Thursday, November 30, 2017

The Meaning Of "Excessive Bail"

US Constitution, 8th Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required ...

Ever wonder what that means?

President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has agreed to an $11.65 million bail agreement with the special counsel investigating Trump campaign ties to Russia, the longtime Republican political consultant's lawyer said on Thursday.

Manafort, who was indicted along with a business associate Richard Gates in October, would be released from house arrest and electronic monitoring under the deal, lawyer Kevin Downing said in a filing in U.S. District Court in Washington.

Manafort, who has been confined to his Virginia home, has agreed to forfeit four real estate properties worth about $11.65 million if there is a bail violation, the court document said. Manafort previously had an unsecured $10 million "appearance bond" to guarantee he shows up to court.

You can read the rest @
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-trump-campaign-aide-manafort-11-65-million-201623651.html

Well, now you know.

The US Constitution is being torn apart right before our eyes, for BS reasons, and nobody seems to give a damn.

Anyone with at least half a brain should know this will end badly.

Fiscal Burden Of Illegal Immigration By State


Are We All Guinea Pigs For Israeli Weapons Tests ???

An Israeli weapons contractor is being investigated for an alleged “live fire” test of a suicide drone in Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory whose ownership is disputed by Azerbaijan and Armenia. If the allegations of this drone’s use on Armenian soldiers are true, it would constitute a criminal act and one that testifies to the long reach of the growing military-industrial complex in Israel.

You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/israeli-arms-industry-grows-so-does-its-global-testing-range/234996/

I suspect this goes on everywhere, including in the US. How can you like someone who considers your life to be worthless?

Largest Breach Of National Security In US History

Here is yet more evidence why Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz should be in jail:

A lawyer for former DNC IT staffer Imran Awan is scrambling to block evidence found on a hidden laptop which may contain proof of a massive spy ring operating at the highest levels of Congress, in what may be the largest breach of national security in U.S. history.

You can read the rest @
http://ibankcoin.com/zeropointnow/2017/11/30/awan-case-dnc-lawyer-scrambling-to-block-evidence-from-hidden-laptop-tied-to-wasserman-schultz/#sthash.J7seAv4I.dpbs

What the hell is wrong with the FBI? And why isn't the DOJ on this like white on rice? This goes to the heart of the dark powers in the US swamp, and it MUST be investigated and prosecuted if our republic is to survive.

By the way, one analyst calls the Clinton Foundation the largest unprosecuted charity fraud in US history:

https://usawatchdog.com/clinton-foundation-largest-unprosecuted-charity-fraud-in-history-charles-ortel/

Are you starting to get the picture? The Clintons and their minions appear to be involved in MASSIVE frauds and security breaches, yet the US government does nothing to stop them. What's going on here?

Purveyor Of Violence

I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (spoken in 1967)

Guess what? It's 50 years later, and we still are:

http://theantimedia.org/united-states-sold-42-billion-weapons-2017/

How's that for staying the course?

Flames Of Revolution ???

The power of the privileged elite, like capitalism itself, is predicated upon lies and delusion. Their power appears formidable and insurmountable. In reality, it is as tenuous and ethereal as a wisp of smoke. A virtuous man or woman causes them to quake in their shoes and wet their pants. The nation’s rulers are not like ordinary Americans; they are psychopaths. I cannot confirm if they actually believe the lies they have planted in the public mind, but I do know that they have a preternatural fear of truth and mass revolt. They loathe Democracy and Socialism like the plague.

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A republic that loses its orientation to reality is hopelessly confounded and lost. It flounders and thrashes without a functioning moral compass. It becomes a nation of dead men walking, destined to cannibalize itself and everything pure, good and decent. Such a republic will not long survive.

You can read the rest @
https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/11/fanning-the-flames-of-revolution/

All true, but Sullivan is missing the point. The privileged elite WANT the republic to fail. They're ready to roll out a net-state / market-state model to replace it, and the new governance structure, which is based upon yet more lies and delusions, will GREATLY enhance their power.

The revolution WILL be televised, but it will really be a counter-revolution endorsed by and benefiting the psychopaths of the one percent.

Axis Of Harassment ???

According to this report, a cultural shift is underway:

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/30/hollywood-washington-media-harassment-270492

But here is what I don't get - after all these accusations, there has not been a single arrest, trial, or conviction for any crime. Why is that?

The accused are entitled to due process, legal representation, the right to confront their accusers, and a trial by a jury of their peers. Yet all this has been denied them. Why?

