Israel Is Now An Establishment Of Religion

With the passage of the Jewish Nation-State Law, Israel is now "an establishment of religion".

The US Constitution says this about such an entity:

First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ...

I submit this means the US should neither recognize nor impede Israel. We should have no dealings with them at all.

And we certainly should not send them any more money or weapons.

Or is this to be yet another example of how our constitution no longer means anything?

Sentenced To Prison For A Poem

Israel has sentenced a Palestinian poet named Dareen Tatours to five months in prison for "inciting terrorism". You can find the poem she wrote which resulted in this punishment here:

https://arablit.org/2016/04/27/the-poem-for-which-dareen-tatours-under-house-arrest-resist-my-people-resist-them/

I find her poem to be no more inciting than the words of essays written by Thomas Paine and others during the American Revolution.

But that was then, and today the people of the United States are cowards who bomb helpless fish in a barrel and call it bravery, while failing to recognize the injustice of the punishments meted out to people who are fighting for their very existence.

Shame on you, America. You have lost your way.

Or do you think this is what G-d wants you to do?

Jeff Bezos' Space Plans

When Jeffrey Preston Bezos graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High in 1982, he had big plans to change the world.

The valedictorian, National Merit Scholar and Silver Knight award winner for science told the Miami Herald he wanted to "build space hotels, amusement parks, yachts and colonies for two or three million people orbiting around the earth."

Eventually, his grand plan included getting everybody off the blue planet and turning it into a big park of sorts.

You can read the rest @
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article1953866.html

With the technology available in the foreseeable future, Mr. Bezos might be able to create something like the orbiting space palace seen in the movie Elysium; i.e., a place for the hyper-rich to escape the mess we're creating on this planet.

The only method available for him to get everybody else "off the blue planet" would be to kill them.

If you have any doubt concerning what actually may happen, just take a look at how companies like Amazon, Apple, Tesla, etc. appear to treat their employees and contractors - in many cases worse than dogs.

Pissing Our Lives Away

According to the first-quarter 2018 Nielsen Total Audience Report, nearly half an adults’ day is dedicated to consuming this content. In fact, American adults spend over 11 hours per day listening to, watching, reading or generally interacting with media.

You can read the rest @
http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2018/time-flies-us-adults-now-spend-nearly-half-a-day-interacting-with-media.html

This represents a colossal waste of time.

Maybe if we spent that time doing our jobs the Chinese and the Russians wouldn't be kicking our butts.

Further Facebook Follies

Here is the latest electoral BS from Zuck and crew:

Facebook said it has uncovered "sophisticated" efforts, possibly linked to Russia, to influence U.S. politics on its platforms.

The company said it removed 32 accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in "coordinated" political behavior and appeared to be fake. Nearly 300,000 people followed at least one of the accounts.

You can read the rest @
https://www.statesman.com/news/facebook-finds-sophisticated-efforts-disrupt-elections/Favx1pPRuixRochD6neB7L/

"Possibly linked to Russia"? Based on what evidence?

I have yet to see ANY political behavior in the US which is not fundamentally fake at some level:

• National party platforms mean nothing, containing mere platitudes designed to fool the muppets;
• Secret machinations (e.g., stealing the primaries from Bernie) overwhelm the intentions of We the People;
• Candidates forget all their promises once they are elected; and
• The deep state and the friends of Israel drive the US economy and ship of state no matter what the voters want.

Will everyone please STOP this nonsense and admit that our political process is totally screwed up? Nothing the clowns at Facebook can or will do is going to fix it.

But here are a few things which might:

• Get corporate money and the US oligarchs out of the process;
• Get the MSM out of the process (they are NOT a "free press");
• Get Hollywood out of the process;
• Get Israel out of the process (they have a FAR more disruptive influence on our elections than does Russia);
• Find some honest people to run the televised debates (should such people still exist); and
• Hold people and organizations accountable for their lies, fake birth certificates, manipulation, sabotage, and incitement to insurrection - before, during and after the elections.

Nothing less will do.

