its a most entertaining thing to see the empire abandoning all pretense of legal action;

President Trump’s decision to leave roughly 1,000 U.S. troops [about a fourth of a brigade (BCT)] and 500 Bradley fighting vehicles to admittedly steal Syria’s oil is a reckless bridge too far.

Trump has said multiple times that the U.S. is “keeping the oil.” In fact at a Trumptard rally in Iowa he declared he would first “bomb the shit out of Syria’s oil” assets and then “take the oil” for Exxon Mobil.............https://www.winterwatch.net/2019/11/trojan-horse-trump-leaves-patsies-exposed-in-syrian-desert/

keep reminding yourself that you live in the land of the brave and free as you read this;

George Reby was driving from New Jersey to Tennessee to pick up a car he had purchased on eBay when he was stopped for speeding.

Like many Americans, George felt he had nothing to hide from the police. So when the officer asked him if he was carrying any large amounts of cash, he admitted he had $22,000 on him because he was buying a car.

George was able to show the officer his eBay bids, and that the sale was legitimate. He was able to demonstrate that he has income from his job as an insurance adjuster.

But none of that mattered. The cop seized George’s money on the spot.

Later, in a court hearing that George was not allowed to participate in, the judge allowed the police to keep the money even though George was never charged with a crime.

There was no proof of wrongdoing. Even more, George had proof that there was NO wrongdoing.

“You live in the United States, you think you have rights — and apparently you don’t,” George commented later............https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/11/05/when-they-can-take-your-children-away-how-free-are-you/

brother nathanael asks whatever happened to america first;


http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=197466

hornberger writes herein about the whole story of modern day iran and why you won't hear the whole story, but you won't recognize it if you only choose to believe what 'our free press' tells you;

An article in yesterday’s Washington Post provides a perfect example of the obtuseness of the mainstream press to the U.S. deep state and its dark-side practices. The article is entitled “Iran’s Hostage Factory” by Jason Rezalan.

Rezalan’s article revolves a condemnation of Iran’s dictatorial regime. No surprise there. Criticizing Iran, which is considered an “enemy” or “opponent” or “rival” by the U.S. deep state, has become standard fare for critiques by the U.S. mainstream press, just like Russia and China.

What’s fascinating about Rezalan’s article, however, is how he fails to draw parallels in his article with the dark-side policies and practices of the U.S. deep state.

Rezalan details many of the horrors committed by the Iranian government, such as taking hostages for political purposes, holding people without charges or trial, denial of due process of law, forced confessions, and other such things. He writes that Iran takes hostages to use as bargaining chips to extract political concessions from other countries.

One of the things he doesn’t mention is that it is the U.S. deep state, and specifically the CIA, that is indirectly responsible for the existence of Iran’s tyrannical regime.

Not surprisingly, Rezalan brings up the Iranian revolution in 1979, when radical Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took U.S. diplomats hostage. He says that that hostage-taking episode laid the seeds for later episodes of Iranian hostage-taking.

What he doesn’t say, however, is why those radical students took those American diplomats hostage. Why doesn’t he? Surely he’s familiar with the story. And yes, it would involve criticism of the U.S. deep state, but why should that matter? Why should the U.S. deep state be given a pass for its dark-side policies and practices in the context of criticizing the dark-side policies and practices of the Iranian regime?............https://www.fff.org/2019/11/05/washington-post-obtuseness-on-the-u-s-deep-state/

i aught to post this exploration by mr whitehead every day. the empire is closing in and the frogs are just enjoying the warm water heedless of the oncoming state's intention to control everything, especially, them, the great unwashed;

“What happens to Julian Assange and to Chelsea Manning is meant to intimidate us, to frighten us into silence. By defending Julian Assange, we defend our most sacred rights. Speak up now or wake up one morning to the silence of a new kind of tyranny. The choice is ours.”—John Pilger, investigative journalist

All of us are in danger.

In an age of prosecutions for thought crimes, pre-crime deterrence programs, and government agencies that operate like organized crime syndicates, there is a new kind of tyranny being imposed on those who dare to expose the crimes of the Deep State, whose reach has gone global.

The Deep State has embarked on a ruthless, take-no-prisoners, all-out assault on truth-tellers.

