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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 10:03pm On Oct 31, 2017
Appleyard:


Of course, it did carry the day. The voice of truth always wins at the end. How day, comrade... It's been a while... cool

Been a while indeed. Been on the grind. NairaMinted has been keeping me abreast. Although he says he isn't so frequent here either.
Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 12:13am On Oct 31, 2017
Been a while. Just out of curiosity, did Clinton win or not? Did people put on their thinking caps and stop her from getting to the White House? Did this post carry the day or not? Or was it all in vain? smiley

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Foreign Affairs / Re: America's Pivot To Africa by Underground: 12:10am On Oct 31, 2017
Thank you for the update, NairaMinted. The importance of the message holds ever so true and urgent
Romance / Re: RIGHT OR WRONG ? Male Student Proposed To His Lover Inside The Classroom by Underground: 1:13pm On Jun 14, 2017

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Foreign Affairs / Re: What If A U.s.-russian Deal In Syria Goes Exactly As Planned? by Underground: 12:34pm On Aug 12, 2016
Thoughts? Appleyard, NairaMinted, Scully95, Zoharariel

"As I understand it, Erdogan’s aircraft was being followed by two or three Turkish rebel aircraft intent on shooting him out of the sky.

The reason they did not is that they were not only locked on to by S400 radar at Heymim airbase, but also were themselves being closely followed by armed Russian planes who politely informed their partners (Turkish rebel pilots), that if they made any attempt to shoot down Erdogan they themselves would be destroyed by the Russians.

This element of the attempted coup has not been reported in the West for obvious reasons. It is indicative, however, just how closely Russia was not only following events but also how they influenced the outcome to the detriment of the coup planners.

Taking this in to account, and considering the FSB face to face meeting with Erdogan just prior to the coup where the lists of traitors were supplied, and upon which he is now acting, I am inevitably drawn to the conclusion that Russian military intelligence today knows the exact numbers and locations of these bombs.

More than likely they are still in situ. I don’t think helicopters were used to move them but rather helicopters were much more likely carrying fleeing CIA terrorists and their traitorous Turkish colleagues to safe zones.

Nukes in Turkey and Pakistan and (possibly) Saudi Arabia as well as Isreal make for a lethal powder keg of disaster. No wonder Russia has drawn the Paks toward their trading block. Israel and the Saudis can read the writing on the wall…Clinton is even less trustworthy than Obama thus a change of allegiance to Russia is the only viable long term option.

With the collapse of the Muslem tummy in the US surrounding of Russia and China that leaves only NATO in Europe, South Korea and Japan.

The US world hegemony is unravelling before our eyes and short of all out war there is nothing the US can do to prevent it.

Syria was not a line in the sand. It was the fulcrum point on which the US hegemony destroyed itself. And Putin was the clever politician that saw in this something more. He turned what appeared to the Pentagon to be only a dubious tactic into a decisive strategem.

As the old English saying goes, ‘give him enough rope and he’ll hang himself’! In other words, be patient, let the arrogant US do what it wants without let or hindrance, and sure enough ultimately it will hang itself by its own stupidity.

The US has just publically hung itself across the entire Moslem world for all to see, and there is no turning back. Rothchild’s CIA has stretched its own neck with its own rope. QED.

The nukes are well watched and most probably have been lost to the Russians forever."

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Foreign Affairs / Re: What If A U.s.-russian Deal In Syria Goes Exactly As Planned? by Underground: 7:23pm On Aug 01, 2016
Two days ago. Putin as always:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdypP11X2P8

Jul 29, 2016 President Putin asks the US Ambassador for his analysis on whether or not the Missile Defense System, being positioned on Russia’s doorstep, is in fact a threat to Russian security? His answer attempted to dispel the argument, but came out even more disturbing. According to the US Ambassador, America needs war to create jobs. Putin, amused, asks – “Why can’t you create jobs in a sphere that does’t threaten the existence of the human race?” In my previous video, which has since gone viral, Putin explains how a “defense” system is actually one element of a whole system of “offense” weaponry.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 11:09pm On Jul 31, 2016
The fix has been in for a while...

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Foreign Affairs / Re: What If A U.s.-russian Deal In Syria Goes Exactly As Planned? by Underground: 11:04pm On Jul 31, 2016
Is anyone following the developments around the Incirlik base in Turkey?

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 6:47pm On Jul 24, 2016
The resignation unfortunately doesn't hold any significance anymore. She has already done the hatchet job and delivered the ticket to Clinton.

