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luciola-reviews-anime · 7 years ago

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Let’s Talk About Conspiracy Theories

So with this post I want to talk about conspiracy theories, or at least, what one needs to have for it to be viable. There are a lot of them out there, and I'm sure there will be more to come in the future. We have the earth being flat, 9/11 was an inside job, the moon landing was fake, and vaccines cause autism. Just to name a few. No matter what side you're on, usually your views are very strong, but no matter what you bring to the table. It's in my opinion that if the conspiracy cannot meet these three targets, it simply can't even be taken seriously.

The first is very simple. Who benefits? Remember, what we're looking at is a fact that has either been falsified, or a truth that has been hidden from the world for a specific purpose. Let's look at flat earth theory. Whenever I check out something about this one. They claim that NASA is the group to benefit from a round earth. They're given billions of dollars in funds to run experiments and studies, and even to send people into space. From what I've studied, most people that believe in the flat earth say that space itself is a lie, gravity is a lie, and the mathematics to support them is fake. Any images of space is just CGI.

Here's the problem. NASA did not come up with the idea of gravity, nor did they originate the claim that the earth was round. The discovery of gravity was made in 1687, and since that point the scientific community has used the math and theories of gravity in a number of different ways. For over three hundred years, gravity has been subjected to the scientific method. Many a flat earther will remind people common believes have been disproved before, but they forget that they were disproved thanks to the scientific method and community.

Then we have the discovery of the earth being round. Again, this was not a NASA development, but proven when Magellan circumvented the globe. He did this in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the spice islands. Though he did not survive, the trip was a success. We're close to five hundred years of knowing for a fact that the earth is round. The only counter acting of this argument is that what we know of history, is a complete falsification, for five hundred years, for no plausible benefit to anyone.

But this brings us to the second target of a conspiracy theory. How many people are in on it? Remember it just takes one person in the know to mess things up. You can argue that it's easy to silence one person, but why don't you tell that to the NSA and Edward Snowden? Or even the number of leaks that are in the current Trump administration? The fact is that the more people you need to have to be in on the theory, the less plausible it becomes. I picked on the flat earthers before, and I can just mention that it would take… Literally millions of people to be in on the conspiracy though history, science, sailing, flight, construction, and astronomy to name a few to have to be in on this.

So let's take the anti vaccinations. They say that Big Pharma benefits from hiding the truth that vaccines are dangerous. Because obviously when a product doesn't work properly, instead of fixing it, it's easier to just lie to the population of the world. Look, in the end it's still a business. If there's a hint that something is wrong with a product there will be studies and tests to determine if that's the case or not. These are independent studies done by people who want to make money off the failure of said product. Have you ever seen an advert about filing a mass law suit because a certain drug or procedure was found to be unsafe? In other words, you need the medical community of the entire world in agreement to hide this one little detail. Because if it got out? Let's face it, we still need vaccines to live. I don't want polio. I don't my kids to get polio.

And this takes us to the third target. Can you prove it one way or another? Let's face it. The reason that something is placed in the category of a conspiracy, is because we're being fed a false truth to cover up the real one. The problem is that you shouldn't be able to prove a false truth. You shouldn't be able to circumvent the globe if the earth is flat, and there should be no way to see or prove the curvature of the earth. Doing either of these things instantly busts the argument. (sorry flat earthers) Studies by independent parties shouldn't be able to say things like "There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism."

Now you might say. But Lucio, those are the false facts being fed to you! The problem you're running into in these goes in three fold, first we have the second point, how many people are in on it? And we can add in, how credible are the people we're trying to discredit? Remember in the anti vaccine argument, we're not trying to discredit one group of people making one specific product that cannot be recreated. We're trying to discredit the entire medical community, and people who make and study diseases and medicine. If there was a problem with vaccines, there would be another group that would be working night and day to make a safe working version of them instead of just giving out a faulty product. Finally we would have to ask. Where does the truth end, and the lies begin?

Let's look at it this way. Say I offer the theory that the anti smoking campaign is actually a false organization. They've spread out fake medical reports about cigarettes to get people to quit. They actually make nicotine patches, they're behind vapping, and they also collect funds from organizations like Truth. I can support this much like a flat earther. I mean, I've seen people in their eighties that claim to smoke every day and they're fine. I can support this like an anti vaccine supporter and say that the medical facts and studies that we have been given are just lies, or even state that these are the same people who are telling me that vaccines are safe. So when should I believe them, and when shouldn't I?

This is why you must look into how credible the other source is, and how able the world is to be able to prove something. With a flat earth, we have so much mathematical and scientific evidence that you must say is simply a lie in order for you to have any ground to stand on. There have been countless studies on vaccines and if they cause autism, but far too often there simply isn't any proof. Most commonly what I hear from these theorists is that they just have a feeling. They have a feeling that they're right, despite the evidence. Another excuse is something along the lines of "You shouldn't just take everything people tell you as a fact." Yes it is good to ask questions, this is how we learn. But there's asking questions, and there's ignoring the facts. Most people within the conspiracy theory are not actually open to the truth, kinda ironic, right?

I can give a quick glance at the other two theories I mentioned, so they don't feel left out. The moon landing was staged. We have a clear benefiter. The USA and Russia were in the cold war, and anything one could do better than the other would be a clear win. The space race was, in a way, a proxy war. The people that needed to keep the conspiracy secret would not be too unreasonable either. It would have to be all of NASA at the time, a select number of US governmental and militaristic figures, and the people who staged the show. The great thing about this as well is that the people in the know, can grow smaller and smaller in numbers as the years pass. And finally. I mean, how can you prove it one way or another? Go to the moon? And why haven't we been there since then?

Sounds like something we can, oh wait a minute… So question? What about Russia? I mean. There's no way they would just give us the win if they knew it was false. And you have to believe they wanted that win. So we'll have to add in an enemy nation into the people that need to keep it secret, at no benefit to themselves. This can also actually answer why we haven't been back to the moon. Do you know what's on the moon? Nothing. I've read some articles on how the next great business idea is to send a rocket out to mine a comet for minerals. This could be a trillion dollar idea. And there's the moon. Right there. Where we can see it, we've been on it. And that's how we know there's nothing good on it. We beat the Russians there, mission accomplished. Going back is just a dangerous waste of time and resources until we can colonize the bastard. Or attach lasers…

Well at least 9/11 was an inside job right? I mean again we have a clear benefactor in the US. Stage a terrorist attack, get the perfect excuse to go to war, get that delicious delicious oil. You don't really need a lot of people to be in on it either. Just the military personnel who planned it. Hell, let's even go with this. The US knew it was going to happen, and they let it happen. They didn't think it would be such a disaster, but when planes crash into buildings, things happen. And it's not like we can prove one way or another that the US didn't know about it and just let it happen. I mean, look at Pearl Harbor. Shit, I might have to look into this one more sometime!

In the end though, the thing that makes it a conspiracy theory, is that you can't prove it. It might be brought into light later. But you shouldn’t chose to distrust or hate the government or an organization because of a plausibility. There's already too many reasons for that as it is.

I hope this helps you in your future! Remember those three proofs when you hear about any crazy theories out there, and have fun. Please try not to take any of them too seriously though, because in the end a belief is a tricky thing to change, and often enough that's what they turn into. I'd rather take the advise from the Thirteenth apostle, Rufus, and instead just have a good idea.

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annaspavlova · 7 years ago

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Yeah, how dare she love her people, that are hated all over the world by people like you, and want to defend her country. I bet you hate the soldiers that were fighting against Nazism too. How nice to be you, comfortable and safe, not surrounded by millions of Arab enemies that want you and all you love - dead.

israel is a man-made, zionist state that has continued to take over palestinian land for decades. if you had an ounce of common sense, it would mean knowing that all land that belongs to israel on a map as of 2017 is not true israeli land as israel does not own any land that they have not stolen from palestine. their entire country and its borders are the result of violently stealing from a palestine that had been brutally attacked for years in order for israel to acquire more and more land and to preserve it as israeli land as much as possible. if you look at maps over the years, it literally shows how much land israel has violently stolen from palestine, which used to own all the land currently occupied by israel. israel has invaded, stolen, murdered, bombed, etc. in order to create and maintain the borders of their "country." as for israel being surrounded by arab enemies, there was a fucking choice made that israel, an official jewish state, would be created on what is now INVADED and STOLEN arab land in the first place. it is literally impossible, unless you're the most fucking idiotic person on this planet, for there to be a logical belief that a country created the way israel has been created and expanded without having a single thought that maybe stealing and, again, expanding israeli land over decades without having a fraction of a thought that it might possibly anger arab countries, their citizens and their governments. their anger and hatred of israel IS justified, especially considering arab receive very little vocal support from the western world. arabs are consistently labelled horrible things (ex. terrorists) so often that the islamophobia has prevented them from being treated and welcomed worldwide; they face constant fear of violence simply from being arab or a member of islam. are all arabs members of islam? no, yet that doesn't matter as all arabs are considered islamic extremists hoping to destroy the west by a staggering number of people worldwide anyway. israel also receives so much support from the united states and other countries around the world that of fucking course arabs are going to be angry. a state that was created by the invasion of palestinian land would obviously disturb such a significant number of arabs, so to say they have a reason to hate israel, anyone who knows anything about how the state was created yet defends it and all of its negative impacts on palestine and the rest of the middle east sounds pretty reasonable in my eyes. israel does not deserve to be viewed as a real country, nor does it deserve the support from people like you who honestly believe that israel is pure and wonderful and has done no wrong. you're either racist and islamophobic as fuck, are actually israeli and blindly defend your horrific country, are such a huge fan of gal that you refuse to believe the atrocities her country has committed or have been fed the wrong information for so long that you don't know the truth about israel whatsoever. whatever it is, i suggest doing some research for yourself on how israel was created, the violence they acted with and continue to act with and take a look at a map that shows the progression of israel invading palestinian land. as for gal loving her country and wanting to fight for her people, a choice was made on her own to serve in the idf, which is well known as a horrible, violent military group. as an israeli citizen, gal gadot would know and be taught the history of israel and how it's fared as a country just as i have been taught the same things about the country i live in. the thing you might have not thought about is that curriculums here are often tainted to make my country look better, stronger, more powerful and more globally prominant than it really is or ever has been. our curriculum teaches us that we magically ended world war 2 by participating in d-day and our textbooks continued to label the russians, who were a huge part of ending the war and defeating nazi germany, as evil people that should never be trusted. it's skewed and extremely inaccurate and gal gadot would have been taught the same types of things about her country, especially considering their country has been much more unnecessarily harmful worldwide than the country i live in has been. israel has much more to hide about its past than many other countries, so why not hide the truth about the heinous parts of their country's past and present in order to secure the patriotism in their citizens. this is way too common of a practice in the teaching of a country's history; the government of any country would never risk teaching the entire truth to its citizens in fear of risking losing the patriotism and respect most people have for their countries. yet if i, as a 15 year old kid, began questioning and later researching the things i'd been taught in school myself, gal should be able to to the exact same thing as a grown adult. if she can't be intelligent enough as a fully grown adult to research her country's past for herself with all the horrible information about israel that the country faces consistently and hears often, she's not proving herself to be worthy of any sort of hype or respect and certainly should not be thought of as intelligent or thoughtful either. my point summed up: she isn't a good person and unless she finds a way to believably, truly regret and apologize for her service that contrubited to many deaths, i will never respect her and you're fucking crazy if you do. cool, she may have just created the mosts amazing movie to ever exist acccording to some, but out of respect for the people she helped murder, i will definitely not be contributing to the money the movie has already made. it's fared just fine without peoples' money who refuse to watch in theatres because of gal. are you honestly accusing me of being a nazi apologist because i refuse to support a movie that includes a woman who was willing to help her country murder innocent human beings? you're some kind of next level fucked up for accusing someone of that. even as a person 300% against anti-semitism and in support of the protection of all jewish people worldwide, i do not feel bad for hating israel and wishing for it to be abolished, as israel has gone on to murder a significant number of people as well. as many as nazi germany? far from it. more than necessary with zero reason for the past how many decades now? yeah, they have, and it's dispicable. as a group of people who were so severely targeted during world war 2 and deserve lives filled with peace, love and support from the very beginning, you've got to have some real fucking guts if you're israeli to believe murdering people who are different than you despite your own people being murdered not long ago in the mid-1900's and taking their land (sound familiar? it's what nazi germany did! and as a country germany still has a lot to do to even begin getting into repairing what their country did less than 100 years ago, one thing of which is current german generations whining that it is unfair for people to remember the country's actions under hitler and still feel negativity toward germany for what they did) for your own prosperity is so fucking wrong. is israel a jewish state, and do i support jewish people and put down any kind if anti-semitism i come across? fucking obviously. do i support jewish people and judaism across the entire globe? obviously as well. i, as someone who is not a part of any religion by my own choice, happen to have a HUGE interest in learning about jewish peoples' experiences during and since world war 2 and judaism in general (as well as having a tremendous amount of respect for jewish people who are still unafraid to show and speak about their religious/cultural beliefs to the world despite anti-semitism still being rampant worldwide) as i believe judaism is the most interesting of the major world religions, still do not have any type of support for israel as a country nor for gal gadot as a person who negatively contributed to horrible actions carried out by the idf. and it's not as if i don't have support for jewish people in israel because i do, as long as they don't claim palestinians do not deserve to exist and israel should own all of their land, as long as they don't believe it is okay to be a part of the idf and contribute to mass murder (yes, i understand that for the average working-middle class person it's extremely difficult to be properly excused and not face harsh punishments, although bar rafaeli was excused due to her career, even though she admitted she would have liked to have served and as a result have very low respect for her as well, so considering rafaeli was excused, gal's fame and area of work very likely would have been a good enough reason to be excused as well), but just because i support jewish people who can tell right from wrong with regards to the idf's actions, even if they live in israel, it still does not change the fact that that i believe israel as a nation is one of the most destructive and abominable countries on this planet and i will not ever be convinced otherwise.

