How NOT To Make America Great Again

Foreign workers [are] being used to build auto plants in U.S.

You can read all about it @
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbsn-on-assignment-foreign-workers-used-to-build-auto-plants-in-us/

Giving corporations tax subsidies which then are used to benefit foreign workers is NOT going to make the US great again.

Face it - it is "our" corporations who are the greatest enemy of We The People and our nation. They take our tax dollars, but refuse to pay more than a pittance in taxes themselves.

They love money and only money, and money loves them.

Quote For The Day - July 31, 2017

"You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod."

Solon

DNC Espionage ???

Read this report carefully. It seems to say that espionage is taking place right under the nose of, and perhaps with the complicity of, the Democratic Party National Committee:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449983/debbie-wasserman-schultz-pakistani-computer-guys-bank-fraud

Why are the FBI and MSM fixated on Russia-Trump nonsense when a massive espionage ring appears to be operating with impunity and political cover in DC?

Debbie and Hillary belong in jail. Period.

Wealthiest People In History - Part I

Source [you can find a more readable version here] - http://money.visualcapitalist.com/richest-people-human-history/

I will post Part II when it's published.

Time For The Other Shoe To Drop

Roughly a month ago, we noted that Republicans might be well served to stop sitting around twiddling their thumbs waiting for the next Russia 'bombshell' to drop and actually go on the offensive against an 'investigation' that has obviously morphed into mass hysteria courtesy of free-flowing leaks from a conflicted "intelligence community" intent upon bringing down a presidency rather than finding out the truth.  Here's what we said:

"Of course, until someone within the Trump administration or Republican Party smartens up and calls for the appointment of a 'Special Counsel' to look into Hillary's email scandal, something that should have been done long ago, and not for retaliatory reasons but simply due to Comey's and AG Lynch's blatant mishandling of the investigation (a point which Deputy AG Rosenstein obviously agreed with), the Democrats have no reason to calm their mass hysteria.  Then, and only then, do we suspect that Hillary might just be able to 'convince' her party to exercise some form of reasonable judgement."

Well, it seems that some folks on the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), seem to agree.  As such, 20 Republican Representatives have sent a letter to Attorney General Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein demanding the appointment of a Second Special Counsel to look into a laundry list of potential scandals surrounding Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Loretta Lynch and many others from the Obama administration.

You can read the rest @
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-28/gauntlet-thrown-house-judiciary-demands-special-counsel-investigate-comey-lynch-and-

It's almost too late. This should have been done on DAY ONE of the Trump administration.

Is There A Connection Here ???

You may have heard that human sperm counts have been plunging:

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/human-race-danger-sperm-counts-drop-article-1.3358918

At the same time, our food supply is being contaminated with plastic:

A team of scientists from Malaysia and France discovered a total of 36 tiny pieces of plastic in the bodies of 120 mackerel, anchovies, mullets and croakers.

They warned that as plastic attracts toxins in the environment, these poisons could be released into people’s bodies after they ate the fish. The plastics found included nylon, polystyrene and polyethylene.

You can read the rest @
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/plastic-microparticles-fish-flesh-eaten-humans-food-chain-mackerel-anchovy-mullet-a7860726.html

And birth control drugs and other toxins are permeating our water supplies:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/07/low_sperm_counts_report_fails_to_mention_birth_control_in_water_supplies.html

Since it's unlikely we can escape Earth any time soon, we had better start cleaning up this mess ... QUICKLY.

What Is US Military Telling Us ???

You may recall it was predicted the US military might refuse to follow orders from a President Trump:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/28/former-cia-director-military-may-refuse-to-follow-trumps-orders-if-he-becomes-president/

The US military only can refuse to follow UNLAWFUL orders. Here are two possible examples:

(1) The other day, a Navy admiral said he would launch a nuclear attack on China if President Trump ordered him to do so. Would that be a lawful order?

(2) Shortly after that, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff more or less refused to follow President Trump's order to bar transgendered persons from serving in the military. Was THAT a lawful order?

I would argue that NEITHER of those orders is lawful. And I think the courts ultimately will agree.

Yet note well that the US military's response to both orders is EXACTLY in keeping with the globalist agenda. This suggests to me that "our" military no longer acts in the interests of We The People. At best this means they have sold their loyalty for 30 pieces of silver; at worst it means they are committing treason.

What do you think?

Is Trump's Military Junta Running The Country ???

President Trump today named General Kelly to be his White House Chief of Staff.

General McMaster is his National Security Adviser.

General Mattis is his Secretary of Defense.

