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June 19, 2013 1 comment
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TV News Is Through
Hayek explained it all in 1945, says Gary North.
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GyG: ARTICLES: LewRockwell.Com….. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

June 12, 2013 2 comments
If You See Something, Say Something
As Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, and Julian Assange did. Article by Butler Shaffer.
The Star Chamber Exposed
Andrew Napolitano on the secret court and the most extraordinary violation of our rights.
More Road Tyranny
Your car will be braking for you, whether you want it to or not, says Eric Peters.
DHS Admits to Backpack Drill in Boston
Planned months in advance. Article by Anthony Gucciardi.
Conservatives Are Squirming
Ha ha. Article by David Franke.
Stand With Edward Snowden
To be branded a criminal by the government is an endorsement. Article by John Whitehead.
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Fight the Enemies of Truth: Support the Spread of Knowledge | Global Research

April 5, 2013 Leave a comment
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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” – JFK

 

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking

 

 

For those whose understanding of the world is derived from what their governments and political leaders tell them to believe, and from the mainstream media which regurgitates the government’s views and ideology, the world is left black and white, us vs. them, a simple myth to hold on to. For these people: the economic crisis is over and we are now in a “recovery”; the ‘War on Terror’ is an age-old battle between the forces of good and evil, retribution for the attacks of 9/11, and is designed to battle ‘terrorism’ in every corner of the world; the era of imperialism ended with World War II, and America is not an ‘empire’, but rather a bastion for freedom which spreads democracy around the world; the war against Libya was intended to save innocent lives out of ‘humanitarian’ concerns; we must accept the loss and restriction of our fundamental rights and liberties in order to protect us from terrorists; Barack Obama has brought ‘change’ and is a beacon of ‘hope’; and the death of Osama bin Laden shows that the ‘War on Terror’ is working, and is worthy of going out in the streets to celebrate and cheer!

 

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Photos of Russian Troops in AMERIKA – ???

February 14, 2013 Leave a comment

Every alert American sees that we are now being set up fora miserable suffering existence under communism!This appalling story must be delivered to sheriffs and police.

 

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The more email addresses of sheriffs and police officers that youcan find, the more possible it is to repel these communists, whointend to brutalize you and your family.

 

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Are School Shootings a False Flag? | revisedhistory

December 30, 2012 Leave a comment

By Al Benson Jr.

 

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury and was previously the editor of the Wall Street Journal. His latest book is How the Economy Was Lost. Over the years I have read his columns and always found him to be insightful and thought provoking.

 

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Just this week he did a column called Agenda Prevails Over Truth and boy was he right on the money there. The article appeared on http://www.prisonplanet.com For the leftist lap dogs that prevail in what we call the “news” media agenda is everything. Truth is what fits the agenda and if it doesn’t fit the agenda it’s not truth. It’s as simple as that.

 

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More Phony Employment Numbers ~ “The Unemployment Rate is 22.9% Paul Craig Roberts on the Establishment cover-up.”

December 10, 2012 2 comments

Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) calls the government’s latest jobs and unemployment reports “nonsense numbers.”

 

There are a number of ongoing problems with the released numbers. For example, the concurrent-seasonal factor adjustments are unstable. The birth-death model adds non-existent jobs each month that are then taken out in the annual downward benchmark revisions.

 

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Williams calculates that the job overstatement through November averages 45,000 monthly. In other words, employment gains during 2012 have been overstated by about 500,000 jobs. Another problem is that each month’s jobs number is boosted by downside revision of the previous month’s jobs number.

 

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Prison Planet.com » Awakening From The Abyss: End of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

November 28, 2012 7 comments

Adolf Hitler claimed that communists burned down the Reichstag and that Polish troops had crossed the frontier and attacked Germany. With 9/11 americans experienced Washington’s version of these grand lies. An omniscient bin Laden dying from terminal illnesses in distant Afghanistan defeated the American National Security State and drove his attack through the walls of the Pentagon itself, requiring for our defense a “war on terror” that destroyed US civil liberties and financially ruined the country in order to prevent the triumph of a man who died of natural causes in December 2001.” – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, “The Osama bin LadenMyth.”

 

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The 9/11 controversy has already been settled. Objective, honest, and rational observers from around the world all agree that the official version of the events is a hoax. The governments of the U.S. and Israel were behind the 9/11 atrocities, not Al-Qaeda.

 

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The Virtual Economic Recovery Courtesy of Inflation

October 30, 2012 Leave a comment

The Virtual Economic Recovery Courtesy of Inflation

Economics / InflationOct 30, 2012 – 02:35 AM

By: Paul Craig Roberts

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Since mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates inflation. The financial Presstitutes spoon out the government’s propaganda that prices are rising less than 2%. But anyone who purchases food, fuel, medical care or anything else knows that low inflation is no more real that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction or Gadhafi’s alleged attacks on Libyan protesters or Iran’s nuclear weapons. Everything is a lie to serve the power-brokers.

During the Clinton administration, Republican economists pushed through a change in the way the CPI is measured in order to save money by depriving Social Security retirees of their cost-of-living adjustment. Previously, the CPI measured the change in the cost of a constant standard of living. The new measure assumes that consumers adjust to price increases by lowering their standard of living by substituting lower quality, lower priced items. If the price, for example, of New York strip steak goes up, consumers are assumed to substitute the lower quality round steak. In other words, the new measure of inflation keeps inflation down by reflecting a lowered standard of living.

