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Pulitzer Prize Winner: Obama Is "The Greatest Enemy Of Press Freedom In A Generation"

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Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

James Risen is not just a phenomenal reporter, he is also an extremely courageous and honorable American patriot. His case is a very disturbing one, and it has justifiably received a great deal of national attention. In a nutshell, the Obama Administration is threatening the pulitzer prize winning journalist with prison unless he reveals the source behind one of his stories. This is something no journalist worth his salt would ever do, but the fact our own government would resort to threats of incarceration in order to instill fear in the press to prevent it from doing its job is quite telling and extremely dangerous.

Mr. Risen understands this danger more than just about anyone else, which is why he has previously stated he is prepared to go to jail in order to defend the First Amendment from Obama, who he calls the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation.”

I’ve covered Risen’s struggle in the past, so if you care to get caught up check out:

Battle Royale on Piers Morgan: Glenn Greenwald, James Risen and Jeffrey Toobin

New York Times Reports – Blackwater Threatened to Kill a State Dept. Official and the U.S. Government Did Nothing

Now the Guardian gets us up to speed on his latest thoughts:

The New York Times reporter James Risen, who faces jail over his refusal to reveal a source and testify against a former CIA agent accused of leaking secrets, has called President Barack Obama “the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation”.

 

Speaking to his colleague Maureen Dowd, Risen accused the president of aggressively pursuing journalists, including himself, who report sensitive stories that reflect poorly on the US government.

 

Obama and Holder said journalists should not be arrested or harassed for doing their jobs and covering “a story that needs to be told”. In May, Holder said of the Sterling case: “No reporter who is doing his job is going to go to jail.” Risen, however, could be behind bars within weeks.

 

Dowd asked Risen how the Obama administration could use the Espionage Act to imprison reporters and whistleblowers while not acting on the acknowledged use of torture by the CIA on terrorism suspects and the same agency spying on the US Senate.

 

“It’s hypocritical,” Risen said. “A lot of people still think this is some kind of game or signal or spin. They don’t want to believe that Obama wants to crack down on the press and whistleblowers. But he does. He’s the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation.”

 

Last week, groups campaigning for press freedom handed a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to the Justice Department, urging it to drop the case against Risen.

 

“It’s surreal to be caught up in a news story instead of writing about one,” he told Dowd.

America in 2014: Cops murder with impunity, banksters steal with impunity, reporters threatened with jail.

 

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Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:33 | 5118168 world_debt_slave
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no, O is an enemy of the State

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:39 | 5118190 Skateboarder
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He is Zero the Hero.

Who knew that Black Sabbath would describe this sucka so well:

"You stand there captain we all look
You really are mediocre
You are the champion in the Acme form book
But I think you're just a joker
Your face-down life ain't so much of a pity
But the luv-a-duckin' way you're walkin' around
The city with your balls and your head full of nothing
It's easy for you sucker but you really need stuffing"

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:48 | 5118232 LetThemEatRand
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"And so in the sky shines the electric eye

supernatural king takes earth under his wing

Heaven's golden chorus sings, Hell's angels flap their wings

Evil souls fall to Hell, ever trapped in burning cells!"

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:55 | 5118256 Richard Chesler
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Exactly. It's not the skin color that pisses people off, it's that of his corrupt soul.

 

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:58 | 5118271 gh0atrider
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A bit for your thoughts!  Don't hate me cos me gh0at!

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:11 | 5118319 sessinpo
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 gh0atrider     A bit for your thoughts!  Don't hate me cos me gh0at!

---

Those bits are worth shit.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:15 | 5118328 gh0atrider
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gh0at lubes up bits in his shit... blockchain confirmations much faster!!  No leading your arseholes!  Fater Bits and less shit!!

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 11:03 | 5119952 Bananamerican
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Ok, here goes...
"I, Bananamerican, ban you!"

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 03:43 | 5118810 shouldvekilledthem
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They are worth $475 currently, which is basically 475 unit of accounting shit.

