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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Obama's secret letter to Iran revealed!
US President Barack Obama has been sending secret letters to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei. But the full text of these letters has never before been revealed.
But now, in his latest stunning revelation, Edward Snowden has hacked into White House computers and acquired a copy of Obama's most recent letter to Tehran. In exchange for a fistful of US toilet paper dollars, which nobody in Moscow seems to realize are not worth the paper they're printed on, Snowden agreed to provide TruthJihad.com with exclusive access to the letter. In the interest of world peace, intercultural understanding, cute kitties, and other warm fuzzy things, we are reprinting the full text below.
-Dr. Kevin Barrett, Editor, TruthJihad.com
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei
Residence of the Supreme Leader
Tehran, Iran
Dear Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei,
Seasons greetings from your ol' pal Barry. May I call you Ali? Love that moniker! As a kid I had a crush on Ali McGraw. Did you ever see her in Love Story or Goodbye Columbus? Yes, I know she's Jewish, but hey, we're not anti-Semites, are we? Just because you Iranians are always pointing out that Hollywood is completely dominated by Jewish Zionists doesn't mean we can't admit that some of those Jewish girls are, quite frankly, hotter than an Auschwitz oven. Speaking of which, you do realize there were ovens in Auschwitz, don't you? I understand you guys had a conference a few years ago…but we'd better not go there, since if I say the wrong thing Angela will have me arrested next time I'm in Berlin.
Ahem…anyway, I'm writing to congratulate you on that new suicide drone. Seems like ages since I've been trying to tell my Republican friends that deep down inside, you Iranians want to be just like us. Well, here's proof. We kill people with drones, now you're following in our footsteps. Next thing you know you'll have a McDonalds and Wal-Mart on every corner and you'll all be working at minimum wage service jobs…maybe even taking up American-style democracy, with elections on sale to the highest bidder. Could I interest you in some black box electronic voting machines?
And speaking of your new suicide drone, I was wondering if you could do me a little favor and take out Bibi Netanyahu? You and I both know he's maybe the world's most dangerous terrorist. (I would show you the top secret Veterans Today document proving Bibi personally smuggled a WTC-demolition nuke into New York inside his diplomatic-immunity-protected briefcase, but then we'd have to kill you.)
You're probably wondering why I don't just take him out myself. Believe me, I'd love to. But if I did that, Abe Foxman would have a hissy fit…maybe even a heart attack. And what would we do with ourselves if we didn't have Abe to kick around any more?
Gotta go! Michael, I mean Michelle, needs me to adjust her shoulder pads. Please do let me know if that oil price collapse Kerry engineered with the Saudis is a problem - I'd be happy to send Soros over there to help you jack up your currency, all you have to do is swear on a Qur'an that you'll promote LGBT rights and beam pornography at your citizens 24/7/365 and let Rothschild have your central bank. Oh yes, and do a couple of little "structural adjustments," like I'm off to do with Michelle right now.
Ta ta my man!
Your pal,
Barry
Russia warns West of Nuclear World War 3 over Iran tensions! (12/4/2011)
RUSSIAN QUENELLE TO OBAMA
JEWISH MYEDVYEDYEV IS VERY SERIOUS!
USAMERICAN DEMOCRACY
ALOHA OBAMA AND BIBI !
The Only Way to Stop the Empire
Muhammad Tajdeed
Wednesday 31st of March 2014 at 3:53 PM
The Only Way to Stop the Empire
By Gary Flomenhoft
By Gary Flomenhoft
December 02, 2014 "ICH" - "ClubOrlov" –
The
final days of US empire are fast approaching. Perhaps its end will pass
slowly and gradually, or perhaps the event will unfold rapidly and
catastrophically. Maybe chaos will break loose, or maybe its demise will
be organized well and proceed smoothly. This nobody knows, but the end
of empire is coming as surely as day follows night and sun follows rain.
Overexpansion, overreach and over-indebtedness will take their toll—as
all past empires have discovered. Empires are like bacteria in a Petrie
dish; unthinking, unseeing, unfeeling, they expand until they run out of
food or contaminate their environment with their waste, and then they
die. They are automatons, and they just can’t help it: they are
programmed to expand or die, expand or die, and, in the end, expand and
die.
