Friday, March 31, 2017

Pentagon: You Don’t Need To Know How Many Troops We Have In Iraq, Syria

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Will Stop Announcing Official Unit Sizes

Article via Antiwar

Since the first “no boots on the ground” pledges of President Obama, the Pentagon has systematically and repeatedly lied about the number of US ground troops they have in Iraq, deliberately omitting large numbers of troops from the official count by labeling them “temporary.”

Centcom has announced that they are going to end the lying about the number of US troops in those countries. They’re not going to start telling the truth, of course, but rather have decided to stop providing any numbers at all on the matter.

Spokesman Col. John Thomas argued that people don’t need to know the number of US troops that are deployed in the countries, and that the important metric is “capabilities, not numbers.” Of course, the figures the Pentagon was giving were never particularly useful in the first place for reporters, since they were always clearly false.

Officially, per the last figure the Pentagon provided was that exactly 5,262 US troops were in Iraq. This was the formal “cap” on the number of troops that could be in the country, though in practice well over 6,000 US troops are actually there, with more being deployed regularly.

The official troop level deliberately excludes everyone labeled a “temporary” soldier, which includes a large number of troops with open-ended deployment dates, labeled temporary simply to avoid going over the cap at a given time.


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Pentagon Has Video Proving Mosul Buildings Were Full Of Civilians

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Accuses ISIS of Using Civilians to ‘Provoke’ Attacks

Article via Antiwar

Facing growing criticism over an attack earlier this month that killed hundreds of civilians in Mosul, the Pentagon confirmed that it has video footage of ISIS forcing hundreds of civilians into the destroyed buildings, which they presented as “provoking the attack.

While this is designed to shift some of the blame away from the Pentagon for bombing buildings full of civilians, it appears to actually do the exact opposite: it confirms that the Pentagon knew before the attacks that those buildings were full of civilians, and attacked them anyhow.

ISIS has long been criticized for pushing civilians around and forcing them into various areas, but the fact that civilians were being forced into buildings does not prove that the buildings were of any specific value as a target in the first place, and the Pentagon’s assertion appears to be that putting civilians in there amounted to making the buildings a more tempting target in and of itself.

The huge civilian death toll of the US strikes has been condemned by several human rights groups, unsurprisingly, but the Pentagon’s narrative has rapidly changed from denial, to sheepish admission of “probable” guilt, and now to outright defiance over the fact that they killed so many people.


This article first appeared on Antiwar.com and was authored by Jason Ditz.

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Trump’s Pick For FDA Attempts To Distance Himself From Big Pharma

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Critics are calling attention to the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and President Trump’s nominee to the Food and Drug Administration.

Article via Activist Post by Derrick Broze

Dr. Scott Gottlieb is promising to recuse himself from more than 20 companies he is involved with should he be accepted as the head of the Food and Drug Administration. Gottlieb made the promise after his relationship with pharmaceutical corporations became a concern to those who oppose his nomination to the FDA.

In a letter to the ethics head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Gottlieb promised to recuse himself from more than 20 companies in which he is financially involved.

Gottlieb is a physician who was the deputy commissioner at the FDA from 2005 to 2007 under the Bush administration. He currently sits on the board of several small “biopharma” companies and advises GlaxoSmithKline, the sixth largest pharmaceutical company in the world. Gottlieb also works for  venture capital fund New Enterprise Associates and is managing director of investment banking firm TR Winston & Co.

The increased focus on these connections come after a report from the Wall Street Journal revealed details of Gottlieb’s relationship with pharmaceutical companies. According the WSJ, Gottlieb has earned millions of dollars as an executive and in speaking fees and consulting fees from the pharmaceutical industry.

As Fortune notes, “Gottlieb has previously promoted fewer FDA regulations in order to speed up the drug approval process, a goal which has also been strongly endorsed by President Donald Trump.” These conflicts will be explored on April 5 at the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)  committee’s hearing on Gottlieb’s nomination. Interestingly, Reuters reports that Gottlieb – or whoever the nominee ends up being – would “be responsible for implementing key elements in the recently passed 21st Century Cures Act, which calls on the agency to streamline the drug approval process.”

Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act points to a deeper purpose for the incoming head of the FDA. For more on that we look to a recent report from Truthstream Media. “The “21st Century Cures Act” – HR 34 – became law in December, 2016 and most people have no idea what it contains,” an Activist Post Editor’s Note states. “Essentially, it redefines what is meant by informed consent. Or, put another way, it expands the ability for Big Pharma to experiment on the population under the assumption that the dangers of vaccines and pharmaceuticals are too minimal for serious consideration.”


Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist and liberty activist. He is the Lead Investigative Reporter for ActivistPost.com and the founder of the TheConsciousResistance.com. Follow him on Twitter. Derrick is the author of three books: The Conscious Resistance: Reflections on Anarchy and Spirituality and Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion, Vol. 1 and Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion, Vol. 2

Derrick is available for interviews. Please contact Derrick@activistpost.com

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Henry Kissinger’s Food Occupation Of Iraq Continues

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Iraqi agriculture expert Dr. Nakd Altameemi joins Mnar Muhawesh on ‘Behind the Headline’ to discuss the devastating toll that war, sanctions and Western corporations have had on Iraq’s centuries-old agricultural traditions.

Article via Mint Press News by Mnar Muhawesh

The Iraq of today is associated with horrific violence, a refugee crisis and widespread poverty. The images we see flashed across the news show nothing but terror and misery.

But it hasn’t always been this way.

Modern-day Iraq lies in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization where mankind flourished as it developed seed cultivation and its first farming techniques — all nourished by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Generations of people have tilled the soil there since 8,000 BC, developing the seeds that grew into the many types of wheat seen around the world today.

But centuries of cultivation turned to dust in 2003, when former President George W. Bush invaded the country, planting seeds of war that would be sown for years to come.

Unfortunately, the United States took more than figurative seeds to Iraq.

While about two million civilians were killed as a result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the war is still ingrained in the U.S. psyche as a humanitarian effort to save the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator.

But what it actually did was pave the way for foreign corporations to descend upon the country and turn a profit on the chaos.

