Bulletin N° 872
The Truman Show
https://putlocker.10s.live/movie-free-the-truman-show-1998.html
(1h 43min)
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The Truman Show
Deleted Scene – “Growing Suspicious”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDGmZ1VQtsw&feature=youtu.be
(4:23)
A 1998 American
science fiction comedy drama film directed by Peter Weir, produced by Scott
Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, and Adam Schroeder, and written by
Niccol. It depicts the awakening from a lifetime of alienation.
Subject
: The Capitalist Conspiracy, Part 8 :
Neoliberalism is breaking the back of Social Democracy and resolving ‘Zeno’s
Paradoxes’.
December
29, 2019
Grenoble,
France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Toward
the end of his book, Tragedy
& Hope 101 : The Illusion of Justice, Freedom and Democracy
(2016), Joseph Plummer submits historic case studies, as evidence to support
his claims: 1) that there exists a secret political “Network” whose members
believe they have a right to rule society; 2) that by controlling policy
and public perception, they have the ability to rule; and 3) that
because of their power within the political system, their crimes are rarely
exposed and never properly punished.(p.125)
Plummer
refers to the use of secret operations under the direction of the Third Reich
as prototypes for U.S. secret operations that have been used throughout the
world since the Second World War.
Adolf
Hitler’s Operation Himmler provides a good example. It consisted of a series of
false-flag operations, each designed to create the appearance of Polish
aggression against Germany. One way the Nazis achieved this was by taking
prisoners from concentration camps, dressing them in German uniforms, and then
killing them on the Polish frontier. These ‘dead Germans’ were later used by
Hitler as a justification for attacking Poland in 1939.
. . .
While false flags are commonly
used as a pretext for war, they can also be used by leaders to justify
silencing dissent, suspending civil liberties, and seizing additional power.
Again, we can turn to Adolf Hitler for an example. Prior to the German election
of March 5, 1933, the Nazi Party had done all it could to weaken and disrupt
opposing political parties, but despite their best efforts, it appeared as if
the Nazis would still face stiff competition at the polls. Here, Quigley
describes how they dealt with this problem:
Under
circumstances which are still mysterious, a plot was worked out to burn the
Reichstag building and blame the Communists. . . After the building was set on
fire. . . the government at once arrested four Communists, including the party
leader in the Reichstag. The day following the fire Hindenburg, the president
of Germany signed a decree suspending all civil liberties and giving the
government power to invade any personal privacy, including the right to search
private homes or confiscate property. At once all Communists members of the
Reichstag, as well as thousands of others, were arrested. . . The true story of
the Reichstag fire was kept secret only with difficulty. Several persons who
knew the truth. . . were murdered in March and April to prevent their
circulation the true story. Most of the Nazis who were in on the plot were
murdered by Goring during the ‘blood purge’ of June 30, 1934.
Both
Operation Himmler and the plot to burn the Reichstag provide straightforward
examples of false-flag operations, but other variations do exist. For instance,
sometimes the act of aggression and subsequent casualties are completely
fabricated.(pp.
163-165)
The
first case study he examines occurred during the Kennedy administration, in
1962. Operation Northwood was the
code name of the proposed False Flag operation against the Cuban government
that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, under General Lyman L. Lemnitzer (1899-1988), Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and later promoted to Supreme
Allied Commander of NATO. The proposals called for the Central
Intelligence Agency or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of
terrorism against military targets and give the appearance of terrorism against
American citizens, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify
a war against Cuba. This document was presented by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (1916-2009) on 13 March 1962 as a
preliminary submission for planning purposes. The Joint Chiefs of Staff
recommended that both the covert and overt aspects of any such operation be
assigned to them. (Plummer, pp.125-132; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods,
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Lemnitzer.)
At
the end of this section, Plummer comments,
When
I first read Operation Northwoods, I was still . . . terribly naïve.
. . .
It
was as if deception, murder, and even treason were all acceptable just
so long as the crimes were committed at the behest of the most powerful members
of society. It didn’t look anything like the ‘justice, freedom, and democracy’
that I learned about in school. And as I dug deeper, it only got worse . .
.much worse.(p.131)
Plummer
goes on to describe the secret paramilitary organization that was organized at
the end of WW II. Known as NATO’s “stay-behind army,” this motley group of
former Fascists, mercenaries, and religious anti-Communists were recruited by
the U.S. military and the CIA to engage in assassinations, sabotage, and other
strategic terrorist activities beginning at the time of the reconstruction of
the European political economies.
