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Bob Tuskin's lecture at the Free Your Mind 2 Conference. A wide-ranging discussion of his experience with the birth of his first child, the pitfalls of modern hospitals, vaccines, and how to maintain health freedom and independence within the growing tyranny of the establishment government/medical system. It is a powerful and important message for this Father's Day.
Bob Tuskin: The Birth of a Free Mind
Activist
Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:16:00 GMT
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Activist Post
Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:48:00 GMT
Posted on June 14, 2014 by Tim Brown
…And the hits just keep on coming. The administration of Barack Obama will certainly go down in history as one of the most corrupt, tyrannical administrations in US history. I’m from the South and despise the tyrant Abraham Lincoln, so when I make that statement, that is saying something. However, newly released documents indicate that Obama’s Internal Revenue Service gave 1.1 million pages of information on US taxpayers to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in order to encourage prosecution of conservatives.
In a letter that was sent from Congressmen Darrell Issa and Jim Jordan to John Koskinen, Commissioner of the IRS, the facts were presented that detail that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently learned “that the IRS transmitted 21 disks containing over 1.1 million pages of information about tax-exempt groups to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in October 2010 in advance of Lois Lerner’s meeting with the Justice Department about potentially using campaign finance laws to criminally prosecute certain nonprofit groups engaged in political speech.”
Consider that political speech is specifically what the First Amendment is designed to protect and that it starts with the phrase “Congress shall make no law.” If Congress shall make no law regarding speech, then there is no reason for the federal government to be investigating individuals or organizations that engage in it.
The disks that were sent to the FBI, “contained confidential taxpayer information protected by federal law,” according to the letter. So will the law be enforced seeing that Issa and Jordan are seeming to admit that the law has been broken? Probably not.
However, they did demand the Commissioner “produce all material explaining how these disks were prepared and transmitted to the FBI.”
The letter also included copies of email exchanges between then IRS head Lois Lerner and Richard Pilger, director of Election Crimes Branch of the Department of Justice.
Other emails were attached to the letter, including one from Lois Lerner’s predecessor Sarah Ingram, who was over tax exempt organizations at the IRS. She wrote in an email, dated September 21, 2010:
“Thanks, as always, for the excellent support from Media. I do think it came out pretty well. The “secret donor” theme will continue–see Obama salvo today and Diane Reehm (sp). At least SS started the idea that we don’t have the law to do something, although Marcus had a flavor that we just don’t care because we are a tax agency. He should know better even if he is unhappy with the environment and the tax laws.”
Diane Reehm is a National Public Radio host. You’ll notice the reference of the email is to a New York Times story, “As Rules Shift, Donor Names Stay Secret.” Again, we can see how the major media outlets are clearly in bed with the Obama administration and by definition are somewhat complicit in the criminal activity by failing to report the truth.
You would think some people would have been prosecuted for this by now, wouldn’t you? But no, just like Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Extortion 17 and a host of other scandals that aren’t phony, nothing gets done except more hearings and more investigations without Congress writing down one article of impeachment or bringing criminal charges against anyone. But, oh the rhetoric we are hearing from them about the crimes against the American people!
So should we expect for the IRS to produce the material requested? Hardly.
In fact, on Friday the IRS claimed that it would be unable to produce Lerner’s emails to and from the White House and other federal departments due to an alleged computer crash. Seriously? The timing could not be more suspect. We know that there is the technology available to recover data from crashed computers, so this is complete bunk. Will anyone be held accountable? Again, probably not.
I’m not the only one that thought it suspicious either. Take a look:
And Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) hit it out of the park with this tweet (which by the way, we should ask what is the law that requires us to file tax returns in the first place.
Patrick Howley writes at the Daily Caller on what he claims “may go down in history next to the eighteen and a half minute gap in the Watergate tapes, which was supposedly caused by a mistake by Richard Nixon’s secretary Rose Mary Woods.”
