April 26, 2017

Source: The Next Web

"By releasing our technology publicly and making it available to anyone, we want to ensure that there will be no such risks. We hope that everyone will soon be aware that such technology exists and that copying the voice of someone else is possible. More generally, we want to raise attention about the lack of evidence that audio recordings may represent in the near future."

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Imagine how good the technology above will be in 5 or 10 years...coupled with the face morphing software below, the state's ability to fabricate evidence and make war (assuming the public remains mostly trusting of its "government"), will be limitless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk 

April 08, 2017

Source: Corbett Report

As you know by now, President Trump ordered missile strikes on the Al Shayrat airfield in Syria Thursday night. Starting at 8:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, the US guided-missile destroyers USS Ross and USS Porter launched a total of 59 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles. This being the age of the internet, you can watch the missiles being launched (at a cost of $1.41 million a pop) in a series of YouTube videos kindly supplied by the Pentagon.

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For his part, the teleprompter-in-chief handled his ceremonial role perfectly, intoning all the usual poliltical blather that we have come to expect from the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Trump puppets. To wit: “Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike blah de blah de blah vital national security interest of the United States da dee doo dee dum no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons etc., etc., I call on all civilized nations to join us yadda yadda.”

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--However frayed US/Russian relations have become in this age of “Cold War 2.0,” they just got a hell of a lot worse.

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In fact, it was only one week ago that everything seemed to be going in the exact opposite direction. John McCain was furious with Rex Tillerson for daring to suggest that the Syrian people should decide what happens with Assad. ISIS was on the run and the “rebels” (read: terrorist insurgency) seemed all but broken. Peace talks were about to put the final nail in the coffin of the six year-long quest to topple the Syrian government…

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…and now this. So what happened? Well, we have two stories to choose from.

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The warmongers’ story is that Assad, being the most insane and suicidal leader in the history of the world, decided to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and gas some of his own citizens just as the world was contemplating leaving him alone.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

I guess this is where I'm supposed to say "I told you so" to the Trump supporters who truly believed  that Trump wouldn't serve "the Network." Instead, I'd rather just welcome them back to our harsh reality (so we can get on with the work that the "Trump-Train" temporarily disrupted). 

April 02, 2017

Source: Joe Plummer

One of the biggest problems we face, as sane and moral human beings, is that insane and immoral human beings have been engineering society on a massive scale for more than 100 years. There are a few key “instruments” that these engineers rely on, but one of their most powerful is the so-called “Federal Reserve System.” With this single instrument, our rulers create money out of thin air, and then purchase whatever they need to expand and project their power.

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Now that Trump is in office, some believe that he will attempt to overhaul the FED for the good of us all. I’m not very optimistic about that, but the mere suggestion by a sitting president that our Federal Reserve System causes harm is definitely a step in the right direction. It opens the door for further discussion; it provides us an opportunity to educate people about the nefarious origin and true purpose of the FED…that’s a task I’ve been working on for about 12 years now. 

March 24, 2017

Source: Dan Carlin

Murderous millennial preachers and prophets take over the German city of Munster after Martin Luther unleashes a Pandora's Box of religious anarchy with the Protestant Reformation.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 

This podcast is about 4 hours long, so you might need to break it up into a few different listening sessions. I think it's worth the investment; a very disturbing story that, unfortunately, highlights many "human" characteristics that are still with us today. 

March 14, 2017

Source: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

In August of 2016, a former employee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began looking into the reports his agency had released years earlier on the collapse of the World Trade Center. What he found shook him to the core.

In this poignant half-hour interview, Peter Michael Ketcham tells his story of discovering that the organization where he had worked for 14 years had deliberately suppressed the truth about the most pivotal event of the 21st century. 

Through his willingness to look openly at what he failed to see in front of him for 15 years, Mr. Ketcham inspires us to believe that we can all muster the courage to confront the truth — and, in so doing, finally heal the wounds of 9/11.
 

JOE'S COMMENT:

Shout out to John Massaria and Richard Grove; they did a great job filming this interview. Anyone interested in 9/11 truth should check it out.

March 09, 2017

Source: Quincy Larson

A few months ago I wrote about how you can encrypt your entire life in less than an hour. Well, all the security in the world can’t save you if someone has physical possession of your phone or laptop, and can intimidate you into giving up your password. And a few weeks ago, that’s precisely what happened to a US citizen returning home from abroad.

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--We’re going to discuss the legality of all of this, and what likely happened during that 30 minutes where Bikkannavar’s phone was unlocked and outside of his possession. But before we do, take a moment to think about all the apps you have on your phone. Email? Facebook? Dropbox? Your browser? Signal? The history of everything you’ve ever done — everything you’ve ever searched, and everything you’ve ever said to anyone — is right there in those apps.

March 03, 2017

Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report

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February 18, 2017

Source: Newsbud

Newsbud presents major new revelations by former FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds.

Edmonds, known as the most classified and gagged person in US history, takes on the US Congress and the culprit media in one of the most significant and longest ongoing political/criminal cover-ups involving the FBI, a notorious political mob in Chicago, a well-known elected official and her convicted criminal spouse. Further, she renews her public call for joint testimony under oath before the US Congress. Do not miss this in-depth exposé shedding light on just how notoriously corrupt criminals are given immunity and untouchable status, not only by the US government, but also by the Deep-State collaborators- the US media.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 

This is one hell of a story, told from the perspective of a person who was "inside the system." Well worth listening to. 

February 17, 2017

Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report

We are joined by special guest Phil Giraldi, a career intelligence officer, to take a look at the bizarre standoff between President Trump and the US intelligence community.

February 10, 2017

Source: Corbett Report

Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

One of the most important takeaways from this short video is when James addresses "the politics of division" at around 2:30. His summary of the underlying message is perfect: "Hate your neighbor, not your rulers."

Sites like Infowars.com once warned their viewers about the "false left/right paradigm," but today they push that paradigm even harder than the so-called mainstream media. They once warned their viewers about government-created Muslim hysteria (used to expand government power, justify wars of aggression, and drive the masses back into the arms of big brother). Today, they enthusiastically perpetuate that hysteria and (by extension), the pretexts that they once exposed. At this point, they've become an instrument of the system. 

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For this reason, it's a good idea to periodically remind ourselves of the divide-and-conquer tactics employed by our rulers. James does so in the video above, and here's a general summary that I wrote back in November: 

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Divide people into groups. Make them fear and hate the other side so much that they become psychologically incapable of critiquing the actions of their own group's "leaders." That's the trick. From that point forward, right and wrong becomes a matter of "who did it" instead of "what was done." The left will ignore the transgressions of the left, the right will ignore the transgressions of the right, and the ruling class (playing one side off the other) will continue business as usual. Divide and rule...unfortunately, the shit still works.

February 08, 2017

Source: Mercola.com

--Radiologists attacked me for stating mammograms were oversold; dieticians attacked me for criticizing the horrible government dietary recommendations — especially about the ridiculous advice about healthy fats.

Chemical corporations have threatened me for expressing dangers about PFOA's, shills have publicly attacked me for sounding the alarm about pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and the devastation GMOs are causing on this planet.

Public health officials have attacked me for showing how clearly water fluoridation issues are misguided, and for speaking out against the bizarre practice of using mercury for dental fillings.

The junk food industry has been equally unpleasant, as my cautionary advice to avoid aspartame and other junk food additives have proven equally correct over time.

But the list of my vindications goes on and on, so I know it's just a matter of time before the weight of the evidence finally drowns out the naysayers.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 
This is a long article that covers a lot of ground. One of the most important points covered is how "relative-risk" statistics can be used (instead of "absolute-risk" statistics), to generate fear.

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In short: If I tell you that using a tanning bed increases your risk of melanoma by 50 percent (relative risk) it sounds very scary. However, if I tell you that 2 people out of 1,000 will get melanoma if they do not use a tanning bed, and 3 people out of 1,000 will get melanoma if they do (absolute risk), you'll get a far more accurate idea of the actual risk. You can then balance that additional risk (1 out of 1,000) against the known benefits of healthy UV exposure and / or the proven risks of vitamin D deficiency.   

February 06, 2017

Source: Richard Grove / Joe Plummer

Joe Plummer, author of Tragedy and Hope 101, joins us to discuss how  to take a manuscript and publish it on amazon in both kindle and  hardcopy formats.

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JOE'S COMMENT

Richard Grove over at TragedyAndHope.com invited me on his show to say a few words about self publishing. I put together a brief outline for the interview (posted at the link above), with hope that we could cover all the basics in about 45 minutes.

Unfortunately, the interview ended up going 2 hours! So, if you're short on time, check out the outline. It'll only take a few minutes to go over and will hopefully answer a lot of your questions. If you'd like to watch the 2-hour video, that's posted too.

February 04, 2017

Source: Corbett Report

With promises to "drain the swamp!" still ringing in our ears, we have watched Trump appoint nothing but Goldman banksters, Soros stooges, neocon war hawks and police state zealots to head his cabinet. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we examine the swamp-dwellers with which Trump has filled his swamp.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 

I watched this earlier today and felt it was spot on. As my readers already know, I feared that the "anti-establishment / anti-big government" movement could be swayed back into the arms of big brother under a Trump presidency. Easy to predict and seems to be unfolding. Paraphrasing a private message to a friend: 

"If Hillary would have gotten in and started talking about "Federalizing the Police," their heads would have exploded. If she chose a vice president that said he wanted to "govern like Dick Cheney," as she consulted Henry Kissinger on "foreign policy," they would have been screaming bloody murder. If she chose "advisors / cabinet members" from Goldman Sachs, (like Mnuchin) who wants to increase IRS power and protect the FED'S "independence," and a CIA director who is OK with Torture (and a deputy director who apparently oversaw torture directly), they would have blown a gasket. ...But, because they're 100% emotionally invested in Trump, they're nearly incapable of intellectual consistency at this point. (Basic human psychology.)"

January 26, 2017

Source: The Organic Prepper

--When you read this information, you have to realize that it’s very unlikely that you and your family would live through a grid failure of a year or more unless you are proactive and develop a preparedness plan that takes all of these causes of death into consideration.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

A nice / basic list of things that, if taken care of, will dramatically improve your odds of making it through a "shit-hits-the-fan" scenario. .

January 25, 2017

Source: The Blaze

--Paul strongly disagrees with the incoming CIA director on both government surveillance and torture.

When it comes to torture, the Kentucky senator wrote that the U.S. “let fear get the better of our responsibility to liberty” following the attacks on 9/11.

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“Many of our military leaders, including incoming Sec. of Defense James Mattis, have acknowledged that waterboarding is torture, is ineffective, and sends a signal to our enemies that it is justified to torture U.S. soldiers when they are captured,” Paul wrote.

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Paul also called the intel community’s collection of metadata “an incredible invasion of privacy in some ways more intrusive than the English soldiers that invaded American households to search for any untaxed papers.”

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“The existence of the database itself is a violation of our right to privacy,” he later added. “Our intelligence community needs more oversight, not less.”

January 22, 2017

Source: Tenth Amendment Center

Using examples from pre-revolutionary times through today, learn what kind of strategy should be used to stop the feds. Watch all 11 videos for free. 

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JOE'S COMMENT: 

This excellent series of short videos outline the importance and power of nullification. If you find the information above useful, please support the Tenth Amendment Center at: www.TenthAmendmentCenter.com 

January 19, 2017

Source: RT

German journalist and editor Udo Ulfkotte says he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name, adding that noncompliance ran the risk of being fired. Ulfkotte made the revelations during interviews with RT and Russia Insider.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

This man is no longer with us. Fortunately, he recorded this video a couple years before his death. If you haven't already figured it out, this will shine some light on the extent of "Mainstream Media" manipulation.

January 17, 2017

Source: James Corbett

It may seem like a hopeless situation. Caught between the rock of our increasingly technological lives and the hard place of total tracking, surveillance and control, it's easy to simply throw in the towel and resign ourselves to the boot stamping on the human face forever.

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But as bleak as things seem in the short term, I'm equally convinced that in the long term we are going to see a world of uncontrollable, un-censorable, irrepressible technological innovation, a world where decentralized, peer-to-peer communities of interest are the norm and the idea of centralized surveillance control grids are a thing of the past.

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Believe it or not, there are already people working on the forerunners to this world of decentralized, peer-to-peer freedom solutions. The technocrats would obviously prefer you not know about them. So today let's examine a few of these technologies and what they're helping to achieve.

January 04, 2017

Source: YouTube

The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same. Republicans won the white house. Republicans control the senate. Republicans control the house. And what will the first order of business be for the new Republican majority? To pass a budget that never balances. To pass a budget that will add $9.7 trillion of new debt over ten years. Is that really what we campaigned on? -- Campaigned on? Is that really what the Republican party represents?

