Holder's Attempt to Schmooze Media with Off the Record Meeting FAILS - Most Say No Thanks

Drudge Report Headline 5/30: PRESS REVOLTS OVER OTR MEET (OTR is Off the Record)

The continuing sage of media-gate continues to unwind like a soap opera as the media-government complex paradigm shows signs of fracturing from mistrust, paranoia and Nazi styled attacks on the 1st amendment by the Obama Administration and its Gestapo Goon in Chief, Eric Holder.  Nobody is having more fun with this than Drudge.   Other juicy Drudge headlines today:

NYT WON'T ATTEND...  Politico article titled N.Y. Times will not attend DOJ session, citing opposition to off-the-record provision 

AP: NO THANKS...  Breitbart article titled AP WON'T ATTEND HOLDER'S OFF-RECORD BRIEFING

CNN: NUH UH... CNN article titled Holder runs into roadblocks on off-the-record meetings on leaks

HUFFPO: NO GO...  CNN article titled Holder runs into roadblocks on off-the-record meetings on leaks

DNC: SUCK IT UP...  Twitchy article titled Bam! DNC’s Woodhouse tells journos to suck up off-the-record Holder meeting or shaddup; Tapper, Ace shred

POLITICO: WE'LL BE THERE...  CNN article titled Holder runs into roadblocks on off-the-record meetings on leaks

REPORTERS NOW PRIESTS... National Journal article titled 7 Reasons Why the Media Shouldn't Keep Eric Holder's Secrets

Across the pond, The Telegraph (British) chirped in with a piece hilariously titled Barack Obama: even the mainstream media has given up on the hopey-changey stuff

The hopey-changey stuff? I can't stop laughing!!

The rats in the palace are scurrying like the cockroaches.  While CNN has seen a boost in ratings because it's embraced a bit of adventurism by having folks like Alex Jones on to liven up the generally boring rhetoric, MSNBC ratings are in crash mode.  MSNBC is the palace guard for Emperor Obama and its powerful empress, Rachel Maddow, can't even hold the lies and propaganda together as evidenced by the monumental crash of MSNBC's government approved version of Pravda (sorry for the insult to Pravda).

Ratings Crash! MSNBC in Massive Plunge

The Obama administration-friendly MSNBC is taking a stunning ratings crash dive – averaging a dismal 175,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 demographic.

For broadcast media, losing a big chunk of the coveted 25-54 age group is like a direct hit from a nuclear bomb.  It also signals that the young are considerably less inclined to succumb to propaganda.

While all of this is eminently entertaining, optimism is not warranted when it comes to MSM who is not about to change its evil ways.  It's all just about the incessant whining of the pampered, haughty and arrogant lords and ladies of the media who sold out their journalist professions for fame, fortune and celebrity.

But not to worry!  The real media and real journalists have moved to a new address.  They live on the Internet in cyberspace and they have websites, blogs, radio shows and Internet TV to directly challenge MSM and the government.

All is well.  The rats and cockroaches can bitch, moan and whine all they want but at the end of the day they are still irrelevant and just a dying breed of traitors.and propagandists. 

58,272 Names on the Vietnam War Memorial, That's How Many Americans LBJ and the Democrats Sentenced to Death for Defense Contractor Profits

November 21, 1963: Before leaving on his trip to Texas, President Kennedy, after being given a list of the most recent casualties in Vietnam, says to Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff: "After I come back from Texas, that's going to change.  Vietnam is not worth another American life".

The next day, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, TX. During JFK’s presidency, Vietnam combat deaths were 182 (16 in 1961, 53 in 1962 and 118 through 11/22/63).  

October 11, 1963: President Kennedy issues National Security Action Memorandum 263, making official government policy the withdrawal from Vietnam of "1,000 military personnel by the end of 1963" and "by the end of 1965....the bulk of US personnel.".

The above quotes are straight out of the book JFK and the Unspeakable, Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass.  Douglass also wrote in the book:

We have no evidence as to who in the military-industrial complex may have given the order to assassinate President Kennedy. That the order was carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency is obvious. The CIA’s fingerprints are all over the crime and the events leading up to it.

Conspiracy is no longer theory and it is generally believed by knowledgeable JFK researchers that the highest echelons of power, including Lyndon B. Johnson and George Herbert Walker Bush, were intimately involved in President Kennedy's murder.

November 22, 2013 is the 50th anniversary of JFK's murder.  The smear campaign against JFK truth tellers and JFK himself has already begun and it's a carefully orchestrated conspiracy to silence the voice of truth and to disparage a man who opposed war.

The Huffington Post and MSM Have Launched Disinformation Campaigns Against JFK Truth Tellers.

Both the left wing and right wing media are heavily pimping for a new book accusing JFK of admiring Hitler.

BOOK: JFK 'ADMIRED' HITLER  Breitbart, an extremely popular Republican website and neocon huckster for big government and endless wars.

New Book Asks If JFK Was A Secret Admirer Of Hitler And The Nazis Mediaite is a leftist mouthpiece that worships the Democrats and Obama, no matter how evil their deeds.  Mediaite even went so far as to post a photo linking JFK to Nazism, well, two photos that were stitched together to portray JFK as a Nazi.

By the time November 22, 2013 rolls around, the government and media will have the entire world believing that JFK was a Nazi or heir apparent to Hitler.

The website, What Really Happened (WRH), has posted much on JFK's murder including a piece that uses a 2001 Washington Post link, of all things, to document that the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that a conspiracy was involved in JFK's murders, a fact that totally refutes the Warren Commission report.

The House Select Commitee on Assassinations concluded that John F. Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy based on the recording of the gunshots fired in Dealey Plaza, captured over a police radio. A total of 7 impulses were caught on the tape, but citing budgetary constraints, the HSCA only had 4 of them analysed. The analysis concluded that all 4 were gunshots, two of them occuring within 1/2 a second of each other, too close to be fired by one man. Comparisons of the echoes with test shots fired in Deakel Plaza confirmed that at least one of the recorded shots had indeed been fired from the Grassy Knoll. Needless to say, the existance of 5, rather than just 3, gunshots destroyed the Oswald as lone gunman cover-up. Warren supporters quickly tried to dismiss the audio record of the gunshots by claiming that the recording was actually of gunshots in another part of the city, and confused for Dealey Plaza shots because of a timing error. Without explaining just where the other shots had occured, or why the echo patterns matched matched the test shots fired in Dealey Plaza, the Warren supporters declared victory. New research has shown that the report that dismissed the audio recording of the gunshots was itself deeply flawed, and ignored evidence that confirmed both the locatrion and time of the recording as being in Dealey Plaza at the time of the JFK assassination. This means that the original House Select Committee on Assassinations conclusion is the correct one. There were at least four gunshots in Dealey Plaza, two of them within 1/2 second of each other, and at least one of the shots came from the Grassy Knoll.

The What Really Happened link is here and the Washington Post Study Backs Theory of 'Grassy Knoll' is here.

With the official government story being so full of lies and cover-ups that it's been exposed by very credible sources, researches, journalists and science, the government's last remaining strategy is to simply demonize JFK as a Nazi, and the government will have lots of MSM support.

LBJ, who is worshiped by the left as the father of The Great Society aka totalitarian socialism/Marxism/statism, authorized the massive ratcheting up of the Vietnam War to appease the military industrial complex, the mad generals and the warmongers.  It's not just the blood of 58,272 US military personnel that is on LBJ and Democrat hands, it's also the bodies millions of Southeast Asians that were murdered for defense contractor profits.

