The Snowden German Interview

Here is the 30 minute interview of Edward Snowden that didn't play in the US:

http://benswann.com/media-blacks-out-new-snowden-interview-the-government-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

Of course they want to kill him. Violence is their response to every problem.

By the way, if Clapper lied under oath why wasn't he fired and prosecuted for his crime? Are these people above the law?

The real news here is not that the US government is spying; it is that the US government is now completely lawless and unaccountable. A better way to put it is that "the deep state has taken over".

Also by the way, could Snowden be today's equivalent of the "Deep Throat" of the Watergate era? I don't believe he is but if he were, how would we ever know? We only discovered the truth about Mark Felt because he eventually told us, and even then how could his story possibly be verified? By relying on the same people who were lying to us in the first place?

Déjà Vu: Separate But Equal

Here we go again, "evolving" from white schools v. black schools to boys schools v. girls schools:

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/recruiters-principals-pitch-austins-new-all-boys-a/nc7yG/

No matter what the publicized rational for this, its goal seems to be controlling the boys and promoting the girls. This may be the educational mantra of today, but doesn't this remind you of something they would do in Afghanistan (except with the roles of the sexes reversed)?

Will this help or hinder the "school to prison pipeline"? I guess we'll see, won't we?

Why Don't Israelis Want Peace ???

Apparently, many Israelis don't want to trade land for peace:

http://news.yahoo.com/hardline-israelis-hold-mass-prayer-against-peace-talks-182403896.html

They could provide restitution to the Palestinians, but they don't want to do that, either.

What is the basis for their intransigence? Is it Biblical? Is it genocidal? Is it mere practicality?

Mr. NetanYahoo: Tear Down This Wall !!!

O The Wealth Hypocrite

Although Obama ad-Dajjal cried crocodile tears over wealth inequality during his State of the Union Address, much of that inequality was engineered on his watch:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/01/31/pers-j31.html

Obama’s principal task on coming to office was to initiate the largest transfer of wealth—from the working class to the corporate and financial elite—in US history. This began with the bailout of the financial system. It continued through the 2009 restructuring of GM and Chrysler, premised on the halving of wages for new hires and a shift in the burden of health care expenses from employers to workers.

He is the ultimate class war hypocrite, who promises everything to both rich and poor but delivers on those promises only to his puppet masters. "Community organizer", my ass. More like "community destroyer".

If he's so concerned about inequality, then why has he squandered so much public money on himself and his family?

The Cyborg Next Door

Google will soon be creating cyborgs which (who?) will have amazing powers:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2547086/Want-CYBORG-The-technologies-mega-zoom-vision-ability-pick-car.html

Compared to the rest of us, these new creatures will be demigods.

Question: Will we all be able to do this, or will cost restrict this technology to the rich?

Answer: From a pure crowd control / crime prevention perspective, I don't think the powers that be will let us all become that powerful. Do you?

The Next Recession Will Clobber Us

Here is a bleak estimate from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/10605957/World-risks-deflationary-shock-as-BRICS-puncture-credit-bubbles.html

He's ususally right about such things. Get ready to bend over and kiss your booty goodbye.

Rand Paul and Obama ad-Dajjal are AFU

Neither Senator Rand Paul nor President Obama ad-Dajjal seem to have a clue as to why the US economy has failed. Neither of them has any business or economic education or experience, and they are listening to advisers who are part and parcel of the perestroika going on in America.

If you want to know how we got here and why we're STUCK here, then I suggest you read the books and essays of Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. Here's a good one:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/01/28/junk-economists-help-rich-impoverish-working-class-paul-craig-roberts/

America's leaders have been trying to bring us down to the level of the Third World for decades, and they have more or less succeeded. Anyone who cannot see this will NEVER be able to save our economy. Since all these bastards drink the World Economic Forum/Davos Kool-Aid, there is not likely to be any difference in the outcome of their economic policies.

We now have to compete with people all over the world who earn next to nothing. If we raise our minimum wage, that will make us less competitive in the global marketplace and increase our balance of payments deficit. That will lead us to print more fiat money and accelerate our ultimate fiscal collapse.

NOTHING that Obama ad-Dajjal or Rand Paul is suggesting will help us in any way to escape this situation. What they BOTH should be doing (for starters) is opposing the TPP and the TTIP agreements, but you don't see them doing that, do you?

At this point, we may be screwed no matter what happens. The ultimate short term goal of the powers that be is to cause the collapse of the nation state system. When they achieve that goal, there will be no money to pay for social programs AND all of us $10 per hour Americans will be dismally non-competitive in the market state which will follow.

Do cattle experience a sense of dread before the bolt gun hits them in the forehead? Most of us have no concept of what is about to happen:

http://youtu.be/nr00arV2XIw

See also:

http://youtu.be/3oeQGtu6cRs

The 90 Second State of the Union

This webpage has links to an address by Senator Rand Paul and a 90 second version of the President's State of the Union Address:

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/this-is-rand-paul-s-moment-20140129

I'm happy to see they gave more time to Senator Paul than to Obama ad-Dajjal.

