44 Numbers From 2018

You can find them here:

https://www.activistpost.com/2018/12/44-numbers-from-2018-that-are-almost-too-crazy-to-believe.html

Many of them are truly remarkable.

A Blessing Or A Curse ???

The radical animal rights group PETA states, “Mankind is a cancer; we’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.” It’s hard to imagine such blatantly illogical anti-human rhetoric delivered by other humans, and yet the whole radical environmental movement is in sync with this ideology that man is the cause of everything bad on earth.

You can read the rest @
https://www.technocracy.news/tim-ball-radical-environmentalism-and-global-warming-fanaticism-are-patently-anti-human/

There is nothing "blatantly illogical" about PETA's statement. We ARE destroying the planet. No other species creates the toxic and radioactive substances we do; alters the planet's climate like we do; or crowds out the food and water supplies of other species like we do.

Either we acknowledge our problems and fix them, or we'll die out like the dinosaurs. But unlike the dinosaurs, we'll leave behind mountains and rivers of toxins which will poison this planet for millions of years to come.

Back Stabbing Generals

First Mattis and now Kelly - Trump's outgoing advisers stab him in the back. You can read about the latest perfidy here:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/kids/other/outgoing-white-house-chief-of-staff-john-f-kelly-defends-his-rocky-tenure/ar-BBRBb1c?li=BBnb7Kz

In my view, they should keep their mouths shut. People who betray their boss's trust (especially at this high level) are vile swine. If Kelly didn't like his job, maybe he should not have taken it in the first place. And if Mattis couldn't get along with Bolton, maybe he should have stayed to fight him instead of leaving with this tail between his legs.

Perhaps there is one good thing which might come from this - people will realize that "our" generals and admirals do not deserve the admiration we have so foolishly bestowed upon them for so long. Their chief accomplishment since WW2 has been to squander our blood and national treasure. Yes, a lot of brave men and women died or were maimed in the process, but for what? Is the world a safer or happier place because of it?

Stealing Syria's Resources

We have been in Syria for many reasons. But here are two which are seldom mentioned:

(1) To steal their oil and natural gas:

You can read about it here:

https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/The-Battle-For-Syrias-Oil-Region.html

(2) To steal their water:

You can read about it here:

https://mepc.org/dams-and-politics-turkey-utilizing-water-developing-conflict

While I agree that a more equitable distribution of the world's resources is necessary in our climate-changed world, their outright theft by powerful have-not nations is not the answer. Syria's oil and water belong to the Syrian people, and they are the ones who should benefit from these resources and who should decide with whom to share them.

Ending The Permanent War State

The mainstream media has attacked President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as impulsive, blindsiding his own national security team. But detailed, published accounts of the policy process over the course of the year tell a very different story. They show that senior national security officials and self-interested institutions have been playing a complicated political game for months aimed at keeping Trump from wavering on our indefinite presence on the ground in Syria.

The entire episode thus represents a new variant of a familiar pattern dating back to Vietnam in which national security advisors put pressure on reluctant presidents to go along with existing or proposed military deployments in a war zone. The difference here is that Trump, by publicly choosing a different policy, has blown up their transparent schemes and offered the country a new course, one that does not involve a permanent war state.

You can read the rest @
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trump-scores-breaks-generals-50-year-war-record-syria-mattis-dunford/

I fully expect the incoming Democrat controlled House of Representatives to do everything it can to discredit Trump and hinder his anti-war initiatives. They will pretend to be the champions of We the People, but they're really just lying scum who gorge themselves at the public trough.

Global Censorship

The year 2018 has seen a vast intensification of internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Twitter, transforming them from tools for exchanging information and communicating around the world into massive censorship dragnets for policing what their users say, do and think.

You can read the rest @
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/29/pers-d29.html

It is more than hypocritical for US corporations to be censoring thought around the world at the same time the MSM is whining about censorship in China.

And the fact the US government is doing NOTHING to stop such corporate controlled censorship implies that Uncle Sam is fully behind it.

To claim the US is a beacon of freedom of any kind is a sick joke.

Why Is IRS Armed To The Teeth ???

The Internal Revenue Service had in its weapons inventory 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition as of late 2017, according to a report published this month by the Government Accountability Office.

Included in this arsenal, according to the GAO, were 15 “fully automatic firearms” and 56,000 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.