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JOE'S COMMENT: 

Only one senator standing up to state the obvious...

Wouldn't it be great to know what percentage of federal spending is completely unnecessary? ...What percentage is wasteful, fraudulent, or actually counterproductive and damaging to everyone except those who hand out (or receive) the money? Rand covers just a few examples, starting at about 10:35 in.

December 31, 2016

Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report

--More war, less liberty .... More war, less liberty .... If it happens over an administration or two, it can be spun as government losing its way to a few bad apples. But 100+ years of more war, less liberty? That's a system! If you have a fixation or desire to dominate others (and lots of people do), such a system seems almost too good to be true.

December 27, 2016

Source: Ben Swann

Reality Check: DEA Absolutely Wrong In Making CBD Oil Schedule 1 Drug, Why the Agency is Harming Tens of Thousands of Families and Doesn't Even Have The Authority To Do So.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Could they make it any more obvious who these agencies actually serve?

December 20, 2016

Source: Cornucopia Institute

--The acute toxicity of glyphosate is relatively low, meaning that accidentally ingesting it will likely not cause immediate harm. Chronic toxicity—the effects of continually ingesting glyphosate residues in food—is cause for concern. Glyphosate interferes with fundamental biochemical reactions and may predispose humans to obesity, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other health problems.

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It’s easy to overlook these effects. Toxicity studies on laboratory animals are typically short term, often only a few months. The harm from low-level, chronic exposure can only be seen after a long period of time, often years, or even decades. The real guinea pigs in this case are humans.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 
My diet is essentially 100 percent organic; organic eggs, chicken, beef, butter / ghee, broccoli, blueberries, cashews, peanut butter, pecan butter, bread, corn, potatoes, condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayo), etc. Eating organic is the easiest way to avoid glyphosate and GMO. Yes, it's more expensive, but (assuming it's worth it to you), you can do it by cutting spending elsewhere. If you can't go 100 percent, consider swapping out some of the staples in your diet and, at the very least, avoid non-organic corn and soy or products that contain them.

December 19, 2016

Source: The Free Thought Project

A former employee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has stepped forward and criticized the government agency for ignoring the scientific errors found in its report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) during the September 11, 2001, attacks. Peter Ketcham, who spent almost fifteen years working at NIST, described how the flawed investigation methods were significantly different from the normal standards used by NIST, in a letter to the editor of the respected Europhysics News magazine. Ketcham’s letter was published in the November 2016 issue and comes just months after the magazine’s August 2016 report examining the Building 7 collapse in detail, which has been downloaded over 350,000 times according to the website.
 

December 08, 2016

Source: Tom Woods

Venezuelan socialism has had an interesting and perhaps unexpected side effect: it's given a shot in the arm to Bitcoin, the nonstate currency and payment system. 

December 03, 2016

Source: Joe Plummer

I found some very inexpensive fluoride filters at Amazon. The Amazon product page said that they reduced fluoride by more than 85 percent. When I tested them, they didn't reduce fluoride at all. Click the headline to watch the video.  

November 28, 2016

Source: Sibel Edmonds / Newsbud

In this edition of Newsbud Spotlight Sibel & Spiro cover the recent email scandal of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Manager John Podesta and compare it to other high profile cases throughout recent history. Newsbud also examines the devious tactics of mainstream and pseudo alternative media and offers you a solution, Newsbud.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Excellent quote at about 9 minutes in: "The people that you obey (the people who are passing laws that you obey / you operate under), they are criminals. They are selected BECAUSE they are criminals; that's how it goes..."

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November 20, 2016

Ray McGovern

--There is little doubt that the champagne was flowing on Friday at CIA headquarters, from the seventh-floor executive offices down to the bowels of that building where torture practitioners have been shielded from accountability for 15 years in what amounts to the CIA’s internal “witness protection” program.

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Indeed, relief over the Pompeo appointment came in the nick of time. For one fleeting moment earlier in the week, there was some panic at the hint that the International Criminal Court might show more courage than President Barack Obama in bringing torture perpetrators to justice.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 

This is an excellent article by former CIA analyst, Ray McGovern. Well worth reading. 

November 15, 2016

Ron Paul Liberty Report

When Trump supporters chanted "Drain The Swamp," one naturally comes to the conclusion that they were looking for a change. They wanted Trump to dismiss the failed ideas and political players who espoused them. This makes Donald Trump's selection of James Woolsey as a Senior Advisor on National Security look like a very curious move.

A few months ago The Intercept did a profile on Woolsey. Here are some key excerpts:

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Woolsey, who left the CIA in 1995, went on to become one of Washington’s most outspoken promoters of U.S. war in Iraq and the Middle East.

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Aren't these the wars that Trump campaigned against?

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Woolsey, by contrast, was a key member of the Project for the New American Century — a neoconservative think tank largely founded to encourage a second war with Iraq. Woolsey signed a letter in 1998 calling on Clinton to depose Saddam Hussein and only hours after the 9/11 attacks appeared on CNN and blamed the attacks on Iraq. Woolsey has continued to insist on such a connection despite the complete lack of evidence to support his argument. He also blames Iran.

Weeks before the invasion of Iraq, Woolsey called for broader war in the Middle East, saying “World War IV” was already underway.

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For a thorough look at the workings of the Project for the New American Century, please watch the incredible documentary by Robbie Martin titled A Very Heavy Agenda.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 
How long will it take before Trump supporters realize they've been had? The article above summarizes the situation perfectly: "If Americans wanted neocon advisors, they would have elected Hillary Clinton!" 

November 11, 2016

Source: Ron Paul Institute

--Trump’s rumored consideration of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Sen. Bob Corker (Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee), and former diplomat and neo-conservative John Bolton for Secretary of State point in the direction of continuing the standard Republican hawkish foreign policy of George W. Bush—about which Trump complained in the campaign and which the American people resoundingly rejected in the election.

November 04, 2016

Source: LewRockwell.com

--The business source, although unsympathetic to the Clinton machine, especially in foreign policy, is a realpolitik practitioner, not a conspiracy theorist. He is adamant that, “the FBI reversal could not have happened without orders above the President. If the Masters [of the Universe] have changed their mind, then they will destroy Hillary.”

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He adds, “they can make a deal with Donald just like anyone else; Donald wins; the Masters win; the people think that their voice has been heard. And then there will be some sort of (controlled) change.”

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What’s paramount in the whole soap opera is the faith in the US political system — as corrupt as it may be — must endure. That mirrors the faith in the US dollar; if confidence in the US dollar fails, the US as a hegemonic financial power is no more.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 
Just a few days ago, I wrote the following to a friend: 

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I truly believe that Clinton's "selection" will do more damage to this corrupt system than a Trump presidency. In fact, my biggest fear of a Trump presidency is that it will act as a release valve...people will feel as if they "won." They will disengage and turn a blind eye to Trump's transgressions; and Trump himself will only be permitted to transgress. That is: Trump will only be encouraged (and permitted) to pursue policies that strengthen "the Network." If he becomes too much trouble, a "Syrian terrorist" will be standing by to hand the presidency to Pence and the other Neocon "advisors" that Trump seems determined to surround himself with. 

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In short, the millions and millions of people that are responding to Trump's anti-establishment rhetoric are a GENUINE threat to "the Network." If Clinton is handed the presidency, this huge segment of the electorate will be infuriated. Every day that she holds power, their resentment will deepen. They will organize, their numbers will grow, and they will commit themselves to destroying the rigged game that handed power to a criminal. It's counter intuitive, but I believe that those of us seeking to destroy this corrupt system will actually benefit from a Clinton presidency. That said, I also believe that some of the real power brokers have started to realize this too; it seems as if there is division among the ranks. Well, guess what? We benefit from that too. 

As much as I don't support Trump on issues like torture, Snowden, federal power, etc., I have to admit that he's done some damage to those we're up against. At this point, it won't surprise me a bit if they're forced to throw Hillary under the bus and "let Trump in." I just hope his supporters don't go back to sleep if that happens. 
 

October 25, 2016

Source: Zero Aggression Project

1. What is crime?

Crime is the initiation of force or fraud against others.

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2. What is government?

Government, properly understood, has one primary function — to use force defensively to fight criminals, foreign or domestic.

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3. What is The State?

The State is an institution that commits crimes (initiates force) under the guise of providing governance. As such, The State is the opposite of government. Therefore, to be pro-government you must be anti-state.

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4. What is a statist?

A statist is a person who advocates statism (see the next question).

October 19, 2016

Source: Project Veritas Action

A shady coordinated communications chain between the DNC, Clinton Campaign, Hillary Clinton’s Super PAC (Priorities) and other organizations are revealed. A key Clinton operative is on camera saying, “It doesn’t matter what the friggin’ legal and ethics people say, we need to win this motherfucker."

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JOE'S COMMENT:

This is exactly the type of organized / provocateur-directed manipulation that most people would dismiss as "conspiracy theory." This was just uploaded a couple days ago, it already has almost 5 million views...it's worth watching.

October 17, 2016

Source: Huffington Post

There’s no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex. The idea that she is bad on the corporate issues but good on national security has it wrong. Her so-called foreign policy “experience” has been to support every war demanded by the US deep security state run by the military and the CIA.

JOE'S COMMENT: 
My readers shouldn't take this to mean that I endorse Donald Trump (I won't endorse a man/woman who wants to legalize torture, kill whistleblowers like Snowden, federalize the police, etc.). That said, Hillary is literally THE spokeswoman for "the Network" and its connected interests. This article, appearing on Huffington Post, has the potential to reach some of those who are using Hillary as a vote "against" Trump. Those voters need to ask themselves if she has really earned their endorsement.

October 15, 2016

Source: FFF.org

--The Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers: to serve as Commander in Chief of the military, grant pardons, make treaties (with the approval of Congress), appoint ambassadors and federal judges (again with Congress’ blessing), and veto legislation.

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In recent years, however, American presidents have anointed themselves with the power to wage war, unilaterally kill Americans, torture prisoners, strip citizens of their rights, arrest and detain citizens indefinitely, carry out warrantless spying on Americans, and erect their own secretive, shadow government.

These are the powers that will be inherited by the next heir to the throne, and it won’t make a difference whether it’s a President Trump or a President Clinton occupying the Oval Office.

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The powers amassed by each successive president through the negligence of Congress and the courts—powers which add up to a toolbox of terror for an imperial ruler—empower whomever occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator, above the law and beyond any real accountability.

October 13, 2016

Source: John Massaria

JOE'S COMMENT

Do you "love your country" but hate the government's policies? If so, this 30-minute film is for you (watch it for free at the link below.) There will be two more parts, so if you like what you see, please consider donating to help finish the project.

October 09, 2016

Source: Motherboard.vice.com

In the view of its critics, PubPeer enables an unchecked stream of accusations with no accountability. But to its supporters, PubPeer is maybe the only consistently effective way to expose fraud and error in the current scientific system. It exists at a time of quiet crisis for science and science journals, when the community is concerned about an inability to replicate past results—the so-called “reproducibility crisis”—and the number of papers retracted is on the rise. The traditional system of peer review seems unable to address these problems.

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“We started it because we wanted more detailed arguments about science, and we were really shocked at how many fundamental problems there are with papers, involving very questionable research practices and rather obvious misconduct,” said Brandon Stell, a neuroscientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the creator of PubPeer.

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There’s certainly no denying its effect. According to Retraction Watch, a blog that monitors scientific corrections, errors, and fraud, at least three high-profile scientists in the past few months have had their studies retracted by journals after their data was questioned by anonymous commenters on PubPeer.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 
The masses have been led to believe that "peer-reviewed science" is beyond reproach. This dangerous dogma needs to die, and I applaud the efforts of those who are trying to kill it. Here is another excellent article on the topic: 

"--THOUGH SCIENTISTS AND science journalists are constantly talking up the value of the peer-review process, researchers admit among themselves that biased, erroneous, and even blatantly fraudulent studies easily slip through it.Nature, the grande dame of science journals, stated in a 2006 editorial, “Scientists understand that peer review per se provides only a minimal assurance of quality, and that the public conception of peer review as a stamp of authentication is far from the truth.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/308269/

October 03, 2016

Source: Kennedy

--"Neither mentioned the primacy of the individual over the state and neither spoke about the guarantees of liberty in the Bill of Rights. Both believe in a government that can right and wrong, regulate any behavior, and tax any event...who really wants to make a choice between to proponents of monster government, bigger than it is now?"

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JOE'S COMMENT:
Excellent commentary. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it anywhere except on Facebook. Looks like she originally posted this to her timeline on September 30th, 2016. 

