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Federal lawsuit Seeks Injunction Against Implementation of National Defense Authorization Act
Court hearing takes place this week in a Manhattan federal court
Courtesy: thelibertyvoice.com
(NEW YORK) - At 9:00 AM this Thursday, March 29th at the Southern District of New York Federal Courthouse, multiple plaintiffs will testify in support of a worldwide lawsuit against the United States government over the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA, also known as the “Homeland Battlefield” law, permanently suspends due process and Habeas Corpus for persons accused by the federal government of being involved in hostilities against the United States, or being an “associated force” of terrorists. The law authorizes military policing of US citizens for the first time in over 200 years.
The first round of plaintiffs in this historic case, dubbed “the Freedom Seven”, include Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, and three women leaders working at the vanguard of civil liberties and basic human rights who have reason to believe they are in imminent danger of harm under the NDAA. Naomi Wolf and Dr. Cornel West are in the process of becoming plaintiffs in this lawsuit; Wolf will read her statement in court that day. Link: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march282012/ndaa-suit.php
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Federal lawsuit Seeks Injunction Against Implementation of National Defense Authorization Act
Court hearing takes place this week in a Manhattan federal court
Courtesy: thelibertyvoice.com
(NEW YORK) - At 9:00 AM this Thursday, March 29th at the Southern District of New York Federal Courthouse, multiple plaintiffs will testify in support of a worldwide lawsuit against the United States government over the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA, also known as the “Homeland Battlefield” law, permanently suspends due process and Habeas Corpus for persons accused by the federal government of being involved in hostilities against the United States, or being an “associated force” of terrorists. The law authorizes military policing of US citizens for the first time in over 200 years.
The first round of plaintiffs in this historic case, dubbed “the Freedom Seven”, include Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, and three women leaders working at the vanguard of civil liberties and basic human rights who have reason to believe they are in imminent danger of harm under the NDAA. Naomi Wolf and Dr. Cornel West are in the process of becoming plaintiffs in this lawsuit; Wolf will read her statement in court that day. Link: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march282012/ndaa-suit.php
Props to my fyne friend Get You Hot and you know you do lady!
Until the banks are reigned in there will be no recovery in the US
A simple solution
Banking industry propaganda to the contrary, there is a solution to the banking crisis.
The problem is the banks don't like it.
As a result, you may have never heard it.
But now you can.
A simple solution
Banking industry propaganda to the contrary, there is a solution to the banking crisis.
The problem is the banks don't like it.
As a result, you may have never heard it.
But now you can.
'Predictive Policing' in Los Angeles
This is the story of how Los Angeles cops are using computers to 'predict' crimes before they happen.
Precrime.
Yes, it IS the subject of science fiction stories like Minority Report.
Yes, all the sci-fi movies DO warn us against things like this by demonstrating the pitfalls, the dangers, the potential for tyranny.
And yes, they (the social engineers) are moving us in that direction anyway.
Next they'll be TAXING us for things we haven't even done yet...
This is the story of how Los Angeles cops are using computers to 'predict' crimes before they happen.
Precrime.
Yes, it IS the subject of science fiction stories like Minority Report.
Yes, all the sci-fi movies DO warn us against things like this by demonstrating the pitfalls, the dangers, the potential for tyranny.
And yes, they (the social engineers) are moving us in that direction anyway.
Next they'll be TAXING us for things we haven't even done yet...
Guidebook to False Confessions
In this explosive interview, Scott Horton of Anti War Radio discusses with journalist Jason Leopold, the release of the "Pre-Academic Laboratory (PREAL) OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS."
This once secret document is a 37-page instruction manual detailing torture techniques "designed" to extract false confessions thereby lending credibility to bogus terror threats.
The interview starts with the fact that another news agency received the document some time ago, but did NOTHING with the story. With the document now released by the DoD, the story comes out.
Bush- Era war crimes revealed in "Guidebook to False Confessions..."
In this explosive interview, Scott Horton of Anti War Radio discusses with journalist Jason Leopold, the release of the "Pre-Academic Laboratory (PREAL) OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS."
This once secret document is a 37-page instruction manual detailing torture techniques "designed" to extract false confessions thereby lending credibility to bogus terror threats.
The interview starts with the fact that another news agency received the document some time ago, but did NOTHING with the story. With the document now released by the DoD, the story comes out.
Bush- Era war crimes revealed in "Guidebook to False Confessions..."
Still no charges months after armed raid on Gibson Guitars
What exactly is going on here?
