Will the US Default ???

Here is an analyst who believes that a US debt default is "inevitable":

http://www.arabianmoney.net/banking-finance/2014/02/23/the-inevitable-debt-default-ahead-for-the-us-uk-and-japan-makes-the-eurozone-look-cool

I happen to agree with him. It will happen ... it is happening:

• QE is devaluing the dollar, which amounts to a type of default.
• The cutting of food stamps, the shrinking of our military, the attempts at cutting Social Security and Medicare all are types of default.

Actual default by the federal government is not far off. I abhor it, I hope it never happens, but as the analyst said our debt to GDP ratio is just too high ... and the feds waited too long to start addressing the issue.

Gulf War Syndrome, 20 Years On

Roughly 20 years ago, I became interested in the phenomenon called "Gulf War Syndrome (GWS)". For those of you who are not familiar with it, a description can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome

I did some informal "research" at the time and spoke to many victims of the malady. Here is a list of the things I found, in no particular order:

(1) One of the first places I visited to learn about GWS was the Disabled American Veterans office in New Haven, CT. One of the counselors there told me that nuclear weapons had been used during Operation Desert Storm. I was to hear such claims many times over the next 20 years, but I have never uncovered proof that such a thing happened. Perhaps the things I discussed in this blog post are the closest we'll ever come to physical evidence proving that any radioactive weapons other than DU have been used (yet) in the Middle East:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/08/was-there-nuclear-attack-on-syria.html

(2) Another place I visited was the VA Hospital in New Haven, CT. The head of their medical library told me that in the run-up to Operation Desert Storm, the government had sent box loads of documents and reports about the types of diseases our troops might be exposed to while deployed. She also said that after the war when our troops got sick with GWS, no doctor ever looked at any of those documents or reports. Not even once.

(3) One of the first US doctors to publish a paper about sand fly fever was LTC Albert Sabin, the inventor of the polio vaccine which bears his name.

(4) I attended the first national conference about GWS in Bethesda, MD. The panel opened the conference by stating that the government was not giving them access to the information they needed to do their job. After the conference, I learned that military doctors attended a private conference of their own following the public one I attended. I am not aware that the findings of their conference have ever been published.

(5) I attempted to collect samples from Gulf War veterans to have them analyzed for toxins to which they may have been exposed. I was not successful in this effort. I contacted many of the laboratories around the world that were capable of analyzing samples for chemical warfare agent residue, but none were interested in helping. Their excuse (a good one) was that the provenance of any such samples could not be proven (i.e., there was no chain of custody), so any testing would be meaningless. I later discovered that most if not all veterans who turned over their samples to "researchers" did so without executing any chain of custody documentation.

(6) I learned that the Pentagon and DOE had deployed an airborne LIDAR system to measure the toxins from the burning oil wells in Kuwait and elsewhere. I filed a Freedom of Information Request to get the data from these measurements, but had no success. The government told me that no such data existed.

(7) There were some early reports that gas mask filters collected during Desert Storm contained BW agents, but it is likely that the bacteria found on them were naturally occurring in the region. Apparently the "researchers" made no effort to confirm the source of the bacteria.

(8) The Israelis stated that if Saddam attacked them, they would retaliate at a time and in a manner of their choosing. We were told that the Israelis could not fly into Iraq during the war and subsequent quarantine because coalition forces had not given them the aircraft IFF codes. However, the publication Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that the Israelis flew many missions over Iraq during that period, apparently whenever they wanted to. The purpose of these missions has not been revealed.

(9) It was reported that approximately 300 tons of DU munitions were used during Desert Storm and left on the ground. However, there were other sources of radioactive contamination from the war. The phosphate plant at al-Qaim was bombed during Desert Storm, and a portion of its tailings pile was dispersed into the air. This pile contained uranium and fission products from the natural decay of uranium in the phosphate rock. I did an unpublished study which showed that radiation doses from dispersion of this tailings pile may have been 6 times higher than the dose from 300 tons of DU munitions. This extra radiation dose has not been considered in GWS studies. Here is a description of the facility:

http://www.iraqwatch.org/entities/images/qaim.htm

(10) I suspected that if nuclear weapons had been used by coalition forces, our troops may have been given a prophylactic dose of potassium iodide (KI) to protect their thyroid glands. However, I was able to verify by assay that at least one batch of the pills given to our troops did not contain KI.