What does the empire feed on? It feeds on money and fear; your money and your fear, both obtained with your cooperation. It is bigger now than when it faced an actual adversary in the Soviet Union. Russia is no adversary; all it wants is to be a normal country, at peace with the world. But the empire won’t let it, will it? It must create enemies. Who are our enemies? According to the authors of endless war they are North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Islamic terrorists. Are any of them actually capable of threatening the US? Well, yes, but they are all quite easy to deter. But the plan of the authors of endless war is not to deter them; it is to back them into a corner with political instability and sanctions, while whipping up the population on both sides into fear-filled frenzy.
We all know that the US military-industrial complex has become a self-perpetuating and uncontrollable organism, just like Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us in 1961. Everyone knows the phrase and Eisenhower's warning—it is part of our collective memory. At a trillion dollars a year and growing, with over 1000 bases ringing the planet, it has expanded far beyond what Eisenhower could have imagined in his worst nightmare. We can’t say we didn’t know: he warned us. After the National-Socialist episode in Germany, many good Germans voiced regrets at not speaking up, claiming that they didn’t know what was being done in their name. But we do not have that excuse: we all knew all along.
Nor was it the first time we were warned. General Smedley Butler told us before, in 1933, and his words are still with us, posted online. Why is it that everyone, generals included, suddenly gain wisdom immediately upon reaching retirement? Butler offered an explanation: his “mind was in suspended animation while serving as a soldier and following orders.” In 1933 Butler told us that he “was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” He said:
What does the empire feed on? It feeds on money and fear; your money and your fear, both obtained with your cooperation. It is bigger now than when it faced an actual adversary in the Soviet Union. Russia is no adversary; all it wants is to be a normal country, at peace with the world. But the empire won’t let it, will it? It must create enemies. Who are our enemies? According to the authors of endless war they are North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Islamic terrorists. Are any of them actually capable of threatening the US? Well, yes, but they are all quite easy to deter. But the plan of the authors of endless war is not to deter them; it is to back them into a corner with political instability and sanctions, while whipping up the population on both sides into fear-filled frenzy.
We all know that the US military-industrial complex has become a self-perpetuating and uncontrollable organism, just like Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us in 1961. Everyone knows the phrase and Eisenhower's warning—it is part of our collective memory. At a trillion dollars a year and growing, with over 1000 bases ringing the planet, it has expanded far beyond what Eisenhower could have imagined in his worst nightmare. We can’t say we didn’t know: he warned us. After the National-Socialist episode in Germany, many good Germans voiced regrets at not speaking up, claiming that they didn’t know what was being done in their name. But we do not have that excuse: we all knew all along.
Nor was it the first time we were warned. General Smedley Butler told us before, in 1933, and his words are still with us, posted online. Why is it that everyone, generals included, suddenly gain wisdom immediately upon reaching retirement? Butler offered an explanation: his “mind was in suspended animation while serving as a soldier and following orders.” In 1933 Butler told us that he “was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” He said:
“I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912…I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.”
This
empire is nothing new, and we knew what it is and what it does all
along. We can’t say we didn’t know. We have watched throughout our lives
as the US put down every popular uprising against local autocrats and
oligarchs, placed countries under US control, then helped organize and
train the death squads that killed off the opposition. Think of
Indonesia, Argentina, or Honduras. We watched as the empire crushed
every democratic government that threatened US business interests under
the false pretext of “anti-communism,” starting with Iran in 1953,
Guatemala in 1954, and proceeding to Congo, Haiti (numerous times), and
most notably and infamously Chile in 1973 (assassinating president
Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973), Nicaragua in the 1980’s, and
many, many others. (For details see William Blum’s Killing Hope.)
And of course, many of us lived through the epic lies and genocide of
millions in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia during the so-called “Vietnam
War.” We knew, we watched, and we paid taxes that paid for the bullets
and the bombs.
More recently we’ve seen the barefaced lies of empire laid out for all to see in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Georgia, Pakistan, Yemen, Ukraine... they never end! But the trouble we stir up in other places never seems to come home and ring our doorbell, does it? Maybe that’s why it keeps on going. We think that we can just ignore it and go on with our lives—that it won’t affect us. Or does it?
