The Trojan Drone

Clerk Note: How Extrajudicial Executions Became "War" Policy in Washington.

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The Trojan Drone

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176166/tomgram%3A_rebecca_gordon%2C_how_extrajudicial_executions_became_%22war%22_policy_in_washington/

By: Rebecca Gordon
Date: 2016-07-17

An Illegal Military Strategy Disguised as Technological Advance

Think of it as the Trojan Drone, the ultimate techno-weapon of American warfare in these years, a single remotely operated plane sent to take out a single key figure. It's a shiny video game for grown ups -- a Mortal Kombat or Call of Duty where the animated enemies bleed real blood. Just like the giant wooden horse the Greeks convinced the Trojans to bring inside their gates, however, the drone carries something deadly in its belly: a new and illegal military strategy disguised as an impressive piece of technology.

The technical advances embodied in drone technology distract us from a more fundamental change in military strategy. However it is achieved -- whether through conventional air strikes, cruise missiles fired from ships, or by drone -- the United States has now embraced extrajudicial executions on foreign soil. Successive administrations have implemented this momentous change with little public discussion. And most of the discussion we’ve had has focused more on the new instrument (drone technology) than on its purpose (assassination). It’s a case of the means justifying the end. The drones work so well that it must be all right to kill people with them.

The Rise of the Drones

The Bush administration launched the assassination program in October 2001 in Afghanistan, expanded it in 2002 to Yemen, and went from there. Under Obama, with an actual White House “kill list,” the use of drones has again expanded, this time nine-fold, with growing numbers of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, as well as in the Afghan, Iraqi, and Syrian war zones.

There’s an obvious appeal to a technology that allows pilots for the CIA, Joint Special Operations Command, or the Air Force to sit safely in front of video screens in Nevada or elsewhere in the U.S., while killing people half a world away. This is especially true for a president running a global war with a public that does not easily accept American casualties and a Congress that prefers not to be responsible for war and peace decision-making. Drone assassinations have allowed President Obama to spread the “war on terror” to ever more places (even as he quietly retired that phrase), without U.S. casualties or congressional oversight and approval.

Federal judge allows former CIA detainees to sue over torture

Federal judge allows former CIA detainees to sue over torture

http://www.latimes.com/world/afghanistan-pakistan/la-na-cia-torture-lawsuit-20160422-story.html

By: Brian Bennett
Date: 2016-04-22

For the first time, a federal judge is letting a civil lawsuit proceed against two CIA contract psychologists who designed and supervised brutal interrogation tactics that critics called torture.

The ruling allows two former CIA detainees and the family of another who died in agency custody to try to win damages in federal court for the abuse they suffered at then-secret CIA prisons in the early 2000s.

In a ruling from the bench at federal district court in Spokane, Wash., Senior Judge Justin L. Quackenbush said he would deny a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. 

The Secret War Crime

The Secret War Crime

http://time.com/war-and-rape/

By: Aryn Baker and Photographs by Lynsey Addario for TIME
Date: 2016-03

First they shot her husband. Then the soldiers killed her two sons, ages 5 and 7. When the uniformed men yanked her daughter from her hands next, Mary didn’t think it could get any worse.

Mary and her family were members of the Nuer tribe in South Sudan, caught up in a vicious power struggle between the new country’s President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka tribe, and his Vice President, Riek Machar, a Nuer. Their war, fought largely along ethnic lines, has turned the northern part of the country into a wasteland. At least 50,000 people have been killed, according to the U.N., nearly 4 million face famine, and another 2.2 million have fled their homes, recounting tales of civilian slaughter, gratuitous torture and even forced cannibalism. Mary and her family were among the tens of thousands of civilians seeking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping base in the northern city of Bentiu when they ran into Kiir’s forces on the road in June 2014.

The 27-year-old recounts what occurred next distantly, as if she were explaining something that happened to someone else. The soldiers told Mary that they considered the Nuers in the camps to be rebels, and that they killed her sons because they couldn’t risk letting them grow up to be fighters. “We don’t kill the women and the girls,” the soldiers told Mary. “They said they would only rape us. As if rape were different than death,” says Mary, speaking in a safe house in neighboring Uganda run by Make Way Partners, an American Christian organization that provides housing, medical care and schooling for South Sudanese orphans and victims of human trafficking. After the soldiers killed her husband and sons, five of them held her down and forced her to watch as three others raped her 10-year-old daughter. Her name was Nyalaat. When the men were done, Mary says, “I couldn’t even see my little girl anymore. I could only see blood.” Then the men took turns with Mary. Nyalaat died a few hours later. “I wanted to die too.”