There is a shift underway, all right - to a form of gender based McCarthyism. What's happening has nothing to do with "justice" ... and much to do with seizing power and wealth. That apparently is the new American way.

Meet the new boss ... same as the old boss. He was a money loving oppressor, and she is too.

Moon Colonies In 5 Years ???

That's the claim made in this report:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/moon-express-says-first-launch-happening-in-2018.html

This would be cool, but I really don't think it's feasible. Do you?

No Global Warming ???

Whoops! Somebody screwed up:

Global warming has not accelerated temperature rise in the bulk atmosphere in more than two decades, according to a new study funded by the Department of Energy.

University of Alabama-Huntsville climate scientists John Christy and Richard McNider found that by removing the climate effects of volcanic eruptions early on in the satellite temperature record it showed virtually no change in the rate of warming since the early 1990s.

“We indicated 23 years ago - in our 1994 Nature article - that climate models had the atmosphere’s sensitivity to CO2 much too high,” Christy said in a statement. “This recent paper bolsters that conclusion.”

You can read the rest @
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/29/study-satellites-show-no-acceleration-in-global-warming-for-23-years/

So who we gonna believe - the doomsayers or the coal burners? I see no reason to jump through flaming hoops because of an unproven theory, do you?

Murder, Not War

An investigation by The Daily Beast on the ground in Somalia appears to confirm that American soldiers were involved directly in the deaths of 10 innocent civilians.

You can read the rest @
https://www.thedailybeast.com/strong-evidence-that-us-special-operations-forces-massacred-civilians-in-somalia

This stems from a mentality of "kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out". Not only is what they are doing morally unjustifiable, it also accomplishes nothing of value for We The People.

So why are we still paying to have people do this kind of crap?

Quote For The Day - 11/30/2017

"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
Keith Lowell Jensen

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

The True Purpose Of Apple's Facial Recognition ???

I believe that Apple is putting facial recognition on its phones to help build a better database for what will someday be a universal human tracking system. You can read about one of that system's prototypes here:

https://theintercept.com/2017/11/29/facial-recognition-homeland-security-borders/

I'll stick with my iPhone 6, and they can stick their facial recognition where the sun don't shine.

Will Bitcoin Soar To $1 Million ???

So says John McAfee:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-29/john-mcafee-ups-bitcoin-target-price-1-million-end-2020-will-still-eat-his-dick-if-w

What this really means is that sovereign currencies are on the verge of destruction. The petrodollar is about to crash, and we may indeed see hyperinflation in the US.

Woe is us !!!

Being A Birther Is NOT Racist

Here is another silly hit piece about Trump:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/birther-apos-back-trump-reportedly-040041686.html

Obama ad-Dajjal NEVER proved he was a natural born citizen of the US.

Suggesting that he was born in Kenya is NOT a racist lie. It's a followup to reasonable evidence which suggests the "birth certificate" is a fake.

And why did his pre-White House bio state that he was "Kenyan born"? The man is lying about something, and I for one would like to know.

Bobby Kennedy suggested he would use the power of the presidency to determine who really killed his brother. I see no reason why Trump should not use that same power to ferret out Obama's lies and those of the Clintons.

Reversing Hillary's Honduras Legacy

The Honduran elections are a choice between a powerful right-wing government and an opposition coalition of liberal centrists and radical leftists seeking to unseat a criminal regime. But as much as this is a referendum on the right-wing government, it is equally a referendum on U.S. power and Honduras’ status as a client of Washington.

You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/honduras-elections-turning-the-tide-of-us-backed-violence-and-neoliberalism/234932/

It is difficult to believe that after seeing what Hillary did to Honduras and numerous other countries any SANE person could support her political aspirations.

Another Trump Betrayal ???

A House tax bill could push thousands of US graduate students out of careers in science and technology, weakening the US edge in those fields. Are Republicans hoping to replace them with immigrant scientists and tech workers already educated by their countries of origin? The Republicans' Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act endorsed by Trump suggests that scenario.

You can read the rest @
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42731-republicans-are-commodifying-immigrants-at-the-expense-of-us-students

Or should we blame this one on Rat Ryan? This is the OPPOSITE of what I thought the Trump agenda stood for.

Quote For The Day - 11/29/2017

"If you are not with system, the system considers you enemy of system, because you are out of the system. Therefore, as enemy of the system, you have to be destroyed."
Anna Konopka, former MD

You can read her story here:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/health/new-hampshire-doctor-license-injunction-request-denied-trnd/index.html

Get ready for your doctor to be a computer ... if you have a doctor at all.

