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I feel blessed to have come to the attention of so many thoughtful citizens so deeply committed to restoring the Constitution and ending the travesty of an imperial federal government that taxes, borrows, and prints to sponsor both perpetual war abroad and a police state at home.

Below, as both a down-loadable document and in full text online, is a very thoughtful overview of why we should be seeking a Convention of States rather than a Constitutional Convention. While I have some defined views on the need to strenthen, modify, and reverse a number of the Amendments, there is absolutely no question but that state sovereignty needs to be restored — the federal government should be a LIMITED service of common concern and it should depend on the STATES for authorization & appropriation of funding.

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2018/09/272018/09/26

Phil Giraldi: Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment

04 Education, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Media, Officers Call

Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment

As most genuine independent journalism is currently limited to the alternative media, and that media lives on the internet, the ADL and those who are acting in collusion with the Israeli government are focusing on “cyberhate” as the problem and are working with major internet providers to voluntarily censor their product. On October 10th, 2017 the ADL issued a press release out of its New York City offices to explain just how far the censorship process has gone. The organization boasted of the fact that it was working with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter “to engineer new solutions to stop cyberhate.” Apple is not identified by name in the press release but one should presume that it is also involved, as well as YouTube, which is owned by Google. When you consider that the associates in this venture with ADL are vast corporations that control huge slices of the communications industry, the consequences of some kind of corporate decision on what constitutes “hate” become clear. Combatting “cyberhate” will inevitably become across-the-board censorship for viewpoints that are considered to be unacceptable, including any criticism of Israel.

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2018/09/272018/09/25

Mongoose: Mayors Fight 5G, Localization Could Defeat Deep State

Ethics, Government

Tip of the Hat to Ray Songtree.

U.S. Conference Of Mayors Will Sue FCC If They Eliminate Local Control Over 5G Small Cell Tower And Infrastructure Installation

The National Association of Counties is also opposing the proposal, telling POLITICO it would “effectively prevent local governments from properly examining the impact that construction, modification or installation of broadcasting facilities may have on public health, safety and welfare of the local community.”
The proposal from FCC commissioner Brendan Carr would bar municipal laws prohibiting deployment of 5G small cells and would set deadlines for municipalities to approve or disapprove applications to install small cells or build new poles. The plan is set for a vote on Sept. 26.

2018/09/272018/09/25

Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror.

“From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated the findings of modern scholars by many decades. However, in his conviction that intelligence analysts would soon be able to forecast geopolitical events with scientific accuracy, Kent overreached. Enthusiasm turned out to be hubris, and the predictive record of the Office of National Estimates was decidedly mixed. In light of this history, today's enthusiasm for the predictive potential of Big Data and artificial intelligence seems overzealous. Kent’s relentless pursuit of the truth makes him a model in today’s political climate, but his failures should serve as a warning to those who believe that technology can eliminate the uncertainty of the future.”

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2018/09/272018/09/25

Steven Aftergood: CRS on Supreme Court Overruling Constitutional Precedents

09 Justice, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement

OVERRULING CONSTITUTIONAL PRECEDENTS, & MORE FROM CRS

A new report from the Congressional Research Service examines how and why the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn one of its own rulings interpreting the Constitution. There are at least 141 cases where such rulings have in fact been overturned, including three in the Court's latest term, and these are tabulated in an appendix to the report. See The Supreme Court's Overruling of Constitutional Precedent, September 24, 2018.

2018/09/252018/09/24

ZeroHedge: Robert Higgs of Mises on USA Military-Economic Facism

Corruption, Government, Military

The Living Reality Of Military-Economic Fascism Exposed

In countries such as the United States, whose economies are commonly, though inaccurately, described as “capitalist” or “free-market,” war and preparation for war systematically corrupt both parties to the state-private transactions by which the government obtains the bulk of its military goods and services.

To apply here what I wrote twelve years ago in regard to several other kinds of policies: “Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interest groups” (Higgs 1995; see also Kotz 1989, 242–45).

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2018/09/252018/09/24

Robert Steele: Rod Rosenstein and Legalized Lying and Cheating at Justice — The Week in Review

09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement, Officers Call

Not now, but soon. Top to bottom coast to coast cleansing of the stables.

ROBERT STEELE: I have known for years that the Department of Justice claims the right to lie to the Courts; I have known for years that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a theatrical agency with a pedophile chain of command going back to its pedophile founder J. Edgar Hoover, America's first “official” blackmailer; and I have known for years that judges and prosecutors across this country are being bribed and blackmailed to protect the 1% and screw the 99% (to include preying on the elderly who are declared incompetent (and then drugged, or vice versa) and made “wards” of the state so their estates can be stolen, never mind anguished family members being present and objecting. Every element of the US Government that is engaged in legalized lying and also engaged in blackmailing and bribing Members of Congress needs to be PUT DOWN. This includes the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency that has been positively quiet lately, but is responsible for all the domestic false flag events propagandizing the public to nurture a massive police state with mass surveillance and unlimited unconstitutional search & seizure “authorities” that must be STRUCK DOWN.

On Rosenstein, I take note of two facts as reported:

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