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not by safety. It is easy to clamor for government security when terrible things happen; but liberty is given true meaning when we support it without exception, and we will be safer for it ~ Dr. Ron Paul
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Bernie Sanders Calls For Totalitarian Gun Confiscation
Sanders will ban guns that are "primarily designed to kill people."
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont (a pro-gun state, for the record) said on an episode of NBC’s “Meet The Press” that “we need to make sure that certain types of guns used to kill people, exclusively, not for hunting, they should not be sold in the United States of America.”
“Coming from a rural state, I think I can communicate with folks coming from urban states where guns mean different things than they do in Vermont where it’s used for hunting,” he said.
Calling for a ban on all firearms “used to kill people” and “not for hunting” implies a ban on all guns, period.
More recently, Sanders appeared on the same show on 1/17 and touted his vote to “ban assault weapons” in 1988. He claimed to have rethought certain aspects of that legislation but never rescinded his viewpoint on banning firearms.
Liberals haven’t been happy with Sanders’ pro-gun voting record, the Democratic presidential candidate’s shift to the far-left on this issue is likely an attempt to placate to anti-gunners as the 2016 election quickly approaches.
UPDATE 1/24 – The quotes in this article have been correctly attributed.
“Putin Did It” Concludes Secret Evidence in UK Inquiry
On the basis of secret evidence, a UK inquiry under orders from Washington decided that the death ten years ago of a low level spy was “probably” ordered by President Putin of Russia. There is no motive whatsoever for Putin to have been concerned with the dead spy, Litvinenko. He was of no consequence or threat to Russia.
Probably, Litvinenko’s death was due to the fact that he was engaged in the smuggling of nuclear materials and accidently poisoned himself.
What these unsubstantiated attacks on the President of Russia are doing is elevating Russia. The non Anglo-Zionist world, which is the largest part of humanity, has lost confidence in the veracity of the West. The Western media, a collection of prostitutes, is in such lock-step mindless compliance with the anti-Russian agenda that the most implausible accusations against President Putin are reported as if they were proven fact.
Western news organizations, such as the BBC and the New York Times, once respected news organizations, are now widely regarded as government propaganda organizations that lie for their living.
Here is the report of a person who used to believe the lie until he looked into the case.
As I wrote recently, all they do is to lie to us. Lies are the West’s principle weapon. As the lies wear out, the West is exposed as a liar that never can be believed about anything.
The National Review rounded up a couple dozen “conservatives” to denounce Donald Trump and tell the world what it already knows – Trump is not a “movement conservative.”
I would like to point out that the “movement conservatives” have had little or no effect in presidential contests since 1984 – and that election, in which Ronald Reagan won a landslide, was an inevitability because of the force of nature he represented as a great candidate and a great incumbent for four years.
I won’t deny that some of the Trump denouncers were there for Reagan. But most were not. Many or most of them, however, were there for the losers the Republicans put up in the last two election cycles.
And let me quickly point out that neither John McCain nor Mitt Romney were conservatives at all – “movement conservatives” or otherwise. They were both hostile to conservatives. They hated them. So where were the denunciations of McCain and Romney in the 2008 and 2012 primaries from the National Review crowd and their Trump-hating friends?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the National Review has been something of an irrelevancy since the earthly departures of William F. Buckley and Bill Rusher – the brains of the operation.
Back then, even I was honored to be an occasional contributor – as I was to Human Events and other favorite periodicals of Ronald Reagan, who dragged me kicking and screaming from a leftist, radical extremist into the fold of the Second Thoughts crowd.
But it’s pointless to trash the National Review. Its circulation and readership tell the story there.
Let’s talk instead about why the periodical and its contributors miss the point about Trump.
Yes, it’s true that Trump has been all over the map politically throughout his non-political career.
Yes, it’s true that some of his positions are not well-grounded and based in conservative ideology and principals.
Yes, it’s true that we don’t know what he’s actually going to do if he’s elected president, and he may be a huge disappointment to his supporters.
Now, let’s look at the positive side.
Trump has brought an electrical excitement to the 2016 presidential race.
Trump, with some strong help from Ted Cruz and Dr. Ben Carson, has finally – and perhaps forever – exposed the fraud of political correctness, even making it popular to trash for the common man.
Trump threatens to destroy, once and for all, the Republican establishment, which even some of the contributors to the National Review assault on him would agree represents as much a danger to the republic as the Democrat establishment.
Trump, should he be the nominee, and I am not endorsing him, is the only Republican candidate who could potentially realign the national political landscape and win a Reaganesque-style landslide – even winning states thought, for the last 28 years, to be impossible for Republican candidates to win.
Let’s not forget that a big part of America’s political problem is the Republican Congress. For the last seven years, ever since Republicans won the House in 2010, and even more so when they won the Senate in 2012, the Congress has been in total appeasement mode – giving Barack Obama everything he needed to “fundamentally transform America” in his own image.
Like him or hate him, Trump is where he is as a frontrunner right now because of that – the total capitulation of the Republican Congress and leadership – as much as he’s there because of Obama’s failed policies.
Is Trump the great hope for the country?
I don’t know. I haven’t decided. I like several Republican candidates, but I certainly don’t agree with the war on Trump. And I know the National Review team has no answers – zero. The National Review elitists are part of the problem, not the solution.
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Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/trump-and-the-national-review-irrelevants/#twOPGKCOGmeyS1dg.99
Charlton Heston as Moses prepares to smash the first set of God’s law in 1956’s “The Ten Commandments.”
In its Supreme Court battle over Obamacare’s abortion-pill mandate, the government wants to “determine what is in fact a sin,” contends a religious-rights legal group.
The high court has agreed to hear the case of the Denver-based Little Sisters of the Poor nuns, who refused to comply with the requirement that the insurance policies for their employees cover abortion pills.
