Almost EVERYTHING we have been told (and are still being told) are lies . . . the sooner that humanity admits that it has been duped, the sooner something gets done about it . . .
{ here is some information that we all should take note: remember the NDAA that was passed in recent years and reapproved each year? Things are not hunky-dory, imo . . Part of the magic spell that is cast is the amazing illusion world that is presented to us, day by day . . .everything is fine, right? It really is fairly obvious to me after several years of trying to figure out ways to convince people that the world we live in is not real . .
my only advice right now is IF/WHEN you hear about the next huge event that "might" be a False Flag, be ready . .
on the other side of the coin, it does seem to me that much/most of their tricks haven't been working very well for them lately, like ebola, war in Syria, etc . . maybe that will continue, as long as you and more and more people see through the tricks . . our job is to continue helping others see, no matter if we get laughed at or spit in our face as a result }
While US military and intelligence interrogation impacted people
overseas, Homan Square – said to house military-style vehicles and even a
cage – focuses on American citizens, most often poor, black and brown.
‘When you go in,’ Brian Jacob Church told the Guardian, ‘nobody knows
what happened to you.’ Video: Phil Batta for the Guardian; editing: Mae
Ryan
The Chicago
police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound,
rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while
locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black
site.
The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as
Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special
police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who
spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights.
Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases.
Beating by police, resulting in head wounds.
Shackling for prolonged periods.
Denying attorneys access to the “secure” facility.
Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15.
At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room” and later pronounced dead.
Brian Jacob Church, a protester known as one of the “Nato Three”, was
held and questioned at Homan Square in 2012 following a police raid.
Officers restrained Church for the better part of a day, denying him
access to an attorney, before sending him to a nearby police station to
be booked and charged.
“Homan Square is definitely an unusual place,” Church told the
Guardian on Friday. “It brings to mind the interrogation facilities they
use in the Middle East. The CIA calls them black sites. It’s a domestic
black site. When you go in, no one knows what’s happened to you.”
The secretive warehouse is the latest example of Chicago police
practices that echo the much-criticized detention abuses of the US war
on terrorism. While those abuses impacted people overseas, Homan Square –
said to house military-style vehicles, interrogation cells and even a
cage – trains its focus on Americans, most often poor, black and brown.
Unlike a precinct, no one taken to Homan Square is said to be booked.
Witnesses, suspects or other Chicagoans who end up inside do not appear
to have a public, searchable record entered into a database indicating
where they are, as happens when someone is booked at a precinct. Lawyers
and relatives insist there is no way of finding their whereabouts.
Those lawyers who have attempted to gain access to Homan Square are most
often turned away, even as their clients remain in custody inside.
“It’s sort of an open secret among attorneys that regularly make
police station visits, this place – if you can’t find a client in the
system, odds are they’re there,” said Chicago lawyer Julia Bartmes.
Chicago civil-rights attorney Flint Taylor said Homan Square
represented a routinization of a notorious practice in local police work
that violates the fifth and sixth amendments of the constitution.
“This Homan Square revelation seems to me to be an
institutionalization of the practice that dates back more than 40
years,” Taylor said, “of violating a suspect or witness’ rights to a
lawyer and not to be physically or otherwise coerced into giving a
statement.”
Much remains hidden about Homan Square. The Chicago police department
did not respond to the Guardian’s questions about the facility. But
after the Guardian published this story, the department provided a
statement insisting, without specifics, that there is nothing untoward
taking place at what it called the “sensitive” location, home to
undercover units.
“CPD [Chicago police department] abides by all laws, rules and
guidelines pertaining to any interviews of suspects or witnesses, at
Homan Square or any other CPD facility. If lawyers have a client
detained at Homan Square, just like any other facility, they are allowed
to speak to and visit them. It also houses CPD’s Evidence Recovered
Property Section, where the public is able to claim inventoried
property,” the statement said, something numerous attorneys and one
Homan Square arrestee have denied.
