The Cabin’s On Fire: The End Justifies The Meme

• Posted on February 12, 2013
• by Clyde Lewis
• in Articles  

THE CABIN’S ON FIRE:
THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEME

As I was watching the coverage of the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, I was confused by a number of things that the media failed to report about the case. While the foreground meme is that of a crazed former cop on a killer rampage, the background meme that isn’t exposed yet and should be is just how crazed the entire Los Angeles Police Department has become.
A perfect example of this is how after it was reported in the news that Dorner’s vehicle was destroyed by fire near Big Bear, California, police officers engaged in firing on vehicles that looked like the suspect’s vehicle. Once again the police decided to fire on vehicles that looked like Dorner’s vehicle even after it was reported by the media that his vehicle was destroyed by fire.
David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing before work when police flagged him down. They asked who he was and where he was headed, then sent him on his way. Seconds later, Perdue’s attorney said, a Torrance police cruiser slammed into his pickup and officers opened fire; none of the bullets struck Perdue.
His pickup, police later explained, matched the description of the one belonging to Dorner. But the pickups were different makes and colors. And Perdue looks nothing like Dorner: He’s several inches shorter and about a hundred pounds lighter. And Perdue is white; Dorner is black.
The incident involving Perdue was the second time police looking for the fugitive former LAPD officer opened fire on someone else. In the first incident, LAPD officers opened fire on another pickup they feared was being driven by Dorner. The mother and daughter inside the truck were delivering Los Angeles Times newspapers. The older woman was shot twice in the back and the other was wounded by broken glass.
The question is why they fired on these vehicles. ,a href=”http://karisable.com/crlebclapd.htm” target=”_blank”>Is there a crazed brutality that is happening within the Los Angeles Police Department?
Or is it the meme that everyone is a suspect when the police become targeted?
Another interesting turn events in the case is that even after it was announced that the police had Dorner cornered in a cabin near Big Bear, the police were searching vehicles miles away and pointing guns at drivers.
Is there a lack of communication, are police being excessively violent, or is the meme that everyone is suspect when the police are targeted a necessary evil?
We also have heard that Christopher Dorner is now the first American citizen to be pursued by drones on American soil. What has changed in America that now we need to selectively use predator drones as judge and jury without due process?
How is that tactical officers are no longer capable of doing their jobs of negotiating and bringing a suspect out alive to face a jury? Instead, with the aid of drones and the eye in the sky, the nation focused on a cabin where he allegedly hid. The final moments in this news story has all the trappings of “The Running Man,” a science fiction story about a future reality show where a criminal tries to outsmart authorities.


The cabin ended up catching fire in a scene that triggers memories of the Waco, Texas fire that incinerated women, children and David Koresh. At that time we suspected that they were murdered and that law enforcement intentionally set fire to the compound making them judge, jury and executioner. Barack Obama now has executive authority to kill by mere suspicion and now we see how the police departments and paramilitary tactical teams seem to be of the idea that we should shoot first and ask questions later.
Violent and suicidal memes have now been part of our nightly routine. If we pay attention to mainstream narrative, you would think that everyone is a ticking time bomb and the solution is to just coerce the public into disarming itself so that they can be subjected to other violent behaviors being brought on by the encroaching police state.
We have a suicidal crisis that is evolving because of generated memes that make all things suspect and the response from both the public, the military and police is mutually assured destruction.
Days ago, I demonstrated that a few indicators during the Super Bowl gave me the impression that the symbolism of the “bull” – or the bullish meme – was being replicated during the performance by Beyonce and Destiny’s Child who’s newest hit song was called “Nuclear.”
The “bullish” or “bullying” nature of man was the meme that was cloaked in fire and the burning of elements in a “scorched earth” meme that I indicated was quite possibly about “nuclear nationalism.”
Days later, Iran reported that they had officially become a nuclear state and that North Korea has now, under the condemnation of the United Nations, successfully tested a nuclear bomb.
There have been many times in my life where I have had a bad experience with a project or a relationship and then realizing that my first thoughts were I never should have engaged in it to begin with. The reason why we do it is because in the beginning we really want something to work even though there are warning signs and mimetic triggers that are telling you to stay away or to be cautious and yet you do not listen.
I realized that when it comes to speculating on current events and where they will take us, I have decided that – regardless of criticism – I often point out memes that I see and understand that they are powerful things.
I am a firm believer that intuition tends to rule in many situations and no matter how crazy the meme seems to be, it always seems to manifest to the fullest in the zeitgeist and soon meaningful coincidences transpire which makes life more interesting and magical.
Memes, quite literally, are like genies that are let out of the lamps and once they are released they tend to live and breathe and they also grow within a certain amount of time.
Memes are very much like viruses that hijack reality and if enough people are subjected to a meme that is covertly transmitted they become unaware that they have submitted themselves to something that is against their self interest or self sustainability.
It is unfortunate that the memes that have been transmitted by the elite have become parasitic and are most definitely not in the self interest of the public at large.
We are told that there are memes that we should be willing to die for and many people with no intention of self preservation will defend to the death a meme that has become viral and leads to a suicidal tendency that is voluntary and very frightening because it guarantees virtual destruction of human life.
Think of all of the memes you are willing to die for. Will you lay down your life for something as nebulous as freedom? Do you believe that justice is worth dying for? How is your spiritual health when it comes to the truth? Is the truth really what we see every day? I have always heard from people that there are trusted sources that they get information from and yet most of the time these so called trusted sources are only sources for engendering destructive memes that simply put ask you to surrender your protection, your integrity, and you cognitive resonance.
All these states of mind, from freedom to slavery can be changed with a meme that that sets the agenda for your thought processes that you once thought you had total control over.
Many people wonder why people will fight for something like communism, socialism, Mormonism, Catholicism, or even Islam and never stop to wonder if the memes they pick up on are not destructive and put the stop to spiritual evolution.
Many of us today have fallen victim to unthinking engineering and have been socially coerced into thinking that the end justifies the meme.
The dangerous memes now are replacing biological imperatives, common sense and virtual well-being.
The elite seem to misuse memes in their ineffable way of social coercion and in some cases “sorceress” ways of ritual and showmanship. We all see it as entertaining and make excuses for the way it is presented and if anyone reads into the grandstanding and points out that it is an infectious hijacking of common sense, those who are already mesmerized by it will immediately criticize or malign anyone who does not enable the idea for a detrimental hijacking of the collective consciousness.
For those who see the misuse of these memes it becomes a thankless job of identifying the destructive flow of thought and trying to warn that the meme will eventually manifest if we don’t identify it and try to eradicate it and prevent it from replicating.
Toxic memes are like pathogens and as they spread it is fascinating to see how these ideas can be presented covertly, accepted within the core belief apparatus and then soon everything is suspect.
The mental concept when illustrated can be a pathetic exercise in knee jerk reaction to crisis and the outcomes become suspicious and degenerative. They can be placed in a song that has a repetitive hook or an advertisement with a subliminal image. They can be symbolic gestures that seem harmless, or major motion pictures that are made to change history through an artistic interpretation meant to sway an opinion towards a false or clouded view of what really happened.
Lately we have seen the tale of the antihero, becoming a hero. We cheer on serial killers, drug dealers and the mentally unstable in television shows and movies. We are told to enable politicians that make promises of change and hope and yet continue in generating nightmare memes of injustice and a police state spirituality that condones the murder of people without due process and a trial by peers.
We are given the meme that the constitution has become a literal death sentence, that it is archaic and does not apply to modern day activities where the imperative is to adjust evil to fit an agenda.
We see memes today that through the use of technology are now spreading into various places around the world that are wiping out cultures, demanding the move towards collectivism, destroying the idea of individual will, destroying language, belittling rites of passage, eliminating cherished traditions, and destroying religious beliefs.
This is really not our fault, because there has not been a lesson in developing immunity to such memes, there is no vaccine to prevent the spread of a bad idea, or a philosophy that creates a demon of the hour, that arouses suspicion and dread.
While positive memes exist and we feel that they bring us comfort in some ways we may have to be extra aware of how memes that we think are for our benefit can literally be a threat to the memes of others.
These memes, of course, are what others are willing to die for.
You can’t eliminate toxic memes but you can try to somehow develop an amoral understanding of what they are and how they are being generated in order to stop their virulence.
When you get the facts about anything you can attack it with passion and use vigilance to prevent making the same mistakes in opening yourself up to the same virulent ideas.

