Poor, Pitiful Elon

Elon Musk apparently likes climate change. He apparently doesn't like our President. You can read about it here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-31/elon-musk-warns-he-will-depart-trump-councils-if-us-leaves-paris-deal

Mr. Musk is making a huge fortune from the climate change hoax theory. Don't you think it's a conflict of interest for him to demand that the US government continue to feed his cash cow?

I do.

From now on, I'm mainly going to believe those who are being persecuted for their beliefs - and that means chiefly the climate change skeptics.

And since my beliefs have nothing to do with whether or not the ice caps will melt, please don't start demanding that I be executed for challenging the climate change tyrants and loonies.

Homo Deus ???

Apparently some techies think they can turn themselves into gods and goddesses. You can read about it here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/godlike-homo-deus-could-replace-humans-tech-evolves-n757971

This is bullshit. Anyone who tries to be G-d is playing with fire.

Even if you do not believe in religion, please understand that this "godlike" movement will negate the very basis of our democracy (i.e., the belief that "all persons are created equal").

DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN !!!

Trump Wasting Our Blood And Treasure

The most recent figures related to President Trump’s proposed increases in Pentagon spending, along with cuts at the State Department, show the general national security budget of the United States rising once again, with the 2018 proposal in the ballpark of $1.1 trillion.

You can read the rest @
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/05/30/us-eyes-1-1-trillion-national-security-budget-for-2018/

We might as well be pouring this money down a rathole. (In fact, we more or less are.)

It does NOT provide "security" to We The People. It DOES enable the continued existence of the so-called "national security state", which is nothing more than a jobs program for the arms industry, spies, professional killers, and various and sundry kinds of parasites.

What Are Russian Girls Made Of ???

Here is a report about how Nike is selling "girl power" in Russia:

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-woman-sues-nike-for-empowering-commercial-that-could-turn-girls-into-men-58116

Q: Is this a human rights agenda, or merely a corporate agenda?

A: There really doesn't seem to be a difference anymore.

By the way, I don't think the plaintiff in this lawsuit will prevail.

Insurrection In Washington State ???

So-called students have taken over Evergreen State College. You can read about it here:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32824/

Duh ... what's the problem? This is a state college, right?

Send in the National Guard, and try not to shoot anyone.

Dubai Launches A Gold-Backed Currency

Gold is making a comeback as MONEY. You can read about it here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-30/gold-backed-currency-launches-dubai

and

http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/big-news-gold-silver-now-treated-as-money-in-arizona

And I have written about this several times before:

There is a mechanism being put into place to destroy the US dollar in the next few years. It has many components, but the primary ones are an alternative oil sales system, a gold-backed trade platform, an international central bank outside of Western control, a framework for diminishing US influence, available natural resources, and a coalition of regional leader nations. Participants have reportedly agreed to prices of $7,500 minimum for gold and $150 for silver [per troy ounce].

See more @
http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/12/gold-wars-must-read-book.html

The United States destroyed Libya and enabled the murder of Muammar Gaddafi to prevent him from creating a gold-backed dinar.

So, will we tolerate what Dubai is doing because we think the US can control their new currency and somehow use it to our advantage? That would be my guess.

Why Don't We Just Ban Air Travel ???

Here is an article discussing the banning of computers on aircraft coming to the US:

https://mishtalk.com/2017/05/29/new-generation-of-bombs-undetectable-by-airport-scanners-whats-the-solution/

Why don't we just ban ALL air travel? Here are some reasons why we should:

• Aircraft are convenient terrorist targets;
• Air travel enables the rapid spread of global disease outbreaks;
• Air travel exacerbates climate change; and
• The Internet allows us to have a presence anywhere without the need for physical travel.

Air travel is a privilege, not a right. And I no longer have a need for it.

Do you? Be honest - do you NEED it, or do you merely want it?

The Trump Litmus Test

A decision by Donald Trump this Thursday could prove fateful for the immediate future of Jerusalem, the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the region.

He must decide whether to renew a presidential waiver, signed by his predecessor, Barack Obama, that expires on June 1. The six-month waiver delays implementing a law passed by Congress in 1995 that requires the US to recognise occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocate its embassy there from Tel Aviv.

It is a law every president for the past 22 years has baulked at. It would pre-empt the Oslo accords and negate Washington’s assumed role as “honest broker”. Carrying out Congress’s wish would deny the Palestinians East Jerusalem, the only credible capital of a future Palestinian state.

