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Guest Post: State Dept Launches "Free The Press" Campaign As DoJ Tries To Jail Reporter
Submitted by Trevor Timm via The Freedom of the Press Foundation,
The US State Department announced the launch of its third annual "Free the Press" campaign today, which will purportedly highlight "journalists or media outlets that are censored, attacked, threatened, or otherwise oppressed because of their reporting." A noble mission for sure. But maybe they should kick off the campaign by criticizing their own Justice Department, which on the very same day, has asked the Supreme Court to help them force Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter James Risen into jail.
Politico's Josh Gerstein reports that the Justice Department filed a legal brief today urging the Supreme Court to reject Risen's petition to hear his reporter's privilege case, in which the Fourth Circuit ruled earlier this year that James Risen (and all journalists) can be forced to testify against their sources without any regard to the confidentiality required by their profession. This flies in the face of common law precedent all over the country, as well as the clear district court reasoning in Risen's case in 2012. (The government's Supreme Court brief can be read here.)
Associated Press reporter Matthew Lee commendably grilled the State Department spokesman about the contradiction of its press freedom campaign and the James Risen case at today's briefing on the State Department initiative, repeatedly asking if the government considers press freedom issues in the United States the same way it does abroad. The full transcript is below.
As Gerstein noted, "The Justice Department brief is unflinchingly hostile to the idea of the Supreme Court creating or finding protections for journalists," and if the Justice Department succeeds "it could place President Barack Obama in the awkward position of presiding over the jailing of a journalist in an administration the president has vowed to make the most transparent in history."
The government does mention it is working with Congress to craft a reporter's shield bill, which should give you some indication that the proposed bill is at best a watered-down, toothless version of what many courts have offered journalists for decades, and that would be no help to James Risen—the exact type of reporter that we should be attempting to protect the most. It's important to remember that in Risen's case, the government has previously analogized reporter's privilege to a criminal receiving drugs from someone and refusing to testify about it.
We'll have more on both the shield law and the Risen case soon, but it's clear that the US government still refuses to walk the walk when providing journalists the protections it claims to believe in.
Oh, and while we're on the subject, maybe the State Department can use its "Free the Press" campaign to put pressure on one of its staunchest allies, the United Kingdom, which is using terrorism laws to suppress acts of journalism—something the State Department has condemned many times in the past.
Here's the full interaction between the AP's Matthew Lee and the State Department spokesperson Jennifer Psaki on James Risen and US press freedom at today's State Department briefing:
JENNIFER PSAKI: One more announcement for all of you: With World Press Freedom Day around the world on May 3rd, the department will launch its third annual Free the Press campaign later this afternoon in New York at the U.S. U.N. mission. Beginning on Monday and all of next week, we will highlight emblematic cases of imperiled reporters and media outlets that have been targeted, oppressed, imprisoned or otherwise harassed because of their professional work. The first two cases will be announced by Assistant Secretary -- Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski later at the -- at U.S. U.N. And we invite you of course to follow Tom at Twitter, who has -- on Twitter who, as you all know, was just confirmed several weeks, @Malinowski and to keep up with human rights issues on DRL's website.
With that --
Q: Sure. Just on that, reporters who are, what, harassed? I'm sorry --
MS. PSAKI: Targeted, oppressed, imprisoned or otherwise harassed.
Q: Otherwise harassed. Does that include those who may have been targeted, harassed, imprisoned and otherwise whatever by the United States government?
MS. PSAKI: I'm --
Q: No?
MS. PSAKI: I think you're familiar with our Free the Press campaign, Matt, but --
Q: Fair enough. So it does not include those who might have been harassed by --
MS. PSAKI: We highlight, as we often do, where we see issues with media freedom around the world.
Q: Right, I understand. But you would say that you don't -- the U.S. does not believe that it has a problem with press freedom, or if it does, that it's not nearly as severe as the problems in other countries.
MS. PSAKI: We do not. I think we can look at many of the problems --
On media press freedom?
Oh. Go ahead. And then we'll go to you, (Paul ?).
Did you have another question on media press freedom, or --
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Q: If I could just go back to the overall, in general, the administration does not regard attempting to prosecute American journalists as an infringement of press freedom?
MS. PSAKI: I'm not sure which case you're -- what you're referring to.
