Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Gun Confiscation – The New World Order’s New Year’s Resolution
Will the Second Amendment be completely eradicated in 2014?
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
For many Americans, 2013 was the year “gun confiscation” became an undeniable reality, but it has merely set the precedent for what’s to come in 2014.
The Second Amendment represents the biggest obstacle blocking the elimination of individual sovereignty and private property, and is one of the only things preventing a total Homeland Security dictatorship.
However, in states like California and New York, laws restricting firearms have already been passed, and gun confiscation from private citizens is already being forcibly carried out.
As Infowars has furiously documented, numerous federal, state and local law enforcement agencies have divulged they are being trained to confiscate Americans’ firearms. One Austin politician even flat-out stated this is the ultimate goal behind “gun control” (see below).
These warnings go hand-in-hand with rumors of a litmus test in which commanding officers gauge whether soldiers would feel comfortable firing on Americans who resist orders.
All of this leads us to question how long it will be before the rest of the nation imposes such measures, and begs the question as to whether military and police will ultimately comply with orders to violently engage the public.
Considering the frequency of attacks leveled at the Second Amendment, the question of the new year is: Will the Second Amendment be completely eradicated in 2014?
Here are just a few videos encapsulating the ensuing War on Gun Rights:
Message to Police
Upon noticing the prevailing culture of police brutality, a woman nicknamed “Josie the Outlaw” issued a viral public plea asking police to disobey unlawful orders, including raiding homes without warrants, illegally conducting checkpoints and confiscating Americans’ firearms.
Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns
Last year, Infowars broke down how the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, eerily containing wording similar to a 1961 State Department memorandum (7277), outlined how “all types of weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons” would be targeted under the guise of preventing war.
Ron Paul Warns of 2nd American Revolution if Obama Bans Guns by Executive Order
Before Congressman Ron Paul left office, he appeared on the Alex Jones Show and asserted that Americans would view an effort by Obama to confiscate firearms as a “line in the sand.” “I don’t think the American people will (turn in their guns),” Paul stated.
Democratic Official Admits Plan To Confiscate Guns
Back in April of this year, Infowars exposed how Democratic City Council member and the potential next mayor of the City of Austin, Mike Martinez, admitted during an anti-gun rally hosted by Moms Demand Action that the ultimate goal behind their efforts was to “ban guns.”
EMERGENCY ALERT: Soldiers Warn of Coming Gun Confiscation and War Against Patriots
In an interview with Alex Jones in October, former Navy SEAL Ben Smith startlingly claimed members of the military were being questioned as to whether they felt “comfortable disarming American citizens.”
Gun Confiscation Begins In California
Californians have actually been surrendering their firearms since October 2007, according to a Bloomberg article which highlighted how citizens in the Golden State deemed “illegal” were having their guns taken, but in August, we documented how California also produced the label “Armed Prohibited Persons” (APPs) in order to further confiscate legally purchased guns from registered gun owners.
Lt. Col. Wants To Pry Guns From Your “Cold Dead Fingers”
And just this month, we exposed how an Esquire magazine article, written by a decorated military officer, indicated he was more than willing to “pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers.”
Fortunately, not all is lost. 2013 was also the year the sleeping giant that is the American people became aware of the assault on the Bill of Rights.
After Infowars blew the lid off the DHS’s massive ammo splurges, and after Obama was re-elected, and after the tragedy at Sandy Hook spawned 23 executive orders aimed at firearms, and after Alex Jones sounded the alarm during his appearance on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, gun sales surged to all-time highs and an ammo shortage followed.
These are promising indicators that Americans won’t stand idly by as their gun rights are violated. This “line in the sand” must be firmly held in 2014 and beyond if Americans are to maintain our rights and the Second Amendment intact.
RELATED: Veteran’s Guns Confiscated After Forced ‘Psychiatric Evaluation’
RELATED: MAIG Director: No One in California Has Had Their Guns Confiscated
RELATED: Prepper Declared “Mentally Defective,” Put On FBI List
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
For many Americans, 2013 was the year “gun confiscation” became an undeniable reality, but it has merely set the precedent for what’s to come in 2014.
The Second Amendment represents the biggest obstacle blocking the elimination of individual sovereignty and private property, and is one of the only things preventing a total Homeland Security dictatorship.
However, in states like California and New York, laws restricting firearms have already been passed, and gun confiscation from private citizens is already being forcibly carried out.
As Infowars has furiously documented, numerous federal, state and local law enforcement agencies have divulged they are being trained to confiscate Americans’ firearms. One Austin politician even flat-out stated this is the ultimate goal behind “gun control” (see below).
These warnings go hand-in-hand with rumors of a litmus test in which commanding officers gauge whether soldiers would feel comfortable firing on Americans who resist orders.
All of this leads us to question how long it will be before the rest of the nation imposes such measures, and begs the question as to whether military and police will ultimately comply with orders to violently engage the public.
Considering the frequency of attacks leveled at the Second Amendment, the question of the new year is: Will the Second Amendment be completely eradicated in 2014?
Here are just a few videos encapsulating the ensuing War on Gun Rights:
Message to Police
Upon noticing the prevailing culture of police brutality, a woman nicknamed “Josie the Outlaw” issued a viral public plea asking police to disobey unlawful orders, including raiding homes without warrants, illegally conducting checkpoints and confiscating Americans’ firearms.
Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns
Last year, Infowars broke down how the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, eerily containing wording similar to a 1961 State Department memorandum (7277), outlined how “all types of weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons” would be targeted under the guise of preventing war.
Ron Paul Warns of 2nd American Revolution if Obama Bans Guns by Executive Order
Before Congressman Ron Paul left office, he appeared on the Alex Jones Show and asserted that Americans would view an effort by Obama to confiscate firearms as a “line in the sand.” “I don’t think the American people will (turn in their guns),” Paul stated.
Democratic Official Admits Plan To Confiscate Guns
Back in April of this year, Infowars exposed how Democratic City Council member and the potential next mayor of the City of Austin, Mike Martinez, admitted during an anti-gun rally hosted by Moms Demand Action that the ultimate goal behind their efforts was to “ban guns.”
EMERGENCY ALERT: Soldiers Warn of Coming Gun Confiscation and War Against Patriots
In an interview with Alex Jones in October, former Navy SEAL Ben Smith startlingly claimed members of the military were being questioned as to whether they felt “comfortable disarming American citizens.”
Gun Confiscation Begins In California
Californians have actually been surrendering their firearms since October 2007, according to a Bloomberg article which highlighted how citizens in the Golden State deemed “illegal” were having their guns taken, but in August, we documented how California also produced the label “Armed Prohibited Persons” (APPs) in order to further confiscate legally purchased guns from registered gun owners.
Lt. Col. Wants To Pry Guns From Your “Cold Dead Fingers”
And just this month, we exposed how an Esquire magazine article, written by a decorated military officer, indicated he was more than willing to “pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers.”
Fortunately, not all is lost. 2013 was also the year the sleeping giant that is the American people became aware of the assault on the Bill of Rights.
After Infowars blew the lid off the DHS’s massive ammo splurges, and after Obama was re-elected, and after the tragedy at Sandy Hook spawned 23 executive orders aimed at firearms, and after Alex Jones sounded the alarm during his appearance on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, gun sales surged to all-time highs and an ammo shortage followed.
These are promising indicators that Americans won’t stand idly by as their gun rights are violated. This “line in the sand” must be firmly held in 2014 and beyond if Americans are to maintain our rights and the Second Amendment intact.
RELATED: Veteran’s Guns Confiscated After Forced ‘Psychiatric Evaluation’
RELATED: MAIG Director: No One in California Has Had Their Guns Confiscated
RELATED: Prepper Declared “Mentally Defective,” Put On FBI List
NYPD Testing ‘Smart’ Cars
License plate scanners check police database in real time
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
Folks attending Super Bowl festivities in the Big Apple next month will likely encounter the automobile-equivalent of RoboCop – a souped-up cruiser being touted as the greatest asset in the NYPD’s counter-terrorism arsenal.
The NYPD’s new “supersmart car” boasts infrared sensors, radiation detectors and high-tech cameras capable of beaming live video feeds back to personnel at headquarters.
Infrared scanners, mounted on the trunk of the modified Ford Hybrid – an overt nod to the “green” movement – serve to scan every license plate number they come across, simultaneously cross-checking them against the NYPD database in alleged hopes to retrieve stolen cars, nab car thieves, apprehend warrant violators, or simply go after people with unpaid parking tickets.
“It can scan hundreds of plates in minutes,” Captain Max Tolentino told the New York Daily News.
Attached to the rear windshield, a radiation detector scans the air for increases in radiation levels and also transmits the data back to HQ.
Additionally, a surveillance camera with the capacity to “digitally record everything that passes in front of its windshield,” according to the Daily News, allows headquarters to access omnipresent live video feeds.
The police commissioner succeeding Ray Kelly, William Bratton, will decide whether or not to purchase a fleet of Smart patrol cars, according to the Wall Street Journal, but apparently figuring out a way to fit them into the department’s budget, and not the violation of millions of New Yorkers’ privacy, seems to be the only concern.
And this smart car’s features are just the tip of the iceberg. In the near future, Deputy Inspector Brandon del Pozo says, “smart cars might include fingerprint scanners and facial recognition sensors.”
However, naturally and thankfully, the Big Brother-on-wheels has encountered resistance in the form of privacy advocates.
In July, the ACLU released a report entitled, “You Are Being Tracked: How License Plate Readers Are Being Used To Record Americans’ Movements.” The organization claimed that, of the vast majority of license plate data collected, “only a fraction of 1 percent of reads are hits – and an even smaller fraction result in an arrest.” The ACLU also warned license plate readers could be abused, and can lead to “pervasive, permanent monitoring,” although their recommendations for curbing the activity are rather lacking and lenient.
Big Apple surveillance has come a long way in eliminating civil liberties since 9/11, but as long as police mention it’s being done in the name of combating “terrorism,” it appears there’s no extent to which people will surrender privacy.
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
Folks attending Super Bowl festivities in the Big Apple next month will likely encounter the automobile-equivalent of RoboCop – a souped-up cruiser being touted as the greatest asset in the NYPD’s counter-terrorism arsenal.
The NYPD’s new “supersmart car” boasts infrared sensors, radiation detectors and high-tech cameras capable of beaming live video feeds back to personnel at headquarters.
Infrared scanners, mounted on the trunk of the modified Ford Hybrid – an overt nod to the “green” movement – serve to scan every license plate number they come across, simultaneously cross-checking them against the NYPD database in alleged hopes to retrieve stolen cars, nab car thieves, apprehend warrant violators, or simply go after people with unpaid parking tickets.
“It can scan hundreds of plates in minutes,” Captain Max Tolentino told the New York Daily News.
Attached to the rear windshield, a radiation detector scans the air for increases in radiation levels and also transmits the data back to HQ.
Additionally, a surveillance camera with the capacity to “digitally record everything that passes in front of its windshield,” according to the Daily News, allows headquarters to access omnipresent live video feeds.
The department has been testing the car for the past year in the
Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)
neighborhoods as part of its NYPD2020 initiative, an all-out effort that
“leverages the latest advances in technology, organization, and training to keep
the city safe into the next decade.”
The police commissioner succeeding Ray Kelly, William Bratton, will decide whether or not to purchase a fleet of Smart patrol cars, according to the Wall Street Journal, but apparently figuring out a way to fit them into the department’s budget, and not the violation of millions of New Yorkers’ privacy, seems to be the only concern.
And this smart car’s features are just the tip of the iceberg. In the near future, Deputy Inspector Brandon del Pozo says, “smart cars might include fingerprint scanners and facial recognition sensors.”
However, naturally and thankfully, the Big Brother-on-wheels has encountered resistance in the form of privacy advocates.
