government - Forum/Discussions - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T05:52:33Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/feed/tag/governmentConnect The Dotshttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/connect-the-dots2023-11-09T13:25:47.000Z2023-11-09T13:25:47.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Connect The Dots</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}12289106676,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}12289106676,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="12289106676?profile=RESIZE_180x180" /></a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">“<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Executives at the largest insurance companies in the United States are alarmed that teenagers, young and white-collar Americans in the prime of life are inexplicably dying at a record pace, causing a ‘monumental outflow’ of death claims and drag on profits that is shaking the industry and causing some to take a fresh look at the problem.”</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"> Insurance Execs Alarmed by Surge in Deaths Among Young People-But Stops Short of Blaming COVID Shots Mike Capuzzo </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/surge-young-people-deaths-insurance-industry/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/surge-young-people-deaths-insurance-industry/</a></p><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"> We are in the midst of an observable </span><span style="color:#000000;">and alarming </span><span style="color:#000000;">phenomena, the rise in excess mortality all around the world within the past few years; yet no one is making the linkage to </span><span style="color:#000000;">n</span><span style="color:#000000;">or addressing the huge elephant in the room, the mRNA COVID shots! The term “died suddenly” where seemingly healthy folks </span><span style="color:#000000;">of all ages </span><span style="color:#000000;">died unexpectedly after getting a shot or a series of boosters has been in play since the roll out of these shoots. </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/myocarditis-death-covid-vaccines-risk-greater/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/myocarditis-death-covid-vaccines-risk-greater/</a><span style="color:#000000;"> , </span><a href="https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now/">https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now/</a><span style="color:#000000;"> ,</span> <span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/heart-inflammation-after-covid-19-shots-higher-than-expected-study-us-military-2021-06-29/">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/heart-inflammation-after-covid-19-shots-higher-than-expected-study-us-military-2021-06-29/</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> The government, media and pharmaceutical cartels are </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">deliberately </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">suppressing and downplaying the truth about these concoctions. The </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">misnomered </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">“fact checkers” who are </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">actually </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">in the employ </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">and on the payroll </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">of the media and corporations are trying to create the </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">belief</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> the </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">COVID </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">shots are safe and effective and anyone who disagrees is spreading “misinformation” and “disinformation” </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">or is an anti-science, anti-vaxxer. </span></span><a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/11/08/pharma-funded-fact-checkers-control-internet.aspx">https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/11/08/pharma-funded-fact-checkers-control-internet.aspx</a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> The truth is we are being lied to on a massive scale. </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">“</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The media (TV, newspapers, magazines, etc), medical societies, state medical boards and the owners of social media have appointed themselves to be the sole source of information concerning this so-called ‘pandemic’. Websites have been removed, highly credentialed and experienced clinical doctors and scientific experts in the field of infectious diseases have been demonized, careers have been destroyed and all dissenting information has been labeled ‘misinformation’ and ‘dangerous lies’, even when sourced from top experts in the fields of virology, infectious diseases, pulmonary critical care, and epidemiology. These blackouts of truth occur even when this information is backed by extensive scientific citations from some of the most qualified medical specialists in the world. Incredibly, even individuals, such as Dr. Michael Yeadon, a retired ex-Chief Scientist, and vice-president for the science division of Pfizer Pharmaceutical company in the UK, who charged the company with making an extremely dangerous vaccine, is ignored and demonized. Further, he, along with other highly qualified scientists have stated that no one should take this vaccine…</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> We are now witnessing a growing number of excellent scientific papers, written by top experts in the field, being retracted from major medical and scientific journals weeks, months and even years after publication. A careful review indicates that in far too many instances the authors dared question accepted dogma by the controllers of scientific publications—especially concerning the safety, alternative treatments or efficacy of vaccines. These journals rely on extensive adverting by pharmaceutical companies for their revenue. Several instances have occurred where powerful pharmaceutical companies exerted their influence on owners of these journals to remove articles that in any way question these companies’ products…</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#212121;"><span style="font-family:Cambria, 'Cambria Math', stixgeneral, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Television media receives the majority of its advertising budget from the international pharmaceutical companies—this creates an irresistible influence to report all concocted studies supporting their vaccines and other so-called treatments. In 2020 alone the pharmaceutical industries spent 6.56 billion dollars on such advertising. Pharma TV advertising amounted to 4.58 billion, an incredible 75% of their budget. That buys a lot of influence and control over the media. World famous experts within all fields of infectious diseases are excluded from media exposure and from social media should they in any way deviate against the concocted lies and distortions by the makers of these vaccines. In addition, these pharmaceutical companies spend tens of millions on social media advertising, with Pfizer leading the pack with $55 million in 2020.</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">” COVID Update, What Is The Truth Russell L. Blaylock</span></span></span> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/</a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> To add insult to injury these </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">corporate </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">fraudsters are blaming the “</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">coronavirus</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">” for the </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">high </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">rates of heart inflammation and other adverse effect rather than the shots; </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">o</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">r they are lamely saying these </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">adverse reactions and deaths </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">are merely “coincidences”. </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Whew, you can’t make this stuff up!