Note: I’m here in San Diego County in my new/old 39 foot
Chevy Motorhome. I can’t get a signal for my Verizon LG smartphone (I’ll be
taking a spin in my Ford Explorer in search of a signal; my VOIP phone,
magicjack requiring a broadband connection, is currently not up except for
voicemail). The wifi internet connection also limits the uploading of files so
not all the images in the folders/directories to interim updates are included
(I’ll create a separate complete update page later with broadband connection).
The following are currently the updates with said limitations:
The radio reception is also limited which led me
to ‘sample’ some limited AM offerings which included shallow sean hannity the
hallmark of insanity, and ‘rush revere’ [limbaugh… he’s totally burnt out (the
consequence of his being ‘tired of carrying the water for the republican
party’? - his own words), relegated now to authoring children’s illustrated
books of a simplistic nature]. Shallow sean’s latest ‘crusade’ (beyond the same
note/key obvious debacle of wobamacare) was defense of the indefensible mobster
but friend of sean’s, donald trump (trump should be in jail… or a mental
institution in light of his documented enthrallment with/by the
speeches/orations of none other than adolph hitler which he would
obsessively/repeatedly play … for inspiration? … kindred spirit? … { as per
Ivana trump as set forth by author O’Donnell }). In defense of t_rump, he offers up the itsy-bitsy, teeny
weeny wohlman skating rink project as evidence of t_rump’s contribution to NYC
(too small for high new york priority given the magnitude of New York
substantial problems, some largely the result of trumpish tastes, ie., solid
gold trump tower fixtures, etc., that trump’s ‘pre-packaged bankrupcies’ seem
to fail to touch, and which extravagance must be paid for by someone, but not
him). Shallow sean’s excoriation of new york city never seems to link the
obviousness of t_rump’s grandstanding responsibility for same. After all, someone
ultimately has to pay for trump’s disproportionate non-value-added livin’
large. No talk of trump’s ingratiating bribe strategy for protection ( ie.,
retainer’s to law firms linked to state attorney generals, viz., {kimmelman}
wolf and sampson, chris droney’s brother, his sister’s protection/corruption
and quid pro quo from the federal bench, etc., and as well, protection of
drug-money laundering through his now nominal only casinos … ( it’s important
to note that bribes in pervasively corrupt america take many forms beyond
direct monetary transfers and are ubiquitous and extend to all levels of
government; ie., legislators/politicians’ quid pro quo, judges, prosecutors,
fbi <hoover’s ‘whorse-trading’ was ‘world famous’, etc.>, sam alito
rising by way of cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to inept supreme court justice
labeled after an infamous faux paux in terms of judicial acumen/ability as
<in a Washington Post comment> making clarence thomas look like Oliver
Wendell Holmes <my personal favorite jurist>, maryanne trump barry
awaiting full payment of bribe to brother don’s trump casinos before ruling for
RICO defendants (she also protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdfhttp://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
Trump’s a
fraud! I won’t be listening to ‘rush revere’ or shallow sean prospectively.
They’re a waste of time and preposterous given their unbridled support of war
criminals bush, cheney, etc., and the failed debacles they created, etc…… And,
10-22-14, I personally believe, whether overt, covert, or defacto, that
america, pervasively corrupt as it is, has effectively (through no prosecutions
whatsoever of gargantuan frauds of ‘too big to fail magnitude by inaction’),
essentially become a willing accomplice in the ‘paper fraud booty’, taking
their cut while looking the other way and ignoring the longer term dire
consequences and implications! Moreover, 10-26-14, I further believe, though
not new but certainly more prevalent, that the ‘clandestine services’ have
moved further ‘off the grid’ and beyond oversight, governmental and otherwise,
by way of ‘independent’ LLCs with domestic presence by way of, ie.,
economically parasitic ‘securities (ie., bonds, stocks, etc.) trading’ firms
with shell within shell corporate presence internationally with offshore
accounts for primary ops far beyond the reach of the ‘law’ as a matter of
(convenient for all see-no-evil) practicality and (lack of) will (keep in mind
the sense of ‘entitlement’ these jokers have despite a lack of any real
constructive skills, knowledge, talent, abilities, to the point where under
such a joker/war criminal, viz., ie., dumbya bush, they actually brazenly flew
360 tons of $100 bills, $13 billion, into Iraq during their self-created,
chaotic ‘fog-of-war’ which they made ‘disappear’… guess where to … and, kid
yourself not, they do it for the money, in part, because they really can’t do
anything else of value … Beyond the ‘cover-story’, ‘patriotism’ has nothing to
do with it (as per the age-old adage, the flag being the last refuge of a
scoundrel) …
11-30-14 Though it should be
obvious from that set forth within, let me be clear and not disingenuously
obfuscate: I WOULD BE AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION EVEN IF AMERICA WAS NOT
BROKE/BROKEN/DEFACTO BANKRUPT! (america is broke/broken/defacto bankrupt).
Truth be told, however, I no longer even care given the protracted corruption
of the process ( this is long-standing, entrenched, pervasive, even blatant
corruption and 'known to all', but covered up ) and am concerned only with the
resolution in accordance with law as set forth in the RICO summary set forth
above and herein [ a current client of Louis Freeh's (now in private practice)
fairly recently this year called me seeking my help concerning common
defendants (shiff/coan/miltonberger) and in communicating (email) with former
FBI Director Freeh regarding same I also inquired of/sought his retention as my
attorney concerning the RICO matters (the documents/links as filed, including
the RICO Summary, nunc pro tunc, FBI/CIA agent affidavits were sent to
him as they were also sent to Senators Feinstein and Warren in reply to their
emails to me) ].
That trump is a mental case should be obvious to anyone. Yet, as a matter of
fairness and balance, so as not to appear biased, I also agree with Marc Le Vin
(760 am radio) that obama's a mental case [ I had no idea that as pointed out
by LeVin, by self-admission, obama used to be whipped/beaten by his white
grandpa; having been 'pawned off on them' by his wanderlust white mom and
abandoned by his drunken, philandering black father who had returned to kenya (
shades of neil young's 'Southern Man' – southern hawaii man? … I personally
always preferred Lynnard Skinnard's playful retort to same in 'Sweet Home
Alabama'.) ] As LeVin points out (once a lawyer), LeVin's cuts to actual words
is much like one would cite legal precedent in a legal brief and is persuasive.
I invariably turn him off when he gets into the pro-israeli propaganda/rants
which cannot be reconciled with america's interests and has been detrimental to
same with israel making their often self-created problems/provocations/illegal
acts america's problems. I particularly welcomed LeVin's playing of Milton
Friedman's discussion of the ill effects of (illegal) immigration. I had read
quite a bit of Friedman in my MBA studies, agreeing with only some, not even
nearly all, of his monetarist positions (neither am I a Keynesian); but, for
the first time hearing (in his actual voice) his recorded view regarding
immigration, I was astounded by his eloquence and command of persuasive facts.
And, as I've previously pointed out, such irrational, race-baiting rants as
from the likes of sharpton, jackson, farrakhan, holder, et als, as encouraged
by obama do not comport with the realities of crime, crime stats, black on
black crime, black on white crime, etc..
The following in correspondence by me upon query in pertinent part so as not to
appear hypocritical: 'Newly appointed judge, Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald
Trump's sister, was assigned the RICO case despite the conflict of interest in
light of hundreds of thousands of dollars of illegal (drug) money being laundered
through the Trump casinos by the RICO defendants, and despite my motion to
recuse her which motion she heard herself and denied, and U.S. Trustee Hugh
Leonard with whom I met personally refused to join or file a separate motion to
recuse and not long thereafter left said office for private practice at Cole,
Shotz, et als on retainer with the RICO defendants as his primary client. One
FBI agent here in Cal with whom I met quipped he had a multitude of drug-money
laundering cases (he was transferred not long thereafter). I was 'painted' as
anti-Italian, which was ridiculous. A seasoned, respected lawyer I went to see
said 'they' were 'trying to paint me black', which was equally preposterous [ I
had around this time successfully zealously represented a black man recently
out of the service/army, first in federal court, and then at (state court)
trial regarding an accident and consequent mortgage arrearage/default].
Parenthetically, my grandparents, both of whom I loved and respected ,
Elsie/Nanny, Bari, Italy and Martin/Mario/PopPop (Peia), Lake Como, Italy ,
were thoroughly modern in all respects relative to time and extremely civilized
in a manner to be emulated'. I saw my grandparents after church each Sunday and
on major holidays, ie., Christmas Eve, etc., events, ie., confirmation, etc.,
and 'special fishing trips'.
I strongly recommend the (by necessity)
independent film, ‘Killing the Messenger’, the story of journalist Gary Webb
who documented cia/government involvement in the illegal drug trade and was
killed execution style for his laudable but thankless efforts … Well done and
highly recommended by those close to the truth, the film stars Jeremy Renner
of, ie., ‘Hurt Locker’/’Jason Bourne’, etc., fame … }
{
The Cat dispatching this archaic reptilian remnant of an extinct species. Yet,
doesn’t the ill-fated croc seem to be smiling a typically wide grin as if to
say, ‘he’s glad to be done-in by such a noble creature as the Cat’ (as opposed
to lesser species including all forms of apes and their progeny, potentially
even winding up as a pocket-book, belt, or pair of shoes). Yes, there’s a place
in the universe for Cats! }
CIA
AGENT EXPOSING HIGH-LEVEL ILLEGAL DRUG SMUGGLING LINKS ( BUSH, BARR, CLINTON ET
ALS )
{Cats … the unsung heroes …
this heroic act was caught on a surveillance camera (otherwise lost forever) …
no, you would not see the cat drooling all over itself, tongue hanging out,
prancing around to garner attention, humping/ejaculating on a few legs of those
not paying attention … the mother of the boy aptly stated the cat saved the
boy’s life … indeed, that dog would have shredded that boy … unprovoked, for no
reason whatsoever other than a dog just being a dog … yes, dogs eat their own
s**t, a distinctive dog trait not widely publicized and of which I was not
aware until I directly witnessed same … they eat dogs in Vietnam, clearly a
precursor/predictor of their significant 20th century war victory …
there’s the propaganda … ‘man’s best friend’ … riiiiight … no small wonder why
man’s prognosis/fate is dismal/short-lived at best and very dismal/very
short-lived at worst … with friends like dogs, one needs no enemies … then we
have american dogs/yankee dogs/dog lovers; viz., ie., the bushes (dogs of war,
etc.), clinton (post Socks), obamas, etc., who have a similar negative
predisposition towards/effect on children, whether the middle east or
domestically … yes, michelle obama’s a dog … but looks more like an orangutan,
another negative genetic predisposition … dogs are more than just a part of
satanic ritual … gone to the dogs … with few exceptions, they’re bad news … }
"The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching
aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private
hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of
the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion
by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements
arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to
be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; a private bank
owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private
corporations. Each central bank... sought to dominate its government by its
ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to
influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence
cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business
world."
- Carroll Quigley, member of the Council on Foreign Relations
"Just
as we did for the Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zucotti Park and the Snow Park
encampment in Oakland, we are here to support your just cause…"
I'm dreaming of
a white noise Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the tower tops glisten
And spooks can't listen
To hear our data in the snow
I'm dreaming of a white noise Christmas
With every Christmas card emailed
May your days be merry and bright
And may all
Your Christmases be quiet...
.
MERRY
CHRISTMAS ED, wherever you are...
From
WilliamBanzai7 and the rest of the fringe low brows at Zero Hedge
THe
CeNTRaL PLaNNeR, THe JuGGLeR, THe OPeRaToR AnD THe BuST...
While hardly as spectacular as Hugh Hendry's supernova
flameout, or the far more boring, slow motion conversion of the
assorted other famous and less famous bears, a legendary hedge fund titan has
decided he too has no use for excess capital in this broken market. No surprise
then that Institutional Investors' Alpha
reports that Baupost's Seth Klarman is returning $4 billion
in capital to investors for only the second time in its history due to "a
lack of investment opportunities." And watching how the epic
farce that Bernanke's wealth effect known as the Stalingrad & Poorski
trades in the last 30 minutes of every day nobody can blame him. And no,
Klarman is not returning cash due to some hidden underperformance:
"Baupost’s many partnerships were up 13 percent, on average, through the
September quarter. Its annualized return since inception is in the high
teens." This happens to push it in the top decile of all hedge funds in
2013.
but Hank’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that’s just the name of the song,
and that’s why I called the song Hank’s Restaurant.
You can take anything you want from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
You can take anything you want from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
Walk right in it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the Federal Reserve Bank
You can take anything you want from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
Now it all started Hanksgiving Day 2008
when my friend Fabulous Fab and I went up to visit Hank at the
restaurant,
but Hank doesn’t like sittin in there,
he likes sittin near a fella named Blankfein in Goldman Sachs’
Wall Street office,
in a big glass tower.
And being in a tower like that,
they got a lot of room downstairs.
Havin’ all that room,
they decided that they didn’t have to take out their subprime
garbage for a long time.
We got up there,
we found all the toxic subprime garbage in there,
and we decided it’d be a friendly gesture for us to take the
garbage down to the Federal Reserve shitty deal dump, Maiden Lane.
So my friend and I took the $700 billion tons of subprime
garbage,
put it in the back of a red Humvee stretch limo, including CDSs
and CDOs and other implements of financial
mass destruction and headed on toward the Maiden Lane shitty
deal dump.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across
across the dump saying,
"By order of Emperor Benron--No Dumping on
Hanksgiving."
And we had never heard of a shitty deal dump closed on
Hanksgiving before,
and with tears in our eyes we drove off into the sunset looking
for another place to put the toxic asset garbage.
We didn’t find one.
Until we came to a side road,
and off the side of the side road there was another financial
black hole hole and at the bottom of the hole there was
a big pile of Wall Street garbage, offering circulars, stress
tests, analyst reports, mortgage notes and such.
And we decided that one big pile is better than two little
piles,
and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw our’s
down.
That’s what we did, and drove back to the restaurant,
had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat,
went to sleep and didn’t get up until the next morning,
when we got a phone call from Porn Commissioner Cox.
He said, "Kid, we found your name on an Abacus offering
circular at the bottom of a half a ton of shitty deals,
and just wanted to know if you had any information about
it."
And I said, "Yes, sir, Mr. Porn Commissioner,
I cannot tell a lie, I put that Abacus offering circular under
that garbage."
After speaking to Porn Commissioner Cox for about fourty-five
minutes on the telephone we finally arrived at
the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down and
pick up the subprime garbage,
and also had to go down and speak to him at the Porn
Commission’s NY Regional office.
So we got in the red Humvee Limo with the CDOs and CDSs and
implements of financial mass destruction and
headed on toward the Porn office upstairs at Score’s.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that the
Commissioner coulda done at the Porn office,
and the first was he could have shown us some hot porn tubes of
Mary Schapiro doin the deed,
which wasn’t very likely, and we didn’t expect it,
and the other thing was he could have bawled us out and told us
never to be seen driving toxic asset backed
garbage around the vicinity of Wall Street again,
which is what we expected,
but when we got to the Porn Commission’s office there was a
third possibility that we hadn’t even counted upon,
and we was both immediately arrested.
Handcuffed.
And I said Mr. Porn Commissioner sir, I don’t think I can pick
up the toxic garbage with these handcuffs on.
He said, "Shut up, kid. Get in the back of the car."
And that’s what we did, sat in the back of the car and drove to
the quote Scene of the Crime unquote.
I want tell you about Wall Street, where this happened here,
they got three Federal regulators, the SEC, the
CFTC and the FBI, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime
there was all kinds of Black Ops people running
around,
this being the biggest financial crime of the last five
consecutive Wall Street trading days,
and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it.
And the TSA, they was using up all kinds of equipment that they
had hanging around the anti-traveler unit.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, finger prints, dog smelling
prints, and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten
glossy back scatter scans with circles and arrows and a
paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us.
Took scans of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner
the southwest corner and that’s not to
mention the aerial drone photography.
After the ordeal, we went back to the jail.
Porn Commissioner Cox said he was going to put us in the cell.
Said,
"Kid, I’m going to put you in the cell, I want your wallet
and your belt."
And I said, "I can understand you wanting my wallet so I
don’t have any money to spend in the cell,
but what do you want my belt for?"
And he said, "Kid, we don’t want any hangings."
I said, "did you really think I was going to hang myself
for financial intermediation?"
Porn commissioner Cox said he was making sure,
and friends the Porn Commissioner was,
cause he took out the toilet seat so I couldn’t hit myself over
the head and drown,
and he took out the toilet paper so I couldn’t bend the bars
roll out the – roll the toilet paper out the window,
slide down the roll and have an escape.
The PornCommissioner was making sure,
and it was about four or five hours later that Hank (remember
Hank? It’s a song about Hank),
came by and with a few nasty words to Porn Commissioner Cox on
the side,
Bailed us out using Federal taxpayer money,
and we went back to the restaurant,
had a another Hanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat!!
You can take anything you want, from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
You can take anything you want, from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
Walk right in it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the Federal Reserve Bank
You can take anything you want, from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
WB7: This is my favorite Thanksgiving song. It is also the only
one I know.
Arlo Authrie, if you don’t know him, is the son of Woody
Guthrie, a famous folk singer who was no friend of Wall Street.
I originally did this version of Alice’s Restaurant in September
2008. This is my updated version, which is really an excuse for me to play this
song for you and to once again say…
Animal studies made famous by John Calhoun (1962)
show that crowding in the animal world results in what he calls the
"behavioral sink."
Human studies made famous by Dr Satoshi Nakamura
show that intensive rounds of Keynesian money printing in the financial
world result in what he calls the "Walmart sink" and what Dr Ben
Bernanke calls the "Kitchen Sink".
To Bit, or not
to Bit: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fiat distortions,
Or to take arms against a sea of endless bubbles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sweep;
No more; and by a sweep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand Wall Street schtupps
That insolvent flesh is heir to, ’tis a con-flagellation
Devoutly to be dish’d. To die, to sweep;
To sweep: perchance to scream: ay, there’s the hubub;
For aft that sweep of bankster dregs what new reams may come?
When we have shuffled off the immoral coinage,
Must give us pause: there’s the hazard of moral neglect
That makes calamity of sound money life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of fiat debasement ,
The oppressor’s wrong, the borrowing idiot's contumely,
The pangs of despised austerity, the law of gravity's delay,
The insolence of central banking office and the spurns
That impatient murmur of money changing snakes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a Benjamin Bernankin? who would QE fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life of indebtured servitude,
But that the dread of something after redemption prior to maturity,
The undiscovered monetary wasteland from whose bourn
Are no asset returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those monetary ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not much of?
Thus risk avoidance does make cowards of us all;
And thus the creative hue of fiscal revolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of doubt,
And genius enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard alternative currencies turn awry,
And lose the name of action.–Soft you now!
And now the Bitcoin hysteria…
While Banksta pimps 'r in thy orfices
Be all our financial sins and cowardices priced in.
According to a whistleblower that has recently
come forward, Census employees have been faking and manipulating U.S.
employment numbers for years. In fact, it is being alleged that this
manipulation was a significant reason for why the official unemployment rate
dipped sharply just before the last presidential election. What you are
about to read is incredibly disturbing. The numbers that the American
people depend upon to make important decisions are being faked. But
should we be surprised by this? After all, Barack Obama has been caught telling dozens of major
lies over the past five years. At this point it is incredible that
there are any Americans that still trust anything that comes out of his
mouth. And of course it is not just Obama that has been lying to
us. Corruption and deception are rampant throughout the entire federal
government, and this has been the case for years. Now that some light is
being shed on this, hopefully the American people will respond with
overwhelming outrage and disgust. (Read More....)
Here they are. WilliamBanzai7's Special Holiday
Puke Fine Art Print Editions just in time for the Christmas Holidays…
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Dear Friends,
Here before you is a truly historic series of
images that I have painstakingly adapted to the current state of sordidly
odiferous political/financial affairs.
Years from now, there will be little doubt over
what the artist was seeing and thinking contemporaneously in the year 2013.
I am not going to oversell these pictures. They
speak for themselves.
They also demonstrate how history truly rhymes on
Wall Street.
I have all of these in very large high resolution
files. So every print will match the highest standards of fine art print
production.
As you can see, I have departed from normal
practice by offering these prints in an assortment of sizes. I have done this
solely to maximize your
participation by spreading price points. Bear in
mind that the amount of personal time and effort involved is the same
irrespective of print size.
Each print will be signed, numbered and dated
December 25, 2013.
I know that many of you are suffering various
levels of economic hardship in these trying times. As is always the case, you
are free to print these off for your own personal use.
I truly appreciate all the the moral and
financial support that I receive from all of you.
As you know, the primary reason that I am doing
these prints is to signify my gratitude in return for your generous support for
my endeavors.
It is my sincerest wish that the situation will
turn sooner than later so that each and everyone of us can return to
personal prosperity.
A
List Of 23 Famous Obama Quotes That Turned Out To Be Broken Promises Or
Cold-Hearted Lies
How
many lies can one president tell and still retain any credibility? What
you are about to see is absolutely astounding. It is a long list of
important promises that Barack Obama has broken since he has been
president. If he had only told a few lies, perhaps the American people
would be willing to overlook that. After all, pretty much all of our politicians
our liars. Unfortunately, many of the lies that Obama has told appear to
have been quite cold-hearted in nature. For example, Barack Obama
repeatedly made the promise that “you will be able to keep
your health care plan” under Obamacare. But now we are learning that
he knew that this was a lie all along. Not only that, the Democrats in
Congress knew that this was a lie all along too. In fact, U.S. Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, said the following when she was
asked about Obama’s promise to the American people recently: “He should’ve just
been specific. No, we all knew.” You can see video of her making this
statement right here. The truth is that they
all knew that millions upon millions of Americans would lose their current
health care policies under Obamacare. They deliberately lied just so that
they could get the law passed.
And
of course this is far from the only major lie that Obama has told in recent
years. The following is a list of 23 famous Obama quotes that turned out
to be broken promises or cold-hearted lies…
#1 “If you like your doctor, you
will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan,
you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it
away. No matter what.”
#2 “My administration is committed
to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.”
#3 “We agree on reforms that will
finally reduce the costs of health care. Families will save on their premiums…”
#4 “I don’t want to pit Red America
against Blue America. I want to be the president of the United States
of America.”
#5 “We’ve
got shovel-ready projects all across the country that governors and
mayors are pleading to fund. And the minute we can get those investments
to the state level, jobs are going to be created.”
#6 “And we will pursue the housing
plan I’m outlining today. And through this plan, we will help between 7 and 9
million families restructure or refinance their mortgages so they can
afford—avoid foreclosure.”
#7 “I will sign a universal
health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will
cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to
$2,500 a year.”
#8 “We reject the use of national
security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.”
#9 “For people with insurance, the
only impact of the health-care law is that their insurance is stronger, better,
and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That’s it. They don’t have to
worry about anything else.”
#10 “We will close the detention camp
in Guantanamo Bay, the location of so many of the worst constitutional abuses
in recent years.”
#11 “Allow Americans to buy their
medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are
lower outside the U.S.”
#12 “We will revisit the Patriot Act
and overturn unconstitutional executive decisions issued during the past eight
years.”
#13 “Will ensure that federal
contracts over $25,000 are competitively bid.”
#14 “We reject sweeping claims of
‘inherent’ presidential power.”
#15 “Will eliminate all income
taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate
taxes for 7 million seniors — saving them an average of $1,400 a year– and will
also mean that 27 million seniors will not need to file an income tax return at
all.”
#16 “We support constitutional
protections and judicial oversight on any surveillance program involving
Americans.”
#17 “If we have
not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I
will do. I will get our troops home, we will end this war. You can
take that to the bank.”
#18 “Will not sign any non-emergency
bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on
the White House website for five days.”
#19 “The President does not have
power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a
situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the
nation.”
#20 “We have a choice in this
country. We can accept a politics that breeds division and conflict and
cynicism…. That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can
come together and say, ‘Not this time….’”
#21 “We’ve got to spend some money
now to pull us out of this recession. But as soon as we’re out of this
recession, we’ve got to get serious about starting to live within our
means, instead of leaving debt for our children and our grandchildren and our
great-grandchildren.”
#22 “[T]oday I’m pledging to cut the
deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will
not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges
we’ve long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they
cannot repay – and that means taking responsibility right now, in this
administration, for getting our spending under control.”
#23 “I, Barack Hussein Obama, do
solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president of the United States
faithfully, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
constitution of the United States.”
Since when can a president change a law all by
himself? By unilaterally declaring that certain provisions of Obamacare
will not be enforced, Barack Obama is making a mockery of the U.S.
Constitution. For those that have not read it, the U.S. Constitution says
that the president “shall
take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed“. So when Obama declares
that he will not enforce certain provisions of Obamacare for a year, he is
directly violating the Constitution. And as Stanford Law School Professor
Michael McConnell wrote back in July, the Office of Legal
Counsel for the Justice Department “has always insisted that the president has
no authority, as one such memo put it in 1990, to ‘refuse to enforce a statute
he opposes for policy reasons.’” This is an open and shut case. If
the U.S. Congress still had a shred of respect for the Constitution, they would
immediately demand that Obama enforce the law as written. If Obama refused,
they should immediately impeach him. We are a country that is run by the
rule of law, and just because Obama’s new law completely screws up one-sixth of
the economy does not mean that he can unilaterally change it. In our
system, Congress makes the laws and the president enforces them. If we
allow any president to unilaterally change laws whenever he does not like them,
then that puts us dangerously close to having a dictator in the White House. (Read More.....)
Commemorating 100 Years of Central Bankster
Schtupping
[I am just too stupid to figure out why this
picture won't center. It's not that I haven't spent 15 minutes staring at the
damned HTML code]
WB7
We Americans are basically a very simple people.
Our formula for past successes has essentially
been distilled as follows: maintain a "can-do" attitude, believe in
the "American way", honest hard work will be rewarded, abundant
opportunity and upward mobility for all.
Those who play the prosperity game correctly may
look forward to retirement in a spleniferous life of leisure and Obamacare.
Once upon a time, this is is what American
Thanksgiving was supposed to look like...
Most Americans desperately cling to the foolish
Ponzi pipe dream of a notion that this Thanksgiving dream is still possible.
And for some PhD morons who evidently borrow
subprime QE money to purchase shitty American vehicles made principally of
plastic components sourced in Shenzen, the dream has been fullfilled.
Unfortunately, for reasons far to numerous to
enumerate in this post, this is all just a Ponzi Pilgrim's delusion.
There is one big kahuna of a fucking reason so
very plainly obvious.
When it comes to ridding our fucking system of
finance, the "fucking system" if you will, of all the learned fucking
thieves sitting the top of the fucking Ponzi pyramid, we are hopelessly screwed
up each and every one of our Holland and Lincoln Tunnels.
The same cheap fucking QE paper that buys those
shitty vehicles will also pay the much ballyhooed $13 Billion JPM shyster fine.
Half of JPM's profits in 2013.
Gobble fucking Goebbels.
I won't insult anyone's fringe low brow
intelligence by asking who has been convicted.
In any event, such a scenario is far to fetched
to even consider.
Instead I will pose the following question:
The biggest most egregious case of financial
fraud and chicanery by a US banking institution measured by the fiat of the
fine.
The biggest fine ever!
"Hoooly Cow!"--Phil Rizutto
Have the regulators who are in charge of the
whole JP Clusterfuck (you know the ones who keep getting reappointed, promoted
or hired by private equity firms) applied their very substantial leverage to
force the Shyster in Chief of JP Cesspool to cede his shysterly position by resigning?
Is this something that could have happened? Of
course it is.
Don't believe me?
Go and ask our distinguished colleague Bill
Black, Esq what he thinks.
Does the fact that the same schlemiel will remain
in charge of the old JP Cesspit send the rest of us a message?
You better believe it does...
Whatcha are you gonna do sisters and brothers?
Sadly, for most of the rest of America it all
boils down to this...
{ I’ve had occasion to
read the well-written book ‘Murder in Italy’ by award-winning italian-american
author, Candace Dempsey, which documents the horrific travesty called ‘italian
justice’ (actually blatant injustice) torturously imposed upon Amanda Knox et
als (rudy guede excepted). So outrageous but typical of these typical italians
( like packs of the rabid dogs they are pre-disposed to be). (Parenthetically,
my grandparents, both of whom I loved and respected – Elsie/Nanny, Bari, Italy
and Martin/Mario/PopPop (Peia), Lake Como, Italy – were not typical as such;
but rather, thoroughly modern in all respects relative to time and extremely
civilized in a manner to be emulated … although, truth be told, I found
italians with mob/mafia links/connections/sympathies to be like those rabid
perugians/italians who outrageously pilloried Amanda Knox, See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdfhttp://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htmhttp://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm) }
You may find what is happening at
one Wal-Mart in Ohio very hard to believe. At the Wal-mart on Atlantic
Boulevard in Canton, Ohio employees are being asked to donate food items so
that other employees that cannot afford to buy Thanksgiving dinner will be able
to enjoy one too. You can see a photo of the donation bins that has been
posted on Twitter right
here. On the one hand, it is commendable that someone at that
Wal-Mart is deeply concerned about the employees that are so poor that they
cannot afford to buy the food that they need for Thanksgiving. On the
other hand, this is a perfect example that shows how the quality of the jobs in
this country has gone down the toilet. Wal-Mart is the largest employer
in the United States and it had operating income of 26.5
billion dollars last year. Wal-Mart is not required to pay their
employees a decent wage, and it is very unlikely that anyone will force them
to. But they should. Because Wal-Mart does not pay
decent wages to their employees, the rest of us end up with the bill. As
you will see below, huge numbers of Wal-Mart employees end up on Medicaid and other
government assistance programs. Meanwhile, those that control Wal-Mart
continue to enjoy absolutely massive profits. (Read
More....)
If
there were any shreds of hope left that the stunning decline of the middle
class could be turned around, Obamacare has absolutely destroyed them.
Over the past decade or so, the middle class in the United States has been absolutely eviscerated. The number of
working age Americans without a job has increased by 27 million since the year 2000, median household
income in the U.S. has fallen for five years in a row, and the poverty
numbers in this country are spiraling out of control. And now
here comes Obamacare. As you will see below, Obamacare is causing
millions of Americans to lose their current health insurance policies, it is
causing health insurance premiums to explode to absolutely ridiculous levels,
and it is systematically killing jobs even though the employer mandate has been
delayed for a while. All of this is creating a tremendous amount of
stress for millions of middle class families that are already stretched
extremely thin financially. According to CNN, a survey that was conducted earlier this year found that 76
percent of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Most of those
families simply cannot afford to pay much higher health insurance premiums for
new policies that also come with much larger deductibles and significantly
increased out-of-pocket costs. Millions of those families will ultimately
end up choosing to do without health insurance altogether, and that will create
a whole host of new problems. This is a disaster that is so enormous that
it is really hard to put into words. If the U.S. health care system was a
separate country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire globe all
by itself. And now Obamacare is going to bring the entire U.S. health
care system to its knees. (Read More....)
