1 In 3 Will Get Diabetes ???

Roughly one third of Americans - or more than 84 million people - have prediabetes, and most have no idea.

You can read the rest @
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/31/type-2-diabetes-may-hit-84-million-americans-and-they-dont-know-it.html

Diabetes is an "abnormality", right? Then why is it becoming so commonplace?

If this is related to diet, we need to do something ... and quickly.

Google Is A Threat To Our Democracy

I have said this before, and I'll say it again:

Google Is A Threat To Our Democracy

Here is a good discussion of why I think this is a reasonable claim to make:

https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/08/30/google-has-become-a-major-threat-to-democracy-in-america/

And frankly, I doubt they can be stopped. They have made themselves too essential to our bizarre so-called "way of life".

Victory For Assad ???

According to this report, Syria's president may be achieving a "victory" of some sort:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/31/victory-for-assad-looks-increasingly-likely-as-world-loses-interest-in-syria

That's ridiculous !!!

What kind of victory can be claimed when his entire country is destroyed and about to be partitioned by the US and European powers?

The only way Assad can claim a modicum of victory is if the US, European, and Israeli leaders who waged this illegal war on him and his country were to be tried by the ICC for their numerous crimes.

And that's not likely to happen.

Israel Rejects Same-Sex Marriage ???

OMG !!!

You can read all about it here:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Supreme-Court-rejects-petition-to-recognize-same-sex-marriage-503894

Does this mean the US same-sex crazies will BDS Israel?

Of course not. 

Getting Rich By Helping The Poor ???

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its "hate group" designations, pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show.

Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees while spending little on legal services despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is perhaps best known for its "hate map," a collection of organizations the nonprofit deems "domestic hate groups" that lists mainstream conservative organizations alongside racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and is often referenced in the media. A gunman opened fire at the Washington, D.C., offices of the conservative Family Research Council in 2012 after seeing it listed as an "anti-gay" group on SPLC's website.

You can read the rest @
http://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-law-center-transfers-millions-in-cash-to-offshore-entities/

If true, this seems to make SPLC just another scam. A scam that seems to TRULY hate the United States and Christianity in general.

Can you name anyone they have helped? I can't.

My guess is that they are moving this money out of the US because they have inside information about the coming financial catastrophe that is being engineered by people of their ilk.

And how will THAT help the poor?

Battlefield America

"If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of soldiers? If you look at the police department, their creed is to protect and to serve. A soldier’s mission is to engage his enemy in close combat and kill him. Do we want police officers to have that mentality? Of course not."

You can read the rest @
http://original.antiwar.com/jwhitehead/2017/08/30/battlefield-america-new-normal/

Don't kid yourself that this is a "Trump" phenomenon. The police ALREADY had that mentality, as proven by the number of innocent people they have been killing.

And this will continue no matter who is in the White House.

The only way to stop this is to hold BOTH our troops and police accountable to the law. But we have not done that for quite some time ... if ever.

I Didn't Make Her Do Anything

The latest brouhaha over Taylor Swift makes me want to puke. You can read about it here:

http://www.etonline.com/taylor-swifts-look-what-you-made-me-do-video-everything-we-know-about-snakes-diamonds-dancing-more

It's difficult to tell if this is demonic or not, but I'm leaning toward the "yes" side.

Satan does rule this world. And don't you forget it.

Should Google, Facebook, And Amazon Be Nationalized ???

That is what this essay suggests:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/30/nationalise-google-facebook-amazon-data-monopoly-platform-public-interest

In reality, the opposite is taking place. This evil triumvirate is capturing our national government.

And in case you have not noticed, these three are among the WORST of the economic traitors.

Rothschilds Are Dumping US Assets

Here is confirmation of what "globalism" can do to a nation's economy:

In what is a sure signal to oligarchs across the globe, Lord Jacob Rothschild, founder and chairman of RIT Capital Partners, has substantially minimized his exposure to what he views as a risky and unstable U.S. capital market. In the half-yearly financial report for RIT Capital Partners, Rothschild explained the company’s aggressive moves to significantly reduce exposure to U.S. assets.