The nuns have refused to sign over the responsibility to their insurance company, arguing it also would be a violation of their faith to facilitate someone else committing a sin.
The group’s chief counsel, Richard Thompson, called the mandate “a monumental attack on religious liberty.”
“If this appeal is lost, the government becomes the head of every religious denomination in the country by its assumed authority to determine what is in fact a sin,” he said.
The brief argues that the neither the government nor the lawyers on the Supreme Court bench “can determine whether an act does or does not violate a person’s religious beliefs.”
“Rather, the Supreme Court must accept the non-profits’ assertions that the notification requirement is indeed against their religion.”
To accept otherwise, the brief says, “is to supplant the church and the Bible with the government, allowing the Supreme Court and the government to interpret [tenets] of faith.
“This slippery slope would subject all religious exercise to the whim of the government’s approval.”
The brief points out that it’s already been decided that the fines for noncompliance are a substantial burden, leaving essentially the question of “whether compliance is actually against the petitioners’ religion.”
“This is something that is for petitioners to determine, not the court,” the Thomas More Law Center says.
“The court is not the arbiter of sacred Scripture and cannot determine whether the notification form and letter are attenuated enough from the provision of contraceptives that they do not substantially burden petitioners’ religion,” the brief says. “Delving into this inquiry requires the court to interpret petitioners’ religious beliefs on the morality of the different levels of complicity with sin.
“Therefore, the court can only determine whether petitioners are being compelled to do something that violates their faith – here, filling out the notification form or writing a notification letter to HHS, both of which trigger the dissemination of contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees in connection with their employee health plans.”
The brief point out that a woman’s right to get contraceptives is not unlimited.
“This does not mean they have a right to free contraceptives and abortifacients. Moreover, this right certainly does not mean that a person has the right to obtain contraceptives and abortifacients – either directly or indirectly – from their employer at the expense of pillaging the employer’s religious liberty,” the brief states.
The Little Sisters charge the government is forcing them to violate their faith by giving them a choice between providing contraceptives and abortion pills directly or ordering them to sign over their responsibility to someone else.
“These notification requirements trigger the non-profits’ insurers to provide free contraceptives and abortifacients to the women in the non-profits’ health plans. This notification requirement makes the non profits complicit in the provision of a service that they find sinful, thereby causing them to sin themselves,” the brief explains.
The law center argues there should not even be a case.
“The government already subsidizes contraceptives and abortifacients through its programs and could find ways to expand or increase the efficacy of those existing programs,” the brief says.
“The government could offer grants, go directly to insurers, or engage in countless other options that do not involve the cooperation of petitioners.”
Further, providing “free contraceptives and abortifacients” is not a compelling government interest, the law center argues, quoting the Supreme Court itself.
“The many exemptions already provided for under the regulations necessarily destroy any argument that the HHS mandate serves a compelling interest.”
It was the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that took on the authority of determining what is sin.
Another recent brief challenged: “Perhaps the apex among a host of acts of governmental arrogance in this case was displayed not by HHS, but when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit acted as if it had ecclesiastical powers of absolution, having decreed that by just signing a paper, Little Sisters would not be ‘morally complicit in providing contraceptive coverage.'”
The brief said one would expect that “on the issue of who the God of Heaven and Earth will hold ‘morally complicit,’ it would be the Little Sisters which would have the greater expertise than a federal judge.”
By way of background, as we explained previously, What exactly does a “war on cash” mean?
It means governments are limiting the use of cash and a variety of official-mouthpiece economists are calling for the outright abolition of cash. Authorities are both restricting the amount of cash that can be withdrawn from banks, and limiting what can be purchased with cash.
These limits are broadly called “capital controls.”
Why Now? Why are governments suddenly so keen to ban physical cash?
The answer appears to be that the banks and government authorities are anticipating bail-ins, steeply negative interest rates and hefty fees on cash, and they want to close any opening regular depositors might have to escape these forms of officially sanctioned theft. The escape mechanism from bail-ins and fees on cash deposits is physical cash, and hence the sudden flurry of calls to eliminate cash as a relic of a bygone age — that is, an age when commoners had some way to safeguard their money from bail-ins and bankers’ control.
Forcing Those With Cash To Spend or Gamble Their Cash
The conventional answer voiced by Mr. Buiter is that recession and credit contraction result from households and enterprises hoarding cash instead of spending it. The solution to recession is thus to force all those stingy cash hoarders to spend their money.
And the benefits of a cashless society to banks and governments are self-evident:
1. Every financial transaction can be taxed.
2. Every financial transaction can be charged a fee.
3. Bank runs are eliminated.
In fractional reserve systems such as ours, banks are only required to hold a fraction of their assets in cash. Thus a bank might only have 1 percent of its assets in cash. If customers fear the bank might be insolvent, they crowd the bank and demand their deposits in physical cash. The bank quickly runs out of physical cash and closes its doors, further fueling a panic.
The federal government began insuring deposits after the Great Depression triggered the collapse of hundreds of banks, and that guarantee limited bank runs, as depositors no longer needed to fear a bank closing would mean their money on deposit was lost.
But since people could conceivably sense a disturbance in the Financial Force and decide to turn digital cash into physical cash as a precaution, eliminating physical cash also eliminates the possibility of bank runs, as there will be no form of cash that isn’t controlled by banks.
So, when the dust has settled who ultimately benefits by this war on cash - government and the central banks, pure and simple.
Which explains why Norway's biggest bank, DNB, has called for the country to stop using cash which is just the latest move in a country that has been leading the global charge toward electronic money in recent years, with several banks already not offering cash in their branch offices and some industries seeking to cut back on paper currency.
DNB's proposal suggests eliminating the use of cash would cut down on black market sales and crimes such as money laundering.
