WTF... In America?????????

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Helmet Nazis and the Culture of Fear

by Karen De Coster
LewRockwell.com

I despise the Safety Nazis and the culture of fear they have created. Wear a helmet. Don't go out when it's too hot. Don't leave your home when it's too cold, and if you do, heed the 1,001 warnings. Be afraid at all times. Run for cover. Lock your children in enormous safety devices called car seats. Buy a stroller built like an armored Volvo, complete with side air bags and ironclad sun protection. Stay inside if the wind blows or a snowflake falls. Is there a dark cloud or two in the sky? Close the schools. Call your doctor if you sneeze, and call your lawyer if you trip. Don't ever do anything that has the potential to cause injury. Red alerts, orange alerts, and now text alerts – they are all imbecile alerts that are geared toward emotionally crippling the masses.

The save-you-from-yourself nannies are an intrusive and irritating bunch. "Safety" has become a sick obsession in the modern American culture, and this fear mongering has long been promoted by an overreaching, paternal state that has churned out a nation of helpless idiots through the revolving doors of government schools and a politicized nanny state that holds people captive to their own bogus fears.

One of the most fashionable forms of lifestyle fascism in the American Folly Safety Parade is the sustained push for mandatory helmet laws and the crush of propaganda asserting that certified, bulletproof, and government-approved helmets are necessary for every activity from the baby crawling to biking along your neighborhood sidewalk.

As an avid cyclist, the folks I ride with are a mixed bunch. Very few are helmetless, many are helmet Nazis (they love preaching safety and the wearing of helmets to others while they wear shorts in 20-degree weather on their 50-lbs overweight, heart-attack-ready bodies), and some are helmet neutral - they don't think too much about your choices and why you make them. Most recently, I received the standard summary lecture from a very overweight, helmeted cyclist whose belly hung halfway between his seat and the ground, yet he gave me the snide lecture on no-helmet riding by summing it up as, "it's your noggin." Apparently, being without helmet for two hours is undertaking a risk while carrying around an obese, disease-ridden body for twenty years is no risk at all. It is astounding how folks will perceive peril and create their own twisted reality to suit their inclinations.

When I do the group rides, I usually wear a helmet unless it is so cold that I need to wear my warm, hippie beanie. Then I may go no-helmet, and immediately, the Nazis begin to buzz and give rise to the predictable comments...

Read more here: http://lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster193.html

 

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http://www.infowars.com/unplugging-americans-from-the-matrix/