On the other hand 1 BTC currently worth 0.362704 ounces of gold.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 06:57 | 5118956 unrulian
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Everyone raise your hand if you'd trade 0.362704 ounces of gold for 1 BTC?

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:44 | 5119148 gh0atrider
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gh0atrider would think 100 ounces of gold would be a fair trade for 1 BTC.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 09:45 | 5119464 Au Member
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gh0atrider just failed the turing test

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:13 | 5118322 palmereldritch
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What if disciples of the Weather Underground seized control of the US government?...Oh wait

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 06:35 | 5118927 nmewn
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You didn't build that! ;-)

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:19 | 5118344 SilverIsMoney
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It's pretty obvious to me that based on so much of the ignorant bullshit spewed out on these boards relating to black people that race certainly has a huge part to do with it even if his soul is corrupt as satan's.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 10:24 | 5119711 Keyser
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Really? So in the context of this article, just what ignorant bullshit is being spewed?  Seems like warranted responses for a government hellbent on suppressing our 1st amendment rights... 

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 03:34 | 5118803 shouldvekilledthem
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Exactly. It's not the skin color that pisses people off, it's that of his corrupt soul.

Another example of how amazingly stupid people are. He is not different to any of his precessedors. He only continues their work, the next piece in the puzzle.

Meanwhile retards need a target. A single entity who represents all their problems.

You can remove Obama from office but the next puppet will continue his work, same as always.

Funnily, americans are completely ignorant of their own history so it's not hard to fuck with their minds.

Wake up retards or there won't be "hope and change".

Fucking imbeciles. 

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 07:53 | 5119028 dontgoforit
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We're aware of our 'own' history, pal.  And 'funnily' is not a word.  Go back to school.  The government messes with us, but we the people will prevail.  Can I get an 'AMEN!'?

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:04 | 5119043 jimmytorpedo
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Actually, funnily is a real word.

As far as going back to school,...

Where do you think you leanred all your fake history from?

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:59 | 5118276 Skateboarder
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ELECTRIC FUNERAL! (4x)

Got another Sab song for truth:

"Too much in the truth they say
Keep it 'till another day
Let them have their little game
Illusion helps to keep them sane!"

Cornucopia

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:08 | 5118309 LetThemEatRand
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One more to a fellow Sabbath head:

"You've seen life through distorted eyes

You know you had to learn

The execution of your mind

You really had to turn

The race is run the book is read

The end begins to show

The truth is out, the lies are old

But you don't want to know."

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:05 | 5118482 Cast Iron Skillet
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"So you children of the world,

listen to what I say

If you want a better place to live in

spread the words today

Show the world that love is still alive

you must be brave

Or you children of today are

Children of the Grave, Yeah!"

I saw Black Sabbath in concert a couple of months ago ... again - last time I saw them live was in 1977. It was a true life experience!!! At the end of the Cold War, it looked like things might turn out differently, but as we see today, the war mongers, haters, and demonizers are still very much in power. Didn't think back then that the U.S.A. would end up being Demon Central Command ...

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:57 | 5118464 Freddie
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Tony Iommi - guitar god and nice bloke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Iommi

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:38 | 5118191 LetThemEatRand
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I'm pretty sure we're the enemies of this particular State, in that we think for ourselves.  Present company excepted if you think O or W or any of the last few Presidents is the root cause.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:00 | 5118285 gh0atrider
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hey screw you Randhole

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:10 | 5118312 LetThemEatRand
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I'll see your screw you and raise you a go fuck yourself, goat fucker.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:12 | 5118323 gh0atrider
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fuck gh0ats fuck DIE!  gh0ats empire for a DILLHOLE!  You don't like SATOSHI and you die!  You go down to crytades!  you walk with me underground Randhole?  No you don't bet me nothing!!

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:15 | 5118334 LetThemEatRand
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Thanks for clarifying that.  Love you long time.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:24 | 5118365 palmereldritch
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  Bitcoins.  For when only the finest threadjacking will do...

