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The Grand American Collapse Approacheth - James Howard Kunstler
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Jul '17

22 Jul '17

The Grand American Collapse Approacheth James Howard Kunstler - http://kunstler.com/ The author is a prominent American social critic, blogger, and podcaster. He is known for, among other things, a series of science fiction novels describing life after the collapse of modern society, an event which he believes is quite possible, as you can tell from this article. He has a new novel out about the counter-culture movement in the late '60s. If you like this author's work, please consider supporting him on Patreon. https://www.amazon.com/James-Howard-Kunstler/e/B000APLGD0/ref=dp_byline_con… https://www.amazon.com/Safe-Happy-Place-Novel/dp/0984625291/ref=tmm_pap_swa… https://www.patreon.com/JamesHowardKunstler http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/grand-american-collapse-approacheth/r… 18% of the US economy is complete BS, consisting basically of 'health care racketeering.' For all his blunders and stumbles in his first half-year as President (cough cough), Donald Trump seems to have more lives than Schrödinger’s Cat. Or maybe it just seems that way. Or maybe he isn’t really there at all (like the news these days). Maybe Trump only represents one comic probability in an infinite number of universes of probability, both comic and tragic. I begin to understand why the folks in Hollywood are having a whack attack over the chief executive: you can’t storyboard this bitch; it’s like leaving The Three Stooges on their own in a sound stage to re-make Gone With the Wind. But then, you begin to wonder: is Russia really there, or is it, too, just another figment of possibility? Don’t try to figure that out by reading the oracular observations of The Washington Post. These days Russia seems to be at once everywhere and nowhere, like the Devil north of Boston in 1693. For example, this fellow Jeff Sessions. Have you noticed that his name rhymes with Russians? Hmmmm. And wasn’t he caught chatting with the Russian Ambassador at the very same convocation of Republicans that picked notorious colluder Donald Trump to stand for President? That’s enough of your damn evidence right there! advertisement Yes, things are passing strange in the world’s greatest democracy these days. To me, seeing the thing through an historical lens, it’s looking more and more like the Salem Witch Frenzy meets the French Revolution with a spin of quantum confusion on top. Right now we’re in the first phase, sheer political lunacy. Beliefs have become ungrounded from the facts of life. The guy whom fate or a prankish deity put in the White House doesn’t even fit the template of the world’s most infamous heads-of-state. I’m sorry to dredge up old Adolf, but really, Hitler himself seemed to have a much firmer idea about what he was doing than Trump does. The ObamaCare reform fiasco looks like a tipping point toward a strain of toxic political paralysis that might literally kill the government as we’ve known it. Over the many months of debate, congress never even got around to raising the salient issue: that the 18-or-so-percent of the economy “health care” represents consists largely of outright racketeering. Well, they sure blew that one. The major parties are disintegrating before our eyes, despite the seeming sense of decorum that senators present on TV. The public may seem to be mentally on vacation, snoozing on the beach in the midsummer doldrums, but something vicious is in the wind offshore. I’d actually go further now than the “soft coup d’état” scenario that has Trump run over by the 25thamendment. It will happen, of course, but it will not satisfy anybody. Mike Pence will prove to be as ineffectual and unpopular as Trump, and he will be drowning in financial and fiscal problems, and he will get no help from the legislature in resolving any of it, and before too long there may be a general in the White House — or attempting to run things from someplace else, if he can. The whole nauseating spectacle will be attended by violent popular revolt of region against region and tribe against tribe in a great civil explosion of long-suppressed angst. Too many nasty forces are vectoring in on the scene to overthrow the dream state America has been languishing in. Most of them involve money (or “money”) and the questions of how can we possibly keep paying for the way we live in this country, and who exactly has been fobbing off with the former wealth of every rusted and busted community in the land? It’s going to start in the stock and bond markets and it will be soon. And then the US Treasury will destroy the dollar trying (again) to save the banks. And the bank accounts will be frozen. And the loans will stop being paid. And the SNAP cards are going to stop working, and pretty soon the just-in-time deliveries to the supermarkets, and the resupply to the gas stations, and there won’t be much that Mike Pence can do about it. He’ll be shoved aside and the military will have to try to restore order in the land. When they do, it will not be the same land we sang about back in the fifth grade. Up in a cloud somewhere over Ohio, maybe, Schrödinger’s Cat will be gazing down on us, grinning.

