America First: Trump's $40 bil to Argentina

(Search Party) The real reason Dictator President Trump is blowing up Venezuelan boats

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (3rd ed)

Author, whistleblower John Perkins has 4.6 out of 5 stars with 668 ratings for this blockbuster and Los Angeles Times Bestseller.

How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China’s takeover? The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller

• blows the whistle on China’s economic hit man (EHM) strategy,
• exposes corruption on an international scale, and
• offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy.

In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation.

EHMs are highly paid professionals who use development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests.

Now, a new EHM wave is infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China, a newly dominant economic power, with its own insidious version of the US EHM blueprint.

Twelve explosive new chapters detail the allure, exploitation, and wreckage of China’s EHM strategy in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

If allowed to continue its rampage, the EHM strategy—whether executed by the United States or China—will destroy life as we know it.

However, all is not lost. Perkins offers a plan for transforming this system that places profits above all into a Life Economy that restores the earth. He inspires readers to take actions toward a new era of global cooperation that will end the United States’s and China’s EHM strategies for good. More

"Brave New World" fascism of California

Dr. Sonia Angell and her boss Gov. Gavin Newsom; Wisdom Quarterly EDITORIAL

Gov. Gav appoints medical angel Dr. Sonia Angell to sugarcoat bitter measures for them to go down.

There are generally two kinds of fascism -- which Dictator Mussolini of the Kingdom of Italy, as it was called, defined as the combining of corporate and government power.

The first is the scary Orwellian totalitarian model of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the second Aldous Huxley's Brave New World being the more seductive and hedonistic model.

In either case, the National Guard is called out with truncheons and guns at the ready. The imperial Roman Church approves. But in the Brave New World model, there is no need to go right for direct coercion, which leads to a lot of resistance.

(Sac Bee) Adorable President Gov. Gav Newsom's sweet talk and baby

It's easy when sides wear black or white hats.

Everyone fears and fights that "Big Brother" approach, if only by dragging their feet when given orders. But how would Californians be able to resist or even think to resist soft power, economic pressure, indirect control, mass surveillance and the newest euphemism for it in "contact tracing"? No one even thinks to question it.

Is it just us, or are presidential-wannabe Gov. Gavin Newsom and upwardly mobile L.A. Mayor Garcetti bending too far to be PC and hipper-than-thou, one in his breathless daily briefings with veiled threats and the other with his "cool hippy love" rhetoric incentivizing "snitches"? Read the two novels and it becomes very clear.

It's probably better, though harder, to have a vulgar liar like Trump and his ultra-nationalism declaring authoritarian powers from a centralized federal government in the White House.

Is USAID the new CIA? Another Twitter (video)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS); Amy Goodman, Peter Kornbluh, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.org)

USAID, the new CIA?

How America (under its secret-government as the US Military-Industrial Complex) runs the world: By co-creating Facebook, Google, Twitter -- and/or coopting them after someone else creates them -- CIA agents and operatives (as well as the FBI, black-budget Pentagon, DARPA, DHS, the Secret Service, and of course the NSA) foment and agitate for civil war, "revolution," and liberation. 

They're doing what to my America?!

But the goal is not actual freedom and democracy for people in the US or elsewhere, it is to topple uncooperative governments without overtly sending in soldiers. Secret operatives do a quieter, and therefore better, job by avoiding all the sticky accusations of "imperialism," "war crimes," and "illegal intervention."

The CIA learned its lessons well in Vietnam, the Philippines, Egypt (Arab Spring), Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Central America, Kosovo, Grenada, Cambodia, Laos, Tibet/China... It's been all over the world.

McCutcheon means 1% now rules US legally

It rules the world by subterfuge and deceit, raking in billions in drug dealing, market manipulations, and international banking. Ask the author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman for the details of how we loan money to nations (Hello, Ukraine!) through the World Bank and IMF then send in jackals to call the shots making those nations very friendly to the West. What choice will they have when we assassinate their leaders who are for the people and prop up new politicians corrupt enough to do whatever America asks of them?

Senator: Billionaires now "buy elections"

Now we clearly see that USAID, following the playbook, created a Twitter for Cuba. A hummingbird whispers via mobile phones and cell networks, and a government comes down with flash mobs, "Occupy" style events, protests, demonstrations, disruptions, Anarchist Bible (written by the CIA) vandalism, general hooliganism and drug use (brought in by the fine Company folks who work with the authorities who will arresting the buyers and sellers but never the distributors)...

