Manipulated TV: 'Good news - bad business'

Disappointment and lack of trust in the media has some Americans turning to alternative sources for news. They claim big corporations are pushing their interests on to the public rather than facts. RT's Anastasia Churkina went to find out who's behind the information being broadcast in the US.

Because of this doubt in the media, more Americans are turning to the Internet and other alternative news sources to find out the truth. But radio host Alex Jones says the world wide web is in danger of becoming manipulated by big business.

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Crosstalk on the Game of Global Engineering in the Middle East

In this edition of Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk, he and his guests discuss and question the ultimate effectiveness of exporting and also limiting democracy due to geopolitical interests.

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Parts of US Patriot Act Expire Next Month (Feb 2011): Will They Be Pro-Longed?

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American CBS Portrait of Julian Assange

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Babylon Observer Video Research: The Psyop Program (1968)

WWW, January 2011 -- In this original 1968 U.S. Army video footage, we are introduced to the concept of "Psychological Operations", in short: psy-ops. In simple sights and sounds, the video explains just how the population of a foreign country is being targeted to, as the video states: "make them perceive things from the desired viewpoint".

The story in the video is set in a fictional country called "Host Land", somewhere in South America. In the movie, the government of Host Land asks the USA for help to fight domestic opposition, portrayed as "communists". In a room somewhere within the American embassy, a conference takes place wherein this is shown.

The rest of the video shows how the Psychological Operations are conducted in Host Land. The use of entertainers, media, infiltrations and other means are presented and explained.

The viewer of the video will not have a hard time to recognize the very same principals shown in this video in current events.

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Tea Party, 'All Theater'!?

The Tea Party Caucus in the Senate held its first official meeting today and had extended an invitation to all GOP senators but does this mean we're already seeing Tea Party elects blend in with the Washington establishment? The Majority Report's Sam Seder weighs in.

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Chossudovsky: CIA's NGOs - the ABC of US foreign policy

Russian opposition leaders and human rights activists pleaded with top US officials to support their plans for political and social change, but the request was apparently given short-shrift by Washington. Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, which obtained fresh files from WikiLeaks, reports that the group was consistently critical of the Kremlin and wanted American help for reform.

Those demands were voiced on a visit to Moscow by Michael McFaul, Special Assistant to The President for National Security Affairs, who met with opposition leaders at the residence of the American envoy to Russia in Moscow. According to the reports, the opposition said: "Washington should pay more attention to significant incidents related to freedom of assembly in Russia. To solve problems in Russia's civic society, parties should sit down at the negotiation table -- both Russian and US governments, and representatives from NGOs." The US response was, "It is up to Russian activists to build up their relations with their administration, without relying on America."

Michel Chossudovsky from the Center for Research on Globalization said it is no surprise that Russian opposition parties come knocking on the door of the US embassy.

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Orchestrated Storms: US sending waves through Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia?

Protests inspired by the revolt in Tunisia have dominoed along Egypt, Yemen and Algeria. Some have drawn comparisons to the colour revolutions seen in post-Soviet countries. To discuss this RT talks to William Engdahl - author of the book 'Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the new world order.'

Houston Cop Accused Of Arresting Handcuffing Then Raping Woman On The Hood Of Squad Car

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Buju Banton's Trial Date set at Valentine's Day

WWW, January 2011- After having been released on bail and performing at a well received concert in which the support for the Jamaican vocalist was made visible, the USA have now set a new date in which they want to persecute Buju Banton: it's on Valentine's Day...

Buju's lawyer made a little joke, when he said "we hope the jury will give a little love". However, we've seen already that the ones persecuting the Jamaican Reggae star, whose real name is Mark Myrie, are dead set against Buju and try every trick in the book to make him face a significant portion of his life in the US prison system.

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Moscow Airport Tragedy: Webster Tarpley on the double standards Russia - the West

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Bradley Manning Still Being Abused and Tortured: Pentagon partially admist and partially denies

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Empty Store Shelves Coming to America

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How Nice: Paid Leave For Policeman that Beat 58 Year Old Woman Repeatedly In The Face

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Free Book Download and/or Online Read: Fritz Springmeier - Bloodlines Of The Illuminati

A very interesting study into thirteen of the most powerful families, their links with the satanic plotters and their relevance in world events.

The writer was arrested for a crime he didn't commit as the result of exposing this information.

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Book Review: Painful Questions: An Analysis of the September 11th Attack (Eric Hufschmid)

When the Twin Towers fell to the ground, Erich Huffschmid had no reason to doubt the conspiracy theory we know as the official version of what happened that tragic day.

After all, with most sensible people he thought that "conspiracy theories" were usually expressions of paranoia. So he probably had to answer one very painful question for himself, before he could write the book we are reviewing here.

"Is the Government story concerning September eleven a conspiracy theory?"

Recent polls show, that a majority of people answer this painful question with "yes".

And Eric Huffschmid is one of them.

Mr. Hasid is a respected software engineer and programmer, respected in what he does. And successful too. Has he become a "conspiracy theorist"?

In a way, yes.

The writer of this great book doesn't really propose another "what really happened" version. And he doesn't speculate either. He's just doing what the title of the book suggests: asking very Painful Questions.