“Today, there is approximately 50 billion kroner in circulation and [the country’s central bank] Norges Bank can only account for 40 percent of its use. That means that 60 percent of money usage is outside of any control. We believe that is due to under-the-table money and laundering,” Trond Bentestuen, a DNB executive, told Norwegian website VG, the Local reported.
“There are so many dangers and disadvantages associated with cash, we have concluded that it should be phased out,” he added.
The country has already moved in this direction. Bentestuen estimated that only about 6 percent of Norwegians use cash on a daily basis, with the numbers higher among elderly people.
Norway’s Ministry of Finance is opposed to the proposal, however, and other critics have raised concerns about privacy issues as well as how the change would affect tourists. Privacy advocates in Norway have expressed worries for years that, without cash, there would be no way for an individual to purchase something without being tracked.
In 2014, Finans Norge, a financial industry organization in Norway, said the country was on pace to be a cashless society by 2020, Ice News reported. While DNB said its proposal will take time to complete, executives suggested the country start phasing out cash by discontinuing the 1,000 kroner note so it could focus on updating its banking system.
“Eighty-five percent of our customers say that they never or only very rarely go to the bank. Therefore we think it is a mistake to maintain a very old structure with local branch offices. It is better to follow the customers and improve the offers where the customers are: digital,” Bentestuen said.
In the meantime, DNB and Norway’s second largest bank, Nordea, have already stopped using cash in their branch offices. And the movement toward a goal of no cash has been going on for a while. The Norwegian Hospitality Association pushed to eliminate consumers’ right to pay cash at all stores and restaurants in 2013, The Local reported.
Other countries including Denmark and Sweden have made similar pushes as their populations also rely largely on electronic money.
If allowed to continue, state wealth control will exist.
And thus, as we concluded previously, if you can’t withdraw your money as cash, you have two choices: You can deal with negative interest rates...or you can spend your money. Ultimately, that’s what our Keynesian central planners want. They are using negative interest rates and the War on Cash to force you to spend and “stimulate” the economy.
If you ask us, these radical and insane measures are a sign of desperation.
The War on Cash and negative interest rates are huge threats to your financial security. Central planners are playing with fire and inviting a currency catastrophe.
By Anthony DeChristopher, originally posted on The Hill
The smoking gun?
Special Access Programs (SAP) is a game changer. It is now undeniably clear that the results of the FBI investigation will be the end of one of two things: Hillary’s bid for the White House or the legitimacy of the FBI—at least when it comes to prosecuting cases on the mishandling of classified material.
In 2006, a Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) from my company was deployed to Afghanistan. Theirs was a particular mission that differed from the combat missions the typical ODAs were conducting at that time. Everyone on that team maintained a Top Secret Sensitive and Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance and was “read-on” to their special program. A few months into their deployment, their Intelligence Sergeant lost a thumb-drive that possessed classified information. A week later the thumb drive was found for sale at a local bazaar.
In response to the events, Col. Ken Allard (ret.) stated, “You've got a situation in which the U.S. is going to be forced to change an awful lot of its operational techniques."
Beyond the compromise of classified information, a lot did change. New protocols for the handling of classified material were established, and the transportation of classified material on thumb drives was strictly forbidden. The knee jerk reaction even went as far as to disable USB ports on our work computers—in case we forgot.
Since then I’ve deployed to several locations where, at times, we operated in small teams with only non-secure cellphones with which to communicate. We often found ourselves with a lot of information that needed to be sent up in reports, but due to the nature of our mission we were forced to sit on it for a few days until we were able to type it up and send it through a secure medium. I’d be lying if I said we didn’t concoct elaborate plans with “foolproof” ways to communicate the information over non-secure channels, but in the end, no one was willing to take the risk of our “fail-safes” failing.
As more information from Hillary Clinton’s server has been made available, it is clear that the contents of the server contained Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), and Signal Intelligence (SIGINT). Understanding that much of the information has been retroactively classified, there are a few facts that are tough to grasp—at least from the perspective of an intelligence practitioner.
First, when imagery that is classified SECRET//NOFORN (no foreign national) is viewed, regardless of the absence of classification markings, it is distinctly evident. Second, any documents that contain or reference HUMINT is always classified SECRET, and if specific names of sources or handlers are mentioned, they are at a minimum SECRET//NOFORN. Third, SIGINT is always classified at the TS level. It’s not uncommon for some SI to be downgraded and shared over SECRET mediums, however, it is highly unlikely that a Secretary of State would receive downgraded intelligence. Finally, SAP intelligence has been discovered on Clinton’s private server, and many are now calling this the smoking gun. SAP is a specialized management system of additional security controls designed to protect SAR or Special Access Required. SAR has to do with extremely perishable operational methods and capabilities, and only selected individuals who are “read on” or “indoctrinated” are permitted access to these programs. The mishandling of SAP can cause catastrophic damage to current collection methods, techniques and personnel.
In other words, if you have worked with classified material for more than a day, it seems highly implausible that someone could receive any of the aforementioned over an un-secure medium without alarm bells sounding. However, reading about a Special Access Program on an unclassified device would make anyone even remotely familiar with intelligence mess their pantsuit.
With more damming information being released almost weekly now, it’s interesting that during last Sunday’s Democratic debate, Clinton resoundingly stated: “No one is too big for jail.” Although the context was referencing bank CEOs and Hedge fund managers, the obvious correlation left many scratching their heads and wondering—did Hillary Clinton just say, “I dare you” to the FBI?”
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
This morning, I came across an extremely important story with tremendous long-term negative implications for freedom in these United States. It relates to the fact that the always shady Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving to fast track an Authorization of Military Force (AUMF) for the President that would allow for unrestricted warfare against ISIS. There would be no time or geographic restrictions on this authorization. Rather than being a favor to President Obama, this is primarily a means to ensure that whoever takes control in 2017 receives a blank check for unrestrained militarism with no expiration date. This is terrifying.