In
1998, Daniele Ganser was looking for a PhD research topic, and, against the
advice of his friends and professors, he decided to tackle the gigantic task of
unraveling ‘Operation Gladio.’ Beginning with a single document that proved the
CIA and NATO created a secret terrorist army in Italy, he embarked on a
four-year investigation that uncovered an additional fifteen secret
armies in NATO countries and four more that were created in neutral countries.(p.132)
Gladio’s
network of secret armies engaged in ‘unorthodox warfare’ under NATO command.
They operated not only in all sixteen NATO countries during the Cold War, but
also within the neutral counties of Sweden, Finland, Austria, and Switzerland.
The existence of these armies was kept hidden from all but a handful of
government personnel within each country. Ganser writes:
The
secret armies were equipped by the CIA and the MI6 with machine guns,
explosives, munitions and high-tech communication equipment. . . Leading
officers of the secret network trained together with US Green Berets. . . and the British SAS Special Forces. . . The
secret armies, as the secondary sources now available suggest, were involved in
a whole series of terrorist operations and human rights violations that they
wrongly blamed on the Communists in order to discredit the left at the polls.
The operations always aimed at spreading maximum fear among the population and
ranged from bomb massacres in trains and market squares (Italy), the use of
systematic torture of opponents on the regime (Turkey), the support for
right-wing coups d’états (Greece and Turkey), to the smashing of opposition
groups (Portugal and Spain).
Though
these secret armies were allegedly created to protect the Western European
democracies from Soviet invasion, they were instead used to interfere with the
democratic process whenever the electorate threatened to vote contrary to the
Network’s desires. This dual policy (claiming to protect national sovereignty
and democracy, while simultaneously working to undermine it) was apparently
outlined in a secret NATO document dating back to 1949. The document stated
that before a nation could join NATO, it had to agree to remain aligned with
the ‘West’ regardless of what the electorate of the nation wanted.
Another top-secret NATO document went further. If the citizens within a nation
became so fed up with their puppet NATO leadership that they rose up against
it, the US military would come in and suppress the uprising, even if that meant
acting without the consent of the national government itself.
There
are many very disturbing things about Operation Gladio, but perhaps the most
disturbing is that the CIA and NATO managed to keep it secret for so long.
Despite a long list of murders and atrocities committed by the armies, and by
ruthless regimes that the armies supported, both the operation and its
architects remained hidden for more than forty years. It wasn’t until 1990 that
the first on-the-record government disclosure was made, and not because of a
desire to come clean, but because former denials could no longer stand. If not
for the efforts of an inquisitive Italian judge named Felice Casson, Gladio
might never have been exposed.(pp.169-171)
Plummer
introduces his section on Operation Gladio with a quote from the former
Gladio-linked terrorist,Vincenzo Vinciguerra:
‘You
had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown
people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. . . to
force these people. . . to turn to the State to ask for greater security. This
is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings
which remain unpunished, because the State cannot convict itself or declare itself
responsible for what happened.’(p.166)
Concerning
public credulity, Plummer comments in a footnote why during the Cold War the
blaming the Communists for crimes committed against the general population was
so easily believed.: “Confirmation bias
would kick in, and the individual would experience the psychological rewards of
having their world view confirmed.”
‘Confirmation
bias’ refers to people’s propensity to accept information that supports what
they already believe, especially if their belief is deeply entrenched and
emotionally charged.(p.166)
World War I, the
League of Nations, and Debt Traps.
One
recurrent theme in Plummer’s study is that the Elite Network has consistently
pursued their strategy of dissolving national sovereignty
around the world while at the same time professing to support democracy and
self-determination.
By manipulating the election of 1912, the
Network brought Woodrow Wilson to power and effectively gained control of the ‘diplomatic machinery’ of the United
States. If . . . the ultimate aim was to maneuver the United States into a war
capable of altering ‘the life of an entire people,’ the Network was well on its
way. All it needed now was the war itself, and, as luck would have it, Europe
as already a powder keg that was primed and ready to explode. Henry Kissinger
explains the political climate that preceded World War I this way:
The astonishing aspect of the First World
War is . . . that it took so long for it to happen. . . The statesmen of all the major countries
had helped to construct [a] diplomatic doomsday mechanism.
