The Trading Companies, Or, Stop Being Stupid Part 13

Link: http://www.paulstramer.net/2017/01/the-trading-companies-or-stop-being.html

By Anna Von Reitz

There are some very important things never taught in school.  How to be a good parent is one of them.  Another is the Great Frenzy that occurred in the very early 1700's.  And another is the truth about the so-called "American Civil War". 

 

In the late 1600's the Church lost control --- temporarily --- of the vast amounts of Spanish gold and silver purloined out of Central and South America during the previous two centuries.  The unthinkable happened when the Laws of Supply and Demand kicked in and gold and silver were devalued by market forces just like any other glut on a commodity. 

 

At precisely this moment when gold and silver were grossly, if momentarily, devalued--- another very odd and important thing happened. 

 

The Dutch East India Trading Company disappeared. The largest and richest and by far the most successful international trading company on Earth --- with more wealth, more ships, more warehouses, more cargo tonnage under transport than all the British Crown Trading Companies put together--- simply vanished overnight, like the Templars and Phoenicians before them.  Poof and gone.

 

Back then it was still possible to sail over the horizon and disappear, but such a massive commercial operation could hardly do so without leaving a paper trail that leads straight to Westminster and from there to New York in the United States. 

 

The Dutch East India Trading Company paid the British for free egress to our shores and paid them handsomely. Names like Vanderbilt and Rockefeller and Roosevelt came ashore.  The kingpins of the Dutch East India Trading Company then deployed their ill-gotten profits gained from stiffing their creditors and paid a cut to the British Crown.

 

The greed of the British Crown eventually wore thin on this arrangement and the American Revolution was the result.  The oldest and most powerful trading companies went head to head for eight years and in the end nothing much was resolved.  A lot of Americans died and the American people and their estates were saddled with the cost of this contest, a new and supposedly better government was declared, and life went on.

 

The Roman Pontiff had meanwhile regained control of the Spanish gold and silver and sequestered it away in family trusts bearing the names of Conquistadors: Rodriguez, Santiago, D'Avila....and the list goes on.  All this gold and silver was the wealth of private individuals and their heirs, but it was guarded and parceled out by Church Trustees who were careful to restrict access to the funds except for credit---- thus manipulating supply and increasing the value of gold and silver by restricting it.

 

The heirs and beneficiaries had no complaints, as they had all the credit in the world, and their assets safely socked away out of circulation steadily gained value.  The Church became fat and then fatter on its share of the profit from this and became more involved in worldly affairs and commodity market manipulations and insurances scams and other profit-making schemes. 

 

By 1819 the Americans had gotten wind that the British King had secretly issued Letters of Marque against them and had issued privateer licenses to members of the Bar Associations.  The states ratified an Amendment to the original Constitution putting teeth into a prohibition that had always been part of the agreement, forbidding people in possession of foreign Titles of Nobility (such as Esquire) from holding public office in our government.

 

Despite this, Abraham Lincoln, an Esquire and a Bar Member, was elected President in 1860. He could not hold the public office, but he could hold the private office of "President" acting as CEO of the United States (Trading Company).  Most Americans were none the wiser and in those days there was no internet. 

 

Our Great-Grandparents were fed horse hooey and suckered along, promised the end of Negro slavery, when in fact what the perpetrators secretly proposed was to enslave everyone in a modern system of commercial feudalism that was engineered in Great Britain by Benjamin D'Israeli as a means to fund the Raj in India and vastly increase the wealth and political power of Queen Victoria.  A century and a half later the vermin are still at it and using the slave labor of one nation, ours, to enslave others.  

 

In March 1861 the Southern States walked out of Congress and in so doing destroyed the original union created by the Articles of Confederation (1781).  They promptly wrote their own articles and re-created a union of Confederate States of America.  To this day, it is the only actual and lawful union of sovereign states left standing on this continent.

 

The Northern States under Lincoln quickly devolved into a military dictatorship. Lincoln assumed the role of Commander-in-Chief and ordered the members of Congress back into session.  They still serve at the President's pleasure and the long slide into darkness and corruption began. 

 

The two old rivals, the remnants of the Dutch East India Trading Company, and the British Crown went head to head a second time, as the United States and the United States of America, respectively. 

 

At this point we note another necessary, nasty truth that is never taught in school.

 

There was in fact no such thing as the American Civil War. 

 

There is no declaration starting the conflict and no peace treaty ending it. What we euphemistically call the "American Civil War" or "War of Secession" was in fact an illegal commercial mercenary war for profit staged on our shores by two foreign commercial companies vying for control of our commerce and our natural resources.

 

This time, the Brits nominally won, with the South left in ruins and the North left in bankruptcy and the American people and their states saddled again with the expense of the conflict. 

 

Ever since 1860 this country and the American people have been the prey and the victims of British overlords disguised in judge's robes and the nice suits of "trustees" working the biggest racketeering scam in human history. 

 

We have been literally enslaved in the "Land of the Free" for 150 years and forced to pay off the costs of two World Wars, plus the cost of rebuilding Europe and Japan ---- and all under the rankest conditions of fraud and deceit and non-disclosure practiced against us by successive British Monarchs--- men and women who were all obligated by the most solemn treaties to act as our Trustees on the High Seas and Inland Waterways.

 

You will never guess how they did it. 

 

By copyright infringement, trademark enclosures, and deceptively similar names deceits.

 

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to power in 1932 he ascended the throne of a dictatorial foreign military government that was already well-established as the Bully Boy Muscle for British Big Mouths----and all at American expense. 

 

By the time he left office, the vassal "Congress" had formally granted him over 350 new powers never established under any constitution, enabling him to rule America all by himself.  The actual states of the union had been bankrupted by assumption---- a process of "hypothecating" debt against them in collusion with foreign creditors, and millions of innocent Americans had been conscripted, enslaved, and "enfranchised"---- all for "the war effort", of course.

