November 2, 2012

Politician 'Truthiness' Stats: Obama vs. Romney

A fun little excercise ;) According to Politifact.com Truth-o-Meter:



(scroll to bottom to see results)
  • Barack Obama: Says "Mitt Romney’s plan rolls back regulations" on banks. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: "There are millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for not just contraceptive care; they rely on it for mammograms." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Says Mitt Romney’s plan makes "catastrophic cuts to education." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: "The sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Barack Obama: Says Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for. - The Truth-o-Meter says: True
  • Barack Obama: Says Romney said "we should ask Pakistan for permission" to take a shot at Osama bin Laden. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Says Mitt Romney "just gave a speech a few weeks ago" and said "we should still have troops in Iraq." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: Says Mitt Romney was clear that he "would not provide government assistance to the U.S. auto companies, even if they went through bankruptcy." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Barack Obama: "Veterans’ unemployment is actually now lower than (the) general population. It was higher when I came into office." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: "A few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: "George Bush never suggested that we eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: Says his administration put more border patrol agents on the U.S.-Mexico border than at "any time in history, and the flow of undocumented workers across the border is actually lower than it's been in 40 years." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Says his administration has created "5 million jobs … over the last 30 months in the private sector alone." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Says Mitt Romney suggested that "employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage." - The Truth-o-Meter says: True
  • Barack Obama: Says Mitt Romney "called the Arizona law a model for the nation." - The Truth-o-Meter says: False
  • Barack Obama: Says Mitt Romney refused to say whether he'd sign the Lilly Ledbetter bill. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he "stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, ‘This plant kills.’" - The Truth-o-Meter says: True
  • Barack Obama: As governor, "Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Barack Obama: Says economists Harvey Rosen and Martin Feldstein have said that "paying for (Mitt) Romney’s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Barack Obama: Says Romney invested in a firm that made goods in China that "could have been made here in America." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Barack Obama: The federal tax code has "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas." - The Truth-o-Meter says: True
  • Barack Obama: "In Romney's first budget (in Massachusetts), he cut $248.7 million from K-12 education." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Says 50 million people would lose their health insurance if Obamacare is repealed. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Barack Obama: Says Romney wants to add $2 trillion to the defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for. - The Truth-o-Meter says: True
  • Barack Obama: "Under Gov. Romney's definition ... Donald Trump is a small business." - The Truth-o-Meter says: False
  • Barack Obama: Because of Obamacare, "over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up -- it's true -- but they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years." - The Truth-o-Meter says: False
  • Barack Obama: Romney’s Medicare plan was estimated to "cost the average senior about $6,000 a year." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Obama says he’s "put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Says Mitt Romney's plan "calls for a $5 trillion tax cut." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Romney "would turn Medicare into a voucher program." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: Chinese tire imports threatened 1,000 American jobs, so President Obama "stood up to China and protected American workers. Mitt Romney attacked Obama's decision." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: "Taxes are lower on families than they've been probably in the last 50 years." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: "Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of" President George W. Bush’s policies and the recession. - The Truth-o-Meter says: False
  • Barack Obama: Says Romney tax plan "could take away middle-class deductions for child care, mortgages and college tuition." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Barack Obama: "Even today part of Romney’s fortune is invested in China." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: Says Romney and Ryan "both backed proposals that would outlaw abortions even in cases of rape or incest." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Says he "will protect your guaranteed benefits" in Medicare while "Mitt Romney would take away Medicare as guaranteed benefits." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Says that under Mitt Romney, 89 million Americans could be denied coverage if they have a pre-existing condition. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: "We've doubled our use of renewable energy." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Barack Obama: "After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: Says Romney called Russia our No. 1 enemy. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: "I've cut taxes for ... middle-class families, small businesses." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Barack Obama: Says his budget plan "would cut our deficits by $4 trillion." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Barack Obama: "After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years." - The Truth-o-Meter says: True

