Military propagandist fails to prove his work in the occupied West Bank was “humanitarian.”

Dems Partner with GOP to Empower Trump’s Surveillance (Dan)

Many Democrats who claim to be part of the #Resistance — such as US Representatives Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi — shot down reforms to a major surveillance bill, effectively granting to Trump the powers the opposition says he abuses.

Steven Spielberg’s new film The Post, starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, opens today. While it is entertaining, it is hardly the full story of Daniel Ellsberg and the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

UK’s Labour leader speaks about ban on BDS groups.

The Matrix Revealed: My interviews on space-time manipulation

by Jon Rappoport

January 12, 2018

In my collection, The Matrix Revealed, I include interviews with retired propaganda master, Ellis Medavoy, and another set of interviews with brilliant hypnotherapist Jack True.

The total of these 71 text interviews is 610 pages.

The Matrix Revealed: my interviews on space-time manipulation

by Jon Rappoport

January 12, 2018

In my collection, The Matrix Revealed, I include interviews with retired propaganda master, Ellis Medavoy, and another set of interviews with brilliant hypnotherapist Jack True.

The total of these 71 text interviews is 610 pages.

Source : European Journalism Observatory, Nicolas Becquet, 04-11-2017

Source : Truthdig, Chris Hedges, 05-11-201711

Une manifestation à Minneapolis le 20 janvier, jour de l’investiture de Donald Trump (Fibonacci Blue/flickr/CC BY 2.0)

Cutting aid for refugee agency UNRWA subject of fierce discussion within US administration

EXCLUSIVE: Union Debate Lineup Teaser

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In this exclusive episode of Newsbud’s A Different View with F William Engdahl, Engdahl looks at an emerging security fiasco for China’s ambitious multi-trillion dollar Eurasian Belt Road Initiative, sometimes called the New Economic Silk Road, as it in part retraces the ancient Asian silk road routes to Europe. Engdahl examines a Hong Kong corporate security company, Frontier Services Group, a joint venture with one of China’s biggest state enterprises. FSG is responsible for security training along the routes of China’s BRI.

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Si tu n'avais qu'un mot à composer avec une lettre de l'alphabet, lequel, selon toi, s'imposerait ?

The Two States With More Deaths Than Births (Jeff C.)

The Census Bureau released its estimates for how each state’s population changed between 2016 and 2017. All but two trended in the right (or wrong, depending on your perspective) direction. Can you guess which two declined before clicking the link?

Private property: a silver bullet to socialist vampires

by Jon Rappoport

January 11, 2018

Private property: a silver bullet to socialist vampires

By Jon Rappoport

“Once private property is abolished, the advocates for utopia win. They build their heaven on earth, which means they can take what they want and run civilization, top-down. They can keep saying nobody owns anything, but in fact they own it all. They execute this squeeze play as if they were messiahs eradicating the prime evil. This is such a preposterous stage play that, in a sane society, it would close down after one night.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

PART ONE

The fatal flaw in the brain-computer interface

by Jon Rappoport

January 11, 2018

There is a great deal of “utopian research” going on in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) merging with the brain.

Exuberant cheerleaders like Ray Kurzweil are quite confident we are approaching a moment when a computer will exhibit all the power of the human brain. And more.

Kurzweil and others are also sure we’re about to uncover the “algorithm” that underlies all brain activity.

The fatal flaw in the brain-computer interface

by Jon Rappoport

There is a great deal of “utopian research” going on in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) merging with the brain.

Exuberant cheerleaders like Ray Kurzweil are quite confident we are approaching a moment when a computer will exhibit all the power of the human brain. And more.

Kurzweil and others are also sure we’re about to uncover the “algorithm” that underlies all brain activity.

Was President Donald Trump’s controversial “election integrity” commission shut down because its secret inner workings and true purpose were about to be exposed? In an exclusive interview with WhoWhatWhy, Matt Dunlap, one of the few Democrats on the commission and the man who successfully sued for internal documents to be released, says he believes the answer is “yes.”

Labour Against the Whitchhunt has expelled a third of its associates.

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Abby Martin met this resilient Palestinian family of freedom fighters. 

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/10/as_icc_considers_probing_israel_for

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/10/finkelstein_despite_racist_policies_corruption_scandals

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/10/norman_finkelstein_slams_chuck_schumer_for

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Source : Proche & Moyen-Orient, Guillaume Berlat, 01-01-2018

Source : Boulevard extérieur, François Nicoullaud, 05-01-2018

Billet invité

Les déclarations de plusieurs ministres[1], et du Président de la République lui-même[2], ont remis sur le devant de la scène la question de la laïcité. Un reportage de TF1 sur la situation dans un quartier de Marseille a contribué, lui aussi, à ce que l’on se pose à nouveau le problème[3]. Notons, d’ailleurs, que la loi dite « El-Khomri » va poser cette question au sein des entreprises[4].

