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2017/03/05

Sheldon Richman: Three Wrongs Do Not Make a Right — American Church is Wrong; Dying for a Lie is Wrong; Exploiting the Dead for Political Effect is Wrong…

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military

Sheldon Richman is a senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is the author of FFF’s award-winning book Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families; Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax; and FFF’s newest book Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State. He is the former editor of The Freeman, published by The Foundation for Economic Education.

Trump Assumes Command of the American Church

It's time we learn that killing and dying for an ideology—even so-called liberal democracy— is as bad as doing so for a religion.

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2017/03/05

Robert Parry: “Russia-Gate” Is Politics — Dangerous, Myopic, Dysfunctional Politics + Thomas Friedman as a Liar and Agent of a Foreign Power

Corruption, Media

The Politics Behind ‘Russia-gate’

The hysteria over “Russia-gate” continues to grow – as President Trump’s enemies circle – but at its core there may be no there there while it risks pushing the world toward nuclear annihilation.

Official Washington’s Russia hysteria has reached such proportions that New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman has even compared the alleged Russian hacking of Democratic emails to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, two incidents that led the United States into violent warfare. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show, Friedman demanded that the hacking allegations be taken with the utmost seriousness: “That was a 9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor scale event. … This goes to the very core of our democracy.”

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2017/03/05

Antechinus: Hollywood Lies — White Helmets Propaganda Film….

Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence

Forget Oscar: Give The White Helmets the Leni Riefenstahl Award for Best War Propaganda Film

The fact that a documentary about The White Helmets received an Oscar Award simply confirms what a glorious bubble the entertainment industry resides in. This is not a conventional documentary film. Normally we think of documentaries as films that are supposed to speak truth to power, but this film does the opposite. It reinforces an Anglo-American establishment power structure responsible for one of the most violent, dirty wars in modern history. The footage was provided by a terrorist-affiliated NGO based in Turkey, operating in Syria, and primarily funded by the US State Dept, the British Foreign Office, the Netherlands, and other NATO member and Gulf states to the tune of over $150 million, and whose chief remit is producing US-led Coalition propaganda images for mass media consumption.

2017/03/042017/03/03

Jon Rappoport: United STATES of America…

Ethics, Government

Power of the states vs. power of the federal government: who cares?

People who can wake up care.

The 10th Amendment to the US Constitution reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States [government] by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The 11th Amendment reads: “The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.”

If you combine these two Amendments, you begin to see the considerable powers granted to the states.

Of course, now, relatively few people care about these powers. They should, but they don’t.

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2017/03/032017/03/02

ZeroHedge: David Stockman: “Trump Will Create A Debt Crisis Like Never Before”

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government, Idiocy

Stockman: “Trump Will Create A Debt Crisis Like Never Before”

Having warned that “everything will grind to a halt on March 5th” due to the under-appreciated debt-ceiling debacle that looms over Washington, and exclaiming that “what is going on today is complete insanity,” former Reagan Budget Director David Stockman is rapidly losing faith that anything can be done…

“I've thrown in the towel because he’s not paying attention and he’s not learning anything and he’s making ridiculous statements.”

Reflecting on Trump's address to Congress, and what we know of The White House agenda, Stockman told Fox Business' Neil Cavuto:

Read full article with graphics on looming financial crash.

“We don’t need a $54 billion increase in defense when the budget already is ten times bigger than that of Russia. We don’t need $6 trillion of defense spending over the next decade because China is going nowhere except trying to keep their Ponzi scheme together.”

Stockman rejected Trump's dynamic scoring hope…

“Trump is so deep in fiscal la-la-land, he won't even find the wrong envelope… he is saying crazy things.”

2017/03/032017/03/02

ZeroHedge: David Stockman: “After March 15 Everything Will Grind To A Halt”

Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude

David Stockman: “After March 15 Everything Will Grind To A Halt”

Two weeks after David Stockman warned that “the market is apparently pricing in a huge Trump stimulus. But if you just look at the real world out there, the only thing that's going to happen is a fiscal bloodbath and a White House train wreck like never before in U.S. history” and exclaimed that, when looking at markets, “what's going on today is complete insanity” he is back with another interview, this time with Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog in which he, once again warns, that a giant fiscal bloodbatch is coming soon, and urges listeners to pay especially close attention to the March 15, 2017 debt ceiling deadling, at which point everything could “grind to a halt.” Read more.

2017/03/032017/03/02

Mongoose: Insider Reports Obama Is Preparing To Take On Trump – ‘Resignation’ Or ‘Impeachment’

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy

Insider Reports Obama Is Preparing To Take On Trump – ‘Resignation’ Or ‘Impeachment’

Former President Barack Obama is reassembling his team to fight President Donald Trump and attack the policies issued from the White House.

According to an exclusive report from The Daily Mail, a close Obama friend stated their goal is to “…oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment.”

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