USA has 800 "Formal" Bases in 80 Countries

http://theantimedia.org/us-empire-1000-military-bases-80-countries/

What about "bad" countries?

".. The Nation also highlighted Vine’s claim that only some 11 other countries have bases in foreign countries, around 70 altogether. Russia is believed to have at least 26 bases in nine countries. They are mainly in former Soviet states, as well as Syria and Vietnam. .."

So the US is an Empire that NO ONE really likes UNLESS they get something out of it. The USA brings no real morality to the globe.

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Don't Forget Las Vegas (and the Lies)

http://theantimedia.org/douglas-haig-docs-reveal-2nd-person-vegas-massacre/

Truth eventually comes out .. long after the sheep have moved on to munch of other lies.

This new suspect has interesting credentials:

".. The LinkedIn page showed that Haig had “DOD Top Secret Clearance” and worked for weapons manufacturers. According to the page, he is presently a senior engineer at Honeywell Aerospace..."

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Quote on How Fascists Operate

“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information…how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist more money or more power.”

Henry A. Wallace

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Extreme Capitalism in USA? (Where 38% of spending is PUBLIC?)

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/extreme-capitalism-not-problem/

Someone who talks while having their head up their butt should be ignored .. or criticized .. this take down is very appropriate.

".. America has problems, and essayist Umair Haque emphasizes several of them like school shootings and the opioid epidemic. He has no analysis of the causes of these problems, but that doesn’t stop him from ending up by blaming “extreme capitalism” and “no public investment” as two major causes.

Total American government spending at all levels is estimated at 38 percent of all spending. No matter how flawed that estimate is, this provides no evidence for “no public investment”. As for extreme capitalism, there are over 1 million federal regulations in this country that negate capitalism and replace it with a corporate-fascist economy.

Haque could not be more blind to the mighty causes that are propelling America along the road to collapse. Haque ought to read an essay by Sanjeev Sabhlok titled “India After Seventy Years of Socialism”. He might then profitably examine the American case, such as the rise of dependency upon government, the failure of public schools and the unending interference in medical markets. He ought to examine the effects of continual war and mounting debts.

Philosophically, America adopted fascism, progressivism and socialism. It adopted militarism. All these philosophies (and a good many others) are immoral, and that turns into social failure when they are pursued and elaborated within institutions..."

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US Government Double Standard (Redux)

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/russian-jets-flew-gulf-mexico/

".. Defense officials claim that a Russian military jet performed an unsafe intercept of a US Navy P-3 Orion surveillance plan. The American pilots reported that the Russian jet came within five feet of the US plane. The Russian jet’s action forced the US Navy aircraft to end its mission prematurely.

The problem? Not Russian aggression. The US plane was flying over the Black Sea. It seems as though only libertarians are asking this important question: What the *$%@#*+! are US planes doing anywhere near the Black Sea? What if Russian jets flew over the Gulf of Mexico? Would not we think it was a provocative act?.."

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Why ALL Government's will NOT End the Drug War

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/absurdity-marijuana-laws/

Government's love control so much that they will mess with an 11 year old's health to make that point. SICK!

".. Even in states that have legalized marijuana for medical use. Although Illinois legalized medical marijuana in 2014, a school district is barring an 11-year-old girl from using a medical cannabis patch and cannabis oil drops to regulate seizures resulting from chemotherapy treatment for leukemia. And you wonder why I continually say that the war on drugs is worse than the drugs themselves..."

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The "C" in CDC Stands for Cesspool

[://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/01/no_author/the-cdc-vaccination-and-the-deep-state-2/]

The big lie is that Government is your friend, your Nanny or your daddy. The truth is that Government is a parasite that will use you and kill you "if it is for the common good" Sounds like Satan to me.

Read about the CDC and weep ..

"What if you were to know that a cabal of corrupt bureaucrats and scientists at the heart of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have known for almost two decades that vaccines, including the MMR, can lead to autism and other neurological disorders? Most people are unware that CDC is a militarized federal agency further influenced by private pharmaceutical interests. Due to the politicalization of national immunization, vaccine efficacy and safety has become all but irrelevant.  Its policies drive profits for itself and its partners. Now the agency is committed to have as many Americans mandated to be fully vaccinated as soon as possible, irrespective of how many lives are destroyed.  The very mindset and disregard for human life that created the notorious Tuskegee experiment is alive and thriving in the bowels of the CDC.

It is time to take a hard look at the advocates of fake science and the motivations that compel the CDC and it’s vaccine network to systematically mislead and lie to the public for personal benefit, power, and greed.  And it is time to understand the CDC’s role as a major player in the Deep State. When the brilliant journalist I.F. Stone wrote, “Every government is run by liars, and nothing they say should be believed,” he could just as easily been speaking about today’s pharmaceutical industry, our federal health agencies, and the many medical journals that routinely publish fraudulent science to keep the engines of Big Pharma churning.

