Chapter I

Ignorance is Strength . . . .

It could be lurking in the foods you eat every single day and you would never even know it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared that one of Monsanto's latest creations, a synthetic sweetener chemical known as neotame, does not have to be labeled in food products, including even in organic food products.

A modified version of aspartame with even more added toxicity, neotame received quiet and unassuming FDA approval back in 2002, even though no safety studies have ever been conducted on the chemical (http://www.neotame.com/pdf/neotame_fda_US.pdf). In fact, an investigation conducted by Feingold.org found only four studies relating to neotame in the MEDLINE database.

In an effort to help eradicate dengue fever and the mosquitos that spread it, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) is seeking federal and state approval to release hundreds of thousands of genetically-modified (GM) mosquitos designed to kill off the natural Aedes aegypti variety of the fly throughout Key West, Florida.

A terrified Libyan man is beaten and tortured with electric shocks by youths who appear to be former revolutionary fighters.

The images, taken from a video handed to The Mail on Sunday in a Tripoli refugee camp, will be seen as fresh evidence that those who deposed Colonel Gaddafi with the help of the West are adopting methods as brutal as the dead tyrant’s.

You would be forgiven for thinking these stunning vistas lay deep in the heart of Antarctica.

But they are, in fact, what has become of the European landscape as temperatures plummet to nearly -40C - the coldest snap in decades.

Rivers, lakes, beaches and even seas have been iced over by a Siberian freeze, creating some incredible sights, but also more tales of tragedy.

Now in Maine, it’s again no fairy tale or conspiracy theory to say the Maine Caucus was stolen. Regardless of which candidate had a probable victory taken from him is debatable. What’s not debatable is the fact that more than 16 percent of the Republican voters in Maine are going to be denied the right to vote, simply because the establishment elites don’t like the results so far. According to Texas Congressman Ron Paul on today’s Sunday morning news circuit, the precincts in Maine being denied the right to vote are located in Ron Paul strongholds where the campaign expected to win overwhelmingly.

John Hofmeister, founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy and the former CEO of Shell Oil’s U.S. operations, warned that there is a “better than 50 percent chance” the price of gas will spike on continued heavy demand in emerging markets and weak public policy at home.

GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has a freedom problem. He says there is too much freedom on the Internet and it should be regulated. He was the only candidate that did not take a strong stand against SOPA and PIPA and called for regulating the Internet and said freedom should be limited. He called those that want limited government “radical individualism”. Rick Santorum is no conservative. Don’t be fooled by this authoritarian masquerading as a conservative.

Official government data are manipulated. Credibility’s entirely lacking. Reported good news is hype. Grim underlying reality is suppressed.

The monthly Labor Department jobs report is typical. Progressive Radio News Hour regular economist Jack Rasmus calls the latest January one “largely statistical legerdemain.”

A reported 243,000 nonfarm jobs reported lacked credibility. Manipulation manufactured them. Even the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) admits:

A gang of firefighters mad about their retirement plans hose mindless cops protecting the Prime Minister out side his office in Brussels.

Russia Today reports;

Several hundred firefighters have broken through police lines and hosed down the Prime Minister’s office in Brussels to protest the government’s tougher retirement plans. Firefighters demand to keep their early retirement age at 58, arguing their arduous job does not allow them to work into their sixties.

Lucid and aware people observing world events unfold over the past decade or so – say, since September 11, 2001 – will have surely asked themselves what on Earth is going on here?

We see ever-growing violence, war, outright lies, invasions, false flags, social upheavals, poverty, ruin and the death of millions… The world’s become a pretty dangerous and pitiful place to live in, and it only gets worse…

Which leads us to the obvious question: Why? Why is all this happening? Can we explain it away as Man’s wicked nature? Or his folly and ignorance? Perhaps just a series of bad mistakes and wrong turns on key issues?

Richard, the non-disclosure agreement you signed read, in part:
1. I may receive materials, techniques, or strategies of the Campaign. I agree to return all such material upon the conclusion of my commitment as a volunteer for the Campaign.
2. Any other matters between the Campaign and me shall not be discussed with third parties or disseminated by any means.
Your commitment as a volunteer for the Campaign is concluded, and you've violated both sections. You continue to copy outside individuals on your correspondence.
I have been Fired from the Ron Paul Campaign.
THANK YOU !!! I am out of the Box, where I belong.
I LOVE YOU DR PAUL! I AM STILL FIGHTING!
THE NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT IS DONE,add an A and it is NDAA.
The Leadership in Michigan Sucks.