Rep. Dave Camp said in a statement:
“The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to Congressional inquiries. There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”
“Just a short time ago, Commissioner Koskinen promised to produce all Lerner documents. It appears now that was an empty promise. Frankly, these are the critical years of the targeting of conservative groups that could explain who knew what when, and what, if any, coordination there was between agencies. Instead, because of this loss of documents, we are conveniently left to believe that Lois Lerner acted alone. This failure of the IRS requires the White House, which promised to get to the bottom of this, to do an Administration-wide search and production of any emails to or from Lois Lerner. The Administration has repeatedly referred us back to the IRS for production of materials. It is clear that is wholly insufficient when it comes to determining the full scope of the violation of taxpayer rights.”
An empty promise, eh? Is that sort of how members of Congress have made threats to impeach Obama if he does this or that, or provide rhetoric about criminal activity to appease the American people while at the same time shake hands with the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States? If you haven’t seen what’s going on and this doesn’t open your eyes to the corruption….on both sides of the aisle, then you just are willfully ignorant and are part of the problem.
Tim Brown is the Editor of Freedom Outpost.
Obama’s IRS Gave FBI 1.1 Million Pages of Taxpayer Info – Encouraged Prosecution of Conservatives
Tim Brown
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:23:32 GMT
by KURT NIMMO | INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 14, 2014
Bush neocons call for the United States to kickstart the failed war in Iraq. Photo: U.S. Army via Flickr
Douglas Feith, Bush’s Undersecretary of Defense for Policy who supervised the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, has weighed in on Iraq.
“This is the education of Barack Obama, but it’s coming at a very high cost to the Syrian people to the Iraqi people [and] to the American national interest,” he told Politico. “The president didn’t take seriously the warnings of what would happen if we withdrew and he liked the political benefits of being able to say that we’re completely out.”
In other words, he would enjoy the approval of the American people who historically oppose war, especially after it is discovered the wars in question are predicated on lies. For Feith and his neocon buddies, though, this sort of approval is not only irrelevant. It is counterproductive. Feith’s role at the Pentagon was to invent lies and get an invasion of Iraq rolling.
After it was discovered the Bush neocons had lied us into war and the Office of Special plans was subsequently dismantled, General Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, dismissed Feith as “the dumbest fucking guy on the planet.”
Dumb guys, or rather unrepentant warmongers, are once again emerging from the shadows. The latest is Max Boot, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and advocate of “permanent mobilization” (neocon-speak for forever war) against manufactured enemies. Mounting the neocon fount, The Weekly Standard, Boot urges a new influx of man and matériel into the emerging quagmire of neocon making.
“To break this worsening cycle of violence, the Obama administration needs to do something it has never done before — get fully engaged in Iraq from the president on down,” writes Boot who, of course, is not the least bit bothered by the $2 trillion plus of tax payer money squandered in Iraq or the stupendous loss of life.
“It needs to see if Iraq might be willing to accept the return of U.S. military advisers, intelligence personnel, Predators, and Special Operations Forces, along with enhanced military aid, in return for political reforms designed to bring Shiites and Sunnis closer together and thus eliminate ISIS’s base of popular support.
This would, naturally, feed into the other neocon pet project — emboldening and further arming the supposed rebels in Syria who are, in fact, the same guys as those now marching on Baghdad. Boot and the neocons, of course, like to pretend, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, that U.S. arms and largess is going only to “moderates” when it is in fact dispensed to al-Nusra and other jihadists.
“This would need to be combined with action in Syria to roll back Islamist advances there, meaning principally providing more arms and training to the nonjihadist opposition to Bashar al-Assad,” Boot writes. “This could be coupled with American airstrikes directed not only against Assad’s forces but also those of ISIS and other Islamist organizations such as the Nusra Front.”
For the neocons, creative destruction in the Arab and Muslim Middle East is an ongoing project. The collapse of their failed policy after a decade and the loss of more than a million lives provides a new set of possibilities and an extension of the war on terror, scheduled to last forever.
Destruction of Iraq Provides Stage for Bush Neocons
kurtnimmoadmin
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 14:23:49 GMT
by INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 14, 2014
Related: Saudi Arabia, Sunni Caliphate, NATO Run Secret Terror Army in Iraq and Syria
Iraq has privately signaled to the Obama administration that it would allow the U.S. to conduct airstrikes with drones or manned aircraft against al Qaeda militant targets on Iraqi territory, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday.