</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">“</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><u>Indeed, vaccinated people now make up the majority of the population – 79% of adults have completed at least the primary series – and the latest CDC data show that vaccinated people also now represent the majority of COVID-19 deaths.</u></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> There are many more vaccinated people than there are unvaccinated people, and vaccinated and boosted people are, on average, older and more likely to have underlying health conditions that put them at risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes.</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">” </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Why Do Vaccinated People Represent Most COVID-19 Deaths Right Now? Cynthia Cox, Krutika Amin, Jennifer Kates and Josh Michaud </span></span><a href="https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now/">https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now/</a> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">(Underline emphasis is mine.)</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> Do you remember when we were told by President Joe Biden and others, “Just take the shot, you won’t get COVID, you won’t have to go to the hospital and you won’t die.” That was a </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">bodacious </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">lie! Biden has </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">supposedly </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">been vaxxed and boostered yet he has gotten COVID several times but we aren’t supposed to remember that. T</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">he numbers don’t lie, people </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">have been</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> dying at inordinately higher rates since the introduction of these shots </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">and those who survive are experiencing a myriad of adverse reactions! </span></span><a href="https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now/">https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now/</a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> But the </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">lame stream</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> media is saying these are “rare incidents” and are downplaying the obvious connection between the shots and the adverse reactions because adverse reactions are not widely reported. </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">People are suffering in silence, not reporting their conditions and when they do their doctors deflect and blame something else.</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> Yet Pfizer’s own internal documents tell a different story, Pfizer knew their concoctions were not safe!</span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Freedom of Information requests have forced them to reveal the </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">truth!</span></span> <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/pfizer-data-attached-393-pages-adverse-events/5820870">https://www.globalresearch.ca/pfizer-data-attached-393-pages-adverse-events/5820870</a> <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/pfizer-vaccine-only-has-1291-side-effects/5773091">https://www.globalresearch.ca/pfizer-vaccine-only-has-1291-side-effects/5773091</a> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Autopsies are showing a causal relationship between the COVID shots and </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">excess</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> deaths even though many people </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">also </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">have comorbidities </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">(Orwellian doublespeak for folks are already sick) </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">which also are factors</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span></span><a href="https://zenodo.org/records/8120771">https://zenodo.org/records/8120771</a> <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-covid-vaccines-canadian-woman-dies-bivalent-booster-shot/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-covid-vaccines-canadian-woman-dies-bivalent-booster-shot/</a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> But those studies are being suppressed and censored to keep us ignorant. </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">They want us to keep taking the shots but the number of people taking the shots and boosters is declining which is a good thing. </span></span><a href="https://www.news-medical.net/news/20231005/Why-are-most-Americans-skipping-the-COVID-19-booster.aspx#:~:text=The%20analysis%20revealed%20that%20misinformation,reasons%20for%20vaccine%20booster%20aversion">https://www.news-medical.net/news/20231005/Why-are-most-Americans-skipping-the-COVID-19-booster.aspx#:~:text=The%20analysis%20revealed%20that%20misinformation,reasons%20for%20vaccine%20booster%20aversion</a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">. The media is saying this is due to “misinformation” but in reality it is because people are waking up to the dangers of these shots.</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> We all know someone who has “died suddenly” or who has had an adverse reaction to the COVID shots and boosters. It’s time to connect the dots.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> -30-</span></span></p></div>There is Nothing Hidden That Will Not Be Revealedhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/there-is-nothing-hidden-that-will-not-be-revealed2023-03-15T18:02:04.000Z2023-03-15T18:02:04.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>There Is Nothing Hidden That Won’t Be Revealed</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10998050064,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10998050064,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="10998050064?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p> </p><p>“The <a href="https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf">tragic</a> <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w28930">failure</a> of reckless, unprecedented lockdowns that were contrary to established pandemic science, and the added massive harms of those policies on children, the elderly, and lower-income families, are indisputable and <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifab003">well-documented</a> in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.13484">numerous</a> <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w29928">studies</a>. This was the biggest, the most tragic, and the most unethical breakdown of public health leadership in modern history.” America’s COVID Response Was Based On Lies- Dr Scott Atlas <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/america-covid-response-was-based-lies-opinion-1785177">https://www.newsweek.com/america-covid-response-was-based-lies-opinion-1785177</a></p><p> </p><p> I’m not one to toot my own horn and say I told you so, but I TOLD YOU SO. In March of 2020 when the World Health Organization first declared COVID-19 was a global health crisis I knew something was fishy because at that point there had only been a few thousand cases reported mostly in China and Italy. The WHO which at that time was funded mainly by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation along with several governments and philanthropic organizations made its declaration despite the fact there were only a few thousand cases of this supposedly “novel” or new coronavirus on a planet of close to eight billion people! Keep in mind a billion is a thousand millions so based on a relative handful of “cases” most of whom were elderly with serious chronic comorbidities the world was turned upside down, long standing accepted science and public health measures became taboo and bizarre/insane policies were instituted based on bogus mathematical predictions by so called “experts” that have since been proven to be thoroughly inaccurate.