The
Federal Reserve is creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air and
using that money to buy U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities and
take them out of circulation. Since the middle of 2008, these purchases
have caused the Fed's balance sheet to balloon from under a trillion dollars to
nearly four trillion dollars. This represents the greatest central bank
intervention in the history of the planet, and Janet Yellen says that she does
not anticipate that it will end any time soon because "the recovery is
still fragile". Of course, as I showed the other day, the truth is
that quantitative easing has done essentially nothing for the average person on
the street. But what QE has done is that it has sent stocks soaring to
record highs. Unfortunately, this stock market bubble is completely and
totally divorced from economic reality, and when the easy money is taken away
the bubble will collapse. Just look at what happened a few months ago
when Ben Bernanke suggested that the Fed may begin to "taper" the
amount of quantitative easing that it was doing. The mere suggestion that
the flow of easy money would start to slow down a little bit was enough to send
the market into deep convulsions. This is why the Federal Reserve cannot
stop monetizing debt. The moment the Fed stops, it could throw our financial
markets into a crisis even worse than what we saw back in 2008. (Read More....)
China
just dropped an absolute bombshell, but it was almost entirely ignored by the
mainstream media in the United States. The central bank of China has
decided that it is "no longer in China’s favor to accumulate
foreign-exchange reserves". During the third quarter of 2013,
China's foreign-exchange reserves were valued at approximately $3.66 trillion. And of course
the biggest chunk of that was made up of U.S. dollars. For years, China
has been accumulating dollars and working hard to keep the value of the dollar
up and the value of the yuan down. One of the goals has been to make
Chinese products less expensive in the international marketplace. But now
China has announced that the time has come for it to stop stockpiling U.S. dollars.
And if that does indeed turn out to be the case, than many U.S. analysts are
suggesting that China could also soon stop buying any more U.S. debt.
Needless to say, all of this would be very bad for the United States. (Read More....)
Can
the U.S. government afford to pay for the health care of 38 million more
people? As you will see below, Obamacare is going to be the biggest
expansion of the welfare state in U.S. history. It is being projected
that a decade from now 17 million Americans will be receiving Obamacare
subsidies and an additional 21 million Americans will have been added to the
Medicaid rolls. At a time when we are already running trillion dollar
deficits, is this really something that the government should be taking on?
In addition, it is being projected that bringing millions upon millions of new
people into the Medicaid program will also cause enrollment in many other
federal welfare programs such as food stamps to surge. Right now, the
percentage of Americans that are financially dependent on the U.S. government
is already at an all-time high, and Obamacare is going to cause the level of
government dependence to go much, much higher. But how much weight can
the “safety net” actually carry before it breaks entirely? (Read
More.....)
The
more Americans learn about Obamacare, the less they like it. They were
promised that under Obamacare they would be able to keep their current health
insurance plans, that health insurance premiums would be lower, and that
millions more Americans would be able to get coverage. But none of those
promises are turning out to be true. Right now, millions of Americans are
receiving cancellation notices from their health insurance companies –
including many Americans that are in a life or death battle with cancer.
By the end of next year, it is being projected that up
to 100 million more Americans could have their health insurance policies
canceled. Meanwhile, large numbers of Americans are discovering that
their “new plans” are going to cost them two, three, four or even five times as
much as their old plans cost them. You are about to see some shocking
examples of this. And now that the reality of Obamacare is really starting
to sink in for the American people, the popularity of the law is starting to
drop like a rock. According to a brand new
CBS News poll that was just released, only 31 percent of all Americans
still approve of Obamacare while an astounding 61 percent of all Americans now
disapprove of it. Perhaps if we get that number to 70 or 80 percent, the
politicians in Washington D.C. will cave in and we can get this law
repealed. So please share this article with as many people as you
possibly can. The following are 10 Obamacare horror stories that are
almost too crazy to believe… (Read
More.....)
Edie Littlefield Sundby: “My grievance
is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying
alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought
and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less
than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But
this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance
policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.
My
choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange and lose
access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside the
exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting
over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits.”
Patricia in North Carolina:”I am a 62
year old woman who has an individual policy with BCBS of North Carolina.
My premiums are $249.50 per month. I bought the policy when I retired and
moved to NC to be closer to my aging parents. The policy is a high
deductible one with a $2700 deductible, $5000 out of pocket maximum. BCBS
has told me my plan is no longer offered due to Obamacare and that my new plan
will cost $600.55 per month and has a required an out of pocket maximum of
$6350.”
Jacqueline Proctor: Take, for
example, Jacqueline Proctor of San Francisco. She and her husband are in their
early 60s. They have been paying $7,200 a year for a bare-bones Kaiser
Permanente health plan with a $5,000 per person annual deductible. “Kaiser told
us the plan does not comply with Obamacare and the substitute will cost more
than twice as much,” about $15,000 per year, she says.
This
new plan, Kaiser’s cheapest offering for 2014, would consume about 25 percent
of their after-tax income. The new plan still has a $5,000 deductible but
provides coverage for things her current policy does not, such as maternity
care, healthy child visits and coverage for dependents up to age 26. Proctor
has no use for such coverage, since her son is 30.
Gloria Cantor: Gloria Cantor
of Florida has cancer — five brain tumors and tumors in her bones — but she
won’t have the health insurance she has relied on for her treatment for much
longer.
Mrs.
Cantor and her husband, Jay, told WFTV in Orlando that their insurance is being
dropped in order to comply with Obamacare regulations.
“The
Cantors received [a] letter in the mail [that] explains Gloria’s health
insurance will end next summer due to the Affordable Care Act,” reporter Lori
Brown says. “But after promises by President Obama … the Cantors now feel
betrayed. After the insurance company drops them, it will offer them a
different plan that it admits will be more expensive. The Cantors are
especially worried because their doctors cannot assure them that [the MD
Anderson Cancer Center] will still accept the new plan.”
A Zero Hedge Reader: My company,
based in California, employs 600. We used to insure about 250 of our employees.
The rest opted out. The company paid 50% of their premiums for about
$750,000/yr.
Under
obamacare, none can opt out without penalty, and the rates are double or
triple, depending upon the plan. Our 750k for 250 employees is going to $2
million per year for 600 employees.
By
mandate, we have to pay 91.5% of the premium or more up from the 50% we used to
pay.
Our
employees share of the premium goes from $7/week for the cheapest plan to
$30/week. 95% of my employees were on that plan. Remember, we used to pay
50% now we pay 91.5% and the premiums still go up that much!!
The
cheapest plan now has a deductible of $6350! Before it was $150. Employees
making $9 to $10/hr, have to pay $30/wk and have a $6350 deductible!!! What!!!!
They
can’t afford that to be sure. Obamacare will kill their propensity to seek
medical care. More money for less care? How does that help them?
Ashley Dionne: I graduated
from The University of Michigan in 2009. In my state, this used to mean
something, but even with a bachelor’s I was told I was too educated and
wouldn’t stay. I watched as kids with GEDs and high school diploma’s took the
low-paying jobs for which I applied.
I
went back to school and got a second degree and finally found work at a gym. I
work nights and only get 32 hours a week for eight dollars an hour. I’m unable
to find a second job at this time.
I
have asthma, ulcers, and mild cerebral palsy. Obamacare takes my monthly rate
from $75 a month for full coverage on my “Young Adult Plan,” to $319 a month.
After $6,000 in deductibles, of course.
Liberals
claimed this law would help the poor. I am the poor, the working poor, and I
can’t afford to support myself, let alone older generations and people not
willing to work at all. This law has raped my future.
It
will keep me and kids my age from having a future at all.
This
is the real face of Obamacare and it isn’t pretty.
George Schwab: George
Schwab, 62, of North Carolina, said he was “perfectly happy” with his plan from
Blue Cross Blue Shield, which also insured his wife for a $228 monthly premium.
But this past September, he was surprised to receive a letter saying his policy
was no longer available. The “comparable” plan the insurance company offered
him carried a $1,208 monthly premium and a $5,500 deductible.
A Middle Class Texas Family: Obamacare is
named the “Affordable Care Act,” after all, and the President promised the
rates would be “as low as a phone bill.” But I just received a confirmed letter
from a friend in Texas showing a 539% rate increase on an existing policy
that’s been in good standing for years.
As
the letter reveals (see below), the cost for this couple’s policy under Humana
is increasing from $212.10 per month to $1,356.60 per month. This is for a
couple in good health whose combined income is less than $70K — a middle-class
family, in other words.
Michael Cerpok: “I’ve worked
hard because I’ve had to, and I’ve had to, because cancer runs in my family,”
says Cerpok, who picked his current health insurance based on that family
history. His monthly premium is just about half of his monthly take-home pay.
Back
in 2006, he found out he had an incurable form of leukemia that requires
ongoing treatment until he dies.
In
2012, his treatment bill was more than $350,000. But because of his insurance,
his out-of-pocket was only $4,500.
That’s
about to change because Michael just got a letter from his insurance carrier
saying as of January 1, he would be dropped from coverage because of new
regulations under Obamacare.
Bill
Elliot: Fox News host Megyn Kelly shared a heart
rendering story Thursday night of a South Carolina man with cancer who is being
forced to make what he sees as a life or death decision after his health
insurance plan was cancelled because of Obamacare.
Bill
Elliot, who voted for President Obama, contacted “The Kelly File” via Facebook
and said he can no longer afford to pay his medical bills and does not want to
take on the new costs because he does not want to put a “burden” on his family,
according to Fox News.
Saying
he feels “misled,” Elliott told Kelly his new insurance will cost him $1,500
per month with a $13,000 deductible, adding that he will opt to pay the minimal
fine for not having health insurance and “will just let nature take its
course.”
—–
So
what do you think about Obamacare? Please feel free to share your
thoughts by posting a comment below…
So
much of what we have been taught about ancient history is simply not
true. According to Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and
History, a team of archaeologists working close to the Mexican village of
Onavas has made an amazing discovery. They reportedly found 13 ancient
human specimens that had grossly elongated skulls. You can find original
photographs of this discovery right here, but the descriptions of the
photos are in Spanish. The Mexican scientists are telling us that these
skulls are approximately 1,000 years old, and that no skulls of this nature
have ever been found in this region of Mexico before. So exactly what is
going on here? Are these elongated skulls simply the product of an
ancient technique known as “cradle-boarding”, or is there another explanation?
Could these actually be Nephilim skulls that prove that an ancient race of
hybrids once roamed the planet? You might want to hold on to your hat –
because the (Read More....)
Can
the U.S. government afford to pay for the health care of 38 million more
people? As you will see below, Obamacare is going to be the biggest
expansion of the welfare state in U.S. history. It is being projected
that a decade from now 17 million Americans will be receiving Obamacare
subsidies and an additional 21 million Americans will have been added to the
Medicaid rolls. At a time when we are already running trillion dollar
deficits, is this really something that the government should be taking
on? In addition, it is being projected that bringing millions upon
millions of new people into the Medicaid program will also cause enrollment in
many other federal welfare programs such as food stamps to surge. Right
now, the percentage of Americans that are financially dependent on the U.S.
government is already at an all-time high, and Obamacare is going to cause the
level of government dependence to go much, much higher. But how much
weight can the “safety net” actually carry before it breaks entirely? (Read More.....)
Oprah
Winfrey: Obama is victim of racism; racists ‘just have to die’ (453 comments){Former
Secret Service Agent: Holder Justice Dept 'Travesty'...The race card? Again? That dog don’t hunt
nomore! …Mayor
Throws Racial Tirade After Drunk Driving Arrest; 'You F*****g Crackers'...Who are the racists? … UPDATE:
MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE...‘ignore
cases that involve black defendants and white victims’POLICE: Black teenagers light 13-year-old on fire; 'You
get what you deserve, white boy'...Typical
n*****s! Come on! People are tired of making making up excuses for the blacks.
It’s always the same story with them, no matter where. http://www.albertpeia.com/whitesvictimizedbyblacks.htmhttp://www.albertpeia.com/whitesvictimizedbyblacks.htmDrudgereport: 'Mob' beatings at WI state fair...'Hundreds of young black people beating white
people'...[ Typical n*****s! Good thing there are food
stamps; otherwise they’d be reverting to their inherent proclivity for
canabalism (send them back to africa … even give them a lump sum for an
irrevocable repatriation incentive … a huge cost-saving beyond the first year
with substantial salutary effects for the nation, the economy, and the
remaining civilized non-blacks). The other major crimes they do anyway. It’s
their nature. You’ll never change the nigger … they evolved only to ‘a point’
and no further.] Fairgoers 'pulled out of cars'...'They were just going after white people'...Heightened security...[ I refrained from using the ‘n word’ (or
even blacks / negroes) in referring to the culprits in the following two
incidents (those tender sensibilities) but I’m sure you’ve guessed that they
were niggers and I include same here in light of the foregoing incident (and yes,
the victims were white), which is typical. ‘.. while walking through Military
Park (a sliver of a “park” - more a pedestrian thoroughfare/cement walks) in
newark, new jersey on the way to the bank during lunch hour, I heard the
clearly audible screams/cries of what turned out to be an old lady on the
ground with blood streaming from her mouth. I ran toward the sound of the
cries, the source of which I could not see because there were so many people in
and about this thoroughfare so as to block any vision of the source of the
cries. When I came to the woman, on the ground, blood streaming from her mouth,
I asked what happened, to which she responded she had been hit in the mouth and
knocked to the ground, her purse stolen/put inside her shopping bag, and she
pointed out the criminal casually now walking across the main street. Nobody
stopped to help her, many having passed her by. I slammed the thug to the
ground so hard that, in light of all the blood and confusion (limbic system /
adrenalin flow) I thought I had been stabbed (the blood was from his elbows
hitting the pavement so hard - no one helped / a crowd gathered / an undercover
cop happened along). When I testified at the Grand Jury Proceeding I made sure
his threat on my life was set forth in prima facie fashion so as to maximize
the DA’s position with both felonies ( he went to prison – pled out ). The
other case I wrote about here ( This was included on my website in the
Psychology forum discussion of ‘bystander effect’ / diffusion of responsibility.
) - Having had occasion to have run down a mugger in newark, n.j. who
apparently had followed a girl from the bank on her way to the bursar to pay
tuition, though in pretty good shape, I was astounded by how totally exhausting
such a pursuit was, how much like rubber my arms were when I traded punches
with the perpetrator, and truth be told, if I had a flashlight on my belt, I
have little doubt that I would have probably used it to subdue the perp (a
police officer here in California was the object of intense criticism for
having used a flashlight to subdue a criminal/ nigger after a long chase so I included that here) . The girl was not
that seriously injured, did get her pocketbook and tuition back, and the criminal
/ nigger went to jail (where they belong). The other thing about such a pursuit
that amazed me was that no one else assisted the girl or me despite being in a
position to do so. I was also mugged by 4 niggers and 2 hispanics in an
incident here in Los Angeles, CA. But, to be fair and balanced, the RICO
litigation involves those uncivilized who consider themselves ‘whites’ http://albertpeia.com/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
(predominantly but not exclusively jews / romans-italians / mobsters /
government slugs). ]
Black Serial/Mass/Spree Killer List:
1. Matthew Emanuel Macon
(Murdered and Raped 5 White Women in Lansing)
2. Jimmie Reed
(Murdered his wife and his 2 month old daughter and set them on fire)
3. Shelly Brooks
(Murdered 7 prostitutes in Detroit Cass Corridor)
4. Justin Blackshere (Stabbed two white cooks
at Cheli’s Chili downtown Detroit)
5. Jervon Miguel Coleman
(Murdered three people.)
6. Donell Ramon Johnson
(Murdered a mother and a daughter)
7. Brian Ranard Davis
(6 women known murdered by nigger)
8. Paul Durousseau
(Seven women)
9. Mark Goudeau “The Baseline Killer” (Eight
women and a man in 2005-2006)
10. Coral Eugene Watts
(11 women in Texas & 1 in Michigan)
11. Anthony McKnight
(Five girls and young women)
12. Derrick Todd Lee (8
Women)
13. Charles Lendelle Carter
(4 known murders; admits to ‘hunting’ Atlantans for 15 years!)
14. The Zebra Killings
(71 White people)
15. Chester Turner
(L.A.s most prolific killer 12 women killed.)
16. Lorenzo J. Gilyard
(Kansas City, MO.—13 victims)
17. Eugene Victor Britt
(Gary, IN.–3 known murder/rapes.)
18. Reginald and Jonathan Carr
(The Wichita Massacre–6 Whites murdered)
19. Ray Joseph Dandridge and his
uncle, Ricky Gevon Gray (Richmond, VA.–Murdered 7 people in 7 days,
including an entire White family.)
20. The Tinley Park Murderer
(Suspect hasn’t been found but has been described as black – murdered 5 women
in a store.)
21. Henry Louis Wallace
(Raped and strangled 5 women to death.)
22. Charles Johnston
(Murdered 3 unarmed white men in hospital)
23. Craig Price (Brutally murdered 3 women)
24. Harrison Graham
(Brually Murdered 3 women)
25. Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton
(Murdered 6 Whites at the Kirkwood, MO. city council. )
26. & 27. Darnell Hartsfeld & Romeo
Pinkerton (Abducted and Murdered 5 from a restaurant)
28 &29. John Allen Muhammad & Lee Boyd Malvo (Sniped 11 people from a
car in DC, 9 died.)
30. George Russell (3 women, WA state)
31. Timothy W. Spencer (5 killed, Arlington, VA and Richmond, VA)
32. Elton M. Jackson (12 gay men killed, Norfolk, VA area)
33. Carlton Gary (3 killed in Columbus, GA)
34. Mohammed Adam Omar (16 women, Yemen. Omar is Sudanese.)
35. Kendall Francois (8 women, Poughkeepsie, NY and surrounding areas.)
36. Terry A. Blair (8 women, Kansas City area)
37. Wayne Williams (33 many of them children!, Atlanta, GA)
38. Vaughn Greenwood (11 killed in LA)
39. Andre Crawford (10 killed in Chicago – southside)
40. Calvin Jackson (9 killed possibley more in NY)
41. Gregory Klepper (killed 8, Chicago – southside)
42. Alton Coleman (Killed 8 in the Midwest)
43. Harrison Graham (killed 7+ in N. Philadelphia)
44. Cleophus Prince (6 killed in, San Diego
45. Robert Rozier (7 killed in, Miami)
46. Maurice Byrd (killed 20 + in St. Louis)
47. Maury Travis (17 and rising, St. Louis and possibly also Atlanta)
48. Hulon Mitchell, a.k.a. Yahweh Ben Yahweh (killed 20+ in Florida)
49. Lorenzo Fayne (killed 5 children in East St. Louis, IL)
50. Paul Durousseau, (killed 6, two of which were pregnant women, Jacksonville,
FL; Georgia.)
51. Eddie Lee Mosley (killed 25 to 30 women, south Florida)
52. Henry Lee Jones (killed 4 in, south Florida; Bartlett, TN)
53. Richard “Babyface” Jameswhite (15 killed in, New York; Georgia.)
54. Donald E. Younge, Jr. (killed 4), East St. Louis, IL; Salt Lake City, UT.
55. Ivan Hill (killed 6
in Los Angeles area).
56. Michael Vernon (Bronx, NY. Killed at least seven people – )
57. Chester Dewayne Turner (12 women killed in, Los Angeles)
ARREST MADE IN LOS ANGELES GRIM SLEEPER SERIAL KILLER CASE July
07, 2010 http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-07/justice/grim.sleeper.arrest_1_lonnie-david-franklin-serial-killer-case-family-members?_s=PM:CRIME|By
Mallory Simon, CNN ‘Authorities in California said Wednesday they have arrested
a suspect in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case and will charge him with 10
counts of murder.Lonnie David Franklin Jr., 57, faces an additional count of
attempted murder, Capt. Kevin McClure with the Los Angeles Police Department
said.Franklin will arraigned in court Thursday morning, McClure said.The
California Attorney General's office attributed the arrest to DNA collected
from a relative of the suspect, in a controversial and rarely used practice
known as familial DNA search.’ Of Course There Are Black
Serial Killersby Lynette Holloway on July 15, 2010 The case of the "Grim
Sleeper" inspires a second look at the popular perception that serial
killing is the province of clever white men. Serial Murderers' RowJuly 16, 2010 The following black men are
among the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/gallery-meet-6-black-serial-killersPlus: Behind the myth
that only white men commit such crimes. Black Serial Killers Not So Uncommonhttp://www.amren.com/news/news04/03/03/blackserial.html 200 Involved In Fights At Mall Of America After
Rumors That Rappers Are There...
Miami Heat Players Don Hoodies... 'Dead or Alive' Poster Issued by New Black Panther
Party... [ ‘Minority Report’ Division of Pre-Crime, Pre-Cogs say,
‘Dead or Alive – all niggers’ … whatever the outcome in the investigative
process, the stark reality is that at least, unlike the niggers committing many
more ‘black on white’ violent crimes,Zimmerman
(and this is no endorsement – I won’t be looking at this one incident all that
closely) was at least trying to do a good thing made necessary by the ever
increasing number of brutal crimes committed by the black thugs in
neighborhoods across the nation; then there’s somalian pirates, etc.. People
domestically and internationally are suffering from nigger-fatigue and are
totally niggered out. Oh, yeah, there are some Hollywood types who feel good
about themselves having niggers around and helping niggers to help them feel
better than they really are, insecure as they are, by being better than at
least someone beyond fantasy. Loony george clooney is one. Dreadfully boring
and with that monotone, monotonous voice and not that bright, he’s not even
able to fake it on screen as an action hero (ie., batman, what a horrific
miscast) wimpy pussy in reality that he is; then there’s the ‘black (sean)
penn’ who cried like a baby while incarcerated for a couple of days not that
long ago. The atheist jolie, so fatherly troubled as she is, has let the equally
mentally troubled pitt (she so nutty she makes him feel somewhat sane though
still not too bright) and pendulum ‘backwoods bob’ be the closest she’s gotten
to her black projects. Let them live anonomously (in disguise) with the niggers
for some time for a real close look and then see what’s left of their
predisposed love for the nigger. Then there’s the italian scallion, booby
deniro; drug addled as his black wife high-tower, what a total embarrassment to
Italians everywhere; even as he tried to ingratiate himself recently with
niggers everywhere and particularly national embarrassment mammy michele with
the embarrassing pro-nigger first lady remark..[ Send the niggers back to sub-saharan Africa! ] 'BLACK NIGGERS [ NOT WHITES BY NIGGERS THE
IMPLICATION DESPITE FACTUAL DATA TO THE CONTRARY] ARE UNDER ATTACK [ SAYS NIGGER SHAKEDOWN ARTIST JACKSON] '
[ Hold on one cotton-pickin’ minute jesse, that’s not what the facts say Obama: ‘If I
had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.’ [ Yeah! He’d look just like any
other nigger. And, don’t worry about the black vote, failed president wobama
the b for b***s*** will get nearly if not all, 100% of the nigger vote!
Drudgereport:Farrakhan Threatens 'Retaliation'… [ Retaliation? Can
you imagine the number of blacks that would have to be retaliated against based
upon the hushed reality of the prevalence of black on white crime? The blacks
should be careful what they wish for in playing that game because the facts
don’t break in their favor. ] ...
People
have become weary of making up excuses for blacks (like obama, holder, etc.).
At some point, as now, people should not be timid about relating the cold,
unvarnished truth statistically / factually about blacks and, ie.,black on white violent crime, etc..
From
Pat Buchanan: As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in
interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama
aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time,
black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware
that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that
black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of
this decade as the reverse? We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about
Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes.
But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear
nothing.
The
reality is that blacks are an insoluble problem wherever they are. That’s not
going to ever change; not make-shift/make-work jobs; not programs; not anything
tried or to be tried; hence, they must be treated as exactly that – problems –
before a solution can be derived and fashioned. ] [ Send the niggers, including
niggerbama back to sub-saharan africa! ]}
Obama:
‘We Have Accomplished As Much, If Not More, Than Any Time in Our History’{ Indeed … all the wrong things
(particularly from a managerial perspective as defined by the late, brilliant
Peter F. Drucker). It’s very unlikely that pervasively corrupt, defacto
bankrupt america will ever recover from the egregious missteps, cover-ups, and
obfuscations. }
CNSNews.com | President
Barack Obama told the crowd at a Democratic fundraiser in Beverly Hills on
Tuesday that he has accomplished “as much, if not more” than any other
president.
{12-7-13Pearl Harbor Dayhttp://www.douglasdietrich.comWow!History, indeed. The great, astute, and incisive Napoleon put it this
way … ‘History is but a fable that is agreed upon’ … He also said, ‘From the
sublime to the ridiculous is but a step’….. Indeed!}
Do
you ever find yourself reading a story so unbelievable that you simply do not
know how to get your brain to properly process the data? I came upon such a
story yesterday and I intend to report it but ultimately you need to decide
what you believe. I am not afraid to print anything for discussion, but I will
not characterize this story as undeniable truth. I want to throw it out so
people can process it at their own pace. It might take me awhile. Fair enough?
Dr. Jim Garrow is a former Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He was
responsible for bringing the military
litmus tests (whether soldiers will fire on American citizens) to light
early in 2013. I believed that story because there have been other sources to
report similar occurrences, including the infamous 29 Palms survey.
Dr. Jim Garrow is one of the last
people I would expect to be a CIA Agent, but…
I really think they would have locked
him up already for making claims like that if they were not true. I’m not
sure what to believe. But wouldn’t portraying yourself as a former
CIA Agent be some sort of crime?
Well those stories seem like back page news compared to the
potential bombshell that Garrow just dropped. I don’t like Barack Obama one
bit. I think he is hell bent on destroying America. But would he nuke America?
Like I said, you will have to decide.
Liberty Digest reprinted two Facebook statuses of Dr. Jim
Garrow from November 18th and 19th that have since been removed by Facebook:
Three
individuals have just saved 300 million lives in the past 2 weeks. They saved
the 90% of the population that would be dead if Bathhouse Barry had not been
stopped from using 3 nuclear devices against the American populace. 2 Army
Generals and 1 Navy Admiral, whose duties included the safeguarding and
oversight of the nuclear arsenal. Obama ordered that 3 nukes be transported in
a major breach of protocol and safety regulations of long standing. He wanted
it NOW, and these officers were made aware of what the intention was. The
admiral had the one Navy nuke taken 200 miles off South Carolina and detonated
deep in the ocean. The other 2 nukes disappeared thanks to the handiwork of the
2 Generals, the numbers 1 and 2 men in charge of the Army ordinance. These
three men are heroes of the highest order. Look up the events of 2 Generals and
1 Admiral being dismissed in the past two weeks and you will find their names.
They saved your lives and the lives of 300 million of your fellow citizens.
Mr. Obama’s intention was to set
off the three nukes to devastate all computer related systems on the continent
thus taking America back 200 years and guaranteeing a total breakdown in
society and with in one year the death of 300 million Americans. To see how
this would be possible read, “One Second After”. You can get it on Amazon.
We peered over the edge of the
precipice of the death of our civilization and have lived to tell the tale. 3
heroes stood tall for America and the mad man in the white house was stopped
for the first time in his life. He is unsure of what to do just now and he does
not possess the keys to the nuclear submarines nor the two nukes that are now
hidden. For the first time in his life someone said no, meant it, and stopped
him from murder and devastation. The next few days are critical. Be afraid and
go to prepper sites to find out how to save your family, if you can. – Dr. Jim
Garrow, Nov. 18, 2013
In the condominium complex in
Casa Grande, Arizona, where I have a unit, a visit was made yesterday by a
group of 4 men in a black Suburban with lots of antenna’s on the roof. The
management of our large group of condo’s was asked to open the door of my unit.
The badges were a combination of many different alphabet agencies including my
former one. Interesting because after I posted about EMP’s and missing nukes my
phone rang late in the evening and I was requested to cease and desist. My
posts have been removed. I am not however repentant, nor cowed. If anything
like this happens again I have instructed people to begin the release of
documents and information as per prepared plans in the hands of these people.
Obama is known for overplaying his hand, and now should be known far and wide
as a dangerous amateur. He may have gotten Breitbart, Hastings and Clancy, but
they were just writers. I hope that he enjoys the protests today in DC. – Dr. Jim
Garrow, Nov. 19, 2013
Charles Burris | The real legacy of Nelson Mandela.The Truth About Nelson Mandela Stefan Molyneux | Mandela
is portrayed in the mainstream media as a peace-loving anti-apartheid
revolutionary. }
Infowars.com
December 7, 2013
Nelson Mandela, working with the
Soviet Union, wanted to replace Apartheid tyranny with a Marxist dictatorship.
He and his followers hijacked the Anti-Apartheid Movement in an attempt to
bring communism to South Africa.
In the first half, renegade
military historian Douglas
Dietrich will discuss what his research has uncovered about the attack on
Pearl Harbor and how FDR's administration provoked Japan and led the United
States into war in order to pull the country out of the Great Depression.
In the second half, Jim Garrow
of Pink Pagoda will talk
about the consequences of China's one child per couple policy.
There
is a hot new game being played in cities all over America, and it is very
simple. You pick out a defenseless person on the street and you try to
knock them out. In most areas, it is known as “the knockout game”.
In some communities it is called by other names such as “point-em-out,
knock-em-out” and “polar bear hunting”. In many instances, the
perpetrators don’t even try to steal anything from the people that they knock
out. The goal is just to “have fun” by brutally attacking an innocent
victim. Well, if this is what young thugs in America will do for fun when
times are still good, what will they be willing to do when our economy really
starts falling apart? Yes, the U.S. economy has
definitely been steadily declining, but the truth is that what we are
experiencing right now is rip-roaring prosperity compared to what is coming in
the years ahead. So what will the streets of America look like when
things get really bad? (Read
More.....)
Are
you deeply concerned about the future of America? Is something in your
gut telling you that our system is fundamentally broken and that the mainstream
media is not telling you the truth about what is happening? If so, you
are definitely not alone. Right now, there are millions upon millions of
Americans that are absolutely horrified as they watch this nation
deteriorate. In fact, according to an analysis of recent polling data
conducted by Real Clear Politics,
approximately 68 percent of all Americans believe that the country is on the
wrong track and only 23.5 percent of all Americans believe that the country is
on the right track. And of course our problems did not appear just
recently. In fact, many of them are the result of decades of very foolish
decisions and they are not going to be fixed easily. Unfortunately, there
is very little consensus among Americans about how to fix any of our problems.
There is more anger, frustration, hatred and division in the United States
today than there has been in decades, and there is very little hope that the
great storms that are looming on the horizon will be averted. Those that
are wise are preparing for what is coming. Those that are not are going
to be absolutely blindsided by what is rapidly approaching. (Read More....)
The
too big to fail banks have a larger share of the U.S. banking industry than
they have ever had before. So if having banks that were too big to fail
was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today? As you will
read about below, the total number of banks in the United States has fallen to
a brand new all-time record low and that means that the health of the too big
to fail banks is now more critical to our economy than ever. In 1985,
there were more than 18,000 banks in
the United States. Today, there are only 6,891 left, and that number continues to
drop every single year. That means that more than 10,000 U.S. banks have
gone out of existence since 1985. Meanwhile, the too big to fail banks
just keep on getting even bigger. In fact, the six largest banks in the
United States (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman
Sachs and Morgan Stanley) have collectively gotten 37 percent larger
over the past five years. If even one of those banks collapses, it would
be absolutely crippling to the U.S. economy. If several of them were to
collapse at the same time, it could potentially plunge us into an economic
depression unlike anything that this nation has ever seen before. (Read More....)