The unholy mix of general political
alliances and hair-trigger military strategies guaranteed a vast bloodletting .
. . . Foreign policy. . . now consisted
of gambling on a single throw of the dice. A more mindless and technocratic
approach to war would have been difficult to imagine.
. . .
With
the carnage of World War I as a backdrop and with the father of propaganda,
Edward Bernays, at his side, Wilson began stirring support for the League of
Nations that he’d been writing about since at least 1887. Following ‘his’ plan,
the world would be led into a new and peaceful era where all nations, great and
small, would be protected from unjust aggression and violation of their
sovereignty. Touting American principles, Wilson declared in May 1916:
We
believe these fundamental things: First, that every people has a right to
choose the sovereignty under which they shall live. . . . Second, that the
small states of the world have a right to enjoy the same respect for their
sovereignty and for their territorial integrity that great and powerful nations
expect and insist upon. And, third, that the world has a right to be free from
every disturbance of its peace that has its origin in aggression and disregard
of the rights of peoples and nations.
This lofty rhetoric, coupled with the
outrage of a recent ‘surprise’ attack on the ‘passenger liner’ Lusitania,
allowed the Network to steadily move the United States toward entering the
European conflict. As it had done with the Federal Reserve System and income
tax, the Network skillfully manipulated public opinion until it overcame the
nations’ strong antiwar sentiment. World War I, the people were assured, was ‘a
war that would end all wars.’ It would ‘make the world safe for democracy’ and
lead mankind into a new era of respect for the rights of man. It was the duty
of every liberty-loving citizen of the United States to support it, because no
moral human could possibly oppose such ends.
Of course, if the utopian carrot wasn’t
enough, the Network also had a stick in its back pocket that it used to great
effect. One week after a German torpedo sunk the Lusitania, killing
nearly all Americans onboard, Professor Knock informs us:
Americans
barely had the chance to digest this assault [when] the British government
released an official report on German atrocities, bearing the name . . . of
Viscount James Bryce, the esteemed former Ambassador to the United State.
[Bryce was a member of what Quigley referred to as the second generation of the
Network’s ‘Cecil Bloc.’] The crescendo of a systematic propaganda campaign to
overcome American neutrality, this document catalogued in the most lurid detail
some 1,200 alleged acts of barbarism and cruelty committed by German soldiers, primarily
against Belgians – including the crucifixion and decapitation of prisoners of
war, the gang rape and sexual mutilation of women, the hacking off of children’s
fingers for souvenirs, and the bayoneting of infants. Although much of it was later proved
to be fictional . . . Germany would never fully recover from the revulsion that
swept the United States.
This
carrot-and-stick propaganda campaign produced the desired result. The United
States eventually entered the war, ands a constitutional abomination known as
the Espionage Act was used to silence any remaining skeptics and dissenters. (Apparently,
making the world ‘safe for democracy’ meant demonizing and jailing US citizens
who continued to voice their opposition. Opposition disrupted the campaign to
establish ‘patriotic conformity,’ and so it could not be tolerated.) But the
skeptics and dissenters were inevitably vindicated. At the war’s end, the
reality of power politics reared its ugly head.
. . .
After World War I, The Federal Reserve
began artificially inflating the US dollar supply. Quigley informs us that this
was done, in large part, to allow gold to be drained from the United States
(for Britain’s benefit) without triggering a corresponding reduction in the
number of US dollars in circulation. The newly printed Fed money flowed into
the stock market inflated the bubble of the Roaring Twenties, and inevitably
led to the stock market crash on 1929 and the economic devastation of the Great
Depression. (This too helped to ‘alter the life of an entire people.’)
Making economic matters worse, Britain
went off the gold standard completely in 1931, and this predictably intensified
the depletion of US gold. (Nations that could no longer redeem their paper
receipts for gold in Britain now turned to the United States.) Since the US was
‘the only gold standard country with gold coins still circulating,’ gold poured
out of the country. Additionally, concerned US citizens began redeeming large
quantities of their dollars for gold too, and ‘the US banking system began to
collapse.’
