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Paul Craig Roberts ~ Washington’s Corruption And Mendacity Is What Makes America “Exceptional”

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PaulCraigRoberts  April 18 2014

PaulCraigRobertsWorld events permitting, I am going to take a few days off.

Many of you write to me asking for financial advice or for explanations of the pros and cons of different  investments. I don’t give financial advice and cannot answer such a large number of individual inquiries. However, I can call to your attention two books that provide different views from those available in the financial media. The Aftershock Investor by David Wiedemer, Robert A. Wiedemer, and Cindy S. Spitzer (John Wiley & Sons, 2014) explains the vulnerabilities of each kind of investment. The Money Bubble by James Turk and John Rubino (DollarCollapse Press, 2013) explains the possible consequences of the current economic policies. Both books are directed at a general audience and are readable.

As I have reported on several occasions, the US government pays foreign rulers to do
Washington’s bidding. There is no such thing as an independent government in the UK, Europe or Japan. On top of all the other evidence, it has now come to light that the US Agency for International Development has a large slush fund “where millions are paid to political figures in foreign countries.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38253.htm

If you have four hours, watch President Putin’s amazing open press conference with the Russia people and then try to imagine an American or European leader capable of such a feat. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38254.htm The Russians have a real leader. We have two-bit punks. Continue reading →

Jonathan Turley ~ Perpetual War And America’s Military-Industrial Complex 50 Years After Eisenhower’s Farewell Address

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Jonathan Turley January 12 2014

jonathanTurleyBelow is my article this weekend in Al Jazaerra on the powerful lobby and industry supporting our various conflicts abroad as well as counterterrorism efforts. I previously testified before Congress on this industry and the government’s inflation of counterterrorism numbers to justify huge domestic budgets at the Justice Department FBI, and other agencies. I wrote the article for the anniversary this month of Eisenhower’s famous Military-Industrial Complex speech.

In January 1961, US President Dwight D Eisenhower used his farewell address to warn the nation of what he viewed as one of its greatest threats: the military-industrial complex composed of military contractors and lobbyists perpetuating war.

Eisenhower warned that “an immense military establishment and a large arms industry” had emerged as a hidden force in US politics and that Americans “must not fail to comprehend its grave implications”. The speech may have been Eisenhower’s most courageous and prophetic moment. Fifty years and some later, Americans find themselves in what seems like perpetual war. No sooner do we draw down on operations in Iraq than leaders demand an intervention in Libya or Syria or Iran. While perpetual war constitutes perpetual losses for families, and ever expanding budgets, it also represents perpetual profits for a new and larger complex of business and government interests.

The new military-industrial complex is fuelled by a conveniently ambiguous and unseen enemy: the terrorist. Former President George W Bush and his aides insisted on calling counter-terrorism efforts a “war”. This concerted effort by leaders like former Vice President Dick Cheney (himself the former CEO of defence-contractor Halliburton) was not some empty rhetorical exercise. Not only would a war maximise the inherent powers of the president, but it would maximise the budgets for military and homeland agencies.

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Paul Craig Roberts ~ How America Was Lost

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Paul Craig Roberts  November 7 2013

“No legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its power, position, and prestige.” Dean Acheson , 1962, speaking to the American Society of International Law.

Dean Acheson declared 51 years ago that power, position, and prestige are the ingredients of national security and that national security trumps law. In the United States democracy takes a back seat to “national security,” a prerogative of the executive branch of government.

National security is where the executive branch hides its crimes against law, both domestic and international, its crimes against the Constitution, its crimes against innocent citizens both at home and abroad, and its secret agendas that it knows that the American public would never support.

“National security” is the cloak that the executive branch uses to make certain that the US government is unaccountable.

Without accountable government there is no civil liberty and no democracy except for the sham voting that existed in the Soviet Union and now exists in the US.