The Maine vote totals reflected about 84 percent of the state's precincts. The contests scheduled for the coming days -- including an entire county that postponed its caucuses because of a snow storm -- will not be counted, according Webster, the state GOP chairman.

"We're not going to even accept the ballots. No one's going to keep track of them," he said, noting that those were the rules established by the party.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I cite Egypt, where the Military Government has only recently reared up on its hind legs, flashed its cojones and placed 43 employees of various “NGOs” on trial for activities inimical to the unity and security of Egypt.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-02-05/egypt-americans-tr... and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/9...

In case you missed it – The Atlanta Jewish Times publisher Andrew Adler, in an editorial on Jan. 13, committed treason when he suggested that Israel’s Mossad should consider assassinating President Barack Obama.

Author, Michael Collins Piper correctly predicted that western media would stop reporting the story that Obama’s life could be in mortal danger from Mossad terrorists inside the United States.

The outrageous silence by a criminally complicit mainstream media is coupled with open acknowledgement that Obama is deeply resented within the Jewish community. Many speak with vitriol that the President presents a serious danger to Jews and to Israel when he holds Netenyahu’s regime to account.

Israel is using Azerbaijan, a former soviet republic bordering Iran, as a base to spy on the regime in Tehran, the London Times reported Saturday.

The newspaper cited testimony from an anonymous Mossad agent, referred
to only as Shimon.

“This is ground zero for intelligence work,” Shimon told The Times. “Our presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased our presence in the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran. This is a wonderfully porous country.”

I asked frequent contributor Zeus Yiamouyiannis to comment on the coming Greek default. Here is his insightful response.

Greece is the epicenter of a drama that threatens to unwind with all the intrigue and subterfuge of ancient Greek myths and tragedies. As with the legend of Icarus, big, and now bigger, transnational banks provoked the gods with their wax-and-feather financial fabrications to create the appearance of soaring wealth. Now that they have flown too close to the sun and their wings have melted, these banks are being brought to earth by the obligations and consequences imposed by their fabrications.

*hyperlinks live at source*

Reuters and wanttoknow.info provide prima facie evidence that the US 1% runs Wall Street as rigged-casino gambling to transfer wealth from the 99% to themselves. The amount of money fraudulently gambled is not millions of dollars, not billions, not even tens of trillions, but over five hundred trillion ($532,000,000,000,000).

Look at Demonocracy’s images to get an idea of this magnitude of money.

Let this sink in: $532 trillion means that the 1% US banksters gamble over $5 million dollars for every US household and $1.7 million for every American.

There are no data-supported broad-based drivers for dramatically lower gasoline consumption other than austerity and lower economic activity. The code-word for "austerity and lower economic activity" that is verboten in the Mainstream Media is "recession." Indeed, if you examine the EIA data, the only causal factor that has backing in the data is recession--or if you prefer, austerity and lower economic activity.

In the autumn of 2008, as Presidential hopefuls sparred over whether we had entered a recession or not and well before the onset of the most serious global crisis since the 1930?s, trend forecaster Gerald Celente advised his Trends Journal subscribers to prepare for the worst and plan for the best. “It will be,” warned Celente, “like nothing we’ve ever seen in our lifetime.”

The aware and prepared … those understanding just how out of control society would become, and those who had acquired the skills for survival would stand the best chance of navigating the chaos safely.

But Americans were not prepared. Not by a long shot

Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like? Just look at Greece. Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false prosperity that all that debt created. Those that warned that Greece was headed for a financial collapse were laughed at and were called "doom and gloomers". Well, nobody is laughing now. You see, the truth is that debt is a very cruel master.

Out of America: The Republican frontrunner can't seem to win over the party faithful
Even so, rarely has a frontrunner been less convincing. Romney's problem is that of the boss of the dog food company of legend, bewildered why his product won't sell despite having the best ingredients and an unmatched marketing operation. A minion finally pipes up: "But dogs don't like it."

By Gilad Atzmon

NBC reported two days ago that Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists
The attacks, which have killed five Iranian nuclear scientists since 2007 and may have destroyed a missile research and development site, have been carried out in dramatic fashion, with motorcycle-borne assailants often attaching small magnetic bombs to the exterior of the victims’ cars.
Both Iranian, Israeli and Western commentators tend to believe that Israel and the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, known as the MEK are behind the terror campaign.
In 1997, the State Department listed the MEK as a terrorist group, justifying it with an unclassified 40-page summary of the organization’s activities going back more than 25 years.

