Clubs, Cartels and Bilderberg
[Economic]
Clubs, Cartels and Bilderberg
by Binoy Kampmark
Posted June 20, 2019
Gatherings of the elite, self-promoted as chat shops of the privileged and monstrously well-heeled, have often garnered attention. That the rich and powerful chat together privately should not be a problem, provided the glitterati keep their harmful ideas down to small circulation. But the Bilderberg gathering, a transatlantic annual meeting convened since 1954, fuels speculation for various reasons, not least of all because of its absence of detail and off-the-record agendas.
C. Gordon Tether, writing for the Financial Times in May 1975, would muse that, “If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.”
The ideas and policies discussed are bound to be self-serving ones friendly to the interests of finance and indifferent to the welfare of the commonwealth. More…
The Bankers’ “Power Revolution”: How the Government Got Shackled by Debt
[Economic]
The Bankers’ “Power Revolution”: How the Government Got Shackled by Debt
by Ellen Brown
Posted June 19, 2019
We have a $22 trillion debt that cannot possibly be repaid. The government just keeps rolling it over and paying the interest to banks and bondholders, feeding the “financialized” economy in which money makes money without producing new goods and services. The financialized economy has become a parasite feeding off the real economy, driving producers and workers further and further into debt.
The irony is that the United States does not need to carry a debt to bondholders at all.
We need a new model, one designed to serve the needs of the public and the economy rather than to maximize shareholder profits at public expense. More…
The Facts:
Our current monetary system is based on debt that requires interest payments to private parties. The burden of these interest payments is already overwhelming our ability to pay.
Reflect On:
Why are we paying interest on our money supply when the money could just as easily be created interest free? Who would benefit from keeping the system exactly as it is today?
Censorship is the Last Tool of Tyrants
[Media]
Censorship is the Last Tool of Tyrants
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
Posted June 18, 2019
When you have a profitable business, you want to nurture and protect it, and promote its sustained growth. That’s normal in the world of business. What’s not normal is enlisting government to mandate the use of your product while simultaneously preventing the sharing of bad reviews that might impact sales and/or force you to improve the safety or effectiveness of your product.
And that’s exactly what’s happening in the vaccine industry. In recent months, the push to censor negative press about vaccines has been outright shocking. The “justification” given is that “misinformation” about vaccines is preventing people from making sound medical decisions.
But make no mistake about it; what’s really happening here is that Big Pharma and government are blocking parents of vaccine-injured children from sharing their stories and letting the truth be known that there are risks involved. It’s really a showdown between a largely pharma-run government and parents of vaccine injured children — not government against creators of fake news. More…
18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World
[Community]
18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World
by Lee Camp
Posted June 17, 2019
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks revealed the American military’s war crimes, the American government’s corruption and the American corporate media’s pathetic servile flattery to the power elite.
In an evolved and fully realized society, the oligarchy would see Assange as a dangerous criminal (which they do), and the average working men and women would view him as justice personified (which they don’t). We would celebrate him even as the mass media told us to hope for his downfall.
But we are not evolved and this is not Gotham City and average Americans don’t root for the truth. Many Americans cheer for Assange’s imprisonment. They believe the corporate plutocratic talking points and yearn for the days when we no longer have to hear about our country’s crimes against humanity or our bankers’ crimes against the economy. Subconsciously they must believe that a life in which we’re tirelessly exploited by rich villains and know all about it thanks to the exhaustive efforts of an eccentric Australian is worse than one in which we’re tirelessly exploited by rich villains yet know nothing about it. More…
U.S. elections rank last among all Western democracies
[Politics]
U.S. elections rank last among all Western democracies
by Pippa Norris
Posted June 16, 2019
Social media commentary about problems in elections has too commonly distracted us with shiny baubles, reflecting partisan click-bait, fake news, and simplistic attacks on red herrings, mixing up all these complex issues. Instead of falling for these sorts of distraction, anyone concerned about democracy should engage seriously in a dialogue about the problems which need to be addressed to strengthen elections at home and abroad, an issue at the heart of American values.
In particular, there has been no serious rebuttal to the evidence that US elections are seriously flawed in certain respects. But when there are disputes about the validity of any evidence, rather than employing dubious ‘sniff tests’, social scientists usually seek to compare the results using two or more independent sources of data which measure identical or equivalent concepts. The more the agreement among independent studies, all other things being equal, the more confidence we should have in the evidence. Like pieces of a jig-saw, triangulation is the name of the game. More…
The Facts:
The US U.S. elections rank dead last among all Western democracies. Ineffective electronic voting machine security have been easily defeated by Defcon hackers.
Reflect On:
If our voting machines are not secure, how can we be sure that the results presented to the people are the true ones? Imagine the turmoil that will result if an election is won and later evidence of tampering is uncovered.
After Reading This Article About The Danger Of GMOs, You Will Probably Never Want To Eat Genetically-Modified Food Again
[Community]
After Reading This Article About The Danger Of GMOs, You Will Probably Never Want To Eat Genetically-Modified Food Again
by Michael Snyder
Posted June 15, 2019
Every single day, most Americans eagerly gobble down foods that contain ingredients that have been genetically-modified without ever considering the consequences. Most of us simply assume that the federal government would never allow us to eat GMOs if they were not safe. Unfortunately, it appears that the federal government has completely failed us.
The material that I am about to share with you is deeply disturbing, and after reading this article there is a very good chance that you will never want to eat genetically-modified food ever again. But at this point it is almost impossible to completely avoid GMOs, because they are in almost everything. Unless they are specifically designated “organic”, most corn, soy, canola and sugar beets grown in America today have been genetically modified, and almost all packaged foods contain ingredients derived from at least one of those sources. More…
The Facts:
There is now evidence that GMO food actually alters the DNA of those eating it. The US Dept Of Agriculture and the US government have been virtually acting in scollusion with the transnational GMO corporations.
Reflect On:
Consider the evidence: the Monsanto Protection Act which shielded Monsanto from any legal consequences of their genetic experimentation. the Monsanto Dark Act, which kept people from being able to know if their food was genetically modified.
The Euro-Atlantic Populist Wave
[Social]
The Euro-Atlantic Populist Wave
By Andrew Spannaus
Posted June 14, 2019
In 2016, the world began to change, with the Brexit referendum in the U.K. and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. In both cases, an insurrection of “regular people” against the structures of political and media power upset the political balance of two of the leading countries of the Western world.
And the revolt didn’t stop there. It continued in 2017 and 2018 with a series of elections across continental Europe that saw the growth of protest movements and candidates willing to challenge the system of globalization that until recently seemed inevitable.
The anti-establishment revolt that has spread across the Western world is closely linked to the gradual transformation of the economic structure of the nations on both sides of the Atlantic over a period of decades, from one focused principally on production, to a system based increasingly on finance. More…
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What’s happening here is the censorship of information that threatens various corporate and political interests. This information gained the attention of the masses simply because it was presented in a credible way that often couldn’t be countered. Julian Assange is a great example, as he has been ‘scooped’ up by ‘the powers that be,’ not because he threatens national security interests, but because for more than a decade he’s been exposing the lies, deceit and corruption that plague geopolitics.
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Great story on why we need to remove ALL of our elected government representatives
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