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March 13, 2023
Christians Call for Wealth Tax
Joy in Enough
With the government’s spring budget expected this week, Church Action for Tax Justice have delivered a call for new wealth tax to the chancellor. This would be a one-off tax on Britain’s richest 1%. It would raise funds from those most able to pay, while lowering taxes for the poorest and reducing inequality.
The call took the form of an open letter (see below), which has been signed by over 2,000 Christians, including former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who said: “Spiralling inequality is a major issue in our society, and all the evidence suggests that this is deeply damaging to our collective morale and trust. A wealth tax of the kind we are backing recognises that vastly disproportionate rewards for a very small number of citizens will not make for a cohesive and just national community.”
Church Action for Church Justice is a campaign from the Just Money movement, and you can find out more about their proposal here, along with a petition to sign.
Dear Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Re: The introduction of a wealth tax for the UK’s richest individuals
We are writing to draw your attention to the high, and deeply embedded, ‘wealth gap’ within the UK, and to urge the Government to introduce an initial one-off wealth tax on the country’s richest 1%, as proposed by Church Action for Tax Justice.
We also support calls for a review of the UK’s system of personal taxes, to take account of how different taxes relate to each other and to see how avoidance of any wealth tax can be prevented, so that an ongoing, progressive net wealth tax can be introduced in the near future. Wealth inequality in this country is high and the COVID pandemic has served only to increase this inequality.
In particular, the low paid and financially insecure are especially vulnerable (including those key workers who have kept this country going throughout the pandemic). Many find themselves caught in a perfect storm of reduced benefits, rising National Insurance Contributions, a cost-of-living crisis and often, uncertain job security. For some, it’s nothing short of a desperate time.
We believe that our elected leaders should be taking urgent action to protect the wellbeing of all – especially the most vulnerable. In a compassionate and caring society, it is important that those who can do so make a fair contribution to the common good; not least to help those who have lost out from the very circumstances that have boosted their own resources.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Via https://joyinenough.org/2023/03/13/christians-call-for-a-wealth-tax/
March 12, 2023
IRS Reminds Thieves They Must Pay Taxes on Stolen Property
Posted BY: | NwoReport
The Internal Revenue Service is now reminding thieves that they must report income gained through their crimes.
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t also a stark reminder of how normalized crimes like robbery and shoplifting have become in recent years.
It gets more difficult to distinguish between parody and reality every day.
The FOX Business Network reported:
Twitter users erupt at IRS’s calls for thieves to report stolen income: ‘Good to know’
The IRS’s bewildering rule about self-reporting income from crimes has caused some Twitter users to mock the federal agency.
According to IRS Publication 525, taxpayers are legally required to report the value of whatever property they stole during the tax year.
“If you steal property, you must report its FMV (Fair Market Value) in your income in the year you steal it, unless in the same year you return it to its rightful owner,” the rule reads.
The same rule applies to bribery, drug deals and other income-earning crimes.
The IRS purportedly uses the information solely for tax purposes and does not hand over any evidence to law enforcement.
The only situation where law enforcement may have access to the information is through court orders.
Remember, the IRS requires you to report all income from illegal activities pic.twitter.com/6I1ocQOzWL
— Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) March 6, 2023
Pablo Escobar’s Son Reveals Dad “Worked for CIA Selling Cocaine”
By Claire Bernish
Free Thought Project
Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, son of notorious Medellín cartel drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, now says his father “worked for the CIA.”
In a new book, “Pablo Escobar In Fraganti,” Escobar, who lives under the pseudonym, Juan Sebastián Marroquín, explains his “father worked for the CIA selling cocaine to finance the fight against Communism in Central America.”
“The drug business is very different than what we dreamed,” he continues. “What the CIA was doing was buying the controls to get the drug into their country and getting a wonderful deal.”
“He did not make the money alone,” Marroquín elaborated in an interview, “but with US agencies that allowed him access to this money. He had direct relations with the CIA.”
Notably, Marroquín added, “the person who sold the most drugs to the CIA was Pablo Escobar.”
