Amazing. They are locking down with the quickness now. I wonder what they are expecting.
“Silencing those who disagree with us is a sign of weakness, not strength, and it won’t lead to progress.” – former President Barack Obama, April 6, 2023
Amazing. They are locking down with the quickness now. I wonder what they are expecting.
“Silencing those who disagree with us is a sign of weakness, not strength, and it won’t lead to progress.” – former President Barack Obama, April 6, 2023
Which do you think I side with? You guessed it.
'At a House Judiciary Committee hearing prior to the congressional recess. Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) questioned witnesses about clemency and the criminal justice system in the US.'
' At a House Judiciary Committee hearing before the Congressional recess, Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) questioned Special Counsel John Durham about his report on the FBI.'
Just some current events.
Give me a little time to convert the CISA report from PDF.
In the state of Missouri sheriff's offices are required to decline federal and state requests for information on citizens who hold concealed carry permits but the FBI are demanding the information to 'audit' their system of background checks. Meanwhile tons of our terrorist assets from Afghanistan have made their way into the country and the FBI seems just fine with losing track of them.
At some point the 'incurables' in Germany had to face the fact that they were slated for extermination right along with the Socialists and the Jews. Is it already time to go? Magic 8-ball says 'all signs point to yes'
They never mentioned Prigozhin's contract demands nor the staged false flag attack while repeatedly contradicting themselves. And contrary to what these two try to tell you, this is NOT a black eye for Putin and Russia. This is just yet another example of what it looks like when a government checks an out of control oligarch and puts em in their place.
Prigozhin had wanted Russian MoD to give him new contract with unlimited and soldiers after his glorious victory over ragtag conscripts in Bakhmut. Wasn't going to happen. Instead Russia told them his mercs had to sign onto MoD contracts pledging alliance to Russia, not him. So Prigozhin staged his stupid false flag attack and marched his troops. It has failed. Russia won. And the billionaire has to lick his PR wounds.
The counter-offensive has failed. Nations across the world are calling for an end to this conflict through negociations but our oligarchs need more time for the IMF to declare our states as failed and demand austerity measures and a new global order so they have to keep this thing going for a little while. Hence the 'coup
'At Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) questioned Special Counsel John Durham about the investigation into former President Trump.'
'At Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing with Special Counsel John Durham, Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) slammed the FBI and the DOJ.'
James Cameron has broken his silence on the Titan tragedy by letting everyone know he knew all along what happened to the submersible and that his product is much safer. Unfortunately for James, once the Uber-rich figure out some trendy new thing is actually dangerous, that's the end of the trend.
They found two debris fields 1,600 from bow of Titanic right around the area they would have made their last communication.
What follows is a partial list, 70 pages, of links to my posts from American Everyman from 2015 til when WordPress deleted by website. Before its News reposted my work via my RSS feed. Most of the work is my original writing or videos. Some are partial posts of someone else's with links to the rest of it. For the sake of my archive I wanted to put this out there for you to search as needed.
'You didn't investigate FBI wiping their phones and you didn't tell us who gave the order'
(archived from December 14, 2012)
by Scott Creighton
Syrian Rebels Tied to Al Qaeda Play Key Role in War NYT Dec 8 2012
Leon Panetta and the administration of “CHANGE” are working overtime to terrorize the legitimate leader of Syria and the general population of the country.
“At least 24 civilians, including a large number of children, were killed in two separate car bombings southwest of Damascus on Thursday” HT Dec 13th 2012
Panetta announced that he is sending two Patriot Missile batteries and 400 U.S. troops to Turkey in support of the terrorists Hillary Clinton and the CIA have been running in their destabilization campaign in neighboring Syria.
Head of new U.S.-backed Syrian coalition endorses al Qaida-linked rebel faction McClatchy Dec 13 2012
That’s called terrorism folks. So it’s no surprise that the secretary of defense is now asking our troops to saddle up next to al Qaeda. Birds of a feather as they say..
Militants torch another Shia mosque in Syria Dec 14 2012 RT
“We are deploying two patriot batteries here to Turkey along with the troops that are necessary to man those batteries, so that we can help Turkey have the kind of missile defense it may very well need in dealing with threats that come out of Syria,” Panetta told the troops at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey. NBC “news”
The Patriot missile systems are not going there to deter Assad from attacking Turkey. Assad has no intention of doing that and giving the NATO conquistadors an excuse to attack.
by Scott Creighton
***UPDATE*** Reddit blocked this one as well.
One of the first things this administration did was meet with Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force in early 2001. Those meetings were kept secret and they have refused to disclose who was actually there, and what was discussed. We all know that.