The Imperial President

Senator Ted Cruz says that Obama ad-Dajjal is a man of lawlessness:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304632204579338793559838308?mod=Opinion_newsreel_2

I happen to agree with him. Considering the degree to which Obama ad-Dajjal ignores the Constitution, ignores the laws Congress has passed, and thinks he can rule the country by decree, his is becoming an imperial presidency.

Congress, rein him in NOW ... or the next President (if we even get one) is going to be a despot.

Shine a light on the Shadow Government and prosecute our war criminals ... PLEASE.

Nigeria Buys Yuan, Dumps Dollars

Nigeria is shifting part of its currency reserves from US dollars to Chinese yuan;

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-28/nigeria-central-bank-to-shift-reserves-into-yuan-from-dollars.html

Sounds like a smart move to me. I wonder if I can get my Social Security checks in yuan?

At this point the answer is probably no, since instead of borrowing from the Chinese the US is just printing the dollars to pay for SS.

Congressman Threatens Reporter

Here is an example of what Congress thinks about the independent press:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/01/29/ny_rep_grimm_threatens_reporter_on_camera_121394.html

In spite of the excuses and apologies, I'd wager that many members of Congress feel this way.

Another Vaccine-Related Distortion

A recent story on the NPR website suggested that fears about a vaccine-autism link were responsible for an increase in cases of preventable diseases throughout the world:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/01/25/265750719/how-vaccine-fears-fueled-the-resurgence-of-preventable-diseases

But is this really true? Let's take measles as an example. The measles virus lives only in humans. If it has been eliminated in a stable population, how would it then be reintroduced? Here's what the CDC says:

As a result of high vaccination coverage and better measles control in the Americas, in 2000, measles was declared eliminated (no disease transmission for at least 12 months) in the United States. Indigenous measles virus circulation was interrupted in 2002 in the rest of the Western Hemisphere. However, measles virus continues to be imported into the United States from other parts of the world. Globally, an estimated 20 million measles cases occur each year. Given the large global incidence and high communicability of the disease, travelers may be exposed to the virus in almost any country they visit, particularly those outside the Western Hemisphere, where measles is endemic or where large outbreaks are occurring. Of the 222 reported measles cases in the United States in 2011, 200 (90%) were associated with importations from other countries, including 72 direct importations (52 among US residents traveling abroad and 20 among foreign visitors). The largest percentage of importations (46%) was among people who acquired the disease in Europe. However, importations consistently occur from other countries and regions, including India and the Philippines.

This data strongly suggests that the primary factor in the rise in the number of cases of measles is TRAVEL; i.e., the importation of the disease into a previously disease-free population by travelers. Whether or not people in that population have been vaccinated is a secondary factor.

We no longer vaccinate people for smallpox, but no one gets smallpox because it's not being imported into the population.

So, we could continue to alter our children's immune systems by vaccinating them with dangerous vaccines, or we could stop importation of these diseases by controlling our borders and screening people who cross them.

In addition to asking why parents are not vaccinating their children, maybe we should also be asking why so much unnecessary travel is taking place. Are open borders and freedom to travel really a good idea? Perhaps not.

Why should all people have to be vaccinated just so a few privileged people can travel whenever they please? Why is it necessary to import foreign workers when there are plenty of unemployed people already here who have (or could be trained to have) the necessary skills?

Karzai Suspects US Is Behind Insurgent-Style Attacks

Since false-flag attacks have been so successful inside the US, why not do the same thing in Afghanistan?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/karzai-suspects-us-is-behind-insurgent-style-attacks-afghan-officials-say/2014/01/27/a70d7568-8779-11e3-a760-a86415d0944d_story.html

Come on, people; stop believing the liars in DC and in the Pentagon. Our military is achieving NOTHING of value either to us or to the people we are "liberating". They DO keep the heroin flowing, but is that something we really want?

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/why-is-the-united-states-really-in-afghanistan-2/

Hmmm ... maybe we do. Maybe we do.

Systemic Destabilization in Recent American History

In this essay Professor Peter Dale Scott evaluates the common threads that run through the Kennedy assassinations, the destruction of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, and the 9/11 attacks:

http://www.japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3835#

Were he to update this essay, I am certain he could add the Boston Marathon bombing to the list.

How many times do we have to hear the excuse "it was a sting operation gone bad" before we get it through our thick skulls that the US deep state is actively planning, executing, and covering up these terrorist attacks on US citizens?

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/04/fbi-still-disconnecting-all-dots.html

I have seen the video A Noble Lie that is mentioned in the essay, and one of the senior employees in the Murrah Building states that she saw two men placing what could have been explosives on the building columns, and she thinks one of them could have been Andreas Strassmeir.

Also pertinent to the Murrah Building bombing is the fact that the FBI refuses to release the security camera videos which show Tim McVeigh parking the truck in front of the building. People who have seen the video say that it shows John Doe No. 2. I think it would also show that there were two explosions: one from the truck and one inside the building. If that's the case, the tape will NEVER be released.