October 01, 2016

Source: Larken Rose

--If a guy showed up at your front door and asked you to choose between being punched in the face or kicked in the groin, would you proudly “participate in the process”? Would you think he was “representing” you as he inflicted upon you whichever act of violence you chose? Would you feel empowered and in charge while casting your vote? Would you tell your neighbor, “Hey, if you don’t choose between being punched in the face or kicked in the crotch, then you have no right to complain about the outcome!”? Would you pontificate about how this is what makes your neighborhood great—because you have a “choice”? Would you opine that, “The system isn’t perfect, but it’s the best there is!”?

September 29, 2016

Source: RT

--“Yes, the US supports the opposition [in Syria], but not directly. They support the countries that support us. But we are not yet satisfied with this support,” Jabhat al-Nusra unit commander Abu Al Ezz said in an interview with Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper from the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo.

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According to the commander, the militants should be receiving more “sophisticated weapons” from their backers to succeed against the Syrian government. 

--He also said that when Jabhat Al-Nusra was “besieged, we had officers from Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel and America here… Experts in the use of satellites, rockets, reconnaissance and thermal security cameras.”
 

The journalist asked specifically if the US instructors were really present among the jihadists’ ranks and Al Ezz replied: “The Americans are on our side.”

JOE'S COMMENT: 
I don't doubt for a second that the claim is true (that the US is supporting Al-Nusra in its fight against Assad), but I'm not exactly sure why this commander would be so open about it; not sure what he hopes to gain by exposing his CIA / Pentagon allies.

September 22, 2016

Source: Corbett Report

We all know by now that the real terrorists (the politicians in the suits and ties and the banksters that pull their strings) are waging their war of terror on multiple fronts for multiple reasons.

Domestically, it rallies the population around the flag, keeping the flock in check. At the same time it justifies the build up of the police state control grid to catch the thought criminals who resist.

It also writes a blank check for the illegal wars of aggression abroad. Simply place your terrorist boogeyman in the square of the chessboard you're looking to occupy and -- hey presto! -- you've got yourself an excuse to invade. (Even if you "accidentally" end up supporting them, right Uncle Sam?)

September 22, 2016

IndieGoGo

A book and film project designed to educate you about the non-elected ruling class.
 

JOE'S COMMENT
Richard Grove has created a ton of great content...if you're one of the few people that are willing to reach into your pocket and support this kind of work, give his new project a look. ( I hope to see him double his $5K goal. Not only does he deserve it, he'll put the money to good use.)

September 17, 2016

Source: Zero Hedge

--It appears Richard M. Lobo’s wife, Caren Lobo, donated $716,000 to DNC. Obama then nominated Richard Lobo for Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau.

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Pamela Hamamoto paid DNC $605,000 then became the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva.

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Jane Hartley paid DNC $605,000 and then was nominated by Obama to serve concurrently as the U.S. Ambassador to the French Republic and the Principality of Monaco.

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Crystal Nix-Hines paid DNC $600,000 and then was nominated by President Obama to the position of United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization with the rank of Ambassador.

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September 17, 2016

--Newly unearthed documents prove the sugar industry conspired with Harvard researchers to downplay the role of sugar in heart disease and refocus the popular conversation in the 1960s and 1970s on fat content in food, according to researchers at the University of California San Francisco.

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--The study led government agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to structure dietary guidelines based on reducing fat and carbohydrates in the average diet, but leaving sugar relatively untouched.

Research in recent years, however, has shown sugar added to foods and beverages contributes to the development of heart disease and related conditions.

September 14, 2016

• The Bush White House pushed back against any independent investigation into 9/11.

• Once the White House agreed to an independent investigation, it provided abudget of $3 million, or 27% of the amount requested by 9/11 Commission co-chairs, Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton.

•  Indian intelligence, corroborated by the FBI, showed a wire transfer of $100,000 from the phone of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Mahmud Ahmad to 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in 2000. Ahmad (also reported as Ahmed) wasin Washington D.C. on the morning of the attacks, meeting with US lawmakers.

• The $100,000 transaction was never mentioned in the 9/11 Commission report — and Ahmad was never detained for questioning.

• The money trail was never followed to its logical conclusion. The 9/11 Commission concluded the question of who funded the attacks “was of little practical significance.”

September 11, 2016

Source: James Corbett

--9/11 is a blank check for the sociopaths to further the technocratic control grid and to wage war in whichever square of the chessboard they place their terrorist boogeymen. And there is only one way to cancel that check: 9/11 truth.

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--Most people have erected a mental barrier to 9/11 truth. Here’s a sledgehammer with which to smash that barrier:

September 07, 2016

Source: James Corbett

JOE'S COMMENT
This is another excellent effort by James Corbett. As of this posting, there are three short videos. If you're short on time, I recommend watching the one about Philip Zelikow.

If you believe this work is important, please subscribe to Corbett Report for as little as $1 per month. http://www.corbettreport.com/members/

September 02, 2016

Source: Joe Plummer

Taking a serious look at government wrongdoing is no easy task. Not because the damning evidence is hard to find, but because the truth (once found) is very hard to swallow. How does one reconcile the fact that we are being led into slavery (and to slaughter) by a group of pathological liars who, ironically, have been appointed to "protect us?"

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JOE'S COMMENT: 
I can't prove it, but I firmly believe they're going to fail. They're up against countervailing forces that they haven't accounted for and cannot overcome...forces that are inherent in consciousness. They might be able to reduce awareness and the desire to resist in "x" number of people, but "awareness and a desire to resist" will only emerge that much stronger in others.

August 28, 2016

Source: YouTube

Mississippi firefighter Patrick Hardison's life changed in 2001 when the roof of a burning house collapsed on him. For 14 years, he battled pain, stares and a loss of hope -- until he got a face transplant in August of 2015. Dr. Jon LaPook spoke with Hardison about how his life has changed since then.

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JOE'S COMMENT: 

Wow...amazing.

August 23, 2016

Source: James Corbett

--Unsurprisingly, Philippines Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. was quick to walk those comments back this week. At a press briefing Monday morning Yasay passed the comments off as off-the-cuff remarks by a president who was "tired, disappointed and frustrated and angry" and assured the world that the Philippines was not withdrawing from the UN.

But let's imagine for a moment Duterte wasn't joking. What would happen? How could the Philippines leave the UN?

The surprising answer is they can't. No one can. There are no provisions in the United Nation's charter for the voluntary withdrawal of any member state. In other words, the UN is just like the Hotel California: "You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave."

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August 20, 2016

Source: Larken Rose

--I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but thugs and sociopaths don’t care about being good. They’re not trying to be nice to their fellow man. As a result, they don’t feel any moral obligation to "obey the law." It is only people who are trying to be good who make an effort to respect and obey authority, and that’s only because they’ve been misled into thinking that subservience to "government" makes them a good person.

And that brings us to the most dangerous, destructive aspect of statism. It doesn’t take long for crooks and psychopaths to figure out that, if decent people think it’s virtuous to submit to political "authority," then all the crooks and psychopaths have to do is BECOME that political "authority," and they are set for life. Acquire a position of political power, call your thievery "taxation," call your thuggery "law," call disobedience to you "crime," and your victims will feel morally obligated to be victimized. They will take pride in being robbed and abused, and will even help you (the evil bastard) to enslave and oppress others, condemning any who resist tyranny as criminals, rebels and terrorists.

That is the true evil of the belief in "authority," and it can be seen throughout most of human history.

August 20, 2016

Source: Natural News

--I think airline passengers should be outraged to know that poisonous chemicals are now being sprayed on planes regularly – DURING the flight, while travelers are inside the plane, This is true – the United States government is actually pushing this agenda of poisoning passengers.

You can't make this stuff up: Check out this disturbing video – does this look right to you? 

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JOE'S COMMENT:

"...travelers are advised to check with their travel agent or airline reservations agent when booking flights or if they have questions about their final destination’s policy. Listed below are representatives of airlines who are knowledgeable on disinsection requirements."

http://www.transportation.gov/office-policy/aviation-policy/aircraft-disinsection-requirements

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August 20, 2016

Source: Zero Hedge

--As we've discussed on several occasions, low interest rates have created a number of distorted incentive structures that render typical market signals useless. Perpetually declining interest rates have forced pensions to indiscriminately buy the long end of the the government bond curve in a desperate attempt to match asset duration with their liabilities (see our post "Pension Duration Dilemma - Why Pension Funds Are Driving The Biggest Bond Bubble In History"). Meanwhile equity markets continue to soar to all-time highs, despite lackluster or declining earnings (see "The S&P Is Now Set To Report Its Second Consecutive Annual Earnings Drop Since The Financial Crisis"), on the premise that low-single-digit earnings yields are somehow adequate compensation for equity risk...an assumption they base on the low yields of the completely manipulated long-end of the curve. The circularity of the many arguments is truly mind numbing.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Linked in the article above and also worth reading: 

"We've frequently discussed the many problems faced by pension funds. Public and private pension funds around the globe are massively underfunded yet they continue to pay out current claims in full despite insufficient funding to cover future liabilities...also referred to as a ponzi scheme. In fact, we recently noted that the Central States Pension Fund pays out $3.46 in pension funds for every $1 it receives from employers (see our post entitled "407,000 Workers Stunned As Pension Fund Proposes 60% Cuts, Treasury Says "Not Enough"")."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-14/pension-duration
 

August 20, 2016

Source: YouTube

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Here is a good / short article with some additional information: 
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/roger-stone/isis-made-usa/

August 17, 2016

Source: Joe Plummer

Apparently, somebody at Wikipedia felt the article was "too anti-American" and wasn't needed because readers could find similar information elsewhere. So, they basically destroyed it; deleting dozens of documented US interventions and over 150 references.That's OK. I had a backup copy. 

JOE'S COMMENT:

Hope you're backing stuff up too...

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August 13, 2016

Source: YouTube

Julian Assange seems to suggest on a Dutch television program that Seth Rich was the source for the Wikileaks-exposed DNC emails and was murdered.  

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Here's some more info on recent deaths:
https://youtu.be/xb_N02-vh8M

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August 12, 2016

Source: Joe Plummer

Over the past 100 years, the Network has worked very hard to monopolize our money, media, medicine, manufacturing, education, energy, agriculture, and government. But all of this top-down centralized power is currently under attack. It’s being destroyed; not by armies, but by innovation.

As of now, the most obvious and widespread example of this monopoly-destroying power is the internet. Although the Network can still use its legacy-media empire to spread lies, the internet has dramatically cut the lifecycle of those lies. Also thanks to the internet, the Network has lost its ability to stop whistleblowers, hackers, and ordinary citizens from exposing its crimes. (Before, it could simply refuse to distribute the evidence against it. Today, we can distribute the evidence ourselves; we can reach around the world instantly, at nearly zero cost.) In all of human history, rulers have never faced a threat of this magnitude, and it’s only just beginning.  

JOE'S COMMENT:

Is it possible to summarize the importance of disruptive technologies in just 500 words? I’ve given it my best shot above. I’m going to add this text to the end of Chapter 5 of Tragedy and Hope 101. You’re getting the first look at it.

August 11, 2016

Source: UnityOfThePolis

On March 23rd, 1975 an article appeared in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine entitled “The Professor Who Knew Too Much” and subtitled “Borrowing a few crucial pages from his book, the ultra-right made a scholar an unwilling hero.” [1]

The purpose of the article appears to have been to highlight the controversy surrounding the esteemed Professor of History at Georgetown University, Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) following the release, suppression, and pirating of his magnum opus “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” published in 1966 and exhaustively researched and written in the 20 years between 1945-1965.  

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JOE'S COMMENT:

If you're not ready to read Tragedy and Hope 101 (let alone Tragedy and Hope), check out the article above...it highlights the significance of Quigley and his work.

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August 06, 2016

Source: DavidStockmansContraCorner.com

--If the economy responds, then increased economic activity and the side-effects of QE encourage a withdrawal of the stimulus. Higher interest rates slow the economy and trigger financial crises, setting off a new round of the cycle.

If the economy does not respond or external shocks occur, then there is pressure for additional stimuli, as policymakers seek to maintain control. All the while, debt levels continue to increase, making the position ever more intractable as the Japanese experience illustrates.

Economist Ludwig von Mises was pessimistic on the denouement. “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion,” he wrote. “The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” 

August 06, 2016

Source: Wired.com

--At the Black Hat security conference later this week, automotive cybersecurity researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek will present a new arsenal of attacks against the same 2014 Jeep Cherokee they hacked in 2015. Last year, they remotely hacked into the car and paralyzed it on highway I-64—while I was driving in traffic. They were even able disable the car’s brakes at low speeds. By sending carefully crafted messages on the vehicle’s internal network known as a CAN bus, they’re now able to pull off even more dangerous, unprecedented tricks like causing unintended acceleration and slamming on the car’s brakes or turning the vehicle’s steering wheel at any speed. “Imagine last year if instead of cutting the transmission on the highway, we’d turned the wheel 180 degrees,” says Chris Valasek. I can imagine. But he spells it out anyway. “You wouldn’t be on the phone with us. You’d be dead.” 