“There are always records of anyone who is arrested by CPD, and this is not any different at Homan Square,” it continued.
The Chicago police statement did not address how long into an arrest
or detention those records are generated or their availability to the
public. A department spokesperson did not respond to a detailed request
for clarification.
When a Guardian reporter arrived at the warehouse on Friday, a man at
the gatehouse outside refused any entrance and would not answer
questions. “This is a secure facility. You’re not even supposed to be
standing here,” said the man, who refused to give his name.
A former Chicago police superintendent and a more recently retired
detective, both of whom have been inside Homan Square in the last few
years in a post-police capacity, said the police department did not
operate out of the warehouse until the late 1990s.
But in detailing episodes involving their clients over the past
several years, lawyers described mad scrambles that led to the closed
doors of Homan Square, a place most had never heard of previously. The
facility was even unknown to Rob Warden, the founder of Northwestern
University Law School’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, until the
Guardian informed him of the allegations of clients who vanish into
inherently coercive police custody.
“They just disappear,” said Anthony Hill, a criminal defense
attorney, “until they show up at a district for charging or are just
released back out on the street.”
‘Never going to see the light of day’: the search for the Nato Three, the head wound, the worried mom and the dead man
‘They were held incommunicado for much longer than I think should be
permitted in this country – anywhere – but particularly given the strong
constitutional rights afforded to people who are being charged with
crimes,” said Sarah Gelsomino, the lawyer for Brian Jacob Church.
Photograph: Phil Batta/Guardian
Jacob Church learned about Homan Square the hard way. On May 16 2012,
he and 11 others were taken there after police infiltrated their
protest against the Nato summit. Church says officers cuffed him to a
bench for an estimated 17 hours, intermittently interrogating him
without reading his Miranda rights to remain silent. It would take
another three hours – and an unusual lawyer visit through a wire cage –
before he was finally charged with terrorism-related offenses at the
nearby 11th district station, where he was made to sign papers,
fingerprinted and photographed.
In preparation for the Nato protest, Church, who is from Florida, had
written a phone number for the National Lawyers Guild on his arm as a
precautionary measure. Once taken to Homan Square, Church asked
explicitly to call his lawyers, and said he was denied.
“Essentially, I wasn’t allowed to make any contact with anybody,”
Church told the Guardian, in contradiction of a police guidance on
permitting phone calls and legal counsel to arrestees.
Church’s left wrist was cuffed to a bar behind a bench in windowless
cinderblock cell, with his ankles cuffed together. He remained in those
restraints for about 17 hours.
“I had essentially figured, ‘All right, well, they disappeared us and
so we’re probably never going to see the light of day again,’” Church
said.
Brian Jacob Church, Jared Chase and Brent Vincent Betterly, known as the
‘Nato Three’. Photograph: AP/Cook County sheriff's office
Though the raid attracted major media attention, a team of attorneys
could not find Church through 12 hours of “active searching”, Sarah
Gelsomino, Church’s lawyer, recalled. No booking record existed. Only
after she and others made a “major stink” with contacts in the offices
of the corporation counsel and Mayor Rahm Emanuel did they even learn
about Homan Square.
They sent another attorney to the facility, where he ultimately
gained entry, and talked to Church through a floor-to-ceiling chain-link
metal cage. Finally, hours later, police took Church and his two
co-defendants to a nearby police station for booking.
After serving two and a half years in prison, Church is currently on parole after he and his co-defendants were found not guilty in 2014 of terrorism-related offenses but guilty of lesser charges of possessing an incendiary device and the misdemeanor of “mob action”.
The access that Nato Three attorneys received to Homan Square was an
exception to the rule, even if Jacob Church’s experience there was not.
Three attorneys interviewed by the Guardian report being personally
turned away from Homan Square between 2009 and 2013 without being
allowed access to their clients. Two more lawyers who hadn’t been
physically denied described it as a place where police withheld
information about their clients’ whereabouts. Church was the only person
who had been detained at the facility who agreed to talk with the
Guardian: their lawyers say others fear police retaliation.