In a sense this is OUR fault. WE let our leaders get away with this shit, WE let them publish bullshit reports time after time, and WE laugh at "conspiracy theorists" who are the only ones still trying to find the truth.

A Giant Has Died

Pete Seeger died yesterday. He lived a wonderful life of beautiful music and committed activism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html

We shall never see or hear anyone like him again.

http://youtu.be/JG9RwcMP0hk

Compare Pete's life and music to the Grammys of today, and you'll get a feel for how deep into Satan's clutches our children have fallen:

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/01/27/A-J-McCarron-Grammys-Evil

Background On The US Deep State

Two very important articles by Professor Peter Dale Scott on the evolution of the US deep state:

http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3932

http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3933

They are quite lengthy but well worth your time if you want to understand our brutal overlords and their many accomplices.

Were The Grammys Demonic ???

I did not watch the Grammys, but AJ McCarron did. Look at the pictures and form your own opinion:

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/01/27/A-J-McCarron-Grammys-Evil

My assessment is that Satan is taking over this country, and his most devoted followers can be found among America's "entertainers".

Has The Deep State Taken Over ???

People are finally waking up to the power of the deep state:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/the-impending-senate-vote-on-confirming-nominees/277801/

and here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/an-awkward-question-for-robert-gates-has-the-deep-state-taken-over/282934/

Your posts go some way in explaining the current political situation, but by no means do they go the whole way. A more complete explanation has to acknowledge the paradox of the contemporary American state. On the procedural level that the public can see, Congress is hopelessly gridlocked in the worst manner since the 1850s; that is true. The objective of the GOP is, obviously, to render the executive branch powerless, at least until a Republican president is elected (and voter suppression laws in the GOP-controlled states are clearly intended to accomplish that result). As a consequence, Obama cannot get anything done; he cannot even get the most innocuous appointees in office. 

Yet he can assassinate American citizens without due processes (Holder's sophistry to the contrary, judicial process is due process); can detain prisoners indefinitely without charge; conduct surveillance on the American people without judicial warrant; and engage in unprecedented -- at least since the McCarthy era -- witch hunts against federal employees (the so-called insider threat program). At home, this it is characterized by massive displays of intimidating force by militarized federal law enforcement agencies and their willing handmaidens at the state and local level. Abroad, Obama can start wars at will and pretty much engage in any other activity whatever without so much as a by-your-leave from Congress, to include just recently forcing down a plane containing a head of state. And not a peep from congressional Republicans, with the exception of an ineffectual gadfly like Rand Paul. Democrats, with the exception of a few like Ron Wyden, are not troubled, either -- even to the extent of permitting obvious perjured congressional testimony by certain executive branch officials. 

Clearly there is government, and then there is government. The former is the tip of the iceberg that the public who watches C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part is the Deep State, which operates on its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power. The Deep State is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies, key nodes of the judiciary (like FISC, the Eastern District of Virginia, and the Southern District of Manhattan); cleared contractors, Silicon Valley (whose cooperation is critical), and Wall Street. 

This combination of procedural impotence on the one hand and unaccountable government by fiat on the other is clearly paradoxical, but any honest observer of the American state must attempt to come to grips with it. I will note in conclusion that in order for the Senate to pass major "social" legislation like immigration reform, it was necessary to grant an additional $38-billion tribute to Deep State elements, i.e., military and homeland security contractors. Clearly the GOP wanted it, but the Democrats didn't object; the $38 billion had been an internal "wish list" of the Deep State node called the Department of Homeland Security.

Let's rephrase the question posed in the title of this post:

Which do you think will have more influence on the future of our nation:

• The 2014 World Economic Forum currently being held in Davos; or
• The 113th United States Congress?

If you know the answer to the latter question, then you should also know the answer to the former.

Murdering Our Economy

Here is another warning from Dr. Paul Craig Roberts:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/01/25/economists-policymakers-murdered-economy-paul-craig-roberts/

If and when uncertainty spreads to the dollar, the real crisis will arrive, likely followed by high inflation, exchange controls, pension confiscations, and resurrected illegality of owning gold and silver. Capitalist greed aided and abetted by economists and policymakers will have destroyed America.

Contrast his doom and gloom with the sunny lies spewing out of your government and MSM. Which do you believe? Roberts wasn't invited to Davos. Does that make him wrong, or is it an indication that our brutal overlords aren't ready for us to hear the truth?

Don't forget what happened to Enron. According to their management, everything was fine until they locked the doors to the building and shut the place down for good. I fear that the same fate awaits the rest of us.

The Downfall of Turkish PM Erdogan

Here is a brilliant analysis by Sibel Edmonds of the reasons behind the on-going downfall of PM Erdogan of Turkey:

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/01/18/turkish-pm-erdogan-the-speedy-transformation-of-an-imperial-puppet/

Does this maybe remind you of what happened to our one-time friend Saddam Hussein? As long as he was doing "our" bidding, he could get away with mass murder. As soon as he wanted to go independent (they are sovereign nations, aren't they?), he was transformed by CIA into a monster.