Before I get into the issue at hand, some background is necessary. Many legal scholars, and indeed, even many members of Congress have admitted that Obama’s war against ISIS is illegal and unconstitutional. One of the best articles I’ve read on why this is the case, was published in the New York Times in 2014, which I covered in the post, Obama’s ISIS War is Not Only Illegal, it Makes George W. Bush Look Like a Constitutional Scholar. Here are a few excerpts:
President Obama’s declaration of war against the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria marks a decisive break in the American constitutional tradition. Nothing attempted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, remotely compares in imperial hubris.
Mr. Bush gained explicit congressional consent for his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In contrast, the Obama administration has not even published a legal opinion attempting to justify the president’s assertion of unilateral war-making authority. This is because no serious opinion can be written.
This became clear when White House officials briefed reporters before Mr. Obama’s speech to the nation on Wednesday evening. They said a war against ISIS was justified by Congress’s authorization of force against Al Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that no new approval was needed.
But the 2001 authorization for the use of military force does not apply here. That resolution — scaled back from what Mr. Bush initially wanted — extended only to nations and organizations that “planned, authorized, committed or aided” the 9/11 attacks.
Not only was ISIS created long after 2001, but Al Qaeda publicly disavowed it earlier this year. It is Al Qaeda’s competitor, not its affiliate.
Mr. Obama may rightly be frustrated by gridlock in Washington, but his assault on the rule of law is a devastating setback for our constitutional order. His refusal even to ask the Justice Department to provide a formal legal pretext for the war on ISIS is astonishing.
It’s been almost two years since that Op-ed was written, and Obama is still carrying out his illegal war on ISIS with barely a peep from our incredibly corrupt and useless Congress. Indeed, the only thing Congress is scheming to do is to ensure the next President receives a blank check for perpetual war.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered members a snow-weekend surprise late Wednesday night: Quietly teeing up a potential debate on the legal underpinning for the fight against ISIS.
After months of worrying that such a resolution—known as an authorization for the use of military force—would tie the next president’s hands, McConnell’s move to fast-track the measure surprised even his top deputy, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, who was unaware that McConnell had set up the authorization.
The AUMF put forward by McConnell would not restrict the president’s use of ground troops, nor have any limits related to time or geography.Nor would it touch on the issue of what to do with the 2001 AUMF, which the Obama administration has used to attack ISIS despite that authorization’s instructions to use force against those who planned the 9/11 terrorist attacks. By contrast, the legal authority put forward by the administration last February wouldn’t authorize “enduring offensive ground combat operations” and would have ended three years after enactment, unless reauthorized.
Read that over and over and over until you get how incredibly dangerous it is.
Don Stewart, McConnell’s spokesman, said Thursday in an email that the new AUMF “is not the one the [p]resident asked for” and “not one that would tie the [p]resident’s hands.”
Exactly. It’s not the one the President asked for, it’s far more aggressive and dangerous.
Stewart added that the process McConnell used to set up the AUMF, known as “Rule XIV,” merely sets up the authorization for a future vote, but does not put it on the calendar—meaning a vote could come at any time, or not at all. The resolution already has four Republican cosponsors: Sens. Lindsey Graham, Daniel Coats, Joni Ernst, and Orrin Hatch.
If war monger Lindsey Graham is a co-sponsor you know for sure it’s an unmitigated disaster for liberty.
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker said that there is still a “wide diversity” of opinions on the issue. Some Democrats were critical of even the president’s own draft AUMF, warning that they’d need additional restrictions from the administration on troop levels and geographic boundaries before they could support any authorization. Republicans, meanwhile, worried deeply about restricting the president as this administration, and the next one, work to combat ISIS.
“This is the right thing,” said Graham, a cosponsor on the new AUMF resolution. “This is the right infrastructure to have.”
“If our Democratic friends don’t want to give this president and other presidents the ability to go after ISIS without limitation to geography, time and means—be on the record,” he added.
Indeed, I’d like to see every member of Congress go on the record as to the issue of perpetual war to fight an enemy created by our government’s own foreign policy andour “allies'” funding and armaments.
Kaine said that although he and the vast majority of Congress support combatting ISIS, he disagrees with the administration that the president is within his authority to do so. “I believe the war is illegal,” Kaine said Thursday. “I don’t think there’s a legal justification for it. And I think the greatest danger we end up doing is allowing the president to wage a war without Congress weighing in.”
Cornyn, who in December said that Republicans would not present an AUMF of their own until the president outlined a strategy, said that he nonetheless welcomed debate on the issue.
“I don’t think we should be afraid of that debate, but we need a coherent strategy from the president which we still don’t have and we also don’t need to tie the hands of the next president by restricting what the president can do,” Cornyn said.
Sorry, but wasn’t the entire idea of a legislative branch to precisely restrict what the President can do. Congress is purely ceremonial at this point. What an utter embarrassment.
Alex Jones breaks the mold with one of his most powerful interviews yet, Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Jones and Farrakhan sat down to discuss the crossroads humanity is currently at. This is the full uncut interview.
Watch excerpts from the full interview below:
And below are selected excerpts from the interview, transcribed byFinalCall.com.
Alex Jones (AJ): Minister Farrakhan, thank you for having me here in your home. Why did you agree to this interview? I know you refused so many others.
Min. Farrakhan (MLF): Thank you so much, Mr. Jones, for honoring us with your presence. We have watched you as you have watched us, and I have learned a lot from infowars.com and some of the wonderful things that you have done. I thought long and hard about accepting the invitation. You’re right. I don’t do a lot of interviews but I thought that this was something special. I wanted you to feel completely free like you are at home; and I want you to ask me the questions that your many listeners would like to know about Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. There is nothing off limits. You can ask whatever you please and we’ll create the dialogue.