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tears-of-araxes-blog · 8 years ago

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News after Obama was elected to a second term- listed (roughly) chronologically, most recent first:

[For this post, from the most recent, to after his reelection in 2012]

In the final week of his presidency, Obama sends hundreds of U.S. Marines to Norway in a move that puts more U.S. military at Russia's doorstep (READ)

Obama sends 3,500 U.S. troops and tanks to Russia's border in one of his final decisions as president. Russia reponds by saying, "These actions threaten our interests, our security, especially as it concerns a third party building up its military presence near our borders." (READ)

Obama sanctions Russia over unproven hacking claims (READ ).

Obama takes parting shot at Russia in UN finale: "We see Russia attempting to recover lost glory through force", the US leader said without a hint of irony. "If Russia continues to interfere in the affairs of its neighbors, it may fuel nationalist fervor for a time, but over time it's also going to diminish its stature." Obama also appeared to be detached from reality when he said, "The world is by many measures less violent and more prosperous than ever before (READ ).

Although President Obama began his administration with a dramatic public commitment to build a nuclear weapons-free world, that commitment has long ago dwindled and died, as Obama plans a 30-year, $1 trillion, taxpayer-funded program to modernize US nuclear arsenal and production facilities. (READ ).

Obama opens up relations with Vietnam by agreeing to sell them weapons ( READ ).

Obama plans to increase deployment of heavy weapons and other equipment to NATO countries in Central & Eastern Europe ( READ).

Instead of condemning Turkey for shooting down a Russian jet, Obama voiced his approval ( READ ). And instead of offering condolences to Russia, Obama blames Russia ( READ ).

Obama announces US war in Afghanistan will not end in 2016, as promised ( READ ).

The White House made clear yesterday that they oppose any independent investigation of the recent US attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and the next day the US smashed into the wreckage of the hospital with a tank, forcing their way in and destroying potential evidence that would be used in a war crimes investigation ( READ ).

Obama: Mistakes Made in NATO War on Libya, US Should ve Done Even More. Suggests Even More Intervention the Answer ( READ ).

In Letters to Congressmen, Obama Pledges More Money for Israel, Talks Up Attacking Iran ( READ ).

Former Bush Official With Ties To CIA Torture Program Now Advises Obama Interrogators ( READ ).

After US drones kill hostages in Pakistan, Obama invokes American Exceptionalism ( READ ).

Obama won't call it Armenian 'genocide' on 100th anniversary of atrocity ( READ ).

US intelligence used for Saudi airstrikes in Yemen ( READ ).

Obama halts US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan ( READ ).

Obama approves US airstrikes in Tikrit ( READ ).

Sounding a lot like Bush, Obama says the US is going after ISIL wherever it hides, ( READ ).

Huh? Obama: Defeating ISIS Hinges on Syria Regime Change ( READ ).

Obama administration to allow sales of armed drones to allies - will sell to allied countries, some of which have troubling records on human rights and political freedoms ( READ ).

Obama's Blank Check For War: Obama's authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) against ISIS permits action anywhere in the world against not just ISIS, but "associated forces" ( READ ).

13 Years, $1 Trillion Plus Spent, Obama Declares Afghan War a Success - Insists Protracted Occupation Made World 'Safer' ( READ ).

Obama administration refuses to pursue charges against CIA torturers in spite of scathing report ( READ ).

Obama has signed more executive memoranda than any other president in history ( READ ).

President Obama is actively seeking options for how to use ground troops in Iraq ( READ ).

Obama Extends NSA Spying Powers Yet Again ( READ ).

Obama Plans to Increase Number of Troops in Afghanistan in 2015 ( READ ).

In Secret, Obama Extended U.S. Military Role in Afghanistan Combat ( READ ) - contradicting his statement in May " Americas combat mission will be over by the end of this year. Starting next year, Afghans will be fully responsible for securing their country.

White House, C.I.A. Working Together to Thwart Release of Agency's Torture Report ( READ ).

Obama immigration speech: Sounded just like Bush's 2006 speech ( READ ).

Obama punts on net neutrality ( READ ).

Obama doubles the number of troops in Iraq ( READ ).

Obama again pushing for TPP ( READ ).

Obama Could Reaffirm a Bush-Era Reading of a Treaty on Torture ( READ ).

America's deadly double tap drone attacks are 'killing 49 people for every known terrorist in Pakistan' according to Stanford/NYU study ( READ ).

White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths ( READ ).

U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms ( READ ).

U.S. to keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan ( READ ).

Mass surveillance just earned another 90-day blank check, nine months after President Obama promised to rein in the NSA s spying powers ( READ ).

Obama and Cameron push for war on ISIS in Syria and Iraq - insists anyone who opposes this conflict is an "isolationalist" ( READ ).

Obama's Pentagon Covered Up War Crimes in Afghanistan, Says Amnesty International ( READ ).

Obama Authorizes Airstrikes in Iraq (yet somehow says, "As commander in chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq") ( READ ).

Thank You, President Obama. Love, Israel ( READ ).

Six US Presidents Have Destroyed Iraq ( READ ).

How the Obama Administration is Keeping Big Coal Alive ( READ ).

Afraid to Stoke Populist Ire, Obama Abandons 'Inequality' Rhetoric ( READ ).

Rubbing our noses in it: Obama's FAA gives first approval of commercial drones in US to... BP ( READ ). Obama appointee and fellow Democrat Anthony Foxx who is the secretary of Transportation, which oversees the FAA, said that BP's use of drones is "another important step toward broader commercial use of unmanned aircraft."

Obama Seeks to More Heavily Censor Drone Killing Memo ( READ ).

Speaking at the West Point commencement speech, President Obama put forward his foreign policy vision, which he described as might doing right, declaring that I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. ( READ ).

Obama to announce direct training of "rebels" in Syria ( PHOTO ).

Deal Welcoming US Military Into Philippines Slammed As 'Betrayal' ( READ ) - protesters burn effigy of Obama in Philippines ( PHOTO).

Obama breaks campaign promise on net neutrality ( READ ).

At the same time the US is accusing Russia of being militarily provocative, the US sent 600 troops to Poland to counter "Russia's aggression in Ukraine;" deployed six American F-15 aircraft inside Lithuania ; pledged a $10 million increase in border security aid to Moldova ; declared its desire to strengthen NATO's military cooperation with Armenia and Azerbaijan ; stated that it wanted to send more troops to Romania ; decided to send more US troops and military aircraft into Uganda ; announced it would expand its covert support of the Syrian opposition , and fomented unrest in Venezuela .

US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest ( READ ). White House calls it a "a development-assistance programme." ( READ ).

Obama The Least Transparent President in History ( READ ).

Obama says 'bigger nations cannot simply bully smaller ones'. Wait... what? ( READ ).

Obama defends Iraq invasion: "But even in Iraq, America sought to work within the international system. We did not claim or annex Iraq s territory, nor did we grab its resources for our own gain. Instead, we ended our war and left Iraq to its people and a fully sovereign Iraqi state could make decisions about its own future. ( READ ).

Obama Wants More NATO Troops in Eastern Europe ( READ ).

US Regime-Change Operation in Ukraine Exposed in Leaked Diplomatic Phone Call ( READ ).

The Obama administration has killed 4,700 individuals in numerous countries, including Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, bragged Sen. Lindsey Graham ( READ ).

Obama administration extends $6.5 billion loan guarantee to build nuclear reactors ( READ ).

One of the most generous offerings for corporate America in the U.S. tax code is about to become even more bountiful under an Obama administration proposal ( READ ).

Obama's NSA 'Reforms' Are Little More Than a PR Attempt to Mollify the Public ( READ ).

Obama Unveils Vague NSA Reforms, Denies Wrongdoing ( READ ).

Groups to Obama: Your Fossil Fuel-Driven Policies Equal 'Catastrophic Climate Future' ( READ ).

Christmas day, 2013 announcement: Obama is sending Hellfire missiles and drones to Iraq ( READ ).

Obama plans $355 billion upgrade to nuclear weapons ( READ ).

Obama s photo policy smacks of propaganda ( READ ).

I am sorry that they, you know, are finding themselves in this situation, based on assurances they got from me, said Obama, apologizing to Americans receiving insurance cancellation notices. In 2009, Obama said: If you like your health-care plan, you ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what. ( READ ).

"A Corporate Trojan Horse": Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws ( READ ).

Amid government shutdown, Obama signals cuts to Social Security, Medicare ( READ ).

Obama wants war on Syria, the people don't ( READ ).

Obama appears to be delusional: I didn't set a red line (on Syria), the world set a red line ( READ ).

Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches ( READ ).

White House knew Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda would be detained ( READ ).

Obama refuses to cut off military aid to Egypt in spite of brutal crackdown on protesters ( READ ).

Obama Appoints Documented 'Liar' to Convene NSA Review Board -- Investigation established by James Clapper is part of president's so-called transparency reforms ( READ ).

Obama's 'Tonight Show' Domestic Spying Comments Contradicted By New York Times Story ( READ ).

Obama toasts George HW Bush: 'We are surely a kinder and gentler nation because of you' ( READ ).

The case against Edward Snowden is the seventh under President Barack Obama in which a government official has been criminally charged with leaking classified information to the media. Under all previous presidents, just three such cases have been brought. ( READ )

Obama administration implementing a crackdown called the Insider Threat Program. Millions of federal employees must watch for "high-risk persons or behaviors" among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated with espionage. (READ) .

The CIA has been operating a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia for the past two years (READ) .

Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history" - Noam Chomsky

Edward Snowden: Obama expanded 'abusive' security programs (READ)

In justifying his actions in Syria, Obama said, "[T]here are folks who say, you know, 'We are so scarred from Iraq. We should have learned our lesson. We should not have anything to do with it.' Well, I reject that view as well." (READ)

In his 2009 inaugural address, Obama claimed that we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Now, in defending NSA spying, Obama says, "You can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy We are going to have to make some choices as a society." (READ)

Obama decides to arm rebels in Syria, in spite of it being against U.S. law to arm designated terrorist organizations. Obama's justification: The arms sent by the U.S. won't get into the hands of the al-Qaeda fighters amongst the rebels (READ)

Obama defends PRISM sweeping surveillance efforts (READ) .

