Fake News Threatens Our Nation

COMMENTARY BY

Star Parker@UrbanCURE

 

President Donald Trump was right to tweet out: “There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true enemy of the people, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news honestly and fairly. That will do much to put out the flame…”

He’s right.

I open to the opinion section of The Washington Post and find the following headlines:

“Trump has stoked the fears of the Bowerses (the Pittsburgh synagogue murderer) among us.”

“Fox News and the rest of the right-wing media can’t escape responsibility.”

“Trump’s America is not a safe place for Jews.”

All on one opinion page in one day.

As I wrote recently, we learned in the confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh that Democrats are no longer pretending to care about facts. An outstanding American was almost destroyed by uncorroborated allegations.

I was in Jerusalem earlier this year and participated in ceremonies in which the Embassy of the United States was moved to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.

A sense of awe, tied to the history of the moment and the bold leadership of Trump, permeated the proceedings. Certainly no one in attendance would question that the Jewish people have no greater friend than this president, who did what no other American president had the courage and conviction to do.

In June 2015, a year and half before the Trump presidency, a young white supremacist entered a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and murdered nine black Christians.

“It is unfathomable that somebody in today’s society could walk into a church while people are having a prayer meeting and take their lives,” said Charleston’s police chief.

Then-South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley provided extraordinary leadership following the incident, sharing her genuine grief with South Carolinians and all Americans. She took the bold step as a Republican governor to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina’s Capitol.

Haley understood that the best way to fight evil is by identifying evil for what it is and fighting it not with politics but with virtue.

For the last two years, Haley has demonstrated similar leadership by principle as Trump’s United Nations ambassador.

A story on CNN Wire, reported nine days before Election Day, leads with the headline: “‘Voting while black’: How activists are racing to create a midterm ‘black wave.'”

According to the report, “A growing network of African-American political groups are laboring to build a lasting political clout for African-Americans, especially in the South, where more than half of nation’s black residents live.”

The article focuses on three black Democrats running for governorships in Georgia, Florida, and Maryland.

You would think that being black and political meant only electing far-left, progressive Democrats. Totally ignored are exciting and potentially paradigm-changing elections involving black Republicans.

John James, a black Republican running for the Senate in Michigan against three-term liberal Democrat Debbie Stabenow, doesn’t exist for these CNN writers. James is a conservative Christian, a West Point graduate who flew Apache helicopters in Iraq, and he now runs his family business in Detroit.

James is real news and hence a non-item for the “fake news” dealers whose interest is peddling progressivism, not truth.

Differences of opinion are healthy and vital in a free country. National unity and mutual respect are not threatened by differences of opinion but by the destruction of our first principles that guarantee every American equal protection of life, liberty, and property.

Politics of identity, special interests, or moral relativism rely on feeding the vulnerable fake news rather than truth. Our national health and prosperity are endangered when the truth is lost to politics.

This is what voters should be thinking about between now and Nov. 6.