Under Pressure, DNC’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz Limits Convention Role

One possibility is that Ms. Schultz will no longer have a speech at the Philadelphia convention



Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is interviewed on Fox Business.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/under-pressure-dncs-debbie-wasserman-schultz-limits-convention-role-1469376914?client=safari#


Bernie calls for party chairwoman's head as she's dropped from convention over leaked emails revealing plans to 'smear' Sanders; she called his aide 'an ass' and tried to score Hamilton tickets

Head of the Democratic National Committee Debbie Wasserman Schultz will not speak at convention

Party sources say the decision was made in an attempt to 'keep the peace' after emails reveal bias toward Hillary Clinton's campaign

Sen. Bernie Sanders said he wasn't shocked in the slightest having made that charge for months during his presidential bid

'She should resign, period,' Sanders said this morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Almost 20,000 emails were leaked to Wikileaks this week showing conversations between top members of the party

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3705610/Head-DNC-NOT-speak-party-s-convention-week-massive-email-leak.html
Foreign Affairs / Re: Possible Coup In Turkey, Military Locks Down Bridges That Connect Europe & Asia by Underground: 3:29pm On Jul 16, 2016
Missy89:


I was just trolling you tongue

I see. Shitty plot by the plotters though. Didn't they realize that this isn't the 80s or 90s where you focus on the TV and radio stations alone whilst forgetting that this magical thing called the Internet and social media exists? First things first: media blackout and then you round up key figures in government. These lads were just shooting upandan hoping people would be scared into submission

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Possible Coup In Turkey, Military Locks Down Bridges That Connect Europe & Asia by Underground: 3:21pm On Jul 16, 2016
Missy89:


Your analysis is in real trouble and falling apart

Lol! Why is that? What's yours?
Foreign Affairs / Re: Possible Coup In Turkey, Military Locks Down Bridges That Connect Europe & Asia by Underground: 3:00pm On Jul 16, 2016
Turkey: Let's put it this way...

If it was a real coup, Turkey is in real trouble and is falling apart.

If Erdogan is so desperately clinging to power that he needs to stage a "fake" coup against himself, Turkey is in real trouble and is falling apart.

If the US is trying to strong-arm Erdogan back toward his suicide mission, Turkey is in real trouble and is falling apart.

If the US has decided to liquidate their man in Ankara, Turkey is in real trouble and is falling apart.

Turkey is in real trouble and is falling apart.
Foreign Affairs / Re: BREAKING! Yet Another Murder By Racist Cops In Amerika by Underground: 11:05am On Jul 12, 2016
Israeli Comparisons

To Mayor Emanuel and former Superintendent McCarthy, it seemed, affluent sections of Chicago’s North Side are to Chicago’s South and West sides what Tel Aviv is to Occupied Palestine’s Jerusalem and Ramallah.


Israel Defense Force soldiers patrolling Nablus during the Second Intifada in 2002. (Photo credit: Israel Defense Forces)
Emanuel and McCarthy seemed to have imported the Israeli military occupation ideology that just as Palestine must be kept “under the heavy heel of Israeli military occupation,” so must Chicago’s poorer areas be kept under the heavy heel of the Chicago police, acting as a paramilitary occupation force.

That Emanuel bears responsibility for all that has taken place in regard to the McDonald execution is shown in his role in making the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), the civilian agency that investigates allegations of excessive force by police, irrelevant.

The Chicago Tribune published an examination that found that of the 409 police shootings since IPRA was created in September 2007, only two allegations against police officers were deemed credible. (Emanuel has been mayor since May 16, 2011.)

In December 2015, in announcing that former federal prosecutor Sharon Fairley would take charge of the IPRA after the resignation of her predecessor, neither Emanuel nor Fairley addressed how IPRA would improve “its woeful track record in investigating shootings,” as the Chicago Tribune described it.

Instead, Fairley stated: “the mission of IPRA will remain the same: thorough, fair and timely investigation of police officer misconduct.” Absurdly, that seems to be a statement asserting that nothing would change, allowing the police to continue operating with a sense of entitlement as they run roughshod over a population they are supposed to protect.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago police officials under Emanuel stopped participating in meetings with the IPRA to discuss officer shootings, “a change that came with the knowledge of the mayor’s office.” Will that remain the same?

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch was asked whether the federal investigation would extend to the mayor’s and state’s attorney’s offices. Notwithstanding Emanuel’s alleged role in shutting down police participation with the IPRA, Lynch said the investigation would focus on the Police Department’s practices.

That’s not all that remarkable when one considers that the U.S. Justice Department and President Barack Obama declared they would take no action on the issue of “war on terror” torture by U.S. government officials involving the CIA and the military. As President Obama’s former Chief of Staff, Emanuel seems to fall under a similar protective shield of impunity.

What is remarkable is that the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus “called for Lynch to expand her probe to include IPRA and the state’s attorney’s office, but it left out the mayor’s office.” That is remarkable because Mayor Emanuel appears to be the person who gave impunity for civil rights violations to Chicago police officers to the degree that they felt legally immune in summarily executing Laquan McDonald.