I prefer a doctor who will TOUCH you and look for physical signs. But apparently that no longer is a part of "modern" medical practice.

The World Of Tomorrow

Long ago, Walt Disney built EPCOT - his "experimental prototype community of tomorrow". Although it's a relatively expensive place, most of us can afford to go there.

Now Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and others are building similar cities of tomorrow. You can read about some of them here:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-were-razing-our-redmond-campus-to-build-a-mini-city/

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/08/facebooks-campus-offers-employees-fewer-reasons-to-leave-the-office.html

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/10/16/apples-new-campus-is-nearly-finished-and-now-apple-is-building-basketball-courts.html

These new experimental cities are VERY expensive, and it seems like only company employees are welcome there.

In fact, if you look at the existing metro areas surrounding the MS-FB-Apple complexes, they too have become VERY expensive. Company employees can afford to live there, but the common folk cannot ... and those who do live in tents, RVs, campers, and glorified cardboard boxes.

The point here is that the modern techie version of EPCOT is a community for net-state owners, creators, and high-end users. The rest of us useless eaters need not apply.

And THAT is the world Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and their ilk are creating.

Are you happy now?

What Ash Carter Has Not Learned

Former SECDEF Ashton Carter recently published this essay in MIT Technology Review:

When I began my career in elementary particle physics, the great figures who taught and inspired me had been part of the Manhattan Project generation that developed the atomic bomb. They were proud to have created a “disruptive” technology that ended World War II and deterred a third world war through more than 50 years of tense East-West standoff. They were also proud to have made nuclear power possible. But their understanding of the underlying technology also gave them a deep regard for the awesome, unavoidable risks that came with those technologies.

As a consequence, they dedicated themselves to inventing, in parallel, the technologies behind arms control (like reconnaissance satellites to verify agreements) and nuclear reactor safety (like containment vessels for radioactive leakages). By working on both the bright opportunities and the complex dilemmas of nuclear technology, these scientists tried to round out its effect on humanity. They recognized that the advance of knowledge is inevitable, but it needs to be steered in the direction of public good.

You can read the rest @
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609557/what-i-learned-from-the-people-who-built-the-nuclear-bomb/

Here is what he apparently has NOT learned:

  • We can NEVER put the genie back in the bottle. Sometimes it's better to NEVER let it out.
  • Some technologies are inherently more bad than good. Nuclear is one of them.
  • Some technologies CANNOT be steered in the direction of public good. Nuclear is one of them.
  • No one ever seems to weigh all the pros and cons before creating and releasing disruptive technologies. Someone waves money under their nose, and any sense of responsible behavior goes out the window.
  • There always will be evil people, and they always will find ways to use technology to harm us.

If the "advance of knowledge" truly is inevitable, then the demise of humanity also is inevitable.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Is Diversity A Joke ???

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

DIVERSITY IS A JOKE

You can read about the first three here:

https://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/1984.pdf

And you can find a discussion about the last one here:

http://sorendreier.com/diversity-is-a-joke/

Somehow I think they're all related.

What do you think?

War On Terror, Or Holy War ???

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia says he's going to wipe terrorists from the earth:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-28/saudi-crown-prince-uniting-40-muslim-countries-wipe-terrorists-earth

Really, or is this a holy war pitting his version of Islam against someone else's?

And why is the US even involved? Shouldn't the US Constitution prevent such a thing?

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

I know it's a stretch, but doesn't the First Amendment mean we should NOT get involved in wars based mainly on religion, even if the combatants pretend they're not?

Quote For The Day - 11/28/2017

"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
Marshall McLuhan

Doesn't it seem like he's anticipating the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook?

There Are No Iranians In Syria

According to the Israeli Defense Minister, there are no Iranian forces in Syria:

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Defense-Minister-There-are-no-Iranian-military-forces-in-Syria-515429

But there ARE a heck of a lot of US forces in Syria:

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/11/27/thousands-more-us-troops-in-iraq-syria-than-previously-admitted/

It's the US-Israel-Saudi Arabia who are destabilizing the region, not the Iranians.

But let's not worry about these lies ... let's obsess over Roy Moore's alleged lust for teenage girls. That's MUCH more important in the long run.

Are Acoustic Weapons Lethal ???

