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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ : Comment - Mulvaney claims news coverage of coronavirus is a plot to bring down Trump

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:53:30 +0000

Of the sundry Wuhan Virus "conspiracy theories" afoot these days, one of the more thought-provoking is positively Orwellian. It has it that COVID-19 is a carefully and cleverly orchestrated and choreographed event that will enable President Trump to join President Putin and uber-Leader Xi as they forge The New New World Order: a tri-polar planet engaged in perpetual war between what Orwell called Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. The only thing missing right now is police state martial law thought control in Oceania with its own Leader-For-Life to join Putin and his neo-nascent Russian Empire, and Xi and his rebirth of The Mao, but with a modern face. And a global pandemic that reaches America is just the sort of thing that could make that happen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ : Comment - The Last Act of the Human Comedy

Tue, 3 Sep 2019 09:57:02 +0000

The Hong Kong protests are a US manipulation to undermine Which system of socialism: China's? And based on the historical performance of socialist political economies over the past 100 or so years in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere, how do You see socialism offering "the only realistic hope for mankind"?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ : Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony

Sun, 3 Feb 2019 07:54:20 +0000

The only reason Trump is in the White House is because the Deep State neo-cons/-libs and their owners and operators on Wall Street wanted him there. He will be there as long as he reads his scripts and acts the reality-tv host. If he stops doing that, he will be gone. The whole purpose of the GWOT was to give Russia and China the time necessary to become Worthy Adversaries in what is already looming as Cold War II. Orwell nailed it when he talked about Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia.

Information Clearing House - News you won't find on CNN : Paying Off Post-9/11 U.S. War Debt Could Cost $8 Trillion

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:48:43 +0000

You wrote: "A sovereign nation has the power to declare bankruptcy. It cannot do so accidentally. That's point 1." Point 1. Do other nations [or global economic/political/financial institutions] have the power to declare a nation "bankrupt" [by whatever term] by refusing to accept its currency? When nobody would accept post -WWI Weimar Germany's currency because of its hyperinflation, was that a "bankruptcy," or something else? What about China's post-WWII episode? And others, all the way back to Rome? Whatever it's called, i believe that that is at least part of the ultimate danger. Or plan and intent, depending upon one's perspective. Point 2. i follow what You mean by "exhaustion," but not which "one cannot cause the other effect." You lost me. Let me rephrase the question to see if i can make it valid: If significant sections of the global economy refused to accept US Dollars as payment for materials, goods, products, and services rendered, what would You call that? If not bankruptcy, what? Point 3. You wrote: It's doubtful that anyone would refuse US dollars. But we cannot say that will not change. Did You read the article in today's ICH: "China’s ‘Petro-Yuan’ is Set to Challenge the U.S. Military-Backed ‘Petro-Dollar’" ? Fits right in to the conversation, wouldn't You say? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48190.ht...

Information Clearing House - News you won't find on CNN : Currency War Will Escalate - China’s ‘Petro-Yuan’ is Set to Challenge the U.S. Mil

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 07:41:18 +0000

"Is the U.S. willing to launch a war against North Korea?" A better question would be: "Are the American People ready to launch a war against North Korea?" The answer being: "SSSSHHHHUUUURRRRE.... . "As long ~ that is ~ as We don't have to pay for it, and our Kids don't have to fight in it. "We'll need them around to pay for it when the bill comes due."

Information Clearing House - News you won't find on CNN : Paying Off Post-9/11 U.S. War Debt Could Cost $8 Trillion

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 07:22:52 +0000

Your Comment raises a number of interesting questions: 1. Has ~ by Your definition of "bankruptcy" ~ any sovereign nation ever gone bankrupt? If so, what is the United States doing that's any different than what did? 2. If significant sections of the global economy refused to accept US Dollars as payment for materials, goods, products, and services rendered, would You call that bankruptcy or "exhaustion"?

News From Antiwar.com : Iran Talks End Without Deal, More Talks Nov. 20

Sun, 10 Nov 2013 01:07:55 +0000

Who pays for all these negotiations? From air fare to and from; to logistical/operational/communications/intelligence/security support requirements; to the salaries of the people sitting around bull****ting; to all the other money spent (on Whom, by Whom)? Who pays for all this? and, what is the return on Our investment? i am reminded of being in Viet Nam when the Paris "Peace" Talks broke out, and the argument that held up negotiations for weeks if not months, about the size and shape of the table. according to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Accords ) : "A similar debate concerned the table to be used at the conference. The North favored a circular table, in which all parties, including NLF representatives, would appear to be "equal"' in importance. The South Vietnamese argued that only a rectangular table was acceptable, for only a rectangle could show two distinct sides to the conflict. Eventually a compromise was reached, in which representatives of the northern and southern governments would sit at a circular table, with members representing all other parties sitting on individual square tables around them." i remember signing a letter inviting all of those *******s in Paris to come here, where we were, in the mud, the blood, the ****, and the lies that were Viet Nam in 1968. i was told that close to a million American GIs and Vietnamese signed that petition.