August 03, 2016

Source: LewRockwell.com

--So the question remains, and is more pertinent now than ever before: How can we truly believe we are living in a “democracy” when presidents don’t even have enough power to significantly change anything?

Are we really free? Or have we been conditioned to believe we are? Corporations and mainstream media have us glued to our TV screens, searching for answers, searching for promises that can never be kept. Living as the puppets we are, we’ve become distracted from the truth, our attention diverted to what we want to hear as opposed to what we need to hear

July 30, 2016

Source: Corbett Report

Since the failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15th, the name of exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen is on everyone's lips. So who is Fethullah Gulen? Well, that depends who you ask...  

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Do you appreciate the time and effort that goes into creating reports like this? James is creating very valuable FREE content. I hope you'll consider supporting him here: https://www.corbettreport.com/members/

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July 25, 2016

Source: Steve-Patterson.com

--At the time, I thought I was entering a new realm, filled with academic elite. I expected intellectual camaraderie with students and rigorous debates with professors. Ideas would be passionately challenged and defended. It was a romantic vision. And it was horribly wrong.

Instead, I found a realm of lazy students and disinterested professors. My peers were far more interested in partying than ideas, and their vision of academic success was to allot maximum time to socializing while still passing class. They accomplished this by mastering the fine art of academic regurgitation.

What is academic regurgitation, you ask? Simple: write what the professor wants to hear and how he wants to hear it. You don’t have to ideologically agree with the professor; rather, there’s a standard format for communicating that you’ve done the homework and read the assignments. It doesn’t matter if you understand the material, nor does it take much intellectual effort. Of course, communicating you’ve done the homework is quite different from actually doing the homework.

July 24, 2016

Source: Bloomberg.com

--The agency instructed the operators of mobile and online news services to dismantle “current-affairs news” operations on Friday, after earlier calling a halt to such activity at Tencent, according to people familiar with the situation. Like its peers, Asia’s largest internet company had developed a news operation and grown its team. Henceforth, they and other services can only carry reports provided by government-controlled print or online media, the people said, asking not to be identified because the issue is politically sensitive.

July 24, 2016

Source: Nestmann.com

--The IRS encouraged taxpayers to participate in the program by emphasizing the much heavier penalties for non-compliance. Yet, the IRS also claimed that under no circumstances would a taxpayer entering the OVDP be required to pay a penalty greater than would be required under existing statutes.

These claims turned out to be big fat fibs.

In the report, the TAS described how taxpayers with only minor reporting violations and who owed no delinquent tax were herded into the 2009 OVDP. But once enrolled, the penalties were much heavier than they would have otherwise been subjected to..

July 23, 2016

Source: TheIntercept

--Tayyip Erdogan places the blame for this weekend’s failed coup attempt on an Islamic preacher and one-time ally, Fethullah Gulen (above), who now resides in Pennsylvania with a green card. Erdogan is demanding the U.S. extradite Gulen, citing prior extraditions by the Turkish government of terror suspects demanded by the U.S.: “Now we’re saying deliver this guy who’s on our terrorist list to us.” Erdogan has been requesting Gulen’s extradition from the U.S. for at least two years, on the ground that he has been subverting the Turkish government while harbored by the U.S. Thus far, the U.S. is refusing, with Secretary of State John Kerry demanding of Turkey: “Give us the evidence, show us the evidence. We need a solid legal foundation that meets the standard of extradition.”

In light of the presence on U.S. soil of someone the Turkish government regards as a “terrorist” and a direct threat to its national security, would Turkey be justified in dispatching a weaponized drone over Pennsylvania to find and kill Gulen if the U.S. continues to refuse to turn him over, or sending covert operatives to kidnap him? That was the question posed yesterday by Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor of Guantánamo’s military commissions who resigned in protest over the use of torture-obtained evidence:

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JOE'S COMMENT:

This is an excellent / short article by Glenn Greenwald. 

By the way, Fethullah Gulen is the man who controls a multi-billion dollar charter school operation. He's the "terrorist" that Sibel Edmonds mentions in the video below.

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July 21, 2016

Source: Wired

--You might think you can achieve the same effect by simply turning your iPhone off with its power button, or placing it in a Faraday bag designed to block all radio signals. But Faraday bags can still leak radio information, Huang says, and clever malware can make an iPhone appear to be switched off when it’s not, as Snowden warned in an NBC interview in 2014. Regardless, Huang says their intention was to allow reporters to reliably disable a phone’s radio signals while still using the device’s other functions, like taking notes and photographs or recording audio and video.

July 19, 2016

Source: Boiling Frogs

Sibel Edmonds is joined by James Corbett and Spiro Skouras to discuss the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey. We touch-upon facts and elements that are currently being systematically blacked out by the establishment media, and analyze the main actors and agendas involved. 

From the CIA and Operation Gladio B to Mullah Gulen’s $20+ Billion shady network in the United States, and the media’s role in implementing the deep state’s psychological warfare tactics, we leave no stone unturned! Don’t miss this daring and bold discussion, and please help us put out the word by sharing the link to this video.  

July 16, 2016

Source: TheAtlantic.com

--Let’s presume that at some future time we have all the technological pieces in place. When you’re close to death we scan your details and fire up your simulation. Something wakes up with the same memories and personality as you. It finds itself in a familiar world. The rendering is not perfect, but it’s pretty good. Odors probably don’t work quite the same. The fine-grained details are missing. You live in a simulated New York City with crowds of fellow dead people but no rats or dirt. Or maybe you live in a rural setting where the grass feels like Astroturf. Or you live on the beach in the sun, and every year an upgrade makes the ocean spray seem a little less fake. There’s no disease. No aging. No injury. No death unless the operating system crashes. You can interact with the world of the living the same way you do now, on a smart phone or by email. You stay in touch with living friends and family, follow the latest elections, watch the summer blockbusters. Maybe you still have a job in the real world as a lecturer or a board director or a comedy writer. It’s like you’ve gone to another universe but still have contact with the old one.

But is it you? Did you cheat death, or merely replace yourself with a creepy copy? 

July 14, 2016

Source: Corbett Report

As the Problem-Reaction-Solution (Nice edition) plays out as expected, it is time to remind ourselves: The government is not your daddy and it will not protect you from the boogeyman. The government creates the boogeyman to scare you. Giving more power to the government in the wake of every tragedy only incentivizes them to terrorize you further. 

July 13, 2016

Source: Corbett Report

--Firstly, the app requires an excessive amount of permissions on a user’s device, including the ability to read your contacts, find accounts on your device, and access your camera. The app even requires full access to a user’s Google account, which it can then use to read your emails, send emails from your account, browse your Google Drive documents and photos, etc. But apparently that’s just “a mistake” and will be “corrected soon.”

Secondly, the game’s privacy policy contains such gems as: “We may disclose any information about you (or your authorized child) that is in our possession or control to government or law enforcement officials or private parties.” What could go wrong?

But wait, it gets worse!

pokemonciaThe maker of the app? Niantic Labs. Never heard of them? That’s because until last year they were an internal start-up of none other than Google, the NSA-linked Big Brother company. Even now Google remains one of Niantic’s major backers. Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who also founded Keyhole, Inc., the mapping company which was created with seed money from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, and which was eventually rolled into Google Maps.

So yes, the Pokémon game currently taking the internet by storm (and scooping up all their data, including activities, movements and communications) was created by a CIA-linked businessman who gestated his company at Google.

Feeling safe yet?

As it turns out, the big, bad Big Brother Spies of the NSA and the DHS and the CIA don’t really need their Patriot Act powers, after all. All the powers-that-shouldn’t-be need to do is create a fun, shiny trinket for the people to play with and they will literally pay for their own surveillance.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Pretty clever, huh?

July 09, 2016

Source: CNN

JOE'S COMMENT:

This was actually entertaining to watch. Amanpour does everything she can to smear her guest and other Brexit supporters, but only manages to make herself look ridiculous.

July 09, 2016

The dangers of glyphosate (Roundup) in our food supply are clear and present. Why are industry and government not acting as they should? Just as was the case in the 1950s with DDT and tobacco, we are on the brink of disastrous damage to health worldwide.

July 06, 2016

Source: CorbettReport.com

Dr. Robert Verkerk is the Executive and Scientific Director of the Alliance for Natural Health. Today we discuss his recent article, "UK Royal Society whitewash on GM crops," which breaks down the Royal Society's recent report on the safety of genetically modified foods. From false assurances of consensus to exclusion of key issues like glyphosates and superweeds, we show how the latest report is a whitewash and discuss why the Royal Society is promoting the biotech industry. 

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Also, regarding the claim that GMO's are needed to "feed the world," this article points out some facts that most people are unaware of:

"Emily Cassidy, an (EWG) research analyst who authored the report, found that in the last 20 years, yields of both GE corn and soy have been no different from traditionally bred corn and soy grown in western Europe, where GE crops are banned. Additionally, a recent case study in Africa found that crops that were crossbred for drought tolerance using traditional techniques improved yields 30 percent more than GE varieties, she wrote.

"The report also said that in the two decades that GE crops have been a mainstay in conventional agriculture, they "have not substantially improved global food security" and have instead increased the use of toxic herbicides and led to herbicide-resistant "superweeds." (FYI: superweeds have spread to more than 60 million acres of U.S. farmland, wreaking environmental and economic havoc along the way).

"She pointed out that while corn and soybeans take up the vast majority (about 80 percent) of global land devoted to growing GE crops, they are not even used to feed people but instead as animal feed or fuel."

http://www.ecowatch.com/gmos-will-not-feed-the-world-new-report-concludes-1882023777.html

July 05, 2016

Source: Paul Joseph Watson

Guess how leftists, millennials and 'Black Lives Matter' morons decided to celebrate the 4th of July?

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JOE'S COMMENT:

My thoughts: 

If I was a psychotic social engineer, working hard to destroy "America," I would love this video. Why? Because this is part of their divide-and-conquer paradigm...get people hysterically upset about an "enemy" (liberal, terrorist, etc.), and use that hysteria to drive the target population back into supporting the real enemy. 

In short: While we're herded into our "us-VS-them" box, and as we're enjoying our sense of moral and intellectual superiority, the sociopaths that are using government to enslave us are safe. They can rest assured that "Left and Right" will both have a new target for their outrage. (And both will instinctively seek "government representatives" that promise to contain the threat.) 

This process only perpetuates / empowers the corrupt system. People become apologists for the crimes advocated and committed by "their side" because they believe "their side" is trying to protect them. Sure, some of the puppets might have good intentions, but "the experts / social engineers" are using those puppets to serve other ends.

July 04, 2016

Source: John Massaria

Who profits from never-ending war? How do we all pay the price? Here is an excellent 30-minute documentary on the topic. If you like it, please consider kicking in a few bucks so the film maker can turn it into a full-length film.

July 02, 2016

Source: LewRockwell.com

--The attacks have been so pervasive in the post- Civil War era that to most Americans today the mere mention of the phrase “states’ rights” is quickly dismissed and censored with the word “Neo-Confederate,” with the implication that whomever used that forbidden phrase must certainly have some sort of evil and diabolical purpose in mind. Nothing the Soviet propaganda machine did was ever so effective at censoring opposition to centralized power.

The recent issue of the “Brexit” vote demonstrated that the European Union, like the Soviet Union and the American union, sought (and seeks) a monopoly of political power. And the object of monopoly in any field, Chodorov warned, is “to compel the customer to accept the services of the monopolist on his own terms.” The more monopolistic and centralized government becomes, the more it can dictate to its subjects and treat them like tax slaves.

--The principles of peaceful secession (or threats thereof) and nullification are the essence of self -determination. They are the ultimate expressions of “the consent of the governed” from which all just powers of government are derived, as Jefferson eloquently stated in the Declaration of Independence. The original American union was a voluntary union, not a coerced union held together by threats of mass murder and the destruction of entire cities. That was the Soviet Union. That was Nazi Germany. It was also the British empire from which the American colonists seceded.

July 02, 2016

Source: YouTube.com

China has gamified being an obedient citizen with the creation of Sesame Credit. The game links to your social network and gives you a score for doing things that the government approves of, but it also reduces that score for doing things the government disapproves of. Even your friends' scores affect your own, and being friends with people who have a low score will drag your score down as well. This insidious system applies social pressure on people to ostracize their friends with lower scores, either forcing those friends to change their ways or effectively quarantining their rebellious ideas. 
 

JOE'S COMMENT:

BBC claims that the company has denied gathering data via social media...sure. "Brave New World" indeed. 

Using the current Chinese model outlined above, the enthusiastic supporters of Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot (etc.), would have received the greatest amount of "social credit" in their respective tyrannies. 