The money-driven institutions of evidence-based medicine and science, which have hijacked America’s health agencies–the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), FDA, Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Mental Health, and the USDA– have driven a stake into the heart of authentic scientific inquiry, knowledge and innovative progress.  Its efforts to hermetically seal and silence the debate on vaccination safety with propaganda, coercion, erroneous and deceptive research, and blatant criminality have succeeded in transforming modern vaccinology into an egregious pseudo-science that is destroying the lives of millions of children, infants and their families.

During the past two decades the lines dividing the pharmaceutical industry and the federal health agencies has become increasingly blurred. The revolving door between private interests and top government employees never ceases to gyrate.  For example, former CDC director Julie Gerberding left government to immediately become president of Merck’s vaccine division, a move that has since earned her upwards to $3 million in stock options.  This may seem to be a modest reward for Gerberding heading the agency now irrefutably responsible for the cover-up of the CDC’s own studies proving the MMR vaccine increases the risk of autism in African American boys.  The MMR is manufactured by Merck.

Robert Kennedy Jr, a watchdog expert in the corporatization of the medical establishment, has called the CDC “a cesspool of corruption” referring to its culture of dishonesty and its manufacturing junk science.  Unlike the FDA, which has a contract with the American public to assure warnings about health risks and contraindications of registered drugs and medical devices, the CDC has no such contract with the nation’s citizenry.  It holds no ethical standard and abides by no mandated rules of law .."

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Yes, These "United" States have Rarely Agreed on Almost Anything

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/sectionalism-returns/

Lincoln's move to force union is like an abusive spouse denying divorce. His decision to entice the South to fire the first shot and then to call up 75K troops instead of "letting it go" and entertain peace talks was something Karl Marx admired in "Honest Abe". The fact is, this rift (and many other rifts) we're present from the start and earlier when the colonies were thirteen independent and sovereign entities.

".. The simple reality is that independence from Great Britain did not wash away long standing sectional sectional interests and jealousies, many of which were left over and encouraged by the old imperial arrangements under Great Britain.  Southerners resented Northerners who were willing to give up the free navigation of the Mississippi River and the right of deposit at New Orleans for a commercial treaty with Spain.   Pennsylvanians and folks from Massachusetts also hoped to secure majorities in the new Congress by discouraging Southern settlement of the Mississippi Valley.  Pennsylvanians wanted their iron industry protected by the new federal government and New England was hoping for a replacement of their old imperial fishing bounties, and the South wanted some protections for slavery.  When the first Congress met, James Madison introduced a bill in the House of Representatives for a small five percent tariff to fund the operations of the new government.  Immediately the Pennsylvania delegation demanded a higher protective tariff for the protection of their industries in direct competition with the British.   Funding and assumption was another source of sectional conflict.  States such as North Carolina who paid off their Revolutionary War debt were outraged that the federal government proposed to assume all state debts from the revolution and fund their payment with federal taxes.  Massachusetts, who had a high war debt, was overjoyed upon hearing of Hamilton’s proposal.  When it seemed the proposal would meet with defeat in the House, John Taylor of Caroline was approached by representatives from New England who wished to begin negotiations over a peaceful breakup of the new Union.

Imposing costs upon one’s rivals intensified in the 1800s with taxation and representation at the core of the conflict.."

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Ben Swann ... Reality Check is Back?

http://theantimedia.org/cbs-suspends-ben-swann/

He (and many other) is needed to provide truly independent reporting for truth to get traction in the US and beyond.

".. Swann “went dark” on February 1, 2017 as his social media accounts on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere were suddenly deactivated. Swann is a well-known local journalist at CBS46 in Atlanta, as well as a viral Internet sensation for his Reality Check investigative reports. Swann’s Reality Checkreports began to garner attention around the 2012 U.S. election and have continued to gain millions of views while questioning the mainstream narrative.

Prior to his disappearance, Swann had been under attack by much of the corporate media for his now notorious Reality Check segment on the controversial Pizzagate theory. During the segment, Swann draws attention to what he sees as curious aspects of the theory which warrant further attention. Swann was immediately attacked by The Daily Beast (going so far as to place a tin-foil hat on the journalist), the Inquisitr, and many other publications. CBS46 initially defended Ben Swann’s reporting, but later appeared to take the blame for allowing the report to air."

