Monthly Archives: October 2017

Go Global; Save the Swamp!

Over the years the American Public has had only a few occasions to witness wholesale corruption at the federal level; the occasional Senator, Congressmen, Department Head, Military Personnel or even a President or two.

To some degree, in the age of mass 24/7 media, on one end the Press has made it more difficult to conceal criminal activity however, given the consolidation of this medium’s ownership, fact-finding and truth-telling journalism has given way to the power of sensationalism. Depending on what side of the political fortress you stand, the end of your promising future (and the truth), or escaping a jail cell may only be a matter of a 15 second sound-bite or 140 characters away.

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Mueller, Not Manafort, Needs to Answer!

At the moment, former FBI Director turned Special Counsel seems to have justified (preliminarily) his mandate by delivering what is likely – if void of political derelictions – an indictment that will never be perfected in court. The fact that the evidence obtained during the FBI’s raid was deemed Attorney-Client privileged information will likely render the entire Court-ordered subpoena void. Moreover, none of the information obtained has yet to link or otherwise prove Manafort’s connection to the President.

This, of course, doesn’t mean that the witch-hunt won’t continue on with its primary mission; the neutralizing of the Trump-agenda and the masking of some of the most extreme under-the-cover-of-authority criminal activities in U.S. History.

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SALT: The Distortions of Privilege

Prior to the 16th Amendment (1913), and by no coincidence the very same year the Federal Reserve Act was thrust upon an unsuspecting population, direct taxes levied upon any individual (by the government) was deemed a violation of the U.S. Constitution unless it was “apportioned” among the States in a manner proportionate to that State’s population to that of the entire national census.

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A New Cold War Masks Predators

There’s nothing quite like a good manufactured-crisis to stir the concerns of the public and fill the vaults of war-making industries. This country has perfected the art of political-alchemy where warring factions fabricate stories in secret which are then sold, by a defiantly rogue media apparatus, to its trolling audience where the fact of what should be factual are largely irrelevant.

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Syria Falling Toward Iran?

As the U.S.-led coalition continues the exorcism of ISIS from Iraq, the unanswered question remains; how will the U.S. deal with the infestation of Iraq, and its perimeter, by Iran?

Much to the delight of Iraq’s dominantly Shia-populated leadership, former U.S. President Obama’s abandonment of Iraq created a power vacuum which Iran eagerly filled. It’s well known that Russia support of the Assad Regime (Syria) is a strategic necessity given that their only Naval Base – outside of the Black Sea – for Mediterranean access is at the Port of Tartus (Syria) and it’s not likely that Putin will give it up without a fight.

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