General Dunford is his Chairman of the JCS.

Is our military still under civilian control, or is our government coming under military control?

A Navy admiral said something quite alarming the other day - that he would conduct a nuclear strike on China if the President ordered him to do so.

How did we get into that situation - that the President and his generals can start a nuclear war without Congressional debate or approval when China is not threatening to attack us?

I would say the danger of a nuclear war is the greatest it's been since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Wrath Of The US

Here is something to think about:

You would barely know it, living in this country, but the essence of modern warfare is what our military tends to call “collateral damage”: the killing or wounding of civilians, not combatants. The Global War on Terror -- more than 15 years later a no-name set of conflicts still spreading across the Greater Middle East, parts of Africa, and now the Philippines -- has been typical of this.  Civilians have died in startling numbers, both directly and thanks to the hardships these conflicts have brought on.  Vast populations have been uprooted from their homes -- at one point more than a million people from the Iraqi city of Mosul alone -- and often sent fleeing across borders.  In other words, from Afghanistan to Libya, the war on terror has (not to mince words) been murder on civilian populations.

In mainstream news coverage, real attention is paid from time to time (and quite rightly) to the continuing brutality of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the civilian deaths caused by their insurgency.  And that’s even more the case with the civilian carnage caused by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.  When it comes to the U.S. role in civilian deaths, however, it’s been another matter.  Clearly, it’s a subject the Pentagon would prefer that we not think about and yet the human toll is all too real.  As I wrote back in 2015, “In 2004 and 2006, the Lancet, a British medical journal, published studies based on scientific surveys of ‘excess Iraqi deaths’ since the American invasion of 2003 and, in the first case, came up with an estimated 98,000 of them and in the second with 655,000 (a much-criticized figure); such studies by medical and other researchers have never stopped.  More recent counts of such deaths have ranged from 500,000 in 2013 to one million or 5% of the Iraqi population [in 2015].”  The latest range of figures offered by the independent website Iraq Body Count for “documented civilian deaths from violence” since the 2003 U.S. invasion of that country is 177,941-199,231 (a conservative figure, given that word “documented,” and yet far higher than the one for combatants).  And keep in mind that that’s just Iraq.

You can read the rest @
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2017/07/27/wrath-us-along-euphrates-river/

Q: What did these people ever do to us to deserve what we are doing to them?

A: NOTHING AT ALL.

We are murdering these people for the benefit of Israel, plain and simple. And this is a great shame hanging over all our heads.

DNA Suggests Part Of Bible Is BS

According to the Hebrew Bible, things didn’t turn out well for the Canaanites. The Israelites arrived in their territory following their exodus from Egypt, toppled the walls of Jericho by blasting their horns and trumpets, and “utterly destroyed all that was in the city”. The ancient text suggests that widespread destruction of other Canaanite settlements followed. But the Canaanites weren’t annihilated – their DNA has now been found in the population of modern-day Lebanon.

You can read the rest @
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142028-bronze-age-dna-calls-famous-biblical-slaughter-into-question/

Should significant portions of the Bible be proven historically untrue, do the Israelis really have a valid claim to the land ... or to Jerusalem?

Hmmm ...

The Upside Of Buying Russian Arms

According to this report, the US is angry that Turkey is buying S-400s from Russia:

https://sputniknews.com/politics/201707271055917062-us-turkey-s-400-russia/

This so-called anger is a ruse.

This deal gives the US and/or Israel an opportunity to directly inspect and perhaps reverse engineer this crucial Russian system.

What's there to be angry about?

The War Prayer

As we continue our assault on Syria and contemplate others against Iran, North Korea, and Russia, let us put our true desires into prayer:

"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."

Source - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17801.htm

There is plenty of hatred and suffering in the world, and in spite of our claims to the contrary much of it is our fault.

If you want to know why millions of refugees are streaming into Europe from Africa and the Middle East, look no further than Washington, DC and Tel Aviv.

Welcome To A Post-America World ???

Here is the latest homily from the anti-Trump rag The Washington Post:

In London last week, I met a Nigerian man who succinctly expressed the reaction of much of the world to the United States these days. “Your country has gone crazy,” he said, with a mixture of outrage and amusement. “I’m from Africa. I know crazy, but I didn’t ever think I would see this in America.”

A sadder sentiment came from a young Irish woman I met in Dublin who went to Columbia University, founded a social enterprise and has lived in New York for nine years. “I’ve come to recognize that, as a European, I have very different values than America these days,” she said. “I realized that I have to come back to Europe, somewhere in Europe, to live and raise a family.”