Microsoft wants to keep an eye on you: Next Xbox console will only work with Kinect sensors connected, sources claim

• New console, code-named 'Durango', can simultaneously run apps and video games, according to rumours
• Reports claim highly-advanced Kinect sensor can track the slightest body movements and recognise if person is angry, sad or happy
• Xbox 360 controllers will not work with Durango
• Video games rival Sony set to unveil their new console on February 20

By Talal Musa
PUBLISHED: 13:16 EST, 12 February 2013 | UPDATED: 14:23 EST, 12 February 2013

The next generation Xbox console will require Microsoft's Kinect motion sensors to be connected when playing games, according to games industry sources.
The machine - the follow up to the hugely successful Xbox 360 - will also feature new-look control pads and be capable of simultaneously running apps alongside video games.
Having Kinect as a requirement has raised eyebrows among gamers as it is still widely criticised by 'hardcore' gamers for being a gimmick that adds little value to games.

Successor: The Xbox 360 is a hugely popular system, but recent games have showed a gulf in the graphical quality between its aging hardware and the current crop of PCs

That's despite Microsoft having sold 20million of the motion-sensor units.
The new machine is codenamed Durango. A source who is said to have previously revealed details on games consoles, told Kotaku he has had access to the development kits.
The source went on to describe the graphical leap between Durango and the current 360 to echo the difference between Halo 2 on the original Xbox and Crysis on a high-powered PC.

 

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The website claims that a new Kinect-style motion control will be included with every Durango sold, and must be plugged in and calibrated for the console to even function.
It will also 'always be watching you', with a new camera able to track up to six individual skeletons in the same room at all times.
This would suggest that the system could instantly identity the person and also be related to the recently-patented Microsoft system for monitoring or charging users based on who is watching what.
The quality of the Kinect camera has been improved, too, with reports that it is capable of tracking thumb movement or recognise when your hand is open and closed.
Other reports suggest it can also recognise when you are angry, sad and exited.

Big reveal: Sony are almost certain to showcase their next-gen console on February 20

NO MORE BORROWING XBOX GAMES FROM FRIENDS, RUMOURS SAY

The next Xbox console could require gamers to be permanently connected to the internet - ruling out the use of second-hand games, according to a magazine report.

The next-generation console will 'be absolutely committed to online functionality', says the magazine, quoting sources with first-hand experience of Microsoft's latest console.

Gamers will be required to activate games in the same way as most other software from Microsoft and other publishers is already activated online, the report in Edge magazine claimed.

This would mean that the game is tied to the console it is activated on, and to the Xbox Live account activating it, making it impossible to sell on old games.

An activation system would check that you are the registered user of the game each time you start it up - you wouldn't even be able to lend it to a friend.

The site claims the new Xbox will run on custom hardware, including an 8-core, 64-bit CPU running at 1.6ghz, 800mhz DirectX11 graphics processor units and custom hardware blocks to take help take the pressure off the CPU.
The console is also reportedly capable of delivering stereo 3D content and ships with built-in wifi. Audio output will be via either HDMI or S/PDIF (optical) and can support 7.1 channels.
It will ship with 500GB hard drive, too.
Cleverly, Durango titles can be designed in sections, so the now mandatory installations can take place automatically while you play.
Sadly, Kotaku claims that Xbox 360 controllers will not work with Durango as Microsoft are using what they call a 'new wireless technology'.
Sony, meanwhile, have kept their hand even closer to their chest regarding their next-generation console.
However, it is widely expected that they will reveal their PS3 successor at a major event in New York City on Feburary 20.
Microsoft will likely wait until E3 to make an announcement with the console expected to retail at the end of the year.

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February 6, 2013

An Open Letter to FAU Faculty, Staff and Administration about Sandy Hook 

http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/02/06/an-open-letter-to-fau-faculty-staff-and-administration-about-sandy-hook/#more-2391

All,

Because James Tracy and I have been attacked as faculty members–I am now retired, while he is not–for speaking out about  Sandy Hook, I would observe that this is a very messy case and that serious questions are being raised about it from a wide range of perspectives.   It is clearly complex and controversial but also falls squarely within Dr. Tracy’s areas of professional competence, which include conspiracy theories and culture, malfeasance by the media and related issues. Tenure was created to protect faculty from the political consequences that might otherwise attend addressing complex and controversial matters of this very kind.

I am very surprised by some of the issues being raised, because, as is common knowledge within academic institutions, faculty NEVER speak for the institution, which is a role that is the exclusive prerogative of the institution’s ADMINISTRATION.  It would reflect well on FAU if your deans and other representatives of the institution were to DEFEND their faculty when they tackle complex and controversial issues like this one, not imply that they may be doing the institution harm.  It would be in the best interests of FAU and the public to stand up for academic freedom and for freedom of inquiry.
Not only that, but I have always assumed that public institutions such as FAU stand for truth, knowledge and justice as this nation’s highest values.  If that is not the case, then I would suggest that that really ought to be made known to prospective students and their parents.  Dr. Tracy is simply attempting to sort out the true from the false about an event that has now become of immense national interest, especially when a major movement is afoot to confiscate semi-automatic weapons from the general population, which is a stunning development contrary to our nation’s history.
Of course, it is difficult to assess a situation when you know very little about it.  There are lots of rumor and speculation, which has even affected the main-stream media.  I was astonished at the intensity with which Anderson Cooper of CNN, in particular, took after Dr. Tracy without knowing the circumstances of the case (apart from the “official account”) or why Dr. Tracy has the right kind of background and expertise to be addressing these issues in a public forum.  When I was attacked in The Duluth News-Tribune a few weeks ago, the paper offered me the chance to respond in its Sunday edition (13 January 2013):

