Tuesday, June 30, 2015

War On Terror (sic) Has Killed 7 Million People

That's the conclusion of this report, which appears to use reasonable logic and unbiased assumptions:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/30/have-millions-of-deaths-from-americas-war-on-terror-been-concealed/

That's more deaths than the Jewish Holocaust. Don't Muslim deaths count, too?

Apparently they don't. At least not to Americans.

Did The Human Terrain System Actually Go Away ???

Here is a report which alleges that the Army's "Human Terrain System (HTS)" has come to an end:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/29/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-human-terrain-system/


But is that really so?


Consider how similar HTS is to what is being said about JADE HELM 15:


http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2015/05/jade-helm-15-human-domain.html


My assessment is that Professor Roberto González may not know what he's talking about. Could he have been duped by the military on this issue?


Hey, Professor - The Army doesn't spend that kind of money without getting something for it. You need to reconsider your assumptions.


Update: Here is another observer who does not believe that HTS has gone away:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/07/new-human-terrain-system/

WHAT Constitution ???


[Borrowed from rense.com]

Hillary The Healer ???

Here we go again with the electoral Antichrist/False Prophet stuff:

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/video-girl-bursts-into-tears-after-hillary-touches-her/

Does this remind you of what Jesus did?

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Matthew 9:20-22 KJV

Or does it remind you of the false prophet?

And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Revelation 13:13-14 KJV

Do you remember how to tell Christ from Antichrist?

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-tell-christ-from-antichrist.html

Refer to this guidance any time the charlatan named Hillary tries to deceive you.

Cuba Accomplishes HIV Milestone

Cuba has become the first country to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to baby, the World Health Organisation has announced.

The WHO’s director general, Margaret Chan, said it was “one of the greatest public health achievements possible” and an important step towards an Aids-free generation.

Over the past five years, Caribbean countries have had increased access to antiretroviral drugs as part of a regional initiative to eliminate mother-to-child transmission.

You can read the rest @
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/30/cuba-first-eliminate-mother-baby-hiv-transmission

Yes, Cuba ... not their giant bad neighbor to the north.

Christie Enters The Race - Why ???

Another hopeless candidate has entered the 2016 Presidential race:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/chris-christie-presidential-campaign-2016-119586.html

How much is the Clinton Foundation paying all these guys to ensure strife and disorder in the Republican camp so that Hillary can win?

Orwell, Huxley, And The Surveillance State

In spite of their differing perceptions of the architecture of the totalitarian superstate and how it exercises power and control over its residents, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley shared a fundamental conviction. They both argued that the established democracies of the West were moving quickly toward a historical moment when they would willingly relinquish the noble promises and ideals of liberal democracy and enter that menacing space where totalitarianism perverts the modern ideals of justice, freedom and political emancipation. Both believed that Western democracies were devolving into pathological states in which politics was recognized in the interest of death over life and justice. Both were unequivocal in the shared understanding that the future of civilization was on the verge of total domination or what Hannah Arendt called "dark times."

You can read the rest @
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31639-orwell-huxley-and-the-scourge-of-the-surveillance-state

Note well that it wasn't the desire of the peoples of our nations to create such pathological states. Rather it was the states themselves which took advantage of (or created) the circumstances which were then used to scare the hell out of the people to ensure their nefarious agenda would be enacted.

Who Kills Or Injures The Most Civilians ???

The rogue nation called Israel, of course:

Israel killed and injured more civilians with explosive weapons than any other state in the world in 2014 due to its military assault on Gaza. This is according to a new report by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), an organization that tracks the global impact of explosive weapons on civilians.

The report defines explosive weapons as “munitions such as air-dropped bombs, mortars, improvised explosive devices and artillery shells” which cause “deaths, injuries and damage by projecting explosive blast, heat and often fragmentation around a point of detonation.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-killed-and-injured-more-civilians-with-explosive-weapons-than-any-other-state-in-2014/5459436

And somehow BDS is immoral? Give us a break !!!

US Royal Class Emerging

Not able to afford Hillary's ridiculous and insulting speaking fee, this college hired her daughter instead @ $65,000 for a 10 minute speech:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-college-balks-at-hillary-clintons-fee-so-books-chelsea-for-65000-instead/2015/06/29/b1918e42-1e78-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html


Doesn't this suggest that some of the dumbest people in the US are those who are running our colleges and universities?

Helium Leak In LA ???

Could LA's "Big One" be even bigger than we thought? Now explosive helium is leaking from massive earthquake fault under Los Angeles:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3143818/Helium-LEAKING-massive-earthquake-fault-LA-raising-fears-big-one-devastating-thought.html


Just a minute! Helium is an inert gas. It is NOT explosive.


Now here's a question for you: If the Earth really formed from the condensation of an accretion disc billions of years ago, how is it that light elements are still present in its interior? Helium does not form stable compounds with any other element. Why didn't it migrate to the outer edge of the disc and escape before everything solidified?

Who Is Willing To Defend Their Flag ???

