Auribus Arrectis

Whatever the discrepancy between the perceived and actual reality may be, the perennial code phrase “New Reality” is again deployed, priming the public for increased measures of police state control. We heard “New Reality” after the Oklahoma City bombing, after 9/11, after Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon bombing; once again…

N.Y. Times – New Reality After Orlando Attacks: Dogs, Metal Detectors and Searches at Public Gatherings

Willyloman – How Proposed Mental Hygiene Law and “No Fly No Buy” Bill Will Arbitrarily Strip People of Constitutional Rights

SHTFplan – DHS Secretary Sees All Americans As a Threat: “Gun Control Has To Be a Part of Homeland Security”

A promotional campaign from the usual suspects…

IntelNews – Former CIA, NSA directors, retired generals, launch gun control group

Remove the colon and read the all-caps “is” as emphasis, and we have quite a revealing headline from…

McClatchyDC – CIA chief: IS working to send operatives to the West

Mad Cow News – ORLANDO SHOOTING DAD A LONGTIME CIA ASSET

Wayne Madsen Report (June 13) – Orlando shooter’s father has definite CIA links. The link between Orlando and Boston is spelled C-I-A

There is one major commonality between the jihadist terrorist attacks on a gay nightclub in Orlando on June 13 and on the Boston Marathon in 2013 and that is the Central Intelligence Agency. Ever since the ill-conceived CIA-led war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the agency’s incubation of the most violent extremes of Islam, the United States and other countries have faced constant “blowback” from U.S. support for jihadist terrorists. The older Boston Marathon bomber brother — Tamerlan Tsarnaev — and the Orlando club shooter Omar Mateen (aka Seddique Mateen) were investigated by the FBI on more than a single occasion.

The uncle of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Ruslan Tsarni (aka Tsarnaev) had been linked to the CIA. Tsarni was married to the daughter of Graham Fuller, one of the chief CIA architects of the radicalization of Muslims to act as radical foot soldiers for the United States, whether in Afghanistan against the Soviets or in the Caucasus against Russia. Mir Seddique, aka Mir Seddique Mateen, the father of Omar Mateen, is a self-styled leader of a government-in-exile of Afghanistan that is based in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The father’s operation, using a Florida not-for-profit company called “The Durand Jirga, Inc.” mirrors traditional CIA fronts in southern Florida existing for decades to overthrow governments from Cuba and Nicaragua to Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Mir Seddique hosted a television program called the “Durand Jirga Show.” The show is broadcast on the Afghan satellite network “Payam-e-Afghan,” which is headquartered in Los Angeles and broadcasts in Pashto and Persian. Payam-e-Afghan’s Facebook page indicates a link between the network and the Fethulleh Gulen organization’s Rumi Awards. Gulen, a Turkish industrialist who lives in Pennsylvania and is an opponent of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been linked to the CIA…

(June 14) – Father of Orlando shooter part of U.S. pro-Taliban CIA/VOA network

Seddique Mir Mateen, the presidential pretender of Afghanistan and father of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, is part of a pro-Taliban network of Afghan and Pakistani propagandists who use the television and radio networks funded by the CIA-influenced Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to spread their messages to audiences throughout the world…

Mateen claims he maintains his own intelligence network, but this appears to be a reference to his CIA and Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) friends who are involved in South Asia’s propaganda war using satellite programs broadcast in Pashto — major languages of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mateen’s broadcast language Dari, and Urdu…

Even after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States, the VOA’s Pashto service gave a propaganda platform to the Afghan Taliban.

After the September 11 attack, Spozhmai Maiwandi, the director of the Voice of America’s Pashtun service, jokingly nicknamed “Kandahar Rose” by her colleagues, aired favorable reports on the Taliban, including a controversial interview with Taliban leader Mullah Omar. It should not be surprising, therefore, that Seddique Mir Mateen’s own views side with those of the Taliban. The presence of a number of pro-Taliban Afghan-Americans in the United States was facilitated by the CIA’s support for the mujaheddin cause in the Afghan jihadist war with the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Even Afghan-American diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations, served as a key interlocutor between the Taliban government of Afghanistan and the UNOCAL oil company in Houston in the late 1990s. Today, those links serve Khalilzad and the CIA well at the CIA-linked Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, where Khalilzad serves as a counselor.

[As a side note: Donald Trump’s much celebrated April 27th foreign policy speech (C-SPAN) was introduced by none other than Zalmay Khalilzad. Back to Madsen…]

Since Omar Mateen’s massacre in Orlando, the VOA continues with its propaganda aimed against the United States. The following are just a few of the comments posted on Ashna TV’s Dari and Pashto Service’s webpage:

“I hope for a day when U.S. and Britain fall in the same level of blood and dust that Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are.” – Feroz Sherzy.

