the true believers won't accept this as being possible but the rest of us will consider it to be business as usual;

An investigation by a major Mexican newspaper, El Universal, has concluded that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency entered into agreements—dating back to 2000 and continuing through 2012—with Mexico’s largest drug trafficking gang, the Sinaloa Cartel.

According to Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, a highly placed member of the Sinaloa cartel and the son of top Sinaloa leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the deal involved the cartel providing information about rival Mexican drug gangs to the DEA in exchange for the U.S. government agreeing not to interfere with Sinaloa shipments into the United States and the dismissal of criminal charges against cartel participants............https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/01/14/was-operation-fast-and-furious-really-part-of-a-secret-deal-between-the-dea-and-mexicos-sinaloa-drug-cartel/#5e942a8e23a1

this sort of stuff is being pushed in our faces daily and few seem to accept it even though its becoming a crime to oppose this agenda;


The United Church of Christ in Ames, Iowa flew a LGBTQ flag/banner of sexual perversion. A 30 year old Hispanic immigrant took it down and burned it. For this “crime” he was sentenced to 16 years in prison! Almost every day I read that another person has been fired from their job because they tweeted the fact that there are only two genders. A Google senior engineer, a white male, was fired because he posted a tweet or an email that spoke a truth that men and women are good at different things and excel in different areas. What kind of society is the West in which absolutely ridiculous declarations take precedence over all known science and anatomical fact?

Minding The Campus - It is impossible to overstate how fierce and sweeping the attack on meritocracy is: every mainstream institution is either furiously revising its standards or finds itself in the crosshairs for failing to do so. The ultimate social-justice solution to the skills and behavior gap is to remove the competition entirely. From the moment children enter school, they are berated for their white privilege if they fall outside a favored victim group. Any success that they enjoy is not due to their own efforts, they are told; it is due to the unfair advantages of a system deliberately designed to handicap minorities. Teachers are now advised to ignore white male students since asking or answering questions in class is another mark of male supremacy. The pariahs are getting the message.

this was featured as american propaganda being a counterpart to soviet propaganda;

many of the shootings we see are quite questionable when it comes to the 'official' explanation as you might expect because there are lots of problems with 'official' explanations that don't add up;

One of the neuro-lingustic programming (NLP) implants conveyed by the staged deceptions — whether Las Vegas, El Paso, Parkland high school, the Texas church shooting or Dallas police shooting — is that the perps have magical abilities to run rings around law enforcement and fall through cracks in the system. Similar to Las Vegas, at Parkland we were presented with a Keystone-cops story whereby three deputies and an armed school guard failed to respond and act as the alleged gunman Cruz roamed around the freshman wing spraying gunfire.

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Read: Broward County Sheriff Releases 27-Minute Parkland Video of Absolutely Nothing

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Then miraculously as police cowered, autistic Nikolas Cruz was able to exit scott free and head for Walmart and then McDonalds for snacks and drinks. Finally, Cruz is picked up wandering about at 4700 Wyndham Lakes, two miles away in a random neighborhood. If you look at a map, you’ll see this road is just a large loop that doesn’t go anywhere. This location is just around the corner from the Chai Center Chabad House. Rabbi Hershy Bronstein claims that he was monitoring the street after the Parkland shooting when he noticed the suspect walking past.............https://www.winterwatch.net/2019/12/crime-syndicate-in-full-court-press-for-the-implementation-of-pre-crime-powers/

we're told that guns don't save lives by the ones who wish to disarm all of their potential opposition but events like this church shooting show that they're wrong;

As reported earlier by Cassandra Fairbanks two people were killed and one person is in critical condition after a shooting at the West Freeway Church of Christ in northwest Texas.

The shooter was prevented from creating more carnage by armed members of the church, several of whom drew their own weapons in response to his attack, as well as a security guard. It has now been confirmed that the gunman was shot and is one of the two people killed. 

No less than four church members, including one guard, pulled guns on the shooter before he caused more carnage!!

Guns Save Lives.

The shooter was dressed in black with a hood over his head before he started shooting.

The gunman was wearing a fake beard(?)

The church took the video down but it is still posted online here.

