Quote For The Day - 01/31/2018

"Question the media and you're a conspiracy kook. Criticize the government and you're a Russian agent. Oppose war and you're anti-American. Defend Palestinians and you're an anti-Semite. Good is bad. Up is down. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

Caitlin Johnstone

Amen.

Central Banks Shedding US Dollar

The share of euro and yuan in the currency reserves of large central banks is increasing noticeably. Observers expect further exchange rate losses of the dollar.

You can read the rest @
https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2018/01/31/schwacher-dollar-notenbanken-verringern-waehrungs-reserven/ [translation required]

When the dollar crashes, so will everything else in the US.

And if you think "our" government is dysfunctional now, wait until the dollar crashes. The shit will REALLY hit the fan when that happens.

Social Disorder Is Inevitable

Anyone paying even a mediocre amount of attention to what’s going in the United States is aware that the country is on a path that is unsustainable.  That unsustainability will inevitably lead to social disorder that could have the US looking a lot like Venezuela.

You can read the rest @
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-path-the-us-is-on-is-unsustainable-which-will-inevitably-lead-to-social-disorder_01312018

That being said, is anyone aware of any initiative by the Davos Mafia to prevent this from happening? I'm not. They're certainly NOT going to share their power and privilege with We The People ... not now, not ever. What then is their plan? I'd really like to know.

One thing I DO know is that the powers that be do not appear to have any of the tools needed to feed, clothe, or house us, but they do have all the tools necessary to spy upon and kill us.

Ford To Produce Robot Police Cars ???

Apparently, stalwart all-American company – Ford – is prepared to help usher in the technocratic police state to the (diminishing) land of the free.

Business Insider is reporting on a partnership that Ford has established with the U.S. government that granted the company a patent for autonomous police vehicles.  Of course the issuance of a patent does not necessarily mean that it’s guaranteed to become reality, but given the stature of the company and Americans’ increasing penchant for giving up liberty for the promise of security, it should not be dismissed.

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/01/new-ford-patent-highlights-future-robot-police-cars.html

I think Henry Ford would have approved of this. Wasn't he an admirer of Adolf Hitler?

https://www.thenation.com/article/ford-and-fuhrer/

Whatever the case, autonomous killer robots will soon be a reality. Whether they're brought here by Ford, the US military, or the Israelis really does not matter. They'll be just as deadly no matter who makes them or why.

3D Printing For Amputees

This is a GREAT idea:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/3d-printing-offers-new-hope-to-amputees-a-1190564.html

Hope it works out.

Who Built The Boston Marathon Bombs ???

Hint: It may not have been the Tsarnaev brothers:

http://www.newsweek.com/2018/01/19/boston-marathon-bomb-maker-loose-776742.html

So, why isn't this person in jail?

By the way, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols also had help building the OKC bomb. That person isn't in jail, either.

What is it with the FBI? They have left far too many incomplete investigations in their wake. You can read about some of them here:

https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/04/fbi-still-disconnecting-all-dots.html

In all these and several other instances, they owe us more than just "closing the case", don't you think?

Famine In The Fertile Crescent

As you may be aware, thanks to the US invasion of Iraq that country no longer can feed its people. You can read about what happened here:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/henry-kissingers-food-occupation-of-iraq-continues-to-destroy-the-fertile-crescent/5627732

From the perspective of the Iraqis, the US has brought down upon them the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:

And I looked, and behold a pale [green] horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Revelation 6:8 KJV

[Note: Although the color of the fourth horse usually is translated into English as "pale", the correct translation is "pale green", which just happens to be the color of the Statue of Liberty. This is key to understanding what is happening in the Middle East and the world.]