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more than 10% of the web is powered by Debian
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Surprising (to me) and nice to know - The Universal OS is slowly steamrolling along... world domination now only days away :) >From this week's LWN: At the time of writing, more than 10% of the web is powered by Debian. How many web sites would you have missed today without Debian? Debian is the operating system of choice on the international space station and countless universities, companies and public administrations rely on Debian to deliver services to millions of users around the world and beyond. Debian is a highly successful and is far more pervasive in our lives than people are aware of, even within the GNU/Linux community. — Chris Lamb https://lwn.net/Articles/727985/ http://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/an-interview-with-chris-lamb-the-current-de…

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Sweden Bans Mandatory Vaccinations Over 'Serious Heath Concerns'
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

It's that little "compulsory" bit that, evidently, gets even non-anarchists riled up. Suprising that this is from Sweden, but hey, perhaps there's an iota of hope for the original blonde bombshells yet? ----- Forwarded message from Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> ----- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:12:22 +1000 Sweden Bans Mandatory Vaccinations Over 'Serious Heath Concerns' Red Ice Radio <https://redice.tv/red-ice-radio> 21 <https://redice.tv/news/sweden-bans-mandatory-vaccinations-over-serious-heat…> May 18, 2017 Source: yournewswire.com <http://yournewswire.com/sweden-mandatory-vaccinations/> Sweden has banned mandatory vaccinations, citing “serious health concerns” and the fact they violate a citizen’s constitutional rights to choose their own healthcare. The Swedish Riksdag (parliament) rejected seven motions on May 10 that would have enshrined forced vaccinations into law, stating “It would violate our [Swedish Constitution] if we introduced compulsory vaccinations, or mandatory vaccinations.” Noting also the “massive resistance (by Swedes) to all forms of coercion with regard to vaccinations“, the Riksdag also made reference to “frequent serious adverse reactions” in children who receive vaccinations. An English translation of the Swedish report <http://www.thenhf.se/riksdagen-rostade-nej-till-alla-vaccinmotioner/> : “NHF Sweden sent a letter to the Committee and explained that it would violate our Constitution if we introduced compulsory vaccinations, or mandatory vaccinations as was submitted in Arkelsten’s motion. Many others have also submitted correspondence and many citizens have called up Parliament and politicians. Parliamentary politicians has surely noticed that there’s a massive resistance to all forms of coercion with regard to vaccinations. “NHF Sweden also shows how frequent serious adverse reactions according to the rate at which FASS specifies in the package leaflet of the MMR vaccine, when you vaccinate an entire year group. In addition, one must take into account that each age group will receive the MMR vaccine twice, so the side effects are doubled. We must not forget that, in addition, similar adverse reaction lists apply for other vaccines. “In the letter, we have even included an extensive list of the additives found in vaccines – substances which are not health foods and certainly do not belong in babies or children. We also included for lawmakers a daunting list of studies that demonstrate vaccination is a bad idea.” The full report can be accessed here <http://www.thenhf.se/riksdagen-rostade-nej-till-alla-vaccinmotioner/> . The Swedish Riksdag’s sensible decision flies in the face of what is happening in the United States and other western countries right now. Big Pharma has lawmakers in a choke hold, dictating policy and using the corrupt media to silence dissenters. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently appeared <http://yournewswire.com/robert-kennedy-truth-bomb-vaccine/> on the Tucker Carlson Show and bravely exposed the “lawless mafia state” that is Big Pharma and their “extremely lucrative” vaccines scam. “The pharmaceutical industry is so powerful,” RFK Jr explained. “They give $5.4 billion a year to the media. They’ve gotten rid of the lawyers, so there is no legal interest in those cases. They have really been able to control the debate and silence people like me.” Asked how things could get this bad, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained that Congress granted Big Pharma “blanket legal immunity” when it comes to vaccines. Big Pharma became a law unto themselves after President Regan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act> . They can put toxic ingredients in your vaccines, they can seriously injure your child – but you cannot sue them. “What you have to understand is that the vaccine regimen changed dramatically around 1989. The reason it changed, Tucker, is that Congress, drowning in pharmaceutical industry money, did something they have never done for any other industry – they gave blanket legal immunity to all the vaccine companies. “So that no matter how sloppy the line protocols, no matter how absent the quality control, no matter how toxic the ingredients, or egregious the injury to your child, you cannot sue them. “So there’s no depositions, there’s no discovery, there’s no class action suits. All of a sudden vaccines became enormously profitable.” The enormous profits in the unregulated industry meant Big Pharma companies raced each other to produce new and unnecessary vaccines to pump into newborn children – often dozens at a time. “It became a gold rush for the pharmaceutical industry to add new vaccines to the spectrum.” But at what cost? The vaccine industry, operating under their own rules – or rather, complete absence of rules – is making it impossible for us to find out the facts. President Trump has long called for an independent inquiry into vaccine safety. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling for the same. “I got three vaccines and I was fully compliant. I’m 63 years old. My children got 69 doses of 16 vaccines to be compliant. And a lot of these vaccines aren’t even for communicable diseases. Like Hepatitis B, which comes from unprotected sex, or using or sharing needles – why do we give that to a child on the first day of their life? And it was loaded with mercury.” Tucker asked, “We do give that to children?“ “We continue to give it to them. The mercury has been taken out of three vaccines, but it remains in the flu vaccine, and it is still in vaccines all over the world. And it is the most potent neurotoxin known to man that is not radioactive.” “How can we inject that into a child?” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to put the outrageous situation into context. “If you take that vaccine vial and break it, you have to dispose of that as hazardous waste. You have to evacuate the building. Why would you take that and inject it into a child?” Source: https://redice.tv/news/sweden-bans-mandatory-vaccinations-over-serious-heat…

