At a time when 44 million Americans subsist on government food stamps and lack the kind of medical care common to other developed nations, each US soldier in Afghanistan costs $1 million per annum. CIA employs 80,000 mercenaries there, cost unknown. The Pentagon spends a staggering $20.2 billion annually air conditioning troop quarters in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The most damning assessment comes from the US-installed Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai: America’s war has been "ineffective, apart from causing civilian casualties."
Operation Enduring Freedom – the dreadfully misnamed ten-year US occupation of Afghanistan – has turned into Operation Enduring Misery.
After ten years of military and civil operations costing at least $450 billion, over 1,600 dead and 15,000 seriously wounded soldiers, the US has achieved none of its strategic or political goals. As for Afghanistan, it has suffered untold civilian casualties, villages shattered by US bombing, night raids by death squads, over two million refugees and a 30-year civil war.
The entire western style, democratic nation-state and financial system is in a state of collapse. The collapse began in 2000 and accelerated dramatically after the first round of money printing wore off in 2007.
Since then there have been uprisings worldwide. Even Americans have begun to awaken from their slumber with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests According to Diane Sawyer, anchor of ABC World News, the Occupy Wall Street protests have now spread to "more than a thousand countries". Sure, that is about 800 more countries than exist on this planet but, hey, close enough for a newsreader.
Nonetheless, there is definitely a movement for change going on in the world and this has a number of governments scared. Most western governments are essentially bankrupt and attempting to cling to power a little longer by once again printing money.
Governments are like an organism. And, like a dying animal, governments around the world are thrashing about in their death throes finding any possible way to keep their enslavement game going a little while longer.
One of the predominant ways governments have begun to do so are to label anyone who is against their taxes, laws, welfare or wars as terrorists. The word "terrorism" has been sensationalized to the point where even saying the word scares people. So, all governments need to do to try to quell the masses is to make as many of us into terrorists as possible.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Incredible Speech By Wall Street Protester "End The Fed" 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFz1VVXsWRU&feature=player_embedded
MUST SEE THIS ONE SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL.
THANK YOU TO JOE SILVERGOLD FOR THE HAEDS UP ON THIS ONE !!!
NO JUSTICE NO PEACE EVERYONE MARCH IN THE STREET
And What Happens to the Perpetrators of These Crimes? Nothing. They Have Immunity.
by Bill Anderson on October 6, 2011 08:34 AM
Nearly every day, we read about new exonerations of people wrongfully convicted of crimes, and in almost all of those cases, the main reason for the wrongful conviction was prosecutorial misconduct. Two exonerations in Texas and California highlight the role of prosecutors who wanted convictions more than they wanted the truth. We read:
(Obie) Anthony spent 17 years in prison after he was convicted of shooting and killing a man outside a brothel in Los Angeles. The prosecution's star witness, a pimp, eventually recanted his testimony. The pimp was offered a lighter sentence for his own crimes in order to testify against Anthony, the L.A. Times reports, and no one else at the crime positively identified Anthony as the shooter. Anthony said he was never there.
The case of Michael Morton, wrongfully imprisoned for 25 years for the murder of his wife is even worse and highlights just how callous and dishonest American prosecutors have become:
Morton, a Texan who spent nearly 25 years in prison on charges of beating his wife to death, was also released on Tuesday after a long campaign by the Innocence Project to uncover evidence they say was deliberately suppressed by the prosecution.
DNA testing on a bandana found near the scene of the crime found blood from Morton's wife and an as-yet-unnamed convict who is suspected of killing another woman in a similar way two years later, while Morton was in jail. (When Morton was convicted in 1987, current DNA testing didn't exist.) The Innocence Project says the prosecution hid from the jury that Morton's three-year-old son, who witnessed the murder, told a relative that a "monster"—not his father—was the perpetrator. The jury was also never told that Morton's wife's purse was stolen and her credit cards used in the weeks after her death, when Morton was in custody, the Innocence Project says.
Prosecutors for many years blocked DNA testing, and even after the results were made known continued to concoct wacky theories that would justify their own version of events, versions that violated the Laws of Time and Space. In other words, they wanted a conviction, and it was easier to get one against Morton than to find the real killer.