“Washington, the War Criminal Capital of the World is Driving the World to Nuclear War”: Paul Craig Roberts

“Washington, the War Criminal Capital of the World is Driving the World to Nuclear War”: Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.globalresearch.ca/washington-the-war-criminal-capital-of-the-world-is-driving-the-world-to-nuclear-war-paul-craig-roberts/5535472

By: Dr. Paul Craig Robers
Date: 2016-07-112

A Reuters news report by Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold shows how devoid the West is of honest, intelligent and responsible journalists and government officials.

First we will examine the dishonesty or incompetence of the reporters and then that of Western government officials.

Emmott and Siebold describe NATO as a “Western defense alliance.” Since the Clinton regime NATO has been an alliance for waging offensive war, a war crime under the Nuremberg rules established by the United States. Under the NATO banner a number of countries have been bombed, invaded, and had their governments overthrown by Washington acting under the cover of NATO.

These destroyed countries posed no threat whatsoever to the countries of the NATO alliance and undertook no aggressive actions against NATO members. How is it possible that Reuters’ reporters and editors are not aware of this?

Why do they call an instrument of Washington’s aggression a “defense alliance”?

Crimes Against Peace: The Chilcot Inquiry, Tony Blair and Iraq

Selected Articles: Crimes Against Peace: The Chilcot Inquiry, Tony Blair and Iraq

http://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-crimes-against-peace-the-chilcot-inquiry-tony-blair-and-iraq/5534737

By: Global Research
Date: 2016-07-07

Magician's Veil Hides Life Truths

http://www.wanttoknow.info/g/magicians-veil-hides-life-truths

"The magician's deception here is the subtle reinforcement of the idea that the present moment is of little to no value, that the past is something we cannot undo or ever forget, and that the future is intrinsically more important than the present."

Magician's Veil Hides Life Truths
Six Grand Illusions Obscure the Deeper Truths in Life

By Sigmund Fraud / themindunleashed.org

For a magician to fool his audience, his deceit must go unseen. To this end, the master of deception crafts ingenious illusions to divert attention from reality. As the audience is held entranced, the deceptive acts are committed. For the gullible, reality then becomes inexplicably built upon on a lie. That is, until the those fooled wake up, realize that they have been duped, and recognize the truth. Maintaining belief in the illusion, however, is often more comforting than exposing the magician’s secrets.

We live in a world of illusion carefully crafted by unseen magicians. So many of the concerns that occupy the mind and the tasks that fill the calendar arise from unconsciously implanted impulses to become someone or something that we are not. This is no accident. As we are indoctrinated into the corporate-consumer culture that now dominates the human race, we are entrained from a very early age into a collective mentality that espouses untouchable truths and promotes particular ways of being and behaving as required to succeed in our world.

Remorseless psychopaths within the power elite in our world act as the cunning magicians who subtly manipulate us with countless unseen deceptions. They blind us with endless barrages of innuendos and absolutes aimed at shattering self-confidence. And the vast majority on our planet are too overwhelmed or too complacent to peer behind the magician's veil and explore the deeper truths awaiting those with the courage to go there.

Pentagon Official Once Told Morley Safer That Reporters Who Believe the Government Are “Stupid”

Pentagon Official Once Told Morley Safer That Reporters Who Believe the Government Are “Stupid”

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/20/pentagon-official-once-told-morley-safer-that-reporters-who-believe-the-government-are-stupid/

By: Jon Schwarz
Date: 2016-05-20

Morley Safer, who was a correspondent on CBS’s 60 Minutes from 1970 until just last week, died Thursday at age 84.

There will be hundreds of obituaries about Safer, but at least so far, there’s been no mention of what I think was one of the most important stories he ever told.

Cannabis Is In Your DNA

Cannabis Is In Your DNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWXuaMXfbJA

By:
Date: 2016-04-22

The nutritional and healing powers of fresh raw Cannabis is one of of the best kept secrets of the last century. Because Cannabis is, essentially, a wonder plant, it was only a matter of time before the anti-cannabis propaganda machine would fall apart. That is what is happening today. This video calls out the "authorities" who do nothing but harm the public for enrichment and corruption of the state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgEP9... (Dr. William Courtney, Cannabis Therapies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DttdD... (How Cannabis Cures Cancer)

https://www.leafly.com/news/health/a-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsDic... (Documentary on Cannabis)

http://www.naturalnews.com/035759_can...

http://montanabiotech.com/2011/03/26/...

Excellent documentary on Cannabis from British Columbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1F2N...