Have you noticed that this
December is unusually cold so far? Could the fact that we have had a
record number of volcanoes erupt in 2013 be responsible? Certainly an unusually calm solar cycle is playing a
significant role in producing all of this cold weather, but as you will see
below the truth is that throughout human history volcanic eruptions have
produced some of the coldest winters ever recorded. In fact, there have
been some major eruptions that have actually substantially reduced global
temperatures for two to three years. So should we be alarmed that the
number of volcano eruptions this year was the highest ever recorded?
Could it be possible that we are heading for a period of global cooling as a
result? And if the planet does cool significantly, could that lead to
widespread crop failures and mass famine? Don’t think that it can’t
happen. In fact, it has happened before and it is only a matter of time
until it happens again.
I knew that we were seeing an
unusual amount of volcanic activity around the planet so far (Read More...)
When
QE1 ended there was a substantial stock market correction, and when QE2 ended
there was a substantial stock market correction. And if you will
remember, the financial markets threw a massive hissy fit a few months ago when
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that the Fed may soon start
tapering QE3. Clearly Wall Street does not like it when their supply of
monetary heroin is interrupted. The Federal Reserve has tricked the
American people into supporting quantitative easing by insisting that it is about
"stimulating the economy", but that has turned out to be a massive
hoax. In fact, I just wrote an article that contained 37 statistics that prove that things just keep
getting even worse for ordinary Americans. But quantitative easing has
been exceptionally good for Wall Street. During
QE1, the S&P 500 rose by about 300 points. During QE2, the S&P
500 rose by about 200 points. And during QE3, the S&P 500 has risen
by about 400 points. The S&P 500 is now in unprecedented territory,
and stock prices have become completely and totally divorced from
reality. In essence, we are in the midst of the largest financial bubble this
nation has ever seen. So what is going to happen when the Fed starts
pulling back the monetary crack and the bubble bursts? (Read More....)
The
“coming persecution of Christians” has already begun. It is already
here. So why is the mainstream media in the United States almost totally silent
about this phenomenon? When some politician somewhere around the globe
inadvertently offends homosexuals or Muslims, it instantly makes headline
news. But very few Americans are even aware that it has been estimated
that 100
million Christians are currently facing persecution and that approximately
100,000 Christians die for their faith each year. As you are about to
see, Christians all over the world are being burned alive, beheaded, crucified,
tortured to death and imprisoned in metal shipping containers just because of
what they believe. This persecution goes on year after year and it is
steadily intensifying. But the governments of the western world and the
mainstream media are almost entirely ignoring what is happening. (Read
More.....)
Why are huge numbers of dead
birds dropping dead and washing up along the coastlines of Alaska? It is
being reported that many of the carcases of the dead birds are “broken open and
bleeding”. The photo of some of these dead birds at the top of this
article was originally posted by Alaska native David Akeya on Facebook.
You can find more photos of these dead birds right here. And of course it isn’t
just birds that are dying. As you will see below, something is causing
mass death events among various populations of fish as well. In addition,
it has been reported that large numbers of polar bears, seals and walruses in
Alaska are being affected by hair loss and “oozing sores”. So precisely what
is causing all of this? Could Fukushima be responsible? Authorities
are claiming that all of this is being caused by “disease” or “harsh weather”,
but are they actually telling us the truth? Evaluate the evidence that I
have shared below and decide for yourself…
#1 Something is causing large numbers of dead
birds to wash up on shores all (Read More...)
Back in 2009, Al Gore boldly declared that “the entire
north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely
ice-free within the next five to seven years.” Well, it turns out that
was a lie along with almost everything else that Al Gore has been
peddling. The truth is that the polar ice cap is actually growing.
It is about 50 percent larger than it was at this time last year. And as
you will read about below, a shocking UN report that was recently leaked shows
that the planet has actually not been warming for the past 15 years. So
if you are breathlessly anticipating that “global warming” will soon bring on
the apocalypse, you can stop waiting. On the other hand, there is rising
concern about what “global cooling” will soon do to the planet as we suffer
through the beginning of the coldest winter in decades. Thanks to an unusually quiet solar cycle and an (Read
More...)
“Let’s say somebody were [in the
White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division
among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the
principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial
stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears
coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now.”
That quote by Dr. Ben Carson
does a great job of capturing what is taking place in the United States right
now. If you wanted to destroy the most powerful nation on the planet, the
best way to do so would be to destroy it from the inside out. Right now,
America is more divided than it has been at any point in any of our
lifetimes. Anger and frustration are growing to unprecedented levels, and
one recent survey discovered that the level of trust that Americans have in one
another (Read
More...)
All
over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into
crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair. Of course the most
famous example of this is Detroit. At one time, Detroit was the greatest
manufacturing city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per
capita income in the entire country. But now it has become a rotting,
decaying hellhole that the rest of the planet laughs at. And of course
Detroit is far from alone. There are hundreds of other U.S. cities that
are suffering a similar fate. In this article, the focus is going to be
on Camden, New Jersey, but the truth is that there are lots of other
"Detroits" and "Camdens" all over the nation. Jobs
and businesses are leaving our cities at a staggering rate, and what is being
left behind is poverty, crime and extreme desperation. (Read More....)
Obama:
Worst approval ratings since Nixon{ And, it’s not just obamacare … ‘As head of the executive branch, the
President was of course in charge of the FBI and the CIA.’ (and the NSA, IRS,
ATF, DOJ, DOD, DOS, etc.) ‘So the instruction to Haldeman was probably not, in
the most technical sense, an obstruction of justice. But it was certainly an
abuse of power or an abuse of agency. By almost any definition, it was an
impeachable offense.’ (page 296) … ‘The charge -Article One- would have to show
what Nixon had done to warrant impeachment.If direct actions could not be shown, it would note simply that the
President had condoned or acquiesced in the activities of others. (page 305)…
Coincidentally (for years I had meant to and finally), I have just (this very
date of this article, viz., December 17, 2013)finished reading ‘The Final Days’ Woodward/Bernstein, 1976. … My, my,
my, how times post (and pre, ie., LBJ) Nixon certainly have changed. The
magnitude of america’s decline and fall should no longer be understated. After
all, they’d all be as they should have been, at the least impeached (if not
jailed as required if ‘no one was above the law’, the typically
fictitious/disingenuous/fake american mantra as they went after Nixon) …
certainly the bushes and obama et als … and from my direct observation and
experience:…
See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdfhttp://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htmhttp://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm}
Business Insider | Explosive backlash against Obamacare.
Alex Jones & Paul
Joseph Watson |
America has been seized by an executive dictatorship.
On this
bombshell Tuesday, December 17 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex completely
exposes the accelerated destruction on property rights, privacy rights and
national sovereignty. In New York, police
harassed a man for washing his car in his own private driveway. In national
news, a federal judge in Washington ruled that the NSA's
domestic spying likely violates the Fourth Amendment and is "almost
Orwellian" in scope. He also said that James Madison, the architect of
the Constitution, would be aghast at the agency's dragnet. American lawyer and
activist Larry Klayman
joins Alex to break down what this historic ruling means for Americans. William
F. Jasper, senior
editor of The New American, also joins the show to explain in detail how the
Trans-Pacific Partnership will erode U.S. sovereignty.
The
unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve have decided that the time
has come to slightly taper the amount of quantitative easing that it has been
doing. On Wednesday, the Fed announced that monthly purchases of U.S.
Treasury bonds will be reduced from $45 billion to $40 billion, and monthly
purchases of mortgage-backed securities will be reduced from $35 billion to $30
billion. When this news came out, it sent shockwaves through financial
markets all over the planet. But the truth is that not that much has
really changed. The Federal Reserve will still be recklessly creating
gigantic mountains of new money out of thin air and massively intervening in
the financial marketplace. It will just be slightly less than
before. However, this very well could represent a very important
psychological turning point for investors. It is a signal that "the
party is starting to end" and that the great bull market of the past four
years is drawing to a close. So what is all of this going to mean for
average Americans? The following are 8 ways that "the taper" is
going to affect you and your family... (Read More....)
During
2013, America continued to steadily march down a self-destructive path toward
oblivion. As a society, our debt levels are completely and totally out of
control. Our financial system has been transformed into the largest
casino on the entire planet and our big banks are behaving even more recklessly
than they did just before the last financial crisis. We continue to see
thousands of businesses and millions of jobs get shipped out of the United
States, and the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated. Due to the
lack of decent jobs, poverty is absolutely exploding. Government
dependence is at an all-time high and crime is rising. Evidence of social
and moral decay is seemingly everywhere, and our government appears to be going
insane. If we are going to have any hope of solving these problems, the
American people need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and finally admit
how bad things have actually become. If we all just blindly have faith
that "everything is going to be okay", the consequences of decades of
incredibly foolish decisions are going to absolutely blindside us and we will
be absolutely devastated by the great crisis that is rapidly approaching.
The United States is in a massive amount of trouble, and it is time that we all
started facing the truth. The following are 83 numbers from 2013 that are
almost too crazy to believe... (Read More....)
And so for all you cat owners, here's the
Secret Code of Cat Behavior (or What Cats Know but Won't Tell You). If someone
claims to love cats and that all cats love him or her in return, lull
Most dog owners come
into the veterinary office with their canine companions devotedly following
them. Tails wagging, the dogs look up at their people with adoring eyes. Most
cat owners, on the other hand, wrestle a cardboard box into the exam room,
reach in like a magician and pull out not a rabbit, but an angry feline. For
their efforts they get covered with furry shrapnel and sometimes raked with
claws until their face and arms look like so many tic-tac-toe games. (It doesn't have to be like that, by the way.)
As a lifetime pet lover and
practicing veterinarian of more than 30 years, I've noticed a few things about
cats. And so for all you cat owners, here's the Secret Code of Cat Behavior (or
What Cats Know but Won't Tell You).
Strategically place your hairball. If you have to hack
up a hairball, toss it like a trophy onto something visible and
valuable, like the new leather couch. If you can't reach that in time, an
Oriental rug is an appropriate substitute.
Know the enemy and embrace him. If mom is entertaining,
determine quickly who hates or is allergic to cats, race immediately to
that person and leap into his or her lap. Mom's watching, so he won't dare
push you off and will even fake affection by stroking you and repeating, "Nice
kitty. Niiiice kitty."
Wear fur proudly. You must always select clothing in sharp
contrast to your own fur color on which to rub, leap or audition for the
president of the Hair Club for Cats. Again, dare to share.
Be Johnnie on the Spot. As a courtesy, always accompany
guests to the toilet. Your job is to sit and stare like you're a
peeping-tom cat. If you get some really good shots, post them on the
Internet and make a lot of bucks.
Let out your cat scratch fever. If someone claims to love
cats and that all cats love him or her in return, lull that person into
thinking you're a Stepford Cat. When his or her guard is dropped and the
perfect cat lover begins to bask in a snapshot moment, show utter disdain,
lay claw tracks across the expensive hosiery or silk
tie, or turn unexpectedly and give a quick nip deep enough to test
someone's blood type.
Find out what's behind door No. 3. Never allow closed
doors in any room except when you need to trap the dog. To crack open a
closed one, stand on your hind legs and jackhammer it with your forepaws,
scratch it like you're headed for China or put your paws underneath it and
keep pulling. Or just throw yourself against it repeatedly. Once the genie
appears and opens the door for you, change your mind and walk away.
Play paper weight. If you come across somebody doing
homework, paying bills or reading a magazine, settle down on the paper.
This may entitle you to flying lessons, but when you get back on the page
- and you will - make sure that you take everything with you - pens,
pencils, other papers - on your next scheduled flight.
Be a knit wit. If mom's into crocheting or knitting, curl
up quietly in her lap and pretend to catnap. Then spring into action by
grabbing the yarn and causing her knitting needles or crochet hook to
plunge sharply like a trophy catfish has just hit the bait. She'll try to
distract you and pick up the slipped stitch. Ignore her efforts to calm
you, close your eyes again and prepare for strike two.
And remember, early to bed, early to rise. Get plenty of
sleep both during the day and in the evening, when your people want you to
play. That way, you'll be fully rested and ready to rumble with Sleeping
Beauty anytime between 2 and 5 a.m.
And never forget the No. 1 rule
of being a cat: When in doubt, blame the dog.
December 23rd, 1913 is a date
which will live in infamy. That was the day when the Federal Reserve Act
was pushed through Congress. Many members of Congress were absent that
day, and the general public was distracted with holiday preparations. Now
we have reached the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, and most
Americans still don't know what it actually is or how it functions. But
understanding the Federal Reserve is absolutely critical, because the Fed is at
the very heart of our economic problems. Since the Federal Reserve was
created, there have been 18 recessions or depressions, the value of the U.S.
dollar has declined by 98 percent, and the U.S. national debt has gotten more than
5000 times larger. This insidious debt-based financial system has
literally made debt slaves out of all of us, and it is systematically
destroying the bright future that our children and our grandchildren were
supposed to have. If nothing is done, we are inevitably heading for a
massive amount of economic pain as a nation. So please share this article
with as many people as you can. The following are 100 reasons why the
Federal Reserve should be shut down forever... (Read More....)
#1 We like to think that we have a government
"of the people, by the people, for the people", but the truth is that
an unelected, unaccountable group of central planners has far more power over
our economy than anyone else in our society does.
#2 The Federal Reserve is actually
"independent" of the government. In fact, the Federal Reserve
has argued vehemently in federal court that it is "not an agency" of the federal government
and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
#3 The Federal Reserve openly admits that the
12 regional Federal Reserve banks are organized "much like private corporations".
#4 The regional Federal Reserve banks issue shares of stock to the "member banks"
that own them.
#5 100% of the shareholders of the Federal
Reserve are private banks. The U.S. government owns zero
shares.
#6 The Federal Reserve is not an agency of the
federal government, but it has been given power to regulate our banks and
financial institutions. This should not be happening.
#7 According to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, the
U.S. Congress is the one that is supposed to have the authority to "coin
Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of
Weights and Measures". So why is the Federal Reserve doing it?
#8 If you look at a "U.S. dollar",
it actually says "Federal Reserve note" at the top. In the
financial world, a "note" is an instrument of debt.
#9 In 1963, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive
Order 11110 which authorized the U.S. Treasury to issue "United
States notes" which were created by the U.S. government directly and not
by the Federal Reserve. He was assassinated shortly thereafter.
#11 The Federal Reserve determines what levels
some of the most important interest rates in our system are going to be set
at. In a free market system, the free market would determine those
interest rates.
#14 The Federal Reserve was designed to be a
perpetual debt machine. The bankers that designed it intended
to trap the U.S. government in a perpetual debt spiral from which it could
never possibly escape. Since the Federal Reserve was established 100
years ago, the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 5000 times
larger.
#15 A permanent federal income tax was
established the exact same year that the Federal Reserve was
created. This was not a coincidence. In order to pay for all of the
government debt that the Federal Reserve would create, a federal income tax was
necessary. The whole idea was to transfer wealth from our pockets to the
federal government and from the federal government to the bankers.
#16 The period prior to 1913 (when there was no
income tax) was the greatest period of economic growth in
U.S. history.
#17 Today, the U.S. tax code is about 13 miles long.
#18 From the time that the Federal Reserve was
created until now, the U.S. dollar has lost 98
percent of its value.
#19 From the time that President Nixon took us
off the gold standard until now, the U.S. dollar has lost 83
percent of its value.
#20 During the 100 years before the Federal
Reserve was created, the U.S. economy rarely had any problems with
inflation. But since the Federal Reserve was established, the
U.S. economy has experienced constant and never ending inflation.
#21 In the century before the Federal Reserve
was created, the average annual rate of inflation was about half a
percent. In the century since the Federal Reserve was created, the
average annual rate of inflation has been about 3.5 percent.
#22 The Federal Reserve has stripped the middle
class of trillions of dollars of wealth through the hidden tax of inflation.
#23 The size of M1 has
nearly doubled since 2008 thanks to the reckless money printing that
the Federal Reserve has been doing.
#24 The Federal Reserve has been starting to
behave like
the Weimar Republic, and we all remember how that ended.
#25 The Federal Reserve has been consistently
lying to us about the level of inflation in our economy. If
the inflation rate was still calculated the same way that it was back when
Jimmy Carter was president, the official rate of inflation would be somewhere between 8 and 10 percent today.
#26 Since the Federal Reserve was created,
there have been 18 distinct recessions or
depressions: 1918, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1929, 1937, 1945, 1949, 1953,
1958, 1960, 1969, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1990, 2001, 2008.
#27 Within 20 years of the creation of the
Federal Reserve, the U.S. economy was plunged into the Great Depression.
#28 The Federal Reserve created the conditions
that caused the stock market crash of 1929, and even
Ben Bernanke admits that the response by the Fed to that crisis made
the Great Depression even worse than it should have been.
#29 The "easy money" policies of
former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan set the stage for the great financial crisis
of 2008.
#30 Without the Federal Reserve, the
"subprime mortgage meltdown" would probably never have happened.
#31 If you can believe it, there have been 10 different economic recessions
since 1950. The Federal Reserve created the "dotcom bubble",
the Federal Reserve created the "housing bubble" and now it has
created the
largest bond bubble in the history of the planet.
#32 According to an official government report,
the Federal Reserve made 16.1
trillion dollars in secret loans to the big banks during the last
financial crisis. The following is a list of loan recipients that was
taken directly from page
131 of the report...
Citigroup - $2.513 trillion
Morgan Stanley - $2.041 trillion
Merrill Lynch - $1.949 trillion
Bank of America - $1.344 trillion
Barclays PLC - $868 billion
Bear Sterns - $853 billion
Goldman Sachs - $814 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland - $541 billion
JP Morgan Chase - $391 billion
Deutsche Bank - $354 billion
UBS - $287 billion
Credit Suisse - $262 billion
Lehman Brothers - $183 billion
Bank of Scotland - $181 billion
BNP Paribas - $175 billion
Wells Fargo - $159 billion
Dexia - $159 billion
Wachovia - $142 billion
Dresdner Bank - $135 billion
Societe Generale - $124 billion
"All Other Borrowers" - $2.639 trillion
#33 The Federal Reserve also paid those big
banks $659.4 million in "fees" to help
"administer" those secret loans.
#34 During the last financial crisis, big
European banks were allowed to borrow an "unlimited" amount
of money from the Federal Reserve at ultra-low interest rates.
#35 The "easy money" policies of
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have created the
largest financial bubble this nation has ever seen, and this has set
the stage for the great financial crisis that we are rapidly approaching.
#36 Since late 2008, the size of the Federal
Reserve balance sheet has grown from less than a trillion dollars to more than 4 trillion dollars. This is
complete and utter insanity.
#38 Overall, the Federal Reserve now holds more than 32 percent of all 10 year equivalents, and
that percentage is rising by about 0.3 percent each week.
#39 Quantitative easing creates financial
bubbles, and when quantitative easing ends those bubbles tend
to deflate rapidly.
#44 Most people have never heard about this,
but a very
interesting study conducted for the Bank of England shows that
quantitative easing actually increases the gap between the wealthy and the
poor.
#45 The gap between the top one percent and the
rest of the country is now the greatest that it has been since the 1920s.
#46 The mainstream media has sold quantitative
easing to the American public as an "economic stimulus program", but
the truth is that the percentage of Americans that have a job has
actually gone down since quantitative easing first began.
#47 The Federal Reserve is supposed to be able
to guide the nation toward "full employment", but the reality of the
matter is that an all-time record 102 million working age Americans do not have a job
right now. That number has risen by about 27 million since the year 2000.
#48 For years, the projections of economic
growth by the Federal Reserve have consistently overstated the strength of the U.S.
economy. But every single time, the mainstream media continues to report
that these numbers are "reliable" even though all they actually
represent is wishful thinking.
#49 The Federal Reserve system fuels the growth
of government, and the growth of government fuels the growth of the Federal
Reserve system. Since 1970, federal spending has grown nearly 12 times as rapidly as median household income
has.
#50 The Federal Reserve is supposed to look out
for the health of all U.S. banks, but the truth is that they only seem to be
concerned about the big ones. In 1985, there were more than 18,000 banks in the United States.
Today, there are only 6,891
left.
#51 The six largest banks in the United States
(JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and
Morgan Stanley) have collectively gotten 37
percent larger over the past five years.
#52 The U.S. banking system has 14.4 trillion
dollars in total assets. The six largest banks now account for 67
percent of those assets and all of the other banks account for only 33
percent of those assets.
#53 The five largest banks now account for 42
percent of all loans in the United States.
#54 We were told that the purpose of
quantitative easing is to help "stimulate the economy", but today the
Federal Reserve is actually paying the big banks not to lend out 1.8 trillion dollars in "excess
reserves" that they have parked at the Fed.
#55 The Federal Reserve has allowed an
absolutely gigantic derivatives bubble to inflate which could destroy our
financial system at any moment. Right now, four of the "too big to
fail" banks each have total exposure to derivatives that is well in excess
of 40
trillion dollars.
#56 The total exposure that Goldman Sachs has
to derivatives contracts is more
than 381 times greater than their total assets.
#57 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has a
track
record of failure that would make the Chicago Cubs look good.
#58 The secret November 1910 gathering at
Jekyll Island, Georgia during which the plan for the Federal Reserve was
hatched was attended by U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury Department A.P. Andrews and a whole host of representatives from
the upper crust of the Wall Street banking establishment.
#59 The Federal Reserve was created by the big
Wall Street banks and for the benefit of the big Wall Street banks.
#60 In 1913, Congress was promised that if the
Federal Reserve Act was passed that it would eliminate
the business cycle.
#61 There has
never been a true comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve since
it was created back in 1913.
#63 The following comes directly from the Fed's official mission statement: "To
provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and
financial system." Without a doubt, the Federal Reserve has failed
in those tasks dramatically.
#64 The Fed decides what the target rate of
inflation should be, what the target rate of unemployment should be and what
the size of the money supply is going to be. This is quite similar to the
"central
planning" that goes on in communist nations, but very few
people in our government seem upset by this.
#65 A couple of years ago, Federal Reserve
officials walked into one bank in Oklahoma and demanded that they take down all the Bible verses and all the
Christmas buttons that the bank had been displaying.
#66 The Federal Reserve has taken some other
very frightening steps in recent years. For example, back in 2011 the
Federal Reserve announced
plans to identify "key bloggers" and to monitor
"billions of conversations" about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter,
forums and blogs. Someone at the Fed will almost certainly end up reading
this article.
#67 Thanks to this endless debt spiral that we
are trapped in, a massive amount of money is transferred out of our pockets and
into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy each year. Incredibly, the U.S.
government spent more than 415 billion dollars just on interest on the
national debt in 2013.
#68 In September, the average rate of interest
on the government’s marketable debt was 1.981 percent. In January 2000, the average
rate of interest on the government’s marketable debt was 6.620 percent. If we got back to that level
today, we would be paying more than a trillion dollars a year just in interest
on the national debt and it would collapse our entire financial system.
#69 The American people are being killed by
compound interest but most of them don't even understand what it is.
Albert Einstein once made the following statement about compound interest...
"Compound
interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it …
he who doesn’t … pays it."
#70 Most Americans have absolutely no idea
where money comes from. The truth is that the Federal Reserve just
creates it out of thin air. The following is how I have previously
described how money is normally created by the Fed in our system...
When
the U.S. government decides that it wants to spend another billion dollars that
it does not have, it does not print up a billion dollars.
Rather,
the U.S. government creates a bunch of U.S. Treasury bonds (debt) and takes
them over to the Federal Reserve.
The
Federal Reserve creates a billion dollars out of thin air and exchanges them
for the U.S. Treasury bonds.
#71 What does the Federal Reserve do with those
U.S. Treasury bonds? They end up getting auctioned off to
the highest bidder. But this entire process actually creates
more debt than it does money...
The
U.S. Treasury bonds that the Federal Reserve receives in exchange for the money
it has created out of nothing are auctioned off through the Federal Reserve
system.
But
wait.
There
is a problem.
Because
the U.S. government must pay interest on the Treasury bonds, the amount of debt
that has been created by this transaction is greater than the amount of money
that has been created.
So
where will the U.S. government get the money to pay that debt?
Well,
the theory is that we can get money to circulate through the economy really,
really fast and tax it at a high enough rate that the government will be able
to collect enough taxes to pay the debt.
But
that never actually happens, does it?
And
the creators of the Federal Reserve understood this as well. They
understood that the U.S. government would not have enough money to both run the
government and service the national debt. They knew that the U.S.
government would have to keep borrowing even more money in an attempt to keep
up with the game.
#72 Of course the U.S. government could
actually create money and spend it directly into the economy without the
Federal Reserve being involved at all. But then we wouldn't be 17 trillion
dollars in debt and that wouldn't serve the interests of the bankers at all.
#73 The following is what Thomas
Edison once had to say about our absolutely insane debt-based
financial system...
That
is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we
are compelled to add to the national debt.
Now,
that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I,
that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United
States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 — that is what it amounts to,
with interest. People who will not turn a shovelful of dirt nor contribute a
pound of material will collect more money from the United States than will the
people who supply the material and do the work. That is the terrible thing
about interest. In all our great bond issues the interest is always greater
than the principal. All of the great public works cost more than twice the
actual cost, on that account. Under the present system of doing business we
simply add 120 to 150 per cent, to the stated cost.
But
here is the point: If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar
bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good.
#74 The United States now has the
largest national debt in the history of the world, and we are
stealing more than 100 million dollars from our children and our grandchildren
every single hour of every single day in a desperate attempt to keep the debt
spiral going.
I
wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would
be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of
our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an
additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.
#76 At this moment, the U.S. national debt is
sitting at $17,251,528,475,994.19. If we had followed the
advice of Thomas Jefferson, it would be sitting at zero.
#77 When the Federal Reserve was first
established, the U.S. national debt was sitting at about 2.9 billion dollars. On average, we
have been adding more than that to the national debt every single day
since Obama has been in the White House.
#78 We are on pace to accumulate more new debt
under the 8 years of the Obama administration than we did under all of the
other presidents in all of U.S. history combined.
#79 If all of the new debt that has been
accumulated since John Boehner became Speaker of the House had been given
directly to the American people instead, every household in America would have
been able to buy a new truck.
#80 Between 2008 and 2012, U.S. government debt
grew by 60.7
percent, but U.S. GDP only grew by a total of about 8.5
percent during that entire time period.
#81 Since 2007, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio has
increased from 66.6 percent to 101.6 percent.
#82 According to the U.S. Treasury, foreigners
hold approximately 5.6 trillion dollars of our debt.
#83 The amount of U.S. government debt held by
foreigners is about 5 times larger than it was just a decade ago.
#84 As I have written about previously,
if the U.S. national debt was reduced to a stack of one dollar bills it would
circle the earth at the equator 45
times.
#85 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of
his entire fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget
deficit for
15 days.
#86 Sometimes we forget just how much money a
trillion dollars is. If you were alive when Jesus Christ was born and you
spent one million dollars every single day since that point, you still would
not have spent one trillion dollars by now.
#87 If right this moment you went out and
started spending one dollar every single second, it would take you more than 31,000 years
to spend one trillion dollars.
#88 In addition to all of our debt, the U.S.
government has also accumulated more than 200 trillion dollars in unfunded
liabilities. So where in the world will all of that money come from?
#89 The greatest damage that quantitative
easing has been causing to our economy is the fact that it is destroying
worldwide faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. debt. If the rest of the
world stops using our dollars and stops buying our debt, we are going to be in a
massive amount of trouble.
#90 Over the past several years, the Federal Reserve
has been monetizing a staggering amount of U.S. government debt even
though Ben Bernanke once promised that he would never do this.
#92 Most Americans have no idea that one of our
most famous presidents was absolutely obsessed with getting rid of central
banking in the United States. The following is a
February 1834 quote by President Andrew Jackson about the evils of
central banking....
I
too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States.
I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have
used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When
you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it
to the Bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the Bank and annul
its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen,
but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand
families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and
thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal,
(bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out.
#93 There are plenty of possible alternative
financial systems, but at this point all 187 nations that belong to the IMF have a central
bank. Are we supposed to believe that this is just some sort of a bizarre
coincidence?
#94 The capstone of the global central banking
system is an organization known as the Bank for International
Settlements. The following is how I described this organization in a previous
article...
An
immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even
heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe. It is
called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of
central banks. It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also has
branches in Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is essentially an unelected,
unaccountable central bank of the world that has complete immunity from
taxation and from national laws. Even Wikipedia admits that "it is not accountable to any
single national government." The Bank for International
Settlements was used to launder money for the Nazis during World War II, but
these days the main purpose of the BIS is to guide and direct the
centrally-planned global financial system. Today, 58 global central banks
belong to the BIS, and it has far more power over how the U.S. economy (or any
other economy for that matter) will perform over the course of the next year
than any politician does. Every two months, the central bankers of the
world gather in Basel for another "Global Economy Meeting".
During those meetings, decisions are made which affect every man, woman and
child on the planet, and yet none of us have any say in what goes on. The
Bank for International Settlements is an organization that was founded by the
global elite and it operates for the benefit of the global elite, and it is
intended to be one of the key cornerstones of the emerging one world economic
system.
#95 The borrower is the servant of the lender,
and the Federal Reserve has turned all of us into debt slaves.
#96 Debt is a form of social control, and the
global elite use all of this debt to dominate all the rest of us. 40
years ago, the total amount of debt in our system (all government debt, all
business debt, all consumer debt, etc.) was sitting at about 2 trillion
dollars. Today, the grand total exceeds 56 trillion dollars.
#97 Unless something dramatic is done, our
children and our grandchildren will be debt slaves for their entire lives as
they service our debts and pay for our mistakes.
#98 Now that you know this information, you are
responsible for doing something about it.
#99 Congress has the power to shut down the
Federal Reserve any time that they would like. But right now most of our
politicians fully endorse the current system, and nothing is ever going to
happen until the American people start demanding change.
#100 The design of the Federal Reserve system
was flawed from the very beginning. If something is not done very
rapidly, it is inevitable that our entire financial system is going to suffer
an absolutely nightmarish collapse.
The truth is that we do not have
to have a Federal Reserve. The greatest period of economic growth in U.S.
history was when we did not have a central bank. If we are ever going to
turn this nation around economically, we are going to have to get rid of this
debt-based financial system that is centered around the Federal Reserve.
On the path that we are on now, there is no hope. Please share this
article with as many people as you can. It is imperative that we try to
wake the American people up while we still have time.
What
is being done to Phil Robertson shows just how far America has fallen.