Priorities Of The MSM

It looks like the Huffington Post has blown the lid off a case involving neo-Nazis. You can read about it here:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nicholas-giampa-neo-nazi-teenager-murder-girlfriends-parents-virginia_us_5a4d0797e4b0b0e5a7aa4780

And yet neither they nor other members of the MSM seem to give a damn about what has been called the largest case of charity fraud in US history. You can read about that here:

https://pittsburgh.forums.rivals.com/threads/harvard-analyst-calls-clinton-foundation-largest-charity-fraud-in-history.113664/

Yes, neo-Nazis are big news, but somehow the Clinton Crime Family continually gets a pass which allows them to stay on the down low.

Why is that?

Rich Millenials, Poor Baby Boomers

According to this report, rich millenials want big, expensive homes:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/what-rich-millennials-want-in-a-luxury-home-20-000-square-feet

On the other side of the tracks, many baby boomers are headed for homelessness:

https://www.kcet.org/shows/socal-connected/aging-baby-boomers-heading-for-homelessness

Yes, our system is screwed up. No, it's not because of Trump. Yes, it's because of selfish rich people and those who seek to join their ranks.

Our Unelected Electoral College

They say in the US that the "Electoral College" chooses our Presidents. At one time this may have been true. The original US Constitution contained these provisions:

Article II, Section 1

1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows

2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

3: The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.

I always thought the so-called Electoral College was created to ensure the sovereign states would select the very best persons available to be our President and Vice President. Note that Clause 2 above leaves it to the states to determine how "their" electors are chosen, and that the original Clause 3 implies each elector can vote for anyone he or she chooses.

But now we have a bastardized system, thanks in part to the 12th Amendment, in which We The People vote for presidential candidates along party lines and in which most electors are bound by law to vote for their state's "winners" in the general election.

Many are now whining because they don't understand how Donald Trump, a man they believe is unfit to be President, won that office in 2016 via the bastardized Electoral College system. Here is a pre-election news report on that topic:

Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.

The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump. (The meeting was not planned to be a strategy session on how to stop the GOP front-runner, but rather evolved into one, as a subsequently obtained agenda makes clear.)

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he “cannot support Donald Trump.”

You can read the rest @
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d

Note well the meeting attendees are NOT members of the official Electoral College. But their influence and support has been crucial to the "resistance", the mass of people now protesting Trump's election and sabotaging his presidency. In fact, one could argue that Tim Cook, Larry Page, Sean Parker, Elon Musk, and their ilk are "our" real unelected Electoral College. They almost succeeded in derailing Trump's chances for election, and they definitely are succeeding in wrecking his presidency. And it's very likely they will decide who becomes the next President as well.

Rich people and large political parties have a long history of being destructive to democracy in the USA. Perhaps restoring the original intent and rules for the Electoral College would not stop them from influencing our elections, but shouldn't we at least try?

Let's repeal the 12th Amendment to the US Constitution and restore the old school method for selecting the US President. I am confident such a move would not yield any worse result than that of the election we just had.

Can Hezbollah Destroy IDF ???

That is the claim being made by Hezbollah:

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hezbollah-official-warns-terror-group-can-destroy-Israeli-army-540111

I find that EXTREMELY hard to believe, since Hezbollah has neither an air force nor nuclear weapons.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Let's All Move To Stockton

Stockton CA may become the promised land if this initiative goes through:

“I feel that as mayor it’s my responsibility to do all I could to begin figuring out what’s the best way to make sure that folks in our community have a real economic floor,” [Michael] Tubbs said.

Tubbs is coordinating an effort to test a new way to sustain residents: universal basic income, or UBI. For one year, several dozen Stockton families will get $500 a month, no strings attached.

Dorian Warren co-chairs the Economic Security Project, which is contributing $1 million to the initiative. He said the goal is to gather data on the economic and social impacts of giving people a basic income.

In addition to tracking what residents do with the money, Warren said they will be monitoring how a basic income affects things like self-esteem and identity.

You can read the rest @
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/22/stockton-gets-ready-to-experiment-with-universal-basic-income/

How does free money affect self-esteem and identity? We already know the answer ... it turns us into lazy bums.

