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National security whistleblower interview: NSA spies on absolutely everything, will never stop, and will only expand
National security whistleblower interview: NSA spies on absolutely everything, will never stop, and will only expand Statement from Mark (to me via e-mail and published with his permission): Tragically, I am a National Security whistleblower. With all due respect to crab fishermen, clearly without question, the world’s most dangerous vocation. MANY years ago (years PRE-SNOWDEN), I spoke […]
Australia Cannibalizing its own Economy
Australia Cannibalizing its own Economy The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has applied to access to everything to hunt for money. They want access to phone calls, emails, posts, and SMS text messages. We have verified this with several sources. Like Rome, Australia is cannibalizing its own economy. They will succeed in destroying Western civilization and when […]
America’s Dying Democracy
America’s Dying Democracy Democracy, as a noble principle of self-governance, is fading away in big ways and small, with special interests seizing control of both media and politicians and with the people increasingly manipulated and misinformed. In this impassioned appeal, Bill Moyers calls it “the fight of our lives.” In the fall of 2001, in […]
Six Signs That 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015
Six Signs That 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015 A Turbulent Year In the course of 2015 we have witnessed several events that had, and will have, negative repercussions on individual freedom. Orwellian totalitarianism is increasingly creeping into our everyday lives. How much more intrusive will the violations of our liberties become and for […]
ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals
ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals The day before global leaders and diplomats passed a climate change deal in Paris at the United Nations climate summit, the U.S. House of Representatives — in a 256-158 vote — authorized the final text of a bill that has a provision preventing climate change to […]
Who Owns the Federal Reserve Bank and Why is It Shrouded in Myths and Mysteries?
Who Owns the Federal Reserve Bank and Why is It Shrouded in Myths and Mysteries? “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” — Henry Ford “Give me control of a Nation’s […]
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act Back in 2014, civil liberties and privacy advocates were up in arms when the government tried to quietly push through the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a law which would allow federal agencies – including the NSA – to share cybersecurity, […]
Report: Eagle Ford Shale Has Peaked, Lifting of Oil Export Ban Could Drain Field More Quickly
Report: Eagle Ford Shale Has Peaked, Lifting of Oil Export Ban Could Drain Field More Quickly A new report published by the Post Carbon Institute concludes that Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale basin, the most prolific shale oil basin in the U.S., has peaked and reached terminal decline status. The Post Carbon report dropped just as Congress is on the […]
More Corporate Cronyism and Shadiness Revealed in Newly Released Obamatrade Report
More Corporate Cronyism and Shadiness Revealed in Newly Released Obamatrade Report The good news is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently admitted that the TPP, aka Obamatrade, has very little chance of passing Congress before next year’s Presidential election. The bad news is the main reason for this is because the RINOs in charge don’t think […]
If You Want Security, Pursue Liberty
If You Want Security, Pursue Liberty Judging by his prime-time speech last week, the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency will be marked by increased militarism abroad and authoritarianism at home. The centerpiece of the president’s speech was his demand for a new law forbidding anyone on the federal government’s terrorist watch list from purchasing […]
Big Banks In a Tizzy Want to Take Their Billions and Go Home
Big Banks In a Tizzy Want to Take Their Billions and Go Home The big banks are not taking a rare legislative defeat lying down. Days after President Obama signed into law a highway package that finally ended an egregious, 100-year-old subsidy for big banks, two of Wall Street’s favorite legislators want to attach a last-minute rider to the […]
What Worries the World’s Most Famous Climate Scientist?
What Worries the World’s Most Famous Climate Scientist? James Hansen is fretting about the Paris talks, and for good reason. James Hansen detailed his fears in a recent communiqué posted on his website. Photo by chesapeakeclimate. Creative Commons licensed. James Hansen is fretting about the Paris climate talks, and for good reason. You might recall that […]