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The People’s Debate – Main Street Vs The Plutocracy | (“A vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson or any third party candidate is not a wasted vote ~ it is not a vote for our own obliteration ~ instead, it’s a vote for main Street values vs. the Plutocracy……”) Veterans Today

October 30, 2012 4 comments

Third party debate Presidential candidates (from left) Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, Virgil Goode and Gary Johnson at the third-party debate Oct. 23 in Chicago. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Mainstream media has concentrated on the two Plutocracy presidential candidates, Romney and Obama but Main street America has found its voice in the recent Third party debate and finally real issues that concern all Americans were intelligently discussed and argued. A vote for one of these candidates is a vote against the plutocracy

by Allen L Roland

Third Party Presidential Debate Moderated by Larry King

Four alternative candidates for president of the United States debated Tuesday night in Chicago and agreed America needs a good dose of what they could provide ~ clear, straight talk that has not been market-pasteurized. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson were very effective. Video

It’s still fabrications, showbiz and entertainment for the two prime candidates of the Plutocracy and as an example the drama “SEAL Team Six,” about the raid that ‘ supposedly ‘ killed Osama bin Laden, was edited to give a starring role to the president. It will be shown on television two days before the election. See article ~

And read what Obama and Romney Didn’t Say At their Debate: 9 Things You Should Know About Iran’s Nuclear Program

And as you probably already suspected ~ Obama care is a total scam and most definitely not what Main Street wanted ~ but here are the funny and illuminating details in two hilarious minutes 2 minute Video:

Back to the debates~ Paul Craig Roberts correctly writes in his must read article In Amerika There Will Never Be A Real Debate ~ ” You would never know that US citizens can now be imprisoned and executed without due process…What is the process to vote when the outcome is the same ? Both candidates represent the interests of Israel ~ not the interests of the United States. Both candidates represent the interests of the military/security complex, agribusiness, the offshoring corporations, the suppression of unions and workers, the total demise of civil liberty and the US Constitution ~ which is the way of unbridled executive power… In the US today, the power of money rules. Nothing else is in the equation. Why vote to lend your support to the continuation of your own exploitation? ”

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The People’s Debate – Main Street Vs The Plutocracy… (“Third Party Presidential Debate Moderated by Larry King”) | Veterans Today

October 27, 2012 Leave a comment
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Mainstream media has concentrated on the two Plutocracy presidential candidates, Romney and Obama but Main street America has found its voice in the recent Third party debate and finally real issues that concern all Americans were intelligently discussed and argued. A vote for one of these candidates is a vote against the plutocracy

 

by Allen L Roland

 

Third Party Presidential Debate Moderated by Larry King

 

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Four alternative candidates for president of the United States debated Tuesday night in Chicago and agreed America needs a good dose of what they could provide ~ clear, straight talk that has not been market-pasteurized. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson were very effective. Video

 

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It’s still fabrications, showbiz and entertainment for the two prime candidates of the Plutocracy and as an example the drama “SEAL Team Six,” about the raid that ‘ supposedly ‘ killed Osama bin Laden, was edited to give a starring role to the president. It will be shown on television two days before the election. See article ~

 

And read what Obama and Romney Didn’t Say At their Debate: 9 Things You Should Know About Iran’s Nuclear Program

 

And as you probably already suspected ~ Obama care is a total scam and most definitely not what Main Street wanted ~ but here are the funny and illuminating details in two hilarious minutes 2 minute Video:

 

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Prison Planet.com » Don’t Vote For Evil… (“If Americans had any sense, no one would vote in the November election. Whoever wins the November election, it will be a defeat for the American people.”)

October 13, 2012 20 comments

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…..In contrast to the leadership that is emerging in South America as more governments there reject the traditional hegemony of Washington, the US political elite, whether Republican or Democrat, are aligned with the rich against the American people.

The Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, has promised to cut taxes on the rich, taxes which are already rock bottom, to block any regulation of the gangsters in the financial arena, and to privatize Social Security and Medicare.

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GyG: LewRockwell.com…

October 11, 2012 1 comment
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Liar for Lincoln
Ken Burns wants to make more propaganda movies – at your expense. Article by Tom DiLorenzo.
Bring in Gary Johnson
If you want an actual debate, says Andrew Napolitano.
Drug Prohibition
It’s a war on freedom and civilization. David Gordon on Laurence Vance’s new book.
Lies, Damned Lies
John Williams of Shadowstats on that 7.8% unemployment #.
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GyG: FEATURED STORIES-Excerpted-Backlinked, Etc.!!!!!

September 27, 2012 Leave a comment

 

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Bizarre TSA “Freeze” Security Drill Caught on Camera

Paul Joseph Watson | Pointless policy little more than “obedience training”.

National Opt Out Week: The New Anti-TSA Campaign

Prisonplanet.com | This Thanksgiving, Infowars.com is giving thanks for the First Amendment.

‘Expect to be shot if you burgle gun owners’, judge warns criminals

London Telegraph | A judge has defended the rights of people to protect their homes, telling two burglars shot during a break-in: “That is the chance you take.”

Whole Foods knowingly engages in massive GMO deception, says undercover video by ‘Organic Spies’

Mike Adams | Whole Foods deceives consumers into unknowingly buying GMOs while financially supporting a GMO supply chain that ultimately enriches Monsanto.

Paul Craig Roberts: America, The Next Banana Republic

Prisonplanet.com | Alex welcomes American economist and Infowars contributing writer Paul Craig Roberts to discuss the impact of Eurpoean austerity measures on world markets amidst ongoing riots.

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Prison Planet.com » The Revolution From Above… (“…Americans are the first people in history who are so idealistic, or so thoroughly brainwashed, that they prefer to pay for wars and bail out banks than to make their mortgage payments and help their children…”)

September 16, 2012 4 comments

…..Apparently, Americans are the first people in history who are so idealistic, or so thoroughly brainwashed, that they prefer to pay for wars and bail out banks than to make their mortgage payments and help their children with student loan debt.

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The federal court in Germany has ruled that Germans are to be just as idealistic as Americans. The federal court has produced a ruling that it is OK for the EU to require German citizens to provide $190 billion to pay off the private banks who lent too much money to Greece.

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In exchange for paying off the banks for Greece, the Greek people are to be driven into poverty and hopelessness. Pensions are cut, taxes are raised, employment is cut, social services are curtailed, prices of utilities are raised. The Greek people are to be destroyed in order that the private European banks do not lose money on their bad loans.

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Krauthammer To Muslim Protestors In Egypt: “Go To Hell”

September 12, 2012 1 comment

 

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Via Daily Caller:

 

“That statement is an embarrassment. That is a hostage statement. That’s a mob of al-Qaeda sympathizers in Egypt, forcing the United States make a statement essentially of apology, on 9/11 of all days, for something we’re not responsible. I would issue a statement saying to the mob, ‘go to hell.’

 

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September 10, 2012 Leave a comment

 

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Man Investigated By Police For Buying Ammunition

Paul Joseph Watson | Commercial fisherman questioned over purchase of a few boxes of ammo even as feds buy bullets in huge quantities.