The same report -- "Federal Law Enforcement: Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammuntion, and Tactical Equipment" -- says that the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services had 194 fully automatic firearms and 386,952 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.

“The term ‘fully automatic’ used in this report,” says a footnote in the report, “encompasses a range of firearms classified as machine guns, including submachine guns, three round burst guns, and guns with a selector switch that can enable continuous fire.”

You can read the rest @
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/gao-irs-had-4487-guns-5062006-rounds-ammunition

Is this really necessary? They can seize your assets without using violence, can't they?

Who Is Killing Our Admirals ???

A while back I wrote about the deaths of two US admirals:

https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2018/12/another-mike-boorda.html

Apparently the death of VADM Stearney is still somewhat of a mystery:

If you are a regular reader of The Jerusalem Post you would have learned on December 1 that the top officer for all U.S. Navy operations in the Middle East, Vice Admiral Scott Stearney, had been found dead in his home in Bahrain. The Reuters wire story that The Jerusalem Post was simply passing on was an official statement from U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, John Richardson. The statement gave no cause of death or any other information except to assure us that foul play was not suspected.

If you get your news from The Washington Post, on the other hand, you wouldn’t even know that much, right up to the time that I am penning this report. Try searching “Scott Stearney Washington Post” and see what you get. Nothing comes up related to his death, no matter what search engine you use. Can one think of a greater reason to be suspicious of Admiral Stearney’s death than that? Surely The Post must know that the death of this very important man, who had some 20,000 subordinates, is newsworthy. If it were clearly of natural causes or the result of an accident, could there be any doubt that they would have at least reported it? At the same time the death is so mysterious that the Navy feels obligated to volunteer that there couldn’t have been any foul play involved.

You can read the rest @
http://www.unz.com/article/scarce-news-on-admiral-stearneys-death/

I don't subscribe to most of the theories "DC Dave" included in the above article, but clearly something strange is going on. In their quest for power and money, the ruling class will do just about anything. And when it comes to drug trafficking and drug company profits, that includes murder.

Does This Sound Like Democracy To You ???

Netanyahu is now Israel’s prime minister, defense minister, and foreign minister.

Source - https://original.antiwar.com/Ariel_Gold/2018/12/28/elections-dont-make-israel-a-democracy/

Sounds more like a despot to me.

What do you think?

GOP Cowards Cede Control Of Congress

According to this report, Republicans have given up on two investigations:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-quietly-ends-probe-fbis-2016-decisions-023958788--politics.html

Was this all just a waste of their time and our money? Sure looks that way - no one of any importance was indicted, and justice most certainly was NOT served.

Do we even need a Congress whose chief accomplishment (if you can call it that) is to sell out our future while fighting over who gets to enjoy the money they steal from us? I don't think so.

Vaccines To Alter Human Behavior ???

Take a look at this video:

https://youtu.be/wEciCho8I5Y

Although the implication appears to be development of a means to stop terrorism, this kind of vaccine might better be called an "anti-religion" weapon.

This is REALLY creepy.

By the way, here are some excerpts from my book No More Patriots which deal with the issue of religious extremism:

[The] campaign is one of a series of overlapping initiatives designed to tackle the growing problem of extremism as a major impediment to peace and harmony. The focus of our particular initiative is extremism of a patriotic or religious nature within the United States of America.

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Throughout our history, religion and religious institutions have emboldened most domestic extremists and the majority of our foreign enemies. By emphasizing that religious “laws” restrict our personal liberties and hinder the development of women, this phase of the campaign will help weaken the appeal of religion to the population in general and to potential extremists.

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The doctrine of Manifest Destiny drove our genocidal expansion across the continent. Both sides in the conflict were motivated by religion or spiritual beliefs. As demonstrated by our experience at Indian boarding schools, the best way to reprogram Indian children to accept the ways of the white man was to isolate them from their families, their tribes, their cultures, and their deities. Discrediting the concept of Manifest Destiny will help accomplish a similar reprogramming of the US population.

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Just imagine what Uncle Sam would be able to do with such a powerful weapon. And if he could extinguish your religious fervor, perhaps he also could incite it in novel ways:

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Revelation 13:15 KJV

Why is anyone working on such a thing anyway? I though bioweapons research was banned in the US.