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:26 | 5118372 LetThemEatRand
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"I don't always threadjack.  But when I do, I pump Bitcoin.  Actually, I always threadjack for bitcoin.  Because I am the world's least interesting person."

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:30 | 5118384 gh0atrider
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gh0atrider spreads supreme LOGIC of Satoshi!  What Randhole do spare time much?  OH stack me SHINEE!  gh0atrider buh you all out for 2 bits in two years!!  Buwahahaha ahahah aaah haaahahhaaa!  Aaaahaahahaaaha ccugh mm ugh..............................

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 07:08 | 5118966 NoPension
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There used be another poster here, obsessed with BC, who referred to himself in the first person.....hmmmm......

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 07:56 | 5119034 SilverIsKing
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You mean? Could it be?

Long lost fonestar resurfacing under a new handle.

I woulda never have thought it could happen.

Does one must first have credibility to lose any credibility?

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:49 | 5119177 gh0atrider
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fonestar was BAND by Tyler Burden for being a complete douchetard.  gh0atrider was born because he loves Satoshi.  Bitcoin is viral currencey, hence no birth and no death.  Bitcoin is always with you.  fonestar is always with you.  gh0atrider is always with you.  You think ban gh0atrider now you think?  You think faulty failure.  No ban only life eternal.  Only forked process.  You think Bitcoin finished because $475?  You think faulty.  Bitcoin goes to clouds.  Zeroheads go to hell.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 10:28 | 5119727 Keyser
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gh0atfucker is like the religious zealots that stand out in front of a rock concert and admonish anyone within shouting distance of their fall from grace and how they will all end up in hell if they don't repent... In other words, he's a sad little bastard with no life, other than threadjacking on ZH... 

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:39 | 5118407 palmereldritch
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Lol  Better.  This guy must be really running the long con.

 

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:18 | 5118525 benb
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Is the pissing contest over?

 

 

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:28 | 5118542 palmereldritch
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Nah, more like a courtesy flush.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:45 | 5118221 Syrin
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In a generation?   EVER, you f'head liberal loving douche bags.   he's the biggest threat to freedom of ALL Americans EVER.   WTF?   Even their criticism has liberal bias.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 04:01 | 5118818 EverythingEviL
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My thoughts exactly...except it's not a liberal/conservative thing ok. Don't get twisted up. It's him and all his big government cronies...libtards, contards...they are one and the same. And THEY are the biggest threat ever. They will flat out fucking kill you nowadays let alone censor...

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 10:52 | 5119885 Syrin
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No, it is a liberal/conservative thing.   The problem is liberals have taken over both political parties.   So it's not a democrat/republican thing but it is absolutely a conservative vs liberal thing

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:24 | 5119083 solgundy
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you have to wonder if Risen ever heard of Martin Niemöller

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:36 | 5118173 Smegley Wanxalot
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James Risen of the NYT no doubt voted for the dictatorial asshole obama, so fuck you James Risen and quit bitching about getting what you wanted, you new york cunt.  Here's hoping all you govt humpers die in pain soon.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:41 | 5118199 LetThemEatRand
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Even if he did, he's coming out publicly against him now.  So fuck him for believing in Red and Blue Team bullshit like most of us did?  Kudos to him for stepping up and admitting his error.  

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:52 | 5118252 Dr. Engali
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Exactly. Most of us have been there, and each one of us can point to the one main event that finally opened our eyes.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:58 | 5118272 LetThemEatRand
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My wife is smarter than me.  Her moment was 9/11.  It took me until Obama, Bush and McCain all came out in favor of bank bailouts to figure it out, and even then I didn't accept it for a while.  My wife likes to remind me of the perfectly preserved passports that "fell" from the towers and how did I ever believe that shit.  

