It looks like I can get a Spanish translation of Tragedy and Hope 101 done, including proofreading and a few other misc costs, for about $1,200. I'm very happy about this. $1,200 won't cover the cost of creating a "hard-copy" version, but it will cover the cost of the most important version (the one that will be posted online for free). Stay tuned...I should have more information in a week or two.
StopTheLie.com News update 05-09-2016
The Founders' Word: Void
Source: TenthAmendmentCenter.com
--Whether it's blocking federal gun control, rejecting mass surveillance, ending asset forfeiture, or even bringing down the Federal Reserve, the focus should be on individuals and states, not federal courts and federal elections.
This is just what Thomas Jefferson advised as well. In response to powers "which have not been delegated," he told us that nullification is the "rightful remedy."
Read full article at: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2016/05/01/the-founders-word-void/
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TTIP - Economic Imperialism
Source: Paul Craig Roberts
--Greenpeace secured and leaked the secret TTIP documents that Washington and global corporations are pushing on Europe. The official documents prove that my description of these "partnerships" when they first appeared in the news is totally correct.
These so-called "free trade agreements" are not trade agreements. The purpose of the "partnerships," which were drafted by global corporations, is to make corporations immune to the laws of sovereign countries in which they do business. Any country's sovereign law whether social, environmental, food safety, labor protections—any law or regulation—that impacts a corporation's profits is labeled a "restraint on trade." The "partnerships" permit corporations to file a suit that overturns the law or regulation and also awards the corporation damages paid by the taxpayers of the country that tried to protect its environment or the safety of its food and workers.
The law suit is not heard in the courts of the country or in any court. It is heard in a corporate tribunal in which corporations serve as judge, jury, and prosecutor.
Read full article at: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/05/03/ttip-american-economic-imperialism-paul-craig-roberts/
COMMENT: Here, Paul Craig Roberts debates Sean O'Grady on the issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qCqflqIN2s
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The EU – A CIA Covert Operation
Source: Antiwar.com
--The "European Movement," which was and still is the "grassroots" organization that relentlessly pushed for the creation of a European super-state, was financed to the tune of $1 million a year by the "American Committee for a United Europe" (ACUE), which was founded by Allen Dulles, who was at that point chairing a committee tasked with looking at how to organize the nascent CIA, and William "Wild Bill" Donovan, who had been head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA.
-- Covert US financial support to the European federalist movement never amounted to "less than half" of the various groups' budgets. The money was funneled through the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other private conduits. The head of the Ford Foundation was Paul Hoffman, a former OSS official who played a major leadership role in the ACUE.
-- Globalism is the name of the game for our deracinated elites, and nationalism – of any kind, including the American variety – is the enemy. That's why we're seeing both the Obama administration and the ostensibly "Conservative" Party leadership of the British state undertake a combined assault against Euro-skepticism and the threat of "xenophobia." If you don't want to see your country absorbed into the Euro-Borg, then you're a "racist," a right-wing extremist, and a hate-criminal to boot.
Read full article at: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/05/01/eu-cia-covert-operation/
COMMENT: And of course the CIA was created by Allen Dulles during the CFR-directed "War and Peace Studies." ...and who created the CFR? That would be "the Network" (identified by Quigley), which set out to bring "all the habitable portions of the world under their control." It's all pretty simple when you know the history.
If you're new to this site and want more info on "the history," here's a short / free book: www.TragedyAndHope.INFO
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Previous Week's News 05-02-2016
Wartime Washington Lives In Luxury...Guess Who Pays The Bills? (Video)
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
The peddlers of fear clean up while the rest of us pay the bill. How do they do it? Today's special guest is American Conservative Magazine Contributing Editor Kelley Vlahos.
Read full article at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov2dHrk2lUo
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Decades of Textbook Teaching Overturned: Brain is Linked to Immune System
Source: Virginia.edu
It's a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching: researchers at the School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.