In July, the ACLU released a report entitled, “You Are Being Tracked: How License Plate Readers Are Being Used To Record Americans’ Movements.” The organization claimed that, of the vast majority of license plate data collected, “only a fraction of 1 percent of reads are hits – and an even smaller fraction result in an arrest.” The ACLU also warned license plate readers could be abused, and can lead to “pervasive, permanent monitoring,” although their recommendations for curbing the activity are rather lacking and lenient.
Big Apple surveillance has come a long way in eliminating civil liberties since 9/11, but as long as police mention it’s being done in the name of combating “terrorism,” it appears there’s no extent to which people will surrender privacy.
Former MSNBC Host Told Not to Warn Public About Fukushima
“Because the official government position is that it’s safe”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur was told not to warn the public about the danger posed by the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant during his time as a host on the cable network.
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur was told not to warn the public about the danger posed by the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant during his time as a host on the cable network.
2:45;“I was on MSNBC at the time when this happened, I said, “Don’t trust what the Japanese government is saying, they’ll say trust what the electric power company is saying. Go, go, go, get outta there. Get as far away from that plant as you can. It’s literally a core meltdown.” And they always don’t want people to panic, so they were always like, “Oh it’s going to be okay.” [...] I’m like, “You’re crazy man, don’t be anywhere near that reactor.” And I remember at the time, of course not at The Young Turks, but on cable news, people were like, “Hey Cenk, you know, I don’t know that you want to say that, because the official government position is that it’s safe.” Oh, is that the official government position? Now go explain that to the people who served on the USS Ronald Reagan.”
Uygur previously
revealed how MSNBC president Phil Griffin ordered him to tone down his show
because “people in Washington” were concerned about Uygur being too combative
towards “those in power.” Despite the fact that his show had good ratings, Uygur
walked away from the network to create his own online broadcast.
Uygur’s reference to the USS Ronald Reagan concerns recent
revelations that 71 U.S. sailors who helped during the initial Fukushima
relief efforts returned with thyroid cancer, Leukemia, and brain tumors as a
result of being exposed to radiation at 300 times the safe level.
The sailors are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which
repeatedly lied in an effort to downplay the severity of the situation.
Now that radioactive debris is hitting the West Coast of North
America, numerous different animals and sea life are suffering
from mysterious diseases, including 20 bald eagles that have died in Utah
over the last few weeks alone.
Top
scientists have warned that if another major earthquake hits Fukushima,
which is almost inevitable, it would mean “bye bye Japan” and the complete
evacuation of the west coast of North America.
13 Tax Increases That Hit in 2013
Curtis Dubay
The Foundry
December 31, 2013
1. Payroll Tax: increase in the Social Security portion of the payroll tax from 4.2 percent to 6.2 percent for workers. This hit all Americans earning a paycheck—not just the “wealthy.” For example, The Wall Street Journal calculated that the “typical U.S. family earning $50,000 a year” would lose “an annual income boost of $1,000.”
2. Top marginal tax rate: increase from 35 percent to 39.6 percent for taxable incomes over $450,000 ($400,000 for single filers).
3. Phase out of personal exemptions for adjusted gross income (AGI) over $300,000 ($250,000 for single filers).
Read more
The Foundry
December 31, 2013
1. Payroll Tax: increase in the Social Security portion of the payroll tax from 4.2 percent to 6.2 percent for workers. This hit all Americans earning a paycheck—not just the “wealthy.” For example, The Wall Street Journal calculated that the “typical U.S. family earning $50,000 a year” would lose “an annual income boost of $1,000.”
2. Top marginal tax rate: increase from 35 percent to 39.6 percent for taxable incomes over $450,000 ($400,000 for single filers).
3. Phase out of personal exemptions for adjusted gross income (AGI) over $300,000 ($250,000 for single filers).
Read more
Volgograd Bombings: CIA’s Chechen Assets Attack Russia Ahead of Winter Olympics
Attacks likely precursor to events that will unfold during Olympic games in
February
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
The British MI6 asset Abu Qatada raised money for the Chechnya jihad and the notorious Finsbury Park mosque imam Abu Hamza al-Masri – an informer for two British security services in London – raised funds for both the jihad in Chechnya and bin Laden’s Darunta camp in Afghanistan.
The CIA also worked to destabilize the Balkans, a fact documented by the media in Europe but largely ignored in the United States. The effort to convert the Balkans into a “safe haven” for fanatical jihadists was aided by the CIA and the Pentagon. In 1993, CIA asset Osama bin Laden reportedly installed his number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to run the organization’s operations in the Balkans.
The Volgograd attacks are likely a precursor to coming events that will unfold during the Olympic games to be held beginning on February 7 in the Black Sea coast city of Sochi. In the West, the establishment media, in the wake of Volgograd attacks, is predicting disaster.
“Security concerns have been entwined with the planning for every Olympiad at least since Munich 1972,” the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. “The horrific events in Volgograd in recent days are only a reminder that the Sochi Winter Olympics will open some five weeks from now in a frighteningly unstable part of the former Soviet empire.”
The Times neglected to mention the frightening instability in that part of Russia was largely engineered in the West. “Suicide bombers do not explode themselves from excessive emotions or religious fanaticism,” Lyuba Lulko writes for Pravda. “This is always a result of a well-planned operation. There are Western intelligence agencies and money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar that stand behind terrorist groups and gangs operating in Russia… The bombings were conducted to destabilize the situation in the country before the New Year holidays and prior to the Olympic Games in Sochi.”
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
Responsibility for deadly attacks in the Russian
city of Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, is being placed on Chechen rebel leader
Doku Umarov, who was declared dead by Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov on December 18. Like many other phantom
terrorists, including the mercurial Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Umarov has risen from
the grave numerous times.
On Tuesday, the New York Times weighed in. It reported “the attention of the
Russian security services is already focused on the republic of Dagestan, which
has become the hub of Muslim separatist violence in recent years, and on
connections to the insurgent leader, Doku Umarov,” who is, like many other
Islamic terrorists, a “mysterious, almost mythical figure who fought in both
Chechnya wars, which began nearly two decades ago and have come to symbolize the
radicalization of a movement that began as a struggle for independence.”
The New York Time’s tidy encapsulation on the
Dagestan conflict, a sideshow in the artificially spawned Chechnya conflict,
omits a few pertinent facts. First and foremost, the struggle in the North
Caucasus region is part of a larger effort to instigate trouble in Russia’s
southern, primarily Muslim republics. “Ethnic Muslim populations in this region
of Russia and of the former Soviet Union, including Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan and
into China’s Xinjiang Province, have been the target of various US and NATO
intelligence operations since the Cold War era ended in 1990,” writes F. William Engdahl. “Washington sees manipulation of Muslim
groups as the vehicle to bring uncontrollable chaos to Russia and Central Asia.
It’s being carried out by some of the same organizations engaged in creating
chaos and destruction inside Syria against the government of Bashar
Al-Assad.”
According to the official historical narrative,
which is often echoed by Russia, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is
responsible for spreading often violent Islamic fundamentalism in Chechnya and
other republics. “The invasion was a big mistake that opened the hornet’s nest
that is terrorism, not only in Afghanistan but in the region as a whole,” said
Gen. Boris Gromov, who led the withdrawal of Soviet troops
from Afghanistan in 1989.
In fact, this “hornet’s nest” was organized,
sponsored and stirred up, as Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor Zbigniew
Brzezinski admitted in 1998, by the United States and its partners,
including Turkey and Saudi Arabia. “What is most important to the history of the
world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems
or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?” Brzezinski
told Le Nouvel Observateur.
It wasn’t, however, the liberation of Eastern
Europe that primarily interested the United States. Following the suicide
bombing of a bus outside Volgograd in October, President Vladimir Putin said the ongoing terror attacks are part of an
effort to undermine Russia proper. “Some political forces use Islam – the
radicals within it who are not typical of Russian Muslims – to weaken our state
and create conflicts on Russian soil that can then be controlled from abroad,”
he said.
In addition to causing trouble for Russia as it
prepares to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the upsurge of terrorism is
designed as a response to Russia’s support of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, who
tenaciously holds power despite a concerted effort by the United States and its
partners, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Israel, to take him down and
install an Islamic puppet regime like the one previously installed in Libya.
“Putin and the Russian Government are the strongest and most essential backer of
the current Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad, and for Russia as well the
maintenance of Russia’s only Mediterranean naval base at Syria’s Tartus port is
vital strategically,” writes Engdahl.
CIA Runs Umarov and the Chechen Rebels
As we have previously noted, the insurgency in
Chechnya was largely a covert CIA initiative. Rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and
Al Khattab, who vow to establish a Wahhabist Caucasian Emirate, were trained and
indoctrinated in CIA sponsored camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as Michel
Chossudovsky notes. Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) played a
key role in organizing and training the Chechen rebel army. The ISI also played
an instrumental role in supporting the Afghan Mujahideen, a Muslim paramilitary
force that would eventually mature under the guiding hand of the CIA et al into
the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
The British MI6 asset Abu Qatada raised money for the Chechnya jihad and the notorious Finsbury Park mosque imam Abu Hamza al-Masri – an informer for two British security services in London – raised funds for both the jihad in Chechnya and bin Laden’s Darunta camp in Afghanistan.
The CIA also worked to destabilize the Balkans, a fact documented by the media in Europe but largely ignored in the United States. The effort to convert the Balkans into a “safe haven” for fanatical jihadists was aided by the CIA and the Pentagon. In 1993, CIA asset Osama bin Laden reportedly installed his number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to run the organization’s operations in the Balkans.
The Volgograd attacks are likely a precursor to coming events that will unfold during the Olympic games to be held beginning on February 7 in the Black Sea coast city of Sochi. In the West, the establishment media, in the wake of Volgograd attacks, is predicting disaster.
“Security concerns have been entwined with the planning for every Olympiad at least since Munich 1972,” the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. “The horrific events in Volgograd in recent days are only a reminder that the Sochi Winter Olympics will open some five weeks from now in a frighteningly unstable part of the former Soviet empire.”
The Times neglected to mention the frightening instability in that part of Russia was largely engineered in the West. “Suicide bombers do not explode themselves from excessive emotions or religious fanaticism,” Lyuba Lulko writes for Pravda. “This is always a result of a well-planned operation. There are Western intelligence agencies and money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar that stand behind terrorist groups and gangs operating in Russia… The bombings were conducted to destabilize the situation in the country before the New Year holidays and prior to the Olympic Games in Sochi.”
This is What Really Happens in the Drone Program from an Insider
libertyblitzkrieg.com
December 31, 2013
Over the weekend, Heather Linebaugh wrote a powerful Op-ed in The Guardian newspaper lamenting the lack of public understanding regarding the American drone program. Heather should know what she’s talking about, she served in the United Stated Air Force from 2009 until March 2012. She worked in intelligence as an imagery analyst and geo-spatial analyst for the drone program during the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Here are some key excerpts from her article:
Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program – aka drones – I wish I could ask them a few questions. I’d start with: “How many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile?” And: “How many men have you seen crawl across a field, trying to make it to the nearest compound for help while bleeding out from severed legs?” Or even more pointedly: “How many soldiers have you seen die on the side of a road in Afghanistan because our ever-so-accurate UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] were unable to detect an IED [improvised explosive device] that awaited their convoy?”
Few of these politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue of what actually goes on. I, on the other hand, have seen these awful sights first hand.
I knew the names of some of the young soldiers I saw bleed to death on the side of a road. I watched dozens of military-aged males die in Afghanistan, in empty fields, along riversides, and some right outside the compound where their family was waiting for them to return home from the mosque.
What the public needs to understand is that the video provided by a drone is not usually clear enough to detect someone carrying a weapon, even on a crystal-clear day with limited cloud and perfect light. This makes it incredibly difficult for the best analysts to identify if someone has weapons for sure. One example comes to mind: “The feed is so pixelated, what if it’s a shovel, and not a weapon?” I felt this confusion constantly, as did my fellow UAV analysts. We always wonder if we killed the right people, if we endangered the wrong people, if we destroyed an innocent civilian’s life all because of a bad image or angle.