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Simply raise your HDL

By Bob Livingston

The cholesterol bogy has been used for several decades to terrify a whole population. For many years, cholesterol levels were considered the ultimate measure of health and fitness in America. Suppressing cholesterol is not about health. It's about making money, and the people who created the cholesterol myth did so to make trillions of dollars — and they are making it sure as the sun came up this morning. I have been telling my readers for many years that high cholesterol and a bad ratio of HDL and LDL is not in itself bad health. It is only a marker of a health problem. Suppressing cholesterol in total is like placing something over your car's oil change light to prevent the motor from failing. This is pitiful nonsense, but you know literally millions of people along with their doctors are thoroughly indoctrinated with this myth. People are paying $600 a month for statin drugs (to lower cholesterol) that are offending their health far more than elevated cholesterol. I feel sure that a lot of old folks are using their grocery money to buy these drugs despite what Medicare will pay. If you want to protect your heart, ignore the advice to drive your total cholesterol down to nothing. This removes the benefits cholesterol has for your brain and longevity, and destroys the protective effect of HDL. The famous Framingham Heart Study says that simply raising your HDL lowers your risk of heart attack down to less than 1 percent for those with the highest HDL. This smallest of the lipoproteins is called such because HDL is made up of a lipid coating that has inside of it a protein called apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1). Scientists, if not actual medical doctors, are at least beginning to recognize the power of HDL's components to protect the heart regardless of LDL level or any other nonsense. If you look at the largest study of its kind at the time, the AMORIS (Apolipoprotein-related MOrtality RISk) study, published in that most prestigious of all mainstream health journals, The Lancet, and funded by none other than a pharmaceutical itself, AstraZeneca, you will see that they admit lowering cholesterol in general is not helpful in preventing heart attacks, but that high "ApoA1 had a protective function both in men and women." Of course this was not reported on at the time because it doesn't coincide with the desire to sell cholesterol lowering drugs. However it does reveal that you want to get your body to build more apolipoprotein A1 so that you can protect your health with higher HDL cholesterol. The two best ways I know of to raise HDL are not with any drug created in a lab by mankind. They are with the powerful herbs Ashwaghanda and Kalonji — which is also called black cumin seed oil, or "Golden Oil." Ashwaganda is an ancient Indian herb (also known by its Latin name Withania somnifera) that will raise HDL. Several clinical trials have shown that using just 250 milligrams twice daily, you can get significant improvements along with very beneficial changes in blood biochemistry, including triglycerides down 11.7 percent, LDL cholesterol down 17.4 percent and HDL (good) cholesterol up 17.3 percent. These results suggest that the regular intake of Ashwaganda will increase your life expectancy by reducing those risk factors associated with chronic issues and heart inflammation and stress. Ashwagandha leaf extract might also be labeled Indian ginseng or winter cherry. It's an adaptogen, meaning that it gives you a general sense of well-being, but also, your body uses it only as needed, so you can take up to 500 mg twice a day as a supplement. Dried ashwagandha root powder should be organic and if you add it to tea just add some honey for taste. You can also use Golden Oil (Nigella sativa or black cumin seed extract) to increase HDL rapidly. The pods of the Nigella sativa plant, known as kalonji in Southeast Asia and Golden Oil in the Middle East, are the source of black seeds. In several different studies, black seed extract raised HDL from 44 to an astonishing 80 in just 20 weeks. In another clinical trial, 92 people took just 1 gram a day for 12 weeks and it greatly enhanced their HDL. But when they got 2 grams a day, the results multiplied. "Patients ingested 2 g/day NS displayed a significant decline in total cholesterol, triglycerides and LDL-c, and a significant elevation in HDL-c..." You can get golden oil as a cold-pressed oil of the seeds, and you can certainly use the oil in your cooking and get some every day that way. However I prefer the capsules because you will know the potency and purity when you get it from a reputable source, and you know the dose you are getting. For example, golden oil has more benefits to the immune system and total body health than I ever knew, but discovering that 2 grams a day has an increased beneficial effect for HDL means I want to make sure I get that amount each day.

100 ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala as Central American Caravan Heads to U.S.

100 ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala as Central American Caravan Heads to U.S.

From Judicial Watch

In a startling revelation, Guatemala’s president announced in the country’s largest newspaper that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists have been apprehended in the impoverished Central American nation. Why should Americans care about this?

A caravan of Central American migrants is making its way north. Let’s not forget that Guatemala is one of the countries that bombarded the U.S. with illegal immigrant minors under Barack Obama’s open border free-for-all. They came in droves from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala through the Mexican border and for years Uncle Sam rolled out the welcome mat offering housing, food, medical treatment and a free education

A terrorist could have easily slipped in considering the minors, coined Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), were not properly vetted and some turned out to be violent gangbangers who went on to commit heinous crimes in their adopted land of opportunity. In fact, the nation’s most violent street gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), was energized by the barrage of UACs.

The Texas Department of Public Safety even issued a report documenting how the MS-13 emerged as a top tier gang in the state thanks to the influx of illegal alien gang members that came with the UACs. At the time more than 60,000 UACs—many with criminal histories—had stormed into the U.S. in a matter of months. Tens of thousands more eventually made it north.

Guatemala has long been known as a major smuggling corridor for foreigners from African and Asian countries making their way into the U.S. Last year Guatemala’s largest paper, Prensa Libra, published an in-depth piece on the inner workings of an international human smuggling network that moves migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh to the U.S. Individuals are sent to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates then flown to Brazil before heading to Colombia.