Maybe we should create a similar game; one that uses adherence to the non-aggression principle (the opposite of blind obedience to the state), as the basis for determining your "social credit" score.

June 29, 2016

Source: WarIsBoring.com

--If you’ve noticed that the national security policies of Pres. Barack Obama’s administration are almost indistinguishable from those of the previous Republican administration and wondered why, Glennon has a “disquieting explanation” for you.

There are two governments — a double government — operating today in the realm of national security. There’s the one the voting public thinks they control when they go to the polls — what Glennon refers to as the “Madisonian institutions.” Congress, the courts and the presidency.

And there’s the “Trumanite network,” the labyrinthine national security apparatus that encompasses the military, intelligence and law enforcement communities that Pres. Harry Truman created when he signed the National Security Act of 1947.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

For more about the "Trumanite" network mentioned above (funded by Rockefeller, conceived and created by the CFR during the War and Peace Studies), check out www.TragedyAndHope.INFO.

June 28, 2016

Source: ScienceDaily.com

The absence of a one specific species of gut bacteria causes social deficits in mice, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine report June 16, 2016 in Cell. By adding this bacteria species back to the guts of affected mice, the researchers were able to reverse some of their behavioral deficits, which are reminiscent of symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in humans. The investigators are now looking to explore the effects of probiotics on neurodevelopmental disorders in future work.

June 28, 2016

Source: CorbettReport.com

Well, that didn’t take long.

The graphite was hardly dry on the Brexit ballots when TVP Info, a Polish broadcaster, leaked a 9-page document drawn up by the German and French foreign ministers calling for an EU superstate complete with an EU army, integrated border controls and common taxation. The German foreign minister discussed the plans — which are being described as “an ultimatum” — with his counterparts in the Visegrad Group of countries (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) this week.

The document, bearing the Orwellian title of “A strong Europe in a world of uncertainties,” lays out the exact tyrannical plans that the EU’s critics have been warning about for years. After identifying key areas of uncertainty and concern affecting Europe — from spreading [false flag] terrorism to [manipulated] cultural tensions to [engineered] economic hardships — the document proposes three new areas for expanded EU cooperation: 

June 26, 2016

Source: DailyMail.co.uk

Just one in 50 victims of America’s deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists – while the rest are innocent civilians, a new report claimed today.

The authoritative joint study, by Stanford and New York Universities, concludes that men, women and children are being terrorised by the operations ’24 hours-a-day’.

JOE'S COMMENT:

At what ratio (civilians killed VS terrorists killed), do the adjectives "precise" and "surgical" become a blatant lie? 

January 01, 2020

Source: JoePlummer.com

Here is a recent interview I did regarding our fraudulent monetary system. If you're interested, you can read the book for free at my website.

June 23, 2016

Source: GlobalResearch.ca

Various options exist, including supporting Thursday’s outcome, ignoring it, or “re-negotiating another deal and put(ting) that to another referendum” – repeating the process “until voters eventually vote the ‘right’ way,” what’s best for monied interests, not them. 

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Brexit: Assuming it actually happens, I'm really not sure how the NWO can spin this to their advantage. There's probably an angle somewhere, but other than creating total chaos (and using that chaos to create yet another supranational structure), I don't see how they benefit.

...That said, if the NWO can create enough financial chaos and suffering NOW, they might not have to worry. According to the article above, the vote isn't binding. In other words, they've still got plenty of time to "persuade" the politicians (and the public) to reconsider.

June 16, 2016

Source: RonPaulInstitute.org

In a move that the New York Times reports is nearly unprecedented, some 51 mid-level State Department employees have signed a letter calling for the Obama Administration to begin bombing the Assad government in Syria immediately. 

Demonstrating the reality that the "soft power" of diplomacy is in fact just a front for the "hard power" of bombs, these "diplomats" demanded the administration immediately initiate:

"[A] judicious use of stand-off and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed US-led diplomatic process."

Yes, to these supposed trained "diplomats," the "diplomatic process" consists of making final demands after the military has bombed your opponent to hell.

June 15, 2016

Source: WashingtonPost.com

1. In Chicago earlier this year, an Uber driver with a concealed-carry permit “shot and wounded a gunman [Everardo Custodio] who opened fire on a crowd of people.”

2. In a Philadelphia barber shop earlier this year, Warren Edwards “opened fire on customers and barbers” after an argument. Another man with a concealed-carry permit then shot the shooter; of course it’s impossible to tell whether the shooter would have kept killing if he hadn’t been stopped, but a police captain was quoted as saying that, “I guess he [the man who shot the shooter] saved a lot of people in there.”

3. In a hospital near Philadelphia, in 2014, Richard Plotts shot and killed the psychiatric caseworker with whom he was meeting, and shot and wounded his psychiatrist, Lee Silverman. Silverman shot back, and took down Plotts. While again it’s not certain whether Plotts would have killed other people, Delaware County D.A. Jack Whelan stated that, “If the doctor did not have a firearm, (and) the doctor did not utilize the firearm, he’d be dead today, and I believe that other people in that facility would also be dead”; Yeadon Police Chief Donald Molineux similar said that he “believe[d] the doctor saved lives.” Plotts was still carrying 39 unspent rounds when he was arrested. 

June 14, 2016

Source: ArtOfManliness.com

--Here’s the good news: survival knowledge weighs nothing.

This is true for those who practice and study survival and preparedness skills on a regular basis. But for those who don’t, access to that survival knowledge only has to weigh about 1 pound – the weight of an Amazon Kindle. I’m not at all suggesting that the practice and study of survival skills should or can be replaced by ebooks. However, an entire survival library of information at your fingertips just may be the one survival tool in your Bug Out Bag that saves your life.

June 13, 2016

Source: ActivistPost.com

--Indeed, the FBI has had a long history in creating, organizing and facilitating terrorist attacks in order to bust them at the last minute and claim credit for stopping terror attacks. The FBI also has a long history of investigating, monitoring and interviewing suspects of high-profile terrorist attacks before those attacks were committed but doing nothing about them.

As Tony Cartalucci writes in his article, "US Law Enforcement Knew Florida Shooter BEFORE Shooting,”

'A terror suspect armed to the teeth storming a public place and killing scores is actually a very familiar script. The FBI wrote several such scripts in 2015 alone, including entrapping and arresting a mentally-ill suspect after providing him with an arsenal of deadly weapons almost identical to the arsenal recently employed in Florida.'

Interestingly enough, in the Ciccolo incident that Cartalucci refers to above, the plan which was fed to Ciccolo involved attacking bars, a target that was actually realized in Orlando. Of course, there will be many who will argue that the FBI, while entrapping unintelligent suspects, would never actually let the drill go live it is important to remember the 1993 World Trade Center bombing where that is precisely what the FBI did.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

This is what it boils down to for me: 

Do the "intelligence services" have the ability to organize these types of psychological warfare operations? (Yes.) Have they done so in other countries? (Yes.) Were the operations effective; did they yield the desired political results? (Yes.) 

Take it a step further: Have the "intelligence services" conspired to use psychological warfare against the citizens and government of the United States? (Yes.) Do the intelligence services regularly "create" and then "disrupt" terror plots, under the guise of "conducting sting operations?" (Yes.) Does this provide them cover; essentially a blank check to cultivate terrorism? (Yes.) 

Now we're getting somewhere...In order to nudge politicians and the public in a certain direction, could the intelligence services periodically "drop the ball" on one of their manufactured terror plots? (Yes.) Would it be wise to consider this possibility; to look for FBI and CIA connections whenever a politically useful event occurs? (Yes.) Last but not least: Is there any logical reason NOT to suspect the intelligence services? (No.) 

“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple…to force these people…to turn to the State to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the State cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened.”—Vincenzo Vinciguerra, Gladio-linked terrorist

June 10, 2016

Source: TheAtlantic.com

--To get funding and tenured positions, and often merely to stay afloat, researchers have to get their work published in well-regarded journals, where rejection rates can climb above 90 percent. Not surprisingly, the studies that tend to make the grade are those with eye-catching findings.

--Researchers can sometimes win attention by refuting a prominent finding, which can help to at least raise doubts about results, but in general it is far more rewarding to add a new insight or exciting-sounding twist to existing research than to retest its basic premises—after all, simply re-proving someone else’s results is unlikely to get you published, and attempting to undermine the work of respected colleagues can have ugly professional repercussions.

--[ Ioannidis] zoomed in on 49 of the most highly regarded research findings in medicine over the previous 13 years, as judged by the science community’s two standard measures: the papers had appeared in the journals most widely cited in research articles, and the 49 articles themselves were the most widely cited articles in these journals. These were articles that helped lead to the widespread popularity of treatments such as the use of hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women, vitamin E to reduce the risk of heart disease, coronary stents to ward off heart attacks, and daily low-dose aspirin to control blood pressure and prevent heart attacks and strokes. Ioannidis was putting his contentions to the test not against run-of-the-mill research, or even merely well-accepted research, but against the absolute tip of the research pyramid. Of the 49 articles, 45 claimed to have uncovered effective interventions. Thirty-four of these claims had been retested, and 14 of these, or 41 percent, had been convincingly shown to be wrong or significantly exaggerated. If between a third and a half of the most acclaimed research in medicine was proving untrustworthy, the scope and impact of the problem were undeniable.

--Though scientists and science journalists are constantly talking up the value of the peer-review process, researchers admit among themselves that biased, erroneous, and even blatantly fraudulent studies easily slip through it. Nature, the grande dame of science journals, stated in a 2006 editorial, “Scientists understand that peer review per se provides only a minimal assurance of quality, and that the public conception of peer review as a stamp of authentication is far from the truth.”

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Like Pavlov's dogs, the masses have been conditioned to believe in the infallibility of the scientific community. Widely reported "findings" are taken as the gospel, challenges are taken as heresy. Like any other dogma, the purpose is to manipulate beliefs and frustrate scientific inquiry. "Science" is, ironically, becoming the newest faith-based system of control.

June 09, 2016

Source: DownsizeDC.org

Back in November, 2011, we told the world -- we told YOU -- that the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) contained a provision (section 1021) that allows the federal state to detain Americans indefinitely, without due process. Congressional leaders repeatedly denied our claim. But guess what...

We were right. They were wrong. 

Key Congressional leaders, such as Dianne Feinstein, now admit this. Admitting you were wrong is commendable. Some of them, such as Mike Lee, Rand Paul and even Feinstein, are trying to do something about it. Specifically, Senator Mike Lee has crafted an amendment for the current NDAA to deal with this problem...

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Downsize DC makes it easy for you to contact your "representatives." Here is the message I sent today: 

The Founders never said "Give us safety at any cost."

Indefinite detention violates the core principles on which this country was founded. To think that "government" can simply revoke a person's rights FOREVER by labeling them a "terrorist" (without presenting evidence, without giving the accused an opportunity to defend themselves), is absurd.

Prior to receiving "due process," a citizen is merely an ACCUSED criminal. (Thief, rapist, murderer or terrorist…the crime that an individual is accused of does not alter the process by which guilt is determined.) Any attempt to circumvent due process is dangerous and illegitimate. Please honor your sworn oath to "support and defend" the Constitution of this country. Repeal the detainee provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (Sections 1021 & 1022).

June 09, 2016

Source: TheGuardian.com

It’s great for everyone that these high-level talks between policymakers and the heads of transnational oil companies get to take place in heavily guarded privacy, with no press oversight whatsoever. Especially great if you’re on the board of BP. Like, for example, Sir John Sawers. As well as being a director of BP, the silken, Blairish former MI6 boss is a member of Bilderberg’s steering committee, and the chairman of Macro Advisory Partners, a global advisory group with heavy links to the transatlantic intelligence community, very much in the style of Kissinger Associates.

And speak of the devil! The ageless 93-year-old former US secretary of state will be holding court at Dresden, croaking out his wisdom from the throne of bones he has shipped everywhere he goes. You just can’t keep a bad man down. Henry Kissinger still meets with George Osborne to advise the chancellor on geopolitics, and recently had a much publicised meeting with Donald Trump. I would say I’d like to have been a fly on the wall of that room, but I fear Kissinger’s tongue would have had me off the wall in seconds.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Like the CFR, like the Trilateral Commission, like the RIIA, the "Bilderberg Group" is yet another creation of the elite "Network" that Quigley exposed in Tragedy and Hope and the Anglo-American Establishment. 

After more than half a century, these annual policy-setting meetings are still largely ignored by the mainstream media. The good news? The blackout reveals what a completely controlled farce the mainstream media is. (They continue to serve up a never-ending supply of "national-news" distractions to keep the masses blissfully unaware..)

June 06, 2016

Source: WeAreChange.org

What if a company that you thought you could trust, knowingly sold you a medicine for your child that they knew had the potential to give your child HIV? How would you react? What if a government agency that claims the responsibility for protecting you from such treachery, not only looked the other way, but was complicit in this exchange?