Moreover, the many civilians being incinerated without a trial are not the only victims here. So are the actual drone operators themselves, many of whom end up committing suicide. Recall my article from December 2012: Meet Brandon Bryant: The Drone Operator Who Quit After Killing a Child. Of course, our so-called political “leaders” never get their hands dirty, other than to take a lobbyist bribe that is. Now more from Heather:
Recently, the Guardian ran a commentary by Britain’s secretary of state for defence, Philip Hammond. I wish I could talk to him about the two friends and colleagues I lost, within a year of leaving the military, to suicide. I am sure he has not been notified of that little bit of the secret UAV program, or he would surely take a closer look at the full scope of the program before defending it again.
Full article here.
December 31, 2013
Over the weekend, Heather Linebaugh wrote a powerful Op-ed in The Guardian newspaper lamenting the lack of public understanding regarding the American drone program. Heather should know what she’s talking about, she served in the United Stated Air Force from 2009 until March 2012. She worked in intelligence as an imagery analyst and geo-spatial analyst for the drone program during the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Image: Predator Drone (Wikimedia Commons).
Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program – aka drones – I wish I could ask them a few questions. I’d start with: “How many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile?” And: “How many men have you seen crawl across a field, trying to make it to the nearest compound for help while bleeding out from severed legs?” Or even more pointedly: “How many soldiers have you seen die on the side of a road in Afghanistan because our ever-so-accurate UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] were unable to detect an IED [improvised explosive device] that awaited their convoy?”
Few of these politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue of what actually goes on. I, on the other hand, have seen these awful sights first hand.
I knew the names of some of the young soldiers I saw bleed to death on the side of a road. I watched dozens of military-aged males die in Afghanistan, in empty fields, along riversides, and some right outside the compound where their family was waiting for them to return home from the mosque.
What the public needs to understand is that the video provided by a drone is not usually clear enough to detect someone carrying a weapon, even on a crystal-clear day with limited cloud and perfect light. This makes it incredibly difficult for the best analysts to identify if someone has weapons for sure. One example comes to mind: “The feed is so pixelated, what if it’s a shovel, and not a weapon?” I felt this confusion constantly, as did my fellow UAV analysts. We always wonder if we killed the right people, if we endangered the wrong people, if we destroyed an innocent civilian’s life all because of a bad image or angle.
Moreover, the many civilians being incinerated without a trial are not the only victims here. So are the actual drone operators themselves, many of whom end up committing suicide. Recall my article from December 2012: Meet Brandon Bryant: The Drone Operator Who Quit After Killing a Child. Of course, our so-called political “leaders” never get their hands dirty, other than to take a lobbyist bribe that is. Now more from Heather:
Recently, the Guardian ran a commentary by Britain’s secretary of state for defence, Philip Hammond. I wish I could talk to him about the two friends and colleagues I lost, within a year of leaving the military, to suicide. I am sure he has not been notified of that little bit of the secret UAV program, or he would surely take a closer look at the full scope of the program before defending it again.
Full article here.
Monday, December 30, 2013
Pennsylvania Citizen Sues Over ‘Voluntary’ Cheek Swabs
Suit “Seeks an injunction and damages for conspiracy to violate the
Constitution…”
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
December 30, 2013
Following reports that police in Reading, Pennsylvania, participated in a national survey, in which random citizens were pulled over and asked for “voluntary” cheek swabs, a courageous resident filed a lawsuit against the city, its mayor and several others claiming his Fourth Amendment rights were violated.
“Nothing about this
incident was ‘voluntary’ in my case,” Reading resident Ricardo Nieves stated at a City Council meeting two weeks ago, prior to
pursuing the federal suit. “I feel this incident is a gross abuse of power on so
many levels. I’m not a legal expert, but being forced off the road and
unlawfully holding me against my will for any period of time, I would consider
my liberty to be compromised and falsely imprisoned.”
Nieves was irked when on Friday, December 13, he drove up to a street where police lights were flashing and orange security cones lined the lane.
According to the suit, Nieves was driving in the right hand lane and that the left lane “was full of traffic such that he could not pull over to change lanes.”
Nieves’ lawsuit, obtained by Courthouse News, further states an officer “stepped out into plaintiff’s lane of traffic, blocked his further advance, and flagged him to pull off the public road into a parking lot on Laurel Street.”
There, Nieves says a woman with a clipboard walked up to him, stated he was not being “pulled over” and proceeded to ask if he would participate in a survey. According to the lawsuit, the woman explained “the purpose of the stop was a survey of drivers’ behavior and that she wanted to take a cheek swab to check for the presence of prescription drugs.”
Knowledgable of his Fourth Amendment rights, which are supposed to protect U.S. citizens from unreasonable and unwarranted searches absent of probable cause, Nieves repeatedly refused the surveyor’s request for a cheek swab, and after five minutes ultimately asserted “very firmly, ‘No. Thank You.’”
When Nieves researched the checkpoint, it disturbed him to find it was conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at the behest of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
He also found out it was conducted with the full cooperation of the city of Reading and its police department and that they were awarded a considerable sum for their part.
“The checkpoint was part of a $7.9 million, three-year survey by the agencies, which has been conducted several times since the 1970s,” reported the Reading Eagle.
“This was nothing more than a gross abuse of power and federal intrusion of my rights,” Nieves told Alex Jones during a live interview after his story broke nationally.
Of course, the Reading police chief thinks matters are being blown out of proportion. “People are not pressured by police presence to do something they don’t want to,” Police Chief William M. Heim told the Reading Eagle. “In the grand scheme of things, I think it’s a pretty innocuous and minor issue.” Heim is included in Nieves’ suit as a defendant, along with Reading Mayor Vaughn Spencer and the Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation.
“When people are manipulated, it’s anti-democratic, and what’s being done here is controlling people. People don’t want to be controlled. People want to make their own decisions, because consciousness and the freedom to think is a fundamental human right. The idea of free will being violated is something that god doesn’t even do, yet man thinks he can do this to us,” Nieves stated to City Council and again on the Alex Jones Show.
Nieves’ suit reportedly “seeks an injunction and damages for conspiracy to violate the Constitution, constitutional violations and false imprisonment.”
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
December 30, 2013
Following reports that police in Reading, Pennsylvania, participated in a national survey, in which random citizens were pulled over and asked for “voluntary” cheek swabs, a courageous resident filed a lawsuit against the city, its mayor and several others claiming his Fourth Amendment rights were violated.
Reading police chief thinks violation of Fourth
Amendment is a “pretty innocuous and minor issue.”
Nieves was irked when on Friday, December 13, he drove up to a street where police lights were flashing and orange security cones lined the lane.
According to the suit, Nieves was driving in the right hand lane and that the left lane “was full of traffic such that he could not pull over to change lanes.”
Nieves’ lawsuit, obtained by Courthouse News, further states an officer “stepped out into plaintiff’s lane of traffic, blocked his further advance, and flagged him to pull off the public road into a parking lot on Laurel Street.”
There, Nieves says a woman with a clipboard walked up to him, stated he was not being “pulled over” and proceeded to ask if he would participate in a survey. According to the lawsuit, the woman explained “the purpose of the stop was a survey of drivers’ behavior and that she wanted to take a cheek swab to check for the presence of prescription drugs.”
Knowledgable of his Fourth Amendment rights, which are supposed to protect U.S. citizens from unreasonable and unwarranted searches absent of probable cause, Nieves repeatedly refused the surveyor’s request for a cheek swab, and after five minutes ultimately asserted “very firmly, ‘No. Thank You.’”
When Nieves researched the checkpoint, it disturbed him to find it was conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at the behest of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
He also found out it was conducted with the full cooperation of the city of Reading and its police department and that they were awarded a considerable sum for their part.
“The checkpoint was part of a $7.9 million, three-year survey by the agencies, which has been conducted several times since the 1970s,” reported the Reading Eagle.
“This was nothing more than a gross abuse of power and federal intrusion of my rights,” Nieves told Alex Jones during a live interview after his story broke nationally.
Of course, the Reading police chief thinks matters are being blown out of proportion. “People are not pressured by police presence to do something they don’t want to,” Police Chief William M. Heim told the Reading Eagle. “In the grand scheme of things, I think it’s a pretty innocuous and minor issue.” Heim is included in Nieves’ suit as a defendant, along with Reading Mayor Vaughn Spencer and the Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation.
“When people are manipulated, it’s anti-democratic, and what’s being done here is controlling people. People don’t want to be controlled. People want to make their own decisions, because consciousness and the freedom to think is a fundamental human right. The idea of free will being violated is something that god doesn’t even do, yet man thinks he can do this to us,” Nieves stated to City Council and again on the Alex Jones Show.
Nieves’ suit reportedly “seeks an injunction and damages for conspiracy to violate the Constitution, constitutional violations and false imprisonment.”
Video: Obama’s Top Constitutional Violations Of 2013
Infowars.com
December 30, 2013
Legal theorist Elizabeth Price Foley breaks down some of Obama’s top abuses of the Constitution in the past year on Fox News.
December 30, 2013
Legal theorist Elizabeth Price Foley breaks down some of Obama’s top abuses of the Constitution in the past year on Fox News.
Chicago pension crisis called worst in nation
Rick Moran
americanthinker.com
December 30, 2013
Calling the Chicago pension crisis the worst in the nation is saying something – like, how bad can it get?
The city’s underfunded pension system for teachers, firefighters, police, and transit workers threatens to punch a hole in the city budget that would devastate city services. The teachers’ alone are $1 billion short of funds, while the city as a whole is looking at a whopping $27 billion shortfall.
The state of Illinois is even worse off with more than $100 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. Where is the money going to come from to fix the problem?
Read more
americanthinker.com
December 30, 2013
Calling the Chicago pension crisis the worst in the nation is saying something – like, how bad can it get?
The city’s underfunded pension system for teachers, firefighters, police, and transit workers threatens to punch a hole in the city budget that would devastate city services. The teachers’ alone are $1 billion short of funds, while the city as a whole is looking at a whopping $27 billion shortfall.
The state of Illinois is even worse off with more than $100 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. Where is the money going to come from to fix the problem?
Read more
Homeless recruited to decontaminate Fukishima; paid less than minimum wage
Cory Doctorow
boingboing.net
December 30, 2013
The publicly funded, $35B cleanup of radioactive soil around Fukishima is staffed by homeless men recruited from Tokyo subway stations. They are preferentially sent to the most radioactive zones, and work for less than minimum wage. Mobbed-up subcontractors confiscate as much as two thirds of their pay in “fees.” Everyone involved in sourcing the labor for the cleanup denies responsibility for the illegal practices, blaming sub-subcontractors or cowboy recruiters. The president of one contractor, Aisogo Service, defended the practice of not scrutinizing the labor force or the conditions under which it worked, saying “If you started looking at every single person, the project wouldn’t move forward. You wouldn’t get a tenth of the people you need.”
Workers are also recruited from publicly funded homeless shelters. One man worked for a month for a total payout of $10. After this fact was verified and made public, the man disappeared. Workers are charged exorbitant rates for lodgings and food, and are docked pay for being too ill to work. As a result, some workers are in debt to their employers, a debt that deepens the longer they stay employed.
The decontamination project is two to three years behind schedule.
Special Report: Japan’s homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up [Mari Saito and Antoni Slodkowski/Reuters]
boingboing.net
December 30, 2013
The publicly funded, $35B cleanup of radioactive soil around Fukishima is staffed by homeless men recruited from Tokyo subway stations. They are preferentially sent to the most radioactive zones, and work for less than minimum wage. Mobbed-up subcontractors confiscate as much as two thirds of their pay in “fees.” Everyone involved in sourcing the labor for the cleanup denies responsibility for the illegal practices, blaming sub-subcontractors or cowboy recruiters. The president of one contractor, Aisogo Service, defended the practice of not scrutinizing the labor force or the conditions under which it worked, saying “If you started looking at every single person, the project wouldn’t move forward. You wouldn’t get a tenth of the people you need.”