AJ: There are forces trying to divide and conquer humanity and we’re really coming to a crossroads where people are being told to choose a side but I don’t think the sides they’re telling us to choose are real sides. I’m trying to get people to think outside the box. When I spoke to you earlier that was basically your main focus.
MLF: First, the idea of dialogue, truthful dialogue, that gets us past the media manipulation of persons, events, and the truths of persons and events. I’m grateful to have an opportunity to talk to your audience as well as my own because I felt that I’ve been talking to Black people for 60 or more years and Black people understand me pretty well. But White people don’t know me and may not understand me. … Now, Black people I know because I’m Black and I come up from among my people. But to have a chance now to speak to a White audience, mainly who may be conservative in their culture, thoughts and desires, and for me to be able to represent the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to that group and answer questions that they are interested in hearing a truthful answer to. … We’re two people that live in the greatest nation on this earth but the nation is not now what it could be if truth unfettered would be given to the American people. And perhaps through this dialogue that might happen.
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AJ: While the people of the nation of every race, color, and creed are being played off against each other, these big global multinationals are tax exempt and have diplomatic immunity. I see the media on both sides, the Conservative and Liberal, basically turning them all into a big spectacle, everyone fighting with each other. Above it are the social engineers who are attacking the family. Doesn’t matter what color your family is, who are attacking our jobs, shipping them overseas. … While we’re busy fighting with each other, they steal the whole show. And you’re one of the only prominent leaders—be they of any race, color or creed, we’re all the human race—that addresses that there is a conspiracy.
Millions of people a year are charged around the world in a conspiracy to rob banks, a conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to fraud; but how is it with the power elite it is impossible that they’re in a conspiracy?
MLF: In the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, his great teacher Master Fard Muhammad, who came to enliven the Black people in particular and raise us from a dead level to give us life spiritually, mentally, morally, economically, intellectually, he taught us that. He never used color in this Question and Answer. He asked the question: Who are the 85 percent? Who are the 10 percent? And who are the 5 percent?
And in the answers that Mr. Muhammad gave that we study: Eighty-five percent of the people don’t understand the law of Cause and Effect. And they believe that all of this great wonder is from a Mystery God. They don’t know that God is as real as you and I sitting across the table from each other. Wherever there is an effect that is real, the cause is just as real—though oft times the hidden hand that’s manipulating, creating the effect and the circumstances that begin to divide and destroy is unseen—this kind of Satanic mind is absolutely in control. And that Satanic mind is hiding with a mask of humanity and civility but now it is gradually being exposed.
Ten Percent run 85 Percent. The Ten Percent are those that are privileged, those that are blessed with education and some degree of wealth that 85 Percent don’t share. It doesn’t make any difference whether you are White or Black or Indian or whatever your ethnicity is, and it doesn’t make any difference what your religion is. Whether you’re Christian, or Muslim, or Jew, there are those at the top who guide and govern, who are not necessarily the friend of the masses of the people that they are governing.
So it is the 5 Percent, or just a small group, who know the truth, who understand the Law of Cause and Effect and they don’t believe in a Mystery God somewhere making things happen. If there’s a real evil, then there’s a real Devil. If there’s a real Saint, then there’s a real good person doing saintly things. So here we are now and a conspiracy absolutely is in vogue. And I say this humbly but I’ve had certain people who say, “Well, you’re a conspiracy theorist” and they call you the same. I said, “But do you read the scriptures of the Bible and Qur’an”?
Is not Satan real? Evil is real so Satan is real. Evil is preponderant in the earth and that is because the mind of Satan that is being transmitted through religion, through education, through the economics and politics of the situation so that Satan is in control of a vast enterprise of institutions that foster ideas that put human beings against themselves and against God and against each other. So there’s real conspiracy and we’re in the middle of it as we are dialoguing. …
I looked at the many Republicans and Democrats that are trying to win the nomination of their party. It says to me, I don’t want to be vulgar, but it’s like in any major city, you see women undressed, showing their wares for a John to buy them. And it’s like politicians who don’t have money but have ideas and parade themselves before rich and powerful people to get money apparently for their ideas that the rich agree with. But the moment that they become what they are looking to become, they find that the rich have an agenda for them. The rich have something to ask of them like the John asks of the prostitute.
And that’s one of the things that I admire about Mr. Trump because he told them all: “I don’t want your money.” And when a politician does not want money from the rich, he’s freer than the others to really do good for the masses of the people, and I think that today we’re in the midst of the darkest hour in American history. If we don’t make the right move, with the right people, at the right time, the America that we know, we’re not going to see it become great again.
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AJ: I’d like you to speak some more, if you would, about Donald Trump?
MLF: I said recently that if the American people voted for Trump, he could take them into the abyss of hell. He’s free. He’s rich. He hates political correctness and rightly so; but he said some things that I would hope, that he would get around him persons who could help him. … If he says, let’s go into Iraq and “take the oil,” that puts him in the class of those Neo-Conservatives who had aProject for the New American Century and they wrote to Bill Clinton and Trent Lott and they talked about attacking Iraq and taking out Sadaam Hussein. Not just because he may be in their eyes a dictator and was once on the payroll of the CIA in the war against Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini; but he had become a thorn in their sides and they wanted to get rid of him. … And that is the crime of those who refuse to come under the control of the IMF or the World Bank who send these people like Mr. John Perkins in his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hitman,” who would go into a small country and tell them how they could improve this and that but they would have to borrow money.
When I was in Nigeria, President Sani Abacha told me that they came to him and offered him billions of dollars to loan. And Mr. Abacha said, “I don’t need your money because the oil that we have is sufficient to get us to do all the good things that we want to do.”