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1211398356314009601

The head of church security Jack Wilson gunned down the terrorist with one shot to the head......https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/freeway-church-of-christ-hero-jack-wilson/259556

reactions here in indiana to school officials lgbtq policies, which are curious as you are now who you say you believe you are here in the empire and your birth genetics seem to have no sway;

For way too long, honest working-class ppl trusted the "intellectual elite" & swallowed their propaganda on feminism, immigration, the LBG lobby etc

However, the gender/trans issue was 1 bridge too far for ppl with common sense

Here, parents in Indiana protest the local school..........

https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/its-ok-to-be-anti-semetic-flyers-found/259537

pcr makes clear that humans are killing themselves and the planet in the quest for a few dollars more for the wealthy;

The External Costs of Human Activity Are Killing the Planet

Paul Craig Roberts

Humans are exterminating themselves by exterminating other life forms. As a person committed to free thought, I sometimes catch myself wondering if what is really needed is a form of Borg Star Trek mind control to stop us from destroying the planet for the sake of profits for the few.

External costs are neglected by economists, and the unintended consequences of laws and political decisions—indeed, any decision, even those that seem highly rational—can be surprising. I am convinced that the external costs of capitalist production exceed the profits and in instances exceed the value of the output. The most carefully considered law and the most carefully planned corporate undertaking can result in disastrous consequences. Essentially, when humans make decisions, they seldom have any idea of what they are doing.

The situation worsens when a financialized, jobs offshored economy multiplied by other economies doing the same thing finds that it is more profitable for public corporations to buy back their own stock, even indebting the corporations for the purpose of decapitalizing the corporations, than to invest in new plant, equipment, and labor. Buy-backs are the main use of corporate investment today in the US. In recent years, the entirety of corporate profits and borrowing has been used for stock buy-backs, which reward executives and shareholders. Central banks in Japan and the European Union now support equity prices by stock purchases. The Japanese central bank is the largest holder of Exchange Traded Funds (ETF). I am convinced that the Federal Reserve prevents crashes of the US stock market by purchasing S&P futures...........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/12/30/the-external-costs-of-human-activity-are-killing-the-planet/

fifty statistics displaying the current state of life here in the empire, which 'our' government has taken us to in its quest to rule the world;

One of the best ways to determine where things are heading is to look back at how much has changed over the past 12 months.  2019 has been one of the most memorable years in our history, and it has certainly set the stage for the critical events of the decade to come.  However, not everyone views this moment in our history the same way.  For example, one “expert” that is being heavily quoted by the mainstream media is claiming that 2019 was the culmination of “the best decade in human history”.  His main argument seems to be that since “the ecological footprint of human activity” appears to be shrinking, the world must be a better place than it was before as a result.  And certainly there are many other voices out there that are boldly proclaiming that we have entered a golden new era of peace and prosperity and that the best is yet to come.  You can buy that argument if you want, but there are other voices that believe that everything that is wrong with our society is reaching a very dangerous crescendo.  For those with that perspective, it appears that we are very close to a societal tipping point and that the years ahead are when we will finally pay the price for decades of exceedingly bad decisions.

So what do you think?

Will the 2020s be the best of times or the worst of times?

As you ponder that question, here are 50 numbers from 2019 that are almost too crazy to believe…..........http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/50-numbers-from-2019-that-are-almost-too-crazy-to-believe

what's going on in virginia centering on upcoming proposed gun laws and where that may lead presented well in about twenty minutes;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_md3j5YZg&feature=youtu.be

current events proving, in case you needed any, that biden is a large fool, in this case involving gun rights;

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden attacked Texas Governor Greg Abbott earlier this year for signing a bill into law that allowed lawful gun owners to carry firearms in places of worship, repeatedly calling Abbott’s decision “irrational.”

Biden’s resurfaced remarks come as an attacker opened fire on a church congregation in Texas on Sunday, where he was immediately stopped by a good guy with a gun.

“Dealing with firearms, it is irrational, with all due respect to the governor of Texas, irrational what they are doing,” Biden told reporters on September 2. “On the very day you see a mass shooting … and we’re talking about loosening access to have guns, to be able to take them into places of worship, it’s just absolutely irrational. It’s totally irrational.”.........https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/biden-attacked-texas-governor-for-signing-law-letting-churchgoers-carry-guns-totally-irrational/259524

kunstler speaks in a longer than usual essay about where we are and where we're heading. i agree with much of what he presents but have great issue with his stand on israel. israel is a criminal enterprise and nothing they touch will have a chance of being useful or positive. he gets our current state quite accurate from where i stand;

The big question for the year 2020 is simple: can America get its mind right?