Let’s leave aside the destruction of democracy that always accompanies a militarized, fascist police state that the US has gradually turned into. And let’s ignore the violence that pervades US society, or the vast gulag of incarceration that disposes of our useless eaters. Consider that the only military attack on US soil that actually scored a palpable hit since Pearl Harbor was 9/11. Pearl Harbor was on the periphery, way out in the Pacific, “A Day that will live in Infamy,” the more so since FDR knew it was coming and did all he could to provoke it by cutting Japan off from oil supplies, directly provoking it into launching the attack. But Hawaii is the periphery while 9/11 struck at the heart of the empire, the financial center in New York that drives the imperial wealth pump, and the Pentagon, which is charged with the mission of US world domination.
Whether you believe that 19 Arabs armed with box cutters who couldn’t fly propeller planes took down 3 World Trade buildings that plummeted straight down at the speed of freefall in what looked like controlled demolition (yes there were 3, look up “Building 7”), and destroyed a section of the Pentagon, or whether you believe it was an inside job, doesn’t matter. The point is, in that act of destruction, the wars of the empire finally came home.
What was the result? Did these events cause us to reconsider what we are doing? Of course not! Instead, we went all-in for war. Remember, the empire is an automaton, a self-perpetuating organism, living on money and fear. What better way to whip up fear than to stage, or to allow, or to simply fail to prevent, an attack on the “homeland”—which is, by the way, a Nazi propaganda term. The purpose of war is simply to cause more war, since it is so profitable for the badly misnamed “defense industry.” Butler told us in 1933 that “war is a racket,” and documented massive war profiteering during WWI. Do you know how much money Lockheed, Northrop-Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon et al. are making from the “War on Terror”? The sums are astronomical.
As you read these words, the empire is busy doing its work in Ukraine. Here is how that works. First, it overthrows the elected government in a US-backed coup. Next, it directs its local puppet regime to unleash a military attack and organize death squads to deal with the population in the east that won't go along with the US-backed coup, in this case using actual Nazi-branded death squads, complete with Nazi SS Insignias. (Anyone can verify these facts with the most cursory internet search.) And for the final, consummate imperialist touch, it votes in the UN (together with Canada) against a resolution condemning the Ukrainian Nazis and other racist murderers, while the Europeans shamefacedly abstain. This sort of plan used to work really well, and so the empire keeps repeating it over and over again, even though the results are worse every time.
Vast numbers of Americans support the empire’s wars of conquest because they help maintain their lavish lifestyles. They bother some of us more than others. Many of us are adamantly against them, but only a few find it emotionally unbearable to countenance the destruction of millions of lives in our names and with our money. What makes them different? Who knows, you would have to ask a psychologist.
The question for those who oppose endless war is, What have we done about it? A mass movement in the 1960’s that added up to an uprising by a vast segment of society perhaps had something to do with ending the conflict in Vietnam. In spite of these protests, the empire was able to extend the war by an extra five years all the way to 1973, when it agreed to end it on the same terms that had been offered in 1968 to Nobel “peace laureate” Henry Kissinger. There has been no significant anti-war protest since then, and certainly none that succeeded in preventing or ending war. Why?
First, the draft was ended. This put an end to the involvement of average US families in the wars of empire, and therefore ending the requirement for consent of the governed. The strategists realized that the draft was a disaster for the empire. The new, much better and cheaper way to procure cannon fodder for the endless war is to enlist the children of the underclass, by using economic oppression in order to deprive them of any other means of advancement except military service.
Second, the military has been outsourced and privatized, requiring even less involvement by US families in the military, and less need for their consent. “You’re all volunteers, so shut up” is the attitude.
Third, the vastly increased scope of domestic spying by the NSA and other government agencies has helped keep everyone under control and stifle dissent.
Fourth is the tight government/corporate control of the US media, which has become consummately successful in brainwashing and propagandizing the population.
Finally, there is the war on whistleblowers and journalists who expose the truth, from Tom Drake to William Binney, Sibel Simons, Jesselyn Radack, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. If necessary, the police, who are vastly more militarized than in the past, together with national guard troops, can squash any dissent like a bug. All these measures ensure that efforts at reform pursued through legal, nonviolent means such as voting, protest, civil disobedience, civil resistance, etc. will have absolutely no effect. The only action that can possibly stop the empire in its tracks is cutting off its food supply—the tax money on which it lives. We have to starve the beast through divestment, capital expatriation, tax resistance, tax refusal and tax revolt. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig told us this flat out in the 1980’s when, being confronted with huge protests over US Central American policy, he said: “Let them protest all they want as long as they pay their taxes.” Truer words were never uttered by a US official. Is there any evidence to contradict his statement? Has any other measure had any impact on the war machine? The honest answer is no. Millions of people around the world protested before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. These protests were ignored. No amount of protest or other efforts can stop it, because it doesn’t cut off the empire’s food supply of money and fear. Only by cutting off its funds by not paying taxes can we stop the empire.