A U.S. Army soldier shares a bag of sunflower seeds with a fellow soldier, as they wait for a helicopter to pick them up in a field of barley nearly ready to harvest, outside Tall Ash Shawr, a village in northwestern Iraq, Monday, May 19, 2003. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Invasion and Exploitation — Foreign Corporations File In

Following the U.S.’ bombing of Iraq and its capture of Saddam Hussein, the Coalition Provisional Authority was established to serve as the country’s temporary government.

The CPA was headed by Paul Bremer, the former managing director of Kissinger Associates, an influential consulting firm founded by Henry Kissinger, a former secretary of state and war criminal.

It quickly became clear that toppling Saddam wasn’t the U.S.’ only goal. The powers taking control of the Iraqi government were also seeking control of the country’s agriculture industry.

In 2004, Bremer put the “100 Orders” into effect. They were “binding instructions or directives to the Iraqi people that create penal consequences or have a direct bearing on the way Iraqis are regulated, including changes to Iraqi law.”

In other words, Iraqis were told, “Follow our orders or die.”

One order, in particular, had a crippling effect on Iraq’s centuries-long farming and seed cultivation traditions.

Order 81 — the Patents, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety Law — gave those who hold patents on certain plant varieties absolute rights over the use of their seeds in Iraq for 20 years.

The order also facilitated the introduction and domination of imported, high-priced corporate-developed seeds, mainly from the U.S. These seeds do not reproduce or produce yields without prescribed chemical fertilizer and pesticide inputs.

This created a major dilemma for Iraqi farmers, as Najma Sadeque wrote in 2012:

“It meant that the majority of farmers who had never spent money on seed and inputs that came free from nature, would henceforth have to heavily invest in corporate inputs and equipment — or go into debt to obtain them, or accept lowered profits, or give up farming altogether.”

Meanwhile, the country’s national seed bank — located, unfortunately, in the infamous city of Abu Ghraib — was destroyed during the 2003 U.S. invasion and subsequent looting, making it another casualty of the Iraq War.

An Iraqi corn broker walks through his supply while preparing it to be shipped to retail markets Monday, Jan. 5, 2004 in a village north of Baghdad. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Farmers Forced to Pay Fees for Seeds for the first time

Today, because of Order 81, Iraqi farmers who choose to plant patented seeds that come from multinational agribusiness monopolies have to sign agreements that force them to pay a “technology fee” and an annual licensing fee.

If an Iraqi farmer saves seeds to replant in the future — as farmers around the world have done for centuries — they are subject to substantial fines from the seed supplier.

Ultimately, Order 81 and the actions taken by companies like Monsanto and Cargill have ensured that while Iraqis may no longer be under the thumb of Saddam Hussein, they’re trapped in a modern colonial struggle against an occupying force that seeks to control their livelihoods, their food supply and their cultural traditions.

Perhaps this should come as no surprise, considering Bremer’s ties to Kissinger. It was Kissinger who reportedly once said: “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”

This type of control over agriculture and food production is a weapon of war and a tool of the oppressor. The U.S. has been using food aid and its role in global food production to advance its own interests since World War I.

Under the postwar trade regime, especially during the Nixon administration, trade pacts like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade emerged to advance a new global agribusiness export agenda.

Within a decade, the global food cartel was controlled by the U.S.-NATO empire’s most elite families. They started buying up all of the world’s major sources of food and seeds. This is why just a few companies — including Monsanto and Cargill — dominate the world’s grain and cereal supplies.

It’s also why these companies descended on Iraq once the Coalition Provisional Authority created an opening, destroying a once-flourishing agriculture industry. In the process, they destroyed the independence of Iraqi farmers and forced the Iraqi people to rely on foreign corporations for even basic sustenance.

Here to talk more about the struggles of the Iraqi agriculture sector during and after the Iraq War and what the Iraqi government is doing to rebuild the industry, is Dr. Nakd Altameemi.

Dr. Altameemi started his career at Iraq’s Ministry of Agriculture, eventually serving as director general of both Iraq’s State Board for Seed Testing and Certification and the Mesopotamia Seed Company. From 2008 to 2015, he joined the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as a consultant.


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Mexican Attorney General Arrested For Drug Trafficking in California

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The attorney general for the western Mexican state of Nayarit has been arrested in Southern California on charges of drug trafficking.

Edgar Veytia, 45, who has served as the top law enforcement officer of Nayarit since 2013, was charged in a seven-page, three-count indictment unsealed in New York.

Veytia is accused of having close ties to the Jalisco New Generation (JNG) cartel.

Allegations of ties between the attorney general and the JNG cartel have appeared in Mexican media before, according to the LA Times.

The indictment charges Veyita with conspiracy to manufacture and smuggle cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine to the United States from January 2013 to last month.

Veytia was scheduled to appear in federal court in San Diego yesterday to determine if he is eligible for bail. He returns April 11th for a hearing to determine if he will be transported to New York to face charges.

Attorney Guadalupe Valencia says his client was arrested at the Mexican border and is being held at a San Diego jail. He had no comment on the charges his client is being accused of.

The governor of Nayarit, Roberto Sandoval, said the state government would cooperate with the investigation in Mexico and the U.S. and said he knew nothing about the details of the accusations against Veytia.

“I want to be very clear to the people of Nayarit, men and women, that I will personally take responsibility for security in the state,” Sandoval said. “We will not lower our guard, we will continue to be one of the safest states.”

Veytia was taken into custody Monday at the Cross Border Xpress bridge, which links Tijuana Airport to the United States, U.S. Customs and Border Protection representative Ralph Desio confirmed NBC reported.

According to a report from the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), Nayarit is a major marijuana cultivation area and is a primary methamphetamine production region in Mexico.

JNG declared war on Mexican police in 2015 according to the report by OSAC.

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What We’re Not Being Told About The First ISIS Terror Plot On U.S. Soil

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Article via The Anti-Media by Carey Wedler

As ISIS continues to terrify much of the American populace, a recent investigation by CBS’ 60 Minutes discovered that an undercover FBI agent was involved in an attempted shooting in Garland, Texas, in 2015. That attack, the news outlet reports, was the first major ISIS-linked terror plot to unfold in the United States, but there appears to be much more to the story than was initially reported.

