Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | 5 Oct 2014 Did you know police can just take your stuff if they suspect it’s involved in a crime? They can! It’s a shady process called “civil asset forfeiture,” and it would make for a weird episode of Law and Order. See? [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360]
John Rappoport | No More Fake News | 8 Oct 2014 Editor’s note: It has been announced that the Dallas Ebola patient has died. Thomas Eric Duncan 42, aka “patient zero” is reported to have imported the Ebola virus to the US. The US government’s response to this alleged disease outbreak has been at best…
Juha Saarinen | NZ Herald | 9 Oct 2014 Be smart with phones, use throwaway internet accounts — and never play the fourth track while driving. In the wake of Nicky Hager’s home being raided to ferret out Rawshark, the hacker who allegedly supplied the emails that led to Dirty Politics, it’s become clear that…
by Mercola | October 7, 2014 In 2010, two Merck virologists filed a federal lawsuit under the False Claims Act against their former employer, alleging the vaccine maker lied about the effectiveness of their mumps vaccine (which is part of the trivalent measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine). The whistleblowers, Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski,…
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | October 7, 2014 Udo Ulfkotte says all major media networks controlled by CIA “I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I’ve been educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public,” Ulfkotte told Russia Today. “I was supported by the Central…
By Tom Engelhardt | Tom Dispatch | 30 Sept 2014 What are the odds? You put about $68 billion annually into a maze of 17 major intelligence outfits. You build them glorious headquarters. You create a global surveillance state for the ages. You listen in on your citizenry and gather their communications in staggering quantities. Your…
by Robert David Steele | Counter Punch | March 1-3, 2009 Today’s secret intelligence community costs the U.S. taxpayer over $65 billion a year, and yet, according to General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret), provides less than 4% of the decision support needed by a major government executive. This is the same community that has violated…
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy | 6 Oct 2014 The aggressive and mindless stance that Washington’s warmongers have taken toward Russia and China have shattered the accomplishment of Reagan and Gorbachev. Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war and removed the threat of nuclear armageddon. Now the neocons, the US budget-dependent (taxpayer…
Gordon Duff | New Eastern Outlook | 30 Sept 2014 Another anniversary of 9/11 has just passed. The media inside the US has been inundated with a flurry of Islamophobic missives with contrived conspiracy theories custom designed to resell a narrative no rational person accepts. The US backing for Al Qaeda in Syria exposed that…
By Binoy Kampmark | Global Research | October 06, 2014 War is a dirty, unforgiving business. It is not rendered clean by remote deployments and orders executed at a distance from seemingly safe areas. It takes lives, inflicts unspeakable harm, and rarely brings smiles to those who suffer it. But the members of the US-led coalition…