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One striking chart shows why pharma companies are fighting legal marijuana

One striking chart shows why pharma companies are fighting legal marijuana

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/one-striking-chart-shows-why-pharma-companies-are-fighting-legal-marijuana/

By: Christopher Ingraham
Date: 2016-07-13

There's a body of research showing that painkiller abuse and overdose are lower in states with medical marijuana laws. These studies have generally assumed that when medical marijuana is available, pain patients are increasingly choosing pot over powerful and deadly prescription narcotics. But that's always been just an assumption.

Now a new study, released in the journal Health Affairs, validates these findings by providing clear evidence of a missing link in the causal chain running from medical marijuana to falling overdoses. Ashley and W. David Bradford, a daughter-father pair of researchers at the University of Georgia, scoured the database of all prescription drugs paid for under Medicare Part D from 2010 to 2013.

They found that, in the 17 states with a medical-marijuana law in place by 2013, prescriptions for painkillers and other classes of drugs fell sharply compared with states that did not have a medical-marijuana law. The drops were quite significant: In medical-marijuana states, the average doctor prescribed 265 fewer doses of antidepressants each year, 486 fewer doses of seizure medication, 541 fewer anti-nausea doses and 562 fewer doses of anti-anxiety medication.

But most strikingly, the typical physician in a medical-marijuana state prescribed 1,826 fewer doses of painkillers in a given year.

How Is Marijuana Legalization Going? The Price Of Pot Peace Looks Like A Bargain.

How Is Marijuana Legalization Going? The Price Of Pot Peace Looks Like A Bargain.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/07/10/how-is-marijuana-legalization-going-so-far-the-price-of-pot-peace-looks-like-a-bargain/

By: Jacob Sullum
Date: 2014-07-10

In 2012 John Larson, a retired high school math and science teacher, voted against I-502, the initiative that legalized marijuana in Washington. Yet this week Larson was one of the first government-licensed marijuana merchants to open a store in that state: Main Street Marijuana in Vancouver. “If people were dumb enough to vote it in, I’m all for it,” he told The New York Times. “There’s a demand, and I have a product.”

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper also seems to have had a change of heart about marijuana. The former brewer, who opposed Amendment 64, his state’s legalization initiative, is not about to become a budtender. But in a recent interview with Reuters, Hickenlooper conceded that the consequences of letting people grow, sell, and consume pot without risking arrest have not been as bad as he feared.

Cancer Cures Video

Cancer Cures Video

http://www.wanttoknow.info/health/cancercures/cancer_cures_video

By: WantToKnow.info
Date: 2016-08-08

Cancer Cures Video
Video Documentary Reveals Suppressed Cancer Cures

"One of the great things about [potential cancer cure] DCA is that it's a simple compound, in the public domain, and could be produced for pennies a dose. But that's also a problem, because big drug companies are unlikely to spend a billion dollars or so on large-scale clinical trials for a compound they can't patent."
  ~~  Newsweek article on potential cancer cure DCA, 1/23/07

The alleged cancer cures presented in the excellent video documentary "Cancer: The Forbidden Cures" are well worth exploring. Though not yet proven under rigorous scientific protocols which are very expensive, there is no doubt that thousands of people doctors had sent home to die were cured after taking the cancer treatments presented in this engaging documentary. If you or someone you know is dealing with cancer, this essay and film provide a wealth of invaluable information on negotiating the daunting labyrinth of cancer treatment.

Medicinal Cannabis and Its Impact on Human Health - A Cannabis Documentary

Medicinal Cannabis and Its Impact on Human Health - A Cannabis Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxVyNWt3clg

By:
Date: 2016-02-02

In this myth shattering, information packed documentary, learn from physicians and leading researchers about medicinal cannabis and its demonstrated effects on human health.

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LSD could make you smarter, happier and healthier. Should we all try it?

LSD could make you smarter, happier and healthier. Should we all try it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/04/01/lsd-could-make-you-smarter-happier-and-healthier-should-we-all-try-it/

By: Daniel Miller
Date: 2016-04-01

Researchers are again exploring the therapeutic possibilities of psychedelics.

In 1970, Congress dropped psychedelics into the war on drugs. After a decade of Timothy Leary, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” and news reports of gruesome murders, the federal government declared that the drugs had no medical use — and high potential for abuse. The chairman of New Jersey’s Narcotic Drug Study Commission called LSD “the greatest threat facing the country today .?.?. more dangerous than the Vietnam War.”

But over the past decade, some scientists have begun to challenge that conclusion. Far from being harmful, they found, hallucinogens can help sick people: They helped alcoholics drink less; terminal patients eased more gently into death. And it’s not just the infirm who are helped by the drugs. Psychedelics can make the healthy healthier, too.

