Chris Cooper — May 23, 2013

The ex-intelligence operative and analyst Anthony Thomas Trevor-Stokes has died aged 93.

Known as T Stokes  he came up the long hard way and never achieved the rank many said he deserved, always an advocate of democratic freedoms he wanted much less secrecy and did not see why things like the  House of Commons menu should be an official secret.

A supporter of real news activists, his outspokenness for sharing the aims and goals of the intelligence world with the public and often engaging their help  as watchers and informants made him many internal enemies but brought him massive public approval, with his catchphrase “trust the people”.

Stokes believed that NWO Communism could only be defeated by educating the public that the Soviet soft socialism plan was the thin end of a very sinister wedge.

One of his remits was the protection and care of Winston Churchill’s wartime close colleagues and secretaries after the war.

British intelligence wanted Britain to stay out of WWII and so Churchill replaced all the key figures in order to get the country into the war, having the popular intelligence chief Vernon Kell murdered by his own fireplace.

Churchill’s used black magicians in WWII, many of whom were known personally by Stokes who himself studied occultism, and was also was one of three men who exposed Churchill’s murder of  Neville Chamberlain the most popular Prime Minister ever.

However, it was the Michael Gordon case which brought him to prominence.

Gordon was an unusual recruit for the intelligence world, he was quite low I Q, awkward, unfit, overweight and  self conscious, he failed most tests, yet was chosen for special training and sent to Russia to recruit  dissidents in the nuclear weapons arena, he was caught and died under torture.

Stokes maintained he was chosen especially to fail as all he was taught was false and should have come out under torture giving the Soviets a pack of false leads and fake intelligence, but Gordon never spoke and died without revealing any of his fake data.

The intelligence hierarchy is of vital importance to a foreign power and is known as the Or/Bat or order of Battle, and knowing this the whole apparatus can be unravelled so Gordon had been instructed to name people actually outside of the service.

Stokes wanted the British news media to cover Soviet murders of British nationals, which usually appeared in the British news media as  deaths through car crashes, skiing accidents, drug overdoses or falling from high balconies during  parties.

Both Peter Wright of Spycatcher book fame,  along with T Stokes were alleged  to have secretly briefed the Daily Express Defence correspondent Chapman Pincher on anything they wanted revealed through the newspapers, both believed that every operation  against the Soviets up until the late 60s failed because of high level traitors. Stokes was able to penetrate through London’s Jewish taxi driver community into Mossad, and along with James Rusbridger who was murdered, claimed  that Lord  Rothschild was the major spy of WWII, and also claimed that since the Russian revolution of 1917 the Soviet Union was run by Rothschild appointees who colluded  together with the British Rothschild’s to bring about wars and conflict for financial gain.

In the early seventies crisis when the Soviet navy had Britain surrounded by nuclear subs, no one knew whether this was an exercise or the real thing. The Russians wanted to see how the British responded in a security flap. Stokes trounced them by calling in all retired officers and giving them two weeks work on half their old pay and put them to work laying false trails, generally muddying the waters and allowing small snippets of info to get to the Russians that  the British were pro-active and taking hard line military control of the situation, this is known as chicken-feed release.

In 1973 Stokes was sent to meet a dissident Jewish nuclear physicist who wanted to pass information to the West about the horrific Israeli nuclear arsenal, when the documents were passed in the Moscow art gallery he was seized and after a quick trial next day he was sentenced to 2 years in prison. He did not help himself by constant escape attempts and after injuring two guards was given 6 years at Svetmagorsk on the Siberian border. In 1977 he was exchanged for the Communist activist Brian Edward Mitchell and brought home, weighing just 5 stone he had been severely burnt by having petrol thrown over him and set alight while asleep in his cell.

Physically and mentally shattered he claimed he had been betrayed to the Russians, and began to whistleblow about Soviet criminal activity in Britain, this angered the British authorities who accused him of being and angry and bitter man, and a big falling out ensued which never healed.

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James — henrymakow.com May 23, 2013

Agree with all you say here, about marriage and the man-woman bond.

The trouble with marriage is that after some time boredom sets in. It seems unavoidable, in most marriages. Have never seen this discussed here, though. The fact that man is naturally polygamous seems to have something to do with it. And isn’t it God who made us that way?

Yet our cultural “leaders” have carefully crafted movies and TV shows of happy marriages, in which one little misstep or fling by the husband with another woman becomes fodder for the most terrible of dramas and tantrums by the wife that inevitably must lead to divorce and family break-up. That has developed into something of a subversive standard formula the TV Jews have foisted on people (with a litany of other family destroying machinations).

Why not be a little more forgiving with men who have a romp in the hay out of the house? Most men still love their wives and family and would never think of abandoning them. Mankind has been like that for millions of years and it hasn’t changed yet since we became “civilized”. We can either be honest about it or sweep it under the rug.

I know the purists will be outraged about this but never mind their torpedoes and accusations of promoting Sodom and Gomorrah. This is meant to honestly explore whether – absent the artificial formula of the TV b*stards – it could save families that (almost unnecessarily?) break up.

FIDELITY OVERRATED

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Paul Joseph Watson — Propagandamatric May 22, 2013

A recent case where a police officer attempted to seize a cell phone by claiming it could be a weapon underscores how cops are now being trained to treat phones as potential guns in an underhanded effort to prevent people from recording police activity.

As a result of the numerous legal cases that have proven recording police officers is not a crime, authorities are getting more creative in attempting to stop abuse by law enforcement offices ending up as a viral video on YouTube.

In the clip above, Detective Shannon Todd of the Newark Police Gang Unit approaches a man who is recording a police stop on his cell phone, ordering him to, “put your phone down, put it in your pocket.”

Despite acknowledging that the device is a phone, when the man refuses to follow the unlawful order, Todd remarks, “I need to hold on to it,” before stating, “May I look at it and inspect it to ensure it’s not a firearm.”

“The truth is, she feared being the victim of a viral Youtube video instead of a fatal bullet, which is why she ordered the citizen to place his hands behind his back,” writes Carlos Miller.

Miller cites three other separate cases where police have attempted to stop an incident being recorded by claiming that a flip camera or a cell phone could be a lethal weapon, one where a Sony Bloggie camera was confiscated by Hialeah police officer Antonio Sentmanat in South Florida, another where San Diego police officer Martin Reinhold slapped a cell phone out of a man’s hands and arrested him for recording while the officer was writing a citation for smoking in an unauthorized area, and a third where a cop in Arkansas seized a Adam Pringle’s phone while he was recording the Exxon oil spill outside Little Rock.

“Reinhold told Pringle that he had specifically been trained to assume cell phones could be guns, which is apparently a training lesson being taught at police departments throughout the country,” writes Miller, adding that this is, “obviously a tactic meant to dissuade video recording rather than ensure officer safety.”

The rest of the incident in Newark consists of police attempting to intimidate the man against recording proceedings, as you can see in the clip below.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

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“Shock Report; 10,700 Men Raped in US Military“

By Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D., and Thomas R. Hampson — (Edited by henrymakow.com) May 17, 2013

The best-kept military secret is that most sexual assaults in the US military are now homosexual, male-on-male sexual exploitation.

The Washington Times reported March 13: “The Defense Department estimates 19,000 sexual assaults occur each year, but only 17 percent are ever reported. In 2010 … 8,600 victims were female, and 10,700 victims were male.”

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Brian Lewis stated he “was raped by a senior petty officer … told by a commander not to report it, and later was diagnosed with a personality disorder and discharged.”

Lewis says, “As I demonstrated, men are a majority of the victims in the military. DoD’s infamous ‘Ask her when she’s sober’ marginalizes male survivors and sends a message that men cannot be raped and therefore are not real survivors.”

With 1,219,510 men serving in 2010, if only 17 percent of all male “rape” victims reported, does this mean, that 62,941 military men were sexually assaulted by other men that year?

Does this mean “only” 5.16 percent of our bravest and best male servicemen were sexually violated by other lust-dominance-driven servicemen in 2010?

Were these damning data widely known and debated before the ban on homosexuality was lifted in 2011?

If not, why not? Precisely when did this traumatic rate of military sodomism abuse begin? Did it begin increasing when the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was implemented?

Indeed, whether or not such outrageous male sexual assault estimates are 10,700 or 62,941, these crimes …could be a significant cause for the massive increase in military suicides – and revengeful violence.