The Declining West: Tragedy or Comedy?

Paul Craig Roberts | Western nations have become a caricature of hypocrisy.

Ban Ki-moon To Bow His Head Before John D. Rockefeller Jr. At UN Geneva Office

Jurriaan Maessen | Ban Ki-moon will open a reading room at the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland- dedicated to John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Bombshell: 18 people died of the flu, not 36,000 as claimed by the CDC

Jon Rappoport | Time and time again, as an investigative reporter, I’ve had the job of informing readers that their most basic assumptions are wrong.

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Prison Planet.com » Delusional reality: Everything peddled by politicians, media, banks and television is a fiction

September 6, 2012 Leave a comment

 

The “War on Terror” is a complete fabrication.

 

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There is no terrorism other than what the government creates in order to sell its agenda of a police state takeover. Click here to read Paul Craig Roberts’ article that lays this out in brilliant detail.

 

The CDC’s war on West Nile virus is also a complete fabrication. There is no real West Nile virus threat. (Read article here.) The odds of being killed by West Nileare, much like with “terrorism,” even lower than the odds of being killed by a bee sting.

 

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Eyewitnesses Reveal Daraya Massacre Carried Out By U.S.-Backed Rebels

Paul Joseph Watson | Bloodshed the work of armed militants before Syrian troops arrived.

Debunked: Ridiculous Study Claims Organic Same as Conventional (Video)

Anthony Gucciardi | The latest study to demonize foods free of GMO ingredients and mercury-containing high-fructose corn syrup ultimately once again fails to accurately address key aspects.

TSA Caught In Huge Power Grab

Prisonplanet.com | This is nothing but a power grab, as the public are conditioned to put up with any command no matter how mindless.

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GyG: EXCERTED-BACKLINKED ARTICLES: LewRockwell.Com…

August 29, 2012 2 comments

 

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A Reminder About Voting and Politics
The election will change nothing. Article by Jim Karger.
The Predatory Empire
Bob Higgs talks to Lew Rockwell about delusions of power.
Gold Commission 2
Gary North on what it means, if anything.
Remembering the Heroes of the Constitution
Those who opposed it. Article by Brion McClanahan.
The Western War
Against international law. Article by Paul Craig Roberts.
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GyG: ARTICLES: LewRockwell.Com…

August 21, 2012 1 comment

 

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The Kennedy Assassinations
A doctor pursues the truth. Article by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD.
What Do Neoconservatives Believe?
Ron Paul on a most influential grouplet.
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Is Washington Deaf as Well as Criminal? by Paul Craig Roberts

August 18, 2012 21 comments

 

Recently by Paul Craig Roberts: Ecuador President Rafael ‘We Are Not a Colony’ Correa Stands Up to the Jackbooted British Gestapo

 

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The morons who rule the american sheeple are not only dumb and blind, they are deaf as well. The ears of the american “superpower” only work when the Israeli prime minister, the crazed Netanyahu, speaks. Then Washington hears everything and rushes to comply.Israel is a tiny insignificant state, created by the careless British and the stupid americans. It has no power except what its american protector provides. Yet, despite Israel’s insignificance, it rules Washington.

 

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When a resolution introduced by the Israel Lobby is delivered to Congress, it passes unanimously.

 

If Israel wants war, Israel gets its wish. When Israel commits war crimes against Palestinians and Lebanon and is damned by the hundred plus UN resolutions passed against Israel’s criminal actions, the US bails Israel out of trouble with its veto.The power that tiny Israel exercises over the “worlds’s only superpower” is unique in history. Tens of millions of “christians” bow down to this power, reinforcing it, moved by the exhortations of their “christian” ministers.Netanyahu lusts for war against Iran. He strikes out against all who oppose his war lust. Recently, he called Israel’s top generals “pussies” for warning against a war with Iran.

 

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GyG: ARTICLES… LewRockwell.Com…

August 17, 2012 1 comment

 

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Friday, August 17, 2012

 

 

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Guard Your Wallet, Your Freedom, and Your Life
Pat Buchanan on neocon lies, provocations, and wars.
Oh Brother
Andrew Napolitano on November’s choices.
Obama Will Win
Thanks to the banana Republicans, says Scott Lazarowitz.
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August 16, 2012 Leave a comment

 

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Syrian Rebel Leader Threatens To Form Alliance With Al-Qaeda If West Doesn’t Provide Arms

Paul Joseph Watson | Terrorists already meet with rebels “every day,” coordinate bombings.

Are Eggs More Dangerous Than Al-Qaeda?

Prisonplanet.com | You are many millions more times likely to be killed from eating eggs than from terrorism.

Pentagon Can’t Find Records of Capturing Osama Bin Laden

Prisonplanet.com | The dramatic photos of Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton and members of the White House security team watching the assassination of Bin Laden “live” were completely staged.

Bibi’s Secret War Plan

Richard Silverstein | In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran.

How To Defeat Tyranny

Brandon Smith | Certain moments in history demand that truly free individuals relinquish their cynicism.

Is Washington Deaf As Well as Criminal?

Paul Craig Roberts | The morons who rule the american sheeple are not only dumb and blind, they are deaf as well.

22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World Economy Is Absolutely Killing American Workers

The Economic Collapse | For decades our politicians have promised us that the “free trade” agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before.

40 Points That Prove That Barack Obama And Mitt Romney Are Essentially The Same Candidate

The American Dream | What a depressing choice the American people are being presented with this year.

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August 12, 2012 Leave a comment

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The Next Election: High Stake Outcomes Based on Non-issues

Paul Craig Roberts | The election of the next puppet president of the “world’s only superpower” is about two and one-half months off, and what are the campaign issues? There aren’t any worthy of the name.

Veep Pick Paul Ryan Is No Conservative

New American | Ryan’s voting record shows a robust support of big-spending programs to enlarge the role of the federal government.

UN Designates “Free Syrian Army” Affiliates as Al Qaeda

Tony Cartalucci | US, UK, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey stand accused of state sponsorship of terrorism.

Former Defense Secretary Says US Will Probably Enforce “No Fly Zone” Over Syria

Zero Hedge | Three months to the election? Check. Which means war-mongering rhetoric, once considered a staple of the GOP, may very soon become action, first in Syria, and soon, everywhere else.