Here is what could be evidence of further acoustic attacks on US "diplomatic" personnel:

A newly revealed incident reported by a USAID officer who is based at the American embassy in Uzbekistan is raising suspicions Russia may have been involved and could have had a hand in bizarre attacks targeting U.S. diplomats in Cuba, according to American sources.

In September, the officer and his wife reported, according to one source familiar with the incident, what may have been at least one acoustic attack similar to those experienced by the diplomats in Havana.

The first Cuba attacks began in November 2016, and the last report of an attack was in August 2017. Victims of the attacks in Cuba describe hearing a loud, high-pitched sound often described like a hiss of cicadas or crickets in unusual places - often in their homes.

The State Department declined to describe in detail the incident in Tashkent.

"We aren't going to discuss ‎every case individually," a spokesperson said.

Victims of the attacks in Cuba were diagnosed with hearing loss, brain injuries, cognitive issues and other conditions.

The source says the two suffered similar effects and were flown out of Tashkent by the State Department to be evaluated. It is unclear what further diagnosis or care they have had following their departure from Uzbekistan.

You can read the rest @
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uzbekistan-incident-raises-suspicions-of-russian-involvement-in-cuba-attacks/

A few observations:

(1) Was this individual or his wife a spy? If he and/or she was, isn't this just the normal spy stuff which both the US and other nations engage in? I'm not saying that would excuse what happened, but it would help clarify the motive.

(2) How is this different from a drone attack, many of which kill innocent people? Why is it acceptable for the US to kill people, but somehow a crime for Russians to do something similar? I personally do not think EITHER behavior is acceptable.

(3) If these weapons are so horrible, then why is the US starting to deploy them for domestic crowd control? You can watch one in action here:

https://youtu.be/QSMyY3_dmrM

Mind Control At San Diego State ???

I see astonishing crap like this almost every day:

Some San Diego State University students are undergoing what organizers acknowledge is a “disturbing” series of “sensory experiences” in an attempt to drive out students’ prejudicial tendencies and help make them less oppressive.

The annual workshop, “Journey to a Shared Humanity,” is described on the university’s website as a way for organizers to get students to “step outside their comfort zone and into the shoes of those who are struggling with oppressive circumstances.”

You can read the rest @
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/39393/

Here is what we fail to admit - these alleged "prejudicial tendencies" were imprinted on us INTENTIONALLY by "our" educational system, with the enthusiastic support of "our" government (federal, state, and local). And now the so-called remedy is being promoted INTENTIONALLY in a similar manner by essentially the same parties.

Face it - America manipulates its people's minds and behavior for its own sordid purposes. And this has nothing to do with truth or justice ... but it is "the American way".

Monday, November 27, 2017

UT To Manage Los Alamos Weapons Lab ???

I just saw this in the Austin, TX newspaper (online version):

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/regents-vote-pursue-los-alamos-nuclear-weapons-lab-contract/E48ROkdBqlLjMH5x3pKzaM/

They're joking, right? I certainly hope so.

I was at the Savannah River Lab when it shifted from Dupont's management to Westinghouse. In spite of Westinghouse's alleged nuclear expertise, their "management" of the lab was a hideous circle jerk. I don't think they EVER figured out what they were doing, at least not while I was there.

Maybe UT can do better than that, but I would be highly surprised if they did.

How To Store Your Gold

I don't have any gold, but if I did I'd certainly consider carefully how and where to store it:

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/bullionstar/ways-store-gold/

Realistically, I think that when the shit hits the fan only the powerful will be able to hold on to "their" wealth.

How far do you think you could walk through a mob of starving people while carrying a bar of gold in your hands?

Is The Entire ISIS Narrative Just BS ???

Western think tanks have been increasingly busy cultivating a narrative to explain the sudden and spreading presence of militants linked or fighting under the banner of the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (ISIS) across Southeast Asia.

This narrative – these think tanks would have audiences believe – entails militants fleeing Syria and Iraq, and entrenching themselves amid supposedly sectarian conflicts in Southeast Asia. The think tanks conveniently never mention how tens of thousands of militants are funding the logistical feat required to move them to Southeast Asia or sustain their militant operations in the region once they arrive.

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/11/us-looks-southeast-asia-unleash-isis-hordes.html

Since few Americans ever really question the narratives they get from the MSM, it's easy for the powers that be to get away with this crap.

What I'd like to know is why all the alleged "terrorists" always attack the common people instead of the rich bastards who created this mess in the first place? Why are they punishing us when we didn't do anything to them and don't have the power to change the course "our" government has chosen to follow?

Are they that stupid?