Q: Well, there's several cases that are out there right now. The one that comes -- springs to mind is the James Risen case, where the Justice Department is attempting to prosecute. I just want to be clear. I'm not trying to --
MS. PSAKI: Well, Matt, I --
Q: I just want to know if you regard that as an infringement on press freedom or not. And I suspect that you do not, but I want to make sure that that's the case.
MS. PSAKI: As you know, and I'll, of course, refer to the Department of Justice, but the leaking of classified information is in a separate category. What we're talking about here, as you all know and unfortunately we have talk about on a regular basis here, is the targeting of journalists, the arrests, the imprisonment for simply exercising their ability to tell the story.
Q: Right. I understand that. And we're all, I'm sure, myself and all my colleagues, we're very appreciative of that.
But the reporters in question here have not leaked the information; they simply published it. So is it correct, then, that you don't believe -- you don't regard that as an infringement of press freedom?
MS. PSAKI: We don't. I don't have anything more to say on that case.
Q: OK.
MS. PSAKI: Do we have a new topic?
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We? The USSA, are now officially a-- 'Totalitarian/Fascist' whatever name you call it, overlords... today and forever with a timestamp '911'!0
mission accomplished
Par for the course with that kind of name. "Affordable care act". "Patriot act" "Whistleblower protection" "national defense authorization act"
Meet the State Press.
Meet the Pressure
"I say when it drops, oh you gonna feel it
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
(Know that you were doing wrong)
Pressure drops, oh pressure pressure pressure pressure
(Know that you were doing wrong)"
-Toots And The Maytals - Pressure Drop
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For many years, especially once I'd been/lived int he US and seen through the facade, I realized how broken all those annual reports about corrupt countries were.
COnflating a nations (people) with it's rulers (oligarchs) has been a master move by the Bernaysists of the world.
There is the Govern Ment (Mind Governors) and then there are the governed. Both are not the country.
THe hypocricy of the western controllers is staggering.
ori
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/the-return-of-in-formed-astro...
Some things you will never see criticized by the American media.
Vote fraud.
Multi-generational welfare.
kleptocrat wages and benefits.
Illegal aliens.
Abuse of power by the government.
Attacks on white people.
Bigotry in the media is expressed, not so much in what they say, as in what they choose to ignore. These are the issues I hear discussed all day, every day, but never by the talking heads.
We aren't going to hear the end of the racist remark from a basketball team owner. Not a word will be written about black on white "knockout" attacks occuring all over the U.S. every day. If it doesn't fit the narrative the MSM have orders to convey, it isn't covered, period!
I thought they were going to CHANGE the Amendment with just 5 little words.
So, journalists can still have freedom of speech, as long as they are "in the military", right ?
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda
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Satoshi, you take away the sins of the virtual world!
Did they finally get around to crucifying him? What a cross to bear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ECUtkv2qV8
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Timmah!
They don't leave elections to chance so why would the press be different?
The 'Press Freedom Bill'... gee, isn't that addressed in the First Amendment? It says something like "keepa your fucking hands off", though I forget the exact wording.
Some non Jewish media in America would be a start.
A really good start.
I have to say that Matthew Lee has some balls, he was the same cat who grilled that bimbo on Edward Snowden.
I'm surprised he hasn't been shipped off to some torture prison somewhere.
Oh, he also nailed her on QDDR:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/04/22/ap-reporter-scorches-state-department-spokeswoman-on-hillary-clinton-initiative/
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Ah, the reporter must have forgotten to carry his 'little red book' in order to receive such a harsh reprimand.
"Free The Press"?
Hysterical! The US press are willing slaves to the Obama administration.
And now they are perfect examples of what happens to useful idiots.
Perhaps the best evidence of evil.gov support of Free the Press.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEOMchDJOus
......free the spirit........from the body...
Meet the press, a 100 years ago...
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/meet-the-press/
ori
If I say anything about those Israeli art students and 9/11, I might as well clear my desk....
Yeah, this only started during/for this administration.
Got Yellow Cake?
"....... his head could be seen to move violently forward...."
free press ...... not even trying to maintain the illusion an longer, haven't been for a long long looooooooong time...... can't even muster a cynical laugh any longer....
Matt Lee, at least we have one left in the cesspool of "journalism reportage" that is statist propaganda, that passes for something worthy of public news.
Kudos to you sir, all I have to offer you is the acknowledgement of your honor, integrity, character and the use of my shower & soap for having to wade through what you do...day after day.
