Why are so many bankers committing suicide?

“Three bankers in New York, London and Siena, Italy, died within 17 months of each other in 2013-14 in what authorities deemed a series of unrelated suicides. But in each case, the victim had a connection to a burgeoning global banking scandal, leaving more questions than answers as to the circumstances surrounding their deaths.”

http://nypost.com/article/why-are-so-many-bankers-committing-suicide/

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India’s Cash Ban Leaves At Least 47 Dead, So Far

“Eight days into demonetisation, the death toll has reached 47. These are confirmed deaths reported in the national media. The number of unreported deaths may be higher. While most deaths are of the elderly waiting in long bank queues, there are quite a few suicides, especially of housewives.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/16/day-8-demonetisation-death-toll-rises-to-47/

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Trump Attorney General: “Good People Don’t Smoke Marijuana”

“But in recent years, [Jeff Sessions has] repeatedly said he views cannabis to be a dangerous substance and has decried efforts to legalize it.  During confirmation hearings for the current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, Sessions grilled her about pot legalization and seemed reassured to hear that she wasn’t in favor of it.  The Alabama senator also took part in a forum in which he expressed anger and frustration at the decision of the Obama administration not to enforce federal bans on marijuana in Colorado and other places that had legalized it. During the gathering, he was quoted as saying, ‘Good people don’t smoke marijuana.'”

http://www.westword.com/news/ag-nom-jeff-sessions-thought-kkk-was-okay-until-he-learned-they-smoked-pot-8515997

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Big Brother Trump Is Watching

“Trump’s proposed national security adviser, General Michael Flynn thinks the Patriot Act didn’t go far enough. Like Pompeo, he is on record as favoring a dramatic expansion of domestic surveillance. If FBI Director James Comey stays on under Trump, he will finally get his wish to expand ‘general warrant’ electronic searches, warrantless wiretapping, national security letters and other constitutional sidestepping.  And don’t expect any help from the Justice Department. Proposed Attorney General Jeff Sessions is also resolutely anti-privacy, on the grounds of our ‘safety.'”

http://thesovereigninvestor.com/privacy-invasion/big-brother-trump-watching/

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Trump’s CIA Director Wants to Return to a Pre-Snowden World

Earlier this year, Mike Pompeo laid out a road map for expanding surveillance:

Congress should pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database. Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed. That includes Presidential Policy Directive-28, which bestows privacy rights on foreigners and imposes burdensome requirements to justify data collection.

He also said that using strong encryption for personal communication ‘may itself be a red flag,’ suggesting that good security practices could invite government scrutiny under his watch.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/trumps-cia-director-wants-to-return-to-a-pre-snowden-world/508136/

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Trump Adviser Accidentally Leaks His Own Homeland Security Plan

“There is a certain irony in the fact that Trump’s rumored frontrunner to lead the Department of Homeland Security just leaked what appears to be his homeland security plan.  The first item, ‘Bar the Entry of Potential Terrorists,’ calls for the reinstatement of National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), a controversial post-9/11 program that required men over 16 years entering the United States from roughly two dozen countries deemed at ‘high risk’ for terrorism to be registered.  There appear to be additional references to the wall Trump has promised to build along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Patriot Act, and the National Voter Registration Act.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/kris-kobach-homeland-security-plan

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Trump and Putin: Big War or Little Deal?

“Trump and Putin now have an opportunity to change course.  Within the first 90 days after Trump’s inauguration, they have a chance to halt the downward spiral in U.S.-Russian relations, avert a massive arms race, save trillions of dollars in military budgets over the next decade, and, most important, reverse the frightening march to war.  I do not say this lightly. This scenario is possible.”

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/trump-putin-big-war-little-deal-83125

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IRS Declares War on Bitcoin Privacy, Sues Coinbase

“Anecdotes and online braggadocio about tax avoidance are not a reasonable basis to believe that all Coinbase users are tax cheats whose financial lives should be opened to IRS investigators and the hackers looking over their shoulders. There must be some specific information about particular users, or else the IRS is seeking a general warrant, which the Fourth Amendment denies it the power to do.”

https://fee.org/articles/the-irs-just-declared-war-on-bitcoin-privacy/

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Will Facebook Also Battle Fake News From CIA, Military-Industrial Complex?

An article in The Daily Bell notes that CNN — one of the mainstream news outlets covering Facebook and Google’s recent announcements to begin blacklisting publishers of material deemed to be ‘fake news’ — was itself under fire for pro-government censorship as recently as 2013.  Its staff had investigated and produced an exposé of the US-backed Bahraini government’s human rights abuses, but the documentary was suppressed by CNN, which had sold advertising spots to the Bahraini government’s economic development arm.