Unplugging Americans From The Matrix

Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
Friday, April 20, 2012

Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world.
The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of chastisement, invasion, and occupation. As readers know, from time to time I raise questions about the validity of the West’s extreme hubris. (See for example, the following articles: Washington’s Insouciance Has No Rival and Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade? )
China is often a country about which Washington’s moralists get on their high horse. However, China’s “authoritarian” government is actually more responsive to its people than America’s “elected democratic” government. Moreover, however incomplete on paper the civil liberties of China’s people, the Chinese government has not declared that it can violate with impunity whatever rights Chinese citizens have. And it is not China that is running torture prisons all over the globe.
For some time I have had in mind a realistic comparison of the two countries instead of the standard propagandistic comparison, but Ron Unz has beat me to the task (see, China’s Rise, America’s Fall and Chinese Melamine and American Vioxx: A Comparison ). Unz provides a chance for an education. Don’t miss it.
Unz has done an excellent job. Moreover, he cleverly understates the case for China and overstates the case for America so as not to unduly arouse the flag-wavers. Nevertheless, the conclusion is clear: The Chinese are less threatened by their “extractive elites” than Americans are by their counterparts.
Moreover, it is America’s, not China’s, extractive elites who are bombing, occupying, and droning other countries. As the bumper sticker says, “Be nice to America or we will bring democracy to your country.”
As for economic management, there is no comparison. Unz reports that during the past three decades China has achieved the most rapid rate of economic development in human history. Moreover, most of the new income has flowed into the pockets of Chinese workers, not to the one percent. While American real median incomes have been stagnant for decades, incomes for Chinese workers have doubled every decade for three decades. A recent World Bank report attributes more than 100 percent of the drop in global poverty rates to China’s rise.
In the last decade China’s industrial output quadrupled. China now produces more automobiles than America and Japan combined and accounted for 85 percent of the increase in the world’s production of cars in the past decade.
In 1978 the American economy was 15 times larger than China’s. In the next few years China’s GDP is expected to exceed that of the US.
This is heady stuff providing astonishing details of how poorly Americans are served by their elites.
America has failed, because political elites represent only the powerful special interests that write the country’s laws in exchange for funding the political campaigns of “lawmakers.” To divert attention from their failures, American elites point fingers at external scapegoats. China, for example, is accused of manipulating its currency. As Unz says, the scapegoating is political theater designed for the ignorant and gullible.
America’s economists, or most of them, have so prostituted themselves that propaganda has become wisdom. Most Americans believe that if China would simply let the value of its currency rise more rapidly relative to the dollar, America’s economic woes would be at an end. It is beyond belief that any economist could think that Americans with stagnant and declining incomes would be made better off by a sharp rise in the prices of goods manufactured in China on which Americans are dependent, or that the US dollar’s role as reserve currency, the main source of American power, could survive such a manifestation of Chinese economic superiority.
Americans associate lawlessness with unaccountable governments and view China’s government as unaccountable. However, Unz points out that it is the Bush/Obama Regime that has declared itself to be unaccountable to both US and international law.
The demise of the War Powers Act and the Geneva Conventions, and the asserted power of the executive to imprison without trial or charges or to assassinate any American whom the executive thinks might be a “national-security threat” are indicative of a total police state masquerading as an accountable democracy. In America six-year old little girls who misbehave in school are handcuffed, jailed, and charged with felonies. (see,10 Disgusting Examples of Very Young School Children Being Arrested, Handcuffed and Brutalized By Police ) Not even Hitler and Stalin went this far.
Americans have lost control of the government, and governments that are not controlled by the people are not democracies. In America today, Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, and the entire social safety net are threatened by the vociferous desire for war profits by armament plutocrats and by financial institutions determined that ordinary citizens bear the cost of the banksters incompetence and fraud.
Unz’s comparison of how the Chinese media and government handled the melamine or infant formula scandal and how the American media and government handled Merck’s Vioxx scandal is especially damning. It was China’s controlled media and unaccountable government that punished the infant formula wrongdoers, while America’s free press and accountable government allowed Merck to walk.
Unz’s conclusion is that it is in America, not China, where life is regarded as cheap.
Ron Unz is an American hero, and a very courageous one. As George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
It is an even more courageous act when no one wants to hear the truth. As Frantz Fanon said, “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.”
Or as it is explained to Neo in the film, “The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”
Most of the people I know personally are not willing to be unplugged. I assume my readers are, so seize the opportunity to be further unplugged and read Ron Unz’s comparison of America and China.
Then do what you can to unplug others.

Damn good read Bruh... thanks for your post!

 

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Chicago residents told to leave during NATO/G8 Summit





Residents of a 17 story building in Chicago were warned to leave their residences for the duration of the NATO/G8 Summit scheduled for next month, or if they decide to remain they will be subject to a lockdown in their own homes.

As the 'War Machine' rolls into town for a summit, expect that the rights of free people will be severely restricted.​

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BP oil spill 2 years later



Two years ago the worst maritime oil spill in history took place in the Gulf of Mexico, but everything is just fine because BP cleaned it all up. That is, if you ask BP or people paid by BP.

The truth of the matter is that the worst of what they have done is still hidden from us.

Abby Martin reports on BP's public relations campaign and what it's leaving out...​

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93% of Americans have Bisphenol-A in their blood and urine

With links to diabetes, heart disease, lower fertility rates, behavioral problems, developmental disorders, and even a handful of cancers, the U.S. has opted NOT to ban BPA in canned foods.

E. Vaccines has produced a new video that quotes several government websites on the various effects of Bisphenol-A exposure, including the revelation that almost EVERY American, regardless of age, race, gender, or location, is being exposed to this dangerous chemical through our diet.

WARNING: Some things cannot be unseen.​

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Strip searches could become as common as Miranda Rights


Yup. That's about right.

When just about anything and everything is an arrestable offense, the Supreme Court has ruled that if arrested, regardless of offense, anyone can be stripped searched.