Things We Have Lost

According to Charles Hugh Smith, here are ten things we have lost over the past decade:

1. Functioning markets

2. Genuine Virtue

3. Civility

4. Trust

5. Social mobility for the masses

6. Federal law enforcement and national security agencies that were above partisan politics

7. A democratizing Internet

8. National purpose

9. Perspectives on entitlement

10. Humility

You can find the details @
http://washingtonsblog.com/2018/07/heres-what-weve-lost-in-the-past-decade.html

It's going to be VERY difficult to get any of them back.

Quote For The Day - 7/31/2018

"Let me scare the shit out of you, all right? If you don’t think by the time most of you are in your mid-40s that a Terminator will appear, you’re crazy."

Mark Cuban

The Apartheid Prime Minister

Even Israelis recognize their country has become an apartheid state:

Netanyahu has given up on democracy and made it his mission to strengthen international recognition of Israel as 'the state of the Jewish people,' and their state alone.

There is someone responsible for the nation-state law and that someone is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Although he usually leaves controversial decisions to his political partners, this time Netanyahu positioned himself front and center in support of the constitutional discrimination against Israeli citizens who are not Jewish.

You can read the rest @
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/the-apartheid-prime-minister-1.6319599

Why are we still supporting these people?

Why Doesn't UK Want Christian Refugees ???

There were 1,112 Syrian refugees resettled in the UK in the first three months of the year. The Home Office now admits that there was not a single Christian among them, Premier Christian Radio reports. 

The information, including the rejection of Christian applicants, came to light following a freedom of information request by the Barnabas Fund – a charity that supports persecuted Christians.

Only Muslim refugee applicants from the war-torn country have been accepted and resettled.

You can read the rest @
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/britain-didnt-accept-a-single-christian-refugee-accepted-muslims-only/

A bit strange, no? I think the same thing is happening in the US.

Still Not Following US Constitution

Misleading essays such as this one keep whining about efforts to put a citizenship question on the US Census in 2020:

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/632847876/i-will-call-the-ag-trump-officials-pushed-for-census-citizenship-question

It should be clear to anyone who actually has READ our constitution that such a question is not only proper but also NECESSARY to carry out its directives, especially those contained in this amendment:

14th Amendment
2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

The provisions of the 14th Amendment CANNOT be satisfied without such information.

I am really getting disgusted with the BS which passes for "news" these days. You can take your NPR and stick it where the sun don't shine.

The GAFA Financial Debacle

Stocks of Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon + Netflix continue their slide, possibly on the way to losing 1/3 or more of their value:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/30/apple-and-fang-could-lose-a-third-of-value-market-watcher-warns.html

It should be noted that investors in these stocks sought mainly to enrich themselves rather than support the health of our economy or the future of our nation.

Our financial markets are SCREWED UP. Someday soon we'll see how bad.

Were The White Helmets Totally Fake ???

Read this report and decide for yourself:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-fake-rescue-scenes-by-white-helmets-in-western-media-narrative-on-syria-stage-training-scenes-published-as-real-action/5649106

This all sounds like fakery to me, and it suggests that "fake news" is not only easy to produce but also can be quite effective in producing results when you're in the business of overthrowing governments and destroying nations.

The Price For Quiet Skies ???

It appears that, once again, the government narrative that TSA surveillance and groping is needed to keep Americans safe from the terrorists “over there” is nothing but a justification to violate the rights of everyone.

Thanks to a group of federal air marshals displaying good conscience, we are now learning about a new program that shows the full web of physical and digital surveillance that is being employed by the government to track people far beyond even the dubious “terror watch list.” Not only are these marshals ready to talk – they are equipped with documents.

According to the group of marshals who first contacted the Boston Globe, the Quiet Skies program has been active since March. The group stated that immediate concern was registered when it became clear that what they were being asked to observe and document was an expansion of the established protocol of putting attention on people connected to a documented terror watch list. Their duties clearly included domestic surveillance of people who were under no formal suspicion and had no reason to be targeted other than vague behavioral observations and/or made it to the radar due to connections made by artificial intelligence programs regarding their data.

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/07/federal-whistleblowers-expose-tsa-quiet-skies-secret-surveillance-program-all-travelers.html

Meanwhile, cities and states want the feds to let "migrants" just walk across our borders unimpeded, with minimal or no security checks.