In 2014, two American citizens, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, attempted to open fire on a protest against Islam in Garland. The event, hosted by controversial right-wing, anti-Muslim pundit Pamela Geller, invited attendees to draw the prophet Mohammed, an action considered blasphemy in the Islamic faith.

After opening fire with assault rifles — and before they were able to kill any protesters — both perpetrators, who had declared loyalty to ISIS on Twitter prior to their attempted attack, were stopped by a SWAT team and local police officer Greg Stevens. The SWAT team killed both attackers at the scene, but 60 Minutes recently unearthed several disturbing facts of the case.  As 60 Minutes explained:

In looking into what happened in Garland, we were surprised to discover just how close the FBI was to one of the terrorists. Not only had the FBI been monitoring him for years, there was an undercover agent right behind him when the first shots were fired.”

The FBI had been monitoring Simpson, 34, a Chicago native, after he converted to Islam and moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he became an active member of the  Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. 60 Minutes interviewed the organization’s president, Usama Shami, who said Simpson was a “well-liked and soft-spoken” member of the community.

Nevertheless, as he began gravitating toward radical Islam, an FBI informant within the mosque began a relationship with him. According to 60 Minutes;

Dabla Deng spent three years pretending to be Simpson’s friend, and was paid $132,000 by the FBI. He taped more than 1,500 hours of their conversations and finally recorded him talking about traveling overseas to wage jihad. Simpson lied to the FBI about it and got three years probation.”

Shami says Simpson became further radicalized when he learned the agency had been surveilling him and that Deng’s friendship was insincere:

When he found out that this guy was spying on him, and taping him and then finding out that the government was doing that, I think something clicked in him. And the mosque, we couldn’t do anything. Because we don’t know what he did,” Shami told 60 Minutes.

Simpson grew alienated from the mosque, eventually moving into an apartment with Soofi. The two became drawn to ISIS during this time, “closely following the rise of ISIS, reaching out to their supporters online, and acquiring weapons for a terrorist attack.”

According to counterterrorism expert Seamus Hughes, they also began communicating with Mohammed Miski, an American ISIS recruiter in Somalia. Hughes “tracks the online activities of ISIS sympathizers in the U.S.” and has also worked at the National Counterterrorism Center.  He currently serves as the deputy director of George Washington University’s “Program On Extremism” and trains FBI agents to recognize homegrown jihadi movements.

Hughes says the two men also began speaking with Junaid Hussain, an “ISIS rock star” of British origin who was later killed by a drone strike in Iraq. Clearly, the two men were radicalized. But as 60 Minutes reports:

The FBI closed the case on Elton Simpson in 2014, only to re-open it several weeks before the attack because of statements he made on social media.”

While this lapse in scrutiny could easily be chalked up to incompetence within the FBI, Hughes notes the difficulty of tracking potentially dangerous individuals. “It speaks to a larger problem the FBI has, which is you have an individual who pops into your radar in 2006, but doesn’t commit an attack until 2015,” he said. “So do you want the FBI to watch this individual for nine years?

Regardless, after the attack, the FBI began investigating Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, a Muslim convert who grew up in Philadelphia. The FBI believed he funded and encouraged the Garland attack and helped train Simpson and Soofi.

Though Kareem denied these charges, witnesses at his trial indicated otherwise, and he was sentenced to thirty years in prison. But his attorney, Dan Maynard, kept digging. As Maynard told 60 Minutes:

After the trial we found out that they had had an undercover agent who had been texting with Simpson, less than three weeks before the attack, to him ‘Tear up Texas.’ Which to me was an encouragement to Simpson.”

Maynard was referencing an undercover agent posing as a radical. 60 Minutes explained:

The government sent attorney Dan Maynard 60 pages of declassified encrypted messages between the agent and Elton Simpson – and argued ‘Tear up Texas’ was not an incitement. But Simpson’s response was incriminating, referring to the attack against cartoonists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo: ‘bro, you don’t have to say that…’ He wrote ‘you know what happened in Paris… so that goes without saying. No need to be direct.’

That agent also traveled to Garland and was present as the attack unfolded. “In an affidavit filed in another case,” 60 Minutes notes, “the government disclosed that the FBI undercover agent had actually ‘traveled to Garland, Texas, and was present… at the event.’”

I was shocked. I mean I was shocked that the government hadn’t turned this over. I wanted to know when did he get there, why was he there?” Maynard said.

As it turned out, the agent was in a car directly behind Simpson and Soofi when they started shooting and had taken a photo of Officer Greg Stevens and security guard Bruce Joiner before the two extremists started shooting. Rather than attempting to stop the attack, he fled the scene.

Maynard says that given the opportunity, he would ask the agent several questions:

Are these the only communications that you had with Simpson? Did you have more communications with Simpson? How is it that you ended up coming to Garland, Texas? Why are you even there?

So far, the FBI has declined requests for comment, simply issuing a statement claiming they had no prior knowledge of the attack before it happened.

Maynard believes the story would be much more high-profile had people actually died in the attack. But the series of events remains suspicious.

“I can’t tell you whether the FBI knew the attack was gonna occur. I don’t like to think that they let it occur,” Maynard cautioned. “But it is shocking to me that an undercover agent sees fellas jumping out of a car and he drives on. I find that shocking.

The agent was eventually stopped at gunpoint by local police as he was fleeing Garland. His identity remains anonymous.

It is currently impossible to know whether the agent acted on his own or was following orders from higher-ups when he arguably incited Simpson and Soofi. It is publicly known that the FBI helps plot terror attacks by putting informants in contact with often unstable individual prone to extremism. They encourage these individuals to wage attacks, however, they tend to foil the plots before they actually unfold.

In this case, the undercover agent did no such thing, leaving Stevens, Joiner, and a SWAT team to halt the two men before they could kill anyone — and leaving many questions as to what actually occurred.

As Maynard observed, “He didn’t try to stop ‘em. Or he didn’t do something. I mean, he’s an agent, for gosh sakes.


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WikiLeaks Releases Documents Proving CIA Hackers Can Use Russia As Scapegoat

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WikiLeaks published their latest Vault 7 release today – 676 files code-named ‘Marble’, which details CIA hacking techniques and how they can misdirect forensic investigators from attributing viruses, trojans and worms to their agency by using the source code of other languages as a scapegoat – in other words false flag cyber attacks.