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Political Correctness is Communist at it's Core

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/01/30/quote-of-the-day-851/

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

Theodore Dalrymple

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Not a Fan of Big Government

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/01/laurence-m-vance/trump-a-libertarian-dissent/

The Bush/Clinton family presidents and Bush III (Obama) I rate "barf-level" presidents. After a year of Trump, I put him in the same category:

".. Although Trump has relaxed some onerous federal regulations, we still have massive government intervention in the economy and society. And that’s not all. We still have a welfare state that Lyndon Johnson could only have dreamed of. We still have a warfare state that bombs, maims, and kills; makes terrorists, widows, and orphans; and enriches the military-industrial complex. We still have a war on drugs that ruins more lives than drugs themselves. We still live in a growing police state that is anything but a free society.

And now Trump has signed into a law a measure extending the NSA’s surveillance powers until 2023 and consolidating the FBI’s authority to search those communications without a warrant. As recently described by Judge Andrew Napolitano:

"During the past three weeks, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law vast new powers for the NSA and the FBI to spy on innocent Americans and selectively to pass on to law enforcement the fruits of that spying.

Those fruits can now lawfully include all fiber-optic data transmitted to or in the United States, such as digital recordings of all landline and mobile telephone calls and copies in real time of all text messages and emails and banking, medical and legal records electronically stored or transmitted." .. "

You can't fix all this with tweaking policies and issuing Executive orders .. freedom is evaporating and no one cares .. until it is too late.

Politics can fix it, politics broke it.

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Christians Persecuted in US?

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/christian-persecution-in-missouri/



".. For the present day reader, it might be hard to understand how Christian persecution could have occurred under a Constitution that was supposed to protect freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But the Constitution and natural rights mattered little to those who engaged in such behavior. Loyalty to “the Union” was the driving force behind such blatant violations of the rights of their neighbors.  Leftwich writes, “Missouri will ever be conspicuous in the annals of history as the only State in the American Union to inaugurate and authorize a formal opposition to Christianity, as an institution, and legalize the persecution of ministers of the gospel as a class. The fact will not be denied, and the history furnishes the saddest, wisest lessons. Ministers of the gospel have been robbed, arrested, imprisoned and even murdered, for no other cause than that they were ministers of the gospel. They have been indicted by grand juries, arrested and imprisoned with common felons, mobbed and put to death for no other cause than that of preaching the gospel without taking the ‘Test Oath’ of the New Constitution.”

Furthermore, “Both Federal and State legislation shield those who committed the crimes of the war from legal prosecution; but such enactments possess no control over the pen and the press…it is well the record of these horrible deeds be preserved, that the better portion of the people in this and other States may have some knowledge of what was done and suffered here during the dark and bloody days, from 1861 to ’65…Many of those, directly or indirectly, implicated in these deeds of cruelty and shame are now loud and earnest in their entreaties for ‘by-gones to be by-gones’ and profess great grief that anything should be said or done ‘to keep alive the feelings of the past…’”

Following is a mere handful of summarized accounts that can be found in much greater detail within the pages of Martyrdom in Missouri, volumes 1 and 2. ..."

The link above shows what happened, and what can happen again.

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When Redcoats/Whitecoats Almost Caught the Governor of VA

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-midnight-ride-that-saved-jefferson-and-henry/

40 mile ride by this 6'4" man

"...Jouett was a captain in the Virginia militia and was deployed outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. Late in the night on June 3, 1781, Jouett was sleeping in front of a famous watering hole — the Cuckoo Tavern. He and his unit were bivouacked on the lawn of the building when they were awakened by a sound of several horses approaching the location quickly.

As Jouett roused himself, he saw a large number of “White Coats,” the name given by locals to the British dragoons under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Banastre ‘the Butcher” Tarleton, a notoriously brutal man sent by Lord Cornwallis to retake Virginia as part of the wider British “southern strategy” to isolate the South from the rest of America and win the war piece by piece.

To Jouett’s surprise and shock, the Butcher himself rode at the front of the White Coat force, composed of 180 dragoons and 70 mounted infantry ready to carry out their commander’s orders with precision and ferocity.

Jouett instantly understood the reason for the British presence at the Cuckoo Tavern: to capture Governor Thomas Jefferson (and likely hang him for treason for having written the Declaration of Independence) and to disrupt the deliberations of the Virginian legislature.

Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and the other “rebels” in the Virginia General Assembly were meeting in Charlottesvlle, just 40 miles from where the British cavalry stood surrounding Jouett and his small detachment of the Virginia milita.

Most of that force was deployed up north, fighting with George Washington, leaving the lawmakers of the Old Dominion — including Jefferson and Henry — practically undefended and helpless in the face of Tarleton’s mounted force of British regulars.

Jouett realized what he had to do: He had to find a way to evade Tarleton and the scouts he undoubtedly deployed along the road to Charlottesville and warn Jefferson and the others to flee from what would be a sure slaughter and likely the hangman’s noose.

