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GORE VIDAL = LIES GOVERNMENT AND MSM TELL AMERICANS – THAT THEY BELIEVE = “HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE ON AMERICA”

GORE VIDAL = LIES GOVERNMENT AND MSM TELL AMERICANS – THAT THEY BELIEVE = “HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE ON AMERICA”

Interviews by Paul Jay of The Real News Network focus on period from the end of World War II, throughout the Cold War, and up to and into the age of post 9ll and the War on Terrorism. = A useful and sharp critique of American Imperialism and the military-industrial complex = Understanding USA actions in the 20th century.

Vidal = FDR rebuffed Winston Churchill at a formal dinner party for failing to understand that he was intent on dismantling all colonial empires (except USA’s Empire)

VIDAL = FDR became our very own Augustus Caesar

Vidal = Truman was first President to give in to (MIC) military industrial complex built and SOLD on FEAR on a GRAND SCALE of Communism and then Terrorism.

VIDAL = Truman’s decision to stay armed all the time after WWII

VIDAL = EISENHOWER Established Military Industrial Complex

VIDAL = GRAND FEAR = MIC gets $TRILLIONS and the people are subdued and FORCED TO FUND MULTINATIONAL $BILLIONAIRES FRAUD SCAMS AND MURDER! = NO Meaningful social and political change for AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Vidal = “Hollywood and Washington” = MEDIA VERSUS TRUTH

VIDAL = Hollywood media = State “Cheerleader” = MULTINATIONAL BILLIONAIRES own media and owns the levers of public opinion = “Infantilizing of the (PEOPLE) republic” = Detrimental to the republic = “triumphs of American Television”

ASSANGE =Journalist seeks refuge in an embassy for fear of imprisonment, torture and even death for publishing inconvenient truths about the state.

SNOWDEN = A USA contractor is forced to live in exile and can’t return to his home country for whistle blowing constitutional violations on his fellow citizens by the state security apparatus.

MANNING = A soldier is placed in solitary confinement for a prolonged period of time and tortured before being convicted of any crime, and latter sentenced to prison for an outrageous amount of time for exposing war crimes to the public.

USA MURDER OF AMERICAN = An American Muslim cleric moves overseas, opens a YouTube channel and uses it to give inflammatory religious oriented sermons against his country. He is later obliterated by drone.

VIDAL = AMERICAN = Wars with no end in sight.

VIDAL = An entire American citizenry is under surveillance -all in the name of national security.

VIDAL = “I was born eighty years ago in a country called the United States of America and now I live in a Homeland -an expression we haven’t heard since Hitler”

Vidal = Deconstructs the national security state from its genesis from WW II under FDR to Truman to Eisenhower to JFK to LBJ to ALMOST TODAY’S CIA AND NSA.

VIDAL = Provides understanding the machinery of the state manipulation for MULTINATIONAL BILLIONAIRE GAINS. = WEALTH TRANSFERRED TO THE VERY RICH!

Vidal = Helps us see beyond the “appearances” of the façade our leaders and powerful people work hard to create to keep us in the dark.

Vidal = Highlights How badly a truly newsworthy news network is needed.

Vidal = Reworks FDR’s quote “nothing to fear but fear itself” = `Mr. President, this is not the message that Westinghouse wants to put out, so don’t say we have nothing to fear but fear itself, because fear is what we peddle.’

Vidal = How MULTINATIONAL THINK TANKS evolve into CRIMINAL actions use PRECIOUS MIDDLE CLASS MONEY FOR EXPLOITATION.

Vidal = “Since we now have preemptive war the president can arbitrarily go over and take a look at–oh, I don’t know, at Albania, say, — `We don’t like your looks,’ he might say, ‘You could have some terrorists in those hills, so, sorry, we’re going to have to blow up your capital because there may be terrorists living there.’ The trick of the national security state is, first of all: There must always be an enemy, and he must be terrifying, and he wants to blow us up because he’s evil and we’re good.”

