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There is the Benghazi scandal continuing forward in political circles. The embassy staff undercut the whistleblower testimony on Benghazi. Gregory Hicks is found to be an ad manager in the Foreign Service. ABC News published a report about the incident. The report made 2 points. It said that State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland or a former Dick Cheney aid objected to including information in the talking points noting that the CIA had issued previous warnings that there was a threat to U.S. assets in Benghazi from al-Qaeda link groups. Nuland said in an email, it “could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either?” The second point was that Nuland objected to naming the terror groups the U.S. believed were involved in the attack because, she said, “we don’t want to prejudice the investigation.” The ABC report suggests that the State Department scrubbed the talking points of terror references as some sort of cover up of what really occurred in Benghazi because of political reasons. Yet, the Obama administration referred to the Benghazi assault as a terror attack on many times shortly after the incident. This needs the end for them to scrub any references in the talking points. The then CIA Director David Petraeus said that the terrorist references were taken off as a means to avoid tipping off the groups that may have been involved. The ABC exclusive reports describe a turf battle between the State Department and the CIA not a cover up on that point. There was a stand down of Special Forces and the truth must be made into context. I like conspiracies and I expose them, but the truth is the truth. During questioning, Hicks confirmed that the team was ready to be deployed — not to join the fighting at the CIA annex — but “to secure the airport for the withdrawal of our personnel from Benghazi after the mortar attack.” Hicks also confirmed that it was the second such team to be readied for deployment, with the first having proceeded to Benghazi earlier. Despite the second team not deploying, the staff was all evacuated first to Tripoli, then to Germany, within 18 hours of the attack taking place. The truth is that the administration made mistakes, but this incident is nowhere near a Watergate cover or the event of 9/11 at all. The Benghazi bombing was a terrorist attack. Much blame should go around. I will look at more information at this event. The big picture is that there is a CIA base near the consulate near Benghazi. We know that the CIA is funding terrorists in Syria as a means to overthrow the Assad government. The Benghazi event was a tragedy and it was caused by extremists in the region. The administration could be criticized for a lot of things and the truth should be made into perspective. Yet, I do not feel that the White House is to be blamed for all of our issues though. The State Department hired Al Qaeda link militants to defend the diplomatic mission in Benghazi that was later attacked. The Obama administration supported these Al-Qaeda linked militants in Libya as a means to topple Colonel Gaddafi. Now, we find the possibility that these militants could be involved in the attack of the consulate and the death of Ambassador Stevens. It is believed that the very hospital that Stevens was taken to in the last moments of his life was run by the same terrorists who attacked the consulate. These militants were empowered by NATO military intervention in Libya. NATO destroyed Libya and installed a puppet regime. The West is aiding the same terrorists that they claim to abhor (from the LIFG to the FSA). Later, extremists attacked the consulate near a CIA base. As for Hillary, Hillary is Hillary. We know about her being praised by Henry Kissinger and so forth. Her agenda is of the establishment via the usage of a left wing face (just like Bush used a right wing face to advance his nefarious agenda). Now, I do not believe that the current administration is totally responsible for the event of Benghazi. I believe it is bigger than that. The current Western establishment is still using imperialism in the region, which is breeding terrorism instead of trying to stop it. That is the fundamental point. We need to end the war on terror and find alternatives in handling international disputes.




The grandson of Malcolm X died. It was a said and mysterious death, because not all of the details have been discovered about the circumstances pertaining to our time today. He was killed in Mexico City, Mexico. He died on May 9, 2013 in Thursday. He suffered from injuries being thrown out of a building and he was robbed by criminals. Many family members know that he recently passed away. He was beaten during a robbery. The U.S. State Department reported that an U.S. citizen died. Malcolm X was murdered in February 21, 1965. Before Malcolm X's grandson died, he wanted to participate in a Tehran Hollywoodism conference. He said that the FBI harassed him because of his political involvement in global affairs. He wrote about it in Cynthia McKinney's Facebook page. He wrote the following information in that page: "...I sincerely appreciate the care & concern of the People over my well-being after Press TV’s report of the most recent events which have transpired regarding the FBI’s harassment of me....Given the storm of lies, and half-truths that come with being associated with. Minister Malcolm. I will take this opportunity to properly & fully disclose what transpired...In the beginning of 2012, I had been informed that I was under investigation by the FBI’s Counter Terrorism Task Force Unit located in Goshen, NY....The agents of this division-and in collaboration with others-have visited several residences of which I was known by them to frequent.” He wrote that the FBI constantly asked him questions about his life. Malcolm Shabazz traveled all over the world as a means to educate himself on issues and oppose imperialism. He meet with former Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and meet with Muammar Gadhafi before the NATO intervention. He was a freedom fighter and he wanted true freedom for humanity. COINTELPRO never ended. We have counter terrorism made by evil human beings. He was only 28 years old. He wanted to speak about against youth violence. He was planning to write a memoir. Shabazz was assaulted in a bar fight and was sent into the hospital. This was in Mexico City and Shabbaz wanted to support labor rights for construction workers in Mexico (along with his friend named Miguel Suarez).  Ruth Clark, Shabazz’s godmother, said that her heart was heavy, but that she believes he is now “among angels.” Ruth Clark said of Shabazz in these following terms: “Malcolm is part of a welcoming kingdom, sharing his bright smile, intelligence, and wisdom.” Malcolm Shabazz was the son of Qubilah Shabazz (or one of the six daughters of Malcolm X and his wife Betty Shabazz). This was a sad situation. All of the details are not known about this situation. If this doesn't prove to you that we are at war with white supremacy then nothing will. We are at war. When you look at the feds locking up Lauryn Hill, trying to capture or murder Assata Shakur, and seeking more imperialism against the Motherland, then you know what time it is. Certain parts of Mexico are dangerous. He was badly beaten by pieces of work. He was survived by his mother, 2 daughters, and a number of aunts. One of COINTELPRO'S plans was to prevent the rise of a great leader who could unify, electrify, and unify black human beings to make real radical changes in the world. Malcolm Shabazz was already a great leader before thirty years of age. He never saw his true life potential. He has the potential to be even a greater leader and that was a threat to the powers that be. His life should make us fight even harder to end crime, poverty, mass incarceration, the war on Drugs, and other injustices in the world. He lived a controversial life and changed. He wanted to do well in the world and became active in international affairs from Africa to Iran. He will be missed indeed.