“We do not believe this is an appropriate time to add to risk. Share prices have in many cases risen to unprecedented levels at a time when economic growth is by no means assured,” Rothschild said in his semi-annual report.

Additionally, Rothschild stated that he believes quantitative easing (QE) programs employed by central banks, such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the U.S. will “come to an end.”

Rothschild was quoted in the report as saying, “The period of monetary accommodation may well be coming to an end.”

You can read the rest @
http://www.activistpost.com/2017/08/rothschild-just-dumped-massive-amounts-us-assets-sending-ominous-signal.html

Those who enabled the "free" transfer of monetary assets across national borders committed high treason. It just wasn't obvious to the mob until now.

And those who soon will be shorting the US and becoming richer in our engineered "fall" are both treasonous AND our worst enemies.

Q: What are we going to go about it?

A: So far, the only two responses seem to be - "nothing", and "suffer".

If that's all we've got, we're on the road to serfdom.

Would Paying For Trump's Wall Be Treasonous ???

According to this report, Mexico will not pay for Trump's wall because to do so would be treasonous:

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/real-reason-mexico-will-never-pay-trumps-wall-itd-treason-121144347.html

That's absurd, for several reasons. Here are some of them:

• Their acceptance of NAFTA was treasonous to their country;
• Their failure to curtail the drug cartels is treasonous to their country; and
• Their neighbors to the north (i.e., the US Congress) commit acts of treason to THEIR country on a daily basis. Why does Mexico think their leaders are any better?

Globalism itself is treason, and all those who benefit from it are traitors to their countries. How then does a return to nationalism fall into the same category?

The Folly Of Corporate Welfare

State and local officials in Iowa have been working hard to rationalize their handout of more than $208 million in tax benefits to Apple, one of the world’s richest companies, for a data facility that will host 50 permanent jobs.

You can read the rest @
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-iowa-welfare-20170829-story.html

Corporations now tell governments what to do, not the other way round. And this will lead to governments going bankrupt, and corporations rising to even greater power in their place.

Welcome to the market state, in which the living dead (corporations) are more important than We The People.

War Is Peace - American Style

US ground troops were attacked outside of the Syrian city of Manbij today, according to coalition spokesman Col. Ryan Dillon. They came under fire from Syrian rebels allied with Turkey, and US forces returned fire before fleeing back into Manbij.

This is a fight that many have feared was coming for months, and is particularly significant because the Syrian rebels attacking the US troops are the same rebel forces that the US was directly arming through CIA arms smuggling operations for years.

You can read the rest @
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/08/29/us-military-battles-syrian-rebels-armed-by-cia/

The best way to achieve perpetual war is to arm your enemies. The US has been doing this since its inception.

And tolerating this crap is one of the DUMBEST things the American people have ever done.

Wake up !!!

Is Joel Osteen Lying Again ???

There is a story going around that Pastor Joel Osteen initially failed to open his church to people made homeless by Hurricane Harvey. You can read about it here:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/29/547035773/after-pressure-mounts-joel-osteen-says-his-houston-megachurch-is-open-to-evacuee

This is not the first time such a story has been told. During a previous hurricane in Houston (either Rita or Ike), it also was reported that Joel told evacuees to go to the convention center instead of coming to his church. I guess he didn't want all those dirty, sweaty people messing up his nice new building.

Joel claims to preach from the Bible, but he does not seem to preach the Gospel of Jesus. Joel's gospel is that of "prosperity" - your best life NOW - and it is indistinguishable from the teachings of deceased pastor Reverend Ike (the man who said "I love money, and money loves me").

Joel's got it all backward. Jesus would perform a miracle first, and THEN tell people about the coming Kingdom of G-d. Joel's method is to tell you about prosperity and then to send you out to perform your own miracles to achieve it.

Joel, if I were you I would not worry about the bad PR you've received of late. No, I would worry whether or not I was doing what Jesus wanted me to do. After all, did He not say this?

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Matthew 25:41-46 KJV

Quote For The Day - 8/29/2017

Here is why there will be no "revolution" in the United States:

"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not? - Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty."

Milton Mayer

This is why the Germans did not revolt against the Nazis, and it's also why we are not revolting against the sick people who now are ruling us.