“The Washington Post reported on November 15, 2005 that it had obtained documents detailing how executives from major oil corporations, including Exxon-Mobil Corp., Conoco, Royal Dutch Shell Oil Corp., and the American subsidiary of British Petroleum met with Energy Task Force participants while they were developing national energy policy. ”Wiki
One thing MOST don’t know, is that Ted Olsen defended the Vice President’s office in keeping these meetings secret before the Supreme Court. Olsen ALSO represented this administration in their bid to stop the recount in Florida, thus putting this administration in the White House. AND, his wife was on one of the planes during 9/11, and is the only one on record (according to Ted Olsen, since it was really HIS testimony ABOUT the phone calls (that the FBI in the case against the “20th hijacker” said didn’t happen) from Barbara that established the whole “box-cutters” theme.
Curious isn’t it? How ONE man is so intertwined in the whole story line.
More testimony from John Durham before congress.
How is this not front page news on every site right now? FBI was running an operation to stop Trump from winning in 2016 and they didn't care about fabricated evidence just so long as Hillary Clinton won.
by Scott Creighton
This spring the U.S. will be sending troops to Ukraine to help train four companies of the Ukrainian National Guard. Heading up that mission will be the head of US Army Europe Lt. Gen Ben Hodges.
The story of the national guard in Ukraine is an interesting one. Back in 2000 it was disbanded altogether only to be revived after the color revolution crafted by our State Department. They’ve been steadily trying to recruit members since May and a new recruiting drive hopes to net another 10,000 for service by time the training begins.
The question is, will U.S. troops be asked to train Ukrainian Nazis of the Azov Battalion during this process? That would be some turn around from WWII wouldn’t it? I wonder if those troops have any family members who fought the Nazis during WWII. And now they might be tasked with training new ones?
Will the wonders of President Peace Prize never cease?
by Scott Creighton
Leading into tomorrow’s State of the Union Address, in which President Peace Prize will lay out his agenda for the coming year (including his feigned attempt to push a new “rich tax” with a republican controlled House and Senate… heh heh), I thought it might be good to give the people a bit of an update on all of that “CHANGE” we got in 2008.
Specifically, I thought it would be good to give a bit of a rundown of the ongoing Endless Global War OF Terror in all it’s many facets with what I call the State of Unconventional and Irregular Wars Report.
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: To “defend free speech”, French are arresting people FOR SAYING THE WRONG THINGS!
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It would seem Westernized NATO countries are ready to impose a gag order on the internet in response to the false flag attack in Paris. More specifically, they are ready to get their big corporate partners in crime to do it for them. That would be CISPA folks. A globalization of CISPA in NATO countries in response to the Paris false flag event.
Yep. An emergency beacon like the ones used on flight recorders could really have come in handy. I wonder why no one is asking this obvious question.
They learned their lesson long ago: don't let egotistical assets debate knowledgeable 'conspiracy theorists' cus it never, ever, ever ends well.
by Scott Creighton
“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint Exupéry 1943
In 1996, a self-proclaimed terrorist and thief fled the reach of Osama bin Laden and ran right into the outstretched arms of the FBI, where he probably couldn’t have felt more at home. He had stolen money from bin Laden, some one hundred thousand dollars it is said, and so the FBI offered him shelter, money, and new life. For three years the American tax-payers shelled out nearly one million U.S. dollars to protect the thief in hiding. It was then, under the tutelage of FBI agent Jack Cloonan, that the very mythology of Al Qaeda was born. It was then that the craft of the first part of the Grand Illusion took shape.
by Scott Creighton
“But, you know, this guy (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab), looking at it in some respects, looking at it in retrospect, probably did us a favor.” Thomas Kean, Co-Chair of the 9/11 Commission Report
It’s fitting, isn’t it? It’s fitting that one of the leading architects of the most elaborate cover-up in American history comes out the other day and offers up this quote right in time for my second part of the The Prestige. You can’t ask for better timing than that.
While I appreciate the rare candor from Commissioner Kean, I figured I would list a few of those people who would probably agree with Mr. Kean’s statement (there are so many others from stock market CEOs to Blackwater mercenaries); those who think Umar DID do us “a favor” on Christmas day (let’s call it “The Christmas Day Miracle”)…
Now you’re looking for the secret. But you won’t find it because of course, you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to work it out. You want to be fooled. The Prestige 2006
It is said that every great magic trick has 3 distinct “acts” and as we leave the previous Decade of Magic, I thought we should take a look at one of the greatest illusions ever accomplished in the history of mankind; how it was created, who created it, and how it is still being performed today by new practitioners of the craft with only slight variations but the same overall result.
