Can you spot the hidden pattern?

Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 12:56pm

Let's play a game.
I'm going to show you a series of headlines from just the past year, and you try to spot the pattern.
Understand that no one in America's MSM or political establishment can see any emerging pattern from these headlines. In fact, most Americans don't see a pattern either.
So if you can spot the deeply hidden pattern here then you are far more wise and perceptive than most Americans.

Still can't see it?
Don't feel bad. Most Americans are unable to see the pattern.
Here's one more that might help.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 1:02pm

If you want to see the articles from these headlines

Syria
Yemen
Somalia
Libya
Iraq

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 2:26pm

A pattern too many people are willfully obtuse about

@gjohnsit

Good information here. Thanks for the links. Had a conversation the other day about the history of US interventions in other countries, supporting puppet leaders, and then asset stripping their countries. You know what response I got? A defiant flag waving "The U.S. Does a lot good around the world".

That PR propaganda machine the media pumps out sure is effective, eh?

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 2:40pm

A core problem in America

@Anja Geitz
is how so many people based their assumptions about the world on a version of history that doesn't reflect the facts.

For conservatives, this usually means ignoring (or more likely, being ignorant) America's countless crimes and evil deeds.
The same goes for their lack of knowledge about the history of capitalism.
They will often just shut down if you try to bring up facts.

For liberals, this usually means ignoring, being ignorant, or just dismissing how class factors into social tensions and progress. Because blaming racism and sexism is so much easier.

Submitted by edg on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 2:54pm

On the other hand...

It's not a war crime if the US does it. Because the US was ordained by Jesus to be the most exceptional, bestest, super ethicalist shining beacon on the hill that sets the gold standard on behavior for the rest of the world. U Betcha!!

Submitted by ggersh on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 3:26pm

Here's a perfect example of getting away w/murder

@edg https://time.com/5610116/navy-seal-edward-gallagher-isis-murder-trial/

While acknowledging that Gallagher had stabbed the teen, Special Operator Corey Scott testified during the trial that he was the one who killed the teen himself by deliberately blocking the young man’s breathing tubes, which he said asphyxiated the boy. Scott described this as a mercy killing, and argued he felt the teen would have been tortured when detained by Iraqi police due to his ties to ISIS. Scott, who said he does not want to see Gallagher jailed, was reportedly granted immunity as a witness for the prosecution, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 9:44am

Consider the source doing the ordaining.

@edg

Morality comes from a figure that condemns whole towns to fire and hell for not wanting to hear his message?

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Submitted by dervish on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 3:17pm

There is always a reckoning,

and it may be a long way off, but these events are the seeds of the deep state's destruction.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Submitted by studentofearth on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 4:13pm

Add Americans to the list

There are documented physical and mental test on medical citizens for several decades

2015 - No-consent medical experiments on emergency room patients

1940-70's - Ugly Past of U.S.human experiments uncovered.

U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar experiments in the United States — studies that often involved making healthy people sick.

An exhaustive review by The Associated Press of medical journal reports and decades-old press clippings found more than 40 such studies. At best, these were a search for lifesaving treatments; at worst, some amounted to curiosity-satisfying experiments that hurt people but provided no useful results.

1940-70's The 13 Most Evil Government Human Experiments

1940-50's From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets

2008 Cheaper than Chimpanzees: Expanding the Use of Prisoners in Medical Experiments Not sure if the regulations allowing this practice actually were changed.

The Unmentioned Nuclear War on American Citizens When I wrote this diary I was saddened by how many C99 members had been effected over the years.

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Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
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Submitted by HenryAWallace on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 4:25pm

In fairness to most Americans,

they have a lot on their minds. Also, the pattern(s) are much easier to see when the headlines are collected in one place, as you have done, rather than being spread out. For those reasons, the patterns are the kind of things our (gag) "watchdog media" should be exposing.

Submitted by dervish on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 4:39pm

The only watchdog media that we have

@HenryAWallace are blogs and forums like this. The corporatists long ago dumped journalism in favor of propaganda. It's no accident that most universities teach journalism and advertising in the same department.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Submitted by ggersh on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 6:08pm

A good article on the abandonment of Assange

@dervish cuz of media neglect/corruption

https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/the-media-bla...

It is important to ask ourselves what Julian Assange’s real crime is. In an era, dubbed the "Information Age", where the strategy of the powerful appears to be to know as much as possible about the rest of us while ensuring that we know as little as possible about them and how they operate, Assange worked to prevent that imbalance from becoming a rout and stuck like a bone in the throat of the mighty.

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

Submitted by dervish on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 6:17pm

Assange's crime is simple

@ggersh He put many lives and livelihoods at risk, eg those of bankers, war criminals, corporations, politicians, etc.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Submitted by Centaurea on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 8:04pm

In other words,

@dervish

he was doing what journalists are supposed to do. Hold TPTB's feet to the fire.

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Submitted by HenryAWallace on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 7:03am

Well, he published material that he acquired that exposed

@Centaurea

certain things about them. Because of the duopoly and all the steps it has taken to protect and perpetuate itself, holding feet to fires in well nigh impossible in the US.

Submitted by dervish on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 2:28pm

It's too bad that corporate clowns and alphabet agencies

@Centaurea have infiltrated most of the NGOs, otherwise an outfit like Amnesty International might help.

Jailing and torturing journalists is something we should be screaming from the rooftops.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 7:49pm

But...

@dervish

Jailing and torturing journalists is something we should be screaming from the rooftops.

Assange helped put Trump in office and cost Herheinous the election so it's okay that Trump is going after him don't you know? Even though he hasn't been charged with anything related to the election interference crap. But when Trump cracks down on other journalists he's a bad man. Or so I'm told.

Submitted by The Wizard on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 10:02pm

All war crimes, all the time

Starting with the WWII fire bombing of cities in Europe and Japan and the use of two nuclear bombs on civilian populations the US has continuously been guilty of major war crimes. After WWII the UN charter allowed that only self defense in the case of an imminent military threat or a UNSC resolution could justify war. Whose army has been directly threatening our shores? With the exception of Korea which war was legal? And even there the collective punishment of the population of North Korea, 20% dead and total destruction of infrastructure, was a war crime. The people in the US government are totally incapable of considering that us military action might be a war crime. When the US is not dominant this will come back to bite us in the ass, big time. The world will realize that the US is incapable of moral leadership.

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Submitted by dervish on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 2:36pm

It started with King Phillip's War

@The Wizard War crimes, slaughter and genocide built this country.

Remember also the war nobody talks about or teaches... The Philippine–American War

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 7:22pm

Farther back than that, even

@dervish

Just about the first thing the Jamestown colonists did was to piss off the Powhatan Confederacy, which resulted in extended periods of overt and covert warfare and at least one act of blatant genocide (inviting the Powhatans to a parley and poisoning the wine they were given). (This was in 1623, in retaliation for the 1622 massacre of colonists by the Powhatans and allies.)

More history that isn't taught in schools....

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Submitted by Snode on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 9:00am

I dunno

I'm connecting the dots and keep coming up with a picture of a "$". Maybe I need a new crayon.