Activists, journalists and whistleblowers alike are being terrorized, traumatized, tortured and subjected to the fear-inducing, mind-altering, soul-destroying, smash-your-face-in tactics employed by the superpowers-that-be.

Take Julian Assange, for example.

Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks—a website that published secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources—was arrested on April 11, 2019, on charges of helping U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning access and leak more than 700,000 classified military documents that portray the U.S. government and its military as reckless, irresponsible and responsible for thousands of civilian deaths.

Included among the leaked Manning material were the Collateral Murder video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), a quarter of a million diplomatic cables (November 2010), and the Guantánamo files (April 2011).

The Collateral Murder leak included gunsight video footage from two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters engaged in a series of air-to-ground attacks while air crew laughed at some of the casualties. Among the casualties were two Reuters correspondents who were gunned down after their cameras were mistaken for weapons and a driver who stopped to help one of the journalists. The driver’s two children, who happened to be in the van at the time it was fired upon by U.S. forces, suffered serious injuries.

This is morally wrong..........https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-state-war-those-speak-truth-power/5694131

like the restaurant at the end of the universe, in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, where you can dine while watching the universe destroy itself, we live in a world where you can watch the western world destroy itself, over piffle;

A World Based On Lies Is A False World

Paul Craig Roberts

During the course of my life I have watched the Western World abandon all of the values that made it successful. Despite all its crimes, and they are many, the Western World succeeded. Everyone wanted to be part of it, and it will be the demise of the Russians that they still do.

The Western World succeeded, because it believed in objective truth and searched for it. This resulted in scientific and technological discoveries, in architectural and artistic beauty, and in brilliant literature that educated the educatable into the human condition.

But objective truth is no longer acceptable in the Western Woke World, because it is contrary to the woke ideologies, such as there is no difference between men and women, that there are many genders and that men and women can be born into the wrong bodies, that hurt feelings are more important than empirical facts, that many subjects are not subject to examination or debate, because they offend emotive beliefs of feminists, people of color, Jews, the new transgendered species, and whoever else can make a claim of victimhood.

Everyone can claim to be a victim except white male heterosexuals. They are branded “exploiters” of everyone else, and they are unable to get out of this trap. In the Western World white heterosexual males face the same fate as the bourgeoisie under Lenin. A white heterosexual male who defends himself or his fellows is immediately branded a misogynist or a white supremacist. Increasingly courts treat white heterosexual males as if they are members of a criminal class.

We now live in a world in which a self-declared “victim” can block truth, because truth offends them. The offended are able to get the truth-teller fired and removed from employment. His crime is that he exercised free speech. Today free speech is the most sure path to self-destruction for a white heterosexual male...........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/05/an-obituary-of-the-western-world/

i wonder as i read this, if it was only just to protect the clintons or if it had deeper reasons as well;

A bombshell new video published by Project Veritas reveals ABC News anchor Amy Robach admitting on a hot mic that her network deliberately covered up the mass child rape crimes of Jeffrey Epstein in order to protect Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.

The video, which YouTube has not yet banned (but probably will soon), shows Robach saying the following:

Robach: “I’ve Had This Story for Three Years… (ABC) Would Not Put It on The Air” says Good Morning America Breaking News Anchor, and 20/20 Co-Anchor Amy Robach. “It Was Unbelievable… We Had – Clinton, We Had Everything…”

Robach: “We Had Her Whole Allegations About Prince Andrew…I Got a Little Concerned About Why I Couldn’t Get On.”

Amy Robach Describes How She Interviewed a Woman Who Had the Courage to Come Forward “Years” Ago About Epstein: “She Had Pictures, She Had Everything. She Was in Hiding for Twelve Years. We Convinced Her to Come Out. We Convinced Her to Talk to Us.”

Robach Details ABC’s Initial Response to Her: “Who’s Jeffrey Epstein? No One Knows Who That is. This is a Stupid Story

Robach: “Now it’s All Coming Out … I Freaking Had All Of It…”.............https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-11-05-abc-news-anchor-admits-coordinated-cover-up-of-jeffrey-epstein-rapes-by-mainstream-media-news-outlets-complicit-in-repeated-child-rape-crimes.html