Remembering The Day After

Here is a discussion of the 1983 movie "The Day After":

https://www.globalresearch.ca/facing-nuclear-reality-35-years-after-the-day-after/5664181

We apparently have forgotten the lessons of that landmark film. Today we have a deep state and MSM who are more interested in overthrowing Trump than in avoiding nuclear war with Russia:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50830.htm

And that is a truly sad development.

I recently purchase a DVD of the movie and watched it all the way through for the first time. It's an experience I believe everyone should have.

The Next PM Of Israel ???

You may recall I recently posted about the closure of an Israeli company named Fifth Dimension:

https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-twist-to-stormy-daniels-affair.html

Now that company's head, former Israeli military chief Benny Gantz, has announced he will run for political office, presumably against current PM Bibi Netanyahu.

Are the two events connected? Possibly, and most likely to achieve the curtailing of US sanctions against Russian oligarchs, including the one who was funding Gantz's former company.

Just guessing. Perhaps there is no connection at all.

By the way, is there any significance to the fact both men's first name is Benjamin? Perhaps so:

http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Benjamin.html#.XCZUPVVKipo

Alphabet's Global Eradication Program

Silicon Valley researchers are attacking flying bloodsuckers in California’s Fresno County. It’s the first salvo in an unlikely war for Google parent Alphabet Inc.: eradicating mosquito-borne diseases around the world.

@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Nobody likes mosquitoes that bite and potentially carry disease, but the thought of extinguishing the species entirely is causing a lot of scientific concern. Conceptually, if interfering with the reproduction cycle works with the elimination [of] mosquitoes, it could work with other species as well.

You can read the rest @
https://www.technocracy.news/googles-parent-plans-global-species-wipeout-of-all-mosquitoes/

Aside from the implication that this is a trial run for killing other species, it really does seem like a horrible idea. Does ANYONE understand the complex web of life on this planet well enough to predict what would happen if an entire species were to be eradicated? What other species would be affected? What would fill their niche?

And why should We the People allow a private corporation to make such a decision and do such a thing?

Syrian Kids Build Their Own School

In a classroom that's so cold you can see your own breath, five teenage girls, their hair covered by brightly patterned scarves, and two boys read English phrases from textbooks. Repeating after their teacher, they say, "It has plants from all over the world."

The lesson, about an indoor rain forest in the United Kingdom, is a world away from the devastation surrounding them. They are students in Raqqa, Syria, a city that ISIS once claimed as its capital.

Beside their school building lie the remains of an Armenian church, and beyond that, a wasteland of apartment blocks crumpled by airstrikes. The city's public park, once lush and green, has become a mass grave.

Learning is exactly what these students want — so much so that the school is of their own making.

You can read the rest @
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680525061/determined-to-seek-an-education-teenagers-in-raqqa-syria-create-their-own-school

Would kids in the US do something like this? Would we let them?

I have always felt that students should build their own school, grow their own food, dig their own wells, and otherwise learn how to be self sufficient. But that's not the model in the West. Our schools steal our money, and use it to turn our children into either sheeple or shock troops for the NWO.

Dumbest Thing All Year (2018)

Yes, someone suggested that Angelina Jolie should be US President:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/angelina-jolie-politics

WTF ??? They're kidding, right?

A Saudi Space Agency ???

Why does Saudi Arabia need a "space authority"?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-27/king-salman-establishes-saudi-space-agency-demotes-foreign-minister-surprise

What do they hope to accomplish? If this is in response to an "enemy", who is it - other nations, ETs, or the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?

Should US Adopt Single Payer ???

Ralph Nader claims Canada's health care system is better than Obamacare:

https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/12/25-ways-the-canadian-health-care-system-is-better-than-obamacare/

I tend to agree.

If we truly want "national security", then we should start to promote things which benefit We the People. Obamacare and our bloated military budget are two things which do NOT benefit us.

The Coming Budget Clash

Here are three things which almost guarantee future clashes over the federal budget:

(1) It now costs more to borrow money:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-national-debt-interest-costs-are-about-to-skyrocket-does-it-matter/

(2) The incoming Democrat congress will be pushing for a Green New Deal (i.e., more government spending):

https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/25/democrats-green-new-deal/

(3) The only reasonable way to reconcile those two factors is to slash our bloated military budget.

Conclusion? If you thought politics in DC were contentious and chaotic, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Sick Migrants ???