This entire situation is insane. Either we have security, or we don't. And I would say at this point that we don't.

Bezos The Cruel Overlord ???

Guardian investigation reveals numerous cases of Amazon workers being treated in ways that leave them homeless, unable to work or bereft of income after workplace accidents.

You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/accidents-at-amazon-workers-left-to-suffer-after-warehouse-injuries

Meanwhile, their big boss lives in gilded splendor.

This is what is terribly wrong with the "new economy" (and not just at Amazon). Labor has very little value; in fact, it's looked at as just another expense which must be cut to the bone (and even deeper) to enhance profits.

But you all still prefer capitalism over socialism, right?

The White Horse

A chilling simulation has revealed just how easily a new pathogen could wipe out a huge slice of the world’s population – up to 900 million people.

Researchers at John Hopkins University simulated the spread of a new illness – a new type of parainfluenza, known as Clade X.

The simulation was designed so the pathogen wasn’t markedly more dangerous than real illnesses such as SARS – and illustrates the tightrope governments tread in responding to such illnesses.

American politicians played out the scenario – which was built to be extremely realistic – where a doomsday cult released a genetically engineered virus.

By the end of the simulation in May, representing 20 months after the start of the outbreak, there were 150 million dead around the world – and no vaccine.

You can read the rest @
https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/30/pandemic-wipe-900-million-people-experts-warn-7775331/

It is likely the "doomsday cult" in question is the 0.01% (a.k.a. the rich and their accomplices). They have the means, the motive, and the opportunity to do so ... to a far greater extent than any other group.

By the way, the rider of the white horse in Revelation 6:2 represents the Greek god Apollo, who is the god of health and pestilence. There is a statue of him riding a dolphin in the lobby of the Houston (TX) Methodist Hospital:

Still Killing Children

Here are some more acts of "bravery" by the IDF:

https://news.antiwar.com/2018/07/29/israeli-forces-kill-five-gazans-including-12-year-old/

What kind of a god approves the killing of children he allegedly created?

There is something terribly wrong with the "promised land" story.

The Faces Of North Korea

Here is a short (25 minute) film and commentary on North Korea by Andre Vltchek:

https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/07/releasing-my-north-korean-documentary-film-to-my-readers/

It doesn't look like an "axis of evil" to me. What do you think?

Pricking The Filter Bubble

Here is an excellent, timely observation by James Corbett:

Recommended videos. Tailored newsfeeds. Personalized search results. Know it or not, we are increasingly living in filter bubbles that are being determined by algorithms we know nothing about. Worse than that, we are increasingly retreating into the online echo chamber bubbles of our own making. So where is this all heading and how can we steer ourselves away from this precipice? Join James for this edition of The Corbett Report podcast to find out more.

You can watch the video here:

https://www.activistpost.com/2018/07/pricking-the-filter-bubble.html

I really don't appreciate all the "recommendations" I'm getting on the Internet, especially because they confirm that everything I'm doing is being watched, recorded, and analyzed.

How about you?

Making Churches Pay Taxes ???

According to this report, US churches soon may have to pay some taxes:

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article215653425.html

Give 'em an inch, and they'll eventually tax churches out of existence.

So much for the BS creed of "separation of church and state". Face it ... official USA is a place which hates G-d. At this point in time, the only untouchable religion is Judaism.

The Car Battery Saga

Here are a few reports about the car battery business:

(1) Chinese batteries are said to be crappy:

https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2018/07/27/ende-der-blase-ein-grossteil-der-chinesischen-batterie-hersteller-steht-vor-dem-aus/ [translation required]

(2) So Germans are going to build their own:

https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2018/07/27/daimler-baut-weitere-batterie-fabriken-deutschland/ [translation required]

(3) But Elon Musk wants to build a lot of his in China:

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-tesla-next-gigafactory-china/

So much for making America great again. Oh wait - he's from South Africa. Maybe he's one of those BRICS free traders.

By the way, I'm not going to buy an electric car. In reality most of them are COAL-FIRED, which means their environmental benefits are a mirage.