VIDAL = This (above) has become America’s favorite fairy tale we quite amazingly swallow over and over and over again = Americans are only ones on the planet who believe it.

VIDAL = `Everyday we are brainwashed’ by the MSM = THANK GOODNESS FOR THE REAL NEWS NETWORK!

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PRO-ISRAEL DOMINATE CONTROL OVER US CONGRESS MUST END

PRO-ISRAEL DOMINATE CONTROL OVER US CONGRESS MUST END

“They don’t have the courage”: How the two-party system aided Israel disaster

Click for Source Article By ELIAS ISQUITH in Salon

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant (one of Salon’s five political heroes of 2013) did something an American politician is never supposed to do: She openly and unapologetically criticized the State of Israel. = Open letter to Obama and the U.S. Congress, Sawant called on leaders in Washington to denounce the violence being waged by Hamas and Israel and urged the stewards of U.S. foreign policy to stop tacitly supporting Israel’s blockage of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank. + Recommended “an immediate end to all U.S. government military aid for Israel.”

Members of the U.S. Senate did what they are told to do = Unanimously passed a symbolic resolution of support for Israel and its war on Hamas militants in Gaza. = Lisa Graham (R) + Bob Menendez (D) setup endorsement of 2,000 mostly-civilian Palestinian MURDERS = Bipartisan affair. = Still back endless war in the Middle East, regardless of party, ideology or any other interest? = Bad old days of 2004 under Lieberman and McCain quashing any effort to challenge the belligerence of the Israeli state? Where is Sen. Elizabeth Warren when you need her?

Get principled responses to humanitarian crises = Break up Pro-Israel status quo = AIPAC/WALL STREET BRIBERY AND FEAR TACTICS AGAINST OUR ELECTED REPRESENTSTIVES!

By ELIAS ISQUITH, Salon

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GAZA: More children are dead than fighters: A plea for sanity in Gaza

Click for Source Salon Article by Manal Tellawi, attorney in Texas

ISRAEL launched a punitive operation against PALESTINIANS seeking a decisive victory to crush their resistance. = Mostly counterproductive and unsuccessful.

1946 Operation Agatha targeting Jewish Resistance Movement = FAILED
1950s French tactics against the FLN in Algeria = FAILED
1960s Americans’ bombing of Viet Cong and NVA = FAILED
1972 British Army’s actions in Northern Ireland = FAILED
2009, 2012, 2014 Israel’s Operations of MURDERS and DESTRUCTION = FAILED

Israel’s IDF destroyed GAZA and MURDERED 1,900 Palestinians = Mostly civilians

ISRAEL = MURDERED 408 children = More children than armed fighters.

RESULT = ISRAEL = Even more isolation and international condemnation + LIKELY Prosecution for war crimes.

ISRAELIS = Call for more extreme measures = LEVEL GAZA = GENOCIDE to drive out Palestinians into the SEA.

Martin Sherman = 2 Op-Eds = “Into the Fray: Why Gaza Must Go” + “Into the Fray: Far Too Little, Much Too Late” (July 2014) = DESTROY/FLATTEN GAZA + DRIVE OUT OR MURDER THE PALESTINIANS + PUT IN ISRAELI SETTLERS = GENOCIDE OF 1.8 MILLION HUMANS = 80% LIVING ON LESS THAN $4/DAY POVERTY CAUSED BY ISRAEL’S APARTHEID = PURE HATRED + VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL AND HUMANITARIAN LAWS = ETHNIC CLEANSING ASND ROBBERY OF LAND.

Martin Sherman of the Jerusalem Post quoted Einstein. TRY THIS 1930 QUOTE OUT – “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” Moshe Dayan — ”If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

SHERMAN = Humanitarian Ethnic cleansing as the only solution to control of Gaza.

Yochanan Gorden = Most extreme measure of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza was published then removed from the the Times of Israel’s website = CONDEMNED article = “When Genocide Is Permissible” = Suggests genocide, or mass MURDER of individuals based on their ethnicity or race, is OK in Gaza.