Just before midnight on June 3, 1781, Jack Jouett set out on his horse (described as “the best bred and fleetest of foot of any nag in seven counties”) to cover the more than 40 miles between the Cuckoo Tavern and Charlottesville.

Jouett rode through the middle of the night and through the thick and tangled backwoods of Virginia. The trail was rough and the mission was critical.

Jouett and every other patriot understood that the capture of Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry would be not only devastating for the American morale, but also a powerful public relations coup for Cornwallis and the crown that he served.

Narrowly escaping capture on several occassions, Jouett rode with urgency through the nearly impassible byroads and Indian trails he was forced to travel..."

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War .. Huh .. Yeah, What is it Good for ..

https://youtu.be/kgJ11FW6B3E
(song by Edwin Starr)

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/col-erik-w-goepner-examines-war-terror-detailed-study/

".. Col. Erik W. Goepner did a 107-page study in 2016 titled “Measuring the Effectiveness of America’s War on Terror”. The Abstract reads as follows:

“Abstract: America’s efforts in the war on terror have been substantial and sustained, with more than four trillion dollars spent, two and a half million military members sent into harm’s way, and nearly 7,000 service members losing their lives over the past 15 years. To date, however, few studies have sought to measure the effectiveness of those efforts. This study empirically assesses the extent to which US efforts in the war on terror have achieved the government’s objectives and concludes those endeavors have been largely ineffective.” .."

You don't say? American's freedoms have evaporated and the world hates US .. what can go wrong in the generations to come?

".. The data strongly suggest US efforts have had a significant and negative impact on terrorism over the past 15 years. Increased US efforts are correlated with a worsening of the overall terror situation. Statistical modeling indicates for every additional billion dollars spent and 1,000 American troops sent to fight the war on terror, the number of terror attacks worldwide increased by 19 ( data available from the author). Furthermore, the model finds up to 80 percent of the variation in the number of worldwide terror attacks since 9/11 can be explained by just those two variables — US money spent and military members sent to fight the war on terror.”

“America has invaded two Muslim-majority states and conducted military operations in an additional five (i.e., Syria, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia). Despite these efforts, the data indicate primary objectives have gone unmet and some areas have worsened (e.g., the number and strength of Islamist-inspired terror groups).” .."

Epic 180 degree SNAFU from the start .. what morons thought that this strategy might reduce terrorism in the world?

".. Finally, policy-makers should substantially curtail America’s offensive military operations. Instead, US Defense policy should focus on capabilities, such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, to support homeland security efforts.”

In other words, turning anti-terrorism into wars conducted overseas in Muslim countries has been a gigantic blunder that should be stopped. War is the wrong strategy for addressing terrorism.

I’d add that in human terms these wars have been a huge tragedy for the peoples involved.

Goepner calls for further research, and that’s essential. It’s apparent that U.S. policies have not been based upon sound and detailed information or knowledge.

In particular, there should be detailed research into the American-held ideas that generated these wars so that they can be completely discredited. An obvious candidate is the role played by neoconservatives and neoconservative ideas in influencing the decisions that led to these tragic wars. Another area of research is the role played by our governing institutions and the incentives faced by policy-makers. It seems obvious that they have failed in important and systematic ways that relate to the nature and construction of America’s government. A third area of research could investigate the role of media and government communications in influencing public opinion and support for wars. A fourth area might be the role of crowd psychology in the aftermath of terror events.

The concept of terrorism itself needs great clarification. It is senseless to label Iran as chief source of terrorism, for example, without stretching the term into uselessness. How can this possibly be true when we know that al-Qaeda and ISIS have very different roots than Iran, and that the 9/11 attackers were mainly Saudis? Most of all there should be research into the nature of extremist terrorism, particularly with respect to Wahhabism."

In the private world, those that led this plan would be cast aside long ago .. but those in power are truly sociopaths .. embedded in the US government and laced throughout the "Deep State". The FED feeds this beast with easy money .. the addict needs an intervention.

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Ancestors of Stonewall Jackson

What follows is a clip from a 19th century biography of Thomas Jackson showcasing his great grand parents:

".. The death of the old man, in this quiet retreat, is thus recorded by one of the most distinguished of his descendants, John G. Jackson, of Clarksburg, Judge of the Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia. Hie writes to Mrs. Madison, whose sister he had married, in 1801:- “Death, on the 25th of September, put a period to the existence of my aged grandfather, John Jackson, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. The long life of this good man was spent in those noble and virtuous pursuits, which endear men to their acquaintance, and make their decease sincerely regretted by all the good and virtuous. He was a native of England, and migrated hither in the year 1748. He took an active part in the revolutionary war in favor of Independence, and, upon the establishment of it, returned to his farming, which he laboriously pursued until the marriage of his younger son, when he was prevailed upon by my father to come and reside near him; there he lived for several years with his wife, enjoying all his mental faculties, and great corporeal strength, until a few days before his death. I saw him breathe his last in the arms of my aged grandmother, and can truly add, that to live and die as he did would be the excess of happiness. “He left a valuable real-estate at the entire disposal of the widow, with the concurrence of all the natural heirs, as his liberality had been amply experienced by them all in his lifetime.” Elizabeth, his wife, survived him until 1825, beloved and respected by all who knew her, and reached the extreme age of one hundred and five years. Hers were stamina, both of the physical and moral constitution, fitting her to rear a race that were men indeed..."

