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As US empire declines it doubles down on denial of reality

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Popular Resistance
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:00 UTC
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US empire is in decline. Reports of the end of the US being the unitary power in world affairs are common, as are predictions of the end of US empire. China surpassed the United States as the world economic leader, according to Purchasing Power Parity Gross National Product, and Russia announced new weapons that can overcome the US' defense systems.


Comment: See:


What is happening in the United States, in response, is to do more of what has been causing the decline. As the Pentagon outlined in its post-primacy report, the US' plan is more money, more aggression and more surveillance. Congress voted nearly unanimously to give the Pentagon tens of billions more than it requested. Military spending will now consume 57% of federal discretionary spending, leaving less for basic necessities. The Trump administration's new nominees to the State Department and CIA are a war hawk and a torturer. And the Democrat's "Blue Wave" is composed of security state candidates.


Comment: And to sedate the masses further, trillions are being ploughed into (and probably siphoned from) welfare: US Wars Fund The Welfare State Which Finances The Liberal March Towards Totalitarianism


The US is escalating an arms race with Russia and China. This may create the mirror image of President Reagan forcing Russia to spend so much on its military that it aided in the break-up of the Soviet Union. The US economy cannot handle more military spending, worsening austerity when most people in the US are in financial distress.
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Modern Newspeak: How internet giants censor us to make sure we only hear what they want

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:42 UTC
Internet censorship

It's not breaking news that the internet censors have been hard at work to silence voices that are in opposition to the mainstream media agenda. But after the influence that social media had on the last election, things are going to a whole new level. The internet, that last bastion of truly free speech, isn't very free anymore.

We're watching the evolution of Newspeak right before our very eyes as the internet strives to silence any voices that oppose their carefully crafted stories of how guns are bad, there are 291 genders, and anyone who isn't a liberal is an evil Nazi racist.

If you aren't familiar with the term "Newspeak," it's from George Orwell's prophetic novel, 1984.
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for commiting thought-crime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occcured to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?" (source)

Comment: Indeed, it is happening right before our very eyes. Under the guise of 'your protection' and preventing 'discord' among us, any dissent against the establishment is to be crushed. See also:

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BDS vs AIPAC: Americans have a constitutional right to boycott Israel

Josh Ruebner
Al Jazeera
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:23 UTC
BDS anti-Israel demonstrators
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Growing numbers of Americans and the civil society institutions to which they belong are supporting economic action against Israel


Politicians at the federal and state levels must reject AIPAC's unconstitutional efforts to suppress the BDS movement.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) concluded its annual policy conference last week with a lobbying day on Capitol Hill. High on its legislative agenda was advocating for bills that would penalise Americans for engaging in their First Amendment-protected right to boycott for Palestinian rights.

AIPAC conference attendees pressed their elected officials to support the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, sponsored by Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD). The original, draconian version of this bill, unveiled at last year's AIPAC conference, proposed to jail individuals for 20 years if they advanced an international organization's call for a boycott of Israel, or even of products from its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

AIPAC supporters also asked their Members of Congress to back the Combating BDS Act, sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL). This bill seeks to stifle the successful Palestinian civil society call for campaigns of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) as a nonviolent means to attain Palestinian freedom from more than 50 years of Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, justice for Palestinian refugees denied their right of return to the homes from which they were expelled by Israel when it was established in 1948, and equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel who face dozens of discriminatory laws. Rubio's bill encourages states to pass legislation denying contracts to individuals, associations and businesses which support BDS.

Comment: Esther Koontz is a hero. More on her fight for justice:

US Federal judge blocks Kansas law punishing boycott of Israel (BDS) supporters

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Populist MEPs invite Lauren Southern to speak regarding UK's use of terrorism act to censor free speech

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:00 UTC
Populist MEPs Invite Lauren Southern to Speak at European Parliament in Protest of Recent UK Actions
© @Janice4Brexit/Twitter
Populist UK MEP Janice Atkinson of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) parliamentary group slammed the British government in a press conference at the European Parliament on Wednesday over the recent treatment of Canadian journalist and activist Lauren Southern.

Ms. Atkinson, who serves as a Vice-President of the ENF, a group which has included Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders, former French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, Italian La Lega leader Matteo Salvini, and others, slammed the UK government for detaining and refusing entry to Ms. Southern under the UK terrorism act.

Atkinson railed against the government, which she said should be looking outward to the rest of the world in terms of trade after Brexit, for refusing Southern entry.

Comment: Under guise of political correctness and preventing hate speech, countries all over the Western world are acclimatising their citizens to the censorship of free speech:

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Here are the seven largest congressional payments the house has admitted

Luke Rosiak
The Daily Caller
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 21:06 UTC
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings
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U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings in Miami Gardens, Florida in August 2011.
A House of Representatives fund paid $1 million to secretly settle complaints by staffers. Here are the largest.

The House has disclosed settling 41 complaints of workplace mistreatment for a total of some $1 million since 1997. The list published by the House does not include names, but The Daily Caller News Foundation used court documents to reveal the offices behind some settlements and then cross-referenced with news articles to rank them. The list also omits the largest settlement the settlement office ever handled, involving Rep. Alcee Hastings.