Israel A Threat To World Peace

A senior Israeli official warned the Russian government that if Iran continues to extend its reach in Syria, Israel will bomb Syrian President Bashar Assad's palace in Damascus, according to reports in Arab media. 

Israel also warned that if serious changes do not happen in the region, Israel will make sure the ceasefire deal, reached by the United States and Russia in Astana, Kazakhstan, will be nullified.

You can read the rest @
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-Official-If-Iran-extends-in-Syrian-well-bomb-Assads-palace-503597

Syria and Iran are sovereign nations which as far as I can tell are not doing anything illegal or wrong. What right does Israel have to dictate their actions ... or to bomb them?

Israel and its stooge Donald Trump are the greatest threats to peace in the world today. What can we do to stop them?

[And don't say BDS, because that's about to become illegal.]

Another State Sanctioned Terror Attack ???

A spate of news reports last week raised questions about US and European government foreknowledge of the August 17 terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that killed 15 people and wounded more than 100, and how this attack was allowed to proceed. It is ever clearer that the Islamic State (IS) terror cell was under close surveillance by multiple intelligence services of NATO powers, including France, the United States, and Belgium.

You can read the details @
http://truepublica.org.uk/eu/terrorists-visit-france-points-state-foreknowledge-barcelona-attack/

Western governments have a long history of supporting terror groups which are used to destabilize foreign governments. It should be obvious to any thinking person that they now are doing the same thing to "their own" people.

What kind of sick shit is that? And what can we do to stop it?

The 5 Steps To World Domination

World Domination -- it has a nice ring, doesn't it? Here's how to achieve it in 5 steps:

1. Turn everything into a commodity that can be traded on the global market.

2. Enable private banks to create money out of thin air via fractional reserve banking.

3. Establish a central bank with essentially unlimited ability to bring money into existence and use it to backstop the private banking sector.

4. Undermine/destroy local economies' ability to organize production and consumption without using credit and fiat currencies (i.e. money controlled and issued by central and private banks).

5. Buy up all the productive assets and income streams of the world with nearly free credit-money.

Now you understand why I say: if we don't change the way we create and distribute money, we've changed nothing.

You can read the details @
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug17/world-domination8-17.html

Sound familiar? It should; this is what "your" banking system is doing to the world. And it is WELL on the way to achieving world domination.

Military Drones Coming To The Skies Over Your Town

General Atomics is working hard to put a close cousin of its Reaper anti-terrorism drone in the hands of local law enforcement.

By 2025, enormous military-style drones – close relatives of the sort made famous by counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq – will be visible 2,000 feet above U.S. cities, streaming high-resolution video to police departments below. That is the bet that multiple defense contractors are placing, anyway, as they race to build unmanned aircraft that can pass evolving airworthiness certifications and replace police helicopters. And if that bet pays off, it will radically transform the way cities, citizens, and law enforcement interact.

There’s a reason big drones like the General Atomics Reaper aren’t already flying over the United States. The federal rules that govern aircraft in U.S. airspace are much stricter than those that cover U.S. military drones overseas. Many of the Federal Aviation Authority’s regulations were drafted for manned aircraft, long before unmanned flight across the United States was even a possibility. Now the FAA is working with the private sector to update its rules for the age of ubiquitous unmanned flight, and that will open the floodgates.

You can read the rest @
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/08/look-military-drones-replace-police-helicopters-2025/140588/

Just another brick in the edifice of Skynet. Perfected in Afghanistan, and soon to be deployed globally.

Are you happy now?

The Ten Principles Of Burning Man

Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.

Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.

Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.

Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.

Source - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4830042/Thousands-flock-Nevada-Burning-Man-Festival.html

Most of these would benefit society in general if we chose to apply them.

More Stupidity At US Universities

A flyer recently appeared at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs (UCCS) declaring that “in order to protect our academic institutions we must ban veterans from four-year universities.”

The group that apparently hung the flyer is not affiliated with the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

You can read the rest @
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9646

Yep - get maimed for your country, only to have its children spit in your face.