Yes, there are valid reasons for controlling our borders. Here is one of them:

https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/26/dhs-calls-cdc-migrants-sick/

Wake up, people. Our public health crisis is just beginning, and bringing more sick people into the country is nuts.

Israeli Nuclear Smuggling ???

Last fall the US Army Corps of Engineers announced it was finally ready to resume a $500 million toxic waste cleanup of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) dump. An earlier attempt at the Pennsylvania site to excavate was stopped after the discovery of unexpected materials. NUMEC’s plant sites in Apollo and Parks Township have long been the subject of litigation over wrongful mass deaths and illnesses caused by toxic pollution.

NUMEC was launched and managed by Zalman Shapiro, a nuclear chemist credited with solving engineering issues for naval nuclear propulsion in the 1950s. His partner, David Luzer Lowenthal was a smuggler with murky ties to Israeli intelligence and industrialist. Luzer organized the emergence of NUMEC from a complicated merger and acquired facilities for NUMEC in a defunct steel mill in the middle of Apollo, Pennsylvania. The Zionist Organization of America, originally chartered to "do any and all things that may be necessary" to support Israel, supplied three of NUMEC’s executives. Zalman Shapiro, Pittsburgh region president of ZOA, Morton Chatkin and Ivan J. Novick who became ZOA’s national president.

Officially NUMEC was a startup supplier of highly-enriched fuel for the US Navy. But two Central Intelligence Agency officials claimed NUMEC’s true purpose was to amass and divert US government-owned highly enriched uranium into Israel’s nuclear weapons program. 300 kilograms of highly enriched uranium disappeared from NUMEC between 1957-1978, with most of it gone by 1966. Material stolen from NUMEC would have been the most likely source for Israel’s ability to ready nuclear weapons for use during the 1967 Six-Day War.

You can read the rest @
https://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2018/12/26/fbi-and-cias-duty-to-warn-victims-of-israeli-nuclear-smuggling/

Why are we continually bombarded with claims about the Iranian nuclear program, but kept in the dark about what the Israelis are doing ... including apparently stealing nuclear material from the US?

I see no reason to allow Israel to be above the law. Do you?

By the way, I have never heard anyone suggest that ADM Hyman Rickover was involved in the NUMEC hijinks. However, he is known to have had an iron grip on the Navy's nuclear program, and I learned from personal experience that he had spies and informants everywhere. I therefore think it's reasonable to assume he may have known what was going on and chose to ignore it.

Amazon - Influence, Tampering, Or Racketeering ???

A top Amazon executive privately advised the Trump administration on the launch of a new Internet portal that is expected to generate billions of dollars for the technology company and give it a dominant role in how the US government buys everything from paper clips to office chairs.

Emails seen by the Guardian show that the Amazon executive Anne Rung communicated with a top official at the General Services Administration (GSA) about the approach the government would take to create the new portal, even before the legislation that created it – known to its critics as the “Amazon amendment” – was signed into law late last year.

Amazon and the Trump administration appear to have an antagonistic relationship because of the president’s frequent Twitter attacks on the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post. But the behind-the-scenes lobbying by Amazon officials underscores how the company has quietly amassed an unrivalled position of power with the federal government.

You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/26/amazon-anne-rung-government-services-authority

Either shut this down now, or forever face the consequences.

UW Nuclear Drones ???

Apparently the Russians are developing underwater nuclear armed drones:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-25/russian-nuclear-sub-drone-starts-underwater-pilot-test

What did we expect ... that they would just roll over and play dead?

If you want peace, make peace. If you want nuclear war, then just continue on the path we're on now.

The Depravity Of US Executives

Sears execs get bonuses while laid-off employees struggle to survive:

https://theantimedia.com/my-news/186932/

It astonishes me that such injustices have not led to violent revolution in the US. I'm not certain why that is, but clearly the government is prepared for such a contingency.

Happy New Year - but don't expect the rich to change one iota, except perhaps to tighten the screws even more.

Does CNN Hate Jesus Christ ???

Yesterday on Christmas Day 2018 CNN aired a series of programs titled "Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery." You can read about it here:

https://www.cnn.com/shows/finding-jesus

Frankly I consider doing such a thing to be an insult to Christians everywhere.

There seems to be a myth in the USA that Islam is a threat to Christianity. It may be, but the type of distortions and denials which are being continually fed to the public by organizations like CNN are a FAR greater threat.