Writing of Omar Mateen: “verry [sic] brave mane [sic]. action is great.” – Mahmoodullah Hamid of the Agha Khan Foundation in Afghanistan.

Some 60 percent of the comments on the Ashna TV website praised Omar Mateen and his actions in Orlando. And the American taxpayers fund this activity through their financial support for the VOA and BBG. And, as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton championed the expansion of these broadcast services. In 2011, Clinton testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee that her department needed additional funds for the propaganda war. She said, “During the Cold War we did a great job in getting America’s message out. After the Berlin Wall fell we said, ‘Okay, fine, enough of that, we are done,’ and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it . . .Our private media cannot fill that gap.”

The radical messages broadcast by Payame Afghan and Ashna TV are the results of Mrs. Clinton’s efforts to expand U.S. propaganda broadcasting. For the CIA, keeping expatriates like Seddique Mir Mateen and his pro-Taliban colleagues at the VOA on the government dole is to ensure a ready supply of interlocutors and agents-of-influence is available to Langley should the Taliban, once again, take over control of Afghanistan.

Medium (Nafeez Ahmed) – How America’s Afghan crusade came home to Orlando

While bringing Americans back to Afghanistan…

Reuters – Obama approves broader role for U.S. forces in Afghanistan

USA Today – NATO plans for Afghan war through 2020

World Socialist Web Site – Former US generals, diplomats clamor for renewal of Afghan war

– Hurtling toward the precipice of war, Modi cements Indo-US alliance

ThereAreNoSunglasses – Floating Armories in the Indian Ocean

Reuters – China fighter jet made ‘unsafe’ intercept of U.S. spy plane: U.S.

Bloomberg – China Is Planning a Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater

Defense Systems – US-China counterspace tensions mount

– SAIC wins big Cyber Command support contract

Dark Reading – Shades Of Stuxnet Spotted In Newly Found ICS/SCADA Malware

Mint Press News – Susan Rice Promises Israel ‘Largest Military Aid Package In U.S. History’

Al Jazeera – Rami Hamdallah: Israel waging water war on Palestinians

Voltairenet – Israel and the Emirs in Nato

TASS – Israel, Russia sign agreements on cooperation — Netanyahu

Stars and Stripes – Truman launches airstrikes against Islamic State from Mediterranean

DEBKAfile – ‘Russian bear’ TU-142M vs USS Truman strike force opposite Syria

There Are No Sunglasses (RT) – US asks Russia not to target Al-Nusra in Syria

Middle East Eye – Russia struck ‘moderate’ anti-IS rebels in Syria: Washington

Reuters – Syrian army, U.S.-backed forces advance separately against Islamic State

Western Journalism – ISIS Reportedly Dealt Massive Blow From Above

Tarpley – Kurdish YPG, US Forces in Major Offensive to Capture Key Road Junction of Manbij, Threatening to Cut Main ISIS/Daesh Supply Line from Turkey Through Jarablus/Azaz Corridor

VOA – US Drops Weapons to Rebels in IS-besieged Syrian Town

Fars News Agency – US Helicopters Landing in ISIL-Held Regions in Iraq

Antiwar – Fighting Continues in Fallujah; 185 Killed in Iraq – Fighting Resumes in Fallujah; 133 Killed in Iraq – Civilians Killed Fleeing Fallujah; 149 Killed Across Iraq

Penny for your thoughts – Kurds “Intercept” a Confidential Letter from the Elusive Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi- ISIS to Libya

IntelNews – Intelligence officers among five killed in rare terrorist attack in Jordan

DEBKAfile – ISIS-Jordan cell linked to Tel Aviv terror attack

RT – 11 killed, 36 injured in bomb attack on police vehicle in Istanbul – governor

– Russian fighter jets destroy ISIS oil facilities close to Turkish border

– ‘Regressive bigotry’: Athens outraged as Ankara launches Koran readings at Hagia Sophia

Al Monitor – The battle for Haghia Sophia in Istanbul escalates

Telegraph – Merkel ready to cave to Turkish pressure on visas, British diplomats think

Daily Mail – ‘Child slaves’ making uniforms for Isis: Inside the Turkish sweatshop where children as young as nine work 12 hours a day stitching combat gear used in battle by Islamic State

New American – Citing Officials’ “Impunity” on Child Sex Abuse, UN Whistleblower Quits

Global Research – Saudi Arabia Killing Children: United Nations Complicit in Crimes against Humanity