A Family History

If Mayor Rahm Emanuel seems to have brought a Fascist sensibility to Chicago and the police force, it can be said it’s part of a family tradition. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Emanuel “is the son of a Jerusalem-born pediatrician who was a member of the Irgun (Etzel or IZL), a militant Zionist group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948.”


Wanted Poster of the Palestine Police Force offering rewards for the capture of Stern Gang terrorists: 1. Jaacov Levstein (Eliav), 2. Yitzhak Yezernitzky (Shamir), 3. Natan Friedman-Yelin
In addition, according to Emanuel’s father, Benjamin, his son “is the namesake of Rahamim, a Lehi combatant who was killed” and was obviously a close friend or seen as a martyr. Both Lehi and the Irgun were terrorist organizations, not only in the eyes of the British and the Arabs in pre-Israel Palestine, but in the eyes of their fellow Jews, whom they also attacked.

Furthermore, the clandestine terror squads considered themselves Fascist organizations, not only in their tactics but in their ideology which had aligned them with Mussolini’s Italy and other inter-war European Fascist parties.

In The Road to Power: Herut Party in Israel, author Yonathan Shapiro describes Irgun as the military wing of the Betar Movement. The two groups jointly published a paper, Die Tat. Shapiro writes: “Betar activists were swept up by the radical-right nationalism then at its height in Europe.”

This was shown in the Betar press in Poland, where the Yiddish-language Betar-Irgun paper Die Tat was sympathetic to radical-right parties. The paper ran a series of articles in late 1938 and early 1939 entitled “The Third Europe,” which Shapiro says “was the overall name given to radical-right movements such as the Nazis in Germany, the Fascists in Italy, the Iron Guard in Romania, and the Franco camp in Spain, and so forth.”

One article in the series explained that Hitler’s attempted putsch in 1923 derailed “the German leadership from its track of havlagah – the same term that Zionist leaders used for their policy of moderation in their dealings with the Arab nationalist movement in Palestine.” The implication was that the Jewish radical right had to do something similar to break the Jewish leaders from moderation in Palestine.

Another Die Tat writer who was based in Tel Aviv argued that anti-Semitism wasn’t “an integral part of Naziism, which in the final analysis was a version of Fascism,” of which he approved. In an editorial entitled, “Hitler and Judaism,” a few weeks later, “the paper wrote that it did not reject Hitler’s views, not even on the race issue. It only objected to the campaign that ‘in practice’ he was waging against the Jewish people, and its desire to establish an independent state.”

Lessons of Terror

In 1942, Menachem Begin arrived in “Eretz-Israel,” as Irgun members referred to Palestine. He was “offered command of the Irgun and leadership of Betar.” Begin refused leadership of Betar on the grounds that Ze’ev Jabotinsky, though dead, remained head of Betar, and Jabotinsky as the irreplaceable leader of Betar “came to symbolize the idea of the absolute leader.”


Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Begin, the future founder of Likud and prime minister of Israel, was his “pupil and successor,” who shared the view of other Fascist parties that “believed in the principle of the omnipotent leader.” These were the Fascist ideas that Rahm Emanuel’s father imbibed and celebrated in his youth, and shared with his Lehi friend, Rahamim.

The distinction between the Irgun and Lehi was that the Irgun later called a truce with the British during World War II when it finally became apparent to them that Hitler represented a threat to Zionist interests, whereas Lehi saw Great Britain as much or more of the enemy than Hitler. Lehi continued terrorist attacks against Britain throughout the war.

Whatever the elder Emanuel’s political thoughts are today, he seemed to retain his youthful Fascist-style contempt for Arabs as he commented when Rahm was named President Obama’s Chief of Staff: “Obviously he’ll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn’t he? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going to be mopping floors at the White House,” as reported in the New York Times.

None of this is to suggest that Rahm Emanuel shares any of the Fascist ideas of his father’s youthful associates in the Irgun or of his father in his youth. But if Rahm Emanuel is going to preside over secret interrogation and detention centers as the Mayor of Chicago and is responsible for a police force learning and using Fascist-style police tactics, people may begin to notice a resemblance to the youthful Benjamin Emanuel and the ideology his Irgun associates.

Emanuel’s Style

True to form in some people’s eyes after the court-ordered release of the video revealing the murder of Laquan McDonald Mayor Emanuel didn’t actually take responsibility for the cover-up except to acknowledge the obvious with his statement that it “happened on my watch.” He didn’t explain how the murder was swept under the carpet for over a year so, as some allege, it wouldn’t interfere with his reelection.