  • Mitt Romney: Says Barack Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" at the cost of American jobs. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire!
  • Mitt Romney: "Women in Barack Obama's White House are earning less than men." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Mitt Romney: "Under President Obama: $4,000 tax hike on middle-class families." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire!
  • Mitt Romney: Says Barack Obama was silent on Iran "when the students took to the streets in Tehran and the people there protested, (and) the Green Revolution occurred." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Mitt Romney: "Pakistan has 100 nuclear warheads and they’re rushing to build a lot more. They’ll have more than Great Britain sometime in the relatively near future." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Mitt Romney: "Latin America’s economy is almost as big as the economy of China." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Mitt Romney: "I went to the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Mitt Romney: "The president said he was going to create daylight between ourselves and Israel." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Mitt Romney: Says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration "had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Mitt Romney: "Regulations have quadrupled. The rate of regulations quadrupled under this president." - The Truth-o-Meter says: False
  • Mitt Romney: Says Barack Obama began his presidency "with an apology tour." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire!
  • Mitt Romney: Says President Obama waited two weeks to call the attack in Libya "terror." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Mitt Romney: "Oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Mitt Romney: Says Obama broke his promise to offer a comprehensive immigration bill in his first year. - The Truth-o-Meter says: True
  • Mitt Romney: "Since President Obama took office, there are over 450,000 more unemployed women." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Mitt Romney: "In one year, (President Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world … into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1." - The Truth-o-Meter says: False
  • Mitt Romney: Says President Obama has "doubled" the deficit. - The Truth-o-Meter says: False
  • Mitt Romney: "Pre-existing conditions are covered under my (health care) plan." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Mitt Romney: Massachusetts schools "are ranked No. 1 of all 50 states." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Mitt Romney: Says Obama promised to cut the deficit in half. - The Truth-o-Meter says: True
  • Mitt Romney: "Right now, the (Congressional Budget Office) says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as Obamacare goes into effect next year." - The Truth-o-Meter says: False
  • Mitt Romney: Says Barack Obama "put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Mitt Romney: "We’re now spending 42 percent of our economy on government." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Mitt Romney: "On Medicare for current retirees, he's cutting $716 billion from the program." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Mitt Romney: College tuition "costs have risen by 25 percent under the Democrats." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Mitt Romney: "Redistribution" has "never been a characteristic of America." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire!
  • Mitt Romney:  "Seven times Obama could have stopped China's cheating. Seven times, he refused." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Mitt Romney: "Under Obama, families have lost over $4,000 a year in income." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True
  • Mitt Romney: "Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax." - The Truth-o-Meter says: True
  • Mitt Romney: The "48, 49 percent" that supports President Barack Obama are "people who pay no income tax." - The Truth-o-Meter says: False
  • Mitt Romney: "Fifty percent of kids coming out of school can't get a job." - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True
  • Mitt Romney: Says President Obama promised "he'd keep unemployment below 8 percent" if the stimulus passed. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Mitt Romney: Says five studies show his tax plan can cut rates and still bring the same revenue without raising taxes on the middle class. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
  • Mitt Romney: Under Obama, home values in Florida collapsed, construction jobs were lost and the state had a high foreclosure rate. - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False
Obama truth stats (since Sept):  
    False:4,  Mostly False:8,  Half-True:16,  Mostly True:10,  True:6
     Total: 44

Romney truth stats (since Sept): 

    False:5,  Mostly False:7,  Half-True:8,  Mostly True:7,  True:3, Pants on Fire!:4
     Total: 34

October 16, 2012

What's Austerity? "Madrid on the Brink"

Austerity.

This short film chronicles the events of September 25 - 29, 2012 in Madrid, Spain, where tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of the government and an end to police brutality. Many of the protests ended in clashes with the police. Since the standoff began, the images of police brutality have travelled the world over, shocking and inspiring people across Europe and leading to an international day of action on September 29. This film tells the story of why so many people took to the streets and follows these events as they unfolded. (source)

October 3, 2012

Sept. 11 -- the Story Continues...


On September 11th, 

A series of airplane hijackings and suicide attacks were committed against strategic targets in the United States. Nearly three thousand people were killed in New York City, almost two hundred at the Pentagon and forty more died near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in the open countryside, shortly after 10 a.m. The United States and the world were taken by surprise that fateful morning when hijackers seized four jet airliners.

Two of the planes were intentionally crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center; afterwards, both towers collapsed at 9:59 a.m. and 10:28 a.m., the first time steel-framed towers had ever done so. Incredibly, Seven World Trade Center building (7 WTC) collapsed in the afternoon at 5:21 p.m., even though fire has never caused any steel-framed high-rise building to collapse. Soon after the attacks, the American and Western European media were blaming Osama bin Laden and the pro-Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda, who had declared a holy war against the United States and its citizens. A juggernaut was set in motion from that point on.