Well, a few years later he’s dead. Now here is Mr. Trump, if he would look at this Project for the New American Century, and I’m sure you have read their writings where they appeal to Bill Clinton to get rid of Saddam Hussein as part of America’s foreign policy. He didn’t go along with it and those members of the Project for the New American Century now got into the inside of government under the Bush Administration.
General Wesley Clark, a retired four-star general and Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the Kosovo War, said he was introduced to a Defense Dept. memo and I think it was 2001, a memo that came from the Neo-Conservatives that they wanted regime change in seven Islamic countries in five years’ time. And it started with Iraq and Sadaam Hussein, then Syria and Bashar al-Asad, then Lebanon, then Sudan, then Iran and then Libya. All of those countries now are boiling with internal strife. … If he (Mr. Trump) goes into Iraq and takes the oil, that’s a kind of a thuggish mentality. America has the power to do these things but it will not bring the results that America desires. Bush and the Neo-Cons when they went into Iraq, I warned President Bush that what you are doing and the way you are doing it, you will increase terrorism. My words to him proved correct. …
Now, here is our president, now I’m talking about Barack Obama because the job that President Bush started was not finished. In comes Obama and when he was campaigning he was a new, and fresh, and beautiful idea; but when he gets into office, he becomes the extension of the policies of the Neo-Conservatives. They surrounded Bush. They surrounded Barack Obama. … So you took a man. We gave you the best that we had but you took him. You gave him the Nobel Peace Prize and then the Neo-Cons and the Shadow Government begin to guide the policies of America. And now here’s what we have. Now, I’m going to come back to Mr. Trump in a minute.
Hillary Clinton was the biggest advocate for the destruction of Libya and Muammar Gadhafi. Gadhafi was my friend. I know him as a Revolutionary. He was against America’s foreign policy objectives and he stood out. That man died but he led his country, they had no debt. There’s no country on earth that doesn’t have debt but Libya didn’t have debt. Libya gave some of the oil money back to all the citizens.
Libya armed the whole country and had depots where if anything happened, they could go and get arms. A man who’s a despot does not arm his people that they can be manipulated to come against him; but the moment he gave up his weapons of mass destruction to come in out of the cold, who came to Libya? It was Richard Perle, the “Prince of Darkness.” And where did he go? He went directly to Benghazi because it was from Benghazi that Gadhafi overthrew the king. So now they never did like Gadhafi. So they started stimulating the upset, the unrest, the dissatisfaction. And I don’t care how good any leader is, there’s always dissatisfaction in every house.
Our government has gone into nations with money from our Congress to stimulate the dissatisfied and then arm them against a government that is their government. That’s what America did in Libya. That’s what they’re doing in Syria and the blow back now is they have created a refugee crisis that is destabilizing the countries in Europe.
So when Mr. Trump said, “We can’t allow these Muslim refugees into America,” a lot of people were upset with him but I know, sir, the hatred for America in the Muslim World is building as we told Mr. Bush: No Muslim leader could call for jihad and have it stick. No Muslim leader had the power to unite the whole Muslim World. I said, “But America’s policies will unite those people against the West” and it is happening.
So in this way,Mr. Trump I think is wise to vette anyone coming from that area into America because the hatred for America is in the streets now.So if those people are refugees and America feels “I got to let 10,000 of them in,” because America created the problem. Now, if you let them in and you don’t vette them carefully, you might be letting in your own destruction.
I’ll close that Mr. Jones with scripture. In the Book of Revelations, it talks about Babylon falling. Ancient Babylon we know but there’s a mystery Babylon that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad says represents America and her dominance in the world. … Now, here we have Babylon falling. Mr. Trump says, “I want to make America great again.” … My teacher said, Babylon is America and the Devil means that all of us are in rebellion against the divine laws of God. Whatever God said thou shalt not do, in America you’re free to do it. So whether we like the appellation (the name or use of the term) Devil or not, we are in rebellion against God; and look at the cage of every foul, unclean and hateful bird. Those are the people, he (Elijah Muhammad) said, that are flying out of the Middle East now, coming to America for refuge but they’re filled with hate of this country.
So if Mr. Trump and the government are wise, you vet the people that are coming in. ….
I’m really concerned because Mr. Trump has hit on some very negative things with Mrs. Clinton and her husband. And I think it’s dangerous for the future of politics and for the future of America when we become uncivil in our discourse. … In this dialogue between Mr. Trump as the potential standard bearer of the Republican Party and Mrs. Clinton who has brought her husband beside her in her battle to become the nominee of the Democratic Party, if they start down this road of bringing up negative things about Bill Clinton and they bring up whatever they can discover about Mr. Trump, this political campaign will degenerate into something like two children in a crib. … Two children in a crib and one child reaches into his diaper and picks up some fecal matter and rubs it in the face of the other one, but the other one’s diaper is hanging lower and he reaches in and gets something and puts it in the face of the other.
As children you might look at it and laugh and say, oh, that’s funny; but when two adults who are leading parties in the most powerful nation on earth degenerate the dialogue into that kind of personal thing where we knock out each other with the bad of who we are. My mother used to say, “You don’t have to lie about anybody because the truth about everybody is bad enough.” None of us come through this world without sin.
Min. Farrakhan and Alex Jones exchange thoughts in the courtyard of the Minister’s Home. / Image credit: FinalCall.com
AJ: Minister Farrakhan, what is your view of political correctness?
MLF: I think the type of political correctness that the media and those in power want to promote is robbing people of the freedom of thought and speech. I would like to sit with a person and be free to say what is on my heart and if I’m incorrect, then correct me. But if I have to be politically correct like Paula Deen. …
Now, Paula’s from the South and you know in the South, in the North, when White folk are together, they might say, you know, “that N—–, or that N—–,” and it’s just as common as saying, ice cream and pie when they refer to Black people. Political correctness that robs you of freedom of speech even if you’re wrong, but to punish somebody who has been calling us out of that name or in that name, since we been here and then take her off television and make it seem like she’s some wicked woman who just used the word.