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Stonewall Jackson and One's Character

".. Jackson was once asked how he could stand so calm in the face of battle. He responded that his belief in God, his firm Christianity, made him as safe on the battlefield as in his bed. His death was not his choosing and he was as prepared for it in peace as he was in war..."

Yes! This man, from humble beginnings had his character molded by life on this Earth and yet looked forward to what lay beyond the "River":

".. Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."

— Jackson, last words



What follows are clips from this very balanced and honoring reflection on the life of Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson born Jan 21, 1824.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/thomas-j-stonewall-jackson/

".. The Northern essayist and Republican partisan E.L. Godkin wrote following the death of “Stonewall” Jackson in 1863 that Jackson was “the most extraordinary phenomenon of this extraordinary war. Pure, honest, simple-minded, unselfish, and brave, his death is a loss to the whole of America, for, whatever be the result of this war, the United States will enjoy the honor of having bred and educated him.” Godkin claimed him because he recognized that Jackson was more than a representative of the South, he was an American hero, pure and simple.

Jackson was born in 1824 in Clarksburg, Virginia. While the Jacksons had a solid reputation in America, they came from humble beginnings. Both his great-grandfather and great-grandmother arrived in America as indentured servants having both been convicted of theft. They fell in love on the voyage over, and once they had satisfied their indentures, married and moved to the frontier where they acquired vast tracts of land. Both Jackson’s great-grandfather and grandfather served with distinction in the American War for Independence and has great-grandmother used the Jackson homestead as a refuge for dislocated American settlers during the war.

Jackson’s father died when he was a boy, something both Jackson and Lee shared in common, and his mother, left with a crushing debt, sold their farm and moved to a one-room rental. Jackson was only six and was left an orphan when his mother died five years later. After bouncing between relatives for a few years, Jackson eventually settled on his uncle’s frontier farm. He was largely self-educated and even taught one of his uncle’s slaves how to read and write..."

Wow .. transient in his youth with no biological father in his life .. and he chose to be different.

".. Jackson did not choose the military because he longed to be a soldier. What Jackson wanted most was to sharpen his character as a man. The military, in his mind, offered the best opportunity for success and respect. He is known for his military acumen, but his career and the famous decisions he made in battle were shaped by his character. Like Washington and Lee, the War did not define them, they defined the War..."

Great observation, these were men of character no matter what "side" they were on .. as both were on God's side

".. Unlike Lee and many Virginians from the tidewater region, he did not have the social refinement typical of Southern gentlemen. But Jackson was the perfect example of what Thomas Jefferson and other members of the founding generation considered the “natural aristocracy.” ... honesty, integrity and determination .. talent, a keen mind, and the ability to make quick, correct decisions on the battlefield. .."

"..  A common description of Jackson is that he lived by the New Testament but fought by the Old. He was a warm, tender, dutiful and faithful husband. His second wife, Mary Anna, wrote he, “was a great advocate for marriage, appreciating the gentler sex so highly that whenever he met one of the “unappropriated blessings” under the type of truest womanhood, he would wish that one of his bachelor friends could be fortunate enough to win her” (his first wife died in childbirth)..."

Humble .. love it ..

".. Jackson owned no more than six slaves as an adult. Four were given as a wedding gift, and two requested that he purchase them so they could work for a man of Jackson’s kind temperament. He honored their request. One of his slaves was a young girl with a learning disability given to his wife as a gift. Like Lee, Jackson never made any statements in support of slavery. He was typical of many Southerners in his belief that slavery was ordained by God, that slaves had been given that burden by the hand of God, and that as a Christian man he was required to be a kind master. His pastor described his relationship to the black population of Lexington as thus: “In their religious instruction he succeeded wonderfully. His discipline was systematic and firm, but very kind. … His servants reverenced and loved him, as they would have done a brother or father. … He was emphatically the black man’s friend.” Jackson either freed his slaves or hired them out during the War Between the States.