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In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country - education, intellect, and or liberal arts, a threat
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Education. Some fear it, say that educated people are a threat to the uneducated, "lefty liberals" try to shut down free speech and run only LGBTQQPPC and "arts" courses (they don't call it Liberal Arts for nothing). When your "education" institutions have thoroughly clamped down on free speech and the average "educated" person has disdain for classical education, perhaps you -ought- be fearing your education institutions. This classic interview with an ex-KGB officer shall forever go down in history as oh so poignant: Ex-KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov Explains United States Targeted Public Schools for Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obr1XqUPEII (17 minutes) A great quote from a slashdot commenter in the following article, responding in exasperation to someone using language <ahem>liberally</>: "It's not ad hominem to accuse someone of a position that they hold." Of course, logic never was a unit in your local Liberal Arts "degree" ... In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/07/15/0037248/in-america-most-republican… An anonymous reader quotes the Chronicle of Higher Education: A majority of Republicans and right-leaning independents think higher education has a negative effect on the country, according to a new study released by the Pew Research Center on Monday. The same study has found a consistent increase in distrust of colleges and universities since 2010, when negative perceptions among Republicans was measured at 32 percent. That number now stands at 58 percent. By comparison, 72 percent of Democrats or left-leaning Independents in the study said colleges and universities have a positive impact on the United States... In the Pew Research Center's study, distrust of colleges was strongest in the highest income bracket and the oldest age group, with approval levels of just 31 percent among respondents whose family income exceeds $75,000 a year and 27 percent among those older than 65.