News From Antiwar.com : Amash, Others Push Surveillance Reform Over NSA Objections

Wed, 30 Oct 2013 05:53:57 +0000

So, one is left to wonder: is the problem that the government of the United States is bugging the entire planet, including its own citizens? Or is the problem that somebody has exposed this fact? Contained within the answer to that question is the future of this nation. There are those who are comfortable with and indeed comforted by the revelations, yet outraged at their coming to light. And there are those who are revolted by them and thankful that there are people of integrity and courage. The future of this nation depends entirely upon how many feel which way, and are prepared to act upon their feelings. It is really no more complex, or simpler, than that. And upon that starkly simple, complex fact depends whether this nation is entering deeper into the beginning of a long, dark winter’s nite, or the beginning of the birth of a spring’s new dawn.

News From Antiwar.com : Key Lawmakers Turn Against NSA, Back Reform Bill

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:47:25 +0000

So, one is left to wonder: is the problem that the government of the United States is bugging the entire planet, including its own citizens? Or is the problem that somebody has exposed this fact? Contained within the answer to that question is the future of this nation. There are those who are comfortable with and indeed comforted by the revelations, yet outraged at their coming to light. And there are those who are revolted by them and thankful that there are people of integrity and courage. The future of this nation depends entirely upon how many feel which way, and are prepared to act upon their feelings. It is really no more complex, or simpler, than that. And upon that simple, complex fact depends whether this nation is entering deeper into the beginning of a long, dark winter’s nite, or the beginning of the birth of a spring’s new dawn.

News From Antiwar.com : NSA Scandals Grow, But White House Appears Ambivalent

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:19:29 +0000

So, one is left to wonder: is the problem that the government of the United States is bugging the entire planet, including its own citizens? Or is the problem that somebody has exposed this fact? Contained within the answer to that question is the future of this nation. There are those who are comfortable with and indeed comforted by the revelations, yet outraged at their coming to light. And there are those who are revolted by them and thankful that there are people of integrity and courage. The future of this nation depends entirely upon how many feel which way, and are prepared to act upon their feelings. It is really no more complex, or simpler, than that. And upon that simple, complex fact depends whether this nation is entering deeper into the beginning of a long, dark winter’s nite, or the beginning of the birth of a spring’s new dawn.

News From Antiwar.com : White House Rebuts Feinstein: Surveillance of Allies to Continue

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:17:26 +0000

So, one is left to wonder: is the problem that the government of the United States is bugging the entire planet, including its own citizens? Or is the problem that somebody has exposed this fact? Contained within the answer to that question is the future of this nation. There are those who are comfortable with and indeed comforted by the revelations, yet outraged at their coming to light. And there are those who are revolted by them and thankful that there are people of integrity and courage. The future of this nation depends entirely upon how many feel which way, and are prepared to act upon their feelings. It is really no more complex, or simpler, than that. And upon that simple, complex fact depends whether this nation is entering deeper into the beginning of a long, dark winter’s nite, or the beginning of the birth of a spring’s new dawn.

News From Antiwar.com : Feinstein Pushes to Legalize the Surveillance State

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:16:36 +0000

So, one is left to wonder: is the problem that the government of the United States is bugging the entire planet, including its own citizens? Or is the problem that somebody has exposed this fact? Contained within the answer to that question is the future of this nation. There are those who are comfortable with and indeed comforted by the revelations, yet outraged at their coming to light. And there are those who are revolted by them and thankful that there are people of integrity and courage. The future of this nation depends entirely upon how many feel which way, and are prepared to act upon their feelings. It is really no more complex, or simpler, than that. And upon that simple, complex fact depends whether this nation is entering deeper into the beginning of a long, dark winter’s nite, or the beginning of the birth of a spring’s new dawn. ###