Workers are also recruited from publicly funded homeless shelters. One man worked for a month for a total payout of $10. After this fact was verified and made public, the man disappeared. Workers are charged exorbitant rates for lodgings and food, and are docked pay for being too ill to work. As a result, some workers are in debt to their employers, a debt that deepens the longer they stay employed.
The decontamination project is two to three years behind schedule.
Below these official subcontractors, a shadowy network of gangsters and illegal brokers who hire homeless men has also become active in Fukushima. Ministry of Environment contracts in the most radioactive areas of Fukushima prefecture are particularly lucrative because the government pays an additional $100 in hazard allowance per day for each worker.
Takayoshi Igarashi, a lawyer and professor at Hosei University, said the initial rush to find companies for decontamination was understandable in the immediate aftermath of the disaster when the priority was emergency response. But he said the government now needs to tighten its scrutiny to prevent a range of abuses, including bid rigging.
“There are many unknown entities getting involved in decontamination projects,” said Igarashi, a former advisor to ex-Prime Minister Naoto Kan. “There needs to be a thorough check on what companies are working on what, and when. I think it’s probably completely lawless if the top contractors are not thoroughly checking.”
The Ministry of Environment announced on Thursday that work on the most contaminated sites would take two to three years longer than the original March 2014 deadline. That means many of the more than 60,000 who lived in the area before the disaster will remain unable to return home until six years after the disaster.
Special Report: Japan’s homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up [Mari Saito and Antoni Slodkowski/Reuters]
Chinese President Orders PLA To Prepare For War
“Major changes” in Beijing’s national security situation
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 30, 2013
The recent spate of bellicose militaristic rhetoric emanating out
of Chinese state media has continued in the form of a 7,500 word Xinhua
editorial which outlines how Chinese president Xi Jinping has ordered the
People’s Liberation Army to prepare for war.
Image: Chinese Troops (Wikimedia Commons).
According to a summary
of the editorial, China’s “Mission Action 2013″ exercise was part of a move,
“to deepen preparations for potential conflict to ensure that the troops are
ready if called upon not only to fight, but to win.”
President Xi’s increased number of visits to PLA military zones
over the past year are part of military reforms in order “to prepare his troops
in the event of war,” the editorial stated.
The editorial cited the threats posed by Japan over the disputed
Senkaku Islands, domestic terrorist attacks, and the increased US military
presence in the Asia Pacific. These issues have caused “major changes” in
China’s national security situation and warrant strengthening and increasing the
“battle-readiness” of the PLA.
As we have highlighted, via its media mouthpieces, Beijing has
recently engaged in a spate of announcements and commentaries that observers
have noted for their aggressively jingoistic tone.
After Chinese state-run media released
a map showing the locations of major U.S. cities and how they would be
impacted by a nuclear attack launched from the PLA’s strategic submarine force,
follow-up reports bragged of how China’s new H-6K strategic bomber can
target US military bases in the Western Pacific with nuclear missiles.
Following discussion
in state media about plans to to turn the moon into a Star Wars-style “death
star” from which the PLA could launch missiles against any target on Earth, a
display to promote China’s Jade Rabbit Moon rover also included a background
photograph of a mushroom cloud over Europe.
China has becoming increasingly irate over the United States’
growing presence in the East China Sea and recently retaliated by sailing
a surveillance ship through Hawaiian waters for the very first time in an
unprecedented and provocative move.
Earlier this month, a PLA
military website also bragged that China’s first aircraft carrier combat
task force was close to rivaling the U.S. Navy.
Cop gets two years for illegal anal cavity searches
Robby Soave
Daily Caller
December 30, 2013
The end of 2013 brought a measure of closure to a long-running Milwaukee police scandal, though some say the officer — and his cohorts — who repeatedly and illegally shoved his fingers up black male suspects’ anal cavities got off with a light sentence considering the flagrant nature of his abuses.
The ringleader was identified as officer Michael Vagnini, a white man who routinely targeted black males as young as fifteen for sadistic — and blatantly illegal — anal searches.
One victim said that another officer put a gun to his head while Vagnini administered a choke hold, touched his scrotum and fingered his anus. Another man was probed so violently that he bled.
Read more
Daily Caller
December 30, 2013
The end of 2013 brought a measure of closure to a long-running Milwaukee police scandal, though some say the officer — and his cohorts — who repeatedly and illegally shoved his fingers up black male suspects’ anal cavities got off with a light sentence considering the flagrant nature of his abuses.
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said he had to wait “a
couple of years” for an investigation into Vagnini’s illegal and sadistic
searches which rarely involved gloves. Credit: AlbertHerring via
Flickr
The ringleader was identified as officer Michael Vagnini, a white man who routinely targeted black males as young as fifteen for sadistic — and blatantly illegal — anal searches.
One victim said that another officer put a gun to his head while Vagnini administered a choke hold, touched his scrotum and fingered his anus. Another man was probed so violently that he bled.
Read more
Paul Krugman is scared. He says “Bitcoin is evil.” Undermines central banks.
Nick Sorrentino
againstcronycapitalism.org
December 29, 2013
Dr. Krugman fears that Bitcoin was created to further a “libertarian agenda,” undermining central banks and their power.
Well, he’s actually pretty right. It wasn’t created to further a libertarian agenda per se, but it certainly was created to challenge the central banks of the world. A pretty lofty and worthwhile goal as far as I am concerned. What’s crazy is that Bitcoin actually is challenging central banks to some degree.
Paul Krugman and technology don’t mix very well. For instance in 1998 the esteemed economist had this to say about the Internet;
Actually Paul Krugman and economics don’t mix very well. But he gets to write a column in the New York Times every week so people listen to what he says. (Including me.) Even if he is consistently wrong or non-committal on important points where he should be clear.
If Bitcoin succeeds, great. The world will be better for it. If it fails another version will come along quickly. We’ve passed the point of turning back with virtual currencies. They will be a part of economic life going forward.
What Krugman fears is that these alternative currencies will undermine not only the central banks, but more importantly for him, the “state.” He fears that people will opt out of the dollar. That the ability of the Federal Reserve to print will be limited by the unwashed masses who simply want their money to be worth something. God forbid. This in turn puts Krugman’s dream of a statist coercive “utopia” at risk.
I prefer gold and silver, but in a marketplace I say let new entrants make their case. Bitcoin makes a compelling case. Very compelling. So compelling that statists like Paul Krugman are fretting. Which is of course wonderful.
The jury’s out on Bitcoin, but if Krugman doesn’t like it there is a good chance that it will do well.
Click here for Krugman’s column.
againstcronycapitalism.org
December 29, 2013
Dr. Krugman fears that Bitcoin was created to further a “libertarian agenda,” undermining central banks and their power.
Well, he’s actually pretty right. It wasn’t created to further a libertarian agenda per se, but it certainly was created to challenge the central banks of the world. A pretty lofty and worthwhile goal as far as I am concerned. What’s crazy is that Bitcoin actually is challenging central banks to some degree.
Paul Krugman and technology don’t mix very well. For instance in 1998 the esteemed economist had this to say about the Internet;
”The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in “Metcalfe’s law”–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”
Actually Paul Krugman and economics don’t mix very well. But he gets to write a column in the New York Times every week so people listen to what he says. (Including me.) Even if he is consistently wrong or non-committal on important points where he should be clear.
If Bitcoin succeeds, great. The world will be better for it. If it fails another version will come along quickly. We’ve passed the point of turning back with virtual currencies. They will be a part of economic life going forward.
What Krugman fears is that these alternative currencies will undermine not only the central banks, but more importantly for him, the “state.” He fears that people will opt out of the dollar. That the ability of the Federal Reserve to print will be limited by the unwashed masses who simply want their money to be worth something. God forbid. This in turn puts Krugman’s dream of a statist coercive “utopia” at risk.
I prefer gold and silver, but in a marketplace I say let new entrants make their case. Bitcoin makes a compelling case. Very compelling. So compelling that statists like Paul Krugman are fretting. Which is of course wonderful.
The jury’s out on Bitcoin, but if Krugman doesn’t like it there is a good chance that it will do well.
Click here for Krugman’s column.
Sunday, December 29, 2013
White House to Step Up Obamacare Propaganda In 2014
Carrie Budoff Brown and Jonathan Allen
Politico
December 29, 2013
If Democrats get their way, the next phase of the Obamacare wars will see something unusual: a flood of success stories.
The White House, Democratic lawmakers and advocacy organizations will launch a campaign this week to highlight real-life experiences under the Affordable Care Act — tales so compelling that they help drive up enrollment, marginalize Republican repeal efforts and erase memories of this fall’s HealthCare.gov debacle.
That’s the thought, at least.
Read more
Politico
December 29, 2013
Obama’s lies regularly come from behind a teleprompter.
Credit: borman818 via Flickr
If Democrats get their way, the next phase of the Obamacare wars will see something unusual: a flood of success stories.
The White House, Democratic lawmakers and advocacy organizations will launch a campaign this week to highlight real-life experiences under the Affordable Care Act — tales so compelling that they help drive up enrollment, marginalize Republican repeal efforts and erase memories of this fall’s HealthCare.gov debacle.
That’s the thought, at least.
Read more
New York Times Report Covers Up Truth Behind Benghazi
Aaron Klein
WND
December 29, 2013
An extensive New York Times investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack is filled with misleading information, including details contradicted by the U.S. government, Benghazi victims and numerous other previous news reports.
The report, entitled, “A Deadly Mix in Benghazi,” was authored from Benghazi by Times writer David D. Kirkpatrick.
One of the main contentions of the Times piece is that “contrary to claims by some members of Congress,” the Benghazi attack “was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.”
Read more
Check out the date?
WND
December 29, 2013
Ambassador Christopher Stevens died in the Benghazi
attack on Sept. 11, 2012.
An extensive New York Times investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack is filled with misleading information, including details contradicted by the U.S. government, Benghazi victims and numerous other previous news reports.
The report, entitled, “A Deadly Mix in Benghazi,” was authored from Benghazi by Times writer David D. Kirkpatrick.
One of the main contentions of the Times piece is that “contrary to claims by some members of Congress,” the Benghazi attack “was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.”
Read more
Check out the date?
Suicide bomber kills 16 in Russia’s Volgograd
RT
December 29, 2013
At least 16 people were killed in a blast at a railway station in the city of Volgograd, southern Russia. A suicide bomber is suspected to have carried out the attack, says the National Anti-terrorism Committee.
“According to verified information, the explosion at the railway station in Volgograd has claimed 16 lives,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
Another 37 were injured, 8 of them more critically, including a girl of 9. The child has been taken to a local hospital.
At the same time, the Health Ministry confirms that 45 people have been taken to hospital.
The incident is being treated as an act of terrorism, the committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.
The blast took place at 12.45 local time inside the building of the railway. It is “thought to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber,” according to the anti-terrorism committee’s statement.
“At 12.45 we got informed that a boom or a blast was heard in the building of the railway station, Volgograd-1. Smoke was reported,” Svetlana Smolyaninova, a police spokesperson said, according to RIA Novosti.
The power of the explosion at Volgograd’s station was equivalent to at least 10 kg TNT, according to Markin. The explosive device was stuffed with pieces of scrap metal. The Committee said that an undetonated F-1 grenade was also found at the scene.
Interfax’s source said that “the blast happened near the metal detectors located at the entrance to the station.”
Suicide bomber’s identity disputed
The Committee originally said a female suicide bomber detonated the bomb when she saw a police officer while approaching the metal detector.