“The warlords of history are still kicking our heads in, and no one, not our fathers, not our Gods, is coming to save us.”— Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled: it will not hear the case of Young v. Borders.

According to professor Steven M. Cohen "Judaism is not only a religion. It is an ethnicity, heritage, culture and an ancestry." Clearly the American Jewish sociologist confuses Judaism (the religion), Jewishness (the identity, the culture and  the ideology) and Jews (the people). However, Cohen admits here that Jewishness is an elastic notion. It can mean everything.

Fourteen Palestinian boys and girls under the age of 18 were shot dead by Israeli forces.

Two children among six taken in latest attack by Israeli navy.

"Ce billet ne concerne que ceux qui se sentent concernés."

Celles qui jugent qu'on ne fait pas assez, ne cessent de l'ouvrir.

Celles qui jugent qu'on en fait trop, hésitent à fermer la boite de Pandore... qui contient tous les vices, du caprice des vieux jusqu'au caprice des dieux...de celui que tout le monde peut incriminer à celui que personne ne peut incriminer. Du plus anodin au plus dangereux.

This week on China Watch:  South Korea isn’t behaving like a docile American ally.  There’s a reason for that and you’ll only learn the backstory here.  And weird doings in Taiwan! Taiwan security services accuse a pro-mainlander public figure of getting half a million dollars from the PRC for a media influence operation.  We apply the smell test to this allegation.

Roughly a Quarter of the Planet is Slowly Turning Into a Perpetual Desert (Trevin)

But if we limit warming to 1.5 degrees C, “two-thirds of the affected areas could be salvaged.” This from a new study published by the journal Nature Climate Change.

Psychiatrists say Trump mentally ill

by Jon Rappoport

January 10, 2018

—After investigating psychiatry for two decades, I’m confident that, if we could go back and rewrite history, deleting all psychiatrists on the planet, so they’d never exist—deleting their diagnoses and their drugs—this would have resulted in a massive upsurge in mental health, moving forward—

Psychiatrists say Trump mentally ill

By Jon Rappoport

—After investigating psychiatry for two decades, I’m confident that, if we could go back and rewrite history, deleting all psychiatrists on the planet, so they’d never exist—deleting their diagnoses and their drugs—this would have resulted in a massive upsurge in mental health, moving forward—

In Part 1 of this series, we told how Richard Case Nagell, a man who knew Lee Harvey Oswald and had apparent connections to intelligence, mysteriously walked into a bank, shot two holes into a wall, and awaited arrest — months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Here, in Part 2, we pick up after he is released from US prison and decides to travel to East Germany — all the while under the close watch of the CIA.

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Source : Le Monde diplomatique, Frédéric Lordon, 08-01-2018

Gérôme, « La Vérité sortant du puits armée de son martinet pour châtier l’humanité », 1896

« Alors les Décodeurs se réveillèrent, et ils virent qu’ils avaient l’air con… »

Lamentations, chapitre 2, verset 2 (révisé)

Source : World Socialist Web Site, Andre Damon, 21-10-2017

Dans une expansion généralisée de ses mesures visant à censurer Internet, Google a supprimé les principaux sites Web et journalistes de gauche de sa plate-forme d’agrégation d’articles d’informations, Google News.

Source : IRIS, Jean de Gliniasty, 21-12-2017

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Employees of diamond magnate Lev Leviev tried to bribe New York police to quell protests for Palestinian rights.

As is now common knowledge, the 2008 Global Financial Crisis was triggered within the US mortgage and real estate markets.  What’s not so commonly known, however, is that the state of said real estate market – both residential and certainly commercial – remain precarious, with information opaquely presented by sell-side industry cheerleaders, foremost realtors themselves and the institutions which underwrite them.  In this latest episode of Money and Fear, we’ll review data points which reveal what you’re not told enough regarding true supply and demand p

Power supply increases, but barely enough to relieve dire situation.

Foreign Military Sales (FMS) appear regularly on the Pentagon’s daily list of contracts. Through FMS, the U.S. government procures and transfers weaponry and matériel to allied nations and international organizations. The Saudi government is one of the most oppressive regimes on Earth.

Over 600 Palestinians were displaced in 2017.

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Finkelstein: Hamas Isn’t The Threat That Israel Claims (2/4)

In part 2 of our interview on his new book “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom,” Norman Finkelstein argues that Israeli propaganda — sometimes with Hamas’ help — has wildly exaggerated Hamas’ arsenal and the effectiveness of the “Iron Dome” missile defense system

Where Are the Great Protest Songs of Today? (Trevin)

76-year old Cree folk singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie comments on the power of anti-war songs during the Vietnam era, and talks about why her new album containing 70 minutes of protest music doesn’t include a song about Donald Trump.

