One potato, two potatoes

The Iranian regime was providing “monetary and infrastructure assistance” to Al-Qaeda according to a letter signed by terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri that was intercepted in 2008.

This week Iranian officials admitted for the first time to facilitating the 9-11 attacks on America.

The Washington Free Beacon reported:

Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives who eventually went on to fly commercial airliners into the Twin Towers in New York City, according to new remarks from a senior Iranian official.

Mohammad-Javad Larijani, an international affairs assistant in the Iran’s judiciary, disclosed in Farsi-language remarks broadcast on Iran’s state-controlled television that Iranian intelligence officials secretly helped provide the al Qaeda attackers with passage and gave them refuge in the Islamic Republic, according to an English translation published by Al Arabiya.

The Iranian regime was providing “monetary and infrastructure assistance” to Al-Qaeda according to a letter signed by terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri that was intercepted in 2008.

Barack Obama gave the Iranian regime $50 billion and a pallet of cash. …imagine that!

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A Republic, if you can keep it

Suitable for learning history…or wrapping fish!

For those who have followed this saga from it’s inception;
There IS a book!
It IS on Amazon.
As of right now, because of some technical glitches it is only available in a physical paperback format.
It costs $11.49

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Just what, not why…

Busy week but most of the MSM coverage is fluff…who woulda thunk it?

surveillance puzzle

“Longtime former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, James A. Wolfe, was indicted and arrested Thursday night, (6/7/2018), on charges of giving false statements to FBI agents in 2017 about repeated contacts with three reporters, according to the Washington Examiner.

Wolfe, 57, is a former Army intelligence analyst who worked for the Senate for over 30 years. He stopped performing work for the committee in December and retired last month.”

OK so Jim Wolfe:
1. Director of the National Intelligence Security Council (or some other BS DC entity with a similar name)
2. Affair with NYT reporter half his age and is giving her intel in exchange for the “comfort”
3. Wife whose name is actually JANE had been FBI from 1986 – 2016.
This would be too lousy a plot line for a bad TV series, but these baboons are using it in real life.
“These people are stupid” is the greatest piece of understatement in the Modern Age.

Also, taking a moment to honor the existence of William Binney, (a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistle-blower who resigned on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency.

He was a high-profile critic of his former employers during the George W. Bush administration, and later criticized the NSA’s data collection policies during the Barack Obama administration. In 2016, he said the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election was false.), who no doubt spake thusly at some glorious moment: “We have it all.”

So, the big news this week was:
-James Wolfe/Ali Watikins, leaks/arrests for leaks ect.
-Obama secretly going against sanctions/giving even more money on Iran
-POTUS sanctions on EU, Canada, Mexico
-cemex ties to clinton foundation
-kate spade
-sister of queen of netherland’s maxima suicide
-trump leaves for g7  early
-awan/house it scandal back in the news
-McCabe squealing
-facebook in trouble again.
-google may be called to testify (for bias) per Nunes
– Bill Priestap and Strzok played more central role in Clinton/Russia
-Koch/Starbucks resignations
-Clinton email decision possibly made in April 16′
-RIGHT TO TRY (cures) signed into law
-Veterans choice for non-VA docs/hospital
-New opioid bills
-China spy arrested
-Trump/Kim summit Singapore resort back on…maybe

Busy week but most of the MSM coverage is fluff…who woulda thunk it?

weapons of mass deception

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The end of money and the end of independence

People today have no sense of money. They show up to work and every couple of weeks the numbers on a website change. They wave a little plastic talisman at the store and walk out with what they need. No money ever changes hands just some 1’s and 0’s on a computer somewhere.

Lawyer-Briefcase

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
— Henry Ford

No one believed me years ago when I said credit cards and these  ATM cards were a tool of the oligarchs to isolate you from your money and control your wealth (yes money and wealth are different).

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value and sometimes, a standard of deferred payment. Any item or verifiable record that fulfills these functions can be considered as money.

Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or valuable material possessions. This includes the core meaning as held in the originating old English word weal, which is from an Indo-European word stem.  An individual, community, region or country that possesses an abundance of such possessions or resources to the benefit of the common good is known as wealthy.

People today have no sense of money. They show up to work and every couple of weeks the numbers on a website change. They wave a little plastic talisman at the store and walk out with what they need. No money ever changes hands just some 1’s and 0’s on a computer somewhere.

When those in control shut down the little plastic talisman, all your magic money is going to go *poof*

The oligarchs have isolated you from your fiat currency for the same reason the Plutocracy in Washington DC used fiat currency to separate you from your gold years ago.