A truly great illusion is transformative. For some, it reinforces fanciful hopes of the existence of the mystical and for others it serves as a puzzle to be solved. Some take it at face value, the intended magical perception alone is enough to satisfy while others become unconsciously determined to understand the impossible, to force it make sense; to impose the concrete limitations of reason on an illusion crafted for pure fantasy. But in either case, a masterful illusion lingers with the audience for a lifetime, it’s effects indelibly branded on the audience like the painful memories of a witness to a horrific crime.
by Scott Creighton
“Pierre is dedicated to social change and he will, deservedly, someday be acknowledged as the Rockefeller or Carnegie of our times.” Jeff Skoll
Over at New York Magazine, Andrew Rice has penned a rather sycophantic tribute to billionaire Pierre Omidyar apparently in an effort to help the Hawaiian oligarch do some damage control for his “brand” after the now famous split with Matt Taibbi (who is apparently going to keep his mouth shut about the real reason he left First Look)
Rebranding his First Look product is extremely important to Pierre because it would appear one of his next projects is nothing short of helping Google in remaking the “news” model that has been failing as of late because folks understand that the billionaires the MSM serve are the ones dictating the “news” we see and hear. That’s why Pierre and Glenn Greenwald are headed to a secretive invite-only conference on the subject hosted by Google and the Knight Foundation.
by Scott Creighton
Peter Kassig, whatever else he was, was no “humanitarian” and in all likelihood, he was operating a front NGO out of Turkey helping train and supply Barack Obama’s regime change destabilization campaign of death-squads in Syria from late 2012 to Oct. 2013. That conclusion is based on the fact that he was indeed a special forces Ranger with the 75th Ranger Regiment in Iraq from mid-2006 to 2007.
“(in 2006) Kassig then became a U.S. Army Ranger, with an army special operations unit, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. His service including training in Fort Benning, Georgia, and a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq, from June 2006 to September 2007, when he received a medical discharge ” Wiki bio
What were the 75th Ranger Regiment doing in Iraq during that time? It’s called the Salvador Option and it’s basically the same thing we are doing now: training and aiding pro-government death-squads in Iraq in order to quell an uprising against our puppet regime, to make them “obey and submit” to our occupation.
Why are we supposed to maintain respect of the FBI as an institution when they CLEARLY don't respect the constitution, the laws of this country, us citizens, other federal institutions... or themselves for that matter?
by Scott Creighton
Now that the midterm “elections” are officially over, the real work of neo-liberalizing this country begins with a vengeance. We saw that two days ago when they tried to pass the Keystone Pipeline bill and the new CISPA, the USA “Freedom” Act.
This evening, Barack Obama is going to give a speech in which he will lay out his end-around plan to side-step congress in order to implement much of the George W. Bush Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 that failed back when he was in office.
It is expected to give amnesty to 5 million or so illegal immigrants.
by Scott Creighton
Obama’s reboot of Bush’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 is only PART of the Kafkaesque picture
The globalists are salivating. They are poised to make a huge grab for that brass ring that only undemocratic, executive action can provide. The kind that unelected unaccountable technocrats in places like Greece, Ukraine and Detroit can make. And these guys are doing it right here in the states before our very eyes.
But don’t worry, the globalist guy who brought us the nightmare of NAFTA and brought Haiti the nightmare of neoliberalism says it’s unavoidable and legal and in 20 years or so, even the peasants will approve.
Of the 15 or so 'producers' working on this late stage cash grab I wonder how many of em are brain dead zombies? Most likely all of em because this thing is pure garbage.
Happy Sunday folks. Hope you have a nice one. Here's a little food for thought.
by Scott Creighton
Suddenly the “ISIS™ Crisis” psyop has turned on Turkey and more specifically, Turkish president Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan. The claim is that Turkey is supplying “ISIS” in Syria and allowing “ISIS” fighters to cross their border into the neighboring country.
The whole “ISIS™” in Syria story is so convoluted and stupid, it demands a bit of an explanation. The story goes like this:
by Scott Creighton
“President Obama’s 2009 Executive Order repudiating torture does not repudiate the CIA extraordinary rendition program.”
For all the horror that our collective controlled opposition are are currently convulsing over, as bad as that 560 page redacted and politically correct summery of the 5,600 page real report that will NEVER be released, it pales in comparison to the real history of Capitalism’s Invisible Army and the bloody swath they’ve cut through the legacy of mankind on behalf of our “national interests”
(archive) December 23, 2014 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
Go ahead. Have a selfish psychopathic Christmas and be proud of it.
