Source – theantimedia.org – In the state of Oregon, where marijuana for recreational purposes was legalized just over a month ago, there are already more retail marijuana shops than there are McDonald’s or Starbucks. According to Oregon’s Health Authority, there are 281 marijuana businesses in the state due to the fact that there was already…
Source – original.antiwar.com – What is the biggest threat to the national security of the United States? There are several nominees for the position. In the post-9/11 world, it used to be incontestable that the prize goes to al-Qaeda. No more. That the former head of the CIA, David Petraeus, could openly call for an…
Source – investmentwatchblog.com/ – Lessons Learned: What did we learn from Jade Helm 15? The answer is simple. We learned that Jade Helm 15 was about moving men and material to key positions in the country where these resources could be better utlized in the following three ways: 1. Dissident extraction donducted by Special Operation…
Source – geopoliticalmonitor.com – A number of different instruments exist for targeted killing (TK) operations that can be used in counterterrorism (CT) and counterinsurgency (COIN) operations: targeted killings in the form of helicopter attacks; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or “drones”; targeted bombings; targeted shootings; and Special Forces operations. The sophistication of each of them varies,…
Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com – Welcome Aboard, Thanks to offshoring, the number of maintenance jobs at U.S. carriers has plummeted: US airlines have offshored aircraft maintenance to the Third World…what could possibly go wrong?. In the last decade, most of the big U.S. airlines have shifted major maintenance work to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China,…
Source – bloomberg.com – Washington’s capacity to foster crony capitalist larceny and corruption never ceases to amaze. But according to the Bloomberg story below, Wall Street’s shameless thievery from US taxpayers is about to get a whole new definition. To wit, Freddie Mac is handing three private equity billionaires deeply subsidized debt financing in order to undertake $18 billion in rental apartment deals. According to no…
Source – isoulscience.com – Using cosmic ray detectors, lasers and drones to take thermal images, scientists are hoping to discover new tombs and hidden burial chambers behind the walls of the Great Pyramid of Giza. On October 25, “Operation Scan Pyramids” began its first stage of analysis and the data collected didn’t fail to deliver. Mysterious…
Source – journal-neo.org – Publicly, our nations are allied with Israel. Privately, we give secret intelligence to Israel’s enemies in time of war.”– John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against the Jews The US has always been a strong ally to the Jews and to Israel. Or so the history books tell us.…
Source – collective-evolution.com – As you may or may not know, our slogan over here at Collective Evolution is “Be Change”, this is somewhat a spin off from the famous quote by Gandhi “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Within the CE team, we all strive to practice what we preach,…
Source – kauilapele.wordpress.com – George Bush Sr. and his Nazionist faction are negotiating surrender, according to CIA sources. The Nazionist regime of Benyamin Netanyahu is also doomed, as are their Saudi proxies. The storm of information poured out by the Internet, the new Guttenberg Press, has made a critical mass of people aware of the…
Source – PursuitofFreedomshow.com – People who pay attention to politics would be understandably skeptical that a book about the Clintons could destroy Hillary’s presidential campaign. The Clinton political dynasty has survived a long list of scandals. Bill Clinton is one of only two presidents in American history to have been impeached by the House of…
Source – onbeing.org – The psychological roots of war are — in my opinion — biologically founded in the aggressive characteristics of the male creature. We “jewels of the creation” are not the only ones who can boast of this distinction; some animals outdo us on this point, e.g., the bull and the rooster. This…
Source – henrymakow.com – “Obviously, like most MK-Ultra Manchurian candidates, including Sirhan Sirhan, John Hinckley Jr. and the Unabomber, the media did a skillful job of painting the tragic incident in Aurora as an inexplicable occurrence perpetrated by a deranged individual.” On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside of a Century movie theater…
Source – 21stcenturywire.com – Some basic fact checking would have saved the Western media from this embarrassment. Watch a video of this report here: The Russian Defence Ministry has openly attacked claims launched by Western mainstream media outlets that their mission in Syria has been targeting hospitals and civilians. Major General Konoshenkov said this: “I would…
Source – awdnews.com, By Mark Potok and Don Terry – “There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.” FRANCIS BACON, Of Suspicion, 1625 America, as the historian Richard Hofstadter famously noted in 1964, is a place peculiarly given to “the paranoid style” of politics — the idea that history is no accident,…
Source – alternet.org – New research from Princeton has shown an all-but-unprecedented increase in mortality rates. Here’s what to know: A fascinating and disturbing paper from Princeton social scientists Anne Case and Angus Deaton reveals a shocking deterioration of health among what can be called, to echo Michael Harrington’s famous 1962 book on poverty, the…