The lesson here is that everything you know about the world is seen through the eyes of your brutal overlords, who completely control the MSM. And whenever they want to, they pull the rug out from under America's former "friends".

By the way, Sibel Edmonds was one of the first people to blow the whistle on criminality underlying the events of 9/11. You should read her stuff if you want to know what's really going on.

Thought For The Day

“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. Democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”

--Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, during a speech at CIA headquarters, 1988

Hmmm ... if Jeff Bezos were to give a similar speech today, would he say anything different?

Was the Ark of the Covenant Revealed on 9/11 ???

Professor David Ray Griffin has suggested that to believe the US government's official conspiracy theory about the 9/11 attacks requires one to believe in miracles. The destruction of the WTC twin towers, the attack on the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania all were "miraculous" events each of which seemed to violate one or more physical laws and/or common sense.

Professor Griffin is on the right track, and there were other apparent miracles which happened that day:

• Hurricane Erin, a category 3 storm, had been heading in the direction of New York City. At the time of the "collapse" of the twin towers, the track of the storm made a greater than 90 degree turn to the right and moved away from the city.
• Also at the time of the "collapse" of the twin towers, a measurable disturbance occurred in the earth's magnetic field, which was recorded at six separate measuring stations near the Arctic Circle.
• Following the crash of Flight 93 near Shanksville, an "army of angels" was witnessed by an FBI agent who was among the first responders to the scene.

The anomalies concerning Hurricane Erin and the earth's magnetic field were reported in the book Where Did The Towers Go? by Professor Judy Wood. The appearance of the army of angels was reported in the book In The Shadow of a Badge by Lillie Leonardi.

If miracles were in fact associated with the 9/11 attacks, we need to ask ourselves whether they were true miracles from G-d ... or merely false miracles from Satan, the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and/or a false Christ:

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Matthew 24:24 KJV

I have read most of the 9/11 conspiracy books, but I find Professor Wood's book to be the most remarkable and realistic for several reasons:

• She clearly demonstrates that what happened to the twin towers was NOT a "collapse";
• She clearly demonstrates that what happened to the twin towers was NOT a conventional "controlled demolition";
• She documents the strange track of Hurricane Erin and the disturbances in the earth's magnetic field; and
• She documents other strange events reported by survivors of the attacks.

Professor Woods also makes clear that what happened to the twin towers was that they TURNED TO DUST before they hit the ground. What could turn massive structures to dust, deflect a category 3 hurricane, and disturb the magnetic field? Professor Wood theorizes that some sort of unknown "directed free-energy technology" was responsible. If this were the case, perhaps it was a new high-tech device created by DARPA.

But could it have been some else entirely?

You no doubt have watched the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Do you remember this scene from the movie?

MUSGROVE: ... where the Ark of the Covenant was kept.

INDY: Which is probably what the Nazis are after.

EATON: What’s this Ark look like?

INDY: Look like? Why, it’s right here...

Indy pulls a big format book from the stack on his lectern and flips through the pages until he finds a large color print. The other men gather to look.

THE PRINT fills the screen.

It shows a Biblical battle. The Israelite Army is vanquishing an opposition force. At the forefront of the Israelite ranks, two men carry the Ark of the Covenant, a beautiful gold chest, crowned by two sculptured gold angels. The men do not touch the Ark itself; rather they carry it by use of two long wooden poles which pass through rings in the corners of the Ark. The painting is very dramatic, full of smoke, tumult and sinewy dying men. But the most astonishing thing in the picture is the brilliant jet of white light and flame issuing from the wings of the angels. It pierces deep into the ranks of the retreating enemy, wrecking devastation and terror.

EATON: Good God!

INDY: Yes. That’s what the Hebrews thought.

MUSGROVE: What’s that supposed to be coming out of there?

INDY: Who knows... lightning... fire... the power of God.

EATON: I’m beginning to understand Hitler’s interest in this thing.

INDY: Oh yes. The Bible tells of it leveling mountains and wasting entire regions. Moses promised that when the Ark was with you, “your enemies will be scattered and your foes fell before you”.

An army which carries the Ark before it is invincible.

Perhaps what happened in New York City on 9/11 was a manifestation of the power G-d through the Ark of the Covenant.

When the Hebrews first entered the Promised Land, they carried the Ark before them. The Ark parted the River Jordan and then was responsible for the destruction of the walls of Jericho. It clearly was capable of astonishing, miraculous feats ... not unlike what happened to the twin towers on 9/11.

The Ark apparently was lost long ago, and people have been searching for it ever since. Has it been found, and was it responsible for what happened on 9/11?

Consider what else was triggered by the events of 9/11. The global war on terror started that day, and according to General Wesley Clark it led the US to plan invasions of seven countries (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran).

The first use of the Ark in war (the Battle of Jericho) occurred as the Hebrews invaded the Promised Land. Could it be that this latest use of the Ark in war inaugurated the final phases of the creation of Greater Israel? Destroying the seven nations mentioned by General Clark is a prerequisite for this to happen. And perhaps it can only happen if the power of G-d manifested through the Ark is brought to bear upon the stubborn peoples and nations of the world.