If this keeps up, say goodbye to the former USA. But that's the whole idea, isn't it?

Is Antifa A Hate Group ???

Read this eyewitness report and decide for yourself:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-28/bay-area-tv-anchor-unveils-truth-i-experienced-hate-first-hand-today-people-dressed-

More US Criminality

A Bulgarian reporter has uncovered evidence that the United States and its allies, notably Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have been using Azerbaijan’s Silk War Airlines to ferry entire planeloads of weapons to Syrian militants, some of which ended up in the hands of al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.

Some 350 different flights, all labeled “diplomatic” flights to avoid being searched for weapons, were sent into the area, generally carrying arms purchased in Eastern Europe, so as to disguise the country that was actually sending them.

You can read the rest @
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/08/27/us-allies-used-diplomatic-flights-to-send-weapons-to-terrorists/

This not only is illegal, it's stupid.

Why Trump Was Right To Pardon Joe Arpaio

Many of our politicians are condemning President Trump's pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio. You can read about it here:

http://time.com/4917014/joe-arpaio-pardon-reaction-john-mccain-jeff-flake/

Many of these complainers pretend to be Christians, but they are not.

If they were, they would realize that IT IS THE GUILTY WHO NEED OUR FORGIVENESS. If you cannot forgive someone you KNOW has committed a crime, then you have no right to call yourself a Christian.

Don't believe me? Here is what Jesus had to say on the subject:

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 6:14-15 KJV

By the way, if no one is above the law then the following people belong in jail:

• Obama ad-Dajjal
• Bill Clinton
• Hillary Clinton
• John McCain
• and many others

Map Of All Countries US Has Invaded

You can find it here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-26/all-countries-america-has-invaded-one-map

And how many countries have invaded the US? Other than England, France, and Spain I think the answer is "none".

Is US Race War Being Engineered ???

You bet it is:

The corporate deadstream media continues to stoke the flames of an alleged brewing race war. Is there any truth to this tale or are we witnessing something much more nefarious?

There is a division brewing. At least, that’s what the “mainstream” media would have you believe. If you have been plugged into the deadstream corporate media (TV, Internet, magazines, etc.) over the last year, you would likely have spent at least some of your time being afraid of the following:

– ISIS
– Russia
– ISIS
– North Korea

Now you can add white supremacists and anti-fascists to the list of things that should keep you up at night. This is not to say that any of these topics are completely irrelevant. What I am getting at is the fact that the corporate media (which is owned by a handful of corporations) have the power to influence your thinking and, as a result, keep you afraid or angry. The media (and the people behind it) are working together to create conflict. To stir the pot. To stoke the flames. In reality, for the average American these issues truly represent a small slice of the issues which are of immediate threat to their freedoms and livelihood.

You can read the rest @
http://www.activistpost.com/2017/08/warning-the-race-war-is-being-engineered.html

And who is behind this? Obama ad-Dajjal, the Hillary Gang, and George Soros come to mind. Are these people saviors or traitors?

Usually "saviors" unite people. They do not "divide and rule".

Nazis In America ???

Here is an article about George Lincoln Rockwell, America's last "Nazi":

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/27/george-lincoln-rockwell-american-nazi-party-alt-right-charlottesville

My first wife had an uncle (not a blood relative) who was a card-carrying member of the US Nazi Party. He also belonged to a flying club which included Hitler's pilot Hanna Reitsch as one of its members. This was back in the 70s. I thought the guy was a nut, and everyone agreed with me.

US Nazis were an extremely small fringe group then, and I doubt they have done anything except shrink in the interim. This latest "Nazi" scare is total BS.

Cui bono?

Swearing Means You're Smart ???

I suspected this all along:

Intelligent people are more likely to swear and walk around naked at home, according to a new study.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4826228/Swearing-proves-f-brilliant.html

Now would someone please tell my wife? She won't believe it coming from me.

My Lai In Somalia ???

We truly have lost our way:

US and Somali troops attacked the farming village of Barire early Friday morning, capturing a group of ten civilians and summarily executing them one at a time. Locals brought the bodies, including three children, to the capital of Mogadishu to protest the incident.

