To
really understand Adolf Hitler, we must first be willing to honestly
search for the truth, and be able to handle it once we find some of it. Then,
a complete 4 season cleaning needs to be first accomplished because (in
most cases) 90% of what we can hear, read and see, and 99,9% of what we
are taught in public schools are just propaganda. Leaving
acquired dogmas aside, if you can find out by yourself who was the
greatest leader of any nation in the world of the time, you will have
the answer to most of your questions, and this will completely change
your life and maybe even make you lose family and friends.
Then,
ask yourself who have a monopoly on issuing usury money, and who posed a
real threat to the monopolists, and what happened to them, including
the legendary Christ. You will find out that, like
Napoleon and many US Presidents, Adolf Hitler posed a serious threat to
the usurers and had to be eliminated at all costs! Who eliminated him?
NOT THE JEWS!!! But, decadent Christendom that joined the Freemasons
and used the Khazar Judaics to do their dirty jobs, like when they
trafficked in slavery, genocide, and chopped off the heads of Christian
royalty. The British Royals are not Christians, but Freemasons and
Satanists.
The Rothschilds (made Barons, a Christian
title!) took over the financial operations of the Catholic Church
worldwide in 1823, and became more powerful than and even own the
British Royals and start all military campaigns, including the French
and Russian so-called Revolutions. Why were Muammar al Ghaddafi, Saddam Hussain, and many celebrities assassinated?
ONLY THEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND WHO DESTROYED GERMANY AND WHY, and that Adolf Hitler was the greatest leader in Europe!
Finally, wanting to keep the white European biological type intact is
not racism. The biggest racist of the Age is Apartheid Israel set up by
the usurers, and they rule the world of Christ, Islam, of all
religions, and non religions alike! Do your homework, please!
Freedom has long been a cherished word in the human lexicon. All
human beings love freedom, but if pressed, many people will find it
difficult to define. While “freedom” is an abstract noun, its meaning is
found in verbs and adjectives as well. We free a prisoner, and we win free prizes. But what is freedom? Why do we value it so highly?
In the West, freedom is a hard won right, fought for in the crucible
of rebellion and blood. This type of freedom is generally understood to
be political and religious freedom. Americans and Europeans fought
several bloody wars to live freely and worship—or not worship—as they
chose. Many places in the world, however, are still mired in the slough
of political tyranny and religious persecution. This may seem odd for
many Americans who take these liberties for granted, but those who risk
their lives for the simple right to vote or pray can be found all over
the world.
In the West, most people view freedom as an absolute principle and an
inalienable right. They do so, however, because most have never deeply
pondered the problems of freedom and our exercise of personal liberty.
We fail to distinguish between the types of freedom: circumstantial,
acquired, and natural, and their implications. We neglect the fact that
all freedoms are predicated on freedom of thought, which oddly enough
can never be taken away from us, unless we allow it. We are free to
think what we want, even in the most repressive societies, where to
speak our thoughts is prohibited. If freedom of thought is the
foundation of all freedoms, then how much of the contents of our mind
are truly free? If we are honest, we must answer: not much. Most of us
are victims of our historical circumstances, indoctrination posed as
education, propaganda, advertising, and the latest fads. Even our
religious beliefs are often merely inherited and not deeply
contemplated.
What would a truly free society look like? I don’t mean modern liberal
democracies that many assume are free societies. I mean a truly free
society where reason rules and people are allowed to think for
themselves because their minds are free to do so. If the mind is not
free to think without the obstacles of appetite and irascibility, then
freedom is merely a chimera or a phantom of no real substance. True
freedom, predicated on a mind free to think, takes hard work; it
involves not only an outward struggle but, more importantly, an inward
one. If such a revolution ever took place on a large scale, our world
would take on a very different hue from the one currently clouding it.
Freedom of religion is an extension of freedom of thought: the freedom
to worship or believe what one wants. But no man is an island; our
nature is to live in aggregates and conform to our societies. Those who
attempt to escape the cave have always been persecuted, yet making the
horrors of the cave appear pleasurable so that people stop thinking
about escaping is not the answer. Rather, the answer involves
understanding what it means to think in accordance with what makes us
human—our reason and our spirit—and then striving to create societies
where we can acquire the tools that enable us to think freely. Religion,
paradoxically, thrives in environments of persecution; it often withers
in the cornucopia of capitalism and liberal democracies. For those of
us who believe, a providential Hand is always present, even in
persecution.
