SOME THINGS REQUIRE NO COMMENT AT ALL

Federal Government Cuts Off Recession Relief Money To States

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/16/government-ends-recession-relief-money_n_798055.html

Despite soaring unemployment and the 19 million Americans currently living in "deep poverty," federal funds for the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF) program have entirely dried up for the first time since 1996, leaving states with an average of 15 percent less federal funding for the coming year to help an ever-increasing number of needy families.

Bernie Sanders Puts Barack Obama to Shame By Matt Taibbi

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bernie-sanders-puts-barack-obama-to-shame-20101215

Sen. Sanders Held a Tax Cut Filibuster

http://cspan.org/Events/Sen-Sanders-Held-a-Tax-Cut-Filibuster/20338/
VIDEO OF SENATOR SANDERS ON CSPAN

US empire could collapse at any time

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/untitled-chris-hedges-interview/

America's military and economic empire could collapse at any time, but predicting the precise day, week or month of its potential demise is unattainable, according to a former New York Times war correspondent who spoke with Raw Story.

"The when and how is very dangerous to predict because there's always some factor that blindsides you that you didn't expect," Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges said in an exclusive interview. "It doesn't look good. But exactly how it plays out and when it plays out, having covered disintegrating societies, it's impossible to tell."

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: SAVING THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK
http://www.martinarmstrong.org/files/Saving%20the%20Day%20After%20Tomorrow%2012-7-2010.pdf

NOT ARMSTRONG'S USUAL ECONOMIC ARTICLE.
THIS ONE'S ABOUT WIKILEAKS, OUT OF CONTROL GUV'MINT
AND OUR LOST FUTURE.
A THREE PAGE READ.

Blackwater Founder in Deal to Sell Company

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/blackwater-founder-in-deal-to-sell-company/?hp

The sale, which is expected to be announced on Friday, came after the State Department threatened to stop awarding contracts to the company as long as Mr. Prince owned the firm, people involved in the discussions said. These people requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the confidential talks. The sale is intended to help shake the stigma associated with its ownership under Mr. Prince.

U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks

LIST OF RELEASED DOCUMENTS

http://mirror.wikileaks.info/

A US Army Counterintelligence Agency report into Wikileaks, which recommends destroying the reputation of the whistleblower web site, has been published by, appropriately enough, Wikileaks.http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2259550/military-plan-destroy-wikileaks

U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks PDF
http://mirror.wikileaks.info/leak/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf

The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention By Glenn Greenwald

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/

Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime.  Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture. 

America Warned Is Just Months Away From Financial Armageddon

“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.”
7^th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson

Sadly, today, and as over 50 million Americans are reported are in danger of starving, the lessons of their ancestors have not been heeded, creating the strong likelihood that these once great people have in effect become nothing more than slaves to their new bankster masters. 
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1431.htm

Aldous Huxley Would Be Proud

British novelist Aldous Huxley was a social critic and futurist, who is best known for penning Brave New World, which, aside from being a nearly 80-year-old science fiction masterpiece, is both an allegory and prophecy for 21st Century western society.

Huxley’s finger was on the pulse of human freedom, and he warned us over 50 years ago that it was fading fast.
VIDEO OF HUXLEY
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/12/13/aldous-huxley-would-be-proud/

Lies, Lies, Lies The New Foundation of the Financial System

FROM THE DAILY RECKONING DEC 13
http://dailyreckoning.com/lies-lies-lies-the-new-foundation-of-the-financial-system/

Truth is the Greatest Enemy of the State By Paul Craig Roberts

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant Secretary to the US Treasury, is Max's guest for today's show to talk about the WikiLeaks. Max asks Dr. Roberts about what he thinks of what is happening to WikiLeaks story, in particular the US, led by Joe Lieberman, which has been forcing WikkiLeaks offline.

