Freedom Outpost – by Darwin Rockantansky

Responsibility: The state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one’s power, control, or management.

To most of us the concept of responsibility is a very simple concept; one that we learned from our parents. Every child is born with a natural instinct to avoid parental retribution for deeds unacceptable for whatever reason. However, loving and caring parents take the time to teach the concept of responsibility; i.e taking “credit” for one’s actions and accepting the consequences for ill-advised actions.   Continue reading “It’s Time that We The People Take Responsibility for the State of the Nation”

World Events and the Bible

(World Tribune) – Turkey has acknowledged that Syrian rebels were seeking to acquire chemical weapons.

Prosecutors have determined that Sunni rebels linked to Al Qaida were ordering precursors required for chemical weapons.   Continue reading “Turkey confirms Syrian rebels with Al Qaida ties sought chemical weapons”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Notice how the shift has moved to Iran publicly? I say publicly, because this has always been about Iran. Damascus is the road to Persia. Even while war is threatened we hear talks of peace. There will be no peace, but the world will cry for it (1 Thes. 5:3).

(VideoHaaretz) – Iranian president Hassan Rohani is reportedly prepared to shutter the Fordow uranium enrichment facility, as part of a possible deal with the United States and Europe.   Continue reading “Rohani prepared to shut Iran nuclear plant if West lifts sanctions”

RT News

Damascus has presented to Russia additional evidence regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Earlier Western countries accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons against civilians, citing a controversial UN report.

The evidence was handed over on Wednesday to Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, who met Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moualem and President Bashar Assad in Damascus.   Continue reading “West-accused Syria gives Russia new evidence of rebel hand in chem attacks”

Reuters / Andrew WinningRT News

No telecommunications company ever refused to follow the secret US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s orders to turn over bulk phone records under the Patriot Act, despite a legal mechanism to do so, the court has revealed.

“To date, no holder of records who has received an order to produce bulk telephony metadata has challenged the legality of such an order,” Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Claire Eagan wrote. Her opinion was made public on Tuesday.    Continue reading “Privacy perverted: No telco ever disobeyed NSA phone record orders”

terrorFreeman’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenberg

There was a shooting [Monday] in DC. The details are still sketchy as I write this, but it appears that a deranged man decided to kill other people for some reason. In response, the usual talking heads will be debating whether this is actual TerrorTMor merely something like it. But the T-word will be spoken in the same grave way we speak of cancer – a thing to be dreaded above all else.

Certainly this shooting was a horrible, tragic thing – especially for the families involved. But that said, any talk about an “age of terror” is utter crap.  

Terror is NOT worse now than it was before 9/11– it’s just that we’ve been bombarded with fear for more than a decade, creating a culture-wide residue that poisons every mind it touches. In actual fact, you are eight times more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist. Does that mean that we should all have a collective panic attack and beg for anti-police police?

Now here’s the truth they don’t want you to know: You are taught to fear because fear makes you easy to manipulate. If someone is making you afraid, they’re also making you into an easy mark – a sucker.

Think of how many things people have accepted from governments just because they were afraid. Things like complete online surveillance, crotch searches at airports, random searches on the highways, and so on. Do you think those would have been accepted in 1920? Of course they wouldn’t, because people hadn’t been sufficiently frightened at that time.

The Facts About Terrorism

The fact is, there has been terror in every age of human history. Our time is not unusual at all. A small but consistent percentage of people are always crazy enough to kill strangers and blow things up.

Let me give you some proof from a single year:

  • March 6       A bomb being assembled by terrorists explodes, killing 3.
  • April 8          47 children are killed by (peacetime) bombs from a neighboring country.
  • May 4            Soldiers kill four American college students.
  • May 8            A huge mob of construction workers in New York attacks protestors.
  • May 14          Police fire on a crowd at a college, killing 2 and injuring 12.
  • June 9           A bomb explodes at New York police headquarters.
  • July 12          Two canisters of tear gas are thrown into the British House of Commons.
  • August 7       Terrorists take a judge hostage in California, then kill him.
  • Sept. 1           An assassination attempt on the King of Jordan.
  • Sept. 6          Terrorists hijack four airplanes on flights to New York.
  • Oct. 5            Terrorists kidnap a British diplomat.
  • Oct. 10          Terrorists kidnap a Canadian Minister. He is found dead a week later.
  • Nov. 25         Terrorists seize the headquarters of Japan’s Defense Forces.
  • Nov. 27         An assassination attempt on the Pope.
  • Dec. 3            A major government caves and releases 5 terrorists.
  • Dec. 4            Spain declares martial law.
  • Dec. 7            A Swiss ambassador is kidnapped.
  • Dec. 13          Martial law is declared in Poland.

Can You Guess The Year?

Think it was in some terrible period of history? Maybe one of the worst years during World War Two?

It was 1970.

But you don’t have any horrible, scary feelings about 1970, do you? That’s because you were never taught to have them – unlike the endless fear that has been promoted to you in recent years.

You may not remember 1970, but I do, and I’ll tell you that people weren’t peeing themselves over this stuff. They thought these events were horrible, of course, but they also knew that such things had always happened, and would continue to happen.

