/ /  ______   _____  __         / / / /  |     | |  __ | | |        / / / /   |   __| | |__|| | |_____  / / / /    |__|    |_____| |______| / / "You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes" -Some black guy in a film made by a trannie and his brother. With thanks to anon and several tripfags, including Mr John Conrad. ____________________________________________________________________________ SOME /POL/ HISTORY: ____________________________________________________________________________ A quick FAQ about what happened at Waco and why people care http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/topten.html Why the Arabs and Persians hate us: US Foreign Policy in the Middle East Since WWII http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa159.pdf The infamous Eisenhower "military-industrial complex" speech. Ignore the shitty background music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY ____________________________________________________________________________ GENERAL SKULLDUGGERY: ____________________________________________________________________________ Citizens United v Federal Election Commission http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf ____________________________________________________________________________ EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION [LEGALISED TORTURE] ____________________________________________________________________________ Rendition: Tales of torture http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4502986.stm CIA 'tortured and sodomised' terror suspect, human rights court rules http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/dec/13/cia-tortured-sodomised-terror-suspect Sir Mark Allen: the secret link between MI6, the CIA and Gaddafi http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/04/mark-allen-mi6-libya-profile Supreme Court refuses Maher Arar torture case http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0614/Supreme-Court-refuses-Maher-Arar-torture-case Canada to Pay $9.75 Million to Man Tortured in Syria https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/world/americas/27canada.html?_r=0 The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer ____________________________________________________________________________ MEDIA: ____________________________________________________________________________ Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (1993). A Canadian documentary about Noam Chomsky and his ideas on how consent is created in democracies through manipulation of the media. Has some interesting ideas if you can sit through two and a half hours of the creators ass kissing Chomsky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnB8MuQ6DU Militainment Inc (Full Film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzutVl1eV2M&feature=related ____________________________________________________________________________ WAR ON TERROR: ____________________________________________________________________________ Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq - video http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/mar/06/james-steele-america-iraq-video The Power of Nightmares playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nqXmnY-G30&list=PL3686ECA696F1EEA1 BBC The Secret War On Terror Ep1 ¦ 480p [1/4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBxUIGE0irw BBC The Secret War On Terror Ep1 ¦ 480p [2/4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZX2th9zyY BBC The Secret War On Terror Ep1 ¦ 480p [3/4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvWLjXP7tBw BBC The Secret War On Terror Ep1 ¦ 480p [4/4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-3OuWVLcC0 National Defence Authorisation Act. http://rt.com/usa/detention-legislation-torture-senate-891/ Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf NYC and Microsoft announce citywide monitoring system http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/nyc-microsoft-announce-citywide-monitoring-system-931084 Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal http://rt.com/usa/348-act-tresspass-buildings-437/ Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all Obama Wants To Make Sure The Government Can Lock You Up Without Trial http://au.businessinsider.com/historic-ndaa-battle-underway-tv-networks-silent-2012-8 ____________________________________________________________________________ WEB FREEDOM: ____________________________________________________________________________ Twitter's Hidden Censorship clause https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169222# Twitter Will Censor Your Tweets If a Country Tells It To gizmodo.com/5879710/twitter-will-censor-your-tweets-if-a-country-tells-it-to The Internet Kill Switch(tm) http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/world-wants-obamas-hands-internets-switch/54459/ Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/counterterrorism-trolls/all/ I was a Facebook sock puppet for the CIA http://www.itworld.com/internet/140649/i-was-facebook-sock-puppet-cia Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks Raytheon Riot Software Predicts Behavior Based on Social Media http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415340,00.asp The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public http://au.