News = Propaganda
Reform = Facade
Democracy = Sham
Too many illustrations and examples to list. Snap out of it.
Lifting the Veil
National Security and Double Government
Mosaic of Facts
Who Owns Your Presidential Candidate
The largest one-time transfer of wealth from low to elite in the history of our nation via CitiGroup inspired bailout.
http://time.com/...
Army Colonel Steve Warren said Thursday from Baghdad, where he is a spokesman for the anti-ISIS campaign. “The amount of care that we have taken to preserve civilian life, to preserve civilian infrastructure, is unprecedented.”
https://theintercept.com/...
http://www.msf.org.uk/...
Yesterday afternoon, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power marched to Twitter to proclaim: “we call on Russia to immediately cease attacks on Syrian oppo[sition and] civilians.” Along with that decree, she posted a statement from the U.S. and several of its closest authoritarian allies – including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UK – warning Russia that civilian casualties “will only fuel more extremism and radicalization.”
Early this morning, in the Afghan city of Kunduz, the U.S. dropped bombs on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)). The airstrike killed at least 9 of the hospital’s medical staff, and seriously injured dozens of patients. “Among the dead was the Afghan head of the hospital, Abdul Sattar,” reported The New York Times.
...clearly informed of precise GPS Coordinates of MSF facilities in Kunduz,” and that the “precise location of MSF Kunduz hospital [was] communicated to all parties on multiple occasions over past months, including on 9/29.” Worst of all, from MSF itself:
Bombing continued for >30 minutes after American & Afghan military officials in Kabul & Washington first informed of proximity to hospital.
It’s impossible to fathom what the U.S. media would be saying and doing if Russia did something like this in Syria. By contrast, the reaction to this airstrike by their own government will be muted and filled with apologia, ironically quite similar to the widely vilified caricature of Jeb Bush’s comments about the Oregon shooting spree: “stuff happens.”
“officials of MSF … told Reuters that they ‘frantically phoned’ NATO and Washington DC, as bombs rained on the hospital for ‘nearly an hour.'”
http://www.theguardian.com/...
what Barack Obama calls “targeted killing” – they kill vastly more people than their targets, often needing to strike multiple times. Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...
In one incident, a US patrol machine-gunned a bus, wounding or killing 15 passengers. Incidents involving British troops killing civilians in Kabul are also detailed.
Afghan war logs: British troops killed dozens of civilians 26 Jul 2010
http://abcnews.go.com/...
The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians';
The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60 percent) of these are civilian deaths. That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six-year period.
Lies in court
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/...
Judge Reggie Walton of the FISC concluded that the NSA had engaged in 'systematic noncompliance' with the FISC-ordered minimization procedures over the preceding three years, since the inception of the Bulk Telephony Metadata Program, and had also repeatedly made misrepresentations and inaccurate statements about the program to the FISC judges."
"As a consequence, Judge Walton concluded that he had no confidence that the Government was doing its utmost to comply with the court's orders..."
Walton furthers, "...it has finally come to light that the FISC's authorizations of this vast collection program have been premised on a flawed depiction of how the NSA uses BR metadata. This misperception by the FISC existed from the inception of its authorized collection in May 2006, buttressed by repeated inaccurate statements made in the government's submissions, and despite a government-devised and Court-mandated oversight regime. The minimization procedures proposed by the government in each successive application and approved and adopted as binding by the orders of the FISC have been so frequently and systemically violated that it can fairly be said that this critical element of the overall BR regime never functioned effectively."
The portrayal of Snowden as a traitor, in light of what our precious DoD contractors have been doing all along, is laughable.
Snowden was deemed a traitor, when he released some simplistic Power Point slides. That alone was apparently horrific enough to send pundits and officials screaming of treason. Anyone that believes that spiel, is being played.
http://thehill.com/...
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
Feinstein and Nelson get hundreds of thousands of dollars contributed to their campaigns by DoD contractors such as: General Dynamics, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed.
https://www.opensecrets.org/...
https://www.opensecrets.org/...
http://abcnews.go.com/...
http://www.dodig.mil/...
https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/...
https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/...
http://www.militaryaerospace.com/...
http://friedfrank.com/...