You can read the rest @
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/say-hello-to-a-post-america-world/2017/07/27/aad19d68-7308-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html

You should remind yourself of something as many times as it takes to finally sink in - it's a post-America world NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS:

• Either it happens the Trump way; or
• It happens the Bezos way.

The powers that be are in the process of destroying the USA we know and love. It's the end of the world as we know it, and they feel fine.

Ten years from now, most of us won't even recognize this place. If we're even still alive.

Who Is The World's Richest Person ???

According to this report, Jeff Bezos of Amazon is now "the world's richest person":

http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-richest-person-philanthropy-2017-7

I'm not so sure about that.

I think the world's richest person would have these qualities:

• loved by his family
• loved and respected by his employees
• loved and respected by the public
• beloved of G-d

Is that Jeff Bezos? What do you think?

As far as "philanthropy" goes, the whole thing makes me shudder. What have previous philanthropists done?

• Andrew Carnegie gave us libraries, but left mountains of slag and tailings piles;
• Henry Ford gave us the Ford Foundation, and left us a shattered city named Detroit;
• John D. Rockefeller gave us the Rockefeller Foundation, and left us a world polluted with fossil fuels and their emissions.

These were not equitable trade-offs, and I'm sure you can think of other examples.

I don't think that enabling rapid social change even can be called philanthropy. Many of the problems Bezos and the other tech titans say they want to fix are ones they directly caused themselves - disruption, unemployment, poverty, and underfunded governments to whom they have chosen to pay little or no taxes. They're not "philanthropists"; they're more like saboteurs who destroyed whole nations and who now want to rebuild things more to their liking ... and more profitable to THEIR corporations.

Mr. B - You may have a lot of money, but you don't have our love and respect. You are NOT the world's richest person.

Germany Rejects US Sanctions On Russia

The trade between German companies and Russia has been picking up noticeably for several months. The Eastern Committee of the German economy pleads for sanctions against the USA, if the pressure from Washington escalates.

You can read the rest @
https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2017/07/27/deutsche-unternehmen-bauen-geschaefte-mit-russland-aus/ [translation required]

Note well it is the US deep state and their puppets in Congress, not Trump, who are responsible for this mess. Apparently the deep state still wants war with Russia, and they'll do anything (including destroying their own country) to get it:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/07/26/trump-moved-aside-conflict-russia-can-proceed/

Russia Secures Israel's Border

Here is a report stating Russia will be in Syria for 50 years:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-27/russia-stay-syria-next-50-years

I think they've been duped. The US is pulling out of Syria (at least publicly), which means Russia now will pay unilaterally to secure Israel's northeastern border while the Jews tear down the al-Aqsa mosques and build the Third Temple.

Curses - foiled again !!! Those Israelis sure are clever.

We Are Stardust

Nearly half of the atoms that make up our bodies may have formed beyond the Milky Way and traveled to the solar system on intergalactic winds driven by giant exploding stars, astronomers claim.

The dramatic conclusion emerges from computer simulations that reveal how galaxies grow over aeons by absorbing huge amounts of material that is blasted out of neighboring galaxies when stars explode at the end of their lives.

Powerful supernova explosions can fling trillions of tonnes of atoms into space with such ferocity that they escape their home galaxy’s gravitational pull and fall towards larger neighbours in enormous clouds that travel at hundreds of kilometres per second.

You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/27/we-are-all-made-of-stars-half-our-bodies-atoms-formed-beyond-the-milky-way

If you've ever listened to Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock", you knew this already:

We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

https://youtu.be/ZY8JKPbnslo

Spying On US - Obama Vs. Trump

According to this report, Obama ad-Dajjal appears to have spied on the US population every chance he got:

The National Security Agency and FBI violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama administration by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies’ ability to obey their own rules.

You can read the rest @
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/343785-newly-declassified-memos-detail-extent-of-improper-obama-era-nsa

Trump's inability even to discover who his leakers are seems to indicate he has no idea how to use the spy tools which should be at his disposal.

Alternatively, one also could argue that those favored by the deep state get to use these tools, while those not so favored do not.

The President is not above the law. Why isn't Obama ad-Dajjal being charged with the crimes he apparently committed while in office?

The Cost Of A Gunshot Wound

My wife and I have been watching reruns of the TV series "ER", which frequently portrays the immediate aftermath of gun violence in Chicago.