FAR TOO MANY ISRAELIS EMBRACE THIS GENOCIDAL CRIMINAL VIEW! = Moshe Feiglin, deputy speaker of Knesset = Published a plan for the “annihilation of all fighters and their supporters.” = Violation of the Genocide Convention. = PEOPLE STORED IN TENT CAMPS

Retired Maj. Gen. Eiland = There are no “innocent civilians” in Gaza = Comparing Gaza 50% population under 14 to Germans supporting Hitler. = So send them to Concentration Camps.

ISRAELI RACIST HATE VIA AIPAC INFECTS AMERICA! = CAUSE for GREAT CONCERN = American Politicians are forced to blame Hamas for Palestinian civilian deaths = Or no more WALL STREET BRIBES + VICIOUS ATTACKS BY AIPAC THAT CAN END YOUR CAREER. = Joan Rivers declared “Palestinians deserve to die.” = ECHO ISRAELI OFFICIALS CALL FOR GENOCIDE. = SOMEHOW THEY KEEP THEIR POSITION!

NOW MSM HAS INTEGRATED THIS EVIL TALK into Israeli and U.S. = CLEAR & EXTREME violations of international law and inhumane.

Palestine is UNITED as ONE = Unity Government formed April 23 = Two state solution = USA + EU stated they were willing to work with the Palestinians but Israel refused to recognize the unity government.

Israel’s current policy = Never negotiate with terrorists = ISRAEL commits TERRORIST ACTS.

FACT: Today’s Terrorists become tomorrow’s politicians

Israeli calls for ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians = Wake-up call to END APARTHEID SYSTEM AND MASS MURDER of Palestinian civilians. = Reject extremist rhetoric and FIND PEACE AT ANY COST.Click for Source Article by Manal Tellawi, attorney in Texas

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ISIL + AQ CONTRACT KILLERS = WERE THEY STAFFED AND TRAINED BY BLACKWATER/ACADEMI/REFLEX = $3+ BILLION FROM QATAR + OTHER OIL MONARCHS?

ISIL + AQ CONTRACT KILLERS = WERE THEY STAFFED AND TRAINED BY BLACKWATER/ACADEMI/REFLEX = $3+ BILLION FROM QATAR + OTHER OIL MONARCHS?

USA CANNOT FIGHT THE SUNNI BIG OIL MONARCHS WHO WANT TO ROB IRAQ OF ITS OIL!

OIL MONARCHS WANT A WEAK SUNNI OIL STATE TO EXPLOIT THE OIL RESERVES!

Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin: “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now threatening Baghdad, was funded for years by wealthy donors in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three US allies that have dual agendas in the war on terror.”

QATAR PUT $3 BILLION IN THE HANDS OF ISIL = WHERE THEIR FUTURE LOOT IS!

ISIL = TRAINED AND STAFFED BY PRINCE = OLD BLACKWATER = RESPONSE IS HIS OIL MONARCH UAE LOCATION!

Iraq Arms Kurds Against ISIS  By Missy Ryan = Iraqi government ammunition to Peshmerga fighters from Kurdish region to FIGHT SUNNI BIG OIL MONARCHS FUNDING ISIL MURDERS = hard-line PRINCE-TRAINED (BLACKWATER) KILLERS = DELIVER OIL FIELDS OF IRAQ TO QATAR + SAUDIS + MAYBE (LIKELY) UAE + OTHER OIL MONARCHS.

Erik Prince, Blackwater Founder, Sets Up Secret Desert Force In United Arab Emirates = The crown prince of Abu Dhabi has hired the founder of private security firm Blackwater Worldwide to set up an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the United Arab Emirates.  = UAE’s Gulf neighbors Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia.  = Close ally of USA

Blackwater = Xe Services = ACADEMI = Train ISIL (AQ CONTRACTORS) by retired U.S. military + German + British + FRENCH special operations units. = PRINCE SAID HE WANTED TROOPS TO MURDER MUSLIMS.

ISIL/ISIS LIKELY TRAINED BY REFLEX RESPONSES BY CEO Prince who moved to Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EREMITES OIL MONARCHY IN  (2010) to Start Reflex Responses.