NPR reported, “Emanuel acknowledged there is an underlying ‘trust problem’ that Chicago needs to address,” and “the city now needs to begin the process of healing and restoring trust and confidence in the police department. … Emanuel says supervision and leadership in the police department failed, and he promises to address ‘the thin blue line’ and ‘the code of silence,’ in which police officers ignore, deny and cover up the bad actions of a colleague.”

However, as mayor, Emanuel bore ultimate responsibility for “supervision and leadership” of the police department and it wasn’t the “thin blue line” that maintained the “code of silence” for over a year. It was the Mayor’s Office.

Also, with Israel making its counter-insurgency police training a major export to U.S. police forces and with American cities such as Chicago eager to adopt that training, it is little wonder that minorities increasingly feel they are under repressive military-style occupation in their communities. They have good reason to feel that way since the police are getting training from a country that is expert at keeping a conquered people under an open-ended military occupation.

By contrast, the police of Scotland have offered a very different strategy to a delegation of top American police officials by demonstrating “the art of firearm-free policing.” As The New York Times reported, “Most British police officers are unarmed, a distinction particularly pronounced … in Scotland, where 98 percent of the country’s officers do not carry guns. Rather than escalating a situation with weapons, easing it through talk is an essential policing tool.”

The American police officials appeared dumbfounded by the concept of operating without weapons and pressed their Scottish counterparts with questions about how many Scottish police officers have been wounded or killed in the line of duty.

Bernard Higgins, an assistant chief constable who is Scotland’s use-of-force expert, responded that his officers do take punches often but the last one killed died in 1994 from a stabbing. “There is poverty, crime and a ‘pathological hatred of officers wearing our uniform’ in pockets of Scotland, he said, but constables live where they work and embrace their role as ‘guardians of the community,’ not warriors from a policing subculture,” according to the Times.

Higgins added, “We police from an absolute position of embracing democracy.”

Todd E. Pierce retired as a Major in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps in November 2012. His most recent assignment was defense counsel in the Office of Chief Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions. In the course of that assignment, he researched and reviewed the complete records of military commissions held during the Civil War and stored at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Foreign Affairs / Re: BREAKING! Yet Another Murder By Racist Cops In Amerika by Underground: 11:04am On Jul 12, 2016
Secret interrogation and detention centers, counter-insurgency tactics, summary executions, etc. Not in Israel but in the U.S. by a police that is getting it's training from a country that is expert at keeping a conquered people under an open-ended military occupation.

A look at the source of the violent component of America's Black vs. police issues..

Via ConsortiumNews

Chicago Police Adopt Israeli Tactics
July 11, 2016

From the Archive: Recent cases of white police killing unarmed black men raise concern that some U.S. police are applying counter-terrorism tactics, including some learned at Israeli academies, retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce wrote in 2015.

By Todd E. Pierce (Originally published on Dec. 11, 2015)

After more than a year of stonewalling and what some might call obstructing justice, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued an apology for the horrific execution of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason van Dyke. Laquan McDonald was the black 17-year-old who was shot 16 times by the police officer on Oct. 20, 2014. The video showing the shooting was only released by Chicago officials when they were ordered to do so by a judge in late November 2015.

But apology or not, the underlying substantive issue is that the summary execution of McDonald was the sort of atrocity that one would expect to see in what the U.S. once called “police states.” In fact, one can imagine a death squad execution in El Salvador in the 1980s looking very similar on video to McDonald’s slaying.


Dashcam video of Chicago police shooting Laquan McDonald.
“Police state” is a term which has fallen into disuse since 9/11 with the adoption of so many similar practices by the so-called “democracies” in their domestic policies. The term generally was applied to Fascist or Communist governments and described a country where the police and the military exercised martial law over citizens or military occupation powers that uses military force to control a civilian population.

Sometimes these arbitrary powers were enforced by summary executions, depending on how much the authorities could get away with in their “extreme measures.” This was the practice in countries such as Nazi Germany; Pinochet’s Chile; El Salvador and Guatemala during the Cold War; to a lesser degree, apartheid South Africa; and military occupied territories such as Tibet, Israeli-occupied Palestine, and Eastern Europe under the Soviet Union.

But Chicago isn’t under martial law or military occupation, is it? Nor is it an apartheid state, with apartheid enforced by domestic martial law and military force, is it? To a normal civilian-oriented mind, one would think it is not under military occupation or martial law.

Seeking Israeli Training

Yet, under Mayor Emanuel, a former Israeli Defense Force (IDF) volunteer, and Garry McCarthy, the now former Chicago Police Superintendent (Emanuel fired him Dec. 1, 2015), it seems that parts of Chicago were treated as if they were occupied territory under police or paramilitary rule.

That is, under arbitrary martial law, just like the repressive martial law regime of the IDF in the occupied territory of Palestine. Martial law or occupation law is arbitrary as it is not law, but is the manifestation of the occupying military commander’s “will.”