 

But the wars didn't end and American industry was never re-tooled for peace.  The British overlords now working in collusion with their former Dutch enemies to mutually prey upon the Americans kept us in a perpetual and bloody war for profit all over the globe.  Their respective Team Storefronts, the Republicans and the Democrats, had already become a joke by the end of World War II with the returning G.I.'s smirking and saying, "Yeah, they select 'em and we elect 'em. Two different flavors of puke."  

 

It would take several more major bloody conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and innumerable smaller police actions worldwide before Americans would begin to wake up and smell the rot. 

 

Absolutely everything that has gone on in this country since at least 1860 has been the result of fraud and force and con jobs from people who are supposed to be here on our shores providing us with stipulated governmental services in Good Faith and who have no other legitimate excuse for being here, period.

 

For those unlearned in law, fraud taints everything it touches.  Fraud "vitiates" the most solemn contracts and agreements and treaties.  It renders everything proceeding from it null and void, as if it never existed. 

 

Everything---absolutely everything--- that has happened in this country since Lincoln has been tainted by fraud. 

 

There is no Lieber Code.  No Reconstruction Acts.  No War Powers Act.  No Military Districts.  No rewritten State Constitutions. No Trading With the Enemy Act.  No Federal Reserve.  No enfranchisement.  No District of Columbia Municipal Corporation.  No Income Tax.  No Fourteenth Amendment. No "Constitution of the United States of America" published in 1868. No Insular Tariff Cases. No 350 new "presidential powers".  No Executive Orders.  No Territorial Jurisdiction.  No Municipal Corporations Act. No Lawful Declaration of War in World War I or II.  No Bretton Woods.  No Camp David.  No Government Agencies. No EPA.  No FBI.  No IRS.  No DHS. No mandatory vaccinations. No RFID chips.  No National Debt. No mortgages. No valid foreclosures. No Marriage Licenses.  No Driver Licenses. No "State" Statutes published under any private copyright. No Federal Code since 1860.  No Uniform Commercial Code.  No Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.  No National Parks.  No vast holdings of "Federal Lands" in any western state.

 

Toss it all in the garbage can, good and bad.  And while we are at it, we might as well toss all the control mechanisms like the "Two Party System" and the monopolized foreign mainstream media, too.  

 

The only courts having anything to do with us and our assets are Postal District Courts run by our own state jural societies operating in international jurisdiction and national courts run by our own jural assemblies in land-based counties and states. The only valid federal laws are the United States Statutes at Large.  The only valid state laws are those formulated prior to 1860.  There are in fact no new states that have been added to the union since 1860--- all the western states except California and Texas have merely existed as "states in waiting", promised all the rights and prerogatives of a state without actually being enrolled. 

 

And, no, we don't have to wait for someone to decide any of this for us.  We just have to fix the judges and the police with an icy stare and share the information.  And get busy forming our own jural assemblies and jural societies and setting up our own lawful courts and running our own counties and operating our actual states again. 

 

The moment we realize that the American Civil War was an illegal private mercenary action, we realize that everything that proceeded from it is fraudulent, and the game is over.  All that remains is what has to remain--- the American military on watch.  The rest is ours to decide, to shape and amend and transcend as we must. 

 

As for the "UNITED STATES" and "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and the "UNITED KINGDOM" and all the rest of the criminally complicit corporate governments?  When what is true comes, what is false must pass away. 

 

That is the actual law and the only law that counts.

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Why Is Obama Still In Office?

Treason  of  the  Highest  Order                 Why  Is  Obama  Still  In  Office?

 

 

President Obama has placed every American at grave risk this morning with the virtual decommissioning of our aircraft carriers, by placing them all in port at the same time. This is treason and it is national suicide.

Before we can understand the gravity of the situation, it might be valuable to examine a prior event in our history that can shed some light on what Obama has just done.

Pearl Harbor

In 1941, President Roosevelt was concerned that Germany had done enough to win World War II. In particular, FDR was receiving information from scientists, mostly Jewish, who had escaped Hitler and had some to a great deal of knowledge regarding the construction and application of an atomic bomb.

What made the Nazi construction of an atomic bomb so very concerning was that Germany was developing the capacity to deliver the bomb via rocket. The Germans first developed the V-1 and then later the V-2 rocket. They were striking London and other parts of Great Britain with regular explosives up until near the end of World War II.  If the rockets had atomic weapons on them, World War II would have ended with a Nazi victory. Further, it is safe to say that if the US had not entered the war when it did, our country, and the world, would have had a far different outcome.

The False Flag of Pearl Harbor

Following the end of the war, a secret document surfaced called the Eight Point Plan, which was a document which described 8 provocations designed to get the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor. History demonstrated that all eight were carried out (e.g. cutting of scrap metal shipments to Japan, moving the Pacific Fleet headquarters halfway to Japan in a move which took the fleet from San Diego to Hawaii).

Without going into great detail, it is now clear that the US had plenty of advanced warning of the approaching Japanese fleet. This information was kept from the Pearl Harbor base commanders, Admiral Kimmel and General Short.  Further, Short was ordered to line up the planes at Hickam Field in a straight line, thus making them easier to destroy. On Battleship Row, the battleships were aligned in a row also and as should have been protocol in a war zone, some of the battleships should have always been out to sea in the event of an attack. Pentagon orders prevented such defensive measures. Why? Because Roosevelt was dealing with an isolationist population that wanted nothing to with the raging war.