We also reached out to World Net Daily investigative journalist Jerome Corsi for his take on Iraq being handed over to al Qaeda and to discuss his latest article detailing how 200 American contractors were captured by ISIS jihadists.
Proof We Run Al-Qaeda: Special Report
Adan
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 14:00:39 GMT
[Original Release Date - 11/06/2014 ]
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Ralph Nader: "We're not second-class citizens because we're a Green Party candidate or a Libertarian candidate."
Joshua Swain
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:30:00 GMT
Posted on June 14, 2014 by Tony Cartalucci
Heavily armed, well funded, and organized as a professional, standing army, the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept southward into Iraq from Turkey and northeastern Syria, taking the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and now threaten the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad itself. The United States was sure to prop up two unfounded narratives – the first being that US intelligence agencies, despite assets in Iraq and above it in the formof surveillance drones, failed to give warning of the invasion, and that ISIS is some sort of self-sustaining terror organization carving out a “state” by “robbing banks” and collecting “donations” on Twitter.
Image: ISIS clearly did not materialize spontaneously within Iraq, it has
clearly redeployed from its NATO-sponsored destruction of Syria to
northern Iraq, perhaps in an attempt to justify a NATO incursion and the
creation of a buffer zone straddling Syrian, Iraqi, and even possibly
Iranian territory with the goal of targeting Iran directly with ISIS.
The Wall Street Journal in its report, “Iraqi Drama Catches U.S. Off Guard,” stated:
The quickly unfolding drama prompted a White House meeting Wednesday of top policy makers and military leaders who were caught off guard by the swift collapse of Iraqi security forces, officials acknowledged.
In another WSJ post, “U.S. Secretly Flying Drones Over Iraq,” it claimed:
A senior U.S. official said the intelligence collected under the small [secret US drone] program was shared with Iraqi forces, but added: “It’s not like it did any good.” The rapid territorial gains by the Islamist forces loyal to Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, an al Qaeda offshoot, caught the U.S. by surprise, the officials said.
Image: ISIS has convoys of brand new matching Toyota’s the same
vehicles seen among admittedly NATO-armed terrorists operating
everywhere from Libya to Syria, and now Iraq. It is a synthetic, state-
sponsored regional mercenary expeditionary force.
Despite drone flights collecting intelligence, and a 3-year ongoing CIA program (here, here, and here) all along the Turkish-Syrian border to “monitor” and “arm” “moderate” militants fighting the Syrian government, the US claims it was caught “by surprise.” If drones and CIA operatives operating in ISIS territory weren’t enough to detect the impending invasion, perhaps the CIA should have just picked up a newspaper.
Indeed, the Lebanon Daily Start in March 2014 reported that ISIS openly withdrew its forces from Latakia and Idlib provinces in western Syria, and redeployed them in Syria’s east – along the Syrian-Iraqi border. The article titled, “Al-Qaeda splinter group in Syria leaves two provinces: activists,” stated explicitly that:
On Friday, ISIS – which alienated many rebels by seizing territory and killing rival commanders – finished withdrawing from the Idlib and Latakia provinces and moved its forces toward the eastern Raqqa province and the eastern outskirts of the northern city of Aleppo, activists said.
The question remains, if a Lebanese newspaper knew ISIS was on the move eastward, why didn’t the CIA? The obvious answer is the CIA did know, and is simply feigning ignorance at the expense of their reputation to bait its enemies into suspecting the agency of incompetency rather than complicity in the horrific terroristic swath ISIS is now carving through northern Iraq.
Described extensively in the full New Eastern Outlook Journal (NEO) report, “NATO’s Terror Hordes in Iraq a Pretext for Syria Invasion,” the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, have funded and armed terrorists operating in Syria for the past 3 years to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars – coincidentally the same amount that ISIS would require to gain primacy among militant groups fighting in Syria and to mobilize forces capable of crossing into Iraq and overwhelming Baghdad’s national defenses.