Memorial Day - Let's do War By the Numbers Because We Love to Kill

Memorial Day should be the saddest day of the year for Americans and a day of profound reflection.  The parades, honoring the war dead/wounded and cheering US wars is what Memorial Day is all about but does anybody ever stop to pause and ask "Why did they die or survive to come home with debilitating injuries?".   It's frequently been said that young men die for old men's wars. While young folks who voluntarily enlist in the military are indeed smitten with the belief that they are actually serving their country and that military service is the highest form of patriotism, the real tragedy is that they have been duped by a government and military industrial complex that does not value their life or humanity.  Soldiers are merely pawns on the geopolitical chessboard as wars are endlessly waged for resource control, defense contractor profits and the never ending game to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, Americans are addicted to the fantasy that war is noble, that murder is moral and that righteous people kill in the name of their flag.  Defending the homeland is the chronic battle cry.  Last I checked, America hadn’t been invaded by a foreign power since the War of 1812.   Yet, America has been involved in non-stop murderous wars for well over a century. Evergreen State College documented US wars and foreign interventions since 1890. It's a shocking documentation of the raw aggressiveness of American foreign policy and the waging of criminal wars against nations who did absolutely nothing to America nor threatened America in any way.

FROM WOUNDED KNEE TO LIBYA: A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS

While it would be extremely difficult and time consuming to do an actual body count of all the wars listed in the above link, we can do a body count on what has been documented for the major wars and we can also document other estimates of deaths resulting from US foreign policy.

WW I resulted in the deaths of 35,000,000 folks. Historian Martin Gilbert puts the military death toll (soldiers killed) at 8,626 million. “The destructiveness of the First World War, in terms of the number of soldiers killed, exceeded that of all other wars known to history.”. But as with most wars, it is the civilians who bear the brunt of the horrors of war.

What caused WW I? A Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip shoots and kills on June 28, 1914 Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo, Bosnia (a component of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Within weeks, Europe breaks out into total war. Two murdered members of a European royal house triggered the deaths of 35 million folks.

How did America get involved? No Americans were killed and all the insanity of Europe’s ruling families and their long history of wars and empires was not an American problem. But was it? America own brand of royalty, Wall Street banking houses, gambled heavily on the outcome of the WW I by funding the governments involved, notably Britain and France. The Banksters were losing their bets and were about to lose all their money so they hatched a plan to get America involved. The horror of that Bankster Bailout is documented in the following blog post.

World War I, the Banksters, the Lusitania and Bailing Out America’s Wealthiest Families

World War II killed approximately 50 millions people and its documented that the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany were funded by US and British banksters. Behind every war, a bankster is lurking like a lascivious and carnivorous beast ready to drink the blood of its victims and devour its body. No one really knows for sure how many folks died during WW II but historian Martin Gilbert estimated that in excess of 46 million were killed and he only counted those nations that lost a million or more. The numbers are staggering; here’s a list of nations who lost a million or more:

Country                         Civilian Deaths           Military Deaths

Soviet Union                    7.0 million                   13.3 million
Germany                          3.6 million                    3.1 million
China                               6.0 million
Japan                               2.0 million                    1.0 million
Poland (3 million Jews)     6.0 million
Jews (non-Polish)             3.0 million
Yugoslavia (mostly Serbs) 1.5 million

Total                             29.2 million                  17.4 million

With WW I and WW II killing a minimum of 85,000,000 million folks, how many more folks have been killed since the end of WW II? It’s estimated that America and American foreign policy are directly responsible for another 20,000,000-30,000,000 kills since the end of WW II.

“US covert and overt criminal Wars of Aggression caused 20-30 million deaths of human beings since World War 2, according to the outstanding documentation of James Lucas of Countercurrents.org. The US use/support of armed attacks is documented in 37 countries..." Read the rest here.

Major post WW II deaths include the death tolls from the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Wikipedia estimates the deaths from the Korean War at 2,500,000 – 3,500,000 and the deaths from the Vietnam War at 2,500,000-6,000,000, here.

Ironically, the Republican Party is now being dubbed the War Party and righteously so because the GOP’s Evangelical base screams for non-stop war, murder and plunder. But America’s conservative Republican Christians were not always a gang of murderous psychopaths and the GOP at one time opposed foreign interventions. In fact, WW I, WW II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Balkan Wars were all initiated by liberal, progressive Democrats (Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson and Bill Clinton). Harry Truman also dropped two big atomic bombs on Japan, despite knowing that Japan would surrender, was unable to continue the war and was finished.

Let’s recap the war dead attributable to America, American foreign policy and American Banksters, all of which vastly enabled war by funding it while contributing to the massive death tolls.

WW I, 35,000,000 dead

WW II, At least 50,000,000 dead

Since the end of WW II, another 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 folks have died as a direct result of U.S. foreign interventionism. 

American politicians love to talk about American Exceptionalism and the flag waving voters eat it up. We are exceptional all right – exceptional in the art of war and murder.

What has our lust for blood cost us? It’s cost us ‘Shock and Awe’ economic destruction. We are now barely a shadow of our once free and prosperous republic and we’ve morphed into Nazi Germany.  America is now the Evil Empire that threatens life, peace and prosperity everywhere. 

When will the American blood lust be satiated? When Americans vote to fire the warmongers and replace them with constitutionalists who believe in the peaceful foreign policy of our founders.

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. James Madison

Memorial Day?  I'll pass on the celebrations and mourn what I know will be our fate.

The government propaganda and media complex can be counted on to leap into high gear with lies, deceptions, false flag attacks and a whole menu of psychological manipulations to con “we the people” into believing that war and murder are noble, just and patriotic.

But by far the worst manifestations of power transgress beyond the horrifying spectacle of the physical carnage of war because those same folks who deceptively internalized that war is noble also become its ultimate victims. Sooner or later the flag waving stops when folks realize that they have been systematically shorn of their own liberty and prosperity, and condemned to a miserable life under totalitarian tyranny. The film clips of euphorically happy flag waving Germans idolizing Hitler and his evil is a stark contrast to the starving, homeless and terrified Germans in bombed out and burned out German cities at the end of WW II. Worshiping the flag is most dangerous when folks fail to even realize precisely the flag stands for.

For Americans, they will eventually come to the frightening realization that they put their faith and trust in a government that betrayed them as they are forced to accept that they have been nothing more than pawns on the financial chessboard of empire wherein the wealth and power of the nation has been viciously concentrated into the hands of the ruling few – Banksters and their power brokers who delivered unto the people unemployment, economic misery, fiat currency, wars and grim futures.

At this point, what does the flag stand for? Nothing but the tens of trillions poured down the scary black hole of dark nothingness and militarism gone mad as they ponder the failures of an evil debt ridden empire that utterly bankrupted and destroyed a once great, glorious and prosperous nation.

Memorial Days should be about mourning the 100 million plus bodies that would never have been needlessly snuffed out had it not been for the evil US Empire, the military industrial complex and the banksters.  Memorial Day should be about deep soul searching and about how can the American people reject the insanity and reclaim their long lost moral compass.

President Andrew Jackson, a flawed and morally inconsistent man who opposed public debt and who also declared war on the national bank, was smart enough to understand human nature and its perennial quest for concentrated powers, whatever the cost.

“I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.”

And what do we have today – a moneyed aristocracy with raw and absolute power and they have crushed the nation, destroyed the prosperity of the people and its evil military industrial security Bankster complex has decimated human beings all over the planet.

This is what U.S. foreign policy has delivered to America, yet we drink the poison because we lack the courage to think the unthinkable and to speak the unspeakable as we sellout out liberty with each election and march off into totalitarian statist hell.

Two time Medal of Honor winner Maj. General Smedley (USMC) spent over 3 decades fighting wars and concluded in 1933:

 War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. 

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. 

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

A Guide To Understanding the Middle East, Syria, The West and Oil

Americans tend to think that the Middle East is a basket case and fiery cauldron of evil because it's Muslim and that those Muslims are terrorists who want to kill us and rain terror upon us.  Is it true?  The answer is an emphatic NO.  However, to understand the Middle East, one has to first understand Islam, the dynamics of its feuding sects, the geo-politics attached thereto, oil and US/Western interventionism because they are all very significant.