They control your wealth while you toil for their money, a cheap linen representation of tangible wealth or in the case of banks a small plastic talisman that is a fragile promise of access to your wealth that they hold.

The Federal Reserve Bank was founded on December 23, 1913, centralizing the power of U.S. banks into a privately-owned entity that controlled interest rates, money supply, credit creation, inflation, and (in a roundabout way) employment. It could also lend money to the government and earn interest, or a fee—money that the government could create free of charge.

So, in the final analysis, the money supply, government debt, credit creation, inflation and to a large degree employment is controlled by the member banks of the privately held Federal Reserve Bank. But the question remains, “Who controls the member banks?”

Interesting question, is it not?

Money-Ponzi

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Diversity and you

We need go start teaching, speaking and making decisions based on THE WHOLE TRUTH.
The founding fathers DID NOT write in to the Constitution that ALL MEN (and women) ARE EQUAL.

I don’t fly if I can possibly avoid it. When folks ask me why, the short answer is that I know too much.

It’s been recently reported that the FAA is now actively recruiting new trainees to work in the towers and control rooms directing airplanes and that the criteria they now utilize to screen applicants is a curiously absurd “biographical questionnaire.”

The Wall Street Journal recently reported:

“A recently completed six-month investigation by Fox Business Network found that the Federal Aviation Administration has quietly moved away from merit-based hiring criteria in order to increase the number of women and minorities who staff airport control towers. The changes come despite the fact that the FAA’s own internal reports describe the evidence for changing the hiring process as “weak.”

Until 2013, the FAA gave hiring preference to controller applicants who earned a degree from one of its Collegiate Training Initiative schools and scored high enough on an eight-hour screening test called the Air Traffic Selection and Training exam, or AT-SAT, which measures cognitive skills. The Obama administration, however, determined that the process excluded too many from minority groups. In May 2013, the FAA’s civil rights administrator issued “barrier analyses” of the agency’s employment procedures, which recommended “revising how the AT-SAT is used in establishing best-qualified lists.”

By the start of last year, the FAA was using a biographical questionnaire (BQ) to initially vet potential hires. The questions – “How many sports did you play in high school?”, “What has been the major cause of your failures?” – seem designed to elicit stories of personal disadvantage or family hardship rather than determine success on the job.”

There are a lot of reasons to limit your flying to only the most necessary flights. The affirmative action angle is only a part of the problem.

Boarding an aircraft is like playing the world’s largest game of Russian roulette.

If I can’t drive, most likely, I won’t go.

We need go start teaching, speaking and making decisions based on THE WHOLE TRUTH.
The founding fathers DID NOT write in to the Constitution that ALL MEN (and women) ARE EQUAL.

That is a lie. All men (and women) ARE NOT EQUAL. They may be CREATED, at birth, (in most cases) roughly equal, and equally loved by God, but everything after birth, that a person says, does, experiences, decides, achieves, chooses, loves, hates, learned or failed to learn, values, honors , seeks, cares about, works for, commits to, and every other aspect of character and “track record” EITHER MOVES THEM UP OR DOWN the scale in actual, individual “competence, and value for certain pursuits among “the herd of humanity”.

Advantage, or disadvantage, “environmental factors” aside, because How we RESPOND, REACT to less than ideal formative circumstances is far more weighty in forming our future than the actual challenges we “suffered under”. Did we have abusive parents and decide “we would never be like that” or instead fill with rage and feel entitled to abuse others? Every other experience, (good or bad) can work to either lift us or defeat us depending upon how we react and respond to it.

Stop saying everyone is “equal”, they are not, outside of certain nor should they be regarded as such if truth matters (and it DOES) because denying TRUTH has unpleasant consequences, when denied.

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The Agenda-Part Eight

“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.”
– The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s

Reposted from February 23, 2018

There has been a long-term agenda to change these United States from the conception birthed by our Founding Fathers to something where the power elite control the “Great Unwashed” through the cooperation and demands of the rank and file sheep of the flock. Some parts of the agenda span only a few years while others take over a century to unfold. You might call it a “ten-point program”, a “new world order” or “hope and change”. Over the next two weeks the plan will be presented in no particular order.

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WARNING! This will be a long and difficult read but if you make it successfully to the end and understand what you’ve read you MIGHT be able to avoid being a debt slave.

Finalize the decline and abandonment6 of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency:  Create a new international reserve currency disconnected from the United States.

Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.
Norm Franz

When we talk about finances, the three most commonly misunderstood words are; Money, Currency and Wealth.