WikiLeaks said Marble hides fragments of texts that would allow for the author of the malware to be identified. WikiLeaks stated the technique is the digital equivalent of a specialized CIA tool which disguises English language text on U.S. produced weapons systems before they are provided to insurgents.

It’s “designed to allow for flexible and easy-to-use obfuscation” as “string obfuscation algorithms” often link malware to a specific developer, according to the release from WikiLeaks.

The source code released reveals Marble contains examples in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi.

“This would permit a forensic attribution double game, for example by pretending that the spoken language of the malware creator was not American English, but Chinese, but then showing attempts to conceal the use of Chinese, drawing forensic investigators even more strongly to the wrong conclusion,” WikiLeaks explains, “But there are other possibilities, such as hiding fake error messages.”

Additionally, the code contains a ‘deobfuscator’ which allows the CIA’s obfuscated text to be reversed. “Combined with the revealed obfuscation techniques, a pattern or signature emerges which can assist forensic investigators attribute previous hacking attacks and viruses to the CIA.”

In a previous Vault7 release the CIA’s ability to mask its hacking fingerprints was revealed.

[RELATED: A CIA Cyber False Flag]

WikiLeaks claims the latest release will allow for thousands of viruses and hacking attacks to be attributed to the CIA.

Full press release below:

“Today, March 31st 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Marble” — 676 source code files for the CIA’s secret anti-forensic Marble Framework. Marble is used to hamper forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to the CIA.

Marble does this by hiding (“obfuscating”) text fragments used in CIA malware from visual inspection. This is the digital equivallent of a specalized CIA tool to place covers over the english language text on U.S. produced weapons systems before giving them to insurgents secretly backed by the CIA.

Marble forms part of the CIA’s anti-forensics approach and the CIA’s Core Library of malware code. It is “[D]esigned to allow for flexible and easy-to-use obfuscation” as “string obfuscation algorithms (especially those that are unique) are often used to link malware to a specific developer or development shop.

The Marble source code also includes a deobfuscator to reverse CIA text obfuscation. Combined with the revealed obfuscation techniques, a pattern or signature emerges which can assist forensic investigators attribute previous hacking attacks and viruses to the CIA. Marble was in use at the CIA during 2016. It reached 1.0 in 2015.

The source code shows that Marble has test examples not just in English but also in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi. This would permit a forensic attribution double game, for example by pretending that the spoken language of the malware creator was not American English, but Chinese, but then showing attempts to conceal the use of Chinese, drawing forensic investigators even more strongly to the wrong conclusion, — but there are other possibilities, such as hiding fake error messages.

The Marble Framework is used for obfuscation only and does not contain any vulnerabilties or exploits by itself.”

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Two Journalists Sue Trump, Seek To Be Removed From Federal Kill List

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Two journalists have recently filed a lawsuit against some top U.S. officials, including President Trump, Secretary Mattis, Attorney General Sessions, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and even the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security as they claim they’ve been identified as persons “being targeted for death.”

[RELATED: CONGRESSMAN PETER KING: PRESIDENTIAL KILL LIST ‘TOTALLY CONSTITUTIONAL’]

The alleged ‘Kill List’ had once been put down by some officials in Washington, but it seems that now this topic is widely known and accepted as reality. Ex-CIA director said in 2012 that only “very most senior officials” mark people for death. The New York Times furthermore reported five years ago on how this process works:

“Every week or so, more than 100 members of the government’s sprawling national security apparatus gather, by secure video teleconference, to pore over terrorist suspects’ biographies and recommend to the president who should be the next to die.”

When Trump was elected into office, one of the first things he did was give the CIA power to conduct drone strikes, making it easier for the agency to kill suspected ‘terrorists.’

Now, two journalists are afraid for their lives, believing that they will be one of the next names called as drone bombings continue. As the lawsuit states, neither of these men claim to be involved with any sort of militant or terrorist activity, and both of them are humble journalists who put themselves in questionable situations to report the facts.

These men, Ahmad Zaidan and Bilal Kareem, are now hoping that U.S. courts can help them receive the peace of mind that they won’t be killed by the U.S. government. Questionable circumstances alongside algorithms used to identify terrorists are what they claim have caused them to be included on the kill list.

For example, Zaidan is a Syrian and Pakistani journalist who works for Al Jazeera and interviewed Osama Bin Laden on multiple occasions, once in the presence of several alleged senior al-Qaeda officials. The lawsuit states that “Zaidan regularly investigates and reports on terrorism and its causes,” painting the picture of an innocent civilian who wants to tackle the issue of terrorism.

Kareem, on the other hand, is a U.S. citizen who has worked for several mainstream media outlets, including CNN, BBC, and also Al Jazeera. In 2012, he traveled to Syria to report on the situation there. The lawsuit says the “during the past year, Kareem has narrowly avoided being killed by five separate air strikes, at least one of which was carried out by a drone.” Detailed descriptions of these alleged failed attacks can be seen in the lawsuit.

Kareem and Zaidan seek a ruling that their inclusion on the kill list was the result of “arbitrary and capricious agency action,” and/or a statement that it is unconstitutional, a chance to challenge their inclusion on the kill list, and/or be removed from the list altogether.

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Phoenix Reporter Assaulted By Radical Left-Wing Militia For Recording Public March

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A reporter for the New Phoenix Times was assaulted by a member of a left-wing radical group for filming their armed march outside the Arizona capitol.

Stephen Lemons was recording the march of a group of about 40 people wearing brown shirts and carrying rifles when he was approached by one of the marchers and asked to stop recording.

The marchers were members of “Antifascist Action Phoenix” (Antifa), “Arizona Brown Berets,” and the “Phoenix John Brown Gun Club,” and one of the apparent-militia members told Lemons they wouldn’t answer at the time.

Lemons continued recording video, and began asking questions to one of the militia members.

 

“Hey man so why did you decide to come out today?” Lemons asked the militia man.

The man responded “to film you.”

The reporter then asked the man, “What kind of firearm is that?” and walked alongside the gun-toting marcher.

“Excuse me sir,” the militia man said.

“Excuse me it’s a public sidewalk,” Lemons responded.

That’s when the militia member assaulted Lemons, appearing to elbow and shove him backwards.