So, if you think the TSA at the airport is intrusive, try not paying your parking tickets and see what happens...​

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Authorities kill farm pigs in Michigan



This is an update on the ongoing events in Michigan, where small farms are being force to exterminate their livestock or face felony charges.

At least two farms have already been the subject of ARMED raids for the suspected crime of not having the same inbreed and sickly pigs as the bigger factory farms do.​

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Fat chance of 'Change'
in the War on Drugs



One could have reasonably had 'HOPE' that the first black President would have at least tried to do something to bring about an end to institutional racism.

The single largest 'racist' threat that black Americans face in this country is not overzealous neighborhood watchmen, but the long arm of the law in the War on Drugs.

President Obama is in a position to do something about that, but he's not going to.

In fact, he's has already INTENSIFIED the War on Drugs by presiding over the recent crackdowns on medical marijuana dispensaries.

That's a major step AWAY from legalization.​

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Fat chance of 'Change'
in the War on Drugs



One could have reasonably had 'HOPE' that the first black President would have at least tried to do something to bring about an end to institutional racism.

The single largest 'racist' threat that black Americans face in this country is not overzealous neighborhood watchmen, but the long arm of the law in the War on Drugs.

President Obama is in a position to do something about that, but he's not going to.

In fact, he's has already INTENSIFIED the War on Drugs by presiding over the recent crackdowns on medical marijuana dispensaries.

That's a major step AWAY from legalization.​

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Bruh,

This is the shit right here that irks Me about President Obama and his administration! The Justice dept has time to go after weed smokers and growers, but won’t lift a finger to prosecute wall st crooks, the banksters and the mortgage fraud and 2008 collapse!



Torture? Blanket immunity.

Economy-destroying financial crimes? Blanket immunity.

Illegal domestic spying? Blanket immunity.

Blatant mortgage fraud and forgery & illegal foreclosures? Blanket immunity!

Smoking weed? Off to jail with you!

 

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Bruh,

This is the shit right here that irks Me about President Obama and his administration! The Justice dept has time to go after weed smokers and growers, but won’t lift a finger to prosecute wall st crooks, the banksters and the mortgage fraud and 2008 collapse!



Torture? Blanket immunity.

Economy-destroying financial crimes? Blanket immunity.

Illegal domestic spying? Blanket immunity.

Blatant mortgage fraud and forgery & illegal foreclosures? Blanket immunity!

Smoking weed? Off to jail with you!

You are preaching to the choir Bruh!!!

 

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NJ father records TEACHERS bullying his autistic child



This story needs to be heard.

It's the story of Akian Chaifetz, a 10-year-old autistic boy whose teachers were bullying and psychologically tormenting him until his father sent him to school with a hidden tape recorder.

Akian's father, Stuart, says that listening to the audio that evening 'changed his life forever'.

Sadly, the abuse of disabled children in schools is epidemic.

You might remember my recent post on the Rotenberg Center's 'aversion therapy' or perhaps you're familiar with the story of 10-year-old Jose Salinas, who has cerebral palsy and was cruelly taunted by his teachers in Wicksburg, Alabama.

Do these people have degrees for this stuff, or do they just hire the biggest pieces of trash that apply for the job?​

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Former sheriff serves 17 days for sex-for-meth conviction



Patrick Sullivan served as the Arapahoe County sheriff from 1984 until his 2002 retirement and had a detention facility named after him. He was named Sheriff of the year by the National Sheriffs' Association in 2001.

Earlier this month Sullivan plead guilty to trading meth for sex. I said earlier this month, right? He's already served his sentence. He's a free man.

On the surface it doesn't seem all that bad, but it really is. It's trashy, raunchy, and CNN goes all out as they elaborate the severe abuses of his position and standing that this guy dished out.

BE WARNED. I hesitated posting this, at all, it is so disgusting, but it really needs to be heard. People need to know that this goes on and that this creature only did 17 days in jail.​

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How to create your very own 'Gun Free Zone'


Are you concerned about gun violence, but are convinced that having your own gun isn't the solution?

