Author: rbeason

Henry Makow

A pervasive system diverts us from the truth and places us in a cultural limbo where very little is real.

“The CIA actively promoted modern abstract art, an art disconnected from human identity and aspirations, an art any child or monkey could produce.”

“We have already contrived to possess the minds of the goy communities…[they are] looking through the spectacles we are setting astride their noses.” (Protocols of Zion, 12)   Continue reading “How the Illuminati Control Culture”

NBC News – by Kiko Itasaka

KABUL, Afghanistan – Armed with cash, just about anyone can buy guns, body bags, fake ID cards and genuine American and Afghan military uniforms in Kabul’s markets – all for “a very good price,” according to the sellers.

The legendary Bush Market, named after the 43rd U.S. president, is the largest and best-known of the black market centers in Kabul. A maze of some 500 makeshift stalls, the bazaar offers the usual food and clothing staples.   Continue reading “In Afghanistan, insider attacks begin with a trip to the market”

France 24

AFP – China is employing two million people to keep tabs on people’s Internet use, according to state media, in a rare glimpse into the secret world of Beijing’s vast online surveillance operation.

Many of the employees are simply performing keyword searches to monitor the tens of millions of messages being posted daily on popular social media and microblogging sites, the Beijing News said.   Continue reading “China pays 2 million people to monitor Internet”

The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

Can there be a more fruitful source of dispute, or a kind of dispute more difficult to be settled?

— James Madison speaking at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 on the spending bill battles between the House and Senate that would occur.   Continue reading “Constitution Gives House of Reps the “Weapon” to Destroy ObamaCare”

Huffington Post Canada – by Daniel Tencer

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Trade Minister Ed Fast are headed to Malaysia and Indonesia this week, and one of the main issues on their agenda is a trade deal that would cover one-third of the world’s international commerce.

But what the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will contain is so far a matter of rumour, conjecture and guesswork — nowhere more so than in Canada, where the government has kept a tight lid on news coming out of the talks.   Continue reading “Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks Headed For Finish Line Amid Official Secrecy”

The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

Think state and local law enforcement aren’t watching you with high-tech federally-owned drones? Think again.

In a new post, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)reports that Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, released an updated list of “times the agency has flown its Predator drones on behalf of other agencies — 500 flights in total over a three-year period.”   Continue reading “Border Patrol Loaning Predator Drones to Military, State, and Local Police”

Paul Craig Roberts

The inability of the media and politicians to focus on the real issues never ceases to amaze.

The real crisis is not the “debt ceiling crisis.” The government shutdown is merely a result of the Republicans using the debt limit ceiling to attempt to block the implementation of Obamacare. If the shutdown persists and becomes a problem, Obama has enough power under the various “war on terror” rulings to declare a national emergency and raise the debt ceiling by executive order. An executive branch that has the power to inter citizens indefinitely and to murder them without due process of law, can certainly set aside a ceiling on debt that jeopardizes the government.   Continue reading “The Real Crisis Is Not The Government Shutdown”

Freeman’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenberg

You may have heard that Silk Road – the truly free online market – was taken down today, by the FBI. In response, the price of Bitcoin crashed 24%.

Yet here I am – just a few hours later, feeling very optimistic. Why? Because the philosophy offreedom just showed itself to be massively stronger than statism and its “don’t think, just obey” philosophy.   Continue reading “Silk Road Died, Bitcoin Crashed, So Why am I so Happy?”

The New York Post

PARIS — Tourists travelling to Omaha Beach to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial will find it closed, a victim of the U.S. government’s partial shutdown.

The site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have closed to visitors since Monday. Ten more cemeteries in in France, as well as others in various European countries as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines, will remain closed for the duration of the shutdown.   Continue reading “Gov’t shutdown spreads to beaches of Normandy”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

All of this whining and crying about a “government shutdown” is a total joke.  You see, there really is very little reason why this “government shutdown” cannot continue indefinitely because almost everything is still running.  63 percent of all federal workers are still working, and 85 percent of all government activities are still being funded during this “shutdown”.

Yes, the Obama administration has been making a big show of taking down government websites and blocking off the World War II Memorial, but overall business in Washington D.C. is being conducted pretty much as usual.    Continue reading “Government Shutdown? 36 Facts Which Prove That Almost Everything Is Still Running”

Fox News – by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

While the nation’s political class has been fixated on a potential government shutdown in Washington this week, the NSA has continued to spy on all Americans and by its ambiguity and shrewd silence seems to be acknowledging slowly that the scope of its spying is truly breathtaking.   Continue reading “A government looking for witches will find them”

Info Wars – by Paul Joseph Watson

The so-called “government shut down” and the furloughing of thousands of non-essential federal employees has not prevented the opening of a $2 billion dollar NSA spy center in Utah which will snoop on Americans’ private emails, Google searches and phone calls.

As we highlighted yesterday, the shut down will only affect the tiny amount of services government provides that Americans actually like.   Continue reading “Government ‘Shut Down’ Doesn’t Prevent Opening of $2 Billion NSA Spy Center”

Global Research – by Prof Peter Dale Scott

“I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [the National Security Agency] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”   – Senator Frank Church (1975)

I would like to discuss four major and badly understood events – the John F. Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11. I will analyze these deep events as part of a deeper political process linking them, a process that has helped build up repressive power in America at the expense of democracy.   Continue reading “The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11”

WND – by F. MICHAEL MALOOF

WASHINGTON – Banks “too big to fail,” or TBTFs, already have authority in the United States to impose an unlimited Cyprus-style “bail-in” that confiscates the savings of depositors, stockholders and shareholders in lieu of a federal taxpayer bailout.

The Cyprus-style bail-in for banks occurred last year when the Cypriot government decided to take all uninsured deposits above 100,000 euros to apply to recapitalizing the island’s failing banks. WND recently detailed the initial impact that such action caused depositors on that island country.   Continue reading “U.S. banks already can take your money”

Activist Post – by Madison Rupert

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro kicked out three major American diplomats from his country on and stated that there will be no “cordial ties” with the U.S. until Venezuelan sovereignty is respected.

Maduro expelled the diplomats from a U.S. Embassy on Monday, saying that the officials were conducting espionage and attempting to destabilize his country.   Continue reading “Venezuelan president kicks out US diplomats, declares no ‘cordial ties’ until sovereignty respected”

Reason – by Ed Krayewski

Benton Mackenzie is 47 and set to die, suffering from terminal angiosarcoma cancer. Mackenzie uses medical marijuana to manage his pain, including a cannabis oil for his skin lesions some doctors say make his experience worth studying for other patients. Mackenzie’s effort to alleviate his pain and improve the quality of his life, however, has put him in the crosshairs of Iowa law enforcement. The Quad-City Times reports on how it started:   Continue reading “Terminal Cancer Patient in Iowa, Entire Family, Face Drug Charges Over His Medical Marijuana Use”

Steve Lendman