Local view: Why the Sandy Hook shootings matter
By: Jim Fetzer, Duluth News Tribune
When asked whether he believed in conspiracy theories, filmmaker Michael Moore replied, “Only those that are true.” The problem is telling the difference.
Having spent much of the past 20 years in collaborative research on dark events (the JFK assassination, 9/11, Sen. Paul Wellstone’s death), Sandy Hook looks to me like part of an escalating series of covert operations designed to promote public hysteria to incite gun control and subvert the 2nd amendment. Here are some reasons why.
A theory is simply an interpretation of facts in a given case. When the police investigate a crime, they form a theory of the case. In courts of law, prosecutors and defense attorneys usually offer alternative interpretations. With Sandy Hook, figuring out what happened poses special challenges.
The facts are not obvious. There were inconsistencies from scratch. The suspect, Adam Lanza, was a student there; then he was not. His mother was a teacher there; then she was not. The principal called the local paper to report the shooting; then she was among the first to die.
The coroner reported all the dead were shot with a Bushmaster; then NBC News reported that four handguns had been found with the body and that the AR-15 had been left in the car. (Check out YouTube, “Sandy Hook shooting — AR-15 rifle was left in the car!”)
Even if Lanza, 20, had done some shooting, the ratio of kills to targets was remarkable. As a Marine Corps officer, I qualified with a .45 four years in a row and also supervised recruits of his age in their marksmanship training. I don’t see how he could have done it.
Police radio in real-time reported two suspects headed toward the officer calling in, one of whom was apprehended. The other was tracked into the woods, as police helicopter footage shows. We have no idea what became of these suspects. So what happened?
Most likely, Adam Lanza and his mother were killed the day before with Adam Lanza’s body picked up by police. He was attired in a SWAT outfit, including body armor, and stored in the school.
I argue a three-man team entered the school. One was arrested in the school, cuffed and put on the lawn. Two went out a back door; one of them was arrested and the other apparently escaped.
Those arrested currently are not in police custody; their names were never released. That is a telling sign that we are being sold a story based on fiction rather than on fact.
Does anything else matter? Most Americans are unaware the Department of Homeland Security has acquired 1.5 billion rounds of .40 caliber, hollow-point ammunition, which is not even permissible during combat under the Geneva Conventions.
A subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security has issued a study of 680 reports from “fusion centers” that integrate federal, state and local anti-terrorism efforts. It found no evidence of any domestic terrorist activity.
The absence of any terrorist threat and the existence of more than 300 FEMA camps and special boxcars to carry dissidents to them have been deliberately withheld from the public.
Since Homeland Security has no foreign commitments, those camps and ammunition have to be for domestic consumption. Homeland Security appears to be gearing up to conduct a civil war with the American people — but 80 million armed families stand in its way.
What better excuse could there be for banning assault weapons than the slaughter of 20 innocent children? Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., has a gun control proposal that would lead to the confiscation of virtually every semi-automatic weapon in the nation.
That’s my interpretation of Sandy Hook.
Jim Fetzer reports for Veterans Today and is a McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

I recommended that the paper include a list of recommended reading, which it chose not to do.  Here was the list I had proposed:
“From America to Amerika: The End Game” by Jim Fetzer with Dennis Cimino
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/11/from-america-to-amerika-the-end-game/
“Fusion and Fear in America:  The non-existent ‘terrorist threat’” by John W. Whitehead
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/04/fusion-and-fear-in-america-the-non-existent-terrorist-threat/
“Homeland Security: Preparing for Massive Civil War” by Paul Joseph Watson and Alexander Higgins
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/06/homeland-security-preparing-for-massive-civil-war/
On Sandy Hook specifically:
“The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information” by James Tracy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-sandy-hook-school-massacre-unanswered-questions-and-missing-information/5316776
“Sandy Hook: Huge Hoax and Anti-Gun ‘Psy Op’” by Jim Fetzer
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/27/sandy-hook-huge-hoax-and-anti-gun-psy-op/
“Sandy Hook:  Analogies with the London 7/7 bombings” by Nicholas Kollerstrom
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/01/06/sandy-hook-analogies-with-the-london-77-bombings/
Without studying the case, after all, how could anyone at FAU possibly know whether or not Dr. Tracy is acting responsibly?  After even more research I have conducted with Dennis Cimino, moreover, the situation is actually even worse–as a far more obvious hoax and fraud–than even I had previously surmised.  If you are going to read only one article about it, this is the one to read:
“The Nexus of Tyranny: The Strategy behind Tucon, Aurora, and Sandy Hook” by Dennis Cimino with Jim Fetzer
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/01/30/the-nexus-of-tyranny-the-strategy-behind-tucson-aurora-and-sandy-hook/
According to the Social Security Death Index, for example, Adam Lanza actually died the day before the shooting; according to ABC/NBC/CBS, only hand guns were found with his body; and my co-author, who is an expert in electronics, has discovered the CT Statewide Emergency Radio Network was manipulated before the event! That Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York encouraged the passage of draconian gun laws by the legislature over-night–admitting the public would not have stood for it–reflects how serious this has become.
As it happens, I have also done extensive research and publication on complex and controversial issues of comparable interest, including both the assassination of JFK and the atrocities of 9/11.  In those cases, as with Sandy Hook, what we have been told does not hold up to critical scrutiny.  How can academicians contribute to solving problems that the nation confronts if they are being intimidated and cowed by administrators who do not understand the role that the academy should fulfill within the broader context of scholars’ obligations and social responsibility?  Dr. Tracy deserves your support and admiration, not your condemnation.
With appreciation,
Jim
James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.
McKnight Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota Duluth
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer/

Help Select the Best Breasts in Japan: Miss Hooters Japan 2013, Vote Now!

•  by Rona Moon
•   http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/02/12/help-select-the-best-breasts-in-japan-miss-hooters-japan-2013-vote-now/

55 contestants… 110 funbags!
Surely the main attraction of world-famous restaurant Hooters is the waitresses and their gigantic…appreciation for quality customer service. Now you can help select the cream of the Japanese Hooters crop in the Miss Hooters Japan 2013 by voting for your favourite “pair” online. The first round of voting runs from February 1-14, and the lucky finalists will be announced on the website Feb 16.
The 55 ladies in competition are actually Hooters Girls who work in one of the two Hooters Japan restaurants in Tokyo.
You can check out the fifties-style pinup poses and profiles on the Hooters Japan website. The page is mainly in Japanese, but the all-important ‘vote’ button is in English, so you can easily help your preferred chesticles to victory. In theory, you only get one vote, as they take note of your IP address. 15 ladies will advance to the final selection on March 3.

You can also vote at the actual Hooters restaurants in Tokyo or Ginza by ordering your first drink from the selected Asahi range, so in theory, you can get one voting card per visit. They’ll probably notice if you order your first drink, leave the restaurant and return for another “first drink”.
Each profile has a torso shot and a full body shot of the girl, with her name, height, hobbies and ‘future ambition’. The most popular future ambitions are “career woman”, actress, wife and mother, but no.32 wants to become “the most dazzling granny ever” and no.20 dreams of “making all the dogs in the world happy”. Woof.