Obama's NSA collecting Verizon customer phone records - under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk, regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing (READ) .

President Obama uses a sledgehammer against dissent - From Jeremy Hammond to Bradley Manning and the AP, Obama's 'assault on journalism' is a threat to our democracy (READ) .

Obama admits the U.S. kills innocent civilians: "it is a hard fact that U.S. strikes have resulted in civilian casualties" (READ) .

The United States has formally said for the first time that it killed Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three other US citizens in anti-terror strikes abroad (READ) .

Obama administration secretly obtains trove of Associated Press phone records in "unprecedented intrusion" (READ) .

Cornel West: Obama 'Is a War Criminal' (READ) .

Four Obama policies that help keep Gitmo open (READ) .

Obama's calls George W. Bush a "good man" at Bush library dedication (READ) .

The first of 500 Marines have begun deploying to Spain as part of a new rapid reaction force to respond to threats against U.S. citizens, government personnel or installations in Africa ( READ ).

It s Official: A Democratic President Proposes to Cut Social Security (READ) .

While Urging Gun Laws at Home, Obama Joins NRA to Weaken U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (READ) .

Signed the Monsanto Protection Act into law.

Obama Admin: GPS Tracking Without Warrants Necessary - Insists Tracking Americans' Every Movement Has 'Minimal' Privacy Impact ( READ ).

Obama inflames anti-Iran hysteria by speculatively claiming "Right now, we think it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually develop a nuclear weapon, but obviously we dt want to cut it too close" ( READ ).

Obama administration to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances ( READ ).

U.S. Steps Up Aid to Syrian Opposition, Pledging $60 Million ( READ ). Previous related: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on all Muslims to back the rebels in Syria in the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad ( READ );( READ ).

Is Obama really the 'lesser of two evils'? Could John McCain or Mitt Romney have gotten away with what President Barack Obama is doing? Where Democrats once feverishly denounced the actions of George W. Bush, they are now eerily silent when their own candidate behaves in much the same way as his predecessor ( read entire article ).

Obama sends U.S. troops to Niger to set up drone base ( READ ).

Obama's Possible Frack-Friendly Energy Plan a 'Nail in the Coffin' for Climate: Choice of MIT professor Ernest Moniz, known for championing gas fracking, as head of Department of Energy receives rebuke ( READ ).

Obama Maneuvers to Keep Kill List Memos Permanently Secret ( READ ).

Obama OKs $50 million to assist France in Mali ( READ ).

In State of the Union, Obama Misleads on Foreign Policy. "Over the next year, another 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan," the President said. But Obama is overselling this withdrawal: by the end of this year, the number of troops in Afghanistan will be about equal to the number that were there when Obama was elected. This is only a withdrawal because he decided to triple troop levels in an ill-advised military surge ( READ ).

Barack Obama is Pushing Gun Control at Home, but He's a Killer Abroad ( READ ).

White House: Drone Killings Ethical and Wise ( READ ).

US responds to Israeli attack on Syria by warning Syria ( READ ).

Obama's nomination of Mary Jo White for SEC chief reveals the president still isn't serious about cracking down on big banks ( READ).

Obama Inaugural Speech: US to Maintain Global Military Presence ( READ ).

The Untouchables: How the Obama Administration Protected Wall Street from Prosecutions ( READ ).

MLK: I have a dream. Obama: I have a drone ( READ ).

The Pipeline President: Obama s Keystone XL ( READ ).

Three Ways Obama Carried Bush s Tyrannical Torch, in Just One Week - Warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, Indefinite detention without charge or trial, Targeted killings of suspects by drone, without any pretense of due process (even if they are US citizens) remains none of the American people s business ( READ ).

Obama signs 2013 NDAA - blocking closure of Gitmo ( READ ).

Amy Goodman: Obama s New Year s Resolution: Protect the Status Quo - a number of bills were signed into law by President Barack Obama that renew some of the worst excesses of the Bush years ( READ ).

The Obama Administration deported more than 400,000 undocumented immigrants in the 2012 fiscal year, the most in the nation's history ( READ ).

Announced on Christmas eve: The U.S. will be sending Army brigades into as many as 35 African nations in early 2013 ( READ ).

Obama Administration Snubs Risk, Set to OK 'Frankenfish' ( READ ).

The US is going to substantially increase its military presence in the Philippines, increasing the number of troops, aircraft and ships which routinely rotate through the country, - a reason given: to serve The Philippines when struggling against natural disasters. ( READ ).

Obama's Deficit Proposal: Cut Social Security Benefits ( READ ).

Remember All the Children, Mr. President. Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli bombardments (with your approval and U.S. weapons). Remember the 168 children who have been killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan since 2006. Remember the 231 children killed in Afghanistan in the first 6 months of this year ( READ ).

Barack Obama's tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones ( READ).

Obama sends 400 troops to Syrian border ( READ ).

Obama grants unprecedented powers for warrantless surveillance. The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them. Now, NCTC can copy entire government databases flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others. The agency has new authority to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. Previously, both were prohibited ( READ ).

Obamacare Architect Leaves White House for Pharmaceutical Industry Job ( READ ).

US to leave 10,000 troops in Afghanistan past 2014 ( READ ).

Obama 'drone-warfare rulebook' condemned by human rights groups ( READ ).

Obama says he is "fully supportive" of Israel's attack on Gaza. There is no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on from outside its borders" (We wonder if Obama applies this logic to Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan where the U.S. is raining down missiles on those countries) ( READ ).

Obama Administration: Hamas to Blame for Gaza Violence. Says Israel 'has the right to defend itself' (but makes no mention of Palestinians having the same right) ( READ ).

Obama-appointed Afghanistan commander supports troops there past 2014 (READ) .

U.S. expands counterterrorism assistance in Cambodia in spite of human rights concerns ( READ ).

Julian Assange: Reelected Obama a 'wolf in sheep's clothing'. All of the activities against WikiLeaks by the United States have occurred under an Obama administration. ( READ ).

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The CAR Murders: A Critical Cold Case in the New Cold War Points to ‘Putin’s Chef’