Huffschmid not proposing a conspiracy theory, he is exposing one. By simply asking questions. Each of them can be answered. But the answers will not back up the official version.

Let's take a look at a few of these questions:

• Why is the military hiding the video of Flight 77 as it crashes into the Pentagon?
• Why did the WTC fall down in exactly the same unique way as advertized by the demolition company who cleaned up the ruins afterwards?
• Why do so few people know what Building 7 is and why it collapsed at 5:30 PM?
• Why do the official stories claim that the Twin Towers melted to the ground through fire where it is a scientifically proven fact steel buildings never do?
• Why didn't seismic stations pick up the crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon?

This book truly asks the questions. Questions so painful that it doesn't really matter whether they are answered or not.

NOTE: The writer of this book has, after releasing what can only be considered a classic on the topic, moved on to anti-semitic realms where we at the Dubroom most definitely would not want to follow him.

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Book Review: Operation Trojan Horse (John A. Keel)

This is a very remarkable book.

Not only because it completely wipes away all intellectual relevance around the many glossy UFO books with sensational stories and ditto photo's. Not only because it was written back in the 1960's and didn't lose one inch of it's actuality along the decades.

The book is remarkable because it makes sense out of those things concerning the UFO phenomena that usually doesn't make any sense.

An example. When the UFO's were flying over the western world in the 1800's, they didn't look at all like the pictures we all know. And the aliens also looked quite different.

Many people who think that UFO's do not exist use these facts to proof that they can't possible be somewhere other than in the fantasies of failed writers.

But there are still plenty facts that simply proofs the existence of these machines and their inhabitants.

The writer of Operation Trojan Horse makes sense out of what seems to be non-sense. He makes a lot of sense!

Instead of going after the many stories, trying to (dis)proof the authenticity of them, John A Keel simply looks at the actions of the Unidentified Flying Objects throughout history.

In the big picture that comes to the surface, we are introduced to an intelligent Master Plan. It appears that UFO's have been developed in an adjustment to human perception. More simply put: they look the way they want us to see them.

Keel doesn't really go in to the temptation to answer, or even ask where UFO's come from. In fact, he leaves these things over to the reader. A reader who knows that that question is not so relevant when it comes to this whole issue.

John Keel simply bypasses all the crap in this whole UFO story. The sensational stories, the irrelevant questions, the paranoia. He goes straight to the core of the matter.

He ends his book in a state of "reasonable confusion". Operation Trojan Horse is clearly in effect and it involves a lot of bizarre technology.

But being a believer in a-theism and evolution, Keel has some intellectual problems to overcome. A matter which he considers private and not the subject of this book. Fortunately.

Because that makes it even more interesting for Truth Seekers.

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Book Review: The Hidden Face of Terrorism: The Dark Side of Social Engineering, from Antiquity to September 11 (Collins)

When you're studying at the University, there comes a moment in which you have to write an essay about a certain subject and you better make sure that you know what you write in it. Especially when your essay contains a thesis which is, to say the least, unconformed to the established order.

Paul David Collins wrote an essay about a contemporary subject. As the title already shows, Collins claims how Terrorism is "the dark side of social engineering". And it's like that since very ancient times. But how do you convince a University Professor that it's really like that? That terrorism is in reality a technique used by the power elite to bring about social change?

The answer is in this book. Collins is not only convincing, he proofs without the shadow of a doubt how true the title is.

Even though the subject as well as the contents are kind of heavyweight, it's still not very difficult to read it. Sure, you might have to read a sentence again, but the matters which are discussed deserve that, to say the least.

For "the hidden face of terrorism" should be exposed to everyone so that we know that we're being fooled big-time!

Terrorism turns out to be a mere tool in the hands of the power elite. Through sophisticated manipulation mechanisms known as "problem -> reaction -> solution" they practice "Social Engineering".

"Social Engineering"? Yes. It's also known as "Social Darwinism"...

Groups such as Al Qaida turn out to be nothing less than Intelligence Assets: groups created by people who are on the payroll of the Western Secret Agencies: the CIA and the like.

And everything is hidden in plain view! The knowledge is out there. The Hidden Face Of Terrorism is Hidden In Plain View!

Paul David Collins is definitely not a conspiracy theorist. His research included official government documents with plans to commit terrorism to bring social change. He puts Nero's reason to burn down Rome into the same context as well and together with a lot of other arguments a very convincing argument comes to the surface.

When you are interested in the true motives behind these terrible acts of terror that brutalize the people of the world, be like that university professor.

check out The Hidden Face Of Terrorism and shiver as you realize that you have absolutely nothing to counter the challenging thesis of Paul David Collins' book "The Hidden Face Of Terrorism"

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Book Review: The Ahriman Gate, Some Gates Should Not Be opened (Horn)

Almost 400 pages of profound suspense awaits you. Yours truly has read the book in one long session, unable to put the thing down until the last page was read and this review finished.

Suspense, because this is a fictional story and quite a good one indeed. It's a thriller, where secret government projects and even genetically manipulated beings appear to the scene. A far-beyond-top-secret facility turns out to be nothing less then a technical project to basically release the most evil forces creation has ever witnessed.