The finals on March 3 will be held at Hooters Ginza (100 presale tickets went on sale on 4 Feb). General admission tickets to the finals (which include the right to vote), are 5000 yen, and VIP tickets (limited to 10) are 10,000 yen. The champion will go on to share their bodacious tatas with the world as Japan’s representative in the Miss Hooters World Championship in the US. Honker, honker!
Source: Hooters Japan

Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold Because They Plan To Kill The Petrodollar?

By Michael, on February 12th, 2013 

Will oil soon be traded in a currency that is thousands of years old?  What would a "gold for oil" system mean for the petrodollar and the U.S. economy?  Are Russia and China hoarding massive amounts of gold because they plan to kill the petrodollar?  Since the 1970s, the U.S. dollar has been the currency that the international community has used to trade oil around the globe.  This has created an overwhelming demand for U.S. dollars and U.S. debt.  But what happens when the rest of the globe starts rejecting the increasingly unstable U.S. dollar and figures out that gold can be used as a currency in international trade?  The truth is that it doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure that out.  Demand for the U.S. dollar and U.S. debt would fall off the map and there would be a rush into gold unlike anything we have ever seen before.  So are Russia and China accumulating unprecedented amounts of gold right now because they eventually plan to cut the legs out from under the petrodollar and they want to gobble up huge stockpiles of gold before the cat is out of the bag?  Of course they will never admit this publicly, but there are rumblings out there that this is exactly what is happening.
Not that you can really blame any nation that wants to get into gold right now.  News outlets all over the globe are telling us that we are in the midst of a "currency war" as central banks all over the planet race to devalue their currencies.
So why would anyone want to be in paper in such an environment?
And of course the Federal Reserve is one of the biggest offenders.  The Fed has been printing money like it is going out of style, and nobody at the Fed or in the U.S. government really seems too concerned that all of this money printing could be endangering the petrodollar.
But the truth is that the Fed is endangering the petrodollar.  Just read some foreign news stories about the U.S. dollar.  They mock us for our reckless money printing.
In the end, our recklessness will make it very easy for the rest of the world to ditch the U.S. dollar.
At some point, it will happen.  In fact, there are persistent rumors that Russia and China actually intend to make it happen.
Many believe that this is the reason both nations have been hoarding so much gold recently.
Just check out how much gold Russia has been accumulating.  The following is from a recent Bloomberg article...

When Vladimir Putin says the U.S. is endangering the global economy by abusing its dollar monopoly, he’s not just talking. He’s betting on it.
Not only has Putin made Russia the world’s largest oil producer, he’s also made it the biggest gold buyer. His central bank has added 570 metric tons of the metal in the past decade, a quarter more than runner-up China, according to IMF data compiled by Bloomberg. The added gold is also almost triple the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
“The more gold a country has, the more sovereignty it will have if there’s a cataclysm with the dollar, the euro, the pound or any other reserve currency,” Evgeny Fedorov, a lawmaker for Putin’s United Russia party in the lower house of parliament, said in a telephone interview in Moscow.

And Russia's gold hoarding appears to have accelerated last year.  According to one recent report, Russia added 3.2 million ounces of gold to their reserves in 2012 alone.
But of even greater concern is China.  Nobody really knows how much gold China has, because they do not tell us, but all indications point to the fact that Chinese gold hoarding has gone into overdrive.  The following is from a Zero Hedge article from a few months ago...

Because while earlier today we were wondering (rhetorically, of course) what China is doing with all that excess trade surplus if it is not recycling it back into Treasurys, now we once again find out that instead of purchasing US paper, Beijing continues to buy non-US gold, in the form of 68 tons in imports from Hong Kong in the month of June. The year to date total (6 months)? 383 tons. In other words, in half a year China, whose official total tally is still a massively underrepresented 1054 tons, has imported more gold than the official gold reserves of Portugal, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and so on, and whose YTD imports alone make it the 14th largest holder of gold in the world. Realistically, by now China, which hasn't provided an honest gold reserve holdings update to the IMF in years, most certainly has more gold than the IMF, and its 2814 tons, itself. Of course, the moment the PBOC does announce its official updated gold stash, a gold price in the mid-$1000 range will be a long gone memory.

As I wrote about the other day, nobody produces more gold than China does, and nobody imports more gold than China does.
Everyone agrees that China seems to have an insatiable appetite for gold, but nobody can agree on exactly how much gold they actually have.  One recent estimate put China's gold reserves at more than 7,000 tons of gold, but it could even be much higher than that.  Nobody really knows.
So what are Russia and China up to?
Well, for a long time both nations have expressed displeasure with the fact that the U.S. dollar is the de facto currency of the world.  Leaders from both nations have suggested the possibility of adopting a new global reserve currency, but up to this point no real contenders have emerged to dethrone the U.S. dollar.
So for now, the U.S. dollar reigns supreme in international trade.  Sadly, even though most Americans greatly benefit from the petrodollar, most of them do not even know what it is.  For those that do not fully understand the petrodollar, the following is a good explanation of the petrodollar from a recent article by Christopher Doran...

In a nutshell, any country that wants to purchase oil from an oil producing country has to do so in U.S. dollars. This is a long standing agreement within all oil exporting nations, aka OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The UK for example, cannot simply buy oil from Saudi Arabia by exchanging British pounds. Instead, the UK must exchange its pounds for U.S. dollars. The major exception at present is, of course, Iran.
This means that every country in the world that imports oil—which is the vast majority of the world's nations—has to have immense quantities of dollars in reserve. These dollars of course are not hidden under the proverbial national mattress. They are invested. And because they are U.S. dollars, they are invested in U.S. Treasury bills and other interest bearing securities that can be easily converted to purchase dollar-priced commodities like oil. This is what has allowed the U.S. to run up trillions of dollars of debt: the rest of the world simply buys up that debt in the form of U.S. interest bearing securities.

And all of this has worked out very nicely for the United States.  It has created a massive demand for U.S. dollars and U.S. debt.
But what would happen if the rest of the world rejected the petrodollar system and adopted a "petrogold" system instead?
A recent article by Jim Willie discussed how a petrogold system might work...

The crux of the non-US$ trade vehicle devised as a USDollar alternative will be the Gold Trade Note. It will enable peer-to-peer payments to be completed from direct account transfers independent of currency, and most importantly, not done through the narrow pipes and channels controlled by the bankers with their omnipresent SWIFT code system among the world of banks. The Gold Trade Note will act much like a Letter of Credit, serve as a short-term bill, and maybe even push aside the near 0% short-term USTreasury Bills that litter the banking landscape. Any bond or bill earning almost no interest is veritable clutter. The zero bound USTreasurys open the door in a big way for replacement by a better vehicle. The new trade notes will involve posted gold as collateral, whose entire system for trade usage will bear a massive gold core that also will include silver and platinum, maybe other precious metals. The idea is to avoid the FOREX systems, to avoid the USDollar, and to avoid the banks as much as possible in a peer-to-peer system that can be executed between parties holding Blackberry devices or simple PC to complete the payments on transactions. If Gold is ignored by the corrupt bankers, then Gold will be the center of the new trade system and the solution in providing a globally accepted USDollar alternative.