Where his first book primarily covered Escobar, the man as a father, Marroquín’s second — which has just been released in Argentina — delves into the kingpin’s “international ties of corruption in which my father had an active participation, among them with the American CIA,” he said in a recent interview.
Those government associates “were practically his partners,” which allowed Escobar to defy the law, and gave him nearly the same power as a government.
Predictably, this information is conveniently absent from media headlines in America.
If the CIA trafficking cocaine into the United States sounds like some tin foil conspiracy theory, think again. Their alleged role in the drug trade was exposed in 1996 in an explosive investigative series “Dark Alliance” by Gary Webb for the San Jose Mercury News. The investigation, headed up by Webb revealed ties between the CIA, Nicaraguan contras and the crack cocaine trade ravaging African-American communities.
The investigation provoked massive protests and congressional hearings, as well as overt backlash from the mainstream media to discredit Webb’s reporting. However, decades later, officials would come forward to back Webb’s original investigation up.
Then-senator John Kerry even released a detailed report claiming that not only was there “considerable evidence” linking the Contra effort to trafficking of drugs and weapons — but that the U.S. government knew about it.
El Patron, as Escobar came to be known, amassed more wealth than almost any drug dealer in history — at one point raking in around $420 million a week in revenue — and reportedly supplied about 80 percent of the world’s cocaine. Escobar landed on Forbes’ list of international billionaires for seven straight years, and — though the nature of the business makes acquiring solid numbers impossible — his estimated worth was around $30 billion.
Escobar and the Medellín cartel smuggled 15 tons of cocaine into the U.S. — every day — and left a trail of thousands of dead bodies to do so.
“It was a nine-hundred-mile run from the north coast of Colombia and was simply wide-open,” journalist Ioan Grillo wrote in the book, “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency.” “The Colombians and their American counterparts would airdrop loads of blow out to sea, from where it would be rushed ashore in speedboats, or even fly it right onto the Florida mainland and let it crash down in the countryside.”
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Via https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/escobar-son-cia-cocaine
North America’s Earliest Southwest Cultures
Episode 14: The Ancient Southwest – Discovery of Diversity
Ancient Civilizations of North America
Dr Edwin Barnhart (2018)
Film Review
During the Archaic Period (10,000 – 3,000 BP), the Southwest was a patchwork of similar but distinct cultures extending far into Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. Although large populations clustered intermittently around the river systems of Tuscon and Phoenix, occasional droughts overwhelmed all irrigation strategies and drove them out of the region. Early Southwest cultures had far reaching trade networks with bison hunters on the Great Plains, coastal fishermen and possibly Central and South America. There’s no evidence of Mississippian contact, possibly due to extreme difficulty crossing the Texas desert.
By 3,000 BP (before present), the Southwest was home to four distinct cultures (comprising millions of people): the primary Hohokam culture in the Sonoran Desert (Arizona) along the Gila and Salt Rivers and Mongollon culture in the Mongollon mountains of modern day southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico and the secondary Patayan and the Fremont cultures.*
Between 1500 BC – 50 AD, the Mongollon and Hohokaum lived in camps and open caves, made baskets and engaged in seasonal hunting and gathering. Although corn first appeared in the Southwest around 2000 BC, it didn’t become a major crop (along the coast) until 1000 BC. Many inland peoples were planting it by 300 BC, settling into permanent pit houses and building irrigation canals to accommodate their two weeks of annual. Although they left behind grinding stones and the large flat baskets they carried corn in, they continued to rely heavily on hunting for subsistence.
Beginning around 400 AD the Mongollon and Hohokam gradually transitioned from pit houses to single story masonry homes. By 500 AD, they began to favor ceramics over baskets and were able to add beans (which must be soaked and boiled) to their diet. However it was the introduction of the bow and arrow that allowed them to establish year round settlements (it’s really hard to hit a bird with a spear). Villages from this period featured central plazas, steep oval depressions used as ball courts and enormous “great houses”** constructed on platform mounds.