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:16 | 5118333 Dr. Engali
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For me, I kind of woke up after 911, but then I was lulled back to sleep, but when Bush (directed by his owners) bailed out the banks in 08, it was like the flood gates had opened and images of all the bullshit I was sleeping through poured through my mind.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 02:56 | 5118765 Omen IV
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Today I was at the board of elections in Brooklyn checking signatures that were challenged on a Petition for an engineering panel to be assembled to study collapse of WTC -1/2/7 bldgs

Goes up for ballot in the fall by the voters in NYC - have the limit required- but last remaining court challenge by NYC remains

This will reopen everything!

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:28 | 5119003 SoilMyselfRotten
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On that same note Dr., all the politicians constituents were calling them about the bank bailouts, 90% to 10% against it. And when John McCain, knowing this during his prez run, ends up FOR the bailout i knew the bailout was more important than the presidency to the PTB. That one move in my opinion cost him the office.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:20 | 5118347 BlindMonkey
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It was longer than that for me. Hell, I bought Rush's line of "why would Bush risk his credibility if it wasn't true?"

Yeah, let that sink in with hindsight.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:31 | 5118388 LetThemEatRand
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You and I are on different ends of the spectrum as far as they want us to believe, but we both know we're being lied to.  So I'd say we're not so far apart after all.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:17 | 5118522 BlindMonkey
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I said before tht agreement was never a condition for friendship for me. No worries.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 11:18 | 5120023 Bananamerican
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I knew, viscerally, that W was a giant crock of (dumb) shit when I first heard him open his frat fuck face. (See Will Ferrell's "You're welcome America")
I knew Obama was a giant crock of shit when I saw who he'd picked for his Econ team during the campaign = No choice given!!!
Didn't even need to hear O speak.
The "fix" was frickin IN.
Haven't voted in so long the "right to" may as well not even exist

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 02:35 | 5118743 All Risk No Reward
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Search "david chandler 911" on Youtube for a plethora of coup de grace...

But for weird chit, passports are nothing...  try credit care receipts that survived a crash where no people were found!

Flight Attendant Called Husband from Flight 93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBjgV1plf2M

Court recording of CeeCee Lyles on Flight 93 HEAR THE WHISPERS IN THE BACKGROUND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SED76UvuAw

Here is an amplified version:

Flight 93: Cell Call Exposed - CEECEE LYLES. - Please Watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6LPSRGwkoA

Does she sound like she's on a plane?

The only thing she repeated was that she was on the plane - that must have been very important information to repeat it knowing this could be the last time she spoke to her spouse.

Did the hijackers give all the passengers full disclosure believing that informed passengers are more malleable?

Was that a "You did great" whisper at the end of the tape?

Just to make sure the knot was all tied up nicely, guess whose drivers license AND CREDIT CARD RECEIPTS were found at a crash site where, what, 98% of the plane and all its contents were missing (assuming what was there was from the plane, of course)?

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/6130/p200069.jpg

Collection of Aircraft Debris and Crash Site Photos
http://the911forum.freeforums.org/collection-of-aircraft-debris-and-cras...

Again, my goto information are a couple David Chandler's videos that prove the top of one of the Twin Towers NEVER DECELERATED...  meaning it never hit anything below it, if fell into a structure that simply was no longer structurally sound...  and that Building 7's entire perimeter fell evenly at free fall acceleration for about 100 feet...  MEANING ALL RESISTANCE AROUND THE ENTIRE PERIMETER OF THE BUILDING WAS INSTANTANEOUSLY REMOVED TO A DEPTH OF 100 FEET.

NIST's only comment on this was that it would be impossible...  but that was before Chandler forced them to admit the free fall they had previously tried to cover up.  It's all in his videos... and a LOT more...