 


Assata Shakur is a very historical human being in the history of liberation. Recent news comes her way. The FBI recently in early May 2013 branded her as the "Most Wanted Terrorist." This is strange since the FBI never did this before. This comes in the aftermath of 9/11 and the recent Boston bombings. This action is ironically approved by the White House and the Attorney General of the United States. This is a similar continuation of COINTELPRO indeed as others have said. The Sister Assata Shakur currently has political asylum in Cuba for the last 30 years. We do hope that the Sister Assata Shakur lives her. Now, her life is being threatened. If the imperialists can kill American citizens overseas without due process, then you knows that her life is threaten by imperialists today. Assata Shakur was wounded by captured in New Jersey. The press conference talks about wanting her captured. There is a $2 million bounty on Assata's head. COINTELPRO was a wicked program where the FBI monitored, harassed, wiretapped, and killed those deemed dangerous to the government. Many victims of COINTELPRO did not even know that they were monitored until years later. It was exposed to the public via the U.S. Senate select committee, who was chaired by Senator Frank Church hearings in 1975. Even the government was forced to pay damages to the family of the murdered Illinois Black Panther Fred Hampton and they publicly said that they or the authorities were wrong in their misconduct against Fred Hampton. Back then, there was vicious police assault against innocent activists. This still occurs now. Back then, conservative, moderate, and progressive civil rights groups back then like the Urban league, the NAACP, Operation Breadbasket, and the Afro-American Patrolman's League stood up for dedicated black activists. Even Rev. Ralph Abernathy hugged Angela Davis in her fight for academic freedom and justice for political prisoners decades ago. This was when Angela Davis was falsely accused of murder in the deaths of a judge and others in California. What we see today is no mainstream civil rights organization coming to the support of Assata Shakur's plight. Now, we have overt assassination policies against even American citizens, which is unprecedented. We have secret kidnappings, torture, and drone attacks. The DHS use fusion centers to spy on innocent citizens in America. The TSA molest people all of the time. Some of this is just as bad as or even worse than what that evil man J. Edgar Hoover did with his FBI agents back in the day. So, the FBI is to be blamed for labeling Assata Shakur the most wanted terrorist of America. We want to see the dream in our time. We still have a long way to go in seeing the Dream, because militarism is harming the Motherland (where military aid form America is arming sides of conflict including the funding of Africom). We in America have the largest prison industrial complex and police state on Earth. We have the corporate threats of gentrification, austerity, and the destruction of our social services too. The evidence from various resources document how Assata Shakur is not a terrorist. She was shot with her hands in the air. No residue from gunfire was found on her hands or clothes. That was shown as evidence in her trial. Her writings and speech want social change in the world. As human beings, we cannot advance the aims of Empire. Assata Shakur left America in 1979 and received asylum by Cuba in 1984. Angela Davis and attorney Lennox Hinds talked about Shakur's plight. It is ironic that a Black President Barack Obama and a Black Attorney General Eric Holder would co-sign calling a Sister like Assata a terrorist. The White House refuses to explicitly talk about the black agenda, but he goes on television and he talks about immigrants and other social minorities in this country. I have no issue with immigrant rights, but we need black liberation too. When you look at the situation, we see that the current administration is an extension of the system of white supremacy. The truth is that all human beings have the right to for their liberation and we agree that truth not Empire is the way to go.