For the protesters in Greece...

New video of terror group’s chief Ayman al-Zawahri urging the ouster of Syria’s ‘cancerous regime’ follows report of al-Qaida links to recent series of bombings in the country.

Ed note–now, assuming that the video is what it appears to be and is NOT a CIA/Mossad concoction, what we are left to deduce from this is that the Americans and Israel are ‘ONCE AGAIN, SURPRISE SURPRISE, in bed with the very same ‘terrorists’ they presume to be fighting. Do the people of the world NOT find it troublesome that the ouster of Assad is being called for by Zawahri while at the same time Israel, America and other western countries are trying to bring this about as well?

Will the American people recognize this fact, as war mongering Israel-First brigades continue their chorus for NATO intervention?

The Israelis are aware that media plays a powerful role especially when it comes to shining a light on stories, so they prevent activists and other pioneers to tell the truth, a prominent analyst says.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ken O'keefe, international activist, to share his opinion on this issue.

From results thread, Today's Unofficial Final Total: Rp 212, Romeny 140, Santorum 130, Gingrich 12

Androscoggin precincts:

Lewiston:
08: Mitt 35 , Rp 13
Today: RP 53, Romney 38, Santorum 33, Gingrich 5

Auburn:
08: Romney 35 Paul 13(Rp was second) Record turnout here btw
Today: Rp 50 Mitt 40

York:
Total Results:
08: Mitt 393, Mcain 132, RP 109
Today:

York Precincts:
Waterboro Maine:
08: Mitt 10 Paul 5
Today: RP 14, MItt 4, santorum 3, newt 0 .

The Arab League is mulling over what further action to take on the crisis in Syria, with reports of escalating violence. Meanwhile, the head of the group's observer mission has resigned - just as a proposal is being considered to again send monitors from the League and the UN to the country. Political analyst Dr Adel Samara says the U.S. and Al-Qaeda have similar goals in Syria.

“Ron Paul will win the most delegates out of Maine tonight.

“In fact, he will probably even win the ‘beauty contest’ straw poll the media has already called for Mitt Romney – even before all the votes have been tallied.

“In Washington County – where Ron Paul was incredibly strong – the caucus was delayed until next week just so the votes wouldn’t be reported by the national media today.

“Of course, their excuse for the delay was ‘snow.’

“That’s right. A prediction of 3-4 inches – that turned into nothing more than a dusting - was enough for a local GOP official to postpone the caucuses just so the results wouldn’t be reported tonight.

Marrying the person you love and living freely with them may be a basic right in most democratic countries but apparently it's not always the case in Israel. Israeli-Palestinian families say they face daily discrimination and risk being separated altogether. And the country's insistance that it's 'only protecting national security' has few people convinced.

The European court of Human Rights has blocked the deportation of Abu Qatada, dubbed "Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe," sparking fury in across Britain. It's just the latest in a string of controversial decisions overruling the UK's domestic courts. And as RT's Laura Smith explains, patience with the EU is running thin.

Israel should put an end to pointedly hawkish political discourse towards Iran because a preemptive assault might cost it a loss of global legitimacy,' - warns Elan Baruch, a former Israeli ambassador to South Africa. RT talked to Mr. Baruch to discuss the position his country occupies on today's worldwide political stage.

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/53244

20:22 We've heard that a branch of Starbucks and Eurobank are on fire on Korai Square, off Panepistimiou St.

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Maine's Republican Party reported the results of their state caucus tonight, even though not all of Maine has finished voting, and not all the votes have really been counted.
According to a 1998 study published in the American Journal of Political Science, Paul has the most conservative voting record of any member of Congress since 1937.

I want to make sure people understand not to worry about the AG's settlement with the banks for all the foreclosure fraud.

This does not affect individuals for suing the banks for the foreclosure fraud and the fraud of their own loans.

In fact, this actually is good, because the banks have now admitted guilt by settling with the AGs.
I believe it is important that people now understand, it is up to all of us to stand up against the foreclosure fraud of the banks.

George Ure and Gaye Levy, Contributors
Activist Post

Gun nuts? Okay, we admit that we wanted to get your attention. As you may recall, we wrote about basic home security a while back. Today, though, we thought we would share a few of our more advanced thoughts on this subject, since the topic of defending the homestead is a popular and ongoing one...

America needs jobs, not promises. The root causation of our economic malaise is our financial system. Once the income tax is replaced and the IRS is abolished, American companies that have moved overseas can return. They will once again hire Americans. Mr. President: it’s the tax code. It’s overregulation.