Most people seem to think that the paper notes they carry around in their wallet or purse are real money. It is not! This is what is known as currency; fiat currency.

  • Currency is simply paper. This paper money is a tool for trading your time.
    Currency has no intrinsic value!. One of the biggest problems with currency is that the governments can print more and more of it whenever they want or need to. Historically there have been thousands of currencies and all fiat currencies (which are not backed by gold and silver) have gone to ZERO! That’s a 100% failure rate for fiat currencies!
  • Money is a store of value and maintains its purchasing power over a long period of time. Silver and gold is the optimum form of money because of its properties. You can store a large amount of value in a very small area. Only silver and gold have maintained their purchasing power over the last 5000 years! This is because silver and gold are limited in quantity – there is only a finite amount of silver and gold on planet earth!
  • The most significant difference between money and currency is that currency does not have consistent value. Currency is used as a physical representation of value that changes over time and varies from one country to the next. Gold and silver are the only items that have served as money and represented fixed value throughout human history.
  • Many people think that money is simply cash.  But there is much more to money than that.  These days most money is never in the form of cash – it’s just a bunch of numbers sent by electronic means from one computer to another. (Think Bitcoin).

Money is an idea, backed by confidence”. -L. Ron Hubbard

 

It may come as a surprise to many that money and wealth are not the same thing.  The dictionary gives a number of definitions for wealth, one of which is:
Wealth: “Having a large amount of money or possessions”.

That is the definition that most people think of. However, I will give you another definition which is much, much more important to know:
Wealth: “The ability to survive a certain number of days forward”.

How long could you survive if your income/job ended today?

What is a Reserve Currency?

A reserve currency is a currency held in significant quantities by many governments and institutions as a means of international payment. While this used to consist of mostly gold and silver, 1944’s Bretton Woods system expanded acceptable reserves to include the U.S. dollar and other currencies. Since 1973, no major currencies can be officially converted into gold.

The U.S. dollar replaced the British pound sterling as the world’s premier reserve currency circa 1945 in accordance with the Bretton Woods agreements. At the time, the U.S. dollar was the currency with the greatest purchasing power and the only currency backed by gold (although this backing was eliminated in 1973 in a controversial decision), while the U.S. had become a leading world power.

The Constitution does not directly mention paper money, a staple of today’s economy. It does give the Congress the power to “coin money,” however. The Constitution does prohibit states from issuing “bills of credit,” but no such prohibition is in place for the federal government. What does this mean? Is paper money unconstitutional, but coins are okay?

An original draft of the Constitution expressly permitted the government not only to borrow money, as Article 1, Section 8, Clause 2 notes, but also to “emit bills.” In Madison’s Notes from August 16, 1787, the subject of paper money was debated at some length. Gouverneur Morris warned that if paper money was allowed, “The Monied interest will oppose the plan of Government.

In Knox v Lee, 79 U.S. 457 (1871), the Court ruled that paper money was not unconstitutional: “The Constitution nowhere declares that nothing shall be money unless made of metal.” The Court argued that the Congress can manipulate the value of precious metals to the point where it can be rendered as inherently worthless as paper (the Congress could enact a law that says that 10-dollar silver coins weigh 400 grains in one year and 500 grains the next, effectively devaluing the silver). The Court even noted the arguments of the Framers against “emitting bills,” but wrote that the Framers, one, could not anticipate all governmental needs, and, two, allowed the Congress to do what was necessary and proper to carry out its powers. In this case, that includes printing paper money. Proving that Judicial overreach is not a modern phenomenon.

Still, at that time, the control of the US money supply was firmly in the hands of the US Congress and therefore, at least on it’s face, answerable to the people. In a short time, however, this was to drastically change.

A secret meeting took place in 1910 on Jekyll Island, a stretch of white-sand beaches and beautiful landscape off the coast of Georgia. It was an exclusive boys-club gathering of American financiers and politicians. While meeting under the ruse of a duck-shooting excursion, the financial experts were in reality hunting for a way to restructure America’s banking system.

The 1910 “duck hunt” on Jekyll Island included Senator Nelson Aldrich, his personal secretary Arthur Shelton, former Harvard University professor of economics Dr. A. Piatt Andrew, J.P. Morgan & Co. partner Henry P. Davison, National City Bank president Frank A. Vanderlip and Kuhn, Loeb, and Co. partner Paul M. Warburg. From the start the group proceeded covertly. They began by shunning the use of their last names and met quietly at Aldrich’s private railway car in New Jersey. In 1916, B. C. Forbes discussed the Jekyll conference in his book Men Who Are Making America and illuminates, “To this day these financiers are Frank and Harry and Paul [and Piatt] to one another and the late Senator remained ‘Nelson’ to them until his death. Later [, following the Jekyll conference,] Benjamin Strong, Jr., was called into frequent consultation and he joined the ‘First-Name Club’ as ‘Ben.’”