Roosevelt had to shock the American people into a wave of anger resulting from a Japanese “sneak attack”, and this was all designed to promote war fever by allowing Pearl Harbor to be destroyed. Interestingly, the aircraft carriers, the one ship that the US could not lose if they had hoped to effectively fight in the Pacific, could not be destroyed. So, they were all conveniently out to sea at the time of the attack. The strategy worked and the American public demanded war after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Interestingly, America developed a defeat Germany first policy, even though it had been Japan that had attacked the US.

As a point of contrast, FDR was trying to ensure American victory. Obama’s recent action of confining our carriers to port is designed to do the opposite.

Parallel Event

Mark Twain once said that history may not repeat but it sure does rhyme. President Obama has engaged in a military practice that is so bizarre and so utterly catastrophic to the defense of the United States and our key allies, that I have a hard time concluding that this is an accident. What Obama has done is nothing short of treason and quite frankly, I am surprised, based on the gravity of the situation, that the military has not enacted a coup against Obama.
Never before in the history of the United States, has the country been in so much danger. Obama, in a time of near war, has already reduced our military to pre-World War II levels. Obama has destroyed the leadership our proud military by firing over 300 command officers. And now, he is engaged in abject treason against the United States people and its military protectors.

No Carriers at Sea

There are no US carriers anywhere in the world at the present moment. By having the carriers in port, the heart and soul of the US Navy has been reduced to the status of a sitting duck. This is Pearl Harbor all over again where our carriers, like the planes and battleships at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, were set up to be destroyed. However, FDR’s actions were designed to save America, no matter how ill-conceived the plot. This latest move by Obama is setting up the Navy to be obliterated by a small number of surgical strikes involving nuclear weapons. If our carriers are destroyed it is game over because we lose the ability to take the fight to the enemy. Carrier superiority is the one major advantage we still enjoy over Russia and China and Obama is doing his best to negate this advantage and turn it into a handicap.

The Loss of all Military Options in Key Areas of the World

Another danger posed by Obama’s strategy of confining the carriers to port has to do with the fact that any of our enemies are free to attack with a reasonable expectation of success anywhere in the world because we are unable to respond. For example, our actions have told the Chinese that they can completely shut down sea traffic through the disputed South China Sea. Additionally, China can now make a move on Taiwan or even Japan and there is nothing we can do with our conventional forces. Only the nuclear option is available. And this is what the globalists want, they want a nuclear war that will inflict maximum casualties to further their well-publicized depopulation agenda. As I said, if we in the Independent Media can figure this out and assign meaning to these treasonous actions, then where is the military? For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the military, at minimum is not standing down in the face of this treason. At maximum, if there was ever an action so dastardly to warrant a coup, this would be that time.

Conclusion

I have documented other acts of treason on the part of Obama. However, this is the most dangerous. Today, we all woke up in a country that has invited its enemies to attack with near impunity when it comes to our convention forces. Ask your Congressional representative why they have not enacted articles of impeachment against this Pretender-In-Chief.
Seventeen more days of treason are ahead of us until this modern day Benedict Arnold leaves office.

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/01/03/treason-of-the-highest-order-why-is-obama-still-in-office/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=treason-of-the-highest-order-why-is-obama-still-in-office

My, how times have changed!

 

 

 MY, HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED!

I used to think I was just a regular guy, but . . . 

 

I was born white, which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a 'racist.' 

 

I am a fiscal and moral conservative,

which by today's standards, makes me a 'fascist.'

 

I am heterosexual, which according to gay folks, now makes me a 'homophobe.'

 

I am non-union, which makes me a 'traitor' to the working class

and an 'ally of big business.'

 

I am not Islamic, therefore, Islamic folks label me an 'infidel.' 

 

I believe in the 2nd Amendment,

which now makes me a member of the 'vast gun lobby.'

 

I am older than 70, which makes me a 'useless old man.'    
I think and reason, therefore,

I doubt much that the main stream media tells me,

which must make me a 'reactionary.'

 

I vote in favor of borders, language and culture.

Therefore, I'm labelled part of the 'vast right-wing conspiracy.'

 

I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture

which makes me a 'xenophobe.'

 

I value my safety and that of my family

 and I appreciate the police and the legal system,

which makes me a 'right-wing extremist.'

 

I believe in hard work, fair play and fair compensation

according to each individual's merits,

which today makes me an 'anti-socialist.'

 

I believe in the defense and protection of the homeland for and by all citizens,

which now makes me a 'militant.'

 

Now, a sick old woman is calling me and my friends a 'basket of deplorables.'

 

Please help me come to terms with the new me . . .

because I'm just not sure who I am anymore!

 

I would like to thank all my friends for sticking with me through these abrupt,

new-found changes in my life and my thinking!

 

I just can't imagine or understand what's happened to me so quickly!

 

Funny . . . it's all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years!

 

As if all this nonsense wasn't enough to deal with . . .

I'm now afraid to go into either restroom! 

FORD CANCELS MEXICO PLANT; EXPANDING IN MICHIGAN...

Ford is canceling plans to build a new plant in Mexico. It will invest $700 million in Michigan instead, creating 700 new U.S. jobs.