Before you reject this theory out of hand, or ask "why New York City", consider this:

• The man who built the Ark of the Covenant with his own hands was named Bezaleel;
• The second high priest after Aaron was named Eleazar; and
• On Liberty Island in New York Harbor stands America's goddess idol (the so-called Statue of Liberty), on a pedestal in the center of Fort Wood.

Fort Wood is named after Eleazar Wood, the first graduate of the US Military Academy to die in battle. His father, a US Revolutionary war soldier, was named Bezaleel. Thus the namesakes of two men directly associated with the Ark are present holding up the Statue of Liberty in the cradle of the global war on terror which started on 9/11. What better place could there have been for storing the "lost" Ark of the Covenant? What better place for it to have been used to start the final war between good and evil?

20 Early Warning Signs Of A Global Economic Meltdown

Check 'em out at Zero Hedge:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-24/20-early-warning-signs-we-are-approaching-global-economic-meltdown

Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and China?  If you are like most Americans, you have not been.  Most Americans don't seem to really care too much about what is happening in the rest of the world, but they should.  In major cities all over the globe right now, there is looting, violence, shortages of basic supplies, and runs on the banks.  We are not at a "global crisis" stage yet, but things are getting worse with each passing day.  For a while, I have felt that 2014 would turn out to be a major "turning point" for the global economy, and so far that is exactly what it is turning out to be.

In light of everything above, is there anyone out there that still wants to claim that "everything is going to be okay" for the global economy?

Sadly, most Americans are not even aware of most of these things.

All over the country today, the number one news headline is about Justin Bieber.  The mainstream media is absolutely obsessed with celebrity scandals, and so is a very large percentage of the U.S. population.

A great economic storm is rapidly approaching, and most people don't even seem to notice the storm clouds that are gathering on the horizon.

In the end, perhaps we will get what we deserve as a nation.

Ain't that the truth. The purpose of the MSM is not to inform, it's to hypnotize.

Thought For The Day

Compare these two quotations:

We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.

Osama bin Laden

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Luke 17:33 KJV

If I didn't know better, I might believe they were both saying the same thing.

What do you think?

Heroin Use In The US

Apparently it is on the rise big time:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/no-needle-needed-easy-access-low-cost-fuel-heroin-epidemic/177768/

In 2002, 166,000 Americans reported using the drug, but in 2012, 335,000 Americans said they had used heroin in the past year. But according to Michael’s House, a rehab facility for recovering heroin addicts, the average age of heroin users in the U.S. is currently 21 years old.

Unlike the heroin of yesteryear, which required the use of a needle, users nowadays can buy a button — a powder-filled capsule that can be broken open and snorted — for just $10. And the drug is widely available.

And instead of buying from a dealer in an alley, teens can purchase buttons from people on varsity sports teams, Ivy League campuses and in suburban neighborhoods.

The average age of users is 21. Sheesh !!!

Isn't it strange that so-called "illegal" businesses like drug dealing are well-run and successful, while so-called "legal" businesses are failing?

And now San Francisco wants to give out free crack pipes?

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/01/24/sf-officials-exploring-free-crack-pipes-as-means-to-slow-spread-of-aids/

Considering our pervasive drug use, our frenzied rush to escape into video games, and our complete ignorance of what is happening in the world, America has become the place to go for those who wish to escape reality.

JFK's Daughter

Caroline Kennedy, our ambassador to Japan, has angered her Japanese hosts by criticizing their dolphin hunting ways:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/world/asia/a-star-envoys-frankness-puts-kennedy-mystique-to-test-in-japan.html

Funny, I didn't hear her say anything about Obama ad-Dajjal's killing of innocent children in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen. Don't these children deserve our pity, too? Or are we just compassionate towards dolphins these days?

Her brother wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I'm starting to wonder about her, too.

A Perestroika In Retailing

The major US retail store chains are closing their stores:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101353168

This is due partially to a shift to e-shopping, but certainly also to a lack of spending money in the US.

The less we work, the less we shop, the less we drive ... all spell contracting economy.

Does that sound like a "recovery" to you?

Are We Being Set Up For A Nuclear 9/11 ???

What follows is pure speculation, but I think many of you will agree that it is reasonable speculation.

Some observers (e.g., Professors David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott) have pointed out that much of the confusion during the 9/11 "attacks" occurred because the US government was running "exercises" that very day which simulated the hijacking of airplanes. I do not believe this was just a coincidence.

Recently there have been several reports of irregularities in our nuclear force. Apparently, nuclear weapons have been improperly handled and important procedures have been ignored. The responsible senior officers, including generals and admirals, have been cashiered. And now the Secretary of Defense has initiated a full review of the nuclear force:

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20140123/NEWS05/301230016/SecDef-Hagel-ordering-full-review-nuclear-force

On the White House website, there is a page describing the Continuity of Government Plan:

http://whitehouse.gov1.info/continuity-plan/

On that page is a brief description of the CAPSTONE EXERCISE 2014 and related exercises which are scheduled to be held this year:

The CAPSTONE EXERCISE 2014 will include:

ALASKA SHIELD: Commemorates the anniversary of the 1964 9.2 magnitude Great Alaskan Earthquake and resulting tsunami. The Alaska Shield 2014 will be conducted simultaneously (March 27 - 30) with the DOD's Arctic Edge and the Alaska National Guard's Vigilant Guard.