Deputy Governor of Lower Shabelle Ali Nur Mohammed blamed the US forces, saying that they rounded up the farmers working in the fields, then “one by one” shot them, saying that all the slain were unarmed civilians.

You can read the rest @
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/08/25/us-somali-troops-execute-10-civilians-including-children-in-village-raid/

Congress Authorizes Warrantless Searches Of Homes

A bill that will allow homes to be searched without a warrant was passed with overwhelming support by the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Trump - and it happened with no media coverage and very little fanfare.

You can read the rest @
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/congress-passes-bill-allowing-homes-searched-without-warrant/

Hey, why should anyone expect the morons in the US Congress to understand the constitution they're sworn to preserve, protect and defend?

Here's How The Russians Do It

This Russian tanker allegedly traveled through the Arctic without an icebreaker escort:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/24/russian-tanker-sails-arctic-without-icebreaker-first-time

Q: Why is it going backwards through the ice?

A: Why indeed.

The REAL Enemy Within

An armed Antifa group is launching a new cell in Philadelphia, with support from the “alt-left” alternative media.

The group currently hosts anti-police workshops called “Our Enemies in Blue.” The group draws inspiration from convicted murderers and calls for violence against the police, theft of goods, and armed insurrection.

You can read the rest @
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/24/armed-antifa-group-calls-for-revolution-seizing-property-and-violence-against-police/

Note well the FBI expended considerable resources to destroy US militia groups (e.g., through Operation PATCON), but seems to have done NOTHING to stop a danger which is at least as great.

Why is that?

US Civil War Was Not About Slavery ???

That's the conclusion reached by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts:

When I read Professor Thomas DiLorenzo’s article the question that leapt to mind was, “How come the South is said to have fought for slavery when the North wasn’t fighting against slavery?”

Two days before Lincoln’s inauguration as the 16th President, Congress, consisting only of the Northern states, passed overwhelmingly on March 2, 1861, the Corwin Amendment that gave constitutional protection to slavery. Lincoln endorsed the amendment in his inaugural address, saying “I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.”

Quite clearly, the North was not prepared to go to war in order to end slavery when on the very eve of war the US Congress and incoming president were in the process of making it unconstitutional to abolish slavery.

Here we have absolute total proof that the North wanted the South kept in the Union far more than the North wanted to abolish slavery.

If the South’s real concern was maintaining slavery, the South would not have turned down the constitutional protection of slavery offered them on a silver platter by Congress and the President. Clearly, for the South also the issue was not slavery.

The real issue between North and South could not be reconciled on the basis of accommodating slavery. The real issue was economic as DiLorenzo, Charles Beard and other historians have documented. The North offered to preserve slavery irrevocably, but the North did not offer to give up the high tariffs and economic policies that the South saw as inimical to its interests.

Blaming the war on slavery was the way the northern court historians used morality to cover up Lincoln’s naked aggression and the war crimes of his generals. Demonizing the enemy with moral language works for the victor. And it is still ongoing. We see in the destruction of statues the determination to shove remaining symbols of the Confederacy down the Memory Hole.

You can read the rest @
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/08/23/know-called-civil-war-not-slavery/

I think it's fair to say that nearly every US war was not fought for the reasons our government has claimed. It's ALWAYS been about power and money, and NEVER about truth and justice.

Nowhere To Hide ???

Here is the latest on how extensive the US spy net has become:

http://www.activistpost.com/2017/08/wikileaks-cias-secret-spy-tool-steals-biometric-data-partner-intelligence-agencies.html

Is this kind of surveillance really necessary? And if it is, how come it has not stopped any terrorist attacks in the US? Or anywhere?

About Those US Navy Collisions

Here is an essay about the US Navy's recent collision-prone history:

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/23/545297589/navy-navigation-bungles-may-have-killed-more-troops-than-afghanistan-so-far-in-2

A few comments:

1. Radar is not an acceptable substitute for trained, alert lookouts.

2. On my ships, when sailing in restricted/crowded waters we would "set the maneuvering watch"; meaning the most experienced people would be at the helm, stationed as lookouts, manning the engines, etc. This apparently was not the case during any of the recent collisions. If it was, then the Navy is severely lacking in experienced shiphandlers.