Once in South America, the migrants are transported to Panama before moving on to Costa Rica then a central point on Guatemala. One Spanish news report refers to Guatemala as a human smuggling paradise because it’s so easy to get fake passports. A few years ago, the head of Guatemala’s passport division got arrested for selling fake passports to a group of Colombians, according to a government announcement.

All this makes ISIS terrorists operating in Guatemala incredibly alarming. President Jimmy Morales confirmed it during a recent security conference attended by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well as the presidents of Honduras and El Salvador and other Latin American dignitaries.

Morales said that his administration has captured “close to 100 persons completely involved with terrorists, with ISIS and we have not only detained them within our territory, but they have been deported to their country of origin.” Several of the terrorists were Syrians caught with fake documents, according to Guatemala’s head of intelligence. At the same event, President Morales also revealed that Guatemalan authorities captured more than 1,000 gangbangers, including members of the MS-13.

Many more probably make it into the U.S. via the Mexican border and a lot of them get released inside the country. In fact, Border Patrol agents in Texas have been ordered to release illegal immigrants caught entering through Mexico because detentions facilities have no bed space, according to a news report.

Earlier this year Judicial Watch exposed a secret program—started by Obama and continued by Trump— that quietly relocates illegal immigrants to different parts of the country on commercial flights. Years earlier Judicial Watch uncovered a similar DHS initiative that transported illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and released them without proper processing.

The government classified them as Other Than Mexican (OTM) and transferred them 116 miles north from Tucson to a Phoenix bus station where they went their separate way. The OTMs were from Honduras, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala and a security company contracted by the U.S. government drove the OTMs from the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector where they were in custody to Phoenix. Some could have been ISIS operatives.

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IBM Launches Food Supply Blockchain

IBM Launches Food Supply Blockchain By John Butler Written Oct. 15, 2018 Blockchain technology is becoming more commercial as time passes. This time, it’s reached our food supply chains. IBM Food Trust has gone live for commercial use. The Trust’s blockchain technology is used to provide detailed supply-chain information on the users’ food products. This isn’t IBM’s first blockchain product. Earlier this year, the company teamed up with Maersk to launch TradeLens, a blockchain used to track shipments around the world. IBM has tested the Food Trust’s blockchain technology for a year and a half. Several players have already signed up to use IBM Food Trust. These companies include Kroger, Tyson Foods, Nestle, and French retailer Carrefour. After testing the product with pork and mangos earlier this year, even Walmart is on board. The superstore wants its suppliers to adopt IBM Food Trust by 2019. Not only will IBM Food Trust provide a much-needed service, but its results will also affect blockchain technology’s commercial future.What Does the Food Trust Provide? IBM’s Food Trust ledger permits its users several things related to the supply and shipping of food items. First, a user can locate and monitor products going through every single step of the supply chain in seconds rather than days or weeks. By doing so in such a quick time, the spread and distribution of contaminated food is lessened. This quick tracking also lowers the amount of spoiled, wasted food being shipped. Second, users can input, view, and operate data on IBM Food Trust’s blockchain. Third, users can verify and exchange shipping certifications. IBM charges a monthly subscription fee between $100 and $10,000 for use of the Food Trust technology. What Will Be its Effects? There will be several outcomes of IBM Food Trust going live. First, IBM Food Trust is one of the first blockchain networks of high proportion being used. If IBM Food Trust is successful, we will see many more companies adopting blockchain technology for their products. Second, IBM Food Trust will save companies loads of time in keeping up with their items. Using IBM Food Trust, Walmart went from taking a week to track a food shipment to seconds. Third, people’s health will benefit from IBM Food Trust’s presence. With the traceability and transparency IBM Food Trust provides, the number of people getting their hands on contaminated foods will decrease. Also, locating the contamination itself will become much more efficient.Walmart is using IBM Food Trust partly because of this. Earlier this year, the massive retailer was involved in the E. coli flare-up in contaminated lettuce. People were hospitalized during this outbreak, and some even lost their lives. Using IBM Food Trust, Walmart will be able to trace its products at all stages of the food supply chain, from the farm to the store’s shelf. Walmart is currently using the technology to monitor over 20 produces, meats, and other perishables. IBM Food Trust mitigating food contaminations is also going to save companies loads of money. Investigating a potential contamination and subsequently recalling the product is a very difficult and expensive process. Just earlier this month, in the U.S., millions of pounds of beef were recalled due to a salmonella scare. IBM Food Trust will make it easier to investigate such claims, mitigating the time and money spent for resolution. With IBM Food Trust, investigating contaminations and recalls will take minutes. By now, it's not mere speculation that blockchain technology has proven its value in our everyday lives. It continues to show that it can solve problems for us in new, efficient ways. And IBM Food Trust’s development, use, and benefits prove just that.