Ford (F) CEO Mark Fields said the investment is a "vote of confidence" in the pro-business environment being created by Donald Trump. However, he stressed Ford did not do any sort of special deal with the president-elect.
"We didn't cut a deal with Trump. We did it for our business," Fields told CNN's Poppy Harlow in an exclusive interview Tuesday.
The $700 million investment will go to the Flat Rock, Michigan plant to produce more electric and self-driving cars. Ford believes electrified vehicles will outsell gas-powered vehicles within the next 15 years.
Ford is planning to roll out seven new electric vehicles in the next five years, including a Mustang Hybrid.
This is a major U-turn for Ford. Trump repeatedly slammed Ford on the campaign trail for shipping U.S. jobs to Mexico (a claim the company said was wrong). The president-elect has kept up the pressure. Just hours before the Ford announcement, Trump criticized GM (GM) for producing cars in Mexico. All of the big car manufacturers currently have some production in Mexico.
Related: Sprint will create 5,000 U.S. jobs
A big U-turn for Ford
Last year, Ford announced it would invest $1.6 billion in Mexico to transfer production of the Ford Focus from Michigan to Mexico to save costs. Now the Focus will be built at an existing plant in Hermosillo, Mexico, and Ford will instead expand its plant in Michigan.
Trump threatened to slap a 35% tariff on Ford vehicles made in Mexico and sold in the U.S., although experts say it is not possible for Trump do that to a single U.S. company.
The president-elect reiterated that threat again to GM Tuesday, tweeting, "Make in U.S.A. or pay big border tax!"
Ford's CEO tried to walk a delicate line on how much Trump influenced this major change in the company's plans. He praised Trump for his vows to cut taxes and scale back regulations on businesses, but stressed Ford's decision was "done independently" of the president.
"This does make a heck of a lot of sense for business reasons. Political favor is an advantageous byproduct," says Bernard Swiecki, senior automotive analyst at the Center for Automotive Research in Michigan.
Ford is saving money by investing only $700 million instead of the $1.6 billion it originally planned.
After record years of U.S. car sales, there are signs of a slowdown. Small cars have been especially lousy sellers lately, which is why Ford is still moving production to Mexico. U.S. car workers make an average of $28 an hour, Swiecki says. In Mexico, workers average about $5.50 an hour.
Related: Car sales: The party may be over
Ford workers cheer
Trump won a lot of support from union workers for his tough talk on stopping jobs from going abroad and renegotiating NAFTA. The United Auto Workers union that represents Ford workers was "thrilled" with Ford's new plans. So were employees at the Flat Rock plant.
"It's great news. Great for our future here, especially the new hires," Chris Romano, a Ford factory worker in Flat Rock, told CNN.
Workers at the plant make $20 to $30 an hour, Romano said. He believes it was a "good call" by Trump to pressure companies to keep jobs in the U.S.
The Mexican government said it "regrets" Ford's decision and stressed that jobs created in Mexico are not necessarily a loss for the U.S.
"Jobs created in Mexico have contributed to maintaining manufacturing jobs in the United States, which would otherwise have disappeared to Asian competition," the Mexican government said in a statement Tuesday.
Trump taking credit for jobs
Ford currently employs 85,000 Americans, up 28,000, or nearly 50%, from five years ago. In Mexico, Ford employs 8,800.
The automaker fought back against Trump's rhetoric on the campaign trail, saying he had his facts wrong and that the company never planned to cut any U.S. jobs. In October, Bill Ford called Trump's criticism of the automaker founded by his great-grandfather "infuriating." Now the company is softening its tone.
Ford stock jumped over 3% after the announcement.
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway tweeted out the Ford news with just one comment: "#AmericaFirst." Trump has been taking credit for a number of announcements companies like Carrier and Sprint have made in recent weeks to keep jobs in the U.S. or create new ones.
So far, commitments of 51,500 jobs have been made by Carrier (800 jobs), Ford (700 jobs) and SoftBank (50,000 jobs, which includes the 5,000 at Sprint), although it's controversial how much of a role Trump played.
The U.S. has been averaging about 125,000 private sector job gains a month for the past year under President Obama.

 http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/03/news/economy/ford-700-jobs-trump/index.html

GREAT AGAIN: CONSTRUCTION HITS 10 YEAR HIGH...

U.S. construction spending rose more than expected in November, reaching its highest level in 10-1/2 years, which could provide a lift to fourth-quarter economic growth.
The Commerce Department said on Tuesday that construction spending increased 0.9 percent to $1.18 trillion, the highest level since April 2006. It was boosted by gains in both private and public sector investment
Construction spending in October was revised up to show a 0.6 percent rise instead of the previously reported 0.5 percent increase. Construction spending was up 4.1 percent from a year ago in November.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast construction spending rising 0.6 percent in November. November's better-than-expected increase and October's upward revision to construction spending could prompt economists to raise their gross domestic product estimates for the fourth quarter.
Spending on private construction projects jumped 1.0 percent in November to its highest level since July 2006 as single-family home building, as well as home renovations, increased.
Investment in private nonresidential structures — which include factories, hospitals and roads — rose 0.9 percent after tumbling 1.5 percent the prior month.
Public construction spending gained 0.8 percent in November to the highest level since March. It was the fourth straight month of increases. Outlays on state and local government construction projects rose 0.6 percent, also gaining for a fourth consecutive month.
Federal government construction spending surged 3.1 percent after rising 0.2 percent in October.

US manufacturing expanded in December

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in December, according to The Institute for Supply Management on Tuesday, and the overall economy grew for the 91st consecutive month.
The U.S. manufacturing index was hit 54.7, an increase of 1.5 percentage points from the November reading of 53.2 percent. Economist expected the index to hit 53.5 for December, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate.
The ISM manufacturing index has topped 50 for nine of the last 10 months. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the manufacturing sector and a reading below 50 indicates contraction.
"Of the 18 manufacturing industries, 11 are reporting growth in December," Bradley Holcomb, chair of the Institute for Supply Management, said in the report.

U.S. factories are steadily rebounding from a rough patch hit in late 2015 and early 2016. The decline in energy prices caused cutbacks in orders for equipment and pipelines, while a stronger dollar and slower economic growth abroad hurt exports.

—CNBC's Berkeley Lovelace and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/03/construction-spending-in-nov-2016-ism-manufacturing-in-dec.html

Good News: Washington Frozen Out of Syria Peace Plan Written by Ron Paul

As the US mainstream media obsessed last week about Russia's supposed “hacking” of the US elections and President Obama’s final round of Russia sanctions in response, something very important was taking place under the media radar. As a result of a meeting between foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, and Turkey last month, a ceasefire in Syria has been worked out and is being implemented. So far it appears to be holding, and after nearly six years of horrible warfare the people of Syria are finally facing the possibility of rebuilding their lives.