2 1/2 years after armed federal agents first raided Gibson in November 2009 and going on a year since the last raid, Gibson Guitars remains in legal limbo and is put at a serious disadvantage among it's competitors
With its fine wood finger boards confiscated, and unable to purchase more, Gibson Guitars has been forced to continue manufacturing using less popular alternative materials, while other manufacturers continue using the desirable ebony and rosewood.
Raided twice, property seized, and still no charges have been filed against the company. In fact, the agencies that conducted the raids have 'no comment'.
What exactly is going on here?
2 1/2 years after armed federal agents first raided Gibson in November 2009 and going on a year since the last raid, Gibson Guitars remains in legal limbo and is put at a serious disadvantage among it's competitors
With its fine wood finger boards confiscated, and unable to purchase more, Gibson Guitars has been forced to continue manufacturing using less popular alternative materials, while other manufacturers continue using the desirable ebony and rosewood.
Raided twice, property seized, and still no charges have been filed against the company. In fact, the agencies that conducted the raids have 'no comment'.
EPA tacitly admits fluoride is IQ reducing contaminant
All these 'separate' little statements by the EPA on fluoride might not raise the alarm for those in denial, but take all these separate statements and add them up, they amount to an admission that fluoride is indeed a neurotoxic poison.
This video, put together by Experimental Vaccines, takes us right down that path by following one statement to another on GOVERNMENT WEBSITES, it reveals that the American public is exposed to levels of Fluoride contamination well beyond any reasonable safety standard.
Prepare yourself, the truth is frightening...
All these 'separate' little statements by the EPA on fluoride might not raise the alarm for those in denial, but take all these separate statements and add them up, they amount to an admission that fluoride is indeed a neurotoxic poison.
This video, put together by Experimental Vaccines, takes us right down that path by following one statement to another on GOVERNMENT WEBSITES, it reveals that the American public is exposed to levels of Fluoride contamination well beyond any reasonable safety standard.
Prepare yourself, the truth is frightening...
http://www.infowars.com/washington-leads-world-into-lawlessness/
Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness!
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
Friday, April 13, 2012
The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed.
US government officials routinely criticize other governments for being undemocratic and for violating human rights. Yet, no other country except Israel sends bombs, missiles, and drones into sovereign countries to murder civilian populations. The torture prisons of Abu Gahraib, Guantanamo, and CIA secret rendition sites are the contributions of the Bush/Obama regimes to human rights.
Washington violates the human rights of its own citizens. Washington has suspended the civil liberties guaranteed in the US Constitution and declared its intention to detain US citizens indefinitely without due process of law. President Obama has announced that he, at his discretion, can murder US citizens whom he regards as a threat to the US.
Congress did not respond to these extraordinary announcements with impeachment proceedings. There was no uproar from the federal courts, law schools, or bar associations. Glenn Greenwald reports that the Department of Homeland Security harasses journalists who refuse to be presstitutes, and we have seen videos of the brutal police oppression of peaceful OWS protestors. Chris Floyd describes the torture-perverts who rule the US.
Now Washington is forcing as much of the world as it can to overthrow international treaties and international law. Washington has issued a ukase that its word alone is international law. Any country, except those who receive Washington’s dispensation, that engages in trade with Iran or purchases Iran’s oil will be sanctioned by the US. These countries will be cut off from US markets, and their banking systems will not be able to use banks that process international payments. In other words, Washington’s “sanctions against Iran” apply not to Iran but to countries that defy Washington and meet their energy needs with Iranian oil.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, so far Washington has granted special privileges to Japan and 10 European Union countries to continue purchasing Iranian oil. Requiring countries to shutdown their economies in order to comply with Washington’s vendetta against Iran, a vendetta that has been ongoing ever since the Iranians overthrew the Washington-installed puppet, the Shah of Iran, more than three decades ago, was more than Washington could get away with. Washington has permitted Japan to keep importing between 78-85% of its normal oil imports from Iran.
Washington’s dispensations, however, are arbitrary. Dispensations have not been granted to China, India, Turkey, and South Korea. India and China are the largest importers of Iranian oil, and Turkey and South Korea are among the top ten importers. Before looking at possible unintended consequences of Washington’s vendetta against Iran, what is Washington’s case against Iran?
