if you believe the 'official' version of events around the world, and especially in the mid east i label you as brain dead, and this writer will provide some reasons why i'd say such a thing;


We only know what is happening in the Levant through the war propaganda of the country in which we live. We ignore other points of view and, more importantly, how our armies have behaved. To disentangle the true from the false, historians will have to examine the available documents. However, what the Western military literature tells us contradicts the statements of politicians and the narrative in the newspapers. It is only by becoming aware of the existence of the Pentagon’s strategy since 2001 that we will be able to understand what really happened and why such contradictions are occurring today.

We do not understand what is happening in northern Syria because we believe a priori that there was a fight between the evil Daesh jihadists and the kind Kurds of the PKK/YPG. That is absolutely not true. This struggle existed only to limit their respective territories or out of ethnic solidarity, never for ideological or religious reasons.

On the other hand, we do not see the role played by Donald Trump. As the press spends its time insulting the President-elect of the United States, it cannot be counted on to analyze and understand its policy in the broader Middle East. However, it has a clear guideline: the end of the Rumsfeld/Cebrowski doctrine, a legacy of 9/11. In doing so, he opposes his generals – all trained under the Bush Jr and Obama mandates to govern the world – and the Western European political class.

To understand what is happening, we must take the facts upstream and not downstream. Let us return to the plan drawn up by the Pentagon at the beginning of the Bush administration in 2001 and revealed, two days after the attacks of September 11, by Colonel Ralph Peters in Parameters [1], the review of the US Army: the “remodelling” of the world, starting with the broader Middle East. This plan was confirmed a month later by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who appointed its main designer, Admiral Arthur Cebrowski, Director of the Force Transformation Office. It was explained by his assistant, Thomas Barnett, in 2005 in The Pentagon’s New Map [2]. And illustrated by the same Ralph Peters when he published the map in the Armed Forces Journal in 2006 for the first episode: what the broader Middle East was to become [3]. Given the difficulties encountered in the field, it was the subject of an amendment published by a Pentagon researcher, Robin Wright, in the Sunday supplement of the New York Times [4] in 2013.

According to these documents, five States were to be dismembered into fourteen entities: Syria and Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Saudi Arabia.............http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=197792

more evidence that orwell was correct, or is it neo was right with the red pill;

There is no doubt we are living in increasingly Orwellian times. Most of us are not surprised when it is revealed that yet another government agency is spying on us in yet another way. Being surveilled nearly everywhere we go (and even in our own homes) has become the norm. And if it isn’t government agencies doing the spying, it is Big Tech companies. It seems like every day we are told about another privacy violation coming from Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Recently it was announced that Big Tech and government are forming an unholy dystopian alliance called HARPA that will use companies including Google, Amazon, and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to “violent behavior.”

Side note: If you think that avoiding the use of social media platforms will keep you safe from Big Tech’s prying eyes, I’ve got bad news for you.

Unfortunately, children are not exempt from surveillance and the growing police state.

Schools – once a place where children went to learn – have increasingly become Big Government indoctrination centers. One way in which this is becoming painfully evident is in the surveillance methods implemented by public schools.

This morning, I read a headline that sent chills down my spine:

SCHOOLS ARE USING AN APP TO TRACK STUDENTS WHILE THEY PEE

Remember hall passes? They were little slips of paper that teachers gave to students to show they had permission to leave class for a few minutes.

In hundreds of schools across the US, paper hall passes have been replaced with an app that parents and students are finding particularly invasive.

The app is called e-hallpass, and here is how it works:........https://thefreethoughtproject.com/bathroom-app-track-students-parents/

an official geezer, i grew up during the civil rights era, raised as a quaker in part by an older black man. i've been told i haven't a racist bone in my body but when i see things like the following article, and have seen such things in actual practice i begin to wonder if being 'free' of racism is really an achievable thing;

The biggest threat to America (and the world) is supposedly White supremacist violence. We see it hammered into the minds of the masses every single day. Whether or not people actually believe the BS is another story. In order to make the asinine assertions of the jewish supremacist media seem even somewhat credible, hoax stories are concocted about White extremist shooters, and unfortunately most people do seem to believe the faux news.

When real stories of Black on White violence surface, we almost never see it in print media or broadcast over the television screens on repeat, the same way we would if the races were reversed. It is not just that this type of violence is so common that it is more of a “dog bites man” story; these stories are deliberately suppressed so as to maintain the perpetual victimhood of Blacks and other “minorities” and ensure that Whites are only seen as the oppressors, and never the victims of racial hatred.

I will cover a few recent stories that really illustrate the incredible level of violence that is being unleashed upon the most vulnerable White people, which is exactly what the knock out “game” (attempted murder!) was really all about. Women, elderly, and little children are often the ones attacked in these anti-White assaults, as I detailed years ago in No Country for White Children, No Country for Elderly Whites, and The Illegal Invasion of America.

The first story comes to us from a Popeyes Chicken in Tennessee, where a White woman was overcharged for her “meal” and then verbally harassed by the Black store workers when she tried to get her money back. The Black workers falsely accused her of using the “n-word,” which in today’s culture appears to justify brutally assaulting whoever used the term. The woman was picked up and slammed on the concrete by a large black male worker outside of the Popeyes, and she ended up with broken bones, 6 cracked ribs, and a broken knee..........http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=197787

what is your recourse when those in charge of keeping order are killing those in charge of keeping order;

Pensacola, FL — The numbers do not lie. Police in America are the deadliest throughout the entire world. American cops kill far more than their counterparts in the rest of the world and these numbers are indisputable. One indicator that the problem has gotten out of hand is the fact that cops are killing cops. In a tragic case out of Florida this week, a police officer killed his own police chief. 