In the late afternoon of September 11th, 

Donald Rumsfeld, who was Secretary of Defense, instructed military aides to find evidence of Iraqi involvement in the terrorist attacks. Soon, Saddam Hussein was accused and a War on Terror was declared by President George W. Bush and his administration, but with promises of bringing the alleged terrorists to justice. The American Congress promptly signed a joint resolution three days after the attacks, giving unprecedented powers to the chief executive and a Global War on Terrorism was initiated on October 7, 2001, in Afghanistan. On March 20th, 2003, a coalition force led by the United States and Britain invaded Iraq.

The consequences of the attacks were soon to be felt, both directly and indirectly. Those who were exposed to toxic debris after the collapse of the towers suffer from respiratory diseases, and the social, economic, geopolitical and cultural consequences of the September 11 attacks are simply staggering.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an investigation and the 9/11 Commission, chaired by Thomas Kean, issued a report. The commission blamed al-Qaeda and questioned the competence of domestic security and intelligence.

In the years following September 11, 

September 27, 2012

U.S. Drones Terrorize in Pakistan


A new report on the secret U.S. drone war in Pakistan says the attacks have killed far more civilians than acknowledged, traumatized a nation and undermined international law. In "Living Under Drones," researchers conclude the drone strikes "terrorize men, women, and children, giving rise to anxiety and psychological trauma among civilian communities." The study concludes that most of the militants killed in the strikes have been low-level targets whose deaths have failed to make the United States any safer. Just 2 percent of drone attack victims are said to be top militant leaders. [ source ]



September 14, 2012

How to Steal an Elections in 9 Easy Steps


source: Greg Palast (http://ballotbandits.wordpress.com/excerpts/)


Here are the facts, ma’am:

In the 2008 election, no less than:

  •     767,023 provisional ballots were cast and not counted;

  •     1,451,116 ballots were “spoiled,” not counted;

  •     488,136 absentee ballots were mailed in, but not counted.

Add it up: in the last presidential election, no less than 2,706,275 ballots were cast—and never counted. I have not included a quarter million (251,936) provisional ballots counted only in part (that is, for some offices).

That’s the official number I’ve calculated from the records of the US Election Assistance Commission. Approximately three million votes flushed away are ugly enough. But it gets worse.... (Read the entire book excerpt here)

Chapter Two: “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012″

September 11, 2012

New 9/11 Documentary on PBS is 2nd Most Watched!

"9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out" is getting public attention and casting doubt on the scientific validity of the U.S. government's investigation into the WTC tragedy. PBS is the first major network to air the program.





 Read more! >>

Update on 9/12: It's #1 now! Go watch it!

August 15, 2012

You Can't Clap Your Hands 10 Times in a Second!

WTC 1 - Explosive Ejections Or Air Jets?


UPDATE -- I stand corrected: YouTube (at 0:35 seconds) Do you think you can do that? :-)

August 3, 2012

Popular Historian Concludes Falsity of 9/11 Government Report


It inspires me to know that there have always been intelligent people who first put the facts (historical, physical, etc.) together, and then conclude that 9/11 was not as our government tells us. And then they speak out, and act out, about it. Even back in 2003.






Gore Vidal died on Tuesday at the age of 86 from complications of pneumonia. Vidal was a national icon who authored some 25 novels, several plays, two memoirs and multiple volumes of essays. He was one of the best-known and most prolific chroniclers of American history and politics, dedicating his work to critiquing the injustices of U.S. society. We air an excerpt of a Democracy Now! interview with Vidal from 2003 in the early stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.


More journalism reports on 9/11

July 17, 2012

Interview with Thomas Drake, whistle-blower on US Gov't Illegal Surveillance

An AMAZING interview with Thomas Drake, a former top official in the National Security Agency, now a whistleblower.

An expert on electronic eavesdropping, Drake sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on perceived wrongdoings within the NSA. He was charged under the Espionage Act, though the charges were dropped only last year.

He told RT that in America’s ‘soft tyranny’, everyone is subject or suspect in terms of surveillance.



RT: What was the potential harm of the program that you challenged while working with the NSA?