What is so important about this particular ceasefire? It was planned, agreed to, and implemented without the participation of the United States Government.

In fact it was frustration with Washington’s refusal to separate its “moderates” from terrorist groups and its continued insistence on regime change for the Syrian government that led the three countries to pursue a solution on their own for Syria. They also included the Syrian government and much of the opposition in the agreement, which the US government has been unwilling to do.

We have been told all along by the neocons and “humanitarian interventionists” that the United States must take a central role in every world crisis or nothing will ever be solved. We are the “indispensable nation,” they say, and without our involvement the world will collapse. Our credibility is on the line, they claim, and if we don’t step up no one will. All this is untrue, as we have seen last week.

The fact is, it is often US involvement in “solving” these crises that actually perpetuates them. Consider the 60-plus year state of war between North and South Korea. Has US intervention done anything to solve the problem? How about our decades of meddling in the Israel-Palestine dispute? Are we any closer to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians despite the billions we have spent bribing and interfering?

Non-intervention in the affairs of others does not damage US credibility overseas. It is US meddling, bombing, droning, and regime-changing that damages our credibility overseas. US obstruction in Syria kept the war going. As the Syrians and Russians were liberating east Aleppo from its four year siege by al-Qaeda, the Obama Administration was demanding a ceasefire. As Syrians began to move back into their homes in east Aleppo, the State Department continued to tell us that the Russians and Syrian government were slaughtering civilians for the fun of it.

So why all the media attention on unproven accusations of Russian hacking and President Obama’s predictable, yet meaningless response? The mainstream media does the bidding of Washington’s interventionists and they are desperate to divert attention from what may prove to be the beginning of the end of Syria’s long nightmare. They don’t want Americans to know that the rest of the world can solve its own problems without the US global policemen in the center of the action. When it is finally understood that we don’t need to be involved for crises to be solved overseas, the neocons will lose. Let’s hope that happens soon!

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Bye Bye Privacy and Freedom

The Ministry of Truth Opens June 21^st

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE · Jan 3rd, 2017

This is neither a joke nor an exaggeration. Everything we’ll cover here has already passed both Houses of the US congress and was signed into law by Barack Obama on December 23, 2016. You can find the entire 969 page bill here (PDF). I’ll be quoting (in italics) from Section 1287.

 

Scope

This new organ of the state, called the “Global Engagement Center” is of immense scope. Here are some particulars:

It will address all information – from anyone – that might affect “national security,” a term which is not defined, meaning that it can be defined however it suits the people in charge.

… to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining United States national security interests. 

It is authorized to work with deep state players and their networks of power, which again, are not specified.

Analyze relevant information… from United States Government agencies, United States allies and partner nations, think tanks, academic institutions, civil society groups, and other nongovernmental organizations. 

It will be promoting its own versions of truth.

… support the development and dissemination of fact-based narratives and analysis to counter propaganda…

It will do this through a network of sycophants and partners, none of whom are named.

… provide grants or contracts of financial support to civil society groups, media content providers, nongovernmental organizations, federally funded research and development centers, private companies, or academic institutions…

To support local independent media…

They’ll be running their own surveillance.

Maintain, collect, use, and disseminate records… for research and data analysis of foreign state and non-state propaganda…

It’s funding isn’t really specified, but significant numbers are used.

If amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out the functions of the Center… for fiscal year 2017 are less than $80,000,000, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to transfer, from amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2017, to the Secretary of State an amount, not to exceed $60,000,000, to be available to carry out the functions of the Center…

The department will be spreading a lot of money to a wide range of sycophants and partners.

The Center is authorized to provide grants or contracts of financial support to civil society groups, media content providers, nongovernmental organizations, federally funded research and development centers, private companies, or academic institutions…

It is authorized for eight years.

The Center shall terminate on the date that is 8 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

It is setup to take over Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks.

If the Chief Executive Officer determines at any time that Radio Free Asia is not carrying out the functions described in this section in an effective and economical manner, the Board may award the grant to carry out such functions to another entity.

… may condition annual grants to RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks on the consolidation of such grantees into a single, consolidated private, non-profit corporation…

The states will be forced to remain in lock-step.

No State or political subdivision of a State may establish, enforce, or continue in effect any provision of law or legal requirement that is different from, or is in conflict with, any requirement or authority applicable under this Act…

The safeguards are non-specific and toothless.

The Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service shall respect the journalistic integrity of all the broadcasters covered by this Act and may not evaluate the philosophical or political perspectives reflected in the content of broadcasts.

 

What This Means

Here, in summary, is what this means:

• The US State Department – more or less the seat of the deep state – will be opening a Ministry of Truth, version 1.0, beginning “180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.” That is, by June 21, 2017.
  
• This outfit will work through networks of power more than government offices. That means that its actions will come at us from behind a blind. No one will be able to point to a face that can be blamed. The players will be scattered, their actions dispersed; they won’t be publicly seen or named.
  
• An unknown amount of money will be spent on this. $80,000,000. per year should be considered a minimal figure.
  
• Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks – along with their budgets – will be rolled into this department at some point. If not at first, almost certainly at the first good opportunity. (That is, when the populace is frightened and/or distracted.)

I should add that salvation via the Trump administration should be considered a wild long-shot at best. The entire intelligence apparatus will be strongly behind this. The heads of the NSA, CIA, DIA, the Pentagon, and a dozen others will be telling Donald and his boys that it means life or death. And beside, it’ll already be in place; it won’t be Trump’s fault.