And then our comedians will come on television and using, “Nigga, Nigga, Nigga, Nigga, Nigga,” all day long and it’s to some a term of endearment; but Elijah Muhammad never wanted us to use such term in regards to ourselves and we didn’t like anybody using that term toward us. … That is what makes Trump acceptable to so many White people who feel, “Damn, I can’t be myself now. I can’t say what I really feel. I’ll pay a political price.” Mr. Trump says, “the heck with that. I’ll tell you what’s on my mind” and that is freeing a lot of people that like what he is doing.
Political correctness has its place but for me, as a student of my teacher, I think I should always be dignified in my expression, although sometimes in passion, I lose it. And so I thought about, you know, when they said, “Farrakhan, he wants to kill all White people. He’s advocating 10,000 fearless men to go out and kill White people,” as though I’m insane. That’s insanity. And I’ve been teaching for 60 years, sir, and no one who follows me has ever gone out and killed a White person, harmed a Jewish person, bombed a synagogue or even put some Swastika on the synagogue because that’s against our religion to deface a house of worship.
I’m saying that to say this: When I said in Florida, you know, naming all the Blacks that got shot down and according to something I just read where Black people, one Black man every 28 hours is shot by a policeman and young Black men are nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to The Guardian newspaper. One-thousand one-hundred thirty-four deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers happened last year.
As a Black man who loves my people, I’m grieved not only at police killing us but I am grieved at our killing of each other which sometimes is ten times more than what White policemen have done. So in my passion against that, and this has been gradually increasing with me over the years, I said, “If the Federal Government does not intercede to see that justice comes to us,” because that’s the government’s job. It’s not my job to kill my killer. It’s the government’s job to arrest the killer, bring them before a court of law and punish them for their misdeed.
But when the government fails to do it, what are we to do? We have to defend our lives. And so I said, stalk them wherever you find them. Not everybody just the ones that kill us out of the law of justice. If the government won’t arrest them and do that, somehow we’re going ultimately to do that. And then it leads to what they’ll say it’s a race war, no. We are not in any position at all to engage in a race war. It’s ridiculous. It’s destructive. It’s suicidal. However, persecution in the Qur’an, it says, is worse than slaughter. And you know, you talk about 1776 and you are so right but in 1776, America had enough. So Patrick Henry said, “Give us liberty or we’re willing to pay the price which is death.” You force people into that when government fails to do its job to redress the grievance of the people who are suffering. And so I pray that, you know, Mr. Trump will not want to go into Iraq and take the oil because that’s what the Neo-Cons sent President Bush into Iraq to do and it’s a blowback now and the end will be that America will be into the greatest war that she has ever been in, the war that is in the scripture called “Armageddon.” It’s building to that as you and I are speaking.
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MLF: For the American people to think that a Black man in the White House has taken over this country, you know, that is so far from the truth because he’s just the CEO of U.S.A. Inc., and they can either hire him or fire him for the job that he’s doing but he’s not in control.
Did you know that it was Mr. John Kennedy who recognized that there was a Shadow Government. … President Kennedy said, “We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion; on subversion instead of elections; on intimidation instead of free choice; on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned. No rumor is printed. No secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War in short with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.” This is why John Kennedy was killed. He understood the conspiracy and as far back as the Founding Fathers of this nation, they knew that there would be those who would try to take over, set up a Private Central Bank. They were told to guard against that and under Woodrow Wilson, in 1913, the guard left. William Rockefeller met on Jekyll Island with Paul Warburg and his brother who were from the Rothschilds. They wanted to set up like the five children of Rothschild, Sr., the Bank of Italy, the Bank of Austria, the Bank of France, the Bank of England, all started by the banking family.
“Well, who cares who the politicians are,” Mr. Rothschild said, “as long as we control the wealth.” So they bankroll both sides of a conflict and end up ruling both sides. …
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MLF: The one thing that’s missing in the dialogue, even with Mr. Trump, nobody’s talking about the future of Black people, the future of the Indigenous, the Native Americans. This country, the Original Sin of America, is the destruction of over 120 million Native People; and when Master Fard Muhammad came, there were only two million Indians left. Millions of us were brought out of Africa, not to be citizens, but to be made burden bearers of the real citizens. So our sweat and our blood made America rich so that immigrants could come over and find the American dream on our nightmare. So if Mr. Trump, and I believe he’s bold enough, if he knew how much God is interested in the future of Black people; not that he’s not interested in the future of “all people,” but he’s interested in the future of Black people for this reason. … Black people, no matter what we have suffered up to this very moment, we have never been spies for any foreign government against America. We have never risen up as a force against the tyranny that has been imposed on us by our government. We have fought in every war from the Revolutionary War all the way up to the last war that there was in the Gulf. And we have never turned against our country.
We have a heart, Mr. Jones, of forgiveness. A heart that today we can love those who have done us so much evil. So God wants to use us. …
AJ: All these divisions, how do we beat that? How do we not play down that destructive road?
MLF: First of all, we have to understand nature. God says in the Qur’an, “I created you into tribes and families that you may know one another.” Your tribe is not my tribe but if I do not have enough sense to be to my tribe a person that would suffice the needs of my tribe, then I’m not being true to who I am; but I’m called on to grow. And it’s in the process of growth where we have fallen down.
