BOOM! Barack Obama Made a slip of the tongue in Kenya, stating he is from there

We will see how long this stays up. He slipped his tongue admitting in Kenya that he is from there and there is still a hush hush about his speech in Kenya. Media for propaganda at your service.

Why #Seth Rich Was Killed, 2313

This is a great interview. Keep independent news alive

Annapolis Capital Gazette Journalist Killing Editorial

By Susan Robens-Brannon

June 30, 2018

Ode to five fine journalists

I am deeply saddened for the five lives lost at the newsroom Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis, Md. These lives are, Gerald Fischman, 61, Rob Hiaasen, 59, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith 34, and Wendi Winters, 65.

As a reporter for a small-town print newspaper and this shooting hit close to home. Most small-town reporters do not get wealthy from our work, we do it because it is our passion. It is our passion to inform the community about what is going on, the new business, the possible new development in town, the 100-year-old birthday celebration and music in the streets. We report on local crime, arrests and possible corruption in the government. 

The small-town newspaper is not fake-news, it is as close as you can get to real news, we work under high ethical guidelines and double-check our facts. We work long hours and fight for print news hoping that it will not die. Where else can you get local news in one place?

The paper did its job, they reported on a person, Jarrod Ramos, with evidence of harassing women over social media, in court he pleaded guilty. Reporting on this, is not a crime, it is the news. We report on sex crimes all of the time, we report on drug arrests, and we report on murders. These facts are not defamation, but admitted, found guilty or brought into charge and public information. We report on these issues all of the time, it is normal and responsible.

It is said that Ramos made threats in 2013, a detective investigated the threats and the paper decided not to pursue criminal charges because it may exacerbate the situation. Ramos then took the issue to court and lost his round of appeals in 2016, claiming that he had been wronged by the paper. From 2011 to early 2016, Ramos waged war through social media, he tweeted 149 times at the Gazette’s official account, he mentioned the columnists Eric Hartley 201 times and a dozen named the newspaper’s former editor, Thomas Marquardt. Ramos mentioned that he would enjoy if the paper would cease publication, but nicer if both Hartley and Marquardt cease breathing in 2015.

Could the paper had done something different to prevent this brutal and hateful killing of its employees? Would the Capital Gazette have paid for an office security guard? What are the boundaries before taking preventative action as a reporter? I know that my newspaper would not spend the extra money on a security guard, even if threats continued for years. The small-town paper is working hard to stay afloat, or at least that is what they tell us. That is another story.

I can only be reminded of a time when I was reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and received death threats. I took them seriously. I changed my publication name and used a pseudo name, kept my whereabouts unknown by changing my IP address often. It seemed to have worked, I am alive. One time, I even moved when the threats increased in both demeanor and became daily.

The problem is that it is difficult to know where to draw the line for safety as journalist. Do we just brush it off and say they will get over it as we think most people would? In America, we might get jailed for reporting on a protest, but we normally do not concern ourselves with getting shot. 

The mainstream news will make this all about gun control, once again. They take any gun event and blow it out of proportion, ignoring the fact that our moral fiber has been disintegrating for years. It is the fiber of our society that we should be concerned about, not gun control. 

It is the increased stress that Americans are under, and the 1% that control the 99% causing economic inequity, it is the non-livable wages, lack of time off, lack of medical benefits and the high cost of medicine causing hard working Americans to sell their homes when things go wrong to pay the medical bills. It is the fear of our lives being compromised, losing our jobs, working more hours for less pay and isolation due to social media and television. It is these things that are causing more than 24 percent of American who live under extreme stress. Eight in 10 American’s suffer from stress. Seven people every 2 seconds die from stress every year worldwide, that is 110 million people and that was 2013 data. This number of deaths more than that from guns.

Ramos was stressed. Stress leads to all kinds of negative physical symptoms, panic attacks, anxiety, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, fears, phobias, ulcers, overeating, smoking, alcohol and drug use. Ramos lost it. Stress causes anxiety, and anxiety can lead to violence and aggressive behavior in some people. Ramos did a bad thing, he messed up and as a result lost his job. He felt bullied because although he pleaded guilty, he did not take responsibility for what he did. He felt powerless. 

The paper missed the signs. The continual threats and harassment of the paper and the lashing out reflected that Ramos was at a breaking point. He was both angry and stressed and that is a toxic combination. Again, I say it is not the gun, it is the person behind the gun that is the concern. We in the journalist world has lost comrades due to the moth holes in the moral tapestry that once held our country together. I pray for their families, I pray for their loved ones, I pray for those who are still alive at the paper and I pray for America.

Man is this blog old but still used!