While we must struggle against all forms of tyranny over the minds of
men, those of us who are believers should realize that the real battles
in this world “are not of flesh and blood, but with the principalities
of darkness.”
This U.S. postage stamp honoring Owens was issued in 1998. See Larger view.
Photo: USPS
Although many people know better, the myth of Hitler's snub of Jesse Owens
at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin is persistent. But that's not where the
Olympic myths end. The alleged snub is not even the most important of
several Berlin Olympics misconceptions that need correcting.
In his day, Ohio State track star James (“J.C.” Jesse) Cleveland Owens
(1913-1980) was as famous and admired as Carl Lewis, Tiger Woods, or
Michael Jordan are today. (1996 Olympic champ Carl Lewis has been called
the “second Jesse Owens.”) But there are significant differences
between then and now. Because of racial discrimination in his native
land, Jesse Owens was not able to enjoy anything close to the huge
financial benefits that African American athletes can expect today. When
Owens came home from his success in Nazi Germany, he faced barriers
that he would not face today. After the ticker-tape parades, he received
no Hollywood offers, no endorsement contracts, and no ad deals. His
face didn't appear on cereal boxes. Three years after his victories in
Berlin, a failed business deal forced Owens to declare bankruptcy. He
made a modest living from his own sports promotions, including racing
against a thoroughbred horse. After moving to Chicago in 1949, he
started a successful public relations firm. Owens was also a popular
jazz disc jockey for many years in Chicago.
Jesse Owens was wearing
German track shoes when he won his gold medals in Berlin. So were all
the members of the German team and most of the track and field athletes.
The fact that there were American athletes competing in the 1936
Olympics at all is still considered by many to be a blotch on the
history of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Germany's open discrimination
against Jews and other “non-Aryans” was already public knowledge when
many Americans opposed U.S. participation in the “Nazi Olympics.”
Opponents to U.S. participation included the American ambassadors to
Germany and Austria. But those who warned that Hitler and the Nazis
would use the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin for propaganda purposes lost
the battle to have the U.S. boycott the Berlin Olympiade.
Which brings us to another Olympic myth. It is often stated that Jesse
Owens' four gold medals humiliated Hitler by proving to the world that
Nazi claims of Aryan superiority were a lie. But Hitler and the Nazis
were far from unhappy with the Olympic results. Not only did Germany win
far more medals than any other country at the 1936 Olympics, but the
Nazis had pulled off the huge public relations coup that Olympic
opponents had predicted, casting Germany and the Nazis, falsely, in a
positive light. In the long run, Owens' victories turned out to be only a
minor embarrassment for Nazi Germany.
But Jesse Owens' reception by the German public and the spectators in
the Olympic stadium was warm. There were German cheers of “Yesseh
Oh-vens” or just “Oh-vens” from the crowd. Owens was a true celebrity in
Berlin, mobbed by autograph seekers to the point that he complained
about all the attention. He later claimed that his reception in Berlin
was greater than any other he had ever experienced, and he was quite
popular even before the Olympics.
The Snub Myth
Hitler did shun a black American athlete at the 1936 Games, but it
wasn't Jesse Owens. On the first day of the Olympics, just before
Cornelius Johnson, an African American althlete who won the first gold
medal for the U.S. that day, was to receive his award, Hitler left the
stadium early. (The Nazis later claimed it was a previously scheduled
departure.) Prior to his departure, Hitler had received a number of
winners, but Olympic officials informed the German leader that in the
future he must receive all of the winners or none at all. After the
first day, he opted to acknowledge none. Jesse Owens had his victories
on the second day, when Hitler was no longer in attendance. Would Hitler
have snubbed Owens if he had been in the stadium on day two? Perhaps.
But since he wasn't there, he didn't.
