hornberger shows you how the empire's prosecution of assange isn't really part of who we say we are;


Inadvertently released federal documents reveal that U.S. officials have apparently secured a secret indictment against Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks who released secret information about the internal workings of the U.S. national-security establishment. In any nation whose government is founded on the concept of a national-security state, that is a cardinal sin, one akin to treason and meriting severe punishment.
Mind you, Assange isn’t being charged with lying or releasing false or fraudulent information about the U.S. national-security state. Everyone concedes that the WikiLeaks information was authentic. His “crime” was in disclosing to people the wrongdoing of the national-security establishment. No one is supposed to do that, even if the information is true and correct.
It’s the same with Edward Snowden, the American contractor with the CIA and the NSA who is now relegated to living in Russia. If Snowden returns home, he faces federal criminal prosecution, conviction, and incarceration for disclosing secrets of the U.S. national-security establishment. Again, his “crime” is disclosing the truth about the internal workings of the national-security establishment, not disseminating false information.
Such secrecy and the severe punishment for people who disclose the secrets to the public were among the things that came with the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state.
Recall that when the U.S. government was called into existence by the Constitution, it was a type of governmental structure known as a limited-government republic. Under that type of governmental structure, the federal government’s powers were extremely limited. The only powers that federal officials could lawfully exercise were those few that were enumerated in the Constitution itself.
Under the republic form of government, there was no enormous permanent military..............https://www.fff.org/2018/12/17/state-secrets-and-the-national-security-state/

here is where we're headed and it ain't pretty. israel is in process of owning everyone in this country if this keeps up;




A children’s speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin, Texas, has been told she can no longer work with the public school district after she refused to sign an oath vowing that she “does not” and “will not” engage in a boycott of Israel or “otherwise tak[e] any action that is intended to inflict economic harm” on that foreign nation. A lawsuit on her behalf was filed early Monday morning in a federal court in the Western District of Texas alleging a violation of her First Amendment right of free speech.
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In order to obtain contracts in Texas, then, a citizen is free to denounce and work against the United States, to advocate for causes that directly harm American children, and even to support a boycott of particular U.S. states, such as was done in 2017 to North Carolina in protest of its anti-LGBT law. In order to continue to work, Amawi would be perfectly free to engage in any political activism against her own country, participate in an economic boycott of any state or city within the U.S., or work against the policies of any other government in the world — except Israel..........https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=53986

it seems that the russian 'scandal' is just about past us and kunstler explores some of the potential for its demise;


Last Friday morning, we adjourned the blog in anticipation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller handing over certain FBI documents in the General Flynn matter demanded by DC District Federal Judge Emmett G. Sullivan no later than 3:00 p.m. that day. Guess what. Mr. Mueller’s errand boys did not hand over the required documents — original FBI 302 interrogation reports. Instead, they proffered a half-assed “interview” with one of the two agents who conducted the Flynn interrogation, Peter Strzok, attempting to recollect the 302 half a year after it was written. Of course, Mr. Strzok was notoriously fired from the Bureau in August for bouts of wild political fury on-the-job as FBI counter-intel chief during and after the 2016 election. (This was the second time he was fired; the first was when Robert Mueller discarded him from the SC team in 2017 as a legal liability.)
So, 3:00 p.m. Friday has come and gone. It appears that the FBI 302 docs have come and gone, too. Actually, we have reason to believe that nothing ever created on a computer connected to the internet can actually disappear entirely. Rather, the data gets sucked into the bottomless well of the NSA server-farm out in Utah. Most likely, the original 302s exist and Mr. Mueller is pretending he can’t find them. In effect, it appears that Mr. Mueller has responded by gently whispering “fuck you” to Judge Sullivan.
Interestingly, The New York Times didn’t even report the story (nor The WashPo, nor CNN, nor MSNBC). Since their “Russia Collusion” narrative is foundering, they can’t tolerate any suggestion that their Avenging Angel of Impeachment, Mr. Mueller, is less than the sanctified plain dealer he affects to be. Judge Sullivan kept his own counsel all weekend. The next scheduled chapter in the story is Gen. Flynn’s sentencing this Tuesday. It would be a surprise if the Judge does not observe that Mr. Mueller has acted in contempt of court. Ditto if the charge against Gen. Flynn is not thrown out. After all, the main articles of evidence against him apparently don’t exist........http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/fatal-over-reach/

the title of this is: the truth is anti-semitic, and runs for six minutes;

https://youtu.be/fAaejNGwkn0

more thoughts from the vault;