I do not have the information handy right now, but a reporter recently asked someone at the State Department to name ONE THING that Hillary had accomplished or done well. The State Dept. guy/gal heemd & hawwed. The reporter asked again for JUST ONE SPECIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENT...
Crickets... So, it looks like Hillary has very little record to run on.
What did she do as Senator from New York, I can't remember anything, but f she did do something worthwhile, please jump in with a comment!
Thinking...she tried to avoid having her make-up shotgun set to whore.
DoChen, I respectfully ask you to recall one thing Obama had accomplished or done well. Not to mention if anyone can even recall Obama in many of the places he claimed to have lived and went to school.
My point being that it makes no difference whether the candidate has done anything. It's what the voters, uninformed and stupid as they are, wish and imagine the candidate COULD do.
Hmm, OK... Obama did do the below, which I disagree with in all cases:
1) He rammed ObamaCare through.
2) He got his two lefty-ites onto the Supreme Court.
3) He beat the Republicans in the Budget / .gov threatened shutdown.
4) He muffed his chance to show the world the head of Osama bin Laden, even though he purportedly (hey, he probably did) had OBL killed by our Special Forces. But, dumping his body unseen into the Indian Ocean is what launched me into the Tinfoil Hat Brigade.
^--- Just in case anyone was wondering... :)
In the infamous words of Hitllary herself, I believe it was:
"I don't recall."...concerning cattle futures, Madison Guarantee S&L and land grabs with the McDougall law firm.
"What difference does it make..."...seems to be the latest iteration of that.
But only Norman Hsu knows for sho ;-)
"National security" being the blanket response of last resort to hide some governmental misdeed.
The appeal to patriotism has ALWAYS the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Can't remember who originally said it but it has never been truer.
I always liked the mark twain line about patriotism : "patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it"
Also "if voting made any difference, they'd make it illegal"
Twain was something else, thanks for sharing those GC.
It was Samuel Johnson who uttered that timeless line in 1775.
..... the security and secrecy of the National government would be the meaning of that..... after all the greatest enemy the USSA faces comes from its own citizenry ever waking up from thier big pharma enhanced MKULTRA stupor..... before the Monsanto enhanced FED funded genetic mutations are complete....
Perhaps she misspoke? ... channeled Ronald? ... maybe a flashback from the trauma of running sniper ally? ... could possibly even be a lie? She came, she saw, she lied.
"I have no independent recollection,"
when she got caught holding illegal back room meetings about Hillary care, but I'll bet she remembers every one of Slick Willy's bimbos, and will never let him forget.
I only remember how she often had caused traffic to shut down in Boston during the height of the Big Dig.
On more than one occasion she came rolling into the Park Plaza Hotel, giving the surprised hoi polloi the old one handed limp-wristed Queen Elizabeth wave from the back of a limosine motorcade, ostentatiously surrounded by around a dozen Boston PD motorcycle cops roaring in in order to properly to announce her presence. Bill wasn't the only one maintaining grass root connections. I'll leave the reasons for her many solo visits for you to figure out.
Mayor Menino made a lot of political hay with that motorcade perk. I think it's where Gore acquired his addiction, if you recall from his An Inconvenient Truth fictumentary.
Depends on your definition of accomplishment, dear sir.
She helped get Bill elected. There was a lot of closed door politicking and lawyerly gangster action behind that.
She put up with all the whores.
She put up with him sexually harassing all those women who did not want the attention and covered for it when they complained.
She stood by her man in the face of all that pubic humiliation.
She put up with Bill mounting her so that they could have Chelsea.
She has put up with one hell of a lot.
It's just her turn, NOOOOOW! Or else all the bodies start to surface. Mwah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaaa!
lol ... wicked! :D
So Hilly is really Tammy Wynette?
Don't forget she helped in the impeachment of Nixon.
an inconvient truth, ms clinton, was kicked off the congress led investigation because it is said, her lies were too over the top even for partisan dem congress ...evil back then willing to do anything for power.
"Don't forget she helped in the impeachment of Nixon."
She put up with Bill mounting her so that they could have Chelsea.
That assertion is at variance with the following:
Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator from Arkansas. She alleged in 1998 that United States President Bill Clinton had raped her two decades earlier
In an interview by Dorothy Rabinowitz for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Broaddrick claimed that Clinton had told her not to worry about pregnancy, because childhood mumps had rendered him sterile.[3] The alleged incident occurred two years before Clinton's daughter with his wife Hillary Rodham was born (Wiki)
It is fairly well known that Webb Hubbell is Chelsea Clinton's biological father.
