‘Israel an assault on the Jewish faith…’

 

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Corporate-State Censorship #Facebook

 

“She said Facebook had granted 95 percent of the requests.”

Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments

Who Trump Represents

 

Swampy the Robber Baron gloats this week about his abomination.

Private prison investors set for giant windfall from Trump tax bill

A Tale of two Ukraines

 

Nazis, organ harvesting, the new “Dr. Mengele,” thanks, Obama…

A Tale of two Ukraines

Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young

 

by Ellen Brown

Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.

The advantages of slavery by debt over “chattel” slavery – ownership of humans as a property right – were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War. It read in part:

Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power and chattel slavery destroyed. This, I and my European friends are glad of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan, led by England, is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages.

Slaves had to be housed, fed and cared for. “Free” men housed and fed themselves. For the more dangerous jobs, such as mining, Irish immigrants were used rather than black slaves, because the Irish were expendable. Free men could be kept enslaved by debt, by paying them wages that were insufficient to meet their costs of living. On how to control wages, the Hazard Circular went on:

This can be done by controlling the money. The great debt that capitalists will see to it is made out of the war, must be used as a means to control the volume of money. . . . It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, as we cannot control that.

The government, too, had to be enslaved by debt. It could not be allowed to simply issue the money it needed to meet its budget, as Lincoln’s government did with its greenbacks (government-issued US Notes). The greenback program was terminated after the war, forcing the government to borrow from banks – banks that created the money themselves, just as the government had been doing. Only about 10% of the “banknotes” then issued by banks were actually backed by gold. The rest were effectively counterfeit. The difference between government-created and bank-created money was that the government issued it and spent it on the federal budget, creating demand and stimulating the economy. Banks issued money and lent it, at interest. More had to be paid back than was lent, keeping the supply of money tight and keeping both workers and the government in debt.

Russian General: US training ISIS fighters to rebrand in Syria

RUSSIA SAYS U.S. MILITARY TRAINING ISIS TO RETURN UNDER NEW NAME AND TAKE OVER SYRIA

“They are in reality being trained there,” Gerasimov told Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda in remarks translated by Reuters.

“They are practically Islamic State,” he added. “But after they are worked with, they change their spots and take on another name. Their task is to destabilize the situation.”

Is it Possible to Prosecute War as a Crime?

 

 Possible to Prosecute War as a Crime

Wrecking Balls After-Christmas Sale

 

Yep. Just $1.50 for the funniest novel of the year.

 

At Smashwords

Russiagate Skeptic Debates A Professional Russiagater

 

The Guardian keeps popping up in an unflattering light.

Russiagate Skeptic Debates A Professional Russiagater

Punditfact: Quantifying TV News Lies

 

According to them, this is where we should be looking for fake news…

Scorecards for the TV networks

Fox 60% false

NBC 46% false

CNN 18% false

[Political Film Blog 99+% True!]

Hark the latest Image Dump

 

 

Guardian attacks independent Syria reporters

 

What The Guardian Is Afraid Of When Attacking Honest Syria Reporters?

The gist of the Guardian piece is that the findings of the aforementioned journalists are not credible because they are being “used by Russia” to justify Russia’s foreign policy in regards to Syria.

First of all, the Guardian’s premise is rather absurd to begin with, as according to international law, Russia’s presence in Syria is fully legal while that of the countries that back the White Helmets (the US, UK and France, among others) is illegal.

Consequently, the presence of a so-called NGO like White Helmets (in reality they are handsomely funded by western governments) is also illegal as they are operating in Syria without the consent of the Syrian government and without any mandate from the United Nations.