Everyone has heard of Bayer aspirin, it is a household name. Bayer AG also manufactures numerous other products, from pesticides to medicine for hemophiliacs called Factor 8.

JOE'S COMMENT:

Joe Scarborough did a show on this many years ago; the video of that show is included with the article above.

In 1984 Bayer became aware that several batches of this Factor 8 contained HIV. They knew this because there was an outbreak of HIV among hemophiliac children, and this outbreak was traced back to Bayer. Unable to sell their Factor 8 in the US, Bayer, with the FDA’s permission, (yes that’s right, the FDA allowed Bayer to potentially kill thousands) sold this HIV infected medicine to Argentina, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore after February 1984, according to the documents obtained by the NY Times. 

June 06, 2016

Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report

Muhammad Ali's refusal to be drafted for the Vietnam War was said by some to be his greatest, self-imposed, defeat. With the passage of time -- and so many more wars -- history may tell a very different story. What was the impact of Ali's stance on the war?

May 05, 2016

Source: JoePlummer.com

JOE'S COMMENT:

I recently signed a German-language publishing deal for "Tragedy and Hope 101." I'm really happy about that, but there is a downside, and that is: I won't be able to post the German-language version for free online. So, from here forward, I'm going to try to crowdfund new translations, beginning with a Spanish version. A free Spanish version will make the information available to about 400 million more people.

If you're interested in being a part of this project check out the 3-minute video at the link above. If you're not interested, but know somebody who would be, please share the link. Anyone can choose to donate anonymously (only I will see your name) and any amount is appreciated. Thanks!

June 04, 2016

Source: InfoWars.com

Approximately 7:50 in: 

Let me, first of all, break it down. This film is about MMR and autism, that does not mean that other vaccines are safe or other vaccine components are not linked to autism. This is based upon the information provided to us by the whistleblower, so it is based exclusively on facts. He gave us the analysis plans, he gave us the data outputs, he gave us the meeting notes, he gave us the internal correspondence, showing that the knowledge of this went right to the very top of the CDC. It went to Julie Gerberding herself who then, of course, went on to become head of vaccines at Merck...so, they knew about it, they all knew about it, this was a huge crime. 

So let me now break down the levels of the crime they committed...what did they do in terms of fraud? First of all, they changed the analysis plan...In science, you set out a protocol: "This is what we'll do, this is how we'll analyize the data, and we will stick to it." You do not change that plan when you find an effect that you do not like, and that is what they did. Then they decided to omit data, and they ommitted data specifically on the very high risk in African American children, African American boys in particular, and in children...(all races)...who were developmentally normal to age 12 months...They then decided that they had to destroy the documents in order to get rid of that effect...The value of Thompson as a whistleblower is, as he says in the movie itself, "I will not give you anything that cannot be supported by the facts."

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JOE'S COMMENT:

I haven't seen Vaxxed, but my position on this issue hasn't changed: 

Many people see the CDC as a final arbiter of truth; a "gold standard" of scientific integrity. The idea that a tiny group of individuals within the CDC could (and would) manipulate "the truth" seems ridiculous to the average citizen, and that's why this story is so important. It goes beyond the issue of vaccines. It highlights how easily "the gospel," intended for mass consumption and reiteration, can be fabricated. It highlights the danger of believing that others can be trusted to do your reasoning for you.

May 31, 2016

Source: Sputniknews.com

"They [the NSA] don’t care what they do, they feel that they have the right to do anything that they feel necessary, and they will cover up crimes and procedures and violations of regulations that they’ve done to achieve whatever their ends are," Binney tells Loud & Clear host Brian Becker.

A former high-ranking official within the NSA, Binney and two other officials led an effort to have the agency investigated for wasting millions of dollars on a data-analysis program known as Trailblazer in 2002.

Rather than treat Binney’s complaint as legitimate, the Defense Department Inspector General’s office violated protocol by conspiring with the FBI to punish Binney and his cohorts.

"They attempted to prosecute all of us," he says. "They fabricated evidence…They attempted three times to indict us."

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Excellent interview. If you're short on time, at least listen to the first 10 minutes...provides great insight into the extent of lawlessness "at the top," and how the lawbreakers deal with whistleblowers.

May 28, 2016

Source: YouTube.com

VICE founder Shane Smith heads to Moscow to meet the man who started the conversation about surveillance, Edward Snowden

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JOE'S COMMENT:

As usual, the "I've-got-nothing-to-hide" people are commenting on the video. One example: 

"I don't even get why people care about this, if the government wants to see my porn, GO AHEAD. My bank account? you'll laugh! and probably chip in!" 

My Reply: 

If you live a politically meaningless life, you probably don't have much to worry about. At least not at this stage. (The government is happy to see you with your pants around your ankles looking at porn...you pose no threat to illegitimate power). 

However, if you actually care about murder for profit (unnecessary / illegal wars), violations of basic human and privacy rights; if you resist things like multi-trillion dollar banker bailouts, mandatory vaccinations, and other corporate-drafted policies that are enforced in the name of "government;"well then, that's a different story. 

History proves that a handful of dedicated people can effect change; they can raise awareness and disrupt inherently criminal systems. Problem is, the ruling-class criminals who profit from those systems don't like to be disrupted. Therefore, in the interest of self preservation, it makes sense to frustrate their power grabs whenever possible. 

Google "Tragedy and Hope 101" if you feel the term "ruling-class criminals" is an exaggeration. (You can read the book for free online.)

May 28, 2016

Source: TheDailyBell.com

--Yahoo’s Katie Couric has just released an anti-gun documentary with a manufactured pause that mocks pro-gun interviewees. This is one of those stories that the mainstream media cannot ignore.

It provides us with further evidence that those who wish to propagandize audiences need to be careful about how they do it. If biases are not revealed, the Internet may expose them.

The perspective of the documentary is not surprising, but its clumsiness has likely undermined its effectiveness.

May 25, 2016

Source: TheFreeThoughtProject.com

"…I’m working on something else. Harvey Weinstein and I are working on doing a documentary, but I don’t what to talk much about it, because when I talk about it, something happens. But that’s what we plan to try to do."  

May 23, 2016

Source: RT

Abby Martin takes a look at the real reason why hemp was made illegal in the US, the truth might surprise you.

May 22, 2016

Source: GregPalast.com

--Joseph Stiglitz was Chief Economist of the World Bank. To a great extent, the new world economic order was his theory come to life.

I "debriefed" Stigltiz over several days, at Cambridge University, in a London hotel and finally in Washington in April 2001 during the big confab of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

--There's an Assistance Strategy for every poorer nation, designed, says the World Bank, after careful in-country investigation. But according to insider Stiglitz, the Bank's staff 'investigation' consists of close inspection of a nation's 5-star hotels. It concludes with the Bank staff meeting some begging, busted finance minister who is handed a 'restructuring agreement' pre-drafted for his 'voluntary' signature (I have a selection of these).

Each nation's economy is individually analyzed, then, says Stiglitz, the Bank hands every minister the same exact four-step program.

Step One is Privatization - which Stiglitz said could more accurately be called, 'Briberization.' Rather than object to the sell-offs of state industries, he said national leaders - using the World Bank's demands to silence local critics - happily flogged their electricity and water companies. "You could see their eyes widen" at the prospect of 10% commissions paid to Swiss bank accounts for simply shaving a few billion off the sale price of national assets.

May 21, 2016

Source: NYpost.com

Ronald Reagan was severely criticized in 1989 when, after he left office, he was paid $2 million for a couple of speeches in Japan. “The founding fathers would have been stunned that an occupant of the highest office in this land turned it into bucks,” sniffed a Columbia professor.

So what would Washington and Jefferson make of Hillary Rodham Clinton? Mandatory financial disclosures released this month show that, in just the two years from April 2013 to March 2015, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state collected $21,667,000 in “speaking fees,” not to mention the cool $5 mil she corralled as an advance for her 2014 flop book, “Hard Choices.” 

May 18, 2016

Source: YouTube.com

Dr. Peter Rost is a former vice president of marketing at Pfizer and a whistleblower of the pharmaceutical industry. Author of "The Whistleblower, Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman," Rost is an insider expert on big pharma marketing.

May 16, 2016

Source: Bloomberg.com

In a major vindication for Edward Snowden -- and a blow for the national security policy pursued by Republicans and Democrats alike -- the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the National Security Agency’s metadata collection program is unlawful. This is the most serious blow to date for the legacy of the USA Patriot Act and the surveillance overreach that followed 9/11.

The central question depended on the meaning of the word "relevant": Was the government's collection relevant to an investigation when it collects all the metadata for any phone call made to or from anywhere in the U.S.?

The court said no. That was the right decision -- not so much because it protects privacy, as because it broke the bad precedent of secret law created by the NSA and endorsed by the secret national security court known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

May 14, 2016

Source: DavidStockmansContraCorner.com

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May 10, 2016

Source: JoePlummer.com

--Based on the information contained in Tragedy and Hope 101, I suppose it's understandable why I haven't paid much attention to this election cycle. That said, I had originally heard a few things about Trump that I found encouraging, and watching "the Establishment" attack him earned a few brownie points. I even thought: "What would happen if Trump chose Ron Paul as his running mate; wouldn't that be something?"

Considering what I've recently learned about Trump, it seems pretty unlikely that he'd ever consider a man like Ron Paul as VP. It's equally unlikely that Ron Paul would accept the offer. One thing is for sure: There is no way I would endorse (let alone vote for) Trump. I've seen too many of his type during my research over the years...they're unfit for power.

May 10, 2016

Source: DailyMail.co.uk

--Despite spending more than $10 million on public outreach in Iraq last year, the U.S. government appears to have made little headway in dispelling such rumors. 

An unscientific survey by the State Department of Iraqi residents last year found that 40 percent believe that U.S. policy is working to 'destabilize Iraq and control its natural resources,' and a third believe America 'supports terrorism in general and (IS) specifically.'

Skepticism about U.S. motives is deeply rooted in Iraq, where many still blame the chaos after the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein on American malice rather than incompetence.

May 07, 2016

Source: TenthAmendmentCenter.com

--Whether it’s blocking federal gun control, rejecting mass surveillance, ending asset forfeiture, or even bringing down the Federal Reserve, the focus should be on individuals and states, not federal courts and federal elections.

This is just what Thomas Jefferson advised as well. In response to powers “which have not been delegated,” he told us that nullification is the “rightful remedy.”  

May 05, 2016

Source: Paul Craig Roberts

--Greenpeace secured and leaked the secret TTIP documents that Washington and global corporations are pushing on Europe. The official documents prove that my description of these “partnerships” when they first appeared in the news is totally correct.

These so-called “free trade agreements” are not trade agreements. The purpose of the “partnerships,” which were drafted by global corporations, is to make corporations immune to the laws of sovereign countries in which they do business. Any country’s sovereign law whether social, environmental, food safety, labor protections—any law or regulation—that impacts a corporation’s profits is labeled a “restraint on trade.” The “partnerships” permit corporations to file a suit that overturns the law or regulation and also awards the corporation damages paid by the taxpayers of the country that tried to protect its environment or the safety of its food and workers.

The law suit is not heard in the courts of the country or in any court. It is heard in a corporate tribunal in which corporations serve as judge, jury, and prosecutor. 

JOE'S COMMENT:

Here, Paul Craig Roberts debates Sean O’Grady on the issue: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qCqflqIN2s 

May 01, 2016

Source: Antiwar.com

--The “European Movement,” which was and still is the “grassroots” organization that relentlessly pushed for the creation of a European super-state, was financed to the tune of $1 million a year by the “American Committee for a United Europe” (ACUE), which was founded by Allen Dulles, who was at that point chairing a committee tasked with looking at how to organize the nascent CIA, and William “Wild Bill” Donovan, who had been head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA. 

-- Covert US financial support to the European federalist movement never amounted to “less than half” of the various groups’ budgets. The money was funneled through the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other private conduits. The head of the Ford Foundation was Paul Hoffman, a former OSS official who played a major leadership role in the ACUE.

-- Globalism is the name of the game for our deracinated elites, and nationalism – of any kind, including the American variety – is the enemy. That’s why we’re seeing both the Obama administration and the ostensibly “Conservative” Party leadership of the British state undertake a combined assault against Euro-skepticism and the threat of “xenophobia.” If you don’t want to see your country absorbed into the Euro-Borg, then you’re a “racist,” a right-wing extremist, and a hate-criminal to boot. 

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JOE'S COMMENT:

And of course the CIA was created by Allen Dulles during the CFR-directed "War and Peace Studies." ...and who created the CFR? That would be "the Network" (identified by Quigley), which set out to bring “all the habitable portions of the world under their control.” It's all pretty simple when you know the history.