Over at AlterNet they have put together some nice little season’s greetings cards with a few of Ayn Rand’s most memorable quotes. Frankly, I think they missed out. I doubt she would be celebrating the birth of the man who gave the Sermon on the Mount, but rather that of Mammon himself. But that’s just me.
Hey, maybe we should start a new holiday in honor of that. Just a thought.
Here’s my offering to the collection of more accurate Christmas or Mammonmas Cards. Below the break you will find a couple from the AlterNet Collection and the rest of theirs you can find, here.
by Rambo Bubba Butch Creighton
In what is perhaps the most disturbing investigative article I have ever had to write (the previous one had to be ‘ISIS Juggling Babies!‘)
It has come to my attention that Santa ended his route last night in Syria when he attempted to bring some toys for the little Syrian boys and girls but instead, got carjacked at the border by the dreaded “ISIS™” and has ended up being used by them in this latest despicable act of propaganda.
Apparently the British “ISIS™” guy said something about “Ho this, capitalist swine!” and lopped off Santa’s head with his dreaded plastic knife!
It's Friday so I thought I would toss a bunch of stuff at you to depress you over the weekend. UR WELCOME
by Scott Creighton
I do exhort all the communities to an “ever watchful scrutiny of the signs of the times”. This is in fact a grave responsibility, since certain present realities, unless effectively dealt with, are capable of setting off processes of dehumanization which would then be hard to reverse. Pope Francis
As the fascist TPP lies in wait and insurance industry serving Obamacare plan is getting progressively worse for the people of this country, as his drones kill innocent civilians in far off lands on a daily basis on behalf of multinational corporations and the financial oligarchs of the world, as he presides over one terrorist inspired “humanitarian intervention” after the other for those same interests, President Obama is having to deal with not only his lowest approval ratings of his presidential career (based on the fact that even his most rabidly blind supporters can no longer ignore the lie that was “CHANGE”) but also the growing resurgence of a national awakening of the people to ideas like social responsibility, empathy, income equality, fairness, social justice and dignity.
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: See update at end of article
UPDATE 2: See recent revelations about the Sunstein group’s recommendations. Here’s a hint : keep spying and collecting data.
UPDATE 3: Sunstein group recommended telecom companies collect and hold data themselves. See quote at end of article
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Sunstein “government can supply these independent experts with information and perhaps prod them into action from behind the scenes,”
The Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden psyop is coming to a dramatic conclusion. While Sibel Edmonds is exposing Glenn Greenwald as the money-grubbing fraud that he is with help from a virtual army of Twitter pit-bulls (keep at it you guys), I happened to run across something new that should help put it all into a slightly clearer perspective.
This latest development along with the good work of Sibel Edmonds on this matter, should make the Manufactured Hero saga of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald perfectly clear as nothing more than a psyop designed to ready the public mind to accept this year’s version of Big Business’ wet-dream… CISPA.
No two ways about it now. No question. We are in deep deep deep doo-doo folks. And Sunstein agent Greenwald is shoveling just as fast as he can.
by Scott Creighton
Here’s a little clip from a Huffington Post article about a recent report on how many crimes the FBI allowed their operatives to commit in 2012. The number is actually up from 2011 which was off the charts as well. Notice they redacted the actual breakdown of the crimes they allowed their operatives to get away with. Murder? Mass casualty events? Terrorism? What is the FBI letting their goons off the hook for and MORE IMPORTANTLY… does the FBI actually tell them what to do or just let them get away with murder while in their service?
Of course he's a wannabe dictator. That what Big Business installs in nations we regime change. That is what the WEF wants to install to bring about their Great Reset. But is this effort here in the states starting to look like what our regime change assets do across the globe?
No planes. No victims. No viruses. All variations of the same cognitive infiltration tactics to derail movements and discredit activists from within.
by Scott Creighton
As if we needed more evidence that Wikileaks is simply a psyop program designed to help promote various propaganda operations across the intel community’s “to do” list, a recent “leak” makes the case that though CIA assassination programs are an “important part” of the unilateral actions taken in Pakistan, they by themselves, will not be enough to stem the threat of future nuclear terrorism.
This “leak”, naively being hailed as important by various starry-eyed left-wing Assange fans, details yet another key part of the U.S. plan for Pakistan; complete “regime change” in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, bringing them under control of Pakistan, but only after Pakistan itself becomes more west-friendly, a.k.a. “stable”. In short, it calls for a kind of Pakistani “surge”.