The thought police are waging an all-out campaign to take down one of the
biggest names in the United States, and if they are successful none of us will
ever be safe again. We are becoming a nation that is governed by
bullying, intimidation and unwritten speech codes, and if you happen to say the
“wrong thing” you could lose everything. Liberal pundits are gleefully
declaring that making statements such as Robertson made “should get you
fired from most jobs“. That means that they believe that unless you
conform to their version of morality (or keep your mouth shut forever) you
should lose your job. So are you ready to lose your job for what you
believe? Because that is where we are heading. In the future, if
you do not conform to their politically correct Big Brother speech code, you
will be unemployable and you and your entire family will be outcasts from
society. That is why the Duck Dynasty controversy is so important.
This is a “line in the sand” moment, and if the thought police are successful
than those that refuse to abandon Biblical morality will soon be forced
underground. Do you really want to live in a country where a large
percentage of the population can no longer express what they believe to be
right and wrong? (Read More.....)
Sometimes our cameras can see
what human eyes cannot. Could what you are looking at actually be a photo
of a real angel? At a recent Promise Keepers conference in Cedar Falls,
Iowa a Baptist pastor took two photographs of the stage during a time of praise
and worship. Both of those photos show “a radiant, glowing white figure”
that was not supposed to be there and that could not be seen with the naked
eye. At the time these photos were taken, the band on the stage was
singing these words: “Jesus, take all of me. I run to you, I run to you. I lay
everything at your feet. Let my life be yours.” Could it be possible that
the camera picked up an angel that was standing on the stage during that time
of praise and worship? Could this picture actually be physical evidence
that angels really exist? You have to admit that the image in this
photograph is pretty compelling. Here is a closer look at the photo… (Read
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NSA leaker: 'Mission's already accomplished'Boston.com -Edward
Snowden is seen in a hotel room in Moscow in December, 2013. Snowden The
Washington Post Edward Snowden is seen in a hotel room in Moscow in December,
2013.
Naked greed on full displayVancouver
SunThe Wolf of Wall Street.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Spike Jonze, Jon Bernthal, Jean
Dujardin, Margot Robbie. Directed by: Martin Scorsese.
NKorean
cartoon teaches kids geometry by calculating missile strikes against America...{ Riiiiight! In the rational, real world
such lessons are more accurately known as lessons in suicide as in how to end
their own lives … they are so hideously and unequivocally at once, ugly and
pathetic … north korea is a second-rate failed communist nation/state unable to
even feed their own people … ‘Let them eat missiles’ says ugly ‘kim jun un very
ill’ in Marie Antoinette fashion … time to end their misery by turning north
korea into an east asian parking lot! }
TRENTON, N.J. -
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going on the offensive after a former
loyalist said he had evidence that the Republican governor knew more than he
had admitted about an apparently politically motivated traffic jam ordered by
one of his ...
QUEEN
HANDS OVER THE REIGNS...In the tradition of ‘The Lionheart’, King Charles
is the only world leader with courage and wisdom enough to speak out
unequivocally as to the persecution of Christians globally!
{ I’ve had occasion to read the well-written and well-documented
authoritative book, ‘Murder in Italy’, by award-winning italian-american
author, Candace Dempsey, which documents the horrific travesty called ‘italian
justice’ (actually blatant injustice) torturously imposed upon Amanda Knox et
als (rudy guede excepted). So outrageous but typical of these typical italians
( like packs of the rabid dogs they are pre-disposed to be). (Parenthetically,
my grandparents, both of whom I loved and respected – Elsie/Nanny, Bari, Italy
and Martin/Mario/PopPop (Peia), Lake Como, Italy – were not typical as such;
but rather, thoroughly modern in all respects relative to time and extremely
civilized in a manner to be emulated … although, truth be told, I found
italians with mob/mafia links/connections/sympathies to be like those rabid
perugians/italians who outrageously pilloried Amanda Knox, See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdfhttp://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htmhttp://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm) }
RT | A former CIA analyst is
suing the State Department for putting him on a watch list.
US
to violate own laws by financially aiding Ukraine’s coup-installed govt –
Moscow{ Really quite amazing as
u.s./nato foment/support/finance revolutions/coup d’etats then seek to, ie.,
disenfranchise Russian Ukranians (Crimea) from democratic choice of Russia as
opposed to the failed/corrupt/oppressive western regimes; viz.,
u.s./eu/nato/coup state.} RT |
Washington’s decision to provide financial aid to the coup-appointed government
of Ukraine goes against the US laws, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.
Obama
Exploiting Ukraine to Empower IMF and Dictatorships{ Really quite amazing as u.s./nato
foment/support/finance revolutions/coup d’etats then seek to, ie.,
disenfranchise Russian Ukranians (Crimea) from democratic choice of Russia as
opposed to the failed/corrupt/oppressive western regimes; viz.,
u.s./eu/nato.}
Alex Newman | IMF is now openly proposing wholesale
global wealth confiscation and plundering.
KDLG.org | NPR
claims, “The tax penalty is designed to encourage people to sign up for health
insurance.”
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players into the heart of the action for the first time, is poised to take
gaming to the next level as the electronics ...
Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium on the fringe of
London's financial district is cashing in on an idea first popularized in Japan
to allow stressed-out workers
The State Department has no idea
what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.
In a special “management alert”
made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick
warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the
department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years.
The alert was just the latest
example of the federal government’s continued struggle with oversight over its outside
contractors.
The lack of oversight “exposes
the department to significant financial risk,” the auditor said. “It creates
conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal
evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file.
It impairs the ability of the Department to take effective and timely action to
protect its interests, and, in tum, those of taxpayers.”
In the memo, the IG detailed
“repeated examples of poor contract file administration.” For instance,
a recent investigation of the closeout process for contracts supporting
the mission in Iraq, showed that auditors couldn't find 33 of the 115 contract
files totaling about $2.1 billion. Of the remaining 82 files, auditors said 48
contained insufficient documents required by federal law.
In another instance, the Bureau
of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement issued a $1 billion contract in
Afghanistan that was deemed “incomplete.”
The auditor recommended that the
State Department establish a centralized system to track, maintain and retain
contract files.
The department responded and
said it concurred with the recommendations to address the “vulnerability” in
its contracting process.
Before Linick took office last
fall, the State Department had been without an inspector general position for
five years—the longest
IG vacancy in the government’s history, as noted in The Washington Post.
We think of psychopaths as
killers, alien, outside society. But, says the scientist who has spent his life
studying them, you could have one for a colleague, a friend – or a spouse
Anders
Breivik, the Norwegian gunman who killed 77 people in a bomb and shooting
rampage in 2011Photo: AP/Berit Roald
There
are a few things we take for granted in social interactions with people. We
presume that we see the world in roughly the same way, that we all know certain
basic facts, that words mean the same things to you as they do to me. And we
assume that we have pretty similar ideas of right and wrong.
But
for a small – but not that small – subset of the population, things are very
different. These people lack remorse and empathy and feel emotion only
shallowly. In extreme cases, they might not care whether you live or die. These
people are called psychopaths. Some of them are violent criminals, murderers.
But by no means all.
Professor
Robert Hare is a criminal psychologist, and the creator of the PCL-R, a
psychological assessment used to determine whether someone is a psychopath. For
decades, he has studied people with psychopathy, and worked with them, in
prisons and elsewhere. “It stuns me, as much as it did when I started 40 years
ago, that it is possible to have people who are so emotionally disconnected
that they can function as if other people are objects to be manipulated and
destroyed without any concern,” he says.
Our
understanding of the brain is still in its infancy, and it’s not so many
decades since psychological disorders were seen as character failings. Slowly
we are learning to think of mental illnesses as illnesses, like kidney disease
or liver failure, and developmental disorders, such as autism, in a similar
way. Psychopathy challenges this view. “A high-scoring psychopath views the
world in a very different way,” says Hare. “It’s like colour-blind people
trying to understand the colour red, but in this case ‘red’ is other people’s
emotions.”
At
heart, Hare’s test is simple: a list of 20 criteria, each given a score of 0
(if it doesn’t apply to the person), 1 (if it partially applies) or 2 (if it
fully applies). The list in full is: glibness and superficial charm, grandiose
sense of self-worth, pathological lying, cunning/manipulative, lack of remorse,
emotional shallowness, callousness and lack of empathy, unwillingness to accept
responsibility for actions, a tendency to boredom, a parasitic lifestyle, a
lack of realistic long-term goals, impulsivity, irresponsibility, lack of
behavioural control, behavioural problems in early life, juvenile delinquency,
criminal versatility, a history of “revocation of conditional release” (ie
broken parole), multiple marriages, and promiscuous sexual behaviour. A pure,
prototypical psychopath would score 40. A score of 30 or more qualifies for a
diagnosis of psychopathy. Hare says: “A friend of mine, a psychiatrist, once
said: ‘Bob, when I meet someone who scores 35 or 36, I know these people really
are different.’ The ones we consider to be alien are the ones at the upper
end.”
But
is psychopathy a disorder – or a different way of being? Anyone reading the
list above will spot a few criteria familiar from people they know. On average,
someone with no criminal convictions scores 5. “It’s dimensional,” says Hare.
“There are people who are part-way up the scale, high enough to warrant an
assessment for psychopathy, but not high enough up to cause problems. Often
they’re our friends, they’re fun to be around. They might take advantage of us
now and then, but usually it’s subtle and they’re able to talk their way around
it.” Like autism, a condition which we think of as a spectrum, “psychopathy”,
the diagnosis, bleeds into normalcy.
We
think of psychopaths as killers, criminals, outside society. People such as
Joanna Dennehy, a 31-year-old British woman who killed three men in 2013 and
who the year before had been diagnosed with a psychopathic personality
disorder, or Ted Bundy, the American serial killer who is believed to have
murdered at least 30 people and who said of himself: “I’m the most cold-blooded
son of a bitch you’ll ever meet. I just liked to kill.” But many psychopathic
traits aren’t necessarily disadvantages – and might, in certain circumstances,
be an advantage. For their co-authored book, “Snakes in suits: When Psychopaths
go to work”, Hare and another researcher, Paul Babiak, looked at 203 corporate
professionals and found about four per cent scored sufficiently highly on the
PCL-R to be evaluated for psychopathy. Hare says that this wasn’t a proper
random sample (claims that “10 per cent of financial executives” are
psychopaths are certainly false) but it’s easy to see how a lack of moral
scruples and indifference to other people’s suffering could be beneficial if
you want to get ahead in business.
The
American serial killer Ted Bundy, who is believed to have murdered at least 30
people
“There
are two kinds of empathy,” says James Fallon, a neuroscientist
at the University of California and author of The Psychopath Inside: A
Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain. “Cognitive
empathy is the ability to know what other people are feeling, and emotional
empathy is the kind where you feel what they’re feeling.” Autistic people can
be very empathetic – they feel other people’s pain – but are less able to
recognise the cues we read easily, the smiles and frowns that tell us what
someone is thinking. Psychopaths are often the opposite: they know what you’re
feeling, but don’t feel it themselves. “This all gives certain psychopaths a
great advantage, because they can understand what you’re thinking, it’s just
that they don’t care, so they can use you against yourself.” (Chillingly, psychopaths
are particularly adept at detecting vulnerability. A 2008 study that asked
participants to remember virtual characters found that those who scored highly
for psychopathy had a near perfect recognition for sad, unsuccessful females,
but impaired memory for other characters.)
Fallon
himself is a case in point. In 2005, he was looking at brain scans of
psychopathic murderers, while on another study, of Alzheimer’s, he was using
scans of his own family’s brains as controls. In the latter pile, he found
something strange. “You can’t tell just from a brain scan whether someone’s a
psychopath,” he says, “but you can make a good guess at the personality traits
they’ll have.” He describes a great loop that starts in the front of the brain
including the parahippocampal gyrus and the amygdala and other regions tied to
emotion and impulse control and empathy. Under certain circumstances they would
light up dramatically on a normal person’s MRI scan, but would be darker on a
psychopath’s.
“I
saw one that was extremely abnormal, and I thought this is someone who’s way
off. It looked like the murderers I’d been looking at,” he says. He broke the
anonymisation code in case it had been put into the wrong pile. When he did, he
discovered it was his own brain. “I kind of blew it off,” he says. “But later,
some psychiatrist friends of mine went through my behaviours, and they said,
actually, you’re probably a borderline psychopath.”
Speaking
to him is a strange experience; he barely draws breath in an hour, in which I
ask perhaps three questions. He explains how he has frequently put his family
in danger, exposing his brother to the deadly Marburg virus and taking his son
trout-fishing in the African countryside knowing there were lions around. And
in his youth, “if I was confronted by authority – if I stole a car, made pipe
bombs, started fires – when we got caught by the police I showed no emotion, no
anxiety”. Yet he is highly successful, driven to win. He tells me things most
people would be uncomfortable saying: that his wife says she’s married to a
“fun-loving, happy-go-lucky nice guy” on the one hand, and a “very dark
character who she does not like” on the other. He’s pleasant, and funny, if
self-absorbed, but I can’t help but think about the criteria in Hare’s PCL-R:
superficial charm, lack of emotional depth, grandiose sense of self-worth. “I
look like hell now, Tom,” he says – he’s 66 – “but growing up I was
good-looking, six foot, 180lb, athletic, smart, funny, popular.” (Hare warns
against non-professionals trying to diagnose people using his test, by the way.)
“Psychopaths
do think they’re more rational than other people, that this isn’t a deficit,”
says Hare. “I met one offender who was certainly a psychopath who said ‘My
problem is that according to psychiatrists I think more with my head than my
heart. What am I supposed to do about that? Am I supposed to get all
teary-eyed?’ ” Another, asked if he had any regrets about stabbing a
robbery victim, replied: “Get real! He spends a few months in hospital and I
rot here. If I wanted to kill him I would have slit his throat. That’s the kind
of guy I am; I gave him a break.”
And
yet, as Hare points out, when you’re talking about people who aren’t criminals,
who might be successful in life, it’s difficult to categorise it as a disorder.
“It’d be pretty hard for me to go into high-level political or economic or
academic context and pick out all the most successful people and say, ‘Look, I
think you’ve got some brain deficit.’ One of my inmates said that his problem
was that he’s a cat in a world of mice. If you compare the brainwave activity
of a cat and a mouse, you’d find they were quite different.”
It
would, says Hare, probably have been an evolutionarily successful strategy for
many of our ancestors, and can be successful today; adept at manipulating
people, a psychopath can enter a community, “like a church or a cultural
organisation, saying, ‘I believe the same things you do’, but of course what we
have is really a cat pretending to be a mouse, and suddenly all the money’s
gone”. At this point he floats the name Bernie Madoff.
Columbine High School killers Dylan Klebold (right) and Eric
Harris captured on CCTV on the day of the massacre (Reuters/Gary Caskey)
This
brings up the issue of treatment. “Psychopathy is probably the most
pleasant-feeling of all the mental disorders,” says the journalist Jon Ronson,
whose book, The Psychopath Test, explored the concept of psychopathy and the mental
health industry in general. “All of the things that keep you good, morally
good, are painful things: guilt, remorse, empathy.” Fallon agrees: “Psychopaths
can work very quickly, and can have an apparent IQ higher than it really is,
because they’re not inhibited by moral concerns.”
So
psychopaths often welcome their condition, and “treating” them becomes
complicated. “How many psychopaths go to a psychiatrist for mental distress,
unless they’re in prison? It doesn’t happen,” says Hare. The ones in prison, of
course, are often required to go to “talk therapy, empathy training, or talk to
the family of the victims” – but since psychopaths don’t have any empathy, it
doesn’t work. “What you want to do is say, ‘Look, it’s in your own
self-interest to change your behaviour, otherwise you’ll stay in prison for
quite a while.’ ”
It
seems Hare’s message has got through to the UK Department of Justice: in its
guidelines for working with personality-disordered inmates, it advises that
while “highly psychopathic individuals” are likely to be “highly treatment
resistant”, the “interventions most likely to be effective are those which
focus on ‘self-interest’ – what the offender wants out of life – and work with
them to develop the skills to get those things in a pro-social rather than
anti-social way.”
If
someone’s brain lacks the moral niceties the rest of us take for granted, they
obviously can’t do anything about that, any more than a colour-blind person can
start seeing colour. So where does this leave the concept of moral
responsibility? “The legal system traditionally asserts that all people
standing in front of the judge’s bench are equal. That’s demonstrably false,”
says the neuroscientist David
Eagleman, author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. He
suggests that instead of thinking in terms of blameworthiness, the law should
deal with the likelihood that someone will reoffend, and issue sentences
accordingly, with rehabilitation for those likely to benefit and long sentences
for those likely to be long-term dangers. The PCL-R is already used as part of
algorithms which categorise people in terms of their recidivism risk. “Life
insurance companies do exactly this sort of thing, in actuarial tables, where
they ask: ‘What age do we think he’s going to die?’ No one’s pretending they
know exactly when we’re going to die. But they can make rough guesses which
make for an enormously more efficient system.”
What
this doesn’t mean, he says, is a situation like the sci-fi film Minority
Report, in which people who are likely to commit crimes are locked up before
they actually do. “Here's why,” he says. “It's because many people in the
population have high levels of psychopathy - about 1 per cent. But not all of
them become criminals. In fact many of them, because of their glibness and
charm and willingness to ride roughshod over the people in their way, become
quite successful. They become CEOs, professional athletes, soldiers. These
people are revered for their courage and their straight talk and their
willingness to crush obstacles in their way. Merely having psychopathy doesn't
tell us that a person will go off and commit a crime.” It is central to the
justice system, both in Britain and America, that you can’t pre-emptively
punish someone. And that won’t ever change, says Eagleman, not just for moral,
philosophical reasons, but for practical ones. The Minority Report scenario is
a fantasy, because “it's impossible to predict what somebody will do, even
given their personality type and everything, because life is complicated and
crime is conceptual. Once someone has committed a crime, once someone has
stepped over a societal boundary, then there's a lot more statistical power about
what they're likely to do in future. But until that's happened, you can't ever
know.”
Speaking
to all these experts, I notice they all talk about psychopaths as “them”,
almost as a different species, although they make conscious efforts not to.
There’s something uniquely troubling about a person who lacks emotion and
empathy; it’s the stuff of changeling stories, the Midwich Cuckoos, Hannibal
Lecter. “You know kids who use a magnifying glass to burn ants, thinking, this
is interesting,” says Hare. “Translate that to an adult psychopath who treats a
person that way. It is chilling.” At one stage Ronson suggests I speak to
another well-known self-described psychopath, a woman, but I can’t bring myself
to. I find the idea unsettling, as if he’d suggested I commune with the dead.
• This article originally stated that autism was a
"personality disorder". It is in fact a neurodevelopmental disorder.
This has been corrected; apologies for the error. Tom
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) Boy Turns Tables on (nigger) AttackerInfowars.com | When keeping it real goes wrong..Report: Emperor Obama Arrives To Celebrate Racist
Warmonger LBJ {lbj was unequivocally a psychopath/sociopath
and war criminal dumbya bush not much better/different (oh, riiiiight … bush’s
self-proclaimed ‘conversations with GOD’ <delusional disorder?
schizophrenic? psycho/sociopath? etc., they all fit> … riiiiight, dumbya
bush … GOD must have gotten those wmd’s wrong … oh wait … dumbya did ultimately
admit the invasion was because former nefarious american bud sadam (had been
snookered by the cia/poppy bush <bush being typical of the incompetent
vegetable bushes and in need of a diversion, viz., ie., war/conflict (great for
the anti-productive military/industrial complex, that ‘fog of war thing’, ie.,
360 tons of hundred dollar bills disappearing in Iraq, etc.), from his
clueless/ misguided/ incapable ‘leadership’/presidency) via station chief April
Glasspie greenlighting the Kuwait invasion owing to the Kuwaiti slant-drilling
into Iraqi oil reserves dispute and) had threatened poppy bush senior (who by
the way is on his way out and no amount of ‘covering all mortal bases’
prayer/belated contrition saves them from perdition – bad bushes all, bad seed
they indeed are!) Then, as in Afghanistan there’s the illegal drug profit
incentive, See, ie.,
CIA AGENT EXPOSING HIGH-LEVEL
ILLEGAL DRUG SMUGGLING LINKS ( BUSH, BARR, CLINTON ET ALS )
‘Honestly, I'm
pretty sure I'm a sociopath, and honestly not that bad of a person. I can be a
nightmare if you cross me, I'll plot year-long revenge schemes, but if you're a
friend of mine I'm the nicest, most dependable and trustworthy friend you could
have. I don't really have real morals or a conscience…’ (typical nigger)
Psychopathy and sociopathy are
both anti-social personality disorders. While both these disorders are the
result of an interaction between genetic predispositions and environmental
factors, psychopathy leans towards the hereditary whereas sociopathy tends
towards the environmental.
Psychopaths are born with
temperamental differences such as impulsivity, cortical underarousal, and
fearlessness that lead them to risk-seeking
behavior and an inability to internalize social norms. On the other hand,
sociopaths have relatively normal temperaments; their personality disorder
being more an effect of negative sociological factors like
parental neglect, delinquent peers, poverty, and extremely low or extremely
high intelligence.
Anti-social personality disorder
results in extremely violent acts. Though psychiatrists often consider and
treat sociopaths and psychopaths as the same, criminologists treat them as
different because of the difference in their outward behaviour.
Comparison chart
Psychopath
Sociopath
Predisposition
to Violence
High
Varied
Impulsivity
High
Varies
Behavior
Erratic
Controlled
Criminal
behavior
Tendency to
leave clues and act on impulse.
Tendency to participate
in schemes and take calculated risks to minimize evidence or exposure.
Criminal
Predispositions
Tendency for
impulsive or opportunistic criminal behavior, excessive risk taking,
impulsive or opportunistic violence.
Tendency for
premeditated crimes with controllable risks, criminal opportunism, fraud,
calculated or opportunistic violence.
Social
relationships
Unable to
maintain normal relationships.
Values relationships that benefit themselves.
Tendency to
appear superficially normal in social relationships, often social predators.
Suffers from
Antisocial
personality disorder (ASPD); lack of empathy or
conscience, delusional.
Antisocial
personality disorder (ASPD).
100 Facts About The Moral Collapse
Of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
By
Michael Snyder, on April 9th, 2014
The
collection of facts and statistics that you are about to read is highly
controversial. A lot of people are going to be greatly upset by it.
Why? Because they don’t like to be confronted with the truth about
America. Most people tend to believe that we can “fix this country” by
getting the right politicians into power or by implementing certain economic or
social reforms. But the reality of the matter is that our problems go far
deeper than that. A moral collapse is eating away at the foundations of
our society like cancer. If it continues to go unchecked, it will
inevitably destroy America. Unfortunately, fixing moral decay is far more
difficult than switching out political parties, because it is in the hearts of
hundreds of millions of individual Americans. And most people don’t want
to hear anything about a “moral collapse”, because most people like to think
that the United States is setting a “good example” for the rest of the
planet. But as you will see below, that is not the case at all.
And
if we are honest with ourselves, we see the evidence of this moral collapse all
around us every day. Just consider a few of the news stories that we have
seen recently…
What
would cause a high school kid to take two kitchen knives and go on a stabbing rampage through
his school?
What
would cause two 18-year-old boys to beat a 30-year-old mentally-disabled man to
death with a baseball bat just so
they could get his XBox?
What
would cause a new father to put his 6-week-old daughter in a freezer to keep her from crying?
A
lot of people regard those kinds of stories as “isolated incidents”, but as you
will see below, they are actually representative of a much larger trend.
As a society, we are decaying from the inside out, and we need to start facing
the truth if we are ever going to get this turned around. The following
are 100 facts about the moral collapse of America that are almost too crazy to
believe…
#1
Approximately one-third of the entire population of the United States (110 million people) currently
has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
#2
Every single year, there are 20 million new STD cases in America.
#4
Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age group account for about 50 percent of all new STD
cases each year.
#5
It costs our nation approximately 16 billion dollars a year
to treat our sexually transmitted diseases.
#6
According to one survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have
STDs say that they still have unprotected sex.
#7
In Chicago, public school kindergarten teachers are now required to set aside 30 minutes a month for sex
education.
#8
The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the
entire industrialized world.
#9
According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, approximately two-thirds
of all Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.
#10
At this point, one out of every four teen girls in the U.S.
has at least one sexually transmitted disease.
#11
According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, there
are 747,408 registered sex
offenders in the United States.
#12
There are 106,216 registered sex offenders in the
state of California alone.
#1318 percent of all women in the United
States say that they have been raped at some point in their lives.
#15
Teens that are in the 16 to 19-year-old age bracket are 3 1/2 times more likely
than the general population “to be the victims of rape, attempted rape or
sexual assault.”
#1660 percent of male sex abuse victims and 80 percent of female sex abuse victims “are abused by
someone known to the child or the child’s family.”
#17
It is estimated that one out of every four girls
will be sexually abused before they become adults.
#18
An astounding 30 percent of all Internet traffic now
goes to adult websites.
#1970 percent of all men in the 18 to
24-year-old age bracket visit at least one adult website each month.
#20
The average high school boy spends two hours on adult websites every single
week.
#22
It has been estimated that 89 percent of all pornography is
produced in the United States.
#23
One survey discovered that 25 percent of all employees that
have Internet access in America visit sex websites while they are at work.
#24
The marriage rate in the United States has fallen to an all-time low.
Right now it is sitting at a yearly rate of 6.8 marriages per 1000
people.
#25
In the United States today, more than half of all couples “move
in together” before they get married.
#26
Not surprisingly, an all-time low 44.2 percent of all Americans in the 25 to
34-year-old age bracket are married at this point.
#27
America has the highest divorce rate in the world by a good
margin.
#28
America has the highest percentage of one person households on the
entire planet.
#29
100 years ago, 4.52 people were living in the average U.S. household, but now
the average U.S. household only consists of 2.59 people.
#30
According to the Pew Research Center, only 51 percent of all American adults are
currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all adults in the United
States were married.
#31
For women under the age of 30 in the United States, more than half of all
babies are being born out of wedlock.
#33
In 1970, the average woman had her first child when she was 21.4 years old. Now the
average woman has her first child when she is 25.6 years old.
#34
In a massacre that is almost unspeakable, more than 56
million American babies have been slaughtered in this country since Roe v.
Wade was decided in 1973.
#35
Approximately 47 percent of the women that get an
abortion each year in the United States have also had a previous abortion.
#36
The number of American babies killed by abortion each year is roughly equal to the number of U.S. military
deaths that have occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever
been involved in combined.
#37About one-third of all American
women will have had an abortion by the age of 45.
#38
Approximately 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of the destruction
of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. Every single day, more than
3,000 American babies are killed by abortion when you include all forms of
abortion.
#40
It has been reported that a staggering 41 percent of all New York City
pregnancies end in abortion.
#41
Most women that get abortions in the United States claim to be Christian.
Protestant women get 42 percent of all abortions and Catholic
women get 27 percent of all abortions.
#42
According to Pastor Clenard Childress, approximately 52 percent
of all African-American pregnancies now end in abortion.
#43
About 18 percent of all abortions in the
United States each year are performed on teenagers.
#44
One very shocking study found that 86 percent of all abortions are done for the sake of
convenience.
#45
A Department of Homeland Security report that was released in January 2012 says
that if you are “anti-abortion”, you are a potential terrorist.
#46
Some abortion clinics have been caught selling aborted baby parts to medical researchers.
#47
Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger once said the following…
“The
most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill
it.”
But
now she is praised in the halls of the U.S. Congress.
#49
Planned Parenthood specifically targets the poor. A staggering 72 percent of Planned Parenthood’s
“customers” have incomes that are either equal to or beneath 150 percent of the
federal poverty level. And most of those “customers” live in minority
neighborhoods.
#50
There are 30 Planned Parenthood
executives that make more than $200,000 a year. A few of them
actually make more than $300,000 a year.
#59
In America today, there are 60 million people that abuse
alcohol and there are 22 million people that use illegal drugs.
#60
Incredibly, more than 11 percent of all
Americans that are 12 years of age or older admit that they have driven home
under the influence of alcohol at least once during the past year.
#61
According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one
prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at
least five prescription drugs.
#62
According to the CDC, approximately 9 out of every 10 Americans that are at least 60
years old say that they have taken at least one prescription drug within the
last month.
#64
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors in the
United States write more than 250
million prescriptions for antidepressants each year.
#65
Right now, there are 70 million Americans that are
on mind-altering drugs of one form or another.
#66
Children in the United States are three times more likely to
be prescribed antidepressants than children in Europe are.
#69
According to the federal government, the number of heroin addicts in the United
States has more than doubled since
2002.
#70
The number of heroin-related overdose deaths has risen 84 percent just since 2010.
#71
It is hard to believe, but 56 percent of all Americans now have
“subprime credit”.
#72
Of all the major industrialized nations, America is the most obese. Mexico is #2.
#73
Only one state in the entire country has an
obesity rate of under 20 percent. 11 states have an obesity rate of over 30
percent.
#74
Back in 1962, only 13 percent of all Americans
were obese, but it is being projected that 42 percent of all Americans could be
obese by the year 2030.
#75
Corruption is rampant throughout our society. In fact, America leads the
world in money given to fake
charities.
#76
Without strong families, our young people are constantly in search of an
identity. According to the FBI, there are now more than 1.4
million gang members involved in the 33,000 active criminal gangs in the
United States.
#77
In 2012, the latest full year that we have numbers for, the rate of violent
crime in the United States increased by 15 percent.
#78
The average young American will spend 10,000 hours playing video games
before the age of 21.
#79
One study discovered that 88 percent of all Americans from age 8
to age 18 play video games, and that approximately four times as many boys are
addicted to video games as girls are.
#80
Average SAT scores have been falling for years,
and the level of education that our kids are receiving in most of our public
schools is a total joke.
#81
At this point, 15-year-olds that attend U.S. public schools do not even rank in
the top half of all industrialized nations when it comes
to math or science literacy.
#82
We live a time when most employers no longer care about their employees.
As I wrote about the other day, a company that Warren
Buffett has a controlling interest in has decided to shut down a factory in Kentucky and move it to Honduras
just so that he can make a little bit more money. As a result, 600
workers are going to lose their jobs.
#84
According to a recent Pew Research Center survey,
60 percent of all Americans believe that “humans and other living things have
evolved over time”, while only 33 percent of respondents rejected this
statement.
#85Nearly one-fifth of all U.S. adults have no
religious affiliation whatsoever. Back in 1972, only 7 percent of all
U.S. adults had no religious affiliation.
#86
The number of Americans with no religious affiliation has grown by 25 percent over the past five years.
#87
The younger you are, the more likely you are not to be affiliated with a
religion. 9 percent of all U.S. adults that are 65 or older have no
religious affiliation, but a whopping 32 percent of all U.S. adults under the age of 30 have
no religious affiliation.
#8888 percent of those that are religiously unaffiliated
“are not looking for religion”.
#8973 percent of the religiously unaffiliated support gay
marriage and 72 percent of the religiously unaffiliated support legalized
abortion.
#90
The religiously unaffiliated now make up 24 percent of all registered voters “who are Democrats
or lean Democratic”.
#91
For the first time ever, Protestants do not make up a majority of the U.S.
population. In 2007, Protestants made up 53 percent of the U.S.
population, but now they only make up 48 percent of the U.S. population. Way back in 1972,
Protestants made up 62 percent of the U.S. population.