Senator Susan Collins's Profile in Courage

Originally published at Fox News by Newt Gingrich

Listening to the extraordinary speech by Senator Susan Collins I was struck by the resemblance to the senators described in President John F. Kennedy’s book Profiles in Courage.

While he was still a senator, Kennedy took advantage of a period when he was recovering from back surgery to write a study of eight senators who he felt had been courageous in doing what they thought was right, even if it cost them re-election.

Profiles in Courage was received with rave reviews and won the Pulitzer Prize.

If Kennedy were writing the book today, he would have to add a chapter for Senator Collins.

Senator Collins has consistently done what she thought was right. I am much more conservative, and I have often disagreed with her. Nonetheless I have worked on health projects and other issues with her, and she has always been thoughtful, serious, and dedicated.

When we have disagreed, it has been within a tone of friendship and mutual admiration that we are both serious people trying to help America navigate through some very difficult and complex challenges.

When I watched her speech Friday I had great admiration for her words – even more than for her final decision.

If you have not read or watched her nearly hour-long speech, I encourage you take the time to do so.

It epitomized the Senate at its best (I write this as a former Speaker of the House for whom praising the Senate under any circumstance is a painful prospect).

The Founding Fathers wanted senators to be more aloof than representatives. They designed it so only one third would be up for election in any given year. Initially, they had senators elected by the state legislatures to protect them from direct pressure from the public. In its earliest years, the Senate took this concept of aloofness so seriously that they met in secret and refused to tell people how they had individually voted. In fact, they met in secret until 1794.

The Senate has a tradition of much longer speeches than the House (if you don’t believe me watch C-SPAN coverage of the two bodies for a few days). The goal was to have a solemn deliberative body that would be slower than the House in following public opinion.

All too often the age of televised sessions, the power of social media, the impact of organized, passionate interest groups, and the ambition of individual senators who grandstand to attract attention so they can later run for president (such as Senator Cory Booker absurdly declaring he was having a “Spartacus moment”) combine to break down the deliberative nature of the Senate and the ability of its best members to think seriously and speak wisely.

For one hour last week, Senator Collins took us back to an age when calm, reasoned logic, powerful imagery, and deep thought controlled the Senate floor.

While most people will focus on her vote, I think for historic purposes it is even more important to watch her reason methodically and then take the case for approval or rejection of Judge Kavanaugh step-by-step and item-by-item.

Senator Collins explored the background of the judicial decisions Judge Kavanaugh has made in his years on the bench. She reported on the hours she had spent interviewing him and many other people. She outlined the case for and against Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s charges.

Again and again, Senator Collins shed light and logic where others had engaged in emotional diatribes, character assassination, and smears. The contrast could not have been more vivid.

At the end of her speech, I was impressed with how thoughtful and methodical she had been in laying out the case and announcing she would vote “yes.”

Maine is a moderate state with a big activist left-wing element.

Left-wing, anti-Kavanaugh activists had already organized a web page that had gathered more than $2 million in pledges to fund an anti-Collins candidate in 2020 if she voted for Kavanaugh. Left-wing activists sent more than 3,000 coat hangers to her staff symbolizing back alley abortions in an effort to emotionally pressure her into rejecting Kavanaugh.

Collins seems impervious to pressure from both the right and the left. That is a profile in courage worthy of note.

Now, in response to her vote to confirm Justice Kavanaugh, former Obama official Susan Rice is saying she might run against Collins in 2020.

I think that would be the perfect match. Susan Rice was the designated liar sent out by the Obama team to lie to the American people about the Benghazi attack and the death of four Americans including our ambassador to Libya.

I can’t imagine a clearer contrast between a profile in courage and a profile in dishonesty.