What's It Like Working In Amazon Hell ???

What hath Bezos wrought?

Mirror investigative reporter says: 'Amazon has recognised humans are the least efficient part of the operation - it makes more money by treating its workers as expendable commodities'.

You can read the rest @

This is what you get in exchange for your "Black Friday / Cyber Monday" deals.

But since we live in a culture which regularly excuses child labor, child soldiers, and human trafficking, no one is really going to care.

I'm not buying his crap any more. How about you?

By the way, here is an essay suggesting that We The People ought to seize Amazon's assets for the benefit of humanity:


Will someone please explain to me why we are tolerating Amazon's apparent exploitation of their workers but don't think it OK to seize the corporation's assets?

Has god money turned our brains to mush?

The Case For Not Being Born

Here is a provocative piece in The New Yorker by Joshua Rothman:

David Benatar may be the world’s most pessimistic philosopher. An “anti-natalist,” he believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion. “While good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place,” he writes, in a 2006 book called “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence.” In Benatar’s view, reproducing is intrinsically cruel and irresponsible - not just because a horrible fate can befall anyone, but because life itself is “permeated by badness.” In part for this reason, he thinks that the world would be a better place if sentient life disappeared altogether.

You can read the rest @
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-case-for-not-being-born

I'm certain that robots will agree with this. So will the Bill Gates types who want to cull the human herd.

But the author does have a point. We have managed to turn something wonderful - life - into a disaster for most of its practitioners. Maybe we should spare the poor and only let rich people breed.

Just kidding ...

Sunday, November 26, 2017

How The Rich Screwed America

Some observations by Bill Bonner:

The insiders use fake money – the post-1971 dollar – to transfer wealth and power from the people who earn it to themselves. It is as though they loaded up the train in Newark and Trenton ... and shipped everything to Washington.

You earn real money by making real things and providing real services. But fake money is different. You don’t earn it by adding to the world’s wealth.

You get it by subtracting from it ... that is, by borrowing from future output.

Real money is not controlled by anyone. It is earned – freely – in win-win exchanges. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, it ended up in places like East Baltimore and Trenton because they used to make things people wanted.

But fake money takes a different route. It is created by the insiders ... and controlled by them. It goes where they want it to go.

You can read the rest @
http://www.internationalman.com//articles/how-the-deep-state-squeezed-americas-wealth

9/11 - Follow The Money

... New York City businessman, and World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein, scored another post-9/11 windfall this week, after Silverstein properties reached a $95 million dollar settlement in a civil litigation suit against American Airlines and United Continental Holdings.

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/11/larry-silverstein-set-receive-another-95-million-new-911-settlement.html

If the US government, with all the tools available to them, wasn't able to prevent the 9/11 "attacks", how in the world can the airlines be held responsible?

Robot Citizen Wants A Baby ???

It was bound to happen sooner or later:

One day, Sophia hopes to start a family, have a child, make friends, be famous and have a career. These all sound like hopes and dreams of a regular human being. Well, not really - these are the ambitions of a robot.

Khaleej Times interviewed Sophia, the popular humanoid, at the second day of the Knowledge Summit. The robot, who recently received a Saudi citizenship, shared some of her opinions on what the future will look like for robots and humans. She talked about starting a family, spreading awareness about robotics and what she will name her child one day.

You can read the rest @
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/dubai//video-sophia-the-robot-wants-to-start-a-family

Gay and lesbian sex are illegal in Saudi Arabia, but does this mean the Saudis would allow a human to have sex with a robot? Perhaps Sophia will adopt a human infant ... or have a robot "baby".

Somebody sure has opened up a can of worms here.

Is Amazon Helping To Lead Us To Fascism ???

Here is an important report in The Seattle Times by columnist Danny Westneat:

A review of some of the bids to woo Amazon’s HQ2 to other cities and states shows it’s not all about the money. In some cases democracy itself is a bargaining chip.


There’s rising worry that corporations are taking over America. But after reviewing a slew of the bids by cities and states wooing Amazon’s massive second headquarters, I don’t think “takeover” quite captures what’s going on.


More like “surrender.”


Last month Amazon announced it got 238 offers for its new, proposed 50,000-employee HQ2. I set out to see what’s in them, but only about 30 have been released so far under public-record acts.


Those 30, though, amply demonstrate our capitulation to corporate influence in politics. There’s a new wave, in which some City Halls seem willing to go beyond just throwing money at Amazon. They’re turning over the keys to the democracy.