3. Taking a day or two off to review procedures (a "stand-down") does not make up for years of neglect. Not even close.

4. The captain always is responsible. Running aground or colliding with another ship is cause for dismissal. And it should be. Nothing is more important (or basic) than the ability to take your ship safely from Point A to Point B.

Is Silicon Valley The Devil's Playground ???

Among the 70,000 or so people who will make the trip to Black Rock City, Nevada, this weekend for the start of Burning Man will be some of the most influential people in Silicon Valley.

Every year, some of tech's top execs join the annual festival, dressing in shiny costumes and exploring the art installations just like everyone else.

The unwritten rules of the festival encourage anonymity and privacy. But the attendance of some of the CEOs and founders has been revealed by one of their enthusiastic peers on Medium. And many members of the tech elite have found their time on the playa - Burning Man speak for the dusty dry lake bed where the festival takes place - so life-changing that they couldn't help but speak about it publicly.

You can read the rest @
http://www.businessinsider.com/tech-ceos-love-burning-man-2017-8/

The Burning Man festival may or may not be the equivalent of Satan worship, but it definitely is the embodiment of many things the Bible labels as abominations.

Check it out:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/burning-man-style_us_599f14f4e4b0821444c1bb8d

And THESE are the people who control what your children think?

Sheesh.

The Syrian Debacle

There’s a rumor going around that the Syrian civil war is finally winding down and that the Baathist government is nearing its goal of driving out thousands of ISIS-Al Qaeda head-choppers financed and supplied – directly or indirectly – by the U.S., Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the other Persian Gulf oil monarchies.

It would be good news if true. But most likely it’s not. While one stage in the Syrian conflict is coming to an end, another is beginning, and this time the results could be even worse.

The reason is Israel, until now the odd man in the latest Mideast wars. Despite intervening sporadically on the rebel side in Syria, the Jewish state generally held itself aloof from the conflict in the belief that events were breaking its way regardless of whether it stepped in or not. After all, why go to war when your enemies are doing a fine job of tearing each other apart on their own?

You can read the rest @
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/22/israels-alarm-over-syrian-debacle/

Are Israel's enemies really "tearing each other apart on their own"?

Isn't it the case that the US, Saudi Arabia, and their minions have CAUSED and FINANCED this whole mess at least in part for the benefit of Israel?

Frankly, the only party for whom I have ANY sympathy in this whole mess is the Syrians. Their only crime is to have been a sovereign country standing in the way of Israel's aspirations in the region.

Oh ... and having water resources which Israel wants to steal. Now that the region has been depopulated, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers can be diverted to quench the thirst of Israeli children.

Sonic Weapons - Theirs Vs. Ours

As you may know, someone appears to be targeting Americans in Cuba using a sonic weapon of some sort. You can read all about it here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-25/mystery-deepens-after-us-confirms-16-diplomats-suffered-traumatic-brain-injury-cuban

As you also may or may not know, the US has deployed similar weapons for quite some time. You can watch and hear one in action here:

https://youtu.be/QSMyY3_dmrM

Yes, the pot is calling the kettle black. Again.

Doesn't our desire to harm each other seem endless? Just wait until the robots take over. I'm sure they will follow our bad examples to their logical, painful conclusion.

Thought For The Day - 8/25/2017

No country too poor, too small, too far away, not to be threat, a threat to the American way of life.

William Blum

Source - https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/08/north-korea-an-aggressor-a-reality-check/

Why are we so worried about bullying in our schools, when we tolerate it in our government?

Did Babylonians Invent Trigonometry ???

A Babylonian clay tablet dating back 3,700 years has been identified as the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, suggesting the Babylonians beat the ancient Greeks to the invention of trigonometry by over 1,000 years.

The tablet, known as Plimpton 322, was discovered in the early 1900s in what is now southern Iraq, but researchers have always been baffled about what its purpose was.

You can read the rest @
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-solved-a-maths-problem-on-this-3-700-year-old-clay-tablet

This beggars the question - are the wars against ISIS and Iraq really intended to defeat "terrorism", or are we trying to rewrite history by destroying all evidence of the Cradle of Civilization?