One man in January 2013 had his name changed in the Chicago central
bookings database and then taken to Homan Square without a record of his
transfer being kept, according to Eliza Solowiej of Chicago’s First
Defense Legal Aid. (The man, the Guardian understands, wishes to be
anonymous; his current attorney declined to confirm Solowiej’s account.)
She found out where he was after he was taken to the hospital with a
head injury.
“He said that the officers caused his head injuries in an
interrogation room at Homan Square. I had been looking for him for six
to eight hours, and every department member I talked to said they had
never heard of him,” Solowiej said. “He sent me a phone pic of his head
injuries because I had seen him in a police station right before he was
transferred to Homan Square without any.”
Bartmes, another Chicago attorney, said that in September 2013 she
got a call from a mother worried that her 15-year-old son had been
picked up by police before dawn. A sympathetic sergeant followed up with
the mother to say her son was being questioned at Homan Square in
connection to a shooting and would be released soon. When hours passed,
Bartmes traveled to Homan Square, only to be refused entry for nearly an
hour.
An officer told her, “Well, you can’t just stand here taking notes,
this is a secure facility, there are undercover officers, and you’re
making people very nervous,” Bartmes recalled. Told to leave, she said
she would return in an hour if the boy was not released. He was home,
and not charged, after “12, maybe 13” hours in custody.
On February 2, 2013, John Hubbard was taken to Homan Square. Hubbard
never walked out. The Chicago Tribune reported that the 44-year old was
found “unresponsive inside an interview room”,
and pronounced dead. After publication, the Cook County medical
examiner told the Guardian that the cause of death was determined to be
heroin intoxication.
Homan Square is hardly concerned exclusively with terrorism. Several
special units operate outside of it, including the anti-gang and
anti-drug forces. If police “want money, guns, drugs”, or information on
the flow of any of them onto Chicago’s streets, “they bring them there
and use it as a place of interrogation off the books,” Hill said.
‘That scares the hell out of me’: a throwback to Chicago police abuse with a post-9/11 feel
‘The real danger in allowing practices like Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib is
the fact that they always creep into other aspects,’ criminologist Tracy
Siska told the Guardian. Photograph: Chandler West/Guardian
A former Chicago detective and current private investigator, Bill
Dorsch, said he had not heard of the police abuses described by Church
and lawyers for other suspects who had been taken to Homan Square. He
has been permitted access to the facility to visit one of its main
features, an evidence locker for the police department. (“I just showed
my retirement star and passed through,” Dorsch said.)
Transferring detainees through police custody to deny them access to
legal counsel, would be “a career-ender,” Dorsch said. “To move just for
the purpose of hiding them, I can’t see that happening,” he told the
Guardian.
Richard Brzeczek, Chicago’s police superintendent from 1980 to 1983,
who also said he had no first-hand knowledge of abuses at Homan Square,
said it was “never justified” to deny access to attorneys.
“Homan Square should be on the same list as every other facility
where you can call central booking and say: ‘Can you tell me if this
person is in custody and where,’” Brzeczek said.
“If you’re going to be doing this, then you have to include Homan
Square on the list of facilities that prisoners are taken into and a
record made. It can’t be an exempt facility.”
Indeed, Chicago police guidelines appear to ban the sorts of practices Church and the lawyers said occur at Homan Square.
A directive titled “Processing Persons Under Department Control”
instructs that “investigation or interrogation of an arrestee will not
delay the booking process,” and arrestees must be allowed “a reasonable
number of telephone calls” to attorneys swiftly “after their arrival at
the first place of custody.” Another directive, “Arrestee and In-Custody Communications,” says police supervisors must “allow visitation by attorneys.”