The two major sects of Islam are Sunni and Shiite and Sunni Islam is far more dominant than Shiite Islam.  Roughly speaking, it's estimated that 75-90% of the world's Muslims are Sunni and 10-20% are Shiite.  The Shiites are largely concentrated in Iran and about 2/3 of Iraq is Shiite.  The Sunni and Shiite Muslims have been engaged in a Holy War with each other ever since the Arab Sunni invasion of Iran and Iraq that resulted in the Sunni-Shia rift that commenced around the 7th century.

Globe and Mail did an excellent analysis on the Sunni-Shiite rift.

The Clash Within Civilisations: How The Sunni-Shiite Divide Cleaves The Middle East

In the 18th century, a Sunni fanatical cleric name Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab teamed up with the House of Saud to violently deliver power to the House of Saud and forcibly impose a new, strict and draconian form of Islam upon the folks on the Arabian Peninsula - Sunni Salafist Wahhabism. It's this virulent strain of Sunni Salafist Wahhabism is is spawning Islamic terrorism today and the US and western leaders are in bed with them because of one thing - OIL.  For more on the the history of the modern Middle East and Islam see:

The Making of the Modern Middle East

A Cruise Through History: Islam, the West and the Rest of the World

Fast forward to today.  Oil wealth in Saudi Arabia has not only made the filthy and degenerate House of Saud hugely rich, the oil wealth of Saudi Arabia and other oil rich Arab nations with majority Sunni populations have facilitated the substantial radicalization of Sunni Muslims all over the planet.  Osama bin Laden and 16 of the 911 terrorists were Saudis; all were Wahhabists.  The US intervention in Egypt has resulted in the Sunni Salafist Wahhabist Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt.  Nuclear armed Pakistan is teeming with radical Wahhabists.  After oil, Saudi Arabia's greatest export is its religion and radical interpretation of Islam.

What's going on in Syria?  It's all part of the age old Sunni-Shiite rift.  Western and Sunni nations goaded Saddam Hussein, a Sunni who ruled over Iraq's Shiite majority, into a long and miserable war with Iran that lasted from 1980-1988 and was fought to a standstill.   Hussein borrowed heavily for the Iraq-Iran War, a war that bankrupted Iraq and ruined its economy.  Hussein demanded debt forgiveness which was refused.  The west and its cozy relationship with Sunni oil producers, notably the oil kingpin Saudi Arabia, deliberately overproduced and flooded the world markets with oil to hurt Iran.  Oil prices just kept falling and falling.  But it backfired (Iran wasn't defeated) and Iraq became a victim of plummeting oil prices.  Hussein was so furious that he invaded Kuwait, a nation that some have persuasively argued did in fact have a legitimate claim to Kuwait but that's an entirely separate issue.

Hussein did not invade Kuwait without US permission. The US Ambassador to Kuwait was April Glaspie.  Hussein consulted with her on several occasion because he FEARED a US intervention if he invaded Kuwait.  Glaspie was instructed by the George H.W. Walker regime to assure Hussein that the US would do nothing.  Based on what Hussein perceived as a US green light to invade Kuwait, he did.

Hussein, who was once a well respected middle eastern strongman and ruthless tyrant, became a pariah.  He failed to win the war against Iran and claim Iran's oil for his western and Sunni oil pals during a period when the global oil cartel (Sunni oil producers and western oil companies) suffered massive declines in oil revenue from a nearly 10 year glut of oil from overproduction to bankrupt Iran.  From hero to a failed bad buy, the world turned on Hussein.  Hussein was easy to manipulate; after all this was a dude who loved drinking western whiskey and watching the Godfather movies over and over.  Hussein was extremely easily to manipulate psychologically - a very easy mark.  So Bush lied, goaded Hussein into invading Kuwait and intervened after he assured Hussein that he would do no such thing.  Anti-war.com documents the Glaspie fiasco, here.

After 911, the US lied again and falsely accused Hussein of having WMD's which he did not.  We knew it and invaded Iraq anyway.  The 2nd US invasion of Iraq unleashed an even bigger nightmare that Arab Sunni leaders greatly feared - the takeover of Iraq and its oil by the Shiite majority, something the Sunni world clearly opposed.  With a Shiite majority now in power in Iraq, it's natural ally is Iran - they share religion, culture and a long history of fighting the Sunnis.

Besides being one of the most monumentally stupid things the US ever did, the 2nd invasion of Iraq was another US led big foreign policy fail.  Iraq is now an incredibly violent place that nearly constitutes a full blown civil war between the Shiites (southern Iraq) the Sunnis (central Iraq) and the Kurds (northern Iraq) who try to steer clear of the Sunni-Shiite feud.  Violence has escalated and bombings are chronic.

Saudi Arabia, other Sunni Arab nations and western nations driven by oil interests have all been conspiring for years (decades) to get their hands on Shiite oil in Iraq and Iran. It's not just a religious civil war, it's also a war for resources wherein Sunni leaders have conned the West into leading the Sunni fight against the oil rich Shiites.

Although many have speculated for years that Saudi Arabia is running out of oil, it's also true that its oil reserves have never been independently verified.  Saudi Arabia may be running dry, not in the near term but definitely in the long term.  CNBC listed top oil nations and their reported oil reserves, here.

1. Saudi Arabia - Proved oil reserves: 262.6 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 17.85%
2. Venezuela - Proved oil reserves: 211.2 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 14.35%
3. Canada - Proved oil reserves: 175.2 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 11.91%
4. Iran - Proved oil reserves: 137 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 9.31%
5. Iraq - Proved oil reserves: 115 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 7.82%
6. Kuwait - Proved oil reserves: 104 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 7.07%
7. United Arab Emirates - Proved oil reserves: 97.8 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 6.65%
8. Russia - Proved oil reserves: 60 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 4.08%
9. Libya - Proved oil reserves: 44.3 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 3.15%
10. Nigeria - Proved oil reserves: 37.2 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 2.53%
11. Kazakhstan - Proved oil reserves: 30 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 2.04%
12. Qatar - Proved oil reserves: 25.38 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 1.72%
13. United States - Proved oil reserves: 20.68 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 1.41%
14. China - Proved oil reserves: 14.8 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 1.01%
15. Brazil - Proved oil reserves: 12.86 billion barrels, Proportion of world total: 0.87%

So how does Syria come into play as the object of America's obsession with regime change?  Syria is ruled by the Assad family that is religiously Alewite, a minor Islamic sect that is closely aligned to Shiite Islam.  Hence, Iran and Syria have always had close ties and are natural allies.

Bahrain is ruthlessly ruled by Sunnis but has a Shiite majority at 65-75%.  Kuwait is ruled by Sunnis and has a substantial Shiite minority at 20-25%.  The Saudis sent troops into Bahrain to suppress Shiite uprisings against Sunni tyranny.  In Syria, the situation is reversed.  About 75% of Syrians are Sunnis but are ruled by the minority Assad, a member of the Alewite sect and ally of Iran.  Assad runs a fairly secular and tolerant government because of the delicate balance of Sunni-Shiite-Alewite.

Saudi Arabia wants Assad out of power because it considers him a non-Sunni Muslim apostate, an ally of its Shiite enemy Iran and Saudi Arabia can't bear the thought of an Alewite-Shiite ruling over Sunni Muslims, most of whom reject Saudi styled Sunni Salafist Wahhabism.  The US and Saudi Arabia are arming and funding Wahhabist radicals in Syria to secure Wahhabist control of the nation.  Why?  Because Saudi Arabia doesn't have the military power to do it, it likes to pretend that its on good terms with its Shiite neighbors and it prefers that the US do its dirty work.  This has been going on for years because the House of Saud happily jumped in bed with western Big Oil and when the House of Saud demands something, western nations jump to do Wahhabist bidding and ask 'how high'.