Ironically, the real snub of Owens came from his own president. Even
after ticker-tape parades for Owens in New York City and Cleveland,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt never publicly acknowledged Owens'
achievements (gold in the 100 meter, 200 meter, 400 meter relay, and
long jump). Owens was never invited to the White House and never even
received a letter of congratulations from the president. Almost two
decades passed before another American president, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
honored Owens by naming him “Ambassador of Sports” — in 1955.
Some True Jesse Owens Stories
For his Berlin wins, Owens was wearing track shoes made by the Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik, a German company. The Dassler brothers later split into two firms, known as Adidas and Puma.
Jesse Owens: “Hitler didn't snub me—it was [FDR] who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.” - quoted in Triumph, a book about the 1936 Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
In 1984, the Berlin street known as Stadionallee (Stadium boulevard), south of the Olympic stadium in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, was renamed Jesse-Owens-Allee.
Owens' widow Ruth and his three daughters attended the dedication
ceremonies on March 10 as guests of the German government. A memorial
plaque for Owens is also located at the Olympiastadion.
Despite his stardom, Owens received no scholarship money from Ohio
State University. He had to work as an elevator operator, waiter, and
gas station attendent to support himself and his wife.
Two U.S. postage stamps have been issued to honor Owens, one in 1990 and another in 1998.
Jesse Owens was born in Danville, Alabama on Sept. 12, 1913. His
family moved to Cleveland when he was nine. In 1949 the Owens settled in
Chicago. His grave is in Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery.
Owens became a heavy smoker following his athletic days. He died of lung cancer in Phoenix, Arizona on March 31, 1980.
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More German Misnomers, Myths, and Mistakes
You can learn more about the myths above, plus several others in our
“German Misnomers, Myths and Mistakes” collection. Each myth, misnomer
or mistake comes with a detailed true explanation that is often much
more interesting than the false version.
When
it comes to the freedom in the media, most of us feel fairly secure
that in the West, we have laws that protect journalists and allow the
free flow of information to the people*. However, this is a far more
complex issue than most people realize, and one that puts the freedom,
and safety, of all journalists at risk. In fact, just this year alone,
hundreds of threats and attacks have been directed at the journalistic
community**.
This surge of censorship and suppression was a motivating factor for
the Italian group, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and the Censorship
Index to team up; creating an interactive map that keeps track of
attacks on journalistic rights within Europe.
The Media Freedom Map
shows violations by location, and allows readers to toggle between
different categories such as limitation of media freedom, verified
reports and gender cases***.
Each color coded dot on the map represents a report given by a first
person journalist, blogger or media worker. Clicking on the reports
often gets you a full run down of the event, including sources and names
that verify the event. For instance, clicking on one at random,
I see that on June 12, two photographers were beaten by the police
outside the Ministry of Finance building in Athens. This was verified
and included female and male photographers who were covering a protest
of low-wage workers.
Plenty of short hand accounts inhabit the map, including threats from
governments to ‘watch over’ or ‘monitor’ publications. However,
monumental court cases for journalistic rights are also covered. When
Finish photojournalist Markus Pentikainen was arrested and detained for covering a protest,
he decided to fight back. With the support of his fellow
photojournalists, he took Finland to the European Court of Human Rights.
The ECHR will hear Pentikainen’s case in their grand chambers this
year.
Nearby in Denmark, two journalists were arrested and convicted
for publishing the names of 12 pig farmers who were responsible for
spreading MRSA, a deadly bacteria. Their report apparently violated
Denmark’s law on data protection, but their lawyer argued that, ’there
is public interest in openness about a growing health hazard.’ Although
the journalists beat the 6 month jail sentence, they were still forced
to pay fines. This ruling has been seen as a step back for freedom of
the press, especially when public health is concerned.
Over in the USA, things aren’t much better. When Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist James Risen’s book, “State of War,” revealed
confidential information about the United States’ collusion with Iran,
his freedom was put in jeopardy. The alleged informant, Jeffrey
Sterling, was taken to court for espionage and Risen was called to testify
against him. Risen has refused, and although he’s been threatened with
jail, he continues to stand firm that he would rather go to prison than
break his journalistic ethics.