And Russia and China would greatly benefit from a petrogold system.
Today, Russia is the number one oil exporter on the planet.
China is the number two consumer of oil in the world, and at this point they are actually importing more oil from Saudi Arabia than the United States is.
Does it make sense that they should remain locked into a system that forces them to use U.S. dollars for all of their oil transactions?
And now Russia even has the number one oil company in the world.  The following is from a recent article by Marin Katusa...

Exxon Mobil is no longer the world's number-one oil producer. As of yesterday, that title belongs to Putin Oil Corp – oh, whoops. I mean the title belongs to Rosneft, Russia's state-controlled oil company.
Rosneft is buying TNK-BP, which is a vertically integrated oil company co-owned by British oil firm BP and a group of Russian billionaires known as AAR. One of the top-ten privately owned oil producers in the world, in 2010 TNK-BP churned out 1.74 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from its assets in Russia and Ukraine and processed almost half that amount through its refineries.
With TNK-BP in its hands, Rosneft will be in charge of more than 4 million barrels of oil production a day. And who is in charge of Rosneft? None other than Vladimir Putin, Russia's resource-full president.

And Russian gas giant Gazprom supplies a huge percentage of the natural gas that Europe uses...

Gazprom, the Russian state gas company, already has Europe wrapped around its little finger. Russia supplies 34% of Europe's gas needs, and when the under-construction South Stream pipeline starts operating, that percentage will increase. As if those developments weren't enough, yesterday Gazprom offered the highest bid to obtain a stake in the massive Leviathan gas field off Israel's coast.
Gazprom in control of Europe's gas, Rosneft in control of its oil. A red hand stretching out from Russia to strangle the supremacy of the West and pave the way for a new world order– one with Russia at the helm.

Russia and China have a tremendous amount of leverage when it comes to energy.  What if they got together with a bunch of oil producing nations in the Middle East and decided to set up a system where oil is traded for gold?  Would not much of the rest of the world go along with such a system?
Of course if that happened the U.S. financial system would crash.  We would no longer be able to export our inflation to the rest of the globe and prices would rise dramatically.  Demand for U.S. government debt would go through the floor and interest rates on that debt and on everything else in our economy would skyrocket.  Economic activity would grind to a standstill and the financial markets would collapse.
And that would just be for starters.
Most Americans simply don't understand that Russia and China have the power to collapse the U.S. economy by going to a gold for oil system.  All they have to do is pull the trigger.
The other day I wrote an article entitled "Show This To Anyone That Believes That 'Things Are Getting Better' In America" which discussed all of the reasons why the U.S. economy is already collapsing.  But as bad as things are now, this is nothing compared to what things will be like when the petrodollar dies.
So pay keen attention to anything in the news about Russia or China suggesting that oil should be traded for gold.  When Russia and China pull the trigger, things will get messy very quickly.

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U.S. Govt: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers

• Ernesto
• February 12, 2013

The Unites States Government has submitted a brief to the Supreme Court asking it to uphold the $220,000 verdict in the RIAA vs. Thomas file-sharing case. According to the Obama administration damages of $9,250 per song is not an unconstitutional amount and is in fact needed to deter others from engaging on online piracy.
The extended legal action between the RIAA and Jammie Thomas has been dragging on for more than half a decade, and is currently with the Supreme Court.
The case is best known for being the first major file-sharing case in the US concerning the P2P activity of a regular user and the vast swings in damages awarded over multiple court hearings.
The court of appeal reinstated the original $222,000 award in September after which the case headed to the Supreme Court.
In the Supreme Court the defense team argued that the $9,250 statutory damages award per shared song (24 in total) is unconstitutional. According to Thomas’ lawyers the damages are out of proportion and not in line with any harm the RIAA labels have suffered.
The RIAA disagrees, and they are not alone.
The Obama administration has now chimed in, most likely because this is the first file-sharing case to make it to the Supreme Court. The outcome of the appeal will set a strong precedent for future cases, and in a brief filed on Monday the U.S. informed the Court its position.
In the brief the Government backs the RIAA and asks the Supreme Court to keep the current $220,000 verdict intact.
Among other things, the administration emphasizes that punishing damages are needed to deter others from engaging in online piracy.
“An award of statutory damages under the Copyright Act does not simply redress a private injury, but also serves to vindicate an important public interest,” the brief reads.
“That public interest cannot be realized if the inherent difficulty of proving actual damages leaves the copyright holder without an effective remedy for infringement or precludes an effective means of deterring further copyright violations,” it continues.
Although the Obama administration is not part of the case, it has the right to ask the Court to accept its opinion, just like any other third party. By doing so the Government wants to make sure that file-sharers aren’t able to walk away with a token fine of a few hundred dollars.
RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy previously told TorrentFreak that this deterrent function is one of the main reasons why the music labels started their file-sharing lawsuits.
“I remember sitting in a focus group of college students and the moderator kept asking the students what would it take them to stop downloading illegally: more than one said, ‘You have to sue me or my roommate. We need to see first hand that getting caught could lead to trouble’,” Lamy said.
The RIAA eventually targeted about 35,000 people in their litigation campaign, and the Thomas’ case is one of the last remaining.

Stupid Criminals: Posting Vacation & Shopping Pictures Of Yourself On Facebook While A Fugitive

from the stupid-is-as-stupid-does dept

There must be some heavy metals in the water wherever criminals grow up, because they do some really stupid things. Recall the young mastermind who allegedly committed a drunken hit and run and then posted about it on Facebook. Or the bank-robbing vixen who somehow thought making a YouTube video bragging about her crimes was a great idea. It's a strange kind of dichotomy for law enforcement agencies that at once catch these dummies using internet services and websites while also decrying Craigslist as some kind of enabler, rather than a holding pen for future convicts. The point is that criminals, by and large, are stupid, and if you give them just enough bandwidth-cord, they'll inevitably hang themselves with it.

Such is the case with the latest entrant into the "Hey, Come Arrest Me" sweepstakes, a purported gang member who robbed a man of thousands in jewelry on camera in the UK, jumped a flight to South America to return to his native Columbia (no extradition treaty with the UK), following a brief vacation in Brazil, and then returned to the UK to upload pictures of himself Christmas shopping.

Charles Rodriguez, 31, is a Colombian man who police believe is a member of the crime gang the Latin Kings. In October 2011, along with another man, he allegedly beat a jeweler who had been returning from a sales trip.

"Rodriguez's arrogance was astonishing. After committing an appalling attack on a jewellery trader, he fled the country to his native Colombia where he knew he could not be extradited," Detective Sergeant Roger Smethurst said in a statement. "However, his lack of remorse was evident by the fact he brazenly posted sightseeing pictures from Brazil - at a time when he was on the run - on his Facebook page."

Manchester police were following along the entire way, ostensibly "ooh-ing" and "aah-ing" at what I'm sure were the beautiful sights of Brazil. Perhaps they even placed wagers on what Rodriguez would buy his grandchildren. I don't know. What I do know is that they continued following him on his digital sight-seeing picture-show in the hopes that eventually Rodriguez would do something monumentally stupid.

Rodriguez, it would appear, is not the kind of man who disappoints.