Here is a report about what that violence costs, which can be as high as $21,000 for the first 35 minutes of care (i.e., while in the ER):

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-gun-violence-medical-costs-met-20170720-story.html

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's brother Ezekiel is one of the architects of "ObamaDon'tCare". One of the unintended (?) consequences of that program is that We The People have to pay so that other people can shoot each other and then get "free" medical treatment.

Rahm's other brother Ari is a "talent agent" who makes a great living by helping Hollywood produce the garbage which encourages US youth to shoot each other.

How is it possible that a single family can profit from apparently contributing to so much damage, and yet be considered "respectable"? Does that make sense to you?

Divine Gender Bending

Today President Trump jumped into the transgender minefield without first looking where he was headed.

I am no expert on the subject, but I would like to point out the following to Mr. Trump and others who may be interested:

1. The Bible suggests that G-d is androgynous. You can read about it here:

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/family-q-and-a/sexuality/god-and-man-as-male-and-female-implications-for-gender-identity

2. At least one rabbi has concluded that G-d is a hermaphrodite. You can read about it here:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-08-15/news/0808141093_1_god-yahweh-backward

3. There are Bible verses which suggest that Jesus Christ is a woman. You can find a discussion of them here:

http://www.christisawoman.com/who-is-christ-lisbet/

There are many more websites and points of view on this subject. I have no idea what Mr. Trump was thinking when he make his announcement, but I'm fairly certain he had no idea how many people he was about to anger.

22 Troublesome Facts

Below are 22 realities to explain why 720Global does not recommend following the herd.

Equity/Bond Valuations

1. The S&P 500 Cyclically Adjusted Price to Earnings (CAPE) valuation has only been greater on one occasion, the late 1990s. It is currently on par with levels preceding the Great Depression.
2. CAPE valuation, when adjusted for the prevailing economic growth trend, is more overvalued than during the late 1920’s and the late 1990’s. (LINK)
3. S&P 500 Price to Sales Ratio is at an all-time high
4. Total domestic corporate profits (w/o IVA/CCAdj) have grown at an annualized rate of .097% over the last five years. Prior to this period and since 2000, five year annualized profit growth was 7.95%. (note- period included two recessions) (LINK)
5. Over the last ten years, S&P 500 corporations have returned more money to shareholders via share buybacks and dividends than they have earned.
6. The top 200 S&P 500 companies have pension shortfalls totaling $382 billion and corporations like GE spent more on share buybacks ($45b) than the size of their entire pension shortfall ($31b) which ranks as the largest in the S&P 500. (LINK)

You can read the rest and find the links @
https://www.720global.com/article/22-troublesome-facts-59788c344cd23

In other words, things are not as rosy as they seem.

A Gaza-Sinai "State" For Palestinians ???

Is this the "final solution to the Palestinian problem"?

http://dissidentvoice.org/2017/07/gaza-sinai-state-a-possibility-for-palestinians/

This is the equivalent of putting native Americans in "reservations" like Skull Valley, Utah. It's a sneaky way of killing them and making it seem like the Indians are responsible for their own plight.

And you want laws to ban BDS? Sheesh.

US Is Arming The Taliban

16 years into the US occupation of Afghanistan, the Taliban insurgency is better armed than ever, fielding an ever-growing array of US-made weapons and vehicles that they’ve procured, either looting them from Afghan forces or stealing them outright through the legendary levels of corruption in Afghanistan.

This is, after all, the same country whose military has massive levels of desertion, and where recruits regularly stick around for their first paycheck, take that and the assault rifle they’re issued, and vanish.

You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/taliban-said-to-be-awash-in-american-weapons-vehicles/230194/

All we have done is to make a bad situation even worse. US should leave Afghanistan ... NOW, and take back all their weapons when we go.

Geo-Engineering No Longer A "Conspiracy Theory"

Well, whad'ya know? The "chemtrails" crowd was right after all:

Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet.

Backers say the risky, often expensive projects are urgently needed to find ways of meeting the goals of the Paris climate deal to curb global warming that researchers blame for causing more heatwaves, downpours and rising sea levels.

The United Nations says the targets are way off track and will not be met simply by reducing emissions for example from factories or cars - particularly after U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the 2015 pact.

They are pushing for other ways to keep temperatures down.

You can read the rest @
http://news.trust.org/item/20170726060325-colqn

Large scale experiments of this kind are not merely "risky", they are extremely dangerous. We should NOT allow scientists and engineers to make such decisions for us carte blanche.

UK Will Ban Autos, Too

Britain has joined a growing list of countries which want to ban gasoline and diesel powered automobiles:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/25/britain-to-ban-sale-of-all-diesel-and-petrol-cars-and-vans-from-2040

Good luck with that. Better start building lots of off-shore wind turbines.