Well, now there's a better way to protect your home, your loved ones, even your own business.​

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http://blackagendareport.com/content/when-it-looks-and-feels-totalitarianism…


When It Looks and Feels Like Totalitarianism…
Tue, 04/24/2012 - 21:22 — Jemima Pierre


by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre

The Obama administration has spent the last three years building the infrastructure of a totalitarian police state, that “has surpassed the Bush administration’s attempts to expand executive power by crushing the civil liberties of US citizens.” At the center of the repressive edifice is preventive detention without trial, buttressed by various measures that, effectively, criminalize dissent. Clearly, and methodically, “the US government is preparing for domestic insurrection.”



When It Looks and Feels Like Totalitarianism…

by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre

“The NDAA’S dangerous detention provisions would authorize the president – and all future presidents – to order the military to pick up and indefinitely imprison people captured anywhere in the world, far from any battlefield.”

George W. Bush would blush. Joseph McCarthy would be proud. And COINTELPRO now seems like child’s play. In only three years, the Obama administration and its enablers have established, legitimized, and normalized a national security state apparatus that removes any doubt that domestic policing is a prelude to a totalitarian police state. This apparatus has surpassed the Bush administration’s attempts to expand executive power by crushing the civil liberties of US citizens. And it has done so boldly, with only a few prominent critics, and without so much as a whimper from so-called leftists.

What we urgently need is a compilation of the various acts, presidential signing statements, domestic surveillance programs, secret military and police operations, censorships, and other administrative measures that affect not only our civil liberties, but also our human rights and human dignity. For now, I will focus on two of the more recent congressionally approved draconian laws passed by the Obama administration.

On New Year’s Eve, 2011, away from the glitter and swoon of the media, Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (or NDAA). The law states that based on suspicion alone, the military can indefinitely detain anyone who is considered a “terrorist” or deemed an accessory to terrorism. This includes US citizens. According to the ACLU, this law codifies “indefinite military detention without charge or trial into law for the first time in American history.” “The NDAA’S dangerous detention provisions,” the ACLU continues, “would authorize the president – and all future presidents – to order the military to pick up and indefinitely imprison people captured anywhere in the world, far from any battlefield.”

“The Obama administration and its enablers have established, legitimized, and normalized a national security state apparatus that removes any doubt that domestic policing is a prelude to a totalitarian police state.”

What is most dangerous about this law, according to its many critics, is its broad language about who can be considered a target. In his column describing why he is suing the Obama administration over NDAA, journalist Chris Hedges points particularly to Section 1031 defining a potential target as a person who is either a member of, or substantially supported, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or “associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.” This also includes “any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.” The law doesn’t define what “associated forces” are, or what “engaging in hostilities” against the US means. And because the definition of a “terrorist” shifts according to political necessity, all of us – all over the world – are potential targets and eventual victims. Historically, we have seen how the US government has labeled “domestic terrorist” any persons or groups, particularly those on the left, who have dared challenge inequality and state oppression (clear examples are the American Indian Movement and the Black Power Movement). Most recently, we have seen the brutal suppression of domestic dissent through the militarized dismantling of Occupy Wall Street encampments – which brings us to the next worrisome law, HR 347.

The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011 or the “Trespass Bill” (HR 347 and its companion Senate bill, S. 1794) was signed into law by Obama on March 9, 2012. This law, according to a Business Insider article, “potentially makes peaceable protest anywhere in the U.S. a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.” What it says, specifically, is that anyone can be charged with a federal felony for “trespassing” on property or grounds that is under Secret Service protection, even if the supposed “trespasser” is not aware that the area is under such protection. One can also be charged if he or she “impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions.” This law effectively criminalizes any form of protest. This means that any place or event can, at any time and under any circumstance, be designated a “trespass” area and, anyone protesting any event can potentially be arrested. Knowing also that under NDAA, once arrested, a person can be detained indefinitely and extradited if he or she is deemed a threat, should give us all pause.

“Any place or event can, at any time and under any circumstance, be designated a “trespass” area and, anyone protesting any event can potentially be arrested.”

Along with these new laws, there is the recent Executive Order signed by Obama on March 16, 2012: National Defense Resource Preparedness (EO 8248). This order allows the executive branch – through various federal authorities such as the Secretaries of Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Defense, and Commerce – to take control of all food, all energy, all health resources and all transportation resources in the service of “national defense,” even in times of declared peace. It is true that this latest executive order is an update to the one signed by Bill Clinton in 1994. But in the context of the growing number of laws that expand executive and military power to stifle dissent along with the rapidly expanding national security enterprise, we should be wary.