Although Congress did not pass the reform bill submitted by Senator Aldrich, it did approve a similar proposal in 1913 called the Federal Reserve Act. The Federal Reserve System of today mirrors in essence the plan developed on Jekyll Island in 1910.

“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.”
– The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s

follow the money

If the Fed’s money comes ultimately from the taxpayers, that means we the taxpayers are paying interest to the banks on the banks’ own reserves – reserves maintained for their own private profit. These increasingly controversial encroachments on the public purse warrant a closer look at the central banking scheme itself. Who owns the Federal Reserve, who actually controls it, where does it get its money, and whose interests is it serving?

1. The Fed is privately owned.

Its shareholders are private banks. In fact, 100% of its shareholders are private banks. None of its stock is owned by the government.

2. The fact that the Fed does not get “appropriations” from Congress basically means that it gets its money from Congress without congressional approval, by engaging in “open market operations.”

Here is how it works: When the government is short of funds, the Treasury issues bonds and delivers them to bond dealers, which auction them off. When the Fed wants to “expand the money supply” (create money), it steps in and buys bonds from these dealers with newly-issued dollars acquired by the Fed for the cost of writing them into an account on a computer screen. These maneuvers are called “open market operations” because the Fed buys the bonds on the “open market” from the bond dealers. The bonds then become the “reserves” that the banking establishment uses to back its loans. In another bit of sleight of hand known as “fractional reserve” lending, the same reserves are lent many times over, further expanding the money supply, generating interest for the banks with each loan. It was this money-creating process that prompted Wright Patman, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1960s, to call the Federal Reserve “a total money-making machine.” He wrote:

“When the Federal Reserve writes a check for a government bond it does exactly what any bank does, it creates money, it created money purely and simply by writing a check.”

3. The Fed generates profits for its shareholders.

The interest on bonds acquired with its newly-issued Federal Reserve Notes pays the Fed’s operating expenses plus a guaranteed 6% return to its banker shareholders. A mere 6% a year may not be considered a profit in the world of Wall Street high finance, but most businesses that manage to cover all their expenses and give their shareholders a guaranteed 6% return are considered “for profit” corporations.

In addition to this guaranteed 6%, the banks will now be getting interest from the taxpayers on their “reserves.” The basic reserve requirement set by the Federal Reserve is 10%. The website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York explains that as money is redeposited and relent throughout the banking system, this 10% held in “reserve” can be fanned into ten times that sum in loans; that is, $10,000 in reserves becomes $100,000 in loans. Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.8 puts the total “loans and leases in bank credit” as of September 24, 2008 at $7,049 billion. Ten percent of that is $700 billion. That means we the taxpayers will be paying interest to the banks on at least $700 billion annually – this so that the banks can retain the reserves to accumulate interest on ten times that sum in loans.

The banks earn these returns from the taxpayers for the privilege of having the banks’ interests protected by an all-powerful independent private central bank, even when those interests may be opposed to the taxpayers’ — for example, when the banks use their special status as private money creators to fund speculative derivative schemes that threaten to collapse the U.S. economy. Among other special benefits, banks and other financial institutions (but not other corporations) can borrow at the low Fed funds rate of about 2%. They can then turn around and put this money into 30-year Treasury bonds at 4.5%, earning an immediate 2.5% from the taxpayers, just by virtue of their position as favored banks. A long list of banks (but not other corporations) is also now protected from the short selling that can crash the price of other stocks.

The US Federal Reserve is based on the 1694-created Bank of England because this model allows government finance with debt that is never meant to be repaid. It is an “investment” model that pays interest guaranteed through tax collection. Its invention was to finance England’s government and military in a history of continuous centuries of war.

It’s cleverness allowed British finance to fund a short-term empire over rival European powers.

Although we can appreciate this historical manipulation, this is a Ponzi scheme because the system collapses without new “investors” of government debt securities.

This Ponzi scheme model is our US Federal Reserve System today:

The elites are beginning to realize that the peasants are waking up to this fraud and so, to protect THEIR wealth, some new system needs to be implemented. A recent attempt are the “Block-chain currencies” which, along with the Yuan are being floated as a replacement for the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

Will it succeed? That’s hard to say, but there is a twist on an old proverb that goes: “The race is not always to the swift, but it’s folly to bet against them.”