In 2012 he reentered the U.K. with a false passport. He even posted photos of himself Christmas shopping and sightseeing around London. Rodriguez was stopped by London police for driving suspiciously. Though he faked his name, fingerprinting revealed his identity.
"Rodriguez must have thought he was above the law and untouchable because even when he finally returned to the UK, knowing he was still wanted, he still posted pictures of himself Christmas shopping in London on his Facebook page," Smethurst said.

He has since pled guilty to robbery and has been ordered to serve more than five years in prison. So raise your glasses of Newcastle Brown to Mr. Rodriguez. If the police have any sense of humor at all, they'll allow him to Facebook check-in to prison.

How PeerJ Is Changing Everything In Academic Publishing

from the moving-prestige-to-open-access dept

Has there ever been a business more ripe for disruption than academic publishing? For anyone who's not been following along, the business model of academic publishers, built on solving 18th century distribution problems, incarnates the Shirky Principle: that "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." Far from making research public, as the name "publisher" suggests, their business now works by accepting researchers' donations of manuscripts, refining them by other researchers' donations of editorial services and peer review, assuming copyright, and locking up the results -- work that they neither wrote, edited, reviewed or paid for -- behind paywalls. By artificially causing a scarcity problem, they're able to sell solutions to that problem: subscriptions.
But publishers are monopoly suppliers of the journals they publish, and, like so many monopolists, have been unable to resist gouging their customers. Between 1996 and 2010, journal subscription prices rose at four times the rate of inflation. The result is that each published paper now costs the academic world more than $5000. Prices are so extreme that even Harvard, the wealthiest university in the world, recently declared that it can't afford to keep paying all its subscriptions. Not only can the public which funded the work not access it: often, neither can the researchers who need it as a basis for new work. It's insane. Academic publishers have made themselves the enemies of science.
The solution to the ludicrous satus quo is open-access publishing. Researchers (or more realistically their funders or institutions) pay publishers an up-front fee for their services, and the resulting papers are then freely available to anyone in the world. Everyone outside of profiteering publishers agrees that this is a much better approach, but lots of researchers balk at the prices of article processing charges (APCs). For example, Elsevier, the biggest of the established academic publishers, asks authors for $3000. Newer open-access-only publishers, such as the non-profit Public Library of Science (PLOS) charge a less shocking $1350 for publication in their main journal, PLOS ONE, and offer a no-questions-asked waiver for authors without funding for this charge. But there is still a feeling that $1350 is a lot of money to charge for Internet publication, especially when peer-review is done by volunteers.
Against that backdrop, Pete Binfield, the managing editor of PLOS ONE, left what had become the world's largest journal to launch a new publishing startup with Jason Hoyt, late of social reference manager Mendeley. High on the list of their goals was to bring down the price of open-access publishing.
I think a lot of people would have been impressed had PeerJ managed to bring the APC down below the $1000 mark, or certainly had they managed to hit $500. Instead, they've gone for the jugular on pricing: as the web-site says, "If we can set a goal to sequence the human genome for $99, when why not $99 for scholarly publishing"?
PeerJ's pricing system is different from the approach other publishers have taken, focusing on membership. Your $99 buys you lifetime membership, which gives you the right to publish one paper a year with them at no further charge. (All co-authors on multi-authored papers need to be members.) Alternatively, $299 buys an all-you-can-eat membership: publish as many papers as you want, whenever you want, for life.
The audacity of this pricing model is rather a shock. I have to admit that I was skeptical that it could work -- that PeerJ could take enough money to survive on this model. What swayed me was learning that the seed capital had been put up by Tim O'Reilly, who probably knows and understands more about the commercial realities of publishing in the 21st century than anyone alive. Throw in Pete Binfield, whose experience in editing mega-journals is literally second to none, and you have a true dream-team.
But what impresses me most is that PeerJ's low APC is not what most excites its founders -- in fact, it doesn't even make the top four. In an interview published a few days ago, Binfield and Hoyt answered the question "what do you think makes PeerJ an attractive publishing target for scholars?" in an unexpected way:

First of all, we intend to make rapid first decisions, and publish articles as promptly and effectively as possible... Secondly, we will be integrating a pre-print server into our offering ... Thirdly, we believe that the act of submitting a paper should be as pain-free as possible ... Fourthly, we are encouraging reviewers to provide their names when reviewing, and we are encouraging authors to publicly reproduce their peer review history on the published paper ... Fifthly we are significantly cheaper than a 'typical' OA journal.

It's not enough for PeerJ to drop prices by an order of magnitude. They're also out to speed up the famously slow publication process, make in-review manuscripts visible, smooth authors' path through the whole process and, most crucially, open up the opaque and mysterious process of peer-review. The importance of this last goal can hardly be overstated. At most journals, the acceptance or rejection of articles is done behind closed doors by referees whose reviews are never seen except by a select few, whose identities are often hidden, and who are insulated from the consequences -- positive or negative -- of their contribution. That has to change, and it's great that PeerJ is taking it on.
PeerJ launched in June 2012 and opened for submissions in December. Today, the first batch of articles is published. I submitted a paper, co-written with Matt Wedel, on the day PeerJ opened, and I am pleased to say that it made it into the initial batch. We're delighted that our work is now available to the world; but also privileged to have had a preview of the PeerJ process.
Because if we thought that the low price meant corner-cutting, we were dead wrong. As others have noted, the submission process is a joy in comparison to hacking through the late-1990s-themed submission systems of most journals. Our paper was handled by an academic editor of the highest reputation, efficiently and fairly. It was reviewed swiftly by two referees, one of whom gave particularly detailed and helpful feedback. When we got the proof PDF we were taken aback by how good it looks compared with the printed-page facsimiles most journals produce. And when we sent the proof back with numerous changes, they got a second proof out to us within days. In fact, the whole process from submission through to publication has taken only ten weeks -- unheard of in academic publishing.
So where next for PeerJ, now that its up and running? It's perfectly obvious that it's a much better choice than traditional journals in every rational respect. But so much depends on that slipperiest of beasts, prestige. While young researchers are certain to flock to PeerJ, some more senior academics are likely to look down their nose at the new kid on the block, not quite trusting it and preferring to stick to the venues they've become used to.
If we're going to sort out the absurd mess that academic publishing has got itself into, much depends on the reputation of innovative open-access journals like PeerJ. PLOS ONE has won itself some standing, but it took several years to reach this point after a launch that was met with a lot of skepticism. Hopefully PLOS ONE's success will have opened up a trail for PeerJ to follow, and its intrinsic quality will be recognized more quickly. Certainly PeerJ has the necessary names behind it: not just Binfield and O'Reilly, but an academic advisory board with five Nobel laureates and a huge editorial board packed with respected researchers.
Harvard's memo about being unable to pay subscriptions included a list of nine things its staff, students and librarians could do to change the current publishing system. The second is key: "submit articles to open-access journals ... move prestige to open access". PeerJ, along with PLOS ONE and other new open-access initiatives such as eLIFE and The Open Library of Humanities offer top-quality options for publishing research. Now it's up to researchers to use them.