Adam Kokesh wants to lead another campaign. Adam Kokesh is planning an armed march in Washington, D.C. It is planned to happen on July 4th of this year. He is the controversial Iraqi war veteran, radio host, and Austrian economic activist. He wants to have an open carry march as a means to discuss about gun rights issues. He claims that he wants to show the government that he will not be intimidated and cower in submission to tyranny. He wants to march almost 3,000 attendees carrying loaded guns. Loaded guns are banned inside of D.C. This is risky since he could face arrest and the administration to use this event as a means to create executive order that disarm citizens. He says that if his group meets what he calls "physical resistance," the group will turn around and leave the city. He wants to coordinate his march in D.C. with Washington law enforcement officials. The D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said that Kokesh or any other organizer filed a permit to conduct the July 4th March. This is ironic since the Constitution gives any human the right to petition the government and express legitimate grievances without a permit. My issue is that this march is led by a neo-liberal person like Adam Kokesh. Kokesh also said that he wants civil disobedience and if the government chooses to make it violent, they will make it violent. So, this tactic could head into trouble.  Adam Kokesh said that his actions are an armed revolt against government. Adam claims that his march will be peaceful, but he said that if the government comes to take your guns, then you can shoot government agents or submit to slavery. Kokesh months ago agreed with the administration's regime change plans in Syria. He refuses to expose the vulture capitalism of Wall Street. The march will be near private and public daycare centers that are against D.C. law. They could be arrested or worst.  Mike Adams and Alex Jones are allies of Kokesh. Mike Adams is an extreme neoliberal that advances hatred of the leadership of Venezuela (which is the same position as the neo-con American Enterprise Institute). When Hugo Chavez passed away, Alex Jones said that Chavez was a Communist strongman and he is dead. The truth is that Hugo Chavez was not a Communist. There is a difference between communism and social democracy. Even the Constitution allows the government the right to provide the welfare for its citizenry. Hugo Chavez was not perfect, but he radical gave economic resources to decrease the levels of poverty in Venezuela.


The politics of Hollywood is real. One of the most powerful members of Hollywood’s elite is Summer Redstone. He is the CEO of Viacom. Viacom owns a huge list of media companies like CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, and VH1. The military industrial complex, Wall Street, and the rest of the elite run Hollywood not by the whims of the public audience. In 2000, The Hollywood Reporter released a top 100 list of the most powerful figures in the industry over the past 70 years. Rupert Murdoch, chief of News Corporation, which owns Twentieth Century Fox, was the most powerful living figure. Murdoch agrees with the same neoliberal globalization that is harming the world including the nation of Bangladesh. With the exception of director Steven Spielberg (no. 3), no artists appeared in the top 10. That is why each of the major Hollywood studies is a subsidiary of a much larger corporation. They act as a source of revenue in the wider financial empire. The major companies of Viacom, News Corp., Disney, Time Warner, Vivendi, and others rule most of the mainstream media and Hollywood. That is precisely why Hollywood shows movie in favor of armaments, terrorism, and militarism. Rupert Murdoch heavily funded positive reviews of the blockbuster of Australia, which was an epic from Baz Luhrmann. This should come as no surprise – Twentieth Century Fox’s parent company (Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp) – worked hand-in-hand with the Australian government throughout the film’s production for mutual interests. The government benefited from Luhrmann’s huge tourist campaign, which included not just the feature film itself but also a series of extravagant tie-in advertisements (all in apparent support of its ham-fisted Aborigine “reconciliation” programme). Disney has properties of course in Florida. They have ties to the Saudi Royal Family. One powerful member of the family named Al-Walid bin Talal owns a major stake in Eurodisney and was instrumental in bailing out the financially troubled amusement park. The Pentagon backed movies like Army Now, Crimson Tide, Bad Company (which was vetted by the CIA), the Recruit, etc. Even Disney has close to ties with the U.S. defense department for decades. Walt Disney in real life was a virulent anti-communist and there are rumors that Disney was a secret FBI informant. We know about the other rumors about Walt Disney as well. In the 1950s, corporate and government sponsors helped Disney make films promoting President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” policy as well as the infamous Duck and Cover documentary that suggested to schoolchildren that they could survive an atomic attack by hiding under their desks. We now realize that the Cold War was a contrived events utilized to exploit the lives of billions as a means to crush truly nationalist movements (and to centralize wealth into fewer hands). Even now, a longtime Directors Board member of Disney is John E. Bryson who is also a director of The Boeing Company, one of the world’s largest aerospace and defense contractors. Boeing received $16.6bn in Pentagon contracts in the ­aftermath of the US invasion of Afghanistan. That is why Disney wanted to avoid to commission films critical of Bush's foreign policy such as Fahrenheit 9/11. Universal Studios funded Children of Men, Jarhead, the Good Shepherd, and other militarist film. So, to assume that Hollywood is some pacifist, peacenik industry is truly inaccurate to assume. We know that Universal's parent company is General Electric. GE's lucrative interests relate to weapons manufacturing and producing crucial components for high-tech war planes, advanced surveillance technology, and essential hardware for the global oil and gas industries, notably in post Saddam Iraq. GE’s board of directors has strong ties to large so-called liberal organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation is not truly liberal per se. These foundations are used to contain or stir real revolutionary change and to make concessions in mainstream society. Hollywood is in league with the mainstream capitalist system. They want the bottom line, which to them is money. Corporate dollars dominate Hollywood productions. That is just common sense when you research the truth comprehensively.

 

By Timothy