it never fails to amaze me how 'consumers' flock to get in line behind the effort to attack the 'latest threat' and here as point man on this is an admitted zionist liar, as the empire once again violates all of its oaths, like the un charter agreement, for example, or the constitution;


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on countries to "pick a side" on Venezuela, urging them to back opposition leader Juan Guaido in a Saturday speech at the UN Security Council in New York.
"Now, it is time for every other nation to pick a side. No more delays, no more games. Either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Maduro and his mayhem," Pompeo told the Security Council.
Russia accused Washington of plotting a coup attempt and had tried to stop the meeting requested by the United States. "Venezuela does not represent a threat to peace and security. If anything does represent a threat to peace, it is the shameless and aggressive action of the United States and their allies aimed at the ouster of the legitimately elected president of Venezuela," Russia's UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, told the UN Council.
On Friday, neoconservative Elliott Abrams was appointed US special envoy for Venezuela.
“Elliott will be a true asset to our mission to help the Venezuelan people fully restore democracy and prosperity to their country,” Mr Pompeo said, according to Reuters.
“It’s very nice to be back. This crisis in Venezuela is deep and difficult and dangerous,” Abrams said Friday. “And I can’t wait to get to work on it.”..........https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/26/trumps-axis-evil-pompeo-bolton-abrams

found caitlin on a different site speaking much truth and reality about hurricane trump and venezuela;


Ever since the Trump administration announced that it was no longer recognizing the legitimacy of the elected government of Venezuela I’ve been arguing with people on social media about this president’s brazen coup attempt in that country. The people arguing with me in favor of Trump’s interventionism are almost exclusively Trump supporters, with leftists and antiwar libertarians more or less on my side with this issue and rank-and-file centrists mostly preferring to sit this one out except to periodically mumble something about it being a distraction from the Mueller investigation.
I engage in these arguments not because I enjoy fighting with strangers on the internet, but because it helps me get an idea of what propaganda narratives have been seeded throughout various political sectors. Take a stand online and you’ll quickly have people running up to you saying, in effect, “My media echo chamber told me I’m supposed to disagree with you about that,” and spelling out what they’ve been told to believe.
I have not received a single robust argument in favor of Trump’s Venezuela interventionism, but I have received a whole lot of really, really stupid ones. Here are the top five most common and most astonishingly idiotic of them:...........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/01/no_author/top-5-dumbest-arguments-defending-trumps-venezuela-interventionism/

saint lincoln is up there in the pantheon of those who must never be doubted and saint obama is vying for inclusion. i once bought the saint lincoln thesis but in recent years have also been seeing the point of those who have a different take on his reign;

If you’ve listened to me for any length of time, chances are you’ve heard me refer to the three-by-five card of allowable opinion.

As long as you stay confined to the range of opinions on that card, you’ll be in good standing with the media and the establishment.
It’s fun to observe someone who’s never once strayed from that card confront ideas that are nowhere near it. Their brains genuinely do not know what to do.
A spectrum of political options running from Mitt Romney to Hillary Clinton are all their brains are programmed to handle.
This happened recently with a 3 x 5 card fellow named Elie Mystal.
He was outraged that Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law, asked students on a constitutional law exam to consider some of the actions of Abraham Lincoln during the so-called Civil War, and imagine a scenario in which articles of impeachment are brought against a President Lincoln who survived the attack by John Wilkes Booth.
Blackman asks students to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments raised in these hypothetical articles.
Mystal is outraged at the exam questions, and proceeds to launch into a victimology routine: these questions are “racist” and disadvantage black students, etc........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/01/thomas-woods/law-prof-pilloried-for-exam-question-on-lincoln-and-the-constitution/

four minute video of some famous individual speaking about why he doesn't vote, and i think he speaks reasonably well about it. i don't participate in their voting charade because no matter who you vote for the government still gets in, and does the same criminal activities as has always been the case;


https://youtu.be/TGx5wYBHjZo

this writer explores some of the foolishness of the empire in afghanistan;

An ancient Hindu prayer says, “Lord Shiva, save us from the claw of the tiger, the fang of the cobra, and the vengeance of the Afghan.”
The United States, champion of freedom and self-determination, is now in its 18th year of colonial war in Afghanistan. This miserable, stalemated conflict is America’s longest and most shameful war. So far it has cost over $1 trillion and killed no one knows how many Afghans.
This conflict began in 2001 on a lie: namely that Afghanistan was somehow responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the US. These attacks were planned in Europe and the US, not Afghanistan, and apparently conducted (official version) by anti-American Saudi extremists. This writer remains unconvinced by the official versions.