#9229 percent of all U.S. adults “seldom or never attend
religious services”.
#9351 percent of all U.S. adults believe that churches and
other religious organizations “are too concerned with money and power”.
#9466 percent of all U.S. adults believe that religion is
“losing its influence on American life”.
#95
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans with “no religion”
more than doubled between 1990
and 2008.
#96
According to the American
Religious Identification Survey, only 76 percent of all Americans identified
themselves as “Christian” of one type or another in 2008. Back in 1990, 86 percent of all Americans identified
themselves as “Christian” of one type or another.
#97
A study conducted by the Barna Group discovered that nearly 60 percent of all Christians
from 15 years of age to 29 years of age are no longer actively involved in any
church.
#98
It is being projected that the percentage of Americans attending church in 2050
will be about half of what it is today.
#99
One survey conducted a while back found that 52 percent of all American Christians
believe that “at least some non-Christian faiths can lead to eternal life”.
#100
According to LifeWay Research, 46 percent of all Americans never even
think about whether they will go to heaven or not.
While niggers smell, do the same, and carrying
vermin flout
The norms of civilized behavior
The sanctity of peaceful living Sterling is
savior
america in decline is appalled
The truth out, Sterling gets mauled
How long will lost angles america last
As all are aghast
That fallen america’s still standing
Unfold and embrace Sterling’s tome
Reality and truth his tool
He’s certainly no fool
Sterling’s now entered Serling’s
american twilight zone
{ I must
honestly say, from direct experience over a considerable amount of time and in a
wide variety of circumstances and geographic locations including LA
particularly as relevant here, the uncivilized niggers are so deleterious to
whatever locations they inhabit, occupy, or are present; that they are so,
euphemistically speaking, unpleasant and inherently criminal, lazy,
unproductive, and mentally challenged if not clearly mentally ill, it should be
said in defense of Sterling who no doubt with LA in mind merely expounded upon
the truth of the foregoing reality in a very innocuous way, however politically
incorrect in this period of american decline. They’re just typical bulls***
niggers! }
I felt constrained to include the following passage from
acclaimed, consummate author/artist (anonymous so as to preclude retribution
for honesty) and former spook:
‘… We live in an age where
only fundamental issues matter … The united states is no longer capable of
undertaking its own revolution … The political posture of the united kingdom is
‘( along with germany and america et als )’ without relevance or moral
viability in world affairs … In ‘( pseudo )’ capitalist america economic
repression of the masses is institutionalized to a point which not even lenin
could have foreseen … The cold war began in 1917 but the bitterest struggles
lie ahead of us, as america’s death-bed ‘(death-bed indeed)’ paranoia drives
her to greater excesses ‘(in fact, indeed)’ abroad ‘(and domestically)’ … He
spoke not of the decline of the west, but of its death by greed and
constipation. He hated america very deeply … He had often wondered which side
he would be on if the test ever came; after prolonged reflection he had finally
to admit that if either monolith had to win the day, he would prefer it to be
the East. … ‘ { Though stated by a fictional character in but a well-informed
novel, this articulated position significantly preceding the ‘fall of the wall’
has proved to be both prescient and rational! ( that within parentheses added )
}
Our People Massacre Civilians in Odessa, and Politico
Blames Putin { It’s really
quite amazing … the reality is that the west and america particularly is
bankrupt financially, economically, politically, geo-politically, and morally.
When one realistically looks at the hard facts/truth of the west’s and
america’s particularly violent incursions and fomenting of unrest abroad beyond
the propaganda, cover-ups, and outright lies, only fools living in fools’
paradises buy into their complete and utter b***s*** which has been devastating
domestically and globally! }
Eric Zuesse |
Why are Americans puzzled that foreigners consider the U.S. to be the nation
that’s the biggest threat to world peace?
Liberty
Blitzkrieg blog | During this week’s Senate hearings, Janet Yellen was asked by
Senator Bernie Sanders if the U.S. was a capitalist democracy or has morphed
into an oligarchy.
Note: I’m here in San Diego County in my new/old 39 foot
Chevy Motorhome. I can’t get a signal for my Verizon LG smartphone (I’ll be
taking a spin in my Ford Explorer in search of a signal; my VOIP phone,
magicjack requiring a broadband connection, is currently not up except for
voicemail). The wifi internet connection also limits the uploading of files so
not all the images in the folders/directories to interim updates are included
(I’ll create a separate complete update page later with broadband connection).
The following are currently the updates with said limitations:
The radio reception is also limited which led me to ‘sample’ some limited AM
offerings which included shallow sean hannity the hallmark of insanity, and
‘rush revere’ [limbaugh… he’s totally burnt out (the consequence of his being
‘tired of carrying the water for the republican party’? - his own words),
relegated now to authoring children’s illustrated books of a simplistic
nature]. Shallow sean’s latest ‘crusade’ (beyond the same note/key obvious
debacle of wobamacare) was defense of the indefensible mobster but friend of
sean’s, donald trump (trump should be in jail). In defense of t_rump, he offers
up the itsy-bitsy, teeny weeny wohlman skating rink project as evidence of
t_rump’s contribution to NYC (too small for high new york priority given the
magnitude of New York substantial problems, some largely the result of trumpish
tastes, ie., solid gold trump tower fixtures, etc., that trump’s ‘pre-packaged
bankrupcies’ seem to fail to touch, and which extravagance must be paid for by
someone, but not him). Shallow sean’s excoriation of new york city never seems
to link the obviousness of t_rump’s grandstanding responsibility for same.
After all, someone ultimately has to pay for trump’s disproportionate
non-value-added livin’ large. No talk of trump’s ingratiating bribe strategy
for protection ( ie., retainers to law firms linked to state attorney generals,
viz., {kimmelman} wolf and sampson, chris droney’s brother, his sister’s
protection/corruption and quid pro quo from the federal bench, etc., and as
well, protection of drug-money laundering through his now nominal only casinos
… See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdfhttp://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htmhttp://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm.Trump’s a fraud! I won’t be listening to ‘rush revere’ or shallow sean
prospectively. They’re a waste of time and preposterous given their unbridled
support of war criminals bush, cheney, etc., and the failed debacles they
created, etc……
17 Facts To Show To Anyone That
Believes That The U.S. Economy Is Just Fine
By
Michael Snyder, on April 29th, 2014
No,
the economy is most definitely not "recovering". Despite what
you may hear from the politicians and from the mainstream media, the truth is
that the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was prior to the last
recession. In fact, we are still pretty much where we were at when the
last recession finally ended. When the financial crisis of 2008 struck,
it took us down to a much lower level economically. Thankfully, things
have at least stabilized at this much lower level. For example, the
percentage of working age Americans that are employed has stayed remarkably flat for the past
four years. We should be grateful that things have not continued to
get even worse. It is almost as if someone has hit the "pause
button" on the U.S. economy. But things are definitely not getting
better, and there are a whole host of signs that this bubble of false stability
will soon come to an end and that our economic decline will accelerate once
again. The following are 17 facts to show to anyone that believes that
the U.S. economy is just fine...
#1
The homeownership rate in the United States has dropped to the lowest level in 19 years.
#2
Consumer spending for durable goods has dropped by 3.23 percent since
November. This is a clear sign that an economic slowdown is ahead.
#4
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of all families in the United
States do not have a single member that is employed. That means that one
out of every five families in the entire country is completely unemployed.
#5
There are 1.3 million fewer jobs in
the U.S. economy than when the last recession began in December 2007.
Meanwhile, our population has continued to grow steadily since that time.
#6
According to a
new report from the National Employment Law Project, the quality of the
jobs that have been "created" since the end of the last recession
does not match the quality of the jobs lost during the last recession...
Lower-wage industries constituted 22 percent of recession
losses, but 44 percent of recovery growth.
Mid-wage industries constituted 37 percent of recession
losses, but only 26 percent of recovery growth.
Higher-wage industries constituted 41 percent of recession
losses, and 30 percent of recovery growth.
#7
After adjusting for inflation, men who work full-time in America today make less money than men who worked
full-time in America 40 years ago.
#8
It is hard to believe, but 62 percent of all Americans make $20 or
less an hour at this point.
#10
The middle class in Canada now makes more money than the middle class in the
United States does.
#11
According to one recent study, 40 percent of all
Americans could not come up with $2000 right now even if there was a major
emergency.
#12
Less than one out of every four Americans has enough money put away to cover six months of
expenses if there was a job loss or major emergency.
#13
An astounding 56 percent of all Americans have
subprime credit in 2014.
#14
As I wrote about the other day, there are now 49 million Americans that are
dealing with food insecurity.
#15
Ten years ago, the number of women in the U.S. that had jobs outnumbered the
number of women in the U.S. on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin.
But now the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps actually exceeds the number of
women that have jobs.
#1669 percent of the federal budget is
spent either on entitlements or on welfare programs.
#17
The number of Americans receiving benefits from the federal government each
month exceeds the number of full-time workers in the private sector by more than 60 million.
Taken
individually, those numbers are quite remarkable.
Taken
collectively, they are absolutely breathtaking.
Yes,
things have been improving for the wealthy for the last several years.
The stock market has soared to new record highs and real estate prices in the
Hamptons have skyrocketed to unprecedented heights.
But
that is not the real economy. In the real economy, the middle class is
being squeezed out of existence. The quality of our jobs is declining and
prices just keep rising. This reality was reflected quite well in a
comment that one of my readers left on one of my recent articles...
It
is getting worse each passing month. The food bank I help out, has barely
squeaked by the last 3 months. Donors are having to pull back, to take care of
their own families. Wages down, prices up, simple math tells you we can not
hold out much longer. Things are going up so fast, you have to adopt a new way
of thinking. Example I just had to put new tires on my truck. Normally I would
have tried to get by to next winter. But with the way prices are moving, I
decide to get them while I could still afford them. It is the same way with
food. I see nothing that will stop the upward trend for quite a while. So if
you have a little money, and the space, buy it while you can afford it. And
never forget, there will be some people worse off than you. Help them if you
can.
And
the false stock bubble that the wealthy are enjoying right now will not last
that much longer. It is an artificial bubble that has been pumped up by
unprecedented money printing by the Federal Reserve, and like all bubbles that
the Fed creates, it will eventually burst.
None
of the long-term trends that are systematically destroying our economy have
been addressed, and none of our major economic problems have been fixed.
In fact, as I showed in this recent article, we are actually in far
worse shape than we were just prior to the last major financial crisis.
Let
us hope that this current bubble of false stability lasts for as long as
possible.
That
is what I am hoping for.
But
let us not be deceived into thinking that it is permanent.
It
will soon burst, and then the real pain will begin.
Paul
Craig Roberts | The US economy is a house of cards. Every aspect of it is
fraudulent, and the illusion of recovery is created with fraudulent statistics.
{ Totally fraudulent! This is absolutely true! )
Kurt Nimmo
| Political correctness reigns supreme as hypocrite rallies on basketball
court.{ Problem is, it’s not correct,
politically or otherwise! }
Ode to Don Sterling
Don Sterling and Rod Serling
Truly an unlikely pair
Sterling talked reality
Now barely can come up for air
Yes Don, ‘tis true as you say
spics drink (do drugs) and hang out
While niggers smell, do the same, and carrying
vermin flout
The norms of civilized behavior
The sanctity of peaceful living Sterling is
savior
america in decline is appalled
The truth out, Sterling gets mauled
How long will lost angles america last
As all are aghast
That fallen america’s still standing
Unfold and embrace Sterling’s tome
Reality and truth his tool
He’s certainly no fool
Sterling’s now entered Serling’s
american twilight zone
CNN Pushes “Reparations” For Black People Eric Liu | African-Americans deserve reparations.
Discuss.{ Are you kidding? … ‘twas the
luckiest thing that ever happened to them … that is, vanquished (by blacks)
blacks sold into slavery by other native African blacks and sent to america at
great cost to america … and, very unlucky for america …}
NSA
Releases Snowden Emails, Claim Never Contacted Over Spying Concerns...{ Come on!… Who believes their s***! … Claim of ‘no contact’ just a mouse click
away from delete and cover-up … I personally have directly experienced
governmental database intrusion/sabotage which is rather easy for them when
typical american criminals/dummies/bureaucrats/mental cases ‘fall all over
themselves’ to help out the ‘james bonds’ (in reality criminals, assassins,
drug dealers/$launderers, frauds, thieves, mental cases, etc.) still on the
reservation … That’s why government approvals potentially impacting
constitutional rights (ie., 1st, 2nd, 4th
amendments, etc.) should and must be resisted! You can’t trust the government,
federal, state, local … they’re americans in decline in an america in decline
and lack integrity, courage, and fortitude … Process? … riiiight … Snowden’d be
dead … }NSA
releases Snowden email after denying its existenceRT | Former National Security Agency
contractor Edward Snowden did raise questions with top NSA lawyers, the agency
admitted on Thursday.
{ I’m totally astounded by the press that lightweight neocon mccain’s
been getting of late … Who would be more astute/reliable, from an
intellectual/analytical/knowledgeable perspective … Pat Buchanan (hardly a
closet liberal/democrat) or mccain? Mccain’s views are unreasoned, all over the
map and much like that which one might expect from an automaton robotic gumball
machine of sorts that spits out pre-recorded responses once you put in a coin,
and predictably self-interested and more often than not, hypocritical
(Senility? Metastasis of his face cancer to his brain?, Etc.?). Take the
Bergdahl matter; ie., mccain himself was labeled by his fellow prisoners of war
as the songbird, for his singing for VC benefit the treasonous songs which for
the moment made life as a POW more bearable for him though in contravention of
military code. Everyone breaks could be his not unreasonable response … but not
for mccain. Is there one rational person who truly believes that GOD would so
lower Himself to the point of conversation with a braincell deficient dry
drunk, totally burnt out (LSD, copious amounts of cocaine-he could afford
plenty, etc.) war criminal and moron ( see, ie., http://albertpeia.com/bushisms.htm) as george dumbya bush? Most such as who
would make such claim, particularly to defensively buttress his misguided,
costly military-industrial complex welfare programs leaving death, injury,
destruction and defacto bankruptcy in his wake, would be labeled schizophrenic
with positive symptoms (ie., delusions, hallucinations). Then there’s the ‘tin
man’ cheney. Persistent deferment-seeker when ‘his nation called’, chicken hawk
cheney ‘acted’ to preserve ‘our way of life’; literally, his way of life, viz.,
the military-industrial complex even as the way of life for the vast majority
in america has been substantially and severely negatively impacted; but, he can
when self-interested be liberal too in supporting gay marriage ( I couldn’t
care less ) because his daughter’s a lesbian. Pat Buchanan says the Iraq
debacle was a mistake ab initio. I agree! (this is not to say that
saddamn hussein insane wasn’t a deplorable/despicable despot/murderer deserving
of his fateful end, but rather america’s(/cia) creation to fight a proxy war
against Iran creating the turmoil/chaos on which they and the military/industrial
complex thrive). }
Dick Cheney: There Will Be Another 9/11-Type Attack On US
Soil Before 2020 Jeff Dunetz | “And next time, I think it’s likely to be
far deadlier than the last one.”{
Yeah … he’s got his fingers crossed … he just loves those contrived pearl
harbor events … rallies the troops so to speak, and great for military
industrial complex welfare programs … }
The Hill | A new survey suggests
President Obama is just as unpopular as former President George W. Bush.
A new survey suggests President
Obama is just as unpopular as former President George W. Bush.
Just over half of those polled,
51 percent, have an unfavorable view of Obama, and 51 percent currently feel
the same about Bush, according to a CNN/ORC International poll released
Thursday.
Forty-seven percent of the
public has a favorable rating of Obama, which CNN said is a new low for him,
and roughly identical to Bush’s favorable rating of 46 percent.
Days before leaving the White
House in January 2009, Bush had a favorable rating of 35 percent. After the
2008 election, Obama had a 78 percent favorable rating.
Have you noticed that prices are
going up rapidly? If so, you are certainly not alone. But Federal
Reserve chair Janet Yellen, the Obama administration and the mainstream media
would have us believe that inflation is completely under control and exactly
where it should be. Perhaps if the highly manipulated numbers that they
quote us were real, everything would be fine. But of course the way that
the inflation rate is calculated has been changed more than 20 times since the
1970s, and at this point it bears so little relation to reality that it is
essentially meaningless. Anyone that has to regularly pay for food,
water, gas, electricity or anything else knows that inflation is too
high. In fact, if inflation was calculated the same way that it was back
in 1980, the inflation rate would be close
to 10 percent right now. (Read More....)
{ Well, now we know why we all think the fed’s contra-indicated feeble
misguided approach has failed … The fed’s in a parallel universe … right, you
heard it … a parallel universe much like the one that zimbabwee, that bastion
of economic/capitalist principles and democracy, inhabits … yes, where there’s
no inflation (but just hyperinflation – some records just broken regarding
dollar-debased runaway prices); and, like their kindred soul men of zimbabwee,
record paper stock prices … just kidding about the parallel universe! }
The psychopathologizing of anti-authoritarian behavior is yet another step on what looks like an
increasingly slippery slope and it strikes us as especially harmful. The
American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short)
defined a new mental illness, the so-called “oppositional defiant
disorder” or ODD. As TheMindUnleashed.org informs us, the definition
of this new mental illness essentially amounts to declaring any
non-conformity and questioning of authority as a form of insanity. In
short, as Natural News put it: According to US psychiatrists, only
the sheeple are sane.
Day
after day, mainstream media proclaimed December the month to be in stocks:
seasonals, Santa Claus rally, and performance-chasing funds would 'guarantee'
upside. For Owen Li, former Raj Rajaratnam's Galleon Group trader, and the
clients of his Canarsie Capital hedge fund, December 2014 will never be
forgotten. According to CNBC,from
around $100 million in AUM in March 2014, Li told investors in a letter, the
fund had lost all but $200,000 and he was "truly sorry," for
"acting overzealously" in the last 3 weeks.
The intentional erosion of public privacy is no accident. It’s not merely a simplistically stupid
overreaction to the dangerous world we live in either. It is a very deliberate
and nefarious plan being intentionally implemented by the American oligarchy;
i.e., the super rich and the super powerful. This is precisely why
the establishment freaked out about the Edward Snowden revelations, and it is
why every single minor event is immediately manipulated into an excuse to
give the government and intelligence agencies more power. While we already know
a lot about the NSA’s unconstitutional and fascist policies when it comes to
the web, the decimation of the 4th Amendment is also being eagerly
practiced at a more local level by police departments across the country.
While
Crude Oil and Dr. Copper are often cited as economic indicators, as
@Not_Jim_Cramer notes, in fact Lumber prices are the most correlated
with ISM and GDP of all industrial commodities. That is a problem.
Lumber prices are tumbling and are breaking the 6-year up-trend that has 'proved'
the recovery. With no CCFD manipulation and less financialization than crude,
perhaps Lumber is the real canary in the economic collapse coalmine...
Led
by first-time-buyers from The Middle East (up 23% year-over-year), the
London-based auctioneer Christie's saw full-year sales hit record highs
in 2014. As
The FT reports, Christie's saw total sales rise 16%, topping $5bn for the
first time driven by a 30% in 'new buyers' as central bank largesse leaked out
of the 1% pockets. The Americas remained the primary driver of growth,
accounting for 38% of sales and the largest proportion of new buyers.
Thank you Mr. Yellen...
Greece
is reeling from the effects of the biggest economic crisis in its recent
history. Here are 12 statistics, via The
Wall Street Journal, underscoring the severity of the crisis now
reaching into all aspects of Greek life...
Everyone
who lost money on the SNB’s decision to reverse course on their three and a
half year policy to cap the exchange rate between the CHF and the Euro made a
category error. Simply put, the rules always change as the Golden Age
of the Central Banker begins to fade. The SNB decision was a wake-up
call, whether or not you were directly impacted, to re-examine portfolios and
investment behavior for category errors. We all have them. It’s only human. The
question, as always, is whether we’re prepared to do anything about it.
As
we
detailed previously, the first USD-denominated Chinese corporate bond default
last week - of developer Kaisa Group - signals considerably deeper problems
in China's economy as one manager noted, "everyone is rethinking risk
right now." As
Bloomberg reports, Chinese companies comprised 62% of all U.S. dollar bond
sales in the Asia-Pacific region ex Japan last year, issuing $244.4
billion and that huge (and illiquid) market "has been too
complacent," according to one credit strategist who warned,
investors would be “rational to adopt a cautious approach in view of the
fact that anything can happen, anywhere, anytime.
It would be irrational to continue thinking that after Kaisa
none of the companies will see a similar fate."
The gravy train is over for oil workers. All over North America, people that felt
very secure about their jobs just a few weeks ago are now getting pink slips.
Since 2003, drilling and extraction jobs in the United States have doubled. And
these jobs typically pay very well. It is not uncommon for oil patch
workers to make well over $100,000 a year, and these are precisely the types of
jobs that we cannot afford to be losing. The middle class is
struggling mightily as it is. And just like we witnessed in 2008, oil
industry layoffs usually come before a downturn in employment for the overall
economy.
Once upon a time, there was a saying "no taxation without
representation."
Well, in America's transition to an utopia of French or even Venezuelan
caliber, for half the population taxation became an anachronism from a bygone
era, which in turn meant that representation likewise lost its charm. However,
in order to preserve a political system in which the votes of the many are
bought with the money of the few or, as the case may be these days, with money
printed out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, there was one bureaucratic
hurdle: one still needed a US passport in order to vote. However if a newly
introduced bill in Washington D.C. passes, one won't even need to be a citizen
in order to vote in local elections.
The
Ministry of Finance just reported that Japan bought JPY 657 billion (over
$5.6 billion) of foreign stocks last week. That is the biggest
weekly purchase of foreign equities since records began in 2001. The
huge size of the purchases- more than double the average size of recent weekly
purchases - appears to have been 'spent' on European stocks (and perhaps some
Chinese). It is unclear whether this is direct buying by the banks as a proxy
for The BoJ's quid pro quo or merely front-running this week's exuberance from
Draghi by Mrs.Watanabe now that her Swissy trade exploded...
After 6+ years of deepening poverty and rising stock markets,
of creative accounting, of QE and ultra-low interest rates, of extend and
pretend and outright propaganda and of what have you, all of which have led us
to where we are today, facing yet more rounds of stumbling from crisis into
multiple crises,it
would seem clear that the model, if not the mold, is broken. In order to
fix it, let alone replace it altogether, we need to understand to what extent
it is broken. And to do that, we first need to know what exactly the model
is. However, the rich-and-powerful in Davos believe in one model
only, the one of ever increasing centralization and globalization, because
that’s the model that got them where they are.
While
the lawyer for Michael Brown’s family, said he did not want to comment on the
investigation until the Justice Department made an official announcement, The
New York Times reports that law enforcement officials have said The
Justice Department has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights
charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer in Ferguson,
Mo., who killed the unarmed black teenager in August. A broader civil rights
investigation into allegations of discriminatory traffic stops and excessive
force by the Ferguson Police Department remains open, but Attorney
General Eric H. Holder Jr., has said that he plans to have it done before
leaving office, probably in the next month or two.
Are
you smarter than a 9th grader? Then you will be quite at home with President
Obama's latest State of The Union speech. While the Flesch-Kincaid readability
test shows SOTU 'smartness' has been plunging Woodrow Wilson, the collapse has
accelerated post-Clinton with President Obama's average SOTO speech
tailored to the intellect of a 14-year-old - the lowest on record.
Presented
with little comment aside to note the ironic timing of the surge in job cut
announcements from North American firms since President Obama's "Crisis
Has Passed" State of The Union speech...
Our
way of life is far more vulnerable than most people would ever dare to
imagine. A single major catastrophe could fundamentally alter all of our
lives at any moment. But since most people have not experienced such a
catastrophe during their entire lifetimes, most people just assume that there
will never be one. This is called “normalcy bias” and it can lull us into
a very false sense of complacency. The other day, Michael Hanlon of the
Telegraph wrote an article entitled “How
will the world end? From ‘demonic’ AI to nuclear war — seven scenarios that
could end human race“. Below, I discuss each of those seven scenarios
along with five additional ones that I have added. We live in a world
that is becoming increasingly unstable, and as a society we have become
exceedingly dependent on the technology that we have surrounded ourselves
with. If something were to happen which would force us to live like our
grandparents and great-grandparents did, most of us would be in a tremendous
amount of trouble. And as our technology has advanced, so has the
potential that this technology will be used for war and destruction.
There is great evil in the heart of man, and the potential to hurt others with
that evil has never been greater. And of course there are always other
“black swan events” to be concerned about as well. The following are 12
disasters that could bring about the end of the world as we know it… (Read More...)
1. ASTEROID STRIKE
A single asteroid could
potentially produce an “ELE” – an extinction level event. And scientists
are finding more asteroids that are potentially a danger to Earth all the
time. For example, just the other day Russian researchers discovered a
massive asteroid that will fly close to our planet every three years…
Scientists
have calculated that 2014 UR116 asteroid will fly in dangerous proximity to
Earth every three years. If it collides with the planet the energy of the
explosion could be a thousand times greater than the impact of the Chelyabinsk
meteorite.
Vladimir
Lipunov, a leading scientist on the team which discovered the asteroid this October,
says the scientists now know its orbit and its period which is 3 years, but
they cannot say precisely when the asteroid will approach the Earth.
“We
should track it constantly. Because if we have a single mistake, there will be
a catastrophe. The consequences can be very serious,” he said in the
documentary “Asteroids attack” posted on Roscosmos website.
If
a very large asteroid does hit us in just the right place, we could be talking
about tens of millions of deaths and the collapse of entire nations. The
following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles about what could
happen if a very large asteroid were to come crashing down just off the east
coast of the United States…
According
to the University of California at
Santa Cruz website, if a massive asteroid were to crash into the
Atlantic Ocean it could produce a giant tsunami with a wall of water as high as
400 feet that would slam into the east coast of the United States…
If an asteroid crashes into the Earth, it is likely to splash
down somewhere in the oceans that cover 70 percent of the planet’s surface.
Huge tsunami waves, spreading out from the impact site like the ripples from a
rock tossed into a pond, would inundate heavily populated coastal areas. A
computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami developed by scientists at
the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the
United States.
In
case you were wondering, yes, that would be absolutely catastrophic.
2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Could
the machines one day rise up and take over?
Personally,
I am skeptical, but some of the brightest minds in the world are deeply
concerned about this. Just consider the following excerpt from Michael Hanlon’s article in the
Telegraph…
Humanity
may have already created its own nemesis, Professor Stephen Hawking warned last
week. The Cambridge University physicist claimed that new developments in the
field of artificial intelligence (AI) mean that within a few decades, computers
thousands of times more powerful than in existence today may decide to usurp
their creators and effectively end humanity’s 100,000-year dominance of Earth.
This
Terminator scenario is taken seriously by many scientists and technologists.
Before Prof. Hawking made his remarks, Elon Musk, the genius behind the Tesla
electric car and PayPal, had stated that “with artificial intelligence, we are
summoning the demon,” comparing it unfavourably with nuclear war as the most
potent threat to humanity’s existence.
3. A GENETICALLY CREATED PLAGUE
Ebola
has kind of fallen out of the news in the United States, but the virus is still
spreading like wildfire over in Sierra Leone.
But
of potentially even greater concern is what could happen if someone started
releasing a weaponized form of Ebola, Smallpox or the Marburg virus in our
major cities.
A
bioweapon can be a brutally efficient killer. It spreads silently and
invisibly, and a full-blown pandemic could ultimately kill hundreds of millions
of people.
And
every single day, our ability to manipulate these bugs grows. Many
believe that it is only a matter of time before these types of weapons are used
as instruments of terror.
When
that era arrives, all of our lives will change forever.
4. NUCLEAR WAR
This
is one that most Americans greatly underestimate.
Even
though tensions with Russia are extremely high, most of us just assume that
“the Cold War is over” and that a nuclear war is virtually impossible.
Unfortunately,
that is not even close to the truth.
Back
in 1967, the U.S. military possessed more than 31,000 strategic nuclear warheads.
Now, we only have 1,642 deployed, and that number is scheduled to be further
reduced to about 1,500.
Sadly,
reducing the size of our nuclear arsenal by close to 95 percent is not enough
for anti-nuke crusader Barack Obama. He has spoken of unilaterally
reducing the size of our strategic nuclear arsenal down to just 300 warheads.
During
this same time period, the Russians have been developing some very impressive
stealth delivery systems which have the capability of hitting targets inside
the United States within just minutes of an order being issued. This is
particularly true of their submarine-launched missiles. The newest
Russian subs have the ability to approach our coastlines without us even
knowing that they are there. If the Russians came to the conclusion that
war with the United States was unavoidable, an overwhelming first strike using
submarine-based missiles could potentially take out nearly our entire arsenal
before we even knew what hit us. And if the Russians have an
anti-ballistic missile system that can intercept the limited number of rockets
that we can launch in return, they may be able to escape relatively unscathed.
In
order for “mutually assured destruction” to work, we have to see the Russian
missiles coming and have enough time to order a launch of our own. Thank
to emerging technologies, the balance of power has fundamentally shifted.
The old way of thinking simply does not apply anymore and the Russians
understand this.
5. PARTICLE ACCELERATOR DISASTER
Michael
Hanlon considers this one to have a “very low” probability, and I concur.
Although our ability to destroy ourselves is growing by leaps and bounds, I
believe that any disaster involving the Large Hadron Collider would be a
localized event.
But
as we continue to try to “play God” and build machines like this, we
potentially open up gateways and expose ourselves to dangers beyond anything
that most of us ever imagined.
6. ‘GOD’ REACHES FOR THE OFF-SWITCH
I
thought that it was very interesting that Michael Hanlon included this one in his article…
Many
scientists have pointed out that there is something fishy about our universe.
The physical constants – the numbers governing the fundamental forces and
masses of nature – seem fine-tuned to allow life of some form to exist. The
great physicist Sir Fred Hoyle once wondered if the universe might be a “put-up
job”.
More
recently, the Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom has speculated that
our universe may be one of countless “simulations” running in some alien
computer, much like a computer game. If so, we have to hope that the beings
behind our fake universe are benign – and do not reach for the off-button
should we start misbehaving.
So
could God step in and alter the course of history?
Well,
it has certainly happened before, and many are convinced that it will happen
again.
Many
Christians believe (myself included) that we are moving into the period of time
that the Bible refers to as “the last days”. According to the Scriptures,
there has never been a time as horrible as the last days will be, and there
never will be a time like it afterwards.
Of
course the Bible also says that “the last days” will not be the end of the
world.
But
it will be the end of the world as we know it.
7. CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
There
are a lot of people out there that believe that global warming caused by human
activity is the greatest threat that humanity is currently facing.
I
am not one of those people. The climate has always been changing, and it
will always be changing. And the amount of carbon dioxide and other
“greenhouse gases” produced by human activity is a negligible percentage of the
total.
In
addition, scientists tell us that there were times in the history of this
planet when carbon dioxide levels were far, far greater than they were
today. So even if we were to move back in that direction substantially,
it would certainly not mean the end of our planet.