Apparently some folks are willing to defend the Confederate flag with physical violence:

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2015/06/30/south-carolina-confederate-flag-brawl/


But when the US flag gets burned, usually no one comes to its defense. People will say something stupid like "our soldiers died for your right to shit on our flag":


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/06/30/activists-plan-to-burn-american-flags-in-new-york-city-ahead-of-fourth-of-july/


America, your days as a nation are numbered. Too many people, both foreign and domestic, hate you. Your own children hate the United States and what it stands for. Just like the former Soviet Union, you're going to wake up one day under a different flag, with a different name, and surrounded by people you don't recognize or understand.


Here is another excerpt from my novella No More Patriots:


“I am today issuing an Executive Order defining ‘patriotism’ as a hate crime and outlawing all formerly patriotic symbols and displays, including the stars and stripes flag. These symbols of our violent past must be forgotten if we want to achieve peace and bequeath to our children a better world.”


The President then directed the striking of the colors, and the giant garrison flag was taken down. A white surrender flag of equal size was run up the pole in its place. In synchronization with that act, the colors were struck at all US government facilities and installations and from all commissioned vessels, and replaced with similar white flags. By the end of the day, the stars and stripes flag had completely disappeared throughout the land.


As I watched the nation’s flag coming down, apparently for the last time, the whole surreal chain of events somehow reminded me of the sounds of Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock slaying his version of “Star Spangled Banner.” I just couldn’t believe this was actually happening, and I couldn’t do anything except stand there and watch in slack-jawed amazement.


& & & & & & & &


If you want to understand what is going on, the book is available in the Kindle Store. It accurately predicts and describes the desecration of nearly every patriotic symbol in the land.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Did Arab Spring Lead To Islamic State ???

Here is some gibberish I just found in The Jerusalem Post:

In the future, when some historians analyze this period of Middle Eastern turmoil, the timeline will show that the ‘Arab Spring’ led to civil wars, followed by the rise of Islamic State.

In other words, uprisings that supposedly broke out for what many deemed at the time to be cravings for freedom and democracy resulted in their opposite – more chaos, the disintegration of nation states, and the emergence of the most radical Islamic group in modern times.

In some cases, there is now a wish for a return to the status quo ante – state regimes led by strongmen that can restore order.

You can read the rest @
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/A-direct-line-from-Arab-Spring-to-Islamic-State-407556

That's not the way I see it.

Thanks to support from the US and Israel, several dictatorial regimes in the region more or less thrived while their people suffered. When the people finally did rise up (Arab Spring), the US and Israel did everything they could to suppress these peaceful revolutions. The only people who actually desire a return to state regimes led by strongmen are in the US, Europe, and Israel - not in the affected countries.

Ask yourself this question: if the people of the region were given a choice between a government run by ISIS/ISIL or a government run by Israel, which would they choose?

4th Grader’s Short Documentary About School Lunch

Here's a really smart 4th grader showing us the crap they feed our kids in school:


Traitors Gather For A Ceremony

Obama ad-Dajjal and a gaggle of Congressional traitors gathered to sign Trade Promotion Authority into law:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/obama-trade-bill-signed-into-law-119555.html

A law cannot be valid if it allows the US Constitution to be violated, so who will be filing the lawsuit(s)?

US Government Hates Freedom Of The Press

Officials with the Department of State threatened to call security Monday on a Washington Free Beacon reporter who was attempting to report on a briefing held by senior Obama administration figures in Vienna on the eve of an expected nuclear agreement with Iran.

Two State Department officials booted the Free Beacon from a room where Wendy Sherman, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, was talking to reporters, despite the Free Beacon’s being credentialed by the Austrian government for the ongoing Iranian nuclear talks.


Western observers present in Vienna for the talks linked the State Department’s behavior to jitters over media coverage revealing a still growing list of concessions being made to Iran by the Obama administration.


Melissa Turley, a State Department official, approached a Free Beacon reporter and demanded that he leave the room.


“You’re not registered with the U.S. press,” Turley said after being informed that the Free Beacon was attending the event.


“You have a press pass from the [European Union], not from me,” Turley said, after being informed that the Free Beacon was officially credentialed to cover the event.


Turley and her colleagues then threatened the reporter, instructing him to leave the room or be dealt with by “security.”


You can read the rest @

http://freebeacon.com/issues/state-department-ejects-free-beacon-reporter-from-briefing/

"Freedom of the press" means, among other things, that reporters do not need "government credentials".

If it's not clear to you by now that the US Constitution no longer means anything to Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions, you are brain dead.

UT Students Compare George Washington To Hitler

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Now college students in Texas want a statue of George Washington to be taken down:

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/06/25/texas-liberals-sign-petition-to-remove-racist-george-washington-statue/

Here is another excerpt from my novella No More Patriots:

Over the top of the amphitheater stage was a banner that read “WE MUST TELL THE TRUTH.” And telling the truth was the theme of today’s ceremony. In imitation of previous dedications of the statues on Mount Rushmore, a national essay contest had been held with the goal of restating what Borglum’s sculptures meant to today’s children. The winners in the grade school, high school, and college categories would be reading their winning entries to the crowd and the honored guests, including all of America’s living former Presidents. A satellite hookup would beam their words to a national audience.