We still don’t know if Osama bin Laden instigated the attacks. He was murdered rather than brought to trial. Dead men tell no tales. However, Mullah Omar, leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement, told my late friend journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave that bin Laden was not involved in 9/11. Who benefited? Certainly not the Afghans. They have been at war for the past 40 years............https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/01/27/americas-shameful-war/#more-190867

found this in my inbox this am from a long time friend. its curious sometimes to see what the 'official' point of view is on the term the cia came up with in sixty seven to combat the rising tide of citizens that realized the oswald did it story was crap;

FIVE MYTHS

Conspiracy theories

BY ROB BROTHERTON

Conspiracy theories have always been around, but lately, they’ve been getting more attention. As the prevalence of conspiracy thinking among the electorate and even within the highest offices of government has become clear, conspiracism has inspired popular thinkpieces and attracted scholars. Along the way, conspiracy theories have also inspired plenty of myths. Here are five.

MYTH NO. 1

Conspiracy theories are for the lunatic fringe.!

Presenting fringe theories as the essence of conspiracism gives the impression that conspiracy theorists are a handful of kooks who will believe even the most ludicrous ideas. But conspiracy thinking — the inclination to entertain conspiracy theories in general — is much more widespread than belief in any particular theory.

More than half of Americans said they believed at least one of the conspiracy theories they were asked about in surveys between 2006 and 2011, blaming the Iraq War on oil companies or the 9/11 attacks on U.S. government insiders, for example. A recent survey found the same proportion of conspiracy theorists among the British public.

MYTH NO. 2

C! onspiracy theories are more common than ever.

"Are we entering a golden age of the conspiracy theory?" asked a 2017 headline in the Guardian.

The Internet — and social media in particular — is often blamed for fueling the fashion for conspiracism.

But there’s no good evidence that conspiracy theories are more popular than they used to be.

In the most thorough study to date, researchers combed through more than 100,000 letters to the editor published in the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune between 1890 and 2010. They found a stable background hum of conspiracy theorizing, not an everincreasing cacophony.

This fits with the historical record: Conspiracy theories ! didn’t suddenly flourish in the 21st century, or even the 20th.

They’ve always been with us, and people have spread them through whatever technology was available.

MYTH NO. 3

Conspiracy theories are all in people’s minds.

In 2018, the Independent ran the headline "Scientists discover the reason people believe in conspiracy theories." The answer, the article reported, is that it’s all in people’s heads.

Psychological findings do help explain why people believe or dismiss conspiracy theories. But focusing exclusively on unconscious biases and cognitive mistakes overlooks the fact tha! t there is often a kernel of believability at the heart of these theori! es. Governments and organizations do things in secret. Intelligence agencies plan assassinations and coups, spy on people, try to manipulate public opinion.

Even if you’re pretty sure the government didn’t develop HIV as a bioweapon to be deployed against unsuspecting citizens, for example, to suggest that government researchers might conduct secretive, unethical experiments involving the health and autonomy of marginalized people isn’t crazy; it’s history.

Which is not to say that all conspiracy theories should be embraced. But neither should conspiracy thinking be written off as a mere psychological flaw.

MYTH NO. 4

Conspiracy theories are an existential threat to society.

In the first few days of August 2018, mainstream news headlines described an emerging conspiracy theory as "bizarre," "dangerous," "terrifying" and a "deranged conspiracy cult."

Those articles were about QAnon, a loose collection of cryptic nonsense that started online and manifested as a handful of people showing up at President Trump’s rallies with homemade signs and shirts.

Though the articles implied a substantial number of believers, none reported any data.

Subsequent polling showed that many people — 4 in 10 �€! ” hadn’t heard of QAnon or didn’t know enough to have an opinion.

Among those who knew about it, it was viewed overwhelmingly unfavorably. An analysis of the QAnon subreddit showed that a tiny but vocal contingent of boosters was making almost all the noise about it on the forum.

Most people who engage with ideas like this just sit back and watch, probably treating the theories as a curiosity or entertainment.

MYTH NO. 5

Facts don’t change people’s minds about conspiracy theories.

In a 2010 study, people first read misleading claims and were then given corrections to those claims. Reading the corrections appeared to be largely ineffective and actually in! creased mistaken beliefs among the people who had believed the incorrect claims most strongly to begin with, in a bias called the "backfire effect."

Recently, however, research has called the backfire effect into question. In 2017, researchers ran studies in which more than 10,000 participants encountered 52 different claims and corrections. That work found no backfire effect, concluding that by and large, "citizens heed factual information" — even when it goes against what they are inclined to believe. n

Brotherton is an academic psychologist at Barnard College and author of "Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories." This was written for The Washington Post.

An Apollo 11 astronaut left a footprint on the moon in 1969. Most people don’t believe the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was faked by the U.S. government — but polls show that more than half of Americans believe other dubious theories.

NASA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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fifty minute youtube dialogue on the stone and trump show brought to you by 'our' government;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjabZCGi-hk&feature=youtu.be