9/11 is the conspiracy theory that will never die. And the root cause for that is the US government itself:
The strongest evidence linking the alleged hijackers to 9/11 was a video said to be from the closed circuit TV (CCTV) system at Dulles International Airport in Washington DC. The video was not made available until the day before the 9/11 Commission Report was released, in 2004, and it helped to pave the way for widespread acceptance of the official account. Since the other evidence against the accused hijackers was dubious and suspiciously convenient for the FBI, which provided it, the Dulles video should be examined closely.
Doing so has led some independent 9/11 investigators to conclude that the Dulles video contains “no information to link its images to AA 77.” Reasons include that:
- None of the Dulles airport staff remembered seeing the alleged hijackers at the airport
- Dulles had over 300 cameras but no footage was released except for portions of this one video (and no video was available from the other airports)
- The alleged Dulles video contains no date, time stamp, or camera identification
- The video was shot at a rate of 30 frames per second (fps), which the investigators said is not typical of CCTV videos
- The video appears to be an edited composite of shots taken from different angles
Additionally, it has been noticed that the airport screeners in the Dulles video did not perform their duties according to airport requirements. An attorney representing 9/11 victims’ families stated that security agents in the video screened the suspects in ways that were not like those required in Dulles training videos.
Could the video be fraudulent?
You can read the rest @
https://digwithin.net/2016/05/30/dulles_video/
Kudos to Kevin Ryan !!!
The only way the US government ever can persuade me the official 9/11 narrative is even partially true is to release ALL the security camera footage, including that from each and every camera which might have recorded whatever it was that hit the Pentagon.
As far as I am concerned, anything less is obstruction of justice.
Another measles outbreak, this time in AZ:
An outbreak of measles that began with an inmate at a federal detention center for immigrants in central Arizona has now grown to 11 confirmed cases.
Pinal County Health Services spokesman Joe Pyritz said Monday that seven of those infected are inmates at the Eloy Detention Center and four are workers at the facility.
"All 11 cases have been in Pinal County, now we have an exposure in Maricopa County," said Dr. Cara Christ with the AZ Department of Health Services.
State and county health officials say they're working to stop new transmissions by isolating patients, vaccinating people detained in the privately-run facility and trying to identify people who were at locations the four infected workers visited.
You can read the rest @
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/149662602-story
Even the CDC recognizes the root cause for measles outbreaks in the US is immigration. You can read about it here:
http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
My prediction is that such outbreaks will continue, since "our" government has no intention of stopping the latest wave of immigration.
The fact this is a godsend for the purveyors of vaccines should give you pause to consider whether "our" government works for us or for Big Pharma.
Here is what I believe to be one of the key principles of Christianity:
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:43-45 KJV
And here is a report about people who did what Jesus told us to do:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/05/unreal-christian-clerics-hold-multifaith-funeral-dead-isis-fighter-germany/
Note how their actions are called "pure insanity", "the suicide of the West", etc.
To me this is the real tragedy of the so-called "war on terror" - we have stopped being Christian. We were put to the test, and we failed.
If you disagree, please show me ANYWHERE in the New Testament where it even suggests that we should not love our enemies.
“This [U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism … when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.”
Benjamin Franklin
I'm with you, Ben; but please do not blame We The People. The corruption of which you speak came from the top down.
Please watch for yourself what happened when a human child fell into the gorilla cage at the Cincinnati Zoo:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/astonishing-new-footage-shows-gorilla-8082168
The staff of this zoo and the morons in the crowd are responsible for this animal's needless death. Things like this make me ashamed of our species.
As far as I am concerned all zoos, aquariums, and animal theme parks should be shut down, and no more animals should be subject to this sort of torture.
Here's the list - US is eleventh:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/7182750/These-are-the-happiest-richest-healthiest-and-safest-countries-in-the-world.html
According to the survey "America topped the charts when it came to economic performance and health, but its citizens’ poor safety and security prevented a top ten finish."
WTF ???
I have no idea what they are talking about. Most other surveys I have seen do NOT have us "topping the charts" when it comes to health. And with 95 million people out of work, how can our economic performance be that good, either?
Here's a thoughtful essay for Memorial Day 2016:
Last week, President Obama passed an important historic milestone. The occasion was not marked with ceremony, and no statements were issued by the White House. In spite of its significance, most of the national media allowed the occasion to pass with little comment or in-depth analysis. Which is why you may not be aware that Obama now has the ignominious distinction of being continuously at war longer than any other American president in U.S. history.