PLUS = US Blackwater Mercenary Units Behind Kiev Regime’s Outburst in Ukraine

Click for Source Article on BLACKWATER in Ukraine

BLACKWATER/Academi IN OIL MONARCHY U.A.E. = WORKS FOR USA + QATAR + OTHER OIL MONARCHS

Click for Source on DETAILS and References

Blackwater’s purpose = “We are trying to do for the national security apparatus what FedEx did for the Postal Service”.

FORMER CIA AGENT + FORMER NAVY SEAL founded Blackwater = First USA government contract came after bombing of USS Cole off of the coast of Yemen in October 2000. = Trained over 100,000 sailors.

2009, Blackwater reorganized

Erik Prince, Blackwater Founder, Sets Up Secret Desert Force In United Arab Emirates = The crown prince of Abu Dhabi has hired the founder of private security firm Blackwater Worldwide to set up an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the United Arab Emirates, NYT reported = $529 MILLION FROM UAE used to thwart internal revolt, conduct special operations and defend oil pipelines and skyscrapers from attack. = Decision to hire the contingent of foreign troops was taken before a wave of popular unrest spread across the Arab world in recent months, including to the UAE’s Gulf neighbors Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia. =”U.A.E. in particular, don’t have a lot of military experience. It would make sense if they looked outside their borders for help.”

Emirates OIL MONARCHS = Close ally of USA

Blackwater = Xe Services = ACADEMI = Paid $42 million in fines in 2010 for training foreign forces in Jordan without a license. = Trained by retired U.S. military + German + British + FRENCH special operations units. = PRINCE SAID HE WANTED TROOPS TO MURDER MUSLIMS. = Prince negotiated the contract with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan WHO PLANS to expand the force to a brigade of several thousand.

2010 BLACKWATER BECAME ACADEMI with Board of Directors including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former White House Counsel and Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Jack Quinn + John Ashcroft both serve as independent directors of Academi.

CONSTELLIS = Merger of Triple Canopy + Academi = An array of security companies = John Ashcroft

MERCHANTS OF DEATH = Academi = Tactical training for maritime force protection units = Security forces + Train United States Navy sailors + Purchased a 183-foot (56 m) vessel, McArthur, outfitted for disaster response and training + “state of the art navigation systems, full GMDSS communications, SEATEL Broadband, dedicated command and control bays, helicopter decks, hospital and multiple support vessel capabilities.” + war dogs + explosives and drug detection + Train SEALS for combat + special forces units + Train CIA private contractors to accomplish its broad goals. + Trained and deployed teams of personnel for Top Secret projects + IRAQ high-risk protection + Target systems and maintains a “shoot house” system + Grizzly armored personnel carrier SOLD BY BLACKWATER = Grizzly APC + Aviation Worldwide Services (2003) acquired by Blackwater USA = Charter cargo and passenger airline based at Melbourne International Airport + a Secret Facility Clearance from the U.S. Department of Defense = Boeing 767 + helicopters in Iraq = Received a $92m contract from the Department of Defense for Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan + Blackwater has LONG LIST of tactical and training aircraft Moved employees to new location in Melbourne, FL + BLACKWATER/Greystone registered in Barbados employs soldiers for off-shore work to provide “personnel from the BEST militaries throughout the world” for worldwide deployment = small scale up major operations to “facilitate large scale operations requiring large numbers of people.” + Blackwater provides law enforcement + Provides training to set up roadblocks + 2005 Trained Naval Sea Commando regiment of Azerbaijan = Interdiction capabilities + Supply Professionals up to brigade size (3,000–5,000) + CIA hired Blackwater “as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives.” = A CIA planned secret targeted killing program withheld from Congressional oversight + Jeremy Scahill reported Blackwater operates alongside CIA in Pakistan in “snatch and grab” operations = Covert US military programs + 2003 Received a USA $27.7 million NO-BID contract FROM Paul Bremer + Blackwater was paid $320+ Million over 5-years by State Department = Draws contractors from their international pool of “21,000 former Special Forces operatives, soldiers, and retired law enforcement agents.” + Involved in 195 shooting incidents with Blackwater firing first in 163 of those cases