Many have said that the US doesn’t need tax money as it survives on endless debt. Yes, the empire lives on debt, but the ability to sell debt is based on the bond rating of US treasury bonds. Most recently in June, 2014 S&P gave the US a AA+ rating with “stable outlook.”
If there is any doubt about the US credit rating, the ability to sell debt to continue financing the empire comes into question. The ability to collect taxes is what maintains the US bond rating. Any reduction of the US bond rating, and interest rates have to go up in order to continue attracting more investment. Then the interest on the debt balloons out of control and becomes unrepayable—never mind the principal, which they have no intention of ever paying back. By the way, the Tea Party’s efforts to shut down government by refusing to raise the debt ceiling was helping this effort for a time, although for different reasons. They thought that the welfare system is bankrupting the country. This is a laughable claim, because welfare spending looks negligible when compared to military spending. Still, they did manage to lower the bond rating for a time. Shutting down the federal government is a step in the right direction, and since in recent years only the Tea Party has managed to do it, lets give them some credit
If the US became unable to reliably collect taxes, then its ability to finance the empire with debt would be diminished, and the US would have to turn to increasing taxes—another politically unpalatable choice, especially in the age of the Tea Party, when the empire’s main constituency is dead-set against more taxes. So it is absolutely clear that the only thing that could stop the empire is a tax revolt. It wouldn’t even have to be that big; the slightest question about the ability of the federal government to collect taxes could reduce the bond rating. Even a minor reduction could raise interest rates enough to make the US debt unrepayable.
Let's get down to brass tacks: How do you avoid paying taxes, when the IRS withholds our salaries, and the tables are rigged to withhold about 15% more than necessary on average, so 80% of people get a refund? Did you think that this is a coincidence? No, this is a one-year interest-free loan to the empire from taxpayers. But it’s actually quite simple not to pay taxes. Get a W-4 form, write EXEMPT in the space provided, and turn it in to your friendly HR office. Your employer is not allowed to change it unless directed by the IRS. Normally they have no reason to question it.
Here’s what happened last time it was tried on a big scale. In 2007, Code Pink joined the War Resisters League to organize a national project for war tax refusal, to “Stop Bush’s Wars.” This was not a true tax revolt, just more or less a referendum on how many people would potentially support withholding a portion of their taxes owed, even a token amount. The online petition asked people if they would be willing to commit to withhold some of their taxes, even $1, if 100,000 other people would agree to do the same. Out of the US population of 316 million, how many people do you think signed it? About 2,000. So you see, there is not much evidence that people will do the only thing that could stop the empire: a true Tea Party tax revolt.
What this implies is that the empire will continue to churn along, and debt will continue to build up, because any other approach to paying for it is not feasible, and therefore collapse is inevitable. The aftermath of collapse is unpredictable; maybe there will be a soft landing, maybe not. But unless you are willing to engage in some form of tax revolt, collapse is inevitable. You will get to live with the results: stage a tax revolt now, or face collapse later.
Are you sure you want to take your chances on collapse? The results of a personal tax revolt are predictable: retribution with penalties and interest from the IRS; living in fear of having your salary, your property, even your house seized, or worse, your door broken down by federal agents (although these extreme measures don’t happen too often, they happen often enough to instill fear). Perhaps there would be loss of income, or even your job. Losing one’s job often leads to depression, divorce, drug or alcohol abuse, etc. So you may prefer collapse after all: loss of your savings, no heat, electricity or trash removal, shops looted or closed, armed gangs roaming the streets... Your choice!
On the other hand, collapse might go well! Hope springs eternal in the optimistic American heart. We are (or used to be) the “can-do” people. Maybe we can-do collapse better than anyone else? Doubtful though if you read Dmitry Orlov’s Collapse Gap presentation.
The results of collapse later are likely to be worse then the effects of tax revolt now. Especially, since the IRS takes years to catch up to exempt W-4 forms, and it would be even harder to crack down if it were being was done en masse. But it’s perfectly understandable if you opt to do nothing now and suffer no consequences, while engaging in ineffective protest to assuage your conscience. You probably have a family to support, an expensive hobby, or some other excuse. So you decide to take your chances with collapse later. After all, collapse might turn out OK for you! This psychology is quite understandable. I truly hope that collapse will be as painless as you wish it will be, but somehow I doubt it. Good luck though! Whatever happens, you will have to live with your decision for the rest of your life—be it long or short.