P.S. More than 3 million people have watched my Facebook Live on the Left's efforts to destroy Kavanaugh and destroy America since last week.
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Honey, we broke the Democrats

By Ben Crystal

Honey, we broke the Democrats 

Welp, it looks like we broke the Democrats. I assumed they wouldn't handle the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh well; after all, they haven't handled anything well since Nana Hilldawg's campaign turned in to a Buster Keaton routine. But their spectacular failure to keep Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court has them a pair of rocket-powered roller skates away from going full Wile E. Coyote. And if their plan for lurching farther left in the future is anything to go by, they're already thumbing through the ACME catalog.

After weeks of accusing Kavanaugh of everything short of the rape of the Sabine women, our liberal friends have resorted to ploys like sending beheading videos to Senator Cory Gardner's (R-CO) wife. And don't think whichever unhinged lefty who sent it along is some kind of outlier. We've already watched as Democrat-incited wingnuts have done everything from doxing conservatives' kids to opening fire at baseball practice. And we've already heard their leaders, from Rep. Maxine Waters to Nana herself, using the most dehumanizing language possible to openly encourage violent reprisals against anyone who strays too far to starboard.

But Kavanaugh booked their tickets to Crazytown. Their theatrics over the past weeks have been cringe worthy. And to be honest, given their close association with Hollywood, there's just no excuse other than a complete and total mental breakdown. For the love of all that is holy, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D- Beijing) planted Alyssa Milano behind Kavanaugh during his second appearance. These people hold fundraising dinners at the Malibu palaces of studio heads with more money than Croesus, and the best the woman — whose own ham-fisted attempt at subterfuge created this debacle in the first place — can come up with is a cameo by Sam from Who's the Boss?

We're a month away from the latest midterm election to be called "the biggest election of our lifetime," and the left has come up with "shriek like banshees while cut-rate comediennes control our messaging." That's terrific, as long as your goal is to dominate the "shrieking banshees who take cut-rate comediennes seriously" voting bloc. But that shrieking is a big part of why Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) told the left to get bent over Kavanaugh. If a milquetoast Republican like Collins was fed up enough with the threats and insults, imagine how the 70 million or so Americans to Collins' right must be enjoying them. And if a milquetoast Republican like Collins standing up to Amy Schumer and a bunch of hate group sheep dressed like extras from a Hulu miniseries can put one guy on the Supreme Court, imagine what those 70 million Americans can — will — do.

Before the summer began, most pundits figured the Left would swing Congress back to port; a combination of the usual midterm blahs that always affect the party in the White House and overconfidence in the effectiveness of the liberals' outraged bleating. Even as the bleating turned to beatings and Democrat control of the Senate began to fade from "daydream" to "fever dream" they actually ramped up the crazy, as evidenced by The New York Times' editorial over the weekend, "White Women, Come Get Your People." The paper of record, likely the most respected of the liberal mouthpieces, called Senator Collins a "gender traitor," and proclaimed white women "...the kind of women who think that being falsely accused of rape is almost as bad as being raped." I don't even know any men who think that.

I was already dubious about their prospects of retaking the House, much less the Senate, especially if they're going to stick with hurling histrionic epithets at everyone who thinks Americans can do better than a hissy-fit of a political party led by the chick from Trainwreck. These people are cracked eggs. Forget the House; they need a hospital.

Weed killer found in wine

By Bob Livingston

Weed killer found in wine 

Just two years ago a lawsuit was filed against 31 brands of wines for containing high levels of arsenic.

You read that right... arsenic... the poison used to kill rats.

And now an herbicide known as glyphosate (weed killer) has been found in all of the most popular brands of wines in the world, the majority of which are from the U.S., and in batch test results in American beer.

You may be wondering how in the world all of that wine and beer could become so contaminated.

But if you're a regular reader, I bet you already guessed the answer: Monsanto's Roundup^®.

Roundup, which some farmers use to kill the weeds that compete with their crops, was tested by a French biologist, and his findings prove that of all the Roundup products they tested, over a dozen had high levels of arsenic.

That's over five times the allowable limit.

But arsenic wasn't the only thing he found. Those Roundup samples were also sporting dangerous levels of heavy metals.

So when those farmers and vineyards spray Roundup on their vines or grain crops for beer to keep the weeds away, they're actually riddling their end products (the wine and beer you drink) with compounds that have proven to be neurotoxic, hormone-disrupting cancer causers.