The case of Josh Wolf in California also brought to light to how
journalists protecting source material can suffer. While covering an
anti-G8 protest, he shot video of a policeman choking a protester and
another threatening the use of stun guns. When the police asked him to
turn over his source material, he refused. The police cited damaged
property as part of an investigation on protesters (the damaged property
was a tail light). When Wolf still refused,
he spent 225 days in jail on contempt, the longest time served by any
journalist in America. It later came to light that Wolf had no footage
of the damaged police vehicle.
The Society of Professional Journalists has documented a number of these cases, and advocates for federal protection for journalistic ethics. They state, “in
2006 alone journalists were served with more than 7,200 subpoenas from
state and local governments, and about 800 from the federal government.
Some news organizations are served more than 25 times a year.”
Although they support the current Journalist Shield Law in Congress,
SPJ notes it falls short of some necessary protections, and even opens
the door to regulating journalism further. This is because while the
Journalist Shield Law seeks to protect journalists from having to reveal
their sources on a national level, unless the journalist is defined by old-media standards, they are exempt from protection.
SPJ reports that they’d do better to define acts of ‘journalism’
rather than the journalist as, “Once a ‘journalist’ is defined then
before long the government might start raising the idea of licensing
journalists, which can lead to a form of censorship that is found in
other countries.”
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at the broad scope of attacks on journalists in the West, it becomes
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it’s the freedom to express beliefs and ideas without unwarranted
government restriction. And it seems pretty clear, from where we stand
now, that right is under considerable attack.
* "Free flow of information" = absolute bull shit! ** The mainstream "journalistic community" is just a community of prostitutes under orders! *** "Gender" = most probably Lesbian Homosexual Bisexual and Transexual???
HOW CAN THE ILLUMINATI FAIL WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN WINNING ALL ALONG SINCE OLIVER CROMWELL AND ELIZABETH 1ST AND THANKS TO OUR IGNORANCE, LAZINESS, HYPOCRISY, SELFISHNESS, COWARDICE, SLAVE MENTALITY AND THE WORSHIP OF THE GODS OF MATERIALISM (SATAN)???
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Summer Solstice FAIL! – Illuminati FALSE FLAG Road Map now FULLY EXPOSED!!!
Since
the early 1960’s, the Illuminati have planned the human sacrifice of
everyone on the North American Continent to their father down below.
And now their plan is being revealed to the entire Planet. This is the
first article in a new series, that will track numerous False Flag
attacks on the Illuminati Pentagram – the one they have set over North
America, as the Illuminati prepare for their Grand Finale in the City of
Chicago. This series of articles will reveal the organization and the
motives behind many of the major False Flag attacks on this Continent.
We will begin by looking at the deliberate
False Flag and satanic events the Illuminati have already undertaken, in
order to establish the main points of the illuminati star over North
America. Each paragraph in the article corresponds to a numbered point
on the following map. The full version of this article will be
available at the link located at the bottom of it.
1. Mexico City, Mexico – and The Temple of the Feathered Serpent.
Mexico as a country has one of the highest homicide rates in the World.
Approximately 25 miles NE of the heart of Mexico City, you will find a
location very well-known for human sacrifices. It is called the ‘Temple
of the Feathered Serpent’ or the ‘Temple of the Sun’. This temple has
extreme historical significance, as its floor plan was copied in the
architectural design of the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The
elementary school was deliberately built as a mirror temple for the
planned child sacrifice False Flag event, where no one died. Sandy Hook
Elementary School is approximately a 1/3 scale copy of the original
temple, with both structures facing a NW direction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_the_Feathered_Serpent,_Teotihuacan
2. Portland, Oregon – also referred to as “The Forbidden City”, is
also known as “The city of Shanghaiing.” Located at the western tip of
the illuminati star, Portland symbolizes the illuminati agenda reaching
out into the Pacific Ocean – to all the port cities. Portland is built
on a series of hellish underground passageways that facilitated the
human slave trade. ‘Shanghaiing’ was the act of trapping and/or
capturing an individual, often by intoxication. The intoxicated
individual would either be led to a ship where they would be sold
directly into slavery, or they would be lured onto a hidden trap door.