This pressure on the banking system
continued until 1933 when the Network convinced President Roosevelt (FDR) to
confiscate US citizens’ gold and hand it over to the Federal Reserve. By making
it illegal for the US citizens to redeem their dollars in gold, the Federal
Reserve (in cooperation with policy makers within the federal government) could
now begin printing ever-larger piles of debt money while increasing their own power
in the process.
. . .
If the Network always seeks to trap
nations in debt (it does), then a review of the growth in US federal debt
should be instructive (and it is). In the twenty years prior to Wilson’s
election, the amount of debt the federal government owed increased by just
$1.3billion. In the twenty years after Wilson’s election, the amount of
debt the federal government owed increased by nearly $20 billion. (This massive
increase in debt occurred despite the additional revenue provided by the
1913 personal income tax.) But even this $20 billion increase was just a drop
in the bucket; fast forward to just after FDR’s presidency, and the federal
debt had increased by more than $240 billion. And in 2012, it had increased by
more than $16,000 billion.
This information on government debt is
vitally important because it plays a major role in the Network’s destruction of
national sovereignty. Financial warfare is essential, and the basic
recipe for conquering a nation financially can be summed up in two simple
steps:
1.
Create
shortfalls in government revenue. (Either by increasing the amount of money a
government spends, decreasing the amount of money a government collects, or
both.)
2.
Create loans out
of thin air to ‘help’ the ‘leaders’ cover their spending shortfalls without
correcting the underlying financial imbalance.
As payments on mounting debt create
greater and greater shortfalls, and as annual spending continues to increase
unabated, larger and more frequent loans become necessary to bridge the gap. This
accelerates the rate at which the national debt grows and, before long, even powerful
nations will find themselves utterly dependent on a constant flow of newly
borrowed funds to cover their expenses.
Once a nation has been trapped in this
way, the Network can simply adjust the financial spigot according to the level
at which its desires are being met. If a government wants to maintain vital
services, social order, and ultimately its own power, it will do what the
Network wants (regardless of the will of the people). If the government
refuses, the flow of money will be cut and won’t be restored until ‘more
acceptable’ leaders assume control. And as we’ll cover in the next chapter, ‘acceptable’
has nothing to do with how the new leaders treat the citizens that live beneath
them.(pp.132-140)
Plummer
concludes his discussion on the Network’s century-long quest for ‘global
governance’ with a summary and an update of the secret machinations of the
global Elite.
For those versed in the cynical ways of
the Network, the pretexts offered for circumventing constitutional limitations
in favor of embracing Network-directed ‘global governance’ will surely make the
blood boil. Here are just a few:
1.
‘Managing the
global economy’ (a pretext for further consolidation and control of the world’s
monetary system);
2.
The recently
rebranded ‘climate change’ (a pretext for funding the Network’s global
government and for centralizing control over the one thing no nation can
survive without: energy;
3.
‘Preventing and
responding to violent conflict’ (‘violent conflict’ is often caused by
the Network itself and then used as a pretext for intervention and interference
with national sovereignty).
However, the pretext that jumps out the
most, the one that actually mocks the reader’s intelligence, is the ‘struggle
against al-Qaeda and affiliated organizations.’
The Network has funded, trained, and armed
terrorist in pursuit of its global objectives for decades. This fact can
be easily verified by researching any number of historical events. Whether it’s
Operation Ajax in 1953, or Operation Cyclone in 1979, or Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s, or Libya
and Syria in 2011 and 2013,
respectively . . . in each case the terrorists found aid and comfort by
turning to the West.(p.161)
The
15 + items below provide information which invites readers to carefully evaluate
the Network of political and economic
relationships which constitute the social matrix in which we live. This
consciousness, we can only hope, will elevate public discussions about our existence
in this period of capitalist collapse. What
follows is largely up to us . . . .
Francis
Feeley
---
Professeur
honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
Neoliberal Economics Destroyed the
Economy and the Middle Class
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52727.htm
by Paul
Craig Roberts
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“We Are the Ones Who Will
Awaken the Dawn”
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/26/we-are-the-ones-who-will-awaken-the-dawn/
by Vijay Prashad
+
Today's Economic Update: “Global
Debt”
Dec 2019 video
(6:41)
with Richard Wolff
In Today's EU, Prof. Wolff
talks about global debt incurred by corporations, governments and households
has tripled in the last 20 years. This unprecedented explosion of debt has been
the result of low interest rates and stagnant wages and incomes. The capitalist
system has failed to provide people with incomes, wealth and securities they
need so they have resorted to endless borrowing to bridge the gap.