True, “The military is 85 percent men and 15 percent women.” Still, according to the Naval Personnel Command (2012 Sexual Assault Awareness Month Training Guide), “about 56 percent of estimated sexual assaults in our military are men, and 44 percent are women.”

PORNOGRAPHY

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Fars News Agency — May 17, 2013

US Army officials announced that the manager of the sexual assault response program at Fort Campbell in Kentucky has been arrested due to a domestic dispute, and has been relieved of his post.

Lt. Col. Darin Haas turned himself in to police late Wednesday on charges of violating an order of protection filed by his ex-wife, as well as stalking.

The incident comes the same week that another US military officer who oversaw sexual assault prevention at Fort Hood in Texas was under investigation for sexual assault, and suspected of running a prostitution ring.

Earlier in May, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, the officer in charge of the Air Force’s sexual abuse prevention program based at the Pentagon, was also arrested for drunkenly groping a woman.

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Ciara Jackson — henrymakow.com May 10, 2013

“A Voice Silenced”

Child Protective Services in the US is a Federal Agency. Each state has a branch of their own. In Colorado, its called Department of Human Services and pretends to help children, but almost every department has become corrupt.

Being a child in DHS, I became a ward of the state, once my mother had her rights relinquished. My family didn’t fight to get me out. My grandma did.

When she saw what the system was doing to me, she began to give me money to run away to her house. She rather me run away to her house, then be out somewhere and have no clue where I was. When I got to her house, she would tell my case manager from the Department of Human Services that I was with her.  I was not a fugitive.  Give me a few days and then come and get me. My case manager did what she could.

It got so bad where I was. I was in places where they would drug the children. More than half of the children are medicated to control the child. I was personally diagnosed  Bipolar/ not otherwise specified. At the time I was diagnosed, I had been abandoned by my parents not once but three times, I was going through puberty and no one wanted me.  It’s natural for a normal child to act out when becoming a teenager. It happens all the time. Now imagine that plus being giving up by your family. You can understand why I acted out.

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“Sharon Murphy” — henrymakow.com April 27, 2013

For the last four years I have been regularly tormented by the local chapter of Satanists.  No idea why I’ve been singled out or why they are sticking with me so long.  I know I’m sick to death of alternately feeling terrified (afraid for my life), incredulous (as to their numbers, money and power locally), amazed (at the truly bizarre and seemingly senseless crap they pull), and thinking that maybe I’m just losing it completely.

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The Christian Institute — April 25, 2013

Schoolgirls aged 13 and 14 have been encouraged to ask each other for a kiss as part of a diversity lesson in a US state that has legalised gay marriage.

The girls were encouraged to mimic lesbian behaviour at a workshop session at Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, in New York State.

Parents, who were not given prior notice of the event, were furious but school officials say the subjects were required by the state’s Dignity for All Students Act.

Teenage

As part of the workshop, teenage boys were told to carry condoms at all times and shown how to identify a “slut”.

Pupils were also introduced to terms such as “pansexual” and “genderqueer”.

Mandy Coon, whose daughter was in the workshop, said she is “furious” because the school did not give her opportunity to remove her child from the session.

Parent

She said: “I am her parent. Where does anyone get the right to tell her that it’s okay for her to have sex?”

The Dignity for All Students Act requires all students to be instructed on respecting others, including an awareness and sensitivity towards sexual orientations and gender identities.

School superintendent Paul Finch has consulted with parents about topics for future sessions that are scheduled.

Notified

And following a meeting of parents with school principal Dr Katie Zahedi, officials agreed that parents should be notified before sexual topics were discussed in class.

She maintained that hypothetical scenarios revolved around a kiss, rather than having sex.

New York became the sixth US state to bring in gay marriage in 2011.

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They may look like stills from an apocalyptic horror film, but these images have become a daily reality for residents in a Russian city.

Citizens of Samara, in south east Russia, live in fear of the ground literally disappearing beneath them after huge sinkholes have started to appear all over their city, leaving devastation in their wake.

The yawning underground caverns are all believed to have sprung up in recent weeks swallowing cars, buses and claiming at least one life.

The sinkholes, some large enough to swallow an entire truck, are believed to have been caused by ground subsidence.

It is thought the holes have been caused as ice thaws and melts into the ground, with the excess water causing soil decay underneath Samara’s roads.

The massive craters have appeared in car parks, busy intersections, by the sides of roads, and on major and minor thoroughfares.

It is believed at least one person has lost their life as a result of one of the crashes caused by the sinkholes.

The citizens of the city have now signed a petition urging authorities to find a solution.

Sinkholes are common hazards in mining regions, plaguing areas where miners have burrowed into layers of soluble minerals and accidental floods have followed.

But natural sinkholes can take thousands of years to form and vary in size.

They are usually the result of what are known as Karst processes, which occur when a layer of rock such as limestone underneath the ground is dissolved by acidic water.

Typically rainfall seeps through the soil, absorbing carbon dioxide and reacting with decaying vegetation. As a result, the water that reaches the soluble rock is acidic.

The acidic water then erodes the soluble rock layers beneath the surface creating cavernous spaces.

Then, when it is no longer supported because of the cavity below, the soil or sand over the limestone collapses into a sinkhole.

The collapse of the surface can happen suddenly or over a few hours. Heavy rainfall or poor drainage systems can trigger a collapse.

Citizens in Berezniki, Russia, have also been plagued by sinkholes.

Census data, though, shows that about 12,000 people left the town between 2005 and 2010, after a number of holes opened up.

They are also common in Florida, America.

Jeff Bush, 37, was swallowed into a sinkhole and killed while he slept in his bed in February in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.

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The law needs to be changed to prepare for a married lesbian Queen who conceives using donor sperm, according to a member of the House of Lords.

Lord True believes gay marriage laws and the “tehcniques and ethics” of artificial insemination mean that the law of succession needs to be updated.

But gay rights charity Stonewall was not impressed.

Its chief executive Ben Summerskill told The Huffington Post UK: “It’s the role of members of the House of Lords to cling to the past.”

Parliament is currently debating the Succession To The Crown Bill, which would allow the first-born daughter to become Queen and lift an historic ban on Catholics acceding to the throne.

Tory peer Lord True tabled an amendement to the bill, which was considered by the House of Lords on Wednesday, which would mean that only the offspring of a married man and woman would be eligible.

He told the Daily Telegraph: “What happens if we have a lesbian queen in a same-sex marriage who conceives using an egg implanted with donor sperm? The law should be clear, but this is a question that has not been thought through in the Bill.”

His amendment was supported by Lord Elton, a former Conservative minister.

When he first tabled his proposals in February, Lord True said the possibility of a donor birth in the future, taken with the government’s plans for gay marriage, meant it was time to act, saying: “There are clearly seeds of controversy there.”

He added: “These measures, taken together, will alter for all time the concept of what a family, including, potentially, a Royal Family, could be.”

He eventually withdrew his amendment on Wednesday under assurances from a government minister – but insisted the issue could arise in the future.

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A new poll shows that 73 percent of Americans distrust the decisions made by the federal government – a number that has been steadily increasing throughout the last two administrations.

At its highest point, which occurred during President Obama’s first term, 80 percent of Americans lacked faith in the federal government. While former President George W. Bush fared slightly better, his administration witnessed a steady decline in trust that began in 2002, according to the new data from the Pew Research Center.

The data, which was collected from a survey conducted in January, shows that all demographics and political groups have seen a rise in government distrust.

“However, there are disparities. More than twice as many Hispanics as whites (44 percent vs. 20 percent) trust the federal government, and more blacks (38 percent) than whites trust the government,” Pew Research writes about the data.

Those with a higher rate of government distrust include older Americans, independents and Republicans.

Distrust in the federal government has seen its highest numbers in the past decade. During former President Bill Clinton’s two terms in office, Americans increasingly had a favorable view of the US government. Right before Clinton left office, nearly 60 percent of Americans trusted the US government, while only 40 percent had lost faith. Trust was also particularly high, nearing 80 percent, during former President John F. Kennedy’s term.

But not only has trust in the federal government steadily declined since Obama took office, but public perception has also gone down, particularly among Democrats. Only 33 percent of Americans have a positive opinion of the federal government and 69 percent said that Washington should only conduct operations that can’t be handled by individual states.

“Since Barack Obama’s first year in office, public assessments of the federal government dropped nine points,” Pew’s press release stated, citing findings from a survey conducted in April of 2012. “Most of the change was among Democrats and independents, as the level of favorable views of government among Republicans was already low.”