(11) It has been suggested that a plague vaccine manufactured by Cutter Pharmaceuticals was a possible cause of GWS. Several years ago I discovered that some time after Operation Desert Storm, Cutter gave up its license to manufacture the vaccine, dismantled the plant where it was made, and destroyed all the equipment. Does such action suggest that something was wrong with their vaccine? You be the judge.

(12) It also has been suggested that chemical warfare agents were a possible cause of GWS. I learned that the Soviets had developed and field tested the novichok nerve agents around the time of Desert Storm, so I spoke to one of the Soviets who had worked in the Foliant Program which produced novichok. A summary of my interview with him can be found here:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/05/were-chemical-weapons-used-during-first.html

(13) The Rand Corporation mentioned my novichok paper in one of their reports. They called Dr. Mirzayanov "a Russian émigré". While partly true (he is not Russian, but he is an émigré), they neglected to mention that Dr. Mirzayanov is a leading expert in the field of chromatographic analysis and was the head of  the Department of Counteraction to Foreign and Technical Investigations for GSNIIOCT and its branches, with responsibilities for CW countermeasures. Had they done so, the importance of his revelations might have been better understood.

I regret that I was unable to help any of the veterans who suffer from GWS. I always had the feeling that the US government not only did not care about their plight but had intentionally and knowingly done things which made them sick.

We'll never find out what really happened during Operation Desert Storm, and that's a crying shame.

Old Man Shot By Fearful Deputy

A 70 year old man was shot by a sheriff's deputy while reaching for his walking cane. The deputy thought the cane was a rifle:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/sc-officer-shoots-man-reaching-for-cane/2014/02/26/1b97852e-9f3d-11e3-878c-65222df220eb_story.html

“It does appear, at this time, that Deputy Knox’s actions were an appropriate response to what he reasonably believed to be an imminent threat to his life.”

WTF ???

Why are we tolerating shit like this? Why are cops trained to do this?

Are they public servants or trigger happy miscreants?

Watch A Man Being Killed By Police

This man was killed by police in Oklahoma after his wife allegedly slapped their daughter:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/video-surfaces-of-okla-father-dying-after-police-encounter/180631/

Can someone tell me why he was killed? Does it make any sense to kill a parent to save a child from being hit or spanked? Or was the chief reason for his death that he was Hispanic and the police were not?

These five policemen and ALL police who act like this should be fired and prosecuted for MURDER.

And the person who called the police in the first place should be prosecuted as an accomplice to murder.

Mr. and Mrs. America, you are f-cked up !!! Mind your own damn business !!!

Have Germany and US Protected Terrorists ???

Here is an article in Der Spiegel which describes how information provided by a government mole might have been used to stop Neo-Nazi murderers:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/former-neo-nazi-informant-sheds-new-light-on-nsu-murders-a-955787.html

A few years ago I read a similar article about the Manson family. An informant had ratted them out, and the CA authorities could have arrested them prior to their infamous murders. But no action was taken until after the crimes.

Do governments actually protect such people so that they can carry out their acts of terror? It's a great way to scare the population into wanting more "police protection", isn't it?

O Has Brought Us To A "Constitutional Tipping Point"

Here are two recent articles, one about the testimony of a law professor and another by a former judge, which describe how Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions are assaulting the US Constitution and legal precedent, and how they are destroying the balance of power among the Executive Branch, Congress, and the courts. You should definitely watch the video embedded in the first link:

http://freebeacon.com/liberal-prof-obama-has-brought-us-to-constitutional-tipping-point/

http://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2014/02/26/new-assaults-on-american-law/

Liberty is rarely lost overnight. It is lost slowly and in the name of safety. In the name of keeping us safe, the feds have spied on the lawyers who negotiate with them, lied to the lawyers whose clients they are prosecuting and misrepresented their behavior to the Supreme Court. As far as the public record reveals, they have not corrected that misrepresentation. They have done all of this in utter defiance of well-settled law and procedures and constitutional safeguards.

We are like a boiling frog, and we're nearing the point where the temperature is getting hot enough to kill us. When do we start fighting back, and how? O and his minions are watching everyone, so any "patriots" who rise up will be quickly slapped down and made an example of.

The Founders had balls. Today's replacements have been castrated.

No Real Planes @ 9/11 ???

I cannot prove what did or did not happen on 9/11, but I do believe that whatever happened should have followed known physical laws (unless, as some claim, miracles occurred that day).

Watch this video, and then ask yourself why the airplanes which allegedly hit WTC1 and WTC2 left no wake turbulence:

http://youtu.be/Xlj1mVD2-HM

Those pesky Muslims are damn crafty but they don't have the ability to suspend physical laws, do they? And they couldn't have flown the planes into the buildings in level flight if the engines were turned off, either.