But since then the suicide bomber’s identity has been disputed. The female was initially identified as Oksana Aslanova, a close friend of Naida Asiyalova – also known as ‘Amaturahman’ – who was behind the October Volgograd attack. Aslanova is said to have been married twice to two militants, both eliminated earlier.
A few hours later, more evidence emerged suggesting that a man could have also been involved in the attack. The version, which was also picked up by investigators, came after a male finger with a pin from a grenade was found at the scene.
Given the new information, the possibility that the attack could have been carried out by both a man and a woman is not ruled out, Markin said.
‘Blast was so strong, we thought it was a crash’
One witness told the news agency that he saw “two bodies lying in front of the entrance, pieces of shattered glass are everywhere, there’s a ton of rubble there.” He added that “apparently, the explosion led to a fire, which the firefighters quickly put out.”
Another witness told RT that the windows on both levels of the station have been shattered and that “the police have cordoned off the area, nobody’s allowed on the premises. There’s a very heavy police presence, emergency ministry officials, bomb squads… it’s understandable that people are afraid, but there aren’t any screams or panicking.”
According to one of the accounts shared on a social network, people around the station thought a plane might have crashed because of the thick fog.
“The blast was really strong so my mother and everybody around thought there was a plane crash,” a woman said after she reached her mother on the phone. “Somebody shouted: there is an explosion inside the railway station. My mother said there was a lot of smoke.”
President Vladimir Putin has ordered that all the necessary measures be taken to assist survivors and provide security in Volgograd, the Kremlin reported.
UN Security Council has condemned the Volgograd bombing “in the strongest terms” and registered its condolences for the victims and their families, the body’s official statement reads.
Washington has also strongly condemned the terror attack in Volgograd. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki expressed condolences to the families of the victims and solidarity with the Russian people. US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul also expressed condolences.
Volgograd is a city of around 1 million people, about 690 km northeast of Sochi and close to Russia’s volatile region of North Caucasus. The city saw a terrorist attack just in October, when a suicide bomber blew herself up in a bus, killing six people and injuring more than 30 others.
On Friday, a car bomb killed three people, all passerbys, in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk as a homemade explosive device went off outside the Road Traffic Safety Department. Funerals are scheduled for December 30.
December 29, 2013
At least 16 people were killed in a blast at a railway station in the city of Volgograd, southern Russia. A suicide bomber is suspected to have carried out the attack, says the National Anti-terrorism Committee.
“According to verified information, the explosion at the railway station in Volgograd has claimed 16 lives,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
Another 37 were injured, 8 of them more critically, including a girl of 9. The child has been taken to a local hospital.
At the same time, the Health Ministry confirms that 45 people have been taken to hospital.
The incident is being treated as an act of terrorism, the committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.
The blast took place at 12.45 local time inside the building of the railway. It is “thought to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber,” according to the anti-terrorism committee’s statement.
“At 12.45 we got informed that a boom or a blast was heard in the building of the railway station, Volgograd-1. Smoke was reported,” Svetlana Smolyaninova, a police spokesperson said, according to RIA Novosti.
The power of the explosion at Volgograd’s station was equivalent to at least 10 kg TNT, according to Markin. The explosive device was stuffed with pieces of scrap metal. The Committee said that an undetonated F-1 grenade was also found at the scene.
Interfax’s source said that “the blast happened near the metal detectors located at the entrance to the station.”
Suicide bomber’s identity disputed
The Committee originally said a female suicide bomber detonated the bomb when she saw a police officer while approaching the metal detector.
But since then the suicide bomber’s identity has been disputed. The female was initially identified as Oksana Aslanova, a close friend of Naida Asiyalova – also known as ‘Amaturahman’ – who was behind the October Volgograd attack. Aslanova is said to have been married twice to two militants, both eliminated earlier.
A few hours later, more evidence emerged suggesting that a man could have also been involved in the attack. The version, which was also picked up by investigators, came after a male finger with a pin from a grenade was found at the scene.
Given the new information, the possibility that the attack could have been carried out by both a man and a woman is not ruled out, Markin said.
‘Blast was so strong, we thought it was a crash’
One witness told the news agency that he saw “two bodies lying in front of the entrance, pieces of shattered glass are everywhere, there’s a ton of rubble there.” He added that “apparently, the explosion led to a fire, which the firefighters quickly put out.”
Another witness told RT that the windows on both levels of the station have been shattered and that “the police have cordoned off the area, nobody’s allowed on the premises. There’s a very heavy police presence, emergency ministry officials, bomb squads… it’s understandable that people are afraid, but there aren’t any screams or panicking.”
According to one of the accounts shared on a social network, people around the station thought a plane might have crashed because of the thick fog.
“The blast was really strong so my mother and everybody around thought there was a plane crash,” a woman said after she reached her mother on the phone. “Somebody shouted: there is an explosion inside the railway station. My mother said there was a lot of smoke.”
President Vladimir Putin has ordered that all the necessary measures be taken to assist survivors and provide security in Volgograd, the Kremlin reported.
UN Security Council has condemned the Volgograd bombing “in the strongest terms” and registered its condolences for the victims and their families, the body’s official statement reads.
Washington has also strongly condemned the terror attack in Volgograd. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki expressed condolences to the families of the victims and solidarity with the Russian people. US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul also expressed condolences.
Volgograd is a city of around 1 million people, about 690 km northeast of Sochi and close to Russia’s volatile region of North Caucasus. The city saw a terrorist attack just in October, when a suicide bomber blew herself up in a bus, killing six people and injuring more than 30 others.
On Friday, a car bomb killed three people, all passerbys, in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk as a homemade explosive device went off outside the Road Traffic Safety Department. Funerals are scheduled for December 30.
Florida neighborhood bans kids from playing in street
UPI
December 29, 2013
A new rule in the Miramar neighborhood of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., banning children from playing in the streets, is causing disagreement among residents.
After Advanced Management, the community’s managing company, prohibited children, for their own safety, from playing on the one road passing through the 172-unit subdivision, the family-oriented neighborhood is surprisingly quiet in the days after Christmas, WTSP-TV, Tampa, reported Sunday.
“I just want to be outside, tossing a football. They are taking away all the fun, to be honest. We just want to go outside and play,” said resident Nico Cardenas, 15, who acknowledged he now spends more time indoors, playing video games.
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December 29, 2013
Kids in the neigborhood now spend their time indoors
playing video games. Credit: Broderick via Flickr
A new rule in the Miramar neighborhood of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., banning children from playing in the streets, is causing disagreement among residents.
After Advanced Management, the community’s managing company, prohibited children, for their own safety, from playing on the one road passing through the 172-unit subdivision, the family-oriented neighborhood is surprisingly quiet in the days after Christmas, WTSP-TV, Tampa, reported Sunday.
“I just want to be outside, tossing a football. They are taking away all the fun, to be honest. We just want to go outside and play,” said resident Nico Cardenas, 15, who acknowledged he now spends more time indoors, playing video games.
Read more
Video: Target Credit Card Mass Identity Theft
Infowars.com
December 29, 2013
Why is Target pushing their customers to sign up for Target cards in the wake of the massive credit card security breach?
More broadly, why does the country rely on a cashless society complete with RFID cards?
This will only lead to tracking and record keeping more intrusive than what we live under now.
Without cash, underground markets necessary for survival under tyranny will collapse.
December 29, 2013
Why is Target pushing their customers to sign up for Target cards in the wake of the massive credit card security breach?
More broadly, why does the country rely on a cashless society complete with RFID cards?
This will only lead to tracking and record keeping more intrusive than what we live under now.
Without cash, underground markets necessary for survival under tyranny will collapse.
England: Mortgage rise will plunge a million homeowners into ‘perilous debt’
Daniel Boffey
The Guardian
December 29, 2013
More than a million homeowners will be at risk of defaulting on their mortgages and losing their properties in the wake of even a small rise in interest rates, a bombshell analysis reveals. Borrowers who have failed to pay down their mortgages when interest rates have been at record low levels now face being overwhelmed by “perilous levels of debt” when the inevitable hike comes.
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, warned of a “financial ticking timebomb”: “The rising cost of energy, food and travel has been absorbing any spare income people may have. This means that in some cases there is little or nothing left to cope with larger mortgage repayments.”
According to a new report from an influential thinktank, the Resolution Foundation, even in the most optimistic scenario – in which interest rates rise slowly to 3% by 2018 and economic growth is strong and well-distributed between the rich and poor – 1.12 million homeowners will be spending more than half of their take-home pay on mortgage repayments – this is a widely accepted indicator of over-indebtedness.
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It's going to happen here Again.
The Guardian
December 29, 2013
Foreclosure signs are not only frequently seen in the
U.S. but now globally. Credit: W.marsh via Wikimedia
More than a million homeowners will be at risk of defaulting on their mortgages and losing their properties in the wake of even a small rise in interest rates, a bombshell analysis reveals. Borrowers who have failed to pay down their mortgages when interest rates have been at record low levels now face being overwhelmed by “perilous levels of debt” when the inevitable hike comes.
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, warned of a “financial ticking timebomb”: “The rising cost of energy, food and travel has been absorbing any spare income people may have. This means that in some cases there is little or nothing left to cope with larger mortgage repayments.”
According to a new report from an influential thinktank, the Resolution Foundation, even in the most optimistic scenario – in which interest rates rise slowly to 3% by 2018 and economic growth is strong and well-distributed between the rich and poor – 1.12 million homeowners will be spending more than half of their take-home pay on mortgage repayments – this is a widely accepted indicator of over-indebtedness.
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IT firms lose billions after NSA scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden
Mikkel Stern-Peltz & Jim Armitage
London Independent
December 29, 2013
The National Security Agency scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden has cost American technology companies billions of dollars in lost revenue as governments and companies in its important export markets of Asia refuse to entrust the handling of sensitive data to US companies. An analysis of financial filings from technology giants IBM and Cisco by The Independent on Sunday reveals the two businesses have seen sales slump by more than $1.7bn (£1.03bn) year-on-year in the important Asia-Pacific region since Mr Snowden revealed in June that US companies had been compromised by the NSA’s intelligence-gathering in the clandestine Prism programme.
“US companies have seen some of their business put at risk because of the NSA revelations,” said James Kelleher of equity research firm Argus Research.
China is high on the list of those countries now shunning US companies. Mr Kelleher said this may be payback for the US government saying it did not trust China-based Huawei to be independent from Chinese military and intelligence agencies. Despite operating in every other major country, Huawei, the world’s biggest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and a privately owned Chinese company, has been prevented from winning major communications contracts in the US.
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London Independent
December 29, 2013
The NSA records practically everything you type
on-line. Credit: jeroenbennink via Flickr
The National Security Agency scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden has cost American technology companies billions of dollars in lost revenue as governments and companies in its important export markets of Asia refuse to entrust the handling of sensitive data to US companies. An analysis of financial filings from technology giants IBM and Cisco by The Independent on Sunday reveals the two businesses have seen sales slump by more than $1.7bn (£1.03bn) year-on-year in the important Asia-Pacific region since Mr Snowden revealed in June that US companies had been compromised by the NSA’s intelligence-gathering in the clandestine Prism programme.
“US companies have seen some of their business put at risk because of the NSA revelations,” said James Kelleher of equity research firm Argus Research.
China is high on the list of those countries now shunning US companies. Mr Kelleher said this may be payback for the US government saying it did not trust China-based Huawei to be independent from Chinese military and intelligence agencies. Despite operating in every other major country, Huawei, the world’s biggest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and a privately owned Chinese company, has been prevented from winning major communications contracts in the US.
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France’s 75% tax rate gains approval by top court
BBC
December 28, 2013
France’s highest court has approved a 75% tax on high earners that is one of President Francois Hollande’s signature policies.
The initial proposal to tax individual incomes was ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Council almost exactly one year ago.
But the government modified it to make employers liable for the 75% tax on salaries exceeding 1m euros (£830,000).
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December 28, 2013
French president François Hollande is a socialist.