The New York Times noted the irony that the longest-serving wartime president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only nine months into his first term in office. Yet the article characterized Obama as a reluctant warrior laboring under a heavy burden inherited from his predecessor. The article also focused on Obama’s efforts to transform the nature of how the United States wages war, relying more on drone strikes and targeted special forces operations than traditional intervention with ground forces. But in doing so, the Times told only half of the story.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Obama because “(h)is diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority.”
Four years later, Christof Heyns, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, summary or arbitrary executions, told a conference in Geneva that President Obama’s drone strike program threatens 50 years of international law by encouraging other states to violate long-standing human rights standards.
You can read the rest @
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/revoke-obamas-nobel-peace-prize
Obama ad-Dajjal is a heartless thug who slavishly carries out the orders of his murderous puppet masters. Not only should his Nobel Prize be revoked, he should be impeached and prosecuted for his war crimes, along with the majority of his predecessors.
Well, well, well ... will Bill and Hill finally be brought to justice?
James Comey and The FBI will present a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the Department of Justice, that includes a cogent argument that the Clinton Foundation is an ongoing criminal enterprise engaged in money laundering and soliciting bribes in exchange for political, policy and legislative favors to individuals, corporations and even governments both foreign and domestic.
You can read the rest @
http://www.globalresearch.ca/breaking-hillary-clinton-to-be-indicted-on-federal-racketeering-charges/5527829
From everything I have read, their foundation does indeed appear to be a criminal enterprise. It would be in the best interest of the United States (and the whole world, really) if guilty parties with the stature of the Clintons were to be brought to justice. In fact, our democracy can no longer survive if they are not.
And if Obama ad-Dajjal will not indict them, he should be impeached.
While US war criminals continue to murder civilians using missiles fired from drones, Thailand is using "seed bombs" to replenish their forests:
As a result of deforestation, only 6.2 million square kilometers remain of the original 16 million square kilometers of forest that formerly covered Earth. Apart from adversely impacting people’s livelihoods, rampant deforestation around the world is threatening a wide range of tree species, including the Brazil nut and the plants that produce cacao and açaà palm; animal species, including critically-endangered monkeys in the remote forests of Vietnam’s Central Highlands, and contributing to climate change instead of mitigating it (15% of all greenhouse gas emissions are the result of deforestation).
While the world’s forest cover is being unabashedly destroyed by industrial agriculture, cattle ranching, illegal logging and infrastructure projects, Thailand has found a unique way to repair its deforested land: by using a farming technique called seed bombing or aerial reforestation, where trees and other crops are planted by being thrown or dropped from an airplane or flying drone.
You can read the rest @
http://theantimedia.org/thailand-trees-seed-bombs/
The world appears to have two competing futures - one of destruction, sponsored by the US and its vassals; and one of rebuilding, sponsored by the non-US camp. I love my country, but I really cannot support what it is doing.
Here is a must-read report from the Saker:
So let us now examine the Russian reaction to Empire’s stance [i.e., Obama ad-Dajjal's encirclement of Russia].
First, the Russians want to make darn sure that the Americans do not give in into the illusion that a full-scale war in Europe would be like WWII which saw the US homeland only suffer a few, tiny, almost symbolic, attacks by the enemy. Since a full scale war in Europe would threaten the very existence of the Russian state and nation, the Russians are now taking measures to make darn sure that, should that happen, the US would pay an immense price for such an attack.
Second, the Russians are now evidently assuming that a conventional threat from the West might materialize in the foreseeable future. They are therefore taking the measures needed to counter that conventional threat.
Third, since the USA appears to be dead set into deploying an anti-ballistic missile system not only in Europe, but also in the Far East, the Russians are taking the measures to both defeat and bypass this system.
The Russian effort is a vast and a complex one, and it covers almost every aspect of Russian force planing, but there are four examples which, I think, best illustrate the Russian determination not to allow a 22 June 1941 to happen again:
- The re-creation of the First Guards Tank Army (in progress)
- The deployment of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system (done)
- The deployment of the Sarmat ICBM (in progress)
- The deployment of the Status-6 strategic torpedo (in progress)
You can read the details of these four examples @
http://thesaker.is/how-russia-is-preparing-for-wwiii/
If we do go to war with Russia, you can thank Obama ad-Dajjal, the husband and wife team of Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland, and Hillary Clinton. They will no doubt continue to thrive, while you and your children will suffer mightily for the sins of those four and their ilk.
Here is an ominous warning from journalist John Pilger, as we celebrate another Memorial Day while preparing for yet another war:
The 2016 election campaign is remarkable not only for the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders but also for the resilience of an enduring silence about a murderous self-bestowed divinity. A third of the members of the United Nations have felt Washington's boot, overturning governments, subverting democracy, imposing blockades and boycotts. Most of the presidents responsible have been liberal – Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.