Money-Ponzi

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The Agenda-Part Nine

In other words, the 21st-century war on terror has melded thoroughly with the 20th-century war on drugs, and the result couldn’t be anymore disturbing: police forces that increasingly look and act like occupying armies.

Reposted from February 26, 2018

There has been a long-term agenda to change these United States from the conception birthed by our Founding Fathers to something where the power elite control the “Great Unwashed” through the cooperation and demands of the rank and file sheep of the flock. Some parts of the agenda span only a few years while others take over a century to unfold. You might call it a “ten-point program”, a “new world order” or “hope and change”. Over the next two weeks the plan will be presented in no particular order.

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The Agenda — Part Nine: Synchronize and fully integrate local law enforcement with state Federal and private contract military forces. Prepare collection/relocation/internment contingencies, systems & personnel.

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There is a long-standing tradition in the United States of separating police and military powers. This practice stems in part from Reconstruction (1865-77), the bitter post-Civil War experience of martial law when victorious Northern troops occupied the South.

After Reconstruction, Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. While the roots of this federal law are controversial, the law is generally recognized as limiting the power of the U.S. military to interfere with civilian law enforcement.

The use of military forces under Posse Comitatus remained relatively static until the events of September 11, 2001 after which U.S. military surplus equipment was given to civilian law enforcement agencies under the Department of Defense (DoD) 1033 Program.

Some dispersals of equipment seem to reflect poor decision making. For example:

The primary argument in favor of police militarization is that law enforcement agencies face increasingly sophisticated threats from criminal gangs and terrorists.

Arguments against police militarization center on the marginalization of the Posse Comitatus Act and the appearance of police as members of the military. Unlike military forces that exist to defeat the enemies of the United States in combat, the role of the police in America is to protect and serve their communities.

Having police in military camouflage, carrying heavy military weapons and patrolling in armored or other military vehicles gives  the appearance of an armed police confrontation. That public image belies the traditional image of police as servants of the community.

Civilian police referring to their fellow citizens as “civilians” is an example of how police militarization has crept into our society. For police officers to refer to their fellow community members as civilians promotes a “we – they” type of relationship in which the police are separate from the community.

Look at it for a moment from the cops’ point of view.

When someone calls 911 for police service, there is a tacit admission by the caller that the situation at hand has deteriorated beyond his or her control, and police are needed in order to bring the situation back under control. There is the unstated assumption that the officer has going into each situation — not that a social equilibrium needs to be maintained, but that a situation needs to be quickly and efficiently brought back under control.

Further than this, when he gets to the scene of many to most of these 911 calls, he encounters people who seek to frustrate his endeavors. He talks to witnesses who lie in circles about not seeing anything. He talks to suspects who lie about where they’d just been or what they were just doing. He talks to drunk people who can’t coordinate themselves and won’t remember what was said in ten minutes’ time. He talks to addicts who try to conceal the fact that they’re high even though involuntary tics have consumed their body. He talks to grade school kids and teenagers who have been conditioned to mistrust or despise police. He talks to people who lie about their identity because they have warrants or because they just want to frustrate him. He talks to people who act nervous and take too long to answer simple questions, raising his suspicions. He talks to people who have drugs, guns, knives, and any manner of other contraband hidden in their residence, in their vehicle, or on their person.

Now consider that the officer is doing this many times per shift — 10, 20, maybe more — encounters every day. He will quickly learn that, in order to get anything accomplished with these liars and obstructionists, he is going to have to employ tactics that in any other field would be unacceptable. He is going to have to be blunt, brusque and curt. He’s going to have to call bluffs and smokescreens and BS. He’s going to have to interrupt rambling, circular explanations. He’s going to have to look people in the eye and say, “We both know that you’re lying to me right now.”

Combine a siege police mentality with the transformation of  police from “Peace officers” to “Law Enforcement” officers add military weapons and tactics into the mix and you have a volatile and explosive situation. Enter “Special Weapons and Tactics, S.W.A.T.

Initially S.W.A.T. was an elite force reserved for uniquely dangerous incidents, such as active shooters, hostage situations, or large-scale disturbances.

While SWAT isn’t the only indicator that the militarization of American policing is increasing, it is the most recognizable. The proliferation of SWAT teams across the country and their paramilitary tactics have spread a violent form of policing designed for the extraordinary but in these years made ordinary.

As the number of SWAT teams has grown nationwide, so have the raids. Every year now, there are approximately 50,000 SWAT raids in the United States. In other words, roughly 137 times a day a SWAT team assaults a home and plunges its inhabitants and the surrounding community into terror.