Mannford police officer Michael Patrick Nealey, 49, has been arrested and charged with the murder of Mannford police chief Lucky Miller, 44. The duo traveled from the small town of Mannford, Oklahoma for a conference in Pensacola over the weekend when things took a tragic turn.

The two men were staying at the Hilton on Pensacola Beach over the weekend for a law enforcement conference, said Escambia County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Amber Southard. During their stay, authorities say an alcohol fueled brawl broke out between the pair.

On Sunday, hotel security was called because the two men were disrupting the other guests. When hotel security responded, they called the sheriff’s department because the scene had turned violent.

“An actual physical altercation,” Southard said.

According to the Escambia County Sheriff’s department, when deputies arrived on the scene, Miller was dead. Police say there was no weapon — implying that Nealey may have beaten Miller to death. An autopsy is underway..........https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/cop-arrested-in-florida-for-murdering-his-own-police-chief-in-a-hotel/257172

cops in schools: what could go wrong, will;

Orange County, FL — School resource officers in Florida always seem to be in the news for abusing or otherwise causing grave harm to the children they are allegedly sworn to protect. In case after infuriating case we’ve seen Florida cops cower behind a wall while children were murdered in a school to sexually assaulting the children they are tasked with protecting, to beating up small girls and even handcuffing and arresting 6-year-old children. Another one of these incident unfolded last week as an officer was captured on video grabbing a child by her hair and throwing her around. 

Orange county deputy Harry Reid has been fired this week after disturbing video captured him grabbing a middle school student by the hair and throwing her around like a rag doll. He is also seen whipping out his baton and threatening the bystanders who were all pleading with him to stop abusing the small girl and let go of her hair.

“Stupid little children!” the raging deputy screams at the students.

As the video shows, another deputy appeared to be breaking up an argument between several students. The deputy whose body camera was filming the incident was calm and trying to de-escalate the situation. The middle school student was visibly frantic but the deputy was attempting to calm her down.

“What’s going on?” the deputy asks. “You’re acting wild, come over here. Relax. Sit down.”

“Just breathe. Calm down,” the deputy says as the girl screams.

However, before she could calm down, deputy Reid inserts himself into the scene and proceeds to manhandle the small child, one-third his size, grabbing her hair.

During a press conference on Friday, Sheriff John Mina said there was “no doubt in my mind” that the deputy acted excessively. The sheriff explained that there was no reason for the deputy to put his hands on the girl. The video backs up this claim.

“I want… the residents of Orange County to know this: That deputy’s behavior and actions violated many policies, our standards — but, more importantly, the vision and expectations that I have set as sheriff and definitely will not be tolerated, and I want our deputy sheriffs to know that as well,” Mina said.............https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/stupid-little-children-cop-fired-after-throwing-child-around-by-her-hair/257165

the clown show in 'our' capital surrounding hurricane trump is based on trading 'aid' for particular actions, and even if its so, its how 'our' government acts on a regular basis;

Amidst all the political brouhaha regarding foreign aid, it is important that we keep in mind the nature and purposes of this particular federal program, as well as its related program, sanctions.

Foreign aid is money that the U.S. government sends to certain foreign regimes. The purpose of the money is to secure loyalty to the U.S. Empire. That loyalty comes in the form of votes in the United Nations or support for U.S. imperialist escapades abroad.

There is hardly ever a formal quid pro quo involved in foreign aid. That is, U.S. officials do not expressly say to a foreign leader, “If you will agree to become a loyal member of the U.S. Empire and support whatever the Empire does, we will send you hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars.”

Instead, foreign aid is based on an implied bribery agreement. Everyone understands what the core term of the agreement is: “We will give you this money and you, in return, will do as we dictate. If you fail to do so, your foreign aid will be terminated.”

The situation is somewhat similar to how many politicians in democratic countries handle voters. During their campaigns, the candidates offer voters all sorts of “free” programs. The voters vote for that candidate in order to receive the “free” programs. Once the candidate is elected, he provides the “free” programs or at least does his best to do so. If he doesn’t, he is voted out of office in the next election. Thus, it’s not a formal bribe because there isn’t a formal quid pro quo, but in actuality it’s bribe nonetheless...........https://www.fff.org/2019/11/12/foreign-aid-and-sanctions/

pcr hits many nails on the head, as usual, in this essay about events in the southern american continent;

Washington Has Disassociated America from Good and Deprived Her of Moral Basis

Paul Craig Roberts

Not long ago I read that a US Assistant Secretary of State, or perhaps it was a member of the National Security Council, said that now that Washington had reestablished control over Ecuador, it would not be long before the governments of Bolivia, Venezuela, and Cuba would be overthrown.

Venezuela is proving to be hard for Washington to crack. Washington was banking on its NGO forces paid to stage protests, together with monetary bribes to the Venezuelan military, to chase Maduro out of office. But so far the Venezuelan military has refused to desert their country for Washington. Washington can, of course, raise the offer to the generals. Perhaps the generals are awaiting larger bribes.

However, the Bolivian military took the money and on the basis of protests organized by US-financed NGOs and the National Endowment for Overthrowing Democracy forced Evo Morales out of office. This is a huge loss for Bolivia.

Morales is the first president since the founding of Bolivia to come from the indigenous population. His seventy-nine predecessors were all members of the Spanish colonial elite allied with Washington. Together they plundered the country.

Washington considers Morales “leftist” because he focused on using Bolivian resources to reduce Bolivian poverty and to create a better life for Bolivians instead of for the profits of US corporations and banks and the Spanish elites who ruled Bolivia for Washington.......https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/12/washington-has-disassociated-america-from-good-and-deprived-her-of-moral-basis/