+
Leading Marxist Scholar
David Harvey on Trump, Wall Street, and Debt Peonage
Jan. 2018 audio
(1h 21min)
with Jeremy Scahill
+
How The Deep State Sunk The Democratic Party
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52734.htm
by Moon Of Alabama
+
The Impending Ruling Class Mental
Breakdown and Riot
https://www.blackagendareport.com/impending-ruling-class-mental-breakdown-and-riot
by Glen Ford
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Germany warned crumbing economy could be sucked
into ‘zombification’ indefinitely
===========
b.
How the United States
Created Vladimir Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ
with Vladimir Pozner
+
Five key points
from Russian president Vladimir Putin's four-hour news conference
===========
c.
by Marthew Erhet
For those who find themselves with excess time this
holiday season which they would prefer not to squander with idleness or Netflix
binges, then I’d like to offer this serving of Frank Capra films to uplift the
soul.
Frank Capra (1897-1991) stands as one of the most
brilliant directors/producers of the 20th Century, and sadly also
one of the least understood- known at best for the film It’s a Wonderful Life played every year as a Christmas
tradition, or Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington.
Unbeknownst to even many film connoisseurs today,
Capra was not only a pre-eminent cultural warrior who took every opportunity to
expose fascist movements during the 1930’s and 1940’s but also fought to
provide a positive principled
understanding of the divinity mankind’s higher nature in all his works.
When asked to put into words what motivated him to create movies he said:
“My films must
let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and
that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love
each other”
During World War II, Capra’s Why We Fight
series was one of the most important educational tools used to shape the
hearts and minds of the American population towards the strategic nature and
purpose of the war against the fascist machine which had received much of its
support from financiers in the Anglo-American establishment. In America, these
groups were masquerading as “patriots” under the American Liberty League
promoting America’s neutrality in that conflict. It was an open secret that
these groups preferred to let Hitler and Mussolini usher in a new order which
they saw as a wonderful opportunity to rule the world, and it was to these
groups that FDR declared famously “they
who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all
human beings by a handful of individual rulers call this a new order. It is not
new and it is not order”. The President knew of what he spoke as he had declared open war on these American fascists from 1932 onward.
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d.
NSA has been ‘lying to the courts all along,’ says
whistleblower, as judges give warrantless surveillance the thumbs-up
with William Binney
The National Security Agency can gather the data of
US citizens without a warrant - as long as it gathers this data by mistake, a
court has ruled. However, this suits the agency just fine, whistleblower
William Binney told RT.
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“The Divide”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4CohXkdR0w
(1h 8min)
with Matt Taibbi
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e.
“Geoengineering”: Everyone
Must See This Before it is Deleted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N_2LZ5jaN4&feature=youtu.be
(1h7min)
with Roselyn Peterson
In this 1-hour plus video exclusive,
Rosalind Peterson of California Sky-watch exposes how Chem-trails are being
sprayed in our skies as part of a clandestine NASA-military program to
Geo-engineer the environment, and how this project is poisoning not only our
air but also our water and food supply.
+
“It Will Be The End Of Energy” | “THEY Won't Tell You This…”
+
Climate
and the Money Trail
https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-money-trail/5690209
by F. William Engdahl
The hidden truth
behind the Climate Debate at COP25, Madrid.
Climate. Now who wudda thought. The very
mega-corporations and mega-billionaires behind the globalization of the world
economy over recent decades, whose pursuit of shareholder value and cost
reduction who have wreaked so much damage to our environment both in the
industrial world and in the under-developed economies of Africa, Asia, Latin
America, are the leading backers of the “grassroots” decarbonization movement
from Sweden to Germany to the USA and beyond.
Is it pangs of guilty conscience, or could it be a
deeper agenda of the financialization of the very air we breathe and more?
Whatever one may believe about the dangers of CO2
and risks of global warming creating a global catastrophe of 1.5 to 2 degree
Celsius average temperature rise in the next roughly 12 years, it is worth
noting who
is promoting the current flood of propaganda and climate activism.
Green Finance
Several years before Al Gore and others decided to
use a young Swedish school girl to be the poster child for climate action
urgency, or in the USA the call of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a complete
reorganization of the economy around a Green New Deal, the giants of finance
began devising schemes for steering hundreds of billions of future funds to
investments in often worthless “climate” companies.
