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  • Yahoo and Google cooperate to quell dissent against US

    Yahoo and Google cooperate to quell dissent against US

    Julian Assange on social media and the CIA
    Social media feeds information to US agencies despite Wikileaks evidence

    Google and Yahoo are cooperating with US Government agencies to shape search results so that “mainstream” views are given prominence over dissent.

    New Google technology called Jigsaw has already been tested on jihadist messages and Yahoo has confessed to screening and storing email on behalf of US agencies.

    At the same time, Wikileaks celebrates ten years of activism to resist this trend, with its founder, Julian Assange, hiding from US authorities in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and an active campaign by Hollywood and mainstream media to discredit him.

    https://soundcloud.com/geoff-ebbs/datta-datta-tschanz-part-1

    http://www.listeningbrief.com/episode-4-amit-datta-anupam-datta-michael-tschantz-google-ads-and-discrimination/

     

    Google’s Jigsaw: Undermining Alternative Media

    In this premier episode of The Geopolitical Report we examine Google’s Jigsaw, an emerging technology that will be used to counter ideas considered “extremist” by the global elite. Initially beta tested on radical Islamists, Google and its partners plan to leverage the technology to marginalize and ultimately eliminate opposition to the establishment.

    http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2016/10/02/googles-jigsaw-undermining-alternative-media/

     

    Yahoo ‘secretly monitored emails on behalf of the US government’

    Company complied with a classified directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of NSA or FBI,Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information at the request of US intelligence officials,

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/04/yahoo-secret-email-program-nsa-fbi

    WikiLeaks, 10 Years Of Pushing The Boundaries Of Free Speech

    WikiLeaks came into existence. How it changed free speech! How it motivated more truth tellers to come forward ! Let there be more WikiLeaks, more transparency in governance.

    http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/04/wikileaks-10-years-of-pushing-the-boundaries-of-free-speech

  • UN helping Kenya send Somali’s back to war zone

    UN helping Kenya send Somali’s back to war zone

    Returned Somali, Katra Abii
    “I was a pauper in Kenya but I am destitute here,” returned Somali, Katra Abii

    The world’s largest refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya is being closed by the Kenyan government as the result of terrorist activity among the 300,000 Somalis living there.

    Since December 2014, the United Nations Humanitarian Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has assisted in the relocation of 24,000 refugees to Somalia.

    Refugee activists and non-government-organisations say that refugees are being coerced into relocating. Returning refugees to danger against their will is against the human rights convention among other treaties.

    Kenya hosts the world’s seventh largest population of refugees.

     

    The UN Is Sending Thousands of Refugees Back Into a War Zone

    Kenya’s plan to close the world’s largest refugee camp involves forced repatriations of Somalis. Why is the UN helping?

    UNHCR now appears to be managing a process that violates the cardinal rule of refugee protection: that refugees and asylum-seekers shall not be returned against their will to any country where they face a threat of persecution

     

    http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/26/the-u-n-is-sending-thousands-of-refugees-back-into-a-war-zone-somalia-kenya-dadaab

  • The Cage redefines nomenclature for the uber-wealthy

    The Cage redefines nomenclature for the uber-wealthy

    A dollar in the cage
    Who is the one per crore?

    Philip Adams is interviewing Brooke Hamilton in repeat as I type. Listen here. They are discussing the theft of wealth by those running the neo-liberal agenda. Both broadcasters keep referring to “the one percent”.

    One percent of the world’s population is 70 million people. There are many more millionaires than that in the world, so the 70 million wealthiest people in the world represent a serious pile of gold bars but they are not the ones calling the shots.

    The one per lakh, on the other hand, is the 70,000 people who control wealth beyond what you or I can imagine. A lakh is the Vedic name for our 100,000.

    In the number system used across South Asia, the next order of magnitude that gets a name is the Crore. The Crore is ten of our million, or 100 lakh, it is written, 1,00,00,000. The Vedic system uses commas ever two orders of magnitude after the first three.

    The one per crore, then, is the 700 people who actually control the wealth. The Rothschilds, the British Royal Family and so on. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have probably made it into this particular elite, the oil sheiks and major arms dealers will be in there as well.

    The Cage, therefor has decided to talk about the one per crore and the one per lakh when appropriate and use the one percent when we specifically want to refer to the very wealthy 70 million who are stinking rich, but who are really just ordinary people with a lot of money.

  • Bee Death in South Carolina raises fears of Zika conspiracy

    Bee Death in South Carolina raises fears of Zika conspiracy

    Washington Post on Zika
    The Washington Post asserts the link between Zika and infant micro-encephalitis

    Spraying for the Zika virus in South Carolina USA has resulted in a massive death toll of the bee population in the fertile and productive farming area.

    Local farmers and environmentalists are up in arms that the local government sprayed an insecticide called Naled from aircraft for two hours on Sunday August 28th.

    Those concerns are exacerbated by reports from Brazil that the virus alone is not responsible for the birth defects that earned it the WHO status of a global emergency.