TheDCNF's analysis found that a seldom-mentioned settlement involving the office of Rep. Gregory Meeks appears to be one of the largest settlements in decades while also involving some of the most serious allegations - including not just sexual harassment, but firing a staffer who said she was physically sexually assaulted by someone connected to a campaign donor.

Comment: See also:

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Libtard Jim Carrey's completely grotesque portrait of Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Amy Moreno
Truth Feed
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
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While liberal men claim to "love" all women, they seem to have a certain disdain for conservative women.

Nowhere is that more apparent than with this GRISLY portrait actor and so-called "artist" Jim Carrey created of Sarah Huckabee.

From Breitbart
Actor Jim Carrey targeted what appears to be White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders with lewd artwork of her likeness in a tweet slamming her as a "so-called Christian" who lies for a living.

"This is the portrait of a so-called Christian whose only purpose in life is to lie for the wicked. Monstrous!" wrote the Dumb and Dumber star on Saturday in a tweet that included a portrait of what appears to be a grisly looking Sanders.

Comment: Remember when Jim Carrey seemed to have his head screwed on straight? That at least he was partly aware of what's really going on? Those days are apparently over now that he's gone full libtard. See: Another clueless celebrity: Jim Carrey urges people to delete their Facebook account because it 'profited from Russian interference in US election'

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Strained German hospital considering extra security measures after rise in trouble from migrant patients

Stan M
Voice of Europe
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:28 UTC
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Hospital personnel in Bielefeld are increasingly being threatened, abused and attacked, the Neue Westfälische reports. Especially younger nurses report of verbal abuse and physical attacks by migrants. The hospital now needs to take special security measures to protect its personnel.

If something isn't going fast enough nurses are quickly called "sluts, bitches and incompetent" especially by "Southern" migrants, hospital employees tell the newspaper.

The hospital is now considering security steps like emergency buttons and classes in self-defence. One of the nurses reported an incident in which she needed to resuscitate a dying person and had another patient spit in front of her feet because he was tired of waiting.

Comment: Social services all over Europe have seen cuts to funding on already strained budgets, the refugee and migrant crisis being enforced by EU diktats is only making the situation worse: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Welcome to Splitsville! Movement grows to allow sections of states to break away

Steve Kurtz
Fox News
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:35 UTC
New California
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New secession movements in California, and elsewhere in America, are getting genuine attention from political pundits.
When Donald Trump was elected, a lot of people in California signed a petition supporting the state's secession from the U.S. It was hard to take the movement seriously - didn't we fight a war over this?

But there is another secession movement in California, and elsewhere in America, that is getting genuine attention from political pundits. While it may be unlikely to succeed, the idea of intra-state secession-a section of a state splitting off to form its own state-has been growing in popularity. And there's even a Constitutional procedure for doing it.

In recent decades, the political differences between rural areas and metropolitan areas seem to have become more severe. This has caused political splits in certain states, where, often, those rural areas, with lower populations, feel stifled by their city brethren.

As Joel Kotkin, a fellow at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. and author of The Human City: Urbanism ForThe Rest Of Us, tells Fox News, "The worst thing in the world to be is the red part of a blue state."

Comment: See also: A more perfect union: New California issues their Declaration of Independence

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50 years ago MLK was murdered, and the FBI did its best to help make that happen

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:56 UTC
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A new Intercept article by George Joseph and Murtaza Hussain reports on never-before-seen documents obtained from the FBI via Freedom of Information Act by the civil rights groups Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights. The FOIA request for FBI files pertaining to Black Lives Matter activism was answered with a stack of heavily-redacted documents revealing evidence of police stakeouts at the homes and vehicles of activists, as well as the use of police informants, with no mention of any potential crimes suspected of the people they were monitoring.

One such document is a report provided "for coordination with Monsanto" describing a single Black Lives Matter activist's plans to fly from New York City to Ferguson for a 2014 protest against racially motivated police brutality. The document covers the protesters' plans to begin their demonstration at a Monsanto factory, as well as money raised for protest materials and bail money, without a single visible mention of potential crimes or violence.

"Coordination with Monsanto." To protect them from Black Lives Matter protesters.

Welcome to the real face of the FBI.

Comment: See also:

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37 killed, 35 injured in militant shelling of Eastern Ghouta market


RT
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:32 UTC
Eastern Ghouta
© Ammar Safarjalani / Global Look Press
Dozens of civilians have been killed and injured in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, after terrorists attacked a local market in the mostly Christian and Druze neighborhood of East Ghouta.

At least 37 people were killed and another 35 wounded after terrorists contained in the Ein Tarma suburb of Damascus carried out a missile strike on Jaramana town in Eastern Ghouta, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The missile, launched at 6:15 pm local time on Tuesday, landed in the Kashkul market area of the suburb, traditionally made up of mostly Christian and Druze communities.

READ MORE: 'We were about to die': E. Ghouta civilians say militants used them as human shields & barred escape

Videos purportedly showing the aftermath of the attack surfaced online, showing pools of blood and ravaged buildings.



Comment: The third humanitarian corridor has opened in Syria's besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta to ensure the evacuation of civilians from the area, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Syrian reconciliation said Wednesday.
"The third humanitarian corridor has started operating in Eastern Ghouta ... Civilians return to liberated settlements of Saqba and Kafr Batna, humanitarian aid is delivered there," the reconciliation center said in a statement, as quoted by the Rossiya 24 broadcaster.


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