Thomas Drake: There was a very large flagship program called Trailblazer that was designed to catapult the NSA into the twenty first century to deal with the vast amounts of data generated by the digital age. Given the massive fraud and abuse that the NSA had created with the Trailblazer program, as well as the super secret surveillance program, the NSA completely violated the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment. In particular, the stature called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was the first commandment at the NSA: you did violate Americans’ privacy without a warning, and if you did – there is a criminal penalty for doing so. And I found this out to my horror and shock, that shortly after 9/11, the NSA entered a secret agreement with the White House in which the NSA would become the executive agent for this secret surveillance program. On the front end, it was designed to deal with a terrorist threat – and that was quite understandable.

But what it did – it actually turned the US into a collection platform.Vast rims of data were increasingly being collected through other entities and saved for analysis.

Check out the rest of the interview HERE.

Spying on Scientists: How the FDA Monitored Whistleblowers Who Raised Concerns over Radiation


July 9, 2012

Quote: We cannot kill our way to victory in the war on terror


"
[War] technology has improved since Vietnam and Cambodia. But we still can't bomb our way to victory....

We live in an age when American might can overwhelm the defenses of entire countries with barely a drop of American blood spent. It is, in a way, too easy. Because there is so little risk, there is no political cost to be paid for the drone wars. Presidents Bush and Obama could deploy drones by the dozens with the certain knowledge it would do nothing but enhance their political causes....

We cannot kill our way to victory in the war on terror. I'm not even sure we have a place in the fight.



Radical Islam is a cult within the larger body of the religion. It is not going to be defeated with bombs or bullets. It must be attacked and rooted out from within Islam, at the village and mosque level. Our main role in this fight is to embolden the Muslim majority to rally against the radicals.

Right now, we're harming that goal more than helping.

"

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcdermott-drones-and-cambodia-20120617,0,5678418.story

July 4, 2012

July 4th: Can Americans Escape the Deception?

Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, has held numerous university appointments and is Contributing Editor to Gerald Celente’s Trends Journal.

Hot Air Day is upon us. On July 4 hot air will spew forth all over the country as dignitaries deliver homilies to our “freedom and democracy” and praise “our brave troops” who are protecting our freedom by “killing them over there before they come over here.”

Not a single one of these speeches will contain one word of truth. No speaker will lament the death of the US Constitution or urge his audience to action to restore the only document that protects their liberty. No speaker will acknowledge that in the 21st century the Bush/Obama Regime, with the complicity of the Department of Justice, federal courts, Congress, presstitute media, law schools, bar associations, and an insouciant public have murdered the Constitution in the name of the “war on terror.”

As in medieval times, American citizens can be thrown into dungeons and never accounted for. No evidence or charges need be presented to a court. No trial is required, and no conviction.

As in tyrannies, US citizens can be executed at the sole discretion of the despot in the Oval Office, who sits there drawing up lists of people to be murdered.

Protestors exercising their constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association are attacked by armed police, beaten, tasered, tear-gassed, pepper sprayed, and arrested.

Whistleblowers who report the government’s crimes are prosecuted despite the statute that protects them.

US soldier Bradley Manning, who allegedly gave Wikileaks the documents revealing US war crimes, including the video of US soldiers in a helicopter gunship enjoying themselves murdering civilians walking along the street as if the soldiers were playing a video game, has been arrested and held in conditions of torture while the government tries to invent a case against him.

According to the US Military Code, US soldiers are required to make war crimes known. However, the law on the books provided no protection to Bradley Manning, and conservative Republicans whom I know are foaming at the mouth for Manning to be executed for letting out the truth. The truth, what is mere truth compared to the “exceptionalism of the great american people”? America has carte blanche to do whatever it wishes to the unexceptional peoples. Manning deserves to die, they say, because he took the side of the oppressed and not the side of the amerikan oppressors.

After the Swedish prosecutorial office dropped the case against Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, ruling that the charges of rape had no foundation, another prosecutor, many believe at the urging of the US government, demanded Assange be extradited from England in order to be questioned. Normally, extradition only applies to those who have been charged with a crime and for whom a warrant has been issued, which is most certainly not the case with Assange. But, of course, if Washington wants Assange, Washington will be sure every law is broken or bent until they get him. The Swedish puppet will do the exceptional country’s will and be paid well for its service.

Peace activists in several states had their homes invaded by FBI, computers and personal records taken, and a grand jury was convened in an attempt to indict them for supporting terrorism by their protests of Washington’s illegal wars, wars that are war crimes under the Nuremberg standard established by the US government itself.