Attorney Scott Finger said that the Chicago police tightened the
latter directive in 2012 after quiet complaints from lawyers about their
lack of access to Homan Square. Without those changes, Church’s
attorneys might not have gained entry at all. But that tightening –
about a week before Church’s arrest – did not prevent Church’s prolonged
detention without a lawyer, nor the later cases where lawyers were
unable to enter.
The combination of holding clients for long periods, while concealing
their whereabouts and denying access to a lawyer, struck legal experts
as a throwback to the worst excesses of Chicago police abuse, with a
post-9/11 feel to it.
On a smaller scale, Homan Square is “analogous to the CIA’s black
sites,” said Andrea Lyon, a former Chicago public defender and current
dean of Valparaiso University Law School. When she practiced law in
Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s, she said, “police used the term ‘shadow
site’” to refer to the quasi-disappearances now in place at Homan
Square.
“Back when I first started working on torture cases and started
representing criminal defendants in the early 1970s, my clients often
told me they’d been taken from one police station to another before
ending up at Area 2 where they were tortured,” said Taylor, the
civil-rights lawyer most associated with pursuing the notoriously
abusive Area 2 police commander Jon Burge. “And in that way the police
prevent their family and lawyers from seeing them until they could
coerce, through torture or other means, confessions from them.”
Police often have off-site facilities to have private conversations
with their informants. But a retired Washington DC homicide detective,
James Trainum, could not think of another circumstance nationwide where
police held people incommunicado for extended periods.
“I’ve never known any kind of organized, secret place where they go
and just hold somebody before booking for hours and hours and hours.
That scares the hell out of me that that even exists or might exist,”
said Trainum, who now studies national policing issues, to include
interrogations, for the Innocence Project and the Constitution Project.
Regardless of departmental regulations, police frequently deny or
elide access to lawyers even at regular police precincts, said Solowiej
of First Defense Legal Aid. But she said the outright denial was
exacerbated at Chicago’s secretive interrogation and holding facility:
“It’s very, very rare for anyone to experience their constitutional
rights in Chicago police custody, and even more so at Homan Square,”
Solowiej said.
Church said that one of his more striking memories of Homan Square
was the “big, big vehicles” police had inside the complex that “look
like very large MRAPs that they use in the Middle East.”
Cook County, home of Chicago, has received some 1,700 pieces of
military equipment from a much-criticized Pentagon program transferring
military gear to local police. It includes a Humvee, according to a local ABC News report.
Tracy Siska, a criminologist and civil-rights activist with the Chicago Justice Project, said that Homan Square, as well as the unrelated case of ex-Guantánamo interrogator and retired Chicago detective Richard Zuley, showed the lines blurring between domestic law enforcement and overseas military operations.
“The real danger in allowing practices like Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib
is the fact that they always creep into other aspects,” Siska said.
“They creep into domestic law enforcement, either with weaponry like
with the militarization of police, or interrogation practices. That’s
how we ended up with a black site in Chicago.”
On September 29th 2011, a group of masked men burst into the Paseo Boricua Grocery & Deli in Chicago.
Witnesses say they initially thought it was a robbery. It turned out to
be the police showing up to kidnap five men taking them to the secret
detention warehouse known as Homan Square, a facility just publicly
uncovered last week that sparked a protests in Chicago and nationwide.
John Vergara, an art teacher, who was taken to Homan Square in this incident said:
At first I thought it was a robbery. I didn’t know it was the police until the sergeant walked in.
The cops had machine guns, according to Jose Garcia, one of the other
men dragged into Homan Square. In his interview with The Guardian he
claims:
…machine guns – I mean, I’m talking about rifles.
They all had masks, all of them. They looked like Isis – put it that way.
So John Vergara and Jose Garcia were taken to Homan Square with the
deli manager and 2 others; they were detained for about 9 hours. They
were, of course, denied access to a phone call, a lawyer, or any form of
due process.
If you were unaware, Homan Square is a secret prison where people have
been tortured and killed by the Chicago police, bringing up images of Guantanamo Bay
in the minds of many. After the powerful revelation, the Twitter storm
#Gitmo2Chicago not only trended on its intended platform, but it
trended on Facebook as well. In addition to the storm, a protest of about 200 people occurred right outside the facility.