The breathtaking record of perfidy is so mutated in the public mind, wrote the late Harold Pinter, that it “never happened … Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest. It didn't matter … “. Pinter expressed a mock admiration for what he called “a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”
You can read the rest @
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44755.htm
Whether or not you believe that our honored dead died for our freedoms, we ought to reconsider if war is the best way, or even the only way, of securing and maintaining those freedoms.
After all, our own government is relentlessly attacking our Bill of Rights, so why haven't we gone to war with it? "All enemies, foreign and domestic" means just that, doesn't it?
By the way, here is more of Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture:
The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.
Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn't know it.
It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.
I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road. Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless it may be but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self love. It's a winner. Listen to all American presidents on television say the words, 'the American people', as in the sentence, 'I say to the American people it is time to pray and to defend the rights of the American people and I ask the American people to trust their president in the action he is about to take on behalf of the American people.'
It's a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable. This does not apply of course to the 40 million people living below the poverty line and the 2 million men and women imprisoned in the vast gulag of prisons, which extends across the US.
You can find the rest of his lecture here, and it's well worth the time it takes to read it:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html
Here is a great essay about the moral cesspool we have created in the US:
https://evonomics.com/deadly-sin-avarice-rehabilitated-self-interest/
The essay does have a serious flaw, however - it makes no mention of Ayn Rand. Rand and her acolyte Alan Greenspan sold the lie of "enlightened self interest" to my generation, contributing mightily to the economic disaster from which we now suffer. Those two bear the burden of guilt at least as much as anyone else one can mention.
Does any of this sound familiar?
A Navy sailor entered a guilty plea Friday in a classified information mishandling case that critics charge illustrates a double standard between the treatment of low-ranking government employees and top officials like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and ex-CIA Director David Petraeus.
Prosecutors allege that Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier used a cellphone camera to take photos in the classified engine room of the nuclear submarine where he worked as a mechanic, the USS Alexandria, then destroyed a laptop, camera and memory card after learning he was under investigation.
You can read the rest @
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/kristian-saucier-investigation-hillary-clinton-223646
According to stories published in the MSM, this is more or less exactly what Hillary did, except that she destroyed evidence after it was placed under subpoena.
She will never "plead guilty", so let's all demand that FBI grow a pair and put her in jail where she and her rapist husband belong. I'd even be willing to throw in conjugal visits with Huma or any other "body servant" of her choice.
Here is a very alarming statistic:
In the past three years, less than half of 1% of people arrested in Chicago saw an attorney while in police custody -- a possible violation of their constitutional legal rights -- according to statistics provided by the Chicago Police Department after CNN filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
You can read the rest @
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/us/chicago-police-arrests-civil-rights/index.html
"A possible violation of their constitutional rights"? Are you kidding me? How about a GROSS violation?
This situation is cynically portrayed as "normal" on TV shows such as "Chicago PD", on which people are thrown into a cage to be beaten or tortured by police. No lawyer is ever present, and none of the cops ever are punished for what they do.
But it's all okay, since the Chicago PD never arrests innocent people, right?
That's the claim being made in this report:
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/05/25/clinton-releases-plan-dissolve-us-border-within-100-days/
She clearly (at least to me) is an advocate of "market state" ideology, and no borders or boundaries is a key aspect of that particular swamp.
If she is elected, say bye-bye to the USA as we knew it.
You can find a list of America's highest paid CEOs here:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/29/business/how-much-ceos-made-last-year.html
Considering that some of them are "managing" companies that are not doing very well, one has to ask why they make so much money.
Check this out - Congress is continuing their destruction of our Bill of Rights:
A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy.
If passed, the change would expand the reach of the FBI’s already highly controversial national security letters. The FBI is currently allowed to get certain types of information with NSLs — most commonly, information about the name, address, and call data associated with a phone number or details about a bank account.
You can read the rest @
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/26/secret-text-in-senate-bill-would-give-fbi-warrantless-access-to-email-records/
I would not be surprised to learn this is what the FBI gets in return for not recommending the prosecution of Hillary Clinton.
Of course, I will happily withdraw this suggestion should she ever be indicted.
Here is a warning about what Newton Minnow once called "a vast wasteland":
If you allow someone to pump hours of “programming” into your mind every single day, it is inevitable that it is eventually going to have a major impact on how you view the world. In America today, the average person consumes approximately 10 hours of information, news and entertainment a day, and there are 6 giant media corporations that overwhelmingly dominate that market. In fact, it has been estimated that somewhere around 90 percent of the “programming” that we constantly feed our minds comes from them, and of course they are ultimately controlled by the elite of the world. So is there any hope for our country as long as the vast majority of the population is continually plugging themselves into this enormous “propaganda matrix”?