The entire Benghazi fiasco was nothing but a cover-up to funnel arms and money to Wahhabist jihadist in Syria.

Lies, Lies and More Lies: Benghazi is pure political theater as well as a cover-up.

Geopolitically speaking in the context of oil and Islam, Syria is just an expendable pawn in the war to feed the Sunni Wahhabist oil cartel and its western partners, and to expand dangerously violent Wahhabism in the Middle East.  Syria is also part of the plan to encircle Iran and the End Game is to invade, occupy, neutralize the Iranian Shiites and control Iranian oil.

On May 16, 2013, Obama met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House, here.  The story went unnoticed except for the US Marines umbrella flap over the Marines holding umbrellas over the heads of Obama and Erdogan during the pouring rain.

The significance of the meeting was ignored.  Turkey is a most interesting player in the conflict.  Turkey became a sovereign nation after WW I dealt a death blow to the Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the first president of Turkey and he intended for Turkey to develop along the western secular model. It worked for a while but the Saudis and Wahhabism managed to infect Turkey and its Sunni majority; oil money buys a lot of mosque power and influence. Erdogan, who was always a devout Sunni Muslim and once imprisoned for his affiliation with a radical Islamist party, rose to elected power in Turkey in 2008. Many feel that the reforms of Erdogan are abolishing Turkey's tradition of secularism and strengthening Sunni styled Wahhabism.  Turkey is close to 100% Sunni Muslim and the potential for radicalization is quite high despite the fact that many in Turkey oppose the Islamist regime.

That Obama was meeting with Erdogan is not surprising, especially in light of the fact that Erdogan supports regime change in Syria and has been a Sunni US alley for many years.  Erdogan is also a very close ally of Saudi Arabia.  Undoubtedly, Obama and his Wahhabist Saudi masters along with Erdogan were planning for the Wahhabist Sunni takeover of Syria after a US led military intervention.

The folks in Turkey are not happy with Erdogan's support for a military intervention and regime change in Syria.  RT.com is reporting that Erdogan's support for the Syrian Sunni rebels, funded and armed by the US, is resulting in anger and protests.

'Turkey to see more bombings as Erdogan's support for Syrian rebels backfires' 

Terrorist attacks on Turkish soil won’t stop until the country’s Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, gives up on his support of rebel forces in Syria, British broadcaster, Neil Clark, told RT.

Turkish police have fired tear gas at protesters in a town near the Syrian border, which was the scene of a deadly double car bombing a week ago.

Demonstrators are angry over Ankara's support for the Syrian rebels, which they say is putting Turkey in the firing line.

It's entirely possible that Turkey could bust into civil war as its moderate Sunni Muslims collide with the Sunni Salafist Wahhabists.

Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to fund and arm the Syrian rebels and Rand Paul summarized it accurately.

Rand Paul: My colleagues just voted to arm the allies of al Qaeda

Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, which voted overwhelmingly to arm elements of the Syrian opposition in a bill co-sponsored by Sen.Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). "This is an important moment," Paul said, addressing his Senate colleagues. "You will be funding, today, the allies of al Qaeda. It's an irony you cannot overcome."

The legislation, which would authorize the shipment of arms and military training to rebels "that have gone through a thorough vetting process," passed in a bipartisan 15-3 vote. Paul offered an amendment that would strike the bill's weapons provision, but it was rejected along with another Paul amendment ruling out the authorization of the use of military force in Syria. (Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy was the only senator to join Paul in support of the weapons amendment.)

Finally, the really big question should be:  Why are western nations conspiring to militarily force a significant swath of the human population behind the 21st century Iron Curtain of Sunni Salafist Wahabbist Islam, a religion that is perhaps the most cruel, oppressive and intolerant of any religion created by mankind and its gods?

More to the point, Western nations have been flooding their countries with radical Sunni Muslims, radical Sunni mosques, radical Sunni clerics and folks that simply are not assimilating into Western society.

Stockholm had entered its 5th straight day of violent Muslim rioting, here.

The world is aghast over a British Muslim publicly murdering and chopping off the head of a British soldier.  The Boston Bombing tragedy continues to unfold as the America National Security State or Nazified Police State has utterly failed.

Western governments are broke and the burden of entitlement dependent immigrants who have no use for their host country except for the generous welfare programs is stressing economies, budgets and taxpayers.

As the West continues to collapse into a smoldering heap of statism, endless wars and failed multiculturalism, all that is left of the once prosperous and free West is the distant memory of liberty, prosperity and civilized society.  Soon, that memory will also be vanquished.

The Muslim world is a crazy quilt ancient resentments, religious intolerance and an unwillingness to embrace liberty and natural rights.  It's ruled by oppressive dictators that are embraced by the West.  None of this is good for the West or the Muslim world that has its own challenges in figuring out how to survive in a world that is far beyond the 7th century.

The NWO, Banksters and Governments Have a new WMD - it's called the Monetary Blockade

 

Sanctions are evil and they never hurt the politicos in power, just ordinary folks who suffer from a lack of medicine, food and survival essentials. The New World Order crime syndicate intends to massively expand sanction through control of a global network called SWIFT, The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.  Who is SWIFT and what does it do?  SWIFT is a private member owned corporation that facilitates financial transactions and its been around for 40 years. It's website states, here:

SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative through which the financial world conducts its business operations with speed, certainty and confidence. More than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 212 countries trust us every day to exchange millions of standardised financial messages. This activity involves the secure exchange of proprietary data while ensuring its confidentiality and integrity.

Our role is two-fold. We provide the proprietary communications platform, products and services that allow our customers to connect and exchange financial information securely and reliably. We also act as the catalyst that brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and consider solutions to issues of mutual interest.

SWIFT enables its customers to automate and standardise financial transactions, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating inefficiencies from their operations. By using SWIFT customers can also create new business opportunities and revenue streams. SWIFT has its headquarters in Belgium and has offices in the world's major financial centres and developing markets. SWIFT provides additional products and associated services through Arkelis N.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of SWIFT, the assets of which were acquired from SunGard in 2010.

While sanction are indeed extremely punitive, nations have managed to somewhat skirt them.  If the US sanctioned a nation, that nation was able to secure essential goods through other nations and SWIFT is a commercial clearing house vehicle to efficiently facilitate financial transactions among nations.  However, the European Union, dubbed the Throne in Brussels, has imposed extraordinary and unprecedented rules on SWIFT.

Forbes had a fascinating piece on SWIFT and explains the Monetary Blockade.

The Payments Network As Economic Weapon

“Extraordinary and unprecedented” is how SWIFT chief executive, Lázaro Campos, describes the March 17th move by Belgium-based SWIFT to discontinue service to 30 Iranian banks. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, is a worldwide financial messaging network to facilitate the interbank transfer of funds. Now, it has become an economic weapon as well.

Campos emphasized the monetary blockade is “a direct result of international and multilateral action to intensify financial sanctions against Iran” and that SWIFT was forced by recent European Union sanctions designed to isolate Iran financially for its failure to demonstrate to Western nations that it is not developing nuclear weapons.

SWIFT has never expelled an institution in its 39-year history and in 2010 it processed 2 million messages for 19 Iranian member banks and 25 financial institutions. This is a vastly significant change in tactics and the repercussions are still unknown. Governments have long used the financial system as a method of tracking and blocking payment flow for targeted individuals and companies, but now it has been escalated to the nation-state level via the modern telecommunications network.

Mark Dubowitz is a sanctions specialist in Washington D.C. who advised U.S. lawmakers on the recent SWIFT legislation. He said the decision could limit the ability of Iran’s banks “to move billions of dollars in financial transactions and put immense pressure on Iran’s leaders to reconsider their policies” and that it underscores “the growing political isolation of Iran as it becomes the first country to be expelled from what is the financial equivalent of the United Nations.”