Since the passing of the Patriot Act in 2001 and its reauthorization by Obama last year, we have seen assaults on our dignity, our human rights and ability to protest. These assaults now come from multiple fronts and contain diverse tactics. And they affect us all. We see examples in the local and federal militarized response to the Occupy Wall Street movements, the deployment of drones domestically by city governments, universities, private contractors, and local police (see domestic drone authorization map here), and we see how the Obama administration has waged an all out war against whistleblowers by using the archaic World War I era Espionage Act, prosecuting more people than all other presidents combined. More importantly, there is what the Washington Post last year called the “National Security Enterprise” that depends on “854,000 civil servants, military personnel and private contractors with top-security clearances,” and whose major work is domestic surveillance to curtail dissent. The unprecedented $1.5 billion, almost 1 million square feet National Security Agency data center (or “Spy Center”) that is being built in Utah, is to work both as a bottomless database for all information on all Americans, and as a remote interrogation center.

With all of this, it is clear that, even though it seems to only be concerned with international wars and other misadventures, the US government is preparing for domestic insurrection. And it has done so by unleashing the structures of totalitarianism, as it seeks to regulate our actions through mass surveillance, fear, and threats of repression. (For how else can we understand the recent purchase by the Department of Homeland Security of nearly 500 million rounds of ultra-deadly hollow-point bullets and 40 caliber ammo, as well as a large number of semi-portable steel checkpoint guardhouses, complete with high-impact bulletproof glass windows and doors?)

And why not? The political order is being shaken, the Western financial infrastructure is collapsing, and empire is imploding. They know it and they are ready.

 

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Preparation and plans to evacuate Chicago



The coming G8 and NATO Summits have so much potential to create havoc, nearby Red Cross shelters are being activated and put on standby as part of an uncovered secret plan to evacuate Chicago in the event of serious unrest or a national security event.

Of course, one has to ask, why even have the event in a major metropolitan area if they anticipate so much potential for trouble?

Are they knowingly putting Chicago in harm's way?​

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De-mystifying Fed baloney James Grants rides again



Will the US Federal Reserve going to save the world financial system from collapse?

Or are they likely to make the inevitable crash much worse?

James Grants weighs in and navigates through the Washington DC baloney.​

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Mad cow disease confirmed at California dairy



In a recent CNN segment, announcing the discovery of a case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or 'Mad Cow Disease' at a dairy farm in California, there was made a deliberate attempt to mislead the public about safety concerns.

Quoting the USDA, CNN repeated claims that the cow was "never presented for slaughter for human consumption" and "milk does not transmit BSE."

Two things...

It was a DAIRY cow, so the claim that it was not presented for 'slaughter' is a deliberate attempt to confuse the issue in the public mind.

Additionally, both Mad Cow Disease and it's human counterpart Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease are 'prion' diseases. Scientific studies have demonstrated that prions can actually transfer from animal to animal via MILK consumption.




In a recent CNN segment, announcing the discovery of a case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or 'Mad Cow Disease' at a dairy farm in California, there was made a deliberate attempt to mislead the public about safety concerns.

Quoting the USDA, CNN repeated claims that the cow was "never presented for slaughter for human consumption" and "milk does not transmit BSE."

Two things...

It was a DAIRY cow, so the claim that it was not presented for 'slaughter' is a deliberate attempt to confuse the issue in the public mind.

Additionally, both Mad Cow Disease and it's human counterpart Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease are 'prion' diseases. Scientific studies have demonstrated that prions can actually transfer from animal to animal via MILK consumption.​

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The natural habitat of the NYPD "Lombardo"



National Geographic (We Are Change) explores the concrete jungle of New York City and documents how the 'Lombardo' stalks it's prey, the 'Zuccotti'.

Also, for the first time ever, the legendary Zuccotti 'scout' is caught on tape as it startles the easily agitated and aggressive Lombardo.

Watch as these two species face-off for survival in the occupied areas of the urban jungle...​

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War Industry Vs. Jobs





The line would seem to be that to cut back on war spending would cost American jobs.

Really?

Or is that a fictional narrative created by the war industry and their media collaborators?

