secure)]
- Source: [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
- Source (Antifa): Thread:
A Summary of Unanswered Questions Concerning the Las Vegas Shooting (fully
updated and reformatted OP, 10/3) (Page 2)
- Source (Antifa FB post): [link
to ibb.co (secure)]
- Source: [link
to twitter.com (secure)]
- The girlfriend is of Indonesian and Australian origin: [link
to www.zerohedge.com]
- Personally, I'm not persuaded that this footage shows Paddock.
- The attack was claimed by Antifa in Melbourne,
Australia. The wife has a connection to Australia. Is there a broader
Australian connection here?
f. Did the shooter commit suicide or was he shot? There are conflicting
reports.
- Source: Fat Man.
g. The shooter recently in the week before the shooting
wired $100,000 to the Philippines, where his girlfriend has family and now
resides. Why?
- Source: [link
to twitter.com (secure)]
- Source (time of transfer): [link
to www.nbcnews.com (secure)]
- What $100k will get you in the Philippines: [link
to www.investopedia.com]
h. There is evidence the shooter used to work at Lockheed Martin and NASA.
Was the shooter a government employee of any sort?
- Source: [link
to www2.jpl.nasa.gov (secure)]
- Did he work for the FBI? [link
to imgur.com (secure)]
(2) THE GIRLFRIEND
a. Marilou Danley has
variously been reported as in custody, in the Philippines, and in Tokyo. Where
is she and what accounts for the conflicting reports? If she is outside the
country, when did she leave?
- Source: Fat Man.
- Source (custody): [link
to imgur.com (secure)]
- Source (Tokyo): Tucker on Fox.
- Source (Manila, Philippines via Hong Kong): [link
to news.abs-cbn.com]
- UPDATE: It now appears to be confirmed that Marilou Danley left the US on
Sept 25 and traveled to Manila, Philippines via Hong Kong. She arrived on Oct
1. [link to
www.nbcnews.com (secure)]
b. Marilou Danley's
husband or ex-husband is (allegedly) 76 year old Geary Danley.
His Facebook account is rife with Leftist ideology,
dozens upon dozens of "likes" of every Leftist and anti-Trump group
imaginable, including ShareBlue and most importantly,
Rubicon Training Group, a gun training and gun course
company. Geary has knowledge of and a proclivity for guns, as a careful reading
of his FB will reveal. Paddock and Geary Danley share
one degree of separation. Even though Geary supposedly lives in Arkansas,
public records reveal he has a decades-long history of living in the state of
Nevada. Was he involved in any capacity?
- Source: Thread:
Is the Vegas shooting a BLACK OP or Occult sacrifice? [Thread will curate all
known facts & links]
- Source (alleged facebook page): [link
to www.facebook.com (secure)]
- Evidence of marriage to Geary Danley taken
(allegedly) from Ancestry.com: Thread:
Active Shooters at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas possibly at Harvest Festival (Page
185)
- Marilou used two SSNs while in the US and was
married to two men at the same time, and with Paddock: [link
to www.newsweek.com]
c. What happened to Marilou Danley's
(alleged) first husband, Alberto Busto, a filipino who
she married in 1996, and who are the Ali and Zafar
Busto linked on her facebook (her sons?)? Ali and Zafar are Arabic names, and possibly indicate she and/or
her husband converted to Islam and her son or sons are Muslims, probably living
in the Philippines. Did Paddock visit her son or sons with Marilou?
Did they see Paddock as a target for radicalization because of his reported
isolation from family and any friends, maybe some resentment at something they
saw they could work on?
- The girlfriend's facebook page: [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
- The girlfriend is of Indonesian Filipino and Australian
origin: [link
to www.zerohedge.com]
- Evidence of marriage to Alberto Busto and Filipino ancestry taken (allegedly)
from Ancestry.com: Thread:
Active Shooters at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas possibly at Harvest Festival (Page
185)
- Information about Marilou's past in Australia, and
her two marriages: [link
to www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au]
d. Marilou left the US on Sept 25 and arrived in
Manila, the Philippines, on Oct 1. Paddock rented the Vista suite on Sept 28.
Sometime between Sept 24 and Oct 1, he wired $100k to Marilou's
bank in Manila. Was Marilou aware of the impending
attack?