We are headed full steam ahead into their Brave New World and we better start calling out the flagrant propaganda as we come across it before it takes hold and we forget what it is we are doing here. Today I give you three such examples.
by Scott Creighton
“Decision 2016!” has morphed from a Freakshow into Theater of the Absurd. White is black, up is down and Hillary Clinton is the “stable” candidate according to the war-mongers and zealots who brought us 9/11, Iraq and the Endless War of Terror.
The folks who made up some of the worst aspects of the previous administration in the White House, folks that brought us things like the USA Patriot Act, the anthrax attack, the abuse of the phony “Color Coded Terrorism Threat Level” alerts, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, torture, extraordinary rendition, WMD lies galore, the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and the Endless War (of) Terrorism…. Dov Zakheim, Philip Zelikow, Robert Zoellick, Tom Ridge, John Negroponte, Michael Hayden and Michael Chertoff (and 40 or so others)… have all signed a letter saying they don’t believe Donald Trump is fit to be president of the United States because he’s to “reckless” to occupy the Oval Office. Thus they are effectively endorsing Hillary Clinton by default as she is the only realistic alternative in our phony two party system.
“We also know that many have doubts about Hillary Clinton, as do many of us. But Donald Trump is not the answer to America’s daunting challenges and to this critical election. We are convinced that in the Oval Office, he would be the most reckless President in American history” 50 Bush administration terrorists, war-mongers and habitual liars
(archived from December 13, 2016)
by Scott Creighton
Having failed to “undermine the bedrock of our democracy” with his Jill Stein “recount” effort, John Podesta launches a new destabilization campaign to stop the process of the election and install the war-criminal and serial liar, Hillary Clinton, in the White House.
After careful consideration and many hours of research I concluded that Jill Stein’s recount efforts in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan were not about protecting the integrity of our deeply flawed election system as much as they were about delaying the Electoral College voters from being able to certify their election totals before the “safe harbor” deadline of Dec. 13th thus keeping Donald Trump from being officially named the president elect on Dec. 19th when the voters actually get together and officially cast their votes as prescribed by the voters they represent.
(archived from December 20, 2016)
by Scott Creighton
First of all, stop saying Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8 million votes. It’s simply not verified in my opinion.
All of those additional votes came well after the election was finalized and almost every single one of them came from one state, California, where Killary “won” by a whopping 4.3 million votes (most showed up well after the election)
Alex Padilla is the Secretary of State in California and as we know, the Sec. of State overseas the elections of a state. He’s a Democrat who also just happens to have two Mexican parents and when he took office his primary concern was to “modernize” voting in California.
“Padilla said his priorities include upgrading the state’s voting systems to use modern technology and making the act of voting more accessible and convenient..” LA Times
That’s right. He brought in more electronic voting machines.
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: All of the following detail situations involving the DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY… NOT the general election of 2016. And ALL of them involve Sanders supporters being purged from voter rolls… not Clinton.
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(For a good assessment of how trustworthy The Intercept is regarding their handling of this “leak”, go over to Moon of Alabama blog. The way they claim the leaker, Reality Winner, was exposed is remarkably contrived. Either that or they are idiots over at The Intercept.)
Three days before James Comey is set to testify before congress and in all likelihood dispel a good deal of the bogus “Russia Owns Donald Trump” story, four writers at The Intercept decided to publish a new 5-page “leak” from something called “Reality Leigh Winner” which purports to show Russia not only interfered with the election, but “hacked” it as well, “stealing” the election from Queen Hillary.
Or at least, that’s how the corporate media destabilization campaign is presenting the story.
by Scott Creighton
Today, real progressive minded liberals like myself are being presented with two main alternatives to political engagement.
Both are sickening options because BOTH want to drag you back into the warm, cozy embrace of feel-good party of endless wars of aggression and regime change for “BABIES!”
Cenk Unger, or whatever his name is, a supporter of every liberal regime change that has ever been and a guy who you can find Youtube videos from when he was on MSNBC promoting such, heads the “Justice” Dems movement. They say they want to bring up a bunch of new New Dems to run against the old New Dems (neoliberal corporate dems) so we can slowly take over the corrupt to the gunnels party and make it glorious again.
Of course, what Cenk really wants to do is make himself a nifty political following so he can run for office and secure for himself the ultimate prize… a nice cushy well paying job for life that he can turn into all sorts of money on the back end when he sells out.
If you fall for that crap, you are an idiot.
by Scott Creighton
After listening to a month’s worth of the complicit media yelling their outrage at Sean Spicer, Devin Nunes, Judge Napolitano, Donald Trump and all the other “conspiracy theorists” (myself included) who dared suggest it was even slightly possible that British intelligence agencies used the 5 Eyes program to spy on the Trump campaign staff in the lead-up to the election and then share that information with the Obama administration (who at the time was working as a surrogate for the Hillary team) today we have confirmation that, yes, GCHQ and other British intel services did in fact spy on team Trump and share the information they collected with Obama. And it predates the “Russian hacking” bull crap.