Profound, because the story is only a vehicle to wake the town and tell the people about some truly troublesome issues. According to ancient manuscripts such as the Book of Enoch as well as contemporary reports, the governments of the world are in continual contact with evil forces. In exchange for "supernatural" or "alien" knowledge, these forces are allowed to do the most absurd things.

Absurd, but unfortunately true. As we keep hearing about genetic manipulation and all of us are simply enraged by the fact that GM "food" is taking over natural food, the real situation with DNA goes much further.

In the Ahriman Gate we are introduced with some of the most evil applications of GM. We're talking "transgenetics" here: mixing the DNA of animals and humans. And it goes even further, when we have to take the message of The Ahriman Gate with some seriousness.

And we should.

Even though Tom Horn, who co-wrote the book with his wife Nita, is well established within the Christian Industry.

Even though he does use information by other researchers like Matthew Henry, who in their turn complain about this lack of crediting.

For it's a fictional book, and may very well serve as a starting point for a deeper research.

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Young Chilean Confronts David Rockefeller On Video

WWW, January 2011 - On a maybe-not-so-lighter note: A young Chilean called Matías Rojas confronted elite banker-and-Jah-knows-what-more David Rockefeller and told him to get the bleep out of Chili. Of course, Alex Jones interviews the guy, who in his turn claims Alex Jones to be "his hero",but nevertheless this is a thing to watch

Matias Rojas speaks about the fact that many of the elite are buying land in Chili and Argentina, among which mnot just Rockefeller but also CNN's Ted Turner. Things concerning the reason why so many Mexican people are trying to get the USA, on top of that.

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Did Baby Doc Duvalier Return to Haiti to Pressure Preval in the Election?

DemocracyNow.org - We speak to journalist Kim Ives, editor of Haiti Liberté, about former dictator, Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's return to Haiti. Ives argues Duvalier's presence will allow the U.S. and France to install their preferred candidate in a run-off election set for February against the wishes of President Rene Preval. The international community has threatened Preval with exile if he doesn't comply with their interpretation of the disputed results of last November's election. "Preval, after bowing to US, and French and Canadian dictates over the past decade of his presidencies, is now finding out now that once he begins to resist a little bit or try to do something his way he is going to be quickly dispensed with," says Ives.

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Canadian Soldiers Being Encouraged To Commit War Crimes By Chain Of Command

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Dick Cheney speaks about Obama's continuation of Police State, Palin and Scooter Libby

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Hijacked Legacy: MLK's dream used & abused to push Pentagon agenda

When people across the globe joined together to honor Dr. Martin Luther King on his birthday, it showed the legacy of this moral crusader in America's race war - lives on. But as RT's Kristine Frazao discovered, some are also taking advantage of his name to gain support for U.S. wars abroad.

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Babylon Observer Video Report: Remembering the Message of Martin Luther King, 2011

WWW, January 2011 - A day after the official Martin Luther King Day on January 17, two years after the election of Barak Obama, the black community within the USA knows themselves to be on top of many lists concerning poverty, unemployment and negative profiling.

Where Martin Luther King expressed his hope for a nation that would "live up to their creed that all man are created equal", he was not far from his assasination. More than 40 years later, many black people who voted for Barak Obama know themselves in a nation that still does not live up to it's creed.

The Babylon Observer remembers and observes the current runnings, and reports...

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Tonton Macoute: Haiti's very own Stasi/Gestapo

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Dutch Cablegate: Netherlands Police Reports Real-Time To US Embassy

WWW, January 2010 - Dutch authorities carefully keep the American embassy up-to-date about terrorism related cases they're working on. This becomes clear out of the Wikileaks documents given to the Dutch press (DOWNLOAD ZIPFILE).

Confidential information is almost directly passed through. The American embassy are given names of terror suspects, sometimes even live and direct at the moment searches of houses are being conducted.

Sometimes even the Americans are suprised about the speed with which this happens. In one of the documents, the legal atache of the embassy says that the prosecutor of the Dutch Justice department should not have made the information public. Dutch legal experts are also questioning the intensive contacts. According to lawyer Victor Koppe, the legal boundaries are crossed and the stream of information is not checkable.

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Rudy Giuliani Wants To Do Involuntary Mental Evaluations Of People!

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Interview with veteran reporter Helen Thomas

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Impressions from the Buju Banton "Before the Dawn" Performance

Impressions from Buju Banton's "Before The Dawn" performance on january 2011, which was for the most part a solidarity concert to support and draw attention to Buju Banton as he is currently subjected to a trial in which he was entrapped by the DEA.

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US Press Abandons WikiLeaks

As we wait and see if Julian Assange will be extradited to Sweden, we have to wonder where the US media organizations have all gone that once supported WikiLeaks. The Daily Banter's Ben Cohen explains why the media has backed off.

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Exiled dictator 'Baby Doc' Duvalier returns to Haiti

The former dictator of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, also known as 'Baby Doc', has returned to the country 26 years after he was overthrown. He greeted crowds of supporters, but did not say why he chose to return or what he would do. Duvalier inherited power from his father at 19 and presided over one of the darkest chapters in Haitian history. He is accused of torturing and killing political opponents, ruling in an atmosphere of fear and repression ensured by his feared secret police force.