Following an introduction by one of Borglum’s descendants, the first essay contest winner, a girl in the fourth grade from California, belted out her interpretation of the monument.

“All of these men were extremists and war mongers. Washington and Jefferson were lifelong slave owners. Abraham Lincoln did as little as possible to free the slaves, and Roosevelt did everything he could to enslave the people of the Philippines. How can such men possibly still be our heroes? And why hasn’t America paid reparations to the descendants of her millions of slaves?”

That was rather blunt but certainly accurate, I thought to myself. The United States was badly in need of a truth commission and a program of reparations, but several key members of Congress were adamantly opposed to such things. Prior to today, in America the wages of truth had been death.

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If you would like to read this timely book, it is available here. There is probably no better short description anywhere of what is currently happening in the United States:

http://www.amazon.com/No-More-Patriots-Howard-Uhal-ebook/dp/B00X2SU5Q6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435602100&sr=8-1&keywords=no+more+patriots&pebp=1435602107678&perid=1QGKX4KABH555WAP44SJ

The Power Of Magic

A Catholic priest stands over the forlorn figure of a young Nigerian girl, murmuring prayers and sprinkling holy water as she sobs.

Favour, a 19-year-old, is constantly scratching, her skin is red raw in places. She believes there is a nest of insects living inside her body - and that they will kill her.

The priest is attempting to break a powerful voodoo spell that binds her to her 'madam' in Trieste, near the border with Slovenia, for the next five to eight years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3140330/I-nest-insects-inside-body-wanted-die-Revealed-Italian-priests-conducting-EXORCISMS-break-voodoo-spells-terrified-Nigerian-migrant-girls-traffickers-force-work-prostitutes.html

Before you dismiss this as mere mumbo jumbo, compare it to the power which the magic of Harry Potter has over your children. It's a very short step from the one to the other, a step which the "Charlie, Charlie Challenge" apparently takes with ease.

BIS Warns About Next Financial Crisis

The Bank of International Settlements, the world's most influential bank, has issued a warning:

The world will be unable to fight the next global financial crash as central banks have used up their ammunition trying to tackle the last crises, the Bank of International Settlements has warned.

The so-called central bank of central banks launched a scatching critique of global monetary policy in its annual report. The BIS claimed that central banks have backed themselves into a corner after repeatedly cutting interest rates to shore up their economies.

You can read the rest @
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11704051/The-world-is-defenseless-against-the-next-financial-crisis-warns-BIS.html

And yes there will be another crisis - THE crisis next time.

Is Fukushima Getting Worse ???

According to many reports, the mess at Fukushima is getting much worse:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/06/is-fukushima-getting-worse/


Some even have called it an "extinction level event".


Why is the US mobilizing massive resources to fight a non-existent threat from Russia instead of mobilizing a similar level of resources to fight a very real threat not only to us but to the entire planet?


If robots ever become self aware, the stupidity currently being exhibited by humanity no doubt will be a major factor in their decision to terminate our existence.


By the way, here's a first person account of the impact of the Fukushima accident on local residents:


Interview with Vicki Nelson, founder of Fukushima Friends (nonprofit organization which facilitates trips to Hawaii for Fukushima radiation refugees), Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy, Jun 9, 2015 (at 16:30 in):


Vicki Nelson, founder of Fukushima Friends: We have a home that’s open for them to come and experience some time of respite and eat different food. What we’ve been experiencing also is that every single person that comes has reaction to the change as soon as they come here. There’s been people who have vomited, they’ve been having nosebleeds, they’ve been dizzy, they’ve been very ashen in color.


Libbe HaLevy, host: This is once they have left Japan? In other words, it is the lack of the radiation that allows them to then have these reactions?


Nelson: It’s like it is expelling from their body. There’s diarrhea, there’s nosebleeds - almost every single person has had nosebleeds on their pillow. I find blood, and they don’t want to tell me that they have these reactions, they’re embarrassed. Tokiko’s son [from Koriyama, Fukushima] vomited the whole first week practically, and had diarrhea. We actually took him to the hospital because we felt that he was dehydrated. They did run tests, and they said yes he was dehydrated. So he was kept overnight at the Hilo hospital on the big island and cared for.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-hawaii-based-nonprofit-group-says-every-single-person-they-hosted-from-japan-has-had-health-problems/5459088


Granted, these reports are subject to other interpretations, but they certainly sound alarming. My first impression is that their immune systems have been compromised and they are reacting to local pathogens.

Puerto Rico Cannot Pay Its Debts

Puerto Rico’s governor, saying he needs to pull the island out of a “death spiral,” has concluded that the commonwealth cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts, an admission that will probably have wide-reaching financial repercussions.

The governor, Alejandro García Padilla, and senior members of his staff said in an interview last week that they would probably seek significant concessions from as many as all of the island’s creditors, which could include deferring some debt payments for as long as five years or extending the timetable for repayment.