These atrocities occur for many reasons, but the main one is that prosecutors have immunity for any actions they committed while doing their "duties" as prosecutors. That means that outside people who actually have been harmed by wrongful prosecutorial actions cannot sue their tormenters and must depend upon the state apparatus itself to punish these prosecutors, something that almost NEVER happens.
This is the inevitable result of leaving matters of "justice" in the hands of the State, and specifically protected state employees who always will favor their careers more than actual justice. Lew Rockwell in an excellent commentary a few days ago wrote:
...the rise and entrenchment of the American police state are rarely questioned. Public opinion is mostly happy with the whole thing. There can never be too much prosecutorial power, never too many police, never too many prisons, never sentences that are too long. No one says: "We should not be so tough." The entire ethos is the opposite.
He then gets to the heart of the issue, and that is the granting of these powers to the State:
How could this have happened in America? Well, looking back, it seems that it all stems from a single flaw: the belief that the most essential institution in society is the state that protects us from criminality and must maintain a monopoly over justice. Some of the greatest defenders of freedom otherwise have been happy to make this one concession to the state. And this one concession is now a major source of our undoing as a free people.
People have told me that unless we grant prosecutors immunity, they "cannot do their jobs in fear of being sued." Well, if "doing their jobs" is subornation of perjury, lying to the courts, making false and inflammatory public statements and hiding exculpatory evidence — something prosecutors do on a regular basis — then maybe we might be better off if prosecutors DID have to fear the lawsuit.
NOTE: One of the prosecutors in the Morton case, Ken Anderson, now is a Texas state district judge. And people wonder why the "justice" system in this country has run off the rails?
by Bill Anderson on October 6, 2011 08:34 AM
Nearly every day, we read about new exonerations of people wrongfully convicted of crimes, and in almost all of those cases, the main reason for the wrongful conviction was prosecutorial misconduct. Two exonerations in Texas and California highlight the role of prosecutors who wanted convictions more than they wanted the truth. We read:
(Obie) Anthony spent 17 years in prison after he was convicted of shooting and killing a man outside a brothel in Los Angeles. The prosecution's star witness, a pimp, eventually recanted his testimony. The pimp was offered a lighter sentence for his own crimes in order to testify against Anthony, the L.A. Times reports, and no one else at the crime positively identified Anthony as the shooter. Anthony said he was never there.
The case of Michael Morton, wrongfully imprisoned for 25 years for the murder of his wife is even worse and highlights just how callous and dishonest American prosecutors have become:
Morton, a Texan who spent nearly 25 years in prison on charges of beating his wife to death, was also released on Tuesday after a long campaign by the Innocence Project to uncover evidence they say was deliberately suppressed by the prosecution.
DNA testing on a bandana found near the scene of the crime found blood from Morton's wife and an as-yet-unnamed convict who is suspected of killing another woman in a similar way two years later, while Morton was in jail. (When Morton was convicted in 1987, current DNA testing didn't exist.) The Innocence Project says the prosecution hid from the jury that Morton's three-year-old son, who witnessed the murder, told a relative that a "monster"—not his father—was the perpetrator. The jury was also never told that Morton's wife's purse was stolen and her credit cards used in the weeks after her death, when Morton was in custody, the Innocence Project says.
Prosecutors for many years blocked DNA testing, and even after the results were made known continued to concoct wacky theories that would justify their own version of events, versions that violated the Laws of Time and Space. In other words, they wanted a conviction, and it was easier to get one against Morton than to find the real killer.
These atrocities occur for many reasons, but the main one is that prosecutors have immunity for any actions they committed while doing their "duties" as prosecutors. That means that outside people who actually have been harmed by wrongful prosecutorial actions cannot sue their tormenters and must depend upon the state apparatus itself to punish these prosecutors, something that almost NEVER happens.
This is the inevitable result of leaving matters of "justice" in the hands of the State, and specifically protected state employees who always will favor their careers more than actual justice. Lew Rockwell in an excellent commentary a few days ago wrote:
...the rise and entrenchment of the American police state are rarely questioned. Public opinion is mostly happy with the whole thing. There can never be too much prosecutorial power, never too many police, never too many prisons, never sentences that are too long. No one says: "We should not be so tough." The entire ethos is the opposite.