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Wikileaks: US pressured Dutch Labour leader over Afghanistan

Wikileaks: US pressured Labour leader over Afghanistan

Monday 17 January 2011

Labour MPs have reacted with shock to claims that senior Dutch civil servants urged US officials to pressure former Labour party leader Wouter Bos to support a continued Dutch military mission in Afghanistan.

The claims flow from US diplomatic cables leaked by the Wikileaks website. Labour's refusal to back a longer stay in Afghanistan eventually led to the government's collapse.

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Canadian Airport Security Molest Non-English Speaking Elderly Woman In A Wheelchair

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Julian Assange Interviewed by Dutch TV on the Dutch cablegates

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'Bush, Reagan let drugs flow free to US from Nicaragua' - ex-dealer

"Freeway" Ricky Ross, a former US street legend, who as a drug dealer was once responsible for flooding California's streets with most of its hard drugs, spoke with RT about his activism against drugs. After making up to US$2 million a day and then spending 20 years in prison, Ross started from scratch and is now trying to make a difference by keeping kids from following into his footsteps.

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Wikileaks Cables from the US Embassy in Netherlands Available

Dutch media outlets have been given access to the Wikileaks files concerning the Netherlands.

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USA Snatching Afghans, Kidnapped To America, Even 12 Year Old Kids Sent To Guantanamo

Afghan citizens snatched from their home country, shipped to America and locked up on charges of terrorism, are now finding themselves standing trial in U.S. courts. Only, with no official extradition treaty in place, it could be America that's breaking international law.

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Agenda Dictators: Democracy smothered by US policy of dictating debate with dollars

The United States has made its mission to promote democracy in third world countries. Billions of dollars flock to those who fall on Washington's side of the fence. But it's not only the supporters who get funded, as Kayleen Forde reports.

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Why is Glenn Beck Obsessively Targeting New York City Professor Frances Fox Piven?

For more than a year, Fox News host Glenn Beck has been increasingly targeting Frances Fox Piven, a 78-year-old distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Beck has repeatedly accused her of advocating violence and of hatching a plan in 1966 to overthrow the system. Democracy Now! asks Professor Piven to discuss the attacks and the social justice work and research she has done for the last 40 years.

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Tucson Shooting Survivor: "It Looks Like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle & the Rest Got Their 1st Target"

Democracy Now! interviews Tucson shooting survivor Eric Fuller. A 63-year-old disabled veteran, Fuller had campaigned for Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in her reelection campaign and was at the supermarket in Tucson on Saturday to meet with her. He was shot in the knee and also wounded in the back. "It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target," Fuller says. "Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled."

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Icelandic Parliamentarian on the US Subpoena of Her Twitter Info on WikiLeaks Involvement

DemocracyNow.org - The US Department of Justice has subpoenaed the internet company Twitter for personal information from several people linked to the online whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The subpoena asks Twitter for all records and correspondence relating to their accounts. Icelandic parliament member Birgitta Jónsdóttir, who has collaborated with WikiLeaks, is one of the five people targeted by the subpoenas. "I think it opens up a whole can of worms when it comes to parliamentary immunity worldwide," Jónsdóttir says. "Icelandic authorities are taking this very seriously."

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US Deporting 100's of Haitian Immigrants Back To Cholera and Poverty stricken Haiti

Ravaged by an earthquake that claimed over two hundred thousand lives a year ago, Haiti is still gripped by the after-effects. Widespread homelessness and a cholera outbreak have brought the island to its knees. And now, Washington has added insult to injury. Hundreds of Haitians will soon be deported from the U.S, to face a grim future back home.

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US Empire doesn't tolerate Haiti

Haiti has had constant turmoil throughout its history but nothing has had the devastating effect on the lives of the Haitian people like the horrific earthquake that struck the country on January 12, 2010. The US has been meddling in Haitian affairs for years and uses aid as a political tool to bend countries like Haiti to their political will. Glen Ford from the Black Agenda says if a little black country stands up and says 'we want to be independent' that represents a danger to the US Empire, not to be tolerated.

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Video: Camp FEMA

WWW, January 2011 - In "Camp Fema", we are given a view on the historical, present and future of "internment camps" in the USA. People of Japanese descent, aboriginal people in USA, black people, all have been targeted to "enjoy the hospitality" of the US gov't. Now, with Guantanamo Bay as example, new camps have been build and this time it is not "just" those people that have been discriminated against anyway but potentially the whole population of USA that is being targeted.

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Elite Panique: Southern Poverty Law Center Links David Icke With Arizona Shooter

They are getting so desperate

Why does this ludicrous man seek to connect me (whose name he doesn't even know how to pronounce) and others exposing the global conspiracy with the outrageous shooting of a Congresswoman and multiple murders in Arizona?

Why does he try to dub me a 'right-winger' when I believe that all extremes, 'wings' and label-thinking have lost the plot and also try to connect me with violence when the very foundation of everything I say is to emphasise non-violence?

Why? Because I am getting too close to the truth and because my major article repeated below went out across the Internet on New Year's Day exposing the Rothschild Zionist secret society that has used and abused Jewish people for well over a century and more, and has its place-people in key areas of government leadership and administration.

This silly man's organisation, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is part of the Rothschild Zionist 'hate-crime', 'hate laws', 'dub-them-racists' network that includes the Anti-Defamation League, B'nai B'rith etc., etc, and seeks to label 'racist' and 'far-right' anyone who gets close to exposing the architects of human enslavement and control. Thank-you, Mr 'Botox', I take it as a compliment.