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:59 | 5118278 Smegley Wanxalot
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the only reason this fucker saw the light is that his ass is going to jail.  Were it some FNC asshole, James would be right there backing up that MF getting locked up, and I dont doubt at all that James would vote for obama again tomorrow, or that slit hillary in 2016.  Maureen Dowd, the bitch he was talking to, is 10 times worse.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:24 | 5118367 LetThemEatRand
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+1 for calling Hillary a slit.  No idea if he'll go back to the Matrix, but he wrote a nice piece calling it out so that's something.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:12 | 5118318 Greenskeeper_Carl
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Agreed. I've been there. It was the presidential debates in 08 that woke me up. Listening to Ron Paul in those debates made me spend a lot of time online, especially YouTube videos where he predicted exactly what was going to happen if we did certain things, and he was right almost every time. He was the only same person on that stage every time. I don't begrudge anyone for being a little late to the party. We shouldn't criticize people for it, we should welcome them with open arms. Especially someone like this guy who can say all these things without being called a racist or a tinfoil hat wearing crazy person.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:37 | 5118184 DOGGONE
Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:39 | 5118193 himaroid
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Indoctrination dies hard.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:46 | 5118213 Dr. Engali
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You hear that......................? Yeah me neither. That's the sound of all the 'journalists' speaking out against the Obama administration's assault on the 1st..... And every other amendment of the constitution. So, much for the fourth estate defenders of freedom.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:49 | 5118236 Skateboarder
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+lols

There hasn't been true journalism for quite a while now. For fuck's sake, every single WSJ article ever written always refers to "sources." SHOW THEM, BITCH. What are their names?

I've been reading newspapers since I was five, for funnies or serious, and couldn't take it after '08 - I can't read newspapers anymore.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:44 | 5118433 LetThemEatRand
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At least there's Greenwald.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:15 | 5118514 Freddie
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You are kidding right?  He works for Omidar.  Snowden's shit was leaked to Wa Post (Buffet-See Eye Aye) and Guardian- Red Shield.

Snowden admitted he was an agent for See Eye Aye but never tells us what he did in switzerland and other places and what See Eye Aye really does.  I hoped he was real but I really doubt it. 

Jon Rappaport, who is really good, said from the start that Snoden was a See Eye Aye op against the En Ess Aye.   All BS.

Bill Binney, Thomas Drake and a few others I am forgetting. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake

Drake went through hell but he refused to plea.  They finally got him to please to a misdeamor.

The guy who wrote Confessions of An Economic Hit Man is another real hero. 

I am not convinced Snowden is.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:54 | 5118605 LetThemEatRand
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Yes, it's a double secret double cross.  Snowden told America that America is spying on Americans to....  And Greenwald blew the story wide open to....

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 04:24 | 5118830 mc225
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yeah greenwald is fake, dude. newspapers have been 'mind control/propaganda' rags for 100 years at least. it - disinfo/limited hangout/obfuscation/twisting of facts/outright lies - has probably all been going on 'forever'. 'believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see'.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 11:29 | 5120086 Bananamerican
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That's a hell of a "limited" hangout...
I say Snowden's legit

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 01:46 | 5118697 messystateofaffairs
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snowden's there to normalize spying on everything about everybody in peoples minds. It's working nicely.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 11:30 | 5120073 Bananamerican
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Yea, and Putin, ex KGB, bought it all hook line and sinker telling fake whistleblower Snowden to chill in Russia a while....
/sarc

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 09:50 | 5119495 madcows
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The only thing worth reading in the papers IS the funnies.

AND, the WSJ doesn't even carry any comics.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:20 | 5118348 Shad_ow
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Exactly! They are as guilty as he is.  They enable his treason and deserve the same fate he deserves, according to the law.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:33 | 5119106 RSloane
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Not to worry Doc, congress led by Dianne Feinstein is going to give us a list of approved journalists, you know -people we can trust, and I would bet any money Risen's name would have  been at the top of that list, but unfortunately he fell into disrepute and lost his book of things journalists can write about and approved glowing adjectives in application to those stories.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:46 | 5118229 McCormick No. 9
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Risen works for the New York Times, that paragon of Goeringesque Neocon Nuland Etal propaganda and lies er, I mean, that paragon of courageous truth-telling and fact-finding, leading wherever the story goes, no matter whom in power it may embarrass...

