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Daily Mail – by DAVID MARTOSKO
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is denying a television news reporter’s claim that reporters often ‘provide the questions to him in advance,’ before his daily briefings, and that he sometimes provides answers on paper before taking the podium.
‘If only this were true,’ Carney told MailOnline Thursday morning. Continue reading “White House Press Secretary Jay Carney denies TV reporter’s claim that he gets daily briefing questions IN ADVANCE”
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced on Thursday that he is levying additional sanctions against 20 high-level Russian officials as well as a bank in response to Moscow’s move to annex the Crimea region of Ukraine.
Obama spoke just hours after Russia’s lower parliament ratified a treaty to make Crimea a part of the Russian Federation. Crimeans voted overwhelmingly in a hastily arranged referendum earlier this week to join Russia. Continue reading “Obama announces more sanctions against Russia”
Educate Yourself – by Dr. Byron T. Weeks, MD
TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE . . . . . . . . .
30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4DD.–
Formed in 1947, the Tavistock Institute is an independent not-for-profit organization which seeks to combine research in the social sciences with professional practice. Problems of institution-building and organizational design and change are being tackled in all sectors – government, industry and commerce, health and welfare, education, etc. – nationally and internationally, and clients range from multinationals to small community groups. A growth area has been the use of a developmental approach to evaluation of new and experimental programs, particularly in health, education and community development. This has also produced new training events alongside the regular program of group relations conferences. The Institute owns and edits the monthly journal Human Relations (published by Plenum Press) which is now in its 48th year, and has recently launched (in conjunction with Sage Publications) a new journal Evaluation. Continue reading “Tavistock – The Best Kept Secret in America”
With the Crimea referendum passed and Russia ready to annex the region, the United States and the European Union have threatened sanctions. The full extent of these sanctions is not yet known, and announcements are pending for the end of March. If these measures are concrete, they will of course be followed inevitably by economic warfare, including a reduction of natural gas exports to the EU and the eventually full dump of the U.S. dollar by Russia and China. As I have discussed in recent articles, the result of these actions will be disastrous. Continue reading “Take These Steps Today To Survive An International Crisis”
Veterans Today – by Dean Henderson
On March 15th Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addressed his military. Mindful of the recent CIA/bankster putsch in Ukraine, he warned the right-wing fascist thugs who have incited violence in the country over the past two months, “Prepare yourself. We are coming for you.” He then played John Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance. Continue reading “Venezuela Deals Blow to Bankster Fascists”
Global Research – by Eric London
In the nine days since Senator Dianne Feinstein revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency had spied on Senate Intelligence Committee staffers investigating CIA torture programs, the issue has been all but dropped by the political establishment and the media.
The White House and Congress, including Feinstein herself, are seeking to move any further discussion of the matter behind closed doors. The aim is to prevent any broader public airing of the fundamental democratic issues at stake in both the spying and the underlying crime, torture, which the CIA and the Obama administration are seeking to cover up. Continue reading “The CIA Spying Scandal, Watergate and the Decay Of American Democracy”
This is why I’ve been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the US government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government.
The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they’re doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst. Continue reading “BUSTED – U.S. Tech Giants Knew of NSA Spying Says Agency’s Senior Lawyer”
We’re over the top and coming down the other side of a very slippery slope to an apparent trough now. Too much has been set in motion to stop this juggernaut of insanity being perpetrated on humanity. This isn’t to say we slow down our efforts to expose these psychopaths and their wicked intentions. Every awakened soul will be more ready hands for affirming the real world this truly is and will soon be manifesting. It’s just that the momentum is way too strong to turn this thing around before something very tragic happens. Continue reading “Mad Chess, False Flags and the Point of No Return”
Alberta Premier Alison Redford, facing mounting criticism over travel expenses and her leadership, plans to step down this weekend as head of Canada’s fourth most-populous province.