He then gets to the heart of the issue, and that is the granting of these powers to the State:
How could this have happened in America? Well, looking back, it seems that it all stems from a single flaw: the belief that the most essential institution in society is the state that protects us from criminality and must maintain a monopoly over justice. Some of the greatest defenders of freedom otherwise have been happy to make this one concession to the state. And this one concession is now a major source of our undoing as a free people.
People have told me that unless we grant prosecutors immunity, they "cannot do their jobs in fear of being sued." Well, if "doing their jobs" is subornation of perjury, lying to the courts, making false and inflammatory public statements and hiding exculpatory evidence — something prosecutors do on a regular basis — then maybe we might be better off if prosecutors DID have to fear the lawsuit.
NOTE: One of the prosecutors in the Morton case, Ken Anderson, now is a Texas state district judge. And people wonder why the "justice" system in this country has run off the rails?
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
CALL TO ACTION... MARCH ON WALL STREET.
FRIENDS IT IS TIME TO CALL TO ACTION !!!
Join the March on Wall Street !!!
What you can not get there ???
Start a march in your city , town or village !!!
UNITED WE STAND !!!
History has always vilfied the righteous and exalted the corrupt. The words of those who speak the truth are put to death and those who blasphemy and steal from the honest man are immortalized for posterity. The more that a person is slandered the more I tend to believe that person as being correct in thought and action.
That is why the Tea Party continues to be demonized. When the general USA population wakes up from their stupid lazy slumber, they will know who's words were honest and truthful and then there will be hell to pay for those who have deceived , stole & ruined America. The sheep will become wolves {OK WISHFUL THINKING ON MY PART , BUT HEY YOU NEVER KNOW }.
Join the March on Wall Street !!!
What you can not get there ???
Start a march in your city , town or village !!!
UNITED WE STAND !!!
History has always vilfied the righteous and exalted the corrupt. The words of those who speak the truth are put to death and those who blasphemy and steal from the honest man are immortalized for posterity. The more that a person is slandered the more I tend to believe that person as being correct in thought and action.
That is why the Tea Party continues to be demonized. When the general USA population wakes up from their stupid lazy slumber, they will know who's words were honest and truthful and then there will be hell to pay for those who have deceived , stole & ruined America. The sheep will become wolves {OK WISHFUL THINKING ON MY PART , BUT HEY YOU NEVER KNOW }.
GO GET 'EM Occupy Wall Street
If there is any essential criticism to be made of Occupy Wall Street, it is that they have failed to target the true source of all these wrongs: the combine of governmental regulatory tyrants and the crony capitalists who make up the present kleptocracy !!!
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a
substantive profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a
substantive profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit
AMANDA KNOX & MICHAEL JACKSON ...WHO CARES !!!
The television news of ABC , CBS , NBC and FOX is a joke. Top stories Amanda Knox & Michael Jackson ???
Are they serious ???
Big business and big government go together like a hand and glove. It's hard to know which one's the glove, but basically there's a lot of collusion between the two. Protesting one without the other is kind of silly. Also, if you think a corporation can't or won't steal your money then you are either lacking in imagination or just dumb.
Corporations are perfectly capable of colluding with the government to make you pay more for stuff that you basically can't go without by introducing regulations, etc...
Ultimately it's all about power, power of violence, which backs up the power of money. The government and the big corporations have access to it to an overwhelming extent vis-a-vis atomized zombie citizens. And they are buddies in bed with each other. Big business and thier stooges in big government will use that power to enrich themselves, and if they have to screw the rest of society, they will do that too....
WITH THE HELP OF THE ARROGANT & CORRUPT COURTS !!!
Big government creates big regulations, which favor big business. They favor big business because a multi-billion dollar corporation can have a standing army of accountants and attorneys, and other compliance officers to make sure regulations are followed and taken advantage of. A hundred thousand dollar business can't.
Also big government creates treaties like NAFTA and WTO which favor big business because they can offshore labor, rendering American labor too expensive, becausethe USA has a so called higher standard of living or better known as over priced goods & services.
Finally, when big business drops the ball, big government bails them out lets them continue with their financial CRIMES.
Or have you not been paying attention ???
there is no more to free trade. What most people can not seem to understand is that 1000+ pages of documents ex: NAFTA with "free trade" in the title is not free trade, it is nothing but rules and regulations put in place by big business interests and enforced by the corrupt State.