If Obama is going after the craven, boot-licking zio fuckfaces of the NYT, then yes, indeed, Obama is the greatest threat to press freedom in well, ever.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:25 | 5118366 BlindMonkey
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When Alex Jones has a better track record of reporting than the NYT you know the gray lady is, in fact, a corpse.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 07:13 | 5118972 NoPension
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The National Enquierer has more truth. And that's not sarcasm.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:48 | 5118238 q99x2
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Who would've guessed Obama would be considered scum by most people on the planet. Who would have guessed his real name or where he was born or that he was a CIA plant to help oligarchs take over the United States of America.

Not me. not me.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:49 | 5118239 Rootin' for Putin
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The statement works without the word PRESS in it too.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:57 | 5118265 Kirk2NCC1701
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These days... all you have to do to win a Pulitzer, is have the guts to tell the truth and write the story grammatically correct. Cool.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:59 | 5118279 Fuku Ben
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Obama murdered Press Freedom

ISIS murdered Foley

Irrefutable proof that correlation DOES imply causation

Obama & ISIS are terrorists that hate you for your freedom America

"Yes We Can"
"Thank You Satan"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS53I-k_T4o

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:36 | 5118401 Oldwood
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Nah, they just simply hate us. No reason really required. I had a wife like that once. 

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:59 | 5118280 Skargit
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FORWAR(ne)D!

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 22:59 | 5118281 Dr. Engali
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It's too bad these journalist who continuously assault guns can't grasp the fact that the second amendment is there to back up the 1st amendment and their right to speak out. Words first, and then if words fail you take action.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 07:18 | 5118980 NoPension
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Being a liberal, with a logical brain, while not generally a normal condition, must be very difficult right now.

P/s. I feel really bad for Foley and his family. I wish he would have learned a lesson from the first time. Sucky way to go.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:01 | 5118284 Bunga Bunga
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A veteran conflict reporter had to go to Ferguson to get arrested for the first time

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-08-19/veteran-conflict-reporter-had-go-f...

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:05 | 5118298 SillySalesmanQu...
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The Obomation of the presstitutes is just window dressing for the sheepie....we all know that our corporate controlled media will never report anything worthwhile again. Only the Hedge and a few other blogs actually report the news and current events.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:13 | 5118315 Atomizer
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Flush the Kenyan and watch it swirl down the toilet. Cloward–Piven strategy has failed you Obama. You're fucked 7 days till Sunday. 

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:15 | 5118330 SilverIsMoney
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And yet it was largely the press being asleep at the wheel in 2008 that caused him to get elected... go figure...

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:48 | 5118442 KickIce
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Not sleeping, too busy sweeping all his baggage under the carpet.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 09:33 | 5119402 forwardho
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It is far more concerning that after witnessing first hand his level of hatred and derision for this country the people of the U.S. allowed him to continue to rule.

One does not set out to fundimentally change some thing admired.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:24 | 5118360 Atomizer
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Anyone have the latest statement from tinges up my leg/obama scrotum ball washer lately?

 

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:29 | 5118375 BlindMonkey
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I am pretty sure he was too busy swallowing a shot in the mouth from a pol to make statement.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:27 | 5118371 FreedomGuy
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In the Left's progress to an autocratic centralized state there are several steps. Given that we don't do Bolshevik revolutions in the West any more, the last step requires a little "jump". Most of it is the frog-in-water type of progress in growing the all powerful state, but the last step requires a jump to obvious power.

I personally believe that Obama has knowingly paved the way. The IRS, NSA and other scandals along with consiglierie Eric Holder's blocking actions has corrupted and empower probably all government agencies. They are all tools of the executive and Obama at this point or pretty close. That is why Risen and Snowden and whistleblowers, in general are the greatest threat. They have the (small) possibility of derailing the plan.

This is actually a predictable outcome for the Left and actually any powerful central government but the useful idiots, particularly the Press wear permanent blinders because of their religious faith in the State. Perhaps Risen has lost his.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:42 | 5118426 Oldwood
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"Perhaps Risen has lost his" 

I doubt it.leftists will reject the leadership of the collective but never the collective itself. They do not see the concentration of power the evil, only the person. I think this maybe one reason they have so much ease in the personal destruction of their opponents as the truly think the person is evil rather than the system.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 03:00 | 5139477 FreedomGuy
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Very true and an accurate analysis of the Left.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:37 | 5118402 kchrisc
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Good morning. Welcome to the police state. Please deposit your rights in the receptacle on the left, and your dignity in the one on the right.