--"I just said one sentence: 'They'll have to rewrite the textbooks.' There has never been a lymphatic system for the central nervous system, and it was very clear from that first singular observation — and they've done many studies since then to bolster the finding — that it will fundamentally change the way people look at the central nervous system's relationship with the immune system," Lee said.
--The unexpected presence of the lymphatic vessels raises a tremendous number of questions that now need answers, both about the workings of the brain and the diseases that plague it. For example, take Alzheimer's disease. "In Alzheimer's, there are accumulations of big protein chunks in the brain," Kipnis said. "We think they may be accumulating in the brain because they're not being efficiently removed by these vessels." He noted that the vessels look different with age, so the role they play in aging is another avenue to explore. And there's an enormous array of other neurological diseases, from autism to multiple sclerosis, that must be reconsidered in light of the presence of something science insisted did not exist.
Read full article at: https://news.virginia.edu/illimitable/discovery/theyll-have-rewrite-textbooks
COMMENT: So think about that for a minute...all the way up until the 21stcentury, this connection was completely unknown to science (and, along with it, all of the potential implications regarding its effect on our health).
If the relatively simple (and ancient) process of mapping the human body can still reveal unexpected structures, imagine what might still be unknown about the FAR MORE complex synergistic effects of mass vaccinating a young / developing immune system. Those who suggest that the "science is settled" on this issue are being ridiculous.
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Beware Americans Bearing Gifts: NGOs as Trojan Horses
Source: CorbettReport.com
--If you're watching the newswires closely enough, you'll start to notice a pattern:
Kyrgyzstan has just stripped USAID of its special privileges in their country.
And Russia has just officially declared the National Endowment for Democracy to be an undesirable NGO in the territory of Russia.
And China has just introduced a Foreign NGO Management Law that will require overseas NGOs to register with the government and have their activities more closely monitored.
And in 2013, Bolivia kicked USAID out of the country with Ecuador following suit later the same year.
And earlier this year the Indian government added the Ford Foundation to a security watch list and will hold all payments from the fund for approval before disbursements are made.
What on earth is going on? Why are all of these countries (including 3 of the 5 BRICS members and other countries in 2D geopolitical conflict with the US) kicking out all of these US-based nongovernmental and quasi-governmental entities? Why would they be opposed to charity and aid?
Read full article at: https://www.corbettreport.com/beware-americans-bearing-gifts-ngos-as-trojan-horses/
COMMENT: The above is excerpted from the Corbett Report's membership area.
James is doing a LOT of great work. Please consider becoming a member today. (You get to choose the subscription price; it can be as little as $1 per month.) This is a truly excellent resource.
https://www.corbettreport.com/members/
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Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study
Source: WashingtonPost.com
--The "spiral of silence" is a well-researched phenomenon in which people suppress unpopular opinions to fit in and avoid social isolation. It has been looked at in the context of social media and the echo-chamber effect, in which we tailor our opinions to fit the online activity of our Facebook and Twitter friends. But this study adds a new layer by explicitly examining how government surveillance affects self-censorship.
Read full article at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/?ti
COMMENT: So, if the Network (representing a tiny minority), can create the illusion of "majority opinion," it can manipulate the REAL majority into remaining silent. (This, of course, reinforces the illusion and perpetuates the "spiral of silence.") Pretty clever, huh?
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Snowden: Official Movie Trailer (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone, who brought Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK to the big screen, tackles the most important and fascinating true story of the 21st century. Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, reveals the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others. No matter which you believe, the epic story of why he did it, who he left behind, and how he pulled it off makes for one of the most compelling films of the year.
Watch video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSAiI3xMh4
COMMENT: The clip was posted about a day ago and already has 2.2 million views...good to see so much interest.
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Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption by 7 Years
Source: TheIntercept.com
--"As a result of the Snowden revelations, the onset of commercial encryption has accelerated by seven years," James Clapper said during a breakfast for journalists hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
The shortened timeline has had "a profound effect on our ability to collect, particularly against terrorists," he said.