There’s evidence both cultures participated in immense trade networks, providing them shells from California and copper, turquoise and obsidian from western Mexico. They are also known for exceptionally painted pottery bowls, small decorative stone pallets and elaborate figurines wearing clothes and jewelry.
Beginning from 750 AD, cultures identified as Ancestral Pueblo (or Anastasi***) appeared in the desert regions north of the Mogollon and Hohokam. The former lived in above ground adobe or stone built homes with flat roofs to catch water for storage. Their eventual adoption of irrigation reservoirs and canals led to increased agriculture production and population increase. Later settlements are known for multistory apartment complexes and (in Chaco Canyon and Ma Verde) wide well-built roads connecting villages.
Between 1130-1180 AD, Chaco Canyon experienced 50 years of drought, which worsened in the 1200s, leading to major emigration from the region.
After 1350 AD, the Pueblo returned to settle in large independent towns built around central plazas.
*The Patayan, settling west of the Hohokum and south of the Grand Canyon, lived in earth lodges, engaged in hunting and left behind rock trail markers. The Fremont were limited to the northern reaches of the Colorado plateau and lived in areas making up modern day Colorado, Utah and parts of Nevada. They engaged in hunting and extensive petroglyph art.
**Southwest great houses were large multi-room buildings that were either chief’s homes or charnal houses housing the remains of dead chiefs.
**Anastasi was a Navajo name (meaning ancient enemy) for Ancestral Pueblo culture and contemporary Pueblo reject the label.
The Mongollon lived big towns the same time as the Ancestral Pueblo (900-1150 AD), which they abandoned due to the severe 12th-13th century drought. Around 1300 AD they were re-inhabited by the Pueblo people.
*Cervesa De Vaca
March 11, 2023
Can We Still Trust the Doctor?
Alan Lash
Brownstone Institute
When I was growing up, I learned to trust my doctor. My parents never said that explicitly; I could see it in their actions.
I was in the hospital many times growing up, sometimes for very serious reasons. I have eight siblings, and I’m one of the elders, so I was there on the numerous occasions my mother gave birth. I was also there when my brother split his head open with the claw of a hammer, and of course, I was there for the stitches and broken bones I suffered myself.
Whenever we entered the hospital, we did so with the utmost respect and reverence. As the doctors and nurses busied themselves about with serious and commanding countenance, my father would marvel at the technology and the expertise required to marshal it all for the betterment of humanity.
Whatever the opinion, whatever the diagnosis, my parents would follow the doctor’s advice and prescription, to the letter.
Put succinctly, doctors and nurses were to be trusted, sometimes with our lives.
By contrast, my parents did not treat other professional activities with the same regard. My father depended on car mechanics at times, but he did so grudgingly. He was always suspicious that the diagnosis was incorrect, and that his own personal research into the issue was warranted before he accepted the conclusion. We had several shop manuals on our shelves in the garage.
Likewise, building contractors were treated with some suspicion. Do-it-yourself was always present as a valid option.
But question a doctor? Never.
Being healthy in my twenties, I didn’t make a trip to the hospital in the 80s, and it wasn’t until the late 90s that my awareness of medicine reemerged. My aging father had suffered a heart attack, and being overweight with high blood pressure, he was prescribed multiple medications. He trusted the doctor, and dutifully took his pills as instructed.
On a few occasions, he had a couple of his medications pulled for newly discovered side effects, and they were quickly replaced with others. This was only mildly concerning. But then in the 2000s we started hearing about the failure of many pharmaceutical drugs, some catastrophically so.
Doctors seemingly trusted the pharmaceutical companies, and we trusted doctors. Millions of people suffered and many died as a result.
Did the doctors question the pharmaceutical products before prescribing them to their patients? I’m sure many did, but unfortunately, it seems many more did not.
My father ultimately died in 2010 from his third heart attack. The surgical stents clearly prolonged his life. But did the medications prolong his life? It’s not clear.
Fast forward to today.