When they fell through the trap door they were immediately seized and
held in a cage in the ‘Shanghai Tunnels’ until they could be sold to a
ship captain. The victim would awake to find themselves enslaved – most
times, on a ship, already out in the ocean, with no hope of escape. http://www.legendsofamerica.com/or-shanghai.html
3. Repulse Bay, Canada, is located in the Territory of Nunavut.
‘The Arctic Circle Arch’ is located at Repulse Bay Canada, a place that
is 66 degrees North – and 66 is a symbolic Illuminati number. The Arch
has three black bestial heads located on the top of it. Interesting to
note that Illuminati strongholds within the Canadian Government recently
pressured the Government to rename the Territory under the northern tip
of the Illuminati Star with the word, “Nunavut”. More will be revealed
on the significance of the name, in future articles. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Repulse_Bay_arch_02.jpg/220px-Repulse_Bay_arch_02.jpg
4. St. John’s Canada, was named after the beloved disciple of
Jesus. The European illuminati see the American illuminati as their
beloved disciple, and that explains why the tip of the star is located
over that city. St. John’s is not only the oldest city in North
America, but it also has a history of hellish fiery destruction and
death. The city itself was engulfed in flames in 1892, leading to the
deaths of hundreds of people – not from fire, but from freezing and even
drowning, as the fires wiped out their homes. The death and
destruction didn’t end there, as not too far away in Newfoundland, not
long after, the ‘Sealing disasters’ took place, claiming hundreds of
lives – followed by the Spanish Influenza, and then the Burin Tsunami. http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/disasters.html
5. Haiti has a dark history of being involved in the slave trade,
and its history is also deeply rooted in occult teachings and
practices. In 2010 Haiti experienced a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that
resulted in a human death toll of approximately a quarter million
lives. The cholera outbreak that followed affected more than 5% of the
population. The earthquake was man-made, through the use of HAARP
technology, and deliberately targeted the city of Port au Prince. The
Illuminati wanted the mass human sacrifice at Port au Prince, to honor
their father down below, who is often referred to as ‘the prince of
darkness’. For them, it is ‘Port au prince of darkness’. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake
6. Pensacola is located on the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico.
Just east of Pensacola, in Panama City in 2010, the Obama family staged a
swim photo op. The point of the photo op was to promote the deception,
“the Gulf is safe” following the BP Oil Spill. The reason why the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers were told to “STAND DOWN!” when the biggest
engineering challenge in recent memory was staring them in the face, is
because the Oil Spill in the Gulf, was a deliberate event. The
illuminati wanted to put their ‘stamp of death’ on the Gulf food supply,
and so they did. http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/14/obama.gulf.swim/
7. Oklahoma City is best known for the Oklahoma City False Flag
Bombing. Interesting to note that a very bold satanic organization has
been recently pushing to have a satanic statue of Baphomet – a human
representation of the devil, next to the Ten Commandments, within the
court of that Oklahoma Capital.
8. In Red Lake Ontario, on 11/11 2013, flight 311 crashed. There
were only 2 survivors, with one survivor miraculously unharmed. The
crash was no accident. The Illuminati enjoy using the number 11 as one
of their stamps, as they boast of their accomplishments. http://globalnews.ca/news/958863/5-dead-in-plane-crash-in-northwestern-ontario/
9. The James Bay Hydroelectric Project covers an area the size of
the State of New York. Its combined hydroelectric energy output, makes
it one of the largest power producers on the Planet. The Illuminati are
driven by an insatiable thirst for satanic power, and for them, this
Power Plant is a deliberate symbol of that power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bay_Project
10. Washington DC has a street layout that deliberately incorporated
occult symbols, including an inverted pentagram, with the bottom of it
pointing directly at The White House – the seat of the Antichrist,
Barack Hussein Obama. The Washington Navy Yard shooting that took place
on 09/16/13 (9,6,3), was just another False Flag Illuminati stamp on
the City that is ruled by the enemy incarnate and his transsexual
partner, “Michael” – whose false externals are wearing quite thin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtD0JsPrQ4
Secretary of State John Kerry. (photo: Michael Springer/Getty Images)
Nine Reasons Our Foreign Policy Makes Us Look Like Complete Hypocrites (James Henry Fetzer 24 June 2014 "Not
to mention our invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, NATO destruction of
Libya, interference in Ukraine, drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen, on
and on and on.")