“Oh I like to see the left wing get feisty, do you assault reporters a lot? You’re a big bad ass because you got a gun, you want to shoot me?” Lemons asked.

“No, but I’ll follow you around the rest of the afternoon, though,” the militia man answered.

Lemons then walked to the front of the march and began recording the march from the front.

The march halted, and another man walked up from the back of the march requesting the reporter’s business card.

“Can I see your business card?” the apparent militia leader asked.

“I’m with the New Times,” Lemons answered.

“Can I see?” the militia leader reiterated, asking for the reporter’s press credentials.

“No, this is not a show-me-your-papers state and you’re not law enforcement, you tell me who you are and I’ll give it to you,” Lemons answered.

 

“You’re right but what I am going to ask you to do though on a friendly level is for you to stop following us,” the man says.

The “friendly” militia leaders later followed up this request with an implied threat to break Lemons’s

“No I’m not going to leave, you going to shoot me?” Lemons told the militia leader.

“No I’m not going to shoot you, I am going to warn you that we are not responsible for anything that might happen to that phone.”

The wanna-be militia leader then argued with Lemons about whether or not his militia group was marching, whether they were really a militia or not, and the militia members began to claim that Lemons actually assaulted and kicked the man who assaulted him.

Ironically, Lemons claimed he would have supported the radical left-wing marchers had they not infringed his First Amendment right to record and assaulted him.

“This asshole here assaulted me, basically I think that’s interesting because I am usually documenting right wing hate groups and I would be cool with you guys being down here but the hostility is not cool,” the reporter says.

The confrontation ended with the militia slowly dispersing, and then one militia members blocking Lemons’ path so he could not record the license plates of the brown shirt brigade members.

Antifa and similar radical left-wing groups have been causing violence across the U.S. in recent months. One Antifa member even threatened the daughter of We Are Change reporter Cassandra Fairbanks.

You can watch the full video of Stephen Lemons and the Phoenix brown shirts below:

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We Are Change Reporter Stuns Marco Rubio – Doesn’t Know What A VPN Is

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In this video intrepid We Are Change journalist Cassandra Fairbanks confronts U.S Senator Marco Rubio about his latest allegations of Russians trying to hack him.

Cassandra simply asked if Rubio thought about the possibility of a VPN (virtual private network) that could have been possibly used in order to fake a Russian hack attempt.


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Cannabis Invades Washington: Three Bills Introduced to Reform Federal Marijuana Laws

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Congressman Jared Polis (D-Colorado) has introduced a bill which, if passed, would federally decriminalize marijuana, remove it from the controlled substances list, and regulate it like alcohol.

Polis’ Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act

Polis’ bill, similar to the bill he introduced in 2015, seeks to regulate marijuana like alcohol. In an interview with The Cannabist, Polis had an optimistic outlook on the future of his bill:

“I think we have a working majority of representatives that believe the federal government needs to get out and allow states to move forward… We now feel we have the votes on the recreational side as well.”

The passing of this bill would have enormous impacts on the budding legal marijuana industry, allowing states who have individually legalized marijuana for recreational use to finally rest without having to worry that the DEA will come charging into their businesses with guns, body armor, and perhaps even flash grenades to take away their plants and rolling papers.

Other Moves in Washington To Reform Marijuana Legislation

Polis isn’t the only one who has been making moves to decriminalize marijuana. Senator Ron Wyden, and Rep. Earl Blumenauer have announced a “Path to Marijuana Reform” a three-bill package which includes Polis’ bill.

The Path to Marijuana Reform aims to protect and preserve the state-mandated laws regarding marijuana and includes the Small Business Tax Equity Act, and the Responsibly Addressing the Marijuana Policy Gap Act.

The Small Business Tax Equity Act seeks to “allow businesses operating in compliance with state law to claim deductions and credits associated with the sale of marijuana like any other legal business.” If passed, this act will further legitimize the marijuana industry, at least as far as tax filing is concerned.

The Responsibly Addressing the Marijuana Policy Gap Act seeks to legalize sectors of the marijuana business that were previously illegal, such as banking barriers, advertisement barriers, as well as protecting the civil liberties of individuals who use marijuana. The bill also wishes to legalize medical marijuana research, previously individuals would have to apply through the DEA to do this.

The Trump Administration Marijuana Policy

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently stated that “States they can pass the laws they choose. I would just say it does remain a violation of federal law to distribute marijuana throughout any place in the United States, whether a state legalizes it or not.”

This has understandably caused concern for political leaders whose constituents reside in states with legalized marijuana. For this reason, a large group of bipartisan senators are not going to wait and see how the Trump administration reacts, and have instead filed a letter asking Sessions to allow states to implement recreational legislation without fear of prosecution.

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15 Men Arrested in Florida On Child-Sex Charges

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Police in Gainesville, Florida have arrested 15 men this month as the result of an undercover child sex sting operation. Florida police have seemingly upped the ante on their sex trafficking investigations, also arresting 114 suspects in Polk County in December on similar charges.

The 15 men were arrested after being lead to believe that they were about to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, as reported by local news. The sting operation, dubbed “Operation Resilient” included the work of 46 law enforcement agents from 7 different agencies, including the FBI.

The sting lasted only five days, after beginning on March 15.

Now, the suspects are all facing charges of soliciting sex to children, as well as other charges pertaining to their specific cases. One man is facing an additional charge related to sending a nude photo to an undercover official that he believed to be a 13-year-old child. Another suspect is facing an additional charge of resisting arrest, after multiple officers had to be utilized to detain him when he allegedly managed to pull the trigger of a stun gun attached to the uniform of an officer.

The Gainesville Police Department has released a statement which reads:

“During the 5-day operation, multiple persons communicated with what they believed were young teenagers or guardians allowing sexual contact with their young teenagers, and 15 of those persons ultimately traveled in an attempt to meet the children for the purpose of sexual contact.”

Among those arrested, three were college students at the University of Florida. Two of the students were reportedly under the impression they were communicating with 14-year-old boys.

Other suspects received information that they were talking to the guardian of a 14-year-old girl, who assured them that it would be okay to have sex with a child.

The overall average age of the suspects is 32.

Not everybody who was targeted in the sting was charged and it seems as only those who made a conscious effort to meet with a child were arrested.

