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June 4, 2016
Switzerland is voting on a proposal to give every citizen $2,500 a month, no questions asked — Quartz
There’s been a lot of excitement over universal basic income (UBI) recently, with a venture capital firm and governments in Ontario and Norway planning trial programs. But on Sunday, June 5, Switzerland will hold the first national vote on whether to introduce a basic income scheme. Under terms of the referendum, the government would give…
A British View of American History
The American Future: A History from the Founding Fathers to Barack Obama.
Simon Schama
Random House (2008)
Book Review
Written for a British audience, The American Future attempts to define the quintessential American national character by tracing historical movements that have shaped US society. The five political movements Schama considers most important are 1) the gradual rise of a professional military officer class, 2) the role of evangelical religion in the movement to abolish slavery, 3) the brutal imperialist war against Mexico and the Philippines, 4) the forced displacement of the Cherokee and four other Native American nations under Andrew Jackson, and 5) the development of large scale irrigation in to open the Southwest desert area to agriculture.
For me the primary value of this book is all the historical gems Schama includes that you never learn about in high school. For example:
• The founding of West Point military academy with its Jeffersonian emphasis on philosophy and civil engineering, as opposed to military tactics. Jefferson believed a sound liberal education for US military officers would help ensure the US never went to war except to defend liberty. Congress consistently refused to fund a US military or naval academy until an undeclared war with France broke out in 1796.* Over a period of ten months, the French seized 300 US merchant vessels. When Congress eventually authorized funding for West Point, its primary purpose was to train the Army Corps of Engineers, who built the levees, bridges, damns, dykes and forts that enabled westward expansion. They also drained the swamp in Washington DC and built the Capitol and other important federal buildings.
• President Lyndon Johnson’s role, in 1964, in blocking the credentialing of Mississippi’s Freedom Democratic Party, led by Fannie Lou Hamer, after the Mississippi Democratic Party declared their support for the Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. This blatant white cronyism would provide major impetus to the growing black power movement.
• The profound religious intolerance that persisted in the US even after the 1780 adoption of the Bill of Rights guaranteeing separation of church and state. ** In Massachusetts, Sunday church attendance was compulsory until 1833 – until 1840, blasphemy could be punished by one year in prison, public whipping or the pillory. In Maryland Jews weren’t allowed to vote or hold office until the state passed the Jew Bill in 1820.
• Anti-immigrant feelings, especially against Germans, Irish, Mexicans and Chinese were so intense during the 19th century that there were frequent riots in which immigrants were lynched or had their homes set on fire. An 1855 riot in Louisville would have affected my great grandfather, whose family arrived in the area after immigrating from Germany in 1840.
• President Teddy Roosevelt’s 1902 National Reclamation Act, which led to the construction of 600 dams (including Grand Coulee and Hoover Dam) in thirty years. These would provide irrigation to millions of acres of desert in California and the Southwest. This project would include the diversion of the Colorado River to supply Southern California’s Imperial Valley, which supplies nearly half the fresh fruit and vegetables consumed by Americans, as well as Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and parts of Mexico.
*Prior to reading this book, I had no idea the US and France had been at war (with each other).
**The early view of the Bill of Rights was that it only pertained to the federal government and didn’t apply to state law.
June 3, 2016
COVER-UP: How The Dairy Industry Tricked Humans Into Believing They Need Milk
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Despite the fact that one can get their daily recommendation of calcium, potassium, and protein from fruits and vegetables, the dairy industry has spent billions of dollars to convince consumers otherwise.
Source – trueactivist.com
– “…Because milk is very mucus-forming in the human body, it is believed to contribute to allergies, ear infections, Type 1 diabetes, anemia, and even constipation. In addition, the food may contribute to various types of cancers as consumption of the product increases the body’s level of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1)”:
(How The Dairy Industry Tricked Humans Into Believing They Need Milk – ByAmanda Froelich)
Despite the fact that one can get their daily recommendation of calcium, potassium, and protein from fruits and vegetables, the dairy industry has spent billions of dollars to convince consumers otherwise.