I am glad I have rattled their cage so much that they try so desperately to discredit me, but how disgraceful and shameful it is to seek to do so by exploiting such a terrible tragedy. Outrageous.

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Is Julian Assange A Journalist?

Support from US journalists for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was raining down as they benefited from his classified information releases but now it appears he is on his own. Executive Director of The Committee to Protect Journalists Joel Simon says the first amendment guarantees freedom of the press and there has never been a prosecution for disseminating information under the espionage act. If Assange is convicted, it could weaken protection that journalists currently enjoy.

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Obama's Broken Guantanamo Bay Promise: Americans Protest At The White House

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Gitmo violates International Law

It's been 9 years since the opening of the US military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It became one of the most notorious detention centers of the 21st century and a highly politicized issue throughout the Bush and Obama administration. President Obama's attempts to shut it down have been shot down numerous times in political battles in Washington, DC. The military base has also been the source of dispute between the US and Cuba's leader Fidel Castro who say the US lease is invalid and the military base serves as an occupation.

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Gitmo detainees are "ghost prisoners"

The Guantanamo Bay prison was supposed to protect the US from terrorism but has become unlawful and a human rights violator. Attorney and Author Kristine Huskey, who represented some of the Guantanamo inmates, says under the Bush Administration they were basically ghost prisoners. They weren't allowed to challenge their detention and weren't even named in many cases; no one knew who was there.

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PFC. Manning is being tortured, isolated

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Founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange has been conducting international interviews from a manor house in the English countryside. Meanwhile, PFC. Bradley Manning, the soldier the military reportedly believes is responsible for providing Wikileaks' information, languishes in solitary confinement in a Marine brig while. Stephen Soldz, the president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility explained Manning is kept in his cell 23 hours a day. He's not allowed to even exercise. If he tries to do push-ups they go in and stop him. He's not allowed to sleep during the day. He has virtually nothing to do.

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CrossTalk on 9/11: Whodunit?

In this edition of CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle asks his guests why discussion of the events of 9/11 continue to attrack so much attention but is all but banned in the media mainstream.

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CrossTalk: WikiBacklash

On this edition of Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk he ask his guests why WikiLeaks is important and what social good it serves.

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Julian Assange back in Court for Hearing Date

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WikiLeaks: treat incitement seriously or expect more Gabrielle Gifford killing sprees

WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
10 Jan 2010, 10:15 PM EST

“WikiLeaks: treat incitement seriously or expect more Gabrielle Gifford killing sprees.”

Wikileaks today offered sympathy and condolences to the victims of the Tucson shooting together with best wishes for the recovery of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, a democrat from Arizona's 8th district, was the target of a shooting spree at a Jan 8 political event in which six others were killed.

Tucson Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, leading the investigation into the Gifford shooting, said that "vitriolic rhetoric" intended to "inflame the public on a daily basis ... has [an] impact on people, especially who are unbalanced personalities to begin with." Dupnik also observed that officials and media personalities engaging in violent rhetoric "have to consider that they have some responsibility when incidents like this occur and may occur in the future."

WikiLeaks staff and contributors have also been the target of unprecedented violent rhetoric by US prominent media personalities, including Sarah Palin, who urged the US administration to “Hunt down the WikiLeaks chief like the Taliban”. Prominent US politician Mike Huckabee called for the execution of WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange on his Fox News program last November, and Fox News commentator Bob Beckel, referring to Assange, publicly called for people to "illegally shoot the son of a bitch." US radio personality Rush Limbaugh has called for pressure to "Give [Fox News President Roger] Ailes the order and [then] there is no Assange, I'll guarantee you, and there will be no fingerprints on it.", while the Washington Times columnist Jeffery T. Kuhner titled his column “Assassinate Assange” captioned with a picture Julian Assange overlayed with a gun site, blood spatters, and “WANTED DEAD or ALIVE” with the alive crossed out.

John Hawkins of Townhall.com has stated "If Julian Assange is shot in the head tomorrow or if his car is blown up when he turns the key, what message do you think that would send about releasing sensitive American data?"

Christian Whiton in a Fox News opinion piece called for violence against WikiLeaks publishers and editors, saying the US should "designate WikiLeaks and its officers as enemy combatants, paving the way for non-judicial actions against them."

WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said: "No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder. Those who call for an act of murder deserve as significant share of the guilt as those raising a gun to pull the trigger."

“WikiLeaks has many young staff, volunteers and supporters in the same geographic vicinity as these the broadcast or circulation of these incitements to kill. We have also seen mentally unstable people travel from the US and other counties to other locations. Consequently we have to engage in extreme security measures.”

“We call on US authorities and others to protect the rule of law by aggressively prosecuting these and similar incitements to kill. A civil nation of laws can not have prominent members of society constantly calling for the murder and assassination of other individuals or groups.”

More examples:

http://www.peopleokwithmurderingassange.com/

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"South America's Bin Laden" Harbored in USA

WWW, January 2011 - A man currently on trial for 'immigration fraud' turns out to be a CIA agent with a long list of initiating terrorist attacks in the South American continent. He was trained at the infamous "Schhol of the Americas", subsequently did his things and was protected by the Bush Family and other elite groups especially in the inteligence community. Currently is his sixties, Luis Posada Carriles is even labeled "terrorist" in the USA.