More recently we’ve seen the barefaced lies of empire laid out for all to see in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Georgia, Pakistan, Yemen, Ukraine... they never end! But the trouble we stir up in other places never seems to come home and ring our doorbell, does it? Maybe that’s why it keeps on going. We think that we can just ignore it and go on with our lives—that it won’t affect us. Or does it?
Let’s leave aside the destruction of democracy that always accompanies a militarized, fascist police state that the US has gradually turned into. And let’s ignore the violence that pervades US society, or the vast gulag of incarceration that disposes of our useless eaters. Consider that the only military attack on US soil that actually scored a palpable hit since Pearl Harbor was 9/11. Pearl Harbor was on the periphery, way out in the Pacific, “A Day that will live in Infamy,” the more so since FDR knew it was coming and did all he could to provoke it by cutting Japan off from oil supplies, directly provoking it into launching the attack. But Hawaii is the periphery while 9/11 struck at the heart of the empire, the financial center in New York that drives the imperial wealth pump, and the Pentagon, which is charged with the mission of US world domination.
Whether you believe that 19 Arabs armed with box cutters who couldn’t fly propeller planes took down 3 World Trade buildings that plummeted straight down at the speed of freefall in what looked like controlled demolition (yes there were 3, look up “Building 7”), and destroyed a section of the Pentagon, or whether you believe it was an inside job, doesn’t matter. The point is, in that act of destruction, the wars of the empire finally came home.
What was the result? Did these events cause us to reconsider what we are doing? Of course not! Instead, we went all-in for war. Remember, the empire is an automaton, a self-perpetuating organism, living on money and fear. What better way to whip up fear than to stage, or to allow, or to simply fail to prevent, an attack on the “homeland”—which is, by the way, a Nazi propaganda term. The purpose of war is simply to cause more war, since it is so profitable for the badly misnamed “defense industry.” Butler told us in 1933 that “war is a racket,” and documented massive war profiteering during WWI. Do you know how much money Lockheed, Northrop-Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon et al. are making from the “War on Terror”? The sums are astronomical.
As you read these words, the empire is busy doing its work in Ukraine. Here is how that works. First, it overthrows the elected government in a US-backed coup. Next, it directs its local puppet regime to unleash a military attack and organize death squads to deal with the population in the east that won't go along with the US-backed coup, in this case using actual Nazi-branded death squads, complete with Nazi SS Insignias. (Anyone can verify these facts with the most cursory internet search.) And for the final, consummate imperialist touch, it votes in the UN (together with Canada) against a resolution condemning the Ukrainian Nazis and other racist murderers, while the Europeans shamefacedly abstain. This sort of plan used to work really well, and so the empire keeps repeating it over and over again, even though the results are worse every time.
Vast numbers of Americans support the empire’s wars of conquest because they help maintain their lavish lifestyles. They bother some of us more than others. Many of us are adamantly against them, but only a few find it emotionally unbearable to countenance the destruction of millions of lives in our names and with our money. What makes them different? Who knows, you would have to ask a psychologist.
The question for those who oppose endless war is, What have we done about it? A mass movement in the 1960’s that added up to an uprising by a vast segment of society perhaps had something to do with ending the conflict in Vietnam. In spite of these protests, the empire was able to extend the war by an extra five years all the way to 1973, when it agreed to end it on the same terms that had been offered in 1968 to Nobel “peace laureate” Henry Kissinger. There has been no significant anti-war protest since then, and certainly none that succeeded in preventing or ending war. Why?
First, the draft was ended. This put an end to the involvement of average US families in the wars of empire, and therefore ending the requirement for consent of the governed. The strategists realized that the draft was a disaster for the empire. The new, much better and cheaper way to procure cannon fodder for the endless war is to enlist the children of the underclass, by using economic oppression in order to deprive them of any other means of advancement except military service.
Second, the military has been outsourced and privatized, requiring even less involvement by US families in the military, and less need for their consent. “You’re all volunteers, so shut up” is the attitude.
Third, the vastly increased scope of domestic spying by the NSA and other government agencies has helped keep everyone under control and stifle dissent.