The narrative being sculpted is that the Brits were simply assisting in the ongoing investigation into the “Russian hacking” story but the truth is, their intel dates back to late 2015… long before the “Russian hacking” narrative.
Why Did They Arrest Trump? Because He Won and Democracy isn't 'Solid'
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: Some pundits are starting to figure it out. Here’s Captain Hindsight:
“Why, oh why, did it have to be Hillary Clinton? Yes, she has an impressive resume; yes, she worked hard on the campaign trail. But she was exactly the wrong candidate for this angry, populist moment… She was the Democratic candidate because it was her turn…” Thomas Frank, Common Dreams
See that? It was “her turn” she didn’t win the nomination. It was just”her turn”. You also notice how dismissive this establishment hack is toward the populist movement in the country? You think he learned his lesson, this limousine liberal? I doubt it.
It should be noted on Aug. 15th Thomas Frank wrote: With Trump Certain to Lose, You Can Forget about a Progressive Clinton
by Scott Creighton
Well OK then.
Hillary Clinton’s team has apparently decided to counter all the horrible news that came out about her this past week regarding her “pay to play” policy at the State Department by pointing a finger at Donald Trump and proclaiming “nanna nanna boo boo, you’re racist doo doo”
That’s literally all they have. That’s it. That’s what they got. “Don’t pay attention to our Republican-leaning neocon-backed warmongering “Democratic Party” candidate’s VAST record of MAJOR criminal activity because… Trump knows some racists”
That’s it. That’s the campaign strategy, apparently scripted by the dim-witted middle school kids running her campaign.
by Scott Creighton
They stole the nomination from Bernie supporters, from the real progressives in the party and there were a lot of them. So now we are faced with only one choice… the nuclear option.
People say one of my big drawbacks is that I don’t offer enough solutions to the problems I expose in my work. Ok. Fair enough. Here’s a solution:
All you Bernie supporters out there who are mad as hell and can’t take it anymore should go out and start beating the bushes in support of… Donald Trump.
WHAT!?!? Are you KIDDING?!?!
But OH NOOOOs... Big Gubmint is DATA MINING US!! Save us Edward Snowden! Big Business does it? crickets.
by Scott Creighton
What exactly was Aaron Swartz’ crime against humanity? Was it really that he “liberated” some academic papers from MIT in order to make them available without cost on the internet? Is that why the prosecution hit him with 14 felony charges facing 35 years in prison or was it something else?
Aaron Swartz was found hanged in his Brooklyn apartment a year ago today. Many, including those who profess to honor his memory and his activism, parrot the official talking points about Mr. Swartz saying he took his own life rather than face the possibility of going to prison.
That story is bullshit and anyone repeating it, ANYONE, is NOT to be believed in any fashion. Lest we forget:
“During plea talks held in the months before his death, federal prosecutors told Aaron Swartz and his attorney that the computer prodigy must spend six months behind bars and plead guilty to 13 federal crimes in order to resolve the criminal case short of a trial.” Boston.com article from 1/14/13
“The best deal the prosecutors would offer was four months in prison with Swartz pleading guilty to 13 felonies. And they warned Peters that his client had better take it while he still could.
“They told me over and over again that the offer had been on the table,” Peters says. “And any future offer would be less attractive.” Daily Beast 1/15/13
Granted, that is the defense attorney’s statements on the matter of the deal offered to Aaron Swartz prior to his “suicide”. Here is what the prosecutor herself said:
“… That is why in the discussions with his counsel about a resolution of the case this office sought an appropriate sentence that matched the alleged conduct – a sentence that we would recommend to the judge of six months in a low security setting. While at the same time, his defense counsel would have been free to recommend a sentence of probation. Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge. At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law.” Attorney Carmen Ortiz 1/16/13
Are we to believe this young man who stood up against SOPA and PIPA and won, took his own life rather than spend 6 months max in a minimum security facility (a.k.a. Club Fed)? Is this the level of discourse being offered up by various “alternative” sites across the nation and the globe on this, the anniversary of his murder?
Yes, Aaron Swartz was murdered. But there is a larger lesson here today for us to ponder.
by Scott Creighton
Yes, Shelly, there really are monsters in the world.