+
‘My grandma is old environmental pig’: German broadcaster
in hot water over brazen children’s song
+
A climate change double whammy in the US Corn Belt
by Marie Denoia Aronsohn
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-climate-whammy-corn-belt.html
by Marie
Denoia Aronsohn
+
Elizabeth Warren Wants Green Bombs, not a Green New
Deal
https://www.blackagendareport.com/elizabeth-warren-wants-green-bombs-not-green-new-deal
by Danny Haiphong
===========
f.
How to Save the World from
Financialization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3AKdGqFOY&feature=youtu.be
with Grace Blakeley
+
“The Crimes of Capitalism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5zLfhGIR0c&feature=youtu.be
audio
(29:44)
with David Harvey
+
How White Collar Criminals Get Away with
Murder
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/12/how-white-collar-criminals-get-away-with-murder.html
(16 :43)
with William K. Black
+
The Pentagon Budget Still Rising, 40
Years Later
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/27/the-pentagon-budget-still-rising-40-years-later/
by William D. Hartung
+
Prof. Richard Wolff on the Most Under-reported
Econ Stories of 2019
===========
g.
Documenting
Iran-U.S. Relations, 1978-2015
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/iran/2019-12-19/documenting-iran-us-relations-1978-2015
+
China, Russia and Iran begin joint naval drills
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/china-russia-iran-joint-naval-drills-191227183505159.html
+
"Iraqi president's resignation could lead to
Arab Spring 2.0 - Michael Maloof"
with Michael Maloof
Iraq's President Barham Salih has offered to resign
rather than appoint a prime minister reportedly backed by Iran. Meanwhile
Turkey's President Erdogan is now sending troops to Libya, at the request from
the endangered government in Tripoli. Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof
helps In Question untangle the story.
+
Clash at UN
Security Council over cross-border aid for Syria
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/191219064903066.html
+
Turkey to send Syrian
rebel mercenary fighters to battle Haftar in Libya
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52767.htm
by Ragip Soylu in
Ankara
===========
h.
Roger Waters on Julian Assange:
“UK's National Security State Doesn't
Care About the Law!”
+
Assange: Concerns over use of embassy
surveillance in extradition proceedings - ARTICLE 19
+
Growing demands for Australian
government to intervene in defence of Assange
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/19/asau-d19.html
+
Doctors Issue Urgent Australian Appeal
to Save Julian Assange
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/16/doctors-issue-urgent-australian-appeal-to-save-julian-assange/
+
Two months before Assange’s extradition
hearing, RSF calls for his release on humanitarian grounds and for US Espionage
Act charges to be dropped
===========
i.
Yellow Vests & brass necks: How the
brutality in France continues to be invisible
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/476161-pension-reform-protests-france/
by George Galloway
+
Strikers have turned France into a real-life
national version of Godard's "Weekend"
Commuters walk out of a train at the
Gare Saint Lazare station in Paris. Credit: AP
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-16/france-enters-new-week-of-strikes-over-pension-changes
The only way to get the
government's attention—and compliance—
is to scare them, and to
keep them scared, of those they are supposed
to represent.
+
France: RSF and 13
journalists file complaint about French police violence | RSF
https://rsf.org/en/news/france-rsf-and-13-journalists-file-complaint-about-french-police-violence
Reporters Without
Borders (RSF) and 13 journalists who were the victims of police violence while
covering France’s “gilets jaunes” (yellow vest) protests between November 2018
and May 2019 – when an unprecedented number of journalists were injured by
police – filed a joint complaint at the public prosecutor’s office in Paris
today.
+
RT’s crew
ATTACKED for filming as Yellow Vests & anti-pension reform marches
end in
clashes (VIDEOS)
Anti-government Yellow Vests and anti-pension
rallies have simultaneously descended upon the streets of the French capital,
promptly escalating into clashes with police who responded with tear gas and
baton charges.
This weekend appeared to be particularly heated in
Paris, as two different groups of protesters joined efforts in defying the
policies of the country’s government. Although the protests were calm most of
the day as RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij reported, violence broke out in some parts
of the city.
The protesters tried to erect barricades in the
streets, set objects on fire and pelted law enforcement with various objects.