“Fifteen men made the conscious decision to get into a vehicle and travel with the intention of having sex with a teenager… I’m proud of everyone involved in this operation as they seek to get these offenders behind bars and away from our children,” Gainesville Police Chief Tony Jones said in a statement.

The good news, in this case, is that no child (that we yet know of) was exploited and these men were arrested before they could make that decision.

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Thursday, March 30, 2017

You Can Be Whoever You Want – A Transformational Poem

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One of the hardest things to do in this world is be you,

Not be who everyone else wants you to be,

But be true to yourself,

It is you no else who chooses what path you take in life,

Who loses or wins the fights,

Who gets back up or knocked back down,

Who draws on your face that smile that frown,

Yes you,

Are responsible for who you,

Become in this world,

You can choose to be a doctor, a lawyer, a painter, a writer

A Muslim, A Jew, a Christian, A liar,

A man of truth, without a religion,

You can choose to have a family or have no children,

You can spend your whole life and chase after money,

You can act in a drama, comedy, funny,

How sometimes we forget it is we,

Who are the producer’s of our life’s movie,

Now Im not claiming to know the right way to live

And I’m not saying be selfish or give,

All I am saying is your life’s a gift,

And what is this gift that you have been given?

It is the freedom to choose the life you are living,

When you were an infant you didn’t have a voice,

But now you are grown and your voice can reach farther than you can imagine,

You can travel the world,

You can start your own business,

You can work for a company and build someones vision,

You can live your life free once you learn that the prison,

That really confines you is really a figment,

Of your imagination and with enough vision,

You can create whatever you want,

You are an artist and this world is your canvas,

Paint something beautiful and make your like matter,

Are there excuses why you wont succeed?

Of course there are and there always will be,

Before Albert Einstein discovered relativity the teacher’s at school doubted his ability,

He worked several jobs just to get by,

Little did they know he would win a nobel prize,

And JK Rowling who wrote Harry Potter,

She was diagnosed with depression, on welfare with a daughter,

But that didn’t stop her,

She kept on writing,

Rejected 12 times but she kept on fighting,

Before Thomas Edison invented the light bulb

he found 10,000 ways how to not make a light bulb,

Did he get discouraged?

Probably yes,

Is it true he saw failure as only progress?

Honestly, I don’t know and I really don’t care,

I’ll tell you what I know: life is rare,

So you yeah you the one hearing this poem,

I may not know you and how life at home was,

It could be in your home that no love was shown but,

Believe me when I tell you that your not alone cause,

All of us struggle,

Myself included,

Struggle is part of what it means to be human,

Don’t let that stop you and keep you from moving

Keep pushing forward the rest is God’s doing!

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Planned Parenthood Abortionist Confesses They Would Let Babies Die After They Survived Abortions

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In a new shocking undercover video by the Center for Medical Progress, a former Planned Parenthood abortionist explains how the abortion provider would dodge state law and employees would forcibly rip apart aborted babies.

At a Planned Parenthood conference, Dr. DeShawn Taylor, an abortionist from a Los Angeles facility and former medical director of Planned Parenthood of Arizona, described to CMP journalists how she would dismember a baby in order to harvest as many organs as possible. Tiny human organs could then be sold to researchers for profit.

“It’s not a matter of how I feel about it coming out intact, but I gotta worry about my staff and people’s feelings about it coming out looking like a baby,” she said.

Taylor also describes how much easier it is to dismember a baby by delivering it illegally in the breach (feet first) position.  A procedure which is known as “partial-birth abortion,” which is illegal in all states.

“Breach makes it a lot easier, because you can, you know, but the thing is, there’s still going to have to be some decompression of the calvarium for it to come out,” she said.

According to federal law during an abortion, there must be “no alteration of the timing, method, or procedures used to terminate the pregnancy that is made solely for the purpose of obtaining the tissue.”

When Taylor was questioned by the investigator how the abortionist would tell if the baby was alive, she admitted that she would only obey Arizona state law based off who was in the room when the baby was ripped out of its mother’s womb if it was still alive.

Arizona state law passed in 2015 requires abortionists to take the baby to the hospital in an effort to save the child’s life if it survives the procedure.

“In Arizona, if the fetus comes out with any signs of life, we’re supposed to transport it to the hospital,” Taylor said.

She added, “Well, the thing is, I mean the key is, you need to pay attention to who’s in the room, right?”

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra charged two CMP journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt with 15 criminal counts for recording conversations with numerous abortionists in public places, claiming the recordings violate privacy laws. The group has stated they will continue to release videos exposing the planned parenthood organizations’ “organ trafficking.”

You can watch the new Center for Medical Progress video below but a fair warning its very disturbing.

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LEFT-WING NIGHTMARE: Venezuelan Supreme Court Suspends Venezuelan Parliament

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The Venezuelan Supreme Court has suspended the country’s Parliament, WikiLeaks reported, illustrating the alarming increase of centralized power in the socialist state.

Local Venezuelan media claims that the Supreme Court will take over all of the parliament’s duties until a solution has been reached. According to the translated report, one parliament member was quoted to say that “this is not a sentence anymore, it is a sentence that marks a point of no return of the dictatorship.”

It also appears that a high-level political figure is calling on the people of Venezuela to ignore this ruling, citing two articles of the Venezuelan Constitution. Freddy Guevara, who is the first vice president of the National Assembly has cited two Venezuelan laws in their Constitution which allegedly prohibit this action:

  1. This Constitution shall not cease to be in effect if it ceases to be observed due to acts of force or because or repeal in any manner other than as provided for herein. In such eventuality, every citizen, whether or not vested with official authority, has a duty to assist in bringing it back into actual effect.
  2. The people of Venezuela, true to their republican tradition and their struggle for independence, peace and freedom, shall disown any regime, legislation or authority that violates democratic values, principles and guarantees or encroaches upon human rights.

Guevara elaborated further, saying that “Our Constitution, in its articles 333 and 350, empowers and orders us to ignore any illegitimate and arbitrary action or regime, but this should not be a mere statement. In order to be effective, we must articulate and organize ourselves…”

Guevara went on to say that the people should work to “make impossible” the latest decision by the Venezuelan Supreme Court and “force them to remain attached to democracy.”