Google up his picture to refresh your memory, and compare it to one of Chelsea...before she got all the plastic surgery.
DCRB. She did an exceptional job of misplacing State Department funds as the news that they "lost" $6 billion shows.
LOL, a measly $6 billion?
Ever wonder what happened to that $1 trillion that Donald Rumsfeld was scratching his head over? Of course, that itch was resolved by 9/11...
DoChen,
Hugh Hewitt (AM radio) started that "Name one thing Hillary has accomplished" line of questioning a few weeks ago. He asks it to every Democrat, liberal, or reporter (redundant) that comes on his show. Not one of them has been able to name a single accomplishment of hers. One reporter actually suggested that her accomplishment from her time at State was that she probably garnered the nomination.
Anyway, they can't answer the question, and they don't care.
Hugh Hewitt is a smart Constitutional law professor (a real one, unlike Obama) whose style of questioning is unparalelled in the media, in my opinion. He has THE best guests on every topic....real experts on every topic (such as Frank Dowse on the situation in Ukraine) as opposed to political pundits who know nothing.
Thought you might like to know where that question came from. :)
Frank Dowse a real expert ?
did you read what he said ?
ukrainian army is well equipped, will fight, will bla-bla-bla. did the ukrainian army fight ? NO, there the new security forces involved now that started to do something.
plus saying the army was purged by eliminating the people that have only ukrainian ancestors plays DIRECTLY in putin's game, putin can now say the ukrainians are against ukrainian citizens of russian origin.
is FD a russian agent ?
are they really so stupid to offer putin help ?
come on !
Yes, Frank Dowse is an military expert who was stationed in Kiev for several years. He speaks Ukraine and Russian. I have listened to his interviews and read his words.
If you disagree with Frank Dowse, then please clarify your argument, because I didn't understand your post. If you can clarify your points about how you disagree with Frank Dowse, I'll go back and read his words and try to answer you.
I didn't find this to be such a big deal. Seems pretty common that gov folks don't know what's going on. And since most can only speak with a lawyer or a teleprompter present it's not a surprise to see one of them not being prepared to answer a question. Being new to a position one may not be totally up to speed on what has happened before. I'd be interested to see what Mr. Lee's questions to Clinton were like. After all, Clinton should be the one crucified here. (and yes, the program should be shit-canned as well)
Bumbling for sure. At the ver least it should have been an "I'll get back to you with a written letter" or something, that's kind of the standard practice, no?
Regarding the piece of crap Hilary, the right-wing party pussies were all over her during her hubby's administration. Then in the Obama administration she gets in and starts shaking the war rattles and there's nary a peep from the Hilary bashers.
Actually it is a pretty easy question to answer-- the correct answer was, "nothing".
Public relations people make a living of having an answer for every question they are asked. It's their fucking job, it's what they get paid for, and if they are working for FedGov, you can bet your ass they are good at it. When a PR person "doesn't know" something, the question is obviously one they do not want to answer. Better to look "incompetent" than fuck up your client.
All part of the job.
"Public relations people make a living of having an answer for every question they are asked."
In theory. Even though they are a bunch of low-life scum I find it hard to believe that they can have super-human/computer-like capabilities and are able to log EVERY possible bit of information. It's quite telling that folks on one hand can refer to all these folks as stupid and incompetent and then on the other believe that they should be able to conjure up/know about everything.
Like I said, the best way to have handled it would have been to offer a written response. We're talking about commenting on a predecessor, and professional decorum has it that you don't go disecting what someone else did: elected politicians can, but department folks just really don't do it.
As ususual, the Party Pussy folks here will attack thinking that I'm protecting Hilary. No (and, to those people I offer this preemptive: FUCK OFF). The person asking the questions should have stated it more in a departmental than personal level way- what was the one thing that the department sucessfully did during its initial term/administration. The System wants you/I/us to focus on the individuals so we lose track of what it is really doing.
DoChen, this is the link you are looking for:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/04/22/ap-reporte...
So, it looks like Hillary has very little record to run on.
And your point is? I mean, when did a lack of achievement ever stop a pol reaching the highest office?
"...but the leaking of classified information is in a separate category"
How trite. "Separate category" the operative word in that little exchange.
"Separate category" and "domestic terrorist" could be used to jail w/out bail 12-year-old kids selling red lollipops.
The United States = the land of propaganda; of euphamism's, hypocrisy, and doublespeak from .gov.
