looks about right for our current circumstances in the minds of 'consumers';

mr whitehead always focuses upon our rights and where they're being removed, and how. in this exploration of the empire's rising police state he shows you, and perhaps the frogs, what is happening and where it has, and will lead;


The government does not want us to remember that we have rights, let alone attempting to exercise those rights peaceably and lawfully. And it definitely does not want us to engage in First Amendment activities that challenge the government’s power, reveal the government’s corruption, expose the government’s lies, and encourage the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices.
We’re in deep trouble, folks.
Freedom no longer means what it once did.
Not only do we no longer have dominion over our bodies, our families, our property and our lives, but the government continues to chip away at what few rights we still have to speak freely and think for ourselves.
If the government can control speech, it can control thought and, in turn, it can control the minds of the citizenry............https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/john-w-whitehead/youre-under-arrest-how-the-police-state-muzzles-our-right-to-speak-truth-to-power/

i didn't wait till i got to caitlin's site when i saw her posted on rockwell, as she usually hits home runs in her articles, and here she covers how the empire and not just in america, is slowly making big changes in 'our free press' here at home and around the world. the water is getting warmer but you frogs ain't noticing;


“Police in Paris arrested two journalists who were covering Yellow Vest protests on April 20,” Lauria writes.  “One of the journalists, Alexis Kraland, said he was taken into custody after refusing to be searched and to turn his camera over to police at Gare du Nord train station. The largest journalism union in France demanded an explanation from police.”
“And on May 10 in San Francisco, police using sledgehammers to break down the door, raided the home of Bryan Carmody, a freelance journalist, to get him, while handcuffed, to reveal his source who leaked him a police report into the sudden death the city’s elected public defender,” Lauria added. “Police took away computers, cameras, mobile phones and notes.”
So we’re seeing a pattern already. You can choose to ignore it or dismiss it with a pleasant story, or you can acknowledge that we appear to be in the midst of a rapidly escalating shutdown of the free press in the western world.
There does not necessarily have to be any centrally-planned conspiracy behind this trend; it can simply be the natural result of an ailing empire seeing that it’s going to need a lot more war, lies and deception in order to keep from collapsing, and responding accordingly. Once the Assange line was crossed, it could simply have served as a precedent for the other governments within the empire to begin doing things they’d already wanted to do anyway.https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/no_author/more-police-raids-as-war-on-journalism-escalates-worldwide/

the libertarians among us ask the following question frequently and herein hornberger explores it more than you will probably ever see done by 'our free press';




It should also cause us to reflect on how the U.S. national-security establishment, as a totalitarian governmental structure with the power to assassinate “enemies of freedom,” has itself become an enemy of morality, law, and freedom here at home............https://www.fff.org/2019/06/05/who-is-the-real-enemy-of-freedom/

you might suspect that this is a product of the onion, but its real and now the fox is in charge of the hen house;

Israeli politics reached a new level of absurdity on Tuesday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who is facing three separate corruption charges – allocated the justice portfolio to himself, on top of his other ministries.

The move leaves Netanyahu, who has served as Israel’s premier continuously for the last decade, in control of four ministries –in addition to the prime minister’s office– including Defense, Health, Education and, now, Justice.

Netanyahu’s decision to retain the justice portfolio for himself, effectively immunizing himself from the law, has left him open to harsh criticism, as he has effectively put himself in charge of the very officials tasked with scrutinizing his own alleged improprieties.