If the answer is no, we may not have much chance of continuing as a peaceful, functioning country. The era of the long emergency, as I call it, is of a piece with Strauss and Howe’s figurative winter in their Fourth Turning view of history playing out in generational cycles analogous to seasons of the year. Whatever you call it, the current disposition of things has had a harsh effect on our collective psychology. It has made an unusually large cohort of Americans functionally insane, believing in demons, hobgoblins, and phantoms, subscribing to theories that, in previous eras, children would laugh at, while contesting obvious realities and provoking grave political hazard.

The madness is distributed over many realms of American life, with the common denominator of a thinking class fallen into disordered thinking. The disorder is led by the information media and higher education with their crypto-Gnostic agendas for transforming human nature to heal the world (in theory). It includes a grab-bag of delusions and deliberate mind-fucks ranging from the morbid obsession with Russian interference in our affairs, to the crusade against free speech on campus, to the worship of sexual perversity (e.g. the Transsexual Reading Hour), to the campaigns against whiteness and maleness, to the incursions of woke-ness in the corporate workplace, to the cynical machinations of economists, bankers, and politicians in manipulating financial appearances, to the effort to divorce reality from truth as a general proposition............https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/forecast-2020-whirling-and-swirlin/

caitlin makes some excellent points about why she speaks of the reality of the empire's crimes and doesn't do so about other countries;

Depending on whose political echo chamber I happen to be arguing with on a given day, one common criticism I run into a fair bit which many of my readers have surely also encountered is that I put all my energy into criticizing the foreign policy of the United States and its allies.

“You’re not anti-war, you’re only anti-AMERICAN wars!” they say, as though they’re delivering some kind of devastating slam-dunk point. “If you’re so antiwar, why don’t you criticize Assad’s war in Syria? If you’re such an anti-imperialist, show me where you’ve ever once criticized Russian imperialism, or Chinese imperialism?”

The argument being that someone who opposes US-led warmongering isn’t really motivated by a desire for peace and an opposition to war unless they’re also voicing opposition to all other violent governments in the world. If you’re only criticizing US imperialism and not the imperialism of other nations, you must be motivated by something far more sinister, perhaps a hatred for the United States of America.

I have three responses to this feeble line of argumentation, which I’ll list here for the benefit of anyone else who’d like to make use of them:.........https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/30/why-i-dont-criticize-russia-china-or-other-unabsorbed-governments/

good image to use rod serling as he always was good at simplifying the things we face;

a tale of two cities, or really a tale of two separate incidents that show the reality of who rules us;

Detroit armed government workers are apoplectic over a public display of contempt for their authority – which they say is really just “concern” for “public safety.” But their steam-out-of-their ears overreaction to this incident suggests otherwise.

A burnout was committed on I-94.

Only tires were harmed.

But video was taken – with the license plate of the Camaro doing the burnout obscured and birdie-flips to AGWs conveyed. This concerned the AGWs very much.

Five-star “General” James Craig held a press conference worthy of the hunt for Dillinger. “Here’s my message,” the “General” said: We are going to find you and when we do, we are going to arrest you and we’re going to seize your vehicle.”

Over a burnout.............https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/12/29/burnouts-and-beatdowns/

i suspect this is one of those word puzzles in which you really can't decide what the answer is;


This is like one of those Mensa admission test logic problems
“If a trans man gives birth to a non binary partners baby with a female sperm donor, what hole did the baby actually come out of?” https://twitter.com/dailymirror/status/1211049938412396544 …

brother nathanael provides evidence here to support my growing distrust of all things jewish. it seems that most of the congressional types that are pressing these anti-constitutional laws are joos;

BILLBOARDS ARE NOW UP addressing the contest between ‘Bloomberg-Bought’ Virginia Legislators and Gun-Rights warriors.

By making possession of commonly-held firearms into Class 6 Felonies with five years’ imprisonment, Virginia law-makers are pressing to turn myriads of Virginians into felons.

While the newly-elected Democrat State legislators were financed by Michael Bloomberg, two other ignominious Jewish gun-grabbers especially stand out:

Dick Saslaw, Virginia State Senator and author of pending gun confiscation legislation.