“The debt is not payable,” Mr. García Padilla said. “There is no other option. I would love to have an easier option. This is not politics, this is math.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/business/dealbook/puerto-ricos-governor-says-islands-debts-are-not-payable.html


I bet you thought it couldn't happen here, but Puerto Rico is part of the United States. Many cities and states are in a similar predicament, but just haven't admitted it yet.


Watch closely what happens in Greece. We're next. Maybe not tomorrow, but we're definitely on the list.


By the way, BlackRock Inc. is taking actions which suggest that investors should get their money out of mutual funds NOW. The crash may be much closer than most people think:


http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/blackrocks-warning-get-your-money-out-of-all-mutual-funds/


And the Economic Collapse Blog has issued a "red alert" for the second half of 2015:


http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/economic-collapse-blog-issued-red-alert-last-six-months-2015/


The sky's not falling yet, but it's definitely on the way down.

A Good Example Of How US Betrays Its Citizens

In this tiny town on Montana's Hi-Line, a project is planned that would potentially bring 20 or more foreign high-tech workers to town, pay out more than $1 million in annual salaries, and create Internet resources for residents of the nearby Fort Belknap Indian Community.

At first glance, the proposed "Cyber-Rez" project would be a positive pilot program to help rural Native communities stay connected to the modern world.

But questions remain about where foreign workers would live, who's going to pay them and who stands to gain from a project that even leaders of the native reservation it would benefit say they know nothing about.

Beyond that, a state attorney has suggested that a web of business-to-nonprofit activity surrounding the project's leaders could be pushing the boundaries of what's legal and what's not.

Rose Community Development, the nonprofit that intends to produce the project, hopes to bring 20 to 25 specialized workers from India to start the project later this year, according to Rohit Saksena, who is listed as vice president of operations on more than a decade’s worth of Rose CDC tax records.

A project using that many foreign workers brought to the U.S. under visas for high-skilled workers would be the largest such project in Montana in recent years, according to federal records.

You can read the rest @
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/crime/high-tech-on-the-hi-line-proposed-project-relying-on/article_216e5c6f-b80c-5c4d-b7db-c5b788f0112c.html

By the way, residents of Indian reservations are technically still "prisoners of war". Maybe that's why Americans think we have no obligation to train them to perform these jobs.

Israelis Seize Freedom Flotilla - Again

The Israeli broken record strikes again:

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/06/israeli-navy-prepares-to-intercept.html

It's truly amazing to me that the Palestinians can be so resilient. No doubt NetanYahoo eventually will discover a more effective way to kill them all.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Is JADE HELM 15 A Precursor To Skynet ???

This report suggests something which I find really scary:

“JADE” is an A.I. quantum computing technology that produces holographic battlefield simulations and has the ability to use vast amounts of data being collected on the human domain to generate human terrain systems in geographic population centric locations to identify and eliminate targets, insurgents, rebels or whatever labels that can be flagged as targets in a Global Information Grid for Network Centric Warfare environments.


The JADE II battle field system is cognitive and intuitive. It can examine prior executed battle plans and and devise ‘new and better’ strategies to increase the ‘kill chain’. The II generation of JADE has the capability for two way communication with drones through the OCCOM technology which is one of the next generation integrations to this system.


In short, JADE HELM will not be battles directed by Generals and Military Commanders, but by a computer. It is a cognitive software program based on a Network Centric Warfare System at the HELM.


http://www.zengardner.com/jade-helm-mastering-human-domain-roll/


A direct link to the embedded video can be found here:


https://youtu.be/oqGEz9IqOrE [pertinent section starts at 11:45 of the video]


Another description of JADE can be found here:


https://youtu.be/FiKBPmq37Yo


Couple this possibility with the military's stated desire to deploy killer robots ... and you have one of humanity's worst nightmares.


Not that it really matters, but note well that it is the US which is behind this crap. Democracy, my ass.

Texas Will Fight Same Sex Marriage

County clerks can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples based on religious objections to gay marriage, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Sunday.

Paxton noted that clerks who refuse to issue licenses can expect to be sued, but added that “numerous lawyers stand ready to assist clerks defending their religious beliefs,” in many cases without charge.


The formal opinion did not specify what constitutes a sincerely held religious belief, noting that “the strength of any such claim depends on the particular facts of each case.”


Paxton said Friday’s “flawed” opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned bans against same-sex marriage in Texas and other states, placed religious people in conflict between following their faith and the U.S. Constitution.


“Friday, the United States Supreme Court again ignored the text and spirit of the Constitution to manufacture a right that simply does not exist. In so doing, the court weakened itself and weakened the rule of law, but did nothing to weaken our resolve to protect religious liberty and return to democratic self-government in the face of judicial activists attempting to tell us how to live,” Paxton said.


Paxton’s opinion also noted that judges and justices of the peace can refuse to perform same-sex marriages.


“Judges and justices of the peace have no mandatory duty to conduct any wedding ceremony,” the opinion said, adding that couples cannot be refused on the basis of race, religion or national origin.


You can read the rest @

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/texas-ag-county-clerks-can-refuse-gay-couples/nmnRZ/

Well, THAT should be interesting.