However,
that doesn’t mean that we are not going to see tremendous changes in our
weather in the years ahead. The primary driver of climate change, the
sun, is behaving very strangely right now. If it continues to behave
erratically, that could cause dramatic climate shifts.
In
addition, the increase in seismic activity that we have been witnessing all
over the planet could also greatly affect our climate. Volcanic ash can
have a tremendous cooling impact on global weather patterns, and volcanoes that
erupt on the ocean floor could potentially cause ocean temperatures to rise
substantially. Scientists tell us that if ocean temperatures were to rise
far enough, we could see billions of fish dying. If such an event were to
occur, a global famine would not be too far behind.
8. SUPERBUGS THAT ARE RESISTANT TO ANTIBIOTICS
Medical
professionals are becoming increasingly alarmed by the antibiotic-resistant
superbugs that are starting to pop up all over the place. So far it is
not a catastrophic threat, but experts warn that it could soon become
one. The following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles…
The
“wonder drugs” that we have been using since the middle of the last century are
rapidly losing their effectiveness, and medical authorities are warning that
the emergence of very powerful antibiotic-resistant superbugs represents “one of the gravest threats in the
history of medicine“. Of course the “wonder drugs” that I am
talking about are known today as antibiotics. These drugs attack
bacteria, and when they first began to be developed back in the 1950s and 1960s
they were hailed as “miracles” that would save countless numbers of
lives. Well, it turns out that nature is having the last laugh. All
over the planet bacteria are developing resistance to these drugs, and
scientists are warning that they can’t really do anything to stop these
superbugs. With each passing year these superbugs are gaining ground, and
there appears to be not much hope on the horizon of being able to fight
them. In fact, no new classes of antibiotics have been invented since
1987, and none are being developed right now. Meanwhile,
scientists are telling us that many current antibiotic treatments will be
completely obsolete by the year 2030. Are you starting to understand why
so many high profile members of the scientific community are using the words “catastrophic threat” to describe this crisis?
9. CYBERWAR
Did
you see what just happened to
Sony? It is probably the most embarrassing and financially
damaging incident in company history. Of course the North Koreans are
denying that they were behind the attack, but there is a good chance that they
were.
Sadly,
this could just be a preview of what is coming.
For
example, what would happen if a cyberattack took down all of our major
banks? What would we do?
Wall
Street banks are getting hit by cyber attacks every single minute of every
single day. It is a massive onslaught that is not highly publicized
because the bankers do not want to alarm the public. But as you will see
below, one big Wall Street bank is spending 250 million dollars a year just by
themselves to combat this growing problem. The truth is that our
financial system is not nearly as stable as most Americans think that it is.
We have become more dependent on technology than ever before, and that comes
with a potentially huge downside.
10. ANOTHER FUKUSHIMA
The
Fukushima nuclear disaster showed all of us how a single natural disaster can
absolutely cripple a nuclear reactor.
And
of course things are still not under control at Fukushima. It is already
the greatest nuclear disaster in human history, and it is still releasing even
more nuclear material into the environment every single day.
Once
this material gets into the food chain, it can silently kill for
generations. The following comes from an opinion piece by Helen Caldicott
that was published in the Guardian…
Internal
radiation, on the other hand, emanates from radioactive elements which enter
the body by inhalation, ingestion, or skin absorption. Hazardous radionuclides
such as iodine-131, caesium 137, and other isotopes currently being released in
the sea and air around Fukushima bio-concentrate at each step of various food
chains (for example into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then
humans; or soil, grass, cow’s meat and milk, then humans). After they
enter the body, these elements – called internal emitters – migrate to specific
organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, where they continuously
irradiate small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma
radiation, and over many years, can induce uncontrolled cell replication – that
is, cancer. Further, many of the nuclides remain radioactive in the
environment for generations, and ultimately will cause increased incidences of
cancer and genetic diseases over time.
So
what happens one day when a catastrophic natural disaster in the United States
or elsewhere in the world causes several “Fukushimas” at the same time?
That
is something to think about.
11. A MASSIVE ERUPTION AT THE YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLANO
Around
the globe, there are some volcanoes that are so absolutely massive in size that
they are referred to as “supervolcanoes”.
One
of these supervolcanoes is in the United States. The following facts
about the Yellowstone supervolcano come from one
of my previous articles…
#1
A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone could be up to 1,000 times more powerful than the eruption of
Mount St. Helens in 1980.
#3
The next eruption of Yellowstone seems to be getting closer with each passing
year. Since 2004, some areas of Yellowstone National Park have risen by as much as 10
inches.
#4
There are approximately 3,000 earthquakes in the Yellowstone area every
single year.
#5
In the event of a full-scale eruption of Yellowstone, virtually the entire
northwest United States will be completely destroyed.
#6
A massive eruption of Yellowstone would mean that just about everything within
a 100 mile radius of Yellowstone would be immediately killed.
#7
A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone could also potentially dump a layer of
volcanic ash that is at least 10 feet deep up to 1,000 miles away.
#8
A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone would cover virtually the entire midwest
United States with volcanic ash. Food production in America would be
almost totally wiped out.
#9
The “volcanic winter” that a massive Yellowstone eruption would cause would
radically cool the planet. Some scientists believe that global
temperatures would decline by up to 20 degrees.
#10
America would never be the same again after a massive Yellowstone
eruption. Some scientists believe that a full eruption by Yellowstone
would render two-thirds of the United States completely uninhabitable.
#11
Scientists tell us that it is not a matter of “if” Yellowstone will erupt but
rather “when” the next inevitable eruption will take place.
12. A GIANT ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE FROM THE SUN
This
last one that I have added to the list is one of the least understood.
A
giant electromagnetic pulse from the sun has the potential to fry much of the
technology that we have become so dependent upon.
How
would you survive in a world where nobody has electricity, the Internet has
been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any
phone calls and virtually all commerce across the entire country has been
brought to a complete standstill?
A
massive EMP blast has the potential to send all of us back to the 18th century
in a single instant. And just two years ago there was a “near
miss” that almost got us.
So
don’t think that it can’t happen. In fact, experts tell us that it is
only a matter of time before it does.
According
to Peter Vincent Pry, who advises Congress on homeland security issues, a large
enough geomagnetic solar storm could produce effects similar to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
generated by a nuclear weapon that “could collapse power
grids everywhere on the planet and destroy EHV (extra high voltage)
transformers and other electronic systems that would require years to repair or
replace.” While the danger posed by a G5 solar storm gets mentioned
occasionally at Congressional hearings, there really hasn’t been any major
action.
Earlier
this year, a Homeland Security adviser said America is not ready for an EMP
attack, never mind a G5 solar storm, and it’s claimed that the U.S. power grid fails more often
than any other in the world. If a large enough solar storm does impact
the United States, the damaged electronic systems can cause a cascade of
failures throughout the broader infrastructure, including banking systems,
energy systems, transportation systems, food production and delivery systems,
water systems, emergency services, and even the internet, so people may not
even realize at first what has happened. Effectively, the U.S. would be thrown
back to the pre-industrial age following a solar superstorm, and yet we are not
prepared for the worst.
So
what do you think about all of this?
Are
there any additional potential disasters that you would add to this list?
Please
feel free to add to the discussion by posting a comment below…
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Michael Snyder { Me: Yeah ... it's really quite amazing (but
predictable) that Senator Warren would be the 'bad guy' in all of this for
standing against this wall street enriching paper/digital fraud bailout
/debacle ... again ... though promised by Washington, 'never again' ...
Remember, as previously set forth innumerable times in this site, only a small
fraction of what wall street does is a net economic positive in real economic
terms (less than 5 percent) ... Think of these technologically enabled
lightning-fast worthless paper/digital commissioned bubble frauds as
'liquidated babies' down the drain (wall street) with the bath water, termites
eating away at the foundation/fabric of the nation, etc.. They must be
prosecuted, disgorgement imposed for their gargantuan frauds, not
rewarded/bailed out/positively reinforced/conditioned for further
nation-destroying behavior ... }
If
the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble implodes, who should be stuck with
the bill? Well, if the “too big to fail” banks have their way it will be
you and I. Right now, lobbyists for the big Wall Street banks are pushing
really hard to include an extremely insidious provision in a bill that would
keep the federal government funded past the upcoming December 11th
deadline. This provision would allow these big banks to trade derivatives
through subsidiaries that are federally insured by the FDIC. What this
would mean is that the big banks would be able to continue their incredibly
reckless derivatives trading without having to worry about the downside.
If they win on their bets, the big banks would keep all of the profits.
If they lose on their bets, the federal government would come in and bail them
out using taxpayer money. In other words, it would essentially be a
“heads I win, tails you lose” proposition. (Read More....)
Horrific
Torture Report Shows Why Much Of The World Considers America To Be The Nazis Of
The 21st Century{ Yeah … it’s
really quite amazing (but predictable) that Senator Feinstein would be the ‘bad
guy’ in all of this … What was she supposed to do … cover it up? … pretend she
didn’t do a job entrusted to her? … make the expenditure of time, resources, and
energy compiling this reality a mere folly and hence, a typical government
boondoggle? … Is anybody so foolish as to believe anything the rebuttal /cia
/bureaucratic cheerleaders say? (Oh well, cheerleaders, drunken ones at that is
something dumbya bush did at yale … not to be sexist -I’m not- but, really, how
embarrassing for a guy!) . As far as worsening the perception of america in
light of this report … WAKE UP! … can’t get worse than it already is, is (the
meaning of what is, is). Look … bush, cheney, et als are war criminals; and, as
in nazi germany, that ‘just following orders thing’ just doesn’t cut it … Does
anybody recall dumbya bush making a joke of the non-existent wmd’s (one of
those Washingtonian special dinner events, I don’t recall which one) … we’re
talking certifiable socio-psychopathic behavior as was true of the nazis … }
Good guys do not sadistically
torture people. Good guys do not threaten to sexually abuse the family members
of their prisoners, and they certainly do not forcibly ram things up the rear
ends of those in their custody. One of the greatest dangers that our
country is facing is the fact that we are not passing on what it means to be
“American” to future generations. Once upon a time, Americans were the
good guys. But now, instead of fighting the Nazis we are behaving just
like them. The details of the Senate torture report that was just released are
almost too horrifying to talk about. We must talk about them though,
because we are losing our soul as a nation. So please be warned – this
article is going to be quite graphic. The reason for this is so that we
can all take a long, hard, honest look at what we have become. After
everything that has happened, top politicians from both political parties are
still standing up and defending those that conducted and authorized this
torture. The rest of the world is watching this, and the number of people
that are absolutely convinced that America is pure evil is growing by the
day. By not loudly condemning this torture and bringing the perpetrators
to justice, we add fuel to the fire of those that hate this country, and we
make it more likely that Americans will be targets of violence all over the
planet. (Read More...)
DAVIS, Calif. —
IT’S commonplace to call our cats “pets.” But anyone sharing a cat’s household can
tell you that, much as we might like to choose when they eat in the morning, or
when they come inside for the night, cats are only partly domesticated.The
likely ancestors of the domestic dog date from more than 30,000
years ago. But domestic cats’ forebears join us in the skeletal record only
about 9,500
years ago. This difference fits our intuition about their comparative
degrees of domestication: Dogs want to be “man’s best friend”; cats, not so
much.Fossils are handy snapshots of the past, but a genomic sequence is a time
machine, enabling scientists to run evolutionary history backward. The initial sequence of
the domestic cat was completed in 2007, but a
recent study to which I contributed compared the genomes of the domestic
cat and the wildcat (Felis silvestris) and sheds new light on the last 10,000
years of feline adaptations.Domestic cats are not just wildcats that tolerate
humans in exchange for regular meals. They have smaller skulls in relation to
their bodies compared with wildcats, and are known to congregate in colonies.
But in comparison with dogs, cats have a narrower range of variation in size
and form.Wesley C. Warren, an author of the study, notes that domestic cats
have excellent hunting skills, like their wild ancestors. This, too, supports
the notion that cats are only semi-domesticated.Comparing the genomes of the
wildcat and the domestic cat added much to what we had known. Michael J.
Montague, the lead author, told me he’d anticipated that the two genomes would
be very similar, but our study found a specific set of differences in genes
involved in neuron development. This brain adaptation may explain why domestic
cats are docile.Scientists have long observed that domesticated species exhibit
a suite of strikingly similar traits, from floppy ears to smaller brains, than
those of their wild ancestors. Domestication may select for a few similar
traits encoded by genetic changes (like smaller brains), but these may produce
what we assume are secondary effects (like floppy ears).Once they were living
among us, cats didn’t need to think so much to stay alive; nor did they need
such large jaws after we started feeding them our processed scraps. Hence
smaller skulls. The same dynamic holds for dogs: Wolves beat dogs in general
intelligence tests.By examining patterns in our animals’ genomes, we’ve
confirmed that the same sets of genes seem to be targeted again and again in
evolution. As far back as Charles Darwin, domestic animals in particular have
yielded insights about evolution because we know what sorts of selection
pressures they were subject to. After all, it was us they were primarily
adapting to.Which brings us to the genome of one critical tame animal:
ourselves, humans. The Nobel Prize-winning zoologist
Konrad Z. Lorenz once suggested that humans were subject to the same dynamics
of domestication. Our brain and body sizes peaked during the end of
the last ice age, and declined with the spread of agriculture.
Instead of
poring over the meager fossil record, we can survey patterns of variation
across tens of thousands of living individuals. Genomics now provides evidence
that humans have been subject to a great deal of natural selection
over the past 10,000 years. A beautiful example is the ancestors of Tibetans’ absorption
of small portions of the genome of ancient human relatives adapted for living
at high altitude.
Our cultural
flexibility and creativity since the end of the ice age have not freed humans
from evolutionary forces, but have opened up novel and startling paths.
Thinking of domestication as an evolutionary process that occurs through
“artificial” selection creates a false dichotomy of nurture and nature that
plays into a conceit of human exceptionalism. In fact, the idea that we are
apart from nature, that it is ours to tame and exploit, is an outmoded
approach.A more useful interpretation is that over the past 10,000 years,
humans fashioned their own ecosystem. We were part of a natural process that
altered the landscape. In that light, we can think of the domestic cat as an
ecological response to the emergence of parasites (rodents attracted by early
Neolithic granaries). The same forces that reshaped the genomes of our
domesticates also reshaped ours.No longer roving in small bands subsisting on
game and unprocessed plants, we settled down in villages, harvesting the same
crops year after year. For millenniums, peasants fed on what we might today
term porridge, of various types. Our teeth became smaller — indeed, both dogs and humans show
evidence of adaptation to starchy diets.Just as the fur of our mammalian
domesticates, freed from the constraint of needing to fade into the landscape,
became a riot of diverse colors, human pigmentation started to change and many
populations became light-skinned.
With a cheek-by-jowl existence, humans and their animals began sharing
diseases, remolding the immunity of whole populations, but leaving those who
did not experience this co-evolution untouched and vulnerable. Possibly, some
pathogens incubated in cats, like
Toxoplasma gondii, may even alter human
behavior.Many of us conceive of our relationship to our pets as analogous
to that between a parent and child. But the natural history tells a more pragmatic
tale. Cats emerged in the context of profound ecological changes to the
post-ice-age landscape wrought by humans.We were the authors of those changes,
but in the process of telling that story, we became protagonists within it. One
of the essential steps in knowing ourselves, and seeing where we are going, is
to look around and take note of how we’ve reshaped those nearest to us, and
they us.
Razib Khan, a doctoral candidate in genomics
at the University of California, Davis, writes about genetics, evolution,
history, politics and philosophy.
A version of
this op-ed appears in print on November 25, 2014, on page A27 of the New York
edition with the headline: Our Cats, Ourselves. Order
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Thirty-four of the 50 worst
cities were located in the region, including repeat murder capital of the
world — San
Pedro Sula, Honduras — which saw 187 homicides per 100,000
inhabitants in 2013 and is getting steadily worse. A full one-third
of global homicides occur in Latin America even though the region
has just 8% of the world's population, according to United Nations
data.
Drug trafficking, gang wars,
political instability, corruption, and poverty combine to cause the region's
elevated violence.
US cities also made the list,
led by Detroit at No. 24 and New Orleans at No. 26.
50. Valencia, Venezuela, had 30.04
homicides per 100,000 residents.
49. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, had
30.05 homicides per 100,000 residents.
48. Durban, South Africa, had
32.42 homicides per 100,000 residents.
47. Tijuana, Mexico, had 32.50
homicides per 100,000 residents.
46. Aracaju, Brazil, had 33.36
homicides per 100,000 residents.
45. St. Louis had 34.14 homicides
per 100,000 residents.
44. Belo Horizonte, Brazil,
had 34.73 homicides per 100,000 residents.
43. Cuernavaca, Mexico, had 34.91
homicides per 100,000 residents.
42. Maracaibo, Venezuela, had
35.44 homicides per 100,000 residents.
41. Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa,
had 35.76 homicides per 100,000 residents.
40. Macapá, Brazil, had 36.59
homicides per 100,000 residents.
39. Recife, Brazil, had 36.82
homicides per 100,000 residents.
38. San Juan, Puerto Rico, had
37.40 homicides per 100,000 residents.
37. Juárez, Mexico, had
37.59 homicides per 100,000 residents.
36. Baltimore had 37.77 homicides
per 100,000 residents.
35. Medellin, Colombia, had 38.06
homicides per 100,000 residents.
34. Pereira, Colombia, had 39.81
homicides per 100,000 residents.
33. Cúcuta, Colombia, had
42.22 homicides per 100,000 residents.
32. Santa Marta, Colombia, had
42.44 homicides per 100,000 residents.
31. Manaus, Brazil, had 42.53
homicides per 100,000 residents.
30. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, had
42.90 homicides per 100,000 residents.
29. Cuiabá, Brazil, had 43.95
homicides per 100,000 residents.
28. Goiânia, Brazil, had 44.56
homicides per 100,000 residents.
27. San Salvador, El Salvador, had
44.74 homicides per 100,000 residents.
26. New Orleans had 45.08
homicides per 100,000 residents.
25. Campina Grande, Brazil, had 46
homicides per 100,000 residents.
24. Detroit had 46.99 homicides
per 100,000 residents.
23. Belém, Brazil, had 48.23
homicides per 100,000 residents.
22. Victoria, Mexico, had 49.22
homicides per 100,000 residents.
21. Chihuahua City, Mexico, had
50.12 homicides per 100,000 residents.
20. Cape Town, South Africa, had
50.94 homicides per 100,000 residents.
19. Kingston, Jamaica, had 52.83
homicides per 100,000 residents.
18. Torreón, Mexico, had 54.24
homicides per 100,000 residents.
17. Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, had
54.27 homicides per 100,000 residents.
16. Culiacán, Mexico, had 54.57
homicides per 100,000 residents.
A woman walks by a mural that reads in
Spanish "Wave of violence and blood" in Culiacan, the capital city of
Mexico's Sinaola state, Thursday, May 15, 2008.
15. São Luís, Brazil,
had 57.04 homicides per 100,000 residents.
A protest in São Luís, Brazil.
14. Vitoria, Brazil, had 57.39
homicides per 100,000 residents.
Amazon Indians talk to police at the
entrance to the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction site, as they
continued their occupation of the area in Vitoria do Xingu, near Altamira in
Para State, May 5, 2013.
13. Salvador (and RMS), Brazil,
had 57.51 homicides per 100,000 residents.
A Brazilian drug gang member nicknamed
Poison, 18, poses with a gun atop a hill overlooking a slum in Salvador, Bahia
State, April 11, 2013.
12. Natal, Brazil, had 57.62
homicides per 100,000 residents.
A soldier stands outside at the Maria Lamas
Farache-Frasqueirao stadium before the Mexico's national soccer team's training
session in Natal, June 14, 2014.
11. Palmira, Colombia, had 60.86
homicides per 100,000 residents.
A Colombian soldier organize packs of
confiscated cocaine in a laboratory near Palmira, Valle del Cauca province
August 20, 2004.
10. Barquisimeto, Venezuela, had
64.72 homicides per 100,000 residents.
Venezuelan police officers stand guard
outside the morgue where the bodies of prisoners killed in a riot were taken in
Barquisimeto,Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.
9. João Pessoa, Brazil, had 66.92
homicides per 100,000 residents.
João Pessoa, Brazil
8. Guatemala City, Guatemala, had
68.40 homicides per 100,000 residents.
The body of a man lies covered on a pavement
after being killed during a shootout at the El Guarda market in Guatemala city
Sept. 8, 2011.
7. Fortaleza, Brazil, had 72.81
homicides per 100,000 residents.
Riot policemen face off with demonstrators
near a burnt vehicle during a protest near the Estadio Castelao, where the
Confederations Cup semi-final match between Spain and Italy is being played, in
Fortaleza June 27, 2013.
6. Distrito Central, Honduras, had
79.42 homicides per 100,000 residents.
A Honduran police officer guards an injured
prisoner, standing inside a cell at the Hospital Escuela.
5. Maceió, Brazil, had 79.76
homicides per 100,000 residents.
Brazil's drug lord Luiz Fernando Costa, also
know as "Fernandinho Beira Mar" (Freddy Seashore), arrives at Federal
Police Headquarter in Brasilia March 24, 2006.
4. Cali, Colombia, had 83.20
homicides per 100,000 residents.
Colombian special investigators carry the
body of a car bomb victim in Cali city Sept. 1, 2008.
3. Acapulco, Mexico, had 112.80
homicides per 100,000 residents.
A body lies in the street in Acapulco,
Mexico.
2. Caracas, Venezuela, had 134.36
homicides per 100,000 residents.
In this May 15, 2013 photo, National Guard
soldiers frisk a man at a checkpoint as part of the "Secure Homeland"
initiative in Petare, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of Caracas, Venezuela.
1. San Pedro Sula, Honduras, had
187.14 homicides per 100,000 residents.
Police fire tear gas to break up a protest
in San Pedro Sula, Honduras November 29, 2009. Honduras chooses a new president
on Sunday but neither ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya nor arch-rival
and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti are running in the election, which could
give a new president the chance to take Honduras beyond the political gridlock
that has divided the Central American nation and cut off international aid.
The idea that the United States is
on the brink of a horrifying economic crash is absolutely inconceivable to most
Americans. After all, the economy has been relatively stable for quite a
few years and the stock market continues to surge to new heights. On
Friday, the Dow and the S&P 500 both closed at brand new all-time record
highs. For the year, the S&P 500 is now up 9 percent and the Nasdaq
is now up close to 11 percent. And American consumers are getting ready
to spend more than 600 billion dollars this
Christmas season. That is an amount of money that is larger than the
entire economy of Sweden. So how in the world can anyone be talking about
economic collapse? Yes, many will concede, we had a few bumps in the road
back in 2008 but things have pretty much gotten back to normal since then.
Why be concerned about economic collapse when there is so much stability all
around us? (Read More....)
Unfortunately, this brief period
of stability that we have been enjoying is just an illusion.
The fundamental problems that
caused the financial crisis of 2008 have not been fixed. In fact, most of
our long-term economic problems have gotten even worse.
But most Americans have such
short attention spans these days. In a world where we are accustomed to
getting everything instantly, news cycles only last for 48 hours and 2008 might
as well be an eternity ago.
In the United States today, our
entire economic system is based on debt.
Without debt, very little
economic activity happens. We need mortgages to buy our homes, we need
auto loans to buy our vehicles and we need our credit cards to do our shopping
during the holiday season.
So where does all of that debt
come from?
It comes from the banks.
In particular, the "too big
to fail banks" are the heart of this debt-based system.
Do you have a mortgage, an auto
loan or a credit card from one of these "too big to fail"
institutions? A very large percentage of the people that will read this
article do.
And a lot of people might not
like to hear this, but without those banks we essentially do not have an
economy.
When Lehman Brothers collapsed
in 2008, it almost resulted in the meltdown of our entire system. The
stock market collapsed and we experienced an absolutely wicked credit crunch.
Unfortunately, that was just a
small preview of what is coming.
Even though a few prominent
"experts" such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman have declared that the
"too big to fail" problem is "over", the truth is that it
is now a bigger crisis than ever before.
Compared to five years ago, the
four largest banks in the country are now almost 40 percent larger. The
following numbers come from a recent article in the Los Angeles Times...
Just
before the financial crisis hit, Wells Fargo & Co. had $609 billion in
assets. Now it has $1.4 trillion. Bank of America Corp. had $1.7 trillion in
assets. That's up to $2.1 trillion.
And
the assets of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the nation's biggest bank, have
ballooned to $2.4 trillion from $1.8 trillion.
At
the same time that those banks have been getting bigger, 1,400 smaller banks
have completely disappeared from the banking industry.
That
means that we are now more dependent on these gigantic banks than ever.
At
this point, the five largest banks account for 42 percent of all loans in the United
States, and the six largest banks account for 67 percent of all assets in our
financial system.
If
someone came along and zapped those banks out of existence, our economy would
totally collapse overnight.
So
the health of this handful of immensely powerful banking institutions is
absolutely critical to our economy.
Unfortunately,
these banks have become deeply addicted to gambling.
Have
you ever known people that allowed their lives to be destroyed by addictions
that they could never shake?
Well,
that is what is happening to these banks. They have transformed Wall
Street into the largest casino in the history of the world. Most of the
time, their bets pay off and they make lots of money.
But
as we saw back in 2008, when they miscalculate things can fall apart very
rapidly.
The
bets that I am most concerned about are known as "derivatives". In essence, they are bets about
what will or will not happen in the future. The big banks use very
sophisticated algorithms that are supposed to help them be on the winning side
of these bets the vast majority of the time, but these algorithms are not
perfect. The reason these algorithms are not perfect is because they are
based on assumptions, and those assumptions come from people. They might
be really smart people, but they are still just people.
If
things stay fairly stable like they have the past few years, the algorithms
tend to work very well.
But
if there is a "black swan event" such as a major stock market crash,
a collapse of European or Asian banks, a historic shift in interest rates, an
Ebola pandemic, a horrific natural disaster or a massive EMP blast is unleashed
by the sun, everything can be suddenly thrown out of balance.
Acrobat
Nik Wallenda has been making headlines all over the world for crossing vast
distances on a high-wire without a safety net. Well, that is essentially
what our "too big to fail" banks are doing every single day.
With each passing year, these banks have become even more reckless, and so far
there have not been any serious consequences.
But
without a doubt, someday there will be.
What
would you say about a bookie that took $200,000 in bets but that only had
$10,000 to cover those bets?
There has always been a
substantial level of incompetence at federal agencies, but under the Obama
administration incompetence has risen to unprecedented levels. This year
the incompetence of the Secret Service, the Veterans Administration, the
Department of Homeland Security and the CDC have all made national
headlines. And it is hard to forget how the launch of Obamacare was such
a failure that it became a global joke. We live at a time when our
government officials can’t seem to do anything right. When Americans
complain about the government, most of the time they focus on how corrupt and
wicked our politicians have become, and that should not be downplayed
whatsoever. But just replacing those politicians is not going to fix what
ails our government. The quality of the workers throughout the
government bureaucracy has fallen so dramatically that our federal
agencies can no longer be depended upon to perform even the most basic
governmental functions competently. The following are 10 examples of the
extreme incompetence that now pervades the federal government… (Read More...)
#1 The Secret Service
Once upon a time, the Secret
Service was considered to be one of the finest security organizations in the
entire world. But these days, they seem to be too busy partying and chasing prostitutes
around to do their jobs properly.
For instance, multiple intruders
have recently been able to cross the White House lawn and walk right into
the White House without being stopped by anyone. Here is just one example…
An
intruder made his way across the White House lawn and through the building almost
to the Obama living quarters before being stopped by a Secret Service officer
who was off duty: This chilling news is more than just a kind of melodramatic
movie scenario come true.
Next
to the military, the Secret Service is probably the most highly regarded
institution within the executive branch. Or it was.
Now
we learn its agents can’t catch a guy running across the White House lawn;
can’t stop the guy at the front door; can’t get to him before he gets to the
stairs that lead to the rooms where the president’s daughters sleep.
#2 The Obamacare Website
The
launch of Obamacare overall has been a complete and total disaster, but the
launch of the Obamacare website in particular was such a dramatic failure that
it is hard
to put into words. The Obama administration spent more than 2
billion dollars on healthcare.gov and trumpeted it as the future of healthcare
in America, but the website was a technical nightmare. The following is
how one news outlet described it…
Healthcare.gov
has shutdown, crapped out, stalled, and mis-loaded so consistently that its
track record for failure is challenged only by Congress.
So
what do we do? U.S. planes drop even more weapons into the region to aid
in “the fight against ISIS”, but ISIS is ending up with many of those weapons too…
At
least one bundle of U.S. weapons airdropped in Syria appears to have fallen
into the hands of ISIS, a dangerous misfire in the American mission to speed
aid to Kurdish forces making their stand in Kobani.
An
ISIS-associated YouTube account posted a new video online Tuesday entitled,
“Weapons and munitions dropped by American planes and landed in the areas
controlled by the Islamic State in Kobani.” The video was also posted on the
Twitter account of “a3maq news,” which acts as an unofficial media arm of ISIS.
The outfit has previously posted videos of ISIS fighters firing American made
Howitzer cannons and seizing marijuana fields in Syria.
ISIS
had broadly advertised its acquisition of a broad range of U.S.-made
weaponsduring its rampage across Iraq. ISIS videos have showed its fighters
driving U.S. tanks, MRAPs, Humvees. There are unconfirmed reports ISIS has
stolen three fighter planes from Iraqi bases it conquered.
#4 The Immigration Crisis
The
Obama administration has refused to secure our borders and has openly
encouraged mass illegal immigration from Central and South America.
As
a result, our border patrol is absolutely overwhelmed. Tens of thousands of women and
children are turning themselves over to border patrol agents and
asking for asylum. They expect to be taken care of and given a new life
in this country. As a result, “processing centers” along our southern
border are packed to the gills with women and children living in absolutely
deplorable conditions as the federal government figures out what to do with
them.
#5 The VA Scandal
Under
the Obama administration, military veterans have been treated like
human garbage. For years they have been denied the care
that they need, and many Americans were absolutely shocked when they learned
that countless veterans have died waiting to get an appointment at one of our
VA facilities. Needless to say, this scandal has greatly shaken the confidence that the public has in
the Veterans Administration…
The
Veterans Administration was viewed favorably by 68 percent of those polled last
year. But it too has since been swept up in a scandal over long wait times for
veterans seeking care and records that were falsified to camouflage the
problems. In the CBS poll, just 30 percent rated the VA as doing a good job.
#6 The SEC
Many
wonder why the SEC never seems to go after the big Wall Street banks.
Well, perhaps one of the reasons is because many SEC employees have been too
busy watching porn all
day long…
One
senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington spent up to eight hours a day
accessing Internet porn, according to the report, which has yet to be released.
When he filled all the space on his government computer with pornographic
images, he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his
offices.
An
SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week
period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive.
Another
SEC accountant used his SEC-issued computer to upload his own sexually explicit
videos onto porn websites he joined.
And
another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single
month.
It
appears, however, that a regional office has reached a new low: Management for
Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email earlier this year to all staff in the
area pleading with them to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior, including
defecating in the hallway.