Take a look at who controls CNN, and you may achieve some insight into what they are doing and why. And I can assure you it is not Muslims who are behind this.

Measles In Jeruisalem

There has been a measles outbreak in Israel, chiefly in Jerusalem. You can read about it here:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Additinal-case-of-measles-disease-reportedly-threatening-train-passengers-575498

Note well the report does NOT sling insults at non-vaccinated persons, unlike in the USA where they would be labelled as religious fanatics or nutcases.

Apparently some people in Israel DO have religious freedom.

The Twelve Rules Of Christmas

Here is a legal primer explaining how to overcome the objections of America's ever-present anti-Christmas grinches:

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/legal_features/constitutional_qa_the_twelve_rules_of_christmas1

And if you REALLY want to infuriate them, send them to Israel Shamir's "Yuletide Message":

http://www.unz.com/ishamir/yuletide-message/

Don't we teach our kids that the first Americans came to the New World to escape religious persecution? So what the hell happened?

A Clear And Present Danger

Here is a glimpse of the future from Patrick Wood:

Let me be very clear about this: I am totally opposed to Technocracy. I support the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and promote them as the best form of citizen-involved government in the history of the world. As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity and dignity of man having been created in the image of God; to put this another way, I do not believe that you are an animal equivalent to a steer in a feed lot.

Many readers don’t have a clue as to what Technocracy is or how it will affect all Americans. This is why I posted a link to my QUICK START GUIDE in plain view on the Home Page, where everyone can find explanations, videos, interviews other links. This is also why there is a big graphic image on the Home Page with pictures of the books I have written on the topic. I have spent thousands of hours researching and writing about Globalization and Technocracy, and published these books for your education.

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/12/technocracy-a-clear-and-present-danger-of-epic-magnitude.html

And here is his home page:
https://www.technocracy.news/

He is right, you know. Technocrats are fundamentally altering nearly every aspect of our lives, without our express permission but with the full support of the federal government. Soon we all will be plugged permanently into their version of The Matrix. This may not scare you, but it's the most disastrous development since the advent of nuclear weapons.

Russian Smart Cars In Israel ???

According to this report, Russian smart cars are to be tested in Israel:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/The-Russians-are-coming-Yandex-built-smart-cars-to-be-tested-in-Tel-Aviv-575406

Q: Do Israelis really want Russian cars, or is this merely a way to create a back door into the Russian internet?

A: What do you think?

Happy Christmas 2018

https://youtu.be/tekN9NtGXOc

We can always hope ...

How Soon Will We Go To War With Russia And China ???

Two recent reports from the United States strongly suggest the United States is planning a major war with Russia and China, but are far from certain that they could in fact succeed in such a war. The reports also provide insights into how the United States will meet the budgetary demands of such war preparations, but almost zero appreciation of the social and human costs of such policies.

You can read more about the reports @
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-is-planning-a-major-war-with-russia-and-china-reports/5663819

The greatest unacknowledged threats to US national security are that its government has gutted its own national infrastructure and impoverished its own citizens. Why then should We the People blindly accept this drive to war?

Why indeed.

To Give Or To Get ???

This report makes an interesting claim:

https://www.studyfinds.org/joy-from-giving-lasts-longer-joy-from-getting/

Another way to look at it is that your credit card payments will continue far after all the toys you bought are broken.

The Growing China-Israel Alliance

China is constructing seaports at two sites where the US 6th Fleet deploys, in Haifa next to Israel’s main naval base and Ashdod near Tel Aviv, prompting concerns about China’s military potential in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East.

“The civilian [Chinese] port in Haifa abuts the exit route from the adjacent [Israeli] navy base, where the Israeli submarine fleet is stationed and which, according to foreign media reports, maintains a second-strike capability to launch nuclear missiles,” Israel’s Haaretz media reported.

“No one in Israel thought about the strategic ramifications,” Haaretz said in September.

You can read the rest @
http://www.atimes.com/article/is-china-getting-too-close-to-israel/

That last statement is pure BS. Israel knows damn well what the strategic ramifications are.

Anyone, especially someone as interwoven into US financial, military, and political policy as the Israelis, can see what is happening - China is rising, while the US is falling. The Israelis are jumping from the sinking US ship and going over to the side of the eventual winners. Of course, along the way they will continue to squeeze the last drops of blood and cash they can from the shrinking US stone.

It's a smart move, and no matter what you think about the Israelis they ARE very smart.