During their incarceration, police tried for hoursto get them to
falsely confess to crimes until one of the incarcerated men
name-dropped a particularly good Chicago lawyer. They were then released
on the condition that they never speak of what happened at Homan
Square. Garcia:
We’re in an abandoned building, we’re freaking out, we’re seeing these
guys with masks coming in and out, and John is telling them they’re
bogus, ‘You guys are doing this illegally,’ and this and this and this.
Then they came back and all of a sudden they seemed scared.
John Vergara added:
I pretty much was kidnapped.
I did not have any idea where I was. I didn’t even know about that building until that day.
Referring to his employer who was falsely targeted by police, Garcia said
This guy’s never been in trouble, and the next thing you know, they come out with drugs [charges]. We’re like: ‘What?’
Unlike the seven other people held at Homan Square interviewed by the
Guardian, Garcia and Vergara said all five of them were held in the
same room. It was no ordinary cell: three sides of it were concrete and
the fourth, containing a door, was metal-link fencing – reminiscent of
the “cages” described by Homan Square arrestees Brock Terry and David
Smith, as well as former police superintendent Richard Brzeczek.
Vergara says he was handcuffed to a metal bar by one hand and an
elderly customer from the deli’s hospital bracelet by the other hand in a
cage-like area he drew in the picture below.
We were cuffed to each other and to the bar,
Garcia said.
They thought I was a threat because of my size. I was like, ‘Dude, you don’t have to put me like I’m an animal.’
Vergara remembered what the police threatened him with:
If you guys don’t fess up, we’re gonna put all of this on you, we’re
gonna split this up that we found, and we’re gonna put each and every
one of you with a piece of this if you guys don’t talk.
So when Vergara mentioned the name of lawyer Blake Horowitz, he recalled:
When I mentioned his name, the whole game changed.
Garcia also said:
"Humboldt Park, everybody could be a paralegal there. That’s how much
they fuck with you, the police. We know the ins and outs," and “They
probably thought we was some dumbass Ricans or whatever, we don’t know
shit. So when we start spitting out some of this paralegal stuff we
know – oh, shit, damn.”
Vergara paraphrased the deal eventually offered to him by a police sergeant:
'You don’t say nothing and we’ll leave it at that.' And I’m like, well,
no – if I don’t say nothing, that means you guys uncuff us, take us
back to the restaurant, and I won’t say nothing to the attorney.
Garcia said:
I said, ‘John, look, bro, just tell them anything so we can get the fuck out of here.’
Vergara recalled:
About an hour later, he came back and they uncuffed us all.
The Guardian article said:
Police drove them back to the deli – all, that is, except Calderon, who
was taken to Central Male Lockup on 26th Street and California Avenue
and charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
Calderon eventually took a plea deal; he may have falsely confessed.
A local attorney named Billy Joe Mills said:
Vergara has shown the public that the Chicago police department can
kidnap and secretly interrogate people for having done nothing more
than get a cup of coffee at the wrong restaurant at the wrong time.
Garcia also said:
"I seen that, and I’m saying to myself, Chicago police officer? Wait a
minute, those sons of bitches – that’s how they did us," and 'I said to
myself, that’s how those fuckers did us, that same shit, that
Guantánamo Bay shit." "It was like we were terrorists, you know what
I’m saying? Off some petty shit."
The Homan Square revelation was a turning point in the movement to
oppose the police state; the revelations about this continue coming and
they have extreme implications. Protesters of Homan Square have
specifically expressed concern for the police’s ability to legally
detain and kill anyone they want with no due process. All made possible
by the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act).
Another protest is coming to Homan Square this Saturday along with another Twitter storm to spread the word about Homan Square. The last one was enormously successful.
You can participate in the Twitter/Facebook hashtag storm by posting as
much as you’d like informing people of this facility with the hashtag
#Gitmo2Chicago.