Before you write this off as misguided, consider the fact that the Bush Justice (sic) Department wrote legal opinions authorizing torture and got away with it AND the Obama ad-Dajjal Justice (sic) Department wrote legal opinions authorizing the killing by drone of US citizens and got away with it.


Are Americans more interested in promoting same sex marriage than in halting torture and extra-judicial assassinations? And if they are, what does that tell you about us?


Update: Some in Texas government want to get the state out of the marriage business completely:

http://truthinmedia.com/tx-state-rep-calls-for-special-session-to-divorce-marriage-from-government/

Perhaps not surprisingly, the Texas Employee Retirement System, which administers state employee benefit plans, is already encouraging employees with same sex partners to enroll them for benefits.

Is Texas at war with itself, or what?

What's Really Happening In Greece

Many readers of the European and American press must be confused about what actually is happening in the negotiations between Greece (Alexis Tsipras and Yannis Varoufakis). The European Troika (the IMF, European Central Bank and European Council now object to the name and want to be called simply “the Institutions”) have stepped up their demands on Syriza.

What is called “negotiation” is in reality a demand for total surrender. The Troika’s demand is to force Syriza to go back on the campaign promises that it made to voters who replaced the old right-wing Pasok (“socialist”) and Conservative New Democracy coalition, or else simply apply the austerity program to which that coalition had agreed: cutbacks in pensions, deeper austerity, more privatization selloffs, and a tax shift off business onto labor. In short, economic suicide.


Last weekend a group of us met in Delphi to discuss and draft the following Declaration of Support for Greece against the neoliberal Institutions. It is now clear that finance is the new mode of warfare. The creditors’ objective is the same as military conquest: they want the land, the natural resource rights and monopolies, and they want tribute (in this case, debt service). And they don’t want sovereign Greece to tax the economic rent from these assets. In short, the negotiation between The Institutions and Greece is a bold exercise in rent extraction.


You can read the rest @

http://www.globalresearch.ca/on-greece-and-europe-what-is-called-negotiation-is-a-demand-for-total-surrender/5458853

After TPP, TTIP, and TISA are approved, we're next. Don't believe it? Stick around, you'll see. Do you really expect those bastards in Congress to stick up for us?

Four More Criticisms Of Theranos

I previously wrote about Elizabeth Holmes, her company Theranos, and the criticism which has been leveled at their claims:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-medical-success-story.html

Now additional criticisms have been made by the head of clinical biochemistry at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientist-just-raised-4-serious-172000358.html

As a former phlebotomist, I can vouch for the accuracy of criticism No. 3 regarding pain. Finger pricks can be much more painful than sticking a needle into a vein. I've done both, and I've endured both ... many times.

And the "direct-to-patient results" criticism (No. 4) is problematic at best. Recently the FDA has been waffling over giving approval for the company 23andMe to provide direct-to-patient DNA test results without the consultation of a physician. I agree that our medical test results should be our property, but the possibility of untrained and unknowledgeable patients conducting their own diagnosis and treatment on the basis of Theranos test results is rather scary.

There are a lot of industries where disruptive technologies make sense, but I'm not sure medicine is one of them.

Bad Behavior Of Visionary Leaders

Here is an interesting admission about some tech giants:

As I was reading Ashlee Vance’s “Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,” I was alternately awed and disheartened, almost exactly the same ambivalence I felt after reading Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” and Brad Stone’s “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.”


The three leaders are arguably the most extraordinary business visionaries of our times. Each of them has introduced unique products that changed – or in Mr. Musk’s case, have huge potential to change – the way we live.


I was awed by the innovative, courageous, persistent and creative ways all three built their businesses. I also love their products. I own a Mac Pro and an iPhone, and I have been a loyal customer of Apple for 20 years. I buy many books and other products on Amazon, lured by a blend of low prices, ease of purchase and reliably quick delivery. The Tesla X is hands down the best car I have ever driven, and it’s all electric, rechargeable in your garage.


Plainly, I have bought in to what these guys are selling.


What disheartens me is how little care and appreciation any of them give (or in Mr. Jobs’s case, gave) to hard-working and loyal employees, and how unnecessarily cruel and demeaning they could be to the people who helped make their dreams come true.


In fairness, the leaders all have loyal defenders. At Apple, for example, Mr. Jobs’s successors – including Tim Cook, the chief executive, and Jonathan Ive, the chief design officer – have argued that Mr. Jobs matured significantly as a leader in his final years. Mr. Musk and Mr. Bezos have senior leaders who have worked with them for many years. But even an admirer like Mr. Ive remained bewildered by the way Mr. Jobs treated people.


“He’s a very sensitive guy,” Mr. Ive told Mr. Isaacson shortly before Mr. Jobs died in 2011. “That’s one of the things that makes his antisocial behavior, his rudeness, so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be rude, but not sensitive people.”


You can read the rest @

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/business/dealbook/the-bad-behavior-of-visionary-leaders.html

Sensitive, my ass. The facts suggest otherwise.