So ... knowing all this, why are will still supporting these people?

The Chinese Governance Model

If there is any country on Earth that is most emblematic of the rising governance model that is Technocracy, it is China.  The many pieces to this structure have included much of what we see emerging in the U.S. with pervasive surveillance, biometrics and a notion of protecting the public by instituting pre-crime algorithms in police departments and travel. So, in many ways, China is the very large canary in the coal mine for anyone who wishes to attempt to slow the rapidity of our slide down the slippery slope toward scientific totalitarianism.

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/12/china-tracks-workers-brains-now-tracking-children-with-smart-tech-uniforms.html

This goes FAR beyond China. We in the US are subject to the same creeping "scientific totalitarianism". And many issues which cannot be successfully challenged (e.g., climate change) will soon give the technocrats power to control every important aspect of our lives.

Our "freedom" is a mirage.

Trump's Wall

Apparently the US federal shutdown will continue until someone blinks on the issue of the wall:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/22/government-shutdown-2018-deal-1074299

Tucker Carlson asked what I believe to be the most relevant question about the wall. You can find it here:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/12/18/tucker_carlson_we_cant_have_a_wall_because_democrats_say_it_is_too_expensive.html

Here's my take:

• No wall or bridge is going to save the US. We have far too many problems, and no one is addressing ANY of them in an intelligent fashion.
• Let's try having no "federal" government for a few months and see how it goes. Keep the safety net agencies open (SS, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc.), and scrap the rest. I think we'll discover we can do just fine without paying millions of federal employees and "our" military to do little more than spy on us and wreck other countries while flushing our national wealth down the toilet.

Workplace Drug Testing

One of the largest U.S. drug-testing laboratories has analyzed its millions of urine drug test results by industry for the first time, and found the two industries with the highest rate of positive test results for marijuana were also two that have to deal with consumers.

Some 5.3 percent of tests given to retail trade workers, and 4.7 percent of those given to health care and social assistance workers came back positive, according to an analysis by Quest Diagnostics.

The analysis, which comes from examining more than 10 million test results that are part of the lab company's Drug Testing Index, found that five of 16 industries saw double-digit increases in the rate of positive test results between 2015 and 2017.

They included not only retail but transportation and warehousing, finance and insurance and wholesale trade, showing an increase in positive test results at a time when more states are loosening restrictions on pot use and more companies are said to be loosening drug testing restrictions amid low unemployment.

You can read the rest @
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Why-drug-testing-at-work-is-the-new-don-t-ask-13485537.php

I was subject to such testing while in the US Army and Navy, but never while in state employment. Always came up clean.

Drugs are everywhere. You might even say we have a legal and illegal drug-based culture. What does that say about us? I'm not certain, but it definitely implies many of us are scofflaws.

Where Are High Earners Moving To ???

This map shows the 100 neighborhoods with the most growth in "high earners":

Shoot, it looks like I missed out again.

What Is In Vaccines Given To Our Children ???

Vaccines are not what they are cracked up to be in more ways than one, most especially in scientific analyses and assays findings, according to a December 13, 2018 Italian research firm’s findings. 

Below are some rather astounding, plus frightening, data sets that must be taken seriously by all government health agencies, especially Inspectors General of the United States Health and Human Services, the CDC and FDA:

"In Infanrix Hexa we found chemical contamination from the manufacturing process or cross-contamination with other manufacturing lines; chemical toxins; bacterial peptide toxins; insoluble and indigestible macromolecule that reacts to the protein assay, but cannot be recognized by any protein databases."

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

It should be noted that in Batch #1 tested, there were 65 UNKNOWN compounds with only 35 known compounds!

You can and should read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/12/infanrix-hexa-vaccine-found-to-contain-65-unknown-to-science-compounds-latest-corvelva-investigative-assays-reveal.html

We shouldn't be giving this kind of crap to animals, let alone to our children.

The official vaccine narrative is BOGUS. It's time for We the People to demand answers from the scientific community.

The Burn Pit Debacle

Military contractor Kellogg, Brown, and Root has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to throw out multiple lawsuits filed by veterans who say they were made sick by burn pits the company used for waste disposal on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In a brief filed last week, officials for KBR and its former parent company Halliburton urged the court not to restore dozens of the lawsuits filed against the companies, who handled daily operations for many of the bases starting in 2001. They claim that the lawsuits were already dismissed properly because the courts have no jurisdiction over military strategy.