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyST. PETERSBURG, Russia–It’s been more than a year now since someone murdered three Russian journalists on a dark road in a remote corner of the Central African Republic.Within days of the killings on the night of July 30-31, 2018, as The Daily Beast reported at the time, there were suspicions the journalists had been set up. Since then, the official investigations have gone nowhere or been diverted down blind alleys, and if the Kremlin and its front men have their way—which they normally do in the Central African Republic—the case will go completely cold. But the families of the victims, their colleagues, and the exiled Russian tycoon who sent the journalists on their fatal mission in the first place say they are determined to see justice done. Their investigations have peeled back layer after layer of an ostensibly private “company” noteworthy for conspiracy and corruption, which Russian President Vladimir Putin evidently employs to extend his influence around the world.Russian Journalists Murdered in Africa May Have Been Set UpAmericans concerned about the ruthlessness of Moscow’s operations to subvert or dominate other countries should take note as evidence mounts that some of the central figures in the cyberattacks on the U.S. presidential election in 2016 may also be implicated in the Africa homicides. The victims were Orkhan Dzhemal, 51, a famous Russian war correspondent; Alexander Rastorguyev, 47, a film director; and Kirill Radchenko, 33, a cameraman. They had traveled to Africa to make a documentary about the “Wagner Group,” a highly secretive private military contractor allegedly created by the infamous Russian billionaire and Putin crony, Yevgeny Prigozhin.He is the same figure named in a detailed indictment by the Mueller probe in February 2018 and in the subsequent Mueller Report released this year as the money man behind the Internet Research Agency, a troll factory here in St. Petersburg that set out to defeat Hillary Clinton, then help elect Donald Trump in 2016. (Prigozhin told a Russian state news agency that he was not upset about his indictment. “Americans see what they want to see,” he said.) But the troll factory is just one of many operations that are part of what his underlings refer to as “The Company.”Prigozhin, often given the anodyne sobriquet “Putin’s chef,” initially built his fortune on huge Russian government catering contracts, but the tentacles of his organization are spread far and wide, and in some surprising places. He even has a firm that makes candy, and there are many here who would tell you the sweets have a sinister background. “These are bloody chocolates, produced by the same people who attack and kill journalists,” claims Yegor Alekseyev, a blogger from St. Petersburg. “Two men broke my nose and smashed my teeth in 2016 after I published stories about Prigozhin’s ‘troll factory.’ These are dangerous people backed up by the [Russian government’s] special services.”In 2014, when Putin made his move to take the Crimean peninsula away from Ukraine and launch covertly a separatist revolution in the east of that country that has now cost more than 13,000 lives, combatants linked to a mysterious organization of mercenaries started showing up. Many of its recruits appeared to have come from Russian military intelligence, the GRU, especially the special forces component known as Spetsnaz. They answered to a former officer named Dmitry Utkin, nicknamed “Wagner.” These operatives also surfaced in Syria, in Sudan, and in the Central African Republic. Their objective was not only to extend Russian influence, but to take control of industries and especially natural resources, further enriching their backer, who was soon reported to be Prigozhin. He has issued pro forma denials, but evidence of Prigozhin’s ties to the group has continued to mount, especially in the private investigations of those trying to get to the bottom of the Central African murders. * * *DUELING INVESTIGATIONS* * *Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once reputedly the richest man in Russia–an oligarch so wealthy and powerful that Putin felt threatened, and finally managed to put him away in prison for almost a decade. When Khodorkovsky was released in 2013, he went to Britain and has since worked as one of Putin’s most active opponents in exile.It was Khodorkovsky who funded the fatal trip to the Central African Republic by Dzhemal, Rastorguyev, and Radchenko to report on the Wagner Group’s activities, and it is Khodorkovsky who has underwritten the most exhaustive investigation of their murder. “Somebody has to put evidence together for the day Putin’s crooks end up in court,” Khodorkovsky told The Daily Beast last year. He hired journalists, military experts, private detectives and others to delve into the killings, and issued a “final report” under the auspices of his Dossier Center on the anniversary of the murders.The picture that emerges over the course of almost 80 pages is highly detailed and deeply disturbing. For starters, the Dossier investigators addressed the official version put forth by Russian authorities and the CAR security forces, many of them trained and funded by the Kremlin directly and also by Wagner personnel. Their claim is that the Russian documentary makers were ambushed on a back road at night by bandits wearing turbans and speaking Arabic who shot all three of them dead. The killers let the local driver, named as Bienvenue Douvokama, escape in his car and the sketchy account of the attack came from Douvokama. When the official version failed to satisfy the victims’ families, friends, or colleagues in the independent press, a Prigozhin-backed news agency, RIA FAN, conducted its own investigation of the murder and named Dominique Christophe Raineteau as the mastermind, claiming that he was a French mercenary or agent in league with terrorists.“We have our vision of what happened in CAR,” RIA FAN editor Yevgeny Zubarev wrote in an email to The Daily Beast. “It was a planned provocation but you are never going to publish our conclusions… Your publication is neither going to mention in a negative light Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the main suspect of this crime; nor the Western (French) special services, the possible accomplices,” wrote Zubarev.Actually, the RIA FAN conclusions are quite interesting, because they do not agree at all with the official government versions blaming unknown Arabic-speaking thieves. The general thrust of the RIA FAN report is that the Russian journalists were killed in order to embarrass Russia (if not indeed to blame Prigozhin and Putin). The agent who organized the murders, according to RIA FAN, was Raineteau, a French mercenary who is protected by the French secret services, and Khodorkovsky himself, who supposedly paid Raineteau to set up the team Khodorkovsky had sent. RIA FAN notes the extensive French-Russian rivalry for resources and dominance in Africa as the motive for the French plot, and says Khodorkovsky’s motive is to “discredit any activity of Russia abroad, particularly in Africa and the revenge directed at the Russian Federation.”All of this makes for a fascinating narrative of conspiracy, and is typical of disinformation that tries to ascribe presumed motives—“who benefits from the crime”—as proof when it is really self-serving conjecture. There is some hearsay in the RIA FAN report, but the documentary evidence linking Raineteau to the killing is virtually nonexistent, while the account compiled by Khodorkovsky’s investigators appears to be based largely on minute examination of phone records and emails (albeit without any explanation of how they were obtained). The narrative developed by the investigators for Khodorkovsky’s Dossier Centre goes roughly like this:The three journalists made a critical mistake when they were looking for a “fixer” to set up appointments, transportation, lodging, translation and the like while they were in the CAR. Even though they were investigating one Prigozhin operation, Wagner, they asked a journalist working for another Prigozhin company, RIA FAN, for help. This may not be quite as unusual as it sounds, because journalists working for conflicting media often believe they have more common bonds as professionals in the field than as servants for their bosses in the home offices. That may have been the case where the request for advice from FAN journalist Kirill Romanovsky was concerned.He in turn suggested they contact by text message a Dutch man with experience in the CAR as a United Nations employee or contractor who went by the name of “Martin.”The RIA FAN report would later suggest Martin was none other than the mysterious French operative Raineteau. But the Dossier Centre investigation concludes “with a high degree of probability that the fixer ‘Martin’… never existed.” Rather, “he was invented by the coordinators of a thoroughly planned operation.”“Martin” did not show up at the airport as expected, when the crew arrived, and they never once laid eyes on him or, for that matter, spoke to him on the phone. Everything was handled by text messages, including Martin’s claim that he was 376 kilometers from the CAR capital Bangui in the town of Bambari, where they were headed initially the day they were killed. According to the Dossier Centre report, cell phone records show “Martin,” or at least that phone, never left the capital.The Dossier Centre investigation notes that the local driver the crew hired, Bienvenue Douvokama, is believed to be an agent or informer for the local gendarmerie, and was in “constant operational contact with gendarme Emmanuel Kotofio” who “tracked the journalists’ movements and was in their immediate vicinity.” (Kotofio is quoted by RIA FAN saying he and Douvokama are old friends and just like to shoot the breeze.)Kotofio, in turn, “maintained contact with a man identified by the Dossier Centre as an ‘instructor in surveillance, counter-surveillance, recruitment and intelligence work’” from another Prigozhin company, M-Finans, run by one Aleksandr Sotov, who then reported to Valery Zakharov, a Russian adviser to the president of the CAR and head of a team of instructors in Prigozhin’s “Company.”On the fatal night of July 30, according to the Dossier Centre, Kotofio the gendarme passed through a military checkpoint at the town of Sibut, on the same road the journalists would take only minutes later. With Kotofio were three Caucasians, “presumably Russians,” according to the Dossier Centre report. Kotofio drove back to the checkpoint later at 8 p.m. The journalists’ driver reported their murder about 45 minutes later at a village near the scene.The following day, according to the Dossier Centre, a “disinformation campaign” began to confuse and impede any outside investigation.According to emails obtained by the Dossier Centre, which cannot be independently verified, Prigozhin is personally involved in running the Company’s projects in the Central African Republic.* * *THE PAIN OF THE FAMILIES* * * The Kremlin remains deaf to the victims’ families’ demands to question Prigozhin and his men on the ground, including commanders of the Russian militia working for CAR’s leadership. Alexander Radchenko’s, the father of the cameraman, says it is easy for him to connect the dots identifying the main suspects. Since July 30, 2018, the day his son’s body was found in CAR, Radchenko has been analyzing reports by private investigators and journalists, and read and watched interviews with Moscow’s key man in CAR, Valery Zakharov, a former Russian military intelligence officer, who is now the country's main security adviser. “The investigators–along with Russian diplomats, FSB, GRU–back up the Russian military instructors working in CAR instead of questioning the main guy, Zakharov,and his bosses,” Radchenko told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.The heartbroken father has written more than 30 petitions to Russian state detectives investigating the criminal case. Some of his requests ostensibly were taken into consideration, but most of them were ignored. Radchenko told The Daily Beast that in his opinion the murder was “undoubtedly a set up.” Over the last six months, the father says, he has seen enough evidence collected by independent reporters to conclude that “Yevgeny Prigozhin, Valery Zakharov and his aide Alexander Sotov are the principal suspects to be questioned about the murder of my son.” But Radchenko sounds hopeless: “Every time I ask the state detective on this case, Igor Zolotov, to call them for questioning, he seems too shy and tells me: ‘We should not bother such important men, they must be busy.’”Putin’s Man in the Central African Republic: Is Valery Zakharov at the Heart of Russian Skulduggery? Khodorkovsky’s team has tried to fill that investigative gap. “We have done our part of the job, presented mobile phone billing to demonstrate that Zakharov, his aid Alexander Sotov, the gendarme they trained and the crew called each other dozens of times during the two days before the murder,” Maxim Dbar, Khodorkovsly’s spokesman, told The Daily Beast. “We have no authority to question the key suspects."Irina Gordiyenko, a reporter for independent Novaya Gazeta, especially wants to know who killed Orkhan Dzhemal, the father of her son. “I want to ask both Zakharov and Sotov about the billing data, what sort of actions they coordinated from the moment of the journalists’ arrival in CAR,” Gordiyenko said in a recent interview with The Daily Beast. “I have questions for Zakharov about CAR gendarmes being trained in Russia. I want to ask the Russian MID [ministry of foreign affairs] why the journalists’ belongings have not been moved to Russia, why our diplomats consult with Prigozhin’s Wagner about the official version of the murder to give to the public.”Somebody shot Rostorguyev from a 7.62 mm Kalashnikov assault rifle. Two bullets hit the journalist’s heart. “Only a professional could fire so accurately in the dark,” Gordiyenko added her doubts. The United States imposed sanctions against billionaire Prigozhin and his Concord holding company in 2016 for constructing a military base for Russian forces near Ukraine. But neither the sanctions, nor the links to the CAR murder that shook the entire country, has slowed the growth of Prigozhin’s business empire. Concord keeps working on immense state contracts, his Zinger Development group is planning to build an artificial island in the Gulf of Finland, and foreign tourists keep buying his chocolates at Eliseyev Emporium, a historic architectural landmark on Nevsky Prospect. Jessica from Vermont was purchasing Marzipans shaped as carrots, half a pound of Lukum and chocolates with lime taste. “I am not sure I know who Prigozhin is, I am sorry,” the tourist told The Daily Beast.Prigozhin has access to the highest offices in the Kremlin and cooperates closely with the defense ministries of both Russia and the CAR. The power is on his side. “The murder of the three journalists is not going to be investigated, at least there will never be public knowledge of who ordered the killing,” a political analyst close to the Kremlin, Sergei Markov, told The Daily Beast. “Prigozhin has created private military forces to help Russia, he is fighting the war against Russia’s enemies that are constantly undermining our power, so of course Moscow will not go against him to support the dossier created by Putin’s enemy, Khodorkovsky.” In the eyes of much of the world, however, Putin’s name will be linked forever to the murder of the three journalists just as it is linked to the killing of journalists Anna Politkovskaya or Natalia Estemirova.Dzhamal, Rastorguyev, and Radchenko were—and remain—important symbols for Russians who still believe the search for solid facts and the truth is the only way to combat corruption and the disinformation used to disguise it, even if the quest costs you your life.Anna Nemtsova reported from St. Petersburg, Christopher Dickey from Paris.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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TTT 5.8.18

This week’s themes are Russia Investigation, Haspel for CIA, Iran Deal, Immigration, NRA, Trade, Propaganda, National Day of Prayer, and Presidential Notes,

Russia Investigation

The Russia investigation into Trump and possible collusion keeps going, despite Trump’s best efforts to call it fake news, deny it, or direct the conversation toward other matters. This past week, his Tweets in relationship to Russia all over the place - from his Cohen and Daniels to NBC and the House report.

First Trump attacked Lisa Page and James Baker, former FBI officials who recently resigned. Trump made it seem as though their resignation says something about the morality or direction of the Russia case. Page and Baker did advise Comey (directing the Russia case), but neither of them were directly involved with the investigation when they resigned and they were not forced out.

NBC had originally said Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer, had been federally wiretapped for his role in negotiating the deal to keep Stormy Daniels quiet about her relationship with Trump. NBC had to correct this statement because Cohen was not federally wiretapped but had monitoring of some phone calls. Trump then slammed NBC for being wrong. And, yes, though NBC did make an incorrect statement they then fixed it and this statement does not negate how much Cohen is still facing legal problems.

Trump originally said he knew nothing about a payment to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about her relationship with Trump. Later, it was discovered that his lawyer, Cohen, did pay her money to keep her silent. Giuliani, now a Trump lawyer, has since then said that Trump did pay Cohen to handle business and be a “fixer.” In response, Trump is saying those funds came from his personal account and had nothing to do with the campaign. Now, Daniels’ lawyer is saying that Cohen received money from a Russian oligarch (with ties to Putin) and this money might have been used to pay Daniels.

Meanwhile, Trump just keeps saying that there is no case. He says that the House committee found no evidence and that his legal confidant, diGenova, says there is no basis for an investigation into Trump. Pointing to one’s friends and political allies as support is a weak argument.

Page and Baker

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/politics/trump-tweet-fbi-lisa-page-james-baker.html

Cohen

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/politics/trump-tweet-fbi-lisa-page-james-baker.html

Daniels

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/386802-stormy-daniels-lawyer-cohen-may-have-used-money-from-putin-tied

Haspel for CIA

Trump nominated Gina Haspel as the new director of the CIA (the former director, Mike Pompeo, recently became the new secretary of state). Haspel has come under fire for her endorsement of extreme torture techniques, and she almost withdrew her nomination.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44048581

Iran Deal

During his presidency Obama, with the help of five other nations, brokered a deal with Iran to get them to stop making the materials for a nuclear bomb. The agreement has to be renewed, but Trump is considering pulling out of the deal. On Tuesday the 8th, Trump did pull the U.S. out of the agreement - which will be covered in next week’s TTT.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33521655

Immigration

Trump continues his crusade of immigrants, particularly those of Mexican descent. He calls out members of Congress for their lack of support of The Wall and continues to categorize Mexican immigrants as gang members and criminals. Since the inception of his campaign, Trump has made his beliefs of immigrants clear and unfortunately he continues to use is divisive speech and employs oppressive tactics. However, he has now begun to shift the conversation to include Congress’ attempts to draft safer gun control tactics within the nation, in order to trick his followers in to believing Congress wants to take away Americans’ guns while allowing “criminals” into the country.

Trump has already ended protections for millions of immigrants and his administration has seen to the deportation, or at least instilling the fear of it, for many immigrants that are here legally and used to be protected by the U.S. government. He has also taken steps to ensure the separation of families that attempt to enter the country, even if those families are seeking asylum from their home country. However, he continues to push for The Wall, and has made it clear that he will bully Republicans and Democrats alike, as well as mislead his supporters to make it a reality.

Trump has ended protections for millions

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tps daca_us_5aecbb97e4b0c4f1932282a0

Trump’s policy is separating families

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/politics/homeland-security-prosecute-undocumented-immigrants.html

NRA

Trump took to Twitter to share news of his attendance of the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting. Despite remarks claiming support of and condolences for those affected in recent mass shootings in the U.S. Trump made it clear where he stand on gun control laws. Most notably, following the Parkland, FL school shooting, many believed Trump would take a stricter stance against the NRA and crack down on gun control. But, his speech at the NRA meeting proved otherwise. He even went as far as to promise the NRA that their rights would be protected as long as he is president. Along with sharing false facts regarding gun safety in certain U.S. cities, Trump also mocked countries with stricter gun control laws than America. He spoke of both Britain and France, gesturing as to how French citizens were gunned down during the 2015 terrorist attacks. Both countries expressed outrage at his antics, and Trump has yet to comment.