The police, in turn, responded with generous usage of tear gas which engulfed
the streets with a thick blanket, footage from the scene shows.
Anti-government Yellow Vests and anti-pension
rallies have simultaneously descended upon the streets of the French capital,
promptly escalating into clashes with police who responded with tear gas and
baton charges.
‘Yellow Vests’ protesters take to the streets of Paris
https://ruptly.tv/en/events/201912281130-LIVE2319
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From:
GAZA PALESTINE [mailto:anahona366@gmail.com]
Sent:
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Subject:
Many ignore us ... Please do not be with them ... We need you ... The situation
is getting worse ... Maybe our work will stop ... I hope this support will
continue . . . .
Hello
dear
First
every year, you are a thousand good, and I wish you a beautiful and happy new
year for you?
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these days, the sufferers suffer from severe cold due to the winter season, and
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kept warm so that no complications or infections occur. That is why we need
this support at this time as the New Year holidays begin.
The
Israeli occupation forces continue to shell multiple areas inside the Gaza
Strip daily, and this is what we are suffering from as well.
Very
important which is what we need.There are many injured people who need you and
need your support. I hope you will provide them with warmth. I am sick these
days, my children and I are three because of the severe cold and we suffer from
the flu. I cannot work in these days so that I cannot get out of my house. Any
help however you want, dear.
We
need a large group of gauze and bandage so that we can help the injured and
give them warmth, and this is the most important thing.
We
need some analgesics to relieve the pain of those affected.
We
need some solutions and iodine to change the wounds daily so that no infections
occur and the matter gets worse.
I
hope you support us through the following link
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ICC wants to open 'war crimes' investigation in West
Bank and Gaza - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50871337
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Updated: Israeli Missile Kills A Palestinain In
Gaza– IMEMC News
https://imemc.org/article/israeli-drone-shoots-palestinian-in-gaza-confiscates-the-body/
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The Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi
and Syrian Oil
https://www.unz.com/wwebb/the-israel-lobbys-hidden-hand-in-the-theft-of-iraqi-and-syrian-oil/
by Agha
Hussain and Whitney Webb
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The War on Truth: How Israel’s Social Media Trolls
Conquered Facebook
https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/the-war-on-truth-how-israels-social-media-trolls-conquered-facebook/
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Corbyn was
‘smeared’, Johnson is a ‘buffoon’: Roger Waters says information war won big in
UK elections (VIDEO)
with Roger
Waters
Boris Johnson’s victory over Labour illustrates the
power of propaganda, Roger Waters told RT. The Pink Floyd frontman urged people
around the world to rise up against the establishment before it’s too late.
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Propaganda and the
Defeat of Jeremy Corbyn
https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-propaganda-and-defeat-jeremy-corbyn
by Margaret
Kimberley
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The
Dirty War On The NHS
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52729.htm
by John Pilger & Afshin Rattansi
Pilger
investigates the long and often secret campaign to dismantle Britain's
pioneering National Health Service and privatise it off 'by stealth'. Visit the
film's website at www.thedirtywaronnhs.com
This
is a must watch Documentary
Going Underground speak to legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger about
his film ‘The Dirty War on the NHS.’ He discusses the issue of the film not
being allowed to air during the general election, and questions the role of
OFCOM as a regulator. He also speaks about the negative impact of management
consultants, how the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 opened the door to NHS
privatization, how privatization causes money to be wasted in the NHS despite
more funding promises, and the reality of the private healthcare system in the
US. Pilger also discusses RAM volunteering in America, the 2019 UK general
election, the reason why Brexit has been taken over by the extreme right since
2016, anti-Semitism allegations against Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party,
allegations of BBC bias against Labour in the election, and more!
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The old playbook
https://www.blackagendareport.com/old-playbook
by Raymond Nat
Truner
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l.
The Richest Country’s Empty Plates. 50 Million
Hungry Americans
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52733.htm
by
Larry Romanoff
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m.
Election
Bias
The new
playbook for voter suppression
https://harpers.org/archive/2020/01/election-bias-voter-suppression-african-americans-south/
by Andrew Cockburn
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n.
Chris Hedges On
Corporate Control Of The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5X3NRD00FY
Chris Hedges Addresses the corrupt oligarchy that
runs and controls everything. He describes what America really is, an empire in
decline and near death.
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https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/29/an-apology-and-explanation-two-years-on/