You can read the rest @
https://www.foxnews.com/us/military-contractor-kbr-files-motion-with-supreme-court-in-attempt-to-nix-burn-pit-review

Whether it be Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, or burn pit afflictions, the US government and its contractors routinely seek to dodge their responsibility for the morbidity and mortality caused by their actions and inaction.

The term "military strategy" does not include senseless and unnecessary harm caused to one's own troops. The terms "negligence" and "homicide" would be far more appropriate to these situations.

Make them pay. The entire "war on terror" has been a sham from start to finish, should it ever have an end. We should NOT be letting warmongers and profiteers drive our foreign policy and military strategy. Trump is right in trying to shut them down. It's one of the reasons he got elected in the first place:

https://news.antiwar.com/2018/12/21/elites-united-in-panic-over-syria-pullout-afghanistan-drawdown/

The Creeping Threat From AI

Here is an example of the creeping threat AI poses to all of us. This one comes from Amazon:

'Kill your foster parents': Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment

You can read all about it here:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-alexa-insight/kill-your-foster-parents-amazons-alexa-talks-murder-sex-in-ai-experiment-idUSKCN1OK1AJ

"Experiment"? What kind of BS is that?

Anyone running "experiments" like this should be locked up for the public good. Instead they're earning big bucks from dreaming up crap like this.

Senatorial Foolishness

The US Senate cannot agree on border security, foreign policy, or even how to fund our bloated government.

But there is one thing the Senators apparently CAN agree on - the necessity of kowtowing to the wants and needs of Israel:

https://truthout.org/articles/senators-try-to-sneak-anti-bds-measure-into-last-minute-spending-bill/

What a pathetic spectacle.

FIX AMERICA FIRST !!! Then if any money is left pay down our debt.

Ridiculous Claim Of The Day - 12/20/2018

Here it is (first published yesterday):

If more people in the US become aware of the truth about Israel’s genocidal policies, the economic lifeline and political protection of the United States will disappear. Israel could be forced to make significant changes that recognize the human rights and self-determination of Palestinians.

Source - https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/12/israel-ethnic-cleansing-land-theft-apartheid-and-jim-crow/

America's "leadership" (if that's what it should be called) is imprisoned in the Zionist narrative. Nothing, not even an armed uprising of We the People, would make any difference at all to them.

In spite of our apparent headlong rush to reject G-d and embrace Satan (actually in concert with them), our nation has tied itself at the hip with Israel in a quest to bring about the Kingdom of G-d. Nothing is going to change that, not even the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians (should such a thing come to pass).

Read the Book of Revelation. You may not believe what it says, but it is the map to the road we are now on.

Voting Is Just A Personality Contest

Apparently our US Representatives think they can change parties whenever they want:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-more-moderate-kansas-gop-legislators-defect-democrats-222200853.html

Would they have been elected as Democrats? No way to tell, but switching AFTER the election is a rotten betrayal of people who DID vote for them.

Face it - NO ONE in government is really accountable, except to the money bags who influence and/or steal every single election.

Try writing to your Senator or Representative on some issue. Chances are you'll get a form letter back telling you that your concerns have fallen on deaf ears.

Why Do We Need A Space Force ???

Here is a US "space force" recruitment video:

https://youtu.be/s-BgOyfTUfk

Why do we need such a force? Who is the "enemy" - other nations, ETs, or the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?

Holy War In Ukraine

The recent schism in the Orthodox Church may soon result in the expulsion of thousands of Christians from Ukraine. You can read about it here:

https://russian-faith.com/orthodox-church-should-flee-country-says-ukrainian-president-n1847

This "schism" most likely was cooked up in the USA and is almost certainly supported by Uncle Sam as a weapon against Russia. So ask yourself this - why is the United States AGAIN persecuting Christianity?

Wake up. The USA is becoming an agent of Satan. Some day soon its powers will be directed against ALL churches, both abroad and here in the US.

Yes, Our Colleges Are Broken

After a two-year battle, the Los Angeles Community College District has agreed to abolish a policy that limited student expression to “free speech zones,” available only through application.

Pierce College student Kevin Shaw was handing out Spanish-language copies of the U.S. Constitution in November 2016 when an administrator told him that he would have to confine his activity to the school’s “free speech zone.” The school told Shaw that he would have to apply for access to the 616-square foot zone and that his failure to comply would result in his removal from campus.