Frankly, Washington has no case. It is the hoax of “weapons of mass destruction” all over again. Iran, unlike Israel, signed the non-proliferation treaty. All countries that sign the treaty have the right to nuclear energy. Washington claims that Iran is violating the treaty by developing a nuclear weapon. There is no evidence whatsoever for Washington’s assertion. Washington’s own 16 intelligence agencies are unanimous that Iran has had no nuclear weapon’s program since 2003. Moreover, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s weapons inspectors are in Iran and have reported consistently that there is no diversion of nuclear material from the energy program to a weapons program.
On the rare occasion when Washington is reminded of the facts, Washington makes a different case. Washington asserts that Iran’s rights under the non-proliferation treaty notwithstanding, Iran cannot have a nuclear energy program, because Iran would then have learned enough to be able at some future time to make a bomb. The world’s hegemon has unilaterally decided that the possibility that Iran might one day decide to make a nuke is too great a risk to take. It is better, Washington says, to drive up the oil price, disrupt the world economy, violate international law, and risk a major war than to have to worry that a future Iranian government will make a nuclear weapon. This is the Jeremy Bentham tyrannical approach to law that was repudiated by the Anglo-American legal system.
It is difficult to characterize Washington’s position as one of good judgment. Moreover, Washington has never explained the huge risk Washington sees in the possibility of an Iranian nuke. Why is this risk so much greater than the risk associated with Soviet nukes or with the nukes of the US, Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea today? Iran is a relatively small country. It does not have Washington’s world hegemonic ambitions. Unlike Washington, Iran is not at war with a half dozen countries. Why is Washington destroying America’s reputation as a country that respects law and risking a major war and economic dislocation over some possible future development, the probability of which is unknown?
There is no good answer to this question. Lacking evidence for a case against Iran, Washington and Israel have substituted demonization. The lie has been established as truth that the current president of Iran intends to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
This lie has succeeded as propaganda even though numerous language experts have proven that the intention attributed to the Iranian president by American-Israeli propaganda is a gross mistranslation of what the president of Iran said. Once again, for Washington and its presstitutes, facts do not count. The agenda is all that counts, and any lie will be used to advance the agenda.
Washington’s sanctions could end up biting Washington harder than they bite Iran.
What will Washington do if India, China, Turkey and South Korea do not succumb to Washington’s threats?
According to recent news reports, India and China are not inclined to inconvenience themselves and to harm their economic development in order to support Washington’s vendetta against Iran. Having watched China’s rapid rise and having observed North Korea’s immunity to American attack, South Korea might be wondering how much longer it intends to remain Washington’s puppet state. Turkey, where the civilian and somewhat Islamist government has managed to become independent of the US- controlled Turkish military, appears to be slowly coming to the realization that Washington and NATO have Turkey in a “service role” in which Turkey is Washington’s agent against its own kind. The Turkish government appears to be reassessing the benefits of being Washington’s pawn.
What Turkey and South Korea decide is basically a decision whether the countries will be independent countries or be subsumed within Washington’s empire. The success of the American-Israeli assault on Iran’s independence depends on India and China.
If India and China give the bird to Washington, what can Washington do? Absolutely nothing. What if Washington, drowning in its gigantic hubris, announced sanctions against India and China?
Wal-Mart’s shelves would be empty, and America’s largest retailer would be hammering on the White House door.
Apple Computer and innumerable powerful US corporations, which have offshored their production for the American market to China, would see their profits evaporate. Together with their Wall Street allies, these powerful corporations would assault the fool in the White House with more force than the Red Army. The Chinese trade surplus would cease to flow into US Treasury debt. The offshored-to-India back office operations of banks, credit card companies, and customer service departments of utilities throughout the US would cease to function.
In America, chaos would reign. Such are the rewards to the Empire of globalism.
The White House moron and the neoconservative and Israeli warmongers who urge him on to more wars do not understand that the US is no longer an independent country. America is owned by offshoring corporations and the foreign countries in which the corporations have located their production for US markets. Sanctions on China and India (and South Korea) mean sanctions on US corporations. Sanctions on Turkey mean sanctions on a NATO ally.
Do China, India, South Korea and Turkey realize that they hold the winning cards? Do they understand that they can give the bird to the American Empire and bring it down in collapse, or are they brainwashed like Europe and the rest of the world that the powerful Americans cannot be resisted?
Will China and India exercise their power over the US, or will the two countries fudge the issue and adopt a pose that saves face for Washington while they continue to purchase Iranian oil?
The answer to this question is: how much will Washington pay China and India in secret concessions, such as eviction of the US from the South China Sea, for their pretense that China and India acknowledge Washington’s dictatorial powers over the rest of the world?