A good rule of thumb: Anything labeled as "free trade" which is beyond two sentences is most likely anything but free trade.
This country is falling part. The useless president & do nothing congress are wasting time to create jobs and save this economy.
The GOP field of candidates for president is a joke.
Profits and CEO pay goes way up while incomes of the middle class & working people, once stagnant which was bad enough is going down. And it's wrong that guys who sit on their behind earn more for the workers toil than the workers do.
Is there a realistic and actually workable way to fix that ???
Not untitl the stupid sheep of America wake up !!
Not likely !!!
The stupid citzens settle for the government taking more and more of the middle class money.More tax breaks for the wealthy and powerful elites. The money which the Feds collect uses it to destroy liberty.
If oil and tobacco companies, for example, are so greedy and evil, what does that make a government that makes even more money from their products than they do ???
Those who think that decades of corrupt liberals and their inept teacher unions running the education establishment have caused no damage had best re-think their opinions. The ignorant spawn littering the streets of America are the end product of the Dept of Education and its minions, which began their brainwashing and dumbing down of America continues.
Are they serious ???
Big business and big government go together like a hand and glove. It's hard to know which one's the glove, but basically there's a lot of collusion between the two. Protesting one without the other is kind of silly. Also, if you think a corporation can't or won't steal your money then you are either lacking in imagination or just dumb.
Corporations are perfectly capable of colluding with the government to make you pay more for stuff that you basically can't go without by introducing regulations, etc...
Ultimately it's all about power, power of violence, which backs up the power of money. The government and the big corporations have access to it to an overwhelming extent vis-a-vis atomized zombie citizens. And they are buddies in bed with each other. Big business and thier stooges in big government will use that power to enrich themselves, and if they have to screw the rest of society, they will do that too....
WITH THE HELP OF THE ARROGANT & CORRUPT COURTS !!!
Big government creates big regulations, which favor big business. They favor big business because a multi-billion dollar corporation can have a standing army of accountants and attorneys, and other compliance officers to make sure regulations are followed and taken advantage of. A hundred thousand dollar business can't.
Also big government creates treaties like NAFTA and WTO which favor big business because they can offshore labor, rendering American labor too expensive, becausethe USA has a so called higher standard of living or better known as over priced goods & services.
Finally, when big business drops the ball, big government bails them out lets them continue with their financial CRIMES.
Or have you not been paying attention ???
there is no more to free trade. What most people can not seem to understand is that 1000+ pages of documents ex: NAFTA with "free trade" in the title is not free trade, it is nothing but rules and regulations put in place by big business interests and enforced by the corrupt State.
A good rule of thumb: Anything labeled as "free trade" which is beyond two sentences is most likely anything but free trade.
This country is falling part. The useless president & do nothing congress are wasting time to create jobs and save this economy.
The GOP field of candidates for president is a joke.
Profits and CEO pay goes way up while incomes of the middle class & working people, once stagnant which was bad enough is going down. And it's wrong that guys who sit on their behind earn more for the workers toil than the workers do.
Is there a realistic and actually workable way to fix that ???
Not untitl the stupid sheep of America wake up !!
Not likely !!!
The stupid citzens settle for the government taking more and more of the middle class money.More tax breaks for the wealthy and powerful elites. The money which the Feds collect uses it to destroy liberty.
If oil and tobacco companies, for example, are so greedy and evil, what does that make a government that makes even more money from their products than they do ???
Those who think that decades of corrupt liberals and their inept teacher unions running the education establishment have caused no damage had best re-think their opinions. The ignorant spawn littering the streets of America are the end product of the Dept of Education and its minions, which began their brainwashing and dumbing down of America continues.
Monday, October 3, 2011
How Obama Won His US Senate Office by Robert Wenzel
“The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution… Bankers are more dangerous than standing armies… [and] If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.”
How Obama Won His US Senate Office by Robert Wenzel
At Political Theatre, Lew Rockwell mentions my comment to him about Tim Geithner's father funding President Obama's mother. The facts are there and it should be broadly understood, but what also should be understood is that it appears Obama had his political career cleared for him right from the start.
