land of the free? read the entire article found at the link below and discover things you may not have imagined about the future of that 'freedom';
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,
In July 1996, flight TWA 800 exploded in mid-air, 12 minutes after
taking off from JFK International Airport in New York. All 230
passengers on board were killed.
It would be four years before an investigation concluded the likely cause of the explosion was a short circuit in the plane’s fuel tank.
But at the time, President Clinton felt the overwhelming need to do something.
People suspected terrorism. So Clinton issued new airport security rules.
From then on, identification was required to board an airplane.
Before that, you just needed a ticket.
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, airport security escalated.
The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) and DHS (Department of Homeland Security) were born.
Screening procedures intensified. Agents could now feel you up and
down. Then came naked body scanners and the Real ID requirement.
Real ID standards were part of the post-9/11 security hysteria. But they are just now coming into full effect.
The federal guidelines require states to issue IDs that meet certain
federal standards, or else the ID cannot be used for flying.
One of these standards is that the photo on the ID has to work with facial recognition systems.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-29/how-government-uses-its-giant-facial-recognition-database
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
seven minutes of brother nathanael speaking about part of the 'election' corruption we don't see much of because its hidden behind laws that prevent us from seeing who is buying 'our' government. soros on one side and koch on the other. you usually don't see much of the reality of it because 'our free press' is owned and operated by the friends of both 'sides';
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=178397
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=178397
the author of this article will show why the empire, america, is leading us all to a war only those who make money want and will get and the rest is at the link below so you can decide if this is what you vote for;
https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/30/does-us-withdrawal-from-another-nuclear-treaty-really-benefit-russia-2/
No. Obviously Russia does not benefit
from the scrapping of yet another treaty designed to prevent a nuclear
exchange amid a war with the United States.
Yet, as an attempt to frame blatant US
provocations as somehow “Russia’s fault,” a narrative has begun
circulating – claiming that not only does the US withdrawal from
the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty somehow benefit
Russia – it was via Russia’s “puppet” – US President Donald Trump – that
saw the treaty scrapped.
Spreading this scurrilous narrative are
political provocateurs like former US ambassador to Russia Michael
McFaul who has re-branded himself recently as a prominent anti-Trump
voice – feeding into and feeding off of America’s false left-right
political paradigm.
In one post on social media, McFaul would claim:
Why can’t Trump leverage his close personal relationship with Putin to get Russia to abide by the INF Treaty?
In other posts,
he would recommend followers to read commentary published by US
corporate-financier funded think tank – the Brookings Institution – on
how the US withdrawal “helps Russia and hurts US.”
The commentary –
penned by former US ambassador to Ukraine, Steven Pifer – admitted that
no evidence has been made public of supposed “Russian violations.” It
also admits that America’s European allies – those who would be in range
of Russian intermediate range missiles if deployed – have not raised
a “stink” with the Kremlin, publicly or privately.
But Pifer claims that the US has no
missiles to match those supposedly being developed by Russia, and even
if it did, the US would have no where to place them – claiming that
NATO, Japan, and South Korea would not allow the US to place such
systems on their shores. This, he and McFaul suggest, is why the US’
withdrawal from the treaty “benefits” Russia by granting it a monopoly
over intermediate range missiles.
Washington’s Other Withdrawals Prove Otherwise
Yet the US has already withdrawn from
treaties and twisted the arms of allies to allow newly developed missile
systems to be deployed on their shores.
In the aftermath of Washington’s
unilateral withdrawal from another Cold War-era agreement – the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty scrapped by US President George Bush Jr.
in 2002 – the US developed and deployed the Lockheed Martin ashore Aegis
ballistic missile defense system in Europe along with the deployment of
the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile
defense systems to South Korea – also manufactured by Lockheed Martin.
https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/30/does-us-withdrawal-from-another-nuclear-treaty-really-benefit-russia-2/
https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/30/does-us-withdrawal-from-another-nuclear-treaty-really-benefit-russia-2/
https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/30/does-us-withdrawal-from-another-nuclear-treaty-really-benefit-russia-2/
this author is former cia and makes a clear case why the murder of a journalist in the saudi embassy in turkey will not amount to anything beyond noise. the rest at the link below as usual, and you can decide for yourself;
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/jamal-khashoggi-died-for-nothing/
The
angst over the Jamal Khashoggi murder in the Saudi Arabian Consulate
General building in Istanbul is already somewhat fading as the media has
moved on in search of fresh meat, recently focusing on the series of
attempted mail bombings, and currently on the mass shooting in
Pittsburgh. But the affaire Khashoggi is still important as it
potentially brings with it possible political realignments in the Middle
East as well as in Europe as countries feel emboldened to redefine
their relationship with Saudi Arabia.