You can read more about electric car hype here:

https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2017/07/hyping-electric-car.html

Falling Apart

Would any sane person choose America’s broken healthcare system over a cheaper, more effective alternative? Let’s see: the current system costs twice as much per person as the healthcare systems of our developed-world competitors, a medication to treat infantile spasms costs $8 per vial in Europe and $38,892 in the U.S., and by any broad measure, the health of the U.S. populace is declining.

This is how systems and nations fail: nobody chose the current broken system, but now it can’t be changed because the incentive structure locks in embedded processes that enrich self-serving insiders at the expense of the system, nation and its populace.

Nobody chose America’s insane healthcare system–it arose from a set ofinitial conditions that generated perverse incentives to do more of what’s failing and protect the processes that benefit insiders at the expense of everyone else.

In other words, the system that was intended to benefit all ends up benefiting the few at the expense of the many.

You can read the rest @
http://washingtonsblog.com/2018/07/heres-how-systems-and-nations-fail.html

It contains other examples of how the US is falling apart.

And don't expect the 0.01% and their collaborators to fix any of this.

Who Is Kidnapping Children In Iowa ???

A young University of Iowa student made headlines recently after she disappeared during an evening jog - but she is just one of the dozens of people who have been reported missing in Iowa in the last 10 days, and the overwhelming majority of the disappearances are children.

Mollie Tibbetts, 20, has become the latest face of the missing person database this week after she was last seen going for a jog near her boyfriend’s house on the evening of July 18, and she seemingly vanished. Dozens of people of have pitched in to help search for the college student, and as she appeared to have no motive to flee, and her closest friends and family members have cooperated with police, it raises troubling questions about whether she was abducted.

However, Tibbetts is not alone. According to the Missing Person database published by the Iowa Department of Public Safety, 48 people have gone missing in the last two weeks, and 34 of those people are children.

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It raises the question - what kind of a difference could the media make if it started focusing less on Stormy Daniels and Russia hysteria, and more on the innocent children who go missing every day in the United States?

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/07/in-just-the-last-two-weeks-dozens-of-children-in-iowa-have-vanished.html

Well, that's a bit weird.

And I agree - who gives a damn about Stormy Daniels when We the People and our families are facing several more important threats to our well-being?

Take note the children of the 0.01% are NOT being kidnapped. It's OUR kids that are.

How To Hobble An Aircraft Carrier

They can't go anywhere with a damaged reduction gear:

The Navy is asking Congress to shift $30 million from other accounts to start repairing a damaged gear on the service’s costliest warship, the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier.

The request for funds to repair the $13 billion carrier is part of a Pentagon package asking congressional approval to shift $4.7 billion in previously approved Army, Air Force and Navy funding into new programs or higher-priority projects. The package must be approved by all four congressional defense committees, where it’s pending.

The $30 million is needed to pay for repairs to the propulsion-system gear while the carrier’s builder, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., “seeks compensation from the original manufacturer for warranty defects,” Naval Sea Systems spokesman William Couch said in an email.

You can read the rest @
http://time.com/5348496/navy-aircraft-carrier-broken-gear/

Well, at least the ship is aptly named. Isn't President Ford the guy who used to fall down all the time?

https://youtu.be/mk8R4PoR9II

It's NOT About Experience

Essays such as this one claim that Trump has no experience:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-experience-necessary-trump-future-celebrity-candidate-090020274.html

I don't think that's the problem. He has no FRIENDS, and everyone is resisting or sabotaging what he is trying to do. NO ONE - not Oprah, not Hillary, not even Obama ad-Dajjal - could get anything done against the kind of treachery Trump faces at every turn.

So, if you want a "successful" president, elect one the US fascist deep state and its MSM are going to love. Of course, such a person will work for the 0.01% instead of We the People.

And by the way, I think Trump knew EXACTLY what he wanted to do. Unfortunately, since the entire global ruling class is against him he waivered, and that made them smell the blood in the water. He is failing because we allowed insurrectionists and traitors to attack him. They are the ones who deserve to have mobs confronting them when they go out to eat.