Habeus corpus, free speech, right to privacy & property - all equivocated into the grave.
They hate us for our lemonade stands. The ones that aren't SWATted down.
N.N. is the Acronym for 'New Nation'.
Mark my words....
Seems pretty straight forward and explainable by our two sets of laws society, no?
Fuck You Psaki stupid bitch.
Not to detract from your message, but Psaki is an enabler; an ignorant-but-dangerous sycophant.
I don't think "fuck you" is going to work.
There are more important places on which to concentrate your energy, else it is wasted.
Consider what might happen when a "justice dept" fails at justice, and all the energy goes elsewhere...
The Ministry of Justice, Truth and the American Way. There are no tanks in Baghdad. We believe in a Free Press.
Apple pie, fun BBQ's and the government of the United States represents all that we stand for.
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She was dazzled by the exciting new costume of Coco, in a way she can't explain.
"Consider what might happen when a "justice dept" fails at justice, and all the energy goes elsewhere..."
excellent statement, the general population is starting to awaken to the fact that the US legal system is seriously broken from the top down. When the US population comes to the conclusion that the justice system has been turned into a rigged game the fun will really begin. Get ready to see more of the types of situations like the Nevada cattle rancher standoff, and the police graduation that refused to allow Erick Holder speak at their ceremony. Obama and his brigade of fools have stumbled into a powderkeg with a lit candle....
All fine, but making it administration-specific misses the fact that none of this came to be overnight. And it also had the odor of Party Pussy-ness.
Funny but I don't remember them covering a chapter on exceptions to freedom of the press in J-School or reading about one in Hacker's A Writers Reference. Hey, Alex...
Correct.
Because the state (and all its many denizens) now believe they are the sole arbiters of law.
They're in for a very rude awakening, just like all despots before them. The law is what we say it is, not them, always has been.
And law is force at its elemental level.
Sigh, in theory, in theory...
ALL of this is a manifestation of the loss of control for the priviledged. That "loss" does not bode well for their continuance in/of power. And while that is a GOOD thing I'm afraid that with it will come a complete breakdown in the fundamental structure of law. I think we're seeing that fraying now.
Quite the dilemma. Enforce laws w/o becoming a police state... It's kind of like being an occassional crack user. As soon as POWER is made availble it is NOT given up and it is not diminished (it's only ever expanded)- pretty much leads to death.
American exceptionalism.
No US media would carry Seymour Hersh's story that Obama lied about sarin in Syria to try to start a war. His stories had to be published in the London Review of Books (circulation 59,235). Of course, no US media reported that story after it was published:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
Collateral Murder: U.S. Apache helicopters killing journalists in IraqApril 5, 2010 Wikileaks released this leaked video footage from a U.S. Apache attack helicopter, which shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and about a dozen other people standing around together as the Apache blows them all to pieces with 30mm cannons, in a public square in Eastern Baghdad in 2007.
After the helicopter murders this group, a minivan arrives on the scene and some people attempt to transport some of the wounded to a hospital. These rescuers are fired upon as well, along with the children they had in the vehicle.
The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths occurred. They refused to release the video to Reuters, for an investigation of the murders. But fortunately for us, and unfortunately for them, Private Bradley Manning released the video to the folks at Wikileaks, who decrypted it and shared it under the name "Collateral Murder".
http://vimeo.com/63389575
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More like "American Deceptionalism"
Good point and examples. I found it amusing that the propaganda media ignored the Iraq helicopter murders, but referenced it as one of the “crimes” by Manning.
However my all-time favorite was the propaganda media's complete and TOTAL ignoring of "Climategate." Not a peep until the first of two UK "investigations" cleared the "scientists" involved. Even then it was just a small blurb.
And then there was NDAA. It landed in CONgress in November, and not a peep while the alternative media and millions of people were screaming about it. They then only mentioned it in February when the outcry got so loud that they had to say something to the sheeple. So they just mentioned how Obama had signed a "signing statement" swearing that he wouldn’t do those dastardly things included within. LOL
All I have to tell them is that at some point their collusion makes them subject to the same fate as the pol, crats and banksters they are enabling.
"You got newsprint on my guillotine."
Look, I don't believe for a minute the bullshit coming out of the mouths of any politician or this state department OR any president for the last 50 years and I certainly don't think ,our "spreading DemoCrazy" is a nobel cause but if you are a reporter in a war zone running through the streets with guys carrying RPG you are bound to get shot and that is a fact my friend.