On this subject, only a handful of peer-reviewed studies have been conducted; sample sizes are tiny. There’s still a great deal researchers don’t know. But early results suggest that, when used by people without a family history or risk of psychological problems, psychedelics can make us kinder, calmer and better at our jobs. They can help us solve problems more creatively and make us more open-minded and generous. Some experiments even suggest that a single dose can change our personalities forever.

Is it possible that a drug labeled as one of the most destructive and dangerous could make everyone’s lives better?

13 Bloodlines of the Illuminati

13 Bloodlines of the Illuminati

www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/index.htm

By: Fritz Springmeier
Date: 2003-09

Who really controls world events from behind-the-scene?

Years of extensive research and investigation have gone into this massively documented work. In this 624 page, large format book, Fritz Springmeier discloses mind-boggling facts and never before revealed truths about the top Illuminati dynasties.

You’ll learn of the secretive, Chinese Li family, which operates with impunity in the U.S.A. and around the world.

Along the way you’ll find out,

• why President John F. Kennedy and actress Grace Kelly were killed
• who created the United Nations

• who controls the two major U.S. political parties
• how the Rothschilds invented and control modern-day Israel
• who secretly founded false religions such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses,

...and much, much more. A literal encyclopedia of rare, unbelievable information!

Discover the amazing role these bloodlines have played - and are now wielding - in human history, with family names such as:

• The Astor Bloodline
• The Bundy Bloodline
• The Collins Bloodline
• The DuPont Bloodline
• The Freeman Bloodline
• The Kennedy Bloodline
• The Li Bloodline
• The Onassis Bloodline
• The Reynolds Bloodline
• The Rockefeller Bloodline
• The Rothschild Bloodline
• The Russell Bloodline
• The Van Duyn Bloodline

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The Complete History of the 'House of Rothschild'

The Complete History of the 'House of Rothschild'

http://humansarefree.com/2011/09/history-of-house-of-rothschild-complete.html

By: Andrew Hitchcock
Date: 2011-09-09

Control Freaks — The Rothschilds have been in control of the world for a very long time, their tentacles reaching into many aspects of our daily lives, as is documented in the following article.  

However, before we jump to the timeline, let’s read this invaluable introduction which will help us to clearly understand who the Rothschilds are as opposed to who they claim to be.
Definition of Zionism: an organization of so called Jews whose goal is to create a nation for Jews. 

Definition of Judaism: Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud. 

Just one of a multitude of Rothschild Palaces

2016 & The World According To Rothschild -- Bix Weir

2016 & The World According To Rothschild -- Bix Weir

https://youtu.be/0jU-c7CKrcA

By: SGTreport.com
Date: 2016-07-14

Bix Weir is back to re-examine 'The World in 2016' according to the Rothschild's Economist magazine. What did the esoteric, occult symbology riddled cover predict, what has come to pass thus far, and what is still to come? We take a deep dive into this and more. Thanks for joining us.

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The Invisible Man: George W. Bush and a Hole in History

The Invisible Man: George W. Bush and a Hole in History

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37208-the-invisible-man-george-w-bush-and-a-hole-in-history

By: Williams Rivers Pitt
Date: 2016-08-12

After Donald Trump blew into his dog saxophone and invited "Second Amendment people" to assassinate Hillary Clinton before she could appoint any judges, American politics went into China Syndrome meltdown mode in a way not seen since Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner very nearly to death in the well of the Senate, 160 years ago almost to the day. Republicans who had endorsed Trump immediately fled en masse to Outer Mongolia to become anonymous yak herders, and witnesses reported seeing House Speaker Paul Ryan climb a large oak tree while muttering, "I hate this job, I hate this job, there's no place like home, I hate this job."

This flame-decked train wreck has been a long time coming, and the GOP has nothing to blame but itself. Begin with the serial defections from the Democratic Party after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, augment with Nixon's "Southern Strategy" to promote racism and xenophobia within the party base, and then inject that strategy with steroids under Reagan by embracing right-wing fire-and-brimstone evangelical Christianity. Lose a war and collapse the economy in the middle.

Despise the immigrant, demonize the Other. Spend eight years howling THERE'S A BLACK KENYAN MUSLIM TERRORIST COMMUNIST SOCIALIST FASCIST MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, YOU GUYS, EVERYONE FREAK OUT, season to taste with millions of guns and the paranoia they pack, put it all in a bag and shake it, and what you get when you crack the seal is Donald Trump: a racist, sexist, xenophobic fool who doesn't know that he doesn't know anything, surrounded by a growling herd of loyalists.