Nearly 80 percent of all SWAT raids reviewed between 2011 and 2012 were deployed to execute a search warrant.

Pause here and consider that these violent home invasions are routinely used against people who are only suspected of a crime. Up-armored paramilitary teams now regularly bash down doors in search of evidence of a possible crime. In other words, police departments increasingly choose a tactic that often results in injury and property damage as its first option, not the one of last resort. In more than 60 percent of the raids  investigated, SWAT members rammed down doors in search of possible drugs, not to save a hostage, respond to a barricade situation, or neutralize an active shooter.

The military mentality and equipment associated with SWAT operations are no longer confined to those elite units. Increasingly, they’re permeating all forms of policing. Recruit training favors a stress-based regimen that’s modeled on military boot camp rather than on the more relaxed academic  police departments previously employed. The result is young officers who believe policing is about kicking ass rather than working with the community to make neighborhoods safer.

This authoritarian streak runs counter to the core philosophy used to dominate American thinking: community policing, and its emphasis is on a mission of “keeping the peace” by creating and maintaining partnerships of trust with and in the communities served.

Police across America are being trained in a way that emphasizes force and aggression.

The more militaristic look of the BDUs, (Battle Dress Uniforms),much like what is seen in news stories of our military in war zones, gives rise to the notion of our police being an occupying force in some neighborhoods, instead of trusted community protectors.

Why is this dangerous to our Constitutional freedoms?

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) may be an obscure agency within the Department of Defense, but through the 1033 program, which it oversees, it’s one of the core enablers of American policing’s excessive militarization. Beginning in 1990, Congress authorized the Pentagon to transfer its surplus property free of charge to federal, state, and local police departments to wage the war on drugs. In 1997, Congress expanded the purpose of the program to include counterterrorism in section 1033 of the defense authorization bill. In one single page of a 450-page law, Congress helped sow the seeds of today’s warrior cops.

Astoundingly, one-third of all war materiel parceled out to state, local, and tribal police agencies is brand new. This raises further disconcerting questions: Is the Pentagon simply wasteful when it purchases military weapons and equipment with taxpayer dollars? Or could this be another downstream, subsidized market for defense contractors?

Whatever the answer, the Pentagon is actively distributing weaponry and equipment made for U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns abroad to police who patrol American streets and this is considered sound policy in Washington. The message seems striking enough: what is necessary for Kabul is also be necessary for DeKalb County.

In other words, the 21st-century war on terror has melded thoroughly with the 20th-century war on drugs, and the result couldn’t be anymore disturbing: police forces that increasingly look and act like occupying armies.

Evidence is mounting that America’s militarized police are a threat to public safety.

In a country where the cops increasingly look upon themselves as soldiers doing battle day in, day out, there’s no need for public accountability or even an apology when things go grievously wrong.

If community policing rests on mutual trust between the police and the people, militarized policing operates on the assumption of “officer safety” at all costs and contempt for anyone who sees things differently. The result is an “us versus them” mentality… and that is a dangerous mindset both for police officers and for those they “serve and protect”.

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The Agenda-Part Seven

What if we allow these mostly baseless charges of “racism” or Nazism” or “stereotyping and bias” or sexism” or “xenophopia” to bring discussion and debate to stop? What if “offensive” speech is deemed “unacceptable” and is silenced, first through social pressure and later through the force of law?

Reposted from February 22, 2018

There has been a long-term agenda to change these United States from the conception birthed by our Founding Fathers to something where the power elite control the “Great Unwashed” through the cooperation and demands of the rank and file sheep of the flock. Some parts of the agenda span only a few years while others take over a century to unfold. You might call it a “ten-point program”, a “new world order” or “hope and change”. Over the next two weeks the plan will be presented in no particular order.

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The Plan — Part 7: Stifle debate and force consensus; Identify; isolate and surveil opposition and their leaders. Threaten them with sedition. Criminalize dissent. Denigrate and ridicule American traditions and moral values.

There is a lot of talk these days, in the social media, on television and radio, in print media and on college campuses about free speech. Most of this talk is not worth very much. Especially when those who have been conditioned by the virus of “political correctness are confronted by an ethos opposed to their own that we find just how “intolerant” those who preach tolerance really are.

The cultural script of American society has changed drastically from what was considered the behavioral norm from WW II through the mid-1960’s. Here is a short list:

-Get married BEFORE you have children.
Stay committed to the marriage if for no other reason than to provide stability for the children.
Get the education you need to get and keep gainful employment.
Work hard and avoid idleness.
Go the extra mile for your employer or client.
Be a patriot ready to serve your country.
Be neighborly.
Avoid coarse and vulgar language in public.
Be charitable
Be respectful of authority.
Avoid substance  abuse and criminal behavior.