How could this be in the civilian government of Chicago? In part, because Police Superintendent McCarthy and the City of Chicago sought out and received training by Israeli occupation forces in “counter-terrorism” policing, that is, “pacifying” a population through aggressive intelligence gathering and the application of military force. Counter-insurgency is the term used for when this doctrine is applied by military forces.

This collaboration between Israel and U.S. police agencies, including Chicago, emerged after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. Since then, by one count, at least 300 high-ranking sheriffs and police from cities both large and small have received counter-terrorism training in Israel. For instance, in January 2003, 33 senior U.S. law enforcement officials from Chicago and other major American cities flew to Israel for sessions on “Law Enforcement in the Era of Global Terror.”

[One of the Israeli-trained police officials was Dallas Police Chief David Brown, who oversaw the police response to last Friday’s killing of five police officers and the decision to use a remote-controlled bomb to kill the shooting suspect.]

In 2009, Israel’s Midwest Consulate General co-sponsored “an intensive seminar” in Israel for senior Chicago police officials “on intelligence-led policing techniques.”

Chicago Police Superintendent McCarthy was a key participant in this Israeli training. The Israel Trade & Economic Office of the U.S. Midwest Region invited police officials to “Join Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy & the Midwest Delegation to the Israel Homeland Security International Conference 2012, and be a part of an international gathering of public security officials and private technology companies.”

In 2012, these “security officials” got to “experience demonstrations of breakthrough technologies from Israel” and “tour security infrastructure at the Old City of Jerusalem,” a city under Israeli military occupation. It wasn’t made clear if the “demonstrations of breakthrough technologies from Israel” would extend to live subjects in occupied Jerusalem.

In November 2014, Chicago’s McCarthy “led a delegation of senior law enforcement officials to Israel” as part of a training mission “to engage directly with their Israeli counterparts to discuss best practices, unique strategies, and new technologies in a range of law enforcement areas,” according to the same Israeli trade office.

“The visit also aimed to build a foundation for enhanced collaboration between the Chicago Police Department and the State of Israel.” Included in the delegation was the Executive Director of Cook County’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Office, the Chief of Staff of the Chicago Police Department, as well as police officials from other large American cities. [The itinerary of the delegation is explained more here.]

In other words, over more than a decade, senior Chicago police officials have been studying Israel’s militarized police practices for how best to maintain a repressive military control over an occupied population living under permanent, strict martial, or occupation, law.

An Occupation Mentality

Why this matters is that Israel doesn’t have a domestic civilian policing model but instead applies a counter-insurgency policing model intended for a population under military occupation, or otherwise considered as hostile under martial law.


Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaking at a Brookings Institution event.
This policing model is being sold by Israel’s government to gullible or authoritarian-leaning U.S. police officials as a legitimate domestic policing model when, in fact, it is a military model of the sort used by militaristic, authoritarian regimes, customarily referred to as “fascist.”

What many people fail to understand about Israel and the IDF is that since 1967, now going on half a century, the Palestinian civilians who “fell into [Israeli] hands” when the IDF conquered Palestinian territory have been kept in strict and harsh military captivity of the sort the U.S. condemned when the former Soviet Union did the same to its captive peoples.

This pattern continues even though the Israeli occupation has been repeatedly declared illegal under international law. Chicago police being trained by Israeli security police and occupation forces is analogous to, and merits the same condemnation as, a U.S. city sending its officials to receive “police” training from Soviet security police who maintained military occupation of Eastern Europe in the 1950s-1960s. Or to North Korea today.

But in this case, there is also the issue of colluding with Israeli occupation authorities in an illegal occupation. These U.S. police officials are put in what should be the awkward position of aiding and abetting illegality.

Of course, one killing by a Chicago police officer, though similar to some of the killings by the IDF of civilians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and far below the scale of killing of the periodic “mowing the grass” that Israel undertakes in Gaza every couple of years, does not mean that illegal military occupation tactics are being practiced in Chicago. Or does it?

Secret Interrogations

In isolation, no. But while Chicago police have always had the reputation of being simply a rival gang to the many other gangs in Chicago’s history, under Rahm Emanuel’s regime, it has come to resemble an occupying military force down to a “secret interrogation facility,” as reported by Britain’s Guardian newspaper in August 2015: “At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility, newly uncovered records reveal.”

The Chicago Police Department maintained that the warehouse was not a secret facility “so much as an undercover police base operating in plain sight.” But, as the Guardian reported, people were shackled and held for hours or even days without access to attorneys in violation of the U.S. Constitution, but the sort of detention permitted of Palestinians under IDF occupation.

A Chicago civil rights activist said he was abducted by masked officers, shackled and held on false charges, “with no food, no water, no access to the outside world” at the behest of “covert operations.” In other words, he simply disappeared.