There's a missing page to this recipe, one that has been deliberately deleted like a classified email from The Book Of Days. Trump runs around blaming Secretary Clinton for the state of the economy while arguing in tandem that Clinton and President Obama created ISIS out of thin air. "He's the founder of ISIS," Trump said on Wednesday. "He's the founder of ISIS. He's the founder. He founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton." The corporate "news" media lap it up because it's "good television," and even his most ardent opponents fail to say the one missing word.

Bush.

Former President George W. Bush speaks during a campaign rally for his brother Jeb Bush, a Republican presidential hopeful, at the Coliseum & Performing Arts Center in North Charleston, South Carolina, on February 15, 2016. (Jim Wilson / The New York Times)

Clipping Academic Freedom in Australia. “The Use of Social Media to Express Opinions”

Clipping Academic Freedom in Australia. “The Use of Social Media to Express Opinions”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/clipping-academic-freedom-in-australia-the-use-of-social-media-to-express-opinions/5530781

By: Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Date: 2016-06-14

Universities have become bastions of managerial madness.  The trends began some time ago, when money became the ultimate pursuit, and Mr Dollar became chancellor and chief.  The obsession with obtaining grants, the panjandrums awarding grants, the siphoning off funds, underwriting projects, have all made the academy a sad state.  Since universities now obsess about having a “marketing unit”, the idea of making education a matter of commercial viability rather than educational worth has become all important.

There is another aspect to this development.  Gone are the days when academic exposure was confined, left to the irate letters to the editor section or the occasionally controversial scribble. The great academics of history also doubled up as intellectuals, revolutionaries and, as A. J. P. Taylor showed so well, teledons.They wore many hats in the pursuit of learning, refusing to be holed up as scholar squirrels. Now, the scholar squirrels are everywhere, and more vulnerable. University establishments watch with eagle attentiveness to see that appropriate behaviour in the public eye is observed.

In such an environment, opinions must be carefully expressed.  It is one thing to go through the coddling set of such a publication as The Conversation, where academics are managed by journalists through the minefield of implications an article might involve.  Suggestions of slander, sauciness and political inappropriateness are culled. Bland outcomes are preferable.

EVERYTHING IS RIGGED: Medicine, science, elections, the media, ...

EVERYTHING IS RIGGED: Medicine, science, elections, the media, money, education, search engines, social media… you are living in a fabricated fairy tale

http://www.naturalnews.com/054857_rigged_elections_fake_media_fairy_tales.html

By: Mike Adams
Date: 2016-08-02

After witnessing how Reuters just blatantly cooked the presidential election polls this week to favor Clinton and how the mainstream media is so terrifyingly biased in favor of Clinton that the very foundation of democracy is now in crisis, it's time to tell you something that perhaps a lot more people are finally ready to hear:

EVERYTHING IS RIGGED.

Every institution in America is sold out, corrupted and politically rigged to favor Big Government and Big Business. "America is a lost country," explains Paul Craig Roberts. "The total corruption of every public and the private institution is complete. Nothing remains but tyranny. And lies. Endless lies."

CNN, Reuters and the Associated Press are all now shameless promoters of every big lie across every sector of society, from vaccines and GMOs to elections and politics. The federal government itself is incapable of doing anything other than lying, and it has totally corrupted the entire realm of science by pulling the strings of funding via the National Institutes of Health and the NSF.

The FDA is entirely corrupt, as is the USDA. Both function now as little more than marketing propaganda pushers for Big Pharma and Big Biotech. Similarly, Google, Facebook and Twitter are all rigged, too, censoring the voices they don't want anyone to hear while highlighting the establishment lies they wish to promote.

Here's what "rigged" really means... the tools of tyranny

When I say "everything is rigged," what does that mean, exactly?

NSA and CIA Double Their Warrantless Searches on Americans in Two Years

NSA and CIA Double Their Warrantless Searches on Americans in Two Years

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/03/nsa-and-cia-double-their-warrantless-searches-on-americans-in-two-years/

By: Jenna McLaughlin
Date: 2016-05-03

FROM 2013 to 2015, the NSA and CIA doubled the number of warrantless searches they conducted for Americans’ data in a massive NSA database ostensibly collected for foreign intelligence purposes, according to a new intelligence community transparency report.

The estimated number of search terms “concerning a known U.S. person” to get contents of communications within what is known as the 702 database was 4,672 — more than double the 2013 figure.

And that doesn’t even include the number of FBI searches on that database. A recently released Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruling confirmed that the FBI is allowed to run any number of searches it wants on that database, not only for national security probes but also to hunt for evidence of traditional crimes. No estimates have ever been released of how often that happens.