Eileen Filler-Corn, Virginia State Speaker and notorious gun-control extremist.

Among their proposed draconian gun-control laws are mandatory background checks when ‘transferring’ a firearm to family members:

No person shall sell, rent, trade, or transfer a firearm without first subjecting the transferee to a state police background check.”

ONE MIGHT ARGUE that laws forbidding the carrying of arms disarm only those not inclined to commit crimes.

But the Jews who have seized the Old Dominion hold the sage advice of that great Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, in utter contempt.........http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=200011

caitlin writes herein about the chemical weapons fictions surrounding syria that led the orange man to send them some cruse missiles. i've been seeing lots of posts all over the www that never appear in any way on the nightly 'news'. perhaps you might wonder why that is;

This is getting really, really, really weird.

WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted in airstrikes upon that nation from the US, UK and France.

This new WikiLeaks drop includes an email from the OPCW Chief of Cabinet Sebastien Braha (who is reportedly so detested by organisation inspectors that they code named him “Voldemort”) throwing a fit over the Ian Henderson Engineering Assessment which found that the Douma incident was likely a staged event. Braha is seen ordering OPCW staff to “remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever” from the organisation’s secure registry............https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/12/no_author/medias-deafening-silence-on-latest-wikileaks-drops-is-its-own-scandal/

more wars for the joos are on the way and in this post you will see the israeli's are planning on it and that plan includes the army of the empire: your kids;

It will be up to you, the clueless American citizen, to fight and pay for Israel’s war against its neighbors. This coming war was announced this week by Aviv Kochavi, the Israel Defense Force chief of staff. 

Max Blumenthal distills Kochavi’s threat. ...........https://www.globalresearch.ca/get-ready-to-fight-israels-next-war-asking-america-to-do-the-dirty-work/5698968

new post from the viderebel with content reinforcing the post just made previous. the weather ain't gonna be our friend, and more is probably on the way;

So far in 2019, the sun has been without sunspots for more than 270 days, including the last 33 days in a row. Since the Space Age began, no other year has had this many blank suns. The Maunder Minimum got its name when Mr Maunder noticed that high food prices and cold weather correlated with the decline in solar activity.

Dr Valentina Zarkhova has noticed that more significant than the slight global cooling during a Grand Solar Minimum is the reduction of the sun’s magnetosphere. This allows more cosmic rays (nuclear particles from distant decaying stars) to strike the earth. The New Madrid fault had a major quake on 12-25-1699 during the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715). During the Dalton Minimum (1793-1833), the New Madrid fault had 4 quakes on 3 days in 1811-1812. Japanese scientists also noted an increase in the number of volcanoes during a Grand Solar Minimum. The likely cause of the increase in both  volcanoes and earthquakes is the increased number of cosmic rays energizing the earth because the Sun’s magnetosphere was reduced giving the earth less protection.

Dave DuByne and John Casey discussed this. A few facts:..........https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/2020s-surviving-the-cold-the-quakes-and-volcanoes/

sent by a friend this video is twenty four minutes devoted to where our weather patterns may be taking us and what that may mean for our future;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ti47osbWvg&feature=youtu.be

this article is written by brother nathanael, born a jew and now a eastern orthodox christian priest. he speaks about a law pushed by ted kennedy in sixty five and its repercussions;


THE JEWISH CONSPIRACY BEHIND THE 1965 OPEN IMMIGRATION LAW

THE DEATH OF AMERICA was enacted in 1965 with the signing of the Open Immigration Law Of 1965.

While serving Jewish interests, the Open Immigration Law Of 1965 was the beginning of America’s death as a unified nation. Jews were behind the law, promoting, lobbying, and “bribing” the law into existence with the fanaticism equalling the most dedicated Muslim terrorist.

Jews have continually evinced hostility toward American Christian culture in their aggressive efforts to change it. The Open Immigration Law Of 1965 is a prime example of that hostility.

Jews are a paranoid people. Wherever the Jews go they fear Anti-Semitism. (Jews have a guilt complex - and for good reason.) Jews fear a homogenous Christian culture of which they would never ascend to influential positions. Rather, in a homogenous Christian culture, Jews are looked upon, (and rightly so), as “Christ-killers.” This is why the Jews tried to get Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of Jesus Christ, removed from the silver screen.