I went for a check-up in the fall, and the nurse asked me if I was interested in a Covid vaccination. If I had any questions I was to ask the doctor when he arrived. So I did. I asked somewhat searchingly, “What are your feelings about the vaccine with all that’s happened and all we found out in the past year?”
“Well, “ he responded with a straight face, “from all the medical research papers I have read, the vaccines are safe and effective.”
I sat in dumbfounded silence. At a bare minimum, he should know at least not to use that phrase.
Why again are we wearing masks when we are in the doctor’s office? They don’t work.
Then there are the endless emails from my health care provider promoting the vaccine for everyone: adults, children, compromised or not, comorbidities or not. There is no reference to any potential qualifiers. Everyone should get it.
Have they not been paying attention?
Here’s where my head is at.
In the last ten years, health care expenses have risen dramatically, almost tripling. Yes, the health of my family is the most important thing to me. But now I question the advice that I’m getting.
Like my dad with the car mechanics, now, every time I get advice or a prescription from the doctor, I have to look it up myself. This goes beyond a second opinion. And it goes beyond what’s even possible in the case of car problems or construction problems. For those problems, if I’m moderately lucky, I’ll find someone on the Internet who made that repair and follow their advice.
Prescription drugs? Not so easy. The information is there on the Internet, but it’s often contradictory, and sometimes nothing matches what your doctor said. Then there’s the sheer magnitude of prescription drugs available.
Do it yourself? Impossible. Trust the government to police the pharmaceutical companies? Impossible. We’ve seen the incest there.
There is only one solution. It’s the same answer as it was for my father: trust your doctor.
A simple message to doctors and nurses: Our lives are better when we trust you. But right now, many of us are hesitant; we have been burned by the Covid nonsense in the last three years. Our loved ones have suffered, and we don’t see common sense from the medical establishment.
Many of you stood up in the past three years, putting your careers on the line for the truth and the health of your patients. Thank you.
[…]
Via https://brownstone.org/articles/can-we-still-trust-the-doctor/
Can We Still Trust the Doctor?
Alan Lash
Brownstone Institute
When I was growing up, I learned to trust my doctor. My parents never said that explicitly; I could see it in their actions.
I was in the hospital many times growing up, sometimes for very serious reasons. I have eight siblings, and I’m one of the elders, so I was there on the numerous occasions my mother gave birth. I was also there when my brother split his head open with the claw of a hammer, and of course, I was there for the stitches and broken bones I suffered myself.
Whenever we entered the hospital, we did so with the utmost respect and reverence. As the doctors and nurses busied themselves about with serious and commanding countenance, my father would marvel at the technology and the expertise required to marshal it all for the betterment of humanity.
Whatever the opinion, whatever the diagnosis, my parents would follow the doctor’s advice and prescription, to the letter.
Put succinctly, doctors and nurses were to be trusted, sometimes with our lives.
By contrast, my parents did not treat other professional activities with the same regard. My father depended on car mechanics at times, but he did so grudgingly. He was always suspicious that the diagnosis was incorrect, and that his own personal research into the issue was warranted before he accepted the conclusion. We had several shop manuals on our shelves in the garage.
Likewise, building contractors were treated with some suspicion. Do-it-yourself was always present as a valid option.
But question a doctor? Never.
Being healthy in my twenties, I didn’t make a trip to the hospital in the 80s, and it wasn’t until the late 90s that my awareness of medicine reemerged. My aging father had suffered a heart attack, and being overweight with high blood pressure, he was prescribed multiple medications. He trusted the doctor, and dutifully took his pills as instructed.
On a few occasions, he had a couple of his medications pulled for newly discovered side effects, and they were quickly replaced with others. This was only mildly concerning. But then in the 2000s we started hearing about the failure of many pharmaceutical drugs, some catastrophically so.
Doctors seemingly trusted the pharmaceutical companies, and we trusted doctors. Millions of people suffered and many died as a result.
Did the doctors question the pharmaceutical products before prescribing them to their patients? I’m sure many did, but unfortunately, it seems many more did not.
