The Road to World WarIII
Why are U.S. covert operatives helping destabilize Syria? And why is the United States government so intent on taking down Iran in spite of the fact that Iran has not attacked any country since 1798?
Larry Summers to Head the Federal Reserve?
By Rick McGahey
"According to former colleagues at D.E. Shaw, Summers was directly involved in sales, including sales of what turned out to be highly overvalued mortgage-backed securities to Asian sovereign wealth funds, the kind of securities that were deeply implicated in the financial meltdown.
. . . his fight against regulating financial derivatives (a major source of the financial crisis) and his successful advocacy with Congress to allow higher executive pay and bonuses for financial executives whose firms received billions in federal bailouts during the financial crisis . . ." source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/opinion/mcgahey-larry-summers
Forfeiture scam by Law Enforcement
Police collect billions from innocent Americans
August 08, 2013
A law created to severely cripple gang lawlessness is set upon anyone - rather they be suspect, innocent or guilty. How else will law enforcement pay for benefits, pensions, bonuses and those para-military toys?
From RT.com: "Police agencies across the United States are seizing billions of dollars annually in assets and money from people never convicted of crimes, and they’ve been getting away with it for decades."
105 years in prison for investigative journalism?!
Is Internet Technology not understood by our courts and lawmakers?
August 02, 2013 
Brown copy-and-pasted a link that included the hacked information, from one chatroom to another to share the data he was researching with his peers. Though he was not involved with the hacking, and has never been accused of such, this act of sharing a link to already publicly available information led to charges including credit card fraud and identity theft. Brown was also charged with obstruction of justice in his attempt to protect his sources when served a warrant for his computers.
Is attacks on "whistle-blowers" an attack on democracy/human rights?
July 18, 2013
Is the actions of Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Kiriakou and the latest, Alexei Navalny an attack on democracy and human rights?
Did Microsoft Hide Skype's NSA Back Doors?
Skype officially joined the PRISM program on February 6, 2011
June 24, 2013
. . . so it’s believed that the backdoor access system was already up and running at that time, more than half a year before the Microsoft acquisition was completed. The interesting thing is that Microsoft is now refusing to comment on this report, even though the company has often denied stories claiming that Skype calls
can be wiretapped.
The only thing we got from Microsoft in the PRISM scandal is the public statement rolled out this month and claiming that it never provides user details to the government on a voluntary basis. source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Skype-Provided-Backdoor-Access-to-the-NSA-Before-Microsoft-Takeover-NYT-362384.shtml
The White House Up for Sale - Dark Money
A president who stated in his 2010 State of the Union address that, "I don't think American elections should be banked rolled by America's most powerful interest or worst by foreign entities," has his own super PAC.
Has science gotten out of hand?
The Right to Know Channel
Who is Senator McCain to threaten sanctions when it comes to Ukraine?
And for Senator McCain, of all people, to come over to Ukraine and threaten sanctions – who is Senator McCain to threaten sanctions when it comes to Ukraine? On what authority is he doing that? Can someone argue this strategy?
Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) Allows Corporations to Trump Countries Sovereignty
The US and EU’s Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) aims to hand foreign corporations ways to evade domestic laws and courts while giving “them the ability to sue the countries for compensatory damages from the economies that they’ve just devastated,” Keiser told RT.
“It gives all the power to the entities that have destroyed the European economy, the big banks that have gutted the European economy,” Keiser said source rt.com
Is insider-trading Legal for Members of Congress?
60 Minutes
Three War Tricks
The Impact on the Use of Depleted Uranium and Phosphorous
Depleted uranium used by US forces blamed for birth defects and cancer in Iraq
July 22, 2013
Is the use of low grade nuclear weapons genocidal or napalm (white phosphorus) legal and moral? Is this not the destruction of humanity and the earth - shelf life of uranium exposure is 4.468 billion years Cancer is more common than flu in the Iraqi city of Najaf, a local medics told RT. While doctors say the government discourages them from talking openly to the press on the disease, local families are scared of having more kids with birth defects. Rates of leukemia and birth defects “rose dramatically” due to use of depleted uranium by the US military since 2003 invasion.
ref material:
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/depleted_uranium.htm
“Immunity is for the president, not the plane,”
July 19, 2013
The above quote is from an ABC source which cites Kerry’s personal message to President Maduro as saying.