Image: The most prominent routes into Syria for foreign fighters is depicted, with the inset graph describing the most widely used routes by foreign fighters on their way to Iraq, as determined by West Point’s 2007 Combating Terrorism Center report “Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq” (page 20). These same networks were then used to invade and attempt to overthrow the Syrian government itself in 2011, with the addition of a more prominent role for Turkey, and today in 2014, to re-invade Iraq once again.
The NEO report includes links to the US Army’s West Point Countering Terrorism Center reports, “Bombers, Bank Accounts and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road In and Out of Iraq,” and “Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq,” which detail extensively the terror network used to flood Iraq with foreign terrorists, weapons, and cash to fuel an artificial “sectarian war” during the US occupation, and then turned over to flood Syria with terrorists in the West’s bid to overthrow the government in Damascus.
What’s ISIS Doing in Iraq?
The NEO report would also post Seymour Hersh’s 2007 article, “The Redirection,” documenting over the course of 9 pages US, Saudi, and Israeli intentions to create and deploy sectarian extremists region-wide to confront Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hersh would note that these “sectarian extremists” were either tied to Al Qaeda, or Al Qaeda itself. The ISIS army moving toward Baghdad is the final manifestation of this conspiracy, a standing army operating with impunity, threatening to topple the Syrian government, purge pro-Iranian forces in Iraq, and even threatening Iran itself by buildinga bridge from Al Qaeda’s NATO safe havens in Turkey, across northern Iraq, and up to Iran’s borders directly. Labeled “terrorists” by the West, grants the West plausible deniability in its creation, deployment, and across the broad spectrum of atrocities it is now carrying out.
Image: ISIS’s alleged territory spans across both Iraqi and Syrian
territory. If it is able to establish a NATO-backed buffer zone, it will be
able to launch attacks with impunity into Syria, Iraq, and Iran – in a
region-wide sectarian war the West has been engineering for years.
It is a de facto re-invasion of Iraq by Western interests – but this time without Western forces directly participating – rather a proxy force the West is desperately attempting to disavow any knowledge of or any connection to. However, no other explanation can account for the size and prowess of ISIS beyond state sponsorship. And since ISIS is the clear benefactor of state sponsorship, the question is, which states are sponsoring it? With Iraq, Syria, and Iran along with Lebanese-based Hezbollah locked in armed struggle with ISIS and other Al Qaeda franchises across the region, the only blocs left are NATO and the GCC (Saudi Arabia and Qatar in particular).
With the West declaring ISIS fully villainous in an attempt to intervene more directly in northern Iraq and eastern Syria, creating a long desired “buffer zone” within which to harbor, arm, and fund an even larger terrorist expeditionary force, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and others are offered an opportunity to preempt Western involvement and to crush the ISIS – cornering and eliminating NATO-GCC’s expeditionary force while scoring geopolitical points of vanquishing Washington’s latest “villain.” Joint Iraq-Iranian operations in the north and south of ISIS’s locations, and just along Turkey’s borders could envelop and trap ISIS to then be whittled down and destroyed – just as Syria has been doing to NATO’s proxy terrorist forces within its own borders.
Whatever the regional outcome may be, the fact is the West has re-invaded Iraq, with a force as brutal, if not worse than the “shock and awe” doctrine of 2003. Iraq faces another difficult occupation if it cannot summon a response from within, and among its allies abroad, to counter and crush this threat with utmost expediency.
Tony Cartalucci’s articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg.
Courtesy of Activist Post.
America’s Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq
Tony Cartalucci
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 14:01:53 GMT
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Enemy Within Radio
enemywithin
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 14:00:00 GMT
Posted on June 14, 2014 by Dean Garrison
We have too often seen what happens to good reporters when they challenge the liberal media establishment. Remember the recent case of Sharyl Attkisson?
The latest evidence of a liberal media agenda comes from the Las Vegas shooters, Amanda and Jerad Miller. The picture collage at the top of this post paints a much different narrative than we have been fed.