ARDENT SENTRY 2014: Focuses on the Department of Defense Support to Civilian Authorities’ mission.

NUWAIX 2014 (Nuclear Weapon Accident/Incident Exercise): Response to an accident involving the secure transportation of nuclear weapons within the Continental U.S.

EAGLE HORIZON 2014: Continuity of Operations and reconstitution planning requiring federal departments and agencies to activate continuity plans and perform their Primary Mission Essential Functions from their alternate facilities.

SILVER PHOENIX 2014: Explores the challenges associated with examining, prioritizing and conducting recovery activities involving multiple geographically dispersed and competing events using the National Disaster Recovery Framework.

This is the very sort of multiple exercise scenario which was underway during 9/11 and which caused all the "confusion".

It therefore is not unreasonable to speculate that during NUWAIX 2014 (Nuclear Weapon Accident/Incident Exercise) something will go awry, resulting in some sort of false flag nuclear terrorist "attack" on US soil.

What would be the motivation for such a thing? The US is broke and facing literal bankruptcy. It would be far easier for our ruthless overlords to create a catastrophe and use it to implement additional COG measures (like martial law and seizing our food supply) than it would be for them to fix the nation's problems and put us back on a secure financial footing benefiting the 99%.

Our government has seldom created weapons or powers that remained unused. The White House COG web page also includes the following list of recently granted Presidential powers:

In 2012, President Obama issued two Executive Orders that will greatly expand his executive powers in the event of a national emergency. The March 2012 Executive Order gives the President the authority to commandeer all U.S. domestic resources, including food and water, and seize all energy and transportation infrastructure within the United States. The order also allows authorizes the U.S. Government to force its citizens to fulfill labor requirements for the purposes of national defense. The July 2012 Executive Order gives the Department of Homeland Security authority over private communication networks in emergency situations. 

Under a recent Cybersecurity Act, President Obama has the right to shut down parts of the Internet in times of an emergency. This would be accomplished by having the National Security Agency shut down key Domain Name Servers, which would effectively act as a "kill switch'. 

The White House believes the ability to rapidly expand Presidential Powers in a crisis is a matter of National Security. Because it is impossible to anticipate every possible catastrophic scenario, draft Presidential Emergency-Action Directives (PEADs) have been prepared in advance allowing the White House to fill in the blanks as needed during a crisis.

Do you really think that Obama ad-Dajjal gave himself such powers and then did not intend to use them?

Do you really think that our political and military leaders would NOT sacrifice additional American lives in their quest for absolute power over us?

If you do, then you are far more trusting of them than am I.

Anyway ... here's my prediction: there will be a false-flag nuclear terror attack during CAPSTONE EXERCISE 2014 or some other future exercise. In its wake, additional COG measures will be implemented, and the United States as we know her will cease to exist.

Is The US Constitution Still In Effect ???

I recently finished reading The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America by Peter Dale Scott:

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520258716

This is an excellent book which I highly recommend. Don't be put off by its length (~450 pages), because almost half of it is notes and references.

After reading this book, it became even more clear to me that not only did the US have adequate warning that 9/11 was going to happen, but various agencies of the US government had been actively supporting the people whom we are told were responsible for the attacks. At some level at least, 9/11 undeniably was "an inside job". This is not a claim Scott makes in the book, but the circumstantial evidence he provides for it is compelling.

One of the most interesting aspects of Scott's work is that he is one of the few major writers who consistently brings up the issue of Continuity of Government (COG) measures:

http://whitehouse.gov1.info/continuity-plan/

COG was put into effect on 9/11/2001, and the official state of emergency which ensued is still active, having been renewed each time it was about to expire.

According to some, including Scott, COG measures include authority to suspend the US Constitution and substitute rule by decree and/or martial law in its place.

Most of the things people read and write about what is happening in the US today (e.g., NSA spying, the introduction of drones and military robots, the militarization of our police, etc.) assume that the US Constitution is still in effect. That explains why we are so aghast at what is happening. Over and over, pundits and bloggers say "but the Constitution doesn't allow this ... "

I've got news for you: the Constitution has been officially bypassed. Obama ad-Dajjal can do whatever he wants. The issue (and resulting dangers) of COG first entered the public arena during the Iran-Contra hearings. It was not adequately addressed then, and has not been adequately addressed ever since. It may even be the case that Congress and the public are not "authorized" to know what the COG measures are, since we all are potential enemies of the homeland security state which is seeking to protect itself against us.

When you consider the fact that even the White House website admits to the existence of a "shadow government", it's way past time for us to ask what the hell is going on, who is really in charge, and what powers do they think they have?

I think the answers to those questions would amaze most of us.