Thought For The Day - 7/28/2018

The best way for Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea to deal with Washington is to ignore Washington and go about their own business. They should fully disengage from the Western systems that are used to control them - such as the SWIFT clearing mechanism, the US based Internet, the use of the US dollar for transactions, financial balances in Western banks, acceptance of Western financed non-governmental organizations in their countries, acceptance of foreign ownership of media in their countries, acceptance of Western capital and Western banks in their economies.

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Iran should disengage entirely from the West.

Iran should seek security agreements with the Russian-Chinese alliance. Iran should use its oil wealth for a basic support system for its citizens and for investment in Russia, China, and in conjunction with China in other Asian economies. Iran should realize that its religious beliefs are internal and not for export and should focus on making Iran a successful country. Under attack as Iran is from Washington and Israel, Iran needs the support of its people, this means that Iran cannot be governed as America is and cannot afford policy that benefits only the rich and well-positioned.

Iran, like Russia, is trying to have a moral population immune to the debauchery of the West.

The question is whether the Russians and Iranians can resist the West’s debauchery and lead the way to the future.

You can read the rest @
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49941.htm

Dr. Roberts implies that we should be asking an important dual question - "Is it patriotic to blindly follow our nation's march into another unnecessary war, and is it treasonous to work toward peace even if it means the weakening of our nation?"

I don't think we can fight our way out of the mess we're in, if by "fighting" we mean being at war with just about every nation in the world. I see no "greatness" in doing that. Do you?

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran ???

As the White House convenes a policy meeting on Iran Thursday involving senior Pentagon officials and cabinet advisers under national security adviser John Bolton, and after a week of intense saber-rattling by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, a new bombshell report by Australia’s ABC says the White House is drawing up plans to strike Iran’s alleged nuclear facilities as early as next month.

"Senior figures in the Australia’s Turnbull government have told the ABC they believe the US is prepared to bomb Iran’s nuclear capability. The bombing could be as early as next month."

Crucially, Australia is part of the so-called "Five Eyes" global intelligence partners which includes the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and plays in a key role in hosting top-secret facilities that guide American spy satellites.

You can read the rest @
https://theantimedia.com/us-bomb-iran-next-month/

Remember this crap from the squealing traitor John McCain?

https://youtu.be/o-zoPgv_nYg

Bombing Iran will be the dumbest thing we will have done in the long string of stupidity stretching all the way back to 9/11.

I hope all you warmongers are prepared for what comes after, but I doubt you are.

Thought For The Day - 7/27/2018

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for an American to understand the truth.

Source - https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/07/drawing-straws-it-is-easier-for-a-camel-to-go-through-the-eye-of-a-needle-than-for-an-american-to-understand-the-truth/

This is a corollary to a statement I made years ago:

In America, the wages of truth is death.

Source - https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2012/09/in-america-wages-of-truth-is-death.html

Clearly, by refusing to seek and understand the truth we prefer death to life. When did that start, and how did it happen?

Oceans No Longer Wild

Only 13% of world’s oceans are still untouched wilderness, scientists find

"We've managed to significantly impact almost all of this vast ecosystem."

You can read the rest @
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/oceans-conservation-arctic-pacific-islands-marine-fishing-climate-change-a8465401.html

When the oceans die, this planet dies.

And our dumping of toxic and radioactive waste into them continues apace.

WAKE UP. PEOPLE !!!

Facial Recognition Screwup

The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California tested Amazon’s facial recognition software and the program erroneously and hilariously identified 28 members of Congress as people who have been arrested for crimes.

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/07/amazons-facial-rekognition-mismatches-28-lawmakers-with-criminals.html

Considering the activities and reputations of most members of Congress, I'm surprised the number wasn't higher.

By the way, the US is using methods no more accurate than this to decide whom to kill in drone strikes.

Human life means NOTHING to the US, except for the lives of the 0.01%.

Palestinians Riot On Temple Mount

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

Revelation 11:1-2 KJV

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Dozens-of-Palestinians-riot-at-Temple-Mount-following-Friday-prayers-563596

It is conceivable the Israelis could build their Third Temple without tearing down the two mosques, but what would be the point? Doing so would clearly be going against G-d's will.