</p><p> To add insult to injury, the government in cahoots with the legacy/digital media and Big Pharma the least trusted organizations in the US according to a 2019 Gallop Poll <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/266060/big-pharma-sinks-bottom-industry-rankings.aspx">https://news.gallup.com/poll/266060/big-pharma-sinks-bottom-industry-rankings.aspx</a> lied to us about a so called <strong>Warp Speed</strong> campaign to discover and develop a vaccine to stop the spread. The truth is mRNA is not new. <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/the-long-history-of-mrna-vaccines">https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/the-long-history-of-mrna-vaccines</a> , mRNA was already in existence for decades and had been originally developed as a cancer treatment. mRNA proved unsuccessful because during the lab trials most of the lab animals died! Let this sink in, Big Pharma, the government and media lied and pushed already existing mRNA concoctions as a new “safe and effective” treatment modality for COVID-19.</p><p> We’ve been duped as I warned three years ago. The injections are not what we were told: they are not free (we pay for them with our tax dollars <u>at highly inflated prices</u>) <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/world/great-vaccine-robbery-pharmaceutical-corporations-charge-excessive-prices-covid-19">https://reliefweb.int/report/world/great-vaccine-robbery-pharmaceutical-corporations-charge-excessive-prices-covid-19</a> , they are not safe and they are not effective! <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-injuries-covid-vaccines-fda-pfizer-moderna-bosters/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-injuries-covid-vaccines-fda-pfizer-moderna-bosters/</a> Now the facts are gushing like an overflowing river. Forced by the court to reveal their trial data, Pfizer is being exposed as a ruthless, reckless irresponsible company that knew there were problems with the testing of their COVID mRNA products and tried to suppress the information! <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635">https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635</a> The companies own officers and test results reveal they skipped and skimmed the normal research methodologies. “In recent months, no less than two Pfizer officials have bragged about moving vaccine science forward at a speed that virtually guarantees that proper scientific protocols will be abandoned. In early October, during a <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/covid/">COVID-19</a> hearing in the European Parliament, Dutch member <a href="https://twitter.com/rob_roos/status/1579759795225198593?s=46&t=oKvkGcXhaZc-OlW-8K1omA">Rob Roos</a> questioned Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, Janine Small, about whether Pfizer had in fact tested and confirmed that their mRNA jab would prevent transmission prior to its rollout. Small admitted that Pfizer never tested whether their jab would prevent transmission because they had to ‘move at the speed of science to understand what is happening in the market … and we had to do everything at risk.’ Then, in November, recently retired head of <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-022-00191-2">vaccine R&D at Pfizer, Kathrin Jansen</a>, told an interviewer that ‘we flew the aeroplane while we were still building it.’As noted in that interview, Pfizer compressed its vaccine development timeline from 10 years to a mere nine months. Well, you cannot do that unless you cut certain corners and develop and test the product more or less simultaneously…Pfizer’s primary focus was to create a shot that minimized the symptoms of infection, but aside from that, there was no time to assess side effects or long-term drawbacks of the technology, such as <a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/vaccinated-people-susceptible-covid-variants">antibody-dependent enhancement</a>, myocarditis or spontaneous abortions. This is probably why Pfizer and the other COVID-19 jab makers all decided to eliminate the control groups long before the studies were even over. This way, side effects could be hidden, and we see the effects of that decision now. <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-moderna-covid-vaccine-trials-myocarditis/">Myocarditis</a>, blood clots, lethal heart attacks, strokes, cancer and sudden death are all skyrocketing, but since there’s no official control group to compare with, those trends are written off as either normal or coincidental.” COVID Vaccines Were A Shot in The Dark and The Mortality Statistics Prove It- Dr. Joseph Mercola <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-mortality-statistics-cola/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-mortality-statistics-cola/</a></p><p> The government, Big Pharma and the media are trying to minimize and trivialize the consequences of their criminal behavior/liability. The bought and paid for “fact checkers” are trying to debunk, obfuscate and suppress the facts, while search engines like Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo employ algorithms to scrub and erase everything from the Internet that contradicts the prevailing COVID narratives. However, as Yeshua Ben Joseph said, “There is nothing hidden that won’t be revealed, there is nothing whispered in the basement that will not be shouted from the rooftops.” The truth is coming out!</p><p style="text-align:center;">-30-</p><p> </p><p> </p></div>Taking Stock of 2022https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/taking-stock-of-20222022-12-15T18:14:55.000Z2022-12-15T18:14:55.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Taking Stock of 2022</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10911143079,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10911143079,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10911143079?profile=RESIZE_180x180" /></a></p><p>As we prepare to enter a new year, it is imperative we look back and considers certain aspects of the past year. In many ways 2022 was extremely volatile and contentious and it appears 2023 will be more of the same.</p><p> We are living through the most contentious era of public health policy in history! The corporate media, government, Big Pharma, unelected and unaccountable individuals/entities conspired using the guise of addressing a supposed novel virus to alter the world as we knew it. In 2020 COVID-19 was used as a pretext to shut down global economies which sent millions into unemployment, creating destitution and dependency on government largess which in turn furthered the bankruptcy of many Western nations, ushered in totalitarian measures, set in motion major supply chain shortages and accelerated an already existent agenda of eugenics and depopulation. Now some of the ruling class is calling for a pandemic amnesty. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/</a> They want us to forget about it, get over it and move on. That is probably not going to happen given the acrimonious attacks the government, media and Big Pharma unleashed on skeptics and free thinkers; how the powers that be suppressed discussion, dissent and debate on the COVID issue! <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/dear-friends-sorry-announce-genocide/5782022">https://www.globalresearch.ca/dear-friends-sorry-announce-genocide/5782022</a></p><p>2022 is coming to a close and we need to examine a few things so we are better prepared to enter the New Year. We need to pause amidst the daily grind and take stock of our lives and what is going on around us locally, nationally and internationally. We need to be more aware of what is happening and discern whether or not the direction we are heading personally, professionally or as a community is the best for us.</p><p>One thing is certain we have not been told the truth, we have been lied to, deceived and duped. <strong>Project Censored</strong> is a media watchdog organization that monitors the news and what is not reported and they compile an annual list of the top most intensely censored stories of the ending year. You can see their list at <a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/category/top-25-censored-news-stories-2022/">https://www.projectcensored.org/category/top-25-censored-news-stories-2022/</a></p><p>Take a look at this list you will find some extremely interesting topics and egregious issues on it. For me numbers: 21, 20, 19,18,12,11,10,7,6, and 2 stick out the most but there are a series of other topics such as “dark money” and its influence on politics and policy we need to be aware of.</p><p>The war in Ukraine is another issue we have been lied to about. In February 2022 following a 2014 US sponsored coup d’etat in Ukraine, fourteen years of Ukrainian attacks on Russian speaking people in the Donbass region of Ukraine and the US moving to extend Ukrainian membership in NATO Russia initiated what Putin calls a <strong>Special Military Operation </strong>designed to protect Russia’s interests and eliminate the neo-Nazi attacks on Russian speaking people. Putin’s response was similar to the US’s reaction to Russia building missile sites in Cuba which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1960. That almost led to nuclear war. As we close out 2022, the US and NATO is engaged in an indirect war against Russia. Economic sanctions are an act of war, supplying weapons and tactical assistance to Ukraine for use against Russia is an act of war, training troops and sending mercenaries to fight against Russian troops is an act of war! Make no mistake this could go full blast in 2023!</p><p> For what, why? Ukraine is a failed state. It is a money laundering and kickback machine taking our tax dollars to make the Military Industrial Complex, the Democratic Party and certain political hacks like Hunter Biden rich. Very little of this is reported in the corporate mainstream or digital media. <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/defense-aid-ukraine-tops-20-billion-new-275m-package-announced/5801981">https://www.globalresearch.ca/defense-aid-ukraine-tops-20-billion-new-275m-package-announced/5801981</a> , <a href="https://www.cato.org/commentary/nato-vs-russia-proxy-war-ukraine-could-become-real-war">https://www.cato.org/commentary/nato-vs-russia-proxy-war-ukraine-could-become-real-war</a> </p><p>As we enter 2023 the world is choosing sides and Uncle Sam is not the team most of the world wants to play on or with! What is called the <strong>Global South</strong> is not drinking Uncle Sam’s Kool-Aid. “The Global South is made up of <strong>Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Pacific Islands, and Asia, excluding Israel, Japan, and South Korea</strong>. It is generally seen as home to Brazil, India, Indonesia and China, which, along with Nigeria and Mexico, are the largest Southern states in terms of land area and population.” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South</a></p><p>Most of the nations on this list have rejected the US/NATO position on Ukraine and many are siding with Russia attempting to join the BRICS alliance and strengthen ties with Russia and China.</p><p>As we close out 2022 we are seeing the West attempt to counter this trend and persuade Africa to align with them. Germany sponsored a German-African Business Summit in Johannesburg South African on December 6-8 and the US held the fourth US African Leaders Summit on December 13-16 in Washington D.C. Both of these meetings were attempts by the West to bribe, cajole and persuade African leaders to side with them. Time will tell how this plays out.</p><p>As we leave 2022 let’s determine to be more aware of the world around us, take more interest in and engage in ways that improve ourselves and the world.</p><p> </p><p> -30-</p></div>The Truth Will Set You Freehttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/the-truth-will-set-you-free2021-01-04T19:15:38.000Z2021-01-04T19:15:38.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8382199252,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8382199252,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="8382199252?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The Truth Will Set You Free</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p> </p><p><em>“Then you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.”</em> Yeshua Ben Joseph</p><p> </p><p> Eric Arthur Blair who wrote under the pen name George Orwell said, “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” We are living in a time of near universal deceit where almost everything we see, read, watch, hear and “learn” is biased, deceitful or falsified. This is by deliberate intent. William Casey the former Director of the US CIA said, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”</p><p> We are living in a time of contrivance, obfuscation, lies and disinformation to the point most of what we believe is either heavily biased or untrue. One writer posited we are living in a pseudo-reality. He defined it this way, “Pseudo-realities are always social fictions, which, in light of the above, means political fictions. That is, they are maintained not because they are true, in the sense that they correspond to reality, either material or human, but because a sufficient quantity of people in the society they attack either believe them or refuse to challenge them. This implies that pseudo-realities are linguistic phenomena above all else, and where power-granting linguistic distortions are present, it is likely that they are there to create and prop up some pseudo-reality. This also means that they require power, coercion, manipulation, and eventually force to keep them in place. Thus, they are the natural playground of psychopaths, and they are enabled by cowards and rationalizers.” Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism by James Lindsey <a href="http://stateofthenation.co/?p=44272">http://stateofthenation.co/?p=44272</a></p><p> There are numerous examples of false narratives and pseudo-reality such as: lone gunmen killed JFK, Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy, the Vietnamese attacked a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 or the 2008 global economic implosion was caused by poor people who tried to purchase real estate they couldn’t afford. I could go on but you get my drift.</p><p>As painful as it is to face and accept, we must realize there are evil people in this world who will lie, cheat, steal and kill to enrich themselves and/or gain power over us. For centuries the ruling classes, plutocrats, misanthropes and psychopaths have used fear and deceit to intimidate, control and lord it over us. Religions, governments and criminals use fear as a potent weapon of control. More often than not the fear narrative is untrue. The best way to use this tactic is to create an external threat, enemy or condition and make the masses feel helpless or defenseless unless they behave or do what the ruling class wants; which is for us to give them our money or more control over us!</p><p>This is called learned helplessness and hopelessness. Since early 2020 we have been bombarded with images of a coronavirus and told it is the cause of a respiratory infection that is deadly and invincible except by man made vaccines. We are subjected to escalating numbers of “cases” based upon unreliable tests, optics of hospitals, morgues and sick people and pontification by “experts” like Dr Anthony Fauci.