AP reports a complex and intricate strategy devised by the U.S. gov't to artificially foment political dissent in Cuba and spur a "democratic" uprising -- rigged by the CIA -- using a fake social media platform. It's the Latin Twitter ZunZumeo (vator.tv)

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ZunZuneo reveals how US gov't spies in US

DemocracyNow.org

NSA, Twitter, DARPA, Facebook, FBI, Google

"U.S. Secretly Created 'Cuban Twitter' to Stir Unrest" is the name of an explosive new article by the Associated Press detailing how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) created a fake Twitter program to undermine the Cuban government.

 

The CIA has many guises and operatives

[As Americans, we have the real Twitter spying on us and undermining actual dissent while seeming to stir up all sorts of trouble by facilitating peer-to-peer conversations that are thoroughly documented and used for later investigations and to set people up.]

The communications network was called "ZunZuneo" -- slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet. It was reportedly built with secret shell companies financed through [CIA-controlled] foreign banks. According to the AP, the United States [the MIC] planned to use the platform to spread political content that might trigger a Cuban Spring.

Havana, D.C., Pretoria, South Africa

Or it might, as one USAID document put it, "renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society." Democracy Now! speaks to Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. He recently wrote an article in Foreign Policy called "Our Man in Havana: Was USAID Planning to Overthrow Castro?"

Confessions of an American Warrior (video)

We have been "Hoodwinked" economically. It is how the American Empire enslaves and rules.

INNworldreport.net; John Perkins; Wisdom QuarterlyInterview: INN with John Perkins on Hoodwinked

(TalkingStickTV) John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

The Secret History of the American Empire

• VIDEO: John Perkins as Amazon shaman
• Monster bird found in USA
• Trungpa's "Five Buddha Families"

Occupy Wall Street: "Fascism" is...

CC Liu and Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

OLA demonstrators at City Hall in 2011 (Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn via JewishJournal.com)

Zoom in to the red, white, and blue placard: "Fascism: When people have to go to WALL STREET to protest their GOVERNMENT." 

What? It's true. This is how it is as we learned from the Nazis. Hitler's Germany, the most recent grand experiment in fascism was the union of STATE POWER and BUSINESS INTERESTS.

There is no "business" like the business of business, which at its root involves banking. 

Banking seems innocent to us. We naively assume it means nothing more than going down to the local branch and pulling out a $20. That is a nearly insignificant fraction of what "banking" means. Think high finance. Think war. Think political corruption at the highest levels.

Nazi Germany was followed by the UK (the second worst empire in history, just behind the world's current superpower and its unparalleled abuses) and other European and Asian examples.

Think home foreclosures, Economic Assassins, jackals, and Wall Street royalty who form the underbelly of our Military-Industrial Complex. And when you're done thinking, do something.

• Crash Course: How much is a trillion in debt?
• VIDEO: Jane Goodall named [Occupied] Rose Parade Grand Marshal 

Cenk Uygur looks at Occupy Wells Fargo by 99% Power

Occupy the Justice Department:

Happy Birthday, Abu Mumia Jamal!

US wars to cost $4 trillion, report finds

The Department of War (aka, the Pentagon) Did they ever figure out what hit it?

A new report out of Brown University estimates that the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--together with the counterinsurgency efforts in Pakistan--will, all told, cost $4 trillion and leave 225,000 dead, both civilians and soldiers.

Afghanistan is the Land of the Buddha, the original Kapilavastu, with the largest statues in the world. But archeologists are not likely to uncover its wonders before Chinese mining interests destroy artifacts in Mes Aynak and elsewhere.

• Rescuing Afghanistan's Buddhist history (WSJ)

The group of economists, anthropologists, lawyers, humanitarian personnel, and political scientists involved in the project estimated that the cost of caring for the veterans injured in the wars will reach $1 trillion in 30 or 40 years.

In estimating the $4 trillion total, they did not take into account the $5.3 billion in reconstruction spending the government has promised Afghanistan, state and local contributions to veteran care, interest payments on war debt, or the costs of Medicare for veterans when they reach 65.

Elite warriors, each costing $1,000,000/year, needed to defeat Iron Age pastoralists? (veteranstoday.com)

The Congressional Budget Office, meanwhile, has assessed the federal price tag for the wars at $1.8 trillion through 2021. The report says that is a gross underestimate, predicting that the government has already paid $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion. More

Shocking release of U.S. documents on Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN) – The Afghan government said Monday it was “shocked” as it sifted through tens of thousands of leaked U.S. military and diplomatic reports on the war in Afghanistan that a whistleblower website posted a day earlier. “The Afghan government is shocked with the report that has opened the reality of the Afghan war,” said Siamak Herawi, a government spokesman. WikiLeaks.org -- a whistleblower website...