Press TV's On the Edge
Posted December 13, 2010
VIDEO IN THREE PARTS
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27054.htm

THE GREEDY RICH DON'T EVEN TRY TO HIDE IT ANYMORE

Executives keep health perks while workers' benefits are cut
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-12-10-rw_ceohealthplan10_ST_N.htm

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

LONG ARTICLE, BUT VERY INFORMATIVE
http://www.thenation.com/article/156851/decline-and-fall-american-empire

"when Washington's global dominion finally ends, there will be painful daily reminders of what such a loss of power means for Americans in every walk of life. As a half-dozen European nations have discovered, imperial decline tends to have a remarkably demoralizing impact on a society, regularly bringing at least a generation of economic privation. As the economy cools, political temperatures rise, often sparking serious domestic unrest."

MALCOLM REALIZED THIS BACK IN THE 1960s

 "In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies' resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to our deceiving ourselves; and that vast army of clandestine personnel built up to execute these purposes were soon caught up in the web of their own sick fantasies, with disastrous consequences for them and us". - -- Malcom Muggeridge - May 1966

The Search for Truth in Wartime 52 MINUTE VIDEO BY JOHN PILGER

http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/the-search-for-truth-in-wartime

The Search for Truth in Wartime from John Pilger on Vimeo.

A PREVIEW OF WHAT IS COMING

Keith Olbermann Special Comment: Obama Turned His Back On His Base - 12/07/10

Julian Assange in the Honey Trap...How they snared him

"Anyone who doubts the unmitigated evil of the US government and its international enablers has only to look at the disgraceful persecution of Julian Assange to see Washington’s brazen malevolence in full flower. As the WikiLeaks web site continues to release daily examples of US incompetence, bullying, venality, and corruption, the response from the Imperial City has been a coordinated campaign of lies, smears, and what can only be described as utter filth."

by Justin Raimondo, December 08, 2010

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/12/07/julian-assange-in-the-honey-trap/

 

WIKILEAKS HAS FOREVER EXPOSED GUV'MINTS FOR THE HEINOUS MURDERING CRIMINAL THIEVES THEY ALL ARE

WE ALL OWE A DEEP DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO JULIAN ASSANGE FOR HIS COURAGE TO EXPOSE THE CRIMINALS FOR WHAT THEY ARE AND THE POISE WITH WHICH HE HAS DONE IT.

Global Rebellion Erupts After “Unprotected Sex Meets Disrobed Governments”
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1428.htm

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) co-founder John Barlow

The Arrest of Julian Assange Truth in Chains By CHRIS FLOYD

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the world’s most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish – and lawless – desire to destroy him and his organization.

It has been, by any standard, an extraordinary campaign of vilification and persecution..."

"how many thousands of people, how many tens of thousands, have been killed by our bipartisan Terror Warriors in the four years of WikiLeaks’ existence?

 How many millions have been “harmed” not only by the direct operations of the Terror War, but by the ever-widening, ever-deepening violence, hatred and turmoil it is spreading throughout the world? (Not to mention the accelerating collapse of American society, which has been financially, politically and morally bankrupted by the acceptance of aggressive war, torture, elite rapine and authoritarian rule.)

But none of the perpetrators of these acts, past or present, are in jail, or have even been prosecuted, or investigated, or inconvenienced in any way. Yet Assange is in a British prison tonight – and it is certainly not for the “sexual misconduct” charges..."

http://www.counterpunch.com/floyd12072010.html

Indecent Exposure: WikiLeaks Hounded for Showing Power Its True Face

CHRIS FLOYD IS ONE OF THE  BEST, AND PROLIFIC, WRITERS EVER.
READ HIM WHENEVER YOU GET THE CHANCE.
HIS WEBSITE IS: EMPIRE BURLESQUE AT http://www.chris-floyd.com/

"it is remarkable that the WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables has provoked a far more virulent and draconian reaction from government officials -- and from their craven sycophants in the mainstream media -- than we ever saw after the earlier releases about Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet many of those Terror War releases provided detailed, eyewitness accounts of horrific acts of murder, brutality, and depraved indifference toward the slaughter of innocent people. It seems the American elite are more outraged at being caught in various diplomatic faux pas than being shown to be perpetrators and facilitators of murder, repression and state terror. That's because they know that their cowed and passive subjects -- continually stoked with the hatred and fear of foreign demons -- don't care how many darkies get killed on the other side of the world. And so the Terror War leaks occasioned no more than a few days of Beltway bluster.