    The Zika virus is patented by the Rockefeller Foundation and the foundations earns money when the virus is distributed by designated US and UK companies.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-the-zika-virus/5505323 

    Zika: CDC Unveils Forced Vaccination and Quarantine Policy, Mass Aerial Spraying

    This is what passes for science: the mass aerial spraying of a toxic substance on specific populations with almost no evidence of its effectiveness to eradicate a non-fatal virus. It has been known for decades and whose patent is owned by the Rockefeller Foundation.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-zika-trigger-cdc-unveils-forced-vaccination-and-quarantine-policy-mass-aerial-spraying-of-subject-populations/5544167

    On Sunday morning, the South Carolina honey bees began to die in massive numbers.

    Death came suddenly to Dorchester County, S.C. Stressed insects tried to flee their nests, only to surrender in little clumps at hive entrances. The dead worker bees littering the farms suggested that colony collapse disorder was not the culprit — in that odd phenomenon, workers vanish as though raptured, leaving a living queen and young bees behind.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/01/like-its-been-nuked-millions-of-bees-dead-after-south-carolina-sprays-for-zika-mosquitoes/

    While there is some evidence suggesting Zika virus may be linked to the birth defect microcephaly, and the virus has been spreading throughout Brazil, rates of the condition have only risen to very high rates in the northeast section of Brazil.

    Since the virus has spread throughout Brazil, but extremely high rates of microcephaly have not, officials are now being forced to admit that something else is likely at play.

    Dr. Fatima Marinho, director of information and health analysis at Brazil’s ministry of health, told the journal Nature, “We suspect that something more than Zika virus is causing the high intensity and severity of cases.”1

    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/08/16/birth-defects-brazil-not-zika-virus.aspx

  • Trade treaties to rule them all and CETA there to bind them

    Trade treaties to rule them all and CETA there to bind them

    George Monbiot
    George Monbiot has CETA in his sights

    The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, abbreviated as CETA, has attracted broad criticism this week following an impassioned piece by George Monbiot in the UK Guardian.

    The treaty is promoted by its Canadian and EU backers as a key to opening cross Atlantic trade and therefor increasing wealth. Its critics point out that allowing global corporations to sue governments whenever government policy threatens their projected profits, it effectively hands over control of policy to the private sector.

    Monbiot describes this as the end of governing in the interests of the people. In other words, the end of democracy as we understand it.

    Many existing trade agreements include such clauses. Canada has paid $170 million in compensation to American corporations under the first seven years of the North American Free Trade Agreement and Mexico $240 million.

    One “Trade Treaty” after another – and we have to stop them all
    Corporate lobbyists and their captive governments try to wear down our resistance with one trade treaty after another.
    * A private corporate tribunal has supremacy over sovereign government legislation. For example, the tribunal could fine an elected government whose legislation, environmental protection and other social policies would reduce corporation profits.
    * Similar in the banking sector, monetary policy would be dictated by Wall Street 
    * Agriculture policy would have been dictated, especially with regard to GMOs and ag-subsidies. Monsanto and the like would have had free access and no government could pass legislation prohibiting genetically modified seeds.
    * Standards for health and nutrition would be limited so they do not reduce profits.
    * Labor laws would be weakened to US standards which have virtually no protection for workers. 
    CETA treaty is equivalent to the land treaties illiterate African chiefs were induced to sign in the 19th Century. 
    The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) allows any corporation to sue governments. It threatens to tear down laws protecting us from exploitation and prevent parliaments. Like TTIP, CETA threatens to lock in privatisation, making renationalisation or attempts by cities to take control of failing public services impossible. Like TTIP, it uses a broad definition of investment and expropriation to allow corporations to sue governments when they believe their “future anticipated profits” might be threatened by new laws.
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    Intellectual Property Rights And Free Trade Agreements
    a group of highly concentrated transnational corporations in the knowledge industries such as pharmaceuticals, high-tech, and entertainment pack so much lobbying clout that they can convince the governments of the indus­trialized world to bully developing countries to “harmonize” their copyright, patent and trademarks laws into a global intellectual property regime.
  • Zapitastas at Oxaca still strong, a decade on

    Zapitastas at Oxaca still strong, a decade on

    The Oxaca Commune
    The Oxaca Commune lives on a decade after its brutal repression

    Writing in CounterCurrents this week, Gustavo Esteva reports that the Oxaca Commune in Southern Mexico has continued to evolve and grow despite brutal repression by the Mexican government in 2006.

    A gentle revolution by the largely indigenous population of 4 million people set out to displace the economy from the center of social life, reclaiming a communal way of being, encouraging radical pluralism, and advancing towards real democracy.

    Construction and agriculture are both communal activities carried out on common land. Justice focuses on consolation and compensation of the victim and engages the perpetrator in the solution under the supervision of the community.

    Esteva reports that the Zapitastas have taken advantage of the collapse of the Mexican State to continue their unique approach to democracy.

    http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/28/the-oxaca-commune-and-the-zapitastas-hope-from-the-margins/