Jackson was not a secessionist. He remained relatively neutral in the events leading to the “Secession Winter” of 1860 and 1861, but like Lee, once Virginia determined to leave the Union, he supported the cause with a vigor virtually unmatched by anyone south of the Mason-Dixon. He preferred waging an aggressive, punishing war on the North, of taking the bayonet to the enemy in the enemy’s territory, but though his strategic assessment of the military situation in 1861 was probably correct and may have won the South the War, he was overruled by the more conservative members of the military brain-trust, most importantly President Jefferson Davis. The War, they argued, had to be a just, defensive cause to preserve the South. Lee shared Jackson’s advocacy of an offensive war, but differed in the scope of such a conflict. The two men, however, would serve as the perfect one-two punch during the early years of the War Between the States. Jackson was the ideal complement to Lee’s selectively aggressive style..."

.. and aggressive at times too, truly led by the Spirit ..

Y'all will have to visit the link for more great information on this man of character .. guess a portrait of him would be appropriate in my man-cave someday.

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Trump = Bush 4.0 (not Hitler 2.0)

George W. Bush is Bush 2.0

Barack H. Obama is Bush 3.0

Donald Trump is Bush 4.0

".. We were promised another Hitler. Instead, we got another Obama, who was himself another Bush. The march into corporatist Orwellian police state at home and globalist oligarchic hegemony abroad continues unhindered for the United States of America.

And of course that march would have continued had Hillary won as well, it just would have looked a bit different. Fewer environmental deregulations, likely catastrophic escalations against the Syrian government and possibly Russia, the exact same approaches to Iran, just as much hawkishness toward North Korea but minus the tweets about button sizes, no attempts at dismantling Obama’s corporatist healthcare plan. Not much more than that.

Nobody wants to hear this. The Democrats still want to believe that the sitting president is simultaneously a Nazi, a Kremlin secret agent, an idiot, and a lunatic, and Trump supporters want to believe that he’s a populist savior fighting to liberate the nation from the claws of the deep state. Because of their partisan blinders they will both find reasons to believe they’ve got either a savior or a traitor in the White House despite the fact that their country’s actual policy and behavior remains more or less the same..."

Trump was non-interventionist as a candidate (as we're the other two) .. and while exporting less illegals than under Obama is actually bombing more Muslins around the world. Pretty sure he is itching to start some wars just like Bush II and Obama (Bush III) did .. sick. 97% population forgets what candidates promise .. a few years and their brains are empty of all that.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/01/06/trump-isnt-another-hitler-hes-another-obama/#more-167505

CDC Prepares Americans for False Flag Nuke Event (Think the Series Jericho)

Writes Herman Mayfarth:

“Improvised Nuclear Device?”
YGBSM ... THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN  “IMPROVISED” NUCLEAR WEAPON"
PERIOD

So, why the evil propaganda?
Is this to prepare the American people for the ultimate false flag operation, the detonation of a nuclear weapon on U.S. soil?
I certainly hope not, but it is a possibility…
And who would be blamed for such an event?
Why, Iran, of course.
In my opinion, that is the only eventuality in today’s world which would get the American people on board for war with Iran.
And, make no mistake, the unholy alliance of the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia do wish to destroy Iran, each for their own reasons."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-05/cdc-will-start-preparing-americans-nuclear-war

".. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just announced that it will conduct a briefing on January 16 concerning the "public health response to a nuclear detonation" over the skies of the United States. The announcement was quietly released over the Christmas break on December 27, 2017, to avoid a mass hysteria event .."

Climate Change - Opposite of What You Might Be Thinking

A good read to consider .. halfway through the article there is a link to the Great Freeze of 1709 when Venice canals were frozen and the Baltic Sea froze allowing people to walk from Denmark to Norway and Sweden.

You might want to pay attention to how this impacted rich and poor alike .. the only things not frozen was rum, whiskey and vodka. These are SHTF essentials.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/climate-change-is-the-an-omg-event/

Israel is 7% Legit - That's All Folks

From: https://bionicmosquito.blogspot.rs/2018/01/israel-7-percent-legitimate.html

TRUTH BOMB .. responses to a so-called libertarian essay (shown in italics)

".. The issue isn’t the Six Day War; the issue dates to the founding of the State of Israel.

In tackling Rothbard’s claims of mass expulsion of Arabs during the 1948 War of Independence, we concede that this did indeed happen in certain isolated cases.

There were 750,000 refugees.  This is “isolated”?

But the point is, did they have a right to these areas in the first place?

Arabs lived in the land continuously for thousands of years; multiple generations can be specifically traced and identified.

In fact, the population that was ethnically cleansed were the Jews of Arab countries (about 850,000), who were expelled and expropriated after the creation of the State of Israel.

As they say, payback is a bitch.  Those Arab countries probably had to make room for all of the Palestinian refugees that they took on; and the Zionists of Israel no doubt cooperated fully in the Jewish expulsion from Arab lands – as they had regarding Jews throughout Europe.