Pew Research found that the highest favorability ratings were of local governments that were closest to Americans’ homes. More than 60 percent of Americans said they had a favorable view toward their local government, with 52 percent having faith in their state government.

But over the past decade, favorability ratings of federal, state and local governments have all been on the decline, during both the Bush and Obama administrations.

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Facebook’s ‘like’ button can reveal more than you realize, a new study has showed. By liking posts and links, you may be revealing personal secrets, like your sexuality or religious and political views. The findings have raised privacy concerns.

A study by the National Academy of Sciences examined 58,000 Facebook users in the US, who volunteered their likes, demographic profiles and psychometric test results. Researchers managed to draw “surprisingly accurate” findings about a given user’s race, IQ, sexuality, substance use, personality and political views by analyzing the topics and items they ‘liked,’ even if they set strong privacy settings for their page.  

The study’s authors developed an algorithm that uses Facebook ‘likes’ to create personality profiles, potentially revealing a user’s personality. Anyone with training in data analysis could be able to derive such information, even if users had not explicitly shared it, they explained.

As a result, researchers were able to predict whether men were homosexual with 88 percent accuracy by their ‘like’ clicks on sites related to gay marriage or same-sex relations. Preferences of music and TV shows, for example, were also more revealing than users may have imagined: Men who liked the musical TV show ‘Glee’ were more likely to be gay, the study showed.

In 82 percent of cases, Christians and Muslims were correctly identified among the volunteer profiles.  And the study was not only predictive of sexuality or religion, but also a user’s IQ.

Those with higher IQs tended to more frequently like ‘The Colbert Report’ TV show, for example, or films like ‘The Godfather’ and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Those with lower IQs liked Harley Davidsons and Bret Michaels of the rock band Poison.

Similarly accurate predictions were also made about users’ political views, and could even predict potential voting patterns during elections, mapped to users’ relationship status, their number of Facebook friends and a half-dozen other personality traits.

“The important point is that, on one hand, it is good that people’s behavior is predictable because it means Facebook can suggest very good stories on your news feed,” South China Morning Post quoted Michael Kosinsky, one of the academics behind the study as saying.

While the study could be seen as a new step towards creating more personalized content, it also highlighted the potential threats to privacy posed by Facebook. “What is shocking is that you can use the same data to predict your political views or your sexual orientation. This is something most people don’t realize you can do,” Kosinsky warned.

Similar profiles could be created using other digital data, including Web searches, emails and mobile phone activity, according to a co-author of the study: ``Your likes may be saying more about you than you realize,” David Sitwell, a Cambridge University researcher said, according to AFP. “But you don’t realize that years later all those likes are building up against you.”

Facebook declined to comment on the study.

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New York City’s literacy rates are on the decline: nearly 80 percent of high school graduates lack basic skills like reading, writing and math and are required to relearn them before qualifying for community college.

During his most recent State of the City address, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hyped about the large investment the city has made on education – a multi-billion dollar investment that seems to have done little to help the city’s teens.

Critics pointed out that just 13 percent of black and Latino students graduate from New York City schools with the skills required for community college – and overall, 80 percent of all graduates lack these skills.

“He will be remembered as the Mayor of Education Failure, and his final speech ignored that reality. He has harmed our communities and families, and we cannot wait to see a new mayor replace him,” parent Zakiyah Ansari of New Yorkers for Great Public Schools told the New York Daily News.

The number of students who lack crucial reading, writing and math skills is the highest it has been in years, CBS 2 reports. Officials from City University told the news station that 79.3 percent of graduates, or 10,700 students, who arrived to take a test to get into community college last year failed and were required to relearn basic skills that should have been taught in high school. This is a sharp increase from the 71.4 percent who were lacking the skills in 2007.

With such a high number of uneducated students, City University has launched a program to help struggling high school grads. Called the CUNY Start, the program provides cheap immersion classes that help New York teens catch up with those who are prepared for college.

“They get lost sometimes in the classroom and in CUNY Start we give them a lot more one-on-one attention, small group work,” Sherry Mason, who teaches a writing class, told CBS. “It helps them achieve more in a short amount of time and so they’re able to get on with their credit classes.”

But students who are forced to shell out $1,000 or more for courses that bear no college credit are disappointed that their high schools failed to prepare them for college.

“The basics that I’m receiving now should have been taught in high school,” Feona Wilson, a high school graduate from Brooklyn, told the New York Post. “It’s more money coming out of your pocket.”

Despite efforts by lawmakers to improve high school education, the US still lags in comparison to other developed countries. In 2012, the US placed 17^thin the developed world for education, according to a report by Pearson. Finland and South Korea topped the lost of 40 countries. But when it comes to math, Americans are in the bottom half, with US students ranking 25^thout of developing countries.

Experts have warned that American students’ comparatively average to low performance could threaten the country’s future economic growth. And with 80 percent of New York’s high school graduates unprepared for community college, Bloomberg’s large education investments appears to have been ineffectively used.

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Where are all of these giant sinkholes coming from?  Of course there have always been sinkholes, but over the past few years it seems like both the severity and the number of giant sinkholes has been increasing dramatically.  So exactly why are so many giant sinkholes appearing all over America all of a sudden?  Is something happening to the earth’s crust, or is there some other explanation?  The “experts” are blaming this epidemic of sinkholes on things like loose soil, acidic groundwater, new construction, leaky water pipes, coal mines, fracking, long periods of drought followed by rain, and depletion of underground aquifers, but do they really understand what is going on?  On Thursday, a 37-year-old man named Jeffrey Bush living near Tampa, Florida died when the earth underneath his home suddenly opened up and swallowed him alive.  His brother tried to help him when he heard Jeffrey screaming, but it was too late.  The entire bedroom was sucked deep into the earth and the home had to be rapidly abandoned.  Now authorities are admitting that he will probably never be found.  So is this type of thing really “normal”?  It would be one thing if this was just an isolated incident, but the truth is that giant sinkholes have been appearing with increasing frequency all over the planet lately. Could this be an indication that major earth changes are on the way?

Florida has always been an area that has been prone to sinkholes, but the numbers do show that sinkhole damage in the state has increased very rapidly in recent years.  According to ABC News, insurance claims related to sinkholes more than doubled between 2006 and 2009…

Hillsborough County, where Seffner is situated, is part of an area in Florida prone to sinkholes, with insurance claims associated with them more than doubling between 2006 and 2009, according to a Florida Senate report.

But that is just Florida, right?

Other parts of the country are not having this kind of a problem, right?

Wrong.

Just check out what has been happening in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania lately.  There are dozens of sinkholes that have opened up in Harrisburg, and the city is so broke that it doesn’t have the money to fix all of them.

In fact, at this point there are 41 sinkholes that have been documented in Harrisburg, and many of them are right in the middle of the street…

Pennsylvania’s state capital is suffering from a rash of monster sinkholes, but city officials are too broke to do anything about it.

Loose soil and leaky, century-old underground water pipes are to blame for the municipal nightmare, which came to a head on the New Year’s Eve when a 50-foot sinkhole yawned open along Fourth Street, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The eight-foot deep crater — one of at least 41 in the city — is so large, locals made it a “check-in” site on the social media site Four Square.

Some cheeky residents and the media nicknamed the hole “Super Sinkhole Walter.”

Of course there have been lots of cities throughout U.S. history that have experienced such an epidemic of sinkholes, right?

There is no reason to be alarmed, right?

In a previous article about sinkholes, I talked about a sinkhole that recently formed in Ohio that was the size of four football fields and that was more than 30 feet deep.  It caused part of State Route 516 to collapse and authorities were projecting that the road would continue to stay closed for months to come.

But that is “normal”, right?

The giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish that made headlines all over the nation last year is now more than 800 feet in diameter.  It just continues to grow, and authorities have no idea when it will stop growing.

But this kind of thing happens all the time, right?

Just recently, large sinkholes forced roads to close in New Jersey and in Arizona.  Of course those incidents will soon be forgotten because there are more news stories about major sinkholes in the United States almost every single day now.  Giant sinkholes have been happening with such regularity that people hardly take notice anymore.

You can see some photos of some of the craziest sinkholes in recent years right here.  It would be one thing if giant sinkholes were just appearing in the United States, but unfortunately that is not the case.

For instance, a sinkhole that appeared in the middle of Guatemala City in 2010 was about 30 stories deep.

Down in Sarisarinama, Venezuela some sinkholes have appeared in recent years that are more than 1,000 feet wide.