By the way, I thought the West had "free" economies in which governments didn't force people to buy or not buy certain products. What ever happened to that concept? Did someone decide that We The People are too stupid to know what is good for us?

America's BDS Laws Suck

A pair of laws currently making their way through the United States Congress would impose criminal sanctions on Americans who support an economic boycott of Israel or its illegal West Bank settlements. The bill follows in the footsteps of, and in some was surpasses the dozens of American states that have passed their own anti-boycott laws in recent years.

The Senate bill, S. 720, known as the “Anti-Israel Boycott Act,” also goes far beyond what even the Israeli government is willing to do to counter the grassroots movement to end the occupation and achieve certain basic rights for Palestinians. Indeed, Israel has its own anti-boycott law on the books but it not criminal, and it does not directly limit the right to call for such boycotts. Even in Israel calling to boycott the country, its institutions, its citizens, and its settlements are still considered protected speech. The punishment for violating the proposed American law, on the other hand, would be hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and/or up to a year in prison.

“This bill would impose civil and criminal punishment on individuals solely because of their political beliefs about Israel and its policies,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote to U.S. Senators this week, adding that such punishments would be “a direct violation of the first amendment.” Even requesting information about companies that are boycotts would become illegal, the ACLU noted.

You can read the rest @
http://lobelog.com/americas-bds-law-attack-on-far-more-than-free-speech/

OK, so we'll have to stop the BDS movement.

That would be fine with me, as long as Israel is required to follow ALL international laws and ALL United Nations resolutions.

Or is EVERYONE now defined as anti-Semitic?

And frankly I don't expect the US Senate to actually respect our constitution when it comes to this issue. This idiotic statement typifies what is happening:

"A lot of the co-sponsors are pretty strongly committed to the freedom of speech," [Senator] Cardin said.

https://theintercept.com/2017/07/25/cardin-amend-israel-boycott-bill-bds/

Dear Dumbass - Every US Representative, Senator, judge, and member of the executive branch is SWORN to uphold the US Constitution, including its free speech provisions. If they fail to do so because they don't want to offend Israel, they should be replaced.

Are Sea Levels Falling ???

According to this report, sea levels have been falling since January 2016:

https://www.iceagenow.info/sea-levels-are-falling/

Maybe not a big deal, but something is going on there.

Here's a thought - maybe Earth is expanding. Larger surface area could account for lower sea levels.

Putting Lipstick On A Pig

Eric Zuesse tells us what is wrong with today's Democratic Party:

I write this as a Democrat who rejects the Party as it has become - controlled by and representing the Party’s billionaire donors, against the American public.

That Party - the Clintonite Democratic Party, which deregulated Wall Street and allowed no regulation at all of financial derivatives, and ended FDR’s Glass-Steagall Act, and invaded Serbia, and increased the size of NATO (which should have ended when the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact military alliance did, in 1991) - served superbly well the interests of America’s billionaires, but not of the American people, whose wages flatlined as Wall Street’s bonuses soared, and as that Democratic-Republican orgy of deregulation paved the way for the reckless lending that produced the 2008 crash, from which we’re still recovering. (America’s billionaires, however, did just fine from it all - and is that any wonder?)

You can read the rest @
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/07/democratic-party-better-deal-puts-lipstick-pig.html

I think the lesson here is not just that the party has been corrupted, but that MONEY (BIG MONEY) has completely taken over the US political process. The rich call the shots, and the public be damned.

And realistically the rich have all the tools they need to protect their power and privilege from any challenge We The People may attempt. The pending downfall of Trump is but one example of what they can and will do.

Fleeing Chicago

According to this report, people are fleeing the disaster of Chicago and Cook County, IL:

https://mishtalk.com/2017/07/25/tracking-the-great-escape-from-cook-county-and-illinois/

Chicago is the territory of "Godfather" Rahm Emanuel, who thinks he knows how Democrats can regain control of Congress in 2018:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/riding-the-2018-wave/530952/

Dear Rahm - Why don't you figure out how to fix Chicago before you move on to wreck the entire country, too?

Why Are Israelis Training Our Police ???

According to the Independent, government sources say a British team is set to travel to Israel in the near future to learn Israeli counterterrorism enforcement strategies. The proposed move comes amid a spate of terrorist activity in the United Kingdom, as well as concerns about the British authorities’ response time and ability to counter terrorist attacks.