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monetary and tax scams - remember the "Free Energy Efficient Light Globes and Shower Heads" stalls?
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:47:46 +1000 Subject: Free Energy Efficient Light Globes and Shower Heads *Free Energy Efficient Light Globes and Shower Heads* Remember the stalls in shopping centres years ago, where you signed a paper and you either wrote your address or the attendant wrote it for you, and got 6 free energy efficient light bulbs and a shower head? That paper was a legally binding contract that you should have read properly. When you signed you legally singed the carbon trading rights to your property to the ‘company’ and it is irreversible without a Supreme Court order that would be fought to the High Court you could not afford. These worldwide companies are putting million$ into getting Carbon Trading Rights into law. Overnight they then become millionaires at our stupid expense. Some received a lot free bulbs and shower heads that were given to poor needy families, there appeared to be many unusual addresses? ----- End forwarded message -----

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[RUS] Malorossiya (LittleRussia) - folks attempting to peacefully stabilize their lives with new mini-state
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Given the West's firetruckery for decades, imposing drones on weddings, coups on relatively stable nation states, financial sanctions on anyone who says "the USA is a terrorism sponsor" (see childish new "words always hurt the USA" Iran sanctions: http://theduran.com/us-iran-sanctions-are-a-tit-for-tat-measure-that-is-par… ) there are not so many options left for the families and people that remain in the Donbass region (Eastern Ukraine) - Russia will of course be absolutely vilified if they accepted the will of the people who live there (they're predominantly Russian - just like in Crimea) e.g. by way of referendum (if it were to happen, again, as happened in Crimea) We dalliance with crypto and virtual currencies, reminisce about WW2 oceanic data centre bunkers and dream of a floating super tanker "fully liberal dude, fully liberal" micro jurisdiction, yet the facts on the ground are that real people suffer the real death and destruction of the existing nation states/ world powers, and no floating ship is going to help them, at all, ever! Those "liberals" who proclaim "how wonderful it is that our glorious Western Democracies uphold The Rule Of Law (TM)(R)", appear to find every epithetic excuse to decry for example the Crimean referendum - and most likely without ever having read that speech which shall forever go down in history which speaks to the heart of all who can hear. We in our gilden shiny things cages, arm chair Supreme Pontificates, pass out disdain and cynicism like it's going out of fashion, shedding no tear for empathy of those who are at the coal face of a global geopolitical war and have lost friends, family and limbs as a direct result. "Oh but they're Ukraine's 'domestic terrorists' and Kiev is right to continue shelling its own civilians." "But it's a Russian invasion against helpless neo-nazi highway Banderites - and besides, what's a little pillaging and raping amongst CIA friends anyway? But a REFERENDUM?!?! HOW DARE THEY!!! THAT'S NOT HUMAN FREE WILL THAT'S RED STATE AGGRESSION!!!!" Of course ... hypocrisy never knew any self restraint nor bounds. The brittle, belligerent arm chair generals spewing their CIA approved rhetoric can neither be reasoned with, and care not for reality, let alone empathy and genuine human free will. "But I'm just doing my dirty CIA job - and soon I get to retire and THEN I'll do the right thing." Yeah yeah, heard it all before - save it for the grave! 5 reasons the Malorossiya declaration is a modest proposal that the EU, Russia and US should support http://theduran.com/5-reasons-the-malorossiya-declaration-is-a-modest-propo… DONETSK: Alexander Zakharchenko declares new state of Malorossiya http://theduran.com/donetsk-alexander-zakharchenko-declares-new-state-malor… Poroshenko vows to restore sovereignty over Donbass after Malorossiya proposal http://en.apa.az/world-news/europe/poroshenko-vows-to-restore-sovereignty-o… Stratfor on Twitter: "The rebels' proposal for a new state ... https://twitter.com/Stratfor/statuses/887434393597480961 Donetsk Republic Leader's 'Malorossiya' Proposal His Own Initiative https://sputniknews.com/politics/201707181055660081-dpr-malorossiya-kremlin/ Ukraine: A New State to Solve an Old Problem - Stratfor Worldview https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/ukraine-new-state-solve-old-problem (At least the "jnn(a)synfin.org" asset is a man with a big heart and plenty of empathy - intelligence++ all around.)