It truly is effective. If you ask people how they heard about Homan
Square, you may be surprised to learn that several people discovered it
from the Twitter storm. It’s the very least you can do if you cannot
show up to the Shut Down Homan Square protest in person.
Please share this with beyond as many people as possible.
This is the perfect issue to bring together activists and
concerned citizens of all kinds; this is your opportunity to exercise
your ability to spread information. It’s time to organize as people to fight back against pure tyranny and abuse of power.
This can’t continue. Let’s actually do something about this.
Nationwide opposition to the Chicago Police’s secret detention facility known as Homan Square is growing rapidly.
It was revealed last week that the CPD is using CIA-like tactics on suspected criminals and American dissidents — denying them of due process and basic rights.
Since then, a massive movement to shut down Homan Square has grown online and in Chicago, as well as around the country.
Several hundred concerned residents of Chicago brought Homan
Square to a standstill over the weekend, and as many as 1,500 or more
are expected to shut it down this coming Saturday. The event will take
place at Homan Square at 12:00 pm CST. More info here.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, activists who are seeking justice over the LAPD’s violent slaying
of a man known as Africa, are also holding a protest on Saturday at 12
pm PST at the LAPD headquarters. More info on that event can be found here.
Becomes Ministry of Truth by Jon Rappoport March 1, 2015 NoMoreFakeNews.com “…if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.” (1984, George Orwell)
“THE internet is stuffed with garbage. Anti-vaccination websites
make the front page of Google, and fact-free ‘news’ stories spread like
wildfire. Google has devised a fix – rank websites according to their
truthfulness.”
Great idea, right?
Sure it is.
The author of the article lets the cat out of the bag right away with his comment about “anti-vaccination” websites.
These sites will obviously be shoved into obscurity by Google because
they’re “garbage”…whereas “truthful” pro-vaccine sites will dominate
top ranked pages on the search engine.
This is wonderful if you believe what the CDC tells you about vaccine
safety and efficacy. The CDC: an agency that opens its doors every day
with lies and closes them with more lies.
The New Scientist article continues: “A Google research team is adapting [a] model to measure the
trustworthiness of a [website] page, rather than its reputation across
the web. Instead of counting incoming links, the [ranking] system –
which is not yet live – counts the number of incorrect facts within a
page. ‘A source that has few false facts is considered to be
trustworthy,’ says the team…The score they compute for each page is its
Knowledge-Based Trust score.”
Right. Google, researchers of truth. Assessors of trustworthiness. Who in the world could have a problem with that?
Answer: anyone with three live brain cells.
Here’s the New Scientist’s capper. It’s a beaut: “The [truth-finding] software works by tapping into the Knowledge
Vault, the vast store of facts that Google has pulled off the internet.
Facts the web unanimously agrees on are considered a reasonable proxy
for truth. Web pages that contain contradictory information are bumped
down the rankings.”
Right. Uh-huh. So Google, along with its friends at the CIA, will
engineer a new and improved, greater flood of (dis)information across
the Web. And this disinfo will constitute an overwhelming majority
opinion…and will become the standard for measuring truth and
trustworthiness.
Think about what kinds of websites will rise like foul cream to the top of Google page rankings:
“All vaccines are marvelously safe and effective, and parents who don’t vaccinate their kids should be prosecuted for felonies.”
“GMOs are perfectly safe. ‘The science’ says so.”
“The FBI has never organized a synthetic terror event and then stung the morons it encouraged.”
“Common Core is the greatest system of education yet devised by humans.”
“People who believe conspiracies exist have mental disorders.”
In other words: (fake) consensus reality becomes reality. Which is
the situation we have now, but the titanic pile of fakery will rise
much, much higher.
Also, think about this: the whole purpose of authentic investigative
reporting is puncturing the consensus…but you’ll have to search Google
for a long time to find it.