Without concession to China and India, Washington is likely to be ignored while it watches its power evaporate. A country that cannot produce industrial and manufactured goods, but can only print debt instruments and money is not a powerful country. It is a washed-up two-bit punk that can continue to strut around until the proverbial boy says: “the Emperor has no clothes”.
Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness!
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
Friday, April 13, 2012
The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed.
US government officials routinely criticize other governments for being undemocratic and for violating human rights. Yet, no other country except Israel sends bombs, missiles, and drones into sovereign countries to murder civilian populations. The torture prisons of Abu Gahraib, Guantanamo, and CIA secret rendition sites are the contributions of the Bush/Obama regimes to human rights.
Washington violates the human rights of its own citizens. Washington has suspended the civil liberties guaranteed in the US Constitution and declared its intention to detain US citizens indefinitely without due process of law. President Obama has announced that he, at his discretion, can murder US citizens whom he regards as a threat to the US.
Congress did not respond to these extraordinary announcements with impeachment proceedings. There was no uproar from the federal courts, law schools, or bar associations. Glenn Greenwald reports that the Department of Homeland Security harasses journalists who refuse to be presstitutes, and we have seen videos of the brutal police oppression of peaceful OWS protestors. Chris Floyd describes the torture-perverts who rule the US.
Now Washington is forcing as much of the world as it can to overthrow international treaties and international law. Washington has issued a ukase that its word alone is international law. Any country, except those who receive Washington’s dispensation, that engages in trade with Iran or purchases Iran’s oil will be sanctioned by the US. These countries will be cut off from US markets, and their banking systems will not be able to use banks that process international payments. In other words, Washington’s “sanctions against Iran” apply not to Iran but to countries that defy Washington and meet their energy needs with Iranian oil.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, so far Washington has granted special privileges to Japan and 10 European Union countries to continue purchasing Iranian oil. Requiring countries to shutdown their economies in order to comply with Washington’s vendetta against Iran, a vendetta that has been ongoing ever since the Iranians overthrew the Washington-installed puppet, the Shah of Iran, more than three decades ago, was more than Washington could get away with. Washington has permitted Japan to keep importing between 78-85% of its normal oil imports from Iran.
Washington’s dispensations, however, are arbitrary. Dispensations have not been granted to China, India, Turkey, and South Korea. India and China are the largest importers of Iranian oil, and Turkey and South Korea are among the top ten importers. Before looking at possible unintended consequences of Washington’s vendetta against Iran, what is Washington’s case against Iran?
Frankly, Washington has no case. It is the hoax of “weapons of mass destruction” all over again. Iran, unlike Israel, signed the non-proliferation treaty. All countries that sign the treaty have the right to nuclear energy. Washington claims that Iran is violating the treaty by developing a nuclear weapon. There is no evidence whatsoever for Washington’s assertion. Washington’s own 16 intelligence agencies are unanimous that Iran has had no nuclear weapon’s program since 2003. Moreover, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s weapons inspectors are in Iran and have reported consistently that there is no diversion of nuclear material from the energy program to a weapons program.
On the rare occasion when Washington is reminded of the facts, Washington makes a different case. Washington asserts that Iran’s rights under the non-proliferation treaty notwithstanding, Iran cannot have a nuclear energy program, because Iran would then have learned enough to be able at some future time to make a bomb. The world’s hegemon has unilaterally decided that the possibility that Iran might one day decide to make a nuke is too great a risk to take. It is better, Washington says, to drive up the oil price, disrupt the world economy, violate international law, and risk a major war than to have to worry that a future Iranian government will make a nuclear weapon. This is the Jeremy Bentham tyrannical approach to law that was repudiated by the Anglo-American legal system.
It is difficult to characterize Washington’s position as one of good judgment. Moreover, Washington has never explained the huge risk Washington sees in the possibility of an Iranian nuke. Why is this risk so much greater than the risk associated with Soviet nukes or with the nukes of the US, Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea today? Iran is a relatively small country. It does not have Washington’s world hegemonic ambitions. Unlike Washington, Iran is not at war with a half dozen countries. Why is Washington destroying America’s reputation as a country that respects law and risking a major war and economic dislocation over some possible future development, the probability of which is unknown?
There is no good answer to this question. Lacking evidence for a case against Iran, Washington and Israel have substituted demonization. The lie has been established as truth that the current president of Iran intends to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
This lie has succeeded as propaganda even though numerous language experts have proven that the intention attributed to the Iranian president by American-Israeli propaganda is a gross mistranslation of what the president of Iran said. Once again, for Washington and its presstitutes, facts do not count. The agenda is all that counts, and any lie will be used to advance the agenda.