• The preposterous war on Afghanistan
• What did USSR want with this ancient part of NW India?
• The price tag of Afghanistan dwarfs country's GDP

CIA's "Facebook" tanking before IPO

Facebook Traffic Drops For a Second Month In a Row - Is The Funfair Over?
iLo Ivy (Technocrati, June 13, 2011)
Inside Facebook reported, for the first time, a consecutive monthly drop in traffic figures, making this a slower growth than usual. The U.S. fell to 149.4 million users in May, while Canada lost 1.52 million. The U.K., Norway, and Russia also reported losses of over 100,000 users, according to today’s morning tech wrap on Forbes. The question is, what could be behind this dramatic fall? Invariably, short-term factors will always influence Facebook’s traffic from country to country. Yet, could this perhaps have something to do with the recent cyber security breaches on the networks of other major sites and big corporations like IMF's? More

• Privacy groups push for US Facebook probe‎
• Privacy Advocates Ask Feds to Stop Facebook Facial Recognition‎
• Facebook IPO: Could Facebook be worth more than $100 billion?‎
• Facebook planning IPO on $100 billion valuation?‎
• Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and the IPO - 2012 It Is
• Facebook and the IPO frenzy‎
• Is Facebook losing users? Report says U.S., Canada growth slowing‎
• Is Facebook growth stalling in North America?‎
• Facebook loses 6M US users in May‎ (Computerworld)

DSK and hacking the Int'l Monetary Fund

While lecherous International Monetary Fund Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, President of the World Bank, is being hung high after being accused of attempted rape of a hotel worker (prompting demonstrations and "Slut Walks") -- and Hillary Clinton is put forward as the leading candidate to replace him -- some state-funded entity [CIA, China, Israel, UK?] is upping the ante:

IMF Hacked; No End in Sight to Security Horror Shows
Ian Paul (PCWorld, June 12, 2011)
The recent online intrusion into International Monetary Fund servers may have been the work of malicious hackers working for a foreign government, according to online reports. The IMF is reportedly reluctant to disclose where it believes the attacks came from since 187 of the world's 194 nations (as recognized by the U.S. Department of State) are members of the fund. The hack's perpetrators obtained a "large quantity of data," including e-mail and other documents during the intrusion, according to Bloomberg. The attacks reportedly began before May 14 when IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York on sexual assault charges. The IMF provides, among other functions, economic assistance and policy advice to nations in financial distress to help stabilize the global economy. That means the global agency has, as The New York Times recently reported, "highly confidential information about the fiscal condition of many nations." As such, the IMF's files contain "political dynamite" that could affect global markets, according to the Times. It's not clear if the data stolen from the IMF was particularly sensitive. More

• What science tells about power and sexual infidelity (NPR)
• Schwarzenegger's wife blasts paparazzi
• What makes you different from Congressman Weiner?

Easter 2010 Earthquake (California)

LOS ANGELES (April 4, 2010) - Today California was again rattled by an enormous 7.2 quake. It was centered just across the state's southern border and was felt as far away as Phoenix, Arizona. What are those HAARP people doing that they can't aim their device and keep it localized? It's one thing to level Haiti to force it into debt-slavery through the IMF (and then pat ourselves on the back for our "generosity") or test it on China, or bring Chile to its knees, but California? We invented, or at least developed, the Tesla technology this is based on.

• VIDEO: HAARP in Haiti
• The Earthquake Machine II
• China quake was not karma but HAARP

Save $50 a Day; World Bank gets Trillion

How to save $50 a day
Three families reveal how they shave off thousands of dollars in daily expenses.

• Total of $17,860 a year
• Tips for saving when money is tight
• Spending etiquette in a recession
• Report: One in every 10 Americans receiving food stamps

G-20 to give $1 trillion to IMF, World Bank!

G-20: More money, more rules
Leaders agree to provide more funds to control lesser nations, promises to crack down on tax havens to divert attention.

• Details
• Heavy security in London at G-20
• List of participants
• Heavy security in London at G-20 summit site
• Summit pics

• Ex-AIG chief says bailout "failed," criticizes successors

Conficker Worm: Computer experts warn threat far from over

Modern Money Slavery (debt)

The US once planned to issue an independent and inherently debt-free Greenback, a form of money that was real with actual gold behind it. A bill would be a promissory note that could be turned in for the amount of gold it represented. Bankers would have none of it.

In an internal document circulated between private British and American banking interests, arguing against Abraham Lincoln's American Civil War plan to issue the form of currency the Founding Fathers advocated when they first conceived of this non-European but newly American experiment in democracy, wrote:

"...slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan [of a central bank that operates on debt]...is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages.

"This can be done by controlling the money. It will not do to allow the Greenback as we cannot control that"

(The Hazard Circular, July, 1862).

(Zeitgeist addendum, minute: 22:40)

• States call for IMF "critical role" in crisis
• Wall Street plunges on belief global recession is at hand
• Government to announce 20 banks receiving capital injections
• U.S. working to train Iraq to spend billion-dollar surplus