By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
24 June 14
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Chapter 7 of the Book of Matthew, during Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount,
Jesus talks directly to hypocrites who judge the actions of others while
being oblivious to their own faults.
“How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out
of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite,
first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to
take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” – Matthew, Chapter 7, verses 4 and 5
Our political leadership should take some cues from
this passage as we approach a solution to deal with the turmoil of
Russia’s intrusion into Ukraine, Iraq’s impending downfall that came as a
direct result of our past meddlings, and other foreign policy crises to
come. We look tremendously foolish to the rest of the world when we try
to dictate how other countries should behave, considering the vast
number of critical problems the US faces internally.
Here are a few logs the US should take out of its own eye before telling Iraq and Russia how to handle the specks in theirs.
1. We have the worst health care system in the developed world.
A recent study showed that of the top Western industrialized nations, the United States has the worst health care system.
That’s no surprise, considering that only in the US is it acceptable
for the illness and injury of citizens to be a commodity from which
others can profit. To put this into perspective, the average hip
replacement in the US costs $40,364.
In Spain, that same operation costs $7,731. This means one can fly to
Spain, live in Madrid for two years, learn Spanish, run with the bulls,
get trampled, get their hip replaced again, and fly back to the US while
still coming out ahead. Britain’s National Health Services came out on
top of the survey, as citizens who are critically ill or injured can get
life-saving medical treatment and be sent home just as a result of
paying taxes.
2. We intentionally saddle college students with a lifetime of debt servitude.
The student debt bubble has now surpassed the $1.2 trillion
mark, which is even more than America’s accumulated credit card debt.
This is a direct result of states investing less in public higher
education and making students pay for the bulk of their education. And
because wages are already so low, student loans are, in many cases, used for basic survival rather than tuition payments. The average amount of debt each college graduate owes is just under $30,000.
This means that even if a student manages to secure a job in an economy
where there at least two applicants for every job opening, it will take
years of consistent payments for that graduate to be in the black
again.
To contrast, most other developed Western nations
allow students to go to college for little to no cost of their own,
seeing the education of a citizen as an investment in the country’s
well-being. When Quebec proposed a tuition increase from $2,200 to $3,800 over a six-year period, hundreds of thousands of students took to the streets in protest.
3. We effectively have an oligarchy, where the rich can buy their own politicians.
The idea of the US invading Iraq to “spread democracy”
is laughable, considering the complete absence of democracy in our own
country. In a country of 310,000,000 people, we have a body of a little
over 500 people making decisions on the behalf of all of us. Most of those few hundred people are millionaires. And most of the time, these millionaires who supposedly represent us spend more time – roughly 30 to 70 percent of it
– with other millionaires, courting donations for their next
re-election campaign, than they do listening and responding to the needs
of their constituents. One study from Princeton University concluded
that the US government in its current form has more in common with an
oligarchy – where a small number of wealthy people run the government –
than a democracy. Another study
found that members of Congress were more free to schedule meetings with
people who identified as donors than with people who identified as
constituents. It isn’t hard to see why there’s such an uptick of
“insurgents” in Iraq who don’t want to see the US spread what we call
“democracy” in their country.
4. We punish poor people for enduring the circumstances we forced them into.
In Detroit, Dan Gilbert, the billionaire owner of Quicken Loans, became known as "Subprime Dan"
when he made a killing before the burst of the housing bubble by
pressuring homeowners into risky subprime loans. Since the 2008 housing
market crash, roughly 60,000 Detroit homeowners have been forced to
vacate their homes, which has led to massive urban blight and enabled
billionaires like Dan Gilbert to buy those homes for pennies on the
dollar to gentrify and develop into housing that only the rich can
afford.
Now, the few Detroiters who are still lucky to have a
place to live are paying increasingly higher rates for water, and in the
down economy of Detroit, many have fallen behind on water payments. The
city of Detroit has responded by shutting off water
for 150,000 households, and is doing so at a rapid rate of 1,500 to
3,000 houses per week. When Detroit raised $1 billion in bonds to pay
for infrastructure like water in 2011, Detroit’s unelected emergency
manager Kevyn Orr, appointed by bank-friendly governor Rick Snyder,
allowed big banks to take a big $537 million bite
in interest payments. Even after the big industries made a profit by
shipping jobs overseas, and the big banks made a profit by swindling
people out of their homes, Detroit’s corporate-owned government won’t
allow people owing as little as $150 in water payments to have access to
a basic human right.