(Scroll to p.18, or just open attached pic of article.)

Over the past period, a number of efficient, skilled and specialized national cadres were assassinated by armed terrorist groups.
Those include professor at al-Baath University Mayadeh Anees Sayyiouf, engineer and nuclear specialist Aws Abdul-Kareem Khalil, head of Thoracic Surgery Department at Homs National Hospital Dr. Hassan Eid, Dr. Mustafa Mohammad Safar from Bisan Hospital, teacher at the National Center for Excelled Students in Homs Ruba Ibrahim, engineer Talal Na'eem al-Qatreeb from Homs Refinery, engineer Fatima Khalifa from the General Company for Electric Power Generation in Mhardeh, head of Douma Electricity Department eng. Firas Qaddar and technical assistant Bassam Barakat.

In a new videotaped statement, Ayman al-Zawahri calls on Muslims in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to join the uprising against Assad's "pernicious, cancerous regime."

The 8-minute video was posted on extremist websites late Saturday. A copy of the video was provided Sunday by the SITE Intel Group, a U.S.-based organization that monitors militant messages.

A senior Iraqi intelligence official says al-Qaida-linked fighters already are flowing from Iraq to Syria.

(Part II of article "Major Media Suppressing Obama Assassination Story" - scroll down 2 pages to find.)
- Iran’s nuclear scientists
- Two years ago, a prominent Hamas diplomat from the Gaza Strip was murdered in his hotel room in Dubai
- Political Assassinations by Jews is a book by Nachman Ben-Yehuda published by State University of New York Press. It studies over 100 major attacks by Jewish terrorist groups going back to 1902.
- Victor Ostrovsky was a case officer in Israel’s Mossad. He defected to Canada in 1990 and wrote the book By Way of Deception. Ostrovsky states that the Mossad has 1,200 employees and a special assassination unit called the “Kidon.”

Was Judge Andrew Napolitano cutting to close to the bone for the establishment?

Ancient Israel is an invention of modern scholarship. The picture of a thriving Iron Age Jewish kingdom headed by David and Solomon is “a fiction”. The scholarly debate has been driven by a dominant “biblical discourse” fuelled by a tankful of “unspoken and unacknowledged” assumptions. The main effect has been “the silencing of Palestinian history”.

As AFP predicted in the Feb. 6 edition, the call by the publisher of The Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, for Israel’s Mossad to utilize its American-based assets to assassinate Barack Obama has been almost entirely suppressed by the mainstream media.

Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated that Iran will reveal “very big new nuclear achievements” in the very near future during a rally in Tehran marking the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

On Saturday, Iranians celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the revolution which brought down the Western-backed monarchy; seemingly a great opportunity for Ahmadinejad to make such a landmark announcement...

-Debt as a percentage of GDP
-Deficit spending as a percentage of GDP
-The 'shadow economy'
-Exports as a percentage of GDP
-Size of the public sector

US "Democracy promotion" = foreign-funded sedition

Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

AP reported that US General Martin Dempsey has met directly with the military leaders of Egypt to discuss an Egyptian "crackdown on Western-funded pro-democracy groups." Threatened with a cut-off from US aid, the Egyptian military is expected to abandon their campaign against US "NGOs."

For almost two years, the Greek government and European Union officials have been convening in meeting rooms to figure out how to rescue the Greek economy as protesters throng the streets of Athens, angry over growing austerity. Meanwhile, the possibility of a default looms.
When Greece joined the eurozone in 2001, it misreported its real level of public borrowing in order to meet the entry guidelines. It got access to cheap capital, because the euro offered much lower interest rates than the drachma. Money poured into the country and wages, particularly in the public sector, rose significantly, although at the same time tax evasion and corruption were endemic.

Dr. Ron Paul is the Champion of the Constitution.
Great speech again. Two weeks to Michigan.
If you want to win here, we have to wake the people up.
It will take a drastic event to flip people here.
The Grass Roots here thinks you guys are going to skip us again.
Or use a venue for Dr. Paul that will not allow all of us to see him.
Shot Down by your Staff Dr. Paul was this.
http://1spiritcomputers.com/SilverdomeEventRonPaul.html
We can still do it, but only if you want to Win this state.
Some how marching thousands of Supporters into the Metro Detroit Area
is not a good idea three days before the Primary.Huh? or Duh!
Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iBGd3RxcHY&feature=youtu.be
End the Wars...End the Fed...Restore Individual Liberty

Iran is one of only three countries left in the world whose central bank is not under Rothschild control. Before 9-11 there were reportedly seven: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Iran. By 2003, however, Afghanistan and Iraq were swallowed up by the Rothschild octopus, and by 2011 Sudan and Libya were also gone. In Libya, a Rothschild bank was established in Benghazi while the country was still at war.