</p><p>We have become ensnarled in fear; the mass media has deliberately and maliciously induced panic, hysteria and psychosis to make us so afraid we’ll do whatever the “experts” and officials tell us. Right before the Thanksgiving Holiday the shill for vaccines Anthony Fauci told us “do what you’re told” <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/11/13/anthony-faucis-new-covid-19-guidance-do-what-youre-told/">https://nypost.com/2020/11/13/anthony-faucis-new-covid-19-guidance-do-what-youre-told/</a> meaning don’t argue, don’t engage in social interaction, don’t celebrate the holiday remain socially isolated.</p><p>The only antidote for deceit is <strong>TRUTH</strong>, someone once said “truth like sunlight is the best disinfectant”. Here is the truth: COVID-19 is a contagious condition that has a global recovery rate of 98% <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/.%C2%A0">https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/. </a> Dr Mike Yeadon the former VP and Chief Scientist for Allergy and Respiratory at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals stated <u>viruses do not come in waves</u>. The truth is the RT PCR test was not designed to be a diagnostic tool and Kary Mullis the Nobel Prize winning discoverer of that process said so. <a href="https://bpa-pathology.com/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless/">https://bpa-pathology.com/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless/</a></p><p>The truth is the first three COVID-19 inoculations have not been thoroughly tested, they skipped over animal trials altogether and the human trials were too small. The Truth is our immune system is our greatest protection against pathogens, germs, microbes and viruses. <a href="https://www.historyofvaccines.org/index.php/content/articles/human-immune-system-and-infectious-disease">https://www.historyofvaccines.org/index.php/content/articles/human-immune-system-and-infectious-disease</a>.</p><p>The other truth is psychopathic plutocrats, unscrupulous grifters and money grubbers are desperately trying to suppress these TRUTHS so they can lord it over us and make a fortune off of us. <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/03/13/big-pharma-drug-pricing-coronavirus-profits/">https://theintercept.com/2020/03/13/big-pharma-drug-pricing-coronavirus-profits/</a> Now you know the TRUTH.</p><p> </p><p> -30-</p></div>Mass Manipulationhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/mass-manipulation2020-03-30T19:48:27.000Z2020-03-30T19:48:27.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p> </p><p><strong> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4277381059,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4277381059,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="270" alt="4277381059?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></strong></p><p><strong>Mass Manipulation</strong></p><p>Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p> </p><p><em>“Being in a state of fear allows us to be easily manipulated. Advertisers and politicians have learned to capitalize on this biological aspect of humans also known as the </em><em>lizard brain</em><em>. Unfortunately our fast-paced lifestyles (mentally), combined with our relatively stagnate physical activity (driving, working at computer, etc.) causes our bodies to be ineffective at releasing built up stress which manifests in our thoughts as fear or anxiety.” </em> How To Release The Stress Stored In Our Bodies - Jacob Devaney <a href="https://upliftconnect.com/release-the-stress/">https://upliftconnect.com/release-the-stress/</a></p><p> </p><p>What if the media was deliberately inducing fear and panic about the COVID 19 coronavirus as a way to manipulate the public, to keep us in a state of anxiety so we are more easily controlled, manipulated and compliant to a predetermined social reengineering agenda? What if the usual advertising and mind control techniques were being ramped up by the 1% to dupe us into going along with a prearranged agenda, an agenda designed to garner more power and authority for them at our expense?</p><p>All societies have some form of leadership and governance; whether it is so called primitive stateless societies where rule is shared by the elders of the village or tribe to supposedly sophisticated forms of government like republics where the leaders are preselected by political parties or special interest groups then voted on by the people. Every society has leaders formal and informal, known and secret.</p><p> In this country we live under the illusion of democracy. We think our elected officials do our bidding for the common good and benefit of us all. This is not the reality of power in this country on the national level. If you doubt what I say pay close attention to current events then juxtapose what you see and your beliefs with the research of Professor G. William Domhoff on his Website <strong>Who Rules America</strong> <a href="https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/">https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu</a>.</p><p>There he succinctly says “As argued in <em>Who Rules America?</em> the owners and top executives of the largest corporations, banks, investment firms, and agri-businesses come together as a corporate community. Their enormous economic resources give them the ‘structural economic power’ that is the basis for dominating the federal government through lobbying, campaign finance, appointments to key government positions, and a policy-planning network made up of foundations, think tanks, and policy-discussion groups. The CEOs and owners in the corporate community, along with the top executives at the foundations, think tanks, and policy-discussion groups, work together as a leadership group that I call the power elite. However, they do fight among themselves sometimes, leading to moderate-conservative and ultra-conservative factions in the power elite. This class-domination theory developed out of Power Structure Research, going back to the 1950s.” <a href="https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/">https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/</a></p><p> These powerful factions vie for domination and control of the system and they use their media, education and religions to mold public opinion, manufacture consent then use the government to coerce compliance to their wishes and agenda. They craft sophisticated propaganda campaigns to get their target audiences both small and large to go along with their programs.</p><p>Our hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey warned us years ago about propaganda. He said, “Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any toer race in the world from propaganda-Propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.” Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey Edited by Amy Jacques–Garvey page 15.</p><p>The COVID 19 situation is being propagandized as a psychological weapon so we will become fearful, anxious and compliant to an organized group’s program. Our anxiety and fear make us more susceptible to heightened levels of internal and external stress which in term impacts our bodies, our social surroundings and our health.