A typical example of what characterizes the Jewish push for open immigration can be seen in the following 1948 quote by David Petegorsky, former Director of the AJCongress:

—— “Jewish survival can only take place within the framework of a progressive and expanding democratic society, which through its institutions and public policies gives expression to the concept of cultural pluralism.” ——

Here Are The Names Of The Jews Behind The Open Immigraton Law of 1965:..........http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=50

biden is such a tool, and here you can discover more evidence of that;

Having complained bitterly that President Trump did not comply with subpoenas in The House inquiry (and seeing Trump impeached for obstruction of Congress for such), Biden has said he will not comply with a Senate subpoena (which he has not received yet!).

During an interview with the editorial board of The Des Moines Register, Biden stated that he would not play into the president’s “game.”

“The reason I wouldn’t is because it’s all designed to deal with Trump doing what he’s done his whole life: trying to take the focus off him,” he said.

“The issue is not what I did.”

“This is all about a diversion,” Biden said to the newspaper.

“And we play his game all the time. He’s done it his whole career.”

The Democratic Party presidential nominee candidate's comments came after Trump essentially said that if the Democrats want witnesses, we will have witnesses, but they will not like who they are...........https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-attempts-defend-hypocritical-subpoena-refusal-trump-being-impeached

this edition of 'protect and serve' is most curious in that it seems you can get a dui even when you're not driving or even sitting in the car;

Cops are apparently so hell bent on enforcing DUI laws that some of them are reportedly arresting folks for DUI—even if they are not driving. In Utah, there have been multiple instances of cops issuing DUIs to people who aren’t driving, and they are proud of it.

This insanity is the result of police officers’ interpretation of an ill-defined law. As KUTV reports, in Utah, a person cannot drive, operate, or be in “actual physical control” of a car while under the influence or alcohol or drugs. There are a lot of factors that are looked at to determine if a person is in “actual physical control” of the car. 

“Actual physical control isn’t defined, it’s whatever the cop says it is,” said David Rosenbloom, a DUI defense attorney.

This broad interpretation has led to people getting a DUI and they never got behind the wheel. Most DUI laws are in place to prevent folks from driving drunk and causing harm but leaving cops in charge of such a broad paintbrush in Utah is a problem.

“You don’t have to be sitting in your car to get a DUI in Utah. You could be camping. If the keys are in the car and you’re listening to the radio, that’s a DUI,” he said.

Rosenbloom knows this because he has represented people arrested for that very reason. Apparently cops will stake out camp sites and wait for people grab something from their car or listen to the radio and then sweep in to arrest them.

This is not keeping anyone safe. It is predatory and it is wrong. Nevertheless, it happens at an increasing rate.  ...........https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/cops-give-duis-to-people-not-even-driving-a-car-including-people-using-uber/259477

deathbed confession by a cia agent speaking of the reality of 911, and his involvment;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmx-DiWUqfs

sent by a knowledgeable friend i post this without comment, as such control of individuals is seemingly beyond the current abilities of government, but who knows what they spend all of those missing trillions on;

When researcher Curtis Waltman of the website Muckrock received files resulting from his Freedom of Information Act request on Antifa and white supremacist groups from the Washington State Fusion Center, he got a little more than he had bargained for: an unrelated zip file entitled “EM effects on human body.”

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Within the file were three diagrams that present information on Electromagnetic weapons targeting the human body and brain. The first diagram, more specifically entitled Psycho-Electronic Weapon Effects seems to detail the potential use of such weapons, focusing on both mind control and physical discomfort.........https://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/04/24/us-government-accidentally-releases-electromagnetic-mind-control-documents-in-foia-request/

the empire is made up, in part, by obvious contradictions that no one speaks of for some reason;

pcr tells you why privatization is looting made simple for those who rule over us;

Update: A reader points out that the US prison population is higher by 21,100 than the combined prison populations of China and India, the two largest countries in terms of population whose combined populations are eight times larger than that of the US. https://prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All

Privatization Is Resurrecting Feudalism

Paul Craig Roberts

America is a country of scandals. The latest scandal is the Jewish multi-billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s use of prison labor call centers to spread the message of his presidential campaign. https://theintercept.com/2019/12/24/mike-bloomberg-2020-prison-labor/

It seems to me that Bloomberg’s attack on the American Constitution is the scandal, not his use of prison labor. Bloomberg wants to repeal the Second Amendment and disarm the American people right at the time that the country is falling apart spiritualy, morally, economically, and politically.