Wanted: Skilled Immigrants For Detroit

The Governor of Michigan wants to lure skilled immigrants to Detroit:

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/23/michigan-governoreyes50000visastoattractimmigrants.html

I don't get this. There are at least 10 million unemployed US citizens, many of whom are former auto industry workers. Are you telling me that at least 50,000 of them don't have the skills that Detroit needs?

Or, as I suspect, is this another aspect of UNION BUSTING in America? Corporations no longer want to pay living wages or benefits, so they lure desperate people from around the world to take their low-paying jobs.

Once our perestroika is complete, few people in this country will be able to live "the American dream". It was stolen from us by those bastards who are now meeting and scheming against us in Davos.

Should the World Bank be shut down ???

This report says that the World Bank promotes projects which result in human rights abuses and death:

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/4660-beyond-reform-its-time-to-shut-down-the-world-bank-

The World Bank’s history of investing in projects resulting in murder and human rights abuses suggests that efforts to reform the bank is a fool’s errand. During the early 1980s, in neighboring Guatemala the World Bank lent hundreds of millions of dollars for the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam project during the bloody military dictatorships of Fernando Romeo Lucas García and Efraín Ríos Montt. One of the results of the World Bank’s project was a series of planned massacres that left 440 Mayan Achi men, women, and children murdered.

This led me to recall that Robert Strange McNamara served as head of the World Bank from April 1968 to June 1981. His career progression kinda makes sense: help Curtis LeMay incinerate the Japanese, help Ford Motor Co. put profits over people on a national scale, help massacre beau coup Vietnamese, and then help the World Bank put profits over people on a global scale.

Did you ever watch the Errol Morris film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara? One of the lessons is that "In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil".

No, Robert. No, no, NO !!! In order to do good, you have to ENGAGE in good. Evil can NEVER be part of it.

No good act can produce an evil result. Evil means, even for a good end, produce evil results.

Mahatma Gandhi

Are corporations above the law ???

This report seems to say that the living dead (a.k.a. corporations) act as if they were above the law:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/chevron-blasted-for-rainforest-chernobyl-and-mob-like-tactics-to-silence-critics/177640/

Frankly, what large oil companies provide are mainly things that we would be better off without. Most people cannot see that now, but sooner or later we will.

By the way, why is the RICO act frequently used against abortion protesters but seldom against large corporations?

The TTIP is BAD NEWS

The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) which is currently being negotiated in secret will be a disaster for the economy of the 99%:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/criticism-grows-over-investor-protections-in-transatlantic-trade-deal-a-945107.html

Congress is planning to give Obama ad-Dajjal fast-track authority to sign the both the TTIP and the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership). Both will put corporations, not the people, in charge of the world's future.

This is a BAD IDEA.

Please urge your Senators and Representatives to stop the TTIP and the TPP. Your job and your retirement funds may depend on it.

Do doctors help torturers ???

Apparently the American Psychological Association does not think that a practitioner who assisted in military interrogations was participating in torture:

http://news.antiwar.com/2014/01/22/american-psychological-association-no-rebuke-for-torture-doctor/

Read the details and make your own assessment:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/22/guantanamo-torture-mohammed-al-qahtani-suspected-9-11-hijacker

It seems to me that the medical doctors and psychologists at Gitmo and other US prisons should be protecting the health of the prisoners, not assisting the interrogators in extracting information.

Just saying.

Is the Internet a gift from G-d ???

Pope Francis says it is:

http://www.nationaljournal.com/technology/pope-francis-in-social-media-message-calls-internet-a-gift-from-god-20140123

Dear Pope: The Internet is a curse from DARPA, and it is definitely a highway to Hell for most people. G-d had nothing to do with it.

States vs. NSA

States with big NSA facilities, such as Tennessee and Utah, are enacting legislation to combat what the Feds are doing:

http://benswann.com/breaking-tennessee-files-historic-legislation-throws-nsa-facility-out-of-state/

Here's another website where this concept is promoted:

http://offnow.org/

Although I think this is a wonderful idea, I fear that NOTHING is going to stop the US government from doing whatever it wants. Let's face reality ... Uncle Sam crushes sovereign nations which get in his way; do you really think he gives a damn what a no-longer-sovereign US state thinks it can do? Under "continuity of government" (COG) law, Uncle Sam can commandeer whatever he pleases, including the entire State of Tennessee if need be. COG measures were implemented on 9/11/2001, and the related state of emergency is still in effect (having been renewed every time it was about to expire).

By the way, the Utah facility is where NSA stores all of our data, while the Tennessee facility is where they crack all the codes. NOTHING can be hidden from them any more.

The Hows and Whys of Gold Price Manipulation

A somewhat lengthy essay by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, but well worth your time:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/01/17/hows-whys-gold-price-manipulation/

Quantitative Easing is a threat to the dollar’s exchange value. The Federal Reserve, fearful that the falling value of the dollar in terms of gold would spread into the currency markets and depreciate the dollar, decided to employ more extreme methods of gold price manipulation.

When gold hit $1,900, the Federal Reserve panicked. The manipulation of the gold price became more intense. It became more imperative to drive down the price, but the lower price resulted in higher Asian demand for which scant supplies of gold were available to meet.