All I have to say is, if you are a reporter in the Middle-East, stay away from schools and wedding parties.
The shooters said it was an RPG, but , if I recall, it was a camera with a big telephoto lens.Not sure if they were shamed by that "innocent FU" or knew that shooting up the de facto ambulance would wind then up in Nuremberg some day.
The issue has more to do with reporters being out of the war zone (returned) and being "shot at" by their State for reporting.
Media Freedom = MSM Freedom to repeat the government talking points. Otherwise, not so much.
MANY years ago I'd had a political science instructor say that "Freedom of speech means the freedom to talk about what everyone else is talking about."
We've found the missing consititution, shredded and scattered all over Putznik's golf course
But please feel free to cover the golf game (so long as you report the score as "officially reported").
The president always shoots par.
For some reason, the courses he plays have been experiencing odd fluctuations in par, but that can't be reported for reasons of National Security®.
I'm almost fifty now and I have always been a staunch believer in our western democratic values. I never dreamed that one day we could actually become the bad guys. What's next? Do I have to sew some gold coins in the seams of my clothes and head for Russia?
Don't mistake the Russian Bear for the good guys. They're just as awful as they've always been. It's just that our guys have reached bottom and begun digging. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place at the moment. In America, there are about 3000 of them running 320 million of us straight off a cliff. It's way past time we marched.
Yes, I know, my comment about Russia was somewhat cynical. What worries me, though, is that Europe should stop being the lapdog of the US right now and find the moral courage to show its powerful nephew the error of its ways. Unfortunately, we seem to share the same vices these days so good luck with that.
"become"?
The US's history is about repression and exploitation. But to be fair, that's SOP for all rising imperialist nations.
"Do I have to sew some gold coins in the seams of my clothes and head for Russia?"
Depends on your objective.
Do keep in mind that raging fires eventually burn themselves out. Perhaps one strategy might be to stay put and dawn fireproof clothing... and don't miss the opportunity when presented- stock up on bags of marshmallows!
How many weeks/months until Iran has the "bomb"?
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Six months, the same as it's been for the last thirty years.
Nice one shemp!
Meanwhile, Oscumer is skipping around Asia telling each country exactly what they wanna hear:
Japan-we support your Sekaku islands
South Korea-Japan's WWII sex slaves was terrible
On to Malaysia- ?????
I'd really like to know who's hand is on the strings?
The same state department that pulled this dormroom diplomacy?
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/04/25/State-Depts-Psaki-Russi...
Hashtag this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_m5UQvt2h0
This was posted yesterday by another ZHer. Sorry, brother, I forgot your handle.
Found it. This video was originally posted by Gunter yesterday. Credit where credit is due. You owe it to yourself to watch this in its entirety ZHers.
This is real good stuff. Only wish I didn't have to pause every 10 seconds to read the subtitles but it's important to hear the impassioned pleas from the speaker.
Unequivocally demonstrated the mainstream media in the EU has forfeited all credibility, and so have the various governments. Germans don't want to be forced into fighting a war with their neighbors. They don't see Putin or Russia the way the media has portrayed them.
This is no longer a theory; it's an undeniable conspiracy. Kudos to the Berliners for coming out onto the street en mass and demonstrating their solidarity, and to Jebson for daring to speak out against the suppression of truthful, balanced reporting of the news.
Gunter said they meet on Mondays and the crowds are growing ever larger. Pretty eloquent fellow (and no teleprompter in sight).
I can be a nit picky bastard at times, but I couldn't find one thing in that eloquent 50-minute stream of consciousness that I disagreed with. You could drop that speech on any corner in the western world and have it resonate. I just wonder if it can penetrate our population of 300 million.
"I can be a nit picky bastard at times, but I couldn't find one thing in that eloquent 50-minute stream of consciousness that I disagreed with."
I can nit-pick with the best of them. I think that he got really close with his interest/compounding interest points, but this still doesn't find the root of the problem, and that is that interest/compounding interest is really the mechanism by which growth is pushed and that we need more introspection on the very notion of dealing with growth.
"I just wonder if it can penetrate our population of 300 million."
Not a bad idea to help make this thing go viral.
One at a time, one at a time. Fulcrums don't require that the entire length of the lever rest on only one side in order to do the job...