Highlighting and exposing the structural importance of centralized financial institutions that sit at the very top of the payments pyramid will hasten the trend to more decentralized and regional payment structures. Moreover, a single worldwide financial structure with near-absolute authority will begin to be seen as a vulnerability to many nations because they cannot always be expected to comply with U.S. and European Union directives. Now that the precedent has been set for evicting a country’s financial institutions from the prevailing global payments network, all nations will be rightly suspicious of that powerful weapon.

Few folks have even heard of SWIFT.  Heck, I never heard of it until I came a recent the Forbes article.  In 2010, The Weekly Standard, a hardcore neocon warmongering website that energetically advocates for endless wars and murder everywhere, ran a piece on SWIFT and how the Bush Administration demanded that it cooperate in the phony baloney War on Terror (WOT). The Weekly Standard took a swipe at Germany by accusing it of failing to cooperate in the WOT.

Germany’s War on the War on Terror

Last month, the European parliament rejected the so-called SWIFT agreement, which would have permitted American terrorism investigators to continue inspecting data on international financial transactions originating from European banks. The members of parliament thus shut down a program that French investigative judge Jean-Louis Bruguière concluded was a “vital counter-terrorism tool,” which had proved its worth in both elucidating terror attacks and preventing them.

Officially known as the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), it was set up by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks......
The SWIFT agreement is so-named for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a Brussels-based consortium of banks. In voting down the agreement, the European parliament made use of powers freshly accorded it under the Lisbon Treaty.....

A lot has changed in the foreign policy landscape since 2010 and with the US and the EU beating the war drums for war on Syria, a non-belligerent nation that has done nothing to the US or Europe, the motivation of Europe to accelerate its sanction powers against Iran has vastly increased because Syria and Iran have always been natural allies.

For the first time in human history, nations are collaborating to create an all powerful global financial institution with the muscle and teeth to literally starve a nation and its peoples until it submits to NWO tyranny.   Such a global scheme is unprecedented in human history simply because nobody held such totalitarian financial powers until recently which is the direct result of the concentration of financial (bankster) and military power (NATO).  NATO is the military wing of the UN's global governance gang and the US military has been morphing into the UN's global military for decades.

There can be no doubt that NATO takes its orders from the financial oligarchs.

I recently saw the 2009 Movie, The International, an interesting movie about an Interpol agent attempting to track the global arms trade and the banks that facilitate the arms trade transactions.  A high level bank official told the agent point blank:

This is not about making profit from weapon sales, it’s about control. The objective isn’t to control the conflict, it’s to control the debt that the country produces, you see the real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt they create. You control the debt, you control everything. This is the very essence of the banking industry. To make us all whether we be nations or individuals slaves to debt.

The above quote is the most concise and articulate definition of the global banking system that I've ever read.  Indeed, the End Game is total debt slavery of every nation and every individual on the planet.  Nations must submit or they will be droned, bombed, occupied and their citizens murdered until they comply and surrender to global financial and military NATO/UN tyranny.

Why Women Need Guns: A Woman is Raped and 911 Tells her There are No Cops to Respond

The Huffington Post has a bizarre piece about a women in Josephine County Oregon who was raped by her ex-boyfriend because when she called 911 the operator told her there were no cops on duty to help her. Of course, rape is a tragic and violent crime but if anything, this story raises the issue of the absolute necessity of women being able to defend themselves against violence.  Really, how many rapes have the cops prevented?

The Huffington Post launched into a liberal statist screed blaming the Josephine County voters for voting down a tax increase.

Michael Bellah Rapes Ex-Girlfriend After 911 Operator Tells Her There Are No Police Available To Help

A woman was raped and assaulted by her ex-boyfriend because there were no cops on duty to answer her 911 plea for help.

"I don't have anybody to send out there," the operator said. "You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away."....

Bellah later pleaded guilty to kidnapping, assault and sex abuse related to the August 2012 incident, according to Think Progress. The story is making headlines now because this week, Josephine County residents narrowly defeated a ballot measure that may have prevented tragedies like this one.

Think Progress reports that, because of steep budget cuts at the federal and county level, "deputies are only available eight hours a day, Monday through Friday. The woman's desperate call came on a Saturday. The county dispatcher transferred her call to state police, but at the time of the crime, there were no state troopers available to help."

The ballot measure voted down on Tuesday would have "raised county property taxes from 59 cents per $1,000 of property value, the lowest in Oregon, to $1.48 for the next three years," according to Think Progress. The extra funds would have been used to bolster law enforcement resources in the county, which were slashed after a federal timber subsidy expired.

Of course, the anti-2nd amendment Huffington Post doesn't even mention that women who own firearms and are proficient in using them are far less likely to be a victim.  The liberal talking points go like this: you have no right to defend yourself and the police will protect you.  Moreover, anybody who has ever been a victim of a violent crime understands full well that the police don't exist to protect citizens from criminals.

Tax dollars have never bought citizen protection.  Obama's stimulus doled out a ton of money to local police departments and that money was spent on shopping sprees for fancy new equipment, vehicles, military grade weapons and all kinds of nonsense that did absolutely nothing to make citizens safe from crimes.  The federal government was obsessed with making citizens safe from the non-existent but ubiquitous terrorists who are lurking in every corner.  Well, not really!  The government was far more obsessed with funding a militarized police state and used terrorism as an excuse.

If we want less rapists committing rape, we need more armed women and who cares if rapists are shot dead?  Meanwhile, the liberal solution to rape, besides cleaning out your bank account, is:

FBI Keeps Changing its Story on Fatal Shooting of Ibragim Todashev, a Possible Associate of the Boston Bombers

It's bad enough that the Boston Bombing story has more holes than Swiss cheese, starting with the fact Homeland Security and the Boston PD were a big fail and the ever changing official stories have been exposed as outright lies by amateur blogger journalists. All the snipers, infrared cameras, bomb sniffing dogs, surveillance drones and 9,000 Gestapo militarized troops couldn't stop the Boston Bombers or even catch them.

After a wounded Tsarnaev managed to limp to a nearby boat after the infamous shootout, the cops still couldn't find him hiding in a boat just a few blocks from the shootout site. Then a homeowner went out for a smoke after the lockdown was lifted and called 911 when he observed that the tarp covering his boat was bloody (proof that Tsarnaev was injured when he escaped from the shootout site). MSM was breaking news that a shootout at the boat site was in progress between Tsarnaev and the police. That story was retracted a few days later when it was quietly reported that Tsarnaev was unarmed. Still the boat was heavily perforated with gun shots and the government produced an infrared photo of Tsarnaev lying down in the boat.

 

How state of the art military grade surveillance cameras missed the boat and the clearly visible human remains a mystery.  In any event the only person responsible for Tsarnaev's capture was a homeowner and not the cops.  The story acquired a new dimension when it was reported that the FBI fatally shot Ibragim Todashev in Florida and an alleged associate of the Tsarnaev brothers. Originally, it was reported that Todashev was shot dead while the FBI was in the process of securing a written confession and Todashev supposedly lunged at an FBI agent(s). But that story is also changing. Fox News reports:

Moments leading to fatal FBI shooting in Orlando still unclear

An FBI incident review team from Washington, D.C., is in Orlando today, a day after a Russian man who knew Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot dead by an agent.

Federal and Central Florida law enforcement agencies are still collecting and processing evidence from the shooting scene at a condominium complex on Peregrine Avenue, near Kirkman Road and Universal Orlando, where Ibragim Todashev was shot early Wednesday.

Initially, FBI officials said Todashev, 27, became violent and lunged at an agent with a knife while he was being questioned about Tsarnaev and an unsolved 2011 triple murder in the Boston suburb of Waltham. The agent, acting on an "imminent threat," then shot Todashev, they said.

However, later in the day, some of those officials had backed off that preliminary account, and it's no longer clear what happened in the moments before the fatal shooting, The Associated Press reported.