You can read the rest @
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11652

Our colleges and universities are run by Bolsheviks, Nazis, and morons.

Even worse, the kids matriculating at these institutions will soon be running the country.

The end is nigh.

An Israeli Finally Tells The Truth

Chair of the Defence Committee at the Israeli Parliament Avi Dichter has called for killing all the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

As he was commenting on the peaceful protests of the Great March of Return taking place along the eastern fence of the Gaza Strip, he said: "The Israeli army has enough bullets for every Palestinian."

You can read the rest @
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50806.htm

Tell me again - why are we still supporting these people?

Giving Money To Ukraine

You can read about it here:

https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2018/12/19/iwf-vergibt-milliarden-kredite-ukraine/ [translation required]

Would Dominique Strauss-Kahn have supported doing this? If no, is this the reason he was set up and deposed as head of the IMF?

Here Is Why The US Will Stay Broken

The status quo has a simple fix for every crisis and systemic problem:

1. create currency out of thin air

2. give it to super-wealthy banks, financiers and corporations to boost their wealth and income.

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You see the problem: making rich people richer doesn’t actually fix what’s broken, it only makes the problems worse. So why can’t we fix what’s broken?

It’s a question that deserves an answer, and the answer has six parts:

1. Any meaningful systemic reform threatens an entrenched, self-serving interest/elite which has a tremendous incentive to squash, co-opt or water down any reform that threatens their monopoly, benefits, etc.

2. It’s far cheaper in cash and political capital to block something than it is to push through a reform that reduces the skims and scams of entrenched, self-serving interests.

3. Entrenched, self-serving elites are disconnected from the real world of the commoners; they live in protective bubbles, from you-can’t-fire-me job security to gold-plated healthcare to generous pensions to access to central bank credit lines– all of which is unavailable to the commoners wearing yellow vests. As a result, their grasp of the real problems is unrealistic, as the real-world experience of the bottom 90% is an abstraction.

4. Entrenched, self-serving elites are protected from the disastrous consequences of their policies and self-serving greed. In Taleb’s terminology, they have no skin in the game: policies can be complete failures but nobody’s fired, and nobody’s pay is cut.

5. The Neofeudal “fix” to all crises, and social and financial problems – enriching the already rich and empowering the already powerful – signals the entrenched elites that the system is working just fine: if it’s working great for me and my cronies, so clearly it’s working great for everyone.

6. The corporate media and the social media giants are entrenched interests, and so it serves their interests to ceaselessly promote the status quo Neofeudalism as the cat’s meow and marginalize dissenters, skeptics and reformers.

You can read the rest @
https://washingtonsblog.com/2018/12/why-everything-that-needs-to-be-fixed-remains-permanently-broken.html

And to reinforce these facts, the Financial Times has just named George Soros "person of the year".

What a screwed up world !!!

The Green New Deal ???

"Meet the new boss; same as the old boss."

Pete Townsend

There is nothing “progressive” about the Ocasio-Cortez-promoted “New Green Deal,” which is little more than an industry-driven, neoliberal solution that will not solve issues like climate change and poverty but instead empower their underlying cause: U.S. oligarchy.

You can read the rest @
https://www.mintpressnews.com/corporations-see-a-different-kind-of-green-in-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal/253076/

SSDD. This "new" Congress ain't gonna save us, either.

US Pulling Out Of Syria ???

In a surprise move, President Trump has declared victory over ISIS in Syria, and the White House has confirmed that a complete withdrawal of US military forces from Syria has been ordered. Officials also say the State Department will be withdrawn in the next 24 hours.

This would see an estimated 2,000 US troops pulled from Syria, which comes after many months of Pentagon officials positioning the military presence as a very long-term one. No one seems to have anticipated this announcement.

In the immediate lead-up to the announcement, however, the Trump Administration has been telegraphing a post-war mindset a bit, with special envoy James Jeffrey confirming earlier this week that the US accepts Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is staying in office.

You can read the rest @
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/12/19/white-house-announces-full-withdrawal-from-syria/

Assuming this is not just a bad joke, it's about time. Hopefully Trump also will stop arming and funding all of our proxies in Syria, too.

So ... other than doing Israel's bidding and helping to destabilize the EU, what did we accomplish in Syria?