- Source (Marilou and $100k): [link
to www.nbcnews.com (secure)]
- Source (Paddock renting the room): [link
to www.dailymail.co.uk]
(3) THE EQUIPMENT
a. The shooter used at least two fully automatic rifles (modded).
He had no military or militia background. How did he get them and if he modded them himself, how did he do it?
- Source (modified automatics): [link
to www.cnn.com]
- Source (no military background): [link
to www.dailymail.co.uk]
- He may have used a crank to obtain automatic firing rates: [link
to www.usatoday.com (secure)]
- First image of the automatic rifle: [link
to www.express.co.uk (secure)]
- Another picture of the weapons: [link
to prnt.sc (secure)]
- And another: [link
to twitter.com (secure)]
- Descriptions of the weapons: Thread:
Active Shooters at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas possibly at Harvest Festival (Page
182) and Thread:
A Summary of Unanswered Questions Concerning the Las Vegas Shooting (fully
updated and reformatted OP, 10/3) (Page 9)
- Some rifles are easy to convert to automatic with the help of cheap parts and
youtube videos.
b. The shooter had 19-23 guns in the room and another 20 or so at home. He
had 10 bags sent to his room containing thousands of rounds of ammunition. The
automatic rifles were set up on "racks" or "platforms." He
had surveillance equipment set up outside his room to watch for the police, and as-yet unidentified electronic
devices a camera set up in his room to record the shooting. He had
parts to make explosives, including ammonium nitrate (used by McVeigh), and
possibly also bombs. His house was apparently a prepper's
paradise. How and why did he acquire all this equipment?
- Source: [link
to www.thegatewaypundit.com]
- He also had equipment to make a bomb: [link
to dailycaller.com]
- List of his equipment, both in the hotel and at home: [link
to www.novinky.cz (secure)]
- The automatic rifles were set up in "racks" inside the windows: [link
to www.novinky.cz (secure)]
- He had 10 bags with him - that's a lot of ammo! Thread:
cnn just said he had 10 suitcases for his 17 guns and thousands of rounds
- Source (number of weapons): [link
to www.rt.com (secure)]
- Source (number of weapons): [link
to www.thedailybeast.com (secure)]
- Source (surveillance equipment and camera): [link
to nypost.com (secure)]
c. How did he get ammonium nitrate, the same chemical McVeigh used in OKL?
- Source: [link
to www.novinky.cz (secure)]
(4) THE ATTACK
a. The official story is that the attack was launched from a "Vista
Suite" on the northeast corner of the Mandalay Bay Hotel's northernmost
"wing." Two windows were broken with a hammer in the 32nd floor,
two-bedroom suite. Automatic scoped rifles were then set up on racks or
platforms in each of these windows, and the shooter alternated between these
rifles for 17 9 minutes of total fire time in a roughly 70
minute period. Why would the shooter alternate between two rooms? Were there
multiple shooters?
- Source (room 32135): [link
to www.cnn.com]
- Source (two windows): [link
to www.dailymail.co.uk]
- Source (tripods): [link
to www.usatoday.com (secure)]
- Source (two bedroom suite): [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)] (festival site visible around 1:08)
- Source (multiple shooters): [link
to www.naturalnews.com (secure)]
- Report of man in neighboring room claiming there were multiple
shooters: Thread:
Accounts from the guy next door.. multiple shooters and security killed on
floor 32.
- Source (10 minutes of shooting): [link
to www.today.com (secure)]
- Source (72 minutes of shooting): [link
to www.dailymail.co.uk]
- Suggestion of multiple shooters from multiple locations on police scanner:
(full) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)] (edited) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
- Switching guns would be useful to prevent overheating. Overheating might be a
concern given the duration of his attack.
- UPDATE: At the press conference on 10/3, the Vegas
Sheriff stated that the shooter fired for 9 minutes, confirming early reports.
Hence, given that it took the police 72 minutes to enter the room, we can
conclude that the shooter fired for 9 out of ~72 minutes. That's a lot of dead
time.
- Reconstructed timeline: [link
to www.usatoday.com (secure)]
b. There were in excess of 600 casualties total. At
the range the shooter was at (400-600 yards), this might seem excessive,
particularly in 17 minutes of firing. Could his automatic rifle do that damage
at that range in that time? How could he hit so many people at that range
without any weapons experience?