The
Turks know exactly what occurred in the Consulate General building and
are now putting the squeeze on the Saudis, requiring them to fess up and
no doubt demanding compensation. Some sources in Turkey believe that
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will actually demand recreation of the
Caliphate, which the Kemal Ataturk led Turkish Republic’s government
abolished in 1924. That would diminish Saudi Arabia’s ability to regard
itself as the pre-eminent Islamic state due to its guardianship over the
holy sites in Mecca and Medina. It would be a major realignment of the
Islamic umma and would be akin to a restoration of some semblance of Ottoman supremacy over the region.
To
be sure, the brutally effective Turkish intelligence service, known by
its acronym MIT, is very active when it comes to monitoring the
activities of both friendly and unfriendly foreign embassies and their
employees throughout Turkey. It uses electronic surveillance and, if the
foreign mission has local Turks as employees, many of those individuals
will be agents reporting to MIT. As a result, it should be presumed
that MIT had the Consulate General building covered with both cameras
and microphones, possibly inside the building as well as outside,
meaning that the audio of the actual killing that has been reported in
the media is no doubt authentic and might even be supplemented with
video.
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/jamal-khashoggi-died-for-nothing/
here as usual is the beginning of pcr's thinking with the rest at the link below. he makes a clear case that americans, at least, are going insane in their thoughts and actions, with lots of evidence making that clear, should you wish to know;
Is the Western World Too Insane to Be Worth Saving?
Paul Craig Roberts
According to news reports NBC has cancelled Megyn Kelly’s program for making “insensitive comments” while participating in a panel discussion on the appropriateness of blackface in Halloween costumes. Here is what she said: “Truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween or a black person who put on whiteface for Halloween. When I was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a character.” She added, “I don’t know how that got racist on Halloween.” https://www.rt.com/usa/442267-megyn-kelly-nbc-blackface-fired/
It is beyond understanding what is offensive about what she said. She stated that it had become a no-no for the black and white races to impersonate one another even in fun and she didn’t know why. I don’t either. Do you? It makes no sense.
We seem to have reached a point where any statement can be claimed by a member of a “victim group” to be offensive. Saying anything has become risky.
It doesn’t just happen to celebrities with multi-million dollar incomes like Megyn Kelly. It happens to everyone. For example, Joshua Sutcliffe, a young math teacher in Oxfordshire, England, accidently included a “transgender student,” who apparently is female but identifies as a male, when he congratulated his class with the words “well done girls.” The female who identifies as a male but doesn’t look like one, unbeknownst to the teacher regarded herself as a male and complained about his “female-gendered words.” The school suspended him for “misgendering” a student. https://www.rt.com/uk/409760-teacher-trans-girls-christian/
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/10/29/is-the-western-world-too-insane-to-be-worth-saving/
Is the Western World Too Insane to Be Worth Saving?
Paul Craig Roberts
According to news reports NBC has cancelled Megyn Kelly’s program for making “insensitive comments” while participating in a panel discussion on the appropriateness of blackface in Halloween costumes. Here is what she said: “Truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween or a black person who put on whiteface for Halloween. When I was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a character.” She added, “I don’t know how that got racist on Halloween.” https://www.rt.com/usa/442267-megyn-kelly-nbc-blackface-fired/
It is beyond understanding what is offensive about what she said. She stated that it had become a no-no for the black and white races to impersonate one another even in fun and she didn’t know why. I don’t either. Do you? It makes no sense.
We seem to have reached a point where any statement can be claimed by a member of a “victim group” to be offensive. Saying anything has become risky.
It doesn’t just happen to celebrities with multi-million dollar incomes like Megyn Kelly. It happens to everyone. For example, Joshua Sutcliffe, a young math teacher in Oxfordshire, England, accidently included a “transgender student,” who apparently is female but identifies as a male, when he congratulated his class with the words “well done girls.” The female who identifies as a male but doesn’t look like one, unbeknownst to the teacher regarded herself as a male and complained about his “female-gendered words.” The school suspended him for “misgendering” a student. https://www.rt.com/uk/409760-teacher-trans-girls-christian/
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/10/29/is-the-western-world-too-insane-to-be-worth-saving/
the author of this is a libertarian blogger with a long record of accuracy in details and clear presentation of his thoughts on those details;
by
In my article “Don’t Be Surprised If Saudis Get Away with Murder,” I detailed the U.S. national-security state’s kidnapping and assassination of Gen. Rene Schneider in 1970. The point I made is that the power to assassinate comes with any nation whose government is founded on the concept of a national-security state. That includes the United States, where the military and the CIA wield the omnipotent, non-reviewable power to assassinate people who they deem to be threats to “national security.”