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Prison Planet.com » Paul Craig Roberts: The Left-Wing’s Endless War on Gun Owners

July 26, 2012 2 comments

 

Alex welcomes long-time returning guest, economist, and contributing writer Paul Craig Roberts to discuss the assault on gun rights in the aftermath of the Colorado shooting, the West’s unsuccessful efforts to muster support for Syrian intervention, and the impact the recent Libor scandal will have on world markets.

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(“Jury Nullification Is NOW The Law”) New Hampshire Strikes a Blow Against the Sovietized Amerikan ‘Justice’ System by William Norman Grigg

July 9, 2012 17 comments

When New Hampshire Governor John Lynch signed HB 146 into law on June 18, the Granite State became the first in the nation to enact a measure explicitly recognizing and protecting the indispensable right of jury nullification.

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New Hampshire’s jury nullification law reads, in relevant part: “In all criminal proceedings the court shall permit the defense to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relation to the facts in controversy.”

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Mindless Masses | Veterans Today

May 24, 2012 Leave a comment

by Paul Balles

Living in America is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral conscience, a sense of justice, or a lick of intelligence. –Paul Craig Roberts

“The new tyranny is arising in the West, not in Russia and China. The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant American (sic) population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth.”

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Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?

May 19, 2012 Leave a comment

Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?

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In response to the question in the title I can report that most of my readers are. Almost everyone got the point of the last column. They see the absurdity of the government’s claim that the identity of the tough, macho Navy Seals, who allegedly murdered Osama bin Laden, has to be kept secret in order to protect our fierce warriors from reprisals from Muslim terrorists, while those government officials responsible for the torture and deaths of large numbers of Muslims can walk around, identity known, unprotected and safe.

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Prison Planet.com » The Elite Are Digging Their Own Grave

May 17, 2012 Leave a comment

Alex welcomes long-time returning guest and contributing writer Dr. Paul Craig Roberts to discuss the impact of the Euro’s instability on world markets amidst looming fears of Greece’s departure.

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They’ll also touch on why governments feel compelled to blame events like 9/11, the Euro decline, and other manufactured crises on scapegoats.

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GyG: From lewrockwell.com

May 5, 2012 Leave a comment
Get Rid of Your IRA
Don’t put gold or anything else in it, says Gary North.
Murder by Government
Andrew Napolitano on the president’s private war.
Bin Laden’s Letter to Me
Has the US terror establishment targeted hero journalist Eric Margolis?
Undermine the Regime
Brian Wilson talks to Lew about the state of freedom.
The US of Torture
Will Grigg on what has become an everyday evil.

Prison Planet.com » Disinformation On Every Front

May 4, 2012 1 comment

Disinformation On Every Front

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Friday, May 4, 2012

Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, propaganda from the right, the left and the middle are all part of the disinformation fed to americans.

If I may give some examples: The other day Chuck Colson, one of the Nixon officials imprisoned for Watergate crimes, died. This gave NPR the opportunity to relive the Nixon horror.

What precisely was the Nixon horror? Essentially, there was no such thing. Watergate was about President Nixon lying about when he learned about the Watergate burglary.

When Nixon learned about the burglary, he did not act on it prior to his reelection, because he reasoned, rightly, that the Washington Post would blame him for the burglary, although he had nothing to do with it, in the hopes of preventing his reelection.

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Brewing a Conflict with China by Paul Craig Roberts

May 1, 2012 Leave a comment

Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries concerning island and sea rights in the South China Sea.

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Washington asserts that China’s territorial disputes with the like of Indonesia and the Philippines are a matter of United States’ national interests.

Washington has not made it clear what Washington’s stake is in the disputes. The reason Washington cannot identify why China’s disputes with the Philippines and Indonesia are threats to the United States is that there is no reason. Nevertheless, the undefined “threat” has become the reason Washington needs more naval bases in the Philippines and South Korea.

What this is all about is provoking a long-term cold war conflict with China that will keep

profits and power flowing into Washington’s military-security complex. Large profits flow to armaments companies. A portion of the profits reflow into campaign contributions to “the people’s representatives” in DC and to presidential candidates who openly sell out their country to private interests……….

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Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness by Paul Craig Roberts

April 16, 2012 Leave a comment

Washington violates the human rights of its own citizens. Washington has suspended the civil liberties guaranteed in the US Constitution and declared its intention to detain US citizens indefinitely without due process of law. President Obama has announced that he, at his discretion, can murder US citizens whom he regards as a threat to the US.

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Congress did not respond to these extraordinary announcements with impeachment proceedings. There was no uproar from the federal courts, law schools, or bar associations. Glenn Greenwald reports that the Department of Homeland Security harasses journalists who refuse to be presstitutes, and we have seen videos of the brutal police oppression of peaceful OWS protestors. Chris Floyd describes the torture-perverts who rule the US.

Now Washington is forcing as much of the world as it can to overthrow international treaties and international law. Washington has issued a ukase that its word alone is international law. Any country, except those who receive Washington’s dispensation, that engages in trade with Iran or purchases Iran’s oil will be sanctioned by the US. These countries will be cut off from US markets, and their banking systems will not be able to use banks that process international payments. In other words, Washington’s “sanctions against Iran” apply not to Iran but to countries that defy Washington and meet their energy needs with Iranian oil.

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Empires Then and Now…Paul Craig Roberts – Official Homepage

April 7, 2012 Leave a comment
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In his book, The Rule of Empires (2010), Timothy H. Parsons replaces the myth of the civilizing empire with the truth of the extractive empire. He describes the successes of the Romans, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Spanish in Peru, Napoleon in Italy, and the British in India and Kenya in extracting resources. To lower the cost of governing Kenya, the British instigated tribal consciousness and invented tribal customs that worked to British advantage.

Parsons does not examine the American empire, but in his introduction to the book he wonders whether America’s empire is really an empire as the Americans don’t seem to get any extractive benefits from it. After eight years of war and attempted occupation of Iraq, all Washington has for its efforts is several trillion dollars of additional debt and no Iraqi oil. After ten years of trillion dollar struggle against the Taliban in Afghanistan, Washington has nothing to show for it except possibly some part of the drug trade that can be used to fund covert CIA operations.