Fourth is the tight government/corporate control of the US media, which has become consummately successful in brainwashing and propagandizing the population.
Finally, there is the war on whistleblowers and journalists who expose the truth, from Tom Drake to William Binney, Sibel Simons, Jesselyn Radack, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. If necessary, the police, who are vastly more militarized than in the past, together with national guard troops, can squash any dissent like a bug. All these measures ensure that efforts at reform pursued through legal, nonviolent means such as voting, protest, civil disobedience, civil resistance, etc. will have absolutely no effect. The only action that can possibly stop the empire in its tracks is cutting off its food supply—the tax money on which it lives. We have to starve the beast through divestment, capital expatriation, tax resistance, tax refusal and tax revolt. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig told us this flat out in the 1980’s when, being confronted with huge protests over US Central American policy, he said: “Let them protest all they want as long as they pay their taxes.” Truer words were never uttered by a US official. Is there any evidence to contradict his statement? Has any other measure had any impact on the war machine? The honest answer is no. Millions of people around the world protested before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. These protests were ignored. No amount of protest or other efforts can stop it, because it doesn’t cut off the empire’s food supply of money and fear. Only by cutting off its funds by not paying taxes can we stop the empire.
Many have said that the US doesn’t need tax money as it survives on endless debt. Yes, the empire lives on debt, but the ability to sell debt is based on the bond rating of US treasury bonds. Most recently in June, 2014 S&P gave the US a AA+ rating with “stable outlook.”
If there is any doubt about the US credit rating, the ability to sell debt to continue financing the empire comes into question. The ability to collect taxes is what maintains the US bond rating. Any reduction of the US bond rating, and interest rates have to go up in order to continue attracting more investment. Then the interest on the debt balloons out of control and becomes unrepayable—never mind the principal, which they have no intention of ever paying back. By the way, the Tea Party’s efforts to shut down government by refusing to raise the debt ceiling was helping this effort for a time, although for different reasons. They thought that the welfare system is bankrupting the country. This is a laughable claim, because welfare spending looks negligible when compared to military spending. Still, they did manage to lower the bond rating for a time. Shutting down the federal government is a step in the right direction, and since in recent years only the Tea Party has managed to do it, lets give them some credit
If the US became unable to reliably collect taxes, then its ability to finance the empire with debt would be diminished, and the US would have to turn to increasing taxes—another politically unpalatable choice, especially in the age of the Tea Party, when the empire’s main constituency is dead-set against more taxes. So it is absolutely clear that the only thing that could stop the empire is a tax revolt. It wouldn’t even have to be that big; the slightest question about the ability of the federal government to collect taxes could reduce the bond rating. Even a minor reduction could raise interest rates enough to make the US debt unrepayable.
Let's get down to brass tacks: How do you avoid paying taxes, when the IRS withholds our salaries, and the tables are rigged to withhold about 15% more than necessary on average, so 80% of people get a refund? Did you think that this is a coincidence? No, this is a one-year interest-free loan to the empire from taxpayers. But it’s actually quite simple not to pay taxes. Get a W-4 form, write EXEMPT in the space provided, and turn it in to your friendly HR office. Your employer is not allowed to change it unless directed by the IRS. Normally they have no reason to question it.
Here’s what happened last time it was tried on a big scale. In 2007, Code Pink joined the War Resisters League to organize a national project for war tax refusal, to “Stop Bush’s Wars.” This was not a true tax revolt, just more or less a referendum on how many people would potentially support withholding a portion of their taxes owed, even a token amount. The online petition asked people if they would be willing to commit to withhold some of their taxes, even $1, if 100,000 other people would agree to do the same. Out of the US population of 316 million, how many people do you think signed it? About 2,000. So you see, there is not much evidence that people will do the only thing that could stop the empire: a true Tea Party tax revolt.
What this implies is that the empire will continue to churn along, and debt will continue to build up, because any other approach to paying for it is not feasible, and therefore collapse is inevitable. The aftermath of collapse is unpredictable; maybe there will be a soft landing, maybe not. But unless you are willing to engage in some form of tax revolt, collapse is inevitable. You will get to live with the results: stage a tax revolt now, or face collapse later.