Having created more paper gold claims than there is gold to satisfy, the Fed has used its dependent bullion banks to loot the gold exchange traded funds (ETFs) of gold in order to avoid default on Asian deliveries. Default would collapse the fractional bullion system that allows the Fed to drive down the gold price and protect the dollar from QE.

What we are witnessing is our central bank pulling out all stops on integrity and lawfulness in order to serve a small handful of banks that financial deregulation allowed to become “too big to fail” at the expense of our economy and our currency. When the Fed runs out of gold to borrow, to rehypothecate, and to loot from ETFs, the Fed will have to abandon QE or the US dollar will collapse and with it Washington’s power to exercise hegemony over the world.

This is very much like what Kelly Mitchell reported in his recent book Gold Wars.

The bottom line ... the US dollar is on the verge of crashing, while the Chinese and other big players are preparing for the day when it does. Get ready for your financial world to collapse, and with it the rest of your world.

Robot Jobocalpyse Is Coming

An estimated 70% of remaining jobs will be automated (i.e., taken over by robots) within the next 30 years:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2542113/Will-robot-jobocalypse-make-YOU-obsolete-2014-year-droid-takes-job-say-experts.html

"I believe we are the inflection point where robotics are going to change everything you know and do," says Ben Way, author of Jobocalypse, a book about about the rise of the robots.

That sounds wonderful, right?

When just about everything the ruling class needs done can be done by robots, the 99% will become irrelevant ... truly useless eaters. I'm sure they will scour the 99% for those gifted children they will need to keep their giant machine running, but the rest of us will be fair game for autonomous killer robots.

This cannot be stopped, but it WILL be the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.

Will Bill Gates help poor children ???

I have great hopes that people like Bill Gates actually will help poor children around the world:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/bill-gates-most-money-goes-to-poor-children-eI1dXd_jQ_aWViLVkUQI1A.html

I do have the following reservations:

• Such programs destroy the local cultures and replace them with ours (sociocide);
• Such programs destroy the local economies and replace them with ours (econocide); and
• Such programs destroy the local political systems and replace them with ours (politicide).

So, my underlying question is: How do we define "helping poor children"? If the definition is "try to make them all like Americans, and open up their countries to neoliberal exploitation", I don't think that is "help". That is enabling the wholesale theft of their resources while allowing us to feel good about it.

It's more or less the mentality by which the United States "helped" the so-called American Indians become like white men, and we all know how THAT turned out. Take a look at America in general: we have abandoned our poor children and shifted the nation's resources to the ruling class and their accomplices in the military. If we cannot "help" our own poor children, how can we help other people's poor children?

55 million abortions

There have been 55 million abortions since the Roe v. Wade decision:

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/22/i-am-overwhelmed-by-55-million-babies-killed-since-roe-v-wade/

US Constitution, 14th Amendment
1:  All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.  No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

All I can add is that the US Constitution has been respected, to the letter, 55 million times.

The global plutocracy

Our global overlords are getting ready for their annual jaunt to Davos:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/01/21/pers-j21.html

Has anything good for the 99% ever come out of the meetings at Davos? They more or less remind me of the meetings the Mafia bosses used to have, like the one at Apalachin, NY in 1957. Only now they meet in semi-secret and bring their wives or partners along.

The death-grip of the plutocrats over finance and industry must be broken. The banks and corporations must be taken out of private hands and placed under public ownership and democratic control. There is only one way this can be done: by means of the revolutionary transformation of society and the establishment of socialism.

I couldn't agree more. But the ruling class is never going to voluntarily give up their wealth and power. Who could possibly make them do it? Certainly not the US Congress, which is filled with their sock puppets.

Still attacking wedding parties

Here is an in-depth report concerning a recent US drone attack on a wedding convoy in Yemen:

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2014/1/17/what-really-happenedwhenausdronehitayemeniweddingconvoy.html

“This is a war against Muslims, against Islam and this is a crusade,” said Sheikh Ahmed, gesticulating to a U.S. drone whirring overhead, days after the governor of the province had pledged they would stop. “Our lives have no value to them.”

Are we, as our government claims, "fighting terror" and/or "winning the hearts and minds" of the Yemeni people with such attacks? I find either claim extremely hard to believe.

One alternate explanation is that John Brennan is hunting down and killing everyone who knows what Obama ad-Dajjal REALLY was doing during his missing years "at Columbia University".

That make a LOT more sense to me than anything the US government has told us.

Beaten for jaywalking

New York City police apparently beat and bloodied an 84 year old man for jaywalking:

http://nypost.com/2014/01/19/cops-beat-elderly-man-after-he-jaywalked/

America, you are sick.

Remind me never to go to New York again.

A thought on this Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

In his Nobel Lecture entitled "The Quest for Peace and Justice", Dr. King made the following hopeful claim:

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

[http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-lecture.html]

In his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell made the following dystopian claim:

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.

Which of these two possible futures is our world headed towards? Which is Obama ad-Dajjal working hard to bring about?

You know the answer.