Only G-d and Hollywood can do such things.

An Eloquent Plea To Restore US Democracy

Here's a short video you should watch:

http://youtu.be/cyE-7gkq4d8

What he says also applies (perhaps even more so) to the US Congress. No Senator or Representative should vote for or against a bill he/she has not had time to read and fully understand.

Why O Wants A "Smart Grid"

To spy on you, of course:

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/02/25/the-eyeopener-report-the-tyranny-of-smart-why-the-smart-grid-must-be-resisted-how-to-do-it/

Nothing that comes out of his mouth is even close to the truth.

Sorry for the plea for donations contained in the video, but I guess Boiling Frogs needs money more than Obama ad-Dajjal does.

Quote of Note

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

George Orwell

In America, you no longer have such a right.

Impeach AG Holder

A coalition of black pastors wants to impeach AG Eric Holder:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/black-pastors-impeach-holder

I also am in favor of his impeachment and prosecution, but not over same-sex marriage. He appears to be an accomplice to murder (Obama ad-Dajjal's drone program), he appears to have provided assault weapons to the Sinaloa drug cartel, and he appears to have obstructed justice in the investigation of what really happened in the "bombing" of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City.

O the Executioner

Ralph Nader's new book Unstoppable correctly spells out some of what is wrong with the government of Obama ad-Dajjal:

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/ralph-nader-book-103908.html

Why does it take a marginal consumer advocate and failed Presidential candidate to recognize and speak out about such things? What's wrong with the MSM, Congress, and the courts?

By the way, "the corporate state" = FASCISM. Why are the MSM and others whining about "fascism" in Ukraine when the real "Nazi-like" threat is coming from the USA?

http://tarpley.net/usa-and-eu-are-erecting-a-nazi-regime-on-ukrainian-territory/

The Cost of Fielding An Army

According to The Angry Arab News Service, each US soldier in Iraq cost $800,000 per year:

http://angryarab.net/2014/02/24/us-expenditure-per-soldier-per-year-in-iraq/

Had we spent even a fraction of this amount supporting the real US economy, we'd all be a lot better off.

World Bank's War On The Poor

Here is a great essay in Dissident Voice about the role played by the World Bank in the massacre of one million people in Indonesia following the 1965 military coup:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/02/world-bank-called-to-acknowledge-role-in-mass-killing-of-one-million-indonesians/

The World Bank loans to Indonesia were part of a "structural adjustment program" which brought the country into the western fold and opened it up for neoliberal mass looting of its resources.

Now the City of Detroit is undergoing its own "structural adjustment":

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/24/pers-f24.html

The killing hasn't started yet in Detroit, but the suffering has been going on for quite some time. When the true magnitude of America's debt must be dealt with, there will be hell to pay. And that's when we may discover why Homeland Security has been buying all those hollow point bullets. The chief attribute of the ruling class is that they rule ... by any means necessary.

Russia's Overshadowed Games

Good essay in Der Spiegel about the "issues" which overshadowed Russia's hosting of the 2014 Olympic winter games:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/commentary-on-the-olympics-in-sochi-in-the-shadow-of-kiev-a-955292.html

Same thing happened when Russia hosted the summer games in 1980. The US acted like the spoiled bully child she is and tried to ruin the games.

Grow up, America. You are such whining, arrogant jackasses.

And what happened to your hockey teams? They sucked !!!

The Silencing of Tyrone Hayes

Professor Tyrone Hayes apparently discovered that a widely used herbicide has horrible side effects. He says the company which makes the stuff tried to silence him:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/02/silencing-the-scientist/

Doesn't this sound like what happened to autism researcher Dr. Andrew Wakefield?

And could this gender-bending phenomenon be responsible for what now is happening to human society? That is an intriguing possibility.

Taxation Without Representation

As you probably know, companies like General Electric pay less in taxes than you and I do.

What was the original intent of The Founders? You can find it in our Constitution:

US Constitution, Article I, Section 2
3: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.

You can get hung up on the "3/5s person" stuff if you want, but the underlying issue is that representation and the rates of direct taxation were intended to be established by actual census numbers. In addition, this clause also is important:

US Constitution, Article I, Section 9
4: No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

In other words, direct taxes on persons were intended to be equal and to be determined by a head count. One person = one vote = one dollar (or some multiple of dollars).

Obviously such a scheme would not raise very much money in today's terms. What was the intended source of the rest of the federal revenue?