But equally significantly, the law would recognise Israel’s efforts to claim sovereignty over the Old City’s holy places, especially the incendiary site of Al Aqsa mosque. That could provoke a conflagration both locally, among Palestinians, and more generally in the Middle East.

You can read the rest @
http://dissidentvoice.org/2017/05/thursday-marks-the-first-test-of-donald-trumps-utimate-deal/

My prediction is that he will cave in to the Israelis. His recent deals with Egypt and Saudi Arabia were bribes to keep them out of the ensuing fray.

There is only one semi-legitimate reason for recognizing Jerusalem - to enable the fulfillment of the prophecy about the Antichrist declaring himself to be G-d in the Jewish temple. You can read about it here:

http://www.lastdaysmystery.info/will_the_jewish_temple_be_rebuilt.htm

I firmly believe The Founders of the United States meant our nation to be a machine for bringing about the Biblical End Times. What Trump is about to do is another cog in the wheels of that machine.

Perhaps THAT is why Satan's minions in DC and Hollywood are resisting Trump so strongly - because they know that Satan is about to be cast down to earth and that their time is short.

Does It Matter Whether Or Not Trump Is An "Adult" ???

Here is a stupid piece claiming Trump is not an adult:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/30/ben-sasse-trump-off-message-238924

An honest evaluation would admit the powers that be have been viciously attacking adults and promoting children for quite some time. Given that fact, what's wrong with having childlike behavior in the White House? We're forced to accept it everywhere else, aren't we?

Duck And Cover In Korea

Is the Korean Demilitarized Zone poised to become "ground zero for the end of the world"? Historian Bruce Cumings, the author of The Origins of the Korean War, raised this question in a recent article for the London Review of Books, and judging by a series of exchanges between the United States and North Korea in recent weeks, the possibility may not be as remote as it once seemed.

You can read the rest @
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40737-the-korean-peninsula-ground-zero-for-armageddon

The US always has used the rest of the world as its weapons testing range. It would not surprise me one bit if the Korean peninsula were to become its next potential desert.

Keep in mind that the US itself would not escape the radioactive fallout from any attack on North Korea:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-hazard-of-bombing-north-korean-nuke.html

If you need spare parts for your Hyundai, I suggest you buy them in the next day or two.

Is This How The Human Herd Will Be Culled ???

Researchers in a New York cabbage patch are planning the first release on American soil of insects genetically engineered to die before they can reproduce.

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The moths have a synthetic "self-limiting" gene that makes their female larvae die before they mature. Lab-bred males are released to breed with wild females, reducing the population over time by suppressing reproduction.

"The key is to reduce the number of reproductive females in the next generation," Oxitec scientist Neil Morrison said.

The work has drawn criticism from organic farming organizations and groups opposed to the use of genetically modified organisms.

In comments to the USDA, GeneWatch U.K. said more information is needed on how the protein made by the moth's synthetic gene could affect wildlife that eats the insects.

You can read the rest @
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GENE_ALTERED_MOTHS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-05-29-09-57-09

Could this be a test of a method to cull the human herd?

Even if it is not, we should be extremely uncomfortable with experiments which test "terminator genes" in the wild. How can we be certain these genes cannot cross over to other species?

Is This Why Seth Rich Was Killed ???

This latest accusation allegedly comes from his girlfriend:

https://westernrifleshooters.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/da3a4ffvoaaqaax.jpg

You know, it makes sense when you consider all the cheating in which Hillary and her minions appear to have been involved.

Bernie might have made a great president, but now we'll never know.

Quote For The Day

"When good does evil in its struggle against evil, it becomes indistinguishable from its enemy."

T.S. Elliot

There is no better example of this than what the USA has been doing in the so-called "war on terror".

Will Germany Make Peace With Russia ???

One day after Donald Trump infuriated Angela Merkel and the rest of his G-7 peers, when the US president refused to endorse the Paris climate treaty, prompting the German chancellor to say  that “the whole discussion about climate has been difficult, or rather very unsatisfactory ... here we have the situation that six members, or even seven if you want to add the EU, stand against one", Germany's prime minister made what many have dubbed, an "era-defining" statement.

Speaking at a CDU election rally in Munich, Merkel said that Europe "must take its fate into its own hands" or as the AFP put it, "Merkel warns US, Britain no longer reliable partners."

You can read the rest @
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-28/watershed-moment-merkel-says-germany-can-no-longer-rely-america

This may mean that Germany will make peace with Russia and the BRICS, paving the way for the EU to be part of the OBOR system being created by China.

If it does, say bye-bye to the once great US of A. Our remaining "allies" (Israel and Saudi Arabia) will throw us away like a used condom when they're done screwing us.