A few bits that really resonated:
I hear you there. I gave a pass on that because he had so much right, and for this to succeed he needs to avoid baited divisive buzzwords. "Compound interest" is a gross understatement but honestly people aren't going to stand for a half hour to listen to an economics lesson. I'm hoping the message of no hierarchy and decentralization covers it though.
"Everybody's talkin at me. I can't hear a word they're saying."
Yeah, like I said, it is almost perfect. Allowing the crack there is good enough.
It really is a masterpiece.
"I'm hoping the message of no hierarchy and decentralization covers it though."
Nature insists upon it. It's why I never believed NWO had a chance.
Thanks for reposting. Very worthwhile.
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
Constitution? Night in the box.
"What we have here is a failure to communicate..."
Cool Hand Luke
"in Risen's case, the government has previously analogized reporter's privilege to a criminal receiving drugs from someone and refusing to testify about it."
Since when is receiving the truth from a source the same as receiving drugs from a source?
This is all getting too idiotic, insane and evil.
In America we're allowed to believe anything, but know nothing.
Ah, The American Dream!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And I believe that you are right.
See, the "War on Drugs" is not about drugs or protection or safety after all.
Money and power.
Sidenote: By calling the persecution against people and their property, rightfully, a "war," all those that prosecute that war, from the federalized local gun and badge thugs to the president, are clearly guilty of treason under Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution. That is the tragic irony of the "War on Drugs."
"My guillotine is going to get its 3.6 kilos.”
A brood of vipers.
Which, coincidentally is what Jesus called the Jewish rulers who wanted to hang him for fucking up the silver/roman coinage exchange program they had going on. Remember?
You don't say.
A murder of crews. (news crews)
Come on people. Surely worth at least a WTF, a groan, a down vote for the intentional misacceptation of the collective? (gaggle of geese, squabble of seagulls,... murder of crows).
KGB Bezmenov 1985 - Four Steps to Subversion of a Nation
Fuck off Obama administration, you're the Global Joke.
It would seem the vapors of the KGB are working against the people that put them into place
What else would you expect from Eric Holder and his Just-Us department. Just a bunch of marxist hoodlums in charge.
You give them too much credit.
Holder is bought and paid for.
And the last time that there was any real justice eminating from that department was when?
Tyrant is tyrant does.
"It all fun and the highlife until someone gets guillotined."
Excellent point. But should good men stand aside while evil prospers? Would you let Homeland Security goons into your house and fuck your wife without comment? Perhaps if they fucked your daughter it might get do the trick. Funny thing is they allready are.
How long are we going to put up with this shit?
That would depend on whether they blindfold me or not.
If they allow me to watch ...
"Would you let Homeland Security goons into your house and fuck your wife without comment?"
"let?"
They don't need permission. I'm not thinking that they're going to listen to "comments," that's what judges do, and they're not there to judge, just ACT.
The REAL question is whether you are prepared to die for something. And while it may sound all well and noble (macho or whatever) you really ought to be VERY measured because if you error it might mean you have no other chances. These are the things that religious texts try to give us guidance on...
The passive response, Resistance, is to wait for them to come. Wait for them to surround and annihilate us like at Ruby Ridge or Waco. Wait like they are at the Bundy ranch.
The active response, Revolution, is to take the fight to them--in their offices, their cars, their homes, the streets, their neighborhoods. They should not feel safe anywhere.
The time is coming when the actions of the criminals of the DC US will cause the American people to decide between persecution or Revolution.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Quit paying, quit obeying , quit playing
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Retribution: Is there really any place for these sociopaths and criminals in a restored civil and Constitutional society?!
Restoration: Restore the Constitutional republic.
"Rejection" is all that is necessary. W/o our complicit support they have nothiing.
"Revolution" is in the mind. By rejecting them you're already in revolution mode.
"Retribution" = violence, and it only bring you to their level (talk of it only justifies, in their minds, them being preemtive with violence- and while we're still funding their capabilities of it it's not a good idea to entice them to act [why "rejection" is key])
"Restoration" won't work because this is NOT the same country it was when it was founded, there is no longer an entire "candy store" watiing for exploitation in which everyone has a crack at it (well, everyone except women, blacks/slaves, and, um, "landowners")
We must not turn into alcholics. Know when to stop, and that point comes right after "rejection"- just walk away.
This is applicable to ALL people, not just those in the US. The US is not suffering from some unique form of dystopia flowing only from the fountains of D.C..
By the way, the Constitution has no qualifications on "press" and there is no mention of the word journalist, or an equivalent.