US Constitution, Article I, Section 8
1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

In other words, taxes on commerce and imports was going to be the chief source of federal income, NOT direct taxes on persons.

But what did Congress enact in 1913 to change this formula (just in time to help fund World War One)?

US Constitution, 16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

This so-called "income tax amendment" had nothing to do with the taxation of incomes, which Congress already had the power to tax. The true purpose of this amendment was to make the affected persons (i.e., real people and the States) unequal, and to give Congress the ability to tax whomever they wanted at whatever rate they wanted ... without a compensatory adjustment in the political representation of the persons being so taxed.

It therefore reestablished "taxation without representation" in the United States, an issue which supposedly was one of the chief causes of the American Revolution. It also strongly established the principle of "representation without taxation", since corporations which pay no taxes clearly have greater political power than real persons who do pay taxes.

And interestingly, this amendment also laid the groundwork for the recent Supreme Court ruling that the ObamaDon'tCare Program is not unconstitutional because it is just another direct tax, and direct taxes do not have to be equal or evenly apportioned.

There is only one way this situation could possibly be "fixed", and that is to repeal the 16th Amendment and start re-taxing all commerce inside the US and any commerce which crosses our borders (including the flow of information). However ... that ain't gonna happen, since the bankgangsters and corporations have so polluted our heads with trash ideas and propaganda that few people can understand what is at stake and why globalization is such a horrible idea.

Shit on The Founders if you want, but those guys really knew what they were doing. We will never see their like again.

By the way, if the flow of information is commerce (and it most certainly is now the world's chief form of commerce) ... then Congress has the power to regulate it. That makes the so-called NSA "spying" both legal and constitutional. How's that for a fine kettle of fish?

Wall Street Runs America

Now the feds are permitting banks to set their own rules:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/275f93c0-9b1d-11e3-b0d0-00144feab7de.html

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1932 brought some responsibility to Wall Street. It's repeal in 1999 opened the door to the chaos from which we now all suffer.

It was repealed while Bill Clinton was President. Do you think his "wife" is any less of a sock puppet to the bankgangsters and corporations?

Religious Freedom ???

Here's a story about the "religious freedom" law in Arizona:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/religious-freedom-bill-riles-gay-rights-supporters/180238/

Such laws are unnecessary. The First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees religious freedom. All we have to do is honor it.

But the President, Congress, and the courts are NOT following the US Constitution. That being the case, no such law is anything more than a sick joke.

Our republic is doomed, and (guess what?) the rest of the world doesn't want us or our worthless money. We've got nowhere to go.

Thug State USA

A lengthy but revealing essay by Tom Engelhardt concerning the agencies which support our deep state:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175809/tomgram_engelhardt_thug_state_u.s.a./

There once was a place known as the United States of America: a constitutional republic governed by a representative Congress, an accountable President, and courts of law. That place is now gone.

It has been replaced by a thug state mafiocracy run by the oligarchs of its deep state. The people are kept in the dark; Congress isn't allowed to (or doesn't want to) know what is happening; the President is a man of lawlessness who rules by decree; and if you can even get the courts' attention they will tell you that you have no standing before them.

We're on our own, but this vicious thug state is not going to leave us alone.

In Ukraine the people rose up and their Parliament voted the President out. That may not be a permanent solution, but the real question is "why aren't we doing anything about our mess?"

"Land of the free, home of the brave" my ass.

The only things still tying us together are the hatreds everyone seems to have for one another and the crushing debt we shall never escape. That's not much of a future.

Iranian Doublethink

Here is an interesting op-ed in The New York Times which demonstrates the kind of disinformation to which we are continually subjected:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/opinion/dont-let-up-on-iran.html

LIKE all Americans, we strongly hope that the Obama [ad-Dajjal] administration’s diplomatic efforts lead to the peaceful dismantling of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

"Like all Americans ..."? Don't include me; I have no such hope, nor do I need one.

"... Iran's nuclear weapons program"? Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Iraq did not have a nuclear weapons program. Israel does have a nuclear weapons program, but apparently that is not open for discussion.

What is really going on here? Is this related more to the ascendancy of "Greater Israel" or to the war between Shia and Sunni Muslims? And why should anyone in the world give a damn, other than Israelis and Saudis?

Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ’doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.