I vote for the latter option.

The beast does not want you to know what really happened in the past. He wants you to focus on the future he is creating for you.

Does knowledge go in circles ... in which it is destroyed by ignorance, only to arise again ... only to be destroyed again? If so, we definitely are in a destructive phase of the cycle.

And if that claim made you think "Trump", you are missing the point.

Our Leaders Confused About The Homeless

Please compare and contrast these two simultaneous phenomena:

(1) Homelessness growing in US cities

Amid rising homelessness and mounting outcry from residents and business owners, a Los Angeles city councilman said Wednesday he wants to take a hard look at the way the city responds to the increasing presence of encampments and recreational vehicles.

“What we have isn’t working,” Councilman Mitchell Englander said.

In recent months, the issue of homelessness has become inescapable, with residents encountering more homelessness in their neighborhoods, according to the councilman, who represents the northwest San Fernando Valley.

You can read the rest @
http://www.dailynews.com/social-affairs/20170823/las-response-to-homeless-encampments-isnt-working-councilman-says

(2) US cities giving sanctuary to illegal aliens:

The city of Los Angeles sought Tuesday to join a legal battle against President Trump’s Department of Justice over conditions requiring police to cooperate with immigration enforcement officials in order to qualify for anti-crime funding.

City Atty. Mike Feuer filed papers in U.S. District Court asking the judge hearing a lawsuit brought earlier this month by San Francisco city officials to let Los Angeles quickly into that fray.

In its lawsuit, San Francisco is seeking to strike down rules U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions announced last month for Justice Department funds that have long been dispersed to local law enforcement agencies to bolster efforts to fight violent and gang crime. Going forward, Sessions said at the time, police agencies that want a piece of the funding would have to first demonstrate that they are willing to help immigration officials identify and detain people in local jails who are suspected of being in the country illegally.

You can read the rest @
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sanctuary-city-lawsuit-20170822-story.html

Are these not inextricably related?

Frankly, no one in charge at the federal, state, or city level in the US seems to have any real idea what the hell is going on in this country or what to do about it.

Is the current level of homelessness not a direct result of globalization and the jungle created by so-called "free markets", both of which the US government supports wholeheartedly?

If we cannot feed (or even tolerate the presence of) our own homeless, why are we inviting in even more mouths to feed? Do we somehow feel better about ourselves when we shelter illegal immigrants after chasing the native born homeless out of our cities?

This whole situation is so bizarre it boggles the mind.

MSM Loves Trump The Warlord

On Monday night, Donald Trump spoke in front of the nation as a very serious man, reading off a teleprompter and assuming the steely gaze of TV presidents of yore. He uttered big words in measured tones and made vague pronouncements about a war in Afghanistan that promises to waste lives and money for years, if not decades, to come. A permanent conflict that is the actual Orwellian reality of America today.

No president, whether a constitutional law professor or a narcissistic reality show mogul, has the will to challenge a military-industrial complex far larger and more sinister than any British writer – or Dwight Eisenhower – dreamed of. So ingrained is war into the national fabric that our Washington media class can only think of pageantry when Trump delivers a speech about troop build-up with no end in sight.

You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/22/positive-trump-media-coverage-when-he-embraces-war

How and when did the US become a military dictatorship? Was it just since WWII, or have we always been one?

And how in the hell are we ever going to stop?

Update On Joseph Kony

Yesterday I posted some information about the US military's phony search for Joseph Kony. You can find it here:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2017/08/whatever-happened-to-joseph-kony.html

In case you missed it, I also wrote in 2012 about the secret relationship between Obama ad-Dajjal and Mr. Kony. Here is what I said back then:

President Barack Obama ad-Dajjal and Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army are both from the Luo tribes of Africa. According to available records, they were born either on the same day or within a few days of each other in 1961. Each is responsible for a multitude of extra-judicial murders and a reign of terror in Africa.

Had they been switched at birth, would it have made any difference? Both are megalomaniac, narcissistic false messiahs unaccountable to international law.