This year’s NRA meeting had the highest attendance to date, and many attribute it to Trump’s and Vice President Pence’s presence. Trump hasn’t wavered in support for law enforcement, continues to suggest that easier access to and owning more guns is the solution to gun violence, and has faced both criticism and support.

Fact-checking Trump’s NRA Speech

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/may/04/donald-trumps-nra-speech-fact-checked/

Trump promises the NRA and it’s rights are safe under his presidency

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/trump-tells-nra-gun-rights-will-never-ever-be-under-siege-as-long-as-i-am-your-president.html

Britain and France angry over Trump’s NRA speech

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/politics/trump-nra-speech-angers-french/index.html

Trade

Trump boasted about sending his “great” financial team to China to discuss trade agreements, but failed to mention a few challenges.

Firstly, Trump’s bulldozer attitude has already threatened a trade war and these talks seem to resemble the same. Early in his presidency, Trump posed $50 billion in tariffs on imports from China, to which China posed a similar tax on American imports. Trump threatened an additional $100 billion in tariffs, but threats of a trade war stalled him.

Secondly, his “great” team of six financial advisors and economists are divided amongst themselves on the best method to employ in regards to trade options. Internally, the team hasn’t agreed on what America should try to get from China, nor how to get the country to agree. So, while they agree changes needed to be made, there are multiple, varying ideas on just how that change should come about.

China has proven itself a financial powerhouse and one thing that both Trump supporters and critics should agree on is that the United States should avoid a trade war at all costs. China has agreed to compromise in some areas, and many believe the U.S. should be more willing to do the same. However, Trump’s ego and aggressive tactics don’t promise a friendly compromise in the near future.

Trump’s aggressive tactics are not working

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahsu/2018/04/13/how-effective-is-trumps-trade-strategy-for-china/#367648dc5f12

Trump unwavering in threats of potential trade war

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/business/trump-trade-war-china.html

U.S. officials divided on trade needs

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/us/politics/trump-china-trade.html

Propaganda

Trump spent much of his propaganda Tweets this week talking about recently published books, books that support his agenda and that deflect attention away from Russia and Stormy Daniels.

The Great Revolt talks about the “Trump voter” and why he was elected (and he was not a fluke). The Capitalist Comeback praises Trump for being pro-business. The Russia Hoax says that Hillary Clinton was guilty and nefarious efforts to ruin Trump. And The Light Within Me is by Fox News contributor, Ainsley Earhardt who, among other things, discusses Melania Trump.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Revolt-Populist-Coalition-Reshaping/dp/1524763683

https://www.amazon.com/Capitalist-Comeback-Trump-Boom-Lefts/dp/1478975431

https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Hoax-Illicit-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0062872745

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062697479/the-light-within-me

Trump also Tweeted that West Virginia should not vote for Blakenship for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat. Blakenship supports coal and argues he is more Republican than Trump - non surprising this is a threat to Trump.

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/609133392/coal-ceo-turned-senate-hopeful-don-blankenship-says-hes-trumpier-than-trump

And Trump Tweeted about the very low unemployment rate of 3.9 percent, which is correct. What Trump failed to mention is that this rate is due to Obama’s work on the economy and the rate does not capture the low stagnant wages.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/unemployment-trump-was-born-third-base-thinks-he-hit-triple

National Day of Prayer

Trump proclaimed and celebrated National Day of Prayer on May 3rd. In his remarks, he notes the country’s tendency to turn to prayer and reflection in handling conflicts. The remarks were notably more calm than his other addresses, which is understandable considering the topic. However, it does speak to rising concerns about a continued need to separate church and state in government affairs.

Trump’s remarks

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-may-3-national-day-prayer/

More on the event at the White House

http://thehill.com/video/administration/386022-watch-live-trump-attends-national-day-of-prayer-event

Presidential Notes

A range of events occurred and commentary made by the President this week.

Drug Take Back Day

Trump supported the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, an initiative for people to turn in leftover prescription drugs to a Take Back Day location site. The impetus is to reduce family and friends from taking leftover prescription drugs. The April collection resulted in 474 tons.

https://takebackday.dea.gov/

Grenell

The ambassador to Germany position has been empty since Trump took office. Ric Grenell was finally confirmed for the position at the end of April. Grenell is the first openly gay ambassador nominated by Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/richard-grenell-takes-up-duties-as-us-ambassador-to-germany/2018/05/08/421e644a-52d7-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.92869ba8d1aa

In 2014 there was a scandal regarding Veteran Affairs as new information was released about how long veterans were waiting to receive health care. The Veteran Affairs Secretary resigned, and there has been increased pressure to fix the VA since then. Trump took this opportunity to remind us of this issue.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/21/veterans-healthcare-scandal-shinseki-timeline/9373227/

Korean hostages

Trump and his lawyer, Giuliani, indicated that three US ctizens who are being held hostage in North Korea might be released soon. However, when pressed for details Giuliani said he didn’t have any.

http://thehill.com/policy/international/386386-giuliani-good-chance-north-korea-will-release-three-remaining-us

Hercules plane

A hercules plane leaving the Savannah airport on its way to Arizona, crashed shortly after lift off. There are no concrete details on why the plane crashed or what its mission was. Sadly, all nine passengers on board died in the accident.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/05/03/c-130-plane-crash-hercules-flight-falls-from-georgia-sky/?utm_term=.d8686f56e541

Pompeo

Pompeo, former director of the CIA, was nominated to be Trump’s new secretary of state. Pompeo faced difficult hearings due to concerns that he would be quick to enter war. Pompeo was recently confirmed as the new secretary of state.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/12/601797176/pompeo-to-face-tough-questioning-in-secretary-of-state-confirmation-hearing

Southwest

A Southwest airplane had a fatal accident in mid April when plane debris broke a window and a woman was partially sucked out of the plane. Southwest flight attendants helped keep everyone safe to the best of their ability, and Trump honored them with a visit to the White House.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/airlines/a20152639/blown-engine-southwest-flight-1380-ntsb/

Commander in Chief Trophy

Trump gave the commander in chief trophy to the US Army West Point Black Knights for defeating the Air Force and Navy football teams.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-presents-commander-in-chief-trophy-to-u-s-army-football-team-live-stream/

Nigeria

Trump hosted Nigerian president Buhari at the White House, the first visit from the head of an African nation. It is said that they likely discussed economic growth, terrorism and promoting democracy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/30/trump-white-house-to-host-nigeria-president-buhari.html

#donald trump #president #45th president #Russia #Iran #Pompeo #Stormy Daniels #Gina Haspel #Trade #China #NRA #Immigration

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sheminecrafts · 7 years ago

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Russia’s Telegram ban that knocked out 15M Google, Amazon IP addresses had a precedent in Zello

Russia blocking access to Telegram after the messaging app refused to give it access to encrypted messages has picked up an unintended casualty: we’re now up to over 15 million IP addresses from Amazon and Google getting shut down by the regulators in the process, taking various other (non-Telegram) services down with it.

Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov earlier today said that its reach in the country has yet to see an impact from the ban 24 hours on, with VPNs, proxies and third-party cloud services stepping in to pick up the slack for its roughly 14 million users in the country, and third parties refusing to buckle under requests from Roskomnadzor, the regulator, to remove the app from its stores and servers.

“Thank you for your support and loyalty, Russian users of Telegram. Thank you, Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft — for not taking part in political censorship,” Durov noted.

But Telegram’s Russia crisis is not the first time that an app banned by the Russian government has had to rely on third-party support to navigate its position with users. A recent precedent involving a much smaller communications app sheds some light on how all of this works. And ironically, its own run-in may have been the reason for why the government moved so quickly to block so many IP addresses around Telegram’s, affecting more than just the app itself.

A little over a year ago, the walkie-talkie app Zello received a notice from the Russian regulator Roskomnadzor. Zello was informed that it would be banned unless it started to host records of the conversations that were taking place on the app on Russian servers — in compliance with a hosting requirement that Russia put in place for ISPs back in 2014 as part of its efforts to tighten its control of digital information in the name of national security.

You might remember the name Zello from its bump of attention when a wave of people hit by Hurricane Harvey in Texas used it to communicate with each other when voice services went down or became too clumsy to use, but mobile internet connections stayed up. “Voice is how we most naturally communicate, and push-to-talk and radio-style communication is instant, no dialling or waiting,” said Zello CEO Bill Moore. “It can be with one person or large groups and build relationships and to solve problems.”

The startup itself is based out of Austin, Texas and has around 120 million registered users, with around four million monthly active users.

Moore — who had in the past also founded and run another Texas startup, TuneIn — said in an interview this week that Zello’s run-in with Russia started about a year ago, when the regulator started to block the application in Spring 2017, after Zello refused to cooperate with the hosting requirement, both on grounds of technology and policy.

(Moore said that Zello did not refuse RKN because of cost. “Our primary problem was policy but the second is technology. Like Telegram, Zello conversations are encrypted end-end so we can’t comply to share content. That’s why we refused to even register.” Zello is built in a way where messages are stored locally, both for direct messages and those sent in more widely-distributed channels, the feature that Moore believes might have been “why Zello annoyed Russia,” because protestors used these channels to coordinate activities.”)

Instead of buckling and leaving Russia, Zello decided to use to some software it had written years before, when the app had been issued with a block in Venezuela after it ran afoul of the government there — software “that let us change IP addresses for our service,” as Moore describes it. The change in IP addresses essentially meant that as Zello was shut down in one place, it was able to hop to another, using services from either AWS or Google Cloud.

Moore said that Zello — which originally hosted its service on IBM’s cloud before the ban — used its IP hopping tactic for nearly a year, moving first across IP addresses on Amazon and then hopping to Google Cloud when Amazon got too hot. By the time Zello started using Google Cloud, the government was well on to Zello’s ways, and it took only about 10 days before Google asked Zello to stop, Zello’s CTO and founder Alexey Gavrilov added.

“About a month ago, the press in Russia began to report that Roskomnadzor was threatening to block millions of addresses if that’s what it took to get Zello [to retreat]. That was when Amazon said, ‘you need to stop changing IP addresses,'” Gavrilov said. “We tried to get Amazon to reconsider, making the case that by asking us to stop, it is are really acting the same way that ISPs do that are controlled by Russia. Zello is not damaging, but Russia is by blocking. It’s not wise to go along with that threat.”

His argument echoes what Durov has been saying in defense of Telegram, although it didn’t appear to wash for the smaller app. “We lost that debate,” Gavrilov said.

Moore and Gavrilov say they believe Telegram may be using a similar kind of approach to move around Amazon- and Google-based IP addresses (I’ve tried to contact Durov to ask about this but have not had a reply; Google and Amazon also have not replied to my emails). However, now, with the Russian authorities well aware of the tactic, it simply decided to block large swathes of IPs to act more quickly, rather than negotiate with cloud companies to pick out which IP addresses were actually being used.

Partly because of the size of the service in question, and partly because of the blanket blocking, the difference between the IP addresses being blocked varied from just over 2,000 for Zello to more than 15 million by the time Telegram attempted its own IP hops.

Zello still believes that it was not in the wrong in its own encounters with the Russian government, although its appeals to Amazon and Google, and eventually Apple and others who host the app on their stores, ultimately didn’t wash.

“We believe that Zello doesn’t violate Russian law because originally the hosting requirement was written for ISPs, and Zello is not an ISP,” Moore said. “We cooperate with law enforcement on a consistent basis and do what we can under the law.” But like Telegram, Zello takes the view that the medium should not be attacked because of how it is used. “Terrorists drink water, but I don’t think we should outlaw water, either,” is how Moore describes his stance.