So funny how old my blogs are, I started when blogging first started and just kept going. I hope you don't mind the old, standard format. I've no time to re-invent the wheel and export and re-import all of the hundreds of articles in my blogs. I've always asked for volunteers, but never find any...really. You know, I was one of the first people on this planet to "blog" before blogging, these already formatted templates came into existence. I was also one of the "first" independent news folks covering on the Middle East crisis with my own silly HTML formatted pages, typed, each link designed, each page and the "tree" generated through dreamweaver.  wow. Times have changed and I still have no time.
Anyone want to help me put all of this together, one blog and website into something a bit more...modern?
Oh, just to help keep history alive and documented, you know.
I also have thousands of slides, film, and images on CD's that need to be "updated" onto something.
Oh, if independents like myself, only had a trust fund.
Thanks for reading my vent and rant. It's a dream.
Shalom,
Susan Brannon

Gaza suicide crisis: 'We're dead already'

When you take away hope, and squash the future and try to destroy the soul, this is what you get. Is this justice? Can you honestly answer that question?

Petition: Palestinian Lives Matter!

Israeli troops just killed 60 unarmed protesters, and shot 1300 more. 1300. They do it *gleefully.
and shot 1300 more. Israel is now led by one of the most brutally racist regimes on the planet -- it's time for the world to declare that Palestinian lives matter, and rally behind sanctions on Israel: 

It's a massacre -- another installment in 50 years of brutal racist military repression of the Palestinian people.

Other states have faced sanctions for far less. Sanctions on South Africa helped free its black people, it’s time for the world to rally behind sanctions on Israel to free the Palestinians:

Sign the Petition: Palestinian Lives Matter! 

Israel has marched steadily away from reason and peace and towards the far right. A member of Parliament called for the beating of Ahed Tamimi, the young Palestinian girl who slapped a soldier after her cousin got shot in the face -- and the Defence Minister himself threatened punishing her entire family!

Israel’s military claims the protests were an invasion organized by Hamas, and that a few of the marchers were armed. These claims are disputed by Palestinian and international civil society and Israel has regularly lied to justify its actions. But even if they were true, why were 1300 people shot, hundreds of meters inside the fence? And why with live ammunition?!

And with Israel controlling the air and dug in behind fortifications, often with miles of empty desert behind them, what actual threat did the crowd possibly pose?! The Israeli regime’s hysterical fear and victimhood knows no bounds, and justifies any cruelty.

Gaza is actually the world’s largest open air prison, cut off and denied necessities for years by Israel. That’s the desperation that forced people to risk their lives in protest. But when the prisoners dared to approach their prison walls, their jailers shot them like fish in a barrel from safe perches hundreds of meters away.

Israel’s many enablers will knee-jerk accuse Avaaz and our many Jewish staff and leadership of hating Jews. But our team and our members love the Jewish people, as we love all people. The Holocaust was real, the Jewish community has long been horrifically oppressed and still faces anti-Semitism worldwide.

Many of those who founded Israel wanted it to be a beacon of a better way. But their vision has been betrayed, and Israel has come to be led by a brutally racist and repressive regime -- it deserves the world’s condemnation. Not just in words, but action:

Palestinian Lives Matter - Sanction Israel! 

Virtually every other tool has been tried, for decades, to encourage the Israeli regime to treat Palestinians better, and they just keep treating them worse. Targeted sanctions, covering things like Israeli blood diamonds, a boycott on arms sales (Israel sells weapons to some of the world's most brutal regimes) as well tech and cultural sanctions (like banning Israel from sporting events and the Eurovision song contest) may finally affect the calculus of the regime.

Two of the most dishonest and dangerous leaders in the world today are Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Like extremists everywhere, they dream of a world where sensible people lose their judgment and are pulled into two warring camps, one of which is led by them. Let’s show them it won’t work -- that ordinary people won’t be sucked into their hate and propaganda, and that we can still see racism and brutality for what it is, and respond. That they can’t take our humanity from us, and we won’t let them succeed in taking freedom and dignity from the Palestinian people.  

Link to news video: The Independent

The Guardian view on Gaza shootings: stop killing unarmed civilians (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/14/the-guardian-view-on-gaza-shootings-stop-killing-unarmed-civilians 

How are Palestinians reacting to the US embassy in jerusalem and violence in gaza (CBS)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-are-palestinians-reacting-to-the-u-s-embassy-in-jerusalem-and-violence-in-gaza/ 

It's Not a 'Hamas March' in Gaza. It's Tens of Thousands Willing to Die (Haaretz)
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-to-call-gaza-protests-hamas-march-understates-their-significance-1.6091833

Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated (Human Rights Watch)
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/03/israel-gaza-killings-unlawful-calculated

Peace and Safety - American Embassy what's going on?