Note well that reports such as the one above NEVER seem to call this place "the Noble Sanctuary" or any other name which acknowledges that it legally belongs to the Palestinians. And that is consistent with the Israeli intention to make it theirs.

To me this confirms that the two mosques WILL be torn down:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2018/07/lying-about-jerusalem.html

As far as I am concerned, any claims to the contrary are lies.

Do Unions Screw Their Workers ???

According to this report, UAW execs play loose with their workers' funds:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/27/pers-j27.html

Unions have no teeth anymore.

And in my opinion, union execs are just rats working for the 0.01%. Money has corrupted EVERYTHING in the USA.

Using College To Affirm Gender ???

Here is a report about someone using their college's student health plan to pay for gender-affirmation surgery:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/26/630619038/bill-of-the-month-a-plan-for-affordable-gender-confirmation-surgery-goes-awry

Quite inventive, but is this what college is for these days? Note the report treats the surgery itself as something routine, only complaining about how much it costs.

This is not the country I was born in. Not by a long shot.

Germany Won't Buy US LNG

The energy industry in Germany has cautiously reacted to efforts by US President Donald Trump, to export more liquid gas (LNG) to Europe. "LNG is always a price issue. And currently, the LNG supplies from the United States are not competitive compared to other sources of gas for us, "said the chief financial officer of the energy group EnBW, Thomas Kusterer, on Thursday in a conference call with journalists.

You can read the rest @
https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2018/07/26/enbw-fluessig-gas-aus-den-usa-ist-zu-teuer/ [translation required]

Whoops! There goes another potential market.

Lying About Jerusalem ???

Jerusalem Post Israel News

ABBAS'S FATAH: ISRAEL PLANNING TO DESTROY AL-AQSA MOSQUE

The Palestinians have since used the incident to revive their long-standing charge that Israel was planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to rebuild the Third Temple.

You can read the rest @
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Abbass-Fatah-Israel-planning-to-destroy-Al-Aqsa-Mosque-563525

Any rational person (and many irrational ones) ought to have the courage to admit this is EXACTLY what the Israelis plan to do. There is no other conceivable reason for them to be in Jerusalem in the first place.

And by the way, this "rumor" recently was confirmed by the US Ambassador to Israel. You can read about it here:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-only-thing-us-government-cares-about.html

For additional discussion of this issue, I refer you to the following:

https://templemountfaithful.org/

https://www.jhm.org/Articles/2017-05-01-jerusalem-jubilee

In my view, this entire issue is a prime example of how the MSM creates a false world to shield us from the truth. I urge you to remember this when the Israelis start tearing down the mosques.

Not that it will matter at that point.

The Masters Of Surveillance

A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen

In western China, Beijing is using the most modern means available to control its Uighur minority. Tens of thousands have disappeared into re-education camps.

You can read the rest @
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-province-a-surveillance-state-unlike-any-the-world-has-ever-seen-a-1220174.html

Before you breathe a sigh of relief that YOUR country is not like that, think again:

• Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. monitor everything we do;
• Surveillance cameras are popping up just about everywhere; and
• Constitutional protections have been gutted to the point of irrelevance.

Running "re-education camps" requires money. The US prefers to disappear its dissidents and to let its poor rot under a bridge somewhere. That's far more cost-effective. The true "re-education" money here goes into schools which harness our kids minds into the hive mentality which helps control the rest of us.

In Defense Of Howard Zinn

Here is what Professor Howard Zinn said after he was asked this question: “Why do you live in this country?”

I felt a pang. It was a question I knew people often had, even when it was unspoken. It was the issue of patriotism, of loyalty to one’s country, which arises again and again, whether someone is criticizing foreign policy, or evading military service, or refusing to pledge allegiance to the flag. I tried to explain that my love was for the country, for the people, not whatever government happened to be in power. To believe in democracy was to believe in the principles of the Declaration of Independence — that government is an artificial creation, established by the people to defend the equal right of everyone to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ... When a government betrays those democratic principles, it is unpatriotic. A love of democracy would then require opposing the government.