There are two things which I am convinced will NOT solve our economic problems:

1. universal basic income; and
2. an economy based upon ANY sort of fantasy.

The former has no economic underpinnings, and the latter generates money mostly for the one percent.

Face it - we have lost our way.

Why Is US Still In Syria ???

Seldom has an important new US foreign policy crashed in flames so quickly and so spectacularly, achieving the very opposite results to those intended.

It was only ten days ago that the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson unexpectedly announced that American military forces would remain in Syria after the defeat of Isis. Their agenda was nothing if not ambitious: it included the stabilisation of the country, getting rid of Bashar al-Assad, rolling back Iranian influence, preventing the resurgence of Isis and bringing an end to the seven-year Syrian war. Tillerson did not seem to care that this new departure was sure to offend a lot of powerful players in and around Syria and was quite contrary to past US pledges that it was only fighting in Syria to defeat Isis and had no other aims.

In effect, the US was reversing its old policy of trying to keep its distance from the Syrian quagmire and was blithely plunging into one of the messiest civil wars in history.

You can read the rest @
http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/by-remaining-in-syria-the-us-is-fuelling-more-wars-in-the-middle-east/

Seldom has the underlying issue been a "civil war". Like almost every other US intervention, we are there to overthrow the existing government.

The difference this time is delusional thinking about the End Times. That's why Trump wants to move our embassy to Jerusalem, and why we'll stay in Syria until the Battle of Armageddon.

Was Stephen Paddock Just A Patsy ???

Take a look at these two reports:

(1) Paddock apparently didn't ask to be assigned to the room alleged to have been used for the shooting. Who changed his room assignment?

https://www.intellihub.com/stephen-paddock-requested-a-suite-on-another-wing-before-being-internally-reassigned-to-32-135/

(2) FBI apparently was spotted in an adjacent room just after the shooting. How did they get there so quickly?

https://www.intellihub.com/confirmed-fbi-spotted-inside-mandalay-bay-room-32-132-after-shooting/

Connecting these two dots makes it seem probable the shooting was "an inside job" with Paddock as the proverbial patsy.

Considering everything we recently have learned about the FBI, is this theory all that unreasonable? I think not.

Does The Intercept Hate Men ???

This report suggests that war movies portray "outdated models of masculinity":

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/27/12-strong-war-movies-masculinity/

Outdated by whose standards?

If We The People didn't approve of such models, we would not watch these movies. The only acceptable judge of gender models is We The People, and we'll let you know when we're ready for a change.

By the way, is watching Wonder Woman beat up people any less "outdated" than watching men do essentially the same thing?

Does FBI Have ANY Credibility ???

Read this, then decide for yourself:

In November 2015, the Free Thought Project reported that Mikhail Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government, and the founder of Russia Today (RT), was found dead in the hotel room that he was staying at in Washington DC.

Originally, authorities announced that Lesin died from a heart attack. However, the results of his autopsy released months later indicated a far more sinister cause of death and the heavily redacted FBI documents that were just released add to that story.

The documents, detailing the FBI investigation into Lesin’s death were just released Saturday morning in spite of the investigation ending in October of 2016.

In spite of the original cause of death noted as a heart attack, a few months later, the District of Colombia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) and Metropolitan Police Department said that “blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities” contributed to Lesin’s death. “The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has released the cause and manner of death for Mikhail Lesin ... Cause of Death: blunt force injuries of the head,” the statement said.

Now, FBI investigators have released the results of their investigation claiming that the blunt force trauma all over his body was self-inflicted.

You can read the rest @
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/breaking-fbi-releases-docs-claiming-rt-founder-beat-himself-to-death-in-his-hotel-room_01272018

WTF ???

Facebook Only Cares About Facebook

That is the claim made in this essay:

Whatever Mark Zuckerberg says about human community or his legacy, his company is acting in its own interests - and against the public good.