Now, before you throw up your hands and write this off as just one more mountain made out of a molehill, you should know that the wines tested were found to have glyphosate residues of 23.30 part per billion with some independent beer brands at 13.6 parts per billion. Studies have demonstrated that it only takes one part per trillion to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells.

In order to avoid this dangerous contamination, the first step is to switch to organic wine and beer options. The grapes, barley and hops used to make the drinks by these vendors are not being directly sprayed with Roundup like many conventional brands.

However, making the move to organic is not enough.

That's because polluted irrigation water, soil and even pesticides in rain can contaminate vineyards and crops thousands of miles away from fields using the weed killer.

So if you're a wine or beer lover and don't want to avoid these occasional pleasures, you need to take steps to rid your body of that glyphosate, with its high levels of arsenic and other heavy metals.

In today's contaminated environment, detoxing should be a way of life. There are a couple of ways to do it.

One way is a lemonade cleanse. For this option, you will drink six 16 oz. bottles a day of a very specific mixture as follows, daily:

• Water — nearly fill up bottle but leave room

• Juice from a fresh squeezed lemon or lime

• Grade B maple syrup to desired taste

• Cayenne pepper — a pinch or more depending on taste

This is all the "food" you'll have for three to 14 days. I've never managed to make it past three days.

Another way is a juice fast using freshly juiced fruits and veggies, as well as soup broths and herbal teas for the same time period or time. I prefer to do this on a regular basis, at least seasonally. But again, three days is about all I can manage.

So if you're shaking your head right now, wondering if there is possibly an easier way... one where you don't have to starve yourself, there's EDTA.

If you haven't heard of EDTA before, here's what you need to know.

EDTA is an amino acid (ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid). It's used to latch onto heavy metals, like arsenic, to carry them out of your body (a process called chelation).

And it works. EDTA is regularly used to chelate lead and other contaminants from the body. The really cool thing about it is that EDTA is used in baby food as a preservative. So that helps you understand how gentle and safe it is.

I've been taking an EDTA supplement for a while now and prefer Peak Chelation+ Resveratrol™. I consider it "maintenance detoxing" because it allows me feel like I'm keeping myself "clean" and only need to do a lemonade cleanse or juice fast a couple of times a year.