You can read the rest @
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/6-giant-corporations-control-the-media-and-americans-consume-10-hours-of-programming-a-day
You'd be much better off reading my blog and other alternative sources every day.
Better yet, turn off your TV, computer, and smart phone altogether. They're not only rotting your brain, according to this report they're also giving you cancer:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/05/federal-study-links-cell-phone-radiation-cancer
Hmmm ... that rots your brain, too.
If you cannot see the danger in this, you deserve what it is going to cause:
Can you predict who is a murderer just by looking at their face? What about a pedophile? A software company now says it can, and it claims it is able to identify terrorists purely by their facial features. Turning the old idiom that “you can’t judge a book by its cover” on its head, the two-year-old company claims its artificial intelligence algorithms can look at a face and tell if it’s likely to be a terrorist, pedophile, and, wait for it… professional poker player.
The bold claims are made by Israeli start-up Faception, which boasts its breakthrough computer-vision and learning technology can analyze a person’s facial image and automatically develop a personality profile. Claiming its technology will enable security companies to detect and apprehend terrorists and criminals before they have the opportunity to do harm, the company has already signed a contract with the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Washington Post. The Mirror reports Faception’s technology correctly identified 9 of the 11 Jihadists involved in the Paris massacre with no prior information about their involvement.
You can read the rest @
http://theantimedia.org/company-spot-terrorist-face-software-dhs/
It's always an Israeli company, isn't it? The Israelis have caused FAR more damage to the US and our freedoms than has anyone in the Muslim world. And yet they're somehow still our "friends".
Friends don't blackmail friends to get billions in weapons deals, money which they never pay back.
It all depends upon what the meaning of the word "is" is:
Following the propagandist double-speak gushing forth from the Obama administration over when a "boot on the ground" in Syria is a "boot on the ground," the following photographs via Agence France-Presse confirm US special operation forces in a rural village 40 miles from Raqqa. As The Guardian reports, the Pentagon press secretary, resisted commenting on the photographs and would only describe the US special operations forces’ mission in generic terms, despite the fact that these troops are at the frontline of fighting when President Obama assured America that forces are consistently behind the forward lines.
You can read the rest @
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-26/first-photos-us-soldiers-syria-released
Perhaps their boots don't touch the ground ... or maybe they don't even wear boots.
Jeez, is this man a liar or what?
Russian tourists are avoiding Turkey, going to Greece instead. You can read about it here:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russian-tourist-numbers-to-greece-up-more-than-500-percent/570685.html
And Russia is getting ready to help Greece with their energy needs and the refugee crisis. You can read about it here:
http://thebricspost.com/putin-heads-to-greece-energy-talks-refugee-crisis-in-focus/#.V0hhifkrLIU
Q: If you were Greece and were being attacked by your EU "partners" and by the IMF, wouldn't you seek whatever help you could get?
A: Of course you would.
The world is divided into two camps - the US and its vassals, and the BRICS and their partners. In reality the US side is bankrupt, financially and morally. The only way they can "win" this time is by destroying the BRICS, and that apparently is what they are trying to do. Along the way they shall also destroy themselves.
Is the US and/or the UN at war with Florida ???
On Wednesday, Special Operations troops from more than a dozen countries jumped out of helicopters, rappelled from buildings and expended hundreds of rounds of ammunition as they attempted to rescue the mayor of this Florida city.
The operation was, of course, an exercise, but it was also a public spectacle for a force that has tried desperately to remain in the shadows despite now being at the forefront of America’s wars.
Aside from U.S. Special Operations forces, including Navy SEALs, Marine Raiders and Army Green Berets, countries such as Ireland and Jordan also participated in the exercise. Many of the participants covered their faces, and only a select few were allowed to speak to the media afterward.
You can read the rest @
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/05/26/special-operations-troops-assaulted-downtown-tampa-all-to-thunderous-applause/
Some observations are in order:
1. This is public theater. They don't have to train this way, but they choose to do so to acclimate the US population to their presence.
2. It is just a matter of time (probably short) until they are turned loose on us. Fools will thank them, but the aspects of our society they will be fighting have been promoted by the powers that be for this very purpose - to get us to beg for help from an increasingly authoritative government.
3. It would be a fiction to believe that our next President, no matter who he or she may be, will put an end to this. He or she is very likely to expand the military occupation of North America quite dramatically.