You can read the rest @
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/facebook-doesnt-care/551684/

Should this be true, and I believe it is, Facebook's corporate charter(s) should be declared null and void. Corporations can be expected to act in their own best interests, but when those interests go against the public good We The People should no longer sanction such corporations.

Shut them down, and seize their assets.

A Vast Gulf Between Them

Here is what Israelis can enjoy:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Photo-tour-Central-Arava-Hot-Spots-540012

But here is what the Palestinians got:

http://graphics.wsj.com/gaza-surveying-destruction/

This is something with which most in the US can readily identify, since it's more or less exactly what our ancestors did to native Americans.

I don't think G-d approves of the outcome in either case. Do you?

Rich Germans, Poor Germans

Germany has a wealth imbalance problem, too:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/inquality-and-wealth-distribution-in-germany-a-1190050.html

In a REAL Christian community, such a thing would not exist:

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

Acts 4:32 KJV

By the way, is this phrase ("of one heart and of one soul") the equivalent of "e pluribus unum"? Perhaps it was intended to be, but think about how far we have strayed from the ways of the apostles of Jesus. Most in the US would consider such a wealth-sharing arrangement to be a scam instead of realizing it's exactly what Jesus wanted us to do.

One Of The Dumbest OpEds I've Ever Read

Here is the opinion of someone who appears to think Christianity is funny:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2018/01/24/the-new-and-improved-bible-for-evangelical-trump-supporters/

It seems to confirm this prediction:

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Matthew 10:22 KJV

Will Trump Nuke North Korea ???

With all other signs of tensions on the Korean Peninsula on the decline, the US is stepping up its deployment of nuclear-capable bombers and general firepower to the airbase at Guam.

This is further fueling speculation that the US is preparing itself for the long-speculated sneak attack on North Korea, and that such a sneak attack could involve B-61 gravity bombs as part of a tactical nuclear strike.

You can read the rest @
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/01/26/us-bombers-in-guam-seen-readying-for-tactical-nuclear-strike-on-north-korea/

If he does, he should immediately be impeached and put in jail ... or the nut house.

The US needs DIPLOMATS, not more nutty generals. This tiff with NK would solve itself if the US would just get out of the way.

Is There A False Flag UFO Invasion In Our Future ???

"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an "extraterrestrial" invasion], whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."

Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

Source - https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/kissingers-very-strange-remarks.8651/

There is another way to look at this. Chapter 19 of the Book of Revelation foretells just such an "extraterrestrial invasion":

11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.

Are we being readied to repel an ET invasion, or to fight against Jesus Christ when He returns to earth to punish the wicked?

What do you think?

Yes, Hillary Got Special Treatment From FBI

You can read about it here:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-26/fbi-mulled-special-counsel-hillary-email-probe-feared-her-wrath-new-texts-reveal

Dear FBI - So ... you would rather have a suspected serial felon elected to the presidency than do your job and carry out the laws of our nation?

Pitiful !!!

PayPal Hates BDS

PayPal closed its account with one of France's most powerful boycott Israel organizations  — The Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS) — The Jerusalem Post learned on Friday.

You can read the rest @
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Exclusive-PayPal-shuts-account-of-French-BDS-organization-539922

Yes, it's OK to BDS the Palestinians, but ya better keep yer hands off Israel.

Does any of this seem fair to you?

Worst US States To Live In ???

You can find your state on this map. How did it do?

Source - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5315457/Rhode-Island-Connecticut-Illinois-worst-states.html

I'm in the great state of Texas and doing just fine.

Except for all the allergies.

TPP - Yet Another Trump Betrayal

US President Donald Trump has told US news network CNBC that he could rethink his withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership if the member nations could offer the US a better deal.

You can read the rest @
http://thebricspost.com/trump-signals-may-reconsider-tpp-for-better-deal/#.Wmtj3Wnwapo

Is this man nuts? What does he think he's doing?

There is no better deal.

Jeez !!!

Is War With Turkey Next ???