Credit: Matthieu Riegler via Wikipedia
France’s highest court has approved a 75% tax on high earners that is one of President Francois Hollande’s signature policies.
The initial proposal to tax individual incomes was ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Council almost exactly one year ago.
But the government modified it to make employers liable for the 75% tax on salaries exceeding 1m euros (£830,000).
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The Soviet Union spent $1 billion on mind control program
news.com.au
December 29, 2013
At the time, the Soviet Union and the United States were in an arms race of a bizarre, unconventional kind – that has been exposed in a new report.
Beginning in 1917 and continuing until 2003, the Soviets poured up to $1 billion into developing mind-controlling weaponry to compete with similar programs undertaken in the US.
While much still remains classified, we can now confirm the Soviets used methods to manipulate test subjects’ brains.
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December 29, 2013
For years, the Soviets competed with the U.S. in
studying mind control.
At the time, the Soviet Union and the United States were in an arms race of a bizarre, unconventional kind – that has been exposed in a new report.
Beginning in 1917 and continuing until 2003, the Soviets poured up to $1 billion into developing mind-controlling weaponry to compete with similar programs undertaken in the US.
While much still remains classified, we can now confirm the Soviets used methods to manipulate test subjects’ brains.
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Saturday, December 28, 2013
Next Big Obamacare Shock May Come at Tax Time
Sandy Fitzgerald
Newsmax
December 28, 2013
People who use subsidies to help pay for their Obamacare policies may get a nasty shock at tax time, when the Internal Revenue Service could hit them with a big demand to repay they money.
While it’s in the law, it’s still likely to make plenty of Obamacare subscribers angry at the IRS.
“If I were the IRS, I would be very concerned that I’m going to be viewed as the villain when people have to pay back money the government gave them for health insurance,” says Chris Condeluci, who served as Senate Finance Committee GOP tax counsel when Obamacare was being drafted.
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Newsmax
December 28, 2013
People who use subsidies to help pay for their Obamacare policies may get a nasty shock at tax time, when the Internal Revenue Service could hit them with a big demand to repay they money.
While it’s in the law, it’s still likely to make plenty of Obamacare subscribers angry at the IRS.
“If I were the IRS, I would be very concerned that I’m going to be viewed as the villain when people have to pay back money the government gave them for health insurance,” says Chris Condeluci, who served as Senate Finance Committee GOP tax counsel when Obamacare was being drafted.
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Michigan nullifies NDAA’s indefinite detention
Michael Lotfi
Washington Times
December 28, 2013
Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed Senate Bill No. 94 into law yesterday. The bill seeks to nullify section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). “It is important to recall that indefinite detention first appeared in section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA, which provided warrant for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens,” said Snyder.
Michigan State Senator Rick Jones says that no American citizen should fear being thrown in jail or prison without charges.
“Historically Michigan first asserted Tenth Amendment rights in 1855 when we passed a law to block the fugitive slave act,” says Jones. “I thought of this great history when I drafted and pushed this bill to nullify section 1021 of the NDAA within the state of Michigan.”
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Washington Times
December 28, 2013
Michigan Sen. Rick Jones, the bill’s sponsor, spent 31
years with the Eaton County sheriff’s dept.
Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed Senate Bill No. 94 into law yesterday. The bill seeks to nullify section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). “It is important to recall that indefinite detention first appeared in section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA, which provided warrant for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens,” said Snyder.
Michigan State Senator Rick Jones says that no American citizen should fear being thrown in jail or prison without charges.
“Historically Michigan first asserted Tenth Amendment rights in 1855 when we passed a law to block the fugitive slave act,” says Jones. “I thought of this great history when I drafted and pushed this bill to nullify section 1021 of the NDAA within the state of Michigan.”
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Friday, December 27, 2013
Lebanon’s Former Ambassador to U.S. Killed in Car Bomb Attack
Warren Mass
thenewamerican.com
December 27, 2013
Mohammed Chatah, who served as Lebanon’s Ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2000, was assassinated on December 27 when a car bomb struck his car in downtown Beirut.
The blast killed five others, including Chatah’s bodyguard, Mohammed Badr. Seventy-one people were also wounded in the attack.
Only an hour before the attack, Chatah posted a tweet about Hezbollah, the Lebanese-based Shiite militant group: “#Hezbollah is pressing hard to be granted similar powers in security & foreign policy matters that Syria exercised in Lebanon for 15 yrs.”
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thenewamerican.com
December 27, 2013
Mohammed Chatah, who served as Lebanon’s Ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2000, was assassinated on December 27 when a car bomb struck his car in downtown Beirut.
The blast killed five others, including Chatah’s bodyguard, Mohammed Badr. Seventy-one people were also wounded in the attack.
Only an hour before the attack, Chatah posted a tweet about Hezbollah, the Lebanese-based Shiite militant group: “#Hezbollah is pressing hard to be granted similar powers in security & foreign policy matters that Syria exercised in Lebanon for 15 yrs.”
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Court: State Trooper Can’t Carry Gun While Off-Duty Due to Mental Health Record
Yet officer is allowed to carry while on-duty, granting him special
concession he is not afforded as a private citizen
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
December 27, 2013
A Pennsylvania court has declared that a state trooper who was previously hospitalized for depression should be banned from possessing firearms while off-duty, but should still be allowed to carry a gun while on-duty, granting him special concession while serving the state which he is not afforded as a private citizen.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that State Trooper Michael L. Keyes’ involuntary mental health treatment in 2006 bars him from possessing any firearms privately, but he should still be allowed to carry a gun while on official police business, according to Penn Live.
“The dangers inherent in the possession of firearms by the mentally ill are manifest,” Jude Fort Elliott declared. “A present clean bill of health is no guarantee that a relapse is not possible.”
Yet Elliott also stated that Keyes should still be allowed to have a firearm while on-duty as a state trooper, implying that public officials have special status over private citizens.
Keyes was serving as a state trooper when he was ordered into mental health treatment for an alleged depressive episode which led to a suicide attempt.
Even though his mental health provider later cleared him for duty after successful treatment, Keyes fought an uphill legal battle to be reinstated into law enforcement, which he finally won in 2010.
This case reveals how agents of the state, particularly police officers, are allowed to do things that are considered unlawful for private citizens to do.
Police officers routinely give out citations for driving while texting yet their patrol cars are commonly equipped with laptops and other electronic devices which these officers use while driving.
In New York and California, police officers are confiscating firearms from peaceful Americans yet they are more than happy to receive surplus military firepower from the Department of Homeland Security for police use.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell stated in his book Animal Farm, which is unfortunately an accurate assessment of anyone wearing a government uniform.
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
December 27, 2013
A Pennsylvania court has declared that a state trooper who was previously hospitalized for depression should be banned from possessing firearms while off-duty, but should still be allowed to carry a gun while on-duty, granting him special concession while serving the state which he is not afforded as a private citizen.
Unfortunately courts routinely grant special status to
government officials over private citizens. Credit: jonathunder via
Wikimedia
The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that State Trooper Michael L. Keyes’ involuntary mental health treatment in 2006 bars him from possessing any firearms privately, but he should still be allowed to carry a gun while on official police business, according to Penn Live.
“The dangers inherent in the possession of firearms by the mentally ill are manifest,” Jude Fort Elliott declared. “A present clean bill of health is no guarantee that a relapse is not possible.”
Yet Elliott also stated that Keyes should still be allowed to have a firearm while on-duty as a state trooper, implying that public officials have special status over private citizens.
Keyes was serving as a state trooper when he was ordered into mental health treatment for an alleged depressive episode which led to a suicide attempt.
Even though his mental health provider later cleared him for duty after successful treatment, Keyes fought an uphill legal battle to be reinstated into law enforcement, which he finally won in 2010.
This case reveals how agents of the state, particularly police officers, are allowed to do things that are considered unlawful for private citizens to do.
Police officers routinely give out citations for driving while texting yet their patrol cars are commonly equipped with laptops and other electronic devices which these officers use while driving.
In New York and California, police officers are confiscating firearms from peaceful Americans yet they are more than happy to receive surplus military firepower from the Department of Homeland Security for police use.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell stated in his book Animal Farm, which is unfortunately an accurate assessment of anyone wearing a government uniform.
It’s A Wonderful Life Report Censored – Again
YouTube continues to remove our review of It’s A Wonderful Life by
hand while the full version of the film remains on its site
Infowars.com
December 26, 2013
UPDATE 2: In an act of political suppression, the latest mirror of our powerful report on It’s A Wonderful Life has been taken down by Youtube and the video sharing site is systematically removing uploads of our report by hand. This is all the more evident considering that the full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube for almost two years. If automated “bots” were taking down our report due to bogus copyright claims, they would have removed the full version long ago under a more legitimate claim. Watch the powerful report for free in high quality at PrisonPlanet.tv.
This is purposeful censorship of our report.
Our video report is being suppressed because the banks do not want people to realize that the movie exposes real, modern-day bankster behavior.
The central banks would rather maintain the illusion that prosperity only comes from centralized planning by a tiny elite and worthless paper money forced upon the population.
This is unprecedented censorship and a gross attack on the First Amendment. The central banks want you to stay asleep and believe that it is a wonderful life under their cartel while they strip mine countries across the planet.
We will definitely air the report again on the Friday edition of the Alex Jones Show.
See below for mirrored versions. We are leaving the old version that has been censored lower down on this page for documentation. Also, you can watch it for free at PrisonPlanet.tv.
Mirror 2:
UPDATE: Our Infowars Nightly News free-speech protected analysis of the film It’s A Wonderful Life was taken down by YouTube after only 24 hours. Infowars follows a high standard of copyright recognition developed through many consultations with various lawyers. The censorship of our review is a gross misappropriation of copyright law, which allows companies outside of court to claim copyright infringement on something that clearly isn’t a violation. Our review was clearly a political analysis showing short clips of It’s A Wonderful Life and tying them into current bankster behavior operating through the Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank.
This is a great example of how CISPA and SOPA would legalize this misappropriation of copyright enforcement that these companies are currently engaging in.
Videos on Youtube are being taken down completely because of mere accusations that they violate copyrights, regardless if the copyright claim is completely unfounded and bogus.
This was a pure political move meant to censor our powerful report exposing the truth on the fractional-reserve, fiat banking system. The full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube since Feb. 2012 and has over 700,000 views, but YouTube has not taken it down. That’s because the real agenda is not copyright enforcement but rather it’s about censoring the truth and protecting the global cartels within the state-corporate nexus.
We aired our review on the Dec. 24 edition of Alex Jones Show and on the Infowars Nightly News and it is clearly covered by fair use because it analyzes a cultural phenomenon and its historical roots. It’s a wonderful life – for the banksters that brought our country under so much tyranny that could never exist under a system of sound money.
Because our film review is so effective, they took it down. But here it is again in full:
Mr. Henry F. Potter, the president of the Building and Loan Association in the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, has very striking similarities to the modern day banksters working through the Federal Reserve to sap the nation’s wealth.
As we look back over the past hundred years, America has experienced the Great Depression, multiple recessions, stagflation and the loss of 99% of the dollarʼs purchasing power – none of it wouldʼve been possible without the Federal Reserve, creating bubbles and bursting them, enslaving us with debt and destroying our purchasing power and our ability to save through inflation.
Yes, itʼs been a wonderful lie — for the banksters.
And many Americans are left like George Bailey. Facing the collapse of their dreams and financial ruin.
There are striking parallels in Frank Capraʼs Itʼs a Wonderful Life to lies and tricks of the modern banker elite. Human nature doesnʼt change and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look much like Potter.
Please spread the message and make this film go viral.
Infowars.com
December 26, 2013
UPDATE 2: In an act of political suppression, the latest mirror of our powerful report on It’s A Wonderful Life has been taken down by Youtube and the video sharing site is systematically removing uploads of our report by hand. This is all the more evident considering that the full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube for almost two years. If automated “bots” were taking down our report due to bogus copyright claims, they would have removed the full version long ago under a more legitimate claim. Watch the powerful report for free in high quality at PrisonPlanet.tv.