None of this will be mentioned in July 4 patriotic speeches. The inebriated masses will be wrapped in the flag and return home full of the hubris that despises lesser foreigners, such as Muslims, Arabs, Chinese, and the French.

And no dignitary will mention that those that “we are killing over there” are mainly women, children, village elders, and aid workers. The US troops seem to specialize in soft targets like weddings, funerals, kids’ soccer games, farm houses, and schools.

Recently Washington reduced the “collateral damage” count by declaring every murdered male of military age to have been a Taliban fighter or terrorist. Obviously, Washington has no way of knowing whether they were or not, but Washington’s declaration is intended as a green light to murder Afghan males of military age.

Currently, Washington has wars underway, or occupations, or is violating the sovereignty of countries with drones and/or troops in seven Muslim countries, and is arming rebels in Syria. All of this is being done without the constitutionally-required authorization by Congress, allegedly the people’s representatives. What a joke!

In short, in “freedom and democracy” america, the people have no voice and no rights and no representatives. 

Yet, this huge deficit of democracy and liberty will pass unmentioned by July 4th orators.

The crimes against humanity, the dismantling of the US Constitution and the lawlessness both domestic and international that define 21st century amerika are the results of September 11, 2001.

Washington’s account of 9/11 is the wildest conspiracy theory known to mankind. The absurdity of Washington’s account is as follows: A few Saudi Arabians without any government’s backing or that of any intelligence service outwitted not only the CIA and the FBI but all 16 US intelligence agencies, even the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, together with the intelligence agencies of all of Washington’s NATO allies and Israel’s Mossad, which has infiltrated every radical Muslim group.

These humble Saudis of no known distinction or powers also simultaneously outwitted the National Security Council, NORAD, the Pentagon, Air Traffic Control, and caused Airport Security to fail four times in one hour on the same morning.

In other words, every part of America’s defenses failed at the same moment.

Think about that for a minute. If such a thing had actually happened, the President, Vice President, Congress, and media would have been demanding to know how such universal failure of every aspect of the national security state was possible. An investigation would have started immediately, not over a year later as a result of pressure from 9/11 families who could not be bought off with monetary payments. Such complete and total failure of every aspect of US security would mean that americans were not safe one single minute during the 40-year stand-off with the Soviet Union. At any moment the Soviets could have utterly destroyed the US and we would never have known what hit us.

In a real investigation, the 9/11 evidence would not have been illegally destroyed, and the investigation would have been conducted by experts, not by government agencies assigned a cover-up and by political hacks. The NIST report is abject nonsense. It explains nothing. It is a fabricated computer simulation of a non-event. The co-chairmen and legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission later wrote books in which they stated that information was withheld from the commission, the military lied to the commission, and the commission “was set up to fail.” Yet, these astounding admissions by the leaders of the 9/11 Commission had no impact on Congress, the presstitute media, or the public. All heads were in the sand. Please, whatever you do, don’t make us emotional weaklings face the facts.

More than one hundred firefighters, police, first responders, and building maintenance personnel report hearing and experiencing scores of explosions in the twin towers, including powerful explosions in the sub-basements prior to the collapse of the towers.

Distinguished scientists, authors of many peer-reviewed scientific papers, report finding unreacted nano-thermite in the dust from the towers, tested it for its explosive and high-heat producing ability, and reported the unequivocal results.

Seventeen hundred architects and engineers have testified in a petition to Congress that the three World Trade Center buildings were not brought down by fire and airplanes and have demanded a real scientific investigation of the cause of the buildings’ destruction.

Yet, we are left with the paradox that scientific opinion based on careful examination of the remaining evidence has been designated by the ignorant and unwashed as a “conspiracy theory,” while Washington’s absurd conspiracy theory stands as the truth of the event.

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth headed by high-rise architect Richard Gage has driven the final nail in the coffin of Washington’s concocted conspiracy theory with its new film: “9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out,” and they do speak out. Scores of top level demolition experts and experts on the design, engineering, and construction of high rise steel structures provide the scientific, architectural, and engineering reasons that the three World Trade Center buildings came down only with the assistance of explosives that were placed and timed to remove the powerful structural support and permit the sudden collapse of the buildings. As the buildings were engineered and constructed according to known and tested principles that absolutely prevent rapid collapse, fire and structural damage that two of the three skyscrapers suffered from airliners could not possibly have caused the sudden disintegration of the three buildings.