There have been periods in US history, such as President Lincoln’s war to prevent secession, World War I, and World War II, when accountable government was impaired. These were short episodes of the Constitution’s violation, and the Constitution was reinstated in the aftermath of the wars. However, since the Clinton regime, the accountability of government has been declining for more than two decades, longer than the three wars combined.

In law there is the concept of adverse possession, popularly known as “squatters’ rights.” A non-owner who succeeds in occupying a piece of property or some one else’s right for a certain time without being evicted enjoys the ownership title conveyed to him. The reasoning is that by not defending his rights, the owner showed his disinterest and in effect gave his rights away.

Americans have not defended their rights conveyed by the US Constitution for the duration of the terms of three presidents. The Clinton regime was not held accountable for its illegal attack on Serbia. The Bush regime was not held accountable for its illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. The Obama regime was not held accountable for its renewed attack on Afghanistan and its illegal attacks on Libya, Pakistan, and Yemen, and by its proxies on Syria.

We also have other strictly illegal and unconstitutional acts of government for which the government has not been held accountable. The Bush regimes’ acts of torture, indefinite detention, and warrantless spying, and the Obama regime’s acts of indefinite detention, warrantless spying, and murder of US citizens without due process. As the Obama regime lies through its teeth, we have no way of knowing whether torture is still practiced.

If these numerous criminal acts of the US government spread over the terms of three presidents pass into history as unchallenged events, the US government will have acquired squatters’ rights in lawlessness. The US Constitution will be, as President George W. Bush is reported to have declared, “a scrap of paper.”

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The Elites’ Guide To ‘Rogue States’

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RT  October 25 2013 (Thanks, AL)

U.S. soldiers patrol in Baquba, Iraq June 26, 2007. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

It’s definitely not good news nowadays for any country to be classified a ‘Rogue State’ by the US-led hegemonic Western Powers, for it will not only cost you billions in cash and economic hardship, but millions of lives as well.

That continues to be the between-the-lines message to the world from US hardliners with their ‘you’re either with us or against us’ rhetoric. A decade ago Iraq was branded a ‘rogue state’; today, moderate estimates speak of an Iraqi death toll of 500,000 since the 2003 invasion and civil war.

Lying your way into global power

Iraq is clearly the most famous rogue state, if we are to believe the two Bushes, especially the junior George, who rammed into that country in 2003, all but destroying it, maiming its people and proud 3,000-year-old heritage.  All based on an outright lie: the infamous ‘weapons of mass destruction’ they were accused of hiding, but that were never found.

In those days of hysterical mainstream media warmongering George W., Tony Blair and their henchmen had their way, bombing the country to smithereens. A decade on, we learn from a report just published in the Public Library of Science Medicine Journal that, based on household samplings, an estimated 500,000 men, women and children have been killed since the invasion.

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The Future Of Mind Control Is Here

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CommonSenseShow  September 25 2013

For the past eight years I have been involved in fighting against the implementation of Teen Screen. I have written numerous editorials, appeared on talk shows and have lobbied politicians to legislate against this insidious evil which seeks to mind control our children while fattening the coffers of Big Pharma, such as Eli Lilly.

A small victory has been won against the globalist agenda for mind control and eugenics through the defeat of a plot to medicate as many children as possible through a program called Teen Screen. The first part of this article reads like a recitation of evil followed by a victory speech. However, I believe that our celebration may be short lived. The last part of the article details what is following the demise of Teen Screen and it is worse.

From the Beginning

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Veteran Brandon Raub being arrested for what he wrote on his FB page in which he questioned the findings of 9/11. The intent was to drug him until the Rutherford Institute stepped in.

Through the former President, George Bush, and the current President, Barack Obama, the government had previously unleashed a modern day version of the mind control police in America by attacking the psychological well-being of

America’s school children through the greatly expanded program known as Teen Screen and the medicating of minds with psychotropics through a program being offered on many school campuses. Parallel programs exist through the Veterans Administration and are being used to attack veterans as America is also witnessing the same with the arresting of veterans, for espousing incorrect views and then medicating our ex-soldiers, such as was the case with Brandon Raub.

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