US-Turkey tensions mounting surrounding the Turkish invasion of the Syrian Kurdish Afrin District look to be getting much worse, with Turkey’s deputy premier Bekir Bozdag warning that the US is the one risking confrontation by supporting the Kurds.

Bozdag warned the US needs to “review its soldiers and elements giving support to terrorists on the ground,” and that US forces who continue to support the Kurdish YPG, which Turkey considers terrorists “will become a target in this battle.”

The US isn’t believed to have any serious forces inside Afrin District, which Turkey is presently invading. Turkey’s President Erdogan, however, says they will attack Manbij next, and there are a substantial number of US troops deployed there.

You can read the rest @
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/01/25/turkey-us-troops-will-become-a-target-if-they-dont-stop-supporting-syria-kurds/

Well THIS will be interesting. I think Turkey is serious, so exactly what are Trump and the Pentagon planning to do?

Dear Trump - Please STOP taking advice from the Israelis. And please STOP wasting US blood and treasure for the benefit of Greater Israel.

Rewarding Failure At MSU ???

In addition to those sports-related perks, [former MSU President Lou Anna] Simon will get even more employment and salary benefits. Simon has the option of returning to the MSU faculty (she received her PhD in education from MSU in 1974), and once you get a load of her salary, you’ll see why that’s a no-brainer. If she does choose to return to a faculty position, she’ll immediately get a 12-month research leave, during which she’ll be paid her presidential salary of $750,000. Once she returns from that research leave, her salary will again be $750,000 for her first year. After that, she gets 75% of that salary (around $562,500) for two years.

You can read the rest @
https://sports.yahoo.com/msus-former-president-gets-insane-perks-resignation-202812557.html

I suspect that Ms. Simon may have been totally unaware of the abuse going on in MSU's sports programs.

However, the above numbers reveal one of the many things which have gone wrong at our colleges and universities. Is ANY administrator worth that kind of money? I doubt it.

Relying On Social Security

Here are the top ten cities whose residents rely on Social Security:

Source - https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/states-americans-rely-social-security-144611580.html

Dear Congress - Hands off Social Security, unless you want to do something to bolster its financial soundness.

Lester Holt On North Korea

Lester Holt has left NK and apparently now feels free to tell the truth:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nbcs-holt-says-approached-north-korea-eyes-open-151901442.html

Dear Lester - I doubt you or any other Western journalist really knows what it's like to live in NK.

We've all heard about what happened to Otto Warmbier, and yes it was horrible:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-northkorea-detainee/u-s-student-held-in-north-korea-died-of-oxygen-starved-brain-coroner-idUSKCN1C22XM

But how many people know about Dornella Conner, who lost an eye when St. Louis police shot her in the face?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pregnant-woman-loses-eye-after-st-louis-cops-shoot-bean-n257876

Or how many of us care about those who were needlessly killed by US police?

NK may not be a great place, but it probably would be as prosperous as South Korea if the US had not messed with them in the first place.

Just saying, Lester.

Is Trump Right About Africa ???

Here is an opinion piece by Karin McQuillan, a former Peace Corps participant:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/what_i_learned_in_peace_corps_in_africa_trump_is_right.html

Q: If the US system is so wonderful that it must be imposed upon the rest of the world, by force if necessary, then how could it be wrong for President Trump to want to defend it at home?

A: The real answer is that Trump's detractors, far from loving the US actually HATE everything about it. They don't want democracy abroad any more than they want it at home. They're just angry that their government stooges are being replaced with Trump's government stooges.

Did Obama Disrespect Blacks ???

That's the claim made in this report:

Obama, Being Black, Was Perfectly Suited to Deliver the Racist Message

As a result of his complexion, Obama was given a pass for his racial demagoguery, similar to conservatives forgiving Richard Nixon for his entreaties to China. In a sense, only the impeccably anti-communist Nixon could go to China and, in that same sense, only the phenotypically black Obama could safely disrespect blacks with such vitriol.