What Does All Of This Mean For Venezuela?

This is a major turning point for the country, no doubt. The country is currently facing a food epidemic and a currency crisis, which may have been one of the reasons this action occurred. As the Committee to Protect Journalists reports, journalists have been detained and even labeled as potential terrorists for reporting on the ongoing crisis in the country.

As a result, it is difficult to get a real gauge on what is happening in Venezuela. WikiLeaks documents reveal the Venezuelan Supreme Court has previously lobbied for loans from the World Bank. Further documents reveal that one Supreme Court justice had previously said that “justice does not exist in Venezuela.”

We Are Change’s Luke Rudkowski spent some time in Venezuela not too long ago, here is what he saw while he was there:

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State Dept Employee Charged For Making Contacts With Chinese Agents

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The Department of Justice announced the arrest of a veteran State Department employee who had access to top secret information. Candace Claiborne is accused of failing to report numerous contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents whom allegedly provided her with “tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits” in exchange for diplomatic and economic information.

Claiborne, 60, was charged in a Washington federal court with obstruction of justice, making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and violation of her oath of office, Reuters reported.

“Candace Claiborne is accused of violating her oath of office as a State Department employee, who was entrusted with top secret information when she purposefully mislead federal investigators about her significant and repeated interactions with foreign contacts,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge Andrew Vale said.

A 58-page complaint alleges that Claiborne was given tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and wire transfers by Chinese agents beginning in 2011 in exchange for information about U.S. economic policy in relation to China and other diplomatic policies.

Claiborne “allegedly failed to report her contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents who provided her with thousands of dollars of gifts and benefits,” U.S. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord said.

Among the gifts given to Claiborne and an unidentified co-conspirator, male family member were – “beads, a sewing machine, an iPhone, a laptop computer, slippers, cash, tuition payments to a fashion school in China and an all-expenses paid vacation to Thailand,” prosecutors alleged.

Her relative received plane tickets, dinners, an apartment and tuition at the Raffles Design Institute in Shanghai, the affidavit said.

In one instance the Justice Department complaint alleges that one of the Chinese intelligence agents wired $2,500 into Claiborne’s bank account and then asked her for an “internal evaluation of the fruits and consensus” made by the U.S. government at an economic conference with Chinese government officials.

The Justice Department further alleges that Claiborne wrote in her journal that she could “generate 20k in 1 year” through her work with one of the intelligence agents.

“When a public servant is suspected of potential misconduct or federal crimes that violate the public trust, we vigorously investigate such claims,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.

Claiborne was caught as a result of monitoring under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, obtained through a FISA warrant.

She is expected back in court April 18th if convicted Claiborne could face a maximum of 20 years in prison for obstruction of justice and five years in prison for making false statements to the FBI.

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North Carolina School Suspends 5-Year-Old For Pretending A Stick Was A Gun

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J.W. McLaughlin Elementary School in North Carolina suspended 5-year-old student Caitlin Miller for aiming a make-believe ‘stick gun’ at fellow students while playing ‘pretend’ during recess.

Brandy Miller said her daughter, Caitlin and two of her friends were playing their favorite game. One of the girls was pretending to be a Queen and the other a Princess. Caitlin pretended to be their private security guard. She grabbed a stick that resembled the appearance of a gun in order to protect the ‘Queen’ and ‘Princess’.

As Caitlin pretended to protect the girls, wielding the ‘stick gun,’ a boy ran and told a teacher who then snatched Caitlin and hauled her off to the principal’s office.

Assistant Principal Brooke Griffie stated in a letter sent to Brandy Miller that Caitlin was suspended for one day for:

“Turning a stick into a gun and threatening to shoot and kill other students.”

Hoke County school officials said in a statement “the district does not tolerate assaults, threats or harassment from any student.”

“It is our duty to ensure the safety of our students and staff. Therefore, we respond to all threats in a serious manner and take appropriate action.”

Outraged over the situation, Brandy Miller stated while she understands the strict policy, she demanded the school to apologize to Caitlin. Saying, “tell her that it is okay for her to be 5 and have an imagination.”

Miller further stated:

“She’s confused. Nobody explained anything to her.”

“One minute she is playing with her friends and the next her teachers are dragging her to the principal’s office.”

Caitlin has since returned to school Tuesday, after her one day suspension.

School suspensions similar to this occur more frequently than you may think.

Last May, a kindergarten student in Brighton, Colorado was suspended for wielding a bubble-blowing “gun” at recess.

In March 2015, a 6-year-old in Colorado Springs had the same thing happen when he pointed his index finger like a gun at a classmate while saying, “Boom-You’re dead.”

Also, in March 2013, a 7-year-old in Anne Arundel County, Maryland was suspended for nibbling a breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun.

While it is important to promote and practice a safe environment for our children, school officials must use common sense.

One would hope potential damage caused to this bright, young mind by the school officials that suspended her for playing make-believe would be alarming to educators – with steps taken to avoid similar incidents in the future.

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Undercover Journalists Charged With 15 Felonies For Recording Planned Parenthood

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California prosecutors charged two undercover journalists with 15 felony counts on Tuesday, including charges of invasion of privacy.

David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were charged for allegedly filming 14 healthcare workers without their consent, in Los Angeles, San Francisco and El Dorado counties from October 2013 to July 2015, State Attorney General Xavier Becerra, said in a statement.

Daleiden and Merritt had posed as undercover representatives from a non-existent company seeking to purchase fetal tissue.

“The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California’s Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society,” Becerra said. “We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations.”

Becerra said the two fabricated a fictitious bio-research company to meet with women’s health care providers to secretly record them.

Daleiden denied the charges, telling Reuters that he had done nothing wrong because the recordings were not confidential and were recorded in public.

“The conversations that we secretly recorded were in open areas and in public areas where people could overhear,” he said. “In fact, they did overhear.”

Daleiden released a statement through the Center for Medical Progress, alleging that the charges were the result of Planned Parenthood’s “collusion with corrupt officials.”

“The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood’s political cronies are fake news,” the statement read. It also teases “yet-unreleased” videos the group plans to disclose.

Daleiden runs the California-based nonprofit Center for Medical Progress, which released the videos in 2015.