4. If we had stood up to the lie known as the official story of 9/11, this might not be happening. But we did not, so as far as I am concerned we seem to be getting exactly what we have earned.
Here is a video which discusses the privatization of Mexico and the people who are fighting back:
http://www.submedia.tv/stimulator/2016/05/24/the-crisis-of-democracy/
Note well that Mexico is being converted into a market state and that the US is behind the effort.
This is more or less what is being done to the US, the main difference being that the people of Mexico are resisting ... while We The People of the United States are not.
Perhaps I have said it too many times, but the sky is about to fall. Here's additional confirmation:
How many “emergency” “secret” meetings do the central planners around the world need to have before the citizens of the respective countries begin to fully understand and take notice that something is very, very wrong? This year alone there have been several off-calendar meetings with, at least, one more now added to the docket.
The G-20 central planners have scheduled an “emergency” meeting for summer 2016. What will the topics be? Could it possibly be the fact the global economy is on the verge of total collapse? With the Baltic Dry Index, Shanghai Containerized Freight Index, not to mention commodities, all spiraling out of control to the downside, do you think there may be a reason for these people to be concerned? My guess is they could care less and are simply meeting in order to determine how the remaining wealth, in their respective countries, will be divided as the global economy continues grinding to a halt.
If one simply looks at the following line-items, it is clear for anyone to see something is about to hit the fan and it’s not anything anyone wants hitting the fan.
You can read the rest and find the line-items @
https://www.sprottmoney.com/blog/john-rubino-a-crisis-unlike-we-have-seen-in-human-history-rory-hall.html
Here is something I don't get - I would have thought that the situation following WWII was the biggest crisis in world history. Tens of millions killed, cities and factories smashed, food stocks destroyed, etc. - and yet we collectively persevered and solved the related problems. Why is today any different?
I suspect that the powers that be want even MORE wealth and power from themselves, so they continually frame our situation in increasingly dire terms so that we will beg them to rescue us by any means they see fit.
Only they won't be rescuing anyone except themselves. If you think otherwise, I feel sorry for you and yours.
Here's the latest from the promised land of G-d's chosen people:
A World Health Organization resolution stating Israel violates Palestinians’ health rights is “a modern manifestation of anti-Semitism,” Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid wrote to WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan on Thursday.
The letter came after the WHO singled out Israel for condemnation, passing a resolution at the UN organization’s annual assembly in Geneva Wednesday against its operating in the area of Palestinian hospitals, and claiming Israel violates health rights in the Golan Heights. The resolution passed 104-4 with six abstentions.
You can read the rest @
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/World-Health-Organization-condemnation-of-Israel-is-anti-Semitism-says-Lapid-455124
Obviously, G-d WANTS them to violate Palestinians' health rights (it's in the Bible), so what's the problem?
I say this because of the cruel hoax he is playing on 9/11 families:
“If Saudi Arabia participated in terrorism, of course they should be able to be sued,” Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer said in April regarding increasing calls from Americans to unravel the truth behind the infamous 9/11 terrorist attacks. But his sentiment was misleading.
Though he rhetorically supported the recent legislation allowing victims’ families to sue foreign governments, he and other lawmakers surreptitiously added an amendment to the bill to effectively gut its original intent. As the New York Post reported, “Sen. Charles Schumer and other proponents of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act [JASTA] stuffed an amendment into the final draft allowing the attorney general and secretary of state to stop any litigation against the Saudis in its tracks.” The new section, titled “Stay of Actions Pending State Negotiations,” was added just before the vote was taken last week.
Though JASTA would remove statutory restrictions that currently impede a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia,“Schumer helped craft an entirely new section to the original bill, giving the Justice and State departments the power to stay court action indefinitely.” In a poor substitute for legal accountability, the amendment allows the government to halt any such suit as long as it can prove the U.S. government has engaged with the Saudis diplomatically to resolve the issue.
You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-arabia-participated-terrorism-course-able-sued-democratic-senator-chuck-schumer-said-april-regarding-increasing-calls-americans-unrav/216748/
Whom is he protecting - the US, the Saudis, the Israelis? Or perhaps all of the above?
By the way, I don't like his sister, either. She's not funny, and neither is he.
Former special prosecutor Kenneth Starr apparently will be fired for mishandling sexual assualt and rape allegations at Baylor University:
He was a leading cast member in that seemingly distant drama of Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky and the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Now Kenneth Starr, bête noire of liberals in America, is making a comeback, though not entirely of his choosing.
Starr, the president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, is facing mounting pressure over how the university has handled reports of rape and assault by football players. The university says its governing board is still studying the results of an internal investigation and has refused to confirm speculation that Starr will be ousted.