BAE Systems ... settled a staggering two thousand five hundred ninety-nine charges.. The charges, which span from 1998 to 2011, concerned unauthorized brokering and related activities... The charges related to: (1) marketing JAS-39 "Gripen” military aircraft to Brazil, Chile, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Philippines, Poland, and South Africa; (2) exporting "Hawk” Trainer aircraft to Australia, Bahrain, Canada, India, Indonesia, and South Africa; (3) marketing or exporting EF-2000 Eurofighter "Typhoon” aircraft to Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, and Switzerland; (4) marketing three refurbished Type 23 frigates to Chile
DDTC initiated its investigation...alleging criminal conspiracy to violate U.S. federal laws...plea agreement capped a global criminal settlement involving both the U.S. Justice Department and the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, which followed a long-ranging international fraud and bribery investigation against BAE UK, and which resulted in a total of nearly $450 million in criminal fines...
Northrop settled charges that, between 1994 and 2003, Northrop and its predecessor in interest, Litton Industries, Inc. (acquired in 2001), exported militarized versions of aircraft inertial navigation systems, as well as related software source code and defense services, to unauthorized end users, including in proscribed destinations.
One charge of exporting technical data in the form of software related to significant military equipment used for Air Force One without authorization to an end user in Russia.
Twenty-seven charges of exporting defense articles constituting significant military equipment, including technical data in the form of embedded software, without authorization to ITAR-proscribed countries; namely, Angola, Indonesia, China, and Ukraine.
Forty-six charges of exporting defense articles constituting significant military equipment, including technical data in the form of embedded software, without authorization to end users in Austria, Brazil, Brunei, Greece, Israel, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and Yemen.
One charge of reexporting defense articles constituting significant military equipment, including technical data in the form of embedded software, without authorization to end users in Romania, South Korea, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom.
Raytheon Company settled civil charges with the U.S. Justice Department concerning the unauthorized exportation of defense articles, technical data, and defense services to Canada and to Pakistan, and the unauthorized retransfer of defense articles through Canada to Pakistan, concerning the AN/TRC-170 troposcatter system.
Twenty-six violations, as follows:
(1) Fifteen charges of exporting defense articles and technical data without authorization (ITAR §127.1(a)(1)).
(2) Six charges of conspiring or causing the unauthorized exportation of defense articles or defense services (ITAR §127.1(a)(3)).
(3) Four charges of omitting material facts or making false statements on an export or temporary control document (ITAR § 127.2).
(4) One charge of willfully inducing, or aiding and abetting, ITAR violations (ITAR § 127.1(d)).
Penalty
$25 million
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http://web.stanford.edu/...
Nobody goes to jail for routinely selling 'secrets', equipment and knowledge if they are part of the DoD network. In the wake of the ITAR investigations listed in the report, nobody from guilty parties like Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Lockheed, Boeing, L3, Raytheon ever went to jail for selling to the 'enemy'.
There are no raids, arrests, prosecutions or imprisonment of BAE Systems, Northrop, Lockheed, etc. executives, managers or employees. In fact, the DoD just continues to pay new contracts...I suppose because routinely divulging classified info and tech is clearly a trustworthy and legitimate business practice that the DoD and U.S. government is comfortable enough with to continue pouring billions of your tax dollars into perpetual contracts so the wares can fly into the hands of these supposed 'enemies' like Syria, China, Russia, Afghanistan and anyone else that pays the asking price.
Northrop fraud cases
http://www.whistleblowerlawyerblawg.com/...
"top 20 largest payments made by defense contractors to resolve allegations of fraud, Northrop-Grumman made the list 4 times, coming in at 1, 3, 7 and 11.
Northrop and BAE are still contracted and are #2 and #20 of top U.S. contractors:
http://washingtontechnology.com/...
I'm sure I can find plenty more if asked.