</p><p>I am not saying the virus is a hoax I am saying it is being used to jack up fear and panic for nefarious purposes. What purposes? I am not exactly sure at this time other than a grab of more and more authority. But consider this, there are almost eight billion people on this planet and seasonal flu are normal global occurrences for many of the people on earth. <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/its-in-the-data-the-common-flu-had-12-times-more-hospitalizations-than-covid-19-yet-no-media-hysteria/">https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/its-in-the-data-the-common-flu-had-12-times-more-hospitalizations-than-covid-19-yet-no-media-hysteria/</a></p><p>One researcher pointed out the mortality figures for COVID 19 is being blown totally out of proportion in relation to the annual global flu figures and mortality rates. “Finally, let’s look at figures for ordinary flu, for the whole planet. A study published in the journal, Pharmacy and Therapeutics states, “Influenza is a highly contagious respiratory illness that is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. Approximately 9% of the world’s population is affected annually, with up to 1 billion infections, 3 to 5 million severe cases, and 300,000 to 500,000 deaths each year.” A BILLION cases EVERY YEAR. Is this called a pandemic? Is the whole world locked down every year? No.</p><p> Read his full report at <a href="https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/03/26/corona-the-case-number-game/">https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/03/26/corona-the-case-number-game/</a> then ask yourself why would these people do this? Could it be to prime our consciousness so we are duped or forced to take whatever vaccine is in the wings ready to be rolled out to combat COVID 19?! Could it be another naked power grab by the people who rule America, the people G. William Domhoff talks about in his book, his research and on his Website? Make up your own mind, don’t allow them to dupe and manipulate you.</p><p> </p><p> -30-</p><p> </p></div>Support the Cuban 5 Visa Campaignhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/support-the-cuban-5-visa-campaign2012-01-10T11:58:26.000Z2012-01-10T11:58:26.000ZDarcy Delaproserhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/DarcyDelaproser<div><p align="center" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326190346854156"><font color="#FF0000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="6"><b><img src="http://www.havanatimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ht-support-14.jpg" alt="ht-support-14.jpg" /></b></font></p><div><div align="center"><span><strong><font color="#40A0FF" size="4">The Power of the People will win this victory!</font></strong></span></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><span><font size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Due to the U.S. government's denial to approve visas, Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo and Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert have not seen their wives since their incarceration!! Others in the Cuban 5 have not seen their parents, wives and children with regularity. The U.S. government has taken prolonged periods of time to issue them visas.</font></span></font></font></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><span><font size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The U.S. government's denial of visitation rights is a cruel and horrible form of psychological torture. Their rationale for denial is ridiculous and baseless; none of these family members are a threat to national security.</font></span></font></font></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><span><font size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We are asking people to fax or mail out this letter to Ms. Navanetham Pillay, The NEW High Commissioner of Human Rights of the Office for Human Rights-United Nations Office at Geneva. We are asking her to intercede on behalf of the Cuban 5's mothers/wives to pressure the U.S. government to grant them VISAs to visit their husbands/sons!!</font></span></font></font></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><span><b><a title="http://www.freethecuban5.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/newcuban5vletter.pdf" target="_blank" href="http://www.freethecuban5.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/newcuban5vletter.pdf"><font size="3">Download the Letter</font></a></b></span></font></font></div></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><font color="#000000" size="3"><span>Sign it and mail/fax to:</span></font></div><div align="center"><font size="4"><font color="#000000"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span></font><font color="#FF0000" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Ms. Navanetham Pillay, </b></font></span></span></font><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#FF0000" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>High Commissioner of Human Rights</b></font></font></span></span></font></div><div align="center"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#FF0000" size="4" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights-United Nations Office at Geneva</b></font></font></span></span></div><div align="center"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#FF0000" size="4" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>8-14 Avenue de la Paix 1211</b></font></font></span></span></div><div align="center"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#FF0000" size="4" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Geneva 10, Switzerland</b></font></font></span></span></div><div align="center"><font color="#000000"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><font color="#FF0000" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Fax: + 41 22 917 9011</b></font></font></font></span></span></font></div><div align="center"><font color="#000000"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><font color="#FF0000" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><br /></b></font></font></font></span></span></font></div><div align="center"><font color="#000000"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><font color="#FF0000" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span>--Mumia is Innocent! Stop the Frame Up! Free Mumia!--</span><br /><br /><span>Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC</span><br /><span>, <a href="http://www.freemumia.com/">www.FreeMumia.com</a></span></b></font></font></font></span></span></font></div></div>Tax Timehttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/tax-time2010-04-13T15:26:12.000Z2010-04-13T15:26:12.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><span style="font-weight:bold;">From The Ramparts</span><br /> Junious Ricardo Stanton<br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;"> Tax Time</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-style:italic;"> “Revenue from mortgages, deeds or securities dropped 36 percent, with the largest decreases occurring in the South. The declines in tax revenue have forced states to reduce spending. States cut their general fund expenditures by nearly 5 percent in 2009, according to the National Governors Association, and are expected to cut spending by another 4 percent this year as revenue collections continue to decline. The association predicts state revenues likely will continue to be depressed in 2011 and 2012, since state tax collections tend to lag national economic recovery.” </span> State Revenue Falls 9%; decline likely to continue Washington Business Journal March 29, 2010<br /> <br /> As you read this, the April 15th filing date for federal and most state income taxes is almost upon us. If you’re like me you waited until the late minute then scrambled to get all your forms, records and laboriously go over them to meet the filing deadline. Local governments impose taxes on the public to cover its operating costs. But in the case of the federal government the money we pay goes to the interest and fees associated with the printing of US currency by a consortium of privately owned banks known as the Federal Reserve Bank. The member banks of the Federal Reserve system are not part of the federal government, they exist and operate in contradiction to the supposedly sacrosanct US Constitution which states Congress has the power “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures...” US Constitution Article I section 8. Congress abdicated that power in 1913 when it supposedly passed the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution.<br /> <br /> The Fed as it is called is the culprit behind the creation of the US income tax. The Fed in collusion with its fellow international bankersters created and facilitated all the boom and busts since its creation in 1913. “A consortium of international bankers had tried and failed over and over again to maintain financial dominance of the U.S., but this changed in 1913. As is covered in great depth in G. Edward Griffin’s incredible book The Creature From Jekyll Island, the consortium returned, led by men such as JP Morgan, Paul Warburg, Frank Vanderlip, German Bankers Kuhn, Loeb and Co., and the Rothschild Family among others. They and their representatives met in secret, traveling under fake names, to meet at the resort on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia in 1910. Under Paul Warburg’s direction, they drafted a plan to pass the 16th Amendment which would allow them to flank the Supreme Court in creating an income tax, as well as the Federal Reserve Act, which would form the new Federal Reserve System (the bank was in no way a part of the Federal Government. The name was used to swindle the public into believing the institution was not the same as the Central Banks they despised). The plan was then to be presented to Congress by their confidant Senator Nelson Aldrich as if it was his idea alone.” The Anti-Income tax Movement And Why They are Right By Giordano Bruno Neithercorp Press - 02/25/2010<br /> <br /> Even with an income tax, the US government and most states are still broke. With each passing year “we the people” are being gouged, fleeced and taxed into poverty and peonage. The federal, state and local governments are in deep financial difficulty and they are forced to hit <br />taxpayers harder to take up whatever slack they can. The economy is way down, unemployment and bankruptcies are way up, so naturally tax revenues are not what they used to be. Federal tax <br />revenues are off over the last two years following the Wall Street banker/speculator created economic implosion. “Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago — the biggest April drop since 1981, a study released Tuesday by the American Institute for Economic Research says. When the economy slumps, so does tax revenue, and this recession has been no different, says Kerry Lynch, senior fellow at the AIER and author of the study. ‘It illustrates how severe the recession has been.’ For example, 6 million people lost jobs in the 12 months ended in April — and that means far fewer dollars from income taxes. Income tax revenue dropped 44% from a year ago... Big revenue losses mean that the U.S. budget deficit may be larger than predicted this year and in future years.” IRS tax revenue falls along with taxpayers' income by John Waggoner USA Today.<br /> <br /> The situation will probably worsen in 2010 into 2011 because the commercial real estate market is unraveling. “Over the next five years, about $1.4 trillion in commercial real estate loans will reach the end of their terms and require new financing. Nearly half are ‘underwater,’ meaning the borrower owes more than the property is worth. Commercial property values have fallen more than 40 percent nationally since their 2007 peak. Vacancy rates are up and rents are down, further driving down the value of these properties. When the reckoning comes, it could threaten everyone from banks and pension funds to renters and small businesses -- and small banks could be particularly vulnerable.” Elizabeth Warren warns about Commercial Real Estate Crisis Downward Spiral For Small Businesses and Banks The Huffington Post 02-11-10 .<br /> <br /> This means even less tax revenue will flow into federal, state and local coffers. Where will the needed money come from to replace these funds? What does this decline in revenue mean for working folks? It means local governments will be increasingly hard pressed and stretched to make ends meet. In fact some municipalities and state finances are so precarious, default on their loans, and pension obligations is a real possibility ! This means state and local governments will be forced to: raise taxes, cut services or both. Guess who will catch the brunt of these cuts and tax increases? State and local government debt has skyrocketed in the last several decades and now the bill is coming due. “The growth in local government debt has exploded since the 1970s. We went from $295 billion in 1968 to $2.3 trillion today. But as Greece is demonstrating, there is such a thing as having too much debt and at a certain point the markets no longer have an appetite for so much borrowing. Average Americans probably have a hard time examining the large numbers being thrown around. Yet state and local governments are now finding a hard time balancing their budgets. In many cases, the ability to balance their budget goes in direct conflict with paying out pension distributions. Or in many cases states need to raise taxes or cut services.” - The $2.3 Trillion State and Local Government Debt Monster – California Pension Systems on Unsupportable Path with $500 Billion Projected Shortfall. CalPERS, CalSTRS, and UCRS.<br /> <br /> The federal government unlike the states is not constitutionally mandated to balance its budget; so it will continue to spend money it doesn’t have and descend deeper and deeper into debt. (The US government borrows over two billion a day just to operate and this doesn’t count the appropriations for their imperialist wars) It means the government will take even more of our money via all kinds of taxes and hidden fees. We will continue to experience flat line wages. We <br />will have less discretionary funds for spending. <br /><br /> This is why white anger and frustration levels are so high and why their anger and frustration are being channeled and manipulated by the tea party movement backers. This is why <br />the anti-income tax movement is growing. I suggest you rent or download the late Aaron Russo’s film America, From Freedom to Fascism. It examines the nexus between the Federal Reserve Bank and the illegality of the US federal income tax among other things. I am not telling anyone not to pay your taxes but we need to do the research about the real deal about the government, the Fed and taxation. In a future article I will introduce you to a courageous Sistah named Sherry Peel Jackson who appears in Russo’s film. Mrs. Jackson is a former IRS agent currently in federal prison for telling people there is no actual law that says we have to pay federal income tax. <br /><br /> -30-<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Services held this week for the 4th Amendment: Rest in Peacehttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/2055350-Topic-64692008-06-22T15:07:20.000Z2008-06-22T15:07:20.000ZBaba Bob Shipmanhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/BabaBobShipman<div>Services held this week for the 4th Amendment: Rest in PeaceEven thought the 4th Amendment was 216 years old, it died a violent and untimely death. Locally Philly may seem like the killing fields, but this killing is far more important than any other deathhappening in the last few years or so maybe ever. - rmship<p style="text-align:left;"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828787279,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="345" height="530" /></p>Now, with the new law granting immunity to telecom companies and granting the federal government wide discretionary powers in spying on our communications (which has become far simpler in this electronic day and age), the Imperial rubber stamp arm of the federal government has brutally murdered another of our precious rights: the 4th Amendment which states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."