You can read the rest @
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/26/kenneth-starr-baylor-university-sexual-assault-accusations
Starr clearly also mishandled his investigation of sexual assault and rape allegations against Bill Clinton. Had he done a better job then, the scourge of Bill and Hill would have been defanged long ago.
Ken, if anyone deserves to rot in political hell, it's you.
Once again, The New York Times is obscuring the facts when it comes to Hillary's apparent crimes. You can read their latest propaganda piece here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-campaign-trust.html
The underlying issue is not merely that she is not trustworthy, it is that she appears to be an unindicted criminal. Numerous credible sources will confirm this.
So why hasn't the FBI even interviewed her yet?
I'm not going to leave the US if Trump is elected, but I sure as hell am going to try if she is. Unfortunately, with the global fascist state which is being erected, there really is no better place to go.
Just how irresponsible can one person be?
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a secret email to conduct official business broke a number of department policies, an inspector general concluded in a report sent to Capitol Hill Wednesday that also suggests she used the account to try to hide her communications from the public.
The 83-page report, obtained by The Washington Times, is devastating in its evaluation of Mrs. Clinton’s behavior, saying it can find no record of her getting approval from either security or legal staffers for her unique arrangement. The report also undercuts many of her campaign’s explanations for her use of the system, dismisses comparisons to her predecessors’ email use, and points to repeated hacking attempts that she failed to report.
You can read the rest @
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/25/hillary-clinton-failed-report-several-hacking-atte/
Hacking = loss of control; failure to report = irresponsible.
If you want to know the true nature of the damage she caused, I suggest you read this letter from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity:
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/05/23/intel-vets-urge-fast-report-on-clintons-emails/
This is not some minor faux pas - Hillary CAUSED a major breach in US security, and she MUST be held accountable for what she did. This is NOT a person who can be trusted with our security.
Who is telling the truth - Israel or the victims of its racist attitudes?
Senior diplomats for Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast told the Israeli officials that they are afraid of walking down the street for fear of being insulted by Israelis.
You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/african-ambassadors-feel-unsafe-israel/216696/
Why are we still supporting these people?
If you are interested, you may find an extensive discussion of why Israel gets away with this crap here:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=832&Itemid=74&jumival=1510
It appears McDonald's believes that robots are the way to go:
A former McDonald's CEO warned that robots will take over staff jobs at the fast food empire - because it's cheaper than employing humans.
Ed Rensi has said that buying highly skilled robotics is a cheaper alternative than employing people on minimum wage to work in the company's worldwide restaurants.
He warned that huge job losses are imminent, and commented that it would be 'common sense' to replace humans in the workplace.
This comes as a study into the future of human employment has predicted a surge in machine-led work such as robotic counsellors, body part makers and virtual lawyers.
You can read the rest @
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/building-robot-mcdonalds-staff-cheaper-8044106
Some people think robots will only take our "boring" jobs. You can read the ramblings of one such misinformed person here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-17/yes-the-robots-are-coming-for-our-jobs-but-just-the-boring-ones
Such claims make my blood boil, for at least two reasons:
1. These allegedly "boring" jobs are what many of us depend upon for our incomes; and
2. ALL jobs are at risk, including quite non-boring ones such as doctor, lawyer, engineer, scientist, etc.
The robot/AI revolution threatens to make ALL non-one percent humans obsolete, and on this planet all things obsolete soon die out.
Here is the story of several entrepreneurs whose inventions help relieve the suffering of poor people around the world:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0525/The-entrepreneurs-easing-suffering-one-invention-at-a-time
Bravo! We need more of them.
That is what Charles Ortel is seeking to prove:
Understanding illegal activities of the Clinton Foundation requires grasping state, federal, and foreign laws that bar public charities from being run for private gain, and that govern solicitations using the mail, telephones, and digital media.
Remember, as you evaluate the available public record that Clinton Foundation trustees have never submitted the financial records of this web of public charities to an independent, properly certified audit, performed by fully informed and empowered accounting firms.
In addition to providing new overview perspectives on the Clinton Foundation charity fraud network, this update offers extensive background information concerning ways in which the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton family, and affiliates have operated in Haiti--a nation that lies on the epicenter of natural and manmade disasters.
What possesses powerful, wealthy, and educated persons to prey upon the most desperately poor humans on earth, while simultaneously trying to take credit for "philanthropy"?
And why have so many people failed to carry our their solemn duties overseeing charities, for so long?