By American dream the majority understand mere pleasure and comfort, not equality and liberty. The latter is too great a burden, and the former mostly a means to pleasure and comfort. After unthinking adherence to custom, the driving force of the majority is unthinking adherence to authority; and their general response to anti-authoritarians is one of bafflement, contempt, or a combination of both. Thus, the natural brutality, smugness, and obstinacy of authority is both exacerbated and reinforced: The incorrigibly stupid mass that cannot even recognize their own wretchedness. For the most part it is the adults and the doctors who are sick, not the children. Still, the child who is given Ritalin after naturally resisting an “educational curriculum” which doesn’t engage his mind to think independently, and which therefore doesn’t stir his vitality and creative powers, will as an adult transition as a matter of course to Prozac, that yuppie dope. But certainly the spiritual hell of American capitalism requires some anesthetic. US officialdom and their media megaphones have systematically concocted narratives having less to do with political reality and more with their hallucinogenic world view. If there is one sliver of truth in the vassal press, it is that the demonic changes made against Putin reflected the gory reality of the Empire’s well-documented policies.

Russia didn’t ‘invade’ the Ukraine or Crimea. It was the ‘potty-mouthed’ Victoria Nuland, US Undersecretary of State for European Affairs, who boasted of having tossed a mere 5 billion dollars into neo-fascist-kleptocratic putsch that took over Ukraine and who famously dismissed the concerns of the European Union…with her secretly recorded ‘Fuck the EE’ comment to the US Ambassador. The press superficially covers the plight of millions of immigrants and refugees who would never have left their jobs and homes were it not for the American destruction of the Middle East and North Africa. The respectable media defend the American officials directly responsible for the plight of these migrants flooding and threatening to destabilize Europe. The same newspapers defend the ‘human rights’ of Chinese workers in local and US-owned factories who out-competed domestic American factories, but ignore the plight of millions of unemployed and destitute workers trying to survive in the American war zones and Israeli-occupied territories. This only considers Europe and the mid-east, while ignoring the same dynamic here in the ‘west’ where America destroys in the name of freedom and creates its own refugees here that cross borders to escape the hell holes we create in central America.

Who knows how America might end up? Torturing people? Attacking other countries that pose no threat to it whatsoever? Indefinitely imprisoning people in camps? Assassinating anyone the president deems a “terrorist” or an “enemy combatant” with the tacit approval of the majority of Americans? Watching everyone’s phone calls, emails, tweets, and reading and web-browsing habits? Imagine the dystopia we would all be living in, if things like that were considered “normal.”

more pasted here from my archives due to having more on 'paper' than my local electronic fishwrap will post and that's where much of this all began: i was writing letters to the local 'paper' back when it was a paper and published all i sent them, and then i was slowed down to one every two months after they went www, so, blog;

Obama told us; “Russia Is Once Again isolating itself from the International Community,” “Russian-backed separatists have continued to shoot down Ukrainian aircraft”, “Because of their actions; scores of Ukrainian civilians continue to die needlessly every day”. In America’s “news” we’re told the problem is Russia’s Putin. Why do they call the anti-fascist/Kiev separatists “pro-Russian”?

They’re dying needlessly because of their attempts to defend themselves against the Empire’s/Ukrainian attacks. The Empire is determined to put nuclear missiles ten-minutes from Moscow like Khrushchev did in Cuba in 1962, but more extreme.

The aristocrats in Ukraine are called “oligarchs”. In the Empire they’re called “Wall Street” or “the elite”, America’s aristocracy. Our “elite” families controlling “our government”, and media, get bailed out by us whenever their investments go badly like in 2008. The Empire is working on bailing out Ukraine’s “oligarchs”.

The Empire is murdering separatists in southeastern Ukraine because they aren’t Empire approved. “Our news” media know that “consumers” are stupid enough to support that murder if they call the Empire’s victims “terrorists”.  This is Ukraine’s civil war, that the Empire created and is supporting, but it’s also significant in Gaza, Honduras, and elsewhere so, the problem goes quite deep.