Antiwar.com Original Articles : We Beat the War Party

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:48:35 +0000

What will you do, America, when 9.11 happens once again? Will you rush out to buy brand new flags and ribbons and bumper stickers, buttons, posters and signs, to replace the torn, shredded, faded, matted, pealed, and rusted (or forgotten and now long-discarded) ones you rushed out to buy twelve years ago after the first 9.11? And then once again go on with your lives, desperately hoping that you can somehow continue pretending to pretend that nothing has really changed, that life does indeed go on the Day After The End of The World As We Knew It, Once Again? What will you do, America, when 9.11 happens once again? Will you once again piously, stoically, and heroically accept whatever your Leaders deem as the unquestionably necessary, personal sacrifices demanded in this time of grave new national peril and challenge? Particularly if you get to keep your tax breaks and gas in your SUVs, and your kid gets to get his Deferment from The Draft? What will you do, America, when 9.11 happens once again? And, will you, the so-called “peace, anti-war, and social justice” community of America, once again walk right past GROUND ZERO -- The Real, Whole Truth -- looking for something “more significant, something more relevant, something more important”? Will you once again rush to hold your episodic, periodic Gatherings Of The Tribe to rail and rant and beat your breasts and massage your gums and egos against the newest extension and expansion and endless continuation of this so-called “War” at home and abroad? This War about which you have -- from DAY ZERO, from September 11, 2001 -- completely refused and thus failed to “think the unthinkable,” and thus understand, and thus first prevent and then and now stop? When the next Phase of The Coup of September 11 happens, America, What Will You Do? Do you have the courage to even ask yourself these questions? May all be well with All that you love. Jeff Moebus VETERANS AGAINST WAR Sitka Platoon vaw.sitka@gmail.com

Antiwar.com Original Articles : We Beat the War Party

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:46:31 +0000

i must respectfully disagree with Your statement, Justin, that "... from now on whenever a President decides he has the power to take us to war without consulting the people’s representatives, he or she will have a much harder time getting away with it." all that it will take for the War Party to re-assert its will is another major Terror Event, like the one we are celebrating tomorrow. and when -- not "if" -- that happens, then what? When there is another major Terror Event in America, with massive loss of life and property, what will Americans -- Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, libertarians and progressives, Tea Partiers and radical anarchists, and all the rest of us -- individually and collectively -- what will We DO? There will be another Terror Event when those who benefitted most from the first 9.11 determine that they stand to benefit even more from 9.11-II. Any who doubt this assertion should ask themselves this simple question: If those who benefitted most from 9.11-I determine to do another Event, who and/or what is going to stop them? ….. So: WHAT WILL YOU DO, AMERICA, WHEN 9.11 HAPPENS ONCE AGAIN? What will you do when your government once again fails its Constitutionally-mandated duty and responsibility to preserve and protect the Life, Liberty, and Property of America’s citizens from all enemies, foreign and domestic? Will you meekly and absent-mindedly accept the fact that, once again, not one single elected politician, not one single entrenched civilian or military career bureaucrat, not one single anointed political appointee is to be held accountable or made to be responsible and to pay for his and her failures? What will you do, America, when 9.11 happens once again? What will you do when thousands more of your countrywomen and men are murdered before your very eyes on live television? Will you once again dutifully and diffidently shrug off your absolute, inalienable, and unconditional Right to know the Real, Whole Truth about WHAT actually happened, about HOW it actually happened, about WHY it actually happened, about WHO actually made it happen, and about Who, by their failures of omission and commission, actually LET it happen? Will you once again passively and patriotically accept the Official “conspiracy theory” version of events as explained to you by your government, and as packaged and presented, marketed and sold to you by its experts, cheerleaders, gatekeepers, and champions in what used to be called The Media – mainstream, corporate, liberal, alternative, conservative, progressive, patriotic, radical, which- or what- or wherever? What will you do, America, when 9.11 happens once again? What will you do when the so-called “War” Against so-called “Terrorism” abroad and at home is transparently, clearly, and undeniably demonstrated and exposed to be a total, abject failure and thus lie, scam, hoax, and sham? Will you once again give even more untaxed money, unchallenged political power, and unchallengeable legal authority to the very people, offices, organizations, and agencies by whose failures this “War” was created and is waged in the first place, and who can promise you only that your -- and their -- investment in it will last forever? Or until another, better “Threat” is created? What will you do, America, when 9.11 happens once again? What will you do when your elected and appointed officials further dismantle Constitutional government in the name of “civilization”; further diminish individual and civil liberties in the name of “freedom”; and finally destroy the last vestiges of whatever power We, the People, may have once commanded…all in the name of “democracy” and “security”? Will you obediently and obsequiously once again hide and watch the next stage in the biggest seizure of government power on this planet since Stalin’s Russia in the 20s, Hitler’s Germany in the 30s, and Mao’s China in the 40s? What will you do, America, when 9.11 happens once again? What will you do when those who benefited most from 9.11 determine that the time has come for another major Terror Event, because maximum strategic and tactical political, economic, and, above all, psychological gain is to be achieved with another, newer, bigger and better, second “new Pearl Harbor”? Will you once again feign ignorance of their -- and your -- history? What will you do, America, when 9.11 happens once again? tbc...