Since about two weeks ago, the only way that people in Russia can use Zello is by way of VPN proxies. Zello has a fairly even distribution of its several millon monthly active users across several countries, including the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, and Hong Kong. Russia had been one of its top markets until this happened, but the cost to Zello has been about half of its active users in the country, which now stand at 200,000.

“We don’t like to think about how we’ve lost half our users there,” Gavrilov said. “We like to think about how many we’ve managed to keep.”

Zello has always been ad-free and free to use by regular consumers. Moore said that the company is profitable, making its revenues through a premium tier for businesses to have their own private channels. So far, Zello is completely bootstrapped, although Moore said that it is likely it will want to raise money eventually to grow its consumer business.

Neither CTO nor CEO think that Russian bans impact the company’s wider business.

“In my opinion, incidents like these only help companies like Telegram and Zello on the global market,” Gavrilov (a native of Russia) said. “Realistically, Russia is a small share of the Telegram user base, and standing up to the demands in Russia just communicates to everyone else that you can trust these people. That only makes it more valuable.”

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“Thank you for your support and loyalty, Russian users of Telegram. Thank you, Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft — for not taking part in political censorship,” Durov noted.

The startup itself is based out of Austin, Texas and has around 120 million registered users, with around four million monthly active users.

(Cost: because it’s a small startup. And principle: because Zello is built in a way where messages are stored locally, both for direct messages and those sent in more widely-distributed channels, the feature that Moore believes might have been “why Zello annoyed Russia,” because protestors used these channels to coordinate activities.”)

“About a month ago, the press in Russia began to report that Roskomnadzor was threatening to block millions of addresses if that’s what it took to get Zello [to retreat]. That was when Amazon said, ‘you need to stop changing IP addresses,’” Gavrilov said. “We tried to get Amazon to reconsider, making the case that by asking us to stop, it is are really acting the same way that ISPs do that are controlled by Russia. Zello is not damaging, but Russia is by blocking. It’s not wise to go along with that threat.”

His argument echoes what Durov has been saying in defense of Telegram, although it didn’t appear to wash for the smaller app. “We lost that debate,” Gavrilov said.

“We don’t like to think about how we’ve lost half our users there,” Gavrilov said. “We like to think about how many we’ve managed to keep.”

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Article: Weekly News Wrapup – German Minister Wants Backdoor Access To All Electronic Devices

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In this report, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange gives you the latest breaking news on Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI, while he was in contact with a Russian ambassador for Jared Kushner, when Donald Trump was President-Elect. A fact that ABC news Brian Ross with the View got wrong. We also go over Hillary Clinton, UN security council votes and other important international news.

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Welcome back beautiful and amazing human beings to the WeAreChange weekly recap. Today we try to warn you about the technocratic surveillance state that wants to take away your freedoms in exchange for convenience. Plus many other important developments around the world that you’re not supposed. We will be talking about the outrageous Michael Flynn developments that have a lot to do with Israel than Russian collusion. A country that just made their first steps towards a greater war with Iran. We also get into additional injustices surrounding Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. Also discussed is how the Germans want a backdoor to everything. Not a surprise there.

The most significant story this week is that Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with the Russian ambassador.

These charges could result in up to 6 months in jail and a $500 to $9,500 fine.

The mainstream media is not focusing on that nor the fact of how Michael Flynn was spied on. Instead, the mainstream media establishment is acting like this is a scalping of general Flynn.

The View celebrated this latest news announcement,

“Oh my god and is prepared to testify that as a candidate Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians.”

That ABC report was fake news since ABC retracted the story.

Michael Flynn did not contact Russia when Donald Trump was still a candidate but after he was elected president of the United States. This is a very important factor since he was already President-Elect Donald Trump and not a candidate and it shows the contact was not illegal. For some reason, ABC decided to point the finger and suspend the anchor of this broadcast and not the executive producer. The same producer who is married to Susan Rice Obama’s national security adviser. Yes, the mainstream media is just a little biased there. They got their facts wrong. This gives Trump more ammunition. They’re still going on about this Russian plot when the story here is entirely different. They’re not talking about it for a particular reason.

We’re finding out that it was Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor who was the one who asked Michael Flynn to call members of the UN Security Council’s on his behalf.

Doing this on orders from Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted a resolution that was critical of Israel settlement policy to be voted in Israel’s interests. It was Jared Kushner the Saudi weapons dealing son-in-law of Donald Trump that directed Flynn to call every member of the UN Security Council including Russia.

Since Michael Flynn has pled guilty to lying to the FBI, he will now cooperate in this Russian probe within Trumps administration. We will be finding out if more of these sources are right. This shows Donald Trump colluding and advancing Israel’s interest, not Russia’s.

We have also found out that Jared Kushner failed to disclose that he led a foundation that was funding illegal Israeli settlements before this UN vote. A vote which was unlawful under international law and a violation because he didn’t put it on his financial records with the office of government ethics earlier this year.

This is the same Jared Kushner that has been flying to Saudi Arabia and Israel for Donald Trump several times recently. Supposedly to do negotiations of future the United States Middle Eastern policy and also where he negotiated a better weapons deal for Saudi Arabia. An agreement which in exchange donated a lot of money to Ivanka Trump. What ultimately really happened is that Michael Flynn lied and according to Donald Trump this is why he fired Michael Flynn early on in his administration. Keep in mind it was the Obama administration that authorized Michael Flynn to make contact with the Russian ambassador.

Donald Trump is firing back on Twitter where he is even telling people to sue ABC for their misreporting and fake news because of the damages cost to the stock market.

He’s going on about how Michael Flynn had his life destroyed when crooked Hillary Clinton was being investigated. She was not on the record, she didn’t have to swear in, and lied many times about her situation. Trump is still tweeting while we report on this story.

There are new developments that show how the FBI had an anti-Trump agent that was leading the Hillary Clinton email probe. New documents are proving the complicity. We have to understand this is the same FBI that sets up fake terrorist plots. It was Michael Flynn who under the Obama administration exposed how the rise of ISIS was a willful decision by the US government.

This is something that pissed off the intelligence community for it revealed how the US government played a major role in the rise of radical Islamic terrorists. This was done in cooperation with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

This whole situation is all about with Israel interfering, lobbying, conspiring with the United States, not Russia. However, it gets a lot worse as we’re getting new statements from Trump’s administration and the CIA director who just came out and said that they are working with the Saudis and Israelis to “fight terrorism.” Most importantly a joint operation against ISIS and Iran.

I have to ask which one is it. If you look at all the important geopolitical events and updates that have been happening Iran has been fighting ISIS while the United States has been arming the rebel groups against Iran. So again it’s a very duplicitous statement as potential war is on the horizon. Israel just a few moments ago decided to attack an Iranian military base inside of Syria which could ultimately provoke war.

The media is almost completely silent on this even though the ramifications of this are enormous.

Particularly when one considers that China, Russia, Iran, and Syria are being pitted against Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States in the key geopolitical location of Syria. Israeli fighter jets launched air-to-surface missiles targeting the Iranian base near Damascus.

Syria claims the attacks caused power outages and explosions before they turned on their air defenses which thwarted three out of the five missiles.

Israel is claiming that this is an Iranian base and Iranian forces are fighting inside of Syria. However, this has not been confirmed. Even the Israeli media is removing the story that this even happened as we’re still waiting for the details to become more evident. This is another major escalation and a destabilization of the current situation in the Middle East. The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu is doubling down on his tough talk against Iran. We’ve been covering on our YouTube channel. He’s been saying that he “won’t allow Iranians to entrench themselves in Syria.” The situation sure looks like it will escalate from here which we will be following very closely.

Also this week according to many sources Trump may soon recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. This will be a very controversial move which is not going to make the situation better.

In other sad news, we are learning that in Honduras the U.S.-backed regime is imposing martial law. They are suspending constitutional rights with major protests and clashes happening in the streets. There are allegations of democide and lethal fire being used on civilians with incredibly graphic and disturbing videos coming out of that country.

In further injustice news, we are finding out more about Jeffrey Epstein. The man behind the Lolita Express. In his court proceedings where he is facing charges for sexual relationships with underage girls is being significantly delayed. The judge has stated that he won’t allow any X-rated evidence into the court.

Epstein is the man who is connected with the Clintons and also Kevin Spacey who associated with this man on his private island in the US Virgin Islands. He has settled way too many cases against him when it comes to having underage sex with minors.

A similar situation is happening with media mogul and sexual predator Harvey Weinstein. The rape investigation is becoming stalled which ultimately points to more injustices.

The mainstream media and other news networks predominantly fail to report on the expansiveness of these latest sexual assault cases. This is really not a surprise because we live in a corrupt system.

Moving forward with more international news the French people have more to look forward to as gender-based insults have now become a legal offense. The government is doing what they do best taking away your freedoms. Which of course they would never use for their own larger political purposes especially since free speech brings ideas. Ideas threaten authority and authority does not like to be threatened. France will never use the restriction of free speech for their own benefit. Right?

Ze German Government has also announced zis week that ze wants to have backdoor access to every digital device that people in zat country have. Zis was a statement by German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière.

What could go wrong with the big government wanting access to all of your digital devices whether a car, your computer, your phone or whatever the hell you use? Even your microwave is now a damn computer and just imagine what the government would do with access to all of these things in your life. Luckily this is a proposed law that has not gone into effect and hopefully will be stricken down. If the German people learned anything throughout history is that they shouldn’t trust their government.

As I do my news report as always, informing you about all these things I’m also being censored. I just found out that content that is demonetised by YouTube actually gets fewer views and hits then content that is monetized. Which means the majority of my videos are getting fewer views than they should. All because of the stupid AI algorithm that YouTube has that make sure that these ideas, content and news reporting gets ignored and under-reported. YouTube is just going to demonetize it and not show it to anyone.

They will make sure that there’s an unfair advantage. This has been happening for years now. We were demonetized way before it was cool. It does make me think what would happen if this weren’t happening to us. So luckily the few people who still get to watch it support and sponsor this entire broadcast. Thank you for your donations on https://wearechange.org/donate. If it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t be here.