“Our government” says it works for free, prosperous, democratic, free societies in Latin America and elsewhere. That’s absurd. “Our” military has long been the eager supporter of brutal pro-American dictatorships. “Our government” supports tyrannical regimes whose military torture, rape, and murder. The Empire teaches them how at the Pentagon’s School of the Americas.

“Our government” removes democratically elected regimes that aren’t America’s puppies. The trade that’s always made is: If you’re pro-American, we will help keep you in power, train your military and provide resources which will enable you to maintain your oppressive hold on power.

If you oppose the Empire, America will do whatever’s necessary to overthrow you, and replace you with our stooge who will follow directions for our bribes.

The world makes no effort to hold America responsible for its destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine and many others or stop its murdering in countries with which it’s not at war. The world ignores America sending Israel weapons to murder aimlessly in “Israel’s” Gaza Ghetto. Americans are an uninformed, distracted people. Only fools deny that our relationship with Israel causes our war with Muslims. “Our government” arms ISIS in Syria and bombs them in Iraq.

Putin is opposing Western aggression in Ukraine, Syria and Iran: the Empire’s attempts to destabilize these countries are recent examples of a long pattern of aggression. The goal: Total destruction of traditional nations and values, to create a New World Order global dictatorship in a way that allows massive natural resource stripping by the large multinational corporations. Bush the first spoke publically about this and it’s the logical extension of the Empire’s actions.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dempsey, preparing “official” American opinion for the upcoming war, told a group of opinion navigators, that Putin’s aggression in Ukraine is comparable to Stalin’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and that the Russian threat was global. He failed to mention Europe declared war on the Nazi’s for that Polish invasion but not the Soviets. No one asked Dempsey about the Empire’s recent history: Clinton in Serbia, Bush and Obama in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen, Obama in Ukraine, Libya and Syria.

In the Empire, enforcers of a world wide crime syndicate, we have no honest government: only bureaucrats and changing figureheads. Our self-identified Christian Nation gives evidence of few actual Christians. They refuse to stand against real evil. Perhaps they take the biblical “render unto Caesar”, to mean they’re required to be silent in the face of government crimes, or worse, believe the lies.

“Our government” is a proven serial liar, but “consumers” take TV sound bites as gospel. We wouldn’t have this mess if “our government” hadn’t invested five plus billion dollars in creating Ukraine’s troubles.

Do you imagine all the chaos in our “New American Century” happened without “our government’s” involvement?

If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, no morals, and soon isn’t a nation.

Why would rebels, fighting Kiev fascists, shoot down a passenger plane? In false-flag operations blame is quickly assigned to “the villain” before any investigation, for a crime they didn’t commit. The people doing the blaming are often the criminal. The question is: Who benefits?

The Empire, with spy satellites everywhere, can provide proof of who did what. “Our government” won’t tell the truth and show us the evidence. Why would Russia accept responsibility for downing an aircraft when no evidence suggests such guilt? The Empire quotes “social media” while Russia has provided radar and satellite pictures with repeated calls for an independent investigation. The Empire is exploiting human tragedy for political reasons. It appears their Ukrainian stooges shot down the Malaysian jet.

In the Empire threats are part of all political process. When the hildabeest compares Putin with Hitler, she’s appealing to Republicans. The Empire escalates all conflicts. If America’s invasion of Iraq without a UN resolution or proof of the “WMDs” was judged by the same standards as Russia is, today, then baby Bush would be indicted by the world court, foreign investments of Wall Street would have been frozen and the export of American products banned.

The Empire, willing to risk financial disaster or nuclear war, enforces sanctions against Iran, sanctions on Russia, puts missile bases minutes away from Moscow, sends killer drones against Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan, arms mercenaries in Syria, and finances Israel’s savage war crimes in Gaza.

Central America, after decades of American interference, has become a chaotic murderous inferno. Millions escape north from their “free market” induced mass poverty, gangster violence, and state terrorism.

It’s okay though because the Empire is special, everything right and righteous in the world. WWIII with Russia will be a small price to pay to maintain the Empire’s international system of peace.

short three minute video displaying how race relations are pursued in israel;

https://youtu.be/cn0PVk8muFc