You can read the rest @
https://www.mintpressnews.com/obama-being-black-was-perfectly-suited-to-deliver-the-racist-message/236721/

Whether it was him or someone else, the fires of racism are being stoked. The result is likely to be breakup of the US.

You didn't think the powers that be were after "justice", did you?

More Lost Generations ???

According to the IMF, young Europeans belong to the "lost generation":

https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2018/01/24/iwf-junge-europaeer-gehoeren-verlorener-generation/ [translation required]

Note they are lost primarily due to reasons related to finances and money.

What's going to happen when robots and AI take away their remaining jobs? They won't merely be "lost", they'll literally be the walking dead.

And the same phenomenon is occurring in the US and around the world.

In The US, Everything Starts With A Lie

What is your take on this podcast entitled "first they came for the immigrants"?

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/24/intercepted-podcast-first-they-came-for-the-immigrants/

It appears to be patterned after the famous quotation from Martin Niemöller which begins "first they came for the socialists".

There is a BIG difference between then and now. In Niemöller's Germany, people were rounded up strictly for political reasons, while the immigrants Trump is "coming for" have broken pre-existing laws and regulations.

And as we are told again and again, ignorance of the law is no excuse.

I'm not certain what the US is turning into, but it sure seems to be a wretched mess.

Rot In The FBI

During the financial crisis, the federal government bailed out banks it declared “too big to fail.” Fearing their bankruptcy might trigger economic Armageddon, the feds propped them up with taxpayer cash.

Something similar is happening now at the FBI, with the Washington wagons circling the agency to protect it from charges of corruption. This time, the appropriate tag line is “too big to believe.”

Yet each day brings credible reports suggesting there is a massive scandal involving the top ranks of America’s premier law enforcement agency. The reports, which feature talk among agents of a “secret society” and suddenly missing text messages, point to the existence both of a cabal dedicated to defeating Donald Trump in 2016 and of a plan to let Hillary Clinton skate free in the classified email probe.

If either one is true — and I believe both probably are — it would mean FBI leaders betrayed the nation by abusing their powers in a bid to pick the president.

More support for this view involves the FBI’s use of the Russian dossier on Trump that was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. It is almost certain that the FBI used the dossier to get FISA court warrants to spy on Trump associates, meaning it used the opposition research of the party in power to convince a court to let it spy on the candidate of the other party — likely without telling the court of the dossier’s political link.

Even worse, there is growing reason to believe someone in President Barack Obama’s administration turned over classified information about Trump to the Clinton campaign.

As one former federal prosecutor put it, “It doesn’t get worse than that.” That prosecutor, Joseph ­diGenova, believes Trump was correct when he claimed Obama aides wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower.

These and other elements combine to make a toxic brew that smells to high heaven, but most Americans don’t know much about it. Mainstream media coverage has been sparse and dismissive and there’s a blackout from the same Democrats obsessed with Russia, Russia, Russia.

Partisan motives aside, it’s as if a scandal of this magnitude is more than America can bear — so let’s pretend there’s nothing to see and move along.

You can read the rest @
https://nypost.com/2018/01/23/evidence-suggests-a-massive-scandal-is-brewing-at-the-fbi/

DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS !!!

These people and their accomplices are destroying our nation. They MUST be rooted out and appropriately punished.

The Kill Chain

This is murder, not war.

General Robert E. Lee

Welcome to the world of drone "warfare":

In a dimly lit room at McConnell air force base in south central Kansas, analysts from a national guard intelligence reconnaissance surveillance group watch live drone surveillance video coming from war zones in the Middle East.

During combat, the analysts become part of a “kill chain” – analyzing live drone video, then communicating what they see – in instant-message chat with jet fighter pilots, operators of armed Predator and Reaper drones, and ground troops.

They carry out drone warfare while sitting thousands of miles from battlefields. They don’t fly the drones and don’t fire the missiles. They video-stalk enemy combatants, and tell warfighters what they see. The work, they say, helps kill terrorists, including from Isis.