However, as the Independent notes:

“There are, of course, significant differences between political violence in the UK and Israel. The murders and maiming in the streets of Britain are in pursuit of a murderous Islamist jihad with a variety of justifications offered including retaliation for the war against Isis in Iraq and Syria. In Israel and the occupied territories it is justified as part of the struggle for Palestinian nationhood against Israel.”

The Jerusalem Post cites police involvement as being integral when it comes to “turning the tide” in Jerusalem’s battle against terrorist activity. More than 3,500 police officers are reportedly involved in multiple units, constantly patrolling and on guard with undercover officers on site at all times.

Considering this, it is curious that the United Kingdom would want to learn police tactics from an occupying force that suppresses its local population. Why would the United Kingdom want to create a similar environment and heavily arm its police force? And to what end?

You can read the rest @
http://theantimedia.org/israel-training-uk-police/

The same concerns apply to the US - why are Israelis training our police, and why are US police acting like an occupying force?

By the way, I doubt any Israeli "training" will curb the murderous ways of our police, who appear to be easily startled and extremely trigger happy.

Water On The Moon

Scientists who retested mineral samples collected during the Apollo moon missions now believe there’s a massive amount of water under the lunar surface – a discovery which may make manned missions to the moon easier than previously thought.

Researchers at Brown University in the US examined glass beads, a type of volcanic crystal gathered during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions in the 1970s, and found they contained similar volumes of water to Earth’s basalt rock.

The leaders of the study, which has been published in Nature Geoscience, cite the parallels as evidence that parts of the moon contain a similarly large amount of water. This, they believe, could be useful for future lunar missions as it means water could potentially be extracted rather than carried from home.

You can read the rest @
https://www.rt.com/viral/397417-water-beneath-moon-surface/

That's great !!!

But "extracted" how? Current methods require lots of energy, don't they? Where will that come from?

Also, what about an atmosphere? Moon's gravity is too weak to retain a breathable one, right?

And the same side always faces Earth. Are we going to start the moon rotating at a different speed?

I think we've got a long way to go before Jeff Bezos' fantasy moon colony gets built.

Warning - Easily Startled Police

Source - https://www.yahoo.com/news/fake-street-signs-warning-apos-000600688.html

I don't think these signs are "fake". They seem to perform a badly needed public service.

Making Protein Out Of Thin Air ???

In a bid to solve the international famine problem, scientists in Finland have managed to produce protein using unorthodox methods. The first batch of protein produced using electricity and carbon dioxide is expected to become a forerunner for future hunger relief solutions.

The new revolutionary method, which is a collaboration between the Lappeenranta University of Technology and the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) makes it possible to generate the nutrient virtually anywhere energy is available, which is projected to become a sustainable solution to famine and the earth's environmental problems. Additionally, the electricity-generated protein could also be used as animal feed, which would help release cropland for forestry, Finnish national broadcaster Yle reported.

You can read the rest @
https://sputniknews.com/science/201707241055814053-finland-protein-electricity/

Should this be true, it is an astonishing discovery.

And doesn't it seem strange that such breakthroughs no longer come from the US?

Israel At War With All Muslims ???

Tzipi Livni, former Israeli Foreign Minister, has said she fears the country is on the verge of a religious battle with the Muslim world. Her comments follow days of violent clashes after security forces imposed controversial security measures at a disputed shrine in Jerusalem.

Speaking to local media, Livni said Israel was "a step away" from turning its conflict against the Palestinians into a "pan-Muslim event" against the state of Israel. As a result, she believes Benjamin Netanyahu's government must be assertive and prevent such a scenario from arising.

You can read the rest @
https://sputniknews.com/military/201707241055819071-israel-livni-muslim-war/

I am tired of the US fighting Israel's wars for them.

If war with the Muslim world is what they want, then let's get it over with already.

Sheesh !!!

The Global Sharing Economy - A MUST READ REPORT

Here is a primer on the "global sharing economy" which is being shoved down our unwilling throats:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/primer-global-sharing-economy-20-charts

It's fairly complex, so take your time reading it. This is important.

Yes, we will share; but one thing We The People will NOT share in is the profits. You can count on it. This is the way the powers that be can keep their power and privilege in a world of shrinking resources and an exploding human population.

The Future Of Security ???

Saw this ad today while surfing the news:

https://www.seedinvest.com/knightscope/series.m/about?gclid=CM29tKOnotUCFY64wAoddHoM-g

These security robots are not armed ... yet.

If you look around, you can find evidence the powers that be want to put a "robocop" on every corner:

http://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/still-no-biometric-strategy-launch-competition-find-robocop-instead/

So don't give me that crap that we'll never see "autonomous killer robots". In a very short time, they will be a done deal and we'll never be able to get rid of them.