Sources told Fox 25 News in Boston that Todashev, a Russian national living legally in Florida, was about to sign a confession linking him to the Waltham slayings just before the shooting took place.

The shooting of Todashev is even more bizarre than the bizarre Boston Bombing story fiasco. Law enforcement never interrogates a suspect at their home - they detain them, search them and haul them in, unarmed, and place them in interrogation rooms where they are no threat to anybody.  Law enforcement never leaves a suspect in their own home because it's incredibly risky to allow a suspect to access to weapons that can harm the suspect or law enforcement.  It's definitely not standard operating procedure to interrogate a suspect anywhere other than in a secure interrogation room.

Exactly what went down with the fatal shooting of Todashev is unknown and what stories are being reports are changing.  Now that's standard operating procedure in Police State USA where the government version of anything is constantly changing to fit the propaganda.

Waging a Revolution for Liberty and Kicking MSM and Government Ass with Social Media

OKAY, every political activist waging the Revolution for liberty has complained about Facebook and social media because their accounts have been arbitrarily shut down or their posts have been deleted.  Still, social media is and continues to be an incredibly powerful force and in the absence of a big fat bank account, it's really our only weapon because it's cost free activism.

Instead of complaining, we need to figure out how to maximize social media and grow it into an even more potent force.  MSM is bleeding readers and viewers in print and broadcast because the cozy government-MSM complex is busting loose at the seams as a result of the gargantuan growth of independent Internet media.  Independent citizen journalists, websites, bloggers and social media are in the process of rendering MSM obsolete.   We've come a long way since the days of showing up at a Ron Paul rally in 2008.  In fact, we're blossoming into a formidable force that finally has MSM and the government running a tad scared.  Yeah, the tyrants are still in control but their power and influence is growing more tenuous by the day because their crimes against liberty and humanity are finally being exposed.

What should we be doing?  Well, anybody that likes to write or post news should have a blog and/or a website, a Facebook account and a Twitter account.  Moreover, building up your Facebook and Twitter influence is absolutely critical because they combine to exponentially reach thousands upon thousands through shares and retweets.  It's this power of magnification that catapults an ordinary citizen into a super and extraordinarily effective liberty activist that directly challenged government and media power.

Although not everybody wants to blog or run a website, those folks can still wield substantial social media power merely by sharing FB posts, tweeting and Liking the pages of liberty activists because every Facebook 'Like' and 'Share' and 'Tweet' is an act of political activism.  Moreover, FB accounts can be set up to automatically Tweet so building a following on Twitter is an incredible social media magnifier.

If anything, it's the magnifier effect that renders social media such an awesomely powerful force.  Here's an example.

My Judy Morris individual FB account is maxed out at 5,000 FB friends.  However, an individual FB account doesn't really have the reach of a FB page as I recently learned because FB limits friend interactions to 250 or less.  So 5,000 FB friends really doesn't mean that you are reaching 5,000 folks.  However, a FB page is entirely different than a personal page.  FB friend and liberty activist Jerry Titus recently created the Libertycalling.net website as a joint project to built a new liberty media.  We created the Liberty Calling with Judy Morris Facebook page as a companion to the Liberty Calling website.  Both the website and new FB page have been up and running for only a few weeks.  Unlike the 250 reach with the Judy Morris personal account, the Liberty Calling With Judy Morris FB page, according to FB stats, has a reach of:

Total Likes:  583
Friends of Fans: 276,372
Weekly Total Reach: 9,229 as of 5/19

That's way more social media power than I had before I created the new Liberty Calling FB page.

Twitter is a different social media venue but it's powerful because some folks tend to hangout exclusively on Twitter.  Some folks prefer Facebook.  However, reaching out to both is critically important because they magnify each other, especially when FB posts are automatically tweeted.

Here are a few important rules for social media liberty activism:

1.  Always Like as a fan every Facebook page that is related to liberty and that includes Ron Paul supporters, liberty activists, independent voters, Libertarians, constitutionalists, paleo-conservatives, anti-war folks, anti-bankster folks, Austrian economics, voluntarists and every disgruntled Republican or Democrat.  All these folks tend to be very aware of issues, well informed and they crave news and information.  They are the heart and soul of political and liberty activism.

2.  In addition to supporting fellow liberty activists by 'Liking' their FB pages, share and Tweet their posts to magnify the power of information sharing.  This supports independent media by creating Internet hits on their websites and blogs.  Media is a mass marketing volume game and if we fail to grow our own liberty media by supporting each other, we will fail.

3.  Explore Facebook.  Explore Twitter. Explore other social media venues.  There is power in numbers and reach.

We tend to think that as individuals that we are powerless.  But we are very powerful and a few Likes a day, a few tweets a day and a few shares a days makes a huge difference because once something gets rolling in cyberspace, the impact is huge.

Finally, I absolutely am pimping for LibertyCalling.net and Liberty Calling with Judy Morris.  We've got to pimp for ourselves, our work and each other simply because nobody else will.  We aren't bankrolled with MSM dough but we have talent and truth to spread and these days the cost is free and/or cheap.

That's We the People power that has never before existed in human history.  Let's roll with it! 

The G-7 Tax Collectors Cometh!

One of the incredible things that allows nations and American states to prosper economically is tax competition. It's no secret that low tax US states have stronger economies than high tax states. Similarly, low tax nations have much stronger economies than high tax nations. The NWO, the G7 and all the global bureaucrats have been attacking tax competition for years. They want to impose fixed tax rates everywhere, something they call tax harmonization which translates to all nations agreeing to being equally poor, impoverished and economically impotent.

While tax harmonization has been a goal, the global elites are now in an absolute panic because as economies go bust, folks are energizing their survival instincts and going underground. The underground barter/trade/cash economy is beyond the tax collectors reach and it has been estimated that up to 50% of all Greek economic output is underground. Underground economies are rapidly growing in other nations like Spain. Many bureaucrats are even suggesting that all physical paper money be outlawed and that the only allowable money should be traceable electronic bank money. As statism enters its final death spiral, governments everywhere will be in 100% confiscation mode. Nobody's wealth or savings will be safe as evidence by the grand theft in Cyprus.

The G7 is in such a panic that it focused its recent meeting on 'collective' tax collection.  The BBC reports, here:

The G7 summit was an important stepping stone towards a global new standard on tax. 

Translation of government speak:  A new global tax standard will require a new government bureaucracy to facilitate global statist plunder.

That goal is fiendishly complex and to help achieve it a number of countries have agreed to share information on suspected law breaking in both areas of tax law.

Translation of government speak: 'Fiendishly complex' is a code word that means that whatever rules/laws are passed they will be so unclear and incomprehensible that cooperating governments will have the raw and absolute power to just seize whatever they want and without due process.

The G7 group of industrialised nations have agreed that there must be collective action against tax evasion and avoidance, the UK's finance minister has said.

Translation of government speak:  There can be no place on planet earth where folks with money can hide and be exempt from the confiscating arm of government.  Government must be fed at all costs and plunder is the weapon.  Collectivization of all wealth will be complete and arbitrary.

"We must put regimes in place... to deal with failing banks and to protect taxpayers and to do so in a globally-consistent manner," he said.

Translation of government speak:  The Banksters must be protected, bailed out at all cost and the taxpayers and economy be damned.

Britain wants the rest of the EU - including very low tax countries such as Luxembourg and Austria - to sign up to this pilot scheme at next Tuesday's Ecofin in Brussels.

Translation of government speak:  Those nations that don't comply will be punished and face the wrath of the globalists, governments, banksters and possibly even militaries.

Anyway, the above BBC quotes are just a few highlights from the G7 confab and its ruling elites.  Governments are like voracious beasts that need constant feeding.  Underground economies starve the beast and the beast isn't about to just lay down and die.  While it's still standing, it will devour everything in its insatiable path.  