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Babylon Observer Video Report: Iraq's Poorest Make Junkyards Their Home

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WWW, January 2011 - In spite of billions of American "reparation" money supposedly aimed at "reconstructing" Iraq, about 25% of Iraq's population lives under the poverty limit.

People have to flee their houses because of sectarian violence that came with the invasion of Iraq and make the junkyards their new homes. Little children pick up trash instead of going to school, there is no running water and absolutely no medical care.

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Geral Celente: “Internet nuclear bomb is waiting to go off”

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Record High Bankuruptcy Under British Pensioners

Britain's pensioners are going bankrupt faster than any other group in the country. The UK Insolvency Service findings highlight how seriously those over 65 are struggling to keep their homes running, as costs rise. As RT's Laura Emmett reports, most older people's budgets have already been cut to the bone.

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Congresswoman Shot In The Head Point Blank 6 Other People Killed

WWW, January 2011 - A US congreswoman has been shot in the head and several others killed in Tucson, Arizona. The killer, whose name appears to be Jared Lee Loughner seemed to have a Youtube page here. The congreswoman, whose name is Gabrielle Giffords, was holding a meeting with people who elected her as the massacre started.

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"Christian" preachers predicting the end at May 2011 on video

WWW, January 2011 - It does not matter that the bible clearly states that "no man knows just exactly when the things will happen that are prophesied in the book, here we have a "pastor" that leads the sheep away from simply faith in Jesus Christ. He tries to make people believe that the rapture and subsequent destruction of creation will take place in the period from May to October in this year, that is 2011.

There are always groups and individuals who claim the end of the world on a certain date, obviously they've all become exposed later but not after they did indeed fool sometimes masses into selling their goods and wait for the pye in the sky.

This "pastor" is not the only one that claims the dat, by the way. Another one called Harold Camping is also among those that have fallen into deceiving the people with their strange predictions:

Note the fact that there are even people wearing T-shirts with the date "May 21, 2011" on their backs...

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Twitter Ordered To Turn Over Information About WikiLeaks Account Including Subscribers Names

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New York Suburb Bans Smoking On Public Street

More trickery to force people in enslavement mode

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Cokane Import Agency: How the CIA imported cokane, crack, and why

There is a long history of American tax dollars being used to help people get rich off of illicit drug sales. RT's Ramon Galindo talked to one of America's largest drug kingpins and shows us how Los Angeles has been unable to shake the demons of its addiction

The United States government allegedly infused drugs into our inner cities in order to keep minorities down and destabilize world governments. Radio host Alex Jones says it wasn't just about destabilizing inner cities and financing revolutions overseas. It was also about the 100 of billions of dollars laundered in drugs through large western banks, they then lobbied Congress to expand prison complexes they own and sell stock in.

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USA: Death Penalty On The Way Out?

Texas since 2001 has freed forty one wrongly convicted inmates through DNA, more than any other state. Which makes us wonder how many are wrongly imprisoned and how many in this country, have been put to death on false charges. Death Penalty Information Center's Richard Dieter debates Josh Marquis, District Attorney of Clatsop County, Oregon.

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Video: Norman Finkelstein debates Aaron Gissin

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Wrongfully convicted: a man is free at last after 30 years...

Cornelius Dupree was sentenced to 75 years in prison after being convicted of rape and robbery at age 19 in 1980. After 30 years behind bars, new DNA testing proved his innocence and a Texas judge overturned the conviction and cleared his name. Ray Suarez gets more on the case from Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins.

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"You Don't Like The Truth" - Four Days in Guantanamo

This is a trailer of the documentary "You Don't Like The Truth", which was aired on Dtuch national TV yesterday (January 5, 2011). On the Babylon Observer Forum there is a link to watch the documentary in full.

The video is centered around snippets from a 7 hour long videotape wherein members of the Canadian secret services interogated Canadian citizen Omar Khan in Guantanamo Bay. Khan is tortured, held without charge, falsely accused and all of that when he still was 15 years old and sent by his father to a place where the Americans picked him up and sent him to years and years of torture.

The documentary is a must-see.

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Is the US too Politically Correct?

The United States is known as a nation of tolerance but is political correctness pushing the mute button on free speech? Comedian Dean Obeidallah says in America if you make a racist statement against blacks or an Anti-Semitic remark against Jews, you will probably lose your job. If you make an Anti-Muslim or Anti-Arab statement you're rewarded, there is definitely a double standard.

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Meet the New Congress, Same as the Old

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Obama and Bush not pardoning prisdoners who are in jail without real reasons!

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Bank of America assembled an espionage unit in fear of expected wikileaks publications

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Indefinite Detention: Obama's Order?

The White House is preparing an Executive Order on indefinite detention according to ProPublica. The order allows for the possibility that detainees from countries like Yemen might be released if circumstances there change. Human Rights Watch's Andrea Prasow explains this Executive Order

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Tea Party Becoming Civilized?!

The new congress is getting sworn in tomorrow...including a number of Tea Party elects. But are they going to stay true to the people who elected them. NY's Tea Party 365's Kellen Giuda explains what exactly they expect.