In
the email, obtained by Government Executive, Deputy Regional
Administrator Howard Cantor mentioned “several incidents” in the building,
including clogging the toilets with paper towels and “an individual placing feces
in the hallway” outside the restroom.
Confounded
by what to make of this occurrence, EPA management “consulted” with workplace
violence “national expert” John Nicoletti, who said that hallway feces is in
fact a health and safety risk. He added the behavior was “very dangerous” and
the individuals responsible would “probably escalate” their actions.
And
just like the SEC, there has been a lot of porn watching going on at the EPA
too. The following is from a recent Washington Post article…
In
May, the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general disclosed that a
senior-level employee was caught spending as much as six hours of his day
looking at porn. The IG found that the employee had downloaded and viewed more
than 7,000 pornographic files. The Justice Department is investigating further
for possible prosecution.
Four
months later, the employee has not been fired and is still collecting
government pay, Environment & Energy Publishingreported
last week.
That
prompted Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) to
introduce a bill the day Congress left town to make it a uniform federal
government law that employees cannot look at porn at work.
#8 NASA
Generally,
NASA has been regarded as one of the more competent government agencies.
That is why it is so alarming that a rocket recently exploded just before
liftoff at a NASA facility in Virginia…
An
unmanned commercial rocket headed for the International Space Station to
deliver supplies exploded just after launching Tuesday, filling the sky with a
massive fireball.
The
Antares rocket supplied by contractor Orbital Sciences blew up moments after
liftoff at NASA’s space launch facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the
space agency said.
The
explosion destroyed the rocket and spacecraft and immediately raised questions
about the future of NASA’s reliance on private commercial ventures to carry
vital payloads into space to supply and support the orbiting space station.
#9 The Federal Reserve
The
Federal is NOT a government agency, but it claims such a close
relationship with the government that I have added it to this list.
Since
the Federal Reserve was initially created, the U.S. dollar has become more than
20 times less valuable, and the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 5000
times larger.
More
recently, the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program has been an
unmitigated failure. The Federal Reserve created 3.5 trillion dollars out of thin air and pumped it
into the financial system, but all of that money has done next to nothing for
the real economy. The percentage of Americans that are employed is about
the same as it was during the depths of the last recession,
the homeownership rate in this country has been falling for seven years in a row, and half of all Americans
now make less than $28,031 a year.
#10 Ebola
This
is the one area where the incompetence of the federal government could be the
most dangerous. Originally we were told by the CDC that Ebola could only
be spread by “direct contact” with the bodily fluids of someone else. But
now we have learned that the government believes that Ebola is “aerostable“,
and we have also learned that researchers have discovered that Ebola can remain
on surfaces for
up to 50 days. If Ebola does start spreading widely in this
country, giving people bad information could accelerate the spread of the
disease.
As
far as Obama is concerned, incompetence is the best case scenario. There
is absolutely no excuse for not protecting the American people from what could
become the greatest health crisis that any of us have ever seen. If a
major Ebola pandemic does erupt in this country, the blood of countless numbers
of Americans could potentially be on his hands.
So
what do you think?
Are
there other examples of incompetence that you would add to this list?
Please
share your thoughts by posting a comment below…
History may not repeat exactly because technology, resource
discoveries, and political dynamics change the nature of society, but it does
rhyme because the human foibles of greed, lust for power, arrogance, and desire
for conquest do not vary across the ages. The corruption, arrogance, hubris, currency
debasement, materialism, imperialism, and civic decay that led to the ultimate
downfall of the Roman
Empire is being repeated on an even far greater scale today as the
American Empire flames out after only two centuries. The pillars of western
society are crumbling under the sustained pressure of an immense mountain of
debt, created by crooked bankers and utilized by corrupt politicians to sustain
and expand their welfare/warfare state. Recklessness, myopia, greed,
willful ignorance, and selfish disregard for unborn generations are the
earmarks of decline in this modern day empire of debt, delusion and decay.
“Already long ago, from when
we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the
People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office,
legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two
things: Bread and Circuses.”
– Juvenal
– Satire (100 A.D.)
Roman satirist and poet Juvenal
was displaying contempt for a degraded Roman citizenry that had shunned civic
responsibility, shirked their duties of citizenship within a republic, and had
chosen to sell their votes to feckless politicians for assurances of bread and
circuses. Rather than govern according to noble principles based upon reason,
striving for public policies that led to long term sustainability and
benefitting the majority of citizens, politicians chose superficial displays
and appeasing the masses utilizing the lowest common denominator of "free'
food and bountiful spectacles, pageants, and ceremonies in order to retain
power.
The Roman
Empire’s decline stretched across centuries as the gradual loss of
civic virtue among its citizenry allowed demagogues to gain power and
barbarians to eventually overrun the weakened empire. While the peasants were
distracted with shallow exhibitions of palliative pleasures, those in power
were debasing the currency, enriching themselves, and living pampered lives of
luxury. The Roman leaders bought public approval and support, not through
exemplary public service, but through diversion, distraction, and the
satisfaction of base immediate needs and desires of the populace. Satisfying
the crude motivations of the ignorant peasants (cheap food and entertainment)
is how Roman politicians bought votes and retained power. Free wheat, circus
games, and feeding Christians to lions kept the commoners from focusing on
politicians pillaging and wasting the empire’s wealth.
History may not repeat
exactly because technology, resource discoveries, and political dynamics change
the nature of society, but it does rhyme because the human foibles of greed,
lust for power, arrogance, and desire for conquest do not vary across the ages. The corruption, arrogance, hubris, currency
debasement, materialism, imperialism, and civic decay that led to the ultimate
downfall of the Roman
Empire is being repeated on an even far greater scale today as the
American Empire flames out after only two centuries. The pillars of western
society are crumbling under the sustained pressure of an immense mountain of
debt, created by crooked bankers and utilized by corrupt politicians to sustain
and expand their welfare/warfare state. Recklessness, myopia, greed, willful
ignorance, and selfish disregard for unborn generations are the earmarks of
decline in this modern day empire of debt, delusion and decay.
“Armaments, universal debt,
and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you
people are over-consuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into
chronic disaster.”
– Aldous
Huxley – Island
Rome was eight and a half centuries
old when Juvenal scornfully described the degenerative spiral of the Roman
populace. Still, the Western Empire lasted another three centuries before
finally succumbing to the Visigoths and Vandals. The far slower pace of history
and lack of other equally matched competing nation states allowed Rome to exist
for centuries beyond its Pax Romana period of unprecedented political stability
and prosperity, which lasted for two centuries. Prior to becoming an empire,
the Roman Republic was a network of towns left to rule themselves with varying
degrees of independence from the Roman Senate and provinces administered by
military commanders. It was ruled, not by Emperors, but by annually elected
magistrates known as Roman Consuls. The Roman citizens were a proud people who
had a strong sense of civic duty and made government work for the people.
During the 1st
century B.C. Rome suffered a long series of internal conflicts, conspiracies
and civil wars, while greatly extending their imperial power beyond Italy
through military conquest. After the assassination of Julius Caesar and the
ascension of Augustus to emperor in 27 BC, after a century of civil wars, Rome
experienced an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity. During this era,
the solidity of the Empire was furthered by a degree of societal stability and
economic prosperity. But it didn’t last. The successors to Augustus contributed
to the progressive ruination of the empire. The repugnant reigns of Tiberius,
Caligula, Claudius, and Nero reflected the true nature of the Roman people, who
had relinquished their sovereignty to government administrators to whom they
had granted absolute powers, in return for food and entertainment. It was the
beginning of the end.
The American Republic began as a
loose confederation of states who ruled themselves, with little or no direction
from a central authority. The Articles of Confederation, ratified in 1781 by
all 13 States, limited the powers of the central government. The Confederation
Congress could make decisions, but lacked enforcement powers. Implementation of
most decisions, including modifications to the Articles, required unanimous
approval of all thirteen state legislatures. After winning the war for
independence from England, the U.S. Constitution, which shifted power to a
central authority, was ratified in 1789. The Bill of Rights, the first ten
amendments to the Constitution, was passed in 1791 with the purpose of
protecting individual liberties and insuring justice for all. Their function
was to safeguard the citizens from an authoritarian federal government. These
imperfect documents would benefit and protect the rights of the American people
only if applied by moral, just, incorruptible, noble, honorable leaders and
enforced by an educated, concerned, vigilant citizenry.
As with the Roman Empire, the
quality of leadership has rapidly deteriorated over the last two centuries and
now wallows at disgustingly low levels. These leaders are a reflection of a
people who have abandoned their desire for knowledge, responsibility for their
lives, work ethic, belief in freedom and the U.S. Constitution. The Juvenal of
our times was H.L.
Mencken who aptly and scornfully described the citizenry in 1920
as an ignorant mob who would eventually elect a downright moron to the
presidency. He was right.
“The larger the mob, the
harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man
occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of
his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged
chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so
readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is,
intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre—the man who can most easily
adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
The Presidency tends, year
by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents,
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty
ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach
their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a
downright moron.” –
H.L.
Mencken
A Republic was formed 225
years ago, as opposed to a monarchy, by men of good intentions. They weren’t perfect, but their goals for
the new nation were honorable and decent. Ben Franklin had his doubts regarding
whether we could keep a republic. He had good reason to doubt the long-term
sustainability of this experiment. Freedom is not something bestowed on us by
men of higher caste. We are born into this world free, with the liberty to live
our lives as we see fit, the opportunity to educate oneself and the freedom to
succeed as far as our capabilities and efforts allow. Only a self-reliant,
virtuous, moral, civic minded people are capable of enjoying the fruits of
freedom. Once corruption, self-interest, greed, and dependency upon government
bureaucrats for sustenance become prevalent, the populace seeks masters who
promise safety and security in return for sacrificing essential liberty and
basic freedoms.
The country has defeated foreign
invaders, withstood financial calamities, endured a bloody civil war,
benefitted immensely from the discovery of oil under its soil, became an
industrial power, fought on the winning side of two world wars, and since 1946
has become the greatest imperial empire since Rome fell to the barbarians. Over
the course of our 225 year journey there has been a gradual relinquishment of
the citizens’ sovereignty and autonomy to an ever more overbearing central
government. Lincoln’s unprecedented expansion of Federal government authority
during thwe Civil War marked a turning point, as state and local rights became
subservient to an all-powerful central authority. Individual liberty has been
surrendered and freedoms forfeited over a decades long insidious regression of
a once courageous, independent, self-sufficient citizenry into a mob of
cowering, willfully ignorant dependents of the deep state.
From the inception of the
country there has been a constant battle between the banking interests and the
common people.
Bankers have used fraudulent fractional reserve banking to speculate for their
own benefit, made risky loans, and created every financial crisis in the
country’s history. The profits from excessive risk taking are retained by the
bankers. The inevitable losses are borne by taxpayers with the excuse that the
financial system must be saved and preserved. The storyline never changes. The
beginning of the end of the American Empire can be pinpointed to the year 1913,
only 124 years after its inception. Private banking interests captured the
monetary system of the empire with the secretive creation of the Federal
Reserve. The power of the central state was solidified with the implementation
of the personal income tax, allowing politicians to bribe their constituents
with modern day “bread and circuses”, paid for with money taken at gunpoint
from them by the central state. We are now nothing but the hollowed out shell
of a once noble Republic.
A century of central banking and
heavy taxation of the people by bought off politician puppets has coincided
with a century of war, depressions, currency debasement, overconsumption,
obscene levels of consumer debt, trillions of excessive debt financed
government spending, hundreds of trillions in unfunded entitlement liabilities,
and a persistent decline in standard of living for the masses due to Federal
Reserve manufactured inflation. We have failed to heed the lessons of
history. We have repeated the blunders committed by the Romans.
The American Empire will
not be murdered by an external force because it is too busy committing suicide. The moneyed interests, corporate oligarchs
and their hand-picked politician front men see themselves as conquering heroes.
Their colossal hubris and arrogance is only matched by the ignorance,
gullibility, quivering fear of bogeymen, and susceptibility to propaganda of
the general populace. The Wall Street bankers and feckless politicians are not
gods, they are only men. Death is the great equalizer for emperors and peasants
alike. The only thing that remains is your legacy and whether you positively
impacted the world. It can be unequivocally stated that those in power today
are leaving a legacy of despair, destruction, and debt.
Empires are born and
empires die. The
American Empire will not be sustained for eight centuries, as the swiftness of
modern civilization, nuclear proliferation, religious zealotry, and sociopathic
leadership ensures we will flame out in a blaze of glory before reaching our
third century. The spirit of independence, idealism, self-reliance,
entrepreneurship, knowledge seeking, advancement, and goodwill towards our
fellow citizens that marked the height of our fledgling country has succumbed
to a malaise of government dependency, cynicism, living on the dole, financial
Ponzi schemes, willful ignorance, materialism, delusion, and myopic
self-interest. The moral decline of the American populace has been reflected in
the deteriorating quality of leaders we have chosen over the last century.
Prosperity was taken for granted and no longer earned. We abdicated our civic
responsibility to corrupt financiers and power seeking politicians. As time has
passed, the ruling elite have grown ever more powerful and wealthy, at the
expense of the peasantry. These sociopaths see themselves as god-like emperors,
on par with the vilest of the Roman emperors.
Historians will mark 1980 as
another turning point, when the nation capitulated to the financiers and ceded
control of our destiny to Wall Street bankers, the military industrial complex,
and globalist billionaires. The final deformation from a productive society
built upon savings, capital investment, and goods production to a borrowing,
gambling, and consumption society built upon debt and profiteering by powerful
corporate and banking interests had commenced. The peak of this warfare/welfare
state insanity was reached in 2000 and the road to decline and decay is now
littered with the figurative corpses of a gutted middle class and the literal
corpses of men, women and children across the globe, killed during our never
ending imperial conquests. The ruling elite sense the futility and foolishness
of their folly, but their insatiable appetite for wealth, power, triumph and glory
blind them to the destructive consequences of their actions upon the nation and
their fellow man. Power and dominion over others is a powerful aphrodisiac for
our current day emperors and self-preservation at all costs is their mantra.
While they bask in their
perceived triumph and glory, achieved through rigging the financial and
political systems in their favor, they should heed the faint whisper in their
ear that all glory is fleeting.
“For over a thousand years
Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a
tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange
animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and
captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed
prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white
stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind
the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that
all glory is fleeting.”– George
S. Patton, Jr.
The decline of the Roman Empire
can be attributed to a number of supportable hypotheses, which have been
documented by historians over time. They include:
Perpetual warfare depleted the treasury and wasted the
manhood of the empire. The use of mercenary armies eventually led to the
sacking of Rome by the very armies they had employed.
Military overexpansion and spending resulted in resources
being diverted from technological advancement, maintenance of the civil
infrastructure, and worthwhile investments to support economic growth.
Excessive welfare spending, oppressive taxation and
currency debasement widened the gap between rich and poor, resulting in
discontent, mistrust and rebellion.
The emergence of an all-powerful centralized authoritarian
government ruling by mandate, racked by corruption, and kept in power by
bribing its subjects with promises of bread and circuses.
Emperors and Senators became oligarchs and their
conspicuous consumption provided proof of their corruption and decadence.
The widespread corruption and incompetence of its leadership led to a
waning in civic pride among the citizens.
The decline in productive commercial and agricultural
industries due to high taxes on producers, used to support the military
empire, contributed to the circumstances that allowed barbarian invasions
to succeed.
The moral decay of the people was caused by the influx of
slave labor from conquered territories, resulting in a decline in middle
class work ethic, and the subsequent rise in the level of citizens on the
dole. An economy based upon slave labor precluded a middle class with
buying power.
In Part Two of this tale of two empires, I’ll document the
parallels between mistakes made, eternal human foibles, military misfortunes,
financial misconduct, and moral decay, that denote the decline of the Roman and
American Empires.
George
Orwell ranks among the most profound social critics of the modern era. Some of
his quotations, more than a half a century old, show the depth of understanding
an enlightened mind can have about the future.
George
Orwell ranks among the most profound social critics of the modern era. Some of
his quotations, more than a half a century old, show the depth of understanding
an enlightened mind can have about the future.
1) “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping
out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a
mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
Though
many in the modern age have the will to bury their head in the sand when it
comes to political matters, nobody can only concern themselves with the
proverbial pebble in their shoe. If one is successful in avoiding politics, at
some point the effects of the political decisions they abstained from
participating in will reach their front door. More often than not, by that time
the person has already whatever whisper of a voice the
government has allowed them.
2) “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and
lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
Examining
the nightly news in the run up to almost any military intervention will find
scores of talking heads crying for blood to flow in the streets of some city
the name of which they just learned to pronounce. Once the bullets start
flying, those that clamored for war will still be safely on set bringing you
up-to-the-minute coverage of the carnage while their stock in Raytheon climbs.
3) “War against a foreign country only happens
when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
It’s
pretty self-explanatory and while it may be hard to swallow, it’s certainly
true. All it takes is a quick look at who benefited from
the recent wars waged by the United States to see Orwell’s quip take life.
4) “The very concept of objective truth is fading
out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
My
most prized books are a collection of history books from around the world. I
have an Iraqi book that recounts the glory of Saddam Hussein’s victory over the
United States in 1991. I have books from three different nations claiming that
one of their citizens was the first to fly. As some of the most powerful
nations in the world agree to let certain facts be “forgotten,”
the trend will only get worse. History is written by the victor, and the victor
will never be asked if he told the truth.
5) “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a
revolutionary act.”
Even
without commentary, the reader is probably picturing Edward Snowden or Chelsea
Manning. The revolutions of the future will not be fought with bullets and
explosives, but with little bits of data traveling around the world destroying
the false narratives with which governments shackle their citizens.
6) “Journalism is printing what someone else does
not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
Make
no mistake about it; if an article does not anger someone, it is nothing more
than a piece. Most of what passes for news today is little more than an official
sounding advertisement for a product, service, or belief.
7) “In real life it is always the anvil that
breaks the hammer…”
In
every conflict, it is not the side that can inflict the most damage, but the
side that can sustain the most damage that ultimately prevails. History is full
of situations in which a military “won the battles but lost the war.”
8) “The nationalist not only does not disapprove
of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for
not even hearing about them.”
Haditha.
Panjwai. Maywand District. Mahmudiyah. These names probably don’t ring a bell,
but it is almost a certainty that the reader is aware of the brutality that
occurred in Benghazi. The main difference is that in the first four incidents,
those committing the acts of brutality were wearing an American flag on their
shoulder.
9) “Threats to freedom of speech, writing and
action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and,
unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”
Everyday
there is a new form of censorship or a new method of forcing people into
self-censorship, and the people shrug it off because it only relates to a small
minority. By the time the people realize their ability to express disapproval
has been completely restricted, it may be too late. That brings us to Orwell’s
most haunting quote.
10) “If you want a picture of the future, imagine
a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
Once
the people are indoctrinated with nationalistic beliefs, and the infrastructure
to protect them from some constantly-changing and ever-expanding definition of an
enemy is in place, there is no ability for the people to regain liberty. By the
time all of the pieces are in place, not only is opportunity to regain freedom,
but the will to achieve freedom has also evaporated. The reader will truly love
Big Brother.
10
CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT CAME TRUE
When questioning the official narrative proved crucial
Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons
byPaul Joseph Watson
& Alex Jones | August 31,
2014
Despite
the fact that the term “conspiracy theory” has been weaponized by the establishment
as a perjorative slur against anyone who questions the official narrative of
any government pronouncement, there are innumerable examples throughout history
of conspiracies that were proven to be true.
Let’s
take a look at ten examples;
1) Operation AJAX and false flag terror
The
notion that governments and intelligence agencies carry out acts of false flag
terrorism has long been derided by the establishment media as a conspiracy
theory, despite there being a plethora of historically documented instances.
After
decades of denial, in August 2013 the CIA finally admitted its role in
staging the coup in Iran which led to the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh in
1953 under the umbrella of Operation AJAX.
On
August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson went on national television and told
the nation that North Vietnam had attacked U.S. ships.
“Repeated
acts of violence against the armed forces of the United States must be met not
only with alert defense, but with a positive reply. That reply is being given
as I speak tonight,” Johnson declared.
Congress
soon passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which provided Johnson with
pre-approved authority to conduct military operations against North Vietnam. By
1969, over 500,000 troops were fighting in Southeast Asia.
Johnson
and his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, had bamboozled Congress and the
American people. In fact, North Vietnam had not attacked the USS Maddox, as the
Pentagon claimed, and the “unequivocal proof” of an “unprovoked” second attack
against the U.S. warship was a ruse.
3) Operation Gladio: State Sponsored Terror Blamed on the Left
Following
the Second World War, the CIA and Britain’s MI6 collaborated through NATO on Operation
Gladio, an effort to create a “stay behind army” to fight communism in the event of a Soviet
invasion of Western Europe.
Gladio
quickly transcended its original mission and became a covert terror network
consisting of right wing militias, organized crime elements, agent provocateurs
and secret military units. The so-called stay behind armies were active in France,
Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Switzerland.
Gladio’s
“Strategy of Tension” was designed to portray leftist
political groups in Europe as terrorists and frighten the populace into voting
for authoritarian governments. In order to carry out this goal, Gladio
operatives conducted a number of deadly terrorist attacks that were blamed on
leftists and Marxists.
In
August of 1980, Gladio operatives bombed a
train station in Bologna, killing 85 people. Initially blamed on the Red
Brigades, it was later discovered that fascist elements within the Italian
secret police and Licio Gelli, the head of the P2 Masonic Lodge, were
responsible for the terror attack. Other fascist groups, including Avanguardia
Nazionale and Ordine Nuovo, were mobilized and engaged in terror.
Operation
Gladio ultimately claimed the lives of hundreds of people across Europe.
According
to Vincenzo
Vinciguerra, a Gladio terrorist serving a life-sentence for murdering
policemen, the reason for Gladio was simple. It was designed to force these
people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security.
This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings
which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself or declare
itself responsible for what happened.
The
plan included shooting
down hijacked American airplanes, the sinking of U.S. ships, and the
shooting of Americans on the streets of Washington, D.C. The outrageous plan
even included a staged NASA disaster that would claim the life of astronaut John Glenn.
Reeling
under the embarrassing failure of the CIA’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion of
Cuba, president Kennedy rejected the plan in March of 1962. A few months later,
Kennedy denied the plan’s author, General Lyman Lemnitzer, a second term as the
nation’s highest ranking military officer.
In
November of 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
5) The Gleiwitz Incident
The
Gleiwitz incident refers to a false flag operation carried out by the Nazis on
31 August 1939 during which SS troops staged an attack on a German radio
station and then blamed Polish troops.
German
operatives dressed in Polish military garb seized the radio station, located
near the Polish border, before broadcasting a short propaganda message in
Polish. They then killed concentration camp victims who were also dressed in
Polish uniforms and left them at the scene, making the incident look like an
act of Polish aggression. The very next day Germany invaded Poland, with Hitler
citing the incident as one of the pretexts.
Nine
days before the incident, Hitler had told his generals, “I will provide a
propagandistic casus belli. Its credibility doesn’t matter. The victor will not
be asked whether he told the truth.”
6) Tobacco companies deliberately added addictive chemicals to
cigarettes
Conspiracies
are not always of a governmental nature, they can also be targeted at
consumers. As the BBC reported,
tobacco companies in the United States were caught deliberately engineering
cigarettes for addiction by including chemicals that artificially increased the
addictive kick of the product and made it taste better.
Clive
Bates, director of ASH, said the discovery exposed a “scandal in which tobacco
companies deliberately use additives to make their bad products even worse”.
7) Operation Fast and Furious
Operation
Fast and Furious, under which the Obama administration smuggled weapons to
Mexican drug lords in an apparent effort to trace the guns and bust the drug
gangs, was in fact part of a conspiracy to demonize the second amendment.
Documents
obtained by CBS News in December 2011 prove that ATF agents discussed how
they could tie guns involved in Mexican violence to gun dealers based in the
U.S with a view to passing stricter gun control regulations.
One
law enforcement source told CBS News that the emails suggested the ATF created
the problem itself as part of a political ploy.
“It’s
like ATF created or added to the problem so they could be the solution to it
and pat themselves on the back. It’s a circular way of thinking,” the source
said.
8) NSA spying & mass surveillance
In
the 1990′s, when anti-surveillance activists and media personalities were
warning about the NSA’s huge domestic spying operation, they were treated as
paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Well
over a decade before the Snowden revelations, the NSA was busy intercepting and
recording all electronic communications across the entire world under the
Echelon program.
In
1999, the Australian
government admitted that they were part of an NSA-led global intercept and
surveillance program called Echelon in alliance with the US and Britain that
could listen to “every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio
transmission,” on the planet.
In
addition, a 2001 European
Parliament report stated that “within Europe all e-mail, telephone and fax
communications are routinely intercepted” by the NSA.
9) CIA Drug Trafficking
The
Central Intelligence Agency has been implicated in drug trafficking operations
all over the world as well as domestically, most notably during the Iran-Contra
affair, under which Contra personnel smuggled cocaine into the U.S. with the
blessing of the CIA which was then distributed as crack cocaine in Los Angeles,
with the profits being funneled back to the Contras.
Former
Los Angeles Police Department officer Michael Ruppert also testified that he
had witnessed CIA drug trafficking.
Top
Mexican drug lords like Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla have also
gone public to assert that they were hired by the U.S. government for drug
trafficking operations. There is a voluminous body of
evidence that confirms the CIA and U.S. banking giants are the top players in
a global drug trade worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, information
made public by the likes of Gary
Webb.
10) The CIA’s heart attack gun
During
Senate testimony in 1975 into illegal activities by the CIA, it was revealed
that the agency had developed a dart gun capable of causing a heart attack. “At
the first televised hearing, staged in the Senate Caucus Room, Chairman Church
dramatically displayed a CIA poison dart gun to highlight the committee’s
discovery that the CIA directly violated a presidential order by maintaining
stocks of shellfish toxin sufficient to kill thousands,” a Senate
web page explains.
“The
lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once
the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very
unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything other than
natural causes. Sounds like the perfect James Bond weapon, doesn’t it? Yet this
is all verifiable in Congressional testimony,” writes Fred
Burks.
“The
dart from this secret CIA weapon can penetrate clothing and leave nothing but a
tiny red dot on the skin. On penetration of the deadly dart, the individual
targeted for assassination may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or they may not
feel anything at all. The poisonous dart completely disintegrates upon entering
the target.”
Burks
suggests that Mark
Pittman, a reporter who predicted the financial crisis and exposed Federal
Reserve misdoings which led to a Bloomberg lawsuit against the bankster cartel,
may have been assassinated with the CIA weapon.
Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the
middle class is slowly being suffocated by rising food prices. Every
single dollar in your wallet is constantly becoming less valuable because of
the inflation the Fed systematically creates. { Inflationmuch higher than reported, for a multitude
of reasons, not the least of which are politics/election..., cost-of-living
adjustments to minimize payouts – ie., social security, etc. } And if you try
to build wealth by saving money and earning interest on it, you still lose
because thanks to the Federal Reserve's near zero interest rate policies banks
pay next to nothing on savings accounts. The Federal Reserve wants you to
either spend your money or to put it in the giant casino that we call the stock
market. But when Americans spend their paychecks they are finding that
they don't stretch as far as they once did. The cost of living continues
to rise at a much faster pace than wages are rising, and this is especially
true when it comes to the price of food. (Read More....)
TRUMP
TO ROMNEY: DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT... { Who is a
mobster/bribester/fraud like trump to be taken at all seriously much less be
more credible than mafia/organized crime, etc.. t_rump has been a significant
part of american decline … he’s total b***s***/fraud! … and, he’s a great
reason to vote DEMOCRAT! Remember, if it’s good for trump, it’s bad for the
nation! }
Vatican
City, Sep 29, 2014 / 06:31 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday’s feast of the archangels Pope Francis spoke of
the ongoing battle between the devil and mankind, encouraging attendees to pray
to the angels, who have been charged to defend us.
“He presents things as if they were good, but his intention is destruction. And
the angels defend us,” the Roman Pontiff told those gathered for his Sept. 29
Mass in the Vatican’s Saint Martha residence chapel.
The Bishop of Rome began by pointing to the day’s readings taken from Daniel 7
in which the prophet has a vision of God the Father on a throne of fire giving
Christ dominion over the world, and Revelation 12, which recounts the battle in
which Satan, as a large dragon, is cast out of heaven by St. Michael.
Noting how these are strong images portraying “the great dragon, the ancient
serpent” who “seduces all of inhabited earth,” the Pope also drew attention to
Christ's words to Nathanael in the day’s Gospel from John when he tells him
“You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon
the Son of man.”
All of these readings, he said, speak of “the struggle between God and the
devil” which “takes place after Satan tries to destroy the woman who is about
to give birth to a son.”
“Satan always tries to destroy man: the man that Daniel saw there, in glory,
and whom Jesus told Nathaniel would come in glory,” the Roman Pontiff observed,
explaining that “from the beginning the Bible speaks to us of this: Satan's
(use of) seduction to destroy.”
……(part omitted)
{
This is a lovely thought; but, the reality is that the Christ was with malice
aforethought, viz., intent, as would be so if here again today, and many times
over, viciously crucified even as He begged with luciferian shadow of inflicted
pain they be forgiven for their dastardly act … The further reality is that
even if the murder of Christ is a thing forgotten, though not, in the vast scheme
of things eternal, mankind has long since consumed that indulgence; and quite
simply, Pope Francis, though well meaning, should while praying for their
souls, realize mankind as universally insignificant … As regards the
destruction of man, I’d reasonably say man’s already done quite a good job of
it, to themselves, with a little help from the satan himself, though never
taking too much prodding toward that end and inherently needing no real help at
all … Psalm 8? Devil’s motive? Sounds like a classic case of jewish/hebrew
rationalization/sophistry, invariably in no short supply, ie., the denial of
Christ the Messiah they ultimately wanted/made dead, etc. … Man superior to
Angels? Man’s not even superior to, ie., a feral cat …As for beelzebub, the basest of creatures,
and the so-called battle with GOD, if the universe likened to a universal
court, the animal/satan would be constrained to throw himself on the mercy of
the court while pleading no contest; though mercy will not be forthcoming …}
“They … defend
the God-man, the superior man, Jesus Christ who is the perfection of humanity,
the most perfect."
“This is why the Church honors the angels, because they are the ones who will
be in the glory of God – they are in the glory of God – because they defend the
great hidden mystery of God – namely, that the Word was made flesh.”
It is therefore the responsibility of the People of God “to safeguard man, the
man Jesus,” the Pope went on, because “he is the man who gives life to all
men.”
However this is not easy because Satan has invented “humanistic explanations
that go against man, against humanity and against God” in order to destroy us.
“This struggle is a daily reality in Christian life, in our hearts, in our
lives, in our families, in our people, in our churches,” the Pope went on,
adding that “if we do not struggle, we will be defeated.”
“But the Lord gave this task primarily to the angels: to do battle and win,” he
said, drawing attention to the final song of Revelation which reads "now
have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the power of his
Anointed. For the accuser of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before
our God day and night.”