War's two main products are death and pollution.

To think that only war can provide jobs is rather pessimistic.

There are much better ways to spend our tax money, but the media doesn't get paid enough to tell you about them...​

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Brewing a Conflict with China

Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries concerning island and sea rights in the South China Sea. Washington asserts that China’s territorial disputes with the like of Indonesia and the Philippines are a matter of United States’ national interests.

Washington has not made it clear what Washington’s stake is in the disputes. The reason Washington cannot identify why China’s disputes with the Philippines and Indonesia are threats to the United States is that there is no reason. Nevertheless, the undefined “threat” has become the reason Washington needs more naval bases in the Philippines and South Korea.
What this is all about is provoking a long-term cold war conflict with China that will keep
profits and power flowing into Washington’s military-security complex. Large profits flow to armaments companies. A portion of the profits reflow into campaign contributions to “the people’s representatives” in DC and to presidential candidates who openly sell out their country to private interests.
Washington is going to construct new naval bases in the Philippines and on the environmentally protected Jeju Island belonging to South Korea. Washington will waste tax revenues, or print more money, in order to build the unnecessary fleets to occupy these bases. Washington is acquiring bases in Australia for US Marines to protect Australia from China, despite the lack of Chinese threats against Australia. Bush and Obama are the leading models of the “people’s president” who sell out the people, at home and abroad, to private interests.
Why is Washington ramping up a new cold war?
The answer begins with President Eisenhower’s warning to the American people in his last public address about the military/industrial complex in 1961. I won’t quote the warning as it is available online. Eisenhower pointed out to Americans that unlike previous wars after which the US demilitarized, after World War II the cold war with the Soviet Union kept the power and profits flowing into the military/industrial complex, now known as the military/security complex. President Eisenhower said that the flow of power and profit into the military/industrial complex was a threat to the economic wellbeing and liberty of the American people.
No one paid any attention, and the military/security complex was glad to be rid of the five-star general war hero president when his second term expired. Thanks to the hype about the “Soviet threat,” the military/security complex faced an unlimited horizon of mounting profits and power as Americans sacrificed their future to the interests of those who protected Americans from the Soviet threat.
The good times rolled for the armaments companies and security agencies for almost three decades until Reagan and Gorbachev reached agreement and ended the cold war. When the Soviet Union subsequently collapsed, the future outlook for the power and profit of the US military/security complex was bleak. The one percent was about to lose its fortunes and the secret government was about to lose its power.
The military/security complex went to work to revive the need for a massive “defense” and “security” budget. Among their willing tools were the neoconservatives, with their French Jacobin ideology and Israeli loyalties. The neocons defined America as the “indispensable people.” Such extraordinary people as Americans must establish hegemony over the world as the sole remaining superpower. As most neoconservatives are allied with Israel, the Muslim Middle East became the target of opportunity.
Muslims are sufficiently different from Westerners that Muslims are easy to demonize.
The demonization began in the neoconservative publications. Once Dick Cheney had the George W. Bush regime staffed with neoconservatives, the next step was to create “threats” to Americans out of verbiage about the Taliban’s responsibility for 9/11 and about “Iraqi weapons of mass destruction,” including verbal images from Bush’s National Security Advisor of “mushroom clouds” over US cities.
No one in the US government or the “free” US media or the media of the US puppet states in England, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, Australia and South Korea was struck by Washington’s proposition that “the world’s sole superpower” was threatened by the likes of Iraq and Iran, neither of which had any offensive military capability or any modern weapons, according to the unequivocal reports of the weapons inspectors.
What kind of “superpower” is threatened by Iraq and Iran? Certainly, not a real one.
No one seemed to notice that the alleged 9/11 hijackers were Saudi Arabians, not Afghans or Iraqis, yet it was Afghanistan and Iraq that were labeled “terrorist threats.” Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, which do terrorize their subjects, are safe from having America bring them democracy, because they are Washington’s puppets, not independent countries.
As fear of nonentities swept over the population of “the world’s sole superpower,” the demands for war against “America’s enemies”–”you are with us or against us”–swept through the country. “Support the troops” plastic ribbons appeared on American cars. Americans went into a frenzy. The “towel heads” were after us, and we had to fight for our lives or be murdered in our beds, shopping centers, and airliner seats.
It was all a hoax to replace the Soviet threat with the Muslim threat.
The problem that developed with the “Muslim threat” is that in order to keep the profits and power flowing into the military/security complex, the promised six-week war in Iraq had to be extended into 8 years. The war in Afghanistan against a few thousand lightly armed Taliban has persisted for more than a decade, longer than the attempted Red Army occupation of Afghanistan.
In other words, the problem with hot wars is that the need not to win them in order to keep them going (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan are all long-term wars never won) in order that the profits and power continue to flow to the military/security complex demoralizes the US military and creates the world-wide impression that the “world’s sole superpower” cannot even defeat a few thousand insurgents armed with AK-47s, much less a real army.
In Iraq and Afghanistan more US soldiers have died from demoralization and suicides than from combat. In Iraq, the US was humiliated by having to end the war by putting the Sunni insurgents on the US military payroll and paying them to stop killing US troops. In Korea the US was stopped by an army of a backward third world country that lived on rice. What would happen today if the US “superpower’s” militarily confronted China, a country with an economy on which the US is dependent, about equal in size to the US economy, operating on its home territory? The only chance the evil in Washington would have would be nuclear war, which would mean the destruction of the entire world by Washington’s hubris.
Fortunately, profits are more important to Washington than ending life on earth. Therefore, war with China will be avoided, just as it was avoided with the Soviet Union. However, China will be presented by Washington and its prostitute media, especially the New York Times, Washington Post, and Murdoch’s collection of whores, as the rising threat to America. The media story will shift the importance of America’s allies from Europe to countries bordering the South China Sea. American taxpayers’ money, or newly printed money, will flow into the “new alliance against China.”
China’s rise is a great boon to the US military/security complex, which governs america in which there is a pretense of “freedom and democracy.” China is the profitable replacement for the “Soviet threat.” As the days go by, the presstitute media will create in the feeble minds of Americans “The CHINA Threat.”
Soon whatever little remains of the US living standard will be sacrificed to Washington’s confrontation with China, along with the seizure of our pensions and personal savings in order to deter “the China threat.”
If only Americans were an intelligent people. Then they might have some prospect of holding on to their incomes, remaining wealth, and liberty. Unfortunately, Americans are so thoroughly plugged into the Matrix that they present as a doomed people, incapable of thought, reason, or ability to comprehend the facts that the rest of the world sees clearly.
Can reality be brought to the American people? Perhaps a miracle will occur. Stay tuned.