In the field of medical fraud, an area I’ve been researching for 25
years, the conclusions of standard published studies (which are brimming
with lies) will occupy page after page of top Google rankings.
Let me offer a counter-example to the Google “knowledge team.” Here
is a woman who has examined, up close and personal, more medical studies
in her career than the entire workforce of Google. She is Dr. Marcia
Angell. For 20 years, she was an editor at The New England Journal of
Medicine.
On January 15, 2009, the New York Review of Books published her stunning statement: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical
research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted
physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in
this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two
decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
Angell torpedoes an entire range of medical literature, based on her hard-won experience.
But you can be sure that when it comes to “medical facts,” the Google
“truth team” will ascribe absolutely no merit (ranking) to her
conclusion or its implications.
The Iraqi Army has once again claimed that it has downed a NATO aircraft
that was providing military assistance directly to ISIS according to Iranian FARS News Agency.
This time, the Iraqis are claiming they shot down a US Helicopter in the
Al-Bagdadi region in Anbar Province last week. The reason for shooting
the helicopter, according to FARS and, apparently, high-ranking Iraqi officials, was that the helicopter was carrying weapons to ISIS.
Head of the Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee
and senior Iraqi legislator, Hakem al-Zameli has stated that the Iraqi
government is constantly receiving reports from its security forces that
NATO aircraft is dropping weapons to ISIS.
Zameli claims that the reason for the airdrops is
that NATO wishes to prolong the situation in Anbar Province for
geopolitical purposes.
Zameli stated that “The Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense
Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and
have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIL.”
Indeed, the claims come only one week after a video was released
purporting to show a US Chinook helicopter dropping at least two boxes
of weapons to ISIS and flying a low altitudes unmolested over
ISIS-controlled territory south of Fallujah. It is reported that the
footage was filmed by Hezbollah Brigades based in Iraq.
In order to prove the fact that they did indeed down an American
helicopter the FARS report claims that the Iraqi fighters posted a
picture of the chopper and the weapons that were recovered from the
wreckage.
The alleged downing of the US Helicopter comes on the heels of an alleged downing of two UK planes by Iraqi forces using the same reason (NATO dropping weapons to ISIS) as justification.
In this regard, Zameli stated that “The Iraqi Parliament’s National
Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes
that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for
the ISIL.”
There
are also reports that some US helicopters have landed in Fallujah, a
stronghold of ISIS fighters in Iraq for the purpose of completing
airdrops to al-Qaeda/ISIS.
The al-Ahad News website has quoted Khalaf Tarmouz, head of the al-Anbar
Provincial Council as saying “We have discovered weapons made in the
US, European countries and Israel from the areas liberated from ISIL’s
control in Al-Baqdadi region.”
Tarmouz also claimed that weapons made in Israel and Europe were also discovered in Ramadi.
“The US drops weapons for the ISIL on the excuse of not knowing about
the whereabouts of the ISIL positions and it is trying to distort the
reality with its allegations,” he said.
These reports are by no means the first time that the United States, Europe, or Israel have been implicated in the arming and support of ISIS.
It is, however, the first time Iraqi forces (since the initial US
invasion of 2003) have mounted a direct resistance to US and NATO
treachery.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law
ratifying the deal establishing the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB),
according to a document published on Monday on Russia's official website
for legal information. The BRICS New
Development Bank (NDB) was set up to challenge two major
Western-led giants – the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund. NDB's key role will be to serve as a pool of
currency for infrastructure projects within a group of five
countries with major emerging national economies - Russia,
Brazil, India, China and South Africa.
According to the Russian Finance Ministry, the New Development
Bank is expected to start functioning fully by the end of the
year, with the headquarters slated for opening in Shanghai. The
chairmanship, with a term of five years, will rotate among the
members.
It's hoped the new bank will stamp the growing influence of the
BRICS. The NDB is expected to become one of the world's key
institutions, with a stated capital of $100 billion. Each of the
five-member countries is expected to allocate an equal share of
the $50 billion startup capital that will be expanded to $100
billion. Russia has agreed to provide $2 billion from the federal
budget for the bank over the next seven years.