In the not distant past, I reported on the widespread use by major US corporations and the Department of Defense of prison labor. Apple is one such company, and boots and clothing for the military are made by prison labor. Clearly, authorities have legitimized private prisons and the contracting out of cheap prison labor to private profit-making entities.

Bloomberg is worth $54 billion according to The Intercept, and Apple is worth much more according to the stock market. If Apple can use prison labor, why can’t Bloomberg?

The contractors who lease prison labor to Bloomberg, to Apple, to the Department of Defense, are the ones who make the money. They are paid the state minimum wage for the prison labor, and the prisioners are paid a few dollars a month.........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/12/27/privatization-is-resurrecting-feudalism/

once again kunstler lays it all out clearly and waits for some real resolution as we all do but skeptic that i am, i ain't holding my breath;

What is most perilous for our country now, would be to journey through a second epic crisis of authority in recent times without anybody facing the consequences of crimes they might have committed. The result will be a people turned utterly cynical, with no faith in their institutions or the rule of law, and no way to imagine a restoration of their lost faith within the bounds of law. It will be a deadly divorce between truth and reality. It will be an invitation to civil violence, a broken social contract, and the end of the framework for American life that was set up in 1788.

The first crisis of the era was the Great Financial Crash of 2008 based on widespread malfeasance in the banking world, an unprecedented suspension of rules, norms, and laws. GFC poster-boy Angelo Mozilo, CEO and chairman of Countrywide Financial, a sub-prime mortgage racketeering outfit, sucked at least half a billion dollars out of his operation before it blew up, and finally was nicked for $67 million in fines by the SEC — partly paid by the company’s indemnity insurer — with criminal charges of securities fraud eventually dropped in the janky “settlement.” In other words, the cost of doing business. Scores of other fraudsters and swindlers in that orgy of banking malfeasance were never marched into a courtroom, never had to answer for their depredations, and remained at their desks in the C-suites collecting extravagant bonuses. The problems they caused were papered over with trillions of dollars that all of us are still on-the-hook for. And, contrary to appearances, the banking system never actually recovered. It is permanently demoralized.......https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/evidence-of-absence/

as intro for this i post the intro where i found the link; IF any one of us were to advocate the consistent dosing of the families of EPA members with the amount of Roundup to which this man had been exposed, we would be charged with "terroristic threatening".

And if it hasn't dawned on you by now, it's official: President Trump, and the cronies he has chosen to run this government, are just as much a swamp creatures as those who he excoriates in his rants and addresses;

President Donald Trump‘s Environmental Protection Agency—already accused of being “pesticide cheerleader”—threw its weight behind chemical company Bayer AG on Friday when the agency asked a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court’s ruling in favor of a man who said the company’s Roundup weedkiller was responsible for his cancer.

The case centers on Edwin Hardeman of California, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2015 after using the glyphosate-based pesticide, made by Monsanto, for years on his property. Bayer acquired Monsanto last year.

A federal jury in July ordered the company to pay Hardeman roughly $25 million in damages, a lower amount than the $80 million a federal judge had ordered months earlier.

The EPA maintains—to the outrage of environmental and public health groups—that glyphosate is not a carcinogen. The federal decision notwithstanding, California in 2017 agreed with the World Health Organization’s 2015 classification of glyphosate as a “probable carcinogen.” Trump’s EPA has pushed back on the state’s finding and said that product labels informing users of that cancer risk would “misbranding” and announced in August of this year that the agency would not approve of labels carrying that warning.

Verdict in Roundup Trial Latest Blow to Bayer-Monsanto’s Claims Glyphosate Doesn’t Cause Cancer

In an amicus brief filed Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, attorneys with the EPA and Justice Department said,

EPA approved the label for the pesticide/herbicide at issue here, Roundup, through a registration process that did not require a cancer warning. In fact, EPA has never required a labeling warning of a cancer risk posed by Roundup, and such a warning would be inconsistent with the agency’s scientific assessments of the carcinogenic potential of the product. Mr. Hardeman nevertheless sought damages under California common law, alleging that Monsanto had failed to adequately warn consumers of cancer risks posed by the active ingredient in Roundup. FIFRA therefore preempts Mr. Hardeman’s claims to the extent that they are based on the lack of a warning on Roundup’s labeling.