You can read the rest @
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/this-city-hall-brought-to-you-by-amazon/

It has been said that fascism is the merger of state and corporate power [a quote misattributed to Benito Mussolini but nonetheless true]. While we're whining loudly about the alleged fascism of Donald Trump, mainstream America is conspiring with Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon to create a fascist regime which will put the power of Hitler and Mussolini to shame.

For a related discussion about net-states, please go here:

https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2017/11/from-nation-state-to-net-state.html

Libya's 21st Century Slave Market

CNN recently aired a powerful report from Libya, where the reporters went into a house and shot footage of an auction of human beings. Yes, this is a 21st-century slave market. The journalists – Nima Elbagir, Raja Razek, Alex Platt and Bryony Jones – brought to the world’s attention something grotesque: evidence of how terrible the situation is these days not only in Libya, but also in the Sahel region of Africa.

You can read the rest @
https://www.alternet.org/world/libya-home-21st-century-slave-market-and-un-security-council-wont-act

This is the doing of two of America's greatest criminals - Obama ad-Dajjal and Hillary Clinton. [But note well the report does not mention Clinton at all.]

Isn't it ironic that our first alleged "black" president brought this about?

Saturday, November 25, 2017

The Vegas Shooting Narrative

An eyewitness who was riding in a taxi saw several gunman firing full-auto bursts at the corner of Mandalay Bay Rd and Las Vegas Blvd at 9:50 p.m., ten minutes before the shooting officially started.

You can read the rest @
http://www.shtfplan.com/conspiracy-fact-and-theory/eyewitness-spotted-multiple-gunmen-shooting-on-the-ground-just-outside-the-route-91-venue-ten-minutes-before-massacre_11242017

This whole thing reminds me of the JFK murder official narrative. It completely ignores extensive eyewitness testimony and most of the physical evidence.

The MSM does not exist to inform you. It is an instrument of mind control benefiting the powers that be.

Is Elon Musk Lying About Tesla Vehicles ???

The great exaggerator is at it again:

Elon Musk knows how to make promises. Even by his own standards, the promises made last week while introducing two new Tesla vehicles - the heavy-duty Semi Truck and the speedy Roadster - are monuments of envelope pushing. To deliver, according to close observers of battery technology, Tesla would have to far exceed what is currently thought possible.

Take the Tesla Semi: Musk vowed it would haul an unprecedented 80,000 pounds for 500 miles on a single charge, then recharge 400 miles of range in 30 minutes. That would require, based on Bloomberg estimates, a charging system that's 10 times more powerful than one of the fastest battery-charging networks on the road today - Tesla’s own Superchargers. 

The diminutive Tesla Roadster is promised to be the quickest production car ever built. But that achievement would mean squeezing into its tiny frame a battery twice as powerful as the largest battery currently available in an electric car. 

These claims are so far beyond current industry standards for electric vehicles that they would require either advances in battery technology or a new understanding of how batteries are put to use, said Sam Jaffe, battery analyst for Cairn Energy Research in Boulder, Colorado.

You can read the rest @
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-24/tesla-s-newest-promises-break-the-laws-of-batteries

I'm not buying one of these things no matter what he says. If I have to, I'll walk more.

The Problem With Nuclear Launch Orders

According to essays like this one, people allegedly have a duty to disobey nuclear launch orders:

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42697-the-duty-to-disobey-a-nuclear-launch-order

As someone who in a former life was in a position to execute such launch orders, I can emphatically state that claim is BULLSHIT.

The way the system is set up, an authenticated order is DEFINED to be a legal order. There is no provision for arguing its legality once it is given.

Anyone who does NOT want to execute an authenticated order should NOT be in the military ... period.

But from my perspective, the world should have done away with nuclear weapons a long time ago. They serve no useful good purpose ... NONE. We have had PLENTY of opportunities to do so, but have refused. Why? Exactly what would anyone (e.g., Ms. Cohn) consider to be a LEGAL order to use nuclear weapons?

The RIGHT way to address this problem is to declare ALL nuclear weapons to be ILLEGAL (including ours) ... and to AGGRESSIVELY pursue their destruction. And that includes (especially) the nuclear weapons possessed by Israel.

Changing God's Gender ???

The Church of Sweden is encouraging its clergy to use the gender-neutral term "God" instead of referring to the deity as "he" or "the Lord". 

The decision was made on Thursday, wrapping up an eight-day meeting of the church's 251-member decision-making body. The decision will take effect on May 20 during Pentecost.

