our current reality described by a former cia agent when looking at how 'our' government is creating the troubles we see around us;

The nuclear war doomsday clock maintained on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website has advanced to two minutes before midnight, the closest point to possible atomic apocalypse since the end of the Cold War. In 1995 the clock was at fourteen minutes to midnight, but the opportunity to set it back even further was lost as the United States and its European allies took advantage of a weakened Russia to advance NATO into Eastern Europe, setting the stage for a new cold war, which is now underway.

It is difficult to imagine how the United States might avoid a new war in the Middle East given the recent statements that have come out of Washington, and, given that the Russians are also active in the region, a rapid and massive escalation of something that starts out as a minor incident should not be ruled out.

President Donald Trump set the tone when he harangued the United Nations last Tuesday, warning that the United States would go it alone in defense of its perceived interests, with no regard for international bodies that exist to limit armed conflict and punish those who commit war crimes.

Trump’s 35-minute speech featured an anticipated long section targeting Iran. He commented that:


http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/one-click-closer-to-annihilation/

pcr in this article will show a sharp turning point in the life of 'our free press', and not for the better;

Paul Craig Roberts
In my September 24 column, “Truth Is Evaporating Before Our Eyes,” https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/24/truth-is-evaporating-before-our-eyes/ I used the destruction of the CBS news team that broke the Abu Ghraib story and the story of President George W. Bush’s non-performance of his Texas Air Force National Guard duties to demonstrate how accusations alone could destroy a Peabody Award winning, 26 year veteran producer of CBS News, Mary Mapes, and the established news anchor Dan Rather.
I have many times written that it was President Bill Clinton who destroyed the independent US media when he permitted 90 percent of the US media to be concentrated in six mega-corporations that were in the entertainment and other businesses and not in the news business. This unprecedented concentration of media was against all American tradition and destroyed the reliance that our Founding Fathers placed on a free press to keep government accountable to the people.
Until I read Mary Mapes book, Truth and Duty (St. Martin’s Press, 2005), I was unaware of how this monopolization of the media in violation of the Sherman Anti-trust Act and American tradition had proceeded to destroy honest reporting.
Here is what happened. The Texas Air National Guard was a place the elite placed their sons to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Copies of documents written by Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian describing George W. Bush’s ability to jump the large waiting list hoping to avoid the war, Bush’s non-compliance with National Guard requirements and Bush’s unauthorized departure to another state were given to CBS. The CBS team worked for many months to confirm or discredit the documents. The information in the documents proved to be consistent with the interviews of people acquainted with George W. Bush’s time in the Texas National Guard.


https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/10/01/how-the-american-media-was-destroyed/

 this article is a bit longer than perhaps necessary but it makes some very clear points the nation aught to be considering about what the law is, and isn't, or maybe we just aught to be getting up lynch mobs from here on out and ignore that pesky legal crap, eh?;

When Christine Blasey Ford accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape, she, her Leftist lawyers and her crackpot supporters demanded that the typical procedures for getting at the truth be turned upside down. This has shocked normal Americans. But it just means that Campus Rape-Culture Hysteria has escaped the asylum and is now invading America.
Consider:

• First, Ford backers didn’t want her to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, abrogating Kavanaugh’s right to face his accuser and permitting her to avoid supporting her accusations.
• Then they wanted Kavanaugh to testify first, which would force Kavanaugh to answer her cloudy charges before he heard them.
• Third, Kavanaugh would have to prove his innocence because when it comes to rape, we must believe the accuser.

Recent Campus Rape-Culture atrocities make it clear where these ground rules came from.



https://vdare.com/articles/kavanaugh-lynching-campus-rape-culture-hysteria-invades-america?scroll_to_paragraph=5

 kunstler has been batting a thousand lately though you might want to admit he's been provided with great subject matter, and this kavanaugh circus is certainly a bonanza for those who wish to see, and be provided with great evidence about, 'our democracy';