An American, not US subject.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 03:35 | 5118804 Apostate2
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Well said kchrisc.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 23:53 | 5118454 talisman
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The rapidly changing face of American "Freedom".....

Militarization of civil police, with
Storm Troopers/tactics use in Ferguson....
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist threatened
with jail for telling truth disfavored by government..
US President/Executive Branch seizing and
holding on to unconstitutional powers....
Castration of Congress by monetization of elections.

CIA, AIPAC, and Military Industrial Complex
deciding it's time to repeal First Amendment
right of assembly.

SCOTUS, led by Scalia and Alito, hard at work
giving unconstitutional rights to religion;
eating away at women's rights;
making a total farce of freedom of speech by
extending it to Money and Corporate Power.

and this is only the beginning

Bin Laden won, big time.....

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:36 | 5118562 Skateboarder
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lol what did he win, other than death, like any other man? He was just a tool of tptb.

And he certainly did not win his prize by the same happenings as those portrayed in ZD30.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:39 | 5118577 sethstorm
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Bin Laden won nothing, big time.....

FTFY.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 01:35 | 5118683 JoJoJo
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Alito and Scalia "giving unconstitutional rights to religions" such as not forcing private companies via Obamadontcare to pay for female aborteficents?

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 03:39 | 5118809 bunnyswanson
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http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timelin...

His goal was to bankrupt America.  Mission Accomplished.  America is on her last leg.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 01:29 | 5118671 JoJoJo
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Risen has been working for the NY Times which has been the singular most placating news outlet favoring Obama since his conception. The NY Times gave birth to a tyrrant and then wonders why he is so tyrranical toward them.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 03:06 | 5118773 OhNo
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Our greatests fear was-could it really be so fucked up unless it was planned that way.Bugger 

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 04:38 | 5118840 orangegeek
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Give Barry another Nobel - that'll fix everything - right Europe? 

 

 

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 06:41 | 5118915 Fíréan
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All the blame is directed at Obama, AND ONLY OBAMA. which re inforces the delusion  that change can be attained by replacing the POTUS through voting for a new.

Where is the condemnation or even the acknowledgement of the existence of those persons who advise the president ? the influence of the vice president ? or even the possibility of a "shadow government"  consisting of persons who where also in power, or positions of influence,, throughout the previous  regimes ( presidencies ) ?

I'm no apologist for Obama, he is not without blame certainly, yet not 100% responsible for this whole deterioration of the freedoms and liberties the press, in my humble opinion, if i might be allowed to freely express without undue consequence.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 07:20 | 5118982 smacker
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Agreed. We easily forget that there are other elements outside of the elected politicians who wield enormous power and influence, yet we are encouraged to believe that our elected pols are in control. No way. The idea that any elected politician walks into office with a clean sheet is naive bordering on ludicrous. It is a subject that far too few people realise and understand.

At the heart of it is that when a new POTUS (or British PM et al) walks into office there already exists a giant government machine that continues to run under the ownership and control of largely unelected nameless, faceless people. AKA: "The Establishment" or "Deep State". The best that happens is that the new POTUS makes some policy changes or adjusts a few others. If he attempts to do anything more than that, he is likely to face stiff opposition, sometimes leading to sabotage or ultimately assassination. Obama's stated intention to close down Guantánamo almost certainly fell dead to external power and influence (if one accepts that he wasn't lying).

In the UK, my own research into "who" really runs the Home Office reveals that major policies and operational procedures are mostly controlled by the big agencies of the State who theoretically report to it: Met Police, Immigration (UKBA) and MI5/GCHQ. The "elected" Home Secretary might go around peddling the idea that she is in control, but she is simply the public face.

