Editorial

Webster Tarpley: Obama is more controlled by Wall St. than any previous president

Russia Today interviewed Webster Tarpley about Obama, the economic depression, and what we have to look forward to. (Spoiler: not much.)

Defense Department teaches that protests are terrorism

Anti-terrorism training materials used by the Department of Defense teach that public protests should be regarded as "low-level terrorism," according to a letter of complaint sent to the department by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, reports the Contra Costa Times.

Among the multiple-choice questions included in its Level 1 Anti-terrorism Awareness training course — an annual training requirement for all DOD personnel that is fulfilled through Web-based instruction — the department asks the following:

"Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorist activity?"

To answer correctly, the examinee must select "protests."

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US News & World Report says to "round up hate promoters now..."

In an article titled "Round Up Hate-Promoters Now, Before Any More Holocaust Museum Attacks," US News & World Report writer Bonnie Erbe urges us to "round up promoters of hate before they kill again."

Does this include the institutionalized hatred of Muslims that is killing innocent Iraqis, Afghanis and Pakistanis by the hundreds of thousands?  Does this include blaming Muslims for attacking the Pentagon and World Trade Center on 9/11 when they did nothing of the kind?

Of course not.  The only hatred that Erbe cares about is hatred of Jews, which killed a man at the Holocaust Museum.  I am very sorry about his death, and condolences to his family.  But being in the wrong place at the wrong time does not make security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns a "national hero," and is no reason to institute a fascist dictatorship with the power to round up anyone who has expressed a view that the powers that be consider hateful. 

Clearly most Americans have no problem with the enormous hate crime of waging illegal and immoral war against innocent Muslims.  But one dead security guard?  Better dismantle the republic, and fast.

Did a plane really hit the Pentagon? These researchers say no, and their evidence is compelling.

For those who can't make the free presentation in Arlington on July 11, Citizen Investigation Team's evidence can be viewed here.

The Big Collapse Could Be Very Near

Passing along without comment.  I don't know enough about finance to verify the truth of what Wenzel says, but he sure sounds convincing.  Convincingly terrifying. 

from Global Research, by Robert Wenzel:

The end of the current financial system, as we know it, may be imminent. If you would have asked me even two weeks ago if collapse was imminent, I would have said it was highly unlikely, now I am saying it is possible. Bernanke may be able to patch things up short-term, if he is lucky, but in the long term the U.S. financial structure is in serious trouble. There is just too much Treasury debt that needs to be raised. An international panic out of Treasury securities, even a slow controlled panic, means the Fed will be the major buyer. This will ultimately mean record inflation.

And keep this in mind, we have never seen a collapse of a currency like the dollar. Even the hyperinflation during Germany's Wiemar Period can not serve as an example. Since the dollar is the reserve currency of most of the world, a panic out of the dollar means more dollars will return to the U.S. shores than any country has ever experienced.

Other countries have had collapsed currencies, but never in the history of world of finance has so much currency been held outside a country of issue that could come flying back, almost on a moments notice. If the panic out of the dollar starts, even if Bernanke stops printing money (unlikely), all the dollars flying back into the U.S. could cause a huge price inflation all on its own.

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