Another former “detainee,” Charles Jones, was told in the interrogation room that he would be allowed a phone call once booked and processed. But he said his requests for legal counsel were repeatedly denied during the six-to-eight hours he was held at Homan Square.

“The only reason you’re brought to Homan and Fillmore is to extract information,” Jones said, referring to the cross streets of the facility.

“The police probably feel they need those covert operations because that’s the only way to get the intel they need instead of doing the good work the hard work. . . . It’s easy to just go grab someone, throw ’em somewhere no food, no water, no access to the outside world, intimidating and threatening ’em,” he said.

That is similar to intelligence-driven techniques used in counter-insurgency warfare. Several ex-Homan Square detainees told the Guardian that their detentions “were out of proportion to their alleged crimes, if any but calibrated to pressure them into becoming informants.” This, in fact, is just like what U.S. forces did in occupied Iraq and Israeli forces do in Occupied Palestine. Indeed, that is what occupying armies do.

According to The Guardian, while the police data is incomplete, the disclosures “suggest an intensification of Homan Square usage under Emanuel. Approximately 70% of the Homan Square detentions the Chicago police acknowledge thus far have occurred under the current mayor.”

At the time of The Guardian article, then-Police Superintendent McCarthy was attending a meeting on violence and policing in Washington and was unavailable for comment.

After The Guardian’s initial Homan Square exposé in February 2015, protests were held and local politicians called for investigations. But Rahm Emanuel was not among the concerned officials even though he was running for re-election in part on a platform of police reform. Instead, Emanuel took ownership of the unorthodox operation and “defended his police,” claiming, “we follow all the rules” at Homan Square and calling the reporting “not true.”

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 9:48am On Jul 11, 2016
The election coronation of Clinton gathers steam


Election Fraud: 15% Of Votes Switched From Sanders To Clinton



Posted on June 27, 2016 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai in News, US // 35 Comments
Election fraud bombshell: 15% of votes were illegally switched from Sanders to Clinton during California primaries

Evidence of election fraud from the California primaries continues to emerge as machine-counted ballots were inexplicably changed from Bernie Sanders votes to Hillary Clinton ones.



The votes appear to have been flipped on hacked voting machines and central tabulators on nearly 15% of Sanders’ total votes.

Richard Charnin reports:

Sanders hand-counted share exceeded his machine-counted share in EVERY county. The probability of this occurrence is absolute ZERO.


cali-election-fraud


Posted 6/25/2016 on Facebook by Phillip Wyler Evans:

In all machine-counted votes tabulated before 5:00 P.M. on 6-17 in all California counties, Bernie scored 14.2% less (36.9%) than he scored with hand-counted ballots (51.1%). In machine-counted votes that were tabulated AFTER 5:00 P.M. on 6-17, Bernie scored just 2.2% less (48.9%) than he scored with hand counted ballots. We are still trying to determine what portion of the votes before 5:00 are absentee from each county if anyone has that information.

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Poll workers claim that 50% to 90% of voters who were supposed to have been eligible to vote in the Democratic primary were told they would have to vote using provisional ballots. There were two reasons for this:

1-previously registered voters’ names had been removed from the rolls.

2- Some were marked as vote by mail voters – but they had received no ballot in the mail. Virtually all who were not allowed to vote and forced to vote provisional ballots were Bernie Sanders supporters.

Poll workers in Los Angeles and Orange County report that Bernie won the electronic votes in their precincts by well over a 2 to 1 margin, the opposite of the vote count. The contrast indicates vote-flipping.

If you add the lower figure of 50% of voters who were not allowed to vote regular ballots for Bernie to the votes he received, you wind up with a substantial Sanders landslide victory in California. The primary beneficiary of the fraud is Hillary Clinton.

EARLY VOTER EXIT POLL – A 23% DISCREPANCY

Election Justice USA is a voter advocacy non-profit organization which demands a hand audit of the early mail-in ballots. It asserts that the Capitol Weekly early-voter exit poll conducted across the state of California yielded a 23 percent discrepancy in Los Angeles vote-by-mail ballots compared to the actual results.In Los Angeles area polling of the early round of mail-in voters, Hillary Clinton lead over Bernie Sanders was less than 10 percent.

“The discrepancy cannot be easily explained by demographic factors: the results of the Capitol Weekly exit poll were weighted by age and race. Moreover, the exit poll had 21,000 respondents, and was praised–prior to election night–by mainstream elections journalists, including Nate Cohn of the New York Times. While no exit poll can prove fraud, a significant exit polling discrepancy such as this constitutes cause for alarm, especially one of this magnitude. It’s also sufficient cause for immediate action: voters should bring pressure to bear on officials and demand an expanded hand audit.”