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Fighting to protect Julian Assange, WikiLeaks

As the WikiLeaks saga continues, the United States is preparing to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for conspiring to violate the Espionage Act of 1917. Many believe the United States should protect Assange rather than punish him, including Rosenberg Fund for Children founder Robert Meeropol who is the son of famed convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. He says under the constitution there is a line that is drawn between legitimate dissent and treason, the founders of our country decided that speech alone could never be considered treason. It would be a violation of the first amendment of our Constitution.

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CrossTalk: UN-Necessary?

Does the world really need the United Nations? Peter Lavelle and his CrossTalk guests discuss whether the UN is still relevant. Should it be reformed, particularly the Security Council, or should it be abolished? At the end of the Cold War, many people hoped that the UN would finally realize its founders' dreams of world peace, security and freedom through international cooperation. But now many think it is weaker and more divided than ever. Is the UN broken? Can anything be done to fix it?

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Enemy Within: Israeli Army in cyber war against skeletons in closet

Massive leaks of secret files have recently been shaking many governments, and Israel is no exception. But for the nation's army, the problem appears to come from its own ranks - with sodiers posting secrets on social networks. Paula Slier looks at the Israel Defence Force's struggle to keep its skeletons in the closet.

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'UN in auto 'Condemn Israel' mode as Palestinians still suffer'

Palestinian officials say they will ask the UN Security Council to approve a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Meanwhile, human rights group UN Watch is concerned that the world body is not playing fair with Israel. UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer says UN's condemnation of Israel does not help Palestinians.

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'Spy services feed info to whistleblowers to keep tabs on site visitors'

Cryptome.org was publishing classified and secret documents long before WikiLeaks made headlines. Cryptome co-founder John Young told RT such sites are allowed to stay online so that spy services might keep an eye on their visitors. There is no secrecy on the Internet, John Young warned.

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Dr. Atul Gawande: Solitary Confinement is Torture

The physical and psychological effects experienced by people held for extended periods in solitary confinement is a topic Dr. Atul Gawande has written extensively about. Yesterday, four prisoners in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary launched a hunger strike to protest being held for more than 17 years years in solitary confinement. The alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower, U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, has also been held in solitary confinement for much of the past seven months. "People experience solitary confinement as even more damaging than physical torture," says Dr. Gawande, who was interviewed on Democracy Now!

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KARL ROVE BEHIND SWEDISH HUNT FOR JULIAN ASSANGE!

KARL ROVE BEHIND SWEDISH HUNT FOR JULIAN ASSANGE!
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WWW, January 2011 - Weblog "The Legal Snauzer" reported in December last year, how well-known Bush advisor Karl Rove is very likely to be involved in advising the Swedish government just how Julian Assange can be extradited to the USA via the Scandinavian country.

Rove, who claims to be of Swedish heritage himself, is a well-known individual to those that have even superficially been watching the many criminal activities of the Bush administration concerning the leading into was against Iraq. According to the December article, "Former Bush White House strategist Karl Rove likely is playing a leading role in the effort to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a source with ties to the justice community tells Legal Schnauzer".

In the meantime, the news has been picked up by several news sources including the Huffington Post and now also the Swedish press. A January 3 article on the Snauzer roughly translated on of the swedish news paper article as can be seen below:

STOCKHOLM/WASHINGTON--The Republican strategist Karl Rove made his name worldwide as an advisor to President George W. Bush. He helped him to become governor of Texas and then also president of the United States.

In addition, norskättade Karl Rove since the 80s also acted as advisor to the Swedish Moderate Party--the only foreign party as "the king of spin" brag about to his credit.

Helped win the election
According to several tasks hired Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt also Rove to help moderates win the 2010 election. These data, however, denied by the Moderates former party secretary Per Schlingmann--now Secretary of State in the Prime Minister with responsibility for communications.

Now accused Karl Rove of being behind the Swedish government's campaign to get Wikileaks founder and editor, Julian Assange, extradited here. In order to then hand him over to the U.S.--where a spy prosecutions threaten Assange.

The American journalist Roger Shuler, who blogs on the popular and prestigious Legal Schnauzer, writes that a reliable source says that Rove will help the government Reinfeldt case Assange. Apparently, it seems that [Rove], who claims he is svenskättad, feel a kinship to Sweden . . . and he has taken advantage of it several times.

Protects legacy of Bush
Why then should Rove be interested in prosecuting Assange for sex crimes charges in Sweden? In order to protect the legacy of George W. Bush, the source said.

"Just the guy who leaked the documents, to the detriment of the Bush family the most, is also the guy that Bush's right hand can control by being the Swedish prime minister's brain and adviser to the intelligence and economic affairs," said the source to the Legal Schnauzer.

Also, journalist and lawyer Andrew Kreig, which include writing for the Huffington Post, has received the same information of a credible political agents.

"This bear [Karl's] signature. He must be so happy. He is back in action. He makes a lot of value to his new friends and get to see the U.S. government to do exactly what he himself would have done--while he makes life miserable for their opponents," the source to the Huffington Post.

Engaged in political trials
Karl Rove has since Barack Obama and the Democrats regained power in Washington has been under fire for his alleged involvement in a politicized trial of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman.