My father ultimately died in 2010 from his third heart attack. The surgical stents clearly prolonged his life. But did the medications prolong his life? It’s not clear.
Fast forward to today.
I went for a check-up in the fall, and the nurse asked me if I was interested in a Covid vaccination. If I had any questions I was to ask the doctor when he arrived. So I did. I asked somewhat searchingly, “What are your feelings about the vaccine with all that’s happened and all we found out in the past year?”
“Well, “ he responded with a straight face, “from all the medical research papers I have read, the vaccines are safe and effective.”
I sat in dumbfounded silence. At a bare minimum, he should know at least not to use that phrase.
Why again are we wearing masks when we are in the doctor’s office? They don’t work.
Then there are the endless emails from my health care provider promoting the vaccine for everyone: adults, children, compromised or not, comorbidities or not. There is no reference to any potential qualifiers. Everyone should get it.
Have they not been paying attention?
Here’s where my head is at.
In the last ten years, health care expenses have risen dramatically, almost tripling. Yes, the health of my family is the most important thing to me. But now I question the advice that I’m getting.
Like my dad with the car mechanics, now, every time I get advice or a prescription from the doctor, I have to look it up myself. This goes beyond a second opinion. And it goes beyond what’s even possible in the case of car problems or construction problems. For those problems, if I’m moderately lucky, I’ll find someone on the Internet who made that repair and follow their advice.
Prescription drugs? Not so easy. The information is there on the Internet, but it’s often contradictory, and sometimes nothing matches what your doctor said. Then there’s the sheer magnitude of prescription drugs available.
Do it yourself? Impossible. Trust the government to police the pharmaceutical companies? Impossible. We’ve seen the incest there.
There is only one solution. It’s the same answer as it was for my father: trust your doctor.
A simple message to doctors and nurses: Our lives are better when we trust you. But right now, many of us are hesitant; we have been burned by the Covid nonsense in the last three years. Our loved ones have suffered, and we don’t see common sense from the medical establishment.
Many of you stood up in the past three years, putting your careers on the line for the truth and the health of your patients. Thank you.
[…]
Via https://brownstone.org/articles/can-we-still-trust-the-doctor/
Proud Boys J6 Sedition Trial Halted After Leaked Chat Logs Show FBI Agent Said Her Boss Ordered Her to ‘Destroy Evidence’
Posted BY: Chris Menahan | Information Liberation
NWO Report
The feds’ political persecution of the Proud Boys took a wild turn after unintentionally leaked chat logs from FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller revealed she said she was ordered by her boss to “destroy” “338 items of evidence.”
The leaked chats also suggest Miller failed to reveal relevant communications to the defense, potentially spied on privileged attorney-client communications, and was asked by another agent to “edit out that I was present” during a meeting with a Confidential Human Source Informant.
This is why compliant media, Schumer, McConnell, etc are melting down (I can only imagine what's happening at DOJ) over Tucker tapes.
Defense attorneys continue to argue they need access to all hidden footage: pic.twitter.com/I2U6XREpG0
— Julie Kelly
(@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023
The shocking revelations shared in a filing by Proud Boy Ethan Nordean’s (aka Rufio Panman) defense team on Thursday:
678-nordean-m-re-impeachmentDownloadTrending: Chinese Military Rocket Disintegrates Over TexasThe feds are now claiming some of the leaked messages are “likely classified” in what appears to be a bid to hide this bombshell evidence from the jury.stumbled upon them and began grilling Miller about them in front of jurors in the case.
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Proud Boys J6 Sedition Trial Halted After Leaked Chat Logs Show FBI Agent Said Her Boss Ordered Her to ‘Destroy Evidence’
Posted BY: Chris Menahan | Information Liberation
NWO Report
The feds’ political persecution of the Proud Boys took a wild turn after unintentionally leaked chat logs from FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller revealed she said she was ordered by her boss to “destroy” “338 items of evidence.”
