StopTheLie.com News update 10-12-2015
How "Regulatory Agencies," like the FDA, Protect Monopoly Profits (Video)
Source: RealityCheck
Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli made headlines when he hiked the price of a lifesaving drug by 5,000 percent. Is he to blame? Watch Reality Check.
Watch video at: http://truthinmedia.com/reality-check-fda-martin-shkreli-drug-prices/
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Trump: Middle East Would Be More Stable With Saddam and Gadhafi
Source: AntiWar.com
--Pressed on whether this meant he believed the region would be more stable with Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and Iraq's Saddam Hussein still in power, he confirmed it was "not even a contest," saying Libya isn't even really a country anymore, and ISIS came out of the removal of Saddam in Iraq.
Read full article at: http://news.antiwar.com/2015/10/04/trump-middle-east-would-be-more-stable-with-saddam-and-gadhafi/
COMMENT: Such an obviously accurate statement shouldn't be controversial; says a lot about Washington's refusal to address reality.
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Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald & David Miranda Call for Global Privacy Treaty (Video)
Source: DemocracyNow.org
--There was one case where the mass surveillance of everyone's phone records in the United States of America showed that there was a single cab driver in California wiring money back to his clan in Somalia that did have some ties to terrorism, but even in that case, the government said they could have achieved—and they would have achieved—the same evidentiary gain through traditional targeted means of investigation. They said they were already closing in on this individual.
And so, this raises the question: Why are programs being billed as public safety programs when they have no corresponding public safety benefit? And the unfortunate reality is that while these programs do have value—you know, the government is not doing this for absolutely no reason—the value that they have is based on intelligence collection. It's based on adversarial competition between states that's happening secretly. It's happening without any form of robust oversight. It's happening without the involvement of real open courts with an adversarial process.
And increasingly, we're seeing that even if these programs are instituted with the best of intentions—to keep citizens safe, to assist in war zone operations, in the intervention of terrorism in certain spaces around the United States and throughout the world—inevitably they come back to impact us here at home. The same programs that the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency collaborated on in areas like Yemen are now being used by the United States Marshals Service in the United States against common criminals, people who do not represent any real threat to public safety in a manner that would justify in any way the intrusion into and the violation of millions and millions of citizens' rights—and noncitizens.
Watch video at: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/10/1/video_edward_snowden_glenn_greenwald_david
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VIGILANTE HACKER INFECTS ROUTERS WITH MALWARE TO FIGHT BAD MALWARE
Source: Hacked.com
A newly discovered malware, called Linux.Wifatch by security firm Symantec, has been found to compromise at least 10,000 Linux-routers. Unlike other malware, however, Wifatch protects the router from other infections, protecting victims instead.
Security giant Symantec has discovered a new vigilante malware that behaves like most other malware by infecting a vulnerable device, remaining undetected while operating and actively updating itself over a peer-to-peer (P2P) network.
Read full article at: https://hacked.com/linux-wifatch-vigilante-hacker-infects-routers-malware-fight-bad-malware/
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Propaganda War Begins: Russia Hits US-Backed "Moderate" Rebel Targets
Source: ZeroHedge.com
--The bottom line going forward is that the US and its regional and European allies are going to have to decide whether they want to be on the right side of history here or not, and as we've been careful to explain, no one is arguing that Bashar al-Assad is the most benevolent leader in the history of statecraft but it has now gotten to the point where Western media outlets are describing al-Qaeda as "moderate" in a last ditch effort to explain away Washington's unwillingness to join Russia in stabilizing Syria. This is a foreign policy mistake of epic proportions on the part of the US and the sooner the West concedes that and moves to correct it by admitting that none of the groups the CIA, the Pentagon, and Washington's Mid-East allies have trained and supported represent a viable alternative to the Assad regime, the sooner Syria will cease to be the chessboard du jour for a global proxy war that's left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead.
Read full article at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-30/propaganda-war-begins-russias-syria-strikes-targeted-us-backed-moderate-rebels-west-
COMMENT: Unfortunately, the terrorists ARE seen as a viable alternative. Without "terrorism" and "terrorists," the attendant policy benefits (foreign and domestic), disappear.
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