Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

sent by a friend this ron unz article makes the case that israel was involved in 911, which many of us already knew but there's a lot in this and you'll want to set aside some time as its a bit long;


At first I couldn’t believe what was taking place, simply awed by the breathtaking power and dishonesty of “our American Pravda,” with the establishment media so easily transforming black into white and night into day. Once again, quoting from my original article of that title:

The circumstances surrounding our Iraq War demonstrate this, certainly ranking it among the strangest military conflicts of modern times. The 2001 attacks in America were quickly ascribed to the radical Islamists of al-Qaeda, whose bitterest enemy in the Middle East had always been Saddam Hussein’s secular Baathist regime in Iraq. Yet through misleading public statements, false press leaks, and even forged evidence such as the “yellowcake” documents, the Bush administration and its neoconservative allies utilized the compliant American media to persuade our citizens that Iraq’s nonexistent WMDs posed a deadly national threat and required elimination by war and invasion. Indeed, for several years national polls showed that a large majority of conservatives and Republicans actually believed that Saddam was the mastermind behind 9/11 and the Iraq War was being fought as retribution. Consider how bizarre the history of the 1940s would seem if America had attacked China in retaliation for Pearl Harbor.
True facts were easily available to anyone paying attention in the years after 2001, but most Americans do not bother and simply draw their understanding of the world from what they are told by the major media, which overwhelmingly—almost uniformly—backed the case for war with Iraq; the talking heads on TV created our reality. Prominent journalists across the liberal and conservative spectrum eagerly published the most ridiculous lies and distortions passed on to them by anonymous sources, and stampeded Congress down the path to war.
The result was what my late friend Lt. Gen. Bill Odom rightly called the “greatest strategic disaster in United States history.” American forces suffered tens of thousands of needless deaths and injuries, while our country took a huge step toward national bankruptcy. Economics Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and others have estimated that with interest the total long-term cost of our two recent wars may reach as high as $5 or $6 trillion, or as much as $50,000 per American household, mostly still unpaid. Meanwhile, economist Edward Wolff has calculated that the Great Recession and its aftermath cut the personal net worth of the median American household to $57,000 in 2010 from a figure nearly twice as high three years earlier. Comparing these assets and liabilities, we see that the American middle class now hovers on the brink of insolvency, with the cost of our foreign wars being a leading cause.
But no one involved in the debacle ultimately suffered any serious consequences, and most of the same prominent politicians and highly paid media figures who were responsible remain just as prominent and highly paid today. For most Americans, reality is whatever our media organs tell us, and since these have largely ignored the facts and adverse consequences of our wars in recent years, the American people have similarly forgotten. Recent polls show that only half the public today believes that the Iraq War was a mistake.
Author James Bovard has described our society as an “attention deficit democracy,” and the speed with which important events are forgotten once the media loses interest might surprise George Orwell.  ............read and watch more.........
caitlin has titled this essay, and i adjust it a bit: australia suddenly cares about its journalists when china arrests them but ignores it when the empire does so;

The government of China has arrested and imprisoned an Australian journalist for his groundbreaking reporting which exposed Chinese war crimes. A farcical show trial is currently underway to present the illusion of justice to the world, and a UN special rapporteur attests that the journalist has been subjected to torture.
Oh sorry, did I say China? My mistake, I meant the US and UK. I get them mixed up sometimes.
No, what China did was attempt to question two reporters, Bill Birtles from the ABC and Michael Smith from the Australian Financial Review, in relation to another Australian journalist named Cheng Lei who is being held by Chinese authorities and facing a six-month detention on unknown charges. Lei was a reporter for Chinese state media outlet CGTN, but her online profiles for the network have since been deleted. ..............read more..........
you might want to see what bill gates has to say about choice and vaccines;


https://youtu.be/BE518ans5dM
the julian assange extradition farce is ongoing and here's a review;

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1302992667740123136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1302992667740123136%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fiok97a%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse
here are the odds of your having covid problems;


For this we destroyed our economy and turned our country into a tyrannical prison camp run by egomaniac governors.
Heart disease                                                1 in 6
Cancer                                                              1 in 7
Chronic lower respiratory disease       1 in 26
Suicide                                                              1 in 86
Opiod Overdose                                            1 in 98
Motor Vehicle Crash                                   1 in 106
Fall                                                                     1 in 111
Drowning                                                        1 in 1,121
Fire                                                                     1 in 1,399
With Covid-19                                               1 in 1,500
Choking on food                                           1 in 2,618
Sunstroke                                                        1 in 7,770
Covid-19 Only                                                1 in 27,000
here is a great example of what cops do and indicates how stupid they can be;


Tempe, AZ — Here at the Free Thought Project, we do not typically use race in a headline like many mainstream and even alternative media sites do in an obvious attempt to stoke racial divide. However, there are instances in which race plays a direct role in the situation and it becomes important to point out. The following incident is one of those cases. A cop looking for a white suspect, holds an innocent black man at gunpoint for several minutes, claiming the black man “fit the description” of the white man he was looking for.
The incident, which the Mayor of Tempe called “disturbing and disappointing” was captured on the offending officer’s body camera. The incident is now under investigation and the Tempe Police department said that are “sufficiently concerned about how Officer Ronald Kerzaya” handled the situation.
According to police, On August 29, 2020, Tempe Police Officers responded to the Hawthorn Suites located at 2301 E Southern Ave in regards to a call for service generated by the manager of the hotel. Tempe Police Officer Kerzaya responded to the scene where he met with the manager and was advised that a male pointed a gun at an employee of the hotel. The manager then provided the officer with a description of the suspect as well as the last known location. The manager indicated the suspect, as seen on video surveillance cameras, was possibly going to be exiting the west exterior door of the hotel.
The hotel manager described the suspect as a white male wearing a black shirt and tan pants. Moments later, a black man, who is an employee at the hotel, wearing a light gray shirt and black pants, exited the through the west door and Officer Kerzaya’s fear seemingly took over and he claimed that the employee “fit the description.”.......read and watch more......