These societal norms defined the concept of what a responsible adult was. They were the major contributor to the productivity, educational gains and social coherence of the “Post-war baby boom”.

While ridiculed by the socially permissive culture of today, driven by the agenda of the societal elites, re-embracing that cast aside culture would go a long way toward addressing the social pathologies that plague our present society.

Not all cultures are equal in the preparation of people to be productive citizens in today’s society. The culture of the Lakota native Americans, for example, was designed for nomadic hunters and gatherers. The skills taught are not suitable for survival in our 21st. Century environment.

Neither are the single-parent, anti-social habits prevalent among some blue collar Whites. Nor is the “anti-acting-White” rap culture of inner-city Blacks or the “anti-assimilation” ideas prevalent among Hispanic and Muslim immigrants useful or productive.

So, what is likely to be the outcome if dissent and opposition are denigrated, shouted down and/or criminalized? What if we, as a society, continue to abandon those ethics and principles that made the United States “the shining beacon on the hill” to so many?

What if the progressive analysis of inequality is wrong and the norms of responsible adult behavior of the “Post-War baby boomers” and their parents was right?

What if we allow these mostly baseless charges of “racism” or Nazism” or “stereotyping and bias” or sexism” or “xenophopia” to bring discussion and debate to stop? What if “offensive” speech is deemed “unacceptable” and is silenced, first through social pressure and later through the force of law?

What if George Orwell was right and we willing forged our own chains of slavery to the Newspeak where the politically correct was the source of “Bellyfeel” “Goodthink” and adherence to responsible adult behavior and ethics is “Thoughtcrime”?

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The Agenda-Part Six

To know what is right and yet continue to follow the old 1960’s dictum of “if it feels good, go it!” shows we are no longer deceived but simply willful. If we choose to follow the “easier, softer way promised by the elites we have no excuse.

Reposted from February 21,2018

There has been a long-term agenda to change these United States from the conception birthed by our Founding Fathers to something where the power elite control the “Great Unwashed” through the cooperation and demands of the rank and file sheep of the flock. Some parts of the agenda span only a few years while others take over a century to unfold. You might call it a “ten-point program”, a “new world order” or “hope and change”. Over the next two weeks the plan will be presented in no particular order.

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The Plan — Part Six: Associate Judeo-Christian ethics and Constitutional advocacy with a backward and extremist and intolerant world view. Portray those who advocate gun rights and the second amendment as violent and prone to be anti-social and terrorists.

“You might be a Domestic Terrorist If” you believe in civil liberties, or if you actually believe in your Constitutional rights. Sadly, this is not a joke. You might also be a terrorist if you have ever expressed concerns of Big Brother. Are you a Christian who has ever discussed the anti-Christ, the apocalypse, or even mentioned the book of Revelation? Guess what, according to the DHS during the previous administration then you too qualify as a potential domestic terrorist.

During the George W. Bush administration and intensified by the administration of Barack Hussein Obama policing has experienced a shift in focus from local community to a “federally dominated model of complete social control” coming out of, not surprisingly, Homeland Security. More specifically, the long-reaching DHS arms of TSA and FEMA have been pushed heavily to local law enforcement.

The most disturbing thing is the scope of domestic intelligence activities taking place today. Domestic spying is now being done by a host of federal agencies (FBI, DOD, DHS, DNI) as well as state and local law enforcement and even private companies.

Too often this spying targets political activity and religious practices. There are documented intelligence activities targeting or obstructing First Amendment-protected activity in at least 33 states and Washington DC.

The globalist elites, through their propaganda arm, the media, believe that We the People of the USA are a wildly dangerous group.

In fact, they think terrorists are lurking everywhere in America, waiting to attack. It is my firmly held belief that this ongoing preemptive attack on patriots and gun rights is because we love America, that we talk about and write about the worrisome facts of our great country becoming the land of surveillance and distrust, the place where neighbors are encouraged to report neighbors, and where local law enforcement is being told to be on the lookout for terrorists lurking all over their communities.

There is a concerted effort to remove the means of self defense from the general populace while the elites live in their gated communities protected by heavily armed security while children in the inner city are falling to drug addiction and gang violence.

In a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone titled “The Obsolete Man,” a librarian in a police state, played by the late Burgess Meredith, is executed for the crime of believing in God. In his 1967 memoir, Tortured for Christ, Richard Wurmbrand describes how Soviet guards would tell prisoners, “I thank God in whom I don’t believe. Now I may indulge the evil in my heart” (p. 34).