How The Dairy Industry Tricked Humans Into Believing They Need Milk – ByAmanda Froelich
Got Milk? We sure hope not. Despite being a somewhat tasty addition to coffee, tea, and delectable treats, the ingredient – when pasteurized – is highly toxic to the human body. In fact, physicians such…
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Is the CIA getting ready to dump the Clintons?
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Mainstream press outlets are mounting a new brand of coverage on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. They’re questioning her ability to win the nomination and/or the general election. All of a sudden, the done deal is not done. Have the Clintons lost the support of their Wall Street/CIA sponsors (Bill has CIA-links dating back to the late 60s when he spied on anti-Vietnam war protestors as a Rhodes scholar in England).
Is the CIA getting ready to dump the Clintons?
How many times are the dynamic duo allowed to wander off the reservation?
by Jon Rappoport
June 3, 2016
(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here.)
Mainstream press outlets are mounting a new brand of coverage on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. They’re questioning her ability to win the nomination and/or the general election. All of a sudden, the done deal is not done.
What’s behind this switch?
Aside from fear of The Donald, there is the boiling Hillary email scandal. There is also the specter of further revelations about the syndicate known as the Clinton Foundation. That’s a big one. A very big one.
As I’ve previously reported, the sale of 20% of the uranium in the US to Putin—that’s right—involved donors to the Foundation—unreported donors—as well as the participation of Mrs. Clinton’s State Department…
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Documentary: Meet the Clintons
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James Corbett’s latest highly enlightening documentary.
In the run up to the US Presidential election, we highlight James Corbett’s enlightening run-down of the power couple, their unsavoury histories and their scandals both past and present.
June 2, 2016
Black Liberation: How Obama Abandoned the Black Community
The following is a presentation by Keehanga-Yamahtta Taylor about her book from #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. The main focus of the talk is the total abandonment of the black community by America’s first black president Barack Obama.
African Americans have double the unemployment rate of other US workers, 40% of African American children live in poverty, 55% of black workers earn under $55 and police shoot and kill an average of 900 African Americans a year.*
What Taylor finds even more galling is that Obama persistently blames African Americans for their own living conditions. When most of the world Wall Street for the economic cataclysm visited on white working class in 2008, Obama proclaimed there was “no excuse” for African Americans living in poverty.
Taylor goes on to discuss the disproportionate shut down of public services (schools, libraries, hospitals, etc) and safety net programs in black communities.
She also points out the total disconnect between policing and crime, which is declining. She gives the example of New York and other cities that use their police force to help meet budget targets, New York City, for example, generates $10 million a year from parking tickets and $1 billion from court fines (derived disproportionately from African American neighborhoods because New York police deliberately target them).
She also cites the problem of overt police racism, as evidenced by the texts cops send each other – with racist messages such as “white power”, “niggers must be killed” and “niggers must be spayed.”
*This number is an underestimate as only 1,000 out of 18,000 urban police departments report police killings to the Department of Justice.
Placebo Ballots: Stealing California from Bernie Using an old GOP vote-snatching trick
By Greg Palast and Dennis Bernstein
[Los Angeles] Woop! Woop! Alert! Some California poll workers have been told to give “provisional” ballots to all independent voters in Tuesday’s Democratic Party.
A special bulletin for California voters. And for the rest of you, how this same trickery – shifting voters to provisional ballots which are rarely counted – can steal the White House and Congress for the GOP in November.
Here’s the 411. If you’re registered as an independent voter in California, you have the right to vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary. Just ask for the ballot. But look out! Reports out of Orange County are that some poll workers have been told to give “No Party Preference” (NPP), independent voters, PROVISIONAL ballots as opposed to regular ballots.
Voter, BEWARE! Do NOT accept a PROVISIONAL BALLOT! They’re really “Placebo Ballots” – they give you the satisfaction of feeling like you’ve voted, without the inconvenience of anyone actually having to count them!