PROVISIONAL BALLOTS

Acclaimed BBC reporter, author and election fraud expert Greg Palast calls provisional ballots “placebo ballots.”

“As I’ve previously reported, provisional ballots are “placebo” ballots that let you feel like you’ve voted, but you haven’t. Provisional ballots are generally discarded.”

Greg exposed the fraud in Florida in 2000. Nightline used his footage in covering the story.

Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Underground: 9:42am On Jul 11, 2016
stanech:
True that

I like how you drop nuggets of truth, common sense and wisdom in the midst of all these noise.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 12:47pm On Jul 09, 2016
http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/president/party/democratic/county/sonoma/

Seven counties and at least 3 districts have flipped since election night in favour of Sanders.

Foreign Affairs / Re: BREAKING! Yet Another Murder By Racist Cops In Amerika by Underground: 12:19pm On Jul 09, 2016
If anyone is in denial about just how differently the police treats Black suspects compared to White suspects, please watch this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVhasi95c4

White People With Guns NOT Killed By Cops (VIDEOS)

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Please Pray For Saudi Kingdom, Saudi Under Terror Attacks (pictures) by Underground: 11:28am On Jul 06, 2016
Did you ask we pray for Saudi Arabia? Lol! That's a joke right? Saudi Arabia, chief facilitator of terrorist groups world wide? You know what blow back is don't you?
Foreign Affairs / Re: Putin Writes Obama by Underground: 11:24am On Jul 06, 2016
Pointless thread to be honest

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 11:15am On Jul 06, 2016
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153697781084117&id=17548474116&_rdr


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbkS26PX4rc


"When the FBI director straight up says 'In other cases like this we have recommended charges, but in this case we do not.' That's when you know the depth of corruption in this government. They don't even hide it anymore"

General Petraeus got hanged for less. Corruption in high places
Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 1:45pm On Jul 02, 2016
Lucasbalo and Valeriansteel, my final address to you two:

The two of you are undoubtedly unintelligent and comical.

I can see that you still cannot in any shape or form respond intelligently or factually to any argument that shatters your paradigm. "Hate America Club" (written in acronym as HAC according to you) and 'Living in sh*thole-Going-Down-the-Drain-Nigeria" are the only handbook retorts that are readily available to you. Grow up and try again when you have something more original to say.

1. I made a post on why Hilary is unfit to be president, you overlook my support for Bernie and scream HAC! like some kid throwing a
tantrum? What's the relation between these two? You can't stomach anyone that doesn't share your love for your candidate? Are you
children??

2. So what if I haven't made a post about Hillary? What if I am just coming around to making a post about it now? How does that make me ill-informed about American politics and makes you are the experts at it because............? Because you live in the United States? Because you love America more than anyone else? Because you are Americans? Because you watch CNN and MSNBC more than anyone else on
Nairaland? Comical! What's the reason exactly??

3. Slap each other on the backs will ya since y'all have figured that I did a quick google search and stumbled on these materials. What I however find funny and impressive at the same time is that a quick google search turned up these results chronicled in such an informed
manner. What are the odds?

4. Sh*thole-Going-Down-the-Drain-Nigeria: Apologies that I do have the luxury (or desire) of spending valuable, precious hours punching my thoughts online on how to make Nigeria great like you two do but I doubt you spend half the time you spend "debating" American politics to - in your own words - helping Nigeria. And I must say it's very rich coming from two individuals that are fully camped out day in, day out on the American Politics Lounge thread. Self hate and suffering from a complex so severe that you just want to feel, appear and be American so so bad, is a terrible disease.


Like I mentioned earlier,this post is for discerning and intelligent people. You two - very unintelligent and infantile.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 1:06pm On Jul 02, 2016
Missy89:


Why would anyone that understand economics support a socialist?

I like the guy because he is at least honest about his naivety. Tell me one thing about his plan that makes sense. Mind you i dont support Hilary either

Come on! You labeled him a socialist which naturally implies that he's a full-on socialist at worst or a "democratic socialist" at best. In America really? A socialist wants to win the presidency?

He is a social democrat. That's what he is. A system already practiced to great success in several Scandanavian and Nordic countries. I dare say Franklin D. Roosevelt too was a social democrat.

And yes, based on his demeanour; his integrity; his honesty (perhaps too honest for a politician navigating the toxic watersof politics); his lifelong, passionate fight to rein in the excesses of Wall Street, big money politics and the corruption in Corporate America - and it's relationship with the government; his anti-war, anti-Big Brother stance; his lifelong, passionate fight for the civil rights and liberties and welfare of the common man; etc - issues that Clinton herself embodies- are what makes me a Bernie supporter. He's not some Big Money "career" politician. He's the real deal

Bottom line is Americans are increasingly getting fed up with the corrupted two-party system since there really ins't much change in the general direction of government and its policies hence the popularity of the Green Party and Libertarian Party candidates.

