StopTheLie.com News update 02-22-2016
TRUMP: 'ELECT ME AND YOU'LL FIND OUT WHO REALLY KNOCKED DOWN THE TWIN TOWERS'
Source: InfoWars.com
"We went after Iraq, they did not knock down the World Trade Center." Trump told those in attendance.
"It wasn't the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center, we went after Iraq, we decimated the country, Iran's taking over, okay." Trump continued.
"But it wasn't the Iraqis, you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center. Because they have papers in there that are very secret, you may find it's the Saudis, okay? But you will find out."
Read full article at: http://www.infowars.com/trump-vows-elect-me-and-youll-find-out-who-really-knocked-down-the-twin-towers/
COMMENT: Assuming the evidence of Saudi guilt is clear, you really have to ask yourself:
Why would US policy makers, while claiming to "protect us from terrorism," choose to PROTECT those that facilitated the 9/11attacks? The "cover up" alone makes them an accessory to the crime...(Maybe our policy makers don't want anyone "pulling the Saudi thread," for fear of where it will lead back to.)
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Would we not shatter it to bits?
Source: NeedToKnow.News
--The contradiction in the stories in the Middle East is that it is almost impossible to tell who is fighting terrorism and who is protecting terrorism. A recurring thread is that the US is leading a great military campaign against ISIS but it also delivers weapons to ISIS, provides aid to ISIS, attacks ISIS with powder-puff blows, and does everything to prevent Russia from knocking the hell out of ISIS.
Turkey and Egypt, allies of the US, are performing similar roles. In the name of fighting terrorism, they somehow manage to do more harm to those who genuinely are fighting ISIS than to ISIS itself. If you haven't yet picked up on this consistent contradiction, this week's news will make it abundantly clear.
Whenever there is a consistent contradiction, it is a sign that it isn't a contradiction at all but that our expectations are based on wrong assumptions. That clearly is the case with the war on terrorism.
Read full article at: http://needtoknow.news/archives/2016-2/2016-02-19/
COMMENT: A nice / short article by Ed Griffin.
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Why Psychiatry Holds Enormous Power in Society Despite Losing Scientific Credibility
Source: Alternet.org
--All societies, communities and families coerce and control members who frighten them. However, the kinds of behavior that frightens people varies enormously, and thus what is permissible to control and coerce varies enormously. So, while it would be fairly universal for a society to coerce and control someone who is physically attacking another of its members, it is quite historically exceptional—as is done in U.S. society—to use antipsychotic drugs to subdue a bored seven-year-old who is resisting classroom controls.
In December 2012, the Archives of General Psychiatry (renamed JAMA Psychiatry) reported that, between 1993-2009, there was a seven-fold increase of children 13 years and younger being prescribed antipsychotic drugs, and that nonpsychotic conditions such as "disruptive behavior disorders" were the most common diagnoses in children medicated with antipsychotics, accounting for 63% of those medicated.
The dramatic growth of antipsychotic drugs in the United States is largely about ever-increasing societal acceptance of using drugs to control unwanted behaviors. Antipsychotics grossed over $18 billion a year in the United States by 2011, and by 2013 one antipsychotic drug, Abilify, was the highest grossing of all drugs in the United States with nearly $6.5 billion in sales. In addition to children—especially foster children—the burgeoning U.S. antipsychotic market includes the elderly in nursing homes and inmates in prisons and jails, where antipsychotic drugs are a relatively inexpensive way to subdue and more easily manage these populations.
Read full article at: http://www.alternet.org/comments/why-psychiatry-holds-enormous-power-society-despite-losing-scientific-credibility#disqus_thread
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Cash Wars: The People Strike Back?
Source: CorbettReport.com
--Harald Mahrer is one of the people warning about the move, and he's not just your average Joe. He's a Deputy in the Economic Ministry of the Austrian government. "We don't want someone to be able to track digitally what we buy, eat and drink, what books we read and what movies we watch," he told Austrian public radio station Oe1 last week. He argues that the ability to use cash should be a constitutional right for Austrians.
Mahrer is just reflecting what an increasing number of people are beginning to realize: that cash transactions are a key to maintaining anonymity. Heck, when even mainstream propaganda outlets like Slate.com are running pieces making the case that "cash is a classic privacy protection" (in direct contradiction to their earlier anti-cash propaganda) you know the would-be Gods of Money still have a way to go to convince the public to part ways with paper.