Washington’s sanctions could end up biting Washington harder than they bite Iran.
What will Washington do if India, China, Turkey and South Korea do not succumb to Washington’s threats?
According to recent news reports, India and China are not inclined to inconvenience themselves and to harm their economic development in order to support Washington’s vendetta against Iran. Having watched China’s rapid rise and having observed North Korea’s immunity to American attack, South Korea might be wondering how much longer it intends to remain Washington’s puppet state. Turkey, where the civilian and somewhat Islamist government has managed to become independent of the US- controlled Turkish military, appears to be slowly coming to the realization that Washington and NATO have Turkey in a “service role” in which Turkey is Washington’s agent against its own kind. The Turkish government appears to be reassessing the benefits of being Washington’s pawn.
What Turkey and South Korea decide is basically a decision whether the countries will be independent countries or be subsumed within Washington’s empire. The success of the American-Israeli assault on Iran’s independence depends on India and China.
If India and China give the bird to Washington, what can Washington do? Absolutely nothing. What if Washington, drowning in its gigantic hubris, announced sanctions against India and China?
Wal-Mart’s shelves would be empty, and America’s largest retailer would be hammering on the White House door.
Apple Computer and innumerable powerful US corporations, which have offshored their production for the American market to China, would see their profits evaporate. Together with their Wall Street allies, these powerful corporations would assault the fool in the White House with more force than the Red Army. The Chinese trade surplus would cease to flow into US Treasury debt. The offshored-to-India back office operations of banks, credit card companies, and customer service departments of utilities throughout the US would cease to function.
In America, chaos would reign. Such are the rewards to the Empire of globalism.
The White House moron and the neoconservative and Israeli warmongers who urge him on to more wars do not understand that the US is no longer an independent country. America is owned by offshoring corporations and the foreign countries in which the corporations have located their production for US markets. Sanctions on China and India (and South Korea) mean sanctions on US corporations. Sanctions on Turkey mean sanctions on a NATO ally.
Do China, India, South Korea and Turkey realize that they hold the winning cards? Do they understand that they can give the bird to the American Empire and bring it down in collapse, or are they brainwashed like Europe and the rest of the world that the powerful Americans cannot be resisted?
Will China and India exercise their power over the US, or will the two countries fudge the issue and adopt a pose that saves face for Washington while they continue to purchase Iranian oil?
The answer to this question is: how much will Washington pay China and India in secret concessions, such as eviction of the US from the South China Sea, for their pretense that China and India acknowledge Washington’s dictatorial powers over the rest of the world?
Without concession to China and India, Washington is likely to be ignored while it watches its power evaporate. A country that cannot produce industrial and manufactured goods, but can only print debt instruments and money is not a powerful country. It is a washed-up two-bit punk that can continue to strut around until the proverbial boy says: “the Emperor has no clothes”.
Thanks for the post Bruh... It is not too late but the lack of action from all of us then it just may be too late... I'm doing what I can...
http://signon.org/sign/ill-take-my-rights-back
Understanding the art of Subversion and Demoralization
According to ex-KGB agent, Yuri Bezmenov, subversion and demoralization was so important to the KGB that most of their resources were allocated to it.
Only about 15 percent of their efforts were spent on espionage, the rest was all devoted to ideological subversion or 'psychological warfare'.
In this video, Yuri Bezmenov elaborates in great detail how infiltration, subversion, and demoralization worked and how they were implemented.
On the surface, this video might seem a little dry, but if you listen to his words as he describes the process by which our perceptions of reality have been distorted, then this video just might be the most horrific thing you've seen in a while.
And the real horror is; once you understand it, you'll see it's still happening...
According to ex-KGB agent, Yuri Bezmenov, subversion and demoralization was so important to the KGB that most of their resources were allocated to it.
Only about 15 percent of their efforts were spent on espionage, the rest was all devoted to ideological subversion or 'psychological warfare'.
In this video, Yuri Bezmenov elaborates in great detail how infiltration, subversion, and demoralization worked and how they were implemented.
On the surface, this video might seem a little dry, but if you listen to his words as he describes the process by which our perceptions of reality have been distorted, then this video just might be the most horrific thing you've seen in a while.
And the real horror is; once you understand it, you'll see it's still happening...
War on whistleblowers,
War on journalists
Whistleblowing, or exposing government misconduct, is the at very heart of the First Amendment.
As Kennedy said, "The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society..."