China has been one of the worst areas of the world for sinkholes over the past several years.  In fact, just check out what has been happening in one village in China recently…

Residents in the village of Lianyuan in southern China’s Hunan Province have been treading rather gingerly these last few months. Over 20 sinkholes have opened up in the ground since last September. The cave-ins, which range in size, have seen houses collapse and rivers run dry. And there is never any warning as to where and when the sinkholes occur. According to local authorities, the main reason for the cave-ins is the number of coalmines in the area. It is not clear what steps are being taken to prevent further sinkholes from appearing.

I could go on and on with more examples from all over the globe, but hopefully you are starting to get the point.

Giant holes are opening up all over the earth and swallowing homes, buildings, roads and sometimes even people.

So why is this happening?

Is the crust of the earth becoming more unstable?

Or is something else at work?

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America’s ruling crime families obviously can no longer be bothered pretending. The lies justifying their psychopathic actions have become so lame, it would be laughable if the situation was less grim.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of those people who believe that America only recently has turned bad. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a country born in genocide, slavery and wars of aggression. No other country, over the course of the past 150 years, has been involved in more wars and has murdered more foreign citizens. Its two main parties have proven to be little more than rivaling mobster clans, colluding to rape and plunder their own country and the rest of the world. The Republican mob represents the fascist wing of the New World Order, old bloodlines of European aristocracy intermarried with their Court Jews. The Democrat mob, on the other hand, represents the Judeo-Bolshevik wing of the New World Order, aiming for Jewish world domination and the extinction or enslavement of all non-Jews.

The current push for disarming the American people is a tell-tale sign that things are about to get worse. You only need to look back at history, what happens after governments disarm their populations.*

In 1911, the crypto-Jewish Young Turks disarmed Turkish citizens, shortly followed by the murder of 1.5 million Armenian Christians.

In 1929, the Judeo-Bolsheviks disarmed Russian citizens, shortly followed by the murder of 20 million Russian and Ukrainian Christians.

In 1935, China disarmed its citizens, followed by the murder of 20 million citizens after Mao’s rise to power.

In 1956, Cambodia disarmed its citizens, followed by the murder of 1 million citizens under Pol Pot.

In 1964, Guatemala disarmed its citizens, shortly followed by the CIA orchestrated murder of over 100,000 Mayan Indians.

In 1970, Uganda disarmed its citizens, shortly followed by the murder of 300,000 Christian citizens.

Who are Americans kidding, when claiming that no U.S. President would murder his own citizens? We don’t even have to go as far back as the genocide on America’s indigenous population, or get into the millions of soldiers American presidents have sent into their death in those countless wars for profit. Bill Clinton burned down a whole village of Americans in the 1993 Waco massacre, because they had hacked into CIA computers and downloaded proof of illegal CIA drug dealings, implicating him and Georg Bush I. He also blew up a government building in the 2000 Oklahoma City bombing, as a test run for 9/11. George W. Bush murdered over 2000 U.S. citizens on 9/11, as an excuse for the implementation of a New World Order. Barack Obama doesn’t even bother anymore to come up with excuses. He rules as a dictator using thousands of ‘Executive Orders’, whenever the Congress whores won’t spread their legs. He claims to have the right to arrest indefinitely without trial, torture and kill anyone he claims to be a terrorist, and acts accordingly, when in fact he himself is the world’s number one terrorist. He claims the right to shut down the internet and suppress any news he doesn’t want to reach the people. He spends trillions of American tax payers money on wars, security, building FEMA concentration camps and enriching the very people who financed his rise to power. He poisons earth and atmosphere with chemtrails and causes havoc to the weather with the help of the H.A.A.R.P. system, to force farmers in America and elsewhere to buy Monsanto’s cancer and sterility causing Frankenstein seeds. And let’s not forget the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians George W. Bush and Barack Obama murdered in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri l Lanka, Haiti and Japan by triggering the 2004 Christmas tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2011 tsunami in Japan, using either H.A.A.R.P. or mini nukes.

We live in a world run by soft-spoken psychopaths and mild-mannered mass murderers. It’s pretty obvious, what America’s ruling parasites have in stall for American citizens. Unfortunately, most of them are so delusional about their country, they seriously consider it to be a ‘beacon of freedom’. Try warning them and they will never ever talk to you again, and won’t allow their kids to play with yours. They fool themselves thinking that foreigners don’t know what they are talking about, as if you needed to be a hen to recognize a rotten egg. Thanks to the whores in politics, academia and media, they have no clue that their president is exactly the kind of tyrant the Second Amendment and the Dick Act of 1902 were trying to protect them from.

Footnote:

* Some readers might have heard stories that Hitler too disarmed his citizens before embarking on what’s known as the so-called Jewish Holocaust. That’s actually a vicious lie, like most things we’ve been told about Hitler. Germans already got disarmed before Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 by previous Jew-run governments. Hitler actually reversed the socialist gun prohibition laws and encouraged private gun ownership.

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Those pushing President Obama’s gun-control agenda often portray the United States as one of the murder hot spots of the world, but the numbers tell a different story.

Even more revealing, gun murders in the U.S. are concentrated in big cities that typically have the strictest gun-control regulations. And it is those cities’ gun murder rates that are comparable to the rates in some of the deadliest countries in the world.

A United Nations 2010 chart lists the U.S. as having a murder rate of 5.22 per 100,000 people. The world average homicide rate: 9.63 per 100,000.

And 89 countries have higher murder rates than the U.S.

America is not even in the same league as the worst offenders. Honduras has a murder rate of 60.87 per 100,000. Jamaica 59.5. El Salvador 51.83. Guatemala 45.17. Colombia 40.1. Trinidad and Tobago 39.67 Angola 38.59. South Africa 36.54. Burundi 37.38 Lesotho 36.69 Zimbabwe 34.29. Belize 34.26.

The statistics on gun murders shed even more light.

The U.S. may have the highest level of gun ownership in the world, but its rate of gun homicides is only about three per 100,000.

Gun homicides in the United States are concentrated in major urban areas. And those cities, typically Democratic strongholds with the most stringent gun control laws in the nation, have gun murder rates that rival those of the most violent countries in the world.

Listen to this leader tell listeners to forget shotguns, and why semi-auto rifles are needed.

Click here to see a map comparing the rate of gun murders in American cities to nations around the world. It uses data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other sources collated by The Guardian.

The data reveal these amazing comparisons:

If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.

Detroit’s gun-homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9).

Baltimore’s rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8).

Gun murder in Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) is comparable to Colombia (27.1).

Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1).

Atlanta’s rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17).

Cleveland (17.4) has a higher rate than the Dominican Republic (16.3).

Gun murder in Buffalo (16.5) is similar to Panama (16.2).

Houston’s rate (12.9) is slightly higher than Ecuador’s (12.7).

Gun homicide in Chicago (11.6) is similar to Guyana (11.5).

Phoenix’s rate (10.6) is slightly higher than Mexico (10).

Los Angeles (9.2) is comparable to the Philippines (8.9).

Boston rate (6.2) is higher than Nicaragua (5.9).

New York, where gun murders have declined to just four per 100,000, is still higher than Argentina (3).

Even the cities with the lowest homicide rates by American standards, like San Jose and Austin, compare to Albania and Cambodia, respectively.

It’s true those comparisons are American cities to nations. But most of the countries listed have relatively small populations, in many cases comparable to large U.S. metros.

Here’s a look at the gun-control laws in the five U.S. cities with the highest gun-murder rates.

In New Orleans, you have to apply to the state police office and take classes with the National Rifle Association, then wait 45-90 days to get a concealed weapons permit.

Detroit comes under tough state laws that require a multistage process to get a gun. First, you must pass the Michigan Basic Pistol Safety questionnaire. Then you have to apply for the Ten Day Handgun Purchase Permit. (If you don’t buy the exact gun you applied for, you have to start the process all over.) After buying the gun, you have to fill out a Michigan Pistol Sales Record form and make sure the pistol has a valid firearm Safety Inspection Certificate. Federal laws also require a background check if you purchase a gun from a licensed dealer with a Federal Firearms License.

Maryland law governs Baltimore gun owners. The state prohibits the sale of handguns and many high-powered weapons without background checks. Magazines that hold more than 20 rounds are illegal.