How globalists plan to use technology and poverty to enslave the masses

By Brandon Smith

Tyranny is often seen as a sudden and inexplicable development in a society; the product of a singular despot that rockets to power for a limited window of time due to public fear or stupidity. This is one of the great lies of the modern era. The truth is that for at least the past century almost every historically despised "tyrant" was merely a puppet of a larger managerial cabal, and the construction of each totalitarian state was accomplished slowly and quietly over the course of decades by those some financial elitists. From the Bolsheviks to Hitler and the Third Reich to Mao Zedong to most tin-pot dictators across the Middle East and Africa, there has always been an organized group of money men and think tanks fueling the careers of the worst politicians and military juntas of the epoch. The rise of a tyrannical system takes extensive time, planning and staging. Human beings do not simply jump right into the arms of a dystopian nightmare regime impulsively at a moment's notice. We have been told by popular media that this is how it works; that during hard economic or social conditions men with charismatic personalities and evil intentions suddenly rise to the surface and take power by promising a better world in exchange for public fealty. But where did those economic and social crises come from to begin with? Were they a natural consequence of the era, or were they deliberately engineered? The reality is that people must be psychologically conditioned to trade freedom for the illusion of safety. Sometimes this takes generations.  Every attempt at a totalitarian framework inevitably elicits a rebellion. Therefore, the most successful tyranny would be one that the public demands. They have to think it is their idea, otherwise they will eventually fight it. Globalist financiers and power addicts need something more than mere military might or bureaucratic force to obtain their ideal slave society. They need 4th Generation warfare tactics. They need to con the masses into loving their own servitude. There are two tools that make this outcome possible: The first is controlled economic decline, the second is the integration of a technological gulag into every aspect of public life. Economic weapons of mass distraction It is no coincidence that dictatorial governments gain prominence as the global economy suffers; it is extremely difficult for people to remain vigilant to tyranny when they are completely distracted by their own survival. This is why my focus as an analyst has always been primarily on economics and solutions to fiscal disaster. If the public can be prepped to develop their own alternative economic systems before a crisis occurs, then they will be less distracted by the chaos and more apt to notice when the globalists offer tyranny as a fix-all. Without alternative markets at the local level there is no redundancy, no protection from a crash. With most people dependent on the existing system for their livelihoods, the economy becomes a very useful weapon for the globalists. Holding the economy hostage creates numerous advantages. Through deflationary pressure wages can be kept low while higher paying jobs disappear. Manufacturing can be phased out or outsourced overseas, as in the U.S. Small business ownership becomes difficult as taxes generally rise as financial conditions decline. Through inflationary or stagflationary pressures, low wages and the inadequate job market are combined with exploding prices. This makes survival for many people untenable without government aid. In this environment, the working public becomes reliant on the service sector, which provides no useful skill sets. Soon, you have entire generations of people with no production abilities whatsoever. They become drones working in meaningless office and retail jobs squandering away their days knowing that they are accomplishing nothing beyond a meager paycheck. The lack of a greater purpose or mission in life and the nagging realization that the average person has no productive capacity creates a palpable atmosphere of desperation. They do not own their own work, and they have nothing much to show for their labor; nothing to point at and say, "I built that." The public gets to the point that they may even welcome an economic collapse simply to escape the drudgery. This is where movements to support totalitarianism come from — the subset of citizens that are fed up with fighting against the economy and have no sense of independence. These people do not know how to solve their own problems, they are always looking for someone else to do it for them. The globalists are happy to suggest their own predetermined solutions to the public once the financial structure hits a point of maximum pain. However, once the economy is repaired in exchange for the submission of the citizenry, people might still decide one day that the trade was unfair. Thus, a deterrent is needed to keep them in line. The technological fish tank It is important to understand that there is no major country in the western or eastern world that is not building a digital control grid, and this helps to support my position that eastern nations are just as subservient to globalist demands as western nations. All the geopolitical drama surrounding events like the trade war, the Syrian war or various elections, etc.; none of this matters. When determining if the strings of a particular government are being pulled by the globalist cabal, all you have to do is look at how quickly they are implementing oppressive systems that serve globalist interests. For example, India's government has been hitting in the news feeds lately as their supreme court recently ruled that the controversial Aadhaar biometric program is legal. In a nation of around 1.3 billion people, around 1 billion have already been biometrically profiled in a national database. This data can include fingerprints, iris scans and face scans. I have heard it argued that India is a rather odd place to experiment with such a database, considering 60 percent of the population is under the poverty line and most people barely have basic amenities. But I would point out that this is why it is a perfect place for the globalists to start cataloging the world population on larger scale. Again, financial desperation and a lack of productions skills tends to produce subservience. Hundreds of millions of poverty stricken people in India's sprawling  urban sewers are voluntarily giving up their biometric data in exchange for government aid programs. For the people not anchored down by the poor economy, India has instituted other measures, including requiring anyone accessing government services, opening a bank account or signing up for a mobile phone service also give up their biometrics to the government. In other nations not yet impoverished at India's level, more subversive measures have been instituted for surveillance of the population. Data is simply taken rather than traded. In Russia, Vladimir Putin has put the Yarovaya laws he signed in 2016 into effect. All digital data from phone conversations to emails is now recorded and stored by telecoms for government access for a minimum of six months, this includes Facebook and Twitter posts. The 2014 bloggers law also requires any blogger with over 3,000 followers be put on government file and they cannot remain anonymous. Any business operating a public Wi-Fi network is required by law to identify users by ID, which is also stored for at least six months. Russia's FISA-style surveillance grid is vast, yet, many people in the liberty movement seem to ignore this reality with misplaced Putin-worship. As I have noted in numerous articles, Russia is heavily influenced by international financiers. Goldman Sachs is one of the largest investment banks in the country. Their central bank works closely with the IMF and the BIS. The Kremlin has in the past called for a global currency controlled by the IMF. And Putin even admits in his own biography First Personthat he has been friends with New World Order salesman Henry Kissinger since before he became president of Russia. In a latest show of how globalist Russia really is, the Russian Foreign Minister recently criticized the U.S. in a speech to the U.N. general assembly over its "attacks" on the "international order," including undermining the World Trade Organization and global climate change agreements. Putin expressed similar sentiments to the U.N. about a year ago. It should come as no surprise to anyone that Russia is playing right along with globalist efforts to identify and track every single living person. It should also come as no surprise that Donald Trump, surrounded by globalists within his own cabinet, is continuing and expanding FISA surveillance under his administration. At the beginning of 2018 Trump signed a bill renewing the National Security Agency's warrantless FISA mass surveillance of the American population. Leading Democrats happily supported the action. Despite all of Trump's rhetoric against FISA recently, it was Trump that made FISA's continuation possible. But where is this all going? How does the combination of poverty and digital surveillance translate to tyranny? I believe China's "social credit" program is the answer. China is representative of the end game for the globalist ideal for civilization. With mass economic struggle leading to dependency on government welfare programs and employment opportunities, no citizen can afford to be "blacklisted." China's social credit system creates an environment in which any and every action on the part of citizens is tracked and then "rated" for acceptance or consequence. This includes how people express attitudes toward the government itself. Obviously, this is the ultimate control mechanism, very similar to the Checka of Stalinist Russia, but on a massive digital scale. This is why surveillance is evil, regardless of whether someone is breaking the laws or not. It gives government the power to dictate behavior by inspiring self-censorship. Individuals do not dare do anything outside of collective norms for fear that it could be interpreted as socially negative. Punishment might include loss of access to the economy itself, and when most people are living from paycheck to paycheck, this could mean death.