N.Y. Times – Border Clashes Between Ethiopia and Eritrea Heighten Fears of War

Black Agenda Report – U.S. Sets Stage for Libya-Like Regime Change in Eritrea, “Africa’s Cuba”

Brazzil – Impeachment Act: The Brazilian Plot to Keep Corruption and Impunity Going

Jacobin – Temer’s Black Thumb

teleSUR – Facing Expulsion, Brazil Coup Leader Cunha Ready to Rat on 150 Lawmakers

– OAS Backs Venezuela, Approves Review of Almagro’s Actions

– ‘We Have Proof’ of CIA in Ecuador: President Correa

AP – Nicaragua expels 3 US government officials

The Hill – Supreme Court rules Puerto Rico can’t restructure debt – background at WMR: Modern Puerto Rico is a CIA creation

BBC – Spanish PM’s anger at David Cameron over Gibraltar

Independent – Jo Cox dead: EU referendum campaigning suspended after Labour MP killed in shooting and stabbing

Guardian – Federal Reserve puts interest rates rise on hold and blames Brexit

Zero Hedge – What Is Behind The Record Sale Of $75 Billion In US Treasuries By “Foreign” Holders

N.Y. Post – Why are so many bankers committing suicide?

International Business Times – Bilderberg 2016: We can expect desperate lobbying against Brexit from Big Business

Infowars – Bilderberg Leak: Secretive Group to Discuss Internet ID, Global Tax

TechDirt – Europe Is About To Create A Link Tax: Time To Speak Out Against It

Internet Archive – Copyright Office’s Proposed Notice and Staydown System Would Force the Internet Archive and Other Platforms to Censor the Web

AllGov (AP) – Court Upholds Net Neutrality

NYTimes – The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It

Gizmodo – Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum Resigns, Denies Sexual Assault Claims

The National – US whistleblower Snowden reveals GCHQ spy programme with secret link to Scottish police

Matthew Aid (AP) – Judge Blocks Seattle from Disclosing Info About FBI Surveillance Cameras In the City

News 9 (Oklahoma City) – OHP Uses New Device To Seize Money During Traffic Stops

Liberty Blitzkrieg – How the IRS Used Civil Asset Forfeiture to Ruin the Lives of Two Connecticut Bakers

Censored News – Big Mountain Residents Under House Arrest as Livestock Confiscated

The Daily Sheeple – New York Governor Issues Executive Order to Punish Israel Critics

Wayne Madsen Report – June 3-5, 2016 — SPECIAL REPORT. Obama and Clinton push entangling alliances as keystones of U.S. foreign policy

…WMR has been informed by a very good source in Manhattan that Trump, while sitting next to his underage daughter Ivanka at the Trump Grill in Manhattan’s Trump Tower, was witnessed by waiters on a number of occasions with his hand under her dress and fondling her genitalia. Some of these waiters have stated they would swear out affidavits about what they saw. After Ivanka became of age, Trump told Playboy magazine, “. . . if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” Eventually Ivanka married Jared Kushner of the very wealthy Orthodox Jewish and ultra-Zionist Kushner real estate family of New York…

Aangirfan – TRUMP LINKED TO SEX SCANDAL, BILDERBERG AND TRILATERAL COMMISSION.

Tis the season of dirty tricks. While we do question the provenance of the anti-Trump rioters (top of our June 3 edition), this looks like it could be a Roger Stone hoax…

Infowars – Report: Hacked #BlackLivesMatter Tweets Implicate Justice Dept. in Trump Protests?

The Smoking Gun – DNC Hacker Releases Trump Oppo Report

Guccifer 2.0 – DNC’s servers hacked by a lone hacker

AllGov (AP) – Florida Attorney General Abandoned Trump Fraud Lawsuit after Soliciting and Receiving Trump Donation

Zero Hedge – Trump Furious As Obama Administration Blocks Release Of Hillary-TPP Emails Until After Election

– Was Hillary Caught Colluding With AP To Announce Delegate Win Before California

Common Dreams – Voters Outraged as Media Accused of Falsely, Preemptively Crowning Clinton

Sputnik – J’Accuse! WikiLeaks Founder Assange Claims Google Has Deal With Clinton

Quartz – The stealthy, Eric Schmidt-backed startup that’s working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House

L.A. Daily News – 2016 Election: Voting glitches mar some polling stations across Los Angeles County

Greg Palast – How California is being stolen from Sanders right now

SHTFplan – This Is a Usurper, Not a Candidate: California Primary Was Stolen, And Hillary’s “Nomination a Coup”