 

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Is CISPA SOPA 2.0? We Explain the Cybersecurity Bill

by Megha Rajagopalan ProPublica

Update (4/26): An earlier version of this story said a proposed amendment by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had helped gain support for CISPA. Schiff’s amendment, which among other things would further define what’s considered a “cyber threat,” is no longer scheduled for consideration.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, up for debate in the House of Representatives today, has privacy activists, tech companies, security wonks and the Obama administration all jousting about what it means 2013 not only for security but Internet privacy and intellectual property. Backers expect CISPA to pass, unlike SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act that melted down amid controversy earlier this year.

Here’s a rundown on the debate and what CISPA could mean for Internet users.

What exactly is CISPA?

The act, sponsored Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., would make it easier for private corporations and U.S. agencies, including military and intelligence, to share information related to “cyber threats.” In theory, this would enable the government and companies to keep up-to-date on security risks and protect themselves more efficiently. CISPA would amend the National Security Act of 1947, which currently contains no reference to cyber security. Companies wouldn’t be required to share any data. They would just be allowed to do so.

Why should I care?

CISPA could enable companies like Facebook and Twitter, as well as Internet service providers, to share your personal information with the National Security Agency and the CIA, as long as that information is deemed to pertain to a cyber threat or to national security.

The link: http://4closurefraud.org/2012/04/27/is-cispa-sopa-2-0-we-explain-the-cybersecurity-bill/

 

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George Carlin said it best... yet we sleep... R. I. P.



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Stop The Lies, America (VIDEO)












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Obama's bloodiest scandal and its shameless cover-up




American gun dealers were 'under orders' by the ATF and the Justice Department to sell guns to straw purchasers who would then hand the guns over to drug cartels in Mexico.

The main stream media still refer to this as a 'botched' operation despite the evidence that the program worked exactly as it was designed to.