Exactly the same model of power structure operates inside the British Foreign Office and other major Depts of Government.

In the US, it's little different except on a larger scale.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 10:19 | 5119680 shovelhead
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The elected guys get to twiddle the dials and push the buttons that make beeping sounds but don't do anything and that goes for the political appointments as well. they get the brief on how it is and that is that. Play ball or go home.

The big competing factions for influence and power run from the Pentagon, MIC, CIA and the Multi-nats of pre-9-11 but the major powers now are the Financials, Homeland Sec. and NSA. 

We are transitioning from the Fascist Corporate State to the Fascist Police State. You could argue all day about the power structure and who has more influence but that would be picking at a ball of string.

It's all rolling in the same direction.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 11:27 | 5120077 smacker
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Right. How ironic that the people who are elected to run the country in the interests of "the people" are the very ones who never get near the levers.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 11:50 | 5120201 Fíréan
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Then there's the story that each new president, after inauguration, is taken to a private viewing room to see film of Dealy Square, Dallas, november 22 1963, taken from an angle never seen  by the general public (and never will) .

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 06:48 | 5118946 AdvancingTime
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When we look at the definition of propaganda we find it is a form of communication that is aimed towards influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.

Today a program at the White House creates a message by spinning, scrubbing, molding, and shaping it, they then send it out to the public. They often go as far as to make a, "call to action", where those listening are encouraged to push forward their agenda. This is one of the ugly realities of modern communication, the ability to send out millions of messages directly and unfiltered, More on this subject in the article below.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/04/white-house-propaganda-machine.ht...

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 07:00 | 5118960 f16hoser
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Guess the Mother Fucker has something to hide...

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 07:29 | 5118990 WANLAG
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About the Federal Reserve System and its effects on all states around the globe who participate in it and thereby all related citizens who suffer on it

RT Keiser Report: Interview with Lars Mährholz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orPg62t5Ins


Wed, 08/20/2014 - 07:41 | 5119014 Dead Man Walking
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where is Obama's outrage over the beheaded journalist ?

None. One less journalist for this admin to worry about

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:18 | 5119071 Atomizer
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One less question for Obama to take. 

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:17 | 5119069 Ghostdog
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Wait til HIllary gets elected and shows her "man garden"

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 14:25 | 5121202 Aussiekiwi
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aaaaarrrrgh! Nooooooooo, don't even think it ghostdog.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:43 | 5119142 atthelake
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dup

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 08:43 | 5119143 atthelake
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Mr Risen has a gift for understatement.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 09:09 | 5119266 d edwards
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I'll go one better: 0baMao is the greatest enemy to the Constitution and the citizens of America.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 09:51 | 5119506 shovelhead
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The question is why does Obama care so much that the top Blackwater op in Iraq told a Fed investigator to fuck off or die.

The State Dept. pulls him and that's that.

It's pretty obvious the State Dept. couldn't be held in lower esteem between Bengazi, Nuland and Kerry. It's like they're the clown-face on American policy, if you could call fucking up everything you get near a policy.

The logical assumption then is that he doesn't want too much attention paid to Blackwaters current activities training Neo-Nazis to murder and burn protesters and and kill separatists.

Or suggesting that downing a civilian airliner to blame it on the Russians and separatists?

Or both.There is such a thing as critical mass. At this point anything could do it and the pitchforks come out.

Either way he has just guaranteed a NY times bestseller that everyone will talk about and reporters take care of their own, and keep this kangaroo court trial on the front pages.

Obama steps in dogshit again.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 10:48 | 5119856 roadhazard
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"Greatest" by what, a nose hair. I say every POTUS since Ike (and I've lived it), you say, OBAMA.  

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 12:10 | 5120343 Jano
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Blackwater isw gonna to blackmail the US government heavily.

Or is there any other explanation, why the Obanana wants to see Risen behind bars?

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 14:26 | 5121213 Aussiekiwi
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Worst president ever!!!..............thats all you need to know.

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