When pressed by The Intercept to explain his figure, Clapper said it came from the National Security Agency. "The projected growth maturation and installation of commercially available encryption — what they had forecasted for seven years ahead, three years ago, was accelerated to now, because of the revelation of the leaks."
Asked if that was a good thing, leading to better protection for American consumers from the arms race of hackers constantly trying to penetrate software worldwide, Clapper answered no.
"From our standpoint, it's not … it's not a good thing," he said.
Read full article at: https://theintercept.com/2016/04/25/spy-chief-complains-that-edward-snowden-sped-up-spread-of-encryption-by-7-years/
COMMENT: I suppose it's only appropriate that this event was hosted by one of the "Establishment-" controlled media outlets identified by Carroll Quigley:
"The American branch of this "English Establishment" exerted much of its influence through five American newspapers (The New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, and the lamented Boston Evening Transcript). In fact, the editor of the Christian Science Monitor was the chief American correspondent (anonymously)…It might be mentioned that the existence of this Wall Street, Anglo-American axis is quite obvious once it is pointed out." --Tragedy and Hope, page 953
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Deutsche Bank Turns on the Gold-fix Cartel
Source: F. William Engdahl
Deutsche Bank, Germany's once-respected giant bank, has admitted being a party–together with a cartel of major Wall Street and select other international banks–in deliberately manipulating the price of gold over a period of years. As well, the German bank, in a court settlement with litigants in a US court, has agreed to name the names of other big banks involved in the criminal enterprise. As this drama unfolds in coming weeks and months, the world may well see the price of gold soar to new heights to reflect the true global market demand. This is huge.
Read full article at: http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/19/deutsche-bank-turns-on-the-gold-fix-cartel/
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Killing Civilians: Drone Whistleblowers Step Out of the Shadows
Source: GlobalResearch.ca
--Kennebeck's interviewees are among at least a dozen whistleblowers who have stepped forward, or are preparing to do so, in order to denounce Washington's drone wars as morally unjustified, as in fact nightmares both for those who fight them and those living in the lands that are on the receiving end. The realities of the day-in, day-out war they fought for years were, as they tell it, deeply destructive and filled with collateral damage of every sort. Worse yet, drone operators turn out to have little real idea about, and almost no confirmation of, whom exactly they've blown away.
"It's so primitive, raw, stripped-down death. This is real. It's not a joke," says Heather, an imagery analyst whose job was to look at the streaming video coming in from drones over war zones and interpret the grainy images for senior commanders in the kill chain.
"You see someone die because you said it was okay to kill them. I was always shaking. Sometimes I would just go to the bathroom and just sit on the toilet. I mean just sit there in my uniform and just cry."
Advocates of drone war believe, as do many of its critics, that it minimizes casualties. These Air Force veterans have, however, stepped forward to tell us that such claims simply aren't true. In a study of what can be known about drone killings, the human rights group Reprieve has confirmed this reality vividly, finding that, in Pakistan, in attempts to take out 41 men, American drones actually killed an estimated 1,147 people (while not all of the 41 targeted figures even died). In other words, this hasn't proved to be a war on terror, but a war of terror, a reality the drone whistleblowers confirm.
--Like Heather, Daniel has so far survived his own drone-war-induced mental health issues, but in his post-drone life he's run into a formidable enemy: the U.S. government. On August 8, 2014, he estimates that as many as 50 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided his house, seizing documents and his electronics.
"The government suspects that he is a source of information about the [drone] program that the government doesn't want out there," says Jesselyn Radack, his lawyer and herself a former Department of Justice whistleblower. "To me, that's simply an attempt to silence whistleblowers, and it doesn't surprise me that that happens to the very few people who have been brave enough to speak out against the drone program."
Read full article at: http://www.globalresearch.ca/washingtons-civilian-kill-list-in-afghanistan-drone-whistleblowers-step-out-of-the-shadows/5521708
COMMENT: I'm sure if the Chinese were using this approach to "fight terrorism" in the US, nobody would complain or harbor resentment...right?
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