Given that the U.S. national-security state got away with murder in the case of Gen. Schneider, what are the odds that there will be a different outcome in Saudi Arabia? Sure, there might be some underlings who have to fall on their swords as a sacrifice to the greater good, but the chance that higher-ups in the Saudi regime will be held accountable for the murder is virtually nil.
Another example of this immunity-and-impunity phenomenon on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment was the killing of two Americans three years after Schneider’s assassination. The two Americans were Charles Horman and Frank Terguggi, two young American men who were executed during the Chilean coup in 1973.
In the 1970 Chilean presidential election, a socialist physician named Salvador Allende received a plurality of votes. Owing to his belief in socialism and communism and his reaching out to the Russians and Cubans in peace and friendship, U.S. officials deemed Allende to be a threat to U.S. “national security” and, therefore, had to be removed from power.
Since none of the three Chilean presidential candidates had received a majority of the votes, the election was thrown into the Chilean congress, pursuant to the Chilean constitution.
https://www.fff.org/2018/10/29/the-saudis-will-get-away-with-murder/
Monday, October 29, 2018
kunstler's monday post pasted here in total. he speaks of many realities, partially in my mind.
certainly a mass shooting in pittsburg isn't a welcoming family affair, but it leaves out why would someone shoot a bunch of jews. could israel, who sells themselves as the home of the world's jews, and their treatment of the natives of the land they occupied, palestine, have anything to do with this? no one says anything beyond hatred of jews. its like the cover half of the story and expect you to believe its all there is. the las vegas shooting is another false flag like many other 'shootings' we've been fed and expected to devour, but kunstler speaks of it as if it was exactly like the tv tells you.
the line between divide and conquer is hazy and getting more so every day;
October 29, 2018
The sad reality is that last week’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre is only the latest float in the long-running parade of ghastly homicidal spectacles rolling across this land and will be just as forgotten in one week as was last year’s Las Vegas Mandalay Bay slaughter of 58 concert-goers plus over 800 wounded and injured, a US record for non-military acts of violence. The Pittsburgh shootings elbowed the mass pipe bomber, Cesar Sayoc, out of the news cycle — but then Sayoc didn’t manage to actually hurt any of the high-profile figures he targeted with his mailings. What I wonder — and what the news media has so far failed to report — is just how incompetent a bomb-maker Sayoc was. Fake news meets fake bombs.
One of the strange side effects of an epic American political hysteria is this strange ADD-like inability of the public to focus on anything for more than a few moments, even the most arresting atrocities. The hysteria itself is too compelling, like the actions of a human limbic system driving the collective public psyche from fight to flight on the wild horses of pure emotion. Reason has been discarded by the wayside just as a super-drunk person will shed his clothing even on a freezing night. Total culture war now beats a path toward all-out civil war, with the looming mid-term election as a fulcrum of history.
The country is not “divided,” it’s sliced-and diced like a victim in one of the Halloween bloodbath movies now so beloved by movie audiences that they must be regularly updated. It’s hardly a stretch to say that the US public sees its collective self as a throng of zombies lurching across the ruined landscape in search of a dwindling supply of brains, and they even seem to take a certain comfort in that endeavor, as though the zombies were performing a meritorious public service ridding the nation of as many brains as possible.
The Democratic Party could not be more in tune with this monster mash of collapse politics. The party has been living in a haunted house of its own construction for much of this century, and methodically adding to its roster of resident blood beasts month by month in an orgy of monster creation. They remind me of the chanting and stomping “natives” in any of the long line of King Kong movies, summoning the giant ape to the gate of their Great Wall so as to scare off the party of feckless white adventurers from faraway Hollywood. Only in this edition of the story, King Kong is the Golden Golem of Greatness at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and it annoys him greatly to be summoned by these tiny savages beating their drums. Of course, America-the Horror-Movie doesn’t add up as a coherent narrative. And so the nation sinks into bloody incoherence.
The Democratic Party war on white people and their dastardly privilege has been the theme all year long, with its flanking movement against white men especially and super-especially the hetero-normative white male villains who rape and oppress everybody else. Anyway, that’s the strategy du jour. I’m not persuaded that it’s going to work so well in the coming election. The party could not have issued a clearer message than “white men not welcome here.” Very well, then, they’ll vote somewhere else for somebody else. And if it happens that the Dems don’t prevail, and don’t manage to get their hands on the machinery of congress — then what?