You can read the rest @
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/in-defense-of-howard-zinn/

Frankly, we need MORE Howard Zinns today, and fewer Stephen Colberts. Zinn sought to encourage people to think about their world in a constructive way. Colbert and those who chiefly MOCK the United States aren't constructing anything; on the contrary, their goal seems to be destruction.

Hatred of your country is not patriotism, even if you claim it is. And the belief "my country, right or wrong" isn't patriotism either.

The Fundamental American Lie

You have probably heard variations of these claims before:

The question before [Judge] Collyer would challenge the most gifted legal mind. At issue is the fact that America, in the wake of 9/11, has become two countries.

One is a democracy, visible to the population and governed by the lofty laws and rules and constitutional principles we learned about in "Schoolhouse Rock".

The second nation is an authoritarian state-within-a-state, governed exclusively by the executive branch. In this parallel world, all rights redound to a bureaucracy that may kill anyone it pleases at any time, restrained only by the inclinations of the executive.

Essentially, Kareem’s lawyers are appealing to the first America – Collyer’s courtroom – to force the second, secret America to hear him out.

You can read the rest @
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-to-survive-americas-kill-list-699334/

Answering this question does NOT require "the most gifted legal mind".

It should be obvious to EVERYONE that the existence of the "second nation" means the first one no longer exists.

And it will remain IMPOSSIBLE to solve this problem as long as we continue to believe such nonsense and fail to admit that "our" nation has become a murderous totalitarian dictatorship ... period.

Good Luck, Tulsi

US Representative Tulsi Gabbard wants to impeach any President who goes to war without a congressional declaration. You can read about it here:

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201807251066656739-US-Resolution-Impeach-President-War-Authorization/

Dear Tulsi - The President is not the problem.

As Dr. Paul Craig Roberts explains, the military/security complex has got us by the short hairs:

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/07/24/the-all-pervasive-military-security-complex/

No single piece of legislation is going to solve the problem. The whole "national security state" paradigm will have to be overturned, and that will be nearly impossible to do.

Hell, Congress cannot even figure out how to cancel an existing AUMF.

We are SO screwed.

Screwed By LifeLock ???

Here is yet another "security" company which doesn't know what they're doing:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-25/lifelock-bug-exposed-millions-customer-email-addresses

When are we going to admit the Internet is INHERENTLY NOT SECURE and never will be?

Shut it down, and give us our money back.

Facebook Plunges

Bye-bye, Zuck:

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/2018/07/25/zuckerberg-loses-16-8-billion-in-a-snap-as-facebook-plunges#gs.A32XHdQ

If it were up to me, he'd be worth zero. Without us, he's nothing.

Intelligence Community Is Driving US Collapse

Here is a wonderful assessment by Dmitry Orlov:

The logic of US officials may be hard to follow, but only if we adhere to the traditional definitions of espionage and counterespionage — “intelligence” in US parlance — which is to provide validated information for the purpose of making informed decisions on best ways of defending the country. But it all makes perfect sense if we disabuse ourselves of such quaint notions and accept the reality of what we can actually observe: the purpose of US “intelligence” is not to come up with or to work with facts but to simply “make shit up.”

The “intelligence” the US intelligence agencies provide can be anything but; in fact, the stupider it is the better, because its purpose is allow unintelligent people to make unintelligent decisions. In fact, they consider facts harmful — be they about Syrian chemical weapons, or conspiring to steal the primary from Bernie Sanders, or Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, or the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden — because facts require accuracy and rigor while they prefer to dwell in the realm of pure fantasy and whimsy. In this, their actual objective is easily discernible.

The objective of US intelligence is to suck all remaining wealth out of the US and its allies and pocket as much of it as possible while pretending to defend it from phantom aggressors by squandering nonexistent (borrowed) financial resources on ineffective and overpriced military operations and weapons systems. Where the aggressors are not phantom, they are specially organized for the purpose of having someone to fight: “moderate” terrorists and so on. One major advancement in their state of the art has been in moving from real false flag operations, à la 9/11, to fake false flag operations, à la fake East Gouta chemical attack in Syria (since fully discredited). The Russian election meddling story is perhaps the final step in this evolution: no New York skyscrapers or Syrian children were harmed in the process of concocting this fake narrative, and it can be kept alive seemingly forever purely through the furious effort of numerous flapping lips. It is now a pure confidence scam. If you are less then impressed with their invented narratives, then you are a conspiracy theorist or, in the latest revision, a traitor.