The Myth Of Free Trade

Ecuador struck another blow against the power of big business last week, ripping up 16 trade deals with countries including the US and UK. President Correa cited the notorious ‘corporate court’ system as the key reason for ending the deals.

Officially known as Investor State Dispute Settlement, these ‘corporate courts’ allow foreign investors to sue governments for taking action they believe to be unfair. Such courts have been used to challenge government’s attempts to prohibit smoking, raise minimum wages and renationalise parts of the health system. And they do so in secret, and without the right of the country concerned to appeal.

You can read the rest @
http://truepublica.org.uk/global/ecuador-rips-up-16-toxic-trade-treaties-including-britains/

Most people in the US have chugged down the "free trade" Kool-Aid and do not realize that it actually represents the enslavement of humanity to corporate power.

How can an allegedly "free" and "educated" population be so stupid?

The Death Of Zbig

Zbigniew Brzezinski, security adviser to Democratic President Jimmy Carter and a longtime proponent of an aggressive strategy for asserting US global hegemony, died Friday at the age of 89.

During his four-year tenure in the Carter White House, Brzezinski was involved in a large number of criminal operations carried out by US imperialism around the globe, from support for the Shah’s attempts to drown the Iranian Revolution in blood to the initiation of a US policy in Central America that led to bloody counterinsurgency campaigns that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands.

Unquestionably, however, the greatest of these crimes, and one for which he proudly took credit, was the orchestration and support of a dirty war waged by Islamist mujahedeen against the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan at the end of the 1970s.

You can read the rest @
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/05/29/zbig-m29.html

I normally don't speak ill of the dead, but I'll make an exception is his case.

This man was either responsible for or a conduit of some of the very worst ideas which have ever plagued the US government. We would be wise to root out their remnants and never go down those roads again.

But you know as well as I do that's not going to happen. We're stuck with the bogeymen Zbig and his pals created and unleashed upon us.

Birth Of The eTree

A solar tree with giant square leaves that convert sunlight into electricity was unveiled in the central French town of Nevers on Monday, allowing passers-by to charge their phones, surf the internet ... or just enjoy the shade.

The town of 37,000 on the Loire river is the first in Europe to experiment with the technology developed by Israeli company Sol-logic.

Inspired by the acacia tree found in the Israeli desert and African savanna, the futuristic-looking "eTree" also supplies water and street lighting.

The first prototype was unveiled in Israel in 2014. A year later the first operational model was presented at the COP 21 climate conference in Paris.

Since then solar trees have been planted in around 10 cities in Israel and the US.

You can read the rest @
https://www.yahoo.com/news/europes-first-etree-puts-down-roots-central-france-140610898.html

Cool idea !!!

But please don't replace all the real trees with these. Real trees eat CO2; solar trees do not.

Why Are We In Yemen ???

Five civilians including a child were killed and another five were wounded in the latest U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Yemen, according to eyewitness accounts gathered by The Intercept.

The raid by U.S. commandos in the hamlet of al Adhlan, in the Yemeni province of Mareb on May 23, also destroyed at least four homes. Navy SEALs, with air support from more than half a dozen attack helicopters and aircraft, were locked in a firefight with Yemeni tribesmen for over an hour, according to local residents.

You can read the rest @
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/28/villagers-say-yemeni-child-was-shot-as-he-tried-to-flee-navy-seal-raid/

A lot of good men and women have died to achieve and defend our freedoms.

It's a shame their memory is being besmirched by those who kill children, women, and other unarmed civilians in the name of "fighting terror".

I for one want this to stop. We're not defending freedom when we're killing children.

OANN Investigates The Murder Of Seth Rich

You can watch their report here:

http://disobedientmedia.com/2017/05/oann-releases-report-on-seth-rich-murder-raises-questions-about-chinese-corruption/

In my opinion, the entire "Russia-gate" false narrative is the equivalent of the "anti-Muslim movie" false narrative which was used to shield Hillary after the Benghazi screwup. And it's being used to cover up whatever really happened to Seth Rich, who did it, and why.

If there's no smoking gun here, why are so-called Democrat operatives so deeply involved in making certain it's never found? And why are the MSM so eager to "discredit" this story instead of actually investigating it?

Did MI5 Groom The Manchester Bomber ???

The alleged perpetrator of last week’s bombing in Manchester has been linked to a Libyan terror group that has been aided in the past by British intelligence authorities - a fact that has been conveniently ignored by mainstream media, despite their intense coverage of the attack.

