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The Shocking Reasons that Americans Are Right to Be More Afraid of Bad Government Policy than Terrorism

Preface: I am not so much anti-government as anti-stupid policy. (Moreover, the problem is notsolely “bad government” or “corrupt corporations”. The deeper problem is that the two have become intertwined in a malignant, symbiotic relation.)

Multiple polls show that Americans are more afraid of our own government than of terrorists.   Continue reading “Stupid Government Policy Is More Dangerous than Terrorism”

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The Failure To Punish Wall Street Criminals Is The Core Cause Of Our Sick Economy

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said:

I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions [banks] becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy   Continue reading “Government Excuses for Letting the Banksters Off Scot-Free Are Bogus”

Uprooted Palestinians

John F. Kennedy Administration:

Letter to Israeli PM Ben-Gurion Regarding Visit to Dimona

(May 18, 1963)   Continue reading “Kennedy wanted Israel’s nuclear facilities inspected shortly before he was murdered”

USA Prepares – by SHANE HARRIS, Foreign Policy

With every fresh leak, the world learns more about the U.S. National Security Agency’s massive and controversial surveillance apparatus. Lost in the commotion has been the story of the NSA’s indispensable partner in its global spying operations: an obscure, clandestine unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that, even for a surveillance agency, keeps a low profile.

When the media and members of Congress say the NSA spies on Americans, what they really mean is that the FBI helps the NSA do it, providing a technical and legal infrastructure that permits the NSA, which by law collects foreign intelligence, to operate on U.S. soil. It’s the FBI, a domestic U.S. law enforcement agency, that collects digital information from at least nine American technology companies as part of the NSA’s Prism system. It was the FBI that petitioned the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to order Verizon Business Network Services, one of the United States’ biggest telecom carriers for corporations, to hand over the call records of millions of its customers to the NSA.   Continue reading “Meet the Spies Doing the NSA’s Dirty Work”

Video Rebel’s Blog

The whole point of what I have to say today is that ever since George H W Bush, all American Presidents were former CIA agents or assets. That is the Bush family, both Clintons and Obama. Obama never attended Columbia University. He was working for the CIA at the time.

Terry Kent Reed wrote Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA. It is still available from Amazon. Reed was a friend of Barry Seal. Bill Clinton was running drugs out of Mena Arkansas for the CIA. Reed met Oliver North. North was using the Clintons who were long time CIA operatives to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. Clinton used the Arkansas Development and Finance Authority to finance the manufacture of fully automatic weapons without serial numbers for the Contras. That is highly illegal in the US. He also used ADFA funds to create Coral Reinsurance which laundered drug money. Coral Reinsurance was a subsidiary to a firm whose CEO was at that time a regular at the Bilderberg meetings. I am writing this from memory but I do think most of this was covered in the Clinton Chronicles which is on YouTube. Hillary Clinton was on the board of a couple of corporations including one owned by a Bilderberger. She resigned when Bill was elected President.   Continue reading “A Letter From America Concerning The JFK Assassination”

The Daily Bell – by Wendy McElroy

MY THOUGHTS

Get ready for a bumpy ride.  The Democrats have stopped a century old practice by disallowing the filibuster.  The reason the founding fathers wanted the filibuster is to allow the minority to slow down dictatorial powers of the executive.  The US Senate confirms lifelong judges, and the founding fathers new that a Senate without a filibuster will create a dictatorship.

The House of Representatives do not have a filibuster, but whatever they pass must be approved by the US Senate.  However, the US Senate has certain privileges that the House does not.  Therefore, the US Senate can now work with the Democratic administration to legislate rules to the economy without Republican support.    Continue reading “Get ready for a bumpy ride”

The New American – by Bob Adelmann

Fresh data just released by the trustees of the Social Security Administration show that the number of people receiving benefits from the Disability Insurance Trust Fund has exploded over the last five years, reducing the surplus in that fund from $216 billion in 2008 to just over $100 billion in 2013. There were 7.4 million recipients in January 2009, but as of October 2013, there are nearly nine million beneficiaries, not including another two million spouses and children of disabled workers who are also receiving benefits.   Continue reading “Implosion of Social Security Disability Ponzi Scheme Accelerates”

RT News

A federal appeals court declined Friday to block the decision by a district court judge that the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional, marking an end to outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bid to reverse the ruling.

The three-judge US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided against vacating the August decision by US district court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who ruled the NYPD’s policing method was unconstitutional under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.    Continue reading “Appeals court upholds stop-and-frisk ruling, ending Bloomberg’s final attempt at reversal”

The Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane

An Atlantic City police officer says he received a death threat after reporting police misconduct to his superiors.

Sergeant Mark Benjamin has been with the department for 16 years. He’s witnessed his fair share of misconduct, including seeing an officer release a K9 on a person for no reason. Benjamin said after he reported the misconduct, he became a target of racial discrimination and retaliation:   Continue reading “Honest Cop Breaks Blue Code of Silence, Receives Death Threat”

AmmoLand

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- Don’t let them get away with it.

Democrats on Capitol Hill want to change the subject, but we can’t let them do it.

The anti-gun aspects of ObamaCare haven’t even been fully implemented yet because the entire “health care” rollout has been imploding — and it’s taking a huge toll on the President.   Continue reading “Democrats Using Gun Control to Get Focus Off ObamaCare”

Seattle Times – by Mike Carter

The city will pay $15,000 to settle a civil-rights lawsuit that alleged one of the Seattle Police Department’s most decorated officers — the man who fatally shot cop-killer Maurice Clemmons — illegally searched a seven-time felon during an expletive-laced jaywalking incident in 2009.

Officer Benjamin Kelly found a cheap .22-caliber handgun tucked in Charles Shateek Smith’s coat that rainy January night. Under other circumstances, it would have been enough to send Smith to federal prison for at least 15 years as an armed career criminal and earn Kelly kudos for a good arrest.   Continue reading “City to pay jaywalker $15,000 in civil-rights suit against Seattle”

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Summary

Persistent rumors allege that Saudi Arabia and Israel have a secret agreement to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if talks between the P5+1 powers and Iran result in an unacceptable deal. These rumors suggest that Mossad agents made arrangements with Saudi leaders to carry out a joint attack if the negotiations that resumed on Wednesday produce an agreement that is not acceptable to the Saudis and Israelis.   Continue reading “Saudi-Israeli Attack Rumors Spread as Iran Talks Progress”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

About the same time yesterday that National Public Radio was publishing an interview with B. Todd Jones, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a federal grand jury in Seattle handed down a 38-page indictment against a former ATF supervisor at the agency’s field office here that contains serious allegations of embezzlement and making false statements.

In the NPR interview, reporter Carrie Johnson noted, “By all accounts…Jones has cleaned house at the ATF.”   Continue reading “Former ATF supervisor indicted; more on initiatives”