2007 USA investigated Blackwater employees for smuggled weapons into Iraq + 2007 Report by the House Oversight Committee found that Blackwater intentionally “delayed and impeded” investigations +

2006 Iraqi government accused Blackwater employee of killing a Iraqi guard while drunk.

2007 Blackwater contractors opened fire twice in Baghdad on Iraqi Interior Ministry officials for driving too close to a convoy

2007 Blackwater Manager Daniel Carroll threatens to kill Jean Richter, a U.S. State Department Investigator, in Iraq.

2006 BLACKWATER sniper killed three guards working for the state-funded Iraqi Media Network and witnesses said the guards had not fired.

2010 Documents from Iraq War say Blackwater employees committed serious abuses in Iraq, including killing civilians.

2007 Iraqi Government revoked Blackwater’s license to operate in Iraq after shootings killed seventeen Iraqi civilians.

2008 license reinstated by USA GOV OVERRIDE

2009 Iraqi Government refused the Blackwater License

2010 Erik Prince said the government is looking for dirt to support what he dismissed as “baseless” accusations that run the gamut from negligence, racial discrimination, prostitution, wrongful death, murder, and the smuggling of weapons into Iraq in dog-food containers.

2007 Erik Prince attended a congressional hearing following the controversy related to Blackwater’s conduct in Iraq and Afghanistan. = Prince said his company has a lack of remedies to deal with employee misdeeds. When asked why Andrew Moonen had been “whisked out of the country” after the shooting death of the vice-presidential guard, he replied, “We can’t flog him, we can’t incarcerate him.”

2007 PRINCE when asked by a member of Congress for financial information about his company, Prince declined to provide documentation, saying “we’re a private company, and there’s a key word there – private.”

2007 When Congressmen used the term “mercenaries” to describe Blackwater employees, Prince objected, characterizing them as “loyal Americans.”

BLACKWATER NOT COST EFFECTIVE = House staff report for Committee on Oversight and Government Reform questioned the cost-effectiveness of using Blackwater forces instead of U.S. troops. Blackwater charges the government $1,222 per day per guard, “equivalent to $445,000 per year, or six times more than the cost of an equivalent U.S. soldier.”

2007 In wake of Prince’s testimony before Congress = US House passed the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act that led to the prosecution by U.S. courts of some US military contractors, but only for incidents involving attacks on US nationals.

2007 PAUL BREMER DEPARTING HIS CRIMINAL ROLE IN IRAQ signed BLACKWATER AND OTHER AMERICAN IMMUNITY ORDER 17 from Iraqi law = PROTECTING MURDERERS AND CRIMINALS FROM PROSECUTION.

2007 Report by American Congressional Research Service = Iraqi government still has no authority over private security firms contracted by the U.S. government.

2007 State Department FINALLY announced new rules for Blackwater’s armed guards operating in Iraq = State Department security agents will accompany all Blackwater units operating in and around Baghdad. + State Department installs video surveillance equipment in all Blackwater armored vehicles + Keep recordings of all radio communications between Blackwater convoys in Iraq and the military and civilian agencies that supervise their activities.

2008 US State Department Recommended BLACKWATER/Xe should be dropped as the main private security contractor for U.S. diplomats in Iraq.

2009 US State Department told Blackwater Worldwide that it will not renew its contract in Iraq.

2010 CIA awarded a $100 million contract to BLACKWATER/XE/ACADEMI

2010 BLACKWARE PAID $42 MILLION fine to settle allegations that it unlawfully provided armaments and military equipment overseas.

2007 Iraqi government refered criminal charges to its courts for shooting of 17 Iraqi Civilians by Blackwater guards. BUT BREMER ORDER 17 immunity from prosecution delaying a criminal inquiry.