Faced with such dismal levels of public approval, atheists felt the need to show believers that they were good people and not amoral communists. Beginning in the 1970s, the philosopher Paul Kurtz promoted what he called “secular humanism,” which focused on promoting human well-being without religion rather than converting people to atheism.

Our society has become imbued with moral relativism. Moral relativism is the idea that there is no universal or absolute set of moral principles. It’s a version of morality that advocates “to each her own,” and those who follow it say, “Who am I to judge?”

When the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic church responding to a question regarding homosexuals responds; “The problem is a person that has a condition, that has good will and who seeks God, who are we to judge?”
we can be very sure that there has been a sea-change in the religious, ethical and moral climate of our society.

An important principle in human law is that ignorance of human laws does not present any defense in Court. The Latin terms for this concept is Ignorantia juris non excusat – ignorance of the law does not excuse, or ignorance of the law excuses no one. Another expression nemo censetur ignorare legem means nobody is thought to be ignorant of the law. The expression ignorantia iuris nocet means that not knowing the law is in fact harmful.

But just as we have all broken an earthly law at one time or another, so too we have all broken God’s laws. In fact, the Bible reveals that all of humanity stands accused before God of rebellion against Him and His laws, and that all have been declared guilty by Him. The penalty for transgression of His laws is death.

To know what is right and yet continue to follow the old 1960’s dictum of “if it feels good, go it!” shows we are no longer deceived but simply willful. If we choose to follow the “easier, softer way promised by the elites we have no excuse.

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The Agenda-Part Five

For the Framers of the Constitution the science of politics and the practice of politics were all about how to distribute power within the government in order to preserve private property, individual rights, and the rule of law which secured both.

Reposted from February 20, 2018

There has been a long-term agenda to change these United States from the conception birthed by our Founding Fathers to something where the power elite control the “Great Unwashed” through the cooperation and demands of the rank and file sheep of the flock. Some parts of the agenda span only a few years while others take over a century to unfold. You might call it a “ten-point program”, a “new world order” or “hope and change”. Over the next two weeks the plan will be presented in no particular order.

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The Plan- Part five: Push “Beneficial Globalization” as the way toward universal peace. Demonize sovereignty as isolationism. Push artificial constructs such as “climate change”; “debt crisis”; “financial crisis/market meltdown” and “Human rights” vs “property rights”.

One world government refers to the idea of a central government whose authority extends across the entirety of this planet. The idea is generally that the many countries of the world would join together in a federation under one central government with no borders.

The most common proponents of this idea adhere to “progressive internationalism.” Commonly, they believe in a strengthened United Nations evolving into a world government.

They propose that the UN be supplemented with a directly elected parliamentary assembly, to give the UN authority independent of member states. They support international law as paramount over national law, and see it evolving into a single global legal system, with individual citizens having direct access to international courts with the power to overrule national legislation.

Proponents of world government  see world government as the definitive solution to old and new human problems such as war and the development of weapons of mass destruction, global poverty and inequality, and environmental degradation.

It is common in fiction for the bad guys to lose and the good guys to win.

It is how most folks would like to see the world – just and fair. In psychology the tendency to believe this is how the real world actually works is a known cognitive bias called the Just-World Fallacy.

The proponents of  “progressive internationalism”believe that politics is about the government providing services, regulating activity, or redistributing wealth to secure social welfare. The paradigm is power flowing from the government down to the governed.

The United States, however, as outlined by the authors of the Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay were concerned about how best to secure the rights of the people, and how to make sure that governments and people did not endanger those rights.

For the Framers of the Constitution the science of politics and the practice of politics were all about how to distribute power within the government in order to preserve private property, individual rights, and the rule of law which secured both.

The globalists insist that all nations should unite and thereby be governed by “Man’s better angels“, (directed by the elite globalists, of course).

In The Federalist No. 51, arguably the most important one of all, James Madison wrote in defense of a proposed national constitution that would establish a structure of “checks and balances between the different departments” of the government and, as a result, constrain the government’s oppression of the public. Madison penned the following paragraph, which comes close to being a short course in political science:

“The great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others.

The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”

To surrender our sovereign freedoms enjoyed under the Constitution for the promised utopian ideal of a beneficial global state is to willingly relinquish the republic our Founding Fathers and so many of our forebears fought, bled and died for… for what? a THE STATE: a monopoly operating ultimately by threat or actual use of violence, making rules for and extracting tribute from the residents of the territory it controls.

“long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT,”
Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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