- Source (distance): Google Earth (draw a line from the shooter's location on
the northeast corner of the hotel at 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119
to the near and far edges of the festival location at 3901 S Las Vegas Blvd,
Las Vegas, NV 89119)
- Most rifles can do this sort of damage at this range, and it might be easy to
hit people in a crowd of 22,000. Source: Thread:
Active Shooters at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas possibly at Harvest Festival (Page
141)
c. He booked two rooms under his girlfriend's name. Why? Where was the
second room, if there was one?
- Source: [link
to www.dailymail.co.uk]
- Source (two rooms): [link
to www.thegatewaypundit.com]
- Evidence of more rooms being used on multiple floors on police scanner:
(full) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)] (edited) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
- Evidence of several sets of broken windows in various locations around the
hotel: [link
to imgur.com (secure)] and [link
to imgur.com (secure)]
d. There is footage of muzzle flare from the ~4th floor. Was the shooting
coming from the 32nd or the 4th, or both?
- Source: [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
- Source: [link
to mobile.twitter.com (secure)]
- Source (4:57): [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
- Comprehensive source: [link
to www.zerohedge.com]
- Source (police scanner): (full) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)] (edited) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
- Plus, there doesn't seem to be muzzle flare from the 32nd floor on the
videos.
- However, against this is a report on the police audio which states the light
from the 4th floor is a strobe light: (full) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)] (edited) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
- This Fox video shows a flashing light on the same floor, suggesting the light
wasn't a second shooter: [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
e. Why did it take police officers 72 minutes to locate him after the first
911 call came through? Did police know after only 5 minutes where the
shots were coming from?
- Source: [link
to www.dailymail.co.uk]
- Source (knowing after 5 minutes): (full) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)] (edited) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
f. Some sources claim the exits to the festival venue were blocked. Were the
exits blocked, and if so why?
- Source: [link
to www.naturalnews.com (secure)]
g. What happened to the security officer who was reported as shot in the leg
on the police scanner?
- Source: (full) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)] (edited) [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
(5) OTHER QUESTIONS
a. Some have questioned the sincerity of the shooter's brother's emotions in
this interview. Is there something suspicious about his behavior?
- Source: [link
to www.youtube.com (secure)]
b. A "Hispanic" lady was seen at the festival ~45 minutes before
the event saying people would die. The shooter's Asian girlfriend looked
somewhat Hispanic. Was it her, or an as-yet
unidentified woman?
- Source: [link
to youtu.be (secure)]
- Source: [link
to www.express.co.uk (secure)]
- Source: [link
to www.naturalnews.com (secure)]
- Source (picture of Asian girlfriend): [link
to www.dailymail.co.uk]
- The Hispanic lady was about a foot taller than his girlfriend, suggesting it
wasn't her 45 minutes before the attack.
c. Is it coincidence that there's a DHS training event in Vegas?
- Source: Thread:
DHS "Training" in Las Vegas Oct 1-5, New Metal Detectors Installed in
Mandalay last year...
d. Did the shooter go through the new metal detectors at the Mandalay Hotel?
- Source: Thread:
DHS "Training" in Las Vegas Oct 1-5, New Metal Detectors Installed in
Mandalay last year...
e. Did housekeeping check his room while he was there? What did they find?
- Source (suggests they did): [link
to www.cnn.com]
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Original Mind on 10/03/2017 09:55 PM
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Are You Ready to Die?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47934.htm
by Paul Craig
Roberts
Glenn
Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the
fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic
name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked
21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media. The propagandists running Homeland
Security were contradicted by the state governments, forcing Homeland Security
to retract its fake news claims.
The
unasked/unanswered question is why did Homeland Security put out a FAKE NEWS
story? Greenwald explains that the US media is so conditioned by the National
Security State to see Russian President Putin lurking behind and masterminding
attacks on America that it is “now religious dogma”—a requirement—to find
Russian perfidy everywhere. The result Greenwald correctly says is that “an
incredibly reckless, anything-goes climate prevails when it comes to claims
about Russia. Media outlets will publish literally any official assertion as
Truth without the slightest regard for evidentiary standards.”
In other
words, the United States no longer has a media. It has a propaganda ministry for the military/security complex, the neoconservatives, and
the Israel Lobby. And the idiot Americans sit in front of the TV and absorb the
propaganda, and they read the New York Times and think that they are
sophisticated and in the know.