Another example: a poor single mother in New York had
landed a job interview, but no babysitter for her two children, ages 6
and 2, was available during the time scheduled for the interview. She
had no choice but to leave her two children in the car for 70 minutes.
After the interview, she was arrested for alleged child endangerment.
And just recently, child protective services took the two children away
from their mother for this alleged endangerment. To sum it up, a woman
doing everything she could to earn an income to support her family was
punished to the point of having her family taken from her, simply
because she couldn’t find a babysitter for 70 minutes.
We have an economy that rewards the rich for being
rich, and punishes the poor for being poor. Is it any wonder that
foreigners scoff at Americans who say their country is the best in the
world?
5. We allow a rape epidemic on our college campuses to go unchecked.
On American college campuses, an average of 1 in 5 women
will experience sexual assault. And this is just taking into account
the number of instances which are actually reported. The number is
likely much greater, because reporting a rape and reliving the traumatic
experience for campus authorities is itself a daunting task.
In one case of a student at James Madison University
in Virginia, her assailants, who actually recorded video of their sexual
assault, were allowed to graduate on time
before being expelled from university grounds. The survivor of the
assault saw her grades drop as a result of the trauma she suffered, and
she lost her financial aid. She had no choice but to drop out.
Why should anyone take our claims of making their
country safer at all seriously, when we can’t even make our college
campuses safe for women?
6. We send people off to die, and don’t take care of the ones who come back alive.
While politicians reserve two months out of the year,
May and November, to honor war veterans, they fail to back up their
words with effective policies. After the recent VA scandal that
culminated in General Eric Shinseki resigning as the sacrificial lamb,
Congress has yet to do anything meaningful
to address the years-long backlog that stands between veterans and the
health care they earned through their service. But that’s just the tip
of the iceberg.
On any given night, there are between 130,000 and 200,000 veterans
sleeping on the streets, according to the National Coalition for the
Homeless. And every time Congress has had an opportunity to address the
plight of veterans, it’s been filibustered by Republicans. In 2010,
Senator Patty Murray’s bill to provide aid for homeless veterans with
children was filibustered by Mitch McConnell. A bill that would have spent $1 billion to hire veterans for jobs in the public sector was filibustered by 40 senate Republicans in 2012. And just this past February, Senate Republicans once again blocked a bill aimed at providing health care and education to veterans.
The fact that neocons are once again clamoring for
troops in Iraq, while they continue to deny returning veterans the help
they need and deserve, proves that at least one of the two major parties
sees our troops only as cannon fodder not worth a penny if they manage
to survive the battlefield. I can’t imagine any country seriously
believes we care about their welfare given the way we treat our own war
veterans.
7. We make it profitable to systematically incarcerate poor people and minorities.
In America, incarceration is a profitable enterprise.
Counties in rural areas hard up for cash are willing to guarantee a
certain percentage of occupancy
for private prisons, meaning that law enforcement is working extra hard
to fill the jails by any means necessary. Usually, this involves
heavily patrolling communities of color and low-income neighborhoods,
and busting young black men and women
for negligible amounts of marijuana. Portugal has done the opposite
with great results – a decade ago, the country decided to approach drug
addiction as a public health issue rather than a crime, and treated
addicts instead of sending them to jail. As a result, Portugal’s
addiction rate has gone down by half in the last decade.
The drug war costs us an estimated $20 billion dollars per year
from both federal and state governments, while drugs have only been
made more widely-available in the process. The continued war on drugs
has led to the United States having more black men in prison
than there were black men as slaves in the Confederate South. And in a
sad parallel to slavery, private prisons are now essentially contractors
for major corporations, where work that once paid a livable wage to a
unionized employee has been “insourced” to prisoners who do the work for pennies. It’s laughable for the US to deplore slavery in other countries while allowing it to continue at home.