These 2 Companies Plan to Expand Workforce by 20% Thanks to Tax Reform

From the Daily Signal

The Wilson Construction Co. in Canby, Oregon, will be expanding its workforce by at least 20 percent in the coming months, says Stacy Wilson, who runs the business her grandfather founded 65 years ago.

Wilson credits the tax reform law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that President Donald Trump signed late last year for making the expansion possible.

So does the president of a Ridgewood, New York, electrical contractor, who says he will be increasing his company’s workforce next year as well.

Both joined Trump on stage at the National Electrical Contractors Association convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

“We employ about 500 employees, and thanks to Mr. Trump and tax reforms and the general confidence in the economy, we have really been able to invest more in our employees and grow our company in the last year,” Wilson told the gathering.

Trump invited her onto the stage to speak in the middle of his remarks about the economy.

“We are investing more in employee wages and benefits and bonuses,” Wilson continued. “We are spending millions on equipment and assets, and in general, we are just seeing a huge increase in the work that is coming out, because utilities are spending more to update this aging infrastructure.”

The number of employees could even grow up to 30 percent, she said.

“We have a lot of large projects that are starting,” Wilson said. “This will make a lot of difference. Really, these incentives that are good for businesses are really important for our employees, but also the communities we work in.”

The tax reform law cut the corporate tax rate, previously the highest in the world among developed countries, from 35 percent to 21 percent, putting the U.S. on par with most other industrialized nations, and thus making it more competitive.

The tax law also cut individual tax rates and eliminated some loopholes.

“At the heart of our economic revival are the massive tax cuts passed by Republicans in Congress,” Trump said when speaking to the convention crowd.

“We didn’t get one Democrat vote,” the president added. “Those tax cuts are one of the reasons the economy is doing so well. You are talking about a lot of money in the pockets of everybody in this room.”

Under the new law, Trump noted, small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their business income, as an incentive to invest.

Trump joked that the economy makes him want to return to the private sector.

“Capital investments are soaring because you can now immediately deduct every penny spent on new equipment,” Trump said. “You can do one-year expensing.

“Nobody ever thought that was going to happen. In fact, I should leave and go back into business, maybe. If you would have told me that when I was a private businessman, maybe I wouldn’t have run for president,” he said.

Tax reform also means more jobs being added at Arcadia Electrical Co. in Ridgewood, New York, said Steve Gianotti, the company’s president.

“I’d like to thank President Trump for his perseverance in helping us with his fiscal policies, which enabled my company, Arcadia Electric, to bid on more work and take on more jobs that we are able to do, because we have more coming that is available to us, more than ever before,” he said after Trump invited him onto the stage.

“As a result, we have been able to keep our 120 people employed, but next year, we anticipate hiring 25 percent more hardworking union workers, middle-class workforce, that will bring our company to approximately 150 employees, which we are very proud of,” Gianotti said.

“They work hard. They are the safest, hardest union workers. Their professional abilities is what makes us successful,” he said.