I hasten to remind anyone leaning that way to remember the words of Lord Acton. Every time we’ve forgotten them, they’ve come back to bite us:

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. 

Neither Trump nor his people bear the nature of angels. The bureaucrats at the State Department don’t, either, nor do their NGOs, think thanks, academics and business partners. Power will do what it always does.

PDF ATTACHED  https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s2943/BILLS-114s2943enr.pdf

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http://www.freemansperspective.com/ministry-truth-opens-june-21st/


I can remember a few years back certain brave librarians (who still had a moral code) pushing back, refusing to provide 'them' with information about who read what books. In this era of 'everything digital' books and articles, it is just too easy to 'turn off the spigot' (or squeeze it to a thin stream) for items that go against the grain for The Powers That Were (real soon now). Some of us have to change email subject lines or change volatile key words to get past the Big Filtering Gateways.

Solution: Keep remembering there are billions more of US than there are of THEM. Learn how to duck and dodge and keep the lines open.

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US v. Federal Districts, Or, Stop Being Stupid Part 12

Link: http://www.paulstramer.net/2017/01/us-v-federal-districts-or-stop-being.html

By Anna Von Retiz

George Washington divided the country into districts for the purpose of administering the duties of the federal government.  He has been accused of treason for doing so by those who never comprehended the organization of the government in the first place. 

 

While George's detractors rightfully object that he deployed foreign government via the districts established upon our shores, they fail to recognize that the states allowed this by subscribing to the constitutional agreement and delegating the enumerated powers (which are really services to be rendered by the federal entity) to the federal government. 

 

Foreign it was and foreign it is, but as long as we adhere to the actual Constitution, the Federales are allowed to establish their foreign administrative units, called "districts" as they please. 

 

The first districts on this continent, however, were not established by George Washington.  They were established by Benjamin Franklin operating as a private contractor and Post Master.  Well-prior to the Revolutionary War, Franklin established a network of "Post Roads" which he surveyed himself, and a system of Postal Districts served by these Post Roads and by Post Offices.

 

Post Roads, Postal Districts, and Post Offices are all international service conduits  and service areas established on the jurisdiction of the land of the host nation for the purpose of providing postal services.  These all exist under Postal Treaties allowing their presence on our soil.

 

George, for his part, just piggy-backed his foreign, international service districts called "United States Districts" and later municipal districts doing business as  "US DISTRICTS" on top of the pre-existing Postal Districts.  Taken together these are sometimes grouped together and called "Federal Districts", but over time, the common usage has also been separated along more functional guidelines--- with "United States Districts" coming to be  associated with military and constitutionally mandated service functions and "Federal Districts" more often referring to non-military international service areas and facilities such as Post Offices and Free Trade Zones established by treaty on the land jurisdiction of the various states.

 

Thus, United States Districts are administrative service areas established on our land for the purpose of organizing and delivering the constitutionally mandated functions of the federal government entity, and Federal Districts are underlying administrative international service areas created by specific treaties, most importantly postal treaties, that are held by the states and which pre-date the Revolution.

 

Now, as you are reading the actual Constitution you will notice that the Founders very carefully excluded the federal government from having any functions or duties related to the land jurisdiction of the states.  In this way, they sought to maintain Checks and Balances, so that the federal functions were cordoned off in the international jurisdiction of the sea, and the prerogatives of the states were jealously guarded on the jurisdiction of the land. 

 

The only clause in the entire Constitution that allows any function affecting the administration of the states to the federal government is the infamous "interstate commerce clause"----and even that, properly understood, is merely a guarantee against the various states using tariffs and import restrictions against the free flow of goods from other states of the Union.  That is, the interstate commerce clause exists to ensure free trade between the states, and not for any other purpose of regulation.

 

Thus, the United States is restricted from interfering with the land jurisdiction of the states and the people by the actual Constitution, and all other Federal functions are limited by treaties with the states acting under the international powers retained by the states and people in Article X---the most venerable of which, the Postal Union Treaties, are still in effect.

 

This brings up a very, very important point--- the states and people have retained international jurisdiction over all "non-delegated powers".  Anything that is not specifically and explicitly delegated to the federal government, remains the exclusive right and prerogative of the states and people.

 

As a result of the foregoing circumstance the United States needed its own district and its own postal treaty and its own postal service called the United States Postal Service in order to form a separate seat of government -- hence the need to form the District of Columbia. 

 

When you use the "United States Postal Service" you are using the federal government's in-house postal service, but in order to provide service throughout the country, they are piggy-backing on your state's separate postal contracts, post roads, and post offices.  They are making use of your state Postal Districts. This leads to a bifurcation of services under one roof.

 

In Federal-ese, federal government mail is "domestic" with respect to the United States Government and its employees.  Take a look at Title 39 United States Code Section 3003, 1341, and 1342.   The use of a ZIP CODE is voluntary, per Domestic Mail Services Regulation Section 122.32 "Non-discrimination for NON-USE of Zip Codes".  Also see ZIP CODE per Public Law 91-325, Section 403.

 

These citations make it clear that for people living in the states who are not federal employees or dependents known as "citizens", the use of the ZIP CODE is entirely voluntary ---  and we are free to reinterpret it as we see fit, should we decide to note it on our correspondences as a "Postal Code Extension" or as a Rural Route Number existing outside the federal government's domestic (in-house) system.

 

You can address your mail like this:

 

John Michael Doe

1040 Mayberry Street

Rural route 54615

Black River Falls, Wisconsin

 

Or like this:

 

John Michael Doe

1040 Mayberry Street

Black River Falls, Wisconsin

Postal Extension 54615

 

Instead of:

 

John Michael Doe

1040 Mayberry Street

Black River Falls, Wisconsin 54615

 

The first two addresses are private non-domestic mail and the sender has just been kind enough to reference the postal code to expedite mail service.  The third version is domestic mail with respect to the federal United States -- that is, government mail at an in-house government address. 