We have been bombarded with the Millers’ connection to the Bundy Ranch, Alex Jones and the liberty movement in general. The liberty movement is massive and it does not emcompass only the right-wing. But we were led to believe that the Millers were Tea Party-loving right-wing extremists. That is what the media wants America to believe. They especially want the police to believe this. They want cops around the country to believe that right-wing extremists are the enemies, and in this case “cop killers.”
Why? Because if and when that fateful day of revolution descends upon this nation, the left wants the police in their corner. It is just another strategy to fortify the budding police state in America. It is a type of psychological warfare, you might say. Make law enforcement officials hate right-wingers and they will remain loyal to a destructive leftist agenda.
Maybe most importantly they want the common people of the left and right to continueto hate each other. I say common people because there are two lefts and two rights. There are the destructive leaders and there are the unknowing people and it is like that on both sides of the aisle. We are all “useful idiots” in one way or another. They want no common ground to be had. The truth is, that despite the media spin, many people in this country can relate to both Occupy Protesters and Bundy Ranch Supporters. But the powers that be do not want you to wake up and realize that. They want you to hate each other.
Their power can only be kept by Americans remaining divided.
With all of that said, it will come as no surprise to our readers that the Millers were involved in the “Occupy Movement.” Again, the liberty movement is massive but the Occupy Protests tend to be attributed to the left. Bundy Ranch tends to be associated with the right. They are both cases of civil disobedience but obviously the media wants to paint a picture of the Millers as being people who voted for Romney rather than Obama. This is how the media constantly pushes the agenda of the left. Nearly every news publication in America printed something about the associations of the Millers, but very few printed this:
After seeing this Photo the LVPD still didn’t think the shooters involvement with Occupy was important enough to mention in the press conference where they promptly began a media storm about the Miller’s involvement at Bundy Ranch.
While living in Lafayette, Jerad and his wife Amanda took part in last November’s “Million Mask March” – a gathering of protesters from the Occupy movement, anarchists, and hacktivists.
Nick Wertz, one of the organizers of the Lafayette march, said it attracted many people upset over a lot of issues.
“Everyone there just seem kind of like normal people. At least they were going to stick up with what they thought was right,” he said.Wertz said he didn’t really know the Millers, but weeks after the march, Amanda Miller contacted him. “She was moving to Vegas for whatever reason and they had a dog they couldn’t take with – and I was like, ‘If I can help,’” Wertz said.
But that was the end of it, he said.
On Sunday, his Facebook page lit up, accusing him of brainwashing the Millers.
“I didn’t even know anything had happened until I logged on Facebook and was being blamed for being associated with it,” Wertz said. “I was in no way, shape or form aware of these actions. I actually spent my weekend with my girlfriend at awater park.”
Source: GMN
In a previous article I highlighted how Ammon Bundy verified that the Millers were asked to leave the Bundy Ranch. They did not fit in and were considered to be loose cannons. Very few media outlets reported this fact either.
America this is what you are up against.
I hear some people complain, on a daily basis, about me rehashing the same old stories. That must be done because some people are not awake yet and your “old news” may be someone else’s “epiphany moment.” Sometimes I am late to get new information out and I apologize for that, but I am not a professional journalist. I am just a blogger who loves my country and I am trying to make a small difference, but my family still comes first.
The reason I put this stuff out there is because I am hoping that others will do their best to educate America as well.
Our best hope is that the Citizen Media some day overtakes the Mainstream Media. Until that happens the truth will not come out to the masses. For every report of the truth, like this one, there are dozens of politically slanted articles hosted on big websites that would blow my little blog away.
Yet I continue to fight to expose the truth and I am asking you to do the same.
Don’t ever give up.
The truth must come out.
In the end I don’t know who the Millers voted for and I don’t need to. This is not a 2nd Amendment issue or a “right versus left” issue.
This is simply a case of two bad people who did a terrible thing by killing three innocent Americans.
That does not reflect on me or you.
It only reflects upon Jerad and Amanda Miller.
BUSTED: Media Fails to Mention Vegas Shooters Involvement in “Occupy Movement”
Dean Garrison
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:32:12 GMT
