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October 31, 2016
Is This Why Comey Broke: A Stack Of Resignation Letters From Furious FBI Agents
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I guess it’s illegal for FBI agents to strike – mass resignation is the next best thing.
YOUR PERCEPTION IS NOT REALITY
Source: Zero Hedge
Conspiracy theories have swirled in recent days as to why FBI Director James Comey reopened Hillary’s email investigation after just closing it back in July concluding that, although Hillary had demonstrated gross negligence in her establishment of a private email server, that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against her. Democrats, after lavishing Comey with praise for months on concluding his investigation in an “impartial” way, have since lashed out at him for seeking to influence the 2016 election cycle with Hillary herself describing his recent actions as “deeply troubling”. Republicans, on the other hand, have praised Comey’s recent efforts as an attempt to correct a corrupt investigation that seemingly ignored critical evidence while granting numerous immunity agreements to Clinton staffers.
According to the Daily Mail, and a source close to James Comey, the decision, at least in part, came after he “could no longer…
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The CIA and Congo’s 20-Year Civil War
The following presentation by Friends of the Congo Executive Director Maurice Carney provides an elegant but horrifying summary of the CIA’s 50-year assault on the Republic of Congo. The Congo has the distinct misfortune of having amazingly rich mineral resources (uranium, gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt and especially coltran*). The result has been a single minded determination by Wall Street and the CIA to destroy democratic rule in that country. I was well aware of the importance of CIA and US State Department in destabilizing Latin America, Asia, Russia and the Middle East. Until recently I was less aware of their aggressive machinations in Africa.
According to Carney, their first president Patrice Lumumba became a high priority CIA target it due to joint efforts with Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana to establish a United States of Africa. This presumably would have granted the continent total independence of US corporate rule.
After briefly summarizing the county’s ruthless colonization by Belgium, Carney describes the Congo’s struggle for independence under Patrice Lumumba in 1960, the first and only legitimately elected president. After assassinating Lumumba, the CIA installed a 30 year dictatorship to ensure US corporations continued access to Congo’s resources on their terms.
In 1996, the people of Congo had just overthrown the dictatorship and installed democratic government when the CIA instigated puppet sociopaths ( Paul Kagami of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda) to invade and instigate a 20 year civil war in Congo. In addition to providing them military aid and training, the US government actively covers up Kagami and Museveni’s war crimes, resulting in millions of civilian deaths.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has recently ordered to Uganda to pay millions in reparations to Congo. As Rwanda doesn’t belong to the ICJ, Spanish courts (under the authority of universal jurisdiction) have indicted 40 top Rwandan officials for war crimes
Current Congo president Joseph Kabila, also handpicked by the CIA, who succeeded his father Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1997-2001), maintains power by way of a US-rigged election in 2006 and massive electoral fraud in 2011.
See also The US Rape of the Congo
*Coltran is a rare earth mineral essential in the manufacture of cellphones and computers.
October 30, 2016
Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves: “To Be or not to Be Wireless”. The Unspoken Wi-fi Health Hazards…
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The serious health hazards of wifi, cellphones and smart meters.
By Institute of Science in Society
Global Research, October 28, 2016
Institute of Science in Society 17 May 2007
To be “wireless” has replaced “wired-up” for being connected and cool. Wi-fi is now in hotels, airport departure lounges, universities, schools, homes, and entire cities. You cannot get away from it. We shall all be submerged in a sea of microwaves, whether we choose to go wireless or not.
Soon, all one can do is to lock oneself away in a shielded room, an electro-smog-proof yellow submarine. And for the estimated 1.5 – 3 percent of populations worldwide that are “electromagnetic hypersensitive” [1], that may well be the only option open. Unlike cigarette smoke, passive involuntary exposure to electromagnetic radiation cannot be avoided easily.
What is wi-fi?
and used for mobile computing devices such as laptops, but is now increasingly used for more services including the internet and connection to consumer…
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Iceland’s government falls; Pirate Party surges
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Go Iceland – where people, not banks, rule.
The fight for control of the world’s oldest democracy enters a new phase today,. With the fall of the old government setting the stage for negotiations to form a new one.
But a surge by the Pirate Party [previously] and three other allies on the Left didn’t capture enough seats in parliament to ensure they would have the votes to form a new government, setting the stage for what are sure to be complex and heated negotiations.
The New York Times covers the fall of the old the old government:
Iceland’s prime minister announced on Sunday that he would resign, as the insurgent, anti-establishment Pirate Party capitalized on a wave of anger over corruption to come in second place in the country’s general election.
The prime minister, Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, announced his departure on national television, after his center-right Progressive Party saw its share of seats in the…
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October 29, 2016
Is Donald Trump Real or Did the Corporate Media Create Him?
While I’m no fan of Trump (I already voted by absentee ballot – for Jill Stein), I find it more than a little alarming that this speech – which is circulating on Facebook – is nothing like the Donald Trump we see in the corporate media:
I have pretty much ignored all the US election coverage, but I was also pretty intrigued by this analysis by Michael Moore on the appeal of Donald Trump for the white working class – especially in what he calls the “Brexit” state (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and other states where the manufacturing industry has virtually collapsed). He calls a vote for Donald Trump the biggest “fuck you” vote in human history.