But the new releases put a bit of a crimp in business as usual for our backroom operators, exposing some of the rank hypocrisy and all-pervasive corruption of our great and good -- and of their clients and partners around the world. All this might -- just might -- give the rabble unseemly notions ... such as the idea that their interests are perhaps not being served all that well by a system run by and for a handful of liars, tyrants, killers and thieves. We can't have that.

And so Julian Assange is now being hounded -- perhaps to his eventual death -- not for revealing war crimes and atrocities, but for showing us a glimpse of our leaders as they really are: stupid, vain, petty and savage."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/2059-indecent-exposure-wikileaks-hounded-for-showing-power-its-true-face.html

HAPPY AS A HANGMAN By Chris Hedges

"Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state.

To be innocent in America means we passively permit offshore penal colonies where we torture human beings, some of whom are children. To be innocent in America is to acquiesce to the relentless corporate destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species. To be innocent in America is to permit the continued theft of hundreds of billions of dollars from the state by Wall Street swindlers and speculators. To be innocent in America is to stand by as insurance and pharmaceutical companies, in the name of profit, condemn ill people, including children, to die. To be innocent in America is refusing to resist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are not only illegal under international law but responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of people. This is the odd age we live in. Innocence is complicity."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/happy_as_a_hangman_20101206/

Western Civilization Has Shed Its Values By Paul Craig Roberts

Western Civilization no longer upholds the values it proclaims, so what is the basis for its claim to virtue?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27012.htm

Ron Paul: Don't Blame Wikileaks!

Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Government's Delusional Foreign Policy

This allows ordinary people to actually know and talk about what the government does. But state secrecy is anathema to a free society. Why exactly should Americans be prevented from knowing what their government is doing in their name?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27011.htm

RECENT STUDY OF AUTHORITARIANISM

http://www.socionomics.net/PDF/Authoritarianism-Free-Update.pdf

17 PAGE PDF

THIS STUDY IS RELATED TO ROBERT PRECHTER AND HIS
USE OF ELLIOT WAVE THEORY.
SINCLAIR DOES NOT AGREE WITH PRECHTER'S PREDICTIONS
GO TO THE SOCIONOMICS HOME PAGE FOR MORE INFO ON THIS ORGANIZATION
http://www.socionomics.net/

Fed Names Recipients of $3.3 Trillion in Crisis Aid

The Federal Reserve, under orders from Congress, today named the counterparties of about 21,000 transactions from $3.3 trillion in aid provided to stem the worst financial panic since the Great Depression.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-01/fed-names-recipients-of-3-3-trillion-of-aid-during-u-s-financial-crisis.html

The Proper Response to WikiLeaks by Karen Kwiatkowski

KAREN  K. IS ONE OF THE BEST WRITERS ANYWHERE.
READ HER ARTICLES ANYTIME YOU SEE THEM.
LEWROCKWELL.COM HAS HER ARCHIVES LINK AT THE
BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski259.html

The Proper Response to WikiLeaks by Karen Kwiatkowski

An alert and informed citizenry, valued by presidents from Washington to Eisenhower, is now deemed by D.C. to be a nascent domestic terrorism threat.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski259.html

Who, Precisely, Is Attacking the World? By Paul Craig Roberts

To reveal truth is equivalent, in the eyes of the U.S. government, to an attack on the world.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26957.htm

Fabricating Terror By Paul Craig Roberts

The United States of America, “the city upon the hill,” “the light unto the world,” has become Nazi Germany.

Nazi Gestapo policy is now the declared policy of the US Department of Justice (sic).

Anyone who thinks the United States is a free society where people have liberty, “freedom and democracy” is uninformed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26954.htm