Good for ya for not supporting Clinton! Surprised you havent been labeled a Hate America Club (HAC) member! cheesy

Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 8:24am On Jul 01, 2016
Lucasbalo:
The hate America club members don't care about their country going down the drain, their obsession is America which is thousands of years ahead of the Third World entity they dwell in.

ValerianSteel:
The amount of time it took you googling all these stuffs and posting it here could have been invested into something of productivity for your hell hole country.

I'm really beginning to question the intelligence of you two... "hate America club"? Lol! How does supporting Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton qualifies me to be in this your much parroted hate America club?
********Please answer this.********


Y'all really need to do your homework and stop throwing scripted, asinine answers at anything that challenges your ideology and y'all really need to slow down on the self-hating and country bashing when you refer to Nigeria as a sh*t hole or hell hole of a country. What does the state of Nigeria have to do with anything? You aren't the type that go out there and deny their roots or put up a fake personae just because you want to be accepted into their fold are you?

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 8:15am On Jul 01, 2016
Missy89:


Do you support Bernie?

Oh yes I do
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Underground: 1:33am On Jul 01, 2016
ValerianSteel:
What's your business with American Democracy.Please go back to worshipping your dictator Putin.

Hahahahaha! That's exactly the rant and childish tantrum I expected from your likes.

You can't address the topic or facts, you are too deluded and steeped in a false reality to see the rot that has set in in a supposedly "democratic" political system but rather digresses with unrelated subject matter.

Sorry, the post was for discerning and intelligent people - the more sophisticated ilk. wink

By the way, I can comment wherever I want in case you have realized that yet. Your friends Zoharariel, Appleyard, Nairaminted, Scully95 await you on other threads of which you have been avoiding lately.. Hilarious!

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Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Underground: 12:41am On Jul 01, 2016
A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President

Bernie pulls crowds of 60,000, 30,000, 25,000, etc and Clinton - the establishment's darling - hasn't been able to muster more than 5,000 yet she is on the verge of being nominated as the democratic party's presidential candidate. Something is amiss....

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 12:37am On Jul 01, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-qG5oVAivI

Scarborough Blasts Clinton and Lynch’s ‘Extraordinarily Bad Judgement’ After Private Meeting

The panel of MSNBC’s Morning Joe was bewildered Thursday by Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton‘s decision to meet privately on a personal plane, even though Clinton’s wife Hillary

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 12:34am On Jul 01, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N_jWAZeIZE

Pres. Candidate JILL STEIN Talks About Where The Bernie Movement Goes Now [18]

Published on 23 Jun 2016
It’s important to note that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are not the only people running for president, despite what the mainstream media may have you believe. That’s why this week, Lee sat down with Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. Lee discusses the media, the state of the current race, and would she consider running with Bernie Sanders?

"If you like being thrown under the bus, teetering on the brink of the next economic crisis, barreling towards climate meltdown, by all means vote for Hillary.

On the other hand, if you recognize that the lesser evil has delivered everything we were afraid of, vote Jill. ‪#‎ItsInOurHands‬"

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 12:17am On Jul 01, 2016
"Update from Cliff Arnebeck's paralegal and an invitation to an even bigger update tomorrow, regarding lawsuit(s) that are involved with Saving our Democracy.

NEXT LIVESTREAM: Thursday, June 30th, 6:30 PM PST or come join us in person at the Corte Madera Best Western for an update on the disturbing condition of the California primary with attorneys at law Bill Simpich and Ida Martinac. Pole analyst, John Rice and election integrity activist, Lori Grace will share nationwide evidence that will solidify your belief that Bernie Sanders has clearly won the Democratic Nomination and will, with OUR help solidify his rightful seat as our Commander in Chief! With all the pressure Bernie is getting he can't do anything without us remaining ‪#‎BernieStrong‬ and ‪#‎BernieMobilized‬. Please stay involved and engaged, and help us out at JusticeServed.org Thank you!"



https://www.facebook.com/brenda.mitchell.5473?fref=nf

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 12:01am On Jul 01, 2016
http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/loretta-lynch-bill-clinton-meet-privately-in-phoenix

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meet privately in Phoenix before Benghazi report

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Foreign Affairs / Re: A Thinking Person's Guide To Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Fit To Be President by Underground: 11:48pm On Jun 30, 2016
Like I mentioned earlier: sociopath


"Highway 265: The True Story Hillary Clinton Hoped You Would Never Hear.
41 years ago in the town of Springdale, Arkansas, a horrific crime was committed against a 12-year-old girl. But it was the injustice that followed that has defined her"

https://www.facebook.com/abuajridefree/videos/302130873453160/

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