During his 2008 Presidential campaign Obama expressed the need to enact better whistleblower protections and even claimed that he was preparing a federal law to protect those who disclose suspect practices.
That's not what we got.
Instead, we got a war on whistleblowers, war on journalists...
War on journalists
Whistleblowing, or exposing government misconduct, is the at very heart of the First Amendment.
As Kennedy said, "The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society..."
During his 2008 Presidential campaign Obama expressed the need to enact better whistleblower protections and even claimed that he was preparing a federal law to protect those who disclose suspect practices.
That's not what we got.
Instead, we got a war on whistleblowers, war on journalists...
Disabled boy held down and tortured by laughing teachers
This is the story of how a disabled teenage boy was tied up and given 31 electric shocks over seven hours by his laughing teachers.
Because he wouldn't take off his coat.
They call it 'aversion therapy'.
A courtroom just outside Boston was shown the horrific scenes as a lawsuit against the school is considered.
The video has taken over ten years to come to light, and gives you an idea of what goes on at the Judge Rotenberg Center and just how long the school has been allowed to operate like this...
This is the story of how a disabled teenage boy was tied up and given 31 electric shocks over seven hours by his laughing teachers.
Because he wouldn't take off his coat.
They call it 'aversion therapy'.
A courtroom just outside Boston was shown the horrific scenes as a lawsuit against the school is considered.
The video has taken over ten years to come to light, and gives you an idea of what goes on at the Judge Rotenberg Center and just how long the school has been allowed to operate like this...
Propaganda's founding father, Edward Bernays
This short clip is just a fantastic little reminder that the reality we all share has been carefully prepared for us by a cabal of social engineers. People who admit, rather openly, that they seek to control our minds through scientific techniques of deception and manipulation.
An open secret, if you will, that our understanding of our own history has been altered.
This video isn't about the cabal though, it's about propaganda's founding father, Edward Bernays...
This short clip is just a fantastic little reminder that the reality we all share has been carefully prepared for us by a cabal of social engineers. People who admit, rather openly, that they seek to control our minds through scientific techniques of deception and manipulation.
An open secret, if you will, that our understanding of our own history has been altered.
This video isn't about the cabal though, it's about propaganda's founding father, Edward Bernays...
Mefloquine, the military's own zombie potion
After the recent massacre of 16 (17?) Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier, more light is being shed on the military's zombie potion, Mefloquine.
Mefloquine is an anti-malaria drug, invented by the military, that has been known for sometime to have severe psychiatric side effects including psychotic behavior, paranoia and hallucinations.
The drug has been implicated in numerous suicides and homicides, including deaths in the U.S. military.
With so many other antimalarial medications available, one has to wonder why the military continued to distribute Mefloquine at all.
After the recent massacre of 16 (17?) Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier, more light is being shed on the military's zombie potion, Mefloquine.
Mefloquine is an anti-malaria drug, invented by the military, that has been known for sometime to have severe psychiatric side effects including psychotic behavior, paranoia and hallucinations.
The drug has been implicated in numerous suicides and homicides, including deaths in the U.S. military.
With so many other antimalarial medications available, one has to wonder why the military continued to distribute Mefloquine at all.
City bullies man to death over his backyard chickens
An innocent man who had legally been raising a few chickens in the backyard of his suburban Atlanta home is now dead, following a crusade of terror perpetrated against him by the City of Roswell in Georgia.
It started when the City of Roswell Zoning Department issued Andrew Wordes a citation for having chickens on his property, even though the code specifically allows for poultry.
He fought it and won.
So the City Council REWROTE the ordinance and came after him again and again.
They even flooded his property.
And that's just the beginning...
An innocent man who had legally been raising a few chickens in the backyard of his suburban Atlanta home is now dead, following a crusade of terror perpetrated against him by the City of Roswell in Georgia.
It started when the City of Roswell Zoning Department issued Andrew Wordes a citation for having chickens on his property, even though the code specifically allows for poultry.
He fought it and won.
So the City Council REWROTE the ordinance and came after him again and again.
They even flooded his property.
And that's just the beginning...
SpaceX: Entrepreneur's race to space
Elon Musk is the next Steve Jobs, says Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich, and I hope he's right.
Milunovich is referring to Elon Musk's role as CEO of Tesla Motors, I am referring to Musk's role in making mankind a 'multi-planet species'.
Last year, Musk's company, SpaceX, became the first PRIVATE COMPANY
to successfully orbit and recover a spacecraft and he now holds a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to make 12 robotic supply missions to the International Space Station.