So now I have to look out for Black people. I mean that’s my love but that’s not all that there is to me because I have grown and I love humanity now; but if I’m not true to my own people and their needs, you cannot trust me to be true to you. So the first thing Jesus said, the greatest law, “Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength” and the second one is like unto that, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” In America, we have never been taught to love us. … The present time is warning us, cajoling us, and moving us. Be true to your tribe but your tribe is a part of humanity. If you stay just with a tribe, then you’ll never become a nation. …
War is coming. It’s a horrible war that my teacher taught us of and my teacher again is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I believe him to be a Messenger of God. I believe that God raised him as a warner to America. America you are reaping now what you have sown. You can’t fight the natural disasters that are coming. Way back in the ‘60s, Mr. Jones, Elijah Muhammad said, “America would suffer from unusual rain, unusual snow, earthquakes unusual.” Then the forces of nature, hail, sleet, snow, cold, fire. … That is God’s judgment coming on America as it was written. Now, God has said you have to reap now what you’ve sown. You’ve destroyed cities and towns in Europe and Africa, in the Middle East. Things that you didn’t want, America destroyed them. Now, look at your cities. They’re under water; your farmland being destroyed; fire burning the lands of California and the West; tornadoes, hurricanes. … This is just the beginning and that is what I wanted to say about whoever will be our president. If you’re not dealing with that which has incurred the wrath of God, then you can’t make America great again and you can’t bring America back from the abyss that she’s falling into. …
AJ: I appreciate you giving me more than three hours of your time total, when we first got here, Mr. Farrakhan, Minister, thank you.
MLF: Thank you. … There is a power in one that is called Mahdi, M-a-h-d-i. That’s the guide that the Islamic world has been expecting, and Massi orMessiah which the Christian and Jewish world have been expecting. And this Mahdi when he comes, his number one aim is to set justice in the earth and remove every tyrant. And setup a government of peace. That’s the aim of the Messiah, the Christ. These are not spooks and spirits that come out of space. These are human beings anointed with power and wisdom to do exactly what they purpose to do. That’s why I know the Globalists will never win. Here’s how I would see it. In Islam, the religion needs to be reformed. In fact, all religion has failed to produce the human being that God wants out of us. If we are made in the image and the likeness of God, we are created by God to reflect him “perfectly.” That is not in religion today. Islam now has tyrants ruling. Mecca is my Holy City. I love Mecca. I love Arabia but who is backing Arabia in killing the Houthis in Yemen, using American firepower, planes and tanks and guns? Now, there’s internal strife. They killed an Imam, a Shiite Imam. Now, they’ve broken relations. This thing is leading to Great War now and America, ISIS says, come on over. And America says, “We got to put boots on the ground.” No, you’ll put boots under the ground if you’re foolish to jump into that fray that is made now because the Number One Tyrant is not Russia. The Number One Tyrant is right here.
Insanity is not pretty. Never is. As we wade daily through the unholy quagmire of insanity as the new norm, those of us dedicated to never give up, never give in, never back down, never surrender this sacred experiment in self-government to the cuckoo’s nest gang all around, we must do all we can on a daily basis to identify the insanity, flush out the insane parties guilty of spreading it and fight harder than ever to stop it cold ASAP.
The insanity is so entrenched and widespread that it is very difficult to get past the ubiquitous perpetrators in order to wake up the apathetic. It is very much like trying to identify dangerous zombies when the dangerous zombies run the government, the media and most of academia.
We must never waste our time trying to fix the insane, for part of the problem with insane people is that they are too insane to recognize insanity.
So I will list the glaring evidence that the Democratic Party is insane.
The Democrats must be terminally insane to allow Nancy Pelosi to squawk, “You don’t have to read the bill; you need to pass it to find out what’s in it. Where in the hell does that work?
That is insane enough, but more frighteningly insane is the willingness of masses of soulless sheep not to blink an eye, accepting such insanity as if it is just all peachy keen.
Brian Terry is still dead, and though everyone knows that the president of the United States and his hand-picked attorney general authorized the illegal running of guns to Mexican drug gangs as a flagrant attempt to demonize the Second Amendment and legal U.S. gun-owning citizens, it could very well be the ultimate definition of insanity.
But it gets worse. Not only did the highest offices of the U.S. government collude to break national and international gun laws in the insane attempt to find fault with said laws, the complicity of the government overall to not hold anyone accountable all these years later is even more insane.
That four so-called Supreme Court justices not only signed their names to a letter of dissension to the SCOTUS Heller and Washington Second Amendment affirmation cases insanely claiming U.S. citizens have no basic right to keep and bear arms, but insanity of insanity, these goofballs claimed Americans have no basic right to self-defense. And they still wear those black robes. That’s insane.
It is insane how the president of the United States lies over and over and over again and again and again and so much of the media and his braindead brainwashed sheep think it is A-OK.
It is insane how only Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Vermont and Alaska uphold Second Amendment rights while the other 45 states criminally infringe at will.
Only insane punks believe it is OK for the United States government to fail to provide basic security for our people in Benghazi and elsewhere around the world, but then not only deny 61 desperate requests for security as the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, but, insanity of insanity, tell those U.S. forces ready to defend our people to stand down.
More insane than that is the number of insane people in America who don’t think it really matters that four U.S. citizens died as a direct result of their government’s dereliction of duty and violation of their oath of office.
As a nation watches the president spew his dishonest insanity in his State of the Union series of blatant, runaway lies, insane people actually give him a standing ovation for each lie.
And so it goes – insanity running amok by insane people during insane times.
The list of irrefutable evidence could go on forever in these insane times, and I would be so happy to debate these self-evident truths with anyone, anywhere, anytime – for if you are insane enough to debate me, I would gladly chew down your family tree and spit sawdust in your face just for the entertainment value alone.
Democrats are insane. Bernie Sanders is insane. Hilary Clinton is the goddess of insanity, and the insane people that support these freaks are insanely trying to destroy the last best place and last best hope for freedom.
Don’t be insane. Stop the insanity.
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