But they will be capable of getting rid of us, and perhaps that is their true purpose.

What Is The FBI's Real Purpose ???

Over the past few months, the story of the Awan brothers has been largely ignored by mainstream media. However, the Pakistani-born brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan are at the center of a criminal investigation by U.S. Capital Hill Police and the FBI. While official charges have not yet been filed, allegations of wrong doing vary from simply overcharging taxpayers for congressional IT equipment to blackmailing members of Congress with secrets captured from emails.

You can read the rest @
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/fbi-seized-crushed-hard-drives-home-wasserman-schultz-it-aide

It should be obvious that when the FBI "seizes evidence", it apparently does so to make certain that evidence will never see the light of day. Several examples come to mind:

• JFK assassination
• OKC bombing
• 9/11 attacks
• Hillary's espionage activities
• DNC meddling with 2016 election

Can someone please tell me what useful purpose is served by the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA? And by "useful", I mean of value to We The People. Merely covering up for the powers that be doesn't cut it any more.

Strip Mining The World

Here are some words of wisdom from Robert Gore:

A gigantic mine engages in every conceivable destructive practice—strip mining, heap leaching, tailings dams and ponds and so on. It pays such low wages its workers only make ends meet by borrowing from the company at usurious rates. The mine has befouled the air and poisoned the water. Many workers are chronically sick and their children are afflicted with birth defects. The mine’s absentee owners know that the mine is played out and the tailings dam is structurally unsound. They close the mine, count their profits, and move on. A month later the dam gives way. A deluge of noxious sludge inundates the town below the dam, sparing no one and rendering the area uninhabitable.

The government is a strip mining operation, plundering the dwindling residual value of a once wealthy America. Forget ostensible justifications, policy is crafted to allow those who control the government to maximize their take and put the costs on their victims, leaving devastation in their wake.

Wars are no longer about defending the country or even making the world safe for democracy. They are about appropriations, not to be won, but profitably prolonged. The Middle East and Northern Africa have been a mother lode. You would think their sixteen-year war in backward and impoverished Afghanistan would be a shameful disgrace for the military and the intelligence agencies. It’s not. They’ve milked that conflict for all its worth, and now brazenly talk about a “generational war”: many more years of more of the same.

You can read the rest @
https://straightlinelogic.com/2017/07/23/strip-mining-the-world-by-robert-gore/

With this kind of an economy, the USA (i.e., the part represented by We The People) never will be "great again".

Bolivia's Declaration Of Independence

Bolivia’s President Declares ‘Total Independence’ From World Bank And IMF

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has been highlighting his government’s independence from international money lending organizations and their detrimental impact the nation, the Telesur TV reported.

“A day like today in 1944 ended Bretton Woods Economic Conference (USA), in which the IMF and WB were established,” Morales tweeted. “These organizations dictated the economic fate of Bolivia and the world. Today we can say that we have total independence of them.”

Morales has said Bolivia’s past dependence on the agencies was so great that the International Monetary Fund had an office in government headquarters and even participated in their meetings.

You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/bolivias-president-declares-total-independence-world-bank-imf/230062/

We the People of the United States ought to do the same thing.

Those institutions only benefited us during the era when the oligarchs, bankgangsters, corporate CEOs, and their collaborators in the one percent shared some of their ill-gotten gains with us. They no longer do, and just look at the result - vast riches for them, poverty for us.

Morales has some big cojones. It's too bad no one in the US does.

Guns Vs. Beans

It used to be guns vs. butter, but then our government cut the social safety net down to the bone.

Trump wants to cut even further and give more money to the military. Does this make sense in a nation where so many already are hungry?

You can read the rest @

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41364-four-charts-that-show-who-loses-out-if-the-white-house-cuts-food-stamps

As a former Navy man, I'm willing to give up at least one aircraft carrier so that poor children in the US can have something to eat.

How about you?

The Power To Pardon

Some are whining about President Trump's statements about his power to pardon.

Here is what the US Constitution specifies:

Article II, Section 2
1: The President shall ... have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

So he CAN pardon anyone, but not himself if he is impeached.

CIA Vs. Wikileaks

CIA Director Mike Pompeo remains inconsolably hostile toward whistleblower organization WikiLeaks, insisting they are a “non-state hostile intelligence service” and are plotting to “take down America any way they can and find any willing partner to achieve that end.”