Newark is in a state that already has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, and they may get stricter. The New Jersey state assembly passed a series of measures on February 21. One bill would limit the size of magazines to 10 shells from the current 15. Others would outlaw .50 caliber weapons, create weapon-free school zones, require background checks for private gun sales and require safety training for people seeking firearm purchase permits. The state Senate and Gov. Chris Christie would have to approve the changes.

Florida law requires citizens in Miami wait three days before a handgun purchase.

Firearms-rights supporters point to the high rates of gun murders where tight gun-control laws are in effect. Dave Workman of the Second Amendment Foundation says the belief in the firearms community is those laws mean people simply can’t protect themselves and criminals know it.

He says, “Criminals realize victims are far less likely to fight back. There’s no deterrent factor.”

Gun-control measures proposed by President Obama in January could reduce that deterrent factor even more.

Obama is pressing Congress to pass laws that would ban so-called “assault weapons” and magazines with more than 10 rounds, expand background checks, toughen gun-trafficking laws, and require criminal background checks for all gun sales.

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You are a billionaire. You possess more wealth than ordinary people can even dream of. You enjoy luxury and privilege unlike all others. Most importantly of all, you have enormous power–the power to make others do your bidding, to shape the world according to your fancy, to tell “the people”–the little ones–how it’s going to be whether they like it or not. All of this you now possess. But can you hold on to it? That is the supreme question! You own the world today, but what must you do to ensure you still own it tomorrow? You need the Owner’s Manual. Fortunately for you it is now in your hands.

This Owner’s Manual summarizes lessons learned from the experience of your forebears, people just like you over the past millennia: Emperors, Kings, High Priests, Moguls, Communists and ruling elites of every stripe. Some lessons come from their discoveries of methods for staying in power. Others are lessons learned the hard way, from the the crucial mistakes of those who once were mighty but were overthrown because they did not know something that you will know when you read this Manual. Heed the wisdom in this Manual or else the suffering of your forebears who were overthrown will have been in vain, and you, like them, will surely fall from your exalted position of power.

Chapter 1: Know That You Ought To Rule Over the People

Failure to believe, deep in one’s heart, that one ought to rule over the people, is the number one cause of failure to remain in power. It causes one to lack the fortitude and conviction to do what one knows must be done to stay in power. Therefore, know this. You are a billionaire because you are better than the multitude. You are wiser. You work harder and smarter. You care about the welfare of humanity unlike the greedy self-serving multitude. You understand that if you don’t make people work, then they won’t work because they, unlike you, are lazy. Your skill at making people work, by inducing in them the fear of unemployment and poverty if they don’t work and the hope of rising a bit higher than others if they work harder, is what produces the wealth of society. If it were not for you being in charge, there would be no economic wealth, there would be no jobs, there would be no science, there would be no art and no high culture: no new cures for diseases, no missions to outer space, no symphonies or operas, no fine literature or poetry. If you are overthrown then society will go to hell in a handbasket. You have a moral obligation to humanity to remain in power. You should feel only deep shame if you allow yourself to be overthrown by the riff-raff and the mob. Whenever you hesitate to do what is necessary to stay in power, remember this: You Ought to Rule Over the People!

Chapter 2: The People Are Your Enemy

The people–the “little ones” who are not billionaires like you–are your enemy. Forget this, and you are lost. Left to themselves, the people would make a world without billionaires, a far more equal and democratic world than the one your very existence as a billionaire requires, a world in which you would have to work and live as a mere equal with all others, a world run by people who are, as you know, a lazy good-for-nothing uncultured riff-raff, a dangerous mob who must never be allowed to take over. But this catastrophe is exactly what the people want, and this is why they are your enemy.

You dare not destroy the people, however, because you need them; they create your wealth, and without the people and their obedience to you your power is nothing. Since you cannot destroy the people you must control them. You must prevent them from making the kind of equal and democratic world they want. You must never forget that their aims in life are the opposite of yours. When they create relations of solidarity with each other, and decide to help rather than compete against each other, it means you are in trouble. Even when they do this on a small scale merely in their own little corners of the world out of the sight of others it is a threat to you that you ignore at your own grave risk. What starts on a small scale can erupt on a moment’s notice on a large scale, and then it is too late and you are doomed. When the people become confident and hopeful enough to start talking about revolution, it means you are facing disaster. Never forget: the people are your enemy and you must control them!

Chapter 3: Turn the People Against the People

The people will either turn against you or turn against themselves. Make sure they turn against themselves. There are many ways to do this.

1. Wage War

Wage war to make your own people unite behind you in attacking a colleague’s people elsewhere, to your mutual benefit. Your forebears in the United States, Germany and Japan did this quite effectively with World War II (for details on this see The People As Enemy: The Leaders’ Hidden Agenda in World War II.) More recently the leaders of Israel and of the Palestinians have proven themselves masters of this technique (for details on this see“Israeli Leaders and Hamas Need Each Other”.)

To do this successfully one must first have a credible enemy. If one is not already available it may be necessary to create one. Creativity is required. Adolph Hitler, God bless his soul, is the master to learn from here. His skillful burning down of the Reichstag building and blaming it on Communists was truly inspired statesmanship. By linking Communists and Jews and Great Britain and France all together as the source of everything afflicting the German people, Hitler created the perfect all-purpose enemy. The Americans who orchestrated the 9/11 attack clearly learned this lesson well, and are enjoying the benefits of having a superb enemy that can be “found” anywhere it is convenient to “find” it, from Somalia to New York City. With any luck they will be able to keep the War on Terror going for many wonderful decades.

These enemy-creating ruses will be exposed by various social discontents; therefore use all means to marginalize them so they will not be taken seriously. Accuse them of advocating a “conspiracy theory” and mock them for it. Use your useful idiots across the political spectrum from right to left to tell their followers why the “conspiracy” nuts are not worth taking seriously.

You must learn the proper use of atrocities. Your Japanese forebears are excellent teachers. The Japanese rulers made the Chinese people their “useful enemy” in the second Sino-Japeanese War that began in 1937. But they had a problem: the Japanese soldiers were peasants who hated the Samurai officer class who treated them like dirt. Japanese peasants were of the same oppressed class as the Chinese peasants who were fighting in the Communist-led army against them. The Communists appealed to the Japanese peasant-soldiers to join them against their common class enemy, and substantial numbers of Japanese peasant-soldiers began to do so. There was only one way to nip this problem in the bud, and the Japanese generals–demonstrating admirable wisdom and resoluteness–did it. They committed one of the world’s greatest atrocities, the Rape of Nanking, raping and murdering hundreds of thousands of defenseless Chinese civilians. The hatred of Japanese–all Japanese people–engendered among the Chinese put the kibosh on further fraternization between Chinese and Japanese soldiers.

Your forebears who ruled Yugoslavia in the 1990s (Communists, but nonetheless the same as you) applied this lesson magnificently when they launched violent attacks against Serbs by the leaders claiming to represent Croats, and against Croats by the leaders claiming to represent Serbs. These leaders were threatened by a Serb/Croat population characterized by peaceful relations and even high rates of intermarriage. To demobilize these people and pit them against each other required the proper use of atrocities. You must learn from these masters.

2. Divide and rule the people along race lines

If you are fortunate enough to have a prominent racial difference among your people, then pit them against each other along those racial lines.

Your forebears hundreds of years ago discovered that the key to success here was to make one race chattel property in a system of slavery, and make the other race believe that they were enjoying a “privilege” to be low-paid workers hired by employers (wage slaves) instead of slaves owned by masters. Your forebears enslaved blacks and told whites that black enslavement was not only proper (“the blacks must be inferior or else why would they be mere slaves?”) but it was also a “white privilege,” in other words it was something that benefitted whites. This worked for a while. But then it started to lose its effectiveness. Some whites saw through the “white privilege” lie and realized that it was no privilege at all, but rather an attack on them, to be dominated and exploited by an upper class using divide and rule racism to get away with it. These whites called for abolishing slavery. The immorality of slavery became more and more apparent to more and more whites until that peculiar institution lost the legitimacy that it required to be sustainable.

There is an important lesson to be learned here. What worked in the past may stop working in the future. Apartheid in South Africa is a good example of this. Zionism (the idea that 78% of Palestine should be a Jewish State, a state only “of the Jews” that must ensure–by ethnic cleansing–that it always has a Jewish majority of at least 80%) may prove to be another example. You must be creative and use new methods of divide and rule when necessary.