George Orwell, from Nineteen Eighty-Four

Obamaville In Maryland

Here is a haunting photo essay about how the homeless live outside of Baltimore:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2564858/Baltimores-people-woods-Inside-hidden-homeless-camps-milk-crates-wooden-doors-tarps-outskirts-town.html

So ... if as John McCain suggests Ms. Rodham becomes President, just what does she intend to do to help these people? Can you name anyone other than a friend or family member of hers whom she has helped? I cannot.

Today's Quote of Note

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

Benito Mussolini

This kind of sounds like the relationship between global corporations and the US government, doesn't it?

The US and Israel: Two Peas In A Pod

As you may be aware, Israel is now producing natural gas from several offshore fields, no doubt with US help:

http://angryarab.net/2014/02/21/the-king-of-jordan-and-isarel/

This reminds me of what the US and Canada did to the natives of North America. We herded them at gunpoint into "reservations" (not unlike Gaza and the West Bank), enjoyed the riches taken from what used to be "their" land, and punished and/or killed them when they fought back.

Why should anyone in the US not like Israel? They are just like us.

By the way, the way to change this is not to boycott-divest-sanction Israel, it is to boycott-divest-sanction the United States. When the rest of the world wakes up to this fact, we will be in big trouble.

Got the Munchies ???

It had to happen sooner or later - Girl Scouts selling their cookies outside a pot store:

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Girl-Scout-Does-Brisk-Business-Selling-Cookies-Outside-San-Francisco-Pot-Club-246452511.html

Now THAT is a true American entrepreneur !!!

Robots Will Run Our Dairy Farms

Here is a story in Der Spiegel about how German dairy farms are being taken over by robots:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/dairy-farming-in-europe-effiency-paramount-as-eu-quotas-expire-a-954750.html

People who treat animals this way will eventually treat each other in the same manner. The "market state" assigns value to everything, and human useless eaters are a liability. Businesses must minimize their liabilities to survive, and governments are no different.

Don't Tase Me Bro !!!

A student at an Austin metro area high school was tased by deputy sheriffs and suffered brain damage as a result:

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/fbi-to-investigate-taser-incident-at-cedar-creek-h/ndW6y/

I can't tell from the videos what happened, but what could he have done to deserve such treatment? The student was Hispanic, while the deputies were Anglo. Was that a factor?

US police are out of control, and this is a prime example of it. If we take away their impunity, this might stop.

http://youtu.be/ag4EJUj6V4o

By the way, when I was in high school male teachers had no problem administering "swats" to unruly students. And we had few if any discipline problems, no metal detectors, and no police in our schools. Are the two related? You be the judge.

If you ask me, everything started to go south when parents implemented the ideas in Dr. Benjamin Spock's seminal book Baby and Child Care. "Scientific" and "new" don't always equal "smart" or "effective".

Shitting on the First Amendment

The "thought police" have arrived.

Obama ad-Dajjal intends to police the press in a truly un-Constitutional manner:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/new-obama-initiative-tramples-first-amendment-protections/article/2544363

The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law …abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …" But under the Obama administration, the Federal Communications Commission is planning to send government contractors into the nation's newsrooms to determine whether journalists are producing articles, television reports, Internet content, and commentary that meets the public's "critical information needs." Those "needs" will be defined by the administration, and news outlets that do not comply with the government's standards could face an uncertain future. It's hard to imagine a project more at odds with the First Amendment.

WTF ???

It is difficult to imagine how a "constitutional law professor" could sign off on such a thing. Did this clown actually teach law to anyone, or is that also just part of his CIA legend?

Why is Congress twiddling their collective thumbs while Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions are unraveling 225 years of Constitutional protections and legal precedents?

Everything we cherished about the United States of America is vanishing. No one seems concerned. No one is doing anything to stop it.

Is there nothing worth saving? It sure seems like no one thinks there is.

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere. The black-moustachio’d face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house-front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston’s own. Down at street level another poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering and uncovering the single word INGSOC. In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered.

Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

George Orwell, from Nineteen Eighty-Four

Men Under Attack

Here is an essay which discusses 10 ways in which men are under attack:

http://www.infowars.com/the-war-on-men-10-ways-masculinity-is-under-attack/

I agree with the general concept discussed here.

But it really goes further than that. Everything in the established order is under attack. There is nothing left for us to hold on to.

And that's the whole point. Once Satan has reestablished chaos, he thinks he will be the one to reestablish order ... his order. And the rulers of this world are his willing accomplices.

Q: Why is this being done to us?

A: To replace man with Satan's counterfeit version of man.

[Question was first asked and answer first received in Mahomet in 2000.]