Hostility to WikiLeaks has been a mainstay in the US government, as every administration faces the prospect of their covert misdeeds becoming a matter of public record, to their general embarrassment albeit rarely to the end of any meaningful reform.

You can read the rest @
http://theantimedia.org/cia-chief-wikileaks-plotting-to-take-down-america/

I think the phrase "hostile intelligence service plotting to take down America any way they can and find any willing partner to achieve that end" applies more to the CIA than to Wikileaks.

The CIA is NOT acting in the best interests of We The People. Wikileaks, on the other hand, appears to be doing just that.

What do you think?

Does Amazon Really Need Human Workers ???

Do you remember those Amazon jobs I mentioned a month ago?

“Associates will be stationed at ergonomic work stations and when customer orders come in, the robots will bring the inventory to them at the work station, where an associate will pick the item off a shelf and put in a tote and get sent off to packing,” explains Ashley Robinson, spokesperson for Amazon Operations.

Source - http://kxan.com/2016/05/31/amazon-looking-to-fill-1000-new-jobs-in-san-marcos/

Well, it looks like they may be VERY short lived:

Robot developers say they are close to a breakthrough - getting a machine to pick up a toy and put it in a box.

It is a simple task for a child, but for retailers it has been a big hurdle to automating one of the most labor-intensive aspects of e-commerce: grabbing items off shelves and packing them for shipping.

Several companies, including Saks Fifth Avenue owner Hudson’s Bay Co. and Chinese online-retail giant JD.com Inc., have recently begun testing robotic “pickers” in their distribution centers. Some robotics companies say their machines can move gadgets, toys and consumer products 50% faster than human workers.

& & & & & & & &

Until recently, robots had to be trained to identify and grab each item, which is impractical in a distribution center that might stock an ever-changing array of millions of products.

Automation companies such as Kuka AG, Dematic Corp., and Honeywell International Inc. unit Intelligrated, as well as startups like RightHand Robotics Inc. and IAM Robotics LLC are working on automating picking.

You can read the rest @
https://www.wsj.com/articles/next-leap-for-robots-picking-out-and-boxing-your-online-order-1500807601

Organisms become "extinct" when they no longer can adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Technology has enabled rapid, unstoppable changes with which humans do not and cannot cope.

We are, in effect, rapidly headed toward extinction.

And NO Jeff Bezos is not going to help us colonize the solar system. What would be the point, other than raising us like cattle to sell to some E.T. buyers with a taste for human flesh?

The US Highway To Hell

This time last week, the Russia sanctions bill was floundering in the House, with efforts by the Republican leadership to tack on sanctions against North Korea complicating matters. Today, House Democrats say a deal has been reached on the matter.

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D – MD) reported that the deal will allow for “sweeping” sanctions against Russia, and will also include sanctions against both North Korea and Iran. Officials express hope the deal will be finalized before the August recess.

You can read the rest @
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/07/22/congress-reaches-deal-on-sweeping-russia-sanctions/

The US has only one method for coping with conflict - war.

It should be clear from the past century that the US decides to go to war LONG before "official" hostilities occur. Once the decision is made, the deep state maneuvers the organs of the actual state to make war inevitable.

This FACT puts the lie to the "free markets" swill we keep hearing in the MSM. There ARE no free markets; for should we ever find one, we would go out of our way to destroy it.

Thought For The Day - July 23, 2017

Of the many myths that befog the modern political mind, none is so corrupting of the understanding or so incongruent with historical fact as the notion that the wealthy and the powerful do not conspire.

They do.

They conspire continually, habitually, effectively, diabolically and on a scale that beggars the imagination. To deny this conspiracy fact is to deny both overwhelming empirical evidence and elementary reason.

Source - http://www.globalresearch.ca/hidden-history-the-secret-origins-of-the-first-world-war/5600090

Not Protecting, Not Serving

A federal Homeland Security law enforcement officer was assigned to Metro transit patrol as part of a beefed-up security plan for the busy Fourth of July weekend.

He didn’t like what he saw.

Late in the afternoon on July 4, the officer walked into the North Hanley MetroLink substation to find 12 St. Louis County police officers milling about. A resulting Metro check of video footage determined that not only were county police officers loitering in the North Hanley security office instead of patrolling trains or platforms, at one point they covered the security camera with an envelope and tape.

You can read the rest @
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-caught-on-camera-st-louis-county-cops-cover-their/article_9789e796-f617-5e6d-ad19-765104543318.html

All of them should be fired.

On the other hand, maybe it's better they stay in the office. It's the officers on patrol who are needlessly killing innocent people in several states.