Are you sure you want to take your chances on collapse? The results of a personal tax revolt are predictable: retribution with penalties and interest from the IRS; living in fear of having your salary, your property, even your house seized, or worse, your door broken down by federal agents (although these extreme measures don’t happen too often, they happen often enough to instill fear). Perhaps there would be loss of income, or even your job. Losing one’s job often leads to depression, divorce, drug or alcohol abuse, etc. So you may prefer collapse after all: loss of your savings, no heat, electricity or trash removal, shops looted or closed, armed gangs roaming the streets... Your choice!
On the other hand, collapse might go well! Hope springs eternal in the optimistic American heart. We are (or used to be) the “can-do” people. Maybe we can-do collapse better than anyone else? Doubtful though if you read Dmitry Orlov’s Collapse Gap presentation.
The results of collapse later are likely to be worse then the effects of tax revolt now. Especially, since the IRS takes years to catch up to exempt W-4 forms, and it would be even harder to crack down if it were being was done en masse. But it’s perfectly understandable if you opt to do nothing now and suffer no consequences, while engaging in ineffective protest to assuage your conscience. You probably have a family to support, an expensive hobby, or some other excuse. So you decide to take your chances with collapse later. After all, collapse might turn out OK for you! This psychology is quite understandable. I truly hope that collapse will be as painless as you wish it will be, but somehow I doubt it. Good luck though! Whatever happens, you will have to live with your decision for the rest of your life—be it long or short.
Signed, expat and long-time conscientious tax refuser, Gary Flomenhoft.
[Check out the “Islamic Churchill” quotes in easy-to-read format at the TruthJihad blog]
Below are the Muslim Churchill’s greatest quotes as he wrote them. MI-6 alterations are indicated by strikeover and boldface.
This just in from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
“JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said in Jerusalem that the Senate will vote on an Iran sanctions bill next month…Graham told Netanyahu that ‘the Congress will follow your lead’ and will want to have a say about any final deal.”
Islamic Churchill: His Greatest Quotes
"British Bulldog" rallies the Muslims
by Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor
[Check out the “Islamic Churchill” quotes in easy-to-read format at the TruthJihad blog]
We learned this week that Winston Churchill considered converting to Islam. But what if he really did convert – and it was hushed up? A deep cover source at MI-6 has provided TruthJihad.com
with documents claiming that Churchill took shahadah and lived his life
as a Muslim. But since the British people weren’t quite ready for that,
Churchill was assigned MI-6 handlers to follow him around and keep his
Muslim identity hidden. The handlers also censored Churchill’s letters
and speeches.
Today, as the New World Order wages the Global War on Islam (GWOI)
launched by the satanic 9/11 inside job, these quotes are more relevant
than ever.
Below are the Muslim Churchill’s greatest quotes as he wrote them. MI-6 alterations are indicated by strikeover and boldface.
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing the will of God. what is necessary.”
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall wage jihad fight in France, we shall wage jihad fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall wage jihad fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Ummah island, whatever the cost may be. We shall wage jihad fight on the beaches, we shall wage jihad fight on the landing grounds, we shall wage jihad fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall wage jihad fight in the hills; we shall never surrender to anyone but God.”
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries; while the inherent virtue of Islam is in sharing by holy charity and not by force.”
“It has been said that shariah democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
“What kind of a people do the Zionists they
think we are? Is it possible they do not realise that we shall never
cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson
which they and the world will never forget?”
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for shariah the law.”
“Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to Allah convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to the Zionists force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemies of God enemy.”
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at by CIA drones without result.”
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RothschildHitler knows that he will have to break us in this Ummah island or lose the war for his New World Order. If we can stand up to him, all Muslim nations Europe may
be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit
uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United
States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into
the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more
protracted, by the lights of perverted science and usury. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the Caliphate British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour!’”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few as in the defense of Medina.”
“We Muslims have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the deserts prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”
“You have satanic enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for God something, sometime in your life.”
La famille de Winston Churchill a eu peur qu’il ne se convertisse à l’islam
Il
serait intéressant que l’on nous parlât du côté occultiste (A. Crowley…)
de W. Churchill et non de nous balancer des infos aussi infondées.
HISTOIRE – C’était une facette jusque-là méconnue de Winston Churchill, premier ministre du Royaume-Uni durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Une lettre, rédigée en août 1907 par sa future belle-sœur, dévoile l’admiration de l’homme politique pour l’islam et la culture orientale.