The Kavanaugh hearing underscored another eerie condition in contemporary USA life that offers clues about the combined social, economic, and political collapse that I call the long emergency: the destruction of all remaining categorical boundaries for understanding behavior: truth and untruth, innocent and guilty, childhood and adulthood, public and private. The destination of all this confusion is a society that can’t process any quarrel coherently, leaving everyone unsatisfied and adrift, and no actual problems resolved.
One element of the story is clear, though. The Democratic party, in the absence of real monsters to slay, has become the party devoted to sowing chaos, mainly by inventing new, imaginary monsters using the machinery of politics, the way the Catholic Church manufactured monsters of heresy during the Spanish Inquisition in its attempt to regulate “belief.”
“I believe her” is the new totalitarian rallying cry, conveniently disposing of any obligation to establish the facts of any ambiguous matter. It was stealthily inserted in our national life during the Obama years, when Title IX “guidelines” originally written to correct imbalances in college sports funding for men and women were extended to adjudicate sexual encounters on campus. The result was the setting up of officially sanctioned kangaroo courts where due process was thrown out the window — by people who have should have known better: college presidents, deans, and faculty. That experiment produced not a few spectacular injustices, such as the Duke Lacrosse team fake rape fiasco, the University of Virginia fake rape fraternity incident (provoked by a mis-reported storey in Rolling Stone Magazine), and the Columbia University “Mattress Girl” saga — all cases eventuating in punishing lawsuits against the institutions that allowed them to spin out of control.



http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/imaginary-monsters-and-the-uses-of-chaos/

the more i see/hear of tucker carlson the more i like his approach to what he sees around him, and in this video you can see him speaking with bolton the bold;


https://youtu.be/NPFc9YN7LIE

in this article you can discover how reddit has been changed by the advent of a zionist associated with kissenger who now steers that web site into closer 'official' waters. now it warns you should you wish to investigate the 911 fictions and how long can it be till this gets even worse. much to be found in this link if you have the time and inclination;


 The Reddit cesspool in June 2017 brought in neocon spook Jessica Ashooh as its policy director, and the outcomes have been shown in spades. Banning and discourse shutdowns have unfolded on anybody participating in truth, justice and revisionist issues. Reddit over the course of a year went from semi-free to being under total control of the Crime Syndicate’s information ministry.
We discussed our own personal experience of being banned at r/Conspiracy for “spamming” despite accumulating 14,000 karma. We will let the reader decide if this site deserved such censorship. We discussed the true nature of Reddit in “Rancid Reddit is an Orwellian Cesspool of Usual Suspects.”
Mostly, Reddit influenced discourse by allowing a few “mods” to control many huge subreddits. But the latest stark travesty at Reddit was to insert into the primary 9/11 Truth subreddit the latest Orwellian fraud — something called “quarantine.” Here, Ashooh and her ilk meet the inquiring redditor with the following screen (see image below).We have posted at r/911Truth and have been well received. The discourse there is generally thoughtful and relatively tame. It is a quiet little corner of the truth community. The mods did a good job of beating back the organized trolls and bots that Reddit allows to run amok. Obviously, it was a prime target for this.



https://www.winterwatch.net/2018/10/neocon-hack-now-running-reddits-thought-police-cesspool/

pcr in this article lists some of the reasons i'll have to consider myself an anti-semite. as a birth right quaker i was automatically a supporter of israel but that began to change when the oslo accords were not dealt with as israel promised and i began to see more of the real history and practices of that criminal gang, so go see all of what pcr has to say about it at the link below;

Paul Craig Roberts
This is from Ron Unz, a fearless commentator: https://forward.com/series/salary-survey/2015/jonathan-greenblatt/anti-defamation-league/
It shows the extraordinary salary—a paycheck in the 1% range—of the head of the Zionist Anti-defamattion League (ADL), an organization that despite its title defames everyone who makes the slightest criticism of Israel. For example, when the Israeli Army machine-guns 89 unarmed prostesting Palestinians, including medics treating machine-guned 3-year olds, as Israel did today, or was it yesterday, or every day, and some person with a moral conscience says Israel should not have done that, the ADL brands that person “an anti-semite who wants another holocaust for the Jews.”
In other words, Israeli foreign policy and every other Israeli policy can only be praised, never criticized. In Europe Israel is more powerful than the country governments. If you question the holocaust Israel can have your country imprison you for Israel. Israel can even have EU countries imprison other countries’ citizens.
The ADL in its unbridled arrogance has declared moral objections to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to be “anti-semitism.” Even President Jimmy Carter has been labeled an anti-semite.
Israel even has the American neoconservatives, who control US foreign policy, acting as Israel’s agent in foreign affairs.


https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/30/ron-unz-for-president/