You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/manchester-bomber-may-have-been-groomed-by-uk-intelligence/228243/

This is quite believable, considering this is more or less what the FBI did to help the 9/11 "attackers".

These so-called "terror attacks" are facilitated by our own governments. How many times does this have to happen before we wake up to that fact?

Amazon's Ups And Downs

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

It certainly is the best of times for Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people in the world:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2017/05/27/jeff-bezos-fortune-continues-to-soar-as-amazon-stock-reaches-new-high/#3669d7c510a3

His employees, however, are not doing as well:

Workers at Amazon distribution centers in Bad Hersfeld went on strike yesterday. Workers have been resisting ruthless exploitation and low wages at the online sales giant for years.

Around 1,000 workers in Bad Hersfeld work at FRA1, the oldest distribution center in Germany, and an additional 2,000-2,200 work at FRA3, which is located on the so-called Amazon Road. Around 100 striking workers gathered at the entrance in the early morning, and 40 departed by bus to Frankfurt to participate in a day of action by retail workers in the state of Hesse, organized by the Verdi trade union.

You can read the rest @
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/05/27/amzn-m27.html

Bezos thinks he is going to the moon. The rest of us are going direct the other way.

Submarine Warfare

Here's the way it looks when you'e underwater:

https://youtu.be/2zajdE5U2e8

Been there, done that. It smells even worse than it looks.

The War To End All Wars ???

One hundred years ago, the US entered World War I on the side of England, France, and Russia. Here are two songs from the era - one against the war and one for it. You've probably heard at least one of them:

https://youtu.be/dQwEqhtGcW0 - against

https://youtu.be/XGLwJGv1fAQ - for

The United States has been in a state of war for most of its existence (see http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-has-been-at-war-93-of-the-time-222-out-of-239-years-since-1776/5565946).

What has all that warfare achieved? Freedom? Security? Wealth? Respect?

I would argue that we have none of these things. Not any more.

But I know this will not stop the next impending war. I doubt anything will. War is what we do, and we're not going to change now.

The Federal Reserve Is Destroying America

Here are some observations from Chris Martenson:

The most compassion I can drum up for central bankers right now is to observe that they really do have an impossible job; and their training has been simply too narrow and dogmatic for them to detect the gaping, obvious flaws in their world views.  They never studied energy resource issues. Nor did they have to take any behavioral psychology classes that would have explained to them how deeply unfair economic practices are socially corrosive. Nor any history classes that would expose how such actions proved ruinous when they were applied in previous societies.

But here we are. The fact that the central bankers are either accidentally ignorant or purposely too lazy to explore the wider world of ideas is not one you can ignore any longer.  Real consequences are coming and there’s no ducking them.  We’re all in this big canoe of life together and the Fed and our political officials are exhorting us to paddle faster towards the roaring falls ahead.

You can read the rest @
https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/109009/federal-reserve-destroying-america

I would argue that they are neither "accidentally ignorant or purposely too lazy". They know exactly what they are doing and what the consequences will be.

But they don't give a damn, because they think they personally will not be negatively affected by what they are doing.

And that suggests they are monsters.

Privatizing US Infrastructure ???

President Trump once again appears to be selling out We The People:

Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump blasted his rival for taking money from Saudi Arabia, which, he regularly charged, has a horrific human rights record and was behind the attack on September 11.

“You talk about women and women’s rights? So these are people that push gays off buildings. These are people that kill women and treat women horribly. And yet you take their money,” he complained.

Trump, of course, has never been married to anything he has said in the past. But even by Trumpian standards, a recent series of deals he struck with Saudi Arabia stand out.

The two that made the news - a $110 billion arms deal and a $100 million gift to an Ivanka Trump-inspired endowment - are remarkable in their own right.

But the third, which was rolled out much more quietly, is no less stunning: The Saudi kingdom joined forces with a top outside adviser to Trump to build a $40 billion war chest to privatize U.S. infrastructure.

The vehicle would employ the same kind of public-private partnerships, known as P3s, the Trump administration has endorsed for its trillion dollar infrastructure plan. The deal hands over control of projects to rebuild American roads and bridges to the private sector and a foreign country.

You can read the rest @
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/trumps-america-first-infrastructure-plan-let-saudi-arabia-and-blackstone-take-care-of-it/

This is an EXTREMELY bad idea, similar to how the assets of the crumbling USSR were sold to the oligarchs for mere kopecks on the ruble.

Welcome to the market state, where everything is for sale ... and where you're only worth what you can bring on the open market.