It does say "...or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."
"Is it time for the guillotines yet?!"
And they've been trying to work this angle for a while now. Only "offical" press-like folks can "report," the only one's "protected" by the right to free speech.
Fucking walk away from ALL of it. Don't give your enegy to the System. Stop voting. Start doing on your own. Speak out whenever and wherever.
They can work any "angle" they like, but the Constitution is clear.
Article 3, Section 3 speaks the loudest.
"My guillotine has the right to press on."
"but the Constitution is clear."
Yeah, and how is that working for you/us?
It's been correctly or uncorrectly reported that George W. Bush stated that the "Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper." Back when I'd heard that (again, no idea whether it's true or just propaganda) I felt more than a bit upset, but now that I think about it he's stating the obvious- it's paper, it's words, none of it seems to matter as far as how things are working (we're now established as operating under no real basis in law).
Read the Suskind quote from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
In clear practice those serving TPTB could care less about the US Constitution. Exposing their "crimes" or trying to hold them to the US Constitution is like trying to pin down mercury on level sheet of glass.
Don't get me wrong, emotionally I track your sentiments. Emotions, however, provide for a poor basis for achieving complex goals: best is that they add motivation, but they are never good at providing direction/guidance.
""but the Constitution is clear." Yeah, and how is that working for you/us?"
It is a measuring stick against which their legitimacy should be measured. If they come up short, that is criminal, they have no legitimacy and therefore no authority.
That the Constitution is just a “goddamn piece of paper” is true, but the ideas and contract written on that paper is the real Constitution. Not the paper, or the ink, but the ideas and the agreement, the contract, which those that framed it made to make it the “law of the land” and to live by its covenants.
It is those ideas from that “goddamn piece of paper,” that should be carried in our heart, in our souls, that is where the Constitution should dwell. To recognize those that disregard the Constitution is to disregard oneself, one’s Liberty. It is to become slave to those that steal and extort, but offer back a portion in return for obedience and the continued privilege to command more from you.
I do not recognize their illegal regime and therefore they have no authority over me. Those that violate their oaths or Article 3, Section 3 are especially odious.
See you on the battlefield.
That transcript is chilling. The US is certainly not abiding by its founding directives...it's running open loop.
This could get nasty.
When the government classifies all information as "classified" I guess there ain't much left to report on, maybe the Sunday talk shows can interview Miley Cyrus and the Bieber. Modern journalism is a complete joke anyways and are basically the press agents for the American Enterprise Institute.
Nigel Farage last week remained on course for one of the greatest upsets in recent political history in next month's European elections.
Things will change. Each one of you fuckers out there, all 200 million of you better vote this year. At the least you will cause the globalist traitors to spend a ton of money fighting the 15 minutes to thirty minutes it takes you to vote. And, if you don't know who to vote for just vote whoever is in office out of office.
Nothing is as certain as a perfect prince candidate tuning into a toad once he is kissed by the majority of the public. Farage will either be captured by the ptb or killed, most likely captured since he will be given a choice and the customary 5 minutes to make the decision.
How am I supposed to vote when I can't even afford ammo?
Vote in melee.
When you can no longer vote with ballistics,
then close the distance and vote in melee.
Plus, if you close the distance between yourself and the politician,
then you can take prisoners.
If you have prisoners, then you can use the guillotine as a voting machine.
With Diebolds, you vote politicians into office.
Using the Guillotine you vote politicians out of office.
. "Things will change."
only promising me change?
Please promise me hope too!
Oh, and you get FREE MEDICAL INSURANCE! (you get a "free" card that say you have paid to have it!)
Stop asking and start doing...
I shall participate, in order to upset the fuckers......Twice (Because I AM more equal than some others, p.s: Treble PASSPORT)
I think that you missed this link as posted previously in this thread (it's a MUST watch):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_m5UQvt2h0
It's the System!
Tickle us do we not laugh, prick us do we not bleed, wrong us SHALL WE NOT REVENGE?
ONE OF THESE DAYS WE WILL CUT YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES
Pink Floyd
Send Hilary in, she believes in free speech and fair play......
sarc off.
From NY Times v United States:
Somebody should tell that dumb sorority slut, Psaki, that publishing classified information that you did personally obtain through illegal means is not illegal and is protected under the First Amendment. Fucking hell, where the fuck do they find these people?
Cowboy they don't have to find em, they manufacture em.