America’s wars are very expensive. Bush and Obama have doubled the national debt, and the American people have no benefits from it. No riches, no bread and circuses flow to Americans from Washington’s wars. So what is it all about?

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Prison Planet.com » False Flag Attack

April 7, 2012 Leave a comment

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…..One of the self-important passengers ejaculated, “Why are you shielding those murdering savages. We know it was Indians. Look at all the arrows.”

“Mister,” replied Bowie, “I have been fighting Indians all my life. Look at this arrow. The feathers are not representative of any tribe. The arrowhead is metal. Indians have flint arrowheads. No Indian nation has a foundry or blacksmith. Come with me. Let’s go look at the two I killed.”

Reluctantly, the passengers accompanied Bowie, who wiped the war paint and grease from the dead men’s faces. A uniform gasp was emitted from the driver, guard, and passengers. All could see that a false flag attack had been perpetrated upon the stagecoach.

Bowie told his now attentive audience, ” this attack was intended to bring retribution upon demonized Indians. Innocent Indians would have been massacred while white men rode away with the money. Bowie removed the arrows from the stagecoach and put the metal tips into his pocket. We will take the bodies with us as evidence against further depredations against the Indians.

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Prison Planet.com » Federal Lunacy: Obama’s Endless Wars for Profit with Paul Craig Roberts

March 1, 2012 Leave a comment

Federal Lunacy: Obama’s Endless Wars for Profit with Paul Craig Roberts

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Prison Planet.com » The Media And GOP Are Suppressing The Reality That Ron Paul Has Reached Critical Mass

February 25, 2012 5 comments

What lies ahead for America, the West, and humanity in the immediate future is pain, disease, suffering, and destruction. A looming hyper-inflationary financial crisis, a world war, a global economic collapse, and a transnational fascist police state are threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of Western civilization.

This is the greatest political crisis that the West has ever faced. Government leaders are walking on pins and needles, hoping to avoid a transnational political revolution against the international banks that defrauded American taxpayers and the taxpayers of other nations.http://i40.tinypic.com/24buw3p.jpg

Financial and political analysts such as Gerald Celente, Paul Craig Roberts, Lew Rockwell, Max Keiser, Alex Jones, and many others predict that there will be vast political and social changes in the near future. Such sweeping changes will be the natural consequence of the 21st century intellectual revolution which has deconstructed totalitarian myths and narratives.

Most people realize that the global war on terror and global warming myths have been created for the purposes of mass manipulation and political control of the world. The shameless power-seekers in government and the corporate world can only maintain the credibility of these civilizational myths by enforcing widespread political censorship, which is impossible in the Age of the Internet.

So far, very few political leaders have emerged to speak for the global political awakening and spearhead the global political and monetary revolution. The man who has been carrying the torch for the longest time and has the greatest amount of political energy behind him is Ron Paul.

Ron Paul is no longer a lone voice in the political wilderness. He is not a lion without a pride in these dark days. He is not fighting the good fight alone in an empty room anymore. Ron Paul is now a shepherd who is leading millions of politically aware individuals in America and around the world out of the dark woods of economic ignorance and political tyranny.

The rise of Ron Paul is a great American success story. Throughout his political and medical career, Dr. Paul has lived the philosophy of the dark horse. Steady in stride, and determined in mission, the dark horse is the political world’s most noble creature. The Spirit of Endurance sets apart the dark horse from the rest of the field.

Ron Paul is clearly leaving the competition behind in the 2012 Republican presidential race. Dr. Paul has won the hearts and minds of the nation and of the world by the sheer force of his independent will and the integrity of his arguments. Dr. Paul’s plan to reconstruct America’s foreign policy and financial infrastructure based on constitutional principles has caught on like wildfire with the American people.

But the established system of fraud and war is resisting Ron Paul’s rise with: fraud and war.

The frightened GOP establishment and state-run mass media are using fraudulent means to contain the fire of freedom that Ron Paul has started, while picking an unnecessary fight with Iran to boost Obama’s weak leadership credentials during an election year.

On Wednesday, February 22, Infowars.com published one of the most important articles in this election season entitled, “Ron Paul Is Being Cheated Out of the Republican Nomination.” Paul Joseph Watson wrote:

“Despite his runaway success in terms of straw poll victories, campaign contributions and grass roots energy, a plethora of evidence strongly indicates that Ron Paul is being cheated out of winning any of the Republican caucuses, with the GOP establishment desperate to prevent the Texan Congressman from building any kind of momentum that the likes of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have been afforded.”

The Establishment’s conspiracy against Ron Paul is a conspiracy against the American voter and the American taxpayer. Only Ron Paul represents the interests of the American people and the American nation. Every other political leader in the 2012 presidential race, including Barack Obama, represents the interests of the cannibalistic American ruling class and international banking cartel.

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Pat Buchanan Avoids 9/11 Truth, Gets Fired Anyway | Veterans Today

February 21, 2012 1 comment
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Pat didn’t rise to the occasion.

I asked Paul Craig Roberts, a friend of Pat’s, to bring Pat up to speed.

Dear Paul Craig Roberts,

I interviewed Pat Buchanan yesterday and brought up your excellent review of his book. He said you’re a friend of his. So when the conversation turned to 9/11, and we strongly disagreed, I urged him to talk to you about it.

Here is my report on the interview, with the interview itself embedded.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/03/cheneys-1-doctrine-revisited-or-why-pat-buchanan-should-choose-his-friends-more-carefully/

In the unlikely event Pat calls you up to ask about 9/11, I’m sure you’ll acquit yourself well.

Best

Kevin

Dr. Roberts replied:

Pat can’t take a different stance on 9/11 from the official one and remain a TV pundit. He has all the controversial positions he can bear. I don’t know what he really thinks about 9/11, but there is no point in trying to have him commit suicide.

I see the point.

Paul Craig Roberts

But now Pat’s been fired anyway.

Judge Napolitano too.

Actually, there IS one good thing about Pat Buchanan getting fired from MSNBC: Anybody who’s managed to engineer an ebola virus that only kills MSNBC executives and pundits will no longer have to feel guilty about using it.