Antiwar.com Blog : This Is How the American Youth Will Stop the Syrian War!

Sun, 8 Sep 2013 23:37:18 +0000

Anyone intent on stopping Congressional authorization of the proposed US War against Syria, and All that will follow in its wake, should send the following simple message (by local picture postcard; not by e-mail or “Tweetter,” etc) to their Senators and Congressional Representative. Memo to Senators ______ and ______, and Congresswoman/man ______: As you prepare to decide how to vote on Congressional authorization of the proposed US War against Syria, and All that will follow in its wake, please bear the following in mind: A Vote For War is a Vote Against Your Re-election. Ever again. And please understand: this is not a Threat; this is a Promise. Sincerely, Those who are concerned that the White House will launch its War regardless of what Congress does, should send the following simple message to Mr Obama: Memo to the President of the United States: In accordance with and as specified by the Constitution of the United States of America, you WILL NOT attack, invade, “liberate,” and occupy Syria without a formal Declaration of War from the Congress of the United States. Also in accordance with and also as specified by the Constitution of the United States of America, no further money will be authorized for or be spent on an attack, invasion, “liberation,” or occupation of Syria UNTIL you ask for and get a formal Declaration of War from the Congress of the United States. Who says so? WE say so. We, The People of the United States of America. To put it in Chicago-speak that maybe even you might understand, Mr President: your predecessor obfuscated, prevaricated, and otherwise lied (with a lot of help from his colleagues in the media) his way past the Congress and the American people into Afghanistan and Iraq. Just like you tap-danced your way sufficiently “out” of Iraq and enough “on-the-way-out” of Afghanistan to serve your purposes for the 2012 elections. But, you WILL NOT bull$#it your way past the American people into Syria. Or Iran. Not again. Not this time. And please understand Mr President, that this is not a Threat. This is a Promise. Sincerely This War must be stopped. This War can be stopped. This War will be stopped. VETERANS AGAINST WAR Sitka Platoon vaw.sitka@gmail.com

News From Antiwar.com : Obama Confident Americans Will Want to Attack Syria

Sat, 7 Sep 2013 03:08:15 +0000

News From Antiwar.com : Obama Might Defy Congressional 'No' Vote, Attack Syria Anyhow

Sat, 7 Sep 2013 03:03:57 +0000

Open Letter to The President Of The United States (with Copies Furnished to The Congress and Supreme Court of The United States) Subject: The Proposed, Planned, Prepared For, and Inevitable Attack Upon, and Invasion, “Liberation,” and Occupation of Syria Dear Sir, In accordance with and as specified by the Constitution of the United States of America, you WILL NOT attack, invade, “liberate,” and occupy Syria without a formal Declaration of War from the Congress of the United States. Also in accordance with and also as specified by the Constitution of the United States of America, no further money will be authorized for or be spent on an attack, invasion, “liberation,” or occupation of Syria UNTIL you ask for and get a formal Declaration of War from the Congress of the United States. Who says so? WE say so. We, The People of the United States of America. To put it in Chicago-speak that maybe even you might understand, Mr President: your predecessor obfuscated, prevaricated, and otherwise lied (with a lot of help from his colleagues in the media) his way past the Congress and the American people into Afghanistan and Iraq. Just like you tap-danced your way sufficiently “out” of Iraq and enough “on-the-way-out” of Afghanistan to serve your purposes for the 2012 elections. But, you WILL NOT bulldance your way past the American people into Syria. OR Iran. Not again. Not this time. And please understand Mr President, that this is not a Threat. This is a Promise. Sincerely Yours, /signed/ A VETERAN AGAINST WAR ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The Core Operating Principle of VETERANS AGAINST WAR is as follows: “Memorial Day remembers America’s War Dead. Unless and Until we remember that there are other War Dead (both military and, increasingly, civilian and non-combatant) besides just American, there will be new American War Dead to be remembered with every new Memorial Day. And more non-American War Dead to be forgotten.” vaw.sitka@gmail.com

News From Antiwar.com : Syria Vote May Be Delayed in House as Leaders Fear Major Defeat

Sat, 7 Sep 2013 02:51:04 +0000

News From Antiwar.com : Progressives, Tea Party United to Oppose Syria War

Fri, 6 Sep 2013 03:35:46 +0000

News From Antiwar.com : Reports: House Will Reject Syrian War

Fri, 6 Sep 2013 03:34:12 +0000