In my view, these three have been deified by the worshippers of Mammon chiefly because these worshippers are immersed in a material world value system which puts goods, services, and profits ahead of human values. And that immersion is why such people cannot recognize the truth.


Americans worship Thomas Jefferson (at least for now) because he gave us a philosophy which justifies our rape of the rest of the world. We ignore the fact he was a pedophile and lifelong slave owner.


And many Americans worship Obama ad-Dajjal because he has given us same sex marriage and "affordable (sic) health care". We ignore the fact that he is torturing and killing unarmed men, women, and children all over the world in pursuit of some maniacal CIA agenda and threatening to take us to war with Russia and China.


That makes us little better than the Germans who worshipped Hitler because he gave them what they wanted. They ignored his crimes until their nation was destroyed. That may be our fate, too.


But hey, enjoy your iPhones, Teslas, and Amazon Prime while you can.


By the way, Elon's SpaceX hasn't been doing so well lately. I wonder why?


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/science/space/spacex-rocket-explodes-during-launch.html

Are You Offended By What Donald Trump Said ???

Apparently some folks are offended by what Donald Trump said about Mexicans. What exactly did he say?

Here is the text of the speech he gave when announcing his candidacy:


http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/


Undoubtedly the most offensive part of the speech is this:


The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.

  
Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Was he speaking falsehoods? Let's evaluate some of what he said, claim by claim:


(1) They're sending people that have lots of problems


Many of the people who came to America over the centuries have had lots of problems. They were poor, they were unemployed, they were sick, they were fleeing persecution. And they brought some aspect of such problems with them. What's wrong with stating the truth about this?


(2) They're bringing drugs


If you look, you can find multiple reports documenting this. Here is one example:


http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2014/10/13/drug-cartels-turn-illegal-immigrants-quest-for-the-american-dream-into-a-nightmare/


(3) They're bringing crime


Statistics suggest that immigrants have a higher rate of incarceration than non-immigrants. Here are some facts:


http://cis.org/ImmigrantCrime


(4) They're rapists


Yes, some of them are rapists. Here is one report concerning this fact:


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/13/illegal-immigrants-crimes-expose-broken-immigratio/


There is a plaque on the Statue of Liberty which contains the following words:


Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

The phrase "wretched refuse" is more or less equivalent to how Donald Trump described the current flood of immigrants. So why was it acceptable to use such a phrase back then (in fact to glorify it), but not acceptable to use it now?


We can only answer this question if we're honest about what has been happening in North America and why it has been happening.


Prior to "free trade" agreements, the people of Mexico could feed themselves. After NAFTA, they no longer can.


Prior to "free trade" agreements, the people of the United States could support themselves. After NAFTA, WTO, and the rest, they no longer can.


"Free trade" agreements have created many billionaires, but they have created far more poor and unemployed people.


Our two nations (and several others) have been and are being destabilized by the actions of oligarchs, bankgangsters, corporations, and their collaborators in the one percent. This coterie of thugs has destroyed the economies of North America in the pursuit of personal enrichment. And part of that intentional destabilization has been and is to keep us fighting with each other. In effect they have used the Willie Lynch method of slave control to oppress and enslave us:


I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences and think about them. On top of my list is “AGE,” but it’s there only because it starts with an “a.” The second is “COLOR” or shade. There is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZES OF PLANTATIONS, STATUS on plantations, ATTITUDE of owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, course hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action, but before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST AND ENVY STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION.


You can read the rest of the Willie Lynch letter @

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/Willie_Lynch_letter_The_Making_of_a_Slave.shtml

Note well that official America, including the President and his administration, the MSM, the clergy, and leaders in the workplace and marketplace are not helping this situation ... they are exacerbating it. Anyone who thinks that America is encouraging and tolerating the current nearly uncontrolled flood of immigrants for reasons of compassion is either a fool or a liar. The true reasons for our current immigration "policy" at the oligarch, bankgangster, and corporation level are to continue to employ cheaper and cheaper labor, to break the power of unions, to destroy the middle class, to end the safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and to utilize the power of the mob to shout down and overcome any and all voices in opposition to their "market state" agenda.


So, I say bring 'em on. Tear down the border walls. Open the floodgates. Bring in the bad along with the good, the wretched refuse alongside the unemployed PhDs. But at least do so with the understanding of where this is taking us. The average global annual income is $10,000 per person. Achieving that in the United States will no doubt help many people, including lawful and unlawful immigrants. But it will mean the end of the so-called American Dream. This new crop of "Dreamers" won't notice the difference because they'll still be better off than they were at home, but what about the rest of us?


Maybe some of you think this is a fair and/or compassionate thing to do. I'd agree with you if it was being done for compassionate reasons, but it certainly is not. It is being done so that the 1% of the 1% of the 1% can eventually own everything while the other 7+ billion of us are left to fight over the scraps from our masters' table while trying to escape the hordes of autonomous killer robots the rich will dispatch to get rid of us.


Update: I think The Donald hit the nail on the head:


Seattle TV station KIRO 7 found 11 convicted sex offenders in the country illegally living across western Washington neighborhoods.