Source – ratical.org – Unique among the high ranking military officers of the US and the world I do not know of any other high ranking military officer of the US or the world, who has spoken or written such most important truths and facts about the nature and causes of war. General Butler wrote…
Source – warisaracket.org – U.S. officials are now anxiously focused on a thousand-year-old sacred site in Samarra, a city 80 miles north of Baghdad now mostly controlled by ISIS. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry: “Clearly, everyone understands that Samarra is an important line,” Kerry said in Baghdad. “Historically, an assault on Samarra created enormous…
Source – wired.com – Bizarre US plots included exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro and fake video of Osama bin Laden’s campfire drinking: Excerpt: “CIA Mulled Saddam Gay Sex Vid, Made Osama Tape Instead” Noah Shachtman snardfarker.ning.com | May 25, 2010 … On the eve of the Iraq war, the CIA kicked around a rather odd…
Source – jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.ca – “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right.” John Kenneth…
Source – yesmagazine.org Marjorie KellySarah McKinley posted Nov 11, 2015 – The plan to build better, more connected, flourishing communities is here—and it won’t require putting a Starbucks on every block: In cities across the nation, a few enjoy rising affluence while many struggle to get by. An August 2015 study by The Century Foundation…
Source – theguardian.com – Few things make Neil Young as apoplectic as modern digital sound quality. In particular, his fury is directed at the MP3 download and its accomplice in crime, the iPod. Listening to music held on a tiny digital file through headphones or computer speakers accounts – says Shakey – for contemporary music’s…
Source – davesweb.cnchost.com, By David McGowan (Written, September 12, 2001) – “We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist…
Source – veteranstoday.com – There is growing dissent inside the Pentagon associated with the divided political loyalties of various factions: Slowly but surely more and more Pentagon officials and their subordinates are beginning to wake up and understand that they have been seduced to fight foreign wars of aggression for the World’s largest Organized Crime…
Source – washingtonsblog.com, By Eric Zuesse – The news-report that the famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh could not find an American publisher for, and that was consequently published only in Britain, has now been publicly confirmed by a research study into the matter, a study whose findings were made public on October 21st by a…
Source – strategic-culture.org – A terrific news report by Jonathan Marshall at Consortium News provides the first-ever presentation in the West of the event that sparked the demonstrations that sparked the Syrian civil war, and of the entire origin of that war. Unlike so many online ‘news’ reports that are merely authoritarian trash because they…
Source – wakeup-world.com – Secret TPP Text Unveiled: It’s worse than we thought, with limits on food safety and controversial investor-state system expanded, rollback of Bush-era medicine access and environmental terms. Long-awaited text reveals gaps between administration claims and actual TPP terms on key congressional and public concerns. Thursday’s long-awaited release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)…
Source – constantinereport.com – One of Australia’s most wanted fugitives, Michael Hand, the co-founder of the Sydney-based international merchant bank Nugan Hand, has been found alive and well and living in small-town America. He vanished in 1980 amid rumours of CIA and organised crime involvement in the bank as the United States attempted to back…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – During the Nicaraguan contra war, the CIA ran a guns-for-drugs operation out of Belize. One note in Oliver North’s diaries read, “Proceed on White House project in Belize”. Another read, “wants to contact drug people in Belize camps”. In 1984 Walter Mischer, a Houston business man with mob connections started a…
Source – businessinsider.com – Sweden is shaping up to be the first country to plunge its citizens into a fascinating — and terrifying — economic experiment: negative interest rates in a cashless society. The Swedish central bank held its benchmark interest rate at -0.35% today, the level it has been at since July. Although retail…
Source – voltairenet.org – It would seem that this stream of refugees has objective reasons: armed conflicts and wars have been going on in Libya, Syria and Iraq for many years, while the situation is also turbulent in Palestine and Afghanistan. In Tunisia and Egypt, meanwhile, both of which experienced the Arab Spring, the situation…
Source – dailymail.co.uk – Frank Sinatra was ‘a better cocaine dealer than singer’: Pablo Escobar’s son makes extraordinary claim that the crooner was his drug lord father’s business partner: Sebastian Marroquin Frank Sinatra worked with his drug lord father Pablo Escobar was one of the most powerful Colombian cartel leaders Marroquin said he knew about…
Source – espionagehistoryarchive.com – Retired KGB Colonel Vladimir Usoltsev shares his psychological portrait of “Volodya” – his one-time subordinate and current Russian President Vladimir Putin, from their time serving together in a KGB intelligence group in Dresden, East Germany, during the 1980s. The supply of episodes I remember, ones which I could expound without the risk…
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