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Will Iran Be Attacked? by Paul Craig Roberts

February 10, 2012 Leave a comment
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Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran. There is speculation that Washington has called off its two longest running wars – Iraq and Afghanistan – in order to deploy forces against Iran.

Two of Washington’s fleets have been assigned to the Persian Gulf along with NATO warships. Missiles have been spread amongst Washington’s Oil Emirate and Middle Eastern puppet states. US troops have been deployed in Israel and Kuwait……

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America’s Last Chance By Paul Craig Roberts…

January 20, 2012 1 comment
America’s Last Chance
Global Research, January 15, 2012
America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect Ron Paul President, or they can descend into tyranny.

Why is Ron Paul America’s last chance?

Because he is the only candidate who is not owned lock, stock, and barrel by the military-security complex, Wall Street, and the Israel Lobby.

All of the others, including President Obama, are owned by exactly the same interest groups. There are no differences between them. Every candidate except Ron Paul stands for war and a police state, and all have demonstrated their complete and total subservience to Israel. The fact that there is no difference between them is made perfectly clear by the absence of substantive issues in the campaigns of the Republican candidates.

Only Ron Paul deals with real issues, so he is excluded from “debates” in which the other Republican candidates throw mud at one another: “Gingrich voted $60 million to a UN program supporting abortion in China.” “Romney loves to fire people.”

The mindlessness repels.

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9 Ways The Hijacked Federal Government Is Waging War Against The American People

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“The minute we fell for 9/11 we signed our doom,” said Paul Craig Roberts on the Alex Jones Show on November 9, 2011.

Alex responded, “9/11 is America’s death warrant.”

In the ten years since 9/11, America has been turned into a third world police state with a large underclass, a rapidly declining middle class, and a plutocracy that has broken its economic, political and emotional ties with America.

America’s traitorous political establishment has abandoned ship. They are treating America like a dump. Instead of building new bridges and creating jobs at home, they are shipping jobs overseas and forcing millions of Americans to beg for a piece of meat.

Even the body parts of American war heroes are discarded in landfillsites. That act is symbolic of the fact that the new world order traitors in Washington think of the American people as garbage and dirt.

On 9/11, the new world order traitors declared war on America and humanity.

So far, they have carried out the war from behind the scenes, in the shadows, inside the heart of government, while posing as America’s protectors. But that could change any day because the police state infrastructure that they have constructed in the last three decades in the guise of fighting terrorism and stopping the flow of drugs into America has given them the ability to wage their war against America out in the open.

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They have the resources and the will to completely destroy America. All that is missing is the perfect storm.

After the snakes of the new world order cause the perfect storm the wolves of the new world order will be unleashed on America. At that point, the war against America and humanity will enter a new stage.

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America Was Assassinated ~ Along with al-Awlaki. Article by Paul Craig Roberts.

October 3, 2011 2 comments

America Was Assassinated ~ Along with al-Awlaki. Article by Paul Craig Roberts.

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The Day America Died ~ (“America Was Assassinated”)Paul Craig Roberts…

October 3, 2011 Leave a comment

America Was Assassinated
Along with al-Awlaki. Article by Paul Craig Roberts.

…..Many expected President Obama to re-establish the accountability of government to law. Instead, he went further than Bush/Cheney and asserted the unconstitutional power not only to hold American citizens indefinitely in prison without bringing charges, but also to take their lives without convicting them in a court of law. Obama asserts that the US Constitution notwithstanding, he has the authority to assassinate US citizens, who he deems to be a “threat,” without due process of law.

In other words, any American citizen who is moved into the threat category has no rights and can be executed without trial or evidence.

On September 30 Obama used this asserted new power of the president and had two American citizens, Anwar Awlaki and Samir Khan murdered. Khan was a wacky character associated with Inspire Magazine and does not readily come to mind as a serious threat.

Awlaki was a moderate American Muslim cleric who served as an advisor to the US government after 9/11 on ways to counter Muslim extremism. Awlaki was gradually radicalized by Washington’s use of lies to justify military attacks on Muslim countries. He became a critic of the US government and told Muslims that they did not have to passively accept American aggression and had the right to resist and to fight back. As a result Awlaki was demonized and became a threat…..

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via The Day America Died by Paul Craig Roberts.

FBI Plot to Blow Up Pentagon and Capitol with Model Planes

September 30, 2011 2 comments

The homegrown terror narrative took a bizarre turn this week when the government arrested an American on charges he planned to blow up the Pentagon and the U.S. capitol with a model airplane.

Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen from Ashland, Massachusetts, was duped into thinking a harmless substance provided by the FBI was C-4 plastic explosives. FBI agents also gave Ferdaus six AK-47 assault rifles and three grenades. None of the weapons worked.

Ferdaus bought a model airplane for $6,500 and kept it secreted away in a rented storage facility in Framingham, Massachusetts. The FBI gave their dupe the money to buy the toy. He had plans to buy other military-style model aircraft.

He also allegedly provided agents with cell phones rigged to act as electric switches for improvised explosive devices, intended to be used to kill U.S. soldiers.

“The person was never really a threat,” a nameless law enforcement official told CNN.

“There is no information to indicate he was connected to a foreign terrorist organization. It appears he was radicalized watching videos on the internet. He was given the opportunity to back down, but he never wavered” from his intention – thanks to FBI encouragement – to carry out the attacks, the unidentified source said.

Despite this, Ferdaus will be charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al-Qaeda.

Ferdaus is another dupe in a long line of FBI patsies tricked into participating in absurd terror attacks cooked up by the federal government in order to propagandize a “homegrown” terror threat.

It does this because there is virtually no homegrown terror in the United States, even though the feds tell us there is and they hold hearings to scare us into supporting spending billions on Homeland Security and its tireless efforts to bring intrusive sexual molestation pat-downs to the local football stadium and mall.

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Not long after the corporate media launched its predictable and lame homegrown terror mantra this week, civil liberties groups began complaining about FBI entrapment.

“It deeply concerns us. It is another in a pattern of high-profile cases. Would this person have conceived or executed this plot without the influence of the FBI?” asked Heidi Boghosian, president of the National Lawyers Guild.