Source - http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2012/11/obama-2012-v.html

The relationship between these two monsters needs to be reassessed, especially since Obama ad-Dajjal is in the process of creating his own version of "the Lord's Resistance Army" right here in the US.

Is it possible they are fraternal twins? If so, that would certainly put a different spin on the former president's phony "born in Hawaii" CIA-created legend and his propensity to violence.

Rise Of The Killer Robot

Here is an excellent report on a subject I have written about many times before:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-rise-of-the-killer-robot/5605509

Please add it to your reading list.

Whatever Happened To Joseph Kony ???

"Joseph Kony Est Mort," reads a leaflet bearing the murderous Central African warlord’s visage and the message, in French, that he has died.

Over the last six years, the United States invested the better part of $1 billion to make that statement a reality. America sent military advisors, set up bases, gathered intelligence, and funded and equipped local proxies across the region in an effort to kill or capture Kony and destroy his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a militia that has committed atrocities since the 1980s. The U.S. military even created that flier to tout Kony’s death and sent reams of them to a shadowy outpost in the Central African Republic where they sat, waiting for the day they could rain down from the sky. Now that leaflet - and that dream - have gone up in smoke.

Late last year, via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, I asked the U.S. military for a copy of the “Joseph Kony Is Dead” flier and other similar leaflets dropped by the millions in Central Africa. I was told, after a search, that the fliers could not be located - not one single leaflet. They had apparently vanished, never to be seen again. Until, that is, they were.

When they were found the military could, of course, have contacted me. They could have sent them to me. But the military had other plans for the documents. And those plans didn’t involve me. What they instead involved - perhaps in a breach of U.S. law - was incineration. Yet even before the burning, the military found a novel way to comply with my Freedom of Information Act request without really complying with it; a means of achieving victory in a FOIA fight - what they were never able to do in their battle against Joseph Kony.

You can read the rest @
https://theintercept.com/2017/08/24/i-asked-the-u-s-military-for-its-leaflets-about-joseph-kony-they-sidestepped-the-request-then-burned-them/

What's going on here? Is he dead, or isn't he?

I suspect that capturing or killing him was never a priority, just like going after Osama bin Laden wasn't a priority until Obama ad-Dajjal needed a boost in the polls.

The hunt for Kony may be just another "war on terror" scam, with the monies allegedly spent on him actually diverted to the on-going US campaign to destroy ALL popular movements in Africa.

Why Are We Really Staying In Afghanistan ???

I wrote this in 2013, but since President Trump has committed to keeping us in Afghanistan, maybe it's worth another look:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/why-is-the-united-states-really-in-afghanistan-2/

Q: What did these poor people ever do to deserve what the West has done to them?

A: They refuse to surrender.

Every knee must bow to the beast who rose up out of the sea.

How To Avoid Internet Censorship

You can find a guide here:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/date-guide-avoiding-internet-censorship/231253/

I don't do any of these, but you might want to consider them; because after all ...

"Even a paranoid can have enemies."

Henry Kissinger

Who's In Charge ???

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Yep ... that disastrous rise of misplaced power finally has come. You can read about it here:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/24/pers-a24.html

By the way, it is the Hillary Clinton coterie which brought this about. Of course, Trump's cowardice and incompetence played into their hands, but it was they and not he who are responsible.

Shoot On Sight In Venice ???

The Times reports that Italian mayor Luigi Brugnaro claimed that his city Venice was safer than Barcelona - where 14 people died being run down by a van last week.

Speaking at a conference in Rimini, north east Italy, he further revealed the extraordinary order he has given to armed police at one of the most popular tourist attractions in Europe.

Brugnaro was applauded by delegates when he said: “In contrast with Barcelona, where they had not set up protection, we keep our guard up.

“If anyone runs into St Mark’s Square shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar’, we will take him down.

"A year ago I said within four paces, now within three. I will say it in Venetian: ‘Ghe Sparemo’ (We will shoot him)."

You can read the rest @
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/well-send-straight-god-venice-11043606

I'm sure many Americans approve of Mayor Brugnaro's bravado, but is this a war on terror or a war on religious extremism?

What happens when the authorities decide to shoot anyone who shouts "Praise The Lord"?