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that thought the government was doing mind control experiments, or that they were being monitored on the internet by the spy agencies, or maybe that the CIA was involved in trafficking drugs. Loons!

This is kind of the problem. I have been called a nutty conspiracy theorist for expressing views that are now fairly mainstream (like the CIA trafficking drugs). In fact, even the term "conspiracy theorist" was deliberately made into a derogatory term by the CIA. https://www.paulcraigroberts.o...

That's cute, but have you heard about Russian propaganda about the US?

No, I haven't. What I have seen is a good deal of truthful facts and opinion about the US government and its policies. Some of it comes from Russia, some from Europe, some from the UK, Australia and Canada - and quite a lot of it comes from the USA itself.

Read the following (or as much of it as you can absorb) and see if what you learn is a little different from what the mainstream media are telling their audiences day after day.

http://russia-insider.com/en/o...
http://russia-insider.com/en/p...
http://www.strategic-culture.o...
http://www.paulcraigroberts.or...
http://awdnews.com/top-news/ru...
https://www.rt.com/news/387798...
http://michael-hudson.com/2017...
http://russia-insider.com/en/p...
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuc...
https://thearchdruidreport.blo...
https://irrussianality.wordpre...
http://johnhelmer.net/malaysia...
https://irrussianality.wordpre...

Spend some time on Zero Hedge, Lew Rockwell's site, or PCR's site if you want to know that is going on economically. Most of us forecasted the upcoming crash four or five years ago. There has NEVER been any recovery from 2008 much less 2000. All the stats that you are forcefed are blatant LIES designed to keep the populace ignorant and therefore pacified so that they continue on thinking that everything is A-OK. When you remove the signals, the end result becomes much, MUCH worse.

On neofeudalism

On rate hikes

Looking realistically at investments

Short post on the Fed

Spend some time on Zero Hedge, Lew Rockwell's site, or PCR's site if you want to know that is going on economically. Most of us forecasted the upcoming crash four or five years ago. There has NEVER been any recovery from 2008 much less 2000. All the stats that you are forcefed are blatant LIES designed to keep the populace ignorant and therefore pacified so that they continue on thinking that everything is A-OK. When you remove the signals, the end result becomes much, MUCH worse.

On neofeudalism

On rate hikes

Looking realistically at investments

Short post on the Fed

I see things being done in a way that costs around five times as much as we would do it in small- to mid-scale private industry, and even at that expense level the quality of work is outright appalling.

I recall a story that conveys this rather poignantly.

Look up the naked shorts on the COMEX. There's a really good reason that metal prices have been manipulated, or that the dollar prices have been manipulated around the metal prices. We are just experiencing a little dip in the "value" of PMs in the long-term scheme of things. When the bottoms fall out of the fiat currencies, PMs will continue on their merry little way.

Exactly. Check out, for example, this: http://www.paulcraigroberts.or...

Or this: http://www.paulcraigroberts.or...

If Roberts' in-your-face tone doesn't suit you, try the soberly factual John Williams at http://www.shadowstats.com/

Exactly. Check out, for example, this: http://www.paulcraigroberts.or...

Or this: http://www.paulcraigroberts.or...

If Roberts' in-your-face tone doesn't suit you, try the soberly factual John Williams at http://www.shadowstats.com/

Do you live under a rock, or are you willfully ignorant? You are being disingenuous. It may not be a CIA setup, but it is politically motivated, and all the signs point to the US.

The allegations are fictitious. There is an arrest warrant without charges. How much more obvious does it need to be that this is a sham?

There are no charges outstanding against Assange. The two women he has alleged to have raped deny that they were raped. The Swedish Chief Prosecutor investigated and closed the case.

Do you have even the slightest bit of conscience?

Convicted rapist? The two women claim that the charges were made up.

Sketchy social networking and twitter twits aren't proof of an invasion. Usually, an invasion is proof of an invasion. They're big, loud and well-populated. Rather hard to miss, really.

What we have here is evidence of nothing more than the West desperately trying to spin something out of nothing in an effort to protect the little Nazi stronghold they installed. What else can they do? Russia doesn't care. The West has no teeth in this matter.

Paul Craig Roberts sums it up neatly:
how-you-can-tell-whether-russia-invaded-ukraine

When are people going to click to the fact that the Western media lies about everything? We've seen this side show before, many times over the years. What makes anyone think that this time the same old liars are going to miraculously start singing the truth?

And please don't twitter on about half-empty trucks. Proof? Nothing more than a photo of a truck with some boxes in it and some men standing over them. Was it being loaded? Emptied? We don't know. All we have is a picture and a rumor. That's all the propaganda wing of the Pentagon has to offer.

Amazingly, Macleans has managed to stick to the facts they know without engaging in speculation.

Who knows how long they'll last before Psyops Americana kicks them in the rump for not playing along with the American Dream.

Gonna be a painful day when everybody is woken up with that splash of cold reality coming down the pike. The West has already lost this one. Russia has all the industry and food growing capacity it needs. U.S. sanctions are an idiotic, facile, desperate measure. Pathetic, really, because they mean nothing. They hurt us more than them, by a long shot.

Russia is the natural powerhouse on that side of the ocean; who cares what hissy fits the U.S. throws? The U.S. is irrelevant. They've utterly failed to even get their proxy war via our Kiev Nazis to terrorize people in a straight line without spilling buckets of stupid all over the place. I guess that's what you get when you employ raving psychopaths to do your bidding. Incompetent, butchering gits.

And while we're on the subject of incompetence.., where's the follow up on Malaysian Flight 17? The media dropped that ball faster than any other airline disaster in the history of airline disasters. -I guess the claptrap story started to fall apart under its own weight and threaten embarrassment. Latest material I saw indicated that the cockpit was shot full of bullet holes and that BUK missiles were not capable of bringing the plane down where it came down. No comments, mister media..? Guess not.

We can't even hold our own house of cards together, let alone anybody else's.

But still we see people thronging again to the soda jerk for more froth.

The mainstream media is distracting you from what's really going on is Russia.

Anyhow, before condemning their new laws, have a look that what the FCC says.

Obscene Broadcasts Are Prohibited at All Times

Obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution and cannot be broadcast at any time. The Supreme Court has established that, to be obscene, material must meet a three-pronged test:

• An average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
• The material must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and
• The material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

http://www.fcc.gov/guides/obsc...

Is it even still possible to do high-tech manufacturing here â" or should it be?

I suppose that the answer to "should it be?" depends on how likely we think it is that countries we are at war with will send us their high-tech products in order to fight them.

Of course, we'll probably never have another major war, which is why we spend so little on military technology. If we were worried about it, I expect our military budget would dwarf our social spending budget by orders of magnitude. Since it doesn't, and we just have a small military for defense, we must not be worried about it.

And of course, it would be silly if we thought we needed a gigantic defense budget, because then we'd never let treacherous CEO's send our technological crown jewels overseas in order to give our strategic competitors (which if we were really silly might think was the Shanghai Cooperative Organization: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan with India, Iran, Mongolia, and Pakistan currently having "observer" status) a huge military advantage if there was ever a major war between the world powers.

So, no, as a country that believes purely in peaceful trade and in purely non-military solutions to world problems, we should not worry that Innovation occurs on the factory floor. After all, as a tiny country along the lines of Lichtenstein or Vatican City, the United States doesn't have any territory or natural resources that other nations would ever want to seize by force, which is why we are better off having a banking and finance oriented economy. No matter what happens the dollar will always be the main world currency, and we'll always be able to bribe any belligerent, heavily armed, high tech countries with them. Fnord.