For example, when chattel slavery became impossible to use, it was nonetheless possible to use Jim Crow laws (“blacks must be inferior, or else they would be allowed entrance to the same places as whites”) to accomplish much the same thing. When Jim Crow outraged the people as much as slavery had then it was nonetheless possible to disproportionately imprison blacks (“blacks must be inferior, or else how come so many of them are criminals?”), thanks to the skillful use of drug laws, and again accomplish the same goals as the previous methods. These new methods are all fine and good, but they pale in comparison to a novel idea dreamed up by that great servant of our class, Richard M. Nixon, in 1969: Affirmative Action.

Affirmative Action, almost single-handedly, destroyed a looming threat to billionaire power at the time, which was the massive Civil Rights Movement against Jim Crow. The problem with this movement was that it had united millions of whites and blacks around the goal of abolishing racial discrimination. Hardly anybody could publicly disagree with this goal. Solidarity between whites and blacks makes the people start to feel confident that they can make the world more equal and democratic, and it gives rise to a force that is truly frightening. It had to be destroyed. But how? That was the question confronting Mr. Nixon. If the government were seen to be attacking the Civil Rights Movement, the people might rise up even more threateningly against our class.

Mr. Nixon had what some believe was a divine inspiration. He went to the Civil Rights leaders and told them that the goal they should fight for was Affirmative Action, in other words government-mandated racial discrimination in favor of blacks over whites to make up for previous discrimination the other way. The Civil Rights leaders bought it hook, line and sinker. For the next few decades we had our foremen and human relations offices and school and university admissions offices telling millions of white working class people, “Gee, we’re sorry we couldn’t give you the job (or admit you to the school) because we had to give the job (or admission) to a less qualified black person.”

Just as intended, the former solidarity and good will between blacks and whites began to erode, as whites grew resentful of blacks getting favorable treatment. The plan worked like a charm. Of course just as “white privilege” was actually a way our class controlled and exploited whites as well as blacks, the new “black privilege” was actually a way of controling and exploiting blacks as well as whites. The destruction of solidarity made it possible for our class to get away with abolishing most of the social safety net (courtesy of that wonderful man, the “first black president,” Bill Clinton) and outsourcing most of the better paying jobs to foreign nations with cheap labor. Thanks in large measure to Affirmative Action (“black privilege” ha ha ha), billionaires were also able to increase unemployment levels for blacks and whites, making them a lot more desperate and easier to control. Everybody’s attention was distracted from this ruse by the very visible presence of a small but growing black middle class. This black middle class was yet another benefit of Affirmative Action: it made it possible for our class to say that America with its billionaire rulers was even more equal than before, since there were now blacks such as Barack Obama and Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powel and Eric Holder in high positions. Richard Nixon was a genius.

3. Divide the people along cultural lines

The American billionaires are, to their great credit, writing the book on novel methods of social control based on divide and rule along cultural lines. The strategy is straightforward: make one demographic group (let’s call it the “liberal” group, which in the United States can be thought of as the NPR-listening demographic) view the other demographic (let’s call it the “conservative” group, which in the United States is the non-NPR-listening demographic) as dangerous and certainly unfit to have a real say in society; and make the conservative group view the liberal group as arrogant elitist social-engineering jerks. When done successfully, the liberal group (typically the smaller of the two) will prefer your rule to rule by the conservative group. They will fear genuine democracy because it means letting the much-feared conservative group have a real say in society. They will support you and praise you for keeping the conservative group out of power, and even if they raise objections to some of the things you do, you can rest assured that they will never seriously threaten your power. To control these liberal group people and keep them from getting in your way over the issues where they do actually disagree with you, it is important that you proactively provide them mis-leadership designed to make them as confused and ineffective as possible. For a wonderful example of how to do this, please study the platform and activities of the Democratic Party and the speeches of Democratic Party leaders in the United States, or the Labor Party in Great Britain.

At the same time, the other conservative demographic group (typically the larger of the two, the non-NPR-listeners in our example) will also need to be proactively led by you to ensure that they do not get out of control. You need individuals and organizations loyal to you and specialized for this exact purpose. These individuals and organizations will champion the anger of the conservative group at the elitism and arrogance and condescension of the liberal group, and cleverly direct this anger into support for the rule of billionaires. It is important to note that these individuals and organizations can only succeed to the extent that the liberal group (the NPR-listeners) expresses elitist and condescending views towards the conservative (non-NPR-listeners) group. For an excellent example of how to lead the conservative (non-NPR-listeners) group, listen to Rush Limbaugh (a true master of the art and worth his weight in gold!) and study the platform and activities of the Republican Party.

It cannot be emphasized enough that the success of this divide-and-rule strategy requires simultaneously providing proactive leadership to both the liberals (to make sure they are mobilized around elitist arrogant condescending fear of conservatives) and the conservatives (to make sure their anger at the liberals is channelled into support for the rule of billionaires.) The leaders of the liberals and the leaders of the conservatives have different roles to play but, like a quarterback and a pass receiver or a pitcher and a catcher, they are on the same team–your team. Use them skillfully.

Of the many issues American billionaires have used to implement this strategy, two deserve special mention for the remarkable skill with which they have been employed: same-sex marriage and gun control. Your American colleagues used their mass media to elevate the issue of same-sex marriage from virtual non-existence (who even thought about men marrying men or women marrying women back in the 1960s?) to a question that vies for top place on the agenda of public discourse, with laws enacted to make it legal in several states and more than 30 state referenda on the question. Your colleagues didn’t just make same-sex marriage an issue, they also cleverly framed the question in precisely the right manner to make the divide-and-rule strategy work. They did not frame it in the terms that all past debates about marriage legislation have been framed, i.e., in terms of the consequences for the children who may be produced by this or that type of marriage, such as sibling marriage or, in the past before there was a cure, marriage involving a partner with syphilis. No, they very wisely framed it in terms that had nothing whatsoever to do with the welfare of children. They framed it as a question of rights: should gays be denied their right to marry–yes or no?

Brilliant! Conservatives who thought children had a right to know and be known by their biological mother and father, and that social policy should be designed to protect this right, and who objected to same-sex marriage on the grounds that it would promote the use of sperm or egg donor conception (the only way a same-sex couple can produce a child) thus creating children who by design would not know and be known by one of their biological parents–these conservatives NPR etc. portrayed as people who did not want gays to enjoy their “right to marry,” and as irrational Bible Fundamentalist homophobic bigots. NPR etc. carefully censored any expressions of concern for the rights of children by opponents of same-sex marriage. In a display of wonderful teamwork, the conservative mass media also censored expressions of concern for the rights of childen by opponents of same-sex marriage. The entire mass media did this so effectively that liberals are totally unaware that concern for children has anything whatsoever to do with why people object to same-sex marriage. Liberals believe the only possible explanation is dumb, stupid, hateful “homophobia.”

Conservatives, in turn, hear their concern for children dismissed as bigotry by the liberals and react just as the divide-and-rule strategy requires: with anger at the elitist arrogant condescension of liberals. One can only admire the billionaire agents who crafted this same-sex marriage divide-and-rule scheme.

The other example of effective divide-and-rule meriting your attention is the way your colleagues have employed the gun control issue. The conservative demographic owns guns and the liberal demographic does not. This is the kind of opportunity that a wise billionaire cannot afford to waste. Your colleagues, to their great credit, have put it to great use. Conservatives oppose more restrictive gun control laws because they don’t want their right to bear arms to be whittled away. They support the right to bear arms not only because they want to hunt or use them as sport or even to use them in self-defense, but because they agree with the Founding Fathers that the right to bear arms is important as a check by the citizens against a tyrannical government. And they argue that gun control laws don’t do anything to prevent bad people from getting guns and shooting good people with them. NPR etc., however, portrays conservatives as people who are crazy and downright dangerous because they don’t care about preventing bad people from killing good people with guns. NPR etc. ridicules the idea that guns today can enable citizens to resist any (supposed) tyranny by the United States government. The NPR argument doesn’t hold water for reasons discussed by one of your enemies here (you should learn from your enemies) but it does persuade liberals because liberals just don’t like guns and will accept any argument, no matter how weak, that stigmatizes gun owners as terrible people who should not be allowed to have a say in society.

4. Make the People Compete Against Each Other

You must prevent solidarity from developing among the people, lest it give them confidence to rise up and overthrow you. You must therefore instill in the people the belief that life is all about competition and they are all in competition with other people like themselves. Workers in every place of work must be made to feel that their jobs depend on “beating the competition.” They must feel threatened by competing workers in the same neighborhood, by workers in different neighborhoods in the same city, by workers in a different city, by workers in a different state, and by workers in a different nation.