Source: Placebo Ballots: Stealing California from Bernie Using an old GOP vote-snatching trick
June 1, 2016
Activists Successfully End Militarization of LA School Police Department*
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Dedicated activists in Los Angeles forced the end to federal militarization of law enforcement on a hyper-local level, demonstrating the power of a bottom-up approach when confronting federal power. After 18 months of pressure and activism, they reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles School Police Department to de-militarize school police, return all military grade weapons to the federal government, withdraw completely from LA schools and apologize for the policy that brought the weapons to LA schools in the first place.
Activists Successfully End Militarization of LA School Police Department*
By Mike Maharrey
Dedicated activists in Los Angeles forced the end to federal militarization of law enforcement on a hyper-local level, demonstrating the power of a bottom-up approach when confronting federal power.
After 18 months of pressure and activism, the Labor/Community Strategy Center reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles School Police Department to de-militarize school police. As reported by Counter Punch, they agreed to return all military grade weapons procured from the federal 1033 Program, withdraw completely from the program and to apologize for the policy that brought the weapons to LA schools in the first place.
Weapons the LA School Police will return to the feds include a tank, a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP), three grenade launchers and 61 M-16 rifles.
Eric Mann was involved in the activism…
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The FBI will “Blow the Whistle” if Hillary Clinton is not Indicted. “They’re Going Public”
Unlike yesterday’s article, this one seems legitimate. The source is former House leader Tom Delay on the Steve Malzberg Show. It appears key FBI investigators are threatening to “blow the whistle” if the Department of Justice fails to issue an indictment.
This is bombshell announcement! Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) just shared damning news for Hillary Clinton on The Steve Malzberg Show just now:
The FBI is ready to indict Hillary Clinton and if its recommendation isn’t followed by the U.S. attorney general, the agency’s investigators plan to blow the whistle and go public with their findings, former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay tells Newsmax TV.
“I have friends that are in the FBI and they tell me they’re ready to indict,” DeLay said Monday on “The Steve Malzberg Show.”
“They’re ready to recommend an indictment and they also say that if the attorney general does not indict, they’re going public.”
Clinton is under FBI investigation for her use of a private server to conduct confidential government business while she was secretary of state. But some Republicans fear any FBI recommendation that hurts Clinton will be squashed by the Obama administration.
DeLay, a Texas Republican and Washington Times radio host, said:
“One way or another either she’s going to be indicted and that process begins, or we try her in the public eye with her campaign. One way or another she’s going to have to face these charges.”
Team Hillary is already admitting this will likely happen.
Amazingly, the Clinton campaign has been busy accusing Obama’s intelligence Inspector General, Charles McCullough, of coordinating releases of information to help Republicans. (!) McCullough’s investigations found Clinton was sharing documents which were “beyond top secret”… a crime that should not only disqualify Hillary Clinton from the White House, but should carry a lengthy prison sentence!
Source: The FBI will “Blow the Whistle” if Hillary Clinton is not Indicted. “They’re Going Public”
May 31, 2016
Hillary Clinton Will Be Indicted on Federal Racketeering? [VIDEO]
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According to the Huffington Post, Hillary Clinton will be indicted on federal racketeering charges – based on evidence the Clinton Foundation is
“… an ongoing criminal enterprise engaged in money laundering and soliciting bribes in exchange for political, policy and legislative favors to individuals, corporations and even governments both foreign and domestic.”
YOUR PERCEPTION IS NOT REALITY
Published on May 30, 2016
According to the Huffington Post, Hillary Clinton will be indicted on federal racketeering charges.
According to Huff Post contributor Frank Huguenard, James Comey will present evidence to Attorney General Loretta Lynch that the Clinton Foundation is:
“… an ongoing criminal enterprise engaged in money laundering and soliciting bribes in exchange for political, policy and legislative favors to individuals, corporations and even governments both foreign and domestic.”
As many inside the beltway have suspected, as the FBI dug into Clinton’s illicit home server and the subsequent emails on it, the investigation has expanded far beyond violations of State Department regulations and now includes possible espionage, perjury and influence peddling.
When the FBI investigation began, Clinton instructed her IT professional to delete over 30,000 emails, and the backups as well at both Platte River Networks and Datto, Inc.
However, also as suspected, the FBI has subsequently been…
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