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”

silk roadFreeman’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?”

Educate Yourself – by Ken Adachi

[Editor’s Note. ZS Livingstone was likely the first reporter on the Internet to promptly alert the public on March 12, 2011 and again on March 14, 2011, of the heinous crimes of sabotage, destruction, and murder inflicted on the people of Japan on March 11, 2011 by the US government, with Israeli/Illuminati cabal collusion. There was no natural 9.0 earthquake and there was no “tsunami” that caused the massive destruction and loss of life in northern Japan on 3/11. There was only high tech sabotage and a media propaganda blitz carried out by the psychopathic, satanic criminals who control the US government and its military. Someday, the true story of the 3/11 attack on Japan will be told in full. In the meantime, we continue to cherish the remarkable insights offered by ZSl to enlighten and educate…Ken Adachi]   Continue reading “In Praise of Tokyo Electric Power Company TEPCO”

silver-lining shutdownThe Organic Prepper

I can’t really mourn too much that the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are unable to continue wreaking regulatory havoc on the little guys due to the government shutdown.  In fact, I think a celebration just might be in order.  This could be a good chance for folks to see how unnecessary the intervention of  the government is in running the minute details of our everyday lives.   Continue reading “FDA and EPA are Victims of the Government Shutdown – Is This Supposed to be a Bad Thing?”

21st Century Wire – by Jason Liosatos

People only really find out they are dependent on something when it stops providing, and at that point its often too late to survive without it’.

We are being forced to awaken to the shocking fact that governments and the financial systems are collapsing, as they were always destined to do,  being based on short term greed, fear, recklessness, and managed without vision and wisdom. The first big card to fall is the US, and others will undoubtedly follow.    Continue reading “Breaking The Chains: Our Financial System is Pulling Us Down”

A natural gas well is drilled near Canton, in Bradford County, Pennsylvania (Reuters)RT News

Researchers have found high levels of radioactivity, salts, and metals in water and sediment located downstream from a treatment facility which processes fracking wastewater from oil and gas production sites in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale formation.

A Duke University team analyzed water and sediment samples from the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, finding radium levels 200 times greater than samples taken upstream from the plant and far higher than what’s allowed under the Clean Water Act.    Continue reading “‘Alarming’ presence of radioactivity found by Pennsylvania fracking wastewater study”

A burning car is seen in front of the Russian embassy, as it came under attack in Tripoli October 2, 2013. (Reuters)RT News

An attack on Russia’s embassy in Libyan Tripoli comes as retaliation after a Russian woman killed local officer and injured his mother, Foreign Ministry confirmed.

Embassy staffers and their families have left Libya following the attack.   Continue reading “Tripoli embassy attack sparked after Libyan officer killed by Russian woman – FM”

Chuck Hagel, John Kerry, Shinzo AbeMail.com

TOKYO (AP) — The United States and Japan moved Thursday to modernize and expand their defense alliance to counter new challenges, including a nuclear-armed North Korea and potential aggression from China over disputed territory.

In the first update to the defense partnership in 16 years, the allies agreed to position a second early-warning radar in Japan within the next year to help protect against North Korea. And by next spring, they will deploy new long-range surveillance drones to help monitor disputed islands in the East China Sea, a move that may well raise tensions with Beijing.   Continue reading “US, Japan to deploy new radar, drones in next year”

AFP_523486727USA Today – by Doug Stanglin

A car chase that began with a car ramming a barricade near the White House on Thursday ended with gunfire on Capitol Hill and the brief lockdown of the U.S. Capitol.

“There are reports of injuries,” said Terrance Gainer, the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms. CNN quotes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as saying there has been “one injury.”   Continue reading “Lockdown lifted after shooting near U.S. Capitol”

View image on TwitterUpdate: Tribune news wire reports

2:07 p.m. CDT, October 3, 2013

Gunshots were fired outside the U.S. Capitol this afternoon, injuring several people including a law enforcement officer, according to reports. A lockdown order was issued for the Capitol, but it was lifted later.

The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate were in session when the gunshots were heard. Police called in a Medevac helicopter, a Senate aide and a U.S. Capitol policeman said.   Continue reading “U.S. Capitol placed on lockdown after shots fired”

Max Velocity Tactical

So: I am now revealed as a rabid communist, intent on victimizing innocent families just trying to survive, redistributing their stuff.

That is not even half the truth of it: in fact I am a secret agent of King George (who is still alive in a sealed wing of Buckingham Palace). My mission is to foment revolution in order for the King to take back the thirteen colonies, upon which two hundred years of back tax is due to the Crown. The King will also outlaw coffee, making tea drinking compulsory. There is a fleet of Royal Navy wooden ships armed with cannon off the coast of Virginia right now, loaded with Red Coats armed with muskets, who will invade to enforce this..    Continue reading “Teamwork Vs. Collectivism”

92431-cartoon1495Veterans Today – by Preston James

Inside the beltway, it’s doofuses ‘R us and perhaps the world’s biggest collection of gangsters, liars, criminal psychopaths and incompetents.

And now it’s getting exposed, even in the Major Mass Media.

And the alternative Internet Media is going wild exposing the dark criminal underbelly of the USG and American Intel leaders who have now lost all the respect of “we the people” and have damaged their agencies beyond repair.   Continue reading “Inside Beltway III: Creating Cover for Big Shift”

Preston Police Chief Ken GeddesStoryLeak – by Michael Thalen

Several police departments across Idaho have joined the growing number of states receiving armored military vehicles from the federal government.

Canyon County, Ada County, Post Falls and Preston are among the departments now equipped with bulletproof, Mine Resistance Ambush Protected Personnel Carrier (MRAP) vehicles, normally seen on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.   Continue reading “Idaho Police Join Growing Number Of Departments With Military Vehicles”

They have closed the commissaries at all military bases because of the shutdown. They have never done this in a government shutdown before. Why are they doing it this time? They are only doing this for effect.

Imagine the troops overseas right now in Germany and other countries. The prices for food in Europe are outrageous. Troops rely on commissaries to be able to eat at an affordable price. They are now forced to purchase their food in the towns around them. What about the PFC that has three kids and is living paycheck to paycheck? He has to go buy his chow in a German town at three times the price of the commissary.   Continue reading “Commissary closes up shop at March base – This is a game to them”

Washington’s Blog

DHS Pretends It Still Has Privacy Officers … When They’ve All Quit In Disgust

Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer Valentino tweets:

Former DHS Privacy Officer Mary Ellen Callahan: DHS Privacy Office was accused monthly of being “terrorists” by DHS, IC   Continue reading “Chief DHS Privacy Officer: Government Called Privacy Office “Terrorists””