Technocracy for planet Earth

by Jon Rappoport

January 8, 2018

“Well, boys, we’ve got this strange thing called THE INDIVIDUAL. Could somebody tell me what he is? He’s not conforming to our algorithms. He’s all over the place. And while we’re at it, what the hell is this IMAGINATION? It keeps slipping out of our grasp, it doesn’t fit the plan…”

PART ONE

The vision of technocracy and your future

By Jon Rappoport

“Well, boys, we’ve got this strange thing called THE INDIVIDUAL. Could somebody tell me what he is? He’s not conforming to our algorithms. He’s all over the place. And while we’re at it, what the hell is this IMAGINATION? It keeps slipping out of our grasp, it doesn’t fit the plan…”

PART ONE

—Technocrats say they want to wipe out poverty, war, and inequality. But in order to achieve these lofty goals (or pretend to), they need to re-program humans—

Editor’s note: Pot is back in the news following Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s announcement that federal prosecutors will once again pursue marijuana cases in states where the drug has been legalized. That doesn’t sit well with the affected states, which hope to amass additional tax revenue from the pot businesses now legal under state laws.

That leads one WhoWhatWhy contributor to ask: “Are they all high?”

I never sign petitions or urge people to do so, but this is one is too important. We used to live in a free society.

Source : Le Monde diplomatique, Alain Garrigou, 04-01-2018

Source : François-Bernard Huyghe, 02-01-2018

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Source : FranceTV infos, Margaux Duguet, Pascal Froissart, 06/01/2018

Netanyahu targets Palestine refugee agency UNRWA for destruction.

On Sunday Israel identified 20 activist groups from around the world whose members will be banned from entering the country because of their calls to boyc

The Gulf of Tonkin incident is the most notorious false flag in American history. It resulted in the death of millions of people. Declassified documents reveal the North Vietnamese did not attack the United States on August 4, 1964. In fact, the CIA, through its South Vietnamese proxy, invaded North Vietnam and the standoff in the Gulf of Tonkin was a result of those illegal covert raids conducted under OPLAN 34A.

Norman Finkelstein on Gaza’s Martyrdom (1/4)

In his groundbreaking new book “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom,” Norman Finkelstein argues that Israel, with U.S. backing, has caused a “humanitarian disaster” in Gaza, and that international human rights groups have failed to uphold justice for its besieged people

Where’s the ‘Collusion’? (Trevin)

That is the question, according to TRNN’s Aaron Mate. Mate could not get a straight answer from Guardian reporter Luke Harding — whose book on the topic, ironically titled Collusion, is a New York Times #1 bestseller.

Campaigners unbowed as Israel names 20 groups whose members will be denied entry.

Who I write for

by Jon Rappoport

January 8, 2018

“Imagination is the soul’s way of saying: I never give up.” (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)

I have published this piece before. It stands as my best description of why I do what I do. And now I’m adding a new introduction:

When I began writing seriously, in the summer of 1959, the idea that I would focus on The Individual was the farthest thing from my mind.

Who I write for

By Jon Rappoport

“Imagination is the soul’s way of saying: I never give up.” (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)

I have published this piece before. It stands as my best description of why I do what I do. And now I’m adding a new introduction:

When I began writing seriously, in the summer of 1959, the idea that I would focus on The Individual was the farthest thing from my mind.

I assumed everyone was an individual. Case closed. Why bother to mention it? Why bother to think about it?

Editor’s Note: We publish this lengthy, in-depth, technical piece by a former IRS investigator, knowing it raises more questions than it provides answers. But we believe that is a very useful service, particularly in relation to a complex topic of considerable public import — one that may be a key component for special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing Trump-Russia investigation. We hope in the coming weeks to explore many of these questions in greater depth. And we welcome reader comments.

Martin J. Sheil is a retired branch chief of the IRS Criminal Investigation division.

Sex criminals revealed on a large scale

But the press will only go so far. Then the curtain drops.

by Jon Rappoport

January 8, 2018

We are seeing some exposure of sexual predators. But there are very large cases already out in the open.

And the press carries out its prime directive: cover the issue BUT don’t follow up, don’t reveal the stunning implications.

Here are just three examples of many—

Sex criminals revealed on a large scale

But the press will only go so far. Then the curtain drops.

By Jon Rappoport

We are seeing some exposure of sexual predators. But there are very large cases already out in the open.

And the press carries out its prime directive: cover the issue BUT don’t follow up, don’t reveal the stunning implications.

Here are just three examples of many—

Ça se passe en Italie ... à Cagliari, sur les gradins d'un stade bien rempli...

L'international français, Blaise Matuidi a été hué, maltraité, humilié par la multitude blanche pour sa négritude.

Pour eux, le noir n'est pas beau à voir... Ils imitaient les cris de nos amis les singes pour lui laver ou lui salir son linge.

C'est pour la première fois de sa vie que le joueur français réalisa que le ballon ne tournait pas toujours rond...