As part of a plan to 'brainwash' Americans into thinking about guns in a whole new way, guns were delivered to the cartels and turned up at Mexican crime scenes, making headlines and bolstering the bogus claim that American gun laws were to blame for the violence in Mexico.

The administration then tried to make the case that we need stricter gun laws to stem the flow of weapons across the border, a ridiculous claim considering that the ATF and DOJ had to SUBVERT existing laws to make the program work.

Here's the story...​

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Re: WTF?????????

London being militerised with SAM missiles




Preparing for the Olympics in London, the United Kingdom is installing surface-to-air missiles on area apartment rooftops.

Residents, who are finding out after the fact, had no choice in the matter as there quite neighborhood becomes an occupied military installation.​

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Attack of the Drones w/ Jason Bermas





Manufacturers are targeting U.S. police forces for sales, as drones move from the Middle East to Main Street.

With 63 UAV Drone launch sites in 20 States and growing, the abuses and violations of the rights of Americans has already begun.

Jason Bermas elaborates...​

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George Carlin said it best... yet we sleep... R. I. P.



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This cat with his comedy was far too prophetic! Truth to power!

 

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Will You Give Up Your Guns?​

Will you??????​

 

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Strange "Windsor Hum" has local officials demanding answers

The 'Windsor Hum' is the name given to the recurring and invasive low-frequency humming noise plaguing Windsor, Canada for more than a year now.

The noise peaked last year and then subsided for a time, but a few months ago the hum returned with a vengeance and has Windsor residents and Canadian officials demanding answers.

Canadian scientists are claiming that the sound is coming from across the river, from Detroit, but Americans say they can't here it. American agencies, like the EPA, aren't interested.

Canadian diplomats formally raised the issue with the U.S. Department of State last September, and with the return of the noise in February, they intend to raise the issue again.​

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Attack of the Drones - USA



They can move together in swarms, build towers, dance, throw and catch, assess targets and soon will even make their own decisions. Both in war and at home, drones are developing fast and gaining control.

As UAV drones and robots become more and more relied upon by both our military and DOMESTIC law enforcement, it's time we take a look beyond the headlines and sound bites to focus on the machines themselves.​

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FBI scripts a fake terror plot, group of idiots volunteer to play roles

The F.B.I. has hatched another hare-brained scheme to convince the American public that the threat of terrorism comes in many forms.

This time, the F.B.I. and the media would have you believe that some backwards white folks, and perhaps the Occupy Movement as a whole, are potential terrorist plotters.

B.S.

Over and over again, the F.B.I. writes the script, they cast idiots to play the parts, and then bust their own terror plot with a big show in the press.

Even the New York Times can't remember any recent terror plot 'busts' that DIDN'T involve the F.B.I. actually having to provide the entire scenario, including the fake bombs.

They do this to keep the American public convinced that if we don't give up our rights, if we don't accept government transgressions and tyranny, then we will all be at the mercy of terrorists.

Exactly like the Mafia protection racket with a better publicist...​

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De-mystifying Fed baloney

James Grants rides again


Is the US Federal Reserve going to save the world financial system from collapse?

Or are they likely to make the inevitable crash much worse?

James Grants weighs in and de-mystifies the Fed mumbo jumbo over at RealEconTV...​

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Dentists put terrified children in straight jackets


The story begins with a video about a children's dentist in southern California, where the good doctor utilized a straight jacket type device called a 'papoose board' to completely immobilize the children.

Apparently, the doctor liked to torment the children once they were immobilized.

Accompanying the video, is an article out of Texas where children were immobilized with the same type of device and had UNNECESSARY root canals performed.

If that's NOT going medieval torture, I don't know is...

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How toxic is sugar?


Sugar and other sweeteners are everywhere. They're hidden in a huge percentage of processed foods.

They're sold to us as a way to feel good and enjoy life more.

What price are we paying for our addiction to sugar and other sweeteners? Obesity. Diabetes. Cancer.

This recent report for 60 Minutes reveals the addictive nature of sugar and the price we pay for our overindulgence.

The good news? Switching to a diet of whole, unprocessed foods can reverse the effects.


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Food can heal you or kill you. It is your choice… this was something to help you choose wisely​