Impeach Obama: A National Imperative

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Impeach Obama: A National Imperative

By Stephen Lendman

Global Research, February 12, 2013

http://www.globalresearch.ca/impeach-obama-a-national-imperative/5322686

Do it now before it’s too late!
America’s Declaration of Independence states:

“(W)hen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, (it’s the right of the people, it’s) their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Straightaway as president, Obama violated his sacred trust. He betrayed his constituents. He’s a serial liar. He broke every major promise made. He serves illegitimately.
He institutionalized tyranny. He’s a war criminal multiple times over. He’s guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
He menaces humanity. He’s heading America for WW III. He wants America’s social contract destroyed. He wants millions impoverished, unemployed, left hungry and homeless. He’s beholden to powerful monied interests that own him.
He spurns fundamental civil and human rights. He mocks democratic values. He’s contemptuous of essential needs.
Law Professor Francis Boyle is unequivocal. He told Progressive Radio News Hour listeners he should be impeached. He urged House Republicans to do so.
He’s offering his services pro bono. On December 9, Boyle spoke at the Puerto Rican Summit Conference on Human Rights.
US militarism threatens WW III, he said. A century after earlier imperial aggressions, “neoconservative Republican Bush Junior administration and the neoliberal Democratic Obama administration are now threatening” global war.
He cited his teacher, mentor and friend, Professor Hans Morgenthau. Earlier he warned about “unlimited imperialism.” His seminal book “Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace” discussed it.
His cardinal tenet was darkly Hobbesian. He said international law and world organizations are “irrelevant” in conflicts of national interest between nations. Ignore “reality” and perish, he stressed.
Imperial priorities are disastrous. They destroy societies and human life. They make it “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
No law or justice exists, no sense of right or wrong, no morality. Imperial madness prioritizes war. Absolute power is sought no holds barred.
Boyle cited the US Army Field Manual (FM) 27-10 – The Law of Land Warfare. Paragraph 498 says any person, military or civilian, who commits a crime under international law is responsible for it and may be punished.
Paragraph 499 defines a war crime. Paragraph 500 refers to a conspiracy, attempts to commit it, and complicity with respect to international crimes.
Paragraph 501 says all high level civilian and military officials in any way involved in crimes against peace are personally responsible for war crimes.
Paragraph 509 denies the defense of superior orders in the commission of a crime. Paragraph 510 denies the defense of an “act of state” to absolve them.
Obama, other high administration officials, and their subordinates “are responsible for the commission of crimes against peace,” said Boyle.
The Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles, other international laws, and FM 27-10 define them.
In “international legal terms,” said Boyle, “the United States government” is guilty of “serial wars of aggression, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes that are legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany.”
US citizens are constitutionally empowered to resist, says Boyle. They’re entitled to challenge their own government. They should “prevent, impede, thwart, or terminate (its) ongoing criminal activities….”
“Today’s civil resisters are the sheriffs! The US government officials are the outlaws!”
They “disobeyed fundamental principles of international law as well as US criminal law, and thus committed international crimes and US domestic crimes as well as impeachable violations of the United States Constitution.”
“The American people must insist upon the impeachment, dismissal, resignation, indictment, conviction, and long-term incarceration of all US government officials guilty of such heinous international and domestic crimes.”
Fundamental rule of law principles apply to all US military and civilian personnel. They include top commanders, the Secretary of Defense, his subordinates, CIA and other intelligence officials, as well as the president and vice president of the United States.
No one is exempt. Rule of law principles are inviolable. Imperial aggression is lawless. So is extrajudicial killing, torture, and other high crimes.
No president should be allowed to get away with them, says Boyle. Lawbreaking demands accountability. Doing so invites intolerable consequences. Disaster awaits.
We the People must act. Institutionalized tyranny approaches. It’s a hair’s breath away. Freedom’s on the chopping block for elimination. Humanity may not survive Obama’s second term.
Articles of impeachment are essential. Growing calls say so. In August 2011, Veterans for Peace (VFP) urged it. Waging illegal direct and proxy wars were cited.
“Therefore Be It Resolved,” said VFP, “that Veterans For Peace call on the US House of Representatives to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against President Barack H. Obama for failure to uphold his sworn oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic, and for his commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity, obstruction of justice and the violation of numerous national and international laws, treaties and conventions.
Impeach Obama Campaign.com has a White House Watch page. It urges readers to support impeachment.
Another page headlines “NEW ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT.” It states:
“ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
RESOLVED, That Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following article of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate:
ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF ITS IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN USURPING THE EXCLUSIVE PREROGATIVE OF CONGRESS TO COMMENCE WAR UNDER ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8, CLAUSE 11 OF THE CONSTITUTION.”
Other detailed information followed. Obama violated his oath of office. It mandates he “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
He “mock(s) the rule of law.” He “unilaterally” commits aggression. He “endanger(s) the very existence of the Republic” and freedom. He’s guilty of “impeachable high crime(s) and misdemeanor(s).”
The UN Charter explains conditions under which waging war is justified.
Article 2(3) and Article 33(1) require peaceful settlement of international disputes. Article 2(4) prohibits force or its threatened use.
Article 51 allows the “right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member….until the Security Council has taken measures to maintain international peace and security.”
Justifiable self-defense is permissible. Articles 2(3), 2(4), and 33 prohibit unilaterally threatening use of force not:
specifically allowed under Article 51;
authorized by the Security Council; and
permitted by constitutional and US statute law provisions.
Three General Assembly resolutions prohibit non-consensual belligerence:
the 1965 Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the Protection of Their Independence and Sovereignty;
the 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations; and
the 1974 Definition of Aggression.
Nuremberg Tribunal’s Justice Robert Jackson called aggressive war “the supreme international crime against peace.” Guilty Nazi war criminals were hanged.
The Constitution’s Article 1, Section 8 lets Congress alone declare war. December 8, 1941 was the last time. Subsequent wars were illegal. Responsible officials were and are war criminals.
The 1973 War Powers Resolution (WPR) limits presidential warmaking powers. It requires consulting with Congress before authorizing troop deployments for extended periods.
Section 4(a)(1) requires presidents to inform Congress within 48 hours about deploying troops to areas of ongoing or imminent hostilities.
He must explain why they’re sent, constitutional or legislative authority for doing so, estimated duration of involvement, and whatever other information Congress requests.
Section 5(b) mandates withdrawal within 60 days plus an additional 30 exit period unless Congress extends the time frame for another 30 days, declares war, or unavoidable circumstances require more time. Unlimited amounts are prohibited.
One exception applies. As commander-in-chief, presidents may introduce US forces unilaterally into conflict areas in case of a national emergency if America, its territories, possessions, or military is attacked.
Under all circumstances, Congress must be kept fully informed. It has final say. Since passage, presidents exceeded their constitutional and WPR authority.
All US wars are illegal. Congress violates its own mandate. Accountability is null and void.
The Constitution’s Article 2, Section 4 states:
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
In 1793, George Washington said:
“The Constitution vests the power of declaring war with Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they have deliberated upon the subject, and authorized such a measure.”
In 1805, Thomas Jefferson said:
“Congress alone is constitutionally invested with the power of changing our condition from peace to war.” Warmaking is “exclusively (for Congress) to yield or deny.”
Thomas Paine said:
“In America, the law is king. For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no others.”
John Jay was America’s first Supreme Court chief justice. He said:
“(A)bsolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans.”
“These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people.”
Alexander Hamilton called impeachable offenses those “which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in other words, from the violation or abuse of some public trust. They are of a nature which with peculiar propriety may be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done to society itself.”
James Madison said:
“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.”
“War is the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. No nation (can) preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
“In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department.”
In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon. They charged actions “subversive of constitutional government.”
Obama exceeds the worst of all previous presidents. He’s guilty of multiple high crimes and misdemeanors. Holding him accountable is essential. Do it now before it’s too late. Humanity may not get a second chance.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
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The Growth of American Fascism: From LBJ to Obama