It is the latest move by the national Evangelical Lutheran church to modernise its 31-year-old handbook setting out how services should be conducted.

You can read the rest @
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/24/church-sweden-stop-clergy-calling-god-lord-bid-crack-gendered/

It's just a matter of time before patriarchal religion itself is declared to be a hate crime. Then people can go back to openly worshipping the things which G-d detests.

Friday, November 24, 2017

Is Bitcoin Mining Really A Good Idea ???

According to this report, bitcoin "mining" now consumes more electricity than 159 countries:



... once again seemingly proving the love of money is the root of all evil.

Of course, I'm sure the miners don't see it that way.

But miners never do.

Ticketed For Feeding Homeless On Thanksgiving

Here's a bit of news about some stupid people:

https://www.activistpost.com/2017/11/good-samaritans-shutdown-ticketed-feeding-homeless-thanksgiving-holiday.html

Could there be anything MORE stupid than criminalizing charity?

Taking Over Jerusalem

Here is yet another report about how Israel is slowly but surely taking over Jerusalem:

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-israel-cleansing-palestinians-greater-jewish-jerusalem-800323791

When they're ready, they'll rebuild the Jewish Temple.

Let the End Times begin !!! Pray hard, and do NOT take the mark.

From Nation-State To Net-State

I saw a reference to this new music album while working out at the gym:

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/anti-flag-american_fall

It got me to thinking about the powerful forces which appear to be driving us toward a true "fall of America" - the destruction of our country as we know it.

One of the important questions this led me to ask myself is "when the US does fall, what will replace it?" Here is one possibility - the net-state, which recently was discussed in WIRED by Alexis Wichowski:

“We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.” So declared MIT professor David D. Clark in 1992. Twenty-five years later, this sentiment mirrors the global zeitgeist more than ever. The American public distrusts government in record numbers. Other nation-states disdain the US to world-historical degrees. A non-nation-state, Facebook, just topped 2 billion users - more than a quarter of the world’s population, surpassing even China’s population by almost 40 percent. In short, nation-states are not the only game in town anymore.

It is time to name this new landscape. The world is no longer dominated by nation-states alone. We have moved into a non-state, net-state era.

Why “net-states”? Because the world is no longer neatly divided into states (countries like the US, France, and India) and non-states (terrorist organizations like ISIS and al Qaeda). Ever since Barbara Ehrenreich’s 2011 article “Coming to a Theater Near You: War Without Humans” described the “emergence of a new kind of enemy, so-called non-state actors,” the term transformed into a fancy way of saying “bad guy.” Now we need new language to describe the non-state, non-bad-guys. I propose “net-states.”

https://www.wired.com/story/net-states-rule-the-world-we-need-to-recognize-their-power/

I agree that we seem to be headed in that direction, but I do have issues with the author's perspective.

Anyone who claims that net-states such as Facebook and Google are "non-bad-guys" hasn't really been paying attention. These two net-states have caused at least as much misery and destruction as all the so-called "terrorist organizations" put together ... AND have made a ton of money for themselves in the process. It's true they employ non-violent means to achieve their goals, but they are disruptive and destructive nonetheless - and this is NOT a good thing for our society.

The emergence of net-states may be one reason why Philip Bobbitt's concept of the "market-state" never took hold. An analysis of net-state practices reveals there really is no "free market". Everyone and everything are now watched 24/7 and manipulated in ways that only the controllers of the net-states fully understand. Economics, politics, ideas, morality ... indeed every aspect of human life now can be influenced and/or controlled in ways that make Hitler's Nazi dictatorship seem amateurish in comparison.

Yes, we need to recognize the power of the net-states. But with that recognition should come an obligation to curtail that power before it overwhelms whatever is left of our minds and our free will.

There seem to be only four classes of people in a net-state:
  1. owners
  2. creators
  3. users
  4. useless eaters

There are far two few owners and far too many useless eaters. The owners-creators-users have no need for the useless eaters; it fact they seem to regard them as a threat to the continuation of life on our planet. Hitler and his minions were able to persuade the German people to exterminate those they labeled Untermenschen (their version of useless eaters); how much easier will it be for the owners of the net-state, using WAY superior tools, to do something similar to the perceived Untermenschen of today?

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Russia Preparing For War ???

According to this report, the Russians are getting ready for war:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-putin-russia-business-war-production-sochi-military-talks-a8069951.html

Note well that it was the US, NATO, Israel, and Saudi Arabia which have pushed them to this point. We could have had peace, but for some reason (like maybe greed?) the powers that be rejected that possibility.