Finally, regarding the legitimacy of Israel as a state, even according to Israel’s most vociferous critics of which Rothbard was one, 7% of pre-1948 Palestine was purchased legitimately by Jews.

As noted in the title, Israel is 7% legitimate.

Conclusion:

Every single person on earth, if the ancestry is traced back far enough (and 2000 years is more than far enough – a few hundred years is probably far enough), has a history of both victim and perpetrator.  What are we supposed to do with that?  The authors have made a libertarian case for a war of all against all.

Let’s deal in reality: there are between 30,000 and 50,000 Palestinian refugees from 1948 still alive today who have a direct claim to property in Israel, property that was stolen from them.  There are almost 5 million registered direct descendants of the 750,000 refugee property owners alive today.

If one is to speak of a legitimate claim on stolen property, one can only deal in such specific terms – specific individuals (including specific descendants) with specific claims; to do anything else invites chaos. "

Bingo!!!

Jeff Sessions - Just One of Several Morons Trump Should Say "You're Fired" To - WHY Doesn't He?

As with all of government’s wars against liberty, the so-called “Drug War” is almost universally recognized as a total failure. But, getting rid of government intrusion once it’s accepted is no easy task. We’re sitting on mountains of government failures that just don’t go away on their own. Fortunately, state-by-state, public pressure has produced wins for liberty in the "Drug War." Then there’s Jeff Sessions…It’s time for President Trump to use those two famous words from The Apprentice.

See what Ron Paul had to say about this moron. If he can look vets in the eye who return from our morally bankrupt wars around the globe with PTSD and say "you can't have your pot even when your state says you can" .. he truly is a sociopath.

Nikki Haley - One of Several Morons Trump Just Can't Say "You're Fired" To ... WHY?

It must now be a prerequisite of those who become an American ambassador to the UN to possess certain characteristics and traits, the most important of which are rabid warmonger, child killer, and outright liar.

"Nikki Haley is such an asshole, I do not see how any diplomats can take her seriously, much less the North Koreans. She’s mean. She’s demanding. She’s irritating. She has a one track mind. She wants her way and only her way. She doesn’t coordinate with the State Department. On North Korea, she says one thing, Tillerson says another. Trump says all sorts of things. This so-called “team” is a joke. No one would pay any attention to these American buffoons if they did not possess arsenals of terror.

South Korea wants to talk with North Korea because the latter made an overture yesterday. That’s not good enough for Haley, who said “We won’t take any of the talks seriously if they don’t do something to ban all nuclear weapons in North Korea.” How insulting this must be to the South Koreans AND the North Koreans! But what do you expect from assholes like her?

Haley said “We think that we need to have them stop nuclear weapons, and they need to stop it now. So North Korea can talk with anyone they want but the US is not going to recognise it or acknowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have.”

The U.S. needs this? Why? Why is it essential and necessary to the U.S. that North Korea stop its nuclear weapons program and ban the weapons? Isn’t it just a tad late in the day to make such a demand? What is the U.S. offering in return? How can North Korea be assured that the U.S. won’t then attack it as it did Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein?

Why is it the U.S. is supposed to retain weapons that can hit North Korea but North Korea is not supposed to retain weapons that can hit the U.S.?

Haley ruled out diplomatic overtures: “We won’t take any of the talks seriously if they don’t do something to ban all nuclear weapons in North Korea.”

How does North Korea talk to an asshole that just keeps making one-sided demands that it makes no sense for them to fulfill? It doesn’t. It bypasses her.

Haley is the bad-tempered American shrew-in-chief. She represents this country officially at the U.N." - Michael S. Rozeff

Predictions for 2018 - Judge Nap Offers His, Do You Want To Give It a Shot?

 1) In 2018,


a. the Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives.


b. the Republicans will retain control of the Senate.


c. President Donald Trump will provoke the use of the 25th Amendment by his Cabinet to remove him temporarily from office.


d. the key issue in the congressional races will be whether or not to impeach President Trump.


2) At the end of 2018,


a. more American troops will be deployed around the world than are today.


b. the United States will be directly involved in a land war in North Korea.


c. the United States will renounce its membership in NATO.


d. all American combat troops will be back home in the United States.


3) In 2018, President Trump will


a. issue more executive orders than President Barack Obama did in eight years.


b. build a wall along the Texas-Mexico border without congressional authorization.


c. use military force to prevent former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie from taking over "The Apprentice."


d. stop using Twitter.


4) In 2018, the Supreme Court will


a. reverse Roe v. Wade, thereby handing off the abortion controversy to the states.


b. find that the right to carry arms outside the home is protected by the Second Amendment.


c. outlaw the government’s mass surveillance of Americans.


d. have its oral arguments televised.