You can read the rest, including a 9 page letter of related facts @
http://charlesortel.com/a-deep-dive-into-how-the-clinton-foundation-operates-illegally-and-in-haiti
So far the Clintons apparently have gotten away with drug money laundering, murder, war crimes, espionage, destruction of official records, and perhaps more. Hopefully the downfall of their apparently fraudulent charity may be the thing that finally knocks them off their perch.
The fact that our government refuses to even look at them, let alone prosecute, ought to be a clear warning that it is rotten to the core.
By the way, one reader of this blog once said I was too dumb to be a saint because I did not recognize how much good Hillary was doing in the world. Who's the dummy now?
Watch this video to get a feel for how dolphins feel about being held captive:
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/baby-dolphin-in-marine-park-shows-how-these-animals-feel-about-captivity/
We seem to have little compassion for dolphins, killer whales, and other sentient creatures we imprison in this manner. Our turn will come, when robots and AI do much the same to us. We will be little more than insects in comparison to them, so stand by for some rough treatment.
Not that we haven't earned it.
The natives of Chicago are getting restless:
"A group of military helicopters just flew by my house towards downtown Chicago from the southwest. It’s the third or fourth time in the last couple weeks, and I had never previously noticed any in the decade of living here. Maybe they are running drills for an upcoming 'event'. Nothing more to say at the moment, just want to put this out there. Stay vigilant."
You can read the rest @
http://www.eraofwisdom.org/lots-military-activity-around-chicago-last-weeks/
A while back there was a rumor that Chicago was going to be nuked. You can read about it here:
http://www.infowars.com/top-hacker-chicago-nuke-attack-planned-for-2015/
... and here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-25/isis-planning-us-nuclear-attack-next-12-months-report
Seeing as how Chicago is broke and hopelessly out of control, it makes sense the powers that be would consider allowing someone to nuke the town to "solve" its woes and to give themselves the ultimate political tool - indefinite martial law.
And the fact that Rahm Emanuel (an Israeli citizen) is mayor of the city makes me worry even more. His successful "management" of such a crisis would make him a shoo-in for a future White House bid, which has been his goal all along.
The Chosen People are about to take off the gloves again:
In a surprise move, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week forced out his long-serving defence minister, Moshe Yaalon. As he stepped down, Mr Yaalon warned: “Extremist and dangerous elements have taken over Israel.”
He was referring partly to his expected successor: Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, whose trademark outbursts have included demands to bomb Egypt and behead disloyal Palestinian citizens.
But Mr Yaalon was also condemning extremism closer to home, in Mr Netanyahu’s Likud Party. Mr Yaalon is to take a break from politics. With fitting irony, his slot is to be filled on Likud’s backbenches by Yehuda Glick, a settler whose goal to destroy Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque and replace it with a Jewish temple has the potential to set the Middle East on fire.
Israeli commentators pointed out that, with Mr Lieberman’s inclusion, the government will be the most extreme in Israel’s history - again.
French prime minister Manuel Valls, who began a visit to the region on Saturday, is likely to face an impregnable wall of government hostility as he tries to drum up interest in a French peace plan.
You can read the rest @
http://truepublica.org.uk/global/religious-zealots-waging-quiet-revolution-israel/
There is no Middle East "peace process". There never has been. Anyone who claims there is one is either a liar or a fool.
However, there is a plan for Israel to claim that which G-d promised to Abraham ... and a related plan to rebuild the Temple. That and that alone is driving politics in the region and in the US.
Some people (e.g., the "Tomorrow's World" crowd and the people around Senator Ted Cruz and his father) believe Christians soon shall rule the world, in partnership with the resurrected twelve Apostles of Jesus who will rule the twelve tribes of Israel. As a believer of the Bible, I have no doubt that is what will happen, but does ANYONE in Israel agree with that prophecy?
The only honest answer the undeluded can give to that question is a resounding NO. Nobody tells Israel what to do, including Christians. We are a piggy bank and cannon fodder helping them achieve THEIR goals, nothing more.
Like it or not, religious fanatics are taking over Israel. What should REALLY worry us is that similar religious fanatics have been running the US from the beginning.
Here's the latest scam taking hold in the UK:
Almost everyone who gives the matter serious thought agrees that George Osborne and David Cameron want to reshape Britain. The spending cuts, the upending of the NHS, even this month’s near-miss over the BBC: signs lie everywhere of how this will be a decade, maybe more, of massive change. Yet even now it is little understood just how far Britain might shift – and in which direction.
Take austerity, the word that will define this government. Even its most astute critics commit two basic errors. The first is to assume that it boils down to spending cuts and tax rises. The second is to believe that all this is meant to reduce how much the country is borrowing. What such commonplaces do is reduce austerity to a technical, reversible project. Were it really so simple all we would need to do is turn the spending taps back on and wash away all traces of Osbornomics.