theintelhub.com
January 12, 2013
“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”- David Hume
In the aftermath of the highly suspicious Sandy Hook incident, Americans have experienced a predictable escalation of the elite’s ongoing efforts to destroy their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
A disarmed civilian population has long been a principle ambition of the globalist elites. As patriots are well aware, an armed population is the last line of defense against tyranny.
It is of vital importance to the globalists that Americans be shorn of their means of defending themselves against the dystopian visionaries of the New World Order.
The globalist vision is one that has been passed down over time through each succeeding generation of the elite.
As James Warburg of the Council on Foreign Relations stated to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17, 1950, “We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent.”
Of course, a disarmed populace is much easier to conquer and therefore does not need to give consent to the neo-feudal rule of the NWO overlords. The American police state has continued to expand in an exponential way since Warburg spoke those words.
The elected officials supposedly charged with the task of preserving the constitutional rights of Americans have become ever more acquiescent to tyranny as the decades have passed. For instance, during the same year that Warburg proclaimed these sinister intentions, President Harry Truman, himself sympathetic to globalist designs in many ways, nevertheless vetoed the 1950 McCarran Act which would have allowed the indefinite detention of citizens without trial.
His successor President Eisenhower, himself connected to the Rockefeller internationalists, nevertheless criticized the growing dominance of American foreign policy by the merchants of death through the military-industrial complex.
Of course, the last American president to challenge the globalist agenda in any serious way was John F. Kennedy, whose quixotic efforts to halt the monetary dominance of the Federal Reserve cost him his life.
Subsequent U.S. presidents have learned well from the example that was made of Kennedy. It is no coincidence that it was JFK’s successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who presided over the unprecedented assault on the Second Amendment rights of Americans that came with the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Previous attacks on the right to bear arms throughout American history had been far more limited in scope and typically targeted specific population groups. For instance, gun control laws enacted during the post-Civil War era were oriented primarily towards the goal of preventing the recently freed slaves from gaining access to firearms and disarming the African-American population generally.
Anti-gun laws enacted during the 1930s were largely a response to the growth of organized crime during that decade and the emergence of notorious outlaws in the style of Al Capone or the Barker-Karpis gang.
However, the Gun Control Act of 1968 was enacted into legislation following the conspicuous and uncannily timed assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and JFK’s younger brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, as both men began to criticize the war in Vietnam.
It was also a time of great civil unrest much of which was instigated by the sons and daughters of the ruling class on the campuses of elite universities. The Act itself was based on the weapons control law enacted by Nazi Germany in 1938.
Its principal sponsor was Senator Thomas Dodd, who is known to have possessed a copy of the original Nazi weapons law and which was probably acquired during his time as member of the prosecution team during the Nuremberg trials.
The police state expansion of the late 1960s and early 1970s also took the form of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program directed by J. Edgar Hoover and the beginnings of an ostensible “war on drugs” declared by LBJ’s successor Richard M. Nixon in 1970.
It was at this point that the federalization of local law enforcement really began to expand as state and local law enforcement agencies began to scramble to obtain federal money supposedly allocated for fighting the war on drugs.
President Nixon created a new federal police agency in the form of the Drug Enforcement Administration on July 1, 1973. Domestic law enforcement became increasingly militarized as the earliest S.W.A.T. teams began to appear.
The growth of the police state was hampered somewhat by the revelations of the Church Committee during the post-Watergate era but the process of radical expansion of the police state that had been set in motion during the Vietnam era was never reversed in any meaningful way.
By the early 1980s, the executive branch was headed by President Ronald Reagan, a supposed outsider who quickly succumbed to globalist lure as demonstrated by his willingness to accept the super-globalist George H.W. Bush as his running mate.
The Reagan regime dramatically intensified the growth of the police state under the auspices of escalating the fight against drugs even as his own CIA, and indeed high level White House operatives, themselves became increasingly involved in the international drug trade.
Reagan set in motion a process of mass incarceration of Americans that would eventually see the U.S. prison population quintuple over the next quarter century as private profiteering from the “prison-industrial complex” became an increasingly lucrative enterprise for the class of corporate overseers.

As George H. W. Bush himself assumed the presidency and openly proclaimed the era of the New World Order, the meaning of the NWO for ordinary Americans was made clear by the federal assault on the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
The spectacle of federal agents shooting a retreating adolescent boy in the back and gunning down a mother holding a baby in her arms left no doubt that the American police state had been fully consolidated. Mere months later, after Bush had been defeated by the globalist-groomed William J. Clinton, the federal police state struck again as seventy-six men, women, and children were hideously murdered by federal agents during the attack on the Branch Davidian church at Waco, Texas.
Clinton would subsequently use the impeccably timed bombings of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the federal building at Oklahoma City in 1995 as a pretense for enacting the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 which dramatically curtailed the habeus corpus rights of Americans that date back to the time of the Magna Carta.
After the son of one of America’s most elite globalist families assumed the presidency in 2001, the overlords of the police state received their greatest gift yet when the twin towers went down during the most dramatic and perhaps most suspicious incident in American history.
The legal and political apparatus for full-fledged martial law was established in the United States by means of the USA PATRIOT ACT and the provisions for secret trials by military commissions. The “star chamber” of old had finally been resurrected.
The ability of the authorities to engage in unprecedented levels of surveillance of the affairs of private citizens with legal impunity was firmly established. The plans of the elites for the future handling of American patriotic dissidents who would take a stand for their rights were fully revealed at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
The American police state had finally sunk to the level of the totalitarian regimes and Third World despotisms of the twentieth century in its willingness to engage in torture and other atrocities as political tools.
In 2008, Barack Obama, a man seemingly with very little in the way of a documented past or personal history, emerged as a presidential candidate who avowed to reverse the encroachments of the police state which had taken place under the previous regime.
But once holding the reins of power, President Obama not only failed to keep his supposed commitment to the restoration of liberty but actually moved to consolidate the police state measures enacted under his predecessor.
Obama not only sought to renew the PATRIOT Act and refused to close the extra-constitutional prison at Guantanamo, but claimed for himself the authority to unilaterally assassinate American citizens merely suspected of wrongdoing.
He likewise signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, which essentially removes from American federal law any pretense of due process or fidelity to the U.S. Constitution.
For all practical purposes, the United States of America is now an executive dictatorship accountable only to the globalist overlords who have puppet mastered each successive American president for generations and with increasingly astounding success.