Not just the adult workers, but their children as well must believe they are in a vicious competition with others like themselves all over the world. They must hear over and over again that the very purpose of their education is to prepare them to compete in the world economy.

5. Turn the People Against Themselves

So far we’ve been discussing how to turn one part of the people against another part of the people. Even more effective, however, is to turn the people against their very selves. “Impossible!” you say? Not at all. You simply need to persuade people that ordinary people (at least most of them) are very very bad, and therefore if they overthrew the billionaires and took control of society it would only make things worse. The cartoonist, Walt Kelly, in his comic strip, Pogo, articulated this message in a single line that has become so famous and well known that it is taken as the Gospel truth by millions of people: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” This is a wonderful line! The more people you persuade to believe it, the safer the world will be for you.

To make people believe the Pogo message, simply tell them that whatever they perceive or dislike in the billionaire ruling class exists just as much if not more in ordinary people: greed, laziness, dishonesty, violence. Make sure every school child reads Animal Farm and learns that overthrowing the old ruling class doesn’t make things better because the new one will be just as bad, and if a revolution aims to make things more equal then it will only mean that some animals will end up being “more equal than others.”

The key is to prevent people from believing the vicious lies spread by rabble-rousers such as Dave Stratman. Stratman wrote a poisonous book called We CAN Change the World that contains rubbish like this, which he claims to have learned from his experience as a parent of children in the Boston Public schools during the famous “bussing crisis” over integrating the schools in the 1970s:

“The meaning of these two years of experience was not immediately clear to me. Certain things were apparent, to be sure. It was soon clear that there was more decency, honor, good sense, and just plain goodness in the working class people of Boston of whatever color than there were in all the forces ranged against them: the politicians white and black, the School Committee, the Federal Court, the Church, the Harvard and Boston University “experts,” the Boston Globe, the liberals and the leftists.”

The way to immunize people against such lies is to shower them daily with truthful images of typical ordinary people. Good examples of this include the evening T.V. news, which seldom strays from the truth because it is committed so correctly to the principle: “If it bleeds it leads.” Television is a veritable fountain of truth, with reality shows such as the Jerry Springer Show and shows that reveal the true inner motivations of people such as the daily Soap Operas. The best people in society–the ones who actually are, unlike most, caring and thoughtful, honest to a fault, firm when necessary in a “tough love” kind of way but tender heated always–are given lots of air time on television too, in shows such as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and CSI: New York and CSI Miami and NCIS and NCIS Los Angeles and Criminal Minds, all of which feature the very best people in our society–cops. Ordinary people, however, need to be portrayed correctly in T.V. fiction too. That’s why the Homer Simpson show and Family Guy are so important; they reveal the true level of intelligence and integrity of the typical American man. Never underestimate the importance of television in persuading people that it would be sheer folly to overthrow billionaires from power.

But television is not the only tool at your disposal. Books are excellent also. Animal Farm, of course, is invaluable, as long as you don’t let readers learn that its author, George Orwell, also wrote Homage to Catalonia, praising the anarchist-led Spanish Revolution, which the author fought in, and that his Animal Farm was intended as an exposure of the fact that the Bolshevik Party that made a revolution in Russia was not truly fighting for equality, and not intended to be an attack on the very idea of making a true revolution for equality. Another good book, in fact one that some cities have encouraged everyone to read, is To Kill a Mockingbird. People love the book because it is against racism, but while they are loving the book the important (for you) message of the book enters their minds without their being consciously aware of the fact. This message is that only exceptional white people (such as the lawyer hero in the book) from the higher levels of society oppose racism, while most ordinary people (such as the poor whites in the book) are as racist as can be.

Chapter 4: Make Sure The People Follow Your Goals, Not Theirs

Your French forebears at the time of the French Revolution made an absolutely priceless discovery. They discovered that the people can be made to follow somebody else’s goals while thinking they are following their own very different goals. At the time of the French Revolution the people wanted equality. They wanted an end to the inequality of society that made some rich and others poor. They wanted people to be equal, with no rich and no poor. Their motto was “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” and by égalité they did not mean some people being rich and others being poor. Now this was a problem for your forebears taking over from the King at this time. No rich and no poor was not exactly what they wanted. But they needed the support of the people to prevail against the old King and aristocracy that they aimed to replace.

What to do? One of them had a stroke of genius. Declare that the goal of the revolution was “equal opportunity.” The phrase featured the word “equal” so prominently that it worked. Your forebears won the support of the people by opposing only one very special kind of inequality–inequality based on inherited status. What the people did not realize was that “equal opportunity” meant an equal opportunity for people to get rich in a society very much still based on there being both rich and poor. They didn’t realize that “equal opportunity” was about making inequality more “perfect” in the sense of being based now (supposedly) on individual merit instead of, as formerly, inherited status.

To this day you and your colleagues benefit enormously from the widespread understanding of “equality” as merely “equal opportunity.” Beware of anybody who says they want a world of “equality” without immediately following this word with “opportunity”!

Newer variations on “equal opportunity” have been developed. One of the best is the assertion that the goal is to create “a level playing field.” The word “level” gets a reflexive nod of approval from the people–after all, playing on a tilted field wouldn’t be fair, would it? The beauty of this phrase is that a playing field is where people compete, and in the social/economic context this phrase endorses competition that results in winners and losers, rich and poor. When the people agree to aim for a “level playing field” they unwittingly are agreeing to aim for a society with rich and poor, not one based on equality. Make sure your politicians use the “level playing field” and “equal opportunity” phrases on every possible occasion.

Chapter 5: Lower the People’s Expectations

You cannot long remain in power if the people develop high expectations about making a more equal and democratic society. High expectations about changing the world develop when people feel personally secure enough to devote time and energy to such a cause and when they feel their collective strength in numbers as a result of solidarity. The radical upsurge against all forms of established authority that broke out in the 1960s, and which came close to overthrowing numerous elite ruling class regimes in the world, stands as a dire warning of what can happen when people’s expectations are permitted to rise.

To lower the people’s expectations in life, you must a) make them personally insecure and b) destroy solidarity wherever it breaks out.

To be personally secure, people need to know that they can count on always having the basics: a good paying job that will employ them long term, good health care when they need it, good education for their children that will give them a good future. Your strategy here is simple: make sure people don’t have these basics and fear that it will be even worse for their children.

Eliminate the better-paying jobs with automation or outsourcing to cheap labor nations. Make health care a commodity that many will not be able to afford and have it controlled by insurance companies motivated to come up with excuses for not covering the most serious health needs. Subject school children to standardized tests that are norm-referenced to produce the same high number of failures no matter how well the children learn their lessons, and tell the children that if they fail the test it means they are not smart enough or hard-working enough to deserve a decent-paying job or even any job at all.

Destroy the unions by refusing to negotiate with them and if they go on strike just lock them out or even better yet fire them and replace them. (Learn from Ronald Reagan’s masterful use of this tactic in dealing the air traffic controllers’ strike.) Make sure that your agents control any remaining unions so they will sabotage efforts by the rank-and-file to win important demands. (For a good example of this study how the United Paperworkers International Union and the United Auto Workers union succeeded in defeating the Staley and Caterpillar strikes centered in Decatur, Illinois in the 1990s, despite some horrifying solidarity developing between the Staley and Caterpillar workers.)

Chapter 6: Use Fake Democracy

Encourage the people to vote. Give them “lesser evil” candidates to vote for. Give them conservative candidates and liberal candidates and third party candidates. Saturate the airwaves with election news and debates as much as you can. Elections are your friend. First of all, it makes little difference who gets elected because the policitians don’t make government policy–you make policy. Why else do you have your closed and private by-invitation-only policy-making organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Committee for Economic Development and Business Roundtable and Tri-Lateral Commission? Second, elections give the people hope that all they need to do to get changes they want is to pull a lever now and then. That’s exactly what you want them to think. Third, the politicians want your mass media to portray them as serious, not marginal, and they want your money to wage their campaigns. You’re in the driver’s seat here. Give the best media coverage and the most money to the politicians who seem the most skilled at getting the people to go along with your policies. Fourth, if by some remote chance a politician gets elected who makes trouble for you, use a little character assassination. If that doesn’t solve the problem, call in the CIA to do what they do best. (See Chapter 8.)