The bank, which will be able to start lending in 2016, will be
open to other countries that are members of the United Nations.
The BRICS share is never to decline below 55 percent, however.
The money will be used to finance development projects in the
emerging economies.
India will serve as the first five-year rotating president, and
the first Chairman of the Board of Directors will be Brazilian.
The bank was first proposed in 2012. The signing of the agreement
to create the joint development bank by the heads of the five
countries took place at the BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, in
June 2014.
The lower chamber of the Russian parliament, the State Duma,
ratified the agreement on the NDB establishment last month.
For a country founded on religious liberty, the absurd things being
done to Christian churches across the United States, leaves one to
wonder what happened to the principles on which our nation is based. A
recent move in Lake Worth, Florida is a perfect example of the failure
to stand true to these values, and it’s caused a frighteningly accurate
comparison to the Soviet KGB.
Reportedly, pastors and parishioners across Lake Worth are ready to stand up and fight an unconstitutional decision
by the city. In a bold move, obviously against religious liberty, the
city has begun forcing churches to secure permits or risk hefty fines
and the possibility of being forced to close.
Several churches in the South Florida region have reported to Fox News
that they’ve already come under attack from the decision, confirming
that they’ve been ordered to obtain business permits or face fines and
closures.
A worship service at Common Ground Church in Lake Worth, Florida (Courtesy Common Ground Church via Fox News)
In a Soviet-style code enforcement, city officials sent a code
enforcement officer to at least one church, which met at a coffee-house,
to gather information about the gathering by spying on the church. A
portion of the officer’s report was released by Fox News and detailed
what the officer witnessed.
“I walked back to the Coffee Bar and was able to
visualize, in my opinion what appeared to be a ministry in progress …
[and] people holding what appeared to be Bibles or religious books as
one had a cross on it [and] what appeared to be a ministry in progress. I
was approached by an unknown man with a cross around his neck.”
Reports confirm that local authorities returned to the church the
following week and informed Pastor Mike Olive that his congregation
would have to leave the premises within a week because of the absence of
a permit. Olive thinks there is an ulterior motive, as he believes his
church was specifically targeted by local legislator Andy Amoroso, who
reportedly spread allegations that Olive’s sermons express an
anti-homosexual bias.
According to Western Journalism,
legal advocates working with Liberty Counsel have spoken out against
the ordinance and its implementation, claiming churches should not be
held to the same standards as for-profit businesses.
“Government employees are public servants and prohibited
from inhibiting religious freedom,” explained the law firm’s founder,
Mat Staver. “That is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church
and acting like KGB agents.”
As Staver concluded, the issuance of such threats constitutes a
violation of the First Amendment as well as other state and federal laws
protecting religious liberty.
“Churches are not businesses,” he concluded, “and need not obtain such licenses.”
Our Constitution guarantees us certain freedoms, and I’m certainly
tired of lawmakers feeling we should have to have a permit to exercise
those rights, which have already been established. As they pluck away at
the First and Second Amendments by demanding permits, it won’t be long
until we find ourselves living in Communist America. If you aren’t
willing to sit back and watch that happen, share this article and tell
those in charge, “We have a permit, and it’s called the Constitution!”
[ most "churches' in the US have been convinced to become Corporations through the 501(c)3, putting them "one" with the state, as well as under the state's authority . . . so then I ask, is it now a Church that happens to be a corporation, or is it a Corporation that happens to be a church? I would say that the church discussed above, if they are meeting at a coffee shop, has not submitted to the 501(c)3, but who knows? ]
The Black Sheep tries to warn its friends with the truth it has seen, unfortunately herd mentality kicks in for the Sheeple, and they run in fear from the black sheep and keep to the safety of their flock.
Having tried to no avail to awaken his peers, the Black Sheep have no other choice but to unite with each other and escape the impending doom.