Pope Francis concluded his homily by encouraging those present to pray to the Archangels
Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, and to recite the prayer to Saint Michael often.
We should do this “so he may continue to do battle and defend the greatest
mystery of mankind: that the Word was made Man, died and rose again. This is
our treasure. That he may battle on to safeguard it.”
{ Wow! I wish I could say for the sake of
scottish people everywhere that I was surprised at the outcome … I was not …
After all, William Wallace (Braveheart), drawn and quartered was dying testament
to the inherent venality and cowardice of the scots who always seem to have a
price, regardless what ( trump, half-scot is a notorious bribester / mobster /
fraud … ‘…Shallow sean's
latest 'crusade' (beyond the same note/key obvious debacle of wobamacare) was
defense of the indefensible mobster but friend of sean's, donald trump (trump
should be in jail). In defense of t_rump, he offers up the itsy-bitsy, teeny
weeny wohlman skating rink project as evidence of t_rump's contribution to NYC
(too small for high new york priority given the magnitude of New York
substantial problems, some largely the result of trumpish tastes, ie., solid
gold trump tower fixtures, etc., that trump's 'pre-packaged bankrupcies' seem
to fail to touch, and which extravagance must be paid for by someone, but not
him). Shallow sean's excoriation of new york city never seems to link the
obviousness of t_rump's grandstanding responsibility for same. After all,
someone ultimately has to pay for trump's disproportionate non-value-added
livin' large. No talk of trump's ingratiating bribe strategy for protection (
ie., 'retainers' to law firms linked to state attorney generals, viz.,
{kimmelman} wolf and sampson, chris droney's brother, his sister's
protection/corruption and quid pro quo from the federal bench, etc., and as
well, protection of drug-money laundering through his now nominal only casinos
… See, ie.,
I truly had no ‘dog in
this fight’, although it’s now clear from whence those tiny terriers called
scotties got their name (like all dogs they eat their own s**t, also known as a
trait) … From an evolutionary perspective one cannot fail to notice the
backbone deterioration / weakness inherent to scottish people … yet, we now can
understand why scottish men wear skirts / dresses (they call them kilts) … From
a psychological perspective, this predictable outcome could additionally be
explained by a syndrome that falls somewhere between ‘battered wife’ and
‘stockholm’ with the consequent realization that the psychological damage is
quite permanent with historical implications for a brow-beaten people, all for
the sake of a few quid/pounds and prosecutions here and there foregone … I
personally really don’t care; but scots really should since this is an
unequivocal day of shame for them … a day that for them is forever and will
live in infamy … How totally pathetic! }
{
Difficult to believe(quite pathetic) …
but, given what happened to William Wallace(Braveheart), one really must wonder about scots, in general, from an
evolutionary perspective (backbone deterioration/weakness. As in that scenario,
the bribes/self-interested cowardice is presently in no short supply … great
scot … NOT! }
PALIN FAMILY ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN A
BRAWL
A majority of the Palin family —
Sarah, Todd, Bristol, and Track — was allegedly involved in a booze-filled
brawl over the weekend in which the former vice presidential candidate reportedly
screamed, “Don’t you know who I am?”
According to reports from local
bloggers, the Palin crew showed up at a party in Wasilla following a day at the
Iron Dog snowmobile race.
According
to local blogger Amanda Coyne, witnesses at the scene said Palin’s
eldest son, Track, showed up to the party in a stretch Hummer. He then
confronted a man who had previously dated one of his sisters, according to
Coyne and another blog called Immoral Minority.
“That led to some pushing and
shoving, which escalated somehow to the family being asked to leave the
premises,” Immoral
Minority, reported.
“Word is that Bristol has a
particularly strong right hook, which she employed repeatedly, and it’s something
to hear when Sarah screams, “Don’t you know who I am!” Coyne reported.
“This isn’t some damned
Hillbilly reality show!” a party-goer allegedly yelled, making a possible
reference to “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” a failed reality series that ran for nine
episodes between Nov. 2010 and Jan. 2011.
“As people were leaving in a
cab, Track was seen on the street, shirtless, flipping people off, with Sarah
right behind him, and Todd somewhere in the foreground, tending to his bloody
nose,” a witness told Coyne.
Anchorage police declined to
provide details told Immoral Minority that none of the parties involved wanted
to press charges. No arrests were made.
Anchorage police did not
immediately respond to The Daily Caller’s request for a police report.
School
assigns 6th grade students essay -- comparing Bush to Hitler! {
Interesting … Well, the similarity is they were both crazy; but, the big difference
is that bush would be a diagnosed schizophrenic ( with positive symptoms –
those conversations with GOD … GOD wastes no time with burnt-out war criminals
) … both psychopaths … indeed!
10 countries spending the most on their military{ Yes … america’s number 1 in crime, debt,
and military spending (for war crimes and destructive military
actions/provocations, etc. ), by far and away! }
1.
United States
Military expenditure: $618.7
billion
Expenditure as pct. of GDP: 3.8% (14th highest)
1-yr. spending change: -7.8% (12th lowest)
Total arms imports: $759 million (8th highest)
Total arms exports: $6.2 billion (2nd highest)
The $619 billion military
expenditure in the U.S. nearly outpaced the combined spending of every other
country on this list in 2013. At the start of 2013, the U.S. had nearly 8,000
nuclear warheads in reserve. Since 2001, U.S. military spending has risen from
$287 billion to $530 billion. In recent years, however, U.S. military outlays
fell from 4.8% of GDP in 2009 to 3.8% in 2013. Reduction in military
expenditures was due to a greater emphasis on fiscal austerity and the winding
down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, military expenditure
fell nearly 6% in 2012, followed by a 7.8% reduction in 2013. Despite efforts
to curtail the size of the military, the U.S. supplied nearly $6.2 billion in
arms to foreign allies, a figure second only to Russia. The U.S. was also a
large arms importer, bringing in $759 million worth of arms, among the higher
rates world-wide.
Nuns pose with the jersey of Argentinian football star Lionel
Messi and flags prior Pope Francis Sunday Angelus prayer at St. Peter's Square
on July 13, 2014 at the Vatican.FILIPPO
MONTEFORTE—AFP/Getty Images
Today's generation of nuns are
progressive women, two things the Church isn't used to
Nuns are an
endangered species. They are dying and not being replaced.
If you think the news is bad
now, a world without nuns would be a far worse place. The nuns that I know are
much too humble to tout their achievements and all of the good they contribute
to society, but make no mistake, they are an integral part of the fabric that
holds our civilization together.
In 2014 there were just 49,883
religious Catholic sisters in the United States, down 13% percent from 2010 according to figures from the Center for Applied Research
in the Apostolate. To put it in greater perspective, that is a 72% decline
since 1965.
Because nuns don’t brag about all
of the good that they do or hashtag how awesome they are on Facebook, many
people have no idea about the things they accomplish on a daily basis.
You probably haven’t heard about
Sister Joan Dawber. Sister Joan, a Sister of Charity of Halifax, runs a safe
house in Queens for victims of human trafficking—former sex and labor slaves.
She takes these women in when they have no one else to protect them and risks
her life to help them rebuild theirs.
About 20 minutes away by car
from Sister Joan’s safe house, Sister Tesa Fitzgerald works tirelessly to raise
the children of mothers who are incarcerated. When those women get out of
prison Sister Tesa helps them get clothes, jobs and an apartment. Those women
credit Tesa with nothing less than saving their lives.
Most people don’t know about
Sister Nora Nash, a Franciscan Sister who lives just outside of Philadelphia.
As her order’s Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, Sister Nora wakes
up every single morning determined to make corporations more responsible to the
human race. Sister Nora and her assistant director, Tom McCaney have taken to
task the grocery store chain Kroger over the rights of farm workers, Hershey’s
chocolate company over child labor, McDonald’s over childhood obesity, Walmart
on raising their minimum wage and Wells Fargo over predatory lending practices.
Nash wakes up every single morning determined to make corporations more
responsible to the human race. Then she follows through on it.
For more than four decades
Sister Jeannine Gramick has been tireless in her fight for gay rights through
her organization New Ways, despite coming under intense scrutiny from the
Vatican.
Sister Dianna Ortiz made
headlines in 1989 when she abducted, tortured and raped while working as a
teacher in Guatemala. After living through that horror, instead of allowing
herself to sink into a terrible depression, she headed up an organization to
help thousands of torture survivors around the globe find the will to keep
living.
It’s a problem that you haven’t
heard about these women. You would think that, during a time when the Church
has suffered from great criticism and weathered very public scandals, it would
be celebrating these incredible achievements. Think again.
The Vatican doesn’t celebrate
these women. In fact, it has done the very opposite. Attacks on American nuns
have been happening since 2008, when the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes
of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an “Apostolic
Visitation,” a euphemism for investigation, of the nuns.
To put it in perspective,
previous “visitations” conducted by the Church were designed to investigate
things like the priest sex abuse scandal.
The nuns nicknamed it the Great
Nunquisition and in the past eight years they’ve come under scrutiny from the
church patriarchy.
A 2012 Vatican document
highlighted the Church’s problem with the Leadership Council of Women
Religious, the largest group of nuns in the United States. The document claimed
that the LCWR was “silent on the right to life from conception to natural
death” and that Roman Catholic views on the family and human sexuality “are not
part of the LCWR agenda in a way that promotes church teachings.”
Today’s nuns are simply too
progressive for the Vatican. The Vatican chooses not to celebrate nuns and it
chooses not to empower them.
Pope Francis has been hailed as
a progressive icon. Yet on the subject of women in the Church, he remains loyal
to a long-held and antiquated stance: he doesn’t think women should become
priests.
Nuns are dying out because their
population is aging and young women are not joining their ranks in the numbers
they once did.
The young women who could be the
nuns of tomorrow share a lot of the same values as the nuns of today. They are
fiercely dedicated to the concept of social justice and doing good in the
world. Seven in 10 millennials consider themselves social activists,
and 72% of them are eager to participate
in a nonprofit young professional group.
They want to be of service.
I recently spoke to a young
woman who was discerning to be a Catholic sister, but changed her mind before
she took perpetual vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
I asked her why and the answer
was very simple and yet disheartening.
“I want to work for an employer
that values what I do.”
She plans to work for an NGO.
She wanted to be of service to the world, but she also wanted to feel empowered
in her job.
Why would a generation of young
women raised to believe that they can be anything join an institution that
tells them there is something they absolutely cannot be, that there is a
certain level they will never reach? Many of the women who are nuns today
joined the vocation because it was a way to become highly educated, travel the
world and dedicate themselves to a higher good without being beholden to a
husband or children.
Young women today can do that
with a passport and a Kickstarter account.
I am constantly reminded of
something Sister Maureen Fiedler, a feminist and the host of the public radio
program Interfaith Voices told me when I interviewed her for my book: the fact
that Jesus was, and is, an “equal-opportunity employer.” He loved everyone the
same.
If Catholic nuns are to survive
in this country, something has to give. The Vatican needs to treat the nuns
with more respect. The rules will have to evolve. Women will need to be given
more power and leadership roles in the church.
Speaking at the annual LCWR
assembly earlier this month, Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio described exactly
what it means to be a nun today: “We are about drawing in the poor, the lonely,
the marginalized, all those seeking to be part of a whole,” she said. “This is
nothing more and nothing less than the most awesome vocation.
It is awesome. The nuns are
awesome. But if the Vatican doesn’t start treating them as such, there is no
incentive for more young women to aspire to join their ranks.
Jo
Piazza is the author of the new book, If Nuns Ruled the World,
which shatters the stereotypes of American Catholic nuns and profiles 10 daring
sisters. A veteran journalist whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,
Slate, the Daily Beast and Yahoo, Piazza holds a masters degree in Religious
Studies from New York University.
Has there ever been a
nation more hooked on drugs than the United States? And I am not just talking about illegal drugs
– the truth is that the number of Americans addicted to legal drugs is far
greater than the number of Americans addicted to illegal drugs. As you
will read about below, more than 30 million Americans are currently on
antidepressants and doctors in the U.S. wrote more than 250 million
prescriptions for painkillers last year. Sadly, most people got hooked on
these drugs very innocently. They trusted that their doctors would never
prescribe something for them that would be harmful, and they trusted that the
federal government would never approve any drugs that were not safe. And
once the drug companies get you hooked, they often have you for life.
You see, the reality of the
matter is that some of these “legal drugs” are actually some of the most addictive
substances on the entire planet. And when they start raising the prices
on those drugs, there isn’t much that the addicts can do about it. It is
a brutally efficient business model, and the pharmaceutical industry guards
their territory fiercely. Very powerful people will often do some
really crazy things when there are hundreds of billions of dollars at
stake. The following are 22 facts about America’s endless pharmaceutical
nightmare that everyone should know…
#2 The rate of antidepressant use among middle
aged women is far higher than for the population as a whole. At this
point, one out of every four women in
their 40s and 50s is taking an antidepressant medication.
#3 Americans account for about five percent of
the global population, but we buy more than 50 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs.
#4 Americans also consume a whopping 80
percent of all prescription painkillers.
#5 It is hard to believe, but doctors in the
United States write 259 million prescriptions for painkillers each year.
Prescription painkillers are some of the most addictive legal drugs, and our
doctors are serving as enablers for millions up0n millions of Americans that
find themselves hooked on drugs that they cannot kick.
#6 Overall, pharmaceutical drug use in America
is at an all-time high. According to a study conducted by the Mayo
Clinic, nearly 70
percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and
20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#7 According to the CDC, approximately 9
out of every 10 Americans that are at least 60 years old say that
they have taken at least one prescription drug within the last month.
#8 In 2010, the average teen in the United
States was taking 1.2 central nervous system drugs.
Those are the kinds of drugs which treat conditions such as ADHD and
depression.
#9 A very disturbing Government Accountability
Office report found that approximately one-third of all foster children in the
United States are on at least one psychiatric drug.
#10 An astounding 95
percent of the “experimental medicines” that the pharmaceutical
industry produces are found not to be safe and are never approved. Of the
remaining 5 percent that are approved, we often do not find out that they are
deadly to us until decades later.
#11 One study discovered that mothers that took
antidepressants during pregnancy were four times more likely to have a baby that developed
an autism spectrum disorder.
#12 It has been estimated that prescription
drugs kill approximately 200,000 people in the United States
every single year.
#13 An American dies from an unintentional
prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes. According to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, accidental prescription drug
overdose is “the leading cause of acute preventable death for Americans”.
#16 The number of prescription drug overdose
deaths in the United States is five times higher than it was back in 1980.
#17 A survey conducted for the National
Institute on Drug Abuse found that more than 15
percent of all U.S. high school seniors abuse prescription
drugs.
#19 If all of these antidepressants are
helping, then why are more Americans killing themselves? The suicide rate
for Americans between the ages of 35 and 64 increased by nearly 30 percent between 1999 and 2010. The
number of Americans that die by suicide is now greater than the number of
Americans that die as a result of car accidents every year.
#20 Antidepressant use has been linked to mass
shootings in America over and over and over again, and yet the mainstream
media is eerily quiet about this. Is it because they don’t want to threaten one
of their greatest sources of advertising revenue?
#21 The amount of money that the pharmaceutical
industry is raking in is astronomical. It has been reported that
Americans spent more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs
during 2013.
If many of these drugs were not
so addictive, the pharmaceutical companies would make a lot less money.
And pharmaceutical drug addicts often don’t fit the profile of what we think a
“drug addict” would look like. For example, CNN
shared the story of a 55-year-old grandmother named Cynthia Scudo that become
addicted to prescription painkillers…
For Scudo, her addiction began
— as they all do — innocently enough.
She sought relief from hip
pain, possibly caused by scarring from cesarean sections she had delivering
several of her children.
Her then-husband recommended
a physician.
“There was no physical
therapy offered,” she said of the doctor’s visit. “The first reaction was,
let’s give you some drugs.”
He put her on OxyContin.
By the second week, she was
physically addicted.
She was popping so much of the
painkiller and other drugs such as anti-anxiety Valium that they equated to a
dosage for three men.
There
is lots and lots of money to be made from addiction. In fact, if the U.S.
health care system was a totally separate nation it would actually be the 6th largest economy on the entire globe. We
are talking about piles of money larger than most people would ever dare to
imagine.
And with so much money floating
around, it is quite easy for the pharmaceutical industry to buy the cooperation
of our politicians and of the media.
Some time when you are
watching television in the evening, consciously take note of how often a
pharmaceutical commercial comes on.
It has gotten to the point
where we are literally being inundated with these ads.
They are already making hundreds
of billions of dollars, and they think that there is room for even more growth.
Will they ever be satisfied?
Samsung
Galaxy Note 4 vs. LG G3: Spec ShowdownPC
MagazineSamsung has unveiled a new Galaxy Note
phablet, which is poised to stand against the LG G3. Both are big, nearly
6-inch smartphones with beefy processors, stabilized rear-facing cameras, and
Android 4.4 KitKat.
How in the world does the
government expect us to trust the economic numbers that they give us
anymore? For a long time, many have suspected that they were being
manipulated, and as you will see below we now have stone cold proof that this
is indeed the case. But first, let's talk about the revised GDP number
for the first quarter of 2014 that was just released. Initially, they
told us that the U.S. economy only shrank by 0.1 percent in Q1. Then that
was revised down to a 1.0 percent contraction, and now we are being informed
that the economy actually contracted by a whopping 2.9 percent
during the first quarter. So what are we actually supposed to
believe? Sometimes I almost get the feeling that government bureaucrats
are just throwing darts at a dartboard in order to get these numbers. Of
course that is not actually true, but how do we know that we can actually trust
the numbers that they give to us? (Read More....)
Washington’s
Blog | Video of Rebel Buk Launchers Headed Back to Russia? No – Images From Ukraine-Held
Territory Since May.{ Even in the
absence of debunking evidence, or Russia’s proffer, given the reality of
america’s (the west’s, but america particularly) actions, not words, and a
governmental policy of prevarication and fraud (on top of bankrupt
desperation), I can’t see how anyone could possibly believe anything america
says … See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdfhttp://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
Tony Cartalucci
| Russia has now shown its satellite pictures and radar information from the
Donetsk, Ukraine region during the July 17, 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
crash.
Palestinian teen burned alive, autopsy showsJerusalem (CNN) -- Mohammed Abu Khedair, a Palestinian teenager
who was abducted and killed in Jerusalem this week, died from being burned alive
and hit with a blunt object to the head, according to Palestinian General
Prosecutor Mohammed ...
Washington’s Blog | The U.S. Is the Only Country Which
Supports Israel No Matter What It Does.{ Yet, america pays a big, unaffordable
price for same since america’s signature is perceived as upon every israeli
missile, bomb, bullet and consequential death thereby … There are some who
wonder how hitler could have happened; yet, it’s
Christ-killing
israeli actions that made such hitlerian policies so globally popular …
insanity breeding insanity … evolution of ‘life’ on planet earth … watch the
change in israeli attitude as they run low on americon supplied iron-dome among
other missiles/weaponry … Ultimately, it’s america that pays the price in every
way for israeli intransigence … just more of the same for an america in
decline; viz., bad policy, bad results … }
…If my fellow Americans understood the history
of Israel and Palestine, their views would change overnight … and they would
demand that Israel no longer be given unconditional support and blank checks to
do whatever they want:
Accusations
of Russia breaking 1987 arms control treaty an element of U.S. ...Russia
Beyond the HeadlinesThe U.S.
authorities' claims accusing Russia of breaking the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces (INF) Treaty are groundless and act as an element of Washington's
information warfare, the senior vice-president of Russia's Center for Political
Studies . { Based upon my cursory review of such matters (I’ll not waste
my time with in depth research regarding same), this seems a logical and
adaptive response by Russia to the deployment at the behest of the u.s.
(military industrial complex) of shields (low flying cruise missiles can negate
their purported ‘effectiveness’). }
in 10 Deaths Among Adults Tied to Alcohol: CDC
THURSDAY, June 26, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- One in 10 deaths among U.S. adults
is linked to excessive alcohol consumption, federal officials reported
Thursday.
Could
5% Unemployment Soon Be a Reality? The May jobs report showed unemployment
standing at 6.3%. But could a 5% rate be in the offing? Jeffrey Stibel, Dun
& Bradstreet Credibility Corp. CEO, joins the News Hub. { Oh, absolutely …
the entire u.s. workforce will be a total of 100 with 5 of same out of a job …
then 4 of the 5 will drop out of the work force/stop looking bringing the ue
rate to 1% … then a newborn baby will enter the u.s. work force and will be
employed as a rattle-tester bringing the ue rate to 0% after the 5th
of the previous 5 drops out of the work force … Quite obviously, things are
really humming in the u.s. economy …}
The
global derivatives bubble is now 20 percent bigger than it was just before the
last great financial crisis struck in 2008. It is a financial bubble far
larger than anything the world has ever seen, and when it finally bursts it is
going to be a complete and utter nightmare for the financial system of the
planet. According to the Bank for
International Settlements, the total notional value of derivatives
contracts around the world has ballooned to an astounding 710 trillion dollars
($710,000,000,000,000). Other estimates put the grand total well over a
quadrillion dollars. If that sounds like a lot of money, that is because
it is. For example, U.S. GDP is projected to be in the neighborhood of
around 17 trillion dollars for 2014. So 710 trillion dollars is an amount
of money that is almost incomprehensible. Instead of actually doing
something about the insanely reckless behavior of the big banks, our leaders
have allowed the derivatives bubble and these banks to get larger than
ever. In fact, as I have written about previously,
the big Wall Street banks are collectively 37 percent larger than they were
just prior to the last recession. "Too big to fail" is a far
more massive problem than it was the last time around, and at some point this
derivatives bubble is going to burst and start taking those banks down.
When that day arrives, we are going to be facing a crisis that is going to make
2008 look like a Sunday picnic. (Read More....)
http://www.coasttocoastam.comWed 05-21-14First Half: Investigative reporter Russ Baker will address how
our domestic war on terror is eroding our right to due process and fair trials.
China
and Russia signed an historic agreement in Shanghai this week - the
ramifications of which have yet to be appreciated ... Reserve currency status
does not last forever. Empires rise and fall....
Could
5% Unemployment Soon Be a Reality? The May jobs report showed unemployment
standing at 6.3%. But could a 5% rate be in the offing? Jeffrey Stibel, Dun
& Bradstreet Credibility Corp. CEO, joins the News Hub. { Oh, absolutely …
the entire u.s. workforce will be a total of 100 with 5 of same out of a job …
then 4 of the 5 will drop out of the work force/stop looking bringing the ue
rate to 1% … then a newborn baby will enter the u.s. work force and will be
employed as a rattle-tester bringing the ue rate to 0% after the 5th
of the previous 5 drops out of the work force … Quite obviously, things are
really humming in the u.s. economy …}
Our People Massacre Civilians in Odessa, and Politico
Blames Putin { It’s really
quite amazing … the reality is that the west and america particularly is
bankrupt financially, economically, politically, geo-politically, and morally.
When one realistically looks at the hard facts/truth of the west’s and
america’s particularly violent incursions and fomenting of unrest abroad beyond
the propaganda, cover-ups, and outright lies, only fools living in fools’
paradises buy into their complete and utter b***s*** which has been devastating
domestically and globally! }
Eric Zuesse |
Why are Americans puzzled that foreigners consider the U.S. to be the nation
that’s the biggest threat to world peace?
Liberty
Blitzkrieg blog | During this week’s Senate hearings, Janet Yellen was asked by
Senator Bernie Sanders if the U.S. was a capitalist democracy or has morphed
into an oligarchy.
17 Facts To Show To Anyone That
Believes That The U.S. Economy Is Just Fine
By
Michael Snyder, on April 29th, 2014
No,
the economy is most definitely not "recovering". Despite what
you may hear from the politicians and from the mainstream media, the truth is
that the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was prior to the last
recession. In fact, we are still pretty much where we were at when the
last recession finally ended. When the financial crisis of 2008 struck,
it took us down to a much lower level economically. Thankfully, things
have at least stabilized at this much lower level. For example, the
percentage of working age Americans that are employed has stayed remarkably flat for the past
four years. We should be grateful that things have not continued to
get even worse. It is almost as if someone has hit the "pause
button" on the U.S. economy. But things are definitely not getting
better, and there are a whole host of signs that this bubble of false stability
will soon come to an end and that our economic decline will accelerate once
again. The following are 17 facts to show to anyone that believes that
the U.S. economy is just fine...
#1
The homeownership rate in the United States has dropped to the lowest level in 19 years.
#2
Consumer spending for durable goods has dropped by 3.23 percent since
November. This is a clear sign that an economic slowdown is ahead.
#4
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of all families in the United
States do not have a single member that is employed. That means that one
out of every five families in the entire country is completely unemployed.
#5
There are 1.3 million fewer jobs in
the U.S. economy than when the last recession began in December 2007.
Meanwhile, our population has continued to grow steadily since that time.
#6
According to a
new report from the National Employment Law Project, the quality of the
jobs that have been "created" since the end of the last recession
does not match the quality of the jobs lost during the last recession...
Lower-wage industries constituted 22 percent of recession
losses, but 44 percent of recovery growth.
Mid-wage industries constituted 37 percent of recession
losses, but only 26 percent of recovery growth.
Higher-wage industries constituted 41 percent of recession
losses, and 30 percent of recovery growth.
#7
After adjusting for inflation, men who work full-time in America today make less money than men who worked
full-time in America 40 years ago.
#8
It is hard to believe, but 62 percent of all Americans make $20 or
less an hour at this point.
#10
The middle class in Canada now makes more money than the middle class in the United
States does.
#11
According to one recent study, 40 percent of all
Americans could not come up with $2000 right now even if there was a major
emergency.
#12
Less than one out of every four Americans has enough money put away to cover six months of
expenses if there was a job loss or major emergency.
#13
An astounding 56 percent of all Americans have
subprime credit in 2014.
#14
As I wrote about the other day, there are now 49 million Americans that are
dealing with food insecurity.
#15
Ten years ago, the number of women in the U.S. that had jobs outnumbered the
number of women in the U.S. on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin.
But now the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps actually exceeds the number of
women that have jobs.
#1669 percent of the federal budget is
spent either on entitlements or on welfare programs.
#17
The number of Americans receiving benefits from the federal government each
month exceeds the number of full-time workers in the private sector by more than 60 million.
Taken
individually, those numbers are quite remarkable.
Taken
collectively, they are absolutely breathtaking.
Yes,
things have been improving for the wealthy for the last several years.
The stock market has soared to new record highs and real estate prices in the
Hamptons have skyrocketed to unprecedented heights.
But
that is not the real economy. In the real economy, the middle class is
being squeezed out of existence. The quality of our jobs is declining and
prices just keep rising. This reality was reflected quite well in a
comment that one of my readers left on one of my recent articles...
It
is getting worse each passing month. The food bank I help out, has barely
squeaked by the last 3 months. Donors are having to pull back, to take care of
their own families. Wages down, prices up, simple math tells you we can not
hold out much longer. Things are going up so fast, you have to adopt a new way
of thinking. Example I just had to put new tires on my truck. Normally I would
have tried to get by to next winter. But with the way prices are moving, I
decide to get them while I could still afford them. It is the same way with
food. I see nothing that will stop the upward trend for quite a while. So if
you have a little money, and the space, buy it while you can afford it. And
never forget, there will be some people worse off than you. Help them if you
can.
And
the false stock bubble that the wealthy are enjoying right now will not last
that much longer. It is an artificial bubble that has been pumped up by
unprecedented money printing by the Federal Reserve, and like all bubbles that
the Fed creates, it will eventually burst.
None
of the long-term trends that are systematically destroying our economy have
been addressed, and none of our major economic problems have been fixed.
In fact, as I showed in this recent article, we are actually in far
worse shape than we were just prior to the last major financial crisis.
Let
us hope that this current bubble of false stability lasts for as long as
possible.
That
is what I am hoping for.
But
let us not be deceived into thinking that it is permanent.
It
will soon burst, and then the real pain will begin.
Paul
Craig Roberts | The US economy is a house of cards. Every aspect of it is
fraudulent, and the illusion of recovery is created with fraudulent statistics.
{ Totally fraudulent! This is absolutely true! )
Kurt Nimmo
| Political correctness reigns supreme as hypocrite rallies on basketball
court.{ Problem is, it’s not correct,
politically or otherwise! }
Ode to Don Sterling
Don Sterling and Rod Serling
Truly an unlikely pair
Sterling talked reality
Now barely can come up for air
Yes Don, ‘tis true as you say
spics drink (do drugs) and hang out
While niggers smell, do the same, and carrying
vermin flout
The norms of civilized behavior
The sanctity of peaceful living Sterling is
savior
america in decline is appalled
The truth out, Sterling gets mauled
How long will lost angles america last
As all are aghast
That fallen america’s still standing
Unfold and embrace Sterling’s tome
Reality and truth his tool
He’s certainly no fool
Sterling’s now entered Serling’s
american twilight zone
{
I must honestly say, from direct experience over a considerable amount of time
and in a wide variety of circumstances and geographic locations including LA particularly
as relevant here, the uncivilized niggers are so deleterious to whatever
locations they inhabit, occupy, or are present; that they are so,
euphemistically speaking, unpleasant and inherently criminal, lazy,
unproductive, and mentally challenged if not clearly mentally ill, it should be
said in defense of Sterling who no doubt with LA in mind merely expounded upon
the truth of the foregoing reality in a very innocuous way, however politically
incorrect in this period of american decline. They’re just typical bulls***
niggers! }
Globalist
Tool Glenn Beck Sells Out Humanity{ I’m surprised people even listen to him … among the limited stations
for which there’s reception here, I sampled him … and will never listen to him
again … the guy’s a flake and a dry drunk like dumbya bush with all the
psychotic baggage that entails … } Prison Planet.com | Glenn Beck refers to
himself as the only source for truth news. That is, if you like getting your
news straight from the White House, CIA and Council on Foreign Relations.
House
panel subpoenas VA Secretary Shinseki for Phoenix hospital documents{ It is absolutely preposterous to blame the
VA for the predictable consequence ofmisguided war/war crimes/military industrial complex welfare programs;
viz., ‘long tail’ medical/disability/rehabilitation costs. These are
costs/services that are incurred well beyond the ‘short money gains’ of misguided,
illegal, unnecessary conflicts based upon lies, fraud, etc.. Let those who
instigated, benefited from said conflict pay/disgorge gains/pay
penalties/damages to fund these tragic consequences; viz., bushes, cheneys,
neocons, un-yellow-cake-token nigger powell, et als; including those who voted
for these nation-destroyin/draining debacles. Essentially, treat them as
world/national torts for those fearing appropriate application of criminal laws
to such horrendous acts/behavior. }
Fox News | Secretary faces calls for his
resignation.
Max Keiser | Misstating food inflation numbers helps
the top 1 percent.
UK
Government Ignores Scotland’s Opposition to GM Crops{ Well, absent Scotland’s long overdue
independence move, I’d then be constrained to say they deserve that and worse.
}Sustainable Pulse | UK environment secretary breaches
agreement.
The
American serial killer Ted Bundy, who is believed to have murdered at least 30
people 
By
Michael Snyder, on April 9th, 2014 