AP Photo

This is happening everywhere, it is time that someone stood up. Even my newspaper has been cutting people out. Imagine going from 73 journalists to 10, just imagine the workload or from 45 to 12. This is done anymore for profit and okay profit is okay..but at what expense? This compromises the integrity of the news, its workers and the people who read the news.  Mr. Alden, an investor who could care less about journalism integrity, made $160 million profit last year while the journalist become article mills with half-information, rushed deadlines and no breaks due to the cutbacks. It's called slavery and starvation for those who actually want to report well, real news.  Articles are in reality paper fillers to make an excuse for advertising and nothing more.  It's not about news, it's about profit.  Keep on keeping on Folks who work for Mr. Alden!  Read all about it below

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/13/denver-post-profits-newspaper-industry-218360

Sign petition to save the bees....please

And pass it on. The EU just banned pesticides that are killing the bees for two years because of this petition, now we are moving to take the fight to America and Canada.  Bayer, who bought Monsanto is fighting hard and using all kinds of propaganda. They have a ton of money. It is their livelihood.  Imagine a medical research company and medicine maker buying a company that makes products that actually kills bees, and in the end ....us.  Please sign.. click below.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees_global_nm_sh/?copy

You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media | T...

Turn off your phone at night, get a battery alarm clock. Don't look at tv, internet,computers or phone 30 minutes before you go to bed and 30 minutes after you wake up.  Believe me, you will sleep better.

The fire at Holy Sepecular in Jerusalem... (2018-2019)

This happens every year. I am surprised that Israel covered this in their news.

Trey Gowdy Great talk

We have our laws for a reason, it is for a check in congress and the house. Forget the title, but the speech is great. We must uphold our laws for justice instead of power.

Breakup The Silicon Valley Tech Empire , 2099

Four big tech companies smoother small companies and they control digital news.  There are anti-trust laws that are not in force.  Monasany, not monoply. They need to be broken up. companies go back into their pockets.  What will motivate congress to do anything if Google is the biggest lobbyist.

Bombshell Report - Vegas Massacre Was Everything We Thought, And More, 2095

The truth will always come out.

#Seth Rich's Parents - He Was the Leaker, 2080

the purchase of #Sky News will create even more unbalanced news, with high control to meld the minds of the people and why #FOX did not talk about the update of #Sethrich

#Surveillance System is Already #Tracking Your Every...

#Google patents camera's used to sell things to you from watching you...in addition to their phones..that is already going on, and you know the internet.

(2018) DID YOU TAKE THE #RED PILL? #GunControl WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD

This video says it like it is, truth versus #propaganda and #lies fed to the #American citizens in the attempt to take away, our National #righttobeararms our civil right, the right to defend ourselves from those including government that overthrows our Nation. That is why that right is in there, to protect us from corrupt government.  #Hollywood made a video for #anti-gun control, to take away our #guns. But they are hypocrites. They say, #enough they say we should have done something a long time ago, while they act and make millions on increased violence and killings with what?....That's right...guns. Making the shooter look like a hero, defending the #good from the bad, blood spurs out of people's bodies and mouths and ears, multiple shots are fired with a smile.  #Hollywood? really? Yes, I agree YOU should have done something about it a long time ago.

#DNC - #Rigging Democrat Primaries is Now OK!, 2076

#RiggingDemocraticPrimaries is now okay according to the DNC. Really?

#Fukushima Update and #Radiation testing

Fukushima radiation testing, 50 miles outside of the blow area. #Foodscarcity #Radiated #Fish



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#Mueller and His Sad Handmaid #Rosenstein Dump This Pathetic 37-Page Indic...

#Muellerindictment explained for those who can't see reality for themselves. It is not illegal to be for a candidate who is running for office...by the way...it is not illegal for  a Russian to be for a candidate in another country. It is not illegal to express those thoughts on social media by the way...indictments against someone doing this? Really? Are you next? Can we now as in myself also not say that this is silly with millions and years spent on this? Are We going to get arrested too? Did they indite #Facebook for allowing these fake advertisements on their site? hum? scratch scratch. There is nothing here that shows Trump was involved at all, so...one can ask who was behind it?  Who lied to the FBI? #Rosenstein? Oh My!



Where was the #FBI with the #Florida shooting? Why do we have the FBI anyway? They have been caught with their pants down so to speak, lying (#Comey) ignoring citizens who report a possible problem, known for selling guns and drugs...to catch the people? hum. scratch scratch