2007 Iraqi government approved a law to end all immunity for foreign military contractors in Iraq, to overturn Order 17. + USA DOJ said any immunity deals offered to Blackwater employees were invalid.

Iraqi families are taking Blackwater to court over alleged “random killings committed by private Blackwater guards”

2010 DOJ FRAUD SECTION investigated officials of Blackwater Worldwide for trying to bribe Iraqi government officials in hopes of retaining the firm’s security work in Iraq after the shooting in Nisour Square in Baghdad, which left 17 Iraqis dead.

2004 Xe was sued by the families of four contractors killed in Fallujah for the details of their sons’ and husbands’ deaths, saying Xe had refused to supply these details. = the company “showed a callous disregard for the safety of its employees.”

2007 4 family members testified in front of the House Government Reform Committee asking that BLACKWATER/Xe be held accountable for future negligence of employees’ lives, and that federal legislation be drawn up to govern contracts between the Department of Defense and defense contractors.

2011 2 former employees claimed that BLACKWATER/Xe defrauded the federal government on a security contract given after Hurricane Katrina.

2011 Federal judge dismissed Erik Prince from a civil lawsuit alleging that Blackwater defrauded the federal government of money when billing it for work in Iraq and Afghanistan.

2007 the Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit against Blackwater on behalf of an injured Iraqi and the families of three of the 17 Iraqis killed by Blackwater employees in 2007 = Blackwater Baghdad shootings.

2009 Lawsuit in US District Court saying Blackwater employees shot and killed three members of an Iraqi family, including a nine-year-old boy in 2007.

2008 DOJ announced charges against five Blackwater employees but Judge Ricardo Urbina threw out the criminal case against the five guards under indictment saying prosecutors violated the guards’ Fifth Amendment rights by using the statements they gave to the State Department as evidence. Iraqi government asked DOJ to appeal the decision, and also plans to sue the five guards accused of killing civilians.

2009 Iraqi government announced BLACKWATER/Xe must leave Iraq

2009 USA State Department notified Blackwater that the agency would not renew its security contract with the company.

2012 BLACKWATER/Xe/ACADEMI PAID ANOTHER $7.5 MILLION FINE without admitting guilt, to settle various charges.

2014 REPORT OF BLACKWATER Death threat to US State Department investigator reported NYT investigation reported an internal State Department memo stating that the manager of the Iraqi Blackwater operations in 2007 met AND THREATENED TO KILL investigator Jean Richter = Richter later wrote a scathing review of the lax standards FOR BLACKWATER, only two weeks before a serious Blackwater incident in which 17 Iraqi civilians were shot and killed by Blackwater employees.

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US Blackwater/ACADEMI/RESPONSE Mercenary Units Behind Kiev Regime’s Outburst in Ukraine

US mercenaries = Control Repression of pro-Russian protesters in Eastern Ukraine

German Media Reports = Fascist groups form puppet regime in Kiev employed by Blackwater/Xe/ACADEMI/RESPONSE = Erik Prince = This organization is directing the attacks the Right Sector militia = Kiev regime’s National Guard = Thousand(s) Murdered throughout eastern Ukraine.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top German officials of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) claimed that 400 Blackwater troops are assisting Kiev’s security troops in Eastern Ukraine = Der Spiegel wrote, “..was communicated during a so-called Intelligence Situation meeting…” But BND did not disclose who hired the mercenaries, employed by Blackwater now battling it out in Ukraine. = Believed to be working very closely with US intelligence. Prince said in 2013 his company “became a virtual extension of the CIA.” = Greystone, a subsidiary of Academi, were directing Right Sector combatants and units in Ukraine to “trigger civil war.” = English-speaking fighters were caught coordinating those who executed the May 2 massacre of dozens of anti-Kiev regime protesters in Odessa.

US MSM has blocked the German and Russian reports of Blackwater’s dealings in Ukraine. = Academi highlights that it “has no relationship with any entity named Blackwater or Prince.” It then added, “Erik Prince sold the company (which he had renamed ‘Xe’) in 2010 and retained the rights to the Blackwater name.”