Arrest and Prosecute the IRS and the Dems: How the IRS is Squashing the 1st Amendment

The scandal involving the admission by the IRS that it has specifically targeted groups that advocate for liberty and constitutional governance should be extremely disturbing to every American.  Even more reprehensibly sinister is that Obama and the Democratic Party are at the forefront in the outright assault on the 1st Amendment and political activism.  As the Democratic Party increasingly bares its totalitarian stripes, the sheer horror of it all is quite reminiscent of the Nazi Party, Stalism, Maoism and other ruthless statist regimes.  Of course, I'm not in any way implying that the Republican Party is any better.  The GOP is indeed also responsible for the wholesale squashing of civil liberties.

The Washington Post has even reported on IRS-gate and how the agency is persecuting groups that are critical of the government.

IRS targeted groups critical of government, documents from agency probe show

While both Republicans and Democrats approvingly seek to invoke the hideous Patriot Act as a pretext to detain, kidnap and torture anybody who is perceived as an enemy of the state, the exploding IRS scandal only adds to the emerging truth that America has morphed into a Nazified Police State, complete with gulags and torture.

The 1st Amendment is unique in that it actually contains 5 specific rights that the Federal government cannot infringe upon:  freedom of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble and the freedom to petition the government.  The exact wording of the 1st Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

These are powerful rights that the Federal government has no legal authority to trample.  Yet, the IRS, the Democrats and the Obama regime are tramping every one of them by targeting religious groups and patriot groups for persecution and attempting to squash their right to free speech, their right to politically advocate using media venues, their right to assemble and their right to petition the government.  Moreover, the IRS, an agency under the direct supervision of the Treasury Department, admits to intimidating, harassing and even threatening groups that exercise their constitutional rights.

By any definition, the acts of the government to squash opposition to the government do indeed constitute a blatant infringement of the heart and soul of American styled liberty as defined by the Constitution and its specific limitations of Federal powers.

Accordingly, the government and the IRS-Treasury Department are engaging in criminal activity.  In a sane and just world, the criminals would be brought to justice through criminal prosecution.  But in America today, the Gestapo criminals are above the law, above the constitution and exempt from criminal prosecution for their criminal activities.

Anybody who still believes that America is the Land of the Free is so utterly delusional that they have voluntarily submitted to the militarized federal police state and its Nazi tactics and propaganda.  This is a very bad sign that does not bode well for the future of liberty in a nation that now consistently and openly squashes liberty.

The Huffington Post and MSM Have Launched Disinformation Campaigns Against JFK Truth Tellers.

November 22, 2013 will be the 50th anniversary of the murder of JFK at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, TX.  Big media journalists are launching books and others are already pimping for the official government version of JFK's murder by marginalizing and dissing the truth tellers and their volumes of research.  The Huffington Post is just another statist progressive rag that worships the state and all its insidious, tyrannical evil. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the 'Puff Post' is relentlessly loyal to the government and is actively complicit in squashing any and all truth surrounding JFK's murder.  The 5/11/13 Puff Post piece by Allen G. Breed acknowledges that JFK researches exist but mockingly dusts them off as conspiracy theorists.

JFK Assassination Leads To Countless Works About 'Truth' And Conspiracies 

As an amateur JFK researcher, I read JFK and the Unspeakable, Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass.  It's a book that I highly recommend because it received critical acclaim by 'real' journalists and JFK researchers.  James Fetzer wrote, here:

Among the vast number of books that have been written about the death of JFK, perhaps none has been as successful at explaining why he was taken out as James Douglass, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE (2008). This superb volume traces JFK's evolution from a cold warrior to a man of peace in a gripping, effortlessly readable study of admirable scholarship. In my estimation, this is the single best volume to understand why he died and why it matters.

 The epic work of Douglass is commendable on many levels.  It's meticulously researched and documented.  Besides detailing all that happened on November 22, 1963 and events before and after that mournful day, Douglass expansively delves into US foreign policy and its key players which is the heart and soul of the government's plot to murder a popular sitting president.   With mountains of evidence to back it up, Douglass concludes:

We have no evidence as to who in the military-industrial complex may have given the order to assassinate President Kennedy. That the order was carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency is obvious. The CIA’s fingerprints are all over the crime and the events leading up to it.

So why did the Huffington Post totally, willfully and conveniently ignore perhaps the most important, seminal and scholarly book ever written on JFK's murder?  The answer is simple.  The Puff Post, just like everybody else in MSM, exists for no purpose except to function as the government's pimp in chief and that requires massive disinformation and misinformation campaigns designed to protect the government and its secrets by marginalizing truth tellers.  Anybody who directly or indirectly challenges the government's official position on JFK's murder, or anything for that matter, is automatically dubbed a crackpot, a conspiracy theorist and much worse.

Because of the growing presence of an increasingly powerful alternate Internet media, MSM is losing power but it's still very powerful.  Folks are sufficiently delusional to believe all the garbage and propaganda flowing from their favorite left or right wing MSM rags but even that paradigm is showing signs of weakening.  Despite the best efforts of the government and media, the truth is slowly getting out anyway.

While I loved the Douglass book, I didn't love it because he said the CIA did it.  I revere the book for its voluminous and exceptionally crafted  historical value. Douglass doesn't just throw out documented facts.  He carefully weaves documented facts into a compelling and highly credible story that every American should know, ponder and at least think about but in America, thinking and acquiring knowledge is verboten.  We are expected to believe the big brother media version of everything.

The most fascinating aspect of JFK research is the abundance of various theories - the Cubans did it, the mafia did it, the Russians did it, LBJ did it, the military industrial complex did it, the CIA did it and on and on.  That's why JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglas is such a standout blockbuster work.  Douglass is one of the few who carefully and methodically weaved the foreign policy establishment into the story with footnotes and documentation.

Precisely because Douglass took the JFK murder investigation to a new level, he's a threat to establishment government and the media.  That's the real reason why he's ignored.  While other JFK researchers are merely dissed as nutjob conspiracy theory kooks, the media can't diss Douglass as a conspiracy theorist so he's merely ignored.  Even the media backs off when confronted with a truth that it can't refute.

If anything, Douglass proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that conspiracy is no longer theory.

Lies, Lies and More Lies: Benghazi is pure political theater as well as a cover-up.

Benghazi has been resurrected as the hottest buzz of the week. Of course, it's all pure 100% political theater and quite timely as Congressional hearings on the Boston Bombing disclosed some incredibly embarrassing data on how the US National Security State was a big fail in preventing the Boston Bombing despite having knowledge and verification from multiple nations that the Tsarnaev brothers were dangerous radical Islamists with jihad aspirations. Even more interesting is that NBC reported that the Boston Police Chief testified before Congress that they were clueless about the Tsarnaev brothers and were focused on following the Occupy folks. The Occupy folks? Despite having no connections to terrorism, murder or violence, Boston PD and DHS fusion centers dubbed the Occupy folks a dangerous threat worth tracking while ignoring the real threat of known jihadists who apparently have no problem obtaining US citizenship and welfare benefits.

Unaware of Tsarnaev warnings, Boston counterterror unit tracked protesters

In the fall of 2011, a key Boston police counterterror intelligence unit -- funded with millions of dollars in U.S. homeland security grants -- was closely monitoring anti-Wall Street demonstrations, including tracking the Facebook pages and websites of the protesters and writing reports on the potential impact on "commercial and financial sector assets" in downtown areas, according to internal police documents.

The police monitoring of the activities of Occupy Boston -- an off-shoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests that swept the country in 2011 -- came during a period after the U.S. government received the second of two warnings from the Russian government about the radical Islamic ties of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

But back to Benghazi.  The Drudge Report, the propaganda arm of the Republican Party, has let loose with some scathing headlines that just don't quit including:
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White House meets privately with press to discuss Benghazi...

ABCNEWS: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference...