Most Popular Books Of All Time

They all shared one thing. See below for what that is.

One of the important traits shared by every book on this list is the controversy that has swirled around each of them. This can be seen across different time periods and genres.

Source (go there for a more readable version of this list) - http://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-most-popular-books-in-history/

Are Pensions A Thing Of The Past ???

Public and private pensions are under attack around the globe. Here is a report which explores the magnitude of the problem:

Earlier this week we highlighted "Six Terrifying Graphs That Summarize America's Public Pension Crisis" which ranked state, county and city-level public pensions in the United States by which are screwed the most.  To summarize, the study concluded that public pensions in the U.S. alone are currently underfunded by nearly $4 trillion and that taxpayers in Illinois, California and New Jersey should probably be looking to move before getting drowned in their state's coming pension-induced tax hike tsunami.

Of course, as we've argued before, the current pension underfunding levels are sure to only get worse over the coming decades as the world will have to contend with a wave of retiring Baby Boomers and a period of lackluster, volatile returns.  So how bad could the global funding gap get?  Unfortunately, the World Economic Forum (WEF) recently set out to solve that impossible math equation and it turns out the answer is about $400 trillion ... give or take a couple trillion.

You can read the rest @

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-26/global-pension-underfunding-will-grow-400-trillion-over-next-30-years-world-economic

Now, Mark Zuckerberg thinks that we can fight this problem somehow by embracing globalism and fighting nationalism. You can read about it here:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/26/530159142/mark-zuckerberg-tells-harvard-graduates-to-embrace-globalism-a-sense-of-purpose

Dear Mark - Won't that mean that in future NO ONE will get a pension (other than rich bastards like you)?

For a lengthy critique of Zuckerberg's plans for humanity, go here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/05/26/zuckerbergs-harvard-speech-shows-he-doesnt-quite-get-the-economics-of-jobs-and-automation/#76da63e81671

Or just consider my simplistic alternative - as long as we value things more than we value people, we're all just rats fighting over the same limited supply of cheese.

Zuckerberg and the other tech titans need to craft a system which does more than just enrich them with wealth surpassing that of Croesus. If they cannot achieve something which truly benefits We The People, then we should boycott them into poverty in a manner similar to what they are doing to us.

Or we could just starve in the dark while they live in splendor.

Federal Investigations Are BS

For the most part, federal investigations in the US are nothing but crap, especially when they appear to involve alleged crimes by members of the deep state. Here are a few examples:

• JFK murder investigation
• MLK murder investigation
• RFK murder investigation
• George Wallace shooting investigation
• Vince Foster murder investigation
• Branch Davidian (Waco) murder investigation
• OKC bombing investigation
• First WTC bombing investigation
• Chandra Levy murder investigation
• 9/11 "attacks" investigation
• Anthrax attacks investigation
• Boston Marathon bombing investigation

So why should we believe that the "official" Seth Rich murder investigation will ever determine what really happened to him?

Secret Channels To Russia

Trump and his son-in-law are under fire for seeking a secret communication channel to Russia. You can read about it here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-ambassador-told-moscow-that-kushner-wanted-secret-communications-channel-with-kremlin/2017/05/26/520a14b4-422d-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html

If you recall, JFK also sought and achieved such a secret channel, and prevented a nuclear war by doing so.

While I agree that Trump is no Jack Kennedy, it is ironic that both men who (at least initially) sought peace with Russia have been viciously attacked by the US military-industrial-banking-information complex (a.k.a. the deep state). One lost his life, and we still don't know the ultimate fate of the other.

This ain't no democracy. And the MSM is no "free press". So let's just cut the crap already, OK?

Depraved Indifference ???

Watch the videos linked to this webpage, and then decide whether this was depraved indifference on the part of this prison staff:

https://news.vice.com/story/for-profit-jail-accused-of-ignoring-dying-inmates-cries-for-help

Migrants Cause A Measles Outbreak In Europe

There is a measles outbreak in Europe. Here is a report about what is happening in Germany:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40056680

And here is another report about the European situation in general:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/health-39419976

Note well that neither report says anything about how the virus was brought into Europe, other than this vague statement in the second report:

Travel patterns mean no person or country is beyond its reach, says the WHO.

Both reports instead blame the outbreak on a failure to vaccinate.

THIS IS BULLSHIT !!!

The virus almost certainly was imported by migrants from Libya and Syria. The vaccination part of these reports (especially the denial of any vaccine-autism link) is a red herring.

Big Pharma is using this as an excuse to make more money.