The leaked chats also suggest Miller failed to reveal relevant communications to the defense, potentially spied on privileged attorney-client communications, and was asked by another agent to “edit out that I was present” during a meeting with a Confidential Human Source Informant.
This is why compliant media, Schumer, McConnell, etc are melting down (I can only imagine what's happening at DOJ) over Tucker tapes.
Defense attorneys continue to argue they need access to all hidden footage: pic.twitter.com/I2U6XREpG0
— Julie Kelly
The shocking revelations shared in a filing by Proud Boy Ethan Nordean’s (aka Rufio Panman) defense team on Thursday:
678-nordean-m-re-impeachmentDownloadTrending: Chinese Military Rocket Disintegrates Over TexasThe feds are now claiming some of the leaked messages are “likely classified” in what appears to be a bid to hide this bombshell evidence from the jury.stumbled upon them and began grilling Miller about them in front of jurors in the case.
[…]
Elon Musk calls for release of QAnon Shaman from prison over Capitol riot actions
Posted BY: | NwoReport
Billionaire business mogul Elon Musk called for Jacob Chansley to be freed from prison on Friday, arguing that the so-called QAnon Shaman’s actions during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, were “falsely portrayed.”
“Free Jacob Chansley,” Musk wrote in an explosive tweet on Friday.
The Twitter CEO and founder of Tesla and SpaceX said it was an issue of “fairness of justice,” as he shared resurfaced footage from the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building that shows Chansley, now 35, urging rioters to go home.
“I’m not part of MAGA, but I do believe in the fairness of justice,” Musk continued.
“Chansley was falsely portrayed in the media as a violent criminal who tried to overthrow the state and who urged others to commit violence. But here he is urging people to be peaceful and go home. And the other video shows him calmly walking in the Capitol Building, being escorted by officers and then thanking the officers,” Musk added, referencing bombshell security camera footage from inside the Capitol Building obtained by Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
In September 2021, Chansley pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing an official proceeding and was sentenced to 41 months in prison that November.
According to a timeline of events — compiled by the Justice Department and upon which Chansley signed off as part of his guilty plea — the Navy veteran from Arizona was one of the first 30 rioters to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, at around 2:14 p.m., through doors that had been busted open from the inside.
The footage shared by Musk on Friday shows Chansley — clad in his conspicuous horned fur headdress with red, white and blue face paint — likely just moments before he entered the building, with his back toward the doors of the Capitol as he shouts in his bullhorn that Trump has asked protesters to “go home.”
[…]
Elon Musk calls for release of QAnon Shaman from prison over Capitol riot actions
Posted BY: | NwoReport
Billionaire business mogul Elon Musk called for Jacob Chansley to be freed from prison on Friday, arguing that the so-called QAnon Shaman’s actions during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, were “falsely portrayed.”
“Free Jacob Chansley,” Musk wrote in an explosive tweet on Friday.
The Twitter CEO and founder of Tesla and SpaceX said it was an issue of “fairness of justice,” as he shared resurfaced footage from the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building that shows Chansley, now 35, urging rioters to go home.
“I’m not part of MAGA, but I do believe in the fairness of justice,” Musk continued.
“Chansley was falsely portrayed in the media as a violent criminal who tried to overthrow the state and who urged others to commit violence. But here he is urging people to be peaceful and go home. And the other video shows him calmly walking in the Capitol Building, being escorted by officers and then thanking the officers,” Musk added, referencing bombshell security camera footage from inside the Capitol Building obtained by Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
In September 2021, Chansley pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing an official proceeding and was sentenced to 41 months in prison that November.
According to a timeline of events — compiled by the Justice Department and upon which Chansley signed off as part of his guilty plea — the Navy veteran from Arizona was one of the first 30 rioters to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, at around 2:14 p.m., through doors that had been busted open from the inside.
The footage shared by Musk on Friday shows Chansley — clad in his conspicuous horned fur headdress with red, white and blue face paint — likely just moments before he entered the building, with his back toward the doors of the Capitol as he shouts in his bullhorn that Trump has asked protesters to “go home.”
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