The filing from the federal government came the same week Bayer AG asked the appeals court to toss out the lower court’s ruling and defended Roundup’s safety.

Bayer is currently facing nearly 43,000 claims related to glyphosate-linked cancer in federal courts. An end to the company’s legal woes is unlikely to happen soon, according to Bloomberg Environment.

“The only vehicle that remotely approaches [an end to litigation] might be bankruptcy,” Loyola Law School professor Adam Zimmerman told the outlet last week. “Short of that, or some victories in court, I don’t see what kind of arrangement would absolve them of future liability.”............https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-epa-goes-bat-bayer-company-fights-25-million-verdict-roundup-cancer-case/5698772

this may be a good question, or is it a statement;

six minute video providing food for thought about proposed virginia gun laws found on; https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/


https://youtu.be/Jo3_ie_Cr94

imagine that, as you look at the pics, and you still doubt who rules us;

in case you're one of those rubes who still believe we live in a democracy in which the will of the governed is supreme, consider the following;

In case you have been under a rock, Donald Trump is getting impeached. He is not getting impeached for invading countries on false pretenses, engineering coups to overthrow democratically elected governments in foreign countries, sending weapons to the largest state sponsor of terror in the world, or massively increasing the surveillance state—all of which is provable. He is getting impeached over an alleged quid pro quo scheme to help him get reelected. As Americans sit back and watch the political theater unfold in front of them, the tyrannical and freedom diminishing gears continue turning with bipartisan support. Case in point: on Christmas Eve, Congress summarily shut down cannabis reform that would have massively shifted the paradigm toward freedom.

Over the Christmas break, Congress voted to pass spending legislation for fiscal year 2020. Attached to the 2020 spending legislation was a list of riders intended on making the United States a less tyrannical and more freer nation in regards to cannabis. As Newsweek reported: .........https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cannabis-reform-congress-impeachment/

just for your entertainment watch nancy pelosi say absolutely nothing for a minute, and its a very curious show;


https://youtu.be/j7fEXTWx5YM

show us how this ain't so, cause it certainly appears to be what's been going on;

brother nathanael speaks here about the double standards we're being presented with and who is involved;


http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=199770

every day i visit the link below and am bombarded with evidence of israeli crimes, which i guess makes me anti-semitic just to say those words, but if you have the stomach to read what palestinians are experiencing every day i suggest you investigate it and spread the word;


https://alethonews.com/

the title is helpful hints for ruling a nation, and this will show you, should you choose to think and act, instead of reacting, that there are more ways to skin a cat than you might suspect;

Let’s assume that you’re part of a nation’s communist insurgency, just as we have here in the United States. Countless staged gun massacres have failed to persuade the nationals to surrender their weapons, and that surrender is necessary before you can finally begin the cleansing genocide that you have planned for those needy, and deplorable peasants. 

They must be made defenseless for your plans to proceed, but despite the best propaganda money can buy, and the bloodiest performances of your mass-shooting “Manchurian candidates”, they simply refuse to give up their guns, and in fact, are breaking records for buying more of them every month.

The buying spree is a result of Americans knowing that the motive behind these “gun control” efforts has nothing to do with the safety of the American people, and in fact, will insure their demise. They understand that all “gun control” is an ongoing effort to eliminate the last defense against global domination by a gang of Satan-worshiping Zionist psychopaths, who (by their own words) plan on exterminating much of the human race when they come to power.

The peasants must be disarmed, but they’re arming themselves at breakneck speeds, and this poses a problem. J.D. Rockefeller once promised “we’ll have our New World Order either by consent, or conquest”, and gun sales indicate that no one’s consenting to it, which necessarily brings us to the conquest side of the equation.

Since we are talking about hundreds of millions of armed peasants, defeating them militarily is impossible, so the best solution to this little dilemma would be to get the idiots to fight each other, thereby killing many and weakening the rest, which would be especially convenient if a secondary onslaught by another force could be arranged shortly afterward.

That’s the juncture at which we’ve arrived. Getting Americans to fight each other is the best way, if not the only way to defeat them, and defeating them is a necessary step to realizing a bigger plan of global domination............https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/helpful-hints-for-ruling-a-nation-3/259326