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5#ixzz20v1pb4lZ NSA Whistleblower Details How The NSA Has Spied On US Citizens Since 9/11 http://au.businessinsider.com/nsa-whistleblower-william-binney-explains-nsa-surveillance-2012-8 Two Secretive Israeli Companies Bugged The US Telecommunications Grid For The NSA http://au.businessinsider.com/companies-with-connections-to-israeli-intelligence-wiretap-the-us-for-the-nsa-2012-4 YouTube Fights Horrible Commenters by Naming Names http://www.wired.com/business/2012/07/youtube-google-plus/ New Totalitarianism http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/15/new-totalitarianism-surveillance-technology Forum Spies http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm List of proposed websites to be banned in Australia http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/19/1237054961100.html British law that bans trolling http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2012-2013/0041/lbill_2012-20130041_en_2.htm#pb1-l1g1 Man in New Zealand (with a prior conviction for sexual assault) sent to jail for watching Japanese "Elf porn" http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8577037/Man-sent-to-jail-for-watching-pixie-sex ____________________________________________________________________________ THE GOLD STANDARD AND OTHER ECONOMIC SHENANIGANS: ____________________________________________________________________________ An explanation of the Breton-Woods system which was set in place after WWII. http://economics.about.com/od/foreigntrade/a/bretton_woods.htm Nixon ends the Breton-Woods system in 1971, turning the USD into a fiat currency. Appeals to muh patriotism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRzr1QU6K1o What is a Petrodollar? http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/petrodollars.asp?ModPagespeed=noscript A PBS history of the Saudi royal family http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/cron/ ____________________________________________________________________________ BANNED IN BRITAIN: ____________________________________________________________________________ David Cameron defends secret courts and web monitoring plans http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17601594 Websites to be forced to identify trolls under new measures http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18404621 ____________________________________________________________________________ WEIRD INCIDENTS AND INTERESTING SHIT: ____________________________________________________________________________ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijvel_gang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84 http://flight800.org/cia_propaganda.htm Real photos of some famous crime scenes http://vanessawest.tripod.com/crimescenephotos.html The Lone Gunmen episode that predicted 9/11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3WW6eoLcLI Iran-Contra Scandal trading cards http://www.authentichistory.com/1974-1992/3-reagan/5-irancontra/cards/Iran-Contra_Cards.html What biometric data taking looks like http://www.biometrics.dod.mil/photo2.aspx ____________________________________________________________________________ NEWTOWN: ____________________________________________________________________________ 4 Handguns Found In School, AR-15 Left In Car According To Several Federal And CT State Officials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqpjJ6P-NSQ&feature=player_embedded Second shooter arrested near Sandy Hook elementary school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qEoYxqmyAM Smilin' Robbie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCqOMdcutWQ Sand Hook Police Scanner recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=S59IXI9g6VE#t=302s Some fishy/weird shit that happened during news interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhLe2i8uFwc Fundraiser for the victims planned before the actual massacre takes place http://crossedshadows.com/undeniableproof.png Another fundraiser created before the event took place (apparently you can change the names of Facebook groups but why not make a new one rather than repurpose an old one?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPKNLk-sdUg Charity denies claims that they knew about the disaster in advance http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/08/united-way-no-we-didnt-know-about-dec-14-sandy-hook-shooting-in-advance/ ____________________________________________________________________________ BOSTON: ____________________________________________________________________________ A good summary of the official story of what happened including a lot of eyewitness testimony. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/us/officers-killing-spurred-pursuit-in-boston-attack.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp Actual footage of the Chechen shootout with police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtKO-hV44cU Who was Boston's naked man? http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/who-was-bostons-naked-man/story-fnhocwho-1226627017169 CNN footage of the mysterious naked man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nIEfEN1jVA PBS interview: Aunt of Marathon Bombing Suspects: "I'm Suspicious That This Was Staged" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaiQ7ZUmyPk Infowars "reporter" asks if the bombing is a false flag at a press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOO_HaP1kyY Press TV article about 9/11 and Boston. It's written by the Iranian government so take from that what you will. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/17/298720/falseflag-meme-surrounds-boston-blasts/ "Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American" http://www.salon.com/2013/04/16/lets_hope_the_boston_marathon_bomber_is_a_white_american/ "Are the Tsarnaevs White?" http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/24/are-the-tsarnaevs-white.html Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/officials-boston-suspect-had-no-firearm-when-barrage-of-bullets-hit-hiding-place/2013/04/24/376fc8a0-ad18-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_story.html?hpid=z1 Footage of forcible search of home by police during the Boston incident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LrbsUVSVl8 More footage of the massive police search. Watch for the moment when the police yell at the cameraman to get away from the window and his amusingly abrupt response. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5vfyFyptQ FBI, local police conducting massive sweep in Oakland http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/fbi-local-police-conducting-massive-sweep-oakland/nXXKw/