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U.S. Alleged to Join in Plot in Venezuela

Of course WE would never try to undermine a foreign government we don't like the way we did in Panama, Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, Honduras, Guatamala, Iran, etc.

In the latest in a series of theatrical accusations, the government here on Wednesday charged that the United States ambassador to Colombia was involved in a plot to kill President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, but it offered no convincing proof.

The accusation came as the House of Representatives in Washington passed a bill that calls on the White House to freeze the assets in the United States of Venezuelan officials responsible for human rights abuses during the government’s response to several weeks of widespread protests here.

U.S. Alleged to Join in Plot in Venezuela - NYTimes.com.

Unnecessary and Disproportionate: How the NSA Violates International Human Rights Standards

Even before Ed Snowden leaked his first document, human rights lawyers and activists were concerned about law enforcement and intelligence agencies spying on the digital world. One of the tools developed to tackle those concerns was the development of the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance (the “Necessary and Proportionate Principles”).  This set of principles was intended to guide governments in understanding how new surveillance technologies eat away at fundamental freedoms, and outlined how communications surveillance can be conducted consistent with human rights obligations.  Furthermore, the Necessary and Proportionate Principles act as a resource for citizens—used to compare new tools of state surveillance to global expectations of privacy and due process.

Unnecessary and Disproportionate: How the NSA Violates International Human Rights Standards | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Welcome to Nulandistan: Propaganda and the Crisis in Ukraine

How the IMF Destroyed Greece: The Reality of the Greek “Success story”: On Its Way to Become a Third World Country

While prime minister Samaras speaks of a “Greek success story” reality looks quite different: Public debt has increased from 120 per cent of GDP to 180 per cent. The suicide rate is soaring. The public health and education systems have already been largely destroyed, says Chatzistefanou. According to physicians existential fear and poverty would lead also to a heavy rise in cardiovascular diseases – often with deadly consequences. The alleged primary surplus were fictitious as government debts – including unpaid salaries – were not taken into account. The left – including Syriza – would only be able to counter neoliberal policies if a massive social movement will support a progressive government as in parts of Latin America.

How the IMF Destroyed Greece: The Reality of the Greek “Success story”: On Its Way to Become a Third World Country | Global Research.

The Causes and Conditions of Economic Injustice

The first of the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths pointed to us the truth of suffering. Suffering needs to be recognized as such and faced head-on if we wish to truly alleviate it. Our efforts to deny it or indulge in sensory indulgences to distract ourselves from it will inevitably lead to more suffering.

In the Second Noble Truth, the Buddha dives deeper to untangle the cause of this state of dukkha, this unsatisfactoriness that is the mark of samsara. He points to two root causes for suffering: craving (tanja) and ignorance (avijja). These, in turn, are related to the three poisons: hatred, ignorance, and greed.

The Causes and Conditions of Economic Injustice – Buddhist Peace Fellowship / Turning Wheel Media.

Ex-CIA Pilot Gives Sworn Testimony That No Planes Hit The Twin Towers

John Lear, the son of Learjet inventor, Bill Lear, has given his expert evidence that it would have been physically impossible for Boeing 767s, like Flights AA11 and UA175 to have hit the Twin Towers on 9/11, particularly when flown by inexperienced pilots:

‘No Boeing 767 airliners hit the Twin Towers as fraudulently alleged by the government, media, NIST and its contractors’, he stated in the affidavit.

Ex-CIA Pilot Gives Sworn Testimony That No Planes Hit The Twin Towers | Neon Nettle.

Doc Watson performs "Deep River Blues"

Fight for the Future: No single law will save us from the NSA

No single law will save us from the NSA. It’s time to Reset the Net to take our privacy back.

The movement against mass government surveillance is at a crossroads.

Today the US House of Representatives passed a dangerously watered down version of the USA Freedom Act. The bill, which was originally intended to scale back some domestic NSA spying, now contains huge loopholes that not only allow bulk spying to continue, but could could make it even worse, depending on how the NSA’s “creative” lawyers interpret the law. 

Fight for the Future: No single law will save us from the NSA.

Hunter S. Thompson on Richard Nixon

"Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine."

U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long before September 1970 Election

Covert U.S. planning to block the democratic election of Salvador Allende in Chile began weeks before his September 4, 1970, victory, according to just declassified minutes of an August 19, 1970, meeting of the high-level interagency committee known as the Special Review Group, chaired by National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. "Kissinger asked that the plan be as precise as possible and include what orders would be given September 5, to whom, and in what way," as the summary recorded Kissinger's instructions to CIA Director Richard Helms. "Kissinger said we should present to the President an action plan to prevent [the Chilean Congress from ratifying] an Allende victory…and noted that the President may decide to move even if we do not recommend it."

U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long before September 1970 Election.