This just might be the coolest thing ever.
Free market capitalism and the future of space travel...
Elon Musk is the next Steve Jobs, says Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich, and I hope he's right.
Milunovich is referring to Elon Musk's role as CEO of Tesla Motors, I am referring to Musk's role in making mankind a 'multi-planet species'.
Last year, Musk's company, SpaceX, became the first PRIVATE COMPANY
to successfully orbit and recover a spacecraft and he now holds a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to make 12 robotic supply missions to the International Space Station.
This just might be the coolest thing ever.
Free market capitalism and the future of space travel...
City bullies man to death over his backyard chickens
An innocent man who had legally been raising a few chickens in the backyard of his suburban Atlanta home is now dead, following a crusade of terror perpetrated against him by the City of Roswell in Georgia.
It started when the City of Roswell Zoning Department issued Andrew Wordes a citation for having chickens on his property, even though the code specifically allows for poultry.
He fought it and won.
So the City Council REWROTE the ordinance and came after him again and again.
They even flooded his property.
And that's just the beginning...
Totally fucked up!
Spring Revival: Occupy Wall Street Seeks to Rejuvenate Movement
Iran Before 1979
This video reflects Iran during the time of the Shah when it was a modern, relatively free, and a progressive nation with a blend of western and traditional values which made it a gem in Eurasia. These are a selection of photos from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
This is a proof why Shah had to be changed
Shah: Our country in the next 10 years would be what you are today, in the next 25 years would be among the five most prosperous country of the world; when you become something like that you start to act accordingly.
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.
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.
Houston unveils national pilot program to put undercover TSA on public transit
That's right! You'll no longer have to book expensive airline flights to get that 'personal touch' from the TSA and Homeland Security.
No more waiting in line either, they'll be coming to you, they might even be sitting next to you and you won't even know it until they try to touch your junk or search your bags.
Don't worry about privacy or personal dignity or anything like that, it's just your favorite touchy-feely minimum wage security goon going through your belongings in public, that's all.
They're here to make you feel safe...
That's right! You'll no longer have to book expensive airline flights to get that 'personal touch' from the TSA and Homeland Security.
No more waiting in line either, they'll be coming to you, they might even be sitting next to you and you won't even know it until they try to touch your junk or search your bags.
Don't worry about privacy or personal dignity or anything like that, it's just your favorite touchy-feely minimum wage security goon going through your belongings in public, that's all.
They're here to make you feel safe...
The GSA regional commissioner isn't talking
Jeff Neely, a General Services Administration (GSA) official at the center of a scandal over lavish government spending, declined to answer several questions earlier this week at a congressional hearing.
The most astounding refusal was right off the bat, when Neely refused to give his job title.
Good grief! How corrupt do you have to be that you won't even tell Congress your job title?
As you watch the rest of the clip, that question is answered...
Jeff Neely, a General Services Administration (GSA) official at the center of a scandal over lavish government spending, declined to answer several questions earlier this week at a congressional hearing.
The most astounding refusal was right off the bat, when Neely refused to give his job title.
Good grief! How corrupt do you have to be that you won't even tell Congress your job title?
As you watch the rest of the clip, that question is answered...
Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists
Now this truly is disgusting.
The Gulf of Mexico is producing horribly mutated and tumorous shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crustaceans, and worse.
I've seen TWO versions of this story, one from Associated Press and another from Al Jazeera English. CNN, FOX, MSNBC, and others don't appear to have much to say on the subject.
The Associated Press simply glossed over some of the illnesses being found in seafood from the Gulf of Mexico and focused on the BP funded researchers who claim the cause is --gasp-- a mystery.
The Al Jazeera story goes in-depth, interviews several independent researchers and marine biologists, discusses the larger implications for marine life in the Gulf, and details the levels of which this is related to the BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Which version would you like to see?
Now this truly is disgusting.
The Gulf of Mexico is producing horribly mutated and tumorous shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crustaceans, and worse.
I've seen TWO versions of this story, one from Associated Press and another from Al Jazeera English. CNN, FOX, MSNBC, and others don't appear to have much to say on the subject.
The Associated Press simply glossed over some of the illnesses being found in seafood from the Gulf of Mexico and focused on the BP funded researchers who claim the cause is --gasp-- a mystery.
The Al Jazeera story goes in-depth, interviews several independent researchers and marine biologists, discusses the larger implications for marine life in the Gulf, and details the levels of which this is related to the BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Which version would you like to see?