8. We cut our own public services while letting billion-dollar corporations dodge taxes.
Our infrastructure was given a “D+”
by architects and engineers, who say our roads and bridges are badly in
need of repairs. Our failure to invest properly in public education
means our kids are falling far behind
students in other countries who are learning much more than we are. And
we’ve allowed the last line of hope for the long-term unemployed to be
cut off permanently, as Congressional Republicans refuse to extend unemployment compensation
for the hardest-hit victims of the economy, saying we “can’t afford”
the social safety net. Congressional Republicans also succeeded in cutting the food stamp program by billions of dollars in the last farm bill.
But while Republicans are running around screaming about the deficit, they somehow ignore the more than $100 billion
in tax revenue we lose every year through corporate tax loopholes.
Major corporations like GE, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Boeing,
Verizon, and dozens of others have paid $0 in federal taxes
for several years now, even getting tax refunds in the hundreds of
millions instead of paying federal taxes. While there has been extensive
awareness about the prevalence of tax loopholes like transfer pricing schemes
like the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich,” and while there’s
been plenty of news about corporations like Apple having more untaxed
cash than the U.S. Treasury, members of Congress owned by these same
corporations turn a blind eye to this hemorrhaging of funds.
The people of Iraq and Ukraine have reason to scoff
when we say we care about building up their public infrastructure, given
the neglect those same political leaders have shown about American
infrastructure.
9. Our police forces have become unaccountable paramilitary organizations.
As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have wound down,
all the surplus military equipment not getting used in the battlefield
is being used at home, by local police forces.
All a municipal police department has to do is apply for a grant
through the Department of Homeland Security, and it can get tanks,
drones, firepower, armor, water cannons, flash bang grenades, LRAD sound
devices, and other equipment that has no purpose enforcing the law
amongst civilians. As the crackdown on the Occupy movement
showed, this military equipment is often used to suppress the
democratic rights of citizens nonviolently assembling in public spaces.
When countries like Egypt or Russia use military equipment to suppress peaceful citizen protests, our government is the first to condemn it.
But through the continued auspices of the “War on Terror,” our
government has sanctioned everything from the mass surveillance of calls
and emails to the indefinite detention
of US citizens in military jail under the flimsiest of accusations. How
can America “bring freedom” to another country when American citizens
live under the thumb of a militarized police state?
Before we start sending off troops to bring all the
wonderful things we love about America to the rest of the world, maybe
we should tend to our own affairs first. Let’s take the log out of our
own eye before we talk about the speck in the eye of other countries.
Carl Gibson, 26, is co-founder of US Uncut, a
nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of
thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts
in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and
other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not
Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently
lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can contact him at
carl@rsnorg.org, and follow him on twitter at @uncutCG.
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Remember when Senator John McCain went to Syria and met with factions of rebels fighting the Assad regime?
As it turns out, the group that he was meeting with was a particular subset of rebels in Syria, who we now know as ISIS.
1821:
Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild was sent to Naples, Italy. He would end
up doing a lot of business with the Vatican and Pope Gregory XVI
subsequently conferred upon him the Order of St. George. Also,
whenever the Pope received Kalmann, he would give him his hand rather
than the customary toe to kiss, which showed the extent of Kalmann’s power over the Vatican.
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finally succeeds in throwing the Rothschilds central bank out of
America, when the bank’s charter is not renewed. It would not be until
1913 that the Rothschilds would be able to set up their third central
bank in America, the Federal Reserve, and to ensure no mistakes are made, this time they will put one of their own bloodline, Jacob Schiff, in charge of the project.
1848:
Karl Marx, an Ashkenazi Jew, publishes, “The Communist Manifesto.”
Interestingly at the same time as he is working on this, Karl Ritter of
Frankfurt University was writing the antithesis which would form the
basis for Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s, “Nietzscheanism.” This
Nietzecheanism was later developed into Fascism and then into Nazism and
was used to forment the first and second world wars. Marx, Ritter, and Nietzsche were all funded and under the instruction of the Rothschilds.
The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the
differences in those two so-called ideologies to enable them to divide
larger and larger factions of the human race into opposing camps so that
they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other, and particularly, to destroy all political and religious institutions. The same plan put forward by Weishaupt in 1776.
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Chapter 7 of the Book of Matthew, during Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount,
Jesus talks directly to hypocrites who judge the actions of others while
being oblivious to their own faults.