“It is ironic in a way that the government thinks it’s alright to have a record of every single call that an American makes, but not alright for an American citizen to know what sovereign powers the government is negotiating away.” Congressman Alan Grayson
No. It’s not ironic. It’s completely logical when you understand the “unified field theory” of it all, otherwise known as our history. Then it makes perfect sense.
Yesterday I had to defend my theory on the Snowden psyop when a long-time reader suggested I was making connections that simply weren’t there; seeing some kind of overall agenda that blinded me to the real value of the selfless efforts of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald.
“Maybe you should ask yourself if you are losing it. You are so caught up in some unified field theory that sucks up everyone and everything. I really appreciate your focus on neoliberalism the Snowden stuff and and Greenwald seems a stretch “ DBShell
Unfortunately I guess I am losing it. If I ever had “it”.
Yes, there is a unified field theory at work here. And yes, there is a reason all of these things are coming to fruition at this moment in time. Like the tumblers of a lock, they all have to line up, to click into place at just the right time, in just the right alignment, for the masters of the universe to open the gates to their New Mammon Dawn (mammon: material wealth or possessions especially as having a debasing influence)
And they are… whether one wishes to see it or not.
by Scott Creighton
On a pleasant Sunday afternoon, sitting comfortably in his home in Rio de Janeiro with a nifty little green-screen at his back (what self respecting journalist doesn’t have one of those), Glenn Greenwald admitting he was well aware of his star witness’ potentially fatal character flaws prior to publishing his overly hyped article on NSA “secrets” that the world already knew about. Glenn then deliberately misrepresented the nature and scope of the NSA’s spying program and perhaps inadvertently offered up a glimpse of the real motivation behind the Snowden Psyop for anyone who cared to listen.
Over the past week and a half that I have been covering this story, my position has been that Glenn was probably just fed a bit of information on some new “Deepthroat” type whistle-blower and the promise of a Big Story … something on the lines of his work back in 2006 on the first (and the real) spying scandal leak when he went from being an obscure blogger to the toast of the town in the alternative media. I figured he was probably a dupe who had been set-up by his own paper, the Guardian, in order to lend this Snowden psyop some more credibility and in the end, to destroy a journalist viewed as the “professional left”. I concluded that Greenwald was not an active participant in the overall psyop strategy.
I cannot in good faith support that conclusion any longer.
by Scott Creighton
Old #FeelTheBern has jumped into the gun-control via mental hygiene laws debate with both feet backing the corporate rights-grabbing agenda. So much for the guy who supported the second amendment and voted against the Brady Bill. With new promising poll numbers we get a new go-along-to-get-along Bernie.
So much for the hero of the fringe left.
“America is not about giving tax breaks to billionaires while attacking the most vulnerable people in our country,” Bernie Sanders
by Scott Creighton
Bernie Sanders addressed the floor of the Senate today and for an hour and a half or so he spoke a good deal of truth to the American people. It’s worth watching if you’re one of those who still believes in the fairy-tail that stirring speeches from the halls of congress do anything at all other than create great sound bite clips for future campaigns. Personally, I’m not one of them. Four years of running this site has opened my eyes a little.
I like Bernie and it’s a good speech, but unfortunately Bernie wasn’t entirely truthful. I found his honesty a bit lacking as his rhetoric moved to the lighter shades of grey. After all, the devil is in the details in D.C. land and with everything finally on the line and the people of this country ready to ignite, don’t you think it’s about time someone was brutally honest with us?
First of all he claims that America isn’t about making deals with billionaires while sticking it to the poor and working class families.
I say, “since when?”
And for the love of God, stop pitching your damn book in the first paragraph of every article you write about a subject you don't fully understand, OK Norm?
by Scott Creighton
There is little doubt that Junaid Hussain from Birmingham, a Brit, hacked US Central Command a month ago under the name of the “Cyber Caliphate”. It is said that he went to Syria and was radicalized so now he fights online for “ISIS”
That’s all bunk. He was given passwords. It was a “hearts and minds” campaign designed to help provide the needed pretext for British authorities to shut down the internet before they all get exposed as child molesters like their beloved prince.
by Scott Creighton
I see in the future a crisis approaching that fills me with anxiety. As a result of the war, corporations have become enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its rule by preying upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is concentrated in a few hands and the Republic destroyed. ~ Abraham Lincoln.
Savage capitalism of the neoliberal IMF/World Bank “free market economy” persuasion is failing across the globe. From one nation to another, people are sick and tired of Ayn Randian philosophy and Milton Friedman/ University of Chicago austerity packages otherwise known as the Washington Consensus. There is another name for it.
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism – ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It is with good reason that Ayn Rand hated FDR and with good reason Milton Friedman loved her so. They were both fascists.