Acts of Terrorism in the US

While 9/11 resulted in the single highest loss of life due to terrorism, such events aren’t isolated incidents. We’ve always had them:

  • 1910   A bomb goes off at the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
  • 1917   A race riot in East St. Louis kills between 40 and 200.
  • 1919   A race riot in Chicago kills dozens and injures hundreds.
  • 1920   A bomb explodes on Wall Street, killing 38 and injuring 143.
  • 1927   A deranged man blows up a school in Michigan, killing 44 and injuring 58.
  • 1943   A race riot in Detroit kills 34 and injures 433.
  • 1968   Race riots erupt in at least 125 US cities.
  • 1972   Terrorists detonate a bomb inside the Pentagon.
  • 1988   A terrorist poisons bottles of Tylenol in Chicago. 7 people die.

Get the picture? And I can give you examples of terror back to a few thousand years BC, from every corner of the world.

Do you really think that our new Nazi-style police state will stop this? (The Nazis couldn’t even stop assassination attempts on Hitler.)

These events are tragic, of course, but the chorus of fear that accompanies them it is all about manipulation: to keep us quiet and well behaved while we are bled of our money and ourfreedoms.

And boy, are they good at it.

Paul Rosenberg
FreemansPerspective.com

http://www.freemansperspective.com/secret-story-age-of-terror/

Occupy Wall Street protesters march from the United Nations building to Bryant Park on September 17, 2013 in New York City. (AFP Photo / Andrew Burton)RT News

Thousands of Occupy protesters demonstrated in New York City to mark the second anniversary of the movement on Tuesday, just as new figures show that poverty remains steady and the so-called “1 percent” have only grown wealthier.

Small groups of protesters marched near Zuccotti Park, the birthplace of the movement in 2011, while others marched through Washington Square Park and other areas of Manhattan.     Continue reading “2 years after Occupy Wall Street: Poverty persists, economic inequality grows”

A Predator drone operated by U.S. Office of Air and Marine (OAM) (AFP Photo / John Moore)RT News

A growing number of US universities now offer degree programs for students hoping to study the military technology of the future: drones. Flying an unmanned aerial device is now a viable career in a world of growing surveillance and fewer job options.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida became the first American university to offer postgraduate education in drone warfare this autumn, opening a program that promises students job security right after school – when many of their friends could be moving back in with their parents.   Continue reading “US colleges train students in drone warfare as job opportunities beckon”

CRE - 600 out of 9,000 patients die a year (Image from cdc.gov)RT News

A lack of new antibiotics, coupled with the over-prescription of existing ones, is making many formerly routine diseases untreatable, according to a new report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

At least two million people in the US are infected each year – and 23,000 of those die – from bacteria that does not respond to treatment by usual or any antibiotics, claims the Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States 2013 report.   Continue reading “Drug-resistant bacteria: 23,000 deaths a year in US and getting worse”

Greg Palast

Joseph Stiglitz couldn’t believe his ears.  Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America’s economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns to his boss, Secretary Robert Rubin, and says, “What would Goldman think of that?”

Huh?   Continue reading “Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked”

IMRA

PM Netanyahu’s Remarks at the Start of the Weekly Cabinet Meeting

(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Tuesday, 17 September 2013), made
the following remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting:   Continue reading “PM Netanyahu – 4 steps Iran must carry out (remarks at cabinet meeting)”

Photo: Sebastien Wiertz via FlickrInfowars – by Julie Wilson

A new report by the Daily Mail reveals Facebook users are abandoning the social media giant at an unprecedented rate over privacy concerns.

New research shows Facebook has lost a total of eleven million users, nine million in the US and two million in Britain. Researchers at the University of Vienna analyzed 600 users and found they quit for the following reasons:   Continue reading “11 Million Users Abandon Facebook”

Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die

Former President Bill Clinton disarmed the United States Marines at the Navy Yard in Washington DC back in 1993 when he declared virtually all military bases to be gun-free zones. The interview in the video below with a Marine’s father whose son was at the Navy Yard is telling: “If we had the ammunition, we could’ve cleared that building.” The Marine’s father continues to share that had they had ammunition, they would have been able to prevent the carnage that resulted. I wonder how many lives these gun-free zones have saved? The lives of innocent Americans were surely lost on Monday, September 16th, 2013 as a result of Clinton’s anti-gun legislation.   Continue reading “Clinton Disarmed Navy Yard Marines Back In 1993, Leading To The Deaths Of Innocent Americans”

The Yamal large landing craft (RIA Novosti/Alexey Kudenko)RT News

The Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean Sea will be boosted by another military vessel till the end of September, according to the country’s Black Sea Fleet command.

The large landing ship, Yamal, is set to depart from the port of Sevastopol, Ukraine by the end of the month to join the 10 vessels Russia already has in Mediterranean waters.    Continue reading “Russian Mediterranean fleet to be expanded to 11 warships”

Navy Yard Gunman Practiced Shooting Days Before RampageYahoo News – CHRISTINA NG, LUIS MARTINEZ and SHUSHANNAH WALSHE, ABC

Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis practiced shooting at a gun range two days before killing a dozen people, according to the shooting range.

Authorities have also determined that he was armed with a shotgun and at least one handgun he took from a guard he shot.   Continue reading “Navy Yard Gunman Practiced Shooting Days Before Rampage”