Month: June 2014
Global Research – by James Hall, BATR
A quaint comparison of what money can buy in today’s market has Bill Gates being able to afford every home in Boston. His $76.6 billion reported by the Washington Post or the $78.4 billion by Forbes seems a pittance when put up against John D. Rockefeller’s peak wealth of $318.3 billion (based on 2007 US dollar).
According to your resident commissars over at MSNBC, “The median net worth of American households hasn’t changed much over the past decades, it’s about $20,000.” So if Gates decided to purchase all the Beantown houses, whom would he pay for the bricks and mortar? Certainly, most Americans may think of ”their home is their castle”, but few actually own a debt free deed to their grand estate. No wonder the banks and financial institutions, are so fond of placing liens on real property. Continue reading “Buying Up America”: The Individual Wealth of US Billionaires”
21st Century – by Shawn Helton
This past weekend we were told that a ‘shooting spree’ occurred about five miles from the Vegas strip, a place better known for its seedy sin-filled entertainment, mafia-run blackjack tables, high-roller roulette and closed door prostitution. The Casino-laden city appears to be a permanent stage for criminal activity of a new sort…
The highly publicized Las Vegas shooting that involved a husband and wife that had apparently filled a shopping cart full of weapons and ammunition seemed to be shocking at first glance, however, after it was revealed that the couple walked some four miles to take the lives of two metropolitan police officers at close range inside CiCi’s pizzeria, something seemed amiss as there wasn’t a clear motive. Continue reading “Sin City: ‘Vegas Shooters’ Had Relationship with Nevada Police – Active Shooting Drills Provided Backdrop”
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed reports about the deployment of Iranian forces in Iraq, but expressed Tehran’s preparedness to provide any help upon Baghdad’s request to fight the Takfiri militants.
“The issue of Iranian forces’ engagement [in Iraq] has not been raised so far,” Rouhani said in a Saturday press conference in Tehran marking the first anniversary of his election. Continue reading “No Iranian forces in Iraq: Rouhani”
Not in words, but in (non)actions….
Following is a letter from Joe Meadors, Director of Operations, USS Liberty Veterans Association
To: Everyone Who Honors All of Our Battle Dead — This Obviously Does Not Include The National Leaders of The Department of Defense, The Navy Department, The American Legion, The Navy League and Every Member of Congress Continue reading “US Government Declares Survivors Of USS Liberty Persona Non Grata”
With very little attention from the media or the courts, budget-stressed police departments in the US are resorting to confiscations of property through so-called “civil forfeiture” procedures, which amount to serious violations of Constitutional rights. Worse still, the Supreme Court has recently sanctioned civil forfeitures in criminal cases—even when law enforcement has not attained a conviction of the party to be expropriated.
For elaboration on the history, trajectory, and dangers of the phenomenon of civil forfeiture and some other governmental transgressions against Constitutional rights, Radio VR’s David Kerans spoke with Washington Times columnist Cheryl Chumley, author of Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality. Continue reading “Civil Forfeitures as a Step Toward A Police State in America”
The wholesale looting of America and the transfer of wealth and power, along with the complete obliteration of any remaining freedom to protest, resist, or even speak out is now entering its final phase as numerous different pieces of the jigsaw puzzle fall into place and portray a clear picture of tyranny.
We are about to sound the death knell for the United States if our liberty, free speech, sovereignty, and right to not be ruled over is not fiercely opposed and crushed. Continue reading “The Complete Takeover Of America”
(Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered an aircraft carrier moved into the Gulf on Saturday, readying it in case Washington decides to pursue a military option after insurgents overwhelmed a string of Iraqi cities this week and threatened Baghdad.
“The order will provide the Commander-in-Chief additional flexibility should military options be required to protect American lives, citizens and interests in Iraq,” the Pentagon said in a statement. Continue reading “Hagel orders US aircraft carrier to Persian Gulf”
According to the CDC, there’s now another reason to hate mosquitos. ABC reports, “A debilitating virus carried by mosquitoes now in the US. North Carolina has reported its first case of the virus, and some doctors are worried it could spread like the West Nile virus.”
WCNC says, “Forsyth County has confirmed its first case of chikungunya. The person who got sick got it while traveling on vacation down in the Caribbean.” Continue reading “New mosquito-carried virus confirmed in US”
The Daily Beast – by Michael Daly
When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi walked away from a U.S. detention camp in 2009, the future leader of ISIS issued some chilling final words to reservists from Long Island.
The Islamist extremist some are now calling the most dangerous man in the world had a few parting words to his captors as he was released from the biggest U.S. detention camp in Iraq in 2009.
“He said, ‘I’ll see you guys in New York,’” recalls Army Col. Kenneth King, then the commanding officer of Camp Bucca.
America is being doused every minute of every day with the toxic heavy metal lead as it is burned in “avgas” — aviation gas, the fuel that powers most piston-driven aircraft (i.e. anything with a propeller). A grand total of 571 tons of lead are dumped each year into the air over our heads from aircraft alone, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (1)
According to a scientific paper titled, “Lead and Halogen Contamination from Aviation Fuel Additives at Brackett Airfield,” (2) X-Ray Fluorescence instrumentation was used to analyze lead, chlorine and bromine content in avgas liquids. The tests showed avgas contains the following: Continue reading “Irrefutable proof we are all being sprayed with poison: 571 tons of toxic lead ‘chemtrailed’ into America’s skies every year”