Chapter 7: Teach the People to Be Nonviolent

Provide the people with leaders who insist they embrace the philosophy of nonviolence. Learn about this philosophy yourself so that you can evaluate which emerging leaders of the people to support and which to marginalize if not eliminate. The philosophy of nonviolence is your friend. It says that people should never use force to overthrow you. It says they should try to persuade you to be “nice” and that they should do things to demonstrate their sincerity to you, such as go limp when police attack them and willingly go to jail when arrested. As long as the people obey leaders who adhere to strict nonviolence, the only thing you need to worry about is the nuisance created by large numbers of people filling up the jails and things like strikes and refusals to work, which can be dealt with by the usual punitive measures. As long as your military forces obey you there is nothing to worry about. But be extremely worried if a large movement develops support among your military personnel; this could be fatal. Everything in this Manual is, in the final analysis, about how to prevent that from happening.

Chapter 8: Assassinate Dangerous Leaders

Dangerous leaders sometimes emerge among the people, despite all efforts to prevent it from happening. Even a leader who preaches nonviolence can become dangerous if he or she succeeds in building a mass movement that has so much solidarity and clarity about its goals that the members of the movement may, in spite of objections by their nonviolent leader, decide to use force to overthrow you.

What makes a leader very dangerous? Here are the warning signs: 1) They identify you and your values as the enemy. 2) They unite everybody else who opposes your values against you. 3) They say things like, “Revolution means shaping society by the positive values of equality and mutual aid shared by most ordinary people, values that the Billionaire class attacks.” 4) They never use “We” to refer to the people who are the problem.

What makes a leader acceptable or at least not very dangerous? Here are the key factors: 1) They identify some group other than you (it makes little difference which group) as the enemy. 2) They say some billionares are the enemy but others are not (the reasons can vary: They’re our race, or natonality or religion, or they’re not fasicsts like the other ones) and should be allied with, at least for the time being. 3) They have as much contempt for the people as you do, calling them, for example, “sheeple” or “homophobes” or “racists” or “privileged” or “complicit”. 4) They always use “We” to refer to the people who are the problem.

If you are squeamish about assassinating very dangerous leaders you will be overthrown one day by one. Learn from the steadfastness of your forebears in the United States who confronted four individual leaders whom they had to assassinate. They had no choice if they expected to remain in control.

John Kennedy and his brother Robert were fine team players at first, and entirely loyal to our class. But they got cold feet after the Cuban Missile Crisis almost led to thermoculear war. The Cold War against the Soviets was the way our class ruled. If waging it meant possibly killing 30 million Americans, that was the price our class needed to pay, and it wasn’t too big a price because there would still remain far more live Americans for billionaires to rule over. But the Kennedy brothers lost their nerve. JFK began retreating in the Cold War. RFK would likely have done the same if he had become president. The purpose of the CIA is to take care of such problems, and fortunately they did.

Malcolm X began his career by identifying whites as the enemy. No problem. But then he went to Egypt, had some kind of epiphany, and on his return started giving lectures to white audiences and getting standing ovations. This happened, for example, at Dartmouth College. The man was charismatic and had all of the warning signs of extreme dangerousness. He had to go.

Martin Luther King, Jr. began his career thinking that whites were the problem. He wouldn’t use a word like “enemy” because he was also a follower of the philosophy of nonviolence, at least in his public speeches (he also applied for a concealed pistol permit and used armed body guards.) Normally MLK, Jr. would not have been too dangerous to be permited to live. But three things changed this. First, he changed his understanding of who was the problem and began speak in class, not racial, terms. Second, he succeeded in building a mass movement based on the value of equality. Third, he applied his class analysis so consistently that he broke with all of the other Civil Rights leaders in speaking out against the War in Vietnam, giving American GIs (many of whom were black) encouragement in their growing refusal to fight the Viet Cong. King’s leadership was building a movement that had a growing potential to reject his nonviolence philosophy (as black rioters did even when King personally appealed to them to remain non-violent) and overthrow our class. In order to defeat this dangerous movement its leader had to go.

Chapter 9: A Problem that Remains Unsolved

There remains a problem that you must learn to solve without help from this Owner’s Manual. The problem is this: How can billionaires defeat a revolutionary movement in which the rank-and-file members all exibit the warning signs that, in a leader, would mark him or her as very dangerous? Killing its leaders would accomplish little. Your forebears never solved this problem. Fortunately the problem has never arisen yet (or else you would probably not be a billionaire today) but it could happen. Everything in this Manual is about how to prevent it from happening, but the savvier ordinary people become, the less effective all of the strategems in this Manual are. This is a serious problem! You are on your own. Good luck in solving it.

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Tell someone you’re living in Spain and a whole world is conjured.

Mention to them that you spent the summer in France – traveling like treacle from Lille to Paris to Fontainebleau, spending two months in a quiet, riverside campsite just upstream from Vichy and a week amidst the château-crested vineyards of Monbazillac.

After frittering late August exploring the villages along the banks of the Dordogne, you made your way to Burgos, the ancient capital of Castile — where you now spend your days writing, taking photographs and tutoring a handful of students between siesta and tapas.

The listener is apt to swoon and begin to question his own daily routine as a tinge of envy takes seed.

This is the life which mi mujer, Mufidah, and I have lived since leaving behind our quite comfortable life in Lewes – the county town of East Sussex, just eight miles from Brighton – to go a-traveling last May.

As we’re in our mid-forties, folk we meet begin to tell us how fortunate and free we must feel given our lack of children, and how nice to have the financial independence to have picked up sticks and gone traveling, with no end in sight, no gut-sinking counting down of one’s remaining vacation days, and no job whatsoever to return to.

But you can see a sort of inner jolt when we interrupt the program to tell them that we do have children, one daughter each, both in their early twenties and living independently on either coast of the United States.

Another jolt comes when they learn that we didn’t, in fact, own the High Street apartment we gave up to go on the road, and that while it was, indeed, a beautiful home, it was rented and paid for by the skin of our teeth and a great deal of self-employed imagination and round-the-clock work.

And, no, we hadn’t a nest egg nor a trust fund to either of our names.

You can then witness the slightly pained expression cross their face as they struggle to make sense of it all.

SOBER REALITY

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Emotionally charged billboards actually hamper people’s ability to drive, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Alberta and published in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention.

Driver distraction is one of the primary causes of motor vehicle accidents, the researchers noted.

“Studies have shown that when subjects see an emotional stimulus as opposed to a neutral one, they’re slower in making reaction time responses and they’re slower when doing a visual search,” lead author Michelle Chan said. “I wanted to see whether the results would carry over in driving – would we also find more distracted performance in driving? – and we did see that.”

30 college students took part in a simulation of driving past 20 billboards, each one containing a series of words that were either emotionally positive, negative or neutral. Positive words included cash, excitement, fame, happy, love, sex and win, while negative words included abuse, cancer, prison, stress and war.

In addition to observing the effect of each billboard on the participants’ driving, the researchers also instructed participants to push a button on the steering wheel whenever they encountered a particular word. This provided an extra test of participants’ awareness and reaction time.

Veering and speeding

The researchers found that when exposed to positive words, participants had a tendency to speed up, although typically not into the range of dangerous speeds. Other driving skills did not seem to be affected.

“With the positive [words], they actually drive pretty well,” Chan said.

When encountering negative words; however, participants slowed down, lost focus and tended to drift and veer between lanes. Some of them actually crashed into (simulated) trees, vehicles or even pedestrians.

“There have been studies showing that when you’re positively stimulated, your attention broadens, so you perform better when you’re in a happy mood,” said Chan. “In my results, we also saw that … participants actually responded faster in the positive block than in the negative block.”

Age and gender did not influence the results, but Chan noted that participants with less driving experience were more likely to be distracted.

The study supports the idea that billboards can be dangerously distracting road hazards, Chan said, particularly those designed to appeal to emotions.

“Any kind of distraction is risky when you’re driving. But there would appear to be a larger risk when it comes to emotional stimuli.”

While some distractions, such as cell phones and radios, are primarily under the drivers’ control, billboards are an external factor that they cannot choose to avoid.

“In Australia they have really strict billboard criteria, but in the United States it’s less so,” Chan said. “When you’re driving in Las Vegas, you’ll see a bunch of profane billboards. There are also some really graphic anti-smoking billboards around.”

The researchers are planning a follow-up study, using a more advanced simulation device, to test participants’ response to emotionally charged billboard images, such as those found on anti-smoking ads.

“They tend to capture more attention, so drivers tend to look at them longer and pay less attention to the driving task,” Chan said.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130214134024.htm
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