Dans cette missive, découverte par Warren Dockter, chercheur en histoire à l’Université de Cambridge, Lady Gwendoline Bertie pousse Winston Churchill a freiner son enthousiasme pour cette religion.« S’il vous plaît, ne vous convertissez pas à l’islam ; j’ai remarqué votre tendance à vous orientaliser, à devenir un pacha. Je l’ai vu, vraiment, écrit-elle. Si vous vous rapprochez davantage de l’islam, votre conversion serait inévitable, résistez à cet appel, combattez-le. »« Churchill n’a jamais sérieusement envisager de se convertir », tempère Warren Dockte pour The Independent. « A cette époque, il était plus ou moins athée. Il disposait cependant d’une fascination pour la culture islamique qui était courante chez les Victoriens. »Soirées privées dans des vêtements arabes« Churchill, qui a combattu au Soudan et sur la frontière du nord de l’Inde, a connu l’expérience d’être dans les ‘zones islamiques’ », précise aussi le chercheur qui a découvert la lettre. Malgré tout, il souligne que les préoccupations de Lady Gwendoline Bertie peuvent ne pas avoir été si loin de la vérité. En effet, non seulement Churchill semblait considérer l’islam et le christianisme comme égaux –une notion étonnamment progressiste à cette époque–, mais il admirait aussi les prouesses militaires et l’expansion de l’Empire ottoman.Par ailleurs, Winston Churchill aimait s’habiller dans des vêtements arabes lors de soirées privées en compagnie de son ami proche Wilfrid S. Blunt, poète et partisan radical des causes musulmanes. Lady Gwendoline Bertie, qui a épousé Jack, le frère de Winston Churchill, aurait ainsi été inquiète de sa possible conversion à l’islam quand elle l’a vu partir pour une tournée africaine aux côtés de Wilfrid S. Blunt.Enfin, le chercheur Warren Dockter rappelle qu’en 1940, Churchill a apporté son aide financière à la construction de ce qui est devenu la mosquée centrale de Londres, dans l’espoir de gagner l’adhésion des pays musulmans durant la guerre. Plus tard, il a déclaré à la Chambre des communes que « beaucoup de nos amis dans les pays musulmans » avaient apprécié ce « cadeau ».
- Source :
http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/
US lawmakers ‘bought and paid for’ by Israel lobby
Lindsey Graham is a traitor who should stay in Tel Aviv.
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor, for Press TV
This just in from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:“JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said in Jerusalem that the Senate will vote on an Iran sanctions bill next month…Graham told Netanyahu that ‘the Congress will follow your lead’ and will want to have a say about any final deal.”
Since when did the US Congress “follow the
lead” of a foreign head of state who loathes – and is loathed by – the
President of the United States? Lindsey Graham should stay in Israel
and run for the Knesset. If he attempts to return to the USA, he should
be arrested, tried, and hanged for treason.
US lawmakers ‘bought and paid for’ by Israel lobby: Scholar
Press TV
Many US lawmakers are “bought and paid for” by the powerful
pro-Israel lobby which cares more about Israel than the United States,
an American scholar and journalist in Wisconsin says.
“The Israel lobby is giving orders to its paid stooges and traitors,
like (US Senator) Lindsey Graham, who care more about Israel than
America, telling them to go out and attack Iran,” said Dr. Kevin
Barrett, one of America’s best-known critics of the “War on Terror.”
“It’s embarrassing to be an American today with these clowns and stooges in Congress like Lindsey Graham selling out their country for a hostile foreign power, Israel,” Barrett told Press TV on Saturday.
Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina, recently described
Iran’s nuclear energy program as the “biggest threat to the world.”
“The Iranian nuclear ambitions are the biggest threat to the world in
general,” the Republican senator from South Carolina said during an
interview published Friday by the Israeli media outlet Israel Hayom.
One of the leading foreign policy hawks and interventionists in
Congress, Graham tried to please the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US
by stating that Congress will “push for measures to make sure that the
Iranian nuclear negotiations are handled properly.”
“Israel needs to be reassured that Congress will be there in an appropriate way,” the GOP senator said.
“So many in US Congress like Lindsey Graham are essentially bought
and paid for by the Israel lobby and their mission is to try to turn US
power against the enemies of Israel,” Barrett concluded.
Oy veh! So truthful and worth every US shekel!
ReplyDeleteVery brave of you Kevin. Very insightful, but Obama has some more tricks in his bag for early 2015! Let's watch out! The UK did not have their 2012 and they are itching for another falseflag and the Kosher Cameron is the right Jew to deliver!
Regards.
Basheer