Divorce as an Economic Barometer

Here's a bizarre supposed correlation - as the economy improves, the divorce rate goes up:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-18/worsening-u-s-divorce-rate-points-to-improving-economy.html

So ... it's ok to screw the family as long as money keeps flowing through the system?

What's gonna happen when the economy collapses? People will then be "stuck in unhappy marriages"? This is the biggest crock of horseshit I've seen all week.

America, if you want to spit on marriage as an institution, why don't you just say so and skip all this pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo?

Cold War Part Two

In this essay by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, it becomes clear that the US is attacking Russia via the unrest in Ukraine:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/14/russia-attack-paul-craig-roberts/

Does this not remind you of how the wars in Libya and Syria began, when the US funded dissidents in those formerly sovereign nations?

As Ms. Rodham quipped after Muammar al-Gaddafi was murdered, "We came, we saw, he died." That's US flippant "diplomacy" in action: other people die so that bankgangsters and corporations can be filthy fucking rich.

Sheesh!!!

Autism: Wakefield From Another Direction

As you may know, Dr. Andrew Wakefield was run out of the medical profession for suggesting that vaccines may play a role in causing autism.

Now we have a different researcher saying that the human gut may play a role in the development of autism:

https://www.facebook.com/TheAutismRevolution/posts/656535041036058

See also:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/ciot-pta120413.php

"To our knowledge, this is the first report of an animal model for autism with comorbid GI dysfunction," says Elaine Hsiao, a senior research fellow at Caltech and the first author on the study.

Well ... yes and no. I believe that Dr. Wakefield was the first to publish a model for autism with comorbid GI dysfunction:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(97)11096-0/abstract

We identified associated gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in a group of previously normal children, which was generally associated in time with possible environmental triggers.

But since his work threatened the profits of Big Pharma and Big Medicine, his publication was withdrawn under pressure, his medical license was revoked, and he was essentially blackballed from the medical profession.

Is there any provable relationship between number of vaccines given to children and infant mortality rates [IMRs]? Apparently there is:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/

The US childhood immunization schedule requires 26 vaccine doses for infants aged less than 1 year, the most in the world, yet 33 nations have better IMRs.

Moral of the story? When it's your kids, who are you gonna believe? A government which sacrifices some children supposedly for the good of the whole?

A Fine Kettle of Fish

The President is violating the Constitution, but Congress can't do anything about it?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/16/republicans-obama-is-violating-constitution-but-little-can-do/

Hey, you dumbasses in DC, President Andrew Johnson was impeached for offenses far less grievous than what Obama ad-Dajjal has done:

... on February 24, 1868, the House impeached the President for intentionally violating the Tenure of Office Act, by a vote of 128 to 47. The House subsequently adopted eleven articles of impeachment, for the most part alleging that he had violated the Tenure of Office Act, and had questioned the legitimacy of Congress.

[See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson#Impeachment]

Clearly, Obama ad-Dajjal is questioning the legitimacy of Congress. In fact, he is spitting in your face !!!

Stop making excuses and IMPEACH his ass.

The Value of Human Life

Following the Bhopal disaster in India, Union Carbide coughed up about $31,000 for every person killed by the fumes from their plant:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/new-evidence-re-energizes-bhopal-court-case/179655/

How much money have defendants been forced to pay for the wrongful death of a US citizen? It's a heck of a lot more that $31,000 !!!

Why are the lives of Indian citizens worth less than our lives?

And why has the US government refused to honor the arrest warrants for Union Carbide executives?

Answer: Racism, pure and simple.

Russian Thought for the Day

I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats – any kind of threat, whether of jail or retribution after death – then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion-tamer with his whip, not the preacher who sacrificed himself. But don't you see, this is just the point – what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music: the irresistible power of unarmed truth, the attraction of its example. It has always been assumed that the most important things in the Gospels are the ethical teaching and commandments. But for me the most important thing is the fact that Christ speaks in parables taken from daily life, that he explains the truth in terms of everyday reality. The idea that underlies this is that communion between mortals is immortal, and that the whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Boris Pasternak (from Doctor Zhivago)

Rebirth of the Dark Alliance

Do you still think that the US government (and/or the US deep state) are not involved in drug trafficking? If so, read this:

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/02/09/a-dark-narco-alliance-reborn-the-dea-sinaloa-connection/

All the circumstantial evidence and many of the facts say they are.

Drugs are an essential part of US counter-insurgency warfare (COIN).