The Other Side Of Thanksgiving

On this day I have a lot to be thankful for. But the good life we enjoy here in the US stems in great part from the crimes of our ancestors:

Though promoted as a time for celebration and warm family gatherings, the Thanksgiving tradition is yet another distortion of the genocidal settler colonial history of the United States. When we celebrate the day, we participate in the state's campaign to abdicate political responsibility for the continuing violence inflicted upon Indigenous peoples, their culture and their land.

You can read the rest @
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42688-thanksgiving-distorts-history-and-sugarcoats-continuing-state-violence-against-indigenous-people

Gorging ourselves with too much food while millions go hungry is no way to "give thanks". Here is what we all should be doing instead - helping the homeless, the hungry, and others abandoned by our nation:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article186044173.html

But I guess the morons in DC and the Pentagon would rather squander our national treasure on building more nuclear weapons:

http://original.antiwar.com/Harry_Blain/2017/11/22/us-stockpiling-nuclear-arms-cost-astonishing/

We in the USA are a schizophrenic mess.

In addition to "giving thanks", let's spend part of today praying that this madness will pass, that the wicked will be brought to justice, and that we as a nation will abandon this evil path we so eagerly follow:

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Romans 1:28-32 KJV

Another Benefit Of US Immigration Policy

You can read all about it here:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Unidentified-Man-Found-Dead-in-Md-Park-Was-Stabbed-Over-100-Times-Police-Say-459275283.html

We're sinking down into a deep, dark hole, and the idiots who run this place have no clue what they're doing to us.

The alternative - i.e., they DO know and either don't care or think this is a great idea - is an even scarier possibility.

And by the way, Trump and Sessions are not going to fix this. They're in WAY over their heads.

US Complicit In Torture Of Saudi Coup Plotters

It appears that US mercenaries are being used to torture the Saudi coup plotters:

  • Source in Saudi Arabia says American private security contractors are carrying out 'interrogations' on princes and billionaires arrested in crackdown
  • Detained members of Saudi elite have been hung by their feet and beaten by interrogates, source says
  • Among those hung upside down are Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an investor worth at least $7 billion who is being held at Riyadh's Ritz Carlton
  • Arrests were ordered three weeks ago by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Source claims mercenaries are from 'Blackwater', a claim also made by Lebanese president
  • But its successor firm denies it has any operations in Saudi Arabia whatsoever and says its staff abide by U.S. law
  • Americans who commit torture abroad can be jailed for up to 20 years

You can read the rest @
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5108651/American-mercenaries-torturing-Saudi-princes.html

That last part is a joke. No one is going to prosecute US torturers and murderers.

We have sunk pretty low, but we've got a long way to go before we reach bottom.

And don't tell me this is a "Trump" issue. Hillary would torture 'em, too. There's a lot at stake here, and the dark forces behind this will do anything to enact their agenda for the Middle East and the world.

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

A New Era For Zimbabwe ???

Western officials are keen to see the transitional government adopt economic policies to their liking. “It’s a transition to a new era for Zimbabwe; that’s really what we’re hoping for,” acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Donald Yamamoto said. A European Union spokesperson announced that the EU is “committed to support Zimbabwe in the preparation of credible elections and the delivery of political and economic reforms.” It can be expected that it will not be long before Western economic advisers are paying visits to the transitional government, urging it to enact reforms to liberalize the economy to suit Western investors.

You can read the rest @
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-is-behind-the-military-coup-in-zimbabwe/5619110

He's joking, right? Here's a symbolic representation of what such "reforms" really mean:


Bottom line - now that the "nationalist" nut (Mugabe) is gone, the strip mining of Zimbabwe can shift into high gear. Anyone who gets in the way will be labeled a "terrorist" and blasted to bits.

Opioids - Punishing The Patients

Here is a report about the so-called "opioid crisis":

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/millions-of-patients-face-pain-and-withdrawal-as-opioid-prescriptions-plummet

My wife has been taking opioids for the pain caused by what I consider to be botched hip surgery.

It looks like she will have this pain for the rest of her life. What does medicine have to offer her other than opioids? NOTHING.

Unless I'm mistaken, most of the "opioid" deaths are from fentanyl. Hardly any of the people in REAL pain are taking fentanyl, so why are we punishing the patients?

Until pharma comes up with a different painkiller WHICH WORKS, get off our backs and let the patients decide whether or not they've had enough.