Petraeus Expressed Frustration At Altered Account...

ATTORNEY: Whistleblower demoted, threatened...

There can be no question that Benghazi is one giant blame game that was hatched by Republicans to discredit Obama and the Dems.  However, Obama is not blameless.  I blogged about Benghazi in  October, 2012 and provided a lot of background information on the CIA, its nefarious but secretive missions and its long history of being in bed with radical Islamists, below and worth reading.

My Two Cents on Benghazi

However, I'd like to expand the October Benghazi blog post to include even more information.  Benghazi came under attack on September 11-12, 2012, an obviously very significant date that sends chills up and down the spines of Americans.  On November 2, 2012 a British newspaper ran an extensive piece on Benghazi and the CIA:

Benghazi consulate that came under attack by Al Qaeda militants was being used for CIA operations Mail Online

It's no secret that Benghazi was a secret but not so secret and openly known CIA operation, something even the CIA admits.

CIA confirms role in US consulate attack in Benghazi The Telegraph

The US consulate in Benghazi that came under attack by militants on September 11 was mainly a secret CIA operation, shedding new light on the deadly assault.

The Christian Science Monitor reported:

Benghazi fallout: CIA reveals secret intelligence hub was nearby

While the precise nature of the CIA mission is unclear and remains shrouded in misinformation and disinformation, such is the nature of covert operations.  However, among those who astutely understand the CIA and US foreign policy, there is no doubt whatsoever that the CIA was arming Syrian Jihad rebels.

Geraldo Rivera reported on Fox News that his sources confirmed that the Benghazi CIA operation was all about arming Syrian rebels, here, which is something that both Republicans and Democrat neocon warmongers support.

At the end of the day, Benghazi was nothing more than the CIA arming and funding Sunni Salafist Wahhabist jihadists to destabilize Syria and prep the nation for the fall of Assad and another bloody and murderous US intervention, invasion and occupation.

The CIA, an organization that is really nothing more than the private but taxpayer funded military arm of Wall Street, defense contractors, the New World Order and corporatist special interests, has a long history of creating false flag attacks to inspire the American public to embrace outrage as a pretext to march off to yet another war.  The government propaganda machine works 24/7 to romance the American public into beating the war drums and it's all done with the collusion of mainstream media, print and broadcast.

The Gulf of Tonkin fiasco was a classic false flag attacked that LBJ and the CIA engineered to further destabilize Vietnam and justify a US military invasion and massive bombing of a nation that did absolutely NOTHING to harm America in any way. It's well documented and it's definitely worth a Google because the Vietnam horror resulted in the murders of millions of Asians, the napalming of of massive swaths of real estate in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and the deaths of over 58,000 Americans.

As the US continues to beat the war drums to attack Syria, it's invoking chemical weapons as justification.

Anti-Syria hysteria? US pushes chemical weapons claim

US Secretary of State John Kerry said there is “strong evidence” proving the Syrian government used chemical weapons in its war against the militant opposition, a position at odds with recent UN findings.

The official 'lie' has been debunked by various sources in the alternate media because America's mainstream media obviously can't handle the truth but that comes as no surprise considering that MSM is the government's chief propaganda stooge.  In any event, many alternate news sources absolutely reject the US government's official story that it's the Assad regime that is using the chemical weapons.  It's far more likely that the US has provided chemical weapons to the Syrian rebels to use against Syrian citizens and then blame it on Assad.

See for Yourself: Syrian Government Likely Did Not Use Chemical Weapons

Unlike the days of the Vietnam era and pre-Internet days when ABC, CBS and NBC controlled all the news with absolute monopoly powers on all information, these days we do have access to alternative information and news sources that dramatically conflicts with the official version of anything.  Moreover, these sources are proving to be more credible that the media and the government.

We've arrived at an era where conspiracy is no longer theory.  The truth is everywhere and that's got the goon government and its media operatives running scared. With the official Boston Bombing story having more holes than Swiss cheese, it's clearly evident that any amateur citizen journalist can see with a fraction of a brain cell the great fraud being perpetrated upon us.

Benghazi?  It was just a CIA mission gone bad, like Fast and Furious where the government was supplying Mexican drug cartels with military grade weaponry and then blaming the Mexican drug violence on American 2nd amendment rights.

If you really want to read something scary, read the CIA's The Ten Commandments of Counterintelligence, a dot gov link that ends with "If there were ever to be a mascot for US counterintelligence, it should be the pit bull."

The CIA pit bulls have their fangs solidly anchored in everything.  And yes, I owe pit bulls an apology but so does the CIA.  Pit bulls are like adorable kissing puppies compared to the CIA.

Why a Creep Like Lindsay Graham is Sitting Pretty and Probably Won't be Challenged in a Primary

Liberty activists are constantly frustrated by the fact that they can't unseat worthless, warmongering and despicable incumbents in primaries.  Lindsay Graham is a prime example of all that is wrong with our primary and election system, the Republican Party and Republican voters.  Politico did a puff piece on Graham that disclosed a bitter truth, a truth that applies to nearly 100% of Republican incumbents who are nearly impossible to dislodge from their solidly anchored thrones.

Lindsey Graham faces down primary challenge

Graham has repeatedly poked his finger in the eye of the GOP base..... 

Yet a year out from his primary, Graham is in surprisingly good shape. He had over $5.4 million in the bank at the end of March....

Some South Carolina conservatives loathe Graham, and will express as much next year, but right now they’re outnumbered by the ranks of those who like him or at least respect his leadership role. “The 30 percent of the Republicans who don’t like him really don’t like him, but generally speaking Lindsey is very highly regarded back home,” said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C).

Precisely because the Republican voting base is exceedingly accepting of big government statists and warmongers who stomp on civil liberties, folks like Lindsay Graham are never really threatened.

Then there's the money.  Few challengers have the financial resources or the ability to compete with Graham $5 million plus campaign war chest. MapLight.org reported that the average cost of a US Senate seat is a staggering $10,476,451, or an average of $14,351 that was raised every day during the 2012 election  cycle, here.

Who funds campaign coffers?  Special interests dough owns US elections.  According to Open Secrets, an organization that tracks campaign finance money, Lindsay Graham's top campaign contributors by industry are:

Industry                             Total     Indiv.   PAC

Lawyers/Law Firms	$1,026,779	$894,529	$132,250
Electric Utilities	$434,562	$225,110	$209,452
Real Estate	$371,130	$341,630	$29,500
Lobbyists	$309,379	$302,015	$7,364
Retired	$301,664	$301,664	$0
Securities & Investment	$286,208	$265,208	$21,000
Leadership PACs	$233,500	$0	$233,500
General Contractors	$196,538	$106,038	$90,500
Insurance	$194,800	$83,800	$111,000
Health Professionals	$173,362	$104,862	$68,500
Commercial Banks	$147,710	$52,560	$95,150
Business Services	$146,199	$135,699	$10,500
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products	$141,619	$86,619	$55,000
Misc Finance	$141,163	$127,663	$13,500
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing	$137,380	$66,980	$70,400
Defense Aerospace	$132,100	$24,600	$107,500
Hospitals/Nursing Homes	$129,936	$51,936	$78,000
TV/Movies/Music	$121,143	$44,467	$76,676
Railroads	$107,250	$6,250	$101,000
Textiles

Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?type=C&cid=n00009975&newMem=N&cycle=2012

While it's true that the American people are mostly clueless about campaign finance, they also fail to comprehend that our election system is rigged for the exclusive benefit of special interests and corporations and certainly not for the benefit of We the People.  We the People haven't been a part of the process for decades.

Once you understand campaign finance, you also understand why folks like Lindsay Graham can give We the People the birdie.  After all, he's been bought and paid for and all with the blessing of the Sheeple People voters.

For more on our corrupt to the core election system, see:

The Rot, the Stench and the Filth of Campaign Finance & How to Fix It