Back in the day when Uncle Sam was exterminating Indians, his deadly COIN triad was:

• guns
• whiskey
• measles/smallpox

Now that Uncle has branched out into a global extermination program, his deadly COIN triad is:

• guns
• drugs
• HIV/AIDS

It's easier to steal a people's wealth if you first weaken them and kill as many of them as possible. The US is a greedy "death state". Always has been, always will be.

Stay clear if you know what's good for you.

[By the way, those of you who still think guns are tools of liberation, take note that Uncle Sam gave guns to the Indians. Not to liberate them, but to make them easier to kill.]

But I Agree With Tom DeLay

For once I agree with former Representative Tom DeLay.

DeLay claims that Americans now live "under a government of tyranny":

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/tom-delay-constitution-obama/2014/02/14/id/552917

I do not agree with the way he couches this in partisan terms, but haven't I been making a similar "tyranny" argument for quite some time?

But here's a word of warning: In the America of Obama ad-Dajjal, those who say "give me liberty or give me death" are more likely to get the latter than the former.

I Disagree With Ron Paul

For once I disagree with Dr. Ron Paul.

He has started a petition to give Edward Snowden a fair trial, which is equivalent to saying that Snowden may have committed a crime:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/katie-ron-paul-starts-petition-bring-snowden-home-safely-going-viral/179679/

Snowden should be pardoned, the same way Richard Nixon was pardoned.

What did Nixon do to deserve immunity for his heinous crimes? And why shouldn't Snowden's good deeds merit clemency?

It is Obama ad-Dajjal, Eric Holder, and John Brennan who should be on trial, not Edward Snowden.

US Ranks 46th In Press Freedom

The group Reporters Without Borders does not think highly of press freedom in the United States:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/the-united-states-just-finished-46th-in-a-press-freedom-contest/283798/

At least we finished ahead of Haiti.

We're not killing reporters yet (at least not over here; see the Collateral Murder video for what we do to foreign journalists), but some have committed suicide (e.g., Gary Webb), most are intimidated, and several are in danger of being arrested or murdered by Uncle Sam (e.g., Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras).

The US government has reverted to the role of the British Crown during our revolution. And it is Obama ad-Dajjal and NOT George W. Bush who is most responsible for this.

Spying As A Business Venture

Here is a cool story of a US entrepreneur who has created a mini spy satellite business:

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/16/this-space-for-rentprivatesatellitesraiseprofitsprivacyconcerns.html

“The privacy ship has sailed,” Gary Hudson, president of the Space Studies Institute, a nonprofit group that promotes space research and education, wrote in an email. “No one can block access to the ground from orbit. And the genie is out of the bottle with respect to capabilities such as reconnaissance, signals intelligence, etc. It can’t be put back in.”

In other words, the spies have done things they probably shouldn't have, didn't ask your permission, and now they say there is nothing you can do about it. Sheesh!

I like the way this is couched in terms of "it will accomplish good things". It reminds me of the claim "too cheap to meter" which was made for nuclear power. This technology will be good AND bad. Will the good outweigh the bad? Only time will tell.

But keep one thing in mind: This is the modern equivalent of George Armstrong Custer's geological expedition into the Black Hills of the Dakotas. Whenever the white man comes into "your" backyard with survey/spy equipment, his intention is to steal something. And anyone who gets in his way is likely to be killed. Gold drives the white man crazy.

I′yehe′! my children — Uhi′yeye′heye′!/ I′yehe′! we have rendered them desolate — Eye′ae′yuhe′yu!/ The whites are crazy — Ahe′yuhe′yu!

Arapaho Ghost Dance song

Is Amazon Helping Uncle Sam Kill People ???

According to this essay, Amazon provides cloud computing services to the NSA and these services aid Obama ad-Dajjal's murder program:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/02/if-obama-orders-the-cia-to-kill-a-u-s-citizen-amazon-will-be-a-partner-in-assassination/

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime
Every great fortune begins with a crime
At the root of every great fortune there was a crime

Honoré de Balzac (attributed)

Thy Kingdom Come

Why are today's "Christians" working for Rome (a.k.a. The United States of America) instead of fighting Rome? Jesus was and is a revolutionary anarchist:

http://koinoniarevolution.com/2014/02/14/thy-kingdom-come-the-christian-call-to-social-action/

Why is there a US flag in your church when the US government will not allow the word of G-d in your schools or on the public property which YOU paid for?

I believe that churches should be struggling against earthly authority, not bowing down to it.

Are churches afraid of the US government? Are you afraid the feds will take "your" property or tax you?