-- Glenn Greenwald"What the Democrats did today in Washington is nothing short of treason. ... More than ever, America needs an opposition party!" -- Cynthia McKinney statement over the phone issued Friday evening, June 20 (a full statement from Sister McKinney, presidential candidate of the Power to the People campaign, will be available first thing in the morning on June 21 -- Alan B.) <a href="http://www.runcynthiarun.org">http://www.runcynthiarun.org</a>It was time to take a stand during this 4th Amendment killing. Some thought if Obama remains missing much longer, it may be necessary to issue an Amber Alert for him, in regards to showing leadership, by rallying his team to kill this bill. Some 40 lawsuits have been filed against the telecommunications companies by groups and individuals who say the Bush administration illegally monitored their phone calls or e-mails."The White House got a better deal they even they had hoped to get." The administration should know better by now than to underestimate the complete cravenness and eagerness to please the White House on the part of Congressional Democrats.-- Glenn GreenwaldThis bill allows for mass and untargeted surveillance of Americans' communications.So basically, one day in the near future, we're all going to learn that one of our federal courts dismissed all of the lawsuits against the telecoms. But we're never going to be able to know why the lawsuits were dismissed or what documents were given by the Government to force the court to dismiss the lawsuits. Not only won't we, the public, know that, neither will the plaintiffs' lawyers. Nobody will know except the Judge and the Government because it will all be shrouded in compelled secrecy, and the Judge will be barred by this law from describing or even referencing the grounds for dismissal in any way. Freedom is on the march.Statement from Cindy Sheehan, Independent Candidate for U.S. Congress in Nancy Pelosi's District of San FranciscoWe are calling on a non-partisan group to march with us on Tuesday, June 24th in a "Funeral for the 4th Amendment"As you know, Congress killed the 4th amendment today and we need to raise our voices loudly against this clear violation of the rule of law (again).-- Cindy Sheehan<a href="http://www.cindyforcongress.org">http://www.cindyforcongress.org</a>Many compared the bill to the era of former FBI head J. Edgar Hoover. "We already remember how Dr. [Martin Luther] King and his family were the victims of the government's most shameless wiretapping. We must never go down this road again."The roll call vote is here. Of the Republicans: 188 voted YES, and a grand total of 1 -- a single lone soul (Rep. Tim Johnson of Illinois) -- voted NO (Ron Paul wasn't present). For the Democrats: 105 voted YES and 128 voted NO.The Democrats voting YES included all of our current targets -- Hoyer, Barrow and Carney -- as well as Pelosi, Hoyer, Emanuel and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes. Voting NO -- to their credit -- were Democratic Senate candidates Rep. Tom Allen (Maine) and Rep. Tom Udall (New Mexico).Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers also voted NO, along with most of the Congressional Black Caucus. That's not hard to understand why. As Rep. Barbara Lee said today:"This bill scares me to death and I urge a no-vote," said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), co-chair of the House's Progressive Caucus."A final deal has been reached" on FISA and telecom amnesty " I've now just read a copy of the final "compromise" bill. It's even worse than expected. When you read it, it's actually hard to believe that the Congress is about to make this into our law. Then again, this is the same Congress that abolished habeas corpus with the Military Commissions Act, and legalized George Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program with the "Protect America Act," so it shouldn't be hard to believe at all. Seeing the words in print, though, adds a new dimension to appreciating just how corrupt and repugnant this is.-- Glenn GreenwaldThe provision granting amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, Title VIII, has the exact Orwellian title it should have: "Protection of Persons Assisting the Government." Section 802(a) provides:[A] civil action may not lie or be maintained in a Federal or State court against any person for providing assistance to an element of the intelligence community, and shall be properly dismissed, if the Attorney General certifies to the district court of the United States in which such action is pending that . . . (4) the assistance alleged to have been provided . . . was --(A) in connection with intelligence activity involving communications that was (i) authorized by the President during the period beginning on September 11, 2001, and ending on January 17, 2007 and (ii) designed to prevent or detect a terrorist attack, or activities in preparation of a terrorist attack, against the United States" and(B) the subject of a written request or directive . . . indicating that the activity was (i) authorized by the President; and (ii) determined to be lawful.So all the Attorney General has to do is recite those magic words -- the President requested this eavesdropping and did it in order to save us from the Terrorists -- and the minute he utters those words, the courts are required to dismiss the lawsuits against the telecoms, no matter how illegal their behavior was.Bill of Rights <a href="http://www.billofrights.com/bill_of_rights.htm">http://www.billofrights.com/bill_of_rights.htm</a>This bill allows for mass and untargeted surveillance of Americans' communications. The court review is mere window-dressing -- all the court would look at is the procedures for the year-long dragnet and not at the who, what and why of the spying. Even this superficial court review has a gaping loophole -- "exigent" circumstances can short cut even this perfunctory oversight since any delay in the onset of spying meets the test and by definition going to the court would cause at least a minimal pause. Worse yet, if the court denies an order for any reason, the government is allowed to continue surveillance throughout the appeals process, thereby rendering the role of the judiciary meaningless. In the end, there is no one to answer to; a court review without power is no court review at all.Meanwhile, had anyone seen Barack Obama?The two presumptive presidential nominees have differed over the issue. A senior aide to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., recently indicated the senator would support granting immunity to the phone companies. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.., was among the most vocal opponents of immunity in the Senate debate last year.Great Bipartisan Compromises of the Bush era and demonstrated that they are characterized by one common attribute: namely, they are supported by almost all Republicans and then enough Democrats from a split caucus to ensure its passage.But more importantly, "bipartisanship" is already rampant in Washington, not rare. And, in almost every significant case, what "bipartisanship" means in Washington is that enough Democrats join with all of the Republicans to endorse and enact into law Republican policies, with which most Democratic voters disagree. That's how so-called "bipartisanship" manifests in almost every case.When the Congress was controlled by Bill Frist and Denny Hastert, the administration tried to get a bill passed legalizing warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty, but was unable. They had to wait until the Congress was controlled by Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to accomplish that.###Every day it become clear to me (IMHO), why independent communication sites like the Philadelphia Independent Media <a href="http://phillyimc.org/">http://phillyimc.org/</a> are so valuable. Although we are not alone in these efforts but our editorial team works tirelessly from their hearts and soul to keep the site operational and as current as possible.We must continue to keep a watchful eye from here in the cradle of liberty, the City of Brotherly Love, to keep the community in the fight for democracy, human rights, and social justice. Reading those articles made me so mad at the time I slammed my clenched fist on the kitchen table. Above I have gathered, Excerpts from resources across the nation – Bob Shipman</div>