“I am not prepared to allow party and caucus infighting to get in the way of building a better future for our province,” Redford, 49, said at the provincial legislature late yesterday. “Too much time has been spent over the last few weeks on questions of loyalty and allegiances and character.” Continue reading “Alberta Premier Redford Resigns Amid Expenses Scandal”
The Interior Department is delaying a rule that would raise the penalties on offshore facilities that are responsible for oil spills amid pressure from industry groups.
The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) both wrote to the Interior Department requesting an extension of the comment period, which the agency granted Tuesday, so these groups will have more time to review and respond to the rule. Continue reading “Interior delays hike in oil spill fines”
The Freedom of Information Act is not the only law the public can use to obtain records from the government. Most states have similar laws for accessing documents on the state and local levels. Here in California, EFF is using the California Public Records Act to learn what new technologies local law enforcement agencies are using and whether these technologies violate our rights.
Do you drive a car in the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area? According to the L.A. Police Department and L.A. Sheriff’s Department, your car is part of a vast criminal investigation. Continue reading “Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation”
Philly.com – by WILLIAM BENDER
A TEMPLE University photojournalism student and his girlfriend are suing two Philadelphia police officers who they say wrongly arrested them in 2012 while he was photographing a neighbor’s arrest in Point Breeze.
The lawsuit, filed last week in Common Pleas Court by Ian Van Kuyk and Meghan Feighan, seeks compensatory and punitive damages for assault, battery, false arrest and imprisonment, and malicious prosecution. The defendants are Officers Samuel Allen and Santos Higgins. Continue reading “Temple student sues Philly cops over photo incident”
The Washington Post – by RADLEY BALKO
A pretty awful new bill (PDF) in the Kansas legislature would require anyone filing a complaint against a police officer to swear an affidavit before the complaint will be investigated. If any portion of the complaint is later shown to be false, the complainant could then be prosecuted for perjury.
That’s bad enough. But the bill also has a couple other troubling provisions. First, it lets officers who are the subject of complaints avoid answering questions until they’re given the complaint with all documenting evidence in its entirety. No respectable police detective would conduct an investigation this way. Continue reading “Kansas could make it a felony to report unfounded allegations of police abuse”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon have ordered the army to continue preparing for a possible military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities at a cost of at least 10 billion shekels ($2.89 billion) this year, despite the talks between Iran and the West, according to recent statements by senior military officers.
Three Knesset members who were present at Knesset joint committee hearings on Israel Defense Forces plans that were held in January and February say they learned during the hearings that 10 billion shekels to 12 billion shekels of the defense budget would be allocated this year for preparations for a strike on Iran, approximately the same amount that was allocated in 2013. Continue reading “Netanyahu orders IDF to prepare for possible strike on Iran during 2014”
Militia News – by Brandon Smith
It was the winter of 1939, only a few months earlier the Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich had signed a partially secret accord known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; essentially a non-aggression treaty which divided Europe down the middle between the fascists and the communists. Hitler would take the West, and Stalin would take the East. Stalin’s war machine had already steamrolled into Latvia. Lithuania, and Estonia. The soviets used unprecedented social and political purges, rigged elections, and genocide, while the rest of the world was distracted by the Nazi blitzkrieg in Poland. In the midst of this mechanized power grab was the relatively tiny nation of Finland, which had been apportioned to the communists. Continue reading “Violence In The Face Of Tyranny Is Often Necessary”
The National Security Agency (NSA) has built a surveillance system that is capable of recording “100 percent” of a any country’s telephone calls, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.
The (NSA) National Security Agency’s “Mystic” and “Retro” programs can store 100 percent of a nation’s phone conversations for up to a month, according to The Washington Post and documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Continue reading “Snowden Doc: NSA Can Now Collect 100 Percent Of All Your Phone Conversations”
USA Today – by Aamer Madhani 
AltMarket – by Brandon Smith
Liberty Blitzkrieg 
Zen Gardner
Bloomberg – by Rebecca Penty
The Hill – by Tim Devaney
EFF – by JENNIFER LYNCH 
Haaretz – by Barak Ravid 
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