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Re: protocol for high-profile dissenters to leak without being deaded/murdered/killed/eliminated/shot/heart-attacked etc
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

----- Forwarded message from "Mr Gerrit H. Schorel-Hlavka O.W.B." <inspector_rikati(a)yahoo.com.au> ----- Zenaan, and this is why I publish documents without delay as to avoid the trap they can kill me before I can publish. It isn't just about keeping the dream alive but to keep yourself alive. Also, I keep even my McDonalds receipts and others, not because of any value other than that I can proved where I was at a particular time. I have been accosted by police at times about my whereabouts because of allegations and time and time I was able to prove to be at a total different location. This also because I kept a record as to speedo, time, distance, where I was, etc.When I park somewhere I usually take a picture of the location as to be able to prove I was there at a certain time, etc.Again on various occasions the police tried allegations against me (I am well aware to them so to say I am a pain in the neck) but each time they got nowhere. with the kind of work (unpaid) I am involved with I have always been aware I am a target and so knowing that I make sure that I am ahead of them. Again, so far I have succeeded. My wife knows virtually nothing about what I do (write about, etc) and has no knowledge of my passwords nor about where I keep any backup disk/computers at other places. And again I was smart enough to do so, this because about a year ago someone phoned and despite my warnings she facilitated the caller to access her laptop. Just that it is her laptop and has absolutely no information on it, as not even bank account details are used on that computer. The computer simply became useless (and I replaced it as it couldn't be trusted) but she learned a lesson! She found it strange he could see her, and I explained the removed the sticker on the camera and so he could remotely watch her, etc. People often fall for scams and regretfully no matter how often one warns a person they still fall for it. Let people reading your email keep in mind that it might be a hassle to keep ahead of any problematic incidents but in the end it is worth it. At least I have had this for about 4 decades that I was ahead of others to avoid certain problems. Gerrit Constitutionalist & Consultant MAY JUSTICE ALWAYS PREVAIL®Mr. G. H. Schorel-Hlavka O.W.B., GUARDIAN (OFFICE-OF-THE-GUARDIAN)107 Graham Road, Viewbank, 3084, Victoria, Australia Ph (International) 61394577209.Email; inspector_rikati(a)yahoo.com.au The content of this email and any attachments are provided WITHOUT PREJUDICE, unless specifically otherwise stated. If you find any typing/grammatical errors then I know you read it, all you now need to do is to consider the content appropriately! A FOOL IS A PERSON WHO DOESN'T ASK THE QUESTION BECAUSE OF BEING CONCERNED TO BE LABELLED A FOOL.

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Professor Emeritus, Stephen Cohen, pulls Jewish rank - for facts and common sense
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Just reminding the world that not all Jews are Zio-cabalists, and also that not all Jews are terrorists, and that some Jews are even righteous - Professor Emeritus, Stephen Cohen delivers like few deliver, speaking to a Jewish audience and pulling Jewish rank to set the record factual - amazing stuff!: Professor Stephen F. Cohen decimates Julia Ioffe, anti-Russian Zionist narrative at American Jewish Committee event June 28, 2017 https://davidduke.com/professor-stephen-f-cohen-decimates-julia-ioffe-anti-… (America: Cohen is one of those rare individuals who truly does your nation proud.) Also for those who missed it, the 50th anniversary of the USS Liberty (was June 8th): https://davidduke.com/today-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-vicious-zionist-… (As we say in Oz, "Lest we forget.")

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US Appeals Court upholds FBI's NSLs (National Security Letters) and gag orders
by Rachael 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

tl;dr This is a bad legal ruling for privacy and due process in the United States. The US Ninth Circuit Appeals Court in San Francisco issued a ruling declaring that gag orders on the FBI's NSLs (National Security Letters) are completely legal. Reuters article https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-idUSKBN1A21XJ Link to full text of ruling http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2017/07/17/16-16067.pdf

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A Whole 'Nother Kind Of "Disruption": Massive solar flare heading your way Earthling
by Razer 17 Jul '17

17 Jul '17

> "This week a massive solar flare, lasting more than two hours, was > seen on the sun. > > The explosion resulted in what scientists call a coronal mass ejection > or CME. This CME is now headed for earth and has prompted a > Geomagnetic Storm Watch to be issued by the Space Center part of NOAA." > Showtime.... Sunday Sunday SUNDAY! (Tonight) http://www.pressherald.com/2017/07/15/northern-lights-possible-sunday-night/

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