The government has tried to deport most of these people, but a Supreme Court ruling requires they be released after six months in jail, if their home country won't take them back.


You can read the rest @

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/undocumented-sex-offenders-left-seattle-area-neigh/nmjt8/

Why are we tracking US citizen sex offenders, but not the illegals? Just another SCOTUS screw up, or is this what we call "justice"?


Second Update: Ann Coulter agrees with me:

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2015-07-01.html

She is correct when she says the MSM offers no facts to back up their claims or their emotional outbursts. No other country in the world would tolerate the immigration violations we have been saddled with. And that's because they care about their sovereignty, while the US is feverishly trying to give away its sovereignty to corporations.

Third Update: Apparently some folks at CDC agree with The Donald:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/07/cdc-official-calls-obama-worst-president-amateur-marxist-after-influx-of-illegal-alien-minors/

If you've been paying attention, you know the influx of immigrants has brought some dangerous diseases into our country in willy-nilly fashion:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-is-cdc-concealing-mystery-virus.html

Trump did not mention this, but he should. He is being called an "idiot", but the real idiots (or criminals) are the people who have allowed this wave of uncontrolled immigration.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Dutch Implementing Universal Basic Income ???

The Dutch city of Utrecht will start an experiment which hopes to determine whether society works effectively with universal, unconditional income introduced.

The city has paired up with the local university to establish whether the concept of 'basic income' can work in real life, and plans to begin the experiment at the end of the summer holidays.


Basic income is a universal, unconditional form of payment to individuals, which covers their living costs. The concept is to allow people to choose to work more flexible hours in a less regimented society, allowing more time for care, volunteering and study.


University College Utrecht has paired with the city to place people on welfare on a living income, to see if a system of welfare without requirements will be successful.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-city-of-utrecht-to-experiment-with-a-universal-unconditional-income-10345595.html


There is no real reason such a thing could not be implemented globally, but don't hold your breath.


The underlying cause for racism in America and neocolonialism in the world is the greed of the oligarchs, bankgangsters, corporations, and their collaborators in the one percent. Unless and until the 99 percent rise up and implement the changes we want, racism and poverty will continue.


Most of us think the way we were indoctrinated to think by the rulers of the US and the educational system they created. And they persuaded us to believe that the system of slavery and control devised by The Founders was just and superior to any other way of living.


The American way of life can be summarized with the following statement:


When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Frédéric Bastiat

That (in a nutshell) is how the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence came to be.

Russians Will Help West Spy On Entire Globe

According to this report, Russia is preparing to launch hundreds (and ultimately perhaps thousands) of satellites for British firm OneWeb. The satellites will provide Internet services to all corners of the globe:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/1-billion-satellite-project-to-use-russias-vostochny-cosmodrome/524520.html


Dear President Putin: Britain is one of the Five Eyes nations. Any global Internet scheme they get involved in is likely to be used to spy on everyone in the world.


What are you thinking? Did OneWeb promise to give you a back door? Why do you think you can trust them?

Bill Gates' Nutty Nuclear Power Plans

If you need a laugh, please read this story about Bill Gates' love affair with nuclear power:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/25/bill_gates_nuclear_firm_plans_hot_salty_push_into_power/


This is what happens when rich people think they know everything. The nutty designs Gates and his crew are pushing are unproven pie-in-the-sky dreams.


All you have to do to know what will happen is to think about Microsoft software. It always seems to get sold before it's perfected, and it frequently crashes in unanticipated ways. If Gates' nuclear power technology is designed and built to similar standards, it will be a disaster of global proportions.

The Great Falling Away

According to this essay, US orthodox Christians are now "exiles in our own country":

http://time.com/3938050/orthodox-christians-must-now-learn-to-live-as-exiles-in-our-own-country/


So be it.


But this should not come as a surprise to anyone:


Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

Matthew 24:9 KJV

We are in the midst of the great falling away:


Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-10 KJV

Yes, it will be painful. But it's also a good thing, for it means that the Lord is soon to return.


And look who is delivering you up to be afflicted. What does that tell you?

Is This The Real Reason Behind The Charleston Church Shooting ???

Mirabile dictu !!!

Churches have started using facial recognition software on their congregations:


Churches just got a new way to figure out who is sleeping in on Sunday morning: facial recognition software that scans the congregation and records who showed up. Churchix is a product of Skakash LLC, which sells Face-Six for law enforcement, border control, and commercial applications. According to CEO Moshe Greenshpan, in the 4 months since the technology launched, 30 churches have already deployed the software and service, which could be used to target members who need a nudge or to identify potential major donors among those who attend faithfully.


http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-are-churches-using-creepy-face-recognition-technology


And suddenly we have a shooting inside of a church in a major US city which will encourage more of them to start spying on their flocks.


Is it possible that this shooting somehow was motivated by a government desire to infiltrate Christian churches in the US?


By the way, Skakash LLC appears to be an offshoot of an Israeli company:


https://jjacobmichael.wordpress.com/contact-us/


Israelis profited handsomely from 9/11. Are they continuing to profit from other tragedies in the US? What does that tell you?


Cui bono ???