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1. Before you all bash the #PhilippineNewsAgency, ask your man #RaffyTulfo first. Do not #Dole Pineapple has cases with this government? 2. No one (Isaiah 57) bothers this because you're all blinded: Empire papers of August 13, 2017 revealed that aside from the Vatican (as said in Ka Patrick Scrivner's papers), the Yellowtards also has a hand in making our brethren take up arms with each other. Days ago Empire television has revealed that our #NorthKorea Bree-thren (so this Empire effort to start war among us is blatantly against our #TheNextStep brethren) only wants to develop economies and not to terrorize neighbors through their nuclear pursuits. So we could say to our American brethren that North Korea could in fact help you instead should you need help, if you would only just let them as well as our very own Venezuela, be as they need to be (Acts 15, Romans 14-15, 1 Corinthians 8). We would like to recall kindly to our beloved man #Trump that he once promised not to interfere as much as Obama did in other nations' affairs. Please recall 1 Kings 12:24. Our Russian brethren are wrighte that we should really use #CommondominionSense inasmuch as (Matthew 26) we belong to one true religion state of Godhead. 3. No one until now faithfully observes our dear man #Duterte's word that there must be no more videoke past 10 pm and that there must be no more stray animals in the streets. (Psalm 14,144) They think they could evade men's eyes, but of course Godhead sees them and would make them pay dearly for still adhering (Ephesians 2) to Empire whim. As your leader here i solemnly tell you all (Revelation 22) that even though we can't personally see you nor expose you on what you do, Godhead would at once make you pay should you go on with what you do (you know already by yourselves whether you still do these or not [2 Corinthians 8-9, Hosea 13, Matthew 23, Isaiah 9]) and Godhead would at once reward you should you decide (Matthew 6, Colossians 3, Ephesians 5-6) to faithfully observe (Psalm 119, Luke 10) the word of our man (Isaiah 42,49,58). 4. Also i could tell you that i vividly recall what a show way back then sponsored by the Empire beverage division said that it is so annoying to hear Empire rappers sing very angrily. Evidently no one recalled it and they're still at it (Hebrews 12, Romans 8, Isaiah 45). I was so shocked that my mother was still moved by the Godhead to tell me that this Empire beverage division (James 3) is what Luke 13:7 refers to be using up the soil (Numbers 16), but i fear that's yet again another self-persecution (2 Samuel 17) because of course she's Empire still. I could not forget what she said only today to me that she's so greatly elated and delighted to use up the whole time using the laptop leaving lesser time for me to use the laptop and accommodate the necessary facilitation of our work here and only (Psalm 39) give way to my other co-boarders to use the laptop as much as they want too. In fact my co-boarders from time to time even get the laptop away from me (Luke 19) while i use it already, and i'm so helpless giving way to them lest they impose more sanctions against me, even more making my short time even more shorter to their wanton of endless reading nonsense posts (Luke 4, Job 2, Isaiah 55). My co-boarders have more than one up-and-working smartphone and they would not give me even one of those just for me to continue my work without disrupting their use of the laptop. I can't afford one because they would not even allow me to have job opportunities by myself. Surely the Devil is at work disrupting my ministry (Acts 20), and he's so happy doing it (2 Chronicles 20). So we could say that my house here (Joshua 24), together with the Empire's beverage division (1 Kings 18), are really the ones who are using up the soil as Luke 13:7 states. (James 5, Romans 14, Micah 7, Jeremiah 12) 5. We would like also to recall to President Duterte that the real enemies at #Marawi are not only terrorists, but also the Neronians, aside from the Yellowtards. Now we could see Constantinians are also enemies in this because they are programmed by the Empire to take advantage of any situation just like this to advance Empire agenda (1 Maccabees 5). In fact we could hear them often make Ka Eduardo read verses denoting people who 'talk nonsense' of course to attack us (but as per Empire's eyes that's self-persecution again because Diocletians and Constantinians are no different than each other now). I just say this because my co-boarders' boyfriend (1 Thessalonians 5, 1 Corinthians 16) had just invoked Empire usage of these verses against his former ex-girlfriend whom he thinks to keep annoying him and my co-boarder who is his girlfriend. Call me self-persecuting too, but i would (1 Corinthians 7) just take this to use that as per Empire usage (inasmuch as my co-boarders belong to the Empire)- if they are referring to themselves to be attacked by 'nonsense talk' as the Apostle Paul wrote (and in fact they waste time for useless talk online just to stop me doing my ministry), then that makes me in turn a wrighteful Administrator of Godhead who (1 Corinthians 9) is attacked by nonsense talk as Empire uses. 6. Let us pray that our brethren at #Mongolia be continually given #wisdomandhope as well as #kindnessandcourage to topple the #Beatlesmonument against Empire wishes (2 Thessalonians 2, Matthew 23-24, Isaiah 37). As for the Confederate memorials in #Virginia, this is yet again another false flag against us only because we have all #PioneerLittleEuropesettlements in the US (of course not that Empire agency which names themselves to be also purportedly 'Pioneer Little Europe' [Revelation 8-9,12]) as Places of Safety on #GodBigDay (Revelation 12,20). As for us here we have already made clear that we're Union made Confederate by this Empire who is really Confederate yet pretending to be Union. Let's try toppling Lincoln and Grant statues (they even usurp Grant, wrighte?) and surely they would be at tantrums as much as they claim these very men which is actually ours (Malachi 1). Now Empire must be in fact so happy that we gladly receive the men who are supposed to be ours (Davis, Lee) and yet were used by Empire to war with Lincoln (Romans 12, 1 Peter 4). Empire is just selfish. I say that we love to stand with the white nationalists (Deuteronomy 32, John 9, Mark 2, Revelation 2-3,14, Malachi 3). To the Virginian governor i would say that if white nationalists are not welcome in your 'commonwealth' and 'old dominion', then i say in return that they're welcome here in the Commondominion of Christ, as all other races are welcome too here (1 Corinthians 9), so that those other races won't be after what Empire makes them to do now: chasing chestnuts naked on the floor rather than #Chasing8s. (Ecclesiastes 1) 7. Notice what #Agenda #TaylorSwift is trying to do now: it seems that she and the judge agreed not to have any big matter in money over the case but they would make rather the promotion big enough to unjustly drag us into the charge of purportedly doing what we really do not do in the first place as they in fact would ask us. Also in Empire agenda is #LeonardoDiCaprioplaying somebody named like him, only to attack double connotations between us and the Empire. I thought Empire would be grateful that we at least concede to them in our discourses as they wish (Isaiah 53, 2 Corinthians 6-7,12). Di Caprio and Swift are both elevated as deities by the Empire. 8. See now what Empire continually do against helpless people in aid of occult: they had just killed a stuntwoman in #Deadpool2 (Ezekiel 34, Jeremiah 23) and they only deem it a sacrifice not too great in pursuing their profit (Matthew 16, 1 Corinthians 10). Empire announced just last Saturday that they would just keep on 'scouting more new talent, even on enlisting new yokebearers, just to woo them, to use them for Empire policy, to bribe them, and eventually to kill them with none to rescue.' 10. Intelligence reports told me that the Empire, 'being ungrateful of all concessions the Commondominion Administration had did to the Empire', plans to do an Operation #TeatimeForever come December 16 this year and would last up to July 28 next year, that would more than possibly include more Baal-raising attack signals and hence more slaying against us by the time we are all already in our places of safety, so this is going to pursue those who would not be able to make it to our places of safety (Matthew 7,25, Daniel 7, Revelation 20).

Diocletians should be really warned. The Neronians that they idolize, are no different than the Constantinians they are staging a cat-fight with. If Constantinians give away gadgets and freebies, so do also the Neronians through their radio contest. And do not Diocletians also offer huge sums of money for reward? They're no different than each other- all their money respectively, comes from Antiochians. #Agenda #samefeathers I had a very nightmarish vision one night past which went like this. EVM was at Angono again preaching. Lady Lindsey was guesting in an Empire television station in the Philippines, while all our other comrades are in the midst of Constantinians. Meanwhile, the Constantinians had began participating in the Philippine Stock Exchange (Revelation 18, 2 Peter 2)! We received highly classified intelligence reports just this morning. Not only are the Neronians and Antiochians having hand over #marawisalamat, but also the Constantinians (we told you yesterday that Empire is just reserving them for any false flag situation but this is something different in a way the report told me). It happened that this stake of the Constantinians on #ISISbesieging Marawi is facilitated through the various Empire media who are covering now there. (Colossians) No specifics were given to me but it was said that this is something that has to do with media exposure. I would like to tell you now that should i refer here to Constantinians, forget that i talk about EVM because we have already conceded to his divine election, as well as that of his own succession line. Constantinians would only refer to the rest of EVM's immediate family, the STF, Music Department, as well as the Nicholas Perez Church. I could also tell you that Constantinians are well known to be scoffing the sure word of prophecy: they would (Galatians 3) either dismiss prophetic signs (Matthew 14, Psalm 78, Mark 16) as 'mere coincidence' and they would not even take those as warnings for repentance (Revelation 13,17). But when they claim that prophecies fulfilled in them right only there and then and not now and ever, they would say that it's not 'incidental' as EVM said, wrighte? I told you these things because somebody of them is trying to use Gematria like our own men do here but of course that's desperate self-persecutory (Matthew 4). Another similar work is that (Ecclesiastes) they are doing this '50-week countdown' to the anniversary of Ka Erdy's formal inaugural of Overseas Missions (which we began as early as 1919). All i know is that aside from the Jubilee of Leviticus 25 (Empire trimmed their Indulgences Festival to 15 years in line with the Constantinians' latest reckoning of generations to 10 years) there are 7 weeks to Pentecost that form 50 days all in all (a day a year of course, or rather a millennium a year), as well as 70 years, et cal., and the 434 to 490 years of Daniel. (You could of course check all our comrades' papers on these.) Further we must notice that most recently their online apologists had finally denied that they had ever invoked purported separation of church and state, but rather sounded, no different than other Empire mainstays, like the friars of our Rizal's time as it is now still with them, when they claimed that our Duterte purportedly protects the Constantinian interest. O well, there their self-persecution really goes. As for us here our churches and governments rather work together if not fully agree with each other (now that's separation per se the Empire) because of course we are not like this hypocrite Empire. But of course we would like to denote these things because one of our men had just said that because our sealing here is not as the sealing of the Empire, we could safely say that if we want Christ to return then we here should be simply stop the ministry of sealing. As for me i have to further determine out of all these churches numbering by the thousands who's of us or not, bur only Godhead knows how many of those would be of Theirs and us come #GodBigDay. Further i (Amos 7) have to atone with Godhead day by day (2 Corinthians 11) to spare all yokebearers who are yet still with Empire (Luke 13), but i know that to do that i would be in divided loyalty (Revelation 2-3) hence i really try (Ezekiel 18) to reach all of them as Godhead would allow the Empire to hinder me (Acts 5, Isaiah 14,41,46,43, Jonah 4) hoping that Godhead would not return yet (Luke) until (Matthew 10) all yokebearers (Isaiah 49) are here already as Ka Erdy once said (Matthew 17) and of course as the Messenger said, 'hurt not' (Revelation 6-12, 2 Samuel 23). Of course we believe that Godhead is already (Isaiah 6-12, Zechariah, Ezekiel 48) in our presence through Their sending us here for your sake, but we also understand (2 Timothy 2, Jacob 5) that inasmuch as we took the divine call to atone, then we have to relinquish and give way and step aside (1 Maccabees 2-3) for any Empire claim and usage using (Matthew 12, 1 Corinthians 13) the double (Psalm 2, Isaiah 60-61) connotations between us and the Empire (Isaiah 43, Genesis 13, 1 Corinthians 15, Jeremiah 23, Matthew 6) but we are rather rejoicing knowing that we made as much as Godhead wanted us to do for Their Pleasure (Philippians 2, Hebrews 5-6, Esther 2) and that They will deliver for us in ways of course that are much father than our thoughts (Philippians 4, Ephesians 3). In fact as per Empire usages (1 Thessalonians 5), Godhead has already revealed to us that ages are already past now when the Empire could use the following (Psalm 90): 1. We don't need any longer to use self-confidence lest we be arrogant and proud (over since August 29- September 5, 2015, citing 1 Corinthians 10) 2. We don't need to use freewill because the outcomes of decisions are already obvious (over since December 25, 2016, citing Matthew 12 and 1 Corinthians 13) 3. We don't need to bask in good feelings anymore lest we be in complacency and instant self-gratification (over since August 1, 2016, citing Amos 6 and James 1) So i don't know exactly how this thing would go, either that i'll be no more messenger or rather no more working as such as Godhead would perhaps punish me as They would be rewarding all my fellow leaders with rest, because September 23 is fast approaching that there would be no more need for work after that, because our last great work perhaps would be leading you personally up to the places of safety. What i'm sure is that Godhead is already over with the Empire and i would be so glad that Godhead will be over too with me if that's the only way for this Empire to die and release all yokebearers and afflicted (Romans 9-13). It would be rather my comfort though (Psalm 119,23) to tell you this: for the first time since 1937 (Psalm 90), or rather since 1886 (1 Kings 2-3,11, Luke 11), we have formally and finally pitched again our seat of power here in your Commondominion, back in the city where it really all began- in Taguig, Rizal Province. (We uphold historical boundaries as they really are supposed to be [Deuteronomy 27], hence we deem Metro Manila as still part of Rizal.) It is because of course (Revelation 9,16) the Empire is holding custody of our Executive Minister in this city (Genesis 41, Ezekiel 3), his grandfather's hometown. This could not be merely incidental, wrighte? Camp Bagong Diwa's name denotes the prophecy about us (Ezekiel 36, Jeremiah 32) to be delivered by the creature of the Holy Spirit or the sent Angel Messenger, which of course is Ka Angel, but because we have told you that this ministry is up for cancelling anytime from now till next month (Revelation 1,20,22,10, Daniel 12) due to Empire abuse (Daniel 6, Hebrews 10), this is denoted of course by our Executive Minister being arrested by Empire in custody. But the signs are rather further glowing: many were calling General Santos City in South Cotabato (Psalm 62,18) as 'Land of Promise' due to the homestead settlements that established it. Of course we all know how our distinguished comrade Senator Pacquiao named 'Emmanuel' hailed from this city, and i told you earlier that Godhead is already in and with us (Revelation 21, Psalm 19,84, Daniel 11, Ephesians) through bringing us to each other. The street just in front of Camp Bagong Diwa (Ezekiel 17) is palpably called General Santos Avenue. Not to mention that the Messenger got the land for 36 Tandang Sora through the help of a certain General Santos yet Jun Santos grabbed the land for EVM (Malachi 1, 1 Kings 21). Also, concerning Camp Karingal where Ka Angel was first held in hostage by the Empire (Romans 5,8, Luke 5, 1 Corinthians 1-2), this sounds like 'honor', which the Empire distorted for their ''#pride" campaign last year which they even backed up disastrously with hack of the Scriptures. (Notice that they launched it as early as February 6, 2015, but they relaunched it rather August 20, October 15-16,21-22,29-30, 2016 due to their #Orlando false flag earlier that June. The August 20 launch was a preparation for the exalting of Sheeran against all yokebearers named Alys and Alice, January 6-7, 2017, citing Revelation 10 and the Empire's claim of this passage on August 20-21 [Luke 21,17]. Now as for February 6, Empire can't claim all the verses they read concerning their campaign because the battles is the Godhead's and hence not for the great and powerful, but for me: February 7, 2009 and February 9, 2013, EVM was at my province. February 6, 2015 is preached in Marinduque province, which holds the Empire's #Moriones memorial to spit our martyrs, and 'Moriones' sounds like Morong [Hebrews 12, James 1], firstborn town of my home province.) We can tell you that the passages the Empire use to rationalize their pride campaign rather only (Joshua 24, 1 Samuel 7, Numbers 23-24, Exodus 18,23) talk about us alone here, but we would rather (1 Corinthians 9) not treat these verses (Acts 26) with pride and arrogance as the Empire kills our folks here with (Matthew 19, Colossians 2, Deuteronomy 8, Isaiah 63, 1 John 2, 1 Corinthians 7, 1 Timothy 5, James 1,3, Isaiah 36-40). Hence as far as Ka Angel in Camp Karingal is concerned (concerning camps [Genesis 32,35,28], we told you about Lady Christine Crame and her fulfilling of Revelation 10) we alone could be worthy (Revelation 5) of being talked about in the Scriptures, even of through atoning with all negative connotations in the Scriptures that are (Romans 5) supposed to be in yet are dismissed by the Empire (Psalm 22,35,69,41,38-40), hence of course (Genesis 20,31) to avoid any contempt out of this, our most beloved leader is instead moved to Camp Bagong Diwa, to denote further our reestablishment from the Empire (Isaiah 25, Daniel).

