CONSPIRACY 2015: Malaysian Airline Disasters, Auto-Pilots, Bush-Cheney War Crimes, And Banksters Caught (But Who Cares)

A great way to start the year: For those of you who enjoy a good conspiracy theory, see #1 below. And for those of you who just know there’s nothing to all the goofy conspiracy theories going around, check out #2.

conspiracy-theories

#1

First there are those Bizarre Chinese forum posts predicting the AirAsia Flight disaster here

… then we hear that AirAsia CEO Dumped Shares Days Before Flight Disappeared here

… next someone points out that the Boeing Uninterruptible Autopilot (BUAP) system allows an aircraft to be remotely controlled from the ground here

… and someone else points out that one of the most secretive U.S. military installations outside the US is on the island of Diego Garcia … in the Indian Ocean here

…then someone puts a wrap on it by suggesting all of these disasters for Malaysian airlines because … Malaysia War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes here

Jeez, that was exhausting! And now #2, because there are no real conspiracies, right?

#2

2.1: How mega-bank HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it. here

2.2: How JPMorgan, British Petroleum, and Bank Of England Were Caught Rigging International Currency Markets here or summary here

There, now let’s all go back to sleep.

HOW to LESSEN your FEAR of TERRORISM

Mark Twain said, ” “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” Substitute ‘main stream media’ for ‘newspaper’ and nothing has changed.

NORTH KOREANS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SONY HACK, SAY EXPERTS

NORTH KOREANS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SONY HACK, SAY EXPERTS

Some of the world’s leading cybersecurity experts, as well as prominent hacking groups like Anonymous, say North Korea is NOT responsible for hacking Sony. And Anonymous now threatens to hack Sony if they DON’T release the Seth Rogen movie online. (My favorite comment below the article: “Guardians of Peace blackmail Sony into not releasing the movie so Anonymous will blackmail them into releasing the movie. What to do, what to do…”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/20/sony-hackers-guardians-of-peace-troll-fbi-fbi-is-the-best-in-the-world.html

TORTURED REASONING

CIA-whistleblower-John-Kiriakou

Any politician (or journalist) using the term “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” should be waterboarded, ‘rectally rehydrated’, and forced to stand in an agonizing position until they soil themselves. And then asked if they’re now ready to use the correct term – torture.

And Canadians shouldn’t get too smug about thinking the CIA torture techniques wouldn’t be used here.

Considering the overheated frenzy of nationalism that swept the country after a lone crazed gunman attacked parliament hill, I wonder how quickly Canadians would support ‘torturing a few folks’ if we suffered carnage akin to 9/11.

But full credit to the American government for releasing the CIA torture report. I can’t recall Mr. Harper’s government mustering up the integrity to admit to doing anything wrong. Ever.

USA TORTURE MASTERMINDS PAID $81 MILLION

The two psychologists who devised and tested the CIA torture tactics were paid $81 million.
And the American Psychological Association didn’t see this as a problem. More here

CIA TORTURE WHISTLEBLOWER ONLY ONE IN PRISON

“John Kiriakou, who worked for the CIA between 1990 and 2004, stepped forward in 2007 and confirmed to press outlets some of the first details about the agency’s widespread use of torture.

Among Kiriakou’s revelations was an account to ABC News of the repeated water-boardings of Abu Zubaydah—a man currently imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay without charges whose 12 years of torture and abuse at the hands of the U.S. were further exposed in the Senate report.

In 2013, Kiriakou—a father of five—was prosecuted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act for allegedly revealing classified information to a reporter. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison, which he is still serving. His incarceration came after the Obama administration refused to prosecute any of the higher-up government officials who designed, authorized, or otherwise took part in implementation of the torture program.” More here

AND FINALLY, AND PERHAPS MOST DISTRESSING …

New Poll Finds 59% of Americans Support Post 9/11 Torture

GLOBAL CORRUPTION INDEX

New GLOBAL CORRUPTION rankings out. (Jeez, it’s like the NFL or something.)

According to “expert analysis of public sector sleaze”, the least corrupt countries are Denmark, followed by New Zealand, Finland and Sweden.

The most corrupt? Somalia, North Korea, Sudan and Afghanistan.

GLOBAL CORRUPTION RANKINGS

What about your lovely country? Full rankings and more here

And again, if you haven’t read McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld, give it a go. Very disturbing. Very enlightening

WILL CANADIAN GAL BRING DOWN US BANKSTERS?

Can a gal from Terrace, B.C. bring down the biggest US Banksters?

Great piece by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone :http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106

“The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase’s Worst Nightmare:
Fleischmann is the central witness in one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history, possessing secrets that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon late last year paid $9 billion (not $13 billion as regularly reported – more on that later) to keep the public from hearing.”

SAND WARS – BRILLIANT DOCUMENTARY

After air and water, sand is the most used commodity in the world.

The world as we know it would stop functioning without it – no glass, no highways, no computer chips, no concrete buildings, etc. And due to greed and sand’s value, it is quickly disappearing.

I’d never even given it a thought previous to seeing a brilliant documentary film on Knowledge Network last night. More here:

http://www.sand-wars.com/

https://www.knowledge.ca/program/sand-wars#

JULIAN ASSANGE HOLOGRAM INTERVIEW

Pretty cool. Julian Assange appears at an event in Nantucket via hologram from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. I like the high-five attempt at the end.

More here: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/09/julian-assange-leaves-london-as-a-hologram-for-nantucket-project-appearance

George Carlin on War

The brilliant comedian/philosopher nails it again:

GANDHI ON WISDOM vs MONEY

Not sure of the source or accuracy of this anecdote, but it’s rich none the less.

When Mahatma Gandhi was studying law at the University College of London, a professor whose last name was Peters, disliked him intensely and always displayed animosity toward him.

Also, because Gandhi never lowered his head when addressing him as he expected, there were always “arguments” and confrontations.

One day, Mr. Peters was having lunch at the dining room of the University, and Gandhi came along with his tray and sat next to the professor.

The professor said,”Mr Gandhi, you do not understand. A pig and a bird do not sit together to eat.”

Gandhi looked at him as a parent would a rude child and calmly replied, “You do not worry professor. I’ll fly away,” and he went and sat at another table.

Mr. Peters, reddened with rage, decided to take revenge on the next test paper, but Gandhi responded brilliantly to all questions.

Mr. Peters, unhappy and frustrated, asked him the following question: “Mr Gandhi, if you were walking down the street and found a package, and within was a bag of wisdom and another bag with a lot of money, which one would you take?”

Without hesitating, Gandhi responded, “The one with the money, of course.”

Mr. Peters, smiling sarcastically said, “I, in your place, would have taken the wisdom.”

Gandhi shrugged indifferently and responded, “Each one takes what he doesn’t have.”

Mr. Peters, by this time was fit to be tied. So great was his anger that he wrote on Gandhi’s exam sheet the word “idiot” and gave it to Gandhi.

Gandhi took the exam sheet and sat down at his desk, trying very hard to remain calm while he contemplated his next move.

A few minutes later, Gandhi got up, went to the professor and said to him in a dignified but sarcastically polite tone, “Mr. Peters, you autographed the sheet, but you did not give me the grade.”