If you're new to this site and want more info on "the history," here's a short / free book: www.TragedyAndHope.INFO

April 29, 2016

Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report

The peddlers of fear clean up while the rest of us pay the bill. How do they do it? Today's special guest is American Conservative Magazine Contributing Editor Kelley Vlahos. 

April 29, 2016

Source: Virginia.edu

It’s a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching: researchers at the School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.

--“I just said one sentence: ‘They’ll have to rewrite the textbooks.’ There has never been a lymphatic system for the central nervous system, and it was very clear from that first singular observation — and they’ve done many studies since then to bolster the finding — that it will fundamentally change the way people look at the central nervous system’s relationship with the immune system,” Lee said.

--The unexpected presence of the lymphatic vessels raises a tremendous number of questions that now need answers, both about the workings of the brain and the diseases that plague it. For example, take Alzheimer’s disease. “In Alzheimer’s, there are accumulations of big protein chunks in the brain,” Kipnis said. “We think they may be accumulating in the brain because they’re not being efficiently removed by these vessels.” He noted that the vessels look different with age, so the role they play in aging is another avenue to explore. And there’s an enormous array of other neurological diseases, from autism to multiple sclerosis, that must be reconsidered in light of the presence of something science insisted did not exist.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

So think about that for a minute...all the way up until the 21st century, this connection was completely unknown to science (and, along with it, all of the potential implications regarding its effect on our health). 

If the relatively simple (and ancient) process of mapping the human body can still reveal unexpected structures, imagine what might still be unknown about the FAR MORE complex synergistic effects of mass vaccinating a young / developing immune system. Those who suggest that the "science is settled" on this issue are being ridiculous.

April 29, 2016

Source: CorbettReport.com

--If you’re watching the newswires closely enough, you’ll start to notice a pattern:

Kyrgyzstan has just stripped USAID of its special privileges in their country.

And Russia has just officially declared the National Endowment for Democracy to be an undesirable NGO in the territory of Russia.

And China has just introduced a Foreign NGO Management Law that will require overseas NGOs to register with the government and have their activities more closely monitored.

And in 2013, Bolivia kicked USAID out of the country with Ecuador following suit later the same year.

And earlier this year the Indian government added the Ford Foundation to a security watch list and will hold all payments from the fund for approval before disbursements are made.

What on earth is going on? Why are all of these countries (including 3 of the 5 BRICS members and other countries in 2D geopolitical conflict with the US) kicking out all of these US-based nongovernmental and quasi-governmental entities? Why would they be opposed to charity and aid? 

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JOE'S COMMENT:

The above is excerpted from the Corbett Report's membership area. 

James is doing a LOT of great work. Please consider becoming a member today. (You get to choose the subscription price; it can be as little as $1 per month.) This is a truly excellent resource. 

https://www.corbettreport.com/members/

April 27, 2016

Source: WashingtonPost.com

--The “spiral of silence” is a well-researched phenomenon in which people suppress unpopular opinions to fit in and avoid social isolation. It has been looked at in the context of social media and the echo-chamber effect, in which we tailor our opinions to fit the online activity of our Facebook and Twitter friends. But this study adds a new layer by explicitly examining how government surveillance affects self-censorship. 

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 JOE'S COMMENT:

So, if the Network (representing a tiny minority), can create the illusion of "majority opinion," it can manipulate the REAL majority into remaining silent. (This, of course, reinforces the illusion and perpetuates the "spiral of silence.") Pretty clever, huh?

April 27, 2016

Source: YouTube.com

Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone, who brought Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK to the big screen, tackles the most important and fascinating true story of the 21st century. Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, reveals the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others. No matter which you believe, the epic story of why he did it, who he left behind, and how he pulled it off makes for one of the most compelling films of the year. 

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JOE'S COMMENT:

The clip was posted about a day ago and already has 2.2 million views...good to see so much interest.

April 27, 2016

Source: TheIntercept.com

“As a result of the Snowden revelations, the onset of commercial encryption has accelerated by seven years,” James Clapper said during a breakfast for journalists hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

The shortened timeline has had “a profound effect on our ability to collect, particularly against terrorists,” he said.

When pressed by The Intercept to explain his figure, Clapper said it came from the National Security Agency. “The projected growth maturation and installation of commercially available encryption — what they had forecasted for seven years ahead, three years ago, was accelerated to now, because of the revelation of the leaks.”

Asked if that was a good thing, leading to better protection for American consumers from the arms race of hackers constantly trying to penetrate software worldwide, Clapper answered no.

“From our standpoint, it’s not … it’s not a good thing,” he said.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

I suppose it's only appropriate that this event was hosted by one of the "Establishment-" controlled media outlets identified by Carroll Quigley: 

"The American branch of this “English Establishment” exerted much of its influence through five American newspapers (The New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, and the lamented Boston Evening Transcript). In fact, the editor of the Christian Science Monitor was the chief American correspondent (anonymously)…It might be mentioned that the existence of this Wall Street, Anglo-American axis is quite obvious once it is pointed out." --Tragedy and Hope, page 953

April 24, 2016

Source: F. William Engdahl

Deutsche Bank, Germany’s once-respected giant bank, has admitted being a party–together with a cartel of major Wall Street and select other international banks–in deliberately manipulating the price of gold over a period of years. As well, the German bank, in a court settlement with litigants in a US court, has agreed to name the names of other big banks involved in the criminal enterprise. As this drama unfolds in coming weeks and months, the world may well see the price of gold soar to new heights to reflect the true global market demand. This is huge.

April 24, 2016

Source: GlobalResearch.ca

Kennebeck’s interviewees are among at least a dozen whistleblowers who have stepped forward, or are preparing to do so, in order to denounce Washington’s drone wars as morally unjustified, as in fact nightmares both for those who fight them and those living in the lands that are on the receiving end. The realities of the day-in, day-out war they fought for years were, as they tell it, deeply destructive and filled with collateral damage of every sort. Worse yet, drone operators turn out to have little real idea about, and almost no confirmation of, whom exactly they’ve blown away.

“It’s so primitive, raw, stripped-down death. This is real. It’s not a joke,” says Heather, an imagery analyst whose job was to look at the streaming video coming in from drones over war zones and interpret the grainy images for senior commanders in the kill chain.

“You see someone die because you said it was okay to kill them. I was always shaking. Sometimes I would just go to the bathroom and just sit on the toilet. I mean just sit there in my uniform and just cry.”

Advocates of drone war believe, as do many of its critics, that it minimizes casualties. These Air Force veterans have, however, stepped forward to tell us that such claims simply aren’t true. In a study of what can be known about drone killings, the human rights group Reprieve has confirmed this reality vividly, finding that, in Pakistan, in attempts to take out 41 men, American drones actually killed an estimated 1,147 people (while not all of the 41 targeted figures even died). In other words, this hasn’t proved to be a war on terror, but a war of terror, a reality the drone whistleblowers confirm.

--Like Heather, Daniel has so far survived his own drone-war-induced mental health issues, but in his post-drone life he’s run into a formidable enemy: the U.S. government. On August 8, 2014, he estimates that as many as 50 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided his house, seizing documents and his electronics.

“The government suspects that he is a source of information about the [drone] program that the government doesn’t want out there,” says Jesselyn Radack, his lawyer and herself a former Department of Justice whistleblower. “To me, that’s simply an attempt to silence whistleblowers, and it doesn’t surprise me that that happens to the very few people who have been brave enough to speak out against the drone program.”

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JOE'S COMMENT:

I'm sure if the Chinese were using this approach to "fight terrorism" in the US, nobody would complain or harbor resentment...right?

April 23, 2016

Source: YouTube.com

Greenwald: [The government says] "Don't worry, we're collecting all your data but it's very well protected." 

Aside from the fact that history proves you can't trust government to collect information and not abuse it, think about this fact: the NSA is an agency where Edward Snowden sat for many months and downloaded all of their most sensitive documents. They had no idea that he was doing it. To this day, they have no idea what he took...Does that sound like a very well managed system [that] you can trust with all of your data?"  

April 20, 2016

Source: DailyCaller.com

Rush Limbaugh: "The Republican establishment is prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton if it means holding onto their fiefdoms.”

Later Limbaugh argued, “In fact, if Ted Cruz is the nominee and loses the general, the party will be happy. They’ll be able to blame the loss on conservatives and conservatism and be done — once and for all — with conservatism in the party.”

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JOE'S COMMENT:

The best part for me is watching people finally realize how incredibly corrupt the so-called "democratic process" is. The Establishment Republicans will continue doing everything they can to block Trump (even if it means a Hillary victory) and the Establishment Democrats will use every dirty trick in the book to give Hillary the advantage. Those of us who supported Ron Paul watched them change rules, lie and smear on a grand scale. Now, everyone else is getting to see it for themselves. I think it's good for the country.

April 18, 2016

Source: RonPaulInstitute.org

This week, President Obama and Vice President Biden held a hastily arranged secret meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen. According to the one paragraph statement released by the White House following the meeting, Yellen, Obama, and Biden simply “exchanged notes” about the economy and the progress of financial reform. Because the meeting was held behind closed doors, the American people have no way of knowing what else the three might have discussed.

Yellen’s secret meeting at the White House followed an emergency secret Federal Reserve Board meeting. The Fed then held another secret meeting to discuss bank reform. These secret meetings come on the heels of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s estimate that first quarter GDP growth was .01 percent, dangerously close to the official definition of recession.

Thus the real reason for all these secret meetings could be a panic that the Fed’s eight year explosion of money creation has not just failed to revive the economy, but is about to cause another major market meltdown.

April 16, 2016

Source: CorbettReport.com

Today we talk to James Perloff of JamesPerloff.com about his article on the war, "Trial Run for Interventionism," and how the bankers used their media and political connections to launch the war and introduce foreign interventionism to the American psyche. 

JOE'S COMMENT:

This is the template that psychopaths use to overcome our natural aversion to war. ...Excellent case study.

April 15, 2016

Source: DownsizeDC.org

-Due to a tax dispute, with the IRS, he was convicted of a nonviolent felony. He served time and was fined. He previously had a carry license. But he lost his rights to possess a firearm. He cannot even hunt or skeet shoot, both activities he previously enjoyed.

Worse others, who lived with him, lost their right to have an accessible firearm in his house -- despite being innocent of any "crime."

Do you get that? The "law" is being used like a bowling ball, and this healer, who has hurt no one, is the lead pin. But the patient and plodding Gun Prohibitionists get a Strike! by making his infraction bowl over the rights of everyone in his household.

The statists keep criminalizing, well, anything. With each Strike!, more Americans lose their gun rights for nonviolent offenses -- perhaps even if they committed no crime.

Now, we can make a difference in this matter, in a place where our attorneys have won before. There's a case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. It's called Hamilton v. Pallozzi. Here are the details…

April 12, 2016

Source: OpenSourceTruth.com

De Niro, who has an autistic child, comments on the decision to pull the anti-vaccination film “Vaxxed” from this year’s lineup, even though he says, “I think the movie is something that people should see,” and he questions statistics on vaccine-preventable diseases. De Niro does a fantastic job here & seems genuine & very passionate about the film & the public's right to see it. 

April 12, 2016

Source: StopTheLie.com

Clocking in at 1300 pages of small print text, Carroll Quigley's seminal work, Tragedy and Hope, is an intimidating and weighty tome. Today we talk to Joe Plummer of JoePlummer.com about his guide to Quigley's massive book. Available as a free e-book or as a paperback or kindle purchase and dubbed Tragedy and Hope 101, Plummer's guide condenses, summarizes, explains and footnotes the highlights and lowlights of the text so you can understand the nature of the conspiratorial network that Quigley exposed and why this information is so important.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

James did a great job with this interview. We covered some topics that don't usually come up when discussing Tragedy and Hope 101.

I've gone ahead and created an "interviews" page (linked above). At the time of this posting, the Corbett Report interview is at the top of the page.

April 12, 2016

Source: Vice.com

The London-born ex-dentist, who now lives in Switzerland, is arguably the fittest senior citizen on the planet. He's also a body-builder, a public speaker, a writer, a rower, a wakeboarder, an entrepreneur, and a budding fashion designer, planning his own line in elderly couture. But more than anything, he is a professional death defier who hasn't just slowed the ravages of aging, but reversed them all together: where once white pubic hairs grew, he says, brown ones now flourish. 

April 09, 2016

Source: Mises.org

We’ve all run into someone who thinks that all it take to bring about prosperity is to give everyone a million dollars. If everyone is a millionaire, we’ll all be rich and be able to afford anything we want, or so the thinking goes. Any sound economist knows that wouldn’t be the case, however. If everyone were given a million dollars the increased amount of money chasing the existing stock of goods would merely result in a massive rise in prices. No one would be better off, at least not once prices were once again equilibrated. The concept of giving everyone a million dollars is so absurd that no one takes it seriously. That is, they don’t take it seriously when a million dollars is the proposed amount. When the amount is smaller, all of a sudden it becomes a viable and increasingly-discussed policy proposal: helicopter money. 