Here's a better solution:

• Stop destroying nation states for the benefit of Israel and the US;
• Stop bombing vaccine factories in Africa and the Middle East; and
• Screen migrants for diseases at the border.

Or keep subjecting you and your children to expensive, dangerous vaccines for no good reason.

By the way, the bombing of vaccine factories is an act of biological warfare on Muslim populations. Outbreaks such as the current one are part of the blowback.

Are you happy now?

An Absurd Claim About Submarines

According to some, President Trump has compromised our submarine force. You can read about it here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-24/nyt-once-again-bashing-trumps-loose-lips

Trump's words in no way are a threat to the security of our subs.

As a former submarine officer I can truthfully say that subs are hard to find even if you think you know where they are. The oceans are big, and they are an excellent place to hide.

By the way, Tom Clancy's novels did compromise the security of our submarine force and other elements of our military. And I even saw a report in the New London, CT newspaper that at one point the US Navy was showing the Russians how to detect our submarines underwater.

Did any of you clowns complain about that?

Quote For The Day

"Our commitment to diversity means that nobody graduates until they think just the right way."

Source - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-25/thursday-humor-welcome-utopia-university

Media Hypocrites

Today I watched (as much as I could stand) while the MSM whined endlessly about how a GOP candidate allegedly "body slammed" a reporter.

This is the same MSM which didn't report that Ray McGovern was beaten by Hillary's guards for doing more or less the same thing that reporter is alleged to have done.

This also is the same MSM which still reminds us constantly that Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden are traitors, not heroes; and which continues to defend the CIA and FBI, which together do little or nothing to protect this country.

To the so-called US "free press" - you are worthless to We The People, and you're not even very good whores, either. Please stop tampering with our elections and trying to overthrow our government.

Killing Civilians - Us Vs. Them

We all are upset (and rightly so) about the Manchester suicide bomber who just killed several civilians, including children.

However, the US kills MANY civilians, including children, nearly every day. Here is but one example:

http://theantimedia.org/syria-us-airstrikes-civilians-children/

Why aren't we as upset about THAT?

I firmly believe that more bombing is not a justified response from either side, for any reason. If we want the bombing to stop, EVERYONE will have to stop.

And by the way, no Christian should have been bombing anyone in the first place:

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.
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Matthew 5:43-48 KJV

Obama Confused About Walls

Obama ad-Dajjal says "we can't hide behind a wall":

https://news.grabien.com/story-germany-obama-lectures-trump-immigration-we-cant-hide-behind

Barry, you ignorant slut. Go tell that to your friends the Israelis, for whom the US is paying to build a wall to do just that.

Far more US citizens have been injured or killed by illegal immigrants than the number of Israelis killed by Palestinians. If they can have a wall to "protect" themselves, so should we.

DNC Obstruction Of Justice ???

Debbie W-S is at it again. You can read about it here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-24/caught-tape-wasserman-schultz-threatens-police-chief-investigating-her-it-staffs-cri

Why isn't she in jail?

This swamp will NEVER be drained.

Israel Flouts The Law

Israel says Jerusalem is their sovereign territory:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Netanyahu-Temple-Mount-Western-Wall-will-stay-under-Israeli-sovereignty-forever-493760

This is wrong on at least two counts:

1. As "occupied territory" seized during a war of aggression, under international law it cannot be added to their sovereign territory; and
2. Under the Torah, they cannot go en masse to Jerusalem until Messiah comes.

Stop supporting these lawbreakers.

Why Isn't Obama In Jail ???

Obama ad-Dajjal did in fact illegally spy on US citizens:

http://circa.com/politics/barack-obamas-team-secretly-disclosed-years-of-illegal-nsa-searches-spying-on-americans

Why aren't he and Susan Rice in jail?

Fix Or Repair Daily ???

Turmoil at Ford?

Ford Motor was the American automaker savvy enough to avoid bankruptcy when industry sales collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis. Then it rode economic recovery and cheap gasoline to record sales and profits. But what looks like success can turn upside down quickly in Detroit these days.

The latest evidence came Monday when Ford ousted its chief executive, Mark Fields, after only three years in the job. Mr. Fields had failed to persuade investors and his own board that the company was moving fast enough to develop the vehicles of the future, like battery-powered cars that drive themselves.

You can read the rest @
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/business/ford-ceo-mark-fields-jim-hackett.html

I'd be willing to bet the motoring public in general has little interest in battery-powered cars that drive themselves. They're expensive, have very limited range, and few people have access to a recharging station.