The group does this work in the middle of America, at an air base surrounded by flat cow pastures and soybean fields. The 184th Intelligence Wing of the Kansas air national guard, started this work about 2002. Until last year, most people in Kansas knew nothing about their role in drone warfare.

You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/23/the-kill-chain-inside-the-unit-that-tracks-targets-for-us-drone-wars

I have been under military command, and at the time I'm certain I would have followed my orders.

That said, I no longer think that what we are doing is morally justified, and it certainly is not making the world a safer place.

How To Fix Your Coral Reef

You may have noticed that Australia is seeking ideas for how their Great Barrier Reef can be saved. If not, you can read about it here:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/australia-great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-conservation-competition-spd/

I strongly suggest they visit Cuba, to learn why Cuban reefs are thriving:

https://www.epochalips.com/2017/12/snorkeling-the-healthy-coral-reefs-of-cuba/

Here's the short version why this is so - the Davos Mafia has not yet descended on Cuba. Once they do, the Cuban reefs also will die.

Yes, it is DEVELOPMENT which is destroying the earth.

Is there a solution? Short of jailing the Davos Mafia to stop their plundering of our world I doubt there is one.

Do Good People Own Private Jets ???

Many members of the Davos Mafia arrive by private jet:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-23/air-charter-company-more-1000-private-jets-will-descend-davos

Do you know any "good" people who own a private jet? I don't.

One really has to LOVE money to own a private jet, and we all know the love of money is the root of all evil.

Don't let these people fool you. I doubt they care whether we live or die, as long as they continue to enjoy their wealth and privilege.

How Big Is Global Drug Trade ???

You can find a larger version of this graphic and read all about it here:

http://www.top-criminal-justice-schools.net/drug-trade

Q: Which US politicians are getting the largest cut of this money?

A: I would guess it's the most successful ones.

Is There An Anti-Trump Cabal In FBI ???

That is the claim made in this report:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-22/fbi-agents-discussed-secret-society-within-doj-and-fbi-working-undermine-trump

If this is true, they should be fired and prosecuted.

And so, apparently, should many of the people over at the NSA:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2018/01/nsa-blackmail-agency.html

Doesn't it seem like the US government is rotten to the core?

And by the way, since according to the MSM Trump has not done anything in his first year, this rot must come from the administration of Obama ad-Dajjal ... who also should be impeached and prosecuted.

The Obama Scam

Here is a frank look at the troubling legacy of former President Obama ad-Dajjal:

Black Faces in High Places While the Nation Circles the Drain

Foreshadowed by his roots and bottle-rocket-like rise, Barack Obama’s legacy is one of betrayal and what might have been, ... From the outset, he courted and was courted by the pillars of counter-revolution, his very blackness a cloak for his Manchurian mission.

You can read the rest @
https://www.mintpressnews.com/barack-obama-roots-and-legacy-a-white-man-in-black-face/236624/

There is an important question to ask here:

Q: Why was the MSM so indifferent to Obama's endless frauds, and so focused on those of Trump?

A: Because Obama's frauds benefited the owners of the MSM, while Trump's do not.

By the way, Facebook claims it will determine whether or not news is "trustworthy" by surveying users:

https://www.myjoyonline.com/technology/2018/January-21st/facebook-to-survey-users-to-determine-trustworthy-news-sources.php

Anyone who thinks that is how to determine what is trustworthy doesn't understand what happened in Nazi Germany or why Obama ad-Dajjal was able to fool so many people. The more I read about Facebook, the more I believe that it's run by a pack of morons.

What Is The Source Of US Chaos ???

Lately, there have been many descriptions of the chaos now disrupting the US political, economic, and governing systems. Here is one of them:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/21/us-shutdown-exposes-chaotic-political-system-chinas-news-agency-says

This situation has led me to understand something for the first time; that is, how can an incoming president even hope to control the behemoth known as the US government?