This is purposeful censorship of our report.
Our video report is being suppressed because the banks do not want people to realize that the movie exposes real, modern-day bankster behavior.
The central banks would rather maintain the illusion that prosperity only comes from centralized planning by a tiny elite and worthless paper money forced upon the population.
This is unprecedented censorship and a gross attack on the First Amendment. The central banks want you to stay asleep and believe that it is a wonderful life under their cartel while they strip mine countries across the planet.
We will definitely air the report again on the Friday edition of the Alex Jones Show.
See below for mirrored versions. We are leaving the old version that has been censored lower down on this page for documentation. Also, you can watch it for free at PrisonPlanet.tv.
Mirror 2:
UPDATE: Our Infowars Nightly News free-speech protected analysis of the film It’s A Wonderful Life was taken down by YouTube after only 24 hours. Infowars follows a high standard of copyright recognition developed through many consultations with various lawyers. The censorship of our review is a gross misappropriation of copyright law, which allows companies outside of court to claim copyright infringement on something that clearly isn’t a violation. Our review was clearly a political analysis showing short clips of It’s A Wonderful Life and tying them into current bankster behavior operating through the Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank.
This is a great example of how CISPA and SOPA would legalize this misappropriation of copyright enforcement that these companies are currently engaging in.
Videos on Youtube are being taken down completely because of mere accusations that they violate copyrights, regardless if the copyright claim is completely unfounded and bogus.
This was a pure political move meant to censor our powerful report exposing the truth on the fractional-reserve, fiat banking system. The full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube since Feb. 2012 and has over 700,000 views, but YouTube has not taken it down. That’s because the real agenda is not copyright enforcement but rather it’s about censoring the truth and protecting the global cartels within the state-corporate nexus.
We aired our review on the Dec. 24 edition of Alex Jones Show and on the Infowars Nightly News and it is clearly covered by fair use because it analyzes a cultural phenomenon and its historical roots. It’s a wonderful life – for the banksters that brought our country under so much tyranny that could never exist under a system of sound money.
Because our film review is so effective, they took it down. But here it is again in full:
Mr. Henry F. Potter, the president of the Building and Loan Association in the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, has very striking similarities to the modern day banksters working through the Federal Reserve to sap the nation’s wealth.
As we look back over the past hundred years, America has experienced the Great Depression, multiple recessions, stagflation and the loss of 99% of the dollarʼs purchasing power – none of it wouldʼve been possible without the Federal Reserve, creating bubbles and bursting them, enslaving us with debt and destroying our purchasing power and our ability to save through inflation.
Yes, itʼs been a wonderful lie — for the banksters.
And many Americans are left like George Bailey. Facing the collapse of their dreams and financial ruin.
There are striking parallels in Frank Capraʼs Itʼs a Wonderful Life to lies and tricks of the modern banker elite. Human nature doesnʼt change and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look much like Potter.
Please spread the message and make this film go viral.
A&E Caves: Phil Robertson Back on ‘Duck Dynasty’
Michael O’Connell
Hollywood Reporter
December 27, 2013
Phil Robertson, the patriarch of A&E’s Duck Dynasty clan who was suspended from his hit reality series on Dec. 18 following some incendiary comments about gay people, won’t be put on hiatus after all.
The network and the Robertson family announced Friday that Phil will still be part of the series — and since he didn’t miss any filming, his temporary suspension will have no effect on the upcoming fifth season.
As a global media content company, A+E Networks’ core values are centered around creativity, inclusion and mutual respect. We believe it is a privilege for our brands to be invited into people’s home and we operate with a strong sense of integrity and deep commitment to these principals.
That is why we reacted so quickly and strongly to a recent interview with Phil Robertson. While Phil’s comments made in the interview reflect his personal views based on his own beliefs, and his own personal journey, he and his family have publicly stated they regret the “coarse language” he used and the mis-interpretation of his core beliefs based only on the article. He also made it clear he would “never incite or encourage hate.” We at A+E Networks expressed our disappointment with his statements in the article, and reiterate that they are not views we hold.
Full story here.
Hollywood Reporter
December 27, 2013
Phil Robertson, the patriarch of A&E’s Duck Dynasty clan who was suspended from his hit reality series on Dec. 18 following some incendiary comments about gay people, won’t be put on hiatus after all.
Image: Phil Robertson (YouTube).
The network and the Robertson family announced Friday that Phil will still be part of the series — and since he didn’t miss any filming, his temporary suspension will have no effect on the upcoming fifth season.
As a global media content company, A+E Networks’ core values are centered around creativity, inclusion and mutual respect. We believe it is a privilege for our brands to be invited into people’s home and we operate with a strong sense of integrity and deep commitment to these principals.
That is why we reacted so quickly and strongly to a recent interview with Phil Robertson. While Phil’s comments made in the interview reflect his personal views based on his own beliefs, and his own personal journey, he and his family have publicly stated they regret the “coarse language” he used and the mis-interpretation of his core beliefs based only on the article. He also made it clear he would “never incite or encourage hate.” We at A+E Networks expressed our disappointment with his statements in the article, and reiterate that they are not views we hold.
Full story here.
Fury of Piranha Attacks Rip the American Dream to Shreds
Infowars.com
December 27, 2013
Piranha attacked 70 people in Argentina on Wednesday, even biting off one girls’ fingers. They can smell blood up to 2 miles away, and piranha attacks are taking place all over America – a slow death by small bites here and there – depending on how you define piranha attacks.
For example, if you want to eat fish, the price has doubled since 1990. Wheat prices just jumped by 4.9% and the price of chocolate rose 28% for the first 10 months of 2013 and climbing.
And it’s not just food. That other staple, energy, is skyrocketing in cost.
Smart meters will charge you more based on time of day use, and people are paying just for the “privilege” of getting connected to the surveillance grid.
In Chicago, the average household electric bill will increase by $5.50 per month just for smart grid infrastructure creation.
But because of Obama’s war on coal, by summer, energy rates are expected to soar by 23% and not just in Chicago. Remember when Obama said companies could build a new coal plant, but it would bankrupt them? Well shutting down coal plants and keeping new ones from being built is going to bankrupt YOU.
But hey, energy prices will drop because of new natural gas – right? Nope, expect a 36% increase there.
Then there’s the ObamaCare taxes – if all these other surcharges are eating you alive like a school of piranha taking hundreds of small bites, the ObamaCare taxes are the great white shark headed your way.
• 2% on your insurance policy
• 3.5% on the insurer
• 2.3% on medical devices
and $479 billion in new taxes – and besides the new taxes on insurance policies, insurers and medical devices, there’s new taxes on investment income, medicare, bio-fuels, drugs, retirement benefits, tanning salons, hospitals – even capping deductions on special needs kids.
That’s right – a tax on special needs kids!
Maybe $479 billion doesn’t mean much to you. After all, we talk about billions and trillions all the time. Let’s put it in perspective:
Out of all 187 nations worldwide, 162 nations don’t even HAVE a Gross National Product (GNP) as high as the ObamaCare tax increases.
Countries like Denmark, Austria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Israel and Taiwan don’t even have a GNP of $479 billion – the amount of money Obama is going to steal from Americans for his so-called “affordable” health care program.
Which brings us back to Argentina, where the 70 people were attacked by piranha. Argentina only has a GNP of $474 billion – still less than the new ObamaCare taxes.
The government does take a bite, doesn’t it?
December 27, 2013
Piranha attacked 70 people in Argentina on Wednesday, even biting off one girls’ fingers. They can smell blood up to 2 miles away, and piranha attacks are taking place all over America – a slow death by small bites here and there – depending on how you define piranha attacks.
Surcharges are eating the American people alive like a
school of piranha taking hundreds of small bites.
For example, if you want to eat fish, the price has doubled since 1990. Wheat prices just jumped by 4.9% and the price of chocolate rose 28% for the first 10 months of 2013 and climbing.
And it’s not just food. That other staple, energy, is skyrocketing in cost.
Smart meters will charge you more based on time of day use, and people are paying just for the “privilege” of getting connected to the surveillance grid.
In Chicago, the average household electric bill will increase by $5.50 per month just for smart grid infrastructure creation.
But because of Obama’s war on coal, by summer, energy rates are expected to soar by 23% and not just in Chicago. Remember when Obama said companies could build a new coal plant, but it would bankrupt them? Well shutting down coal plants and keeping new ones from being built is going to bankrupt YOU.
But hey, energy prices will drop because of new natural gas – right? Nope, expect a 36% increase there.
Then there’s the ObamaCare taxes – if all these other surcharges are eating you alive like a school of piranha taking hundreds of small bites, the ObamaCare taxes are the great white shark headed your way.
• 2% on your insurance policy
• 3.5% on the insurer
• 2.3% on medical devices
and $479 billion in new taxes – and besides the new taxes on insurance policies, insurers and medical devices, there’s new taxes on investment income, medicare, bio-fuels, drugs, retirement benefits, tanning salons, hospitals – even capping deductions on special needs kids.
That’s right – a tax on special needs kids!
Maybe $479 billion doesn’t mean much to you. After all, we talk about billions and trillions all the time. Let’s put it in perspective:
Out of all 187 nations worldwide, 162 nations don’t even HAVE a Gross National Product (GNP) as high as the ObamaCare tax increases.
Countries like Denmark, Austria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Israel and Taiwan don’t even have a GNP of $479 billion – the amount of money Obama is going to steal from Americans for his so-called “affordable” health care program.
Which brings us back to Argentina, where the 70 people were attacked by piranha. Argentina only has a GNP of $474 billion – still less than the new ObamaCare taxes.
The government does take a bite, doesn’t it?
Shoppers Stock Up On Rifles, Shotguns Before California Long Gun Registry Begins
SacramentoDecember 27, 2013
A new gun law coming in 2014 has gun owners stocking up on long guns before a new registry begins.
Even though the law is at least temporarily boosting his bottom line, Just Guns owner John Deaser isn’t a fan. He says requiring people to register their rifles and shotguns is an unnecessary invasion of privacy.
In the last week of 2013, he says sales of long guns are up 30 to 50 percent.
Read more
RELATED: Proof: Gun Registration Leads To Confiscation
California expects rifles such as this Remington 700 to
be registered. Credit: Vlad Butsky via Flickr
A new gun law coming in 2014 has gun owners stocking up on long guns before a new registry begins.
Even though the law is at least temporarily boosting his bottom line, Just Guns owner John Deaser isn’t a fan. He says requiring people to register their rifles and shotguns is an unnecessary invasion of privacy.
In the last week of 2013, he says sales of long guns are up 30 to 50 percent.
Read more
RELATED: Proof: Gun Registration Leads To Confiscation
Thursday, December 26, 2013
It’s A Wonderful Life Report Censored – Again
YouTube continues to remove our review of It’s A Wonderful Life by
hand while the full version of the film remains on its site
Infowars.com
December 26, 2013
UPDATE 2: In an act of political suppression, the latest mirror of our powerful report on It’s A Wonderful Life has been taken down by Youtube and the video sharing site is systematically removing uploads of our report by hand. This is all the more evident considering that the full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube for almost two years. If automated “bots” were taking down our report due to bogus copyright claims, they would have removed the full version long ago under a more legitimate claim.
This is purposeful censorship of our report.
Our video report is being suppressed because the banks do not want people to realize that the movie exposes real, modern-day bankster behavior.
The central banks would rather maintain the illusion that prosperity only comes from centralized planning by a tiny elite and worthless paper money forced upon the population.
This is unprecedented censorship and a gross attack on the First Amendment. The central banks want you to stay asleep and believe that it is a wonderful life under their cartel while they strip mine countries across the planet.
We will definitely air the report again on the Friday edition of the Alex Jones Show.