On the October 1983 Marine barracks truck bombing in Beirut, “the largest non-nuclear explosion in the history of warfare,” where, as Pfarrer recounts, “My SEAL team, we were in a bunker about 300 yards away.” As he writes on page 82 of SEAL Target Geronimo, “It is one of the ironies of history that the most emblematic weapon of Islamic terrorism, the truck bomb, was invented not by a Muslim fundamentalist but by a radical Jew, Menachem Begin."

The Constitutional Sheriffs & Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) meeting invited speakers with new ideas on old laws that sent these officers home with a new attitude about protecting their citizenry. The bottom line was to inform and remind sheriffs that they are the highest law enforcement officers in the county because they are the only ones elected by the people. The elected sheriff’s position overrides any federal agency or even the arrogant FBI agents who attempt to assume jurisdiction over cases. Speakers included Former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, constitutional expert and 2004 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik, and former IRS criminal investigator Joe Banister.

Depressed Army reservist attacked by police force after calling for help

Republican lawmakers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign even as the country’s top lawyer dodged questions about his involvement in what many are calling a criminal scheme by the U.S. government to traffic weapons to Mexican drug gangs. Holder has been threatened with a criminal contempt of Congress citation for his continuing refusal to release almost 10,000 documents relating to the program.

Police boots on protester's necks and journalists getting beaten and arrested. These are some of the images of late last year as the Occupy Wall Street movement took the US by storm.

Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated in Germany against an international copyright treaty. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, short: ACTA, is feared as a threat to Internet freedom.

The world has witnessed an unprecedented day of protests against ACTA. Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in dozens of cities around the globe to protect what is left of the freedom of expression on the internet. Peter Bradwell, a campaigner for the Open Rights Group told RT that the treaty's biggest danger is in giving too much power to uncontrolled private interests.

In January, Michel Chossudovsky reported British media confirming UK/CIA/MI6 operatives in Syria training anti-Assad Western-backed insurgents. They’re also supplying them with arms, ammunition, and equipment.

“These reports confirm unequivocally (they’re illegally) interfer(ing) in the affairs of a sovereign state. This is not a popular uprising.

The insurrection as well as the killings of civilians were sponsored by the Western powers from the outset.”

[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the father's response to a father/son dispute over whether, or not, it is possible for journalists to have absolute "objectivity" when reporting the news. The son is currently studying journalism in college, so you know he knows EVERYTHING there is to know about journalism. The father is a former journalist, so you know he knows EVERYTHING there is to know about objectivity in the mainstream media. (ahem. cough, cough.) The stage is set. The gloves are off. Let the generational battle begin.]

Elsie Eiler, 77, is the only inhabitant of Monowi, a village in northeast Nebraska, several news sites reported on Wednesday.

Reports said that according to a new 2010 Census data, Monowi is the only incorporated town, village or city in United States with only one resident.

According to reports, Monowi had two people in 2000, Elsie and her husband Rudy. However, Rudy died in 2004.

“We probably have the record by going down in population 50 percent,” Eiler was quoted saying. “I chose to stay here after my husband died. It’s home.”

He launched sharp attacks against the bailout conditions, calling them "a programme of aggression against workers and against the national interest."

"Austerity did not create wealth. The country needs the rope around its neck to be removed so that it can breathe, live and work," the unionist said, calling for a revision to the minimum wage of 485 euros gross.

"Net salary is at 432 euros, while the poverty line is at 434 euros, and that concerns currently ... 400,000 workers" in Portugal, he said.

So here’s a theory. Netanyahu and his camp followers here do not really want a war now. They just want it understood that they can dictate whether there is one or not. And when. In other words, they want to show who is boss (it’s not like we don’t know).

Depleted uranium is radioactive and extremely destructive to humans - with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. In other words, it takes 4.5 billion years for one kilogram of depleted uranium to reduce to a half a kilogram - the US has forever contaminated the Middle East.
The United States' use of radioactive munitions in Afghanistan has destroyed the people's health and mutilated the genetic future of the country, Press TV reports.

defeating Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who was the only other candidate to actively campaign in Maine.

So much for this War on Terror! It is actually War OF Terror.