But more than just privacy protection, the true importance of cash becomes apparent in times of banking crisis. Just witness when Greece started clamping down on cash withdrawals during their banking panic and people began literally stuffing it under the mattress. It is no coincidence that we are moving into a time of global economic uncertainty being frontrun by (what else?) a banking crisis in Europe.
Read full article at: https://www.corbettreport.com/cash-wars-the-people-strike-back/
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Previous Week's News 02-15-2016
Kissinger's War Crimes: Hillary VS Bernie
Source: TheIntercept.com
--Let's consider some of Kissinger's achievements during his tenure as Richard Nixon's top foreign policy–maker. He (1) prolonged the Vietnam War for five pointless years; (2) illegally bombed Cambodia and Laos; (3) goaded Nixon to wiretap staffers and journalists; (4) bore responsibility for three genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; (5) urged Nixon to go after Daniel Ellsberg for having released the Pentagon Papers, which set off a chain of events that brought down the Nixon White House; (6) pumped up Pakistan's ISI, and encouraged it to use political Islam to destabilize Afghanistan; (7) began the U.S.'s arms-for-petrodollars dependency with Saudi Arabia and pre-revolutionary Iran; (8) accelerated needless civil wars in southern Africa that, in the name of supporting white supremacy, left millions dead; (9) supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America; and (10) ingratiated himself with the first-generation neocons, such as Dick Cheney and Paul
Wolfowitz, who would take American militarism to its next calamitous level.
Read full article at: https://theintercept.com/2016/02/12/henry-kissingers-war-crimes-are-central-to-the-divide-between-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-san
COMMENT: And, if you'd like more, here is another well-written piece:
"--So, to sum up, using the lower estimates above: Kissinger's policies resulted in at least 4,124,000 civilian deaths, probably many times that number of wounded and refugees – and that doesn't include Kissinger's victims in Vietnam — a war that he (and Nixon) helped prolong for five years when they sabotaged 1968 peace talks — Laos, or Argentina, Uruguay, the Middle East and Persian Gulf, at the hands of Kissinger's partners, such as the Shah and the Saudis." Read here: http://tinyurl.com/hs9hxth
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Why Are The Neocons so Desperate to Rescue Al-Qaeda in Syria?
Source: GlobalResearch.ca
--Ignatius's Washington Post, which has never seen a potential war it did not want to see turned into an actual war, thinks it a tragedy that the Syrian army's advance on al-Qaeda occupied Aleppo has "cut off all vital routes of supply from Turkey to the rebel-held areas of the city." Those would be Turkish supplies in support of al-Qaeda and ISIS rebels, but the Post is too deceptive to mention that fact.
Read full article at: http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-are-the-neocons-so-desperate-to-rescue-al-qaeda-in-syria/5507295
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Judge Who Sentenced Man to 55 Years Asks Obama to Set Him Free
Source: TruthInMedia.com
In 2002, then-24-year-old Weldon Angelos, a rap record label founder whose career was taking off after a collaboration with Snoop Dogg, sold $350 worth of pot to a police informant who happened to be a lifelong acquaintance on three separate occasions while in possession of a firearm for self defense.
Due to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, Angelos was arrested and sentenced to 55 years without the possibility of parole. Since then, Angelos has become a symbol of the injustice of mandatory minimum sentences. Those supporting his early release include U.S. Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the billionaire Koch brothers, and even former federal judge Paul G. Cassell, who sentenced him in the case.
Read full article at: http://truthinmedia.com/judge-sentenced-man-to-55-years-for-pot-asks-obama-set-him-free/
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Ron Paul: Is Congress Declaring War on ISIS…or on You?
Source: AntiWar.com
Passage of Senator Mitch McConnell's authorization for war against ISIS will not only lead to perpetual US wars across the globe, it will also endanger our civil and economic liberties. The measure allows the president to place troops anywhere he determines ISIS is operating. Therefore, it could be used to justify using military force against United States citizens on US territory. It may even be used to justify imposing martial law in America.
The President does not have to deploy the US military to turn America into a militarized police state, however. He can use his unlimited authority to expand programs that turn local police forces into adjuncts of the US military, and send them increasing amounts of military equipment. Using the threat of ISIS to justify increased police militarization will be enthusiastically supported by police unions, local officials, and, of course, politically-powerful defense contractors. The only opposition will come from citizens whose rights have been violated by a militarized police force that views the people as the enemy.
Read full article at: http://original.antiwar.com/paul/2016/01/31/is-congress-declaring-war-on-isisor-on-you/
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