Judge rules police dashcam videos can be kept secret
That's right, a judge in Seattle has ruled that police dashcam videos are private videos and the public cannot access them.
Huh? How can a public servant, on a public street, can end up with a private video?
Fact is, they can't.
Government can't be allowed to take away our privacy when it suits its purpose, only to turn around and say they are "protecting" our privacy when it suits no purpose but that of government.
KOMO TV is fighting it all the way to the State Supreme Court...
That's right, a judge in Seattle has ruled that police dashcam videos are private videos and the public cannot access them.
Huh? How can a public servant, on a public street, can end up with a private video?
Fact is, they can't.
Government can't be allowed to take away our privacy when it suits its purpose, only to turn around and say they are "protecting" our privacy when it suits no purpose but that of government.
KOMO TV is fighting it all the way to the State Supreme Court...
The IRS will soon have
the authority to restrict travel
What's going on with the IRS?
A few weeks back I heard that they were forming new S.W.A.T. teams to go after tax evaders, then I found a Request For Quotation (RFQ) in which the IRS is planning to buy sixty Remington Model 870 Police 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for its Criminal Investigation Division.
Now, it appears there is a strange provision in a transportation bill that would allow the Internal Revenue Service to seize passports.
This bill is expected to pass.
That's right. The IRS will soon have the authority to restrict travel.
the authority to restrict travel
What's going on with the IRS?
A few weeks back I heard that they were forming new S.W.A.T. teams to go after tax evaders, then I found a Request For Quotation (RFQ) in which the IRS is planning to buy sixty Remington Model 870 Police 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for its Criminal Investigation Division.
Now, it appears there is a strange provision in a transportation bill that would allow the Internal Revenue Service to seize passports.
This bill is expected to pass.
That's right. The IRS will soon have the authority to restrict travel.
Inexplicable Earthquake Swarm in Canada
Apparently, mystery booms and tiny earthquakes are in season.
A small town in Canada is suffering a similar fate to that of Clintonville, Wisconsin.
Underground booms that 'sound like dynamite' and mini-earthquakes, almost 40 in the last five weeks, have been unnerving the residents of McAdam, a tiny village in southwestern New Brunswick.
And again, no one knows why...
Apparently, mystery booms and tiny earthquakes are in season.
A small town in Canada is suffering a similar fate to that of Clintonville, Wisconsin.
Underground booms that 'sound like dynamite' and mini-earthquakes, almost 40 in the last five weeks, have been unnerving the residents of McAdam, a tiny village in southwestern New Brunswick.
And again, no one knows why...
Police take DNA from children, at school, without parent's permission
Children have a limited decision-making capacity. They lack the knowledge and experience necessary to make informed decisions. Children don't understand legal rights, lawyers, probable cause, due process, and such.
That's why it is a parents RIGHT to make decisions for their children.
That is also why it is downright CRIMINAL that the police can go to a middle school and take DNA samples from children for a murder investigation without 'parental' consent.
That they are claiming the 'minors' consented is alarming!
If you have children, you had better be asking yourself exactly what can they talk YOUR children into consenting to?
Children have a limited decision-making capacity. They lack the knowledge and experience necessary to make informed decisions. Children don't understand legal rights, lawyers, probable cause, due process, and such.
That's why it is a parents RIGHT to make decisions for their children.
That is also why it is downright CRIMINAL that the police can go to a middle school and take DNA samples from children for a murder investigation without 'parental' consent.
That they are claiming the 'minors' consented is alarming!
If you have children, you had better be asking yourself exactly what can they talk YOUR children into consenting to?
An unnatural obsession with safety equipment
"The save-you-from-yourself nannies are an intrusive and irritating bunch," says Karen De Coster.
I couldn't agree more.
I've listed this post under 'Solutions' because understanding how their b.s. works will help us stop falling for it.
I've listed this post under 'Suppressed technologies' because according to this video that's exactly what they have been doing. If you can call a bicycle technology.
And I've listed it under 'In Humor, Truth' because it's funny because it's true.
Helmet Nazis and their culture of fear...
"The save-you-from-yourself nannies are an intrusive and irritating bunch," says Karen De Coster.
I couldn't agree more.
I've listed this post under 'Solutions' because understanding how their b.s. works will help us stop falling for it.
I've listed this post under 'Suppressed technologies' because according to this video that's exactly what they have been doing. If you can call a bicycle technology.
And I've listed it under 'In Humor, Truth' because it's funny because it's true.
Helmet Nazis and their culture of fear...
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