Austerity is far bigger than that: it is a project irreversibly to transfer wealth from the poorest to the richest. It’s doing the job very nicely: while the typical British worker is still earning less after inflation than he or she was before the banking crash, the number of UK-based billionaires has nearly quadrupled since 2009. Even while he slashes benefits, Osborne is deep into a programme to hand over much of what is still owned by the British public to the wealthiest.
You can read the rest @
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/24/austerity-cuts-privatising-george-osborne-britain-assets
This is worth watching closely, because the very same thing is gaining momentum in the US. There is absolutely no way we will EVER pay down our massive debt, and eventually the bankers are going to demand we turn over everything we collectively own.
Hillary claims that Trump will bankrupt the US. We already are on the verge of bankruptcy, and it's because of spending authorized by Senators like Hillary and benefiting the billionaires who are supporting her campaign. Trump had nothing to do with it.
Make no mistake - we are broke, and we too soon shall be "privatized" into poverty.
Thomas Jefferson never wrote or uttered this sentence which often is attributed to him, but truer words have seldom been spoken:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."
Pepe Escobar points out some interesting possibilities in this essay about Russia's readiness for war:
The Russian military are about to test the first prototypes of the S-500 Prometey air and missile defense system, also known as 55R6M Triumfator M - capable of destroying ICBMs, hypersonic cruise missiles and planes at over Mach 5 speeds; and capable of detecting and simultaneously attacking up to ten ballistic missile warheads at a range of 1300 km. This means the S-500 can smash ballistic missiles before their warheads re-enter the atmosphere.
So in the case of RAND-style NATO pussyfooting, the S-500 would totally eliminate all NATO air power over the Baltic States - while the advanced Kornet missile would destroy all NATO armored vehicles. And that’s not even considering conventional weapon hell.
If push comes to nuclear shove, the S-400 and especially the S-500 anti-missile missiles would block all incoming US ICBMs, cruise missiles and stealth aircraft. Offensive drones would be blocked by drone defenses. The S-500 practically consigns to the dustbin stealth warplanes such as the F-22, F-35 and the B-2.
The bottom line is that Russia - in terms of hypersonic missile development - is about four generations ahead of the US, if we measure it by the development of the S-300, S-400 and S-500 systems.
You can read the rest @
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44725.htm
In spite of this, US neocons are clamoring for war with Russia. Isn't that about the dumbest thing you ever heard?
Here is a great op-ed about another destructive aspect of fracking - mining for fracking sand:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/opinion/the-sand-mines-that-ruin-farmland.html
In a former life I reviewed air pollution permits for fracking sand facilities, so I am fairly familiar with them. I would not want a sand mine, sand storage/distribution facility, or anything else related to fracking in my back yard. I wouldn't want a concrete batch plant or a rock crusher back there, either.
Drilling for black gold and fracking for gas is much like mining for yellow gold. A few people make a lot of money, while the majority of us then suffer the consequences from the drilling waste and fracking chemicals and the cyanide and mercury used in gold extraction which ultimate destroy our drinking water supplies. You can see a presentation about gold mining in Colombia and its deleterious effects here:
https://news.vice.com/video/poisoned-by-the-gold-rush
Our lust for energy riches is foolish, and we shall one day pay the true price for it.
Here is a great essay by David Stockman:
We are now in month 83 of this so-called recovery. Yet there are still 45 million people on food stamps - one out of every seven Americans. The median real household income is still 5% below its level in the fall of 2007. There are still only 71 million full-time, full-pay “breadwinner” jobs in the nation - nearly 2 million fewer than when Bill Clinton was packing his bags to vacate the White House.
At the same time, we have had monetary stimulus like never before. There has been 90 straight months of virtually zero interest rates. The balance sheet of the Fed has been expanded by $3.5 trillion. For point of reference, that is 4X more than all the bond-buying during the entire first 94 years of the Fed’s history.
So something doesn’t parse, and that’s to put it charitably. The truth is, the Fed’s entire radical regime of ZIRP and QE constitutes a monumental monetary fraud.
It has not “stimulated” a wit the struggling main street economy of flyover America. Instead, it has showered Wall Street speculators with trillions of windfall gains and gifted the bicoastal elites with a false prosperity derived from financial inflation and government expansion.
You can read the rest @
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/why-the-flyover-zone-is-hurting-bubble-finance-is-strictly-for-the-bicoastal-elites/
What now? Put Bill Clinton in charge of the economy? The only jobs he knows anything about are blow jobs.