So who are these "concerned investors"? Not We The People, that's for sure. It's the oligarchs, bankgangsters, corporate CEOs, and their collaborators in the one percent who drank the climate change Kool-Aid.

Hey guys, I'm not going to buy any battery powered, self driving car. Capisce?

And by the way, what is going to power all these battery cars? The numbers just don't add up:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-fallacy-of-electric-vehicles.html

Something To Think About

From the review of a new book about Stalin:

Among his interviews with the families of Soviet leaders was one with Beria's daughter-in-law, who agreed he was a monster but noted that he was always very kind to her. "She said Beria was the kind of man who, if he lived in the United States, might very well have become chairman of General Motors."

You can read the rest @
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595066455/Stalin-was-charming-terrifying.html

Does that tell us more about Beria, or about General Motors?

War With North Korea Imminent ???

According to one source, the US is getting ready to attack North Korea:

The US is preparing to attack North Korea, according to Geopolitical Futures founder George Friedman - setting the stage for a difficult, messy war with potentially catastrophic consequences. Speaking Monday to a rapt audience at the 2017 Strategic Investment Conference in Orlando, Friedman said that while it is unlikely the US will take action before President Trump returns home at the weekend, North Korea’s actions appear to have “offered the US no alternative” to a clash. 

You can read the rest @
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/d54abc14-4b72-3692-bb92-e797ada26e43/ss_george-friedman%3A-a-us-attack.html

There is ALWAYS an alternative, especially for those who are willing to offer one of their own. But that's not us, is it?

Say a prayer for our military and theirs. If this attack goes forward, a lot of people are going to be killed.

By the way, who's going to impeach a President in the middle of a war?

Should We Burn Down Our Universities ???

That's what JC Collins advocates:

Our educational buildings and curriculums have been used to erode and shatter all the ideals of natural and instinctual existence which have developed within the Western mind. The more we remember and rediscover, the more we realize that almost everything which is taught in our schools is either a corrupt twisted version of truth, or is an outright lie and fabrication.

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Now is the time to act and reverse the momentum which has thus far worked against us. We need to tear down the institutions and framework of the simulated world which has built up around us. The great school of the Western mind cannot be destroyed and it will never stop learning. In fact, this challenge, the one we have been faced with now for generations, could very well end up being one of our greatest lessons and opportunities for advancement.

You can read the rest @
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-22/lets-burn-down-universities

While I agree in principle, there is a serious flaw in his thinking - very soon there will be no one left in the US who even WANTS to preserve "the great school of the Western mind". It is those who intend to destroy that great school who are burning down our universities.

And since that appears to be what the powers that be want, that's what is going to happen. It's far easier to disrupt and destroy than it is to build. If you need proof of this, just look at Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

Does This Sound Familiar ???

The Manchester attacker was known to the authorities.

Source - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-23/cbs-reports-suspected-manchester-attacker-23-year-old-salman-abedi

If "authorities" know all the attackers, why don't they do something helpful BEFORE the attacks?

Sheesh !!!

A New Way To Teach Math

Unveiled earlier this month, the course aims to teach math instructors how to craft lesson-plans that incorporate social justice in order to raise their students’ awareness

“Do you ask students to think deeply about global and local social justice issues within your mathematics classroom?” a course overview asks. “This education and teacher training course will help you blend secondary math instruction with topics such as inequity, poverty, and privilege to transform students into global thinkers and mathematicians.”

According to the website, the course can even help students to learn math, because while many aspects of middle- and high-school math “can seem abstract to students,” the developers claim that “setting the mathematics within a specially-developed social justice framework can help students realize the power and meaning of both the data and social justice concerns.”

You can read the rest @
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/new-social-justice-math-class-will-teach-your-kids-about-inequity-poverty-and-privilege_05222017

You may not agree, but I think this is part of the "destroy the USA" program. The only way to deal with inequity, poverty, and privilege is to lower our standard of living. And that means the end of US exceptionalism.

If we were doing this as Christians, I might be happy. But we're not; we're doing it as vassals of the oligarchs, bankgangsters, corporate CEOs, and their collaborators in the one percent. And that is decidedly un-Christian.

Did Fraud Lead To Greek Crisis ???

On May 18, a new chapter was written in Greece’s economic odyssey, as the Greek parliament, with the votes of the SYRIZA and Independent Greeks coalition government, approved Greece’s fourth memorandum loan package since the onset of the country’s depression. The strings attached to this new deal with the “troika” of Greece’s lenders include 140 new austerity measures, including tax hikes and additional pension cuts.