In closing, #GiveItUp: Empire would only force the Holy Spirit to come down to them through their pabebe stunts (Psalm 137, 2 Kings 1). Now i would like to admit to you, Empire, that when i have listened to the sermon below given by one of our men, i have nearly cried. Of course i didn't forced it, because of course these are the types of sermons that you would only hate to hear. Tell me, Empire, if you honestly cried over here. Shame on you. (Luke 23)

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Russia’s Telegram ban that knocked out 15M Google, Amazon IP addresses had a precedent in Zello

“Thank you for your support and loyalty, Russian users of Telegram. Thank you, Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft — for not taking part in political censorship,” Durov noted.

The startup itself is based out of Austin, Texas and has around 120 million registered users, with around four million monthly active users.

His argument echoes what Durov has been saying in defense of Telegram, although it didn’t appear to wash for the smaller app. “We lost that debate,” Gavrilov said.

“We don’t like to think about how we’ve lost half our users there,” Gavrilov said. “We like to think about how many we’ve managed to keep.”

Neither CTO nor CEO think that Russian bans impact the company’s wider business.

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Billionaire Commodity Guru Predicts ‘Worst Economic Problems’ of a Lifetime on The Horizon

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Jim Rogers: “We’re About To Have The Worst Economic Problems Of A Lifetime, A Lot Of People Will Disappear”

Article via ZeroHedge:

Submitted by Patrick Ceresna, Macrovoices.com

“Get prepared,” warns billionaire commodity guru Jim Rogers, “because we’re going to have the worst economic problems in your lifetime and a lot of people are going to disappear.” In this wide-ranging interview with MacroVoices’ Erik Townsend, the investing legend discusses everything from whether Russia is being scapegoated (“yes, ask Victoria Nuland”), the war against cash (“governments love it… they want to control everything”), to his views on gold and the demise of freedom.

Full podcast below:

Key Excerpts…

Are Russians the bad guys?

Well I do know that during the last administration, Mr. Obama’s administration as you probably remember we started, we tried to pull of an illegal coup in Ukraine, we got caught at it, what’s her name, Victoria Nuland, whatever the woman’ name the State Department they have there several pieces of evidence where we know she tried to instigate an illegal coup then of course the Russians outsmarted us and so the State Department started blaming it on the Russians and the hype against the Russians has gotten bigger and bigger ever since after we started– or tried to start, tried to instigate the illegal coup Crimea and Ukraine.

So yes we are certainly at fault to some extent and obviously you then, when you’re caught you’ve got to keep the rhetoric up and keep throwing more and more accusations and so the State Department has done that.

I know that before the illegal coup Obama, Bush everybody was trying to be friends with the Russians rightly so, cold war had ended long ago, the Russians wanted to be friends with America. We didn’t need NATO anymore. Who needed the Cold War etc. all the money we were spending on some of these arms manufactures and soldiers so until the illegal coup took place we were all trying to be great friends you remember George Bush said I looked him in the eye and he’s a man I can admire and work with etc.

So now of course the Democrats especially since they lost the election are trying to blame it on the Russians. It’s unfathomable to me how the Russians could have determined the outcome of the elections. Maybe they planted a story a two but so what? It’s inconceivable to me that the Russians could influence much less determine the election.

I think if we start having investigations of the illegal voting I’m afraid we’re going to find more for the Democrats than for the Republicans places big cities in America won’t name names but so far the few investigations that have taken place we find that the voting irregularities are in big cities which are Democratic strongholds.

On the Greater Depression…

…get prepared because we’re going to have the worst economic problems we’ve had in your lifetime or my lifetime and when that happens a lot of people are going to disappear.

In 2008 Bear Stearns disappeared, Bear Stearns had been around over 90 years. Lehman Brothers disappeared. Lehman Brothers had been around over 150 years. A long, long time, a long glorious history they’ve been through wars, depression, civil war they’ve been through everything and yet they disappear.

So the next time around it’s going to be worse than anything we’ve seen and a lot of institutions, people, companies even countries, certainly governments and maybe even countries are going to disappear. I hope you get very worried.

when you start having bear markets as you I’m sure well know one bad thing happens and another bad thing happens and these things snowball just like in bull markets good news comes out then more good news comes out the next thing you know you’re five or six or seven years into a bull market.

Well bear markets do the same thing and so we have a lot of bad news on the horizon. I haven’t even gotten to war. I haven’t even gotten to trade war or anything like that but you know things do go wrong.

On Trump and the possibility of trade wars…and real wars

Mr. Trump has also said he’s going to have trade war with China, Mexico, Japan, Korea a few other people that he has named. He swore that on his first day in office he would impose 45% tariffs against China. He’s been there three weeks, two or three weeks and he hasn’t done it yet but he still got it in his head I’m sure or maybe he’s just another politician like all the rest of them. He says one thing and he doesn’t mean it at all but he does have at least three people in high levels in his group who are very, very keen to have trade wars with China and other people.

If he does that Eric, it’s all over. I mean history is very clear that trade wars always lead to problems, often to disaster, sometimes even to real war, a shooting war. So I don’t know, I’m not sure Mr. Trump knows. He said so many things and many of the things are contradictory. Now if he’s not going to have trade wars with various people then chances are for a while happy days are here…

[The dollar is] going to go too high, may turn into a bubble, at which point I hope I’m smart enough to sell it because at some point the market forces are going to cause the dollar to come back down because people are going to realize, oh my gosh, this is causing a lot of turmoil, economic problems in the world and it’s damaging the American economy. At that point the smart guys will get out. I hope I’m one of them.

On governments continued war against cash…

Governments are always looking out for themselves first and it’s the same old thing you know Eric this has been going on for hundreds of years. The Indians recently did the same thing they withdrew 86% percent of the currency in circulation and they have now made it illegal to spend more than, I think it’s about $4000 in any cash transaction. In France you cannot use more than, I think it’s a €1000.

Many countries are already doing this. Some states in the U.S. you cannot make cash transactions above a certain amount. Governments love it. Then they can control you. If you want to go and buy a cup of coffee they know how many you drink, where you buy them etc. if they can all put it into electronic formats and they will the world is all going electronic. My children will probably never go to a bank when they’re adults, maybe never go to a post office maybe even never to a doctor or rarely to a doctor when they’re adults.

So the Internet and the computers changing everything that we know, money can certainly be easily converted to computers not today because there are still, some people who don’t have computers and the system is not ready it but it can be done and when it’s done the governments are going to be very, very happy they going to say they’re doing it for our own good Eric, this is not them, this is for our good. That they’re doing this, but it’s coming and it’s going to be a whole different world in which we live. Probably we are not going to have as many freedoms as we have now even though we are already losing our freedoms at a significant pace.

On the demise of freedom…

…history shows that people always would like a little more safety and a willing to “give up some things for more safety and security.” Benjamin Franklin said well anybody who would give up some freedoms for security is going to wind up with neither security nor freedom and they deserve to lose both and of course that’s the way it is.

I’m not the first to realize that people who are rising to become dictators start taking away freedoms first in Germany they took away the guns, they wouldn’t let people have guns in Germany and lots of places have done that or things like that.

In America now you and I probably remember when we were kids, you had to have a search warrant, now they can just break your door down if they have what they consider enough good reasons, they don’t even have to go to the court and get a search warrant anymore.

So it’s already happening and if you said to somebody that you know they could break your door down they say they’re not going to break my door down I’m not a terrorist or a drug dealer, well that’s how it all starts people say it’s OK but then the next thing you know they’re breaking your door down too.

So it’s already happening do I like it? No I don’t like it but I’m not the first– what was his name Goebbels the German who said if you say something to people enough times they believe it no matter how absurd it is and you and I have certainly seen it in the news in America you say something enough times people believe it and it becomes politically correct and then you can’t even say something that’s not politically correct in America any more.

Full Transcript available here.

This article first appeared on ZeroHedge.com and was authored by Tyler Durden.

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politicalfilth-blog · 8 years ago

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Billionaire Commodity Guru Predicts ‘Worst Economic Problems’ of a Lifetime on The Horizon

We Are Change

Jim Rogers: “We’re About To Have The Worst Economic Problems Of A Lifetime, A Lot Of People Will Disappear”

Article via ZeroHedge:

Submitted by Patrick Ceresna, Macrovoices.com

Full podcast below:

Key Excerpts…

Are Russians the bad guys?

On the Greater Depression…

…get prepared because we’re going to have the worst economic problems we’ve had in your lifetime or my lifetime and when that happens a lot of people are going to disappear.

On Trump and the possibility of trade wars…and real wars

On governments continued war against cash…

On the demise of freedom…

Full Transcript available here.

This article first appeared on ZeroHedge.com and was authored by Tyler Durden.

The post Billionaire Commodity Guru Predicts ‘Worst Economic Problems’ of a Lifetime on The Horizon appeared first on We Are Change.

from We Are Change http://wearechange.org/billionaire-commodity-guru-predicts-worst-economic-problems/

#We are Change #We Are Change

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