Here's how - either the "deep state" (the unelected powers that be) supports the incoming president; or it doesn't.

If it supports him, he succeeds (e.g., Obama ad-Dajjal).

If it does not support him, he fails (e.g., Donald Trump).

It's got nothing to do with whether or not the president is a "stable genius", and everything to do with whether or not he or she is willing to do what the powers that be want done.

Mark Of The Beast ???

You've probably all seen these words at least once:

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Revelation 13:16-17 KJV

Will this bill in the US House of Representatives lead to a fulfillment of that prophecy?

Earlier this month, Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA-6] introduced H.R.4760 – Securing America’s Future Act of 2018, a sweeping bill that entails everything from Education and the Workforce to Homeland Security to the military. Also, tucked away in this 400-page behemoth of a bill are the details of a new biometric National ID card that could soon be required for everyone.

Not surprisingly, there is almost no media coverage on this legislation.

H.R. 4760 establishes a mandatory National Identification system that requires all Americans to carry a government-approved ID containing “biometric features.” Without this card, according to the legislation, you will not be able to work in this country.

The legislation was drafted under the auspices of providing a legislative solution for the current beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

However, as Ron Paul points out, “this bill would give DACA recipients a 3-year renewable legal status while forcing a biometric National ID card on virtually everyone else.”

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/01/congress-quietly-pushing-bill-require-national-biometric-id-americans.html

So, what's easier:

1. enforcing our national borders, or
2. putting everyone's data into government controlled computers?

Obviously the second choice will give our fascist net-state greater control and the ability to make more money from "our" data.

VP Mike Pence Grovels To Israeli Knesset

You can read about it here:

US Vice President Mike Pence was met with one standing ovation after another in the Knesset, during his speech rife with Biblical references and expressions of support for Israel and the Jewish people.

You can read the rest @
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Pence-speech-rife-with-biblical-references-rocks-the-Knesset-539461

Doesn't that remind you of how the US Congress greeted PM Netanyahu?

The US and Israel are locked in an End Times spiral. If you'd like to know where it leads, I suggest you read this book:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1&version=KJV

I'll bet Mike Pence has.

The Versace Crime Story

The latest US crime drama recreates what is alleged to be the assassination of Gianni Versace. You can read about it here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/17/assassination-gianni-versace-american-crime-story-review

I think it's interesting they call it an "assassination", but I believe they got the story line all wrong. Why? It has to do with a little known fact about Andrew Cunanan, the man who allegedly killed Lee Miglin and Gianni Versace.

With the help of the FBI, the MSM, and now Hollywood, America was led to believe that Andy went on a nation-wide killing spree, evaded capture during an intense manhunt, and finally shot himself in Miami. And we all bought it.

Only problem is that a credible eyewitness says that Andy was living in that houseboat in Miami the whole time he was supposedly out and about killing all those people.

In my opinion, Gianni was assassinated all right, but not by Andrew Cunanan. His murder and the murder of Lee Miglin were mob hits. I have no idea which mob(s) or the reasons for their deaths, but when the entire "establishment" gets together to cover something up, it usually points in the same direction.

[Hint: Read this post and perhaps you'll figure it out for yourself - https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-apotex-teva-connection.html]

Can We Get Any Poorer ???

Here is why there no longer is any "American dream", and it's not Trump's fault:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/01/22/vast-majority-new-wealth-last-year-went-top-1/1051947001/

Greed and selfishness - the REAL American way.

Has FBI Been Destroying Evidence ???

What the heck is going on over at the FBI?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-21/fbi-loses-five-months-text-messages-between-anti-trump-agents-blames-glitch

This follows yesterday's revelation that the NSA also destroyed evidence which they should have preserved:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-20/nsa-sincerely-regrets-deleting-all-bush-era-surveillance-data-it-was-ordered

If I were Trump, I'd call out the National Guard and secure all records at the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. Enough already with all these "disappearing" files.

Our national government is out of control, people.