“There is a big, big difference between a plot initiated by the FBI and a plot initiated by a suspect, and it seems this might have been initiated by the FBI,” said Ibrahim Hooper, director of communications for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The government’s affidavit against Ferdaus mentions a person identified simply as “CW” who had a criminal record and served time in prison. CW met Ferdaus in December 2010 and began recording his conversations. After CW made contact with Ferdaus, the FBI stepped in and began goading him into committing a terrorist attack. They gave him money to scout targets and provided him with disabled weapons.

It is a familiar pattern. The FBI dispatched a criminal to hunt down a mentally deranged Muslim and get him talking about the fantasy of jihad and al-Qaeda. Next the FBI dispatched agents who posed as terrorists and they gave the mentally impaired person disabled weapons and fake explosives. It is not a stretch to assume they also thought up the crackpot model airplane idea and planted it in Ferdaus’ mind.

“The US has a vast and very expensive Homeland Security bureaucracy with nothing to do. There hasn’t been a terrorist attack in America since 2001,” writes Paul Craig Roberts. “As very few, if any, real terrorists have turned up, the FBI has resorted to creating terrorists by soliciting Muslim-Americans and appealing to them with schemes to aid ‘jihadists’… Like the police who find it easier to frame people than to convict them on the evidence, the FBI will find it easier to manufacture ‘terrorists’ with entrapment than to catch real terrorists.”

The Ferdaus case is anther example of this. Since there is virtually no terror threat in America, the government has to create it in order to keep their bogus and wasteful war against manufactured terrorism alive.

How else are they going to get our consent to invade small defenseless countries and roll out their high-tech surveillance grid in the homeland?

via Prison Planet.com » FBI Plot to Blow Up Pentagon and Capitol with Model Planes.

What is the mainstream media NOT reporting?

September 27, 2011 1 comment

In George Orwell‘s oft-quoted and insightful book 1984, we clearly see how this work of fiction has become reality, and in turn how reality is turned back into fiction through the manipulative, inaccurate and deceptive reporting of mainstream media. As Orwell accurately wrote:

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”

Indeed, this is the “reality” we face when we turn to mainstream news networks, a reality coloured and created through corporate interests which reflect their own agendas instead of the truth.

For example, political leaders and the mainstream media continue to explain to us that the reason for NATO‘s armed intervention in Libya is to bring freedom and democracy to the subjugated masses. However, as Global Research has been consistently pointing out through deep analysis and on-the-ground reporting, the concept of “humanitarian war” is a gross oxymoron. As Prof. Michel Chossudovsky wrote this week:

“The objective of the NATO bombings from the outset was to destroy the country’s standard of living, its health infrastructure, its schools and hospitals, its water distribution system. And then “rebuild” with the help of donors and creditors under the helm of the IMF and the World Bank.” (Read: “Destroying a Country’s Standard of Living: What Libya Had Achieved, What has been Destroyed”).

In Bahrain, Global Research Correspondent Finian Cunningham exposes how the West not only works against democratic principles, but goes to extreme lengths to ensure that their interests are not destabilized. Here is what the well-funded corporate media did not report about this week:

“It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the whole prosecution has been a vile fabrication; a show trial whose real purpose was to impugn the entire Bahraini political opposition. Disgracefully, in order for the US-backed Bahraini regime to achieve that objective two innocent young men are facing firing squads and five others are languishing for life in prison.” (Read: “Bahrain: New Evidence of Framed-up Death Sentences Against Pro-Democracy Activists”)

Turning the lens to North America, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts minces no words in describing the bleak state of……………..

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via What is the mainstream media NOT reporting?.

Pakistan TV Report Contradicts US Claim of Bin Laden’s Death “The Death of Osama bin Laden Were we fed a a pack of lies? Article by Paul Craig Roberts”

August 7, 2011 Leave a comment

“Therefore, it seems that although initially, the TV station was overjoyed with this interview, they changed their tune, twenty four hours later. (for some unknown reason.)”

Readers can arrive at their own conclusions. It seems clear that under intense pressure and serious threats from the US government, the Pakistani government fell in line with the US government’s claim that a commando raid had killed bin Laden and all had returned safely, and that the TV news organization also got the message to get in line.

It is likely that the many witnesses who observed the dead from the helicopter crash have been warned to keep quiet. However, a news organization, should one be so inclined, could certainly interview Bashir and the 200 others who saw the dead bodies. A good reporter, perhaps accompanied by trained psychologists, would be able to tell if people were lying out of fear and encourage some to speak anonymously.

via Pakistan TV Report Contradicts US Claim of Bin Laden’s Death by Paul Craig Roberts.

U.S. Imperialism Abroad Creating Police State At Home | Veterans Today

July 26, 2011 1 comment

As America’s empire spreads abroad, it becomes ever more the police state at home. The methods used for the suppression of foreigners by military force and violence are eventually mirrored in the “homeland.”

In an article last September 25th titled “It Is Official: the US Is A Police State,” author Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Treasury Secretary during the Reagan years, wrote, “’Violent extremism’ is one of those undefined police state terms that will mean whatever the government wants it to mean. In this morning’s FBI foray into the homes of American citizens of conscience it means antiwar activists, whose activities are equated with ‘the material support of terrorism’…”

The FBI raids at home are reminiscent of U.S. military raids overseas. In Iraq, for instance, labor union offices were raided and rifled and labor leaders imprisoned by the Occupation forces. Their “crime” was to oppose sweetheart contract deals with private oil firms.

The vast U.S. prison system, which houses 2.4 million Americans, may be compared with the Gulag the U.S. has built abroad. America today is the World’s Jailer. As Allan Uthman reported on AlterNet, in 2006 the Bush regime began building “detention centers” to warehouse inmates for unspecified “new programs” when the Army Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root nearly $400 million. What we do abroad, we do at home.

Adopting police state tactics on Americans the U.S. Empire first used on subjects abroad has a long history. When Filipinos rebelled against U.S. rule after their country was “liberated” from Spain, captured resistance fighters were subjected to water torture. Twenty years later, imprisoned American pacifists who opposed the Wilson administration’s entry into World War One were hung by their hands, and had running hoses shoved in their faces.

In its editorial of July 25th,

via U.S. Imperialism Abroad Creating Police State At Home | Veterans Today.