UN votes to outlaw nuclear weapons in 2017
ICAN October 27, 2016
At a meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, which deals with disarmament and international security matters, 123 nations voted in favour of the resolution, with 38 against and 16 abstaining.
The resolution will set up a UN conference beginning in March next year, open to all member states, to negotiate a “legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination”. The negotiations will continue in June and July. . .
Source: UN votes to outlaw nuclear weapons in 2017
Bobby Seal on the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panthers
In this presentation Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seal talks about the joint role he and Huey Newton played in forming the organization in 1966.
Seal’s genius as a grassroots organizer is what comes across most clearly in this talk. His initial vision in starting the Panthers was to use the 1965 Voting Rights Act to achieve “power” for African Americans by electing more black representatives to local, state and federal government. He maintains that monitoring police brutality and other tactics (like the children’s breakfast program) were merely a strategy towards this end.
Seal, who was employed in an Oakland jobs program for African American youth, recruited Huey (who had just started law school) because of his knowledge of the law. As brilliantly portrayed in Marvin Peeples 1995 film Panther, Huey became notorious for quoting large sections of the US Constitution and California law to Oakland police.
Seal is somewhat critical of Peeple’s docudrama, largely because it omits important historical details. An example is the crowd reaction – of supreme importance to Seal as an organizer – to the first confrontation between the Panthers and the cops. Another is the Nixon tape (which Seal, impersonating Nixon’s voice, describes in detail) in which the former president orders FBI director J Edgar Hoover to destroy the Panthers.
Seal also has some fascinating comments at the end about the Koch brothers and catastrophic climate change.
The film has an extremely long introduction and Seal’s talk begins at 21:00.
October 28, 2016
School Bombing in Syria – Latest White Helmets Scam
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The Russian Defense Ministry says that it dispatched a drone to analyze the site of Wednesday’s alleged bombing of a school in Idlib, Syria. The ministry says that the aircraft spotted no evidence of airstrikes, and accused the White Helmets of faking digital images of the attack.
“The photograph published by AFP shows that only one wall of the school is damaged, and all the desks inside the classroom are in place. The outer fence seen through the hole has no traces of damage from bomb fragments. In a genuine airstrike this is physically impossible – the furniture would have been swept away by the blast wave, and there would have been damage marks on the classroom wall and the outer fence.”
The Russian Defense Ministry says that it dispatched a drone to analyze the site of Wednesday’s alleged bombing of a school in Idlib, Syria. The ministry says that the aircraft spotted no evidence of airstrikes, and accused the White Helmets of faking digital images of the attack.
“On Thursday, a Russian UAV was directed to the area, to conduct detailed digital photography,” said a statement from Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov. “As can…
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Tribunal Rules Uber Drivers Are Employees Not Slaves
According to the Australian Business Insider, Friday a London employment tribunal rule that drivers for “car sharing” service Uber are workers and not self-employed contractors — and entitled to benefits like sick pay and the minimum wage.
Because Uber has always maintained that its drivers are independent contractors, and it is just a tech platform connecting riders and drivers, the ruling could have huge implications for Uber’s 40,000 British drivers.
Consequences may also be felt far more broadly throughout the “gig” economy — a growing sector of on-demand services including transportation, food, and cleaning, powered by smartphone apps. Owners claim these extremely profitable companies provide convenience for users and flexibility for workers. Labor advocates are mainly concerned about their ruthless exploitation of their workers. See Uber Car Leasing Program Turns Drivers into Modern Day Sharecroppers and The Ugly Truth about Airbnb, Uber and Task Rabbit
Uber is the most high-profile of these on-demand companies. However 2015 research from Citizens Advice found that as many as 460,000 Brits may be “bogusly self-employed.” This is nearly 10% of the UK’s 4.8 million self-employed workers today.
Read more at The Bombshell Uber Driver Ruling
RESILIENT LIVING: 4 Ways Young Americans Are Saying No to America’s Love Affair With Cars – By Cliff Weathers
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It’s about time – a major shift away from cars will make it much easier to move away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Meanwhile the notion that everyone can simply replace their gas guzzling cars with electric ones is laughable – even renewable electricity will never be as cheap as fossil fuels. While the rich enjoy their electric cars, the rest of us need to demand good public transport. Forget driverless cars, we need driverless buses and trains.
Source – alternet.org
– “…The number-one reason non-drivers are giving for not getting licenses isn’t the ownership costs—it’s because they’re too busy (37%). Obviously, there is a major shift in priorities going on here. The same survey also indicated that 22% of those without licenses would rather bike or walk than own a car; 17% said they preferred public transportation”:
(4 Ways Young Americans Are Saying No to Car Ownership – By Cliff Weathers)
America’s love affair with cars is ending as a new generation turns to more attractive options.
By Cliff Weathers
New car sales to those under 35 years of age have dropped by 30% between 2007 and 2012 according to the automotive consumer guide Edmunds.com. This trend may be about more than just economics: many in this demographic group are in no hurry to get drivers licenses, according to University of Michigan researchers.
Thirty years…
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