I happened to have somewhat of a front row seat when Obama first ran for Senate in Illinois. In the Democratic primary he ran against a very wealthy stock trader, Blair Hull. Hull was unskilled as a politician, but he had big money (his own) to compete against Obama. He had the support of Chicago's Gold Coast behind him and I attended one event where Billie Jean King endorsed him.
He was well ahead in the polls, when his sealed divorce papers were leaked to the press. During the divorce, his then-wife accused him of hitting her. Now, the one thing you could say about Hull was that he was a meek guy. You never really know what goes on behind closed doors, but my bet would have been that his ex was the one doing the smacking around, rather them him. That said, as we all know all kinds of accusations can fly in a divorce, especially when hundreds of millions of dollars were at stake.
But the press road this "beating" story, and the unskilled Hull plummeted in the polls and Obama won the Democratic primary by a huge margin.
In the general election, Obama faced the very popular Jack Ryan, a one time Goldman Sachs partner. It appeared that Obama had no chance against Ryan. But then Ryan's divorce records and child custody files were released. In the custody files, his then-wife, the actress Jeri Ryan (who had a role as Borg member "Seven of Nine" on Star Trek: Voyager), alleged that Jack Ryan had asked her to perform sexual acts with him in public in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."
Days after the release, Ryan withdrew from the race. In his place, the Republican Party placed the ineffective Alan Keyes, and Obama coasted into the Senate seat, receiving 73% of the votes.
It was the largest percentage ever achieved in the state history of U.S. Senate elections. When Lew writes that Obama:
was wafted upwards by the establishment, through the most expensive schools, to a sure-win US senate race, to the presidency, the fact that he was to the Langley manor born might explain it.
He isn't kidding. Without the extremely weak charges against Hull, that the media mysteriously harped on, Obama would have never made it out of the primaries. Then he comes up against Ryan, who to an outsider would have looked like a formidable opponent, but in retrospect was put in to be taken out Hull-style via divorce-related revelations, only to have Obama face the very weak opponent Keyes.
Wafted upwards is exactly what comes to mind.
How Obama Won His US Senate Office by Robert Wenzel
At Political Theatre, Lew Rockwell mentions my comment to him about Tim Geithner's father funding President Obama's mother. The facts are there and it should be broadly understood, but what also should be understood is that it appears Obama had his political career cleared for him right from the start.
I happened to have somewhat of a front row seat when Obama first ran for Senate in Illinois. In the Democratic primary he ran against a very wealthy stock trader, Blair Hull. Hull was unskilled as a politician, but he had big money (his own) to compete against Obama. He had the support of Chicago's Gold Coast behind him and I attended one event where Billie Jean King endorsed him.
He was well ahead in the polls, when his sealed divorce papers were leaked to the press. During the divorce, his then-wife accused him of hitting her. Now, the one thing you could say about Hull was that he was a meek guy. You never really know what goes on behind closed doors, but my bet would have been that his ex was the one doing the smacking around, rather them him. That said, as we all know all kinds of accusations can fly in a divorce, especially when hundreds of millions of dollars were at stake.
But the press road this "beating" story, and the unskilled Hull plummeted in the polls and Obama won the Democratic primary by a huge margin.
In the general election, Obama faced the very popular Jack Ryan, a one time Goldman Sachs partner. It appeared that Obama had no chance against Ryan. But then Ryan's divorce records and child custody files were released. In the custody files, his then-wife, the actress Jeri Ryan (who had a role as Borg member "Seven of Nine" on Star Trek: Voyager), alleged that Jack Ryan had asked her to perform sexual acts with him in public in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."
Days after the release, Ryan withdrew from the race. In his place, the Republican Party placed the ineffective Alan Keyes, and Obama coasted into the Senate seat, receiving 73% of the votes.
It was the largest percentage ever achieved in the state history of U.S. Senate elections. When Lew writes that Obama:
was wafted upwards by the establishment, through the most expensive schools, to a sure-win US senate race, to the presidency, the fact that he was to the Langley manor born might explain it.
He isn't kidding. Without the extremely weak charges against Hull, that the media mysteriously harped on, Obama would have never made it out of the primaries. Then he comes up against Ryan, who to an outsider would have looked like a formidable opponent, but in retrospect was put in to be taken out Hull-style via divorce-related revelations, only to have Obama face the very weak opponent Keyes.
Wafted upwards is exactly what comes to mind.
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