5) In 2018, President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will


a. race to see who can hack the other’s Twitter account more effectively.


b. proclaim their personal and eternal friendship to each other.


c. agree to produce a shirtless 2019 calendar together.


d. threaten each other over Russian military forces in Finland.


6) In 2018, WikiLeaks will release


a. secret tapes of the meeting in Trump Tower between members of the Trump campaign, including Donald Trump Jr., and Russian agents.


b. Hillary Clinton’s favorite yoga positions.


c. proof that Bill Clinton is a crook.


d. emails showing where President Obama was born.


7) In 2018, President Trump will


a. wage a hostile takeover of NBC.


b. fire Lorne Michaels and hire the entire “Saturday Night Live” cast to work for the Trump Organization.


c. pick more fights than a fourth-grade schoolyard bully.


d. renounce building the wall.


8) In 2018, former Gov. Christie will


a. attempt professional wrestling for his next career.


b. try a cable TV gig at MSNBC and hate it because it is too much work.


c. become a roadie for Bruce Springsteen’s next tour.


d. curse the day he first heard of the George Washington Bridge.


9) In 2018, Sen. Ted Cruz will


a. retire to Texas.


b. announce that he will challenge President Trump in 2020.


c. be appointed to the Supreme Court.


d. face a very serious challenge by a popular and wealthy Republican congressman from Texas.


10) In 2018, President Trump will begin his “I Am the Greatest” tour by


a. listening to Hillary Clinton stump speeches.


b. sitting through a dinner with Paul Ryan and Buddy Ryan arguing about Federal Reserve policy.


c. giving a lecture at Princeton University about how bad a president Woodrow Wilson was.


d. hosting “Saturday Night Live.”


11) In 2018, the news media will


a. embrace fake news 24/7 by establishing formal fake news outlets.


b. make billions covering the Trump administration.


c. be ostracized by President Trump.


d. largely be very frustrated as President Trump continues to bypass and ignore them.


12) In 2018, former President Obama will


a. start a health insurance company.


b. become the president of the University of Chicago.


c. show up everywhere.


d. be shunned by fellow Democrats.


13) In 2018, the World Series will be won by


a. the New York Yankees, after Jerry Jones buys the team.


b. the Boston Red Sox, after cheating.


c. the Los Angeles Dodgers.


d. the San Francisco Giants, after Nancy Pelosi and her husband buy the team.


14) After the 2018 season, the Super Bowl will be won by


a. the Dallas Cowboys, after Jerry Jones sells the team.


b. the Pittsburgh Steelers


c. the New England Patriots, after another Bill Belichick/Tom Brady cheating scandal.


d. the Cleveland Browns, after a miracle.


15) In 2018, global warming will be


a. embraced by President Trump as part of a deal he will later renounce.


b. exposed as a hoax.


c. largely forgotten.


d. the subject of another encyclical by Pope Francis.


16) One year from today,


a. Pope Francis will be voluntarily retired and living as a simple parish priest in a slum in Buenos Aires.


b. divorced and remarried Catholics will lawfully be able to receive the Holy Eucharist.


c. Roman Catholic cardinals will have deposed Pope Francis for heresy.


d. Antonin Scalia will be on his way to formal sainthood.


17) One year from today,


a. the United States will have imposed a 50 percent tariff on all goods made in China.


b. the Federal Reserve will be retaining artificially low interest rates.


c. more Americans will keep their cash in shoe boxes than in banks.


d. bank bankruptcies will be happening once a week.


18) One year from today,


a. we will all know how wealthy President Trump is -- or isn’t.


b. Mike Pence will have announced that he will be running for president in 2020.


c. the Islamic State group will be history.


d. former Gov. Christie and California Gov. Jerry Brown will be cellmates in a federal prison.


19) One year from today,


a. Hillary and Bill Clinton will have been indicted by a federal grand jury for operating a criminal enterprise.


b. Roger Clemens will be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.


c. none of President’s Trump’s 2017 advisers will be working for him at the White House.


d. more people will be on ObamaCare than were in 2017.


20) In the long run,


a. everything the government has it has stolen.


b. everything the government says is a lie.


c. that government is best which governs least.


d. all of the above are true.


Judge Nap's choices are:
1a, b, d; 2b; 3b; 4b; 5d; 6a; 7d; 8b; 9d; 10d; 11d; 12d; 13c; 14b; 15a; 16b; 17b; 18a; 19a; 20d

Mine are:
1a, b; 2a; 3a; 4d; 5d; 6a; 7c; 8d; 9d; 10d; 11d; 12d; 13c; 14c; 15a; 16b; 17b; 18b; 19c; 20d
(with an emphasis on #20 being D .. ALL the ABOVE)