For one thing, a lot of people get indicted, especially former top officers from various glades of the Intel swamp. It shouldn’t be a surprise, given the numbers of them already called before grand juries and fingered by inspectors general. But it may be shocking how high up the indictments go, and how serious the charges may be: sedition… treason…?
These midterm election may bring the moment when the Democratic Party finally blows up, at least enough to sweep away the current coterie of desperate idiots running it. It’s time to shove the crybabies offstage and allow a few clear-eyed adults to take the room, including men, yes even white men. And let all the shrieking, clamoring, marginal freaks return to the margins, where they belong.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-monster-mash/
certainly a mass shooting in pittsburg isn't a welcoming family affair, but it leaves out why would someone shoot a bunch of jews. could israel, who sells themselves as the home of the world's jews, and their treatment of the natives of the land they occupied, palestine, have anything to do with this? no one says anything beyond hatred of jews. its like the cover half of the story and expect you to believe its all there is. the las vegas shooting is another false flag like many other 'shootings' we've been fed and expected to devour, but kunstler speaks of it as if it was exactly like the tv tells you.
the line between divide and conquer is hazy and getting more so every day;
October 29, 2018
Clusterfuck Nation
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The sad reality is that last week’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre is only the latest float in the long-running parade of ghastly homicidal spectacles rolling across this land and will be just as forgotten in one week as was last year’s Las Vegas Mandalay Bay slaughter of 58 concert-goers plus over 800 wounded and injured, a US record for non-military acts of violence. The Pittsburgh shootings elbowed the mass pipe bomber, Cesar Sayoc, out of the news cycle — but then Sayoc didn’t manage to actually hurt any of the high-profile figures he targeted with his mailings. What I wonder — and what the news media has so far failed to report — is just how incompetent a bomb-maker Sayoc was. Fake news meets fake bombs.
One of the strange side effects of an epic American political hysteria is this strange ADD-like inability of the public to focus on anything for more than a few moments, even the most arresting atrocities. The hysteria itself is too compelling, like the actions of a human limbic system driving the collective public psyche from fight to flight on the wild horses of pure emotion. Reason has been discarded by the wayside just as a super-drunk person will shed his clothing even on a freezing night. Total culture war now beats a path toward all-out civil war, with the looming mid-term election as a fulcrum of history.
The country is not “divided,” it’s sliced-and diced like a victim in one of the Halloween bloodbath movies now so beloved by movie audiences that they must be regularly updated. It’s hardly a stretch to say that the US public sees its collective self as a throng of zombies lurching across the ruined landscape in search of a dwindling supply of brains, and they even seem to take a certain comfort in that endeavor, as though the zombies were performing a meritorious public service ridding the nation of as many brains as possible.
The Democratic Party could not be more in tune with this monster mash of collapse politics. The party has been living in a haunted house of its own construction for much of this century, and methodically adding to its roster of resident blood beasts month by month in an orgy of monster creation. They remind me of the chanting and stomping “natives” in any of the long line of King Kong movies, summoning the giant ape to the gate of their Great Wall so as to scare off the party of feckless white adventurers from faraway Hollywood. Only in this edition of the story, King Kong is the Golden Golem of Greatness at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and it annoys him greatly to be summoned by these tiny savages beating their drums. Of course, America-the Horror-Movie doesn’t add up as a coherent narrative. And so the nation sinks into bloody incoherence.
The Democratic Party war on white people and their dastardly privilege has been the theme all year long, with its flanking movement against white men especially and super-especially the hetero-normative white male villains who rape and oppress everybody else. Anyway, that’s the strategy du jour. I’m not persuaded that it’s going to work so well in the coming election. The party could not have issued a clearer message than “white men not welcome here.” Very well, then, they’ll vote somewhere else for somebody else. And if it happens that the Dems don’t prevail, and don’t manage to get their hands on the machinery of congress — then what?
For one thing, a lot of people get indicted, especially former top officers from various glades of the Intel swamp. It shouldn’t be a surprise, given the numbers of them already called before grand juries and fingered by inspectors general. But it may be shocking how high up the indictments go, and how serious the charges may be: sedition… treason…?
These midterm election may bring the moment when the Democratic Party finally blows up, at least enough to sweep away the current coterie of desperate idiots running it. It’s time to shove the crybabies offstage and allow a few clear-eyed adults to take the room, including men, yes even white men. And let all the shrieking, clamoring, marginal freaks return to the margins, where they belong.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-monster-mash/
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