April 09, 2016

Source: ZeroHedge.com

After four long years of ensuring the detail behind the US Government’s role in running guns to Mexico (aka "Fast and Furious") never saw the light of day, the "most transparent administration in history" has finally released the requested documents to the House Oversight Committee. It is not lost on anyone that this is taking place well after it could do any significant damage to the Obama administration.

The release of the documents was ordered by a US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson on January 19th, ending a long saga that actually saw the House vote then Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of congress for withholding requested information. Of course the DOJ decided not to prosecute itself on that matter.

April 09, 2016

Source: BusinessInsider.com

--The release contained 11.5 million documents chronicling the formation and actions of 214,000 offshore companies along with the names and manipulations of more than 14,000 clients. Among the clients are:

*12 heads of state
*More than 150 politicians
*29 billionaires on the Forbes list
*Multiple financiers of terrorism
*Nuclear-weapons proliferators
*Prominent sports and entertainment figures
*Numerous CIA-linked companies

Implicated as well are dozens of major banks that worked with Mossack Fonseca in establishing these offshore entities. Among them are the banking giants Credit Suisse, UBS, Landesbank, and Rothschild.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

..waiting patiently for some damaging info on prominent Western elites and institutions.

April 05, 2016

Source: Tim Ferriss

My visit coincided with his first new book in 20 years: Money–Master the Game.

I love Tony’s work and it helped me start my first company, but when I got an early draft of the book, I thought to myself–really? Another book on money? Ugh. I prepared to be bored, especially since I think of myself as an experienced investor [pats self on back]. Instead, and very surprisingly, I was blown away. Before I knew it, I was pushing off other work, letting my dinner get cold, and staying up hours past bedtime each night, all because I couldn’t stop reading. 

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JOE'S COMMENT:

I really enjoyed this 2-hour interview and I look forward to reading the book. 

Whether you're a Tony Robbins fan or not, it's pretty hard to deny that he's an exceptional human being with a lot of very interesting / useful information to share.

April 02, 2016

Source: Reuters.com

Social networking forum reddit on Thursday removed a section from its site used to tacitly inform users it had never received a certain type of U.S. government surveillance request, suggesting the platform is now being asked to hand over customer data under a secretive law enforcement authority.

April 02, 2016

Source: NYTimes.com

The second half of the 1960s was a boom time for nightmarish visions of what lay ahead for humankind. In 1966, for example, a writer named Harry Harrison came out with a science fiction novel titled “Make Room! Make Room!” Sketching a dystopian world in which too many people scrambled for too few resources, the book became the basis for a 1973 film about a hellish future, “Soylent Green.” In 1969, the pop duo Zager and Evans reached the top of the charts with a number called “In the Year 2525,” which postulated that humans were on a clear path to doom.

No one was more influential — or more terrifying, some would say — than Paul R. Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist. His 1968 book, “The Population Bomb,” sold in the millions with a jeremiad that humankind stood on the brink of apocalypse because there were simply too many of us. Dr. Ehrlich’s opening statement was the verbal equivalent of a punch to the gut: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” He later went on to forecast that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s, that 65 million of them would be Americans, that crowded India was essentially doomed, that odds were fair “England will not exist in the year 2000.” Dr. Ehrlich was so sure of himself that he warned in 1970 that “sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come.” By “the end,” he meant “an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.”

JOE'S COMMENT:

The problems with "overpopulation" hysteria have been known for decades. Unfortunately, it takes the Establishment to admit the obvious before most will listen. Well, better late than never. 

More reading here: 

"--Paul Ehrlich’s entire career stands as a monument to the ideological imperatives of the world’s elites and the extent to which they exist not just independent from, but in actual opposition to, both science, evidence, reason, and good faith." 

http://www.weeklystandard.com/paul-ehrlich-even-worse-than-the-new-york-times-says-he-is/article/962990

March 31, 2016

Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report

Super-delegates, rules committees meeting in secret, backroom vote-counting -- is it any wonder less than half of Americans bother to vote? The deep state manipulates elections overseas, so should we be surprised to see them involved in our own electoral process?  

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JOE'S COMMENT:

WOW. I've never heard Ron Paul talk so openly about the "deep state / shadow government" and CIA control. This is an incredibly important topic that most public figures are afraid to bring up. It's great to have him specifically name this threat. (For a short / free book on the topic, check out www.TragedyAndHope.INFO )

March 30, 2016

Source: TomWoods.com

Sibel Edmonds is a former translator for the FBI and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

This is a highly recommended interview with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmunds. It's especially important because she gets into Operation Gladio...Gladio is a topic that everyone should know about. ( If you want a short introduction to Gladio, you can read Chapter 8 of "Tragedy & Hope 101" here: http://stopthelie.com/tragedy-and-hope-made-easy8.html )

Here is a link to the Kickstarter campaign for her news organization: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/141490519/support-a-100-people-funded-nonpartisan-online-new

March 26, 2016

Source: GlobalResearch.ca

JOE'S COMMENT:

He admits that he was "bribed" and acted as a spokesman for the CIA and other intelligence agencies.

March 24, 2016

Source: ZeroAggressionProject.org

Kings called it tribute rather than theft. Politicians prefer the word tax. But all these words describe a violence-based funding system…pay or suffer violence. This system is both immoral and impractical.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

If a government must rely on its citizens to voluntarily fund its operations, then that government is "owned and controlled" by its citizens. However, if men in power can simply confiscate whatever amount of money they want (via taxes or inflation), then the people are "owned and controlled" by the government. Under these circumstances, the people cannot hope to limit government growth or power in any meaningful way, nor can they effectively prevent its abuses.

March 24, 2016

Source: CBSNews.com

Microsoft got a swift lesson this week on the dark side of social media. Yesterday the company launched "Tay," an artificial intelligence chatbot designed to develop conversational understanding by interacting with humans. Users could follow and interact with the bot @TayandYou on Twitter and it would tweet back, learning as it went from other users' posts. Today, Microsoft had to shut Tay down because the bot started spewing a series of lewd and racist tweets.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

Paraphrasing: 

"Tay" went from saying that 'humans are super cool,' to being a full blown Nazi in less than 24 hours."

March 23, 2016

Source: YouTube.com

JOE'S COMMENT:

TruthStreamMedia.com writes:

--If video of a world leader giving a speech can be hijacked and edited in real-time, complete with, say, a full soundboard created by government software that can take ten minutes of a person talking and match the speech patterns to make convincing audio of a person saying anything they want him to...Can you trust anything you see on “the news”?

March 23, 2016

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

--Tuesday’s ruling is the second victory this year for NorCal Patriots.

In January U.S. District Judge Susan J. Dlott certified their case as a class-action lawsuit, signaling that she agreed with NorCal Patriots that the IRS did systematically target hundreds of groups for special scrutiny.

March 19, 2016

Source: ArtOfManliness.com

The term ‘Bugging Out’ refers to the decision to abandon your home due to an unexpected emergency situation–whether a natural disaster or one caused by man. A ‘Bug Out Bag’ is a pre-prepared survival kit designed to sustain you through the journey to your destination once you’ve decided to ‘Bug Out’ in the event of an emergency evacuation. Typically, the Bug Out Bag (BOB) is a self-contained kit designed to get you through at least 72 hours. This kit is also referred to as a 72-Hour Bag, a Get Out Of Dodge Bag (GOOD Bag), an EVAC Bag, and a Battle Box.

The thought of having to evacuate your home due to a sudden and imminent threat is not at all unrealistic. The reality is that sudden and uncontrollable events of nature and man do happen. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, storms, earthquakes, floods and volcanic explosions can strike fast and hard–wreaking havoc on homes, vehicles, roads, medical facilities and resource supply chains such as food, water, fuel, and electricity. When Hurricane Katrina struck the Southern US Coast just a few years ago, tens of thousands of people had to evacuate their homes with little warning. Unprepared and with no emergency plan, many of these people were completely dependent on scavenging and hand-outs while living in make-shift shelters–fending for themselves in a time of complete chaos and disorder.

March 19, 2016

Source: YouTube.com

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March 17, 2016

Source: Brookings.edu

--Because the primaries get so much attention, people often forget that in the end it is the delegates who award a presidential candidate the nomination. And, here’s the kicker: there is no law anywhere that says these delegates can’t do exactly what they want to do if a majority of them decide. The Supreme Court has ruled on more than one occasion that political parties are protected by the First Amendment’s freedom of association and thus in most conflicts between state law and party rules the party rules win.

March 16, 2016

Source: Reuters.com

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday blocked a bill that would nullify state and local efforts to require food makers to label products made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, as the industry races to stop Vermont's law from taking effect on July 1.

March 13, 2016

Source: WashingtonPost.com

--Passenger advocates object to the full-body scanners on many levels. The pricey machines, they say, were deployed without giving the public a chance to comment, a process required by federal law. They also say the devices violate the Fourth Amendment right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures. Also, the scanners have not been adequately tested and may present health risks, some claim.

Critics say the technology is easily foiled and ultimately ineffective at identifying threats, citing an audit in which the TSA failed to catch weapons 67 of 70 times. To date, the scanners have not thwarted a single attempted terrorist attack, these agency-watchers correctly point out. What’s more, the agency has broken a promise it made to passengers and legislators when it began installing the scanners in 2009.

“The TSA is going back on its word,” says Fred Cate, a law professor at Indiana University and prominent TSA-watcher. “The scanners were sold to Congress and the public on the promise that they were optional, but for at least some people, that is no longer the case.” 

March 12, 2016

Source: InfoWars.com

A new FBI initiative based on Britain’s “anti-terror” mass surveillance program instructs high schools across America to inform on students who express “anti-government” and “anarchist” political beliefs.

--The FBI considers the Redemption Theory (the abandonment of the gold standard in favor of fiat currency), emancipation “from the responsibilities of being a U.S. citizen, including paying taxes,” and “conspiracy theories,” including the formation of global government and a police state, as indicators of extremist or sovereign citizen ideology.

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JOE'S COMMENT:

So, "extremist ideology" apparently means: 

Speaking out against government crimes and conspiracies, expressing a desire to stop funding those crimes and conspiracies, opposing CFR initiatives like "World Order in the 21st Century," and having the "extreme" audacity to point out the obvious: Mass surveillance of citizens IS the defining characteristic of a "police state."

March 11, 2016

Source: OathKeepers.org

--“I understand that you have made recent requests to (the farmer) for documents and to appear before a grand jury, and he has had a number of inspections and attempted inspections on his farm within Elkhart County. This is notice that any further attempts to inspect this farm without a warrant signed by a judge, based on probable cause, will result in federal inspectors’ removal or arrest for trespassing by my officers or I. In addition, if any further action is taken by the federal government on (the farmer), while he is in Elkhart County, I will expect that you or federal authorities contact my office prior to such action. I will expect you to forward this information to your federal associates, including the FDA.” 

March 11, 2016

Source: WashingtonPost.com

--This basically formalizes what was already happening under the radar. We’ve known for a couple of years now that the Drug Enforcement Administration and the IRS were getting information from the NSA. Because that information was obtained without a warrant, the agencies were instructed to engage in “parallel construction” when explaining to courts and defense attorneys how the information had been obtained. If you think parallel construction just sounds like a bureaucratically sterilized way of saying big stinking lie, well, you wouldn’t be alone. And it certainly isn’t the only time that that national security apparatus has let law enforcement agencies benefit from policies that are supposed to be reserved for terrorism investigations in order to get around the Fourth Amendment, then instructed those law enforcement agencies to misdirect, fudge and outright lie about how they obtained incriminating information — see the Stingray debacle. This isn’t just a few rogue agents. The lying has been a matter of policy. We’re now learning that the feds had these agreements with police agencies all over the country, affecting thousands of cases.

March 09, 2016

Source: BusinessInsider.com

--The vision is an online peer-to-peer market, in the vein of eBay or Etsy — but unlike eBay, transactions will take place using bitcoin, and the entire site will be decentralised across the network of people accessing it, making it impossible to close down.

March 07, 2016

Source: Reason.com

Cook "testified that he was not afraid of the dog, but was following training that required him to kill all dogs that approach him, even if it was chained and wagging its tail as Buddy was doing in this case."

Hupp told PINAC her case hinged on her husband's video, which they did not have for weeks after the incident because Cook confiscated the phone, which he was unable to access because it was protected by a password. "Without that video, it's just my word against a state trooper," she said. "Nobody is going to believe my word over law enforcement."

March 06, 2016

Source: JoePlummer.com

Click the headline link to visit the old / archived version of JoePlummer.com 

http://sitekreator.com/stopthelie/home.html