After an acrimonious 2016 election, the assertion has lingered that a majority of US voters in a majority of states chose Trump for US president only because they were misinformed on the Internet and did not pay enough attention to the mainstream media’s perspective.  The solution is therefore seen as for tech companies, who overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, to eliminate the economic incentive to produce material that a sufficient number of user accounts react with disagreement towards.

However, history provides reason for skepticism towards the motives behind the tech companies’ new anti-‘fake news’ initiative, since with its announcement comes no audible acknowledgement of the fake news and sock-puppet personas that the US government and Deep State insiders have planted in the media over the past two generations.

From Wikipedia:

Operation Mockingbird was a campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles, and was later led by Frank Wisner after Dulles became the head of the CIA. The organization recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network to help present the CIA’s views. It funded some student and cultural organizations and magazines as fronts. As it developed, it also worked to influence foreign media and political campaigns, in addition to activities by other operating units of the CIA. The CIA’s use of journalists continued unabated until 1973, when the program was scaled back, finally coming to a halt in 1976 when George H.W. Bush took over as director.

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The usual methodology was placing reports developed from intelligence provided by the CIA to witting or unwitting reporters. Those reports would then be repeated or cited by the preceding reporters which in turn would then be cited throughout the media wire services.

In 2005, the Pentagon paid millions of dollars to plant fake news in Iraqi newspapers.

In 2008, a network of shadowy “military analysts” was exposed for a quid-pro-quo scheme that “generated favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance”:

To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.

Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air.

Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and sometimes not even to the networks themselves. But collectively, the men on the plane and several dozen other military analysts represent more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants. The companies include defense heavyweights, but also scores of smaller companies, all part of a vast assemblage of contractors scrambling for hundreds of billions in military business generated by the administration’s war on terror. It is a furious competition, one in which inside information and easy access to senior officials are highly prized.

Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse — an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks.

Analysts have been wooed in hundreds of private briefings with senior military leaders, including officials with significant influence over contracting and budget matters, records show. They have been taken on tours of Iraq and given access to classified intelligence. They have been briefed by officials from the White House, State Department and Justice Department, including Mr. Cheney, Alberto R. Gonzales and Stephen J. Hadley.

In turn, members of this group have echoed administration talking points, sometimes even when they suspected the information was false or inflated. Some analysts acknowledge they suppressed doubts because they feared jeopardizing their access.

A few expressed regret for participating in what they regarded as an effort to dupe the American public with propaganda dressed as independent military analysis.

In 2008, the Pentagon announced that it was setting up foreign news websites designed to look like independent media sources.

In 2010, former CIA officials admitted to having created a fake Osama bin Laden video for propaganda purposes.

In 2011, a project was launched by the US military to “secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.”

In 2012, USA Today reporters investigating waste, fraud and abuse in a Pentagon propaganda program suddenly found themselves targeted by a smear campaign involving “fake websites, Facebook and Twitter accounts and Wikipedia entries”. In 2014, Glenn Greenwald and NBC News published files from the Edward Snowden leaks showing that Western intelligence agencies provide training to “discredit a target” online:

Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums.

In 2014, a Freedom of Information Act request brought emails from 2012 to light that demonstrated that “a prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication”.

In 2016, it was reported that the U.S. government had paid a British PR firm over $500 million to create fake al-Qaida videos as well as “fake news stories that looked as though they were produced by Arab media outlets”.

For more revelations and historical background on the relationship between the Deep State and the mainstream media, see the following links:

The mainstream media outlets lamenting ‘fake news’ on the internet cannot escape the visibility the internet has placed on their ownership arrangements: after all, just six companies control the vast majority of content viewed by Americans, and are in an unprecedentedly powerful position to shape opinion:

Unless Facebook and Google place the same sanctions on state-sponsored propaganda as they will place on private-sector ‘fake news’, the unfortunate conclusion to be drawn is that these policies are designed to favor state messaging and disfavor the revisionism, opposing views, and even unsubstantiated gossip that, taken together, fully inform public discourse.

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Hate Crimes, Hoaxes, and Hyperbole

“While the public expression of nativist, racist, sexist, or anti-LGBT sentiments may have experienced a post-election upswing, incidents of actual altercations or attacks have still been very rare.  Several of the most prominent early reports of Trump-inspired violence against people of color were later admitted to be fabrications or directly contradicted by police statements. Pointing this out seems to really anger people.”

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/18/election-hate-crimes-hoaxes-hyperbole

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