Update: I bet Joel Osteen will start using this software in his church now:


http://www.khou.com/story/news/2015/06/28/six-arrested-at-lakewood-church-service/29435817/


Note well this news story implies that Lakewood Church ushers are armed. Apparently Joel really doesn't understand the New Testament of the Bible:


Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 5:38-39 KJV

Joel's church is not "Bible based" - it's Bible averse. Perhaps that's why the protesters were there in the first place.

Where Is OUR Referendum ???

The Greeks apparently will have an opportunity to vote on whether the IMF/ECB enema of their nation will continue:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-27/greek-pm-who-was-fired-referendum-bluff-tells-zero-hedge-its-different-time

Where is OUR referendum ???

How come 9 SCOTUS nitwits out of a US population of 321 million get to decide whether same sex marriage is a right?

How come 435 Representatives, 100 Senators, and one moronic President out of 321 million affected residents get to decide whether TPP, TTIP, TISA, and other such traitorous treaties will become the law of the land?

How come a few nameless big shots get to decide which sovereign nations we will attack next?

The US was never a democracy, and now it's not even a republic.

Long live the oligarchy, and may We The People never get in its way.

Senator Out Of Body ???

"It was like an out-of-body experience,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell says. He was talking about his congratulatory phone call from President Obama after Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) passed the Senate last week. “It was kind of fun.” McConnell enjoyed hearing the president castigate Democrats who voted against TPA and oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade treaty whose passage is now all but certain.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/republicans-rescue_978673.html

It would be more appropriate to say that during the entire process he was out of his mind.

300 Saudis Defect To Yemen

300 Saudi soldiers and an artillery commander have joined the Yemeni forces, a senior Yemeni politician announced on Friday.

“The latest blow at the Al Saud came as Hashem al-Ahmar, artillery commander of the Saudi army in al-Wadia border crossing and 300 soldiers joined the Yemeni army and the revolutionary forces,” the Middle East Panorama website quoted Head of Yemen’s Free Army Nasser bin Yahya al-Orujli as saying on Friday.


You can read the rest @

http://www.globalresearch.ca/hundreds-of-saudi-soldiers-and-artillery-commander-join-yemeni-forces/5458682

From the US point of view (which is heavily influenced by the MSM), the Yemeni rebels are evil. But is that what the people of the region think? I doubt it.


Why are we once again backing a KING and his royal entourage instead of a popular revolution? Just to keep the petrodollar system afloat?


Those Americans who want to see the symbols and tools of slavery abolished should think long and hard about what they are wishing for. Our entire system and our wealth relative to the rest of the world are based on slavery and oppression of peoples everywhere. Kick the props out from under it and we become just another banana republic.


The only things the US excels in are the manipulation of debt instruments, the utilization of intellectual property rights, and the production of military hardware - NONE OF WHICH directly benefit the wealth of We The People.


In essence, we're now shooting ourselves in the foot. "Our" wealth is actually the wealth of oligarchs, bankgangsters, and corporations, none of whom think they own any allegiance whatsoever to the United States of America. Should we someday rebel like the Yemenis are, they would attack us, too.

China's Savers Will Change The World

Few events will be as significant for the world in the next 15 years as China opening its capital borders, a shift that economists and regulators across the world are now starting to grapple with.
With China’s leadership aiming to scale back the role of investment in the domestic economy, the nation’s surfeit of savings -- deposits currently stand at $21 trillion -- will increasingly need to be deployed overseas. That’s also becoming easier, as Premier Li Keqiang relaxes capital-flow regulations.

The consequences ultimately could rival the transformation wrought by the Communist nation’s fusion with the global trading system, capped by its 2001 World Trade Organization entry. That stage saw goods made cheaper across the world, boosting the purchasing power of low-income families at the cost of hollowed-out industries.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-25/with-21-trillion-china-s-savers-are-set-to-change-the-world

By the way, the vast majority of US "savers" have nothing but debt. Whatever the Chinese decide to do will overwhelm our waning influence in the world.

We Ain't Found Shit

Here is a lengthy but excellent analysis of the situation with Iran by former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter:

The intelligence about the ‘possible military dimensions’ of Iran’s nuclear programme is of questionable provenance and most of it is more than a dozen years old. The consequences of failure to reach a nuclear accord with Iran today are too serious for the world to embrace a process that has been so controversial while having so little impact on legitimate disarmament. This is especially true when the inspected party, as is the case with Iran, has agreed to implement stringent verification measures and has a proven track record of abiding by them. Iran has been put in the impossible position of having to prove a negative. If it accepts inspections based on allegations it knows to be baseless, then it’s opening itself up to an endless cycle of foreign intrusion into its military and security infrastructure, and the inability of inspectors to discover something of relevance will only reinforce the belief that something is being hidden. We saw this happen before in Iraq, and the end result was a war based on flawed intelligence and baseless accusations that left many thousands dead and a region in turmoil.

You can read the rest @
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n13/scott-ritter/we-aint-found-shit

I agree with Scott.

In fact, I'll go further - Iran should not be subject to any inspections to which Israel is not subject.