You can read the rest @
https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2018/07/us-intelligence-community-as-collapse.html

He is right on the money.

But since Dmitry was born in Leningrad, you have the perfect excuse for not believing him.

Damn dirty Rusky !!!

Hollywood Babylon

Here is the story of Scotty Bowers:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-slept-with-cary-grant-and-spencer-tracyand-changed-hollywood-history

Consider the fact that Hollywood has a huge impact on American morality, and you will get an inkling of why our nation is so screwed up.

Day Became Night

Here is a report about a bizarre phenomenon in Russia:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6856742/sky-turns-black-middle-day-remote-russian-towns-weapons-test-aliens/

I am reminded of this prophecy:

And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

Revelation 16:10-11 KJV

HOWEVER ... I don't believe Russia to be the kingdom of the beast, and this area is not the seat of his kingdom.

But I will agree that most of us are NOT repenting of our foul deeds.

Separating Children From Their Parents

The US has a long history of separating children from their parents. One of the most egregious examples of this practice was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School:

The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. All the school's property, known as the Carlisle Barracks, is now part of the U.S. Army War College.

Founded in 1879 under U. S. governmental authority by General Richard Henry Pratt (then a Captain), Carlisle was the first federally-funded off-reservation Indian boarding school. Consistent with Pratt's belief that Native Americans were 'equal' to European-Americans, the School strove to immerse its students into mainstream Euro-American culture, believing they might thus become able to advance themselves and thrive in the dominant society.

In this period, many people believed that the only hope for Amerindians, their population declining in number, was rapid assimilation into American culture.

After witnessing the initial success of the Indian students at Hampton Normal and Agricultural School, General Richard Henry Pratt decided to establish the first all-Indian school, Carlisle, in 1879, in a renovated military barracks.

As at Hampton, arriving students were shorn of their long hair, and even their names were changed. However, "[u]nlike Hampton, whose purpose was to return assimilated educated Indians to their people, Carlisle meant to turn the school into the ultimate Americanizer". At Carlisle, Pratt attempted to "Kill the Indian: Save the Man" through any means necessary. Beyond a typical military regimen, Pratt was known to use corporal punishment on students who exhibited Native behaviors to help students become dependent only on themselves.

Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School

I visited the school grounds about 20 years ago and took a few pictures. One of the most striking features is the CIIS cemetery:

Most of the graves contain the remains of "students" who died at the school from disease, maltreatment, and/or perhaps from having their spirits destroyed. Their tombstones are all engraved with their names, tribes, dates of death, and a Christian cross. Here is one of them:

I doubt Jesus would approve of what was done to these children.

Thought For The Day - 7/24/2018

"People are being made irrelevant. Before long, they won’t even know how to drive a car, because self-driving cars will take that function also away from them. The insouciant humans will sit there in the car being brainwashed by the propaganda from their video screens. They will cease to experience a human existence, and, thereby, will become disposable.

"Other than disposing of them, how else do you get rid of millions of peoples who have no jobs to support them, peoples whose support are likely to be regarded as a dead-weight loss on the profits of the rich?"

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Is Bob Corker A Dope ???

Senator Corker is comparing President Trump to a dictator:

https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/07/24/revoke-security-clearances-bob-corker-737110

Dear Bob - There is ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON for any of these people to have such clearances anymore. In fact, ALL former government employees should have their clearances revoked.

This is a "need to know" area, and none of these people have any need to know anything.

And you, sir, are a dope for not understanding that.

Another Arab Spring ???

Here is the real bomb hiding in the Middle East:

You can read all about it here:

https://gefira.org/en/2018/07/20/inflation-and-unemployment-as-a-result-of-the-demographic-explosion-the-new-arab-spring-is-in-the-making/

Yep, their populations are exploding. And all the US, Israel, and the Saudis have to offer in response is more war.

The real problem is NOT global warming or any such crap - there are just too many humans.

What's the solution? To let the 0.01% and company kill them all?

We can do better than that.