This comes just weeks after the Greek government triumphantly announced the achievement of a 4.2-percent budget surplus for 2016, exceeding expectations. Greece is in the midst of its eighth full year of economic depression, a crisis that emerged in late 2009 when it was revealed that Greece’s deficit and debt figures were larger than had previously been publicized.

Was this really the case though? Several former board members of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) have spoken publicly in recent years, revealing evidence that they argue proves that Greece’s debt and deficit figures were indeed falsified in 2009.

But the evidence provided by these whistleblowers shows that the figures were actually falsified in order to appear worse than they were in reality, providing the political impetus to bring Greece under the supervision of the “troika” (consisting of the IMF, European Commission, and European Central Bank) and leading to successive memorandum agreements and the enactment of strict austerity measures.

Further fueling these claims, former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has publicly admitted that in April 2009 he met with George Papandreou, who was then campaigning in Greece on a platform of promises of new social services and benefits, claiming on the campaign trail that “we have money” for these programs.

Papandreou, who had not yet been elected, came to power following the Greek elections of Oct. 4, 2009. A few months later, the new government publicly announced that the deficit and debt figures for 2009 were higher than originally claimed by the outgoing government.

You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/whistleblower-greek-debt-crisis-manufactured-unscrupulous-accounting/228076/

This also may explain why Strauss-Kahn was set up in NYC and removed from his post. His successor happily participated in the assault on Greek finances.

Sympathy - Animals Vs. Humans

Many Americans are happy that US circus animals may be freed. You can read about it here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/wildlife-watch-ringling-circus-animal-welfare-photography/

Yet few if any of us really care that Israel treats the Palestinians even worse than Ringling Bros. allegedly treated their animals:

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/05/22/israeli-troops-shoot-and-wound-11-palestinian-protesters-amid-trump-visit/

Yes, the Palestinians are "fighting back", but so do lions, tigers, and elephants. Do we begrudge them the right of self defense?

Deep State Attacking Trump

Please listen to this interview with Dennis Kucinich:

https://youtu.be/PnPZzD5ROUg

I agree - our republic is under attack. If we don't stop the deep state, this nation is toast.

To Protect And Serve - Whom ???

Here is a graphic portraying how police have evolved in the past 50 years:

Source - http://stockboardasset.com/insights-and-research/saw-today-militarization-police/

Have We The People gotten more violent in our protests? I don't think so; most of the violence at our demonstrations is instigated by outside provocateurs.

Is The Weiner Sexting Case Based On Lies ???

Here is another highly revealing example of how the MSM continues to spread falsehoods as if they were gospel truth:

On Friday, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) accepted a plea deal in a Manhattan courtroom to a charge of “transfer of obscene material to a minor.” WhoWhatWhy has learned that much of what we know about this crime — which played a major role in the outcome of the election — is a lie.

The official narrative is that Weiner, husband of Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin, had exchanged explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl. The FBI got involved, seized Weiner’s laptop and discovered emails from Clinton on the hard drive. This caused FBI Director James Comey to inform Congress that new evidence had been unearthed in the investigation of Clinton’s mishandling of classified information.

She never recovered from the revelation, which ended up yielding no new information in the case, but, with the scandal fresh in the minds of voters, Donald Trump went on to his astonishing come-from-behind victory.

The North Carolina teenager at the center of the controversy was reported to be heartbroken. A self-described supporter of Clinton, she expressed regret over the role she had played in the election’s outcome.

There is just one problem with this narrative: The girl’s story isn’t true.

A WhoWhatWhy investigation has uncovered numerous substantive falsehoods and mischaracterizations —  raising doubts about a case that changed the 2016 election and American history:

•  The girl was presented in news accounts — and Weiner’s plea deal — as being 15 at the time, that is, under the age of consent in her state. She was not.

•  Weiner’s victim and her family were not, as represented, Clinton fans — they actually were strong Trump enthusiasts. Her story was trusted in part because she was characterized as having no axe to grind with Clinton or the Democrats.

•  Weiner’s “sexting” partner was not simply a victim. Contrary to tabloid accounts, she initiated the contact with Weiner. And she went out of her way to seek advice from a GOP-associated figure behind prior efforts to harm Weiner and other Democrats.

To be clear, what Weiner did was morally indefensible. None of the evidence we provide is meant to excuse his behavior. But it is impossible to overstate the significance of the lies his teen sexting partner told in ensuring the story became a national sensation. The big question that remains is why.

You can read the rest @
https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/05/22/exclusive-weiners-underage-sexting-girl-lied-damage-clinton/

Why indeed. Sounds like just another GOP plot, no?