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Revelation 3:14-22 KJV

Army Occupation Drills in VA

The US Army has a 300 acre site in Virginia with a fake city for occupation practice:

http://www.infowars.com/u-s-army-builds-fake-city-in-virginia-to-practice-military-occupation/

"War" is not waged against civilian populations, at least not legally.

"Our" government is planning to occupy America. It's just a matter of time.

US and Canada Still Trying to Kill Indians

Here is a report about the latest US-Canada joint operation against the Indians:

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/us-canada-joint-military-operations.html

The US and the British Crown stole the land, but they will never admit it.

We are not rich because we worked hard or because G-d loves us more than He loves the Indians. We are (or at least used to be) rich because we are thieves, rapists, and murderers.

And then we teach our children that what we have done is good. No wonder they are confused.

Obama ad-Dajjal and Holder Are Liars

You can be put on the terror list in error, and the FBI will never admit it:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/14/ongoing-abuse-state-secrets-privilege/

THIS is the sort of clowns who are turning our nation into a police state.

Are you happy now?

The True Danger In NSA / DOJ Actions

Please scan this recent essay by Marcy Wheeler (you should read it in full if you have the time):

http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/02/14/todays-nsa-related-orwellianism-derived-from/

Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions have created a situation in which they at least implicitly claim that their actions are NOT subject to review and that the accused have no recourse. If they say you're guilty, that's it, and they can kill you if they wish. AND they claim that no court, legislature, or other earthly power can challenge them.

If that's not tyranny, it soon will be.

tyr·an·ny noun \ˈtir-ə-nē\

: cruel and unfair treatment by people with power over others

: a government in which all power belongs to one person : the rule or authority of a tyrant

[from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tyranny]

The End of the Hippocratic Oath ???

In this essay, Dr. Gary Kohls suggests that the Hippocratic Oath is being killed off by Big Medicine and Big Pharma:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/02/is-the-hippocratic-oath-being-killed-off-by-the-big-business-of-medicine/

The original oath was the following:

I swear by Apollo, the healer, Ascelepius, Hygieia and Panacea, I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:

To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art; and that by my teaching, I will impart a knowledge of this art to my own sons, and to my teacher’s sons, and to disciples bound by an indenture and oath according to the medical laws, and no others.

I will prescribe dietetic regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion,

But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.

I will not cut for stone [“cut for stone” means “to operate on bladder stones”], even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this area.

In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or men, be they free or slaves.

All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.

If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practise my art, respected by all humanity and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my life.

In addition to what Dr. Kohls mentioned, take note that the part about abortions also is no longer followed. You may draw your own conclusions about that issue.

Oaths in general (this oath plus the oath specified by the US Constitution) seem to have little meaning in our culture, other than as a rite of passage signifying a personal achievement. We would all be better served if the oath takers truly believed in and followed them.

Are Americans Unwilling To Work ???

Here's a controversial essay by the CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce:

http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/02/13/3767153/a-steady-flow-of-talented-industrious.html

Following his logic, if the US educates foreign students and then encourages them to stay here instead of going back to their countries of origin we'll all be better off.

Good try buddy, but there's a lot more to it than that.

What's the motivation for US students to do better or study for careers that no one wants? If they get replaced by foreign workers, what's the motivation for our kids to do anything at all except play with their cell phones?

What's the motivation for US corporations to keep jobs here when they can create capital here (at our expense) or borrow it from the Federal (sic) Reserve Bank at no cost and move it without penalty anywhere in the world (to maximize their profits and to minimize their taxes)?

A global economy destroys nation states ... period.

Mr. Donohue is promoting the market state concept. And when nation states have been converted to market states and all complete for the same talent in the global marketplace, the winners will be whoever pays that talent the most and taxes them the least.

When that happens, they will build separation walls (like the ones in India and Israel) to keep the starving 99% from bothering the one percent in their enjoyment of the new economy.

Thank you, Mr. Donohue, but I'd prefer a return to the 1960s; before the killing of JFK and the Vietnam War. Give us back the country which World War Two created, get the government off our backs and out of our bedrooms, and we'll do the rest.

Is This Judge An Idiot ???

A judge who just ruled on same-sex marriage confused the Declaration of Independence with the US Constitution:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/14/VA-Same-Sex-Marriage-Ruling-Confuses-Declaration-Of-Independence-With-Constitution

This is the kind of judges, representatives, and senators we're now stuck with: apparently sloppy know-nothings who shoot from the hip.

And as long as the "right people" get what they want, nothing else seems to matter anymore, does it?