See below for a new mirrored version. We are leaving the old version that has been censored lower down on this page for documentation.
UPDATE: Our Infowars Nightly News free-speech protected analysis of the film It’s A Wonderful Life was taken down by YouTube after only 24 hours. Infowars follows a high standard of copyright recognition developed through many consultations with various lawyers. The censorship of our review is a gross misappropriation of copyright law, which allows companies outside of court to claim copyright infringement on something that clearly isn’t a violation. Our review was clearly a political analysis showing short clips of It’s A Wonderful Life and tying them into current bankster behavior operating through the Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank.
This is a great example of how CSIPA and SOPA would legalize this misappropriation of copyright enforcement that these companies are currently engaging in.
Videos on Youtube are being taken down completely because of mere accusations that they violate copyrights, regardless if the copyright claim is completely unfounded and bogus.
This was a pure political move meant to censor our powerful report exposing the truth on the fractional-reserve, fiat banking system. The full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube since Feb. 2012 and has over 700,000 views, but YouTube has not taken it down. That’s because the real agenda is not copyright enforcement but rather it’s about censoring the truth and protecting the global cartels within the state-corporate nexus.
We aired our review on the Dec. 24 edition of Alex Jones Show and on the Infowars Nightly News and it is clearly covered by fair use because it analyzes a cultural phenomenon and its historical roots. It’s a wonderful life – for the banksters that brought our country under so much tyranny that could never exist under a system of sound money.
Because our film review is so effective, they took it down. But here it is again in full:
Mr. Henry F. Potter, the president of the Building and Loan Association in the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, has very striking similarities to the modern day banksters working through the Federal Reserve to sap the nation’s wealth.
As we look back over the past hundred years, America has experienced the Great Depression, multiple recessions, stagflation and the loss of 99% of the dollarʼs purchasing power – none of it wouldʼve been possible without the Federal Reserve, creating bubbles and bursting them, enslaving us with debt and destroying our purchasing power and our ability to save through inflation.
Yes, itʼs been a wonderful lie — for the banksters.
And many Americans are left like George Bailey. Facing the collapse of their dreams and financial ruin.
There are striking parallels in Frank Capraʼs Itʼs a Wonderful Life to lies and tricks of the modern banker elite. Human nature doesnʼt change and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look much like Potter.
Please spread the message and make this film go viral.
Infowars.com
December 26, 2013
UPDATE 2: In an act of political suppression, the latest mirror of our powerful report on It’s A Wonderful Life has been taken down by Youtube and the video sharing site is systematically removing uploads of our report by hand. This is all the more evident considering that the full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube for almost two years. If automated “bots” were taking down our report due to bogus copyright claims, they would have removed the full version long ago under a more legitimate claim.
This is purposeful censorship of our report.
Our video report is being suppressed because the banks do not want people to realize that the movie exposes real, modern-day bankster behavior.
The central banks would rather maintain the illusion that prosperity only comes from centralized planning by a tiny elite and worthless paper money forced upon the population.
This is unprecedented censorship and a gross attack on the First Amendment. The central banks want you to stay asleep and believe that it is a wonderful life under their cartel while they strip mine countries across the planet.
We will definitely air the report again on the Friday edition of the Alex Jones Show.
See below for a new mirrored version. We are leaving the old version that has been censored lower down on this page for documentation.
UPDATE: Our Infowars Nightly News free-speech protected analysis of the film It’s A Wonderful Life was taken down by YouTube after only 24 hours. Infowars follows a high standard of copyright recognition developed through many consultations with various lawyers. The censorship of our review is a gross misappropriation of copyright law, which allows companies outside of court to claim copyright infringement on something that clearly isn’t a violation. Our review was clearly a political analysis showing short clips of It’s A Wonderful Life and tying them into current bankster behavior operating through the Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank.
This is a great example of how CSIPA and SOPA would legalize this misappropriation of copyright enforcement that these companies are currently engaging in.
Videos on Youtube are being taken down completely because of mere accusations that they violate copyrights, regardless if the copyright claim is completely unfounded and bogus.
This was a pure political move meant to censor our powerful report exposing the truth on the fractional-reserve, fiat banking system. The full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube since Feb. 2012 and has over 700,000 views, but YouTube has not taken it down. That’s because the real agenda is not copyright enforcement but rather it’s about censoring the truth and protecting the global cartels within the state-corporate nexus.
We aired our review on the Dec. 24 edition of Alex Jones Show and on the Infowars Nightly News and it is clearly covered by fair use because it analyzes a cultural phenomenon and its historical roots. It’s a wonderful life – for the banksters that brought our country under so much tyranny that could never exist under a system of sound money.
Because our film review is so effective, they took it down. But here it is again in full:
Mr. Henry F. Potter, the president of the Building and Loan Association in the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, has very striking similarities to the modern day banksters working through the Federal Reserve to sap the nation’s wealth.
As we look back over the past hundred years, America has experienced the Great Depression, multiple recessions, stagflation and the loss of 99% of the dollarʼs purchasing power – none of it wouldʼve been possible without the Federal Reserve, creating bubbles and bursting them, enslaving us with debt and destroying our purchasing power and our ability to save through inflation.
Yes, itʼs been a wonderful lie — for the banksters.
And many Americans are left like George Bailey. Facing the collapse of their dreams and financial ruin.
There are striking parallels in Frank Capraʼs Itʼs a Wonderful Life to lies and tricks of the modern banker elite. Human nature doesnʼt change and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look much like Potter.
Please spread the message and make this film go viral.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Bomb attacks on Christians kill 37 in Baghdad
Sinan Salaheddin
Associated Press
December 25, 2013
Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in three separate Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people, officials said Wednesday.
In one attack, a car bomb went off near a church in the capital’s southern Dora neighborhood, killing at least 26 people and wounding 38, a police officer said.
Earlier, two bombs ripped through a nearby outdoor market simultaneously in the Christian section of Athorien, killing 11 people and wounding 21, the officer said.
Read more
Associated Press
December 25, 2013
A city street of Baghdad during the 2003
invasion.
Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in three separate Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people, officials said Wednesday.
In one attack, a car bomb went off near a church in the capital’s southern Dora neighborhood, killing at least 26 people and wounding 38, a police officer said.
Earlier, two bombs ripped through a nearby outdoor market simultaneously in the Christian section of Athorien, killing 11 people and wounding 21, the officer said.
Read more
‘Christmas tree tax’ spar returns
Julian Hattem
The Hill
December 25, 2013
Christmas tree farmers have renewed their push for the creation of a marketing and research program that conservative critics have dubbed a “Christmas tree tax.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2011 moved to create a marketing and research program for Christmas trees that would have been similar to the “Got Milk?” or “Pork: The other white meat” campaigns.
But the promotional push was put on hold amid an uproar from conservative groups and anti-tax advocates.
Read more
The Hill
December 25, 2013
The decorations usually found on a Christmas tree in
the living room. Credit: Zechariah Judy via Flickr
Christmas tree farmers have renewed their push for the creation of a marketing and research program that conservative critics have dubbed a “Christmas tree tax.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2011 moved to create a marketing and research program for Christmas trees that would have been similar to the “Got Milk?” or “Pork: The other white meat” campaigns.
But the promotional push was put on hold amid an uproar from conservative groups and anti-tax advocates.
Read more
It’s A Wonderful Life Report Censored
Using a bogus “abuse of copyright” claim, YouTube took down our review of
It’s a Wonderful Life which exposes bankster behavior
Infowars.com
December 25, 2013
UPDATE: Our Infowars Nightly News free-speech protected analysis of the film It’s A Wonderful Life was taken down by YouTube after only 24 hours. Infowars follows a high standard of copyright recognition developed through many consultations with various lawyers. The censorship of our review is a gross misappropriation of copyright law, which allows companies outside of court to claim copyright infringement on something that clearly isn’t a violation. Our review was clearly a political analysis showing short clips of It’s A Wonderful Life and tying them into current bankster behavior operating through the Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank.
This is a great example of how CSIPA and SOPA would legalize this misappropriation of copyright enforcement that these companies are currently engaging in.
Videos on Youtube are being taken down completely because of mere accusations that they violate copyrights, regardless if the copyright claim is completely unfounded and bogus.
This was a pure political move meant to censor our powerful report exposing the truth on the fractional-reserve, fiat banking system. The full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube since Feb. 2012 and has over 700,000 views, but YouTube has not taken it down. That’s because the real agenda is not copyright enforcement but rather it’s about censoring the truth and protecting the global cartels within the state-corporate nexus.
We aired our review on the Dec. 24 edition of Alex Jones Show and on the Infowars Nightly News and it is clearly covered by fair use because it analyzes a cultural phenomenon and its historical roots. It’s a wonderful life – for the banksters that brought our country under so much tyranny that could never exist under a system of sound money.
Because our film review is so effective, they took it down. But here it is again in full:
Mr. Henry F. Potter, the president of the Building and Loan Association in the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, has very striking similarities to the modern day banksters working through the Federal Reserve to sap the nation’s wealth.
As we look back over the past hundred years, America has experienced the Great Depression, multiple recessions, stagflation and the loss of 99% of the dollarʼs purchasing power – none of it wouldʼve been possible without the Federal Reserve, creating bubbles and bursting them, enslaving us with debt and destroying our purchasing power and our ability to save through inflation.
Yes, itʼs been a wonderful lie — for the banksters.
And many Americans are left like George Bailey. Facing the collapse of their dreams and financial ruin.
There are striking parallels in Frank Capraʼs Itʼs a Wonderful Life to lies and tricks of the modern banker elite. Human nature doesnʼt change and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look much like Potter.
Please spread the message and make this film go viral.
Infowars.com
December 25, 2013
UPDATE: Our Infowars Nightly News free-speech protected analysis of the film It’s A Wonderful Life was taken down by YouTube after only 24 hours. Infowars follows a high standard of copyright recognition developed through many consultations with various lawyers. The censorship of our review is a gross misappropriation of copyright law, which allows companies outside of court to claim copyright infringement on something that clearly isn’t a violation. Our review was clearly a political analysis showing short clips of It’s A Wonderful Life and tying them into current bankster behavior operating through the Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank.
This is a great example of how CSIPA and SOPA would legalize this misappropriation of copyright enforcement that these companies are currently engaging in.
Videos on Youtube are being taken down completely because of mere accusations that they violate copyrights, regardless if the copyright claim is completely unfounded and bogus.
This was a pure political move meant to censor our powerful report exposing the truth on the fractional-reserve, fiat banking system. The full version of It’s A Wonderful Life has been available on YouTube since Feb. 2012 and has over 700,000 views, but YouTube has not taken it down. That’s because the real agenda is not copyright enforcement but rather it’s about censoring the truth and protecting the global cartels within the state-corporate nexus.
We aired our review on the Dec. 24 edition of Alex Jones Show and on the Infowars Nightly News and it is clearly covered by fair use because it analyzes a cultural phenomenon and its historical roots. It’s a wonderful life – for the banksters that brought our country under so much tyranny that could never exist under a system of sound money.
Because our film review is so effective, they took it down. But here it is again in full:
Mr. Henry F. Potter, the president of the Building and Loan Association in the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, has very striking similarities to the modern day banksters working through the Federal Reserve to sap the nation’s wealth.
As we look back over the past hundred years, America has experienced the Great Depression, multiple recessions, stagflation and the loss of 99% of the dollarʼs purchasing power – none of it wouldʼve been possible without the Federal Reserve, creating bubbles and bursting them, enslaving us with debt and destroying our purchasing power and our ability to save through inflation.
Yes, itʼs been a wonderful lie — for the banksters.
And many Americans are left like George Bailey. Facing the collapse of their dreams and financial ruin.
There are striking parallels in Frank Capraʼs Itʼs a Wonderful Life to lies and tricks of the modern banker elite. Human nature doesnʼt change and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look much like Potter.
Please spread the message and make this film go viral.
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