Democrat Siegelman was accused of corruption and threatened by a 30-year prison term, but has always maintained that the process against him was politically motivated--and directed by Karl Rove. When Rove was questioned by the U.S. Congress about his involvement, he saw to flee the country--to Sweden.

"When he was in trouble and did not want to testify at the three occasions when he called he ended up in Sweden," a source told Legal Schnauzer. "Moreover, it was Reinfeldt who first hired Karl when he was expelled from the White House."

Wikileaks embarrassing for Sweden
According to reports, it was just mess around Don Siegelman who was George W. Bush to finally ask his closest advisers to throw in the towel. This too has been denied by Rove himself.

Wikileaks has caused not only the U.S. government embarrassment, but also the Swedish. Among other things, it has been revealed that the Swedish government representative has asked the U.S. Embassy to allow surveillance in the context of Surveillance Detection Unit (SDU), run "informally" to ensure that parliament would [not] examine it.

The latest in a series of revelations also show how the U.S. helped--or renutav dictated--the Swedish government's policy in the war against file sharing.

Julian Assange, the 39-year-old Australian nomad, searched for previous residence in Sweden to carry on from here Wikileaks activities.

But instead he fell into the arms of two Swedish women who went to police with the sex allegations.

This was followed by an infected right process and try to get him extradited to Sweden from the UK.

Here is the translation of a sidebar about Rove:

This is Karl Rove

Karl Christian Rove was born December 25, 1950, in Denver, Colorado. He is an American political consultant--so-called spin doctor--and was previously general counsel and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.

Rove is regarded as the political architect of Bush's electoral victories, first as governor of Texas and then in the two presidential elections.

Karl Rove visited Sweden a few days in the early 80s to give the Conservatives tips on fund-raising --that is, how to raise money for political campaigns.

During the political week Almedalen Gotland 2008, Rove at a seminar organized by industry think tank Timbro.

Rove has appeared in numerous criminal investigations, but never prosecuted.

According to information on the web, Karl Rove has advised Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in the election campaign 2010.

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US Army: Onward Christian soldiers?

Is there no freedom of musical choice in the US armed forces? US Army posts in VA have been putting on a series of so-called Spiritual Fitness Concerts. But "spiritual fitness" is merely the military's new term for promoting evangelical Christianity. Religious scholar and US military veteran Jake Diliberto explained there is a strong Christian influence in the US military that goes back to the early founding of the military and today the religious right in America has very strong influence in the US national security system.

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Wikileaks: Israel preparing for Full Scale War (Haaretz)

According to israel based newspaper Haaretz, Israel is said to prepare for a full scale war already back in November 2009. This was recently released on the Wikileaks website.

It quotes the Israeli minister of the army Ashkenazi

"I am preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite," Ashkenazi said. "The rocket threat against Israel is more serious than ever. That is why Israel is putting such emphasis on rocket defense."

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Inside Story - Anarchy in Europe?

We discuss the possible motives and intentions behind the recent spate of parcel bomb attacks. Who is behind the attacks and what do they want to achieve?

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Inside Story - Egypt's Coptic Christians

What is the Egyptian government doing to protect the its country's Coptic Christians? Is it really trying to bridge the Christian - Muslim divide?

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David Frost interviews Swedish Minister Carl Bildt on Julian Assange

Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, discusses the recent terrorist attacks in Stockholm, and the attempted extradition of Julian Assange for sex crimes.

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David Frost interviews Julian Assange

David Frosts interviews Wikileaks founder and spokesperson Julian Assange on Wikileaks, the Swedish "case" against him, extradition to USA and more things. Originally aired december 22, 2010.

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Christian" Rock Bands "Arming the Army": More Spiritual Fornication!

Soldiers of the USA army are being treated to "spiritual fitness" by their superiors: "Christian" Rock bands for example that claim to "arm the army" with their dominionist philosophy mistakenly called "Jesus Words". When they refuse to go to such a concert they're being treated with all kinds of penalties.

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2011 Starts With A Blast Against Christians In Egypt - 21 dead

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Riz Khan Interview with John Pilger about Iraq

US combat forces have left Iraq, but who should be held accountable for the invasion and occupation that has left hundreds of thousands dead? Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger joins the show to discuss.

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Iraqi Christians bury their dead

From: AlJazeeraEnglish December 31, 2010

Christians in Baghdad, Iraq's capital, have buried their family members killed as a result of a wave of attacks targeting the religious minority community. The unrest has forced thousands of Christians to flee from their homes.

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Sarah Palin and Bill o Reilly Show Their Ugly Face

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ONE Tip Is NOW Enough To Have YOU Put On A Terrorist Watch List

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Possession Of Less Than An Ounce Of Marijuana No Longer A Crime In California

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Video: Suspect Nation

SUSPECT NATION is a 2004 video documentary from UK based Channel 4. It talks about the enormous invasion of privacy in the UK and USA, and subsequently shows how these technologies used are only decreasing security rather than -as claimed- increasing it.

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College Thought Police Ban WikiLeaks

Universities are warning students, that they better not read the WikiLeaks documents, or post links to them or even mention them on social media, because they could prevent them from getting the necessary security clearances to get government jobs. Georgetown University's Christopher Chambers weighs in

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