I saw the film in Atlanta on July 2. Atlanta was a stop on the 32-city premier of the film. The film was shown at the 7 Stages Theater on Euclid Avenue, the former Euclid Theater to which 65 years ago we kids used to ride our bikes to see Tarzan battle giant reptiles and ride elephants to victory over evil black tribesmen or evil white hunters, or to watch Randolph Scott bring justice with his six-shooter to a town ruled by black hats, or to witness the brave American soldiers liberate Europe from the Nazis. We never dreamed that we, residents of the “land of the free” would be menaced by a gestapo police state.

America’s descent into a gestapo police state could be arrested, perhaps, if americans were not so ignorant of science or were capable of even realizing that what they see with their own eyes when they watch videos of the twin towers’ destruction is buildings blowing up, not buildings falling down from structural damage. Building 7’s destruction is the total and complete picture of controlled demolition.

At the end of the powerful film, psychologists explain why the majority of a population lacks the mental and emotional strength to confront highly disturbing facts. A government that so thoroughly spies on its population as Washington does obviously knows its population’s profile and sees nothing but weakness and fear that can be manipulated.

What fact is more disturbing than the likely fact that 9/11 was a false flag event designed to provide the neoconservatives with their “new Pearl Harbor” in order to launch Washington’s Wars of Hegemony in the Middle East, and from there to Iran and to the nuclear powers: Russia and China, which are being encircled, as Iran has been, with US military bases?

What we are experiencing is a replay of the French Revolution, this time on a world stage. Napoleon, the inheritor of the French Revolution, conquered Europe several times in the effort to expand the New Order in France to all of Europe. The French Revolution was the first claim of a New World Order, but at that time the world
was Europe.

Washington’s “wars of liberation” are wars of world hegemony and wars of massive profits for the military/security complex. The combination of power and money that are the motives for Washington’s concocted wars are hidden motives, wrapped in the flag, patriotic sentiments, and fear of dark-skinned demonized Muslims.

Can Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth or any truth break through and liberate americans from the artificial reality created by government liars and a corrupt presstitute media, or are americans doomed to expire in the Matrix that has been created for them?

Perhaps the hope is that the economy will collapse under the would-be hegemons, and people who will not fight for principles and their liberty will fight for their economic survival.

source: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/07/04/can-americans-escape-deception



June 13, 2012

Military Suicide Epidemic: More U.S. Soldier Suicides Than Battlefield Deaths in 2012



More U.S. soldiers have died this year by taking their own lives than on the battlefield. The Pentagon says there have been at least 154 suicides among active-duty troops in 2012, a rate of nearly one each day.

April 12, 2012

Proof that 9/11 Truthers Are "Dangerous"

So:

There must not be any good 9/11 Truth evidence, right? (You would've heard about any important discrepancies by now, of course.) Those official government reports must be rock-solid science and reason. As it turns out, all those “Truthers” out there are really paranoid and quite dangerous!

Names Exposed: Read All About It!

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/proof-that-911-truthers-are-dangerous.html

March 29, 2012

February 9, 2012

The Problem with Long-term Stock Market Investments

One of the long-term retirement strategies that I learned about in my university Personal Finance class was to invest in the stock market. (This was way back in 2004.) Sure, there have always been dips and lulls, bears and bulls; but historically, it's always made profit. It made me think of the stock market tend like this: (S&P 500)


Ah ha, this is the ticket to financial freedom! Early retirement! I just invest in my 401/k and Roth IRA (RRSP), and I'm set! It's so simple! So I thought.

Only, it turns out that the stock market has actually been performing like THIS for the last 15 years:



Hmmm, see any trend difference? Raise your hand if this data raises your confidence in the future of the US economy. Think of ALL the government debt being poured into the ecomony over the past 15 years, and where has it gotten us?

So then, what does this mean in terms of investing for retirement? I'm no economist, BUT I'm left to believe that, in the future, there may not exist such a thing as retire at 65. What do you think?

February 4, 2012

Revolving Door Between Pentagon and War Industry Continues


Weapons contractor Raytheon just announced that it hired retired General James Cartwright to it s board of directors. It's another example of the revolving door between the Pentagon and the war industry. Eighty percent of retiring 3- or 4-star generals cash in by going to work for military contractors--a major conflict of interest that makes a few people at the top of these companies, very, very rich.

From 2007: A family of four's share of the financial burden for both wars is $20,900