Three criminal cases have hung heavily over Netanyahu since February, when Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced he would indict Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust over his relationships with media moguls, which are alleged to have involved political favoritism............https://www.rt.com/news/461082-netanyahu-justice-minister-charges/

the fbi has released documents that indicate that the mossad had foreknowledge of the 911 false flag operation;

NEW YORK — For nearly two decades, one of the most overlooked and little known arrests made in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was that of the so-called “High Fivers,” or the “Dancing Israelis.” However, new information released by the FBI on May 7 has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the “Dancing Israelis,” at least two of whom were known Mossad operatives, had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Shortly after 8:46 a.m. on the day of the attacks, just minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center, five men — later revealed to be Israeli nationals — had positioned themselves in the parking lot of the Doric Apartment Complex in Union City, New Jersey, where they were seen taking pictures and filming the attacks while also celebrating the destruction of the towers and “high fiving” each other. At least one eyewitness interviewed by the FBI had seen the Israelis’ van in the parking lot as early as 8:00 a.m. that day, more than 40 minutes prior to the attack. The story received coverage in U.S. mainstream media at the time but has since been largely forgotten.

The men — Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Yaron Shimuel and Omar Marmari — were subsequently apprehended by law enforcement and claimed to be Israeli tourists on a “working holiday” in the United States where they were employed by a moving company, Urban Moving Systems. Upon his arrest, Sivan Kurzberg told the arresting officer, “We are Israeli; we are not your problem. Your problems are our problems, The Palestinians are the problem.”

For years, the official story has been that these individuals, while they had engaged in “immature” behavior by celebrating and being “visibly happy” in their documenting of the attacks, had no prior knowledge of the attack. However, newly released FBI copies of the photos taken by the five Israelis strongly suggest that these individuals had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center. The copies of the photos were obtained via a FOIA request made by a private citizen............https://israelpalestinenews.org/fbi-docs-shed-light-on-apparent-mossad-foreknowledge-of-9-11-attacks/

rinse and repeat: to discover who owns you look to see who you aren't allowed to criticize;


We begin this week’s edition of ‘Jewish War on Free Speech’ with the news that as anti-gentile hate is on the rise on Hebrew language social media (1) and the cyber-meddling of the Israeli government in the affairs of other countries is increasingly a problem. (2)

Yet you wouldn’t know this if you just listened to the majority of our jewish-controlled media since jews have been shrieking loudly about ‘rising anti-Semitism’ in New York (3) and the Pacific North-West in the United States (4) – triggering calls for a ‘National Anti-Semitism Commission’ – (5) as well as in the Netherlands, (6) Sweden, (7) Germany (8) and the United Kingdom. (9)

So bad has this shrieking been that the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond – a slavish servant of jewish interests if there ever was one – has backed the German government’s claim that boycotting Israel in any way, shape or form is ipso facto ‘anti-Semitic’. (10)

While his hook-nosed overlords and assorted other myrmidons have been busy reporting the jewish-led Labour Party - yes Jeremy Corbyn has happily boasted of having a significant amount of jewish ancestry – to the ‘European Human Rights Commission’ over alleged ‘anti-Semitism’ (aka the crime of noticing certain coincidences regarding circumcised individuals) among its membership (11) and continuing with the chutzpah of effectively demanding a jewish community veto of any political candidate put forward within the British political system. (12)

Among the results of this latest round of semitic bitching has been that a lecturer at the University of Essex has been fired for daring to have a non-approved opinion on the ‘Holocaust’ (13) and former communist MP George Galloway has been fired for football banter that offended the jews of all things (14) and about which jews have been more generally kvetching for some time. (15)

So much for freedom of inquiry let alone the Socratic dialogue!

Similarly in Germany where this latest round of madness started has also gone Orwellian with jews bitching about German nationalist parties (16) and demanding armed guards at every single jewish institution in the country. (17)

Perhaps the most lurid shrieking however was reserved for kippah debacle when Felix Klein – the German government’s ‘Commissioner on Antisemitism’ – publicly urged jews not to wear kippot in Germany for fear of physical assault. (18) The following massive OY VEY echoed around the world with, for example, the Israeli President, (19) the US Ambassador to Germany (20) and German media jumping up and down shrieking. (21) This resulted in a public retraction by the German government (22) and attempt to style it as a public relations exercise. (23)

Not exactly the behaviour of a ‘persecuted helpless people’: is it?
.............http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/2019/06/jewish-war-on-free-speech.html