Martial Law in the Land of Confusion! by Gary D. Barnett

June 29, 2011 Leave a comment

In October of 2008, the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, a very “elite” combat squad, became the first active duty military unit to be dedicated and deployed for domestic use. This means the virtual elimination of the protections afforded us by the Posse Comitatus Act against federal military forces acting as domestic police. This is certainly an important step toward the implementation of Martial Law.

In January of 2010, President Obama signed Executive Order 13528, which established the Council of Governors. These governors are appointed directly by the president for the stated purpose of building a state/national police partnership. This fascist partnership was put into place to build a “legal” partnership between the federal government’s national military force and the domestic police agencies, so that they became one and the same. The scariest part about this is that this force would be fully controlled by the executive branch of government, making this a federally controlled domestic police force! I wrote about this here.

In 2010 Obama authorized the targeting of U.S. citizens for assassination, thus continuing another heinous Bush policy. Glenn Greenwald of Solon discusses this policy in detail in this article.

I have only touched the surface of course, as these things are only a few of the most obvious invasions of our liberty, but as you can see, these past ten years have brought an avalanche of liberty destroying policies and legislation to our doorstep. We are being bombarded continuously with more bad laws and more police state abuses. This behavior is increasing at an alarming rate, and the populace it seems is still mostly unresponsive to these intrusions by government.

Due to all these government actions, the stage has been set for Martial Law. But will it come, and if so, what events will trigger this state assault on us all? First, just consider where we are currently as a nation. Economically speaking, we are in dire straits. The national debt now stands at 14.3 trillion dollars. That doesn’t count all the hidden debt owed by the taxpayers that is sitting at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which is several trillion dollars more. Also not included are the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare, and Prescription Drugs, which total over 113 trillion dollars. Current annual deficits are running above 1.5 trillion dollars with no end in sight. And the Fed continues to create money out of thin air, and the government keeps spending. This is a recipe for disaster.

Real unemployment as calculated by the well-respected John Williams at Shadow Government Statistics is 22%, which means that approximately 33,000,000 people are now out of work. The government is only reporting 8.8% by its fraudulent U-3 method, or 13,000,000. When this many people are out of work, a huge drain on the system is the result, and desperation takes hold.

The U.S. killing machine is now openly advancing aggressive wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, and is covertly involved in military actions in several other countries. Besides murdering innocents abroad, the cost to run the military and to prosecute these immoral wars is over a trillion dollars a year.

Predator drones are being used to murder people in the Middle East on a regular basis, but they are also being used for domestic law enforcement. These computer game-like spying drones can be used for surveillance, and they can also be used for target killing. The fact that they are flying over our towns and cities is frightening.

Our money is being purposely destroyed every single day so that this corrupt government can monetize the massive debt it created. The Federal Reserve is a most willing accomplice in this scheme to bankrupt our society. If in fact our money continues to lose value at this pace, and massive or hyperinflation is the result, our wealth will simply disappear.

The state governments are in deep trouble as well, and they don’t have the power of the printing press to temporarily cover up their mistakes. State pensions are broke in some cases, and vastly underfunded for future obligations in most others. When the checks stop going out, frustration and anger will take over.

The TSA gropes, fondles, and intimidates those traveling daily. This is done to instill fear, and to habituate the sheep like populace into a herd mentality. It is meant to turn the citizens into serfs. The abusive and brutal behavior by state and local police, and other agents of the government, is increasing dramatically. It is increasing in numbers, but it is also increasing in severity. In 2007, Paul Craig Roberts wrote about this in his article titled America‘s Police Brutality Pandemic, but since the time of that writing, this problem has increased exponentially, and is still worsening.

As I said earlier, the stage is set for a police state takeover of our streets. The government has in place all the legislation, tools, and gendarmes it needs to implement Martial Law. It has a militarized police system armed and ready to act. It has a domestic military force trained in urban warfare. It has holding centers ready to house those who don’t go along or who practice civil disobedience. The government has the capability to listen to every conversation, to track our location, to monitor all our computers and email, and can shut down our communication systems, including the Internet at will.

via Martial Law in the Land of Confusion! by Gary D. Barnett.

Whom Does the Law Serve? by Paul Craig Roberts

June 28, 2011 1 comment

Whereas the police are required to respond to charges by questioning the accused, they are not supposed to make a public spectacle of him in order to create the impression that he is guilty before he is even charged. Yet DSK was arrested aboard an airliner as it was about to depart for France and portrayed by the police as a fleeing criminal. Photos were released of him in handcuffs and stripped of his business attire.

The judge refused bail to one of the West’s most high profile persons on the basis of the prosecutor’s statement that DSK would flee the country and hide out abroad. All of this quickly was passed to reporters, who obliged the prosecutors and police by portraying DSK as obviously guilty as he was apprehended fleeing from the country.

The police even planted the story that DSK was in such a hurry to flee that he left behind his cell phone and that that is how they found him. This was a ball-faced lie. The fact of the matter is that when DSK arrived at the airport, he discovered that he had left his cell phone and called the hotel, the scene of the alleged crime, to ask that it be retrieved and brought to him at the airport. When the police boarded his flight, he asked them, “Did you bring my cell phone.” He had no idea the police were there to detain him for questioning.

via Whom Does the Law Serve? by Paul Craig Roberts.

Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? by Paul Craig Roberts

June 7, 2011 Leave a comment

Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? by Paul Craig Roberts

Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? by Paul Craig Roberts:

“What is Washington’s solution for the rising power of China?

The answer might be to involve China in a nuclear war with India.

The staging of the fake death of bin Laden in a commando raid that violated Pakistan’s sovereignty was sold to President Obama by the military/security complex as a way to boost Obama’s standing in the polls.

The raid succeeded in raising Obama’s approval ratings. But its real purpose was to target Pakistan and to show Pakistan that the US was contemplating invading Pakistan in order to make Pakistan pay for allegedly hiding bin Laden next door to Pakistan’s military academy. The neocon, and increasingly the US military position, is that the Taliban can’t be conquered unless NATO widens the war theater to Pakistan, where the Taliban allegedly has sanctuaries protected by the Pakistan government, which takes American money but doesn’t do Washington’s bidding.”

via BLOGGER.1984.GUNNY.G: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? by Paul Craig Roberts.

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