 

Obviously, if you are not functioning as a government employee or dependent, you don't want your mail incorrectly addressed, but more importantly, this whole situation points out the underlying dichotomy that has caused us and our nation so much harm. 

 

By allowing the "United States" to presume upon us and to assume that we are one of their "citizens" we become subject to their foreign government(s) both corporate and municipal, and allow them to accumulate evidence against our claim to be "free and independent" men and women. 

 

Thus, through our ignorance and their self-interested Bad Faith, the federal government operating as a succession of "governmental services corporations"

has usurped upon us and upon our lawful government and contrived to paper over our very natures and identities, pretending that we are mere franchisees or worse, franchises, of their own corporations instead of their benefactors and employers.

 

The so-called federal government and its agency contractors have failed to discipline themselves appropriately and failed to properly inform both the public and their own employees concerning their nature and limitations which has led to corruption and mis-administration on a staggering scale.

 

The Postal District of your state on the land belongs to you and is operated under Article X of the actual Constitution. This unique land-controlled international jurisdiction belongs to you and your state on the land --- which is a state, e.g., California State, and not a "State of State" such as the "State of California". 

 

 Just as there are "United States District Courts" operating in the international jurisdiction of the sea with respect to constitutionally mandated duties, there are "Federal Postal District Courts" operating in the international jurisdiction of the sea with respect to non-delegated prerogatives of the states and people.

 

One of the non-delegated prerogatives is anything whatsoever to do with your actual body and actual estate on the land, which includes the use and possession of your actual trade (given) name---which has been commandeered under false pretenses and misused to create no end of mischief "in your name" without your knowledge or consent.

 

This infringement upon your identity and credit is a form of identity theft resulting in personage and copyright infringement practiced by trademark enclosure. This is a war crime of "genocide on paper" being practiced against us by gangs of thugs who have also misrepresented the so-called "American Civil War"  as an actual war-- instead of an illegal mercenary action-- in their attempt to disguise and justify their actions.

 

Well, folks, now you know all the basics.  Use your Federal Postal District Courts to kick the ever-loving stuffing out of these vermin and send them packing back to Washington, DC to consider their sins. You will need to organize yourselves, repudiate the false claim that you are any form of "United States Citizen" or "citizen of the United States", reassert your birthright standing as American state nationals, and reclaim your county and state governments. As you are forming your Jural Assemblies you may also form a Jural Society to operate the Federal Postal District Court your state is owed. 

 

Get started.  

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Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid

The Washington Post on Friday reported a genuinely alarming event: Russian hackers have penetrated the U.S. power system through an electrical grid in Vermont. The Post headline conveyed the seriousness of the threat:

The first sentence of the article directly linked this cyberattack to alleged Russian hacking of the email accounts of the DNC and John Podesta — what is now routinely referred to as “Russian hacking of our election” — by referencing the code name revealed on Wednesday by the Obama administration when it announced sanctions on Russian officials: “A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials.”
The Post article contained grave statements from Vermont officials of the type politicians love to issue after a terrorist attack to show they are tough and in control. The state’s Democratic governor, Peter Shumlin, said:

Vermonters and all Americans should be both alarmed and outraged that one of the world’s leading thugs, Vladimir Putin, has been attempting to hack our electric grid, which we rely upon to support our quality of life, economy, health, and safety. This episode should highlight the urgent need for our federal government to vigorously pursue and put an end to this sort of Russian meddling.

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy issued a statement warning: “This is beyond hackers having electronic joy rides — this is now about trying to access utilities to potentially manipulate the grid and shut it down in the middle of winter. That is a direct threat to Vermont and we do not take it lightly.”
The article went on and on in that vein, with all the standard tactics used by the U.S. media for such stories: quoting anonymous national security officials, reviewing past acts of Russian treachery, and drawing the scariest possible conclusions (“‘The question remains: Are they in other systems and what was the intent?’ a U.S. official said”). 
The media reactions, as Alex Pfeiffer documents, were exactly what one would expect: hysterical, alarmist proclamations of Putin’s menacing evil:

Our Russian "friend" Putin attacked the U.S. power grid. https://t.co/iAneRgbuhF

— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) December 31, 2016

NEW: "One of the world's leading thugs, [Putin] has been attempting to hack our electric grid," says VT Gov. Shumlin https://t.co/YgdtT4JrlX pic.twitter.com/AU0ZQjT3aO

— ABC News (@ABC) December 31, 2016

Yikes. https://t.co/cXsyd1RHOK

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) December 31, 2016

The Post’s story also predictably and very rapidly infected other large media outlets. Reuters thus told its readers around the world: “A malware code associated with Russian hackers has reportedly been detected within the system of a Vermont electric utility.”

What’s the problem here? It did not happen.
There was no “penetration of the U.S. electricity grid.” The truth was undramatic and banal. Burlington Electric, after receiving a Homeland Security notice sent to all U.S. utility companies about the malware code found in the DNC system, searched all its computers and found the code in a single laptop that was not connected to the electric grid.
Apparently, the Post did not even bother to contact the company before running its wildly sensationalistic claims, so Burlington Electric had to issue its own statement to the Burlington Free Press, which debunked the Post’s central claim (emphasis in original): “We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop not connected to our organization’s grid systems.”
So the key scary claim of the Post story — that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid — was false. All the alarmist tough-guy statements issued by political officials who believed the Post’s claim were based on fiction.
Even worse, there is zero evidence that Russian hackers were even responsible for the implanting of this malware on this single laptop. The fact that malware is “Russian-made” does not mean that only Russians can use it; indeed, like a lot of malware, it can be purchased (as Jeffrey Carr has pointed out in the DNC hacking context, assuming that Russian-made malware must have been used by Russians is as irrational as finding a Russian-made Kalishnikov AKM rifle at a crime scene and assuming the killer must be Russian).
As the actual truth emerged once the utility company issued its statement, the Post rushed to fix its embarrassment, beginning by dramatically changing its headline:

The headline is still absurd: They have no idea that this malware was placed by a “Russian operation” (though they would likely justify that by pointing out that they are just stenographically passing along what “officials say”). Moreover, nobody knows when this malware was put on this laptop, how, or by whom. But whatever else is true, the key claim — “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid” — has now been replaced by the claim that this all shows “risk to U.S. electrical grid.”
As journalists realized what did — and did not — actually happen here, the reaction was swift:

1) Not an infiltration of the power grid.
2) "Russian" malware can be purchased online by anyone.
3) See 1 & 2. https://t.co/bVIG8zQBsk

— Dell Cameron (@dellcam) December 31, 2016

Pretty amazing how badly the Post appears to have mangled this one. You didn't call the Vermont utility regulator before publishing?

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) December 31, 2016

My money's on this all turns out to be commodity malware and not even APT28/APT29 and everyone jumping on the bandwagon will look v silly

— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) December 31, 2016

This matters not only because one of the nation’s major newspapers once again published a wildly misleading, fearmongering story about Russia. It matters even more because it reflects the deeply irrational and ever-spiraling fever that is being cultivated in U.S. political discourse and culture about the threat posed by Moscow.
The Post has many excellent reporters and smart editors. They have produced many great stories this year. But this kind of blatantly irresponsible and sensationalist tabloid behavior — which tracks what they did when promoting that grotesque PropOrNot blacklist of U.S. news outlets accused of being Kremlin tools — is a byproduct of the Anything Goes mentality that now shapes mainstream discussion of Russia, Putin, and the Grave Threat to All Things Decent in America that they pose.
The level of groupthink, fearmongering, coercive peer pressure, and über-nationalism has not been seen since the halcyon days of 2002 and 2003. Indeed, the very same people who back then smeared anyone questioning official claims as Saddam sympathizers or stooges and left-wing un-American loons are back for their sequel, accusing anyone who expresses any skepticism toward claims about Russia of being Putin sympathizers and Kremlin operatives and stooges.
But it’s all severely exacerbated by social media in ways that we don’t yet fully understand. A large percentage of journalists sit on Twitter all day. It’s their primary window into the world. Because of how intense and raw the emotions still are from Trump’s defeat of Clinton, the social media benefits from tweeting and publishing unhinged claims about Trump and Putin are immense and immediate: thousands upon thousands of re-tweets, a rapidly building follower count, and huge amounts of traffic.
Indeed, the more unhinged it is, the greater the benefits are (see some of the most extreme examples here). That’s how otherwise rational people keep getting tricked into posting and re-tweeting and sharing extremely dubious stories that turn out to be false.
And that’s to say nothing of the non-utilitarian social pressures. It’s not news that coastal elites — particularly media and political figures — were and are virtually unified in their unbridled contempt for Trump. And we have seen over and over that any time there is a new Prime Foreign Villain consecrated — now Putin — U.S. media figures lead the campaign. As a result, any denunciation or accusation toward Trump or Russia, no matter how divorced from reason or devoid of facts, generates instant praise, while any questioning of it prompts instant peer-group denunciation, or worse.
Few things are more dangerous to the journalistic function than groupthink, and few instruments have been invented that foster and reinforce groupthink like social media, particularly Twitter, the platform most used by journalists. That’s a phenomenon that merits far more study, but examples like this one highlight the dynamic.
In this case, the effect is a constant ratcheting up of tensions between two nuclear-armed powers whose nuclear systems are still on hair-trigger alert and capable of catastrophic responses based on misunderstanding and misperception. Democrats and their media allies are rightly alarmed about the potential dangers of Trump’s bellicose posture toward China, but remarkably and recklessly indifferent to the dangers of what they themselves are doing here.
* * * * *
Those interested in a sober and rational discussion of the Russia hacking issue should read the following:
(1) Three posts by cybersecurity expert Jeffrey Carr: first, on the difficulty of proving attribution for any hacks; second, on the irrational claims on which the “Russia hacked the DNC” case is predicated; and third, on the woefully inadequate, evidence-free report issued by the Department of Homeland Security and FBI this week to justify sanctions against Russia.
(2) Yesterday’s Rolling Stone article by Matt Taibbi, who lived and worked for more than a decade in Russia, titled: “Something About This Russia Story Stinks.”
(3) An Atlantic article by David A. Graham on the politics and strategies of the sanctions imposed this week on Russia by Obama; I disagree with several of his claims, but the article is a rarity: a calm, sober, rational assessment of this debate.
Since it is so often distorted, permit me once again to underscore my own view on the broader Russia issue: Of course it is possible that Russia is responsible for these hacks, as this is perfectly consistent with (and far more mild than) what both Russia and the U.S. have done repeatedly for decades.
But given the stakes involved, along with the incentives for error and/or deceit, no rational person should be willing to embrace these accusations as Truth unless and until convincing evidence has been publicly presented for review, which most certainly has not yet happened. As the above articles demonstrate, this week’s proffered “evidence” — the U.S. government’s evidence-free report — should raise rather than dilute suspicions. It’s hard to understand how this desire for convincing evidence before acceptance of official claims could even be controversial, particularly among journalists.

UPDATE: Just as The Guardian had to do just two days ago regarding its claim about WikiLeaks and Putin, the Washington Post has now added an editor’s note to its story acknowledging that its key claim was false:

Is it not very clear that journalistic standards are being casually dispensed with when the subject is Russia?

 https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-washpost-again-false-story-about-hacking-u-s-electric-grid/