[RELATED: Planned Parenthood Exec Caught on Camera Boasting About Harvesting Fetal Organs]

In January earlier this year, a grand jury in Harris County, Texas indicted Daleiden and Merritt for using fake driver’s licenses to infiltratea Houston-area Planned Parenthood office. However, those charges were later dropped with the state ruling that a grand jury had overstepped its authority after they were convened to investigate the Planned Parenthood facility but instead indicted the pair.

The group has said that they will fight the unconstitutional gag order on the remaining Planned Parenthood videos which they call “damning and incriminating.”

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Confronted On Globalist Carbon Tax, Called A ‘Scumbag’ (VIDEO)

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a last minute stop in Winnipeg to promote his childcare agenda at a YMCA daycare on March 29th. After a photo-op with a bunch of children, the kids were moved out of the room alongside Trudeau, only to return a few minutes later to take questions from the press.

I was granted a media pass to the event, waited patiently for a few hours and was not allowed to ask a question at the microphone. So, I took it into my own hands and between questions, I loudly asked my question for the Prime Minister to hear from a mere 5 feet away. The media was being pre-screened for questions and no real questions were being asked.

I confronted Trudeau on the carbon tax, which will not only be a tax on everything as companies are forced to raise their prices which affects everyone’s wallet, but it also forces impoverished families, especially in rural communities, to choose between heating their home and buying groceries in the winter.

It will bankrupt companies who export goods and puts Canada at a huge disadvantage when it comes to competition.

This all goes back to Maurice Strong and Norway’s Gro Harlem Brundtland, who pushed forward the first climate change depopulation agendas back in the 1970s.

Today, under the United Nations’ Agenda 2030, there is an organized globalist push to completely destroy any fossil fuel industries, depopulate the world, and tax everyone on their carbon footprint, which is in the negative on average in Canada.

Canada’s carbon output only makes up for about 2% of the global footprint. The carbon tax will simply make it impossible for Canadian companies to compete against businesses in foreign countries and puts a stop on small business competition as major corporations continue to be monopolized by the state.

I’ve done several videos in the past on Canada’s carbon tax.

You can see one here:

I was pulled out of the room as I continued to ask Trudeau questions and got no answers, so I decided to call him out for the true globalist puppet he is. I called Trudeau a scumbag followed by saying “Shame on you and your globalist counterparts!”

The event was highly publicized in the media as the mainstream media did a bang-up job of copying and pasting the original article in the Huffington Post, CTV, CBC, Global, City News and others. In fact, Canadian state-run CBC edited their footage to make it seem as though I’d called Trudeau a scumbag while four year old children were present which is absolutely false.

They all left out the fact that I had questioned Trudeau extensively for minutes before calling him a scumbag and simply claimed that he “claimed to be a member of World Alternative Media”.

Clearly they didn’t do two seconds of due diligence. They would have seen that I’m rather well known across Canada and parts of the United States as the founder of World Alternative Media, but that after all is why the mainstream media is dying.

While I usually wouldn’t call someone a scumbag during a confrontation, watching the Prime Minister arrogantly smirk as he posed for a scripted photo-op with children, then claim he cared about those in poverty boiled my blood. Knowing the high quantity of people starving due to the carbon tax or being forced to move from their rural bankrupt communities to the city while he falsely pretends he’s standing up for the environment all while getting support from the top oil companies and lobbies is truly sickening. As I got manhandled by security, I had to get one last jab in.

Of course, that’s how the mainstream media reported it and it’s to be expected. With that said, I regret nothing.

This was the second time I’d successfully confronted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. I’d confronted him two days before the 2015 election on Bill C-51 which much like the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act, considers all people who openly protest government as “suspected terrorists” and with that, allows the government to arrest people and search their homes without a warrant.

This dramatically opposes the natural individual liberties one is born with. Canada is quickly turning into a cesspool of collectivism. It’s quickly becoming an Orwellian police state as well as a nanny state. Free speech is stifled. Opposition is censored. Debt is abundant and subsidization is blowing sky-high. Corporations are being monopolized by heavy regulations and the poor are getting poorer.

Oh, and for the Americans reading this, no, marijuana is not legal. When it is indeed legal, it’ll simply be another cash grab by the government which will inflate prices and hand most of the industry over to the government. Kind of like taking away your right and giving it back at a price. That’s not a right, that’s the government saying “Let them eat cake!”

I’ve confronted many of the government’s cabinet in the past and have led similar efforts against former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. This is simply about consistency, truth and individual liberty.

Confronting the Minister of Finance Bill Morneau on selling off all of Canada’s gold and creating a global currency the week before he attended Bilderberg:

 

Confronting the Minister of Defense on arming ISIS and supporting Saudi Arabia with weapons:

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SHOCK VIDEO: Georgia Councilman Arrested On Child Sex Charges

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Former Roswell city councilman Kent Igleheart was arrested this week after accusations of having a physical relationship with a 16-year-old girl, which reportedly started when she was 14.

Igleheart resigned from a position he held for 15 years last November, right after the allegations started coming to light.

Kent Igleheart’s personal profile for his councilman job is still active online and shows that he had a wife during the time when he was allegedly committing statutory rape on a minor. He was also an aspiring professional actor who had “been in more than fifty movies and TV shows” including a feature film and for a TV show on Discovery Channel.

He had previously called for increased gentrification of apartments in his district and was a self-proclaimed conservative.

Local District Attorney Sherry Boston said, “Initially the case was opened because the young victim in this case made an outcry about the sexual relationship.”

For victims of sexual abuse, take note – it is always best to report it.

Police say that the relationship between Igleheart and the minor started online, and eventually turned into a sexual relationship. Locals were furious to hear the reports of the story. As one man said in an interview with reporters, “they should lock him up and throw away the key.”

Another local resident said that “a city leader is someone who should be setting an example, and what kind of example does that set for trust?” A friend of Igleheart said that she was “stunned” and that he had “always been there for us.”

After Igleheart was arrested, police reportedly asked whether or not he sexually exploited a minor. He apparently utilized his right to silence and didn’t answer any questions.

Igleheart will be facing charges of sexual exploitation of a minor, enticing a minor, and furnishing alcohol to a minor. The judge set his bond at $30,000, and police have requested that anyone who knows of any other potential victims in this case to come forward.

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