On Mr. Finkelstein's substack he has penned several articles in support of Cornel West's sheepdog campaign for the presidential nomination of the corrupt Democrat Party of America. With all due respect, Norman is being naive. Yeah, West is the new Bernie. Just, not in the way Finkelstein thinks.
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: Seymour Hersh Succumbs To Disinformation — Paul Craig Roberts
UPDATE: Of course, Prison Planet and Business Insider regurgitate the Hersh propaganda without question.
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Seymour Hersh was once one of the good guys. Today, he’s joined the ranks of the has-beens and the sell-outs.
Anyone can get something wrong. That’s not what Seymour Hersh did here. The last “clarifying statement” to fix the narrative.
“Within days, some of the early exaggerations and distortions had become obvious and the Pentagon issued a series of clarifying statements.” Seymour Hersh
He penned a propaganda article about how ‘Obama lied” about the early morning hour Seal Team 6 raid in Pakistan that supposedly killed Osama bin Laden. That’s click-bait. Seymour claims Obama’s lies are nothing more than his refusal to admit how intimately involved the Pakistani intelligence services (ISI) were in the “raid” and of course the official story they came out with in the days right after the raid.
That’s bullshit.
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Scott Creighton
The motivation behind writing this article should be understood as it is intended on two key points: (1) to serve as a correction of multiple fallacious arguments on the part of both Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky with regard to their recent email correspondence “debate” recently published by Harris on his website and (2) and open invitation from myself to debate either or BOTH of them simultaneously in order to counter said fallacious arguments.
What is the value of a thesis if it is fundamentally flawed from the start and what is the value of a debate on that thesis given that rudimentary foundation is existentially crippled from the very beginning? The answer to both of those questions, in terms of what educated men like Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky must understand, both holding advanced degrees from prestigious institutions of higher learning, is ZERO.
Pussy Riot organizers seem to be operating in France these days. There is a contentious bill ready to be made into law but the only thing is, the public isn't 100% behind 'Making it easier to deport foreigners deemed a 'threat to public order' What a coincidence, am I right. Also, I explain how I came to see the world as I do.
by Scott Creighton
The consequence of not mentioning the connection between the US and the Iranian-backed Badr Brigade militia, the US-backed Wolf Brigade and other Special Police Commando units, or the extent of American recruitment, training, command, and control of these units[19] distorted perceptions of events in Iraq, creating the impression of senseless violence initiated by the Iraqis themselves and concealing the American hand in the planning and execution of the most savage forms of violence. Dirk Adriaensens, Brussels Tribunal
The fervor over the fake “burning man” video is laughable to the point of tears. It’s ridiculous actually when you put that one guy acting in a movie pretending to be about to die, in context of what our secret warriors have really done to millions of civilians over the past few decades. What our secret warriors, our “freedom fighters”, are STILL doing in Iraq as we speak.
Today, the New York Times had to shed a tiny bit of light on the reality creeping out of occupied Iraq and that reality is… yes, our puppet regime has unleashed organized death squads (just like I wrote about nearly a year ago and again in Aug.) on the population of their country who happen to opposed the corrupt, brutal government we installed.
by Scott Creighton
I wish to see if I can connect a few dots here, so bear with me.
Putting aside “ISIS™” for a moment and the “Big Story” about some talking head on MSNBC lying to folks (yeah, there’s some news for you) what are the biggest geopolitical trends in the news today? Is it the fact that Syriza, the new “Radical Left™” brand of 3rd Way centrist ideology (think “CHANGE™” circa 2008) seems to have forgotten what the term “odious debt” means?
In international law, odious debt, also known as illegitimate debt, is a legal theory that holds that the national debt incurred by a regime for purposes that do not serve the best interests of the nation, should not be enforceable. Such debts are, thus, considered by this doctrine to be personal debts of the regime that incurred them and not debts of the state. In some respects, the concept is analogous to the invalidity of contracts signed under coercion. Wiki
Is that the biggest story in the world today? Well, if you consider the fact that international debt has risen by 57 trillion dollars since the global economic terrorism of 2008, coupled with the fact that much if not ALL of that new additional debt may be declared odious were Greece to set the precedent, well, that could very well be the story of the year. The story of the decade or the millennium in fact.
But it isn’t, because they wont. And the usually antagonistic ones, the Webster Tarpley’s of the “interwebs”, aren’t really calling for Syriza to live up to their campaign pledge and do that.
How about “ISIS™”? Now that the MTV music video director and their team made that “burning man” video, seems like all the world wants a piece of “ISIS™” butt.