Question, does Air Force One have sovereignty? ref: http://rt.com/news/kerry-threatens-venezuela-snowden-308/
Usage of chemical weapons by the Assad regime “is fabricated in the same way as the lie about Hussein's weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq
Alexei Pushkov, chairman of the Russian parliament’s International Affairs Committee, said in a tweet last week that the White House’s information about the usage of chemical weapons by the Assad regime “is fabricated in the same way as the lie about Hussein's weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq.
Who Voted for this Bill which Gets Off Free Monsanto on Liability?
May 10, 2013 
Thanks to Congress, Monsanto does not have to worry about any lawsuits or liability on its GMO products. Check out who voted for HR 933.
Are US Drone Targeted Strikes Creating More Enemies?
Gen McChrystal warned that too many drone strikes in Pakistan without identifying suspected militants individually can be a bad thing.He said he understood why Pakistanis, even in the areas not affected by the drones, reacted negatively against the strikes.
He asked the Americans how they would react if a neighboring country like Mexico started firing drone missiles at targets in Texas.
Single-Payer National Health Insurance is superior and most cost effective than what we have now
Monsanto Sponsors NPR for Several Years
August 09, 2013 Discussion posted by Rick Blanc
Many NPR radio listeners would be surprised that NPR's Marketplace has been for several years sponsored by the behemoth Monsanto. The views presented on the show have (surprise!) mirrored those of Monsanto. The fact that US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules prohibit sponsors from being directly promoted on the network.
Strip Mining Tar Sands
Good or Bad?
July 31, 2013
The Keystone XL is a test for Obama's commitment to climate change!
Let's hope he has the courage to stop the handouts to Big Oil!
‘America has no functioning democracy’ – Jimmy Carter on NSA
July 19, 2013
President Carter said the NSA leaks signified that “the invasion of human rights and American privacy has gone too far." He added that although Snowden violated US law, he may have ultimately done good for the country.
Will the mass media in the U.S. now start to talk more about the 4th amendment being subverted by agencies within the U.S. government and not dwell on Edward Snowden being a traitor?
US Four-star General Leaks Info on US Cyber Attack on Iran?
US and Israel damaging hundreds of centrifuges
June 28, 2013
The four-star general who headed the reported cyber-attack by American and Israeli hackers on an Iranian nuclear site is under a DoJ investigation over leaking the details of the operation to the press, reports NBC News. At the time the newspaper broke details of the top secret operation, including collaboration of Israeli hackers in development of the Stuxnet computer worm, which was used to infect Iranian computer networks and damage hundreds of centrifuges at the Natanz enrichment facility.
Legal sources told NBC News that the FBI investigating the leak zeroed on Cartwright, once the second-highest ranking officer in the Pentagon, as the source that provided the newspaper with the sensitive information. Agents identified the former general without resorting to a secret subpoena of the phone records of New York Times reporters, the report says.
When you join the military are you ask to keep any war crimes you might see, a secret?
Did Bradley Manning dump information or was it selective?
Did Wikileaks founder ask the approval of Pentagon prior to the documents being published?
Is this Criminal or Just Helping America on Failed Banks?
Now guest who purchased the bank? (see video above)
ALL WARS ARE BANKERS' WARS
Retelling U.S. History
March 22, 2013
This video gets right to the point on what propels U.S. wars. This body of work (video) reveals how we've become a product of fake news and lies. read more
In the Light of Extreme Poverty (ILOEP)
This will be a series of articles in how the United States, the wealthiest nation on earth, will deal with an ever spiraling downward of government services, higher taxes and the degradation of the quality of life.
What Do U.S. Citizens Think About Foreign Aid (ILOEP)?
February 7, 2013 Article by Rick Blanc
See the video below then read the commentary
What defines foreign aid? In all fairness, the 1 percent figure for foreign aid U.S is spending, which this video depicts as being factual, is a gross misrepresentation. This video looks as though it was produced by the PR department of the U.S. government.
Until the U.S. government, and organizations like the United Nations and the World Monetary Fund are more transparent . . . continue / comments